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A69145 The progenie of Catholicks and Protestants Whereby on the one side is proued the lineal descent of Catholicks, for the Roman faith and religion, from the holie fathers of the primitiue Church ... and on the other, the neuer-being of Protestants or their nouel sect during al the foresayd time, otherwise then in confessed and condemned hereticks. ... Anderton, Lawrence. 1633 (1633) STC 579; ESTC S100158 364,704 286

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Church or rather only seduced and withdrawen from the ancient Catholick Faith by secondarie Innouation As in like resemblance after (29) Math. 13.25 The good seed was sowne in the field the Enemie came and sowed tares among the wheat In which respect Tertulian (30) l. de Prescrip c. 42. sayth excellent wel of al Nouelists that Their Endeauour is not to conuert the Heathen but to ouerthrow ours who are conuerted They glory more to cast those downe who stand then to lift vp those who lye Wherefore Protestants are so farre from conuerting any one Heathen Countrey to Christian beleef that their diuided Church neuer yet before or since Luthers time so much as but passed the Seas with taking hold in anie one Countrey of Asia Africk or America the three greatest knowne parts of the world No Protestant as yet euer being able to giue the least instance of their Church in anie one of al these three parts Yea it remayneth as now though being in its greatest height of encrease so narrowly shut vp or confined within our Northern parts of the world being but an only corner of Europe the fourth and incomparably the least part of al the rest that euen in the farre greater part of this one least part is not so much as anie appearing profession either of Lutherans or Caluinists knowne to be remayning or in being Yea it is most worthie of al diligent obseruation that wheras certaine Protestants haue endeauoured the Conuersion of some Heathen Natiōs the euent was euer such through their owne demerits either of mutual dissentions amongst themselues in matters of Faith Religion or of foule enormous and most scandalous life and conuersation that their trauail and labour was euer spent without fruit and commodity and their returne accompanyed with shame and disgrace In this time is right famous the endeauour made of late times by Caluin the Church of Geneua in their sending Richerus the Caluinist whom (31) In Icon. Beza tearmeth a man of tryed godlines and learning into Gallia Antartica to conuert the Heathens there (32) In Calu. Epist ep 237. But how voyd of al successe it was and that to their lasting discredit is plainly related and confessed by their owne Brethren for first Richerus 32 himself writeth thus vnto Caluin concerning the people of that Country They are ignorant whether there be a God so far are they from keeping his Law or admiring his power and goodnes whereby we are deuoyd of al hope of gayning them to Christ c. But much more fully is this reported by Villegaignon who being then chief Captaine of the French Nauie and one so feruent and forward in planting Protestancie in those Countries that the next day after his arriual he not only as (33) Ibid. p. 438. Richerus mentioneth commanded the Word of God to be publickly preached and the week following the holie Supper of the Lord to be ministred which himself with some of his familie religiously receaued c. but withal gaue certaine yong men to the people of that Nation to be instructed in their Language that so they might afterwards preach vnto them This so zealous a Ghospeller (34) Epist before his book intituled Les Propositions Contētienses c. written after his Returne from Gallia Antarctica relateth the bad successe and cause therof in these words Christian Reader M. Iohn Caluin vnderstanding that I was gone to Brasile with intent to plant the Faith there moued with the old acquaintance had between vs sent vnto me as wel in his owne as in the name of the whole Cittie of Geneva certaine Ministers of his Religion the best learned that could be found with certaine crafts-men in their companie wel furnished with al such books as Caluin had written or anie other which might serue for their people As they passed by Paris certaine other Protestants ioyned with them and among the rest a reuolted Iacobin named Iohn Comtate a man of prompt and subtil wit These men coming to Brasile adorned themselues with a faire Title calling themselues The Reformed Church By reason wherof they were of me receaued with al possible curtesie hoping they would haue been profitable to me in my enterprise But whē they began to execute their fūction I then found they had vsurped a wrōg Title c. They agreed not amōg themselues nor continued long in their owne doctrine but as they learned euerie day so they stil added something thereto The Iacobin would follow a doctrine by himself vndertaking to defend and publish the Confession of Augusta and without dissimulation to impugne the Doctrine of Caluin wherby the contention among them grew so great that no other remedie could be had but by sending away one of the Ministers of Geneua But Villegaignon himself discerning through their mutual disagreements and inordinate accomplished (35) See Launay En la Replique Chrestienne l 2. c. 16. f 251. And Villegaignō aduers Art Richeri l. 1. c. 90. lusts not to be named the whole action of conuerting that Countrey to be frustrated receiued thereupon sufficient motiue to abandon their Religion To the same effect it is reported by D. Philip Nicolai (36) Cōmēt de Regno Christi l. 1. p. 395. that the French men hauing for their Captayne Nicolas Villegaignon being happily arriued in Brasile through fatal mis-fortune and dissension lost their Regiment and Castle built therin being cast out by the Spaniards As in like sort afterwards when with a new Armie they came to Florida Iohn Ribautius being their Captaine c. The English also Forbisher being Captayne opened the Northern side of the new world but they returned home c. And of the bad successe of this Sir Martin Forbisher other English in the Conuersion of the remote Northern Nations M. Hacklute 37) Voy●ges Discoueries c. p. 680. writeth thus The euents do shew that either Gods cause hath not been chiefly preferred by them or els God hath not permitted so abundant grace as the light of his Word and knowledge of him to be yet reuealed to those Infidels before the appoynted time And wheras some Protestants in Germanie did insinuate with the Church of Greece writing to the Patriarch in this humble manner with title of Direction (38) Acta Theol. Witemb Patria● hae Con●tantin c. p. 2. To the most Holie and Oecumenical Patriarch the Lord Hieremie Archbishop of Constantinople of New Rome a pious Lord And renewing againe (39) Ibid. p. 144. the same Direction in steed of Pious Lord they adde our most Reuerend Lord (40) Ib. p. 4 Concluding with farewel most Holy Lord c. and vouchsafing vs pardon and receiuing vs fauourably into thy Fatherlie care c. with much more insinuating submission and desire of Communion with him Al this yet notwithstanding after much conference writing and labour in vanie spent the Patriarch reiected them as most vnworthie (41) Ibid.
THE PROGENIE OF CATHOLICKS AND PROTESTANTS Whereby On the one side is proued the lineal Descent of Catholicks for the Roman Faith and Religion from the holie Fathers of the Primitiue Church euen from Christ's verie time vntil these our dayes AND On the other the neuer-Being of Protestants or their nouel Sect during al the foresayd time otherwise then in confessed and condemned Hereticks And al this is conuinced by the manifold and clearest acknowledgements of Protestant Writers both forrain and domesticks By thine owne mouth I iudge thee naughtie seruant Luc. 19.22 At ROVEN By the WIDOW of NICOLAS COVRANT M.DC.XXXIII THE PREFACE TO THE CHRISTIAN READER I Haue euer been of opinion good Christian Reader that as nothing in this world is more pleasing to the eye of a Christian soule then a pure aspect or knowledge of the true Church which is the louelie and most beautiful Spouse of CHRIST himself and the onlie Arke of Man's saluation so is the same neuer more clearly represented vnto vs then in the cristallin glasse of reuerend Antiquitie the puritie and truth wherof was euer so highly esteemed as that it was not only required (1) Censorinus de Die Nat. c. 1. by the Lying Gods of the Gentils that al the firstlings of the people should yearely be offred in Sacrifice vnto them but it was further likewise approued and (2) Exod. 22 29. prescribed by the only-true and euerliuing GOD that the first-fruits yea and the first-borne both of men and beasts in regard of their primacie being his worthiest creatures should peculiarly be applyed offred and deuoted to the highest seruice of his Greatest Maiestie In best proof and example wherof the perfect [3] Coloss 1.15 Image of the inuisible God the first-borne of al creature CHRIST IESVS was not only offred to God himself in the Temple and there redeemed but also offred vpon the Crosse for the Redemption of others as the sweetest Holocaust to his Heauenlie Father Yea this Prioritie or Ancestrie is so specially affected by the wisdome of God and so directly maligned by the Enemie of man as that in the verie first planting of the Church of Christ it is sayd that he first sowed (4) Matth. 13.24.25 good seed in his field and after the enemie came and ouersowed cockle thereby not obscurely intimating vnto vs that true Faith Religion and the Word of God which is this [5) Matth 13.19 Luc. 8.12 good seed was first and ancient to Sects and Heresies And so as in temporal Nobilitie that Stemme is most honourable which is lineally deriued from the ancientest bloud and in earthlie possessions that Title strongest which pleadeth longest Prescription or ancientest Euidence and as also it may not be denyed but that Truth hath precedencie to falshood and substance to shadowes so must it needs be granted or rather supposed as an infallible truth that that Ghospel Faith and Church which is first or eldest is the only true Ghospel Faith and Church of CHRIST and al other Congregations afterwards arising or going out from thence are but only the malignant inuentions of the Enemie who euen from the beginning of the world was chiefly euer busyed in obscuring peruerting and detorting that which at first was alwaies created [6) Genes 1.31 very good very gracious and most pleasing in the al-seing Eye of the Omnipotent Maker In which respect for the euer finding out of the prime truth in al occurring difficulties we are specially forewarned as to recurre to Antiquitie so to suspect Noueltie Moyses a litle before his death desiring to leaue some holesome documents to the Children of Israel directeth them saying (7) Deut. 32.7 Remember the old dayes thinke vpon euerie generation aske thy father and he wil declare to thee thy elders and they wil tel thee In like sort Baldad Iob's friend aduised him in his greatest extremities to (8) Iob 8.8 aske the old generation and search diligently the memorie of the fathers for we are sayth he but as yesterday c. Yea wisest Salomon his aduise is (9) Eccles 8 11.12 Let not the narration of the ancients escape thee for they learned of their fathers because of them thou shalt learne vnderstanding and in time of necessitie to giue answer According to which God himself by the Prophet Hieremie teacheth (10) c. 6.16 Stand ye vpon the wayes and see and aske of the old pathes which is the good way and walke ye in it and you shal finde refreshing to your soules So that the old way is the way of truth and the same is to be learned by our Elders and Fathers Now of the contrarie God reproueth such as (11] Ier 18.15 walke c. in a way not trodden and Salomon's lesson is that thou (12) Prou. 22 28. transgresse not the ancient bounds which thy fathers haue put From whence I take it to be that as in the Scriptures our true God is called (13) Dan. 2.23 3.26.52 1. Tim 4 10 the God of the Fathers and of the Faithful so false Gods and new doctrines are termed (14) Deut. 32.17 New and fresh ones whome their fathers worshipped not Agreably heerunto S. Paul likewise aduiseth S. Timothie (15) 1. Tim. 6.20.21 to keepe the Depositum auoyding the prophane nouelties of voices and oppositions of falsely called knowledge which certain promising haue erred about the fayth thereby shewing prophane innouation to be the shipwrack of fayth Vpon which place likewise thus writeth that worthie Patron of Antiquitie Vincentius Lyrinensis (16) lib. aduers proph nouit He sayd not antiquities he sayd not Ancientnes but prophane Nouelties For if noueltie is to be auoyded antiquitie is to be kept if noueltie be prophane ancientnes is holie sacred And againe This with al Heresies is as it were solemne and allowed that in prophane nouelties they may alwaies reioyce and scorne the decrees of Antiquitie But on the contrarie to Catholicks this is almost proper to keepe the things left and committed by holie Fathers and to condemne prophane nouelties c. Wherupon he sayth of Nouelists What doe they promise but new and vnknowne doctrine For you may heare some of them to say Come ô you foolish and wretched who commonly are called Catholicks and learne the true fayth which none but we do know which for manie former ages lay hid but now of late is reuealed and shewen c. Are not these the words of that Drab sayth Vincentius But indeed it was ordinarie with the ancient Fathers to confute Hereticks by their owne Innouation So Tertullian vpon this ground reproueth the Nouellists of his time for their then vsurping and intruding by their latter vpstart doctrine vpon the then more ancient Catholick possession saying to that end vnto them (17) De Prescrip c. 37. Who are you When and from whence came you What do you in my grounds not mine By what right Marcion dost thou cut downe my woods By what