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A04376	A defence of the articles of the Protestants religion in aunsweare to a libell lately cast abroad, intituled Certaine articles, or forcible reasons, discouering the palpable absurdities, and most intricate errours of the Protestantes religion.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1601 (1601)	STC 1449; ESTC S100898	97,357	242

respect of one head Christ so a policie Aristocraticall administred by select gouernours no pompous synagogue aspectable in grosse to mortall eies because God onely knoweth all that are his 2. Tim. 2. for he is not a lew which is one outward Rom. 2. neither are all Israell which are of Israell Rom. 9 not as Noahs familie with a Shem and a Cham or as his Arke with a crow and a doue though this bee true in visible particular churches where are some straglers not yet called some weakelinges not fully confirmed some hypocrites not easely discerned some wicked ones not to bee auoided but as Clem. Alex. defines it au elect company into which are gathered the faithfull and iust predestinate by God beefore the worldes creation for this cause called an holy assembly while millitant on earth holy in affection when triumphant in heauen holy in perfection in both states holy by Christes imputation This is the harmony of our profession and the true sence of this article which euen Aquine their Angelicall doctor con●●meth concluding that infidels are not members of the Catholike church whereof Christ is the head in acte but inpossibilitie no● so neither except they be predestinate to life before the worlds foundation and all their Catechistes insinuate so much in making the Catholike church and the communion of saintes all one article But heare his reason of our deniall Because Catholike is vniuersall a profound note so the Church of Christ which we are bound to beleeue must bee vniuersall for all time comprehending all ages and vniuersall for place comprehending all nations but that Church which the Protestantes beleeue was interrupted all the ages beetwixt the Apostles and Luther which was 1400. yeares or in very deede was neuer seene before Luthers dayes therefore that Church they beleeue cannot be Catholike Aunsweare A fit aunsweare to this would cause the reader crie out with that prouerb Date mihi peluim this tedious iteration rather prouoking a vomit then edging the appetite it being the full scope of his first article where he receiued his aunsweare therfore since he requestes breuitie heere onely obserue in this phrase interrupted either his blasphemous vntrueth if he meane of the existence of the Catholike church which wee beleue to bee perpetuall for the head neuer wanted his bodie nor the Sunne his beames nor the bridegroome his spouse nor Christ his church but as Irenaeus obserueth ab initio assistens plasmati suo filius reuelat omnibus patrem it begunne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at the first foundation and shall not ende 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at the finall dissolution of the worlde The church beefore Christ incarnate and this since he was glorified being one the same cōsanguinitate doctrinae saith Tertullian or els his Caiphas-like veritie speaking the trueth against his will if hee meane that the glorious conspicuitie or sincere professiō of the Catholike church was of long interrupted for that is true in the olde testament by the worldes deluge the Aegyptian bondage the Idole groues and the Babilonish captiuitie in the new at the aduent of Christ by the worlds blindnesse the Phariseis pride the Iewes obstinacie and the deuils malice after his ascent by that threefold persecution which S. Augustine mentioneth violent by tyrantes fraudulent by hypocrites and heretikes both those together after the eleuation of Antichrist But if interrupted after Christ and his Apostles then was it begun by him and continued by them and that is it which Cyprian said we oft repeate we neither seeke nor reke what was doone ante nos before vs but what he commands to be done which was ante omnia beefore all times and aboue all men therfore that church which had the foūdation by Christ the source by the Prophets and Apostles the frame and iointes by the Scriptures we beleeue in that article to bee continually Catholike alwayes extant not alwayes radiant euery where dispersed elsewhere distressed pergit nebulo still he goes on Neither is it vniuersall in place beeing contayned within the narrow bounds of England which is accompted but as a corner of the world For the Lutherans in Germany the Hugonots in Fra●nce and the Guiues in Flaunders detest there religiō almost as much as the Catholikes neither will they ioine issue with thē in diuers especiall poīts And therefore the Protestants church which they beeleeue can no more bee Catholike and vniuersall thē England the vniuersall world or Kēt the Kingdom of England or a pruned bough a wheate tree or a dead finger a man or a rotten tooth the whole head Aunsweare Medusaes ill fauoured countenance turned men into stones and such brasen-faced ignorance would make any man astonished Who euer said except the Romane proctors for their Babylon that a particular congregation was the Catholike church we haue cried it at the crosse and recorded it in our bookes that as the golden candlesticke was multiplied into many braunches Exod. 25 and Aarons rod burgened into many blossomes Nomb. 17. so Christes church was parceled into many particuler churches among which this of England to the fretting despight of Romish rennagates the famous renowne of our Soueraigne and the eternall glory of his name God hath selected as among all flowers the Lilly among all fowles the Doue of all trees the Cedar of all the nations Iudea of all the mountaines this Zion to be a sanctuarie for his chosen an oracle for his woord an habitation for himselfe howsoeuer this viperous scorner in contempt calles it a corner of the world a nooke it is in deede but such an one as Aegina to Athens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the eiesore thereof so is this to Rome the hartsoare thereof Why Bethleem was the smallest among the thousands of I●dah Mich. 5. yet the sonne of righteousnes sprong thēce and the glorious starre directed thether Math. 2. The Iewes an handfull in comparison of the other nations and yet in Iury was God knowne his name was great in Israell Psal. 76. a diamond of true lustre though set in brasse is of more accompt value then a counterfaite byrall or a Portingall perle fastened in golde Wee feare not the Lions paw the Spanish crueltie much lesse the scratch of a strumpet the Libellers of Rome the braine of a Fox the schismes of hypocrites wee contemne As for this visible church of ours we acc●mpt it as the arke of Gods presence not beleeue it as an article of our faith it is the Romish opinion and it was well placed among the extrauagantes as a position extrauagant from all learning reason and diuinitie that a particular Synagogue should be the Catholike church that a filthy sincke should be the holy church yet such a citie is Rome and such is the diuinitie of the Popish clergie and therefore wee conclude this article with a Syllogisme inuerted vpon this