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A40453	The dolefull fall of Andrew Sall, a Jesuit of the fourth vow, from the Roman Catholick apostolick faith lamented by his constant frind, with an open rebuking of his imbracing the confession, contained in the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England.	French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.	1674 (1674)	Wing F2178; ESTC R6915	151,148	496

Sall and tell mee were not all your Saints such did not they lead about captive silly woemen loaden with sinns are not Nuns breaking out of Cloysters such woemen was there any of your capitall reformers that hath not led with him a Nun or some other woeman covered with sinns and from those they neuer seperated but for injoying them and theire love perrished eternally Ah Sall ah blinded Sall have you for joyning with those flagitious men and imbraceing theire new and Hereticall Doctrine deserted the famous Doctors and Saints Gregory Ambross Augustin and Hierom and all the ancient Fathers of the Church now glorious Saints in heaven Heu and Vae will fall upon you for a lost man that began to stray in your old age Sall for shame Fuge ad foli● in horto Paradisi absconde te a facie Domini cum peccantibus parentibus tuis Deo clamanti Sall ubi es responde cum pudore v●cem tuam audivi Domine tim●i eo qu●d nudus essem abscondi me XV. CHAPTER Sall if hee mindes his Salvation should not stay in a Church wherin Murtherers Traytors Hereticks Theeves Negromansers and other Mallefactors are Can●nized for Saints IT is saith Sall a greeuous reproach objected to the Protestant Congregation of the English Church to say they esteem for Saints Murtherers Hereticks and other Mallefactors it is soe Sall and even such a reproach as the Prophet objected to some men that were Socii furum Companions of Theeves But if the Congregation of Protestants in England doe this day owne and acknowledg for Saints Murtherers and other Mallefactors Ipsi viderint volenti scienti non fit injuria While they doe not disclaime in Iohn Foxes Calendar wherin hee sets downe for glorious Martyres and Saints Murtherers Traytors Theeves c. But rather highly value the same soe as it hath bin publickly read in the Churches to the Congregation doe not they make themselves guilty of this reproach Fox then is the man hath don this great Injury to the Protestants of England if they will be sencible of it This man of his owne head forged a Calendar or Ecclesiasticall Table of new Saints for the new English Church out of pride and vanity Emulation and apish Imitation of our Calendar for hee would forsooth have a Calendar for his owne Saints that indeed were noe Saints and in this Calendar hee put downe agreat rabble of Hereticks Theeves seditious persons c. And canonized of his owne new Reformers who hee pleased and left out whome hee pleas'd By framing this impious ridiculous Calendar hee hath done a grieuous Injury to the Catholicks of England to all the Saints of great Britany and to the very Protestant Congregation To the Catholicks those constant Professors of theire faith in the days of Edward the sixth and Queen Elizabeth days of sharp persecution that would not bend theire knee to Baal there were blessed be God many thousands of them Lotts that remained pure in Sodom in raising a Dagon a Calendar of false Saints against theire Arca a Calendar of true Saints but in the end our Arca hath falne Foxes Dagon To the Protestants hee hath done a very great afront and dishonoured theire Religion by setting downe in his Calendar for Saints of theire Communion knowne Hereticks Traytors Murtherers Witches and all kinde of Mallefactors by which hee hath made his owne Protestants Socios furum Companions of Theeves what more infamous to the Protestants of England then the Company of wicked men some condemn'd for lewd life some for theft and Sacriledg others for Murthers and Conspiracies others for witch-craft and sorcery and coming even to the distroying of their Princes person And is not this a holy Communion and Association of them to bragg of This is the great honour that Iohn Fox hath done to the Protestants of England that Luther Bucer Ochinus and those other Apostata's Priestes Monks and Fryers that for love of the flesh broak theire Vowes made to Allmighty God are sett downe for chief Saints in his Calendar Hee hath likwise highly injured the Saints in heaven in turning them out of the Callendar to make roome for his new Saints to that effect hee put out of his Callendar all the English British and Scotch Saints that have been knowne for glorious Saints by all the Ecclesiasticall Historys of the World What atempt more violent what Injury greater then to stricke out of the Senate of Saints all the Bishops Martyrs Confessors Virgins Eremites Priestes and Monks of great Britaine injoying the blessed Society of Angells and the happy presence and vision of theire Master Iesus the Lamb of God and who is the light and Lanthorne and Sunne it selfe of the Celestiall Citty of Hierusalem and this hee hath done and all those hee hath put out of theire seats and places to make roome for his new Martyrs and Saints such as you will blush to see named for Saints Nor did Fox stay heer but with great petulancy like a scelerat and prophane man hee dared compare his new Saints with our ancient Martyrs as Iohn Hooper a marryed Priest with Saint Policarp Hee resembleth Tindall in like manner to Saint Paul and his Shollar Frith to Saint Timothy Let any man read his arrogant and blasphemous dedicatory Epistle in beginning of his volume to Christ himselfe and hee shall see the pride the man had conceived of those his new Martyrs For first hee asked of Christ this question Quae gens quae Fox in Epist dedic ad Iesum Christum● lingua quae natio qua temporum vetustas quae hominum prosteritas earum non cantabit laudes c. That is What people what tongue what nation what continuance of tyme what posterity of men shall ever be that will not sing these new Martyrs prayses c. This was his question Fox his writing to Iesus Christ and you will easily imagin how quickly Christ could have answered the goose if hee had bene worthy of answer to wit that hee should soon after see and behold a posterity of the English Nation it selfe that instead of praysing them would defie and detest both them and theire Doctrin as alsoe display theire wickedness to the whole World And whether this tyme and posterity be already com or noe let the Reader judg by that which in this booke hee shall see set forth But now after Fox his Conference had with Christ in Latin hee cometh downe to reason with the Q. Majesty in English about the worthiness of the same Matyrs and then turneth againe to the learned Reader for soe hee saith hee must be in another Lattin letter where after many other insolent vaunts of his new Martyrs hee saith thus Si non poena sed causa Martyrem facit Fox Epist ad doctum lectorem non video cur non unum Cranmerum sexcentis Beckettis Cantuariensibus non conferam modò sed pretulerim That is If the cause and not the punishment make a Martyr I

however wee must leave him a Saint to fill up that new Calendar Fox is not ashamed to place in his Calendar Lollards a Sect of Hereticks ancienter then Wicklifians by 50 years who in some things held with the Protestants and Wicklisians against the Roman Church as against the Invocation of Saints Fastings Prayers and the Sacraments of Pennance Matrimonie Extrem-unction and the like they had alsoe particular Opinions of there owne against Baptisme Eucharist and the like They had alsoe theire peculiar fanatick Opinions as Tritemius saith 1. That Lucifer with the rest of The peculiar oponions of the Lollards according to Tritemius his Angells were injuriously thrust out of heaven by Michael and his Angells and consequently to be restored at the day of iudgment And that Michael and his Angells are to be damned for the forsaid Injury and to be delivered over to everlasting punishment from the day of Iudgment forward 2. That our Lady could not beare Christ and remaine a Virgin for that soe hee should have been an Angell and not a man 3. They held that God did only punnish such wickedness as is done upon Earth But if any thing be done underground it is not punishable And therfore in caves and sellers under-ground they were accustomed to exercise all abomination And of this hee relateth a certaine Story happened in Germany which was that one Gisla a young Woeman of theire Sect comming to be burned for Heresie shee was asked whether shee were a Virgin or noe wherunto shee answered that above-ground shee was but under ground not This Heresie the Lollards grounded upon that saying of the Psalme Terram Psal 113. autem dedit Filiis hominum That is God hath given the Earth to the Children of men I will conclude in this place with Fox a Father os lyes the greatest Hypocrit and Falcificator of that age or this for proofe heerof I remitt you to Father Persons a famous man of blessed memory a great Ornament to his Order and all the Church of God in the third part of his treatis in the Addition hee made or the Relation of the tryall made before the King of France in the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eu●eux and the Lord Plessis Mornay Page 59. 60. 61. I have had Occasion these monthe● The words of Fr. Persons past to peruse a great part of his last Edition of Acts and Monuments printed the fifth tyme in the yeare 1596. and doe find it soe stuffed with all kind of falshood and deceitfull mannerof telling tales as I could neuer truly have beleeved it if I had not found it by my owne experience And I doe persuade my selfe fully notwithstanding all his Hypocriticall words and protestations which are more and oftener repeated by him then in all the writers together that I have read in my life that there is scarce one whole Story in that huge volume told by himselfe except when hee relateth other mens words out of records and therby is bound to the formality therof but that it is falsified and perverted one way or other either in the beginning middle or end by adding cutting of consealing false translating wrong cyting or cunning jugling and falsification Hee saith further A certaine learned Student of Divinity brought to mee of late 30. places taken out of two only leaves of Fox his booke to witt from the 12. to the 14. which I looking upon found them all most evident by conference of the Catholick Authors aleaged by the said Student and moreover besides these thirty I did discover soe many other plain Falshoods and manifest willfull lyes in those only two leaues as might well double the former number and I doe offer to prove them one by one if any Frind of Iohn Fox will joyne issue with mee upon this poynt Infine Father Person concludes with Fox that if all the Falsifications and lyes in his great volume of Acts and Monuments were well siffted the number and account would swell soe high as it would much surpass Iohn Sleydans Story in this kinde though hee bee the Protestants Protochronicler out of whome noe lesse then an eleven thousands lyes were gathered by the Catholick writers of Germany Let Fox goe along for his Companion if not master in the art of lyeing XVI CHAPTER The fift Quaere what Company hath Sall forsaken and who are they hee now sticks unto TO this Quaere an answer is Soon given that Sall having shamfully deserted the Catholick Faith hath alsoe abandoned theire side and hath passed to those that profess the Religion or rather Heresie hee hath imbraced This is made manifest out of his owne words in his Recantation All considered well saith hee I did conclude the way of the Church of England to be safer for my Salvation wherfore resolved to declare as I Out of Salls Recantion doe hereby seriously and in my hart without any Equivocation and mentall Reservation in the presence of God and this Congregation I declare that I doe give my full and free assent to the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England for holy and wise and grounded upon the infallible word of God acknowledging the Romish Tenets against them to bee false and superstitious especially that of Transubstantiation as forcing upon Christians a beleefe of monstrous Miracles repugnant to human reason and not grounded upon devine Testimony Sall there is an end of you goeing out of the Arck not like the Doue that returned carrying in its mouth a branch of an Olive tree but like the crow that neuer came back againe it may be much feared this may be your dismall end But having now bid adieu to us whither doe you goe you pass indeed from us to a great Congregation of men who all of them put in a just claime to have you of theire Company and Communion All out of the Arck are your Companions of these you have in the Law of Nature in the written Law and the Evangelicall All these wee call them Hereticks were Armyes fighting against the eternall Verity and the goodness of God all are your Companions I remember to have said aboue out of Tertulian that Protestants and other Hereticks being not able to shew the succession of theire Church were forced to grant it was for a tyme invisible which is against the nature of a true Church yet for all this I cannot deny but that Heresie is ancient and had its being before man was created The first Hereticks therfore and before mans creation was Lucifer with some rebellious Legions that with him stirred up sedition in heaven when Lucifer out of Pride would bee esteemed an Anti God with him joyned in the quarrell severall Bands of Angells and fell all with him And there was Apocal. cap. 12. seen saith the Book of Revelations another signe in heaven agreat red Dragon and his taile drew the third part of the starrs of heaven and cast them to the Earth The sedition and Rebellion is