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The enthusiasm of the church of Rome demonstrated in some observations upon the life of Ignatius Loyola.
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Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.
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of Discourses of Purity and Charity of Repentance and of seeking the Kingdom of God. Published by Dean Tillotson 8 o. His Second Volume of Discourses on several Practical Subjects 8 o. Sir Thomas Mores Vtopia newly made English by Dr. Burnet 8 o. Mr. Sellers Devout Communicant assisted with Rules Meditations Prayers and Anthems 12. Dr. Towerson of the Sacraments in General Of the Sacrament of Baptism in particular 8 o. The History of the COVNCIL OF TRENT in which besides the ordinary Acts of the Council are declared many notable occurrences which hapned in Christendom for 40 Years and particularly the Practices of the COVRT of ROME to hinder the Râ—formation of their Errors and to maintain Their Greatness Written by Father Paul of the Servi To which is added the Life of the Author and the History of the Inquisition Dr. Bâ—rnets History of the Reformation of the Church of Eng. in 2 Vol Fol. A Collection of sixteen several Tracts and Discourses written in the Years from 16â—8 to 1685. inclusive by Gilbert Barnet D. D. To which is added A Letter written to Dr Barnet giving an Account of Cardinal Pools secret Powers The History of the Powder Treason with a Vindication of the Proceedings thereupon An Impartial Consideration of the Five Jesuits dying Speeches who were Executed for the Popish Pâ—ot 1679. 4 o. A Dissertation concerning the Government of the Ancient Church more particularly of the Encroachments of the Bishops of Rome upon other Sees By WILLIAM CAVE D.D. 8 vo An Answer to Mr. Serjeant's Sure Footing in Christianity concerning the Rule of Fâ—ith With some other Discourses By WILLIAM FALKNER D. D. 4 o. A Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England in Anâ—wer to a Paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the Nullity of our Orders By GILBERT BVRNET D D. An Abridâ—ment of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England By GILB BVRNET D D. 8 vo The APOLOGY of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Signior Scipio a Venetian Gentleman concerning the Council of Trent Written both in Latin by the Right Reverend Father in God IOHN IEWEL Lord Bishop of Salisbury Made English by a Person of Quality To which is added The Life of the said Bishop Collected and written by the same Hand 8 vo The Life of WILLIAM BEDEL D. D. Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland Together with Certain Letters which passed betwixt him and Iames Waddesworth a late Pensioner of the Holy Inquisition of Sevil in Matters of Religion concerning the General Motives to the Roman Obedience 8 vo The Decree made at ROME the Second of March 1679. condemning some Opinions of the Iesiuts and other Casuists 4 o. A Discourse concerning the Necessity of Reformation with respect to the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome 4 o. First and Second Parts A Discourse concerning the Celebration of Divine Service in an Unknown Tongue 9 o. A Papist no Misrepresented by Protestants Being a Reply to the Reflections upon the Answer to A Papist Misrepresented and Represented 4 o. An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late BISHOP of CONDOM in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church 4 o. Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the Exceptions of the Mons. de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator 4 o. A CATECHISM explaining the Doctrine and Practices of the Church of Rome With an Answer thereunto By a Protestant of the Church of England 8 vo A Papist Represented and not Misrepresented being an Answer to the First Fifth and Sixth Sheets of the Second Part of the Papist Misrepresented and not Represented and for a further Vindication of the CATECHISM truly Representing the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome 4 o. The Lay-Christian's Obligation to read the Holy Scriptures 4 o. The Plain man's Reply to the Catholick Missionaries 24 o. An Answer to THREE PAPERS lately printed concerning the Authority of the Catholick Church in matters of Faith and the Reformation of the Church of England 4 o A Vindication of the Answer to the said THREE PAPERS 4 o. Mr Chillingworths Book called The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvâ—tion made more generally useful by omitting personal contests but inserting whatsoever concerns the common cause of Protestants or defends the Church of England with an exact Table of Contents and an Addition of some genuine Pieces of Mr. Chillingworths never before Printed viz. against the Infallibility of the Roman Church Transubstantiation Tradition c. And an Account of what moved the Author to turn Papist with his confutation of the said motives An Historical Treatise written by an Author of the Communion of the Church of Rome touching Transubstantiation Wherein is made appear That according to the Principles of that Church this Doctrine cannot be an Article of Faith 4 o. The Protestants Companion or an Impartial survey and comparison of the Protestant Religion as by Law established with the main Doctrines of Popery Wherein is shewn that Popery is contrary to Scripture Primitive Fathers and Councils and that proved from Holy Writ the Writings of the Ancient Fathers for several hundred Years and the Confession of the most Learned Papists themselves 4 o. The Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be that Church and the Pillar of that Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy chap. 3. ver 15.4 o. The Peoples Right to read the Holy Scriptures Asserted 4 o. A short summary of the principal Controversies between the Church of Engl. and the Church of Rome being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Answer to a late Pamphlet intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture proofs 4 o. An Answer to a late Pamphlet intituled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one special Branch of the Kings Prerogative viz. In dispensing with the Penal Laws 4 o. A Discourse of the Holy Eucharist in the two great Points of the Real Presence and the Adoration of the Host in Answer to the Two Discourses lately Printed at Oxford on this Subject To which is prefixed a large Historical Preface relating to the same Argument Two Discourses Of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead The Fifteen Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted 4 o. With a Table to the Whole Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died by W. Wake M. A 12 o. The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A Private Prayer to be used in difficult Times A True Account of a Conference held about Religion at London Sept. 29. 1687. between
taken the Almanack into the number of the Saints and canonized it under the name of St. Almachius solemnizeth its memory on the first day of January and giveth to it an illustrious Character in the Martyrology This probably proceeded from the mistake of some ignorant Monk about the seventh or eighth Age who finding the word S. Almanacum Sanctum Almanacum written in the front of the Calendar and not knowing what to make of that barbarous term with which he was before unacquainted imagined it to be some ancient obscure Saint who took up the first place in the Calendar Being possessed with this Error it was no hard matter to make S. Almachius of S. Almanacum written in the old way of Abbreviation Having thus framed the Saint out of good manners he placed him after the Circumcision of our Lord the memory of which is celebrated upon the same day but yet to keep the former Order as much as possible immediately after it as it now continueth in the Roman Martyrology This unhappy mistake was thence transcribed into many other Copies and so encreased the Rabble of the Romish Saints with the addition of St. Almanack Afterwards a goodly Story was framed of him that he suffered Martyrdom at Rome under the Presecture of Alipius where reprehending the Gladiators in the Amphitheater for their bloody sports he was killed by them That my Conjecture is just manifestly appears from the constant silence of all ancient Writers concerning any such Martyr None makes mention of him before Alcuinus and he doth it in such a manner as sheweth that he knew not what to make of him For as for the Martyrologies of Beda Usuardus and Ado they have received so many Interpolations from latter hands that no Arguments can be drawn from them Baronius is grievously perplexed about this S. Almachius One while he makes him to have suffered under Honorius another while under Theodosius and supposeth him to have been the same with the Martyr Telemachus of whom Theodoret makes mention But so prodigious a change of Telemachus into Almachius is somewhat incredible and that Telemachus was stoned whereas Almachius is said to have been stabbed Add to this universal silence of the Ancients that S. Almachius is placed exactly in the beginning of the Calendar on the first of January immediately after the Circumcision of Christ and the matter will be rendred highly probable The only Objection which with any shew of reason can be opposed is that the word Almanacum seems not to have been so ancient as the time of Alcuinus as being received from the Arabians But this is no other than a vulgar Error For Porphyry used the word 1400. years since where speaking of the many different Horoscopes he saith of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose names are contained in the Almanacks which may also give a probable reason how the letter h crept into Almachius For as anciently in spelling words derived from the Greek they kept much more closely to the Greek Orthography than we now do it is not unlikely that when this word was first adopted by the Latins it was writ Almanachum These Arguments will at least create a probability of my Assertion that this fictitious Saint arose from the unhappy mistake of some ignorant Writer If our Adversaries of the Church of Rome shall yet persist to defend the honour and truth of their Calendar it will concern them to produce better Arguments for the existence of St. Almachius than I have now proposed against it But to return from St. Almanack to St. Ignatius it cannot be pretended by our Adversaries that the Character of Enthusiasm or Falsity which I have affixed to him and the Miracles attributed to him may equally be fastned on the Actions and Miracles of Christ and his Apostles altho both Ignatius and St. Francis in acting their Extravagances flattered themselves with the thoughts of a perfect imitation of Christ. As for the reception of the Faith by extraordinary Illumination and in many cases acting by Divine Impulse that in the first propagation of Christianity when it was both necessary and convenient was no argument or character of Enthusiasm but only in subsequent times after the Faith had been once published and an ordinary Rule whether Scripture or Tradition was fixed which by natural means might divulge the knowledge of it Nothing childish or ridiculous can be discovered in the Actions of Christ and his Apostles none of those frantick Motions or irrational Extravagances which are so eminently conspicuous in the whole Conduct of Ignatius At least none of their Miracles are subject to those Objections which intirely ruine the credit of those ascribed to Ignatius They were all well attested performed before whole multitudes of Enemies as well as Friends delivered to us by Eye-witnesses and that without any fluctuation or mutual repugnance of their Testimony were not destructive of the Laws of Corporeal Beings nor included any contradiction contained nothing monstrous or indecent in them and were in all respects intirely conformable to the Majesty of that God who wrought them and the gravity of that Religion which was confirmed by them It will perhaps be pretended with greater shew of reason that the actions and Histories of many famous Monks and Anchorets of the Ancient Church give no small countenance to the Conduct of Ignatius and by the authority of their Examples rescue it from the force of our Objections that consequently the Ancient Church is no less subject to the Charge of Enthusiasm than the Church of Rome and both equally concerned in it Altho the deformity of Enthusiasm cannot be palliated by any Authority whatsoever yet the regard which I have to Truth and the great reverence which the Church of England not unjustly beareth to the more pure and ancient times of Christianity obligeth me to remove this prejudice and preclude the force of any such Objection before I dismiss the Reader First then however it cannot be denied that many Persons who obtained to themselves an extraordinary repute of sanctity in the Ancient Church committed many gross irregularities in the conduct of their Devotion practised immoderate Austerities and were sometimes guilty of ridiculous Actions yet the Ancient Vniversal Church is not in the least concerned in all this nor receiveth any prejudice from the indiscreet Zeal of these private Bigots She gave no countenance to their Extravagances never recommended them to the practise or imitation of her Children much less approved them by any solemn and publick Act. Whereas the Church of Rome hath in the highest and most solemn manner espoused the Follies and Whimsies of her Enthusiastick Saints by canonizing them celebrating their Memories with Festivals and pompous Ceremonies invoking them in her publick Offices and recommending their Examples to the World as the best and greatest Patterns of Christian Perfection This alone might suffice to overthrow all pretence of Antiquity in this case Yet to clear the matter somewhat