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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20679	An aduertisement to the English seminaries, amd [sic] Iesuites shewing their loose kind of writing, and negligent handling the cause of religion, in the whole course of their workes. By Iohn Doue Doctor in Diuinity.	Dove, John, 1560 or 61-1618.; Walsingham, Francis, 1577-1647.	1610 (1610)	STC 7077; ESTC S115461	57,105	88

AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE ENGLISH SEMINARIES AMD IESVITES Shewing their loose kind of writing and negligent handling the cause of Religion in the whole course of their workes By IOHN DOVE Doctor in Diuinity IEREMY 47. 10. Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently TAM ROBVR TAM ROBOR NI = COLIS ARBOR IOVIS 1610. LONDON Printed for SIMON WATERSON dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne 1610. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD MY VERY GOOD Lord TOBY by the prouidence of God Lord Arch-bishop of Yorke Primate and Metropolitan of England MOST Reuerend Father in God my especiall good Lord. Albeit there is no end in writing many books and much reading is a wearinesse to the flesh as the wise man speaketh yet doth the condition of this present age require a multitude of bookes neither ought we to be weary so long as the labour onely is ours the cause Gods and not our owne Our Aduersaries are neuer weary of withstanding the truth they neuer cease to prouoke vs by bookes our names are daily traduced in their papers that vnlesse the Spirit of God waxe cold and the zeale of his house be quenched in vs we cannot be silent And as your Grace hath laboured these fourty yeares without intermission like a silfull Maister-builder of Gods house a painefull husbandman in the Vineyard a vigilant Pastour ouer the flocke and were neuer yet weary of wel-doing so my trust is this small volume shall not seeme tedious which heere I offer vnto your reading and humbly present vnto your Grace Since your Grace hath bene called to the office of a Bishop as with S Paule it is a worthy worke so it hath bene with you all your time hitherto a worke rather then a promotion neither haue you fainted vnder so great a burthen My prayer is for you that God wich hath begun this good worke in you will also performe it vntill the day of Jesus Christ That as you haue deserued that good report which the godly Emperour Theodosius in the Church of Constantinople gaue of S. Ambrose then Bishop of Milanie so you may contiuue still another Saint Ambrose in our Church to the glory and honour of God to whose goodnesse and mercy I commend your Grace and your godly labours Your Graces most humble in the Lord. IOHN DOVE THE INTRODVCTION DECLARING WHAT IS THE drift and intent of the Author I Acknowledge my selfe with Saint Paul to be a debter vnto all men to the Greeke and the Barbarian to the wise and the vnwise so farre as lyeth in me to win some of all sorts to Iesus Christ Hauing already by the will of God published a short treatise of perswasion to the ignorant Recusants to reconcile themselues to our Church I hold it my duty to speake somewhat to them also which fit in the chaire of Moses which would be accounted the great Masters in Israël guides of the blinde lights to them which sit in darknesse instructers of them which lacke discretion and teachers of them which are vnlearned My purpose is not to speake of all points concerning which there is controuersie and difference betweene them and vs for so should I make a tedious volume but onely by instance in some few places for example sake in liew of all the rest to aduertise them of such errours as dayly they commit in the whole course of their writings when they handle the cause of religion to the preiudice of the cause it selfe which they take in hand and to the slander of learning That I may vse the words of the Apostle This is not to cast away the cloakes of shame but still to walke in craftinesse to handle the word of God deceiptfully and not in the declaration of the truth neither so doing can they approue themselues to their owne consciences in the sight of God They would beare the world in hand that they are more exact in their iudgement more painfull in their studies more acute in their arguments more aduised in their answers more diligent in all things they vndertake then any other of the contrary religion whereas due examination being had it doth appeare they slubber vp many things negligently and performe them loosely They despise all our Schooles of learning in respect of their owne Vniuersities as if solid learning and true Schoole-diuinity were no where taught but among themselues they hold all others to be superficiall and yet contrary to all Schoole-learning they suppresse the truth by fallacies throughout their bookes they transgresse the rules and lawes of disputation and in no place will they stand to the orders receiued in Schooles Their yong frye of Seminaries and seed-men which are trained vp vnder them see not with their owne eyes but receiue their sophismes for true syllogismes vpon the credit trust which they repose in their teachers as if it were impiety to call any thing into question which their Readers haue taught them or heresie to examine their grounds by the rules of Art which are the true touch-stone and onely try all of arguments In their discourses which they publish they vse such prolixity that the matter which is plaine and obuious to any man of reasonable capacity seemeth perplexe and very difficult they deliuer the state of the question so vncertainly that the reader looseth himselfe as in a labyrinth not conceauing what is the scope and drift of the Author whether he hold the affirmatiue part or the negatiue In the end hauing seemed to stand long in opposition against vs they concurre with vs. They alledge no other arguments in defence of the religion which they do maintaine but such as haue bene oftentimes answered by Caluin Beza Kemnitius and other Protestant Writers which arguments being already answered are of no validity and therefore we expect they should reply against the answers and not produce the same things againe Neither will their disciples take notice of any answer but alledge these triuiall things for nouelties and rare inuentions as neuer heard of before These things are but Satan transformed into an Angel of light deceptio visus to deceiue the world as the Babylonian Priests did the King Astyages making him beleeue that Bell did eate and drinke and was a liuing God when he was but a dead Idoll The King at the first because hee found the doore of the temple sealed vp with his owne signet the meate deuoured and the wine drunke vp which hee set before the idoll but saw not the priuy entrance which was vnder the table cryed out with a lowd voyce Great art thou ô Bell and in thee is no deceipt But when Daniel shewed him the footing of the Priests and their wiues and children in the ashes which he strewed on the pauements and the priuy doore which they came in at he confessed there was deceipt in the Priests of Bell and he saw plainly that Bell was no God but an idoll So