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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15431	Tetrastylon papisticum, that is, The foure principal pillers of papistrie the first conteyning their raylings, slanders, forgeries, vntruthes: the second their blasphemies, flat contradictions to scripture, heresies, absurdities: the third their loose arguments, weake solutions, subtill distinctions: the fourth and last the repugnant opinions of new papistes with the old; of the new one with an other; of the same writers with themselues: yea of popish religion with and in it selfe. Compiled as a necessarie supplement or fit appertinance to the authors former worke, intituled Synopsis papismi: to the glorie of God for the dissuading of light-minded men from trusting to the sandie foundation of poperie, and to exhort good Christians stedfastlie to hold the rockie foundation of faith in the Gospell.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1593 (1593)	STC 25701; ESTC S119967	179,229	213

TETRASTYLON PAPISTICVM That is THE FOVRE PRINCIPAL PILLERS of Papistrie the first conteyning their raylings slanders forgeries vntruthes the second their blasphemies flat contradictions to scripture heresies absurdities the third their loose arguments weake solutions subtill distinctions the fourth and last the repugnant opinions of New Papistes With the old of the new one with another of the same writers with themselues yea of Popish religion with and in it selfe Compiled as a necessarie supplement or fit appertinance to the Authors former worke intituled Synopsis Papismi To the glorie of God for the dissuading of light-minded men from trusting to the sandie foundation of poperie and to exhort good Christians stedfastlie to hold the rockie foundation of faith in the Gospell Epist. Iud. ver 9. 10. Michael the Archangel when he stroue against the diuell did not blame him with cursed speaking but said the Lord rebuke thee But these speake euill of those things they know not and whatsoeuer things they know naturally as beastes which are without reason in those things they corrupt themselues Haeretici cùm peruersitatis suae rationem reddere non possunt ad maledicta conuertuntur Heretickes when they can render no reason of their wilfulnesse fall to flat railing Printed by Robert Robinson for Thomas Man dwelling in Pater noster row at the signe of the Talbot 1593. To the Right Honorable Sir Iohn Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the broad Seale of England and of her Maiesties most Honorable priuie Counsell I Haue not neither can forget Right Honorable your courteous acceptation of that simple gift which not long since I presumed to present your Honor withall Since that time I confesse my selfe a debtor to your Lordship and therefore haue strained my selfe for kindnesse receiued to shew at the least thankefulnesse againe and to recompense the meannes of that gift by an other of that sort Iubemur saith one colligere fragmenta ne pereant id est ne minima beneficia obliuisci Wee are bidden to gather vp the verie fragmentes and crummes that is not to forget the least benefites First then J will declare the contentes of this present treatise Secondly the reasons that mooued mee thereunto Lastly why I would haue it passe vnder your honors name First of all therfore as in my former booke I haue gathered together into one summe the Lord by the gracious assistance of his spirite directing me the whole doctrine of the Church of Rome and opinions of Papistes in that worke but plainely and nakedly offering to the Readers viewe the substance of the controuersies and state of the questions betweene vs So further I thought it not amisse to bring to light and to shew as in the face of the Sunne the manifold absurdities inconueniences shiftes subtilties blasphemies which our aduersaries in defense of their errours are constrained to vse in oppugning the trueth This I haue accordingly perfourmed I trust in this worke that the weaknes of their cause the beggerie of their Religion the vanitie of their Councels and deceite of their heartes might appeare and be made knowen to all the worlde This booke I haue intituled the PILLERS OF PAPISTRIE which is built vpon lies and vntruthes faced out with rayling and bitter speech propped vp with blasphemies and patched together with dissonant contrarie opinions among them selues The proofe of these particulars followeth at large discoursed in this treatise First as touching thir lying and vntruthes I could haue wished that they had embraced his wise counsell that saith Aut cauenda sunt mendacia rectè agendo aut confitenda paenitendo non autem cum abundent infoeliciter viuendo augenda sunt docendo August lib. 2. de mendac cap. 21. But they are so farre from correcting by repentance that which they haue offended in practise that they are not onely become liemakers but lie-maisters not practisers of this craft but teachers defenders Concerning their railing speech it is al the Rhetorike they vse Such are no better then sheep-biters meacockes among thē that haue not filed whetted their toongs to smite wound vs withall But here I say vnto thē as Augustine did to the heretike Pascentius Literae tuae nec ad reddenda conuitia me provocant nec a reddendis literis me reuocare potuerunt So neither shall their rayling writinges prouoke vs likewise to passe the bondes of modestie and to pay them home in the same kind neither yet cause vs to cease from answering their follies Nowe as for their blasphemies it woulde offend a chast and a Christian eare to heare what horrible and vngodly sayings doe passe from them in the second piller of this booke we haue set downe a whole kenning of them But as Augustine saieth to some who the more readily to descrie heretikes them selues also fel into blasphemie tolerabilius in suis foueis delite scerent vulpes quā propter illas capiendas in blasphemiae foueam caderent venatores The Foxes might more safely lurke in their holes then the huntsmen to take them should fal into the pit of blasphemie So though we were the foxes and they the huntsmen it is no good way for the huntsmen to snare themselues to entangle the foxes But we in deede are the huntsmen and they the foxes as it is said take vs These foxes these litle foxes that destroy the vines Cantic 2. 15. Concerning the dissensions and diuisions among papistes it is no strange thing as he saith Omnia vitia erroresque mortaliū diuisi sunt inter se contrarij apud Idolorum cultores diuisi sunt spiritus Iunonis spiritus Herculis Paganus Iudaeus hostes sunt Christi sed diuisi inter se Arrianus Photinianus haeretici diuisi inter se sic Donatistae sic Maximinianistae All vices and errors among men are deuided and contrary to themselues among the Idolatrous Heathen the spirite of Iuno and Hercules are diuided the Paganes Iewes enemies to Christ and yet diuided the Arrians likewise Photmians the Donatistes and Maximinianistes ad also the Scotistes and Thomistes among the Papistes deuided betweene them selues yet Ambo pertinent ad regnum diaboli Both doe belong to the raigne or kingdome of the Deuil Now the reasons that haue moued me principally to enterprise this businesse were these First in respect of those countrie men of ours which haue suffered themselues a long time to be seduced and deceiued with false opinions and a vaine shew of holines beeing as it were made drunke with the whore of Babylons intoxicate cuppe that they now at the length seeing the nakednes beggerie of popish religion would take heed to themselues in time and thinke it enough yea too much to haue sipped of that poisoned cuppe lest drinking more deepely thereof they afterward bee constrained to draw out the dregges to be partakers of their plagues of them we say with Augustine Licèt non timentur vt perdant non