Selected quad for the lemma: england_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A15736
|
Runne from Rome. Or, A treatise shevving the necessitie of separating from the Church of Rome Disputed in these termes: euerie man is bound vpon paine of damnation to refuse the faith of the Church of Rome. By Antony Wotton. B.D.
|
Wotton, Anthony, 1561?-1626.
|
1624
(1624)
|
STC 26005; ESTC S120314
|
66,857
|
106
|
RVNNE FROM ROME OR A TREATISE SHEWING THE necessitie of Separating from the Church of Rome Disputed in these Termes EVERIE MAN IS bound vpon paine of Damnation to refuse the Faith of the Church of Rome By ANTONY WOTTON B. D. REVEL 18. 4. Come out of her my people that ye be not Partakers of her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues LONDON Printed by W. J. for Nicholas Bourne and are to be sold at his Shop at the South side of the Royall-Exchange 1624. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDWARD LORD DENNY OF WALTHAM MY ESPECIALL GOOD LORD Right Honorable WHen the great God of heauen and earth proclaimed by his Prophet to Eli 1. Sam. 2. 30 that he would honor them that honour him he therein implied both an example and a charge for all men to do the like Therefore is this actioÌ„ of honouring theÌ„ that honour God one of those whereof the holy Ghost made choise Psal 15. 4. that he might by them giue vs notice of those men which shal abide in the Tabernacle of the Lord and dwell in his holy hill It is my desire to performe this dutie to God by this seruice to your Lordship wherein I feele and confesse that I receiue far more then I can possibly giue For by desiring to honour our Lordship for your zeale in honouring God I encrease mine owne hope that I am of their number who haue obtained already some part of his grace and shall hereafter haue entrance into his glorie Giue me leaue noble Lord to forget in this respect my particular obligation to your Honour for your continuall bountie to me and good opinion of me that I haue an vnfained desire to maintaine the truth of God profest in this famous Church of England against the subtill and dangerous errors of the Romish Synagogue For I truly and willingly professe that the consideration of your Lordships feruent zeale for the glory of God zealous loue of his truth and true detestation of Popery haue so possest and rauisht my heart with a longing after your Honour that it will not suffer any other of your noble vertues though many and great either to come into comparison with it or to haue the least place in my thoughts while it is in presence This in my apprehension is as much to true honour as in Demosthenes opinion pronuntiation was to true eloquence Let them that will dote vpon their worldly greatnesse as the Peacocke is in loue with his owne feathers It is true honour to be honourable in his sight who onely is worthy of honour and yet graciously vouchsafeth to giue and to command that honour be giue to his faithfull seruants This is the foundation of your Lordships honour in my heart and vpon this ground wil I daily offer vp my poore prayers to God for your good Lordship your noble and truly vertuous Lady and hopefull of spring that it would please him to shewer downe euery day more more the comfortable dew of his grace and blessing vpon euery one of you to the increase of all honour in this life and happinesse in the life to come through Jesus Christ our Lord In whom I shall euer be at your Lordships seruice to be commanded Antony Wotton Tower-Hill May 3. 1624. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER THe Councell of Trent confirmed by the Pope is the chiefe Oracle of the Church of Rome from it she receiues all doctrines necessarie to be beleeued vnto saluation Romish Catholikes hold it for a principle that whatsoeuer is deliuered therein for doctrine is an article of faith and must stedfastly be beleeued vpon paine of damnation he that doth not is pronounced an Hereticke and is made lyable to a supposed heauy curse What little reason there is that Papists should yeeld such blind obedience to the Canons of that Councell may appeare by a plaine but true testimonie which was giuen thereunto by a Bishop a member of that Church and Councell who was present thereat This testimonie I haue thought good to prefixe to this my Treatise because in it I dispute against the doctrine of faith deliuered in the said Councell Andraeas Dudithius Bishop of Quinquecclesiae Quinquecclesiae is acitty in Lungarie calleâ— in German â—unsâ—â—rchin in Turkish â—nden or 〈◊〉 and Embassadour in the Councell of Trent for Maximilan the second Emperour in an Epistle to the said Emperour wherein he deliuereth his iudgement about granting the Cup to the Laitie and the marriage of Priests writes thus of the Councell of Trent WHat good could be done in that Councell where voyces were taken by number not by weight If argument if reason might haue preuailed if we had had some and those not many to take part with vs though we should haue bin but a few yet had vve ouerthrowne the greÌ„at forces of our aduersaries but when all stood vpon number wherein we were much inferiour we could not get the better though our cause were the better The Pope was able to set an hundreth of his against euery one of ours and if an hundreth were not sufficient he could vpon a sundaine haue created a thousand to succour them that were readie to faint and perish Therefore we might see euery day hungrie and needie Bishops and these for the most part beardlesse younkers and wastfully ryotous come in flocks to Trent hired to giue their voices according to the Popes humour vnlearned indeed and foolish but of good vse to him for their audaciousnesse and impudencie When these fellowes were ioyued to the Popes old slatterers then iniquitie got the vpper hand and triumphed neither could any thing be decreed but according to their liking who thought it the highest point of religion to defend the power and royot of the Pope There was in the Councell a graue and learned man who could not endure this indignitie but the Councell by terrour threatning and bayting him as one that was no good Catholike drew him to yeeld to that which he did no way like of In a word things are brought to that passe by their dishonesty who came prepared and made for the nonce that it seemed to be a Councell not of Bishops but of puppies not of men but of images who as it is reported of Daedalus Statues were moued not by their owne but by other mens nerues and muscles Those hireling Bishops most of them were like Countrey Bagpipes which must haue breath blowne into them before they can sound The holy Ghost had nothing to doe with that Couenticle all things were argued by human pollicy which was wholly employed in maintaining the immoderate indeed most shamelesse Lordship Domination of the Popet From thence were answers looked and wayted for as it were from the Oracles of Delphos or Dodona from thence the holy Ghost who as they brag is President of their Councell was sent shut vp in the Carriers budgets and packes who a thing worthy to be laught at when the waters were vp as it falls
out many times was faine to stay till they were downe againe before he could repaire to the Councell By this it came to passe that the Spirit was not carried vpon the waters as in Genesis but along besides the waters O monstrous and incredible madnes Nothing that the Bishops as it were the Bodie of the Church resolued of could be of any force vnlesse it came first from the Pope as the head of the bodie Epigramma G. B. de Rome et papa Non ego Romulea miror quod Pastor in vrbe Sceptra gerat Pastoâ— conditor vrbis erat Quumque lupae gentis nutritus lacte sit Autor Non ego Romulea miror in vrbo lupos Haectantum superat nostrum admiratio captum Quomodo securum praestet ovile lupus The same translated It is not strange a Shepheard raignes in Rome For he that built it was a Shepheards Groome Nor is it strange that wolues in Rome abound He suckt a wolse that did the Cittie found But this is strange and farre aboue my skill How wolues should keepe the flocke secure from ill CHAP. I. Declaring by way of Preface to the Reader the matter and manner of this Treatise A Good and carefull Phisition doth not onely prepare his portion according to Art but also if neede be perswade and intreate his patient to take it This example I haue propounded to my selfe in this Treatise In the former part whereof I haue faithfully and with the best skill I could vse prouided such a medicine as in it selfe is not vnfit and I hope by the mercifull blessing of God shall be made effectuall to bring that to passe which is intended My charge in this ministring is rather a care to preuent what may happen then a cure to remedy what hath happened For the Papists who are alreadie fallen into sicknesse not onely like melancholicke men refuse all meanes of cure vpon conceite that they neede it not but also like Vlisses companions haue their eares stopped with the waxe of preiudice and their eyes sealed with blind obedience that they can neither heare nor see in what case they are I must therefore be content to let the mole thinke that no creature can see better then she and apply my waters and powders to their eyes who are rather weake sighted then starke blind To you then I addresse my speech beloued Christians who see the truth as he that had newly recouered his sight did iudge of men he was able to perceiue they were men but they seemed to him to be as high as trees so that he saw what they were but could not discerne their true proportion So fareth it with a great part of those who professe the Religion of God maintained in the Church of England they haue a strong perswasion that poperie is to be deâ—ested but they see not cleerely what it is tht maketh it detestable Iosuah and the people of Israel perceiued that the Lord was offended with Ibsua 7. 7. them but could not find out Achan that had prouoked his displeasuie Behold by Gods gracious assistance I haue found him out attached indited and brought him to the barre that all men may see the Babilonish stuffe which he hath conueyed into the campe of the liuing God and hidden there in such sort that he hath notwithstanding a long time beene taken for a true Israelite Oh that it would please the Lord God who onely can worke wonders to giue him an heart and tongue to glorisie the Lord Iesus by confessing of his theft and restoring him his honour whereof vnder a colour of doing him seruice he hath traiâ—erously robbed him The proofe of this treason I leaue to the insuing disputation and discourse with hope that I shall thereby through Gods blessing both inlighten the vnderstanding and inslame the affection with detestation of popish errours It remaines that as briefly as I can I giue an account of the course I haue taken in debating so weightie a matter I haue herein gone a little out of the common high-way into the by path of Schoole-learning into which I either slipped or thrust my selfe partly of choise and partly of necessitie Of choise because this kinde of writing in matters of this nature doth best content me Of necessitie because I was asraide least in so wide a sea I might loose my selfe and either ouer shoote my port or fall short of it But why should I delight in such thornie and vnbeaten wayes dayly experience shewes how hard a thing it is to giue a reason of liking and misliking All I will say is this It is in studies as in apparrell There are that think large discourses like loose garments and regard neither the finenesse of the stuffe nor the neatnesse of the workman-ship but onely the fitnesse for the bodie it must serue These consider what aptnesse and force there is in that which is deliuered to manifest and proue that which is vndertaken Othersome cannot abide to be kept to the point in question no more then to be pinioned in a streight doublet these men seeme to loue daintinesse and easinesse more then warmth and lasting so that which they reade or write please for the present they care not greatly whether it be little or much to purpose Both nature and education haue bred in me another humor that I had rather reade or writ that which may truely informe my understanding thaÌ„ that which may tickle my affection In these things I conceiue the Heathen said wel that Nature is the best guide For he that setteth him selfe to that to which he hath no fitnesse by nature doth like him that swimmeth against the streame who being not able to hold out is either driuen back or drowned What meaneth all this may some man say Nothing else but this that I may the easier be excused for following that course to which I find my selfe inclined rather then that which of it selfe might procure better liking And this I trust I shall the sooner obtaine by signifiyng that my breeding strengthened my inclination For it pleased God that at my first comming to Cambridge I should be entred into the Kings-colledge by that worthy and learned gentleman Sir William Tâ—mple who in his Logicke readings alwayes laboured more to fitt vs for the true use of that Art then for vaine and idle speculations and earnest wranglings about trifles of no profit nor certainty Thus haue you the reason of my choyse may it please you to take knowledge also of the necessitie of this course Custome is said to be an other nature and is commonly called a tyrant because many times it inforceth a man to that of which in his owne disposition he hath no manner of liking As I was brought up rather to the profitable use then vaine oftentation of that noble Art of Logicke so as new vessels doe keeping a tang of the first liquot wherewith I was seasoned I applyed my selfe in the reading of Philosophy History Oratory Poetry