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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25674	A vindication of the Roman Catholicks from the foul aspersions thrown upon them by John Tillotson ... in a sermon preached by him in November, 1687 ...	Antoine.	1688 (1688)	Wing A3517; ESTC R6580	11,687	16

It is convenient for many of the Clergy and Laity To the Clergy because they are often sent from one country to another of different Speeches for the common good who if the Liturgie were in the Vulgar Tongue they for many years could not be able to assist at any Solemnity of the Church The same Reason is proportionally for the Laity 4 thly For Uniformity 5 thly Because the Latin is not mutable as other Speeches are Lastly Because it hath been so from the Beginning as these following Fathers do Witness St. Cyprian insinuates that in his time the publick Liturgie was in Latin. St. Austin insinuates the same to have been in his time St. Hierome affirms that all the Eastern Church used the Greek Language There are many more Reasons to be given some the Doctor gave such as he thought he could easily refute The last Argument which the Doctor brought fell indeed to the Ground for want of a Friend to support it The other three Reasons which the Doctor says the Catholicks pretend for themselves I suppose the Doctor had from the Irish Popish Collier a Man who had more Devotion than Learning But what if the Church gave no Reason and should say Stat pro ratione voluntas It is my Will and you are to Obey I am impower'd by God and assisted by his Spirit you are to submit captivantes intellectum This Method would not please my Doctor at all Arbitrary Power Egyptian Slavery He would raise up Old Cora with all his Arguments that were used against Moyses and Cora would come in with a Why and a Wherefore against every thing that pleased not his Humour But must a King give a Reason to every Subject why he makes such or such a Decree If not a King why the Church The Liturgie which the Church used in England the Doctor will not deny was in Latin from St. Austin's time till the Reign of King Henry the Eighth and were all Damned in those Nine Hundred Years Perhaps the Doctor will answer with his Book of Homilies that all the World Men Women and Children were Drounded in Idolatry and Superstition Uncharitable Doctor The World will neither believe your Homilies nor you without some proof at least a seeming one like your caracterised self But let us consider what were the Works of these Egyptian Slaves as the Doctor is pleased to call the Roman Catholicks whilst they were in Slavery under their hard Task-Masters Some abandoning the World retired into Monasteries dedicating themselves intirely to God by solemn Vows passing their whole Life in Prayer Fasting Contemplation Day and Night praising God. Others building and endowing Religious Houses Hospitals Alms-Houses Cathedrals Collegiate and Parish Churches And from whence have you all your Fat Benefices but from these Egyptian Slaves If these Men were Idolaters then are you with your Wives and Children like those Heathenish Priests in Daniel Who devoured those Meats which were offered to Idols If these Men were Workers of Piety then may you justly fear to be called to an account by the great Task-Master for not fulfilling the intentions of your Egyptian Benefactors But we will now pass from the Egyptian Slavery and Darkness to the Liberty and light of the Reformation I fear to assert any thing positively lest I should Err for I cannot find in this Protestant Land of Promise any terra firma upon which I can build any Position I will therefore ask the Doctor who perhaps may be better acquainted with the Principles of the Reformation than I am First Whether God by any Miracle or any thing like a Miracle gave testimony of the Truth of the Reformation If God did not how will the Doctor convince me that this is not ignis fatuus a false Light and a real Egyptian Darkness The Doctor may perhaps answer that he needeth no Miracles it sufficeth that their Reformation is conformable to Scripture but is not this Doctor the plea of every Heretick and cannot they see as well as you You are then to justifie all Heresies or to bring a plea for your selves such as they cannot use for their justification I suppose the Doctor will allow every Reformer the same Liberty which he takes himself and then I ask him if he can shew me a Heretick in the World and by what Rule he declares him an Heretick 2 dly Are all the Reformations of Christ's Church true If not all how many Had there been any right and true Reformation of God's Church if the Church of England had not reformed And did the better Livers of the English people begin and pursue the reformation of England Do the reformed live better than the Old Egyptian Slaves How many Holy Days and Fasting Days have they added to that Egyptian Calendar 3 dly What Benefit hath the World found by the reformation If it be a deliverance from Egyptian Darkness how uncharitable are you to hide this Light under a Bushel and it is so little indeed that a Bushel may easily hide it Why do you not let it shine to the World Why do you not send your Missioners to unslave and enlighten the World with the knowledge of your true new Gospel Why do you not oppose the Romish Missioners in all Kingdoms of the World Strange that all the true Ministers of the Gospel should be so much wedded to Benefices and Wives that none should have the Spirit of Paul The charity of God urgeth me to diffuse the truth of the Gospel over the Face of the Universe And now how many Countries have they Converted How many Kings have obeyed the Church of England How many Mores have ye Christened and instructed in the Indies When doth the Doctor think that there will be of all Tribes and People Tongues and Nations of his belief There must certainly be more Apostolical endeavours used than have been hitherto For in truth I never found any Protestant Missioners besides the Penal Laws the Charity of the Reformation to free Papists from Tyranny Slavery and Darkness and bring them into the Light and Liberty of the Reformation Liberty to believe what ye please so ye believe not the Pope Liberty to do what ye please so ye do not please the Pope Liberty to excuse all Errors provided ye blame Popery I find in the Writings of many of the Church of England Men that they are ready to excuse the Pagans to suppress Popery to Embrace all Hereticks to strengthen their party and prove their universality He is the worst of Men who seems any way to favour the Roman Catholicks I met the other day with a little Protestant Champion a Three-penny Book who briskly contended for the Validity of the Orders of the Church of England He own'd indeed that they had them by Succession from the Church of Rome but in my Opinion if they had not found fallen Priests from the Church of Rome they would have gone to Monsieur Calvin both for Articles and Orders and have then