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A08330	A true report of the priuate colloquy betweene M. Smith, aliâs Norrice, and M. VValker held in the presence of two vvorthy knights, and of a few other gentlemen, some Catholikes, some Protestants : with a briefe confutation of the false, and adulterated summe, which M. Walker, pastour of S. Iohn Euangelist in Watling-streete, hath diuulged of the same.	S. N. (Sylvester Norris), 1572-1630.; Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1624 (1624)	STC 18661; ESTC S461	30,866	65

Church of Iesus Christ nor That it hath his true faith I demanded of M. Walker whether the true Church be alwayes visible or no M. WALKER The true Catholike Church is not visible because it comprehendeth the whole companie of the elect of which the greatest part being Saynts in heauen are without the ●each of mans eye and cannot be seene M. SMITH My question is not of the Church Triumphant in heauen but of the true Catholike Church Militant vpon earth M. WALKER But thus your wordes and question cohere not togeather for it is as absurd to say that the Catholike Church is militant on earth as it is absurd to affirme that all mankind euen the vniuersall race of Adam are now liuing M. SMITH Was S. Cyprian then absurd who called the militant Church vnited and conioyned in the vnion and linke of Priests adhering togeather The one Catholike Church To communicate with Cornelius the head only of the militant was to communicate with the Catholike Church Was S. Augustine absurd who tearmeth the militant Church whose communication we must hold The Catholike Church The militāt Church dispersed ouer the face of the earth The Catholik Church The militant Church in which alone one baptisme may be wholesomelie obtayned The one incorrupt Catholike Church The militant Church in which by imposition of handes the holy Ghost is giuen The only Catholike Church The Church in which good and euill be as chaffe and corne The Catholike Church The Church in which the sacrifice of bread and wine in faith and charity ceaseth not to be offered throughout the vniuersal world The holie Catholike Church But to presse you no further with the testimonies of men was the Sonne of God absurd when he sayd Other sheep● I haue that are not of this fold thē also I must bring they shall heare my voyce there shal be made one fold one Pastour Who were these other sheep but either Predestinate or many of them at least To what Fold were they brought Without doubt to Christs visible to Christs militāt to Christs Cath. Church for to no other would he bring them no other is his fold no other his one and that singular one of which he is chiefe and supreme Pastour Therfore not your inuisible but the visible and militant is the true Catholike Church of IESVS Christ Neyther are the Predestinate as you pretend before they be called mēbers of his Church because this is the oracle of Truth They are not of my fold So much by the way for this Now that you may cease your wrangling and stick no longer in ambiguity of tearmes I tell you once agayne that I speake not of your Catholike and Inuisible but of that militant Church which we are bound to obey and heare that of whose Communion we ought to be that of which Christ sayd di● Ecclesiae Tell the Church What hold you of this I● this Church visible or no M. WALKER I distinguish That Church may be two wayes considered either in regard of her outward men outward duties of Christianitie outward preaching of the Word and administration of the sacraments and so it is visible Or in respect of the inward election inward faith and spirituall graces and so it is inuisible A Catholike Gentleman Reserue your distinctions vntill you neede them and now answere directly to the Question M. SMITH Aske me any question and try whether I will vse any such tergiuersation What is your Conscience so horride or cause so bad as you dare neuer giue a direct answere M. WALKER I answere as I belieue M. SMITH And doe you not belieue what your owne men teach concerning this poynt Doe they not teach that the Church which we ought to heare is visible Or may we heare an inuisible Doth not D. Whitaker define it by these markes to wit by the true preaching o● the word and the true administration of the Sacraments And although he addeth that the whole Essence of the Church consisteth in them yet he sayth that these markes signifie and denote a visible Church Now doe not you belieue as he doth Or are you afrayd to confesse that Church to be visible which he confesseth Man consisteth of an inuisible essence yet is a visible man so the Church may haue some inuisible dowries yet be a visible Church M. WALKER You wronge D. Whitaker He neuer taught that the whole Essence of the Church consisted in the true peaching of the word and administration of Sacraments M. SMITH I wrong him not He teacheth writeth and diuulgeth it in print though you wrong both your self and vs in making these digressions and picking euery occasion to run from the matter M. WALKER Dare you stand to this that M. Whitaker writeth it I haue b●th read him and studied him I am sure he hath no such matter M. SMITH His bookes are extant you studied thē sleightly or vnderstood them not I am sure he hath it M. WALKER Because I will not spend tyme in contesting with you let this be the issue before these Gentlemen let vs send for D. Whitakers workes and if I doe not shew that he doth proue against Bellarmine that the Catholike Church i● inuisible that this is a mayne poin● large lie disputed by him and a mayne controuersie betweene him and Bellarmine let me branded with the marke of a wilfull liar M. SMITH Will you still fly to the ambush of your hidden Church Shall I neuer bring you into the open field Haue I not sufficiently inculcated vnto you that my question is of the Church now militant on earth of that Church which we ought to heare and obey of that which M. Whitaker describeth by the marks before mentioned of that which your selfe distinguished to be partly visible partly inuisible And run you now back againe to your counterfait Catholike and wholy inuisible Church Are you so sodainly distracted of your wi●s as not only to forget what I had sayd but what your selfe had written immediatly before Yet perhaps I may mistake It proceeded not so much from the giddines of your braine as from the guiltines of your cōscience which mistrusting the vaine vnaduised chalenge you made would now like a cunning Cheater by foysting in these words guilefullie diuert it to a quite cōtrary purpose For I neuer denied that M. Whitaker forgeth an inuisible Catholique Church but I so often canuased you frō straying thither as cōmon sense might haue taught you to keep on your way stād to your tackling in mantaining the quarrell or saucie exception you tooke against me for saying that M. Whitaker placed the whole essence of the Church in the true preaching of the Word and true administration of the Sacraments This was that which then I sayd Against which you contested as before your words to deliuer the contestation truly as it was I must in part repeate againe leauing out that counterfait passage which you

A TRVE REPORT OF THE Priuate Colloquy betweene M. Smith aliâs Norrice and M. VValker Held in the presence of two VVorthy Knights and of a few other Gentlemen some Catholikes some Protestants With a briefe Confutation of the false and adulterated summe which M. Walker Pastour of S. Iohn Euangelist in Watling-streete hath diuulged of the same Permissu Superiorum M. DC XXIIII TO THE READER IT IS no Nouelty lately practised by the Protestāts of our age it hath alwaies beene the vsual trade and inueterate guile of Heretikes in former tymes to corrupt falsifie and depraue not onlie the Bookes and Writings but the wordes sayings and other Conferences they haue held with the professours of the Catholike Church Origen complayneth how his bookes were thus abused by the enemies of God and Sowers of Cockle euen in his owne dayes S. Augustine writeth that the Donatists being conuicted of falshood in a Collation he had with them did after maliciously calumniate and traduce the sentence giuen against them as falslie pronounced The Arians Pelagians and other auncient Sectaries were attainted of the like crime And now our Puritans and Protestants are proued guiltie of the same or far more treacherous dealing by which they labour to vnderproppe the rotten beames of their ruinous vnconstant declining doctrine 2. Of this fraud and deceite Hunnius Hail-bronner and their companions were guiltie who being vāquished in the meeting at Ratisbone diuulged notwithstanding many false reports of their triumph and victorie Of this was M. Iewell guilty as D. Harding in manie of his writings M. VValsingham in his Search haue euidētly discouered Guilty was M. Reynolds in publishing his Conference with M. Hart wherein he forged diuers things to the credit of his owne and disaduantage of his Opponents cause of which he neuer so much as dreamed Therefore S. Gregorie trulie auerreth of these and such like heretikes that by their labours and disquisitions they endeauour not so much to attayne the truth as to seeme victorious they more eagerlie thirst after the applause of men then the glory of God they seeke such things as apertayne to themselues not such as belong to Iesus Christ. 3. In which kind most notable now of late and most fresh in memorie is the pride and arrogancie of D. Featly who impudentlie boasted of his supposed Conquest in a meeting which he D. VVhite had with M. Fisher and M. Sweete from which neuerthelesse he cowardlie fled wholie discomfited and blotted with the ignomonie of a desperate Retraite No lesse shamefull though in a conflict lesse famous is the vanitie of M. VValker in bragging of the Conference betweene him and M. Smith which himself hath set forth stuffed with such a heapeof false and guilefull relations as he may seeme according to the Prophet to haue made lying to be protected Nothing trembling at that dreadfull sentēce which is prophesied of him Thou O Lord hatest all that work iniquity thou wilt destroy them all that tell a lye Howbeit not one but so manie lies hath he diuulged as I may say with Ieremie he hath bent his tongue or prepared his quill as a bowe of lying and not of truth c. His tongue is a wandering arrow it hath spoken guile For in relating the arguments and answers which passed on both sides some he changeth some he corrupteth heere he leaueth out there he foisteth in one while he disioynteth the wordes otherwhile he dismembreth peruerteth the sense in fine he maketh such a misshapen and confused Chaos of malicious slaunders of foolish impertinent additions as may well become one of his owne deformed and bastardly brood which the iudicious Reader may playnlie perceaue by the true narration I shall heer deliuer without inserting any more then shall be necessarie for the iust reproofe of the aduersaries forgeries or redargution of other speaches purposelie omitted and suppressed by him 4. Yet meruaile not I haue so long delayed this obligation I had to cleere my self satisfie the interest Iowe to truth For the first Copie of my answere fullie perfected and addressed to the presse though in a forrayne Countrie because the tyme permitteth not any such commoditie at home was as it often happeneth intercepted by the way and the interception concealed from my knowledge for the space of six whole weekes So powerfull is the aduerse faction in bearing vs downe and openlie disgracing vs with their calumnious libels and so vigilant and watchfull in stopping all possible meanes we should take to manifest our innocencie But such violent oppression cannot still continue the Widowes teares the Orphans cryes will at length be heard and Christs afflicted flocke our silenced pennes may find a tyme to lay open our sinceritie and the wrong which is done vs by their false criminations A TRVE REPORT OF THE Priuate Colloquy betweene M. Smith aliâs Norrice M. VValker M. SMITH aliâs NORRICE So M. Walker stileth me FIRST then it is false that I chalenged any Minister to dispute I onlie yelded for the satisfaction of Syr William Harington to giue a meeting to any whom he should bringe Secondly it is false that I was assisted by any more Priests then onlie one by any more Catholikes then foure I for solemnelie conditioned at the beginning that there should be no more then fiue or six persons at the most on a side to the end the Conference might be verie secret and priuate without concourse of people or noyse abroad for feare of affoarding disgust vnto the State in that our quiet tyme of peace and conniuencie Which conditions I punctuallie obserued though the Aduersarie was so bold as to violate and infring them both by bringing more then the appointed number as by publishing also the whole discourse to the open view and sight of the Realme yet so fraudulentlie so corruptlie as forceth me to this right and vnfaygned replie Then although it be true that I intreated the disputation might be performed sweetlie and with all mildnes without bitter wordes or reproachfull taunts yet M. Walker made no such answere as he hath forged in his Pamphlet True also it is that I excepted against the vnmannerlie tearmes of calling our Church Whore of Babylon the Pope Antichrist desired no such odious Epithetes might be vsed now especially whē it pleased the Kings Maiesty to send to his Holines for a dispensation for the mariage of our Noble Prince Yet I sayd not that his Maiestie sued to his Holines or gaue the Pope that honour The awe of reuerence I bore to so mightie a Monarch did temper my tongue from vsing any such wordes as seemed to carry the least shew of distast At length that we might proceed more solidelie and not floate vp and downe vpon vncertaynties I desired we might both agree in some generall positiōs or irreuocable Tenents as grounds of our ensuing dispute Wherevpon being to proue That the Protestants Church is not the true