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A03857	The advise of a sonne, novv professing the religion established in the present Church of England, to his deare mother, yet a Roman Catholike	Hungerford, Anthony, Sir, 1564-1627.	1616 (1616)	STC 13971.5; ESTC S115241	23,830	40

truth and were it contrary to the saying of all the Saints yet to be preferred before them nay if an Angell of heaven were opposed against him yet the Popes determination were to be preferred This man the Pope they style the visible head of the Church and affirme to bee alwayes so infallibly directed by the Spirit of God as that whēsoever either of himselfe alone with a purpose to enforme the Church or affisted with an assembly of the learned hee shall resolue any question concerning faith or the service of God it is i The Pope is the master of our faith and cannot but attaine the truth of faith nor can be deceived or erre if as chiefe Bishop or master of our faith he set downe his determination Zumel disput Var tom 3. pag. 49. impossible he should bee deceived If you aske of anie one of my masters of Rome what he meanes by the Church which he proposeth to you to bee the rule of your faith hee will mannerly define it at the first to consist of the Pope with a Councell but if you shall further vrge him to confesse what you must doe in case the Pope shal dissent in iudgement from the Councell howsoever he faulter in his speech a while he must acknowledge at the last k Capistranus de autor Papae p. 105. That if the Councell and the Pope publish constitutions that be different that of the Popes must bee preferred as being of greater authoritie l Alvar. Pelag. de Planc Eccl. lib. 1. Artic. 6. To whose iudgement alone if wee may beleeue another of that crew wee are rather bound to stand then to the iudgement of all the worlde besides who himselfe as m De Christo lib. 2. cap. 28. Bellarmine mainetaines without any Councell may decree matter of faith So that by this deare Mother if you weigh it wel you may plainely see that howsoever my masters of Rome dazell your eyes with the Churches name the Pope alone beareth away the game in such sort that the fairest certainety you can haue to secure your conscience in the religion you professe must wholly depend vpon him yet is it worthy of your ob●ervation to note how the learned amongst thē descant vpon this visible head and infallible director of their Church They will acknowledge that the Pope may be as wicked a man in life as any other in the world and by experience it hath bin found that sundry of them hauescarse had matches in this kind as for instance of one Pope Alexander the sixt whom Guicciardine though himselfe a Papist doth thus decypher His manners and customes were dishonest little sinceritie in his administrations no shame in his face small truth in his words little faith in his heart lesse religion in his opinions all his actions were defaced with vnsatiable covetousnesse immoderate ambition barbarous crueltie he was not ashamed contrary to the custome of former Popes who to cast some colour over their infamie were wont to call thē their nephewes to call his sonnes his children and for such to expresse them to the world n Guicciards lib. 3. The bruite went that in the loue of his daughter Lucretia were concurrent not only his two sons the Duke of Candy and the Cardinall of Valence but him selfe also that was her father who as soone as he was chosen Pope tooke her from her husband and married her to the Lord of Pesare but not able to suffer her husband to be his corrival he dissolved that mariage also and tooke her to himselfe by vertue of Saint Peters keyes o Lib. 6. It was amongst other graces his naturall custome to vse poysonings not onely to be revenged of his enemies but also to dispoile the wealthy Cardinals of their riches And this he spared not to doe against his dearest friend till at the last having a purpose at a banquet to poison divers Cardinals and for that end appointed his Cup-bearer to giue attendance with wine made ready for the nonce who mistaking the bottle gaue the poisoned cup to him was thus himselfe dispatched by the just judgement of God that purposed to murder his friends that he might be their heire Thus far the historian Now as in life so is it not denied by my masters of Rome but that the Pope may erre in his private opinions Nay Bosius though most affectionate to the Sea of Rome confesseth p Tom. ● de signis eccles lib. 28. cap. vlt. That hee may be an Heretike as was Pope Honorius whose heresie is condemned of record by q Sinod 6. act 4.12.14 Sinod 7. act vlt. Sinod 8. act 7. three lawfull Councels Pope Iohn the 23. was condemned in the Councell of Constance for maintaining the opinions of his master Epieurus r Concil Constant Ses 11.12 That there was no eternall life no immortality of the soule nor resurrection from the dead Yet if Pope Alexander the sixth at leasure from his lewdnes or Pope Iohn with his fellow shal from their privat follies transforme themselues into publike teachers and pronounce a resolution in any question that may be moued of any article of Christian religion purposely to direct the Church In this case by the doctrine of my masters of Rome you shall bee bound to beleeue them no lesse thē if God himselfe had taught you To which purpose Stapleton the Priest hath left this for a principle ſ Stapleton praef princip ●●d doctrin That the foundation of our religion is of necessitie placed vpon this mans teaching in which we heare God himselfe speaking To this fallacie vnder the Churclies name they adde another whereby they endevour to delude you framed vpon a false position namely this That all our forefathers haue embraced the same religion in every point which thēselues professe and teach you from whence they prepare a question the which they recommend to their schollers to oppose adomnia Shall we thinke our selues wiser then all our forefathers If a professor of Mahomets impieties which haue bewitched a great portion of the world for many hundreds of yeares now past being perswaded by my masters of Rome to become a Christiā should question thus shal I thinke myselfe wiser then my forefathers for these thousand yeares now past haue bin I know their judgement would serve them to reply that he must not follow his forefathers vnlesse they had beene followers of the truth of God My masters of Rome will tell you that this holds no resemblance with them who dare giue you their words for assurance that every article of their doctrine is derived from our Saviour Christ and his Apostles Questionlesse their art of begging is but a vagrant fashion but if it shal please you to see some trial of the truth of this I dare presume it shall be made evidently to appeare vnto you in the presence of any that would oppose it that their principle cōcerning the Popes spirit of infallibility being the

the compasse of this written law this charge is giuen f Deut. 4.2 That wee put nothing to the Word which hee commands vs nor take ought therefrom that wee may keepe the Commandements of the Lord our God which are commanded And although the Prophesies were penned after at sundrie times by men vndoubtedly directed by the holy Ghost yet shal we find no new article of doctrine delivered in them but they serue many times to explaine the law They Prophesie of Christ to come the accomplisher of the law and generally they are all Gods Heraulds to denounce his iudgements and heavie wrath against the transgressors of the law of Moses But in the fulnesse of time when Christ came into the world of whome Moses and the Prophets wrote the Gospell was published which was no other but a cleare declaration of the prophesies and the law whereof a learned Father aptly giues this note g August de Carichisand Rud. That in the olde testament the New is hidden and in the new is the manifestation of the olde And this Gospel was first preached but after as one other of the Ancients observeth well h Iren. advers haeres l. 3. c. 1. was by the will of God delivered in the Scriptures to be the pillar and foundation of our faith And in this sacred booke is wonderfully set foorth vnto vs the infinite wisdome of the supreame Law-maker of the world for as in the civill government of earthly Kingdomes those lawes are ever commended most that leave least to the discretion of the Iudge and never hath any common-weale had laws so exactly framed but with time they haue bin sound sensibly defectiue in this point so certainely this perfection is peculiar only to the written laws of the Lord of heaven so farre foorth that for the ministers of this law to adde or alter any one thing respecting the religious dutie and service wee owe to God though but in offering strange fire before the Lord as did Nadab and Abihu the sonnes of Aaron makes them liable to his wrath and malediction for their presumption This moued Saint Augustine that reverend Father alluding to the words of the blessed Apostle confidently to pronounce i Contra Lit. Petilian lib. 3. cap. 6. That whether concerning Christ or concerning the Church of Christ or concerning any thing that pertaineth to our faith and life we will not say if we but if an Angell from heaven shall preach vnto you but what you haue received in the Scriptures of the Law and the Gospell accursed be hee The consideration of this gaue me occasion to forsake my communion with the Church of Rome in whose bosome I receiued the first instruction for matter of my salvation as you your selfe deare Mother can well remember But after divers yeares when by accident this principle had taken impression in me k Rom. 10 1● That faith commeth by hearing of the word of God and then calling to mind that many points of the religion I haue embraced were not to bee found within the volume of Gods sacred booke I began to question with my masters of that Church whom I did then reverence and admire as men wholly composed to devotion and sinceritie by what authority they could approve thē where after many paffages with the relation wherof I thinke not fit to trouble you their resolution was That a great portion of Gods word was not l Little of Gods word is committed to writing the greatest part of it is come to vs by tradition Hosius Confess Polon pag 383. contained within the holy Scriptures but delivered in safe custodie to passe from hand to hand by tradition for the truth and certainty whereof they tolde me I must depend vp●n the credit of their m Alphons 2 Castro advers haeres l. 1. c. 5. Church the which after much debate they resolved at the last into the bosome of the n Mater Ecclesia per os● summi pontificis loquens Bellar. Apol. contra praef monito serenissi Reg. Iac. pag. 78. Romane Bishop when I considered this and perceiued in the end the weaknesse of the grounds that must warrant the truth of these vnwritten verities as they style them I thought it no longer safe-to commit my selfe for direction to those guides my masiers I meane of the Church of Rome of whom in my conscience we may complain as the Prophet Ieremy did of the false teachers in his dayes o Ierem. 8.9 They haue reiected the word of the Lord and what wisedome is then in them For although it cānot be denied but they reteine and publish some principles of our Christian profession according to the truth of Gods holy word yet even those truths they recommend vnto vs vpon as perillous false a ground as if a man should therfore beleeue Christ Jesus to be the Sonne of the living God because the Divell did confesse it To this purpose deare Mother I beseech you to note that whereas Gods sacred word is left vnto vs to be the rule and foundation of our faith and religion my masters of Rome intending to build a new thinke it proper first to lay a new foundation in place of the holy Scriptures to be the rule direction of our faith they advāce their Church the which neverthelesse being rightly vnderstood holds no resemblāce with the Church in truth And the rather to invite vs to pin our faith vpon this their Church they tender vs some formes of truth the which when wee haue embraced vpon their Churches authority shee will not leaue vs so but this Church that teacheth vs to worship God by like authority wil then require vs to worship p Seeing Christ is to be adored with divine worship his Image also is to be adored with the same adoration Tho Aquin part 3. q. 25. art 3. Images Shee that teacheth vs to pray to God wil command vs likewise to pray trourblessed Ladie and the q The new Creed published by Pope Pius the fourth Saints Shee that teacheth vs that Christ by one offring of his body once made in sacrifice vpon the Crosse hath purchased remission for our sinnes requireth vs likewise to beleene that she offers dayly vnto God the same reall body of Christ in sacrifice which himselfe offered vpon the Crosse as a r I consesse that in the Masse is offered to God a true proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the quicke and the dead ibid. propitiation for the sinnes of the quicke and the dead She that teacheth vs that Christ hath madesatisfaction for his sin by blood-shedding and bitter passion will teach vs withall that our selues must make satisfaction for some sort of our sins by our workes of penance the which if wee neglect that then wee must satisfie Gods justice for them after this life by suffering paines in a purgatory fire vnlesse this holy Mother out of compassion shall free vs by her indulgence á favour she