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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

will adde also good proceedings and the Lord both vnto your good proceeding and vertuous beginning shal giue an happy end In te nūc puta cunctorum ora oculos conuersos ad spectaculum vitae tuae totam consedisse Angliam Al mens eies are vpon your Honor and haue as it were set led themselues to behold your doings God grant and we trust that all things shall be answearable to their expectation Lastly the Lord prosper your godlie enterprises and giue a blessing to your holy Counsels euen the blessing of Caleb That as Caleb droue the Anakims great Giantes by strong hand out of Hebron so at the length by your prudent godly counsaile with the assistance of the rest of the Honorable Lords of the Counsell Nobilitie vnder the leading of our happy Iosua gracious Soueraigne the Romish Anakims traiterous Iesuites and Seminaries with other rebellious and hollow harted Cananites may be weeded out of the Lords fielde in England that you with faithfull Caleb and Iosua may also haue an euerlasting inheritance in the heauenlie Canaan through the onely merites of Iesus Christ to whom bee praise for euer Tui honoris studiosissimus ANDREAS WILLET ❧ The preface to the Christian Reader IT is the common and vsuall practise of wrangling and cauilling spirites who to preuent other mens accusations doe themselues first begin to accuse and challenge others of the same crimes which they are guiltie of Thus Sathan the accuser of the brethren sometime dealt with Iob saying vnto God that if he would but stretch foorth his hand a little and touch all he had hee would not spare to blaspheme God to his face whereas nothing is more common with that old Serpent then to curse and blaspheme God Thus our aduersaries of the Popish religion which indeed is no religion but meere superstition haue subtillie sought to vndermine vs crying out against vs that wee are lyers Idolaters blasphemers and such like which are titles and epithetes fitter and more proper to themselues They charge vs with rayling Harding Confut. apolog cap. 16. diuis 2. with lying Defens apolog pag. 597. with corrupting and altering of scripture Rhemist 2. Corinth 2. sect 8. with fables Rhemist 1. Timoth. 1. sect 4. with execrations and blasphemies Iud. 3. with heresies Bellarm. de notis eccles lib. 4. cap. 9. They obiect against vs the weaknes of our proofes and arguments Harding defeus apolog p. 625. often innouating and changing of Religion Rhemist 2. Corinth 2. v. 8. Diuisions dissensions among ourselues Harding defens apolog p. 239. Yea that wee may see how true their other accusations are they are not ashamed to charge vs with Idolatrie and worshipping of Idols Rhemist 1. Corinth 10. sect 9. Wherfore that it may appeare to the world how vniustly they haue accused vs how subtilly they would vnburden exonerate thēselues of those crimes which are theirs not ours to this ende I haue vndertaken this labour in this treatise to detect and bewray their guiltines in this behalfe that we may bee purged from their slaunders and our cause iustified and that the shame blame may fall vpon them that haue deserued it As for vs wee raile not neither vse reuiling speech yet sometime we tell them roundly their owne and this may bee done without rayling vnlesse they will say Christ rayled when he tolde the Iewes that they had made his fathers house a denne of theeues But their rayling and venemous dartes which they shoot at vs are notoriouslie knowen and cannot be hide It is the grace of popish writers both old and new to stuffe their bookes full with cursing rayling Stapleton that blacke-mouthed Sophister of Louaine hath of late set foorth a booke against D. Whitakers wherein beside the badnesse of his cause he hath disgraced his profession with bitter and filthie tearmes calling that learned and godly man Rusticum fatuum asinum asininum professorem morionem stolidum Foole clowne asse doit yea he is so impudent that he spareth not to reuile the deade most shamefully calling Caluine that worthie Minister of the Gospel Egregium Nebulonem a notable knaue I thinke Stapletons owne friendes and patrones here in England will blush and be ashamed of him when they find such stuffe in his booke Neither doth Stapleton thus take on in his moode as carried away with some intemperate heate but being in his wittes if in his right wittes and well aduised and of purpose he falleth into this cogging vaine giuing M. Whitakers warning thereof aforehande age Whitakare ●t ad patientiam te compone willing him to take patiently what he saith Indeed M. Stapleton your counsell is good for shoote out your venemous dartes as long as yee will wee care not wee haue a sense for them and a buckler to latch thē as Augustine saith verie well Quaeso mi frater quasi has diaboli sagittas ad petram quae est Christus allidens sume scutum fidei I giue thee counsel my brother to rebound these arrowes of Sathan vpon the rocke which is Christ taking the shield of faith And such patience is in this case necessarie for M. Whitakers and the rest of vs protestantes as the same father speaketh of else where Quemadmodum parentes a filis vel pueris vel phreneticis multa patiuntur donec infantia vel aegritude transeat ita Christianus ab impijs tanquam phreneticis multa pati debet Like as parents do suffer manie things at their sons hands while they are children or phrentick til their childishnes or phrensie be past thus Christians must patiently beare manie things of the wicked as of men taken with phrensie Such intemperate and railing speeches then of Papistes we attribute either to their childish ignorance or phrentike malitiousnes Concerning the other accusations of heresie blasphemie lying corruption of scriptures and such other it shal appeare I trust in this discourse that they are the men none other that are faultie herein As for fables they do vs great wrong to cast them vpon vs their owne legend of lies and infinite fabulous stories do plaintie tell vs that poperie is fuller of fables then the heresies of the Valentinians or the Manichees Their other charge concerning iunouation and dissention is returned vpon themselues for who knoweth not that the Iesuites of these daies haue innouated and changed in the most pointes the old popish profession and haue cast it into a newe mould and brought in a new forme of Pope catholike doctrine But we in substance retaine the same Religion which at the first reuiuing of the Gospel was maintained 40. yeares ago by the Protestants As for dissensions in fundamental pointes and articles concerning faith we haue none In other matters there haue bene some contentions among vs more we graunt then needed more hotely pursued of some then was requisite yet they are neither in weight so great or in number so many nor so

negligendi sunt tamen vt pereant Though we feare them not to hurt vs yet they must not be neglected and suffered to be lost As for their ring-leaders and sect-maisters our counsell also to them is that they would learne at the length to giue place to the trueth Augustine said of some Heretikes Puto quòd ipse diabolus si authoritate iudicis quem ipse elegerat toties vinceretur nō esset tam impudens vt in ea causa persisteret I thinke if the deuill had beene so often ouercome before a Judge of his owne choosing hee would not bee so impudent as to persist still in an euill cause But our aduersaries haue bene often vanquished euen by their owne iudges the testimonies of auncient writers and consent of antiquitie and yet for all this will not yeld Well as one saith Non oramus vt moriantur inimici sed vt corrigantur sic mortui erunt inimici iam enim correcti non amplius erunt inimici Wee desire not that our enimies were dead but amended and so our enimies shoulde bee deade for beeing once amended and corrected they would no longer bee our enemies There are other also of our countrimen who though not so far gone as the other yet are not sufficiently grounded in knowledge or setled in iudgement to be able to discerne betweene the truth errour Qui breuia non valent intelligere prolixa non amant legere Who can neither vnderstand briefe matters nor will abide to read long for their sakes also haue I compiled this treatise neither verie long to worke vnwillingnesse nor yet too shorte to hinder vnderstanding But euen as they which haue tender etes do not first behold the sunne but the fire or the starres or some such like and then turne them to looke vppon the sunne so must wee deale with these men Gradibus perducendi adsūma sunt By degrees they must be brought to vnderstande the higher points For their cause cheifly haue I vndertaken this labour that they which are not able to conceiue the chiefe matters in question yet may safelie take knowledge of the nakednesse and poorenesse of our aduersaries cause Concerning my selfe also some what there was which in this respect induced me to sei hand to this plough for as he saith Vt discamus inuitare nos debet suauitas veritatis vt doceamus cogere debet necessitas charitatis As the pleasantnes of the truth doth entise vs to learne so the bond of charitie should vrge vs to teach And the rather considering that now is the time or not farre off wherein the fall of Babylon is to bee expected and looked for according to the prophesie in the Reuelation Euerie man that beareth hatred to the scarlet and bloodthirstie whore ought to shewe his readinesse in defacing and pulling downe the Kingdome of Antichrist As Christian Kinges and Princes then by their sacred authoritie haue begunne for their part to lay Babylon wast so is it our part to discouer her nakednes they are the Lordes Captaines to slay the enemie wee his watch men to descrie the enemies comming They with battaile canons and engins do batter the walles wee come with ropes of argument and perswasion to pull downe the towers They fight with Sauls sword and put on his kingly armour wee must assault Goliah with Dauids sling stones out of the brook The text saith they shal make the whore desolate and naked eate her flesh and consume her with fire It is our part to strip her and make her naked and shew her filthines by the word of God to descrie their corruptions Then commeth the Christian magistrate and eateth her flesh and burneth it with fire that is draweth out the sword of Iustice after them Now in the last place vnto your honor I briefly direct my speech vnto whome I do consecrate and deuote these labours of mine as a signe of my thankefulnes and a pledge of further duety to your honor as also vnto one who him selfe is able to iudge of these matters neither is it the least part of your honors studie care to be throughly acquainted with the cōtrouersies of Religion as it is most meete honourable personages should be Themistocles as Augustine reporteth it did not care that he was counted somewhat rude because he could not sing to the pipe at feastes interrogatus quid sciret respondit rempublicam ex paruamagnā facere It was enough for him to know how to enlarge the commonwealth of a little one to make it greater so may I say it belongeth chiefly to Christian Magistrates scire Religionem ex paruamagnam facere to know how to enlarge and propagate Religion and to cause the Gospell to flourish The Lord hath aduaunced you to this seate of honor for promotion as the Psalmist saith neither commeth from the East nor from the West but it is the Lord that setteth vp one and pulleth downe another The chiefe husbandman hath planted you as part of an hedge to keepe his vineyard your honor now is in place to profite the Church of God greatly in aduauncing of learning in helping to furnish the Lordes haruest with plenty of labourers in encouraging the workemen of Gods house whose bandes doe hang downe and their knees waxe feeble There are many in this land who would gladly be set a woorke and can not whose outward wantes doe slake their inward desire for that olde saying is most true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is no such heauie clogge as pouertie is And the Poet spake by good experience haud facilè emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi You Right Honorable with the rest as one well saith pugnatis contra visibiles inimicos nos pro vobis contra inuisibiles your honors by sage counsell and aduise fight against our visible enemies but we fight for your by our studie and praiers against the spirituall and inuisible Let therefore the souldiers of this spirituall warfare be encouraged still cherished and made strong to fight their battailes lustely The Lord hath now made your honor a captaine to leade his souldiers into battaile and to set them in aray Augustine writeth well vpon those wordes Prouerb 31. 19. She putteth her handes to the wherue her handes handle the spindle opus tuum in fuso sit non in colo in colo enim est quod facturus es in fuso quod fecisti Let thy worke be in the spindle not in the distaffe that is in the distaffe which thou maiest doe hereafter that is in the spindle which thou hast alreadie done So when God bestoweth vpon a man honor riches authoritie omnia ist a in colo sunt transeant ad fusum These things are yet vpon the distaffe let them be spunne out and turned vpon the spindle But your worke I trust Right Honourable is alreadie in Fuso not in Colo and wee hope that vnto your good beginnings you