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A36729 Reflections on the Council of Trent in three discourses / by H.C. de Luzancy. De Luzancy, H. C. (Hippolyte du Chastelet), d. 1713. 1679 (1679) Wing D2419; ESTC R27310 76,793 222

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Reflexions On the Council of TRENT In Three Discourses I. That the Protestants without any necessity of inquiring into the Decrees of the Council of Trent have sufficient reason to reject it II. That the Doctrine of the Council of Trent is contrary to the antient Doctrine of the Catholic Church III. That the Council of Trent was so far from reforming the disorders which had crept into the Church that it really made the breaches in its Discipline wider and cut off all hopes of correcting the antient abuses A Conclusion of the foregoing Discourses Concerning the State of the Church of England and how she hath bin more successful in the Reformation of her Faith and Manners then the Church of Rome By H. C. de LVZANCY Mr. of Arts of Christ Church in Oxford OXFORD Printed at the Theater And are to be Sold by Moses Pit at the Angel in St. Pauls Church-yard Peter Parker at the Leg and Star in Cornhil William Leak at the Crown in Fleetstreet and Thomas Guy at the Corner Shop of little Lumbard-street and Cornhil 1679. Imprimatur HEN. CLERKE Pro-Cancel Oxon. Martij 17. 1677. TO The right Reverend FATHER in GOD HENRY By Divine Providence LORD BISHOP OF LONDON Dean of his Majesties Chapel-Roial AND One of his Majesties most Honorable PRIVY COUNCIL c. MY LORD I Presume to address to your Lordship a Treatise against the Council of Trent that is against a Conventicle of this last age wherein the ancient Faith was opprest by the establishment of modern errors and Religion crusht by the interests of a politic faction Besides the particular obligations I have to offer to your Lordship the best of my acknowledgments I could not have made a more suitable dedication of this Book then to a branch of that Noble Family which was ever zealous for the Faith once deliver'd to the Saints and to a Bishop of that Church which has alwaies declar'd it self against the unhappy policy of that See which builds its own greatness upon the ruines of the simplicity of the Gospel These two singular qualifications appear so eminently in the conduct of all your Lordships affairs that to them we are to attribute that extraordinary application whereby you answer all the ends of your high calling and content not your self with the advantages and honor but descend to the most laborious and difficult parts of so great a charge that diligent and strict watch whereby you do not only preserve your own Flock but discover all the designs and artifices of its enemies that unblamable conduct which the most violent and partial of your ●dversaries cannot but admire that servent charity which directs to your Lordship as to a sure refuge all them that desire to forsake either vice or error but above all that evenness and steddiness of mind which a Father of the Church calls the Life and Soul of Episcopacy wherewith Almighty God has endu'd your Lordship in so eminent a degree that it may be lookt upon as your peculiar Character My Lord it would be a noble subject to reflect upon a few late instances you have given that you prefer your honor and conscience above all interests whatever that you have no concern but for the welfare both of Church and State and tho the greatness of your quality sufficiently entitles you to the highest honor that either of them can bestow yet you owe your advancement purely to your own merit But My Lord I am prevented by the acclamations of the public and the voice of the whole Nation which by the great things you have already don is making judgment of the yet greater happiness it shall one day derive from your Lordships future undertakings This is become the employment of persons more proportioned to such a work and it is the utmost of my ambition to be admitted amongst the meanest of them who are daily beseeching Almighty God that he would still prosper your Lordship in the accomplishment of those noble designs wherein you are happily engag'd for the good both of Church and State I am with all imaginable respect and duty MY LORD Your Lordships most Humble most obedient and most oblig'd Servant De LUZANCY THE PREFACE THE occasion of these ensuing discourses which are here made public was a Treatise entitl'd Considerations upon the Council of Trent It s author has manag'd his subject with so much dexterity that I could not but judg it agreeable to that love all Christians ought to have for truth and to my own duty in particular to dispel the mist he has attempted to cast before men's eyes To perform this with solidity I thought it not so proper to rely upon any particular historian of that Council there being but four who have treated of it whose testimonies are not free from exception Soavius is suspected by the Romanists as Palaviciny by the Protestants tho with less justice Scipio Henricus is more addicted to his Society then to his Church and more intent to defend the Jesuits then to justifie the proceedings of the Bishops And for Aquilius his Survey De tribus Historicis it is rather a Pamphlet injurious to the Church of Rome it self for its want of sense and learning than a just censure But it appeared much more easie and useful to give a true character of the Council drawn out of its own acts and shew such essential defects in it that all the artifice of its defenders can never satisfie a rational and impartial enquirer There are two things to be consider'd in this Council the manner wherein it was celebrated and those points it determin'd which later either respect articles of Faith or reformation of manners This order I have exactly follow'd by endeavouring in the first discourse to evince that the manner of holding this Council was altogether irregular and that Protestants may lawfully reject it without any further discussion of its decrees in the second that its decisions are contrary to the ancient Canons of the Church and in the third that the reformation which was then pretended to be made was no better then a new violation of Discipline and a perfect illusion of the World In these discourses I avoid the citing any authors but such as for their learning and piety are venerable in the Church of Rome a design which no judicious persons can ever disapprove since it hapens but too often that we combat men whose sentiments their own communion disowns and after a long and tedious disputation we receive no other answer but that the Church of Rome is not bound to make good all the assertions of her privat followers And indeed she would be strangely put to it should she warrant all the dreams of Suarez Vasquez and other Jesuits Since it is easy to demonstrate that they are more contrary to her then to us more pernicious to their mother then to their enemies and as a learned Man of their communion observes fitter to raise new Heresies then to