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A10046	The defence of truth against a booke falsely called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras A.D. 1609. By Humfrey Leech late minister Which booke in all particulars is answered, and the adioining motiues of his revolt confuted: by Daniell Price, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford, chaplaine in ordinary to the most high and mighty, the Prince of Wales.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.; Leech, Humphrey, 1571-1629. Triumph of truth.	1610 (1610)	STC 20292; ESTC S115193	202,996	384

but Ecclesiasticum in which point you were most vnsound vouchsafed not to afford so much vnto the Kings most royall Maiestie as Hart doth who in the end of the Conference thus cloaseth out of S. Austin D. Rain conf with Hart. c. ● 10. fol. 589. Kings do serue God in this as Kings if in their own Realme they commande good things and forbid evill not only concerning the civill state of mē but the Religion of God also and thus much saith hee I subscribe to I omit here to lengthen my discourse by inserting any speech cōcerning the Oath The Apology where of seeing Maiesty hath so divinely and powerfully delivered As also that the grounds of all that can be said are so exactly long since proved by that Reverend father of our Church the Bishop of Winchest now of late in the divers answers to the snarling Curres that barke at the Ecclesiastes of our Salomon I also omit purposely the quotation of your Cath. Divine against the exquisite labours of that most Reverend and most iudiciously learned Sir Edward Cook because others of eminent place either haue already perfited or very shortly wil silence your Catholique diuine Your profession that you attribute as much to his Maiestie as the law Temporall requireth not dissēting from the law divine is false The law divine doth giue vnto Caesar place vpō earth next vnto God And from the vertue of that law is derived the oath of English men for the KINGS Maiestie against the Pope 2. Kings 11.4 vsurping part of his right as well as Iehoiada of the men of Iuda for Ioas their King against Athalia that vsurped his state And doe you presume to moderat this title of Supremacy I would from my soule that I might moderate your title of Traytor It is too much to be an Apostate an Adversary but in this kinde to offēd it is an offence with a high hand You see thē that the Doctor had good reason to susspect you whē you translated your selfe frō the title of subiection the KINGS Maiestie as much as in you lyeth frō his lawful dominiō You shoot at Calvin in your margine and againe and at the Doctor in your Text the Reverend Doctor is scholler to none but Christ though he and all honest men doe reverence blessed Calvin And Calvin in the place quoted reproveth not the title of Head as Protestants graunted it but in that sense which Popish Prelats gaue it him namely Stephen Gardiner who did vrge the title of Head so as if he had meant thereby that the KING might doe things in Religion according to his own will and not see them done according to Gods will Wherefore cease that calumny and quench that tongue which setteth on fire the course of nature and is inflamed by hell fire You were not oppugned by any flattering devise or spiteful malice as you affirme but by truth and faith alleagiance to God and the King Hence I ground my tenth pillar that their religion is bad who possessed with malitious recusancy and treacherous Apostasie speake evill of those that bee in authority and yeeld not Caesar that which is Caesars or vnto God that which is Gods Mr LEECH The eleuenth Motiue The Protestants manner of proceedings against Catholiques and Catholique Religion is absurd in reason and vnequall in Iustice And hence they are proued to be Heretikes IN my perusall of the ancient Fathers and Ecclesiasticall histories I did very often obserue these two things First that the Catholike Church had wisdome to discerne Hereticall innovations Secondly that she had power to enact necessary lawes for the suppression thereof so that an Heresie could not escape hir censure nor an Hereticke hir iustice If Popery therefore be Heresie and Papists Hereticks as some fanatically brand them then surely the Catholike Protestanticall Church is able to shew that she in all ages hath impugned this Heresie and that she hath her proper lawes to proceed against Hereticall offendours If not so then doubtlesse she is no more Catholique then the furious Congregations of Donatists Arrians and such like who afflicted the true Church against all order of iustice being neuer able to shew any Catholike predecessors who maintained their opinions nor any lawes made by them to correct the impugners thereof That this is the condition of Protestants I am a witnesse by their disorderly proceeding against the Doctrine which I delivered out of the conforme testimonies of the Church For whereas it pleased my Calvinian iudge to call it Popish erroneous false lying absurd Doctrine they could not reproue it otherwaies then Arrians and Donatists that is to say by reiecting the Fathers and by a tumultuous processe without any legall course And though I required them to deale with me as with an Heretique by refelling my doctrine and by proceeding Canonically against me yet they oppressed mee with authority alone hauing their will for reason and their power for iustice But for asmuch as I haue such abundant proofe for the verity of my doctrine and that their opinion is condemned in the Church for no lesse then Heresie Ambr. 10. lib. epist epist 80 81. by Syricius Bishop of Rome and a Counsaile there by S. Ambrose Bishop of Millain and a Counsaile there I appeach them confidently as Heretikes for embracing Iovinianisme as Heretikes for contemners of Antiquity and therefore as Heretikes culpable of singular pride Which infamy if they can wash away from themselues by learning and honesty then I will retract my sentence and confesse my selfe to be an Heretke for the one of vs must needes be Heretikes howsoeuer every ingenuous indifferent man must needes confesse that they did not carry themselues as they should haue done to proue mee guilty of this crime ANSVVER In your abusall of the Ancients you observed much and deserved little for it because it was farre from their meaning to speak as you desired to teach them Your two observations here be good I cōfesse but ill applyed For the Catholike Church being the same with our Protestants in all ages hath impugned the heresies which Papists mainetaine The Valentinians worshipped the Crosse and were condemned as Hereticks saith Irenaeus The Carpocratians worshipped Images they were condemned for hereticks Iren. lib. 1. Aug. haeres 7. saith S. Austin Collyridiam hereticks for adoring the Virgin Mary Angelici hereticks for adoring the Angels Pelagians hereticks for holding perfectiō Priscilianists heretickes for mental reservatiō Maniches herteicks forbidding to eate flesh Tatians and Montanists forbidding marriage and Anthropomorphites painting God in similitude of a man Are not these all by Austin Irenaeus and Epiphanius and others condemned bee not all these positions by the Church of Rome maintained For our Catholicke Protestāt Predecessors the fathers of the first 500. yeeres are ours and from thence a continuall succession of learned faithfull couragious teachers in all the following ages as Mr White in his learned Chronologicall collection in