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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09111	A treatise tending to mitigation tovvardes Catholike-subiectes in England VVherin is declared, that it is not impossible for subiects of different religion, (especially Catholikes and Protestantes) to liue togeather in dutifull obedience and subiection, vnder the gouernment of his Maiesty of Great Britany. Against the seditions wrytings of Thomas Morton minister, & some others to the contrary. Whose two false and slaunderous groundes, pretended to be dravvne from Catholike doctrine & practice, concerning rebellion and equiuocation, are ouerthrowne, and cast vpon himselfe. Dedicated to the learned schoole-deuines, cyuill and canon lavvyers of the tvvo vniuersities of England. By P.R.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1607 (1607)	STC 19417; ESTC S114220	385,613	600

Iohn Caluin in this behalfe who doth euery where reprehend the old writers for that they wrested these wordes Ego Pater vnum sumus to the vnity of essence or substance He noteth also these wordes in Caluin Impropriam esse atque duram orationem illam Symboli Niceni Deus de Deo that that speach of the Creed of the Councell of Nice is an improper and hard speech God of God Which speech notwithstanding S. Athanasius did greatly vrge saith he in his dayes against the Arrians wherof we haue treated somewhat before 79. Now then may we see how fraudulently Thomas Morton hath dealt in this matter by putting downe slyly one reason only for which our malignant Doctors as he calleth them doe condemne Caluin for Arrianisme and it is as if a malefactour being condemned for many crimes his Aduocate would giue out that he had byn accused only of one and then by diminishing that also make it none and so proclaime him quit in all But for so much as he calleth our said Doctors malignant from which crime I dare auouch them of all others most free doth say That the iudgment of the Lutheran Doctors alleadged by his Aduersary the moderate Answerer against him namely of Doctor Philippus Nicolaus and of the Deane and vniuersity of Tubinga who condemned Caluin for the same crime of Arrianisme hath byn depraued as may seeme saith he by their obiections by our said malignant Doctors We shall heere with as much breuity as may be bring forth the iudgment of another renowned Protestant-Doctor concurring with the foresaid he being a publike Reader of Deuinity in another famous Vniuersity of Germany namely VVittenberg where Martyn Luther himselfe once held the chaire as Caluin did in Geneua and this Doctor whose name is AEgidius Hunnius in a seuerall Treatise set forth about a dozen yeares gone entituled by him Caluinus Iudaizans dedicated vnto one Dauid Pareus a principall Caluinian Doctor setteth downe the argument of his booke thus in the first front therof This booke is to shew saith he that Iohn Caluin hath most detestably presumed to corrupt in fauour of Iewes and Arrians the most cleare places and testimonies of Scripture concerning the glorious Trinity deity of Christ of the Holy Ghost and aboue all the predictions of Prophetes for the comming of the Messias his natiuity passion ascension sitting at the right hand of God c. with a cleare cōfutation of his false corruptions therin c. 80. This is the title and argument of the booke which he doth prosecute for almost two hundred pages togeather deuiding the same into two partes the first wherin he sheweth how Iohn Caluin most wickedly and maliciously vnder pretence of interpreting the Scripture in different sense from the ancient Fathers did goe about couertly to weaken infringe or take from the Christians all the strongest argumentes which they had or haue out of the Scriptures for the Godhead of Christ and his equality and consubstantiality with the Father And in the second Part that he vseth the same fraud and malice by ouerthrowing all the predictions foretellinges of Prophetes about Christ as he was man Out of the old Testament §. 1. 81. ANd for the first Part of peruerting Scriptures he giueth these examples out of the old Testament first that wheras Moyses saith in 〈◊〉 Creauit Deus coelum terram God created heauen and earth the word in the Hebrue is ELOIM Gods in the plurall number out of which D. Hunnius proueth that the ancient Fathers and most learned also of later times in the Hebrue tongue doe gather Moyses to haue signified the plurality of persons in the Bl. Trinity but Caluin to take from Christians this comforte saith Colligere solent hic in Deo notari tres personas c. Heere Christians are wont by this plurall number ELOIM to gather that three persons are signified in God but for so much as to me it seemeth a weake proofe of so great a matter the Readers are to be aduertised to beware of such violent glosses Thus Caluin And with like spirite of presumption arrogancy if not worse he goeth forward in all the rest as namely that of Genesis the 19. about raining of brimstome ouer Sodom and Gomorrha where the wordes are Pluit Iehoua a Iehoua saith Hunnius according to the Hebrue text and is applied by Christian writers against the Iewes for Christes diuinity Caluin most insolently reiecteth the same saying Quod veteres Christi Diuinitatem c. wheras ancient writers endeauored by this testimony to proue the Diuinity of Christ it is but a weake argument and in my iudgment they brabble much without cause that so sharpely vrge the Iewes with this place 82. In Genesis also Chap. 35. where Iacob built an Altar to God and called the place Bethel for that ELOIM the Gods had appeared vnto him there vsing the plural number not only in the substantiue but also in the verbe it selfe Caluin without all probability of reason will needes haue it meant that not God but Angels only appeared which Hunnius refuteth for that the apparition of Angels was not a sufficient reason to name the place Bethel as Iacob did that is to say the house of God or to build an Altar to God for that Angels only and not God had appeared to him 83. But that which much more importeth Caluin taketh from the Christians that other excellent place also of the second Psalme wherin is proued the Diuinity of Christ by those wordes 〈◊〉 me us es tu Ego hodie genui te Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee wherby S. Paul himselfe Act. 13. and the Author saith Hunnius of the Epistle to the Hebrues for that Lutherans doe not admit that Epistle to be S. Paules and all ancient Fathers after them doe alleage these wordes for proofe of Christes diuinity but Caluin doth ouerthrow it by interpreting it to be vnderstood literally of Dauid himselfe as Hunnius at large proueth exactly refuteth as also his impiety in taking away that other place of the 33. Psalme in like manner Verbo Domini coeli firmati sunt spiritu oris eius omnis virtus eorum The heauens were established by the word of God and all their power by his holy spirit Out of which the ancient Fathers proued not only the diuinity of Christ the second person in trinity but of the holy Ghost also and consequently the blessed Trinity which Caluin endeauoring to ouerthrow writeth in this manner Subtiliùs veteres hoc elogio vsi sunt c. The ancient Fathers did more subtily vse this place of Scripture against the Sabellian Heretickes to proue the eternall Godhead of the holy Ghost but I would not dare to vrge Sabellius with this testimony to proue the deity of the said holy Ghost And againe in another place lib. 1. Institut cap. 13.