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A29830 Catholick schismatology, or, An account of schism and schismaticks in the several ages of the world : to which are prefixed some remarks on Mr. Bolde's plea for moderation / J.B. J. B. (J. Browne) 1685 (1685) Wing B5116; ESTC R37483 61,193 209

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Catholick Schismatology OR An ACCOUNT OF SCHISM AND SCHISMATICKS IN The several Ages of the World To which are prefixed some Remarks on Mr. Bolde's Plea for Moderation Eccl. 2. Wo to them that have a double heart and to the Sinner that goteh two manner of ways Augustini Epist 166. Lett. G. Constantinus contra partem Donati severissimam legem dedit hunc imitati Filii ejus talia praeceperunt Quibus succedens Julianus desertor Christi inimicus libertatem Parti Donati permisit reddidit basilicas eo modo putans Christianum nomen posse perire de terris J. B. LONDON Printed for Anthony Steevens Bookseller in OXON 1685. To the Worshipful ROBERT FOLEY Esq One of His MAJESTIES Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester May it please your Worship 'T IS not long since thrusting such Books as this into the Press was like thrusting ones hand into a nest of Hornets when neither Innocence nor Majesty nor any thing that 's sacred could be sufficient Fence against the pungent and venomous Detractions of a waspish sort of Sectaries And then indeed it was but needful in behalf of such Books as this to ask the Patronage of some such as your self whose stanch Loyalty in the late distinguishing and perilous times those days of Danger and Rebuke was yet so truly Heroick as to dare to look Faction in the face and oppose it even then when most Insolent and Domineering A practice on grounds of Reason so truly Generous on grounds of Christianity so Religious as makes your late Promotion a due Debt to your Merit as your Merit is to your self But now blessed be God that by wonted Miracle of Preservation has made the King great in his Salvation has in great measure given him the Hearts of his Subjects and the Necks of his Enemies has turned our threatned Captivity back and made our English Zion like to be the praise of the whole Earth So that now the design of this Dedication is cheifly this To publish to the World my grateful acknowledgment of your great Favours presuming that the good design of this little Book will help to satisfie for its great defects especially if it be interpreted as Divines interpret Parables Quae non sunt argumentative ultra suum Scopum The Scope or Intention of it being no more than such an imperfect Schismatology as may instruct but the vulgar Reader in some little of that great agreement between the Modern Schismaticks and those of Old which I take to be a Novel expedient whereby to endeavour as every honest man ought the exposal of that pernicious Sin of Schism the depluming of that Church monster of all such thievish Bravery and popular Decoy as erroneous conscienciousness and specious Pretensions to Sanctity beyond holier Persons than themselves to expose this vile Sin to the publik view like Aesops Crow to be reviled and hooted at as the very pest of Societies and bane of Christianity fatal to Churches and Kingdoms detestable and odious to God and Good Men worse said the Fathers than a Dionys ap Euseb l. 6. Idolatry b Opt. l. 1. Sacriledg or c Chrysost ad Eph. p. 823. Heresie and yet now a days so little made Conscience of This is chiefly the design of this little Book and my acknowledgments to your Worship is the design of its Dedication as also to beg the encouragement of your Worships Approbation and to contribute a wish to the long continuance of your happiness here and the compleatment of it hereafter which is honoured Sir the hearty prayer of Your Thankful and Obedient as much Obliged Servant J. B. Catholick Schismatology OR An Account of Schism and Schismaticks in the several Ages of the World The Introduction THO the first two thousand years of the World called the Patriarchal Ages which was from the Creation to the giving of the Law to Moses were called by the Jewish Rabbies the two thousand years of emptiness because of that little that is recorded of the Transactions of those times yet is not the Holy Scripture silent in this matter but speaks of Schism and Schismaticks as coaeval with Sin and Satan St. Jude speaking of the Separatists of his time the Gnostick-Schismaticks Jude 6. compares them first to the fallen Angels the first that sinned those Schismaticks from the Church triumphant Jude 6. Where he plainly intimates That as the Devil was the first Sinner so was he the first Schismatick Saies the Apostle The first that left his first estate which was Communion with the Church triumphant From this he descends to compare them to some of the first Schismaticks from the Church Militant He instances first in Cain Jude 11. They have gone in the way of Cain or which is all one they have followed the Principle and Practise of Cain i. e. are Cainites As those that go in the way of or follow the Principles and Practise of Aerius Donatus Novatus are called Aerians Donatists Novatians And thus do some of the most learned Nonconformists interpreat those words The way of Cain Dr. Manton and Mr Jenkins Exposition on Jude i e. say they the way of Cains Separation Cain was the first Separatist saies Dr. Manton He went out from the presence of the Lord that is from the Church saies he where the presence of Gods Grace is And therefore Cains example is produced because saies that Expositor he was the first and chief of those that departed from the true Church and pure Service of God KORAHITES THus saies the Apostle of the Separatists of his time Jud. 11. They have perished in the gainsaying of Korah This Korah was one of the Sons of Levi of great esteem among the People and great interest in many of the Princes and no doubt was accounted an able and godly man only thus he was a factious Levite dissenting and murmuring against Moses and Aaron the King and the Priest was his only fault Whoever consults the History of Schismaticks from the times of the Apostles to this present Age and compares them with the Modern ones in their professed opposition as well to the Monarchical as Episcopal Government must give them Extraction from this famous Triumvirate Korah Dathan and Abiram Aeri Red. Preface combined in an Association against Moses and Aaron the Supream Prince and the High Priest Dathan and Abiram descending from the line of Reuben the eldest Son of Jacob thought themselves more worthy of the Sovereign Power than Moses who descended from the younger House and Korah thought himself so much neglected in seeing Elizaphen the Son of Vzziel made Prince of the Kohathites The principal Family of the Levites next to that of Gerson when he himself descended of the eldest Brother and therefore thought that if there were not a Parity but an Episcopacy among the Jewish Ministers that himself was as fit for the chief Priesthood as Aaron Hereupon having compared their grievances they resolved on a Conspiracy
and that neither Sovereign Prince nor chief Priest should Lord it over them but rather that a Presbyterian Parity should be both in Sacred and Civil Matters Upon this they presently formed their party drew into the Conspiracy no less than 250 of the chief men of the Assembly and with them boldly appear against Moses and Aaron telling them to their faces that they took too much upon them that all the Lords people were holy and that therefore they ought not to lift up themselves above the Congregation Now tho some of the chief Princes of the house of Dan did appear in the Conspiracy yet it is plainly called in Scripture the gainsaying of Korah because chiefly carried on by the interest and credit that he had among the People particularly on the account of his pretended Zeal for the Worship of God Joseph Antiq. lib. 4. c. 2. and his great pretence to the good of the Commonwealth But a factious Levite he was dissenting and murmuring against the King and the Clergy was his great and only fault In the head of a numerous Faction he endeavour'd to stone Moses and as Josephus saies ran with great Noise and Uproar crying before the Tabernacle of God That the Tyrant Moses was to be cut off and the People deliver'd from Bondage and the like outcrys of Property and Priviledg against Prerogative and Arbitrary Government By such Sedition saies Mr. Jenkins to throw Aaron out of the Priesthood and gain it to himself and with Dathan and Abiram to depose Moses from the civil Government and take it to themselves St. Jude 's purpose here is to shew saies that great Nonconformist that such seducing Separatists as these Gnosticks Exposition on the place are Enemies not only to Ecclesiastical but Civil Order and Superiority And this example of Korah is produced saith Dr. Manton as to note the factious Practices of Seducers Exposition on the place so also Gods vengeance on all such they were factious against Moses and Aaron and they perished in their attempt and so will all they that rise up against Magistracy and Ministry as sure saies he as if it were already accomplished And the other Nonconformist-Expositor in his Exposition How miraculously did vengeance overtake Korah and his company for their Schism and Sedition the Earth clave and swallowed them up for making a cleft or Schism in the Congregation and after that two hundred and fifty of their Princes Men of Renown were consumed by a fire from the Lord and after that fourteen thousand and seven hundred were slain by the Plague And this St. Jude apply's to such Christians as separate themselves as despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities that renounce the Authority and Communion of the Church of such as these he saies they perish'd in the gainsaying of Korah PHARISEES THey were a most zealous and strict Sect above all others of the Jewish Religion and were called Pharisees from their Separation From 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 separavit secrevit ●ivisit quasi sequestrato ab aliis vita religiosiri because separated from others to a more strict way of professing Religion Pasor cites Hesychius Lexi● for making 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Pharisee a Divider a Separatist a Puritan all one but the primary signification of the word Pharisee is one that separates Josephus tho himself a Jew Antiq. Judaic l. 17. l. 13. c. 23. passim and sometime a Pharisee gives this account of them That they were a crafty and subtil Generation of men that imployed their power mightily in opposing Kings that had insinuated themselves so far into the affections and esteem of the populacy that their good or bad word was able to make or blast any one with the people let their report be never so false and malicious And therefore Alexander Jannaeus when he lay a dying advised the Queen his wife as ever she regarded her safety by all means to comply with them and to pretend to govern by their Councel and Direction affirming that his offending that sort of men was that which derived the Odium of the Nation upon him and was the greatest cause of his fatal miscarriage Certain it is that they were prodigiously proud and self conceited censorious and ill-natured that they hated all mankind but themselves and whoever would not be of their way they censured as a Reprobate and a Villian exceeding zealous they were to make Proselytes to their Party confining all Religion and Kindness within the bounds of their own party Like the Donatists their Followers that were the most grievous sort of Persecutors whenever they got power and yet cried out most against Persecution Matt. 23.4 They bound on mens shoulders heavy burdens and grievous to be born yet inveigh bitterly against it in others vers 30. If we had lived in the days of our forefathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets On which very account Christ calls them Serpents vers 33. a subtil insinuating Generation of men full of Folds and Intreagues that would put on the appearance of greatest Mortification and Self-denyal and Holiness yet were saies Christ in that very verse Vipers A generation of Vipers for their abominable cruelty The first Principles wherewith they inspired their new Converts as Josephus relates were That none but they were the Godly party and that all other Person were but Slaves and Sons of the Earth and therefore endeavour'd especially to inspire them with a mighty Zeal and Fierceness against all that differ'd from them To this end they were wont not only to separate but discriminate themselves from the Community by some peculiar Notes and Badges of Distinction such as their long Robes and broad Phylacteries their large Fringes and Borders of their Garments c. Their dogged and ill-natured principles together with their Seditious and uncharitable Behaviour they endeavoured to palliate and varnish over with a more than ordinary pretence and profession of Religion Such Duties especially as did immediately refer to God and his Worship as frequent fasting and praying which they did very oft and very long with demure and mortified looks in a whining and affected tone and this almost in every corner of the streets Thus Josephus of the Pharisees Antiq. Judaic ZEALOTS THE Zealots were a Sect or Branch of the Pharisees who looked upon themselves as the Successors of Elias Samuel and others of the Jewish Worthies but especially Phineas which Worthies living under a perfect Theocracy had the miraculous impulse and guidance of Gods Spirit immediate Direction and Commission from God for what they did and particularly in such Acts as those of Phineas tho no Magistrate his killing Zimri and Cosbi Samuel's killing Agag c. And in imitation of these the Jewish Zealots mistaking a Diabolical Suggestion for supernatural Revelation a boiling Passion for holy Zeal and a wild Imagination for holy Divine motion pretended a Commission from Heaven for