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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14435	A very Christian, learned, and briefe discourse, concerning the true, ancient, and Catholicke faith, against all wicked vp-start heresies seruing very profitably for a preseruatiue against the profane nouelties of papists, Anabaptists, Arrians, Brownists, and all other sectaries. First composed by Vincentius Lirinensis in Latine, about twelue hundreth yeares ago. And now faithfully translated into English, and illustrated with certaine marginall notes. By Thomas Tuke.; Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate libellus. English	Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.; Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. aut	1611 (1611)	STC 24753; ESTC S102090	49,335	192

with them Yea but perhaps these precepts belong only to the Galatians Then these things also are commanded to the Galatians onely which are mentioned in the same Epistle after such as are these If wee liue in the Spirit let vs also walk in the Spirit let vs not be desirous of vaine glory prouoking one another enuying one another and the rest Which if it bee against sense and if they be commanded vnto all alike it standeth with good reason that as these commandements concerning manners so those also concerning faith should equally belong to all CHAP. 14. ANd as no man may prouoke or enuy one another so no man may receiue ought besides that which the Catholike Church doth alway preach or else perhaps it was at that time inioyned that if any did preach otherwise then was already preached hee should bee accursed but not at this time there is no such commandement Then that also which hee likewise speaketh in the same Epistle And I say walke in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh was at that time onely commanded and is not now inioyned But if it be both impious and pernicious so to thinke it doth necessarily follow that as these things ought to be obserued of all ages so those things which are decreed concerning the keeping of the faith without alteration are commanded also to all ages To preach any thing therefore to Christian Catholikes besides that which they haue receiued was neuer lawfull is no where lawfull and neuer shall be lawfull and to accurse them which preach any thing besides that which was once receiued hath beene euer behoouefull is euery where behoouefull and shall alwaies be behoouefull Which things seeing they thus stand is there any man either so bold as to preach otherwise then hath ben preached in the Church or so light as to receiue otherwise then that hee hath receiued of the Church Let him cry and cry againe and againe let him in his letters cry both vnto all and alwaies and euery where euen that vessell of election that teacher of the Gentiles that Apostolique Trumpet that Preacher of Men and who knew the will of God That if any one preach a new doctrine hee shall be accursed On the contrary also certaine Frogs and Gnats and Flies that shall perish such as are the Pelagians cry out against him and that vnto Catholikes We say they being Authors Leaders and interpreters Condemne ye those things which yee did hold hold yee those things which yee did condemne Reiect yee the ancient faith the Fathers ordinances and those things which the Elders haue committed to your trust and Receiue ye What things I pray you I tremble to speake them for they are so insolent that mee thinkes they cannot be without some vile offence affirmed no nor intruth somuch as refelled CHAP. 15. BVt some man will say Wherefore then doth God very often suffer certaine excellent persons in the Church to broach new matters vnto Catholikes It is a good question and worthy to be diligently largely answered Which yet we must make answere to not of our owne head but by the authority of Gods word and by the instruction of an Ecclesiasticall Teacher Let vs therefore heare holy Moses and let him teach vs wherefore learned men and such as by reason of the grace of knowledge be called also Prophets of the Apostle are sometimes permitted to publish new doctrines which the old Testament vseth allegorically to call Strange Gods to wit because Heretiques worship their owne opinions as the Gentiles doe their gods Blessed Moses therefore in Deuteronomy writeth If there arise among you a Prophet or which saith hee hath seene a vision that is to say a Teacher constituted in the Church who is thought of his Schollers and Hearers to teach by some reuelation What followeth And shall giue thee a Signe or Wonder and the Signe or Wonder which he hath spoken of shall come to passe Doubtles some great I know not what Teacher is vnderstood and indued with such knowledge as who may seeme to his owne followers not onely to know things that are within the reach of man but also to foreknow things which are aboue him such almost as Ualentinus Donatus Photinus Appollinaris and the rest of that rabble were by their Disciples crakt of to haue bene But what followes And shall say quoth Moses vnto thee Let vs go and follow after other gods which thou knowest not and let vs serue them What are those strange Gods but strange errours which thou hast not knowne that is to say new and not-heard-of And let vs serue them that is let vs beleeue thē follow thē But what saies he last of all Thou shalt not hearken quoth hee vnto that Prophet or dreamer of dreames And why I pray thee doth not God prohibite that to bee taught which hee doth forbid to be receiued Because saith hee the Lord your God prooueth you that it might appeare whether you loue the Lord your God withall your heart and withall your soule The reason is cleerer then the light why the prouidence of God doth sometimes suffer certaine Teachers of the Churches to broach some new doctrines that the Lord your God quoth he might try yee And indeed it is no small temptation when as he whom thou countest a Prophet the Disciple of the Prophets and a teacher and defender of the truth and whom thou dost exceedingly reuerence loue Shall on the suddaine closely bring in some hurtfull errours which thou art neither able quickly to perceiue as long as thou art led by a fore-stalled iudgement concerning his old maisterlike authority neither dost thou easily thinke it lawfull to condemne them whilst thou art hindred by thine affection towards thine ancient Maister CHAP. 16. HEre some man may perhaps desire that those things which are in the words of holy Moses affirmed may be by some Ecclesiasticall Ensamples cleered The desire is iust and not long to be put off For that we may beginne with the neerest and those that are manifest what a temptation was that of late suppose wee when as that wretch Nestorius being suddenly turned from a Sheepe to a Wolfe had begun to rend the Flocke of Christ At which time the very same persons whom he did teare for a great part of them as yet did verily think him to be a sheep and therefore lay the more open to his teeth For who would easily imagine him to erre whom he saw chosen with such iudgement of the Empire and so highly fauoured of the Priests Who being continually honoured with the great loue of the Saints and very great good will of the people did openly preach the word of God and confute also the hurtfull errours of Iewes and Gentiles By the which meanes I pray you would hee not perssade any man that hid doctrines preaching and iudgement were right