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A52857	An English inquisition for a heretick Or, The punishment due to hereticks. Together with the nature and causes of heresie. Declared in a sermon preached at a visitation at Ware, upon the 19th. of April 1672. By Robert Neville, B.D. late Fellow of Kings-Colledge in Cambridge, and now Rector of Ansty in the county of Hertford.	Neville, Robert, 1640 or 1-1694.	1673 (1673)	Wing N519; ESTC R220263	15,927	31

of and so after that is despised and contemn'd 't is seasonable to proceed to Censures and to Excommunicate the person so offending Thus 2 Cor. 13.2 immediately after the second admonition deliver'd by St. Paul in these words I foretell you the second time he tells the offenders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will not spare you and vers 10. he assures them that this Admonition is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he may not proceed to Excision or Cutting off which in the last word of that verse he calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 taking away the word ordinarily used in the Canons for Excommunication The true meaning of these words after the first and second admonition reject being discovered to you and thereby the Censures or punishment due to Hereticks being declared I shall dismiss this First General and lay hold on the Second where we have 2ly The Offender upon whom these heavy Censures were to be laid namely a man that is an Heretick in the handling whereof I shall pursue this method First I shall shew what Heresie is Secondly From what Fountain it springs or proceeds First I shall shew what Heresie is Although the word Heresie in it self signifies neither good nor bad and therefore in Eusebius Constantine applys it to the Christian Religion calling it Heresie yet in Ecclesiastical Writers if not constantly in the Scriptures 't is used in a bad sence and signifies an Election or adhering to a way of our own devising and not that which was commanded by God in his Holy Word and therefore Hesychius the Grammarian defines a Heretick thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that chooses some other Doctrine or Opinion besides the Truth but that we may not dwell always in Cortice nominis in the Bark or Outside of the meer name I shall describe the Thing it self to you for the effecting whereof I shall out of the large Harvest of those Authors that treat of it glean this description of Heresie a So Cardinal Tolet l. 4. c. 3. de instruct and our own Country man Francis Mason l. 2. c 10 p 164 c. 13. p. 197. 198. de ministerio Anglicano have described it and Alphonsus à Castro advers Haereses lib 1. p 4 defines it Dogma falsum fidei Orthodoxae repugnans Heresie is an obstinate Error in a Christian man in some part contrary to the Catholick Faith for the better understanding whereof I shall enquire after these two particulars 1. What things Heresie supposes 2ly What things it implys and includes and 1. I shall enquire what things Heresie supposes as namely 1. A meer superficial knowledge of the Doctrine of the Gospel deliver'd and acknowledg'd in the Church of God hence we read in 1 Cor. 11.19 there must be Heresies amongst you you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you Corinthians who are Members of the Visible Church True and Orthodox Religion always goes before Heresie b Is est Haereticus qui jam suscepto Baptismi Sacramento Haeresin amplexus est addimus autem suscepto Baptismi Sacramento quia qui contraria fidei dogmata sequitur nec unquam in Ecclesiam catumque Dei receptus est Infidelis potiùs quàm Haereticus est appellandus Danaeus Haeres cap. 3. Danaeus therefore tells us that a man must first have bound and oblig'd himself to the Christian Faith and have receiv'd the Sacrament of Christianity before he can properly be called an Heretick Hence it is that Antichrist that man of Sin is said to sit in the Temple of God 2 Thes 2.4 that is in the bosom of the Church Heresie therefore is an Error not of any kind of men but of those who in appearance and as far as the outward Profession of it made their pretences to the Christian Faith from some part or Article whereof they afterwards revolted and fell away and hereby we may easily distinguish between Heresie and Schism Heresie maintains a perverse Opinion or Doctrine in the Church Schism makes a rash and needless Separation from the Church Heresie is a desertion of Ecclesiastical Verity Schism a breach of Ecclesiastical Unity 2ly Heresie supposes that some things may be retained which in some particular savour of the Christian Faith although it hath long since been accounted an axiom in Divinity quod Articuli Fidei sint copulativi that the Articles of Faith are copulative and as c Part 2. q. 159. memb 7. Alexander Hales tells us Faith extends it self ad omnia Credibilia to all things that are Credible so that he who denies One Article of Faith in nullo sanus judicetur as d 2. 2 q. 5. a t. 3. in corp Aquinas tells us can be thought sound in none Yet no Heretick did ever abjure the whole Creed or Foundation of Faith in every Article or part of it e De Baptism contra Donatist l. 1. c 1. St. Augustine affirms this of the Donatists themselves that in many things they concurr'd with him though he left them in several Errors and Heresies for a Heretick in this that though he reject many things yet retains some differs from a total and absolute Apostate who falls and revolts not from some part only but from the whole Evangelical Truth which he before acknowledged 3ly Heresie supposes that the Scripture or some part of it at least as to the letter is to be retained as the Common Principle of disputing This Vincentius Lirinensis observ'd of Hereticks saying f Mos est Haereticorum Scripturarum umbraculis errores suos pessimos obtegere Vinc. Lit c. 35. 36 37. in commonitor advers Haer. 'T is the custom of Hereticks to shade and shelter their foul Errors under the Covert of Scripture Those notorious Hereticks Arrius Pelagius and the Manichees did not universally deny the Authority of the Scripture but attempted the Defence of their Errors by Scripture though impertinently alledged by them they dealt with the Scriptures as Chymists deal with Natural Bodies torturing them to extract that out of them which God and Nature never put in them and as he that bought Orpheus his Harp thought it would of it self make most admirable Musick how unskilfully soever he toucht it so these men supposed that Scripture would sound wonderfull Musically if they did but handle it with how great incongruity soever it was And thus having discover'd to you what things Heresie supposes I now come to shew Secondly What things it implys and includes and First It includes an error of Judgment not of Manners being placed in the Reason or Judgment not in Deeds or Actions according to that known saying Factum sine Errore non facit Haereticum no Matter of Fact without an Error in the Judgment can make a Heretick which I shall confirm and illustrate by this instance Adoration paid to Devils though it be Idolatry in the highest degree and to be abominated like Hell it self yet if it be done without any Opinion of Divinity existing in those Infernal Spirits 't is not to