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A04347	A manuduction, or introduction vnto diuinitie containing a confutation of papists by papists, throughout the important articles of our religion; their testimonies taken either out of the Indices expurgatorii, or out of the Fathers, and ancient records; but especially the parchments. By Tho. Iames, Doctor of Diuinitie, late fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, and Sub-Deane of the cathedrall church of Welles. This marke noteth the places that are taken out of the Indices expurgatorij: and this [pointing hand], a note of the places in the manuscripts.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1625 (1625)	STC 14460; ESTC S107696	146,396	156

roome for it in Rome no holinesse there where his Holinesse dwelles to find an honest man or an honest woman there amongst your Brothel-houses and Stewes that are publikely tollerated to the high offence of God and men were to see a white Crow amongst your Secular men or Secular Priests take it in what sense you will Now my Masters if you like Rome vpon these conditions packe and be gone the sooner the better if his Maiestie will giue you leaue it were a faire riddance as we say without a Sessions But I must leaue to hold you any longer I know you stand vpon thornes and long to be gone to your holy Father the Pope I haue done with their vices and I would they had done with them too and so farewell Of the Clergie of Rome HAuing described the Citie of Rome and shewed our Romanists what wonderfull things are spoken of her I will if needs they will goe to Rome giue them this counsell to goe their Stations as soone as they come thither and as they passe by to view the state of their Clergie and Church in generall and then of their Cardinals Bishops Priests and Monkes in particular the knowledge hereof may be profitable vnto you and yet not puffe you vp neuer a whit the more First then of the Clergie in generall HEre I must bee bold to borrow a pen or two from their owne Espencaeus vpon Titus or from some one or other in the Councell of Basil as for inke if any bee blacke enough to register the seuerall enormities and foulenesse of their facts I will borrow that from Thuanus Historie there will neuer be wanting Inke as blacke and as bitter as Gaule amongst Popish Writers to supply our wants and therefore vpon full trust and confidence hereof as we shall see when we come to handle the particulars I come in this second place to speake of their Cardinall sinnes or the sinnes of their Cardinals although I am not ignorant of Ant. de Dominis saying that a man were as good touch the apple of the Popes eye as point out or point at their Popish or Romish errors but that care is cared for and so I proceed Of the Cardinals and Bishops SOme call them Carpinales in scossing manner as Conrade of Mentz some on the contrary prayse them beyond the skies and say that when they die they shall be sure to goe to Heauen and neuer goe by the Examiners office Be it so yet by their leaues we will make bold to examine their liues while they liue here vpon earth First for their originall it cannot be precisely learned when they began Wicelius saith they were anciently instituted by the primitiue Popes if the word Pope be so ancient to be aiding and assisting to his Holinesse in visiting the sicke and burying the dead But I doubt they will not fall out to be of that antiquitie for in Saint Hieromes time the name of a Cardinall was hardly in request and yet their Writers or Painters seeing Saint Hierome so poore in his Cell of meere pitie and liberalitie haue bestowed a red Hat vpon him which if he had liued in these latter times perchance might haue cost him threescore thousand or a hundred and fifty thousand Crownes Whatsoeuer their originall is they are now raised to a great state not much inferiour to that of Kings and Princes and they haue wherewithall to maintaine that estate they must haue their Horses and their Hounds their Mistresses or rather their Whores and Queanes their Bawdes and Ganimedes and then it is not to be wondered at if they be so couetous it was is and euer will be their guise to get fuell to maintaine this fire of lust I should here admonish them of their duties but the Councell of Basil hath preuented my paines in learning them their seuerall duties and representing before their eyes their red Scarlet which should teach them to be Martyrs for and not persecuters of the Christian Faith A word or two of Bishops and so an end The word Bishop is a name of paiues and not of honour he is a Superintendant ouer the flocke let not the Precisians appropriate this word vnto themselues or pare it as they doe all things else to their purpose but alas now adayes men are made Bishops I speake of our Popish Clergie for couetousnesse and not for righteousnesse sake they inquire not how many Parishes belong to their Diocessees but how many Lordships or rich Mannors belong to their Bishopricks and so what for fulfilling their lusts and filling full their purses and other by-respects men affect or rather infect the Bishopricke as a good Writer noteth And therefore we may very iustly complaine with Erasmus that those which haue the best Bishopricks are not alwaies the best men Mostly Bishops now adayes I speake thus much out of the mouthes and from the complaints of two famous Writers in those impurer times Fr. Duarenus and Isidorùs Clarius are more ignorant of true Religion and sacred businesses then Lay-Princes and Potentates and doe know any thing saue that which they should know that is their duties out of Saint Pauls doctrine contained in his Epistles to Timothie and Titus I conclude this point Let him that hath a Bishopricke attend his office attend his function attend his name he is called a Bishop an Ouer-looker or a Superintendant I know no harme by this word as I told you before his office is not Simonie but to visite his Diocesse to preach to his flocke If you cannot nor will not learne so much of me yet learne it of your owne deere Councell of Trent or at the least of the Councell of Basil And so much for Bishops and Cardinals their sinnes and failings their office and duties Of Popish Priests I Haue touched the Popes free-hold layed open the faults of their Cardinals and Bishops What remaineth Nondum completae sunt iniquitates Amorrhaeorum but that in like manner and that without any great order which their vices will not beare we proceed to speake of the intollerable abuses and innumerable sinnes of the Antichristian Romane Clergie that we may haue a complete mysterie of iniquitie Of the Priests HEre for breuities sake let me intreat thee gentle Reader whosoeuer thou art to name me any sinne wherein the Priest hath not bin Superlatiue They are Priests with a witnesse before all other men verum est in sinning Will you haue ordinarie sinnes or extraordinary prophane vices or Clergie-faults For me it is all one and it were well with them if one were all but I may number them vnto you almost by the dozens 1. They are notable Theeues some of them reade Albertus Krantzius History of Wandalia 2. Couetous beyond measure so Ferus Vatablus and the Councel of Basil in I know not how many pages in one onely Volume The

but they will haue it many times out of mens throats as it were and bury them aliue rather then faile sending them quicke vnto the graue There is a pretty Storie to this purpose in Amatus Lusitanus worth the rehearsing one Armellius a rich man fell sicke but his sicknesse was not to death the Friars of Saint Dominick and Francis wisht him as their manner is to commend his soule vnto God and a good part of his goods vnto them that they might pray for his soules health after hee was departed this world but their meaning was to prey vpon his body being aliue for they would haue buried his body quicke that his body might haue taken possession of his graue and they of his goods but as God would haue it in comes the Physitian who wondring at his sudden departure maketh triall and findes there was life in him recouers him of his sicknesse the man liued many yeares after and reuoked his Legacy to the no small griefe of these greedy Shauelings who had lost such a booty And therefore it was not without cause that Erasmus was accounted an Hereticke before he died for writing so sharpely against their foolish Obites and Mortuaries that were bought and sold for other mens prayers that would doe the deceased no good for as the same Erasmus saith out of Augustine and hath been formerly shewed funerall pompes and such like solemnities may yeeld some comfort to the liuing but the dead are neuer a whit the better for them And therefore they are but meere Wood-cocks that will bee caught with such Springes These Springes were Confession whereby by the confession of Gul. de S. Amore our Friars and Monkes especially Mendicants get no small Legacies vnto their hands and therefore seeing prayers for the dead as hath been prooued are nothing and funerall pompes are nothing but comforts to the liuing and not the dead wise and vnderstanding men among the Papists may spare this charge and bestow it vpon their poore Kinsfolke Wiues and Children for ought I can see Against adoration of Images BEfore wee enter into the maine controuersie about Adoration of Images let vs enter some Creekes thereof and then lauch forth into the deepe and as he that goeth about to fell a Tree that is compassed with Thornes and Bushes at the bottome must first cut or grub vp the bushes that hee may come at the tree so wee will cut off certaine nice and thorny distinctions that wee may the more freely come to throw downe this great tree of Images which like Alex. Oke is growne now to adoration and speciall worship The distinctions are three betweene simulachrum and imago a similitude or likenesse of a thing an Idoll an Image and latria and doulia The Papists as much as wee condemne the worshipping of Idols and simulachra and all god-worship or latria to Images of men but not the worship or adoration of Images in a meaner sort called doulia or in a greater called latria of the Images of God either alone or in the Trinitie or of the Crosse or of our blessed Sauiour that died vpon the Crosse both God and Man But God willing we will first auoide these niceties and fooleries of distinctions out of their owne Writers and then erect and establish certaine propositions whereunto the Papists must stand vnlesse they will thwart and withstand some of the chiefest of their owne Writers A simulachre and an image are all one saith learned Vatablus With him agreeth Geo. Cedren or rather the Translator of him out of the Greeke An Idol and an Image are all one If doubt be made we appeale vnto an Herald that shall proclaime so much vnto the whole World euen Desiderius Heraldus in his learned Annotations vpon Arnobius For the third distinction of Latria and Doulia let the Christians call them what they will and distinguish the one from the other the Gentiles put no difference betweene them as testifieth Lil Greg. Gyraldus Thus hauing cleared the passages we purpose to make good these following Propositions 1. That Images were not vsed in the Primitiue Church 2. When they began to come into vse and crept into Churches they were onely Lay-mens Remembrancers not their Idols or worshipped of them 3. That when they began to be worshipped as Idolatrie commeth in step by step Images of the Trinitie or of God the Father were neuer generally receiued but mostly misliked of the Church 4. Adoration of Images crosseth Scripture 5. Repugneth to reason 6. And is very much impugned by the Papists themselues of the better sort The First Proposition Images were not vsed in the Primitiue Church IF Agobardus Works and especially his de Picturis with Papyrius Massenius notes and Desiderius Heraldus annotations vpon Arnobius bee not satisfying in this point we shal be constrained to haue recourse to the Writings of the Fathers and the Histories of the Church out of both which it will appeare as cleare as the Sunne-shine at Noone-day that the Prime-Christians could say confidently that they had no Altars no Images nor Statuaes making Images the badge or cognizance to know the Christian from the Gentill and who knoweth not that memorable History of Epiphanius recorded by Saint Hierome Which Epistle you haue laboured what you can to discredit and when you could not doe that you fell foule vpon some few Notes of Erasmus that declared the same A poore reuenge but that Epistle and the truth thereof doth stand and your doctrine of Images must needs fall vnlesse it haue better proppes to maintaine it then I see in this first Proposition The Second Proposition When Images came into the Church they were placed in their Temples for rememoration and not for adoration THe Proposition is so notorious and famous out of Gregories Epistle to Serenus of Masseils that you were best blot out that Epistle and coyne a doctrine cleane contrary to this and clap it to some Epistle or other And doubtlesse as you are cunning gamesters that can helpe your selues at a need yee haue played your parts very cunningly on both sides Saint Gregorie in his ninth booke and ninth Epistle to Serenus Bishop of Marseils blameth him for being so inconsiderate as to breake certaine Images that were offensiue by reason of the peoples worshipping them Hee saith Antiquitie knew of the painting of Saints Stories in places where men did worship God although they did not worship pictures as gods or as men I reuerence S. Gregorie as much as any man hauing perused his workes as much as some others haue done and compared him with the Manuscript Copies which vnder correction I take to bee the best reading of him or any other Greeke or Latine Author But these words quia in locis venerabilibus Sanctorum depingi Historias non sine ratione admisit vetust as hee saith but admisit permitted them to bee painted and yet I can scarsely beleeue them because Epiphanius that