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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26149	An answer to some considerations on the spirit of Martin Luther and the original of the Reformation lately printed at Oxford.	Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732.	1687 (1687)	Wing A4146; ESTC R4960	53,756	88

is mean't here by regretting I don't understand for Adamus says no more then that he was concern'd at the censures of some people about it But the Pamphlet in the next words will explain it self where we are inform'd that Melancthon too by Ls procurement took a Wife so that it 's plain now that by regretting is meant approving for certainly if a man were disgusted at marriage he would never recommend it to his friend This I take in the language of the book to be a sufficient autocatacrisy If the English Reader be p. 10. startled at the Word he may be pleas'd to know that it's Greek for a Blunder After these advances Lr. wholly left off his Canonleal §. 13. Hours an heynous accusation why he had left off his Monkhood too and was no longer oblig'd to 'em How could he have the leysure and retiredness of the Cloyster to perform all those acts of Devotion in when the Burthen of the Reformation lay upon his Shoulders No his active spirit was employ'd upon things more acceptable to God almighty because more useful to mankind He was wrestling against Principalities and Powers against Ephes. 6. 12 13. 14 15. 16 17. 18 19. the Rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places To that end he took unto him the whole armor of God that he might be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand He stood therefore having his Loyns girt about with Truth and having on the brest plate of righteousness and his feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace Above all taking the shield of Faith wherewith he was able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked And he took the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Yet praying alwayes with all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints And for himself that utterance might be given unto him that he might open his mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel I could not forbear setting down at full length this Panoply of St. Paul wherewith Lr. compleatly arm'd himself in his spiritual warfare and I do not know whether this description belong's so justly to any man as him since the day 's of the Apostles Should he therefore have laid aside his Canonical Hours yet the Work he was about sufficiently atton'd for the omission But I had rather his Accuser should vindicate him then I. You will find then that tho L r. has discharg'd these duties quite at the entrance of the Paragraph yet at the end of it you will be told that he never totally cast off this holy Exercise So obligingly do's this author contradict himself to spare the Replyer's pains ●…d And this ease I must acknowledge he has more then once afforded me In the following Account of L s. appearing before §. 14. the Legat in Germany I must desire him to rectify a mistake or two for neither was L r. condemn'd by Cajetan there nor was Cajetan a moderate Prelate He descended to bitter reprehensions says Soave Hist. Counc Tr. p. 8. and base terms and concluded that Princes haue long hands and so bid him be gone Here was no Judicial Process all ended in a threatning and this moderate Prelate behav'd himself with such a rude zeal through the whole conference that even his own party blam'd the furiousness of it Soave ibid. If Lr. afterwards threw off the Pope's Authority it was not till he had try'd all softer wayes of redress by Letters Remonstrances and the most submiss applications it was not till a fresh Bull of Leo's had declar'd how inflexible the Court of Rome was in the point of Abuses and not till Prierias had in downright terms told him Indulgentiae authoritate scripturae non innotuere nobis sed authoritate Ecclesiae Romanae Romanorumque Pontificum quae major est The Pope now was become a party in the cause and could not be rely'd upon for a decision to a Council therefore he appeal'd and if he afterwards revok'd this Plea too 't was because he found the expected Council was dwindling into a Conventicle a pack'd Assembly of Italian Bishops not a free convention of Fathers from all Quarters of the Christian World So that to urge upon this account that he deny'd the Authority of the present Church §. 15. or deny'd 〈◊〉 pres●… Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ay §. 16. no worse of it an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 f●… b●… ●…e present Church here is meant 〈◊〉 more then the Court of Rome and it's dependents But he is challeng'd of going much farther then this even to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the visibility of the Church for many ages upon what account Because he made this the only note of the 〈◊〉 Church that there the Gospel be truly and sincerely 〈◊〉 As if 〈◊〉 and with him a great train of learned 〈◊〉 did not own that in all that dark 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were still some gleams of light some witnesses that arose to give testimony to the truth and protest against innovations I cannot but take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 way of a little artifice of the Considerer's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he has of disguising a Doctrine when it lyes a little too open by putting a new name to it Is it too bold to say the Elements must be ador'd they shall then only have a certain sort of a Cul●… paid them So here the Priest is said to operate the presence of the body and blood of Christ which in plain broad English is neither more nor less then to make God But that 's too gross to go off so a term is coyn'd to make the conveyance easy As for the newness of Ls. opinions and his marching §. 16. alone against the Doctrine of the primitive ages 't is so beaten a point that it deserves no other Answer then that true Jest of Scaliger's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Novatores sed Vos estis Veteratores and the Considerer if he pleases may apply it But 't is ridiculous to say he deny'd the validity of §. 18. the former Clergy's ordination for that necessarily draws along with it the invalidity of his too Yet he proceeded we see in the work of his Ministry without expecting any new Mission and never thought himself a See Disc about the Euch. oblig'd to a reordination No he was so far from this that in the Articles of Smalcald he own 's Orders confer'd by a Popish Bishop even then to be valid a Smalcald Art 10. and in his Letter about the Anabaptists you will find him in 20 places owning that the C. of Rome hath the true Faith Baptism Sacraments the Keys the Office of Preaching c. Concessions that run as high as any the most charitable Protestants now make So that that objection of the Devil 's in Ls. book of the Mass