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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18082	Syn theōi en christōi the ansvvere to the preface of the Rhemish Testament. By T. Cartwright.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1602 (1602)	STC 4716; ESTC S107680	72,325	200

further in them Which is manifestlie against you for being bottomlesse he sheweth August epist 3. that notwithstanding no man can sound them yet that his endeuour to search is not in vaine but is ioyned with dailie profite especiallie in things necessary to saluation which he affirmeth not to be so hardlie come vnto Yea himself confesseth that euen in his verie first entrance to the christian faith hered August Confess lib. 8. cap. 12. et 7. cap. 9. Chrysost in proaem in epist ad Rom. th' Epistle to the Romanes which you woulde wrest out of the peoples hands with great frute And Chrysostome vpon this Epistle teacheth that the people did not vnderstand Saint Paules wrytings not because they wer vnlearned but because they woulde not haue his writings continually Ierom Epist 13. 4. speaketh of the hard shell of the Scripture as Augustine did of the depth to whet the diligence and industrie of men to greater and more continuall trauell to be taken in the studie of them euen also as doeth the Scripture it selfe which doth not will Matth. 24. 15. the disciples vppon the hardnesse of a place to giue ouer the reading thereof but to ad further diligence care to vnderstand it Where the Iesuites do it cleane contrarily to terrifie men from them And therefore Ierome saith they shine and are verie bright euen in the Ibid. very shell of them although the marrowe be sweeter Likewise he exhorteth all to crack the shell to th' end to eate the kernell And in the very next Epistle wryting to a Matrone he saith Therefore let the diuine Scriptures be alwayes in Hieron ad Celantiam thy hands and let them vncessantly be turned or rowled in thy mynde Beside that if al the Scripture were so shelly as you out of Ierome praetend where is the milke and honie for children that are Heb. 5. Psal 19 called as hath bene shevved to the reading of them They haue no teeth to crack the shell yet they depart not emptie nor returne not hungry from them Wherefore Augustine saith that God hath so tempered the Scriptures that by August d● doct●ri Christ lib. 2. cap. 6. manifest places he might prouyde against famine and by those which are obscurer he might cleanse the loathsomnes of our stomak in exercising our selues about them noting thereby that men would grow to disdainfulnesse of the Scripture if with th' easier Scriptures they should not ioyne the studie of the harder Finallie if before the lawfull exposition of the Scriptures whole thirteene yeares are required onlie to runne the course of reading the Scripture we suppose verelie that such an expositor will neuer be found in Poperie although he bee sought with a candle where the chief garland and crowne of diuinity is not giuen to him that hath beene most conuersant in th' olde and newe Testament but to him that can quite himself best in Duns and Dorbel in Lombard and Gratian and such other vnwholsome Nourses as these be at whose breasts the popish diuines doe sucke their first milke in Theologie And to what end should they bestow thirteene yeares before their entrance to the Ministrie and the most of their time after they are entred in the study of the Scripture if they may bring no other interpretation of any place then that which they haue receiued of their fore-fathers As for th' interpretation of euery part of the Scripture by th' Apostolicke tradition further then by tradition as appeareth afterwarde is vnderstood the written worde of th' Apostles there is no manner of mention in any writing that carrieth credite with it But of interpretation the discourse will followe after more at large To the three next sections pag. 7. and 8. We are well content that our Religion should be condemned of them that condemne the reading of the Scriptures and as if they had to doe with a hand or foot ball delyte in the taunting tearmes of tossing and tumbling of them And we waite patientlie Iudas epist vntill the Lorde come to giue iudgement of all these blasphemous speeches which wicked sinners speake against him in his worde The triall of the cause by th' outward fruites receiueth manie exceptions First of foure sorts of grounds sowne by the seed of the Gospell there is but one fruitfull the reste beeing not bettered by the preaching therof are worse then whē they remained in their Popish ignorance or other fallings from the truth Wherfore to praeiudice the fruit that the good ground yeldeth by the barrennesse vnprofitablenesse of th' other three sortes which haue receiued the seede aswel as it is not aequal nor vpright iudgement Secondly this offensiue and apparant wickednesse euen in the hypocriticall profession of the Gospell proceedeth of the negligence of the gouernors of the Church and common-wealth which loosing the coarde of both Church and common-wealth discipline suffer wicked men to spit out the poison of their hearts which the wholesome seuerity of commanded correction woulde keepe sealed vp in them And therefore our Sauiour Christ is not afraied Matth. 24. 12. to confesse franckly that for th' abundance of iniquitie appearing in them that made profession of the Gospell the loue or zeall of manie euen of those which sometimes were forward in the same should waxe cold Nowe to lay that faulte vpon the Religion which cleaueth vnto the gouernours is likewise an vn-aequall and vn-euen iudgement When in the common-wealth and Church of Israel euerie man did what he lusted who knoweth Iudg. 17. ● not that there were heathen common-wealths wherein many vnlawfull things by law and lawfull punishments were restrained Yet we suppose the Iesuites are not so forsaken that they will thereof conclude that the heathnishe people were better then the people of Israel and that the religion of those Gentiles was better then the religion amongst the Iewes Thirdlie it ought to be remembred that although sinne reigned in Poperie yet it appeared not there beeing no light of the law of God to shewe it by for that the candle-light of knowledge was cleane put out Where in the preaching of the Gospell by the beames of trueth shyning so bright that which in Poperie was holden for no sinne is now knowne to be sinne and that which seemed vnder it a little sinne the Gospell sheweth it to be very great To iudge therefore our mote and gnat which the light of our doctrine sheweth bigger then their beame and Camell which the night of their ignorance woulde not suffer to bee seene is not to holde an euen hand and to goe with a streight foote to the iudgement which is required Further it hath bene an olde practise of the Diuell against the professors of the Gospell to charge them with disordered manners and therefore it ought to offend no man if it be now renewed by th' aduersaries of y● truth And although our witnes in heauen and witnes in heart might well content vs whilest by your slanderous