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A03857	The advise of a sonne, novv professing the religion established in the present Church of England, to his deare mother, yet a Roman Catholike	Hungerford, Anthony, Sir, 1564-1627.	1616 (1616)	STC 13971.5; ESTC S115241	23,830	40

sometimes affords to her zealous children if my masters of ſ Rhem annot in Lue cap. 23. v. 24. Rhemes bee not deceived Shee that teacheth vs to doe good workes wil make vs beleeue they are t The heaven'y blessednes which the Scripture calleth the reward of the iust is not give them of God gratis and freely but is due to their workes yet God hath set forth heaven to sale for our workes Andraed Orthodox expl ● lib. 6. meritorious ex condigno and so turne our Christiā duties into glorious sins Shee that teacheth vs that Gods written Word is true will haue vs beleeue withall That it containes u Can loc l. 3. c. 3. not all the doctrine of our salvation and commaunds vs not to x Index libit proh Pij quarti Reg. 4. reade it without her leaue nor vnderstande it but according to the sence y No man may giue other exposition of the Scriptures there such as might agree with the doctrine of the Church of Rome Concil Trid Sess 4. she giues vs. So that if we marke it well shee doth no more then the enemy of mankind is observed to doe who many times for a vantage vtters truth that after he may finde the fairer passage to delude with error And if the grosse absurdities now currant in the Roman Church apart from these formes of truth were laide open to the view of all men I am perswaded in my conscience there is not so simple a Christian living at this day that makes any care of his dutie to God but would abhorre them But herein my masters of Rome declare themselues ingenious in their craft who wel foreseeing that this coine cannot passe for currant in the light vent it ever in the darke so that of many thousands that receiue it scarse any one doth vnderstand it in particular and if any Lay-person more curious then others come by chance to know it yet admitting the principles which he must learne withal it is no more possible for him to judge of it thē for any man in the darke to discerne of colors for as the eye of the body is not vseful at al but in the light no more is our vnderstanding enabled to distinguish betweene truth and errour in the doctrine of christianity but in the glorious light of the holy Scriptures The ignorance of these is assigned by Christ our Saviour z Mat. 22.29 to be a reason of error and we are taught by the Prophet David That the a Psal 119. vers 130. enterance of Gods word giueth light that it giueth vnderstanding to the simple With him the blessed Apostle accords b Tim. 3.15 and tels vs that the holy Scriptures are able to make vs wise vnto salvation This wisedome my masters of Rome approue not in the Laytie they like best that scholler that soonest learnes and contents himselfe with the c Recorded and commended by Staphylus Hosius and others Colliars Creede To beleeue in grosse as doth their Church without being able to render a reason of any article of the religion hee professeth It is gravely delivered by the Rhemists in their annotations vpon Saint Lukes Gospell d Rhem annot on Luk 12.11 That if a Catholike man being called before the commission answere that he is a Catholike man and that he will liue and die in that faith which the Catholike Church teacheth and that this Church can giue them a reason of al the things which they demand of him hee answeres enough and defends himselfe sufficiently Now the better to prepare the Laytie to this sufficiencie they permit them not to reade the Scriptures but with licence and never but with this caution to admit no other sence of what they reade in them but such as these my masters vnder the name of the Catholike Church shall recommend vnto them By which wily sleight they deprive them of al vse of their judgement in the matter of their salvation and of the Scriptures both at once and in place thereof leave them furnished only to maintain the doctrine they haue embraced with the pretended name and authoritie of the Catholike Church For instance in this giue me leave deare Mother without your offence to appeale to your selfe if it were demanded of you by what warrant you hold it lawfull to pray to Saints to worship Images to pray for foules departed and the like your answere I presume would be that herein you follow the doctrine of the Catholike Church which being ever directed by the holy Ghost cannot deceive vs. I must confesse the authority of the Catholike Church rightly vnderstood ought much to moue vs consisting in a generall sence of all that cōpany which in all ages places of the world haue joyned in profession of al the principles of the true religion But if to chalenge to our selues the name of the Church were of it selfe enough without question it would follow that God should haue as many Churches as there haue bin heresies in the world For never haue there been any authors of those impieties but haue endeavoured to giue them countenance vnder the shadow name of the Catholike Church I wil not enter here into any discussion of the doctrine mainetained at this day in the Roman Church which were but to weede in a field of tares the absurdity of it is made visible to the world by the learned labours of many reverent and worthy Pastors of our Church I will only in this place declare in what sence my masters of Rome vnderstand the Catholike Church with the sound whereof they continually fill your eares as being the maine supporters of al they teach you And first this principle is worthy to be noted well which we learne from the most eminent writer of the Papacie at this day e Bellarm de effect sacram lab 2. cap. 25. That the truth of all ancient Councels and of all points of faith dependeth vpon the authoritie of the present Church where if we desire to know what he meanes by the Church the Cardinals interpreter plainely tels vs f Gretser defens Bellarm com 1. pag. 1450. B. That when they affirme the Church to be iudge of al controversies of faith by the Church they vnderstand the Bishop of Rome who for the time governes the shippe of the militant Church and by liuely voice doth clearely and expressely expound his iudgement to them that seeke to him To this purpose another great Rabbin amongst them delivereth plainely g Gregor de Valent. in Tho. 22. tom 3. Disput 1. punct 7. q 5. That the Apostolike Church is therefore faid to be infallible because he is over it who by himselfe hath infallible authority And if wee would knowe who that He is that hath this infallible authoritie we may learne from the Jesuite Swares h Suares in 3. Thom. tom 1. disput 44. sect 1. pag. 677. That it is the Pope whose determinatiō he affirmes to be the

vpon vs that are of the Laitie and learners in Gods Church as a duty to beleeue the doctrine our Pastors teach vs without examination My masters of Rome if you shall bee pleased to demaund of them whether it may bee lawfull for you to examine the doctrine they recommend vnto you their answere you may see in the annotations of the Rhemish testament y Rhem Annot act 17.11 That you must not try and iudge whether your teachers doctrine be true or no neither may you reiect that which you finde not in the scriptures If you shal reply and demaunde of them to what purpose the holy Ghost then forwarned vs of false Prophets that shal come into the world of ravenous Wolues that shal invade the Church of seducers that shal so plausibly carry themselues as that they shal deceiue if possible Gods chosen children they wil ful wisely tel you that al this hath no respect to them who vpon their words wee may beleeue thē if wee list are the true pastors of the Catholike church which cannot erre whereas God wot like petty chapmen they vent no other but the deceiptful wares of the great merchant the Pope of Rome vnder the counterfeit marke name of the Catholike church But to the point in hand it is the precept of Christ in general to al his servants z Mat. 7.15 That they beware of false Prophets to a ● Ioh. 4.1 try the spirits not to beleeue every spirit Al which of necessity must presuppose some examination wherein we are not to follow our owne reason fancie or private spirit but to be guided by that rule which for this purpose the body Prophet doth direct b Esa 8.10 the testimony and the law from precept if we passe to example wee shal finde it recorded to the perpetual praise of the men of Berea c Sect. 17.11 that when the Apostle preached Christ vnto them out of the law and the Prophets they diligently searched in the holy scriptures whether those things be delivered were so or no. And was it lawful commendable in these good Christians to examine the doctrine which was taught the by that elected vessel of God and wil these Lucifugi of Rome make you beleeue it s since for you to hold the like course with them It may be my in afters of Rome for once wil beare with these men of Berea and yet not approue their doing as a rule to follow Possibly they wil not stick to tel vs that in the Churches infancie they were not so wel instructed in good manners as since the scholler● of the Romame church haue bin But shal womē say they shal mē vnlearned be fit able to iudge of their pastors instruction I would know of these my masters whether Lydia the purple seller the womā of whō it is written d Act. 16.14 That God opened her heart were then fit able to judge between the doctrine of the Pharifies refusing Christ yet advancing the law of Moses the Apostles instruction the blessed messenger of the Gospell of Christ● were Priscilla with her husband Aquila fit and able to judge of the doctrine of a worthy Pastor of the Church e Act. 18.26 Whom after they had heard they tooke privately vnto them and instructed in the way of God more perfectly Questionlesse if any Priscilla should be so bould at this day with the meanest of my masters of Rome she should bee sent packing with the scornefull phrase of Scripturist Scripturian doctoresse Apostolesse or some such foolery But Wisdome is justified of her children wee are taught by the blessed Apostle f 2. Tim. 3.16 That the Scriptures are able to make vs wise vnto salvation the Kingly Prophet accords with this and telleth vs g Psal 19.8 That the testimony of God is faithfull and giueth wisedome vnto little ones This wisedome my masters of Rome haue found fatall to them and therefore although for feare of the people they dare not in plaine tearmes entertaine the holy Scriptures when they are encountred with them with such a greeting as Ahab that wicked King gaue the Prophet Elias h 1. Kin. 21.20 Hast thou found vs o our enemie Yet is it worthy deare Mother of your obsertatiō to note by what wily sleights straines of wit they haue practised to depriue the world of all vse of them First they like not to have them trāslated into the vulgar tongue of euery natiō whereby the vnlearned and common sort might come to know them To this purpose I pray you marke a Iesuites language i Azotius Instit tom 1. l. 8. c. 26. It is demanded saith hee whether the sacred Scriptures may be translated into the mother tongue of every nation that every one may the better reade vnderstand them I answere that Lutherans Calvinists are in that heresie that they affirme the sacred Scripture ought to be trāslated into the vulgar language of all nations against whom the Councell of Trent hath made a solemne decree and with this Iesuite agrees our countriman Reynolds the Priest k Calvino-turcismus p. 825. It seemes to me saith this Seminary that this prophane revealing of the divine misteries is odiously cōtrary to the will of God and to the nature of the mysteries themselues l Ibid. p. 831. The manifold and great mischiefes which by the translation of the Scripture haue risen against the Maiestie of God against the holinesse of the Scripture it selfe against the tranquilitie of States against the faith and good conversation of men should haue force enough vtterly to suppresse these translations yea albeit they were supported by divine or Apostolicall authoritie Thus he My masters of Rhemes notwithstanding this wisely taking into their considerations m In their preface to their translation of the new testament the present time state and condition of our countrey vnto which divers things are either necessarie or profitable and medicinable now that otherwise in the peace of the Church were neither much requisite nor perchance wholly toller able haue sent vs a translation such as it is yet durst they not send it abroad alone but vnder safe custodie of their peevish Comment which like a theefe lyes lurking by to steale from the Reader the true sence of this holy word Thus you may see how vnwillingly and against their appetite they haue beene brought to translate the Scriptures into our vulgar language Their next sleight to bee noted is the practise and devise they vse to restraine and discourage vs that are of the Laitie from reading in them For whereas we finde it to haue beene familiar with Christ and his Apostles while they were conversant on the earth to direct their schollers with n Ioh. 5.36 search the scriptures o Luc. 10.26 how readest thou p Coloss 3.16 Let Gods word dwell plentifully in you to such like purpose Peresius a Popish Bishop declaimeth