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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19345	The non-entity of Protestancy. Or a discourse, wherein is demonstrated, that Protestancy is not any reall thing, but in it selfe a platonicall idea; a wast of all positiue fayth; and a meere nothing. VVritten by a Catholike priest of the Society of Iesus	Anderton, Lawrence.	1633 (1633)	STC 577; ESTC S100172	81,126	286

error es Swinglianorum in doctrina de peccatis Baptismo ex proprijs ipsorum libris collecti refutati Magdeburg 1562. 9. Pia defensio aduersus Ioannis Caluini Petri Boquini Theodori Bezae Guillielmi Clebitij similium calumnias c. Erfordiae 1583 10. Apologia ad omnes Germaniae Ecclesias reformatas quae sub Zwingliani Caluiniani nominis inuidia vim iniuriam patiuntur Tiguri 1578. And thus farre heereof whereby we may see that Protestancy is deadly wounded by the Pen of Protestancy Heere now I close vp this chapter referring to the iudgement of the learned Reader that seeing Protestancy is compounded of seuerall Contradictory Doctrines wherof the one side must of necessity be depriued of al reall Being and seeing the nature of true faith exacteth that it should be cōplete entire and perfect in it selfe like therein vnto an action morally vertuous which is accomplished by the accesse of all due conducing Circumstances but vitiated through the absence but of any one and finally seeing that all the former repugnāt doctrines of the Protestants besides many others of like nature by them mantained for breuity heer pretermitted are accounted Euangelical and true Protestancy whether it doth not indisputably and irrepliably follow that Protestancy in it selfe is no true fayth but in respect thereof an absolute Irreality and but an Intentionall Name or word That Heresy as being a Priuation is Non Ens and consequently that Protestancy as consisting of the old condemned Heresies is a Non-Entity CHAP. X. IN one of the precedent Chapters it hath beene made euidēt that Protestancy euen from the title of Negation hath no reality of Being In this place now the same shal be euicted from the Title of Priuatiō where for the clearer apprehending of this point we are to call to mynd as aboue is touched that euery Priuation is but a defect of that which should be thus is blyndnes of sight deafenes of hearing and therefore as hauing no efficient cause but only a deficient proceedeth not from God who made all things and consequently it is Non Ens. But to passe on further Among those things which are Priuations we doe finde that euery Heresy is rāged or marshalled in that Classe and this deseruedly since Heresy is but a Priuation or denyall of the truth but all truth proceedeth from God (a) Iohn 14. Ego sum veritas and consequently Heresy is a meere Non Ens or Nullity This being presumed as true and vncontroulable if then I can proue that Protestancy is but a colluuies of the ancient Heresies cōdemned in the Primitiue Church it then followeth vnauoydably that Protestancy as compacted of those priuatiue and Negatiue Heresies is but a Non-entity But to effect this and therein consequently to discouer frō what vnworthy Fathers the Children of our new supposed Gospell are lineally proseminated and descended sucking from them tanquam ex traduce the venome of their Priuatiue and Negatiue fayth I will appeale herein to history of former ages by meanes whereof our times hould intelligence with Antiquity I will exemplify this in seuerall Negatiue points of Protestancy And first we find that the Protestants borrow their denyall of the Reall presence from certayne old Heretikes in (a) So affirmeth Theodoret dialog 3. Ignatius his tyme so early we see the Cockle grow vp with the good seed as Theodoret witnesseth yet the affirmatiue is houlden both by Ignatius and the whole Church of those daies 2. The said heretiks denied that any (b) Ierom. epist. ad Hebidiū Visible Sacrifice ought to be now in the dayes of Christianity 3. The denyall of (c) Lib de haeres c. 33. Prayer for the dead is first taken from the Heretikes Aerians who as S. Austins words are thought it vnlawfull orare vel offerre pro mortuis 4. The denyall of freewill taken from the Manichees of whome S. * Aug. vbi supra Austin thus writeth Peccatorum originem non tribuunt Manichaei libero arbitrio 5. The denyall of fasting and of virginity was first introduced by Iouinian as (d) Ierom. lib 1 2. contra lonintanum S. Ierome and (e) Aug l. de haeres cap. 8● S. Austin do witnesse 6. The denyall of the Churches visibility broached by the Donatists who taught with Caluin that the Church consisted only of the Iust and thereupon as not knowing who were the iust they made it Inuisible as (f) Aug. l. de vnit c. 12. Austin recordeth 7 The denyall of worshipping the Reliques of Saints first taught by Vigilantius the Heretike as (g) Ierom. contra Vigilant S. Ierome doth witnes 8. The denyall of the distinction of mortall and veniall sinne first mantayned by the Pelagians as (h) l. con Pelagium S. Ierome testifyeth 9. The denyall of al worship due to the Image of Christ and his Saints first iustified by Xenaias Persa as (i) lib. 16. cap. 27. Nicephorus recordeth 10. The denyall of the possibility of keeping the Commandements was first mantayned by certayne old Heretikes recorded by (k) In explicat Simbol ad Damasum Ierome and (l) De tēpore serm 91. Austin 11. The denyall of all reuerence to the Crosse was first taught by Probianus the heretike as appeareth in the (m) lib. 2. cap. 19. Tripartite History 12. The denyall of Traditions was first taught by the Arians as appeareth out of the booke written by (n) lib. 1 cap. 2. S. Austin contra Maximum The same is also taught by Nestorius the Heretike as we read in (o) Act. 1. sexto Synodo 13. The denyall of power to reconcile men sinning after Baptisme by meanes of the Sacrament of Confessiō was first taught by the Nouatians as (p) lib. 3. de haeret Theodoret and (q) lib. ● c. 33. Hist Eusebius relate 14. The denyall of voluntary Pouerty and other Euangelicall Counsels iustified by Vigilantius as (r) l. contra Vigilantium S. Ierome witnesseth 15. The denyall of Originall sinne especially in the Children of the faythfull first taught by the Pelagians as (s) lib. 6. contra Iulianum c. 2. 3. S. Austin witnesseth 16. The denyall of lawfulnes of vowes of perpetuall Chastity c. first introduced by certaine Heretikes styled Lampetiani as (t) lib. de centum haeres circa sinem S. Damascene affirmeth 17. To conclude that the Primacy of Gods Church belonged only to Ecclesiasticall Persons was denyed by Constantius and Valentinian Emperours as witnesseth (u) Athan●san epist ad solitatiam vitā agentes Athanasius and (x) Ep. 32. Ambrose Thus farre of this poynt And now by the way I referre to the more retyred sober thoughts of the iudicious and learned Reader whether it be not an irreparable dishonour blemish to the Professours of the new Ghospell in whome now liuing the former dead Heretikes yet doe liue or rather whose bodies by a strange Metapsychosis seeme to be organized with