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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68809	Scrutamini scripturas the exhortation of a Spanish conuerted monke: collected out of the Spanishe authours themselues, to reade and peruse the holy scriptures; contrary to the prohibition of the Pope and Church of Rome, whose tyranny in this point plainely appeares to euery mans view. With other occurrences of no small importance.	Tejeda, Fernando de, fl. 1623.	1624 (1624)	STC 23922; ESTC S106037	49,742	76

are not blinded with the doctrine of Spirituall Bookes which are no more in fault for their blindnesse then the Sunne is in fault that the Batte is blind euen as the fault is not to be imputed to the Sunne that the Bat is blinde but to the defect of its eyes sithence the Eagle beholds it directly without any detriment of sight Many heretiques patronize their heresies by a misinter pretation of sacred Writ and yet neuerthelesse we may not say that Scripture hurteth and ought not to be read All these are the words of Doctor Gratian to whom the Pope and the Inquisitors owe many gratulations seeing here with admirable grace hee stops their mouth that henceforward they may not open it to grunt as hogs doe and barke as dogges according to their custome to authorize the prohibiting of the holy Scripture in the vulgar tongue in regard of the hurt they pretend to ensue vpon the reading of it whereof I shall speake hereafter and that they may forbeare to transferre their faults on others endeauouring to confirme and make good the said inhibition with the place of S. Matthew chap. 7. in which Christ teacheth vs only thus much that he would not haue time spent and paines taken in preaching to such of whose amendment wee can haue no hope as Chrysostome here expounds it and this makes no whit against the reading of holy Scripture in the vulgar tongue vnlesse the Pope be so euill opinionated of all that are not Clergie men as to censure them all as profligate and obstinately reprobate and that in them there is no hope of amendment and so consequently repute them as members of the deuill and heires of hell and summarily if the Pope esteeme them such he should not onely inhibite them the reading of the Bible but also the partaking in the prayers and Sermons of the Church seeing Christ speakes of such But I doe not beleeue that the most holy Father will pronounce so hardly of them for charity will not permit him to doe it especially of his owne children For the Father being most holy in the superlatiue degree at least his sonnes should be holy and though they were wicked as to speake freely the trueth they are not very good he therefore ought the rather not onely permit them but also perswade them to read it The holy Scripture being as I haue formerly euicted an vniuersall Apothecaries shop which hath powerfull remedies for euery sort of infirmitie and griefe to what better place can the Pope renuoy such as are enfeebled with the wound of sinne For what thing is more proper and fit for a sicke man then Physicke and for a wounded man then that which will heale his wounds The Pope if he were a Father and not a tyrant ought instantly to licence to his sonnes and the faithfull holy Scripture and chiefly to those that are faint and weake for hee that is well needes not the Physician or Physicke but he that is sicke This is euident Torres lib. 25. cap. 2. de su Filosofia de principes and yet that it may be the more cleare let vs heare what Father Torres saith on those words of the Apostle 1. Tim. 3. All Scripture is diuinely inspired c. After hee hath said that S. Paul sends his disciple Timothy vnto the Scripture in which he might learne whatsoeuer he stood in need of He further addes If he so earnestly enioyne a man replenished with the Spirit of grace the reading of holy Scripture what would he say to one full of the malignant spirit hee would haue said to such a one as the Redeemer of the world said to the Scribes and Pharises who perceiuing the crudity of their stomackes and that their apostumated bosoms could not be mitigated by any lenitiues he sent them to the diuine Scriptures as to a publique hospitall for the wounded and maimed Search the Scriptures Ioh. 5. that they by reading and perpending the same might know that he preached all the truth to them All this saith this Author And the Pope should doe so herein imitating Christ our Lord whose Vicar hee saith he is though indeed hee be his enemy seeing Christ desires that his very enemies should search the Scriptures and examine by them the doctrine he preached to them and this he did because he was assured that it helde correspondencie with them But the Pope would not haue his doctrine brought to any triall much lesse to the touchstone of holy Scripture because hee knowes it to be repugnant thereunto and therefore in the Countreys subiect vnto his tyrannie to wit where the Inquisition hath place hee suffers none to enquire which is the true Religion and which the false but contrariwise if any be desirous to finde out and receiue the trueth and to this ende search the Scripture he causeth such a one to be burned and not so satisfied doeth further declare all his kinred and allies liuing and his posterity to be infamous and incapable of obtaining offices and dignities of honour and trust Though it be certaine that God would not the sonne should sustaine the blame of the fathers sinne much lesse bee punished for that wherein his father was not blame-worthy but rather commendable But herein as also in the rest the Pope is guided by the same infernall spirit that the false prophet Mahomet is who well knowing that if his doctrine should be disputed of and the trueth debated by good reasons of necessity the falsenesse of it would be descried The first thing he commanded was that vnder paine of death none should be so presumptuous as to canuase the ground and trueth of his Law but rather that his disciples should be obliged to maintaine it by way of hostilitie against any that would impugne it this precept is fully practised in those kingdoms in which the Inquisition is established and for that purpose the Pope would it were in all the world But referring this to some other place I will close with the saying of Doctor Yllescas who after he hath recited what is said of Mahomet Yllescas en la historia Pontifical fol. 205. speaketh as followeth Wherein if those who gaue credit vnto him had not beene so blinde they might haue seene that bee was an Impostor seeing hee would not haue it controuerted whether that he taught them were good or euill Oh how much I desire beloued countreymen that you would consider that for as much as hee constraines you to beleeue and holde whatsoeuer the Church of Rome beleeueth and holdeth without permitting you to examine whether it be a true or false Church his scope is no other then to deceiue you and if you be not totally blinded you must of necessity perceiue it Looke well vnto it for it imports and concernes you more then it doeth me and I discharge my duety in admonishing you of it Secondly our aduersaries obiect to vs that the holy Scripture is obscure and that therefore it should