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A06106	A retractiue from the Romish religion contayning thirteene forcible motiues, disswading from the communion with the Church of Rome: wherein is demonstratiuely proued, that the now Romish religion (so farre forth as it is Romish) is not the true Catholike religion of Christ, but the seduction of Antichrist: by Tho. Beard ...	Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1616 (1616)	STC 1658; ESTC S101599	473,468	560

A RETRACTIVE FROM THE ROMISH RELIGION Contayning THIRTEENE FORCIBLE MOTIVES disswading from communion with the CHVRCH of ROME Wherein is demonstratiuely proued that the now Romish Religion so farre forth as it is Romish is not the true CATHOLIKE Religion of CHRIST but the seduction of ANTICHRIST By THO. BEARD Doctor in Diuinity and Preacher of Gods holy Word in the Towne of HVNTINGTON 2. Thess 2. 10. Because they receiued not the loue of the truth that they might be saued therefore God shall send them strong delusion to beleeue lies LONDON Printed by WILLIAM STANSBY and are to be sold by Henrie Fetherstone 1616. TO THE TRVELY VERTVOVS AND WORTHY KNIGHT SIR OLIVER CROMWEL T. B. wisheth encrease of grace and all happinesse SIR THERE bee many particular respects that mooue me to be bold to set your name in the frontispice of this work As first your sincere loue to true Religion and the Professors thereof Secondly your true detestation of the Romish Synagogue and the malignant influences of those wandring Planets that infect the aire of our Church and seeke by mining poysoning and other deuillish practices to turne our Jerusalem into Babel Thirdly for that your selfe with your religious Lady worthy children and brethren and great family haue beene a long time the principall auditors of my vnworthy ministery wherein many of these points haue been deliuered vpon occasion that you may see them here more fully discoursed and so be the better confirmed in the truth And lastly the particular obligations of loue and duty wherwith I am bound vnto you for many extraordinary fauours and kindnesses receiued These be the motiues that haue moued mee to select your selfe principally aboue all others to dedicate these motiues vnto For the which I desire no more patronage and protection then the truth of the seuerall points contayned therein doe deserue Let them stand vpon their owne legs or fall and perish I know they shall encounter with many bitter oppositions and sharpe aduersaries who will be ready to sift euery sentence and to find a knot in a bull-rush but my shelter is the buckler of truth and the brazen wal of a good conscience with which being armed I hope through Gods aide that I shall be as willing and able to entertayne the re-encounter if any assault be made as I was willing to giue this on-set I confesse that these are not the tithe of the arguments that might be produced against the Romish religion yet I doubt not but that euen these few may serue both to discouer the falshood thereof and to confirme and strengthen those that stagger and are weake in the truth the Lord accompanying these endeuours of his seruant with his blessing as I hope and pray that he would be pleased to do These motiues such as they are I willingly desire may be graced by your name hoping that your name shal no way be disgraced by them accept them therefore as tokens of my sincere loue to your selfe and zeale to the truth for which I desire no other requitall but an augmentation of your zeale to the same truth and a greater detestation of that Religion which already you abhor The Lord of his mercy encrease in you more and more all spirituall graces for your soules health and multiply his blessings temporall vpon your head and crowne you with glory and immortality eternall in the life to come Your worships most affectionate and deuoted THO. BEARD REVERENDIS DILECTISQVE IN CHRISTO FRATRIBVS Pijs ET FIDELIBVS Euangelij Ministris per omnem Britanniam constitutis gratia pax à DEO PATRE DOMINO nostro IESV CHRISTO NOn estis nescij fratres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Christo quanta nos Euangelij Ministros tùm verborum maledicentia tùm animorum odio insectentur Cleri Pontificij cohors colluuies vniuersa Sua in nos omnis gener●● tela quidem venenata confertim conijciunt famam nostram canino dente studio allatrant atque admordent quin ipsas adeo gulas nostras quidem eas nobis incisuri app●tunt si illorum in nos maleuolentiae par ad facinus potest as responderet nomen ipsum ministri perinde atque veteribus Iudaeis Samaritae illis itae putet foetet vt sine nausea indignatione illud ne nominare quidem possunt Huiuscemodi conuitijs contumelijs libricorum passim plaerique omnes referti onustique sunt Cuius si intestini inexplebilis odij rationes libeat perquirere quinque istas quas ordine percensebo praec●teris insigniores ex ijs principem hanc reperietis Quod Clerus hic Pontificius Monachorum cum primis fraterculorum locustae illae sunt in Apocalypsi commemoratae quae caudis similiter vt scorpi● cu●pidatis de infernalis putei fumo prodeuntes terminitam quinque mensium spatio homines excruciandi potestatem accepere Qu● ex re fit vt vbi possunt quidem valent ibi ferro flammaque in nos grassentur vbi autem hoc illis non licet linguas calamos exacuant atque distringant consimili planè atque ille ●ngenio praediti de quo est apud Poetam Et si non aliquà nocuisset mortuus esset Haereticorum enim vt est scriptum ab Hieronymo hoc semper caco●thes fuit vt conuicti de perfidia ad maledicta se conferant Sequitur hanc causam isthaec altera Quod luci cum tenebris nulla societas nullum commercium intercedat Ac nos quidem lucis Ministri sumus qui adomnes quibus non sponte oculi caecutiunt Euangelij claritatem quaqua versum diffundimus Illi contratenebrarum satellites sunt qui dum scripturarum lectione plarosque arcent prohibent dum fidem quam vocant implicitam nos Carbonariam tanquam apprimè salutarem maximeque necessariam praedicant commendant densissimis sane crassissimisque tenebris hominum anim●● circumfundunt Istis porro causis annumeranda est haec tertia quod nullum tam capitale odium solet esse atque quod religionis causa suscipitur tum nos religionis illi●● praecones sum●● quae illorum superstitioni vsque adeo aduersa est nulla vt ratione conuenire nalla conciliari arte inter sepossunt Ex quo id existit quod nec Turcas quidem Iud●●s nec ipsos adeo Ethnicos quamuis Christiani nominis hostes infestissimos pariter vt Protestantes Euangelij Ministros detestentur Cuires indicio est illa quam Hispanicam appellant inquisitio testis etiam locuples Rom● ipsa in qua sub ipsius sane ore Pontificis Turcis Iudaeis tuta consuetudo atque periculo omni libera immunis negotiatio est siquem autem nostrae religionis vel leuissimè suspectum esse contingat ●um vel aperta vi vel occultis insiaijs ad internecionem vsque persequuntur Quid autem causae est quaeso quod tanta in nos solos immanitate furoreque

malice in this kinde and surely I thinke that labour might be well bestowed in searching this stinking puddie to the bottome and discouering their malice so to the beholding of all that men might see their poyson and beware of such Serpents and high time it is to lay hand to this plough for a double danger ariseth from this dealing of theirs First it confirmeth their owne followers in their hatred against the truth and the professors thereof For they are perswaded that whatsoeuer is written or spoken by a Priest or Iesuite is certainly true it being allowed as all their writings commonly are by the authoritie of the Church and the Censors and visiters appointed for that purpose and therefore account it a deadly sinne once to call the credit thereof into question And secondly it inueigleth and seduceth many vnsettled Protestants Whilest reading such lying Pamphlets they are either not able to discerne their falshood or not carefull to examine the truth by contrarie euidences to preuent both which dangers it would be a worke much beneficiall to the Church of God and profitable to the cause of Religion if some zealous Protestant would vndertake this taske in a ful iust volume to decipher their malice and discouer their slanders to the ful but I leaue that to the guidance of Gods wisedom proceed in my purposed discourse to the next point 98. Their last trick is forgerie for when neither by treacherie nor cruelty nor periurie nor lying nor slādering they can worke their wils but that their Religion groweth euery day more odious then others at last as the most desperate practice of al●●he rest they fal to forging like Physicions that seeing their patient in a desperate case minister vnto him desperate medicines that shall either ridde him of his disease or of his life and that quickly such a medicine is this which if it take not place to cure their sicke Religion it will doubtlesse vtterly ruine and vndermine the foundation thereof and depriue it of the vitall spirit And this last wee haue rather cause to hope then they the first seeing it hath pleased God to reueale to the world the mischieuous mysteries of their Indices expurgatory which whosoeuer shall but duly consider must needs iudge their cause to lye a bleeding and ready to giue vp the ghost when they are driuen to such miserable shifts for the defence thereof 99. The common Lawes and ciuill Courts punish forgerers with slitting their noses branding their foreheads cutting off their eares pillorie imprisonment and diuers other such like fearefull censures the Ecclesiasticall Lawes are as seuere against such persons and the very Heathen Tully condemned Gabinius as a light and loose person for infringing the credit of the publike Records of the Citie and commendeth Metellus as a most holy and modest man because when hee saw a name but blurred in the tables he went to Lentulus the Pretor and desired a reformation thereof and a better care to be had in their custodie By all which we may see how great and odious a crime forgerie is and in what ranke they are to be reputed by all Lawes that defile their consciences with so foule a sinne 100. Of which that the Church of Rome is guiltie is so manifest that none that hath either read their Bookes of Controuersies with iudgement or seene their three chiefe Iudices Expurgatorij one of Rome another of Spaine the third of Antwerp can make any question And if any desire to be fully satisfied concerning their dealing in this kind let them haue recourse to Doctor Iames his learned and laborious discourse where he shal see this wound searched to tho quicke and the corruption thereof discouered to the whole world and so searched and discouered that by all their wit and policy they shal neuer be able to hide the filthines thereof notwithstanding that the Reader that hath not that booke may haue a little taste of their dealing and assurance of the truth of this my proposition I will offer vnto his view a few instances of their forgerie and those so plaine and palpable that by no colourable excuse they can be auoyded 101. Forgerie is committed two wayes first by counterfeiting secondly by corrupting counter●●i●ing 〈…〉 Records and corrupting true Touching counterfeiting take foure instances in s●eed of fourescore and those out of Bellarmine onely first those ●●el●e Trea●is●● intitled ●● 〈…〉 Christi operibus are resolutely censured by Bellarmine to bee none of Cyprians and yet the same Bellarmine alleadgeth them ordinarily to proue many points of his Religion vnder Cyprians name as to proue the Virgin Marie to bee without sinne and Baptisme to be necessarie to saluation and that the Sacraments containe grace in them and that there are more Sacraments then two with diuers other points Secondly the Commentaries vpon Pauls Epistles ascribed vnto Saint Ambrose are censured by Bellarmine peremptorily to bee counterfeit And yet the same Bellarmine produceth them to proue traditions Peters supremacie Limbus Patrum that one may be holpen by anothers merit and that Antichrist is a certaine man and in a word most questions controuerted Thirdly liber Hypognosticon Bellarmine concludes that it is none of Saint Augustines yet hee alleadgeth it as Saint Augustines to proue Euangelicall Councels so Liber ad Orosium is confessed by Bellarmine to bee none of Saint Augustines and yet hee is alleadged by him in another place to proue the Booke of Ecclesiasticus authenticall Lastly the Commentaries vpon the Epistles that goe vnder the name of Saint Ierome are iudged by Bellarmine to bee none of his and yet he produceth testimonies out of them to proue the necessitie of traditions Peter to be the rocke of the Church and that children may without their parents consents enter into a religious Order And this is ordinarie not onely in Bellarm but in all other of their writers as you may see particularly and plainly discouered in Doctor Iames his Treatise touching the corrupting of Scripture Councels and Fathers by the Prelates and pillars of the Church of Rome By which wee may note First their conscience in that they know them to be Bastards and yet obtrude them as true borne Secondly their fraud in that when they make little for them or it may be against them then they brand them with counterfeit but when they speake on their behalfe then they are as true as steele and thus with a blunder of counterfeit Fathers they dazle the eyes of the ignorant but the wise will iudge discreetly and learne to discerne the Lion by his paw 102. Touching their corrupting of true Authors I will vrge against them but foure examples as in the former but those most famous and three of them corrupted by their most famous Iesuite Bellarmine The first is of Chrysostome in his seuenteenth Homily vpon Genesis where he readeth Shee shall obserue thy head and thou shalt obserue her heele whereas as Philip Montanus a