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A20934	The antibarbarian: or, A treatise concerning an unknowne tongue As well in the prayers of particulars in private as in the publique liturgie. Wherein also are exhibited the principall clauses of the Masse, which would offend the people, if they understood them. By Peter Du Moulin, minister of the Word of God in the church of Sedan and professor of divinitie.; Antibarbare. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Baylie, Richard.	1630 (1630)	STC 7311; ESTC S111063	73,776	306

Orthodox Spaniards for the Visigots at the beginning were Arians was called the Mosarabicke or Toletain office whereof may be seene an abridgement in Isidore in his first booke of Ecclesiastick offices which Isidore borne in Sevill writ in the yeare of our Lord about 630. In the yeare 713. the Sarasins abolished in Spaine the kingdome of the Goths slue their King Roderick in battell and extinguished in the most part of Spaine the Christian Religion And held Spaine for many ages untill that the residue of the Christians which were retired fled into the Moūtains having recollected their forces in the end drove out the Mores and replaced againe the Christian Religion in Spaine and established many pettie kingdomes Their service was done yet in Latine according to the ancient forme albeit by reason of the mixture of the Sarasins they had lost the use of the Latine tongue Their office or service was the ancient to wit the Mozorabick office which still continued in Spaine untill about the yeare of our Lord 1080. in the which King Alphonsus to gratifie Pope Gregorie the VII Roderick Archbishop of Toledo lib. 6. chap. 25. and 26. by strong hand and Maulgre the estates of the Countrey established in Spaine the Romish service then the Latine tongue which heretofore was used by custome was now established by law And so hath continued unto this day CHAP. XIII Of England and Germany and and how the Romish service and the Latine tongue were thither brought in IT will not be amisse to say somewhat also of England which in times past was called Brittaine a Etenim circiter non gentos ab hinc annos constat plebem in nonnullis regionibus p●eces suas publicas ignota lingue recitaste id quod in Anglia nostra fuisse factitatum manifestum faciam Harding in the first Section of his treatise Of prayers in a strange tongue saith about nine hundred yeares since publike prayers have begun in some Countreys to bee said in a tongue not understood especially in England This Doctor very much versed in Antiquity findeth not the use of the Latine tongue in England to bee more ancient since the terme of nine hundred yeares and hee hath in this spoken according to the truth We must then know that England received the Christian religion before there were any Churches erected amongst the Gaules or old French Nicephorus in his second booke Chap. 40. saith that Simon Zelotes the Apostle brought the doctrine of the Gospell unto the Westerne Sea and unto the Isles of Brittaine Gildas an English Author who lived in the sixt age and Polidore Virgil in his second booke of his Historie say that Ioseph of Arimathea there first preached the Gospell Balaeus in his first Centurie alleadgeth many other witnesses Tertullian b Britannorum in accessa loca Christo vero subdita who writ at the end of the second age in 7. Chap. of his booke against the Iewes saith that the inaccessible places of the Brittaines are subject to the true Christ. c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Theodoret in his 9. booke of the meanes to cure the indisposition of the Greekes Our fishers and toule-gatherers and our currier so qualifieth he the Apostles have brought to all men the Evangelicall Lawes and have perswaded not onely the Romanes and those which are tributaries to them but even the Scithians Indians c. and those of Brittaine to receive the lawes of him that was crucified Some d West-monasteriensis Galfridus Authors affirme that in the yeare 185. Lucius King of Brittaine sent to Pope Eleutherius praying to bee instructed by him in the Christian religion and that he abolished Paganisme out of all Brittaine so that there was not left so much as one infidell Which is a a storie invented in favour of the Pope For these Historians place in this Isle peaceable Brittaine Kings raigning in the South-part of the Isle which was subject to the Romanes and which had no other King but the Emperor of Rome The estate of this Isle under the Romanes may be seene in Cornelius Tacitus in the life of Iulius Agricola and in Xiphilinus an Epitomiser of Dion in the life of Nero and of Severus Emperours At this time the Christians of South Brittaine suffered persecution under the Romanes that were Pagans And as for the Northerly part which at this day is called Scotland and the Countrey of Northumberland it was Heathenish and was so a long time after Eleutherius e Hieron Oceano Scotorum Asotorum ritu ac de republica Platonis promiscuas uxores ac communes liberos habeant Saint Hierome in his Epistle to Oceanus speaketh of the Scots as having in his time their wives common 200. yeares after Elutherius And f Idem lib. 2. in lovinianum Cum ipse adolescentulus in Gallia viderim Scottos gentem Britannam humanis vescicarnibus cum per sylvas porcorum greges armentorum pecudumque reperiam pastorum nates foeminarum papillas solere abscindere has solas ciborum delicias arbitrari Scottorum natio vxores proprias non habet c. in 2. lib. against Iovinian he sayeth he had seene the Scotch eating mans flesh And Galfride in his 2. Chapter of his third booke of his Historie speaketh of them as of Pagans Furthermore the Christians of this Isle celebrated Easter precisely the fourteenth of the moneth of March contrarie to the rules of the church of Rome which they would not have done had they beene brought to Christianitie by the Church of Rome This Isle so continued under the government of the Romane Pagans untill the time of Dioclesian in the yere 286. The Senate of Rome sent thither Caurasius to oppose the courses of the barbarous but he enleagu'd himselfe with the Islanders and thence drove out the Romanes and made himselfe King and after that time one while the Romanes prevailing another while the Islanders that Isse was but weakely held by the Romane Empire In the yeare of our Lord 307. Constantine Sonne of Constantius and of Helene a Christian woman governed that Island Being Pagan he tooke the title of Romane Emperour and passed thorow the Gaules and from thence into Italie and made himselfe absolute Emperour Then becomming Christian he granted peace to the Churches of Brittaine In the yeare 383. Maximus a Christian and Orthodox Prince govern'd Brittaine for as then all that part of the Isle which was subject to the Romanes was Christian This Maximus invaded with a maine armie the Gaules and conquered them and tooke the title of Romane Emperour against Gratian Sonne to Theodosius In the yeare of our Lord 434. The Romane Empire being fallen into the West and rent by the Goths Franks Vandals and Bourgagnions the Romanes abandoned the Isle of Brittaine Which moved the Islanders to conferre the kingdome upon Constantine the brother of the King of Brittaine Armorique who was issued of

length when the night of ignorance is neere at hand Hence came that implicit faith which relyeth on the faith of another and which beleeveth that which the Church of his countrey beleeveth without ever knowing that which the Church ought to beleeve and which serveth God by custome following the thronge and involveing themselves in the multitude Hence came in the Liturgie in a strange tongue and not understood as if the english tongue were too base and triviall for divine service Hence came in the custome of praying to God without knowing what they asked of him as if they were affraid to understand themselves Hence came it to passe that as in the publique reading of the Scriptures God is a barbarian unto men so also in publique prayers the Priest is a barbarian to the Assembly and in the prayers of particulars every one is a barbarian to himselfe The occasions and the change of affaires have herevnto often contributed For the vulgar tongue of a countrey comming to be abbasterdised by laps of time or being suddenly changed by the confus'd medley the blending and invndation and uiolent breaking in of strange people the Pastors and leaders of the people have not beene carefull to accommodate the publique service unto the understanding of the new inhabitants and to the tongue in vse So that the Liturgie became in lesse then fiftie yeares not to be understood by the people And this came to passe in Italie where the Latine was the vulgar in the time of the Apostles and many ages after But the Latine being corrupted by the inundation of the Goths Lumbards and French and by the extinguishing abolishing of good letters and learning the Bishops still retained the service in the ancient tongue and suffered the people to loose the understanding of it The like happened in France and in Spaine as we shall see hereafter True religion taketh a quite contrary way It resists this naturall inclination of men by which they flie instruction fearing to learne the will of God least thereby they should oblige themselves to follow it thorow the brightnesse of the Gospell it dissipates the kingdome of the Prince of darknesse For the people ought to bee clearely instructed in the doctrine of saluation seeing they have as great a share in salvation as the Pastors Who shall not answer for the people at the day of iudgement if the blinde leade the blinde Matth. 25.24 they will both fall into the ditch The Prophet Habacuk tells us Habac. 2.4 that The iust shall live by his faith and not by the faith of another He which beleeves in God by proxie or attornie deserves that another should bee saved for him betweene the false and the true religion there is as much difference as betweene two Temples the one whereof hath his windowes and lights shut and stopt up the other receiveth in lights on all sides in the one the people make profession of a blinde obedience in the other the people demand instruction The one setteth forth to the view the Lampe of Gods Word the other suppressing this spirituall light lighteth up candells at high noone And like as the light which struck Saint Peter on the side when hee slept in prison Acts 12. made the irons to fall off from his hands and opened him the prison even so the light of the true doctrine breakes asunder the bands of superstition sets a man at libertie according to that which our Saviour Iesus Christ teacheth in the 8. of S. Iohn You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free Wherevpon also God said in the 5. Chapter of Esay My people are led captive because there is no knowledge and Iesus Christ in the 22. of S. Matthew said to the Sadduces You erre not knowing the Scriptures Wherevpon he also said to the Iewes Iohn 3.39 Search the Scriptures which is a commandement which is not made to the people by the Church of Rome And God himselfe by his Prophet Ieremie in his Chapter 31. promiseth a happie time wherein every one shall not teach his brother saying Know yee the Lord for saith the Lord they shall know me from the least to the greatest God reiecteth a Zeale without knowledge Rom. 10.2 and the Apostle desireth that the charitie of the Philippians might be with knowledge and all understanding Philip. 1.9 This is the condemnation of the world SAITH THE LORD that light is come into the world Iohn 3.19 but men love darknesse better then the light Matth. 10.16 God indeed would have us to be simple and innocent but withall he will have us to be prudent and wise he forbids curiositie in things hee hath concealed from us but it followeth not thence that wee must bee ignorant of things necessarie and which he hath manifested to us in his Word For these causes have wee taken away images out of our Churches which speake not and have set in their places the holy Scriptures wherin God speaketh unto us these images are fallen downe to the ground before the doctrine of the Gospell as Dagon before the Arke of the Covenant 1. Sam. 5.3 and wee have brought in the Scripture in the vulgar tongue and have established againe the service of God in words understood for teaching no other doctrine then that which is contained in the holy Scriptures we are not ashamed of our religion and we do desire that our doctrine might bee knowne of every one and examined by the Scriptures Iohn 10.38 Iohn 17.8 Rom. 10.17 having learned by the holy Scriptures that faith consisteth in knowledge and that Iesus Christ will that men know before they beleeve and that faith is by hearing of the Word of God whence it followeth that we must heare the Word of God and be therein instructed before we can have faith we reiect the counsell of our adversaries who would have men beleeve before they choose the way of salvation in stead of that they must know to the end to choose aright Can there a greater abuse then to make the faith of Christians to consist in ignorance Bellar. lib. 2. de iustificatione cap. 7. § Iudicium Fides distinguitur contra scientiam melius per ignorantiam quàm per notitiam definitur Du Perron in his booke against the King of great Britaine lib. 6. ch 1. pag. 1080. as Cardinall Bellarmine doth who saith that faith is distinguished against knowledge and is better defined by ignorance then by knowledge Wherevpon likewise the Cardinall du Perron thinks that the greater ignorance is the greater is the merit of faith saying that when as any one understands not the publique service for that the Priest speaketh in an unknowne tongue and not understood that defect is recompensed by the merit of the endevour and greater excercise of faith Which is a new kinde of merit to endevour to know nothing and an endevour of faith which consists in negligence and a faith