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A15396	A catholicon, that is, A generall preservative or remedie against the pseudocatholike religion gathered out of the catholike epistle of S. Jude, briefly expounded, and aptly, according to the time, applied to more then halfe an hundreth of popish errours, and as many corruptions of manners. With a preface seruing as a preparatiue to the catholicon, and a dyet prescribed after.; A catholicon.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1602 (1602)	STC 25673; ESTC S114006	113,250	270

them Application 1. The Papists hold that the Scriptures are not necessarie now no Error 5. more then in the Patriarks time who liued many hundred yeares without any Scripture both before the flood and after Ans. God did then teach them by visions and reuelations and they had Prophets and Patriarks taught of God to instruct them but now we haue neither Prophets nor Apostles and reuelations and visions are ceased so that the Scripture and written word of God are now most necessarie as here the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 necesse habui or it was needefull for me to write vnto you 2. Idle pastours and ministers are reprooued who vse not this diligence to take all occasions to instruct their people who if they loued Christ would feed his flock Ioh. 21. 16. 3. As the pastours should vse all diligence to teach so the people should be as forward and diligent to heare Swift to heare slow to speake Iam. 1. 19. But now contrariwise they are swift to speake and to open their mouthes against the Ministers of God but exceeding dull and slow to heare Gods word take heede also of itching eares 2. Tim. 4. 3. Some are like nice and daintie persons that take no meate vnlesse it be dressed after their owne fanfie that like any water better then out of their owne fountaine Prov. 5. 15. and other Ministers better then their owne Common saluation Doctrine That there 2. Doctrine Christ died onely for the Elect. is one common way vnto saluation wherby all that are appointed thereunto shall be saued Probation Eph. 4. 5. One Lord one faith one baptisme Demonstrat Rom. 4. 23. It was not written onely for Abraham c. Abraham had not a speciall way by himselfe to be saued but the same common way with the rest 2. Tim. 4. 8. S. Paul looketh for one common reward with all the faithfull Exorn. Like as they which liue in one kingdome be they strangers or home-borne are subiect to one law Exod. 12. 49. so there is one law for all that appertaine to the kingdome of Christ. Reason Act. 10. 34 35. God is no accepter of persons to priuiledge some not others but he that feareth God in euery nation is accepted Applicat 1. Against the Papists who Error 6. make this way too common saying that Christ died verily for all Iewes Turkes infidels for the damned as well as the Elect Whereas the Scripture testifieth he died onely for his sheepe Ioh. 10. 11. who is the Sauiour of all men but especially of them which beleeue 1. Tim. 4. 10. then not of all alike 2. Against schismatikes that make not this way common enough but think they onely haue found out the way to heauen as beeing holier then the rest as those hypocrites in Isaias time 65. 5. Which say Stand apart come not neare me I am holier then thou 3. If it be a common saluation none are to be ignorant of it the ignorance then of the people is reprooued who seeke not to know the means of their saluation who are like to the foole whome the wise man speaketh of that knoweth not the way into the citie Eccl. 10. 15. That you striue for the faith c. Doctr. Doctr. 3. Euery one must striue for the faith It is euery mans part according to his place and calling to contend for the defence and maintenance of the truth and to resist the gainsayers Testim Prou. 23. 23. Bu●e the truth but sell it not that is by all meanes compasse the truth but by no meanes by thy silence or negligence betray it Demonst. Christ is herein an example to vs Ioh. 18. 37. who came to be a witnes to the truth and S. Paul 2. Cor. 13. 8. We can doe nothing against the truth but for the truth This is also the commendation of the whole Church of Ephesus Apoc. 2. 2. because they sifted and examined the false Apostles and hated the Nicolaitans Exorn. Like as Gen. 26. 21. the seruants of Isaac doe striue with the Philistims for the well of water which they had found so for the truth and faith we ought to contend Confirmat The reason is taken from the excellencie and price of faith men will contend for things of great price so we must not neglect so great saluation which began to be preached by the Lord himselfe Hebr. 2. 3. which hath beene commended to vs by the trauaile of the Apostles by the bloode of Martyrs Dauid would not drinke the water which was compassed with the perill of his captaines liues but powred it out to the Lord. 2. Sam. 23. so should not we make light account of the truth which haue beene defended by the sufferings of so many martyrs Applicat 1. Against the Papists who say that the triall of faith dependeth vpon Error 7. the iudgement of the prelates of the Church that the people must not skanne their faith but receiue it at their hands The Apostle here exhorteth all the brethren to striue for the faith yea and the Berheans are commended for examining the Apostles doctrine according to the Scriptures Act. 17. 11. 2. This doctrine is against their carnall securitie which make no account of the defence of the truth but stand indifferent to euery religion readie to be carried about with euery winde of doctrine Eph. 4. 14. Which was once giuen to the Saints That is once for all not euer to be changed or 4. Doctr. Doctrine of faith vnchangeable altered and therefore this faith steadfast and vnchangeable ought to be striued and contented for Doctr. That the faith of Iesus Christ preached first by the Lord and confirmed by the Apostles as it is contained in their scriptures and writings ought to be kept inuiolably without change and alteration to the worlds ende For the Apostle saith 1. Tim. 6. 14. I charge thee to keepe this commandement vnrebukeable to the appearing of the Lord Iesus Therefore S. Paul reprooueth the Galatians for that they were so soone turned to an other Gospel Gal. 1. 6. vers 7. He calleth the peruerting of the Gospel of Christ in corrupting of the doctrine of iustification by faith with iustification by law or by workes an other Gospel Exorn. 1. Cor. 3. 11. Other foundation can no man lay Like as the house once builded and the foundation laid whosoeuer will enterprize to lay a new foundation will ouerthrow the whole building like as the law of the Medes and Persians altered not Dan. 6. 8. so neither is the law of Christ changed therefore is it called a testament which is ratified when men are dead Heb. 9. 17. Confirmat Heb. 13. 8. Iesus Christ yesterday and to day and the same for euer As Christ chaungeth not so neither his law nor Gospel Applicat 1. Against the Papists who in most of their articles haue varied from Error ● the doctrine of the Apostles in their seauen sacraments in the reall presence sacrifice of

the habite of Christ cannot be knowne because of their varietie One saith vnder this garment another vnder that that he is Christs souldier when as they all seeke not the things that are Christs but their owne Uers. 20. Praying in the holy Ghost 24. Note The Apostle hauing described the qualities and conditions of corrupt teachers Liplabour praier nowe he turneth himselfe to describe the true members of the Church of Christ whome by this note as one he would haue knowne they doe pray in the holy Ghost that is with feeling and vnderstanding for such are the praiers of the spirit this difference our Sauiour Christ maketh betweene true and false worshippers Iohn 4. 22. Yee worship that ye knowe not we worship what we knowe for saluation is of the Iewes But the members of the Romane Church knowe not what they worship nor what they pray speaking in an vnknowne tongue and therefore wanting the true and right vse of praier they are not the true Church of Christ for in the Church of God there is the true inuocation of the name of God and there are the true worshippers of God in spirit and trueth Ioh. 4. 24. but liplaboure is no true worship of God such as are all praiers made without vnderstanding in an vnknowne tongue as Ambrose saith vpon these wordes of S. Paul My minde is without fruite 1. Cor. 14. 14. Quem fructum habere potest qui ignorat quae loquitur What fruite or profit can he haue that knoweth not what he saith Uers. 23. Hate the garment spotted of the flesh This is another note of the true 25. Note religion that it retaineth not carnall rites ceremonies which are here vnderstood by the fleshly garment such as the Apostle speaketh against Coloss. 2. 2. such traditiōs as consisted in touching tasting hādling which things perish with the vse But such is the popish profession altogether adorned with the vesture of the flesh for most of their carnall and ceremonious rites and vsages they haue borrowed partly from the Iewes partly from the Gentiles From the Gentiles they haue learned their adoration of images praier to the dead multiplicitie of saints purgatorie setting vp of waxe candles burning of tapers with such other infinit rites the original whereof is deriued from the heathē as Moresin de origin papat a learned scottish writer hath lately shewed in a treatise onely of that argument From the Iewes they haue their palme salt oyle holy water obseruation of daies difference of meats with such other therefore we can not iudge that to be sound religion which vseth such traditions which are after the cōmandements of men Col. 2. 22. and so I conclude this point with Augustine De aqua frumento vino oleo in seruitute veteris populi multa celebrari imperatasunt quae nobis tantum intelligēda traduntur Ang. de cele●●at pasch Many things concerning corne wine oyle were commanded to be obserued in the seruitude of the olde lawe which are onely so be vnderstood of vs. Thus haue I by these 25. notes gathered out of this epistle consisting of 25. verses declared howe the true religion and Church from the false may be discerned which also may serue as a caueat aduertisement to the Reader concerning a certaine seditious popish pamphlet lately dispersed called a quarterne of reasons wherin the libeller by his 25. reasons would impugne the credite of our Church and religion which booke as I vnderstand is very sufficiently answered by a studious young man and learned diuine and is readie for the presse Thus I end exhorting the reader according to S. Pauls rule to trie all things and hold that is best And so I conclude with that saying of Augustine Excipite verba contradicentium respuenda non Tract 9. in ●●am transglutienda visceribus danda facite inde quod fecit Dominus quando illi obtulerunt amarum potum gustauit respuit it a vos legite abiicite Receiue ye the words of gainsayers to refuse them not to swallow them keepe them in your bowels but doe with them as our Lord with the bitter potion which they offered to him he tasted and refused so doe ye● read their errours and reiect them Praise honour glorie and power be vnto him that sitteth vpon the throne and vnto the lambe for euermore Reuel 5. 13. FINIS Amend the faults thus PREFACE Page Fault Correction Pag. 17. l. 23. Romes Romanes P. 21. l. 8. surely freely P. 21. l. 11. We mislike we mislike P. 26. l. 11. and did leape did leap P. 29. l. 5. exposition opposition P. 35. l. 3. the panltie their paultry BOOKE Page Fault Correction P. 52. l. 9. crackled racked P. 58. l. 17. Ahas Ahab P. 69. l. 1. propounded Pronounced P. 70. l. 16. word woe P. 104. l. 7. Caponchians Caponchians P. 114. l. 27. Vioscorus Dioscorus P. 138. l. 9. aufugiat confugiat P. 145. l. 12. Fettres Fetties P. 149. l. 8. We were P. 153. l. 23. course cause P. 187. l. 2. terreum terrenum P. 188. l. 7. Theodera Theodora P. 195. l. 7. blind blame