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A11621	Vox vera: or, Obseruations from Amsterdam Examining the late insolencies of some pseudo-puritans, separatists from the Church of Great Brittaine. And closed vp with a serious three-fold aduertisement for the generall vse of euery good subiect within his Maiesties dominions, but more especially of those in the kingdome of Scotland. By Patricke Scot, North-Brittaine.	Scot, Patrick.	1625 (1625)	STC 21863; ESTC S116886	33,610	74

supreame head but him no other rule of faith but his word no other propitiatory sacrifice but his death no purgatory but his blood no other merit but his obedience Nemo super hoc fundamento aliud ponat quam quod positum est 2. Cor. 3.11 To this Church doth belong the couenant the promises of Peace of Loue of Saluation of the presence of God of his graces power protection We haue that Catholike Church which is founded vpon and agreeth with the trueth of the Scripture that antiquitie which agreeth with the verity of the Scripture that number which worship God according to the rules of the Scripture so farre as human infirmity can reach we haue that succession which succeedeth in the trueth of doctrine deliuered in the Scripture that vnitie which beleeues the trinitie taught in Scripture that visible congregation which is seene to God as he hath reuealed himselfe in the Scripture Our ceremonies virulently opposed by the schismaticall dregs of our owne separatists other braine-sicke sectaries or prophane hypocrites are few but Minister many instructions neither burthning the Church with the multitude or blemishing her face with the superstition of externall rites in all which shee followeth her doctrine as the beames the Sunne a shadow the body or a line the Center As in our Church the word is truly preached so in euery circumstance of policie and discipline there is no repugnancie to that doctrine or to that decency commanded by the Apostles In the whole frame of our externall gouernment God hath his true worship Princes lawfull obedience the lawes due respect and Pastors beseeming reuerence All our policy tends to the pure preaching of the word right administration of the Sacraments to the lawfull vocation of Pastors charitable supplying of the poore to the sedulous correction of manners carefull remouall of scandall and to the cherishing of Christian vnitie Thus hath our Church all the notes by which shee may safely walke in this doubtfull way of mortalitie if some personall infirmities or abuse of good Lawes somtimes eclipse the dignity of offendors as they haue done in the most pure Church is that euer was or shall be in the Church militant they are by priuate weakenesse or omission but not by generall institution and allowance In one word our Church is euery way happy if with all other blessings her children may bee conioyned in Feare Ephes 4.5 Loue and obedience as they are in one Lord in one Faith and in one Baptisme that as the loue of Christ combineth them one way so the communion of Saints may vnite them another way For what Aesculapius can cure that state wherein euery singular spirit factious fondling or malecontented humorist neither regard the face of Maiestie the wisdome of Councels nor their obedience to Lawes but on the contrary magnifie nothing but the obortiue births and firy oppositions of their fond conceptions measuring all things according to the wilde and giddy apprehensions of their owne crazy braines as if the sole skill of good gouernment had left her publike habitation to dwell retired with some few of a partie cullored liuery some of whom doe not blush to perswade their ouer capable auditors of such pleasing errors that it is the speciall illuminatiō of the Holy Ghost whereby they discerne in the Scripture euery circumstance of their discipline or other position which others cannot but such men would doe better not to trust to euery spirit Epist Ioh. 4.1 because there are but two wayes whereby the spirit leadeth men vnto all truth the one extraordinary extending it selfe but to some few and is now ceased the other common vnto all that are of God The first by a speciall diuine excellency we call reuelation and the second way is called reason If the spirit by reuelation hath discouered vnto the separatists the secrets of their discipline and liberty of their lauish tongues and lawlesse pens Tertul. de prescrip c. 30. which are the trumpets of sedition disobedience malice and scandall they must man and wife professe themselues Prophets or if reason led by the hād of that spirit they must for euery inuectiue and article which they disperse and hold shew some reason as strong as their Satirs are bitter or their perswasion earnest It is not the fire of railing or the feruency of perswasion incensed by malice or passion but the soundnesse of reason which must declare opinions to proceed from the Holy Ghost and not from fraud of that spirit who is strong in illusions They that take vpon them to impugne authority are to found themselues and examine whether they be puft vp with pride making their imaginations Idols 1. Tim. 5.4 or whether they can proue their vocation as Moyses and Elias did that hee that called them to so high a dignitie may giue them power to approue their vocation and induce the world to honour and reuerence them for their extraordinary workes and supernaturall vertues But if Didoclauius the Patriarch of Pseudo-Puritanisme and other separatists of his profession show not their vocation by other miracles and better reason then by accursed scandall prophane censure and seditious lybels quae in verecundae frontis nebulones olent We must not take Brightmans Apocalipsis Apocalipseos the altar of Damascus and other the like Chimeraes of distraction or melancholie and malecontented meditations for warrant Because all the gifts of Gods spirit doe so naturally tend to brotherly loue and common peace that we haue iust cause to suspect that if such doctrine did proceed from Gods spirit it should bee deliuered in sober calme and peaceable manner according to the inspiration of Gods spirit and not in bitternesse of railing and lybelling Melle prius quam felle tentandae sunt euangelicae curationes Other Simbols of pastorall vocation there be as perfect zeale right knoledge a good conscience not to bee railors contentious and authours of diuision to be patient in persecution louing the vnitie of brotherhood and deputed to death If with any part of the former and this ballance of the sanctuary the life doctrine and pretended zeal of our Separatists agree let al of sound iudgement follow or fauour them as they finde cause I haue not swerued from the trueth in the least circumstance thereof or if I would the recent actions which I oppose will not suffer me to belye the authors If I haue exceeded my intended breuitie the intricacie of the subiect will free mee If I haue beene constrained rudely and disorderly to heape together this discourse in a shorter scantling then the multiplicitie of aduerse calumnies require I hope I shall finde a time to supply that necessitous escape If my rough hewne discourse seeme somewhat harsh to the delicate eares of separation Saint Ierome will answer for me That against schismaticall insolencie no censure can bee too strict or expostulation too seuere If all that I haue sayd bee conferred with the least impudent personall aspersion

her beloued Children and the course of Conformitie ioyned with all these seuerally printed before reprinted in one volume and to be sold at no lesse rate then if they had beene Oracles of Apollo Secondly did come to my hand the petition of the Kirke of Scotland to the heigh Parliament of England a methodicall well digested peece beseeming the pretended Church that did preferre it next was offered to me Speculum belli sacri or the mirrour of holy warre a squint eyed worke looking at military instructions but aiming at idle impetinent impudent and fond applications as if Giges ring had beene vpon the Authours finger or his whole body sheltered when his head was not couered next to my greater admiration did I behold Altare Damascenum seu politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae obtrusa Ecclesiae Scoticanae à formalista quodam delineata opera Edwardi Didoclauii cui locis suis inserta confutatio Paraneseos Tileni ad Scotos cui adiuncta Epistola Philadelphi de regimine Eclesiae Scoticanae per Anonimum These were closed vp a malicious Satirisme against a learned graue Treatise written by the Archbishop of Saint Andrewes whose integritie of life and sinceritie of Religion none but barking curres can taxe In all these trumpets of Sedition whether in English to ensnare domestike natiues or in Latine to perswade forraigne alients to their faction sacred scripture was neuer more sensibly corrupted more wickedly wrested more impertinently applyed neither was euer the sacred person of Soueraigntie the dignitie of the learned Clergie the communion of Christians and the loyaltie of good subiects more trampled vpon by the most prophane Atheist or heretike or by Sathan himselfe then by these poysonable Satirismes ouer-flowing with gall and masked with preposterous zeale in which mirrors of conspiracy euery good subiect may obserue that if it were as easie to some of those violent spirits to bring their purposes to their ends as it is to finde shadowes for their pretences it is to be feared the fruites of their vnsanctified doctrine should haue beene dyed in blood long ago and warranted with sic dicit Dominus A bloody disposition is as well concomitant to scismatikes as profest Atheists Erasm in apo and where euer the quicksiluer of separation is ingredient there the fire of contention is vnquenchable howsoeuer it may bee smothered for a time into ashes of seeming holinesse Pirates haue their prayers as well as honest Merchants Fulgosex Sweton Dion Nic. Geta in killing his brother Caracalla had his bloody Maske when Sathan appeared to Saul Sa. 1.1.18.14 hee was lapped in Samuels Mantle Mahomet did abuse the world with the name of the Angell Gabriel Mai. 4.6 the Tempter could alledge Scripture against Christ himselfe and it is credibly reported that an Amsterdam sister did enencourage her owne daughter to periury by telling her It is better to fall in the hands of God then of man Aske whatsoeuer scismaticke the reason of their profession and they will answer that the sacred Scripture is the leuell whereby they square the frame and infallibilitie of their seuerall Churches Knox ad Nobilit Scot. and in his hir of Scot. Good man vpon the 17. of Exod. why may not then Didoclauius Philadelphus Anonimus or the other late Lybellers imitate such presidents and peruert scriptures as wel as others yet me thinkes it should seem strange in the eie of sober iudgmēt that men professing to haue the onely truth of religion should equally prosecute their seditious designes without conscience in contempt of authoritie as they make Idols of their owne braine-sicke conceptions against the rules of true wisdom When any of contrary opinion following the ordinance of the Church strengthened by ciuill power would louingly perswade them to forbeare to walke in forbidden pathes they close their eares or without weighing of reason answer by the words of Iohn We are of God he that knoweth God heareth vs as for the rest they are of the world the world whose pompe vanitie they follow heareth them when the dignity of authoritie and honour of Gods Magistrates is vpholden against them or their inabilitie to iudge in the misteries of State shewne them they answer with the Anabaptist God hath chosen the simple Will you so sensibly conuince them of folly that very children may vpbraid them of it they will tell you that Christs owne Apostles were accounted mad Selfe conceit and flatterie hath so tickled and scratched their tender eares 2. Tim. 4.3 that they are impatient of the least touch of rough truth When admonition nor no faire means can preuaile let them but feele the lightest dramme of iustice they streight lay vpon Gods vicegerents whatsoeuer they any where finde against the crueltie of most blood thirstie tyrants drawing to themselues all such sentences as Scripture hath for innocency persecuted for righteousnesse as if euery seditious disturber of State that suffers for disobedience and breach of Christian vnitie might chalenge the name of a Martir These be the paths wherein separation walketh the steps it doth tread the doctrine wherein it is trained vp in the schoole of faction and the toyles and tossings of vnquiet spirits that are so distastfull to men of more peaceable temper that if violence done to religion vncharitable railing against Maiestie and Magistracy might be buried in silence they would rather suffer millions of personall aspersions then interrupt the peace of the Church or quiet of the state by opposing the sismaticall practices of restlesse braines who like fishers in troubled waters delight in commotions and tumults Quam dignitatis sedem quieta republica disperant eam perturbata se consequi posse arbitrantur But when the King which is the head or the State which is the body or Religion which is the soule of the commonwealth are in question to receiue preiudice necessitie which is a law aboue all lawes supplies the place of an ordinary calling then it is a harmefull modestie to keepe silence or too late to discouer such sulphurious mines when the match kisseth the powder As when the shadow of mount Athos reacheth the Ile Lemnos it is a sure forerunner of the going downe of the Sun and time for shepheards to impale their flockes So when seditious confusion striues to ouer-reach both Church and State it is time as wel to subiect as magistrate according to their seuerall places to remoue such fuell least the fire become vnquenchable and bring ruine on the one and desolation on the other O miserable times vbi tacere non licet quid cuiquam licet Is it not a most arrogant presumption that humorists vnder zealous pretexts should preferre singular paradoxes of pride and contention for euery circumstance of least moment to the feeding of their flockes vpon the sweet pastors of humility charity and other Christian duties it is aboue admiration that others should glory more in their adherents to such lying Oracles then in their Christian obedience inioyned or pietie