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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

VOX VERA OR OBSERVATIONS FROM AMSTERDAM Examining The late Insolencies of some PSEVDO-PVRITANS 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 STOB SERM. 44. Quae nascentia mala sunt ea crescentia peiora LONDON Printed by BERNARD ALSOP 1625. OT THE GENEROVS READER IF as is wittily moralized infants at their first entry into the world bewaile the fall of our first Parents I finde no reason why those that are of full age may not vera voce condole either priuate distempers or publike calamities or that I should not publish this abortiue birth expostulating against those Empiricks and firebrands that labour to enflame the Church and incense the state that thereby a plurisie of troubles and generall combustion might ensue indangering the peace of the one or troubling the calme of other As my stile is dull plaine without affectation rather to deliuer trueth then shew art so are my aimes sincere and free of all squint-eyed inducements My dutie to the Church allegeance to my Soueraigne and danger of schismaticall praesidents are the fires that haue tempered this Telamonian shield vnder whose shelter this Shepheard-like subiect opposeth the naked simplicitie of trueth against the enraged Goliahs of this age armed with glistring shows of finest forgery One fauour I craue that thy misprision wrong me not as if I did not distinguish such graue sober and peaceable spirits in the Clergie or Laitie at home or abroad that though different in opiniō in some points of externall discipline and policie containe themselues within the precinct of that vnity and modesty prescribed by the Apostles in like cases As I esteeme it sacriledge to detract from the least desert of any sober Christian so hold I it Religion to vnmaske the viperous brood of Parricidos whose inuenomed shafts I passe by with contempt neglecting whether such dogs barke snarle or fawne Dum conscientiae satisfacio nihil in famam laboro sequatur vel mala dum bene mereor darke shadowes doe no lesse attend beautifull then deformed bodies in brightest Sunshine If I should labor other satisfaction it were an effect of frenzy not of hope since it is no trueth but opinion which trauelleth the Coasts without pasport that I am to suruey If thou read iudiciously without partiality I expect thy fauorable censure of this task meditated whē the raging waues of stormy Seas incensed with thundring winds aduanced deaths pale colours to the terrour as well of Mariners as Passengers penned after my safe exposall vpon a forraigne shore when the sad remēbrance of some of my friends familiars lately sunke into the vnsatiable belly of the vast Ocean much distempered my braine and confused my memory now published to the praise of that supreame Maiestie by whose grace I hope hereafter in a more calme aire to erect a thankfull memoriall of so great a deliuery Farewell P. S. VOX VERA IT is the humour of ambitious seditious and scismatiticall spirits in the entry of their designes to studie popularitie Fauor in apud Stob. and being drunke with vulgar applause the vaine glory thereof raiseth their conceits many strains higher then really they are as if Greatnesse and Wisdome ingrauen in their forehead by open force or subtill perswasion might surprize both enemies and friends Lact. lib. 3. Philost when in true portraiture they resemble the rearers vp of Babel the Furies that most torment the world and that Cerberus that sets open hell gates to let loose such spirits as fill the world with imposture in this period or rather dregs of decaying time 2. Tim. cap. 3. v. 2.3.4.5 wherein the imperious nature of domination in irregular minds cannot indure limitation but must and will range abroad in the wide wilde-field of humours and draw attentiue Auditors to the Prologue of such Tragedies as are embellished with showes of great matters or rather false hopes to conquer the world with the Sword of the Spirit as if all others were possessed with a Lethargie or Frensie extreme diseases that cannot bee cured with Manna and gentle remedies and that such Quacksaluers are onely the Phisitians to cure the world so deadly distempered Eu● histor Eccles Thus from the beginning hath God left some remnants of Cananites to proue Israel by them to teach them ware that did not know it before thereby trying the faith and patience of his Church which neuer wanteth Seminaries of Atheisme and brochers of lewd libertie who vnder religious habit are the sole enemies to all religion Floren. Schon Sub hoc mantili euerriculo multarum fraudum fer●●da ingenia violentiam naturae aut profundam ambitionem velare student The time allotted to these ensuing obseruatiōs should run out The Induction before I brought to the view of the Reader the least part of those instances of this kind wherwith both Churches and States haue been infected or poysoned all which I will leaue and onely bring to the Stage some few of the most recent disloyall practises and selfe conceited scismaticall opinions of home-bred pharisaicall hypocrites that blush not to assume the face of an harlot surrepticiously chalenge the title of the Church send abroad such positions as labor to draw soueraigntie into contempt annihilate iust lawes taint superiour powers with disgracefull notes and erect democracie or orderlesse confusion in both Church and State if the most deuouring stomach of ambition or singularitie could swallow such choking morsels before it come at them Ludit in humanis deuina potentia rebus He that made the world can make such learn by their errors Plus est in artifice quam in arte Would to God I could saile by some other point of the Compasse then by that which directeth my course against those rockes of diuision or sinking shallowes of disloyaltie whereupon it is likely some Separatists from the Church of great Britaine are already ship-broken and that others yet tossed with scismaticall stormes are like to be cast vpon the same Coast Let it not then seeme strange to the eye of preiudicate opinion that the common obligation of euery good subiect tieth me to expostulate against the malitious forgeries of such enemies to peace as vncouer these Trophes of disgrace which they haue erected to tell their shame to posteritie and to sound the depth of these riotous misdemeanours which in my late suruey of the vnited Prouinces I haue seene at Amsterdam and other places where dispersing of infamous Libels might either curry fauour in the eye of licentious Libertines malecontented Fugitiues or professed Enemies There I did behold euery Bookesellers shop and most Pedlers stalles loaden with the nullitie of Perthes assembly the Altar of Damaseus the Dialogue betwixt Theophilus and Cosmophilus the Speech of the Church of Scotland to