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A16459	A defence of the olde, and true profession of Christianitie against the new, and counterfaite secte of Iesuites, or fellowship of Iesus: Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman, borne in Borges, & Professor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued, howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus, and how farre off they are, from the thing signified thereby, and what their profession, and purpose is in truth: otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande.; Assertio veteris ac veri Christianismi adversus novum et fictum Iesuitismum seu Societatem Iesu. English	Boquin, Pierre, d. 1582.; T. G., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 3371; ESTC S116194	81,465	194

that hee shoulde haue any fellowship with him as it is that a blinde man 〈…〉 lde sée the light of the Sonne Whereof it followeth no lesse certainly then clearly that all that graunt any fellowship with the flesh and bodie 〈◊〉 Christ vnto vnbeleeuers doe vtterly shake the groundes or foundations of christian doctrine and doe not onely weaken but also cleane rent a 〈…〉 the harmony and agreement thereof Neither doeth this opinion se●●●● to be called rather deuilish then h 〈…〉 or to proceede from a man for that only cause that it hath broken the rule of fayth and truth which our godly fathers haue so named 〈…〉 but also for the maner by which it is w●nt to be defended of th●se men For it is not auouched and maint●ined with the weapons of Diuines but of tyrantes that is not by the estimonies of the scripture or sure reasons drawen therehense but by cauilles reproches slanders banishmenis proscriptions fire and sword These are ●he weapons not of trueth and godlines but of falshood and wickednes the father and mainteiner whereof is hée which was a murtherer from the beginning whom they followe which● are his abusing the colour of trueth and religion to ouerthrowe the ●ame that they may the better prouide for their owne gaine which is the onely thing that they séeke But the scripture left vs by the Apostles acknowledgeth no other followship with Iesu then that which is ●y faith● neither doth the ancient church to wit the Apostolike an● Catholike or vniuersall Now this that these man haue deuised they dream to be 〈…〉 with the mouth which are y ● Author● of transubstantiatiō haue brought in to y e church not of Christ but of Rome together both their transubstantiation and their felowship with Christ imagined of themselues the latter wherof receaued as it were by handes from them they which haue inuented transubstantiation do with tooth and naile defend as agréeable with their new imagination vphold it egerlye with the same weapons that they doe But they whose mindes are voide of preindice doe easily perceiue that a man being vpō the earth can neither folow Christ with his bodely féete neither touch him with his hands neither see him with his eyes neyther heare him with his eares So as no man can either eate or taste him with his mouth téeth tongue or rooffe All these thinges as they are done onely with the hart and minde so it is to be confessed that it can be done by fayth only Therfore he erreth greatly that trusteth that hee can haue any felowshippe with Christ by outward apparell or gesture or any bodely actions Now let vs see whether these new felowes of Ie●● haue taken a righte way or no. CAP. IX That this new and vpstart felowshippe of Iesu haue no true faith THere is no man but doth acknowledge that the minde and the harte of a man is the proper and peculiar zeale of faith and his true dwelling place and that thereof it followeth that it belongeth to God only to iudge and geue sentence properly and truely thereof which thing I confesse notwithstanding the holy Scriptures doe euery where witnes that one man may yea and ought to iudge of another mans faith as of all vngodlynes and that neither vncertainlye neither vainly This ought to be taken for an vndoubted truth that the faith of Christ or christ 〈…〉 h i● that which is in Christ that is which aymeth vnto him as the 〈…〉 marke and layeth holde vpon him as the true obiects For albeit true faith doeth embrace the whole Scripture both of the Prophets and Apostles as the voyce of God containing verelye the most certaine will of God yet for as much as all partes thereof tende vnto Christ faith also it selfe hath respecte chiefly vnto him And that faith only is to be accounted for true which truly knoweth and apprehendeth him that is in such sorte as he is in deede euen such as the heauenly father hath set him out and offered him in that scripture which is as it were a most brighte glasse liuelye representinge Christ and in him God For the wit of man be it neuer so sharpe by nature cannot conceaue the true and liuelie Image of Christ and how can it seeing the thinges which are vttered of him vnto vs in the Apostles doctrine are vnto flesh and mannes reason not only Paradores but also foolishnes that is such as he confesseth and taketh to be extreame folly Neither was it without cause that Christ after that Peter had in flatte wordes pronounced him to be Christ the Sonne of the liuing God which came into this world by and by made answere Flesh and blood hath not reuealed this vnto thée but my Father which is in heauen Yea and Paule most cléerely teacheth that faith is conceaued and bred by hearinge and that of the worde of God The which therfore a litle before these wordes he calleth the words of faith For as that heauenlye worde is not perceyued of man but by faith so there is no faith but that which groweth in the minde out of the same word through the heauenly Spirite For which cause it is w●●●e to bee set foorthe with diuers names or titles taken frō those things which receaued by faith it bringeth to passe for it is named the worde of grace of euerlasting life and saluation And Christ acknowledgeth for his true disciples those only which abide and continue in his word Hereunto I suppose our ●●●●rs which were truely godly and Apostolike men had an eye when they named the chiefest points of doctrin●●●●tayned in the wrytinges of the Prophets and Apostles the Rule of our faith and the bookes in which is conteyned the Canonicall bookes For as by these wordes they meant that all things contained in those bookes were true certaine and sure so nothinge without or besides those bookes were eyther to be sought for or followed but that faith ought to holde himselfe content within those bowndes and lysts As Damascene a wryter nothing suspected of our very aduersaries no les fitly then truely wryteth in the Preface of his bookes Christian faith then is that which acknowledgeth loueth and imbraceth Christ in such sort as the holy Scripture expresseth him and as Paule by his liuely preaching paynted him out and cru●yfied him before the Galathians eyes and passeth by with closed eyes and eares as the vaine counterfette of Christ whatsoeuer are spoken and vttered without those bookes Therefore I suppose it lawfull for me to iudge of the faith of this new felowship out of their own doctrine or rather I am so commaunded to doe of God What that doctrine is how shoulde I more certainly know then by their wrytinges published abroad in the which they gaue their censure of other mennes doctrine and maintayn and defende their owne Now they doe most euidently shew

A Defence of the Olde and True profession of Christianitie against the new and counterfaite secte of Iesuites or fellowship of Iesus Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman borne in Borges Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus and how farre off they are from the thing signified thereby and what their profession and purpose is in truth otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande ¶ VBIQVE FLORESCIT LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolf and Henry Kirkham and are to be solde at the little North dore of Paules at the signe of the Blacke Boy To the Right Honourable his verie good Lorde the L. Fraunces Russell Earle of Bedforde Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell T. G. wisheth encrease of grace true zeale and knowledge together with all spirituall giftes in Iesus Christ AS our Sauiour Christ Right Honorable hath buylded his Church which he hath so dearely bought and purchased vpon him selfe the onely sure rocke and foundation thereof then the which as th Apostle sayth no other can be layde So on the other side hath Satan alwayes sought nothing more then to vndermine shake and if it were possible to ouerthrow the same For he well perceiueth that so long as this spirituall house glorious buylding standeth firmly and surely grounded and founded vpon Christ the euerlasting trueth the way and the life contayned in the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles whiche they not onely haue deliuered to the Church by liuely voyce but as the faithfull Notaries and Secretaries of the holy Ghost haue also registred and cōmitted to writing in the sacred Scriptures for the continuall comfort and instruction thereof it remayneth vnremoueable and inuincible agaynst hell gates and all the formes and tempests raysed agaynst it by him and all his instruments Wherefore he layeth all his batterie and bendeth all his forces agaynst this foundation labouring by falsehood and lyes whereof he is the father to corrupt depraue alter obscure and deface the Gospell of Christ and the worde of life and thereby to subuert and ouerturne or at the least to weaken and shake the fayth of the faithfull resting wholle therevpon This hath bene euer from the beginning his practise and is at this lay and shal be vntill his kingdome be vttterly remoued and taken away Wherefore he is fitly named by Christ a lyer and a murtherer from the beginning For as by lyes he laboreth eyther to extinguish and abolish eyther to discredite and peruert the trueth of the worde So doth he therby intende and purpose the murdering and destruction of mankinde both body and soule For the which cause our Sauiour Christ as a moste wise and prouident and therwithall louing and carefull head and gouernour of his people foreseeing the daungerous and malicious attempt of his and their aduersaries giueth warning thereof vnto them before hande that they might not be founde vnprouided and vnfurnished when they should be assaulted and so by securitie and carelesnes loose the field and the victorie Therefore as well Moses and the Prophets before the comming of Christ inspired with his spirite as also at his comming in flesh he him selfe and his Apostles do giue vs a watchworde and often admonishe vs to auoyde and take heede of false Prophets false Apostles and false teachers though they worke signes and myracles and come in sheepes clothing that is make neuer so great a shewe of the true Prophets of God in outward apparāce yea though they following the steppes of their father Satan who transformeth him selfe the sooner to deceiue into an angell of light turne them selues into the Apostles of Christ Herehence is it that the Apostle Paule chargeth the Galathians not to beleeue an Angell cōming from heauen but rather to holde him accursed if he should teach vnto them any other doctrine then that which at his mouth they had recevued In which words he implieth a high and a waightie reason to wit that the trueth of the glorious Gospell of Christ is such and so great that not onely no humayne authoritie and waye of perswasion whatsoeuer should moue vs to forsake the same but that no angelicall or heauenly messenger whatsoeuer shoulde perswade vs to the contrarie thereof To the same purpose Iohn willeth the faithfull no● to beleeue euery spirite but to trye the spirites whether they be of God because many false Prophets are entred into the world But albeit this warning and ca●eat agaynst false Prophets be in diuers places giuen vnto vs yet then especially doth our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles labour to stirre vp the godly to a more continuall and earnest watchfulnes and warynes when they foretell of the state of the later dayes wherein we liue by howe muche they foresawe those times should be more perilous then any other in the which Satan perceiuing his time and kingdome to be short should rage most violently and vse most extreme tyrannie and put in vre most straunge and vnwonted practises to driue them from the onely foundation Christe Take heede sayth our Sauiour speaking of these later times that no man deceiue you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many and there shall arise false Cristes and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders so that if it were possible they should deceiue the very elect beholde I haue tolde you before Paule the Apostle likewise sayth that in the later tymes which he therfore calleth perilous men should depart from the fayth and should giue heede vnto spirites of error and doctrines of diuels which should speake lyes through hypocrisie and haue their consciences burned with a hote yron that moreouer some should haue a shewe of godlines but should denie the power thereof from which he willeth vs to turne awaye that as Iames and Iambres resisted Moses so should these resist the truth being men of corrupt mindes and reprobate concerning the fayth Peter also Iude declare that there should be false teachers which should priuily bring in damnable heresies euen denying the Lord that had bought them and that many should folow their destructions by whom the waye of trueth should be euill spoken of and should turne the grace of God into wantonnes and deny God the onely Lordae and our Lorde Iesus Christ But that is chiefly to be considered and marked which the Apostle Paule writeth of Antichrist and his comming For before the later day he sheweth that there should come an Apostacie and departing from the faith and that the man of sinne should be disclosed euen the sonne of perdition which is an aduersary and exalteth him selfe agaynst all that is called God and is worshipped so that he shall sit as God in the temple

of God shewing him selfe that he is God that euen in his time the mysterie of iniquitie began to be wrought that his comming should be with the effectual working of Satan with al power and signes and lying wonders and in all deceaueablenes of vnrighteousnes among them that perishe because they receiued not the truth that they might be saued and that therfore God should sende them strong illusions that they might beleue lyes that all might be damned which beleeued not the trueth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes In these words the Apostle doth most fully and liuely set foorth the whole kingdome of Antichrist to wit that he should bring with him a departing from the fayth as the word doth sounde that he should be openly discouered to the world to be the man of sinne full of all abhominall and haynous attempts agaynst the maiestie of God that he should be the childe of perdition working his owne and others destruction that he should not onely directly set and oppose him selfe but also exalt and lift vp him selfe agaynst God that he should sitte with authoritie in the Church of God and aduaunce him selfe as God he declareth further that euen from the time of the Apostles Satan hath priuily sought to laye the foundation of this his Antichristian kingdome and the meanes to bring the same to passe he also describeth to wit that it was done by the effectuall and mightie working of Satan with all power and lying signes wonders and myracles and all subtiltie craft and deceite Finally he sheweth who they are that shall be seduced and deceiued thereby namely they that are castawaies and ordeined to destruction and he addeth therewithall a reason thereof the contempt of the trueth whereby they might be saued and that this shall be the iust iudgement of God to giue them therefore ouer to the strong illusion of seducing and erroneous spirites to their vtter confusion destruction These things Right Honorable beeing considered and layde together and compared both with the former and the present state of the Church of Christ on the one side and the pernitious practises of Satan in both we shall easily perceiue that in the later he hath farre passed the former and that in both he hath euer striuen agaynst Christ the foundation of his Church and the very effectes do declare the same if we looke but a litle therevnto For immediatly at the first publishing of the Gospell he brought to passe that Christ became a stumbling blocke and a rocke of offence vnto the Iewes as he is also at this day and to the Greekes and Gentiles foolishnes as likewise in their ofspring the Cerinthians Marcionites Maniches Arrians Nestorians Eurichians and such like heretikes oppugning his diuine and humaine nature and at last in the Turkes we see it euidently come to passe All which waying the doctrine of Christ crucified with the balances and waightes of humayne reason the course of nature Philosophie and mans wisedome haue accounted it but mere folly and playne vanitie Neuertheles these being open and professed enemies and caste out of the body and bowels of the Churche haue not bin so hurtfull and daungerous as Antichrist priuily lurking as it were in the very bosome and sitting in the middest therof pretending him selfe not onely to be a true Christian but also to be the head of the Church of Christ the Vicar of Christ the successor of the Apostles and his Romish religion and doctrine onely to be the Christian Catholike and Apostolike though it be neuer so expresly and directly to the contrary and by his Traditions Canons Councels and determinations chalenging vnto him selfe authoritie vppon the consciences of men in making them equall and of like force with the written word of God and exacting obedience therevnto vpon payne of condemnation To be short erecting a blasphemous sacrifice of the Masse expiatorie and satisfactorie for the quicke and the dead agaynst the onely most sufficient and perfect sacrifice of Christ robbing him at once of his kingly Priestly and Propheticall dignitie and office and so consequently spoyling him of his soueraigne titles and names Iesus and Christ and therewithall his Church of the benefite cause and ende of his comming in fleshe By this Romishe Antichrist and his members Satan hath more mightily preuayled agaynst the Church of Christ and shaken the foundation thereof more daungerously subtilly secretly and continually then euer he did before For although he hath not in flat wordes with the Iewes Turks Arrians and such like heretikes denied the Godhead of Christ or his manhood yet in effect hath he done the same in depriuing him of his office as I haue sayde and the end and scope of his comming which is to be the onely Christ the annoynted and holy one of God Therefore Iohn describing Antichrist sayth he shall denie Iesus to be that Christ and that therein he should deny the father and the sonne because whosoeuer denieth the sonne the same hath not the father And agayne Euery spirite that confesseth not Iesus Christ to haue come in the flesh is not of God and this is the spirite of Antichrist of whom ye haue heard howe that he shoulde come and now already he is in the world But to omit the monstrous and manifolde errors drawen from the sinkes and puddles of all heretikes wherwith this confuse and huge Babell of this Antichristian kingdome haue bin buylded vp the meanes and instruments wherby the same haue bine brought to passe are rather at this time shortly to be noted and marked as seruing most vnto my purpose The Apostle Paule as I haue touched before sheweth that Satan should to the accomplishing therof vse all power falshood deceit strange illusions And the same doth the spirit of God set foorth in the Reuelation by the image of a whore gorgeously arayed with purple and searlet attyred with golde precious stones and pearles hauing a cuppe of golde in her hande full of the abhominations and filthines of her fornication wherewith she maketh drunken the kings and inhabitauntes of the earth Hereby the spirite of God paynteth out the hypocriticall and goodly outwarde shew which as well Antichrist and his ministers as his doctrine should make vnto the world therby to seduce and deceiue the same This although it may be perceiued to be most true frō time to time in the hypocriticall swarmes of Popish Abbots Monkes Fryers and suche other religious orders as likewise in the scholmen and Canonistes the spirituall enchauntments and bewitchings of whose gloses distinctions definitions and conclusions haue as strong illusions beguiled the world and not onely the simple sort but the very wysest them selues and most learned yet especially the same is to be seene at this daye in the new and lately inuented Secte of the Iesuites which the Romishe Antichrist hath set foorth as the laste proppe and staye of his totering

euery where admonish and exhort vs to follow him the Schoolemaister and singular example of holie life For hee hath not as Paule saith called his vnto vncleanes and loosenesse of life but vnto holines Neither was he made only vnto the faithfull as he writeth to the Corinthians their wisedome and righteousnes but also their sanctification and redemption For as by his wisedome and righteousnes hee driueth away the naturall darkenesse of mans minde and doeth kindle in them the light of the true knowledge of him selfe and his father and forgiuing of our sinnes doeth endue and adorne vs with his righteousnes wherwith we beeing couered do please the Father So he doeth giue vs his holie Spirit which doth renue our mindes that they may haue holie desires and pure affections whiche at last may bring foorth holy workes And touching the effectes of the holy Ghost in the faithfull and endeuour of holy life it is euerie where entreated in the Epistles of the Apostles but chiefly in the Epistle to the Romans the 6. 7. 8. Chapters the same is handeled diligently and largely And the very same also doth Iames and Iohn in their Epistles of purpose teach The desire therefore and indeuour of a holie and new life oughte so to bee coupled with true fayth in Christ that it is a harder matter or as impossible to plucke one of them from another as it is to separate light from the Sunne and heate from the fire For Christ as the same Apostle witnesseth gaue him selfe for vs that he might deliuer vs from all iniquities and purge vs to be a peculiar people vnto him selfe zealous of good workes And verely if the Philosophers doe discourse of maners and deliuer preceptes not so much to make men skilfull as good howe vnséemely a thing were it that Christian Philosophie should goe no further then to infourme mens minds with the knowledge of godlines making no account of leadinge a godlye and holie life Whosoeuer hath faith hee must féele in him selfe Christ so working by his holie Spirite that hee truely say that which the Apostle doth I liue yet not I any more but Christ liueth in me For as the bodie hauing a soule doeth receiue and feele his force and actions So hee that is ingraffed into Christ and is made his member can not but bee partaker of his Spirite life and holines For the which cause the Apostolike and Catholike fayth calleth the bodie or fellowship of the church the communion of Saintes plainly declaring those only to appertaine vnto that fellowship which doe minde an holie life and doe bende and endeuour them selues hereunto that they become suche as Paule exhorteth the Thessalonians to be that is wholy sanctified sound in Spirite and such as are kept blamelesse in bodie and soule vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ They that are otherwise minded and doe otherwise leade their life and neuertheles say they be of the fellowship of Iesu doe varie from them selues and their life doth manifestly reproue their tongue of a lye CAP. XI That there appeareth not in this newe fellowship of Iesu any endeuour of holie life I Doubt not but the title or drifte of this chapter will seeme vnto many at the first sight not only strange but also vnreasonable and no lesse then if I shoulde goe about to proue heauie things to go vpward and light things downward For where as I say that I doe not finde in this vpstart kinde of monkes integritie of life and endeuour of holines I shall séeme vnto a great many to doe no otherwise then if I should say that I finde no light in the Sun or whitenes in Snowe So verely is the outwarde visor or shewe wont to dasell their eyes which gaste thereupon and doe not withdrawing the same looke into the matter more narowly Of these therefore I request that they would suspende their iudgement a while and remoue all preiudices out of their mindes and to iudge of the matter hearing attentiuely the reasons which I shall bring First of all I say that I do worthily find wanting in these brethren plaine dealing and good meaning namely in those thinges that they write against vs as which in the most waightie controuersie of iustification cease not wrongfully to burthen vs or rather the truth it selfe to the intent to make it not only suspected but also hated of all men with that hainous and rancke slaunder of naked or bare fayth and voide of good workes And yet these men cannot but know what our mind and iudgement is which haue by flattery● declared and set downe in wrytinge a thousand times by our men They doe easilie perceiue that we doe allow that faith and doe attribute vnto it only that effecte of iustifying which the Apostle doth define to be effectuall by loue and fruitfull by good works and so that we doe not separate the good fruites from the good tree although in that effecte it be discerned from them When one reasoneth of the sun fire and a man doth not he reason of the sunne that shineth fire that heateth and a man that liueth albeit in flatte wordes it be not added neuertheles euery man doth distinguish them one from another by their effectes Therfore let these masters cease to slaunder vs if they will perswade vs that they are louers of the truth and desirous of holynes for to cauill much more to lie and slaunder is the part of the enemies of godlynesse and trueth But letting this passe let vs come to the examination of the rest of their life I will not here charge them all by rehearsing those thinges which I haue oft times heard and vnderstoode to be almost in euery mans mouth before their eyes and in their handes that certaine gréeuous offences haue bene lately committed of some which are of this order of companions They would perhaps make answere that the wickednes of some ought not to be preiudiciall to the whole felowwippe euen as no wise man doth condemne the Apostleship for the falshode treason of Iudas Moreouer I am not so curious and desirous to prie into other mennes liues that I should desire to touche those thinges that are done within priuate walles I leaue such things first vnto God who will once make manifest things that are hid in darcknes as the Apostle witnesseth nexte vnto time the mother of truth as they vse to say lastly vnto them that are in those cloysters or dennes and abide willingly amongest them which if they would happely also might bring to light those thinges that as they are soule to commit so should be shamefull to speake and to heare I will onlye make mention of those thinges which the very Sun doth behold and are in euery mannes eyes First that the hatred of the worlde is ioyned with the true loue of godlynes it is as certaine as that the Sun doth shine at high

backbite him aboue others so he dealing with a good conscience in this his vocation did set him selfe stoutly and constantly agaynst these ministers not of Christ but of Satan well perceiuing what this enimie by them did goe about to bring to passe As therefore he well vnderstoode the craftinesse of these deceiuers so he moste clearely discouered them vnto all congregations paynting them out as it is sayd in their owne colers and that not in worde onely but also by writing that y e memory therof might remayne with the posteritie to their great profite For the Church hath in that description of the Apostle a liuely picture of all false teachers and heretikes whiche if all that professe the name of Christ did marke and note it would be farre better with a great number and the Church of Christe should féele lesse hurt Verely in that picture of the Apostle these new kind of deceiuers of whō we now speake séemeth vnto me most of all to be expressed For there is suche a likenes betwéene them bothe that the one may worthily séeme to be and to be called not onely the image and liuely portrature but the fathers also of the other Onely this vnlikenes I doe note to be betweene them that the children doe many wayes passe their fathers in wickednesse and craftines But that ought neither to séeme to be a newe thing neither to be marueyled at For Satan the common father of them both by long vse and experience of many things doth euery daye ware worser and craftt●r then him selfe Wherefore it is no maruel if his second deuises be more wylier as the Prouerbe goeth and the last egge of this crowe be more hurtfull then the first Herein they doe agree well first that as that enemie of Christ so soone as the Gospell began to be published amongst the Gentiles brought them in subtelly vnder the pretence of the lawe and religion of Moses So immediatly when the light of the gospel began to shine again to be restored craftily he stirred vp not onely conueighed into the Church but also by and by aduaunced these béeing couered with the title of Iesus and decked with the shewe of godlynes and furnished with many practises to deceiue And to the entent that euery man may the sooner vnderstād what great likenes and agréement there is betwéene bothe the sortes I haue thought good to laye before all mens eyes a comparison of them The false Apostles whiche Hierom other doe call Nazares or Nazareans as touching their doctrine were Enemies of the crosse of Christ Phil. the 3. ca. Teachers of an other gospel thē that which was deliuered of Paul and corrupters of the same Gal. 1. Teachers of other doctrines 1. Time 1. ver 3. disobedient vaine talkers or talkers of vanitie and deceiuers of minds Tit. 1. ver 10. Such as gaue heede to fables and the commandements of men that turne away from the truth Tit. 1. ver 14. Authors of fables and genealogies which are endles whiche breede questions rather then godly edifying which is by faith 1. Tim. 1. vers 4. Disturbers of the congregations Acts. 15. vers 1. Gal. 5. vers 10. Authors of dissentions and offences Rom. 16. vers 17. Authors of prophane and vayne bablings oppositions of sciences falsely so called 1. Tim. 6. vers 20. The summe or effect is that the 〈…〉 e Apostles doctrine is contrarie to the doctrine of Christ that is the Apostolicall that it is fabulous vaine vnprofitable bréeding dissentions and offences or as these Romishe Censors are wont to speake Schismaticall and offensiue In the maner of deliuering their doctrine they wer wont To transforme themselues into the Apostles of Christ 2. Co. 11. To make a shew of god lines but to denie the power therof 2. Tim. 3 vers 5. To make a fayre shewe in the flesh Gal. 6. ve 12 To boast in the fleshe Philip. 3 To deceiue the hearts of the simple with faire and smooth speaches and flatterings Rom. 16. vers 18. To bark like dogges at godlye and notable men Philip. 3. 1. cap. To set to sale and to handle deceitfully the word of God 2. Cor. 2. vers 7. 4. vers 2. as deceitful workmen 2. Cor. 11 vers 13. and euill workmen Phi. 3. vers 2. The summe or effect is that they were counterfait hypocrits that they did nothing singlely or playnly that they vsed speache framed to deceiue that they corrupted craftilye those things that were whole and round The end scope of their purposes and doings was To serue their own bellye and not Christ to honor their belly for their God Rom. 16 ver 18. Philip. 3. ver 18. To seeke their owne not those things that are Christs Phi. 2. v. 21 To teache things that they ought not for silthy lucre sake Tit. 1. ver 11. and to subdue whole houses To beare rule imperiously and to play the tyrāts in the Church with the reproche therof 2. Cor. 11. ve 20. To bring other into bondage Gal. 2. vers 4. To flee persecution for the crosse of Christ to glory in other mēs fleshe Gal. 6. ver 12. 13. The summe and effect is that they referred all thinges to their owne gaynes to wit their owne ambition and couetousnes two plagues or pestilences of the Church and the welsprings of all euill that they were inflamed with the desire to beare rule that they were in respect of thē selues lofte and gentle that they were cruell and fierce to others Those things that Paul hath written not so muche agaynst his owne enemies as the enemies of Christe and hath in his Epistles h●●e and there insearted I thoughte good to referre vnto these heades placed in this order that they might the more easily both be séene with the eyes and conceiued with the minde And as both in these me●s persons doctrine there is set foorth vnto vs an image of all false teachers and ●ure markes of corrupt doctrine 〈…〉 in Paule and his doctrine we haue a true and liuely picture bothe of the true ministers of Christ and also sincere and pure doctrine for they must bothe be ioyned together if we will iudge aright Neither is any mans doctrine so muche to be wayghed and estéemed by his tong and talke as by his life déeds For of such deceiuers writeth Paule Tit. 1. They professe them selues to knowe God but denie him in their déedes It is also well written of Cyprian that the testimonie of the life is more effectuall then of the tong and that workes hath their tong and their eloquence yea when the tong kéepeth silence For as there can not be a holy life which is not ordered according to the rule of holy doctrine so it commonly commeth to passe that he which leadeth a life not agreable vnto this rule is willing and endeuoreth to breake and corrupt if he were able the very rule

the beleeuers in Christ cannot but haue fellowship with him so the vnbeleeuers cannot haue any at all The Iesuites which teach that they may teach deuilish doctrine The deuilish defence of this doctrine by the Iesuites and Papists Io. 8. The Papists by their transubstantiation dreame of the receiuing of Christ with their mouth Christ not to be receaued by any outward and carnall way but by faith only The hart of a man the proper seate of faith Faith aymeth to Christ as the true and principall marke in the scripture What true faith is Mans wit cannot comprehend Christ Mat. 16. 1● Rom. 10. 17. 18 The word and faith vnseparable Iohn 1. 31. The word the rule of our faith The Canonical Scriptures only sufficient for faith to rest vpon Damasc in Pr●oem Lib. Christian faith what it is The Iesuites faith to be iudged by their Doctrine The Iesuites doctrine The Iesuites pretence of the truth the sooner to deceiue in their Cathechisme of Austria Prouerb 5. 7 The titles of the Iesuites bookes and the doctrine therin conteyned contrary The Iesuites make 6. wayes and more to purge sinnes not so much as naming Christ or faith in him Censura Colomensis What account the Iesuites make of the Scripture What the Iesuites faith is Rom. 14. 22 Iac●b 16 The Iesuites faith wauering and doutfull Mat. 17 Luke 4 Ephe. 1. Rom. 8 The faith of the godly certaine and stable Ausbrosan Luc. Cap. 2 The Iesuites robbe Christ of his office of redemption Galat. 3. The Iesuites pretence of reformation and their doinges contrary The Iesuites more impudent in the defence of popish errorr then other papists and the pope himselfe Orat in Concil Trident. 〈◊〉 Pope Anacletus impudent and ridiculous forcing of the scripture to prooue his supremacie Cephas Iohn 1. 42 Distinct 22. Contius the Popes flatterers shifte to helpe Pope Anacletus Turrianus The Iesuites impudent defe●ce of Anacletus The Iesuites in flattering the Pope shake of all feare of God and shame of the world Christ in the scriptures deliuered vnto vs after two sortes 1 Christ only ● Sauiour 2 Io. 13. 2. Tim. 3. Rom. 2. True loue a sure marke of the Discipler of Christ Io. 13. Math. 7. 16. Faith must be ioyned with obedience Tis. 1. 1. Thes. 4. 1. Cor. 1. 30. Rom. 6. 7. 8. Ca. The endeuour of holy life can not be separated from true faith Ti. 2. 14. The true beleeuers doe feele Christ working in them by his holie Spirite Gala. 2. Why the company of the godly are called the communion of Saintes 1. Thes 5. 23. The Iesuites no such men as they beare the world in hand The Iesuites in their dealing against the professours of the Gospel in the point of Iustification malicious and slaunderous What iustifiing faith the professours of the gospel teach Gal. 5. 6. 〈…〉 12. 33. Lyes and slaunders the notes of the enemies of truth and godlynes 1. Cor. 4. Iac 4. ver 3. The loue of the world y ● loue of god lines can not agree Math. 6. 2. Timoth. 4. ver 10. The lusts of the world do raine cheefly in the Poopes and his prelates courts Pontificalis cana The Iesuites in hauntinge the popes prelats courtes kitchinges shewe what hatred they beare to the worlde The verse occasions of eviles to be auoyded of the godly The Iesuites for sake not the worlde but imbrace it and run into the middest of it Turrianus the Iesuits vaine and ridiculous bragge of his forsakinge die world The Iesuites frequentinge the kitchinge geue men occasiō to suspecte that they loue belly chere and not temperance Obiection Answere How the Iesuits play the Phisitions in curing the diseases of the sicke popishe church ●se 4. ver 1. 2. Obiection Answer 2. Time ver 1. 2. 3. Act. 13. ver 46 The true cause of the Iesuites frequenting the palaces of popishe prelates 1. Reg. 12. Eze. 34. The Iesuits purposes bewrayed by their doings Ro 1. Not onely the doors but also the allowers and incoragers of wickednes giltie before God Prou. 17. ver 15 The Iesuites popish prelate● conspire both against Christ How truely the Iesuites take theire name of Iesus Likenes equalitie the cause of fri 〈…〉 dship concord as the contrarie of hatred discord similitude Rom. 8. ver 24. The members of Christ must be made like to him their head Hebr. 2. ● bil 3. ver 21 What the waye is to be made like vnto Christ Heb. 2. ver 10. Luk. 24. ver 25. The crosse the way to be like vnto Christ Math. 16. Mar. 8. Luc. 9. Christ exhorteth his to the patient bearing of the crosse 1. Pet. 2. ver 19. 21. Cap. 4. 13. Rom. 8. ver 17. They that looke to be partakers of euerlasting blessednes in the life to come with Christ must beare the crosse with him in this life 2. Timoth. 2. v. 11. 2. Tim. 3. ver 12. Act. 14. ver 22. The crosse can not be separated from Christian profession Heb. 12. ver 8. Cyprian The crosse of Christ is to be discerned from all other by the cause Augustine 1. Pet. 2. ver 19. 4. Ca. ver 15. 1. Cor. 13. Where the true crosse of Christ is to be found The Iesuites haue not true Christ but an Idoll of him Puritie of doctrine a signe of the trueth Cyprian Two sortes of martirdome inward and outward The inwarde martyrdome must go before the outward Rom. 6. ca. 7. cap. 8. cap. Gal. 5. The inwarde martyrdome conflicte in the godly continuall 2. Tim. 3. verse 4. Ephes 6. The godly neuer want their spirituall combats with Satan What is the true crosse of Christ and what not 2. Pet. 2. Iob. Dum spirant non modo sperare sed etiam suspirare eos vult The godly must alwayes in this life beare the crosse of Christ The life of the godly a continual repētance The Iesuites ignorant of true rapentance and mortification The outward martyrdome what Cyprian Instrumentum Euangelicum Heb. 12. ver 2. Act. 5. ver 41. This martyrdome for Christ glorious Paules life such a continuall martyrdome Fryer Frauncis fained to haue woundes as Christ by the Franciscan Fryers Colos 1. ver 24. The godly ought euer to be willing to suffer this martyrdome when iust occasion is offered The Iesuites haue not this willingnes to suffer this martyrdome for Christ The Nazareans described and their practises agaynst Paule The Nazareans tooke vppon them to be Apostles Paules constancie and boldnes in the defence of the Gospel agaynst them Paule in these paynteth out al false teachers to the posteritie for euer The Iesuites worse then the Nazareans Satans later deuises worse thē his former The image of true teachers set foorth in Paule of false teachers in the Nazareans Tit. 1. ver 16. Cyprian Mens doctrine to be iudged by their life not by their tong The tong doth sooner deceiue then the life Mat. 7. ver 15. Math. 7. ver 15. The ende and scope of mens doctrine a sure token thereof 1. Tim. 1. 6. 2. Tim. 2. The end of the true teachers doctrin to seke the wil of God of the false to seeke their own lustes 1. Cor. 14. Chrysost ho. 35. The Iesuits not like Paule but the Nazareans in their doctrin The Iesuits deface God and his glory in sanctifying and deifying men The Iesuits deface Christes grace by mans merites and workes The Masse iniurious to the grace of Christ Iewish heathenish ceremonies broght into the Church of Christ by the Papists and Iesuites doctrine The Iesuits doctrine more c●●rupt then the Nazareans The Iesuits in the ambitious maner of their teaching like the Nazareans The Iesuites counterfait holines and hypocrisie to win credite at the first Ioseph●ll A●● Iuda 11. ca. 8. The Iesuites do vse the policie of all false worshippers of God The Iesuites pleasers of men The Iesuites slaunderers and backbiters of godly and learned men Hicrome The Iesuites chop change and corrupt the worde of God to get the fauor of men Antipodes The ende of the Iesuits doctrine A Franciscane Fryers hypocrisie to climbe to the Popedome The Iesuits sodayne aspiring to high roomes great liuings shew what their ende is The Iesuites f●rre vnlike the Apostles of Christ The Iesuites farre more forward in aduancing themselues then the old tolerable later intolerable monkes The Iesuits the Popes their fathers dearlings in respect of the monkes their brethren The Iesuites couetous Mat. 8. ver 20. The Iesuites ambitious and seeke a tyrannie ouer the Church The Iesuites holde cruell courts of inquisition Mat. 27. ver 32. Anti Iesuses Antichristes the Iesuites true titles Against comp 〈…〉 t of dissent 〈…〉 in the C 〈…〉 e. Similitude Dissentions no iust cause why men doe not come to the trueth Io● 19. A great cause of dissentions that men are not desirous to speak the truth in Gods worde where it is to be found The Iesuites newly sprong vp bost falsely of antiquitie in their doctrine against vs. The Iesuits forbid that which Christ hath cōmaunded and commaund that which he hath forbidden The Iesuites stirred vp by Satan and why The Iesuites seduce child●sh foolish men 1. Cor. 14. ver 20 Gala. 3. ver 1. Ioh. 3. The lamentable blindnes of those that are sedu●ed by the Iesuites Erasmus The actes of the Apostles cōtein a full platforme of the Churche of Christ wherby to discrye all seduce●s and namely the Iesuites We ought to be Christians not only i● name but also in deede The Iesuites seeme to be ashamed of the name of a Christian The Iesuites true name