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A64561	Echemythia Roman oracles silenced, or, The prime testimonies of antiquity produced by Henry Turbervil in his manual of controversies examined and refuted / by ... Dr. William Thomas ...	Thomas, William, 1613-1689.	1691 (1691)	Wing T976; ESTC R1204	46,085	76

ΕΞΕΜΥΘΙΑ Roman Oracles Silenced OR THE Prime Testimonies OF ANTIQUITY Produced by HENRY TURBERVIL IN HIS Manual of Controversies Examined and Refuted By the Right Reverend Dr. WILLIAM THOMAS late Lord Bishop of WORCESTER Imprimatur Jan. 20. 1691. Z. Isham R. P. D. Henrico Episc. Lond. a Sacris LONDON Printed by J. R. and are to be Sold at the Crown in Cornhil near the Stocks-Market MDC XCI To the Reader THE Publishing of this small Tract opus posthumum imperfectum may need an Apology as wanting the last Hand of the Accurate Author and Answering but to the Six first Leaves of the Manual it attacks But since 't is a Genuine Copy compared as near as could be with the obscurely written Original And it sufficiently unravels the Testimonies of the First Six Hundred Years of which the Romanists mainly Vaunt and to which the Reformed confidently Appeal It may pass for a just Treatise without Disappointment to the Reader or Derogation to the Authors Name whose Memory is Venerable and Pretious with those that knew Him Being a Person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of singular Modesty and Humility to conquer Passion and win Affection yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Conspicuous Learning and Life to convince Gainsayers and confound Adversaries An Instance both of his Candour and Dexterity Herein we have in his former Apology for our Church against the Cavils of Separatists and in this Present Answer to the Challenge of Romanists In both which he bath approved Himself a Workman that need not be ashamed whose unbyassed Judgment and steady Hand carry an Equal Poise without Prejudioe and Partiality Who had not learned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to fit his Faith to the Times But as a faithful Soldier and Martyr stood fast in the Truth of the Church of England kept his standing contra Homines D●mones No Temptation could warp or divert Him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the last Gasp. May His Sincerity and Constancy be to us a lasting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Encourage and Establish us in the Present Truth A MANUAL OF CONTROVERSIES ARTICLE 1. The TENET THAT the Church now in Communion with the See of Rome is the only True Church The ARGUMENT That is the only True Church of God which hath had a continued Succession from Christ and his Apostles to this time But the Church now in Communion with the See of Rome and no other hath had a continued Succession from Christ and his Apostles to this time Therefore the Church now in Communion with the See of Rome and no other is the True Church of God W. T. The Major is not true unless there be an addition of a word only to wit which only hath had a continued succession from Christ. The Major being thus propounded is not of validity in the judgment of Bellarmine who will not admit succession to be a proof of the true Church The Major is to be denyed if understood of a Local Personal without a Doctrinal Succession H. T. The Major proved Isa. 59. 21. Isa. 60. 1 3 11. Isa. 62. 6. Ezek. 37. 16. Dan. 7. 13 14. St. Matth. 28. 20. St. John 14. 16. Eph. 4. 11 12 13 14. W. T. These Texts of Scripture import the Conversion of the Gentiles the propagation of the Gospel the Divine assistance to be continued to the Church in the most diffusive Capacity without a particular restriction to any distinct place or People A discussion whereof were a digression not pertinent to the main of our Controversie The Minor Proposition exacts a closer Examination This Proposition hath two Members the one positive The Church now in Communion with the See of Rome hath had a continued Succession from Christ and his Apostles The other Member is negative No other Church hath had a continued Succession from Christ and his Apostles The minor Proposition is impotent in both the parts like Mephiboseth lame in both feet There is no Confirmation offered as to the later branch that excludes other Churches from the plea of Succession Whereas the Local Personal Succession of the Churches of Constantinople Alexandria Antioch Jerusalem and others is flourisht out in specious Catalogues loss liable to exception than that of Rome which is yet more transcended in a Doctrinal succession if reduced to the Sacred Test of Canonical Scripture H. T. The minor Proposition is proved by this ensuing Catalogue of the Roman Churches chief Pastors Co●●olls Nations Converted and Publick Professors of her Faith From the Year of Christ Thirty Chief Pastors General Councils 30 Our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ.   34 St. Peter the Apostle The Council of the Apostles at Jerusalem St. Peter presiding Acts 15. 67 Linus   80 Cletus   93 Clement   W. T. What is asserted of Concoction of Meats is appliable to this point of succession in the See of Rome An Error in the first degree is not to be corrected in the rest If the first link be loose all will be shatter'd There is no certainty because there is no harmony in the Testimonies of Antiquity touching the first second third and fourth Bishops of Rome Rusinus relates that L●nus and Cletus were not distinct Successors after the dissolution of St. Peter but joint Bishops during his Life that they discharged the Episcopal Office whilst he did the Apostolical Epiphanius gives this account of the Succession in the See of Rome Peter and Paul Linus Cletus Tertullian lays the Foundation of the See of Rome in both the Apostles recited Irenaeus testifies that both invested Linus in the Bishoprick of Rome St. Clemens makes himself the immediate Successor of St. Peter Tertullian ratifies this Order of Succession Irenaeus and † Eusebius recite Anacletus for the immediate Successor of Linus St. Ignatius and St. Irenaeus recount Anacletus as Predecessor to Clemens Baronius vindicates this to be the true Suecession I shall not hence conclude your forementioned no● consistent with this to be false being countenanced by the Authority of St. Optatus and others But I may hence infer how little Weight and Stress there is in your first Evidence produced for Succession in the See of Rome In opposition to all these Records Clemens in pretended Recognitions in his name avouches St. Barnabas to be the first Planter of the Church Your next Argument is the Council of the Apostles at Jerusalem St. Peter presiding Acts 15. The discussion of this Objection may properly be referred to the next Section because it is there more dilated and improved by the Opponent H. T. From the Year 100. 103 Anacletus 112 Evaristus 121 Alexander 132 Sixtus 1. 142 Telesphorus 154 Higinus 158 Pius 1. 163 Anicetus 175 Soter 179 Eleutherius 194 Victor W.T. The great Roman Orator justly set a brand of Infamy on a Common Argument that may reciprocally be used by both Parties in Controversies It is yet more lyable to

submission to the Emperours pleasure He prohibited all disputations against the Doctrine of the Council of Nice by his Authority Dioscorus was Condemned and Proterius Establisht in his place The Legates of the Bishop of Rome in that Synod intreated the Moderators of the Council that Dioscorus should be required to recede which themselves had enjoyned not requested had they presided In the Sixteenth Article of that Synod the Decree was opposite to the Sentiments of the Popes Legates In that Article Anatolius Patriarch of Constantinople first subscribed whom Pope Gelasius recited as the chiefest Author of the Twenty seven Canons set put in that Synod Anno Domini 500. H.T. The first Nicene Council defined against Arrius That the Son of God is consubstantial to his Father and true God W.T. This Testimony is impertinently produced The Church of England doth detest Arrianisme as much as the Church of Rome H. T. 2. That he who holds the See of Rome is the Head and Chief of all the Patriarks seeing he is the first as Peter to whom Power Ecclesiastical is given over all Christian Princes and all People c. and whosoever shall contradict this is Excommunicated by the Synod Can. 39. Arab. W.T. We own a great veneration for the Great the first General Council the first Nicene From which track St. Ambrose would not recede for the peril of Death nor for the terror of the Sword Which St. Basil propounded for the Test whereby judgment is to be made of Hereticks As with St. Athanasius we wonder at their audaciousness who start any question in points that have past the determination of that Nicene Council so we cannot without astonishment resent the disingenuous fraud in counterfeiting so Venerable a Record in obtruding a Fable for an Oracle The more famous the Authority is of the Nicene Council the more infamous is the Impiety in falsifying it The alledged Thirty Ninth Arabick Canon may be unmaskt and then appear a Romish Imposture That there were but Twenty Genuine Canons of the Nicene C●uncil is proved by the Authority of Rufinus Isidore Theodoret Testimonies acknowledged by Baronius by Pope Stephen attested by Gratian by Two Hundred and Seventeen Bishops Convened in the Sixth Council of Carthage by unanimous suffrages of uncorrupt Antiquity The Nicene Synod was held the Year 316 the tumor the amplifying of the Canons to the number of Thirty in the Notion and Style of Arabick Canons produced above Twelve Hundred years after When they first appeared to the World they were pretended to be brought by Baptista Romanus from the Patriark of Alexandria set out by Alphonsus Pizanus and Franciscus Turrianus both of the same Society both zealous Advocates not only for asserting but straining the P●pal Preheminence per fasque nefasque First inserted in the Edition of the Councils at Venice by Dominicus Nicolinus in the Year 1585. not above Five years before printed apart the Plantine Impression by Turrianus It appears at the first blush as strange an incongruity in Geography as Chronology at so great a distance of time and place to vindicate the Canons of the Nicene Council in the Fourth Century by an Arabick remote Evidence in the Sixteenth Century How have they been obscured dormant for so many Ages Turrianus the most confident Stickler for these Arabick Canons acknowledged there is no Record as to any Translation of these out of Greek to Arabick no proof no evidence but conjecture The wily Jesuit pretending to wave infinite other Testimonies in the smooth Rhetorick the subtle fallacy of his Mention by way of Omission insists on the Africane Fathers as sufficient Witnesses alledging unless they had certainly and exactly known this they would not so have written to Pope Boniface Because they could find Canons in no Greek Books they earnestly desire they might be sen●●o them out of the Churches of the East by the endeavours of Pope Boniface They speak of the rest of the Canons for Twenty they had sent by Cyrill of Alexandria and Atticus of Constantinople and recited in the Sixth Council of Carthage I am amazed that there should be so little integrity in a Person of so much Literature as Turrianus of the profest Society of the Holy Jesus the Name of a Saint being the Guilt the Impeachment of a Miscreant according to Salvian so notoriously to juggle and prevaricate For the clearer discovery of his Collusion and the more warrantable rejection of the additional Arabick Canons I shall offer a true summary Narrative of the transactions of the Africane Fathers falsly presented by Turrianus Apiarius being justly deliberately sentenced in Africa Synodically Excommunicated was unjustly unconsiderately Countenanced Acquitted at Rome one Party only being heard To promote his Restitution in the Sixth Carthage Council Pope Zozymus sent thither Three Legates who prest a Canon of the Nicene Council to justifie Appeals to Rome The African Fathers were startled at a Novel Claim abetted by an unheard of Canon wherein they first examined the Copy brought from Nice by Concilianus Arch-Bishop of Carthage in which they found no such Canon alledged However they were not prone to suspect any fraud in the Bishop of Rome where there is the greatest Truth there being also the greatest Charity but proceeded with an equal mixture of Prudence and Candour They resolved to transmit Mercuries to Constantinople Alexandria Antioch to procure Genuine Transcripts of the Nicene Canons and whilst the matter was in suspence they condescended to admit Appeals to Rome They imparted their design to the Legates implored their joint Assistance made several Addresses in this sincere pursuit of Truth to Three Popes in their Successions Zozymus Bonifacius Celestine After the concurrent Testimonies the Exact Copies sent from the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Alexandria after the discussion of 6 Years there being no contrary Evidence produced by either of the Popes recited or their Legates the African Bishops unanimously rejected the obtruded Canons as spurious and prohibited all Appeals from the African Churches to Rome There never was a more calm accurate mature ventilation of any Claim Never clearer Evidence Twenty Canons only found in the Archives of Constantinople Alexandria Antioch being searcht with great diligence as Baronius confesses Attious profest in his Rescript that Copy to be unmaimed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. Cyrill as confidently avouches the fidelity of his also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Never a more manifest Conviction of a Notorious Fraud whereto the Roman Legates being most probably too conscious would not close with the African Fathers in an unbyast untainted Scrutiny but reiterated their importunate Motion that the Examination and Decision might be referred entirely to the Bishop of Rome that the Criminal Party might be the sole Judge To palliate the Deformity of this Imposture other Adulterate Testimonies are vaunted of the Letter of Athanasius to Pope Marcus and the Rescript of Marcus which are not only by the Centurists and other Reformed Divines