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A13235	A defence of the Appendix. Or A reply to certaine authorities alleaged in answere to a catalogue of Catholike professors, called, An appendix to the Antitdote VVherein also the booke fondly intituled, The Fisher catched in his owne net, is censured. And the sleights of D. Featly, and D. VVhite in shifting off the catalogue of their owne professors, which they vndertooke to shew, are plainly discouered. By L.D. To the Rt. VVorshipfull Syr Humphry Lynde.	L. D., fl. 1624.; Sweet, John, 1570-1632, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 23528; ESTC S120948	43,888	74

occasion to admire the little conscience of your late English Doctors in challenging the Fathers of the first fiue hundred yeares wherein if their Aduersaries might come to an indifferent and equall tryall with them the very Titles of the Fathers Books against them were sufficient to ouerthrow them Only in this place I will giue the Reader this short Notandum for the which if he desire sincerely to know and belieue the Doctrine of the Fathers he shall haue cause to thanke me When any of the holy Fathers do censure any poynt of Doctrine taxing it of Heresy or noteth it as the particuler opinion of some Heretike or reproueth it very much or wondreth at it especially if it be such a thing as euery learned Man may easily know or was necessary to be taught and that no other Father did therein oppose himself against him It is an euident Testimony that his Doctrine therein was the generall Doctrine of the Church at that tyme and ought to be so receaued of the Ages that follow Wherefore the Author of that Booke hauing shewed so many poynts of your Doctrine to haue beene so notoriously cēsured and condemned by the Auncient Fathers of the first fiue hundred yeares in the Hetetikes of those tymes besides many other poynts and some of those also condemned by Fathers and Councells in after Ages whereunto you haue not answered a word it is for ought I can see or perceaue a cleare demonstration that the Fathers of those tymes were theirs and that eyther your Professors were none at all or no other then those that were condemned by them Thus all things with them are infallibly certaine easie to be knowne and most conspicuous They follow the streame and current of that Doctrine which by many knowne Successions of holy and learned Men Martyres and Bishops as it were by so many Channells they deriue from Christ and his Apostles They follow the fame and greatnes of that Church which by conuerting Countries and Nations in all Ages is become eminent and apparent aboue all other sortes of Christians like a Citty vpon a Hill aboue the Moale-hills or like the Little Stone in Daniel which growing to be a Mountaine filleth the world with it's greatnes They follow the security of those Letters-Patents which the hand of God hath signed with his owne Seale and cōmended to the world by Attestation of many Myracles in confirmation of their Doctrine And lastly they follow the infallible and powerfull Authority of that Body which by Cēsures of Doctors Decrees of Coūcells from tyme to tyme hath euer confounded all those that opposed themselues against it While you in the meane tyme without any lineall Descente from those whome you pretend to haue beene your Auncestors without the Progenie of any Gentills conuerted by you without any warrant of Gods hand or sentence of his Iudges for you do still remayne in the darcknes of your inuisible Church tossed in the Sea of Error with euery winde of new Doctrine not knowing certainly whome to follow nor what to belieue vntill at the last euen the wisest of you being wearie of seeking and desperate of finding that which they seeke come to hold all opinions probable which is in effect to belieue nothing Good Syr had you produced such a Successiō such cōuersions of Nations such Myracles and Censures in the defence of your Church as that Booke hath shewed in confirmation of theirs all zealous Protestants had been bound to haue fallen at your feete and to haue honoured you for euer But now on the other side against such weighty and massie matters such cleare and conuincing proofes as these not being able to giue in euidence so much as one Professor in euery Age nor in any Age the conuersion of any Nation or the testimony of any Myracle or the Censure of any one Father in fauour of your Religion who seeth not that insteed of reason there is nothing but passion on your part and certainly for the honour of your cause it were better to hold your peace then reply so weakely in a matter of such importance For besides all that hath beene sayd against many other most expresse Sentences of the Auncient Fathers in those very poynts which you haue chosen to touch you haue only produced a few dribling Authorities as it were on the Bye some falsely translated and some falsely cited and some in respect of other expresse words agaynst you plainely falsified that not to accuse you of a bad Conscience though you make profession to be much versed in the Fathers yet the Reader must needes think you neuer saw or read so much as those few places which your selfe haue cited but only tooke them by retaile frō others And howsoeuer though they were admitted and taken as you giue them vp yet in my poore opinion they eyther touch not your Aduersaries at all or being a little considered make rather with them then against them Which sheweth great want of iudgment in you and I verily thinke if you will be pleased to examine them with me I shall make you see it Wherefore as in the former Section soe that you may know in this also how far you are chargable I giue you the summe of your accompt in this manner The Doctrine of that Church which was condemned by the Fathers of the first fiue hundred yeares was condemned by Christ and his Apostles But the Doctrine of the Protestant Church was condemned by the Fathers of the first 500. yeares as the most and best learned Protestants themselues haue also confessed Ergo the Doctrine of the Protestant Church was likewise condemned by Christ and his Apostles Section V. Myracles defended to be a sufficient Testimony of Truth and the Doctrine of the Fathers therein declared WHerefore to begin as you doe with Myracles most certaine it is that no true Myracle can be wrought but only by him Qui facit mirabilia magna solus and therefore whēsoeuer any true Myracle is shewed or sufficiently testified vnto vs in confirmation of any point of Doctrine it is an euident proofe of the truth thereof For a Myracle in that case is the Testimony of God who speaketh by workes as men by wordes sayth S. Aug. Epist 49. quaest 6. and is the subscription as it were of his hand and seale vnto it And certainly if Myracles were no sufficiēt proofes of true Doctrine they would neuer haue beene called Signes and Testimonyes in holy Scripture God would not haue giuen Moyses power of working Myracles Exod. 4. That the People of Israel might belieue he had appeared vnto him Our Sauiour would not haue sayd the Iewes had not sinned in not receauing him if he had not done those workes which no man els had done before him Ioan. 15. And in vayne should he haue promised that Signes should follow those that belieued and haue cooperated and confirmed the Doctrine of the Apostles by them Neyther could he in Iustice haue commaunded the world

A Defence of the Appendix OR A REPLY TO CERTAINE AVTHORITIES alleaged in Answere to a Catalogue of Catholike Professors called An Appendix to the Antidote VVHEREIN Also the Booke fondly intituled The Fisher catched in his owne Net is censured And the sleights of D. Featly and D. VVhite in shifting off the Catalogue of their owne Professors which they vndertooke to shew are plainly discouered By L. D. To the R t. VVorshipfull Syr Humphry Lynde Eccles 7. v. 30. Solummodo hoc inueni quod fecerit Deus hominem rectum Et ipse se infinitis miscuerit quaestionibus Permissu Superiorum M.DC.XXIIII TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL Syr Humphry Lynde SYR It may be you will take it vnkindly to see vnawares your selfe and your papers thus in print But I was moued to doe it by due cōsideration of that which followeth I receaued them not as secret neyther do I thinke you gaue them to be concealed You wrote against a printed Catalogue of Catholike Professors wherof a deare friend of mine is the Author giuen you vpon a former Conference which your self procured betweene some other of my Friends and your Doctors concerning a Protestant Catalogue which Conference though priuatly intēded was afterwards victoriously printed Wherefore writing them as you did against such a Booke and vpon such an occasion you might easily thinke they would be answered and it is not strāge they should come to be printed As the great opinion which others had of your deepe learning and your owne profession of your great skill and reading in the Fathers made me diligently to peruse those authorityes alleadged by you so hauing well examined them I thought my selfe diuers wayes obliged to giue a large full Reply vnto them And being as you are most extremely and most vehemētly distant in opinion from me no maruell if to be better vnderstood I speak so lowd that all the Land may heare me And for the same cause you must pardon me if I rather choose to expose both you my selfe to the iudgment of others then hauing takē some little paynes in this matter to make you the only iudge of my labours The old Maister Buggs being carried away with Ecce in Penetralibus thinketh to haue found the Messias in your study and was wholy transported with those chosen places and selected authorities contayned in your papers which tending to no lesse then the losse of his soule merited great compassion the like may happen to others which deserueth preuention Your owne Doctors haue already adorned the Pageant of their victory with the publication of your Names Vnto you is giuen the driuing on of the Chariot and the old Maister Buggs is led in Triumph Some perchance haue been taken in the net of the Title and may be freed againe by the net of Christ which therefore should not hange in the Riuers of priuate papers when the other flyeth in the ayre but should be cast into the Sea of the wide World to gather and draw togeather all kind of fishes In this net the Fishers themselues are happily taken and all they that are not taken are lost for euer The other of the Heretikes is but a net to catch flyes which though cūningly wrought must in tyme be swept away togeather with the Spiders They haue printed against vs and renewed an old Decree against our printing if no Reply should be made some of them would thinke that now they might lye by Proclamation What greater signe of falshood thē hauing told your owne tale to seeke to stop the mouthes of your Aduersaries with old Statutes But the State neuer intended to make a Law against God his Word will not be tyed All Princes should serue it and all printing Presses must be subiect vnto it Therfore no maruell if the taking of one Presse do set two more on worke and that your Doctors by seeking to suppresse the Truth do presse it forward You know then what moued me to diuulge your papers giuing the Fathers their due I haue told you your owne but sparingly and if you knew my hart you would see and confesse that I had done it friendly Belieue and you shall vnderstande Belieue the Fathers and you shall vnderstand the Fathers He that heareth not the visible vniuersall Church is no better then a Heathen and belieueth neyther Church nor Fathers but the vnlearned not knowing the doctrine of the Church and the vnstable forsaking that which they haue knowne as they peruerte the Scriptures so also they preuert the Fathers to their owne damnation from the which I beseech God deliuer you praying you likewise to thinke no otherwise of me then as of Your vnfaygned Friend and seruant in Christ L. D. THE AVTHORITIES ALLEADGED BY Syr Humphry Lynde agaynst the Appendix Of Myracles EPIPHANIVS conuinceth not Ebion of false beliefe because neyther he nor any of his faction had the gift of working Miracles but because Ebion lykened himselfe to Christ for his Circumcision and for his Birth and he answers him he could not be lyke to God for that he was but a mortall Man and was not able to rayse Lazarus out of the graue nor heale the sicke c. If he would be lykened to Christ he bid him to doe those things the which things if he had required at Epiphanius hands I thinke noe man but would haue doubted of the performance of them Read the place at large and you shall find it hath no such meaning as is heere alleadged Myracles were necessary before the world belieued to induce it to belieue and he that seeketh to be confirmed by wōders now is to be wondred at most of all himself in refusing to belieue what all the world belieueth besides himselfe De Ciuit. Dei lib. 22. cap. 8. in principio Shewed to be falsified Now we for our parts say not that we must be belieued that we are in the Church of Christ because Optatus or Ambrose hath commended this wherein we are or els because that in all places of the world where our Communiō is frequēted there are so many Myracles wrought of healing diseases c. For all these things that are done in the Catholike Church are approued in asmuch as they are done in the Catholike And not that it is therfore Catholike because such things are done there August de vnitat Eccles cap. 16. Tertullian They will say sayth he to excuse themselues for hauing followed Heresy that their Doctours haue confirmed the Fayth of their Doctrine that they haue raysed vp the dead restored the sicke foretould things to come so as they were worthily taken for Apostles As if sayth he this were not written that many should come working great Myracles to fortify the deceitfullnes of their corrupt preaching De Praescrip cap. 44. S. Hierome The Galathians had the gift of Healing and of Prophesy and yet they were insnared by the false Prophets and it is to be obserued that powers and signes are seene to be wrought in those that

hold not the Truth of the Ghospell which may be sayd agaynst the Heretikes that think their Fayth is sufficiently proued if they haue wrought any Myracle who in the day of Iudgment shall deserue to heare this saying I know you not depart from me In Epist ad Galat. cap. 3. S. Augustine Let no man sell you fables Pontius hath wrought a Myracle Donatus hath prayed and God hath answered him from Heauen First either they are deceaued or so deceaue In Ioan. tract 13. Et cont Faustum Manichaum lib. 13. cap. 5. Et de Ciuit. Dei lib. 20. cap. 19. Answered Sect. 5. Of Iustification by Fayth only THis is the worke of God that he which belieueth in Christ should be saued without workes freely by Grace only receauing the pardon of his sinnes Amb. cap. 1. in Corinth What is the Law of Fayth Euen to be saued by Grace Heere the Apostle sheweth the goodnes of God who not only saueth vs but also iustifieth and glorifieth vs vsing no workes heerunto but requyring Fayth only Chrys Hom. 7. Rom. 3. Basil This is true and perfect reioycing in God whē a man is not lifted vp with his owne righteousnes but knoweth himselfe to be voyd of true righteousnes and to be iustified by Fayth only in Christ Homil. de humil Theodoret. We haue not belieued of our owne accord but being called we came and being come he exacteth not purity innocency of life at our hands but by Faith only he forgaue our sinnes Coment 2. Eph. Bernard Whosoeuer is touched with his sinnes and hungreth after rightneousnes Let him belieue in God that iustifieth sinners and being iustified by Fayth only he shall haue peace with God Cant. Serm. 22. Answered Sect. 6. Of Free-will BEllarmine Man before all Grace hath Free-will not to things morall and naturall but euen to the works of piety and things supernaturall De Grat. lib. Arbit l. 6. cap. vltim Basil There is nothing left in thee O man to be proud off who must mortify all that is thy owne and seeke for life to come in Christ the first fruits wherof we haue already attayned in Christ owing all euen that we liue to the Grace and gift of God For it is God that giueth both the Will and the Deed according to his good pleasure Basil conc de humil Bernard To will is in vs by Free-will but not to performe nor will I say not to will eyther good or euill but only to will for To will good is a gift of Grace to will euill is a defect Free-will maketh vs well-willing from Free-will we haue power to will but to will well cometh of grace De Grat. lib. Arb. Augustine It is certaine that we are willing when we are so but it is he that maketh vs so of whome it is sayd It is God that worketh the will in vs It is certayne that we worke when we doe so but it is he that giueth vs this working power by adding vnto our will most effectuall strength as if he sayd I will make you work De bono perseuer cap. 13. False cited and shewed to be falsified Idem Except God first make vs to be willing and then worke with vs being willing we shall neuer bring to passe any good worke De Grat. lib. Arbit cap. 16. Idem We must confesse that we haue Free-will both to good and euill but in doing euill euery man iust and vniust is free but in doing good none can be free in Will Act vnles he be freed by him that sayd If the Sonne free you you are truely freed De Corrept Gra. cap. 1. Augustine We will but it is God that worketh in vs to will we worke but it is God that worketh in vs to worke according to his good pleasure This is behooffull for vs both to belieue and speake This is a true Doctrine that our Confession may be humble and lowly and that God may haue the whole we liue more in safty if we giue all vnto God rather then if we commit our selues partly to our selues and partly to him August de bono perseuer lib. 3. cap. 6. False cited Augustine Farre be it from the Children of promise that they should say Behold without thee we can prepare our owne harts let none so thinke but those that are proud defenders of their owne Freewill and forsakers of the Catholike Fayth for as no man can begin any good without God so no man can perfect good without God Contr. duas Epistol Pelag. lib. 2. Augustine Why doe we presume too much of the power of Nature It is wounded maimed vexed and lost let vs confesse it freely and not defend it falsely therefore let vs seeke Gods Grace not to forme but to reforme it thereby De Natur. Grat. cap. 35. False cited Non volentis neque currentis sed miscrentis est Dei vt totum Deo detur qui hominis voluntatem bonam praeparat adiuuandam adiuuat praeparatam August Enchir. ad Laurent cap. 32. Answered Sect. 7. Of the Sacrament CYprian The Bread which our Lord gaue to his Disciples not in Shape but in Substance or Nature changed by the Omnipotency of the Word is made Flesh 1. The words of Cyprian are Panis non effigie sed natura mutatus c. which you haue translated in Substance or Nature where there is no word of Substance in Cyprian 2. The Chapter of Coena Domini where this place is vrged is none of Cyprians Extat inter opera Cypriani Sermo de Coena Domini qui Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginensis esse non videtur inquit Bellarminus lib. 2. Euchar. cap. 9. Author Sermonis de Coena Domini non est Cyprianus sed aliquis posterior Bellarm. lib. de Euchar. 4. cap. 26. Author Sermonis de Coena Domini est ignotus inquit Garetius De veritate Corporis Christi fol. 181. Cyprian The Lord in his last Supper wherin he did participate with his Apostles gaue Bread and Wine with his owne hands but he gaue his Body to be crucified on the Crosse to the hands of his souldiars c. Vt diuersa nomina vel species ad vnam reducerentur essentiam significantia significata ijsdem vocabulis censerentur De Vnctione Chrismatis Shewed to be falsified Whereunto you adde pag 47. in the Margent Tertullian Hoc est corpus meum hoc est figura corporis mei cont Marci lib. 4. Aug. Christus figuram Corporis sui Discipulis commendauit In Psal 3. Ambros de Sacram. lib. 4. cap. 5. Hier. ad verb. Iouin lib. 2. Aug. in Leuit. quaest 57. Gelasius cont Eutichem Aug. de Doctr. Christian. lib. 3. cap. 16. It is a figure commaunding vs to lay vp in our Remembrance that his Flesh was crucified and wounded for vs. Answered Sect. 8. sequent A DEFENCE OF THE APPENDIX TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Syr Humphry Lynde Section I. The Fisher freed and the Catcher catcht In reference to the first point