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truth_n	apostle_n	doctrine_n	receive_v	1,639	5	4.9836	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13964	The trial of trueth or a treatise vvherein is declared vvho should be iudge betvvene the Reformed Churches, and the Romish in which is shewed, that neither Pope, nor Councels, nor Fathers, nor traditions, nor succession, nor consent, nor antiquitie of custome: but the onely written worde of God, ought to determine the controuersies of religio[n]: wherin also is declared which is the true religion, and Catholick church. Written for the pleasure of the Popes, Cardinalles, prelates, abbots, monkes: and speciallie the Iesuites, which of late were driuen out of Transyluania, by the states there. Published in Latine by a certaine Hungarian, a fauourer of the trueth: and translated into English by Richard Smith.; Oratio de constituendo iudice controversiorum religionis. English.	Smith, Richard, tr.	1591 (1591)	STC 24274; ESTC S100745	49,352	68

gathered from all places that may be out of the same Scriptures For so saith he further hath the holy Ghost tempered the Scriptures that that which is spoken in one place somewhat darkelie is in another place more cleerelie set down which things sith they thus stand it followeth that this is the only meanes that is left to conclude a peace if the matter be determined by the pure woorde of God alone and that religion only be iudged true and that church Catholick of the right beleefe which in all points agréeeth tothe woord of God rightly vnderstoode The See of Rome leauing all these reasons of the reformed Church protesteth that although she sée that the Gospellers religion dooth not much differ from the written woord of God nay that it agréeeth ther vnto in all thinges yet she cannot allow it sith it sprung from heretickes from such as were not sent of God and last of all from innouatours and such as bring in new orders The Gospellers on the other side intreat the Church of Rome that she would not accuse thē of so gréeuous crimes namely of herosie vnlawfull calling and innouation but that rather if she sée that their religion dooth agrée with the trueth of God contained in the writinges of the Prophets and Apostles she would not be vnwilling to receiue and imbrace it her selfe also For wheras first of all their doctrine is charged with hereste therein they complaine that they haue great wrong doon them For they say that those are not hereticks which haue béen either conuinced vpon small ground to swarue from the iudgement of the Church of Rome or they which say that three are Antipodes or men dwelling vnder y e ground as Pope Zacharie would haue it or they which will not obey all the constitutions of the Pope as the Canonists haue decreede or those which doo not agrée for the kéeping of Easter as Pope Victor would haue at or finally those which doo not giue credit to all those thinges which are deliuered for trueth in the Church of Rome for otherwise all those should be hereticks which would not beleeue that Saint Dominick wrought more miracles then Christ and all the Apostles that the said Domicick is greater thē Iohn Baptist and finally that all the trimme tales of Saint Frauncis the Sonne os Barnardo and others are to be credited vnder paine of being condemned for heresie or last of all those that doo not beléeue that all Emperours Kings princes and euery humaine creature is subiect to the Popes temporall Swoord But the Gospellers say that they are the right Hereticks first that bring into the Church a doctrine contrar y to the rule of faith or beléefe of the Christians secondlye that make a departure from the Catholick church that holdeth the pure doctrine of God last of all those who being solemnelye admonished doo obstinatelye continue in their errours that haue béene made manifest vnto them But as for them they protest that they haue swarued neither from the rule of faith and ordinarye creede of the Christians nor from those foure most auntient councels I meane the Councell of Nice Constantinople Ephesus and Chalcedon nor from the Créede of Athanasius nor finallye from any parte of the woord of God nor haue béene cited by due course of Lawe or excommunicated by competent or méet Iudges or proued to be out of the way but that they haue alwaies either lawfully giuen an account of their doctrine or conueniently referred themselues and solemnelye appealed to a generall and frée councell of all Christendom For that the councell of Trent was not a frée councell they proue by stories by which it is manifest how that Ceruinus Polus and other Cardinals expelled thence Iacobus Nachiantes Bishop of Clodia Fossa Dominicus Wilhelmus of Uenice Paulus Vergerius Bishop of Iustinople and many other vpon méere suspition that they fauoured the Gospell and for certaine spéeches repugnant to their popish errours And as for the calling of their Ministers which first began to assault the papacie they answere that they were called partly extraordinarilie the Lord stirring vp their harts and inflaming them more and more with the zeale of the glorie of his sonne and partly ordinarilie by Magistrates and Princes many people of sundrie Nations yéelding their consent thereunto and rendering God thanks for so great a blessing Which not onely that Princes may doe but also that they are bound to doe whensoeuer Churches are anewe in regarde of their outwarde and visible forme either to be established or to be reformed and cleansed from those errors which through the fault of them that should maintaine and preserue Religion were crept in they proue by the flatte commandement of God and by the examples of Eezechias Iosaphat Iosias and other religious Princes For whereas last of all they accuse the Religion of the Gospellers of noueltie therein they complaine that Gods trueth is greatly iniuried For the Gospellers protest that they holde no other doctrine then that whereby Adam Seth Noe Abraham and the rest of the Patriarks were saued and which Christ the Apostles the sixe firste Councels and the more auncient and sounder sort of the fathers did preach vntill at length the deuill while the husbandmen slept had pestered the Lords field with such store of tares that the pure wheate could not at all be séene for cockle and daruell For although God wil haue his church preserued yet he hath not appointed that it should alwaies stande in her full strength and flourishing estate but suffereth it like the Moone sometime to weare and sometime to waxe So in the daies of Noe onelie eight were preserued in the Arcke against the floud So in the time of Eliah there are said to haue béene fiue thousand that imbraced the true doctrine So finallie in the time of Christes appearing the Church was so darckned that there was thought scarce one or two to be left And after the gracious birth of our Sauiour Christ as it were within thrée circles of a thousand and fiue hundred yeares the Church in like manner séemeth to haue by little and little decayed For in the first fiue hundred yeares true religion began to wrestle with errour and in the next fiue hundred to yeeld to it vntill at length in the other fiue hundred yeres it was so ouerwhelmed that it gaue no light on any side Neither for all that doeth it followe hereupon that either the Church was at any time cleane extinguished or that we now are at variance with the church for y e church of Christ hath alwaies béene and shalbe alwaies as long as the Lord Christ shall raigne with whose helpe it is so supported that yet notwithstanding the forme therof is not alwaies visible Against this church the Protestants say that they haue now no quarrell because together with her they doe with one consent worshippe one God and the Lorde