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A07105	A treatise of schisme Shewing, that al Catholikes ought in any wise to abstaine altogether from heretical conuenticles, to witt, their prayers, sermons. &c, deuided into foure chapters, whereof 1. Conteineth sundry reasons to that purpose, grounded for the most part vppon scriptures and fathers. 2.Examples out of holy scriptures. 3. Examples out of ecclesiastical histories. 4. Answeres to the chiefe obiections. By Gregorie Martin Licentiate in Diuinitie.	Martin, Gregory, d. 1582.	1578 (1578)	STC 17508; ESTC S107013	61,358	188

quomodò est in Christo How is he in Christ that forsaketh the church of Christ how is he in Christ that is not in the body of Christ which is his Catholike Churche To trye whether thou be a member of this Church good reader peruse this booke for thy saluation prepared not by one man but by the whole Church whose voyce thou art bounde to obeye and if thou findest thy selfe to lacke vse the remedie therein prescribed to saue thy saue thy soule and praye for them that for thy behoofe haue set it foorth From Remes within the Octaues of Al Saintes 1578. By your countriman G. M. ¶ REASONS THAT CATHOLIKES ought in any wise to absteine from heretical Conuenticles CAP. I. THeir verye persons ought to be auoyded Haereticum hominem post vnam alteram admonitionē deuita A man that is an heretike auoide after he is once or twise admonished And Nec Aue ei dixeritis qui namque dicit illi Aue communicat operibus eius malignis Saye not so much to him as God saue you for he that saith so to him doth communicate with his wicked workes As S. Iohn did teach other so him selfe gaue example Fugiamus hinc nè balneum cadat super nos in quo est Cerinthus veritatis hostis Let vs flée from hence least the bathe fal vpon vs in the which Cerinthus is the enemie of truth It is a famous historie S. Iohn the Apostle and Euangelist would not tary in the place when he hearde Cerinthus the heretike was there Alexander aerarius restitit verbis nostris quem tudeuita Alexander the Copper-smith withstoode our wordes whom I wil that thou also doo auoide or shunne It is daungerous Per dulces sermones benedictiones seducunt corda innocentium By swéete wordes and gaye blessinges they seduce the heartes of the simple or good meaning persons And therefore Rogo vos fratres vt obseruetis eos declinate abillis I beséeche you brethren take good héede of them and turne aside from them And Sermo eorum vt cancer serpit subuerterunt quorundam fidem multùm enim proficiunt ad impietatem Sed firmum fundamentum Dei stat habens signaculum hoc cognouit Dominus qui sunt eius Their talke créepeth like a canker and they haue subuerted the faith of certaine for they preuaile much in vngodlines But the foundation of God standeth sure our Lorde knoweth who are his Onely they that flée from suche and therefore it foloweth Discedat abiniquitate omnis qui nominat nomen Domini Let him depart from wickednes euery one that nameth the name of our Lorde euery good Catholike Againe Pellicientes animas instabiles eos qui paululum effugiunt Alluring vnconstant soules suche as scape them but a very litle Who are they qui paululum effugiunt but such as boldlye communicate with them and therefore are in daunger to become theirs altogether Effugiunt they scape them because in heart they consent not but paululum very litle because in fact they are like to them If they presume vpon their constancie or knowledge that there can ensue no daunger Qui stat videat ne cadat He that standeth let him beware he fal not And Qui tangit picem inquinabitur ab ea He that toucheth pitche shal be defiled with it And Qui dormit iuxtà sepern mordebit eum coluber He that sléepeth néere the hedge a serpent wil sting him And Qui amat periculum peribit in illo He that loueth or séeketh daunger shal perish in it For the selfe-same cause it is not lawful to reade heretical bookes and is it lawful to heare their sermons and praiers Constantine the great made it death to him that did not burne the bookes of Arrius Martian also and Iustinian made careful decrées to this purpose This place is verye large Gregorie the great Bishop of Rome did not absolue one Anastasius a priest from suspitiō of heresie til he had promised that he would neuer reade that heretical hooke againe for the which he was suspected Anastasium pręsbiterum promittentem quòd codicem quendam haereticum nunquàm denuò lecturus esset ita demùm absoluit suspectum haereseos Sée Hessels that famous Doctor of Louaine in 1. Tim. 6. ad illud in graeco aphistaso apo ton tointon Dionisius Alexandrinus a moste auncient learned and vertuous Bishopp confesseth to a frend of his who warned him of heretical bookes that he felt him-selfe the woorse for them and had abstained but that a heauenly vision gaue him as it were a priuiledge adding this cause Nam satis habes virium firmitatis ad quaeque tùm conuincenda tùm exploranda For thou art stronge sure enough both to confounde al that is in them and to examine them He that hath not this warrantize from Christ or from his vicar may not presume It is noted in certaine learned Catholikes of our time that by reading such bookes they somewhat yéelded to error Albertus Pighius and Alphonsus Maye ignorant men be bolder then these It doth argue consent and that by presence you allow their doinges and therfore in foro ecclesiae you are taken for such although you be not such and you shal be punished with them Exite de illa Babilone haeresi populus meus vt nè participes sitis delictorum eius de plagis eius non accipiatis Goe out from her meaning Babilon which signifieth heresie my people that you be not partaker of her sinnes and that you receaue not of her plages Marke Populus meus My people because they were in heart his but in conuersation ioyned with his enemye Digni sunt morte non solùm qui ea faciunt sed etiam qui cònsentiunt illa facientibus They are woorthy of death not onely the doers but they that consent It doth dishonour God and honour his aduersarye a disgrace to the Churche a ioye and comfort to heresie The Churche is a Citie vpon an hil that maye onely appere and be séene the more it appereth and is vniuersal the more it is for the honour of Christ Honor Regis multitudo populi paucitas plebis ignominia Principis It is the Kinges honour to haue a multitude of people to haue fewe is dishonour to the Prince The aduersarys knowing this desireth onely to make vp a number and is carelesse what they thinke in conscience so they make a shewe to be his by any means De absconditis tuis adimpletus est venter eorum Of such as are secrete Catholikes they fil vp their heretical Sinagoge Lutherans Caluinists Puritanes Anabaptistes al are the aduersaryes by profession If he maye get also of them that would otherwise be compted Catholikes to ioyne openly with them is it not his honour He that in secret sootheth his prince and openlye taketh part with his enemve in heart is his in fact the others his in peace and

womens nailes and cutting her heare the great praise of manye kinges in Iuda veruntamen excelsa non abstulit but he tooke not away sacrifices made vpon hilles one point lacking to a perfect religious prince that Salomon built a seueral house for Pharaos daughter and his wife for reuerence to the temple and arke of God no Gentile to dwel nighe it that Moyses sent awaye vxorem Madianitidem his wife that was a Madianite and straunger when he became Dux populi Dei in Egipt and that he would not be estéemed the sonn of Pharao his daughter but renouncing al the glory of Egipt dealt onely with the people of God that the verye name of Incircumcisus was odious abhominable These and other like quae omnia in figura contingebant illis Al which chaunced to them in figures doo they not signifie that we ought to auoyde al societie and felowshipp of error and not to communicate with them in any smal poynt of religion nor to reserue any part thereof as indifferent yea rather to forsake wife and al dearest frendes then to communicate with infidelitie Last of al to conclude this part of Scriptural examples S. Ciprian doth much amplifie the crime of schisme by the gréeuous punishment of thē which consented onely and tooke anye part with Chore Dathan and Abyrō Omnes omninò cum authoribus coniungi qui fuerint eorum peccato contaminati That al are in punishment to be ioyned with the principal doers that shal be polluted with partaking their sinne He concludeth thus And when the sonnes of Aaron offerentes alienū ignem did so offende that the very thuribula eorum their censars were turned into laminas and might not be vsed but kept for a memorial to the terror of others are not we afraide cooperantes alienis oblationibus precibus concionibus erroribus Assisting and furthering by our presence heretical oblations praiers sermons other their errors Here might be added out of the newe testament the primitiue example of the Christians Hi omnes erant perseuerantes vnanimiter in oratione They continued with one accord euery one of them in prayer to god And Multitudinis credentium erat cor vnū anima vna Coeterorum autem nemo audebat se coniungere illis Of the number that beléeued there was one heart and one minde And of the rest that did not beléeue none durst ioyne him selfe with them according to the Psalme Qui inhabitare facis vnius moris in domo That maketh his people to dwel in his house al of one maner and opinion Is this obserued where heretikes and Catholiks méete in prayer together Haereticorū conciliabula saith S. Hierome non domus Dei appellantur sed speluncae latronum Heretical conuenticles are not called the house of God but dennes of strong théeues But it is very likely some man here wil say that these former authorities are against Gentiles and Paynims not against heretikes Of this point I wil saye more afterwarde whether of these are most to be shunned In the meane time this I saye That which in the olde Testament is spoken literally of Gentiles and Idolatours mistically is referred of al auncient Fathers to heretikes in the newe lawe as shal appere by the ecclesiastical examples next folowing wherein it is manifest that Christians did as muche abhorre from heretikes as the Iewes before from Gentiles and no meruaile because Christe commaunded so in plain wordes Si ecclesiam non audierit sit tibi sicut Ethnicus If he wil not heare the Churche let him be to thée as an Ethnike ¶ Examples out of ecclesiastical Histories ¶ The third Chapter OF S. Iohn in my first reason Euseb li. 4. ca. 13. ex Irenaeo writeth Ioannē Domini Discipulum cùm Ephesi ad balnea se conferret intusque videret Cerinthum haereticum se mox è balneo illotum proripuisse dixisse fugiamus ociùs nè balneum in quo est Cerinthus veritatis aduersarius extemplò corruat That S. Iohn our Lordes Disciple going to the Bathes at Ephesus and seing the heretike Cerinthus within immediatlye leaped out of the bathe vnwashed and saide Let vs flée hence in al haste least the bathe wherin Cerinthus the enemy of truth is fal presently In the same place of S. Policarpe S. Iohns scholler Marcioni in eius conspectum venienti ac roganti Nosce nos amabo Respondit Noui quidem primogenitū Sathanae When Marcion the heretike came into his sight and said ambitiouslye to him Knowe vs Sir I beséeche you I know thée quoth he to be an olde babe or the first begotten of Satan And be addeth generally of others Talem namque tùm Apostoli tùm illorum discipuli adhibuerunt cautionem vt nè sermonem quidem cum aliquo illorum qui veritatem suis commentis adulterare nitebantur aliquando conferre vellent sicut Paulus admonet hęreticum hominem deuita c. For the Apostles and their scollers were so warye and circumspect in this case that they would not so much as once reason the matter with any of them that indeuoured by their leasinges to corrupt the truth according to S. Paules admonition Shunne the man that is an heretike and auoyde him And therfore Ignatius the Apostles scholler also writeth epist. 6. ad Philadelphenses Fratres ne erretis Si quis eum sectatur qui se absciderit à veritate regnum dei non haereditabit My brethren be not deceaued If a man folow his faction that hath cut off him selfe from the truth he shal not inherite the kingdome of god And least they might vnderstand him of consent in opinion he addeth Et qui non abscedit à mendaci concionatore in gehennam condemnabitur Nec enim à piis discedendum nec cum impiis cōmercia habenda And he that goeth not awaye from a false preacher shal be damned into hel for neither must we depart from the godlye nor haue anye dealing with vngodlye and wicked men Of Origen Eusebius telleth li. 6. ca. 3. quòd necessitate compulsus in eadem familia degere cum Paulo quodam heretico tamen per idem tempus euidentia catholicę suę opinionis iudicia ostendere non dubitauit That although of necessitie he was forced to liue in one house with one Paule an heretike yet at the selfe-same time he doubted not to shewe euident tokens of his Catholike opinion Wherin Nam cùm frequens multitudo non hęreticorum tantummodò sed nostrorum etiam propter singularem dicendi vim quę in Paulo inesse videbatur ad eum accederent Origenes tamen nunquàm induci poterat vt precibus vnà cū illo interesset For when a great multitude not onely of heretikes but of our men also for a singuler grace of vtterance that séemed to be in Paule came vnto him as our Catholikes gladlye run to fine heretical sermons yet Origen could neuer be induced to be present at prayer diuine