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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40674	The holy state by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing F2443; ESTC R21710	278,849	457

the Pope that these Antipodes were not subject to his jurisdiction which much incensed his Holinesse against that strange opinion We will branch the description of an Heretick into these three parts First he is one that formerly hath been of the true Church They went out from us but they were not of us These afterwards prove more offensive to the Church then very Pagans as the English-Irish descended anciently of English Parentage be it spoken with the more shame to them and sorrow to us turning wild become worse enemies to our Nation then the Native Irish themselves 2. Maintaining a Fundamentall errour Every scratch in the hand is not a stab to the heart nor doth every false opinion make a Heretick 3. With obstinacy Which is the dead flesh making the green wound of an errour fester into the old soare of an Heresie It matters not much what manner of person he hath If beautifull perchance the more attractive of feminine followers If deformed so that his body is as odde as his opinions he is the more properly entitled to the reputation of crooked Saint His naturall parts are quick and able Yet he that shall ride on a winged horse to tell him thereof shall but come too late to bring him stale news of what he knew too well before Learning is necessary in him if he trades in a criticall errour but if he onely broches dregs and deals in some dull sottish opinion a trovell will serve as well as a pencill to daub on such thick course colours Yea in some Heresies deep studying is so uselesse that the first thing they learn is to inveigh against all learning However some smattering in the originall tongues will do well On occasion he will let flie whole vollies of Greek and Hebrew words whereby he not onely amazeth his ignorant Auditours but also in conferences daunteth many of his opposers who though in all other learning farre his superiours may perchance be conscious of want of skill in those languages whilest the Heretick hereby gains credit to his cause and person His behaviour is seemingly very pious and devout How foul soever the postern and backdoore be the gate opening to the street is swept and garnished and his outside adorned with pretended austerity He is extremely proud and discontented with the times quarrelling that many beneath him in piety are above him in place This pride hath caused many men which otherwise might have been shining lights prove smoaking firebrands in the Church Having first hammered the heresie in himself he then falls to seducing of others so hard it is for one to have the itch and not to scratch Yea Babylon her self will alledge that for Sions sake she will not hold her peace The necessity of propogating the truth is errours plea to divulge her falshoods Men as naturally they desire to know so they desire what they know should be known If challenged to a private dispute his impudence bears him out He counts it the onely errour to confesse he hath erred His face is of brasse which may be said either ever or never to blush In disputing his Modus is sine modo and as if all figures even in Logick were magicall he neglects all forms of reasoning counting that the onely Syllogisme which is his conclusion He slights any Synod if condemning his opinions esteeming the decisions thereof no more then the forfeits in a barbers shop where a Gentlemans pleasure is all the obligation to pay and none are bound except they will bind themselves Sometimes he comes to be put to death for his obstinacy Indeed some charitable Divines have counted it inconsistent with the lenity of the Gospel which is to expect and endeavour the amendment of all to put any to death for their false opinions and we reade of S. Paul though the Papists paint him alwayes with a sword that he onely came with a rod. However the mildest Authours allow that the Magistrate may inflict capitall punishment on Hereticks in cases of 1. Sedition against the State wherein he lives And indeed such is the sympathy betwixt Church and Commonwealth that there are few Heresies except they be purely speculative and so I may say have heads without hands or any practicall influence but in time the violent maintainers of them may make a dangerous impression in the State 2. Blasphemy against God and those points of religion which are awfully to be believed For either of these our Heretick sometimes willingly undergoes death and then in the Calendar of his own conceit he canonizeth himself for a Saint yea a Martyr CHAP. 11. The rigid Donatists THe Donatists were so called from a double Donatus whereof the one planted the sect the other water'd it the devil by Gods permission gave the increase The elder Donatus being one of tolerable parts and intolerable pride rais'd a Schisme in Carthage against good Cecilian the Bishop there whom he loaded unjustly with many crimes which he was not able to prove and vexed with this disgrace he thought to right his credit by wronging religion and so began the heresie of Donatists His most dominative tenet was that the Church was perished from the face of the earth the reliques thereof onely remaining in his party I instance the rather on this Heresie because the reviving thereof is the new disease of our times One Vibius in Rome was so like unto Pompey ut permutato statu Pompeius in illo ille in Pompeio salutari possit Thus the Anabaptists of our dayes and such as are Anabaptistically inclin'd in all particulars resemble the old Donatists abating onely that difference which is necessarily required to make them alike The epithet of rigid I therefore do adde to seperate the Donatists from themselves who seperated themselves from all other Christians For there were two principall sides of them first the Rogatists from Rogatus their teacher to whom S. Augustine beareth witnesse that they had zeal but not according to knowledge These were pious people for their lives hating bloudy practices though erroneous in their doctrine The learned Fathers of that age count them part of the true Church and their brethren though they themselves disclaim'd any such brotherhood with other Christians Oh the sacred violence of such worthy mens charity in plucking those to them which thrust themselves away But there was another sort of Jesuited Donatists as I may say whom they called Circumcellions though as little reason can be given of their name as of their opinions whom we principally intend at this time Their number in short time grew not onely to be considerable but terrible their tenet was plausible and winning and that Faith is easily wrought which teacheth men to believe well of themselves From Numidia where they began they overspread Africa Spain France Italie and Rome it self We find not any in Brittain where Pelagianisme mightily reigned either