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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63840	A defence of the confuter of Bellarmin's Second note of the church, antiquity, against the cavils of the adviser	Tullie, George, 1652?-1695.	1687 (1687)	Wing T3236; ESTC R7422	16,243	26

Club together over the Pot he speaks of in his Introduction for the Confutation of Bellarmin and to instance no farther in this fulsome kind what else is his whole scribble but one continued breach of Good Manners and common Civiliey unless he thinks it the part of the Gentleman to Boffoon a whole Church and all her Clergy I shall not farther recriminate though I justly might from several of their late Papers were it worth the while I shall only therefore tell him that Bellarmin in that very Chapter we are now upon gives his Adversaries the Lye twice very roundly and why should he be angry with a man for copying after such an Original And that I could wish some People were not so deeply concern'd in the Character of those who in the Apostle's homely Phrase shall in the latter times speak Lyes in Hypocrisie 1 Tim. 4. 2. and by lying Wonders 2 Thess 2. 9. impose upon the People as to deserve such plain English But the Lye deserves a Stab they say and therefore we may now expect a keen Pen when pointed with such generous Resentments In the second place therefore he pretends that the Confuter in kicking down the Church of Rome has overthrown his own at the same blow For he having asserted p. 49. not as the Adviser words it That the addition of Articles to the ancient Creed takes of all claim to the ancient Truth as if a Church that coins new and false Articles of Faith does thereby forfeit her Title to those true and ancient ones she before retain'd though not impugn'd by these new ones as the Adviser would suggest but that the present Church of Rome having superadded several Articles of her own contrary to several of those Christian Truths upon which she was originally founded becomes another Church from what she was then and cannot plead Antiquity for her present Constitution the Adviser subsumes that neither then can the Church of England be the ancient Church who besides the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds has another of a later date of nine and thirty Articles besides another Plot-Creed call'd the Test Sure this Man wrote only to make People merry Or is he really not able to distinguish betwixt Articles of the Christian Faith of necessity to be believ'd in order to Salvation and such he cannot but know the Church of Rome accounts all the Articles of the new Trent Creed and those of Communion and external agreement which tho ancient Truths and if we cannot give better proofs of their true Antiquity than they can do of their necessary Articles wee 'l be content to lose them are yet of an inferior Nature And as to our Plot Creed in particular I 'le set another Plot-Creed with a Witness against it and that is the deposing Power by Law establish'd by a Law that 's a Creed in the strictest Sense to them the Definition of a General Council and had it not been for this and other Plot-Creeds of absolving Subjects from their Allegiance and the like I am apt to believe they had never been troubled with ours In the next Paragraph the Adviser leads us such a Dance there 's no keeping Pace with him He frisks and frolicks it so in his Field of Crontroversy that he puts me in mind of the Diversion of another sort of Animal lately come into a good Pasture and in a warm Sun. I was in despair for some time of finding out his meaning in his long Ramble of two Pages but beating about for it laid in a very narrow compass I found it at last in a Corner of the Field of Controversy and 't is in short this That the Confuter's Argumentation which see p. 50. c. do's not prove that when a Change or Alteration in Religion begins publickly to be abetted maintained and propagated c. That then such an Alteration in Religion could spread it self over the whole Christian World and yet the Authors Promoters Abetters and Embracers of it not be known and taken notice of This being a popular tho very weak refuge insisted upon by greater men than the Adviser I shall give it a more distinct tho short Answer First then I say That the Confuter p. 52. has given him one particular Instance of an acknowledg'd Change of which they themselves cannot yet assign the Author by whom nor the time when it was introduc'd and that he has farther p. 53 c. as much as his design'd Brevity would admit evinc'd the Rise and Progress of two notorious changes in Religion establish'd in the Church of Rome and the Opposition they met with and could at h pleasure have farther enlarg'd upon this Subject Now either of these Ratiocinations are a sufficient Confutation of Bellarmin's adopted by the Adviser And how little he has replied to his Instances we shall see by and by 2dly He is mightily out in his Computation unless the old blunder of the Roman being the Catholick Church run still in his Head if he thinks all those Doctrines of theirs which we charge with the want of true Antiquity were ever universally receiv'd over the whole Christian World as he flourishes to exaggerate the Matter What thinks he of one of the Confuter's instances the Papal Authority to go no further But I hope his better Knowledg in this point will supersede me the labour of enlarging upon so copious an Argument 3dly I must tell the Adviser that the Doctrines we complain of being generally such as are calcuted for the Meridian of Rome the greater Veneration Wealth and Grandeur of the Pope and his Clergy 't is no wonder at all that we hear not of so much Bustle and Noise about them in the Western World as we might otherwise have expected And if he asks me as he 's good at such silly questions Where the Church of England was all this time and why She did not Preach and make Laws against such Corruptions and their Abetters I presume to ask his Wisdom again Where She was under the late Reign of Cromwel and why She did not Preach and make Laws against him and his Abetters Why truly She was in both Cases under the invincible Tyranny of an Usurper and therefore methinks the general Answer of the Housholder to his Servants asking him whence came the tares that an Enemy had Sown them might satisfie in this Anti-tipe of the Parable likewise especially since we find neither Master nor Servants any farther sollicitous in particular Enquiries about them even when they grew up and were consequently seen and discern'd for ill weeds to be sure grow fast enough And I shall only in this place desire the Gentlemen who are so ready to boast of the present Continuance of the discriminating Doctrines of the Church of Rome notwithstanding the Opposition they have met with to make this farther Remark with me upon the Parable of the Tares That they were suffer'd to grow up with the Wheat until the Harvest and let them recollect what became