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A39364	Polemica Christiana, or, An earnest contending for the faith which was once deliver'd unto the saints in I. a letter to the author of the Dialogue, &c., II. a vindication of the doctrine of Mr. Richard Hooker, against the mis-representation of an anti-trinitarion, in a pamphlet entitled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the trinity, III. reflections upon some passages in a book entitled, The history of religion, IV. a vindication of Vincentius Lirinensis, from the unjust reproach cast on him, by an anonymous writer, in a book entitled, Animadversions on Mr. Hill's book / by Edmund Elys ...	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1696 (1696)	Wing E685; ESTC R41121	13,781	30

Elder Brother by the same Venter to the Duke of Buckingham had been brought into the High Commission Anno 1627. for Living openly in Adultery with Sir John Howard one of the Younger Sons of Thomas the First Earl of Suffolk of that Family Sentenc'd among other things to do Penance at St. Paul's Cross she escap'd her Keepers took Sanctuary in the Savoy and was from thence convey'd away by the French Ambassador The Duke being dead all further Prosecution against her dyed also with him which notwithstanding the Proud Woman being more terrified with the fear of the the Shame than the sence of the Sin vented her malice and displeasure against the Arch-Bishop who had been very severe against her at the time of her Tryal when he was come unto his Greatness spending her Tongue upon him in words so full of deep Disgrace and Reproach unto him that he could do no less than cause her to be laid in the Gate-House But being not long after deliver'd thence by the Practice of Howard aforemention'd Howard was seiz'd upon and laid up in her Place which Punishment tho' it was the least that could be lookt for he so highly Stomach'd that as soon as the Arch-Bishop was Impeach'd by the House of Commons and committed to Custody by the Lords which happened on Friday Decemb. 18. 1640. he Petition'd for Relief against the Arch-Bishop and some others of the high Commissioners by whom the Warrant had been sign'd The Lords upon the reading of it impos'd a Fine of 500 l. on the Arch-Bishop and 250 a piece upon Lamb and Duck and prest it with such cruel Rigour that they forced him to sell his Plate to make Payment of it the Fine being set on Monday 21 of December and Order'd to be paid on Wednesday after Let any sincere Christian in any Part of the World that has ever heard this Story be Judge whether this most Reverend Prelate were not Persecuted for Righteousness sake Most certainly the Wrath of God shall Burn throughout all Generations against the Posterity of his Persecutors if they Approve the MURTHER which their Fore-fathers Committed and against all others who shall ever undertake to Vindicate that Diabolical false Pretence of Justice I pray God that all the Enemies of Truth and Goodness particularly the Anti-Trinitarians may know and feel the Power and Efficacy of these sacred words Matth. 21. 44. Whosoever shall fall on this STONE shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will Grind him to Powder A VINDICATION OF VINCENTIUS LIRINENSIS c. I Am so sensible of the Orthodoxy of Vincentius Lirinensis in Matters of the greatest Importance to all Mankind that I think it my Duty to Exhort all Young Students in Divinity to the diligent Perusal of that Excellent Book Entitled Vincentii Lirinensis Commonitorium And to declare to all the World my Abhorrency of the unjust Reproach that an Anonymous Writer hath endeavour'd to fix upon this most Zealous Assertor of the Doctrine of the H. B. and Glorious Trinity even in these Days in which we have Heard even from those Men who wou'd retain the Name of Christians such horrid Blasphemies and open Detestations of The Onely True God in whose NAME we are Baptized The Father The Son and The Holy Ghost Animadversions c. pag. 61. Mr. Hill makes a strange use of the Maxim of Vincentius Lirinensis Quod ubique quod semper quod ad omnibus c. That Priest was a Semipilagian that is he thought that a Man could Believe by his own strength and that afterward God gave him Grace to execute his Good and Pious Resolutions He introduced this Maxim meerly in opposition to St. Augustine c. Answ Vincentius Lirinensis was so far from being tainted with the Pelagian Heresy that he Condemn'd Pelagius as a most detestable Heretick or Wrester of the Holy Scriptures as he did Arius Macedonius Nestorius c. He shews us the best way that can ever be to preserve our Souls by the Grace of God from the Contagion of any Heresy whatsoever Sive ego says he sive quis alius vellet exurgentium Haereticorum fraudes deprehendere laqueosque vitare in Fide sana sanus atque integer permanere duplici modo munire Fidem suam Domino adjuvante deberet Primo scilicet Divinae Legis Auctoritate tum deinde Ecclesiae Catholicae Traditione Hic forsitan requirat aliquis Cum sit Perfectus Scripturarum Canon sibique ad omnia satis superque sufficiat quid opus est ut ei Ecclesiasticae Intelligentiae jungatur Auctoritas Quia scilicet Scripturam Sacram pro ipsa sua altitudine non uno eodemque sensu universi accipiunt sed ejusdem eloquia aliter atque aliter alius atque alius interpretatur c. 'T is Evident that by Divina Lex he understands the Holy Scriptures By making the Tradition of the Church subordinate to the Holy Scriptures he plainly Declares that ever since the New Testament was Written it has been the Duty of all Ministers of the Gospel to Confirm or Prove the Truth of their Oral Discourses by shewing their Conformity to the Writings of the holy Apostles 'T is Evident that by the Tradition of the Church we are to understand a Summary or Breviary of the Fundamental Points or Articles of the Christian Religion which the Holy APOSTLES and Their SUCCESSORS throughout all Ages have Delivered to the World by word of Mouth in their Preaching and Catechizing Injoyning all Christians in all Parts of the Earth to ponder them in their Hearts and to be always mindful of them This Summary or Breviary of the Prime Articles of the Christian Religion is contain'd in that Form of sound Words which we call the Apostles Creed And this is that TRADITION or FAITH once DELIVER'D to the Saints which St. Irenaeus speaks so much of which I doubt not but all Learned Men will acknowledge when they shall duly consider those words of that Blessed Saint which I shall here recite D. Irenaei adversus Haereses Lib. 1. Cap. 2. Ecclesia quanquam per universum orbem terrarum usque ad fines terrae dispersa ab Apostolis eorum Discipulis Fidem accepit quae est in unum Deum Omnipotentem qui fecit coelum terram maria omnia quae in eis sunt Et in unum Christum Jesum Filium Dei incarnatum pro nostra salute Et in Spiritum Sanctum qui per Prophetas Praedicavit Dispensationis mysteria adventus ex Virgine nativitatem passionem resurrectionem ex mortuis in Carne ad coelos assumptionem dilecti Christi Jesu Domini nostri ipsius ex coelis in gloria Patris adventum ad instauranda omnia excitandam omnem totius humani generis carnem cui Christo Jesu Domino nostro Deo Salvatori Regi juxta voluntatem Patris invisibilis omne genu flectatur coelestium terrestrium infernorum omnis lingua confiteatur

ipsi judicium justum in omnibus faciat spiritualia quidem nequitiei impios ac injustos iniquos ac blasphemos homines in ignem aeternum mittat justis vero sanctis qui mandata ipsius servarunt in dilectione ipsius permanserunt partim ab initio partim ex paenitentia vitam largitus incorruptibilitatem donet gloriam aeternam tribuat Cap. 3. Hanc praedicationem hanc Fidem Ecclesia velut dixi adepta quanquam per totum mundum dispersa diligenter conservat quasi unam Domum inhabitans similiter his Credit velut unam animam idem cor habens consone haec praedicat docet ac TRADIT velut uno ore praedita Nam Linguae in mundo dissimiles sunt verum Virtus Traditionis una eadem est Et neque in Germaniis fundatae Ecclesiae aliter CREDUNT aut aliter TRADUNT neque in Hispaniis neque in Celtis neque in Oriente neque in Aegypto neque in Lybia neque hae quae in medio mundo constitutae sunt Sed quemadmodum Sol creatura Dei in toto mundo unus idem est sic etiam Praedicatio Veritatis ubique lucet illuminat omnes homines ad cognitionem veritatis venire volentes Et neque qui valde potens est in dicendo ex Ecclesiae Praefectis alia ab his dicet Nemo enim est super Magistrum neque debilis in dicendo hanc Traditionem imminuet Quum enim una eadem FIDES sit neque is qui multum de ipsa dicere potest plus quam oportet dicit neque qui parum ipsam imminuit This is the Tradition of the Church or the Catholick Faith which Vincentius Lirinensis Directs us unto in these words In ipsa Catholica Ecclesia magnopere Curandum est ut id Teneamus quod Ubique quod Semper quod ad omnibus Creditum est And now I appeal to any Man of common Ingenuity to Judge what Censure this Anonymus's Assertion Deserves That Vincentius Lirinensis introduced this Maxim Quod ubique c. meerly in Opposition to Saint Augustine I pray God to incline the Heart of this Man and of all others that please themselves with their extraordinary Fluency of plausible Expressions to consider that they shall Give account in the Day of Judgment of every IDLE WORD 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A LETTER To a Friend Concerning the Publication of the short Letter to J. H. a Non-conformist Preacher in EXETER SIR I Give you many Thanks for acquainting me that some Ingenious Persons are dissatisfied that I should put so high a Value upon those few Lines which I wrote to J. H. as to Publish them in my Scripta Polemica I confess I did it rather out of a Fulness of Thought that this is a most important Truth than any probable Grounds that it would be consider'd by many Readers viz. That J. H. in refusing to Answer such a Serious and Equitable Request hath plainly Discover'd his HYPOCRISY and consequently render'd himself less capable of Deceiving those People who shall ever make any just Reflection on it I did most earnestly Entreat Him even by the Profession he makes in common with all those that pretend to be Ministers of the Gospel of Desiring the Propagation of the Belief of all Sanctifying Truth that if he thought there was any Error in the Printed Paper I sent Him he would Endeavour to Convince me of it In that Paper Entitled Animadversions upon some Passages in a Book Entituled The true Nature of a Gospel-Church and its Government are these words It is most Evident that those Men are Guilty of most Abominable Iniquity who endeavour to Seduce any People from the Communion of the Church of England in which the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Religion are so clearly and fully Exprest and those most important Expressions so frequently Repeated that Persons of the Lowest Intellectuals who do not Rebel against the Light in frequenting our Religious Assemblies may more easily attain to the Knowledge of All things that are Necessary to their Salvation than by Hearing or Reading the best Sermons that have been or shall be Preacht by any of the Non-Conformists to the end of the World Which Assertation is as Evident as it is That any Illiterate Persons may more easily Meditate on Truths plainly Exprest and frequently Suggested to their Remembrance than Collect the same Truths out of divers large Discourses if they were therein Imply'd So that it can hardly be imagined how any Man can be in any thing more Serviceable to the Destroyer of Souls than by Teaching People to Despise our CATECHISM and COMMON-PRAYER It is now Manifest and shall be so to all Posterity that the Multitude of these Despisers have Encouraged the Profest Enemies of the God-head of our Blessed Saviour to Publish their BLASPHEMIES Arise O God Plead thine own Cause Remember how the foolish man Blasphemeth thee daily Dear Sir I doubt not but you will Join with Me in this my Daily Prayer that by the Inspiration of the Spirit of Truth the Hearts of all Learned Men that are assur'd of the Divine Right of EPISCOPACY may be effectually Inclin'd to Endeavour to the utmost of their several Capacities to Convince all Persons that believe their Souls to be Immortal of the Truth of this strange Assertion That the Want of a due Regard to the Authority of BISHOPS has been one of the greatest Causes of all the prodigious Disorders and Calamities in the Christian World Oremus invicem ut Salvemur Your Affectionate Friend and Servant E. E. POSTSCRIPT The Paper I mention was Published by Richard Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-lane 1690. Mr. Wood takes notice of these Animadversions c. in his Athenae Oxonienses Vol. 2. p. 563.