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A17445	Puritanisme the mother, sinne the daughter. Or a treatise, wherein is demonstrated from twenty seuerall doctrines, and positions of Puritanisme; that the fayth and religion of the Puritans, doth forcibly induce its professours to the perpetrating of sinne, and doth warrant the committing of the same. Written by a Catholic priest, vpon occasion of certaine late most execrable actions of some Puritans, expressed in the page following. Heerunto is added (as an appendix) a funerall discourse touching the late different deathes of two most eminent Protestant deuines; to wit Doctour Price Deane of Hereford, and Doctour Butts Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge. By the same authour	B. C. (Catholic priest)	1633 (1633)	STC 4264; ESTC S107396	79,660	208

Antichristian and repugnant to the word of God Now to requite the Puritanes Charity herein we find them thus charged by other English Protestants In the Suruey of the pretended discipline c. 5. c. 24. cap. 35. The Puritanes peruert the true meaning of certaine places both of Scripture and Fathers to serue their owne turne And agayne in this sort The word of God is troubled with such choppers and changers of it M. Parks is no lesse sparing in his reprehension thus writing In his epist. dedicatory p. 3. The Puritanes seeke to vndermine the foundation of fayth And finally M. Powel thus doth recriminate the Puritanes In his Considerations The Puritanes are notorious and manifest Schismatikes cut off from the Church of God Neither do the Protestants thus inueigh one against another in short sentences or Periods of speach but they haue written seuerall hundred whole Treatises in reproofe of ech others doctrines and haue printed them in Protestant townes and Vniuersities as appeareth from the Catalogues heretofore yearely returned from Frankefort mentioned by Hospinian the Protestāt in his Historia Sacramentaria part altera and by Coccius his Thesaurus tom 2. The very Titles wherof sufficiently discouer that the Protestants do hould one another for Heretikes and therfore not capable of saluation see here the viperous brood issuing from the loynes of one Luther Apostata Fryar For greater expedition I will here content my selfe with setting downe the Titles only of Ten of their Bookes of which not any of them touch the sole Doctrine of the Eucharist because perhaps it may be replied that the one syde speak● therin rather like Papists then Protestants And out of these ten you may easily coniecture with what spirit of Contention and diuision the rest of the Bookes are written The ten Bookes are these following 1. Conradi Schlussenburgi Theologiae Caluinisticae libri tres in quibus seu in tabula quadam quasi ad oculum plusquam ex ducentis viginti tribus Sacramentariorum publicis scriptis pagellis verbis proprijs Authorum nominibus indicatis demonstratur eos de nullo ferè Christianae fidei articulo rectè sentire Printed Francofurti 1594. 2. Oratio de Incarnatione filij Dei contra impios blasphemos errores Swinglianorum Caluinistarum Printed Tubingae Anno Domini 1586. 3. Alberti Graueri Bellum Ioannis Caluini Iesu Christi Braptae 1598. 4. Gulielmi Zepperi Dillinburgensis Ecclesiae Pastoris Institutio de tribus Religionis summis Capitibus quae inter Euangelicos in Controuersiam vocantur Hannouiae 1596. 5. Aegidij Hunnij Caluinus Iudaizans Hoc est Iudaicae glossae corruptelae quibus Ioannes Caluinus illustrissima Scripturae sacrae loca testi●onia de gloriosâ Trinitate Deitate Christi Spiritus Sancti cum primis autem vaticinia Prophetarum de aduentu Messiae Natiuitate eius Passione Resurrectione Ascensione ad caelos Sessione ad dextram Dei detestandum in modum corrumpere non abhorruit Wittembergae 1593. 6. Pia defensio aduersus Iohannis Caluini Petri Boquini Theodori Bezae Gulielmi Ctebitij c. similium calumnias Item Refutatio Pelagiani seu Anabaptistici Caluinistarum erroris de Baptismo peccato Originali Adduntur Collectaneae plurimorum Caluini contra Deum eius Prouidentiam Praedestinationem Erfordiae 1583. 7. Christiani Kittelmanni decem graues perniciost errores Swinglianorum in doctrinâ de peccatis baptismo ex proprijs ipsorum libris collecti refutati Magdeburgi 1562. 8. De gaudijs aeternae vitae quomodo Sacramentarij nobis illa gaudia imminuant Erfordiae 1585. 9. Ioannis Mosellani Praeseruatiuae contra venenum Swinglianorum Tubingae 1586. 10. Denominatio Imposturarum fraudum quibus Aegidius Hunnius Ecclesiae Orthodoxae doctrinam petulanter corrumpere pergit Bremae 1592. Thus we see My worthy Friend in what inueterate intestine and irreconciable simulties dissensions and Booke-warres the Protestants of all kinds and sorts doe liue among themselues from the true consideration of which point it may euidently be inferred that the Protestants by such their disagreements cannot nor do affoard the hope of saluation to other Protestants dying in a contrary faction to themselues except the said Protestants should graunt contrary to the Scriptures to all Antiquity and to the force of all reason that men who are Heretikes and Aliens from the Church of God who vrge only a shadow of the word of God but not the word it selfe who are Heretikes maintayning two Gods whose Religion is erroneous Antichristian and repugnant to the word of God who peruert the Scriptures to serue their owne turnes who vndermyne the foundation of fayth as being manifest schismatikes are cut of from the Church finally who are charged by other Protestants their owne Brethren and this in set Treatises not to belieue aright almost any one Article of Christian fayth but to maintayne blasphemous and impious errrours as to wage war against Iesus-Christ to defend Pelagianisme and Anabaptisticall errours and lastly to corrupt the most illustrious passages of Scripture vrged by all antiquity in proofe of the most glorious Trinity of the Diuinity of Christ and of the holy Ghost except I say that such men as these dying in this state irrepentantly can be saued But now if we will turne the leafe ouer and obserue what the most learned Protestants do confesse and teach in behalfe of the Papists dying Papists we shall fynd that both by necessary Inferences resulting out of their owne graunted Premises as also in expresse tearmes they maintayne that the Papists dying in their owne Religion may be saued This shall be proued seuerall wayes therby to iustify Doctour Pryce his election and choyce in dying a Catholike member of the Roman Church and not a member of the Protestants late erected Conuenticle And first this Verity takes its probation from that other acknowledged Verity of the Protestants who confesse that the Roman Church is the true Church of God and that in the same Church Saluation is to be obtained To this purpose we may alleadge D. Field in his owne wordes In his booke of the Church lib. 3. c. 46. We doubt not but that the Church in which the Bishop of Rome with more then a Luciferian pryde exalted himselfe was notwithstanding the true Church of God that it held a sauing profession of the truth in Christ M. Hooker thus worthily honoureth the Church of Rome In his booke of Ecclesiast policy ag● 88. The Church of Rome is to be reputed a part of the house of God a limme of the Visible Church of Christ we gladly acknowledge them to be of the family of Iesus Christ. D. Barrows In his Sermons and two questions disputed ad Clerum pag. 448. I dare not deny the name of Christians to the Romanists sith the learneder writers do acknowledge the Church of Rome to be the Church of God M. Morton In his treatise of the Kingdome of Israel and of the Church pag

the tyme of Boniface the third vz. anno 606. was inuisible and fled into the wildernes there to remayne a long season M. Napper includes more ages within this inuisibility thus confessing Vpon the Reuelat c. 18. frō the tyme of Constantine vntil our daies euen one thousand two hundred and sixty yeares the Pope and the Clergy haue possessed the outward visible Church of Christiās And againe M. Napper vbi supra in c. 11. 12. during the space of twelue hundred and sixty yeares the true Church hath abyded latent and inuisible D. Fulke as forgetting the tyme afore limited by him granteth thus In his answer t● a counterfeit catholike p. 33. The true Church immediatly decayed after the Apostles tyme. With whome Peter Martyr seemes to agree thus confessing Lib. de Votis pag. 477. Errours he meaning our Catholike Articles did begin in the Church presently after the Apostles tyme. And the Protestant Authour of the booke called Antichristus siue Prognosticō finis mundi hath the like saying vz. Pa. 13. frō the Apostles times till Luther the Gospell had neuer open passage And with both these conspires Sebastianus Francus that noted Protestāt who thus hath left recorded In epist de abrogandis in vniuersum omnibus statutis Ecclesiasticis For certayne the externall Church togeather with the fayth and Sacraments vanished away presently after the Apostles departure and that for these thousand and foure hundred yeares the Church hath beene no where externall and visible But D. Downham with whome I will close feareth not to include euen the Apostles tymes within this granted latēcy of his owne Church he thus writing L. de Antichrist l. 2. c. 2 pa 22. The Generall defection of the visible Church foretould 2. Thes 2. began to worke in the Apostles tyme. I heer passe ouer how our learnedest Aduersaries confesse all want of ordinary Calling of their Ministers at the first arysing of Luther which want euer includeth an interruption of the Protestant Church at that tyme for if that Church had then beene in Being it had not then stood in need of such their imaginary Extraordinary calling but might haue rereceaued it by Imposition of hands from their owne Cergy of those dayes But no such men of their Clergy then were and therefore we haue the lesse reason to meruayle why Caluin of this poynt thus writeth Lascicius the Protestāt reciteth this saying of caluin lib. ●e Russ Muscouit c religione cap. 13. Quia Papae Tyrannide c. By reason of the tyranny of the Pope true Succession of Ordinatiō was broken of therefore we stand in need of a new course herein and this function or Calling was altogether extraordinary With whom D. Fulke iumpeth in these wordes Against Stapleton and Martial pag. 1● The Protestants which first preached in these dayes had extraordinary Calling Thus far My deare fryend touching the continuall radiancy and resplendent Visibility which is necessarily exacted to be in Christs true Church at all times without the least interruption and yet which neuertheles is not to be found in the Protestant Church And all this prooued from the often ingeminated and inculcated acknowledgments of our owne most learned Aduersaries Now then to encircle the concluding force of all the said Protestants authorities within this ensuing Argument that therby the ineuitable resultācy out of the Premises may more intensly strike your iudgment I thus dispute The true Church of Christ euen by the doctrine of the Protestants must euer and at all tymes be Visible But the Protestant Church euen by the Protestants Confessions hath not euer and at all times byn Visible Therefore the Protestants Church euen by the Protestants Confessions is not the true Church of Christ. Which last Proposition is the Compound made of the two former Ingredients What can any learned Protestant reply hereto 1. Will he maintaine that the Protestāts aboue alledged in teaching a Necessary Visibility of the Church of Christ at all times were deceaued But this is weakly said because all of them or the most do reiect the doctrine of Traditions as holding nothing to be belieued but what hath its warrant from the expresse written word of God and therefore they did in their iudgments build this their doctrine vpon the Written word which in diuers most cleare passages both of Prophesyes and of other Texts heere Esa 2. 49. 54. 60. 66.1 Psalm 18. 28.1 Daniel 2. 3. Mi●o●as 4. ●ec● Ierem. 33. Ephes cap. 4. cited in the Margent doth inculcate this so necessary a Visibility of the Church And according hereto Melancthon the former Protestant after he had alledged diuers places of Scripture to this end thus concludeth In loc com edit 1. 61. cap. de Ecclesia Hi similes loci c. these and such like places of Scripture non de Idea Platonica sed de Ecclesia Visibili loquuntur do not speake of Plato his Idea but of a Visible Church 2. Or secondly Will the Protestāts say that though the former Protestants do graunt that the Protestant Church for so many ages together aboue set downe hath bene Inuisible yet that there are other most learned Protestāts who confidently auer that the Protestant Church hath euer bene Visible and therefore that by their former Brethrens Confessions they are in no sort endangered But obserue the insufficiency of this second euasion and the disparity betwene them that do acknowledge the Inuisibility of their owne Church and the others maintayning the euer Visibility of it Seing the first sort of men being graue candid and learned euen through the rack of truth do confesse and this to their owne mayne preiudice the Inuisibility of their Church for so many ages together so speaking in behalfe of the Catholikes their Aduersaries against themselues which they neuer would haue done but that the vndeniable euidency of the Truth compelled them thereto Whereas these others which perhaps may be alledged do speake in their owne behalfe and in defence of their owne Religion and consequently such their wordes are to be accounted more partiall and therein lesse to be regarded And heere the words of Tertullian may most truly take place In Apologetico Magis fides prona est in aduersus semetipses confitentes quàm pro semetipsis negantes Credit rather is to be giuen to those that confesse against themselues then to those that deny in their owne behalfe Agayne why will not such Protestants as are so impudent as to maintayne their owne Churches euer Visibility insist plainly and sincerely in the alledging of the Visible Members therof if any such Visible Members were for euery age the which to performe not any one Protestant hath bene able For when they are vrged therto by vs Catholikes then they flye to the Scripture through the false vnderstanding of it the mayne Ocean of Heretikes as it fell out in the Conference some yeares since betwene D White D. Featly on the one syde and certaine