themselues are croaking like Frogs in euery corner labouring to maintayne the Popes authority I meane the Iesuited Rout Do spread themselues in each country To draw men to disloyalty They counsell Subiects kill their kings Stabbings they vse and poysonings q Our Countrey and times afford store of examples to proue this Christ gaue no such commaundement When first he his Disciples sent Of this Conuersion if you boast Whereby poore soule Hell hath engrost I yéeld you full willyngly It well agréeth with Popery To draw Disciples is no marke For so doeth many a fayned Clarke r 2. Pet. 2.1 2. Acts 20.30 The Church to trueth which doeth conuert We doe imbrace with all our heart Thou sayst Romes Fayth once ouer all The world was famous so sayth Paul s Rom. 1.8 And Rome did first conuert our Land And hereupon you greatly stand Romes Fayth indéede once bare the bell And so it did deserue it well But Rome's not now as heretofore The faythfull City 's made a whoore t If. 1.21 So it was said of Ierusalem which had more excellent particular promises thē Rome can alledge any If new Rome now were as the old Then we with Romanists would hold If Rome become Christs enemy Then we from Babylon must flye u Apoc. 18.4 To say that Rome is therefore sound Because of old it was renownd It may a Papist satisfie But men of iudgement it denye Paul neuer Rome did magnifie As he did those of Thessaly w See 1. Thes 1.3 4 5 6 7 8. Yet now that Church is cleane defac'd And there the Turk himselfe hath plac'd The Asian Churches x Ephesus Smyrna Pergamus Thyatira Sardis Philadelphia Leodicea Apoc. 1.11 famous once Are turned to an heape of stones The golden lights y Those seuen Churches were represented by seuen golden Candlesticks Apoc. 1.20 of Saint Iohns age Are now become euen Sathans Cage Proue thou that Rome hath not declinde From th' ancient Church by Paul refinde And then I le say thou hast done more Then euer Papist did before But for first turning of our Nation I trow thou namest it but for fashion For they that looke in History Thereof can find no certainty Simon Zelotes as some say z Niceph. lib. 2. cap. 40. Did first Christs Gospell here display Euen whilest that Emperour did raigne By whom our Sauiour Christ was slayne a Gildas Lib. de victoria Aurelij Ambrosij Some say that he of Arimathy b Ioseph who buryed Christ In the yeere of grace sixty thrée From France by Philip c Philip the Apostle was sent ouer To vs the Fayth for to discouer d So sayth Gildas also Hereto agréeth a learned man That ancient Clarke Tertullian That by th' Apostles Brittanny Was turn'd to Christianity e Tertullian in his book against the Iewes amongst other places couerted by the Apostles reckoneth diuers partes of France and of Brittayne So doth Origene Hom. 4. vpon Ezekiel Pope Eleutheriuo long agoe f About the yeere of Christ 180. As his Epistle plaine doth show g This Epistle hath bin found out of the ancient records of the Kings of England Vnto king Lucius hither sent Ere Ethelbert was king of Kent h Which was about 600. yeres after Christ We hold the Fayth that then was taught But you the same do set at naught i Eleutherius referred K. Lucius to the Scriptures clean against the Papists course now and called him Gods Vicar in his kingdome which Title the Pope alone doeth now challenge When Rome the Trueth doth once forsake Then we of Rome our leaues must take If that our Church were Catholicke To come to Church thou wouldst not sticke If of the word thou knewst the sense Thou soone would'st leaue that fond pretēce Our Church that Truth doth firme imbrace Which all those hold in euery place Who leauing mens Traditions cleane Vpon the Scriptures onely leane k That is truly Catholike which euery where alwayes by all viz. true Christians is beleeued Vincent cont Haer. cap. 3. Let Papists proue that the word Catholike being takē in that sence ours is not the Catholike church Prophet THou cit'st a Text of Malachy l Mal. 1.11 Hoping to prooue thy Masse thereby Alas the reason is but small And helpes that Idol not at all In it God threateneth the Iewes Who their great Priuiledge did abuse And thought the Lord was tyed to them And vnto their Ierusalem The Prophet telles that God elsewhere Will find out those which shall him feare And in an order without blame Shall call vpon his holy Name Speaking to their capacity The Legall termes he doth apply m So Ioel 2.28 the holy Ghost foretelling the plenty of spirituall enlightening which the people shall haue vnder Christ doeth deliuer it vnder the names of visions and dreames which notwithstanding were not ordinary in the times of the Gospell And calls our Gospel-like Seruice A pure n Pure in Christ being accepted of GOD through him 1. Pet. 2.5 and spotlesse Sacrifice What ground is here then for the Masse It stil remayneth as it was A grosse deuice defaming Christ Who is our true and onely Priest o See more of this hereafter in speaking more directly of the Masse The speach of Dauid of the Skyes p Psal 19.3 But according to their account Psal 18. Vnto the Apostles Paul applyes q Rom. 10.18 And sayth their sound went farre and neere As in the stories doeth appeare Tell mee I pray what good to you This place you haue alledg'd can doe It maketh nought for Popery Or for your idle trumpery Indéed th' infamous Fame is spred Of Antichrist your hideous head And all Gods children him doe sée The man of sinne r 2. Thes 2.3 alone to bee Th' Apostles Faith was farre disperst And heere in England was reherst Sith then our doctrine is the same To it belongs part of their fame Continuance YOu say Christs Fayth must still endure I yéeld that nothing is more sure And alwayes God a Church will haue Though thereat Sathan rage and raue s Math. 16.18 It glads my hart that Christ hath prayd Thereby I know my Fayth is stayd t Luke 22.32 The Comfort of Gods holy Sprite Is eche good Christians sole delight This prooues there still a Church shal bée And herein thou and I agrée To prooue the Church tyed to one Sea Requireth yet a better Plea The Fayth of Christ may styll abide Though Rome should into Tibur slide Gods spirit is frée and is not bound v Iohn 3.8 Within the Lists of Romish ground When thou canst proue by holy writ Christs Fayth to Rome by Charter knit Then shall thy tale some credit find Where now it turneth all to wind But yet Continuance is a Note Of Gods true Church Paul hath wrote That there should still some teachers be w Eph. 4.11
c. In Rome we this fulfilled see I say Continuance is no signe To proue a Church to be diuine We may not thinke eche doctrine sure Which doth for many yeeres endure x It is true that the truth shall continue but yet it holdes not backwarde that whatsoeuer continueth is Trueth The Deuill is a lyer from the beginning Must not the Tares be let to grow Till it be time the corne to mowe y Math. 13.30 And Antichrist shall long time stay Euen till the very Iudgement day z 2. Thes 2.8 The Arrian Heresie yeeres did stand Two hundred more then one thousand a Yea and it was so generally receyued that it was sayd the whole world was become an Arrian And so since Mahomet first was séene A thousand yeeres haue nombred béene Romes name endures but Rome is chang'd And hath from Christ it selfe estrang'd Quit thou Rome from Apostacy Or name not perpetuity Pauls wordes do prooue b Ephe. 4.11 c. that certeinly The Church shall haue a Ministry And that there shal be some to féed The Flocke of Christ at euery néed But that these Pastors here or there Shall alwayes sit in beautie cléere This fond Conceipt not one poore word The holy Scripture doth affoord In déed in Rome there diuers bée That beare the name of Prelacy Better we Pilates may them call Séeking the Churches funerall You call your Pope a Shepheard great But where is his Spirituall Meate I do not heare that hee doth preach That would his greatnes much impeach Such are his carnall Cardinals Or rather bloudy Canibals c The people that liue vpon mans flesh They eate the Fatte and skin the Flocke And liue vpon the Churches stocke An idle signe a Shepherds Crooke In hand they beare d Their Pastoral staffe made in fashion of a Shepheards crooke but can not brooke To preach the word a Pastors grace That duty fittes not their high place The key of knowledge they withdraw e Luke 11.52 And from Gods people steale f Ieremy 23.30 Gods Law g They teach traditions to be equally reuerēced as the Scriptures Con. Trid. ses 4. dec 1. And mens deuies on them thrust Making them vnto Fancies trust These are Romes Pastors wofull shéepe Which left are to the Wolues to kéepe Thou Shepheard great Byshop chiefe h 1. Pet. 2.25 5.4 Come quickly i Reuel 22.20 quell this Romish thiefe Visible THou tell'st a tale incredible How that Gods Church is visible And by the Byshops Catalogue Wouldst prooue thy Romish Synagogue The errors here together lap 't By which the simple are entrap't All which your fained Church doth hold I meane in order to vnfold The Catholike Church defin'd aright Cannot be subiect to our sight It is th' Elected Company k 1. Pet. 2.9 And Christ his chosen Family l Ephe. 3.15 Of this one part in heauen liues m Called the Church Triumphant The other here with Sathan striues n Termed the Church Militant The part aboue you le not deny With mortall eyes none can descry The same is true of that below It is vnséene by vs also How with mine eyes I might discerne And sée th' Elect faine would I learne Vpon their persons we may looke Whose names are written in Gods booke o The Booke of life Phil. 4.3 But as for their spirituall Being It is a thing doth passe our séeing Partes of Christs church you Papists make Euen those whom God will quite forsake p So doeth Belarmine lib. 3. de Eccl. Cap. 7. the Rhemists in their annotations vpon Io. 15.1 Which if the matter well be scand Cannot with any Scripture stand Of the true Church Christ is the Head q Eph. 1.22 In him can be no members dead r They are called liuing stones 1. Pet. 2.5 His Church a Garden s Cant. 4.12 closed well In which no Reprobates can dwell t So August applyeth the place contra Cres Gram. lib. 2. and Gregory the great who was a Bishop of Rome in his Commentary vpon that place So that if fitly we will speake The ground you lay is very weake In calling it a Marke most cléere That Gods true Church must still appéere Of Churches nam'd in seuerall In Cities or els Nationall We yeeld sometime they may be séene Though sometime they are darkened cleane Sometime the Moone with chéerefull light Shines in the height of Heauen bright u Aug. vseth that Similitude in Psalm 9. and Epist 48. and Ambrose Hex 4. C. 8. Sometime with Cloudes t is ouerspred And in the Wane cleane vanished So is the Church in safety still Although not alway visible Sometimes it sittes in glory great Sometime it hath no certaine Seat The Woman which to Desert fled From Sathans rage to hide her head w Apoc. 12.6 By all the Learneds full consent The Church on earth doth represent The famous Church of Israel Where God did promise still to dwell x Psal 132.14 Was drownd so in Idolatry And superstitious slauery That all true worship being gone Elias thought himselfe alone y 1. King 19.10 And when Christ comes to iudge vs all Then Fayth on earth shal be but small z Luke 18.8 How is the Church a City then a Math. 5.14 Rais'd on a Mount and séene of men And how a light set vp on hye That all that will may it espye How shall we to the Church complaine b Math. 18.17 If of the Church no shew remaine This is thy Popish reasoning And Scriptures playne misconstruing Christ doth the Apostles counsell giue The true meaning of those places Soundly to preach and well to liue Because their places were in sight And 't was their Office to giue light They erring many might misse-lead Which in their steps might hap to tread If that their Doctrine were vnsound In falsehood many might bee drownd It was in vaine for them to wéene In doing yll not to be séene You are sayth Christ vpon a Mount To be well markt make full account c Thus Chry. and Theophilact expound this place Paideusi antous enagonious einai cai acribeis peri ton bion os para panton blepesthe mellontas This sheweth wherein our duety stands And what God lookes for at our hands Who call'd are to the Ministry To labour in Gods Husbandry d 1. Cor. 3.9 But from hence how may prooued bée The Churches visibility This place affoords a slender proofe And litle for the Popes behoofe Yet you perhaps will vrge it still The Pastors are set on a Hyll And called Light euen so say I But all men can them not descry For those which want spirituall eyes e Eph. 1.18 Nor are by searching f Iohn 5.39 Scriptures wise g Eph. 5.15 17. This mounted City can not sée Nor where these lightsome Pastors bée h This was the answere of Aug.
to the Donatists Tract 1. in Ep. Iohan. Christ bids vs we the Church should tell If things be not reformed well By Church hee meanes all such as bée Indued with Authority i The same which Paul calleth Presbyterion 1. Tim. 4.14 The Eldership These Office-bearers all men sée In times of setled Souerainty Yea and among them selues th' are knowne When th' outward state is ouerthrowne The Error of this Popish Argument When that was said in speciall You turne to Church in generall Thereby you may deceiue some fooles But soone it will be séene in Schooles This Argument of outward state Which for a Marke you intimate Against that thing doth strongly make Which you to prooue do vndertake Romes state hath sometimes bin obscur'd And hath disgraces soule endur'd Burnt k By the Gothes 547. sackt l By Charles Duke of Burbon in the dayes of Pope Clement the 7. wherevpon was made the clause in the Letany Sancta Maria c. O holy Mary pray for Pope Clement c. some Popes imprisoned m Iohn 14. Boniface 8. about the yeere 1304. Some glad to fly n Iohn 17. fled to Hetruria some banished o Vigilius 18. Gregory 9. about the yeere 1227. Where did your glorious Church abide When Popes were glad themselues to hide Peace peace no more of this for shame Rome sayth thou wilt her cleane defame * Succession Succession cometh next in place Whereby thou séekst thy Church to grace Your turne Succession cannot serue If from the Trueth Succession swerue The Iewish Church from Aaron A iust descent might stand vpon Euen when they crucifide our Lord And hated all that lou'd his Word If we shall say that Church was true Consisting of so vile a crue We cast Christ and the Apostles out Among the base and damned rout The Grecian Churches at this day For their defence as much can say p At Constantinople there hath beene a perpetuall Succession from S. Andrew Niceph. At Alexandria from Saint Marke Yet you of them doe giue this doome That in Gods church they haue no 〈◊〉 Yet if Succession were a signe Which your graund captayne Bellarmine Dares not auouch q Bellarmine sayeth it followeth negatiuely that where there is no succession there is no church but not affirmatiuely that where there is succession there is a Church I sayne would sée How Rome can proue her Pedigrée You call your Church Saint Peters chayre As though the Pope were Peters Heyre But if that ground we once deny What Papist can it verify You cannot proue by holy Writ Peter at Rome did Bishop sit The onely place which you doe name r 1. Pet. 5.13 The Rhemists say that there by Babylon is ment Rome so they cōfesse Rome to be Babylon Returneth to your greater shame The things you fetch from History Touching this poynt doe not agrée s Osorius sayth Peter came to Rome in the beginning of Claudius raigne Hierome in the 2. yere others in the 4. yere other the 13 yere Damasus saith he came thither in Neroes raign so that there is no certainty in that which they make an vndoubted principle And what our part hath herein sed By Papists stands vnanswered But if hee Bishop were indéede Tell me who next did him succéede Some Clement t The Popes decrees hold so and some Linus hold v Dorotheus Euseb li. 3. cap. 4. Hieron in Catalo Thus your succession is controld Once was a Pope suppos'd a man w Iohn 8. Platina The womans name was Gilberta a Dutch woman of Maguntium But prou'd in time a Courtezan Then eyther your Succession shranke Or you must put her in the ranke When Popes there were some two x Two Popes together Anno 1083. Anno 1058. 1062. or thrée y Bened. 9. Siluest 3. Greg. 6. all at one time and at another time Ben. 13. a Spanish Pope Greg. 12. a French Pope and Iohn 23. an Italian Pope Where thē might your successiō be One Schisme held almost fourty yere z 39. yeeres From Pope to Pope as doeth appeare a Let their Ancestors speake One Councel b The Councill of Constance did these Popes put downe And to another gaue the crowne When these false Popes the place possest I thinke you le say Succession ceast Vnity 'T Is true Christs Church is alwayes one Tyd vnto him as Head alone The partes thereof do well agrée c Acts 4.23 Like children of one Family But yet not euery company Together linckt in Vnity Must by and by be called good If Trueth by them shal be withstood To make a Calfe they all agréed d Exod. 32.1 All cry'd Let Christ be crucifi'd e Math. 27.22 Great is Diana with a shoute At once the people all cry'd out f Acts 19.34 Iohn sayd they should yéeld to the Beast Euen from the greatest to the least g Apoc. 13.16 As Christ his City is but one So is the Deuils Babylon h Vt est dei vna ecclesia sic est diaboli vn a Babylon Aug. de Ciui Dei The best sometimes do disagrée i Peter and Paul Gal 2.11 Paul Barnabas Acts 15.39 Chrysost Theophilact and Epiphanius Augustine and Hierome Cyrill Theodoret Each man hath his Infirmity Better the Discord bringing Light Then is agréement without right k Kreisson empathous omonoias he vper eusebeias diastasis Nazianz Oratione prima de pace Yet by this Marke if Rome be try'd It will fall hard vpon your side Your ioynt-consent we can not find Nor that you all are of one mind If we shall credit History You can not bragge of Vnity Where twenty seueral schismes haue béen l Genebrardus in Chro. What Harmony may there be séene The Lawes which one determineth The Pope that follows cancelleth m Stephen 6. abrogated all his Predecessors decrees Formosus tooke vp his body cut two fingers of his right hād off and buried him agayne Yet things by him abolished By next Popes are established n The following Popes Theodorus 2. Romanus Ioh. 10. confirmed all Formosus his actes And yet another o After all Pope Sergius disanulled their acts tooke vp Formosus his body cast it into Tibur Ex. Poly. Chron. comes behind Who with the former fault doth find And all which they did quite displace Reduceth to the former grace Thus one sage Counsell doth decrée Another sayth it may not bée p The first Nicene Coūcell allowed Priests mariage and the Communion in both kinds The Councels of Constāce Basil forbade the Laity the vse of the cup. The coūcel of Trent forbiddeth both the Cup to the Laity and marriage to the Clergy The third Coūcell of Carthage pronoūced him accursed called him the Forerunner of Antichrist whosoeuer should terme himselfe Vniuersal Bishop but now the Councel of Trent curseth him who shall deny the
to vse Sodomitry Wesellus Groningensis in a Treatise de Indulg Papalibus at the foote of the licence was written Fiat vt petitur Be it as it is requested Who but the Pope receiueth rent Which from the Stewes to him is sent o Euery commoÌ„ harlot in Rome payd a Fee to Pope Sixtus 4. Agrippa in his declam ad LouaÌ„ Let Rome and Venice make report And all that thither doe resort Who hath in Méeter vile exprest The sinne which nature doeth detest Let Beneuentum name the man p The Archbishop of Beneuentum Iohannes a Casa Deane of the Popes chamber vsed Sodomy and commended it in Italian Meeter the booke was printed at Venice by Troianus Nauus see the writing of Paulus Vergerius against this Archbishop Doe thou disproue it if thou can If this among your Heads be found How shall we thinke the members sound Lord blesse vs from such holy Popes And Lord make voyd all popish hopes Like to your Popes your seruice is Holy seruice Wanting no store of blasphemies Which lest the people should espy You hyde in Latine secrecy I néede no better witnesses Then your allowed Portesses Your Missals and your Letanies And all your forged Psalteries What we to God alone must giue That to the Saints you doe deriue God will not from his glory part q Isa 48.11 Yet you to creatures it conuert Vnto the Saints you prayers make r There is neither commaundement in the Scripture that we should pray to saints nor promise that if we doe pray to them we shall be heard vpon which 2. euery lawful praier must be built And beg saluation for their sake s In their praiers vpon the saints dayes stil those words come in that by their merits we may haue profit by their requests wee may be deliuered c. And Lambard saith the Saints do iunare nos merito l. 4. dist 45. d. 10. You do adore a piece of bread t When it is carried in procession for though it were true that the bread in the Sacrament is turned into the Body of Christ yet the SacrameÌ„t being ended it must needs return to the former nature And make fond u They are fond because touching th' estate of the dead there is no certainty prayers for the dead You knéele downe to a Crosse of wood w All hayle O Crosse our only hope c. encrease righteousnesse to the godly and giue pardon to the guilty In breniario infra Heb. 4. Quad. Thinking thereby to purchase good And for some things you would haue done You pray the Virgin charge her Sonne x Roga Patrem iube natuÌ„ iure matris impera c. Pray the father charge thy sonne commaund by the right of a mother In officio beata Maria. With Christ you do saint Frances ioyne y They say that Saint Francis could saue all that shall liue after him to the end of the world through his merits from euerlasting Death Flosc beati Francis Conformit s Fran. Tho. lib. 4. dist 4. art 3. And so his glory doe purloyne One Mediator z 1. Tim. 2.5 That place proueth that there is but one Mediator as well as that there is but one God we doe know You haue ioynd with him many moe a The forme of Absolution to Penitentiaries runneth thus The passion of Christ and the merites of the blessed Virgin of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and of other hee and shee Saints be vnto thee in remission of sinnes We doe the Virgin Blessed call b Luke 1.48 And say shee passed women all But when you call her Gate of Grace c Coeli senestra Regis alâ—i ianâ—a c. We say Christs honour you deface The thing which made her spirit glad Was that shée such a Sauiour had d Luke 1.47 Can she on him commaundement haue Whose helpe shée néeded her to saue * What honour is due to the Saints This honour to the Saints we giue We craue Gods grace like them to liue e 1. Cor. 11.1 We care to keepe their memory f Heb. 13.7 And God in them we glorify g Gal. 1.23 ‡ Holy Ceremonies Your Ceremonies idle be And sauour most of vanity You stand so much on out ward show That you the substance ouerthrow With Images and Pictures gay You steale the peoples hearts away Well may you please the outward eye The Spirit you do not edifie A pretie play to sée a Priest Tossing his God betwéene his fist Such Gestures and such Apish mowes Such warbling and such Anticke showes h Whoso readeth the CanoÌ„ of the Masse shall there see a world of idle ridiculus ceremonies Now bends now ducks now stands vpright Then turnes him to the peoples sight Now sighes now twenty crosses makes And 'ore his head the Wafer shakes Then washeth then the Challice lickes And shuttes his Idoll in the Pixe But still the man is much afeard Lest ought should hang vpon his beard Meane while the vulgar in a maze Vpon the Caky Idol gaze And knock and kneele thinke them well That they haue heard the sacring Bell. Tell mée I pray thée doth God will With such fond Kites his Church to fill They neuer came into his thought i Iere. 19.5 Tradition onely hath them brought k They say indeed that they haue the forme of the Masse by the traditioÌ„ of the Apostles Rhem. 1. Cor. 11. s 22. but the truth is that it was now a piece and then a piece patched vp by their own Popes Sixtùs 2. broght in the Sanctus InnoceÌ„tius 1. the Pax. Leo 1. added this clause A holy sacrifice and vnbloudy Host Gelacius the Prefaces Collects Gradualts Symmachus the Gloria in excelsis Agapetus 1. the ProcessioÌ„s Pelagius 2. nyne Prefaces before the Canon Sergius 1. Agnus Dei and Gregory 1. confesseth that one Scolasticus made most part of the Canon Holy masse or sacrifice Your Rites and Masse do well agrée Both full of grosse Idolatry Both are vnholy and vnsound Both wantyng holy Scripture ground You say that in the Eucharist To God is offred by the Priest A Sacrifice in wine and bread l Rhem. Heb. 7. s 8. Concil Trident. ses 22. cap. 1. Both for the liuing and the dead m Conc. Trid. ses 22. cap. 3. Looke first what Christ did institute n Mat. 26.26 Mat. 14.22 Lu. 22.19 1. Cor. 11.24 And that one place shall you refute What he did we must do likewise o This do ye 1. Cor. 11.25 There 's no word of a Sacrifice By this sayd Christ Remember me That shewes he would not present p Bodily hiâ— We keepe such things in memory Which we behold not really The Priests of old did euery day Some Offring on the Altar lay q Heb. 10.11 Christs holy Offring is but One Performed by himselfe alone r Heb. 10.12 If Christ shall often offred
bée We shall his suffrings multiply As on the Crosse he dyed not twice So there 's no second Sacrifice s Heb. 9.25 26 27 28. There 's now no sacrificing Priest That Office resteth vpon Christ t Heb. 7.23 24. It comes to none successiuely 'T is his for all eternity u The office of a Priest so far forth as we vnderstaÌ„d therby a Sacrificer whom the Grecians call iereus belongs onely to Christ and cannot passe froÌ„ him to any other neither the name of Priest in that sence but as the name of Priest commeth from the Greeke word Presbyteros which signifieth an Elder it can not simply be misliked How can a Masse a Pardon bring Sith 't is a bloud-lesse Offering w Heb. 9.22 Christ hath procur'd Remission x Heb. 9.12 What needs a new Oblation y Heb. 10.18 Sée then your holy Sacrifice A thing without all warantize Of Scriptures or of Writers sage Which liued in the purest Age. z The Masse as it is now was not in vse in the Church 1200. yeres after Christ It neuer came to the full perfection though it was in hatching before vntill the Councel of Lateran vnder Inno. 3. * Holy Sacraments The Sacraments in number twayne You â—ek'd haue with a longer trayne The seuen-headed Romish Beast a Reuelation 17.8 The Two to seuen hath encreast Both Baptisme b Mathew 28.19 and that holy Feast c 1. Cor. 11.24 c. Commaunded are by Christes beheast Shew mée but one commaundement To prooue an other Sacrament d No Father within an hundred yeeres after Christ acknowledged seuen Sacraments of the newe Testament And Augustine saith the Sacraments are numero paucissima fewest in number Ep. 118. now two is the least number Two in the Old e Viz. Ordinary two in the New f Viz. The forme of Gods worship vnder the law So shall we haue proportion true Name what in th' ancient Liturgy Your fiue false Symboles do supply g The Sacraments of the new Testament succeed the SacrameÌ„ts of the old if then they can name no Sacraments of the olde Testament in the place whereof their fiue supposed SacrameÌ„ts should come then they cannot iustify them to be Sacraments Those Sacraments which holy bée You stayn'd haue with your Pedlery In Baptisme oyle lights spittle creame Your Exorcisme and coniur'd streame Were these inuented by Gods Spirit Or found you them in Holy Writ Whence had you all that rituous store Vs'd in the Masse and nam'd before ‡ Holy dayes You speake next of Festiuities And Holy day Solemnities Thou thinkst by this with easines To prooue thy Churches Holines Trueth is mens Conscience you enthrall h Bellarmine saith men are bound in conscience to keepe the Festiuities of the Church lib. 3. ca. 10. prop. 3. and so doe the Rhemists Gal. 4. s 5. To many an idle Festiuall i Very neere 200. if wee put those together which were determined of Concil Oxon. sub Steph. which we read in the marginall Notes vpon the Rhemists Testament You le haue them be as strictly kept As Gods owne day by his precept Of Feastes some lowe some higher bée Some great some lesser in degrée Some double more some double lesse A treble fault some to transgresse So with your doubling and redoubling stile The simple people you beguile The Lord is weary of your Feasts k Isay 1.14 And likes not your deuised rests All dayes are like in Holines None holy more none holy lesse l The difference betwixt dayes is in obseruation vse and not in the nature of the day if one day had bene in nature holyer theÌ„ another the Sabboth might not haue bene altered Paul thought his labour was in vayne Where dayes distinctions did remaine m Gal. 4.10 11. Thou hoy'st to put vs in some feare With speaking of the Kalendere n Saints canonized Thou ask'st what Fayth all those did hold Whose names are found therein enrold I tell thée plaine 't is nought to me What many a one there nam'd might bée My Fayth 's not so set on the Racke To séeke strength from the Almanacke Yet sure I am what we professe Some that are there beleeued no lesse o As Peter Paul Mary c. and some there named which suffered persecution in the ten first persecutions of the Church Our Fayth and theirs doth well agrée And you with them at variance bee You Churches make and Holy dayes Vnto the Saints and Martyrs praise But vs which do bleéeue the same You seeke to kill and to defame Thou ask'st who them canonized Whose names are there enregistred You say the Pope I aske againe Wilt thou that sainting power maintaine p The custome of Canonizing Saints was not heard till one thousand yeres after Christ in the dayes of Alexander 3. and Gregory 7. Can any mortall Creature tell Who goes to Heauen and who to Hell All Iudgement Paul bid vs forbeare Vntill the Lord himselfe appeare q 1. Cor. 4.5 In Heauen to sitte or high or low Is it in mans power to bestow r Math. 20.23 What Byshop can or Saints inuest Or shutte men from eternall Rest Some one Pope doth a Saint enstall His graunt another doth recall s Boniface 8. caused Hermannus Ferrariens who had beene canonized for a Saint 30 yeres before to bee taken out of his graue and burned anno 1300. 'T is but a silly dignity That 's Subiect to vncertainty Among your Saints euen those are séene Which to their Prince haue traitors béen t As Thomas Becket and Elizabeth Barton called The holy Mayd of Kent Though that our Church such Saints despise To it it is no preiudice Heretikes THe Caueat touching Heretikes Doth make against false Catholikes We know full well that Popery Is but a Masse of Heresy Those Errors which of old were hatcht Your Church together bath them patcht w It mayntayneth free will and merit of works with the Pelagians Augustine The Pelagians held children to be without sinne Aug. contra Iul. lib. 3. cap. 5. So the Church of Rome sayeth Concupiscence is no sin It holdes Imagery with the Simonians Basilidians and Carpocratians and with the two latter they secret their Religion Iren. lib. 1. cap. 23. Epiph. Heres 24. It alloweth praying in an vnknown tongue with the Osseni Epiph. Haere 19. It accounteth mariage vncleane with Tatianus hae 46. and condeÌ„neth wedlock in their Priests as the Manichees did in their Chosen ones Aug. Ep. 74. With the same Heretikes it vseth bread onely in the Communion Leo ser 4. de Quad. and placeth fasting in the distinctioÌ„ of meats Aug. de Morib Eccl. Manich. lib. 2. cap. 23. It thinks that all necessary doctrine is not contained in the Scripture with Montanus Ep. Haer. 48. It braggeth of inherent righteousnesse with the Cathari Isid Etym. lib. 8. cap. de Haer. Christ It worshippeth