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B04950 The Virgin Mary misrepresented by the Roman Church in the traditions of that church, concerning her life and glory; and in the devotions paid to her, as the mother of God. Both shewed out of the offices of that church, the lessons on her festivals, and from their allowed authors. Part I. Wherein two of her feasts, her conception and nativity, are considered. Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.; Patrick, John, 1632-1695. 1688 (1688) Wing P863A; ESTC R19085 135,709 190

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quod scire nequis ne divinare labora Incassum That is The Virgin lacks no praise not Hybla yields More Flowers nor Ears of Corn in Libyan Fields So fair and thick as her true Vertues rise Think not to grace her then with specious Lyes Nor give her those perfections by fond guess Thou ne'er canst find and only make her less Herein indeed lies one great difference betwixt us and them That we observing that it is the plain design of the Holy Writers in the particular account they give of the wonderous Birth and Life Death and Resurrection of Jesus to engage all Men to believe That he is the Christ b Joh. 20.31 the Son of God that our eternal Life depends upon our knowing him who is the only true God c Joh. 17.3 and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent that there is no Salvation in any other nor no other name d Act. 4.12 under Heaven given among Men but his whereby we must be saved and that having the power of Judging all the World committed to him all Men are bound e Joh. 5.22,23 to honour the Son even as they honour the Father we I say finding this to be the great concern and scope of the Gospel are well satisfied with those few words of Truth and soberness we meet with there that relate to the B. Virgin his Mother and are not needlesly curious to enquire any farther It 's plain it was him they designed to advance and not her Even the Holy Spirit 's over-shadowing her Virgin Womb was rather intended to proclaim the Glory and Majesty of his Incarnation than of her Conception The Scripture mentions some other instances of her Faith and Piety wherein it places her chief Happiness as St. Austin's known saying expresses it f Tom. 6. lib. de Sanct. Virgin. Beatior ergo Maria percipiendo fidem Christi quam concipiendo carnem Christi Mary was more blessed in receiving the Faith of Christ than by Conceiving the Flesh of Christ For Materna prop●nquitas nihil Mariae profuisset nisi felicius Christum corde quam carne gestasset Her nearness to him as a Mother had not profited her if she had not been more happy in bearing Christ in her Heart than in her Womb. Which also our Saviour confirms in that saying of his g Luc. 11.28 Yea rather blessed are they which hear the Word of God and keep it As for other matters concerning her where the Scriptures have not gone before us we are contented to remain in the dark concluding that we are not one way or other much concerned in them for if we had God would no doubt have declared them to us We think it necessary for the honour of our Lord to believe that his Mother remained a Virgin till she bare him and brought him forth We think it highly probable too that the Honour of our Lord preserved her a Virgin ever after and we detest the bad Spirit of Helvidius that made a contest of it and brought it into dispute in the Church But yet we are of the great S. Basil's mind h Homil. de humana Christi generatione that if she had not remained a Virgin afterwards 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Doctrine according to Godliness would not have suffered by it and therefore we lay not such stress upon it as upon the former 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We leave it without anxious inquiry about it But 〈◊〉 this Church having as much business with the Virgin as with Christ himself and making indeed more stir about her the modesty of the first Faith and the silence of the Scripture give them but little comfort if they cannot find in the old Gospel enough to proclaim her a fit object of Mens worship and to engage their Religious addresses to her rather than fail of this which they are resolved upon they will make a new Gospel which the Apostles never Preached and venture the Curse that is threatned to them that do so Gal. 1.8 First indeed the words of the Scripture must be Wire-drawn and Every Syllable of it that relates to her stretched and set upon the Tenters but still they find that the Bed is shorter than that a Man can stretch himself on it and the Covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it i Esa 28 20. They are therefore resolved to add where that is defective and to feign those privileges for her which they cannot find there To shew a little their fine way of proceeding in this Matter They have laid down this for an undoubted Rule as any Aphorism in Hippocrates that Mensura perfectionum B. Verginis est maternitas Dei. Her being the Mother of God is the measure of the Perfections of the Blessed Virgin. Not to dispute at present the Truth of it which may be granted in a sober Sence let us see what Conclusions they draw from it Aquinas k P. 1. qu. 25. art 6. ad 4tum infers That the Blessed Virgin because she is the Mother of God has a kind of infinite Dignity belonging to her from that infinite good which is God and that in this respect nothing better than she could be created as there can be nothing better than God. Ant. Spi●…lus the Jesuit says l Maria Deip. thronus Dei c. 5. s 4. From this Motherhood of God that Maxim owned by all Divines is drawn viz. That there is no gift of Grace that was ever granted to any pure Creature which was not bestowed upon the Virgin in a like or more perfect manner unless it were repugnant to her Sex. Wherefore all the Graces Vertues and Privileges divided among other Saints are found collected in her alone And they are very fond of that saying of S. Bernard m Epist ad Can. Lugdun Quod itaque vel paucis mortalium constat fuisse collatum fas certe non est suspicari tantae Virgini esse negatum Whatsoever has been granted to other Saints though but to a few we are not to suspect that it has been denied to so glorious a Virgin. Aquinas n Part. 3. qu. 27. art 1. 4 5. in another place from these principles has deduced her Sanctification before she was Born the Privilege never to have committed any Sin mortal or venial and a fulness of all Graces above all others This one would judge is pretty fair but a daring Jesuit o J. Baptista Poza Elucidar l. 3. tr 16. p. 1050. resolving to enlarge the Charter of her Privileges has advanced this position That all true Theology does require That in those things that belong to the greater glory of Jesus and his Mother if the Church does not prohibit it and they are sure it will not interpose to the hindrance of the Mother at least we are not to look what Two or Three Five or Ten Doctors have said in the Case but what will best defend and secure the Honour of Mary and Jesus
which seem not to carry so much Antiquity and he instances in the Feast of the Nativity of Mary which says he seems not to be ancient in these Parts since it is first said to be celebrated in France by Fulbertus Carnotensis who lived in the Year 1017. But since France seems to contend for the Glory of beginning this Feast as England for that of her Conception the fairest Pretence of its Original is that which Thiers mentions out of the Capitula of Walter Bishop of Orleans cap. 18. about the Year 868. under Carolus Calvus where the blessed Virgin 's Nativity has a Place among other Feasts L●d Cellotius in his Notes upon it b Concil Labbe Tom. 8. p 648. judges the Praise due to this Church of Orleans for first celebrating it there but he incloses it in this Diocess since neither Herardus Turon Hincmarus Rhem. Isaac Lingonens nor Theodolphus though of Orleans too make any mention of it And Thiers acknowledges c Loc. citat cap. 18. c. 51. p. 334. that in the Synod of Galo and Simon the Pope's Legats An. 1215. it was antiquated and out of use again in France for it mentions only Three solemn Feasts of the Virgin viz. The Annunciation Purification and Assumption leaving out the Nativity besides the Conception then first order'd to be kept These things though they seem to prejudice this Instance of Walter of Orleans yet we shall let it pass and fix here since it is as good a time as can be to allow an Innovation in this Case for the blessed Virgin 's Honour forasmuch as just about this time another more considerable Innovation was made by Paschasius Radbert in the days of Carolus Calvus in the matter of Transubstantiation The Jesuit Inchofer who could believe that the City of Messana in Sicily received a Letter sent to them by the blessed Virgin and has wrote a Folio d Entitled Epistolae B. Virg. Mar. ad Messanenses conjectatio to make it probable could not chuse but give this Honour to that City to be before the rest of the World in celebrating this Feast of her Birth e Inchofer ibid. p. 110. and that it is beyond all Memory how anciently they have kept it But since he has not dated the time when they began to pay this Honour to her Birth we are not concerned in it but let it pass Only because I have mentioned the blessed Virgin 's Letter though any one that reads the Superscription and Subscription need look no further to know it is forged yet because it is a Rarity I will set it down as the said Jesuit f Inchofer ibid. p. 115. has given it us in Latin more correct than ordinary Which according to the common Story is a Translation made by Constantine Lascaris of the last Age out of the Greek which was a Translation of S. Paul's out of the Hebrew in which Language the Letter is pretended to have been wrote by the Virgin her self Thus it runs Maria Virgo Joachim filia humillima Dei ancilla Christi Jesu crucifixi mater ex Tribu Juda stirpe David Messanensibus omnibus salutem Dei Patris omnipotentis benedictionem VOS omnes fide magna legatos ac nuncios per publicum Documentum ad nos misisse constat Filium nostrum Dei genitum Deum hominem esse fatemini in coelum post suam resurrectionem ascendisse Pauli Apostoli Electi praedicatione mediante viam veritatis agnoscentes Ob quod vos ipsam civitatem benedicimus cujus perpetuam Protectricem nos esse volumus Anno filii nostri 42. Indictione 1. 3 Nonas Junii Luna 27. Feria 5. ex Hierosolymis Maria Virgo quae supra hoc Chirographum approbavit The Virgin Mary Daughter of Joachim the humblest Handmaid of God the Mother of Jesus Christ crucified of the Tribe of Juda of the Stock of David wishes Health and the Blessing of God the Father Almighty to all the People of Messana IT appears that you all with great Faith have sent Embassadors and Messengers by a publick Decree to us You confess our Son the begotten of God to be God and Man and that he ascended into Heaven after his Resurrection acknowledging the Way of Truth by means of the preaching of Paul the Elect Apostle For which Cause we give our Blessing to you and also to your City whose perpetual Protectress we resolve to be In the 42. year of our Son Indiction the First 3d. of the Nones of June 27th of the Moon 5th day of the Week from Jerusalem The abovesaid Virgin Mary approved this Hand-Writing But to return from whence we have digressed Whatsoever was the Time of the first Celebration of this Feast of her Nativity yet all acknowledge the Occasion and Foundation of its Institution to be no other than a private Revelation to a Man of no Name who lived God knows when and where unless Mantuan's g Loc. cit l. 9. Septemb. Authority determine it for one that lived on the top of a Mountain in Cyprus Super alto vertice montis Idalii And he might have said as well on a Mountain of the Moon for any Evidence in History This pious Man says J. Beleth h De Divin officiis c. 149. praying in the Night heard the Angels sing in Heaven which happened to him many Years on the same Night Therefore he desired God to reveal to him the meaning of it and he was told That their Joys were occasioned because on that Night the blessed Virgin was born and they kept it as a Festival This Man relates the Matter to the Pope no body knows which who understanding that he was a grave and holy Man and believing what he said did institute the Celebration of this Feast over all the Christian World. Melch. Canus i Loc. Theol. l. 11. c. 6. fol. 334. has given a good Caution out of P. Gelasius not to receive those Histories which are produced without the certain Name of the Author for they smell of the Tricks of Impostors that seek Gain or are the Products of Hereticks The same sharp Censure he passes upon novel Revelations shewing how much they prejudice the Church who seek to adorn the Stories of Saints with feigned Revelations and Miracles wherein Mens Impudence has not spared the blessed Virgin nor our Lord Christ himself This great Bishop and Jer. Xaverius their Missionary were of very different Perswasions in this Matter for this latter thought these things of so great Importance for the Salvation of the Indians that in his History of Christ k Pag 18. 21. they must be acquainted not only with the foresaid blind and senseless Revelation but also with another additional idle Story which the Legend l Jac. de Vorag Legend aur c. 126. had furnished him withal how for the greater Honour of the Feast the Octaves came to be added to it telling his Indians That Pope Innocent IV. An.
Opinions of the Jesuits and other Casuits 4 o. A Discourse concerning the Necessity of Reformation with respect to the Errors a●… Corruptions of the Church of Rome 4 o. First and Second Parts A Discourse concerning the Celebration of divine Service in an Unknown Tongue 4 o. A Papist not Misrepresented by Protestants Being a Reply to the Reflections upon the Answer to A Papist Misrepresented and Represented 4 o. An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late BISHOP of CONDOM in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church 4 o. Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the Exception of Mons de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator 4 o. A CATECHISM explaining the Doctrine and Practices of the Church of Rome With an Answer thereunto By a Protestant of the Church of England 8 vo A Papist Represented and not Misrepresented 〈…〉 Answer to the First Fifth and Sixth 〈◊〉 of the Second Part of the Papist Misrepresented and not Represented and for a further Vindication of the CATECHISM truly Representing the Doctrine and Practices of the Church of Rome 4 o. The Lay-Christian's Obligation to read the Holy Scriptures 4 o. The Pl●… Man's Reply to the Catholick Missionaries 24 o. An Answer to THREE PAPERS lately printed concerning the Authority of the Catholick Church in matters of Faith and the Reformation of the Church of England 4 o. A Vindication of the Answer to the said THREE PAPERS 4 o. Mr. Chillingworths Book called The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation made more generally 〈◊〉 by omitting personal Contests but inserting whatsoever 〈◊〉 the common Cause of Protestants or defends the Church of England with an exact Table of Contents and an Addition of some genuine Pi●… of Mr. Chilling●…'s 〈◊〉 before Pri●…d viz. against the Infallibility of the R●… Ch●… 〈◊〉 Tradition c. And an Account of what moved the Author to turn Papist with his Confutation of the said motives An Historical Treatise written by an Author of the Communion of the Church of Rome 〈…〉 Wherein is made appear That according to the Princ●… of 〈◊〉 Church this D●… cannot be an Article of Faith. 4 o. The Protestants 〈◊〉 and Comparison of the Protestant Religion 〈◊〉 by Law 〈…〉 of Popery Wherein is shewn that 〈…〉 Fathers and Councils and that proved from Holy Writ the W●… of the ancient Fathers for several hundred Years 〈…〉 of the 〈…〉 Papists themselves 4 o. The Pillar and 〈◊〉 of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church 〈…〉 to be 〈…〉 and the Pillar of that Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to T●…y chap. 3. ver 15. 4 o. The Peoples Right 〈◊〉 read the holy Scriptures Asserted 4 o. A short Summary of 〈◊〉 principall Controversies between the Church of England and the Church of 〈◊〉 being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Answer to a late Pamphlet intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture Proofs 4 o. An Answer to a late Pamphlet intituled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one special Branch of the Kings Prerogative viz. In dispensing with the Pe●…l Laws 4 o. Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell A Discourse of the Holy Eucharist in the two great Points of the Real Presence and the Ad●…tion of the Host in Answer to the Two Discourses lately Printed at Oxford on this Subject To which is prefixed a large Historical Preface relating to the same Argument Two Discourses of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead The Fifteen Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted 4 o. With a Table to the Whole Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died By W. W●… M.A. ●… o. The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A Private Prayer to be used in difficult Times A True Account of a Conference held about Religion at Lond. Sept. 29. 1687. between A. Pulton Jesuit and Th. Tenison D.D. as also of that which led to it and followed after it 4 o. The Vindication of A. Cr●ssener School-master in Long-Acre from the Aspersions of A. Pulton Jesuit School-master in the Savoy together with some Account of his Discourse with Mr. Meredith A Discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer Side notwithstanding the uncharitable Judgment of Adversaries and that Their Religion is the surest Way to Heaven 4 o. Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist wherein is shewed that the Doctrine of Transubstantiation overthrows the Proofs of Christian Religion A Discourse concerning the pretended Sacrament of Extreme Vnction with an Account of the Occasions and Beginnings of 〈…〉 the Western Church In Three Parts With a Letter to the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom A Second Letter from the Author of the Dis●…●…ing Extreme Vnction to the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom The Pamphlet entituled Speculum Ecclesiasti●… or 〈◊〉 Ecclesiastical Prospective-Glass considered in its false Reasonings and 〈◊〉 There are added by way of Preface Two further Answers the First 〈…〉 ●…fender of the Speculum the Second to the Half-sheet against the Six 〈◊〉 A Second Defence of the Exposition of the D●… 〈…〉 of England against the new Exceptions of Mons de Meaux late Bishop of 〈◊〉 and his Vindicator The FIRST PART In which the 〈…〉 been given of the Bishop of Meaux's Exposition is fully vindicated the D●…tion of Old and New Popery ●…ically asserted and the Doctrine 〈…〉 of Rome in Point of Image-worship more particularly consid●…●… A Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrins of the Ch●… 〈◊〉 England against the New Exceptions of Mons de Meaux late Bishop of 〈◊〉 and his Vindicator The SECOND PART In which the Romish ●…ines concerning the Nature and Object of Religious Worship of the Invocation of Saints and Worship of Images and Relicks are considered and the Charge of Idolatry against the Church of Rome upon the account of them made good 4 o. The Incurable Scepticism of the Church of Rome By the Author of the Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist 4 o. Mr. Pulton Considered in his Sincerity Reasonings Authorities Or a just Answer to what he hath hitherto published in his True Account his True and Full Account of a Conference c. His Remarks and in them his pretended Confutation of what he calls Dr. T 's Rule of Faith. By Th. Tenison D.D. A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church relating to the Eucharist wholly different from those of the Present Roman Church and inconsistent with the belief of Transubstantiation Being a sufficient Confutation of Consensus Veter●… 〈◊〉 Testium and other late C●… of the Fathers pret●…ding to the contrary 4 o. An Answer to the Representer's Reflections upon the State and View of the Controversy With a Reply to the Vindicator's Full Answer shewing that the Vindicator has utterly ruin'd the New Design of Expounding and Representing Popery 4 o. An Answer to the Popish Address presented to the Ministers of the Church of England 4 o. An Abridgment of the Prerogatives of St. Ann Mother of the Mother of God with the Approbations of the Doctors of Paris thence done into English with a PREFACE concerning the Original of the Story The Primitive Fathers no Papists in answer to the Vindication of the Nubes Testium to which is added a Discourse concerning Invocation of Saints in Answer to the Challenge of F. Sabran the Jesuit wherein is shewn That Invocation of Saints was so far from being the Practice that it was expresly against the Doctrine of the Primitive Fathers 4 o. An Answer to a Discourse concerning the Coelibacy of the Clergy lately Printed at Oxford 4 o. The Virgin Mary Misrepresented by the Roman Church in the Traditions of that Church concerning her Life and Glory and in the Devotions paid to her as the Mother of God. Both shewed out of the Offices of that Church the Lessons on her Festivals and from their allowed Authors Dr. Tenisons Sermon of Discretion in giving Alms. 12 o. A Discourse concerning the Merits of Good Works The ●…sm of the Church of Rome demonstrated in some Observations upon the Life of 〈◊〉 Loyala Founder of the Order of Jesus A Vindication of the Answer to the Popish Address presented to the Ministers of the Church of England 4 o. Reflections upon the Books of the Holy Scripture in order to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion in 3 Parts 8 vo In the Press The Texts which the Papists cite out of the Bible for Proof of the Points of their Religion Examined and shew'd to be alledged without Ground In several distinct Discourses Five whereof are published viz. Popery not founded in Scripture The Introduction Texts concerning the Obscurity of Holy Scriptures Of the Insufficiency of Scripture and Necessity of Tradition Of the Supremacy of St. Peter and the Pope over the whole Church In Two Parts Of Infallibility The Rest will follow Weekly in their Order FINIS