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A14979	The repaire of honour, falsely impeached by Featlye a minister Wherein (by occasion) the apostles disciple S. Ignatius Bishop & martyr, his religion, against Protestantisme, is layd open. By Ed. Weston Doctour of Theology: in a letter, by him written vnto two fathers of the Society of Iesvs, in England.	Weston, Edward, 1566-1635.	1624 (1624)	STC 25289; ESTC S101852	8,994	34

THE REPAIRE OF HONOVR Falsely impeached by Featlye a Minister Wherein by occasion the Apostles Disciple S. Ignatius Bishop Martyr his Religion against Protestantisme is layd open By Ed. Weston Doctour of Theology In a Letter by him written vnto two Fathers of the Society of IESVS in England Imprinted at Bruges ANNO 16●● VERY REVEREND FATHERS I most hartily salute your persons and also ioyfully congratulate you in regard of your pious and charitable indeauours there in England for the cause and right of the Catholike Church Neither neede I your knowne zeale considered by letters to encourage you to labour in that kind or with vndausited mindes valiantly to beare the slaunders false reports of the common aduersary Seing that as one you imbrace so the other you may iustly contemne with great reason reioyce in both The cause at this present of my wryting vnto you hath beene occasioned by one Featlye a Minister-Doctour who by a diuulged Pamphlet in print hath raised a scandall with you out of a report of the Earle of VVarwicke made of me concorning some words I vttered vnto him at such time as hee was heere in Bruges Featlye then auoucheth to the world that the saide Earle tould him that I talking of a disputation in London passed betwixt you and a couple of Ministers VVhite Featlye affirmed that in regard the actiō was well performed by you and basely by them two English Earles present at your dispute thereby to haue beene cōuerted to the Catholike fayth Wherevpō Featlye as I am tould both to the preiudice of my persō reproach of the Catholike cause hath in print auouched that wee by no other meanes maintaine our quarrel against them then by lyes false inuentiōs I haue therfore thought it conueniēt in few words to expresse the truth also to craue your assistance that by your meanes the same may appeare to confront cōfound the slāderer Concerning then the report of the Earle and Featlye I protest vnto you and to the world vpon the word of a Priest that for the present I cannot call to mind any such words I vttered vnto the said Earle yet do I not absolutely affirme that I spake thē not But this I say for a certainty that if I tould him any such thing withall I added that such a bruite was reported to mee by some that came out of England and passed by mee heere in Bruges Which particularity as it seemeth to me should haue beene specified to Featlye by my Lord according to the quality of that Honourable Estate he pretendeth Wherevpon I affirme that the dealing of Featlye towards mee although I vtterly cōtemne it to haue beene childish vnciuill no small demonstrance of the greate weaknes of his Religion constrayned against good manners substance of iudgement to lay hould vpon such toyes meere aeriall babblements Which my contempt of such dealing the world should know by my silence if the good of others impeached by his scādall did not cōmād mee to speake Supposall thē be that I made such a relation to the Earle of VVarwicke what ground or good occasion proceedeth thence to argue against mee or against Catholiks If I had beene in London at such time as the disputation was performed where I might haue beene informed concerning the truth in all points then I might haue beene in some shew blamable if I had vented forth such a thing but being in Bruges speaking familiarly to my Lord what I heard from passengers out of England there is no appearance of any euill carriage on my part or any sinistrous meaning to disgrace eyther Featlye or any of his faction But something they must say to stoppe vp the gappe breach of their cause made by our battery at least to the eares of the simple easily deceaueable popularity Assuredly it is not the practice of our Professours to make lyes to raise slaunders for our defence or thereby to impugne thē for our argumēts to that effect are copious pregnāt in the view of the best intelligēt Rather it is the Protestant being in affection furious in iudgment superficiall to inuent blaze out lyes and that in print to iustifie themselues and impeach vs. Let them to this effect take only a view of the lyes cauils falsities discouered of late in the writings only of Hall and Collins by Fa. Coffin and Fa. Fitzherbert and they shall in their best iudgements confesse them guilty impudent moreouer disgracious to the syncerity of Englād yea and to mankind What a villany was it for one of that crew to print that in Antwerp he saw a Priest saying Masse in the shābles that in the same place where the Butcher made his slaughter framing blasphemously an Antithesis betwixt the Priest and the Butcher But if aduantages be to be made absolutely vpon reports doubtlesse then in this very present Case we haue much for vs. I haue heard heere in this Citty from the mouthes of many English lately come from England that you both were so eneombred by the Ministers in disputation that you had not a word to say for your defence Which report must needes bee most false both your worthes in learning considered and also the quality of the argumēt then put in dispute examined For what had you otherwise to doe but out of the Ecclesiasticall History to repeate the auncient and continued profession of the Catholike Roman fayth frō the Apostles tymes to our dayes and out of the same Histories to require of your Aduersaries a like recitall of age and continuance for the profession of their Protestantish Religion in which matter what could bee wanting for you or sufficient for thē No History recordeth euer any mā Ecclesiasticall or secular since the Apostles dayes to haue accorded in all poynts with Luther Caluin Onely this they may say That what they maintayne now against vs they learned it of Manichaeus of Heluidius of Vigilantius of Image-breakers of Beringarius of VVickcliffe of Husse such like condemned baggages by the Church of God Thē was it most slaunderous what was diuulged by Protestants cōcerning your fayle in disputation Now then seing it hath pleased Featlye to work a feate against vs vpō the foundatiō of things misreported I shall come neere vnto his owne person not vpon the maintenance that rumours and news may affoard but vpō that which wee may suppose hee hath printed by himselfe or his friends I would then haue him vnderstand that I haue seene a Pāphlet set out purporting the issue of the disputation hee had with you And assuredly I neuer in all my life beheld a more liuely representation of a Ministers folly short sight and sleight braines then therein Wherefore to omit how according to his owne fabulatory Relatiō it is most manifest that still hee flieth from the state of the question and wholly refuseth to make an absolute Catalogue of men since the Apostles dayes professing his Religion

the actio of the faithfull presently performed after his martyrdome and translation of his reliques from Rome to Antioch S. Chrysostome serm de S. Ignatio reporteth That by the faithfull his Reliques were repayred vnto as to a perpetuall treasury Sanctis ad se accedentibus benedicens fiducia strenua alacritate magnaque fortitudine remittit domum Itaque non hodie tantum sed quotidie confluimus spirituales ex eo fructus percipientes Quisquis enim ad illum cum fide accedit magnis afficitur beneficijs Sanctorum enim non modo corpora sed loculi monumenta spirituali gratia conferta sunt Hee blessing all that come to him sendeth them home replenished with great alacrity and fortitude VVherevpon not onely to day but euery day wee come to his tombe receyuing thereby spirituall commodities VVhosoeuer cometh to him with faith is rewarded with great benefites For not onely the bodies of Satncts but their Coffins also and Sepulchers are replenished with spirituall grace No doubt but S. Ignatius in his life consorred with these pious persons and with himselfe in glory both in doctrine and action For S. Augustine lib. 20 cont Faust Cap. 27. maketh Manichee that Arch-heretick the first that denyed veneration to the Reliques of Saintes Is this conformable to the doctrine custome of Protestants and Puritans The twelfth point designeth the Nature of sinne Of which Protestāts Puritans determine that it is performed by necessity of the will without free consent Wherevpon doth it euidētly follow that God Authour of that necesiity is also Author of Sinne. To which blasphemous doctrine S. Ignatius hath declared himselfe an vtter enemy And for that purpose seing certaine Heretiks as Nicolaites and Basilidiās teaching a necessity of committing all manner of wickednes hee Ep. ad Trall doth inueigh most bitterly against them and willeth all good Catholik Christians to auoid them But especially amongest other Heretickes of whom S. Ignatius gaue notice vnto the Church and whom with detestation he rebuked were Basilides Carpocras Princes of the Catharists that is Puritans in the primitiue Church who concerning Concupiscence contayned in the frailtie of mans disordinate nature through originiall sinne broached forth two heresies one that by vertue of a diuine precept man was bound to yield consent vnto Concupiscence To which purpose that Protestants may vnderstand how loathsome Hereticks and filthie companions haue alledged Scripture to support their foule and erroneous doctrines Carpocras cited this text of our Sauiour his owne wordes Matth. 5. Luke 12. Be thou agreeable quickly to thy aduersary whilest thou art in the way with him least perhaps thy aduersary giue thee ouer to the Iudge and the Iudge commit thee to the Minister and bee cast into prison Clem. Alex. 3. strom The other Heresie ensued heereon to wit that no consent or yealding to concupiscence did endommage a beleeuer either in regard of the present estate of his iustice or future guerdon in Heauen Clem Alex. 4. Strom. With which Puritanicall Basilides and Carpocras Protestants doe accord in the second Heresy For they teach with Luther Caluin Luther in Ep. ad Gal Caluin 2. Inst Cap. 16. n. 18. that no consent of will to inward Concupiscence depriueth a true beleeuer of his now possessed grace of Iustification attayned by the sole act of fayth remayning or if it do yet that such a losse is onely but for a tyme to endure in that as assuredly as God raigneth in Heauen before the moment of death the selfe same Iustice is to returne to the Soule VVhitaker lib. 1. 2. de peocat-origin So that in reckoning of Heauenly blisse no wickednes of concupiscence by their verdicts is domageable Seing then S. Ignatius was a professed enemy of these Arch-hereticks how could he accord with Protestants who consort with such damned miscreants reproached and reproued by his writings that not long before his Martyrdome being then in his way the Roman Theater and extreamely burning with desire to encounter with the beasts of that place and become for Christ his sake refined Manchet in their mouthes The last point importeth that it belongeth to Featlye to proue that S. Ignatius held a contrary doctrine to S. Policarp to S. Iustin the Martyr and to such Doctours as florished in the second hundred yeares after Christ which thing as it is impossible for him to performe so is more manifest and reproachfull his assertion that S. Ignatius was a Protestant or a Puritan Assuredly S. Ignatius in all points was so perfect a Romaine Catholike that if now according to his profession in the Primitiue Church hee should liue practice in England as being sent thither by S. Peter our late Parlamentarians in their tumultuous humours so cruelly disposed against the Church of God would insteed of lyons in Traian his Theater in Rome find out Butchers at Tyburne to cut him in peeces Wherefore Reuerend Fathers I reioyce with you that you haue such Aduersaries who be the vowed enemies of Truth who be as speaketh S. Ignatius of some rather Christempori quam Christiani Ep. ad Trallens that is rather Christetymers then Christians Neither neede I informe you about their manner of proceeding in the cause of Theology or encourage you to continue in your Combat against them in that your learning for the one and your knowne zeale for the other neede no supporte from my writings or informations Onely this I haue endighted to remoue a scandall raised by Featlye and in this quarrell to ioyne with you Hoping that as nowe we bee Combattants against the enemies of Almighty God so shall wee one day in his presence and Court enioy him and the fellowship of one another In the meane season I remayne most entyrely affected to both your persons and yours In Christ IESVS ED. WESTON From Bruges this present Feast of S. Iames the Apostle 1624. FINIS