benedictione Similiter Evangelium legitur 5 5 Sacerdos maiore digito facit in libo quinque signa tanquam stigmata The Priest with his greatest finger maketh five signes or prickes upon the Cake 6 6 Consecrat in sualinguae iisdem verbis quibus et nos et non sublevat He doth Consecrate in the vulgar tongue in the same words that we doe and doth not elevate it 7 7 Id ipsum quoque facit in calice et no◠elevat The same he doth with the Cup but not elevate it 8 8 Sacramentum panis in manibus acoipiens partitur per medium Taking the sacrament of the bread in his hands he divideth it in the midle 9 9 Ex summitate partis paululum detrahit quam particulam pro se accipit Of the uppermost he taketh a little for himselfe 10 The dish with the Sacrament 10 Lancem in̄ sacramento porrigit ei qui evangelium legit he delivereth to him that readeth the Gospell 11 The Cup with the Sacrament 11 Calicom cum sacrumento porrigit ei qui legit Epistolam he delivereth to him that readeth the Epistle 12 12 Qui continuo dant communionem sacerdotibus qui astant altari Then he giveth to the Priests that stand at the Altar 13 The Deacon taking the Sacrament out of the dish 13 Diaconus sacramentū ex lance sumens manuquo dextra tenens minutim distribuit and holding it in his right hand doth distribute it in parts 14 In the meane season the subdeacon delivereth the blood in a golden silver or wodden spoone 14 Interea Subdiaconui pauxillum de sanguine cochleari aureo argenteo vel ligneo sumptum porigit illis qui sumpserunt sacramentum corporis to them that have received the sacrament of the body 15 In the same manner 15 Eodem modo datur communio illis qui stant ante primam cortinam et aliis qui stant iuxta alteram cortinam the communion is given to them that stand neere the other Cortin 16 Last of all 16 Postea fecularibus qui stant inxta portam princi palem tam viris quam mulieribus to the lay people both men and women 17 Whilst the communion is administring 17 Dum datur communio aut altud quippiam officii sit amnes stant erecti or any other service is doing in the Church all the people stand upright 18 To the Communion all come 18 Ad communionem omnes veniunt sublatis complicatisque manibus lifting up their hands and folding them together In these Liturgies before named although some of them seeme to be corrupted and expurged as they plainely confesse the expurging of the Jndian Liturgie yet the Eucharist is administred in both kinds There is no privat Masse There is mention made of a spirituall sacrifice I finde not Transubstantiation in them There is no elevation of the Sacrament Maried Priests administer And Mans merit is renounced in them as before c. And the like will also appeare in the other old antient Liturgies attributed to St. Peter St. Matthew St. Ambrose St. Andrew St. Dennis St. Clement c. And for the Masse now used in the Roman Church fathered upon St. Gregorie although it hath beene purged and purged againe yet therein still appeareth some footing of truth and Antiquitie As the bread and wine are called Dona and Munera And after Consecration they are called Creatures per quem haec bona semper Creas commaund thy Angells to carry up these to thy high Altar in heaven whereas the Preist would have us beleeve that after he hath gone over them that they are no more Creatures but the Creator that made all things One thing more I note by the way that there is a Liturgie attributed to Saint Peter set downe in Bibliotheca veterum Patrum used in some part of Calahria Now who can beleeve that the Church of Rome holding so much of Saint Peter that under his name shee exalteth her selfe over the whole world would offer Saint Peter so much wrong as to drive his Liturgie out of Rome and suffer a few Preists to use it inhabiting the Mountaines of Basilica in Calabria Also whereas the Romish writers call all these Liturgies Masses as the Masse of Saint Basill the Masse of Saint Chrysostome the Armenian Masse the Aethiopian Masse There is a difference betweene the Romish Masse and their Liturgies for the Church of Rome in their Masse intendeth cheifely a Sacrifice but these Churches a Communion The Aethiopians call the Communion Codash and the bread Corban The Greekes call it the Liturgie as the Liturgie of Saint Basill the Liturgie of Saint Chrisostome As these Liturgies before named agree with us in many things so also there are some things in them which I doe not Iustifie as before and in viewing them and comparing them with our service booke I have great cause to magnifie Gods great goodnesse and mercie to us and this section I will conclude with the words of the Reverend and holie Martir Docter Rowland Tailor vnto Bishop Gardiner and others There was saith he Ecclesiast hist 3. Volum fol 171. Printed 1631. set forth by the most innocent King Edward for whom God be praised everlastingly the whole Church service with the best advice of the learned men of the Realme and authorised by the whole Parliament and received and published gladly by the whole Realme which Booke was never reformed but once said my author in his time and yet by that once reformation it was so fully perfected according to the rules of our Christian Religion in every behalfe that no Christian Conscience can be offended with any thing therein conteined I find that these Churches are not hereticall but Orthodox for the maine Wheras these Churches are charged by some to be heretiques you shall find divers good Authors to have written to the contrary As first for the Greeke Church Azorius thinketh them to be no heretikes and sheweth a reason therefore Azorius Instit moral lib 8. cap. 20. quest 10. because in those articles wherein they are thought to erre they differ verbally onely and not really from those that are undoubtedly beleevers and giveth instance in the question touching the proceeding of the holy Ghost wherein he thinketh they differ in the forme of words only Lomb lib 1. div 10. And the like saith Peter Lombard The Craecians affirme that the holy Ghost proceedeth frō the Father only and not from the Son yet they doe acknowledge the Holy Ghost to be the Spirit of the Son as well as of the Father because the Apostle saith that he is the Spirit of the Sonne and in the Gospell Gal. 4◠He is called the Spirit of Truth and now seeing it is no other thing Iohn 10. to be the spirit of the Father and the Sonne then to be from the Father and the Sonne they
Mr. Birckbeck hath written a catalogue who acknowledgeth Doctor Featlies great furtherance in it as I also doe but most especially I acknowledge my selfe bound unto your Lordship for your helpe and incouragement which imboldened me both to write and publish this Treatise Now although the contents of the former writing have beene sufficiently answered againe and againe and neede nothing of mine being one of the meanest of all my brethren Yet I shewed them that brought it me that in stead of a Catalogue of Names I would shew them a Catalogue of Churches in which there now are and have beene many millions of Christians who have generally borne witnesse and now doe to the truth professed by us and our Religion in the principall points in controversie betweene the Roman Church and us as the Greeke Church which hath foure great Patriarches The first of Constantinople whose succession I have set down from Saint Andrew to Cyrill the now Patriarch which succession The Cophti have also a Patriarch of Alexandria Alexandria was inhabited with Greekes and also many other great Cities and Provinces both Africa and Asia have at this day many Greekes in them hath not beene so interrupted with so many Schismes as the Romish succession hath beene The second of Alexandria The third of Antioch The fourth of Hierusalem which Greeke Church is much bigger then the Romish Church in Europe and more ancient The Romish Church having received Christianity from them Againe the Moscovite or Russe Christians who inhabit many countries not onely in Europe but also in Asia as the great Kingdomes of Casan and Astracan and other great Provinces all which together are of greater extent then all Europe besides As also the Christians under the Patriarch of Musall in Asia which Christians Vitriacus the Cardinall reporteth to live in severall Vt de his qui seorsum habitant quorum infinitus est numerus taceamus inter Saracenos non pauciores ut dicitur sunt Christiani infidelibus Vitria histo orient cap. 77. in infinite numbers with their King and also where they live mingled with Saracens they are not fewer then they and howsoever some say that these Christians are decayed since Vitriacus time yet Postell reporteth idem pag. 76. de Iacobitis that they are yet more then the Latine Church Postel Compend Cosmog pag. 69. Dico pauci comparatione priorum temporum â—on in se namsunt nobis latinis multo plures As also the Jacobites dispersed in fortie Kingdomes The Armenian Christians in Europe Asia and Africa who have a thousand Bishops as Cardinall Baronius reporteth out of Otho Frisigensis and also the Abissin Christians in Aethiopia under their Emperour who hath many great Kingdomes of Christians vnder him All these and many more hereafter set downe as they doe agree with us in the maine points of Religion being all baptized in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost c. so also 1. They deny the Popes Supremacie some of them excommunicating him yeerely for an Hereticke or Schismaticke accounting him and his Church hereticall 2. They receive the Communion in both kindes 3. They have no private Masse 4. They hold no Transubstantiation 5. They offer no sacrifice for the quicke and the dead in their Liturgies 6. Married Priests doe administer amongst them 7. They know no Purgatorie nor use any Prayers nor sell any Pardons to release soules from thence 8. Most of them have their Service in their owne tongues Now howsoever the Romanists account no more of the testimonies of these Christians then of the testimonies of Iewes Turkes and esteeme them damned persons as they doe us yet let them know that these Christians are baptized beleeve in Christ and also live devoutly to God obediently to Princes and sincerely to men yea many of them suffer very much for Iesus Christs sake which they might free themselves of if they would renounce their Religion and obtaine great honour and estate for the Turkes Janisaries and Basha's are most of them renegado Christians but these poore Christians account their Saviour more deere to them then all the honours and riches of the world Therefore farre bee it from any Christian Soule to account these men damned as the Romanists doe onely for not being subiect to the Bishop of Rome Bonif. 8. in extrar de major obedi cap. unam sanctam c. according to their Tenet That every Soule must of necessity of Salvation be subject to the Bishop of Rome As for the Dedication in regard I have received many kindnesses from your Lordship both when you were my neighbour and since I am bold to present this Treatise to your Lordship desiring your patronage and protection and also most humbly intreating Almighty God to multiply his blessings upon you to your owne Comfort and good of his Church Your Lordships most humbly devoted EPHRAIM PAGITT Parson of the Church of St. Edmonds the King in Lombardstreet London To the Reader THat which J intend in this treatise is to shew that there are many Christian Churches as well in Europe as in the other parts of the world that doe not adhere to the Roman Church nor acknowledge the Pope for their head Invaine therfore and to no purpose doe many of that party run up and downe the world and cry up the Church of Rome for that one holy catholicke Church which is so assisted by the holy Ghost that it cannot erre wheÌ„ she is indeed but a member and no sound one neither of that body as being miserably infested at this day which also the learned and sober men amongst themselves cannot deny with many new fond opinions and with superstitious practices not a few The Greeke Church may for ought I know by the same reason say that she is that one infalible Catholicke Church that all are Schismatickes that coÌ„municate not with her that out of that church there is no salvation to be had One thing Iadde by way of caution J haue cited many of the opinions practices of those Christians that live in the Easterne and other remote parts of the world but J doe not undertake to justify them in every particular J would not be so understood it sufficeth for my present purpose to shew that many Millions of Christians in the world differ from the Papists J and that in the most of those things wherein they and we do disagree which is the maine of all that few or none of all these doe acknowledge the Church of Rome for their Mother or have any dependance on her The God of peace make peace in Christendome and grant that all they that confesse his holy name may agree in the truth of his holy word and live in unity and godly love Amen So prayeth Thine in our common Saviour The Contents of the first Chapter THe severall sorts of Christians in the World not subject to the Pope or differing in Religion from him First
contra Christi praceptum agat qui sub vtraque specie communicare praecipit Prateol elench Alphab omni Haeres lib 7 pag. 202 The say of necessitie they must Communicate in both kindes both of the bread and the wine so that if any take it vnder one kinde although a lay-man he is said to sinne because they say he doth against Christs Commandement Who hath commanded to communicate under both kindes 5 They denie Purgatorie fire Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cap. 18. pag. 66. Patriarch of Constantinople We beleeve the soules of the dead to be in blisse or in damnation according as every one hath done Nilus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nilus pag. 119. de Purgator igne Archbishop of Thessalonica Wee have not received by Tradition from our Teachers that there is any fire of Purgatorie nor any temporall punishment by fire and we doe know that the Easterne Church doth not beleeve it Alfonsus de Castro It is one of the most knowne errors of the Graecians and Armenians Vnus ex notissimie erroribus Graecorum Armenorum est quo docent nullum esse Purgatorium locum quo animae ab has luce migrantes purgentur à sordibus quas in corpore contraxerant antequam in aeterna Tabernacula recipi maereantur Advers Haeres lib. 12. pag. 188. that they teach that there is no place for Purgatorie where soules after this life are purged from their corruptions which they have contracted in their bodies before they deserve to be received into the eternall Tabernacles Guido sarth Quintus error Graecorum est quia dicunt Purgatorium non esse De Haeresibus Graecorum It is the fifth error of the Greekes that they say there is no Purgatorie Gaulter That there is no Purgatorie Purgatorium non esse quod idem Calvinus c. De Photio pag. 603. which Calvin affirmeth c. 6 They allow married Priests 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prim. Patri Respon p. 129. Jerem. Patr. Wee doe permit those Priests that cannot containe the use of Marriage before they be consecrated for GOD hath commanded Marriage And we are not ignorant Marriage being forbidden to Priests filthie things to be committed by them Pope Stephen the second The Priests Deacons Distinctio 31. Aliter and Subdeacons of the Easterne Church are married 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Resp ad inter 4. p. 97. 7 Concerning Jmages Cyrill the Patriarch We doe not forbid Pictures the Art is noble We grant unto them that wil have them the Pictures of Christ and Saints but their adoration and worship we detest as forbidden by the holy Ghost in holy Scripture lest we should ignorantly adore Colours Art and the creature in stead of our Creator and Maker Damascen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damascen lib. 4. cap. 17 p. 343. Basileae They make no Image of God Who can make an Image of God who is invisible incorporeall and incircumscriptible c. 8 For the Bookes of Canonicall Scripture they agree with us Damascen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ortho. fidei lib. 4. cap. 18. The Wisedome of Salomon and others are not numbred amongst the Canonicall Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Respons 3. pag. 91. the Patriarch Wee beleeve the Bookes of Canonicall Scripture to be those which the Laodicean Synod hath set downe and which the Catholicke Orthodox Church of Christ being illuminated by the holy Ghost hath confessed to this day to wit 22 Bookes of the Old Testament 9 The sufficiencie of holy Scripture Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril p. 91. Resp 3. We call the holy Scriptures all the Canonicall bookes which we receive as the rule of faith and of our salvation and so we do retaine them and chiefly because being divinely inspired they set before vs the doctrine which is sufficient to instruct to inlighten and to make perfect him that commeth to the faith Againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyrill cap 2. pag 5. Lomb lib 1. Distinct 11. v. Dicunt quod veritas in Evangelio fidem integram continet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nilus de caufis dissent pag 2.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de Ortho fide lib. 1 cap. 1. the Authority of the Scripture is aboue the authority of the Church c. Men may erre and be deceaved but the holy Scripture cannot erre nor deceive nor be deceived but is alwayes infallible and certaine Lombard The Grecians beleive and say that the truth in the Gospell conteineth intirely the faith that is to say the doctrine of Faith Nilus Archbishop of Thessalonica To accuse the Scriptures is as great a fault as to accuse God himselfe But God is void of all blame Damascen whatsoever is delivered unto us in the law and the prophets by the Apostles Evangelists that we receive acknowledge reverence and be sides these we require nothing else 10 They do not forbid the Laitie the reading of the Scriptures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyrill Respon 1. pa. 81. Cyrill the Patriarch As the hearing of the holy Scriptures is forbidden to no Christian man So no man is to be kept from the Reading of it For the word is neere in the mouth and in their harts Therefore manifest iniurie is offered to any christian man of what ranck or condition soeuer he be who is deprived or kept from reading or hearing the holy Scriptures 11 They Renounce workes of Supererogation and Merit workes Hierem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Patriarch Affirmeth That we must doe good workes but put no confidence in them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prim. Respons Patr. cap 6 pa. 71 we must not trust nor beleeve in Them Although we have fulfilled all things yet we are unprofitable servants according to the words of our Saviour Cyrill the Patriarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril cap. 13. We beleive a man to be Iustified by faith not of workes They concurre in Assertion with the Protestants Sir Fdwin Sands Relation of the religion in the West sect 53. That it is impossible for any creature to merit as by way of right the least dramme of reward at his Creators hands But whatsoever reward is bestowed vpon the creature floweth forth from the meere bountie and gratiousnes of the Creator who as in goodnes alone and meere grace did make him so also in meere grace doth advance him to that high happinesse 12 They allow not private Masse Chytraeus No private Masses are celebrated amongst the Greekes Constat missas privatas absque cōmunicantibus non ab eis celebrari solere Chyt de statu eccles pag 14 without other Communicants as their Liturgies and Faithfull Relations testifie Ioannes Hoff-meisterus Res ipsa clamat tam in Graeca quam latina ecclesia Non solum Sacerdotē sacrificātem sed et re The thing it selfe doth speake and cry alowd both in the Greeke and in the Latin Church that not only sacrificing Priest but the Priest and Deacons and the
Rusucensis Sapensis Satafensis Satatensis Scillitensis Segiomitensis Seleuciamensis Serrensis Serteitensis Siccesitensis Sicilibbensis Sifaitensis Signitensis Sililitensis Sillitensis Simidiccensis Simittensis Simmaritensis Simungitensis Sinitensis Sinnipsensis Sitensis Sitifensis Sitipensis Solencianensis Suboabburitensis Subratensis Sucardensis Sufasaritensis Sufetelensis Sufetensis Sululittensis Tabaicariensis Tabanensis Tabazagensis Taborensis Tabracensis Tabudensis Tabudesensis Tacapitensis Tacaratestensis Tacaratensis Tagannitensis Tagaratensis Tagareyensis Tagorensis Talensis Tamagristensis Tamallensis Tambalensis Tamiggigensis Tanudaiensis Tanussensis Tamogadensis Tasfaltensis Tebestinus Tegulatensis Telensis Teleptensis Temonianensis Tenitensis Tesaniamensis Teodalensis Tibaritensis Tibilitensis Tibizabulensis Ticcnsis Tigillanensis Tigillabensis Tigisitensis Tigimmensis Tignalensis Tignensis Tignicensis Tigualensis Tunicitensis Tinistensis Teseditensis Tisilitensis Tiuicitensis Traprurensis Tricensis Trigisitensis Trisipensis Trofimianensis Truvascaninensis Tubiensis Tubiniensis Tubulbacensis Tuburbitanus Tuburbitaronensis Tubursicensis Tubusubtensis Tuccensis Tuggensis Tullitensis Tumidensis Tuneyensis Tunsudensis Tunugabensis Turensis Turreblansiensis Turreâ—amallumeÌ„sis Turrisalbae Turubitensis Turudensis Turuzitensis Tusdritensis Tusuritensis Tuzummensis Tzellensis Vagalitensis Vagealensis Vagensis Vaiensis Valletensis Vamaccorensis Vanarionensis Vatarbensis Vazaritanensis Vcimaius Vculensis Vensanensis Verronensis Vesceritensis Vicensis Villagerensis Viltensis Vindensis Virensis Visitensis Viuensis Vndesitensis Volitensis Vosetensis Vrugitensis Vsilensis Vticensis Vtimarensis Vtinensis Vtinicensis Vtinunensis Vtunnensis Vzalensis Vzittarensis Vuaggiensis Vuazensis Zamensis Zaraitensis Zaritorensis Zattarensis Zellensis Zenitensis Zertensis Zicensis Zipparitanus Zugabbaritensis Zummensis The Church of Constantinople fetcheth her Originall from St Andrew the Apostle as Nicephorus testifieth who hath had a succession to Cyrill the now Patriarch St Andrew ordayned Stachis Bishop of Bizantium now called Constantinople The Bishops and Patriarchs of Constantinople Niceph. lib. 8. cap. 6. pag. 540. St Andrew Stachis Onesimus Polycarpus Plutarchus Sedecion Diogenes Elutherius Felix Polycarpus Athenodorus Euzoius Laurentius Alippius Pertinax Olympianus Marcus Cyrillianus Constantius Ciriacus Castinus Titus Domitius Probus Metrophanes Alexander Paulus Euscbius Macedonius Eudoxius Demophilus Euagrius Gregorius Nazianzen Nectarius Iohannes Chrysost Arsacius Atticus Sisinnius Nestorius Maximianus Proclus Flabianus Anatolius Genadius Acasius Phrabitas Euphenius Macedonius Timotheus Iohannes Cappadox Epiphanias Anthinius Menas Eutichius Iohannes Eutichius Iohannes Diaconus Cyriacus Thomas Sergius Pyrhus Paulus Petrus Thomas Iohannes Constantinus Theodorus Georgius Paulus Calinicus Cyrus Iohannes Germanus Anastasius Constantinus Nicetas Paulus Tarasius Nicephorus Theodorus Antonius Iohannes St Methodius St Ignatius Photius Stephanus St Anthonius Nicholaus Euthimius Nicolaus Stephanns Polyenostus Basilius Anthonius Nicolaus Sisimius Sergius Constantinus Iohannes Cosmius Eustratius Nicolaus Leo Michael Cosmus Theodosius Basilius Nicetas Leontius Dositheus Georgius Xiphilinus Iohannes Michael Theodorus Maximus Manuel Germanus Methodius Manuel Nicephorus Arcenius Germanus Iosephus Iohannes Iosephus Georgius Athanasius Iohannes Athanasius Niphon Iohannes Gerasinus Isaias Iohannes Calistus Philetus Macarius Nilus Antonius Calistus Euthymius Iosephus Gregorius Genadrus Sophronius Simeon Maximus Niphon Pachomus Theoliptus Ieremias Dionisius Ioseph Metrophanes Ieremias to whom the Ministers of Germany sent their Confessions 1576. Macarius Mattheus Gabriel Theophanes Meletius Mattheus Neophitus Mattheus Raphael Neophitus Cyrillus Tymotheus Cyrillus The pretended Succession of the Bishops of Rome FOR the Succession of the latter Bishops of Rome of which Boniface the third was the first they succeeded the former Bishops many of them onely in name and place but not in Title Iurisdiction holinesse of life nor faith as is hereafter shewed and so not worthy to be named or ranked amongst them 1. Generally for the Title the former Bishops of Rome were most of them men of great humilitie their glorie was to be members of the holy Catholike Church of which Christ Iesus was the alone head But these latter Bishops have presumed to take vpon them the Title due onely to Christ to wit to be head of the univerfall Church of God and Husbands of Christs Spouse the Church 2. For their Iurisdiction The former Bishops were subject to higher powers even to cruell Nero and other persecuting Emperours 25 of them were Martyrs but these latter by degrees haue got Iurisdiction not onely Spirituall but also Temporall above Princes and the Emperours themselues 3. For life the former of them were most of them holy men these latter most of them most wicked ad vitious 4. For doctrine for the former their Faith was heard of in all the world these latter are fallen from the truth in many maine points as afterwards followeth First Title Pelag. distinct 99 for Title Pope Pelagius the second in his dayes perceiving that Maurice the Emperour went about to make and establish an vniversal Bishop very much opposed it and decreed that no Bishop no not the Bishop of Rome himselfe ought to be called the vniversall Bishop And Pope Gregorie his Successour writeth that none of his Predecessors ever consented to vse so prophane a name as before Secondly Iurisdiction for Iurisdiction the Pope claimeth both Spirituall and Temporall not onely over all Bishops and the Church of God but aboue all Kings and Emperours causing some of them to lie under his feete some to hold his stirrop Kings to leade his horse by the bridle some to kisse his feete placing and displacing Emperours Kings Duks whom and when he liâ—â— taking vpon him to translate the Empire at his pleasure first from Greece to France from France to Germanie preferring and deposing whome he pleased 3. For the life and conversation of some of them Baronius reporteth Baron Annal. 985. that Boniface the seventh was a very villaine a Church robber a Savage theefe the cruell murtherer of two Popes and invader of Peters chaire Sigon reg Ital. lib 7.963 Iohn the thirteenth Was accused in a Synod for Murther Adulteries Incests Periuries and vices of all sorts c. Bâ—tron Ann anno 912. What was the face of the Roman Church saith Baronius and how most filthily did it appeare when the most impudent and base Queanes bare all the sway at Rome changed Sees and gave Bishoprickes at their pleasure and which is most abominable and not to bee named placed their Paramours into St. peters Chaire Their owne Genebrard confesseth that there were fiftie of those Popes irregular disordred Quod per annoâ— 150. pontifices circiter 50. a Ieannc scilicet 8. ad leonem 9 a virtute maiorum prosus defecarint Genebrard Chron lib. 4. pag. 553. Iohn 5.39 Psal 1. and Apostaticall Fourthly for their Doctrine some of it is coÌ„trary to the Word of God pernicious to mens consciences and iniurious to Christ himselfe viz. 1. Whereas Christ hath commanded us to reade the holy Scriptures and the Holy Ghost blesseth them that delight therein The now Church of Rome forbidd th the reading thereof to the Laitie in the vulgar tongue without speciall licence 2. Whereas Christ hath taught vs to pray to God and St. Paul to call on him in whom we beleeve Rom. 10.14 They
Abbat by the divine providence Archb. of Cant. Primate of all England Ad verbum most holy Bis ad ver Pope which title was anciently given to all Bishops and and is retained this day in the Greeke Church and Metropolitan to Cyrill his most honoured Lord and brother the Bishop and Patriarke of Alexandria and judge ccumenicall sendeth greeting in Christ AS in many things else the sympathy of the catholique Church and the most sweet communion among her members manifesteth it selfe so at this time especially it appeareth to me in this that I haue opportunity to salute your brotherhood whose face I neuer saw and embrace as it were with both armes a person distant from me many 100. miles severed by a large tract both of land sea yet the unity of faith joyneth us and the bond of charity tyeth us fast together through one and the same spirit Professe ad ver we both breath By which we worthily magnifie one Christ whom we both profesle hartily congratulate the peace of your Church troubled with no schisme as you intimate nor other intestine evill Also we rejoyce together with you for your outward tranquility and after a sort halcyon dayes which you enioy and though even amidst the sworne and most implacable enemies of the Christian faith Psal 110.2 whereby the words of the Kingly Prophet are concerning Christs king dome accomplished in you be thou ruler in the midst of thine enemies We in like manner Ad verb pietie beseech your Grace to blesse God with us for the manifold gifts of his bounty liberally bestowed upon our Churches of great Britaine wherein that which your Chrysostome spake of old concerning our brittish Islands is verified at this day every where a man may heare the people discoursing of the scriptures strangers indeed in speech yet of the houshold of faith in tongue barbarians but in conuersation drawing neerer unto Saints for the Christian Laitie in our Churches which is not permitted in the Romane walketh in the most cleare light of the Gospell and drinke their fill of the pure streames of the water of life in Scripture none driving them from thence but rather encouraging them there abundantly to quench their thirst And for discipline which is not so in other reformed Churches wee retaine the most antient forme of Church governement and distinct orders and degrees in the clergie in every Diocesse The fountaine of all goodnes continue these blessings unto us still though wee such is the corruption of our nature by reason of our sinnes especially the staine of ungratefull hearts have long agoe deserved that our golden Candlestick should be removed and we left in the dark utterly destitute of all comfortable light of Gods word for farre be it from us to ascribe these extraordinary blessings of God to our merits which we know are none at all But first we attribute them to Gods merey next to the singular love which he beareth to his anointed our Soveraigne King Iames the choise instrument of his glory Heire to Queene Elizabeth of blessed memorie aswell in her Religion as in her Realmes both which he establisheth by Law and is a principall ornament to both by his princely example for he is not onely a constant hearer of Sermons and a most devout pertaker of the Sacrament and religious observer of the festivals of the Church But which is beyond example and most to be admired in so great a King who alone beares the burthen of so weightie affaires he strongly maintaines argument with his Bishops best versed in controversies about the most intricate points of Schoole Divinity Moreover we are indebted to his Royall pen for many excellent Treatises written by him and lately printed by speciall command wherein he fortifieth the orthodox faith and demolisheth the Romish forts newly erected against it I am exceeding glad that your Grace hath purchased unto you the friendship of such and so great a Monarch who most curteously returnes your Salutations and speakes all good of you and in testimony of his great good will unto you gave mee charge to make much of your Metrophanes whom I receive from you as a pledge of your love and most precious pawne of our indissoluble friendship and accordingly I will see him provided of all things fitting And for the present I have set that noble plant takeÌ„ out of your Greeke Nurserie in a most fertile garden to the end it may grow the faster and more kindly and maturely beare fruit among us I meane the Vniversity of Oxford beautified with seventeene Colledges fairely built and a Library furnished with infinite variety of Bookes in which Academie as in the Prytaneum of Athens a multitude of learned Students is maintained at the publique charge into which number your Metrophanes is admitted who as soone as hee shall grow ripe and fructifie among us as your wisedome shall thinke fit and it shall stand with the good of your Church either his Root shall bee fixed with us here or hee shall bee returned backe to bee transplanted in his native soyle For conclusion wee most earnestly desire your affectionate prayers most holy brother for our Brittish Churches as we also shall not cease to offer up our fervent devotions for your Greeke Church that you together with all the members of the Catholique Church may bee compassed with the Divine custodie as with a of brasse and may bee established in Truth and Peace together and withall that you may bee freed from those prying innouators you speake of who undermine as well Christian verity as liberty among whom you are chiefly to beware of a sort of Monkes newly come out of the Romish forge assuming to themselues the most venerable name of our Saviour who prefesse themselves to follow peace yet trouble all the Christian world and they would seeme to teach onely the truth yet deliver doctrinally the art of lying even with implied perjurie under the name of equivocation from these Foxes and rauenous Wolues Ad verb. Pietie the great Shepheard of the sheepe preserve his flocke and in it your Grace crowning you with his manifold favors and perpetuall felicity London November the 17. Your Graces most loving brother and fellow servant in Christ Ad verbum Your blessednes GEORGE CANT IN the Epistle pag. 11. Line 13. The Armenians have not so many Bishops as the Card. reports Jn the Contents pag. 19. line 16. r. most of them p. 4. l. 21. To be aded Part â— read Ierusalem and others pag. 10. line 23. in England 4. ships for one pag. 20. line 19. adde Luxenburg and part of Guelders pag. 22. line 1. Some of the Grecians p. 32. l. 27. Meotis and Tanais p. 33. l. last reade one of p. 44. l. 9. Alexandria hath two Patriarchs one a Cophite the other a Greeke p. 130. l. 2. r. most p. 152. l. 14. for these r. some of these p. 154. Espens de continent l. 3. c. 4. Margent Nicephorus setteth downe most ofthem p. 40 l. 16. some of the. p. 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Rhegium 10. for Euchania r. Achaia p. 42. l. 6. for Henry the Seventh reade Henry the Second p. 52. l. 10. r. as before p. 56. l. 13. for sudolis r. subdolis Other literall faults mend with thy pen. Protestants Papists Papists Protestants Greekes mingled with Turkes Moscovites