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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88806	Laurentius Lutherizans. Or the protestation of George Laurence, Master of Arts, late commoner in Oxford, and late lecturer in the parish-church of George Buttolph-Lane, by Little East-cheap in London. Against certaine calumniations asperged on him by the corrupt clergie, and their lay-proselytes, for some particulars, delivered in two sermons, at Michaels Church in Corne-hill, and else-where, concerning our nationall protestation. As it was declared, by way of digression, in a third sermon at the same church, the 23th. day of Januarie, in the morning lecture, anno, 1642.	Lawrence, George, 1615-1695?	1642 (1642)	Wing L658; Thomason E132_40; ESTC R23031	4,957	12

Laurentius Lutherizans OR THE PROTESTATION OF GEORGE LAVRENCE Master of Arts late Commoner in Oxford and late Lecturer in the Parish-Church of George Buttolph-Lane by Little Eastcheap in LONDON Against certaine Calumniations Asperged on him by the Corrupt Clergie and their Lay-Proselytes for some Particulars Delivered in two Sermons at Michaels Church in Corne-hill and else-where concerning our Nationall Protestation As it was declared by way of Digression in a Third Sermon at the same Church the 23th Day of Januarie in the Morning Lecture Anno 1642. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost ad Scandalizatos Innocens inter ipsa Tormenta Fruitur Securitate cum poenam metuat de Innocentiâ gloriatur Hieronymus ad Demetriadem The mouth of the Wicked and the mouth of the Deceitfull are against mee They have spoken against mee with lying Tongues David Psal 109.2 London Printed for R Harford in Queenes-head All●● Pater-noster-Row 1641. Courteous Reader I Am to certifie thee that I was constrained for the present to commit this Paper to the Presse for the Vindication of my selfe and true Religion having not as yet according to the Desires and Expectations of many Godly Divines Worshipfull Citizens and Sincere Professors fully Digested for the Presse my Sermons upon our English Protestation LAVRENTIVS LVTHERIZANS MArtin Luther being infested with many Adversaries and amongst the rest especially with one Jacobus Hostraten termed by him Haereticorum ominium Haereticissimus The most Hereticall of all Hereticks who had falsely charged him with many Errours and scandalous Accusations was necessitated to vindicate himself with this publike Protestation to be knowne of all Protestatio Lutheri Brevis Iulii 13. Anno 1518. I Martin Luther Publickely Protest that I have published certaine Propositions against Pontificall Indulgences although hitherto neither this our Famous and Renowned Schoole of Witenberge neither any Civill or Ecclesiasticall Power hath as yet condemned me yet notwithstanding Some certaine men there are as I doe heare of a rash and bold Ingenie who as if they saw alone as it were into a Milstone presume to pronounce me an Heretike Ego Martinus Lutherus publice Testatum volo Propositiones aliquot contra Pontificales ut vocant Indulgentias a me esse editas etsi autem me hactenus neque celeberrima haec laudatissima Schola nosti a Vitebergae neque Civilis aut Ecclesiastica Potestas condemnaverit sunt tamen ut audio quidam praecipitis atque au facis ingenii homines quire quasi benè cognitâ perspectâ Haereticum me pronunciare audent I therefore as oftentimes before so also now by the Faith of a Christian beseech others either to Indigitate and point out unto me a better way if a better be divinely revealed unto them or else to submit their opinion both to the judgement of God and his Church For as I am neither ready to preferre mine owne opinion before the judgement of all others So neither am I so doltish as to place the Word of God either below or behinde the Tables invented by the braines of men Ego verò ut antè saepe ita nunc quoque per fidem Christianam obtestor singulos vel ut meliorem mihi monstrent viam si quibus haec divini●us esset revelata vel certè suam sententiam De● Ecclesiae iudicio submittunt Non enim adeò temetarius sum ut meam solius opinionem caeteris anteferri neque cam stupidu●etiam ut verbum Dei fabulis human● ratione excogitatis postponi ●●l●m ●om 1. Fol 195. In like manner your Orator who speakes to you this Day being encircled with many Adversaries as David was with Bees who have charged him with many falsehoods upon the preaching of the two former Sermons in this place touching the Nationall Protestation am now enforced to be Protestator Lutherizans cleering my selfe of those assperged imputations in the presence of God his Angels and this Congregation by this short and serious Protestation 1. I Protest against all Vaine-glorie For whereas the Bishops Factions and their adherents say that in my Sermons I looked here for applause from men but I did lose it Let them First know and tell it to their Fellowes that I met with that which the Lord knowes I neither did gaspe after nor expect you your selves in some part being Iudges Secondly That they measure other mens actions by the ragged staffe of their owne crooked Rule Thirdly That it is the constant toyle and labour of a sincere Minister of Iesus Christ to stifle the Bubbling and Boyling Surges of his swelling heart and with Paul alone to glory in his infirmities 2 Cor. 12.9 Lest otherwise with Herod taking the Glory to himself and not giving it to God with him according to the Syriack become a Dunghill or a Stable for the Wormes Acts 12.23 2. I Protest against Seditition and Seduction For whereas the Bishops Faction and Carnall Gospellers doe say That I and others are Seditious and Seduce the People Let such First know That the Nature of Sedition is the drawing of a People out of a right path into a wrong from good to evil and not from evill to good and that the Nature of Sedition is to sow Tares amongst the Wheat and not sowing of Wheat amongst the Tares Secondly That the House of Ahab and Iezabel that is the Bishops faction the whore of Rome the Iesuites and Papists are and have beene the seditious Seducers and Troublers of our English Israel for these are they who have misguided the people leading them blind fold to the brow of the hill to tumble them headlong downe to Hell and to crush both themselves and them to peeces to all Eternity Thirdly that it is their Policy to call seditious and Seducer first like a crafty courtizan who will call whore first that she might not bee suspected Whence in the New Testament the Scribes and Pharisees are observed to stigmatize and agnominize Christ and his Disciples with the reproachfull Tearmes of Deceivers and Seducers while they themselves seduce and lead about sylly creatures creeping into their houses loving the uppermost roomes and desiring to bee called Rabbi Rabbi which is as much as to say Doctor Doctor 3. I protest against Phrensie for as the Corrupt Clergie and their Lay Adherents belch out and say that such as my selfe are of a Phrentick Spirit and have Laesa principia because wee dare not Symbolize with them either in their Doctrines or their practise Let them againe 1. Know that Shemajah the Nehelamite which is as much as Shemajah the lying Dreamer called Ieremiah a mad man Ier. 29.26 as being more fit for a prison and the stocks than the Pulpit though good Jeremiah was approved to bee the conscientious Preacher 2. Know that Festus though a great yet a Carnall man with a loud voyce told Paul that hee was beside himselfe and mad whereas indeed hee spake forth the words of truth and sobernesse 3. Know that they and their Adherents are the mad