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A14155	Tvvo learned sermons The one, of the mischieuous subtiltie, and barbarous crueltie, the other of the false doctrines, and refined hæresis of the romish synagogue. / Preached, the one at Paules Crosse the 5. of Nouember, 1608. The other at the Spittle the 17. of Aprill. 1609. In the first, are examined diuers passages of that lewde English libell, written by a prophane fugitiue, against the Apologie for the Oath of Allegeance. In the seconde, are answered many of the arguments published by Rob. Chambers priest, concerning popish miracles; and dedicated (forsooth) to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. By Robert Tynley, Doctor of Diuinitie, and Archdeacon of Ely.	Tynley, Robert, 1561 or 2-1616.	1609 (1609)	STC 24472; ESTC S118816	62,579	82

void without an inhabitant It was wrath that put the instruments of crueltie into the hands of Simeon and Leui those Brethren in euill Gen 49 5 whereby they put Hamar and Shechem with their people to the sword and sacked their Citie after they had receiued circumcision breaking thereby the bonds of promise and the very seale of their faith And therefore most true is that verdit which the wise King hath giuen of this vnbridled affection Prouerb 27.4 Anger is cruell wrath is raging And Saint Chrysostome in his 29. Hom. to the people of Antioch as if he had foreseene the powder-Treason ira ignis vehemens omnia deuorans anger is like a mightie fire cōsuming all things And Saint Augustine Ser. 1. De tempore Iracundia bestia crudelissima wrath saith hee is a moste cruell Beast renting and tearing with her teeth consonant with our Prophet in this place With whome accordeth Saint Basil in a Sermon of this argument comparing it to the swelling Waters of which our Psalmist speaketh The violent forces of men inraged with furie carrie saith hee all things before them like floods and inundations Such a fire such a Beast such a swelling water is wrath in a man possessed therewith it consumeth it deuoureth it ouer-whelmeth al things and therefore no meruaile when the fountaine is so bitter if the streames issuing from thence bee so vnpleasant as hath beene declared Yet because as Saint Ambrose obserueth vpō the fourth to the Ephesians Ira motus est naturalis conceptus ex causis anger is a naturall motion or commotion rather conceiued vpon some cause Let vs consider the cause that exasperated the aduersaries of the people of Israel in such sort as the Prophet in this Psal cōplaineth A learned modern expositer Wolf Muscul rendreth this reasō of it that Israel hauing obtained a king of the Lord that went in and out before them they would no longer put their necks and shoulders vnder the yoake of their enemies who before that time had dominion ouer them vpon this defection they make out after them with their forces pursuing them in hostile manner to reduce them to their wonted seruitude as Pharaoh had dealt with them in former times A liuely Type of the aduersaries of Gods Church in all ages wherein wee may plainly see what hath caused them from time to time to pursue Christ his members with such deadly wrath and hatred It is because vpon the admonition of the Angell Reuel 17.4 2. Cor. 6.14 they are gone out of Babilon or to speake with the Apostle because they will not iugumducere cum infidelibus bee yoaked with Infidels and Heretikes in their errors and superstitions hauing obtained a Dauid a King of God his Sonne Christ that holy one the Lords annointed For if there bee any thing in the world that dooth prouoke a man and kindle his affections it is Religion which maketh him not only defend to the vttermost of his power and with his best endeuours what he conceiueth to be pure but also to prosecute with all might and furie the contrarie sect to the vtter extinguishing and rooting vp of it supposing that in so dooing they fight Gods battailes Hence proceeded that deadly fewd betweene the Hebrewes and the Egiptians Gen 43.32 they might not eate together for that was an abomination vnto them between the Iewes and the Samaritans Ioh. 4.9 they medled not one with the other The Poet obserued as much among the Gentiles Immortale odium nunquam sanabile vulnus Inuenal Satyr 15. Hatred without end and a breach which neuer could bee cured Quum solos credat habendos Esse deos quos ipse colit Because euerie nation beleeued those onely to bee Gods whome they worshipped And Iulian noted it amongst the christians as Amnianus Marcellinus reporteth who found he said no beasts so deadly one to another as Christians were to Christians which beeing spoken by so great an enemie as was that Apostate would carrie little credit with it were it not that the histories of the Church recorded as much of the Nouatians the Arrians L. 22. the Donatists and such like Heretikes against the Catholikes whome impatience as S. Cyprian noteth ad hostili a furiosa odia compulit prouoked and forced to furious out-rage and deadly hatred Heere was that Sword of which our Sauiour fore-warned Mat. 10.34 Thinke not that I come to send peace into the earth I came not to send peace but the sword whose part Christ his Vicar thinketh hee plaieth not well if hee bee not euer now then sending abroad his sword into protestant kingdomes because both Prince and people are in his censure no better then forlorne Heretikes past all hope of recouerie and amendment To which greeuous imputation wee answer with Saint Paul that after this way which his holinesse is pleased to call Heresie wee so worship the God of our Fathers beleeuing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets Act. 24.14 yea moreouer in the Euangelists Apostles to whose iudgement if hee will stand wee will easily lay this crime vppon himselfe in departing from the truth of that Gospell which not only Moses and the Prophets but our Sauiour and his Apostles preached I will not now anotomize and rip vp the whole body of popish superstition wherein nature is opposed to grace Saints merits to Christs his blood their mediation to his intercession vnwritten vanities to the written truth works to faith with many such like will-will-worships which are after the doctrines of men let the tryal be made in one point the misunderstāding wherof so much troubleth the Christian world I meane the natural ciuil obedience of dutiful subiects towards their lawful princes A duetie enioyned by our Sauiour Mat. 22.22 Giue vnto Caesar the things that are Caesars and seconded by that chosen vessell the Apostle of the Gentles Rom. 13.7 Giue to all men their duetie tribute to whome you owe tribute custome to whome custome feare to whome feare honour to whome you owe honour Whence are those graue and Religious exhortations of the holy Apostle Saint Peter 1.2.13 Submit your selues to all manner ordinance of men for the Lords sake whether it bee to the King as vnto the Superior c and of S. Paul Let euerie Soule be Subiect vnto the higher powers Rom. 13.1 The reason of both is worthy to bee ingrauen in the heart of the subiect with the point of a Diamond for the Lords sake saith Saint Peter for there is no power but of God saith Saint Paul with whome concurre the Law and the Prophets the ancient Fathers of the Church both in their writings and in their meetings in generall counsell which might as easily bee alleged if neede required But our Aduersarie acknowledgeth as much as he doth vs to wit in his letter namely Pa. 16.50 that Subiects are bound to obey their Temporall Princes in all things lawfull and those

was generally brought to the faith of Christ but further that such as in the cleere Sun-shine light of the Gospell yet require miracles still as the Papists doe doe tempt God in so doing that they are infidels without faith and beleefe that they loue not Christ as they ought to doe that they are false Christians and hunters after vaine glorie All which conuince Chambers of much ignorance both in the ancient Fathers and his owne moderne Writers and argue much folly in him to conceiue not only of his Maiestie whose wisdome and learning all that know admire but of any of vs that we should be so simple and credulous as to beleeue those miracles which the most learned amongst them reiect as fabulous and foolish as hath beene shewed It irketh me to follow the pursuit of this ignorant Priest who from his blunt arguments commeth in the end to the vsuall Popish rhetorike of railing and reuiling tearming vs Heretikes and spending his iests vpon vs k Ib. who therfore thinke miracles superfluous because we can worke none as the fox will eat no grapes because he cannot get them But laying aside all bitternesse and scurrill iesting in matters so weighty and serious and to speake the words of truth and sobernesse we therefore thinke miracles superfluous vnto vs not because we can worke none which we acknowledge and therefore we attempt none but because we professe the same doctrine which our Sauiour and his Apostles and such Apostolike men as succeeded in the Primitiue Church haue confirmed to our hands by so many true signes and diuine miracles which all belong to vs and our Church who professe the same faith which our Sauiour and his Apostles preached As for the faith of the Church of Rome as it is new and strangely degenerating from the ancient Catholike faith so it is no maruell if it bee confirmed by new miracles which are of the same nature with their new faith false both the one and the other And yet to stop the mouths of our insolent aduersaries which are alwaies craking of their miracles if with a single eie they will looke vpon our Church they may in it and amongst vs behold such miracles as make greatly for Gods glory our priuate comfort and the true honor of our Church For both the restoring of the puritie of religion in these late times from the drosse and corruptions of Antichrist was not without the extraordinary and powerful working of almighty God and the preseruation thereof vnto this day mauger all the conspiracies and forces of our enemies against our Princes and our people are such as euince sufficiently that it is the Lords doing and it is wonderfull in our eies Againe if they will obserue the fruit and efficacie of Gods word sincerely preached amongst vs they may from thence behold l De verbis domini secundum Matth. serm 18. See Chrysost hom 6. in c. 2.1 ad Cor. And Greg hom 39. in Euangel And Bernard ser 1. in ascensione Domini And Raban in Psal 9. Maius fuit Paulum paersecutorem conuertere quam Lazarū de monumento suscitare ib. Quae miracula tanto maiora ●unt quanto per haec non corpora sed animae suscitantur Gregor supra maiores sanitates as S. Augustine speaketh those greater cures and greater wonders wrought amongst vs in our Church euen those cures and wonders for which our Sauiour and his Apostles did vouchsafe to worke minores illas those lesser cures vpon mens bodies For although now adaies coeca caro non aperit oculos miraculo Domini the blinde man is not restored to his sight by our Lords miracles yet cor coecum 〈◊〉 oculos sermone Domini the blinde heart of man openeth the eies of his vnderstanding by the efficacie of his word preached amongst vs. The carcase that lieth dead in the graue is not raised vp but the soule that lieth dead euen in the liuing body by reason of sinnes and trespasses is quickned amongst vs by the preaching of the Gospell the eares which were deafe before and stopped at the crying of the poore the hands which were fast bound and shut from their releefe are open to heare their groanes and requests and loosed liberally for their comfort Witnesse your owne eies and eares this very day heere at home amongst your selues which may heare and see the multitudes of Christ his poore and distressed members most charitably and carefully releeued in your m See the number of these poore affixed to the Psalme of thanksgiuing sung by the children of the Hospitall vpon Munday in Easter weeke 1609. Hospitals to the great glory of God the comfort of the poore and afflicted and the eternall memorie of the worthy founders and benefactors of the same Witnesse abroad the planting intended or rather already happily begun of our English Colonie in Virginia whither the charitie of our late Souereigne of all blessed memorie Lady Elizabeth and of his most excellent Maiesty now reigning assisted with the godly indeuours of many chiefe and of principall note in this noble Citie hath extended to their great costs labours and perils for the gaining and winning to Christ his fold and the reducing vnto a ciuill societie as hope may iustly conceiue of so many thousands of those sillie brutish and ignorant soules now fast bound with the chaines of error and ignorance vnder the bondage and slauery of the Diuell Which being the principall scope of this businesse wee may with Gods blessing assuredly expect the fruits which vsually accompany such godly enterprises as are the honour of his Maiestie whose name shall by this meanes be glorious vnto the ends of the world the enlarging and further strengthning of his Realmes and Dominions the easing of this Land which euen groaneth vnder the burden and numbers of her i●●●bitants the plentifull enriching of our selues and our Country with such commodities as she now laboureth with the penury of them all which and many other of this sort I wittingly passe-ouer as hauing beene at sundry times and places by diuers of mor● abilitie and leisure commended to your godly considerations nothing remaining to be said by mee in this kinde but that with all thankfulnesse we acknowledge and with most hearty praiers wee commend to almighty God the happy preseruation and continuance amongst vs of that noble instrument of his glory our most gratious Souereigne Lord King Iames by whom he effecteth so powerfully his miraculous workes now adaies in our Church to the wonder and astonishment of the world not wilfully malignant Thus if need were we could speake and that without vanitie of the true miracles of our Church as for those false fabulous sorts which I haue touched I leaue them to those Mirabiliarij as n Tractat. 13. in Euangel Johannis S. Augustine calleth them our Popish miracle-mongers by which they are descried to be the very limmes of Antichrist and naturall brethren of these old Heretikes the o Aug. de