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A29582	Vannus divinus or, A fanne to separate the chaff from the wheat and distinguish pure, and true, from impure and false religions very usefull to inform the ignorant, settle the wavering, reduce the straying, and confirm the sincerely orthodox professors / by C.B., M.A.	C. B.	1670 (1670)	Wing B48; ESTC R32830	113,190	293

Tatianites the Eucratites the Priscilianists and Eustachians her Fastings her Abstinences her Vow of Poverty Her Distinction of Meats And her Law of Celibat or Single Life By all which is accomplished the Prophecie of S. Paul which we have 1 Tim. 4.1 c. With the Marcionites and Pepusians she permits Women to Baptise With the Pelagians and Semipelagians she doth establish Free-will The Merit of Works The Perfection of Holinesse whereof the Monks do principally boast Adding thereunto of their own the Works of Supererogation as a mark of a Supream arrogancie With the Manichees though under another consideration in the Eucharist she hath cut off the use of the Cup. It were a thing too tedious to particularise more upon this matter 8. From the abovesaid it manifestly appears that the Church of Rome is Heretical yea above all others who ever have been Heretical Because she is not infected onely with two or three Heresies but with a great number and multitude of them And because her maladies are not small and slight but the poison of Heresie hath thrust it self through her whole body having almost corrupted all the Articles of Faith Which causeth us to say with the Prophet Isaiah c. 1.21 22. How is the faithful City become an harlot it was full of judgement righteousnesse lodged in it but now murderers Thy silver is become drosse thy wine mixt with water 8. The same also causes us to acknowledge that the Church of Rome hath onely an outward shew Her fairest is the frontispiece and fore front all covered with magnificent Titles But within it is nothing else but falsehood and Corruption She is like unto the Temples of the Egyptians of old which outwardly were fair and magnificent But within nothing was to be found but Cats and Crocodiles and Serpents and such other Beasts fitter for a Den then for such a Temple 9. If so many fair Churches in the East planted by the sacred hands of the Apostles and watered with their bloud are now changed in Mosquies of Mahumetans or in lodgings of Hereticks why then shall we find strange that such a change be happened in the West Since the thousand years ended of the binding in Chains of Satan by Jesus Christ in the preaching of the Gospel he hath been loosed according to the Prophesie of S. John Rev. 20.1 2 3. to work again a little season about the seduction of the Inhabitants of the Earth §. Antithesis of the Popish Doctors 1. Objection Against the Above Exercitations they object 1. That By Testimonies of Stories No Heresie was brought into the Romane Church Or any Change of Doctrine was ever made in the same Answer to that Objection 1. VVE Answer to that Objection That the Papists Histories written in the Time of Antichrists Tyranny Ought not And do not Deserve to be regarded by us Reformed Because the Authors of Them were Infected with the Errors of the Pope And did not Dare write for the most Part otherwise then might well stand with his Honour 2. And to All Histories That since the Defection have commended the Faith of that Church We Oppose the Word of God Which plainly convinceth it of manifold And Damnable Heresies 3. Besides we could alledge Sundry Writers in all Ages That openly have reproved the Same To Instance in one Doth not Sigisbertus the Monk An Historiographer mentioned by the Papists Expressely Charge Gregory the Seventh And his Successours For maintaining and practising Not only an Error But an Heresie Also In taking upon Them Authority to Excommunicate the Emperour And other Civil Princes This Heresie hath ever since continued in that See And is at this Time by the Pope And his Popelings Avouched And therefore by the Confession of the Popish owns Historiographers Some Heresles hath taken Place in the Church of Rome Which is contrary to the Obiection before propounded 2. Objection 2. Against the Above Exercitation The Popish Writers demand At what Time Vnder what Bishop By what way And By what Proceeding Was a New Religion Spread Over the City of Rome And over tho whole World Answer to that Objection 1. IT is hard for us to Answer At what Time Neither is it Necessary to set down the very Instant of Time All Things were not at once overturned in the Church of Rome Sinne And Error Came to their Height by Degrees And by Leisure to Ripenesse The Hairs of our Head are not all Gray of a Sudden Neither doth any thing suddenly come to his Maturity And the Growth of every Thing appeareth long after This is manifest in such Things as having small beginning go on forward unto a greater Quantity Until they come to Perfection 2. But doth it follow that the Church of Rome is not Corrupt Because we cannot tell the Moment of Time When it began to be Corrupt But being so manifest as it is What need we search the Histories to Shew the Beginning What we Pray If you see a Man sick of the Pestilence If you see a City corrupt with Riots and wickednesse If you see a House Ruinous And Ready to Fall If you see a Ship Sinking Will you deny all These Unlesse one can tell you the Time When that Man began to be Sick The Means how the City grew Corrupt Who was Owner And in what Year The House grew Ruinous And in what Day the Ship began first to Leak And what is the Force of the Papists Reason and Demand other then This 3. But do not their own Histories Tell When And By whom Innovations and Corruptions Entred Let Them See a Few of Them 1. He that first usurped Authority over other Churches was Pope Victor After Him Zozimus And Boniface the Third And Celestine And their Successours 2. Pope Syricius first forbad Priests Marriages 3. The Manichees first Denied the Cup to the People 4. The 2. Council of Nice first ordained Worshipping of Images 5. Pope Nicholas the Second first taught the Body of Christ must Carnally be handled broken and Eaten 6. Pope Innocent the Third first established the Doctrine of Transubstantiation 7. Boniface the Third first Declared That the Pope was the Head of all Churches 8. Gregory the Great taught first Purgatory for a certain Truth 9. The Florentine Council first taught And Declared that the Pope was above Councils 10. Innocent the Third brought in Auricular Confession If these were not Sufficient We could produce the Rest of the Popish Errors 3. Objection 3. Against the above Exercitation The Popish Writers take an Objection From the Perpetuity and Continuance of Christs Vniversal Church And demand of the Reformed Doctors With what face they durst accuse of Corruption the Present Church of Rome If they Remember how Christ promised his Spouse Perpetual Preservation Hos 2.19 I will even betroth thee unto me for ever Isa 59.21 As for me This is my Covenant with Them saith the Lord My Spirit that is upon thee And my words which I have put in thy Mouth shall not

Depart out of thy Mouth Nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed Nor out of the Mouth of thy Seeds Seed saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever And Such Like Answer to this Third Objection 1. TO what Purpose doth this Objection serve the Popish Writers Or what Argument may the Perpetuity Of Christs Universal Church afford Them against our former Assertion 2. We Believe and Confesse to the Comfort of our Souls That Christs Church hath continued And shall never fail so long as the world endureth 3. And we account it a prophane Heresie to teach that Christs Universal Church hath Perished from the Earth at any Time For this Assertion shaketh the Foundation of all Faith and Religion 4. But the Popish Writers who makes this Objection Should prove by invincible evidence of Scripture That the Catholick Universal Church of Christ is nothing Else But the Outward Succession of the Roman See If They can Prove This They should Prove their Objection Soundly And should confute our Opinion Truely 5. But it is a Thing which They cannot Doe They cannot bring us Either Texts of Scriptures or Reasons To shew that Christs Church Either is the Popes Succession Or Else dependeth upon the same See 6. For as Touching External Shew And Succession of Churches The Scriptures have foretold Apoc. 12. and 13.16 That Antichrist shall Seduce Great and Small Rich and Poor Free and Bond And that the Church shall flie into the Wildernesse And there Remain Of all which no word could be true If the Catholick Church were tied To the Popes Chaire And the Popes Chaire were the Rock That cannot be removed 7. And yet notwithstanding this General Dispersion And the Flight of the Church under Antichrist The Catholick Church shall for all That Continue 8. Although not in that outward strength And Glory In which sometimes it hath appeared And Flourished 4. Objection Of the Popish Writers Against the above Exercitations That the Now Church of Rome is Changed And is not Now what it was in the Beginning What Impudence is This say the said Writers There was never Heresie that Assaulted the Church of Rome Of which it carried not the Victory As Over the Donatists Over Jovinian Over Pelagius the Britain And over Others Answer to this Fourth Objection 1. THe Triumphs of which the Popish Writers do boast of Are no more proper to the Now or Latter Church of Rome Then the Triumphs of old Rome Over Pyrrhus Over Annibal Over Perses Over Antiochus are to be esteemed the Triumphs of Rome Now Being 2. And for the pretended Victory over Pelagius the Britain we say that he Triumphed over the Popish Kingdome For did he not Teach That Grace was imbred in Nature And the Popish Crew of Jesuites Defendeth the same Who seeth not then Pelagius sitting in the Popish Triumphant Chariot Popery is not of the first and Primary Antiquity That is many of the present Doctrines of the Church of Rome And in what Time Errors were received in it 1. PApists are not able to produce any Record Expresse and direct testimony Canon of Council or Ecclesiastical constitution For their burning Lights in the Church at noon day before the Decree of Pope Sabinianus in the year of our Lord 605. 2. Nor for Rome to be the Head of all Churches before Pope Boniface the Third in the year 606. 3. Nor for the Invocation of Saints in their Publick Lithurgy before Boniface the Fifth in the year 618. 4. Nor for their Latine Service thrust upon all Churches before Pope Vitalian in the year 666 which is the very number of the name of the Beast 5. Nor for the Cutting of the Host into three parts and offering one part for the Souls in Purgatory before Pope Sergius in the year 688. 6. Nor for setting up Images in Churches Generally and worshipping them before Pope Adrian the First and the Second Council of Nice in the year 787. 7. Nor for Canonization of Saints departed before Leo the Third about the year 800. 8. Nor for the Orall Manducation of Christs Body in the Sacrament before Pope Nicholas the Second in the year 1053. 9. Nor for the entire number of seven Sacraments before Peter Lombard in the year 1140. 10. Nor for Indulgences before Engenius the third in the year 1145. 11. Nor for Transubstantiation of the Bread into Christs body before the Fourth Council of Lateran in the year 1215. 12. Nor for the Elevation of the Host that the People might adore it before Honorius the Third in the year 1216. 13. Nor for any Jubilee before Pope Boniface the Eighth in the yeer 1300. 14. Nor for the Carrying the Sacrament in Procession under a Canopy before Pope Vrban the Fifth In the year 1262. 15. Nor for the Day and half Communion before the Council at Constance in the year 1416. 16. Nor for the suspending the Efficacy of Sacramental Consecration upon the Priests Intention before the Council at Florence in the year 1439. 17. Nor for the Popes Superiority to General Councils before the Sixt Council at Lateran under Leo the Tenth in the year 1517. 18. Nor the vulgar Latine Translation to be held for Authentical And upon no pretended Cause whatsoever to be reiected before the fourth Session of the Council of Trent in the year 1546. 19. Nor for the Second book of the Macchabees and the Apocryphal Additions to Hester and Daniel with the History of Bell and the Dragon which S. Jerome termeth a Fable to bereceived for Canonical Scripture before the said Session in the year above named 1. Frande 1. These be the Principles and Grounds of Faith and Worship that the Church of Rome doth Produce 1. Scriptures 2. Traditions of the Apostles 3. The Catholick Church 4. General Councils 5. The Ancient Fathers 6. The Pope which she calls the Supream Pastour of the Church 2. These be the Fraudes of the Church of Rome Concerning all the Principles and Rules above Produced The 1. of those Fraudes is That the Church of Rome careth indeed for none of Them but for the last which is The Determination of her Pope 1. THe Scripture must not be Scripture in any other Sense then as the Pope will Expound So that the Scripture being the Meaning of the Scripture And the Meaing of the Scripture being the Popes Exposition Hereof it followeth That the Scripture is nothing else but the Popes Interpretation 2. So Likewise In Traditions In Doctors In Councils In Churches If any Thing Dissent from the Popes understanding and Determination It is Rejected Abolished Condemned 3. And Finally all Faith all Religion all Divinity of the Church of Rome is only the Popes Sacred will and pleasure Papists give the Churches Authority to the Pope And take all Authority quoad nos from the Scripture So that by the Church they understand the Pope 1. THe Papists 1. take all Authority from the Scripture 2. They give it to the Church And 3. They give the Churches Authority to