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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17020	A treatise of the perpetuall visibilitie, and succession of the true church in all ages	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1624 (1624)	STC 39.3; ESTC S100501	43,587	128

but Alphonsus the King of Arragon came in his owne person to his succour as beeing his kinsman and his friend And when all these were met together the report is saith Du Haillan that the Armie of these Hereticks did consist of about the number of one hundred thousand fighting men These things beeing thus discouered by men of your owne part bee ashamed you Papists and blush to spread among your simple and credulous Followers that neuer men did as we doo nor beleeued as wee beleeue before Luther's time but that all Christendome formerly liked of the papisticall doctrine and proceedings But because you shall heare one testimony further touching these Albingenses and Waldenses how honest and truely religious they were I will cite what one Reinerius a man who did hate them and was as it is supposed an Inquisitor against them reported concerning them now 300 yeers ago or thereabout Thus then among much other matter he saith of them There were many Sects of Hereticks long ago among all which Sects that are or were there is not one more pernicious to the Church of God than that of the poore men of Lyons for three causes First because it is of longer continuance some say that it hath endured from the time of Syluester others say that from the time of the Apostles The second is because it is more generall for there is almost no Land into which this Sect doth not creep The third that whereas all other by the immanity of their blasphemies against God doo make men abhorre them this of the Lyonists hauing a great shew of godlinesse because they doo liue iustly before men and doo beleeue all things well of God and all the Articles which are contained in the Creed onely the Church of Rome they doo blaspheme and hate which the multitude is easie to beleeue And as Sampson ' s Foxes had their faces seueral waies but their tails tied one to another so Hereticks are diuerse in Sects among themselues but in the impugning of the Church they are vnited There can hardly be found a more honourable testimony out of the mouth or penne of a bitter and bloudy Aduersary as he was who wrote this much more concerning those good seruants of God We shall not need to ascend any higher since hee giueth witnes of the antiquity of their profession long before his time which otherwise to make plain is as easie as to deliuer that which hitherto I haue spoken And it is not to bee conceiued that Petrus Waldo of whom the Waldenses tooke their name at Lyons had his doctrine from no body but that of himselfe he attained to his owne knowledge since he was not deeply learned Berengarius indeed was onely called in question for denying Transubstantiation in the Sacrament but it may well bee thought that in something else he dissented from the Church of Rome and albeit by his owne weaknes and the importunity of the Clergie he yeelded once or twice to recant and abiure the true doctrine which hee held yet hee had many scholars who by his example would not bee driuen from the right beleef which they had apprehended These scholars were in France in great numbers and in diuerse other lands and Genebrard cannot conceal it but that about the yeer of our Lord 1088 Basilius the Monk did set on foot again the errour of Berengarius And might not the doctrine of both these bee sucked from Bertram who wrote so learnedly and so directly out of the Scriptures and Fathers against the reall presence and Transubstantiation that the Index expurgatorius cannot tel what to make of him But the Bishop of Eureux vnder the name of Henry Constable tearmeth him The great fore-runner of all the Sacramentaries and Richcome the Iesuit disclaimeth him plainly as a Sacramentarie Heretick Then Caluin and Zuinglius were not the first who gain-said transubstantiation Before our ascending thus high we might tell you of Saint Bernard whom although it is likely at the first dash you will challenge as your owne yet when you haue well aduised on him you may let him goe again for albeit hee had his errours which he suckt from the age wherein he liued and we may not in all things subscribe to his iudgement but say of him as commonly it is spoken Bernardus non vidit omnia yet wee finde in him saniorem partem a liberall profession of many good sound points agreeable to the Gospell Hee for a fashion acknowledgeth many matters to be in the Pope and giueth him greater titles than any Papist can iustifie but it is by such insinuation to win him more attention frō Eugenius and then hauing procured liberty or rather taken it to himself he schooleth and lessoneth the Pope plainly shewing that he liked not of their ordinary courses neither did hee repute him to haue that preeminence or prerogatiue which his Parasites did allow him But touching the matter of merit by good works for iustification alone by Christ of free-will for certain assurance of saluation in the death and by the strength of our Sauiour and for disliking then the vile life of the Clergie how cleer how learned how copious is hee These things wee teach together with him and notwithstanding his other slips we doubt not but his soule doth rest with the Lord God pardoning vnto him his errours and his ignorances which hee being carried with the stream of that Time did neuer discusse but took them as they were deliuered to him without scanning or examining And to this good hope we are firmly induced by that Saying of Saint Paul Other Foundation can no man lay but that which is laid which is Iesus Christ and if any man build on this Foundation gold siluer precious stones timber hay or stubble euery mans work shall bee made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be reuealed by fire and the fire shall try euery mans work of what sort it is If any mans work that he hath built-vpon abide he shall receiue wages if any mans workburn he shall lose but he shall be safe himself He held the Foundation of iustification onely by faith in Christ and that our best deeds are but via Regni non causa regnandi the way to the Kingdome not the cause of raigning and for that cause we doubt not but his soule is safe though his hay and stubble of praying to Saints and such other stuffe as cannot endure the fire of the holy Ghost's triall doo burn and consume And this is our iudgement touching many other both before and after the time of Saint Bernard that holding Christ the Foundation aright and groning vnder the heauy burden of humane traditions satisfaction and other popish trash they by a generall repentance from their errors and lapses knowne and vnknowne and by an assured faith in their Sauiour did finde fauour with the Lord. Such as these were we hold to be