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A14430	The golden treatise of the auncient and learned father Vincentius Lirinensis. For the antiquitie, and vniuersalitie, of the Catholicke religion: against the prophane nouelties of all heresies: newly translated into English by A.P. Verie profitable for all such as desire in these dangerous times, to imbrace the true Gospell of Iesus Christ, and to remaine free from all infectio[n] of false doctrine as in the preface more at large is declared; Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate libellus. English	Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.; A. P., fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 24748; ESTC S119131	43,517	126

and receaue what a gods name I shake to speake for they are so proud and presumptuous that as they can not be maintained with-out sin so neither impngned without some blotte of offence CHAP. V. BVT some man will say why then doth god very often permit certaine notable and excellent men in the Church to preach vnto Catholicks a new religion A very good question and such as deserueth a more diligent and ample discourse vnto which notwithstaÌ„ding I. will answer out of mine owne head but with the authoritie of sacred scripture and the doctrine of a notable master in Gods Church let vs then heare holy Moises let him giue vs the reason why learned men and such as for their great gift of knowledge are called of the Apostle Prophets be some times permitted to preach new doctrine which the olde testament allegorically calleth strange gods because there opinions are so obserued honored of heretickes as the gods were of the gentels thus theÌ„ writeth blessed Moyses in Deuteronomie If there shall arise quoth he in the middest Deut. 13 of thee a prophet or one which sayth he hath seene a dreame that is some master in the Church whose disciples or followers suppose to teach by some reuelation from god what then shall fortell quoth he some signe or miracle that shall happen which he hath sayed some greate master is here surely ment and one of so deepe knowledge whom his folowers imagin not only to know things humane but also to foresee future such as shall happeÌ„ which is far aboue mans reach as the scholers for the most part of Valentinus Donatus Photinus Apollinaris such like did bragge that their masters were What foloweth And shall quoth he say vnto thee let vs go and folow strange Gods which thou knowest not and let vs serue them What is ment by strange Gods but forraine errors which thou knowest not that is new and neuer heard of before and let vs serue them that is beleeue them folow them What theÌ„ Thou shalt not quoth he heare the wordes of that Prophet or Dreamer And why I pray you is not that forbidden by GOD to bee taught which is by God forbidden to be heard Because quoth he the Lord your God doth tempt you that it may appeare whether you loue him or no in your wholle heart and in your wholle soule The reason theÌ„ is more cleare then day why the prouidence of God doth some time suffer certaine teachers and masters of the Church to preach certaine new opinioÌ„s that your Lord God quoth he may tempt you And surely a great tentation it is when as he whom you thinke a Prophet a disciple of the Prophetes whom you esteeme a Doctor and maintainer of the truth whom you haue highly reuerenced and most intierly loued when he sodenly priuily bringeth in pernicious errors which neither you can quickly spie lead away with preiudice of your old teacher nor easelie condemne hindered with loue to your old master CHAP. VI. HERE some man haply doth earnestly desire to see that proued by some ecclesiasticall examples which by the authoritie of Moises hath already bene auouched The demaund is reasonable and therfore of reason not long to be differred Wherfore to beginne with those which are yet fresh in memorie to the world best knowne What kinde of tentation thincke you was that of late daies when that vngratious and cursed Nestorius sodenly froÌ„ a sheepe transformed into a wolfe began to deuour the flocke of Christ at such time as those which were spoiled commonly tooke him for a sheepe and therfore were more subiect to his crueltie For who would haue easely imagined him to haue erred whom euery man knew to haue bene chosen with such iudgement of the Empire who was so highly in grace with the Cleargie so much beloued of all holy men so greatly in fauour with the people who openly expounded the scriptures and also confuted the pestiferous error of the Iewes why could not this man by such meanes easelie perswade any that he taught aright preched aright beleeued aright who to smooth the way make entrance for his owne heresie persecuted preached against the blasphemies of all others But this was that which Moises saith The Lord your God doth tempt you if you loue him or no. And to passeouer Nestorius in whom was alwaies more admiration then profite more fame theÌ„ experience whom for some time humane fauour had made greater then Gods grace exalted Lett vs rather speake of them which endowed with many giftes and men of greate industrie haue bene no small tentation to Catholickes as amongst the Pauonians in our Fathers memorie Photinus is recorded to haue tempted the Church of Sirminum in which being preferred with the liking of all men vnto the dignitie of Priesthood for sometime he behaued him selfe very Catholikely but sodenly like that naughtie Prophet or Dreamer of whom Moises speaketh he beganne to perswade the people of God committed to his charge to folow other gods that is strange and vnknowen errors which before they were not acquainted with But as this is vsuall so that was verie pernitiouse that he had so great helpes and furtherance for the aduancing of so great wickednes For he was both of an excelent witte and singulerly well learned and passing eloquent as he which both in disputation and writing was copious graue in either language as appeareth by the bookes which he wrote partly in greek and partly in the latin tong But in hapned well that Christes sheepe committed to his charge very vigilaÌ„t and carefull in keeping the Catholike faith did speedely remember Moises warning and therfore albeit they admired much the eloquence of their Prophet and Pastor yet were they not ignorant of the temptation And therefore whom before they folowed as the cheefe leader of the flocke the same very man afterward they auoided as a rauening wolfe Neither do we learne only by Photinus but also by the example of Apollinaris the daunger of this ecclesiasticall tentation and therby also be admonished diligently to keepe retaine our faith and religion For this Apollinaris procured his auditors great trouble anguish of mind whilest the authoritie of the Church drew them one way and the acquaintance of their master haled them another so that wauering tottering betwixt both they were vncertaine whether parte was best to be folowed But haply he was such a one as easely deserued to be contemned Nay he was so famous and worthie a man that in very may thinges he wone credite too fast For who surpassed him in sharpnes of witt in exercise in learning how many heresies in many and greate bookes hath he ouerthrowne how many errors against the faith hath he coÌ„futed That most notable great worke of thirtie bookes in which with great waight of reason he confounded the franticke cauills of Porphirius doth giue credit to my report and testifie the truth of my relation

Apostles censure deterreth For all men know how grauely how seuerely how seriously the blessed Apostle S. PAVL inueigheth against certaine which with Gal. 8 great leuitie Were so soone transferred from him that called them into the grace of Christ vnto another Gospell which is not an other That had heaped vp to theÌ„ 2. Tim. 4 selues masters according to their owne desires auerting their eares from truth being conuerted to fables Hauing damnation because they haue made voide their 1. Tim. 5. first faith Whom those men had deceaued of whom the same Apostle in his epistle to the Romanes thus writeth I beseech you brethren to marke theÌ„ that make dissentions and scandalls contrarie Ram. 16. to the doctrine which you haue learned and auoide them for such doe not serue Christ our Lorde but theire owne bellie And by sweet speaches and benedictions seduce the hartes of Innocents That enter into houses and lead captiue seelie women 2 Tim. 3 loaden with sinnes which are lead away with diuers desires alwaies learning and neuer attaining to the knowledge of trewth Vaine speakers and seducers who subuert wholle houses teaching Tit. 1 the thinges they ought not for filthy lucre Men corrupt in their minde reprobates concerning the faith Proud 2. Tim. 3 and knowing nothing but languishing about questions and strife of wordes that are depriued of the truth that esteeme a 1. Tim. 6. 1. Tim. 5. gaine to be pietie And with all idle they learne to go from house to house not only idle but also full of wordes and curious speaking thinges which they ought not 1. Tim. 1. Which repelling a good conscience haue made shipwracke about the faith Whose prophane speaches do much grow to impietie and their speach spreadeth as a cancre But that is also worth the noting which is written of them But they shall 2 Tim. 2. 2. Tim. 3. prosper no further for their follie shall be manifest to all as theirs also was When therfore such kind of men wandering vp and downe through Prouinces and cities to set their errors to sale came also vnto the Galathians who after they had heard theÌ„ and were delighted with the filthie druges of heretiall Nouelty casting vp againe the heauenly Manna of the Apostolicke and Catholicke doctrine The Apostle vsed his authoritie decreeing very seuerely in this sort But although we quoth he or an Angel from heauen euangelize vnto you beside Gal. 1. Euangelize signifieth such preaching of good tidings as coÌ„cerneth the gospell Anathema signifieth accursed be he that which we haue enangelized be he Anathema What meaneth this that he sayeth But although we why did he not rather say But although I That is to say although Peter although Andrew although Iohn yea finally al though the wholle companie of the Apostles euangelize vnto you otherwise then we haue enangelized be he accur sed A terrible censure for maintaining the possession of the first faith not to haue spared him selfe nor any other of the Apostles But this is a small matter Although an Angell from heaueÌ„ quoth he Euangelize vnto you beside that which I haue Euangelized be he Anathema he was not contented for keeping the faith once planted to make mention of mans weake nature vnlesse also he included those excellent creatures of Angells Although we qhoth he or an Angell from heauen not because the holy Angells of Heauen can now sinne but this is the meaning of that he saith Although quoth he that might be which cannot be whosoeuer he be that goeth about to change the faith which was once planted be he accursed But peraduenture he vttered those words slightly and cast theÌ„ forth rather of humane affection then decreed them by any reason grounded in Gods word God forbid For it followeth and that very earnestly vrged very often repeated As I haue foretold you quoth he now againe I tell you If any body euangelize vnto you beside that which you haue receaued be he Anathema He said not if any man preach vnto you beside that which you haue receaued let him be blessed let him be commended let him be receaued but Anathema that is separated thrust out excommunicated least the cruell infection of one sheepe with his poisoned company corrupt the sound flocke of Christ But peraduenture this was giuen in commaundement only to the Galathians then likewise were these precepts folowing commaunded only to the Galathians to weete If vve liue Gal. 5. in the spirite in the spirite also lett vs vvalke lett vs not be made desirouse of vaine glorie prouoking one an other enuying one an other and such like which if it be absurd to say no man doubteth but that they were indifferently commaunded to all then certaine it is that as these precepts touching maners include all so likewise those concerning faith and doctrine exclude none And therfore as it is not lawfull for any to prouoke one another to enuie one another euen so it is vnlawfull for any to admitt or to receaue any other faith or religion then that which the Catholicke Church euery where teacheth or haply shal we be so mad to say that theÌ„ it was commaunded to curse and anathematize him that preached any otherwise then before had beene preached that now it is not coÌ„maunded then was that likewise which is there saide But I say walke in the spirite and you shall not fulfill the desires of the flesh then only coÌ„maunded but now is not which if it be impious and dangerous so to beleeue then of necessitie it followeth that as these precepts of life manners are to be kept of all ages so likewise those set downe against innouating of religion changing of faith are coÌ„maunded to all posteritie wherfore to preach vnto Christian Catholicke men besids that which they haue receaued neuer was lawfull no where is lawfull at no time shall be lawfull And on the contrarie to say Anathema and curse those which teach otherwise then once hath bene receaued was at all times needful is euery where conuenient euer shall be requisite Which being so is there any man either so bold that dare teach that which in the Church hath not bene taught or of such leuitie that will receaue ought besides that which he hath receiued of the Church Let that vessell of election that maister of the Gentiles that trumpe of the Apostles that preacher of the world he that was acquainted with heauenly affaires crie out and againe crie out in his epistles to all men to all times to all places that whosoeuer preacheth a new doctrine is to be accursed And on the contrarie parte let certaine frogges corruptible gnates and flies such as the Pelagians be reclaime and that to Catholickes Wee being your authors quoth they we being your leaders we being your interpreters condemne that which before you did hold hold that which before you condemned Cast away your olde faith your forefathers lawes your elders constitutions

as it were with the sweete powder of Gods worde that he which quicklie would haue coÌ„temned mans erronious inuention dare not so readilie reiecte Gods diuine scripture wherin they are like to those which minding to minister bitter potions to yonge childreÌ„ do first annoint the brimmes of the cuppe with honie that ther by vnwarie youth feeling the swetnes may nothing feare the bitter confection This deuise also practise they which vpon noughtie herbes and hurtfull ioyces writte the names of good wholsome medicines wherby almost no man reading the good superscription anything suspecteth the lurking poysoÌ„ The selfe same thing likewise our Sauiour crieth out to all ChristiaÌ„s Take ye heed of false prophets Mat. 7 which come to you in sheepes cloathing but inwardly are rauening wolues What is ment else by sheepes clothing but the sayings of the Prophetes and Apostles which they with sheepelike sinceritie did weare like certain fleeces for that immaculate Lambe which taketh away the sinnes of the world And what is to be vnderstood by rauening wolues but the cruell dogged opinions of hereticks which alwaies trouble the sheepfoldes of the Church and by all meanes possible teare in peeces the flocke of Christ But to th end they may more craftely set vpon the sheepe of Christ mistrusting nothing remaining still cruell beastes they putt of their woluish weed and shroude them selues with the wordes of scripture as it were with certaine fleeces whereby it hapneth that when the feelie sheepe feele the soft woll they litle feare their sharpe teeth But what saieth our Sauiour By their fruites you shall knowe them That is when then beginne not only to vtter those wordes but also to expound them not only to cast them forth but also to interpret them then doth that bitternes breake forth then is that sharpenes espied then is that madnes perceaued then is that fresh and new poison belched out then are prophane nouelties sett abroch then may you see straight way the hedge cut in two the olde fathers bounds remoued the Cotholicke doctrine shaken and the Churches faith torne in peeces Such were they whome the Apostle sharplie reprehendeth in the 2. epistle to the Corinthians For such false Apostles quoth he are crafty workers 2. Cor. 11 transfiguring them selues into the Apostles of Christ What is transfiguring them selues into the Apostles of Christ But this The Apostles alleadged the examples of scripture they likewise cited them The Apostles cited the authoritie of the Psalmes and they likewise vsed it The Apostles vsed the sayinges of the Prophetes and they in like maner brought them forth But wheÌ„ that scripture which was alike alleadged alike cited alike brought forth was not alike and in one sence expounded then were discerned the simple from the craftie the sincere froÌ„ the counterfeit the right good from the froward and peruerse and to conclude true Apostles from those false Apostataes And no maruell quoth Saint PAVL For Sathan him selfe transfigureth him selfe into an Angell of light it is no great matter therfore if his ministers be transfigured as the ministers of Iustice Wherfore according to Saint PAVL whensoeuer either false Apostles or false Prophets or false Doctors do bring forth the words of holy scripture by which they would according to their noughtie interpretation confirme their error there is no doubt but that they folow the craftie sleight of their maister which surely he would neuer haue inuented but that he knoweth verie well that there is no readier way to deceaue the people then where the bringing in of wicked error is intended that there the authoritie of the word of God should be preteÌ„ded But some will say how proue you that the Deuill vseth to alledge scripture Such as doubt therof let them read the Gospell where it is written Then the Deuill tooke him vp that is our Lord and Sauiour and set him vpon the pinnacle of the Temple and said vnto him if thou be the sonne of God cast thy selfe downe for it is written that he will geue his Angels Mat. 4 charge of thee that they may keepe theee in all thy waies in their hands shall they hold the vp least perhaps thou knock thy foote against a stone How will he thinke you handle seely poore soules which so setteth vpon the Lord of maiestie with the authoritie of scripture If thou be quoth he the sonne of god cast thy selfe downe Why so For it is writteÌ„ quoth he we haue diligeÌ„tly to waigh the doctrine of this place to keepe it in mind that by so notable an example of the scripture we make no scruple or doubt when we see any alleadge some place of the Apostles or Prophetes against the Catholike faith but that by his mouth the deuil himself doth speak For as at that time the head spake vnto the head so now the meÌ„bers do talke vnto the members that is the meÌ„bers of the Deuill to the members of Christ the faithlesse to the faithfull the irreligious to the religious to conclude Heretickes to Catholickes But what I pray saieth the Deuill If thou be the sonne of God quoth he cast thy selfe downe That is to say Desirest thou to be the sonne of God and to enioy the inheritance of the Kingdome of Heauen Cast thy selfe downe that is Cast thy selfe downe from this doctrine tradition of this high and loftie Church which is reputed to be the Temple of God And if any one demaund of these hereticks perswading theÌ„ such things how do you proue and conuince me that I ought to forsake the olde and vniuersall faith of the Catholike Church Straight waies is ready at hand For it is written forthwith he will alledge you a thousand testimonies a thousand examples a thousand authorities out of the law out of the Psalmes out of the Apostles out of the Prophetes by which expounded after a new wicked fashion he would throw headlong the vnfortunate soules from the tower of the Catholike Church into the deep dungeon of wicked heresie Now with these sweete promises which followe Heretickes doe wonderfully deceaue simple men For they dare promise and teach that in their Church that is in the conuenticle of their communion is to be found a great and speciall yea a certaine personall grace of God So that whosoeuer be one of their crew they shall straight waies without any labour without any study without any industrie yea although they neuer seek nor craue nor knocke haue such speciall dispensation that they shall be caried vp with the handes of Angells that is preserued by Angelicall protection that they neuer hurt their foote against a stone that is that they neuer can be scandilized But some man wil say if the Deuill his disciples wherof some be false Apostles false Prophetes and false teachers and all perfecte Heretickes do vse the scriptures cite their sayings bring forth their promises what shall Catholicke men do How shall the children of the Church behaue

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