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A50622	Papimus Lucifugus, or, A faithfull copie of the papers exchanged betwixt Mr. Iohn Menzeis, Professor of Divinity in the Marischal-Colledge of Aberdene, and Mr. Francis Demster Iesuit, otherwise sirnamed Rin or Logan wherein the Iesuit declines to have the truth of religion examined, either by Scripture or antiquity, though frequently appealed thereunto : as also, sundry of the chief points of the popish religion are demonstrated to be repugnant both to Scripture and antiquity, yea, to the ancient Romish-Church : to all which is premised in the dedication, a true narration of a verbal conference with the same Iesuit.	Menzeis, John, 1624-1684.; Dempster, Francis.	1668 (1668)	Wing M1725; ESTC R2395	219,186	308

Verdict of Pope Gregorie the first concerning the deed of Serenus Bishop of Massils for breaking the Images which he saw abused to Idolatrie Lib. 9. epist 9. Et quideus quia eas adorari vetuisses emnino laudamus Hereupon your Cassander in Consult art 21. De picturis sayeth he Quae fuerit mens sententia Rom iuae Ecclesiae adbuc aetate Gregorii satis ex ejus scriptis manifest um est viz. Ideo hiberi picturas non quidem ut colantur adorentur sed ut imperiti picturis inspiciendis haud aliter as literis legendis rerum gestarum admonerentur Yea the Council of Eliberis c●x 36. More ancient as is supposed then the Nicen expresly prohibited the drawing of pictures in Churches But to manifest how little regard you Romanists have to Antiquity when it playes not to your Tune your Melchior Canus lib. 5. loc Cont. cap. 4. Speaking of this Ancient Canon sayes Lex illa non imprudenter modo verum eti●●● impie a concilio Elibertino est lata de tollendis imaginibus Inst. 2. Your present Romish Church pantainet that prodigious and bloody tenet of Iransubstantiation in the Sacranent Not so the Ancient Romish Church As appearet by the with●g of Gelasius Bishop of Rome contra Nestor Et Eutych in tom 4. biblioth Patrum where expresly he sayes Non desinit substantia panis vini This testimony is so luculent that your Cardinals Bellarmine and Barronius would question whether that Tractat were writen by Gelasius Bishop of Rome although it passe under his name in Bibliotheca Patrum and would ascrive it to another Gelasius Cyzicenus or Caesariensis But you may see these allegeances learnedly consured by Doctor Iohn Forbes of Corse in his Iustruc historico theol lib. 11. cap. 16. And giving but not granting that there allegeances were true yet that Gelasius Cyzicenus as also Caesariensis are acknowledged to be Catholick authors and more ancient then Gelasins Bishop of Rome And the same which Gelasius asserts of the tem ●oi●g of the substance of Bread and Wine in the Sacrament is affirmed by other ancient and Catholick Authors particularly by T●endoret dialog 2. Hence your own Scotus if Bellarmine may be credited Lab. 3. ' De Eu●har cap. 23. Acknowledged that Transubstantiation was no article of saith before the late Lateran Council under Innocent the th●d Anno. 1215. Inst 3. Your present Romish Church mantaines the publick●solemne and ordnarie celebration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper under one kinde Not so the Ancient Romish Church As appeares by Pope Leo the first who in his Se●m 4. de quadragesim condemnes the partaking of the Bread wi●● out die Cup as a Manichean abomination Hence your Cassan●er in consult art 21 De administratione sacro sancti sacraments Eucharistiassatis compertum est Vniversalem Christs Ecclesiam in hanc usque diem Occidentaelem vero seu Romanam mille ampi●n● à Christ annis in solcr ni praesertim ordinaria hujus Sacraments dess ensatione utrainque paris vins speciem omnibus Ecclesiae Christs mer●br is exh●lu●sse ●d quod ex ●●umeris veterum Scriptorum tam Graecorum quam latinerum testimon●● manisestum est Bus seeing I mentioned Pope Leo's sermons let ●●●●member you that Ancient Bishops of Rome such as Lce and Gregorie c. were Preaching Bishops not so your Present Popes Yea your Bellarmin to apolog z● for these your Idol shepherds hath not spared to say Lib. 3. De Pont. Rom. cap 24. Non tenentur Pontifices per se concionars Satis est st curent per alios ista prastari If they Preach onely by Proxies take heed they goe not to Heaven onely by prexies also Have you not heard how your Espencaus and others of the more moderat sort among you have bitterly lamented this prophane and lazie desuetud of preaching in your Popes Inst 4. Your present Romish Church mantaines the Popes universal suprcamacie and his Title of universal Bishop Not so the Ancient Romish Church As appeares by Pope Gregorte the first his many invectives against that title as a title of Noveltie Error Impiery Blasphemie c. I give you but two testimonies from him I be one is In lib. 6. Aepist 30. Ego fidenter dico quisquis se universalem sacerdotem vocat vel vocari desiderat in elatione sua antichristum praecurrit quia superbiendo se caeteris praeponit The other is In lib. 4. Aepist 36. Nullus decessorum meorum hoc prophano vocabulo universalis Episcopi uti consensit Thus your verie Popedome it self whose vitals seeme to consist in this Vniversal supreamacie is condemned by the Ancient Church of Rome Hence Cyprian with eightie and seven Bishops in an African council sayeth Neque quisquam nostrum Episcopum se esse episcoporum constituit aut tyrannico terrore collegas suos ad obsequends necessitatem adigu Where he cals it a tyrannical terror for one Bishop to impose on others Inst 5. Your present Romish Church mantaines the Apocryphal bookes to be canonical and of equal authority with the undoubted Seriptures of GOD. Not so the Ancient Romish Church As any eares by lerome and Gregorie if your own Occam may be credited In Dialog part 3. lib. 3. can 16. Secundum Hieronymum sayeth he Et Gregorium liber ludith Tobiae Maccabiorum Ecclesiasticus liber sapientiae non sunt recipiendi ad confirmandum aliquid in fids This same you will find copi●●sl de●●onstrated by Doctor Cosin in his Scholastical historie of the canon of Scripture Inst 6. You Jesuits who are the prevalent faction at the present in your Romish Church and your Canonists mantaine the dominion and jurisdiction of your Pape over Princes So did not the Ancient Romish Church As appeares by Pope Gregorie the first who thus writer to the Emperour Maurice lib. 2. epist 61. Sacerdotes meos tuae manus commisi Utrobique ergo quae debui exsolvi qui Imperatori obedientiam praebui pro DEO quod sensi minime tacui Know you not Bernards inference from the Apostles word Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the higher Poriers writing to a great man of your Romish Church Siomnis anima tum vestra quis vos excipit ex universitate si quis tentat excipere tentat decipere And have you not heard of Chrysostoms enumeration long before him In epist. ad Rom. cap. 13. hom 23. Sive Apostolus sis sive Propheta sive Evangelista sive Sacerdos subditus sis Inst 7. Your present Romish Church mantaines Papal indulgences for easing soules under the paines of Purgatorie Not so the Ancient Romish Church For there is no mention of such indulgences in al Antiquity Nay so novel is that invention that they are not mentioned either by Gratian or Lombard who were so verie diligent in gathering up al your Romish chaffe and stuble Hence your Durand in 4. sent disp 20. quaest 3. § 4. Sayeth De indulgentiis pauca dici pissunt per

is the genuine sense of Scripture but onely the authority of the speaker Surely then nothing spoken by you or your fellow Jesuits and Friers can be received as a Divine truth for you pretend no Infallibility Nay your fallacies are become so notorious to the World that it hath past into a proverb A Fryar a liar But perhaps you meane your Popes or Councils by your Propounders Yet besides that your people doe not hear them immediatly and their sentences may be vitiated in the conveyances by the hands of fallible persons besides this I say must not your Popes and Councils have a reason that moved them to own rather this sense of Scripture then the opposite Or else they must be perfect Enthusiasts If they have a reasone why may not the same reasone that moved them move the people also when it is sufficiently proposed to them Let the indifferent Reader now observe to what fluctuating uncertaintes you expose your hearers whē you say that their faith must be resolved upon the authority of the Speaker whether you meane Pope or Council or both for I suppose you cannot determinatly tell which of the three Now how many things are here to be cleared before the faith of the poor people can be at a stand As First that these whome you call Popes are true Popes and successours to Peter and your Councils true and legitimat General Councils Secondly that these Popes and Councils have an Infallible authority Thirdly That this which you give out is the true and genuine sense of the Popes or Councils All which while the World stands you will never be able solidly to prove And I doe appeale you if you can to doe it But I must here reveal another prodigious Mysterie of your Romanists Namely that what ever is proposed not onely by your Popes and Councils but also by your inferiour Clergie-Men though by your own Confession Fallible yet the poor People who cannot examine by themselves the truth or falshood of what is proposed ought not onely to beleeve upon the authority of the said Fallible Clergie-Men but also Doe merit by beleeving though the thing beleeved be Erronious and Heretical Hear this from your Great Casuist Cardinal Talet Lib. 4. De Instruct. Saterd cap. 3. Si rusticus sayeth he circa articulos credat suo Episcopo proponenti aliquod dogma haereticum meretur in credendo lieet sit error quia tenetur credere donce si constet esse contra Ecclesiam I will english it If a country man sayeth he beleeve his Bishop propounding some heretical doctrine about the articles he meriteth by beleeving though it be an error because he is bound to beleeve until it manifestly appeare that it is against the Church What a damnable Religion must this be according to which men merit Heaven by beleeving lies If this doctrine of Cardinal Tolet be true that people are bound to beleeve your Fallible Clergie-Men even speaking lies and may Merit thereby How dare you conclude that our Faith to unquestionable Divine truths is no Supernatural faith because our Preachers doe not arrogat an Infallibility to themselves Is it better for a Romanist to beleeve a lie then for a PROTESTANT to beleeve a Divine truth Think you still to abuse the World with such prodigious impostures As for your ludicrous Example of an Old Wife We bless God there are old Wiwes young Boyes and Girles amongst us who could instruct all old deceiver like you in the true grounds of Religiō Did not Priscilla a poor Wife instruct Apolles in the mysteries of Christianity of whose Infallibility Apollos had no previous assurance Yet from the Scripture she convinced him Act. 18.26 So that from this your Example though brought in by you only as a foolish jeer all that you have said may be redargued If there may be a ground to assent to divine truths proposed by a Poor Wife such as Priscilla of whose Infallibility there is no previous assurance then it is a falshood which you affirme that the Faith of divine truths must only be founded upō the Authority of the Speaker But the first appears to be true from the Case of Priscilla and Apolles A poor Priscilla may hold forth convincing and luculent grounds of what she asserts from the Scripture when a Priest A Iesuit a Cardinal a Pope an Annas or Cajaphas may obtrude on the consciences of others erronio●s and groundles fancyes To this purpose I might produce many testimonies from your own most famous Writers as of Gerson Panermitan c. But I shall at the time content my self with one from Ioannes Picus Mirandulanus De Ordine credendi Theor 16. Which though I have at the second hand the author not being by me yet have I it from so many good Writers that I doubt not of the truth of it Quin imo sayeth he simplici potius rustice infanti anicula quam Pontifiti Maxime mille Episcopis credendū si contra Evangetium isti illi pro Erangelio verba facereut I Have been more copious in this Reply then your Scurvy Paper did deserve yet if in this I have superogated it is without the least tincture of Poperie You but play the fool in upbraiding me with boasting or gloriation upon the account of the frequent losses which you are left at For I reckon it no point of honour either to deale with or to vanquish such an insignificant persons as hitherto you have discovered your self by your Papers I have rather so far endeavoured to deny my self as to be at the paines to give a check to an arrogant but an emptie Caviller against the truth But because Cepious Answers doe oppresse your dry and steril braine therefore I have subjoined a Succinct answere confuting all your Seven Papers in two words And if you find not your self comperent to answere this Long Paper in all the particulars thereof without your usual Tergiversations you may deale with this Succinct One. In the meane time let this suffice Aberdene October 31. 1666. Iohn Menzeis POSTSCRIPT A Short Answere in two words to all Master Dempster the Iesuit alias Rind or Logan his seven Papers Nego Minorem Or Nego Conclusionem Aberdene October 31. 1666. Iohn Menzeis The Reason why the returne of this Paper hath been so long delayed it because how soone I read your Seventh Paper I found that it ranne upon the old trifling straine and therefore I threw it by me for sundry weeks For it was likesome to me to be still examining your Titivilitia and scurvie Tautologies Now therefore either come to the point and answere Categeries without your tergiversations or else get you gone for ever The Jesuits eight Paper Reply to a seventh Paper of Mr. IOHN MENZEIS wherein is showen that the pretended conformity of Protestant Religion with Scripture is a meer imaginary and groundles conformitie 6. November 1666. This Paper was not delivered to Master IOHN MENZEIS untill November 9. 1666. YOUR Seventh Paper