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A57693	Catholick charitie complaining and maintaining, that Rome is uncharitable to sundry eminent parts of the Catholick Church, and especially to Protestants, and is therefore Uncatholick : and so, a Romish book, called Charitie mistaken, though undertaken by a second, is it selfe a mistaking / by F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1641 (1641)	Wing R2017; ESTC R14076	205,332	412

Indulgences even absolution from Penance which being set to sale doe plainely crosse Christs charitable doctrine by making it easier for a rich man then a poore man to enter into the Kingdome of heaven But indeed it hath had this charitable consequence that it hath caused many Nations to cast up not single sins only but the man of sinne himselfe But otherwise whereas this Author speakes of this Sacrament to cast up sinne wee must complaine that it hath beene used as a meanes to cast up goodnesse and to cast sinne into a mould even to nourish and strengthen it for Garnet thought it a good covert and hiding place of treason saying that in Confession hee first received the knowledge of the Powder-treason and secondly himselfe would not say that hee did cause his Penitents to cast up this treason but left it in their stomacks wherein it lay with some of them untill death not acknowledged as a sinne Behold right Romish charity plainly proved by the Sacrament of Confession yea this Sacrament hath beene by them uncharitably used as a means not to cast up sin but to cast up righteousnesse for some maine acts and duties of righteousnesse have been put to Penance as great sinnes Sir Thomas Overbury and my selfe met with an Irish Pilgrime in France who taking us as hee said for Catholickes wherein hee was not mistaken if hee had rightly understood the word told us that hee was enjoyned by way of penance to goe on Pilgrimage to Rome and Compostella for serving Queene Elizabeth in her warres against Tyrone See here not a sin cast up but an excellent duty of subjection and loyalty and so the Romish Sacrament of Penance not a proofe of charity but of disloyall uncharitablenesse Hee goes on and sayes that Rome to make her child grow and stand out feeds him from time to time with the precious Body of our blessed Lord in the Sacrament of the Altar But where is Romish charitie in taking away the Bloud of our blessed Lord in the same Sacrament If it be charity to give bread to a childe is it not uncharitable to deny him drinke but the children of Rome are left to cry like Sampson though not heard as Sampson Thou hast given this great deliverance and now shall I die for thirst Christ hath given them a great deliverance and now Rome would kill them with thirst Yet the same Lord in his Passion gives both meat and drink to their soules and therefore hee not onely saith that his flesh is meate indeed but that his bloud is drink indeed and so is hee perfect nourishment and a just refection being both meat and drinke Hee gives no lesse to the true Israel then to the typicall Israel the type of the Church in their Journey to Canaan it is said of them they did eat spirituall meat and drank spirituall drink for they drank of the Rock and that Rock was Christ. But Romish charity or uncharitablenesse takes from the people that drink which Christ gave them and as it were drives the true Israel from the waters that issue from this Rock to refresh them in their walking through the wildernesse to this heavenly Canaan Neither doth it availe any thing to say that there is bloud in the body for bloud out of the body is given us in this Sacrament to quench the otherwise unquenchable and ever-thirsty guilt of sinne Bloud that was shed for us is given to us in this Sacrament as the very words of our Saviour in the Institution of it doe affirme and if Christ say hee gives us bloud that is shed either they must profanely deny the words which our Saviour spake or else they must bee inforced to witnesse that they doe uncharitably and unchristianly deny to us that which our Saviour gave us and indeed bloud that is shed and so powred out of the body is the proper Sacrifice for sinne for without the shedding of bloud there is no remission yea our Saviour himselfe here saith of his bloud given in the Sacrament that it is shed for the remission of sinnes What therefore Christ the fountaine of charity hath shed for us out of his body and so given us being shed for the remission of our sinnes is it not extreme uncharitablenesse in Rome to take the same from us for thereby shee takes from us an excellent means of the remission of our sinnes and so the remission which should come to us by this meanes I could here multiply complaints of Romish uncharitablenesse in the manifold abuses of this Sacrament and among them of their Latine that is barbarous as Saint Paul saith and whispering Consecration It is no Sacrament in the Romish beleefe without the Priests intention and the words that should give some ghesse of his intention are not heard and understood How short then are t●e poore people of knowing the Priests intention when they either heare not or understand not the words which might give them at least some hope of his intention But darknesse fits best with a doctrine of darknesse and it is best nourished by that which begat it But their doctrine of worshipping this Sacrament yea even when they know not whether it be a Sacrament yea carrying it about the streets in a solemne procession on a set day of purpose to bee worshipped is a most killing uncharitablenesse if I may say of the Sacrament by their corruption as Saint Paul of the Law by the corruption of nature That which Christ ordained to life is thus found to be unto death The Lord of life appointed this Sacrament to communicate life by it and Popish uncharitablenesse by it gives death to her children But I say the lesse because the truly reverend and learned Bishop of Durham hath so plainely revealed and soundly convinced the Idolatry of the Masse that hee who reads it and after kils his soule by stumbling at this Idol and falling downe before it into hell cannot lay all the fault on Rome but must share uncharitablenesse with her and have part of his owne bloud laid on his owne head It followes If he will bestow himselfe upon the service of Almighty God in a more particular manner by taking Priesthood shee not onely gives him holy Orders but shee doth it by a Sacrament conferring grace I should here have expected that Romish charity should have expressed her selfe in giving Orders and Grace to one that before had the grace and gift of Teaching from on high which that Lord that ascended on high gave unto Pastors for the building of his Church but I heare nothing of this fruit of charity but I heare of a Priesthood which too often is a resemblance of the order of Ieroboam and that the Priesthood is a Sacrament divided into two Powers one to sacrifice and another to absolve but I read not of a third power or commission of teaching to bee given by this Sacrament and so the Priests lips that under

of it yet I cannot deny that hee hath two Errands one to bring forth a jest upon our Fox and his followers under the names of Fox and Geese But if it had pleased this Author duly to follow this Fox in the reading of his Martyrologie he might have found out the true Fox that followes and teares and destroyes those whom our Author by a new Metamorphosis and Romish transubstantiation hath changed into Birds His second Errand he thus expresseth I finde when they are put to name their particular Professors of former ages they doe but muster up those severall single false doctrines which have bin held by other heretiks by Retaile during ten or twelve 〈◊〉 since Christ our Lord many of which doctrines togeth●r themselves doe now professe in grosse for what other men of former times did they ever or can they ever name as men of their Religion but such as beleeved some one or two of those hereticall doctrines which now themselves embrace and wherein they are contrary to us But all this as it is not very pertinently brought in to excuse Romish uncharitablenesse so it is not very truly objected for wee can prove our doctrines which hee calls heresies by the Fathers and Scriptures and the Scriptures he cannot deny have beene beleeved above twelve ages Besides Popish Authors doe acknowledge that the Waldenses agree with Protestants in more then one or two doctrines for they are said to bee more then twenty wherein wee agree with them And though afterward this Cavalier affirmes it yet hee proves not that for other points these were expresse hereticks in the Protestants opinion neither doe we hide any fundamentall errours in them which we object against Romists But if these had not beene in the world it is most true that the maine point of Popery which is the Popes tyrannicall headship of the Catholick Church the very root of Idolatries errours and divisions hath in all ages been denyed since it was first broached But our Author is still much displeased with fundamentalls because by them wee have unity with those who have heretofore differed in some doctrines from their Papacy for saith he If it were not for this distinction no man could bee of the same Religion with any other that is not wholly of the same Religion so farre forth at the least as that he must not obstinately deny any one doctrine thereof whether it bee important more or lesse when once as hath beene said it is lawfully and sufficiently propounded and commanded to bee beleeved by the true Church as it is true and certaine when Luther rebelled from the Church of Christ our Lord nor in any age before his time there was in the whole world any one Kingdome or Countrey or City or Town or Family of men or Pastours or Flock yea or any one single person so much as of Luthers own much lesse of the now Protestant Religion which is now forsooth so farre refined beyond his Here the Cavaliers true Church being that confederacie whereof the Pope is the head hee would faine dissolve that solid unity which is made by fundamentals in Christ Jesus the true head to mak a fictitious unity in the Pope But if hee should cast off this onely true and substantiall ground of unity which knits together all the sound Churches that are at this day or ever have been through all Nations on the face of the earth since our Saviour to make an unity by agreeing under paine of damnation in all points propounded and commanded by the Pope and his Church of Rome whether important more or lesse hee shall not onely by this meanes breake the unitie of all the true Churches on earth into pieces but of Rome it selfe For to returne almost his owne words Since the Pope who hath rebelled against Christ and usurped the Headship of the Church first coined and established a Religion in Trent neither then nor in any time before there was in the whole world any one Kingdome or Country or City or Towne or Family of men or Pasture or Flocke yea or any one single person who by a supernaturall Faith which this Authour onely approves did imbrace the whole body and every Article of the Trent Religion Yea even at this day it is not received in divers parts that beare the name of the Church of Rome much lesse in Greece Armenia Syria Ethiopia most of which either know not or acknowledge not this Councell nor the Popes Supremacie All these therefore refusing any of these Articles must be torne in pieces from the body of Christ and cast into Hell fire Thus the Scarlet Whore drunke with the bloud of the Saints speaks in the right voice of the Harlot If she may not have the whole childe let it bee cut in pieces Let the Church be distracted and damned if the Pope may not be her Lord and her Tyrant And so whereas Christ was a head that gave himselfe to death to save his body from damnation is not hee an Antichrist that throwes the body of Christ into hell and damnation to make himselfe the head But in a third place hee objecteth not an use of ours but an abuse of his owne For hee abuseth his Reader in saying to him That the making of this distinction betweene Fundamentall and not Fundamentall points of Faith and the resolving not to declare which is which doth save them with a great part of the ignorant world from the imputation of rigour in their proceeding with us For how could they persecute as they doe without extreme note of cruelty But neither the making nor hiding of Fundamentalls is the cause of prosecuting Romists in this Kingdome but the cause of their punishment hath been their owne making of Treasons miraculously revealed by Gods goodnesse notwithstanding their hiding even in the vaults and depths of the earth And though there were no Fundamentalls of Religion but only Fundamentalls of State the Fundamentalls of State are very plain and cannot well be hidden which justifie the execution of Rebells and Traitours But of this some proofe hath been given in the beginning of this Booke and the Authour will call for more towards the end As for that which followes Yea or even how could they dissent without apparent impiety from our beliefe and practice of those Doctrines wherein wee have had and still have prescription of so many ages if the contrary thereof should be confessed by themselves not to be Fundamentall It is so weak that I wish that some childe and not the Cavalier had spoken it to save his reputation For will any man say that it is impiety to dissent from others in ancient errours though these errours be not Fundamentall Tertullian might have taught our Authour much more wisdome who upon the custome of an errour not very Fundamentall thus saith They that have received the holy Ghost preferre truth before custome SECT IIII. Sheweth the differences amongst Popish Divines about their

hate the seven thousand that doe not bow their knees to Baal though dispersed among seven millions of Idolaters wee may not hate Israel though in bondage under Pharaoh But to the true Israel even to the pure in heart and those who in Christ Jesus are new creatures and walke according to this rule peace the prayers of peace the true fruits of love doe belong the divine Apostle being herein our guide and example And while thus wee enjoy and imbrace this universall love with the universall body of Christ great is our safety for hereby wee know and may assure our hearts that wee belong to that universall body which alone loveth it selfe with this universall love That is the truly catholick Church which is indued with this catholick love that is a living Church which is a loving Church Our Church therefore imbracing and exercising this catholick love is a Church truly catholick and our Church being a Church of love is a Church of life Let therefore Cassander a Doctor of the Church of Rome conclude for us Qui rectâ sententiâ de Christo capiti injunguntur c. They that by a right beliefe concerning Christ are joyned to the head and by the hand of love and peace are joyned to the bodie of the Church howsoever they may differ in some opinions and rites are by no meanes to bee accounted Schismaticks or separated from the Church though they seeme rejected and excomunicated by some other part of the Church more mighty and possessing the Government CHAP. II. Wherein is declared that Rome wants this catholick love 1. By her separation from other Churches 2. By her hatred to Protestants manifested in the cruell persecutions and massacres practised against them in Popish countries and by the rebellions treasons open hostilitie stirred up against this Kingdome All which prove her to bee uncharitable and un-catholick IT hath been shewed that love and peace must bee catholick and universall that so they may be capable of a catholick and universall Church for as wide and as large as the Church is so large must the love of the Church be The body of Christ is the measure of this love and this love must bee no jot shorter then the body of Christ the body of Christ then extending to all Nations and so being a catholick body must be followed through all Nations with no lesse then a catholick love but love as much as it is short of loving this catholick body of Christ so much is it short of being a catholick love and so much it is indeed uncatholick Now the Romish Church which according to the Church of England is to be understood of the Pope and his adherents doth not make this body of Christ the measure of her love but the body of the Papacie not Christs Kingdome but the Popes Kingdome is the measure of Romish love As much then as the Popes Kingdome is short of the Kingdome of Christ so much is Rome short of a catholick love and so much is shee uncatholick Now wee know that the Kingdome of Christ spreads it selfe much farther then the Kingdome of the Pope yea Christ is known and beleeved where there is neither knowledge nor faith of the Pope Accordingly Cassander thinketh not onely the Westerne Churches of Protestants but the Easterne and Southerne also and by name the Russian Syrian AEthiopian and Armenian that beleeve the Apostles Creed and doe not by schisme divide themselves from the communion of other Churches to bee members of the true and catholick Church of Christ. And these parts of the Church are so great and large that a Countrey-man of ours in his diligent Inquiries gives this judgement of the Greek Church alone If wee should collect and put together all the Christian Regions hitherto intreated of which are all of the Greek Communion and compare them with the parts professing the Roman religion wee should finde the Greek farre to exceed if wee except the Roman new and forraine purchases made in the West and East Indies Now to these if wee shall add the Christians in Syria Cyprus Mesopotamia Babylon and Palestine which are by the least computation 50000. families and by the greatest 60000. And if againe we joine with these the Armenians who are under two Patriarchs of their owne whom they terme Catholickes and are esteemed to exercise jurisdictions over 70000. families And if yet further wee shall increase this number by those innumerable Christians of AEthiopia that are spread far and wide in the vaste Dominions of Prester Iohn And lastly if to these wee adde the no little number of Protestant Christians in the West wee may see that the Kingdome of the Pope is far short of the Kingdome of Christ and consequently that the love of Rome at least so much is short of catholick love But if wee leave those other famous and farre dispersed parts of Christs body whom Rome leaves without true catholick love and more particularly and punctually examine Romes want of love to Protestants whereof especially is our present inquirie all the paper in the world were scarce sufficient to containe the words that might be written for the proofe of it with the bloud of Protestants shed by the Romists So that the ancient parable of Iotham hath been fulfilled in our dayes If indeed yee annoynt mee King over you then come and put your trust in my shadow and if not let fire come out of the bramble and devoure the Cedars of Lebanon The fire and lightning of the Popes excommunications fly out against the denyers of his universall Kingdome and Supremacy and that fire is too often seconded with materiall fire For the maintenance of his pride Christians must bee hated spoyled and butchered of Christians There is a method of cruelty set forth against such who are Romes Hereticks and the true Churches Christians This wee finde thus summed up by Azorius the Jesuite 1. Excommunication 2. Irregularity 3. Confiscation of goods 4. Dissolving of all bands bee they oathes fealty service or any other covenant and promise 5. Deprivation of all dignities and honours 6. Losse of Ecclesiasticall buriall 7. Infamy 8. Uncapacitie of all dignities and offices Ecclesiasticall to themselves their favourers receivers and children to the second generation by the fathers side yea though the children were borne before the heresie 9. Losse of life And even Bellarmine himselfe whom learning which once had a name of emollit mores and seeming devotion should have made somewhat milder drinks deeply if not pleasantly in this cup of bloud and delivers it to his Disciples that they may pledge him Solum remedium est mittere illos maturè in locum suum The onely remedy is to send them betimes to their owne place which place though indeed it be heaven it seems yet the good Fathers charitable meaning was by a first death speedily to send Protestants to hell the place of the second