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A73761	The epistle congratulatorie of Lysimachus Nicanor of the Societie of Jesu, to the Covenanters in Scotland. VVherin is paralleled our sweet harmony and correspondency in divers materiall points of doctrine and practice.	Nicanor, Lysimachus, 1603-1641.	1640 (1640)	STC 5752; Thomason E203_7; ESTC R17894	65,738	81

condemned with blind obedience before they did see or read it It might be sufficient for me to deny what you peremptorily affirme against it and it s your part to prove the Affirmative and your best Pr●bation is your naked assertion seconded with railing against all that will not beleeve you But I pray you heare the Book speak for it selfe and it shall ●urge i●●elfe of such calumnies in the judgement of all indifferent men and it will tell you that you are like Davids enemies cas●ing iniquitie upon it where you find none and laying to its charge the thing it never knew and so doe ha●e it without a cause F●ist then here it purgeth it selfe of all Superstition at the ●ust entrie of the booke where it sheweth the reasons why some ceremonies are abolished and some retained in plaine words saying The multitude of ceremonies are rejected because of their multitude and superstition And in the celebration of the Holy Communion it recommends the use of common bread But wherefore for the avoyding of Superstition sayes the booke so that at the very entry the booke is most carefull to satisfie all scrupulous people thus telling them that it hates superstiti●n as well as they Again if there were any thing superstitions in this booke it must be enjoyned as a thing necessary in it selfe as unchangeable the not observing of it would be damnable as the breach of Gods Law To all this the Book answers in the same place that it enjoyneth nothing in that manner but what the Word of God commands And as for the ceremonies contained in it it is so farre from esteeming them things necessarie that it placeth them in the ranke of indifferent things The keeping or omitting whereof is but a small thing sayes the booke It sayes further that those ceremonies are taken away which were most abused and did burthen m●ns consciences without cause and that those which remain are retained for disciplin● and order It tells that they are also changeable and not to bee compared to Gods Law whilest it sayes of them thus Upon just causes they may be alt●red and changed and therefore are not to bee esteemed equall with Gods Law What can any man say more against superstition then is said by the book it self Therefore it s very likely that they have not read the book as I am sure the most part have never done or at least have read it with an evilleye who condemne it of Superstition whereof it is most free As for the second that it doth containe the essentiall parts of the Masse read and see the contrary in the book it selfe which doth keepe Christs institution it selfe and Pauls repetition of it in such sort that I thinke no Church can celebrate the Sacrament with more puritie sinceritie gravitie and none with more Majestie then by this booke But let me speak a little for it I pray you Why are you so sparing you may say as well that it containes the whole Masse as the maine essentiall parts of the Masse for if you have any Logicke or naturall reason you may so conclude for where that is which is essentiall to a thing there the thing it selfe must be But in this booke say you are the essentiall parts of the Masse what doth hinder then but that it hath the Masse it selfe in it for if it have the maine essentiall parts of the Masse what doth it lack or want not the proper accidents for these do flow from the essentiall parts and are inseparable from it It can want nothing then of the Masse unlesse it be some common accidents which may be either present or absent without any hurt of the subject What boldnesse is this then to speak such a maine essentiall lye Let me either see that the book maintaineth that sub speciebus panis vini the body and bloud of Jesus Christ is bodily offered up by the Priest to God the Father a propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead or else lay your hand on your mouth speak no more Finally since it hath neither Superstition not the essentials of the Masse how can it open a doore to Popery certainly it is purged from all such stuffe and restored to the antient integritie the least thing that might tend to superstition being thrust out of doore as Ammon did Tamar without hope of return and if any superstition would dare to enter as the Sodomits at Lots doore the doore is so fast shut by that which I have told you from the mouth of the book it selfe in the beginning of the right use and abuse of Ceremonies that they must despaire of any entrie What needs all such uproare then without cause such fearfull Schismes such Dictatorial censures and uncharitable verdicts that they are all Papists or Popishly affected that ●un not with you to mischiefe Shew me but one masculine reason and lay aside wives tales and I shall take it in place of many ●runt ultimi primi I shall redeeme my time with redoubling my course and shall be so far from approving the least point which you shall shew to be Poperie that for that one points sake it shall get no more pitie then Samuel gave to Agag I shall rent it in pieces Reade over that which you have condemned with judgement and not with prejudice and I shall oblige my selfe to make good those particulars First that you shall never be able to find any thing in it contrary to the word of God 2. That it containeth nothing contrary to the practise of the Primitive Church but which is most agreeable thereto 3. That all the points which you condemne are not controverted betweene our classicall Divines and Papists but agreed upon on both sides as things not controverted 4. That there is nothing in it contrary to our Confession of Faith in Scotland Yea which is much you shall not show me one Protestant Divine of any note or eminencie even among the Reformers of Religion who ever did condemne this booke of the least point of Popery But on the contrary did commend it and defend it against all pettie preachers who refused it as you do Learned Bucer thus affirmeth Bucer Script Angl●● in con pag. 456. In the Ceremonies of the English L●turgie I have found nothing which is not taken out of the Word of God or at least which is repugnant to it so it be favourably understood Calvin himselfe perusing the Lyturgie Cal● in epist 200. fol. 336. declared that he found no fault in it at all and wrote to the English Exiles at Frankford who had made a rent and schisme in the Church to be moderate and returne to the Church Vos ultra modum rigidos esse nolim I would not have you stiffe above measure and bids them returne to Conformitie and proponeth his owne opinion in Anglorum controversia moderationem semper tenni cujus me non poenitet In the controversie of England I have ever kept a

moderation whereof I do not repent and was very much offended with those who would not yeeld in such indifferent things for peace sake It was Calvin with Peter Martyr who by many arguments perswaded Bishop Hooper to conformitie especially to put on the Surplesse which he did I might produce all the rest of those worthy Divines Beza Melancton Bullinger Peter Martyr Gualter Zanchius who all of them condemn your opinion schismaticall practice who had rather rent the body of Christ Jesus then yeeld to any thing that doth not content your turbulent lusts and therefore your praiers are turned into sin while you pray the Lord of heaven truly and fully to inform his Majesty how farre this Booke is full of idolatrous superstitions and popish errors as you affirm in your Protestation against his Majesties Proclamation And it is no marvell that you condemne this Booke of Common Praier seeing you have condemned your owne book of Common Praier made at your Reformation The Ring-leaders of your faction condemne all set Praier whatsoever all set forme of celebration of the Sacraments Marriages The praiers which were read since the Reformation till this rupture are now banished the Church yea your Ring-leaders have banished the Lords Praier and say that those who use it make it an Idoll and therefore in their praiers it is never mentioned to the great scandall grief of many poor souls among you who yet love it because Christs command is when you pray say Our Father which art in heaven c. You Baptize celebrate the Communion not as you were wont to do after the form set downe unto you at the Reformation but every day after a diverse forme and manner being changeable like the wind so do you with Marriage Thus you differ from your selfe like the double-minded man Jam. 1.8 who is unstable in all his waies wavering like the waves of the sea driven with the wind tossed And what pleaseth you to day displeas●th you to morrow You do also daily coin new Articles of faith as to beleeve Episcopacie to be Antichristian and the young Lay-elder government to be that which Christ hath appointed in his Church It is an Article of your faith to beleeve that to receive the body and bloud of Jesus Christ in the humble gesture of kneeling is idolatry It is an Article of your faith that it is Popery if the Church set apart a day for the solemn and thankfull commemoration of Gods love to the world who so loved the world Galat 4 4 that when the fulnesse of time was come sent forth his Sonne made of a woman made under the Law to redeem them which were under the Law that wee might receive the adoption of Sons It is an Article of your faith that it is Popery if the Church doth set apart a day for the solemne and publike commemoration of the Passion of Christ Heb. 12.2 that the people may looke unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of their faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the crosse despising the shame It s an Article of your faith that it is Popery to give the Communion on Pasch day It s an Article of your faith that it is Popery if the Church appoint a day for the thankfull remembrance of Christs Ascension into Heaven It s an Article of your faith that its Popery if the Church appoint a day for the thankfull remembrance of the Descension of the Holy Ghost on Whitsunday to give gifts unto men It s an Article of your faith that the Service-book is Popish It s an Article of your faith that the Book of Canons which directly overthrowes the Popish Supremacie and the High Commission are abjured in your Confession of faith It s an Article of your faith that it was the intention of those whom you call blessed Reformers that all the foresaids which you have in your Covenant abjured expresly was abjured by them also as well as if it had bin expresly set downe which is the most ridiculous thing in the world for intentio est actus immanens which is impossible for any man to know except it be revealed And therefore since there is such difference among your selves every day bringing forth new dreames since to you some things are sometimes indifferent sometimes necessary good sometimes necessary evill sometimes a matter of faith sometimes Not I cannot but end this discourse with that of Hilarius in Application to you Hilar. lib. 3. cont Constant Faith is come now to depend rather on the time then on the Gospel our state is dangerous and miserable that we have now as many Faiths as wills as many doctrines as manners Whilst Faiths are either so written as we list or so understood as we will we make every yeer every moneth a faith and still we seek a faith as if there were no faith This I would fain know of you what faith at length you beleeve you have changed so often that now I know not your Faith That is happened unto you which is wont to follow unskilfull builders ever disliking their owne doings that you still put down that which you are still putting up You subvert the old with the new and the new you rent asunder with a new correction and that which was once corrected you condemus with a second correction O wicked men what a mockery do you make of the Church onely dogs returne to their vomit and you compell the Priests to sup up those things which they have spit forth and doe you command them in their confession to allow that which before they condemned What Bishops hand have you left innocent What tongue have you not forced to falshood Whose heart hast thou not brought to the condemning of his former opinion You have subjected all to your will and to your violence Thus Hilarius And therefore of those your new-coyned articles especially of your abjuring Episcopacy and establishing Presbyteriall discipline I may wel say that of Jerom Plantatio vestra non est vetus Jerom. in ●sal 1●7 sed novella est non est de veterilege non de Prophetis non de Apostolis sed de novis magistris est Your plantation is not old but a novelty for it is not three yeers old it is not taken out of the old Law nor from the Prophets nor from the Apostles but new masters And therefore adulterum est impium est sacrilegum est quicquid humano furere instituitur ●●pr lib. 1. c. 8. ut dispositio divina violetur Whatsoeuer is established by the fury of man whereby the divine disposition is violated is an adulterate wicked sacrilegious matter And I hold that as an undoubted rule of Augustine Quod universalis tenuit ecclesia August lib. 4. de Bapt. cap. 24. quodque non Conciliis institutum sed semper retentum est non nisi Apostolicâ authoritate traditum rectissimè creditur Whatsoever the