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A41160	Janus Alexandrus Ferrarius, an Augustine friar, his epistles to the two brethern of Wallenburgh, concerning the usefulness and necessity of the Roman Catholick faith wherein the ambition and avarice of the Church of Rome are lively demonstrated in a mathematical method, by a continued series of connexed propositions / from the original Latine.	Fabricius, Johann Ludwig, 1632-1697.; Fabricius, Joannes Ludovicus.	1673 (1673)	Wing F73; ESTC R32018	52,870	158

Reverend ADRIAN and PETER of WALLENBVRGH Most Reverend Men T IS true indeed you say That Dialogue lately sent from Italy and which by Letter I Communicated to You contains a true Image of the Roman Church Who Usinulca is Boys may learn out of Argenis who Rethulus Sarmens Crendassa The transposition of the Letters shows Valentia is Rome Mentirdut Tridentum or Trent by Instructors are signified Bishops and by Tutors Emperors and Kings Thus all things are made plain But what to some People seems inconvenient that the speakers should take the rule of their discourse rather from Petronius Aretine Miletus then from holy Scriptures or graver Histories that our Siderius do's not at all value For he says That as he believes the minds of holy Men in their closer converse with God would be best expressed in the delicate and lovely Hebrew Stile so Minds estranged from the first truth and alienated from all goodness are best represented in a Scheme of Obscene and Adulterous Expressions And to that purpose he praises in that book which we all account Holy those Orations of Ezekiel Cap. XVI XXIII as well as those of Hosea However it ought to be I altogether leave to you but I must tell you the Author of this Dialogue is a Heretick and a most implacable Enemy of our Church of Rome Wherefore I think we ought to labour more diligently that our begun demonstrations may be the sooner perfected that so the fundamentals of the Catholick Faith may more plainly appear And to that end what comes next in order is PROPOSITION VII That Religion which we call Christian as it was by Christ at first delivered to his Apostles is in it self and in the Nature of its Principles most unapt for Salvation Whereupon it was of absolute necessity for those first publishers of the Gospel enormously to wander and go astray from the very Foundation of the Catholick Doctrine and that Scope of the whole Faith EXPLICATION T is now about One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty seven Years if we may believe the incertain calculation of a certain Roman Abbot since there was in Judaea of Kingly Stock indeed but very poor Parentage Born one Jesus Sirnamed Christ He both the Holiness of His Life and the Miracles by which He grew Famous and other Excellent Doctrine made Himself appear not only to be a Man but even a Divinity it self Whence He called Himself Son of the most Highest and thought it no Robbery to be Equal with God There flourished then in the Roman World two most powerful kinds of Religion one of which was the Worship of the Jews the other that so called of the Gentiles The first prescribed by the Creator of all things and confirmed by many Prodigies acknowledged but one God and yet Groaned under such a mighty Load of Ceremonies that it moved not so much the People by the rules of its Governance as because it contained so much of the Authority of the Legislator The latter devised only from the Wit of Mankind as the invention of several Men are always diverse and several contained many things different from nay even contrary to the rules of Divine Worship all which notwithstanding centred in this That though they taught the Worship of many gods they did not one damn the other whence that Religion though composed of such manifold variety seemed not at all the less Simple or United Therefore both those toilsom rites of the Jews and the Idolatry of the Gentiles the most Wise Jesus quite took away and reduced all Religion to the first Principles of right Reason and Native or simple Ingenuity One only thing he added and effectually exhibited the Mystery the Propitiation and Attonement of one particular Deity which by the Sufferings and Death of that Deity was to be perfected Which Doctrine fetch'd from the most secret holy recesses of Heaven and to all past Ages of Mankind utterly unheard of did most wonderfully Illustrate as well the immense Wisdom and Goodness of God as the strict and unalterable observance of Divine Justice whence of necessity there must needs arise and be confirmed in minds at all seasoned with Divine Grace both an Admiration and Reverence of the Deity and a veneration of Love Duty Gratitude In which both the knowledge and use of all Religion is consummated This Christ having suffered a most cruel Death and again got the Victory over it being to return to His Fathers place committed the farther propagation of that Saving Doctrine which he had chiefly Expounded to the Jews and the Preaching it among all other Nations of the World to certain of his Kinsmen and Followers Weak and unlearned Men and of the meanest of the People These being Born in an obscure place bred up among Sordid Fisher-men and oppressed with Poverty having their minds dejected and incapable of great things understood nothing but what was mean and low yet they had heard the magnificent promises of their Master which being fully perswaded that he was a Man altogether Divine they could not at all think Vain or He in the least a Lyar. Whereupon when they beheld no way lie open for them to arrive at ampler Fortunes here which indeed they had senced against themselves by their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and dejection of mind but that though they went about under a most honourable Embassy in the name of God yet they were every where most contumeliously treated and obnoxious to the most grievous injuries they placed their hopes in a future age dreaming that what for the present was denied them should be enjoyed by them after Death not unlike to that Nuper Tarpeio quae sedit culmine Cornix Est bene non potuit dicere dixit Erit A Crow sitting on the Tarpeian Hill Could not cry all is well but cry'd it will And seasoned as it were by a kind of prepossession with this error they understood nothing rightly of all those things they had either received from ancient Prophecies or the Promises they had heard from their Master for they most unseasonably and importunately recommended nothing more then Patience Forbearance abstaining from Pleasures Humility and Moderation of Mind together with taking up as they called it of the Cross and Crucifying of the Flesh Self-denial contempt of the World and neglect of Riches In a word the defrauding of Sense and renouncing even Humane Nature They urged likewise Obedience to Kings and Princes and that Magistracy was not to be strove against under any pretence of Religion or holy Orders but the Powers Established by God to be submitted to Thus broke they the minds of Men and recalled them from all studies after Riches Honours or Power and to that end whatever they taught of the Glory or Majesty of the Church they applied to some Spiritual Excellency and Inward Grace of the Soul whence it came to pass that by all those who are only wise for the present they were not only treated with Contempt and Scorn

Janus Alexandrus Ferrarius An Augustine FRIAR HIS EPISTLES To the TWO BRETHREN OF WALLENBVRGH Concerning the VSEFVLNESS and NECESSITY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICK FAITH Wherein the Ambition and Avarice of the Church of ROME are Lively Demonstrated in a Mathematical Method by a Continued Series of Connexed PROPOSITIONS Ridenti dicere verum Quis vetat From the Original Latine LONDON Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe and Nathaniel Thompson and are to be Sold at their House in Newstreet near Shoe-Lane 1673. To the Right Honourable ANTHONY EARL of SHAFTSBVRY c. Lord HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND My Lord IF those High and Weighty Employments to which your Great Worth and Abilities approved by the Judgment of the most Experienced King of Christendom have Called you can Admit of any Divertisement it will not I hope be thought a Sin in me if I have Attempted thus to Contribute something towards it or if it should yet be pardoned as the Fault of a too hasty Zeal in a Person desirous to thrust himself amongst the croud of your Adorers For deservedly have you my Lord Drawn the Hearts and Affections of the whole English Nation to your Self and never did King and People so Unanimously agree in the Choice of such a great Minister of State Your Virtues making all the World Admire the Kings Judgment and the Kings Judgment confirming to all the World their long before entertained Opinion of your Virtues The King is my Lord notwithstanding all Popish pretences sole Vicar and Vicegerant under God in his own Realms and Dominions and he has Chosen you his Substitute in the Management of his Highest and Greatest Affairs wherein your Conduct has been such as has given him every day new Encouragement to approve the Work of his own Hands and he cannot but with Delight and Satisfaction hear with what Acclamations of Joy and Content the whole Body of the Nation Applaud your Justice Prudence and Equity whereby you have almost quite removed all Misapprehensions they had sometime conceived against Chancellors Nor has your Zeal in the Protecting and Defending the Settled and Established Protestant Religion in this Kingdom appeared less then your great Abilities in State you having largely Contributed your Counsel and Assistance both to King and Parliament for the Weakning the hands of our common Enemy and may therefore claim a Right to Divertise your Self at their Follies But however my Lord this small Present of mine prove let not my Duty and Devotion be accounted a Crime nor that be Blemished as a Presumption which is a sincere tender of my part of that Service and Affection which all men pay you and which shall ever be Paid you by My Lord Your Lordships most Faithful most Humble and most Obedient Servant J. D. THE PREFACE TO THE READER THat Ignoble pair of Wallenburgh Brethren to whom the following Epistles are written Treacherous Hollanders and Popish Renegado's Created indeed Titular Bishops the one of Adrianople the other of Mysia but in troth corrupt Pentioners of the Popes and sworn Slaves to that Servant of Servants have for a long time exercised their mercinary Pens and with united Forces diligently Employed all their Skill and Power to settle and at length Establish that Synagogue of Satan which has so long stood Tottering And when all the old Deceits and Devices were Detected and Exploded advanced new Methods and Ways Hammered out of their own Brains and among others that Form in use among forreign Civilians of Probation by Witnesses not ancient and pure ones but Corrupt ones of the Church of Rome as if the Testimony of that Queen and Mother of Harlots were abundantly sufficient to confirm all her Ridiculous and for the most part Impious Tenents whilst she Exhibited all things under the Regal Signature of Teste meipsa a Priviledge which even Christ Himself the reverenced Head of the Catholick Church truly called so when conversant on Earth scarce ever assumed or thought worth the Claiming These Epistles are Scourges to those Brethren in Iniquity nor as the title of the Book seems to declare are they so much Demonstrations as Derisions of the Roman Catholick Faith under a vail of Kindness and pretence of Reverence smiting it as we say under the fifth Rib For throughout the whole course of the Epistle the Irony is pleasantly play'd with Sharp Taunts witty Jests and biting Reflections every where mixed which the Author chose rather to couch in the Latine Tongue as most proper for treating of things concerning the Roman Church and more applicable to the Wallenburgh Brethren those two new Atlas 's of the Papal Heaven But our Author both bears another name and is by Nation an Englishman and why then should so much Wit and Ingenility of their own be hid from the English or only revealed to a few of no Ignoble Family who enticed by the crafty Arts of those Emissaries was not only initiated in the Mysteries of the Papal Iniquities but bred up in them even to Surfeit and Lothing till growing up to riper Judgment they could no longer impose upon him those portentuous principles of Popery which not only holy Writ but sober Reason utterly abhors and which are even so repugnant to sense that they are rather to be hist at and lasht by bitter Sarcasms then otherwise taken notice of or endeavoured to be confuted by any thing of solid Argument JANUS ALEXANDRUS FERRARIUS OF THE AUGUSTIN ORDER HIS First Epistle Concerning the Usefulness and Necessity of the Roman Catholick Faith To the Right Reverend ADRIAN and PETER of WALENBVRCH MAny have valiantly Most Reverend Sirs and with Various Success contested for the Welfare of the Church against Hereticks but scarce any with a caution and dexterity like yours For when Reason and Experience had taught us that nothing hitherto hath been more pernicious to our Sacred Republick then that the most material and weighty Points contended for should be maintained by the authority of the Scriptures ancient Principles of Christianity You from your admirable immense height of wit have made right discoveries that things are not to be debated with positive Arguments or absolutely pertinent to the matter which the subtilty of Hereticks might easily either pervert or evade but dilatory Exceptions are to be made use of the Court of Scripture to be waved and all Judges besides the Pope to be refused Or else what before all pleased you best That title of long possession and prescription was to be stretch'd upon the tenters and tedious cavils for worldly profit and advantage started Which manner of acting of use indeed in Courts and Seats of Judicature but in matters relating to Faith and the understanding of Divine things utterly unheard of till now when I more curiously considered I could gather nothing else from it but that you by an uncredible perspicuity of understanding had found out that the Controversies to be handled between Catholicks and Hereticks were not to be treated in a Sacred and Religious but

but persecuted with Whips and Tortures and yet even in those things as in some particular good they used to glory You will perhaps object to them what St. Paul attributes to the Jews That there was a Vail drawn over their Hearts when they read Moses or any of the Old Prophets so that they could not attain to the Temporal Prerogative and External Priviledge of the Church of which they ought to have been the Architects and Governours Indeed at the very beginning of his first Book that great Hebrew Prophet has most Elegantly writ God made two great Lights the one to rule by Day and the other to rule by Night Which words do plainly demonstrate that the Future dominion of the Church was to be much greater and more Splendid then the Imperial Majestty For thus writes Innocent III. to the Illustrious Emperor of Constantinople You ought to know says he c. 6. Solicitae de major obed that God made two great Lights in the Firmaments of Heaven the greater Light to rule by Day and the lesser Light to rule by Night both great but the one greater To the Firmament of Heaven that is the CATHOLICK CHURCH God made two great Lights that is instituted two Powers which are the Papal Authority and Regal Dignity but that which is to rule by Day that is over Spiritual things is the greater but that over Carnal the less that there may be known to be as much difference between Popes and Kings as there is between Sun and Moon The Pope adds That though he writ not these things as chiding to the Emperour yet that he might with reason chide him How much more then are you to be chid O ye Apostles That should have had more Understanding in the explaining Oracles then any little worldly King or Byzantine Prince As for what the Glossary on the Canon Law adds Whilst the Earth is seven times bigger then the Moon and the Sun eight times bigger then the Earth The Papal Power must consequently be fifty seven times bigger then Regal Dignity This I say I do not wonder you were ignorant of nor can I accuse you for it since in truth this observation could not have been deduced but out of new and very particular principles and that by the assistance of most subtil Logick to you unknown The same Moses sets forth a most exact Image of the Royal Papacy in Melchisedeck who did praefigure the Majesty of St. Peter and his Successors yet St. Peter understood not a word of this no nor St. Paul neither For as for the first that dignity which he ought to have vindicated for himself only he declared common to all Christians and when from thence he ought to have asserted his own Authority over the universality of mankind he collects the quite contrary to wit That the Clergy ought to be subject to every Ordinance of Man 1 Pet. 2 9-14 whether to the King as Supreme or to Governours as being sent by him And the latter in his Epistle to the Hebrews has indeed largely and laboriously discoursed many things but in a far different sense concerning the Priesthood of Melchisedeck when he ought to have explained only that one thing that he and his Successors had Melchisedeck for their Prototype As Campanel de Mon. Hisp c. 5. for he is indeed a High-Priest as of the Patriarchate of Abraham so of the Order of Melchisedeck and him God has appointed a Royal Priesthood and armed him as well with the Civil as Spiritual Sword for if it were otherwise Christ would be a diminutive Law-giver and not as Melchisedeck who was at once both King and Priest And that same Ignorance of his St. Paul has elsewhere as well as in this Epistle to the Rom. c. ix more openly betray'd For when as Brevengius witnesses Esau and Jacob In auctar Epist obse vir were types of the Hereticks and Catholicks and that the first signified that the Lutherans and Calvinists should lead a Life of Poverty and Affliction but the other that the Catholicks after his Example should abound in all Riches and Delights Paul omitting all those things which only made to this purpose explains both Stories of Mans Eternal Damnation and Salvation which he should obtain after the putting off Mortality which error is the more inexcusable because he might easily have learnt from the salutation of Gabriel to the Virgin Mary which doubtless was sometimes repeated in those days That our Pope was to Reign over the House of Jacob for ever Luke 1.33 that is both he and all the Clergy following him shall live Plentifully and Splendidly in this World as most subtilly he again divined whom we have before praised Lymphata mente Sacerdos Frantick or Phantastical Priest But with the same most manifest error do's St Paul wrest that Prophecy in the Eighth Psalm 1 Cor. XV. Heb. 11. to Christ alone God shall put all things under his Feet When by that is clearly meant Peter and Paul and their Successors in the See of Rome To wit To them God shall subject the Sheep that is the Christians the Bulls that is the Jews and Hereticks the Beasts of the Field that is Brevingius and the Pagans the Fishes of the Sea that is the Souls in Purgatory Summa Theol. Part. 3. c. 5. and the Fowls of Heaven that is the Blessed Spirits and Angels as full of Enthusiasm the most spiritual Antoninus explains it But it exceeds all manner of wonder that these unlearned Apostles should not lay hold upon those things which Isaiah so diligently inculcated concerning the Power and Dignity of the Pope of Rome and the Catholick Church under him That unless any one with that late Arch Heretick Cocceius will transpose every thing into a Spiritual sense he will be forced to confess that it cannot be otherwise explained then as the most Noble Count of Claraval not so lately has done it Scioppius in eo ad nobil Germ de solendo re div Eccl. Ingolst 40. 1605. According to whose interpretation the Gentiles walked says the Prophet speaking of the Roman Church They walked in thy Light and Kings in the Brightness of thy Rising Then shalt thou see and wonder and rejoyce when the riches of the Sea and all the substance of the Gentiles shall come unto thee The Sons of strangers shall build thy Temples and their Kings shall minister unto thee Thy Gates shall be open day and night that they may bring unto thee the Riches of all Nations and their Kings shall be brought Whatever Kingdom will not serve thee shall Perish The Emperours of the Heathens that oppressed thee shall adore the footsteps of thy Successors I will place thee in the Pride of Generations that is in Secular Pomp and Splendor and thou shalt suck the Milk of the Gentiles Chald. Thou shalt satiate thy self with the riches of the People and thou shalt suck the brests of Kings LXX Interpret Thou shalt devour the