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A57744 The late act of the convocation at Oxford examined: or, The obit of prelatique Protestancy: occasioning the conversion of W. R. (sometimes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford) to Catholique union Rowland, William. 1652 (1652) Wing R2075; ESTC R219949 37,064 142

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THE LATE ACT OF THE CONVOCATION AT OXFORD Examined OR The OBIT of Prelatique PROTESTANCY Occasioning the Conversion of W.R. Sometimes of EXETER Colledge in OXFORD to Catholique UNION PSAL. 118.59 Cogitavi vias meas converti pedes meos in Testimonia tua St. Ambr. Ep. 31. ad Valent. Erubeseat senectus quae se emendare non potest nullus pudor est ad meliora transire Printed at Roven 1652. A NARRATIVE Of the Motives and Effects of this Treatise Learned READER IT hath beene a no lesse famous then celebrated Custome amongst the Ancients for Converts to write Apologies or some kinde of Literary Expressions of their Inductives to Matriculation into the Wombe of Christs Church as St. Justin Martyr Arnobius and the rest who of Heathens became Christians Great Origen and St. Augustine who from siding with Herctiques became Catholiques Hence I esteeme it my duty to addresse some Reason to the World why I left that Body of Christians where I had beene Baptiz'd and Educated and now incorporate my selfe to the Roman Catholique Church from which our Nation had this last age divided it selfe After my younger Studies in the University of Oxford I endeavoured to season my selfe in our greatest Authours as Bishop Juell Bishop Morton the last Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop Usher with Field White and the rest whose Apothegmes I received as Oracles without dispute and by the poursuite of them I began much to admire our Doctrines and no lesse to disesteeme the Roman Catholique But upon further growth in yeares with Themistocles I attempted to reach higher and entring though with great tendernesse to examine our Tenets and Proofes very speciously alleadged out of antiquity I found so many adulterated Texts of holy Fathers especially in Bishop Iewell and Bishop Morton so many to speake modestly misinterpreted in the rest of which I may opportunely give a list that I could not but blush to finde our main Pillers so stramineous in their very foundations Hence what curiosity had first invited now Conscience enforc'd mee earnestly to a serious and deeper search wherein I resolved with Cato not to be ashamed to Learne as hee Greeke So I Latine not according to the vulgar stile but the old pure Roman Language expressed in St. Hierome St. Augustine and the rest of those Professours of Christian Rhetorique neither did I omit with old Plato to peragrate Greece Aegypt and the Easterne parts to finde any holy Gymnosophists who could embowell not nature but the Sacred Mysteries of Christianity which I found not sufficiently dived into at home In my returne from this Sedentary Pilgrimage wholy settled by the re-searches of Antiquity in the truth of the Roman Church and her Tenets I fell upon this Act of the Convocation-House the Discussion whereof I present to all understandings not bias'd with the Praejudice of Customes Education or Ambition that they may judge out of this Summary what might be said if I should expatiate upon this subject I blush not to publish the impulsive cause of my actuall Conjunction to our old Roman Mother Church to be from this Act of the Convocation for though I was before fully satisfied of those old Tenets in a Speculative sense yet in reduceing my selfe to the Practicall part or profession of them I found many Phanatique Bug-beares till hapning upon this Act composed by a great Body of our most learned men and evidently seeing the inconsistency of the Doctrine here asserted especially concerning the necessity of Traditions with our former Tenets and Positions against Catholiques I was inavoidably compelled to an actuall and humble Submission of my will as well as of my judgement to the obedience of the Church And in this my voluntary retirement from the World I found un●xpectedly in these Forraine parts diverse of both our Universities to have taken the rise of their Conversions from the same ground and to have prevented mee in their Resolutions herein which made mee more thankfully to admire the Divine Providence in the secret conduct of Soules culled out for himselfe Master Gregory a very learned person and my contemporary in Oxford in his Preface to his Opuscula page 17. hath this ingenuous acknowledgement I am sorry sayes hee I have so much to accuse my Natition of that ever since the Times of Henry the eighth they should goe about in a Maze of Reformation and not know yet how to get either us or themselves out And truly who ever does well consider this Act of Convocation and the sad consequences of it will conclude with mee that there is but one way to get out of this Maze and that is by an humble returne to our Mother the Catholique Church which the dazled Eyes and selfe-bias'd Judgements of the contrivers of that Act could not then discerne But this short Examination of it may I hope contribute something towards their illumination From Paris this 1. of July 1652. Stilo loci W. R. The OBIT of Prelatique Protestancy OR The last dying words of Episcopacy faintly delivered in the Convocation house at Oxford 1. of June 1641. Conteining their reasons against the Scottish Covenant and Presbytery CHymists amongst Physitians desire so far to reforme the Doctrine and Discipline of the Galenists that they neither observe the same Method nor druggs in their Cures as appeares in Paracelsus Crollius Helmontius and others nay they would willingly so far be thought to differ from them as that out of that respect they assume another name and therefore commonly style themselves Phylosophos per ignem Fiery that is hot spirited Phylosophers And truly when I looke upon this Consult and Result of the Convocation house Consisting of Masters Schollars and other Officers Members of the Vniversity as you profess I conceive you have endeavoured so far to reforme the Doctrine and manners of all others that you neither agree with them who would be esteemed reformed Churches nor with their and your Mother Church of Rome either in Doctrine or Disscipline Nay ye have gone so far with the Chymists that ye will not retaine the common name of all the Moderne Reformers as your later Masters professe in which all your Progenitors vaunted namely under the Notion of Pretestants but ye style your selves here Christians or Protestants with this distinctive appellative of the Church of England Others deny the name wholy as in our daily congresses we experience so that the more Unigenious name is Puritan which is also more uniforme to the Chymists hot spirited Phylosophy As therefore ye are seperate in place so in nature and name from all who rightly or falfly acknowledge Christ whence at the most according to your owne principles ye are but Anologically I feare I might better say equivocally Christians as it signifies a body of people uniformly professing Christ with the Universall Church So that what Celsus improperates in Origens third booke would surely come home to you Nec jam quicquam preter nomen eis commune superesse si tamen