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A16459	A defence of the olde, and true profession of Christianitie against the new, and counterfaite secte of Iesuites, or fellowship of Iesus: Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman, borne in Borges, & Professor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued, howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus, and how farre off they are, from the thing signified thereby, and what their profession, and purpose is in truth: otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande.; Assertio veteris ac veri Christianismi adversus novum et fictum Iesuitismum seu Societatem Iesu. English	Boquin, Pierre, d. 1582.; T. G., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 3371; ESTC S116194	81,465	194

prouided a newe supply of aide whiche hee hath secretely brought into the chiefest tower of his kingdome For it was so shaken and battered that he perceiued it neare ouerthrowne But while we which haue succeeded into the places and seats of those holy men doe pitifully striue together Certaine spurnes and byters amongst vs raising vp new brawls troubles by the policie watchfulnes and industry of this newe aide the enemy hath so restored within these fewe yeares that same his tower that it may appeare that the whole crue of Antichrist stande in great hope shortly to recouer their former authoritie dignitie and power And I persuade my selfe that not only the authours fauourers and Patrons of this so great euill but all that giue occasion thereunto by what colour or pretence so euer they doe it shall at length bee punished of God the most iust iudge most vehement defendour and mainteiner of the kingdome of his Sonne And forasmuch as I am also persuaded that he will take an account of all those vnto whom he hath committed his talentes bee they neuer so small I thought my selfe not to be free from either faulte or punishment if I should through feare or idlenes refuse to bestowe that which I know is committed vnto me though it bee neuer so simple to put away the shame ioyned with manifest destructiō of the Church which I perceiue to be laide vpon Christ by this vpstart host of Satan For seeing these galants stand before our doores and builde vꝑ fortresses aduauncing their Capitaines engines into our Schooles and Churches neare about vs if wee shoulde any longer forbeare might we not worthily be thought willingly and wittingly to betray the cause of Christ and his church and to withholde in vnrighteousnes the trueth of God which wee heare and see to bee by these men turned into falshood But as concerning the first ofspring to wit the true father of this deuillishe broode which haue ●ayned vnto them selues and vsurped no lesse arrogantly then strangely a name from Iesu and in what place and time it first sprang vp although it be lately begotten yet I perceiue diuers reportes to be made neuertheles I thought not good to trauell in the searching out and examining thereof It is well knowne to be an inuention of man And if I must at once speake my minde hereof I will doe it in fewe words If the iudgement of that great Basile be true that parentes are knowen by the likenes appearing in their children if by duetie and obediéce vnto their parentes true and naturall children are wont to bee knowne from bastardes this newe impe can haue no other true parentes then the Romishe Antichrist and whore of Babylon For that is most plainly prooued both by the resemblaunce which is betweene them and the good will that the one beareth the other My purpose is at this time to withdrawe the visor from this monster counterfaited both by the name which it proudly chalengeth vnto itselfe as by the thing which that goodly title beareth the worlde in hand I will only touch the doctrine whiche these newe maisters mainteine so farre foorth as my purpose suffereth me or els craueth of me I vndertake not at this time purposely to refuse it knowing that it is all one with the Popishe doctrine which nowe alreadie is sufficiently confuted Some also of our men hath euen namely examined the same neither slenderly nor vnluckely I promise such modestie as the matter can beare To reproue errours and to rebuke vices the loue of trueth and vertue enforceth as for the desire to cauill much more to slander who so loueth godlines doeth hate detest and abhorre it I will deale faithfully I likewise craue of the readers that they bring with them to the reading hereof aloue and zeale of the trueth ioyned with godlines and desire of their owne saluation P. B. A DEFENCE OF THE old and true Christianitie agaynst the new and counterfaite secte of the ●esuites or felowship of Iesu CAP. I. That they do greatlye offende that take vppon them names in matters of religion whiche are not agreeable vnto them THe Holy Scripturs do plainelye teache and experience it self cuidētly proue that men sinne aswell in word and talke as in déede and fact Wherfore they that are of a sound iudgement will easely confesse that as manye as haue any care and loue of religion oughte to haue as great regard of woordes as thinges The same also perswadeth the affinitie and coniunction whiche is betweene woordes and the thinges whiche they signifie for it is certayne that the vse of wordes standeth in the signification thereof being so greate that in speech in the stead of thinges as he sayth we vse the names therof and for that cause those wordes in the iudgemente of the wise are counted best and fittest which expresse things so as they may be most plainelye vnderstoode and doe represente them to the hearers mind euē as a glasse doth lay before the eyes of the beholder the shape of the countenance which is before it Hereof it may easely be perceiued that it is the parte of a well meaninge and godlye minde to auoyde earnestlye not onely filthie and corrupt speeche but also doubtfull darke fond and such as breedeth offence yea and further that bringeth not grace vnto the hearers and ed●fieth not as the Apostle sayth For whereas no parte of our life oughte to be voyde of religion but our mind our hand and tounge shoulde be agreeable thereunto who so hath a religious mind will make choyse as well of wordes as of thinges and he will endeuour in good words seasoned with salt that I may againe speake with the Apostle and plaine to vtter that whiche hee doth well and rightly conceiue and to bee shorte because his minde so affected thinketh it a shamefull thinge as to erre and to be deceaued so to deceiue any man he will chiefly take héede that whatsoeuer belōgeth to religion be setfoorth of him with godly and religious wordes whereunto I hold it a most ready and sure way to vse the tounge of the holy Ghoste for so it liketh some to speake that is to vse the words which the Prophetes and Apostles the instrumentes of the holy Ghost haue vsed For who can doubt but that thys heauenlye master that hath reuealed these heauēly misteries vnto them hath therewithall deliuered wordes méete to open such great misteries and suche as are most fitte for the capacitie of men the hearers thereof Saint Augustine therefore most wisely in my iudgement hath thus written of this matter in his 10 tooke of the citie of God the 23. chap. The Philosophers sayth hee vse wordes at will and in thinges not hard to be vnderstoode they feare not to offende the eares of the godly But we must speake orderlye leaste the libertie of our wordes breede in vs an ill opinion concerninge thinges which

are thereby signified By the iudgemente of this learned and holy man we vnderstande that it becōmeth not the godly to speake as they luste and carnally to conceaue of matters of religion but that religiously and reuerently they vse a certaine manner of wordes Before Saint Augustine his time wee reade that Ieremy a good writer did woorthely reproue in the Valentinian heretickes the libertie of such kinde of woordes For the holy Ghost would haue vs so framed that we should neyther thinke neither say any thinge but by his direction The history of the holye Scriptures setteth foorth vnto vs many examples of a mind so framed and ordered vnto godlines that it will take in hand all thinges religiously but that cometh néerest to my purpose which Moyses writeth in many places of the holye endeueur the godlye had in geuinge names vnto men euen from the beginning There it is to be séene by the reasons which are ioyned almost to euery name that they attempted nethinge no not in that matter whiche may séeme to be of no great waighte vpon fleshly affection but that they did al things hauing the feare of God to guide them and his holy Spirite to teache them which thinge I woulde haue well marked leaste any man shoulde lightlye estéeme thereof and thinke it nothing materiall vnto godlines Yea and the selfe same wryter as do also other witnesseth that God himselfe hath either geuen or chaunged the names of some whome he had made choyse of for greate matters And the same to haue béene done also of Christe the historye of the Gospell doth diligentlye and that not without cause rehearse Uerely he that is touched with the feare of God will neuer suffer himselfe to be perswaded that those thynges are eyther nothynge worth or triflinge whiche are so earnestlye repeated by the holye writers Neyther let any man saye that thys was onely done in some fewe men For we reade the same to haue bene vsed in all orders and degrées of men which God by his wise counsaile hath chosen and appoynted both to teach and to rule others and to establishe comely and orderly gouernemente in his churche then which nothinge can be imagined either more profitable or more honest and herehence is it that he woulde haue some both to bée and to bée called Apostels to speaks nothinge of the manner of the olde people some Euangelistes some Prophetes Bishops Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons Which titles it is wel knowne to be neither idlely neither rashly either deuised or geuen For they that sée not the reason of their offices and functions to be conceiued therein are woorthy to sée nothinge For they to whome those offices are committed are plainely admonished what theyr duetye is or what they owe vnto other and what other should looke for at their handes what accompt they oughte to make of them That all these things are cōprehended in one worde it is cleare so that whosoeuer knoweth what these wordes meaneth doth also easelye vnderstande the same Neither shall it be amisse in my iudgement to knowe in these titles some steppes of Gods wisedome suche as appeare in the visible signes of the Sacraments which to haue bene most wisely chosen out and ordeyned all that are of sound iudgement do confes For they know which are rightly instructed in these misteries that God by these signes as it were visible wordes as Sainte Augustine is wonte to call thē doth speake vnto those that haue their eyes to sée and by these meanes doth teache them that are willinge to be taughte Like as then these sacramentall signes hath euerye one their significations apte and agréeable to the institution of God so by these titles they that are chosen and placed in those functions are put in mind of their dueties Wherefore euen as in the sacraments they that vnderstand not what the signes meane doe receaue them to their destruction as prophaners thereof so they that vsurpe the titles of these orders and adorne themselues therewithall and yet performe not the things signifyed thereby doubtles they shall be iustly punished in their due time of God the reuenger of so greate wickednesse as vniust vsurpers of holy thinges And let thess iolly fellowes tell me I pray you which no lesse fondlye or rather unpudently then boldly do faine and take to themselues names at theyr pleasure if any man in a well ordered common wealth should take vpon him any name belonginge to the chéefe Magistrate as of a kinge or such like or should vse the title appertayning to any other dignitie should not he vnlesse hee were holden of all men for a foole be sayd to haue vsurped the magistracie and bée proclaymed giltie of high treason Now if in ciuile dealinge man doth thus offend and therefore cannot escape vnpunished may the same bée done lawfully in the church of Christe Surely religion is defaced as much also in the very names and wordes And to adde this by the waye those that haue bene estéemed wysest amonge the profane Philosophers haue written that it is not for euery man to geue names vnto things and that he hath bene holden for most wise that first inuented names and applyed them vnto things whose opinion is manifestly warranted in that Moyses in Gen. 2. cap. the 19. verse sheweth that Adam being made vnto the image of God appointed names by the commaundement of God for euery liuing thing Yea and there are some that write that it skilleth much and is very behoufefull for the commō wealth what name euerie one man be called by who so list to way these things which I would briefly point at not stande vpon wil resolue I trust that it is not the part of a godly or wise man to faine at his luste and openly to vse either the name or the surname which agréeth not vnto anye thinge CAP. II. That the name of Iesus and tytle of Christ were geuen by the commaundement of the Father vnto the Sonne of God manifefled in fleshe AS Christ did not take vpon him as witnesseth the Author of the Epistle vnto the Hebrues Ca. 5. the office of a Byshoppe so it is manifest by the history of the Gospell that he tooke not vpon himselfe neithere the name of Iesus neither the title of Christ but that he was honored therwith by the decree and expresse commaundement of his euerlasting Father As for the name of Iesu both Mathew and Luke are euident witnesses that it was geuen him by the Angeles appointment and least it might séeme vnto any man either a thinge comminge by chaunce either not of purpose in flat words a most iust cause was therewithall ioyned by the heauenly messenger He shall saue saith he his people from their sinnes that is to saye the thinge it selfe shall answere this name least any man should thinke it to be a vaine imagination I wil not at this time dispute eyther of the originall