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A17017	The first part of the resolution of religion devided into two bookes, contayning a demonstration of the necessity of a diuine and supernaturall worshippe. In the first, against all atheists, and epicures: in the second, that Christian Catholic religion is the same in particuler, and more certaine in euery article thereof, then any humane or experimented knowledge, against Iewes, Mahumetans, Pagans, and other external enemies of Christ. Manifestly convincing all their sects and professions, of intollerable errors, and irreligious abuses.	Broughton, Richard.	1603 (1603)	STC 3897; ESTC S114320	118,360	300

graces and inheritaunce And this may bee a title of such Infidels to their worldly prosperitie by the religion of their auncestors for their owne impietie neither meriteth spirituall or temporall fauour THE TEMPORALL HONOVR and dignity of Religious Catholike Christians most commonly greatest and their afflictions least ¶ CHAP. XIIII AND touching true beleeuing and Religious Catholicke Christians how much they are blessed of God both in heauenly and earthly benedictions as also to let the glorye of our Religion alone which only shineth in all the world howe miraculouslie haue we from the beginning beene raysed maintayned and aduaunced maugre the might and malice of all enemies persecutors though neuer so many malicious and mightie howe haue they beene conquered and their pride and puissance depressed how haue we preuayled howe longe howe large howe great and wonderfull haue our honours titles prosperities preeminences reigned ruled in the world What Empire of the Assirians Persians Grecians Pagan Romanes Turkes Tartars or any other hath so endured which of them all was to be compared vnto it in power And to omitte no time although God hath afflicted Christians in these latter daies for their want of dutie in Religion yet when Infidell and Irreligious Princes at this day are so mightie and potent as that great Christian of Iude Emperour ouer threescore and twelue kingdomes And the Georgians so called of S. George their patrone in warres a people so potent that they are a terror to the Turkish Empire and admitted to performe their pilgrimage to the holy Sepulchre in Hierusalem in the dition of the Mahumetans with their banners displayed and free from tribute Or who will compare with the Catholicke Religious King of Spaine whose regall reuenewes much exceede all the vniust and tyrannicall Taxes Tributes and Impositions of the Turkish Emperour his Countries and Kingdomes are greater and exceeding the others his subiects more honourable his proceedings more noble What high Priest euer either amonge the Iewes Gentiles Mahumetanes or any professors of Religion so reuerenced renouned honored and potent as our Catholique Christian Popes of Rome so many hundred yeares exalted aboue the Emperors themselues and exercising Iurisdiction and authority further then euer any other Prince spiritual or temporal did euen ouer al Countries in the worlde How miraculouslie haue all enemies that in any time or place opposed themselues againste that sacred Iurisdiction of Rome been ouerthrown The Iewes so pitifullie dispersed the pagan Emperours all that persecuted it liuinge and diynge in miseryes and dishonors as the histories of all to Constantine are witnes Howe did those insolent and proude conqerours of the worlde that killed and conquered whome they woulde giue place to the poore Religious Successors of Saint Peeter a Fisher as theyr Prophetesse Sibilla had foretoulde them Howe were they that were conqueroures of the mightyste vanquished of the meaneste Howe haue all Aduersaryes and persecutors spirituall or corporall internall or externall that euer opposed them selues against it been subdued and ouerthrowen as I haue cyted before almoste an hundred true or reputed Emperours before Constantine What hereticall Emperours of the Arrians Eutichians Iconoclaustes or Image breakers Monotholites Manichees Armenians as Constantius Valens zeno Anastatius Heraclius Constance Instiman 2. Philipicus Dardanes Leo Isauricus Constantinus Cropronimus Leo Cropronimus Leo Armenius Michael Dalbus Theophilus How haue the Gothes Visegothes Ostrogothes Vandals Frankes Angles Mahumetanes Turkes Tartars inuaded and persecuted it Howe manye Irrelygeous Chrystyane Kinges suche as I haue recoumpted in Englande and other places Howe manye Arche-heretickes Seauen Hundred in number as I recited in the same place and yet as I haue shewed before notwithstanding all these enemyes and afflictiones the Catholike Temporall Prynces thereof are the Mightyeste and moste Honourable in the worde and the Popes spiritual iurisdiction three times greater more noble and ample then euer any was either among Heretickes Infidels or the Iewes themselues when they obserued true Religion Contrariwise let any man peruse the state conditions of those countries of Christendome that are fallen to Heresie and become irreligious and he shall perceaue them to be in most dishonourable tearmes both for temporall and spirituall rule the iurisdiction of none knowne or acknowledged out of one little Countrie or Prouince and those which be the greatest aduersaries of our Religion to be in the most pittifull poore and vncertain case of the rest And least anie Atheist Epicure or wicked Politicke shoulde say that although the state of the Religious is such and so honourable as I haue described in the time of peace and prosperitie yet in the winter stormes of aduersitie and persecution vvhen those Popes that bee nowe so glorious were so often and many in number put to death when the whole Clergie vvas persecuted when euery Religious Christian was odious when so many thousands of Martyrs were put to torments when we were depriued of honours riches liberties liues and all preferments as we haue beene both by Iewes Pagans and Heretickes our glory was nothing at all but we were wholy oppressed with miseries I haue already shewed that euen in such times the honour and glory of the Religious which were persecuted was farre greater then of their persecutors and that euer in the ende the victory and triumph was ours And to giue examples in this case neuer any thinge amonge the enemies of Christ was so famous and renowned in the worlde as the Empire of Rome and their Emperours before Constantine the christian Emperour Yet let vs but compare the most persecuted Religious people which were the Popes of Rome with the gallant flowers of fortune and my sentence will be true The Popes of Rome were then esteemed of impious Polytickes to bee the most vnfortunate and depressed people no friend no humane force to defende them the lawes againste them their enemies and persecutors vvith whose felicitie I compare them were the absolute commanders of the worlde and contended with all force policy and tyranny they coulde to abandon the name of Christ and his Religion and all professors thereof principally the Popes of Rome and put them to death And yet doe what they coulde the true glorye of the Romane Popes at that time was greater then the glorye of those Romane Emperours all Histories Martyrologies Calenders and Recordes will beare perpetuall witnesse their liues and honour were thrise as longe and yet they were olde before their election and consecration and though the life of them all was sought and moste of them dyed actually in Martyrdome yet the number of their enemies and persecuting Emperours that dyed miserably and with reproach in the same time did three to one exceede them for from S. Peter to Saint Syluester honoured by Constantine there were 31. Popes and those those aged men and yet of them not aboue 25. or 26. actually put to death And of the Emperours the lustie Gallants of the worlde

before and at the time of the Natiuitie of Christ but euer after that Shee brought sorth Christ without any paine or griefe Saint Iohn Baptist was a moste vertuous man Saint Iohn the Euangelist the holiest that was that he reuiued the dead and did other miracles was assumpted aliue to heauē that his Gospel is full of perfect doctrine which they reuerence as also that parte of the Gospell of Saint Luke about the Angelles salutation with often kisses and much deuotion and Reuerence all the Euangelists they honour and praie to S. George and other christian Saints reuerence their Relickes and with especiall duetie the Sepulchre and other monuments of Christ Which is as great a Recorde as can bee giuen and such as demonstratiuelie proueth against them the Religion of Christians to be true and Mahumet a Seducer For how can that Religion bee vnperfect which performeth all thinges belonging to Religion bringeth mē to heauen and their happie end How can that which onlie remaineth bee insufficient When Iudaisme and Mahumetisme and al others cease will God be without honor shall the worlde giue him no worship or if he be the word of god wise dome of god as Mahumet confesseth then he must needes be God which is all hee denieth vnto him for that which is either the word wisdome or any other atribute or property of god must needes be god for in him that is one incompounded substance no created worde wisedome or accidentall thinge can bee Imagined Neyther could a true Prophet such as he confesseth Iesus bee esteemed so if hee had not beene the Sonne of GOD and perfecte God as hee taughte himselfe to be Lastlie to come to the Iewes of these tymes since Christ I haue shewed before that the chiefe and principall firmament and foundation of theyr Religion when they were the people of GOD was buylded vppon the Reuelations of such misteries as were deliuered from god to Moises their high priests and prophets neither euer had they title to true Religion or any promise or expectation of a Messias and Redeemer either come already or to be hoped hereafter but by that meanes and by that they pretende theyr right to this daie So that whatsoeuer was foretolde in those holye Prophets concerning the Messias and approuing Iesus Christ to bee him and christian beleefe to be true cannot bee denied of anye of the Ieweishe profession if he will remayne a Iewe for so he should denye himselfe to haue anie Religion at all And yet those holie Prophets so playnelie particulerlye and perfectly descrybe IESVS to haue beene the same that it is vnpossyble theyr description and prophessyes shoulde bee applyed to anie other So that as if aanye Paynter shoulde drawe an Image with an vpright Bodie an Head round vvith Face Nose twoe Eyes twoe Eares Armes vvith Fingers tvvoe Legges and feete with toes and all other members lineaments and proportions of a man who except vnreasonable or madde coulde or woulde afirme it to bee the similitude and representatiou of a beast a birde or any other creature euen so the properties qualities whereby those holie prophets moste cunning painters of supernatural things describe and purtrature forth the Messias be so proper onelie to Iesus Christ that without obstynate madnesse they cannot be challenged for any others Wee haue heard of his picture drawne by Iob already that he is our God Redeemer and shall bee our Iudge And to bee briefe in so plaine a matter the rest of of the Prophets speaking of the Messias expresse him by the tetragrammaton name of GOD which is neuer giuen in holie Scriptures as the Iewes acknowledge but to the true and eternall God they tearme him by all titles beloning vnto GOD. Calling him the sonne of God begotten in eternity before the worlde was made The Lord of Dauid That his generation is vnspeakeable that he is God and his throne eternall A Councellor Good Strong Father of the future world Prince of peace God with vs. God seene in earth God conuersing with men Iah God himselfe that shall come and saue vs. The name which they shall call him is God our iust A Captaine whose going forth is from the daies of eternity God that shall dwell in the middest of vs. God to whom many nations shall be conuerted To whome the nations and Gentiles shall be giuen for his inheritance That shal open the eies of the blind The eares of the deafe and raise the dead That all Angelles and Nations must adore him God altering the lawe of Moyses and his sacrifices and instituting an other Altar and honoured with other sacrifices and oblations That hee is God Lorde of Hostes and the like Whereby he is described and lineamented out by all prerogatiues and attributes proper to God and incommunicable to anye creature as is most euident in this description And touching his humanity nothing of momente ommitted that passed in the life of Christ Iesus in earth That though he bee God yet shall be seene among vs. Conuerse among vs in the middest of vs. Scene wich our eyes That hee shall bee conceaued after a diuine manner borne of a virgine in Bethlehem and city of King Dauid The Singing of the Angelles The comming of the Shepards the Stall of the Oxe Asse where he was borne The star that appeared The Iourny worship of the Magutheir Oblations of gold frankensence and mirh The consultation of Herod with the Priests where he shoulde be borne The seeking of his death The murdering of so many thousand Infants His presentation in the Temple flying into Egipt going into Gallilie dwelling in Nazareth the preaching and austere conuersatiō life of his precurssor S. Iohn Baptist and his testimony of Christ The beginning of Christes preaching and doctrine his wonderfull workes and operations giuen by the Prophets for a distinctiue signe of the Messias to be discerned by His disputing with the Iewes His strange and triumphant riding vpon an Asse into Hierusalem and circumstances thereof His teaching in the Temple innocencie of life and behauiour The particuler iniuries he susteyned of the Iewish Nation their ingratitude incredulity and reprobation for not receauing him the errors they are since iustlie fallen into their afflictions calamities for that offence susteyned to this day their captiuity bondage dispersion want of sacrifice priesthood temple rytes and ceremonies of Religion The election and calling of the Gentiles The general ouerthrow of Idolatry His selling and betraying by his owne Disciple The very price for which hee was folde howe it was bestowed The desperation of Iudas the traytor miserable end The death of Christ and manner thereof among theeues and malefactors the ende to redeeme the world His voluntary oblation and dying the giuing of him gall and vinegre to drinke deuiding of his aparell casting lots for his Coate his nakednes vpon the

Ismaelites and seede of Ismaell accursed in scripture by the mouth of GOD where hee is depryued of all spirituall Inherytance and hathe no such benediction geuen vnto him and from the rude theeuish and barbarous Arabyans whose manners he exercised in all kinde of iniquitie And touching his errours with Sabellius he denieth the Trinitie with Arrius hee affirmeth CHRIST to be a creature With the Maniches that Christ was not Crucified and put to death but an other lyke vnto him thinking that vnworthy so great a prophet With the Anthropomorphites Iewes and Pagans that God hath a bodye with the Elchesyte that religion may be denyed in persecution With the Originists that the deuills shall bee saued that Lucifer and the rest of the Angells were condemned because they would not worship Adam as though dutye were to be done to the inferiour and lesse excellent when excellencie and diginitie is the only cause of adoration and reuerence That men are to bee compelled to his religion by warre and force That God and his Angells pray for Mahumet when GOD supreame Lorde of all can praye to none prayer being a function of an inferyour he neuer distinguished the ciuyll and ecclesiasticall regiment but confounded them together in his temporall successor which his owne followers condemned for absurdety and repealed The original Institution of that deceiuer apointing Alys an ignorant and wicked young fellowe for his successor was not only vnreasonable but frustrat and with out effect for contrary to the ordinance of Mahumet his father in lawe Eubocora deposed Alys within three yeares Ebocora himselfe was poysoned Homer his next Successour was murthered by his seruante Osmenus which nexte succeeded killed himselfe his sonne Mahumetes vvas violentlie put to death by Alys Alys was trayterouslie slaine by Muauias in whose dayes so many errors were growne in that secte that two hundred Camelles vvere loaded vvith bookes which were condemned at Damascus And notwithstanding the capitall lawe against disputing of the Alcoran they euer were and nowe are deuided into manifolde schismes into Melycs Asaphs Alambels Buanists Babilonists Cayrists Caioranists Marochists Mustysts Almahadists and others not to be recounted and in such odious manner that they affirme it more meritorious to kill one of those diuisions then 70. Christians They haue no meanes to compose these controuersies determine questions or to chuse their Calyphes but all doubtes are tried by the sworde and the strongest part of armes is sentenced to holde the truest opinion Neither did Mahumet euer ordayne or that people practise their tryall Howe doth he extoll Christ Iesus to bee the Messias wisedome spirit and worde of God greatest of all Prophets and institutor of the most holy lawe and perfector of the lawe of Moyses which had so long endured and yet most impudently affirme that presently after the first preaching it was corrupted euer by the Apostles to whome it was committed and whose Gospels himselfe alloweth Howe foolish is it for him to deny the death of Christ witnessed by so many thousandes of present witnesses of al sorts Christiās Iewes and Gentiles in so publike place and vniuersal assemblies how could the Iewes raise this slaunder when so manie Christians and Pagans were present is written in all the Euangelists which he approoued for holy writers How could those sacred bookes be vniuersally corrupted of the Iewesh nation when they were neuer wholy in their hands yea seldome any one was in their custody yet these Paradoxes he preposeth to be beleued How is it either probable or possible that Mahumet an Apostata Monke so many hundred yeares after Christ Moyses should better know the integrity of their lawes then the Iewes Christians which were euer in possessiō of those writings how contrary is his lawe of poligamy where a King hath 600. wiues the festiuity of friday for the Sabaoth the circumcising children in the seauenth or eight yeare and not day from their natiuity and other like to the lawe of Moyses howe diferent is his corporiety in God beastly paradise multiplicity of wiues errors about Christes diuinity death passion Sacraments and other principall things to the doctrine of Christ which as hee teacheth was moste pure and shall continue for euer where did euer Christ perswade the people to worship his mother the blessed Virgine for God or prophesie of this great prophet Mahumet as this shamelesse seducer affirmeth or how coulde Christ which he reuerenceth for the greatest Prophet and truest law-maker be Author of such Idolatry And to be briefe as he came in a time of manye Heretickes and deceauers and to enchaunt his Readers with his beastlie delightes composed his Alcaron in rythmes and meeters so to allure company vnto him by expresse decree he approoueth all errours and infidelities so that a plurality of Gods bee not admitted howsoeuer corporeous infirme and corruptible one God is beleeued hee neuer reprehendeth but confirmeth Wherefore to omitte the rest and onely exemplifie in that which moste concerneth man which is his eternall beatytude and happye end which as I proued no Temporall or Corporall thinge can be hee assigneth such a paradise place and state of Blessednesse for a reasonable and immortall soule as is agreeable to the nature appetite of hogs most brutish beasts in so much Auerroes himself sometimes a Mahumetane affirmed that Aristotle had deuised a better happinesse for Man then Mahumet did and Auicenna a fauourer of that Sect greatlie condemned Mahumet in that poynte and yet these two were the wisest that euer were in his daunger to be seduced They enforce the eldest sons of Christians contrary to the lawe of nature to professe Mahumetisme and be Ienesaries to the Turkishe Prince when no man canne bee compelled to supernaturall thinges expept he hath first submitted himselfe he inuadeth and vsurpeth without all title the landes teritories and goodes of others which without manifest iniurye and iniustice cannot be done He neuer pretended for title to religion either supernatural prophesye of thinges to come any one miraculous operation or argument of reason but forbad his followers to professe learning or dispute of his lawe least they should disclose his iniquitie and pretendeth his claime and interest nothing but the sworde and violence by which kinde of disputation and reasoning Iulius Caesar Alexander Augustus and other damned Idolatrous Emperours should haue had a farre greater title to religion then euer Mahumet could pretend being greater conquerours then he or any of his profession And it is not only vnprobable but vnpossible that any accidentarye or temporall thing in the power of nature should be an infallible signe and argument of supernaturall and most certaine misteryes such as true religion must haue So that we see Mahumetisme to be nothing els but a fardell of errours and heresyes iniustice and voluptuousnes bounde and collected together without any grounde or reason so that had he not begun his Regiment in