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A05223	Dutifull and respective considerations vpon foure seuerall heads of proofe and triall in matters of religion Proposed by the high and mighty prince, Iames King of Great Britayne, France, and Ireland &c. in his late booke of premonition to all christian princes, for clearing his royall person from the imputation of heresy. By a late minister & preacher in England.; Dutifull and respective considerations upon foure severall heads of proofe and triall in matters of religion.	Leech, Humphrey, 1571-1629.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. aut	1609 (1609)	STC 15362.5; ESTC S100271	179,103	260

are certaine wordes purposely deuised and set downe by the said Councell and they be these that follow Deum de Deo Lumen de lumine Deum verum de Deo vero c. That is God of God Light of Light true God of true God begotten not made being of one substance with the Father c. By all which words the meaning of the sacred Coūcell is not only to proue the Equality of Godhead betwixt the Father and the Sonne most blasphemously impugned and denyed by the Arians but further to illustrate the very identity of essence immediatly soly wholy communicated from the Father vnto the Sonne in his eternall generation and therfore do those thrice blessed Fathers call Christ Lumen de Lumine to intimate thus much vnto our vnderstanding for the better comprehending of that mystery that as a light importeth his whole full and perfect light vnto another and yet retayneth the whole in it selfe euen so in that mysticall and inscrutable generation of God the Sonne begotten of God the Father the Father as a light imparteth vnto the Sonne as a another Light in regard of his distinctiue Personall substance his whole light that is his whole entyre nature essence substance and Godhead without section diuision motion mutation or alteration in the Father according to that of S. Nazianzen prescribing against a certaine curious Hereticke too busy in this point 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cast away thy fluxions thy diuisions and sections let the generation of God be reuerenced with silence and yet the Father retaineth the whole in himselfe This forme and manner of speach so materially and methodically set downe by this great Councell and that doubtlesse by the immediate instinct and apparent assistance of the holy Ghost against so great enemies of the sacred Person and Diuinity of our Sauiour as the Arians were M. Ihon Caluin falling into the old vayne of his Arianizing humor as Doctor Hunnius proueth doth vtterly mislike and condemne and presuming to censure it thus Impropriè ac durè dictum esse in Symbolo Filium dei esse Deum de Deo Lumen de Lumen c. that it is improperly and hardly spoken in the Creed that the Sonne of God is God of God Light of Light very God of very God begotten not made consubstantiall to the Father c. affirming moreouer Christum esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is that Christ is God of himselfe not God of God the Father But may not I say and haue therein the whole Christian world to beare me out Catholicè dictum à Patribus haereticè mutatum à Caluino that it was Catholickly spoken by the Fathers and heretically changed by Iohn Caluin 25. And though here his disciples will go about to free their maister by vrging Cardinall Bellarmine his defence for him in a certaine place of his works wherin he excuseth the said Caluin in some part of his meaning and sense yet poore and miserable is the defence for that the Cardinall expressly condemneth the manner of Caluin his speach as hereticall and intolerably proud and it is hereticall saith he quia pugnat cum Scripturis because it contradicteth the Scriptures it is intolerably proud quia pugnat cum Concilijs cum Patribus it impugneth generall Councels and resisteth the vniforme consent of all pious and religious Antiquity Thus the Cardinall to whome I remit the iudicious Reader for more ample and learned proofe of the same The third Consideration OVR third last Consideratiō of this present Chapter shall insist vpon sundry articles of the Apostles Creed in particuler wherein the Ministers of England that make a profession and that by subscription to admit the whole Creed as it lieth do notwithstanding differ from the sense interpretation and exposition of ancient Church and to exemplify some particuler article the fifth Article is Descendit ad inferos Christ descended into hell which the ancient Fathers did vnderstand litterally as it lieth for so all the articles of the Creed are literally to be expounded to wit that our Sauiour Christ after the consummation of our Redemption by the pretious bloud of his passion leauing his body in the Sepulcher he descēded victoriously like a triumphant conquerour of death Sathan and all the power of hell with his soule into the lower partes of the earth shewing and exhibiting himselfe thereby a conquerour of death and deliuering from thence diuers prisoners and namely the soules of the ancient Fathers Patriarkes and Prophets who ardently expected his comming to open vnto them the gates of heauen according to that in the Hymne of Te Deum which is in wordes acknowledged by the Church of England VVhen thou hadst ouercome the sharpnes of death thou didest open the Kingdome of Heauen to all beleeuers 27. Thus the ancient Church vnderstood this article as may be easily proued by vnamine consent of all Antiquity that expounded it so For first the fourth Councell of Toledo cap. 1. and the Lateran gathered vnder Innocentius the third expound the Article so as appeareth by their wordes plaine to that purpose Descendit ad inferos vt animas quae illic tenebantur erueret Christ descended into hell that he might deliuer the soules which were detayned there 28. Secondly Thaddeus one of Christs 70. Disciples who as he liued in the very time of the Apostles so was it most like nay it could not be otherwaies but he knew the Apostolicall sense of this article and yet he as Eusebius recordeth deliuereth the sense thus Descendit ad inferos disrupit maceriem quam in saeculo nemo disruperat qui descendit quidem solus ascendit autem cum grandi multitudine Christ descended into hell brake down the partitiō-wall which no man had broken from the foundation of the world who indeed descended alone but ascended with a great multitude which being supposed then haue you the testimony of one of Christs holy disciples and no doubt inspired with the spirit of God for warrant of this doctrine 29. With Thaddaus agreeth Ignatius another great Saint and Martyr that liued immediatly after the Apostles and had conuersation with some of them Descendit solus sayth the same Father ascendit cum grandi multitudine Christ descended into hell alone but he ascended with a great multitude With these two so ancient so Apostolicall men accordeth Iustinus Martyr an ancient and renowned Author in the selfe same age next after the Apostles who in his conference or dispute cum Triphone Iudaeo for so is his Dialogue intituled complayneth of the impiety of the Iewes for razing forth the testimony of Hieremy where our Lord is said to descend to hell vt liberaret mortuos suos that he might deliuer his dead thence 30. And now with these three doth all antiquity consent to wit S. Irenaeus in his fifth booke towardes the end Clemens lib. 6. stromatum Origen in his 15. homily vpon Genesis his

of the first fiue hundred yeares which his sayd Maiesty most Royally offereth to follow For opening the window vnto which light I haue thought it my bounden duty both before God and man to take this small labour and to lay these few heades of Considerations before the eyes of his Highnes most wise Iudgment and vnderstanding THE SIXT CHAPTER CONTEYNING A BRIEFE CONTEMPLATION of what hath beene hitherto sayd with the Conclusion of the whole to his most Excellent Maiesty AND now hauing handled these points at some more length then at the beginning I had purposed I hope the benignity and Clemency of his Maiestie will take in good part that leauing the Reader I do returne vnto him againe as vnto my most dearly beloued reuerenced and dread Soueraigne to lay before the eyes of his Prudent Consideration the summe of that which hitherto hath beene considered of 2. First then the point of being a true Catholicke according vnto the name and nature of the word is of such importance necessity and consequence as hath beene shewed in the first Chapter that no riches in this world no wealth no treasure no state no power no policy no human felicity may be compared with it as rightly S. Augustine doth intimate And for that your Maiesties eternall weale after the briefe and transitory passage of this life dependeth therof I cannot but most humbly most hartily and most dutifully falling prostrate at your feet beseech you to giue some serious attendance and attention to this high and mayne point of euerlasting saluation to seeke out what is truely Catholicke both in the Church for whose Epitheton the Name was first by the Apostles inuented as also in particuler men who is a true Catholicke and who followeth the rule which the Name describeth to wit he that in Christian Religion followeth vniuersality and not singularity the whole and not a part ancienty and nouelty that which hath bene deliuered and conserued from time to time and not inuented framed and set sorth in later times 3. And for that on the other side heresy is the opposite and contradictory vnto Catholicke Religion for that it maketh choyce of a part to it selfe and therby is held to be the highest sin in the sight of Almighty god that is or can be committed vpon earth for that it ouerthroweth the very foundation of fayth vnder pretence to establish and reforme fayth My desire is so ardent in this point that your Matie should enter into due consideration therof as almighty God beareth wirnesse vnto my soule and spirit that nothing in this life stādeth more neere my hart considering the eternity of the next world the immutable weale or woe therof the vae or euge that ech man is to receaue as well Princes as others and that these earthly Princedomes will seeme but shadowes at that day and not worthy one houre of that glory or misery that is to be gotten or lost by Catholick Religion or heresy in this life And this is my first contemplation and I shall pray Almighty God that it may be also your Maiesties 4. The second is about those foure wayes proposed by your Maiesty for auerring Catholicisme and clearing frō heresy which are the admitting and belieuing of all Canonicall Scriptures the receauing of the three Creedes the approuing the foure first Councells and the acceptance of the Ancient Fathers of the first foure or fiue hundred yeares In all which if with the admitting in words there be also a true Catholicke sense no doubt but they do make a man to be a Catholicke and do condemne heresy But the importance of all standeth in the exposition for to belieue the Scriptures in the sense that I thinke best my selfe or to acknowledge them for Canonicall or not Canonicall as I or some few with me of later times shall please to prescribe or to admit the three Creedes with that exposition of the articles as I and mine shall best allow or the first foure Councells in some thinges and not in other or the first foure hundred yeares of Fathers so farre forth as they in my censure do agree with Scriptures is to reduce all to my owne iudgment a thing most opposite to Catholicisme and proper to heresy as we haue at large declared 5. Wherefore vpon my knees I do most humbly supplicate your Maiesty to consider well of this and especially of the last poynt concerning the ancient Fathers which doth in effect cōtaine all the rest for that these men deliuered vnto vs the Scriptures togeather with the true vnderstāding therof according to the sense of the Church in their dayes these men deliuered vnto vs the three Creedes the first as from the Apostles the other as from the Church the third as from a priuate man but yet approued by the Church these men deliuered vnto vs the first foure generall Councells wherein diuers of themselues sate as Iudges and Bishops and had voyees and suffrages in the same these men were they that examined the controuersies determined the Catholicke doctrine condemned heresies an athematized hereticks and cleared the coastes of all these wicked and turbulent incumbrances which seditious and headstrong spirits had raysed in the Christian world by their contentions 6. And finally these were they whom our Sauiour Christ did vse as sannes to winnow his corne to purge the flore of his Church separating the chaffe from the wheat and eroneous doctrine from the truth wherin they were so zealous and diligent labourers as not the least weed could spring vp in this field of the Church but that these carefull good watchmen and faithfull gardeners did presently note and pursue the same vntill it was eyther rooted out or condemned by the Church and therby as branches cut of from the body of the vine suffered to wither away and to consume of themselues For proofe wherof we may alleadge as many examples as there haue bene different heresies and hereticks in the Christian Church for the space of fifteene hundred yeares which albeit they ruffled much mightily for the time and had often great Princes Kinges Emperors and Potentates to fauour and patronize them as the Protestants haue now your Matie yet are they so consumed in tyme and by vertue of the holy Ghost as the very names of many of them are now scarce remembred and much lesse their arguments reasons proofes and Scriptures which they brought for the same and were it not that in these Fathers bookes who were their enemies some mention is made therof we should scarce know that there had bin such men in the world 7. But on the contrary side the Church that condemned these men and the Fathers and Doctors liuing therin remayned euer both then and after victorious and shal do to the worlds end and still by succession and continuatiō the same Church hath come downe frō age to age one age giuing testimony to another of the purity of the said Church