squalida cutis situm Aethiopicae carnis obduxerat quotidie lachrimae quotidie gemitus si quando repugnantem somnus imminens oppresserat nuda humo vix ossae harentia collidebam De cibis verò Ipotu taceo cum etiam languentes Monachi aquae frigidae utantur coctum aliquid accepisse luxuria sit Ille igitur ego qui ob gehennae metum tali me carceri ipse damnaveram Scorpionum tantùm socius ferarum sapè choris intereram puellarum Pallebant or a jejuniis mens desideriis aestuabat inifrigido corpore ante hominem sua jam carne praemortuuuâ— fola libidinum incendia bulliebant Itaque omni auxilio destitutus ad Jesu jacebam pedes rigabam lacbrimis crine tergebam repugnantem carnem hebdomodarum inedia subjugabam Non â—rubesco consiteri infelicit atis meae miseriaemquin potius plango me non esse quod fuerim Memini me clamantem diem crebro junxisse cum nocte nec prius à pectoris cessasse verberibus quà m rediret Domino increpante tranquilitas Ipsam quoque cellulam meam quasi cogitationum mearum consciam pertimescebam mihimet iratus rigidus solus deferta penetrabam Sicubi concava vallium aspera montium rupium ptaerupta cernebam ibi meae orationis locus ibi illud miserrimae carnis ergastulum ut mihi testis est Dominus post multas lachrimas post coelo inhaerentes oculos nonnunquam videbar mihi interesse agminibus Angelorum laetus gaudensque cantabam post te in odorem unguentorum tuorum curremus That is O how living and lamenting in the desert and vast Wilderness which scorched with the burning of the Sonne gives a horrible kind of dwelling to the Monks and notwithstanding in my minde I was injoying the delights of Rome I sate alone replenished with bitterness All the parts of my body covered with sackcloath gave mee a kind of horrour and my withered skinn was black like the Flesh of an Ethiopian nothing but teares and sighes day and night and if sleep coming on did oppress mee resisting it I layed on the naked ground my bare bones hardly hanging together I say nothing of my fare and drinck when Monks fainting and languishing used noe other drinck then cold water and to eat any thing that was hott or saw the fyre was among them esteemed a great delicacy and wantonness I therfore who for the feare of hell condemned my selfe to such a prison companion only of Scorpions and wilde beasts seemed to be in my thoughts present at the sporting and dansing of the Ladys of Rome My countenance was pale with fasting and yet my minde in a cold body was flaming with burning desires of Concupisence In this anguish and lamentable Condition destitute of all comfort I sat downe at the feet of Crucify'd Iesus I watered them with teares and dry'd them with my havre and tamed the Rebellion of my Flesh with the want of fooding for many weeks I am not ashamed to confesse the misery of my unhappy Condition I remember well I have oft joyned the day with the night weeping and crying to God and knocking my breast with strokes and blowes untill tranquility and quiet returned and that the Lord was pleased to give mee ease in my Tentations I feared my cell it selfe least it should have knowne my inward thoughts and all alone angry and sever against my selfe I penetrated the desert there I beheld the depth of the valleys the asperitie of the mountains and the precipice of the high rocks there was the place of my prayers and the prison of my miserable Flesh and as my Lord is my wittness after many teares and after my eyes being fixt upon heaven I thought somtymes I was present with Hostes of Angells and joyfully I did cry to thee my God I will runne after thee and after the odour and smell of thy oyntments O Sall behold I present upon a Theater great Jerome a mortify'd Monk of the desert of austere Sanctity Leane Pale and consum'd with fasting and pennance bring you now to the vew of the world the Doctors and Masters you have chosen wanton grosse vagabond Monks running out of theire Monasteryes with theire nuns and wenches and that having abandon'd all Religious Authority contemne and mock Jeroms Mortification Let the world see thy great master Luther with his nun Chatharin Borin as alsoe Buser Peter Martir and Ochinus with theire runaway nuns And Calvin the Adulterer and Sodomyte and Beza another Adulterer and Sodamyte with his mayd Candida and faire boy Audebertus forgett not Bale the Carmelite with his lusty wench Dorathea and many more of that kinde A shame he upon thee Sall to forsake Jerome a man of God an Angell of the Desart and spectacle of Mortification to joyne with those Monsters of Impurity doe you take this to be a signe of your Praedestination As for Matter of Doctrin how different Ieroni was from those you joyne with you may learne by an excellent Epistle of his to Pope Damasus the Saint being solicited in Syria by severall Sects to joyne with them in Communion writes thus to the foresaid Pope Quanquam igitur tua me terreat magnitudo S. Ter. Epist ad Damasum Papum de Apostas invitat tamen humanitas a Sacerdote victimam salutis a Pastore presidium ovis flagito ego nullum primum nisi Christuns sequens beatitudini tue Cathedrae Petri communione consocior supra illam Petrans aedificatam Ecclesiam scio quicunque extra hanc domum agnum commoderit Prophanus est si quis in Area Noe non fuerit peribit regnante deluvâ—o And says in the end of the Epistle Quamobrent abtestor beatitudinem tuam per Crucifixum Mundi salutem per Homousion Trinitatem ut mihi Epistolis tuis sive tacendarum sive dicendatum Hypostaseon detur Authoritas You see here Sall a pure and rationall Submission of this learned Doctor to Pope Damasus in Matters of Faith what could be more humbly said by him then those words Ut mihi Epistolis tuis sive tacendarum five dicendarum Hypostaseon detur Authoritas Was this his deference to Damasus though a learned pope for being a more subtile Fxpounder of the sence of Scripture then Ierome Noe but because that Damassus was sitting upon Saint Peters Chaire ad quam error non habet accessum Sall you see that Saint Ierome revered the Pope as the Fountaine of all Spirituall Iuridiction under God he recognyzed him as such a head of Gods House and Family and you with your new Bishops and Clergy owne and acknowledge King Charles though a great Monarck yet a pure lay-man Ad quem pertinet tantum jus maenium Supreme head of the Church of England in Ecclesiasticis this is an express Article of your Faith the XXXVII of your XXXIX Articles wherin all Authority in Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall Matters and causes properly apertaining to the Pope is conferred on the Kings of England Nicolaus
hand of God All which Articles saith this Doctor doth Calvin willfully corrupt in his expositions in the favour of Iewes Arians and other such enemyes of Christ which hee proveth by alleadging above forty or fifty places citing Calvins owne words and commentaryes therupon soe clearly and perspicuously against sence and expositions of all holy Fathers that if his commentaryes therin were to bee admitted those foure named points or Articles of Christian Religion can not be defended against the force and adversaryes of Christes name And is not this a brotherly agreement between Lutherans and Calvinistes in Principall points and misteryes of Religion but the Lutherans have the best of it for wheras Luther and his followers to this day condemne the Calvinists as Hereticks especially for not beleeving the Body of Christ to bee realy and substantially present in the Sacrament of the Altar the Protestants of England who are Calvinists and deny the Real-presence hold Luther for a holy man and theire Father and hold all the Lutherans theire very deare bretheren in Christ as Doctor Whitaker above cited doth averre To leave Germany and to speak of the Professors of Protestanisme in England Scotland doe not many of them entertaine quarrells and falings-out among themselves about Principall Articles of Religion doe not the greatest part by much of the Protestants in England hold the King is supreme head of the Church all of one opinion with the Bishops maintaine this as an Article of Religion in that Protestant Church but the Protestants of Geneva and all depending upon theire Doctrin in France and elswhere doe not hold this Kingly supremacy for an Article of Faith and are not Catholicks punished by Law and somtymes put to death for denying this supremasy which would be a meer murthering of them and the greatest cruelty in the World if those that put them to death did not hold that supremecy to be an Article of Faith Now if you will be pleas'd to demaund what those Protestants in England and Scotland caled Presbiterians or Puritans say to this Article they flattly deny this supremacy to be an Article of Faith though none of them did ever suffer death for denying the same nay they are esteemed not with standing theire opinion in this to be of the Protestants communion A gaine all Protestants that follow the Bishops hold the dignity and superiority of Arch-Bishops and Bishops to be agrecable to Gods word and as the Devines speak de Iure Devino and what say the Presbiterians to this By theire Champion Martin Mar-Prelate and his mutenous moke-bates that band under his cullors cry all of them in the Name of the Lord as Thomas Rogers doth attest That the calling of Bishops is In his Sermon printed by Iohn windet 1590. pa. 13. unlawfull that they be Ministers of Antichrist worss then Fryers and Monks Deuills Bishops and Deuills In-carnate Sall you must grant mee these dissentions between Protestants and Protestants in England and Scotland about the Kings supremacy and the Order and Dignity of Bishops are not Triueall but Fundamentall and they have been now many years contending in theire Writings and Conferrences and still are about these points and others that are the very sinews and Soule of theire Religion in endless quarrells and Contensions If that were my Business I could sett downe many and great differrences quarells and contensions between these two kinde of Protestants In this place I think it pertinent to say somthing particularly of the Protestants called Presbiterians who were neuer by any act of Parlament that wee could heare of proscribed from the Communion of the Protestants that stick to the Religion of the King and the Bishops Impiety Fury and Rebellion gave beginning to this Sect and Religion in Scotland as hath been aboue said in Page 164. and 165. They had two Reformations the first was begun by Iohn Knox an Apostata Priest and though his Reformation was ungodly and unreasonable the second was farre more unreasonable and ungodly A Presbiterian that was converted to the Catholick Faith describes the Presbiterian Piety in this kinde There was among us a pretext of Piety but wee had not the substance of it wee had indeed much preaching praying fasting and such like exercises but our long preachings were nothing but continuall prayses of the Covenant the solemne League which they cry'd up to the heavens butt wee omitted as our Saviour observed of the Pharisies the weighty Matters of the Law as Iudgment Mercy and Faith Our Ministers told us wee were the happiest People of the World for they said wee only of all Nations had the honour to be Covenanters with God and that wee had the truth of the Ghospell in greater purity then Geneva it selfe that wee had soe cleare a light that the like had not shined to any Nation since the tymes of the Apostles yea one who was esteemed a principall Apostle among us did not stick to say in the pulpitt amidst the many Miserys Confusions and Troubles which then lay upon this Church and Nation That the Angells and Saints of heaven if they could leave the sight of God would be glad to come downe and see the admirable beauty of the Presbiterian Church of Scottland Soe farre this new Catholick And was not this ridiculous preacher with the beauty of his Scottish Kirck a great Hipocrite and Pharisie It was much observed that shortly after solemne fastes of Presbiterians the country and state was allways sure of some unhappy claps the puritan fast was still fatal and ordinarily a preparation to some violence or evill worke that was intended this made many understand what Queene Mary Stuart meant by that famous saying That shee was as much affraid of a fast of the Ministers as of an Army of Souldiers for experience taught her that those fasts were prognostick signes of ensuing tempests theire long prayers alsoe did not prove them to be Saints more then the like did sanctify the Pharasyes they bragged much of the spiritt but shew'd noe fruites therof these bee the fruites of the spiritt which Saint Paul recounts to the Galatians The fruite of Ad Galat. cap. 5. the spiritt saith hee is love joy peace long suffering Gentelnesse goodness Faith meekness c. This second Presbiterian â—eformation beganne with a prodigious abolishment of all holy things Mala arbor Malos fructus faciâ— 1. They condemned and cast downe Episcopacy this they doe whersoever they have power quite contrary to the Law of God for Episcopacy is de Iure Divino This order and degree they abhor'd as Tyrannicall and Anti-Christian yet Saint Paul writing to Timothey saith If a man desireth a Bishops Office hee desireth 1. Tim. cap. 3. a good thing The Apostle likewise affirmeth that Bishops are to Order Priests and Iudge them wherfore hee saith in his Epistle to Titus That hee left Ad Titum Cap. 1. him in Cret to Order Priestes by Cittys By this it is plaine and evident that
Poligamy to be lawfull and published soe much by writing to Henry the eight houlding his divorse from Queen Catharin unlawfull but withall proposed to the King that hee might lawfully at Melan. concilia Theologica printed 1600. p. 134. once with her take another wife Respondeo saith Melankton si vult Rex successioni prospicere quanto satius est id facere sine infamia Prioris conjugii ac potest id fieri sine ullo periculo Conscientiae câ—usquâ—m aut famae per poligamiam c. That is I answer if the King intends a divorse with his Queen Catharin for getting issue hee may doe that farre better and without infamy of the first Marriage and lawfully without danger of Conscience by Poligamy that is to say by taking another wife at once with her Jacobus Andreas otherwise named Smedelinus WAs Chancellor in the University of Tubing Luthers prime Scholler noe less esteemed in Germany then Calvin or Beza in Geneva in the Colloquie at Mompelgar hee encountered an overmatcht Beza yet the Lutherans themselves who magnify his learning say hee had noe God but Bacchus and Mamon Selnecerus his great frind and dayly Companion gave this Testimonie of his Piety that hee neuer pray'd goeing to to bedd nor rysing in the morning Sturmius a learned Calvanist chargeth him with the crimes of Adultery covetousness and robbing of the poor Zanchius saith hee was taken in a publick Zanch. in Epist printed 1609. lib. 2. pa. 240 Adultery Sall what a holy Doctor have you of this man Carolostadius ARch-Deacon of the Cathedrall of Wittembergh aman of a furious nature was the first Sacramentarian It was singular in him that being a Priest hee married in the year 1524. and a peculiare Mass was made and printed for the same which began thus Dixit Dominus Deus non est bonum hominem essâ— solum c. That is God said it is not good for a man to live alone The prayer Englished was O Lord which after soe long blindness of unmaried Priestes hath bestow'd soe great grace upon blessed Carolostadius as contemning the Popes Law hee hath presumed to take a wife bring to pass wee beseech thee that all other Priestes may follow his example The rest of the Mass you may see in Cochlaeus in the yeare 1525. This unhappy Carolostadius was soe persecuted by Luther as hee lived miserably in the Country and laboured like a poor Bore John Knox. A Scotchman and Apostata Maried Priest a Rebell and Boute-feux incendiary of the whole Nation and a Murtherer raised a Rebellion stirring up the nobles and common people agaist Queen Mary of Scotts his Soveraigne and against her vertuous Mother the Queen Regent of the Catholick and most famous house of Guise who dyed of Grief for the coming of Heresie into that Catholick Kingdome This man with a Rabble of Rebells deposed the Queen and laid the Crowne upon her Sons head King Iames the sixt afterwards King of England Grand-father to King Charles the second an Infant Infine the noble Queen sorely afflicted flying into England hopeing to be protected by her Kinswoeman Queen Elizabeth after a long Imprisonment was put to death by that cruell woeman This holy man Knox began his Reformation with the murther of Cardinall Betune Arch-Bishop of Saint Andrews in his owne Bed-Chamber and did afterward many bloody Tragicall things Notwithstanding all his villanys Calvin term'd him an excellent and reverend manâ— valiant Labourer in Christ his Church restorer of the Ghospell in Scotland and in the end of a letter to him writes Vale eximie vir ex animo colende Calvin in Epist responsss printed 1567. Frater And Beza writes thus Ioanni Knox Evangelii Dei apud Scotos instauratori fratri symmistae observando And in another place Magnus ille Ioannes Knox Scotorum in vero Dei cultu instaurandâ— velut Beza in Epist Theologicis printed anno 1573. Epist 74 pag. 333. alter Apostolus Heer mulus malum scabit Impious impure men praise an impure impious man The Protestant Bishop of Rochester in his Sermon at Pauls Cross gave a truer Discription of Knox calling him and Bucanan two fiery Spiritts of the Scotch Nation It is written that this wicked Knox was killd upon his bed by a Devill Sall Iudg you if this end show'd him to com from God Oecolumpadius A Brigittin Monk marryed a Nun was a fierce Sacramentarian the next after Carolostadius and after them Zwinglius who they dying bore the Bell and name of that Sect. This Oecolumpadius was a man of an unclean wicked life was found dead upon his bed kill'd by a Devill as Protestant writers attest and Luther among others Christopher Goodman AN Englishman a seditious ranck Goodman in his book how to Obay pag. 96. Rebell great Companion to Iohn Knox writing of Queen Mary of England speaks thus That wicked woeman Mary whom you would truly make your Queen c. And againe God hath not given an Hypocrit only to raigne over you but an Idolatress alsoe not a man but a woeman which his Law forbiddeth and nature abhorreth whose raigne was never counted lawfull by the Law of God c. Hee says againe This ungodly Serpent Mary hath joyned her selfe with Adulterous Phillip Sall is not this a Godly homily of obedience Goodman teacheth towards Soueraigness And is not Calvin your great Doctor of the English Church a great frind to Soueraignty whilest hee highly praises this scurrill Rebell You may obserue one thing how Goodman after Queen Mary dyed writt against his former opinion and acknowledged Queen Elizabeth to be lawfull Soueraigne of England and that the Law of God was not against her Goverment nor that the Law of Nature abhorr'd it hee call'd her not Idolatress or Serpent by which it is cleare and playne that this Rebellious knave writt only against Queen Mary being a Catholick whose title to the Crowne was clearer and better then that of Queen Elizabeth as all men know Hauing said thus much of the forementioned Hereticks and Reformers let us now examin what kinde of men those were that contrived the XXXIX Articles of the confession of England soe highly valued by Sall and preferred to true theorems of faith though many of them are condemned Heresies after vewing what they have done touching said XXXIX Articles you shall be able to Iudge of theire vices and vertues XIV CHAPTER A Narration of the English Religion and Reformers in King Edward the 6. Raigne THe Earle of Hartford the Kings Uncle newly created Duke of Summerset and Lord Protector of England a man neither fitt to govern nor to be governed his Iudgment being weak and himselfe very willfull and blindly resolute To his infamy and distruction hee made choyce of Dudlay Earle of Warwyck a man of great Iudgment and a deep dissembler to be his chief assistant and director both in Church and in state affaires who was his greatest Enemy which Summersett had not witt
other was a home-bred man native of our owne parts unlearned but witty hee had beene in the Order of Priest-hood when hee dy'd 70. years they said hee was a Queen Mary Priest I came to him upon his dying-bed in November 1639. and did my best to bring him to a true beliefe and used to that effect obliging tearmes as I conceiu'd I earnestly desired him to make a sound Act of Contrition and confesse his sins penitently for reconciling himselfe to God I told him hee was not taken for an Heretick but for one that willfully went out of the Church and forsook his Master not for feare as Peeter did but to live with a woeman in Lust and Sacriledge and to injoy the pleasures and commodityes of the World notwithstanding all this I told him I would ingage my Soule under God for his Salvation if hee would then turne to God and true Faith with a true Repentance for his sinnes and have harty Contrition I pray'd him to think on the good theefe that lived wickedly untill his last Houre and yet when hee said even then with repentance and love Domine memento mei dum veneris in Regnum tuum hee heard that comfortable voyce of mercifull Iesus Hodie mecum eris in Paradiso I did all I was able to doe and wept bitter tears to see if I could gaine this Soule and peerce his stony hart but all in Vaine for hee gave mee noe good answer but very hard words and cal'd mee Hypocrit and what not his words did not trouble mee but the dispairing state of the mans Soule gave mee great Affliction of minde At length I told him in severe words that I would arise against him in the day of Iudgment to give Testimony of his rejecting Gods Grace offered him at that tyme for sauing his Soule what was the ende of my sincere Exhortation Prayers and Tears the man roaring out and speaking impious words turn'd his face to the Wale and even in that Instant lost his witts God knows with how sad a hart I parted from him one of his Daughters a Catholick that liu'd with him came to mee weeping and crying O Reverend Father what of my Father will hee come of I have seen him said shee often saying his Canonicall Houres and did use to hide his Breviary in a secret place I replyed your Father hath willfully violated his holy Vowes hee hath liu'd in Sinne and Sacriledge aboue 64. yeares hee hath deserted God and all Godliness and God hath I may well feare it abandoned him in this tyme of his departure out of the world The miserable man dyed within some Houres after sencless and this was his end Think well Sall if it is not your neare concern to consider seriously and deeply of the evill end of these two wicked Apostata's Secundum Punctum THis Author further said it was observed that Protestants who imbraced the Catholick Faith made change of lives and manners for the better that they mortify'd theire Bodys Fasted and Prayd were meek humble continent and charitable especially those that took Priest-hood became rare examples of Piety and all kind of Vertue and soe lived in the feare of God and in soe great Charity toward all men that Catholicks took great Joy and delight in theire Conversation and glorify'd God in theire Conversion and Protestants in theire change confessed they had cause of Admiration Tertium Punctum THe Author said alsoe hee had heard of some Protestants that dying demaunded a Catholick Priest to helpe them to dye in the Roman Catholick Faith But hee never understood of any that lived Catholicks who dying caled for a Protestant Minister to helpe them dye and make a happy end in the Protestant Religion Sall though you are a Learned man for such I take you to bee and haue read much and taught Diuinity for soe many years I doe not think you shall make any loss of tyme in pondering duly these three graue points and obseruations of this Protestant learned Author The seventh and last Advertisment OLIM POSSIDEO PRIOR POSSIDEO The Roman Catholicks strong defence against the Claime of all kinde of Hereticks and theire Attempts I Shall borrow much of what will be said in this Advertisment out of the Author of PROTESTANCY WITHOVT PRINCIPELS c. The strong Arguments of that learned man shall serve for a Wale and Ramper to this my little Treatise from men of my decaying age high and great things can not bee expected wee must then have them from our Neightours to him it will be some honour that I make use of his Learning and discourse and to mee noe kinde of disgrace both of us ayming at the same mark or Butt the pure Glory of God Quia ambo predicamus Christum Crucifixum Prime Cor. cap. 1. Nor have wee beene at any tyme esteemed by those that know us men gaping after winde and Vanity Now to my purpose 1 Before all I would have my Reader suppose as realy hee should that Luther and his Associats once Roman Catholicks separated themselves from the Communion of the ancient Church which gave them Baptisme about the year 1517. 2. It is as evident that the Protestants of England following Luther and his Sectaryes uphold still and stifly defend that actuall Separation as a Necessary Lawfull fact and well done 3. It is noe less cleare that as Luther when hee first began his Revolt from the Church stood all alone without joyning himselfe with any visible Society of Christians soe it is now as manifest that our Protestants to this day stand alsoe as a Solitary Society alone owning noe Fellowship Union or Communication of Liturgies Rites or Sacraments with any Church through the Universall World they forsake Catholicks they forsake Grecians Armeâ—ians Abyssins Arians Nestoriâ—ns Ruthemans Socinians and all the rest of Christians wherfore if euer Scisme was in the World or can be possibly conceived Protestants are most evidently guilty of a formall Separation from all other Christian Churches and consequently are formall Separators or in plaine tearms Scismaticks I pray did not Cromwell and his bands runn into a Rebellion why soe because with those that follow'd him hee shaked of all Obedience to the King and to the Lawes of the Land hee contemned the Goverment and made himselfe and his party a Body by themselves a Body apart and though hee gayned all the Cittys and Townes inslaved Free-men and acted the worst Treason Imaginable by putting to death his Leage-Lord and Soveraigne noe man for all this can affirme that this great power hee had and soe many years enjoy'd exempted him from of the Title of a Traytor actually in Rebellion Unlawfull power and violence cannot justify Rebellion and Treason This is our very case England all the World knowes once owned the Pope of Rome not only for the first Patriarch but alsoe supreme head of the Vniversall Church It admitted of this Churche's Discipline and Law and yielded Obedience to it It communicated