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A14430	The golden treatise of the auncient and learned father Vincentius Lirinensis. For the antiquitie, and vniuersalitie, of the Catholicke religion: against the prophane nouelties of all heresies: newly translated into English by A.P. Verie profitable for all such as desire in these dangerous times, to imbrace the true Gospell of Iesus Christ, and to remaine free from all infectio[n] of false doctrine as in the preface more at large is declared; Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate libellus. English	Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.; A. P., fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 24748; ESTC S119131	43,517	126

that we say that whē our Lordes flesh was made whē our Lords body was framed that the very word of God was made the very wisdome of God was replenished with created knowledge as in the foresight of God His hands feet are said to be digged Psa 21. Frō this vnitie of person I say it procedeth by reason of like mistery that whē the flesh of the word of God was borne of his pure immaculate morher we do most Catholickly beleeue that God him selfe the Word was borne of the Virgin and most impiously the contrarie is maintained Which being so god forbid that any one should go about to depriue the holy Virgin MARY of her priuiledges of gods fauour as her especiall glorie For she is by the singuler grace of our Lord and God her sonne to be confessed most truely and most blessed to haue bene the mother of God but yet not in such sorte as an impious hereticke imagine and suspecte who affirme that she is to be reputed in name only and appellation the mother of God as she forsoth which brought forth that man which afterwarde became God as we say such a woman is the mother of a Priest or Bishoppe not because she brought him that then was either Priest or Bishop but by generating that man which afterwarde was made a Priest or Bishoppe not in that manner I say the blessed Virgin is to be called the mother of God but rather because as haue bene saide that most holy misterie was finished in her sacred wombe which by reason of a singuler and one onely vnitie of person as the Word in flesh is flesh so man in God is God CHAP. IX BVT now what hath already bene said towching the foresaid heresies or concerning the Catholicke faith let vs in few wordes and compēdiously for memorie sake repeate them ouer againe that therby with more facilitie they may be vnderstoode with more suretie retained Accursed therfore be Photinus not admitting the fulnes of the Trinitie and affirming our Sauiour Christ to haue bene only man Accursed be Appollinaris maintaining in Christ corruption of changed diuinitie and bereauing him of the proprietie of perfect humanity Accursed be Nestorius denying God to haue bene borne of a virgin teaching two Christes and so abandoninge the faith of the Trinitie bringing in a quaternitie But blessed be the Caholicke Church which adoreth one God in perfecte Trinitie and likewise worshippeth equalitie of Trinitie in one diuinity so that neither singularitie of substance cōfoundeth proprietie of persons nor distinctiō of Trinitie seperateth vnitie of deitie Blessed I say be the Church which beleeueth in Christ two true and perfect substances but one only person so that neither distinction of natures doth deuide the vnitie of person nor vnitie of person doth confound the difference of substances Blessed I say be the Church which to th end she may cōfesse Christ alwaies to be and to haue bene one acknowledgeth man vnited to God not after our Ladies deliuery but euen then in his mothers wombe Blessed I say bee the Church which vnderstandeth God made man not by any conuersion of nature but by reason and meanes of person and not that a fained and transitorie person but substantially subsisting permanent Blessed I say be the Church which teach that this vnitie of person hath so great force that by reason therof by a misterie strange and ineffable she ascribeth vnto man the proprieties of God attributeth to God the proprieties of man For by reason of this vnitie of person she confesseth that man as he was God descended from Heauen and God as he was man was made vpon earth suffered was Crucified Blessed therfore is that venerable happie and sacred confession and cōparable to those supernall praises of the Angells which glorifieth one Lorde God with triple sanctification For this is the principal reason why the Church teacheth the vnitie of Christ least otherwise she should exceed the misterie of the Trinitie And let this suffice touchinge this matter spoaken by way of digression hereafter if it please God I will intreate and declare these pointes more copiously Now to returne to our former purpose CHAP. X. We haue said in the premisses that in the Church of God the error of the master is a great tentation to the people and the more learned he were that erred so much the greater was the tentation Which we shewed first by the authority of holy scripture afterward by the examples ecclesiasticall of those men which for some time reputed accounted sound in faith yet at last fell either in some other mans error or else coined a new heresie of their owne This surely is a greate matter profitable to be learned and necessarie to be remēbred which once again we must inculcate make plaine by greater store of exāples that almost all Catholickes may know that with the Church they ought to receiue Doctors and not with the Doctors to forsake the faith of the Church But I am of this opinion that although I could bring forth many to shewe this kinde of tentation yet there is almost none which can be compared to the tentation of Origen in whom were verie many giftes so rare so singuler so strange that in the begining any wold haue thought that his opinions might haue bene beleued of all men For if life procureth authoritie he was a man of great industrie of great chastititie patience labour if familie or learning who more noble being of that house which was honorable for martyrdome him selfe afterward for Christ depriued not of father only but also spoiled of all his patrimonie so much he profited in the misteries of holy pouertie that as it is reported for the confession of Christes name he often indured much affliction Neither was he only adorned with these giftes all which afterward serued for tentation but was indued also with force of witte so profound so quicke so delicate that he far excelled almost all other whatsoeuer A man of such wonderfull learning erudition that there were few things in Diuinitie in humane Philosophie haplye nothing which he had not perfectly attained who hauing gotten the treasures of the greeke tongue laboured also about the hebrew And for his eloquence what should I speake of whose talke was so pleasant so delectable so sweet that in mine opinion not wordes but honie flowed from his mouth What thinges were so hard to beleeue which with force of argument he made not plaine what so difficulte to bring to passe which he made not to seeme easie But perchance he maintained his assertions by arguments only Nay without question there was neuer any Doctor which vsed more examples of sacred scripture But yet happelie he wrote not much No man liuing more yea so much that in mine opinion all his workes are so far from being read ouer that they can not possiblie all be found who not to lacke anie furtherance to learning liued also vntill

Apostles censure deterreth For all men know how grauely how seuerely how seriously the blessed Apostle S. PAVL inueigheth against certaine which with Gal. 8 great leuitie Were so soone transferred from him that called them into the grace of Christ vnto another Gospell which is not an other That had heaped vp to thē 2. Tim. 4 selues masters according to their owne desires auerting their eares from truth being conuerted to fables Hauing damnation because they haue made voide their 1. Tim. 5. first faith Whom those men had deceaued of whom the same Apostle in his epistle to the Romanes thus writeth I beseech you brethren to marke thē that make dissentions and scandalls contrarie Ram. 16. to the doctrine which you haue learned and auoide them for such doe not serue Christ our Lorde but theire owne bellie And by sweet speaches and benedictions seduce the hartes of Innocents That enter into houses and lead captiue seelie women 2 Tim. 3 loaden with sinnes which are lead away with diuers desires alwaies learning and neuer attaining to the knowledge of trewth Vaine speakers and seducers who subuert wholle houses teaching Tit. 1 the thinges they ought not for filthy lucre Men corrupt in their minde reprobates concerning the faith Proud 2. Tim. 3 and knowing nothing but languishing about questions and strife of wordes that are depriued of the truth that esteeme a 1. Tim. 6. 1. Tim. 5. gaine to be pietie And with all idle they learne to go from house to house not only idle but also full of wordes and curious speaking thinges which they ought not 1. Tim. 1. Which repelling a good conscience haue made shipwracke about the faith Whose prophane speaches do much grow to impietie and their speach spreadeth as a cancre But that is also worth the noting which is written of them But they shall 2 Tim. 2. 2. Tim. 3. prosper no further for their follie shall be manifest to all as theirs also was When therfore such kind of men wandering vp and downe through Prouinces and cities to set their errors to sale came also vnto the Galathians who after they had heard thē and were delighted with the filthie druges of heretiall Nouelty casting vp againe the heauenly Manna of the Apostolicke and Catholicke doctrine The Apostle vsed his authoritie decreeing very seuerely in this sort But although we quoth he or an Angel from heauen euangelize vnto you beside Gal. 1. Euangelize signifieth such preaching of good tidings as cōcerneth the gospell Anathema signifieth accursed be he that which we haue enangelized be he Anathema What meaneth this that he sayeth But although we why did he not rather say But although I That is to say although Peter although Andrew although Iohn yea finally al though the wholle companie of the Apostles euangelize vnto you otherwise then we haue enangelized be he accur sed A terrible censure for maintaining the possession of the first faith not to haue spared him selfe nor any other of the Apostles But this is a small matter Although an Angell from heauē quoth he Euangelize vnto you beside that which I haue Euangelized be he Anathema he was not contented for keeping the faith once planted to make mention of mans weake nature vnlesse also he included those excellent creatures of Angells Although we qhoth he or an Angell from heauen not because the holy Angells of Heauen can now sinne but this is the meaning of that he saith Although quoth he that might be which cannot be whosoeuer he be that goeth about to change the faith which was once planted be he accursed But peraduenture he vttered those words slightly and cast thē forth rather of humane affection then decreed them by any reason grounded in Gods word God forbid For it followeth and that very earnestly vrged very often repeated As I haue foretold you quoth he now againe I tell you If any body euangelize vnto you beside that which you haue receaued be he Anathema He said not if any man preach vnto you beside that which you haue receaued let him be blessed let him be commended let him be receaued but Anathema that is separated thrust out excommunicated least the cruell infection of one sheepe with his poisoned company corrupt the sound flocke of Christ But peraduenture this was giuen in commaundement only to the Galathians then likewise were these precepts folowing commaunded only to the Galathians to weete If vve liue Gal. 5. in the spirite in the spirite also lett vs vvalke lett vs not be made desirouse of vaine glorie prouoking one an other enuying one an other and such like which if it be absurd to say no man doubteth but that they were indifferently commaunded to all then certaine it is that as these precepts touching maners include all so likewise those concerning faith and doctrine exclude none And therfore as it is not lawfull for any to prouoke one another to enuie one another euen so it is vnlawfull for any to admitt or to receaue any other faith or religion then that which the Catholicke Church euery where teacheth or haply shal we be so mad to say that thē it was commaunded to curse and anathematize him that preached any otherwise then before had beene preached that now it is not cōmaunded then was that likewise which is there saide But I say walke in the spirite and you shall not fulfill the desires of the flesh then only cōmaunded but now is not which if it be impious and dangerous so to beleeue then of necessitie it followeth that as these precepts of life manners are to be kept of all ages so likewise those set downe against innouating of religion changing of faith are cōmaunded to all posteritie wherfore to preach vnto Christian Catholicke men besids that which they haue receaued neuer was lawfull no where is lawfull at no time shall be lawfull And on the contrarie to say Anathema and curse those which teach otherwise then once hath bene receaued was at all times needful is euery where conuenient euer shall be requisite Which being so is there any man either so bold that dare teach that which in the Church hath not bene taught or of such leuitie that will receaue ought besides that which he hath receiued of the Church Let that vessell of election that maister of the Gentiles that trumpe of the Apostles that preacher of the world he that was acquainted with heauenly affaires crie out and againe crie out in his epistles to all men to all times to all places that whosoeuer preacheth a new doctrine is to be accursed And on the contrarie parte let certaine frogges corruptible gnates and flies such as the Pelagians be reclaime and that to Catholickes Wee being your authors quoth they we being your leaders we being your interpreters condemne that which before you did hold hold that which before you condemned Cast away your olde faith your forefathers lawes your elders constitutions