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A15431	Tetrastylon papisticum, that is, The foure principal pillers of papistrie the first conteyning their raylings, slanders, forgeries, vntruthes: the second their blasphemies, flat contradictions to scripture, heresies, absurdities: the third their loose arguments, weake solutions, subtill distinctions: the fourth and last the repugnant opinions of new papistes with the old; of the new one with an other; of the same writers with themselues: yea of popish religion with and in it selfe. Compiled as a necessarie supplement or fit appertinance to the authors former worke, intituled Synopsis papismi: to the glorie of God for the dissuading of light-minded men from trusting to the sandie foundation of poperie, and to exhort good Christians stedfastlie to hold the rockie foundation of faith in the Gospell.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1593 (1593)	STC 25701; ESTC S119967	179,229	213

negligendi sunt tamen vt pereant Though we feare them not to hurt vs yet they must not be neglected and suffered to be lost As for their ring-leaders and sect-maisters our counsell also to them is that they would learne at the length to giue place to the trueth Augustine said of some Heretikes Puto quòd ipse diabolus si authoritate iudicis quem ipse elegerat toties vinceretur nō esset tam impudens vt in ea causa persisteret I thinke if the deuill had beene so often ouercome before a Judge of his owne choosing hee would not bee so impudent as to persist still in an euill cause But our aduersaries haue bene often vanquished euen by their owne iudges the testimonies of auncient writers and consent of antiquitie and yet for all this will not yeld Well as one saith Non oramus vt moriantur inimici sed vt corrigantur sic mortui erunt inimici iam enim correcti non amplius erunt inimici Wee desire not that our enimies were dead but amended and so our enimies shoulde bee deade for beeing once amended and corrected they would no longer bee our enemies There are other also of our countrimen who though not so far gone as the other yet are not sufficiently grounded in knowledge or setled in iudgement to be able to discerne betweene the truth errour Qui breuia non valent intelligere prolixa non amant legere Who can neither vnderstand briefe matters nor will abide to read long for their sakes also haue I compiled this treatise neither verie long to worke vnwillingnesse nor yet too shorte to hinder vnderstanding But euen as they which haue tender etes do not first behold the sunne but the fire or the starres or some such like and then turne them to looke vppon the sunne so must wee deale with these men Gradibus perducendi adsūma sunt By degrees they must be brought to vnderstande the higher points For their cause cheifly haue I vndertaken this labour that they which are not able to conceiue the chiefe matters in question yet may safelie take knowledge of the nakednesse and poorenesse of our aduersaries cause Concerning my selfe also some what there was which in this respect induced me to sei hand to this plough for as he saith Vt discamus inuitare nos debet suauitas veritatis vt doceamus cogere debet necessitas charitatis As the pleasantnes of the truth doth entise vs to learne so the bond of charitie should vrge vs to teach And the rather considering that now is the time or not farre off wherein the fall of Babylon is to bee expected and looked for according to the prophesie in the Reuelation Euerie man that beareth hatred to the scarlet and bloodthirstie whore ought to shewe his readinesse in defacing and pulling downe the Kingdome of Antichrist As Christian Kinges and Princes then by their sacred authoritie haue begunne for their part to lay Babylon wast so is it our part to discouer her nakednes they are the Lordes Captaines to slay the enemie wee his watch men to descrie the enemies comming They with battaile canons and engins do batter the walles wee come with ropes of argument and perswasion to pull downe the towers They fight with Sauls sword and put on his kingly armour wee must assault Goliah with Dauids sling stones out of the brook The text saith they shal make the whore desolate and naked eate her flesh and consume her with fire It is our part to strip her and make her naked and shew her filthines by the word of God to descrie their corruptions Then commeth the Christian magistrate and eateth her flesh and burneth it with fire that is draweth out the sword of Iustice after them Now in the last place vnto your honor I briefly direct my speech vnto whome I do consecrate and deuote these labours of mine as a signe of my thankefulnes and a pledge of further duety to your honor as also vnto one who him selfe is able to iudge of these matters neither is it the least part of your honors studie care to be throughly acquainted with the cōtrouersies of Religion as it is most meete honourable personages should be Themistocles as Augustine reporteth it did not care that he was counted somewhat rude because he could not sing to the pipe at feastes interrogatus quid sciret respondit rempublicam ex paruamagnā facere It was enough for him to know how to enlarge the commonwealth of a little one to make it greater so may I say it belongeth chiefly to Christian Magistrates scire Religionem ex paruamagnam facere to know how to enlarge and propagate Religion and to cause the Gospell to flourish The Lord hath aduaunced you to this seate of honor for promotion as the Psalmist saith neither commeth from the East nor from the West but it is the Lord that setteth vp one and pulleth downe another The chiefe husbandman hath planted you as part of an hedge to keepe his vineyard your honor now is in place to profite the Church of God greatly in aduauncing of learning in helping to furnish the Lordes haruest with plenty of labourers in encouraging the workemen of Gods house whose bandes doe hang downe and their knees waxe feeble There are many in this land who would gladly be set a woorke and can not whose outward wantes doe slake their inward desire for that olde saying is most true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is no such heauie clogge as pouertie is And the Poet spake by good experience haud facilè emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi You Right Honorable with the rest as one well saith pugnatis contra visibiles inimicos nos pro vobis contra inuisibiles your honors by sage counsell and aduise fight against our visible enemies but we fight for your by our studie and praiers against the spirituall and inuisible Let therefore the souldiers of this spirituall warfare be encouraged still cherished and made strong to fight their battailes lustely The Lord hath now made your honor a captaine to leade his souldiers into battaile and to set them in aray Augustine writeth well vpon those wordes Prouerb 31. 19. She putteth her handes to the wherue her handes handle the spindle opus tuum in fuso sit non in colo in colo enim est quod facturus es in fuso quod fecisti Let thy worke be in the spindle not in the distaffe that is in the distaffe which thou maiest doe hereafter that is in the spindle which thou hast alreadie done So when God bestoweth vpon a man honor riches authoritie omnia ist a in colo sunt transeant ad fusum These things are yet vpon the distaffe let them be spunne out and turned vpon the spindle But your worke I trust Right Honourable is alreadie in Fuso not in Colo and wee hope that vnto your good beginnings you

them Math. 18. 20. Ergo it belongeth to the Pope to cal and congregate coūcels for to be assembled in the name of Christ is nothing else but to be gathered together by the popes authoritie which he hath receiued from Christ Bellarm. de concil lib. 1. cap. 12. So by this reason if two or three of the faithfull meete together in the feare of God Christ wil not be present vnlesse they haue the popes leaue to come together Christ said to Peter Put vp thy swoord into the scabberd Ergo the pope hath both swordes Harding ex Iuel pag. 579. A simple argument Peter was rather rebuked for striking with the swoord then commaunded to vse it The Church that is at Babylon saluteth you 1. Pet. 5. 13. Ergo Peter was at Rome for by Babylon here he meaneth Rome Bellarm. lib. 2. de pontif cap. 2. A silly argument to prooue Peters being at Rome he was at Babylō Ergo at Rome yet by their owne confession Rome is Babylon which is the seate of Antichrist Your faith is published through the whole world Rom. 1. 5. Ergo the Church of Rome can not erre Rhemist ibid. So S. Paule saith of the Church of the Thessalonians Your faith is spred abroad into all quarters 1. Epist. 1. 8. Ergo neither could their Church erre in faith God tooke of the spirit that was in Moses and gaue it among the 70. Elders Num. 11. 16. Ergo Bishops haue their authoritie from the pope Bellarm. Ans. The pope might rather chalenge to be Aarons successor who was the high priest then Moses And hath the pope then such abundance of the spirit of God that he can afoord a portion thereof to all the Bishops in the world and yet keepe enough for himselfe Melchisedech was both King and Priest Ergo the pope is also a temporall prince Bellarm. lib. 5. de Rom. pontif cap. 9. This argument beside that it hath no sequele at al containeth blasphemic for Melchisedech was onelye a type and figure of the spiritual kingdom and priesthood of Christ as the Apostle maketh the application Hebr. 7. Then beganne men to call vpon the name of the Lord Gen. 4. 26. Ergo there were Monkes before the flood Bellar. de Monach. lib. 1. cap. 5. Suffer little children to come vnto me Math. 19. Ergo young men and children may be made Monkes Bellarm. de Mon●ch lib. 2. cap. 35. God said to Abraham Go out from thy kinred and from thy fathers house Gen. 12. 1. forget thine owne people and thy fathers house Psal. 25. 10. Ergo it is lawfull for children without their parentes consent to enter into profession of Monkerie Bellarm. ibid. cap. 36. Nowe for purgatorie which they imagine to be a place of temporall torment after this life they reason thus out of scripture The prophet Dauid saith Lorde rebuke me not in thine anger nor chastise me in thy wrath Psal. 38. 1. Wee went through fire and water Psal. 66. 12. Who shall abide the day of his comming for hee is like a purging fire and as fullers sope Malach. 3. 2. Ergo there is a purgatorie fire after this life These arguments are too vaine for children As though where the Scripture speaketh of fire it must needs bee vnderstood of purgatorie fire whereas the prophet Dauid by water and fire vnderstandeth the afflictions of the Church and the Pophet Malachie the day of the Lords visitation The like pithie argumentes they ground out of the newe Testament as Math. 5. 22. Hee that is angry with his brother is culpable of iudgement hee that saith Racha shall bee iudged by a Councell Luke 23. the thiefe vppon the crosse sayd to Christ Remember mee when thou commest into thy kingdome Act. 2. 24. whom God hath raysed vp and loosed the sorrowes of hell as they read for it was impossible for him to be holden of it Ergo there is a purgatorie after this life Bellarm. de purgator lib. 1. cap. 4. loc 5. 7. 8. These bee their goodly arguments which if they prooue any thing do insinuate thus much that Christes kingdome is purgatorie as in the second place and that Christ himselfe was in purgatorie as it followeth by their collection out of the third place alledged And that a man for a rash word speaking shall be tormented in purgatorie which they say exceedeth all the paines and punishments of this life as out of the first place The like argumentes they haue for purgatorie drawen from prophane authoritie as from the Turkes Alcaron out of Plato in Gorgia out of Cicero in somnio Scip●onis and Uirgils Aeneads and last of all flames of fire doe breake foorth from the great hil Aetna and out of other places ergo there must needs be a purgatory Bellarm. cap. 7. 11. Are not these substantial arguments to ground a mans faith vpon for Bellarmine sayth it is an article of fayth to beleeue purgatorie and that hee which beleeueth it not is sure to goe to hell Lib. 1. de purgat cap. 11. Thus the vnbeleeuing Turkes the heathen philosophers and poetes are become maisters of Christian mens fayth Christ raysed Lazarus from the dead Ioh. 11. the rulers daughter Mat. 9. the widowes sonne Luk. 7. Ergo Wee ought also to pray for the deade Bellarm. lib. 2. de purgat cap. 15. Rom. 2. 7. To them which continue in weldoing glorie honor and immortalitie Ergo Saintes are to bee worshipped Bellarm. de Sanctor beatitud lib. 1. cap. 13. argum 7. Moses prayeth thus Remember O Lord Abraham Isaac Israel thy seruantes Exod. 32. Iob sayth haue pitie vpon me O my friends Iob. 19. 21. Ergo wee may and ought make our prayers vnto Saintes Bellar. ibid. cap. 19. these argumentes doe rather mooue laughter then minister any matter worthy of confutation The Israelites were commanded to strike the bloode of the Paschal Lambe vpon the two side postes of the doore and the vpper doore post Exod. 12. 7. Iacob laying his handes a crosse did blesse Iosephs sonnes Gen. 48. Apocalyps 14. 1. hauing his fathers name written in their foreheades this is the signe of the crosse Ergo it is an holy and venerable signe Bellarm. de imaginib Sanctor lib. 2. cap. 29. Is not this well reasoned for the crosse The Israelites were commaunded thrise a yeare to go vp to Ierusalem Deuteron 16. Christ went vp with his mother and Iosepth to Hierusalem Luk. 2. Paule made hast to go vp to Ierusalem to keepe the feast of Penticost Act. 20. Ergo now also Christians may go in pilgrimage to Ierusalem and to the holy Land Bellarm. de cult sanctor lib. 3. cap. 8. Thus we learne a new point of popish diuinitie that our sauiour Christ and the Apostles went in pilgrimage Whereas Christ him selfe saith the contrarie The time commeth when ye shall neither in this mountaine nor in Ierusalem worship the father Iohn 4. 23. This agreeth with an other popish tale that Christ came in pilgrims weede to S. Gregories table