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A15419	Loidoromastix: that is, A scourge for a rayler containing a full and sufficient answer vnto the vnchristian raylings, slaunders, vntruths, and other iniurious imputations, vented of late by one Richard Parkes master of Arts, against the author of Limbomastix. VVherein three hundred raylings, errors, contradictions, falsifications of fathers, corruptions of Scripture, with other grosse ouersights, are obserued out of the said vncharitable discourse, by Andrevv Willet Professor of Diuinitie.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 25693; ESTC S120028	176,125	240

to faith artic 10. that workes done before the grace of Christ are not pleasant to God artic 13. workes of supererogation can not be taught without arrogancie and impietie artic 14. they are to be cōdemned which say they can no more sunne as long as they liue here artic 16. The Slaunderer then himselfe and his adherents are those that condemne the doctrine of the Church 8. He chargeth the Replyer with heresie tending to Atheisme pref p. 5. it is to be feared least in time you become as bad members to the Church of England as they that is the Anabaptists were to the Church of Germanie 2. b. p. 8. there were certaine omnifidians c. who held the like opinion as you doe of which number was one Appelles who affirmed that it was needelesse to discusse the particulars of faith 2. b. p. 90. he calleth his exposition of some places of Scripture which he tearmeth misconstruction hereticall 2. b. p. 91. blasphemous p. 92. These imputations of heresie blasphemie Anabaptisme are most vile and pestilent slanders so is this that the Replyer is burthened to hold an implicite faith p. 91. and that it is needelesse to discusse the particulars of faith whereas he directly holdeth the contrarie condemning els where the Popish implicite and simple faith he onely wisheth that seeing we all hold the foundation the peace of the Church be not broken in contending about the manner of Christs discension Limbom p. 5. 9. Slaunder That he bitterly exclaimeth against the whole state of the Church 1. b. p. 10. reuiueth clamorous inuectiues their heads plotting and their hands practising Babylonian warres they can not auoide the name of dissemblers in the Church of England nor yet disturbers of it p. 18. his petition and complaint are in plaine English nothing els but a bitter inuectiue against the doctrine and discipline of the Church glossed with flatterie and gilded with hypocrisie 2. b. p. 19. that they thought his Maiestie would erect the Genevian Consistorie or Scottish Presbyterie p. 23. and change the state of religion ibid. the picture of a discontented if not turbulent spirit p. 29. he rebelleth against the Church p. 31. those whome you call reuerend Fathers you vouchsafe them no sonne-like obedience p. 68. All these are most vntruly obiected 1. to complaine of some abuses of the Church is not to exclaime against the Church the late Canons and Constitutions of the Church doe shew that many things had neede of amendment and reformation in the Church 2. what reuerent opinion the Replyer hath of the Gouernours of the Church is before shewed slaund 6. 3. how farre he is from a turbulent spirit God he knoweth and some of the greatest place in the Church can tell how his courses haue tended to a pacification in the Church A more vile slaunderous tongue I think hath seldome beene heard to speake 10. Slaund The Kings most excellent Maiestie can not escape the Taint of his intemperate tongue for whereas his grace saith that he acknowledgeth the Romane Church to be our mother Church it is saith Limbomastix a foolish conceit and imagination he maketh him a very nouice in the faith 2. b. p. 28. In these foule slaunders he doth bewray nothing else but to vse his owne tearmes falshood and malice 1. Is it like that the Replyer had the least imagination to crosse his Maiesties speech when as the booke which the slaunderer quoteth was published ann 1603. about the time of his Maiesties coronation in the moneth of Iulie and the Kings oration followed aboue sixe moneths after in the moneth of March what an absurd collection is this 2. But this slanderous obiecter doth his Maiestie the wrong to suppose that he is contrarie to himselfe for his Maiestie holdeth the Pope to be Antichrist and to be the head of a false and hypocriticall Church is he so shamelesse to imagine that his Maiestie thinketh a false and hypocriticall Church to be our mother it is cleare then that the King in acknowledging the Romane Church to be our mother meaneth not the Popish Church as it now standeth but that sometime while it stood in the integritie it was our mother Church that is a principall and chiefe church where the Patriarchall seat was of the Occidentall parts for these are his Maiesties owne words I acknowledge the Romane Church to be our mother Church although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions as the Iewes were when they crucified Christ. The Church of Rome is no otherwise then our mother Church then the Church of the Iewes was of our Sauiour Christ and the Apostles 3. Neither yet is it in the place giuen in instance called a foolish conceit to say that the Romane Church is our mother which in the Kings sense being admitted yet as he blindly taketh it will be denied but that Rome should be the mother Church and nurserie of all the world the Accuser then himselfe is found to be a falsifier and slaunderer 4. Yea it is his owne intemperate tongue the taint whereof his Maiestie can not escape whereas he calleth diuers points of doctrine true and sound positions 2. b. p. 20. some of which are before set downe slaund 7. which his Maiestie in his iudgement condemneth the King affirmeth that all which is necessarie to saluation is contained in the Scripture that no man is able to keepe the law or any part thereof that we are saued by beleeuing not by doing that whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne that we can not thinke any thing of our selues and consequently that we are not apt of our selues to beleeue the contrarie positions to all these with others this cauillous aduersarie calleth sound and true positions as that the Scriptures of themselues are not compleat to saluation that it is not impossible in this life to be preserued from all sinne and so consequently to keepe the law that our workes and so not onely faith and beleeuing are meanes to blot out sinne that naturall workes are acceptable to God euen such as are without faith that mans will is apt to take or refuse any particular obiect and consequently to beleeue Then in this slaunderous excepters opinion the King holdeth vnsound and vntrue positions the contrarie whereof he calleth sound and true positions and thus he thwarteth not onely the doctrine of the Church in the articles of religion as is before shewed 7. slaund but his Maiesties iudgement also see more of this pref to Antilog p. 4. 5. But the other obiection is friuolous and childish that the Replyer maketh him a Novice in the faith affording his Highnes onely a liuely feeling and inward touch thereof for 1. he addeth onely deceitfully of his owne the Replyers wordes are these as God hath endued his princely heart with a liuely feeling and inward touch of true religion 2. he bewraieth his carnall and grosse ignorance in

imposed and therefore they containe no vniust calumniation but a due castigation or reprehension is not he a secret Censor that censureth other mens priuate writings and bringeth them to publike view a maintainer of ●imbus I haue prooued him before in the Preface and therefore a masking Mummer he is that hideth his face and ratleth his boxe full of counters in stead of siluer and gold winding in an errour and counterfeit opinion for sound doctrine He therefore that speaketh the truth reuileth not as Hierome well saith vsing those words of the Apostle inimicus factus sum tibi vera dicens Am I become your enemie speaking the truth 3. All this beeing vttered in generall no person beeing named nor discouered not so much as the man in the moone sheweth that he doth but barke at his owne shadow for a generall and indefinite reprehension is no defamation as that Imperiall law saith Verba generalia vt quis vitam reformet non infamant generall wordes that one should reforme his life doe not defame But what doe I tell him of Imperiall laws whose element and trade reacheth no further then to giue lawes to petites and schoole-boies The Recrimination Now this vntrue imputation of rayling is iustly returned vpon his owne head who for his gracelesse facilitie that waies is worthie to carrie the bell of all scurrilous writers not the Popish Iudasites and Seminarie sectaries excepted that haue abused their penne that way Thus therefore he barketh and belcheth out his stinking and indigested stuffe 1. Like a madde dogge he snatcheth pref p. 5. 2. I cannot but condemne your prauitie in so wilfull peruerting it euen contrarie to your owne conscience 2. b. p. 4. 3. You adde malice to falshood p. 5. 4. It argueth meere malice without matter p. 6. 5. His malecontented impatience p. 17. 6. he counteth the author of Limbomastix both a foole p. 27. and a goose p. 28. 7. rather Ismaelites in faction then Israelits in faith p. 18. 8. in this Calender of Saint-seeming Nocents Limbomastix hath canonized himselfe p. 19. 9. he vseth the like parasiticall preoccupation to currie fauour p. 24. 10. there is neither truth nor modesty in your words p. 34 11. he calleth him a lier applying these words mendax raro memor p. 38. that he properly belieth him 3. b. 127. 12. no Sophister but your selfe p. 39. 13. it is but the suggestion of malice p. 40. 14. prooueth nothing els but presumptuous boldnes p. 44. 15. which for want of true knowledge you reiect with malice p. 47. 16. past the bounds of modestie p. 53. 17. he obiecteth also impudencie ibid. 18. where veritie is banished modestie is expulsed p. 56. 19. as in pretending charity you should defame all Christianitie p. 64. 20. he obiecteth vnchristian if not Machivellian policie p. 79. 21. Thus Machivellian dissimulation is Christian policie with you p. 82. 22. it is little better then infidelitie p. 86. Falshood attended with contradiction and absurditie p. 3. 23. as you beganne with falshoode you meane to continue p. 32. 24. it is both false and calumnious p. 87. 25. you would falsly insinuate ibid. 26. doth notably discouer his hypocrisie p. 19. 27. letting hypocrisie passe this once as if it were humilitie p. 27. 28. you most hypocritically pretend p. 44. 29. As you beganne your preface with falshood and malice p. 105. 30. to the ende neither falshood should want absurditie nor follie contrarietie p. 126. 31. you beginne with falshood and slaunder p. 139. 32. fraude and falshoode are euery where your strongest forts p. 143. 33. your falshood mixt with absurditie p. 144. 34. falsification is growne into such an habite with you p. 162. 35. falshood is your surest fortresse p. 186. 36. as you delight in contrarietie so it best pleaseth you to adde falsitie to it p. 195. 37. fallacie mixed with falshood p. 197. 38. would God you would once leaue your falshood 1. test s. 17. p. 2. 39. from these you proceede to the shamefull falsification c. 1. test sect 23. p. 2. 40. you seeke after nothing but falshood 3. test s. 7. p. 1. 41. your prophane contentions p. 103. 42. diabolicall presumption ibid. 43. hauing neuer a good thought of your owne 2. b. 106 44. what is this els but to roote out Christianitie and plant infidelitie 2. b. 146. 45. it shewes your spitefulnes p. 155. 46. it is your owne follie ibid. 47. which shewes you neither regard rules of diuinitie nor yet of humanitie p. 158. 48. as you shew neither veritie nor modestie so you incurre thereby absurditie and impietie p. 161. 49. your malice shall not extinguish my charitie p. 165. 50. the Euangelists are sufficient witnesses to conuince your incredulitie p. 179. 51. which insolent vanitie p. 175. 52. what peruersenes or rather impiety is it 2. test s. 9. p. 4. 53. if malice had not miscaried you 2. test s. 14. p. 3. 54. what arrogant presumption is this 2. test s. 17. p. 1. 55. thus imperiously if not saucily ibid. thus he raileth and rageth because the original is preferred 56. with what conscience or honestie 3. test sect 16. p. 5. 57. your selfe in that respect worse then the Arrians themselues p. 178. 58. you still feede your Reader with falshood in stead of truth p. 179. 59. you doe exceede the limits of all modestie shamefastnes p. 181. 60. if your darknes will receiue it p. 193. 61. you prooue your selfe to be a various impostor 1. test sect 17. p. 2. 62. what dishonest dealing is this in you 1. test s. 23. p. 2. 63. you had no colour of belying me 2. test s. 1. p. 3. 64. while you bolster out impietie with blasphemie 1. test s. 3. p. 2. 65. such malepart saucines 1. test s. 14. p. 3. 66. whosoeuer denieth the article he meaneth in his sense is an Atheist 3. test s. 6. p. 3. 67. And to fill vp the measure of this his poisoned cuppe of reuiling words he chargeth him with grosse errour or rather heresie directly tending to Atheisme pref to the first booke Thus this vncharitable fellow goeth on in his pitifull rage laying on load charging the Replier with follie hypocrisie falshood infidelitie impudencie Machiavellisme Atheisme heresie who in the sight of God and of all good Christians will by Gods grace approoue himselfe as farre from the imputation of these as the Rayler wil shew himselfe if he goe on in this course from the reputation of an honest man Little did he remember when he suffered his penne thus to rage that all raylers by the sentence of the Apostle are excluded out of Gods inheritāce what blindnes is this to obiect rayling to an other giuing him selfe tenne words of reproach for one and that not reproachfull neither Hieromes complaint is here most iust Quid possumus facere si vnusquisque iuste putat se facere quod facit videtur sibi remorderi potius quam mordere what should

the Orator againe saith Pergit in me maledicta congerere quasi vero ei pulcherrime priora processerint quem ego inustum verissimis maledictorum notis tradam memoriae hominum sempiternae he proceedeth still to speake euill of me as though he had sped so well in the former whome branded with the true notes of disgrace I will deliuer ouer to the euerlasting memorie of men The 2. imputation of slaunders The accusation 1. The Replyer is noted as a slaunderer because he chargeth the Antagonist to vnderstand directly by Christs death hell 2. b. p. 36. 2. He calleth it a slaunder that he is charged by the Replyer to maintaine Limbus patrum 2. b. p. 40. The satisfaction or iustification 1. THe slaunderer himselfe mistaketh the Replyers wordes which are these he directly by his death vnderstandeth hell where this word his should by the Compositor haue beene made this which missing of a letter in the word this is an ouersight of the Printer as may be seene in other places of the Replyers workes the Printer therefore setteth his death the Author wrote this death neither of them hath Christs death as he misreporteth he is therefore the slaunderer himselfe 2. Whether he be not without any slaunder or false imputation directly a Limbist it hath beene sufficiently prooued before in the preface The recrimination That eloquent declamer said well Carere debet omni vitio qui in alterum paratus est dicere he should himselfe be voide of blame that speaketh against an other with what face then could the Accuser impute that to others which he falleth into himselfe and wracke himselfe vpon that rocke which he imagineth others to runne against for here followeth a rabble of his slaunderous accusations 1. Limbomastix is become Symbolomastix that is a scourger of the Creede epist. dedic p. 10. you cunningly went about to casheere an article of the Creede 2 b. p. 166. you still labour to discreede this Article of our faith 3. b. p. 3. 179. you still labour not onely to discredit it but to discreede it also 3. b. p. 198. And in diuers other places he laieth this grieuous imputation whereas the Replyer directly saith Who denieth the article of Christs discension 3. b. p. 197. 2. That he conueyeth an appeale frō his Maiestie and the Clergie vnto the Parlament epist. p. 10. whereas the Epistle Dedicatorie to the Parlament house is directly intituled to the Lords spirituall and temporall 3. That in Synopsis he striketh at some maine points of faith shaking the foundation it selfe and calling in question heauen and hell the diuinitie and humanitie yea the very soule and saluation of Christ himselfe epist. p. 6. all which are meere slaunders the author of Synopsis holdeth all these points more soundly then this slaunderous carper neither shal he be able to fasten any such imputation vpon that booke and therefore he glaunceth ouer with this generall fiction descending to no particular 4. That the Replyer holdeth this blasphemous paradox that Christ our Sauiour suffered in his sacred soule the hellish horror and paines of the damned epist. p. 10. whereas he misliketh this phrase of speech that Christ suffered the paines of the damned and wisheth it to be forborne Synops. p. 974. err 7. 5. That he maintaineth impious and hereticall paradoxes pref p. 2. seeketh to bring in a new Puritane heresie p. 43. that neither Rhemist nor Romanist could lightly haue more disgraced the discipline and doctrine of the Church epist dedic p. 10. how falsly he hath herein slaundered the Replyer his writings alreadie extant can giue sufficient testimonie both to this age present and to posteritie that he is as farre from all heresie and popish doctrine as this Reviler is from a sober and modest man 6. That he falleth to scourging the guides and gouernors of the Church 2. b. p. 2. transformeth the order thereof into an Anarchie p. 29. that he reiecteth Ecclesiasticall authoritie euer repining at that gouernment whereby you should be ruled p. 110. But what a reuerent opinion the Replyer hath of the calling of Bishops it appeareth both by his iudgement deliuered Synops. p. 241. l. 3. wherein he confesseth in the calling of Bishops in the reformed Churches such as the Church of England is somewhat no doubt to be diuine and Apostolicall and Antilog pref to the King p. 9. where he esteemeth the calling it selfe of Bishops as one of the profitable parts of the Church As also by his practise who hath dedicated diuerse bookes vnto certaine reuerend Bishops and Prelates more I thinke then any one writer of the Church in this age hath done beside which he hath done onely of dutie and loue toward them not beeing mooued thereunto by any present fruition or future hope of any preferment either receiued at their hands or expected 7. As for personall inueighing against the writers of our Church there is none that hath more peremptorily directed his penne or more presumptuously emploied his paines then your selfe 2. b. p. 7. There is none among all the impugners of the locall discent of Christs soule to hell who hath in more disgracefull manner reproached some of the best Preachers and writers of this English Church then you haue done 2. b. p. 81. he falsly and slaunderously condemneth the doctrine and teachers of the Church for Popish vnsound corrupt erroneous yea hereticall 2. b. p. 29. you affirme some Popish bookes to haue beene written by Protestants 2. b. p. 54. All these are vncharitable slaunders 1. for he can not name one writer of the Church that the Replyer hath personally inueighed or directed his penne against 2. of like truth is it that he hath vsed reproachfull tearmes against some of the best preachers what are those reproachfull words where and when vttered 3. it is as true that he chargeth the doctrine and teachers of the Church with hereticall opinions and writing of Popish books he saith that some bookes set forth doe maintaine doctrine too much declining to Poperie which can not be denied of any of sound iudgement if these and the like positions that the Scriptures alone are not compleate to euerlasting felicitie that mans will naturally is apt without grace to beleeue that mens naturall workes are acceptable vnto God that there are workes of supererogation that to be preserued from all sinne in this life is not vnpossible and such like as they are noted els where be not doctrines too much declining to Poperie then it must be confessed the Replyer is ouerseene if they be then the wrongfull Accuser is prooued a slaunderer Doth he count these the doctrines of the Church which are directly opposite to the articles of religion established which thus affirme that the holy Scripture containeth all things necessarie to saluation artic 6. that man of his owne naturall strength can not turne and prepare himselfe

Caluin receiuing the article of the descension yet insisteth vpon the right interpretation 2. Hee also peruerteth the order of Calvins words for that clause This certaine is out of all question c. he putteth last wheras in Calvin it goeth before the precedent part this clause hath so great force c. 3. He alleadgeth Caluin for the locall descent contrary to Caluins iudgement who vnderstandeth it of the spirituall agony and perplexitie of Christs soule ibid. sect 10. 2. Caluin also is cited 2. lib. Institut c. 16. sect 9. as though he should hold that the faithfull of the olde Testament were in that prison mentioned by Saint Peter that is in hell c. where they carefully expected the promised redemption where diuers vntruths are vttered 1. Caluine saith Concludere in carcere mortuorum animas puerile est To shut vp the soules of the dead in prison is a childish thing He denieth then that they were in prison 2. Hee speaketh not of redēption which they expected but saith that piae animae eius visitationis quam sollicite expectauerant praesenti aspectu sunt potitae The godly soules did enioy the sight of that visitation which they carefully expected His meaning is that euen the godly soules departed had a sense of Christs death and were affected with a lightsome ioy the time of visitation beeing now exhibited vnto the Church which they while they liued in faith beleeued and in hope expected 3. Yet is hee not ashamed to alleadge Caluin as a maintainer of the locall descension and not content therewith hee addeth one vntruth vnto another that the Replyer himselfe saith that Caluin holdeth Christs descension into hel euen in that place of Peter whereas he affirmeth the contrary that Caluine and Beza hold not the descension as he doth in that very place which he hath reference to in the margin Limbom p. 58. And indeede Caluines opinion is Vim mortis Christi vsque ad mortuos penetrasse that the force of Christs death did pierce vnto the dead that the power and effect of his death not the presence of his soule was there 9. Beza falsified 1. Beza is here diuers waies wronged 1. His words are falsly translated de priuatis iniurijs of priuate wrongs he englisheth of priuate offences a priuate wrong that is done to a priuate person may yet be committed publikely but so cannot a priuate offence 2. He curtalleth the sentence repeating onely the first clause they are deceiued who thinke that Christ in this place speaketh of priuate offences all the rest that followeth is omitted quum Christus c. seeing Christ intendeth nothing else in these words then to distinguish secret sinnes from manifest therefore he is said to sinne against one not onely which hurteth him priuately but which with his priuitie only sinneth against God or any other 3. By this sentence it appeareth his meaning is that Christ speaketh of secret sinnes whether committed against God or any priuate man What immodest dealing then is this to alleadge Beza as expounding this place not of sinnes secretly but openly done 2. Beza thus expoundeth in te id est te tantum conscio against thee thou onely knowing of it but hee thus corrupteth that place against another thou knowing of it where he addeth these words against another and leaueth out only for the secret trespasser may as well sin me against him whom he offendeth as against another as appeareth in the former testimony 3. I omit certaine places out of Beza clipped by him as in that testimony cited vpon Act. 5. 17. Beza his words are qui à recepta sana doctrina c. and Dei Ecclesiae ipsius where these words inclosed are omitted by the Confuter So vpon Iohn 15. 26. he leaueth out more then foure lines in the middes of the sentence but because the sense is not much hindred by these omissions I will not take that aduantage which he is ready to catch at vpon euery occasion He further abuseth Beza in deprauing his words and detorting his sense as though he should thinke it a forced and violent thing by spirits to vnderstand liuing men 1. Pet. 3. 19. whereas he meaneth onely that men yet liuing cannot be called spirits but those which are now spirits may by a certaine figure called prolepsis be vnderstood to haue beene sometime liuing men as Peter calleth them spirits in respect of that time present wherein hee wrote not of that whereof he writeth This then is a meere cauil à dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter because Beza in some sense counteth it a coact thing to vnderstand by spirits liuing men that simply and absolutely hee denieth it 4. Beza is imagined to vnderstand that place 2. Cor. 13. 4. crucified concerning his infirmitie not of the naturall substance of Christs flesh and humanity but of the quality onely thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qualitatem declarat infirmity declareth the quality of the substance where he leaueth out the former part of the sentence where Beza directly applyeth it ad infirmam formam serui to the weake forme of a seruant that is to the humane nature which Christ tooke and saith further idem hoc declarat c. this sheweth the same thing which according to the flesh 1. Rom. 3. So Beza his meaning is that though infirmitie in the natiue vse of the word signifieth the qualitie onely yet thereby in this place the very substance of the humane nature is insinuated 10. The Geneva translators abused This vnconscionable Confuter would fasten vpon thē to hold Limbus patrum and to fauour the opinion of the Fathers that the Patriarchs went not to heauen but were deliuered by the descension of Christ and to this ende hee bringeth in that annotation Hebr. 9. 8. which is thus set downe whole in that place So long as the high Priest offered once a yeare for his owne sinnes and for the peoples also while this earthly tabernacle stood the way to the heauenly Tabernacle which is made open by Christs blood could not be entred into Here first all the first words inclosed are cut off secondly hee forgeth a sense contrary to their owne iudgement for that those godly learned men that penned those annotations did beleeue all the holy Fathers of the olde Testament to be in heauen appeareth by that their interpretation of Abrahams bosome Luke 16. 22. whereby is signified say they the most blessed life which they that die in the faith of Abraham shall inioy after this world Therefore they could not bee so forgetfull or contrary to themselues in that other place so to conceiue as though the way in the olde Testament was not opened for the Fathers to enter into heauen before the comming of Christ wherefore they either speake comparatiuely that the way was not so opened and made plaine before the comming of Christ as since as they giue the like sense of those