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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88669	The ancient doctrine of the Church of England maintained in its primitive purity. Containing a justification of the XXXIX. articles of the Church of England, against papists and schismaticks The similitude and harmony betwixt the Romane Catholick, and the heretick, with a discovery of their abuses of the fathers, in the first XVI ages, and the many heresies introduced by the Roman Church. Together with a vindication of the antiquity and universality of the ancient Protestant faith. Written long since by that eminent and learned divine Daniel Featly D.D. Seasonable for these times.	Lynde, Humphrey, Sir.; Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1660 (1660)	Wing L3564B; ESTC R230720	398,492	686

adored For these women worshipping St. Mary renew againe the Sacrifice of Wine mingled in the honour of the Goddesse Fortune and prepare a Table for the Devill and not for God as it is written in the Scriptures Their women boult flower and their children gather sticks to make fine Cakes in the honour of the Queene of Heaven Therefore let such women be rebuked by the Prophet Ieremie and let them no more trouble the world and let them not say we worship the Queene of Heaven Here we see the words which were spoken of the Heathenish Idolls were applied by Epiphanius unto the Mother of Christ not to deface the blessed Virgin but to declare the fond errors of the Haeretikes Now let us compare this doctrine with yours Bernardinus de Busto Adornamentum regni terreni est quod habeat Regem Reginam c. Bernard de Busto part 9. Serm 2. Bb. Vshers answer to a shalling p. mihi 437. who was living almost 200. yeares since tells us That it is for an ornament of an earthly Kingdome that it should have both a King and a Queene and therefore when any King hath not a wife his subjects often request him to take one Hereupon the eternall King and Omnipotent Emperour minding to adorne the Kingdome of Heaven above did frame the Blessed Virgin to the end that he might make her the Lady and Empresse of his Kingdome and Empire that the Prophecy of David may be verified saying unto her in the Psalme upon thy right hand did sit the Queene in clothing of Gold He tells us further that your Pope Sixtus the fourth granted an Indulgence of twelve thousand yeares for every time that a man in the state of grace should repeate this short Salutation of the Virgin Haile most holy Mary the Mother of God the Queene of Heaven the Gate of Paradise the Lady of the world thou art a singular and p●re Virgin thou didst receive Christ without sinne thou didst beare the Creator and Saviour of the world Deliver mee from all evill and pray for my sinnes Amen Looke upon Gregory the Great printed at Antwerpe Apud Iohannem Keerbergium 1615. Tom. 1. p. mihi 490. Anno 1615. and there you shall find the Miter of Pope Sylvester the first who was living Anno 314. with the picture of the blessed Virgin and Christ in her armes figured with this Motto Ave Regina Coeli Haile Queene of Heaven And this was in the same age wherein Epiphanius complaines of the womens custome in his dayes Wee worship the Queene of Heaven Lastly Bellar. in Praef. de Eccles Militante Bellarmine himselfe doth terme her Regina Coeli the Queene of Heaven which attribute is rebuked and forbidden by Hieremie saith that ancient Father and in his dayes condemned for a Heresie Constituta quippe est super omnem creaturam et quicueque Iesu curuat genu matriquoque primus supplicat filij gloriam cum matre non tam communem i●di●o quam eandem Arnold Carnotens tract de laudibus Virginis And as touching the excessive honour which you complaine of that the Heretikes gave unto our Lady I verily beleeve if your Churches Magnificats be compared with theirs they will be found to exceed them farre For first the same Author testifies That shee is constituted over every Creature and whosoever boweth his knee unto JESVS doth fall downe also and supplicate unto his Mother so that the glory of the Son may be judged not so much to be common with the Mother as to be the very same Neither are your men contented to make her the Queene of Heaven and to make her equall to him whom she her selfe termed her Saviour and Redeemer but your Schooleman Bonaventure goes in a high straine and in one of his Orizons prescribed to her hee saith O Empresse Iure Matris impera tuo dilectiss●mo filio nostro Iesu Christo Bonav Corona B. Mariae Virginis Operum Tom. 6. edit Rom. An. 1588 and our most kind Lady by the authority of a Mother command thy most beloved Son our Lord Iesus Christ or as wee may reade in the 15th Psalme of your Ladies Psalter Incline the countenance of thy Son upon us compell him by thy prayers to have mercie upon us sinners But that which is most remarkable the Psalmes of David which were wholly framed and dedicated to the honour of our Lord E tranverso are all applied to the name and honour of our Lady as for Instance Psalter Bonav edit Partsiis An. 1596. Psal 15.31.56.71.94 Preserve mee ô Lady for in thee have I put my trust Blessed are they whose hearts doe love thee ô Virgin Mary their sinnes by thee shall mercifully be washed away Have mercie upon mee ô Lady have mercie upon mee because my heart is prepared to search out thy will and in the shadow of thy wings will I rest Give the King thy Iudgements ô Lord and thy mercie to the Queene his Mother O come let us sing unto our Lady let us make a joyfull noise to Mary our Queene that brings salvation And for a conclusion Let every spirit Psal 150. or every thing that hath breath praise our Lady After all these and many such like passages of excessive honour attributed to our Lady your Bernardinus at last concludes Truly if it be lawfull to speake it thou in some respect didst greater things to God then God himselfe did to thee and to all mankind Volo ergo ego dicere quod tu ex humilitate reticuisti Tu enim folus cecinisti Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est ego verò cano dico Quia tu fecisti majora ci qui potens est Bernardin de Bust Martial part 6. Serm. 2. memb 3. I will therefore speake that which out of thy humility thou hast past in silence For thou onely didst sing Hee that is mighty hath done to mee great things but I doe sing and say That thou hast done greater things to him that is mighty Now I appeale to your selfe and to all your fellow-Jesuites whether your Hyperdulia to the blessed Virgin be not transcendent or to use your owne words doth not exceed the measure of honour due unto our Lady And consequently whether in this particular upon your owne confession you are not descended from the Collyridian Heretikes your first parents This is so apparently true that you know no way to free your selves from the guilt of Heresie but by waving the question telling us The line should be drawne along by a continued succession from the beginning to the end whereas I told you at first I did not undertake to prove that those Heretikes or your Church had a perpetuall succession in person and doctrine but to shew How neere affinity you have with their adulterate issue For those were my very words and thereupon I concluded that you had no succession in person and doctrine but let us heare your answer This is

there is no controversie betweene them and us concerning the immaculate conception of our Lady whereas both Chemnitius and Reynolds many other Protestant writers have overthrowne the ground of their feast of the immaculate conception of our Lady and all reformed Churches in generall have strucke that feast out of the Calender and the title of the 15. Article of religion of Christ alone without sinne sheweth to the world that we beleeve it to be the prerogative of our blessed Saviour among all the Sonnes of Adam that he alone was free from all originall and actuall sinne And now Master Flood sith you are taken in so many and fowle untruths in one Chapter I hope the Reader will not envie you that Guerdon which Aristotle bestowes upon a lewd and lowd Lyer not to be credited when he speaketh the truth Concerning Razing of Records and clipping Authors tongues Spectacles Chap. 13. a page 435. usque ad 446. BECAVSE there have beene many bookes published this last age by occasion of Haeresie and liberty which came therewith to the great prejudice of the Catholike faith there hath beene a course taken for the restraint of all such not onely writings of Haeretikes but even of Catholikes which have any tang of haeresie and this kinde of care hath beene ever used in the Catholike Church So wee see in Scripture it selfe some that followed curiosities becomming Christians confessed their deedes and burnt their bookes Gelasius in the yeare 490. maketh a Catalogue of haereticall bookes which he forbiddeth and I would know of the Knight or any man else that cryeth so bitterly against our Index Expurgatorius what he can say against it that he may not say against this Decree and Councell of Gelasius and against which we may not defend our selves by opposing it as a buckler against all their darts Sith all swarving from the rule of faith is a declining to haeresie it appertaineth to the Catholike Roman Church which as Gelasius saith hath neither spot nor wrinkle to prevent the danger that may come by such bookes forbidding the use of them It were a more dangerous and unnaturall part in the Church not to use this care then it were in a mother that should see sugar and rats-bane lie together and seeing her child going to taste thereof should forbeare to warne it I will not stand particularly to examine every Author and justifie the inquisition onely I cannot omit one Author called Bertram whom of all men living me thinkes the Knight should never so much as have named considering how much disgrace he hath sustained by translating that booke and ventring his owne credit and the credit of his Church upon the faith thereof Another thing I am to note concerning his quoting the Canon of the Councell of Laodicea wherein first is to be noted his error in Chronologie concerning the time of this Councell which he maketh to be in the yeare 368. forty three yeares after the first Councell at Nice whereas it was celebrated before that Councell Secondly his corruption in the translation and cutting off the Canon which is thus non oportet relictâ ecclesiâ ad angelos abominandae idolatriae congregationes facere quicunque autem inventus fuerit occulte huic idololatriae vacans anathema sit Now where in this Canon doth the Knight finde the word invocation of Angells which is the thing he pretendeth to be forbidden Whereas the Knight objecteth to us the recantation of Henry Buxhorne who was sometime appointed to put in execution the tyrannicall Decree of the inquisitors and had noted 600. severall passages to be spunged and blotted out which animadversions of his he wished he could have washed away with his teares and blood his heart being smitten and his eyes open by the mercy of God I answere if such matter will serve the Knights turne he may have enough neither neede I search corners to finde out such obscure fellowes as this Buxhorne he might bring the Fathers of the Knights religion for example Luther Calvine Zuinglius Beza Carolstadius and who not for though they might pretend severall causes yet there was one principall one which consisted indeede in the smiting of their hearts with a fiery dart of carnall love and when they found an Eve to give them an Apple then their eyes were opened and so it proved also with their friend Buxhorne as I shall shew by a briefe story of his life most authentically related by that grave and Holy man Oliverius of the society of Jesus Henry Buxhorne a licentiate of Divinity c. It was not the razing then of evidences that made Buxhorne fall from his faith but there were certaine Lutheran baites wherewith many of them were catched which were aurum gloria delitiae veneres gold glory delights and Venus of which some are catched with one and some with another The Hammer IN the former Section the Iesuit shewed himselfe a prevaricatour but in this a cowardly runnagate For to the mangling of authors and razing out of Records objected against him namely this marginall note out of Stephanus his Bible Deus prohibet sculptilia fieri This Glosse upon Gratian the Priest cannot say significatively of the bread This is my Body without telling a lie Cassanders observation upon the same words that setting aside the authoritie of the Church they prove not sufficiently Transubstantiation Cassanders whole Tract concerning the Communion in both kinds Vdalricus his Epistle touching the lawfulnesse of Priests marriage Anselmes Treatise concerning the visitation of the sicke together with divers passages in Cassander against merit in Polydor Virgil against Images in Langus against Transubstantiation in Ferus against the Popes supremacie The Iesuit answereth nothing at all in particular but onely applies Salves in generall which no way heale the wounds given by the Knight to the Inquisitors as the Reader shall see by taking them off one after another and viewing the Sores To the first The Iesuits instance is wide from the purpose For those Books were not burnt by any decree of the Church much lesse the Church of Rome which was not then in being but by the owners of them to testifie their unfeined Repentance for so wee reade Acts 19.19 Many also of them brought their Bookes together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it 50000 pieces of silver Secondly these Bookes which the owners burnt of their owne accord were Bookes of such as used curious Arts that is Books of Art-magick Necromancie Sorcerie and the like Whereas the Bookes which the Romish Inquisitours either mangle or utterly deface are Christian Treatises written for the most part by them that lived and died in the bosome and peace of the Church of Rome To the second This Decree of Gelasius which the Iesuit opposeth as a Buckler against all our darts is not altogether approved by the present Romane Church for in reckoning the Canonicall bookes of Scripture the Pope there excludeth the booke