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A20934	The antibarbarian: or, A treatise concerning an unknowne tongue As well in the prayers of particulars in private as in the publique liturgie. Wherein also are exhibited the principall clauses of the Masse, which would offend the people, if they understood them. By Peter Du Moulin, minister of the Word of God in the church of Sedan and professor of divinitie.; Antibarbare. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Baylie, Richard.	1630 (1630)	STC 7311; ESTC S111063	73,776	306

their nation a Christian and vertuous man In the yeare 446. according to Westmonasteriensis calculation The Pelagian heresie reinforcing it selfe in the Island of Brittaine the Bishops of the Countrey assembled in a Synod writ into France to Germanicus Bishop of Auxerre and to Lewis Bishop of Troyes in Champagne men renowned for their learning and piety and prayed them to come to them to assist them with their aide and counsell which they did and with successe God blessing their travell This Historian saith not that the Pope sent them as some doe fable but that they came at the request of the Islanders In the yeare of our Lord 449. three ships of the Anglosaxons came from the East Frises landed in the Isle of Brittaine and tooke the same beaten way of those others which some foure yeares before arived there in great multitude This nation was high-Dutch and Paganish serving Saturne Iupiter and Mercurie who having set foot in the Isle could not be driven out a gaine and at length made it selfe mistresse of the East and South-part of the Isle and there establisht Paganisme dividing the Countrey into many pettie kingdomes and called the Countrey England But besides the Christians living under the Dominion of the Pagan Saxons all the Occidentall part to wit Cornwall and the Countrey in times past called Cambria and now Wales was Christian The Scotch had already receaved Christianitie in such sort that the Isle was halfe Christian In the yeare 596. Pope Gregorie judged the time fit to improve the authoritie of his Sea for the Christians of England not being fit to give instruction to the pettie Pagan kings by reason of their continuall warrs and those pettie kings being savage and easie to bee perswaded and the Christians of that Island living under other lawes and other ceremonies then those of the Church of Rome he sent Augustine Monke of Saint Bennet for as then in the West there was but that sole order of Monkes into England a man fit and industrious to travell and to take paines for two things The one to reduce the Christians of the Isle unto the forme and to the service of the Church of Rome and to induce them to acknowledge his Sea The other to endevour to draw some of those pettie Pagan kings to the Christian Religion This Austin came to England with a traine of fortie persons and presented himselfe to one of the pettie kings named Ethelbert King of Kent who re-received him with honour A while after insinuating into the Queenes fauour and good liking he perswaded her to embrase the Christian faith The Queene a while after drew in her husband who was followed by a multitude of Pagans Of this King the above named Augustine obtained permission to communicate with the Christians of the North-part of England whom he exhorted to ioyne themselves with him because as faith Westmonasteriensis Sanctum Pascha alia perplura vnitati Ecclesiae concontraria faciebant They did keepe the holy Easter and many other things in a contrarie manner to the vnitie of the Church These Christians before they would communicate with him consulted a certaine person of the Isle who lived a solitarie life esteemed a prudent man and of holy life and they asked him whether at Augustines perswasion they should part with their ancient customes To whom this good man answered if he bee a man of God follow him but said they how shall we discerne whether hee bee a a man of God or no he answered them You shall know him by his humilitie and if he induce you by his example to beare the Crosse of Christ So they made their appearance in the Synod assigned where Augustine received them with contempt and vouchsafed not so much as to rise up from of his seat when they entred This was the cause that they likewise contemned him and contradicted whatsoever be propounded accusing him of pride and although Gregorie had sent him the Pallium The robe and had stiled him Arch-bishop neverthelesse they declared unto him that they acknowledged not his authoritie nor would obey him in any thing Wherewith Augustine being netled threatned them that the Anglo-Saxons should revenge it upon them and hee lyed not So Aethelfrid King of Northumberland although hee were a Pagan favouring this Augustine in hatred of these Christians his enemies fell upon them and made a great slaughter of them They had in a Towne called Bangor a great Monastery wherein there were some twelve hundred Monkes who were all poore artisans getting their living by their trade of whom this Pagan King made a massacre and a sacrifice unto Augustine but as for the Saxon Christians converted by Augustine from Paganisme they received the Romane service such as Augustine pleased to give them and subjected themselves to Augustine sent by the Bishop of Rome about the yeare 600. of our Lord. Which is the time which Harding pointeth out unto us saying that at the least nine hundred or a thousand yeares since service was done in England in a tongue not understood acknowledging that it was this Augustine who together with the Romane service thither brought in the romane language which ever after that time forward continued in England in their publike service unto the time of the reformation every age from that time on-ward patched on some peece in religion In such sort that had Augustine lived againe seven or eight hundred yeares after his death he should have found in England and at Rome too quite another religion then that which he preached This that we have recited concerning this Augustine and of his entrie and of his carriage and behaviour in England is extant in Bede in his second chap. of the second booke of the Historie of the Anglosaxons In Geffrey of Monmouth in his 4. chap. of his eight booke of the Historie of the two Brittaines and in the flower of the Histories of Matthew of Westminster Bede in the 4. book of his Historie saith that in the yeare of our Lord 668. one surnamed Stephen taught the people of Northumberland to follow the Romish singing in publike service As then the Romish service was not yet received in France nor in Spaine This selfe-same Augustine passing thorow France and there observing the service different from the Romish Liturgie asked advice of Gregorie his Master how he should carry himselfe in that diversitie Gregorie answered him that he should follow that which he found good and should accommodate himselfe unto and comply with the Churches wherein hee was This is extant in the Interrogatories of the said Augustine added to the end of the workes of Gregorie the first As for Germany Christianitie came in thither very late Radbod King of the Frisons in the yeare 700. of our Lord was a Pagan and Franconia began to receive the Gospell And the Saxons against whom Charlemagne made so great warres in the yeare 775. and following were Pagans and were ranged to Christianitie by the sword as

Orthodox Spaniards for the Visigots at the beginning were Arians was called the Mosarabicke or Toletain office whereof may be seene an abridgement in Isidore in his first booke of Ecclesiastick offices which Isidore borne in Sevill writ in the yeare of our Lord about 630. In the yeare 713. the Sarasins abolished in Spaine the kingdome of the Goths slue their King Roderick in battell and extinguished in the most part of Spaine the Christian Religion And held Spaine for many ages untill that the residue of the Christians which were retired fled into the Moūtains having recollected their forces in the end drove out the Mores and replaced againe the Christian Religion in Spaine and established many pettie kingdomes Their service was done yet in Latine according to the ancient forme albeit by reason of the mixture of the Sarasins they had lost the use of the Latine tongue Their office or service was the ancient to wit the Mozorabick office which still continued in Spaine untill about the yeare of our Lord 1080. in the which King Alphonsus to gratifie Pope Gregorie the VII Roderick Archbishop of Toledo lib. 6. chap. 25. and 26. by strong hand and Maulgre the estates of the Countrey established in Spaine the Romish service then the Latine tongue which heretofore was used by custome was now established by law And so hath continued unto this day CHAP. XIII Of England and Germany and and how the Romish service and the Latine tongue were thither brought in IT will not be amisse to say somewhat also of England which in times past was called Brittaine a Etenim circiter non gentos ab hinc annos constat plebem in nonnullis regionibus p●eces suas publicas ignota lingue recitaste id quod in Anglia nostra fuisse factitatum manifestum faciam Harding in the first Section of his treatise Of prayers in a strange tongue saith about nine hundred yeares since publike prayers have begun in some Countreys to bee said in a tongue not understood especially in England This Doctor very much versed in Antiquity findeth not the use of the Latine tongue in England to bee more ancient since the terme of nine hundred yeares and hee hath in this spoken according to the truth We must then know that England received the Christian religion before there were any Churches erected amongst the Gaules or old French Nicephorus in his second booke Chap. 40. saith that Simon Zelotes the Apostle brought the doctrine of the Gospell unto the Westerne Sea and unto the Isles of Brittaine Gildas an English Author who lived in the sixt age and Polidore Virgil in his second booke of his Historie say that Ioseph of Arimathea there first preached the Gospell Balaeus in his first Centurie alleadgeth many other witnesses Tertullian b Britannorum in accessa loca Christo vero subdita who writ at the end of the second age in 7. Chap. of his booke against the Iewes saith that the inaccessible places of the Brittaines are subject to the true Christ. c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Theodoret in his 9. booke of the meanes to cure the indisposition of the Greekes Our fishers and toule-gatherers and our currier so qualifieth he the Apostles have brought to all men the Evangelicall Lawes and have perswaded not onely the Romanes and those which are tributaries to them but even the Scithians Indians c. and those of Brittaine to receive the lawes of him that was crucified Some d West-monasteriensis Galfridus Authors affirme that in the yeare 185. Lucius King of Brittaine sent to Pope Eleutherius praying to bee instructed by him in the Christian religion and that he abolished Paganisme out of all Brittaine so that there was not left so much as one infidell Which is a a storie invented in favour of the Pope For these Historians place in this Isle peaceable Brittaine Kings raigning in the South-part of the Isle which was subject to the Romanes and which had no other King but the Emperor of Rome The estate of this Isle under the Romanes may be seene in Cornelius Tacitus in the life of Iulius Agricola and in Xiphilinus an Epitomiser of Dion in the life of Nero and of Severus Emperours At this time the Christians of South Brittaine suffered persecution under the Romanes that were Pagans And as for the Northerly part which at this day is called Scotland and the Countrey of Northumberland it was Heathenish and was so a long time after Eleutherius e Hieron Oceano Scotorum Asotorum ritu ac de republica Platonis promiscuas uxores ac communes liberos habeant Saint Hierome in his Epistle to Oceanus speaketh of the Scots as having in his time their wives common 200. yeares after Elutherius And f Idem lib. 2. in lovinianum Cum ipse adolescentulus in Gallia viderim Scottos gentem Britannam humanis vescicarnibus cum per sylvas porcorum greges armentorum pecudumque reperiam pastorum nates foeminarum papillas solere abscindere has solas ciborum delicias arbitrari Scottorum natio vxores proprias non habet c. in 2. lib. against Iovinian he sayeth he had seene the Scotch eating mans flesh And Galfride in his 2. Chapter of his third booke of his Historie speaketh of them as of Pagans Furthermore the Christians of this Isle celebrated Easter precisely the fourteenth of the moneth of March contrarie to the rules of the church of Rome which they would not have done had they beene brought to Christianitie by the Church of Rome This Isle so continued under the government of the Romane Pagans untill the time of Dioclesian in the yere 286. The Senate of Rome sent thither Caurasius to oppose the courses of the barbarous but he enleagu'd himselfe with the Islanders and thence drove out the Romanes and made himselfe King and after that time one while the Romanes prevailing another while the Islanders that Isse was but weakely held by the Romane Empire In the yeare of our Lord 307. Constantine Sonne of Constantius and of Helene a Christian woman governed that Island Being Pagan he tooke the title of Romane Emperour and passed thorow the Gaules and from thence into Italie and made himselfe absolute Emperour Then becomming Christian he granted peace to the Churches of Brittaine In the yeare 383. Maximus a Christian and Orthodox Prince govern'd Brittaine for as then all that part of the Isle which was subject to the Romanes was Christian This Maximus invaded with a maine armie the Gaules and conquered them and tooke the title of Romane Emperour against Gratian Sonne to Theodosius In the yeare of our Lord 434. The Romane Empire being fallen into the West and rent by the Goths Franks Vandals and Bourgagnions the Romanes abandoned the Isle of Brittaine Which moved the Islanders to conferre the kingdome upon Constantine the brother of the King of Brittaine Armorique who was issued of