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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36859	A vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant religion in the point of obedience to sovereignes opposed to the doctrine of rebellion authorised and practised by the Pope and the Jesuites in answer to a Jesuitical libel entituled Philanax anglicus / by Peter Du Moulin.	Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing D2571	98,342	178

of the Court of Rome but Luther continued till death about thirty years destroying the Popes interests in Germany and all parts of Europe and neither Pope nor Caesar could touch him Wonderfull are the ways of Gods justice that the Pope by fomenting factions in the Empire and breaking the Emperours power did prepare safety and facility for his enemies in the following ages to make that great breach in his Kingdome and give that mortal wound to his power of which it shall bleed till it dye of it Against the Helvetian Reformation the Adversary saith nothing onely he arrayeth Zuinglius in a swaggering Pag. 3. swash buckler habit as if he had wrought Reformation with sword and buckler yet it was made quietly the preaching of the Gospel and began at Zurick in the year 1522. When Zuinglius was censured by the Bishop Sleidan of Constance his Ordinary for oppressing the Romish errours he set sorth Theses containing his doctrine and the Senate of Zurick called together all the Clergy of the Canton to confer about Religion and requested the Bishop to be present or send some authorized by him The Bishop sent Johannes Faber his Vicar General in whose presence the Consul invited all the assistants if they had any thing to oppose unto the Theses of Zuinglius that they would speak And Zuinglius having addrest the same invitation to the Vicar in particular the Vicar answered that treating of Controversies was not fit for that place and that it belonged to the Councel which should assemble shortly After that many words had past between them when none appeared that had any thing to oppose the Senate made an Edict that in all their dominions the Gospel should be purely taught out of the Books of the Old and New Testament and that humane traditions should be banisht This was obeyed and Reformation was established without either sword or buckler Neither do I read that Zuinglius was in armes till eleven years after that five Gantons of contrary Religion suddenly invaded that of Zurick and put Zurick men to a necessary but disorderly defense in which Zuinglius was slain The Switzers had cantoned themselves in the year 1315. which was 200 years before the Reformation Were I as unsincere as my Adversary I should charge the Roman Religion which then reigned with that change of State From Zuinglius the Adversary passeth to Calvin as the head of the French Reformation wherein he sheweth his great ignorance for the Reformed Religion was spread in France twenty years before Calvin was settled in Geneva and well nigh assoon as in Germany The beginning of which must not be ascribed to one Hugo whom our Adversary knowsnot nor any body else But the truth is that it was in France long before it was in Germany ever since the errours and tyranny of the Court of Rome began to be opposed by the Valdenses whose relicks after long persecutions by fire and sword remained in the Vale of Cabrieres and Marindol in Provence It was from thence that Reformation was propagated incouraged by the happy progresses of Luther and Zuinglius Wherefore the Popes creatures perceiving whence that blow came upon the Roman Court never left solliciting Francis the I. of France till they got an Edict for the extirpating of them which was executed with the utmost rigour And it was not for Religion that they were thus butchered but meerly to make a sacrifice to the pride and cruelty of Rome For as for their doctrine that excellent King Lewis the XII liked it so well that to some that represented it to him and would incense him against them He answered that they were better Christians then he and his Kingdome This was then the true Origine of the Reformation of France the doctrine of the Valdenses preserved in the relicks of their descent a doctrine perfectioned since into a more Orthodox Confession conformable to the Confessions of other Protestant Churches So Calvin had no hand in that Reformation and no more had he with that of Geneva or in turning that State into an Aristocracy as this Adversary upbraids him My business being to vindicate Reformation from the charge of rebellion I must take from the Reformers of Geneva that aspersion that they expelled their Bishop and that they altered the constitution of that State and both these ascribed unto Calvin It is a tradition received in England for a currant and undoubted truth And upon that ground many fine and judicious inferences are built But it is like the stories of the Phenix and the singing of Swans before their death never the truer for the curious similies and ingenious moralities that have Epistola Benedicti Turretini ad Scultetum in Annal. reformationis An. 1529. been spun out of that stuffe What credit can we give to Histories of things happened in the Indies two thousand years ago if in things done to lately and so near us gross mistakes go for uncontrollable truths I say it is utterly false thar Calvin was one of the planters of Reformed Religion at Geneva False also that he or the Reformers of Geneva turned their Bishop out of doors And false also that the Bishop went away upon the quarrel of Religion Farel Froment and Viret were they that wrought under God the conversion of the City by their Sermons and by a publick conference with the Friars and Clergy of Geneva there being then no Bishop in that Town who was fled eight moneths before seeing his conspiracy discovered to oppresse the liberties of the City by the help of the Duke of Savoy for which his Secretary was hanged after he was gone the said Bishop being hated before for the rape of a Virgin and many adulteries with Citizens Wives And it is most to be noted that they who after his flight See the book entituled A view of the Government c. by Iohn Durel reformed the Civil Government were strong Papists and mainly opposed the Reformation of Religion To which something like was seen in England not far from that time For the same English Bishops that most earnestly served Henry the VIII to make him acknowledged the Supreme Head of the Church of England Tonstal Gardiner Bonner c. were afterwards the greatest opposers of the Work of Reformation and the fiercest persecutors of the Protestants That the Church Discipline of Geneva was constituted without a bishop is a matter of another nature Their Successors that continue it so to this day are of age let them speak for themselves It is enough for my present purpose that I have vindicated the Introduction of Reformation into that State from the crime of rebellion As long as their Bishop lived they could not have another and durst not receive him being manifestly convicted of selling the Cities liberty to the Duke of Savoy And when the Bishop died they had used themselves to live without a Bishop The first proof of our Adversary to indite the French Reformation of