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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50252	A defence of the Protestant Christian religion against popery: in answer to A discourse of a Roman Catholick Wherein the manifold apostaties, heresies, and schisms of the chruch of Rome, as also, the weakness of her pretensions from the scriptures and the fathers, are briefly laid open: by an English Protestant.	Mather, Samuel, 1626-1671.	1672 (1672)	Wing M1278; ESTC R217670	45,074	64

coloured and painted and having an Image in it as it were of Christ or some Saint for I do not well remember whose Image it was Wherefore when I saw this that the Image of a man hung in the Church of Christ contrary to the Authority of the Scriptures I tore it in pieces And moreover I counselled the Keepers of that place to wrap up the dead body of a poor man in the said Vail and so to carry him forth to be buried And I do beseech you to give order that there be no such Vails hung up in the Church of Christ which are contrary to our Religion Riv. Crit. Sacr. lib. 3. cap. 29. Waldens Tom. 3. Lit. 19. Cap. 157. Bell. de Imag. lib. 2. cap. 9. Salmeron Comment in 1 John cap. 5 Dis 32. Sixt. Sinens lib. 5. Annot. 247. Greg. Valent. de Idol lib. 2. cap. 7. He writes this to John Bishop of Jerusalem and the Epistle is Translated by Jerom a sign he liked it well and so you have the Testimony of two Fathers together both Epiphanius and Jerom A Testimony so full and clear that your Writers come forth against it one way but flie seven Some of them as Rivet notes senslesly affirming That he speaks it in regard of the Anthropomorphites so Tho. Waldensis as Bellarmine reports Others with as little sense or reason would have this passage to be supposititious because forsooth they know not how to shape an handsom Answer to it so Bellarmine c. But others of them Heretick-like say That he did erre and that one Swallow makes no Summer and that they regard the practice of your Church more than the Authority of Epiphanius Thus Salmeron Sixtus Sinensis Gregorius de Valentia But may you thus depress the Fathers below your Church May you thus advance your spurious Church above the Fathers as the Pope doth his Nephews above Kings and Princes And may not we prefer the Scriptures above either you or them But when you have said what you please and tryed all the shifts you can yet this Testimony of Epiphanius is an undeniable evidence against you That the gross Idolatry of Image-worship how fast soever it was then coming in yet had not generally prevailed in his time Helvicus placeth him upon the year of Christ 376. And seeing we are upon this let us see a little further what your Writers say of Epiphanius beside their anger at him for this Testimony what general censure and character do they give of him It may be a Divertisement here not unpleasant Can. Loc. Theol lib. 11. p. 477. Rivet Critic lib. 3. cap. 28. Baron ad ann Christi 310. Sect. 15. an 306. Sect. 45. an 326. Sect. 4. 8 an 327. Sect. 7. ann 338. Sect. 2. ann 342. Sect. 50. ann 306. Sect. 45. ann 310. Sect 16. Petav. Animadver ad Epiph lib. 1. tom 1. ad Haeres Samaritan pag. 21. ad Haeres 20. Herodian pag 39. ad Haeres Epicur pag. 20. nor unuseful to see how they handle him that so it may appear whether they have any greater Reverence to the Fathers than we Melchior Canus saith of him Nullos ille graves Authores sequi solet Baronius is as rude as he and saith ab omni scopo veritatis abhorrere quod apud Epiphanium legitur falsum item esse quod ait c. Rivet refers the Reader to eight or nine places wherein he shews his judgement freely concerning Epiphanius But Petavius the Jesuite equals if not exceeds his Fellows Permulta enim isthic falsa saith he false things minimeque cohaerentia disputat And again Suspicamur it aque multipliciter hallucinatum Epiphanium And again in another place Totidem paucis illis verbis a sanctissimo eruditissimoque viro Epiphanio peccata sunt Quorum admonere Lectorem● officii est institutique nostri excusare humanitatis dissimulare aut tueri velle neque officii neque humanitatis est So many Errors saith he are here committed in so few words by this holy and this learned Man Epiphanius of which Errors to give the Reader warning is both my Duty and Undertaking in these Animadversions To excuse them is a piece of courtesie and respect but to dissemble them or to defend them is no part either of Duty or Courtesie Thus he A sober and a well-tempered Speech and the more observable because uttered by one that was so full of the gall of bitterness as this Petavius was But such Animadversions such Reproofs as these have these Writers of your own thought fit to bestow upon Epiphanius And now what if we should say that he as well as some other of the Ancients did hyperbolize and exceed a little in his Encomiasticks of St. Peter and that his words and expressions are not so wary and so well guarded as they might have been in predicating the glories of that great Apostle It appears from all this that we should say no worse of him nor handle him more unmannerly and irreverently than your own Writers have done before us This may suffice at present for the further illustration of these matters As also for the Vindication of the True Reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the purity of it as contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament against the Roman Catholick Apostasie The Lord bless what hath been said for the reducing and bringing home his lost sheep and for the further establishment of Believers in their most Holy Faith FINIS