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A68865	Catalogus Protestantium: or, the Protestants kalender Containing a suruiew of the Protestants religion long before Luthers dayes, euen to the time of the Apostles, and in the primitiue Church. By George Web D. of Diuinity, and preacher of the Word of God at the Bathe.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1624 (1624)	STC 25161; ESTC S119580	57,841	126

5.23 True markes of the Church Act. 2.4 Eph. 2.10 Act. 5.8 Christ alone the head of the Church Eph. 1.22 4.16 Act. 4.11 1. Cor. 1.11 Ecclesiasticall discipline 1. Cor. 5.7 2. Thes 3.14 Tit. 3.10 A promiscuous company Eph. 5.25 26. 1. Ioh. 2.19 False markes Math. 24.23 Popish monarchie 2. Thess 2.4 6 7. Reuel 13.8 Popish Hierarchy pardons and suspensions Act. 11.28 2. Cor. 10.4 Sanctification Sanctification Jn true holines and newnesse of life Rom. 16.4 Luk. 1.75 Eph. 1.4 Philip. 1.12 Coloss 1.22 Jn obseruation of dayes and meates Coloss 2.16 Rom. 14.14 Faith Faith An assured confidence Mark 5.7 2. Tim. 2.8 vpon knowledge Heb. 11.1 2. Cor. 13.5 only in the elect Ioh. 6.35 A beliefe in generall Rom. 10.14 Jmplicite Iam. 2.19 in hereticks and wicked men 2. Thess 3.2 Repentance Repentance The gift of God Genes 8.21 Rom. 8.7 Necessarie Iam. 1.7 1. Tim. 2.21 Confession to God Math. 3.6 Freewill 1. Cor. 2.14 Coloss 2.13 Meritorious Rom. 4.5 6. Auricular confession Luk. 5.21 Good workes Good workes Must spring from Faith Rom. 8.8 Galat. 5 6. Tit. 1.15 H●b 11 6. Are our dutie Matth 7.17 2. Pet. 1.10 Before Iustification Matth. 12.33 Luk. 6.43 Rom. 11.17 Merit of them Rom. 5.12 Galat 3.11 Heb 11.17 Subiection to Powers Exemption from obedience Rom. 13.1 2 3. Tit. 3.1 1. Pet. 2.13 1. Tim. 2.1 2. Iude 1. Places after this life Purgatorie Only two Heauen and Hell Reuel 14.13 22.13 Luk. 23.43 2. Cor. 12.3 4. I Might instance in many more yea in all the differences betweene vs and the Papists wherein I might as clearely prooue the consent of the Apostles and those Primitiue Christians together with vs and their dissent from the Papists and consequently prooue effectually our Church to haue beene in that ancient Primitiue Church But these proofes may suffice in stead of many and by these wee may learne what wee are to iudge of the rest referring the tryall of our whole Religion in all and euerie point thereof wherein wee differ from the Papists vnto the touchstone of the doctrine of our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles and to that which in the writings of sacred Scriptures is commended vnto the Churches which indeede is the onely true rule to examine by and to end Controuersies But our Romanists will none of that for they cannot endure their Religion to come vnder this tryall of Gods word neither will it content them that wee make triall thereby See the Fisher caught in his owne Net which was the reason that Fisher in the late conference neither could denie that Christ and his Apostles taught the same faith and doctrine which the Protestants now professe nor would abide the triall by it but fled from that to the practise of ensuing times and more remote Canus loc li. 3. c. 3. p. 151. for Canus a Writer of their owne confesseth That the most points of the Roman faith are not contained in the Scripture Andrad Orth. Exp. lib. 2. And Andradius speaketh plainely That many points of the now Romish faith would reele and totter if they were not supported by the helpe of Tradition Therefore our Masse Priests will not endure the resolution of the now depending controuersies between vs and them should be tried by the authority of the Scriptures Take from them saith Standish their English damnable translations Standish ca. 6. pro. 3. and let them learne to giue as much credit to that which is not expressed as to that which is expressed in the Scripture Brist Mot. vlt. And Bristo teaching his Scholler how to deale with a Protestant biddeth him First get the weake and proud heretick out of his weake and false Castle of onely Scripture into the plaine field of Traditions and then like cowards they shall not be able to stand Alas what small foundation hath that Religion of theirs which is onely supported by Traditions what comfort can there be in that Religion which is afraid to be tried by the Scripture Hitherto I haue shewed the ascent of the Protestants Church from before Luthers dayes euen to the time of our Sauiour Iesus Christ his Apostles and found our Church which the Papists traduce as a Nouice euen in the primitiue Church our Religion which they taxe as a new Religion to be the first Religion Christian I could now deriue it from an higher straine and shew it in a more auncient time before Christ was manifested in the flesh euen in the daies of the Prophets whose agreement with vs and disagreeing from the Papists I might euidently conuince out of their Writings Before them in the time of Moses and vnder the Law Before the Law in the Patriarchs Before them and before the Flood in Noah Enoch Abel and so bring it to the very beginning euen to the time of Adam But this would be a needlesse labour for if we proue as already hath beene proued That our Church hath beene as auncient as the time of Christ and his Apostles the other must needes follow That it is as auncient as Adams time and from the beginning Cantic 6.9 Ephes 4. Because the Church of Christ is but one and there is but one Faith one Lord one Baptisme The Fathers before the Law 1. Cor. 10.3 4. and those who liued vnder the Law though they and we differ in some outward Rites and Ceremonies 1. Cor. 3.11 yet for substance embrace one and the same Religion haue one and the same Truth one and the same Foundation Eph. 4.11 That Church which was founded vpon the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles Iesus Christ himselfe being the head corner stone euer was from the beginning shall euer be to the end of the world Such is ours and such is our Religion Therefore we conclude That our Church and our Religion is no vpstart but the true Church of Christ the ancientest and only Orthodox Religion And now O ye seducing Papists ye Iesuiticall Fry and Seminarie Frogs which are crept vp out of the mouth of the false Prophet and sculk abroad to seduce people what haue you to say for your selues with what face can you impute nouelty to vs Reu. 16.14 15. how dare ye buzze into the eares of your Proselites That our Religion was neuer heard of vntill Luthers dayes peraduenture you take your ayme at this because the name of Protestants came in neere about that time The name indeede arose vpon occasion of a Protestation made by the 14. principall Cities and diuers Princes of Germany at the Dyet of Noremberg Ioh. Sleid. lib. 3. Hist of the Trent Councel lib. 1. p. 48. appealing from the Pope vnto the Emperour and to a generall Councell in which protestation was contained a declaration of their faith and of those grieuances which they had against the Church of Rome for which by their aduersaries they were termed Protestants Now wee although wee are not ashamed of that name yet stand not so much

the yeare 1158 brought 30 other of their own opinion with them ouer into England who by the commandement of the King Prelates were burnt in the forehead so driuen out of the Realm Rob. Gisburn Illiricus saith they were afterwards slaine by the Pope Illir Catol Martyrol p. 83. In France The Waldenses or Pauperes de Lugduno so called from one Waldus a man of great substance in the City of Lyons who about the yeare 1160 taking occasion by the sudden death of one with whom hee was walking beganne with a carefull studie to reforme his life and to this end studied the Scriptures diligently and taught the true knowledge of Gods word to as many as resorted vnto him In short space the number of those who ioyned with him came to thousands who were dispersed abroad into diuers parts of the world These were miserably persecuted by the Pope and his faction Hist de Waldens Raymund Earle of Tholouse for taking part with them was wrongfully vexed and disinherited by the Pope Mat. Paris In France The Religion of the Waldenses 1 They held that the Pope is not greater then another Bishop 2 That there is no purgatory 3 That it is in vaine to pray for the dead 4 That Masses for the dead are the inuentions of couetous priests 5 That images hallowing of waters and other creatures are superstitious 6 That the word of God should be truly preached vnto all men 7 That Fryers shrift and the vse of the oile in Baptisme are the inuentions of men 8 They contemned the Masse all that appertained to it 9 They misliked the single life of votaries and the distinction of daies and meats 10 They defended the reading of Scripture by the Laitie 11 They had but two sacraments 12 That the Communion should be administred in both kinds Nauc vol. 2. g. 900. Hildebertus Archbishop of Tours about this time taxed the pride of the Pope and being an excellent Poet made this distich of Rome Vrbs foelix si vel dominis vrbs illa careret Vel dominis esset turpe carere fide Happy would this City be If wanting lords her selfe were free Or hauing Lords in dignitie These wanted not true honesty In Germany Fredericke Barbarossa the Emperour about the yeare 1150 opposed himselfe against the Pope forbidding appeales to Rome the comming of Legates from thence into Germany and other trickes of the papall pride A great part of Germanie tooke part with him Naucl. vol. 2. p. 836. gen 39. In Constantinople About this time Anselme Bishop of Haremburg being sent from Lotharius to Calo Iohannes Emperor of Constātinople among other things he disputed much of the supremacy of the Romane Bishop Nichetes Bishop of Nicodemia excellently contested against him and confuted his arguments maintaining that the pride of the Romish Church was the cause of so many schismes and heresies which were then abroad in the world Ext. in Naucl. vol. 2. p. 900 in Patr. Symps hist of the Church p. 433. Before that time there may bee seene professors of the Protestants Religion betweene the yeeres 1100. and 1150. In England THeobald Archbishop of Canterbury with the Prelates of England in a Councell held at London anno 16. Regni Stephani regis decreed that Bishops should liue more discreetly that Priests should not bee Rulers ouer worldly matters that they should teach their flockes more diligently and that the people should read the Scriptures and learne the Lords Prayer the Creed in English Malsmb Chron. King Henry the first and his Nobles were euen at the point to forsake the Romish Church Patet ex Epist Anselm ad Pascal Pap. Martyrol pag. 177. Liucolniensis gaue this description of a Frier A Frier is a dead Carkasse risen out of his Graue wrap'd in a winding-sheet and carried among men by the Diuell Wichleif in Trialog lib. 4. cap. 26. pag. 143. In Almaine HIldegard a Nunne and a Prophetesse liuing about the yeere 1146. most bitterly reprehended the abhominable life of the Pope and his Clergie inueighing against the greedie subtill proceeding of Friers denouncing woe vnto those who suffer themselues to be seduced by them and foretelling the horrible destruction of the Church of Rome Histor Iornal Martyrol p. 182. 237. In France BErnard Abbot of Cluxaval born in Burgundy liued about this time who although liuing in a most corrupt age hee was exceeding superstitious in some points yet freely reproued diuers corruptions then comming on hee is cleare with vs against the conceipt of the Virgin Maries Conception free from sinne as appeareth Ex Epist 179. ad Cam. Lugdon Against Merites Ser. 1. de Annunciat Against Iustification by workes Serm. 22. in Cantic Against Free will Lib. de Grana lib. Arb. Against the seuenfold number of Sacraments Ser. 1. de coen Dom Against the vncertaintie of Saluation Epist 107. Against the Popes Greatnesse in Temporalities Lib. 2. consid ad Eugen Also hee admonished Count Theobald who bestowed great matters in building of Abbies and Churches that he should rather support them which are of the houshold of Faith and bee carefull to build the euerlasting Tabernacle Epist 107. In Flanders ABout this time was one burnt in Antwerp for Preaching against the reall presence in the Sacrament Massan Chron. lib. 16. anno 1124. In Germanie HEnry the fifth Emperor against Paschalis then Pope maintayned his owne right of making Bishops and other Priuiledges that belonged to his Ancestors which the Pope vsurped Nauder vol. 2. p. 807. Segon anno 1111. In Italie Arnulphus an eloquent Preacher came to Rome about this time and in his Preaching reproues the vicious life of the Popish Clergie hee is supposed to bee the Author of the Booke called Opus Tripartitum which containeth a great complaint of the enormities and abuses in the Church of the number of their Holidayes of the curious singing in Cathedrall Churches of the rabble of begging Friers of the vnchast voluptuous behauiour of Churchmen and finally wisheth reformation to begin at the Sanctuary for the which the hatred of the Pope and his Clergie was so much incensed against him that they layd priuie wait for him tooke him and drowned him Martyrol pag. 181. Sabellius and Platina say they hanged him Platin. in vit Honor. 2. Before that time there may bee seene professors of the Protestants Religion betweene the yeares 1050. and 1100. In England ABout this time saith Mathew Paris The King of England fauored not much the See of Rome because of their impudent and vnsatiable exactions neither would he suffer any of his Subiects to goe to Rome alledging these wordes in the Author thus expressed Quod Petri non inhaerent vestigijs praemijs inhiantes non eius potestatem retinent cuius sanctitatem probantur non imitari Math. Paris In France BErengarius Archdeacon of Angeow about the yeare 1060. withstood the Doctrine of Transubstantiation newly hatched in the Councell of Lateran And although by the violence of

that dayly corrupted the Truth Stories remember vs of a saying of Hegesippus Niceph. lib. 4. cap. 7. That the Church continued a Virgin vndefiled as long as the Apostles liued but when that generation was past the conspiracie of wicked Heresie through the seducing of those who taught other Doctrine tooke beginning Hereof the Apostles gaue warning Act. 20.28 Philip. 3.18 Basil Ep. 70. and the auncient Fathers complayned and that with teares It is our Taske now to prooue that all those faithfull Christians who liued either in the primitiue purest times or afterwards kept themselues orthodoxe vnspotted from then-broached heresies till the heresie of heresies Poperie was set on foote were of the same faith and religion with vs and were of our side for the triall whereof as we haue already looked into the dayes of olde Deut. 32.7 and considered the yeares of many generations which are past and gone so now let vs aske our Fathers and they will shew vs let vs aske our Elders and they will tell vs. And here as the Papists challenge vs to shew where our Church was before Luthers time wee will shew our Church before the time of Pope Boniface the 3. who was the first that tooke vpon him the name of the vniuersall Bishop and at whom and not before the Popish Church as now it is doth take her beginning This Boniface about the yeare of our Lord 507. with much adoe obtained of Phocas the Emperour Otho Frisingen Chron. lib. 5. c. 8. Marian Scot. in ann 608. Vsperg in Phoca that he might be made the vniuersall Bishop of the world The which authority say the Romane Chroniclers his successours haue not onely held fast with their teeth but also wonderfully encreased Before this time or before there was euer any who vsurped any such Ecclesiasticall Supremacie wee haue many that tooke our part as may appeare by this Induction Betweene the yeares 450. and 500. In Rome GRegory the 1. who albeit hee did much decline from the sincerity of his pious predecessours and was a pat●on or many superstitions yet was an earnest opposite against the papall Supremacie calling it vaine proud profane blasphemous mischieuous Antichristian against the commandements of God and the decrees of Councels lib. 4. Epist 32.34 affirming him to be a follower of Sathan fore-runner of Antichrist who assumeth that title Epist 38.39 24. Bishops and 34. Presbiters in a Councell at Rome Anno Dom. 595. Jn Constantinople Euphemius who was so firme and constant in his Religion that he would not annoint Anastasius Emperour before he had sealed a writing that he would make no innouation in Religion Theod. lib. 2. Jn Alexandria Iohn called Tabenesiota who kept the true saith and was banished by Anastasius because hee would not damne the counsell of Chalcedon Magdeb. cent 6. In Antiochiae Gregorius who ministred in Antiochia 25. yeares how he adhaered to our Religion see Euagr. li. 6. c. 18. Betweene the yeares 400. and 450. Jn Rome LEo at the first a Deacon afterwards Bishop of Rome among whose constitutions there is a sharpe decree against the ambition which euen then beganne in that sea Hist Magd. cent 5. c. 10. Jn Constantinople Iohn Chrysostome Bishop of Constantinople who liued in the dayes of Arcadius Honorius In whose writings we may find most part of those points wherein wee differ from the Papists confirmed As for example Atticus another Bishop of Constantinople who next saue one succeeded Chrysostome in that sea was a bitter enemie to superstition for perceauing that diuers of the people of Constantinople sorted to the Sepulchre of Sabbatius to pray to do some worship to your defunct he caused that body in the night season to be raised and to be buried in another place vnknowne to the said superstitious people that so they might leaue off their Idolatrous praying Hist Magd. cent 5. c. 10. Accatius another Bishop of Constantinople succeeded Gennadius and gouerned that sea 17. yeares In his time the Roman Church contended for superiority This Acatius resisted the fame and little regarding the pride of the Romane Bishop excommunicated Foelix and razed his name out of the roll of Bishops Histor Magd. Ibid. Jn Syria Theodoret Bishop of Cyrus a Towne in Syria liued vnder the Emperours Theodosius Valentinian Martian Among other things wherein hee agreeth with vs hee is directly against transubstantiation Theod. dial 1. c. 8. Jn Affrica Augustine Bishop of Hippo one of the most learned of all the auncient Fathers his Religion was the same with vs as may appeare in these ensuing articl●s about 1. The sufficiencie of Scripture lib. 2. de pec meri c. 36. lib. 2. de doct Christ 2. The Laities reading the Scripture confes lib. 6. c. 5. in Psal 33. sess 2. 3. The markes of the Church de vnitat eccl c. 2. 4. O iginall sinne enchirid ad laur c. 92. 5. Good works in Psal 102. 6. The Sacraments tract 15. in Ioh. de symbol ad catech tract 30. in Ioh. contra Adamant c. 12. tract 30. in Joh. de ciuit dei lib. 21. c. 25. 7. The authority of Bishops and Councels Ser. 2. epist 162. 8. Inuocation of Saints tract 19. in Iohn contr Faust Manich. lib. 20. See farther S. Augustines agreement with vs in the maine points of faith and doctrine in a Treatise lately set forth to this purpose entituled S. Augustines Religion wherein are proued 62. points of our and his concordance Jn France Eleutherius Bish of Lions Saluianus Bish of Marsell Hilarius first Bishop of Arles afterwards of Vienne opposed himselfe directly against Leo Bishop of Rome and would acknowledge no iurisdiction of that Sea ouer the Churches of France he came to Rome and withstood the Pope to his face Leo ad Gal. Episc epist 77. 89. Vincentius Lirinensis Magd. cent 5. c. 10. Prosper Aquitanicus Magd. cent 5. c. 10. Martinus Turonensis Magd. cent 5. c. 10. Betweene the yeeres 350. and 400. In Jtaly AMbrose Bishop of Millane whose accord with vs in the maine points of our Religion may appeare out of his writings viz. Hierome borne in Stridon a Towne of Dalmatia brought vp in learning at Rome who although hee wanted not his errours and enclined much to diuers superstitions which began about those times yet accorded in many things with vs as may appeare by his writings Jn Antiochia Flauianus against whom Damasus Syricius and Anastasius Bishops of Rome were mighty opposites who misinformed the good Emperour Theodosius against him before whom when Flauianus had appeared he freely and wisely spake to this effect O Emperour if any man blame my faith as peruerse or my life as vnworthy I am content to bee iudged by my very Aduersaries But if the Disputation be onely concerning Principalitie and eminent places I will not contend with any man but denude my selfe of all Superioritie and commit the charge of Antiochia to whom yee like best Theodor lib. 5. c.