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A41160	Janus Alexandrus Ferrarius, an Augustine friar, his epistles to the two brethern of Wallenburgh, concerning the usefulness and necessity of the Roman Catholick faith wherein the ambition and avarice of the Church of Rome are lively demonstrated in a mathematical method, by a continued series of connexed propositions / from the original Latine.	Fabricius, Johann Ludwig, 1632-1697.; Fabricius, Joannes Ludovicus.	1673 (1673)	Wing F73; ESTC R32018	52,870	158

riches of Kings For Brass I will bring Gold and for Iron Silver and for Wood Brass and for Stones Iron So he upon the LX. Chapter which words Apoc. XXI though made so clear by our Interpreter the Evangelist St. John renders ambiguous nay delivers in a quite different sense and but ill apply'd to the Church Triumphant who as he there out of a certain innate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Pusilanimity describes the Angel refusing the honours offered him so without doubt would neither have accepted this nor that which of the mighty honours to be done to his Colleague St. Peter is elsewhere foretold by Esaiah to wit Kings and Queens shall prostrate on the Earth adore thee and lick the dust of thy Feet Which indeed not in Peter as uncapable of those honours yet in his Successors we see happily compleated But yet these dull Fishermen if they had but a little regarded their own proper Trade might have easily understood what fortunes they were to have fish'd out for themselves For can there be any thing plainer then what they may read in Habakkuk And makest men as Fishes of the Sea Chap. 1. v. 14 c. as the creeping things that have no ruler over them They take up all of them with the Angle they catch them in their Net and gather them in their Drag Therefore they rejoyce and are glad Therefore they Sacrifice unto their Net and burn Incense unto their Drag because by them their Portion is Fat and their Meat Plenteous But that by this Fishing with the Hook is to be understood the Preaching of the Gospel is as well taught by that Parable they received from the mouth of Christ as by the promise made to St. Peter I will make thee a Fisher of Men That is as Reginald Pool interprets it Thou and thy Successors shall have dominion over all Men ruling over Kings and commanding regulating and casting out Emperours But Christ gave not only the fishing of Men but likewise the Fishing for Money and so easily purchased to the Clergy a right of Fishing in all Secular Ponds The Kings of the Earth says he to Peter from whom do they receive Tribute Not certainly from us for we are Children and therefore free But go thou to the Sea and cast forth a Hook and take up the first Fish that cometh up Tros Rutulusve fuat nullo discrimine habetor No matter of what Kingdom Country or Nation That take and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt find a piece of Money that take Certainly Nisi tunc Petri mens Laeva fuissit Vnless Peter were then Light-headed He could not but from those words gather what a great Fishing-right was Established in him but though he had sometimes the mannagement of fiercer minds yet it must be confessed that he being of a more fearful temper was very insufficient for the undertaking taking or supporting any great matter Luc. v. for if fear seized him and all his Consorts when in the Lake Genezareth they once took some few Fishes more then ordinary with how great a trembling would they have been surprized to have beheld their Nets infolding mighty Whales and the live Bodies of men From which fearfulness I likewise believe it happened that when All manner of four footed Beasts and wild Beasts and Creeping things and Fowls of the Air were sent down to him in a certain sheet and he was twice or thrice commanded that he should kill and eat yet he doubted and durst not touch whereupon the Vessel was again taken up into Heaven And yet 't is evident according to the Interpretation of the most Eminent Baronius God by this Vision as by some solemn Investiture would confer upon Peter the power of Slaughtering men at his pleasure yet he that propriety of Supreme Majesty out of his Fisherman-simplicity then so neglected that it was in danger of having utterly come to nought had it not been recalled by his Successors and among others asserted by Paul not that Idiot of Tharsus but Paul the V. though indeed something unseasonably and so not altogether unhappily Peter therefore applied himself to I know not what Spiritual Fishing hunting after mystical Fishes and inclosing them in the Net of some invisible Kingdom in the Heavens when he ought to have exercised his Fishing-trade in the Waters and those the largest and deepest For In great Waters great Fishes are to be taken as it is in the Proverb Now the Waters are People and Nations and Tongues and Languages Wherefore Christ likewise commanded him to launch out in the deep Luc. 5. and let down their Nets for a draught That is Go up to Rome which had a vast Dominion over all People Serm. 2. in Fest Petr. and from whence they might spread their Nets over all the World to catch all Nations As is well observed by Pope Innocent III. But if any one should say those Antient Oracles and Promises of Christ you have hitherto so much praised were not delivered in naked and simple but in figurative words so that they could not be so accurately understood by the Apostles Let him consider Peters own saying Here are two Swords and Christs Answer It is enough And then again his Command Put up thy Sword into its sheath What can more clear and plainly be said to assert the Spiritual as well as the Civil Sword to be given to Ecclesiastical Princes For had the Civil Sword not at all appertained to Peter certainly Christ when mention was made of two Swords ought to have said It is too much but he only said It is enough Nor had he commanded Peter Put up thy Sword into the sheath If that Sword had not belonged to Peter as is most discreetly observed by Boniface VIII in Extravagantibus Where the Comment teaches the distinction between the Sword out of the sheath and the Sword in the sheath That being visible therefore Material and by cousequence Temporal this invisible and therefore Spiritual yet both belonging to Peter For if the Sword in the sheath be mine certainly the same will be mine when it shall be out of the sheath Yet notwithstanding all this the Apostles collected from hence things quite different perswading themselves that the Use of the Temporal Sword was prohibited them by their Master So hard a thing it is to be wise when the mind is once seasoned with Erronious Principles However I must confess some of them have sometimes pitcht upon better things and converted their thoughts to more sublime Matters as when the Mother of the Zebedees with her Sons requested a certain place to be assigned them to wit next on the Right and Left-hand of Christ And again when the Apostles contended among themselves for Precedency and made Enquiry who should be the greatest I confess likewise that Christ answered very sharply to these Requests and reproving their Ambition You know Mat. 20. said he that the Princes of the Gentiles exercised

Dominion over them and they that are great exercise Authority upon them but it shall not be so among you but whosoever will be great among you let him be your Minister And again He that would be the greatest among you let him be as the least and he that would command as him that serveth Which words might possibly disturb them and lead them into that Error as if it were forbid them to affect Government or seek Empire over Emperours but however that were In this at least the Apostles grievously err'd that they gave the same Precepts to their Successors which had been given to them when the Reason of things are quite otherwise For as Severinus of Mozambane has most rightly observed in his Golden Commentary to his Brother Laelius Postquam recentiorum Portuna sacerdotum De Statu Im. Gem. cap. 2. immane quantum a tenuibus Antiquis-simorum rebus discessit Absurdum fuerit illosamplius adstringere velle Obsoletis super modestia ejus Ordinis hominum a salvatore promulgatis Et fortasse istae leges ad prima illa tempora duntaxat debebant valere Nam id revera ridiculum erat homines Piscatores aut Textores Primum locum affectare quibus in diem victus aut labore manuum aut stipibus collatis quaerebatur Since the fortunes of the latter Clergy has been so wonderfully changed even from the slightest things of the Ancient it would be absurd any longer to tie up them to those obsolete Laws for the Modesty sake of that first Order of men to whom they were at first published by our Saviour and possibly those Laws were designed only to be of force in those first Times For it would certainly have been very Ridiculous that Fishermen and Weavers should have affected the first places who were daily to seek their Bread either from the Labour of their hands or Set-wages Which distinction the Apostles not observing gave occasion to Hereticks and to those who are often worse then Hereticks Politicians to think that those Answers of our Saviours might appertain likewise to our Days then which no Opinion can be more pernicious to our Church or more scandalous to Pious minds And hence it comes to pass that the Right of Fishing which in all Lands nay even in the Super-caelestial and Infernal Waters does Jure Divino belong to our Popes is at this day Prohibited them and that neither in the Brittish Ocean the Baltick Sea the Lake Lemane nor the Rivers of Germany they are admitted such free Fishing as formerly Nay it was once to be feared least it would have been Prohibited in the Neighbouring Adriatick Epist Piscat venet ad Paulum V. as one of his own Tribe Pisanius di Pizzoni an Honest man and a Lover of his Country very Brotherly admonishes So much is that Puzillaminity of the Apostles and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Simplicity in which they used to Glory hurtful to the present Church DEMONSTRATION Since the Apostles aim'd at nothing High nothing Sublime but with broken and dejected minds praised and recommended only Plebeian Virtues such as Modesty Patience Humility by which not only the Churches Welfare is impeded but the whole Structure utterly overturned It is of necessary consequence that they Enormously have straied from the foundation of the Catholick Doctrine and the whole Scope of that Faith and therefore the Religion by them delivered is in it self and the Nature of its Principles very unapt for the attaining of Salvation which is what was to be Demonstrated It will be therefore our Business quite to remove or at least to amend all ill placed things from those Principles and accommodate them to the Establishment of the Sacred Empire which in our next Letters we shall begin to do In the mean time Farewel and take diligent care of Brevingius Health Paris Cal. June MDCLxvii JANUS ALEXANDRUS FERRARIUS OF THE AUGUSTIN ORDER HIS Seventh Epistle Concerning the Usefulness and Necessity of the Roman Catholick Faith To the Right Reverend ADRIAN and PETER of WALENBVRCH Right Reverend Brothers THat the Christian Religion as it was at first dictated by the Apostles is both in its self and in the Nature of its Principles not at all fit or proper for attaining Salvation or establishing the Royal Priesthood of Rome We have in the preceding Epistle at large set forth There remains that we as evidently demonstrate what is therefore to be done with it To which end we lay down PROPOSITION VIII Though the Christian Religion do's unreasonably and even to abhorrency differ from the ends and aim of our holy Roman Church yet it is not at all adviseable that where it is approved by Reason introduced by Custom and established by the Authority of Princes attempt should be made openly to ruine it at one violent impetuous stroke EXPLICATION Sect. 1. There have been those indeed who have adjudged it ought utterly to be overthrown and openly destroyed as altogether so erroneous from the most profitable and therefore main end of True Faith That there seemed but little hopes it should ever by any Art or Industry be wrought to our purpose or if possibly it were never so well accomodated there was still some hazard lest at some time or other it should unawares revert to its pristine Nature and to that dull and Sterril genius first possest it And that this was no vain fear the experience of former as well as present times has taught us For from whence have the Rebel Hereticks raised more and more serviceable Engins to assail the Powers of our Sacred Empire then from the most hidden and secret Mysteries of the Christian Religion Which if they had been not only hidden and as it were Plaistred over but utterly blotted out they could never have provided themselves of such vast quantity of Arms against our Church Sect. 2. But though this may have prudently enough been thought of by some yet before we can assent to it we think it convenient other ways of proceeding be first examined For in affairs of this kind which are on every side encompassed with difficulties the first way presenting it self is not obstinately to be held but all are to be made trial of that after having diligently compared one with another we may make choice of the safest and easiest Sect. 3. And the first thing herein to be taken notice of is what has in this case been the opinion of wise Men in former times Among which we may account of Mahomet a Man as the event testifies of a very clear Judgment whose example we should be the more earnest to imitate because he so happily prosecuted the same purpose and was verst in the same cause with us Wherefore the very Hereticks themselves make him a Colleague with our Pope and whilst they will have Antichrist to be two-headed or at least two-horned they give the right Horn to our most holy Father and the Left they place on Mahomet For this Mahomet when