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A17864	An examination of those plausible appearances which seeme most to commend the Romish Church, and to preiudice the reformed Discovering them to be but meere shifts, purposely invented, to hinder an exact triall of doctrine by the Scriptures. By Mr Iohn Cameron. Englished out of French.; Traicté auquel sont examinez les prejugez de ceux de l'église romaine contre la religion reformée. English	Cameron, John, 1579?-1625.; Pinke, William, 1599?-1629.	1626 (1626)	STC 4531; ESTC S107409	97,307	179

entertainement in the world which he had formerly received You see saith the Apostle your calling not many wise according to the flesh not many noble but God hath chosen the weake things of this world and things which are not to confound things that are that no flesh might glorie before him Agree●bly to the thanksgiuing of our Sauiour I thanke thee O father Lord of heauen and earth for that thou hast hid th●se things frō the wise and prud●nt and hast reuealed them vnto babes to his exhortation Feare not little flocke for it is your fathers will to giue you the kingdome And indeed if that outward pomp were a note of the true Church and its contrary of the false the true Church for the space of three hundred yeares and more during the time of her persecu●ions should haue beene the false After that when Arrianisme had so ove●-runne the world that it groaned and wonto see it selfe become an Arrian When the Emper●ur Constantius tauntingly demaunded of Liberius Bishop of Rome How great a part of the world he thought himselfe to be that hee alone sh●uld take the part of one wicked fellow such a o●e w●s Athanasius in his esteeme that hee should so disturbe the peace ●f the whole world When Liberius was faine to con●e●se indeed that he was alone but replied withall that his being alone could not weaken the cause of the true faith When he alleaged an example from former times that once there were but three which resisted Nebuchadnezars decree commanding them to worship an Idoll When the same Liberius was ca●ried downe by the impetuous streame subscribed to Arrianisme When Nazianzen was angry that the Church was measured by the mu●titude and when he said speaking of the Arrians they haue the people and we the faith they haue the gold and silver and we the doctrine What was the true Religion all this while the bravest and most illustrious Was it amongst them which bare the greatest sway in those times Was it removed from obscurer places of abode to reside in more famous and imperiall citties Let vs remember the advertisement which S. Hilary gaue indeed to those of his owne time but which extend●th its vse also to ours Of one thing I advise you take heed of Antichrist It is not well that you are so taken with the loue of walls that you reverence the Church of God in consecrated houses and goodly edifices that vnder these you settle the name of peace and presume on it Is it a matter to be questioned a remarkable speech that Antichrist must sit in them The mountaines woods lakes prisons caues dungeons seeme safer to me for the Prophets either abiding in them or being driven and cast into them haue prophesied by the spirit of God This outward glory then is incompatible with the nature of the true Church and cannot possibly bee taken for one of her markes on the contrary the want of it being more naturall to the Church it doth more distinctly set her forth to the notice of intelligent beholders CHAP. IX What kinde of tranquillitiy belongeth vnto the true Church How Kings are her nursing fathers And that Kings are not the noursing fathers of the Romish Church BVt what then Shall the Church never enioy a quiet estate And those promises that Kings shall be her nursing fathers that they shall licke vp the dust of her feet shall they be frustrated God forbid True it is that God giveth peace to his Church but it is such as passeth all vnderstanding That peace towards God by which shee glorieth in afflictions being pressed but not oppressed in perplexity but not comfortlesse persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but not destroyed And these promises that Kings shall be her nursing fathers that they shall licke vp the dust of her feet are of the same nature with those other promises that she shall sucke the milke of the nations that Kings shall walke before her in chaines as it were in triumph nations enemies Kings enemies of the Church Promises then of earthly things for types of heavenly promises of fading and transitorie commodities to represent those everlasting honours pleasures In this manner God hath promised that he would set her vpon Carbuncles and build her vpon Saphires pronouncing that there should be no mo●e tumults nor clattering in her gates Because the Iewish nation at the time of these prophecies was most in loue with such matters therefore the holy Ghost vsed them in the expression of the happie but spirituall estate of the Church In the same kinde the Lord promiseth that when the Church should passe through waters they shall not overflow her that being in t●e fire she shall not be burnt Promises according to the letter figuratiue according to the sense mysticall and reall It s true that God somtimes giues to his Church an outward prosperity but in a mediocrity but for a time It appertaines not vnto her to enioy a compleat peace on earth being a stranger in it a pilgrime out of her element and heavenly country A continuall and vndisturbed peace is vncompatible with her nature and doth not cherish but change it and at length quite corrupt it Even as the outward heat of the ayre continued without moderation first slackes the vigour of the inward and naturall heat maketh it faint at last stifles and quite extinguisheth it It s true also that kings are the foster-fathers of the Church but this is seldome Cyrus was a father to the Iewish Church yet no part of it So many Pagan Emperours haue suffered their kingdomes to bee receptacles of Christians Then was it when the Church sucked the milke of the Gentiles then if ever was this prophesie that Kings should be her sustainers fulfilled liberally Yet we deny not but God raiseth vp Princes in his Church But when these Princes in striving to shew themselues Patrons of his Church with more affection then discretion haue fostered her even with superfluity they haue procured her ruine by the same means they sought her advancement It was not a Poet only from whom the pride and surly pomp of the Romish Church extorted this speech Hor Constantin non torna Let 's haue no more Constantines St Hierome himselfe observed in his time marke Reader how long since it was that the Church attained to her full growth became adultae by persecutions but being cherished by Christian Princes she increased indeed in riches and power but decreased in vertues and graces What would he haue s●id in our daies Wherefore a too pompous magnificence in the Church is at the first a presage of a future alteration and at last a certaine note of a change to worse But the times are now otherwise matters are crept into another extreame There is not a Prince at this day

which to speake truely sustaineth the Romish Church she rather vpholdeth them by whom she is said to be vpheld So they cannot properly be tearmed her Patrons Shee domineers over them even in temporall matters she holdes their authorities and estates fastned to her beckand pleasure It s a small matter for her to vsurp the power of excommunicating them vnlesse she also take vpon her the authority to depriue them of their sovera●gneties When it pleaseth her she plucks away the scepter tramples the crownes vnder her feet so that now a strange alteration the nursing father trembles before his nursling and the Guardian stands in feare of his pupil● not with such a feare wherewith of●imes God strikes his enemies a feare proceeding from a secret cause when he hath caused his uoice Touch not mine annointed to giue a startling sound to the most inhumane and sauage hearts but with an affrighting apprehension of conspiracies poyniards powder-plots the ruine of their estates and reuolt of their subiects O barbarous and vnnaturall pupill o vnfortunate and ill-rewarded Protectors What shall the Church which vsurpeth this authority practiseth this cruelty be the true Church surely he hit the point well who was the first that said that deuotion begate wealth but the daughter devoured the mother A prodigious child deliuery that Religion should send forth so vnnaturall a monster so contrary to the disp●sition of its mother But it was the purpose of God He had foretold that Kings should giue their kingdomes to the Beast that they should vndergoe its yoake This prediction was to be accomplished Now then l●t the Romish Church proceede and pra●cke it lusti●y let her triūph in this imperiall greatnesse seeing it is the greatnesse of the Beast let her scorne at our homelinesse and scoff at our penury seing it is the condition of the Church CHAP X. That the Ceremonies of the Romish Church doe not Commend but disparage her BVt let vs examine whether the multitude of ceremonies in the Romish ●hurch can giue her that title which her pompe cannot and whether the want of such a troupe amongst vs will procure vs that disparagement which the meanesse of our estate cannot Certainely all alike one as much as the other So that wee still stand vpon the same tearmes with them their glory shameth them our ignominy honoureth vs their ceremonies make them superstitious our simplicitie notifieth that we haue the true Religion· This will clearely be discerned if we consider that there was indeede time whē the ceremonies the rudimēts of the world had place and were vsefull in the Church of God who then manifested himselfe in types and shadowes But this time lasted no longer then whilst the Church was in her infancie while the heire was a child he was to be gouerned as a child his tendernesse being not capable of a full liberty and of a manlike instruction The day spring from on high the sunne of righteousnesse was not yet risen The bodie of the shadowes the truth of the figures was not then exhibited But the fullnesse of time being accomplished the time of the Churches infancy being expired the heire being come to a perfect stature the Sunne of righteousnesse being already risen the body and rea l truth being now represented the rudiments of the world tooke their leaue the shadowes vanished the types gaue place to truth the carnall schoole-mastership yeelded to a spirituall liberty obscurity and imperfection to clearnesse and perfection For this cause the Apostle said Let no man condemne you in meate or in drinke or in respect of an Holy day or of the new moone or of the Sabbath daies the reason was because these things were shadowes of things to come but the body as he addes Christ· Proceeding farther he comes even to cut off a●l those ceremonies which were got into the Church by humane institution If ye be dead saith he with Christ from the rudiments of the world why a● though liuing in the world are ye subiect to ordinances Touch not taste not handle not which are to perish with the vsing after the commandements and doctrines of men which things haue indeede a shew of wisedome in will worship and humilitie in that they spare not the body and haue no regard to the satisfying of the flesh What could be more effectually and vrgently spoken for the banishment of ceremonies out of the Church for by this we see that they are altogether incompatible with the nature of the Church vnder the Gospell 1 the Church is dead with Christ and so to liue spiritually 2 these ordinances are a burden the Lord hath eased her of it 3 they are perishable true piety is permanent 4 they are doctrines of men the doctrine of Gods worship is divine sent downe from heauen 5 They haue a flash of humane wisedome some shew of humilitie but they are indeede will-worships Vainely then and impertinently in this case are the pretences of a good meaning vsed meere fig-leaue couerings It is for Princes to prescribe rules according to which they will be serued not for subiects to inuent them to themselues he is a ●ebell who attempts it How much more rebellious shall the bole sacriledge of them be accounted who either bringe in to or keepe in the church a seruice of God patched vp meerely of humane institutions The more these ceremonies increase the more vnm●nnerly presumption and sacriledge there is in the Church and shall they be the markes of a true Church Let vs consider the Primitiue Church flourishing more in times of the Apostles then euer it did afterwards who will not admire her great simplicity in all points and especially in ceremonies For excepting the celebration of baptisme by washing of water and of the holy supper according to the lords institution in taking the bread and wine and distributing them after thanks giuing excepting also the imposition of hands vpon those which extraordinarily receiued the holy Gost whether it weare in a generall calling or a particular to a charge in the Church and annealing for a miraculus effect of healing the fick I say these excepted their will not be found any other ceremony in those primitiue times so admirable was their simplicity But the number of them was multiplied after wards not by diuine but by humane institutiō St. Austē entring in to discourse about ceremonies with Ianuarius s●yes wel that our Lord hath subiected vs to ā easie yoke and a light burden and therefore hath vnited his new people by the sacraments very few in number v●ry easy to be o●serued very excellent in their signification as is Baptisme cons●crated in the name of the Trin●ty and the Communion of his body and b●ood and if their bee any other thing commended in Scripture not comprehending the ceremonies which are to bee read in the Pentateuch which made the seruitude of the