A vindication of the Roman Catholicks from the foul aspersions thrown upon them by John Tillotson ... in a sermon preached by him in November, 1687 ...
Antoine.
1688
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A vindication of the Roman Catholicks from the foul aspersions thrown upon them by John Tillotson ... in a sermon preached by him in November, 1687 ...
Antoine.
[15] p.
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London :
1688.
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A
VINDICATION
OF
THE
Roman
Catholicks
From
the
foul
Aspersions
thrown
upon
them
BY
John
Tillotson
,
D
,
D
,
And
Dean
of
CANTERBURY
In
a
SERMON
Preached
by
him
in
November
,
1687.
WITH
ALLOWANCE
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
John
and
Thomas
Lane
,
and
are
to
be
Sold
at
the
Sign
of
the
Golden-Anchor
,
the
Corner
Shop
of
VVild-street
,
next
Dukesstreet
.
MDCLXXXVIII
.
THE
PREFACE
,
SVCH
is
the
Nature
of
a
Sermon
,
as
that
the
Principles
and
Tenents
of
a
Religion
,
are
no
way
better
discovered
than
by
it
:
It
being
the
Exposition
of
what
is
to
be
believed
and
practised
,
in
order
to
Eternal
Salvation
.
And
what
the
Preachers
do
generally
most
insist
upon
,
that
generally
is
chiefly
presumed
to
be
believed
,
or
practised
in
the
Church
.
Now
in
most
Protestant
Sermons
,
it
is
observed
,
that
their
chief
business
is
railing
against
the
Pope
and
Popery
;
then
that
may
be
presum'd
,
the
chief
Tenent
of
the
Protestant
Church
:
With
such
Protestant
Doctrine
,
this
Doctor
hath
filled
his
Sermon
,
from
the
beginning
to
the
ending
,
falsly
aspersing
the
Roman
Catholick
Church
,
with
the
Notions
of
Slavery
and
Bondage
;
no
better
arguments
than
Cora
used
against
Moyses
,
flattering
the
people
with
a
false
liberty
,
which
produceth
nothing
but
Confusion
and
Distraction
.
Not
considering
that
this
his
Doctrine
,
is
contrary
to
the
practise
of
his
own
Church
:
For
he
doth
not
only
make
every
ignorant
Man
or
Woman
,
a
competent
judge
of
Scripture
and
Religion
,
but
prefers
their
judgment
before
their
Pastors
,
whilst
their
Church
obligeth
every
one
to
submit
to
her
decrees
.
I
find
in
this
Doctor
's
Sermon
,
many
false
and
uncharitable
Reflections
upon
Roman
Catholicks
;
Conclusions
drawn
from
false
Suppositions
,
things
unworthy
of
a
Scholar
:
And
which
is
unworthy
of
a
Preacher
;
not
one
Word
of
Exhortation
to
Piety
,
until
he
comes
to
the
21
page
,
where
he
speaks
thus
,
It
concerns
us
mightily
,
for
the
Honour
and
Support
of
our
Religion
,
to
be
at
a
better
Union
amongst
our selves
,
Insinuating
to
the
people
the
necessary
effects
of
this
Doctrine
,
which
are
Division
and
Distraction
.
All
the
rest
of
his
Sermon
is
,
Bearing
false
Witness
against
his
Neighbour
.
THE
TITLE
OF
THE
Doctors
BOOK
,
The
indispensible
necessity
of
the
knowledge
of
the
holy
Scripture
,
in
order
to
Mans
Eternal
Salvation
,
&c.
THis
Proposition
in
the
sense
of
the
Doctor
,
is
thus
rendred
plain
.
There
is
no
Salvation
to
be
had
without
the
knowledge
of
the
Scripture
;
which
Proposition
is
notoriously
false
.
For
at
this
present
,
many
thousand
Protestants
,
know
not
one
line
of
it
,
unto
whom
I
presume
the
Doctor
will
not
deny
Salvation
.
2ly
.
There
was
no
Scripture
heard
of
,
until
the
time
of
Moyses
,
and
were
all
Damned
before
his
time
?
3dly
.
From
the
time
of
Moyses
till
Printing
was
found
,
it
is
not
probable
,
that
every
one
of
the
Vulgar
could
have
the
Bible
,
and
will
the
Doctor
Condemn
them
all
?
If
he
doth
not
,
then
the
knowledge
of
the
Scripture
was
not
necessary
.
If
not
necessary
then
,
why
is
it
now
?
The
Doctor
may
say
,
the
knowledge
of
the
Scripture
is
necessary
,
not
the
reading
of
it
,
and
so
annuls
my
last
instance
.
I
answer
,
the
Doctors
whole
drift
is
at
Damning
all
those
that
do
not
read
it
,
from
the
beginning
to
the
end
of
his
Sermon
;
for
if
he
were
not
for
Damning
those
who
read
not
,
his
argument
would
be
of
no
force
against
us
;
for
the
vulgar
sort
of
Roman
Catholicks
,
may
have
as
much
knowledge
of
the
Scripture
as
needful
,
without
reading
it
.
The
Doctor
is
then
for
imposing
a
necessity
upon
the
vulgar
,
of
knowing
the
Scripture
by
their
own
reading
:
But
he
doth
not
tell
how
much
they
must
know
of
it
,
if
all
,
I
fear
the
Doctor
hath
Damned
himself
,
if
not
all
?
How
much
must
they
know
,
under
pain
of
Damnation
,
As
much
as
the
Doctor
will
assign
the
Papists
shall
know
without
Book
.
I
would
willingly
know
of
the
Doctor
,
why
the
people
might
not
be
saved
,
if
they
know
it
by
the
Mouth
of
their
Pastor
,
without
reading
?
The
Doctor
seems
to
answer
thus
.
The
people
might
know
it
,
but
the
Priests
do
interpret
it
falsly
to
them
,
but
the
Doctor
,
when
he
said
so
,
did
not
remember
the
Story
of
the
Old
Woman
,
who
sought
her
Daughter
in
the
Oven
.
The
Doctor
's
TEXT
,
Woe
be
to
you
,
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
&c.
Mat.
23.
V.
15.
THe
Scribes
and
Pharisees
were
Men
,
as
the
Doctor
owns
,
who
were
teachers
of
the
Law
;
and
under
pretence
of
interpreting
the
Scriptures
,
had
perverted
them
,
and
kept
the
true
knowledge
of
them
from
the
people
.
I
put
this
question
to
the
Doctor
,
Whether
if
those
Scribes
and
Pharisees
had
faithfully
interpreted
the
Scriptures
to
the
people
,
and
yet
had
not
put
the
Bible
into
the
hands
of
every
Milk-Maid
to
interpret
,
whether
Christ
had
denounced
that
Woe
to
them
?
The
Doctor
must
prove
the
affirmative
,
before
he
can
reflect
upon
the
Roman
Catholicks
.
I
will
put
down
the
practice
of
the
Pharisees
,
the
Protestants
and
Roman
Catholicks
,
as
to
this
point
.
The
Doctor
says
in
his
second
Page
,
that
the
Pharisees
were
teachers
of
the
Law
,
and
under
pretence
of
interpreting
the
Scriptures
,
did
pervert
them
,
and
keep
the
knowledge
of
them
from
the
people
.
The
Protestant
Ministers
are
reformers
of
the
Law
,
and
do
interpret
the
Scriptures
to
the
people
,
and
give
the
people
the
liberty
to
interpret
them
by
the
private
spirit
,
in
opposition
to
their
Pastors
,
if
they
think
fit
,
which
hath
brought
such
a
fertility
of
Faiths
into
this
Nation
,
that
there
are
as
many
as
Reformers
,
and
as
many
Reformers
almost
as
Men.
The
Catholick
Priests
do
confine
the
Scripture
to
the
reading
only
of
the
prudent
Laity
,
and
doth
not
think
every
Cobler
a
competent
Judge
of
the
sense
of
it
,
nor
able
to
guide
himself
in
matters
of
Faith
and
Practice
;
but
the
Pastors
by
the
Bible
,
are
to
guide
him
,
and
to
read
and
expound
the
Scriptures
to
him
.
Which
of
these
three
doth
the
Impartial
Judge
think
is
the
best
in
all
respects
?
in
the
3
d.
Page
the
Doctor
speaks
of
knowledge
and
ignorance
.
What
he
says
of
Knowledge
,
is
right
Canting
.
What
of
Ignorance
,
is
a
false
Imposition
.
I
never
understood
Ignorance
,
a
vertue
in
Roman
Catholick
Divinity
;
If
the
Doctor
had
read
the
Manual
of
our
Laity
,
he
might
have
found
it
there
,
in
the
exposition
of
the
Ten
Commandments
a
sin
.
Now
,
if
the
Doctor
thinks
as
he
speaks
,
we
must
be
all
lovers
of
Ignorance
,
not
only
the
Laity
,
but
the
Priests
themselves
.
I
humbly
offer
to
the
Doctor
my self
,
for
an
Experiment
of
his
Protestant
speculation
,
to
be
examined
(
if
he
knows
how
)
in
all
or
any
part
of
Divinity
.
For
if
he
pleases
I
will
bring
him
Tradsmen
,
who
shall
readily
answer
him
with
an
Objection
,
whatsoever
he
shall
be
pleased
to
ask
.
In
the
4th
.
Page
,
the
Doctor
saith
,
the
Scripture
alone
can
instruct
us
in
the
Will
of
God
perfectly
.
I
ask
the
Doctor
,
Whether
it
be
the
Will
of
God
that
we
should
keep
Sunday
for
Saturday
,
and
Christen
Infants
?
If
it
be
,
where
doth
the
Scripture
instruct
us
so
perfectly
,
as
that
every
Milk-Maid
can
see
it
there
?
But
let
the
Doctor
leave
Canting
,
and
give
a
solid
reason
if
he
can
,
why
the
Church
which
declared
Authoritatively
the
Scripture
to
be
the
Word
of
God
,
hath
not
Authority
enough
and
Knowledge
,
to
instruct
us
in
the
Will
of
God
,
if
there
were
no
Scripture
.
The
Doctor
proceeds
in
the
same
Page
,
and
says
,
the
Teachers
of
the
Jewish
Church
,
did
not
proceed
so
far
as
to
deprive
Men
of
the
use
of
the
Holy
Scripture
;
in
the
2d
.
Page
he
cannot
avoid
a
Contradiction
.
For
he
says
that
the
Jewish
Teachers
did
take
away
the
Key
of
Knowledge
from
the
people
,
which
the
Doctor
insinuates
was
the
Scripture
.
Then
they
took
away
the
Scripture
,
and
did
not
.
But
suppose
they
did
not
take
away
the
Scripture
;
yet
,
the
Doctor
says
,
they
took
away
the
Key
of
Knowledge
;
then
a
Man
may
have
the
Scripture
,
and
yet
not
have
the
Key
of
Knowledge
;
then
the
Jews
might
have
the
Scripture
,
and
yet
not
see
Christ
in
it
,
as
in
fact
did
not
.
So
may
the
Vulgar
have
the
New
Testament
,
and
yet
not
see
the
they
New
Law
in
it
.
So
may
a
Protestant
Cobler
have
the
Bible
,
and
yet
want
the
Key
of
Knowledge
;
and
to
whom
shall
he
go
to
for
it
?
What
if
he
should
go
to
the
Pope
?
For
the
Doctor
owns
in
his
Sermon
,
the
Pope
had
the
Key
,
and
indeed
I
cannot
tell
how
the
Doctor
should
come
by
it
,
unless
he
stole
it
:
Or
perhaps
it
was
found
in
the
Ruins
of
the
Monasteries
here
,
in
the
beginning
of
the
reformation
which
were
broke
down
,
(
the
Doctor
may
say
)
to
seek
for
this
Key
,
and
it
was
found
there
all
rusty
(
as
the
Doctor
says
)
and
they
have
been
rubbing
it
ever
since
.
But
to
come
to
my
purpose
.
How
is
it
,
that
the
Scriptures
alone
,
can
perfectly
instruct
us
in
the
Will
of
God
,
as
this
Doctor
says
,
when
a
whole
multitude
may
have
them
,
and
yet
not
see
the
Will
of
God
in
them
;
as
the
Jews
had
the
Scripture
,
and
yet
saw
not
the
Will
of
God
in
it
?
Now
,
why
may
not
the
Doctors
of
the
Church
of
England
,
put
the
Scripture
into
the
Hands
of
all
the
Vulgar
,
and
yet
teach
them
false
Doctrine
from
their
Pulpits
and
keep
the
true
sense
and
meaning
of
the
Scripture
from
the
people
,
as
well
as
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
?
then
the
people
may
have
the
Bible
,
and
yet
not
know
the
Will
of
God.
Then
is
the
Pastor
more
necessary
for
the
people
than
the
Bible
.
We
see
the
Quakers
,
Anabaptists
,
Presbyterians
,
Sweet-Singers
,
Lutherans
,
Church
of
England
,
&c.
all
these
differ
in
Faith
;
and
that
they
are
not
all
of
the
right
Faith.
I
suppose
the
Doctor
will
own
all
these
have
the
Bible
.
How
come
it
that
they
do
not
testifie
themselves
by
it
?
The
Doctor
must
answer
,
that
the
Teachers
of
these
Men
do
give
the
people
the
Bible
,
but
keep
from
them
the
Key
of
Knowledge
,
as
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
did
:
And
if
any
one
should
accuse
the
Doctor
of
acting
like
a
Scribe
and
Pharisee
in
this
Sermon
;
how
will
he
vindicate
himself
?
I
will
undertake
to
prove
him
guilty
of
above
40
false
Reflections
,
and
above-right
lies
against
his
Neighbours
in
this
one
Sermon
,
which
is
more
than
he
can
prove
upon
either
Scribe
or
Pharisee
.
Towards
the
end
of
this
Page
,
the
Doctor
says
it
is
a
horrible
impiety
,
to
interpret
the
Scripture
in
a
wrong
sense
to
the
people
(
God
forgive
the
Doctor
for
it
)
the
Roman
Catholicks
do
own
it
a
Crime
:
But
he
says
:
it
is
more
horrible
not
to
permit
the
people
to
read
it
.
He
thinks
this
must
be
taken
upon
his
bare
Word
,
for
he
brings
not
one
thing
like
a
proof
for
it
.
In
the
5th
.
Page
,
the
Doctor
doth
intermix
Prayers
in
an
unknown
Tongue
,
with
the
not
reading
the
Scripture
,
and
says
that
the
people
for
these
two
Errors
are
sure
to
perish
,
and
surely
damned
,
and
that
the
Scripture
is
necessary
to
save
them
,
and
that
the
Church
of
Rome
in
these
two
points
,
doth
contrive
the
Eternal
Ruin
and
Destruction
of
the
peoples
Souls
.
For
these
uncharitable
and
extravagant
expressions
,
the
Doctor
brings
not
any
thing
like
a
Proof
:
This
I
will
prove
upon
the
Doctor
,
according
to
his
own
Tenent
,
that
whatsoever
Protestant
reads
not
the
Scripture
,
is
surely
Damned
.
And
whatsoever
Pastor
of
the
Protestant
Church
,
doth
not
take
such
care
of
all
,
and
every
one
of
his
Flock
:
First
,
That
he
be
instructed
to
read
.
2
dly
.
That
he
have
the
Bible
.
3
dly
.
That
he
read
it
.
This
Pastor
for
neglecting
his
Flock
,
in
a
thing
so
necessary
to
Salvation
,
must
be
surely
Damned
also
.
This
must
follow
,
if
the
Scripture
be
necessary
to
Salvation
:
And
if
the
Protestant
Religion
had
started
up
before
Printing
was
found
out
,
how
many
poor
Protestants
would
this
Doctor
have
Damned
then
?
I
ask'd
the
Doctor
why
a
vigilant
Pastor
cannot
instruct
his
Flock
in
all
things
conducing
to
Salvation
,
without
giving
them
the
Bible
?
Until
the
Doctor
answers
,
I
say
he
may
,
and
that
it
had
been
done
in
all
Ages
;
and
I
know
not
why
it
may
not
be
done
in
the
Protestant
Church
,
unless
it
be
,
because
Truth
and
the
Will
of
God
are
not
in
the
Protestant
Ministers
.
The
Reader
may
be
perhaps
,
desirous
to
know
the
truth
of
the
Roman
Catholick
practice
in
these
two
points
:
As
to
the
first
,
to
wit
,
The
reading
the
Scripture
,
the
Church
doth
not
debar
the
Laity
from
it
.
She
alloweth
it
to
every
one
,
whom
the
Pastors
judge
will
use
it
,
with
respect
and
submission
to
the
Church
,
through
the
Motive
of
Piety
,
not
Curiosity
.
Where
the
Scripture
may
be
ill
used
there
it
is
not
generally
suffered
to
be
read
.
And
what
slavery
is
in
this
?
The
Vulgar
of
the
Roman
Church
,
do
believe
that
they
are
to
be
fed
by
their
Pastors
,
neither
to
feed
themselves
,
nor
to
be
fed
by
Bibles
.
St.
Paul
saith
,
That
Christ
appointed
Pastors
,
lest
his
people
should
stray
into
Errors
.
The
Doctor
appoints
the
Bible
.
The
Roman
Church
appoints
the
Bible
for
the
Pastor
chiefly
,
and
the
Pastor
for
the
people
.
The
Doctor
appoints
the
Bible
for
the
people
,
and
the
Pastors
are
useless
.
If
an
Indian
should
come
into
England
,
which
would
soonest
make
him
of
the
Protestant
Church
,
the
Doctor
or
the
Bible
?
If
the
Doctor
,
then
is
the
Bible
not
necessary
to
Salvation
.
If
the
Bible
,
how
comes
it
that
so
many
Millions
of
well
inventioned
people
in
the
World
,
could
never
see
the
Protestant
there
,
who
notwithstanding
were
no
strangers
to
the
Bible
.
This
I
admire
in
the
Church
of
England
,
who
since
the
reformation
,
are
much
more
solicitous
to
get
Estates
and
keep
them
,
than
those
things
which
belong
to
the
next
World
(
and
for
this
I
appeal
to
their
Consciences
)
that
every
one
should
not
claim
a
right
,
to
be
Judge
of
the
Laws
of
the
Land
to
preserve
their
Estates
,
as
well
as
to
be
Judge
of
the
Scripture
,
in
order
to
preserve
the
Soul.
In
the
next
place
,
the
Doctor
brings
Scripture
for
his
Tenent
If
any
one
shall
think
any
Text
he
brings
to
be
like
a
proof
;
if
I
may
be
worthy
to
know
it
,
I
will
readily
answer
it
.
Then
he
brings
Fathers
.
If
the
Doctor
will
be
so
kind
as
to
let
me
know
out
of
what
part
of
their
Writings
he
took
his
Quotations
,
I
will
readily
answer
him
.
Then
follows
his
Bold
Challenge
to
his
Adversaries
to
bring
him
any
Father
,
who
discourages
the
Vulgar
from
reading
the
Scripture
.
I
answer
his
Challenge
,
producing
these
following
.
The
whole
Epistle
to
the
Romans
wants
interpretation
,
and
is
involved
in
so
great
abscurities
,
that
we
want
the
aid
of
the
H.
Ghost
to
understand
it
.
The
same
Father
confesses
,
that
in
Scripture
he
never
trusted
to
his
own
knowledge
,
nor
believed
upon
his
own
strength
,
but
where
he
thought
he
knew
;
yet
,
there
he
asked
the
learned
.
This
Saint
had
no
Protestant
spirit
.
St.
Augustin
saith
,
That
the
Exposition
of
the
Holy
Scripture
,
is
to
be
asked
of
those
who
profess
themselves
Doctors
.
St.
Epiphanius
commits
the
scrutiny
of
the
Scriptures
to
the
Learned
.
St.
Gregory
saith
,
the
Word
of
God
abhors
carnal
and
rude
Men
,
and
that
the
Law
is
partly
manifest
and
partly
hidden
.
To
the
Weak
Faithful
,
we
ought
to
open
those
things
which
are
more
perfect
;
and
when
they
are
become
proficients
,
and
have
clear
sight
,
then
to
put
the
light
before
them
.
The
reasons
why
Heresies
are
,
is
the
obscurity
of
the
Divine
Scriptures
.
The
unlearned
ought
not
to
presume
to
read
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
before
they
have
despised
and
cast
off
the
pomp
of
the
World.
I
conclude
with
St.
Hierome
.
When
there
is
no
one
Art
,
that
any
of
Vulgar
can
say
they
know
,
yet
this
(
the
knowledge
of
the
Scriptures
)
every
old
prating
Woman
,
every
old
doting
Fellow
,
every
talking
Sophister
pretends
to
know
.
They
tear
the
Scripture
,
and
teach
it
before
they
have
learnd
it
.
I
could
have
given
farther
testimony
out
of
the
Fathers
,
if
it
had
been
needful
;
but
these
will
suffice
,
to
vindicate
the
Roman
Catholick
Practice
,
in
contradiction
to
the
Doctor
,
who
so
boldly
affirmed
,
that
we
had
not
one
rag
of
Antiquity
to
cover
our
Nakedness
in
this
point
.
I
assure
the
Doctor
,
that
some
would
have
been
glad
of
such
Rags
,
to
have
made
the
Church
of
Englands
Wedding
Garments
.
The
Roman
Catholick
Practice
in
the
second
point
,
which
the
Doctor
calls
Prayers
in
an
unknown
Tongue
,
is
thus
.
The
chief
part
of
the
Roman
Liturgie
is
the
Mass
;
the
substance
of
which
is
an
Action
,
to
wit
,
An
Offering
to
God
,
of
the
Body
and
Blood
of
his
Son
,
under
the
form
of
Bread
and
Wine
,
by
the
Hands
of
the
Priest
:
A
Sacrifice
commemorative
and
applicative
of
the
great
Sacrifice
of
the
Cross
.
The
Doctor
dares
not
deny
us
Antiquity
and
Universality
,
as
to
the
truth
of
this
Doctrine
.
The
rest
of
the
Roman
Liturgie
is
subservient
to
this
.
That
part
of
the
Liturgie
,
which
the
Vulgar
do
frequent
,
is
the
Mass
,
as
Morning
Prayer
;
Even-song
,
Compline
,
and
Litanies
,
as
Evening
Prayers
.
The
rest
of
the
Liturgie
is
said
by
Church-Men
,
at
Mid-night
,
or
at
three
,
four
,
or
five
of
the
Clock
in
the
Morning
,
or
at
such
hours
as
the
Vulgar
is
seldom
present
,
and
perhaps
the
Doctor
would
not
leave
his
warm
Bed
and
Wife
to
hear
it
,
although
he
pretends
to
understand
Latin.
Now
that
part
of
the
Liturgie
which
the
Vulgar
do
frequent
,
they
do
understand
as
well
,
as
the
Vulgar
in
the
Protestant
Church
do
their
Common-Prayer
;
for
the
Mass
,
I
told
the
Doctor
,
it
was
an
Action
,
and
Seeing
is
their
most
proper
sense
for
it
,
and
the
Vulgar
may
have
as
good
Eyes
as
the
Doctor
.
As
to
that
part
which
is
properly
Prayer
,
it
is
Translated
into
the
Vulgar
Tongue
,
and
they
have
it
in
their
Prayer-Books
,
and
being
obliged
to
Church-Service
every
Sunday
and
Holy
day
,
they
understand
it
as
well
as
their
daily
Prayers
.
The
Epistles
and
Gospels
of
the
Mass
,
are
likewise
in
the
Vulgar
Tongue
,
with
the
meaning
of
every
Circumstance
.
And
as
to
the
understanding
of
every
word
of
the
Mass
,
which
the
Doctor
was
pleased
to
reflect
upon
.
I
answer
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
the
Words
of
the
Mass
,
are
the
Priest's
secret
Prayers
to
God
,
for
himself
and
the
people
:
There
is
moreover
,
daily
Preaching
and
Catechising
in
the
Church
,
by
which
there
is
enough
given
to
the
weakest
Capacitie
,
to
let
him
understand
,
what
he
ought
to
believe
and
do
,
in
order
to
Salvation
.
To
the
Question
.
Must
the
Vulgar
be
acquainted
with
every
thing
which
is
done
in
,
and
belongs
to
the
Church
,
before
they
can
or
will
be
satisfied
&
edified
,
or
no
?
If
they
must
,
then
the
Church
of
England
Edifieth
not
the
greatest
part
of
her
Children
in
her
Cathedrals
,
where
,
when
they
sing
Musically
,
few
understand
them
,
neither
are
the
Vulgar
satisfied
and
edified
in
the
Protestant
Ceremonies
,
neither
am
I
edified
,
that
the
Doctor
should
so
much
extoll
Knowledge
,
when
not
one
in
ten
thousand
ever
read
the
Protestant
Profession
of
Faith
:
Nor
one
in
the
like
Number
,
knows
how
much
he
is
obliged
to
believe
.
So
that
when
we
rightly
examine
things
we
shall
find
ignorance
a
Protestant
Vertue
.
And
is
it
not
to
stumble
at
a
Straw
and
leap
over
a
Block
,
to
Damn
the
people
if
they
read
not
the
Scripture
;
but
let
the
Tenents
of
those
who
read
it
,
be
ever
so
perverse
,
so
they
protest
against
Popery
,
they
are
Members
of
Crist's
Church
(
as
the
Bishop
of
Bath
and
Wells
called
the
French
Hugonots
in
his
Pastoral-Letter
)
and
go
to
Heaven
.
And
is
not
this
Pharisaical
in
the
Doctor
,
to
Damn
people
for
not
reading
the
Scripture
,
a
Protestant
Tradition
,
and
not
Condemn
them
for
their
Schismatical
and
Heretical
Opinions
,
things
Condemned
by
God
,
his
Son
,
his
Apostles
,
and
his
Church
in
all
Ages
?
I
argue
farther
,
thus
.
It
is
not
necessary
that
the
Vulgar
understand
explicitly
all
,
and
every
thing
that
is
believed
in
the
Church
,
as
such
decrees
of
the
four
first
General
Councils
as
are
de
Fide
,
or
the
Thirty
Nine
Articles
in
the
Protestant
Church
destinctly
.
If
the
Doctor
denys
this
Proposition
,
he
must
Condemn
most
of
the
Ministers
and
Laity
of
his
Church
;
so
by
parity
of
Reason
,
a
Man
may
be
a
true
Worshiper
,
and
yet
not
understand
distinctly
and
verbatim
every
Word
which
is
spoken
in
the
Church
.
Farther
,
the
Doctor
cannot
shew
any
Divine
precept
or
decree
of
any
General
Council
,
which
contradicts
the
practice
of
the
Roman
Church
,
in
this
point
;
which
he
should
have
done
,
if
he
had
spoken
Doctor
like
before
he
had
pronounced
Damnation
upon
the
people
.
Now
,
where
there
is
no
precept
contradicted
,
the
Church
is
to
be
obeyed
.
These
reasons
I
give
the
Doctor
,
for
the
Latin
Church
Liturgy
being
every
where
in
Latin.
1
st
.
That
the
Governours
of
the
Church
may
have
a
certain
knowledge
of
the
true
practice
of
it
,
which
they
could
not
conveniently
have
,
if
it
were
in
every
petty
Speech
.
2
dly
.
To
avoid
danger
of
the
nullity
of
the
Sacraments
,
which
would
happen
if
the
Priest
should
not
pronounce
the
Words
rightly
,
of
which
there
is
danger
,
when
the
Priest
is
not
perfect
in
the
Language
.
3
dly
.
It
is
convenient
for
many
of
the
Clergy
and
Laity
.
To
the
Clergy
,
because
they
are
often
sent
from
one
country
to
another
,
of
different
Speeches
,
for
the
common
good
,
who
if
the
Liturgie
were
in
the
Vulgar
Tongue
,
they
for
many
years
could
not
be
able
to
assist
at
any
Solemnity
of
the
Church
.
The
same
Reason
is
proportionally
for
the
Laity
.
4
thly
.
For
Uniformity
.
5
thly
.
Because
the
Latin
is
not
mutable
as
other
Speeches
are
.
Lastly
,
Because
it
hath
been
so
from
the
Beginning
,
as
these
following
Fathers
do
Witness
.
St.
Cyprian
insinuates
that
in
his
time
,
the
publick
Liturgie
was
in
Latin.
St.
Austin
insinuates
the
same
to
have
been
in
his
time
.
St.
Hierome
affirms
,
that
all
the
Eastern
Church
used
the
Greek
Language
.
There
are
many
more
Reasons
to
be
given
;
some
the
Doctor
gave
,
such
as
he
thought
he
could
easily
refute
.
The
last
Argument
which
the
Doctor
brought
,
fell
indeed
to
the
Ground
for
want
of
a
Friend
to
support
it
.
The
other
three
Reasons
which
the
Doctor
says
,
the
Catholicks
pretend
for
themselves
,
I
suppose
the
Doctor
had
from
the
Irish
Popish
Collier
,
a
Man
who
had
more
Devotion
than
Learning
.
But
what
if
the
Church
gave
no
Reason
,
and
should
say
,
Stat
pro
ratione
voluntas
.
It
is
my
Will
,
and
you
are
to
Obey
:
I
am
impower'd
by
God
,
and
assisted
by
his
Spirit
;
you
are
to
submit
,
captivantes
intellectum
?
This
Method
would
not
please
my
Doctor
at
all
.
Arbitrary
Power
!
Egyptian
Slavery
!
He
would
raise
up
Old
Cora
,
with
all
his
Arguments
that
were
used
against
Moyses
;
and
Cora
would
come
in
with
a
Why
and
a
Wherefore
,
against
every
thing
that
pleased
not
his
Humour
.
But
must
a
King
give
a
Reason
to
every
Subject
,
why
he
makes
such
or
such
a
Decree
?
If
not
a
King
,
why
the
Church
?
The
Liturgie
which
the
Church
used
in
England
(
the
Doctor
will
not
deny
)
was
in
Latin
,
from
St.
Austin's
time
,
till
the
Reign
of
King
Henry
the
Eighth
,
and
were
all
Damned
in
those
Nine
Hundred
Years
!
Perhaps
the
Doctor
will
answer
with
his
Book
of
Homilies
,
that
all
the
World
,
Men
,
Women
,
and
Children
,
were
Drounded
in
Idolatry
and
Superstition
.
Uncharitable
Doctor
!
The
World
will
neither
believe
your
Homilies
,
nor
you
,
without
some
proof
,
at
least
a
seeming
one
,
like
your
caracterised
self
.
But
let
us
consider
what
were
the
Works
of
these
Egyptian
Slaves
(
as
the
Doctor
is
pleased
to
call
the
Roman
Catholicks
)
whilst
they
were
in
Slavery
,
under
their
hard
Task-Masters
.
Some
abandoning
the
World
,
retired
into
Monasteries
,
dedicating
themselves
intirely
to
God
by
solemn
Vows
,
passing
their
whole
Life
in
Prayer
,
Fasting
,
Contemplation
;
Day
and
Night
,
praising
God.
Others
building
and
endowing
Religious
Houses
,
Hospitals
,
Alms-Houses
,
Cathedrals
,
Collegiate
,
and
Parish
Churches
.
And
from
whence
have
you
all
your
Fat
Benefices
,
but
from
these
Egyptian
Slaves
?
If
these
Men
were
Idolaters
,
then
are
you
with
your
Wives
and
Children
,
like
those
Heathenish
Priests
in
Daniel
,
Who
devoured
those
Meats
which
were
offered
to
Idols
.
If
these
Men
were
Workers
of
Piety
,
then
may
you
justly
fear
to
be
called
to
an
account
by
the
great
Task-Master
,
for
not
fulfilling
the
intentions
of
your
Egyptian
Benefactors
.
But
we
will
now
pass
from
the
Egyptian
Slavery
and
Darkness
,
to
the
Liberty
and
light
of
the
Reformation
.
I
fear
to
assert
any
thing
positively
,
lest
I
should
Err
;
for
I
cannot
find
in
this
Protestant
Land
of
Promise
,
any
terra
firma
,
upon
which
I
can
build
any
Position
.
I
will
therefore
,
ask
the
Doctor
,
who
,
perhaps
,
may
be
better
acquainted
with
the
Principles
of
the
Reformation
than
I
am
.
First
,
Whether
God
by
any
Miracle
,
or
any
thing
like
a
Miracle
,
gave
testimony
of
the
Truth
of
the
Reformation
?
If
God
did
not
,
how
will
the
Doctor
convince
me
that
this
is
not
ignis
fatuus
,
a
false
Light
,
and
a
real
Egyptian
Darkness
.
The
Doctor
may
perhaps
answer
,
that
he
needeth
no
Miracles
,
it
sufficeth
that
their
Reformation
is
conformable
to
Scripture
;
but
is
not
this
,
Doctor
,
the
plea
of
every
Heretick
,
and
cannot
they
see
as
well
as
you
?
You
are
then
to
justifie
all
Heresies
,
or
to
bring
a
plea
for
your selves
,
such
as
they
cannot
use
for
their
justification
.
I
suppose
the
Doctor
will
allow
every
Reformer
the
same
Liberty
which
he
takes
himself
,
and
then
I
ask
him
if
he
can
shew
me
a
Heretick
in
the
World
,
and
by
what
Rule
he
declares
him
an
Heretick
?
2
dly
.
Are
all
the
Reformations
of
Christ's
Church
true
?
If
not
all
,
how
many
?
Had
there
been
any
right
and
true
Reformation
of
God's
Church
,
if
the
Church
of
England
had
not
reformed
?
And
did
the
better
Livers
of
the
English
people
begin
and
pursue
the
reformation
of
England
?
Do
the
reformed
live
better
than
the
Old
Egyptian
Slaves
?
How
many
Holy
Days
and
Fasting
Days
have
they
added
to
that
Egyptian
Calendar
.
3
dly
.
What
Benefit
hath
the
World
found
by
the
reformation
?
If
it
be
a
deliverance
from
Egyptian
Darkness
,
how
uncharitable
are
you
to
hide
this
Light
under
a
Bushel
?
(
and
it
is
so
little
indeed
,
that
a
Bushel
may
easily
hide
it
.
)
Why
do
you
not
let
it
shine
to
the
World
?
Why
do
you
not
send
your
Missioners
to
unslave
and
enlighten
the
World
,
with
the
knowledge
of
your
true
new
Gospel
?
Why
do
you
not
oppose
the
Romish
Missioners
,
in
all
Kingdoms
of
the
World
?
Strange
,
that
all
the
true
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
should
be
so
much
wedded
to
Benefices
and
Wives
,
that
none
should
have
the
Spirit
of
Paul
,
The
charity
of
God
urgeth
me
to
diffuse
the
truth
of
the
Gospel
,
over
the
Face
of
the
Universe
.
And
now
how
many
Countries
have
they
Converted
?
How
many
Kings
have
obeyed
the
Church
of
England
?
How
many
Mores
have
ye
Christened
,
and
instructed
in
the
Indies
?
When
doth
the
Doctor
think
that
there
will
be
of
all
Tribes
and
People
,
Tongues
and
Nations
of
his
belief
?
There
must
certainly
be
more
Apostolical
endeavours
used
,
than
have
been
hitherto
.
For
in
truth
,
I
never
found
any
Protestant
Missioners
besides
the
Penal
Laws
,
the
Charity
of
the
Reformation
.
to
free
Papists
from
Tyranny
,
Slavery
,
and
Darkness
,
and
bring
them
into
the
Light
and
Liberty
of
the
Reformation
.
Liberty
to
believe
what
ye
please
,
so
ye
believe
not
the
Pope
:
Liberty
to
do
what
ye
please
,
so
ye
do
not
please
the
Pope
,
Liberty
to
excuse
all
Errors
,
provided
ye
blame
Popery
.
I
find
in
the
Writings
of
many
of
the
Church
of
England
Men
,
that
they
are
ready
to
excuse
the
Pagans
to
suppress
Popery
,
to
Embrace
all
Hereticks
,
to
strengthen
their
party
,
and
prove
their
universality
.
He
is
the
worst
of
Men
,
who
seems
any
way
to
favour
the
Roman
Catholicks
.
I
met
the
other
day
,
with
a
little
Protestant
Champion
,
(
a
Three-penny
Book
)
who
briskly
contended
for
the
Validity
of
the
Orders
of
the
Church
of
England
.
He
own'd
indeed
,
that
they
had
them
by
Succession
from
the
Church
of
Rome
;
but
in
my
Opinion
,
if
they
had
not
found
fallen
Priests
from
the
Church
of
Rome
,
they
would
have
gone
to
Monsieur
Calvin
,
both
for
Articles
and
Orders
,
and
have
then
thought
their
Church
altogether
as
good
as
it
is
now
:
But
to
return
to
my
Little
Champion
;
he
had
no
sooner
proved
the
Protestant
Ordination
valid
,
and
that
by
a
Succession
of
Bishops
in
the
Romish
Church
,
till
the
beginning
of
the
Reformation
,
but
presently
reflects
upon
Popery
with
a
protestant
Eye
,
and
crys
out
,
I
will
retort
my
argument
upon
the
Papists
,
and
prove
their
Ordination
invalid
,
and
did
prove
that
for
many
hundred
years
before
the
Reformation
,
they
had
no
valid
Ordination
;
and
so
annulled
his
own
.
Thus
Acts
my
Doctor
,
he
cares
not
what
he
Preaches
to
the
people
,
provided
it
be
against
Popery
;
he
cares
not
what
they
Learn
,
so
they
Learn
not
Popery
,
or
Learn
to
Hate
it
.
He
cares
not
how
many
Lies
he
tells
in
his
Pulpit
,
so
he
can
but
belie
Popery
.
Witness
this
Sermon
,
and
Witness
the
World
,
whether
these
Tenents
which
follow
,
Collected
out
of
the
Doctor
's
Sermon
,
be
not
notorious
Lies
.
First
,
in
the
Title
of
his
Book
,
Insinuating
that
the
Roman
Catholicks
are
Idolaters
,
in
his
Text
,
That
their
Clergy
are
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
Ignorance
amongst
them
is
a
Virtue
.
They
keep
Men
in
Ignorance
of
their
Religion
.
They
hinder
Men
to
be
saved
.
They
forbid
Men
to
know
God
and
serve
him
.
The
Priests
hide
God's
Light
under
a
Bushel
.
Antiquity
is
against
the
Papists
,
and
they
own
it
.
That
in
the
Ninth
and
Tenth
Century
,
the
Pope
took
away
the
Key
of
Knowledge
from
the
people
;
cruel
usage
in
the
Church
of
Rome
.
The
Pope
thought
it
better
the
people
should
be
Kill'd
,
than
they
should
understand
their
prayers
.
The
Church
of
Rome
wishes
there
were
no
Bible
in
the
World
:
The
Church
of
Rome
Cruel
and
Tyrannical
upon
Mens
Souls
.
The
Bishop
or
Inquisitor
alone
,
can
give
people
leave
to
read
the
Scriptures
;
and
whosoever
should
presume
to
do
it
without
License
under
their
Hands
,
cannot
be
absolved
.
They
instruct
the
people
sparingly
and
slightly
.
Their
Sermons
are
made
up
with
Stories
.
They
leave
out
the
Second
Commandment
.
The
Roman
Church
yields
Antiquity
to
the
Protestants
.
They
decline
all
manner
of
Tryal
.
The
Roman
Priests
take
the
Childrens
Bread
from
them
.
Doctor
,
What
if
they
were
Married
,
what
would
they
do
then
?
would
there
not
soon
be
in
the
Roman
Church
,
such
a
Collection
for
the
Children
,
as
was
presently
after
the
Reformation
for
the
poor
?
This
then
must
certainly
reflect
upon
those
Church-men
who
have
Wives
Children
.
They
make
Market
of
the
peoples
sins
.
(
The
Rector
of
Colchester
will
inform
the
Reader
of
the
practice
of
the
Church
of
England
,
if
he
will
give
himself
the
trouble
to
read
his
Book
)
they
pay
Mony
for
Mistakes
.
The
Scripture
,
the
chief
and
ancient
Adversary
of
the
Roman
Church
.
The
Roman
Church
,
Egyptian
Bondage
and
Darkness
;
cruel
Task-Master
,
denying
Men
sufficient
Means
to
Salvation
.
These
and
many
other
uncharitable
false
aspersions
,
the
Doctor
in
one
Sermon
,
did
presume
to
cast
upon
the
Catholicks
,
at
the
very
time
when
his
Prince
and
the
Head
of
his
Church
,
did
openly
profess
that
Religion
.
Surely
he
was
instructed
by
Luther's
familiar
Angel
:
And
I
find
indeed
,
much
of
Luther's
Spirit
in
the
Doctor
,
and
a
great
deal
of
Luther's
Angel's
Truth
.
I
admire
with
what
Face
the
Doctor
can
thus
belie
God's
Church
,
especially
at
such
a
time
,
when
all
those
injuries
must
reflect
necessarily
upon
the
Head
of
his
own
Church
,
our
King
,
as
that
he
is
an
Idolater
,
that
his
Worship
is
superstitious
,
that
he
is
ignorant
:
That
he
shall
be
Damned
;
That
he
is
in
Egyptian
Darkness
,
and
the
like
.
I
have
here
briefly
run
over
the
Doctor
's
Book
.
To
reflect
upon
every
particular
Cant
,
was
not
my
Business
.
I
was
only
desired
to
answer
the
principal
Heads
,
which
are
,
the
not
reading
the
Scriptures
and
Prayers
in
an
unknown
Tongue
.
If
any
one
shall
think
there
is
any
material
point
not
answered
,
I
will
endeavour
to
satisfie
him
or
them
,
if
I
may
be
worthy
to
know
it
;
in
the
interim
,
I
leave
what
is
written
to
the
impartial
Reader
,
and
return
to
conclude
with
my
Doctor
,
giving
him
this
Admonition
and
Exhortation
.
Dura
cervice
&
incircumscisis
cordibus
&
auribus
,
vos
semper
spiritui
sancto
resistitis
:
That
is
,
the
Doctor
should
not
stuff
up
his
Sermon
with
Canting
Reflections
upon
his
Neighbours
,
much
less
with
down
right
Lies
:
that
he
should
be
cautious
how
any
thing
he
preaches
,
might
reflect
upon
the
sacred
person
of
his
King.
That
he
should
take
care
no
Argument
might
be
retorted
upon
himself
,
for
then
he
fouls
his
own
Nest
.
I
exhort
him
to
teach
his
people
sound
Doctrine
,
and
good
Morality
;
for
that
is
the
way
to
keep
the
people
in
Union
(
which
is
all
he
exhorts
them
to
in
his
Sermon
)
and
if
they
be
not
in
Union
,
it
will
bring
them
to
it
,
and
at
length
to
the
knowledge
of
the
Truth
,
which
I
wish
the
Doctor
with
his
Flock
.
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spiritu
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sancto
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lib.
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de
summo
bono
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supra
cantica
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