No Peace with Rome. A and (that I may ore Hleromet words) how filly aPilot harh oft-rimes lleered rhe leaking V elfell ofthe Church!As though every Tapfler and Tinker now-a-dayes,could nor point their finger to thelong Bead-mule ofPopes, and fay,_ Such and (uch were the Monllers ofmen, fuch (as Platina, L}Ta, Genebrard confefle) were Apotaticall, and Apollaticall mifcreants; ywi•, their life hach been long theTable-r•lke ofrhe World, as lier#•rd (peaks: There can thereforebe no peace poffibly, unletre rhcywill be content to be headletre, or we tan be contenrro be theflaves o( Bo,:e: Imagine, they could be fo ingenuous, as to coofetre that the fame Serpent which infinuated him(elfeofold intoParadife, might perhapscreepclofely imo Pet m Chaire;yet there would be no letrecontroverfie, dtfaCI•, than ofrhepollibiliry oferror. Befides, there are other Popifhopinionsof thefame llamp,bur morepragmatical!, B which are not more pernicious to the Church, than to common-weales: as rhofeof the power of both Swords, ofthe depofitionofPrinces, difpofing ofKingdomes, abfolvingofSubjefrs, fruaration ofOathes(fufliciently tanvafed oflare, both by the Ve11etian Divines, and French, and oors)\vhich are fopalpably oppofire to the liberty ofChri!lian'Governmenr, that rhofePrinces and People which can floope to fucha yoke arewdll worthy oftheir (ervirude: and can they hope chat rhe great Commanders~fthe World will come to this bent? (we all, as theComick Poet laid truly,had mher be free, than ferve; burmuch more Prince;) or, on the contrary, can we hope, thattheTyrants of theChurc!l will be content to leave rhis hold? Whats foppery were this? For, both thofe Princesare grownemore wife, and thefe Tyrants more arrogant· and (as RujJimu fpeakes ofGeorgt the ArriaiiJ Gallant') they in(olemly govern an ufurped Bifhoprick,as ifthey thought theyhad the managin~ ofa proud EmC pire, and not ofa R-eligious Prieflhood. SECT. Vf, Th•t the other opinJon1 ofthe Romifh Chnrcl""i/1 not ddmil ll.econcilialion. ~"trntal11mi· 111m. Pi.:u.in-:-it.Br- "d.4&Cimjl. I Gtntbr.mi,4· )dl.lo, !yr.~ ,.., Mat,,6, «uff/.t.t.'l.3· Prccacittr'Ui f,rpt~tmEpiftD· p.:lNI!J[.frN!Jt, &,, BUT let us be fo liberal!, as to grant this to our felves, which certainiy they wil never grant us; fur, this old Grandame of Cities thinkes her felfe borne to command;andwilleither fall, or rule:Neitherdoth th~t Mitred Moderator of theWorld affefr any other Emblem, than that which J•lian je!lingly afcribes to JuliNI C.efor, (Tl ..,.,.,'••)To rule all; orto Akx•ndtr theGreat ( ~"'"""'') to conquer l•!W..c.fo"· D all; invas adegeneratingfpiritof Adri•nrbe Si.r, which caufed to be written upon Bini<u;, ,;,. his Tombe, in the ChurchofS.Ptltr;That nothing in alibis life fell out fo unhappily <d,;,,. to biru, as that he governed: Letthis, Hay, begranted us; There wanr nor(I know' , fome milder fpirits (TheoJo[rar.1, that can play with both hands)which thinke, ifthefe ::~;~:'·'·'0 bufie points \Vere by the moderationofboth parts quietly compofed, it might be fafe for anyman ( fo it bewithournoyfe) to thinke what be I ill concerning theother dif· fereoces ofReligion: Thefeare theGhollsofthatHeretike Aptllu, whofe fpeech it was,Thatit is fufficient to beleeve inChrifr crucified, and thattherc fhould be nodi(. EA~hj+'•' l· cuffing of the particular warrants and reafoo ofour faith: Orrhebroodofuon.., " '•uo. one ofthe Courciers ofConft•ntiul,and his Deputy in the seleNcidn Councell,which when theFathers hotly contended, as there was good caufe, for the Confubftantia- s,,,.t.u.p, lity oftheSonne; Get youhome, faid he,and trouble notthe Church !Iill with thefe trifles. Saint Bajil was ofanotherminde, from thefe men; who (as Th<Ddortt reports) ThwM.Iu •7 E when the Lieutenant of raltDI the Emperor perfwaded him to remit bur one letter for peace fake, anfwered, Thofe that are nurfed with the fincere milkofGods Word, may notabideonefyllableofhisfacred truth to be corrupted; but ratherrhan they will endure ir,areready to receive any kinde oftormenr,or death. Eleufrul & SihJd.HJ which were OrthodoK Bifbops,aod rhofeother worthy Guardians,and(a; Athanajru1 his title was) Championsofthe truth, wereofanother minde from rhefecoole and indifferent Mediators. So farreasrhefacred truth will allow us, we will accompany E . bJ ... them gladly: but ifthey urge ns further, we lland lltll, orllarr back; and rhofe two ,i~ri;;:~ courfeswhich Ep,pb•wi~tJadvifed, asthe remedies ofHerer.e (Heed and Avoy<hnce) ,_,;_c~·.-... hoth '""1-
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