A Cenfure ofTrave/1. 651 A rheEnglilb: HowwellaMonarchy (thebeftformeofgovernmenr) befeeme'sthe Church: How unlikelyiththat Chriftwould leavehisSpoufeintheconfufionof many heads, or ofnone. And how that we are buta rag tome from their coat· and where wa> our religion before L•thtr lay with Bor4 ? And what miferable fubdivifions are there in onr Proteflancie ? and what a gleaning are we to the barvefl of Chriftendome ? with infinite fuggeflions ofthisnarure; ab!e(as they are plaulibly 1 urged) to !bakean ungrounded judgment : which1fthey have fo far prevailed, as that the hearer will abide bimfe!fe'hood-winkt with this vaile ofthe Church, how eafily !ball time lead him into rbofe hl!efuller abfurdicies? SECT. XVII. IN all which proceeding, thefe impoflorshave a double advantage : Firft, that they deliver the opinion of their Church with fuch mitigation and favour, as thofe that care to p!eafe, not to infonme: forming the voiceofthe Church to the liking the hearer,not the judgment ofthehearer to the voice ofthe Church: wherein it is not hard to obferve that Popery fpoken and written are two things; in difcourfe, nothing ismore ordinary then to difclaime fome oftheir received politions, and to blanch or hers. It is the mslice ofan adverfafy that mif-repons them, they doe not hold that Images lbould be adored; that thewoodof the Crolfe lbould be worlbipped with the very fame devotion that is due to Chrift himfelfe ; that the C ChnrchistheJudgeofGods writings; thatP••ItheFift cannoterre;thataman maymerit ofhismaker, much lelfe fupercrrogate ; that amoufe can run away with that whicheithet is or wasGod Almighty; that it is lawfull tokill an herericall King; and allother thofe monfters of opinion, which their moft claffickeAuthorshave both hatcht and lbamelefly thruft into the light of the world. Theydefie thofe ridiculous Legends which we father upon their Church ; and bow much doe they fcome S. F,.ncit his Bird, or hisWolfe, or hiswounds, or his ApolHes ofAffife. Pope]oaoewasbutafancy: Never Pope was an Hereticke· Ifnowwecryour ofimpudence, and call their allowed Writers to witnes; Loe,even rhey alfo are fOrged by us, and are taught to play booty on our fide. Thus refolved to outface all evidence, they make fa ire weatheroftheir fouleftopinions, and inveigh again!t noD thingfomuchasthe fpightfolndfe ofoudlanders. Jtisnot poffiblethat any wife ftranger lliould be in love with the face of their Church , if he might fee her in her owne likenes ; and therefore they have cunninglymalked one pltt of it, and painted another ; fo as thofe features of hers which are ugly and otrenlive, !ball notappeare ro any but her owne eyes. And becaufe bookes are dangerous blabs,and will be telling the generations to come, bow!trangely that face is alteredwith Age and Art, therefore their tongues are clipped altO, and made to fp~ke nonebut her owne words. Out ofthis licence, and hope to winne, they can fittheir dilbestoevery palate, and are fo fawcy, as tomake theChurch belie it felfe. Hence it was that aSpa· nifb Father could teach, that itis nor ofrhe neceffity offaitb ·, to bele.,ethatthe prefentPope is the Vicar of Chrift, and the fi1cceffor of Peter. That Hofli"'theJe· E fuite could fay, that the Pope abufedhiskeyes, and the authority of the Church, in receiving Henry the Fourth.That another ofhis fellows in adifcourfewith a French Bilbop,could difparage adecifion ofhisHolineffein comparifon ofaGenerall Coun· cell. That MentiS the Reader of Diviniry at Yak4olltl, following 84IM th.e Jefuite, could affirme the lawfulneffeof the marriageof religious perfons upon a doubrfull revelation. That more then oneof that Order have dared tobrooch Confeffion by letters, again!tthe Bull of CloHenl the Eight. And if thefe men be not fparingof their conrradillions to that Vice-God of theirs, whofe valfab they areby peculiar profellion , howmuchmore boldly will they fwim againft theftreame ofany com· moR opinion, that may concerne thebodyofthat head? Kkk ~ E.xtt~~plartpi{l. {&ript.t • ti 'D!1miniUIJPIIub1111,. tjNIItthln datal"i~~JJ~fo b Cl tmt 11tiJ 8. ht•tttmtml'rio~ l?OtijifRJN. Jb.
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