• Annus Christi 30 Iesus Christ.
• Annus Christi 34 S. Peter.
• Annus Christi 69 Linus.
• [Page 10-11]Annus Christi 80 Cletus.
• Annus Christi 93 Clemens.
• General Coun­cells.
• The first Councell held at Hierusa­lem by the Apostles. Act. 15.

THE most Bles­sed Virgin Mary, S. Ioseph her spouse, S. Iohn Baptist, S. Andrew, Iames, Tho­mas, Philip, Bartho­lomew, Matthew, Marke, Luke, Iohn the Euangelist, with the rest of the Apost­les. S. Stephen, Paul, Mary Magdalene, Io­seph of Arimathia, Ni­codemus, Titus, Ti­motheus, Nicanor, Eunuchus Candaces Reginae Aethiopiae, A­gabus, Barnabas, Pro­chorus, Euodius, Ia­son, Hierotheus, Te­cla, Dionysius Areopa­gita, Petronilla, Mar­tiall, Hermes, Longi­nus, Abdias, Aristobu­lus, Pancratius, Anti­pas, Pudens the Sena­tor, and Euprepia the Matrone who dedica­ted their houses for saying of Masses (see acta Pu­dent. [Page 10-11] & Epist. 1. & 2. Pij PP. ad Iustin.) Clement the Consul & Plautilla his sister, Flauia Domitilla her daughter, Iphigenia daughter to the King of Ethiopia, both vow­ed and veyled Virgins, the later by S. Matthew the Apostle (Abdias & Su­rius in vita Matthaei) the former by S. Clement the Pope (Beda in Mar­tyrolog. 7. Maij. Baro­nius an. 11. 98.) Nere­us, Achilleus, The Priests of Achaia who wrote the life of S. Andrew, and infinite others.

The conuersions besides of many Romans, Corin­thians, Ephesians, Philip­pians, Galathians &c. Of eight thousād by two ser­mons of S. Peter. Of the King of Ethiopia, of his wife, and the whole Pro­uince by S. Matthew (Su­rius in vita Matthaei.) Of a great multitude of Frenchmen by S. Fronto, who restored life to Saint George, one of the 72. dis­cipls of Christ, by touching him with a staffe giuen him by S. Peter. Beda, [Page 12-13] Vsuardus, Ado in Martyrol. 25. Octo. Petrus de Natal. l. 9. Catal. c. 109. Of many more the which I purpose­ly omit.

FReewill. Matth. 12. v. 33. 1. Cor. 7. 37. Reall presence. Mat. 26. 26. 1. Cor. 11. 24. sacrifice of the masse. Luc. 22. 19. Act. 13. 2. Su­premacy. Mat. 16. 18. 19. Ioan. 21. 17. Merit or Iustification of Workes. Mar. 9. 40. Apocalip. 22. 11. 12. Iac. 2. 24. Confession & Satisfacti­on. Ioā. 20. 32. 2. Reg. 12. 13. 14. Dan. 4. 24. Inuocation & Honour of Saints. Iob. 5. 1. Gen. 48. 16. in Liturgia Ia­cobi minoris. 1. Reg. 28. 14. Purgatory or prai­er for the dead. Mat. 12. 32. 1. Ioan. 5. 16. Di­onys. de Eccles. Hier. cap. 7. In so much, as Kemnitius sayth, In S. Denis we find that prayer for the dead was made in the Church. Kem. exa. p. 3. p. 110. Single life. Mat. 19. 10. 11. 12. 1. Cor. 7. 7. 8. Dion. Ec­cles. [Page 10-11] Hier. c. 6. where he extolleth Monasticall profession, yea specifyeth their tonsure and change of habite. Can. 25. or 27. Apost. Martial. ep. ad Tholos. perswadeth Valeria to sacrifice her virginity to God. So did S. Paul perswade Te­cla according to Saint Ambrose l. 2. de virg. Prescript fasts. Can. 68. Apost. l. 5. const. A­postolic. c. 12. Miracles wrought by the shaddow of S. Peter. Act. 5. by napkins & handkercheifs brought from S. Pauls bo­dy. Act. 19. 11. which being applyed to the sicke, their diseases ceased, and the wicked spirites went forth. By the hemme of an Image set vp by the wo­man whome our Sauiour had healed of the bloudy fluxe. Eus. l. 7. c. 14. 18. with sundry others. Touching the pointes of our Faith, I shall heereafter mention in this Columne, though I name but one or two Authors for thē, yet they were all ge­nerally & vniformal­ly held by others; els [Page 12-13] these I name had byn noted for singularity, as S. Cyprian was for rebaptization, Iraene­us, Papias &c. for the Millenary errour &c.

• Iudas Iscariotes.
• Simon Magus.
• Elymas Magus.
• Alexander.
• Hymenaeus.
• [Page 10-11]Philetus.
• Thebutes.
• Cerinthus.
• Ebion
• Diotrephes.
• Menander.
• Nicolaus &c.

A. IVDAS Isca­riotes the first who impugned the Reall presence, which our Sacramentaryes now deny. Claud. Xanct. rep. 2. de Eu­cha. c. 14. Chrysost. hom. 46. in Ioan. 6.

B. He attributed the miracles which Christ wrought to art Ma­gicke. Hier. in Matt. 26. Simon Magus did the like of the mira­cles wrought by the Church: and Prote­stāts now calumniate the miracles atchieued by holy men, and me­rites of Saints.

C. Simō Magus also taught, that God is the authour of sinne. Vin. Lirin. adu. pro. haeret. nouitat. cap. 34. The same is auerred by Calu. l. 2. institut. c. 17. l. 2. cap. 4. l. 3. c. 23. and by Fulke with [Page 10-11] other English Secta­ryes, who although they would free thē ­selues from this hellish blasphemy: yet as lōg as they teach, that God willeth sinne, that his wil necessitates ours, that he createth some purposely to damnatiō, predetermineth the end, and worketh the cause of their destruction, they cannot be free, as is proued in the 29. Controuer.

D. Likwise he held that man wanteth the liberty of free-will. Clem. Roman. recog. lib. 3.

E. He bosted of faith alone & vtterly gain­said the iustice of wor­kes, Iren. l. 1. c. 20. which are two funda­mentall points of our new Ghospellers pro­fession, & stifly main­tained by Whitaker, Abbot, & others, as I haue shewed Contro. 12. 13. & 21. Their other dotages I omit, and all the infamous heresyes of the rest of their fellow-sectaries, whose names are ran­ged in the first Colū ­ne [Page 12-13] of this second pag. because I only endea­uour to relate such as are newly set abroach and defended by our Protestants.

A. BY our Sa­uiour Christ Iesus. Ioan. 6. 54. 55. 56. &c. Matt. 26. 26. Marc. 14. Luc. 22. 1. Cor. 11. 24.

B. By Christ our Sa­uiour. Luc. 11. 20. If I in the singer of God, do cast out Diuels, surely the kingdome of God is come vpon you. By S. Luke, who recoūteth as true and vnfaygned mira­cles, how S. Iohn, & S. Peter healed a lame man. Act. 3. 6. how S. Peter healed Tabitha. Act. 9. 41. how s. Paul restored a dead childe to life. Act. 20. 10. how the only shaddow of the one, and handkercheife of the other cured many. Act 5. 15. & 19. 12.

C. S. Paul. 1. Thes. 4. 3. S. Peter 2. Petr. 3. 9. Dionys. Areop. de diuin nomin. cap. 4.

[Page 10-11] D. S. Luk. Act. 5. 4. S. Paul. ep. ad Philē. Without thy counsaile I would doe nothing; that thy good might be, not as it were of necessity, but voluntary. Where you see, he taketh volunta­ry, for that which is absolutely free, oppo­site to necessity. Sa [...]nt Ioan. c. 1. 12. Apoc. 3. 20. S. Matt. 16. 24. Clem. Rom. ep. 3. & lib. 3. recogn.

E. By S. Peter, S. Iohn, S. Iames, Iude in their epistles, as S. Augustin testifieth de fide & operibus c. 14. lib. de vni. bapt. c. 10. Clem. Rom. in con­stitut. Apost. l. 6. c. 19. S. Martial. epist. ad Tol [...]sa. The Cen­turists for this cause reiect the epistls of S. Iames & S. Iude. cent. 1. l. 2. c. 4. col. 54. & they affirm of s. Iames epistle, that it swarueth not a little from the ana­logy of Apostolical doctrin, whiles it ascribeth Iustifi­cation not to fayth alone, but also to workes. And yet S. Augu. thought it Apostolicall, and [Page 12-13] written of purpose to condemne the contra­ry opinion of Iustifi­cation by fayth alone. S. Augustine in the place before cyted.

• Annus Christi 103 Anacletus.
• Annus Christi 112 Euaristus.
• Annus Christi 121 Alexander 1.
• Annus Christi 132 Sixtus 1.
• [Page 14-15]Annus Christi 142 Telespho­rus.
• Annus Christi 154 Higiwius.
• Annus Christi 158 Pius 1.
• Annus Christi 165 Anicetus.
• Annus Christi 175 Soter.
• Annus Christi 179 Eleutheri­us.
• [Page 16-17]Annus Christi 194 Victor.

BArsimaeus, Igna­tius, Onesimus dis­ciple of S. Paul, and Suc­cessor to Timothy in the Church of Ephesus, Eu­stachius, Aristides, Po­lycarpus, Cornelius, Hero, Papias, Getu­lius and Symphorosa his wife with their se­auen children, Blan­dina, Praxedes, Verus, Iustinus, Egesippus, Pantenus, Irenaeus, Narcissus, Dionysius Corinthius, Theo­philus Antiochenus. Athenagoras, Policra­tes, The Melitine, sur­named the Thundring or lightning, Legiō, because waging war vnder Mar­cus Aurelius the Emperor, in the time of a great drought and siccity, they miraculously obtained by prayer from God, aboun­dance of raine, to refresh [Page 14-15] the Romanes, and fiery hailestons, or thunderbolts to destroy their enemyes. Tertul. l. ad scap. Eu­seb. l. 5. Hist. cap. 5. Oros. l. y. c. 15.

Apollonius a Ro­man Senatour, An­dochius, Agrippinus, Geruasius, and Pro­tasius, Epipodius, and Alexander, Fereolus and Ferutius Martyrs, accused for inhibiting marriage, and disswading Virgins from it. (Mar­tyrolog. Vesunt. in pass. horum Martyr.) as Protestants calum­niate vs, because we preferre virginity, and permit not marriage to such as willing­ly vow Chastity to God. Rhodon, Hera­clitus, Appion, Athe­nogenes &c.

The Conuersion of Lu­cius King of England, of his Nobility and subiects, by Fugatius and Damia­nus sent from Pope Eleu­therius. [Page 16-17] Bede l. hist. Polyd. l. 2

Of diuers Indi­ans, or Brachmans con­uerted by Pantenus.

Of many Roman Se­natours, and Cittizens by Pope Alexander: & other Gentiles by Barsimaeus Bi­shop of Edessa. Baron. ann. Christi 185. 132. 107.

FReewill. Athenag. Apol. pro Christ. Irenaeus, say the Cen­turists, admitteth free­will in spirituall actions. Cent. 2. c. 10. Reall presence. Iustin. Apol. 2. ad Anto. Sacrifice of the Masse. Irenae l. 4. c. 32. and the Centurists recount, that Telespho­rus Pope and Anachorite ordained three Masses to be celebrated on Christmas night, and the Angelicall Hymne, Gloria in excelsis, to be sayd before the Sa­crifice. Cent. 2. c. 6, Supremacy. Tertul. l. de Pudicit. Merit and Iu­stification of works. Iust. Apol. 2. Euery one shal­be carryed to eternall pu­nishment, or saluation for the dignity of his workes. Confession and Satisfa­ction. Tertul. l. de Poe­nitent. Inuocation, and [Page 14-15] Honour of Saints. Iust. Apol. 2. Iren. l. 1. c. 33. And Iren. lib. 5. affirmes, the Virgin Ma­ry to be aduocate of the virgin Eue.

Purgatory or prayer for the dead. Tertul. l. de cor. milit. cap. 3. for the dead we make ye­arely oblations. And lib. de Monog. She prayeth for his soule, & intreateth it may rest in peace.

Single life. Athenag. Apol. pro Christia. Prescript fasts. Teles­pho. ep. ad vniuer. I­gnat. ep. ad Philip.

Miracles. Be­sides that of the Meli­tine legion, Narcissus Bishop of Hierusalem turned water into oy­le, for the vse of the Church. Euseb. l. 6. c. 8. & 9. S. Balbina & Quirinus her Father bothrestored to health [Page 16-17] by touching the chaines, with which Pope Alexan­der was bound. Baron. ann. 132. n. 2. Like­wise Iustin. quaest. 28. reporteth of certaine miraculous Cures, wrought by the bodyes. & sepulchers of Martyrs. Irenaeus beareth wit­nesse of innumerable other miracles atchie­ued for the behoofe & cōuersion of Gentils. Iren. lib. 2. cap. 58. in histor. lib. 5. cap. 7.

• Saturninus.
• Basilides.
• Carpocrates, frō whō the Gno­stickes.
• Cerdon.
• Marcion.
• Valentinus.
• [Page 14-15]Tatianus, from whom the En­cratites.
• Apelles.
• Montanus.
• Bardesanes.
• Blastus
• Proclus.
• [Page 16-17]Berillus.
• Florinus.
• Praxeas &c.

AMONGST the tares of this age som vnsauoury weeds of Protestancy haue shooted vp. For

F. The Gnostikes held extrinseall iusti­ce by imputatiō only. Iren. l. 1. c. 5.

G. The Valenti­nians attributed sinne not to freewill, but ei­ther to the nature of the world, or to the Diuel. Aug. haer. 11. Castro. V. peccat. hae. 3. Neither do Prote­stants ascribe it to our freedom, but either to naturall corruption, by which mans will (saith Fulke) is capti [...]e and thrall to sinne. Fulke in cap. 5. ad Galat. sect. 1. and in cap. 10. ad Rom. sect. 6. or which is worse, to the immu­table decree & ordinance [Page 14-15] of God. (Calu. l. 3. inst. c. 23. sect. 4. 7. 8. 9.) according to him imposing necessity.

H. The Valentini­ans, with the Mon­tainsts cōtemned vn­written traditions, & appealed, as Protestāts doe, to Scripture a­lone. Tertull. l. de praesc. Hist. Eccle. l. 5. c. 16. l. 3. c. 36.

I. Proclus taught, which protestāts now take hold of, that sin abideth in the rege­nerate, & that it can­not be rooted out as lōg as the body liueth. Epipha. haer. 64. yet he affirmed, as they also doe, contrahi, & sopiri peccatū, sinne to be restrained, cast asleepe, asswaged or curbed of its raigne. Epipha. ibid. which are the very phrases of our new Ghospellers cōcerning this point. See Field & Abbots wordes Con­tro. 18.

K. Florinus rene­wed the former here­sy of making God the author of sinne. Euseb. l. 5. c. 25. Notwith­standing [Page 16-17] our Aduersa­ries, I thinke, will be ashamd to make these or any of the forena­med Arch-heretikes the corner stōes or first foundations of their Religion, by reason of other most execrable heresies which they obstinately maintay­ned. And yet one fun­damentall error, as all learned Protestantes confesse, excludeth frō the Church.

F. BY Irenaeus in in the same place, and l. 3. c. 20. by Iustin. in dialog. cum Triphone.

G. Iustin ad quaest. 103. proueth that mē sinne by election, choice & liberty of freewill; not by nature, because some are defiled with one vice, some with another, some with more, som with lesse: which could not be, saith he, s [...] naturae imbecillitate, non volumatis consilij praeter­missionehomines peccarēt.

H. Iren. l. 3. c. 2. by Tert. l. de praesc. where both prouoke heretikes to the inuio­lable tradition of the Roman Church: and Tertul. auoucheth, that, the most expert in Scripture, will little pre­uaile against Heretikes, with Scripture alone. [Page 14-15]Likewise in this age the two false Prophets Barchabas and Baro­chop, which Basilides alledged to coūtenan­ce his impiety, were reiected by tradition: neither could our Pro­testants euer disproue them (as Canus well noteth) by the text of Scripture. Canus. l. 2. de loc. Theol. c. 7. And Clemens Alexā ­drinus scholler to Pan­tenus, & master to O­rigen writeth, l. 2. strom. that some who denied traditions, re­nounced also the Epi­stles of S. Paul to Ti­mothy, because by these words Depositum custodi, 1. ad Tim. c. 6. they were con­uinced.

I. By Gaius an elo­quēt writer, of whom Euseb. l. 6. c. 14. By Justin. Apol. ad Anto. & S. Cypr. who flou­rished immediately af­ter, proueth at large. lib. 3. ad Quir. sect. 65. Omnia peccata in baptismo deponi: All sins to be abolished by bap­tisme. The same is af­firmed [Page 16-17] by Origē. tract. 35. in Math. hom. 15. in Iosu. hom. 14. in c. 2. Luc.

K. Irenaens wrote a booke that God is not the Author of sinne, of which Eusebius ma­keth mention. l. 5. c. 19.

• Annus Christi 204 Zepherinus.
• Annus Christi 221 Calixtus.
• Annus Christi 227 Vrbanus.
• Annus Christi 233 Pontianus.
• [Page 18-19]Annus Christi 238 Anterus.
• Annus Christi 239 Fabianus.
• Annus Christi 254 Cornelius.
• Annus Christi 255 Lucius.
• Annus Christi 257 Stephanus.
• [Page 20-21]Annus Christi 260 Sixtus 2.
• Annus Christi 261 Dionysius.
• Annus Christi 273 Faelix 1.
• Annus Christi 275 Eutichia­nus.
• Annus Christi 284 Caius.
• [Page 22-23]Annus Christi 294 Marcelli­nus.

CLemens Alexā ­drinus, Minuti­us Faelix, Demetrius, Ammonius, Metho­dius, Calepodius, Pal­matius, Simplicius, Potamiaena, Agatha, Apollonia, Barbara, Coecilia, Plutarchus, Serenus, Heraclides, Heron, Gregorius Thaumaturgus, Athe­nodorus, Triphō, He­raclas, Dionysius A­lexandrinus: These la­ter nine were all Origen his schollers, & either fa­mous Bishoppes, learned [Page 18-19] writers, or glorious Mar­tyrs. Theodoru [...], Gor­dianus, Philip the first Christian Emperour, his sonne, & Seuera the Em­presse, Cyprianus, Hip­politus, Laurentius, Theogenes, Polycro­nius, Nemesius, with his daughter Lucilla, who being blind recea [...]ed her sight in Baptisme mi­nistred vnto her by Steuen the Pope. (vt habetur in actis Stephani) Olim­pius, Exuperia, Susan­na, Pionius, Sabina, Theonas, Babyla, Co­smas, Damianus, Mau­ritius with the Thebaeau legion, which consisted of 6666. valiant souldiers & Martyrs of Christ. Zāb­das Bishop of Hieru­salem, who instructed & baptized them. Victor, Gereon with 2000. of his companions. Se­rena the Empresse wife to Diocletian, who religiously kept and honoured the re­liques of S. Susanna. Vsuar. Ado. Suri. 16. & 11. Aug.

Donaldus K of Scotland his wife, children, and No­bility, in the yeare of our [Page 20-21] Lord 203. receaued the fayth of Christ, and the Legates of Pope Victor. Gualt. in 3. sect. ex Genebr. 3. Chron.

Many Gentils con­uerted by the apparitions of S. Potamiana the Mar­tyr, from heauen; among which the most memora­ble was, that of Basilides, on whose head she placed a crowne, and obtained of God pardon for him, as she promised him, when he lead her to her Martyr­dome. Euseb. Caesa. l. 6. cap. 4.

The Prince of A­rabia his Court, by Ori­gen. Genebr. in Pon­tiano & Pet. Dami. epist. ad Nicolaum [Page 22-23] 2. PP. reporteth of 30000. conuerted by Hy­politus the Martyr surna­med Nonnus, that is Mo­nachus, a Monke. Cap. Franc. l. 5. c. 2. 3.

FReewill. Method. ser. de Resurrect. Reall presence. Cypr. de Coena Dom. The bread which our Lord gaue so his disciples, not in shape, but in substance or nature, changed by the om­nipotency of the Word, is made flesh. Sacrifice of the Masse. Cypr. ibid. Supremacy. Hippo. o­rat. de consum. mun­di. Merite and Iustifica­tion of workes. Origen, say the Cēturists, made good workes the cause of Iustification. Cent. 3. [Page 18-19] col. 265. Confession and Satisfaction. Cyp. ser. delapsis. Inuocation & Honour of Saints. Orig. in lib. Iob. O blessed Iob pray for vs wretches. Method. orat. Lypa­pan. Domini. Purga­tory, and prayer for the dead. Cyp. ep. 52. & 66. Origen. hom. 6. in Exodum. For of Ori­gen the Centuristes confesse, that he held Purgatory to be the puni­shmēt or expiation of sins, Cent. 3 col. 265 and of S. Cyprian and o­thers. Fulke sayth (in his Confut. of Purg. pag 362.) Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, Hi­erome, and a great many more do wi [...]nesse that Sa­crifice for the dead is the tradition of the Apostles, Singlelife. Minut. Fae­lix in Oct. Cypr. de discip. & habit. virg. Prescriptfasts. Clem. A­lexand. lib. 3 strom. mētioneth Wednesdayes and Fridayes fast, agrea­ble to the 68. Can. of the Apostles. Like­wise Dion. Alex. ep. ad Basil tom. 1. Bibl. Pat. speaketh of Lent, [Page 20-21] calling it the Paschall fast, because it endeth at Easter.

Miracles. Diuers were wrought in this age, by Greg. Thau­mat. which S. Gregory Nissen in vita Greg. Thaum. and S. Basil de sp. sanct. c. 29. re­cord. Some he wrou­ght by the signe of the Crosse: many other­waies, in so much as he was tearmed ano­ther Moyses, saith S. Basil loc. cit. euen by the enemies of truth. S. Cyprian among other, writes Ser. de lap. of 3. strange mi­racles concerning the Eucharist, plainely cō ­firming the truth of the real presence ther­in.

Likewise S. Cecily shewed to Valeriā the [Page 22-23] Angel-gardian of her vir­ginity, holding two crow­nes in his handes, the one for her, the other for him. as both Metaphrastes and Surius mention in her life.

• Hermogenes.
• Helchisaitae siue Elcesaei.
• [Page 18-19]Nouatianus siue Nouatus.
• Aquarij.
• Origenistae.
• Noētiani.
• Sabellius.
• Patripassiani.
• [Page 20-21]Paulus Samosa­tenus.
• Millenarij.
• Hierarchus, à quo Hierarchi­tae.
• Paulianistae.
• [Page 22-23]Manes, à quo Manichaei &c.

L. THE Helchi­saits defended it no sinne, in wordes onely to deny their faith, when necessity vrged, as long as they held it entiere in their hartes. August. haer. 32. Epiphan. hae. 30. and 53. from whome some Protestant Poli­ticiās litle differ, who think it lawfull to fre­quent hereticall Con­uenticles, and to dis­semble in diuine ser­uice, for sauing their goods, or obeing their [Page 18-19] Prince.

M. Origen (from whome the Orige­nists) affirmeth, that Adam by sinne lost the I­mage of God. Epipha. hae. 64. & ep. ad loā. Epis. Hierosol. which is now the expresse fancy of Caluin. l. 2. Instit. c. 1. sect. 5. & a consequence which followeth out of Whi­tes (in the way to the true Church. sect. 40. fol. 283.) and other positions, who take from sinners the liberty of free will, and al such naturall faculties, as should cooperate to Gods callings, making them worke no more ther­in, then paper doth to the receiuing of inke.,

N. Nouatiā or No­uatus (as the Grecians call him) maintained theabsolutiō of Priests not to be auailable to the lapsed. Socrat. l. 4. c. 23. and his dis­ciples quite abolished with Protestants, all confession of sinnes. Cornel. apud Euseb. l. 6. c. 43. Theod. l. 3. haer. fab. Pacia. l. [Page 20-21] aduers. eos.

O. He neglected the ceremonies of bap­tisme. Euseb. l. 6.

P. He denied one chiefe bishop in the Church on whome the rest depend. Euseb. ib. c. 43.

Q. His followers ministred not Holy Chrisme, nor the seale of our Lord, to the baptized. Theod. l. 3. haer. fab. neither do Protestans minister Chrisme to any, or acknowledge the seale of our Lord; that is, Confirmation to be a sacrament.

R. Manes detracted from the efficacy of bap­tisme. Aug. haer. 46. Castr. V. Bapt. And what do our Ghos­pellers, who say that it taketh away the dominiō, raigne and condemnation, but not the inherency of sin; that baptisme setteth a barre against it, but doth not quite abolish it. Field in his 3. booke of the Church. cap. 26. Ab­bot in his Defēce. cap. 2.

S. The Maniches li­kewise denied freewill. Aug. l. contra Fortu­nat. [Page 22-23] Manich. which I haue hereto fore she­wed to be a cheife Ar­ticle of our new secta­ries profession.

L. BY Clemens Alexand. l. 4. strom. by Origē who called their doctrin in a publike sermon, as Eusebius witnesseth l. 6. cap. 31. impious and wicked. By the Priests & Deacons of the Ro­man Church, whose words are cyted by S. Cyprian lib. 2. epist. 7.

M. Theophilus ad Autolicum. Man is the workemanship, & image of God, therfore as long as he is indued with [Page 18-19] reason, he continueth his image, though ob­scured and defaced by sinne.

N. By S. Cyprian. l. 4. ep. 2 and l. 1. ep. 2. By a great Councell held at Rome of 60. Bishops, and as many Priests vnder Corne­lius the Pope, Euseb. l. 6. ep. 39. yea the Cen­turists confesse Cent. 3. c. 6. and Cent. 4. col. 429. that in these times of Cyprian and Ter­tullian, priuate Confessiō was vsed of thoughts, and lesser sinnes; Satisfaction was inioyned according to the offence; and the Priest did afterwards absolue the penitent with the Ceremo­ny, which we now vse, of imposition of hands.

O. By Cornelius a­pud Euseb. l. 6. 35. or 43.

P. S. Cyprian ep. 50. ad Cor. & de Vnit. Ec­cles. auoucheth one high Priest whome al other ought to obay, one iudge insteede of Christ, one Chaire. &c. And the practise of the Church then was, that such heretikes as were re­conciled [Page 20-21] vnto her, should make this pro­fession, that one God, one lord Christ, one holy ghost, one bishop ought to be in the Catholique Church. Cyp. l. 3. ep. 11. Cor­nel. apud Euseb. l. 6.

Q. By S. Cornelius who for want of that Sacrament a [...]keth, how Nouatus could obtaine the holy Ghost? to wit, to strengthē him in per­secution. Euseb. l. 6. c. 35. S. Cypriā who spea­king of Confirmation and baptisme saith. lib. 2. ep. 1. Then they be fully sanctified, & become the sonnes of God, when they are new borne with both the Sacraments.

R. Clemens Ale­xandrinus. l. 1 Paeda c. 6. calleth baptisme, a lauer by which sins are cleansed; grace, by which punishments due vnto thē are remitted, illuminatiō, &c. and a perfect worke to which nothing is wan­ting.

S. Minutius Faelix in Octa. Orig. hom. 9 &. 11. in Numer. S. Cyprian. l. 3. ep. 3. Me [...]hodius in ser. de [Page 22-23] resurrect. And the Centurists namely re­proue these later three togeather with Ter­tullian, for allowing with vs the liberty of freewil. Cent. 3 c. 4. col. 77. 78.

• Annus Christi 304 Marcellus.
• Annus Christi 309 Eusebius.
• Annus Christi 312 Melchia­des.
• Annus Christi 314 Siluester 1.
• Annus Christi 336 Marcus 1.
• [Page 24-25]Annus Christi 337 Iulius.
• Annus Christi 352 Liberius, who was both before and after Faelix.
• Annus Christi 358 Faelix 2.
• Annus Christi 362 Damasus.
• Annus Christi 385 Siricius.
• Annus Christi 398 Anastasi­us 1.
• [Page 26-27]General Councells.
• The first Nicen Councell hauing in it 318. Fathers vn­der Pope Siluester, against Arrius, who denyed the cōsubstantiality of the Sonne of God with his Father.
• The first Constan­tinopolitā Councell hauing in it 150. Fathers, vnder Da­masus Pope, against Macedonius the he­retike.

2000. Martyrs burnt at Nicomedia on Christ­mas night, Arnobius, Lactātius, Petrus Ale­xandrinus, Ianuarius, Paulus surnamed the first Eremit, because vnder him that order was much pro­pagated, and increased; Antonius the great Ab­bot of many Monkes, Ag­nes, Dorothea Iulitta, Catharina, Serapion, Spiridion, Tryphil­lius, Helena, Con­stantinus the Great, re­nowned for his deuotion to the signe of the Crosse; to religions monkes; to the memory of martyrs; to vo­wed virgins; to the sepul­chers of S. Peter and S. Paul, which he imbraced humbly, praying to those Saints; that they would make intercession for him [Page 24-25] to God; to the reliques of Saints, and of the holy Crosse, which he translated to Constantinople for the conseruation of that Cit­ty; to the Roman Sea; to her Bishops and Priests, whose power giuen them to remit sinnes in the Sa­crament of Confession, he defended against Acesius the Heretike. Zozome­nus lib. 1. cap. 8. & 13. Euseb. lib. 3 & 4. de vita Constant. Chrysost. in epist. 2. ad Corint. homil. 26. Hieron. contra Vigi­lant. tom. 1. Con­cil. Socra. l. 1. c. 10. Centurists Cent. 4. Hilarius, Philogonius, Athanasius, Pacho­mius, Basilius, Gre­gorius Nissenus, his brother Gregorius Na­zianzenus, Ephraim, Didimus, Martinus, Macarius, Prudentius, Alexander, Pacia­nus, Eusebius Vercel­lensis, Epiphanius, Optatus, Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus, Amphilochius, Am­brosius, Philastrius, Chromatius, Arseni­us, Gaudentius, Chri­sostomus, [Page 26-27] Vrsula with her companions the 11000. virgins & martyrs, Pau­la, Monica, Proba, & others without num­ber.

The Bessites, Daciaus, Getes, and Scythians re­ceiued our Romane Ca­tholique faith by the prea­ching of S. Nicetas Bishop of Dacia: Paul. de red. Nicet. in Dac. The Arme­niās, & Hunnes, of whom S. Hierom ep. 3. The Mo­rins and Neruians by S. Victricius Bishop of Roan. Paul. ep. 26. In this age also a captiue mayd con­uerted the Iberians, by curing their Queene, and a child of dangerous infirmi­tyes, with prayer to God, and applying her haire-cloath vnto them. Ruf. l. 1. cap. 9. Socrat. l. 1. cap. 16. Yet this mayd neither preached the word, nor administred Sacramentes, but she perswaded the King, to send to the Emperour of Rome for some Doctour: whereupon a Bishop was sent to preach to that Na­tion. Theodoret. l. 1. histor. cap. 24.

FReewill. Euseb. Cae­sar. lib. 6. praepar. Euang. c 5. Reall Pre­sence. Gaudent. tract. 2. de Exod. Sacrifice of the Masse. Opta. l. 6. cont. Parmen. Greg. Nissen. orat. de resur. Supremacy. Epiph. in Anchora. for which and other of our Ar­ticles publiquely and generally maintained in this age, Maister Napper vpō the Reuel. pa. 68. affirmeth, that between the yeare of Christ 300. & 316▪ the Antichri­stian & Papisticall raigne begā, raigning vniuersally &c. Againe, that the Po­pe and his Clergy possessed the outward visible Church of Christians. pa. 145. Gods true Church, ac­cording to him, remai­ning [Page 24-25] 1260. years latent & inuisible. pa. 191. and 161. Neither was this Superiority imparted by Cōstantin to Pope Siluester as he preten­deth, but giuen by God, as the Emperour himself translating his seate from Rome into the East, witnesseth, vsing these wordes: Where the principality of Priest-hood, and head of Christian religion is pla­ced by the Emperour of Heauen, it is not meete that there the earthly Em­perour should beare any sway. tom. 1. Concil. Confession & Satisfactiō. Lactant. l. 4. de vera sap. c. 30. assigneth, confession & pennance as a note of the true Church. Merit and Iustification of Workes. Basil. l de Spir. Sanct. c. 24. Inuoca­tion & Honour of Saints. Ephraim in orat. de laud. Deipa. prayeth to our Lady, by the name of reconciliatrix, hope, aduo­cate. Purgatory or prayer for the deade. Cyril. Hierof Cate. 5. Sin­gle life. Epipha. hae. 59. Prescript fasts. Ambros. [Page 26-27] ser. de Quadrag. Mira­cles. A sicke woman was cured, and a dead body restored to life, by the wood of the holy Crosse, when it was first found out by Queene Helen. Ruff. hist. lib. 1. c. 17. Paul. ep. 11. Niceph. l. 8. The same miraculously multi­plyed to satisfy the de­uotion of all Christi­ans, throughout the world. Paul. ep. 11. Cyr. catech. 10. Many other miracls wroght by Reliques. Chrys. orat. cont. Gentes. By holy Water. Epiph. haer. 30. By adoration of the Bles­sed Sacrament. Nazian. orat. 11. By prayer to our Lady. Nazian. in Saint Cypr. By the merites of Martyrs. Ambros. ser-91. An Angell com­manded Flauianus to consecrate S. Chryso­stome, fortelling he should be a new ves­sel of Election: and a white doue descended and stood vpon his head, when he layed his hands vpon him. Leo Aug. in vita e­ius.

• Meletius.
• Donatus.
• Arrius.
• Macedonius, frō whome the Me­letians, Dona­tists, Arrians, & Macedonians.
• [Page 24-25]Eusebius Nico­mediensis.
• Colluthus.
• Eustachius.
• Parmenianus.
• AErisu.
• Eunomius.
• Audiani siue Anthropomor­phitae.
• Messaliani.
• [Page 26-27]Trogloditae.
• Luciferiani.
• Apollinaristae.
• Collyridiani.
• Heluidius.
• Iouinianus.
• Sabbatiani.
• Agapitae, with others.

T. EVSTACHIVS detested the sepulchers of Martyrs, and honour exhibited vnto them. Socra. l. 2. cap. 33.

V. He dissallowed the prescript fasts of the Church. Prateol. V. Enstachius. So did Aerius, leauing it to the free choice of euery one to fast when he lists. Epi­phan. haer. 75. Aug. haer. 53.

X. Aerius also held that praiers and obla­tions ought not to be made for the dead. Aug. haer. 53. Epiph. haer. 65. and in his booke intituled Ana­caephaleosis, in which he like wise affirmeth, that this Aerius was otherwise in beliefe, [Page 24-25] Arrianus perfectissimꝰ, a most perfect Arrian.

Y. Eunomius taught that no sinnes could hurt them that were indued with his faith. Epipha. haer. 76. Aug. haer. 64. And is not this an Axiome of Whitakers, Sins are not hurtfull to him that actu­ally belieueth? Contro. 2 quaest. 5. pa. 301. which he affirmeth to be the general opini­on of all Protestants, adding in the same place, Id nos omnes docemus; that we all teach.

Z. The Audians de­nied enioyned pen­nance or Satisfactiō. Theod. l. 4. haer. sab.

A. The Anthropo­morphites impugned the reseruation of the Blessed Sacrament. Cyr. ad Calosyr.

B. The Messalians taught that the holy Sacramēt of baptisme doth not wholy wash away the staines of sinne. Theod. haer. fab. l. 4. which Pro­testants do also hold.

C. They likwise de­nied [Page 26-27] the holy Ghost to be receiued in the Sacrament of Order. Damase. haer. 80. The same do Protestants, who account it no Sacrament.

D. Heluidius and Iouinianus impugned single life and vow­ed Chastity, equalling thereunto the dignity of marriage. Hieron. contra Heluid. & Io­uin. Whitaker doth the like. Cont. 2.

E. Iouinian gain­said besides, the dispa­rity of merits in the king­dome of heauen. Hier. l. 2. aduersus Iouini­anum. So do all En­glish Sectaries: in so much as M. Wotton in his defence of M. Perk. p. 340. disgraceth S. Ignatius the Apostles scholler, for the con­trary: yet Andreas Fri­sius another Protestāt of Polony, alloweth Merit with vs. See Controu. 30.

T. BY the Coū ­cell of Gan­gres, in which he was deposed from his E­piscopall dignity, and his doct [...]ine condem­ned. Zona. l. 2. c. 33.

V. S. Ambrose. ser. 34. speaking of fasts not inioyned, and of Lent, he saith, not to fast in lent is a sinne, those fasts be voluntary, these necessary; those proceede from freewill, these from a law; to those we are in­uited, to these compelled. Basil. hom. de ieiun.

X. Epiphan. who calleth him, a great plague of the world, fu­rious in minde, & proude in his opinion. haer. 75. and S. Augustine loc. citat. As Fulke also testifieth in his answer [Page 24-25] to a Count. Cathol. pa. 44. saying: Aerius taught that prayer for the dead was vnprofitable, as witnesseth both Epiphani­us and Augustine, which they account for an errour.

Y. S. Basil const. monast. c. 35. S. E­phraim l. de vera poe­nit. c. l. Chrys. ho. de Ann. & Sam. edu­cat.

Z. Theod. in the same place saith of the Audiās, they giue remis­sion to such as are cōfessed, without prescribing tyme for penāce, as the lawes of the Church command.

A. S. Cyril in the same epistle to Calosy. For which Peter Mar­tyr taxeth him thus: Though that custom of re­seruation may seeme some­what to tast of superstiti­on; yet did Cyrill and o­thers subscribe there vnto. I. de Euchar. aduers. Gardiner. col. 133.

B.Greg. Nazi­an. orat. 40. in S. Bapt. the grace of baptisme cleāe wipeth away the spots con­tracted by sinne. Lact. l. 3. diui. inst▪ c. 25. vel 26. with one lauer al ma­lice [Page 26-27] shalbe abolished.

C. S. Chrysost. lib. tertio de Sacerd. saith, That the Paraclete instituted the Order of Priestood, and that Priests therby are endued, gratia Spiritus sancti, with the grace of the holy Ghost.

D. Hier. l. 1. contr. Iouin. VVe so receiue marriage, as we preferre virginity. S. Aug. l. de S. virgin. c. 44. Con­tinency is to be preferred before marriage: the hun­dred fold fruite, before the thirtith.

E. Aug. ser. 191. de temp. VVe condemne the error of Iouinian, who saith, there is no difference of merits in the world to come. And S. Amb. ep. 81. calleth this, a rude & sauage howling.

• Annus Christi 402 Innocen­tius.
• Annus Christi 417 Zosimus.
• Annus Christi 419 Bonifaci­us 1.
• Annus Christi 424 Celestinus 1.
• Annus Christi 432 Sixtus 3.
• Annus Christi 440 Leo Mag­nus.
• [Page 30-31]Annus Christi 461 Hilarius.
• Annus Christi 468 Simplicius.
• Annus Christi 483 Faelix 3.
• Annus Christi 492 Gelasius 1.
• Annus Christi 497 Anastasius 2.
• Annus Christi 499 Symma­chus.
• The Ephesin Coun­cell, hauing in it 200. Fathers, vn­der Celestine Pope, against Nestorius the Heretike.
• [Page 32-33]The Calcedon Councell hauing in it 630. Fathers, vnder Pope Leo the great, against Eu­tiches the Heretik.

EXVPERYVS, Hi­eronymus, Euthy­mius, Nicasius, Au­gustinus the Doctour, a great pillar of the Church & propugnator of our Ca­tholike fayth, as you may read in the booke intituled Confessio Augustiniana, (set forth by Torren­sis) Paulinus, Sulpi­tius Seuerus, Paulus Orosius, Hesychius, Symeon Stelyta, Ger­manus, Patricius, Me­lania and her husband Pepinian, who with mutuall consent, vowed Chastity, and going from Rome to Hierusalem, the one ētred into a Monastery of Monkes, the other of Nunnes. Baron. anno 419. Genouefa, Pul­cheria the Empresse, and vowed Virgin, Iulia, Proclus, Nilus, Flaui­anus, Primasius, Eu­cherius, Cyrillus Ale­xandrinns, who writing a booke against Nestorius sent it to Pope Celestine, which he confirmed, ap­pointed him President in [Page 30-31] the first Councell of Ephe­sus, gaue him a pall, which there he wore, & in cele­brating the holy mysteries. Celest. ep. 3. Theod. Bals. in Nemoc. After that S. Cyrill with the Councell had condē ­ned the heresy of Ne­storius, deuotiō much increased to the mo­ther of God: Pulcheria raysed a temple in her honour: and this addi­tion is then thought to haue beene ioyned to the Angelical salutati­on, Holy Mary mother of God, pray for vs sinners, &c. Baron. an. 431. n. 176. & 180. possidoniꝰ, Prosper, Saluianus, Vincentius Lirinen­sis, Sedulius, Theodo­retus, Salonius, Pri­masius, Leontius, Ma­mertus, Maximus, I­sidorus, Pelusiota, Pe­trus Chrysologus, Ho­norius, Apollinaris, Ioānes Silentiarius, so termed because leauing his prelacy he became a monk, and gaue himselfe to ad­mirable silence: Eugeni­us, Caesarius, Crotildis Queene of France, O­lympiodorus, Remigi­us, [Page 32-33] and innumerable others.

In this age S. Euthy­mius Monke cōuerted the Sarazens. Cyr. in vita Euthym. Asphebetus the Burgundians. Socrat. l. 7. c. 30. Palladius the the Scots. Prosper aduers. Colla. in fine. S. Patri­cius the Irishmen; yet he presumed not to vndertake that worke, vntill he had receiued commission from Celestine the Pope. Probus in vita S. Patric. Sigeb. in chron. Remigius and Vedastus the Frenchmen. Greg. Turon. de gest. Franc. l. 2. c. 31. The Iewes also of the Ilande Minorica were miracu­lously conuerted by the re­liques of S. Stophen, which Orosius a Priest brought from Ierusalem to carry into Spaine. Seuerus ep. ad cunct. Christi fideles. Euod. de miraculis S. Ste­phani l. 1. c. 2.

FReewill. Cyr. A­lexandr. lib. 9. in Ioan. Reall presence. Eu­cher. ho. 5. de Pasch. The inuisible Priest by his word, and secret power, conuerteth visible creaturs into the substance of his body and bloud. And a little after, VVhat mer­uaile is it, that he is able to conuert things created, hauing power by his word to create them? Sacrifice of the Masse. Aug. lib. 18. de ciuit. Dei. cap. 35. Chrysost. hom. 17. in epist. ad Hebr. Su­premacy. Theod. in ep. ad Leon. Leo serm. 2. & 3. de anniuer. suae assumpt. Confession and Satisfaction. Chrysost. l. 2. de sacerd. Merit & Iustification of Workes. Eucher. hom. de initio Quadrag. Inuocation & Honour of Saints. Olim­piodorus in c. 15. Iob. Purgatory or prayer for the d [...]ad. Chrysost. ho. 69. ad pop. Antioch. affirmeth, The Apostles to be authours of this cu­stome [Page 30-31] of praying for the dead in tyme of the dre­adfull misteryes; & sayth they did know, that the soules departed were to re­ceyue much gayne & great vtility by that remēbrance made for them. Single life. Hier. aduers. Vigil. The Churches of the East, of E­gypt, of the Sea Apostolike take to the Clergy, eyther Virgins, or the continent, or vnmarryed &c. Prescript fasts. S. Leo in ieiun. 10. mensis. ser. 8. & in ieiun. 7. mens. deri­ueth the obseruation of Ember fasts foure tyms in the yeare, ex doctrina Spi­ritus sancti, from the do­ctrine of the holy Ghost, & from Apostolical instituti­on: by which Whita­ker is cōuinced of ma­nifest falshood in char­ging Calixtus the Pope with innouatiō for decree­ing them. Whit. contr. Duraeum l. 4. Miracles. S. Aug. l. 22. de ciuit. Dei c. 8. recoūteth di­uers wrought by the re­likes of S. Stephen. Saint Chrysostome the like. hom. 55. by the signe of the Crosse. Constantius l. 1. c. 22. apud Surium [Page 32-33] tomo 4. by S. Germā. Diuers also atchieued to manifest the sanctity of S. Hierome; for he lying on his death-bed an excessiue light appeared, Angels were seene, most fragrant odors smelt, and a voyce heard, Come my beloued &c. Being dead the blinde, deafe, dumbe and sicke were cured, some by touching, som by kissing his corps. Euseb. Cre­mon. ep. de mort. eius. In this age S. Mi­chael the Archangel appeared in the moūt Garganus of Apulia. Ciac. in Gelas. 1. an 493. Sigeb. an. 488. A cruet, or viole of oile was brought by a doue from heauen to anoint King Clodo­uaeus, & others since: from which vnction S. Thom. l. 2 de Reg. princ. c. vlt. deriueth the miraculous vertue they haue in curing the Kings Euill.

• Secundinus.
• Vigilantius.
• Petilianus.
• Pelagiani
• Theodorus Mopsuestiensis.
• [Page 30-31]Nestorius.
• Pseudomoses.
• Semipelagiani.
• Eutiches.
• Dioscorus Ale­xandrinus.
• Pacificatores.
• [Page 32-33]Petrus C [...]aphae­us.
• Praedestinati.
• Zenaias.
• Angelitae &c.

F. IOuinian al­so taught that the regenerat by Bap­tisme could sinne no more Aug. haer. 82. Fulk, Whit. & Abbot, that they sinne no more to death, to damnation; nor by sinning loose their iu­stice, or the fauor of God, which, supposing as they doe, no veniall sinne, is the same with Iouinian his heresy. See Cont. 25.

G. Vigilantius appeached of Idolatry the Religious wor­ship and veneration of reliques vsed in the Church. Hier. ib. Ca. stro. V. reliquiae sanct.

H. He impug­ned Inuocation of Saints. Hier. contr. Vigil. c. 2 & 3.

I. He reproued the vigils and night-watchings thē in vre. Hier. aduer. eumdē.

K. He preferred the vse of riches and well disposing of thē, before Euāgelicall po­uerty, [Page 30-31] & leauing al for Christ. S. Thom. o­pusc. 17.

L. Petilianus with other Donatists, held that the true visible church perished before the tyme of Donatus. Aug. cont. lit. Petil. l. 2. c. 108. So many Protestants affirme, it failed before the dayes of Luther. Perkins in his expos. vpon the Creed pag. 400. Nap­per vpon the Reuelat. pag. 68. and 161. 145. 191.

M. The Pelagi­ans reiected the neces­sity of Childrens bap­tisme. Inno. in rescrip. ad Mileuet. Concil.

N. They derided the Exorcismes & ex­ufflations vsed in bap­tisme. Aug. de Na. & cōcupiscent. l 2. c. 29.

O. The Pre­destinate were so na­med, because they at­tributed all things, e­uen the sinnes & per­dition of the reprobat, to Gods diuine pre­destination, will, and decreee. Sigeb. 415. Ge­neb. in Zosimo. See [Page 32-33] Caluin. l. 3 inst. c. 23. §. 4. 7. 8. 9. Fulke in c. 9. ad Rom. sect. 2 &▪ 5.

P. Zenaias, saith Nicephorus. l. 16. c. 27. was the first (O ar­rogant mind and impudēt mouth) who belched forth this saying, that the images of Christ, and those that most pleased him, are not to be worshipped. And Functius a Protestant writer saith: Zenaias was the first in the Church who waged warre against images. Comment. l. 7. Are not our Sectaris guilty of all these blasphe­mies? For with Vigi­lantius, Zenaias and the Predestinate they wholy accord in the aforsaid assertiōs: with the Pelagians, though not in the grounds of their denials, yet in the things denied by thē, which the Fathers im­pugned: with Iouini­an and Petilian, in the same sorte as I haue noted: yet they dissē ­ted from them all in many other substanti­all pointes.

F. HIer. l. 3 aduer. Pe­lagium. Know thou that Baptisme forgiueth sinnes past, but doth not preserue iustice to come. Yea the same S. Hierome l. 1. & 2 cont. Iouin. and S. Ambrose ep. 82. tearme Iouinian, and his fauourites Epicures. S. Augustine calleth him a monster, and saith of the clergy of Rome, The holy Church that is there (at Rome) most faythfully and stoutly resi­sisted this monster.

G. By S. Hiero­me. adu. Vigil. Naz. orat. 1. in Iulian. & by all the Christians of the former age, as Chemnitius is forced to confesse, exam. part 4. saying, They thought grace and heauenly vertue to reside in the bones of Martyrs, which by praier and other worship, they sought at their reliques as Basil discourseth vpon the Psalme 115. &c. They imagined, that spirituall [Page 30-31] graces, as Holinesse and Charity, was giuen and augmented by touching & kissing of Reliques, as Nissenus doth gloriously preach of Thcodore the Martyr.

H. Victor. l. 3 de persecut. Vādal. in­uocateth Angels, Patri­arches, Prophets, Apostles.

I. Epiph. in cō ­pendio. S. Basil. de sp. sancto. c. 29. and S. Hierome calling him therfore Dormitātium, a sleeper, wheras Christi­ans for their watch­fulnesse were resem­bled long before (as Clemēs Alex. noteth) to Angels, whome we call (saith he) [...], watchers. Clem. in Paeda. c 9.

K. S. Augustine. l. de bo. coniug. c. 8. They did well who of their goods ministred necessa­nies to Christ, and his dis­ciples: but they better who haue for sakē all, that they may more readily & wi [...]h­out encumbrances f [...]llow the same Lord.

L. Hier. aduer. Lucif. Aug. conc. 2 in Psal. 101. exclai­meth [Page 32-33] thus against it: O impudent voice &c.

M. Aug. l. 3. de orig. anim. ad Vin. Vict. c. 9. Do not thou belieue, do thou not say, do thou not teach, if thou wilt be a Catholik▪ that infants preuented by death before they were baptized, can come to receaue pardon of Originall sinne.

N. Aug. l. 2. c. 29. de nup. Iulianus casteth the spotte of a detestable fault vpon the most anciēt tradition of the Church, by which infants are exor­cized &c.

O. Prosper in resp. ad cap. Gall. c. 12. The will of God neuer willeth but good things. And in the Araus. Con. sent. 25. They are accursed who belieue any predestinate to euill, by the diuine power.

P. By S. Hierom in vita Paul. she ado­red prostrat before the Crosse &c. Theod. in hist. SS. Patr. c. 26. writteth of Images e­rected by the Romans in honour of S. Sime­on, to the end, they might obtain protecti­on & safegard therby.

• Annus Christi 514 Hormisda.
• Annus Christi 524 Ioannes.
• Annus Christi 526 Faelix 4.
• Annus Christi 530 Bonifacius. 2.
• Annus Christi 532 Ioannes 2.
• Annus Christi 535 Agapitus.
• [Page 36-37]Annus Christi 537 Siluerius.
• Annus Christi 540 Vigilius.
• Annus Christi 556 Pelagius.
• [Page 38-39]The second Con­stantinopolitane Councell hauing in it 165. Fathers, vnder Pope Vigilius against Anthimus and Theodorus.

BOETIVS, Quin­ctianus, Fulgenti­us, Brigida virgo, Ma­ria Aegyptiaca, Aegi­dius, Faustus, Ennodi­us, Sigismundus King of Burgundy, famous for miracles, and sanctity of life. Benedictus founder of the holy Order of Bene­dictines, who going from Sublacū to Mount Cas­sin, at euery turning saw two Angels directing him his right way. Sigebert. an. 529. Rupertus, Maurus, Placidus, Ar­nulphus, Ioannes Cli­macus, Herculanus, Leontins, Procopius, Arator, Medardus, Gildardus, Gregorius Turonensis, Cassio­dorus, Euagrius, Lu­picinus, Leander, Ni­cerius, Ermingildus, Auitus, Gregorius Ma­gnus, Petrus Diaco­nus, who complied Saint Gregoryes life, & affirmeth that he saw oftentymes a Doue standing at his eare, as he wrote by cādle-light, signifying therby that [Page 36-37] the thinges he indi­ted, were infused by the Holy Ghost.

Radegundis Q. of France, honoured for her singular vertue with many miracles.

Recaredus, the first Catholike King of Spaine.

Fortunatus, A­gricola, Bonifacius, Euphronius, Praetex­tatus, Hospitius renow­ned for abstinency; and the gift of Prophesy. Dal­matius, Paternus, Eu­logius, Columbanus, Saluius, Tharsilla, Ae­miliana &c.

Columbanus the Ab­bot conuerted the Pictes. Beda. de gest. Angl. l. 3. c. 4. Leander the Goths. Gregor. Turon. hist. Franc. l. 8. c. 41. Ruper­tus Bishop of Wormes the [Page 38-39] Bauarians. Baron. an. 590. Faelix Bishop, and Cyriacus Abbot, the Bar­baricians. Greg. ep. l. 3. c. 29. 27. Baron. an. 594. num. 13.

About this tyme al­so, the second conuersion of England was begun by our Apostle S. Augustine, a Benedictine Monke, sent from Popē Gregory, the Great. Beda de gest. Angl. l. 1. c. 23. and it pleased God to seale the truth of his doctrine with sundry miracles, as S. Gre­gory testifyeth. Greg. l. 9. ep. 58. indictione 4.

FRee-will. Boetius l. 5. de Cons. pros 2. & 6. There is not any rea­sonable creature, which hath not therwith al free­dome of will. Againe, Because freedome remay­neth inuiolable in men, worthily do the lawes pro­pose rewards and punish­ments vnto the wills that are free from all necessity. Reall presence. Euag. l. 4. Hist. c. 35. Sacrifice of the Masse. Greg. l. 4. dial. c. 28. Supremacy. Cassiod▪ lib. de Amic. Confession & Satisfacti­on. S. Greg. hom. 26. in Euang. proueth out of those wordes of Scripture, Whose sinnes you remit &c. Ioan. 20. That the Apostles had au­thority to remit sins; that Bishops succeeding haue the same power. That the spirituall iudge must well weigh the sinnes, and state of the penitent, then pronounce absolution: & a little after addeth, that vocall Confession is not inough, vnles affliction [Page 36-37] of pennance & satisfacti­on follow. Merit & Iu­stification of workes. Bo­et. prosa 2. & 6. In­uocation of Saints. Greg. Turon. l. 2. hist. Fran. c. 5. Purgatory or Prayer for the dead. Boet. l. 4. de conso. pro. 4. Single life. Concil. Claramō. cap. 12. Prescript fasts. Concil. 1. Aurel. cap. 29.

Miracles. wrought to confirme the Sacri­fice of the Masse. Greg. l. 4. dial. c. 57. Reall presence Euag. lo. citat. Ioan. Diac. l. 2. de vita S. Greg. c. 41.

Patronage, honour, and inuocation of Saints. Pro­cop. orat. 1. de aedifi­cat. Iustini. Euagr. lo. cit. Greg. de mirac. S. Martinil. 2. c. 5. 6. 7.

The vse of Images, & carrying them in processi­on: for by one of our Ladyes painted by S. Luke, a contagious pe­stilence [Page 38-39] was dispelled in Rome. Ciac. in Greg. 1. from another stabd by a Iew, there issued bloud. Gregor. Turon. de glor. Mart. c. 22. Sigeb. an. 560.

The veneratiō of Reliks. Greg. Turo. de mirac. S. Martin. l. 1. c. 11. The holy oyle which flowed from a Crosse and from an Image of our B. Lady, curing many diseases. Baron. ann. 564. two accom­plished by two seue­rall Popes, the one by Iohn the first, the o­ther by Agapitus, by which God himselfe attested their sanctity. Greg. dial. l. 3. c. 3.

• Talmudistae.
• Seuerus, vnde Seueriani, qui & Corrupticolae.
• Iulianus Hali­carnassaeus, prin­ce of the Gai­nites.
• Petrus Apamē ­sis.
• Anthimus.
• [Page 36-37]Agnoitae, siue Themistiani.
• Philoponus, chiefe of the Tritheits.
• Monothelitae.
• Iacobitae.
• Christolitae.
• [Page 38-39]Conon.
• Theodosiani.

Q. SEVERVS was either author or rather fauo­rer of the Heretiks cal­led Acephali (Prateo­lus V. Seuerus. Baron. an. 511.) who deser­ued that name because they wanted a head, wanted true and law­full Bishops, lineally descending from the Apostles, from whom they might receaue their faith and sacra­cramentes. In which sense our Protestantes also are Acephali, be­cause they haue no su­preme head, no such consecrated Priests, or Bishops as truely de­riue their succession from Christ & his A­postles.

R. Petrus Apa­mensis hatinge the Saints of the Roman Religiō, scraped their names out of the tabls of the Church. Baro. anno 518. num. 46.

[Page 36-37] S. Their images also he plucked down and defaced: yet he honoured the images of Dioscorus, and his hereticall complices, as our Sectaryes now a dayes. Baron. ibid.

T. Religious houses, Nunneries & Monasteryes he pro­phaned. Baro. ibid. nu. 47. 48. 49.

V. The Agnoitae imputed ignorance to Christ (Damase. l. de haer. Prateol. V Ag­noitae) affirming the last day to be vn­knowne to him; be­cause it is said, That day or houre no man knoweth, neither the Angels in heauē, nor the Sonne, but the Fa­ther. Mar. 13. v. 32. vpon which wordes Caluin groundeth the same heresy. Harmo. in Mat. 24. v. 36. & in Mar. 13. v. 32. & more impudent then the Agnoitae, he la­boureth to refell the ancient Fathers, for teaching the cōtrary.

[Page 38-39] X. The Iacobites denied the necessity of Auriculer cōfession to Priests, and said, with Protestants, that it is inough to confesse our sins to God. Guid. de haer. Matth Paris. in Henr. 2. But our Ghospellers haue rea­son to blot them out of the Kalender of their brethren; because they gainsaid the mystery of the holy Trinity: and acknowledged with the Sabellians one only person in God. Pratel. V. Iaco­bitae: neither do I think they will admit Seue­rus, and Petrus Apa­mensis, their vilanies were so great, as you may see in Baro. an. 511. nu. 15. 16. and 518. nu. 47.

Q. LEONTIVS, as Euthymi testifyeth 2. part. Pa­nop. tit. 15. refuted Seuerus: and Pope Vi­gilius promulgated a­gainst those old Ace­phali the sentence of condemnation. Greg. l. 2. indict. 10. ep. 36. in whome our new Acephali are likewise condemned, & in di­uers others. In Noua­tian by S. Cyprian l. 1. ep. 6. ad Mag. Noua­tian is not in the Church, neither may he be counted a Bishop, who contemning Apostolicalltradition, suc­ceeding no man, rose or sprung vp of himselfe. In the Carpocratians by Epiphanius haer. 27. In the Donatistes by Optatus l. 2. cont. Parm. who discardes them, as heretikes for want of succession.

R. By a Coun­cell of fourty Bishops held at Constantino­ple, apud eandem Sy­nod. act. 1. tom. 2. [Page 36-37] Concil. in which the name of Pope Leo was restored in Dyp­tica, as then they tearmed it, and ther­in it was approued by Hormisda. Horm. ep. 24. Two sortes of those which were recorded in the tables of the Church, are mē ­tioned by S. Epipha­ius, S. Augustine, & S. Cyrill of Hierusa­lem, the one to help vs by theirs, the other to be helpen by our praiers. See contr. 17. c. 2. §. 17.

S. The Monkes and Clergy of the Church of Apamea, preferred bils of com­plaint against him in a Synod held at Ty­rus in Syria. apud e­and. Synod. tom. 2. Concil. act. 1.

T. By the afore­sayd Synode monkes and clergy. loc. citat.

V. By S. Am­brose l. 5. de fide c. 8. S. Augustine. l. 1. de Tri. c 12. S. Hiereme vpon this place, ex­poūding i [...], that Christ knew not the day of iudg­ment [Page 38-39] to reueale it vnto o­thers. Likewise by S. Gregory. l. 8. ep. 42. Bede & Theophilact. in hunc locum, that he knew it not with know­ledge, taken from his hu­manity: Otherwise be­cause all the treasures of his fathers wisedome were in him. Coloss. 2. v. 3. he must needes know it, as they con­clude.

X. By S. Gre­gory. ho. 26. in Euang. and Cassiodo. in psal. 6. There is a kind of Tri­bunall in which the guilty person standeth in sight of the iudge, washing away his sin with teares, & dis­soluing it by confessiō &c.

• Annus Christi 605 Sabinia­nus.
• Annus Christi 606 Bonifacius 3.
• [Page 40-41]Annus Christi 615 Deusdedit.
• Annus Christi 618 Bonifacius 4.
• Annus Christi 626 Honorius.
• Annus Christi 639 Seuerinus.
• Annus Christi 640 Ioannes 4.
• Annus Christi 642 Theodo­rus 1.
• Annus Christi 649 Martinus 1.
• Annus Christi 654 Eugenius.
• Annus Christi 655 Vitalianus.
• Annus Christi 669 Adeodatus.
• [Page 42-43]Annus Christi 676 Domnus. 1.
• Annus Christi 678 Agatho.
• Annus Christi 683 Leo 2.
• Annus Christi 684 Benedi­ctus 2.
• Annus Christi 685 Ioannes 5.
• [Page 44-45]Annus Christi 686 Conon.
• Annus Christi 688 Sergius.
• The third Constā ­tinopolitan Coun­cell, consisting of 290. Fathers vnder Pope Agatho, a­gainst the Mono­thelites.

AVSTEN the A­postle of England, who in the end of the lat­ter age conuerted it, in this was instald Bishop of Canterbury. Defideri­us, Paterius, Agrippa­nus, Eustachius, Atta­lus, [Page 40-41] Gauderius, Bertol­phus, Ioannes Elce­mosynarius, Leontius, Anastasius, with his 70. companions, A­matus, Aloynus, Ar­nulphus, Isidorus, O­swaldus King of Englād who by raysing the stan­dard of the Crosse (which after wrought diuers mi­racles) obtayned a won­derfull victory ouer his e­nemyes. Beda l. 3. cap. 1 & 2. Aidanus, whose soule S. Cuthbert seeing ascending into heauen, presently became a Monk. Martyrol. 31. Aug. Sophronius, Brauliꝰ, Maximus, Cuniber­tus, Theodardus, Al­degundis, Gertrudis, Bathildis Queene of France & Saint, Ear­combertus Kinge of Kent, Ennemundus, Eugenius, Hildefon­sus, Eligius, Audoe­nus, Mansuetus, The­odorus, Trudo, Da­mianus, Bamba King of Spayne, who lea­uing his Kingdome, imbraced a religious life. Geneb. in Aga­tho. Iulianus, Clatus, Aldhelmus, Audoma­rus, [Page 42-43] Ceolfridus Abbot and Maister to Vene­rable Bede, Aponius Killianus, Aldagisus, Lambertꝰ, Willebror­dus, Ceadda, Maxel­lendis, Wilfridus, Edil­burga, Swibertus Wa­lericus, Claudius by a voyce from heauen chosen Archbishop of Bisuntum, after became a Monke, whose body yet remaineth incorrupt, shining with miracles. Sur. in vita.

S. Columbanus, whome I mentioned aboue in this age, also conuerted diuers Sweuians. Auent. l. 3. S. Eligius the Fle­mings, Iacob. Mayer. in Chro. Fland. 649.

The two Ewaldes, the Westphaliaus Fasc. tem. Killianns a Monke sent by Pope Conon, the people of Franconia. Sigeb. in Chro. 688.

Many of our Nation conuerted by S. Aidanus, [Page 44-45] King Oswald being his interpreter. Beda l. 3. cap. 3.

The people of Teis­terbandia, of Westphal [...]a, of Holland by S. Wille­brod, & S Swibert. Mar­cel. in vita Swibert. c. 11. & 12.

Caesarea Queene of Persia, her husband, and 40000. Persians baptized in the yeare 683. Geneb. in Agathon.

FRee-will. Audoen. l. 2. vitae S. Elig. c. 16. Reall presence. I­sid. l. 1. de offic. Eccl. cap. 18. Sacrifice of the Masse. Elig. hom. 8. Supremacy. Aldhel. ep. ad Gerunt. Confessi­on, [Page 40-41] & Satisfaction. Cō ­cil. Cabilo. c. 8. Me­rite and Instifucation of Workes. Isido. de sum­mo bono l. 2. c. 64. Inuocation and Honour of Saints. Hildefon. lib. de immaculat. Virg. Mariae. Purgatory or prayer for the dead. Isi­do. l. 4. de offic. cap. 18. Single life. Concil. Toletan. 8. cap. 4. 5. 6. Prescript fasts. Elig. hom. 8. Concil. Tolet. 4. & 8. c. 9. & 10. Yea these and all other pointes of Catholike doctrine, which some of our e­nemyes heertofore ei­ther of blindnes could not, or of obstinacy, would not see, do now with vniforme consent generally cō ­fesse. For Simon de Voyon a famous Pro­testant writeth thus: That Anno 605. when Pope Boniface was instal­led in his Papall throne, then falshood got the Vi­ctory &c. And then was the whol world ouerwhel­med in the dregs of Anti-Christian filthines, abo­minable superstitions, & [Page 42-43] traditions of the Pope: then was that vninerfall Apostacy from the Fayth foretould by Paul. In his discourse vpon the Cath. doct. in ep. ad Lect. Fulke hath the like in c. 2. 2. ad Thes. §. 7. And Perkins v­pon the Creede pag. 307. and 400.

Miracles, wrought in defence of vowed vir­ginity. Sigeb. an. 670. By holy Reliques. Bed l. 5. c. 11. by the Images of S. Anastasius, at the very sight of which, Diuels fled, and disea­ses were cured, vt ha­betur in act. 2. Synod▪ Nicae.

In this age, Sergius the Pope falsly accu­fed of vnchastity, was miraculously pronoū ­ced innocent by the mouth of an infant of 9. dayes old. Sur. 25. Maij.

Hildefonsus was visited by our Blessed Lady, and clad by her with a sacred vestmēt [Page 44-45] for often singing, and writing her prayses. Baron. an. 659.

The Sudary in which Christ his head was wrapt, about this tyme found amongst the Sarazens, being cast into the fire, lea­ped forth vnburned & flying long in the aire fell at length into the lappe of a Christian. Beda. l. de loc. sanct. c. 5. Baron. an. 678.

• Elcetae.
• [Page 40-41]Gnosiomachi.
• Cyrus the Patriarch of Alex­andria, captaine of the Mono­thelites.
• Sergius, & Ma­homet his schol­ler, from whom the Turkes and Saracens.
• Armeni.
• Chaziuzacij.
• Thuetophychi­tae.
• [Page 42-43]Pyrrhus.
• Parermeneutae.
• Macharius.
• Theodorus.
• Agimienses.
• [Page 44-45]Maronitae.

Y. MAHOMET derided with Protestants the reall presence in the Sacramēt; in so much as wicked Auerroes vpbraided Christians for eating their God. [Page 40-41] Prat in vita Mahomet.

Z.He taught as the Caluinists do, that theeues, witches, and other miscreants were by the diuine decree ordained to wicked­nesse. Sand. hae4. 125.

A. His follow­ers detested the holy Crosse, and taxed Christians with Ido­latry for adoring it. Sand. ibid.

B. The Armenians denied Purgatory. Castro V. Purgat.

C. They affir­med some sinnes so grieuous, as no Priest could forgiue them. Sand. haer. 118.

D. They min­gled not water with wine in the dreadfull sacrifice. Theophil. in c. 19. Ioan. which our Protestants also neglect: in so much as they reprehend the fathers for vrging it so much, as Whitgift, in his Defence pag. 473. Cyprian was greatly ouerseen in making it a matter so necessary in celebration of the Lords Supper, to haue [Page 42-43] water mingled with wine, which was at that tyme, no doubt, common to more thē him.

E. The Lampe­tians disanulled the o­bligation of vowes, as a thing repugnant to Christian liberty: for which cause the Se­ctaryes of our dayes discharge Priests, and other votaryes of their vowes of Chastity.

F. The Parer­meneutae were so cal­led, because they in­terpreted holy Scrip­tures, according to their owne priuate o­pinions, and would admit no other Iudges then themselues. Da­mase V. Parermen. Luther, and his fol­lowers do the like, for by the Scriptures, in­terpreted by themsel­ues, they will iudge of the Church, of Generall Councells, of Fathers, of Apostles, of Angells also. These are Luther his wordes lib. de Miss. priuat. & vnct. sacerd. & tom. 2. Wittember. fol. 375. Caluin. l. 4. [Page 44-45] instit. c. 9. & l. 3. c. 5. harmon. in Ioan. 6. & 14. Whitaker, Fulk, and our Ghospellers are no lesse arrogant, when examining all things by Scriptures, as they are pleased to expound them, they make themselues su­prem iudges of Scrip­tures, Councells, and whatsoeuer els. Yea M. Bilson sayth part. 2. of his Christian &c. The people must be discer­ners, & iudges of that, which is taught.

Y. ELIGIVS Bishop of Noyon. ho. 8. As Christ truely tooke the flesh of our body: so it is true flesh and true bloud which we receiue in the mystery.

[Page 40-41] Z. Isidorus de sum­bon. l. 2. c. 5. teacheth that God causeth not the blindenesse and reprobatiō of the impious, but only permitteth it, or doth not hinder or take it away.

A. The 6. Synod can. 73. attributeth adoratiō to the Crosse both with minde and word, & outward action: yea the solemne feast of the Exal­tation of the Crosse was now instituted by reason of a strang miracle which happened to Heraclius the Emperour, as he solemnly carryed it in Procession. Palm. an. 624. Geneb. in Bonifa. 5. & Ho­norio 1. Baro. an. 628.

B. Eligius ho. 8. ad Cler. & pop. It is not to be doubted, but that the Apostle speaketh of Purgatory fire in the [...]. to the Corinthians c. 3. wher he sayth, The fire shall proue euery mans worke. Concil. Tole. 11. c. 12.

C. Isidorus l. 6. Etymolog. siue Orig. affirmeth, that by Con­fession and pennance tho­rough the mercy of God, al sinnes are remitted.

D. By the Fa­thers [Page 42-43] of the sixt Coū ­cel of Constantinople who alleadge against them the authority of S. Basil Archbishop of Caesarea, & the Litur­gy of S. Iames our Lords brother, Conc. Constant. 6. Can. 32. And long before them Iustin. Apol. 2. Iren. l. 5. c. 1. Cypr. l. 2. ep. 3. Amb. lib. 5. de Sa­crament. c. 1. & l. 4. c. 5. and many other [...] vrge the necessity therof, as M. Iewel cō ­fesseth saying: Indeed S. Cyprian, and certaine old Fathers spake of it, & force it much. Iewell in his Reply pag. 54.

E. Isidorus l. 1. de offic. Eccles. c. 13. & sequent. by a Coū ­cell held in England cap. 4. it was decreed, That Monkes should per­seuere in that obedience the [...] promised at their con­uersion. This Councel is recorded by Bede l. 4. hist. Ang. c. 5. & tom. 3. Conciliorum.

F. S. Maximus Monke and Martyr in his Comment. in l. 1. Dyon. Areopag. de [Page 44-45] diuin. nominib. c. 1. sayth: The holy Scriptu­res and traditions of Bi­shops, are to be placed in the same order or ranke. And the Councell of Lateran, vnder Pope Martin the 1. He that receaueth not the 5. holy Synodes, and Venerable Fathers is accursed: and he that doth not confesse all things in particuler taught and defined by them is ac­cursed. And Concil. Tolet. 10. To violate the decres of the fathers, what is it but to breake the band of Christian Society?

• Annus Christi 702 Ioannes 6.
• Annus Christi 705 Ioannes 7.
• Annus Christi 708 Sisimus. Constan­tinus.
• [Page 46-47]Annus Christi 714 Gregorius 2.
• Annus Christi 731 Gregorius 3.
• Annus Christi 742 Zacharias.
• Annus Christi 752 Stepha­nus 2. Stepha­nus 3.
• Annus Christi 757 Paulus 1.
• [Page 48-49]Annus Christi 768 Stephanus 4.
• Annus Christi 772 Adrianus.
• Annus Christi 796 Leo 3.
• The second Ni­cene Councell, ha­uing in it 350. Fa­thers, vnder Pope Adrian, against I­mages-breakers.

THeophilactus, Germanus, Ve­nerabilis Beda, Bo­nitus, Grimoaldus, Guthlacus, Syluinus, Marcellinus, Pepin K. of France, who visited the tombe of S. Swibert bare­footed to satisfy a vow he made to go on Pilgrimage vnto it, and thereupon ob­tained a great Victory. Ludge. ep. ad Rixfri. Traiect. Episc. Theo­dosius, Ionas Mona­chus, [Page 46-47] Ioannes Damas­cenus, who had his right hand by false accusation cut off, and receaued it whole againe by the inter­cession of our Blessed La­dy, humbly kneeling and praying before her picture. Ioan. Patriarch. Hie­rosol. in vita eiusdem. Cosmas, Vsuardus, Theophilus, Machari­us, Winocus, Hermin­gildis, Hubertus, Bo­nifacius.

Ceolnulfus King of England, who yeilding vp his kingdome to his Son Eadbert, became a Monk.

Richardus another King, and Saint of our Countrey.

Odilia, S. Pela­gius King of Spaine, Willebaldus, Paulus Diaconus, Carolus Magnus, Alcuinꝰ Mai­ster to the said Charls, Rigoberrus, Tarasius, Ludgerus, Lullus, Ni­caetas, Burcardus, Gā ­gulphus, Gudula, and others.

In this age the Saxons, [Page 48-49] Borucluatians, were con­uerted by the forenamed S. Swibert. Marcel. in vita eius cap. 19. 20. 21. 24. & 25.

The Frisians by S. Willebrord our Countrey­man, with commission from Pope Sergius the first Bonifac. ep. ad Steph. Pap. 3. Sabel. Aenead. 8.

The Hassites, the Thuringians, the Catti, the Erphordians, by S. Boniface an English Monk sent into Germany by Pope Gregory the second. Pal­mer. anno 714.

The two Saxon Dukes Witegindus, and Albion conuerted by a mi­raculous sight which Wi­tegindus saw, to wit, a beautifull child descending from the Priests hands in­to the mouths of them that receaued the Holy Sacra­ment [Page 50-51] of the Altar. This vision was seene at Wolmerstadium.

FReewill. Beda in c. 2. Genes. Reall pre­sence. Damas. lib. 4. de fide orthodox. c. 14. Sacrifice of the Masse. Alcuin. lib. de diuin. offic. c. de celebr. mis­sae. Supremacy. Concil. 7. general. Can. 4. & in epist. Adriani ad Constant. & Iren. Confession and Satisfacti­on. Beda in c. 5. ep. S. Iacobi. Merit and Iusti­fication of Workes. Bed. [Page 46-47] in c. 12. Luc. Inuocatiō & Honour of Saints. Da­masc. in orat. de Nat. & in orat. de dormit. B. Virg.

Purgatory, or Pray­er for the dead. Alcuin. de diuin. offic. cap. de celebrat. Missae.

Single life. Beda in cap. 1. Luc. saying: Because now not carnall succession, but spirituall perfectiō is required, ther­fore that Priests may al­wayes assist at the Altar, they are commanded al­wayes to abstaine from wiues, alwayes to obserue Chastity. In l. Hexa­mer. Marriages are not condemned &c. but Vir­ginity is more to be honou­red, and worthy of greater Blessing. Prescript fasts. Damasc. lib. de haer.

Miracles. Diuers wrought at the tran­slation of S. Austines body from Sardinia to Ticinum, by Luitprand King of the Longo­bardes after he had re­deemd it with a great [Page 48-49] summe of mony from the Sarazens. Oldar­dus epist. ad Carolum Magnum. Others wrought to maintain the adoration of Images.

A Souldiar halfe withered, and excee­ding crooked cōman­ded by S. Stephen the Confessor to worship an Image of Christ & our Blessed Lady, presently recouered his health.

By the same re­medy a blind man re­ceaueth his sight, and a possessed person is freed from the Diuel. Baron. ann. 765.

A Crucifixe in the Citty of Berith stab­bed by the Iewes, ble­deth, and the bloud thereof cureth all di­seases. Crantius in Me­trop. l. 1. c. 9. & Mag­deb. Cent. 8.

Pope Leo the 3. of that name hauing his eyes thrust out, & tongue cut off by the Pagans, had them both [Page 50-51] restored by the help of God, and intercession of S. Peter. Anast. de eod. Baron. ann. 799.

• Agonyclitae.
• Christianocate­gori.
• [Page 46-47]Iconoclastae.
• Aldebertus.
• Clemens Sco­tus.
• Pauliciani, siue Atingani.
• [Page 48-49]Faelix Vrgelita­nus.
• Elipandus.
• Albanenses.
• [Page 50-51]Bagnolensesseu Concordenses.

G. THE Ico­noclasts enemyes and breakers of Images, accused the Church of Idolatry in worshipping of them. Prateo. V. Iconoclast.

H. They affir­med the image of Christs naturall body is in the Eucharist: yet they did not therwith all depriue it of his true body. Concil. Nicen. 2. act. 6. Sand. [Page 46-47] haeres. 30.

I. Aldebertus scof­fed at the pilgrimages made in his age to the bodyes of the Apostles Gualt. in saecul. 8.

K. The Paulici­ans detracted from the honour of the Holy Crosse. Euthy. part. 2. tit. 21.

L. The Albanē ­ses made no account of the Sacrament of Extreme Vnction, or annoyling of the sick. Prat. V. Albanenses.

M. They taught that sinne proceeded not from the liberty of Free-will: yea they gainsayd f [...]atly al free­dome of will. Castro V. Libertas.

N. The Sacra­ment of the Altar, they vtterly abolished. pra. V. Albanenses. Our Protestants do no lesse when they depriue it of the true substance of Christs body and bloud.

O. They sayd that he which committeth sinne, ought not to confesse it. Prateo. ib. yet least our Sectaryes [Page 48-49] should glory in these their forerunners, the Albanenses, and Pau­licians were impoiso­ned with the Mani­chaean, & diuers other heresyes. Cooper in his Dictionary. Sand. haer. 132. ex Euthy. Aldebertꝰ in al points els held our Catholik fayth. The Iconoclasts or Constantinus Co­pronymus their chiefe supporter, was giuen to magicall inchaunt­ments, and inuocatiō of Diuells, to whome he offred children in sacri­fice, he worshipped Venus, and hated the B. Virgin, for which he was, as himself cryed out, tor­mēted aliue with vn­quenchable fire: and like another Antiochꝰ with ouer late repen­tance wished due ho­nour restored to our Lady, with reparatiō of the Churches he had before defaced, saying: Be thou repayred and flourish againe, O great Temple S. Sophia. Flourish thou againe, O Church of the most holy Mother of God: flourish [Page 50-51] thou againe, O Church of the holy Apostles. Baron. ann. 775. ex Cedren. Theophane, & Suida.

G. S. Iohn Da­mascene wrote 3. Books apo­logeticall against im­pugners of holy ima­ges. and orat de imag. I worship their Images, who lead their liues accor­ding to the example of Christ. And the 7. ge­nerall, the 2. Nicene Synod accursed all such as defend their heresy. Act. 7.

H. H. Epiphan. in [Page 46-47] Concil. Nice. 2. act. 6. Christ sayd, Take, eate, this is my body, but he did not say, Take, eate the I­mage of my body. A lit­tle after: Read as long & you will, you shall neuer find neither our Lord, nor the Apostles, nor the Fa­thers, to haue called that vnbloudy Sacrifice, which is offred by the Priest, an image, but the body, and bloud it selfe.

I. Venerable Bede writeth lib. 5. c. 7. in fine, That Hun King of our Coūtrey went to the bodyes of the holy Apostles choosing rather to goe on pilgrimage on earth neere the places of holy Saints, that he might deserue to be more friendly receaued by them in heauen.

K. Ioan. Damas. l. 4. de fide orthod c. 12. The pretious wood & very truely venerable, on which Christ offered him­selfe an host for vs, as san­ctifyed with the touch of his holy body and bloud, is decēily to be adored. And c. 17. he addeth, That it is a tradition not writ [...]ē to adore the Crosse, as the adoration to the East, and [Page 48-49] diuers others.

L. Venerable Be­da l. in c. 6. Mar. And in 9. Luc. It is cleare, that this custome was de­liuered to the holy Church by the Apostles themselues, that the sick should be an­noyled with oile consecra­ted by the Bishops blessing. Concil. Wormat. cap. 72. tom. 3.

M. Alcuinus l. 2. de fide SS. Trin. c. 8. (who was for his learning, tearmed a Library or store-house of all liberall sciences. Bar. an. 778. nu. 13.) sayth: We ought to belieue both the grace of God, & free-will: for if there be not the grace of God, how is the world saued? If there be not free-will, how is the world iudged?

N. Venerable Bede Comment. in Boet. l. de Trin. & l. 4. hist. gent. Angl. c. 22.

O. Alcuinus l. de diuin. offic. c. 13. Bed. in c. 5. ep. Iacob. & in c. 11. & 16. Luc. The [Page 50-51] poyson of sinne is whole­somely opened in Confessi­on, which contagiously lay hidden in the mind.

• Annus Christi 816 Stephanus 5.
• Annus Christi 817 Paschalis 1.
• Annus Christi 824 Eugenius 2.
• Annus Christi 827 Valenti­nus.
• Annus Christi 828 Gregorius 4.
• Annus Christi 844 Sergius 2.
• Annus Christi 847 Leo 4.
• Annus Christi 855 Benedictus 3.
• Annus Christi 858 Nicolaus 1.
• [Page 52-53]Annus Christi 868 Adrianus 2.
• Annus Christi 873 Ioannes 8.
• Annus Christi 883 Martinus 2.
• Annus Christi 884 Adrianus 3.
• Annus Christi 885 Stephanus 4.
• Annus Christi 891 Formosus.
• Annus Christi 897 Bonifaci­us 6. Stephanꝰ 7.
• [Page 54-55]Annus Christi 900 Romanus.
• The 4. Constanti­nopolitan Councel, hauing in it 300. Fathers, under A­drian the Pope, a­gainst Photius.

NICEPHORVS Patriarch of Cō ­stant. Saluius, Theo­dorus Studita, Sabinꝰ, Ionas Aurelianensis, Ludouicus primus sur­named the holy, and Son to Charles the Great, who being sicke tooke no other food for fourty dayes space then the pretious body of our Sauiour Christ Ie­sus. Geneb. in Step. 5. Halitgrarius, Amala­rius, Alphonsus Ca­stus K. of Spain, in whose dayes the body of S Iames the greater, was reuealed from heauen (and after­wards translated to Com­postella) by certaine fla­mes of fire, which often appeared to Theodomir & diuers others, in a thicket of briers where that trea­sure was hidd. Baro. an. 816. Perfectus, San­cius, Abundius, Hil­duinus, Haimo, Me­thodius Patriarch of [Page 52-53] Constantinople, and Ignatius his successor, Rabanus, Strabus, E­lias, Paulus, Isidorus, Argimirus, Aurea vir­gin and Martyr, Ans­grarius, Freculphus, Theodulphus, Ebba the Abbesse with her Nunns, Theophanes, Hincmarus, Eulogius. Wulafridus, Rember­tus, Ioannicius, Ed­mundus King of En­gland and Martyr, Si­meon Metaphrastes, Michael Psellus, Ioan­nes Diaconus, Ado, Humbertus, Ambro­sius, Ansbertus &c.

Saint Ansgrarius a Monke of Corbeia conuer­teth the Danes, Swethens and people of Aquitania. Crant. in metrop. l. 1. c. 19. Adamus l. 1. c. 16. & 17.

Other Monkes of the aforesayd Corbeia, con­uerted the whole Island of the Rugians. Holmol­dus l. 1. cap. 6.

[Page 54-55] Certaine Priests sent as Legates from Pope Nicolas the first, conuerted the Bulgarīans. Baron. anno 945. num. 8. and anno 867. num. 1. 2. 3. &c. ex Curopa­la. & Anastasio.

The Ruthens, Rhos­sites, or Russians were broght to belieue in Christ by a strange miracle of the holy Bible, which being put into the middest of a great fire, by a Priest pronoun­cing these wordes (Christ our God, glorify thy holy name) remained sound and unblemished. Curopa. apud Baron. anno 886. Zona. tom. 3. Cedren. 875.

FRee-will. Haymo in cap. 49. Isaiae. Reall Presence. Strabus in cap. 11. 1. ad Cor. extat tomo 6. Gloss. ord. Sacrifice of the Masse Pascha. Corbei. l. de corp. & sang. Iesu. c. 9. Supremacy Concil. 8. gener. can. 21. Ra­ban. in c. vlt. Ioan. The whole Church in Bi­shops and Priests hath iu­diciall power: but there­fore Peter did especially receaue it, that all men may vnderstād, that who­soeuer shall separate him­selfe frō the vnity of faith, and his society, can neither be absolued from his sins, nor enter the kingdome of of heauen. Confession & Satisfaction. Concil. 3. Turonens. c. 22. Merit & Iustification of works. Haym. in c. 1. Isaiae. Inuocation, and honour of Saints. S. Niceph. Constant. ep. ad Leo. [Page 52-53] 3. Purgatory or Prayer for the dead. Raba. l. 2. de iusti. cleri. cap. 44.

Single life. Concil. Aquisgra. c. 6. Haim. in cap. 3. 1. ad Timo­theum.

Prescript fasts. Me­taphr. in vita S. A­nastas. c. 7. Raba. l. 2. de instit. Cleri. c. 18.

The obseruation of Lent is by Apostolicall in­stitution kept in the Vni­uersal world neer the time of Christs passion.

Miracles. Diuers wrought at the tran­slation of S. Martins body. Baro. an. 853.

Others to testify the holynesse of 200. Monkes, who being martyred in Spaine, the pauement where they were buryed, euery yeare on the day of their Martyrdome is sprin­kled with a bloudy colour. Ciac. de ijsdem Mar­tyribus. Innumerable at the tombe of S. Ia­mes. Likewise by the picture of Saint Iohn Baptist. Curopala. a­pud [Page 54-55] Baron. an. 832.

By the Reliques of the SS. Petrus, and Mar­cellinus. Eindhard. lib. 4. cap. 10.

By an Image of the Crucifixe which did sheed teares, many dayes to­geather, at Orleans. Glab. lib. 2. cap. 5.

By three seuerall Popes: by Steuen the 5. Thega. de gest. Lu­do. By Paschalis the first. Anastas. de Pas­cha. And by Formosꝰ whose body iniuriously cast into Tyber, the Images of Saints salated (in congra­tulation and testimony of his sanctity) when it was after found and honoura­bly brought backe to Saint Peters Church.

• Claudius Tau­rinensis.
• Theoda, a false Prophetesse.
• Godescalcus.
• [Page 52-53]Photius a chiefe promoter of the Grecian schism.
• There are cyted also in this age by some, Ioan­nes Scotus, not the subtile Doctor; but ano­ther of that na­me.
• [Page 54-55]Fredeuardus, & Bertramus, fa­uourers of the Sacramētaryes.

P. CLAVDIVS Taurinen­sis, impugned the a­doration of Images, especially of the holy Crosse. Castro. V. Adoratio. To counte­nance this his errour, he abused with our Protestants that text of Exod. Non facies tibi sculptile.

Q. He reprehen­ded the inuocation of Saints, and worship­ping of their Reliques.

R. He dissalow­ed pilgrimages chief­ly such as were made to Rome forsatisfacti­on and remission of sinnes. Baro. an. 825.

S. Godescalcus re­newed the error of the Predestinates, affir­ming some to be or­dayned of God to dā ­nation before the pre­uision of their sinnes, & consequently that [Page 52-53] God hath not a will to saue all, nor that he dyed for all, but only for the elect. Bar. an. 848. which are the ve­ry positions of Caluin l. 3. c. 23. §. 1. 2. 3. of Fulke in c. 9. ad Rom. §. 2.

T. Photius denied Purgatory and suffra­ges for the dead. Prat. V. Graeci.

V. He affirmed it no sin, to lend mo­ney to vse, which hath been many years per­mitted in England, & is now a dayes wic­kedly practised by sū ­dry Protestants. But although he agreed with them in these & some other erroneous doctrines; yet he dis­sented from them in that mayne article of denying the Holy Ghosts procession frō the Sonne. Castro V. Dens. haer. 12. and in many other fundamē ­tall points.

X. Ioannes Sco­tus, Fredeuardus, and Bertram seemed to doubt of the Real pre­sence, although they [Page 54-55] neuer absolutly deny­ed it, as Berengarius and our Sacramenta­ryes do. Geneb. in Io­an. 8. Paschasius epist. ad Fredeuard. tom. 4. Bibliothecae Patrum, & lib. de Sacra. Alta. where he auerreth, That vntill his tyme, no man declined from the be­liefe of the Reall presence, but such as strayed from Christ. Paschas. in ex­pos. verbo. Christi. Coenantibus eis &c. And Guitmundus Ar­chbishop of Auersa l. 3. de veritat. corp. & sangu. Christi, sayth: It is most apparent at this present that before Beren­garius fell into madnesse, such furyes were no where noted. Therefore the foresayd persons were not infected with this heresy. And Claud. Xanct. saith, that Ber­tram was a good Ca­tholike; that the book of the Sacrament to Carolus Crassus was not his. Claud. Xanct. repet. 2. c. 14.

P. IONAS Bi­shop. l. 1. de cult. Imag. The Holy Church vpon good Friday, according to Ecclesiastical traditiō adoreth the Crosse of Christ. And to the text of Exod. he answereth, as we do now: That God only forbad the making of Images to adore thē with the worship of Latria, which is due to God alone.

Q. S. Nicepho­rus Patriarch of Con­stantinople, writeth to Leo, ep. ad Leo. 3. That he hopeth to be saued by the intercession of the immaculate Virgin, and al Saints. Likwise, I adore (saith he & kisse the Ve­nerable Relicks of Saints. Rab. l. 4. de vni. c. 10.

R. Ionas lib. 3. ad Clau. Pilgrimageis good but not expedient for Monkes; as marriage is good, but belongeth not to the professors of continēcy.

[Page 52-53] S, Conc. Valen­tin. prope initium c. 3. God foreknew in the wicked, their malice, be­cause it came of themsel­ues: but he appointed it not, because it was not of him.

T. Raban. l. 2. de instit. Cleric. To offer sacrifice, or to pray that the departed may rest in peace; because it is obser­ued throughout the whole world; we belieue to haue descended from the Apo­stles themselues. Haym. l. 2. in Isa.

V. Concil Vien­nens. vt apparet in Clement. vmc. tit. de vsur. §. vlt. Where it is defined an heresy, to a­uoach the lawfulnesse of Vsury.

X. A Councell held at Vercels condē ­ned the booke which Scotus wrote of that matter: witnesse Lan­francus lib. de veritat. [Page 54-55] Eucha. Paschasius also Abbot of Corbeia ad­dressed an Epistle to Fredeuard, and com­piled a learned booke in defence of the Reall presence. Haymo in S. Marcum. Strabus in cap. 11. 1. ad Cor. And Remigius Epis­copus Antisiodorensis speaking of the body and bloud of Christ in the Eucharist, sayth: They are tearmed bread and wine, according to Christian [...]erity, not that after consecration they do retain the nature of bread & wine, but only in respect of shape, tast, and smell. For vnto him who could vnite the flesh assumed in the wombe of the Virgin, personally and ineffably to his word, and make our mortal bodyes by the force of his becke and command immortall; it is likewise possible to change the sub­stance of bread and wine, into the nature of his body and bloud. Rem epist, Antis. in Psal. 21.

• Annus Christi 901 Theodo­rus 2. Ioannes 9.
• Annus Christi 905 Benedictus 4.
• Annus Christi 907 Leo 5.
• Annus Christi 908 Christo­phorus. Sergius 3.
• Annus Christi 910 Anastasius 2.
• Annus Christi 912 Lando. Ioannes 9.
• Annus Christi 928 Leo 6.
• Annus Christi 929 Stephanus 8.
• Annus Christi 931 Ioannes 11.
• Annus Christi 936 Leo 7.
• [Page 58-59]Annus Christi 940 Stephanus 9.
• Annus Christi 943 Martinus 3.
• Annus Christi 946 Agapitus. 2.
• Annus Christi 956 Ioannes. 12.
• Annus Christi 965 Benedictus 5.
• Annus Christi 966 Ioannes 13.
• Annus Christi 972 Domnus 2.
• [Page 60-61]Annus Christi 973 Benedictus 6.
• Annus Christi 975 Benedictus 7.
• Annus Christi 984 Ioannes. 14.
• Annus Christi 985 Ioannes. 15.
• Annus Christi 995 Ioannes. 16.
• Annus Christi 996 Gregorius 5.
• Annus Christi 999 Siluester 2.

RHEGINO, Gal­lerus, Rathbodus, Vuni, Adaluardus, Wenceslaus Prince of Bohemia a Saint and Mart. Theotilo Arch­bishop of Turine, at whose death a light was seene, which afterward accompanyed his body car­ryed almost 200. miles. Frodoard. ann. 945. Aegidius, Otto, Ala­marus, Gerardus, Gil­berrus, Rutgerus, Ra­dulphus, Ratherius, Windiginus, Luitprā ­dus, Rosuida, Smarag­dus, Abbo, Bruno Bi­shop of Colen, and brother to Otto the Emperour, by the intercession of Saint Paul receaued into heauen anno 965. Ditm. l. 2. Chron. Dunstanus Archbishop of Canterbury glorious for miracles, and guift of prophesy. Vdal­ricus, Wolfangus, Ed­wardus King of En­gland and Saint, the se­cond of that name. Rom­waldus, Fredoardus, Nodgerus, Stephanus [Page 58-59] Coloniensis, Stepha­nus Eduensis, Poppo, Benaldus, Maiolus.

Adalbertus Bishop of Prage, who preached the Ghospell to the Polonians & Hungarians.

Mieslaus King of Bohemia, Luitolphus, Editha sister to S. Edw­ard the King, glorious for mirales, Dobbera, Ior­dan, Seguinus, Cres­centius, Bonizo.

Otto Emperour the third of that name, who going to Mount Cassino, offered two siluer crownes to S. Benedict, and visited bare footed the mountaine Garganus, where S. Mi­chael appeared. Ciac. in Siluestro 2. an. 1000.

In the beginning of this age Worziuous the last pagan Duke in Bohe­mia is cōuerted, with Lu­dinulla his wife, who shi­ned with miracles, by Methodius Archbishop of the Morauiās. Geneb. in Christoph.

[Page 60-61] The King of Nor­way, by Volequardus. Crantz. in Metrop.

Diuers in the Island of Chersonesus, by Bruno Archbishop of Colen. Si­geb. anno 958.

The Polonians, by Cardinall Aegidius, sent from Pope Iohn the 13. Chro. lib. 3.

The Sclanonians and Hungarians by two seue­rall Adelberts. Adamus lib. 2. cap. 7. 8. 10. 11. Carluilius in vita Ste­phani Hungar. Reg. c. 1. 2. 3. And Aeneas Siluius hist. Bohem. cap. 16.

Haraldus King of the Danes, with his wife, and Sueno his sonne, in seeing Poppo a Clergy man in proofe of his Christian Religion, to carry in his handes a weighty peece of iron red-hoate without hurt or annoiance. Crant. lib. 3. cap. 24. Vuiti­chin l. 3. hist. Saxon.

FRee-will. Moyses Bar-cephal. 1. de Paradiso c. 28. Reall presence. Stepha. Ed­uensis l. de Sacr. Alta. Sacrifice of the Masse. Smaragd. c. 49. dia­dem. Monacho. Su­premacy. Luitprand. l. 6. c. 6. & 8. Confession and Satisfaction. Rudul­phus l. 3. in Leuit. c. 1. By the absolution of Pa­stors, to whome the keyes are committed, we must obtain pardō at the hands of God. For vnto the Pa­stors it was sayd: What­soeuer you shall bind on earth shalbe bound in hea­uen. To them therfore we must repayre; to them we must open by confession the woundes of our consci­ences: before them must we lament, that so by their merits they may lighten, and by their power release our sinnes. Merit and Iu­stification of Workes. Steph. Eduensis lib. de Sacram. Altaris c. 19. Inuocation and Ho­nour of Saints. Ruther. [Page 58-59] in praefat. vitae S. Vrs­mari. Odo in tract. de corp. S. Martini c. 5.

Purgatory or Prayer for the dead. Luitp. l. 4. cap. 7.

Mechtildis King Henryes wife ceased not to cause dirige to be sayd, & the liuing host to be offered to God, for the expiation of her deceased husbandes sinnes.

Single life. Sma­ragd. cap. 48. Diade­matis Monach.

Prescript fast. Win­dikin [...]s l. 3. Annal. Smaragd. in cap. 49. Reg. S. Benedicti.

Miracles, approuing the single life of Priests, for a crucifixe miraculously spak in a Councell at VVinche­ster in behalfe of the vn­maryed. In another assēbly the whole roome fel down, where the Fauourits sate on the contrary side, and [Page 60-61] that only beam remayned, on which S. Dunstane, who stood for them, was placed. Matth. Westm. anno. 975. Osbert. in vita Dunstani.

Many were healed of an incurable disease, by going in pilgrimage to the Churches of Saints. Fro­doard. anno 945.

Others wrought by S. Romualdus, and by S. Dunstan. Surius in their liues.

By touching S. Peters chaines. Sigeb. an. 965.

A miraculous reue­lation made to an Ancho­ret, to confirme Purgatory and Prayer for the dead: by which S. Odilo first, & after the whole Church be­gan to celebrate the feast of All-soules. Sigeb. an. 998.

A Happy age.] In which no new Heresy beganne, nor Protestant weed ap­peared, vnles it were among the Manichees whose errors were re­newed at this tyme in Philippopoli. Geneb. in Chron. Or among the Grecian Schisma­tikes.

Y. Who gaine­sayd the Popes supre­macy, and Roman Church. Sigeber. an. 1054.

Z. Denyed Pur­gatory-fire, & prayer for the dead. Prat. V. Graeci.

A. Consecrated in leuened bread, and held it not lawfull to consecrate in vnle­uened. Prat. ibid. For these pointes M. Field presumeth to challeng them, as members of his Church. Field l. 1. cap. 5. pag. 70. 71. & 220. yet they impug­ned this mayne article both of their, and our [Page 58-59] beliefe, that the holy Ghost proceedeth frō the Father and the Sonne. Ado Vien. in Chron. Ioan. Diac. l. 4. de vita S. Grego. c. 75. and held with vs against them, tran­substantiation, Masse, Worshipping of Ima­ges, Inuocation of Saints &c. Read cen­suram Ecclesiae Ori­ent. which Censure is notoriously falsifyed by D. Morton against prayer to Saints: wher as it expresly aloweth it, alloweth inuocati­on of our Lady, of the Apostles &c. And on­ly saith, that we ought not to pray vnto thē, as Authours of our good, but as interces­sours for vs. See like­wise Acta Theol. Wittēber. & Hierem. Partriar. Constant. de Augustan. Confess. therefore they cannot make vp any part in the Protestants sect, vnles they mak a mō ­strous and prodigious sect composed (as they account them) of ma­ny horrible blasphe­myes, [Page 60-61] and deuided frō it selfe in substantiall, & fundamtēal points.

B. Some Anthro­pomorphites also con­tinued in this age: nei­ther yet do they patch vp the ragged & torn coate of Protestancy, because they most fan­tastically imagined, That God hath the forme and lineaments of human shape like vnto corruptible mē. Secōdly they imitated the Iewes in celebrating the feast of Easter. Thir­dly, they counted it a hei­nous offence for Ecclesiasti­call persons to enioy tem­porall possessions, preten­ding that the Apostles in­ioyed them not, therefore they renounced the Prela­tes of the Roman Church, as straying heerin from the Apostolicall pathes. Aug. haer. 50. Epiphan. haer. 70. in Anacepha. Ca­stro V. Ecclesia.

Y. LVitprandus l. 6. hist. c. 6. calleth Iohn the Pope of that age, chief and vniuersal Bishop. Reghino l. 1. Annal. anno 865. They are to be branded with the Marke of F [...]lly, who thinke that Peters scate may with any false doctrin deceaue, who neither deceaued her selfe, nor euer could by any he­resy be deceaued.

Z. Luitprand. l. 4. c. 7. Reghino Abb. in suis annal. de disci­plina Eccles. cap. 190. It is the Priests office to admonish the people out of the pulpit to offer vp pray­ers for the dead.

A. Anselmus l. de ferment. & azymo. Certaine it is, that Christ blessed vnleue­ned bread. Leo. epist. poster. ad Michaelem Constantinop. Episc. proueth the same our of Scripture, because it was not lawfull for the Iewes to haue a­ny other at that tyme [Page 58-59] then vnleuened bread in their houses.

B. They were checked and repressed by Ratherius the re­nowned Bishop first of Verona, after of Liege. Sigeber. anno 939. Trithem. in Catal. an. 930. And as touching the reseruation of the Sacrament, which the Anthropomorphites, impugned, as Prote­stants do, it was long since (as I haue regist­red aboue) defēded by S. Cyril in these words. I heare they say, that the mysticall blessing, if any remnants therof remaine till the next day, is vnpro­fitable to sanctification, but they are madd in so saying. Cyr. ad Calo­syr. Which sentence being vrged against Peter Martyr, he an­swereth: Whereas it is subioyned, that the reliques or particles of the Eucharist, reserued vnto the next day, doe not cease to be sanctify­ed, it belongeth, I wene, to a certaine ancient custome &c which albeit it sauour somewhat of superstition, [Page 60-61] yet Cyrill and others sub­scribed therunto: for im­mediatly after the tymes of the Apostles men began to degenerat from the for­mer simplicity of diuine worship. Petr. Martyr aduers. Gardin. And Kemnitius speaking of the same sayth: it was an ancient custome largely spread, & long con­tinued &c. that witnes­ses thereof are Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, Hie­rome, Basil, &c. Kem­nit. exam. part. 2. pag. 102. And S. Cyprian recounteth of a mira­culous fire which ter­rifyed a woman from touching with vn­worthy handes the holy Sacrament reserued in a chest. Cypr. serm. de lapsis. And S. Ambros writeth how his Bro­ther Satyrus escaped shipwracke, by the be­nefit of the Blessed Sacra­ment, which then he wore about his necke. Ambros. in orat. de obitu Sa­tyr. cap. 7.

• Annus Christi 1003 Ioannes. 17.
• Annus Christi 1003 Ioannes. 18.
• Annus Christi 1009 Sergius 4.
• Annus Christi 1012 Benedictus 8.
• Annus Christi 1024 Ioannes 19.
• Annus Christi 1034 Benedictus 9.
• Annus Christi 1044 Gregorius 6.
• Annus Christi 1047 Clemens 2.
• Annus Christi 1048 Damasus 2.
• [Page 64-65]Annus Christi 1049 Leo 9.
• Annus Christi 1055 Victor 2.
• Annus Christi 1058 Stepha­nus 10.
• Annus Christi 1059 Nicolaus 2.
• Annus Christi 1061 Alexander 2.
• Annus Christi 1073 Gregori­us 7.
• Annus Christi 1086 Victor 3.
• Annus Christi 1088 Vrbanus 2.
• Annus Christi 1100 Paschalis 2.
• A Councell held at Rome, hauing in it 113. Fathers vnder Nicolas the second Pope, in which Be­rengarius the here­tike (who denyed the Real presence of [Page 66-67] Christs body in the Blessed Sacrament) being conuicted, did abiure that heresy: yet this was no ge­nerall Councell.

SVIDAS, Otber­tus, Colomanus, descending from the Royal bloud of the Kings of Scot­land, after seuerall pilgri­mages to Hierusalem, was at length hanged vpon a dry and withered tree in Austria, which then began to flourish, to betoken the sanctity of that holy Mar­tyr. Ditm. l. 7. Eue­rardus, Berno, Heri­bertus Coloniensis, Guido Aretinus, Ful­bertus, Godefridꝰ Am­bianensis, Berwardus, Burchardus collectour of the decrees, Duran­dus Leodiensis, Do­minicus Loricatus, Gulielmus Abbas, S. Henry the Emperour and S. Chunegundis his wife & Virgin, Mathil­dis, Gotardus, Bruno founder of the Carthusian order, Robertꝰ Cister­ciensis, Glaber, Her­manus, Odilo by whose prayers and merits Bene­dictus 8. Pope was released out of Purgatory. Pet. Damian. in vita eius. [Page 64-65] Oecumenius, Hum­bertus, Albericus, Lā ­francus, Guitmundus, Gerardus, Theobaldus S. Edward King of En­gland the third of that na­me, Ioannes Gualber­tus, Stanislaus, Alge­rus, Curopalates, Ado, Theophilactus, Pe­trus Damianus, Ber­toldus, Arnulphus, S. Magareta, Queene of Scotland, Ingu [...]phus, Anselmus Lucensis, Marianus Scotus, Hil­debertus, Lambertus, Anselmus Cantuariē ­sis, Iuo, Sigebertus,

Godefridus King of Hicrusalem, who refused notwithstanding to weare a Crowne of gold, remem­bring his Lord and Mai­ster was crowned with thornes. Sigeb. anno 1096. 1097. &c. O­nuphr. anno 1098. Blond. dec. 2. l. 42.

The Prussians▪ in this age are conuerted, partely by S. Bruno Bishop of the Ruthens; partly by S. Bo­nifacius, both of them re­ceauing from the Pope [Page 66-67] their authority to preach vnto them. Ditm. l. 6. & Damia. in vita Ro­mualdi c. 29. & 30.

The Vindians, also Pannonians, and Transil­uanians receaue the light of Fayth. Boz. l. 4. cap. 5. Palm. anno 1010. Bonf. in dec. 2. l. 9.

The lapsed Hunga­rians are reclaimed. Ar­nulphus lib. 7. cap. 22.

I let passe how Chri­stian religion was replan­ted at Hierusalem, taken by Godfridus anno 1099. vpon a good Friday.

FRee-will. Oecum▪ cap. 9. ep. ad Cor. Reall presence. Fulbert. ad Deodat. Sacrifice of the Masse. Theoph. cap. 5. epist. ad Heb. Petrus Damian. ser. de nati. Supremacy. Lanfran lib. de Eu­char. Confession and sa­tisfaction. Ansel. in 17. Luc. Merit and Iustifica­tion of Workes. Euth. in c. 20. Matt. Inuoca­tion and honour of Saints. Suidas. V. Constan­tinus Leonis Icono­machi Isauri filius. Purgatory or prayer for the dead. Theoph. in c. 12. Luc. Single life. Anselm. in cap. 7. ep. ad Hebr. Melchisedech is recorded without gene­alogy, because the Priests and Ministers of the Altar of the new Testament may haue no wines: but if they will needes marry, let thē make profession not of the Christian, but Iewish re­ligion. Prescript fasts. Petr. Dam. in ep. sua 1. where he notably [Page 64-65] wipeth away the ob­iections of our Aduer­saryes, saying: But while we speake these thinges, let no man iudge vs to agree in opinion with those who forbid vs meats which God hath created: or to crosse the sentence of the Apostle commanding vs to eate whatsoeuer is set before vs, and to reiect no­thing that is receaued with thankesgiuing; for it is one thing to auouch that the creatures of God are indisserently good, and an­other thing by chastising our bodyes, to prouide that we obscrue temperance & purity: good assuredly was the tree in Paradise as be­ing created by a perfect worke-maister, yet was it not good to eate thereof, because he himselfe com­manded the contrary.

Miracles wrought by S. Edward our King and Virgin. Alred. in eius vita.

By S. Anselme, S. Odilo, and S. Chunegun­dis, by which she prooued her Virginity in Wedlocke with S. Henry the Empe­rour. Surius in their liues.

[Page 66-67] Two are reported by Petrus Damtanus, confir­ming the Reall presence: the one, in which the holy host was halfe turned in­to flesh, & halfe remained bread (according to the outward forme;) the other in which the host was such perfect flesh, as it imbrued the Priestes fingers wi [...]h bloud. Pet. Dam. ep. ad Desid.

Others atchieued by three seuerall Popes, by Leo the 9. Victor the 2. and Gregory the 7. Vide Baron. anno 1049. num. 26. 1055. num. 28. 1082. num. 2.

• Berengarius
• Heribertus, & Lisoius.
• Simoniaci.
• [Page 64-65]Reordinantes.
• Michael Ceru­larius.
• Noui Nicolai­tae.
• Incestuosi.
• [Page 66-67]Wecelini.
• Nouus Sabellia­nus.
• Roscelinus.

C. THE chief Heresy, hatched by Berengari­us, is the same which our Sacramentaryes haue now reuiued a­gainst the real Presen­ce of Christ in the Eu­charist. Prat. V. Be­rengarius. Geneb. in Chron. 1041. yet they haue little reason to boast of this their Pa­trone, because he oftē abiured that blasphe­my. de consec d. 2. c. Ego Berengarius &c. Baro. an. 1079. 1088. he was moreouer at­tainted of Necromācy, or Magicke. Geneb. Chro. ex Polid. Virg. & Gu­liel. Naugiac. Then Papirius Massouius in annal. Fran. l. 3. Oe­colampadius lib. epist. Oecol. Zuinglius lib. 3. pag. 710. & 711. Chrispinꝰ in his book of the State of the Church pag. 289. re­reproue him, for holding against marriage, and the Baptisme of Infants. In [Page 64-65] all other pointes, he professed himselfe a Roman Catholique.

D. The new Ni­colaites were certaine Clergy men of Milan, very licentious, who were called by that name, because they taught it lawfull for Ecclesiasticall persons to marry after the vow of Chastity. Baron. an. 1059. And do not the libertin-Ministers of the new Ghospell, both teach & practize the same doctrine? Hath not Ioseph Hall published very lately a booke in defence of their wiuing-ministe­ry, excellently refuted by M. Edward Coffin Priest, and Father of the Society of Iesus?

E. Incestuosi.] The incestuous deserued that infamous name, for allowing marriage in the fourth degree of cōsanguinity, forbid­den by the Canons of of the Church. Grati­anus 35. q. 4. cap. ad Sedem Apostol. Pet. Dam. de contemp. sae­culi. c. 29. which our [Page 66-67] English Reformers li­wise incestuously ad­mit, but Luther their first parent alloweth it both in the third, and second degree. Luth. serm. de Matrim. tom. 5. Neither is Caluin much behind him ep. 377. & in stat. Eccles. Geneu. pag. 36. edit. 1562. In which they imitate the licentious­nes of Mahomet, who approued the same, yet as a priuiledge graunted to himselfe alone. Azo. 30. and therin was more mo­dest, then Luther who permitteth it to o­thers.

C. HE was v­niuersally cōdemned by the ge­nerall voice of the whole Christiā world by Durandus Bishop of Liege, Adalmanus of Brixia, Lanfrancus of Canterbury, Guit­mundus of Auersa in Campania, by Alge­rus Monke of Corbeia in Saxony, by Albericꝰ Deacon of Cassinum in the Kingdome of Naples, by Guido of Aretium in Tuscany, by the most Christian King Robert of Fran­ce, by Leo the 9. Vi­ctor the 2. Nicolas the 2. Greg. the 7. Popes of Rome, by fiue seue­rall Councells assem­bled at Rome, Toures, and Vercelles against him. And by that lear­ned and holy Bishop Fulbertus, who lying on his death-bed, whē he espyed Berengarius once his scholler, whō he had sought before to reclaime among o­thers [Page 64-65] in his chamber, giuing a signe, he cō ­manded him to be ex­pelled out the roome, affirming, that he saw the Diuell by him with a fawning hand, alluring many to follow him. Si­geb. an. 994. Onuph. an. 1001. Baro. 1059. And the forenamed Authours condemned that opinion of his, as new, cōtrary to the doctrin of the whole Church, ne­uer taught, or belieued be­fore, which Berengarius himselfe recanted at his death. Baro. an. 1088. so vnconstant an A­postle haue our Secta­ryes, & so strang was their heresyin this age: whereas our reall pre­sence was so vnifor­mely taught in this and al precedent ages, as Anton. de Adamo in his Anatomy of the Masse pag. 236. sayth: I haue not yet hitherto byn able to know, when this o­pinion of reall and bodily being of Christ in the Sa­crament did begin,

D. Pet. Dam. in l. ad Nic. PP. & Pope Nicolas the 2. sending [Page 66-67] his Legates to Millan, reclaimed them from that sacriledge condē ­ned also in a Councell at Rome. dial. 32. c. Praeter.

E. By two Coū ­cels held at Rome vn­der Alexand. 2. & by Pet. Damia. Who re­porteth of an incestu­ous person, after his contempt of those de­crees, killed with a thūderbolt from hea­uen, as he lay sleeping on his bed. Pet. Dam. ep. ad Alex. PP. A dreadfull example to make Protestants be­ware such incestuous Wedlocke.

• Annus Christi 1118 Gelasius 2.
• Annus Christi 1119 Calixtus 2.
• Annus Christi 1125 Honorius 2.
• [Page 68-69]Annus Christi 1130 Innocen­tius 2.
• Annus Christi 1143 Celesti­nus 2.
• Annus Christi 1144 Lucius 2.
• Annus Christi 1145 Eugenius 3.
• Annus Christi 1154 Anastasius 4.
• Annus Christi 1155 Adrianus 4.
• Annus Christi 1160 Alexander 3.
• [Page 70-71]Annus Christi 1182 Lucius 3.
• Annus Christi 1185 Vrbanus 3.
• Annus Christi 1187 Gregori­us 8.
• Annus Christi 1188 Clemens 3.
• Annus Christi 1191 Celestinus 3.
• Annus Christi 1198 Innocen­tius 3.
• The first Lateran generall Councell, vnder Calixtus the 2. of 900. Bishopes for the reconciliatiō of Christian Prin­ces, and recouery of the holy Land.
• [Page 72-73]The second La­teran general, vn­der Innocētius the 2. against Peter Leo the Antipope.
• The 3. Lateran generall, vnder A­lexander the third partly for reforma­tion of manners, partly against the Waldenses and Al­bigenses.

PETRVS Alphon­sus, Leo Offiensis, Cedrenus, Anselmus Laudunēsis, who wrote the Interlinean glosse, O­tho Bambergensis, Goffridus, Euthymius, Malachias, Rupertus, Glycas, Zonaras, A­medeus, Bernardus, E­ricus King of Suecia, & Saint, Gulielmus first [Page 68-69] Duke of Aquitaine, & af­ter an Her [...]ite, S. Ro­bertus Cisterciensis, Hugo de S. Victore, Richardus de S. Vi­ctore, Petrus Clunia­censis, Gratianus.

Norbertus Foun­der of the order called Praemonstratensis who going to Colen to find Re­liques, after he had in­ioyned those of his com­pany to fast, and made harty prayer to God▪ one of the 11. thousand Virgins made known vnto him her name, and the place where her body rested. Robert. an. 1123.

Anthelmus, Petrus Lombardus, Bandonius, Thomas Archbishop of Can­terbury and Martyr, Petrus Comestor, Pe­trus Blesensis, Hilde­gardis and Elizabetha Virgins, Theodorus Balsamon, Hugo Carthusianus, Nicetas [Page 70-71] Coniates, Dudechi­nus, Menardus, Galdi­nus, Homobonus.

Boleslaus Duke of Polonia; who clad with haire-cloath, and accom­panyed with a small num­ber of Priestes, and other deuout men, came on foot into France, to visite the Sepulcher of S. Giles. Cromer l. 5. de rebus Polon.

Petrus Arch­bishop of Tarentasia, Helmoldus, Gunthe­rus, Ioannes Cyparis­siotus, Ioannes Bonus Mantuanus beginner of the order of Gulielmites, Osmundus Sarisburi­ensis.

The Pomeranians subdued by Boleslaus Duk of Polonia, are conuerted to the fayth of Christ, by S. Otho Bishop of Bam­berge, authorized to that function by Pope Calixtus the 2. Vrspergen. Ab­bas anno 1124.

[Page 72-73] The people of Nor­way by Nicolas an English Monke, with commission from Pope Eugenius the 3. which Nicolas was after chosen Pope, and called A­drian the fourth, who gaue the dominion of Ireland to King Henry the 2.

Magnus King of the Goths imbraced the Chri­stian fayth. Olaus Mag. l. 2. de gent. Septent. cap. 7.

The Armenian Bi­shops reduced to the vnion of the Roman Church, by seeing a radiant beame, and two doues therin ouer the head of Pope Eugenius the 3. as he was offering the sacrifice of the Masse. Otto Frising. l. 7. cap. 31. 32. 33.

FRee-will. Hugo de S. Vict. in cap. 4. Genes. Reall Presence. Goffri. opuscul. 1. Sa­crifice of the Masse. Pet. Cluni. ep. aduer. Pe­trob. Supremacy. Bern. lib. 2. de consider. ad Euge. Go too, let vs seek out yet more diligently, who thou art, whose per­son thou bearest for a time [Page 68-69] in the Church of God. Who art thou? the chiefe Priest, the high Bishop: thou art the Prince of Prelates, in primacy Abel, in gouerne­ment Noë, in patriarkship Abraham, in order or rank Melchisedech, in dignity Aaron, in authority Moy­ses, in iudgment Samuel, in power Peter, in vnction Christ.

Confession and Sa­tisfaction. Hugo de S. Vict. l. 2. de sacra. fi­dei pag. 14. c. 1.

Merit and Iustifica­tion of works. Bernard. serm. 68. in Cant. Pe­nury of merits is a perni­cious pouerty.

Inuocation, & honour of Saints. Rup. l. 7. in Cant.

Purgatory or Pray­er for the dead. Hugo de S. Vict. lib. 2. de sacra. fidei pag. 16. cap. 4. & 6.

Single life. Magi­ster sent. in 4. d. 37.

[Page 70-71] Prescript fasts. Hugo de S. Vict. c. 14. de nu. die. 40. By fasting we lo­bour to become the temple of our Lord, therefore we fast the same number of dayes, as the temple of Hi­erusalem was yeares in building.

Miracles. One wrought to confirme the Sacrament of Ex­treme Vnction: Another by S. Malachy a Bishop of Ireland to establish the Reall Presence, of both, which S. Bern. in vita Malac. who recounteth diuers other atchieued by him.

Many were also wrought by S. Bernard himselfe, and one most no­table in approbation of the whole summe of our Ca­tholike doctrine. Goff. in vita l. 3. c. 5. & 6.

Sundry others at the tombe of S. Thomas of Canterbury. Eduard. in vita Pet. Bles. epist. 46.

The Christians ob­taine a noble victory a­gainst [Page 72-73] the Heathens, by the signe of the Crosse. which was seen by the ve­ry Pagans to reach from heauen to earth. Rob. anno 1177.

Another tyme S. George miraculously ap­peared, marching before the Christian army, hel­ping and assisting them. Baron. anno 1199.

A stupendious miracle by which the Blessed Sa­crament was turned into flesh, and so continued many dayes in the view of innumerable witnesses. Helmold. in hist. Sla­uon.

• Durandus de waldach.
• Marsilius Padu­anus.
• [Page 68-69]Bongomiles, who tooke their beginning from one Basil, a phi­sitian.
• Tanchelinus.
• Petrus de Bruis.
• Petrus Abaylar­dus.
• Arnulphus Bri­xiensis.
• Gilbertus Por­retanus.
• [Page 70-71]Henricus Tolo­sanus.
• Cathari.
• Pseudo-Aposto­lici.
• Haeretici de Ba­rulo.
• Adamitae.
• Waldenses.
• Albigenses.
• [Page 72-73]Colerelli.
• Meroniti.
• Petrus Ioannis.

F. THE Bon­gomiles, condemned the wor­ship of Images. Zonar. tom. 3. so did Petrus Bruis and his follow­ers.

G. They denyed the reall presence and sacrifice of the masse. Sand. haer. 138. Petrus de Bruis, the Walden­ses [Page 68-69] and Albigenses did the like.

H. The Walden­ses also and Albigen­ses reiected Purgato­ry, prayer for the dead, & auricular Confessi­on. Prat. in Elen.

I. Besides the Wal­denses disallowed In­uocation of Saintes, Confirmation, Extrē Vnction, merit of fa­sting, and other good workes, miracles, in­dulgences, the fayth of the Romā Church, and the Popes Supre­macy. Guido in Catal. Prat. in Elench. Pe­trus Ioannis agreed with them in these two latter points, in­terpreting mystically the Pope to be Anti­christ. Prate. V. Pe­trus Ioannis: yet Pro­testants cannot with­out blasphemy com­bine with these: be­cause the Bongomiles belieued not in the B. Trinity: they fey­gned God to be of hu­mane shape with the Anthropomorphites, and the world to be created by diuels with [Page 70-71] the Manichees. Gualt. sec. 12. Peter Bruis taught that Baptism a­uailed not childrē be­fore the vse of reason. Pet. Clun. ep. 1. & 2. cont. Petrobrusi. The Waldēses contēned the Apostles Creed, deny­ed the Sabbaoth, and al iudgment to bloud, held it vnlawfull for men to sweare in any case, condemned the sacrament of marriage &c. Illiricus in Catal. Guido & Antonin. de Waldens. Sand. haer. 150. Petrus Ioannis affirmed the soule of man not to informe the body as it is reaso­nable; the Apostles not to haue preached the Ghospel according to the spirituall sense &c. Castro V. Ani­ma. & V. Apostoli. The Albigenses whō M. Fulke claimeth as pillars of his church in c. 12. Apocal. sect. 2. denyed the Resurrection, sayd that Baptisme was of no efficacy, that there were two Gods, one good, ano­ther euill, that God crea­teth the soules, the Diuell [Page 72-73] the bodyes. Prat. V. Albigēses. Sand. haer. 151. ex Paulo Aemilio and Cooper in his Di­ctio. wher he saith the Albigenses held the here­syes of the Albanenses tou­ching the soule, Baptisme, God, and the generall re­surrection; for touching the soule they taught, that after death it is put into another body. Cooper V. Albanenses. Read the words of that Pro­testant Bishop, and wonder what damna­ble heretikes his fel­lowes rake out of hell to fill vp their forlorn Synagogue.

F. ALexius the Emperour burned Basilius the first author of the Bongo­miles cōuicted for he­resy. Euthy. in panop. Zonar. tom. 3. Cedren. de Constantino Co­pronymo. There as­sembled at Nicaea 35 c. Bishops who decreed Images with the cros­se, [Page 68-69] to be adored: defi­ning no new thing, but commanding the decrees of the holy Fathers to re­maine vnreapealed. Pe­trus Venerab. The A­postata spirits are chased away, when the signe of the Crosse appeareth &c. you prouoked with this in­iury make warre against the Crosse of our Lord &c. ep. 1. cont. Petrobu­sianos.

G. Hugo de S. Victo. l. 2. de Sacram. Bernard. epist. 2. ad Fulco.

H. The eleauenth generall and third La­teran Councell vnder Alexander the third, condemned the Wal­denses. Platin. & O­nuph. in Alexand. 3. so did Gerard Bishop of Albia, and Gilbert Bishop of Lyons the Albigenses: and In­nocentius the third sent S. Dominik with twelue Abbots to sup­presse them. Sand. haer. 151. ex Paulo Ae­milio. Bar. an. 1176. Gualt. sec. 12.

I. All the points they denyed, were [Page 70-71] maintained against them by the learned of that age. Inuocation of Saints by Rupertus l. 7. in Cant. Confirmati­on, by S. Bernard in vita Malachiae, by Hu­go l. 2. de sac. and S. Bernard reporteth of a miracle wrought by that holy Sacrament, Extreme Vnction by In­nocentius the 3. Ex­tra. de sacra vnct. Me­rit, by S. Bernard ser. 68. in Cant. Miracles, by Petrus Abbot of Cluniacum l. 1. & 2. de mirac. confessed by the Centurists Cent. 12. Indulgences, by a Lateran Councell, in which Pope Paschall the 2. granted an In­dulgence of 40. dayes. Abbas Vrsp. in Chro. and Gelasius the 2. grāted another which was promulgated and receaued throughout the whole Christian world. Bar. an. 1118. The farth of the Roman Church, by Rupert. de diui. offic l. 2. c. 22.

The Roman Church hauing her foundation more deepely layd vpon the [Page 72-73] Rocke of the Apostolicall faith, hath stood immouea­ble, hath alwayes confuted the heretikes, not only of Greece, but of all the world, and pronouncing sentence out of the high tribunall of fayth hath gi­uen iudgment of them. The Popes Supremacy, by Goffridꝰ Vindocruēsis in ep. ad Goffr. Carno. Acephali non sumus. We are not Acephali, or men without a head, be­cause we haue Christ the Sauiour our head; and af­ter him the Roman Bishop. Petr. Blesensis epist. 144. calleth Celestin the Pope, the Vicar of him that was crucified, the successour of Peter, the Priest of Christ, the Christ of our Lord, the God of Pharao.

• Annus Christi 1216 Honorius 3.
• Annus Christi 1222 Gregorius 9.
• [Page 74-75]Annus Christi 1241 Celesti­nus 4.
• Annus Christi 1242 Innocen­tius 4.
• Annus Christi 1254 Alexander 4.
• Annus Christi 1162 Vrbanus 4.
• Annus Christi 1265 Clemens 4.
• Annus Christi 1271 Gregorius 10.
• Annus Christi 1276 Innocen­tius 5.
• Annus Christi 1276 Adrianus 5.
• Annus Christi 1276 Ioannes 20.
• [Page 76-77]Annus Christi 1277 Nicolaus 3.
• Annus Christi 1281 Martinus 4.
• Annus Christi 1285 Honorius 4.
• Annus Christi 1288 Nicolaus 4.
• Annus Christi 1294 Celesti­nus 5.
• Annus Christi 1295 Bonifaci­us 8.
• [Page 78-79]The fourth Late­ran generall, anno 1215. vnder Inno­centius the 3. ha­uing in it 1283. Fathers, against the Albigenses, Alma­ricus, and other he­retickes.
• The Councell of Lions, in which were resident 1000. Fathers, whereof 500. were Bishopes vnder Pope Gre­gory the 10. for the holy Land: and a­gainst the errours of the Greekes, who then againe were reconciled to the Roman Church.

DOMINICVS, Franciscus foun­ders of the Dominicā and Franciscan Or­ders, Engelbertus, Ethmundus, Samona, Antonius de Padua, Iacobus de Vitriaco, [Page 74-75] Conradus, Raymun­dus gatherer of the decre­tall Epistles, Heduigis, Lutgardes, Gulielmus Antisiodorensis, Alex­ander de Hales, Petrus Martyr, Albertus Ma­gnus.

Clara the foun­dresse of S. Clares Order, whose body hath remained for some hundred yeares vncorrupted. Bel. l. de reliquijs Sanctorū c. 3.

Martinus Polonus, Galterius, Matthaeus Parisiensis, Humber­tus, Thomas Aquinas, Iuo.

Ludouicus King of France, renowned for sanctity, and miracles, Queene Margaret his wife, who after his death, wholy deuoted her selfe to God.

Bonauentura na­med Seraphicus, for his burning zeale and infla­med loue.

Thomas Canta­pratensis, [Page 76-77] Gulielmus Durandus Episcopus Mimatensis, surnamed Speculator, amongst other works compiler of the Ra­tionale diuini Officij.

Abertus of the order of Carmelites, Vdalric', Aegidius Romanus, Medardes, Nicolaus Tolentinus, Irmgar­dis, Gertrudis, Angela de Fulgineo, Mechtil­dis, Henricus Ganda­uensis, Richardus de media Villa.

Petrus de Morono founder of the Celestines, so tearmed, because after 20. yeares being created Pope, he was called Cele­stinus 5.

Ludouicus Bishop of Tolosa, Nicephorus, Calixtus, Ioanes Sco­tus doctor subtilis &c.

To omit diuers Al­bigensian heretiks conuer­ted by S. Dominicke. Ge­neb. in Innocent. 3.

In this age the yeare of our Lord 1205., the Liuonians are conuerted [Page 78-79] by S. Medardes. Crant. l. 7. cap. 13. although others attribute this con­uersion to the yeare of our Lord 1158. and that the Linonians obtayned Me­dardes to be their Bishop from Alexander the 3. Geneb. in Adriano 4.

The Lituanians also receaued the fayth by the Knights of Saint Mary. Crom. lib. 8.

The third Emperour of the Tartarians with innu­merable of his subiectes, conuerted by the perswasi­sion of the King of Arme­nia. Sabel. & Gul. de Nangia. 1270.

Other Tartarian Dukes conuerted in Asia. Crom. lib. 9.

And the deuotion of Christiās much increa­sed by the institution of the solemne feast of Corpus Christi, which Vrban the 4. now ordained in honor of the most holy and Bles­sed Sacrament. Geneb. in Vrbano 4.

FRee-will. S. Tho­mas. Man hath free-will, otherwise in vaine are exhortations, commā ­dements, prohibitions, re­wardes, and punishments, 1. p. q. 83 art. 1. Re­all presence. Bonauen. [Page 74-75] in 4. di. 10. art. 1. q. 1.

Sacrifice of the Masse. Cabasilas in expos. Liturgiae. Concil. La­teranense sub Inno­centio Papa. 3. c. 10. There is of the faithfull one vniuersall Church, out of which none at al can be saued: In which Christ Iesus himself is the Priest & the sacrifice, whose body and bloud are contained in the Sacrament of the Altar vnder the formes of bread and wine, the bread by diuine power being trā ­substantiated into his body and the wine into his bloud.

Supremacy. S. Tho. opuscul. 1.

Confession and Sa­tisfaction. Guliel. Paris. lib. de sacram. Poenit.

Merit and Iustifica­tion of Workes. Concil. Latera. 4. generale c.

Inuocation and Ho­nour of Saints. Alexan­der de Hales expresly teacheth, That not [Page 76-77] only the Angells, but also the blessed soules do offer vp our prayers to God.

Purgatory or Prayer for the dead. Cabasilas cap. 33. 42. S. Tho. 4. cont. gent. sayth: The vniuersall custome of the Church in praying for the dead, were vnprofitable, if there be no Purgatory,

Single life. Scho­lastici in 4.

Prescript fasts. In­nocent. 3. serm. 1. in diem cenerum.

Miracles. Diuers were accomplished by S. Dominicke, S. Francis, S. Antony of Padua, S. Thomas of Aquin, S. Lew­is, S. Clare, S. Bonauen­ture, and by Celestine the Pope, with which God at­tested their liues to be ho­ly, their doctrine Aposto­licall, the orders and in­stitutes which some of thē founded to be inspired by the holy Ghost. Witnesses of the miracles are S. An­tonin. 3. p. hist. tit. 23. & 24 S. Bona­uent. in vita S. Fran. [Page 78-79] Pet. Card. Camera. in vita Celestini. Sur. of the rest.

One S. Antony of Padua wrought most ad­mirable, to establish the Reall Presence, against a Sacramentary heretike.

S. Heduigis the Du­chesse was indued with the guift of Prophesy, to whō S. Mary Magdalen, S. Catherine, and others ap­peared at her death, in whose company her soule ascended to Christ. Sur. in vita.

S. Thomas was mi­raculously instructed by S. Peter and S. Paul: he cu­red a sicke person with the Reliques of S. Agnes. His body 7. moneths after his death remayned sweet & incorrupt. Sur. in vita.

• Almaricus, siue Ammoricus.
• [Page 74-75]David Dinan­tius.
• Gulielmus de S. Amore.
• Desiderius Lon­gobardus.
• Raymundus Lullus.
• [Page 76-77]Flagellantes.
• Hermanus Ita­lus chiefe of the Fraticelli.
• Gerardus Saga-rellus, head of the Pseduo-A­postoli.

I Mentioned not in the former age the errors of Petrus Abai­lardus, for although M. Simons vpon the Reuelat. p. 142. most ignorātly layeth claim vnto him: yet in no [Page 74-75] one point doth he wholy accord with our moderne Prote­stants.

K. He denied all liberty of freewill euen in ciuill actions; denied God to bee the author of al good things; affirmed the holy ghost to be the soule of the world; said nothing was to be belieued but that which naturall reason lea­deth vs vnto; with other horrible blasphemies against Christ, against God, and the B. Tri­nity, recorded and ac­knowledged by Zuin­glius & Oecolampad. lib. ep. pag. 710. & 716. and by the Cen­turists cent. 12. col. 848. 849.

L. Almaricus is challenged by Prote­stants, by Fox Act. & Mon. pag. 70. by White sect. 50. 38. for that he gainsaid with them the reall presen­ce and transubstantia­tion. Prat. V. Almari­cus.

M. He accused the Church of idola­try, for inuocating Saints, for Censing [Page 76-77] their images, for ere­cting Altars with in scription of their na­mes. Prat. V. Al­maricus. Geneb. in Innocent. 3. ex Ae­milio.

N. He taught that euery faithfull man was bound to beleeue himselfe to be a mem­ber of Christ, and this he held as an article of faith. Vincent. in spec. l. 29. c. 107. And do not our Pro­testants generally a­uouch, that euery one ought to beleeue him­selfe to be one of the elect, and sure of his saluation? See M. Whitaker & M. Abbot touching this point Controuer. 24. whō Dauid Dinantius fol­lowed: yet they both denyed the resurrection of our bodyes; they denyed Paradise, and Hell; deny­ed the Blessed to see God in himselfe, but only in his creatures; denyed the dis­stinction of male and fe­male sexe, & consequent­ly all procreation in the state of innocency. And Dauid Dinantius ad­ded, [Page 78-79] that God is that which the Philoso­phers call materia pri­ma, first matter. Prat. V. Almaricus, and V. Dauid Dinantius, Gualt. in sec. 13. I do not enuy our Ghos­pellers the prerogati­ue of such forerun­ners.

O. Gulielmus de Sancto Amore is na­med by M. White in his way to the church sect. 50. 34. as a fa­uourer of their profes­sion, and yet he only reproued the free and voluntary pouerty of religious persons. Ca­stro V. Paupertas. In other points he belee­ued with the Catho­like church, Transub­stantiation, Sacrifice of the Masse, the Po­pes Supremacy, yea all those fundamentall points of our faith, which in M. Whita­kers blind conceite, raise the groundes of true Religion. Whit­tak. Contr. 2. q. 6.

K. HIS Booke (sayth S. Bernard epist. 192. ad Guidonem) in which he peraersly delighteth, gi­ueth sentence against him, when he speaketh of the Trinity, he sauoureth of [Page 74-75] Arius, when of grace, he sauoureth of Pelagius, when of the person of Christ, he sauoureth of Nestorius. And Inno­centius the Pope in Rescripto epist. 194. inter ep. Bernard. By the authority of the holy Canons we haue condem­ned al the wicked doctrines of Petrus Abailardus, to­gether with the Author, & we haue imposed on him, as on an heretike perpe­tuall silence.

L. The generall Councell of Lateran assembled in the yeare of our Lord 1215. vn­der Innocentius the 3. defineth the reall pre­sence and transubstā ­tiation against him, Can. 1. Reade the wordes in the former pag. col. 3 Likwise the same Councell Can. 2. saith: We renounce & condemne the most peeuish opinion of wicked Alma­ricus, whose minde the father of lies hath so blin­ded, as his doctrine see­meth not so much hereti­call as franticke. This was one of the most renowned Councels [Page 76-77] of al Europe, for there were in it Fathers a­boue 1280. the Pa­triarchs of Ierusalem and Constantinople, 70. metropolitās, 400. Bishops, Abbots 12. Conuentuall Priors 800. the Legates of the Grecian and Ro­man Empire, the O­rators of the Kings of Ierusalem, of France of Spaine, of England and Cyprus.

M. S. Tho. 2. 2. q. 103. & q. 83. free­eth the practice of our Church therin from Idolatry. Then Inno­cent. de alt. myst. l. 2. c. 96. sheweth the mysticall meaning of our Censers, and S. Dionys. the Apostles scholler maketh men­tion (as Hospinian himselfe consesseth) of perfuming or bur­ning Incense at the Altar. Hospi. in hist. sacram. pag. 14. Di [...]. de Eccles. hier. And Gulielmꝰ Abbas main­taineth the erection of Altars in honour of Saints. Guliel. in vita S. Bernard.

[Page 78-79] N. S. Bernard. serm. 1. in Septuag. Who can affirme I am one of the elect &c? Certain­ty truly we haue not, the considence of hope solaceth vs.

O. S. Thom. 2. 2. q. 186. art. 3. They that will become rich, fall into temptation &c. 1. Tim. 6. This desire is abandoned by them that imbrace vo­luntary pouerty. Againe the same S. Thomas ad sextum, alleadging the sentence of S. Gre­gory: Who out of their store do minister reliefe to the needy, offer vnto God a sacrifice, yet lesse worthy: But who reserue nothing to themselues, offer an o­blation greater then any other kind of Sacrifice. Condemned also he was by Pope Alexan­der the 4.

• Annus Christi 1303 Benedi­ctus 9.
• Annus Christi 1305 Clemens 5.
• Annus Christi 1316 Ioannes 21.
• Annus Christi 1334 Benedi­ctus 10.
• Annus Christi 1342 Clemens 6.
• Annus Christi 1352 Innocen­tius 6.
• [Page 82-83]Annus Christi 1362 Vrbanus 5.
• Annus Christi 1371 Gregorius 11.
• Annus Christi 1378 Vrbanus 6.
• Annus Christi 1389 Bonifa­cius 9.
• [Page 84-85]The Councell of Vienna, hauing in it 300. Fathers, vn­der Pope Clement the 5. against di­uers heresyes, and for the recouery of the holy Land.

NICOLAVS To­lentinas, Augu­stinus Triumphus, Gulielmus de Nangi­aco, Siffridus, Euerar­dus, Monaldus, Elea­zarus the Count of Ari­an, and Saint, with his wife Delphina, who in holy Wedlocke preserued their virginity. Sur. die 27. Septemb. Duran­dus de S. Portiano, Herueus, Nicephorus Gregoras, Petrus de Palude, Aluarus, Gui­do Carmelita, Ludol­phus, Bertrandus, Bar­laamus, Iohn King of Armenia leaning his king­dom to his nephew Leo, be­came a Franciscan frier. Geneb. in Clemente 5. Franciscus Mayro­nis, who in the yeare 1315. brought in that famous act of diuinity vsed by the Sorbons in Paris, in the which euery Friday tho­roughout Sommer, one that taketh that degree, answereth all opponentes from fiue of the clocke in the morning, vntill seauen [Page 82-83] at night, without Presi­dent, without companion, without dinner. Geneb. in Clement. 5.

Rochus, whose Image being commanded in tyme of a great pestilence, by the Fathers of the Coun­cell of Constance, to be carryed through the citty, the pestilence instantly ceased.

Henricus Suso, Taulerus, Holcot, Gregorius Ariminen­sis, Thomas Argenti­nus.

Edward the third King of England, who in honour of S. George ere­cted the Order of the Knights of the Garter, be­ing twenty six in number, of whome the King him­selfe is the chiefe. Polyd. l. 9. hist. Ang.

Brigitta the Widdow and Saint, once Queene of Suetia who obtained of Pope Vrban the fifth, the confirmation of her insti­tute, and wrote the booke [Page 84-85] of Reuelations. addit. 2. ad Trithe. an. 1350.

Petrus Berchorius Catharina Senensis, Raimundus, Galterus, Paulus Venetus &c.

Azatines Emperour of the Turkes is conuerted. Nicephorus Grego. hist. lib. 4.

Also the Canary I­landes, the Cumans, the Lipnensians, the Bosnians, the Patriuians, and other S [...]lauoniā nations by Pope Clement the 6. and Lewis King of Hungary. Sebast. Munster in Cosmo­graph.

The reuolted Litu­anians now wholy conuer­ted, with their King Ia­gello and his eight bre­thren. Bozius lib. 4. cap. 5. Geneb. in Vr­bano 6.

FRee-will. Cantacu­zenus contra Ma­hometem. Reall Pre­sence. Herueus cap. 7. ad Hebr. Sacrifice of the Masse. Durand. lib. 4. sent. d. 13. q. 2. Supre­macy. Occham in pro­so. lib. de Sacram. Al­taris. Confession and Sa­tisfaction. Ludolph. 1. p. c. 20. Merit & Iusti­fication of workes. Lu­dolph. 1. p. c. 66. Good workes are meritorious of three things, to wit, of life eternall, of increase of grace, of remission of pain. Inuocation, & honour of Saints. Aug. Trium­phus: The Saints while they liued, merited, that they might pray for vs, & obtaine for vs benefits, & therfore we inuocate thē by those names, by which whiles they liued, they were called of vs. Thus we say: S. Peter pray for vs. quest. 17. sum. de po­testat. Eccles. art. 3. ad 2. Single life. The third degree of Chastity, is that of Virgins, wherby [Page 82-83] all copulation is absolutly eschewed; that the mind it selfe by loue may be vni­ted vnto God alone, as it were to her spouse. Lu­dolph. 1. p. c. 64.

Prescript fasts. Du­randus de S. Portiano 4. sent. The fast of 40. dayes, and other fasts or­dained by the Church, and allowed by the generall cu­stome of the Church, doe fall vnder precept: so that who so obserueth thē not, or without necessity and reasonable cause breaketh them, sinneth mortally.

Miracles. In this age S. Nicolas of Tolentinum, S. Roch, S. Catherine of Siena, and others shined with miracles, both before and after their death. Anton. 3. p. hist. tit. 23. 24. Surius in their liues.

Among which a strang vision appeared to S. Nico­las. [Page 84-85] (who for six monethes before his death, euery night heard the melody of Angells) describing the paines of Purgatory, and great reliefe the soules re­ceaue by the holy Sacrifice of the Masse. Surius in vita eius.

And Michael the Son of Andronicus the Empe­rour recouereth of a despe­rate disease by the holy oyle of Extreme Vnction. Pa­chin. l. 11. hist. anno 1369.

Certaine Iewes stab­bed the B. Sacrament, & bloud miraculously issued. Theodor. Loer in his Booke heereof. Til­man. Bredenbacchius collat. Sacram. l. 9. c. 25. which sacred host is religiously kept in S. Gu­dila's Church at Bruxels, where the sacrildege was first committed.

• Beguardi, and Beguinae.
• Dulcinus.
• Templarij.
• Barlaam, and Acindynus.
• Iacobus Iusti, & Bononatus.
• [Page 82-83]Lolhardus Wal­terus the first parent of the Lolhardes.
• Ioannes de Po­liaco.
• Armacanus.
• Bertholdus de Borbach.
• Bartholomaeus Ianouezius.
• [Page 84-85]Turelupini, seu Cynici.
• Wiclessus.

P. The Lolhar­des were infected with such Protestant errours, as haue bene condemned in the Petrobusians, Waldenses and Albi­genses, of whome in the 12. Century.

Q. Wicleffe accor­ded with our sectaries in gainsaying trāsub­stantiation, liberty of freewill, that the Sa­crifice of Masse is groūded in scripture, merit of fasting & ab­stinence, indulgences, the necessity of baptis­me for the saluation of infants, the Roma­ne Church to be the spouse of Christ, the Popes of Rome since Vrban the 6. to be the immediate vicars of Christ vpon earth. Concil. 1. Constan. sess. 8. & 45. Gualter saecul. 14. for these & the like blasphemies our protestants make him a chiefe pillar of their synagogue. And [Page 82-83] little lesse do they e­steeme of the Lol­hards, whom M. Fulke in cap. 12. Apocal. sect. 2. rangeth in the number of his prede­cessours, howbeit nei­ther of them could be Members of their Church; for the Lol­hardes holding with the Albigenses, were attainted with the Manichaeā, Saducaean and Pythagorean er­rours. Cooper in Dict. V. Albanenses & Al­bigenses. Besides o­ther particuler fren­zies of their owne. Sander. haeres. 163. Wicliffe taught first that Ecclestasticall persons ought not to enioy tempo­tall possessions. Secon­dly, that God must obey the diuell. Thirdly, that all things fall out by abso­lute necessity. Fourthly, that euery bishop and ciuil magistrate looseth his dig­nity as soone as he com­mitteth, and as long as he rem [...]ineth in mortall sinne. Fiftly, he condem­ned all lawfull oathes. Sixtly, he allowed mar­ri [...]ge betweene brother & [Page 84-85] Sister. Seauenthly, he affirmed that S. Augusti­ne, S. Benet, and S. Ber­nard are damned, if they did not repent themselues of this, that they inioyed possessiōs, instituted & en­tred into religious Orders. &c. Concil. Constāt. sess. 8. & 45. Prat. V. Wicleffus. Osiand. in Epit. hist. Eccle. Wi­cleff. l. 4. Trial. c. 20. Besides he held with vs that reliques & images might with discretion be adored: he held praier to our Lady, Confirmation, Extrem vnction, and the rest of sacraments. Wiclef. de Euch. c. 9. ser. de Assump. Ma­riae, & in cap. 1. 1. ad Cor. &c. 15. Mar.

P. LOlhardus Walterus their first parent from whome they tooke their name, conuicted of heresy was burnt at Colen an. 1321. and their doctrine contra­dicted by Durandus de S. Portiano in 4. sent. By Ludolphus 1. & 2. p. vitae Iesu Christi.

Q. Diuers lear­ned men of that time and immediately af­ter, wrote against him and condemned his errors, as namly Iohn Kyningham, Richard Maidston, Thomas Winterton, Iohn Gas­coin, William Wood­ford, with sundry o­thers. The two famous vniuersities of Oxford and Prage; the Arch­bishops of Cāterbury, Yorke, and Prage de­puted by the Pope as his Legats in that bu­nesse, examined and adiudged his positiōs as hereticall. So did a Coūcell held at Rome [Page 82-83] (cōmanding his books to be burnt.) Concil. Constan. sess. 8. And the whole realme of England in publique parlament, in the first of king Richard the second an. 1380. lastly the generall Councel of Constance sess. 8. & 45. vnder Pope Martin the 5. reciteth 45. ar­ticles of his, and con­demneth some to be notoriously hereticall, some erroneous, some blasphe­mous, some seditious. A­bout the same time Thomas Waldensis▪ mostlearnedly refuted him. tom. 1. 2. & 3. Doctr. fidei. Besides Catholiques, Osian­der an heretik repro­ueth his disallowing of oathes, as sauouring of Anabaptisme. Epit. hist. Eccl. Melancthon ta­xeth his first position cited in the precedent Columne, as a pernici­ous and seditious supersti­tion; & affirmeth more ouer that he held not with them the iustice of faith. Melan. loc. com. de potest. Eccl. & ep. ad Freder. Another pro­testant [Page 84-85] writer Panta­leon enrolleth him in the Catalogue of heretiks, saying: Iohn wicleff with the Lol­hards preacheth his heresy in England. Pant. in Cronol. pag. 119. Mathias Hoe cal­leth the Wicleffists & Hussits, most monstrous monsters: yea Wicleffe himselfe recanted his heresy of the Reall Presence in an epistle to Iohn Bishop of Lincolne. Fox anno 1377. pag. 846. In an epist. likwise to Pope Vrban, he acknow­ledgeth that the Bishop of Rome is the Vicar of Christ on earth. And although M. Whitaker sayth: That all Popes were Antichristes, since Gregory the Great, Whi­taker controu. 2. yet Wicleffe neuer doub­ted, but that they were all Vicars of Christ vntill Vrban the 6. So far was he from being a Pro­testant.

• Annus Christi 1404 Innocen­tius 7.
• Annus Christi 1405 Gregorius 12.
• Annus Christi 1409 Alexander 5.
• Annus Christi 1410 Ioannes 22.
• Annus Christi 1417 Martinus 5.
• Annus Christi 1430 Eugenius 4.
• [Page 88-89]Annus Christi 1447 Nicolaus 5.
• Annus Christi 1455 Calixtus 3.
• Annus Christi 1458 Pius 2.
• Annus Christi 1464 Paulus 2.
• Annus Christi 1471 Sixtus 4.
• Annus Christi 1484 Innocen­tius 8.
• Annus Christi 1492 Alexan­der 6.
• [Page 90-91]The Councell of Constance approo­ued for the most parte by Martinus 5. in which Iohn Husse, and Hierom of Prage were con­demned.
• The Councell of Florence, vnder Eugenius the 4. a­gainst the schisma­ticall Grecians, in which Palaeologus the Emperour of the East, many Eastern Bishops, were pre­sent, and a happy v [...]iō was made be­tweene the Greeke & Latine Church.

PETRVS de Alli­aco, Gerson, Tho­mas de Kempis, Io­annes Capreolus, Vin­centius Ferrerius, To­status, Bernardinus Se­nensis, Laurētius Iu­stinianus, Thomas Waldensis, Ioannes Capistranus a Minorite admirable for doctrine, & sanctity.

Coleta, Dida­cus ab Ascala, who for his holynesse, and miracles was canonized by Sixtus V.

Bessarion, Nicola­us. de Cusa, Antoninus Archbishop of Florē ­ce, solemnely related a­mongst the number of Saints in the yeare 1523.

Ioannes de Tur­recremata, Petrus de Natalibus, Nicolaus Eremita, Iacobus Pi­cenus, Alemannus, Columba, Platina, Dionysius Carthusia­nus, Aeneas Siluius af­ter [Page 88-89] Pope Pius the 2. Gabriel Biel, Picus Mirandula, Maria To­letana, Iohanna, O­sanna, Trithemius, Nauclerus.

Catharina of Bo­nonia, whose body is ther to be seene at this day vn­corrupted.

Guichardus de Morgis, who almost ten yeares endured most grie­uous tormēts by a rupture, but making a vow to S. S. Stouen Bishop of Dien, within, three dayes was perfectly healed. Gualt. saeculo 15.

Andreas Chias, Dominicus Pisciensis, Angelus de Clauasio Author of the Angelicall Summe.

Albertus Cranzi­us, Ambrosius Camal­dulensis, Baptista Tro­uamala Authour of the Cases of Conscience called Rosella, Baptista Man­tuanus, Ioannes Ma­ior, with others innu­merable.

In this age the Sa­mogetians [Page 90-91] were cōuerted. Michael. Rit. lib. 2. Bonfin. decad. 2. l. 10.

Likewise the kingdoms of Bentonine, Guin [...], An­gola, and Congo. Marti­nus Chromer. lib. 15.

And about the yeare of our Lord 1435. Zerah Iacob Emperour of the A­byssines imbraceth the v­nity of the Church, by meanes of Pope Eugenius the 4. Dam. Goes l. de Ethiop. moribꝰ. Vnder whome the Grecians, Ia­cobines, Armenians, Indi­ans submitted themselues to the fayth and obedience of the Romā Sea, acknow­ledged with vs, against our Protestants, in a generall Councell, all the 7. Sacra­ments, Purgatory, Tran­substantiation, the Pope his Supremacy, Merite, Masses, Prayers and al­mes-deeds to be auailable for the dead; approued the bookes of Tobias, Iudith, Hester, Ecclesiastes, Wi­sedome, Ecclesiasticus, the first and second of Macha­bees, yea and whatsoeuer els the Romā Church tea­cheth [Page 92-93] and belieueth. Cō ­cil. Florent.

FRee-will. Dionys. Carthus. in sum. fidei orthod. l. 1. art. 115.

Reall presence. Bes­sarion de Euchar. Sa­cra. Concil. Constan­tiense sess. 13. It is most firmely to be belieued and nothing at al to be doubted that the whole body and bloud of Christ are truely cōtained, vnder the formes of bread, and wine.

Sacrifice of the Masse. Gerson & Biel in can. Missae. Scholastici om­nes in 4. senten.

Supremacy. Ioannes de Turrecremata in summ. de Eccles. Ae­neas Siluius ep. 288.

Confession and Sa­tisfaction. Tho. Wal­densis tom. 2. c. 138. Our Lord committeth vn­to priests, a power that supplyeth his roome to re­mit the sinnes of whom­soeuer: yet so, that they humble themselues; so, that [Page 88-89] (as it is needfull) they vt­ter their offences; so, that they promise to reforme themselues. These thinges therefore a sinner must of necessity fullfill, vnlesse we will frustrate the power of Christ, without which the power committed can­not be executed.

Merit and Iustifi­cation of workes. Gerso. in tract. de verbis do­min. Venit [...] ad me om­nes.

Inuocation and Ho­nour of Saints. Laurent. Iust. in serm. de nati. B. Virg. Mariae. Let vs worship the Sonne in his Mother, and honour the Mother in her Sonne: let vs faythfully performe our vowes to them both, that the Mother making suite for vs to her Son, we may ouercome the world.

Pargatory or Prayer for the dead. Tostat. Episc. Abulen. in cap. 25. Matth.

Single life. Wal­densis tom. 2. c. 129.

Prescript fasts. Dion. Carthu. ser. 1. in ep. [Page 90-91] dom. 1. Quadrag.

Miracles, wrought at the house of our Lady of Loreto, which about 160. years before was trās­ported into Italy: for Pope Pius the 2. the Cardinall of S. Marke, Iames a Franciscan frier were ther in this age miraculously cured, the B. Virgin her­selfe appearing to the la­ter two.

And the Turkish ar­my was terrifyed by mira­cle from sacking the house. Tursel. l. 2. hist. Lau­ret.

Sundry others were accō ­plished by the holy Syn­don of Christ, which was preserued at Chambery, and now with great reue­rence and veneration is honoured at Turin. Pin­gon. de Syndo. Euan­gelica.

I omit very many atchieued by S. Vincen­tius, S. Didacus, S. Ber­nardinus, S. Antoninus, as Surius and others record in their liues, and S. Antoninus 3. part. hist. tit. 23. testi­fyeth of 38. dead per­sons restored to life [Page 92-93] by the prayers & me­rits of S. Vincentius.

• Ioānes Husse.
• Petrus Dresen­sis.
• Iacobellus.
• Ioannes de Zis­ca captain of the Thaborites.
• Roalius.
• [Page 88-89]Picardus.
• Hierome of Prage.
• Bedricus, Au­thor of the O­rebites.
• Orphani.
• Galecus.
• Matthaeus Pal­merius.
• [Page 90-91]Rutheni
• Ioannes Behe­im.
• Penꝰ de Osma.
• Hermānus Riss­uich.

R. IOHN Husse (with whō Ierome of Prage and Ioannes de Zisca con­sented) imbraced the errours of Wicliff, and vtterly disliked the cō ­demnation of them in the Councell of Con­stance. sess. 45. Onu­phrius anno 1415.

S. He taught be­sides that the Church is the whole compa­ny of the Predestinate. Con. Constant. sess. vltima, which is one of M. Reynolds sixe Conclusions.

T. That the Prae­sciti, or foreknowne, although in grace, are not members of the Church: the Predesti­nate are, though they persecute the same & belieue it not-Ibid.

V. That S. Peter was not head of the holy Catholik church with other such like. Ibid.

Y. He reiected Confirmation, & Ex­treme [Page 88-89] vnction, and sleightly esteemed of Pennance. Aeneas Sil­uius in ep. 130.

Z. Petrus Dresē ­sis held the necessity of Cōmunion vnder both kindes for the laity. Iacobellus, Ioan­nes de Rocsesana maī ­tained the same. Bon­fin. Dec. 3. l. 3. Pra­teol. in Elench. Yet none of these were protestants: for Iohn Husse, Ierom of Prage Iohn de Zisca & Roc­sesana were poisoned with wicleffs heresies. Petrus Dresensis was infected with the le­prosy of the Waldēses or Poore men of Li­ons. Iacobellus agreed in all points with the Romane Church, but only in that one a­boue mētioned. Prat. V. Iacobellus. Besides the Hussites approued trāsubstantiatiō, masse and so many other fundamentall points of our religion (Fox in Apocal. c. 11. pag. 290.) as Luther dis­dayned to be accoūted of thir sect saying, They [Page 90-91] do not well that call me an Hussite, for he agreeth not with me. apud Rof­fens. art. 30. Therfore Luthers brats were driuen to most despe­ra [...]e exigents, when they cha [...]lēged them, whome their first foū ­der renounceth; b [...]t much more whē they lay claime to the Pi­cardi, as Fulke doth in c. 12. Apoc. sect. 2. who accorded in no one point with Protestants, but only in opposition to the Roman Church, as al here [...]iks haue don, be­cause falshood, though various in it selfe, is still contrary to truth: otherwise they were be­sotted, with the frensy of the Admites, going naked & prostituting themselues to all abominable and pro­miscuous lust. Aen. S [...]lu. l. de orig. Bo [...]m. c. 41. O shamelesse men who pretend to be the children of such filthy parents, whom Zisca their fellow-Hussite abhorred, warred a­gaynst them, and put them a [...]l to the sword [Page 92-93] two only excepted Aeneas Sil. ibidem.

R. THE Gene­rall Coun­cell of Constance ha­uing in it 240. Fathers particulerly recyteth and condemneth all the errours of Iohn Husse &c. Conc. Cō ­stan. sess. vltima, ap­proued therin by Pope Martin the 5.

S. Ioan. de Tur­recrem. in sum. de Ec­cles. lib. 1. cap. 3. We take the Church for the whole assembly or congre­gation of Catholiks, whe­ther they be predestinate. or no; which kind of ac­ception is more agreeable to the holy Scripture, which cōpareth the church to a nette contayning all sortes of fish. Matth. 3.

T. Ibid. cap. 3. & 55. wher he expres­ly writeth: That all Infidells are members of the Diuell, whiles they re­maine in infidelity: but S. Paul was an infidel whiles he persecuted the Church, the fore for that tyme not a [Page 88-89] member of Christ, but of the Diuell.

V. The Councell of Florence in which the Greeke & Latine Church iointly say: We define that the holy Apostolique Sea & Roma­ne Bishop holdeth the pri­macy ouer the whole world, and that the same Roman Bishop is the suc­cessour of Saint Peter, the prince of the Apostles, & the true vicar of Christ, and head of the whole Church, the father and teacher of all Christians: & to him in the person of B. Peter, the full power was giuen by our Lord Iesus Christ to feed, rule & gouerne the vniuersall Church. Hitherto are the wordes of that Generall, and most venerable Councell. Concil Florent. sess. vltima.

Y. The same Councel of Florence in decreto Eugenij 4. amongst the 7. Sa­craments of the new Law, there specifyed expresly nameth Con­firmation, Extreme Vncti­on, [Page 90-91] and pennance, setteth downe the matter & forme of ech of th [...]m, proueth Confirmati­on out of the 8. chap. of the Acts [...]f the A­postles, and Extreme Vnction out of the 5. chap. of S. [...]ames: [...]s any man sicke among you &c▪ Whenc [...] Wi­cleff also, almost the first Trumpeter ( [...] ▪ in vita [...]elli [...]rm [...]h him of the new Ghospel establis [...]he [...] the same holy Sacrament. Wi­cleff ad c. 1. 1. ad Co [...]. were he arhimeth the matter thereof to be oile of the Oliue con­secrated by a Bishop.

Z. Aeneas Siluius epist. 1 [...]0. Such thinges a [...] are of the necessity of the Sacraments remaine vnchangeable &c. In the Eucharist the vse of both kinds is not necessary for the people &c. And a­gaine: One kind, to wit, the Chalice being taken a­way, the Sacrament is not withdrawne, because the whole is receaued in the o­ther kind. Right therefore and most holy [...] the pra­ctize of the Romā Church [Page 92-93] in the administration of the Sacraments. Ibid.

• Annus Christi 1503 Pius 3. Iulius 2.
• Annus Christi 1513 Leo 10.
• Annus Christi 1522 Adrianus 6.
• Annus Christi 1523 Clemens 7.
• Annus Christi 1534 Paulus 3.
• Annus Christi 1550 Iulius 3.
• Annus Christi 1555 Marcel­lus 2. Paulus 4.
• Annus Christi 1560 Pius 4.
• Annus Christi 1566 Pius 5.
• [Page 94-95]Annus Christi 1572 Gregorius 13.
• Annus Christi 1585 Sixtus 5.
• Annus Christi 1590 Vrbanꝰ 7. Grego­rius 14.
• Annus Christi 1591 Innocen­tius 9.
• Annus Christi 1592 Clemens 8.
• [Page 96-97]The fifth Late­ran Generall, par­tly against the Tur­kes, and partly for the reformation of māners, begun vn­der Iulius 2. anno 1511. & ended vn­der Leo 10. anno 151 [...].
• The generall Councell of Trent, vnder Paulus 3. & Pius the 4. against the Lutherans, and other Heretikes an. 1563.

PETRVS Galati­nus, Dominicus Iacobatius, Almainus, Thomas Morus, Fran­ciscus de Paula foun­der of the Minimes, Franciscus de Stanno.

Ioannes Trauersis a holy Martyr burned in Ireland, for compiling a book in proofe of the Popes Supremacy, and vpon ex­amination stoutly auou­ched the worke, shewing forth the three fingers, wherewith he wrote it: which in approbation of that truth remained whole and vntouched when all the rest of his body was cō ­sumed with fire. Florin. l. 6. c. 15. num. 1.

Ioānes Fisherus, Co­claeus, Sadoletus, Ca­tharinus, Eckius, Pi­ghius, Driedo, Fran­ciscus de Victoria, Ca­nus, Franciscus Xime­nez.

Fredericus Staphi­lus who renouncing Lu­theranisme, became a Ca­tholike, [Page 94-95] by seeing Luther so beaten by the Diuell, when he sought to cast him forth of a possessed womā, as the Diuell shutting the doore, he was faiue to be drawne forth of a Win­dow halfe dead. Geneb. in Pio 4.

Catharina Genu­ensis, Antonia Ro­mana, Lucretia, Lin­danus, Iansenius, Re­ginaldus Polus, Tap­perus, Vega.

Ignatius de Loy­ola founder of the Socie­ty of Iesus.

Xauerius, Philip­pus Nereus, Mater Te­resa, Felix Capuci­nus, Laynes, Iacobus Borbanus, Surius.

Franciscus Borgia first Duke of Gandia, and after third Generall of the Society of Iesus.

Granado, Nauar­rus, Bannes, Campi­anus, Sheruinus, Bri­antus, Aloysius Gon­zaga, Onuphrius.

Carolus Boromae­us Archbishop of Milan, solemnely canonized by Pope Paul the fifth.

[Page 96-97] Alanus, Toletus, Genebrardus, Staple­tonus, Petrus Epina­tius &c.

The kingdome of Ma­nicongo in Africa, anno 1503. receaueth the fayth of Christ. Geneb. in Pio 3.

Dauid Emperour of Aethiopia, and Helena his grand-Mother anno 1524. send letters and Embassa­dours vnto Clement the 7. promising him obedience, and earnestly requesting his Apostolicall benedictiō, and the fellowship of his communion. Paul. Io­nius &c.

The Kings of Aman­gatium, and Bungo con­uerted by Xauerius. Tur­sel. in vit. l. 4. c. 16.

Innumerable Indians, Iaponians, Brasilians, & other Westerne and Ori­entall people, partly by the Fathers of the Society, partly by Iacobus Borba­nus a Franciscan frier, & his companions instru­cted, and christened: in so much as Xauerius a­lone is related by a learned Writer to haue brought vnto the fold of Christ 300. thousand Infidels. Bozi­us [Page 98-99] lib. be signis Eccles. cap. 3.

Briefly more Countreys and Kingdomes haue been gained to Christ, in this age, then the whole Chri­stian world was before thrice tould, as the Reue­rend Priest and Confessor of Christ M. Collingtō learnedly sheweth in his Supplication to his Maie­sty.

FRee-will. Alphon­sus a Castro V. Li­bertas. Lindanus l. 3. Panop.

Reall Presence: Tap­perus tom. 2. art. 13. 14. 16. Hessells de Euchar.

Sacrifice of the Masse. Demochares de sacrif. Eckius in Euchar.

Supremacy. Sande­rus de visib. Monar­chia. Stapletonus in doct. fidei Controu. 2. lib. 6.

Confession and Sa­tisfaction. Hosius tom. 1. cap. 44. 48. &c. E­lisius in Clip. Piorū. quaest. 16. &c.

Merit & Iustification of works. Canis. in Ca­techis. cap. 5. Grisald. in decision. V. Meri­tum.

Inuocation and Ho­nour of Saints. Lindan. l. 3. Panop. Beauxa­mis in l. de cultu & re­liquijs Sanctorum.

Purgatory or Prayer [Page 94-95] for the dead. Perez. 3. p. Tradit. Peltanus tract. de igne Purga­torij.

Single life. Maldo­nat. in illud Matt. 19. 12. Sunt enim Eum­chi &c. Where amongst other excellent thinges, he proueth, that our Aduer­saryes speake, both falsly & ouerth wartly, cōtra­dicting themselues in say­ing that no man ought to make triall of continency, vnles he certainly know he hath that guift; and that whosoeuer hath it, is cer­tainely by fayth assured of it. Falsly, for fayth af­foardeth not certainty of knowledge, but of beliefe: neither haue we any more certaine beliefe of conti­nency, then of grace. O­uerthwartly, because no man can be certaine he hath the guift, before he make triall: Make tryall he ought not (say they) before he be certaine.

Prescript fasts. Al­phons. de Castro. V. Ieiunium. Pisa. tract. de Ieiunio.

Miracles. Diuers [Page 96-97] were atchieued in this age by S. Franciscus de Paula, Mother Teresa, Ignatius, Xauerius, who besides o­thers, raised foure from death to life. Tursel. in vita eius lib. 2. c. 8.

By deuotion to our B. Lady of Loreto: for to let passe very many, that mercifull Queene appea­red to a young man of La­sturo (who made a vow vnto her) in the same shap wherein she is reuerenced at Loreto, and sayd: Son be not afraid, thou shalt not dye of this sicknes, be thankefull and mindful of thy vow. Victor. Bri­gant. and Tursell. l. 5. cap. 16.

By a picture of S. Nicolas of Tolentin swea­ting bloud. Marg. ap­pend. cit. in Clem. 8.

And in the yeare of our Lord 1573. happened that famous Miracle wrought vpō our Coūtrey­woman Margaret Ieso­pe, by which she was cu­red of her lamenesse, hea­ring the solemne Masse of [Page 98-99] the Blessed miraculous Sa­crament in S. Gudila's Church at Bruxells. See the same more largely set down in Bristows motiues pag. 20. 21. 22. 23. which is au­thentically testifyed, by publike record at Bruxells. And so ap­parantly knowne, as no doubt can be made thereof.

• Martin Luther.
• Muntzer, the be­ginner of the A­nabaptistes.
• Carolostadius.
• Oecolampadius.
• Quintius & Co­pinus, heades of the Libertines.
• Zuinglius.
• [Page 94-95]Georgiꝰ Dauid.
• Melancthon.
• Tindall.
• Bucer.
• Westphalus.
• Kemnitius.
• Caluinus.
• Seruetus.
• Brentius.
• Molinaeus.
• Peter Martyr.
• Castalio.
• [Page 96-97]Alaseus.
• Bullinger.
• Bexa.
• Osiander.
• Stancarus.
• Musculus.
• Ochinus.
• Swenckfield.
• Trinitarij.
• Puritani.
• Knockes.
• Goodman.
• Iewell.
• Buchanan.
• Horne.
• Humphry.

NOvv the long festred vlcer, or byle of Protestancy is fully ripe, and the whol corruptiō brea­keth forth by Luther Caluin and the rest of their complices. For,

A. Luther im­pugned the authority of Generall Councels, Inuocation and Ho­nour of Saints, Free-will, Vowes, Supre­macy, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Ma­trimony, extreme Vn­ction, Indulgences, priuate masse, merit, iustificatiō of workes and the like.

B. Caluin im­pugned the same: and besides, the reall pre­sence, worship of i­mages, Purgatory, Praier for the dead, necessity of Baptisme with diuers others now defended by our English sectaryes; yet with such irreconcili­able [Page 94-95] ia [...]res and hateful variances among thē ­selues, as neither their fi [...]st parents Luther and Caluin nor any two of their followers can iointly accord in all essential points, to lay the first stones of their new, disioynted & tottering building. For Luther euen to his dying day detested the Caluinists as fran­ticke heretikes for de­nying the reall presē ­ce. Confess. Tigur. tract. 3. fol. 108. Caluin is euen with Luther, calling him Idolatram, an Idola­ter, because he termed the Eucharist, Sacra­mentum adorable, a Sa­crament worthy to be adored. Caluin. ep. 72. ad Bucer. Luther reiected the e­pistle of S. Paul to the Hebrewes, the epistle of S. Iames &c. Luth. in Prol. Harm. Ep. Caluin, with the Church, admitteth them as canonicall. in Confess. Possiaca. And besides, many other substantiall differences [Page 96-97] betweene them and their followers, of which I haue spoken sufficiētly heretofore part. 3. c. 15. Luther denied the immortality of the soule. He taught that the diuine essence be­getteth, and is begotten, which destroieth the very nature of God. For that which be­getteth or breatheth must be really distinct from that which is be­gotten or breathed, & so there followeth not an vnity, but a duality or perfect tri­nity in the essence as wel as in the persons. Reade what he wri­teth. I permit that the Pope make articles of his saith, to those that be his faithfull, such as are, bread and wine to be trā ­substantiated in the Sa­cramen [...]; he [...]ffence of God neither to beget, nor to be begotten; the soule to be a substantiall forme of the b [...]dy of man; himselfe to be the Emperour of the world, and the King of heauen, & an earthl [...] God; the soule to be immortall, and all those infinite mon­sters [Page 98-99] conteined in the Ro­man dunghill of Decrees. Thus Luther word by word, tom. 2. impress. Wittem. an. 1546. in assert. ar. 27. Whereby you see that he maketh the articles of the soules immor­tality, the essence of God neither to beget, nor to be begotten, monsters deui­sed by the Roman Bishop.

A HE was re­resisted & condemned by Pope Leo the 10. by Charles the Emperour, in Edi­cto Worm. by Echius, Cochlaeus, Fredericus Staphilus, Lindanus, Caietan, Alphonsus de Castro, Bishop Fi­sher &c. By the fa­mous Vniuersities of Louaine, Collen, and Paris. Sleid. l. 3. Ge­neb. in Leo. by King Henry the 8. who wrote a booke against him, for which Pope Leo graced him with the title of Defender of the faith. By the whole Consistory of Chri­stēdome in the sacred Councell of Trent, where ther were pre­sent six Cardinals, of which foure were Le­gates, 3. Patriarks, 28. Archbishops, 168. Bi­shops, 7. Abbots, 7. Generals of religious Orders, 39. Procura­tors. [Page 94-95] And besides the whole Catholike Church, the Sectaries themselues attached Luther of many no to­rious blasphem [...]es. Z [...] ­inglius refelled this dotage of his: The di­uinity is threefold euē as the persons. Luther in Conf. Poss [...]a. affir­ming, that, in these wordes grauiss [...]mi errores latitant; most grieuous errours lie hidden. Wice­lius biddoth him re­tracte, the monstrous things he writeth concer­ning mariag, d [...]uorce p [...]l [...] ­gamy or plur [...]li [...]y of wi­ [...]es. Wicel. in metho. Conc. Eccles. And what Caluinist is ther who doth not con­demne his dreame of Christs Vbiquity &c.

B. By ihe same Generall and Oecu­menicall Councell, where all the heresies of Caluin & his Sect­mates were accurs [...]d; by the [...]ens also of so many Learned men euen to this day as we may say of him as S. Bernard did o [...] [...]et us Abailardus, Manus [Page 96-97] omnium contra il [...], the hands of al ar [...] lifted vp against him. F [...]r [...]o omitte Catholiques, who are innumerabl [...], Albertus G [...]aue [...]us a Luth [...]an published a Booke against him with this infamous ti­tle. The war of Iohn Caluin, and of le [...] Christ &c. And Ae­gidius Hunnius ano­ther, intituled, Calui­nus Iudaizans &c. A third called, Tu [...]cis­me; Arianisme and Caluinism, 3 brothers and Sisters. Ioannes Schutz l. 50. Caus. causa 48. A fourth namely Comadus Schu [...]elburg addeth moreouer, that God also in this world [...]hewed his iudgement against Caluin, whome he visited in the [...]od of his anger, and horribly puni [...]hed before the dreadfull houre of his vnhappy death. For God with his potent hand so strooke this Heretik [...], that hauing desp [...]ired of his saluation, hauing [...] ­led vpon d [...]uels▪ swearing, cursing, and bla [...]hemi [...]g, he most miserable yielded [Page 98-99] vp his wicked ghost, dying of the lowsy disease, wor­mes so increasing in an Aposteme or stinking vl­cer &c. that none of the standers by could any loger indure the vnsauory smell. Conradus Schus [...]el­burge in Theolog. Caluinist. lib. 3. fol. 72.

• Annus Christi 1605 Leo 11. Paulus 5.
• [Page 100-101]Annus Christi 1621 Gregorius 15. who now sitteth in the Chaire of Saint Peter.

PONTVS Tyar­dus, Robertꝰ Dru­raeus, Baronius, Per­sonius, Bozius, Feuar­dentius, Florimundus Raimundus, Petrus de Villars, Franciscus de Rupefocaudia, Laelius Baglioni Generall of the Order of the Ser­uits, Anastasi' Coche­letus, Nicolaus Coef­feteau, Michael Dani­el, Antonius Tolosa­nus.

Don̄a Luiza a noble woman of Spain, who di­stributing her patrimony vnto the poore, came into England to be partaker of our Persecutions for [Page 100-101] Christ. Cardinall Pe­ron, Franciscus de Sa­les, Camusius, Hie­ronymus Simon, enno­bled by the frequent mira­cles, which euen at this day are wrought at his se­pulcher in Valentia.

Claudius Aquaui­ua, Spondanus, Car­dinall Ioieux, Beyer­linck, Suarez, Philip King of Saipne third of that name. Duual­lius, Bellarminus, Les­sius, Abrahamus Bzo­uius, Baldoinus, with sundry other rare or­naments of piety and learning, of which this age is most fertil.

In the yeare of our Lord 1695. the King of Serra Leaena in the East Indyes, foure of his chil­dren, and two of his bre­thren, receaue the fayth & Baptisme of Christ, by the handes of Father Balta­zar Barriera, of the So­ciety of Iesus. Iarric. l. 5. hist. Ind. Orient. cap. 46.

The most illustrious Prince the Duke of New­burge renouncing Luthe­ranisme, imbraceth the Catholique fayth in the [Page 102-103] yeare 1614. Besides many others conuerted in China, Iaponia, Brasilia, Persia, East and West Indies; many in Polouia, Germa­ny; Zeland, Hollaud, Bra­bant &c. by Priests and other Religious men of the Roman Church. By which onely Church as you see, all Coun­tryes haue beene con­uerted, all generall Councells assembled and confirmed, the he­retikes of all ages con­demned, out of which Church all sects and Sectaryes haue depar­ted, from which they haue embezelled all their Ecclesiasticall, & approued Rites, Sa­craments, Lawes, Ce­remonyes &c. And yet the Roman Church, neuer borrowed the least rite or ceremony from any, neuer de­parted from the Com­munion of a more an­cient Church; but stil remaineth in the Cen­ter, and roote of her first planted, and re­ceaued fayth.

FRee-will. Bellarm. de gratia & libero arbitr. lib. 3. 4. 5. 6. who besides, inuincibly proueth all other points of our fayth now in Contro­uersy. So do many of those that follow, though I cyte them only for one. Co­sterus c. 5. Enchirid.

Reall presence. Ant. Tolosan. in octo Dial. de Praesentia Reali.

Sacrifice of the Masse. Bordesius de sacrific. Missae contr. Caluin.

Supremacy. Bail­lius tract. 2. Catechis. pag. 55.

Confession and Sa­tisfaction. Cottonus l. [Page 100-101] 3. instit. Cathol. cap. 42. 43. Merit and Iusti­fication of workes. Tan­nerus in opere de ne­cess. v [...]il. & merit. bo­norum operum.

Inuocation, & ho­nour of Saints. Tyraeus in lib. de inuocat. San­ctorum.

Purgatory or Prayer for the dead. Posseuinus sect. 7. refuta. Chy­traei. Single life. Beca­nus. lib. 4. cap. 2. 3. 4. de repub. Eccles. where he proueth it by Scriptures, Fathers and Councells: shew­eth, First, how the Priests of the old law obserued, by diuine precept a certaine cō ­tinency for a tyme. Secondly, how the Apostles partly by the Counsaile of Christ, partly of their owne accord, kept perpetu­all chastity. Thirdly, how they perswaded and enioyned the like to other Ecclesiasticall persons.

Prescript fasts. Bu­saeus lib. de delectu ci­borum.

Miracles. Diuers [Page 102-103] wrought at this very tyme in all partes of Christendome: but I will only touch heere those of our bordering Countryes, atchie­ued in the presence of many liuing and eye witnesses: to wit, the miraculous cures done at our La­dyes of Hall, and Si­chem recorded by that eloquent and famous Writer Iustus Lipsius, in his bookes, the one intituled, Virgo Hallcu­sis, the other Diua Siche­miensis, siue Aspricollis; amongst which very memorable is that, which fell out in the yeare of our Lord 1603. mentioned by him in the 45. Chap­ter Diuae Sichemiēsis. Of one Iohn Clemēt lame from his natiuity, & of a monstrous shap or compo­sitiō of body; his thighes & feet were contracted, and turned towards to the for­part of his breast, so that his knees did grew and cleane fast thereunto; his limmes so trust vp, as he was vnable to stand, lye, or walke, only a [...]le to sit, and sitting to crawle &c. [Page 104-105] Who moued with the same of that holy place, was carryed in a Waggon to Sichem, and crept into the Virgins chappell, where after he had expiated his sinnes by Confession and pennance, and receaued the holy Sa­crament &c. as he stood before the Altar, he sel: his withered and contorted fee [...] loosed and stretched forth, so that he presently stood vpright, to the great amaze­ment of himselfe, and others &c. These thinges were there seene by the people, seene at Louaine, seene at Bruxels, when he returned, and who did not runne to meete him? Thus Lipsius. I might adde many others related by him, of all which he giueth this testimony in the beginning of his first chapter: Behould thinges done in the eyes and eares of vs all, behould them celebrated with concourse, applause, fruit or benefite of Countreyes! What truth can there be in humane affaires, if no truth be giuen to these thinges? Another most renowned was done in the County of Burgundy in the yeare 1608. wheras in a Church of our Lady, on the day of Pentecost, the Blessed Sacrament was ex­posed vpon a siluer Reliquary, to the view of the people, a suddaine fire by chance consu­med not only the ornaments, & Altar-cloaths, but euen the very steppe it selfe, on which it [...]ested, and yet the Reliquary with the sacred host remained vntouched, and without prop or stay hanged in the ayre, the space of 33. houres, from Whitsunday in the after-noone till next Twesday morning (in the sight not only of the townesmen of Fauernum, but of the inhabitants thereby, who flocked thither in great multi [...]udes) vntill a Reuerend Priest saying Masse, it descended by little & little for him to receaue: which the Archbish. of Bisuntum iuridically examined, and sound to be [...]rue by the authenticall depesition of 52. witnesses most worthy of credit. In h [...]st. Vesunt. pri­mum, [Page 106-107] deinde Lugdun▪ edita, apud Petrum Rigau­dum. By which it is manifest that the Roman fayth hath been alwayes sealed with such war­rant from God in euery age, as we may con­clude with Ricardus de S. Victore: O Lord, if it be errour which we belieue, we are deceaued by thee; for thou hast confirmed these thinges with fignes and wonders, which could not be done but by thee. lib. 1. de Trinit. cap. 2.

• Aegidius Hun­mus.
• Iacobus Hail­bronner.
• Chamerius.
• Ioannes Pisca­tor.
• Iacobus Armi­nius.
• [Page 100-101]Conradus Vor­stius.
• Sibrandus.
• Andreas Osian­der.
• Dauid Rungi­us.
• Laelius.
• Christophorus Morold.
• Paraeus.
• Iohn Reynolds.
• Robert Abbot.
• [Page 102-103]Thomas Bilson.
• Field.
• Sutcliffe.
• Casaubon.
• Mason.
• Hugh Sanford.
• Marcus Anto­nius de Domi­nis.
• Morton.
• Carleton.

THE heresies of these men are for the most part, all the former Lutheran, or Caluinian frenzies, amongst which,

C. Hunnius auer­reth the sufficiency of Scripture alone to decide all controuer­sies. in colloq. Ratis­bon. sess. 9.

D. Paraeus teacheth that God antecedently praedestinateth men to damnation. apud Bec. opusc. 11.

E. Casaubon ac­cuseth the Romanists, for cōmunicating the people onely vnder [Page 100-101] one kind. in his an­swere to Card. Peron his epistle.

F. Antonius de Dominis inueigheth against the Popes su­premacy, & alloweth the validity of mar­riage, after solemne vowes. l. 1. 2. &c. de Repub. The rest of their assertions I omit as notoriously know­ne, and daily vented with such variance a­mongst themselus, & from their first foun­ders, with such repug­nance to the Scriptu­res, and Fathers of the Primitiue Church; as M. Rogers could not translate S. Austines Meditations or Solilo­quies, without dissen­ting frō him in many principall points of our religion, willfully reiected and suppres­sed by him: for which he thus pleadeth his excuse. It stood me vpon both for my owne credit, and also for the behoofe of others, to leaue somewhat out, for had I not so done &c. I should haue said, that the Angels as for di­uers [Page 102-103] other ends, so for this are appointed, that they offer the Praiers of the children of God, in th [...] fight of his Maiesty. cap. 15. I should haue said, that the same Angels do bringe our groanes and sighes to God, that they may ob­taine for vs, the fauoura­ble propitiation of his be­nignity, and returne to vs the desired blessing of his grace. cap. 27. I should haue said that our Saui­our descended into hell where our for fathers sate in darknesse. cap. 32. Finally I should haue said that we ought to doubt, whether we shall ariue to the port of Saluation or no, because all things are reserued vncertaine for the time to come. Hi­therto Rogers, word by word, only that I change into English the sayings of S. Au­gustine, which he to hide his coozenage, from the illiterate, ci­teth onely in Latin. Rogers in his epist. dedicat. More auda­cious was the transla­tour of the same Au­thors worke de ciuit. Dei, who comming to [Page 104-105] those wordes (lib. 22. c. 8.) Obtulit sacrific [...] Corporis Christi, he offred the Sacrifice of the body o [...] Christ, without cloake of excuse, Englisheth them thus, He ministred the Communion, rather choosing to wrong his owne conscience, and peruert the wordes and meaning of so great a Clarke, then to allow with him the Sacri­fice of the Masse. But no meruaile, for as the Ghospel of our Sectaries was first broached by lies, treacheries, corruptions, deprauations, &c. So by the same perfidiousnes it is stil main­tained, as Zanchius, one of their owne side, truely witnesseth of himselfe, and his fellow Protestants thus. ‘I haue re [...]ule (sayth he) the Latine Coppy of the Apology, and diligently read it ouer, not without Choller, when I perceiued what manner of writing very many, let me not say for the most part, all, do vse in the Churches (as they are called) of the Refor­med Ghospel; who would seeme notwithstanding to bee Pastours, Doctours, and pillars of the Church. The state of the question, that it may not be vnderstood, we often of set purpose ouercloude with darknesse; things which are manifest we impudently deny; things false without shame we auouch; thinges plainly impious we propose as the first principles of Faith; thinges orthodo­xall we condemne of heresy; Scriptures at our pleasure we detorte to our owne dreames; we boast of Fathers, when we will follow nothing lesse then their doctrine; to deceaue, to calumniate, to raile is samiliar with vs; neither do we thinke or regard, how much with these our writings the current of the Ghospell is hindered, the Churches of Christ are ruined, Sectaryes are strengthned in their heresyes, Tyrants are encoura­ged to take armes against vs; and in fine the Kingdom [Page 106-107] of Sathan is furthered and promoted: but so as we may defend our cause, good or bad, by right or by wrong, all other thinges we turne vpside downe. O tymes! O manners!’ So he, in Epist, ad Io. Sturmium. habetur in fine lib. 7. & 8. Miscellan.

C. Reuerned Father Gretser, and Tanner conuince the contrary in the foresaid Confe­rence at Ratisbone.

D. Becanus pur­posely refuteth him, alleadging among o­ther argumēts this sē ­tence of S. Prosper ex libel. ad articul. sibi falso impositos, art. 3. God truely is the Crea­tour of all men: but no man was created by him to this end, that he might perish; for there is one cause of being made, ano­ther of being destroyed. That men are made, it is [Page 100-101] the fauour of the Creator▪ that men are destroyed, it is the fault of the preua­ricatour. Becan. opusc. 11. q. 3.

E. Cardinal Pe­ron iustifieth that cu­stome, & vnd [...]n [...]ably proueth, how the Church might vpon iust cause change the communion of both kindes into one, be­cause both are only requisite to the inte­grity of the significa­tion, not to the inte­grity of the essence of the Sacrament: for so she changed, in the Sacramēt of Baptisme immersion into asper­sion, by reason of dan­ger to infants & other inconueniencies mē ­tioned by S. Chry­sostome ep. 1. ad In­nocent. Notwithstan­ding that Christ com­manded an immersiō, dipping, or plunging into the water as the Greek word [...] doth import. No [...] ­withstanding the A­postles, and the a [...] ­cient Church long practised it. Not­withstanding [Page 102-103] it was necessary to the inte­grity of the significa­tion of our death and buriall with Christ; though not necessary to the essence and sub­stance of Baptisme. Card. Per. lib. 6 pag. 1112. 1113. 1114. &c.

F. Becanus nota­blie establisheth the truth of the one, and the inualidity of the other, against him. Bec. de Eccl. Repub. So doth Fidelis An­nosus in Censuia pag. 93. 94. 95. &c. and pag. 150. 151. where he proueth the Supre­macy by Luther, Mc­lancthon, and other heretikes, and conuin­ceth the marriage of Votaries out of S. Ba­sil, S. Chrysostome, S. Ambrose, S. Hie­rome, and S. Cypran to be whoredome, incest, adultery, or worse then adultery. Eudemon Io­annis, & others, I let passe who do the lil [...], & learnedly refute all his other heretical po­sitions.