XXXVII. The Godly industry of reformers to bring there handy-work to perfection.
Lvther
pretending cleerely to reforme
The Roman Church, did raise his firster storme
'Gainst
See Luth. Tom. 2. fol. 63. & Sleydan. l. 6. f. 232.
Pardons,
Pope, &
See Luth. de votis monast. Tom. 2.
Monks: but not content
With that, he straight his second forces bent
Against the
See before. XI. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
Scriptures,
See his cutting of foure Sacraments at a blow. Tom. 2. f. 63. see likewise before. XI. 13. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34.
Sacraments, and
Luth. Assert. artic. 1. & conc. de penit. & de capt. Babyl.
cap. de Baptism.
grace,
Iustification
See acts and monuments p. 402. & before. XI. 25. 26. 27.
Works,
The doctrine of workes is the doctrine of Diuels.
Luth. de vot. monast. see him also serm. de piscat. Petri ad c.
2. ep. ad Galatas, serm. de nou. Test. ad Euang. in die Nat.
Christi, & Passion. see next before. 7. and besides at XI.
22. 24. 29.
Free-wil
See his booke de seruo arbitr. Tom. 2. f. 424.
and
See him de abrogat. Miss. priuat. Tom. 1. f. 244. see also
f. 720. see likewise before. VI. 2. & IX. 2.
Masse;
Yet was he iudged scarce to haue vntyl'd
The roofe of Babylon, Zuinglius compyl'd
A second Reformation, and complain'd
Of diuers things, which Luther stil retain'd,
As th'
M. Parker confesseth that Luther crossed himself
morning and euening, and is seen neuer painted
praying, but before a crucifix. against symbolis. part. 1.
c. 2. sect. 30. p. 105. see Io. Creuel. refut. cerem. Miss. p.
118. and Io. Manl. loc. comm. p. 636.
Real presence, with the
Zuingl. Tom. 2. fol. 375. 416.
Crosse to blesse,
Saints
As touching the inuocation of Saints (saith Luther)
I think with the whole Christian Church, and
hold that Saints are to be honoured by vs and inuocated.
purgat. quorund. art, & in Ep. ad Georg. Spalat.
honour,
I neuer denyed Purgatory (saith Luther) and yet I
belieue it, as I haue often written & confessed. Tom.
7. f. 132. aduersus bullam. see him also in disput. Lips. c. de
purgat. & resolut. de Indulg. conclus. 16. see likewise Zuinglian.
Tom. 2. fol. 378.
Purgatory,
If it was lawful, saith Luther, for the Iewes to haue
the picture of Cæsar vpon their coynes, much more
is it lawful for Christiās to haue in their Churches,
crosses, and images of Mary. See this cited forth of
Luther by the protestant Hospin. histor. Sacramen. p. 2. f.
33. and see Luther in consolat. prolab. c. 6.
Images.
Yet was he censur'd nothing to haue done
But slightly
M. Hooker affirmeth of the Anti-Trinitarians, that following
the course of extreame reformation, they
were wont in pride of their owne proceedings to
glory, that Luther did blow away the roofe, & Zuinglius
batter but the wals of superstition &c. Eccles.
pol. l. 5. sect. 42. p. 89.
battred superstition.
Caluin, with Beza and their fellowes try'd
To make the Church yet purer, and deny'd
Lay
See this affirmed of Caluin, by Schlusselb. theol. Cal.
lib. 1. f. 60. & 61. and see himself in Append. ad lib. de Eccles.
reform. & Epist. 51.
persons Baptisme in a needful case,
Saints feasts,
See Whitg. def. 548. 549. 550.
vniuersality
This, though as al know, it be denied by the Caluinists,
yet is it defended by Zuinglius. l. ep. Zuingl. &
Oecolamp. l. 1. p. 274.
of grace,
Power
See the Caluinists reproued for this doctrine by Lobethius
disput. theol. p. 301. by Andr. Althamerus concil. loc.
scrip. pugnant. loc. 164. by Iac. Helbrun. in Swenck f. Caluin.
p. 55. and others.
of Priests t'absolue the penitent,
Church-vestments
See M. Whitg. def. 216. 286. 291.
, ceremonies,
Ib. p. 270. see also M. Couel. exam. p. 63. 64. Zanch
comp. loc. 16. p. 639.
Christ's
See this impugned by M. Willet Lymbe-mast. in his
special book that Christ descended not into hel by
M. Fulk alleaged by M. Willet, synops. p. 605. 606.
descent
To Hel,
See M. Whitg. def. troughout.
al Churches Headships to reside
In Bishops, and to their wils law's t' be ty'd.
Yet did not here this reformation rest,
Others condemn'd this, as a
So farre doth M. Barrow & his disciples disclayme
from this third pretended reformation of Puritans,
that (as M. Bernard reporteth) Barrow calleth their
way in contempt, A silly Presbitory and Eldership,
Perfidie and Apostacy, the building of a false
Church to the Harlot, a second Beast, &c. Wretched
disciples of Caluin, Counter-faith Reformists, trāsgressours
of the worship of God &c. And further
Barrow and Greenwood doe auouch the Puritans doctrine
as new, strange, and Antichristian, &c.
second beast,
A fained Church vnto the Harlot built,
Reformists al with forged colours guilt,
Sinneful prouokers of the Eternal's wrath,
A fond, new, strange, and Antichristian faith.
These say, that th'heyght of reformation,
Is to throw al
See M. Hall's Apology ag. the Brownists sect. 45. 46.
Hooker Eccles. pol. l. 5. sect. 17. Doue in def. of the Ch. gouern.
p. 68.
material Churches downe,
Raze
See Barrow his owne booke impugning vniuersityes.
Vniuersities,
reiect the prayer
Our Lord (we say) did for his Church prepare.
Neither doth yet this reformation please;
To make the Church most pure, & from disease
Of al corruptions cleere, the
The Arians in the reformed Churches of Poland,
thinke the very beliefe of the Trinity to be a part of
Antichristian corruption, and that the Popes triple
crowne is a sensible marke, whereby the world
might know him to be that mysterial beast spoken
of in the Reuelation, in no respect so much, as in his
doctrine of the Trinity. M. Hooker in his Eccles. poli. l. 4.
p. 183.
Trinity
Must be impugned, with Christ his Deity.
Stay, stay, great Sages of this wondrous Church,
Whither at last wil your admired torch,
The Spirit, conduct you? whither wil you goe?
For what coasts are you bound? ô, now I know;
Belike y' are bound with your reformed couple
Alcyate
Alcyatus became a Mahometist, saith Osiander, as Gentilis
himself relateth. epit. cent. 16. p. 207. see also Beza ep. 81.
and Neuzer,
Adam Neuzerus, (saith Schlusselberg) sometimes
chiefe Pastour of the Church of Heidelberg, passed
from Zuinglianisme, through Arianisme, to Turcisme,
with many other Caluinists. Theol. Calu. l. 1. art. 2. fol. 9.
see Osiand. vbi supra p. 208. 818. where he affirmeth that
he fel into Turcisme, and was circumcized at Constantinople.
for Constantinople.
The Anti-Trinitarians (saith Osiander) doe boast that
Luther did scarce vncouer the roofe of the Babylonian
tower. cent. 16. p. 209. see hereafter at 17.
Zuinglius, say they, battered but the wals of Popish
superstition, the last and hardest worke of al
remained for them, which was to raze vp the very
ground & foundation of Popery, euen the doctrine
concerning the Deity of Christ. Idd. 5. sect. 42. & 89.
