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XLII. ON VAFER.
Sute his religion vnto euery place;
When he's in England he himself doth vant
A Parlament-Prince-pleasing Protestant;
And Holland holds to be a fertil place
Of faithles Hereticks, Behemia's race
Of Sectaries hath no vnited scope
In any point, but how to spite the Pope.
That of
The conference at Hampton Court testifyeth, that King Iames professed that he could neuer yet see a Bible wel translated into English, but the worst of al his Maiesty thought Geneua to be; to which he affirm'd that there were some notes annexed very partial, vntrue, seditious, and sauouring too much of dangerous and trayterous conceits. p. 46. 49.
Whose factious Ministers not by word
Since the time that they of Geneua deposed their Bishop, their Liege-Lord and Prince, (as M. Sutcliff confesseth in his answ. to cal. petit. p. 194.) it hath been a Principle (sayth M. Bancroft) as I suppose with some of the chief Ministers of Geueua, that if Kings and Princes refused to reforme religion, the inferiour Magistrates, or people, by direction of the Ministry, might lawfully, and ought (if need required) euen by force of armes to reforme it themselues. Dang. pos. p. 9. See further M. Bancrofts in his Suruay p. 48. Where he affirmes that they maintained in their books desperate points of deposing Princes, and of putting them to death in diuers cases of resistance against reformation.
But by their deeds teach subiects to dethrone
Their lawful Soueraignes. Those in Scotland are
Seditious persons, men who neuer spare
Their King or country, troublesome, vnciuil,
And restles spirits, yea members of the Diuil.
The Puritans in general are
I protest before the great God (sayth his late Maiesty) since I am heer vpon my testament, it is no place for me to lye in, that you shal neuer find with any Highland or Border-theeues, greater ingratitude, and more lyes, and vile periuries, then with these phanatike spirits. King Iames his workes pag. 161.
Heady aduancers of their owne desires,
Crosse, wayward Spirits, prone to loosse delights,
Scripture-corrupters periur'd Hypocrites,
Detracting Satyrists, dogs, Schismatikes
Murmurers, Vultures, yea and
Least any man should thinke (saith D. Couel) our contentions with Puritans were in smaller points, & difference not great, each side hath charged one the other with heresies, if not infidelities, nay euen with such as quite ouerthow the principal foundation of our Christian faith. Iust and temperate def. art. 11. p. 67.
Equal to th'Pharisies & Donatists,
Arrians, Ebionites, and Catharists,
Florinians, Beguardins, Pepuzians
Apostolikes, and Petrobusians.
Or to Geneua goe, he then doth raile
At th'English Church. The Bishops are saith he)
An Antichristian Popish ministry.
Their
Of fond corruptions; from the masse they cul
Their new Communion-bookes, dissenting farre
From the Lord's word it neuer fayling square.
The Sacraments they wickedly prophane,
Their rites and habits Antichristian.
Their ministries are neither prou'd nor cal'd
Nor right according to the Word instal'd:
The most are Monks, Friars, drunkards, dolts, or boyes
They baptisme profane with childish toyes
Soule-murd'ring Heretikes, Sacrilegious theeues.
Them he condemneth for a damned sect
Of wilful
We see by these words of Danæus (sayth Schlusselberg) that the Caluinists account vs Lutherans for damned and excommunicated heretikes. Theol. Calu. lib. 2. art. 1. and in the same place, Caluin [sayth he) in his last admonition against Westphalus keeps no measure in his railing, he proclames al those heretikes, who refuse to reiect Luthers doctrine to obey Caluin.
Some of the Zuinglians (sayth Iezlerus,) haue called the Lutherās, haters of men, flesh-eaters, drinkers of bloud, Thyests, Hāgmen, killers of Christ, breadworshippers, adorers of a breaden God, denyers of the Redemption which Christ performed vpon the altar of the Crosse, Eutychians, Suenk feldians, and lastly ouerthrowers of many articles of the Apostolike faith, de diuturn, belli Euchar. fol. 93. See 92. also where they called also Caphernaites, Localists, &c. But farre more then al this may be found in the writings of Zuinglius, Caluin, & Beza against the Lutherans, in Tossanus. Schutz de serp. antiq. Georg. Hansfeld in via Monstrat. Wegweiser. Alb cont. Carolost. Oecolampad. æqu. respons. charta quædam Zuinglij an. 1527. and in general al Caluinists who haue writ against the Lutherans. For the more easy discouery of some of which Authours, I refer you to the 2. Catalogue in the end of the Protestants Apologie.
Drinkers of bloud, Flesh-eaters, Cannibals,
Auerse from Christian faith, Christ's murderers,
Destroyers of the Creed, Idolaters,
Reiecters of Christs death, Zuenck feldians,
Hang-men, Caparnaites, Eutychians,
Localists, men prodigiously blind,
False, wicked, proud, of an ambitious mind,
Impudent Asses, more illiterate fooles
Then simple children that frequent the scholes.
To Wittenberg, but sing's another note;
He now auerr's, and seriously, that they
Who from the true faith doe with Zuinglius stray,
And likewise such as Caluin doe respect,
Are a most damn'd and execrable sect
Of
The Lutherans haue call'd, & to this day stil cal the Zuinglians conuicted heretikes, possessed with diuels, obsessed on euery side, before, behind, aboue, below, within and without with Diuels, Martyrs of Dinels, to be refelled rather with the sword of the ciuil Magistrate then with words, to be restrain'd from holy things, to be wholy rooted out of the Church, shunned by al good men, vnworthy for whom God should be prayd vnto, to be excluded forth of the leagues of Kings and Princes, to be reckoned amongst the Anabaptists, Nestorians, Arians, Turks, and in a word worse then al mortals that euer the earth bore, & damn'd for al eternity. Iezl. de diut. belli. Euchar. f. 93. See before, XXIX. 7. who yet would find more of these freindly Epithets, wherewith the Lutherans set forth their fellow Protestant-Zuinglians, need but repaire to Luthers bookes against the Sacramentaries. Io. Schutz. Serp. antiq. & 50. cause, Riuand. lup. excor. Alber. cont. Carolost. Selneccerus and other Lutherans (a Catalogue whereof is in the end of the Protestants Apologie) and they shal find much more then I haue here expressed; for (to vse Iezlerus his owne words) there is no end at al among them in contending, writing, declaiming, disputing, condemning and excommunicating one another. p. 80. yea euery mart (as the learned Deane of S. Paules M. Dun ingenously confesseth) we se more bookes written by these men against one another, then by them both for Christ. In the first serm. preached by him to King Charles, at S. Iames. 30. Aprill. 1625. p. 15.
About their body, and within their hart,
Aboue, below, behind them, and before,
Obsest with Diuels; men deseruing more
To be refelled by the aw-ful swords
Of ciuil Magistrats, then force of words.
They are (he now affirmes) to be restrain'd
From holy things, their company refrain'd
By al good men, most fitting t' be expell'd
From forth the Churches bosome, yea and held
Not worthy to be pray'd for, and vnfit
That Kings should them into their leagues admits
Nestorians, Arians, Anabaptists, Turkes.
And in a word, the worst of men, yea he
Proclaimes them damn'd for al eternity.
Yet into Frizeland if he take his flight
Then th'Anabaptists only teach aright;
There, as amongst the Caluinists againe,
He against Luther slack's his passion's rayne,
And with a quau'ring head, and half-shut eyes
As if forsooth of zeale his words did rise,
In verity he offers to detect
Infinit faults in now false Luther's sect.
With carnal wayes, saith he, their soules they staine,
And Christ himself they crucify againe,
Blaspheme his spirit, and contemne his grace,
Affect faire houses, and a wealthy place;
They climb the pulpit there to preach, yet none
Hath either Spirit, Word, or Mission.
There
They lead a quiet, idle, slouthful, & merry life, by seducings and flatteries they maintaine themselues with the robberies of Antichrist, and preach no more then an earthly and carnal Magistrate wil permit and heare &c. they by their dissolute and carnal doctrine haue brought dissolute and carnal people to such dishonest manners, and so licentious a life, that among the Turkes and Tartars there are not so vngodly and abominable people to be found. Id. de Christian. fide tit. de fide Luth.
At al distastful to their Princes eare.
They idly liue, and to relieue their need
On Antichrist's rich spoyles through flattery feed;
And to such loosnes al their flocks allure
As Turkes and Tartars are by much more pure.
Vnto Geneu' or Wittenberg returnes;
The Anabaptists straight, vnfit t' be nam'd,
Chimera-like of diuerse sects are fram'd,
Muntzer, and those who of his doctrine share,
No men, but meere incarnate Diuels are.
Scarce any one but stil dissent's from other
And wil of errour charge his purest brother.
He Proteus-like transformes himself againe
Then he's a Roman Catholick, and saith,
That Rome's the Mother-Church: Her only faith
Is Orthodoxal, others doctrines he
Most iusty al condemn'd for heresy.
A new Vlisses, to his natiue home,
He layes fast hold againe where he began.
Say, Is not Vafer a Religious man?
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