Mirrour of New Reformation wherein Reformers, by their owne acknowledgements, are represented ad viuum, the Beauty also of their handy worke is displayed [by Robert Hayman] |
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XLI. The Protestant iarre.
No sooner Sectaryes, drunk with the pride
Of their owne wits, beginne for to deride
Their mother Church, and leaue that steadfast rock,
'Gainst which no power, nor Infernall shock
Can e're preuaile; but they beginne to reele,
And their small forces, and great weaknesse feele.
And like to Cadmus brawling serpent-brood
'Gainst one an other in a frantik mood
Conuert their weapons. Hence did Magus first
Into Menandrians, and Saturninians burst,
With Basilidians: from the Manichees
The Catharists and Macharians did aryse:
Appellians, Seuerians, Lucianists,
Were branches all sprong from the Marcionists
Montanus spawn'd th'Phrygasts, Pepuzians,
And Artotyrists: The Martyrians,
With th'Enthusiastes from Messalus came,
As those that doe from Sathan take their name.
And from Arius sprong th'Acacians,
With Macedonians, and Eunomians.
But all these ioyn'd in one shew noe effects
Of discord, equal to our moderne sects;
They are diuided into Lutherans,
And Sacrament-blaspheming Zuing lians
And these againe both subdiuided, make
More seu'rall branches, then th'Lernean snake
Sprouted forth heads: all whose contention spring's
About Fayth's grounds, and not in triuiall things.
Christ's Natur's, Vnion, and Distinction,
His Incarnation, and Ascension,
Baptisme, Good-workes, Man's iustice before God,
Christ's corporall eating by the good and bad,
Iustification, which by their church still
Is held the very soule of fayth, Freewill,
Christ's Reall presence, his Vbiquity,
Th'Ghospel, Law, Sacrament, and Trinity,
With many more, which to be brief I spare,
Of their distinctions the maine subiect are.
Of their owne wits, beginne for to deride
Their mother Church, and leaue that steadfast rock,
'Gainst which no power, nor Infernall shock
Can e're preuaile; but they beginne to reele,
And their small forces, and great weaknesse feele.
And like to Cadmus brawling serpent-brood
'Gainst one an other in a frantik mood
Conuert their weapons. Hence did Magus first
Into Menandrians, and Saturninians burst,
With Basilidians: from the Manichees
The Catharists and Macharians did aryse:
Appellians, Seuerians, Lucianists,
Were branches all sprong from the Marcionists
Montanus spawn'd th'Phrygasts, Pepuzians,
And Artotyrists: The Martyrians,
With th'Enthusiastes from Messalus came,
As those that doe from Sathan take their name.
And from Arius sprong th'Acacians,
With Macedonians, and Eunomians.
But all these ioyn'd in one shew noe effects
Of discord, equal to our moderne sects;
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And Sacrament-blaspheming Zuing lians
And these againe both subdiuided, make
More seu'rall branches, then th'Lernean snake
Sprouted forth heads: all whose contention spring's
About Fayth's grounds, and not in triuiall things.
Christ's Natur's, Vnion, and Distinction,
His Incarnation, and Ascension,
Baptisme, Good-workes, Man's iustice before God,
Christ's corporall eating by the good and bad,
Iustification, which by their church still
Is held the very soule of fayth, Freewill,
Christ's Reall presence, his Vbiquity,
Th'Ghospel, Law, Sacrament, and Trinity,
With many more, which to be brief I spare,
Of their distinctions the maine subiect are.
Nor be these iarres maintain'd among the base,
And common small-shot; they of chiefest place
Are the prime agents, and with so great hate
Nourish the raging flame of their debate,
As they by mutuall sharpe proscriptions
Banish each other from their seuerall townes,
Seare them with th'odious brands of Heritick,
Infidel, Iew, Turck, Diuel and the like,
Erect strict Inquisitions, fill the geoale
With their susprised bodies, stop the sale
Of all their bookes, vnciuilly deny
The vsuall rights of hospitality
Euen to strangers; take offensiue armes;
And in confused and tumultuous swarmes
Assayle each others; nor be dead corps free
From their ne're equall'd sauage cruelty.
And what is most worth note, themselues confesse
They haue no meanes these discords to redresse
Or hope to be atton'd (for that intent
Hauing so many fruitlesse meetings spent.)
Before that day, when the Eternall shall
All men, all causes, vnto triall call.
So as some of them with amazement haue
Stumbled thereat, and others for to saue
Their soules from shipwrack on such stormy seas,
Haue made repaire vnto the calmer Bayes
Of Rome's ne're shaken Church. By which wee see
That shee alone is from all errour free,
Which, void confessedly of all such strife,
Show's one, and but one way t'eternall life.
So by this meanes the Prouerb's truth is knowne:
When Theeues dissent, true men regaine their owne.
And common small-shot; they of chiefest place
Are the prime agents, and with so great hate
Nourish the raging flame of their debate,
As they by mutuall sharpe proscriptions
Banish each other from their seuerall townes,
Seare them with th'odious brands of Heritick,
Infidel, Iew, Turck, Diuel and the like,
Erect strict Inquisitions, fill the geoale
With their susprised bodies, stop the sale
Of all their bookes, vnciuilly deny
The vsuall rights of hospitality
Euen to strangers; take offensiue armes;
And in confused and tumultuous swarmes
Assayle each others; nor be dead corps free
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And what is most worth note, themselues confesse
They haue no meanes these discords to redresse
Or hope to be atton'd (for that intent
Hauing so many fruitlesse meetings spent.)
Before that day, when the Eternall shall
All men, all causes, vnto triall call.
So as some of them with amazement haue
Stumbled thereat, and others for to saue
Their soules from shipwrack on such stormy seas,
Haue made repaire vnto the calmer Bayes
Of Rome's ne're shaken Church. By which wee see
That shee alone is from all errour free,
Which, void confessedly of all such strife,
Show's one, and but one way t'eternall life.
So by this meanes the Prouerb's truth is knowne:
When Theeues dissent, true men regaine their owne.
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