Transubstantiation Exploded, Part 1 · Paragraph 1
PAR. 1.
Of the empty and ayerie title of Bishop of Chalcedon.
NO men Omen. The style wherwith the Pope graceth you, seemes to me ominous and to bode you a meere titulary …gnity and a blinde Diocesse. For I read in aStrabo geograph l. 7. p 221. foreign, &c.Strabo and bPlin. nat. l. 6. cap. 32. Chalcedon Procerastis antea dicta dein Comp…sa postea …corum opp…dum quod locum eligere nescissent.Plinie that the inhab… tants of Chalcedon were by the Orac… of Apollo antiently tearmed blinde me… because they could not see to build the… City upon the more commodious si… of the shore. And I cConcil. Chalced. act. 7 & Binius nota in concil. Tom. 2. …. 409. Cum Imperator instaret … Chalcedon nomine …enus Metropolis … consequ…retur citra pr…iudicium N comed…e … c…ilij act. 7 communi consensu admiserunt.finde that at th… instance of the Emperour Marcian… the Fathers in the fourth generall cou… cell advanced this City to the title of Metropolitan See: yet without th… priviledges belonging thereunto, ju… as his Holinesse sent to you from Ro… the shadow of a Mitre without the su… stance, and conferred on you the title … Ordinary of all England and Scotla… without any revenue to mantaine and support your Port and State. Whe… at notwithstanding the dPr…es: gener… & … regiminis congregat. …, Benedictinorum.Benedictine… eH… ma… … spongia Nicolao Richardij ordinis Sancti dominici d… …. …aropoli 1631. Eccles. angli…an: querimon: apologet: … … ….Jacobines and fA modest discussion by Nicolas Smith, approved Iohn Floyd Iesui…, printed at Roven, Anno. 1630. apolog. Danielis a Ie…Jesuits so barke a… bawle in print, that not onelyonly Engla… and Ireland, but also France and Ro… her selfe rings of them. And althoug… the most celebri…us University of Pa… hath let flie two fierce g… … de …. … …. … Paris 1…. P…us A… relius … …. Sorb. …. Paris ….… to …ake these curres, and the hEpist. … … …. Paris 1631.Arch-Bi…ops and Bishops of France have laid … them amaine with their crozure …ves, and the faculty of i… … … … … … … … … the …log. Paris …. 1631.Sorbon with …r battone, yet they will not be quiet. … strange thing to heare those who …ast so much of Catholike unity to …ndie the tearmes of Schismatike and …eretike so familiarly one to the other, … Sorbonists to the Jesuites, and the …suites by back-racket againe to the …orbonists: and yet a stranger to see …erius revived in Ignatius Loyolae, and puritane buds to sprout out of a Iesuites stocke. Geneva was wont to be branded for denying the necessity of confirmation by a Bishop, or of a Bishop at all in the Church, but now S. kCensur…. Sorb de …: …. p. 42. & de Hierar. & …p, p 48 49 … chris…te … in … … ab Episcopo … … per… s…t christiani & legi divinae satisfit licet nulli sint Episcopi in … … … Anglia.Omers hath justified Geneva. Thus lSchisme … card … … … …mentis ingenij postquam in unum extremum … … … ner… … rationem sese a praeterito cri…e … op… … putarunt si se aed … extremum conferrent & … papa… ….errours run in a ring, and though diametrally opposite at first, yet meet at the last in the Center. In the meane while, what doth Monsieur Le-Pape? eitherlike mSw…t. in vita Neron.Nero he singeth a Poem of his o… making to his Thearbo, when he see… dangerous fire kindled within the wa… of Rome, or like Gallio Deputie in … Acts, Chap. 18. Ver. 15. he account… these controversies (which yet to… not onelyonly all Bishops Miters, but … Triple-crowne also) to be questions words and names and will be no judge such matters, and letteth the Monk take *The Arch-Bishop of Paris. See qu…rimonia Eccles. angl. v. 17.Sosthenes and other chiefe R… lers of the Romish Synagogues and be… them before his judgement seate and … reth for none of these things. N… certes his Holinesse is doubly to bla… First, to reward your eminent pa… both naturall and morrall, improved … learning and travell, and emplo… wholy to the advancement of the Pa… cie, with no better a guerdon then … emptie title of a hungry nPraeses Benedictin: F. Clemens p. 175. Ep scopu… titularis … Gr…a non nisi impropriè & valdè pr…ter na… ram potest … caput corporis nostri in Anglia. Horat. Graeculus …suriens in coelum …, ibit.Greeke … shoprick. Next when he saw his oExemplar … Vrbani octavi per quod Episcop…lis authori…, Richardo Chal…edonēsi demandatur. D… Rom… sub annulo …, 4 Februarij …25.Br… come short of his intendment, and yo… hopes: not to inlarge it out of the p… nitude of his papall power, and tak… short course with your mutinous Mo… who not onelyonly resist but openly i… pugneit, and your jurisdiction found… thereon.
First upon the matter he grants you …othing and afterwards he maketh not …ood that his nothing.
Perdis & infaeli… ipsum nihil—Iuvenal Satyr: … infaeli… ips…m nihil.
Not to question his Holinesse interest …n the Bishoprick of Chalcedon subor…inate to the Greeke Patriarke, and at …is day in captivitie with her native …ishop under the grand Signior: I would faine know what this title of Bishop of Chalcedon importeth you? What are the revenewes of this new …rected See, transported out of Bithynia into England by miracle, as our Ladies picture and Chappell were out of Palestine Hi…re. de … … d… L…ttoto Lauretto? what is the circuit of your Dioces? what commendams hold you with it? what benifices have you in your gift to preferre your Chaplaine and Champion S. E. unto? where is your Episcopall Pallace situated? where stands the Mother-Church? on which side of it is your Consistorie built? where keepe you your Cou…t? surely no where, except in Nido oSee … … … of S E. his pamphlet … … the sig…e … the …. And …ill n… … …ou. … … phlet …e …, … th… … … … … her bones.…, the nest of the Phaenix at the signe whereof your booke was printed. I received it from a good band, …hat all your receits from Chalcedon will not buy you a true Chalcedo… A pretious stone mentioned in the Apoc. 2… 19 the third a Cal…edonie, the f…rth an Emerald.Wherefore as the Cardinall of Sa… Susanne when divers Romish Prie… repayred unto him the 19. of Octob… 1624. desiring his Grace in the na… of their Chapter to further what … could a motion they then made to hi… admonished them to mend their peti… on, and instead of nomine capituli s… in the name of their Chapter to wri… nomine cleri Anglicani, in the name… the English Clergie: for your Chap… saith he is a p…ra. Clemens de mā d…to re…m: …. p…es, gen… muit … nomine c…ert Anglicani: nam c…pitulum inquit vestrum chimaericum …st.Chimaera: so I wou… advise you to sticke to your title Arch-Priest over the seculars in E… land, nam Episcopatus vester Chalce… nensi… chimaericus est, for your … shoprick of Chalcedon is a chimaera… …re …ion. As for your other t… of Ordinarie of England and Scotlan… I cannot skill of it: the Engl… 2Pr…pos. Benedicit. Chalced… ē s… … … … … … …abet … …m n…c … nec de… … Angli… & … regna, &c p. 31. & p 83. iam … Sco…s cum risu …anc Ordinarij praetensam authoritat…m reiecisse.Monkes seriously dispute you out… it, and the Scottish Priests saw… jeare at you for it. As for us, who y… know have abjured the Popes pow… both Ecclesiasticall and Temporal whether Urbane the eight intend to r… duce the Kingdomes of England a… Scotland into one Diocesse, & make y… Bishop of it, or into one Parish, and make you Pastour of it, we account his Vid. Poem V…b 8. ….designe therein none other then the worke of his poeticall fancie, and have no more faith in his Briefe then in Ovids Metamorphosis:
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas Regna.
Our Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Ordinaries, and Pastours in both these Kingdomes possessing all the Sees, and enjoying peaceably under our most Gratious Soveraigne, the entire rights thereof, will ease your seven r… Loemelij … … … apostolic….Vicars and Bithynian Collectour of his paines. As for the Recusants charity, it goeth another way, they are no lesse Recusants to your authority, then to our lawes: for albeit your great Pan at Rome hath committed the greatest … … … ….part, if not all his spotted sheepe to your Pastorall charge: yet they yeeld you little or no profit, because they are sheared to your hands: especially by the Iesuits whom Reverardentius ap…ly … … …. ….tearmeth in this respect equi…es aurei velleris, Knights of the golden fl…ece.