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THE ANTIBARBARIAN: OR, A Treatiſe concerning an unknowne tongue.
As well in the prayers of particulars in private as in the publique Liturgie.
Wherein alſo are exhibited the principall clauſes of the Maſſe, which would offend the people, if they underſtood them.
By PETER DV MOVLIN, Miniſter of the Word of GOD in the Church of Sedan and Profeſſor of Divinitie.
LONDON, Printed by George Miller, for George Edwa…d…, and are to be ſold in the Old Baily, in Greene Arbour, at the ſigne of the Angell. 1630
TO THE RIGHT Worſhipfull, Right Reverend and VVorthy Father of the Law, Sir GEORGE CROOKE Knight, one of his Majeſties Iudges of the Kings Bench.
SIR,
THIS learned and Orthodox divine hath both at home, and abroad, both in himſelfe, and in his profitable and uſefull workes given ſuch Heroick proofes of his owne worth and exquiſite learning, that here to goe about to uſe any encomium in his praiſe and worth would be but to light a candle at the noone day which this Sunne ſhining in his owne ſtrength would utterly obſcure. Hee hath done and ſaid ſo much to vindicate himſelfe from out of the jawes of obſcuritie, or oblivion, that no addition in that kinde is needfull; and were he herein wanting to himſelfe, I would add no other teſtimonie of him in his behalfe, then his who well may be inſtar omnium, namely that of our late reverēd & learned Biſhop in his opuſcula poſthuma, where any that would nodum in hoc ſcirto quaerere, may finde ample ſatisfaction, ſo that indeed for my owne part I will onelyonly with the Orator, ſay, quid opus eſt verbis ubi rerum teſtimonia adſunt. In that I have preſumed to dedicate this booke thus tranſlated, and what herein I may call mine, confined indeed within the narrow verge of my weake performance, to your judicious peruſe all, grave patronage, and protection, it is out of that aſſurance, you have given all good men of your unfained love of the truth and true religion, that the ſame may remaine upon record, for ſome though but a weake teſtimonie of that my ever vowed obſervance and due reſpect, wherein for your many worthy favours, I ſtand ſo mainely obliged, wherein alſo being confident of your wonted favour, and good acceptance, wherevnto I humbly commend the ſame, and my farther ſervice, I will ever reſt
At your Worſhips ſervice and command RICHARD BAYLIE.
TO MY NEPHEW Mounſieur Bochart Paſtor of the Church of Caen.
DEARE Nephew,
if the Church of GOD receive any benefit by this my labour her obligation will bee acknowledged unto you for the ſame. For in the anſwer which I made unto the Cardinall Du Perron, when it happened I had improvidently omitted the Chapter which treateth of an unknowne tongue: You advertiſed me of that defect, and moved me to ſupply the ſame. I have condeſcended to your motion, and have compoſed this Treatiſe, which I heere tender unto you. You ſhall receive it, if you pleaſe, for a teſtimony of my hearty affection, and of that joy which I receive by ſeeing you ſerve in the worke of the Lord with ſo great applauſe. It is a comfort to me amidſt ſo many deſolations to ſee that God cauſeth to ſpring up lights to ſhine in the darkneſſe which grow thicker from day to day. For ſeeing God raiſeth up good work-men and labourers, it is a ſigne that he will yet leave us ſome harveſt. Hee who from your infancie hath indued his feare, and hath ſet you apart for his ſervice, will cloath you with ſtrength, and with courage not to faint under the burthen. For you are entred upon your charge in a time wherein you ſhall have need of double zeale, and of an holy magnanimitie: It ſhall be a great honour for you to ſtand in the breach, and in the ſhock of the maine battle: and amidſt the darkneſſe of the time to be the bearer of ſo faire a light. There ſhall you have experience of thoſe ſuccours, which God promiſeth to thoſe which love him, and who eſteeme it a great honour and gaine to looſe their lives or goods for his ſervice. He, who hath given unto trees, which grow on the tops of the rocks, ſtronger roots, becauſe they are more expoſed to the boiſterouſneſſe of the winds, will give unto you alſo ſtrength according to the meaſure of the combats, whereunto he will expoſe you. The match indeed ſeemeth very unequall, and the enterpriſe no leſſe difficult, even as if with pinnes we ſhould take in hand to ſupplant a rocke. But we muſt remember, that we defend Gods cauſe, who is wont to uſe the weakeſt tooles or inſtruments for the effecting of his workes of wonder: that the glory of the ſucceſſe might not be attributed to our ſtrength. And that the heavenly truth, were it plunged downe unto bottome of the bottomeleſſe deeps, might at laſt regaine the upper hand. And as the Church is more firme then the world; ſeeing the world was made for it. VVhereunto may be applied what is written of the cittie of Iericho, to wit, that he that built it, laid her foundation upon his firſt borne. The ſame God, who at the ſound of Ioſua's trū pets made his enemies walls to fall flat to the ground, will one day make to fall downe the walls of Babylon at the blaſt of the trumpet of the Goſpell. But if by reaſō of the ingratitude of this ſtiffe-neckt age, God putteth off unto another time ſo excellent a worke, we which have ſowed on earth with ſmall ſucceſſe, ſhall not faile to reape abundantly in heaven. We beare, like Gedeons ſouldiers, this light in earthen veſſels: namely, in weake bodies, the breaking whereof will be happie and honourable, if it may but ſerve to ſet forth in ſight the light of the Goſpell. For wee which preach the Croſſe of Chriſt, ſhould we be exempted from it? VVe that beare this arke, ſhould not we paſſe firſt thorow this Iordan? being patternes not onelyonly in doctrine, but alſo in zeale and in all vertue? as for me, having preſently finiſhed my courſe, & heartily breathing after that reſt, which God hath promiſed to them that feare him, I reioyce to leave behinde mee men endued vvith his graces in greater meaſure: and particularly a Nephew, vvhom I have loved with a fatherly affection: vvho treading in the ſteps of a vertuous father, and vvhoſe memorie is as a bleſſing to the Church of God, ſhall ſurpaſſe and much outſtrip his predeceſſors, and ſhall be an example unto poſteritie. But vvhilſt I am in this temporall abode you owe mee the releefe of your prayers, as I alſo on my part doe beſeech Almighty God to giuegive you grace to bee unto him a faithfull ſervant, and to fight the good fight, and to bring forth fruit unto his glorie.
From Sedan this 6. of August. 1629. Your deare Vncle, and humble brother, and ſervant. P. DV MOVLIN.
A Table of the Chapters.
CHAP. I.
THat falſe religions love obſcuritie, but true religion ſetteth forth to view her doctrine, and holdeth nothing ſecret. page 1.
CHAP. II.
Two dfferences betweene us and the Church of Rome, touching an unknowne tongue. page 22.
CHAP. III.
Of prayers of particular perſons in a tongue not underſtood by themſelves that pray. p. 25.
CHAP. IIII.
That in the Primitive Church every one prayed in his owne tongue. pag 41.
CHAP. V.
That the Liturgie or publique ſervice in a tongue not understood is contrary to the Word of God, and unto reaſon. pag. 49.
CHAP. VI.
This aſſertion prooved by the Church of the old Teſtament. pag. 81.
CHAP. VII.
That the Primitive Chriſtian Church thorow out the whole world, uſed a tongue underſtood in their publique ſervice. pag. 90.
CHAP. VIII.
Two cauſes that move the Pope and his Clergie, to will that the Maſſe and the whole ordinarie ſervice be ſaid in the Latine tongue. p. 120.
CHAP. IX.
The third cauſe for the which they are not willing to have the Maſſe underſtood by the people, the clauſes of the Maſſe which would ſcandaliſe the people, if they vnderſtood them. p. 124.
CHAP. X.
An examination of the Adverſaries reaſons: eſpecially of them of Mounſieur the Cardinall du Perron. p. 180.
CHAP. XI.
An examination of the proofes, which Mounſieur the Cardinall du Perron draweth from antiquitie for ſervice in a tongue not underſtood. p. 129.
CHAP. XII.
By what meanes the Latine tongue was brought into divine ſervice in France and in Spaine. p. 232.
CHAP. XIII.
Concerning England and Germany, and how the Romane ſervice and the Latine tongue was brought in thither. p. 252.
CHAP. XIIII.
Concerning Africa, & how the ſervice in the Latine tongue thither entred. p. 273.