A Learned Treatise of Traditions, Title page – Errata
A LEARNED TREATISE OF TRADITIONS, LATELY SET FORTH in French by PETER DU MOULIN, And faithfully done into Engliſh by G. C.
foreign,
Ioh. 5. 34.
Si aut Evangelio praecipitur, aut in Apoſtolorum Epiſtolis, aut Actibus continetur, &c. Obſervetur divina haec & ſancta Traditio,
Cypr. Epiſt. 74. ad Pomp.
LONDON, Printed by Aug. Mathewes for Humphrey Robinſon, at the ſigne of the three Pigeons in Pauls Church-yard.
1631.
TO THE RIGHT Honorable my ſingular good Lord, ROBERT Earle of Lindſey, Baron of Willough by B…ak…. & Ershy, Lord great Chamberlaine of England, and Lord high-Conſtable for this time being: Lord Lieutenant of Lincolne-Shire. and Vice-Admi…a… for the Coaſts of that County; Lord Worden of the Foreſt of Waltham, Knight of the moſt noble Order of the …, and of his Majeſties moſt Honorable privie Counſell.
My moſt honoured LORD,
IT is well knowne that your Lord ſhip can as readily interpret my Author in his owne language & iaiome, as being thus changed into our native and moſt familiar tongue. Nevertheleſſe I have adventured (asking pardon if my boldneſſe give diſtaſte) to ſtyle your Lordſhip the Maecenas of this my handiworke. My weakeneſſe and want of skill in every reſpect, together with my forwardneſſe and preſumption to intermeddle out of my element, have prompted me, to flye to the ſanctuary of your Lordſhips protection. Such as expect that I ſhould rather dedicate ſome Tacticks or booke of Chevalry to your Lordſhip may take this for ſatisfaction, that I have well obſerved your true devotion to Religion, which is the beſt ornament and addition to your Honour; and great is the happineſſe when Religion and Military profeſsion are met in ſo Heroique a Center. The variety ariſing from this copious ſubject of Traditions, will invite your Lordſhip to read DU MOULIN with delight; but their modern incrochment (I meane the Romiſh) upon the Church & their preſumptuous compariſon with the ſacred Scripture, will force your Lordſhip to reject them with ſcorne and greateſt loathing. Caſt your eye upon this little volume, and vouchla e it your favourable opinion, ſuch countenance will giv it life; receive it into your Lordſhips pat o…age, for to that end I have preſented it, and in that ſecurity I humbly leave it; recommending your Lordſhip to Gods holy ſafeguard.
Your Lordſhips moſt humble and faithfull Servant. G. C.
To the Reader.
COurteous Reader, When you ſet apart ſome houres for ſerious ſtudies, imploy a few to the reading of this ſhort Enchiridium; a moſt exact ſurvey of Romiſh Traditions. You will finde them here arraigned, by divine teſtimonies of Scripture, by ſolid interpretations of the Fathers, by effectuall perſwaſions of reaſon, by the ridiculous impoſſibilities of their owne ſufficiency, and by the ſelfe-contradictions and confeſſions of all Projectors and Founders of them. The Frontiſpice doth ſhew my Authour to bee French, and I have copied out his ſenſe into our mother Tongue, as neere to life, as my running pen would give mee leave, If any man obj…ct, Wha… need of … amidit ſo many unparallei'd Original, compoſed by the … of our Church at home? I anſwer wi…h a qu…ſt Is it not pity …o learned a booke (amo…ſt us refo…m…d Chriſtian) ſhould be guilty of that An…chriſtian Traditi…n caſt upon the Scripture, Not to be publiſhed in a knowne t…ngue? … let me not wade over deepe, into the commendation … left a conſure of Tractet fabrilia, or ſome … &c. recoile upon foreign … man ought to guide himſelfe by the meaſure of …is owne ability. It is true that I was never wor…hy to make this holy Knowledge my Profeſſion, vet my z…ale to it is ſuch, hat if I may nor act he part of an Encomiaſles in the merit of DU MOULIN and hi Work, I muſt take leave to gaze on him with ſilent admirat on, and (paſſing over particularities) with this briefe Character, onelyonly to point at him: For generall and profound ſcheſe ſhip, hee is, Extra invidtae aleam doctus. What can bee ſaid more? Let it ſuffice that I have named him; Qui cognoiſt ſon nom aſſez entend ſon renom, His meere name is the individuall cognizance of his ſame. Pardon me, if I yet ſtretch a nore higher in praiſe of him; it is his due, it cannot bee omitted without a nationall ingratitude. And what ſhould it be, but his ingenuous perſeverance to this very day, in vindicating the ſacred honour of his late Majeſtie (the learned King IAMES of moſt happy and immortall memory) from the unjuſt redargution of Cardinall Perron in a booke which hee hath written againſt the ſaid late King; as by thoſe often quotations in this Treatiſe expreſly made, may plainely appeare? In the laſt place (my friendly Reader) if you afford mee a favourable conſtruction of this my undertaking, and connive at ſuch errours as you meet with, you have done to my wiſhes; and in requitall I paſſe my word, that whatſoever is lame and defective, or verbally miſtaken at the Preſſe in this tranſlated forme, you ſhall finde ſupplied in the reall goodneſſe of the Authors matter. Reade and profit.
G. C.
Errata.
Page 136. line 14. themſelves never appeare, reade themſelves appeare not. p. 183. l. 1. as, r us. p. 194. l. 11. word, r. world. p. 195. l. 13. containe, r. continne. p. 196. l. 3. in eiſt, r. inſiſt. p. 221. l. 13. ſtromatae, r. ſtromata. l. 20. book of hiſtory, r. of his hiſtory. p. 239. l. 3. aſleepe, r a ſleepe. p. 245. l. …. as for that, r. for example, that. p. 294. l 2. contractions …. contradictions. p. 298. l. 4. a…guments, r. arguments. p. 312 l.19. hath determed, r. hath beene determined. l. 22. ceterminations, r. determinations. p. 314 l. 4. paſſe, r. paſſage. p. 319. l. 11. non plus, to, r. non plus, is to l. 22 touch, r couch p. 320. l. 12. for uſed, r. for, be uſed. p. 336. l. 9. Dotaniſts, r. Donatiſts. p. 348. l. 4. barge, r. barre.