The English concord in ansvver to Becane's English iarre: together with a reply to Becan's Examen of the English Concord. By Richard Harris, Dr. in Diuinitie.

Explication.

Ignatius Loyala, the first Author of the Sect of the Iesuits, and the first imposer of the name of Iesuits vpon that Sect (as Becane in his Examen,* 1.1 confesleth,) did not associat his fellowes, whom hee afterward cal∣led Iesuits, till the yeere 1534. that is, 79 yeeres past; but the Professors of the Gospell,* 1.2 were about the yeere of Christ, 40. first called Christians, viz. 1573. yeeres past.

• 2 To be anointed, as all Christians are: To be Sauiours, as onely Christ is. Is one, & the same thing.
• 3 To be called by a name common to all Christians in the vvorld: To bee called by holy a name common to no Christian in the vvorld, but to them onely who are of the Sect of Iesuits. Is all one.
• 4 To be called by a holy name, imposed by the Apostles, warranted by Scrip∣tures, giuen according to the professi∣on of the publique Christian faith: To be called by a name of blasphemy, im∣posed by that monster Ignatius Loy∣ola, according to their destroying pro∣fession, directly against the Scrip∣ture, which condemneth all Sects, & Sectaries, vvith their Sect names. 1. Cor. 3. v. 3.4. &c. Is euen the selfe same.

• 5. Sectaries, to take voluntarily, vnto themselues, names and titles of Schisme or Sect; as Dominicans, Franciscans, Iesuits, &c. Orthodoxall professours, by their hatefull and hereticall aduersaries, to be tearmed malignantly in scorne, by Sect-names which they detest: as Caluinists, Hugo∣nots; &c. Is all one selfe same thing.

Who euer wrote so vnlearnedly, and so absurdlic, as this Iesuite Became here doth? I much maruaile, that his Superiours suffer him to blurre papers, and to pub∣lish them abroad, in this so learned Age. But before I part here with the Iesuite thus, he mustacknowledge, that [whereas in my booke of Concord, I proued out of Pope Gregory the great, the name, and title of their Popish Primate to weet, Vniuersall Bishop, to be an ar∣rogant, profane, sacrilegious, Antichristian, Luciferian, and Apostaticall name, giuen to him, and taken by him, against their owne Canon law; And whereas al∣so, out of, and by vertue, of their Canon law, I wrap∣ped-vp their Primate in the dust of hellish confusion, be∣cause he desireth, and ambitiously challengeth a Primacie in earth, aboue all Princes, Kings and Emperours vp∣on earth, cuen in their Temporalls, their Crowns, and Kingdomes, and, as the case is now, their very lines] he hath not here one word to say, for his Lord Godthe Pope, in this his desperate case; and in the Iesnits accu∣rate Examination (for so he would make vs belicue) of my Concord book.

Gentle Reader, I haue beene the more prolyx here, in my Reply against the Iesuites Examen, in this first chapter, because it giucth such light to the remainder, as dispelleth the foggy mists, which this Iesuite ende∣uoureth to raise, whereby to make our vniforme agree∣ment, in truth, touching the kings Supremacy, to be a seeming discord. So that a short Reply to all the rest, will be sufficient; with reference vnto this, yea e∣uen to this one distinction of Regall, and Sacerdotall, rightly vnderstood.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Pag. 14.
• * 1.2

  Act. 11. ver. 26.