The orthodox faith and vvay to the Church explaned and iustified in answer to a popish treatise, entituled, White died blacke; wherein T.W. p. in his triple accusation of D. White for impostures, vntruths, and absurd illations, is proued a trifler: and the present controuersies betweene vs and the Romanists are more fully deliuered and cleared. By Francis White Bachelour in Diuinitie, and elder brother of Doctor Iohn White.

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Title: The orthodox faith and vvay to the Church explaned and iustified in answer to a popish treatise, entituled, White died blacke; wherein T.W. p. in his triple accusation of D. White for impostures, vntruths, and absurd illations, is proued a trifler: and the present controuersies betweene vs and the Romanists are more fully deliuered and cleared. By Francis White Bachelour in Diuinitie, and elder brother of Doctor Iohn White.
Author: White, Francis, 1564?-1638.
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Cite this Item: "The orthodox faith and vvay to the Church explaned and iustified in answer to a popish treatise, entituled, White died blacke; wherein T.W. p. in his triple accusation of D. White for impostures, vntruths, and absurd illations, is proued a trifler: and the present controuersies betweene vs and the Romanists are more fully deliuered and cleared. By Francis White Bachelour in Diuinitie, and elder brother of Doctor Iohn White." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15081.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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Article 16. Bishops and Priests singing, and carrying Candles in the day time at the buriall of the dead.

In the prime age of the Church, the Fathers taxed Gentiles for setting vp lights in the day timek: and about the 300 yeare, a Synod prohibited Christians to burne

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Tapers in the Cemiterie in the day timel. And Vigilan∣tius, a Priest of Barcilo in Spaine, accuseth the vse there∣of as an Heathenish custome.

Neither can it be denied, but the ceremonie of vsing Tapers and Lampes at burials, was practised by the Hea∣thenm. Notwithstanding, some of the Fathers after the 300. yeare, that they might more easily draw the Gen∣tiles to Christianitie, did toleraten and admito (with an alteration of the end and manner) this, and some other ceremonies of the Gentiles in Christian Religionp: Wherein no doubt, their intention was godly, to wit, to vse their Christian libertie in matters adiaphorous, and not morally euill, according to the Apostles rule, Tit. 1.16. Rom. 14.14. and to amoue a present offence and oc∣casion, which hindred Gentiles from receiuing the Chri∣stian faith, to wit; the difference of outward ceremonies and customesq.

But in succeeding ages, when the Gentiles were con∣uerted, and the Church needed not further to accomo∣date it selfe to the weakenesse of the Heathen, and that things at first admitted by way of toleration, should ra∣ther haue now beene remoued and worne out: supersti∣ous persons contrary to this, make daily addition and in∣crease, borrowing more and more from the superstition of Iewes and Gentiles, vntill at length they ouerwhel∣med Christianity with an intollerable burden of ceremo∣nies, making the easie yoake of Christs Gospell heauier then the state of Iewes and Gentiles ^r: and by this meanes they obscured Gods truth, and onely made people ceremo∣nious, whereas they should haue beene pious.

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Tertul. apol. c. 35. &c. 36. Nec lucernis diē infringimus, &c lucernas meri∣die vanas pro∣ferre.

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Concil. Eliber can. 34 35.

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Plin hist. nat. l. 16. c 37. Virgil 11. Aeneid. in fu∣nere Pallantis. C. Tacit. hist. l. 3. in funere Ger∣manici. Sueton. in Calig c. 13.

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Hieron. cont. Vigil. & Eras∣mus in schol. apparet hanc consuetudinem eo seculo, ma∣gis toleratam fuisse quam comprobatam.

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Greg. Nissen. vita Greg. Thaumaturg. Theod. Euang. ver. l. 8. de Mar∣tyr. Prosp Aq. de promiss. 3. pro. 38. Euseb. de praepar. E∣uang. l 43. c. 7. Phil. Beroald. in aur. Asin. l. 11.

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Greg. m. Re∣gistr. l. 10. ep. 71 Duris mentibus omnia abscin∣dere, impossibi le esse non du∣bium est, &c. Theodorit. con. Graecos, c. 8. in fine.

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p

Chem. exam. Trid. Concil. de reliq. Sanct. pa. 9.

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Aug. ad Ianuar. ep. 119. c. 19. Gerson. part. 3 de vit. spir. lect. 2.

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