Papists no Catholicks and Popery no Christianity. Anon. By C.L,
W. Lloyd, Bp. of St. Asaph. pp. 12, to the reader, &c., pp.
2. Printed for the Author.
4to Lond. 1677

A second Ed. much enlarged. pp. 56, was printed 4to Lond. (for
Henry Browne at the Gun in St. Paul's Ch. yard), 1679. J. H. T.

A Short and True Account of the several advances the Church of C. L. England hath made towards Rome, or a Model of the Grounds upon which the Papists for these hundred years have built their hopes and expectations, that England would ere long return to Popery. History Professor of Oxford.]

[By Dr. Du-Moulin, some time
Veritas Odium parit.

pp. 118, 4to Lond. 1680

Also, A Confirmation of the precedent Discourse, drawn from several Passages out of the Irenicum, A Weapon-Salve for the Churches Wounds, written by Edward Stillingfleet, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, Canon of Canterbury, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Most Sacred Majesty. The Postscript. A True Report of a Discourse between Monsieur De L'Angle, Canon of Canterbury, and Minister of the French Church in the Savoy, and Lewis Du Moulin; the 10th of February 167, Lond. 1679. Declaratory Considerations upon the Present State of the Affairs of England. By way of Supplement. Lond. 1679. A New Essay towards a true Ecclesiastical History, which may serve as a key to the Annalls of Baronius. "Jortin observes on this great cardinal and advocate of the Roman See, that he breathes nothing but fire and brimstone, and accounts kings and emperors to be catchpolls and constables, bound to execute with implicit faith all the commands of insolent ecclesiastics." Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature. For an account of Du-Moulin see Wood's Fasti Oxon. ed. Bliss, vol. iv. col. 113.

CHAP. XV I.

Of the discourses written by the Romanists reflecting upon the Reformation of the Church of England; with the Churchmen's replies.

160.The Church of England truly represented according to Dr. Peter Heylin's history of the Reformation.

See Contin. p. 36. [And No. 181, infra.]

"Sanderson, in his History of the Life and Reign of King Charles, layeth a scandal upon the Doctor that he was an Agent for the See of Rome. The Doctor indeed in all his writings did ever assert the King's Prerogative, and the Churches Rights, for which he incurr'd the Odium of the opposite Party, with whom 'tis ordinary to brand such persons with the ignominious name of Papists, or being Popishly affected, as abhor the other extreme of Puritanism, in which kind of Calumnies the Doctor hath sufficiently had his share, though no man hath written more sharply against the Church of Rome, as appears from most of his Books, and particularly in his Theologia Veterum, and his Sermons upon the Tares: but though these have not been able to secure him from the malicious Tongues and Pens of ill men, yet his innocence hath found very worthy Advocates. Among whom I thank particularly the Reverend and Learned Dr. Stillingfleet in his Answer to T. G. [see No. 85 supra] who would have made use of the Puritans accusation for the Papists purpose, but the worthy Doctor quickly refuted him out of the fourth Sermon of Doctor Heylin upon the Tares, where he lays at the door of the Papists the most gross Idolatry, greater than which was never known among the Gentiles.

"But against these things 'tis commonly said, and as commonly believed, that some persons, and those of most illustrious quality, [i.e. the Duchess of York] have been perverted from the Protestant Faith to Popery, by reading some of the Doctors Books, and particularly that which he writ about the History of the Reformation, called Ecclesia Restaurata. This Objection having many particular charges

contained in it, will require as many distinct Answers, which I shall
give in short. And first, if it be true that any have embraced the
Roman Faith, by means of that Book, he may conclude them to be
very incompetent Judges in the matters of Religion, that will be pre-
vailed upon to change it upon the perusal of one single History; and
especially in the Controversies between us and the Papists, which do
not depend upon matter of fact, or an Historical Narration of what
Occurrences happened in this Kingdom, but upon doctrine of Faith,
what we are to believe and disbelieve, in order to our serving God
in this life, and being Eternally blessed with him in the next.” — Life
of Heylin, prefixed to his works, pp. 24, 25. The charge above
referred to is not confirmed by his other work published in 1657, viz.,
Ecclesia Vindicata; or, the Church of England Justified; I. In the C. L.
Way and Manner of Reformation. II. In Officiating by a Public
Liturgy. III. In prescribing a Set Form of Prayer to be used by
Preachers before their Sermons. IV. In her Right and Patrimony of
Tithes. V. In retaining the Episcopal Government, and therewith,
VI., The Canonical Ordination of Priests and Deacons. By Peter
Heylin, D.D. (Compare Woodhead on Church Government, part v.,
pp. 250-54,) Nor by that published in 1645, The Parliament's Power
in Lawes for Religion, or an Answer to the Calumny of the Papists,
nicknaming the Church of England by the name of a Parliamentary
Religion, 4to Oxf. 1645.

161. The State of the Church of Rome when the Reformation C. L. began; as it appears by the advices given to Paul III. and Julius III. by creatures of their own. With a Preface leading to the Matter of the Book. Anon. By Will. Clagett, D.D. pp. 34, and pref. pp. 8, 4to Lond. 1688

tract.

See Cat. No. 137. Contin. p. 35.
It is scarcely possible that Dr. Clagett could have been the author
of the translation of the documents which he has published in this
For in one place the well known theological phrase, ex opere
operato, is translated (p. 24) "by the works done," and there are
several other errors of ignorance or of carelessness. It is probable,
therefore, that Dr. Clagett only wrote a hasty preface to the publica-
tion, and that the translation was executed by some inferior hand, and

yet he apparently adopts the translation as his own when he says in the Preface, "I thought a few hours spent in translating them into our language would not be thrown away." It is most unfortunate, however, that one of the documents thus put forth, viz., "the advice to Julius III." (which the Preface tells us was "the most fatal thing that ever happened to the reputation of the Roman cause") is a manifest pasquinade, the production of the celebrated Peter Paul Vergerio, bishop of Capo d'Istria. How any one could read it, and believe it to be a serious document, addressed by three bishops to a Pope is very surprising; and even Dr. Clagett seems to think some apology to be necessary, for he says in the Preface, "that the nine" (who wrote the first letter) were serious and seemed to be so: the three (who wrote the second letter) were serious and seemed not to be so; which makes the advice of the former look like sincerity and that of the latter to look like wit," &c.

Nevertheless the Consilium was published as a serious document by John Wolfius in his Lectiones Memorabiles (vol. ii. p. 549), by W. Crashaw (from a different copy); and afterwards by Edw. Browne (who reprinted Crashaw's edition) in his additions to the Fasciculus of Orthuinus Gratius. In Wolfius the Consilium is addressed to Paul III., not Julius III., and a passage at the end relating to England and queen Mary (Clagett's ed. p. 33) is omitted, we may therefore perhaps infer that the first edition of the Pasquinade was put forth in the time of Paul III., and that another edition which Crashaw reprinted, addressed to Julius III., with the allusion to queen Mary's persecution of the Protestants in England, came out afterwards. At all events it does not appear to have deceived anybody when first published, nor to have been intended to deceive, for Vergerio has given it as his own in his works; a fact which Crashaw endeavours to explain by telling us that Vergerio inserted it in his works because he had found it in the Pope's private study-"Hoc Vergerius in conclavi privato (pessimarum Musarum Museo) Papæ, inter secretiora et sacratiora papalis Imperii arcana inventum, amicis primo privatis communicavit, deinde suis inseruit operibus." And yet the document so far from being communicated only to his private friends had been printed and published in 1549, and afterwards in 1553, whereas the works of Vergerio, in which it appears, bear date Tubingen, 4to 1563, two years before the author's death. The other document, viz., the "Advice" given to

Paul III. by nine bishops is probably genuine; or at least it cannot be suspected of a protestant origin, as it appeared in Crabbe's edition of the Councils, 1551; and in the Acts of the first Council of Pisa, Paris 4to 1612. See Mendham's Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, pp. 48, 49, and Index of Greg. XIV. pp. 75-83. Also an Article in the British Magazine (vol. xxxv. for 1849, pp. 538-42), on Dr. Cumming's edit. of Gibson's Preservative against Popery.

It is curious as showing the haste with which Dr. Clagett's tract was got up, that although he entitles this latter document "An Advice given to Paul III. by four Cardinals and five other Prelates," and speaks of it in his preface as signed by nine, yet he has printed the names of eight only of the subscribers, having omitted one name, and transposed the title of the omitted name to another bishop. The names of the prelates, as he gives them, are these: Frederick Archbishop of Brundusium, which ought to be Frederick Archbishop of Salerno. He then omits the name of "Jerome, Archbishop of Brundusium," but gives the remainder correctly, viz., "Joh. Matthew [Gibet] Bishop of Verona, Gregory [Cortese] Abbat of St. George at Venice, Fryar Thomas, Master of the sacred palace." And yet he seems to have taken some pains in the matter, as he inserts the surnames of Gibet and Cortese, which do not appear in Brown's reprint. Fascic. vol. ii. p. 236. In the signatures of the three bishops, at the end of the Advice given to Julius III., there are also mistakes of carelessness:- “Giles Talceta” ought to be "Giles Falceta," and "Gerards Burdragus" ought to be "Gerhard (or Gerhardus) Busdragus." The author of the paper in the British Magazine, above referred to, has shown that "Gerhardus Busdragus" was a name assumed by Vergerio in some of his similar pieces of ironical controversy. A good account of this singular man will be found in the English translation of Bayle's Dictionary, by Bernard, Birch and Lockman. J. H. T.

The title of the genuine Consilium is as follows: Consilium Delec- C. L. torum Cardinalium et aliorum Prælatorum, de emendanda Ecclesia. S. D. N. Papa Paulo 3 ipso jubente conscriptum et exhibitum an. 1538. Libellus vere aureus. Ante annos 70 in Concil. Tridentino primum editus; deinde Romani Antichristi tyrannico jussu injuste suppressus. Nunc autem ab interitu vindicatus et renuo recusus. Ex Bibliotheca W. Crashawi. 4to Londini 1609. "This little-known but often-mentioned work was the result of the Consultations of the

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