A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

5. They that would have Church censures, put forth only upon Heretics, Apostates, or such as are unsound in the faith, but not upon profane livers in the Church (which was the error of Erastus, and before him, of the Princes and States of Germany, in the 100. Grievances, the Original of which error, so far as I can find, was from the darkness of Popery, for there was an opinion that the Pope might be deposed for Heresy, but not for a scandalous life which opinion Aeneas Sylvius, de•gest is concilii Basil, lib: 1. confuteth, they also upon the other hand, that would have the censure of excommunication put forth upon loose and scandalous livers within the Church, but not for those things, which the reformed Churches call Heresies. So (Grotius annot: on Luke 6. 22. and diverse Arminians, diverse also of the Sectaries in England.) These I say, both of the one and of the other opinion, do but separate those things which ought not, cannot be separated.

5. They that would have Church censures, put forth only upon Hereticks, Apostats, or such as are unsound in the faith, but not upon prophane livers in the Church (which was the error of Erastus, and before him, of the Princes and States of Germany, in the 100. Grievances, the Originall of which error, so farre as I can finde, was from the darknesse of Popery, for there was an opinion that the Pope might be deposed for Heresie, but not for a scandalous life which opinion Aeneus Sylvius, de•gest is concilii Basil, lib: 1. confuteth, they also upon the other hand, that would have the censure of excommunication put forth upon loose and scandalous livers within the Church, but not for those things, which the reformed Churches call Heresies. So (Grotius annot: on Luke 6. 22. and diverse Arminians, diverse also of the Sectaries in England.) These I say, both of the one and of the other opinion, do but separat those things which ought not, cannot be separated.

6. There is cause to set a part days of fasting and prayers, when Heresies and errors abound, as well as when profaneness, and gross wickedness aboundeth in the lives of people, Christ doth in five of his Epistles to the Churches of Asia (to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatyra, Philadelphia) take notice of false Teachers, Sects, and erroneous Doctrines, commending the zeal in Ephesus against them, blaming those in Pergamos and Thyatira, for tolerating such amongst them, encouraging