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.T73 1741

A Short history of the Donatists

H ORT

HISTORY
O
F

T H E S.

DON ATI ST
W
I

T H A N

APPENDIX,
I

CH

The proud and

Mr. George

Hypocritical Pharifee and Schlf-

matical Donatijl are compared with the Rev.

Whitefield,

and the Methodip.

Illi fiUi

mail, qui

nonodio inlquicatum arienarum,

nominis

fed Audio

contentionum fuarum^
feduione

Infirmas plebes jaftantia fui

irretitas, vel totas trahere,' vel cQxil divi-

calumniis infidioC, dere afFeaanc, fuperbia tumidi, pervicacia vefani,

turbulenti
j

ne

luce veritatis carere oftendantur,

umbram

rigida feveritafis^ ob-

dikaionis tendunt, et qua in fcripturis fanftis, falva vitia, moderatiori curatione cis unitate, ad corrigenda fraterna
finceritate,

& cuftodita pafieri

prxcepta,

occafionem ad facrUeg-.um fchifmatis, et ad

apoftolui, ail apynu aw ,

prxcifionis ufurpant, dicentes, eccc

jpfis.

Cor. v.] [i^^^^^^,^J l

Aufee malum ex vobiJ

^^^^^^^a
Oi'. p.

Eplftolam Parmenlani [Donat!Jfa} Lib. 3.

Edit. Frobenfi, 'Bajtleay

.^ _ , .^

^ Tom.

VII.

51.

anno 1556.]

LONDON:
Printed for T.

Cooper,
Row.

at the

GMe

in

Patcr-nojler

1741.

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R E

Ej

Donatifls {ijohofe Jhort Hiftory I have undertaken) fprung up at the beginning of the fourth Century^ and gave fuch Dijlurhance to the African Churches^ as to occaJion the ajfembling of Council Upon Council^ to put a Hop to the Progrefs of fo daring and formidable a Schifm. This Method, though indeed it proved in forne Meafure
^

nrHE

perors, fuch

ineffe&uak yet gave fome of the befi of the Chriflian Eman Idea of the Objiinacy and Perverfenefs of thefe Schifmaticks, and of the dangerous Tendency of their

Principles, that they enaied fome very fever e Laws againfi them 5 by which, not only their Property, but their very This leffened their Numbers very Lives were affe5led. much, though it did not put an end to the Schifm, which fubjijled after thefe Laws were made, at leaji two hundred

Tears.

What

their Principles were,

Ifhall have occafton to fhem

in

in the following Hiftory,

and

what refpe^s

they agree

Se5l of Enthufiafts, called Methodifts, fhall endeavour to prove in th'e Appendix.

with a modern

Their Method of propagating their Schifm, was by bitter Calumnies raifed againfl the Catholick Clerg]r, and how
nearly the Methodifts refemble

them in

this particidar, it

will be no
\a\

difficult

Railing at

Matter to prove. and reviling the Clergy of

the efiablifhed

Church, as it is the mofl popidar, fo "'tis their moft common Topick of Harangue, as beiyig well adapted to the Tafte of the giddy-headed Multitude, who are but too ready to give Ear to every Thing that is advanced, in order to deftroy the
the

Reputation of their Betters, but more efpecially the Clergy of Church of England. Juft are the Obfervations of a late admirable Writer, and home to our Purpofe, though
\a\
'*

There
of

are great

Numbersfays

"
*'

Debate, Contin. p, 248.] '* Who under Colour * of Zeal of God's Glory, Hatred of ** ain, Defire of fer^ing God in Sincethe
Friendly

the Author

*'

"
*'

rity, are thruft by an "E-vll Splnt that hach deceived chem, into Pride, Selflove, Raflinefs, unnatural AfFe*5lion, uncharitable Surmifes, and moft Urjr

cbriftian

Judgmect of their

Brethren.*"

made

iv

PREFACE.
[^]

made on another Occafion.

'

"

It is fo eafy

fays he)

and

'

withal fo alhantageous a Subje^ to expofe the Faults of others^ and efpecially the fuppofed Corruptions of a national Church
,

*' *'

that the Inclination of ambitious

Men^

to

Church, may be e:^pofe the " eaftly accounted for. It feems to unwary Perfons to be *^ an evident Argument of an \c] exalted Sandity, to op*' pugn the received Difcipline of any Communion ^ fmce *' this infinuates^ as if they were more religious and know'To fuch Men nothing is more ing than a whole Nation.
innocent Pra^ices of the
*''

" "
*'

grievous than to be tied down to the ordinary Rules of Religion and Concernment \ ftnce to be religious in the

*'

common Way would never difiinguifh them from other Men^ fomewhat mufi be attempted by thern^ which may " make the credulous Part of Mankind cry out^ fee a Man " [J] more religious than all the Clergy that went be^' fore, Ihey all or are contemporary with him. *' preached, Cuftoms or at kail allowed of fcandalous " This May^^ Piety is extraordinar}% and qualineth him *' beyond others to be a \e\ Governor of the Church.
:

**
*'

" // is lamentable indeed to confider^ that the Mankind fhoidd be fo eaftly wrought upon

Credulity of by defigning

Men

and that Impoftors of

this

Kind fhould fo feldom

" want Succefs : Such Exclamations againfi the received " Order and [f] Difcipline of the Churchy have ever ftnce " the
[*] Mr. WhATtoui Defence of PluraUties,

2d Edir. p.

5.

[c\ Hoc tamen reperiemus nimlam morofitatem ex fuperbia magis et faftu,

ad eorum vefaniam accedebant) Dona' tif!a : Tales funt hodie ex Anabaptifth nonnulli, qui fupra alios volunc 'vidtfri
profecifle.

Calvlni Inflitut. Lib. 4.

capr

falsaque

opintone, quam ex vera fani^icate, -veroque ejus ftudiorafci. Itaque qui ad faciendam ab Ecclefia defetionem funt aliis audaciores, ec quafi
fanclitatis

4. Seft. 13. p. 274_

2.
I.

jintejjgn^wt,

ii

ut

plurimum
aliis

nihil aliud

eaufcs habent, r.iH ut

omnium contemptu
meliores,
r.

Vid. S. Epipham: adverf. Harref. Lib. Tom. H. Hzref. 5-9. Sel 13. Tom.Edit. Petavii Colonic Op, p. 504. 1682. [5] The very Cant of LayMethodifii
their Teachers.

oftentent
Calvini
[(i]

fe

efle

Joan^

concerning
*'

Infi'itut.

Lib. 4. cap.

Se>. 16.

p. 275. Edit. ^mj?elxdc2v:t

abfolirta:

1667. Fuerunt enim Temper, qui

aerii

" O He is a fweet Many fays one, an apaimate M^n, faith afecond, aj/t-

falsa

<^ ;V/^ Pri^c/7er, faith a third."

[Contin.

fanclimonia; perfuafione imburi,

of Friendly Debate,

p.

241.I

quanquam

Dasmonesjjvn faftieflenr,

omnium confortium afpernarertur, in quibus humanum aliquid fubefie cernerent.

Talcs olitn eran: Caihari,

et (qui

[/] Qui [viz. Donattjla] quum cernerent in Ecclefiis vitia, quK verbis quidem reprehenderent Epifcopi, fed fxtorwrrtunkatkne non pleiterent (quia non pu/

Mbanr

PREFACE.
*^
*'

" " " "

" "
*'

thejirft Foundation of it, been the common Place to all ambitious Clergymen deftring to appear zealous : Nothing is more eafy than to dtfcover Vices in another, or Corruptions in
fta7tt

Society.

This

is

a Subje^l that

zvill

afford con-

Matter

haujled.

Harangues, and can never he exAt the fame Time nothing is more popular, in
to puhlick

that

it gratifieth

the perverfe Natii^'e of

to the

Men,

<a:ho

ge-

nerally love to hear Things

decried',

and Ferfons of puhlick Ejleem

pretended ZtdXot the Reputa-

and fecureth

" tion of a more exalted Piety than that which appears in " any of thofe whom he oppofeth with this Artifice a Man " may not only create Authority to himfelf, hut cover his own " Faults however grofs and nmyierous, hy diverting and
;

fix-

^'

" "
" "

if be too notorious to be diffeinhled, compenfating for them by a wonderful Appearance of Zeal " This Air of Popularity hath been the great Pefi
:

ing the Eyes of

his

Men

upon the Faults of others

Or

own Crimes

the Church in all

Befigns^ not fo

Ages

of IVhen Church-men employ their

" of Religion, " tereft among

much to preferve to themfelves the Honour as to acquire to themfelves a Name and h-^ the Multitude : When they apply themfelves
Faroour

"

to

obtain

the

" Church, and at the fame Time flick not " Corfiitutions, and to be infirumental in " Boubtlefs in the ancient Church it would

of the profeffed Enemies of the to betray her

hei^

Bifgrace.

not have been

" thought any great Recommendation of a Catholick Cler" gyman, to have fought the Favour of the Donatifts, ^'. to admit and fecond thofe heavy Imputations which they

" " " "

them Brethren, Church as Ene7nies. How can it ever be expelled, that the Laity fhould confcientioufly obey the Conjlitutions of the Church, and retain their Buty to her, when her Clergy make light of her Authority, vilify her Confiitution, court the Friendcaft
call

upon

the

Catholicks, to

md

treat

the fincere

Members of

the

tabanc fe hac via qulcquam profeauros) in Epifcopos atrociter invehebantur tan-

nifi angelica

perfrdione amni ex pare confpicuum, fub prstcxtu fui Zeli qulc-

quam
grege

Difcipli proditorcs, et a Chrifti

quid eft xdificationis fubverrunc.

i//V;r

impio Schifmate fe dividebant. Qualiter hodie faciunt Anabapt'ijix, 9"*

fU/-

Inftitut.
-

Lib 4. cap. li. Seil. 12. p.

33i'j

dum

nullum coBcuro

Chrifti

efife

agnofcunc

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*^
'

R E

t*

A C

^.

Jhip of thofe

*'

*'

who have divided themfelves from her Com-^ and muniGu^ feek her Ruin ? When for their fake they willflight her facred Offices^ mutilate and difufe her Ceremonies^ profiitute her Honour^ andhetrayher Caufe!'' 'The fame Writer proceeds to give an Account of tht
chiefly infefied

Mendicant Orders amongfi the Papifts. " Hoe Mendicant Orders arofe^ and [^]
'^

the Church in the thirteenth Age.

'They pretended

an

ex-

*'

reform the World., and to '' corre5l the Faults For this end., of the fecular Clergy. " they put on a mighty fhew of Zeal for the good of Meris " Souls., and of Contempt of the World ; accufed the fecu" iar Clergy of familhing the Souls of Men., called them *' dumb Dogs and curfed Hirelings, and maintained that
traordinary Call
to
'*

from God

evangelical Poverty became the Miniflers of the Gofpel

*'

and that

it

was unlawful for them

to

poffefs ayiy

Things^

"

''

or to retain Propriety in any worldly Goods : As for the puUick Orders of the Church they would not he tied to *^ them., alledging., that themfelves being wholly fpiritual, '' could not be obliged to any carnal Ordinances. They *' broke in every where upon the parochial Clergy \ ufurped " their Office in all populous and rich Places., fet up Altars " of their own., withdrew the People from the Communion *' of the Pariih Priefl, would fear ce allow the hopes of Sal*'

vation to any hut their

own Difciples., whom

they hetwich-

*'

ed with great pretences of San5lityand Affiduity in preach*' ing : Thofe Artifices had raifed their Reputation and In'' terefi fo high in a few Tears., that they wanted very little *' to ruin the fecular Clergy., and therewith the Church : " But in lefs than an Age the Cheat of thefe Impoilors he-

" came

manifefi to all

Men!^
p. 81. The Carmelites or tohtti Friers in the Year 1222, were founded by Albert, Patriarch of Jernfalem, who gathered together a few Hermits that

\g\ Defence of Flttralitles, p. 9. There were four Orders of them,

Domimch,
if

we may
entitled,

believe the Writer of a Tral:,

Houjes

in

Who tells
That
p. 79.
eri,

The Stsmmary of all religious England and Wales 1 717. us in his Appendix, p. 78, &c.

lived

on Mount Carmel,

p.

83.

The

the Franufcans or grey Friers

were

inftituced in the

Year T2o6 by
jji

.Jr.

Fr^MiTiV,

That the Dominicans or

their rife

black Fri-

^ugujiinlan Friers, who increafed fo prodigioufly as to have in a few Years two thoufand Convents of Men, and three hundred of Women, pafled from
Italy

toG^

it 16, from Sl^

wtQ England

in the Year 125-2.

'

APaJJage

PREFACE.
A Pi5fure this fo nearly refembling
the Methodifts, that
to the Life^
to tally as
it

vn
amongft drawn more

the Teachers

could not have been

had they fat for it ; and their Principles feem exa^ly as if they had been forged by the fame Hand^ and upon the fame Anvil.

Preface with a remarkable Affidavit of the [h] News-Papers. 'The King againft John Powell, otherwife Howells. The Reverend John Williams, Re^or of Fifhguard, " in the County of Pembroke, Clerk ; David Edwards of " the Parijh of MdinQ, in the faid County, Teoman-y Ste phen Morris of the Parifh of Whitchurch of the faid " County., Teoman each fpeaking for himfelf and not one *.' for the other., fevsrally make Oath. And firft., the faid
conclude
'this

I fhall

lately publifhed in one

*,

" John Williams /i?r " March laft paft.,

*'

his

Part

fays.,

that on the

^A,th

of

the faid

John Powell,

otherwife
this

Howells, without any Provocation whatfoever from

Deponent., or any other Perfon whatfoever

*' *'

"
*'

then prefent^ did traduce, vilify., and abufe in a very opprobrious Manner., the Body of the whole Clergy of the Church of Eng-

"
''

land, and one or more of them by name., declaring among other ill Language., that they were the vileft and moft
ignorant Perfons., Whoremongers.,
World., or to that effe^

or Drunkards in the and did at the fame Time blame ; " a7td cenfure the Liturgy of the Church of England as " by Law eftablifhed ; and declared., that he would fuppoj-t " his Doctrine and Refidence in this Country, with Sword " in Hand, as was done by Perfons of his Tenets in Crom-

"

"
<

well'j time, or to that that

effeSl.

And the

faid Perfons fay,

Howells, is a Stranger, and an Itinerant Preacher, and lately come into the faid
otherwife
[A]

John Powell,

The

Englljhntxns Evening Pofl,

and Univerjal Advertifert No. 80. To the PuWifher of which is the following
Letter relating to this Affidavit.

"
*' *'

the Wejlern Sonih Wales Circuit, concerning a Difclple of mjitefield's,

"

*'
**

which (hews to what a Pitch of Impudence. Impiety, and Blafpheiny,

thofe Enthufafis are arrived, under the Difguife of SancTicy. I make no
further Reflexion upon it, but prefent it to you literally as it came to

Sir,

ingPoJis, a pious

lobfervedinoneof yourrcCopy of Verfes taken

"
*' **
*'

*!

out of Wfiitefield's Journal ; I now take the Liberty of prefenting you with an ^ffidavitj as it was taken before Mr. J. Trever, Chief Jufticc of

" my Hands.'*

County

vm
**

PREFACE.

*
**
**

County of Pembroke from Breconfliire ; ajid ftnce his arrival hath gathered together in unlicenfed Places^ in the Night Seafon^ and at other 'Times Multitudes of Servants and other People^ and has thereby caufed great Uproars and Diforders in the County^ very much to the dread

*'

*^
''

of peaceable and well meaning Perfons, though he never

was

ordained^ licenfed, or regiflered^ as

thefe JDepon^ents

*'
<'

*'
*'

have been informed^ and believe ; and as the faid John Powell, otherwife Ho wells, hath himfelf acknowledged, And the faid Stephen Morris for his Part farther fays^ that lately at one of his Meetings^ he heard the faid John

** **
*' *^

Powell declare

to

great Numbers of People to

-,

whom

he

was was

then holding forth^ or exhorting^ that Infant Baptifm

infernal,
kindle \f\

would
Tirne^

and that it came from Hell and that he a pire in Pembrokefhire infix Weeks
in

'

whichfhould not he quenched

an Age^ or
his

to that

**
^'

E;^e5l.

And
y^/i

the faid

David Edwards for

Part far-

ther faiths

that lately

*'

ij^W

/i?^

John

at one of fuch his Meetings^ he Powell, ej/^^r^K;^}^ Howell s, declare

*^
*''

to feveral

hundreds of People^ to

whom

he was then hold-

*'
*'
*'

iyig forth and exhorting^ that the Bifhops would ordain the mofi vile Perfons^ or the Devil himfelf in Man's Sbape^ for Clergymen^ for a Purfe of Gold^ or a Bribe^ or to And the faid Levy James for his Part thai Effe^.

^ farther
*'

fays^

that

the faid

John Powell,

otherwife

"
*'
*' *'

Howells, lately at another of fuch his Meetings^ did dedare to fever al hundreds of People^ to whom he was then holding forth^ and exhorting-, that there are Saints on Earth equally as pure as were Thieves^ and that they did obftru^^ or hinder^ the Sons of God, in their PPay to the

*'

Kingdom of Heaven^ or
5 worn

to that

Purpofe or Effe5i'^

at Havtrford Weft, Jlpril l^^ 1740, before me,

J.

Trevor.
'B

" fpoke

Bleffed
right,

be God, Mr.
the Tire
I
is

kindled in the

*^ Country J

and

know all

the Devils in

Hell fhall not be able to quench it.** [Continuat.of Mr. W%/Vtf/W<i's Journal, from his arrival at London, &c. p. 40.J

"

SHORT

SHORT

H I S TORY DON ATI ST

O F T H E

S.

DU
by

RING

the tenth
in

Emperor
his

Bioclefian in

general Perfecution, the the nineteenth Year of

Empire,

order to pluck up Chriftianity

the Roots, publifhed an Edid: [^], that all Chriftian Churches fhould be levelled with the Ground : And all
to the Church's Service, with its

the Utenfils belonging

for his Ufe : And that the fhould be burnt, and that thofe, who refufed to comply with this Edi6t, fhould themfclves be

Ornaments, fhould be feized

Scriptures

Holy

condemned to the Flames. Amongft the Confejjors at

\y\ for his

who

had,

in

that time, Felix a Deacon, an Epiftle, feverely girded the Emperor

Tyranny ; and refufed to obey the Commands of the Inquifitors who commanded him to deliver up the Ornaments of his Church, and the Evangelical Books that were in his keeping, fled for Protedlion to Men^ furius then Bifhop of Carthage^ who concealed him for fome time. But when his enemies difcovered the place
[a\
ris

Anno declmo nono

imperii P/o:

g'lc.

Lib. 14.

cap. 4.

Edit, ^rtijlelad.

cUtiant,

omnibus in locis per imperatollteras, palam indiftum fuit Ut

1702.
[^] lifdem temporibus Falix quidem Diaconus, qui propter famofam, nefcio quam, deTyranno Imperatore tunc factarn Epiftolam appellatus eft. [Optat, de Schifmat. Donatijl. adverfus Parmt' man. Lib. i,p. 40. t,dit, Aibafp'nai Pa'
rif 1631.

foloque deturbarentur Ecclefijg, turn aequarentur: Turn Scrl^turx Chrijiianoritm

abfumerenturigni, [Baronii Annal. ad Ann. 30a. To. II. p. 760. Edit. Cdm. y^^r/pp;. 1624.] Vid. Forhfti Inftruft* HQftorico-Tiieoio-

where

[ 2 ] where he was hid, [r] Menfurius was commanded either to give him up, or to appear to anfwer the Contempt of the Emperor's Edidt, which he chofe to fubmit to

But before the Appearance, he took Care to fecure the Goods belonging to his Church had an Inventory made thereof; and having committed the Care of the Treafury to fome of his Prefbyters and

rather than

betray a Chriftian Brother,

his

Time

appointed for

-,

-,

the

Inventory to a [d] faithful old Woman, in whom he could conlide Charging her to preferve it for his Succeflbr, if it fhould pleafe God to think him worthy ot the Crown of Martyrdom He appeared to: :

the

of the Emperor, [e] where he had a hearing, and was acquitted, and had leave to return to Carthage^ but was prevented by Death.

Summons

now void, Botms and Cceleftus, were Competitors for it with Cacilian : But the lad tor his approved Integrity was chofen Bifhop
Biflioprick being

The

two

Prefbyters,

of that See, by the unanimous Confent and [/] Suffrage of the Members of that Church ; and was ordained accordingly by \^] Felix Bifhop of Jpttwga. Upon which the good old Woman, agreeably to the Truft repofed in her, delivered up the inventory of that Treaf^jry to C^ciliau. [b\ And he fummoning the Elders to deliver up the Treafure with which they were intruftcd, whether they had fold, or fhared it amongll: them, is not certain ; but they refufed to deliver up, upon it which CceciUan proceeded againft them with ecclefiaflical

Cenfures % which occafioned thofe facrilegious Elders to renounce any farther Communion with him, as their Bifhop And joining with Botrui and C^lefius, they
:

{c]

Quern cum ponulatum Menfuuui

:

ptibhce denegaietrelario irifiTa -eit Refcnptum venit, ut fi Menfurius Fxlicem

Diacomim non

eo pervenire non potult. de Schifmate Donatlfiar. Cap. Vide Optat. Lib. i. p 41.]
tu,

XValepi
i.

P.77C
Populi

reddidiffet,

ad Palarlum
]eves

[/] Tunc

fuffragJo

totius

dingeretiir convsntus,

non

patie-

batur angufiias, &c, [Optai. id ib.l [d] Of tat. de Schdm. Donattf. Lib.
^

Vi'*T*/r \e\ Jiiffus

caufa

eft

fOptjt. Lib. i p 41 (^] Optat. Id. ib. [h] Convocantur fupra memorati feniores, qui faucibus avaritia commen-

Cxcilij?ius eligirur.

ad

Comitstum perducl

TJbi

difta,

abfolutus

&

datam ebiberant pra:dam.

co^erent'Jr,

Cum

reddere

ad

Car-

iubduxeruac

communioni

/*^4?e Km:fius eft, led

mortc pravea-

plebgm.

0/>m/. Id, ib,

begun

begun a Separation in the Church of Carthage^ which had hke to have proved fatal to the [f] African Churches*

With
join'd

thefe a wealthy, but fadious

in

Woman,

Q:\tLucilla^

She having been difobliged by dedlian when an Archdeacon ; he ([^] reproving her for her Superftition) and being unwilling to fubmit to the
the Separation
:
,

Difcipline enjoin'd her [/], fhe join'd with thefe fadlious Prefbyters againft him and with her Money prevail'd

upon Secundus^ Primate of Numidia^ and Donatus of Cafa Nigra^ with fome others, to oppofe Cc^ciUan. Thefe being ready enough to fecond her, being themfelves liable to the Cenfures of the Church, for betraying their Brethren in the laft Perfecution, and delivering

up
the

their

Bibles to the Perfecutors, for

which they had

to

name of

Traditors^

met together

the

Num-

ber of feventy at Cirta, (afterwards Conftantina^ from its being rebuilt by Conftantine.) The Names of the principal Bifhops that met at that time, were [?] Dona^
tus Mafculitanus^

Vi5for^

7iatus a CaftsNigris^

who,

Marinus^ Purpurius^ and Bo^ that they might carry on their

[/]

[/']

DonatuSf a quo

Donation', per

Nee non
non

Africam

fub Conjiantlotjue Confiante Principibus, aflerens a Noftris Scripturas

ferre

Litcilla, quae jamdudum potujc difciplinarr), cum omni-

busfuis, potens ac faftiofa foemina,

comcon-

in perfecutione Ethnkis tradiras, totam

munioni mifceri

noluit

Sic cnbiis

pxne

yifricanjt

&

maxitne Numidiam,

fua perfuafione decepit

[^Hieronym- Catalog. Scriptor. Ecclefi-

To. I. Op. p. 129. Edit, j^nttverpU, 1578.] [t] Hoc apud Carthaginem poft ordiafticor.

venientibus caufis ac perfonis, tai^um eil: ut malignicas haberec effeftum. Schifma igitur illo tempore confufe mulieris iracundia peperit, ambitus nutrivit, avaritia roboravit.

[Optat.

Ibid.

p.

41.}
quof-

nationcm
eft
riefcio

C*dl'ianl
:

faftum

efle,

nemo
fcilicet,

Donatus per Africam, uc que foe:entibus pollueret

opibiis

infeiices

qui nefciat

per

LncWam

faftiofam, quae ante concuflam perfecurionis turbinibus

quam Fcenainam

pacem,
Ecclefia
:

dum adhuc in tranquillo eflfec Cum correptionem Archidia-

aquis, Lttdlla adjutus eft. [Wermym. adverfus PebgianoSf To. II. p. 26J.J Vide tavli Dogmat. Theologic. Lib. 14, cap, 14. p. 266.

Pc

[wj]

Igitur

cum Carthagimm

veniflec

coni CecUlanl ferre non poflet, qux ante

fpiritualem cibum et potum, os nefcio cujus Martyris llbare dicebatur, et cum prseponeret calicifalucari, OS nefcio cujus

Secnndus, et reliqui qui Cirtenfi conciiio interfuerant Nempe Donatus Mafculi-

hominis mortui,

&

fi

Marcyris, fed nee-

dum

vindicati, correpta,

cum

confufione

irara difceflit.

Attgujiin

[Optat. Lib. 1. p. 40. Ep. i6z. To II. Op. Edit.

de Schifmat. Vide Eufebli, Ecclef. Hiftor. &c. p. 776. Edit- CantahueU ijzo. Vide eciam ./^wgw/Frwi, Epift,
^al^Jius
Donatiftar.

tanus, &c. E: Epifcopi, &c.

alii

feptuaginca

numero

Cap. 2.

i6z.

Frobenii 'Bajikit, 1556. p. 733.]

Bt

Defjgn

Pcfign againft dtclUan with lefs Sufpicion of Prejudice, began to purge themfelves of that Guilt, which by their Fear and Cowardice they had contradlcd in the Time of Perfecution. Upon which it was found they were all [] guilty, Secundus himfelf not excepted, as appeaf'd from the Charge brought againft him by Pur^ furhjs Bifliop of Limata^ in which he acquiefced, and ordered them all to fit down, which they did, faying, [o] nanks he to God, which was their Form of abfolvAfter this, they proceeded to the Elecing themfelves. tion of a Bifliop of Cirla, and made choice of Silvanus^ who was likewife a ^radkor : And Ccscilian oppofing his Ele6lion drew the hatred of the whole Fa5lion upon him Upon which they endeavoured to make void his Election to the Biflioprick of Carthage^ and prefer'd [/>] Major'inus a domed ic Chaplain to [^] Lucilla^ who had been Deacon to Ccecilian, to the Bifhoprick of Carthage^ upon pretence that both Cacilian, and Felh his Ordainer had been [r] Traditors, (a Crime of which they them:

felves

had been confefTedly guilty) and endeavoured to

perfuade

fn] HisEpifcop's interrogante ^ecimd&

et

Tifiifitanoy tr.jdidiff'e confefTi funt,

cum

tat. de Schifmat. Donatlj?. adverfus Per' menian. Lib. i. p. 38.]

ipfe SecHiidus

quod

et

ipfe cfiu

&

Pnrpurio Incrcparetur, apud St.^tionarhs fuerir,

difm'.flus
fuifle,
fic
;

r^J Plurimos Epifcopos

cum

Secund*
eif*

Numidix Primate pecunia conupit,

non
;

tuserir, fed

non

.fine

cauia difm-fllim

nifi

quia tra-

que perfuafit, ut depofito Crf7/aHo, Majorinum Lelorem Domeiiicum fuum,

Ecclefiz Carthaginenji prsfieerent.
bajpintei obfervat. i. in

jam omnes Hxrethi cceperunt murmurare Quorum fpirkum Secundus

didtrat
:

[y3t^

jnetuens, conf.lium accepit a filio fratris fui, Sccnndo minere, uttalem caufam Deo
fervarer, et d\x\t Secundus y fedete omnes. [Optat. Lib. r. p. $9. ^ugu/iin. Epift.

Optatum. p. 2.] Majorinus qui leiHior in Diaconio CaciUani fuerat, Domefticus LticilUy ip(a fufFragante, Epifcopus ordinatus eft a
Traditoribuiy qui
(ut

162. p. 726, 727.]

[0]

fjperius

Tunc diftum

eft

Gratia i, et Sederunt.

ab omnibus Deo [Optat. Lib. i.

confeiri funt,

in Concilio Numididi, daximus) crimina fua fibi et indulgentiam fibi invi-

cem

f 40.J

tribuerunt. [Optat. Lib. i. p. 42,] [rj Trad! tores quid em non folumraodo

& invenies banc

tiam
ci^fti.
i

[p]

Qujere

harum ongincm
re in

rerum,

cum

vos dixifle fentenSchtfmjticls Hxreticus fo..

nos non prcbatis j fed nee patres veflri patrcs noftros ran pctuerunt.
[^ugujiin. contra literas Petilianl DoIII. To. vn. Op.] habearr.ms in manibas Gefta Ecclefiaftica et Municipalia, in qmbns legamus eos qui conrra Caci/iafmm alcerum Epifcopum ordinaverjnt, et poH7tift. Lib. 2. p.

Non enim Cacillav.us exivit a M.ijirinn avo tu ^ fed Miijorlnus a C^ci:

Nos autem cum

lia?in

Ncc

Cxc'l'iatius recelTit a

Cathedra
ipfum

Petri,

vel Cypriani, fed ^Majorinui cujus

:

Ciithecfram fedes

Qua; ante

MaioriuMm originem non habebau [0/-

tius iuifie

Divimrum Cudicum
,

Traditortst

perfuade the people, that Ccecilian was no Minifter of Chrift ; nor thofe that adhered to him, true Members

of the Church. [s] Donatus a Casd Nigra^ a principal Perfon in this Schifm, was the firft amongft them, that fet up private Meetings, and feparared from the Catholick Bi/hops, upon pretence, that lapfed Perfons, and profane Traditors^ were promifcuoufly admitted amongft them, to the defiling of all who join'd in Communion with them.

Which
futed
a large

by

Pretences to Separation are excellently well conSaint Auftin Bifhop of Hippo^ who has wrote
profefledly againft

Volume

them

And

Optatus

Bifhop of MileviSy who has wrote largely againft the Schifm of the Bonatifts in anfwer to PannemaUy who was himfelf [/] Mock-Biftiop of Carthage. Donatus and his Party^ the more eafily to eftablifti and ftrengthen their Intereft, were induftrious in gaining over Profelytes to their new Se5f., and for that Purpofe, like the proud Pharifee^ compafs*d both Sea and Land, What Methods of Sed udtion they made ufe of, I (hall have occafion to difcover, when I proceed to a Comparifon between the Donatifts and Methodifts. The firft Invader of this holy Office amongft them, was not long liv'd ; for about the Year 306^, Majorinus^ the fchifmatical Bifhop of Carthage^ died, and no one was thought fo proper to fucceed him as [u] Dona^ tiis., who from that time probably gave Denomination to, the Schifm, (though they afterwards [w] difclaimed

rety non tamen infultamus. [Id. "jbid. Dicimus Traditoribus confeflis p. 91.] in ens <iui Traditores dicerentur, diftas fuiflfe fententias. ^uguji'm. Ep. 162.

Trofelyttm,

hoc

eft,

ut mutetls alicufufi

feaam.
nefcio
efle
:

Tu quidem cujus fea^fuem Tamen imporrune a te diftum

To.

II.

p.

727.
poft

Vonatifias
p. ;94.

Vide ^g/?/. conrra Collationem. To. VII.

Vide Optat. Lib. i. p. 42. [s\ Donatus a Cafis Ni'gris, dux ac .fignifer ilhus taftionis. [l^alef. de Schif. mzt. Do7tatiftar. cap 2. p. 776.] [f J Albafp'mai obfervatiOD. in OptaU
? lo.J

asftimo, quod re jam force huiys diai pcenitear. Nunquid nos aliquas peragravimus Terras ?] Nunquid nos ali^
tjua clrcuimus

Nunquid nos ad ? Nunquid nos aliquem adduximus Hlfpanum & Gallum? Aut nos ordinavimus ignorancibus
peregrines acceffimus portus
?

Maria?

peregrinum
Lib. 2.
[,] p.

[Optat. de Schifm.

Donut

[] Commemorafti enim ledum in Evangelio, Va vobh Hypocrite tjtd flrcui-

51.J
refugiebant DonStlftx nomiDenato. [Viz. a Cajis Nren'sX
efli

At

l Maria

& Term,

nari

a priori

nt fmaiis

mum

quem conftvet a Mihh'mit Papa

daoi/.

[6
it)

and then it was no longer Pars Majorinu but Pars Bonati. This Perfon aded fo far in Contempt of the
Catholkks^
that he
:

Power of filencing the any prejudice that might arife to himfelf or Party, he and his Fa5iion determined to complain firft to the Emperor, in order to caft the Odium of the Schifm, with all its terrible Confequences, vpon Ccfcilian^ whom he accufed to be a Traditor ; and contrary to the Praflice of the Church, he petitioned the Emperor [Conftantine'] that Tranfmarine Bifhops, and more particularly from France^ might be appointed Which Petition was fubfcribed by to^ hear the Caufe [xl Lucianus^ Bignus^ NaJJulius^ CapitOy Fidentius^ and other Bilhops of Bonatus's Party. The Emperor was much concerned to hear of thefe and would have been glad, if they could differences have been amicably determined amongft themfelves. However he grants their requeft, and appoints Miltiades Bifhop of Rojne^ with Rbeticius, Mat emus ^ and Marims three French Bifhops, to hear the Caufe, and [y']
afllimed the
to prevent

Catholic Bipjops

And

',

writes to Miltiades to that Purpofe.

Thefe Bifhops met

at

Rome

And

Miltiades in order

to expedite the Caufe, took to his Afliftance [z] fifteen Italian Bifhops : And after a fair and candid Hearing

of what the Bonatifts could objed to Cacilianh Character, {Bonatus himfelf being prefent) and as thorough a Canvafs of the Affair as could be, the Bonatifts not producing any WitnefTes in Proof of their Charge, but fuch only as confefTed, that they had nothing to objed to C^cilian's Charadler (only producing a Sentence given againft him at Cirta, where they condemned him with-

damnarurrit

ITnde potiusaDew/rfopoflea Epifcopo C^r/Ai^^mfMy/nomenfeaccepifTe dicebant, qiiem pro wd'^o habebant, atque ab omni labe puriflimum de'ende'BarotiU Annal. ad Ann. 306. bant.

To

III- p. 14.

ad Ann. 313. Tom. III. p. 117.J [y] Eufebu, Ecclef. Hift. Lib. iqj^ Edit. Reading Cantacap. 5. p. 484. Vid. Optat, Lib. i. p. 44. brigi ijzo. Romam ventum eft. urbem Ad [z] ab aliis qulndcab lis tribus Gallls,

&

[x] Dat2 a Luci.wo, Digno, Najf**tio, CapUoney Fidentio, et ceteris Epifcopis a parte Douati. [Optat. de Schifm,
Donatifi. Lib. 2. p.

ccm

Italis,

convenerunc

in

domum
Schifra.

Fatt/? in

Laterano, Optat. de

Donatiji* Lib. ! p. 44*

-^

'Barortii

Annal.
/

out

[73
"out a Hearing *,) they condemned [a] honatus fchifmatical Pradlices, acquitting Cacilian^ and ing him into their Communion.

for his

receiv-

Emperor
award.

notwithftanding he had foHcited the Hearing by Bifhops not dependent upon the African Churches, yet was unwiUingto ftand to their

But Donatus^
for a

to fend two Bifhops Eftabhfhment of [b'\ Unity. And they having ftaid at Carthage fifty Days, and having diligently enquired into the Caufes and Grounds of the Schifm ; and finding that Bonatus did fchifmatically defend [r] Altar againft Altar, and Bifhop againflBifhop, they joined in Communion with C^ciliany condemning Donatus and his Party. This turbulent Man would not yet acquiefce, but was determined to [dl appeal from the Bifhops that condemned him at Rome^ and complain'd, that MiUiades and his Collegues were but a few in Number, and very partial : (Nay, thac Miltiades himfelf was a Traditor) and defired, that a fuller Council might be called, finally to Upon which the Emperor, determine the Controverfy. though he was fo furprized at the Impudence of the

So

that the

Emperor was obliged

to

affift

in the

[4] His decern ec novem confident!bus Epifcopis, caufa Donati et Cxctliani

in

tus apud imperatorem scculatus, t tat

judiciis

non iolnm

Epifcopalibus, fed

iw-

medium

natHm
lapfis
clefia

mifla eft a fingulis. funt has fantentix lats

fit

In Do:

perialibus

abfolutus.

Quod

I>odir//?. poft

confeflus

fe rebaptizaflTe,

&

[Augnjiln. contr* CoUar. cap.25. Tom. VII.

Epifcopi

Epifcopis

p.

6i8-J
[t]

manum
alienum

impofuiflTe
eft.

Quod ab EcI,

Tunc duo

ad

Afrkam

mifli funt, Eunomitts ec Olymplusy uc xt-

[Optat.^Q Schifm. Donatijiar, Lib.

p. 44.]

metis duobus

unum

ordinarent.

Teftes indufti Donato confeiTi a fun t fe non habere quod in CitcUianHm dicerenc: CitciUamts omnium fupra memoracorum fententiis innocens eft pronunciatus : Etiam Milttadis fententia.

[Optat. Lib. I. p.44l [c] Non contra Caciltanam, fed contra orbem terrarum qui ei per ignoran-

tiam communicat, altare alterum erigere audeamus. {^Augttjiin. Ep. 162. To, 11.
Op,
p.

729.J

qua judicium claufum

eft his verbis.

"

Cum

confliterit CtecUianum

ab

iis

pronunciafiient,

"
*<
**

qui

cum Donato venerunt,

juxca pro-

feflionem fuam non accufari, nee a Donato conviftum efie in aliqua parte
conftiterit, fuse

**
*'

Communioni
[Optat. U.Wi.']

Ecclefi-

Qui cum Ctedlianum innocenreia Donatum, qui Schifma Carthagimiecenty fententia percufliflTent, iterum veftri ad imperatorem venerunt, et de judici Epifcoporum, in quo ylQti fuerant, murmurarunc,
[/ij

&

afticac integr.o ftatu

retinendum merito
prdce(rori-

[Angnjlin, Ep, i66

Tom,

II.

0/.

p.*

eflecenfeo."

756.]

CtecUiams ec ab

comn

Appeal,

[8
Appeal,
as loudly to

[/] declaim againfl Bonatus and his Party, yet was pleafed out of his abundant Grace and Goodnefs, to call a more general Council at Aries [j-] in the Year 314, at which were prefent 200 Bifliops according to Saint Auftin [h], and 600 according to yf^^Biihop of Vienna : But the latter, in Baronm^s opinion, was under a Miftake [z]. The Emperor, in order to bring the Affair that was to be laid before this Council,
to a fhort iffue, fent orders to jElian his Proconful in Africa, [k] that fetting afide all State Affairs, he fhould make publick Enquiry into the Life and Charac-

of Felix Bifhop of Aptunga, (the Ordainer of C^who was accufed by the Donatifts as a Traditor.) jEIian, taking to his Affiftance fome fit Perfons [/], purfued the Emperor's Orders And upon Examination of competent WitnefTes, he found they agreed in a Teftimony of Felix's Innocence and Cbri/iian Courage.
ter
Lilian,
:

Indeed,
f /] Sufficit ergo et Donatum tot fenten tiis efle percufliim, CacUiannm tantd judicjoeffe purgatum Ec tamen Dekatfts appellandum ab Epifcopis creterfuifie

Concilio ArelAtenft
:

celebrato

&

fub

Conjiantino

Sed errare

videtur

djdic

Ad quam
itnperacor

appella'donem Ccnfl^infic

tempore Nlc<eni concilii, concilium illud fuiffe coaftum tradit. {^aronit Annal. ad Ann, 314. To;
III. p. 144.]

dum

refpondit, rabida furoris andiKia, ficut in caufis GentUlnm

fieri

thtts

Vide Joan. LaunoH Epift.

folet, appellationenn

inrerpr.fuerunt.
i. p.

rknm Mnmmariuntf
cilio Arelatenjt.
[it']

p. 480,

i. ad Hen&c. de GOn-

[Optat.

de Schifm. Donatiji. Lib.

Tunc

Conjiantlnui
fcripfic,

ad t/^l'ianmm

;[&] Dedit ille aliud Arehtenfe judicium aliorum fcilicet Epifcoporum, non quia jam necefle erat, fed eorum pervefiitatibus

proconfulem

ut remotis necef-

litatibus publicie,

de vica P^licis jipinn*' ilb.

gftani publice quasreretur.

cedens,

&

omnlmodo

cupiens
I.

[Optat. de Schifmati Dtnat'tjiar.

p. 4j^.]

tantam impudentiam cohibere. [AHguJi'm. Epift. 162. p. 734-] iterum clementifimperacor alios judices Epifcopos rfedit apud Aretatum GallU civitatem, ab jpfis veftri ad ipfum imperatorem appellarunt, donee etlam ipfe caufam cogfiftius

&

nofceret,
los

&

Cicilumum innocentcm,

il-

calum niofos pronunciaret. \_Auguftm. Ip. 166. p. 757.] [h] Adeo dementes funt homines ut
ducencos
judices apud
viciis litigaroribus

Habentur volumina aftorum in [/] quibus continentur praefentium nortinS^ qui fuerant in causa Claudii Sa^nriani curatoris, CxcUiani magiftratus et SuScuhxingentiif Soloperflitionarii, nts Officialis publici ipfius temporis: Poft quorum refponfa a fupra memorato Pro-

&

&

&

quos viti funt, credunc efle poflpo-

hzc pars fententiae dib e^* Fxlicem autem religiofam Epifcopam, /her urn ejjh ab exttjlione infirumentortim
cnnfule, deificorum ma>iife(lum efi, cum nemo in ilium aliquid prebare potnerit, quod reti" ^iofijfimai fcrlpturas tradldcrit, vel exuffertt
:

Dendos.
[jiugnfiin, contra Parmenian. Donatip:.

Lib.

I.

cap. 5,

[f} Scinius

Tom. VII. p. 16.] ^demtm Epifcopam VlenEpifcopos in-

Ommnm
manifijia

enim interrogatlo fupraeft,

firipta

nullas

fcrifturas
certas

nnftm

iiiiiinare fexcentos

deijica$, vciinvtntas vel corrnptas, vel in-

I
which exprefled the

Indeed, Ingenttus the Notary^ at the Inftance of the declared, that he had feen ce^-tain Letters Donatiftsy
in

the

Hands of
as

Alfius

Ccecilian^

a Traditor ; but upon Examination And [w"} Ingentius bethey were found to be Forgeries ing condemned to the Punifiiment called Eculeus [or Equuleus'] unlefs he would confefs who had prompted
Guilt of Felix
;

Terror of that Punifhment \n'] Rack] did fo prevail that he confefled he had forged thofe Letters at the Inftigation of fome of the Donatifls. When the Council met, and had received fo full an Account of the Innocency of Felix^ [o] the Bonatijls having no new Articles to exhibit, only reviving their old Slanders, by adding frefh Impudence and Malice to the Profecution of them ; the Council having with great Patience heard their Clamours and falfe Accufations, juftified C^cilian^ condemned his Accufers, and made a fevere [/>] Canon againft them. The Emperor confirmed the TranfadVions of this
to that Forgery, the
in the

him

[which is with him,

nature of a

Council,
cenfcii

which
Hoc adU
reli^iefus,

fo

provoked the

Donatifls^

that they

fwjfe.

contmetur, ^uod

Fxllx Epffcopus

Uln

teytiporibust

cap. 7. p. 284. To. Vll. Op."] Ingentius vero Epiftolam Cmllani,

&
in

neque prafens fuerit, neque confcientiam aecommodaverity neque alicjuld t-ile fieri jufferttf unde pulfa arcjueexterfainfamia,
CHin ingentilaude illojudlcio
rerejfit. {^Optit.

Municipalia carcerem mifTus

ala
gat'ion'i

falfafle
eft,

convidtus,

ut arliori interro[Valef,

fervaretur.

de

Schifiil.

Donatifi. ctp. ll.p. 781.]

AuguJiin.Y.'p'A. 152. To. 145. II. p. 699. Ep. 162. p. 727. Id. ib. p.

Lib.

I.

[] Ecnleus ftipes erat, cui veluc equo

imponebantur

rei,

730.
in causa Felicis Epifcopi

tur, cruciabantur,

& varie torqueban& diitendebantur. Ste-

[m] Quendam etiam fufpenfum Eculeo &c. [Augufiln. Epift. 162. To. II, p. 731.] Et IngentiHi fcriba fublicus pepetidit fub me:u imminencium tormentorum. [Optat,
Lib.
I. p.

45.]

Denique cum Maximus Ingentlum decurionem ZiqnenJiHm civitatis epiftolam

Cjcciliani

ex duumviris

falfafTe

concetideidao

ret,
aftis

eundem ipfum

/Kgffr;w fufpenfum,

phani Thefaur. lingu. Latin. Vide eciam Calvlni Lexic. Juridic. fub voce Eculeus. Ft ralcfii liiot- in Amm'uru Marcelliitt Edit. Parijiis 1681. Lib. 26, p. 472. [0] Donatafiis quid refpondeanc non invenientibus, eadem repecentibus, tandem aliquando caufa firiirecur. jiuguftin, Collar. 3*^" Diei contra Donatiftasj To. VlI. p. 592.] Concil. ArelatenC- i. Can. 14. [p]

quae fuberant pervidimus, ec

De

his

qui

falfo

accufant

fratres

fuos,

tortum, quod fe decurionem Zicjuenfium civitatis efle aflfeveraverlt Unde volumus eundem ipfum 7^ef;7 fubidonea profecutione, ad coraitatum

minime

placuit eos ufque ad

exitum non com-

turam impunitum non

rni

municare, fed falfum tfftem juxta fcriplicere efle. 3/nConcil.

Tom,

I.

p.

267.

Edit.

menm
luftln,

Confiantini u^ugufit

miius.

{Ah-

Parifiis

1636.]

contra Crefcon, Grammat, Lib. 3.

condemned

lo

3
as guilty

condemned both
of
Partiality.

the [q]

Emperor and Council

Their Schifm began now to fpread into more remote Parts, and they were not only formidable in [r] Jfrica^ but they had their Emijfaries in France^ and at Rome, where one [i] Vi^or was made a Titular Biftiop. Bonatus^ thinking that by Perfeverance his Party

might
other

at length prevail, petitions the

Emperor

for an-

which was appointed at [t] Mtlan^ where the Donatifts upon a fair Hearing were condemined by the Emperor as Authors of the Schifm, and Difturbers of the Peace of the African Churches.
meeting,

The Emperor
fent

word

to

his

being tired out with their importunities, Lieutenant Valerius^ that the Donatifts
tot judiciis

[f]

Nee tamen quamvis

vifti atque opprefli,

pervicaciflimis con:

Sed futentionibus finem impofuerunt rore quodam occxcati, imperatorem ipreprehenfuerant damnati fom, a quo
dere, &'acci;fare coeperunt.
fichifrrat-

operati fant csdes, tarn atroces, uc de talibus faftis ab ill-us temporis judicibus rehtio mitteretur. Memora-

&

mini per loca

difcurfus
;

Cr.gula qui

fuerint veftri

[Valef.

de

veftro fuerunt Felix Diabenfts, Jattuarins Flamen Pijienpi,

ec
cseteri,

nonne de numero

Donafijiar. cap.

14. p. 783.J
Dofiatifite,

qui tota celeritate

Nee

fic totics vicli

quieverunt

fed de judicibus ecclefiaflicis, ipfique imperatore criminofa murmura fp^''^^" Inftrui. Hiftoricorune. [Forbefti Theol. Lib. XIV. cap. 4. p. 664.] Vide t:am Optat. Hift. Carthag. Coiiat. p. 650. 'Baron. Ann2\. ad Ann, 316. To.
III. p. 188.] [r] TetKpore Donatl, a quo Donatijitt, cum fefo multa pars Africit in erroris
fui fiirias

cucurrcrunc ad Caftellum Lemellenje, ubi cortra importunieatem fuam videprasfentes juflerunt Bafilicam claufam runt comites fuos ut afcenderent culmiia, nudarent teh, jafliarent tegulas ; imperia eorum Gne mora completa, et cum alcare defenderent Diaeoni Catholiet, tegulis plurimi cruentati lunt, duo occifi Donatus Prlwps filius Januarit^ fine filiiis Niniy urgenribus et pracfentibus
,:

&

prxcipUaret,
religionjs,

cumque immemor
profeflionis,

coepifcopis
Opt,%t.
[$']

veftris

fupra

memoratis.

nominis,

unios

hnniinis facrilegam remeriratem Ecclefias

Chrifti pratponeret, tunc, quicunque per
ibi

Dr^nat, Lib. 2. p. 54.] Mini}? eft Vifior [Garhienfis.'] Erat

fine patre,
tiro

de Scbif.

filius

fine

principe,

Atricam
deteftato,
f>ciati

conftiuiti,

profano

fchifmace

univerfis

mundi

ecclefiis

ad-

difripulusfine magiftro, fequens fine ancecedente, inquilinus line domo, hofpes

firre

funt,

&c.
la

Fincentti

Lirlnenjis

hofpitiO, paftor fine grege, Epifcoput

Commonitor.
57-J
in

cap. 5. Bibliothec.
'Eigne,

pacrum
4, p.
^

fjie pnpnlo.

Opt^t.

veterum per De

Tom,

raror,

Elfdem pjsne momentis vefter furnr Afric^m revrtitur, quibus Diabolus

fuis

de

current us relaxatur.veniftis irati,

fubtiles
in

Veniflis

ab officialibus cuftoditos Mfdithntim pervenire Quo cum fecit. etiam C^cHianus perveniffet, ipfum quoqne ficut fcripfit adhibutr, cegnitaque
reliqucs
:

Lib. 2. P

49-

Quod

ubi cognovit providus

impe-

rabidi,

membra

laniances
in

causa

qua

diligent '3,

qua cautela,
illos

qua

Ecclefise,

feduciionibu,

provifi'>ne, ficut ejus indicant lirer^e, C<t-

eaedibus

im manes,
:

filios

pacis ad bella

dlinnrim innocenrifilmum,
biflfimos judicavit.

provocantes

De

fedibus fu'? multos fe-

CJOis extr.rres,

cum

cordncta

manu

ve-

To. IL

rientes, "B-jJilhas invafiftis, muki exnuiero veftro per loca plurima cruenras

p. 7?4Schifmat. Denatijf,

improAitgnfiin. Epift. 162. Vide etiam Valrj, de

were

ir }

were an incorrigible Fadtion, and were to be left to the Puni/hment of their own Fury, and of God's righteous Judgment [], which he was in feme Meafure obliged to For it is probable, that he could not fo eafily have retained Africa under his Subjetflion, but by yielding a little to fo powerful a Fa6lion For they were fo numerous, that upon a Revolt, Africa would have been in Danger of being loft. He therefore thought it proper, though he [w] detefted their fictions and fchifmatical Behaviour, to difpenfe with them at prefent. This good Emperor, notwithftanding all the Favours he had already granted them, by calling Council after Council, and the moft fair and candid Hearing and Determination of this Affair, for the fake of Peace and Unity, was determined to try what might be done by a meeting of [x'] Eaftern and African Bifhops But this his good Intention proved of no EfFed, being defeated by the implacable Spirit of thofe wretched Se5fa^ ries, who had received already but too, many Favours at his Hand For thefe ConcefTions, he was much blamed, but without Reafon, if we confider that about that Time the Arian Herefy fprung up, by which he was much em: : :

barrafted.

The Bonatifts being apprized of it, own wicked Caufe at home with more
fidence

profecuted their

than ufual

Con-

; and took the Liberty of foliciting the Emperor to abrogate all thofe Laws that had been made againll them : And whereas many of them had been abridged the Liberty of exercifing their Fundions , and others had been

[]

Etidem

iniperatorad ?^^/Vr?i [qu.

uc

[*]

ConJiantinu.t

&

Verinumy "Baron. Annal. To. HI. ad Ann. 5^1. p. 244.] De illorum exilio foluco ecrum furore Deo vindici remittendo,

Romano

qui unlverfo orbi firmiffimam pacem praftirerac,

reftituerer Ecclefise labo-

eam.quoque

ravic: Totusigitwr in earn

cogicadonem
pelH-

liceras dedic Crifpo

&

Cohft.int'mo

kcTum

incumber!*, ad fedandum
ferae

morbum

coufulibus, &c! j^ugitjlin. contra D'^napoll CoUat. cap. 33. To. VII. p. tiji.

quo Jlfricana jamdiu laboralTet Ecclefia, unum hoc remedium

diflentionis

Czs*
Confimtiut fie eos deceflatur, ut nihil ilia indulgentia poffec deformius inveniri. Auptfiin. Breriteris

reperit

[w] In quibus

vie.

Collar,

cum

DonAt'iji.

Coll.

tertii

ut quandoquidem Occidentaks ; Epifcopi duobus conciliis jam congregatis nihil perfecerant, Orlentales in ^fricant mitccret, qui rem ab 3liis fruftra tentatam. ta/idem aliquando perficerent. [t^aUf,

ici,

Vide etiam To. Vll. p. 590. 'Barmii Ai^al. ad Ann. jzi. p. 244,

de Schifmace

Domtifiar.

cap.

11. p. 784.J

emed

( 12
exiled for

a notorious TranfgrefTion of the Laws ; yet they folicited the Emperor to recall fuch as were banifhed, particularly Siivanus, a Bonatift Bi(hop, who was

banifhed upon
felling the
ftfts

full Proof made by Nundinarius, of his Ornaments of his Church ; though the Donait

which Saint Auftin has and obferves, [y'] that being evidently proved a ^r adit or ^ he was willing to continue in the Schifm, hoping that he might find that falfe Honour amongft the Donatifts^ which he could not lay claim to in the Catholic Church, Nay, it is remarkable, that in their Petition, they defired to enjoy [z] Liberty of Confcience \ which is more properly termed fomewhere by St. Aujliyu Lihertatem agendi^ a Liberty of ading as they pleafed, and doing what was right in their own Eyes And that they might not be forced to communicate with CaciUan^ whom they boldly entided, the Emperor''
afcribcd
to other Caufes,
fully confuted
,

[a] prelatical

Knave

declaring,

that they

would not
:

be thereunto induced either by Threats or Promifes Thefe Demands, though highly infolent, were propofed
to the
in

Emperor at fuch a Jundlure, that he was forced fome Mcafure to comply with them. This turbulent Temper moved St. Auftin fo much,
he declared
it

that

afterwards as his opinion, \h] that

if

the Devil had been fo frequently baffled even by Judges of his own chufing, he would not fo impudently have
perfifted in the defence

And
ror,
is

that this Indulgence

of fo unwarrantable a Caufe. was forced from the Empeconfolatory Epiftle, written to

communicaturos
voUiiflet.
antiftiri ipfius nebuloni, paratofque eos perpeti quicquid eis tacerc

apparent from

his

^""^ Traditor fuit permanere \.y] Qi^' Haretlcns voluit, ut falfum honorem in parte Donati haberet, qui habere in Camanifeftis tholica nullum potuit, tarn Traihionis fuse geftls publico judicio rcfe[j^ugHjiin. Lib. 3. contra Crefratis.

Quern Conjiantini

jinttfiitdn

iyTfiw/on^w, utique CicaVMWHwintelligivo-

lebant.
5-90.

[Augujlin. Brevie. Collar,

cum

Ponaf//?. Collat. terrii Diei,

natlft. cap. 17. p.

Tom.

III. p.

fonium Grammatic cap. 30. To. VII. p, a6i.] [zj Epifcopi partis Donati libellum dederunt Conjiantino, pofcentes ut libere ipfds agere finerer, nee invitos ad comjnunionemC-co7M;cogerevellet. [^alef. de Schifm. Donat. cap. 17. p. 784.] [a] Nam ibi dicunt nullo tnodo fe

Vide etiam Valef. de Schifm, Do784.J

ipfe

[^] Puto
tate judicis,

quod

diabolus

fi

autori-

quern ulcro elegerat, toties vinceretur, non effet tarn impudens uc in ea causa perfifteret. [^Auguft, EpJft, 167, To. 11. p. 765.

*e
,

t
which
[d]
is

13

the Catholic Bijhops throughout the African Churches,

to be

&c.

met with

in the [r]

Appendix

to Optatus.

The

Catholic Bijhops being

now

thoroughly en-

gaged in Defence of the Chriflian Religion, againlt the Arian Herefy, the Donatifis are fcarce mentioned for three or four Years during the Council of Nice : But as foon as ever that Council was ended, they renewed the Controverfy, and carried it on with more Fiercenefs and For Donatus the firft dying, anoBitternefs than ever. ther of the fame Name, (tiled by his Party by way of Eminence, Donatus the Greats was nominated to the See of Carthage by the fchifmatical Donatifts \ a man indeed of more Learning, but not lefs obftinate and [f] proud He engaged armed Troops of than his PredeceiTor.
Followers againft the Catholics and took even the Liberty of affronting the Emperor's Officers in the Execution of their Office. The Emperor truly compaffionating the miferable State of the African Churches, orders a Remittance of
his
*,

large

Sums

of

Money

to

C^cilian for

their

Support,

with a very refpe^ful Letter to him,

made mention of

by [/]

Eufehius.

This Remittance was thankfully received by the Catholics : But the Pride and Malice of Donatus was fo great, that he forbad his Followers to receive any Share of the Emperor's Bounty, if it was offered for which
*,

[g] Optatus gives a very good Reafon.

[c] Quod fides debult, quantum prudentia valuir, prout puriras potuit, tentafle me per omnia humanitatis etmo-

mmem
qui poft

jeftimaret,

non verendo eum,

65.] Lib. 10. cap. 6.

Deum

ab hominibus cimebatur.
p.-

\^Optat. de Sch. Do?i, Lib. 3. p.

derationls

officia

optima

fcitis,

&c.

[/]
486.

Eccle'". Hift.

[Optat. Op. p. 287.] [d] Credo noftros in refutandis Aria[Hift. Collat. Carthag. a nis cotos efle.
Fr^indfco "Baldwino*

[g] Miferac enim ornamenta domibus Dei, miferac pauperibus eleejnofy-.

Append.
ille

Optat.

p.

nam,

nihil
eft
?

606.1
[f J

cur iratus

Donato; cur ergo infanivit, Cur quod miflum fuerac ?

Ec vero Donatus

Carthaglmn'

repudiavit

fit

eo evafic, ut non modo tanquam ariquis Hannibal imperatores Romams fuperbe contemneret ; fed tamquam Deus
coleretur,

Et cum illi qui ijiilli fueranc dicerent, fe ire per provincias fingulas, volentibus accipere fe daturos, ille

&

dixit

&c.
fe

[Hift.

Coll. Carthag, p.

quod

ubique fe literas pramiGfle, ne id allacum fuerat pauperibus alicubi

Donatus fuper imperaquafi hominum exelTerac metas, ut fe ut Dcura, non ho606.]

Dum

difpenfaretur.

torem cxtoUit, jam

[Optat. de Schifm. DtnatiJI. Lib. Ji

p. 65.J

The

Hi
them

The Emperor
to their

finding that he could not engage

Duty by his Clemency, determined to proceed againft them with Rigour \ and ordered [Jo] that thofe Places where the Bonatijls aflembled fhould be forfeited to the Emperor's Ufe and they were rendered incapa,

ble of ecclefiaftical Promotions,

pofftderent.']

\Ut mhil Ecclefia nomine

By which Means

the Church Catholic had a

better profped of Peace, and feveral Families which had been before difunited, were now reftored to Unity by their return into the Bofom of the Catholic Church. It is remarkable that this Faftion (hould fubfift after fo many Laws made againft them When the Emperor had given exprefs Orders to Anulinus [i] to reftore the Catholics thofe PofTeffions and Privileges which their Enemies had ufurped. Nay, he granted to the Clergy in Communion with Cacilian^ new [^] Privileges and Immunities, but exempted both Heretics and Schifmatics from the Benefit of thofe [/] Ediuis. But this excellent Emperor, who had long endeavoured to reconcile the contending Parties, was at length worn out by Care and Concern ; and it is probable that thefe faElious Se5faries might contribute not a little towards the bringing down his grey Hairs with Sorrow to the Grave, he dying in the 65th Year of his Age, and the 31ft of his Empire, in the Year of our Lord [m]
:

337But their Malice did not end with his Death ; for his Son Conjlam^ who was Heir not only to his Father's
[h]

Quare coaftus Confiantlnui pr'm:

[k]
^^,vai.

'^"rro

Tratra)/

afra^ttTrAU

<tu*

ceps alioqui mitif^mus majori vigore ac feveritateadverfuseos infurgere Prlmufque

Xur^pyia* ^JxnfMti dXiiTacyr.rBs tPixzuXaX'

Eufeb. Ecclef. Hift. Lib. lo. cap.
7. p.
[/J

omnium

imperatorum, qui contra partem

:

488.]
Privilegiaquae contemplationercliindulta funt Catholicis

Ut Donati legem feverilTimam tulit cunia eorum loca, in quibus congregari confueveranc fifco virdicarentur. Ut l6j. icnhit Anguji'mus in Ep. 68. libro 2. contra PetiliaHum. [VaUf de Schifmate Donattji, cap.

gionis
ridcos

tantum

le-

gis obfervatoribus prodefle oportet.

Ha-

&

&

14* p. 78 3.
ait

non folum ab lis privilegiis alienos efle volumus, fed etiam diverfis mufubjici. neribus conftringi ConftantimtSi &c. ad DraciUanum. Cod. Jufii-

&

[/] "L7rii<i'r)7ri^ '^poi>f,r,y.i6x Tavrx aTrs^, ecuTAi iy.n/aa-iiii 'o-ooTtpsr e<7yrinia-ety, "tu

nian- Lib. I
ticis,

Tit. y. Set. I

De

Hxrfr'

i'lKa.ia

aihav

aVexATots-etSiiva/,

&c.

&c. [w] 'Baronii Aiinal. ad

p. 51/."

Annt

337,

/rWz/Ecclef, Hill.

Lib.

10.

cap. j.

Totlll.

Dominions,

^5

Dominions, but

his Virtues,

was likewife the Objedl of

being defirous of uniting
that

fome Alms to the African having in a friendly manner applied to Donatus^ with an Offer of the Emperor's Bounty, and an Exhortation to Catholic Unity^ he not only refilled to accept any Share of the Bounty, but flew
:

their inveterate Hatred. He thtk fchifmatical Members to they had caufelefsly feparated, rius about the Year 348 with Churches And thefe Legates

Church from which

Pauhis
sind

fent [71]

Maca-

out into a PafTion,

fpeaking difrefpedful
this

Words
Peace

of the

Emperor
fures the

and by
:

Means

he defeated thofe

Meain the

Emperor took
that

for the eflablilhing

African Churches
rited

And fome
hair-brain'd

of

his [o\

Adherents fpi-

the the Legates^ of which they complained to Sihefter^ a Catholick Officer, and defired for their Security a Guard of Soldiers : And
Enthufiafis^

up

mad

Sed of

Circumcellians^

to give Difturbance to

notwithftanding they were attacked by thefe mad People, whom they cut off great Numbers in their own Defence ; yet at the Inftance of the Catholic Bifhops and Clergy, they forbore any farther Ads of Hoftility and

of

this

the Donatifts complained of as an

and infinuated that the ; were the Occafion of it. Towards the end of this Emperor's Reign [q] a Council was held at Carthage^ Gratis being then Bifhop, to reftore Peace to the African Churches. In which fome
tion
[ti] Quern enim latet prxter te, quia peregrinus es, potuerunc cibi falfa narrari : Aut quis negare poteft rem cui tota Carthago principaliter reftis eft, im-

Ad: of PerfecuCatholic Bifhops, &c. [p]

tudo.

&

S\c Invenlt Donatus "Bagalenjit unde contra Macarium furiofam condiicaret turbam Hoc metu deterriti illi

rlttm primitus

peratorem Confiantem 8c Macanon ad faciendam unica-

P^um

qui Thefauros ferrent, quos pauperibus erogarenr, invenerunt in tanra neceflitare confilium, ut a Sylvefiro Comite ar-

rem mififfe, fed cum Eleemofynii, quibus fublevata per Ecclefias fingulas poffic refpirare, veftiri, pafci,

gaudere

paupertas

Qui cum ad Donatum patrem fjum venirnt, ec quare venerant, indicarent, furore fuccenfus, in hxc verba prorupit, eft imperatori cum Ecclede fence levitacis fuse multa majfia ?
ille folito

matum militera poflularejit. [Optat. de Schifmat- Donati/i. Lib. 3. p. 68. Vid, etiam 2?7, Concil. To.I. p. 567.] [p] Quod ab aliis provocantibus facturn eft, nobis non debet impucari quid hoc ad nos ? Quid ad Ecclefiam
Catholicam pertinet?
ciftis,
[tj]

^id
64.

&

vos

ledifta efFudit.

Optat.

de Schifm. Donat.

Quicquid obje[Optat. Lib. 3, p. 69.] "Bimu, Concil. Tom. I. p. j6S.

feciftis.

Lib.

3.

p.

"Baron.

Annal, ad Ann. 348.

664.

No.

x6.

[o\

Eorum

poftea convalwerat multi-

Sec

p,

excellent

i6

were made, which abated the Fury of the Donatifts : But the Emperor [r] Conftans being {lain by a Band of wicked Confpirators, his Brother Conftanttus became fole Emperor, and immediately after profefled himfelf an Ar'ian^ and of confequence an Enemy to the Catholic Church : Upon which the Donatifts p'lntd with the Arlans and other Heretics in order to diftrefs her. Though Maxifnus, the orthodox Bifhop of Neapolisy was deprived of his Bifhoprick for not fubmitting to the they placed Zozlmus in his See yirians^ and yet his Station, till by Force he was ejeded ; kept Maximus and even then he denounced an Anathema again ft the Intruder^ which (if we may give Credit to the Authority of Marcellinus^ as mentioned by Baronius) had fuch an EflTed: upon him, [j] that when he applied to the Difcharge of \m epifcopal Fun5f ion ^ and endeavoured to fpeak to the People, his Tongue hung fo far out of nor his Mouth, that he was difabled from fpeaking could he draw it in again, till he went out of the Church "Which befalling him a fecond and third Time, he reexcellent Canons
*, -,

linquifhed his ufurped Dignity.

not long after Conftantius had declared himfelf Arian^ that the Empire of the IVeft was taken from him, and given to Julian the Apoflate^ who was educated in the Chrtftian Religion, and had been a Read-

'Twas
[/]

an

[r]

Anno
350.

35-0.

"Baronit
p.

Annal. ad
FUu^y's

perdidifle,

tf^rr<!/;Vr

jB<i/;//c<j>(&resmira)
qmotiti in

Ann.
[s]

Ecclef. Hill,

To. III. book 3.

678.

forts verurfi in ojficittm /inji^uttrevocataeji.

vol. 2. p. 187.

Sed hoc ipfum

totles pa^tts

efi,

In Zozimum fuo loco fuffeftum ab tulit, y7r'iams anachematis fencentiam

que

quidem

juflo

incaflum

abiic, fed

Dei judicio, nequaquam invaforem aliensefefieret

"BafiUcam dlverfii diebta intrare tcntaret. DenieiHe ob earn caufam tandem cejfit Epifcopatus ut frijlinum o^lum linguK integre Baron, ad Ann. 359. No. redderetnr.
5-7.

dis ita perculit

ratJE,

ut ceteris

in

ex-

To. HI ^|845.
Sed ;0 prodigium) quo tempore

emplum contemptiNuminis,
ac

fidei

teme-

[t'\

temeritatis prxfumprx. (ut Marcellhiits zudtoT eft; De Schifni.

Nam

Damaf.) ex CO tempore cum Urf. coactop puloperagere velletEcclefiafticcs

fun6liones, atque
obire
facta, hiter tpfa

&

a Confiantto adimitur dlvinitas filio Dei, ab ipfo imperium abripltur, cum mGalliis JnlianuSt a milicibus alias

eodem qunque

acclamatus, imperator eligltur, ec quantumlibet invitus cogitur imperare, a quo

eflec

(inquit) verlia facerdotaliai ejus tuifua protenditur, nee valtttt earn ampUus revocare hitra oris meatum : Eo qiiod contra

anno
ipfe

fequenti Orientalt quoque

im-

perio
nifi

eum

Conjiantins exuendus mors citior confecifler.

&

vita,

Xaronii

modum

nature,

extra

os

psnderet

nt

Annal. ad Ann. 360. No. JJ. To. H.

p.

iovl anhch.

Qui vidit

fe linguae officium

876.

er

er in the

Church of

[//]

17 ] Nkomedia
profcfTai

Bat upon
himleh'^

his

Ac-

cefTion to the Empire," he

an

Enemy

to Chriftianity^
the Privilege

and debarred the Chnftians not only of of ferving in his Arniies, but excluded them from all publick Offices in the Commonwealth ; [w'] and in order more expeditiouHy to dciiroy CbriJIiaftity^ which he thought might be effected by encouraging divifions,
natift

Fa6tions,

he allowed the Bifliops of the ^rian and Doto follow their different Opinions in

God's Worfiiip, provided they adted nothing which might be prejudicial to his Government, or the Peace of the

Empire. For the Liberty granted, the Bonatljls were very liberal in tiieir Thanks to Julian, though he diftinguifhed the Chnjiians with the Nick-name of Galileans, and encouraged the Arians, and other Heretics, who denied
the Divinity of the fecond and third Perfons in the ever Upon this the bleffed Trinity againft tiie Orthodox.

proved more proud and imperious towards the and to pleafe Julian they pulled down thofe ; Croffes which had been eredled in publick Places, at the Coft and Charge of the Emperor Co7iftanti?2e ; and fet up Julian's Image in their Place. Nay, in an Addrefs to him, they ftiled him the [x] only Pattern and Exemplar And when he was dead, they frequently of Juftice. and thinking in his wilhed their Protedor alive again flow in his Proceedings too Life Time that Julian was they probably Cbrijlianity, towards the Defirudion of
JDonatifts

Catholics

-,

[h]^aiJt7,(
<r/ac

sy

Nntc/zucTs/*

kx>i-

To. H.

p.

757-]
vobls
faiSje

'vrv?-f naL^iffAtai,

Socmth
169.

Hift.

Ouando JuHanui
dens pad,
quiE

Chrifli invl-

Ecclef. Lib. 3.

cap. i. p.

Edit,

Tiafilkas

rtddxAit,
funt,
fuis

unitang

CantabrigU 1720. [wi Quibusfuccedens ^K/L'wwidefertor inimicus fupphcannbus veftris Chrifti,

ftrages a vobis

&

vobifcum apertis Da:mones exultabant.

Y^tivzs
[*]

Templis

quando etiam

A$tguf:'m. contra
jiilti-

Roi^atiano
partis

&

Pnntio libertatem perdicioni

permific.

Petiliam Donatifr. Lib. 2, p. 136.

Donati

Denique tunc

Hxc

erac ejus przjudicanda

reddidit Xafilkas IfxreticJs, quando ternpla D<rwowm.- Eg mode putans C/)r//?/.jnum nomen poffe perire de terris, fi unitad EcclefiiK, de qua lapfus fuerar, inva-

tia,

quam

fupplicantes

Ro^atiantis

&

deret
fle

&

facriiegas difl>nfiones llberas

dicentes bomini Pontius laudaverunt, Apojiata, quod apud eum fola jt^fiitia babcrec locum. \_/^ug1*^{^ Id,ib;d. etEpift. 48. p. y^'

permittere:.

[^Augrjlln.

Ep.

166.

lent

i8

]
as

lent

him

a helping

Hand.
the

For

both [y]
the

St.

Jujlin
in

and Optatus obicrve, they

treated

Catholics

a
the
af-

way much exceeding

Heathens.
faulted

They

pulled

Rage and Barbarity of down their Churches, [z],

at
their

the Catholics

whilft

Devotions

flew

many of them

[a] profaned the

wichout regard to Quality, Age, or Sex ; holy Eucharilt by throwing the Elements to Dogs, which run mad upon it, and tore their
:

Mafters in pieces They fold the confecrated VelTels to the Heathens for the Service of their Idols pulled down Altars, and burnt the holy Scriptures. \h^ Felix, one of their Leaders, deflowered a Virgin, who had not long before acknowledged him as her fpi,

ritual

that

Guide And they committed fuch [<:] Outrages, were they not recorded by faithful Writers, might
:

exceed common Bdief. who went over to their

And

they treated
as

the Catholics
,

Communion

Pagans

by [d]
rebap-

[y""

In quo labor c multi

Eplfcopi

Catholici,

maxime
longum
li

&

Clerici

horrenda

& &

ante pater vocabatur^

minime
56.]
[c]

dubitavit,

nefarie inceftare [Optat. Lib. a. p.

dura perpelB
eft
;

extinli

funt, qus commemoirare quando quorundam et ocufunt, et cujufdam Epifcopi

Pejora mala nobis veftri nunc fa:

ciunt

manus
etiam
Cedes

et lingua prscifa eft

trucidati funt

Nonnulli Taceocudeliflimas
:

&

domorum

deprasdariones,

per

noiurnas ingrelfiores et incerdiaj non /olutn privatorum habitaculorum, verum cdam Ecclefiarum, in quas flammas codices dominicos mirdefuerunt, qui lerent. [j^ugpjiin. Ep. 50. ad "Bonifaciumy To. II. p. i2l.l [z] Veniftis r<ibidi, veniftis irati,

nos fuftibus quaPverum etiam in oculos excinguendos calcem mixtoaceto incredibili excogitarione fceleris mittunt. Domus infuper noftras compilan-

Non

tantum

fant, ferroque concidunt,

&

mm

terribilia fabriarma fibi ingentia carunt, quibus armati per diverfa difcur-

tes,

&

runt comminantes, atque anhelantes ca:jindes, rapinas, incendia, ca:c.tates. gHjiin. Epift. 68. p. 326, Vid. AHguftm. contra DonatiJl> poft Collat. Tom. VII.
p.

membra

fedui:ionibus,

laniantes Ecclefia: ; fubtiles in in ca-dibus immanes. fi-

6of.

lios pads ad beIJa provocante Bafil cas invafiftis, &c. [Optat. de Schifmat. Lib.

[d] CrlfpiriMS vefter Calamitantn cum emiflet pofleflionem, non dubitavit in

a. p. 54.] [a] Id. lb. p. 55- JulTerunt euchariftiam canibus fundi, non fine figno dlvini judicii; nam iid em canes accenfi rabie, ipfos dominos fuos quafi latrones fanfti corpons reos dcnte vindice tanquam \ginimicos laniav runt. notos [^3 Interea fupra memt.ratus F*Ux facinora [Idicreenfis] inter crimina fua, nefanda, ab eo comprehenfi;m puellam,

fundo CathoHcorum Imperaiornm, quorum legibus, nee in civitatibus efle juffi ei'>is, uno terroris impetuoftagintaanimas miferabili

Gemicu

muflitantes, rebapt'izari'

&

&

do fubmergere. [Augujim. contra literal PitUtaniy Lib. a. To. 7. p. J37, 155.] Audent etiam rehapti^are CathoUcoSy ubi amplius fe efle Hzreticos confirmarunr. vult jittgttfiin. de Hxrejihns, ad Dtum Diaconum, Tom. Vl. p. 28 ]

^od

Nos

eis

eui

mitram

ipfe impofuerat, qua paulo

ubaftizationii infaniam,

objicimus furorem fchifmatis, ab Hxred.tate

Chrifti,

[19]
Nay, if rebaptizing them, adding [e] Exorcifm thereto. we may give Credit to Confiantinus HarmempuluSy [who lived in the 12th Century according to Dr. [/] Cave^ namely in the Year 1150, but is placed in the 14^1, by
[^] Fiibricius]. They made ufe of [b] Ceremonies not pradifed by the Catholks in the Sacraments ; and impofed new Covenants upon thofe who went over to their Communion, exhorting their Followers not to approach For which St. Aujlin the Affemblies of the Catholics, expoftulates with [/] Crifpiuus^ a wealthy and leading Man amongfl: the Donatifts. Julian was fucceeded in the Empire by Valentinian^ a true Friend to the Chriftian Religion, though he joined to himfelf his Brother VaIn the fifth Year of his Empire [^] kns an Arian. died Donatus the fecond, (liled by his Followers, as has been before obferved, Donatus the Greats and was fucceeded as fchifmatical Bifhop of Carthage, by Parmenian., againft whom Optatus wrote [/] fix Books at leaft ; and [m] Saint Aujlin likewife wrote againft him. For a Lift of the Catholic and Donatift Biftiops of that
Chriftl,

qux peromnesgentes

difFufa eft,

nefariam feparationem. [Aug. Ep, 162. Tom. II. p. 75 J-. VideEpift. 172., 175.] Bapt.fma audaier, quod contra !e-

Hothec. Vet. ParlJiU i6xx.

[/J

Patmm,

Tcii;.

I.

p.

^36.

AngnjUn. -on.

Crefcon.

Grammat.

&

Lib. 3.
[kj

ges eft iteratis. [Optat. Lib. i. p. 35. Chriftus dicit in Evangelio, qui femel lo tus non habet icerum neceffitatem lavandi, tu rebaptizando iterum lavas.
f<f.

Tom. VII. p. Hoc tempor-,

265.
'

Scil.

Ann. 368.]

[Op-

DiiiunQ.o Dnnato P[^a:^o EpifcDpo Carthagiwienft p<rcis fchirmaticorum, imo cav'ns Don ztijiarttm, fubrogatus eil in ejus
l')rum ab
i

Lib, 4. p.yS-J
V.
s

faem

izt />(\^

P arrmnianus

e-

rebaphzando exorcizatis hominem fidelem, dic:tis deo habicanti, malediae exi foras. [Optat. Lib. 4. p. Quid iniquius quam f.vorazdrf fpi79.] ritum fanftum, alcaria frangere, eucha[e]

jufdem

kdx

cenaciirimus

cuftos atqiie

&

defenfbr.

["Barofiii

Avm\.
p.

No.

12. Ti>ir,. IV.

p. 21.;

ad Ann. 3^8. 224. V.cie ecam

Eccieliaft.

3rt/^i^^q/:Annal. Pol

nco

Tom.

HI
f/J

animalibus projicere ? [Optat. Lib. 2. p. fS.J [/] Cave's Hift. Literar. Sxc. Wat[Edit. Londmi 1698. denf. p. 386. [g] F^fcnVzV Bibliothec. Grxc. Tom.
riftiam

of Opinion, that rhe feEcclef, fuppoGtirious. Hift. of the 41 1 Cen.'ury, Vol. II. p- ^7. Opinion; Tr'-cu/pkus wis ni & difFerert

Dupin

is

venth Book

is

iil'us
fit

memimt
Tom.

Treculphus,

Optatmkr>p.
Politic^

X.

174.1 [h] Oi ts-ipi Tov AiVaTov h^uv

p.
\ii-t~vo

adverfum

Z)o<u;.7w< p.irris caiumr.ias

'rZ

X-'f'

^'^^^^ ?
clef.

["Baftiagn
III.

AwnA.
Op.

EcVI',

jtetTixcvTjf

irpiTjpov rj77ret^^vro,

Kxt

p 22.

ivTu

/uirAAU/u.Cdv:)v rav dynta-judTo v. Cwjiantini Harmenopul, de St^is, Bib-

p. i,

[m] Vide AngujUru &c.

Tom.

See,

20

]
[;';;]

See,

I refer the

Reader

to the

Margin.
for the

Gratus for the Catholics^ and Parnienian were Biuiops of Carthage in the 7iaUjis^ What Temper and Difpofition the latter was Bifhop of Miievh^ and his Contemporary,
at large.

Do0,6^.

Year

of Optatus^ has proved

He
fall

was near

as

proud

as [o] [p']

Donatus^ and

did not

much

fhort of

him

in

Calumny and

[^] Cruelty. Valentinian

made fome good lawsagainft this wretched but they had not the Effect of thofe Laws made againft them by fome of his Succefibrs. Valentinian and Valens being dead, they were fucceedSe5l
\

ed by^ Gratian

and Valentinian the younger [about the

;

Year 378] who left the Government of the Empire in a who, though great Meafure to the Care of Theodofius be ufed the moft powerful and prudent Means, both then and afterwards when he was Emperor, to fupprefs Donati/is, yet he could not do it efFeflually. By tiie Law made in his Time, they were commanded to One leave the [r] Emperor's Dominions ; and in this Law, by which all the Laws made againft them, by preceding
the
[n]

Emperors,

were confirmed,

they

are

ranked

in

Number of
a

the moft peftileut Heretics.

qui

Series Ep'ifcoporum

Carth.f

Series

gtni prj:fuerunt,

Menjitrio

ad

Colld-

per

Epifcoporum Donatifiarum, qui idem tempus Cartkagini tuerunt.

Mjjorlnus Primus Donat':ftarum

tionem.

McnfuriHs,
CcU'<anjts,
Rttfjts.

Dmatus

alter,

five Cafcnjis*

Donatus Magnus.
Pa-'menLinui-

CratHS.
GenetHiiS.

Primianus-

Aurelius,

[Albafpinai ob ervar. 3. in

OpirittiTn,

p. 10.]

fuperbiam, omnes qui in Chrifto crediderant Chriftiani vocarentur, aufus eft populum cum deo dividere U: qui ilium fecuti Tunc jam Chrifiianl non vocarentur, fed Dona[0]
ipfius
:

Deinde cum ante

[p] Et tamen

ftudio criminandi li-

<//?.; Et fi quandoad eum aliqui tx ali^ua Africajia provincia veniebanr, ilico ad fmgulos quofque veniences hsc erant verba, quid apud vosagitur departemea? Quafi jam vere pupulum cum deo divifjjar, ut intrepid e fuam diceret partt-in. [Optat. de Schifmar. Donat:Jh Lib- 3.

Vomuifti banter bla^hemare voluifti [Optat. de de peSore tuo convitium. Schifm. Donatijl. adverfus ParmenianHm, Lib. 2. p. 51.] [9] Optat. Lib. 2. p. 54[r]

Nufquam

in

Romanum locum

conveniendi, mnrandique habeant facultarem. [Cod. Jufi'mlan. Lib. i. Tit. 5.

Seel.

Imp. Theodof. 8c Valentinian. 5. Florentio PrKfeio Przetorio.] Vide leges Gratianl adverfus Donatijl as, "Baf-

Csf

p, 66.]

na^ii

Ann. Tom.

III. p.

147, &c.

jrcadius

[21]
Arcadius and Honorius^ fucceeding
dofius the Greats
tlieir

Father Theoagainft them.

made

feveral fevere

Laws

One

was, that under the

name of

Heretics^ under

which

Clafs they are frequently ranked in the [j] hnperial Ld.wSy though they were in Propriety no more than [f\ Schif-

They were [//] denied all Places of publick malks. Worfliip under whatfoever Denomination ; and were forbid fuch Meetings under a large and fevere [w] Penalty.

Nay,
*' *'

the following

Law

was exprefsly made againft

[x']

the Manichees and

fervedly,

Donatifts.

We

profecute

"

the

Manichees and Bonatifls with Severity, and that de-

commanding,
with others
-,

that they enjoy not the

fame

" "

Privileges
againft
Chriftians

our holy pronounce them therefore incapable : '^ of enjoying any publick Bounty, or of the Power of ' making Wills and bequeathing their Goods." And by the lame Law, their Sons were debarred from inheriting their Eftates, unlefs they renounced the Errors of their Fathers ; and all Servants who forfook fuch Mafters, to hold Communion with the Catholics^ were hereby indemnified.

becaufe their Offence being Religion, is a common Injury to

"

We

[5] Vid. Calvin, Lexicon

J urlduum
Nee
ipfa

ihh

Jujilnian. Lib.

voce Hxrejzs.
[f] Dow<f(/?<c

unam

Triniracis fubftan-

tiam confirentur.
illis

vercitur qusftio, fed de fola

cum Com-

I. Tit. 5. Sel. 3. Imp^ Arcad. Honor. A A. Ckarcho Pr^eitSio Urb.] [n?] Ad hoc interdicatur his omnibus ad licanias faciendas nofte vel die profa-

&

contra munione infeliciter litigant, unitatem Chrifti rebelles inimicitias perverfitate fui

&

nis coire conventibus,

ftatuta

videljcec
auri

condemnatione centum librarum

tra officium fublimitatis tux,

con-

erroris
II.

exercer.t. An^ttftlm

vel

prafi-^

Ep. 50. apud vos

Tom.

Op.

207.

Denicjue

diale
fieri

quinquaginta,

fi

quid

hujufmodi

&

apud nosuna

eft Ecclefiaftica

converfatlo,
teria.

communes Ieliones, eadem

eadem myfde

concedicur.

vel in publico vel in privatis Kdibuj fid. ibid.j

fides, ipfa fideifacramenra,

[Optatl
5. p.

Lib.

84.

Schlfmat, Donatiji. Vide etiam. Lib. 3. p.

Ix] Mafiich^es, vel Manich<tas, ve! Donatijias meritillima feveritate perfequimur; huic itaque hominum generi nibH

72.] [] Can6ti Hxretli ^rocul dubio noverinc omnia fibi loca adimenda efle, five fub Ecdeftarum nomine teneantur, Diacouica appellantur, vel etiam five Decanica ; five in privatis a;dibus, vel locis hujufmodi ccetibus copiam prsberevideanrur, his aedibus, vel Incis privatis Cod. Eeclefis Catholics vindicandis.

ex
fit

moribus,

niliil

cum

cxteris.

eis

exiftere,

h^redesauc adire permittimus, nifi

filios

Sed nee
efle

ex legibus

commune.

a paterna pravicate difceflerint.

Servos
:

infuper extra

noxam

volumus

Si

dominum
rint.
/7;p.

facrilegum evitantes ad Ecclei.

fiam Catholicam fervitio fideliore rranfie-

Cod. Lib.
Arcadius,

Tit, 5.
5c c.

Sedl. 4.

Hon orius,

Thefc

22

Thefe Laws were indeed fevere enough, (and may feem too rigorous and harfh to our modern Libertines and Free thinkers) and to fuch as had any regard to the civil Governors, would have [ )'] lawful Injundions of been thought obligatory, but to the Bonatifts^ who were not eafily rrfirained by Laws, they werj of little Ef^eem. In the Year 401, AureUus Bifhop of Cari:oage affcmbled a Council at [z] Carthage^ in order to bring over the Duimtlfls to the Catholic Coj?imumon, offering to fuch of their Bifhopsas would return to the Church, a Continuance of thofe [a] Dignities which they were poflefTed of amongft the Donatiffs : But even thefe ConcefTions

would not prevail with them. At [b] Milevis likewife was a Council aflembled about the Year 402 at which Saint Au[tin was prefent, and he defcribes their accurfed Pra6lices, giving one inftance [c] of a young man, who having been rebuked by his Bifhop, for treating his Mother barbaroufly, he threatned her upon it, to go over to the Donatijh^ and that then he would murder her. Upon which he flies to them, and is rebaptized^ and in white Garments, fuch as were ufed by the Circumcellians^ he fheds his Mother's Blood. From which Inftance Saint
,

Aufiin obferves, that

this

barbarous Wretch^

who

whilft

of the Catholic Churchy

otit

durft not ftrike his

Mother withflew

Reproof-, when he with Impunity.

became a Donatift^

her

torum

Quicunque ergo legibus imperaDei veritate feruntur, obtemperate non vult, acquirit grande fup"[y]

ceptis

poffe perfeverare.
!S/n;V Concil.

'Baron.

H.

ib.

ouje pro

p. 141.

[b\
[c]

Tom.
id

pricium.
p. 210.

Attgujiin. Ep.

jo.

Tom.

II.

Quid enim

execrdb'illus

ut alia taceam,
die.

quam

I. p. 777. quzfo te quod nunc acci-

[x] Porro AureUus Epifcopus Carthaginenfts, folicitus fuit ut hoc

Corripitur ab Epifcopn fuo juvenis,

illis

eodem anno,

crebris caed.bus manris, infanus, et impias

ritas

ex omnibus Africans Fcclefias provmciis ad fynodum colligerentur Epifcopi, ind'lxirque fynudum generalem ad menfem Sepcembris, ut omnium fententia fummi ponderis res tralarptur, nimirum pax
univerfalis
ronii

manus nee legum

diebus
eft

cum

ctiam feve-

fceleratiffimis parcit, a vifce-

ribus unde natus

eidtm matri

fe in

revocans, minatur partem Donati tx^u(\-

cum omnibus Donatrjlis. XaAnnal. ad Ann. 401, Tom. V. p.

Ut
DonatiJJis

folec

tranfit in

turum, earn quam incredibili furore Minatur ei, cxdere perempturum. partem Donati, rebaptizatur fuin

&

141.
[<]

rens, et

maternum
II. p.

fanguinem

fre-

redire

ad Ecclcfiam Catholicam in iifdem ojrdinibus apud fuos ante fuf-

volentibus indulgeretur

mensalhisvejiibuscindiditur. [Augujlln*

Ep, 168.

Tom.
%

765, 766.]

In

In the Year 404, another Council was held at [J]

Carthage againft the Donatifts^ which fent two of their Bifhops, Theafius and Evodius^ to the Emperor Honorius^ defiring his Protedion of the Catholic Churches^ and an Enforcement of thofe Laws made by preceding Emperors againft the Donati^s, Upon the Complaint of
thefe Bifhops,

Honorius was exceedingly grieved, and granted every Thing that the [<?] Catholics rcquefted upon this Occalion and made fome [/] ad-iitional Laws againft the Donatijh which though they did not wholly put an end to the Schifm, yet tended in a great Meafure
-,

to [g~\ leflen their

Numbers.
a great

Saint Jujiin
tion in every

who was
-,

Enemy

to [h] Perfecu-

and thought before the Promulgation of thefe Laws, that no one ought to be compelled to Unity, but to be perfuaded by found Reafons and good Arguments to Conformity Yet from the good Effe6t of theie Laws, he altered his [f] Opinion, and obferved' [,^], that his City, (namely Hippo^ of which he was Bilhop) which had been almoft entirely feduced

Shape

by
[d] "Baron, ad Ann. 404.

Tom.

V.

nitifta mererenrnr,

No. 123, &c.

[f]
norlns
;

p.

240.
imperator Horefcriptis

Annut his omnibus

uc ejus

fed quod expedire novera: in hac causa, id ut tieret a Cxfaris pra:fe3:is contendebat. "Beza de Hxreticis

anno fequenci
241.

mag-firatu

pttmend's,

datis intelligi poteft, Id.ib. p,

Theologic.
f/j
lic )S

Vl
fi

Tradat,

I.

p.

[f]
26.
p.

"Baron, ad

Ann. 405.

No. Zf,

poflem

tibi

alibi. 253. Secuta quidem ef^ ex fententia unitas, non itatamen nx. Dnnat'fin omnes ad Catholicam reverfi fiint Ecclefiam, remanentibiis eorum aliquibus obftinatioribus, quos nee ratio, nee merus cor\Baron. ad Ann. 405-, Sedl. 36. rexit.

&

142. Geneva 1 576. oftendere ex ipCis

Circttmcellinmhss

quzm multos jam Catho-

[^]

habeamus, damnantes fuam priftinam vitam, mifcrabilem errorem, quo fe arbicrabantur pro Ecman-ifeftos

&

clefja

ritate faciebant

^^4-j

Deifacere, quicquid inqu.eta rerhead hanc fa; qui ramen nitatem non perducerentur, nifi le^ura i!*arum qus tibi difplicent, vinculis tan-

[h- Verum li ejus [fcilicec Aftgufi'im] exemplum fine difcrimine fequi Tiber, quia Dpnatifits non modo Haeredcis valde
fediciofis, fed

qua m Phrienetlci ligarentur. [yltf^ujlin, Ep ft. 48. ad yinctndum, p. 1 6 7. J Nan illos auc illos homines, fed mu!tas

dis pee
fuit,

am

capitis

etiam crudeliirimis homiciirrogandam non cen-

civitaces
eflfe

videmus

fuilT- D.natlfias^

nunc

Catholicos, deteftari

vehementer

quid fupereft nifi uc fceleraris omnibus parcatur, modo reliquis fceleribus Quid igiHterefeos crimen adjunxerint.
tur

d'tabolicam feparationcm,

nnitatem.
[k]

y^u^ttfiin.

Nam mea
ad
efTe

ardenter Ep, 48. p. 174. primitus fententia erst

dili,^'.ere

nempe

ut ego

quidem

arbitror,

non

neminem

fpeftabat

Augttjiinui

tifiarum vita pibus in Hsreticos liceret, vel quid

pro Donaintercederic, quid princi-

quum

dum, verbo pugnandum,

unitdem Chriftj co^'enagendum, difputacione

vincendum, re
quos apertns
HiirstUdt

ratione

Da*

jklos Catholicos bab^iCTiUS,

24

Emperors Laws, which punifhby the Bonatifts^ with was as much united in of them Deaths fome cd

by

the

Catholic Unity, as if there had

that Place.

never been a Schifm in

For being firfl: awed by Fear, that Truth (which was not to be met with amongft i\\\v fchifmatical Leaders) afterwards convinced them, and made them abhor their former wicked Praflices. " They were reconciled in Crouds, [/] (fays M. ' Ahhs Fleury) from the Time that the Laws were pub*' lifhed againft them, and particularly that of the 22d *' of June 414, by which they were all fined in very *t confiderable Sums. But thofe whom the Severity of

'^ *'

thofe

Laws

could not prevail with to

return to the

Church, broke out with greater Fury than before, ' which they carried to fuch a Heigth, as to kill them*' felves out of mere Spight to the Catholics^ in order ' to load them with the hatred of their Death. Cer*^ tain good People, being terrified at thcfe Examples, *' were in doubt whether it were not better to let them *' alone, than to urge them too far." In the Year 41 S, the ifl of May^ all the Bifhops of Africa met in full Council at Carthage^ and [w] " there ^' drew up feveral Canons touching the Reunion of the *' Bonatifts, in order to fix upon a Cathedral to which *' the feveral private Churches, which the Bifhops had * reunited either before or fince the enadting of the im*' perial Laws againft them, fhoujd be fubordinate In
;
:

*^

what manner
noveramus
;

their reunited Bifhops fhould fhare the

fed

Httrettcos

hxc opinio
verbis,
fed

exemplum
hue

imitari vifum eft

ec

orthodoxis,

jnea

non contradlcentium

donee Donattjlarnm^
infania

CircumcelUonnm

demonftrantlum fuperabatur exemplis. Nam prime mibi opponebatur civitas mea, quj cum tota effet in parte Donati, ad unitatem Catholicam timore legwm imperialium converfa eft, quam nunc
vidimus ita hujus veflrx animofiratis perriciem deteftari, ut in ea nunquam fuifle
48. p. 174. iEtatem ^ttgpji'ini, hoc eft ^plus quam quadringentis port Chriftum, -narum annis, nufquam legimus orthocredatur.
u4tigKfiln, Epift.

pervellerec pervicax

&

infanabilit

nimium

diu tolerata.

Nam

pra:fi

ter fchifma,
proceffiflet,

quo non aliud

agitabant,

exltiabilius

vulnerabant, injeaa in oculos calce aceto temperara cxoculabant orthodoxos alios occidentes, alios ad homlcidium metu mortis adigen* tes. Erafmi Apolog. ziverins Monachos

Ufqiie ad

Hifpams, Tit. 4 Tom. JX. p. 1054, Edit. Lugdun. "Batavor. 1706. Hiftory, Book 25, [/J Ecclefiaftical
Vol.
3.

dnxos implorafle praefidium adverfosH^:jfticos,

p.

I99

cum

id

frequenciftime fai:um eft

;

[rn\ Fleury , ibid. p. ail.

ab

ipfis

Hxrciicis

nunquam camen hoc

'

Diocefe


*'

r Dlocefe with the Catholic Bifhops In what manner the Zeal of thofe fhould be rewarded^ who were par:

25]

"

ticularly afTiduous in converting the neighbouring People j" with feveral other good Laws tending to

Union. This Schifm had already fubfifted in the African Church, to its great Difturbance above a Century And though it is plain, (as has been already obferved) that the Laws made againft the Bonatifls had much leiTened their Numbers, by engaging many of them to Conformity with the Catholic Churchy fo that it was not in the Power of the reft to give much Difturbance ; yet that they ftill had a being in Jfrica for near two hundred Years longer, is evident from the genuine [n]
:

Epiftles of Gregory the Great^

ter

who

flourifhed at the lat-

and died at the beginning of the feventh Century^ namely in the Year \o'\ 604. It is obferved of him by Monfieur Bupin^ (with fome fmall Hints of Iks Supremacy as Bifhop of Rome,) [p] ' That *' he ftood up againft the Donatijls of Afric^ and hin"s dred a Bonatift Bifhop from being Primate of iV* midia ; and chofe in his Room one Columhus, whom /^ he made his Delegate and Agent. He ordered him *' afterwards to hold an AfTembly of the Bifhops of * Numidia, to judge a Bifhop who was accufed for tak. ing Money to fuffer a Bonatift Bifhop in his City '' and defires he may be depofed, if he was convided * of his Crime For it is very juft (fays he) that one,
i\\Qjixth^
:

end of

*'

"
<<

hath fold Jefus Chrift for Money to a Heretic^ fhould henceforth be difabled to difpenfe the holy Myfteries, B. 2, Ep. 33. On the other hand he ex[] Id

who

unum

monuiffe non pigebir,

hoc fchifma
rafle.

Nam

diutilTime in Afric& perfevcpontificaru Gregorii magnl,

facile ad pac?m et uniratem Ecdefias revertuntur, qui fe ab ea temere abruperunt, [FalcJ. de Schifm. Donatiji, cap.

nee

id eft annis fere trecentis ab ordinatione Majorini, Donhijiarum fchifma adhuc per jifricam viguit ; ut docec Gregorins in libro I. Epiftola 7f. ad Epifcopos 2/-

18. p. 785-.]
[oj

Dupin's Eccl. Hift. of the fixth

p^ 73.
ibid, p. 89.

Cent,
Epift.

[p] Dnpm,
2.

V\Aq Launotl
Vertolitnfi

midia

:Sx.

Ep. 33.

lib. 2.

et

in libro 3.

Ep 3i> 35*

&

^1* adeo tenax

in libro J. Ep. 36, efl erroris fui fchifma

&
>

Michaeli
p.

Girardi,

Abbati,

617.

horted

[
*

a6

"
.

horted Pantaleon Governor, of Afric^ to put a flop to the Progrefs of this Schifm^ B. 3. Ep. 32, q^p,,

'
'

an order, forbidding to admit the Bonatifts were convidted into the Clergy,** which plainly proves the Miftake of [^] Balduin, a famous Civilian^ who, though he allows that the Bonatifts fubfifted in the Time of Gregory the Great in other Places, yet feems to think, that Africa was pretty free from them. I Ihall now conclude this (hort Hiftory of the Bonatifts^ with an Account of fome of thofe [r] Se^s which fprung from that fchifmatical Monger ; which, though they were much divided amongft themlelves, yet united their Forces whenever an Opportunity of aggri^ing the Catholics offered itfelf ; and thefe Se5is received a Denomination from their feveral Leaders. The [j] Luciferians were the moft moderate, and were fo called from [t] Lucifer Calaritamis Bifhop of Sardinia ; he was prefent at the Council of Nice^ and was a zealous Defender of the Catholic Faith againft the Arians \ for which he was banifhed when they were in Power and yet he afterwards fepa rated from the Cat holies, becaufe fome Arians [], upon renouncing their rorf, were admitted into the Catholic Churchy and made capable of holding ecclefiaftical Preferments.

He made

" who

[if]

Nam et Grc^oWJ
fuifle,

Font,
tuic

remporlbus

mulcos paiTim
paret.
caJia,
iibcra_

ex

ejus Epiftolis

randem

apEcclefia ^/r/-

God forbid) that they will crumble like the Donatifis into Variety of Seds, and
receive
different
their Leaders,
field,

puHis Vandalis^ reftituta fuas libertati imperiotjue Rom. [Hirior. Carihagtnerif,

&

Denominations from Namely, the Wejleys, J^hit^

CoUat- a Fra.
Optat. p. 657.

'BaldttinOf

J. C.

Append.
[r]

In^haviy De Lamotte, Rogers, Seward, and Howel Harris^ [jj See an Account of the Errors of

Multa inter Donatljias

fafta funt

the
et

ab eis fe diverfis coetibus fchi(mat3, alii atque alii fepararunt. Forbefn Infirua. Hiftorico-Theologicar. Lib. 14.

&

Lnciferians,

jiugujiin.
III. p.

de Agone
Defpiritii

ChrtfiianOf

Tom.

anima, Tom.III.

775. p. 888.

664. E6.\u A7vjieldari 1702. Methndifts are now much divided amongft themfelves. Mr. 3r n one of the firft, as I am told, a man of a truly religious Difpoficion, and anEnemy to Schifm and Fa^iion, hath met with fufficient Provocation to quit the Cofnmximvn oi tht(Q hot headed Zealots,
cap. 4.
p.

[r] Luciferiams a Lucifero Calarltana Epifcopo exortos, &c. Augufiln. de Hx'

The

refibusad quod vnlt

Deum, Tom. VI, p.

Hoc difpUcuit Lucifero, quia facturn eft in eis fufcipiendis atque fanandit
qui

30. []

veneno perierant Arlano

Et

cui

difplicu'.r, in

Tenebras cecidit Schifmat'is,

And

it is

probable, that

if

this filly

amiflb luminc charitatis. Attgufiin, Eij* <jo. Tom, II. p. 2aS.

Sea fliould

fubfift foj-

any TimB, (which

The

27

were another Seel of Do7ia' moft defperate Sedt amongll them. the They and tlfts^ were their Bravos^ or HeHors^ to fwagger and fight for them upon all Occafions They were the Zealots that
[u?] Ctrcumcellians
:

The

pretended to higher Difpenfations than their Brethren for it was their Opinion, that they were infpired by God to a(5t and fuffer extraordinary Things, which they were ready to attempt, whenever their Brethren or their
,

Lulls did tempt them thereunto. Another Se^ of them was raifed by Salvlus one of he built a Church for his Party, and kept their Bifhops but being abana Separate Congregation for feme Time doned by the Donatiffs, who condemned him in one of their [x] Synods^ he was given up to the Fury of the Circumcellians, who hung [y] dead Bogs ahoiit his Neck, and danced round him, finging filthy Songs.
, ,

own

[] Ad hancHserefim
jlli

in Aphrlca, et pertinent qui appellantur Clrcnmcel-

IV. per de la "Eigne y

floruit circa

p.

ai.

Vhilafirlm

Ann.

380.

Vide Sxculum

genus hominum agrefte, et fanon folum in alios mofiilims audacis immania facinora perperrando, fed iiec Nam per fibi infana fericate parcendo. mortes varias, maxime prscipitiorum, ignium, felpfos necare et aquarum, et
lionetf
;

Areanum.
[at]

Allegabant

C^x/f'sHift. Literar. p. 2.28. veftri 'Bagaienfe conflaf^itabanr, in "Ba-

cilium,

& damnacos

galenfi facris aedibus pelli inftabatur, dicta caufa eft,- cum eo prasfente, Sahitrm

Membrejitanum, Hsrecicum
viciftis,

oftendffis,

confuerunt, et in iftum fur-jrem alios quos potuerint, fexus ucriufque feducere aliquando ut occidantur ab iis, morrem
nifi fecerint

comminantes.

\^Aagnfiin. de

Hxrefibus, ad ejuodvult

Deum Diaconum,

VI. p. 28.] Porro fi nos velimus probare vos efle jnterfeclores prophetarum, nimis Iongum fit ut per loca fingula colligamus quas furiofi vertri principes Clrcnmcelliontim, et ipfx catervK vinolentorum atque infanorum juvenum asdiderint ab initio fchifmatis veftri, fed omnino cedere deuiufiftant ftrages de proximo agro. gujlin. contra literas Patiliani, Lib. 2. p.
Cinumcellknes^ Thllaftrms Circui cores vocar, haerefi tregefima feptima in Africa (inquit) funt, qui Circuttores dicuntur, hi

Tom.

contra Crefcomnm Grammaticum, Lib. 3. Tomt VIL p. 276.] [7] Membrejitanis fuis dicitenim J**?/vius, cur tantas Abitinenfes plagas contumelias intulerunr, per quas ifti meruerunt ut de Ecclefia pelierentur i uc ejus cervici etiam mortuorum canum caUt poftremo cum davera colligarent illo ad turpes voces, cantat'ionefque falQnem fermonem, pofteaquam tarenr. tanta perpeflus eft, eum puramiis habuifle cum fuis, quos miferos decepic, uc alteram (ihi'LuJiUcam fabricarenc. Tafcorum tyrannorum commemorarur antiqua credulitas, qui mortuavivis, humana humanis corpora conjungebant: Canina hxcEpifccpallhnsmtmvero humanis, bris, nefcio utrum quifquam fe vel audi0e
expuliftis.

[Attgvftin.

&

&

quos inveniuni in circumeunt terras, via, cogunt eos ut interciantur ab illis dicentesfe defiderare pati martyrium
Forbefti Inftrut.

&

unquam

vel legiffe

commemorat.

Hiftorico-Theologic. Lib. 14. cap. 4. p. 664. Vide etiam Philajirti Epifcopi ^ri:(ienjis Libr. de Ha:ref, Biblioihec.

contra Epiftolam Taryne* mani Donatijixy Lib. 3. Tom. VTl. p. 73. AngMjiln. contra Crefcon. Gfammat. Lib. 4. cap. 48. Vide 3./4g8
[Atigitftin,

Annal. Tom. IIL p. 14S.]

patrum veterum,

Tom,

Thcrs

[.28]
them called Maxmintamjlsy There was was who Competitor with Primiafrom Mamniniarius^
another Se5f of

being of the \z] Alliance fome good Women, he was aflifted by and Donatus, of but for any real Worth or Abiin hopes of Succefs lity, other than to be at the Head of a Party or Fadlion,
tnus for the See of Carthage^
*,

Auftin fomewhere obferves, that Maximinianus might have been Minimianus^ and Priniianus Pofremianus\ The Aflembly was divided, but the greater Part voted for Prirnianus^ to the no fmall Difturliance oi Maixu minianus. and his Adherents, who from that Time refufed and gathered to hold Communion with their Brethren ieparate Congregations, and in a fmall Time he and his Brethren had engaged forty three Bifhops of their Side, and thefe condemned Primiams, and acknowledged
St.
,

Mamninianus

for their Primate.

Nay,

St.

Auftin takes

notice of another meeting, in which were one hundred

Bifhops that confirmed Maximmianus \ but ftill Pribeing above [a] tnianus^s Party out-numbered them, three hundered Bifhops, and thefe fhortly after at another Synod at Bagata^ refcinded all that the MaximimaTiiffs had done and eftablifhed Primianus in the See, Saint \h'] Au^in (an Author in high efleem even with [r] fome who were not greatly attached to the Fathers) gives a good account of this Matter, and informs us,
[s:]

Qusrite per

quam foeminam M<jr-

[^j]

Sed

de

numero contend is cum

ut dixi faveo,

tniniamts, qui dicitur eJTe Donatl propin-

Maxlmlnianijlis-,

trecenti

quus.

fefeaCommunione Primiam, frx,

ciderit

et quemadmodum congregata F.pifcoporum fa6iione, Primiannm damxiaritjibfentem,&adverfus eum Epifcopu5 ordinatus fie jiuguftin. Epift. 162. p.

737.

Apud
tra

Carthaglnent Maxlminlinns conerroiis

decern plures funt quam centum, vel quoc tuerunr, qui damnaverunc a parte Maximimarti Primianttm. [Angttjiin* Er narrat. in Pfalm. xxxvi. Tom. VlII. p. 300.] lb j^ugujlin. contra Crefcomum Gram macicum. Lib. 3. Tom. Vll. p. 273,
!

Prlmiamim ab ejufdem

cen-

&c.
'

turn ferme Epifcnpis ordina'us ; et a reliquis treceritis decern, cum eis duodecim qui ordinationi ejus etiam prasfantla corporali interfuerunt, atrocifHma

[]

De

Angujlino vero quid

dicam

>

Ego

certe

de

iilo

non

aliter fei tire

me

profiteer,

quam de eo

qui in explicandi*
capitibus,

prascipuis

Chrijilanic rdigionis

criminacionedamnatuscompuliteos nofle etIam ex:ra Ecclefiam dare pofle biptifmum Chrifti. [Augnfiin, de Hasref. ad ^uod vult Deum Diaconuin, Tom. VI. p. 28- Vide Tom, VII, p. 15. EpiU. 50. "ifonio II. p. 2^5

veteres

omnes, turn Grtcos^ turn Latinot fcriptores, men quidem judicio longo

["Beza de HxretUis a magiftratu puniendis. Tral. Theolointervailo fuperavic.

gic.

Tom. L

p. 141.J

that

that they

Scruple execute the imperial occafioned Divifions in their Churchj the Maximinianiffs but thought it Perfecution, when the CathoUcks proceeded by the fame Laws againft
with6tit

could

Laws

againft

(fuch

as

them ; :and farther obferves, that the^- Maximinianifls were compared by them, to [d] Core^ Dalhan, and Abiram ; and that they pronounced Sentence againft them in a lofty (if not blafphemous) Scile. Nay, he fully confutes them from their own Arguments againft
the [e] Maximinianifts,

Though
[/]
Secfs

the Donaiilfs

were branched out into more

will allow me to take notice of. Yet how they agree in many refpeds with a modern Seft of Enthufiafts^ called Methodi^Sy I

than

my

intended Brevity

Ihall

endeavour to prove by a Comparifon

in the

follow-

ing Appendix,
[dl Sic certe incipit ea fententia cum omnipotenris Dei Chrifti ejus voluntare in Ecclefia 'Bagalenfi concilium gereremus, Gamalms, Primianus, Pontius, &c
['Bafnagil
illos

&

[e\ Coepic

Annal. Tom. III. p. 148.] hoc eorum faAum contra

era

pro Catholica multum valere, uc eorum penitus clauderentur. [^u-

et cateri

numero

trecenti decern.
eji,

Placuit

gufi'm,

Spiritui Saniio qui in nobis

pacem

fchifmata refecare firmare perpecpam, facrilega. Denique cum multa in eos horrenda vomuiflent, paulo poft aic Maxivnirtianum fidei xmulum, veritacis adulterum, Ecclefije matris inimicum,

&

Epift. jo. Tom. II. p, 215, Vide etiam Enarrac. in Pfalm, xxxvi. p. Z93> 294.

[/]

Optatus takes

notice of a

Seft

amongft them fomewhat refembling the fakers.

Abiron miniflrum, de Dathan, Core, facis gremio fententia fulmen excuffit.

Angufiin. contra Crefconium, Lib. 3, p.

&

Dum aliqui veftrum non intelledlas proferunt ledtiones i ut auferant eciam

illud, efle

&

quod inter omnes homines folet

falutationis videlicet ofipfi

commune,

275.]

ficium.

Nam

et vos

aliqui

in per-

Horrendum quod legimus in Augufij. m, [Ep. 66.J modo praconem mififtis,

qui clamaret

funloria

falutatione ofcula folita

dene-

MaxiniiniaHO (ommuaicaverit incendetur domus ejus.

Quifquis

gatis. Et docencur multi, ne Ave dicant cuiquam noftrum, Optat, Lib. 4. p.

78.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.
The proud
Pharifee.

Mr.

Whitefield, &c.
therefore I

l^l/^OD, yJT ^hat

ether

I thank
] a?n

thee,

not as
xviii.

NO W
England.']

am

Men

are^

Luke

II.

convinced, that there is a fundamental Difference between us and them, [Viz. The Methodtfts and the Clergy of the Church c^
fully

They believe only an

ward
Chrift
:

out-

We
in

further

believe, that he muft be in-

wardly formed
alfo
;

our Hearts

but the natural

Man

receiveth not the

the Spirit of

Things of
;

God

for they

are

Foolifhnefs

to

them,

neither can they

difcerned.
JVhitfield'^

know them,
of Mr.

becaufe they are fpiritually

[Coj2t.

Journal from his arrival at London, p. 15.] Bleffed be God I find my

felfmuch refre/Jjcd in Spirit, and a new fupply of Strength given me Thus it Jhall he done to the Man whom God delighted to honour, \Whit:

Jield^

ibid.

By
fa] DoTiaiu! imitated the proud Pt^aTifeCy

the

p. 41.] Strength of

my

when he Taid, Non

[

haheo tjuod g-

know nothing for which Forgivenefs.] Oftat. de Schifmat. Dondtijiof. Lib. "S^^^ Fgrifiis J63I. -? P" J7
nofcat Dens,
I

may ask God

divine Leader I fhall at laft be more than Conqueror over the Canaanites^ and carnal Teachers amongfl the
Jfrael of God. [Id. ib. p.

79 J

My

31

J'he

proud

VhmkQ.

iWr. Whitefield, (^c.

My

Heart was
I

God, and
p. io8.]

full of /pake as one

having Authority,

fid. ib,

I felt the Power of God come upon me, and I fpake

with Demonftration of the Spirit to the Hearers Souls.

[Continuar. from his embarking &c. to his arrival at Savanna^ p. 72.]

Comparing himfelf with the Mijfionaries fent into the

We!f Indies.

"

I think, (fays he) there

vifible

"
''

was a
after

Difference

we had been preach-

ing amongft them."

I faji
[Luke

twice in the Week,

"

[Whitfield, Ibid. p. ^6.1 I now" [viz. after his

xviii. 11.]

Admiflion into Pembroke. College Oxford,'] << begaa * to pray and fing Pfalms " thrice every Day, be-

" "

fides

Morning and Even-

ing ; and to faft every Friday:' [Mr. White-'

fieWs fhort Account of God's Dealings with him, &c. p.

26.]
''

joined

with them,

"
*'

[viz, the Methodijls'] in keeping the Stations^ by

fafting

"
*'

Wednefdays and Fridaysr [Whitefield, ib-

p. 29.]

ne'^

32

Mr,
They
disfigure their Faces^
*'

Whitcfield, ^c.

appear to Men they have their verily tofaft^

that they

may

<'
''
<
'

I faft ed twice aWeek., my Apparel was mean,

Reward. [Mar.

vi. i6, 17.]

"
*<

and I thought it was unbecoming a Penitent, [^] to have his Hair powder'' d / wore woollen Gloves, and a patched Gown, and
[b] dirty Shoes."

*'

[Id. ib.

When

thou

doeff

thine
*'

Alms^ dont found a "Trumpet

before thee^ as the Hypocrites do in the Synagogues^ and in
*'

was from Time

to

" Time engaged

ners,

to vifit

the Sick and the Prifo-

the Streets^

that they

may

have glory of Men.

vi. 2.]

[Mat.

and to read to poor till I made it a ' Cuftom, as moft of us "did, to fpend an Hour *' every Day in A5ts of Cha" rity'^ [Short Account,

"

People,

&c.
*
**

" Having out of Pride put down in my Diary what I gave away., Satan
tempted

p. 29.

" '

me

to lay

my

Diaryquiteafide." [Shore
p. 40.]

Account,

\a\ Moreover when ye faflt be not as the Hypocrites f of a fad Countenance > for they disfigure their Faces, that they may

appear to Men to fafi. [Mat. vi. l6, 17. [b] *Tis not improbable, but in Time, he may lay afide his Shees, and follow the Whims of thofe Heretics, intitled by Fkilajirius Excalceati. Vid. Lib. de Hzref. Hxr. 33. Bibliothec. Patr. Tom. IV.
p.

20.

A D "Eigne.
adferit.

qux homines
Cs,

Excalce<^t08

Excakeatorum Hxreambulare debere Quod fub Mofe inquiunc

diftum eft, Solve Calceamenta tua, ec quod Efaias ica ambulaverit tribus annis,

&c.

Retired

33
the

T'hefcbifmaticalDomtiG:.
They love
Synagcgi^es,
in

Mr.

Whitefield,

&c.

ners of the may he feen of

VI. 5.

to pray j^^^jj.^^ ^^ ^^ adjacent and in the Cer^ pjni ^^^^ my Friends to Streets, that they prayer. [Journal from Low-

Men.

Mat. j^^
*'
''

^^ Gibraltar,

" Paid Mr. . a who mod kindly

tained us.

p. 5.] Vifit,

After we
his
/Z?^/

enterre-

"
''
*'

turned from

Houfe,

^^
Sea
for

kneeled

Shore,
/^^;;z

down on the and prayed

cppofed

"
*'

/y^d-wy^tej." [Journ.

from

London

"
't

to Gibraltar, p. 19.] firft coming inAt

my

to

the Inn [at Kilrufh in

^^

Ireland']

we

kneeled down^

" and
*' *
''
't

Again at Night fung Pfalms, and

prayed.
the Capprayed v/ith of my feveral and tain, The Ship-Mates.
firft

*'
**'

Time

believe, the

Room
Ufe by
their

was put to fuch a

a Ship's

*'

Crew and
[Cont.
Journal,
to

"

Chaplain.'*
IVhitefield's

of Mr.

^c.
[^] Donatus de C^i^ iVi-

to

his

return

Lon-

ddn, p. 30.]

^ri, &c. C^cilianBi(ho]poi Carthage, [c] unwilling

and the they are though withdrew from Methodifts,

Mr.

fVhitefield

to allow

it,

and
[b]
Ille

plainly
", Let not

autem non

DonJtlM'^^
^

erat CarthaR!ne./ts Ep-.fcopus, fed a C./. Ni-

[c]

mv

Adverfaries fa/, I
^
^^I^^^.^^^^f
J'.

" have

tnrurt "^y^^i^\^"j;.

"

Lu ADn.1. ad Ann. 306.

-1

TQm.

III.

p.

<<
t*

th.s

'^*J

Generat.on, count th^mfeves unworthy^ 1 go out into tne i-ijgnway> Hedges, ai.d compel! Harlots, i.r.i

Publicans

34

^/jefcbIJmaticalDon^ii&,

Mr.
plainly

Whitefield.
feparate

&C.

and thofe Bilhops that adhered to him, and would not To much as hold Communion with them in the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Chrift, but received
it

from the Church, and with as little Reafon as the Donatifis had to feparate from the Catholics ; and can coneftabliflied

defcend to receive the Sacra-

fecretly in [c] pri-

ment now and then

Court- Houfes,

in

[<i]

vate Hoiifes,

inftead

of

Churches.

[Continuat. of

Mr.
from

IVhitefield's
his

Journal
to his
p. 72.]

embarking
Savannah,

arrival at

The way
t'ifts

that

the Do/ia-

feduced People to their

is

to

Communion,

made men-

Methodifts pretend purer Ordinances, and to better Edification than are

The

to be met with in the eftaAuftin^ and was to the fol- blifhed Church and feduce lowing purpofe, [d] Good its Members from it by fuch
,

tion of by Optatus and St.

Man,
you
better

or
are
at

good

PFornan,

idle pretences as thefe

That

prefent

than a Pagan : advifed for the good of that they preach the true your Soul to come out of Dodrines of the Gofpel} that Babylon, and he made and exhort them, if they for you have have any regard to their ea Chrijlian good Affe6lions, if they ternal Salvation, to be Fol,

no their Clergy preach [<?] meer Be Morality, (when they know,

were fandified
fcrting

and by de- lowers of them.

the

Catholics^

you

The
**

may
in

f c] Nolebant cam aliis facrificnre, fed dom'ibus fecrece. [Optat. de Schifm,

\d]
'?i

"
**

that
cer

Vonatiji. Lib. i.]

Publicans and Sinners to come in^ my Matter's Houfe may be filled. They who are fincere will follow af-

nuUus eft prxter unum qui redimit animas omnium credentium, quid eft quod dicitis, Redimlte animas leftras ? Jnm iilud quale eft quod hominibus Chrl}tiaMS, eriam C/er/aV dicits, eftore CAr;/"Et cum admiraculo quodam unifian'. cuique dicere, Cat Set, auc C^tia Scia, cum qui ad Deum ie converfum efle
profeflus eft,

"

me

to

hear the

Word

of

God."

[Cont, ot
arrival at

Mr.

Whitcfield's Journal to his

London^ &c. p. 88.]

Our Church does not allow the Admininration of the holy Communion, in any other Place but the Church, un[^j
lefs in

[f]

Mr.

the cafe of Sicknefs. iVlnteficld [I am

informed]

Paganum

vocas.

[Optat, de Schif. Don. Lib. 5. p. 75-.] His enim verbis loqui non erubefcunCj,

has treated the great Archbifhop Tillotfen, and that modeft [but admirable]

Author of the

ff**/*

Ontj cf Man, with

CaiSsl, CdiaSeia,

[la. Lib,/, p. ^^.]

35

^hefchif?nat2cal'Don2XA.

Mr.

Whitefield, &c,

may become

an

eminent

Proficient in San6lity.

When this Fa6lion fpread,

they
left their

private lurk-

ing Places, and built [d-] new Churches, though now and then they invaded and feized upon the Churches of the Catholics[f^ and wafhed the very Walls of them, thinking that they were pol*,

The Methodius arc not indeed fo wealthy as to build Churches, their Followers
(though
being loweft
very

numerous,)

commonly of the Rank of People.

They preach generally upon Mounts, Co7nmons^ from Bcwling Greens and [ / ]
Pofts,

luted

*,

and

at length

were fo Starting

powerful, as to hinder the Orthodox from burying in the [^] Church-yard.

Thefe
an unbecoming Freedom, by reprefenting them as meer Heathen Morallfis and I have feen a Letter from a 'Brother and Fellow Labourer of his, in which ^rchbjjhop Tillotfon and Bifhop "Bull are
treated with the like Freedom in the '* 'Tis following Words. impofliblefor
*'

This
[c] Et Bafilicas fecere non neceflarias. [Op tat. de Schifm. Donatijl. Lib. 3. p.

6i.]

Cum
rant,

" Sunday
fufficerent rempla

Dei qus fue[Id. ib. p.

efl'e

**
**

to talk at the rate you did on laft, but from too bigotted a regard to the Notions and Sentiments

Man

alia

facere voluerunt.
veftigia

of fi^me of your polite

as
12//;

modera DiTillotfon,
alas

63.]

[/] Aut

fi

roftra

vcbis

'^

" vines, fuch and Bifliop

**

Archbifhop

videntur polluta,
parietes lavare

fufficeret terra,

voluiftis,

quid ec in quibus hu-

**

mana non
mus.
rietes
tis

lion calcare,

pofTuntponi veftigia: Parietes fed canrutn videre po:uiLib. 7. p. 99.]

"
''

[0/>?i3r.

"
*'

have buc too much perverted the Gofpe], have explained away the Life and Spirit and Su|)ftance of it, and entertained us with the dry Husks of Morality, ir.Rezd is>i feafiin^^ us with the fatted
Calff

who

Exorcix.aJitSy et iavaftis, fine causa Pa-

Ur hoc nequitiz genera fubruere: fimplicifTimorum hominum mentes. [Optat. Lib. 2. p. 57.] Jam illud quale eft, quod in multis
locis etiam

and cloachmg

us with the

Robes

*'
*'

of Chrift's perfed Righteoufnefs to cover our Sins, and ftrip us of our filthy

*'

Rags."

Parietes

lavare voluiftis,

et

[/J
'*

*'

At

feven according

to

Ap-

fine caufa inclusa fpatia falsa aqua

gi pr^ecepiftis.
[/jj
j

& fpar-

pointment, I preached to about three " thoufand Hearers on a Common near

Opt at. Lib.

7.

p. 98. j

Quid referam etiam illam impietatem de veftra conjuracione venientem, quia ad hoc "Bajilicas invadere voluiftis,
utvobis folis coemiceria vindicetis, non permictentes fspeliri corpora Cacholica,
<it

" the Town, [viz. of Northampton'] " from the Starting Pojl. Great Power '* I believe was amongft us, and I " preached with wonderrul Pleafure, beI thought I had aftualPofof one of the Devil's firovg [Cont. of Whitejield's Jourhis arrival at London, to his *' Departure, &c. p. 106.] Sain^ Jerome's Words to Rreffinusm^.y properly enough be applied to the 'Vanity
*'

caufe then

"

feflion

terreatis vivos,

male

tratatis et

mor-

tuos, negantes funeribus locum, [pptat.

" Holds." " jial from

Lib. 7. p. 95.]

of

this

Gentleman.

Hoq folum

requiro
ab,

Ft

36

l^hefihifmaiicalDomii&i.

Mr,

Whitefield, tSc.

Thefe they feem now to [^] prefer to confecrated Places of publick Worfhip, though they have made fome Attempts to [/:?] ufurp the Pulpits of the Or/W^;; nay, when thefe have been denied them, they have thought the Refufal a Kind
' of Perfecution. *' I was on board the

When
Marf^
Con-

(fays

Mr.

Whitefield^

tination

Journnal from his arrival at London^

his

of

p. 1.)
*'

"

thofe
**

particular

PafTages of the Prophet

Jeremiah

aT3

exlmia fanftltate,
eft puritas,

&

ius ranta

ccnfura tui cuut ad Sudaria

rugiant.

&

Semiciiiil'ia tua

Da:mones

Apo-

log. adverfus Ruffintim

Par. 3. cap. ii.

in

p. z6z.

" may difpleafe fome timorovis, bigotted ** Men but I am thoroughly jperfuaded " it pleafes God and why fliould I
;

[g'i

" My

preaching

the Fields

*'

fe^r

any thing

elfe

?"

[Cent, of Mr.
his Arrival

Whitefield's Journal

from

at

Lendnn, 6cc. p. 4<5.J " God put It into the Hearts of fome ** Gentlemea to lend me a large 3owf** /g Green, where I preached to about " five thoul'arid People. Blefled be *' God, that tne Hovoling Greenh turned * into a preaching Place This I hope *' is a Token, thacAflembly Rooms and *' Play Houfes will foon be put to the
:

*'

fame Ufe.

O may

the

Word

of

God

*'

he m'fhty to the pnl'.hi^

*' ftrong

down of thefe [rVhite^ Holds nf the-DevtU"

field, ibid. p. 60.]

*'
**

**

**
''
*'

My own Heart was much enlarged, and the divine Prefence was much amongftus; and indeed I always find I have moft power when I fpeak in A Proof this to me, the open Air.
pleafed with this

that God is " preaching." [h\ Weekly

way of

[Wfntefieldy Ibid.p (59.]

Mifcellany.

[371
TtoefchlfmaticalT>oxi^i\^^
'

Mr.

Whitefield,

&c.

Jeremiah^ which relate to the Oppofition he met with from falfe Prophets were deeply imprefled oa
Soul, and

" my
<
*'

now

I fee

the
in
it,

Wifdom
for five

of God Churches

*'
'

have already been denied

me

bleffed be

God

all

Things happen

for the

<^

*'
'

Furtherance of the Gofpel, I now preach to ten Times more People than
I

'

fhould

if

had been

' *'
*<

confined to the Churches. Surely the Devil is blind,

and

fo are his EmiiTaries,

<

*'

or otherwife they would not thus confound themfelves.

'

Every Day

am
as I

'

invited to frefh Places, I will by the Divine AlTif-

u
*'

tance
can."

go

to as

many

[Whitefield^ ib.

p.

This Partv grew by Degreesfo formidable

in /fnV^,

53.] " The

fo

Methodifts
if

increafe

much,

we may

take

that at Conftantina (formerly Cirta) {h} they pofTefTed

^

Mr.

PFhitefield's

word, that

he has preached in his Field them- Meetings to twelve thoufand. [Cont. of his Journal from ita clvkates his arrival 2it Loudon, p. 1 8.] jifrics fingulas Per [h] jam pervagabatur hoc malum, ut pene y^ tWentV thoufaud, [Id. 10 tMirty tnOUlb. p. 9 O.J -Be^ia de Hxretids a raagiftratu rent
Traa.Theolog,c. fK,W/., Tom.I.
'"^Reverfi in
ferunc,
p.

^^^^^
rjj

quam

JfrUam, -Bafilkam invain Coy?^fiW civ'tate in

p. 89.] Nay, PcrfODS^ thoufand tO eio;hty

j-j^j^^

AW/a

idem Confiantinns er.gendam

privaci, Catholici Chrlftiana patient la

^IQ. 10

^u

p. in.l 111.
'J^Tlt

euravit, qua ^

38

Tlefcbi/maticalDonztiH.
themfelves of the principal Church, and compelled the
Catholics to

Mr.

Whiteiield, &c\

meet

in the Fif-

where the Emperor's Treafure was kept ,] and upon the Petical [or the Place

tion of the Catholics^ that they might convert it into

a
for

Church,

the

Emperor
[f]

caufed a Church to be built

them

at his

own
great

Ex-

pence.

They were

Inter-

The

Methodifts take up-

preters of God's Judgments on them likev/ife to interAdverfaries, pret God's Judgments upon upon their

When

Urfadus^ a Catholic their fuppofed Adverfaries.

Officer of the Emperor's, loft his Life in the Wars, the Donatlfts [Jz] rejoiced

" One Thing

(fays

Mr.

Whitefield. Con tin. of his Journal from his arrival at very much, and pronounced London^ &c. p. 31.) " afhis

patientia ja^luram t^lerantes, a turbifque excitandis penitus abftinente>, petierunt

" fe6led me much in their " Letters, viz. the News " of a p-eat Oppofer^s being
'<

ab imperatore//"c^j/2w fibi largiri locum, jn quo adificarent Ecclefiam, &c. 'Bjro?./V Anna), ad Ann. 316. Torrii Vide etiam Valef. de Schif. 311. p. 185.
Donatiji. cap. ly. ft] Sed extac refcriptum Cotijlantinid.6. cofdem Epifcopos, quo peticioni illorum

given over by the

:

" dans Alas poor Man, " we all prayed heardly for cc him, knowing how (hort!

Phyfi--

ly

annuens, non folum f.fcakm domum eis donari prscepit, verunri etiam fumptus ad fabricationem Ecclefice fubminiftravlt. Valef. de Schifm. Donatifi* cap. ij. p.
[k] Audi, inquir, periit Macarias, peUrfacitiSy cunlique comires veftri, Dei paricer vjndifta per lerunt Urfacium namque Barbarica pugna profiratum, fstiit
:

he count moft wrote

muft give an Acof what he had

unjuftly

againft
true
:

many

and and Servants of

faid,

me,

Jefus Chrift

Father, lay

vis unguibus alkes,

ies

canumque

avidi

den-

morfibus dircerpfemnt-

[Aufiujiin.

not this Sin to his Charge. '^ Amongft the Letters I

received

conrra
a.

Titeras Tetillani Donat'tfi.

Lib. l.

Tom.

VII. Of. p. 143, 147 .J

from

religious

"

Cor-

39

q'hefchifmaficalDon^tia.
his

Mr.
C(

Whitefield,

&e.
[Venn]

Death as a divine Judgment upon one of their cathey did the pital Enemies like upon Macarius and o,

Correfpondents,onewrites
to

me thus. who wrote

Mr.
he

that Letter ia

(c
^'

the Mifcellany died Yefterday,

[t]
is

thers.

now

gone

to give an Accoisnc

''

ofthe many hard Speeches

contained therein ; and is convinced, that Orthodoxy in Notion is not the whole of Religion."
ibid. p. 33.]

" " "

*'

[PVbitefield,

They pretended
of
[/]

to Vifions

The Methodifis
Virions
\_k],

Angels.

''

pretend to Sunday^

The
Et invidiam
facitis

March
fua,

Macarit qui

fi

ali-

quid afpere feck pro unitate, leve videdum vos pro diflenfione ri poterir,

tanta mala, acerba, cruenta, et hoftilia

feceritis.

Ut crimina in filentium mitterent vicam infamare conati funtalienam : Et cum poffent ipfi ab innocentlbus argui, innocentes arguere ftuduerunt, mitrentes ubique literas livore diftante con[t]

p. 55.
[/]

[Opat. de Schifm. DonatiJ}* Lib. 2. Vid. Lib. 3. p. 74-76.1

lUe entm ordinem Chuflianltatis
veftrz
tibi

fcriptas.

[Optat. Lib. i.

p. 42..]

Magis enirn amplexi funt occafionem,

qua pofTent alios falsa criminatione perfundere, ee converfis in eos linguas ho-

ut infinuaret, jujfijfe fibiangelumfcriblt, cum tu teneasChrtfiiacivitatis

nltatem

non

civitatis

tux tantum,
eft,

non
an-

tanrum j^phrha, vel

orbis terrje,
q'lje

Afrorurriy fed totlus

minum, ab inquifitione criminum fuorum hoc modo declarare, [Augufiin, Epift. 162. Tom. IL Op. p. 729.]
*' <'
**

annunciata

&

runciatur omnibus gentibus. [Augrtfiin. Refp. Uteris cujafdam Po4*//?. Ep. 165. IL Op.^ p. 7 JO. Tom. Quaproper cum Pattltts Apoftolus itequia Ipfe Satanas trausf'gurat rum dicat,
ft in

'^

"
"
'*

It is true indeed, (fays the Author of the Friendly Debate^ Continuar. p. 188,) In this manner to fit fpelling and obferving divme Juftice upon every Accident and flight Difturbance

that
fairs

j^ngdum
fi

Iticis

unde non

efle

mifi-

may happen humanly to the Afof Men, is but a Fragment of

rum

miniftri ejus

non

transfigurant
Si vere

cut miniftros

juftitiae.

ifte ali;

quem angelnm

vidic^erroris

nuncium

ec

'*

de unitate Catholica Chrlfttanos feparare cuplentem, ipfe paflus eft Angelum Satan transfigurantem fe velut angelum luSi autem mentitur, et nihil tale cis.
vidit, ipfe eft minifter .y^f^w^c, transfigu-

For if they your broken Revenge. can perfuade the People, that we are divine Vengeance, with the purfued ' they have obtained their End to make "' all Men forfake us, and think the *< worft that can be thought of us." \k] Dr. Hkkts (in his Sermon, intitled, The Spirit of Enthmjiafm cKorcifed, Vol.
**
*'

ransVe
Siufi,

velut miniftrum juftitiK,

[wf-

Id. ib. p.

753]

of the Life I. p. 108. makes mention of Dr. Samuel Winter, Provoft of Triin DbUn in the Times, nity College The Author of v;hich faith, " That he '* faw the Sky open, and heard a Vf)ice ** that faid, that neither he nor his ihouid ** ever 2,

40
*'

^befchifmaticalDonma.
''

Mr.

Whitefield,

&c,

March

2^^ a Servant of Mv^Bradlefsitnt tode*'

fire

"
*'

ever want, [which could not be true,

for his Son went a begging;] that Gtfd ** aflured him that he (hould have a fafe *^ Voyage into Ireland', and convert
*'
*''

many

**

*'
**
**

That when he prayed for a fick Perfon in another Land, he had an Aflurance of the Party's Recovery by an audible yoke, and a glori-'
Souls
there.

ous 'Brifhtnefs that fhined round about

him.
cdufe

**
*'

aflured his

That when he was very Wifehefhould not

fick,

be

die, be-

God had not fulfilled a certain Promife which he made to him. That he converfed with Angels in a Dresm, *' and had ihewed unto him the exceed ing Weight of Glory, which is laid up *' in Heaven for God's chofen ones. " That he lay a whole Day in a heaveniy " Rapture, and defired his Wife, a Mi** nifter and other Friends to tell him, ** Whtthsr he were in the Tiodyt or out of ' the "Body, for he could not tell. Before Wife Colonel ''he prayed with Jonet's *' when ftie was fick, he asked her whe** ther fhe had Faith to be healed? And when he had done praying, he *' art'ured her fhe fhould live; that his * Hearers could teli by his Prayers for '* fick Perfbns, whether they fhould reco** ver or nor. That Mrs. Winter's fitter's *' Hus'rand being very fick ^i London, " (he fent to the Dr. at Dttblin to pray ' for him ; but before he could be per*' fuaded to pray, he retired privately to *'* know of God, if he veere yet alive i " and after Prayer aflured the Company ** that he That once fliould recover. *' praying in Imiration of yf^r<7^^j'sln** terceflion for Sodom, as he kneeled a" gainft a Poft in the Room, he faw <* *' greai fhining Light ahjttt him, and '* perfedly heard a Voice, frying, The Na*' tioHs fhall f>e faied for ten thoufaad ** Righteous Thatheufed to pray fike. '' for Things, and had his anfwer before ** he rofe from his Knees, and imme*' diately gave Thanks thereupon That " he often heard Voices, when none <' heard them but himfclf, according to
**

"

^^t xxii. 9, See an Account of a notber remarkable Enthtifafi, one Mr. Weljh, % Siottijk Hiekts^ Ibid. p. 10^. Irlinifter.
*'

[41
1hfbifmaficaIl)on2iii&,
''

Mr.
fire

Whltefield,
to fpcak

^c.
me
:

with
il)^
:

" Going
''

to him, I found

young

Man

but

*'
*'

perfeaiy

fcnfible

He
our,

defired the reft to

go

*'
' *

* ^ < *
*

and then hid:' OnThurf day Night about eleven, being in Bed^ but broad awake, I heard one calling
the

out Peter^ Peter JVrigk', and looking up,

Pvoom was as light as Day, and I faw a^Maa

very bright

*
*

in

ftand
faid,

by

my
is

Clothes Bed^ who

yourielfj

< *
*

Prepare

forycur End
dark

nigh

then immediately
as before.'

all

and was

"
is

I told

" him
*'

the

Advice

good

" "
*' ' *' *'

whencefbever it came : In a few Days he recovered from his Illnefs 5

his whole Temper v/as changed, as well as his Life ; and fo continued to be for three or four

" Weeks ^
'

he relapfed^ and died in Peace." [Extrad: of Mr. John

p. 16.]

WeJIefs ]omn2i\,

the

Bondtijls

pretended

iikewife to the
\in\ Miracles.

working

of ^^

pretend See an Ac comwx. of the Child that was

Methodifts
^^^s.
^^^^^^

The

lunatic^ and the feized with leeming Agonies

gufiln.

Woman
t
.

Et Pontius fecit Miraculum. [-.^aExp. in Evang. Johann, Traa. 13. Tom. IX. p. tzz.}
ri3

qS

[" ^''^^^ f^ Y'!.' [Co-'^t:. of Mr. Whiteiield'%

T\'^r,x\\ ^-^^^\

in

TIpp-U

nii/>

And

Jour-

42

^defchifmatkalDovi^ii^^

Mr.

Whltefield, &c.
at

Journal from his arrival London^ p. 42.]

And to immediate
fwers from

God

in

[] AnPrayer.

'^

"

What gave me great Comfort was, that the

" Opportunity," [viz. of preaching at Deptford,] '' I

was granted in anfwer to Prayer," [JVhitefield''s Journal to Gi^ braltar^ Part I. p. 4.]
**

believe,

'

<

Have

received

fomc

*'
*

remarkable Anfwers to Prayer, both in refped of myfelf and Family." [Cont. of Mr. Whitefield's

Journal, from his embarking, to his arrival at ^^-

vannah^ p. 22.]
*'

JVednefday^

November

<'
<

This Afternoon, as I was in fecret, humbling myfelf before God and had been praying for
I.

*'
** *'

fair

Wind,

News

*'

*'
*'

'
<' **

[n]

Donam

''
oravir, "et refpondic
fi

ei

were brought that the Wind was fair ; which put me in mind of the Angelas being fent to D^. niel^ him, his to tell Prayer was heard, when he was humbling his Soul in Failing and Prayer ^O^.the Peace and Refto-

Deus de
unitacem

Ccelo, crederem
Ecclefia:.

non

divififlet

<<

\_Atigufiin.

Expofit.

inEvang.>/;4n.Traa.i3. Tom.ix. , iM.]

ratlOn of Jerufalem. \Whitp{ipU\ frnrrt ^ov^i. irom mtepeia s Cont \yi^

arrival at

his

Savannah to
London^
''

his

return

to
^

p.

And

2o.j

May

[43
I'hefchifmaticaljyomiiG:.

Mr.
''

Whitefield, Q?^.
8,

" May

preached as

ufual in the

Evening

" Kennington Common, " Some confiderable Time before I fee out from " Town, it rained very " hard, fo that once I " thought of not going ; " but feveral pious Friends " joined in Prayer, that " God would be pleafed to
*'

at

" was done

with.holdtheRain,which immediately."

And

it

is

certain,

that

" God
"
*'

[fVhitefield^ ibid. p. 93.]

they were but too familiar

give

me

was pleafed to a Proof that he

with the Deity.

was with

me in the ^Ship."
4.]

UVhitefield's Journal to G/hraltar, &c. Part I. p.

" This Day God was with me of a Truth. ' Had God with me all the Daylong." [Id.ib. p.

7.]

" Had

a feeling PofTef-

"
ib.

fion

of

my

God."

[Id.

p. 21.]

"

" The Holy Ghoft has been with me of a Truth."

&c.
with

[Continuat. from his arrival

at Savannah^

" God

p. 4.]

is

me

"
<

of a

Truth." [Id.

ib. p. 6.]

" God

has vouchfafed me fuch plentiful Communi-

'

cations
I

They

from himfelf, that have abundant Reafon

2

to

44
"
"

0efcbrfmatica!l)oivmii.

Mr.

Wiiitefield'/C^:.
Surely

to cry our.
hi this

God

is

Placed
fweet

[Id. ib.

p. 22.1
''

Had

Commu-

nion with
,

God

laii Niglit.-*

[Id. lb. p. 23.]

''

They tampered with

[o]

the
< '*

On

JFedfiefday at fix,

weaker S"X,
filly

and led
laden

captive

Women

vitb Sins,

^'
''

we have ^ noble Company of Women^ not. adorited with Gold and coftly Ap-

parel, but with a meek " and quiet Spirit, and good ^' Works."

[Mr.

JFefiefs Letter

to

iMr. IVbilefield, Cont. of his

[/)]

Journal to his arrival at London^ p. 42.] OptaiKs bids the Bo'Tis notorious what dif-

remember, how they mai Feuds the Melbodifts have divided and torn the have raifed in- [/] private Families, by alienating the [o] Aut jvit u:for & refedit rnaritus. lOptat, de SchU'm. Don^tJJIar. Lib. 3. Affections of Hufbandsand ?'73-] Wives from each other, by qiioircd^ a vobis
miijis
[]

Recordatnini

jamdudam
invicem

niarrls Ecclellfe

membra

ab-

diftrala .fiinc.

Non

eninl u-

namquamque

doriiiim feducere potuiltis,

rendering Parents unnatural to their Children, and Chil-

fed auc ivit uxor,

& refedlt

maritns, act

f arentes feduiti funt, 8c fiFii I'equi nclueAur ftetic frater forore tnigrante, r nc
:

perluaflonibus ve.ftns divifa funr corpora,

&
in

nomine

pietatis.

lOpiut. Lib. 5. p.

73-]
SufEceret infania: veRra:, quod n-;emibra laniaft'.s

Fccleliar,

qii(;d

iinirace

pofito?, veftns

Dei p-fulbs feduftionibus

dren iindutiful to their PaMafters harfii and rents bitter towards their Servants, and Servants difobedient to their Mafters. Nay, they feem to value themfelves
:

divifiilir, [Optat. Lib. 6. p. 94.] Fincentius Lirlnnijii [Corrmdnit'ir. cap. 6.]

makes almoft
the Ariani.

rhe fimeObrcrvacinr!

upon

Nee

er.im ranrnm affinita-

fcientiSE

fes, cognationer, amicitio:,

dorrus, ve-

&

rum etiarn urbes, populi, provincia:, natiqnes. irno univ.^rfum p-iftrsnio Rnyuanuyn imperium fundiius concudum e-

ergo jam dicere pur^ Confraudatorem p-jpillorurrij, vidua'fum opprefTorem, cdnjugiorum feparatorem, patrimoniorum alienoruni venditorcm, divlfor^m, prodirorem,
[/]

Unde

fiilffe

&

jnptum

eii,

{^jigujim.' cor\X.xz literas Petlllaia [Dot nation] Lib. a. Tom, VII. |>.
/

Meml 'hers

m.] upon

45

Ti)efchifmaUcaIDon2iti(\,

Mr,

Whitefield,

&e.

Members
their

Church, upon it. I have feen a Let* ter from a Methodift Preachone another. For- you could er, who afllgns it as the not (fays he) f^jduce a whole Caufe of his being univerfalFamily at once but Fluf- ly hated [w], " That he band and Wife, Parents and " has bred a great deal of Children, Brethren and Sif- " Difturbance in whole ters, were divided ; fome " Neighbourhoods and tV
of
the

common Mother, from

-,

continuing in the Communion of the Church, others

falling off into their

"

milies.

Schifm

and by

their Perfuafion, the

Body
ferent

of Chrift was divided

into feveral Bodies, and dif-

Forms of Religion.
Reports,

They raifedfalfe

"

could not but

take

and unjuftly cenfured thofe " Notice of a fundamental that were not of their Com- " Miftake his [n] Lordfhip munion, as well Superiors
as Equals.

Nay,
Charader
;

to

the

[to]

The

BlHiop of Dotcne and Conner

26,

(in his Speech to the Clergy at Llfnegarvy,

Epifcopal

they December
in a

1638.

p,

11.) obferves,
intitled,

had

little

regard

for they

Strilure

on

Buok,

falfely

accufed

Melchiades

[q] [or Miiliades] Bifhop of and Ro772e as a Tradilor^

*' That it Dialogue of rohite Devils, *' ever there were vobhe Dt^vth; or De*' vils transformed into Angels of Light,

for
this,

no

other

reafon

than
in

that

he prefided

who under the pretence of Sanaicy, labour to bring " in all manner of Diforders into the ** Church, and Confufion into the Com" mon wealth."
*'

'^ it is in their Perfi)ns,

a Council,
at

Rome,

which was held " and upon a fair " *'

''

[]

" One who has been reputed the moft orthodox Prelate in the Kingin a late Pdiloral Letter, cdvifes

dom,
his

[ql Tunc Donatijla ipfum McLh'mdem coeperunc crimini TradUioms arguere, dicere majores fuos propterea illius judi-

"
'< ''
**

&

Clergy fo to explain the Doarine of Jullification in the Sight of Goi by Faith only, as to make Good

cium
rion

refugiffc,

quod Tr^rf/ror

fuifiec ;

quad
re

jam

judicio ejus aiUfterenti

fe in

&

*'

{ponderenc

Cxdiianum non habere

*'
**

quod dicerenr.

[A7i^uRtn. Brevic. Collat. contra Do- ** VII. Op. p. 587.] riatipai, Vide field's Letter to the Relipious Societies etiam libr. Avgi'-fiinl contra Dcn/ttijias ^ in England and Wain, Sec. 1740. p, fo^ Collatjonemj Tom. VII. p 601. 14.]

Tom

Condition of Such Advice from a Roman Cardinal would have been no more than we might have expeaed, but from a Bilhop of the Church of England is indeed fuipr'"zin?, and much to be lamented," [Mr. IVkiti^
the fame.

Works

alfo a neceflary

Hearing

" of

46

ThefchtfmaficalDomtia.

Mr.

Whitefield, &c.

Hearing,determined againft " of London was guilty of them, in favour of the Ca- in a Paftoral Letter pub' lifhed this Day, [Juguji tholics: Nay, they condemned
all

[r] thofe that

were
think-

'

not in their
ing.

way of

"
*'
' c

for in it he exhorts Clergy fo to explain the Doftrine of Juftifification by Faith alone, as to make our good

8,]
his

Works
dition

a neceifary
it.

"
<
'

of

St.

ConPaul in

his Epiftle to
/f/^j,

the Galapronounces a dreadagainft the

ful

Anathema

*' **

Maintainers of this Doctrine. I pray God his

Lord (hip
Error,

may

fee

his

*'
^^
<

'

and thereby be freed from fo tremendous a Sentence, and let ail the People fay, Jmen,'*

[Contin. of TVhitefield*^ Journal, from his embarking,

^c.

to

his

arrival at
p. 5.]

Savannah^ &c.

Mr. Whitefield^ though evil of the every Occafion he upon and Bifhops [jj Clergy j and when they flourifhes upon fanatical found Teachers, of all Denominations, yet he is not afham[r] Cur non execrat'io m illos potius ed to treat the Clergy of

They fpake

Calholic

terrarum cadit qui univerfum orbem Chrijiianum damnareaufi funt inauditum,

in quo tam ingenti

the Church of England in a very indecent and opprobrious Ma^nner,

hominum numero,

funt ab fine eorum criminibus innocences. Augujiin. contra Epift, Parmeniani, Lib. 2. cap.
a.

uUa dubitacioneifuerunt,

&

comparing

Tom.
[s]

VII,

p.

zf.

them

to the Priefts of Baaly

Quid

incereft

lingua percutias,
eSy

an gladio ferias an indubJtanter Homiclda

fi per ce mortuus fuer'itqui vivebat. Deuterinm Partenium, Dona turn, GetulUumt Dej Epifcopos linguje gladio jugu-

and himfelf and fome Fanatics (who are probably in his way of thinking) to Eljr
,,

lafti.

ja/j^

47

nefchifinaticalT>on2X\&.

Mr.

Whitefield,

&e.

found that nothing would jah,

ftick

[Cont. of his Journal Dodtrine, to his embarking, &c. to his fo as to difcfedit it, they arrival at Savannah, p. 31.] then fell foul upon their [/] He calls them Wolves in And Saint Aujiin S'heeps cloathing. [Ib. p. 32.] Perfons.

upon

their

obferves upon

them, that Natural Men, and carnal they carried on this Work fecure Minijiers, [Ibid. p. by [u] idle Complaints^ and 34.] Blind Guides, [Ibid, vain Sind grounJlefs Lies, Compares himfelf, p. 39.]

^c.

to Michael,

eftabliflied

and the Clergy to the

Dragon. [Ibid. p. 43.] and fays elfewhere. [Contin. of his Journal from his arrival at London, p. j^,'] " That
lafti,

fundentes fanguinem n on corporis

fed honoris : Vixerunt poftea homines, fed a vobis occifi funt in honoribus Dei Sacerdotes. [Optat. de Schif. Don. Lib.
3. p. 60.] [f] Ills Machina: Httreticorum ut

" for the moralizing Ini" quity of the Priefts the " Land mourns j and that

"

he has converfed

with

con-

viSi de pcrfidia ad maledifta fe confeApolog. Hleron. adverfus Ruffirant.

2. cap. 11. Tom. II. operum, Ddit. AntwerpU 1578. p. 261. Nullus veftrum eft qui non convitia jioftra traftatibus fuis mifcear ; profer:is Evangel-urn, et facicis abfenti fratricon-

num. Lib.

vitium,

auditorum

animis

infundicls

odia, inimicitlas docendo fuadecis, Hxc omnia dicendo contra nos fcandala ponitis.

[Optat, contra Donatiji*

Lib. 4,

" feveralof the beft of all " Denominations,andmany " of themfolemnly proteft, " that they went from the " Church, becaufe they " could not find Food for " their Souls That they " ftayed among us till they
:

p. 78.]

[] Ita mente cxci tenebrcfas calumnias inneftebant, addentes etiam maniieftam fah'itatem, c*^c. [Augujlin. contra

*'

were

ftarved

out.

Donadjl. poftCoUat. cap. 13.

p. 602..]

Tom.

VII.

Quid ad hue
tjtterelaif

et

attenditis ad eorum infanas [Id. ib. vaa mendaeia,

know this will expole " me to the ill Will of " all my indolent, earthly
'

" minded,
'

cap. 35. p. 626.] Ipii nobis objiciunt vel falla crimina

mortuorum, vel etlam fi vera, taroen aliena, non intelligcntes in iis, quae nos [Aw eis objicimus omnes illos tenere.
gKjiin.

"

pleafure taking Brethren : But was I not to fpeak, the very Stones

Ep. i6z.

Tom.

II, p.

735.]

would " them."

cry out

againll

They

The

[48
^hefchifmaficalDon2iii^.

Mr.
The

Whlteiield
Methodiffs feem to own extempore

They rejected xhtLittirgy made ufe of by the Catholics

\

prefer their

and the Prayer

for the

EffLifions to the

Liturgy of

Emperor made mention of the Church of England, by i'ertullian, [-z^l Oramus " God grant I may purfue they " the Method of expound-^ j)ro I??iperatore, l^c. And this is not " ing and praying extemomitted. to be wondered at, if what " pore : I find God bleffcs " ir more and more." is faid of them be true, [Continuat. of Mr. J^Vhitethat they likewife laid afide
the

Ufe of

the

[.r]

Lord's-

f eld's
"
*'

Journal, from his

ar-^

Prayer,

rival at London^ p. 7.] *' I find I gain great

Light by preaching extempore^ fo that

fliould
if I
I

fear I

''
*'

quench the Spirit did not go on to

'
''

fpeak as he gives
terance." [Id.

me Ur17.] Ja-mes^s

ib. p.

They

pretended

to the
the

" Near

Saint

power of [ jv] conferr'wg Holy Choft.

" Square one young Wo" man was filled wiih the
*'

Holy

Ghofty

and

over-

"
["w] Jam ranc medltabatur contra pracepta Apoftoli Pauli^ poteftatibus regibus injuria m fa cere ; pro quibus fi apoftolum audirer, quotidiero^-are debuerat. [0/>?rtf. de Schirm. DonatJJiar. Lib.

&

flows with Joy and Love." Continuat. of Mr. White-

feWs

Journal, from his ar-

3. p. 64.]

[x] Turn definent diet fratres nojlrl defierint dicere Fater yiofier. [^tiuJi.\T\ Pfalm.xxxii. Tom. VIII. P.C25,] [y] FoUJoannem quippe Apoftolus rebaptizavit ; vos baptlzare poft OptaCtim, neminem audetis; an quia Optatns in unitate veftra fuit ? Quare vos poft Optatum non bapritacis, nifi in has angufllas

riVai at Lonclon, OCC, p. 42. J cs Heard of one that ;t*

''

cum

the Holy Ghoft^ immediately upon my " preaching Chrift."

ceived

*'

[JVhltefield,
''

ibid. p.

78.]^

And fome were

coar'Slcac

csciras vefira, utdicatis

{o filled

dare potuifle Spiritunt fanlurn^

Of r^rr/j Joannem
lireras

-UiMh the

Holy Ghofl'' [up-

noK

p'^.tuiflfe.

[^/iu^iifim.

contra

Tetilianl Donatiji,

Lib. 2.

Tom.

VII.

p. 114.J

on Mr. JVhitefield's preaching on a Bowling-green at

Cheltenham near
Glouce/Ier,']
'

They

That

[49
'J'befdtfrmfical DomtiA.
*
*
*'

Mr.

Whltefield,

&c.

That they were almoft unable to fupport thcmfeJves under it [o]. This
I

"
'

know

is

FooJiilinefs to

'*

7mtural and Letter^ learned Man. But I write

this

the

for

the

Comfort of

" God's
*'

Children.
thefe

They
Things

know what
*'

mean." [Id.ib. p. 80.] I hope I fhall have fome that dare be fingularly good, and will not (C be kept our by the Prefs." Men ; and the Members of [Whitefield's Journal from the Catholic Church to be Gibraltar to Savanna^
accounted themfelves to be of a Church, that had neither [z\ Spot nor Wrinkle \ to be [a'\ heavenly

They

qurte the reverfe.

That

Part

they

II.

were the only true [^1 Chriftiam^

Apoftolum fz] Comnnemoraftis Paulttm dixiffe fine R*tgay fine Sorde Ecclefiam efle debere. Non tibi vi detur Rug* qua: non poflit uUis fatisfactionibus vendi, aut exphnari ? Quid tale a nobis admiflum eft ? Nos expeftamus Deum vindicem. [Optatf, de Schifm.
'*

p. 36.]
*'

1 he People
Famine

received

" me
'*

moft gladly, having

of
the

&

had a

&

Word for a long Seafon."

[0]

"
*'

" This fure makes fo many think that every ftrong and unufual Motion they find within them, is the Work and

DonatJJi. Lib. a. p. fy.] Omitco dicere, quam fcelerata fuperbia dicanr, neminem efle inter collegas
fuos,
vitio,
eft,

"
** **
*' *'

Operation of theSpirit of God.

Scripture that
a

And that
comas on

" every Place of

vel feipfcs

cum

non membrorum, morum. Sed

aliqua macula fed quod pejus

&

fudden into their Mind is darted from Heaven, and the immediate D,aate of the Holy Ghoft, though ne-

tanco

ifti

amore

corde impudico cci funt, adulteros mentis fus, uni legitimo viro coxquare non dubirant i ut quod de folo Domino Jefu Chnllo dici potuit, etiam in Donato perfeium fuifle contendant. [Augufiin. contra Epiftolam Parmenian.
Dinatifi, Lib. 2. cap.

hominum

&

7.

Tom. VIL

p.

[a]

Nee

terra eftis, nee in terra, fed

cceleftes in

Ep. 48.

Ccelo habitatis. [^ugujimII. Op, p. 189.] [i] Qua:re quoque a Maximiniam, ni-

ver fo impertinently applied to their prefenc Occafions; and that all the A{Fe<aions and Tranfporis, and *' Raptures they have in Prayer, or ac " other Seafons, are likewife Infpra*' tions from above, and that now they *'^are fi/led with the Holy Ghoft ^ which ** is a grofs and ignorant Conclufion " in my Opinion, for want of fuch ob'* vious Confideratlons as thefe j that *' fuch Heats and Flights are common

"

" ardent

Tom.
de

*'

" to them with the Poets and excellent Orators, and that bad Men have had
as well as the beft."

hil aliud

fe dicit

Non

eft

enim

" them

alius:

[Continuat.

Impius fuperbis cumor apud omnes, qui

fe

of Friendly Debate,

p. 220. j

[Journal

50

^befcbi/matical DonmH^
tians, the chofen

Mr.

Whitefield^

&c.

ones, and

the

Catholics

Reprobates
themfelves
their

They comparing
to the
[d:]

Wheats and

Adveriaries to the Chaff, pretending themfelves to be

the only true [d] Church,

[Journal from Savanna to London^ p. 8.] '' Many who were awak" ened by my preaching a " Year ago, are now grown
his return to
''

'^

ftrong Men in Chrifti the Minift ration of

by

my

^'

dear

Friends,

and Fel-

" low
'^

Labourers, John and Charles JVeppr [Cont.

his arrival at London,,

from

p. 2.]

" Spent
<

this

Morning
religious
in

in

vifiting
Souls^

fome

"

[^]
this

that

live

" Sodom
quam fe damnare cxteros i non folum quibus eorum lis nota elt, verum etiam quibus eorum nee
(t a Chrifti unkate difcindunt folos Cijrifiianos efle jaaant,
;

[^Bath'].

God
'

hath

Rem-

&

nomen auditum- [Aup'fiin, concra Crefeonium Grammaikum, Lib. 4. cap. 59. :rom. VII. p. 327.] fc] Vex deniquearrogantiffima, atque
falfiffima velUaeft,ita

non

noflra, quid

palcK

cum frum en to ?

\_jiuguftln. Ibid.
.

cap. 59. p. 527.] r: r [d] Sicapparet eciamejus tccleiia non in fola ylfrica ^ficut ipfi impudenciffima vanitate delirant) fed toto orbi terrarum difFufa. {Augufiln. Ep. 50. Tom. H. Op.
y

[p] Mr. Whitefield hy relijous Souls (I prefume) the fame Thing that the Fanatics in the Times did when they gave one another the Title of Saints, And I cannot forbear applying to him the following Words of the Author of the Friendly Debate. [Continuat. p. 268.] *' Alas! good Man, doth he think that " we have fuch an Opinion of him and '^ his Saiutsy as they have of themfelves? * He flatters himfelf too much,- it is *' one Thing to imitate the Saints, and

means

*'

" He
<'

another Thirg to counterfeit them. fhall never perfuade me, that And Gltiickf.lver is better than Gold
:

p.

208

*^ **
*'

Tertius error fuic, qucd Novatlani fe folos dicerent effe Chrifti Ecclefiam. Hoc enim ex ipsa nominis arrogar.tia, ex qua fe folos mundos appellabant j rebaptizacione maniipfo fch'.fmare, feftum eft. Id ipCum de Donatljiis di-

&

^'

and aflfrighted Imagination can be a furer Guide eittier in the Choice or Exercife of our Religion, than a calm Reafon, and a fix'd
that a turbulent
v/ell
call

&

Milevitanus licontra Parmenianum, et AuligHp.bitis Kaerefi fexagefima nona bro 2^ contra Crefconium, rap. 37. libro 5. contra Epiftolam Parmeniani,
feite frripferunt Optatus
2**

bro

&

&

cap.

2.

{Forbefii

Inflrui.

Hirtorico-

himfelf and his Party Saints *' a thoufand Times, or as ofc as he '* breathes, it fhall never move me ac '' nor ftiall I think the worfe, all, " but the better of myfelf for being * none of them. Let him pride him" felf in new Devices of a different

" and " him

refolved

Judgment.

Lee

Theologic. Lib. 14. cap. 5. P.665.J

They

Worfhlp for the SaintSy and the reft of the World, I am very well con" tented, if ihey will but withdraw
*'

*'

<*

ihemfelves

Vhefchif7naticallDomii9i.

Mr.

Whiteiield, &c.

"

Remnant every where.'*

p. ^y,-\

[Ibid.
*'
*'

" Good God, wherever

I

perifli for

go, people are ready to lack of Know-

'

ledge,
rant

'^
..

and are as ignoof Jefus Chrift, as

'

'

are the Papifis. MyHeart within me is broken be-

"
[f]

caufe of the Prophets'* [Ibid. p. y^,-]

They

joined with

all

The Mdhodifl
though

fadious

Parties

tho* never

Teachers^ they profefs them-

fo heretical : And notwith- felves Members of the eftaftanding there were great blifhed Church, yet 'tis plain Feuds between them, and that they are rotten ones,

from from the abufe of her Cleryet as often as Op- gy, and their high Enco; upon Dijfenting portunity offered to diftrefs comiums and difturb the Catholics^

feme them

that

feparated

they united againft them.

>

'

*' lee

"
*'
*'

themfelves far enough from us, and us be out of the hearing of their

[ff] Hoc ergo modo quod juftum eft, ihjuftum judicarunt, cum Optatum Gildoniamim, totius ^phrlae gemitum, tanquam facerdotem coUegam honorantes in coramunione tenuerunt Aut fi eum Gorde improbabant, fed pro pace tolerabant, difcant nuUius pacifici patientiam malo non confentientem, ab ullis malis pofle macular!, &c. Auguftin. contra Epiftolam Parmeman. Lib. 2. cap. 2. p. 2f. Tom. VII. Nonne toleranturab els cjedes, et incendia Cmjirncellt'onnm, qui funt veneratores przcipitatorum ultro cadaverum, fub incredibilibus malis unius Gptati, per tot annos totiiis Aphrkx gemitus? Pares jam dicere fingularum per Aphrlcam re-

Gihben'JJj. Let him lead them to the Indies if he pleafe, and be feparated from us by the wUe Ocean ; ic

&

will be a great Sacisfalion to enjoy our Worlhip quietly to ourfelves. His Precifenefs, I aflure him, fhall never trouble me at all, and I fup.

pofe

may

pafs

whole Church,

Word for our that they will not com,

my

plain for want of his Company nor think it any Dlfgrace to our Worfhip, that fuch do not like jc There were always People of a morofe and four Humour whom nothing can pleafe ; no not what they do themfelves, v/hen

&

once

it

pleafes others too

And

if they not only withdraw themfelves from us, but alfo flight, and fet us at naught. The Concern is

therefore

gionum,
nia.

civitatum, rannicas poteftares,

&

&

fundorum

ty-

&

publica Latroci-

Augtifiin, Epift. 162.

Tom.

II. p.
*'

72^.

not fo great as to require my Care. Let them call us the Worlds and if they pleafe, the Dogs that are wtthous the holy City, I value it no more than the Barkings of an angry Crr

They

Teachers

52

'The/chifmatical'Donm&:.

Mr. WhiteMd, &c.

teachers of
tions,
all

Denominadignify

whom

they

with the Stile and Titles of [q]fpintual Men. [Cont. of

Mr.
from

V/hitefieldh
his

Journal,
to his

embarking

zxnw?i\2it

<

Savannah^ p. 28.] Eminent Men^ and burning and /hining Lights. [Ibid. p. 'True and faithful Sol34.]
diers of Jefus
ib.]

Chrift.

[Id.

Eminent Servants of
all

They
their

received

Men

Jefus Chrift, [p. 43.]

of

People of

Denomina-

[/] defperate Fortunes

into tions are promifcuoufly ad-

Communion,

fuch as mitted into the

Communion

were in Debt or Difgrace of the Methodifls. Nay, if through their debauched and Fame is not a Liar, coinvicious Lives, and fuch as mon Strumpets have been were difcontented, as think- admitted amongft them, as ing themfelves ill ufed by holy Sijlers^ to the great Difor quiet and Difturbance of themfelves fome that were pious and Under the Banner of Do;^^/^.% well meaning Men amongft
Magiftrates,
Parents,

Matters,
his

lifted

and

SuccefTors.

And

them.

And when many

they were encouraged fo to out of Pique, or Prejudice,

do by

their

Leaders

who have
and
thefe

run from the Communion of their own regular

'bomirtim f /] Nam cum hujofmodi genus ante unkatcm per loca fingula vagarentur
,

orthodox

Minifters,

cum Maxldo

et Fajir

ab

ipfis

infanienribus

fan^orum duces

appeilaren-

tar J nulli licuit fecuram effe in poffeffionibus fuis : Debitorum chirograpba aNullus creditor illo remihiferant vires fore exigendi habuit Tibertatem. Terreantur omnes Uteris eomm, qui Te fanc:

Gentlemen have abetted and encouraged them, probably with an Aflurance

[cf] Dr. Jackfon obfarves of fome pretended Reformers, ** That in their Lan" guage, every Cormorant that would

fi eorum duces fuifle jaftabant obtemperando eorum jufifionibus tardainfana, muldtudo fubito advolabat fctur,
:

Et

in

'
*'

et praecedente terrore creditores periculis ^allabantur, [Of tat. Lib. 3. p. 67.]

countenance their Caufe was ^ fane Perfon, and a Son of God." [Append, to the third Part of Friend^ Debate, p- J44'J /
ttfied

told

53

T'hefchifmaficalDon^LtiA,
told

Mr.

Whitefield^ &c.

that their of their being of the Numpardoned in ber of the Kledl, that cantheir Communion, fuch Ho- not, fo long as they continue nour did thefe new pretend- in their Communion, fall ed Saints confer upon each from Grace. " Some of the Clergy, other whilft they lived, and they thought themfclves en- " if poflible, would oblige titled to a Crown of [b] " me to depart out of thefe

them

[j^],
all

Sins

were

Martyrdom^

if

they died in

Coafts."

[Cont. of

Mr.

tam

Unde eft ergo, fanftitatem de fuperbia vindicatis ? Nifi ut appareat, quia vos ipfjs decipitis, et Veritas in vobis non eft, Joannis focii
[g]

Defence WhitefieJd's Journal, to his arrival at LWc?;/, &c. p. i.] quod vobls perfec'' The Holy Ghoft wit*' ''

neffeth

in

every Place,

efl noluiftls.

Cum enim

ieducitis

ali-

quos, promitiitis vos indulgentiam peccatorum efle daturos: Et cum vultis donare peccata, veftram profitemini inno-

Labours and Afflic" tions, and Trials of all " Kinds abide me. O my
that

centiam, et remiflicnem peccatorum

datls
J ;

fie

quafi

nuUum

babearis

ipfi

tum
tat-

ceptio,

non eft ifta praefumprio, non Veritas fed mendacium, [Op-

peccafed de-

" dear Friends, pray than none of thefe Things may *' move me, and that I may
*'

Lib. 2. p. 5-6, fy,] [h] Si quis ergo eorum

damnatus in
sfti-

tali

crimine
eft,

fueric,

martyr centinuo

mandus
luit.

piam religionem putabat pcsnas

Donatiji.

quia pro f iperftitione, quam legibus

" "
''

not count even my Life dear unto my felt, fothat

I may finifh my Courfe with Joy." [Ib. p. 113.] " I would not defire to reign till I have fuffered with my Mafler Heaven will be doubly fweet when I am worn out with
:

[j4uqu(i'm. contra Epift. Pdtrwfwwsi

Tom,

VII.

p. 19.]

Audent
impijB,
fi

facrilega fchifmata vel haerefes

quando in ftagello ut fe corrigant admonentur, poenas furor is fui inter marryria depurare.
Si fupra
tis

'

[Id*

ib. p.

72.]

memoratos videri martyres vul-

" "
'

probate illosamaflepacem, in quafunc

prima fimdamenta manyrii, autdilexifle Deoplacidam unicacem, aut habuiflecum

fratribus charitatem.

*'

Diftrefles,

[Optat. de Schif.

Donate Lib. 3. p. 71, 72.]

Et cum

vivatis ut lacrones,

mori vos

"

tions,

for

and Perfecuthe fake of

[Cont.

[j^ugujim. contra literas Vetillani Donatiji, Lib. 2, cap. 83. Tom. VII. p. 136.1 Nulla igitur causa eft cjr tanto fcelere facrilegio fchifmatis pefeparationis, reatja, ec tamen fiquid pro hac tanta im?iietate patiamini, eciam baptizari veftro anguine dicitis, l/ingnfi, contra Lib,
jaftatis ut Martyres.

Jefus
his

Chrift."

from

&

embarking, to his arrival at Savannah^ P- 25.] <' Perhaps this may coft
'

me my
have

Life, but

what
?'*

1 to"

do with

that

PetiL p* I04]

[Id. ib. p. 32.]

Kemo

^4]
Mr.
''

"ThefcbifmaficalDonatiA.
Defence of their abominable Schifm.

Whitefield, Gf^.

* *'

with feveral Friends with the kind Keeper of the

Chriftian

We dined

*
*' *' *'

Prifon, [viz, atBriftol,']

and
that

rejoiced exceedingly,

we

fliould

one

Day

'*

or other fing together in fuch a Place as Paul

*'
*'

and Silas did. God prepare us for that Hour ; for 7 believe it will come, Ijhall he exalted,^ I mufi
he humhledj'

*'

[Continuat.

from

his arrival at

London

p. 35.]

Though Mr. TVUtefield Scripture to ferve a Turn, pretends indeed to be a great by taking a Text which Mafter of Scripture Phrafe,
They
often

wrefted thb

they Nemo
cium i

[i]

did

not

ergo vobis auferc liberum judifed vos diligenter attendite quid'

potiuseligatis, urrum correfti vivere in pace, an in malitia perfeverantes, falfi martyrii nomine vera fupplicia fuftinere. [jiugnfiln. contra Lit. Peliliani, Lib. I.
p. 104.]

under- yet how little he is acquainted with the true Senfe and Meaning of it, appears plain

from various Paffages

Journals,

in his

many

of

which
mif-

he has either mifunderftood,

or has grievoufly [r]
quam de
coercitione nefcire con-

Quid autem infericius atque perverfius ficut Donatijia faciunt, qui fe perfecutionem
perpeti gloriantur,
iniquitatis {\ix

applied to ferve a wretched

Caufe.
to

non folum

fund

fed etiam velle laudari, ignorances

And many Things

cxcitate mirabili, vel animofitate nablli, fe fcire difllmulantes, quod

tyres veros

damMarp.

that are applied in Scripture

non

faciat

pana, fed caufa,

Mofes or the Prophets,

to

[Auguftin.

Ep. 167.
vel fe

Tom,
dantes

II.

Op,

762.]
aliis

Donatijiie

vel interfici fe ab

cogentes

pracipites,

Martyro
Traftat.

fe nobilitarigloriabantur. Urjini,

Neujiadii p. 8. 584. St. jiuftin in his Letter to'Bomfacey at that Time a Tribune, flates the Difference between true and falfe Martyrs, Ep. 5-0. p. 207, &c. [zj Nee vos negare poteitis, qui conDam aliqui tra no3 fcandala ponitis

Theologicar.
1

Talat'morum

Chrijitanis

[r] Credice experto, quafi Chrijiianui loquor, venenata funt illius

fcripturis

dogmata, aliena

fanftis,

vim

fcripturis facientia.

[Hieronym, Ep. 65. Pammachio, et Oceano, Tom. II. Op, Edit, /intwerpla if 78. r. 229.] " Irenatis [fays Dr. Sherlock, Difconrpt

veftrum t non iatelle^as proferunt

tiones.

concerning the
p. 95.]
*'

lec-

ftand.

Knowledge of Jefus Chriji, obferves of the Valentinians, chac they ufed one Artifice or other to
**

[55]
T'hefchifmaticalDon2X\{\:.
fland,
their

Mr.
to

Whitefield,

&e^

and torturing

it

to

Chrift

or his Apoftles,

own

Senfe, in order to

&c. This vain [but weak]

fcandalize their Adverfaries.

Man
his

has diredly applied to Cafe, as appears from the two or three fol-

own

lowing many.)
*'

Inftances
return

(out

of
I

At my

home

"
^'
''-

was much
fight

rejoiced at the

of my honoured Friend Mr. John Wejley^

^^

whom

God's Providence

*^

has fent to Briftol " Lord now lett eft thou thy ' Servant depart in Feace?^ [Cont. of his Journal, from
his arrival at London^ p. ^c^.^

"

In

Company with about

to

"
**

thirty

came

on Horfeback, I Abergavenny,-^

<'

All the Way that we journeyed, God ftrengthened

((

me

mightily
I

in the inner

Man, and

could think of nothing fo much as Jojhua going from City to City, and fubduing the [j] Devoted Nation^'*

[PFblteJield, Ibid. p. 6g.]

"
"
to adapt all the Speeches
'

My

' compofito

of our Saviour, the ji/fe^ories of Scripture, Male Phantafmati, to the ill contriv< ed Fio:mer.c of their own Brain j and '< thus the Minds of Men are abufed

and

all

'
**
<

with Words and Phrafes, and the Scripture prei3ed to ferve every newfangled Conceit in Religion." [i] The Author of the Friendly De[Continuation,
p.
2.J
obferves,
**

They

bate,

That

I 56
TbeJcijI/ma^kalDonsitii}:.

Mr.
^'

Whitefield,

&c.

Si
'*
'

firft alking leave fordiePulpits,and preaching in the Fields, not-

My

withftanding they are denied,

'^
'<

puts

me

in

mind
Ifrael

of the Children of
firft

'^ '*
'

intreating

leave of

Og^ Sibon, &c. to go their through '' Land, but fighting their " way through when leave was denied. Like them ^' by the Strength of my di" vine Leader, I fhall at
quietly

<
*
'

"
arrived at laft to that pitch of Pride, that their

be more than Conqueror over all the Canaanites and earnalTeachers of the Ifrael of God."
laft

They

[Whitefield^ Ibid. p. 79.]

*'
<

to the

Followers [k] /wore by I hem ^ " and adored and made^Gods " cxpreffed a

Teemed pricked Heart, and fome fo quickned, that they

defire to folI

Many

of them, for which they were feverely girded by OptatuSy

{It]

" low me wherefoever " fhould go."

Et ut in error^m vefter

populiis

laudando felices appellac ; bene nominant, per vos juranc Ec perfonas veftras jam pro Deo habere nofcuntur, Solet Deus ad probandam fidem in juratione ab hominibus nominari. Sed icum per vos juratur, jam apud veftros
jnittat,

&

&

[Mr. JVhitefieWs Journal from London to Gibraltar

p. 17.]

" Oh God,

how

doft

de Deo et Chrifto filencium eft. Si ad vos divina mlgravit de ccelo religio, quia per vos juratur, nemo veftrum langueat ; nolite mori, imperate nubibus,
pluice
fi

" "
"

thou follow me with thy BlefTings wherefoever thou

Time were

poteftis, ut

per vos plenius jure-

That fome

SeSiaries in his

de Deo fileacur. gium impietate-commixtum,

tur, et

facrile-

dum

ho-

" taught in a foohfhand dangerous Man " ner to imitate the Scripture Phrafe ;
" and
*'

mines per vos jurantes libenrer audit,et vocem Dei in auribus non admittitis [Opt at. de Schifm, Donatifiar* veftris.
Lib. 2. p. 58.]

**
*

to apply all that concerned Ifrael to themfelves, and all that concerned the feven accnrfed Nations, or Egypt

or "Bahylon, to their Neighbours."

who

'*

fendeft

57 "
'

^^hefchifmaticalDomtia.
wrote (as has been before obferved) largely and
profefTedlyagainft this proud

Mr.

Whitefield, &c.

who

fendeft

me!

looked for
but
lo
1

Perfecution,

and profane

Sect,

" am received as of God. Not

"

an A:igel unto, me,

Lord.

if^o.

[Continuat. of his Journal, from his arrival at Sa-

vannah^
'

P- 9-]

" An

univerfal

Joy ap-

'
*'

* '

peared in their Faces at my unexpe6led return, and they were ready to fay. How beautiful are
the Feet of

him who brings

'
*'

eth glad Tidings of Salvatton,^'

[Cont. from his arrival at

Savannah^ to his return to London i p. lo.]

" God

to enabled me preach at V/apping Chapel,

"
<

fo that

the

Word

pierced the Hearers Souls,

"

and afterwards I expounded and prayed for an ' Hour and a half with great " Power and Demonftra*' ticn of the Spirit, and *' my Heart was full of
'

God. How im^nediatcly " does Jefus Chrift reward

'

'
'
'

me for rny poor Services ! As foon as tny daily JVork

is

done^

he

fays,

enter

thou

into the
;
^*

" Lord
'
it is

Joy of thy he coTnmands^, and

[Contin,

done.

'^hefcbifmatical'Don^m,

Mr,

Whitefleld, ^c.

[Contin. of his Journal,

from his arrival &c. p. 5.]

''

at

London^

As

" Town,
'^

foon as I came to I took my leave

in

of a Society
6'/r^^/.-^But

Caflle-

"
*'
*' '
^

Tongue can-

not exprefs the Sorrow they were in at the mention of my Departure. After this I did the fame
at a Society in
ftreet
,

" " "

*
*'

NicholasI

and

believe

*
'*

an Hour they wept aloud and forely all over the Room, as though they were mourning for the Death of
for near
their firft Born. 0,6
clofe
/ /:7^c;

''

"
*'

are their Hearts knit

to

me."

[Cont. from his arrival at London^ to his Departure,

^r.
*'

p. 64.]

London People

" much improved

*'

were fmce I

left

them

indeed their

" Hearts feem to be quite " broken \ and I believe

*'

"
*'

pluck out Eyes, if it were poflibletoferveme.^rid.

their

they

would

ib. p.

"

88.] In the

Afternoon

" preached at Black Heathy " when I faid, finally Bre<

thren farewell^ thoufands

" imme-

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