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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50252	A defence of the Protestant Christian religion against popery: in answer to A discourse of a Roman Catholick Wherein the manifold apostaties, heresies, and schisms of the chruch of Rome, as also, the weakness of her pretensions from the scriptures and the fathers, are briefly laid open: by an English Protestant.	Mather, Samuel, 1626-1671.	1672 (1672)	Wing M1278; ESTC R217670	45,074	64

Church-destroying such a God-provoking sin as was prophesied of her in the sixth Trumpet Revel 9.13 20. The Learned Raynolds hath spoken very convictingly to you concerning this sin in his Book De Idololatria Romanae Ecclesiae And so hath Mede of the Apostasie of the latter Times 6. All your seditious Principles against Kings and Magistrates exempting your Clergy exalting your Pope above them The number of those you thus exempt as sous of Belial from the yoke hath been estimated to amount in spacious Popish Countries to a very great proportion even to an Hundred thousand able fighting Men in one Nation which brings to mind that expression of your own Pope Gregory That Antichrist hath an Army of Priests to fight his Battels Rex superbiae prope est quod dici●nesas est Greg. Lib. 4. Epist 38. Sacerdotum praeparatus est exercitus qui cervici militant elatioms c. The King of pride saith he is at the door and which is dreadful to be spoken there is an Army of Priests ready to fight under that neck of pride which lifteth up it self c. The fifth Trumpet proclaimeth that he hath a black Guard of Scorpion-locusts who know no other King but him whom the Holy Ghost hath named according to his Nature Abaddon and Apollyon the great Destroyer the Son of Perdition the Man of Sin Revel 9. ver 3 11. And as you thus rob and spoil Kings of their Subjects so you make Kings themselves Subjects to the Pope exalting his Throne with Lucifer above the stars of God Isa 14.13 And giving him such a barbarous power over them that it is a wonderful and unaccountable thing that ever any King or Magistrate should be a Papist no account can be given of it but the strange corruption of Nature neither their Crowns nor Lives being secure but meerly at the Popes courtesie upon the principles of that Religion which gives a forreign Priest power to depose them and give away their Kingdoms But the Apostle Peter a great Apostle and whom you pretend a kindness and a respect for he exhorts us to submit to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake to the King as supreme 1 Pet. 2.13 But not a word of the Popes Supremacy And the Apostle Paul though an Apostle yet did appeal unto Caesar as knowing that to be the supreme Tribunal on earth in subordination unto God for God alone is chief and the Magistrates power subordinate unto Gods Acts 25.10 11. 5.29 And he exhorteth every soul which includeth the Pope if he hath an humane soul to be subject to the higher powers Rom. 13. ver 1. to 7. There may be passive obedience when men cannot act therefore we whom you call Hereticks have set it down as amongst the Articles of our Faith that Infidelity or difference in Religion doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal Authority nor free the people from their obedience to him from which Ecclesiastical persons are not exempted much less hath the Pope any power or Jurisdiction over them in their Dominions or over any of their people and least of all to deprive them of their Dominions or Lives if he shall judge them to be Hereticks or upon any other pretence whatsoever yea some of your own have confessed That from the beginning it was not so 〈…〉 Julio 3●● 2. B. Quin omnes emnium Ecclesiarum Ministri Romanae non minus quam caeterarum ultro Regibus Principibus ac Magistratibus parebant But all the Ministers of all the Churches yea of the Church of Rome as well as any other were willingly obedient unto Kings Princes and Magistrates So those Bononian Fathers of yours before mentioned How and by what means Morney Myst. Iniq. per totum Fox Acts and Monum Vol. 1. pa. 1018. and by what steps and degrees the Pope rose from such mean beginnings to such an height of worldly power and grandeur to tread upon the Necks of Kings and Princes Guiccardin hath fully shewed in his digression towards the end of the fourth Book of his Histories which you have honestly stollen away out of some Editions but in some others it is restored Morney also speaks fully to it as being a great part of his scope and so doth Mr. Fox 7. Your sanguinary Spirit and Principles towards such as differ from and testifie against you Wherein there is not only an evil in practice but your practice being justified as lawful by your principle it is two sins conjoyned it is both Murther and Heresie and most remote from the Spirit of the Gospel which is a Spirit of love and sweetness yea it is a principal character of Antiohrist and mark of the Beast Revel 13.7 and 17.6 The Revelation often mentions these two sins the Sorceries and Fornications of your false Worship and your shedding innocent and precious blood as the two grand procuring causes of your Ruine See Revel 18.2 ult and Revel 19.2 It is Ramus his Observation that great Light and faithful Martyr of Jesus Christ whom you slew with Thirty thousand more in your great Parisian Massacre in the year 1572. P Rami Commentar de Religione Christiana Lib. 4. cap. 19. pag. 546. It is his Observation and Lamentation How that Julian the Apostate could observe and testifie concerning the Christian Religion in those primitive times That it came to be so largely diffused and propagated by means of the good turns and offices of love which Christians did towards all men of what Religion or persuasion soever But we in these dayes we Romanists are of such a spirit that if our Neighbour do not consent and concur and run along with us in every superstitious practice and opinion we presently burn him alive Julianus Apostata ad Arsacium Cappadociae Pontificem scripsit Christianam Religionem tam late propagatam esse propter Christianorum erga omnet cujusvis Religionis mortales beneficentiam Nos vero nisi de cujussibet superstitionis opinione proximus noster consentiat igne vivum protinus exurimus You have slain as some compute a greater number of Christians fince the first setting up of your Inquisition than there be Papists at this day in the World Quis talia fando Temperet à Lachrymis Who that hath either the grace of a Christian or but the common bowels of a man can speak of such things without bleeding Lamentations Alstedins observes That in the space of Forty years Alsted Encyclop Chronol cap. 8. ad Annum 1540. from the year 1540 there were Nine hundred thousand Martyrs in Europe Should we Travel into Forreign Affairs and former Ages I might tell you of your bloody Croisadoes against Christians instead of Turks against the Waldenses and Abbingenses of old as well of late your Spanish Inquisitions to which King Philip the second delivered up his own eldest Son and Heir Charles to be butchered and murthered by them for suspition of savouring the Low-Countrey Hereticks Your French Massacres and