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authority_n	peter_n	pope_n	successor_n	2,110	5	8.9988	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69532	A learned, vsefull and seasonable discovrse concerning the Chvrch of England, and the Chvrch of Rome addressed by way of letter to M. St. Iohn, a Romish priest / by that eminent author and worthy patriot, Dr. John Bastwick, now prisoner under the popish tyranny at Yorke.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1643 (1643)	Wing B1066; ESTC R18862	10,786	12

Hereticall impiety Thinke not most curteous Sir that I say thus to object to you the Faults of others which out of over-zealous Piety as they conceit regard not to violate Charity truely when I reflect on such kind of men the Image of the Samaritan Church comes into my mind For that also was ancient splendid rich in Rites and shining with Ceremonies yea it honour'd Moses and eagerly expected the Messias notwithstanding all this the Author of Salvation sentenced Her from his owne mouth not to be in the state of Salvation This I am the more confident to say to you whom I know to be a person of excellent moderation and not to be taken with specious Toies and empty Titles For what a brainsick piece of Braggardisme is that The Roman Church is ancient Admit it be so yet is it withall impious and Superstitious But she is brave and Magnificent Who denyes it yet is she falne into Idolatry T is the most pernicious policy of Satan to gild most execrable Errors with the false but glittering shew of Titles By these artifices how fouly hath he defil'd your Church The very Rites of Pagans condemned and exploded by the Apostles he hath revived and obtruded having painted and varnisht them with new names But Christ himselfe he hath banisht from the Church and Soules of men retaining onely his Name for a shew This was Satans subtilty that he might place Antichrist in the Throne of Christ By these tricks that Man of Sin mounted to the height of his Ambition For openly to have attempted to dethrone the Majesty of Christ had beene Folly and Madnesse as appeared long before in those frantick Hereticks Arius Samosatenus Valentinus and Nestorius scornd contemnd and plagu'd for their Blasphemies For who is so desperately hopelesse of Salvation that could endure to heare an open Blasphemer of Christ They which deny the Godhead or the Trinity or which rage and rayle at Christ are by the common consent of Christians adjudged to Death But the mystery of Iniquity was by secret engines to be contrived more cleanly The Name of Christ was to be kept and Adoration to be given at the naming of Jesus but the vertue and efficacy of his Merits to be abolisht By this Stratagem was Christ to be exterminated that roome might be made at Rome for the seat of Antichrist in the Temple of God Horrible impiety to deny that underhand which openly dare not be attempted Excellently was it said of Seneca What difference is there betwixt denying and defaming God So what matters it whether you deny Christ as a Renegado or whether you strip him of his Offices For if Christ be not vested and dignified with his Office he is no Christ to us Since then under the Name Christ his Regall Sacerdotall and Propheticall Offices and under the Word Jesus all the saving Benefits flowing from that triple Office are comprehended there is no doubt but that is a corrupt Church which hath corrupted those Offices Not to aggravate the atrocity of the Fact with words I say impassionately The Roman Church erres grievously about Christs Offices which she hath corrupted destroyed and violated Of this hainous and hideous Crime our Church was never guilty but ever maintained and defended them Intending to make a Parallel of the Doctrines of both Churches I first say by way of Preface that in all your Doctrinall Additions and Corollaries which as so many unsound Fringes you have sewed to our Assertions there 's nothing which is not superfluous and which without any hazard of our Soules may be canceld exploded and rejected But let us now beginne this parallel-collation of Doctrines from Christs Regall Office This is the Faith of the Reformed Chrurches That Christ Jesus is the onely Monarch Moderator Defender and Governor both of the whole World and of his Church in the World as being set by God upon his Holy Mountaine who hath given him all power in Heaven and Earth and as being the King of Righteounesse the King of Eternity and the King of Kings That he hath a provident care of all things but watches over his Church with a speciall eye of Providence as having bin sought bought with his owne most precious Bloud rescu●d from the Usurpation of Satan That into this Church there is infus'd from Christ her Emperor Righteousnesse Peace Joy Happinesse Light Knowledge of God Certainty of Salvation and whatever other Benefits may redound to loyall and faithfull Subjects from so Great and Gracious a Prince That this Kingdome and Empire is of Divine and Celestiall nature not of a Worldly or vanishing splendor as being governd and guided by the Scepter of the Word and Spirit not by the Authority of Humane Power That this Regiment had never any Vicar or Deputy assign'd to it That to call Peter the Monarch of the Church and the Popes his Successors are meere Toies and Fopperies of Puff-paste Ambition That after the Apostles times no infallible Guides or Doctors are to be found That Multitude Miracles Riches and worldly Pompe are no Markes of the true Church That the Church is not at all times alike conspicuous and visible That we are not to follow Fathers and Councells decreeing any thing dissonant from Christs Edicts But your Papall Church teacheth otherwise viz. That Christ is a King but a worldly one and not King alone neither but the Pope his Vicar shares with him in Raigne and Regiment That in this Vicariat there is a long Series and succession of Popes which are the Heads and Foundations of the Church That the Church must be regulated governd not by Christs Lawes onely but by the Canons also and Constitutions of Councells and Fathers and that the Violaters of such Decrees are more severely to be punisht then the Transgressors of Gods Law That she is to be ruled by Traditions not by Scripture onely That those Traditions of straw are equall to that Sacred Scepter That the genuine Notes and surest signs of the Church are multitude of Men a continued Succession Worldly Pompe and Magnificence Miracles Antiquity Unity Here I appeale to your Candor and Ingenuity that setting aside Partiality for a while and considering well what both sides affirme you would be pleased to judge without Hate or Love whether of us teach and deliver the Doctrine of Christs Princely Office more soundly and sincerely Our Divines leave to Christ alone his Priviledges Prerogatives Honour and Glory inviolate yours either ascribe all these to Men or associating Man with Christ in his Regiment contaminate his Crowne and Dignity with the contagion of most sordid company But perhaps you are loth to condemne that Doctrine as impious which you have bin so long used to consider yet whether at least it be not superfluous and needlesse For tell me if any man utterly ignorant of Pope Fathers and Councells shall submit only to Christs Scepter and obey his Lawes in beleeving in him alone as his only comforter