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A87434	Le dragon missionaire, or, The dragoon turn'd apostle being a dialaogue between a French Protestant-gentleman, and a French dragoon, wherein the new-way of convverting hereticks by dragoons is very lively and truly represented : to which is annexed a letter of Monsieur Jurieu to a French gentleman of quality, upon his dragonary conversion / translated out of the original French ; suppressed in the the late reign, but now re[pr?]inted ...	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1686 (1686)	Wing J1201; ESTC R43871	21,022	27

according to her Principles I must not believe in God but only upon the Faith and Credit of the Romish Church that is she treats the true God as Pagan Rome was wont to deal with her false ones She makes him depend upon the good-liking of Man Yea what is more she lifts up her self above God for she will be believed upon her word but allows not that God should be believed upon his So that instead of those words which so emphatically preface many passages in the Prophets Thus saith the Lord we must put Thus saith the Church From whence it is apparent that the Church of Rome believes in its self for if the reason why we are to believe any thing be not because God hath said it but because the Church saith so it follows that the Church believes because she wills or commands her self to believe and consequently she must be the Foundation and Rule of her own Faith Another thing very wonderful in this Principle of hers is that when any of the Members of this Communion hath a desire to know what it is that the Church requires him to believe he must content himself and acquiesce in the testimony of one sole person viz. of the Pope a Bishop or his own Curate and when any one of these tell him that this is the Doctrin of the Church he must acquiesce in what he hath said for if he should not there is no way remaining for his satisfaction but one viz. That the Church must be perpetually assembled in an Oecumenical Council for to resolve him what he ought to believe and what not And thus these Gentlemen that won't allow me to believe all the Prophets and Apostles together nay nor God himself speaking to me in the Scriptures yet will have me believe a single Curate or a single Bishop And that this is their plain and full meaning is so apparent that if any particular person should pretend to make any difficulty so to do or to reject the slightest of those Decisions which his Pastor assures him to be the Determinations of the Church they would prosecute him even after his Death and condemn him to the very Torments of Hell And now pray tell me whether any thing can be imagined more Exorbitant than this Tyranny of the Church and Clergy of Rome or any Slavery to be compared with that of her Votaries The Canon beginning with these words Si Papa d. 40. c. 6. Carries this Tyranny and this Slavery to that pitch as to affirm That if the Pope should carry the Souls of men in great flocks to the Devil he must be let alone without presuming to controll or contradict him By vertue of this Authority it is that the Church of Rome doth set up and establish new Mediators which in a manner saith Bellarmin may be called our Redeemers she Ordains an infinite number of new Devotions invents new Mysteries as that of Transubstantiation a new Sacrifice of Propitiation that of the Mass creates a new Ministry that of the Pope and his Cardinals founds new Religions those of the several sorts of Monks makes new Laws those of Tradition institutes new Sacraments viz. Confirmation Auricular Confession Orders Marriage and Extream Vnction She dispenseth with the Laws of God with the Obedience of Children to Parents and of Subjects to their Princes She adds to the Commands af God those of the Church that is her own She takes from the Commands of God viz. the second she allows what God forbids suffering publick Stews and forbids what God permits in forbidding Marriage and Meats yea what is more she commands what God expresly forbids viz. the worshipping of Images and forbids what he expresly commands viz. the Communion under both kinds See here Sir enough to make up a Letter and enough also to convince you of your horrible fall in quitting our Religion and embracing that of Rome I won't make it my task to dispute with your Wit and Reason nor before Men I l'e only dispute with your Conscience and that before God I therefore adjure you by your Conscience and by God who sees all things who must judge you one day to answer me truly to some Questions I shall put to you Are you fully satisfied in the Abjuration you have made Are you throughly perswaded in your heart as your new Religion obligeth you to be that the Religion you have quitted is Heretical Schismatical and Damnable and that on the contrary that of Rome is the onely true and saving Religion Do you believe in good earnest that Jesus Christ hath indeed granted to the Pope all the Authority he boasts of and takes to himself For in case he attributes to himself that which in no wise belongs to him he can be no other than a false Pastor and an Vsurper Do you believe firmly that in the Mass there is made a Transubstantiation viz. a change of the substance of the Bread into that of the Body of Jesus Christ and of the substance of the Wine into that of his Blood and that he is present in Body and Soul in the outward species or appearance of Bread and Wine and that he is to be adored there tho' it be as impossible to be assured that he is there indeed as it is to know the bottom of the heart of the Priest that Officiates upon whose intention this whole Mystery depends and consequently the Faith of those who believe that a Wafer is the true God the Creator and Redeemer of the World Can you possibly be ignorant that the Pope is Antichrist and Rome Babylon and that the Spirit of both the one and the other is the Spirit of Lyes of Cruelty and Impurity That the God of the Church of Rome is the God of the Mass and that that God is no better than an Idol which she worships most religiously together with an infinite number of Idols more That the said Church acknowledges no other Authority besides her own that she exalts her word above that of God and that she exerciseth a tyrannical power over the Consciences of men In a word can you be ignorant that all what that Religion teaches different from ours which are the very things they have particularly oblig'd you to embrace as necessary to Salvation are so far from being contain'd in the Gospel that they are most clearly and strongly condemn'd and forbid there And can you imagine that there is any Salvation for you in the state you are in viz. that of Hypocrisie whilst you p●etend to believe what you do not believe and to worship from your heart and freely when you do not do it but against your will as knowing it to be Idolatry whilst you externally comply with all the Worship of the Church of Rome serving with her by the worship term'd Doulia which is the word in Gal. 4.8 those things which by nature are not Gods Have you so wholly forgot the Gospel that you do not remember that the portion

the Holy Scripture gives us of Antichrist do agree with and meet in the Pope it is evident that he is Antichrist This we will enquire into as briefly as may be The first Character which the Holy Scripture gives us of Antichrist is That he should depart and apostatize from the Faith and addict himself to seducing Spirits and to Doctrines of Devils That he should teach Lyes in hypocrisie having his Conscience feared with an hot Iron forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats 1 Tim. 4. 2 Thes 2.3 All which is fulfilled according to the Letter in the Person and Conduct of the Pope He is departed from the Faith and sound Doctrine and hath made others go astray from the some by himself and other Deceivers he hath employed In stead of the Truth he hath taught Lyes and all this in Hypocrisie i. e. Under the Name and Cloak of Godliness and Religion For this Impostor attributes to himself the Title Authority and Priviledge of a faithful Minister of God He does nothing if we will believe him but for advancing of the Divine Glory and the Salvation of Souls He makes a great shew of being for Jesus Christ and seeking nothing but his Kingdom He hath the Horns of the Lamb and takes to himself his Authority his Office and Glory but he hath the Voice of the Dragon His word is like that of the Devil false deceitful proud and murderous His whole Conduct and behaviour of himself is a Mystery but a Mystery of Iniquity a Mystery in appearance but Iniquity indeed and in truth His Conscience is seared with an hot Iron that is He is insensible of the Checks of it and hardned in all manner of sin He forbids Marriage and commands to abstain from Meats which God hath blessed The second Character of Antichrist is The Man of sin 2 Thes 2.3 This also fits the Pope and to be convinced of it you need only to read the History of their Lives writ by Papists themselves you 'l find there that there is no Vice which they have not made profession of nor Crime which they have not committed yea what is more taught and authorized not only by their Examples but also by their Dispensations and Indulgences and by the Tax and Rate-Book they have made of the particular Sums of Money payable to the Apostolick Chancery for the Pardon of every sin And lastly also by hiis Emissaries such as are the Monks and above all the Jesuits who as they have over-turn'd the Gospel by opposing the Doctrine of Grace so have they also annull'd the Commands of the Law by the Maxims of their New-found Morality 3. Antichrist sitteth as God in the Temple of God and exalteth himself above all that is called God 2 Thes 2.4 That this also is the Character of the Pope is plain He extolleth himself above all the Church of Christ and not only attributes to himself the Name of God but also his Infallibility Soveraignty Omnipotence and Glory for he causes himself to be Worshipped as if he were God indeed He exalts himself above all that is called God That is above Kings and Princes whom the Scripture calls Gods pretending to be the Master and Disposer of their Crowns and Properties and not only so but above the Gods of the Roman Church I mean her Saints and Saintesses because he hath the power by his Canonization to Deifie them above the God of the Mass which he can unmake at pleasure and his Priests also by power received from him and can make it again when it is made and which he causes to be carried on Horseback whilst himself is carried upon the Shoulders of Princes yea he doth even extol himself above the living and true God by dispensing with his Laws abrogating them and making others contrary to them and moreover by attributing to himself the power of doing what God can not viz. To make Vice Vertue and Vertue Vice and that which is Sin no Sin and which is no Sin to be Sin The fourth Character of Antichrist is Idolatry Rev. 17. Which so exactly suits with the Pope as nothing more for his Idolatry is so universal and crying that it is become the Offence and Detestation both of Heaven and Earth Believers and Infidels yea of many who live in communion with him 5. Antichrist was to set forth a false Christ and by his Doctrines concerning the same was to over-throw the manifestation of Jesus Christ in flesh and the Essential Properties of his Body and Blood Matth. 24.23 24. and 1 John 4.3 And does not the Pope hold forth a false Christ viz. that in the Mass and doth he not attribute to Jesus Christ a more fantastick and false Body than ever Marcion did or the rest who have opposed his Humane Nature 6. The coming of Antichrist was to be with power and signs and lying wonders 2 Thes 2.9 and how many false Miracles hath the Pope and doth still employ for to Authorize his Errors Superstitions and ungrounded Pretensions 7. Antichrist also according to Scripture was to be a great Merchant dealing in all sorts of Merchandizes whether of this World or the other of Heaven and of Earth yea and of Hell too and of the Bodies and Souls of men For what is it which the Pope doth not either buy or sell What can you name which he doth not make Money of Or what can be done with him without Money What Trade hath he not drove with Souls since they have been sold for Money All these Marks taken joyntly together for they must not be taken apart cannot be found in any person save that of the Pope onely We will add for the Eigth and last Mark his having his Seat where Antichrist was to have his viz. at Babylon and this Babylon is Rome which is the Mother of this Religion For it is this Woman this great City who reigned over the Kings of the Earth in the time of St. John Rev. 17.18 Which cannot be said of Constantinople which at that time had no such dominion This is that City seated upon seven Hills Rev. 17.9 which is so clear and distinguishing a Character of Rome that both the Ancient and Modern Doctors not excepting the Papists themselves as Bellarmine Baronius Ribera Viegas and many others do own and allow it as well as we The Antichristianisme of the Pope and his Religion doth also most evidently shine forth in the Spirit which animates that whole Body as well as the Head of it which is the Spirit of lying of murder and impurity As for the Spirit of lyes that reigns universally in the Church of Rome this Spirit is the Father of all those Errors wit which it swarms the Inventer of so many pious Cheats of so many false Revelations of so many counterfeit Miracles of so many supposititious Relicks of so many fabulous Stories and Legends which are so solemnly and seriously exposed there and of so many Gulls and Cheats as

needs be instructed tho' I do not see my self to stand in need of it I find you knowing enough in these matters for me to confer with and the Complement you made me at your first entrance makes me suspect you may be some Monk or Jesuit in the Disguise of a Dragon and that to the end you might not fright us Protestants too much who cannot bear the sight of a Monk in his Cowle without believing him a Devil in Masquerade Those good Fathers you know are Omnis homo they become all to all and put themselves into what Figure or Disguise you please the better to act their part in returning to the Bosom of the Holy Mother Church and reuniting to her the Children she had lost Pray tell me frankly Sir Are not you a counterfeit Dragon but a true Jesuit D. Not in the least tho' to tell you the truth I have been worse than a Jesuit G. How so I pray D. I have been for some years a Proponent or Candidate for the Ministry but having found after a diligent Application of my self to the Study of Controversies that both the Proponentisme and Ministry of the Pretended Reformed Religion were but a meer Vanity and prepossession of Spirit and above all a thing very pernicious to the Church whose Peace they disturb with a thousand frivolous Disputes which destroy the very Essence of Religion viz. Piety and Charity In a word having found that Protestantisme had none of the best Principles I turn'd Catholick and became a Souldier supposing that in this station I should prove more useful to my King and Country than in acting a Preacher and bolstering up the people in an Error This makes me still retain a smatch of those things that formerly were my study and employ G. Since it is so we have no need of Monks nor Priests forasmuch as you cannot but know better than they what the things are which pinch Protestants most and is the very Remora of their Conversion D. It is true what you say Sir only I have forgot to dispute in Mood and Figure as a Sorbonist or Father Jesuit might do G. All the better for that these modal Argumentators and men of Syllogisms confound all with their Sophistry Ergoings and Distinctions And indeed for the most part they are no better than meer Pedants and insupportable to all ingenious men D. Be it so However since you put me upon it I will endeavour to prove that you ought to become a Catholick and that with this Syllogisme If your Ancestors did without just ground separate themselves from the Romish Church then it is your duty to return to her again But your Ancestors have without just grounds separated themselves Therefore c. G. I defie the whole Sorbonne and the Gentlemen of Port Royal to argue more exactly I perceive now it will go very hard with me and that I must prepare my self for a very rude Shock who have to deal with a Dragon and a Proponent converted both at once but Patience in answer to your Syllogisme I say that my Ancestors had great reason to separate themselves from Rome forasmuch as they saw they could not be saved in case they continued in her Communion D. We must never separate our selves from the true Church upon any pretext whatsoever for without the Church here is no Salvation And the Church of Rome is this true Church forasmuch as she alone hath been always visible and the most extended and comprehensive of all others Now it is apparent that the true Church must needs be the most visible and most extended of all others that are called Christian. G. I don't see but that the Greek Church is every whit as comprehensive as the Romish Church and hath in all times-been as visible as it But where have you learnt that the true Church must always be visible and most comprehensive D. Of St. Augustin where he Disputes against the Donatists G. Don't you know that St. Augustin was a man as you and I subject to Error and that he himself elsewhere exhorteth us to give heed to no other Authority besides that of the Divine Scriptures And you who are so ready to jump with him in this Point would you be as willing to believe with him That Infants dying without Baptism and without the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ are damned as much as the Devils themselves and Reprobates D. No surely but however it must be granted that without the Church there is no Salvation and consequently the same must needs be always visible that men in all times may enter into Communion with it and so be saved G. The Scripture no where saith so It is without Jesus Christ that there is no Salvation And as for the Church true it is That we are to enter into Communion with it but that is when we can see and find it and all those whom the true Church doth cast out of her Communion upon just grounds are in a state of damnation D. What Sir Will you suppose then that the Church of God can perish and cease upon Earth G. By no means for Jesus Christ will always have his faithful Ones to the end of the World yet that hinders not but they may be oft hid from the Eyes of men and unknown to them D. How is it possible then that men in all times should be saved G. By means of the Gospel which the Divine Providence will take care shall be preserved upon Earth till the end of the World and by the owning of those Christian Truths in which all Christians do agree D. You are very subtile but in the mean time you cannot deny but that your Church and Religion are but of Yesterday since they were never heard of in the World before Luther and Calvin G. Pray be pleased to look upon this Book open it and read it D. Why This is the New Testament G. And there Sir you have the Authors of my Church and of my Religion I hold it from Jesus Christ and his Apostles and from their first Successors D. That cannot be Sir for your Ministers came not that way they are without Succession or any lawful Call and they have either made themselves Pastors or have been Ordained by the People G. Not so for the grearest part of them came from the Church of Rome and so preserv'd the Call they received there and the rest were confirmed and approved by them In a word we find that Jesus Christ hath committed to Believers the Authority of the Ministerial Function But you Mr. Dragon who are so sharp upon others from whence pray do you come And from whence do you derive your Mission D. From Father la Chaise and from Monsieur Maimbourg formerly a Jesuit and from the whole Body of the Clergy G. But Sir the persons you name are no Dragons and a Dragon must descend in a right Line from another Dragon as amongst you a Priest derives his Authority

pleaseth A Spirit who when it pleaseth him walks on the Ti●er the Pau and the Thesin goes a Foot rides on Horse-back in a Coach or in a Chariot may be shut up in a Portmantle a Packet of Letters or any thing you please Spirit of Submission of Faith and of Blind Obedience Spirit Roman Catholick enter thou into this Body and Soul possessed by the Devil of Calvinism in the Name of St. Francis of St. Dominick and of the Patriarch Ignatius Loyola G. Ah Sirs cast as much Holy Water as you please upon me but don't beat me with the Sprinkler D. We do this that the Water may the better enter into your Body and extinguish the Fire of Heresy G. Nay if you be resolved to kill me with blows at least let me not languish under your hands but dispatch me forthwith I beg of you D. Not so we are forbid to kill you but we shall so plague you if you be not presently converted that Death will seem sweet to you in comparison of the Sufferings we are prepareing for you They place the Gentleman before agreat Fire and hold his feet to the burning Flames and so burn them by degrees the violence of which Suffering makes him fall from himself bringing him to the fire again they demand of him whither he be willing to go to Mass D. What are not you yet converted and will not you go to Mass G. Ah Sirs how would you have me to go now you have burnt my Feet and Legs D. We will either carry you or cause you to be carryed G. O Lord Jesu have pitty on me and strengthen me D. I find we must once more approach you to the Flame that you may be more enlightned They bring him to the Fire as before and begin again to burn his Feet he faints under the extremity of the Torture and saith G. Take me away and do with my Body whatsoever you please D. What shall we carry you to Mass G. Whither you please to a Mosque if you think good D. Did not I tell you I would do a Miracle here and that I would convert you whither you would or no. The Glory of all be render'd to the Great King of Dragons to his Holy Father Confessor and all other Subordinate Instruments in this Great Work A LETTER OF MONSIEVR JVRIEV To a French GENTLEMAN Upon his Changing his RELIGION SIR I Have been so afflicted and astonished with the stroak of your Fall that tho' I feel my self obliged to reach you my hand for to raise you again yet have I not been at liberty to do it till now I begin only a little to recover my self from my Astonishment but my Affliction still continues and will till you return from whence you have gone astray I know Sir that you have been surprized and that for your overthrow there hath been employed the Name the Orders and Soveraign Power of the King the Ability the Caresses the Instances and the Authority of his greatest Ministers the Numbers the Force the Quartering and Havocking of Souldiers the Disguisements condescention and credit of the most famous Prelates the example of Cities and whole Provinces And last of all the fairest promises and the most terrible threats and that besides all these you have flatter'd your self with many other thoughts not necessary for me to dive into And indeed upon the review of all these it is no more a matter of so great astonishment to me that such a throng of extraordinary Objects have surprized and dasht you out of Countenance a less thing often does it But now that your surprize and terrour ought to have ceased you ought also to recover your self from the disorder into which they have cast you Let us Sir in cold blood and at leisure consider a while and take a view of the Religion you have forsaken and of that which you have newly embraced That which you have forsaken acknowledges no other Father but God nor other Head besides Jesus Christ nor other Spirit but that of the Father and the Eternal Son The onely Object of all its Devotions of its Faith Love Hope and acknowledgment the onely Source and foundation of its Joy and Salvation is the said ever blessed and adorable Trinity It hath no other Rule of its Doctrine Maxims and Conduct but the Holy Scripture Its Ministers attribute no other power to themselves except that of Teaching the Gospel and to press the Observance of it by their Word and Examples as meer Teachers and Directors without pretending to any power over the Consciences Bodies or Estates of their Disciples Nay more than that recommending very carefully to them to examine whatsoever they hold forth to them by the Rule of Holy Scripture and forbidding to believe them any further than they find them conform to the same To this purpose they neither speak themselves nor make God speak to his People but in a known Language and with all their might continually press the reading and study of the Holy Word In a word the Religion you have renounced is nothing else but the sincere and true Profession of the Gospel That which you have now embraced is quite of another Nature for to give you a Draught of it in little It is a Religion of which the Pope is Father and Head and Rome the Mother and Nurse Concupiscence its Spirit and Heart a Wafer its God the Worship of Creatures its Devotion it s own Authority the highest Law whose Ministers are Lords and absolute Princes and its Votaries so many Slaves which are continued in Slavery by hiding the Law of God from them by speaking to them in a Barbarous Tongue by prescribing to them a superstitious Worship and frighting them with the Fantasmes of this World and that which is to come And to speak to you more frankly and to call things by their own Names the Father Bridegroom and Head of the Church of Rome is the Antichrist her Mother is Babylon and her Spirit is the Spirit of Lyes of Murder and impure Lusts her God is an Idol her Worship Idolatry her Soveraign Power Tyranny her Ministers Tyrants and her Votaries so many unhappy Wretches whose Liberty Repose Estates yea Bodies and Souls are sacrificed to that Cruel and Insatiable Beast of the Revelation The Bounds I have set my self of keeping within the narrow compass of a Letter will not allow me to enter upon any ample Demonstrations and large Deductions of what I have just now in few words hinted yet they leave me room enough to convince you if any love of Truth or desire of your own Salvation be left with you I take or granted as an avowed Truth that the Pope is the Head and Father of the Church of Rome wherefore nothing remains for me to prove but that He is the Antichrist and this I 'le endeavour with this one Argument which contains as many more as it consists of Parts and is of unquestionable Truth If the Characters which