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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38185	The Franciscan convert, or, A recantation-sermon of Anthony Egan ... preached in London on April 6, 1673 to which is annexed, A narrative of the strange behaviour and speeches of the papists in Ireland since His Majesties declaration of indulgence : and the commendatory letter in Latine, given to the author by his superiour before his conversion.	Egan, Anthony, B.D.; Ford, Henry, Sir, 1619?-1684.	1673 (1673)	Wing E248; ESTC R7765	10,949	36

the Doctrine of Transubstantiation and all the ridiculous consequences of it became evident to my understanding for suppose a Turk should tell me that I make my God and then eat him and should he challenge me to produce so nonsensical a Tenent in the Alcoran I must either change my opinion of Transubstantiation or quit my Christianity Is it not strange that Christ should eat himself and that all the Disciples should eat him alive before the Jews had Crucified him I know he calls the Bread his Body but then he calls the Cup his Bloud and shall one be allowed to be a figure and not the other But that which expounds the whole Institution are these words Do this in remembrance of me that is to say This Ordinance is a commemorative Sacrifice of my self if Christ be corporeally present how comes there to be any exercise of our memories But others have said so much of this Subject that I need say no more Another great motive of my Conversion was their Adoration of Images so flatly contrary to the Second Commandment God told his People Israel of old that they saw no similitude for the prevention of all manner of Worship by Images They say by Graven Image is meant only an Idol but then these words following Nor the likeness of any thing before me spoyls that interpretation For if by graven Images be meant only Idolls then the Commandment is altogether superfluous for Idolls were forbidden in the first Commandment by having no other Gods and if they say they worship not the Image but the person represented by it I answer this justifies all the Heathens in their Idolatries for they said they worshipped nothing made with hands neither did they believe them to be their Gods but that their Gods were present in them in an Extraordinary manner In the next place I will speak of the Doctrine of Purgatory which upon serious examination became strange to me Indeed I read of a narrow way that leads to bliss and a broad way that is the high road to misery for that Via media that leads to Purgatory I find it not in my Bible yet I hold Purgatory but it is in my Saviours bloud and it is that Purgatory which only must purge my soul from sin and if that Purgatory will do a sinners work I will look for no other Yet for all this Purgatory in the Popish Notions of it is a gainful Doctrine it is that fire which makes the Popes Pot boyl and therefore no wonder if they be so loth to have it extinguished Another motive that I had to abandon all Communion with the Church of Rome was that intolerable practice of having the Service in a Tongue unknown to the people and Chap 14 of the former Epistle to the Corinthians seems to be wholly writ against that Custom It is said Exod. 12. 26 27. And it shall come to pass when your Children shall say unto you What mean you by this Service that you shall answer and say it is the Sacrifice of the Lords Passeover c. When I read this Scripture it reminds me that Gods Service is a reasonable Service and that we ought to know the reason and meaning of that Service we perform to God Edification and Devotion are inseparable from the true Worship of God Now should I in the language of this Scripture come to the Common People at the celebration of the Mass and say What mean you by this Service What satisfactory answer can be expected Some of late I must confess have translated the Popish Prayers into the Vulgar Language but the Pope has forbidden the use of them So that who shall so use them are not right Catholicks But above all the Tenents of Rome none seemed more ridiculous to me than that Doctrine of Infallibility for if that be proved I shall submit to any thing that she shall impose upon me For had St. Peter himself been appointed the infallible Judge of Controversies what needed the Council at Jerusalem Acts 15. It would have been a much shorter cut to have had St. Peters determination in the Case without giving the Apostles any further trouble in it The Patriarch of Antioch pretends that he is St. Peters Successor and we have more reason to believe him so then the Pope for Antiquity is clear that he was Bishop of Antioch and the Scriptures are express that there he exercised his Function and that there it was that the Disciples were first called Christians St. Paul saitb that to him was committed the care of all the Churches St. Peter might have said those words with as much innocency as St. Paul but it was Gods mercy that he did not for then the Pope would have pretended a good Text for his Universal Pastorship But that which makes the Doctrine of infallibility more vain are those contradictory establishments which are in that Church had I time I might give in endless instances But that which is the most mischievous to them is their non-agreement among themselves where this infallibility is seated which makes nothing more fallible than the very Doctrine of Infallibility And I must tell you that among the many other Errors and ill Practices which I discovered in the Roman Church their Cruelties were no small disgust to me as if Christianity had taught them to forget Humanity I cannot but with horror think of those barbarous Massacres which were committed in my own Country as if Papists had guts but no bowels so that it is not only their Prayers but Faith that they have written in bloudy Characters You will hear them boast of Loyalty Look into the Irish Histories and then judge of those pretences If by accident some have shewed themselves so in England yet the constitution of their Church looks with another aspect for I am sure I ever thought it a meritorious action to murther either Prince or any Protestant Subject provided I was commissionated so to do by the Pope but how to serve two Masters I understand not the Pope and the King I must tell you that I my self am an instance of their intended cruelty for after my conversion from their fooleries and having by the good providence of God been instrumental in bringing seven Friats and Priests from their Communion and several of their Laity their malice was such that Preaching upon a Sunday in a Protestant Church a Musket was levelled at me as I stood in the Pulpit but through Gods mercy the Bullet went only through my hair without doing me any other mischief but when I saw my life was aimed at I was forced to quit both my new Preferment and my Country But are these things according to the Gospel of Peace They that Preach Religion with fire and faggot surely know not what manner of spirits they are of if our Saviour's Kingdom were of this world his Servants would fight and indeed we read St. Peter used his Sword once in his Masters quarrel but he got