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A Protestants resolution: shewing his reasons why he will not be a Papist Digested into so plain a method of question and answer, that an ordinary capacity may be able to defend the Protestant religion, against the most cunning Jesuit or Popish priest. Useful for these times.
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in the Scriptures and are commanded in the fear of God to read and search them Quest What is an Eighteenth Error of the Papists Ans Their Doctrine of Indulgences Quest What do the Papists mean by their Indulgences Ans An absolution from the guilt of punishment by the satisfactions which are contained in the Church-treasury Quest What is the Protestants belief in this matter Ans That Papal Indulgences are the worst of cheats and abominable injuries to Christ and Christians Quest How prove you that Ans 1. Because there is no pardon of sin but by the mercy of God through the blood of Christ Rom. 5.1 Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Eph. 1.7 In whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace 2. Because there is no such thing in Scripture that the merits of one Saint should be able to make satisfaction for the sins of another 3. It is most injurious to Christ who needeth not any Merits of Saints to be added to his satisfaction For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that be sanctified Heb. 10.14 Quest What is a Nineteenth Error of the Papists Ans Their forbidding Priests to Marry Quest VVhat do they speak of marriage it self Ans They do not forbid all marriage but speak disgracefully and contemptuously of it Quest VVhat say the Protestants in this matter Ans That the Popish Doctrine forbidding to Marry is devillish and wicked Doctrine Quest How prove you that Ans 1. Because it is that which God not only alloweth but in some cases commandeth making no exception of the Clergy from others Mat. 19.11 All men cannot receive this saying save they to whom it is given 1 Cor. 7.2 To avoid fornication let every man have his own wife Chap. 9.5 Have we not power to lead about a Sister a Wife as well as other Apostles and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas 1 Tim. 3.2 A Bishop must be blameless the husband of one wife Tit. 1.6 If any be blameless the husband of one wife having faithful children Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will judg 2. Because it leads to much leudness and villany as Fornication Adultery Incest Sodomy Murder c. 3. Because this Doctrine is a badg of Antichrist 1 Tim. 4.1 3 The spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils Ver. 3. Forbidding to marry Quest What is a Twentieth Error of the Papists Ans Denying the Doctrine of Assurance Quest What saith the Papists of it Ans That a Believers assurance of the pardon of his sin is a vain and ungodly confidence Quest What is the Protestants belief in this matter Ans That it is not only our priviledg that we may but our duty to labour after assurance that our sins are pardoned 2 Pet. 1.10 Give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall Quest How doth it appear to be our duty Ans 1. From the nature use and end of the holy Scriptures which are a good foundation of assurance Rom. 15.4 Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scrâ—â—tures might have hope 2. From the nature of conscienâ—â— and its power 1 John 3.19 20 â—â— Hereby we know that we are of the trutâ— and shall assure our hearts before him Foâ— if our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things If our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God 3. Because it hath been attained by others as Job David Paul c. 4. Because God hath appointed Ordinances that believers may have assurance Quest What is an One and Twentieth Error of the Papists Ans Their Doctrine of Seven Sacraments Quest What is a Sacrament Ans A Sacrament is an Ordinance of Christ consisting of visible signs representing sealing and applying Christ and the benefits of the New Covenant to Believers Quest How many Sacraments are there the New Testament Ans Only two viz. Baptism and the â—â—rds Supper Quest Which be those other five which â—â—e Papists have added Ans 1. Confirmation 2. Extreme Unction 3. Matrimony 4. Holy Orders 5. Penance Quest Why may not these five be Sacramental as well as the other two 1. Because there are not sufficient parts in any of them to make a Sacrament Prov. 30.6 Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a lyar 2. Because there are no parts of a Sacrament in any of these but what is included in Baptism and the Lords Supper Quest What is a Two and Twentieth Error of the Papists Ans Their Doctrine of Transubstantiation Quest What do they understand by Transubstantiation Ans That by the Consecration of the Bread and Wine there is made a Conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ and of the Wine into the substance of the blood of Christ Quest What Scripture do they alledg for this Ans Joh. 6.51 53 54 55 56. Quest What say the Protestants to this assertion Ans 1. That Christ blessed Bread and Wine therefore did not destroy them 2. That it is bread and wine in the Sacrament which Christ hath commanded his Ministers to administer and his people to receive 3. That the Apostle himself doth no less than three times call it bread and wine after Consecration 1 Cor. 11.26 27 28. Quest What other reasons do the Protestants give against Transubstantiation Ans 1. It takes away the great evidence of the first witnesses to Christianity 1 Joh. 1 That which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon c. 2. It makes void the whole institution 1 Cor. 11.23 24 I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me 3. It will not allow men the priviledg of beasts to judg by their senses as seeing smelling tasting c. Quest What is a Twenty-third Error of the Papists Ans Their denying the use of the Cup to the people in the Sacrament Quest What is the Protestants belief in this matter Ans That every Communicant hath an undeniable right to the blessed Cup in the Lords Supper Quest How prove you that Ans 1. From the institution of this Sacrament and our Saviours command annexed thereunto Matth. 26.27 He took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it 2. From the example and appointment of the Apostles Mark 14.23 And they all
drank of it 3. Because without the Cup a man cannot answer the end of this Sacrament As oft as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come 1 Cor. 11.26 4. Because the same right we have to Christs blood we have to the Cup. Mat. 26.27 28 He took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying drink ye all of it For this is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins Luk. 22.20 This cup is the New Testament in my blood which is shed for you 1 Cor. 10.16 The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ Quest What is the twenty-fourth Error of the Papists Ans Their Doctrine of the Mass Quest What do they understand by the Mass Ans That which the Protestants according to the Scripture call the Lords Supper Papists call the Mass whereby the Sacrament is made a Sacrifice and offered up to God Bellar. lib. 1. de missa cap. 1. Quest What say the Protestants of the Mass Ans That it is a vain and Idolatrous thing as used by them Quest VVhy vain Ans Because by Christs Sacrifice God is sufficiently satisfied and the repenting-sinner fully secured Heb. 10.12 This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down on the right hand of God Quest Why Idolatrous Ans Because they make it a meer Idol not only worshipping it as God but trusting therein for salvation as in Christ himself Quest How prove you that the Mass is not the very same sacrifice with that of Christ crucified on the Cross Ans 1. God appointed Christ for a Sacrifice but never the Mass 2. The Mass is not of the same sort or kind with that of Christ crucified Quest Wherein lieth the difference Ans 1. It was the sacrifice of the very body born of a Virgin but the Mass of a piece of bread 2. There was shedding of blood but the Mass is an unbloody sacrifice 3. It had the due proportion of a man but the Mass is a wafer Quest Are there no more Errors of the Papists Ans Yes many but these are sufficient to make the Protestant abhor their Church and Doctrine Quest Where was the Protestants Religion before Luther Ans In the Bible Doctrinally and in its fruits in the hearts and lives of all good men Quest Where were the Disciples first called Christians Ans At Antioch the Disciples were first called Christians Act. 11.26 Quest Then the name of Christian had not its rise from Rome Ans No. Quest What doth the name Christian put us in mind of Ans It putteth us in mind of what Christ hath done for us and the many benefits we obtain from his life death resurrection and intercession Quest What more Ans It is a remembrance unto us what we should do for Christ in gratitude of what he hath done for us Quest Do not Popish Priests Jesuits and others that dye for Treasons and Murthers dye like Christians Ans No True Christians at their death will give Glory to God Quest Do not they give glory to God Ans No if they did they would confess their just deserts that brings them to that punishment Quest Why do they not confess their Treasons Murder c. when they come to dye for them Ans Because their Church forbids them to confess to Protestants which they call Hereticks Quest How doth that appear Ans In that they receive their Absolution upon condition that they dye concealing the Crime for which they dye Quest Vpon what Principle do they proceed in this Ans Upon this principle namely That no man owes his ememy Truth Quest Why so Ans Because then he owes him what may be a means for his preservation Quest What use do they make of this Principle Ans That the Protestants being Adversaries to the Church of Rome her Sons owe them nothing but ruin and destruction and the vilest of means they can use for that end are meritorious and glorious I Have not inserted the Quotations under the Five last Questions in regard the Authors are so numerous if the Papists shall deny it let the Reader peruse what the Protestant Authors have quoted out of the Romanists own books and he will find that they do not only make this kind of Perjury blameless but necessary breach of Oaths is no less with them than a vertue or a necessary duty in many cases especially when any thing of moment is to be opposed which is against the Laws of the Roman Church against that particularly of the General Council of Lateran under Pope Innocent the Third which forbids all favour to be shewed to Hereticks under the sorest penalties and decrees That favourers of Hereticks are under Excommunication if they will not break their Oaths made in favour of Hereticks and that by the Sacred Decree of their Church he must be forsworn if he will not be excommunicated and thereby exposed to the violence of every hand as Sir Edmondbury Godfrey was yea one that hath taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy according to their Doctrine sins mortally and puts himself into the state of damnation not if he takes those Oaths for that their Priests may dispense with but if he keeps them So Pope Martin the Fifth declared in writing to Alexander Duke of Lithuania Know says he that thou sinnest mortally if thou keep thy Oaths with Hereticks Apud Cochlaeum l. 5. Hist Hussitarium Hereby it appears that no Papists can possibly give any security which may be trusted that Protestants shall enjoy any thing which is in their power to deprive them of for the greatest securities that can be given in this case are engagements of Faith and Truth God being invocated for Confirmation in solemn Oaths but their Religion hath laid such strong bonds upon them to break all bonds that may favour the Protestants that it leaves no hope of salvation to them who will not at their deaths take it upon their salvation the greatest untruth if the Catholick Cause may be holpen by it for another General Council that of Constance hath determined that no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks in the 19th Session of that Assembly that no safe Conduct given by Emperor King or Secular Prince to Hereticks or any defamed for Hereticks though with a design to reduce them by what engagements soever they have obliged themselves shall hinder those Hereticks from being destroyed though they come to the place of Judgment relying upon such security as in John Husse's case by Pope John the 22d Hereby Protestants may understand what reason they have to trust to nothing among Papists but what will keep them out of their power seeing the principles of that Religion not private mens opinions but the determination of Councils bind them to observe no Faith or Truth or common honesty with those whom they account Hereticks no not