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A90146	A balm presented to these nations, England, Scotland, and Ireland to cure the wounds of the bleeding Protestants, and open the eyes of the deluded papists, that are ignorant of the truth ... or, A seasonable antidote against the errors of popery and pernitious [sic] doctrines of the Church of Rome ... By T.O. ...	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing O31B; ESTC R42274	8,035	25

Jews so he changed the Misterious Ceremony into a Sacramental Bread and Wine to mind the Christians and to put them in a full assurance of expecting his second coming in Glory to judge the World In many places of Scripture he calls himself a Uine a Door a Shepherd and the like which are only mistical and figurative significations And St. John the Baptist stiles him the Lamb of god come to take away the sins of the World c. And as for the Primitive Church as they all along took it in no other sence than the Reformed Churches do at this day viz. That in the blessed Sacrament we only Spiritual and by a lively and steadfast faith eat and drink his Body and Blood And to go a little farther in this matter the Church of Rome contrary even to our Saviours great command and the use of the Primitive Churches for up wards of a thousand years have taken away the Cup from the Laity only allowing it to the Priests and Princes and give us only these two silly Reasons for it First That the Laity are not sanctified and fitly prepared for so Essential a part as the Blood of Christ And secondly which is to Shouldir the decest they bear them in hand that receiving by a Transubstantiation the intire Body in the Wafer as flesh Bones Sinews c. They no doubt partake of the Blood Likewise as for their giving the Cup to Princes it is to get in favour with them and in the second place have the advantage over them if they refuse to promote the Covetous and Ambitious ends of the Pope and his Clergy which fattally appeared in the Emperor Henry's being poysoned by the Sacramental wine given him by a fryer and the like done to King John of England by a Monk and many other such horrible und unparalelled Uillanies As for their Praying for the Dead it is no where Warranted in Scripture nor mentioned unless in the Maccabees where after a Battle it was thought fit to Pray for the Souls of those that were slain in the Castle which in the stríoeest sense erceeded not good Wishes And it was the Custom of those times to make Funeral Dration for those that had deserved well of their Country or lived Piously and Uertuously thereby to recommend their Memory to Posterity and Consolate their Friends It was used likewise in the Primitive Church and is immitated by us in our Funeral SCRMONS but this was never held by any before the Roman Superstition brought it in as a way gainful to get Monies both from the Dying and their Relation But how miserable will that Man be that puts off the great concern of his Salvation grounding it or this Error in hopes of a deliverance may easily be determined for beyond the Grave there is no change of Estate or hope of Reprieve for there the words of the Wise Man are truly verified viz As the Tree falls so it lies as Death leaves us in that state Judgement will assuredly find us And as for the Middle Region they have lately discovered between heaven and hell it is new and fabulous that no considering Man can conclude it set up for any other end than to Bug-bare fools and ignorant unthinking People tho' it may indeed he called Purgatory for it Purges some millions of Money in a year out of the Laity into the Purses of the Clergy being the chief Branch of the Popes Spiritual Revenue and tho' they hold their Masses can Redeem the suffering Souls from this place yet the Wisest of them were never yet able to tell where it is or whether it be Local nor indeed is it any where to be found or heard of but in the Romish Church for the Scripture allows no such place for there we find those that have done well are pronounced to go into Eternal Joys and those that have done Ill into Eternal Torments It 's true they quote for their Authority a passage in St. Peter about Preaching to the Souls in Prison c. which according to the opinion of all Ages makes nothing for their purpose They are contented to Pray for the Dead but to the Dead tho' as the Holy Prophet says There is no Remembrance in the Grave and altho' it 's expressy forbidden and accounted flat Idolairy for we by the word of God are strictly enjoyned to observe no Saint nor Creature nor Throne Dominion nor Power no Heathenish Deity but only the true God in Jesus Christ Thou shalt Worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serve Exod. 20. And see thou do it not says the Angel to St. John I am thy fellow Creature Worship God Rev. 22. 9. Tho' the Papists in this case in the number of their Saints to whom they pay Divine Honours even exceed the Pagans nor do they spare to immitate them in having their Titulars for Countries as thus The Pagans Worshipped Appollus in Delphos Jupiter in Creete Minerva in Ephesns And so the Papists in England Worship St. George in Scotland St. Andrew in Ireland St. Patrick in France St. Dennis in Spain St. James at Millain St. Ambrose and at Venice St. Mark The Pagans had for the Element of fire Jupiter for the Aire Juno for the Sea Neptune so the Papists have Agathus for the fire Theadulus for the Tempests St. Barbara for thunder and St. Nicholas for the Sea The Pagans had several Titular Gods for their Cattle and fruits as Pon for the first and Ceres for the last as also Bacchus for their wind so the Papists have for their wind Urbanus once a drunken Priest Jodocus for their fruits Man Debinas for their sheep Eulogious for their horses and St. Anthony for their Piggs The Pagans had their Titular Gods for several Professions as Apollow for Scholers Mars for Soldiers Vulcan for Smiths Diana for Hunters so the Papist have St. Gregory for Scholers St. George for Soldiers St. Loy for Smiths and St. Crispin for Shoomakers So again the Pagans had their Gods to pray to in several diseases as to Apollow for the Plague Hercules for the ●a●●ing-sickness Lucina for woman in Child-Birth and so the Papists have St. Rock for the Plague St Petrenello for the Ague Appolina for the Tooth-Ach and Arisastiacis for the Head-Ache To these both Pagans and Papists have builded Temples and Churches errected alters ordained Priests appointed Festivals set up Statues and burned Lamps and Candles by which we may see they differ nothing in this point and of this the Prophet Jeremy complains when he says why did the Land Perish and was burnt up like a Wilderness but because the People walked after Baalam which their Fathers taught them And the Psalmist says walk not in the ways of your Fathers and again they follow the generation of their Fathers which shall not see the light these men with the Jews have framed to themselves a Queen of Heaven giving that stile to the Uirgin Mary calling upon her in time of trouble

A BALM presented to these Nations England Scotland and Ireland To Cure the Wounds of the Bleeding Protestants and open the Eyes of the deluded Papists that are Ignorant of the Truth c. By T. O. Licensed according to Order Printed for ● ● A BALM Presented to these Nations England Scotland and Ireland to Cure the Wounds of the Bleeding Protestants and open the Eyes of the deluded Papists that are ignorant of the Truth Being A Timely Warning to Protestants OR A Seasonable Antidote against the Errors of POPERY AND Pernitious Doctrines of the Church of ROME Wherein they are stated and Learnedly Confuted plainly shewing the Deceitfulness and vanity of so foolish a Religion when duly weighed and considered by the Word of God and by what Cruelty Fraud and Ignorance it is upheld Together With Prayers and Thangsgivings for our great deliverance from POPERY To which is added a Treatise of French-Persecution or what Protestants may expect from Papists if they get the power over us By T.O. D.D. A Warning to Protestants c. Psal CXXIV Ver. 2. 3. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us Then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us THough the Romanists with many specious pretences have especially since the Reformation endeavoured to prove the Verity and Validity of their Church yet we no where find that they have proposed any thing so material to that point but it has been either confuted or considered as a weak Pillar to support a decaying and tottering Superstructure For I would fain be informed by any moderate Communicant of the Romanists from whence or upon what account the Pope of Rome claims a Superiority or Headship Or why the acknowledgment of the Catholick or Universal Church of Christ should own any Infallible Head upon Earth And since both the Disputers and Writers of that Community that term themselves the Roman Catholick Church have either waved it as not to their purpose or for some other end equivocated with the Scriptures to support a building upon a sandy Foundation Before I proceed to the main matter intended I shall give some light into this affair It so happened that the Roman Empire having been divided into East and West the latter especially was extreamly harrassed by the barbarous Nations of the North so that the Supream Power lay in that of the East or Greek Empire and although several Popes of Rome had opposed any sole Headship or Supremacy one over another holding all Bishops equal in their Province or Diocess yet Phocus General to the Eastern Emperour Mauritius having murthered this Emperour his Empress and their Children and for that dispised and rejected by his own People what does the then Pope of Rome do but clap in with him and the more to gain a Power or Advantage over the other Bishops by many flattering and insinuating Letters extol his proceedings And amongst others we find these Expressions viz. Let the Emperour Phocus live and let the Angels clap their hands and rejoyce that so worthy a Man whose grateful Influence shines on the Bishop of Rome is advanced to the Throne of the Eastern world by the especial Providence of the Almighty From which time tho' by what unjust means I leave to the consideration of the Reader Rome dated her Spiritual Greatness to fulfill the Prophesie of St. John in his Revelations c. And as indeed it was founded upon blood and vio●●nce so has it been hitherto maintained more than by any other ways or means as by Racks and Tortures to such as at any time began to inquire into the Authority of that Usurpation and s●●● their Errors and by keeping the more un thinking part of those that adhered to it in the Region of Agnorance and darkness by blinding their understanding with fables instead of real Truths and placing the Traditions of Men instead of the sacred Uerity of the wor● of God and when at any time where they have a temporal power inquiry is made 〈◊〉 their many lying wonders and feigned miracles their superstitions in worship errors and absurd contradictions the answer is tha● they ought to believe as their Church be● believes though indeed few of them themselves know what she does believe and 〈◊〉 this be refused they are not only brand●● with the name of Hereticks but in dang●● of their Lives and many times expire 〈◊〉 flames by Racks and Tortures or languishing and lingering deaths which is t●● true mark of the Beast of which St. Joh● speaks viz. That kills all those that 〈◊〉 not receive his mark in their forehead worship his Image And this fatal exp●rience has taught the World by the m●● Massacres unjust Wars Burnings 〈◊〉 ●●stations poysoning and stabbing of M●narchs to such a degree as has made 〈◊〉 Infidels blush to be outdone in Treacher● and Cruelty and these mes●ly ●alling 〈◊〉 these that with a complyance with the 〈◊〉 lasting Gospel opposed the errors and unwarrantable Traditions of that Church as their holding a Wafer after Consecration to be a God and no less than the second person in the glorious Trinity even our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Essential and Corporal as well in Soul as in Body with all the substantial parts of a Body as he offered himself upon the Cross for the Redemption of the World The praying for the Dead saying Mosses for the deliverance of Souls out of Purgatory attributing to the Uirgin Mary the Honours only due to God himself praying to Saints adoring Relicks consecrated Candles holy Roses Agnus Dei's and Confessions to Men with many other Fables and Fopperies and for gain-saying these have flowed a scarlet Sea of Blood with which as St. John says I saw the Woman drunk with the blood of the Saints and the Martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondered with great admiration Rev. 17. 6. And these were they whose Souls cry under the Altar How long how long O God Holy and Righteous will it be e'er thou avenge our blood on those that dwell on the Earth And although as to the first of these our Saviour did declare at the eating the Passover that the Bread and Wine were his Body and Blood yet it then and at all times appeared to be meant only figuratively and mistically for at the same time when the Bread was eaten and the Wine drank his Body remained the same as before undiminished and untouched Uisible and Corporal both to be felt and understood and what more confirms it was his commanding his Disciples as often as they did it to do it in remembrance of him till his coming which an imply nothing more than to leave and ingraft more perfectly the remembrance of his Crucifixion and Death in the minds of his People and Church for as the Passover which he then eat was a Type of him to keep us the remembrance and expectation of his coming in the mind of the