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that still some of those that are in her may escape the danger Or to chuse an impudent Quack who boasts he only can cure him and refuse a Learned Physician who modestly grants he may peradventure be healed by the other though very improbably but withal that 't is a Million to one but the Patient under such hands miscarries and that in this case eternally But quitting this Argument which is only Personal I beseech your Highness to tell us how you or any Man of sense can so far forget not only his Education and Interest but his very Reason as to imbrace POPERY frightful detestable ridiculous Popery that Chaos of Superstition Idolatry Error and Imposture that has no foundation but a Cheat No Ends but to gratifie Pride and Avarice no solid Argument to promote and maintain it but Impudence and Cruelty Popery That depends wholly upon nice and poor uncertainties and unprovable supposals As 1st That Peter was Bishop of Rome 2dly That He left there one to be Heir of his Graces and Spirit in a perpetual unfailable Succedion 3dly That He so bequeathed his Infallibility to his Chair as that whosoever sits in it cannot but speak Truth so that all who sit where he sat must by some secret Instinct say as he taught that what Christ said to him absolutely without any respect to Rome must be referr'd yea ty'd to that place alone and fulfill'd in it 4thly That Linus Clemens and Cletut the Scholars and supposed Successors of Peter must he preferr'd in the Headship of the Church to John the beloved Apostle then still living 5thly That He whose Life is oft times monstrously debauch'd his Judgment childishly ignorant cannot yet when in his Pontifical Chair possibly erre 6thly That the Golden Line of this Apostolical Succession in the confusion of so many long desperate Schisms shamefully corrupt Usurpations and Intrusions and confess'd Heresies yet neither was nor can be broken Popery That teaches Men to worship Stocks and Stones and painted Clouts with the same Honour as is due to our Creator and lest that practice should appear to her simple Clients too palpably opposite to Gods Law most sacrilegiously stifles one of the Ten Commandments in their vulgar Catechisms and Prayer Books Popery That utterly confounds the true Humanity of Christ while they give unto it Ten thousand places at once and yet no place Flesh and no Flesh several Members without distinction a substance without quantity and other Accidents or Substance and Accidents that cannot be seen felt or perceived so that they make a Monster of their Saviour or nothing Popery That utterly overthrows the Perfection of Christ's satisfaction for if all be not paid how hath he satisfied If Temporal Punishments in Purgatory be yet due how is all paid And if these must be paid by us how are they satisfied by him Popery That hath made more Scriptures than ever the Holy Spirit dictated or the Ancient Church received and those which it doth make Imperiously obtrudes upon the World and while it thunders out Curses against all that will not add these Books to God's seems to defie the Curse pronounc'd by God himself to those that add unto his Word Rev. 22.18 Popery That erects a Throne in the Conscience to a meer Man and many times rather a Monster than a Man and gives him absolute Power to make a sin of that which is none and to dispense with that which is to create new Articles of Faith and to impose them upon Necessity of Salvation to make wicked Men Saints and Saints Gods for even by the Confession of Papists lewd and undeserving Men have leap'd into their Calendar yet being once install'd there they have the Honour of Altars Temples and Invocations some of them in a stile fit only for their Maker Popery That robs the Heart of all sound Comfort whilst it teachethus That we neither can nor ought to be assured of the Remission of our sins and of present Grace and future Salvation that we can never know whether we have receiv'd the true Sacraments of God because we cannot know the Intention of the Minister without which they are no Sacraments Popery That racks the Conscience with the needless torture of a necessary shrist wherein the vertue of an Absolution depends on the sulness of Confession and that upon Examination and the sufficiency of Examination is so full of scruples besides infinite Cases of unresolved doubts in this feigned pennance that the poor soul never knows when it is clear Popery That under pretence of Religion plays the Bawd to sin whilst both in practice it tolerates open stews and prefers Fornication in some cases before honourable Matrimony and gently blanches over wilful Violations of God's Law with the favourable title of Venial Crimes Popery That makes Nature vainly proud in joining her as Copartner with God in our Justification Salvation and idly puffing her up with a conceit of her Perfection and Ability to keep more Laws than God hath made whence their Doctrines of Merit and Supererogation c. Popery That requires no other Faith ●o Justification in Christians than may be found in Devils themselves who besides a confused Apprehention can assent to the Truth of God's revealed Will and Popery requives no more Popery That instead of the pure Milk of the Gospel hath long fed her starved Souls with such idle Legends as the Reporter can hardly deliver without laughter nor their Abettors be told of without shame and disclamation so that the wiser sort of the World read these Stories on Winter Evenings for sport which the poor credulous Multitude hear in their Churches with devout astonishment Popery That requires nothing but meer Formality in our Devotion the work wrought suffices alone in Sacraments and in Prayers if the number be repeated by Rote no matter for the Affection as if God regarded not the Heart but the Tongue and Hands and while he understands us cared little whether we understand our selves Popery That hath been often dyed in the Blood of Princes that in some cases teaches and allows Rebellion against God's Anointed and both suborneth Treasons and excuses pities honours and rewards the Actors Popery That overloads Men's Consciences with heavy burdens of infinite unnecessary Traditions far more than ever M●ses Commented upon by all the Jewish Rabbins imposing them with no less Authority and exacting them with more Rigour than any of the Royal Laws of their Maker Popery That cozens the vulgar with nothing but shadows of Holiness in Pilgrimages Processions Offerings Holy-Water Latin Services Images Tapers rich Vestures garish Altars Crosses Censings and a thousand such like fit for Children and Fools robbing them in the mean time of the sound and plain Helps of true Piety and Salvation Popery That cares not by what wilful Falshoods Equivocations Perjuries and Abominations it propagates it self and maintains its credit And therefore being conscious of her own Villainies goes about to falsifie and deprave Authors that might