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A30059 The contrariety of popery to the blessed word of God wherein may be seen that the doctrine and practice of the Church of Rome are not consistent with the sacred oracles of the Old and New Testament ... / written by Digby Bull ... Bull, Digby. 1695 (1695) Wing B5410; ESTC R8749 67,944 72

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into your house neither bid him God speed For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds We are to have nothing to do we see with such as keep not the Doctrine of Christ pure and uncorrupt and much less to account them our true Heads and Governors And Rev. 22.18 saith St. John For I testifie unto every man that heareth the words of the Prophecy of this Book If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues thar are written in this Book And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life and out of the holy City and from the things which are written in this Book It is clear by these places that such as keep not the Doctrine of the Gospel of Christ pure and uncorrupt cannot be the true Pastors and Governors of the Church of Christ nor so much as true Members thereof but have a Wo and Curse denounced against them And it is clear by what is said in these Papers to such as will impartially consider it That the Doctrine and Practice of the Romish Church is not consistent with the Gospel of Christ but contrary to it And therefore that the Bishops of Rome that are the Patrons of such Doctrine and Practice cannot be true Pastors of the Church of Christ and much less the supreme Pastors and Head thereof if any such should have been From what hath been said upon this and the former Head it is manifest that this Doctrine and Position of the Romish Church That the Bishops of Rome do succeed St. Peter in a supreme Power and Authority over all the Church is not consistent at all with the sacred Word of God but is quite contrary to it III. Their keeping the sacred Scriptures in a Tongue unknown to the common People and not suffering them to come to the knowledge of them that they may read them and practise the things therein commanded And instead of them imposing their own Commands and a blind Belief upon their Proselytes and Lay-Members is flat contrary to the Word of God and a very wicked thing This is a very sinful thing to suppress and stifle the blessed Word and Commands of Almighty God and a down-right opposing of the Gospel of Christ to endeavour to keep men from the knowledge of it This is a quenching of the Light of the sacred Scriptures that are to be our guide unto eternal Life This is highly injurious both to God and Man too We may see that God hath commanded that his Word and Laws should be declared and made known to all men and that all should be taught them God commanded the Jews that they should teach their Children his Laws and Ordinances Deut 6 6 And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou lyest down and when thou risest up Thus diligently were they to reach their Children the Law of the Lord and often to repeat it to them that they might perfectly understand and know it and not be kept in ignorance of it And this they are often and strictly commanded to do Deut. 4.9 and 11.18 and 32.46 And in a solemn manner was this Law of Moses to be read all over to all the People at certain times Deut. 31.11 When all Israel saith Moses is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose thou shalt read this Law before all Israel in their hearing And Moses read the Book of the Law and Covenant in the audience of the People that they might know it and keep it Exod. 24.7 And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the audience of the People And they said all that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient Moses read to them in their own Language that they well understood And in the Land of Moab by Jordan did he again declare the Law of God to the People Deut. 1.5 And after Moses Joshua his Successor read all the Law of Moses to the common People that they might understand it and keep it Josh 8.34 35. And afterward he read all the words of the Law the blessings and the cursings according to all that is written in the Book of the Law There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the Congregation of Israel with the Women and the little ones and Strangers that were conversant among them Here we see that the whole Law was read to all the Congregation even to the Women Children and Strangers among them Good Josiah after the Law of God had been suppress'd for some time thro' the prevailing of Idolatry caused the Law of God to be read in a solemn Assembly both to great and small that they might all understand it 2 Kings 2● 2 And the King went up into the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah and all the Inhabitants of Jerusalem with him and the Priests and the Prophets and all the People both small and great and he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant which was found in the house of the Lord. And after the Captivity we may see that Ezra read the Law publickly to all the People both Men and Women Neh. 8.3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until mid-day before the men and the women and all those that could understand And the ears of all the people were attentive unto the Book of the Law And ver 8. So they read in the Book in the Law of God distinctly and gave the sence and caused them to understand the reading And ver 18. Also day by day from the first day unto the last day he read in the Book of the Law of God And Neh. 9.3 And they stood up in their place and read in the Book of the Law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day This great care was then taken to instruct all the People in the Law of the Lord and to interpret it to them where they did not well understand it And in the time of our blessed Saviour and his Apostles we may see that the Law of Moses and the Prophets were constantly read every Sabbath-day to the common People in a Language that they understood Acts 13.15 And Acts 15.21 For Moses of old time saith St. James hath in every City them that preach him being read in the Synagogues every Sabbath day This we see was the constant practice of the Jews when Idolatry and great wickedness did not prevail over them to instruct the common People in the Law of God that they might hear it And this they were