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A31347	A Catholick pill to purge popery with a preparatory preface, obviating the growing malignity of popery against Catholick Christianity / by a true son of the Catholick apostolick church.	True son of the Catholick apostolick church.	1677 (1677)	Wing C1495; ESTC R15262	39,661	102

sins Mat. 1.21 Acts 4.12 Heb. 7.25 The Papists teach that there must also some satisfaction of our own come to make up our perfect Redemption Concil Trid. Sess 14.6.8 Can. 11.15 They will not be saved only by Jesus Christ but by the merits also of Saints their own merits Popes pardons c. yea they ascribe that to others which is proper to Christ alone and so consequently make them their Saviours As for example They ascribe to S. Francis the same titles properties power and the very same office due to Jesus Christ and in all respects they make him like to Christ whatsoever Christ did that as they say did S. Francis And what is this in effect but to make him their Saviour That they do ascribe the former things to S. Francis is to be seen in a book written on purpose to shew the conformitty between him and Christ called the conformity of Francis the which hath bin confirmed by the authority of the Church of Rome Pope Gregory the Ninth enjoined the faithful to hold and firmly to believe the things taught in the said book concerning S. Francis and that he should be punished as an Heretick that would think the contrary Confor P. 2. lib. 1. Fol. 3. C. To whom else do they ascribe that which is proper to Jesus Christ M. To the Virgin Mary They describe her nature by her name Maria consisting of five letters and these as they say do import the five offices to be exercised by her toward us The first is Maternitatis of Mother hood signified by the letter M for the as they say is the Mother of mercy through whom we obtain mercy Her second office is Conservationis of crnserving the treasure of God signified by the letter A which representeth Aream thesauri the chest of treasure for in her as they say we shall find an infinite treasure of the wisdom and grace of God Her third office is Directionis and gubernationis of direction and governing by example of her life This is imported by the letter R and therefore she is named Regina the Queen Her fourth office is Jaculationis repulsionis inimicorum of slinging and repelling back of enemies signified by the letter I and therefore they pray thus to her Tu nos ab hoste protege hora mortis suscipe Protect thou us from the enemie and receive us at the hour of death Her last office is Advocationis of Advocation imported by the letter A. From whence they pray thus O our Advocate turn thy merciful eyes unto us And what doe they herein but even place her in the room of Jesus and make her their Saviour These be the very words of Frier Iohn Viguerius a Doctor yea and a publick professor of Divinity among them in his Institutions to his Catholick Theologie Cap. 20. Sect. 9. Fol. 21 4. And herein he is like to such as can make bells to sound even what pleaseth their phantastical brain and as best may seed their superstitious humours Further they say That she is the original of our salvation and the recoverer of grace and forgiveness our hope our salvation resurrection c. Yea that to her it is given to bruise the Serpents head that she hath done it and procured that peace between God and man which no man could procure Viguerius ibid 214 215 Comfor Fran. in conclus Lib. 1. Is not this to make her a Saviour C. Surely yes and I think it most horrible blasphemy M. Account you this blasphemy what say you then to that which Carolus Scribanius a Iesuite hath written of her As namely First that the milk of Mary may come into comparison with the blood of Christ Secondly that that the Christian mans Faith may lawfully take hold on both as well as one Thirdly that the best compound for a sick soul is to mix together her milk and Christs blood Fourthly that the sins and spiritual diseases of the soul are cured as well by her milk as by his Blood Fifthly that her milk and the merit and vertue of it is more precious and excellent than Christs blood These most horrible blasphemies with many such like are to be found in the aforesaid Iesuites book which M. C. hath put into English and sufficiently answered calling it The Jesuites Gospel Besides all these things in a book called the Ladies Psalter they have put out the word Lord and put in the Word Lady As for example Psalme 110.1 The Lord said unto our Lady Sit thou mother at my right hand c. The like they doe in the rest of the Psalms And is not this good stuffe think you C. These Books were written long agone and it may be that they are now rejected by the Papists M. The latter of them was indeed written long agone but is not rejected but stand uncontrouled or rather defended by the Jesuites and those of the principall The former was written but lately And whereas both the Author and his book as M. C. saith deserved the fire and halter it was so farre from being misliked in the Romane Synagogue or any way censured that the book hath bin reprinted and the Author and his book stand enrouled approved and commended in their great Volumes set out for that purpose for good and Catholick As they place S. Francis and the Virgin Mary in Christs room so do they the Pope also ascribing that to him which is proper unto Iesus Christ and may not without blasphemy be ascribed to any creature They say that the Pope is the Sun The Church the Moon The Pope is the Bridegroom the Church the Bride The Pope is the head the Church the Body And what is this but to place the Pope in the room of Jesus Christ and even to say that the Pope is Christ Confor F. 2. li 2. fol. 10. That they do thus place S. Francis the Virgin Mary and the Pope in Christs room and so make them Saviours is more at large and sufficiently proved out of their own writers in a little Treatise set forth by M. Thomas Rogers in the year 1589. intituled An historicall Dialogue of Antichrist and Popery DIALOGVE 3. C. Hitherto you have shewed how the Son of God is called Jesus because he is a Saviour and how the Papists do place others in his room Now shew me also why he is called Christ and what that title signifieth M. Christ signifieth Anointed which title setteth forth his office namely that he is our only true Prophet Priest and King C Do they teach any thing contrary hereunto M. They do even deny this office of his and so consequently deny the fruits of his coming in the flesh 1. Ioh 4.3 C. She● me wherein they deny his Office M. Christ is a Prophet to teach his Church and to reveal the will of God unto us to whom all are to hearken Mat. 17 5 Ioh. 10 27. Act 3 22 23 And this he hath perfectly done in the Scriptures They preferred their own blind

with all other sound Protestants in Christendom In other things there have been are and will be diversities of opinions and differences to the worlds end They should first pluck out the beam of their own eyes for we can truly charge them with greater differences As namely with that sharp and bloody contention between the Franciscans and the Dominicans and with the late bitter contention between the Jesuites and the secular Priests wherein the Priests did write as bitterly against the Jesuites and namely against Parsons as ever did any Protestant nay there was never any Protestant writer that did lay such foul and odious crimes to their charg as the Priests did And herein they verified the old proverb When thieves f●ll by the ears true men come to have their goods For one dissention that is among us they have at least ten among themselves D. Willet in his fourth Pillar of Papistry hath set down at large First the contradictions and divers opinions of old Papists and new Secondly The contradictions of the Jesuites amongst themselves Thirdly that their stoutest Champion Bellarmine is at variance with himself shamefully forgetting himself saying and unsaying now of one opinion by and by of another And no marvel Oportet enim mendacem esse memorem A lyer had need to have a good memory Fourthly he sheweth the repugnances inconveniences and inconsequent opinions which Popish Religion hath in it self And thus you see how they charge us with that wherein themselves are most faulty DIALOGUE 16. C. Are there none among us that maintain any strange and new opinions contrary to the grounds of Religion M. If there be any such our Church doth not approve of them but rather censure and punish them C. There be some that profess the former grounds of Religion as we do and yet say that there is no true Church among us and therefore will not joyn with us in prayers hearing the Word and in the use of the Sacraments but separate themselves from us what say you of such M. I say that they are possessed with the spirit of pride and singularity and that in so doing they do even deny these Articles of Faith the Catholick Church and the Communion of Saints and are such as the Apostle speaks of Rom. 16.17 Heb. 10.25 39. Master Perkins in his first Vol. pag. 409. calls them a schismatical and undiscreet company and saith that they are full of pride thinking themselves to be full when they are empty to have all knowledg when they are ignorant and have need to be catechised Another saith thus of them The error of those men is full of evil yea of blasphemy who do in such manner make a departure from this Church as if Christ were quite banished from hence and that there could be no hope of salvation to those that abide here And further he saith that if they cannot find Christ here they shall find him no where The errors of these men you may see in a little Treatise set forth by M. Barnard called The Separatists Schism C. I pray shew me some example that they ought not to separate themselves from us and that they do sin in so doing M. In the Church of Corinth the incestuous man was not punished fornication was lightly regarded yea there were some that even denied the Resurrection yet S. Paul doth account and call them the Church and Saints he doth not perswade any to make a separation but doth plainly rebuke them and sheweth how they should punish the evil doer I speak not this to excuse any gross sin that reigneth amongst us for I wish that the same might be severely punished but to shew that where the Word is truly preached and the Sacraments rightly administred as in our Church they are none ought for any cause to separate themselves And that such as do it do sin grievously I will shew you by a familiar example A mother conceiveth and bringeth forth a son and that with great travel and pain She traineth him up to mans estate and that not without great care and labor This son at length espying some spot and blemish or some infirmity in his mother forsaketh her and will not acknowledg her to be his mother what would you now think of him C. Surely I should think such a one to be a very wicked and unnatural son M. Even such are they who for some seeming faults in our Church deny it to be a true Church and do separate themselves from it whereas this Church hath conceived them brought them forth and nourished them For if ever they were truly begotten unto Christ and born a new it hath been by our Church and our Ministery by which likewise they have been trained up and brought to that knowledge which they have C. There are many amongst us that make great profession of Religion but I can see no good works come from them nay they are not only barren in good works but also live in some one gross sin or other Are these the true Church and true Catholicks M. Though they live in the Church yet they are not of the Church they are but Hypocrites and shall if they repent not have the reward of Hypocrites yea it shall be easier in the Day of Judgment for many Papists then for them because by their barren and fruitless yea wicked life they have caused the Name of God his Gospel and the true Professors thereof to be evil spoken of Let all therefore that will be accounted the true Church and true Christians he careful to adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things and that by a godly conversation and by doing of good works C. The name of God be blessed for this our conference whereby I find my self much edified There remaineth yet one thing more which I will demand of you and that is How I may come to know and be assured that I am indeed a member of the true Church and that I shall certainly be saved M. 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