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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43623	The horrid sin of man-catching, explained in a sermon upon Jer. 5, 25, 26 preach'd at Colchester, July 10, 1681 / by Edmond Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1811; ESTC R32965	25,824	42

creep to the Cross cringe bow drop Beads cross themselves sprinkle themselves with Holy Water mumble their Ave's and show tricks as the Masters of the Puppit Play with Wiers within the Curtain actuate them and make them frisk so ridiculously curvet and shew such Gambolls in Religion especially at Processions which I have seen in Portugal that the soberest Countenance cannot forbear a Smile mixt with Pity But there 's never a Jesuit amongst them Pope nor Cardinal but knows that I here write God's Truth And cannot forbear laughing among themselves at these Frauds only they sanctify these Cheats with a mollifying Epithete calling them Pious Frauds I know 't is hard very hard for even a rational Man to emancipate himself and his Reason out of the Hands and Tyranny of Superstitions suck'd in with our Mother's Milk and imbib'd by Education And therefore I rather pity than blame a silly Papist Man or Woman brought up in such Superstitions Which are as ridiculous as that of the Indians of the Island of St. Thomas that fight it out to Death to this day to decide which is the right Elephant's Tooth that fell from Heaven whilst the wise laugh or pity them judging aright that both the pretendedly-Divine and Heavenly Fangs came from the Jaw bone of the Beast I therefore have compassion for those Bigots but none for a Protestant that in defiance of Truth shall apostatize therefrom and run to these thick Skull'd Vanities for which gross Perversion not Conversion the Apostate cannot so much as pretend the delusion of Education but quite contrary I say such a Julian Apostate must either be an Atheist and so of no Religion or some silly foolish Bigot that understands not the Principles of any Religion or else has conceiv'd some monstrous and bloody Stratagom and Plot impossible to be brought forth but by the solo Midwifery of such bloody Hands and Bloody Religion no other Religion can possibly do the Feat In such case I confess there is a necessity for such an Apostate to defy and forsake Protestant Principles and the Protestant Religion For did ever any wise or honest Man espouse and wed a Religion to which he was not pre-contracted and in Infancy drawn in and cajol'd 'till acquaintance first had with that Religion he weds And do not all the learned and authentick Romish Doctors assert and hold publickly in their Printed Writings and Books that Papa potest dispensare contra jus Naturale The Pope can dispense with the Laws of Nature that 's pretty well to begin with contra Canones Apostolorum he can dispense with the Rules of the Apostles And contra formam verborum in Baptismo with the Form of the words in Baptism How they improve but let them go on Others say The Pope can dispense contra Jus Divinum contra novum Testamentum others de omnibus praeceptis veteris novi Testamenti contrà Epistolas Pauli c. too many to enumerate Some of them assert That the Pope can dispense with Divine-Right and can dispense with and against the New-Testament others with the Epistles of St. Paul others that the Pope can dispense with the Precepts both of the Old and New Testament Possest with these devilish Principles therefore have their famous Doctors reviled and blasphemed the Holy Word of God Which Albortus Pigghius calls Nasus cereus qui se horsum illorsum in quamcunque voluer is partent trahi retrahi fingique facilè permittit a Nose of Wax that easily suffers it self to be drawn backward and forward this way and that way and any way and in his third Controversy concerning the Church he saith sunt enim Scripturae muti Judices The Scriptures are dumb Judges Did not Ludovicus a Canon of the Church of Lateran in the late Conventicle or Council of Trent without Reproof in an Oration assert that Scriptura est quasi mortuum Atramentum The Scripture is dead Ink. And his Blasphemy confirm'd by the Bishop of Poytiers in the same Convent saying Scriptura est res inanimis muta sicut etiam sunt reliquae Leges Politicae The Scripture is a dead and dumb thing as all other Politick Laws No wonder therefore that Cardinal Hosius the Pope's Legate land President of the said Council of Trent answered with as much Impiety as Scurrility to that Objection namely that King David being no Bishop yet had written the Book of Psalms answered Quid ni scriberet Scribimus indocti doctique Poemata passim Why should he not write quoting a Verse out of Horace The learned Poets Songs indite Th'unlearned too do Ballads write No wonder also neither that St. Paul cannot pass by them without a Jeer and Scoff Augustinum vetustas sua tueture qui si revivisceret cum Paulo certe ille contemptus esset Rhetorculus aut Grammaticulus Paulus verò vel insanire vel Haereticus videnetur Augustine is safe now because of his Antiquity But if he and Paul were alive again he would be contemptible as a pittiful Rhetorician and poor Grammarian But Paul would be accounted a mad Man or an Heretick Whereas they hold that the Pope is alter Deus in Terrâ God upon Earth and others say Christus in Caelo praesidet Papa in Terris residet Christ is Prince in Heaven the Pope on Earth Nay their Hebrew Gloss upon Deut. 17.11 says Si dixerint tibi quod dextra sit sinistra aut quod sinistra sit dextra talis sententia tenenda est if they the Pope and his Emissaries tell thee that thy right Hand is thy left Hand or thy left Hand is thy right Hand yet you ought to believe them and be of that Opinion But is it not as safe to say I Believe in God Another says Sit ergo Domina nostra Roma Baculus in Aquâ fractus absit tamen ut crederem quod viderim Let our Mistriss Rome be a Stick that in the Water seems crooked yet God forbid that I should believe my own Eyes No Man therefore I say can be a Papist but he whose Eyes are blinded by Education or he who puts his own Eyes out by Atheism For their own Books discover them palpably To Instance but in one Passage more mentioned in the Life of Pope Clement 5. Hic fuit publicus Fornicator Ab eo tempore defecit omnis Disciplina Religio in Cardinalibus tres Radices vitiorum Superbia Avaritia Luxuria validissimè dominantur He Pope Clement was an arrand Whore-Master publick and common And from that time forth all kind of Discipline and Religion failed amongst the Cardinals especially three roots of Vices flourished amongst them Pride Covetousness and Lechery Thus we see the Successors of St. Peter can deny their Lord and Master as stoutly as ever did St. Peter himself but he with Repentance these without repenting And how Men of these Principles can be true to God or Man to any Protestant Prince or