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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51142	The trve Protestant sovldier fighting valiantly under truths banner, and by the glorious light of Gods word overthrowing the strongest bulwarkes, and subtle stratagems of the Church of Rome. By Hamnet Warde.	Monginot, François, 1569-1637.; Ward, Hamnet.	1642 (1642)	Wing M2418; ESTC R27120	26,961	42

whole Kingdome hath interest Nay I say more though S. Peter had been the head of the Church and though he had resided at Rome and had left his charge to the Bishop of Rome which are all such presuppositions as they shall never be able to proove yet hath the Pope long since fallen from his charge and consequently lost his honour by comporting himselfe quite contrary to S. Peter and to a spirituall Pastour being become a temporall Monarch having amassed unto himself such an aboundance of riches that the Superiours and Kings of the Earth are poore in comparison As for his Doctrine the Chapters following shall be imployed to shew that it is absolutely contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostles Again S. Peter never made himself a religious worship but contrariwise in Acts 10. v. 25. he hinders Cornelius from worshipping him saying Stand up I my selfe also am a man S. Peter never indeavoured to set himself above God as doth the Pope glorying that he can dispence with men from keeping their vowes made unto God He that can dispence with a servant from obeying his master must be greater then the master The Pope dispenceth with men from obeying Gods commands doth he not then make himselfe greater then God He dispenceth also with Subjects from keeping their oath of allegiance which they have sworne to their Soveraigne inciting therby to rebellion He permits a man to marry his Neece and his wives sister things absclutely against Gods expresse command in the 18. 20. Chapters of Leviticus Faults committed against the Pope are many of them accounted so hideous that they are not to be pardoned under a great summe of mony or it may be two or three years pilgrimage but as for sins which tend only to Gods dishonour as swearing blasphemy Sabbath-breaking and so though they be f●atly forbidden in Gods holy Word yet if they doe not any way intrench upon the Popes prerogative not derogate from his suprem●cy theseare esteem'd but petty faults half a dozen p●●er nosters and two or three ave Maries are a su●ficient satisfaction for a thousand such sins Briefly he boasts himself to be above the Church and saith that the Church is above the Word of God by this reckoning then the Pope is two degrees above Gods Word Moreover in the Councels where the Pope is present the holy Scripture is set at his feet as it was in the last Councell of Lateran I leave any reasonable man to judge whether by this it appeareth not plainly that he tramples under his feet the Word of God To conclude when I reade in the second Epistle of the Apostle Saint Paul to the Thessalonians That there shall come a man which is called the man of sinne and the sonne of perdition that shall call himselfe God and exalt himselfe above God boasting himselfe in signes and miracles And in the 17. of the Revelation of the great Whore that is cloathed in scarlet that seduceth Kings and maketh them drunke with the bloud of her fornication that hath her habitation in the City seated on seven mountains that is to say the City of Rome I have searched every where but can find none to whom this may be so truly applyed as to the Pope of Rome CHAP. III. Of the worshipping of Images THe third abuse which I have taken notice of in the Church of Rome is the service which they doe unto Saints departed this life The Councels of the Church of Rome namely the second Councell of Nice command that Images be adored At Paris a little before Lent you may see the people goe in procession to the Image of our Lady to have permission to eat butter The women come and rub their Chappelets on the feet of the I mages they light them torches at mid-day they kisse them they make coursies to them they bring them presents and carry them all about in procession with great solemnity Nay more then that you may see many Images of Saints that never were As of the three Kings Saint Christopher Saint Margaret Saint Martiall Saint Vrsuline Saint Longis Saint Catherine and many other such like fantasticall Saints that never were in the world Many prayers likewise there are which they mumble out before such their dumbe petty-gods as that unto the crosse Ave Lignum triumphale c. and diverse others which prayers if they intend them to Gods honour they must also cause those things to which they speake to understand what they say unto them No man except he be franticke will speake to the Kings Image with a conceit that thereby he doth the King any honour All these inventions serve on purpose to lull the people asleep in ignorance wherefore they call Images the books of the ignorant they themselves also hide them in time of Lent which is the time of their devotion that they may not hinder their devotion That which causeth all this misery is that they take away from the common people the holy Scripture for having forbidden them Gods Word it was most necessary for them to finde them out somewhat or other to muse on for this end they take out of the table of the commandements which they deliver unto the people the second commandement wherein God forbids the worshipping of Images and the making of the likenesse of any thing in heaven or in earth Deut. 5.8 Thus they doe in some places clip and crop the word of God and in other some patch it and peece it wherby to make it answerable to their owne inventions As I cannot therefore but pitty the miserable estate of those people who are thus kept in darknesse and ignorance so I cannot but most justly condemne the intollerable usurpation of their Leaders who to serve their owne unsatiable avarice hating the glorious light of Gods word endeavour by all meanes to eclipse the same and thereby bring themselves and all such as are carried away with their lives and doctrine without Gods great mercy to everlasting destruction CHAPTER IIII. Of Prayer and serving God in an unknowne tongue ONe of the most deadly and most dangerous abuses of the Church of Rome in my judgement is their praying to God in a language that oft times the person that prayeth understandeth not for S. Paul in the 1. to the Corinthians chap. 14. ver 15. willeth us to pray with understanding How can we expect that God should grant our requests if we our selves doe not know what we would have True indeed God understandeth all languages but in prayer God hath not so much regard to the tongue but to the heart which cannot be then well disposed when it knowes not what the tongue doth say For the tongue is given unto men to testifie the thoughts of their hearts so that he who prayeth not knowing what he saith doth not expresse his thoughts by his words by this meanes he doth as it were act a Comedy before God There is no Prince that will suffer a man to prate thus