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A41596 Good advice to the pulpits deliver'd in a few cautions for the keeping up the reputation of those chairs, and preserving the nation in peace. Gother, John, d. 1704. 1687 (1687) Wing G1329; ESTC R17269 35,631 78

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disturbing the Earth and mounted into the blessed Regions of Light and Peace and Love as a Reward of Strife Disobedience Hatred and Contention and every evil Work. Neither is it sufficient to say in this Case that his God's Substance being invisible and not to be discern'd by Mortal Eyes or Human Senses there is therefore need of a sensible Memorandum altho' the Worship be terminated in Himself for at this rate all the Idolatry of the Heathen World may be excus'd for no Man is so sensless to believe their Worship was terminated in a Stick or Stone at least we ought not to believe it without very good Proof and if it could be prov'd yet even this would be parallel'd in the Church of Rome where they Pray p. 26. to the Crucifix of Wood or Stone as well as to Christ himself and attribute as much Satisfaction and Expiation to it as they do to the Blood of their Crucifi'd Redeemer as appears undeniably from the Romish Missals which are extant at this day and may at any time be produc'd against them God do's not expect p. ●0 that we should make a particular Confession of our Sins to Men the consequence of which is only to make our selves uneasie in the Company of those to whom we have Confess'd to run an apparent hazard of being undone in many Cases by Knaves for Interest or by Fools out of Levity Inconstancy and a blabbing Humor and indeed I know nothing it can be good for but to let Men that have nothing to do to pry into such Matters into the Secrets of Families and to put our selves perfectly at the Mercy of a Priest who will sometimes be treacherous as well as other Men besides that instead of keeping up a wholsom Discipline it is the way to corrupt it and tends to the debauching both Laity and ●l●rgy in as many ways as there are Sins to be committed when the Confession and the Penitent begin to discover and understand one another Or tbus They have all along consecrated their devilish Practices by these glorious Names The Churches Interest is the Center of their Religion and their Consciences turn upon the same Pin That every thing is Pious Conscientious and Meritorious that makes for the Cause and there 's no Sin with them like Ill-luck and Miscarriage The supernumerary Articles of the Trent Conventicle have almost every one of them a Plot in them either to destroy others or advance themselves But their Politic Creed wich serves to keep up the State and Grandeur of Holy Church is most fatally pernicious tending to the Subversion of all Christian Monarchs in the World The Articles whereof are such as these That the King is the Pope's or the Peoples Creature for it is indifferent to their great Machiavils the Jesuits whose he is so he do but belong to either Take him whole or divide him or how you please so that God to whom alone he belongs and is accountable may have the least share in him If the People contend to have him all to themselves the Jesuit's a fair Chapman and will rather give up the Spiritual Interest of the Chair than dispute it That if the People do but Depose him p. 17. be it for Tyranny be it for Heresie nay be it for Popery or Suspicion of Popery do but Depose him and he is contented Or thus Whatever Doctrin gives licence to Sin must needs proceed from the Devil Yet in the Church of Rome such Doctrins as these are solemnly constituted as Essential Parts of the Christian Religion and impos'd upon the Christian World with the same Authority as the most Fundamental Articles of the Christan Faith. Or thus Would we but change our Scripture into Legends our Service into a mass-Mass-Book our Prayers into Beads our Sacraments into Shows our Priests into Puppets would we Communicate in one Kind Read Prayers in an unknown Tongue Adore the Pope little less than we do God Preach Purgatory instead of Repentance sell Masses for a Groat bestow Indulgences and Absolutions to the worst of Men. Tho' instead of Scripture we set up rotten Tradition Tho' instead of Faith we Preach up Faction Tho' instead of Obedience we became guilty of Treason Nay should we murther Princes and prove false and deceitful to Mankind yet Euge bone serve all would be well and we in an instant thought worthy of a better Kingdom by the Papists If they Jesuits cannot peaceably compass the same they are to do it by Fire and Sword Halter or Poyson never minding the lawfulness of the Means provided the Thing be but done I confess I should admire their Zeal and applaud their Order but since one of them must go with Dagger in his Hand another with a Pistol a third with a Bowl of Poyson most of them with one Mischief or other to murder the King and massacre the People to breed Confusions and unhinge the Government to destroy Religion and plant Idolatry I cannot but utterly quarrel and blame their Zeal and yet no Pharisee ever compass'd Sea and Land like them No Difficulties scare them no Improbabilities amaze them no Dangers repel them Tu Regina jube Let but the Pope He or She command them and away they go with as much alacrity and readiness as the Evil Spirit to persuade A●ab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth gilead Or thus There is great boast made of Alms in the Romish Church they sound the Trumpet of them perpetually in our Ears But what is the End to which a great part of this Charity tendeth The Scope they too often vainly aim it is the Blessing of a presumed Saint who is ignorant of them Security from the External force of Evil Spirits by the Charms and Spells of Monkish Conjuration a sort of Ecclesiastic Magic which those very Spirits invent and encourage Nay sometimes the Scope is that very wicked one of Compounding with Heaven by their liberal Alms for their unforsaken Sins And here in this Nation whilst the Island was enchanted with Popery there were granted Indulgences ever for what they call Deadly Sins for many thousand Years to come Or thus A Jesuit being once ask'd What Ways and Means the Papists design'd to take for the introducing their Religion into England Gave this Reply We intended at first to do it either by persuading and convincing the People with strength of Reason and Argument but because these have prov'd so often vain therefore of late Years we have pitch'd upon two new Methods and Resolutions The one is to debauch and vitiate the Nobility and Gentry and to bring them off by degrees from all Sense and Care and Kindness for Religion which is easily to be done by representing to them a Sinful Pleasurable Life both Lawful and Safe The other is to divide the Commons into several Sects Now how far the Papists have thriven in these Designs I shall leave to the Judgment and Determination of every