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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11218	A briefe resolution of a right religion Touching the controuersies, that are nowe in England. Written by C.S.	C. S., fl. 1590.; Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626, attributed name.	1590 (1590)	STC 21482; ESTC S100915	24,293	41

all to try the truth therof out of the sacred scriptures they bind mens consciences with the decrees of their own councels without apellation We say with the Prophet Esay That all our righteousnes is like a defiled cloath and with Paule that Christ is made vnto vs a 1. Co. 1.3 ct righteousnesse by the bountifulnes of God and wisedome and redemption that as it is written He that b Iere 9 23 reioiceth should reioice in the Lord. We say with Christ that no man can come vnto him vnlesse it bee c Iohn 6 65 giuen him from his father We say also with Paule in plaine tearms that it is d Phil. z 3 God that worketh both the will and thee deede They say they haue free will of themselues to good acceptable to God by I knowe not what blinde light of nature they haue good woorkes yea workes of superogation meritorious for themselues and others also wherein they may boast and bragge but not before e Rom. 4 2 God So we ascribe all all glorie to God and they robbe God of his glory and take it to themselues Peter was commanded to feed the f ohn 21 flock of Christ and he did according The Pope he starueth the flocke of Christ without any foode and yet he taketh the fleece for ignorance saith he is the mother of deuotion and heathen Idols be the bookes that Lay-men must looke on and this is the foode he ministreth and the knowledge and trueth Christ biddeth the people Search the g Iohn 5.39 Scriptures the papisticall church saith no It breedeth sectes and schismes as though they wer wiser then christ The religion of God is sincere holy and pure for money a man may haue a pardon and dispensation of the Pope for all kindes of beastlie vilanies what dooth this shew but that their bellye is theyr God their kitchin is their roligion yea they are not ashamed to publish murther of christian princes to be a matter meritorious and wherfore contend they for this but that they may raigne themselues in earthly pompe and sit aboue kings adorned with large extēded authority This last point is such a blur to their religion that he is wilfully blind that seeth not the falshood thereof yea it is such a spot to their religion to giue a commission to commit murder that by the name of meritorious that it bewraieth al the rest of their religiō to be ful of fraud deceit open trecherie For what man of sound wit can be perswaded that he that is a true faithful apostle indeed can dispēce in anie sort with such open grosse faults which are euen odious to the law of nature readie footpath to bring the bodie into bondage the soule to hellish tormēts I would wish therfore no mans im plicita fides to be so intangled with his open sleightes as to beleue him in anie thing for he sheweth himself reuera to be verie Antichrist in such perspicuous maner that no man can doubt thereof for what doth he els but sit in the h 2. Thess 2. temple of God and boast himselfe to be God when claiming the Apostolike sea he calleth himself the vicar of Christ in earth the head of the church that he cannot erre that he can forgiue sinnes matters that belong peculiarly to God alone and yet that proud Antichrist will be extolled with those titles what is this but to sit in the seate of God as God Also that he claimeth to be Dux ducum Rex regum imperator imperatorum that hee hath authoritie to depose and set vp princes at his pleasure to build and ouerthrow kingdomes what is this but malepertly and moste blasphemously to thrust himselfe into the seat of God boasting himselfe to be God for it is God per quem Reges regnant ac principes dominantur But let all the Romanistes knowe this that is also written in the same Chapter concerning their Antichrist the pope that for the decite wherewith hee hath deceaued the inhabitantes of the earth and for his treasons and blasphemies against the mighty God the Lord from heauen shall consume him with the i 2. Thess 28. spirite of his mouth and confound him in the brightnesse of his comming Babilon must k Reul 18 2 fall yea great Babilon must fall and must become an habitation of deuils a prison of alvnclean spirits Now let him boast that he is Peters successor that maketh him neuer a iote the more lawful apostle vnlesse he perform the office of a sincere Apostle as Peter did l Iohn 10 1 for otherwise he is a l theefe a robber and a Woolfe that appeareth in sheepes clothing of whome Christ bad vs beware And therein he doth nothing els but like the deuils impe transform himself into an angel of light to deceiue simple soules Let them glory in the name of the church crying that Rome is the mother church the mother church what benefite is it to haue the name and to want the thing for in trueth all their preheminence is onely in names of the church of Peters place in the statelinesse of their Hierarchie of goodly order of their carnal cardinals and in such outward pompe and glorie But alas these painted clothes bewray the raggednesse of their religion for the churche of God is not builded vpon such outward shewes but vppon sinceritie of doctrine and conuersation Therefore leauing the Lion to be knowne by his clawes whome times and seasons haue so manifestly disclosed I counsell thee to forsake the pope and to learne of Peter build thy faith not vpon the pope who of himselfe wanteth a foundation but vpon Paule and Peter and the rest of the Apostles Christ Iesus himselfe being the corner stone Take heed of implicita fides learne thy selfe out of the worde of God what thou beleeuest and wherevpon thy faith is builded for if it be builded generallie vpon men thy faith is wauering and doubtfull but if vpon God then is it built vpon a rocke against which the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile Followe the aduise of Christ n Iohn 5 39 Searche the scriptures diligently read them with reuerence in all humilitie and pray to God earnestly so shall his word be a light vnto thy feete o Psal i19 105 and a lanterne to thy pathes to direct thee in the way of trueth to keepe thy minde sincere and thy eye cleere to see and discerne the trueth from falshoode a shepheard from a woolfe a true Apostle from a false and Christ from Antichrist FINIS