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A70924	Romes destruction, or, Expresse texts and necessary consequences drawn out of the word of God, for the condemning of the doctrine of the Roman church, and justifying of that of the reformed churches first written in French, by C.D.R., a French noble-man ; and now published in English, at the solicitation of divers religious men of this nation by Jam. Mountaine.	C. D. R.; Mountaine, James.	1641 (1641)	Wing R11; ESTC R10609	52,610	234

drink of that cup 1. Cor. 11. 28. 12 The Tradition and unwritten Word of the Roman Church teacheth also That Christ Jesus sacrificeth himselfe every day really by the hands of the Priests both for the quicke and for the dead This Doctrine is directly contrary to the written Word of God that saith Christ is entred into Heaven it selfe now to appeare in the presence of God for us Yet not that he should offer himselfe often as the high Priest entred into the holy place every yeare with blood of others c. Heb. 9. 24. 25. By the which Will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sinne Heb. chap. 10. 10. 14. 18. 13 The Tradition and unwritten Word of the Roman Church teacheth That Saint Peter was appointed by Christ to be head of the Universal Church and Prince of the Apostles This doctrin is directly contrary unto the written word of God as appeareth by these expresse texts God hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church which is his Body Ephes. 1. ver. 22. 23. Yee know that the Princes of the Gentils exercise Dominion over them and they that are great exercise authority upon them But it shall not be so among you c. Mat. 20. 25. 26. And he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers ephess. 4. 11. It appeareth therefore plainly that this Tradition and unwritten word of the Roman Church is altogether contrary unto the written Word of God and that it imposeth a yoake upon the consciences of men that God hath not imposed Seeing it forbids marriage to certain persons which God for avoyding of fornication commandeth to every one Seeing it forbids the use of certain meats which God doth not forbid but rather commandeth to be used with thanksgiving Seeing it forbids all men to work upon a great number of Holy-daies thereby depriving them of the means to earne their bread which oftentimes is wanting on such daies to poore men charged with wives and small children the which thing is directly contrary to the Commandement of God Six daies shalt thou labour and doe all thy work Exod. 20. 9. Againe by bringing in such an infinite number of ceremonies in part taken from the Pagans and in part from the Jewes with a numberlesse number of Pilgrimages and other such like things as is almost impossible to declare and represent by particulars It is not then without cause and reason that we reject these Traditions and inventions of men seeing they were broached onely to bring in into Christian Religion Error and Idolatry as I shall prove hereafter more at large aswell by expresse texts and necessary consequences drawn out of the Word of God as by invincible reasons CHAP. II. That it is necessary that all the Faithfull should reade the holy Scripture and that they are even bound thereunto by the Commandement of our Lord Jesus Christ FRom the very same Spring floweth the prohibition which the Pope and his Associates make to the Lay people to reade the Word of God without special leave wherein their manifest hypocrisie appeareth plainly and the feare they have that by reading of the same men should come to know that the Doctrine which they have invented is false and wholly contrary unto the Word of God Our Lord Jesus Christ teacheth us far otherwise Search saith he the Scriptures for in them yee think yee have eternall life and they are they which testifie of me John 5. 39. And under the Parable of the rich Glutton he sends them still to the Scripture saying They have Moses and the Prophets Let them heare them Luk 16. 29. The Jesuits and other the Popes Disciples answer that there is Let them heare them but not Let them reade them But what will they answer to these expresse places Seek yee out of the Book of the Lord and reade Esay 34. vers. 16. Blessed is hee that readeth and they that heare the words of this Prophesie and keep those things which are written therein Revel. 1. 3. If sobriety must be kept in any Book of the holy Scripture it is in that of the Revelation Neverthelesse Saint John exhorteth all the Faithfull to practise the reading thereof saying Blessed is he that readeth the words of this Prophesie Let the word of Christ saith Saint Paul dwell in you richly in all wisedome teaching and admonishing one another c. Col. 3. 16. Saint Peter tels us That we shall doe well to hearken unto the words of the Prophets 2. Pet. 1. 19. The Jews of Berea did dayly search the Scriptures to know whether those things were so as Saint Paul taught Act. 17. 11. And are commended for it in the Scriptures being called more Noble than them of Thessalonica It is therefore lawfull for every Faithfull Christian to reade the Word of God that by it they may know the Doctrine and judge whether it be of God or no In a word as I have said already the principall means we have to know God and his Will is his word by which he declareth unto us his mercy in Christ Jesus and assureth us of his love Now the Pope and his Disciples take away and hide as much as in them lies this VVord from the people and so deprive them of the chiefe meanes to know God which is to cast them headlong into darknesse and ignorance of their salvation and finally into damnation For what can that man doe that is deprived of the knowledg of God and of his wil but run into damnation CHAP. III. That a man can doe no good Worke without the Grace of God And that our Workes therefore are not dispositive for the obtaining of that grace as our Adversaries say THe Pope and his Associates teach also That our works ought to bee considered three manner of wayes First as dispositive Secondly as satisfactory and Thirdly as meritorious Before we be in the state of Grace they will have our Works to bee dispositive to purchase Grace and after grace received to be satisfactory for the temporall punishment that remaineth for sin And after satisfaction finished then they will have their workes to deserve the Kingdome of Heaven A doctrine which is directly contrarie unto the word of God as I shall prove it hereafter out of expresse texts which I shall produce out of the VVord of God and necessary consequences drawn out of the same In the first place they teach that our Works doe dispose and prepare us to obtain the grace of God But now I aske of them whether we doe good Works before we be in grace or whether we doe them after yea or no If they say that we doe them before they know that men naturally are dead in sinne I

I deny the Major For there are some undeserved rewards A Father may promise his Son a fine suit of cloathes if he write a good coppie Now that sonne deserves not that suite of clothes for doing well that coppie For what profit cometh to the father thereby neverthelesse the father will give the promised suit onely because of his promise Even so doth God to his children giving his Kingdome unto them without any desert but onely because he hath promised it Moreover a father may be induced to give the promised suite to his sonne because of his duty in doing his coppie well giveing his father content by that meanes But none of the faithfull can doe their duty towards God All have sinned saith Saint Paul Rom. 3. 23. and Whosoever saith Saint James offendeth in one point of the Law he is guilty of all Jam. 2. 10. All therefore are guiltie of the breach of the whole Law For who is he that hath not fayled in some one point or other of the Law And therefore our Adversaries are very farre wide of that pretended merit they doe attribute to their good workes CHAP. VIII That the Invocation of Saints departed is contrary unto the Word of God and tendeth to no other end but to give unto the creatures the honour and glory that belongeth unto the Creator THese Doctors keepe a great noyse and cry out very lowd that they are the true Church and that the doctrine which they teach is conformable unto the Word of God but when it cometh to the proofe they are mightily puzzled haveing nothing to shew but some few allegories which they bring in upon certaine points of controversie Like unto Foxes which runne into thickets and bushie places to save themselves True it is they make a great bucklet of these words This is my body which they thinke are very cleare to prove that the bread is transubstantiated into the body of Christ But I will shew in its due place in few words That they pervert the meaning of this place of Scripture taking this word is properly and without a figure which in all Sacraments ought to be taken for Signifieth of Representeth Now I will shew what slender cause they have to maintaine the Invocation of Saints departed and to teach that Christ is not our onely Mediator with God but that all the Saints in heaven are also our Mediators and that we must draw neere unto God by them as wee come neere unto the King by his familiar servants intreating them to pray for us A Doctrine which is absolutely false as I shall prove hereafter out of diverse expresse places and necessary consequences drawne out of the Word of God First of all then wee aske of them one expresse text out of the Word of God or one necessary consequence drawne out of the same for the proofe of this doctrine There they stand as mute as fishes Behold then a doctrine that hath neither prop nor foundation in the Word of God but is meerely invented by men against the Word of God as I will shew hereafter And albeit it were not contrary unto the same I yet maintaine that it ought to bee rejected of every Christian because it is a vaine worshipping of God to worship him after the Doctrine and commandements of men As our Lord Jesus Christ tearmeth it Marke 7. 7. Moreover I prove that this doctrine cannot be without great sinne For whatsoever is done without the Word of God is done without faith Faith saith Saint Paul commeth by hearing and hearing by the Word of God Rom. 10. 17. But the Invocation of Saints departed is done without the Word of God Therefore it is done without Faith Whatsoever is done without Faith is sin saith the same Apostle Rom. 14. 23. But the Invocation of Saints departed is done without Faith Therefore the Invocation of Saints departed is sinne In briefe That Doctrine which teacheth men to pray unto Saints departed is contrary unto the Word of God that teacheth That we ought to call upon none but on him in whom we have beleeved Rom. 10. 14. But we doe not beleeve in the Saints departed but in one onely God Father Son and holy Ghost Therefore we ought not to call upon Saints departed but upon God alone in whom we beleeve That Doctrine which teacheth men to goe unto God by his Saints as a man goes to the King by his familiar servants is contrary unto the Word of God which teacheth us to goe directly to Christ and that he is the onely Way to goe to the Father Come unto me saith he al ye that labour and are heavie laden and I will give you rest c. Math. 11. 28. He would not have us then goe unto him by the Saints departed I am saith he the Way the Truth and the Life no man commeth unto the Father but by me John 14. 6. That Doctrine which teacheth that there is divers Mediators with God is contrary unto the Word of God which teaches us That God is one and the Mediator one between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus 1. Tim. 2. 5. Item That God alone knoweth the hearts of all the sonnes of men 1. Kin. 8. 38. Whereupon it followeth That the Saints departed doe not know our prayers which are made in the heart and that by Consequent it is a vain and an idle thing to pray unto them The Argument which we draw out of this place of Saint Paul against the Invocation of Saints departed is thus If there be one onely Mediator between God and man to wit Christ Jesus It followeth That the Saints departed are not our Mediators with God and by Consequent that it is unprofitable to pray unto them to pray for us But the Antecedent is true Therfore the Consequent also Our Adversaries to put off this blow make a distinction saying That Saint Paul in this place speaketh not of a Mediator of Intercession but of a Mediator of Redemption and therefore that this place is not brought to the purpose for the Intercession of Saints a thing which is in controversie between them and us To which I answer First That they are not able to prove that distinction of a Mediator of Redemption and a Mediator of Intercession either by any expresse texts out of the Word of God or any necessary consequence drawn out of the same and therefore that it is false Secondly That on the contrary the Word of God teaching us that we have an Advocate with God which is Christ Jesus teacheth us Consequently that he is our alone Mediator of Intercession aswell as ●f Redemption If any man sin saith S. John we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous John 1. Epist. 2. 1. Veron the Jesuite in his answer to my Book Of the Cabale of the Jesuits pag. 18. answereth That to say there is one Mediator Therefore there is but one Mediator is no good Consequence and he bringeth in for example one that