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A52816	A Protestant antidote against the poyson of popery clearly proving the religion of the Church of Rome to be 1. superstitious, 2. idolatrous, 3. damnable, 4. bloody, 5. novel, 6. inconsistent with the publick peace, 7. irreconciliable to true Christianity ... / by Christopher Nesse ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing N461; ESTC R14548	103,633	225

dispositionis This par ratio is defended by him against the judgment of Gerson in lect 4. de vitâ spirituali and of Hugo de Sacram. p. 6. c. 5. 155. And de Clara confesses that there are others Qui asserebant Deum non permissurum ut aliquis decipratur in aliquâ veritate fidei absque suâ culpâ and then adds his opinion Ego ut ingenuè meum sensum hâc in parte aperiam c. to speak my own sence freely I think that the common people committing themselves to the instruction of their Pastors trusting their knowledge and goodness if they be deceived it shall be accounted invincible Ignorance 〈◊〉 saltem probabilis which truly excuses from fault 156. He goes on and says Im●… aliqui Doctores tantum tribuunt instructioni 〈◊〉 quibus incumbit cura ovium c. that if those Pastors on whom the care of the Flock dependeth do teach hic et nunc that God would be hated the rude Parishioner is bound to believe them Azorius also saith Rusticus et Imperitus qui parocho suo fidem babens credet diquid contra articules fidei excusatur a peccate where he cites Scotus and Gabriel to be of the same Opinion 157. 'T is true If their Priests did infallibly keep knowledge as they falsely sense those words in Mal. 2.7 saying further that the Law given is not a Law but in the mouth of the Priest then would it be the less sin to pin their faith upon the Sleeves of their Priests and the ignorance of their Laity would be invincible ignorance for want of information from their Clergy but we find in Story how notoriously their Priests have fallen short of keeping infallibly the knowledge of the Law of God 158. It is manifest in Ecclesiastical History that the Popish Priests like the Sons of Eli are Sons of Belial that knew not the Lord 1 Sam. 1.12 nor the Law of their God witness that (y) Acts and Monuments Fox Popish Bishop of Dunkelden in Scotland who boasted yea thanked God that he never knew what the Old and New Testament were and that he would care to know nothing but his Portuise and his Pontifical As likewise that Popish Priest in Germany who being asked by the Visitors whether he taught his people the Decalogue answered that he had not the Book so called 159. And of our own Popish Priests in England that were notorious Ignoramuses our Martyrology gives many examples as that Priest that told Justice Leland that the New Testament of Tindal's Translation was plain Heresie and none worse than it and bloody Bonner burning of Bibles and his Kinsman Darbyshire that said the Scriptures were sufficient to Salvation but not to Instruction but I would not rake in this Kennel Those Priests lips kept knowledge well 160. Chrysostom had long before discovered and lamented Multi Sacerdotes et tamen pauci multi in Nomine pauci in opere and Petrarch complained in his time that the stench of that Sink the Romish Clergy was come up to heaven this Ribera bewails also But above all Famous Luther speaks home to this affirming that Hell is paved with the Skulls of those prophane Popish Priests and Erasmus likewise lays them open in their colours who did them more mischief jocando than Luther did stomachando how can sober minds hang (z) As Luke 19. last 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Ears at such lips as those 161. But the Romanists falsifie that Text in Mal. 2.7 reading it The lips of the Priests keep knowledge making it a plea for their Infallibility as if all things knowable were locked up in the Cabinet of their Breasts whereas in the Hebrew it is the Priests lips should keep knowledge which is not a prophesie but a Commandment by those words God doth not foretell that the Priests should never turn from the true Doctrine but forbiddeth them to turn from it 'T is equally absurd to make Commands Prophesies as to make Prophesies Commands (a) Moulin's Buckler of Faith pag. 65. as if Christs foretelling One of you shall betray me had been a bidding them betray him 162. And the following Verses in Mal. 2. plainly shows how those Priests lips had not preserved knowledge but had seduced the people and corrupted the Covenant of God They had forsaken the way and caused many to stumble v. 8. and must the Law be only a Rule in their mouths as if God were beholding to them for owning it (b) Cajetan Com nent on Matth. Cardinal Cajetan confesses thus much of the Popish Priests that they which should have been by their places the Salt of the Earth had lost their savour and minded nothing but the Rites and Revenues of the Church 163. Now are such Priests fit to be confided in in matters of knowledge and goodness as de Clara would bear us in hand must the people only believe as they believe must they look after no other knowledge and goodness but what is to be found in those doltish prophane Priests Our Lord gives us better direction than this quirking Fryar in bidding us try the Spirits 1 John 4.1 and prove all things 1 Thess 5.21 as those noble Bereans did Act. 17.11 and in telling us that if the Blind lead the Blind both falls into the Ditch Math. 15.14 164. Those blind guides indeed shall lye lowermost and have the worst of it but wo to them that follow their pernicious ways hoodwinked and blindfold This is their implicit faith believing as the Church believes and their blind Obedience walking in darkness and they know not whither but can never be judged invincible Ignorance to excuse from blame although Franciscus de Clara do affirm it especially here in England where so many Bibles godly Books and so much powerful Preaching may be easily come to 165. The holy Scriptures were written that we might believe John 20.31 and we are commanded to search them John 5.39 that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a more sure word 2 Pet. 1.19 upon the testimony of which we must depend primariò and not upon the Church as they say for this is to leave the Fountain and a going to broken Cisterns and 't is a damnable Religion that keeps ignorant of the Scriptures They have Moses and the Prophets c. Luke 16.29 31. 166. It is worth our observation to take notice what difference there is betwixt the Apostolical and Antichristian Spirit the Apostolical Spirit saith thus Moreover Brethren I would not that you should be ignorant 1 Cor. 10.1 he would not have them ignorant in spiritual things but would have them zealous according to knowledge but the Antichristian Spirit is well content that the Brethren should remain ignorant and continue in blind Devotion 167. This Popish Religion is therefore a blind Religion so dangerous and damnable because it puts out the eye of knowledge Thus Antichrist saith to the Inhabitants of the World just as Nahash the Ammonite said to the men of Jabesh-Gilead On

restrictive as intimating that there be some heresies which are not damnable and so 't is to be restrained to the worst sort of Heresies only but rather descriptive as describing what heresie is in Suo Genere that it hath in it a downing nature Especially when there is a Concatenation of them as in this place 234. The holy Ghost uses the word here in the plural number to point out to us that there should be many of them linked together and indeed one heresie persisted in with an obstinate mind ushers in others dato vno absurdo mille sequntur Thus some Etymologists derive the word Heresie ab Haerendo because of ' its Glutinous property men do pertinaciously cleave to it but 't is rather a Greek word so cannot have a d Latin Thema but comes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to chufe an Opinion 235. (e) 'T is a choice that cannont be reclained Such be the Heresies of the Romish Religion as they are damning in nature so they are many in number as justification in part by the works of the law This is a damning heresie If Paul say true Gal. 5.4 such are faln from Grace and Christ shall profit them nothing as their doctrine of merits de Congrue et Cendigno which is not holding of the head Col 2 19. But a despoiling of Christ his plenteons Redemption and becoming Saviouts to themselves 236 As also their congruent merits afforded by nature their freedome and innate power of will excited to apply and determine it self to Gods gracious perswasion Their expiation of Sins both of quick and dead by the unbloody Sacrifice of their Masses And many others ejusdem forma Which are both tanght and believed of the Romanists whereof I shall speak more particularly in the 2. part 237 (f) The 7. Scripture Evidence The 7. Scripture Evidence is Tim. 4.1 Popery teaches many Doctrines of devils as I have shewed in my treatise of Antichrist their forbidding of meats and marriages their teaching the lawfulness of Committing fornication which is the divelifh Doctrine of the Nicolaitans Revel 2.15 Or worshipping Idols of murthering Princes and of massacring Protestants and that because they are Hereticks Now these Doctrines of Devils must needs carry them to the Devil 238. The Apostle in this 1. Epistle to Timothy speaketh of latter times and in his 2. to Timothy 3.1 of the last times In the latter times those Doctrines of devils are broached to wit in the times of Antichrists rise and revelation when the Antichristian leaven shall be spreading it self over all christian Churches as 2. Thess 2.8.10 but in the last times which he says shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to wit about Antichrists destruction the harvest of those devil Doctriners shall be ripe and God will cut them down with his sharp sickle and cast them in bundles to the devil in Hell from whence they came 239. Thus both those times in both those Epistles have relation to Antichrist and the older Antichrist grows the worse and more perilous times shall be For those Doctrines of Devils shall like an Epidemical and vniversal Pestilence be so Contagious and catching that men yea good men will be put hard to it how to secute themselves from that overspreading Abomination then the Righteous should scarcely be saved were not their Names writ in the Lambo book of Life 240. But as for those dwellers upon the Earth whose Names are not found written in that Book these doctrines of Devils prevails with them and brings in that black bedroll of Sin whereof sinful self Love is the first of 19 as the Root of them all and love of pleasures the last all which lead directly to damnation and are found most predominant in the Romish Church above all others which hath a form of Godliness but denies its power 2 Tim. 3.1 to 6. 241. Having thus from Scripture Evidences made this clear demonstration how dangerous a Religion the Popish Religion is to live and dye in how can we but conclude that the Romanists are in a damnable State For 1. (g) Revel 13.8 Their Names are not found in the Lambs book of life 2. (b) Revel 14.9 10 11. They must drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God 3. (i) 2. Thess 2.10 They are in a perishing State 4. (k) 11 12. And believe lyes to be damned 5. (l) Rev. 19.21 Depart ye cursed shall be denounced against them 6. (m) 2 Pet. 2.1 They hold damnable Heresies And 7. (n) 1 Tim. 4.1 They ●uch and believe doctrines of Devils 242. But some will object here and say this is to pass the same uncharitable censure of them that they do of us and this is to conclude all that ever have dyed in Popery to be in a state of damnation To which I answer 1. Their censure of us may truly be termed uncharitable because it is unwarrantable being not grounded upon any clear Scripture Evidence but arising from their obstinate blindness which causeth them to (o) Jude v 10. speak evil of what they know not 243. And 2. I answer 't is not we but the Word of God that judges them by which they must be judged at the last day John 12.48.3 As we do not conclude all Pagans whom God suffered to walk in their own ways Act. 14. 16. to be damned for God might have vessels of mercy among them some became Proselytes so nor all those Papagans for some have held the head Col. 2.19 (p) 1 Cor. 3.11.15 and been sound in the Foundation although they lose their stubble yet not their Souls neither did Popish Errors come to their height at first but now their Heresies be more damnable than ever 244. I might have added several other Scripture Evidences as 1 Cor. 6.9 No Idolater shall inherit the Kingdom of God And Revel 21.8 All Idolaters and all lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Now that Popery is Idolatry and a Compound or Cento of many lying Doctrines I have shewed before why then should we be afraid to say that Papists living and dying in the Trent Faith without Repentance are Castaways and destinated to damnation Why strengthen we the hands of the wicked that he cares not to return by promising him life Ezek. 13.22 245. What warrant from the Word of God can be found of any hope that such damnable Hereticks as hath been made apparent they are can be saved or such plain Infidels in as much as they believe not either the Al-sufficiency of Christs meritorious Passion or the incommunicable Propriety of his mediatory Office in which two points lies the very life and soul of true Faith and Religion and thus far they are Infidels in saying that men must satisfie for their own venial sins and that Saints and Angels meritoriously intercede for us 246. What probability is there that such Infidels as believe not the holy