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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33073	The Church of England as by law established being the very doctrine and express words of the homilies against popery.; Certain sermons or homilies appointed to be read in churches. Selections.		1685 (1685)	Wing C4191; ESTC R43032	10,456	4

our Saviour Christ Vol. 1. p. 16. and therefore wholly to ascribe the Merit and deserving of our Justification unto Christ only and his most precious blood shedding This Faith the Holy Scripture teacheth us this is the strong Rock and Foundation of Christian Religion this Doctrine all old and Ancient Authors of Christs Church do approve this Doctrine advanceth and setteth forth the true Glory of Christ and beateth down the vain Glory of Man this whosoever denyeth is not to be accounted for a Christian Man nor for a setter forth of Christs Glory but for an Adversary to Christ and his Gospel and for a setter forth of mens vain glory VIII Concerning Religious Orders as they call themselves or Pharisaical Sects by Antichrist invented as the Homily calls them and concerning their Merits and works of Supererogation Sects and feigned Religions were never the fortieth part So many among the Jews nor more Superstitiously and ungodly abused than of late days they have been among us Which Sects and Religions had so many hypocritical and feigned works in their State of Religion as they arrogantly named it That their Lamps as they said ran always over able to satisfie not only for their own Sins l. 1. p. 36. but also for all other their benefactors Brothers and Sisters of Religion as most ungodlily and craftily they had perswaded the multitude of Ignorant People keeping in divers places as it were Marts or Markets of Merits being full of their Holy Reliques Images Shrines and works of overflowing abundance ready to be sold And all things which they had were called Holy Holy Cowles Holy Girdles Holy Pardons Beads Holy Shoes Holy Rules and all full of Holiness But to pass over the innumerable Superstitiousness that hath been in strange-Apparel in Silence in Dormitory in Cloyster in Chapter in choice of Meats and Drinks and in such like things let us consider what Enormities and Abuses have been in the three chief principal Points which they called the three Essentials or three chief Foundations of Religion That is to say Obedience Chastity and wilful Poverty First under pretence or Colour of Obedience to their Father in Religion which Obedience they made themselves they were made free by their Rule and Canons from the Obedience of their natural Father and Mother and from the Obedience of Emperour and King and all Temporal Power whom of very duty by Gods Laws they were bound to obey And so the profession of their obedience not due was a forsaking of their due obedience And how their profession of Chastity was kept it is more honesty to pass over in silence and let the World judge of that which is well known than with unchast words by expressing of their unchast Life to offend chast and godly Ears And as for their wilful poverty it was such that when in Possessions Jewels Plate and Riches they were equal or above Merchants Gentlemen Barons Earls and Dukes yet by this subtil Sophistical term Proprium in Commune That is to say Proper in Common they mocked the World perswading that notwithstanding all their Possessions and Riches yet they kept their Vow and were in wilful Poverty IX That the Mass is a gross Idolatrous and mummish Abuse of the Lord's Supper But before all other things this we must be sure of p. 198. especially that this Supper be in such wise done and ministred as our Lord and Saviour did and commanded to be done as his holy Apostles used it and the good Fathers in the primitive Church frequented it We must then take heed lest of the memory it be made a Sacrifice lest of a Communion it be made a private eating lest of two parts we have but one lest applying it for the dead we lose the fruit that be alive Let us rather in these matters follow the Advice of Cyprian in the like cases that is cleave fast to the first beginning hold fast the Lord's Tradition do that in the Lord's Commemoration which he himself did he himself commanded and his Apostles confirmed This caution or foresight if we use then may we see those things that be requisite in the worthy Receiver whereof this was the first that we have a right understanding of the thing it self For what hath been the cause of the ruine of God's Religion but the ignorance hereof What hath been p. 99. the cause of this gross Idolatry but the ignorance hereof What hath been the cause of this mummish Massing but the ignorance hereof X. What kind of Power the Pope's is and that therefore we ought not to submit to it Therefore let us all fear the most detestable vice of Rebellion ever knowing and remembring that he that resisteth or withstandeth Common Authority resisteth or withstandeth God and his Ordinance Vol. 1. p. 76. as it may be proved by many other more places of the Holy Scripture And here let us take heed that we understand not these or such other like places which so straightly command Obedience to Superiours and so straightly punished Rebellion and Disobedience to the same to be meant in any condition of the pretended or coloured Power of the Bishop of Rome For truly the Scripture of God alloweth no such usurped power full of Enormities Abusions and Blasphemies XI That the Papists worship a vast number of false Gods And for that Idolatry standeth chiefly in the mind p. 46. it shall in this part first be proved that our Image maintainers have had and have the same Opinions and Judgment of Saints whose Images they have made and worshipped as the Gentiles Idolaters had of their Gods What I pray you be such Saints with us to whom we Attribute the defence of certain Countreys but Dij tutelares of the Gentiles Idolaters What be such Saints to whom the safeguard of certian Cities are appointed but Dij Presides with the Gentiles Idolaters What be such Saints to whom contrary to the use of the Primitive Church Temples and Churches be builded and Altars erected but Dij Patroni of the Gentiles Idolaters Oenomaus and Hisiodus shew that in their time there were thirty thousand Gods I think we had no fewer Saints to whom we gave the honour due to God Every Artificer and Profession hath his special Saint as a peculiar God As for example Scholars have Saint Nicholas and St. Gregory Painters St. Luke neither p. 47. lack Souldiers their Mars nor Lovers their Venus amongst Christians All diseases have their special Saints as Gods the curers of them The Pox Saint Roch the falling Evil St. Cornelis The Toothach St. Appolin c. Neither do Beasts and Cattle lack their Gods with us for St. Loy is the Horse-leach and St. Anthony the Swineheard c. These things are not written to any reproach of the Saints themselves who were the true Servants of God and did give all honour to him taking none unto themselves and are blessed Souls with God but against our foolishness and wickedness