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A true and lively representation of popery shewing that popery is only new-modell'd paganism, and perfectly destructive of the great ends and purposes of God in the Gospel.
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Owen, Thankfull, 1620-1681.
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Wing O830; ESTC R18583
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these ways a Man may escape Amongst the rest of the Indulgences conferr'd upon the Con-fraternity of the Rosary this is one That every time they recite the whole Rosary for the departed they gain the delivery of a Soul out of Purgatory And though Charity grow cold and there be little to be done for Love yet Money that answers all things will open the Gates of Purgatory and deliver whoever the Donor pleases De Miss l. 3. c. 10. for some Monks have taught as the learned Mornay relates that the Souls which are in Purgatory do leap at the sound of the Money when it is cast into the Bason for them so comfortable a thing is Gold The poor Sinner indeed is in the worst condition who has few Friends and less Money and truly for ought I can see such a one living obscurely may dye without much regard or concern and being quickly forgotten may ly the whole time in Purgatory which is not ten years say Dominicus Soto and Thomas Zerula But for those who are of Ability to purchase Masses and Sacrifices by leaving round sums of Money at their Death they need not fear the staying so much as a day in Purgatory So that it need not be said How hard but how easie is it for a Rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And is not this excellent Doctrine and very well fitted for the encouragement of a wicked Life Skin for Skin and all that a Man hath will he give for his Life and he were a very Foor that would not part with some of his Estate to be freed from the punishment of his sins and be made happy for ever But alas our Ministers cannot give us such excellent encouragements as these nor can they with safe Consciences tell us that Money will open the Gates of Paradise but they tell us in sober sadness that if we live bad Lives we shall certainly and unavoidably be miserable They have no ways of freeing Men from Hell and Damnation but only by perswading them in their Life time to be truly penitent and sincere nor will they promise and secure any that their sins are pardoned upon any other terms than that godly sorrow that works repentance never to be repented of 2. But if this Provision be too narrow and scanty for a Course of Debauchery and Licentiousness his Holiness like a most kind and indulgent Father will give his Children no cause of complaint but as well out of a prudent regard to his own Coffers as an earnest desire to give his Sons as ample a liberty to follow all the extravagant and enormous motions of Flesh and Blood as Heart can wish he grants many Indulgences and Dispensations for sin and wickedness And though we squeamish and faint-hearted Protestants who check at every Sin may think strange that Christ's Vicar as he calls himself should act so contrary to the Interest of his Supreme Lord yet the Plenitude of the Pope's Power will warrant this and much more For his Power as Du Ranchin who was no Protestant speaks hath neither Banks nor Bottom and his Jurisdiction extends over all the World even as low as Hell and Purgatory and as high as Heaven taking hold of great and small Review of the Council of Trent l. 2. c. 10. Clerks and Laicks things sacred and prophane And afterwards he gives divers Instances of the fulness of the Pope's Power out of their own Authors viz. That the Pope is a God upon Earth that God and he have one and the same Consistory that he can go against all Councils and Statutes that he can make wrong to be right To whom no Man may say Why do you so Whose Power may not be disputed without incurring the Crime of Sacriledge forasmuch as he is the Cause of Causes and the just Cause and for that it it is to be presumed that whatsoever pleases him is just and reasonable Now he that hath but Faith enough to believe those vast Prorogatives of his Holiness need never question the Validity of his Indulgences and Dispensations for Sin And that we may not think this unlimited Power to be only the fawning of his Parasites and Court-flatterers Clement the VI. in his Bull of altering the Jubilee gives us a Specimen of it where among other things he ordains That if a Man be going to Rome upon Devotion in the year of Jubilee and happen to dye by the way he shall be totally acquitted and absolved of all his sins And he afterwards adds Howsoever we command the Angels of Paradise that they convey his Soul into the glory of Paradise being totally absolved from the pains of Purgatory Well spoken brave Head of this Church we will trust thee for finding out an easie way to Heaven at any time In Rome there are so many Churches Altars and Crosses that have such an inexhaustible stock of Indulgences granted to them by several Popes that a Man cannot miss a full Remission and Pardon of all his sins And that we may not think our holy Father the Pope has forgotten his Children in England or any other place far distant from Rome he has provided Pardon and Salvation for these at as easie a Rate as can be desired By Grant from Pope John the XX. every bowing of the Head at the naming of Jesus gets twenty years pardon And to grace the Ceremony the more Sir Edwin Sands says Europae spec he has heard sundry of their famous Divines teach in the Pulpit That Christ himself on the Cross bowed his Head on the right side to reverence his own Name that was written over it Again The saying of the Beads over with a Medal or other Trinket of the Pope 's Benediction appendant gets a Plenary Indulgence and delivers what Soul out of Purgatory one pleases And now one would imagine that his Holiness had given ample satisfaction to all his dearly beloved Children but because some are apt to be querulous and complaining out of his abundant Charity he has been pleased to rate and set a Price upon most Sins that they may know before they act any Villany what an Absolution will cost The Book is called Taxa Cancellariae Apostolice The Tax of the Apostolical Chancery and was set forth by Pope Leo the X. Of which Book in the first place hear Du Ranchin's censure Review of the Council of Trent l. 2. c. 4. who speaking of the dishonest Arts and Tricks the Popes use to get Money refers those that desire further Information to a Book Intituled Taxa Cancellaria Apostolica Printed at Paris 1520. And yet says he this is nothing in Comparison of the Penitentiary Tax printed with the same Book where every Sin every Crime how heynous soever hath his Price set so that to have a License and Impunity for sinning there needs no more than to be rich to have a Pasport to Paradise both for himself and his misdeeds But that which might make Rome blush