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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91516	The right religion, reviewed and inlarged / by L.P. Gent.	L. P., Gent.	1658 (1658)	Wing P74C; ESTC R181384	42,130	187

to the contrary inconsistent with these and consequently agreeable to all sorts of Governments that State or Common-wealth that refuses to protect and defend them from violence and oppression appeares clearely wanting to its interest in not complying with Prudence and Iuffice which bid to love and cherish all safe and fast subjects O but Catholiques have a dependance on the Pope who is a forraign Prince they haue so but not as he is a temporall Prince for so he is confined within certain territories of Italy and France their relation to him is onely as hee is their common spirituall Father whose office being to keep off Rebellion and to teach obedience cannot endanger the least St Peter and the rest of the Apostles were forreigners to severall Provinces the interest of Christ brought them to yet in regard their power was spirituall the Civill Magistrate had no cause to fear but rather to rejoyce as at a Good drawing towards them God having given the spirituall power as the soul to the body for comfort and support not for hurt or anoyance what say you then to the practise of severall Popes I say that Popes may prevaricate and exceed their Commission and in case they doe that they are to stand by themselves I strange cases are maintained by some which seem to induce to murder theft lying cases appertain not to religion but to action whose rule is reason and not revelation for God hath not revealed all belonging to charitie as he hath in relation to Faith Now reason being in most men weak and by ast by passion or interest what cause is there so much to wonder at the strangeness of conclusions resulting thereof the worst can be inferred hence is that sectaries seem void of reason that make reason the rule of their belief which is so defective and uncertain in the reach even of naturall and morall truths Then the stewes are allowed in severall places A clear mistake they are onely permitted that is not hindred or punisht for no Catholicke approves of Whoredome as an act well done which is the proper signification of allowing now not to hinder or not to punish some kind of sinne at least wise in certain causes is not ill or if it be how can God bee good who permitts all manner of sinne Nay the forbearance to is but from violence there being all the sweet and charitable meanes used to take off of that lew'd way as pious exhortations godly sermons offers of entertainment in Religious houses founded of purpose for such as repent lastly an assurance of an unchristian like buriall to those that Dye impenitent Further the Inquisition admits of no perswasion but her own The Inquisition hath lesse relation to religion than cases being a meer peice of State Policy as is apparant in France and Germany where Catholicke Religion bearing the sway the Inquisition is not at all owned Protestants enjoying in both places as much freedome of Conscience as Catholickes themselves At least wise it is not to be denied that the Romish Religion allowes of Breaking of faith with sectaries upon which accompt outrages have been committed Most false she abhominates all such doctrine as destructive to fidelity which she magnifies as the ground of Iustice Whence then this Monster Marry from ill composure weak understanding depraved will crooked nature prompts to ill weak understanding conceives amisse depraved will receiving erronious judgment for good and currant musters her forces stirs up Anger and hatred which heightned trample under foot all regard of Religion vertue and transports to disorder and mischief so that ill composure weak understanding depraved will wild passions and not Religion were the guilty let them suffer and not those who in order to their Religion hate all barbarousness in opinion keep under and curb unruly naughty passions It were a strang peice of Iustice to punish equally flyers and followers of Theft and Murther Scripture is express for every one to abide the shame of his own sinne wherefore the concurrence seemes generall to free and keep inocency from molestation and trouble CHAP. 10 Of the truth of the Roman Catholique Religion 1 I Strange at the Partiality inconsequence of those who Justify the Enemies of the Roman Catholique Religion whiles they are in a readiness to condemne of folly perversness such as should goe about to call in question the conquest of England by William the Conquerour I say I strange at it in as much as the evidence of the conquest comes farre short of the evidence of the Roman Catholique Religion that amounting onely to an attestation from the oral tradition and history of England whereas this besides the oral tradition and history of England hath the like testimony of France Spain Italy Germany Greece Asia and Affrica all unanimously witnessing that the Roman Catholick Religion was first taught and delivered by Christ as may appear to any that will lay aside prejudice make a through enquiry of the truth Whence resulteth that if it be ridiculous and absurd to question the conquest much more is it repugnant to reason to doubt of the Roman Catholique Religion Notwithstanding the Conquest is preferred by some as more evident in regard it was never questioned the Roman Catholique Religion often What then questioning is no mark of falshood The Trinity the Incarnation the Scriptures have been all questioned and yet are confessedly true questioning argue rather ignorance and malice in the Questioner than want of truth in the thing questioned whereto adde that the Roman Catholique Religion was sometime unquestioned yea acknowledged for true even by them that afterwards questioned its truth Others will oppose that the Pope bearing great sway in the world might and did first bring in the Roman Catholique Religion Christ bore greater why not he now that Christ and not the Pope did first teach deliver the Roman Catholique Religion Tradition both oral and historicall give testimonie here is the proper proof of a thing done so many Ages past their onely surmise and saying can there be any Comparison in the desert of credit but to shew further even an impossibility in these opposers assertion I must observe unto them that the Rule of the Catholique Church is not the Popes pleasure as they fondly imagine but as St Paul calls it the depositum which importing to hold what was delivered and to recieve no other for divine truth could not but defeat this pretended Pope of all possibility of bringing in a Religion of his own coyning for either he kept to the Rule of the Catholique Church or he did not if he kept to the Rule of the Catholique Church what he taught was delivered to him and consequently not invented by him if he did not the generalitie of Christians could not follow his example because the universality of contingent causes is unchangeable because Christ's iterated promises of the holy Ghosts assistance would not suffer it Now the Roman Catholique