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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53945	Ancient and modern delusions, discoursed of in three sermons upon 2 Thes. 2.11 concerning some errors now prevailing in the Church of Rome / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1679 (1679)	Wing P1071; ESTC R13403	31,461	63

Godrus Huntsmen their Eustacius Seamen their Saint Christopher Saint Clement and our Lady Lawyers have their Juno Smiths have their Eulogius and Harlots themselves have their Saint Magdalen and Saint Afra Once more they have as the old Heathens had particular propitions Spirits and Orators for particular Diseases and Griefs as Cornelius for the Falling Sickness Barbara against sudden Death Liberius for the Stone Apollonia for the Tooth-ach Otilia for Sore eyes Roche against the Plague Petronilla for the Fever Saint John and Saint Bennet against Poyson Saint Antony for the Erysipelas Romanus for Demoniacks and Saint Margaret for Women in Travel and Faelicitas for such as are Barren Lastly they have particular Saints for the safety of themselves and their several sorts of Goods They have Antony for their Swine Wendeline for their Sheep Pelagius for their Oxen Saint Gall for their Geese Saint Loy for their Horses Vrban for their Vineyards Agatha against Fires Saint Michael and Saint George against all their Enemies These Instances I have collected not so much out of a design to render their Religion ridiculous as to open the eyes of those ignorant People who are deluded by crafty and evil Men and whom I pity with my Soul Alas miserable were those Creatures in the Apostles time who were taught by Hereticks to pray unto Angels to invocate and conside in Angels as their Mediators and Patrons in the Court of Heaven but God help them how miserable are those poor Souls I now speak of who are taught to do this and much more Not only to adore and depend on those that are indeed Ministring Spirits but moreover to worship and repose their trust both for their present and eternal safety in little and many times very naughty Creatures whose names they are pleased for their Interest sake and for some self-ends to enter into the Register and Catalogue of Saints But they have taken their Copy from the Religion of those whom Saint Paul speaketh of in my Text that had strong delusions sent them that they should believe a Lie because they loved not the Truth that they might be saved And yet I have more to say of them still ANCIENT and MODERN DELUSIONS Discoursed of in three SERMONS Upon 2 THES 2. 11. SERM. III. 2. THES 2. 11. And for this cause God shall send them strong Delusion that they should believe a Lye FOR Fourthly there is yet another thing observable of those Deceivers in the dayes of the Apostles that they pretended to great Austerities of Life in mortifying their Flesh and disciplining their Bodies and abridging themselves of that Liberty which God had allowed in the use of his Creatures S. Paul takes notice in two several places that they forbad to marry and commanded to obstain from meats 1 Tim. 4. 3. and that they neglected the body by observing these humane Ordinances touch not taste not handle not Col. 2. 21. They pretended to be more perfect and Holy than other men in using those severities towards the Body which others neither did nor thought themselves obliged to use These things have indeed a shew of Wisdome saith the Apostle Col. 2. 23. and 1 Tim. 4. 2. He gave these Deceivers this Character that they spake Lyes in Hypocrisie abused the World by pretences of extraordinary Sanctity and Mortification because they were so strict in these outward observances And are not the Modern Severities which the Romanists lay so much stress upon so many Apish Resemblances of these Ancient Delusions Their forbidding all Monastick persons and Clergy-men to Marry as if it were unbecoming the Sacredness of their Profession their commanding certain Religious Orders such as the Benedictines and Carthusians to eat no manner of Flesh all their days their General Laws touching the choice of meats at certain times which are imposed upon All as Religious ordinances and necessary to be observed under pain of Anathema what is all this but a reviving of the Doctrines of the Old Gnosticks and a new Edition of those Cheats and Impostures which were condemned by the Church in its most Primitive Ages As near as I can I will do them no wrong in this particular The Case I confess in some respects is not altogether the same and yet in other respects it is not altogether different It is not the same on this account because some Ancient Deceivers condemned Marriage as one of the Devils works and forbad the use of Wine and Flesh as a thing evil and unlawful in it self So Theodoret tells us of the followers of Simon the Sorcerer and Irenaeus tells us of Saturninus Marcion and the Eucratitae And Epiphanius relates of the Iren. l. 1. c. 22. 30. Epiph. Haeres 30. 42. 66. Ebionites and Manichees also how they held Marriage and the use of Flesh and Wine to have been instituted by the Devil and therefore was evil naturally and intrinsically This the Papists do deny as we do and they are very proud of this Evasion and make use of it against us when we dispute against their superstitions even as Tertullian did disputing against the Church in his book de Jejunio when he was a Montanist This is agreed upon on all hands against the first Hereticks that Hierom. adv Jovinian l. 2. every Creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving as S. Paul speaks 1 Tim. 4. 4. But then it is to be noted that in the Apostles days some were guilty though not of Heresie yet of great Superstition in this particular For they granted the use of Gods Creatures to be lawful in it self but yet they conceived the forbearance of their Liberty to be a very meritorious Act of Self-denial a great piece of of perfection and such a direct Act of worship as was very acceptable and pleasing unto God S. Paul in 1 Tim. 4. 8. speaking of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bodily exercise as a thing of little profit doth plainly glance at the fooleries of those men who placed Religion in bodily castigatigations in abstaining from certain meats and drinks and from Marriage although they did not look upon these things as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abominable in their own nature but refrained from them as divers did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Discipline sake supposing this abstinence to be an Exercise of Piety and kind of Mortification and Humility that would purchase and merit the Divine favour And in Col. 2. 23. although he calls this neglecting of the body will-worship and humility as those superstitious wretches did yet he tells us that these are onely the Commandments and Doctrines of men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which tended to corrupt practices by the abuse of them These things had indeed in them a shew of Wisdome as being borrowed of some Philosophers for which reason he saith beware least any spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit vers 8. but yet they were onely specious not real or substantial