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A53750 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. Owen, Thankfull, 1620-1681. 1679 (1679) Wing O830; ESTC R18583 46,596 82

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reason but because they could not bow the knee to Baal and joyn with an Idolatrous Church against the express Command of the Living God The barbarous Murders of the Albigenses and Waldenses remain a lasting Monument of unparallell'd Popish Cruelty of whom Reinerius an Inquisitor of the Church of Rome thus writes Contr. Haret c. 4. Among all the Sects which have formerly been none is more pernicious to the Church than that of the Leonists and that for these three Reasons 1. Because it is of longer continuance than any other for same say it hath lasted ever since Pope Sylvester others say ever since the Apostles 2. Because no Sect is more general than this for there is scarce any Country in which it is not found 3. That whereas other Sects deter and affright men with the horridness of their blasphemies against God this Sect of the Leonists makes a great shew of godliness because they live righteously before men and believe all things rightly touching God and concerning all other Articles of the Creed only they speak evil of the Roman Church and Clergy in which thing the Laity is very forward to credit and believe them Which Testimony being of one of their own Party is a clear Evidence against this Bloody Church that the only Crime of these Persons was their so freely declaring against the Idolatry and Corruptions of the Romish Church and therefore that the inhumane Butcheries of them was a gross and heynous Murder in the sight of God The Parisian Massaore comes next to be considered of which Thuanus says Nullum similis saevitae exemplum in tota Antiquitate reperiri i. e. the most Ancient Records cannot furnish us with an Example of the like cruelty Hist l. 52 53. it was cloaked over with shews of the greatest Amity in the World namely of a Marriage between the Houses of Valois and Bourbon to which all the chief of the Protestants were most lovingly invited There after the jollity of Mirth and Caresses of Entertainment in the dead time of the Night the whole City was in Arms about them they fell upon all the Protestants Houses and Lodgings they butcher'd them without distinction Men Women and Children till the Channels ran down with blood into the River thirty thousand persons were there murdered says Thuanus and as many more about that time in divers places of France says Natales Comes This Cruelty was celebrated by the Romanists in France Hist l. 25. Circiter Sexaginta millia hominum variis in locis per illud tempus trucidata fuisse dicta sunt in Gallia as one of the most glorious Actions the World hath been acquainted with great rejoycings at Court for it and Publick Thanks given unto God But the greatest joy was at Rome an account of which take from Thuanus a Roman Catholick and a most Authemick Historian He tells us the Pope had an account of the Massacre from his Legate at Paris that he read his Letter in the Consistoby of Cardinals that there it was decreed that they should go directly to S. Mark 's L. 53. and there solemnly give Thanks to Almighty God for so great a Blessing conferred upon the Roman See and the Christian World That soon after a Jubilee should be publish through the whole Christian World and these Causes were exprest for it To give thanks to God for destroying in France the Enemies of the Truth and of the Church In the Evening the Guns were fired at S. Angeto and Bonefires were made and nothing was omitted of all those things that use to be performed in the greatest Victories of the Church Some days after there was a Procession to S. Lewis with the greatest resort of Nobility and People First went the Bishops and Cardinals then the Switzers then the Ambassadors of Kings and Princes then under a Canopy went his Holiness himsell with the Emperour's Ambassador bearing up his Train for him c. Over the Church-door was an Inscription set up in which the Cardinal of Lorrain in the name of the King of France congratulated his Holiness and the College of Cardinals c. for the plainly stupendious effects and altogether incredible events of their Counsels given him and of their Assistances sent him and of their twelve years Wishes and Prayers And the better to perpetuate the memory of this Massacre the Pope caused it to be painted about his great Hall in the Lateran and there recorded in Marble To these bloody Catalogues a considerable Accession has been made since by the Papists in Ireland who in times of as great peace and liberty as ever that Nation enjoyed and in the name of that blessed and gracious King The Lord Orory's Answer to Welsh p. 29. saith within few Months about two hundred thousand under whom they enjoyed these like inhumane Butchers cut the throats of above a hundred thousand of his Protestant Subjects of all Sexes and Ages an action of so horrid an aspect as will make the names of all that had to do in it look black and detestable to mankind throughout all Generations That Sea of Blood which hath there been cruelly and barbarously shed is enough to drown any man in Eternal both infamy and misery whom God shall find the malicious Author or Instigator of its Effusion Icon Basil c. 12. And how far his Holiness was concerned in it appears by his Nuncio whom he sent to promote and bless the Cause I have now finished what I intended to say in this short Discourse with no other design than that of doing Honour to God and vindicating the abused Glory of our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus by shewing how far the Romish Church is degenerated from his Gospel who is indeed the Prince and Head of the Catholick Church whom I humbly beseech to open the Eyes of all deluded Persons that they may come to the knowledge of the Truth and be saved Amen FINIS Book 's Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard H. Mori Opera Theologica Fol. His Reply to a late Answer to his Antidote against Idolatry with an Appendix in Octavo His Remarks in answer to the Lord Hales of Gravitation and Non-gravitation of Fluids in Oct. Mr. Falkner's Libertas Ecolesiastica in Oct. His Christian Loyalty in Oct. Mr. Sherlock's Discourse of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ and our Union and Communion with him c. To which is annexed a Defence and Continuation with a particular respect to the Doctrine of the Church of England and the Charge of Socinianism and Relagianism in Oct. Mr. Hotchkis's Discourse concerning the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness to us and our Sins to him c. in two Parts in Oct. Mr. Allen's Answer to Mr. Fergusson about Justification in Oct. His Mystery of Iniquity unfolded c. in Oct. His Christians Justification stated in Oct. His Friendly Advice to the Non-Conformists beginning with the Anabaptists in Oct. Mr. Hallywel's Account of Familism against the Quakers in Oct. His Discourse of the Excellency of Christianity in Oct. His Sacred Method of saving Humane Souls by Jesus Christ in Oct. Dr. Goodall's Vindication of the College of Physitians against a Pamphlet called The Corner-stone in Oct. Dr. Grew's Anatomy of Trunks with 19 Figures in Oct.