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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06539	Nicholas Machiavel's letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius in vindication of himself and his writings..	Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Wharton, Thomas Wharton, Marquess of, 1648?-1715.	1700 (1700)	Wing W1578; ESTC R186416	17,636	13

Him to attain Eternal Salvation so I do firmly believe the Christian Profession to be the only true Religion now in the World Next I am fully perswaded that all Divine Verities which GOD then designed to teach the World are contained in the Books of holy Scripture as they are now extant and received amongst us From them I understand that GOD created Man in purity and innocence and that the first of that Species by their frailty lost at once their integrity and their Paradise and intail'd sin and misery upon their Posterity that Almighty GOD to repair this loss did out of his infinite Mercy and with unparallel'd grace and goodness send his only begotten Son into the World to teach us new truths to be a perfect example of virtue goodness and obedience to restore true Religion degenerated amongst the Jews into Superstition Formality and Hypocrisie to die for the Salvation of Mankind and in fine to give to us the holy Spirit to regenerate our Hearts support our Faith and lead us into all truth Now If it shall appear that as the lusts of our first Parents did at that time disappoint the good intention of GOD in making a pure World and brought in by their disobedience the corruptions that are now in it So that since likewise the Bishops of Rome by their insatiable ambition and avarice have designedly as much as in them lies frustrated the merciful purpose he had in the happy Restauration He intended the World by his Son and in the renewing and reforming of Humane Nature and have wholly defaced and spoil'd Christian Religion and made it a Worldly and a Heathenish thing and altogether uncapable as it is practised amongst them either of directing the wayes of its Professors to virtue and good life or of saving their Souls hereafter If I say this do appear I know no reason why I for detecting thus much and for giving warning to the World to take heed of their wayes should be accused of Impiety or Atheism or why his Holiness should be so inraged against the poor Inhabitants of the Valleys in Savoy and against the Albigesi for calling him Antichrist but to find that it is an undoubted truth I mean that the Popes have corrupted Christian Religion we need but read the New Testament acknowledged by themselves to be of infallible truth and there we shall see that the Faith and Religion preached by Christ and setled afterwards by his Apostles and cultivated by their Sacred Epistles is so different a thing from the Chirstianity that is now profess'd and taught at Rome that we should be convinc'd that if those Holy Men should be sent by GOD again into the World they would take more pains to confute this Gallimufry than ever they did to preach down the Tradition of the Pharisees or the Fables and Idolatry of the Gentiles and would in probability suffer a new Martyrdom in that City under the Vicar of CHRIST for the same Doctrine which once animated the Heathen Tyrants against them Nay we have something more to say against these Sacrilegious pretenders to GODS power for whereas all other false worships have been set up by some politick Legislators for the support and preservation of Government this false this spurious Religion brought in upon the ruines of Christianity by the Popes hath deformed the face of Government in Europe destroying all the good principles and Morality left us by the Heathen themselves and introduced in stead thereof Sordid Cowardly and impolitick Notions whereby they have subjected Mankind and even great Princes and States to their own Empire and never suffered any Orders or Maxims to take place where they have power that might make a Nation Wise Honest Great or Wealthy This I have set down so plainly in those passages of my Book which are complained of that I shall say nothing at all for the proof of it in this place but refer you thither and come to speak a little more particularly of my first assertion that the Pope and his Clergy have destroyed Christian Religion Upon this subject I could infinitely wish new Letters begin to revive again that some Learned Pen would employ it self and that some person vers'd in the Chronoligy of the Church as they call it would deduce out of the Ecclesiastical Writers the time and manner how these abuses crept in and by what Arts and Steps this Babel that reaches at Heaven was built by these Sons of the Earth but this matter as unsuitable to the brevity of a Letter and indeed more to my small Parts and Learning I shall not pretend to being one who never hitherto studied or write of Theology further than it did naturally concern he Politicks therefore I shall only deal by the New Testament as I have done formerly by Titus Livius that is make observations or reflections upon●t and leave you and Mr. Guilio and the rest of our Society to make the judgement not citing like Preache's the Chapter or Verse because the reading of Holy Scripture is little us'd and indeed hardly permitted amongst us To begin at the top I would have any reasonable man tell me whence this unmeasurable power long claim'd and now possess'd by the Bishop of Rome is derived first of being CHRISTS Vi●ar and by that as I may so say pretending to a Monopoly of the Holy Spirit which was 〈◊〉 and given to the whole Church that is to the Elect or Saints as is plain by a cl●●se in St. Peters Serinon made the very same time that the miraculous gifts of the Spirit of GOD were first given to the Apostles who sayes to the Jews and Gentiles Repent and be Baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for this promise is to you and your Children and to all that are afar off even as many as the LORD our GOD shall call Next to judge infallibly of Divine Truth and to forgive sins as CHRIST did Then to be the Head of all Ecclesiastical Persons and Causes in the World to be so far above Kings and Princes as to Judge Depose and Deprive them and to have an absolute Jurisdiction over all the affairs in Christendom in Ordine ad Spiritualia yet all this the Canonists allow him and he makes no scruple to assume whilst it is plain that in the whole New Testament there is no description made of such an Officer to be at any time in the Church except it be in the Prophecy of the Apocalyps or in one of St. Paul's Epistles where he sayes Who it is that shall sit in the Temple of GOD shewing himself that he is GOD. CHRIST tells us his Kingdom is not of this World And if any will be the greatest amongst his Disciples that he must be servant to the rest which shews that his Followers were to be great in Sanctity and Humility and not in worldly power The Apostle Paul