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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64647	The great necessity of unity and peace among all Protestants, and the bloody principles of the papists made manifest by the most eminently pious and learned Bishop Usher ...	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1688 (1688)	Wing U178; ESTC R23183	27,278	20

consecration yet if he that baptized him failed in his intention when he administred that Sacrament he remaineth still unbaptized and so becometh uncapable of Priesthood and consequently whatsoever he consecrateth is but bread still Yea admit he were rightly baptized too if either the Bishop that conferred upon him the Sacrament of Orders fot so they hold it to be or those that baptized or ordained that Bishop missed their right intention neither will the one prove Bishop nor the other Priest and so with what intention soever either the one or the other doth consecrate there remaineth but bread still Neither doth the inconvenience stay here but ascendeth upward to all their predecussors in any one of whom if there fall out to be a nullity of Priesthood for want of intention either in the baptizer or in the ordainer all the generation following according to their principles go without their Priesthood too and so deliver but bread to the people instead of the body of Christ. The Papists themselves therefore if they stand unto their own grounds must needs confess that they are in no better case here than the Samaritans were in of whom our Saviour saith Ye worship ye know not what Joh. 4. 22. but we know that what they worship be the condition or intention of their Priest what it will be is bread indeed which while they take to be their God we must still account them guilty of spiritual fornication ' and such fornication as is not so much as named amongst the Gentiles These then being the Idolaters with whom we have to deal let us learn first how dangerous a thing it is to communicate with them in their false worship Rev. 18. 4. For if we will be partakers of Babylons sins we must look to receive of her plagues Secondly we are to be admonished that it is not sufficient that in our ownpersons we refrain worshipping of idols but is further required that we restrain as much as in us lieth the practice thereof in others lest by suffering God to be dishonoured in so high a manner when we may by our calling hinder it we make our selves partakers of other mens sins Eli the High Priest was a good man and gave excellent counsel unto his lewd sons yet we know what judgment fell upon him because his sons made themselves vile and he frowned not upon them that is restrained them not which God doth interpret to be a kind of idolatry in ' honouring his sons above him The Church of Pergamus did for her own part hold fast Christs name and denied not his faith yet had the Lord something against her because she had there them that held the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things facrificed unto idols and to commit fornication So we see what special notice our Saviour taketh of the works and charity and service and faith and patience of the Church of Thyatira and yet for all this he addeth Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel which calleth her self a Prophetess to teach and to sedue my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed untoidols Revel 2. 20. In Judges 2. God telleth the children of Israel what mischief should come unto them by tolerating the Canaanitish idolaters in their Land. They shall be thorns in your sides saith he and their Gods stall be a snare unto you Which words contain in them the intimation of a double danger the one respecting the Soul and the other the Body That which concerneth the Soul is that their idols should be a snare unto them For God well knew that mans nature is as prone to spiritual fornication as it is to corporal As therefore for the preventing of the one he would not have a common harlot tolerated in Israel Lest the Land ss●ould fall to whoredom and become full of wickedness Levit. 19. 29. so for the keeping out of the other he would have provocations taken away and all occasions whereby a man might be tempted to commit so vile a sin The bodily danger that followeth upon the toleration of idolaters is that they should be in their sides that is as in another place it is more fully expressed they should be pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides and should vex them in the Land wherein they dwelled Now in both these respects it is certain that the toleration of the Idolaters with whom we have to do is far more perilous than of any other In regard of the spiritual danger wherewith simple souls are m●re like to be insnared because this kind of Idolatry is not brought in with an open shew of impiety as that of Pagans but is a mistery of iniquity a wickedness covered with the vail of Piety and the harlot which maketh the inhabitants of the earth drunk with the wine of this formcation is both gilded her self and presenteth also her abominations unto her followers in a cup of gold Rev. 17. 2 4. If we look to outward peril we are like to find these men not thorns in our sides to vex us but daggers in our hearts to destroy us Not that I take all of them to be of this furious disposition mistake me not I know a number my self of a far different temper but because there are never wanting among them some tutbulent humours so inflamed with the spirit of fornication that they run mad with it and are transported so far that no tolerable terms can content them until they have attained to the utmost pitch of their unbridled desires For compassing whereof there is no treachery nor rebellion nor murther nor desperate course whatsoever that without all remorse of conscience they dare not adventure upon Neither do they thus only but they teach men also so to do arming both Pope and Bishops and People and private persons with power to cast down even Kings themselves from their Thrones if they stand in their way and give any impediment to their designs Touching the Popes power herein there is no disputing one of them telleth us that there is no doubt but the Pope may depose all Kings when there is a reasonable cause so to do For Bishops Cardinal Baronius informeth us by the example of Dacius the Bishop of Millayn his dealing against the Arrians that those Bishops deserve no blame and ought to suffer no envy who roll every stone yea and rather than fail would blow up stones too that they may not live under an heretical Prince For the People Dominicus Bannes a Dominican Priar resolves that they need not in this case expect any sentencing of the matter by Pope or other but when the knowledge of the fault is evident subjects may lawfully if so be they have sufficient strength exempt themselves from subjection to their Princes before any declaratory sentence of a Judge And that we may understand that the Proviso which