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B02629	The ungrateful behaviour of the Papists, priests, and Jesuits, towards the imperial and indulgent crown of England towards them, from the days of Queen Mary unto this present Age.	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing D1068BA; ESTC R219201	91,305	167

also of all the old School-men and he there reckons up Twenty of them viz. Cajetan Capreolus Paludanus Ferrariensis Antoninus Soto Alexander of Hales Albertus Magnus Bonaventura Richardus de Media Villa Dyonisius Carthuganus Major Marsilius Tho. Walder sis Turrecremata Angestus Clichtoveus Turrian and Vasquez And Zacharias Boverius the Spanish Friar in his Consultation directed to K. Charles of ever Blessed memory when Prince says That the Images of Christ and of the Saints should with pious Religion be worshiped by Christians Part. 2. reg 1. p. 189. Edit Matrit Anno 1623. And Styles that glorious Martyr spes Anglicanae Ecclesiae The hope of the English Church Part. 1. reg 4. p. 58. And princeps futura orbis faelicitas The future felicity of the World Part. 2. reg 2. p. 196. Thus impudently Sacrilegious are they though the Prophet pronounceth all them Confounded that worship graven Images and boast themselves of Idols Psal 97.7 Take but the judgment of one of your own Church even of that incomperable Servite who lived and died in the same Communion At the end of the Confession of his Faith whereof he hath made 54 Articles much more Orthodox than those of Trent concludes thus viz. Quemadmodum credimus de ceremoniis sacramentorum quod nomini fas sit eas immutare sic etiam credimus de lege dei nulli mortalium hic licere quidquami Innovare detrahere aut adjicere quia scriptum est Deut. 4.2 Ne addite ad verbum illud quod praecipio vobis neque detrahite de eo Homini itaque Christiano fas non est detruncare Decalogum quod tamen fecit Pontifex Romanus cum propter commodum suum expunxit praeceptum de non faciendis Imaginibus ne plebs persentisceret imagines ejus atque Idola a Deo esse prohibita f. 255. As we believe concerning the Ceremonies of the Sacraments that it is lawful for no man to alter or change them so we believe concerning the Law of God that it is not lawful for any Mortal to innovate detract or add any thing because it is written Deut 4.2 Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it c. Therefore it is not lawful for any Christian to dock the Decalogue which notwithstanding the Roman Pontiffs have done when for their Coffers they expunged the 3 d. Comandment of not making Images lest the people should perceive that Images and Idols were prohibited by God God and Scripture CHrist when he instituted the Blessed Sacrament gave to his Disciples both Bread and Wine and to whom he gave the Bread he said Take Eat to whom also he gave the Cup saying Drinking ye all of this Cup Mat. 22.26 and they all drank of it Mark 14.23 And St. Paul writing to the Church of God which was at Corinth and to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours 1 Cor. 1.2 saith to them all without distinguishing the Priest from the People as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew that Lords death till he come Chap. 11.26 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup c. Vers 27. Whereby it plainly appears that all indefinitely are both to eat of the Bread and drink of the Cup And there is not the least shadow or colour of any pretence or practice that ever this Sacrament was to be administred or taken in one kind only by any person whatsoever and yet such is the impudence of Roman Hereticks as contrary to their own Knowledg and Confession even in the Body of the Canon it self to order and decree That Priests that say Mass shall communicate under both kinds but the Lay-persons shall communicate under the species of Bread only though the contrary was practiced for above 1000 Years And yet such Brows of Brass have they to boast of the Antiquity of their Tenets § The unquestionable Conclusion is Let a Man examine himself and so let him eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup 1 Cor. 11.28 Pope and Popish Doctrine THe Council of Constance held Anno 1415. Sess 13. hath declared defined and decreed with a non obstante Gods Ordinance even Christs own Institution and although acknowledged by them to have been the constant practice of the Apostles and of the primitive Christians to Communicate under both kinds That they that celebrate this Sacrament should participate both of Bread and Wine and the Laiety of Bread only and doth command under pain of Excommunication that no Presbiter do communicate the people under both kinds Likewise that pact Conventicle of Trent declareth and teacheth Sess 21. c. 1. That the Laiety and Clergy which do not celebrate are by no precept of God bound to receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist under both kinds And further declareth c. 2. That although at the beginning of Christian Religion the communion of both kinds was very much used yet the Holy Mother Church hath decreed That it shall be accounted for a Law and hath confirmed it with accursed Canons viz. Can. ● If any man shall say that by the Commandment of God or of necessity all and singular the faithful of Christ ought to receive both kinds Let him be accursed and yet Leo was of another mind when he declared it was a Taken of an Heretick not to receive in both kinds What is this less than matchless Antichristian impudence that whilst themselves Confess both that Christ instituted it under both kinds and also that he his Apostles and the Primitive Christians Religiously observed the same that yet we that practice according to Christs constat must be accounted Hereticks for so doing and be punished by the Bishop his Officials and Inquisitors And that they should boast so much of Antiquity and of the conformity of their Creed to that of the primitive Church and yet so openly and palpably renounce both in this so chief and principal a Point God and Scripture SEarch the Scriptures forin them ye think ye have Eternal Life and they are they which testifie of me John 5.39 The Scriptures are able to make wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 2.15 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine Reproof for Correction for Instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works Vers 16.17 The Boereans were esteemed more Noble than those of Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so Acts 17.11 St. Pauls Epistles to the Romans Corinthians Thessalonians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians were all written to all the Brethren in general in a language vulgarly understood with a charge to be read unto them all so far were they from

THE UNGRATEFUL BEHAVIOUR OF THE PAPISTS PRIESTS AND JESUITS Towards the Imperial and Indulgent Crown of England Towards them From the Days of Queen Mary unto this present Age. LONDON Printed for James Magnes and Richard Bentley in Russel-street in Covent-Garden MDCLXXIX Omnibus Christi Fidelibus Vt Causae Regis magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae verae Antiquae Apostolicae Fidei Defensoris ejusque Parliamentorum Justicia toti Orbi Christiano Innotesceret THough it hath not been deemed prudent that Legislators should in their Acts and Sanctions render their reasons of them lest by so doing they might haply invite and court contradiction from some ill-affected thereunto which might prove derogatory unto their Supreme Authority by giving occasion to the governed to wrestle with their reasons rendred and alledged and if they should think though erroneously that they have resolved or confuted them they would then also think that they have taken all vertue and efficacy from the very Laws themselves Yet it hath ever been esteemed acceptable and good Service to Government it self that Subjects should defend the just Laws of their Princes and especially those wherein Religion is concerned And Religion being or ought to be the grand concern of every Individual I hope I shall not be thought to wander inconsiderately out of my own Province whilst I endeavour to justifie the late Act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants I must confess that I dare not adventure my Salvation or Damnation on blind obedience or Implicite Faith or on any Deputies Proxies Popes Priests or Fryars nor take their bare word without express warranty from Scripture especially being commanded to search them and thereby to try them that say they are Apostles and are not and being pre-cautioned lest by good words and fair speeches the Hearts of the simple be deceived Rom. 16.17 In which kind of Arts the Papalins are most expert I have exposed this Treatise to the consideration of all Christians but more especially of all Kings Princes and Governours not to implore their Countenance or Protection of any error that haply may be found herein that were not only unmannerly but injurious to Majesty it self If what is here written cannot be justified by its own truth and effort of sound reason let it fall to the ground and be obliterate for ever For no error or falshood or any false equivocating reasonings can ever be pleasing to the God of Truth and therefore ought not to be supported or countenanced by any sublunary Majesty whatsoever Justa ratio sapientem non possit offendere The chief aim and great design in this Publication is to justifie to all the Christian World His Majesties great Title of Defender of the Faith truly Antient Catholick and Apostolick by his ready compliance with His great Council his Two Houses of Parliament to put away the evil from this our Israel by this His Act that both this and future Ages perceiving it to have been grounded both on great reasons of State and true grounds of Religion all the World may be the better satisfied and his own Subjects may hear and fear and do no more so presumptuously It is the great duty of every individual Christian for Truth and Conscience sake but more especially of Gods Lieutenants on Earth even for necessity and reason of good government also nay even out of duty to him by whom they reign to maintain and preserve Religion in its purity For this very end God hath ordained Kings and Queens to be his Vicegerents on Earth and conferred greatness and Majesty upon them to make them Defenders nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers of his Holy Church in which Calling the greatest of them can never give a good account of this their Charge and Stewardship except it be by a constant watchful care in matters of Religion As it is not prudent in civil Politicks for any Prince to receive a great succour from a more puissant Empire so it is as imprudent for any temporal Prince or Power to indulge or countenance any Sects that own any dependence on a Foreign Head Ecclesiastical or Civil especially if Sworn to advance that Head and promote his Interest And such a Head is the Pope who claims to be superiour to all Princes to be exempt from all Controll and exempts his Ecclesiasticks from their subjection and obedience unto their natural Princes and whom if you will believe them they cannot chastise though they are rebellious that he hath Power over all and can deprive Kings of their Kingdoms that in any difference between the Ecclesiastical and Secular the judgment appertains to the Ecclesiastical as to the more worthy And as is the Pope so are his Papalins The same Hour they become his Proselytes they also become his sworn Vassals and Advocates Can it be other than an infinite prejudice done to the Authority of Sovereign Princes if they should but supinely permit or be constrained to change or but to suspend their own Laws at the Beck and Pleasure of another State or Interest passing from one Law to another or tacitely by conniving only to acknowledg that he borrows from any other any power of governing in matters Civil or Ecclesiastical and therefore but just and reasonable for Princes to secure their own power by wholsome Laws preventing all Popish influencies that haply by some Wiles or politick Stratagems might oppose them or interfere with them in order to gratifie and support their own interest contrary to the interest of those Princes whose Subjects they are The main Bane of true Church power hath been the great opinion that the Antient and first converted Emperors had of the Abilities piety and devotion of the Antient Fathers Ecclesiasticks which confidence begat in them supiness and negligence of their own power and that gave occasion and encouragement to the Popes and their Ecclesiasticks to usurp and encroach upon their Authority whilst they little regarded their own power which God had fairly stampt upon them consequently neglecting their duty as if they were to render no account to God for themselves or their Subjects as if the care and defence of Religion and Piety were the least of their concerns tolerating for their own interest the people to be deceived by suffering the Pope to set up new Orders and Rites under the umbrello of Religion but in reality for his own Empire and profit without considering that such Orders and Customs by tract of time carry along with them their own warranty and so secretly invite belief which at length become meerly serviceable to the interests of those that manage them viz. the Popes and consequently disserviceable and disadvantageous unto Princes and all temporal Governments And such Orders being received and continued by the present Princes are no small obligations to their Heirs and Successors to continue them by reason of that former Authority engraven upon them by Custom and their Predecessors Now what does this Act

their Dominions § Concerning which I shall say thus in general That though no mortal man hath rightful power to forbid Christs Spiritual Duties the Worshipping of God Preaching his Word and Truth yet I say first that no Indulgence ought to be given by the Magistrate to any Sect whatsoever whose Doctrins and Principles are not known and therefore none to Quakers or Enthusiasts whose Rule is not the Scripture but the Light within them which is darkness to others if not to themselves and it may be Hosanna to day and yet Crucifige to morrow Then the Principles by which other Sects do worship being known the legislative Magistrares whether Monarchs or Free States are the Judges of them how consistent or inconsistent with Gods true Religion and Worship and with the peace and wellfare of their own Dominions and Subjects and accordingly may or may not Indulge or Tollerate their Religion and Worship And therefore Princes ought to use great Caution and to be very wary and circumspect herein for that sins committed by others through our Example Instigation Connivnace or Tolleration become ours by just Imputation In Naboths death the Judges and false Witnesses were the next Agents Jesabel the Plotter only and Instigator 1 King 21.7 13 23. Yet she is punished for shedding Naboths Blood though her hand was not upon him Even in Courts of ordinary Justice it seems just and is so in our Law that not only the Executioner but the Plotter Abettor Instigator and Concealer of Treason be punished with death Yea see how far a less degree of participation brings guilt upon our Souls The Rulers amongst the Jews that but tollerated the breach of the Sabbath are charged to have prophaned the Sabbath Nehem. 13.17.18 Yea the least Countenance given to Idolatry makes culpable of Idolatry 1 Cor. 10.18 21. To this agrees the Prohibition of St. Paul Communicate not with other Mens sins 1 Tim. 5.22 And that command Lev. 16.17 Thou shalt rebuke thy Neighbour plainly and not suffer him to sin It is a Gospel-Principle that Gods Children ought to be careful not only to eschewe evil in their own persons but also to prevent it in othrss A notable Example we have in the people of Israel who well knowing that God was a Jealous God Deut. 4.24 Isa 42.8 and would not have his Glory communicated to others nor his praise unto Graven Images out of their abundant caution minding the concerns of their Brethren as their own when they heard Tidings how the Rubenites Gadites and half Tribe of Manasseh had Erected an Altar not for Worshipping as they truly protested but for Memorial so fearful they grew of Gods Wrath that they presently dispatched an Embassy to their Brethren to prevent their sin And see how pithily they deal with them Is the Iniquity of Peor too little for us from which ye are not cleansed to this day that ye also must depart from following the Lord Josh 22.17 Thus they in a shew only and appearance of evil which we are commanded to abstain from 1 Thes 5.22 and to resist unto Blood striving against sin Qui non vetat peccare quum possit Jubet Heb. 12.4 The Conclusion is strong What sins of others we labour not within our Province Power and Compass to prevent are ours in the guilt as well as those of our own personal Commission The Reasons are many 1. We hazard our selves to infection 1 Cor. 5.6 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump 2. Vnto wrath Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her Plagues Apoc. 4.3 We hazard the Delinquents to obstinate impenitency We blemish our own fame and sincerity 5. Quantum in nobis we encourage others to like exorbitancy in sinful Worship even in our common Laws it is held maintenance when a great person only by his presence countenanceth a Cause Saints of old were regularly scrupulous and abstemious in this kind I have not sate with vain persons neither will I go in with dissemblers I have hated the Congregation of evil doers and will no sit with the wicked Psal 26.4 5. Jer. 15.17 I sat not in the assembly of mockers nor rejoyc'd Did not Elias sharply reprove King Ahab and the Commons of Israel for that error He did not say Why permit you not those that will to serve the Lord and those that list to serve Baal But How halt you between Two Opinions If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal then follow him 1 Kings 18.21 Since it is confessed both by Protestants and Papists That there can be no God save the Lord Psal 18.31 and he never meant to surrender any piece of his Glory Isa 48.11 but is so jealous of it that he will be served and only served with all our Heart and with all our Soul Deut. 10.12 I reckon it cannot stand with a Magistrates Duty to reverse this Heavenly Decree Thou shalt Worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Mat. 4.10 Dent. 6.13 with establishing Two Religions in the Realm And the first precept forbiding more Gods than one barreth all other services of the same God save that which himself hath appointed for himself His commands relating to his own Worship are very severe very strict He that is born in the House and bought with thy Money must needs be Circumcised i.e. Observe the whole Law Gen. 17.12 So the charge of keeping the Sabbath is laid upon the Father of the Family for all that are within his Gate Exod. 20.10 The Lord Commandeth That if any person Brother Son Daughter the Wife of thy Bosom or thy Friend which is as thy own Soul shall intice to Idolatry or any City shall set up a new Worship the one shall be killed the other destroyed Deut. 13.6 9 12 15. To this belongeth that precept To seperate the pretious from the vile Jer. 15.19 and this viz. Not to sow the Field with divers Seeds nor to wear a Garment of divers things Lev. 19.10 So Moses Deut. 22.10 Thou shalt plough with an Oxe and an Asse together which St. Paul thus expoundeth 2 Co. 6.14 Be not unequally yoaked with unbelievers All which places are generally and promiscuously applied as well unto Superstitious and Idolatrous Wedlock as to tolleration of Superstitious and Idolatrous Worship which the Apostle demonstrates to be as absurd and monstrous as that righteousness should have fellowship with unrighteousness or light to have communion with darkness or that Christ can have Concord with Belial or that the Temples of God can have agreement with Idols and such Temples are all good Christians whom Legions of Lusts and Devils do not pre-possess Vers 14 15 16 17. Besides it cannot be denied but that they may and will be Snares and Traps if not Scourges in our sides and Thorns in our Eyes John 23.13 God fore-saw it and fore-told it and therefore made such strict commands against such Medly-mungril-mixtures as