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A56079 A Protestant antidote against Popery with a brief discourse of the great atheisticalness and vain amours now in fashion. Written in a letter to a young lady. By a Person of Honour. Person of honour. 1673 (1673) Wing P3820; ESTC R220564 36,838 182

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bring so many that have sense and reason to believe it But I shall pass by their adoring this Sacrament their praying to Saints and a multitude of their superstitious observances never used in the primitive Church and shall onely desire you Madam to observe in general that the Papists follow the Gospel just as they read Hebrew that 's backward for God plainly commands that all should search the Scripture And our Blessed Saviour ordered the Sacrament to be administred in both kinds 1 Cor. 11. Chap. 28. v. And St. Paul forbids publick prayers in an unknown Language but that which is most for Edification 1 Cor. 14 c. 15 16. v. But these plain positive commands do not hinder the Church of Rome from declaring that unlearned men shall not read and search the Scriptures but if we believe St. Paul before the Pope we may read in the 17. of the Acts 11. v. how he commended the Noble Bereans for searching the Scriputes and therefore if searching the Scriptures had not been not onely lawful but a commendable act certainly St. Paul would never have commended them for so doing So that the Popish Clergy forbids the reading the Scriptures under a pretence that their Laity might not truly understand them Next the Church of Rome allows onely their Clergy except free Princes for they are excepters of persons though God is not to receive the Communion but in one kind though our Saviour commands that all drink of the Cup and the Papists cannot deny but that the Communion was taken in both kinds in all Christian Churches for above a Thousand years after Christ And Lastly for the poor vulgar sort they shall onely hear their publick prayers in an unknown Tongue viz. Latine which a Tenth part of them do not understand and therefore how that can be most for Edification let the Papists tell if they can I am sure we cannot nor do we believe they can without the help of another Transubstantiation-Miracle and make an unknown Language to most to be chang'd at the same time into a common known Language to all And now Madam I shall humbly desire you to consider in general that though the Papists do out-noise us as shallow rivers do still the the deepest with the high and mighty Rodomontades of their Churches infallibilitie yet such high Rants without true proof are but like School-boyes paper-Kites which soar high and loftie but have nothing else worth taking notice of They will have the confidence to tell you that their Popish Church is the Roman Catholick and onely true Christian Church in the whole world But the Protestants Answer to this their boasting is that all the Christian Churches in the whole world besides the Popish Churches though more in number than they declare quite contrary They will ask you where your Protestant Church was before Luther which was wittily answered by one where the Papist Church never was in the Bible The Papists do divert themselves very much at our stiling our King Head of the Church as we do for their doing so for we esteem our King Head onely in his own Dominions without the Popes title of infallible and sure 't is more rational that those of a Kingdom should allow their King to be Head of the Church in his own Kingdoms than that a few Cardinals should make the Head of the Church over all Kingdoms And for all their Jeasting I am sure we can shew in sober earnest Scripture-presidents for Kings being Heads of Churches in their own Dominions which is more than the papists can shew for their Pope or his Churches infallibilitie for sure they cannot object against it as new Doctrine though Doctrine that 's new is their greatest Trade that the Kings of Judah and the first Christian Emperors were Heads of the Jewish Churches and in their own Dominions And Solomon tells us That a Divine Sentence is in the lips of the King and his mouth transgresseth not in Judgement which I am sure Popes have not witness Liberius and Solomon gives the reason because the Heart of the King is in the Hand of the Lord. If the Papists will pretend so much Scripture for their Pope I shall onely answer 'T is more than ever Protestants read or the Apostles writ The Papists will tell you with a great deal of confidence that though we say the Bible is the Religion of Protestants yet there is no Protestant Religion or Church mentioned in the whole Creed which are the Articles of the Christian Faith and they will tell you that their Church is the Catholick Church and to believe the Catholick Church was an Article of the Christian Faith from the very infancie of the Church in the beginning of the Apostles time Now let the Papists tell us if they bring this as an Argument against the Protestant Religion in the Bible or not if not what cause have they to name it or what need have we to answer it but if it be one we make this reply That the Roman Church is no more named in the Apostles Creed than the Protestant Church is f●r the Apostles Creed was made before the Roman Church was a Church and this I am sure they cannot deny so that since the Catholick Church was then in being and the Roman Church not in being it must necessarily follow that the Roman Church cannot be the Catholick Church mentioned in the Apostles Creed and consequently is not the Mother-Church as the Papists would have her to be thus the Papists have so overcharg'd this Argument to shoot at us as it recoils and flyes in their own faces And of kin to this is their grand Battering piece of all which so thunders in the ears of all Papists and makes the Popes power so absolute and the poor credulous Papist so obedient and that is the power given by our Saviour to St. Peter in the 16th of St. Matthew beginning the 18th verse Thou art Peter and on this Rock I will build my Church and give thee the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven and whomsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whomsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven and these words the Papists understand literally that St. Peter's person is the Rock that Christ builds his Church on which cannot possibly be by the verses just following for there when our Saviour tells his Disciples of his going to Jerusalem where he must suffer many things and be killed and raised again the Third day Peter took him and began to rebuke him be it far from thee Lord this shall not be unto thee But our Saviour turned and said unto Peter Get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence to me for thou savourest not the things that be of God but those that be of men By which words 'tis most clear and evident that our Saviour did not mean Peters person could be the Rock of the Christian Church for if Peter's person had been that