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church_n	council_n	general_n	infallibility_n	4,531	5	11.6807	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79472	The beacon flameing with a non obstante: or A justification of the firing of the beacon, by way of animadversion upon the book entituled the beacon's quenched, subscribed by Col. Pride, &c.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1652 (1652)	Wing C3809; Thomason E683_30; ESTC R206835	18,732	28

all settlement of Religion upon which we shall propound but one Quaere by the way Whether the Jesuites who are no fools do not apprehend that a Toleration is their best market and a settlement in Religion the onely way to suppress them Whereas its said the book hath nothing against the State It seems these men are of that Religion that they care not what men say against God and Christ and the truths of God if they are but trueto the State These men would do as the Romane Emperours did If any man forswore himself by their Genius they would be sure to punish them but let him forswear himself by God they would leave him to God to punish So let a man blaspheme God dethrone the Lord Jesus call Moses and Christ Impostors there are some Gallio's that care for none of these things but let men speak but a word against the Parliament let him but whistle against the Armie and these verie men would break him in pieces like a potters vessell But we hope our State will scorn the service of such spirited men We hope they will remember what good Constantius did and said when by a stratagem he had found out the indifferency and carelesness of many of his Courtiers in the matters of Religion he presently dismissed them with this noble speech He that will not be faithfull to God will never be faithfull to me but for his own ends And holds forth an absolute incoertion in matters of inward belief See how both the Moderator and you equivocate what do you tell us of inward belief when the question is wicked practices Idolatry Heresie Blasphemie and the spreading of these They say Christians of a different belief are not tolerated to profess their Religion among Papists are they not in France Take all we say without clipping off that part which you had no minde to reminde the world of and let it speak for it self Our words are these viz. For the world knowes that those vertues never appeared in Papists toward Christians of a different belief who are not that we know of tolerated to profess their Religion among them except by the atchievement of the sword taken up in their defence against popish cruelty Nor doth the Moderator in the least demonstrate how the Protestants may be assured of a toleration in case the Papists shall at any time become the major part as being impossible for him or any others so to do untill a popish generall Councell shall cancell some of their points of Faith about the Popes Supremacie and Churches infallibilitie We think you were afraid to meddle with us here As for the popish books mentioned in their Catalogue we do believe upon good information that the greatest part of them onely hold forth Morall Divinitie and rules of good life Is this Morall Divinity to assert that Rome is the onely true Church the Pope Christs vicar-Vicar-generall and the infallibilitie of both also Traditions Prayer for the dead Invocation of Saints Purgatorie reall presence in the Eucharist Adoration and bowing to the Hoast Altars Images Reliques a perfect keeping of the Commandments merit of Good Works Latine Service with all the rabble of Popish Ceremonies and fopperies stretching their wits to maintain these by Arguments and is all this Morall Divinity damning all that are not of their belief and is that a point of Morall Divinity so to do If all this Rubbish must be so called pray take in with the rest The Directory for the Mass lately put to the Press and call that Morall Divinity also And if those books have nineteen parts of good matter and the twentieth part Popery it were great pity the much good should suffer for the little evil as was excellently said by a worthy Member of Parliament upon occasion of debate concerning the Racovian Catechisme who upon that reason passed his vote against the burning of it Wo is us that we live to hear Protestants plead for that wicked book which is indeed a verie sink of errours Is it a small thing that it maintains Free-will denies Paedobaptisme Predestination c. Turn in and you shall see greater abominations then these It denies the satisfaction of Christ pleads for justification by works It ungods the holy Ghost And above a quarter of the book is spent in arguing against the Divinity of Christ So that we think these men have done a great dishonour to the Parliament in publishing to all the Nation that there is any there that should either speak in so bad a cause or use such weak and fallacious arguments And it is no credit to the Armie that any of them should speak for so devillish a book and that too after the Parliament had declared their hatred of it and zeal against it for which the hearts of many thousands in England did bless God on their behalf Whether that Gentleman spake excellently in the Parliament House or no we have learned better then to pass our censure especially considering that his speech was against the sence of the House Certainly the time will come that the secret debates of the Members of the Supreme Councell shall not be commended or censured without the walls of the Senate House by private men in publique print But we shall dare to examine in the spirit of meekness whether your notion of the twentieth part poyson be an excellent one or no Our answer therefore is this Things without life or sence are not capable of punishment or pain and so their sufferings no matter of pity further then in relation to the owners or users of them and therefore when nineteen truths of God are transcribed or collected out of the perfect Canon of the Scripture on purpose to put off with them one damnable errour that is shuffled in among them it is no matter of pity to punish the spirit of errour and preserve people from infection by burning all that paper and ink Gods truth for all that as a fountain abides and is not diminished unless the good were separated from the bad and preserved and the bad rejected which may be done no way but by that of Licensing which we desire in our Beacon fired Your selves will grant that a book containing nineteen parts of excellent Divinity or Policy having but the twentieth part seditious and treasonable against the Parliament or Armie ought to be burned and suppressed with a witness If a great mans picture should be drawn never so well in respect of all the parts of it except onely one of the members and that should be so ugly as to present that great man a verie deformed man were it any pity to burn that picture What madness were it to suffer the people of a Town to use infected water while there is enough pure water in the common Town-well or Fountain And if there were true weight and reason in what you say of your twentieth part of Popery it would prove it pity and folly to throw away a roasted