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A27169 A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven. Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723. 1687 (1687) Wing B1572; ESTC R20774 24,111 46

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by joyning with the publick Worship whilst they attend and understand what the Church saith to God and what he saith to us are much improved in those great Principles of Religion which they learn'd in their Catechism and are made to grow in Grace and in the knowledg of the Lord. They have in these two what perpetually informs their Judgment and excites their Will to cleave to God and Goodness and after their best Endeavours to rely upon those infinite Mercies of God in Christ our Redeemer on which the greatest of Roman Champions confessed that it is most safe to repose our whole Trust and Confidence Answerable to those are the publick Exhortations of our Church by the Mouth of her Ministers and the Books of Religious Instruction wherewith she entertains her Children Their Time and Zeal and Attention are not taken up in Sprinklings Kissings of Reliques going in Pilgrimage visiting of Shrines paying devout Veneration to Saints and Images and reciting Beads and Rosaries and the Offices of St. Bridget or the like Neither these things nor any of this Nature which can neither instruct nor reform the World nor give Comfort to Christian Souls are recommended to our People They are clearly taught wherein true Religion and substantial Goodness consist and exhorted to lay on them the great Stress of their Hopes and of their Endeavours and devoutly to make use of those means of Grace which are of Divine Appointment and thereby to establish their Hearts in the Love of God and a chearful dependence upon the infinite Merits and Mercies of our dear Saviour Nothing of the whole Counsel of God is by our Church kept back from us our Belief is unquestionable being truly Primitive and Universal our Worship of God is according to his Will and his most blessed Nature and our Rule of Life and Conversation comprehends all Duties To fear God and honour the King and love one another and continue patient in well-doing Ours is indeed a Doctrine according to Godliness and of it it may be testified in the Words of St. Peter that it is the true Grace of God wherein we stand If we are not wanting to our selves we want nothing that can either shew us the Way to Happiness or help and forward us in it we ought to express our Charity to them that err and want many of those Blessings and Advantages which we have for the obtaining eternal Salvation we should earnestly pray for them and what we can promote their Instruction but by no means fear their Threatnings and Sentences of Damnation He that in earnest would go to Heaven and professeth Christianity not to obtain Favour with Men but to please God and to save his immortal Soul can be no where safer than in our Church Therein he professeth that Faith which all Christian Communions hold to be truly Divine and therein he may make his Calling and Election sure if he will but practise answerably to his Belief add to his Faith Vertue and not be unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ The more he understands his Religion the more he will love it and be convinc'd that he is in the right And the more carefully he lives according to his Profession with a Conscience void of Offence towards God and towards Men the more assurance will he have that he shall be happy All other Grounds of Hope besides Truth and Righteousness will prove vain But he that stands upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-Stone He that studies and minds his Duty and earnestly begs for the Divine Assistance that he may live to God and remain faithful unto Death he shall receive the Crown of Life though some presumptuous Men dare condemn him to Death Whatever Confidence or high Pretences some may have whatever Ways and Devices they invent for to gain Heaven Christ is the Way the Truth and the Life no Man cometh unto the Father but by him there is no other Name under Heaven given unto Men whereby they can be saved but only the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ He that calleth and believeth on him shall not be confounded Here let us fix and not regard what Men say nor what they can do But look unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith firmly relying on his Almighty Goodness who is able to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him being ever living to make Intercession for them FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for Richard Chiswell THE Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy Chap. 3. Vers 15. 4o. The Peoples Right to read the Holy Scripture Asserted 4o. A Short Summary of the principal Controversies between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture Proofs 4o. Two Discourses Of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one Special Branch of the King's Prerogative viz. In dispensing with the Penal Laws 4o. The Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted 4o. Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A PRIVATE PRAYER to be used in Difficult Times A True Account of a Conference held about Religion at London Sept. 29 1687 between A. Pulton Jesuit and Tho. Tennison D. D. as also of that which led to it and followed after it 4o. The Vindication of A. Cressener Schoolmaster in Long-Acre from the Aspersions of A. Pulton Jesuit Schoolmaster in the Savoy together with some Account of his Discourse with Mr. Meredith A Discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer Side notwithstanding the uncharitable Judgment of their Adversaries and that Their Religion is the surest Way to Heaven 4o. Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist wherein is shewed that the Doctrine of Transubstantiation overthrows the Proofs of Christian Religion