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A35696 Jus Cæsaris et ecclesiæ vere dictæ or, A treatise wherein independency, presbytery, the power of kings, and of the church, or of the brethren in ecclesiastical concerns, government and discipline of the church : and wherein also the use of liturgies, tolleration, connivence, conventicles or private assemblies, excomminication, election of popes, bishops, priests what and whom are meant by the term church, 18 Matthew are discoursed : and how I Cor. 14. 32. generally misunderstand is rightly expounded : wherein also the popes power over princes, and the liberty of the press, are discoursed / by William Denton ... Denton, William, 1605-1691. 1681 (1681) Wing D1066; ESTC R9164 326,898 268

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shall be accounted for a Law and hath confirmed it with an accursed Canon viz. that 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 They are not herewith content but they will impose upon us Five other Sacraments which God never ordained for Sacraments Baptism and the Eucharist Christ Instituted commanded and practised but for those other Five Supernumerary Additionals they are of Papal and not of Christs Institution Of the same Parentage is their leaving out of their ordinary Catechisms one Commandement of the Decalogue written with the Finger of God himself lest it should rise up in Judgment against them for their Idolatries and Superstition Non obstante Gods command Deut. 4.2 Ye shall not add unto the word that I command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it that you may keep the Commandment of the Lord your God which I command you and Non obstante Rev. 22.18 19. If any man shall add to these things God shall add unto him the Plagues that are written in this Book And if any man shall take away from the words of the Book of this Prophecy God shall take away his part out of the Book of Life and out of the Holy City and from the things which are written in this Book Which Devillish Arithmetick of adding and subtracting to and from Holy Writ being diametrically opposite to Gods Holy Word must proceed as the rest from their Father the Devil For had they acted and decreed by the Spirit of truth he would have led them into all saving truth But these are so far from that that they hold the Truth in unrighteousness and thange the Truth of God into Lies even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the Faith 2 Tim. 3.8 And in as much as in them lies do make void and null the everlasting Gospel of Christ and set up a new one of their own as one of their own Communion hath collected out of Palavicim's History of the Council of Trent All which considered I cannot but wonder and stand amazed with what confidence the Papalins can preach and write so contrary to the Word of truth of both Testaments with any hope to be believed of others or to be saved themselves thereby being forewarned by the Apostles themselves that tho they themselves or an Angel from Heaven should preach any other Gospel than that which we have preached let him be accursed Gal. 1.8 Let these suffice for should I rake farther I should cloy the Reader usque ad naus●am to make scrutiny into their other Doctrines Services and Ceremonies all of the same Father the old Serpent the Devil their Idolatry Pargatory Pardons Indulgencies Merits Works of Supererogation Transubstantiation Incredible Miracles Reliques Prayers for Souls departed Sacrifices for the Dead Pilgrimages distributing their Worship in their publique Masses to so many Saints of their own making more Prayers by many to Mary than to Christ and those to make yet more ridiculous in an unknown tongue and not without ridiculous Gesticulations Consecrations Exorcisins Whisperings Sprinklings Censings c. all phantastical tricks and juglings more besitting the Stages of Piginello or Merry Andrew than the Temple and Service of God Almighty § Do they bely themselves Papists imitate the Heathen in their Worship or do they not in their Worship imitate the very Heathens or have they not borrowed many of their absurd Ceremonies from the Worshippers and Sacrificers of the Heathen Gods Carol. Patin Imperat. Roman Numismata Edit Argentine 1671. so 296. inter nummos Caracallae tells us that the fourth Picture or Medal represents the Poutifical Insigns or Emblems viz. the Lituus or Divining-Staff the Secespita or Sacrificing-Knife the Vrceolum or Flagon the Capedo or Vessel for holding of Incence and the Aspergillum or Sprinkling-bush or Asperforium a Vessel with small holes to sprinkle the Holy-water The Romans used these in the Ceremonies of their Sacrifices The Lituus the constant Sign Note or Embleme of the Augur furnished us with the form of our Pastoral and Episcopal-Staff The Secespita used by the Flamins of both sexes where by the way take notice there were Religious Orders both of Men and Virgins and by the very Pontiffs their Sacrifices or when the Popae Popes slew the Victims as an Instrument unused in the Christian Religion because our Sacrifice is unbloodied The Patera which used to hold the Praecordia of the Victim retaineth the name of Patera in our Religion and is employed for the holding the body of our Saviour Christ The Vrceolus when great was called Vrc●um and was appropriated for the holding of Oil Wine Milk and Honey Our Priests use Vessels like to these for the holding of wine and water whilst they celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass The Capedo or Capedunculus differs very little from the Simpulum so called from its holding the Incence was used by the Priest or Pontifex in their Offering The Aspergillum was used by that Age when the people purified with Holy-water then called Aqua lustralis and we in our time retain the same Thus Virgil hath it Aeneid lib. 6. Ossaque tecta Cado texit Chorineus alieno Idem ter socios purà * Verbum lustrale circumtulit undâ Spargens rora leni ramo foelicis Olivae Lustravitque viros dixitque novissima verba Chorineus did his bones in brass inclose And thrice about with Holy-water goes Purging his friends which sprinkingly he cast From happy Olive boughs then spake his last So Ovid 2. Fast Ah nimium faciles qui tristia crimina caedis Tolli stuminea posse putatis aquâ Ah silly souls that deem the guilt of murder Purified may be by Popes (a) Popes Holy-water Holy-water Lustration was nècessary to sacrifice without which they could not sacrifice nor exercise any Religious Rites So Juno returning from Hell was purged by Iris before she went to Heaven Ovid Met. lib. 4. In omnibus sacris Sacerdos quum diis immolat rem divinam facit prius corporis ablutione purgatur c. Alex. ab Alex. lib. 4. c. 17. § The Romish Ordinance of Hallowing and Consecrating Consecrations and Exorcisms and Exorcising relates and appertains to many things as it plainly appeareth Every seventh day which we call Sunday when there be many people in the Church assembled the Priest exorciseth as they term it first Salt after Water And when he hath mixed the Salt and the Water together he sprinkleth the People therewith which springling is believed to give health both to Body and (b) Haec Aqua benedicta deleat mihi mea delicta according to the Monkish Rhyme Soul and to drive away the deceits of the devil and purify not only Men but also things without life For it is cast upon the ground and on stones
to be Anti-Christ Thess 2.2 yet these men with the Quintescence of Sophistry have observed many new Mysteries in the Old and New Testament and plainly see the Pope in all his Pontificalibus in many Texts thereof which we may safely swear the Holy Prophets Evangelists and Apostles never saw nor intended nor possible for any mortal wit to make good As to the Text The Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall be rooted out By thee if you will believe the Papists Esa 6● 12 is now since the Incarnation of Jesus meant the Church of Rome that is in their Dialect the Pope which happily incouraged Pope Julius the Third to stamp his Coynes with this Circumscription Gens quae non servierit tibi peribit Now service in Romish understanding is to be Executioners of the Popes Commands without questioning whether just or unjust Sententia Pastoris sive injusta timenda and according to some tenenda I can easily be perswaded to believe that Papists do understand the true Scope and meaning of that Text and Chapter viz. Isay 60.12 as well as we but I cannot be so easily perswaded that they who draw such wrong Conclusions out of such right Premisses do believe themselves I doubt they rather presume to out-wit us by their Subtilties and Sophistry then convince us by sound reason The whole Scope and purport of that Chapter is only to set forth the Glory of the Church in the abundant Access of the Gentiles and the great and glorious blessings that shall accrew unto them after a short assliction Now if by intendment of the Prophet the Pope is meant by the 12. Verse we shall have brave Popes indeed for then unto them also must necessarily belong all those other glorious Attributes Recorded in the same Chapter for they all are relatives tending and pointing unto one and the same thing and if they belong unto Signior Papa then by the rule of consequences is the glory of the Lord risen upon them and darkness shall cover the Earth and gross darkness the People but the Lord shall arise upon him and his glory shall be seen upon him v. 1 2. and the Gentiles shall come to his light and Kings to the brightness of his rising v. 3. And the Sons of Strangers shall build up his Walls and their Kings shall Minister unto him his Gates shall be open continually they shall noi be shut day nor night that men may bring unto him the forces of the Gentiles and that their Kings may be brought and the Nation and Kingdom that will not serve him shall perish v. 10 11 12. And the Sons also of them that afflicted him shall come and bow unto him and all that despised him shall fall down at the Soles of his Feet to kiss his Feet and they shall call him not the Vicar of Christ but the City of the Lord the Sion of the Holy one of Israel not of Rome v. 14. And God will make him an eternal excellency not a Butcher of Kings and Saints but a joy of many Generations and he shall suck the Milk of the Gentiles and shall suck the Breasts of Kings c. and so to the end of the Chapter Now either all these glorious Consignments must belong peculiarly unto him or not any one of them as every one that hath learnt his Grammer can easily tell And he that is but little versed in Scripture can tell that they belong not to him but unto Christ What is this appropriating unto himself Attributes Divine less than to oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God or that is Worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God 2 Thess 2.4 who I beseech you is more omnipotent Christ the eternal Head and Law-giver of his Body the Church or his Romish Vicar that claims to Interpret and dispence with God's own Laws at his pleasure I wonder if ever such Blasphemies shall be forgiven Now under these borrowed figurative Speeches the Prophet describes the Glory of the Church of the Gentiles and more especially of Christ the Head thereof and doth thereby denote Christ's Spiritual Worship and Service and not the least hint of any Temporal Dominion to be devolved on Nostro Signior Papa so the Texts are admirable and true in their own proper sense and meaning but the Application of them made by the Papists is erroneous nay devillish even from their Father the Devil This misapplication of Texts is the general vein of Fallacy that runs quite thro most Popish Interpreters descanting on Texts of Scripture Now Kings and Kingdoms serve the Church not in that she exerciseth any Temporal Dominion of her self but because God hath given and committed the Sceptre of his Word by which he Rules and Governs unto the Churches Care and Custody So the Homage of bowing and falling down at the Soles of his Feet are honors indeed but not due to the Pope but to their and our Head Christ blessed for ever who is worshipped in the Church not as Papists deem who think they Worship Christ when they kiss his Vicars Pantable with the Cross imbroidered upon it but when they serve and honor him by obeying his voice in the Ministery of his word so the Strangers and Gentiles should willingly submit themselves to yield obedience unto Christ whose Majesty shines in the Doctrine which himself Administers by the Service of men so by Milk and Breasts are meant the Service and Obedience the Gentiles should render unto the Church to nourish her off-spring so all these sigurative expressions must be referred to the Spiritual Estate of the Church that God may be purely worshipped in her that the Ministery of the word may be advanced by all the Sons of the Church unto which the Pope is as much obliged as the meanest of his Vassals by all which it is apparent that there is not one Jota of that Text giving the least Temporal Power to the Pope over Kings and Princes In this saith St. Austin Kings serve God if in their Kingdoms they command that which is good and prohibit that which is evil not in Temporal affairs only but in matters of Religion also Cont. Cresc Lib. 3. c. 5.1 And again Ep. 48. Kings serve Christ in making Laws for Christ so that commanding the People to reverence the word and obey God and the making of strict Laws to keep men in the Faith and Church of Christ that is the true service which Princes owe to Christ and his Sion his Church and which Papists deny them to meddle withall and endeavor to prove that Popes only are Rulers of the Church out of Acts 20.28 take heed therefore unto your selves and unto all the Flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseers to feed the Church of God And out of Hebr. 13.7.17 Remember them which have the Rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of God whose faith follow