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A07475 An examination of certaine motives to recusancie. By W. Bedell Bedell, William, 1571-1642. 1628 (1628) STC 1786; ESTC S113798 20,794 67

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to pull downe the true service of God is to beare her marke ROme for her holding the people of God in captivity for her pride cruelty answerable to the old Babylon wherout Ieremy called Gods people in his time is the mysticall Babylon whereof Saint Iohn speakes in his Revelation Which is plaine from her scituation upon seven hills her rule over the kingdomes of the earth The great city where our Lord also was crucified viz. by the authority of a Romane Deputy and a Romane death Her merchants are the great men of the earth her merchandize is not onely slaves but also soules of men whether wee take it of mens lives which the court of Rome sets to sale or the soules deceased which they chaff●…r by indulgences and pardons Out of this Babylon Gods elect people are exhorted to come these are properly the Church of Rome not the faction which beareth the name of it over which the Pope is now styled Monarch To receive his Agnus De●…s hallowed Pictures Beads Medalls is to receive his marke in token of speciall devotion to him and his Court and not to bee content to bee a Christian Catholick unlesse ROMANE be added to it is to beare the number of his name The Heretick because hee will not obey the Church must be avoided no lesse then a heathen in his service to false Gods So saith Christ Matth. 18. 17. and Saint Paul 1. Cor. 10. 21. You cannot be partakers of the table of our Lord and the table of Devils the like 2. Cor. 5. 14. 17. THe place of S. Matthew doth not speake of an Heretick but of a brother wronging his brother and after private admonition refusing to obey the Church which may bee understood of an assembly as well Civil as Ecclesiasticall As for the avoiding him no lesse then a 〈◊〉 in the service of his false gods it is a very false exposition of the text as is piaine by the word be●…hen the Publican For the Publicanes being such Iewes as farmed the publick toles and customes of the people of Rome came to the service of God in the Temple as is evident by the Text Luk. 18. 10. Such a one was S. Matthew before his calling These were in ill conceit with the Iewes as were also all Gentiles whereto our Saviours words are to be referred A Heathen and a Publican is no more then Publicanes and Sinners Chap. 11. 19. and Mark 2. 15 16. The Iewes did not lodge or eate and drinke with men uncircumcised Act. 11. 3. 18. In the text of Saint Paul I thinke very shame made the Author of these Collections to leave out cleane all the former part of the verse which according to the Remish translation is this Ye cannot drinke the Chalice of our Lord and the Chalice of devils unlesse it were some respect rather lest if hee had set it downe he might seem to have blasphemously called the celebration of the holy Supper of our Lord according to his institution entire with the distribution of the Chalice the Chalice of Devils although the blasphemy is the same if he account the Communion table the table of Devils The Apostle speaketh plainely of the feasts made in honour of Idols and in the 2. Cor. 6. of marriage with Idolaters and Infidels Me thinkes very shame if not charity and the feare of God should restraine men from applying these texts to them which beleeve the Catholick faith and are farther from all shew of Idolatry then themselves 2 Thess. 3. 6. 14. VVe denounce unto you brethren in the name of Iesus that you withdraw your selves from every brother walking inordinately and not according to the doctrine they have received of us THe Apostle speaketh of such as lived idlely busied themselves about those things that pertained not to them as many Iesuites are by Romish Priests and Catholicks said to doe such he would have to be avoided in ordinary conversation yet accounted brethren Uers. 15. But the Romane charity though they cannot lay to our charge that we walk not according to the doctrine we have received of the Apostles accounts their even-Christians Hereticks Schismaticks Dogs Infidels and requires this of those whom they teach To pursue them with all their might as the most certaine and detestable plagues of Christendome and fasre and wide to chase them out of their coasts A man that is an heretick avoid him Tit. 3. 10. Rom. 16. 17. EVen these Texts are misapplied to our present purpose The Apostle in the former place teacheth Titus whom he left to order the Churches in Creet how to behave himselfe towards an heretick that is such as perversly and obstinately overthrow the foundations of religion he bids him forbeare to deale further with him after he had once or twice admonished him and give him up as incorrigible The second Text Rom. 16. speaketh of society in conversation not to be had with those that make dissentions and scandals contrary to Christs doctrine Now let all Christians decline such 1 Ioh. 2. 11. If any come to you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house nor salute him He speaketh of all such as revolt and persist not in the doctrine of Christ as in the text vers 9. this he commanded under paine of being guilty of his heresie Thus he practised with Cerinthus and his disciple Policarpe with Marcion and the hereticks of those daies THe doctrine whereof Saint Iohn speakes is not the Popes Primacy or that God is to bee served in Latine or the Scriptures not to be read by the lay-people or that they may not receive the cup in the Lords Supper or Purgatory Indulgences and such trumpery but that which he mentioned in the seventh verse when he saith Many deceivers are entred into the world which confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the Flesh. Such a one was Cerinthus who said That Iesus was not borne of a Virgin but the son of Ioseph and that after his Baptisme Christ descended into him and that when Christ withdrew himselfe from Iesus then he suffered but Christ suffered not With him as Policarpus reported Saint Iohn would not abide in the same bath for feare lest it should fall downe whiles Cerinthus the enemy of the truth was in it Such ●…n other one was Marcion whom Polycarpus called The si●…st begotten of Sathan S. Iohn speakes of such overthrowes of the Gospell With what conscience is this applyed to them whose whole endeavour is to persist in the rejecting the unnecessary additions thereto for which the Court of Rome doth cunningly style them Hereticks If wee will be saved wee must make profession of our faith saith Saint Paul Rom. 10. 10. THis place is very truely interpreted of the profession of our faith And yet the sole Iudge and Interpreter of the Scriptures if wee beleeve the Romish faction expound it of