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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31245	The truth and excellence of the Christian religion, with the corruptions and additions of the Romish Church a discourse, wherein the pre-eminence of Christianity is demonstrated above the religion of Jews or heathens, and the contradiction of popery to its main articles : and that religion prov'd in many instances to be a mixture of heathenish superstitions, and Jewish ceremonies : with a short vindication of Christian loyalty, and a brief historical account of Romish treasons and usurpations, since the Reformation / by a hearty professor of Reformed Catholick Christianity.	S. C.	1685 (1685)	Wing C126; ESTC R22983	60,383	154

of our Devotion from Heaven These the Heathens divided into two sorts such as were too pure to inform a body and such as were the souls of deceased benefactors To these they erected Temples and Altars made Images and Shrines and gave them all external expressions of Religious adoration The latter sort were call'd Baaline or Belim because the first that was thus Canoniz'd was King Belus at Babilon by Ninus his Son and well may the Holy Ghost call that Church Babilon which hath reviv'd that Idolatry which was first set up in that City For is not the worship of Saints and Angels exactly parallel to this Are not they exalted into the same place and the same services directed to them Are not Temples dedicated to their honour Images set up and shrines consecrated before which their Votaries may pray unto them Are not they worship'd with solemn invocations and alloutward signs of the lowest reverence How do the ignorant Vulgar prostrate themselves before their Statues Wash their feet with tears and wipe them with their hair And if the Image chance but to nod or smile how do they go away rejoycing as if they had met with their good Genius or some Angel had saluted them from Heaven I need not here tell what a number of Saints they have Canoniz'd and how they have symboliz'd with the Heathen in assigning them their particular offices how they have Saints for every particular Nation and Country Trade and Calling for every state and condition for every disease of the body and all the accidents of humane life I need not tell how they worship some who probably had never any other being than in their own imagination How notoriously wicked persons have been Canoniz'd how Rebellion and Treason hath been accounted worthy an Apotheosis and very few have receiv'd that honour for their Religion and Loyalty I need not tell what notorious blasphemies are contain'd in their Prayers especially to the Virgin Mary how she is exalted to the Throne of God and call'd the Mother of Grace the Fountain of Salvation the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of the Holy Trinity How Bonaventure hath Printed the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin being nothing else but the Psalms of David wherein whatever is spoken concerning God or Christ either by way of Prayer or of Praise is appli'd to her These things are publickly known and cannot be contradicted And we may well challenge the Heathen World to present us with more daring usurpations on the Divine Prerogative the same arguments which prove the Pagans Idolaters for their worship of Daemons will equally prove the Romanists such who have exactly written after their Copy and transcrib'd that I say not exceeded their iniquities the same pleas which Julian and Celus and the other defenders of the Pagan Worship us'd are made by these pretenders to Christianity and the same answers which Tertullian and Arnobius and the other primitive Fathers gave may be very well re torted by us upon them as will appear to any one that will but consult Dr. Stillingsleet in his defence of the Idolatry of the Romish Church But to go no surther than Scripture Did not our Saviour repel the Devils temptation with Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve And shall a far less consideration than the Kingdoms of the Earth prevail with us to fall down before Creatures and pay them a Religious Adoration How smartly doth St. Paul Argue against all Worshipping of Angels without any of those distinctions which our Voluminous School-men have invented Col. 2. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voli ntary humility and worshipping of angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen It seems by his discourse there were some Hereticks crept into the Church who out of a pretence of their unworthiness to make immediate addresses to the invisible God sued to the Angels his Courtiers and Favourites to plead their Cause This Heresy continued a long time in Pisidia and Phrygia where Oratories and Chappels were built to Michael and the Angels which was at last forbidden in one of the Canons of the Council of Laodicea I know Cardinal Perron hath a very witty and singular evasion of this Text That by the worship which was given by Angels is meant the Mosaical Law and he Translates the words Let no man tempt you to become prosyeltes of the Jews But why should the Apostle use such dark expressions if this were the meaning and what pretences of humility did they use who perswaded to comply with the Law of Moses Or how did they intrude into things they had not seen Whereas if the words be understood properly these words have a very good connexion these Hereticks pretended humility to be the occasion of their worship and were puffed up with a conceit of their knowledg of all the Orders and Offices of Angels nor can we imagine they worship them as Supreme Gods but only as Gods by participation and Advocates with the Father as the Church of Rome also calls them and therefore is equally concern'd in this prohibition Besides did not the Angel correct St. John when out of a sudden transport he was about to give him that reverence which border'd too near upon what the jealous God hath reserv'd to himself with a see thou do it not I am thy fellow Rev. 19. 10 servant worship God And shall we be fearless of the same Idolatry The distinction of Latria and Dulia will by no means salve the matter for why could not the Angel have appli'd it as well as the Angelical Doctor can Or why could not this inspir'd Apostle have pleaded that he gave him only an inferior subordinate worship as well as the most illuminated Schoolman 'T is of these Idolaters the Apostle seems to speak in 1 Tim. 4. 1 2. Now the spirit saith expresly perhaps in Dan. 11. 36 37 38. That in the latter times some shall revolt from the faith Revolt by Idolatry which is eminently call'd by that Title Giving heed to seducing Spirits i. e. attending to erroneous Doctrines Doctrines of Divels or Daemons Not of which they are the Authors but the objects Doctrines concerning Daemons i. e. inferior Deities Speaking lies in hypocrisy or as the Greek runs through the hypocrisy of liars i. e. Through the Deceit of Iying persons who should seign miracles and invent fabulous stories to support this worship The event hath so exactly answer'd the Apostles description Monks the admirers of single life being the first Authors of Saint-Worship which they brought in by lying-Legends and Fictitious Miracles that if this prophecy doth not particularly concern them they are very unhappy to come so near the description 3. Their adoration of the Host upon pretence of Transubstantiation This is another part of Romish Worship not to be paralIell'd for absurdity throughout the whole Gentile world For to fancy that every ignorant Priest can with Five words speaking