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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69075	Christian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1611 (1611)	STC 4707.5; ESTC S118584	158,929	324

if wee haue growne in the knowledge of the truth And secondly of our affections if we hate Poperie and loue the truth vnfainedly And so let euery one iudge himselfe that wee bee not iudged as wee must expect an harder iudgment according to the long patience of God What further That there can bee no sound agreement betwixt Poperie and the profession of the Gospell no more then betwixt light and darkenes falshood and truth God and Belial and therefore no reconciliation can be deuised betwixt them for if the members of Antichrist shall bee destroyed wee cannot in any sort communicate with their errors vnles we beare them companie in their destruction Why doth euery errour destroy the soule No verily for as euery wound killeth not the man 2. Pet. 2. so euery errour depriueth not a man of saluation but as the vitall parts being wounded or infected bring death so those errours that destroy the fundamentall points and heads of the truth bring euerlasting destruction in which kind is poperie as that which sundrilie ouerthroweth the principles and grounds of our holy faith and therefore tearmed an apostasie or departure from the faith Heere then may be asked whether the Pope may bee saued It is not impossible his sinne being not necessarily against the holy Ghost to which onely repentance is denied for some no doubt haue entred into that see ignorantly and therefore find place to repentance So much of the Antichrist what he is towards others What is he in himselfe That is set downe by two effects First that hee is vicegerent vnto Christ not by any right but by vsurpation and therefore also an aduersarie as also the word implieth both so much more dangerous as hee exerciseth his enmitie vnder the colour and pretence of Christ Wherein is he aduersarie vnto Christ Euery way in life and in office How in life In that Christ being most pure holy and holinesse it selfe the popes although in truth most filthie and abominable in blaspheming coniuring murdering whoring and that incestuously and Sodomitically yet will they in titles bee called holy yea as Christ holines it selfe How in office First in his kingdome Christs kingdome is without all outward shew or pompe but the Popes kingdome consisteth wholly in pompe and shewes as imitating his predecessors the emperors of Rome in his proud stately and lordly offices Princelie traines and outragious expences in euery sort How else in his office In raising vp another sacrifice then Christ another priesthood then his other mediators then him Is there any thing else wherein hee taketh vpon him the office of Christ Yes in that he teacheth cleane contrarie to him Christ taught nothing but what hee receiued of his father the Pope setteth out his owne canons and decrees of councels What is the second effect That he is exceedingly lift vp against all that is called God which also proueth the former exposition for Christ being very God abaseth himselfe vnto the nature of man the Pope a vile man aduanceth himselfe to the throne of God Christ being aboue secular power paid tribute and was taxed euen in his mothers wombe and suffered himselfe to be crowned with a crowne of thornes and bare his owne crosse But the Pope being vnder all secular power exalteth himselfe aboue all secular powers exacteth tribute of Kings setteth his foote on the necke of Emperours carrieth a triple crowne of gold and is borne vpon mens sholders Is not the Pope humble when he calleth himselfe the seruant of seruants No for by his owne Canonists hee doth it but dissemblingly with hypocrisie which is double iniquitie for they say that hee doth in humility say so not that he is so indeed What other answere doe they make to this obiection His seruice being limited and tied onely to Peter and Paul he needeth not to feare lest by this humiliation he be put to much paines seeing he hath wisely made himselfe seruant to those that can aske him nothing and to whom hee can performe nothing What are the effects of this his pride They are two first hee sitteth in the Church as God when as hee bindeth the consciences of men by his decrees which no Princes lawes meerely ciuill can do for these men are discharged of in the paiment of the penaltie prescribed in them By this it seemeth that the Church of Rome is yet the Church of God although corrupt seeing it is said that he sitteth in the temple of God No verily it beareth only the name of it for the Scripture giueth the name to a thing according to that it hath beene as when Christ saith the abomination shall stand in the holy place he meaneth not that the temple was then holy which at that time being no figure nor shadow of Christ and his Church was prophaned but that it had beene holy so wee confesse there hath beene a true Church in Rome which is now no Church of Christ but the Synagogue of Satan Which is the other effect He boasteth that he is God as the Popes flatterers in the Canon law cal him Our Lord God the Pope Neither is this his church-pride only in challenging the name of God but also he challengeth to himselfe things proper to God as the title of holines also to forgiue sinnes and to carrie infinit soules to hel without check or controlement and to make of nothing somthing and the scripture to be no scripture and no scripture to be scripture at his pleasure yea to make of a creature the Creator It may seeme to bee an impossible thing that men should be carried away from the faith of the Gospell by one so monstrous and directlie opposite to Christ. If at once and at a sudden he had shewed himselfe in such sort of foule colours it might haue bin doubted and therefore by certaine degrees of iniquitie he in the end came to this height of wickednesse How is that The Apostle sheweth of two courses the diuell held to bring this to passe one secret and couert before this man of sinne was reuealed the other when he was reuealed and set vp in his seate What were the waies of Antichrists comming before he was reuealed Those seuerall errours which were spread partly in the Apostles time and partly after their time therby to make a way for his comming And in this respect this mysterie of iniquitie was begun to bee wrought as it were vnder the ground and secretly in the Apostles time How was this mysterie of iniquitie wrought in the Apostles time By diuers errors sowne by heretikes as it were pettie Antichrists in that some were desirous to bee Lords ouer the Church some held iustification by works some held the worshipping of Angels some put religion in meates and some had a speciall liking of virginitie and misliking of mariage all which were beginnings and grounds of Poperie and Antichristianisme What gather you of all these That those whom God hath freed from the bondage of Poperie should striue