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A67551	The principall duty of Parliament-men, or, A short and compendious treatise concerning the unity and unanimity, which should be in the members of that honourable assembly / Richard Wood ...	Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684.	1641 (1641)	Wing W805; ESTC R11713	54,613	68

knock O●… l●…t the fire of your zeal so consume all carnall state policy in your Honours that though by probable arguments you should be perswaded That if error heresie or Popery were tolerated permitted or winked at the Common-wealth would prosper and flonrish the more and our Traffick with forraign Nations of that Religion would be more free yet let not this promised and flourishing Fortune cause you to open the door to any such toleration permission or connivencer Remember in generall as the Jacinth if it be rubbed with lime is soon set on fire but hardly quenched and the Adamant and iron soon joyned but hardly dissevered and the coyn soon receiveth its stamp but cannot loose it without melting Even so error and heresie are soon admitted but hardly rooted out and therefore yee should be one in withstanding constantly and couragiously all heresies errors and superstitious vanities More particularly Remember for I know your Honours are not ignorant of it as is evident by your Proclamations Statutes Acts and Edicts to that purpose that P●…pery is a great plague unto us and a most pernicious doctrine in it se●…f a●…d therefore be yee one in the rooting up weeding out and extirpating thereof I will give unto your Honours and all who shall peruse this imperfect and impolished piece a Character of Popery and then Ex ungue Leonem let all the world judge thereby whether that devillish doctrine be to be tolerated admitted permitted winked at or embraced by any Church or State which desireth prosperity peace religion and safety Popery is a Superstitious I●…olatrous Supercilious Pernicious Devillish Theevish Cruell Hereticall Insolent and Derogatory doctrine Hence I thus argue That Religion which is superstitious idolatrous supercilious pernici●…us c. Is not to be admitted permitted favoured harboured and embraced by any Christian Church or State which desires to be preserved protected prospered and blessed by God but rather by all means to be suppressed rooted out and extirpated root and branch But Popery is such a Religion Ergo The Papists I know will not put me to prove the Major that being luce meridiana clarior as true as Gospel as the Proverb saith and therefore I passe by that But unà voce they cry out The Minor is false and dare me to prove it which I will do particularly and plainly but briefly although I could both adde more particulars and more enlarge these then I have that the world and all them who view this Treatise may see that I do them no wrong First I say Popery is a Superstitious Religion for God will be worshipped both for the matter and manner as himself hath prescribed in his Word s But the Papists say That God must be worshipped according to the Traditions Ceremonies and constitutions of the Roman Church and that the Constitutions of the Pope do equall in value the Gospel of Christ Dist. 15. cap. Sicut and Dist. 19. cap. In Canonicis and Dist. 20. cap. de Libellis And therefore we may well say That Popery is a superstitious doct ' Secondly Popery is an Idolatrous Religion Note here these things Viz. 1. What Idolatry is Namely To give the honour worship and service which is due only unto God to a Creature whether good or bad holy or prophane And 2 How manifold Idolatry is two wit twofold i. e. 1. Internall and Mentall and is forbidden in the first Commandment And 2. Externall and visible and is forbidden in the second Commandment And 3. That both this Definition and Division of Idolatry do agree with the Church of Rome If any doe question this I referre him to our famous Featley Fol. 490. 491 492. where this trueth is proved and painted out to the life amply fully and faithfully I will for your Honours satisfaction adde a word or two The Sc●…ipture teacheth That the worship of Images is a thing abominable t and expresly forbidden u also That the holy Spirit call●…th Image Teachers of lyes and vanities x And therefore in no wise to be allowed in the Temples of Christians But the Papists teach That the worship of Images is well pleasing unto God and very 〈◊〉 and profitable for the Church And that Images are the lay mens Books He therefore that teacheth the c●…ntrary is accursed * The Word of God teacheth that Christ Jesus our Redeemer by the perfect sacrifice of himself once offered upon the Crosse for the putting away of sin hath so reconciled the faithfull unto God his Father that there now remaineth no more sacrifice for sin y But the Papists teach that the Masse is a Sacrifice for the r●mission of the sins both of the quick and dead * Is not Popery then an Idolatrous Religion Yea perhaps themselves will not deny it for Gregory de Valentià the prime of the Schoolemen professedly pleads for Idolatry and endeavours to prove it to be law●ull out of the words of Saint Peter z When yee walked in unlawfull and abominable Idolatries Quid attinebat ita determinatè cultus simulacrorum illicitos notare si omnino nullos simulacrorum cultus licitos esse censuisset a What need saith he Saint Peter deterre us from unlawfull Idolatries if some kinde of Idolatry were not lawfull And therefore it is evident that Popery is an Idolatrous doctrine And 4. Note That Popish Masse is Idolatry and therefore their Religion is Idolatr●us Bellarmine himself most truly observes That although all the other controversies could be composed between Protestants and Papists yet in this it were impossible for them to be reconciled Quod illi Missam suam divinissimum Dei cultum nos borrendum idolatriam judicamus b Because Papists say That their Masse is a most sacred sacrifice and divine worship But Protestants affirm it to be most horrible idolatry By this it appears to every seeing eye That Popish Masse is no excrement but an essentiall part of Popish Religion and consequently If their Masse be Idolatry then their Doctrine is Idolatrous Now for the proof of the Antecedent your Honours may please to take notice That there are two kinds of Priests which offer sacrifice for sin the one after the order of Aaron the other after the order of Melchisedech They diff●r thus O● the order of Aaron there are many one succeeding another of the order of Melchisedech only Christ who is an eternall Priest and his Sacrifice of eternall virtue Now Popish Masse Priests which say they offer Christ in Sacrifice for the sins of man are not of Aaron for that order ceased with the death of Christ nor of Melchisedech for of this order there is none but only Christ and therefore they are Baals Antichrists Idolatrous Priests and consequently their sacrifice of the Masse is Idolatry and their Religion Idolatrous And Thirdly Popery is a supercilious Religion for the holy Scriptures teach That our good works because they are imperfect can deserve

nothing at Gods hand c But the Papists teach That our good works deserve the grace of God and everlasting life also that men may do works of supererogation i. e. over and above those which the Law of God commandeth whereunto the doers thereof are not bound and they are available to help others d And therefore we may truely say That it is a proud and supercilious Religion And Fourthly Popery is a pernicious Religion where it is 〈◊〉 permitted and embraced and that both to Princes and People First To Princes and that in many regards namely 1. The Pope and Popish Clergy chalenge freedome from their power The Scripture indeed teacheth That every soul ought to be subject to the higher powers which are the Magistrates e But the Papi●…ts teach That Ecclesiasticall persons are not subject to the secular power or politick Magistrate but all ought to be subject to the Pope who compareth himself to the sunne and the Emperour to the moon and therefore Emperours and Kings in token of subiection and obedience do kiss●… his feet f And 2. The Pope hath power over Princes and as he saith is of greater authority and power in a Kingdome then the lawfull King and Prince thereof as was observed by a Fryar who saith That it was not without cause that Malchus whose eare Peter cut off was the high Priests servant seeing that Malchus signifieth a King From whence he collects as the Papists indeed would have it and which Princes should observe and mark That as Malchus was servant to the high Priest so the Regall Majesty of Kings and Emperours is subject to the power of Priests g And Dorman said The Pope is the head and Kings and Emperours are the feet And Stanislaus Orichovius in Chimaera saith The Emper●…urs Maiesty is so far inferiour to the Pope in dignity as a creature is inferiour unto God Whence our famous Tindale deliberately and considerately said Popish Kings are but shadowes vain names and idle things having nothing to do in the world but when the Pope needeth their help And 3. The Pope challengeth power to excommunicate Princes and to cast them ou●… of the Church as Pope Clement excommunicated our Henry the eighth and Pope Pius 5. our Elizabeth And 4. The Pope hath power as he saith to depose Princes and to cast them out of their thrones and to dispose of their royalties and egall seats as him listeth Pope Benedict 9. desiring to pu●…l down H●…nry 3. Emperour and to raise up Peter King of Hu●…gary 〈◊〉 ●…im the Crown of the Empire with this verse Petra dedit Rom●…ns Petro tibi Papa coronam The Rock to Peter gave Rome the Town The Pope to thee Peter gives the 〈◊〉 Thus Pope Zichary by the consent or conspiracy of the Nobles of France de 〈◊〉 Chilpericus the true naturall and liege 〈◊〉 tha Realm and placed Pipin in his room And Pope Bonifice the eighth because he could not have the Treasury of France at his command endeavoured with all his both worldly a●…d ecclesiastica●…l puissance to remove Philip the French King from his 〈◊〉 and under his Bulls or Letters pate●…ts conveyed the same solemnly unto Albertus King of the Romans And therefore we do the Papists no wrong in saying Popery is a p●…rnicious doctrine to Princes And 5. Popery teacheth Regicide and King-killing 1. Bernardus de monte Polician●… a Dominick Fryar poysoned Henry Emperour of Lucemberg in the Sacrament John Chastell attempted the death of King Henry the fourth of France and Jaques Clement●…ffected it Thus private papists and priests have practised Regi●…ide 2. The Jesuites the prime pillars of popery do maintain it The popish Divines at Salamanca held That the Catholik●…s in Ireland who did fight against our Queen Elizabeth were by n●…●…onstruction Rebells And this was also thus resolved by John de Sequenza Emanuel de Royas Jasper de Mena and Peter de Osorio professors of Divinity in the Colledge of Jesuites there And John Chastell confessed that the argument of King-killing was ordinary among the Jesuites and the aphorismes of Emanuel Sa confirm as much and likewise a book composed by the principall of the Seminary at Rhemes wherein it was affirme●… and maintained That it was lawfull in certain cases for the Subject to kill the King 3. The Pope himself hath winked at such offendors for many of those who had a hand in the Gun-powder plot fled for that fact into Italy but not any of them was ever questioned reproved punished or called to an account for it by the Pope y●…e fourthly such Judasites and Traitours have be●…n praised by the Pope as we see pope Sixt us 5. who made an oration in praise and commendation of the Fryars faith who murdered Hen●…y 3. of France And fifthly the popes have practised it by their agents for Innocent the fourth after he had excommunicated the Emperour Frederick corrupted one in Apulia to give him poyson of the which the Emperour recovering he afterwards hired his bastard son●…e Manfred us to poyson him whereof he died And Alexander the third writ unto the Soldane that if he would live in quiet he should by some sleight murder the Emperour and to that end sent him the Emperours picture And thus by some gradations and steps it evidently appears That the popish doctrine alloweth of Regicide and King-killing 6. To fill up the mystery of iniquity popery teacheth That it is meritorious to murder those princes who will not take the popes part in the favouring and furthering of his idolatries and superstitions witnesse Cardinall Como his instructions to Parry and Sixt us his oration mentioned before in defense of the Jacobine that murdered Henry the third I will conclude this with a story of our own King James being admonished by Queen Elizabeth a little before the coming of the Spanish Armamado to take heed of the Scottish papists and the King of Spain answered pleasantly That he looked for no other favour of the Spaniards then that which Polyphemus promised to Ulyss●…s To devour him last after all his fellowes were devoured Certainly wofull and wretched experience hath proved this true That those princes who embrace and entertain Popery are not onely in a miserable slavery but also in as great d●… of their dearest lives as any private person if they will not 〈◊〉 all things comply with and be obedient and subiect unto the Pope that man of sinne And therefore our late Prelate now I hope with the Lord who was never corrupted with th●… 〈◊〉 of the times boldly concludes That Jesuited Papists ca●…not be good subjects ●…ndly Popery is a pe●…nicious d●…ctrine to People as well as to P●…inces and that in a threefold regard to wit 1. I●… respect of their estates for faith they say is not to be kept with Hereticks and the Pope can dispense with and absolve from all cove●…ants contracts bonds and bargains made with such And 2. I●… resp●…ct of