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A55387	The nullity of the Romish faith, or, A blow at the root of the Romish Church being an examination of that fundamentall doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning the Churches infallibility, and of all those severall methods which their most famous and approved writers have used for the defence thereof : together with an appendix tending to the demonstration of the solidity of the Protestant faith, wherein the reader will find all the materiall objections and cavils of their most considerable writers, viz., Richworth (alias Rushworth) in his Dialogues, White in his treatise De fide and his Apology for tradition, Cressy in his Exomologesis, S. Clara in his Systema fidei, and Captaine Everard in his late account of his pretended conversion to the Church of Rome discussed and answered / by Matthevv Poole ...	Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.	1666 (1666)	Wing P2843; ESTC R202654	248,795	380

Duty which God hath threatned as a terrible Curse 2 Thes. 2. viz. to believe lies This is to confront the Apostle Act. 5. and to say That it is better to obey men th●n God when their commands are contrary this is to bring me under a necessity of that Woe denounced against such as call evill good and good evill that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse Isa. 5.20 This is to say That I am bound to follow my blind Leaders though it be into the Ditch That I am under an obligation of offending God by making him a lyar and of damning my own Soul This is to say That the Israelites were bound to obey Aaron's Idolatrous decree concerning the observation of the Feast of the Calfe nay more That the Jewes were bound to obey their Church in putting Christ to death though they had at that time known him to be the true Messias In a word such and so many are the prodigious absurdities which would inevitably follow from that wild assertion that Madnesse it self unlesse in its highest Paroxysme could not equal it and when the Authors of it come to themselves or return to the judgment of their own Church or when their Church comes over to their opinion and layes aside their bold pretences to Infallibility they may expect a farther Answer But since I wrot this I find Mr. Cressy hath saved me the labour of farther Answer for in his second edition and secundae cogitationes sunt meliores I find him sick of his former notion I suppose he hath met with sharp rebukes from his wiser Brethren what Penances or censures they have inflicted on him I know not but the effect is visible and the man is brought to a recanting strain And that he may have some colourable Palliation for it he pretends he was mis-understood and that he never meant to deny Infallibility to the Church save onely in the most rigorous sense that the Terme could import and therefore he roundly asserts That the Church can neither deceive believers that follow her nor be deceived her self Exomolog sect 2. ch 21. And Infallibility and Authority are in effect all one as applied to the Church for to say that the Church hath authority to oblige all Christians to receive her Doctrines and withall to say she is fallible is extremity of Injustice and Tyranny Appendix to Exomolog chap. 5. num 14. So this pretence is also gone after the rest and therefore from all that hath been discoursed and proved I may take the boldnesse to conclude That the Faith of a Papist if he keep to his own principles hath no Foundation or is not built upon the Rock but meerly upon the Sand or in the Prophet's language they have forsaken the Scriptures the fountain of living water to hew out unto themselves broken Cisterns that can hold no water An APPENDIX by way of reflection upon Captain Robert Everards EPISTLE and account of his Conversion and Submission to the Romish Church and M r Cressy 's EXOMOLOGESIS SInce the finishing of the foregoing Treatise I was told of an Epistolary Discourse of Captaine Everards and withall that the substance of it was fully Answered by what I had there discussed onely it was convenient to accommodate the passages relating thereto to the severall parts of his Epistle Upon this sugestion I procured the Epistle it selfe as enlarged in the second Edition and diligently read it once or twice over And I confesse I was at first dubious whether I should take any notice of it partly because I saw it was nothing but a collection out of others as he most properly calls it and a repetition of those old Sophismes that have been answered and exploded an hundred times over and partly because I discerned by the spirit of the man and the frame of his Discourse and the circumstances of his change that there was no likelihood at all of retriving and reclaiming him how cleare and irresistible soever the evidence and arguments were that should be produced He that hath but half an Eye may see a designe in the whole management of the change And although he assures us with a teste me ipso that he is not biassed by worldly interests and private ends he must allow discreet persons the liberty of their Faith in that particular and not take it amisse if seeing the feeblenesse of his Arguments and their insufficiency for the producing of such a change they suspect it was done by the power of interest which is so secret an affaire and its methods so crypticall and the waies of serving it so various that no wise man will believe it impossible and I am sure the contexture of his Discourse and the manner of his p●ocesse doth not render it at all incredible And these considerations inclined me to silence But on the other side when I considered that the hand of Ioab sufficiently appeares in the penning of this Epistle that it was a collection of the strength of more Learned Writers and a conjunction of abler heads then his own who were resolved in this occasion and instance to represent what could in briefe be said to perswade unsetled persons to change their Religion and whatever other mens opinions are what a reverend esteem the Author hath of it who tels us he saw reason enough to believe it could not be Answered pag. 88. and that he challengeth it as a piece of justice to shew him his errors I thought it not amisse to take some notice of it knowing that if what I should say were unsuccessefull to him yet it would not be unacc●ptable to God since we are a sweet savour of God in them that believe and in them that perish and that if I were not an instrument of Gods mercy to him in reducing him to the truth from which he hath revolted yet I should be an instrument of Gods Justice and a witnesse on Gods behalfe to leave him without excuse In one thing I must crave Mr Everards pardon if I do not take his Counsell in Answering him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and setting down each of his Paragraphs before the severall Answers It is a course which I confesse I do not approve of in the answering of other Authors because it runs a man into personall contests and petite animad versions and catching at little advantages and so expends the answerers paines and the readers patience and the buyers mony to no purpose and if I did like it in some others yet really he must excuse me if I do not esteem him so classicall an Author nor his Epistle so weighty a Discourse as to deserve such solemne consideration Yet this I shall promise him and I call God to witnesse it that I shall not wilfully decline any part of it wherein his strength may lie but shall indeavour to the utmost of my poor skill to single out such things as are most plausible and considerable and such as if they be solidly Answered