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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19595	The declaration of Mr. Patrik Crawfurd his returne from poperie to the true religion, which is according to the Word of God, in holie Scripture	Crawfurd, Patrick.	1627 (1627)	STC 6032; ESTC S117118	36,279	66

no fewer than these that were enioyned For they teach that in baptism our sins are forgiuen vs by the merits and satisfaction of Christ allanerly but the sins committed after baptisme be taken away and expiat by our own satisfactions but the Apostle sayth That as the wage sin is death so the gift of God is life eternall throgh Iesus Christ Rom. 6. 23. our Lord. Heauen then is Gods free gift through Christ and not our deseruing Neither can it be considered how Christs obedience is properly a satisfaction and yet either requireth or admitteth our satisfaction Besids their owne extravagant fayth that one drop of Christs blood is sufficient to saue the whole World what necessitie or place then is for our satisfaction in our Saluation They will not receaue the Kingdom of Heaven after this manner but as a iust debt to the which God of justice is bund and obliged to them not only for the merits of Christ but also for the merits of their owne works which hath an equal worth answerable to the Kingdome of Heauen J passe by here their selling of Masses their baptising of Bells baptism being a Sacrament of the new couenant only and no wayes belonging to senslesse creaturs their scrotching fire of Purgatory as hot as hell wherein the Souls of the godly dying in the Lord are tortured before they come to Heauen till such time as the punishment due to their veniall sin in that continuall torture bee ended And yet the Scritpure tels vs Blessed are the dead that Revel 14 13. die in the Lord for so sayeth the Sprit they rest from their labours and their works follow them Fearefull should their rest bee if dieing in the Lord with some little thing vnsatisfied as they affirme they shuld be cast in the torture as hot as hells fire And heere is to be obserued the mercilesse dealing of their father the Pope who hauing power to relieue soules when he pleases yet suffers many thousands to be tortured there still till he or his receaue money for their deliuerance And thus much shortly for the third part whereof I promised to speake CHAP. 16. The cunning dealing of Romish Emissaries in seducing and disputing NOw being forced here to acknowledge the foresaid false grounds of the Romish Religion which in my miscarying J laide downe as true to haue beene the beginning of all this mischiefe and hauing my mind ouercharged with the filthinesse and loathsomnes thereof to testifie the vnfained forsaking of them all the filthynes of their superstition J must add some things by way of conclusion for the loue I carry to my Country the trueth of that Religion which is allowed of God albeit J know it will incense sundry against mee I would aduertise young Schollers and others whether at home or abroad to bee warre of the Jesuite his cunning dealing with other their Emissaries such as are seminarie Priests Friers c. whether hee come directly to seduce you or come occasionally to disput with you If hee haue a purpose to seduce you hee will first make choyse of some catholicke of your acquaintance who hath best credite of you and most respected by you him he will instruct how to handle you and will put his owne speaches and arguments in his mouth if you hearken giue eare and make hopes you may bee theirs an offer will bee made to you to speak with a Father or learned man and so you and and he shall come to conference If hee can not finde a fit person to deale with you then hee will come openly to you if he be where he may professe himselfe if not he will come vnder the habite of a Gentleman or burgesse of a Towne or Countryman as best fits his purpose as it were by occasion falling in your company will talke of any purpose till hee take you vp and as he hath time to stay or to bee with you so will he worke ordinarily hee will blame all our professours for few good works and open euill liues of the great many this at once he will turne vpon the Religion But stumble not you for this for the Religion of the Jewes was good when the Prophet complaines that Faith and trueth was Psal 12. departed from the children of men The Lords word which is our Religion condemnes the sins of professours more than they can condemne the same They will obiect the liues of Ministers what they please to speak of them and they haue in readinesse some examples and instances in print or writ or in their memorie but stumble not you at this for they doe injurie to the Ministers when they blame all for the fault of some and again they doe iniury to Gods word when they prease to blame the trueth for the teachers fault One of the twelue Apostles was a Devill what was the Apostles or the Apostleship the worse and yet when all is said if their closters were as open as Ministers conversation they should mak litle talke in this poynt They will tell thee of the ignorance and want of Learning among Ministers be not you troubled for this they are learned enough that know Iesus Christ rightly and can teach him soundly learning is not the glory of our Religion but trueth and yet thogh I somtime thoght so and said so as they doe yet I found it otherwise when I mette with the Ministers Yocke with the Ministers when they will so farre as J know they will ruse themself litle for the want of learning They will obiect they haue no warrandable calling but vrge you them to iustifie the calling of their chiefe pillars Popes Cardinals and Prelates whose office and entrie in their office God neuer ordained in his worde Ministers calling goes not by succession but by election Their office is prescrived in the word their entrie and qualification Let euery one justifie as he is challanged so much as may bee seene of men is alwayes nearer the rule of the Apostles than any of their calling They will obiect the noveltie of this Religion and will aske for succession of Pastours in our Church But answer you that they slander you vniustly for novelty whose doctrin was taught by Christ and his Apostles and recommended to after ages Where the Catholick Church and true sheep of Christ vvho heard his voyce and fled sequestrating themselues from strangers were there was our Church particular professours names is no poynt of saluation What manamong ten thousand can shew his naturall pedegree from the seventh generation shal a man be questioned of the trueth of his humanity if he cannot deduce his genealogie from Adam or Noah Albeit the Protestants can bee able to show continuance of their doctrine by the lyne and catalogue of the witnesses the truth through all ages from Christs vnto our time If this obiection were of any worth wee might use it against their Church and they could not deduce from Christ or the Apostles

and faith together and yet the Apostle tells them that if they held Christ so Christ shuld not profite them Jt was a misconceaued Christ Gal. 5. 2. that deceiued the Heretiques of old for euery hereticke pretended an intention to honour the true Christ and it is a false Christ that deceaueth the Jewes who pretend that they are keeping their faith and worship to the true Messias promised but haue forged in their owne braine one altogether different from the true yet none of all these haue euer conceiued a Christ more contrary to the true Christ then is this forged Christ in the Masse without warrand as is said of Scripture and contrare to the tenet of antiquitie howeuer the Priests and Iesuites gull their auditours with pretence of the same For Tertullian sayeth Acceptum panem distributum discipulis lib. 4. ad versus Marcionem cap. 40. corpus suum illud fecit hoc est corpus meum dicendo id est figura corporis mei Christ tooke bread and gaue it to his disciples making it his body while hee sayes This is my body that is a figure of my body where ye see that this Father who liued two hundreth yeers after Christ doth expone these words of the institution figuratiuely And yet Bellarmine is not ashamed to use this testimony for lib. 3. Eucharistiae cap. 20. proouing transubstantiation but doth bewray heerein his fraud and deceitfull handling of the Fathers for alledging this place so directly contrare him hee leaueth out the Fathers glosse that is a figure of my bodie And Augustine is so cleare in this matter that it is a wonder that any man shoulde oppose him for giuing a rule how to know when the words of holy Scripture are to be taken figuratiuely when properly he sayth thus Si preceptiua loquutio est aut flagitium aut facinus vetans aut lib 3. 〈◊〉 doctrina christiana cap. 16 utilitatem aut beneficentiam iubens non est figurata si autem flagitium aut facinus videtur iubere aut vtilitatem aut bene ficentiam vetare figurata est nisi manducaueritis inquit carnem filii hominis sanguinē biberitis non habebitis vitam in vobis facinus vel flagitium videtur iubere figura est ergo If the precept forbid any crime or wicked deede or command any profite or beneficence then is it not figuratiue but if it seeme to command any crime or wicked deed or to forbid any profite or beneficence it is figuratiue then doth he giue for instance to this rule these words of our Sauiour Except yee eate the flesh of the sonne of man and drink his blood yee haue no life in you These wordes sayeth hee seeme to command some crime and wicked deed therefore they are figuratiue Many other passages of Fathers J might cite but I feare to be too tedious neither neede J to insist much on Fathers seeing the very Canon of the Masse doth ouerthrow transubstantiation For after the wordes of consecration the Priest offering Iesus Christ to God prayeth after this māner Supra quae propitio ac sereno vultu respic●re digneris sicuti accepta babere dignatus es munera pueri tui iusti Abell On which things may it please thee to look with a good and fauourable countenance and to accept of them as thou did accept of the presents of Abell thy righteous seruant Any man may easily perceiue that if there were nothing there but Christ as they affirme the Priest durst neuer take vpon him to be a intercessour betwixt the Father and the sonne as though the son had lost the fauour of his Father for whose only sake wee all are receaued in fauour And since J haue now made mention of the Masse J can not conceale what secreete reluctation was euer in my minde euen when J was most bewitcht with the inchauntments of Poperie against their propitiatory sacrifice dayly offered vp in the Masse which so flatly contradicts the words of Scripture With an offering hath he reconciled Heb. 10. 14. Vers 10. for euer them that are sanctified And to exclude reiteration the Scripture sayeth We are sanctified by the offering of the body of Iesus Christ once made And most clearly As it is appoynted for euery man once to die c. Neither Heb. 9 27. 28. will the distinction of a bloody and vnbloody sacrifice satisfie this passage seeing that the Apostle showes that as a man dieth but once so Christ is offered but once How ridiculous a thing should it bee for one to say that a man can die but once a bloody death but hee can die oftner an vnbloody death and if this distinction of theirs can not hold in the death of man neither can it in the offering of the Lord Jesus Seeing the Scripture precisly compareth them in number that they are both but once Yea in ●●presse wordes of that same chapter the Scripture excluds this distinction while it sayth Without shedding Ver 22. of blood there is no remission of sins If then the Masse bee an vnbloody sacrifice by it there is no remission of sins And lest this should be eluded by the typicall sacrifices of old the Apostle speakes in the present time c. And this much concerning their Masse which was the second part whereof I promised to speake CHAP. 12. Of Merites FOllowes here the third part whereof J promised to speak which contains some of their common absurdities and first of Merites for the mixture of our works and the workes of Christ Iesus is vntolerable and more incompatible than the mixture of wine and water for to make vp the blood of their Sauiour in the Masse how can wee haue good workes before wee bee made good by regeneration seeing an euill tree can not bring foorth good fruite Yea they are gone so farre on in this mixture that they exclude Christs merites altogether from the formall cause of our iustification and only makes Christs righteousnesse a helpe whereby we our selues may fully formally bee iustified before God Si quis dixerit homines iustificarivel sola imputatione iustitiae Canone 10 11 sessione 6 Concilii Trident. Christi vel sola peccatorum remissione exclusa gratia charitate quae in cordibus eorum per spiritum sanctum diffundatur atque illis inhaereat aut etiam gratiam qua iustificamur esse tantum fauorem Dei anathema sit If any man say that wee are formally iustified by the righteousnesse of Christ let him bee accursed c. Neither doth their doctrine stay heere but proceeds to works of supererogation whereby they put God in their debt and enrich the Pope by laying of these works of supererogation in his store-house to bee sold out at his pleasure for moneyes Since these works can be applyed to men for their satisfaction which they haue not wrought wherfore may not the merits of Christ Jesus be applyed to vs to our iustification