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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27449	Rome tyrannical, idolatrous and heretical the origine of her errors with an answer to her objections : also three short sermons of repentance against swearing and drunkenness preached to the ships company before Admiral Aylmer and several captains / by Peter Berault.	Berault, Peter.	1698 (1698)	Wing B1956; ESTC R30222	55,952	193

Tears and did wipe them with the Hairs of her Head and kissed his Feet and Anointed them And what did happen unto her She heard Christ saying thy Sins which are many are forgiven What happened to David and Mary Magdalen will certainly befall us if we do imitate them in their Repentance Though your Sins be as Scarlet saith the Prophet Isaiah they shall be as white as Snow though they be red like Crimson they shall be as white as wool Secondly Repentance is useful because thereby we obtain the Grace of God Indeed there is nothing more advantageous to Man than God's Grace For thereby we are made the Children of God not by Nature but by Adoption Thereby we are made Heirs of God and Joint-Heirs with Christ Rom. 8. 17. And thereby we are made Partakers of all the Treasures and Riches which are found in the Kingdom of Heaven It is then certain that by Repentance we obtain the Grace of God For according to all Divines it is a Motion from Sin unto Grace In a Motion there are two ways the way whence we depart and that which we go to The way whence we depart and which we forsake is Sin and that which we go to and which we obtain is Grace The Publican whom it is spoken of in St. Luke 18. 3. Does verifie the Truth of my Proposition He comes unjust into the Temple and standing afar off would not lift up so much as his Eyes unto Heaven but smote upon his Breast saying God be merciful unto me a Sinner and he obtained Grace for he went down to his House justified Is any one of us a Swearer or Drunkard Slanderer Proud or given to any other Vice He has lost the Grace of God Is he willing to recover it Let him humble himself before God let him fall upon his Knees let him sigh weep confess his Sins Repent of them and like the Publican let him smite upon his Breast and say God be merciful to me a Sinner and then he will recover the Grace of God and go into his Cabine justified Thirdly Repentance is useful because therein consists the Salvation of all Men. Man was lost twice First by the original Sin which is nothing but the Crime of Adam and called ours because our Will was inclosed in his Secondly by personal or actual Sin so called because it was committed by our own Will The Sacrament of Baptism according to the common opinion was ordered by Jesus Christ to save Mankind from that first Ship-wrack and Repentance was Established by God to save them from the second Therefore it is called the second plank after Ship-wrack and for that Reason therein consists the Salvation of all Men. Certainly we cannot hope to be Saved without that most excellent and necessary Virtue If all the Angels and Saints in Heaven would pray for the Salvation of an unrepenting Soul their Prayers would be vain and without any good Effect And Jesus Christ himself saith Thomas Aquinas cannot make happy and save an unrepenting Soul ut sic that is whilst she remains in Sin for there is a contradiction between to be happy and remain in Sin between to be saved and to be unrepenting Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Therefore by a contrary consequence if ye repent ye shall be saved and therefore in a true and sincere Repentance consists the Salvation of all Men. Dear Friends have mercy upon your Souls be careful to preserve them for they are infinitely more to be valued than all the things in the World besides because they are made after the Image of God For it was God that breathed into Man the Breath of Life as ye may read in the 2. Ch. of Genesis Now God being of the greatest excellency the more any thing is like him the more it is to be valued But it is certain that no Creature upon Earth is at all like God but the Soul of Man and therefore nothing ought to have so much of your care As for your Bodies ye ought to imploy them for His Majesty's Service for the defence of your Country for the maintainance of your Wives and Children for the Glory of your Nation and for the preservation of your Properties and Liberties and especially of your Religion which ought to be dearer to you than your Lives ye ought not to be afraid to be wounded nor even to be killed for it is appointed to all men once to die and there is nothing more glorious than to die for these aforesaid considerations Horatius Scevola and several others brave and generous Men so much renowned in the Roman History did willingly give their Lives for the Service of their Princes and for the preservation of their Country I speak only of your Souls and of the great care ye are to take of them for if ye once lose them they are lost for ever If ye had two Souls in losing one ye could save the other but ye have but one and if ye be so unhappy as to lose it this loss cannot be recovered I grant ye cannot lose your Souls in one sense that is so lose them that they shall cease to be but ye may lose them in another that is ye may lose that happy Estate to which they were created and plunge them into the extremest misery In a word ye may lose them in Hell whence there is no fetching them back and so they are lost for ever Take then care of your Souls at least as much as ye do of your Bodies For when your Bodies are out of Order as soon as ye are sick or wounded presently ye call for the Physician and Surgeon But when your Souls are sick wounded by Sin and infected with several spiritual Distempers ye do not care to cure them by repenting of your Sins Nevertheless if ye do not repent ye shall perish for ever ye look upon Death as if it was very far from you and perhaps at this very moment in one of these Ships that are here at anchor there is some body dead without repenting of his Sins and if so his Soul is lost for ever Think seriously of this and make a good use of this first instruction I give you to day obey the exhortations threatnings and commandments of Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer Behold saith St. Austin with what care and diligence an unhappy Lover obeys his Mistresses Commandments He had rather disoblige every body than displease her The only thing he fears is to hear these dreadful words be gone I will see thee no more A naughty Woman saith I will see thee no more if thou doest not what I command thee and that frights him so much that he is forced to obey And Jesus Christ who gave his life for our Salvation saith unto us if ye do not repent of your Sins ye shall be separated from my face ye shall eternally perish and be cast into Hell-fire for ever and we will not obey Are we

after his Death into Hell and there was tormented and that Lazarus's Soul he being Dead was carried into Abraham's Bosome a place of Joy and Comfort To the Thief which was Executed with Christ at his Passion and believed in him Jesus Christ answered This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Which shews that the Souls of the Faithful never come into Purgatory-fire to be burnt and tormented for all their Sins are forgiven and consequently the Punish ment incident to the same is forgiven also and their Souls pass from Death to Life that is they go to Heaven Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord from henceforth they rest from their labors and their works follow them If from the time of their Death they have Blessedness and Rest then they are not in any Purgatory-fire to be burnt and tormented The first place saith St. Austin Hyp. L. 5. the Faith of the Catholicks doth by divine Authority believe is the Kingdom of Heaven the second is Hell a third place we are utterly ignorant of neither can we find such a one in the holy Scriptures And in his Enchiridion ad Laur. c. 67. He saith That those that believe a Purgatory-fire are much deceived and that through a humane Conceit Know ye saith he de van secul 1. c. That when the Soul is separated from its Body she is immediately placed in Paradise for her good Works or cast into Hell because of her Sins Object The Primitive Church say they did pray for the Dead as Tertullian de Corona Militis doth confess Therefore it is a good proof that she believed a Purgatory I Answer That when the Primitive Church did pray for the Dead she did not believe they were in any place of Torments nor that there was a Purgatory She only believed that the Souls of the Faithful should only enjoy the sight of God after the day of Resurrection She prayed then for the filling up of their Glory she prayed to be joyned with them and be partakers of the Resurrection of the Faithful She prayed that Jesus Christ would hasten their Resurrection and she prayed also for the Patriarchs the Prophets the Apostles and Martyrs that God would be pleased to increase their Glory but she did not implore their assistance nor believe a Purgatory as it is related by Justin Martyr 9. 60. and 76. Iren. L. 5. Tertul. Cont. Marc. L. 4. c 13. The Origine of Purgatory is Virgil in the sixth Book of his Eneids wherein he saith that the Souls before they enjoy Blessedness are differently purged in different places as you may see in these following Verses Ergo exercentur poenis veterumque malorum Supplicia expendunt aliae panduntur inanes Suspensae ad ventos aliis sub gurgite vasto Infectum eluitur Scelus aut exuritur igni c. Thirdly I shew that the Church of Rome adds to the Word of God when she teaches that the general Councils and Popes are Infallible that the latter have Authority or Pre-eminence over all other Bishops that they have power to Depose Kings and Princes from their Thrones and are above them for this Doctrine is not found in the holy Scriptures 1. I say that their general Councils and Popes are not Infallible for St. Austin Tom. 6. l. 2. cont Donat. plainly teaches that God alone and the holy Scriptures are Infallible or cannot Err. The general Councils saith he which are gathered of all the Christian World are often corrected the former by the latter when by any tryal of things that is opened which was shut and that is known which was hidden If a general Council may be corrected as saith St. Austin therefore it may err Wherefore he speaks thus to Maximian Bishop of the Arians Neither ought I to alledge the Council of Nice nor thou the Council of Arimini to take advantage thereby for neither am I bound nor held by the Authority of this nor thou of that Set Matter with Matter Cause with Cause or Reason with Reason try the Matter by the Authority of the Scriptures l. 3. c. 4. The Council of Constantinople condemned the setting up Images in the Churches and the Council of Nice Act. 4. ordered afterwards they should be set up One of these Councils being contrary to the other must needs be Erroneous And that is granted by it self when in a set Form of Prayer which is appointed to be said after the conclusion of every Council they pray that God would spare their Ignorance and pardon their Errors de ord celeb conc The Pope himself may Err for Pope Innocentius doth teach lib. ad Bonif. cont Epist Pelag. c. 4. That young Children cannot be saved except they receive the Baptism of Christ and also the Communion of his Body and Blood And Pope Gelasius Comperimus Consecra de distinct 2. did decree That all they should be Excommunicated which would receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper but in one kind But this Doctrine is now taxed for an Error by all Papists and the Council of Trent Sess 21. Can 1. made a Decree contrary to the Doctrine of the Pope Gelasius If any body saith this Council assures that all and every Faithful are obliged by God's Commandment to receive one and the other species in the holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper let him be Anathema Therefore it is evident that the Popes may Err And this may be seen in their own Decrees wherein it is written That they are to be judged of none except they be found erring from the Faith part 1. cap. dist 40. cap. si Papa Whereby it appears that they thought their Popes might Err in matter of Faith or else that exception was put in vain For all Men are subject to Error all Men are worse in their Words and Sinners in their Works There is none True and Infallible but God and his holy Scriptures because they are inspired of him He is the God of Truth he cannot Lie Tit. 1 2. 2. I say that the Popes have no Authority or Pre-eminence over the other Bishops though those of the Church of Rome stifly holding the contrary give them the Title of Universal Bishops and call them Gods on Earth Kings of Kings and Lords of Lords as saith Albanus de potest pap part 1. n. 22. And Antonius part 3. n. 22. And upon the Triumphant Arch Erected in the honour of Sixte the Fourth it was written Oratio vocis Mundi moderaris h●● henas Et meritò in Terris diceris esse Deus But this Doctrine being not found in the holy Scriptures it is consequently manifest they do add to the Word of God Objection The Popes say they have Authority or Pre-eminence over all other Bishops because they are Successors to St. Peter and St. Peter had such a Pre-eminence and Authority over the rest of the Apostles because Jesus Christ told him Thou art Peter and upon this Rock I will build my Church I grant that Christ said to