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A13884	Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ: or A iustification of the religion now professed in England VVherein it is prooued to be the same which was taught by our Sauiour Iesus Christ, and by his holy Apostles; written for their vse that haue desired such proofe. By W.T.	Travers, Walter, 1547 or 8-1635.; A. B.; Travers, Walter, d. 1646, attributed name.	1630 (1630)	STC 24188; ESTC S118507	48,208	86

vs and our Prayers Finally that Iesus Christ and no other person can bee our intercessor with God is proued by this that it behooueth him that should present our Prayers to know all the prayers of the Church But this none other but God knoweth for this is a part of the high stile proper to God That he knoweth the heart Therefore no other person but Iesus Christ can bee intercessor Psal 44.21 2 Chro. 6.30 Act. 1.24 Act. 15.8 Rom. 8.15 Gal. 4.6 Rom. 8.26 and to whom else can it agree but to him whose Spirit teacheth vs to call Abba Father and who onely vnderstandeth the meaning of the spirit that teacheth vs to pray with vnspeakable gronings as being his owne Spirit that stireth vp those sighes in the faithfull By all which reasons it is proued that no person amongst all creatures can bee our intercessor to offer our prayers to God and by whom wee are to offer them but on the contrary that it is onely by the person of Iesus Christ Thus both these poynts in the prayers of our Church in England are shewed to bee grounded in the Doctrine of Christ and of his Apostles Now it followeth to shew that contrary to this Doctrine of Christ and of his Apostles the Church of Rome maketh prayers to other then to God onely and by other Mediators and intercessors then by the onely Mediator and intercessor Iesus Christ the righteous who is the propitiation for our sinnes which is first to bee shewed Now if the liturgie vsed in the Church of Rome bee compared with the diuine Seruice in England in these two principall poynts concerning Prayer it will bee cleare to all that haue eyes to see that as our practise in them is directly that which was taught by our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles so that which is vsed in the Church of Rome is directly contrary to Christs most holy doctrine and that was deliuered by the Prophets and Apostles For touching the former poynt which is that all prayers petitions requests supplications and thanksgiuings are to bee made and yelded to God onely In the Liturgie of the Church of Rome there are many prayers petitions and thanksgiuings that are made and yeelded vnto Creatures and euen vnto the Images and representations of them They are made protectors and patrons to bee prayed vnto for helpe by seuerall Countryes Cittyes Kindreds States orders professions artificers houses persons Their helpe is prayed for seuerally according to diuers states of men Knights men of study Physitians Lawyers artificers as Painters Shoomakers Smithes Potters Likewise according to sundry occasions of the liuing Creatures they possesse diuersly as for Geese Sheepe Horses Oxen. They pray also to sundry Patrons to bee deliuered from stormes and tempests from Earthquakes Fyres and blastings And in case of diuers sickenesses they pray to sundry helpers against the Pestilence Feuer Toothach Gout Falling sicknesse and such like In their Letany and Masses they pray to Angels to the Mother of our Lord Iesus Christ to the Apostles to Martyrs to diuers confessors Bishops Doctors of the Church and to Saints of the Popes Cannonizing and saynting In their prayers to them they pray them to saue their sinfull soules to destroy their enemies to heale them of their diseases to deliuer them from all aduersities and all impediments of Soule and body at the howre of death to receiue their soules and to bring them to euerlasting life An infinite number almost of examples of such prayers might be rehearsed which they make vnto Creatures And to them likewise they offer their thanksgiuing vowes incense guifts and oblations yea they say the Lords Prayer beginning Our Father c. Before euery picture and Image of them in their Churches or houses so fulfilling that which was sayd to the old Idolaters that they say to the block and to the stone thou hast begotten me Esay 44.17 Hab. 2.19 But to the blessed Mother of our Lord Iesus Christ they doe more wrong in this kinde then to any of the soules of the faithfull that are departed out of this life for they magnifie her with the names of our Lady the Queene of Heauen the Lady of the Angels the mother of mercy the hope of the Church our life our sweetnesse our hope some of them say that God hath giuen her the one halfe of his Kingdome that is of mercy and hath reserued to himselfe the other which is of iudgment they say also vnto her By right of a mother commaund thy sonne they abuse the Salutation of the Angell beginning in latine with Aue Maria as a prayer vnto her or to doe her honor with the rehearsing of it and ordaine that it bee sayd at a knell of the bell They vse Rosaryes in her honor that is saying Aues vpon their beades for euery ten of them one Pater noster that is in all 55 to a Rosary Of three such Rosaryes they made a Psalter for her wherein shold be 150 Aues according to the number of the psalmes There hath also beene made a speciall Letany to her and a Psalter wherein throwout all the Psalmes the name Lord is turned into Lady and whatsoeuer is spoken to God in all the Psalmes is attributed vnto her But it were endlesse to rehearse all the meanes whereby God is robbed of this high p●rt of his glory of Prayers and prayses by such as are of the Church of Rome and namely by their psalters canonicall howres Letanies Collects antiphonyes missals and such like parts of their Liturgie and diuine Seruice This may suffice to shew how that which was intended that whereas in our diuine Seruice in England wee offer prayers and thankes vnto God onely according to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles they offer them to Creatures passing by the Creator blessed for euer Amen Wherein contrary to the Doctrine of Christ they haue not onely according to the number of their Citties multiplyed their Gods as it is sayd According to the number of thy Cittyes are thy Gods O Iudah but of townes streets Churches Chappels houses persons diseases and other occasions euen to praying to dumbe stockes and stones to the astonishment of heauen and earth as it is in the Prophet Ieremy O yee Heauens Iere. 2.12.13 bee astonished at this bee affrayd and vtterly confounded saith the Lord for my people haue committed two euils they haue forsaken mee the fountaine of liuing waters to dig them pits that can hold no water The other poynt is like vnto this For whereas in our English Church as Christ and his Apostles haue taught vs we haue but one God to whom wee pray and but one Mediator and intercessor by whom and in whose name and merits wee presen● our Prayers to God So on the contrary part the Church of Rome directly contrary to the doctrine of Christ and of all the Scriptures prayeth to men and Angels as hath beene declared so doth it likewise offer vp Prayers to God

alledging it out of the Psalmes Psal 44.22 Rom. 8.36 For thy sake are wee put to death all the day long wee are accounted as sheepe for the slaughter By these and many other like testimonies it appeareth that a true Martyr dyeth for no other cause but for a good iust and holy cause and namely for witnesse bearing to true Religion as for refusing to worship Idols and for professing himselfe a Christian and one that honoreth Christ and auoweth the Doctrine of the Gospel that hee taught and professeth to belieue to bee saued by him Which being thus proued by these generall testimonies shall bee likewise confirmed by the examples of such true Martyrs to the end that hereby it may appeare that whosoeuer are to bee acknowleged to haue beene true Martyrs haue suffered for bearing witnesse to some principall doctrine of the same Religion that together with all Christendome is professed at this day in England and not for maintenance of any of the errors or false worship maintained by the Sea of Rome and wherein they being fallen away from the truth of the Gospel dissent from many nations of the Christian world They challenge indeed to themselues that all the Martyrs that dyed in the Primitiue Church dyed for their Religion But it is not to bee shewed that they dyed for that Corruption of Christian Religion that is properly called Popery because it hath beene and is still maintained by the authority of Popes but onely for refusing to worship Idols for professing to beleeue in God and in Iesus Christ our Sauiour Which being the holy faith now professed in England and in many other nations of Christendome that agree with vs therein it will appeare that all the Martyrs of the primitiue Church dyed for the maintenance of that Seruice of God and for that faith of Christ which is now professed in England which is the other part that is desired to be proued Now for the proofe let vs first consider of the Martyrs recorded in the new Testament Whereof the first that obtained the Crowne of Martyrdome was Steuen who had beene one of the Seuen Deacons of the Church of Ierusalem Of him it is manifest that hee was stoned to death in a fury of the Iewes after that hee had giuen notable testimony to Iesus Christ First by his great signes and wonders that hee did Secondly his so wise and Zealous reasoning with men of the Synagogues and schools of the Iewes of diuers nations that were in Ierusalem as they were not able to withstand the wisedome and spirit wherewith hee spake Thirdly Act 6.10 Act. 7 2 c. V. 52. V. 55 V. 59 by his notable Apologie which hee made for himselfe before the High-Priest and the whole Consistory his face shining as an Angel concluding it with charging their Fathers to haue slayne the Prophets which had foreshewed the comming of Christ and themselues to haue murdered Christ that iust and righteous Person Fourthly by his constant testimony that hee beheld the heauens open and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God Finally by his dying in the inuocation of the name of the Lord Iesus By all which reasons it is plaine that Steuen dyed for no other cause then onely for professing Iesus Christ to bee the Sonne of God and the Sauiour whom God had promised to send for the saluation of his people and this faith our Church in England by Gods mercy doth constantly professe with all that call vpon the name of the Lord Iesus and houldeth it most honorable to dye forbearring witnesse to that most holy faith Which being so it is cleare that Steuen whose head first had the honor to weare the Crowne of Martyrdome dyed for that faith which is at this day professed in England not for the Masse nor the Popes Supremacy nor any other Popish Corruption of Christian faith whatsoeuer The like is to bee sayd of the Apostle Iames whom Herod slew with the sword as it appeareth by that it is said Act. 12.1.2.3 that Herod vexed certaine of rhe Church and that hee saw that the killing of Iames had pleased the Iewes who were the enimies of Christ and by apprehending and committing of the Apostle Peter in like sort In the Acts of the Apostles the like cause appeareth of all the persecution both of the Disciples and of the Apostles Wherefore vpon occasion the Apostle Paul professeth saying I am ready not onely to bee bound Act. 21.13 but also to dye at Ierusalem for the name of the Lord Iesus In the Reuelation the like testimony is giuen of Antipas where it is written I know thy workes and where thou dwellest namely where Sathans throne is Reue. 2.13 I know that thou holdest my name and hast not denied my faith no not in the dayes wherein Antipas my faithfull Martyr was slayne amongst you where Sathan dwelleth Of other Christian Martyrs whose names are not mentioned in the Scriptures the like appeareth both by the prophecies and performances of their sufferings In the second of the Reuelation it is written in the 10 verse Feare nothing of that thou art to suffer Behold the Diuell will cast some of you into prison that yee may bee tryed and yee shall haue affliction for ten dayes Bee faithfull vnto the death and I will giue thee the Crowne of life In the sixt Chapter verse the ninth where the first seale was opened it is sayd I saw vnder tht Altar the soules of those which had beene slayne for the word of God and for the testimony which they maintained After to them crying to God to reuenge their blood it is in the eleuenth verse answered That they should rest yet a little time vntill their fellow seruants their brethren might bee fulfilled which were to bee slayne as well as they In the Chapter eleauenth from the third verse to the twelfth is foreshewed the Martyrdome of the two Witnesses which bare witnesse to the Gospell of Christ for the space of 1260 dayes Finally in Chap 20 verse 4. it is said I saw the soules of those which had beene smitten with the axe for the testimony of Iesus and for the word of God and which haue not worshipped the beast nor the Image of the beast nor haue the marke vpon their foreheads or in their hands and they shall liue and reigne with Christ a thousand yeares These are the Prophecies that make mention of Christian Martyrs by all which places and the comparing them one with another it may euidently appeare that all such Martyrs were to beare witnesse to the Lord Iesus Christ vnto death and to suffer not for any tradition or for any ordinance of the Church of Rome but for the word of God and for refusing to become Idolaters and to take the marke of the beast in their foreheads or in their hands Now the performance of these prophecies that haue beene fulfilled vnto this time doe likewise declare that the