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A53750 A true and lively representation of popery shewing that popery is only new-modell'd paganism, and perfectly destructive of the great ends and purposes of God in the Gospel. Owen, Thankfull, 1620-1681. 1679 (1679) Wing O830; ESTC R18583 46,596 82

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Apostate because by their late rise they had not sufficient strength to repress Earthly Princes Here are two Probable Doctors and the conclusion from thence is that when ever they find themselves to have a Party strong enough they may having the Opinion of such Probable Doctors on their side attempt the Murder of their natural Prince and introduce their Religion though with the Blood of thousands of innocent Persons And this they may do although themselves should think it unlawful because Bellarmine and Aquinas Men of approved Virtue and Learning among them have determined for the lawfulness of it 2. From hence it will follow that a Man may forsake the more safe and infallible Direction of Gods Word and the clear Evidence of Reason and Conscience and take up with the Opinion of some one Man who perhaps speaks unadvisedly and carelesly or it may be out of design and set purpose to deceive and by this means all the severe Duties of Religion shall be evacuated and the Precepts of the Gospel made to comply with the Vices and corrupt Inclinations of Men and all as it pleases our Probable Doctor which certainly is the most unreasonable and unrighteous Usurpation upon the understandings of Mankind that ever was as if the generality of Men were made only to be imposed upon Nay by this means the best and wholsomest Laws in the Christian World shall be rescinded if there be but a Probable Doctor to dispute their Obligation These horrid and impious Consequences will yet appear more plain and evident by those Instances First we are commanded in the holy Scriptures to love the Lord our God with all our heart with all our soul and with all our strength and the truth and sincerity of our love is evidenced by avoiding of Sin and by keeping his Commandments But now if a Man may forsake the plain and easie direction of God in the sacred Writings and rest in the Opinion of a Probable Doctor he need not much trouble his Head about the love of God See the Mystery of Jesuitism Hurtado de Mendoza as he is cited by Father Escobar says A Man is bound but once every year to have an actual affection for God Coninck supposes we are bound to it once in three or four years Henriquez once in five years But Filiutius thinks a Man is not obliged every five years And if we do not think our selves fairly dealt withal yet Father Syrmond will make a full amends and he assures us we need not love God at all For we are not so much commanded says he to love God as not to hate him Secondly we are injoined a speedy and sincere Repentance in the holy Scriptures to turn from our Sins and Impieties unto God while 't is called to day that is to make use of the present time which is only ours But if throwing the Scripture aside we may without danger follow the Guidance of any Probable Doctor then a Man is bound to repent only three times a year at Christmas Easter and Whitsontide for so Scotus says But if you are unwilling to undergo this burdensome and afflictive Duty so often you need perform it but once a year and for this you have the Authority of Scotus and Medina And if you think this too much hear what Reginaldus says The time when a Man is bound to repent is at the Article of imminent Death for the mean while there is no Precept commanding that a Sinner should not persevere in enmity against God there is no Negative Precept forbidding such a Perseverance How directly repugnant those Doctrines are to that Grand Positive end of the Gospel the Replantation of the sacred Image and Nature of God in the Souls of Men every pious Christian who earnestly desires the Recovery of the World from the Bondage and slavery of Sin cannot but see and that those Champions which the Dark Kingdom set out to defend and maintain the Pagan Worship which quickly vanished and disappeared in all places where Christianity shone in its Native lustre and brightness were not half so successful in their Attempts nor such dangerous Enemies of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus as those Popish Agents who by speaking Lyes in Hypocrisie do really Debauch and Paganize the World again and make Men two-fold more the Children of Hell than if they had been perfect Strangers to the very name of a Christian 3. Another Doctrine which undermines the Grand Purpose of God Almighty in regenerating and renewing the World by the Gospel is that of Sacerdotal Absolution upon Confession at the hour of death For thus the Doctors of the Church of Rome teach That though a man live and die without the practice of Christian Virtues and with the habits of many damnable sins unmortified yet if he in the last moment of his life have any sorrow for his sins Vid. Chilligw Ch. 7. and joyn Confession with it he shall certainly be saved Which is a Doctrine that instead of reforming and bettering the World which certainly was intended by the manifestation of the Gospel opens a door to all imaginable licentiousness and wickedness Our blessed Saviour assures us that except a man be born again he shall not enter into Heaven Now certain it is that Divine Generations as well as Natural are not instantaneous but require time for their full maturity and perfection and as sure is it that an Act of Attrition accompanied with Sacerdotal Absolution can never work a change or Renovation of the mind and consequently it must be as horrid a Cheat as ever was put upon the poor deluded Sons of Adam to perswade them that this is enough for their Salvation though otherwise they die without the practice of Christian Virtues and with the habits of many damnable sins unmortified For to speak the plain truth this kind of Absolution looks more like a Charm or Spell used by superstitious people to fright away evil spirits than any thing of sober truth having neither Reason nor Scripture to countenance or abett it And though men may deceive and befool one another yet those unhappy people whose sad Fate it is to be sent out of the world with no better hopes of Salvation than what an Act of Attrition with Priestly Absolution is able to give them will find the Scene of Affairs quite altered there and those grim Officers of the Infernal Kingdom will infallibly challenge and seize their own notwithstanding the fairest dismission by all the arts and devices of a treacherous Ghostly Father Consider all you that have any care for your Eternal Interest and Salvation how grosly you are abused by these Holy Impostors and Factors for the Devils Kingdom Can the Absolution of your Priest work a real change in your Dispositions and Natures or can those few words effect a Mortification of your vicious habits and withal superinduce the contrary Virtues Will this Charm procure a safe passage through the Guards of the invisible Regions
God and worshipped Ashtoreth the Goddess of the Zidonians Chemosh the God of the Meabites and Milcom the God of the Children of Ammon And therefore it is very childish and ridion lous to imagine that Jeruboram would introduce that very Idolatry at his first coming for the practice of which God had threatned to pull the Kingdom out of the hand of his Master These two Examples do sufficiently and fully instruct us in the s●ose and meaning of God in the second Commandment that he forbid all worship of himself by an Image and that the making of designing any such Image though for his honour is palpable and gross Idolatry 8. I might now likewise for a conclusion of this Argument bring another instance of the grossest Idolatry that ever was committed by men solemnly practised by the Romists Church and injoyned by their Council of Trent and that is their worshipping of the Bread in the Sacrament which they can the Adoration of the Host than which besides the Idolatry involved in it I cannot find any Rite or Custom so barbarous in the whole Pagan Superstition unless I should bring in the Cannibals or Man-Eaters And if the Doctrine of Transubstantiation prove false as there is nothing more certain then by the testimony of Costerus the Jesuit there never was the like piece of Idolatry practis'd in the World before Take his own words Enchirid. Contr. c. 12. For the errours of those saith he were more tolerable who worship some Golden or Silver Statue or some Image of any other Materials for their God as the Heathen worshipped their Gods or a Red Cloth hung upon the top of a Spear as is reported of the Laplanders or some live-Animal as of old the Egyptians did than of these that worship a bit of Bread as hitherto the Christians have done all over the world for so many hundred years if the Doctrine of Transubstantion be not true From this Testimony then we are informed that if Transubstantiation be a Fiction then the Church of Rome is guilty of Idolatry and so gross a piece of Idolatry as a man can find no instance in Paganism to liken it to And that the Doctrine of Transubstantiation is a ridiculous Figment a thing without Sense or Reason imposed upon the World I refer to those learned Authors who have on purpose discovered the falsity of it 9. I have shown that Almighty God by sending his Son our Saviour Christ Jesus into the World designed the replantation of his own blessed Nature and Image in mens Souls And that this might be the more fully and effectually accomplished he determined likewise to root out and extirpate all Idolatry which both debased the Majesty of the Great God and rendred mens Minds low contemptible and abject and having in the general discovered some of those Doctrines averred and maintained in the Church of Rome which directly overthrow this great Purpose of making men Partakers of a Divine and Godlike Spirit I shall now produce some other instances and shew how the practice of the Romish Church destroys those other two branches of the Divine Life that is Purity or Holiness and Love and Charity And for the first of these that is Purity and Holiness it is wholly evacuated by such Doctrines and Practices as minister to the Vices of men and reconcile Heaven and Salvation with the most licentious courses of sin and wickedness such as enervate all the Arguments used in the Gospel to promote a strict and holy Conversation and are apt to give allowance and incouragement to a wicked life 1. To this end and purpose the Doctrine of Purgatory is hugely subservient which besides that it is a Politick Device to squeeze and drain mens Money from them and so inrich the Clergy though with the Damnation of the Laity it is likewise fitted for the cherishing and pampering mens carnal lusts and affections and gives them hope of Salvation upon no difficult terms though they have not been so careful in providing for it in this life-time as Christ in his holy Gospel has commanded and injoyned them to be For since the worst of men amongst Christians if they take any care and use any competent circumspection may be dismissed from these Earthly Regions with fair hopes and assurances if not of going directly to Heaven yet at least of an entrance into Purgatory where-ever it be whether in a Torrid or Frozen Zone it must needs be a wonderful gratification to their Animal Faculties and Sensitive Lives to indulge and please them to the full and yet escape the torments of Hell at the last We have seen that if a wicked man live and die without the practice of Christian Virtues and with the habits of many damnable sins unmortified yet if at the last moment and conclusion of his life he have but an act of Attrition and confess to his Ghostly Father who is bound upon this to absolve him he shall certainly be saved which is incouragement enough to vicious persons to go on in sin and venture the odds of a surprize or sudden death upon such easie terms But if a man be so careless and wretchedly stupid as not to mind the making satisfaction for mortal sins in this life so long as he is assured by an Infallible Priesthood it may be done in the next the worst that can happen to him between Death and Judgment is only the state of Purgatory that is he must undergo some strange torment God knows where in Fire or Hail or Snow or Ice And this truly is a sad uncomfortable condition but still there is some hope left the redemption from this Dismal Prison prevents all despair of lying for ever under this severe Restraint Therefore this good natur'd Church of Rome bids them take heart and tells them that there is an Expiation of Sin after Death by the Prayers of the living It is the Doctrine of the Council of Trent That the Souls in Purgatory are delivered thence fidelium suffragiis potissimum vero acceptal ili Altaris saorificio Sess 25. i. e. by the Suffrages of the faithful but especially by the acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar And giving Directions to Bishops the Council says Let Bishops take care that the Suffrages of the faithful now living i. e. the Sacrifices of Masses Prayers Alms-deeds and other Works of Piety which according to the Constitution of the Church ought to be performed for the faithful deceased that they be done piously and devoutly c. And they Anathematize every one that shall say The Sacrifice of the Mass is a waked Commemoration of that Sacrifice on the Cross and not Propitiatory or that it only profits him that receives it and ought not to be offered for the Living and the Dead Sess 22. Can. 3. for Sins Punishments Satisfactions and other Necessities There is no great danger then that a Man should lye long in Purgatory if he have either Mony or Friends for either of