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A13025	A generall treatise against poperie and in defence of the religion by publike authoritie professed in England and other churches reformed. VVherein they that either want leisure to read, or that haue not iudgement to conceiue, or that are not able to buie the learned treatises of other concerning particular points of religion, may yet euidently see poperie not to be of God, and our religion to be acceptable in his sight. Very necessarie for these times, for the confirmation and strengthening of men in our religion, that neither by Iesuits, nor by any other, they may be drawne to poperie, or any other heresie or sect: and likewise for the winning of Papists and atheists to an vnfained liking and true profession of our religion. By Thomas Stoughton minister of the word	Stoughton, Thomas.	1598 (1598)	STC 23316; ESTC S113794	180,055	360

A GENERALL TREATISE AGAINST POPERIE AND IN DEFENCE OF THE RELIGION BY PVBLIKE AVTHORITIE PROFESSED IN ENGLAND AND OTHER CHVRCHES REFORMED VVherein they that either want leisure to read or that haue not iudgement to conceiue or that are not able to buie the learned treatises of other concerning particular points of religion may yet euidently see poperie not to be of God and our religi on to be acceptable in his sight Very necessarie for these times for the confirmation and strengthening of men in our religion that neither by Jesuits nor by any other they may be drawne to poperie or any other heresie or sect and likewise for the winning of Papists and Atheists to an vnfained liking and true profession of our religion BY THOMAS STOVGHTON minister of the word PRINTED BY IOHN LEGAT Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1598. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND MOST TRVLY RELIGIOVS AND vertuous Lord Robert Lord Rich Thomas Stoughton wisheth increase of all true pietie and honour in this life and eternall glory in the life to come RIght Honourable your fauour hauing beene such towards me as that both either vpon my cōmendation before I was by face knowne vnto your Lordship and especially my selfe sithens that time haue thereby sared the better I could not but in all dutie thinke of some way whereby to shew my selfe in some measure thankfull for the same Hauing therfore taken a litle paines in gathering these generall arguments against the whole masse lumpe of poperie as in defence likewise of the generall doctrine publikely and by publike authoritie professed in England I thought your Honourable curtesie to be such that these my labours would be accepted as some testimonie of my gratefull minde Neither am I bold to offer them vnto your Honour in respect onely of that your singular fauour towards my selfe but also because the same your Honorable fauour hath beene extended and is extended towardes all whome your Honour hath seene forward in the profession of that religion the defence whereof is the chiefe subiect matter of this treatise Yea so haue you vouchsafed to countenance such persons from time to time not disdaining the meanest that this your Christian and godly minde is much more worthie this worke then the worke it selfe any waies worthy to be presented to so great a person For by this loue towardes the professours of the truth hath euidently appeared your affection towards the truth it selfe This affection also towardes the truth it selfe euen towardes the truth which in this treatise is commended and iustified hath in like manner beene most plainely testified vnto this whole countrey of Essex by your singular care for the placing of godly and sufficient ministers in all places where the patronage of benefices by the auncient lawes of this realmes hath beene your right And both these to wit your loue vnto the persons professing this religion and your like affection towards the religion it selfe haue plētifully declared your true zeale of God himselfe and of Christ Iesus For Christ accoūteth that done to himselfe that is done to them Math. 25. 40. that belong vnto him And as the enmitie against God his truth and the professours thereof endeauouring to suppresse the one and to represse the other doth testifie the like enmitie against God himselfe and Christ Iesus so the Ma●h 25. 43. Act. 9. 4. contrarie loue towardes both doth declare the like loue towards God himselfe and Christ Iesus Further your honourable care before mentioned for the furthering of this religion shewed by prouiding such sufficient ministers for instruction of the people in the true knowledge thereof and obedience thereunto hath also witnessed and doth daily witnesse your vnfained loue vnto men For what greater worke can there be for the benefits of their soules yea both of their soules and of their bodies of this life and of the life to come For who knoweth not but that as the Gospell is the power of God vnto saluation Rom. 1. 16. Iam. 1. 21. 2. Tim. 3. 15. Psal 19. 7. Frov. 1. 4. and the word conteined in the holy Scriptures which also containe this religion here commended is able to make men wise vnto the same saluation so also that that wisdome which the gospel and word of God teacheth hath in Prov. 3. 16. her right hand length of daies and in her left hand riches and glorie As therefore to hinder the gospel and word of God doth plainly bewray the hatred of men which cannot be saued by any other meanes without it for which cause the Apostle speaking of the Iewes saith first that they 1. Thess 2. 15 16. were contrarie or aduersaries vnto all men then immediatly addeth as a reason or confirmation of the former that they had forbidden them to preach the word vnto the Gentiles vvhereby they might be saued so to promote the same word can not but witnes the contrarie Finally this your godly care hath in like sort the better witnessed doth witnes your faithful heart both towards her most excellent Maiestie and also towardes the whole realme For it cannot be but that the more the true knowledge and feare of God aboundeth by the more plentiful preaching of the word also will abound true obedience vnto her Highnes and vnfained loue betwixt subiect and subiect by both which the barres of the gates of the whole kingdome must necessarily be the stronger against all fortaine aduersaries Sith therefore Right honourable it hath pleased God of his aboundant goodnes and rich grace besides your great earthly honour thus more highly to honour and aduance you in heauenly things as I doe in this respect the more boldly dedicate this treatise of religion to your Honour so zealous of religion so in all humilitie I desire the same to accept therof and to vouchsafe your honourable protection therunto And because your former zeale perswadeth me the same of your Honour that the like perswaded the Apostle of the Philippians namely that he Philip. 1. 6. that hath begun this good worke will also finish the same therefore that vse of this treatise which in the ende I wish generally to all great persons alreadie called to the fellowship of this true religion I doe more specially commend vnto your Honour namely that you will yet be zealous thereof as hitherto you haue beene and are Yea let not your zeale onely continue but let it be such also as Salomon describeth the loue of the Church to be strong as death cruell or hard or Cantic 8. 6 7. inuincible as the graue whose coales are fierie coales and as a vehement flame or as the flame of God and the which much water cannot quench Yea because the Lord Iesus reprehendeth the slaking of the first loue of the Church of Ephesus Rev. 2. 4 5. threatning also to come against her and to remooue her candlesticke out of her place except shee repented and did her first works therefore also your

because that we ourselues are so wicked and sinneful that we are altogether vnworthie of his aide and defence 8 Yea but the Spanyard himselfe hath also had great victories against the Turke when the Turkish forces haue perhaps beene twise or thrise so great as the Spanish Let this be graunted yet doth not this simply iustifie the Spanish religion but onely in respect of the Turks who are professed enemies of Christ and of all that is called by the name of Christ The Israelites after the death of Ioshua fell often to most grieuous idolatrie the Lord gaue them notwithstanding mightie victories against their enemies Yea the tenne Tribes after they were reuolted not onely from Iuda but also from the Lord himselfe and his worship and so continued in their battels notwithstanding with those that professed enmity both to thē also to god whome they sometime had truly worshipped and of whose worship they retained some small remnants had very great and happie successe though sometimes their enemies were tenne times as many and as strong as themselues Yet doe not these victories simply iustifie the Israelites or their present religion but onely in respect of their enemies which did vtterly denie God and his religion The Lord notwithstanding their falling in most things had regard to the remnants of his worship amongst them and to his formet couenant euen for his owne names sake as Ezekiel teacheth chap. 20. In like sort the Spanyards professing the name of Christ and hauing some remnants of Christian religion amongst them but the Turks vtterly denying and defying Christ and the very name of all christianitie no maruaile though Christ Iesus in the warres of the Spanyards against them doe rather fight the battels of the Spanyards as hauing respect vnto his name so blasphemed by the Turke But hereby doth not Christ Iesus simply approoue of the Spanish religion but onely in respect of the Turkish 9 If it be further obiected that the most wicked that are doe sometime preuaile against the godly themselues as the men of Ai against Israel c. and that they flow also in much yea almost in all outward prosperitie and that therefore this argument is not sound and firme enough to inferre that which I inferre thereof I answer that the Lord indeede giueth sometime such victorie vnto the wicked against his owne people but it is for some speciall sinne of his people as appeareth by the example before alleadged For Israel fell before the men of Ai for the sinne of Achan yea the Lord saith they could not stand before their enemies Iosh 7. 12. because of that sinne Againe though the Lord sometimes giue his people ouer into the hands of his and their enemies yet he doth it not in such miraculous manner without the force of the enemie against them himselfe fighting from heauen for the enemie as he hath done for vs against the Spanyards but alwaies the enemie hath preuailed against the Lord his people by greater strength of flesh then the Lords people had against them and by fighting in their owne person For touching the former example of Ai Ioshua sent but about 3000. of the Israelites against it Iosh 7. 4. but it is most like that they were repelled by a farre more greater force For although they whome Ioshua first sent to view Ai returned and saide it was but a small people yet it is certen that they were able to make a greater force then three thousand because when Israel preuailed against Ai to the number of twelue thousand Iosh 8. 26. The same may be saide of the other prosperitie of the wicked they prosper they flourish they waxe rich c. but it is by ordinarie meanes sometime also yea most commonly by vnlawfull meanes by hooke and by crooke as the prouerbe is but our prosperitie and the prosperitie of other kingdomes countries and cities c. professing our religion haue so prospered and flourished in outward things aboue that which they did whilst they were ouergrowne with poperie that euery man may euidently see that it is the speciall blessing of God euen for the honour of our religion that hath made vs rich and thus to prosper Againe we haue thus prospered though the wicked Papists haue seene our prosperitie and beene angrie yea though they haue practised against vs and gnashed their teeth Psal 37. 12. and 112. 10. THE CONCLVSION WITH the vse of the treatise 1_SIth therefore that poperie is not wrought in men by the word of God but by traditions of men sith it is vpheld and maintained chiefly by wicked and vnlawfull meanes sith the proper substance and matter thereof is not onely diuers from the written word of God but also directly contrarie thereunto sith the forme of Gods worship in poperie is not that which god hath prescribed but that which men haue deuised and forged sith the principall ende of poperie whereunto it referreth all things is not the glorie of God but the glorie of Saints of images of Pope and generally of man himselfe sith the fruites of poperie are such as God hath expressely condemned in the decalogue and tenne commandements giuen to all nations and for all times euen vnto the ende of the world sith there is no sound ioy and comfort growing vpon the tree of poperie but double feare and desperation sith poperie is a foolish and absurd religion sith poperie agreeable sutable and well pleasing to the naturall man which sauoureth not the things which are of God sith the gifts of God his spirit promised to the Church in the latter age thereof are bestowed vpon the church whilst it swarued not from the pure doctrine of the gospell deliuered by Christ and his Apostles were at an ebbe and dead low water when poperie was full sea sith God hath inflicted from time to time manifest and straunge iudgements and punishments vpon Papists and such especially as haue most maligned our religion and the professours thereof sith God hath not regarded the sacrifices of the Pope and popish church neither hath made their curses effectuall against them whome they haue cursed neither hath giuen any good successe to thē for whome they haue made many praiers but haue turned his curses into blessings his blessings into curses therefore I doe conclude that poperie is not of God neither acceptable vnto God Againe sith our religion is wrought by the preaching of that word of God which is contained in the scriptures sith it standeth without all vnlawfull meanes to vphold and maintaine it sith the matter thereof is altogether consonant with the written word sith the forme of God his worship therein touching the essence thereof is the same that god himselfe hath prescribed sith it referreth all things onely to the glorie of God sith the fruits that it alloweth and beareth are such as God hath commāded in the decalogue and morall law sith it alwaies beare the sound and most sweete ioy and comfort sith in wisdome