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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27169	A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven.	Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723.	1687 (1687)	Wing B1572; ESTC R20774	24,111	46

by joyning with the publick Worship whilst they attend and understand what the Church saith to God and what he saith to us are much improved in those great Principles of Religion which they learn'd in their Catechism and are made to grow in Grace and in the knowledg of the Lord. They have in these two what perpetually informs their Judgment and excites their Will to cleave to God and Goodness and after their best Endeavours to rely upon those infinite Mercies of God in Christ our Redeemer on which the greatest of Roman Champions confessed that it is most safe to repose our whole Trust and Confidence Answerable to those are the publick Exhortations of our Church by the Mouth of her Ministers and the Books of Religious Instruction wherewith she entertains her Children Their Time and Zeal and Attention are not taken up in Sprinklings Kissings of Reliques going in Pilgrimage visiting of Shrines paying devout Veneration to Saints and Images and reciting Beads and Rosaries and the Offices of St. Bridget or the like Neither these things nor any of this Nature which can neither instruct nor reform the World nor give Comfort to Christian Souls are recommended to our People They are clearly taught wherein true Religion and substantial Goodness consist and exhorted to lay on them the great Stress of their Hopes and of their Endeavours and devoutly to make use of those means of Grace which are of Divine Appointment and thereby to establish their Hearts in the Love of God and a chearful dependence upon the infinite Merits and Mercies of our dear Saviour Nothing of the whole Counsel of God is by our Church kept back from us our Belief is unquestionable being truly Primitive and Universal our Worship of God is according to his Will and his most blessed Nature and our Rule of Life and Conversation comprehends all Duties To fear God and honour the King and love one another and continue patient in well-doing Ours is indeed a Doctrine according to Godliness and of it it may be testified in the Words of St. Peter that it is the true Grace of God wherein we stand If we are not wanting to our selves we want nothing that can either shew us the Way to Happiness or help and forward us in it we ought to express our Charity to them that err and want many of those Blessings and Advantages which we have for the obtaining eternal Salvation we should earnestly pray for them and what we can promote their Instruction but by no means fear their Threatnings and Sentences of Damnation He that in earnest would go to Heaven and professeth Christianity not to obtain Favour with Men but to please God and to save his immortal Soul can be no where safer than in our Church Therein he professeth that Faith which all Christian Communions hold to be truly Divine and therein he may make his Calling and Election sure if he will but practise answerably to his Belief add to his Faith Vertue and not be unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus Christ The more he understands his Religion the more he will love it and be convinc'd that he is in the right And the more carefully he lives according to his Profession with a Conscience void of Offence towards God and towards Men the more assurance will he have that he shall be happy All other Grounds of Hope besides Truth and Righteousness will prove vain But he that stands upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-Stone He that studies and minds his Duty and earnestly begs for the Divine Assistance that he may live to God and remain faithful unto Death he shall receive the Crown of Life though some presumptuous Men dare condemn him to Death Whatever Confidence or high Pretences some may have whatever Ways and Devices they invent for to gain Heaven Christ is the Way the Truth and the Life no Man cometh unto the Father but by him there is no other Name under Heaven given unto Men whereby they can be saved but only the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ He that calleth and believeth on him shall not be confounded Here let us fix and not regard what Men say nor what they can do But look unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith firmly relying on his Almighty Goodness who is able to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him being ever living to make Intercession for them FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for Richard Chiswell THE Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy Chap. 3. Vers 15. 4o. The Peoples Right to read the Holy Scripture Asserted 4o. A Short Summary of the principal Controversies between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture Proofs 4o. Two Discourses Of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one Special Branch of the King's Prerogative viz. In dispensing with the Penal Laws 4o. The Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted 4o. Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A PRIVATE PRAYER to be used in Difficult Times A True Account of a Conference held about Religion at London Sept. 29 1687 between A. Pulton Jesuit and Tho. Tennison D. D. as also of that which led to it and followed after it 4o. The Vindication of A. Cressener Schoolmaster in Long-Acre from the Aspersions of A. Pulton Jesuit Schoolmaster in the Savoy together with some Account of his Discourse with Mr. Meredith A Discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer Side notwithstanding the uncharitable Judgment of their Adversaries and that Their Religion is the surest Way to Heaven 4o. Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist wherein is shewed that the Doctrine of Transubstantiation overthrows the Proofs of Christian Religion

having read the Bible a Man can never think theirs to be that Worship in Spirit and in Truth which the Gospel appoints We dare not offer to Almighty God what is so like to be injurious to him and so unlike his own Institutions and have much greater Assurance to have our Sacrifice of Prayers and Praises accepted when according to Divine Appointment we offer it to God in the Name of his blessed Son The same holds also for vertuous living and Improvement in Goodness that their new Doctrines are rather Obstacles to than Helps towards it The great dependence upon Rome and the Papal Power hath made many of that Communion very ill Subjects and many more very cruel and uncharitable to all other Christians The making a whole State of Sin although known and persisted in yet to be a State of Pardon and Safety consistent with the Love of God the buying and Imputation of other Mens Merits and good Works the easy Purchase of many Indulgences the customary and frequent Absolutions for mortal Sins the Patronage of the greatest Saints to the greatest Sinners when they are their particular Votaries such prevailing Opinions as these abate much of the Necessity of a serious and speedy Repentance and earnest Pursuits after Sanctification and too much gratify the Corruptions of Men that are desirous to enjoy their Lusts and not lose the Hopes of Heaven So if Mixture of false and uncertain Propositions with their Faith if a Worship very corrupt and very superstitious and if Doctrines apt to betray Men to a careless and vicious Life if these can endanger humane Souls we cannot think them safe in the Church of Rome So far as they differ from us in their Additions to the Primitive Faith so far they are in danger We pronounce no Sentence and we pray Divine Mercy to pardon them that err in the Simplicity of their Heart But their Errors and suitable Practices may be the Ruine of many and our Charity can save none Blessed be God we are safer and have many Advantages for Comfort and for Holiness of which they are destitute Men of a timorous and a tender Conscience amongst them can never have a comfortable Knowledg and Assurance of their having confest all their Mortal Sins or all those Circumstances that alter the kind nor of the Intention of the Priest which is necessary to make effectual his Absolutions nor of the Validity of any Sacerdotal Ministrations and Consecrations all which depend upon sceret Intentions or Irregularities which may be incurr'd many ways and may proceed so far as to be irremediable of these which according to their Principles so much concerns their Happiness a thoughtful Man I say can never be so sure as to make him rejoyce in Hope and have a solid Peace And what a sad Prospect is it to them that think the Sufferings of this present Life so very grievous that after all their Pains and Charges to gain Pardons and Indulgences and Prayers for their Souls they can have no Assurance without a Miracle but that they shall lie hundred of Years in scorching Flames paying the Score of those temporal Punishments which were due to their Sins Besides the Uncomfortableness of these Roman Tenents they want in that Communion the Benefit of those Divine Instructions which were written for our Learning that we through Comfort of the Scriptures might have Hope That holy Word of God which giveth Light and Understanding to the Simple and is able to make us wise unto Salvation and to save our Souls if we believe the Blessed Author of it That Word in the Church of Rome is kept from the People lest it should make the Ways of God plain before their Faces and shew them what a mighty Change in the Christian Religion hath been made amongst them And that keeps the Vulgar in a State of Darkness and timorous Superstition and deprives them of those Spiritual Joys and Improvements which Divine Revelation would afford If any Book in the World can be truly pleasant and comfortable it is the Holy Bible wherein we see the infinite Wisdom and Power and Providence of God in the Creation and Government of the World and particularly in his Care for them that love and serve him The sacred History is so full of Comfort in all Changes of Humane Life the infinite Goodness and other Perfections of God are so clearly revealed in it that by reading thereof an attentive Christian in all his Afflictions is inspir'd with wise and good Thoughts and Courage and Firmness of Mind and a joyful dependence upon God Then the Mercies and Mysteries of our Redemption the Life and Death of our Blessed Saviour the Excellency of his Precepts and of the Sermons and Writings of his Apostles and the infinite Graciousness of his Promises These are so ravishing and so wonderful so apt to support our Spirits and to nourish our Hopes to give a good Man a fore-Taste of the Joys of Heaven and to bring us to the Likeness and the Sense of God's Love that nothing can give equal Comforts to Christians or any ways supply the Want of these It would be the greatest Wonder why any Church that believes the Old and New Testament to be the Book of God should forbid the reading of it but that the Contrariety betwixt their Traditions and those Divine Writings is very apparent to them that can consult and compare both That or nothing must excuse their Uncharitableness in taking the Divine Oracles from them for whose Consolation and Guidance they were appointed Again they want the Comfort and Instruction of God's publick Worship What Scriptures are read in the publick Assemblies of the Roman Communion are in the Latin Tongue by which the Understanding of the People is rendred unfruitful What Prayers and Supplications are put up to God are in the same Language they know not what is said and therefore cannot assent with their Hearts nor excite such devout Affections in their Souls as would recommend their common Requests to the Throne of Grace Neither are the Celebrations of the Divine Goodness understood they praise not God with joyful Lips And that pious Entercourse they should have with him in paying their Homage and presenting their Thanks and Petitions to his Divine Majesty being thus interrupted by their not understanding what is said they are deprived of one of the principal Means of Edification 'T is strange it should ever enter into the Hearts of Men to offer to God for a reasonable Service Words of which they know not the Signification And it renders ineffectual those Acts of Religion which should most affect and better the Hearts of Christian Worshippers and raise up their Thoughts and their Affections to Heaven From hence it is that we have more knowledg of God and more Understanding of the Christian Religion They amongst us that really believe Christianity and would make sure of the Happiness it offers by searching and meditating of the Holy Scriptures and