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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33251	The Protestant school-master containing, plain and easie directions for spelling and reading English, with all necessary rules for the true reading of the English tongue : together with a brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures committed by the papists upon Protestants, for near six hundred years past, to this very time, in all countries where they have usurped authority to exercise their cruelties ...: with a description of the variety of their tortures, curiously engraven upon copper plates ... / by Edw. Clark.	Clark, Edw. (Edward)	1680 (1680)	Wing C4437; ESTC R39367	111,345	217

substantial sign to be used in Baptism Answer Read that of Saint Mat. 3.11 I Baptize you with vvater and Acts 10.47 Can any forbid water that these should not be baptized But the Papists use Salt Oyle Spittle and many other Superstitions and Additions which they have made to the Institution of Jesus Christ in Baptisme King James of Famous Memory in his Apology hath these Words The Queen my Mother at my Baptism although I was Baptised by a Popish Arch-bishop sent him word to forbear to use the Spittle in my Baptism which was obeyed it being indeed a Filthy and Apish Trick Her own words were That she would not have a Pocky Priest to spit in her Childs Mouth Quest What do the Papists mean by the Mass which they so often talk of Answ It is the same which the Protestants call the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and the Papists call it the Mass thereby intimating that the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is made a Sacrifice and offered up to God which as it is used by them is both Vain and Idolatrous 1. Because by the Death of our Blessed Saviour who was Sacrificed for our Sins Divine Justice is sufficiently satisfied and the Sinner who returns and Repents is fully secured as to his everlasting State Heb. 10.12 This man after he had offered one Sacrifice for Sins for ever sate down at the Right-hand of God 2. The Papists Worship their Mass not only as God but trust in it for Salvation instead of Christ our Saviour Neither doth it excuse them to say that they worship not the Bread or a breaden God but Jesus Christ whom they suppose to be present for this Argument cannot free them from Idolatry no more than it will the Heathen Idolaters who though they worshipped the Sun yet supposed it to be God and so they did Jupiter whom they worshipped And therefore if Papists be not Idolaters there never were any such in the world Qu. Are these all the Points wherein the Papists and Protestants differ Ans No for a Volume would hardly contain the Fopperies of that Apostate Church as denying the Cup in the Lords Supper to the people Pardons Indulgences Pilgrimages and Jubilees their seven Sacraments instead of two appointed by our Saviour forbidding Priests to marry Justification by Works Merit Equivocation and abundance more which if truly understood would make every Protestant abhor both their Church and Doctrine Qu. But is the Apostacy of the Church of Rome such as there is no safe union with her or being saved in that Religion Ans If Rome be that spiritual Babylon mentioned Rev. 18.4 as it is there very plain and evident then are we absolutely commanded to come out of her lest being partakers of her sins we be partakers of her plagues Qu. But though the Roman Church in her Doctrine be directly contrary to Scripture yet how can all this demonstrate that the Pope is the Antichrist so expresly foretold in 2 Thes 3.4 Ans To resolve this question let us consider 1. That the Holy Ghost in Scripture hath been very exact in pointing out Antichrist by such notorious marks and characters as after-Ages might easily know him if they do not wilfully shut their eyes 2. Unless we deny our Senses as Papists do in many things we cannot be ignorant that the Popish Church clearly answers all those marks which are given of him in Scripture even him whose coming shall be after the working of Satan with all power signs and lying wonders forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath appointed to be used with thanksgiving who sitteth in the Temple of God and exalteth himself above all that is called God who bewitcheth the Kings of the Earth with his Inchantments and is drunk with the blood of the Martyrs of Christ Jesus yea whose Traffick and Merchandize is not only silver and gold but the Souls of men Rev. 18.13.3 This Mystery began to work in the time of the Apostles and he who for a time did withhold his coming that is the Heathen Emperours of Rome hath been long since taken out of the way And 4. It is undeniable that this Adversary can be no single person or of a short continuance but is a Politick Body or Kingdome united in one Supreme Head and with a succession for many Ages 5. It is apparent that these express characters of Antichrist can be applied to no other Enemy of Jesus Christ or his Church under the New Testament either Pagan or Mahometan Qu. But it is said of Antichrist that the Lord will consume him by the breath of his mouth and how can this be applied to the Pope or Church of Rome Ans 1. We know that the Fall of Antichrist must be by degrees as his Rise was and not all at once 2. How have these last Ages of the World been cleared from Antichristian darkness in England Scotland Ireland France Germany Sweden Denmark the Low-Countries c. Qu. But do we not see Popery prevail now in a more than ordinary way in several Countries where the Gospel has been clearly preached Ans This is not so strange if we consider 1. That where the truth is not received in love God doth many times give up men to strong delusions to believe lies 2. Observe that such as imbrace Popery do not do it from Principles of Reason or Conscience but it is the visible effect of a Licentious Age and from an unusual growth of Atheisme and Ignorance for it is not to be admired if those who never really had any Religion Espouse any Religion that may serve their Interest or Lust 3. There is no such great slavery exercised over the body under Turkish bondage as there is over the Reasons and Consciences of men under the Popish Yoak so that they have no way to be convinced of their Errors since they must not see with their own eyes the most clear discoveries of truth that can be made to them either in the Scriptures or any other Books Lastly though Popery seem to encrease yet it 's clear that they get but little advantage thereby and it seems only to make way for its utter ruine and destruction So that if the Pope be not Antichrist yet we may challenge Antichrist to do worse and wickeder things than he Qu. Certainly there can be but little encouragement for men to turn Papists if they rightly understand what Popery is Ans No question but there is great blindness upon their minds since the whole frame of it is but the driving on of a Politick Interest They shut up the Scripture to keep the people in the dark their Religion not being able to endure the light they set up an Infallibility to hold them under a blind obedience they pick their pockets by their Doctrines of Merit and Purgatory yea notwithstanding their high pretences to Charity it is such a Religion that no man can be damn'd except he be poor neither can any rich