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A64359	A friendly debate between a Roman Catholick and a Protestant concerning the doctrine of transubstantiation wherein the said doctrine is utterly confuted, and Antichrist is clearly and fully described, and his inevitable destruction predicted : with a challenge to all the Romish doctors that preach and teach the said doctrine, to answer it.	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing T698; ESTC R38802	90,615	48

and look unto the Righteousness and the Blood and Merits of Christ alone for ●ustification Sanctification and Salvation and ●ount all that ye have done to be but silthy Rags ●his is to deny righteous-self Isa 64.6 But we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as ●●lthy rags Joh. 17.10 So likewise ye when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you say ●e are unprefitable servants we have done that which ●as our duty to do So that we cannot merit ought 〈◊〉 the hands of God by doing that which is our Duty to do for it is a contradiction in it self ●●r if it be Duty then it is not Merit but if it be Merit then it is not Duty for when we have ●one all we can do it cannot justify nor acquit a ●oul of the least vain sinful thought For our justification before and in the sight of God cometh 〈◊〉 by the Righteousness of Christ our Redeemer ●●nne without the help of any Copertner or 〈…〉 But the Gospel of Antichrist teacheth men and women to be worse than their own natural dispositions and corrupt inclinations and indulgeth them in all manner of ungodliness and worldly Lusts it le ts loose the Reins to the will of the Flesh and is a spur to iniquity and teacheth men that they shall be justified and saved by and for their good Works joyned with the Righteousness and Merits of Christ therefore neither that Gospel nor that Religion which it teacheth can be true or of God therefore it must be of Satan 2 Cor. 11.3 4. Gal. 1.8 9. Rev. 22.18 19. Tenthly The Gospel of Christ teacheth men to confess their sins to God and to one another and to pray one for another unto God and beg of him to pardon us in the Blood of Christ and that God would give the Grace of Faith and unfeigned Repentance unto us that we may hate sin and forsake all our sins and here you may see what true Repentance is in all the parts of it laid down by the Apostle St. Paul in 2 Cor. 7.10 11. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death For behold this self-same thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort what carefulness it wrought in you yea what clearing of your selves yea what indignation yea what fear yea what vehement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge in all things ye have approved your selves to be clear in this matter This is true Gospel Repentance in all the parts of it this is Repentance unto Salvation never to be repented of they are careful to use the uttermost power that God hath given them in the means of Grace never to commit sin more and they clear themselves by confessing their sins to God and forsaking of them and they take up a holy indignation and an implacable hatred against sin and study how to be revenged upon it as a Man doth upon his implacable enemy and he hath a vehement desire after Grace and Holiness and useth all the means of Grace which God hath appointed to that end And by their being hearty and sincere in the work they can approve themselves to God in this matter or appeal to God through Jesus Christ from their Consciences that they are truly penitent and have the evidence of it in themselves And it is said if we confess our sins that is after that manner aforesaid not a bare verbal Confession that God is just to forgive us our sins Now you cannot Pray one among another nor Pray one for another in a right manner but you must confess your Sins to God and to one another for if you confess your Sins and do not pray or if you do pray and not confess your Sins it is neither a right Gospel-Confession nor a right Prayer But if it be done in a right manner and to a 〈…〉 never miss of a Pardon from God in the Blood of Christ because God hath promised it and he will be as good as his Word and therefore he is just to forgive us our Sins But if one man can Pardon another why then he can merit Life for himself and another then we need not to have Christ pleading with the Father for pardoning Grace for Sinners no nor Christ need not to have died that vast cost might have been spared if Sinners can Pardon one another and merit Justification and Savlation one for another But this is just like unto a poor Man that is deeply in Debt to the King for Tribute and he meets with another Man that is deeper in Debt to the King than he and the latter saith unto the other Sir I suppose you are in the King's Debt Yes Sir I am Well do but Confess to me how much your Debt is and give me a small Fee and I will pardon you so he confesseth and he Pardons him as he pretends But the poor Man stands still charged in the King's Books and then he runs on again further in Debt and he goes to his old Friend and confesses his Debt and he Pardons him the King's Debt but he will not forgive him his own Fees no Penny no Pater-Noster no that is a Debt cannot be forgiven and so he goes on in Debt again and again and he pardons him but all this while he hath none of the Kings Commission for so doing But at last the King calls both these Debtors to Account he that pretended to forgive the other his Debt to the King who himself was deeper in Debt to the King than the other that he pardoned and the pardoned man he pleads that he is pardoned who pardoned you Why such a one What had he to do to Pardon you that which you do owe unto me He never had any such Power from me for he had more need of a Pardon for himself did he not owe me enough himself but must he take your Debt upon him too Then the King in a great Fury causes them both to be Seised and clapt up into Prison and never to come out until they have paid the utmost Farthing So will it be with all them which pretend to Pardon other Mens Sins and with them also that rely upon their Pardon living and dying in that Condition it is of no more value than for one Thief or Highway-man to Pardon another of their bloody Crimes none can pardon Sin but God. Good Men may Judg that such and such Men are pardoned upon their Confession or a Church may pronounce in their Cenfure such a one pardoned but none but God can Pardon them Mark 2.7 10. Why doth this man thus speak Blasphemies Who can forgive sins but God that is none have the Power to forgive Sin but God The Jews were right in their Doctrine but they were mistaken in the Person they took our Saviour to be but a meer Man pray mind wh● our Saviour saith But that ye may know that the 〈◊〉

shall be filled with his own ways Eighthly we may observe that altho this Mystery of Iniquity did begin to work even then in the Apostles day yet it was not to come to that full measure and degree of iniquity which it was to come unto until after his death that was not until the Man of Sin should be revealed Act. 20.29 30. Ninthly and lastly it is to be observed that the cause of God's sending this strong delusion unto them was for their abandoning and casting off the Gospel of God which tendered Life and Salvation by Christ's Righteousness unto them and following after lying vanities it was that which provoked God to inflict this sore judgment upon them so that they have eyes and see not and ears and hear not which may very aptly refer to this viz. that these persons have as great natural Gifts and Endowments as other persons have namely Sence Reason and Understanding with all the Intellectuals and Faculties that belong unto men as men but they are not suffered to make use of them upon Spiritual objects or occasions neither will they suffer themselves to make use of them in that way and manner as would most glorifie God and tend to the Salvation of their own souls their Consciences are seared with a hot Iron they have quite lost all Spiritual feeling for tho Sences Reason Understanding and all the Faculties do their work and office yet none of them are to be believed And who are blinder than those that will not see They are just like the Images which they do bow down unto and pray before if not worship them And they have no better Spiritual use of them than a condemned Malefactor has of the temporal use of his legs which only serve to carry him to the place of execution Nay give me leave to tell ye that they have no more use of their Sences Reason and Understanding in Spiritual things than these very Images have which they adore of natural Sences Reason and Understanding 〈…〉 least for look into Psal 115.4 5 6 7 8. Their Idols are silver and gold the work of mens hands they have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not they have ears but they hear not noses have they but they smell not they have hands but they handle not feet have they but they walk not neither speak they through the throat Pray mark the winding up They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them First they have mouths but they must not preach the pure Doctrine of the Gospel of God therewith 2. They have eyes but they must not see the way to Life and Salvation by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ alone with them 3. They have ears but they hear not That is they must not nor will not hear the Preaching of the Gospel with them 4. They have Noses But they must not smell any savour in the holy ways and pure worship of God with them them 5. They have hands but they must not believe them when they tell them that the Bread or Wafer is but Bread and is not flesh nor a material body 6. They have feet But they must not walk to the House of God with them but they will walk to the Idols Temple with them 7. And lastly They have Throats but they must not pray nor speak unto God through them in a right manner according to his will and mind but they pray with them unto Saints departed and preach up the Infallibility of the Church and the Doctrine of Implicite Faith with and to it And thus they come to have eyes and see not and ears and hear not and so are like unto the Images they make and pray to and before and by this means the holy Bible cometh to be a sealed Book unto them Isa 29.10 11 12. And now I leave any one to judg whether this Man of Sin that sitteth in the Temple of God and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped can be the great Turk or whether it can be meant of any sort of Protestants whatsoever for they do not assume any such universal power and dominion or Soveraignty over Kings and Rulers Kingdoms and Nations and over mens souls and consciences But if the Turk be not Antichrist the Man of Sin nor the Protestants then pray who is Antichrist my answer is this viz. I will name no body but I will refer ye to the Scriptural Characters that I have observed and let it be compared to some mens Office and Offices and to their Faith Doctrine Worship Discipline Manners and Practices in the world and they shall answer for me and tell you plainly who Antichrist the Man of Sin is for the Holy Ghost in the Sacred Scriptures have drawn his Effigies or Picture so clear and conspicuous that any man of Gospel-sense or that hath but the use of natural reason may wink with both eyes and tell who the Antichrist is and where he sits for indeed the Holy Scriptures have written his name in his forehead so that we may read the very Scriptures that relate unto him in his Office Doctrines Worship Discipline Practice and Manners as clear and as plain as we may read his Office Doctrines Worship Discipline Practice and Manners by and in the Holy Scriptures Rev. 17.5 6. with which Scripture I shall conclude this Digression viz. And upon her forehead was a name written Mystery Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus Now he that runneth may read who this Man of Sin the Antichrist is if he be not wilfully blind if they will but give themselves leave to adhere to sense and reason I have made a tedious digression by which I have gone a little out of my way but it was to meet with Antichrist the Man of Sin and his Adherents which are all out in the Wilderness with the Woman or deserted Church and Idolatrous worship which doth belong unto him and doth attend upon him God awaken the Kings of the Earth and open their eyes that they also may see and know who this the Antichrist is Rev. 17.16 17 18. that he may ride them no longer But now my Dear Friend although I have taken a very long turn with Antichrist yet I remember my promise unto you viz. That I would meet you again upon our old Topic or Point of Doctrine that we were discoursing upon before I met with Antichrist the Man of Sin namely the Doctrine of Transubstantiation for I have not done with that as yet for I have more considerations to offer against it for the confuting of it the first shall be this viz. Christ saith in Rev. 1.18 I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Pray mistake not for as Christ was