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A47481 The cause & cure of offences in a discourse on Matth. 18:7 / by R. Kingston ... Kingston, Richard, b. 1635? 1682 (1682) Wing K610; ESTC R965 56,152 182

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the discharge of my own Conscience In the rank of offensive Tongues I will first present you with the false Prophet the teacher of Lies which causeth many unstable Souls to erre from the faith once delivered to the Saints the Priests saith Malachi are departed out of the way and then no wonder that the People stumble at Gods Law some fat gobbet those spiritual Guides step aside for and care not whom they mislead for company When Physicians design to purge a Sucking-child they command the Nurse and not the Child to take the Potion that with more safety in the Nurses Milk the Child may receive the benefit of the Medicine The Devil is no less skil'd in poisoning the Babes of Christ for thus the two great Clerks of Rome the voluminous Cardinals and their succeeding Jesuites have infused corrupt Articles into our common Creed have taught people to shake off obedience to their lawful Soveraign and to expect Wreaths of Martyrdom for bloudy Assassinatious 'T is true indeed they call us Hereticks and charge us with Schism in departing from their Communion but these calumnies will easily be blown off and like bullets shot against Heaven fall upon their own heads for we withdrew not from them till they gave the offence by departing from the Catholick Faith And to prove this I need no other testimony than their Tridentine Creed which in those Articles wherein they differ from the Church of England is neither true ancient nor Catholick but an entire Apostacy from it and without controversie is the most Catholick and greatest Heresie in the Christian-world View it first in their Doctrine of Transubstantiation an Opinion that upon due examination and choice no man can embrace without reproaching his Maker and Redeemer by renouncing his very Reason and outward Senses For to make me believe that to be Flesh which I see and taste is Bread is to turn fool or madman and for an unwarrantable Faith forfeit both my Reason and Sense and by the same reason they would justifie this fond and absurd Notion a man may as well believe the Picture of a man to be the man himself If the Church of Rome would lay aside their Fire and Faggot the strongest argument that ever yet they brought to prove it and tell us which of Christs Bodies it is that is corporeally in the Sacrament whether his glorifi'd or not glorifi'd body and clear it from all those monstrous absurdities which that opinion is guilty of they would greatly oblige us for till they have done this they must give us leave to believe it a real and substantial contradiction And notwithstanding Gods solemn prohibition against the worship of Images delivered in fire with Thunder and Lightening on the Mount Deu. 27.15 yet in a direct opposition the Church of Rome command under dreadful Anathema's that religious worship be given to them Jo. Azor. tom 1. lib. 9. c. 6. Aquinas says that the same Worship is to be given to the Image of Christ as to Christ himself Sum. par 3. q. 25. art 3. And this is avouch'd by Pedro de Cabrera super loc to be the Doctrine of their whole Church and the contrary to be heretical Zac. Bovir par 2. reg 1. p. 189. Thus impudently sacrilegious dare they be though the Scripture saith Cursed be all they that worship graven Images and boast themselves of Idols Deut. 27.15 Again the Church of Rome forbids the use of the sacred Oracles to Laicks Concil Trident 22. Sess c. 8. 9 Canon Ind. expur regul 5. and hath therefore placed the holy Bible in the front of prohibited Books and Anathematiz'd all those that should dare to translate it into any Language vulgarly intelligible and to strengthen this ungodly Decree the Sons of that Church have superadded many slight and undervaluing expressions tending to lessen the esteem of God's holy Word One tells us that if the Scriptures were not strengthned by the authority of the Church they were of no more value than Aesops Fables Vid. Chemnit exam de S. Canon p. 47. Another of their Authors inriched with the same brazen modesty says that the people were permitted to read God's Word was the invention of the Devil Peris de tradit par assert 3. Blush O Heavens and be astonished O Earth at such daring impieties Tell it not in Gath nor in the Streets of Askelon lest whole Christianity be stigmatiz'd for a delusion through the wickedness of those that bear the world in hand they are the onely Catholick Christians The Doctrine of deposing Kings disposing their Kingdoms and authorizing Subjects to destroy their lawful Soveraign they not onely stoutly deny even to death but accuse us of scandalizing both them and their Religion in charging the act of one man as a blemish on the whole Church And for the more credit to their charge they vapour with a Decree of the Council of Constance which as they say forbids the murder of Crown'd Heads Concil Const Sess 15. 'T is true by this Council the Murder of Kings is covertly forbidden but tacitely implied for it onely makes the horrid act unlawful where it wants the Judges Sentence But if his Holiness or any General of an Order sentence them it renders the proditorious act not onely Lawful but Meritorious And that this was but the opinion of one man viz. Mariana is a grand mistake for 't is a Doctrine taught in their Schools justified by their Practices and maintained in their Writings as might be made appear from Ribadenira Becanus Windects Stapleton and the rest of that lawless herd of Ignatian Casuists Nay 't is a Doctrine whose bloudy hand can never be concealed nor the stain wash'd off from their Church whilst the triumphant Oration of Pope Sixtus the Fifth continues extant in the world which he made to his Cardinals in the Consistory upon the barbarous Assassination of Henry the Third of France after he was stab'd to death by Clement a Dominican Fryer assimilating it with the mystery of the Incarnation and Resurrection and with the acts of Judeth and Eleazar Again When Gerrard design'd the Murther of the Prince of Orange he had encouragement and blessing from the Warden of the Fryers at Tourny and the Jesuit his Apologist says That Gerrard did that deed pour la bien de vertu Campian the Jesuit having Command from Rome and associated by William Parry conspired the death of Queen Elizabeth Gordon Chreiton and Abercany Jesuits plotted the death of King James and this traiterous design was forwarded by two Breves from Clement the Eighth and Cardinal Bellarmin calls Garnet and his fellow Oldcorn Martyrs and for such are Register'd in the Jesuits Catalogue of Martyrs Printed at Rome 1607. Of these sanguinary Attempts I could give you instances usque ad nauseam but for the present let these suffice What hath been said I hope is sufficient to prove that their bloudy Tenent of King-killing is not