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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33089	Rome's additions to Christianity shewn to be inconsistent with the true design of so spiritual a religion in a sermon preached at Edinburgh, in the east-church of St. Giles. Feb. 14. 1686 : to which is prefixt a letter, vindicating it from the misrepresentations of some of the Romish-Church / by James Canaries ...	Canaries, James.	1686 (1686)	Wing C421; ESTC R11810	26,945	42

People to draw the most ugly and so most false characters of that Religion which we can only scold at but not refute It is pretty indeed to see the chase so turned For the piae fraudes were wont to be as much the professed as peculiar Doctrine and Practice of their own Church We thank God ours needs no such Supporters And our Auditours are not so much kept in ignorance as to be easily impos'd upon And now Sir you have the Sermon And if it appear not by it that whatever I have charged them withall is if not the direct Doctrine of the Council of Trent yet at least the most common sentiment of their Doctors and that all my Deductions are truly consequential and just then I shall willingly submit to your censure which will be more severe to me than any that my avowed enemies can inflict Now Sir to complete all it is said that I should have been civil to a Religion I was once of 'T is true I went abroad about nine years ago scarcely being then of Age and very unsetled in my judgment and unripe in my Reason and then I was abused by the Sophistry of some Jesuits several unlucky circumstances concurring to favour their ill designs upon me And thus I continued with them till towards three years that through the mercy of God I was brought back again to that pure and reasonable Religion from which I had so foolishly Apostatiz'd And indeed I was not long at Rome when I began to discover what a lamentable change I had made For to any ingenuous Man there can hardly be a more convincing demonstration than that Ocular one which is daily to be seen there So that if Papists will deal prudently with their new Proselytes they 'll be very wary to send them too soon unto that place But in all this my case was but such as if one in a violent Fever should through his raving distemper cry out that he was a Papist but so soon as he recovered his senses and judgment again would scarcely believe he was ever so wonderfully transported by his disease and was mightily astonished that even in those Paroxysms he could run so far beside himself Now why should either they have any thing to brag that one in a very resembling condition was so greatly deluded or should I owe any other civility to that Religion now but to let all the World see how much ground I had to forsake it But sure I am I was never uncivil to any person of that Religion but have ever made it my business to acquit my self toward them of all the obligations they ever laid upon me But Sir you 'll perhaps wonder that after there was no more to be said against the Sermon or directly against me because of it they should come at last in the general to vent themselves against my having abandon'd their Communion alledging that I was influenc'd by other Motives than those which are proper for Religion I am not to fix measures to any bodies charity But God is the searcher of all hearts and I have a Soul to answer unto him for whatever I do here in the Body when that great day of accounts shall come wherein the Motives upon which all Men do embrace their Religion will be laid open and made manifest But Sir to satisfie the World I have this to say that I am ready upon all occasions to give a reason for the hope that is in me to every body that shall ask about it So that I doubt not to shew and I promise my self that this Sermon will partly do it that whatever were my Motives yet I have done what was just and reasonable in it self and what I ought to have done however Yet nothing they can say shall ever trouble or surprize me for I know that it is through good report and evil report that I must enter into the Kingdom of God And it is my comfort that there is a blessing annext to us when men shall revile us and persecute us and shall say all manner of evil against us falsly for Christ's sake But in fine Sir to return to the chief occasion of this long Letter which I had never ventured upon without your express Command so long as those Jesuits and Priests and other truckling Emissaries of Rome continue to busie themselves so extraordinarily in promoting their Faith as they have done of late they will always furnish their Ministers with Apology enough for preaching against Popery For how can we betray our trust so grosly as to suffer our People to be shamm'd away from us by the crafty insinuations of a Set of Men who are incessant upon all occasions to advance their design without doing what in us lyes to prevent any inconsiderable mischief that may happen to our Church that way as if we were no farther concerned than to be mere Spectators of the affair So that it is not out of the least apprehension that Popery will ever be impos'd upon us by our King that we Preach and Exhort against it No certainly For we look upon our selves as no less secure upon that head than it is possible for us to be having all our Laws in favour of our Religion confirmed to us by his Gratious Sanction and being fully encouraged in that Royal Promise of which we cannot doubt before we be heinously guilty of a very great wickedness and sin But because some eminent defections give us alas but too good ground to fear that the endeavours of these our restless Enemies may prove too successfull with many whose pliant inclinations upon what Motives themselves know best and I will not presume to determine sufficiently disposeth for that Religion And that my Sermon did but too luckily hit the juncture of that day wherein it was preach'd you will certainly acknowledge when you know that on that very day a Presbyter of our Church abjur'd its Communion Had therefore the Ministers of Christ's Gospel ever more reason to bestir themselves in maintaining and defending the truth of it than in these our circumstances That therefore we have since these few Months appear'd somewhat more zealous than ordinarily against Popery others than we ought to be thanked for it these having forc'd us either to be perfidious to our God and his Son whose Ministers we are or else to preach against that Religion which we saw was like to become so common and ala-mode Thus Sir I do endeavour to vindicate my Self and Sermon and I have written more largely to you not only to approve my self to one of my best friends but also because I know that you 'll represent these things in my behalf wherever you hear these Objections made against me But whatever those Gentlemen shall say I am resolved to shelter my self in the peace of a good conscience and the protection of the justest King on this side Heaven After all this Sir I must beg Galat. v. 6. For in Jesus Christ neither