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doctrine_n	church_n	faith_n	fundamental_a	4,207	5	10.5039	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80534	The Iesuit, and the monk: or, The serpent, and the dragon: or, Profession, and practice. Being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1656. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C622; Thomason E897_5; ESTC R206691	27,529	33

and crying Some a gastly Countenance accompanied with fury Some a Wandriug flight Others a continual trembling of his Bodie Others a Mark impressed on his forehead as with a hot iron and thus on The Cain's Mark of a Jesuit or Monk when I speak thus of the last of these I speak unwillingly is a Face figuring it self into all the Shapes of a nimble Fancy and a Body that croutches cringes and winds any way every way all waies especially when a Plot 's upon the anvile or when there is Odor lucri any sent of gain or of a good Dinner This Way as it was not the Way of the Saints of God but of the Serpent and of Cain so was it not the Way of the Prince of Saints Christ Jesus And first because when he came into the World as delegated by his Father to direct the World into the good Way his Forerunner cried out John 3. 3. Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths streight Editio Latina The Latin inserts Rectas facite semitas ejus make his paths right Text. Grae●… The Greek word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 right or plain Secondly Christ made his Conquest of the World by a small and simple Herd of poor and plain Disciples Thirdly His Conquest was not effected by the shedding of other mens Bloud but by the patient suffering of his own to be shed In the four Evangelists joyn to them the Acts of the Apostles where have ye the least apparition glimpse or shadow of a Powder-plot It is chronicled of Christ Philip. 2. 8. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross And to this he composes and conforms his Disciples Lu. 9. 23. And he said to them all If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me And if ye will search into his very bowels come to the 15 Chap. of St. Matth. v. 32. Then Jesus called his Disciples unto him and said I have compassion on the multitude He had compassion on the People being hungry both in Body and Spirit and these our Commissioners from Hell would that the People should never have eat more nor have ever thriv'd more in Spirit or Body Text. Grae. The Greek proposes it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is I am mov'd with a great motion of affection and bowels towards the People Vatabl. Therefore Vatablus offers Intimè miseret me turbae I have inwardly and in my very bowels compassion towards the People And hither steers the Exhortation of the Apostle Coloss 3 12. Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bowels of mercies Here Beloved I am in the way to set before you that this Way is no way answerable to their own Profession There is a Book newly published and lately written by a Priest I could name him to you but I am not yet come so far as to name Persons wherein he divides the Doctrine of the Church of Rome which is of Faith and fundamental from the Opinions and various Out-walkings of the Schools He had rendred himself more ingenuous had he divided with an even hand betwixt the Doctrine of the Church of Rome and the practice of the same Church But it is probable that Blessed Opportunity will devolve this Work upon me and I shall dispatch it with as much haste and fidelitie as I can As for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the present time it shall be sufficient to shew that this abominable way is much out of the way of their own hypocritical Profession The Jesuit and the Monk are the Persons I arraign the Jesuit as the most malicious Author and Plotter of the Gunpowder-Treason and the Monk when I think of the Primitive Saints abstracted from the world I sigh and am loth to speak but we are now in a lower Orb as one that hath of late years put off all honesty as a Garment and come up to all the nimble motions of the Jesuit in Falshood and Perfidiousness yea gone before him left him behind and lost him Ye two Jesuit and Monk did ye not hear me sigh can not be ignorant but that I abundantly know you And your own hearts know with me that neither the Indies nor the Dominions of the Great Turk nor the rugged and ragged skirts of the Arabian Deserts nor any other wild place of the World where God is not known can produce two such high-flown and sublimated Men-Dragons as your selves and I shall prove it by your professing as Men and your performing as Dragons First ye profess as soon as ever ye are born into the World that your Conversation shall be white direct simple and innocent For this very purpose ye have put upon you in your Baptism a little white linnen garment in the which your Susceptores implicitly promise for you a plain just and innocent Life S. Aug. S●… 157. de Temp Ye call St. Austin to witnes in this Matter preaching on the Octave of the Pasch which is with you Dominica in Albis the Sunday wherein all newly baptized did appear in their white that they might appear outwardly no more in it Hodiè Neophytorum habitus commutatur ita tamen ut Candor qui de habitu deponitur sempèr in Corde teneatur This day the Habit of the Neophyts that is of the new plants lately baptized is changed yet so that the whiteness of the Garment is tetained in the mind or heart which is afterwards to be manifested in their practice Iobius apud Photium Cod. 222. Jobius in Photius discovers the manner of it Candidum amiculum gerebatur septem dies à baptizato The white garment was worn seven daies of him that was baptized that is from Easter-day to Dominica in Albis being the Sunday that next follows and waits upon Easter-Sunday S. Dionys Areop de Eccl. Hier. cap. de Baptismo To make this strong ye go back as far as Dionysius Areopagita the learned Disciple of St. Paul Ye contend that the white garment not only signifies your whiteness of Soul after Baptism but also relates to your future whiteness of manners and moreover that your whiteness of manners hath anagogical reference to the whiteness of the robes worn in Glory according to St. John in the Revel 3. 4. They shall walk with me in white for they are worthy and v. 5. He that overcometh the same shall be ●lothed in white raiment I pray now How doth your white Garment in Baptism agree with the most Palpable darkness and hideous blackness of the Powder-plot and with all your other execrable Actions Jugglings Conveyances And Are ye of those that shall wear white raiment in Heaven Had a man been indued with the Spirit of Prophecie respectively unto the futurition of your Actions and had likewise been present at your wearing of the white Dress in Baptism he might have happily declar'd