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A soveraign counter-poyson prepared by a faithfull hand for the speedy revivscence of Andrew Sall late sacrilegious apostat ... / Contriv'd by J. E.
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J. E.
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1674
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Wing E16; ESTC R171890
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left destitute and naked stripped of all light life grace blessing and goodness before call'd by the hand of God to a most high and soveraigne dignity and honour now blindly fallen from that most lamentably to the devils jaws before an obedient child now factus liberâ— voti-fragus before a chaste and Evangelical Missioner now sacrilegus scortator before reputed an honest man questuosus mercator now fugitivus Apostata seditiosus sectarius factus before rasi'd from a Sall to be a Paul a preacher of the word and pennance now turn'd to be a Sall persecuting warring in a most furious manner against the heavenly fortress of true faith the pillar and foundation of truth and so become a wretched Iying and vile protestant wallowing like a nasty sordid and stinking sow in the mire of liberty libidinous lust pride and concupiscence retire retire poor Andrew to your interiour man have a care of your drooping soul minde eternity fieres si scires tuum tua tempora mensem rides cum non sit forsitan una dies Micheas understanding that he was rob'd of his domestick Idols ran after the Robbers crying most lamentably and being questioned what was the matter with him and why did he cry mourn and lament he answered my gods which I made for my self are stolen away my priesthood which were all my riches and comfort Jud. 18. all what ever was dear unto me taken away from me therefore why should I not mourn I ask if this wretch kept such a deplorable stir for having lost but Idols he vainly imagined that losing them he lost all that had been precious unto him oh Andrew why will you not grieve cry mourn and with bitter tears lament the losse of the true living and dreadfull God for the losse of divine grace of your sacred function of your fame and estimation security of conscience and the peace of your heart the pledge of eternal glory O madness O blindness oh woful catastrophe of apostasy Oh poor Andrew you fell from the mother-Church grounded not on sands or quagmires as protestanism into which you miserably declin'd you imagine to impugn and beat down the glory lustre and triumph of the same alas alas all your venome you may spit and bark like a mastiff and fill the ears of your deluded audients with those â—ould railing and lying empty assertions calling the Roman Church superstitious erroneous the horrid beast and the whore of Babilon and such like sapius indies repetita in your tub-pulpits but all signifies nothing but to heap judgments and confusion on your head oh Andrew all shall recoile upon you Niteris incassum Petri submergere Navem fluctuat ast nunquam mergitur illa Ratis you deserted a Church in which onely is Faith Religion priests Sacrifice Altars Sacraments and Reall Remission not onely of original sinne but also of actual mortal sins all which is excluded and exploded and quite abolished by your protestant Sect as it 's prov'd in the Reasonable Reply to the seasonable discourse you deserted a Church out of which there are no sure inducements or means for salvation for there can be but one true Church left by Christ out of which no assurance of his doctrine nor of the divine ordinance instituted by him for salvation mark pray what S. Joh. 10. says erit unum ovile unus pastor there will be one fold and one pastor one fold ordained by Christ that is one visible Congregation of men in a common union of one faith and government under one visible pastor Universal Vice-gerent of Christ and undoubted Successor of S. Peter with true Orthodox preachers with all other sacred ordinances obliging all faithful under pain of eternal damnation to embrace follow and practise the same with an absolute promise to maintain it to the end of the world by divine protection but alas poor Andrew you well know in your Conscience that no other Sect or visible Congregation could yet have or enjoy these divine and supernatural qualifications and heavenly perfections but only the Roman Catholick Church therefore the same and no other is the one fold and one congregation enjoying without intermission one Visible Universal pastor in communion with one faith necessary for salvation Further this Church onely hath a visible head â—nder an invisible head Christ tu es Petrus super hanc Petram c. the delivering the Keys of heaven to Peter is nought else but a full and soveraign power for to govern the Church to him said Christ pasce oves â—eas tu aliquando confirma fratres tuos â—o one of the other Apostles were these words intimated but to Peter only hereticks will reply that all the Apostles received plenary power for binding and absolving I answer that the rest of the Apostles received immediatly that power from Christ yet the power of Peter has been more absolute and excellent because he received that power as ordinary which thereore did flow and doth passe to his Successors the rest of the Apostles only received a delegate power which do not passe to theiâ— successors but is in them expired and sâ— S. Peters power was absolute and the highest to which the power of the rest had alâ— ways as annexed to it a kinde of subordination and subjection to Peter to whom only Christ said tibi dabo claves pasce ovemeas agnos meos confirma fratres tuoâ— against which the gates of hell shall neveâ— prevail that is neither Turks Pagans Jews Hereticks nor wicked livers shalâ— never beat it down hence he is called caput omnium Ecclesiarum potestate authoritate Vniversalis Patriarcha Mater omnium summus Pontifex Apostolicae sedis Antistes Ecclesiae Pater Rector Caput anâ— Justinianus the Emperour said of him summi Pontificatus apicem apud Romam esse nemest qui dubitet ad Romanam fidem perfidia noâ— habet accessum because Christ said rogavâ— pro se Petre ut non deficiat fides tua and thiâ— moved S. Jerom to say that true Religion cannot be conserved without the Empire oâ— a head or great authority of an universalâ— Pastor and Vice-gerent of Christ Ecclesisalus a summi sacerdotis dignitate dependeâ—â— without which there will be made daily in finite schisms divisions and subdivisions iâ— kingdoms as we may see now in pooâ— England so as the true Church hath two heads one invisible viz. Christ fundamentum aliud nemo potest ponere praeter id quod posttum est quod est Christus who is fundamentum fundamentorum but Peter is the second cleaving to Christ and placed on Christ we believe in the first principal head or fundamental stone Christ the second Peter wee onely obey Christ is the primary foundation basis and prop of our faith because we believe all those things to be true which he as the first infallible verity did reveal to be believed we believe God to be one and three the word made flesh and so forth not that Peter Paul
carnal childish sences and to turn your self to your mother the Roman Catholick Church wherein only is true faith Religion grace and true comfort to be found opus annorum multorum perdidisti arise and rouse from your dismall Apostasy An Appendix IN the great and most important affairs of faith all on all sides agree that they are bound on pain of damnation to believe all truths sufficiently propounded to them as revealed of God and to obey and submit to that Guide Rule Judge and Authority which God hath instituted and appointed to teach and govern them the reason is because whosoever denies any thing sufficiently propounded to be revealed by God denies Gods veracity and makes him a lyar No protestant can shew any other reason why by denying the Trinity and unity or the Incarnation Gods veracity is denied and God thereby made a liar but because the Trinity and Incarnation are sufficiently propounded as divine Revelations therefore the Real Presence prayer to Saints the Papes Supremacy auricular confession purgatory c. being without doubt as sufficiently propounded in the Scripture as those mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation by denying which Gods Veracity must be also denied and so God made a lyar See in chap. 16.12 when the spirit of Truth is come he will guide you into all truth but all truth excludes all errours and this for ever which was to be longer then the Apostles were to live If you Andrew enquire by what means this teaching shall be by whom all people shall be taught all truths and shall be preserved from all errours S. Paul will tell you Eph. 4.11 He gave some Apostles succeeding in full Apostolical authority some Prophets expounders of the prophets some Evangelists preachers of the Gospel some Pastors and Teachers to what end for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ for what time or how long till we all come in the union of faith now Andrew you may ask will these secure us the very next verse tells you that henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro with every winde of doctrine by the slieght of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lie in wait to deceive as you lately have been most shamefully by the slieghts of Satan and his Instruments pride lust and avarice hurried away from Christs unerring Church wherein only are manifestly seen unfeigned miracles sanctity of life efficacy of doctrine admirable repentance of sinners conversions of people and Nations unity stability perpetuity uninterrupted succession of lawfull pastors which cannot be found in your protestant sect these are such heavenly marks as are impossible for God to affix unto a lie which is as impossible as to set his hand and seal to the confirmation of falshood according to the Rule of Gamaliel If it be of God it will hold the faith of Roman-Catholicks holds and daily grows more numerous in her proselites when the unsteady wavering protestant pitiful sect daily changes like the Camelion from one false doctrine to another which occasioned the most illustrious Marquesse Badensis from a Lutheran to become a Roman-Catholick the same instability of hereticks scoffed and laugh'd at by Fredericus great Duke of Saxony at a time being questioned by a familiar friend what did his Lutherans believe he answered quid hoc anno credunt scio quid vero credituri sint anno sequenti nescio nec ipsimet sciunt no wonder having lost their ground their rule their un-erring Judge the Roman-Catholick Church some years past the protestants in England according to their first institution did observe the Lent exactly and also were accustomed to fast from meat on Frydays Saturdays but alas all that is forgorten all is chang'd nothing permanent among them but persecution of the Roman-Catholicks yet to observe the Lent and to abstain from meat the forty days of Lent withal on Frydays and Saturdays would much conduce to the weal-publick for the growth of cattle and for the comfort of poor people meat being so excessive dear for not observing the fasts on those holy times not speaking of the infinite comfort and encreaâ—e of blessings both to soul and body which daily accrew to Kingdoms where the Lent and Frydays and Saturdays are duely observed and fasted in the Roman-Cath Church Now Andrew I conjure you in the bowels of Charity to learn by heart that most heavenly lesson of Christ Jesus viz. Learn of me for I am meek and humble of heart in order to this remember S. John 4.6 We are of God He that heareth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth us not hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of errour Andrew nothing was required to distinguish those two spirits but to hear or to refuse to hear the Apostolical Teachers Lo S. Paul saith Faith comes by hearing it will be as necessary now for you to hear in these our times those that are lawfully commissioned to teach as it was in the time of the Apostles Come along therefore return to your Mother your true un erring guide fly away from Babylon and save your soul begin to curse the day that you began to curse and dishonour your true Mother in imitation of that great Heresiarch Calvin who consuming with intolerable stench from vermine cryed out aloud saying Maledicta dies qnae primum studio scriptioni falsae me adduxit Bolsecus in vita Calvini haec te horrenda moveant terreant from appearing against truth and the faith of Christ for vain oftentation for sordid gain for to please men and displease the all-seeing God O Andrew how come you to forsake your true mother the Roman-Catholick Church which is the womb of your beginning and bosome of your repose and fall into the cruel hands of a false mother and harlot I pray observe 3. Reg. how two harlots came to Solomon for to decide the controversie between them about a living child the one alledging it was hers and the other also alledging the childe belonged to her the King said bring me a sword and they brought a sword before the King and the King said divide the living childe in two and give half to one and half to the other then spake the woman whose the living childe was for her bowels yerned toward her son saying O my Lord give her the living childe and in no wise slay it but the other the false mother said let it not be mine or thine but divide it then the King out of his wisedom said give her the childe slay it not she is mother thereof because she has true love to her childe and will not have it divided your soul is a childe which is claim'd by two Mothers the Roman-Catholick Chhrch and the pretended Church of Protestants how shall we finde out the true mother from the false one by Solomons dividatur infans let the childe be divided in two the