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duty_n	day_n	holy_a	keep_v	4,585	5	6.3970	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77848	Romes cruelty & apostacie: declared in a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1644. Before the Honourable House of Commons. By Anthony Burgess, pastour of Sutton Coldfield; a Member of the Assembly.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5655; Thomason E19_16; ESTC R12627	13,497	28

the feare of death by all which meanes he at last deceived her 1. Their Doctrine is pleasing to flesh It is good for the world to know why all sorts of men are so apt for Popery Not long since when there were altars and images brought into our Churches what a generall willingnesse was there in people but now to have such things removed what madnesse doth it worke in men and how doe they cry as children for their babies again Doe but consider their doctrines extenuating Originall sinne making motions to sinne unconsented to no sinne That a man hath power to keep the Commandements That the Commandement to love God binds only at sometimes Scotus as I take it only on holy-holy-dayes That actuall inadvenrtency in holy duties doth not hinder the fruit of them That if a man drinke till he be giddy and the roome runne round it is no drunkennesse That Prayers said in Latine though we doe not understand them are accepted That the devout man who in his prayer said Miserere tui Domine for mei yet had good devotion and was acceptable to God 2. Their worship is outwardly sensible Thus when they had taken away the Scripture they set pictures up in their roome now this pleaseth the common people Homo est magis sensus quam intellectus it was Aristotles speech Herein the popish religion doth much gratifie the ignorant people The people of Israel cryed out for gods that might goe before them To worship in spirit and truth can be no more understood by them then the eye can see a spirit 3. Their piety extends to externall acts for if we observe all their Theologie its like that of the Pharisees to look to the externall acts not regarding the inward grace but as he that would have set up his picture and it would not stand cryed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There wants something within the same may be said of all their prayers and religious performances There wants something within 4. They make the Ordinances of God to conferre grace ex opere operato whereby they take men off from being heart and soul-Christians Hence they speake of Sacraments as we would of some Physick or potion that hath an inward naturall force and efficacy to produce such an effect 5. They have custome and antiquity for them many of their foolish and superstitious customes are some hundred yeares old and what fathers and grandfathers have done it is hard not to admire and certainly had not the Scripture foretold what an Eclipse would be upon the whole Church we would thinke it impossible that such ridiculous things should be taken up Because Christ is the Light therefore they have light at noone-dayes Because Christ said we must be like children therefore the Monkes weare Cowles like childrens swadling-clouts and one Pope as Bishop Abbot relateth it made a serious motion in the Conclave that he and the Cardinals might ride on a solemne day on Asses to imitate Christs humility but the Conclave thought the Asse rode the Pope too much already 6. They have the greater part of the world And he must needs have a peremptory spirit that doth not follow a multitude to doe evill It is a signe he hath life in him that will swimme against the streame A man is a sociable creature even in errours as well as any thing else 7. They commend ignorance By this meanes whereas God can make stones the children of Abraham these make the children of Abraham stones and the people they love to have it so for this freeth them from Catechismes and Bibles Therefore the way to keepe out Popery is to incourage Learning The heathens in their sacrifice to Apollo offered Ivie to him to shew that Learning could not grow unlesse the Magistrates would beare it up God forbid therefore that ever you should discourage it for at the same time when God brought truth into the world humane literature flourished and was a great help thereunto 8. They pretend to Miracles and by this meanes they have deluded a world of people It is said he should bring downe fire from Heaven though that which he would have done to day was a contrary wonder Ignis de terra fire from under the earth And although Austin said that he who would look now for Miracles he himselfe was a great Miracle yet they make them as the essentiall notes of the Church Use of Instruction how necessary it is to reforme from Popery leave off your contentions one with another and set upon this common adversary Learne of the very Romanes who though sometimes at deadly enmity one with another yet would deponere inimicitias till they had done the publike service How can you ever indure that these trumperies and idolatries should be brought in againe Humble your selves that Parliaments heretofore have not done them Let not Parliament sinnes in ages heretofore come upon your score How often doe the people of Israel bewaile their owne sinnes and the sinnes of their fathers doe you confesse your own sinnes of unwillingnesse of coldnesse in this worke and the sinnes of your Ancestors It is to be feared that many of you have not got that zeale for the purity of Gods Ordinances and Worship as ought to be And in the carrying on of this take heed of two fatall rockes 1. A sinfull moderation 2. A popish Tyranny A popish Tyranny is when any doe appropriate and inclose to themselves such a power which Christ hath not at all given or if he have given it he hath communicated it to more then one This hath been the cause of much schisme and contention in the Church of God Christ hath invested the Officers of his Church with sufficient spirituall power for the attaining of that spirituall benefit which they are to look for and therefore doe you being Magistrates confirme them in it The second is moderation and there are these sorts 1. A Cassandrean moderation and that is when men make an hodge-potch in Religion and plow with an Oxe and Asse Howsoever Grotius doth much extoll Cassander and Erasmus whom Bellarmine called semichristianum yet we ought not to loose a letter or syllable of truth to gaine all the world and so Wicelius did tertiam religionem and mediam meditari and therefore did bitterly at the same time write against Papists and Luther too and howsoever Melancthon was thought to be rather medius then moderate yet he is wronged for he vehemently opposed the Emperors Interim It is better to have dissention for truths sake then a sinfull accord Agreement can never be made of the mixture of errour and Truth we have a famous instance for this of the Orthodox and the Arrians Syrmiensis Synodus in humane wisedome to quench the fire raised by the Arrians did conclude an ambiguous forme that so both parties might have their senses and therefore whereas it was used to be read in the Creed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they would have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉