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A48813	An answer to the Bishop of Oxford's reasons for abrogating the test impos'd on all members of Parliament anno 1678, Octob. 30 in these words, I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testifie, and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at, or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation of adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other saint, and the sacrifice of the Dais, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous / by a person of quality.	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1688 (1688)	Wing L2673; ESTC R977	35,814	60

much restored as among the Jews and enforced with further Positive and Ceremonial Sharpness of Laws the Rigors on Offenders were so great as the Bishop has Recounted But yet the mercy of the Gospel and of Christian Religion is such that although in Governments able and equal for it there ought to be no abatement of Severity against the Sin it self yet there is by Christ a Relaxation as to Persons Lives where the most guilty Circumstances of Presumption Obstinacy Danger of bad Example do not inflame the Account of the Evil All means of Conversion and Reformation being first used which is a great justification of the lawfulness and necessity of the Test in a Protestant Government Nevertheless the generality of the Sin hath been at no time too big for Divine Vengeance but that it hath appeared from Heaven upon Idolatrous Powers and Nations when he saw good And the time is approaching when a better State of the renewed World growing on will by degrees but with signal Vials powred out upon the whole Race of Idolaters and their Idolatries make way for the perfection of that Renovation and such a thing as Idolatry will not in one single example be endured For Satan that old Serpent that hath deceiv'd the Nations into it so long will be seal'd up into his own Abyss at the same time But this hath been by way of Digression It is time to return now to the just Remarks that are to be made upon the Bishop's Discourse upon Idolatry so contriv'd as to lead the Unthinking yea the not closely observant Reader thorough a Variety of Matter far off from suspecting the Roman Worship of Idolatries where yet Scripture-Prophesie hath settled it upon its own Base in that Land that is Spiritually called Shinar or Mystical Babylon His Discourse indeed is blended sometimes with better that it may convey more Artificially the intollerably bad sometimes with things doubtful and uncertain that the notoriously False may hope to skulk among them I cannot according to the brevity I have resolv'd retail to the Reader so ambagious or tedious an Account of Idolatry There are two things among his own Notions that if he had taken his Measures by they would have steerd him much better viz. First The observation of the Great Care God took by all his Dealings with his People Descendants from Abraham to secure them by the Mosaick Mediatorship in the acknowledgment of the One God Creator of Heaven and Earth the Universal and most Natural Standard against Idolatry together with those particular assurances of himself to them by his Covenant with Abraham by bringing them out of the Land of Egypt speaking to them out of the Cloud and Fire on Mount Sinai by his filling the Tabernacle with his Glory which is especially to be remark'd both in Moses's Tabernacle and Solomon's Temple as being the true Reason of the Worship toward the Holy of Holies And Secondly the observation of the Sabbath as a peculiar Commemoration of the Creation as also of the further Manifestation of the same true God Creator of Heaven and Earth who was so particularly the God of Abraham's Posterity Had these two Observations together with the Types which the Episcopal Author with Dr. Spencer and other Learned men not without Reason make Fences between Israel and the Idolatrous Nations and their Idolatries or as the Apostle calls it Partition-Wall these would have led to the One Mediator Jesus Christ Who is that very Propitiation and Mercy-Seat of which that in the Holy of Holies was but the Type and for which Type sake the Shecinah or Glory once came and sate in its filling the Temple as between the Cherubims or Attendant Angels Simbolycally Represented in an Adoring Posture stooping down and prying upon the Mercy-Seat as that Type of Christ as the Apostle Peter alludes 1 Pet. 1.12 Worshipping but the Spirits whom they resemble would have abhor'd to be Worshipped As he most injuriously to Truth would bear his Readers in hand if they would be deceived by him Now as Redemption parallell's Creation so the One Mediator the One God as our Lord himself teacheth This is Life Eternal to know Thee the onely true God and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ and so the Apostle tells us There are Gods many and Lords many in the World Counterfeits of the One God and One Mediator As the Heathenish Gods and Baalim or Daimons who were esteem'd a middle Region of Gods or Mediators But to us saith he There is but One God the Father of Whom are all things and we in or for or unto him and One Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him So to Timothy There is One God and One Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus which one God is now known to us as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which Title drinks up as the Antitype doth the Type of the former Titles of the God of Abraham c. of the God that brought from Egypt that sits between the Cherubins that Title indeed of Creator Lord of Heaven and Earth is not in the least ececlips'd but shines together upon and with and in the Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ. And as a Testimony and standing Plea of all this the Sabbath of Creation is remov'd from the Seventh into an Union with the First Day the Sabbath of Redemption or Lord's Day Thus there is as the Apostle John speaks the true God and eternal Life in the very mention of which as foreseeing the great Antichristian Idolatry coming upon the Christian World in other Mediators the same thing with other Gods he makes the Conclusion and Farewel of his Epistle little Children keep your selves from Idols and seal's it with a passionate Amen Now this One God and this one Mediator we are to worship and only to know and only to serv all introducing other Mediators either of Man or of other Creatures as in honour to God to worship Him or Jesus Christ by them join'd with some Ceremonies of a Service as Kneeling Bowing Incensing Invoking c. is Idolatrous And now to draw the whole matter of Idolatry to a conclusion I confess it seems necessary that whoever takes the Test being as the Bishop truly observes of the Alloy of an Oath it is necessary he should take it in Judgment as well as in Righteousness and in Truth That any one may so do it he must carry about him a Gauge or certain Notion of Idolatry and some general knowledge of the Usages of Rome as to the Invocation of the Virgin of Saints the adoration of them in their Images with the Sacrifice of the Mass which by a little enquiry will be easily known if it can be at all unknown to any Persons who can be suppos'd to have possible obligation to take the Test For the Roman Church does not hide its Sin but carries the Title on its Forehead the Title its Idolatrous Fornications and its

Papal Prince carries his Names of Blasphemy Idolatry on her Heads and it is to be earnestly prayed these things may not be more vulgerly known among us against which the Test is one great security To give then in the second place a very short and portable Gauge of Idolatry I should chuse to do it best by all I have said as encas'd or ench●s'd in the very words Superstition and Idolatry truly explain'd The first of which imports any religious Act either to Persons dead as if they were now alive and conversant with us though above as the Virgin Mary or Saints departed or else and as may most agree Super Statutum above the Rule and Law of all religious Actions viz. the very Law and Light of Nature teaching us natural Religion which consists only in the Religion of the Mind and expressed only in the most necessary Rational Latria or Service of our Bodies or else which best explains all Religion to us The Word of God seeing there we find nothing of such Invocation or Adoration so much as in any dark Line of either of these Laws but much written as with a Sun-Beam against them who even knows and believes the Word of God may boldly call the usages of Rome superstitious And as to Idolatry it is the Service to an Apparition of a God to our dark and foolish Imagination for the One God that made Heaven and Earth or the Apparition of a Mediator besides Jesus Christ the One Mediator who redeem'd us by his Death Both which are against the first Commandement for Idolatry is a worship of any thing whatever that is believ'd to be God and Christ from the highest Heavens to the lowestCentre by any Image or sensible Representation as against the second Commandement Now he may be sure of this Idolatry whoever considers the Romish Church falsely so call'd the spiritual Babylon the City made of graven Images so certainly that headed Babylon that in the days of John's receiving the Revelation reign'd over the Kings of the Earth and was then five of its Governments so notorious in History being fallen or gone off from their Principality under its sixth King the Heathen Emperor and for a little space under the Christian Emperor its seventh King but no Head and hath been under its eighth King that was of those seven Kings who were ever Heads ever since the expiration of Augustulus's Line the late Emperor An. Dom. 475. For till Rome be utterly destroy'd and sink like a Milstone into the Sea That eighth King the Beast or Pope shall not be utterly destroyed but Rome and its eighth King shall fall within few years from its Ten-king'd Principalities All which may be thus demonstrated the Bounds of the Prophesies stand eminent and unmoveable even to demonstration viz. the Heathen Empire therein being at one end and the final ruin of Rome at the other in the middle just as the short liv'd Christian Empire expiring run forty two prophetic Months or Times of the Moon amounting to 1222 prophetic years which accounted from 475 must end 1697. Now this Rome and it s so call'd Church is Mysteries of Idolatries and the Pope its Balam or High Priest or Prophet carrying it and so describ'd in the Revelation and the thing there Prophecied so fulfill'd in all Eyes and Ears in the Blasphemies of God and of all that dwell in Heaven by these Idolatries that then can be no hazard if there was liberty to demonstrate the thing as it may be demonstrated It would put Transubstantiation the Worship of the Virgin of Saints and the Adoration of the Mass and its Sacrifice out of all Dispute although the things may be otherwise set enough beyond Controversy yet not so suddenly or surely as by this Prophecy is well explain'd In the mean time to say all in a word I cannot but make great doubt whether the Bishop with so great pretence and yet such thin Sophisms in the room of Reason and with those Unepiscopal Unchristian Ungentile as well as highly Senseless Reflections upon a Person of so great Learning Gravity and Piety in the eyes of the whole Nation as Dr. St. did indeed design any more than to Ridicule what he would seem to Favor things so False so Fallacious so Inconclusive could never else have been so laid together and to carry as it were a fresh Remembrance At the last he concludes his Book under a transparent Tiffany with a downright Falshood viz. As if the not taking the Test did wrap up the Refusers in a Conviction of Recusancy to which purpose he foist's in a part of the Test-Act leaving out what would have convicted him of sensless Fraudulency For he well knows not the Refusal of the Test but the Refusal and yet invading Offices contrary to the Test brings any one under that Conviction Whether therefore he was in earnest or in a Sathanic Fanaticism when he writ all this I much doubt but if he were indeed in earnest he deserves the Character of the weakest of Men in a disguise of a Man of Parts and Learning if not of the most infidelious and dishonest Sophister in the Lawn of a Protestant Bishop But without any railing Accusation against him or any such I pray as I begun the Lord rebuke them DRA LOCNIL FINIS Reas. 1. * Words most injurious to the very Nature of Parliaments Reas. 2. Reas. 3. Assert 1. Deut. 17. * Rev. 11.