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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31245	The truth and excellence of the Christian religion, with the corruptions and additions of the Romish Church a discourse, wherein the pre-eminence of Christianity is demonstrated above the religion of Jews or heathens, and the contradiction of popery to its main articles : and that religion prov'd in many instances to be a mixture of heathenish superstitions, and Jewish ceremonies : with a short vindication of Christian loyalty, and a brief historical account of Romish treasons and usurpations, since the Reformation / by a hearty professor of Reformed Catholick Christianity.	S. C.	1685 (1685)	Wing C126; ESTC R22983	60,383	154

have they destroy'd that trust we ought to place on God alone by teaching men to rely on Creatures and damp'd well-grounded hopes of Heaven by unreasonable fears of Purgatory How have they taken off all necessity of Faith in Christ by their Doctrine of implicite Faith and while they teach the salvability of Heathens will not allow that any Christian can be sav'd who is not a Subject to the Pope and thus a belief in him is more necessary than in the Lord Jesus I might give many instances out of their Casuists how they make it unnecessary to love God above once a year and if they say their Prayers no matter whether they attend to them or no. The Duties of Justice and common Honesty are as perfectly overthrown by the nice Distinctions of Rome Their maintaining it lawful to exercise Revenge and Kill him that hath injur'd us in Honour Goods or Reputation is certainly no way own'd by our Saviour who commands us to love our Enemies and do good to them that hate us by no means to avenge our selves but to overcome evil with good That Latitude of uncleanness and immodesty allow'd in their Books is but a very bad Comment upon that Text. He that looks upon a Woman to Lust after her hath committed Adultry already with her in his heart Neither were they ever incourag'd by him who said Thou shalt not for swear thy self to falsifie their Oaths or violate their Faith with Hereticks The great pattern of meekness and compassion that check'd his Disciples fiery zeal against the Samaritans with Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of Never encourag'd their envenom'd rage against Dissenters from them Never encourag'd their Gibbets Stakes or Inquisition Nor did he command that all should be tortur'd with the most bloody Cruelty who are so obstinately sullen as to refuse to stoop to a Wafer-Cake and believe their own senses before his Holiness They have turn'd Nupitals into Massacres and at the conclusion of Wedding-Feasts have not transubstantiated but exchang'd Wine for Blood They have treacherously murder'd thousands of Innocents and blasphemously sung praises to God as if he were the Author of those Villanies which are highly-displeasing to him and abominably odious in his sight The Gospel teaches us to maintain the most diffusive unbounded Charity towards all the world but they have consin'd their love within the Walls of Rome And like the Pharisees of old will allow no Salvation to any other Christians that will not submit to the usurpations of their High-Priest and Sanhedrim The Christian Religion is design'd to abate our pride and cure our selfishness But the great design of these men is to aggrandize their Church and promote the Secular interests of the Clergy Heavenly-mindedness and self-denial is every where urg'd in the Gospel But that the great corruptions for which we accuse the Church of Rome do plainly aim at a worldly interest may easily appear by an induction of the particulars I have already discours'd of And tho there are many Cloyster'd Votaries among them that make great boasts of their mortification who pretend to bid adien to the world and all its flattering vanities who pretend to spend their whole time in devotion and dressing their Souls for Heaven yet all this may be a juggle and cheat to blind the world Pharisaical and not Evangelical And if we might be allow'd to search their Cells and Abbeys we might perhaps find they have been more careful to lay up Treasures on Earth than Heaven true Mortification is chiefly inward but theirs is mostly in externals Their Religion lies no deeper than their skins and tho the Apostle tells us that this bodily exercise profiteth little yet they make it the very sum of their self-denial Thus have they Evacuated the great duties of our Religion And tho I cannot say that all these are Doctrines defin'd by their Councils and in that sense to be subscrib'd to by all that Communion Yet they are publickly Printed by their Casuists and the order of Jesuites who most propagate them are most encourag'd And while a denier of Transubstantiation shall be Sacrific'd to the Flames these debauchers of the World enjoy the best Ecclesiastical Promotions I might have enlarg'd in further instances but he that desires more may read enough to turn his stomach in Taylors Disswasive from Popery the Practical Divinity of the Papists to omit the Mystery of Jesuitism and the Jesuits Morals He that Reads those collections out of their own Authors will find that the Pious and Judicious Dr. Tillotson did not go beyond the bounds of his wonted moderation when he us'd these seemingly harsh expressions * Sermon on 5th Nov. -78. I speak it with grief says he and shame because the credit of our common Christianity is some way concern'd in it That Panaetius and Antipater and Diogenes the Stoick Tully and Plutarch and Seneca were much honester and more Christian Casuists than the Jesuits or the generality of the Casuists of any other Order that I know of in the Church of Rome Thus have I appli'd the first sense of these words to these men and I think sufficiently proved That they have overturned the whole design of the Gospel I proceed therefore to inquire Whether they can produce any divine commission for these great alterations they have made Are their Doctrines reasonable or have they any intrinsick excellence to commend them The Doctrines of the Apostles were highly reasonable and their worth and excellence attracted every unprejudic'd person But theirs are plainly absur'd and irrational such as none but the wilfully blind and resolvedly obstinate can believe For is it reasonable to worship the incomprehensible God by Images of Wood and Stone and to give the same veneration to Creatures that we do to the Lord of Angels and Men Is it reasonable to adore a Wafer-cake or imagine that the charming words of a Priest can fetch down the Body of Christ from Heaven and convey away the Bread in an instant Is it reasonable to believe that Christs Body may be in a thousand places at once that it may be divided not into parts but wholes and crowded into every crumb of the consecrated Wafer Is it reasonable to believe these and a 1000 more fulsome contradictions which that hard word Transubstantiation implies Is it reasonable to worship a spiritual Being with gay ceremonies and all the little pieces of soppery us'd in their worship Is it reasonable to believe that God should be so fond of the City of Rome that the Bishop thereof tho never so notorious for ignorance and villany shall become infallible Is it reasonable to believe that Absolution can change Attrition into effectual Repentance and the Omnipotent Words of a Priest conjure a man to Heaven in an instant But the world knows how the Jesuit Veronius hath implicitely confess'd Reason not to be on their side who presented the world with a new method more promising than ordinary