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A36373	Observations concerning the present state of religion in the Romish Church, with some reflections upon them made in a journey through some provinces of Germany, in the year 1698 : as also an account of what seemed most remarkable in those countries / by Theophilus Dorrington ...	Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.	1699 (1699)	Wing D1944; ESTC R8762	234,976	442

I might see elsewhere Things succeeded in some Measure according to my Wish I found I could be spar'd from the Family I was in and easily obtain'd leave to be absent for a little while I resolv'd to improve my time as well as I could and directed my Course to such Places within a little Compass as I thought fittest to afford me the Matter of such Observations as I sought for Thus I came to be furnish'd with the Materials which are here put together I now resolve to publish them for several Reasons and hope they may be serviceable to several important Purposes We have indeed especially the Vnlearned Part of the Nation forgotten what the Popish Religion is in Truth And there is an Ignorance of this among us which gives us a great deal of Disturbance and which does a great deal of Harm For hereby some things among us are cried out against with a mighty Ardour and Fierceness as Popish which are truely Innocent and Vseful and which are deriv'd from the most pious and purest Times of Primitive Christianity And on the other side some things both in Doctrine and Practice are fondly hugg'd and stickled for by the same People who make that unreasonable Out cry which were brought in with and do truely belong to the Corruptions of the Roman Church These People want to have their Notions rectify'd and their Idea of Popery corrected and made more accurate and just by a distinct Representation of the Particulars which will give the true Character of it There are very unhappy Consequences and Effects of this Mistake Some of the Reform'd Churches abroad who do not know distinctly the State of ours are prejudiced against us by the Writings and Reports of these foolish People as having a World of the Popish Superstition and Corruption still among us and as being very tenacious and fond of it And they cannot think us fit for their Correspondence in order to our mutual Defence upon that score Besides the Influence which our Church and Nation might have abroad towards the Defence and perhaps the propagating and promoting of the Reformation is hereby much abated at least if I may not say 't is wholly lost while so many among us apply all their Concern and Endeavour in Caballing against and Seeking to undermine and throw down an Imaginary Popery in the Church of England That Influence might be very considerable if there were a Concurrence of all Parties towards it by the Help of our Extensive Trade and with the Advantage in respect of Learning which our Vniversities and Clergy have over the greatest Part of if I may not say all the Church of Rome But especially under the Conduct and Management of an Excellent Prince who has so wise and just and so great a Zeal for the Honour and Interest of the Reformation in General as his present Majesty has and who has the greatest Renown and Glory and the most extended Interest of any Monarch in the World whom God grant long to Reign over us and to have yet more Influence by his Great Wisdom and Glorious Vertues among us It is an Amazement that amidst all our Jealousies especially since they have most abounded we should never to any Purpose fall upon this to suspect that the Jesuits and Romish Emissaries do in Disguise promote our Divisions on purpose to hinder any such Vnanimous Concurrence amongst us against them We have indeed a Zeal against Popery amongst us but as much of it is lost by a Mistake in the Object so I doubt a great deal of the rest in the Wise Men of the World is of less Effect and Extent than it might and ought to be for want of a due and right Principle I wish it be not their only Concern to secure themselves from the Losses they might sustain in their just Liberties and their Properties if it were imposed upon them at home and that they be not too regardless what becomes of the Reformation in other Parts of the World It seems indeed easie to see but even Wise Men sometimes look too intently upon one thing that while the Protestant Religion is destroy'd by degrees abroad and one Part of the Reformation after another is trodden down the common Interest of it must be weaker and weaker and it must be less able to subsist with us at home It is the great Concern of all sorts of Persons on the other side to promote and propagate their own Religion and to extirpate ours Among them 't is not only the villanous Treacheries and Plots of Jesuits that are employ'd in the Work 't is not the Wheedles of the other Missionary Monks alone or the Business of those who seem to make the greatest Gain of propagating their Religion but even Princes have applyed their utmost Power and have hazarded or lost and almost ruin'd their Dominions in their Zeal to serve their Cause And the greatest Statesmen have found time to consider and serve this amidst their most Important Affairs They concern themselves to extirpate the Protestant Religion not only out of the Countries which they govern but even out of the World And what formidable Successes have they had against us with their continued Applications and Endeavours After other mighty Havocks made upon the Reformation we have seen them trample upon it in our Time in Hungary and France and at this present they are making an End with the small Remainders of it in the Palatinate and that by Virtue of Advantages gain'd against it by their extraordinary Vigilance and Application to the matter in a late Treaty They are zealous and industrious while We are indifferent It has been seen that the Wise Men on our side have been too sharp for those of the other in Matters of Trade while the others have been too hard for them in the Matter of the Interest of the Reformation which speaks plainly the Difference of Application and Concern to the Matter One would suspect from these things that the Trick of Representing and Expounding the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome had cheated our Politicians of the true Notions of Popery and had made them believe the Differences between that Church and those who are Reformed to be but small and inconsiderable and this had betrayed them into Indifferency and Neglect to watch and oppose the Designs of Rome against us And that it were necessary to show even to them or at least to call to their Remembrance how Absurd and Vnreasonable how Impious and Wicked many of the Doctrines and Practices of that Church are to be sure if the Spirit of Christian Religion did every where prevail among us As it is a Disposition possess'd and govern'd by the Reverence and Love of God and the Love of our Neighbour none could be unconcern'd that Christian Religion should be so abus'd and Almighty God so much injur'd in his due Reverence and Honour and the Souls of Men so endanger'd with damnable Errours as these

St. Christopher how represented 47. His Fabulous Story ibid. Devotions on his Festival 48 Circumcision a Relick of our Saviour's pretended to at Antwerp 44 Clergy distinguish'd into Secular and Regular and by their Habit 29 c. Cleve Passage from Dusseldorp thither 352. Dutchy 356. Original and Situation of the City 369. The Castle 371. State of Religion there 374 Colen its Original 301. Government a Common-wealth 304. Bishops 308. Chapter ibid. Bishoprick and Estates of the Archbishop 309. The City describ'd 310. The Academy there ibid. The Dome 323. Lutheran Worship not tolerated 332. Passage thence to Dusseldorp by Land 333 St. Crispin his absurd Story 291 Cord of St. Francis The Fraternity of the Cord and to whom they belong 68 c. It s Original 69 c. Recommendations 71 c. Rules and Constitutions 75. Protestation at entring the Brotherhood 77 D. DEad Chappel of the Dead 41. A new Privilege granted to it ibid. Brotherhood of the Dead 100. Publication of a Plenary Indulgence granted to this Brotherhood ibid. Dijnslaeken a City in the Dutchy of Cleve describ'd 359. An old Roman Building there 361 Draining of the Lands in Holland how regulated 392 Dusseldorp describ'd 337. Religion there 344 Duysberg the Wood of that Name 355. The City and University there 358 E. ST Engelbert somewhat of his Story 324 Emmerick a City in the Dutchy of Cleve some Account of it 367 F. FRaternities belonging to the Lady's Church at Antwerp 44. Of the Virgin Mary join'd to the Jesuites at Antwerp 112. Fraternity of the Angels 135. Of the Cord of St. Francis 68. Of the Rosary 164. Of the Scapulary 260 G. ST George his Story censur'd 30 H. HAnse Towns of the Name and Number of them 303 Harcourt the Jesuite made a Martyr 274 Herstal a Town in the Bishoprick of Liege belonging to our King 247 I. ST James Inscriptions over his Church Door at Antwerp 35. Publication of his Festival 36 Jansenius Cornelius Jans Bishop of Ypres somewhat of his History 285. Some Account of those call'd Jansenists in the Church of Rome 186 Jesuites their Houses at Antwerp 105. Riches of their Chappel 107. Indulgencies belonging to their Chappel there 109 c. Publications of some of their Festivals ibid. Their Chappel of the Sodalites 111. Their Management of the Sodalites belonging to them 114. They not much regarded at Louvain 196. The English Jesuites at Liege 241. Jesuites at Aix 272. At Colen 319 Images of the Virgin Mary how honour'd 23. Some Names given to them 24. Consecration of them 25 c. Use of them in the Church of Rome parallel'd with that among the ancient Heathens ibid. A Stone Image of the Virgin that grows 211. It s virtue against Stone and Gravel ibid. The Dress and Offerings about an Image of the Blessed Virgin observ'd 326. Image of the Holy Trinity 39. Censur'd ibid. c. Indulgencies the use of them in the Church of Rome 84. The Doctrine concerning them 85. Extent of them different 89. The whole censur'd ibid. c. Infant of Bethlehem the Body of one at Colen 331 Innundations in Holland 393 Juliers Passage from Aix thither 285. The Dutchy 287. Former and Present Sovereign ibid. City describ'd 289 K. KErmis the Reason of the Name and the Original Design of it 257 Three Kings their Tomb and Relicks c. At Colen 328 L. LEeuew its Situation and present State 214 Liege Passage to it from Maestricht by Water 228. Riches of the Country about it 231. The See translated from Maestricht 234. Situation and Description of the City 237. Some Observations of the Religion there 239 Louvain Passage thither from Brussels 131. Somewhat of its History Civil Dissentions the Occasion of its Decay 181. The University there 181. Establishment of the Faculty of Theology 183 Lutherans at Colen 332. At Dusseldorp 246. At Cleve 377 M. MAestricht Conveniency and Charge of Passage from Louvain thither 209. Government of it 221. Strength 222. State of Religion there 223 Virgin Mary Patroness of Antwerp 21. Her Church at Antwerp 42. Her many Festivals 57. Feast of her Immaculate Conception the Publication of it by the Minor Brothers at Antwerp 79. A Brotherhood of the Virgin Mary join'd to the Jesuites at Antwerp 112. The Protestation made at Entrance ibid. Feast of her Presentation censur'd 117. Publication and Celebration of it by the Jesuites at Antwerp 117. She applied to for Deliverance from Famine War and Pestilence 152. and for Recovery from Stone and Gravel 211 Prince Maurice some Account of him 384 Mechlin somewhat of its History 174 Medman a Congregation of Calvinists there 353 Minorites one of the sorts of Franciscans 59. Some of their Endowments or Funds of Maintenance 60 c. Their Meeting-place or Chappel at Colen 331 N. NAken a small Ferry-Boat odly used 248 Nimmeguen its Situation Government and somewhat of its History 386 Norbertines White Friars their Original and House at Antwerp 104. Park Abbey a pleasant Seat belonging to them by Louvain 209 P. PAlatine the Family of the present Elector Palatine 338. His Person 340. Palace and Attendants at Dusseldorp 341. Extravagant Finery of his Guards 343 Pictures A Picture of the Trinity before which People are directed to pray 41. Of a handsome lewd Woman to represent the Virgin Mary 46. An Impious Representation of God the Father 273. Of Harcourt the Jesuite executed in England 274 Portiuncula a great Festival in the Church of Rome under that Name 60. An Account of the Original of it ibid. c. Processions One at Aix of the Carmelites call'd The Brothers of our good Lady 269. On Sacraments Day at Colen 312. Processions censur'd 317 Purgatory Popish Doctrine concerning it 86. Censur'd 94 Use and Management of it 96 c. A Representation of it at Liege 244 Q. QUarries of Stone by Maestricht 226 Queasils their Religion and Habi● 33 R. RElicks Things belonging to the Blessed Virgin at Aix 278. Of the Three Kings at Colen 328. Of the Companions of St. Ursula at Cleve 376 Remonstranter the thing in which the Hostie is expos'd to be ador'd describ'd 31 St. Roch to be honour'd with Alms for his Assistance against the Plague 223 Roman Watch-Tower 361. Antiquities at Cleve 370 Romerswael a City in Zeeland ruin'd by Inundation 7 Rosary what it is 154. The Institution 155. Directions about reading it 160. The Brotherhood of the Rosary 164 St. Rumbold his Story 177 S. SAcrament Miraculous one shown at Brussels 150. call'd by the Papists their God 203. Feast of the Holy Sacrament and the Processions on it represented 312 c. Adoration of it censur'd 315. Benediction of the Holy Sacrament 320 Scapulary the History of it 260 c. The Brotherhood 265. Elogiums of it 267 Schelde its Course and Outlet to the Sea 4. Commodiousness for Trade at Antwerp 12 Sterrenberg a Beautiful Hill and Prospect above the City of Cleve 373 T. THienen or Tilmont some Account of its former and