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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36875	The glory of Chelsey Colledge revived by John Darley.	Darley, John, 1622?-1699.	1662 (1662)	Wing D259; ESTC R24871	34,540	59

pag. 16 17 18. Who i. e. Mr Baxter in his Holy Common-wealth or his Political Aphorisms expresseth his mind thus in his additions to his Preface Consider how suitable Popery is with a carnal Inclination Secondly what plausible reasons Papists have to delude poor souls with from their pretended Universality Antiquity c. Thirdly how few of the vulgar are able to defend their faith or to answer to the two great Sophistical Questions of the Papists viz. Where hath your Church been visible in all Ages Only Dr Featley not only in his Disputation with Fisher but in his Manuscript dedicated to the Lord Craven not yet printed and in his Grand Sacriledge particularly concerning the taking away the Cup from the Laity has fully as much as they demanded answered that other point For the Nameless Romanist thus contrives and moulds his subtilties not as Cases of Conscience to be resolved by some learned Divine but as it were laying as Dr Featley resenteth a snare to intangle the Answerers therein Let saith he those points be propounded one after another and receive their positive answer under their hands to the first before they know the second and so in order to the rest when that is done you shall hear further from me What is this saies Dr Featley but in effect to say draw the Protestant Respondents by degrees and by little and little into the snares which I have laid for them and when they are intangled in them I will come and take them and intangle them with their own subscriptions Which Tract of Dr Featley's yea the very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it is in the Right Honourable the Lord Craven's hands who is extreamly desired that he would be pleased to communicate it for the Churches good if he have it by him or else I have a transcript which I shall crave his leave to put forth And how prove you the Scripture to be the Word of God Though not only the Papists themselves but especially our Divines as Whitakers against Stapleton and in a large Tract besides yea Arminius himself Vrsinus and all our Catechetical Divines especially the Confession of our English Churches faith against the Popish Traditions and Papal Decretals have abundantly proved the sufficiency perfection and divinity of the Scriptures unto salvation 2 Tim. 3. 16. that they be the word of God only and not of man as spoken and delivered by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 1 Pet. 1. 21. And therefore we may say What is the Chaff to the word of God what are Traditions Legends of Saints to the word of God Jer. 23. 28. Alphonsus de Villega his more refined Legends of the Saints Fourthly how will it take with the people to be told that their forefathers all dyed in the Roman faith which Reverend Mr Hocker that wrote the Ecclesiastical Policy in five books wil abundantly resolve them in And fifthly above all what a multitude of Jesuits and Friers and Priests they can prepare for the work and pour out upon us at their pleasure from Flanders France and Rome and other places and how those sorts of men are purposely trained up for this deceivable and illusive work and have their common Arguments at their fingers end which though they are thred-bare and transparent fallacies to the wise yet to the vulgar and to our unstudied Gentry they are as good as if they had never been confuted or as the best I appeal unto that gloriosum Certamen between King Charles the first and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland Castle who I say the Marquess wanted not his College of Priests and Popish Jesuits with what hazzard did the Kings Majesty encounter and escape the most subtile Circumventings of that night in single Combats having only for his second Dr Bayley a single Chaplain Sixthly what a world of wealth and secular helps is at their becks in France Flanders Italy Spaine and Germany They have Millions of gold and Navies and Armies ready to promote their work which other Sects have none of So as that the Jesuitical Collegiated Hives for them in all Countries in Italy France Spaine Germany as one of credible Intelligence has mustred only the Jesuits and reported them smal and great Tyrones Veterani Pupils Tutors Pensioners Governors maintained in their Armies and pay are ten times more then all the Students in both Universities and in all the Inns of Court in London too viz. 2000000. Which Computation is taken out of the Muster-book of Harley's Defence Des Jesuits And therefore no marvel that these hives every where so swarm and such multitudes of them are sent to seek their hiving quarters in our England For they account Scotland as yet too poor for them or too cold and barren to thrive in as not having those flores inscripti nomina Regum for them to suck their hony out of Seventhly what worldly motives have their Priests and Friers to promote their zeal Their Superiors have such variety of Preferments and ample Treasures to reward them with and their single life alloweth them so much vacancy from domestick Avocations and withall they so much glory in a zeal in compassing sea and land to make Proselytes that it is an incredible advantage that they get by their Industry the Envious man by them sowing his tares whilst others sleep and are not half so industrious to resist them Eighthly What abundance have they lately wone in England Notwithstanding they have wanted publick liberty and have only taken secret opportunities to seduce persons many of the Nobility Gentry yea and of the Clergy as well as of the Common people and zealous Professors of Religion lately as well as of the profane have been seduced by them and by them Princes in other Countries have been won and the Protestant Religion cunningly worm'd out And what a lamentable increase they had made in England before our Wars by that Countenance and favour which through the Queen was procured them though incomparably short of this absolute Liberty is sufficiently known Ninthly It is not the least of our danger that the most of our Ministers are unable to deal with a Cunning Jesuite or Priest And this is not to be wondred at considering how many of them are young men put in of late in the Necessity of the Churches which the world knows who have caused and there must be time before young men can grow to maturity and an unfurnished Nation can be provided with able experienced men And the Cessation of Popish assaults of late hath disused Ministers from these Disputations The Reformation had seemed to have brought down Popery so low that we grew secure and thought there was no danger of it and the Papists of late have forborn much to meddle with us barefac'd and have played their game under the vizor of their Sects And withall young Ministers have been so taken up with the greater work of winning Souls from common profaneness that