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A26998	The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.; Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708.	1692 (1692)	Wing B1359; ESTC R1422	79,512	227

separating from the far greater part of the Christian World because they refuse Subjection to this usurping Vice-Christ and judging all to Fire and Ruine that renounce not all humane Senses and worship not Bread pretended to be deifyed by daily numerous Miracles of the basest Priests and deposing Kings that will not be such Executioners and justifying their Subjects in Perjury and Rebellion We will not differ with you for the Name whether you will call those that are such Antichrists or Diabolists Whether such a State be the Babylon or far worse as sinning against more Light and by more horrid abuse of the Name of Christ against himself The Fourteenth accused Point That no man nor any but God can forgive or retain Sins Ans False as undistinguished We hold 1. That to forgive Sin being the forgiving of the Punishment of Sin and the obligation thereto 1. Parents may on just cause forgive Corrective punishment to their Children and Masters to their Servants 2. Magistrates may on just cause forgive Corporal punishment to Subjects 3. Equals may forgive Injuries to Friends and Enemies 4. Pastors may on just cause forgive the Church penalties of Excommunication which they had power to inflict And all the Flock must forgive and receive the penitent accordingly 5. When a Sinner by Faith and Repentance truly performeth the Condition of Gods pardon expressed in Scripture the Ministers of Christ are by Office authorized to declare and pronounce him pardoned by God and by the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lords Supper to Invest him in a pardoned State by delivering him a Sealed pardon But only Suppositively If his Faith and Repentance be sincere else he hath not Gods pardon of the Divine Punishment This is all true and plain and enough But we detest their Doctrine that say 1. That men can pardon the Spiritual and Eternal Punishment any otherwise than consequently declaring and delivering Gods pardon which shall hold good if the Priest refuse to declare or deliver it 2. Or that Popes or Priests pardon Purgatory pains and Masses and Money and the Redundance of Saints Merits and pleasing the Pope conduce thereto But if you will Speak so absurdly as to say that if the King send a pardon to a Traytor or Murderer the Messenger pardoned him we leave you to your phrases None of the Texts or Fathers cited speak for any more than what we hold The Pastors are to declare men pardoned that God pardoneth And while they so judge according to Gods Word it is pardoned in Heaven But not if they pardon the wicked and impenitent The Fifteenth accused Point That we ought not to confess our Sins to any man but to God only Ans This is a mere impudent Lie 1. We ought to confess our Sin to the Magistrate at his Judicature when we are justly accused of it 2. And to those that we have injured when it is needful to repair the wrong or to procure their forgiveness 3. And to those that we have tempted into Sin or encouraged in it when it is needful to their Repentance 4. And to some faithful bosome Friend when it is needful that such know our Faults that they may watch over us or advise us or pray for our pardon and deliverance 5. And when in Sickness danger of Death or other Affliction we get the Pastors of the Church to pray for us we should confess our Sin to them that they may know on what cause they speak to God for our forgiveness 6. And in any case of Guilt Trouble Fear or Difficulty in which we need the Pastors Counsel for our safety ease and peace of Conscience our selves and other Friends being insufficient hereto we should confess our Sins to the Pastors whose advice we seek As a Patient must truly open his Case to his Physician and a Clyent to his Councellor if he will not be deceived by deceiving them Is all this no Confession But Protestants believe not 1. That we must go to a Physician for every Flea-biting or Scratch or Cut-Finger or to a Lawyer to give him an account of all our Actions Money ot Lands nor to Priests in cases that our selves or ordinary Friends can safely and satisfactorily resolve 2. Nor that our Confessor must needs be a Papist Priest or one chosen by the Pope or our Enemies and not by our selves 3. Nor that we must open all our Secrets to him or make any Confession which will do more hurt than good nor over far to trust the Fidelity of a Knave nor a suspected or untryed person 4. And we have reason to suspect them that are importunate to know our Secrets 5. And when Confession is required as in order to obtain a false forged pardon and to set up the Domination of Usurpers over men's Consciences and over the World it 's then unlawful If Protestants would force Papists to confess all their secret Sins to them would not this same Deceiver say it were unlawful The Sixteenth accused Point That Pardons and Indulgences were not in the Apostles time Ans Another meer Lie as undistinguished Such Pardons as I before owned were in the Apostles times But the Popish feigned pardons were not The Seventeenth accused Point That the actions and passions of the Saints do serve for nothing to the Church Ans Most impudent calumny and falsehood 1. We hold that the Prayers of all the Saints on Earth are of great importance for the Churches welfare 2. And that their Doctrine Counsel and Reproof is so too they being the Lights of the World and the Salt of the Earth 3. And that their Example is of grea● benefit to the Church and World whi●● their Light so shineth before men that the● may see their good works and glorifie the●● Father which is in Heaven 4. And their Charitable Works of themselves sure are beneficial to the Church And so is their Defence of the Truth 5. And their Sufferings Glorifie Gods Power and his promises of reward and they encourage others to Victorious Constancy Do all these serve for nothing to the Church 6. Yea we are so far from holding what he feigneth that it is not the least cause of our hatred of Popery that it liveth by the Defamations Slander Persecution and cruel Murder of Saints 7. Yea as Abels Blood cryed against Cain so the Blood of Martyrs and dead Saints cryeth for Vengeance against the Persecutors of the Church 8. And seeing Christ saith that the Children of the Resurrection are like or equal to the Angels we have reason to believe that even now they are perfected Spirits Heb. 12.24 And knowing that Angels are very serviceable and beneficial to the Church on Earth we know not how far the Spirits of the just are so too But we have a sufficient Mediator and Advocate with the Father whose Sacrifice Merits and Advocation are perfect and need no supplement And the Spirits of the just do praise him as saved by his Merits and never boast that they

minds despise them or by their way of Image-worship to seem to be of their mind For as a man that useth the common Words of an Oath without any purpose to Swear is a prophane Swearer with the Tongue which the mind should better rule tho' his mind Swear not so he that on his Knees in Religious Prayer looketh on Images as the mediate Object of his Worship his act is bodily Idolatry and his mind is guilty by not better ruling it Where God affixeth the mention of his Jealousie even to the Third and Fourth Generation calling the bowers to Images those that hate him it is needful to us to be jealous of our actions For our God is a Consuming Fire And we are n●t ignorant of the Doctrine of your St. Thomas who saith that the Image is to be Worshipped with the same sort of Worship as that which it representeth and the Image of the Crucifix with Latria called Divine Worship The Fiftieth accused Point That no man hath seen God in any Form and that therefore his Picture or Image cannot be made Ans 1. But what if it were Lawful to Paint God Is it Necessary Why may you not be contented to have a painted God your selves Must all be burnt and damned as Hereticks that are not of your mind Will you be jealous against those that bow not to a painted God as God is jealous against those that do it God saith Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them Where saith he Thou shalt bow down to them and worship them Or bow towards them and say It is not to them 2. God saith Thou shalt not make to thy self the likeness of any thing in Heaven or Earth to bow down to them and worship them Bowing down purposely towards them and before them is interpretatively bowing down to them worshipping them And God would not be so worshipped Isa 40.16 25. To whom will ye liken God Or what likeness will ye compare unto him To whom will ye liken me or shall I be equal saith the Holy one See Lev. 26.1 Deut. 16.22 Hab. 18.2 The Molten Image is a Teacher of Lies It is Blasphemy to make a Picture or Image of God but what he maketh himself as if we said God is like that Image or Creature But this Deceiver tells us how God appeared to Adam and others in a humane or some certain shape Ans 1. And yet he hath oft and earnestly forbid making Images of him to worship 2. Anthopomorphits that take God to have parts like man are Condemned as Hereticks by the Church of Rome it self Every notifying sign of Gods attributes is not called his Image and man is called his Image for the Divine Impressions on his Soul which cannot it self be seen and Pictured If God appear by an Angel and that Angel appear in humane shape we are nevertheless forbidden to worship God pictured as a man Sun Moon Stars yea every Creature notifieth God to us yet may we not paint him like these or any other Creature Did not Gods transcendency and his express Word plainly and frequently reprove this Popery had some small excuses If they deny Christs and his Apostles Words that no man hath seen God at any time save his Son they reproach him To see his Works is only to se● that which notifieth him and not himself Else every Pagan and Brute seeth God We deny not but the Sun and Fire and a man may be pictured and that God being partly notified to us by these and every Creature may be said so far to appear in them And when did he appear so wonderfully as in Christ And yet it being not his Essence in it sell that we see in them but his attributes is part an Image of a man of the Sun Moon Stars of a Horse or a Dog or a Toad is not to be called an Image of God else God may have as many Images as Creatures The One and Fiftieth accused Point That Blessing or signing with the sign of the Cross is not founded in Holy Scripture Ans The man would not tell you whether he mean the Lawfulness of the Cross only or also the necessity of using it But what are his Proofs 1. Rev. 7.3 Hurt not the Earth nor the Trees till we have sealed we read signed the Servants of our God in their foreheads Is here any mention of Crossing or Blessing with the Cross An Angel in prophetical Vision is bid to mark or seal the Servants of God as those that are not to be destroyed when God commissioneth other Angels to destroy the Persecutors Therefore the Priest must sign all Christians with the Cross And I would they did not infer as one did from Ezek. 9.4 5. And to the other he said go ye after him through the City and smite let not your Eye spare neither have ye pity stay utterly Old and Young and little Children and Women but come not near any man on whom is the mark and begin at my Sanctuary And thus whatever Plague or Death God bid Angels execute on his uncurable Enemies Idolaters and Persecutors the Devil will teach men that Priests and their Hang-men may execute on all that are not marked in the Forehead with a Cross But as long as Rome is so like to Babylon they were better teach men a truer Exposition of the Revelations Thus they can prove that the Scripture is but like a Nose of Wax by using it as if it were so It was Idolatrous Persecuting Rome that was to be destroyed and it was those that had Gods mark and not the Beasts that were to be secured And who is that Idolatrous persecuting Beast The next Text is Mark 10.16 Christ put his hands on Children and blessed them And would he make men believe that we deny Christs blessing them or others Or that Pastors may bless the people in his Name Is here ever a word of signing with the Cross The other is Luke 24.50 He led them out as far as Bethany and he lift up his hands and blessed them Therefore the Priest must Cross men in the Forehead Reader this is the fashion of these Men's confuting the Reformed Catholicks and proving Popery and using Scripture And have they not reason to challenge the sole Interpreting of it Let but the Pope and his Priests expound it and it shall all speak for them and speak Blood and Fire against all that obey them not But till then they are it's Enemies because it is the greatest Enemy to them 2. But suppose Christs blessing had been Crossing With what Face do they feign Protestants in England to be against Crossing in the Forehead When the World knoweth that the Church of England is not only for it but Ejecteth and Silenceth all Ministers that will Baptize the Child of the most Godly Christians without it And they know that all the Churches called Lutheran use it Are none of these Protestants 3. And though those called Non-Conformists are not for

The Church hath two sorts of Government One by the Word of God and the Keys called Ecclesiastical The other by the Sword called Princely or Magistratical We never had King or Queen that claimed the former and none but Enemies of Government deny the latter Queen Elizabeth and all our Kings since have publickly disclaimed the Priest by Office of Words Keys and Sacraments which maketh the Clergy Tryers and Judges what to Preach and whom to Baptize and receive to Church Communion absolve or Excommunicate But ask this Deceiver Must the Church have none to Govern by the Sword All Christians are the Church and so all Christian Princes are deposed because they are Christians Or must the Clergy have no such Government over them Yes the Pope say the Papal Canons he is Sword-bearer over the Clergy So you see what Church-power is come to But I trow few Papist Kings will grant that they have no Sword-Government over the Clergy lest every Priest be Master of their Houses Wives and Lives The King is no Physicain or Philosopher no Architect Shipwright Pilot c. but may he not be King and Ruler of all these He is no Clergy-man or Priest but the Ruler of the Clergy But they say it must not be in Causes Ecclesiastical Ans Causes Ecclesiastical have two sorts of Government in order to two Ends. As if one be accused for Preaching against God or Christ or the Life to come or for Perjury Adultery Murder c. Here the Bishops are Judges and the Church whether this man be Guilty in order to his Communion or Excommunication or admonition But the King and his Judges are to Judge whether he be Guilty and so whether to be Imprisoned Fined Banished c. so far as Causes of Religion or Church are to be punished by the Sword the King is Head or Governour and Judge who would think that a sort of men that deny this should have the Face to say that they are Loyal to Kings or any forcing Government Must Kings Burn or Kill as many Thousands at the Popes command as the Pope will call Hereticks and yet never have power to judge whether they are such and do deserve it O! how much worse than Hangmen would such men make all Kings and Magistrates Was not all the Christian World in a sad case then when the Pope was under the Arrian Goths and the Subject of a Foreign Arian must Rule all Kings and Kingdoms No man of Brains can be ignorant that Popedom or Prelacy do not always make men mortified Saints that oft have been scarce Men much less Christians nor that the Prince hath a great Power both in Choosing and Ruling the Clergy that are his Subjects It fell out happily that Theodorick the Arian and divers Spanish Arian Kings were an honest sort of men but sure they were very mighty Princes at Rome when one Subject of an Arrian Goth was Ruler of all the Kings and Souls on Earth de jure say our Deceivers And if the Turk should possess Rome as he doth C.P. all Kings and Nations must be subject to his Subject And what Power he hath over the four Patriarks of C.P. Alexandria Antioch and Jerusalem is too well known And when Baronius Binnius c. tell us of famous Whores Marozia and Theodora that made and Ruled and unmade Popes how was the World Governed As it was said by a Lord Mayors Child that he Ruled all London saying my Father Ruleth London and my Mother Ruleth my Father and I Rule my Mother so might it be said these Whores Ruled all the Kings and Nations of Christians on Earth if the Roman claim be Currant for they made and Ruled Popes that claimed the Rule of all the World O! how much greater was a Roman Whore Marozia Theodora c. than Pallas Venus or the great Diana of the Ephesians But the mischief was that they were mutable and could unmake a Pope as well as make him and set the City and Country by the Ears as Aequa Venus Teucris Pallas iuiqua fuit And if all Kings must be Subjects to the Subject or Chaplains of him that can win Rome let us wish that he may not be a Mahometan Pagan or Arian And why said I an Arian when an Anti-arian Pope can Murder Christians by Thousands when a Theodorick would not have hurt them The Thirteenth Point accused That Antichrist shall not be a particular man and the Pope is Antichrist Ans This is Popish Stating Cases Protestants find in the Creed the Name of Christ but not the Name of Antichrist and therefore while they know and trust Christ they think it not necessary to Salvation to know Antichrist But they believe Christ who said that many should come in his Name saying I am Christ and deceive many even before the Destruction of the Jews and rhey believe St. John that said there are many Antichrists already The Fathers and Papists say there is some one Great Antichrist to come towards the end of the World Most Protestants think it is Antichrist that is described in 2 Thes 2. and Rev. 12.13 17. To confute King James Bishop George Downame Dr. Henry More above all Mr. Mede Cluverus Grasserus c. will require more than this Writers Impertinencies There are many Protestants that think it a meer mistake that there will be any one Antichrist so Eminent as to obscure all the rest And they pretend not to judge of Antichrist by the Apocalyps but by the Ten Commandments and all the Gospel And they believe that he is Antichrist that usurpeth Christs Prerogative and yet opposeth his Kingdom And such they think the Eastern Antichrist Mahomet is the most notorious and the Western Antichrist the Pope is his Second in that he claimeth Christs Prerogative of Governing all Nations of the Earth as Vice-Christ and yet by Lies Malice and Blood suppresseth his true Gospel Grace and Kingdom confute this if you can Amending would be your best defence We doubt not but Antichrists past have been Individual men such was Barchocheba and some say Herod and some Dioclesian but undoubtedly Mahomet And if the Pope be the Western Antichrist it is the Individual Popes that are such but many of those Individuals may make a Succession of Antichristian Policy Answer Dr. More and Cluveru● of this if you are able We lay not our opposition to Popery chiefly on the dark Revelation Prophecy or on the question Who is the Antichrist But on the plain Word of God If we find a Succession of men claiming Omnipotency and Christs Prerogative to Govern all Kings and Nations on Earth and this by bare and base Vsurpation and Novelty and find these men set up their numerous false treasonable inhumane Canons and forbid and revile Gods Law and Word and find them turning Gods Worship into unintelligible Mummery and Stage-Shows and Ceremony and find them living at Leeches on Blood yea on the Blood of Thousands of the best Christians and damning and