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A70866	The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq.; Exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1665 (1665)	Wing P4076; ESTC R14735	1,530,072	1,129

Quod enim tu vis hoc factum est c.. Neither rests he here but elsewhere thus repeats it with additions and farr greater impudence Sed ô Virgo gratissima nunquid tu aliquid fecisti Deo Nunquid vicem ei reddisti Profecto si fas est dicere tu secundum quid majora fecisti Deo quam ipse Deus tibi et universo generi fecit humano Volo ergo ego dicere such is his in pudence quod tu ex humilitate tacuisti Tu enim solum cecinisti Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est Ego vero cano et dico quia tu fecisti majora ei qui potens est Deus namque hominem de limo terrae formavit Tu vero beatissima virgo Deum de tuis preciosissimis sanguinibus generasti et illum purissima carne tua cooperuisti velasti Item Deus hominem de fructibus paradysi educavit tu ipsum Deum pavisti ubere de coelo pleno cujus lactis una gutta parvula praevalet omnibus lignis paradysi fructibusque omnibus totius mundi Deus quoque hominem pellicea induit veste Et tu Virgo gloriosa Dei filium tuis panniculis inv●luisti postea tunica incensutili induisti quae praevalet omnibus tunicis mundi Et sic discurrendo probare possum quod tu virgo dignissima secundum quid multa ampliora beneficia contulisti Christo quam Deus homini in suae creationis primordio Their late Canonized Saint Bernardinus Senensis sings the like Magnificat to the Virgin Sola benedicta Virgo Maria plus fecit Deo vel tantum ut ita dicam quam fecit Deus toto generi humano Credo etenim certe quod mihi indulgebit Deus si nunc pro Virgine loquar Congregemus in unum quae Deus homini fecit consideremus quae Maria virgo Domino satisfecit which he recites compares and then concludes Reddenda ergo singula singulis scil quae fecit Deus homini quae fecit Deo beata Virgo videbis quod plus fecit Maria Deo quam homini Deus Vt sic pro solatio dicere liceat quod propter beatam Virginem quam tamen ipse fecit Deus quodammodo plus obligetur nobis quam Nos sibi Good Roman Catholick Blasphemy demeriting no lesse then a canonization by the Popes and Church of Rome Neither doth the Jesuit Osorius come much short of them Dubitant aliqui an Maria adeò bona mater Christi dici debeat ac bonus est aeternus Pater At verò si duntaxat filium ab utroque genitum attendamus in nihilo Pater excedit matrem Idem enim filius est ab utroque genitus et hac ratione Mater adeo bona Maria est ac aeternus Pater To which he elsewhere adds Cui ergo B. Mariam comparabimus Non Evae non Sarae non Racheli nec Lunae nec Soli. Cui igitur PLANE DEO bona omnia continenti Therefore Cardinal Bellarmine had little cause thus to censure Luther for this saying Papistae inquit Lutherus B. Mariam Deum constituunt omnipotentiam ei tribuunt omnes se ad eam conferunt et plus gratiae ab ea expectant quam a Christo Iesu Horrenda est haec ejus impostura c. Quis enim Catholicorum uni vero Deo coeli Reginam Mariam ullo modo aequavit since these thus equallize her to him and their own Ludovicus Vives confesseth Multi Christiani in re hona plerumque peccant quod Divos Divasque non aliter venerantur quam Deum especially the Virgin Mary and their learned Bishop Claudius Espencaeus assures us that their Christiani vetuli seniculi as well as their benè devotius educati pueri hodie non minus tribuunt Divis quam Deo qui hunc quam illos minus placabilem aut exorabilem putant concluding it with an Vtinam mentiar as a truth beyond denyal I appeal now to the Souls and Consciences of all sober judicious Pontificians or Roman Catholicks and other ingenuous Christians for whose conviction and satisfaction I have so largely insisted on the premises 1. Whether the Popes Church of Rome with these their Seraphical Doctors Saints Predicants whiles they thus over-advance extoll the Virgin Mary have not thereby in a great measure dethroned ungodded if I may so speak both God the Father Son and Holy Ghost and advanced this their Lady Queen Empresse Goddesse of Heaven and Earth above them adoring her with yea investing her in all their Divine Attributes Titles Offices adoring extolling honouring invocating serving her farre more then all or any of their sacred persons equallizing her with them in all respects and making stiling her a Goddesse yea Dea Dearum as they directly stile her not to her honour or her Sons but to hers and his great dishonour and reproach as George Cassander resolves Hoc non est Filium honorare sed potius Filio contumeliam facere 2ly Whether they are not herein guilty as Mr. Fox B p Jewel Dr. Rainolds e Bishop Morton and others assure us of most transcendent blasphemie execrable Idolatry and more apparent wresting perverting altering corrupting innumerable Texts of sacred Scripture then any former Hereticks in the Christian Church Against Deutr. 4. 2. c. 12. 32. Josh 1. 7. Prov. 30. 6. Rev. 22. 18. 2 Pet. 3. 16. 3ly Whether the Romanists in invocating adoring crying to the Virgin Mary as aforesaid and other Saints be not more brutish then the very brute beasts of the field young Lions and Ravens who both look up and cry seek to God alone their creator not to any Saint or creature for every thing they want as these Scriptures resolve Psal 104. 21 24 25 27 28. Ps 145. 15 16. The young Lions roar after their pray and seek their meat from God The eyes of all creatures in the sea and earth both small and great beasts fish and creeping things as well as men wait all upon God that he may give them their meat in due season c. Thou openest thy hand and fillest the desire of every living thing Joel 1. 20. O Lord the beasts of the field cry also unto thee Jon. 3. 8. Let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God Psal 147. 9. God giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens that cry to him for it Job 38. 41. who provideth for the raven his food when his young ones cry unto God whence the Psalmist Psal 148. 11 12. exhorts beasts and all cattel creeping things and flying fowls as well as Angels Kings of the earth and all people high or low young and old males and females to praise the name of the Lord a part of divine adoration and prayer for his name alone is excellent his glory above the earth and heavens Not the Virgin Maries as they assert Psal 150. 6. Let

Transylvania Vallachia and particularly to our Kingdoms of England Ireland and Scotland you may read at leisure in Dr. Marta De Jurisdictione pars 1. cap. 26. Gregorius Papa 7. lib. 1. Epist 8 13 28. Augustinus Steuchus De Donatione Constantini p. 199 c. Carerius l. 3. cap. 3. Polydor Virgil Hist l. 17. Baronius Annal. Anno 1097. nu 18 c. Anno 1173. nu 9 10. Henricus Spondanus Epitom Annal. Baronii An. 740. nu 30. 775. nu 7. 847. nu 8. 1135. nu 4. 1159. nu 3. 1172. nu 2. in Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster and Walsingham An. 1155 1213 1214 1301 1302. and Dr. Richard Crakenthorp of the Popes Temporal Monarchy cap. 1. For the third particular by what fictitious and perverted sacred Charters Popes claim this their transcendent power and Universal Monarchy the premised Authors will informe you and I have elsewhere at large related The Texts they principally insist on are Gen. 1. 16. Jer. 1. 10. Psal 2. 8. Psal 72. 8. Isa 9. 6 7. Psal 45. 16. Psal 89. 27 37 38. Dan. 2. 44. c. 4. 3 34. c. 6. 26. c. 7. 14 27. Mich. 4. 7. Ephes 1. 20 21. Luke 1. 23. Mat. 16. 14 18 19. John 21. 15 16 17. All which the premised Popish Authors and others blasphemously or absurdly apply and appropriate to St. Peter and themselves as pretended successors to Christ in his Kingly and Priestly Soveraign power I shall only mention and insist on two Texts more as properest for their purpose The first is Mat. 28. 18 19 20. where our Saviour Christ immediately before his ascention into heaven after his triumphant resurrection from the dead spake thus to his eleven Disciples joyntly not to Peter alone saying All power is given unto me both in heaven and in earth Go ye therefore and teach all Nations c. and lo I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world Whence they thus inferre by head and shoulders Ergo all this power in heaven and earth then given to Christ was immediately at his corporal ascension into heaven transferred to appropriated by him wholly and solely to St. Peter and his Successors at Rome not Antioch his first See as Christs immediate Successors or Vicars in his Regal and Sacerdotal Soveraignty For answer hereunto I would here seriously demand of any ingenious Papist or religious Votary to the See of Rome whether there be one syllable or the least implication in this Text 1. That this Soveraign Power was then given to our Saviour only on purpose to delegate the immediate right or exercise of it both in heaven and earth to any other person or persons Or 2ly That it was transferred wholly and solely to St. Peter but not to the rest of the Disciples to whom Christ then joyntly spake these words and as much to any other of them as to Peter with this superadded precept and promise inferred and deduced from this his power Go ye in the plural number not thou Peter or Peter only therefore into all the world c. And lo I am with you all not with Peter alone and his Roman Successors alwayes even unto the end of the world Or 3ly What shadow of evidence can they produce that St. Peter ever claimed or exercised such a Soveraign power as then delegated to him by Christ which himself professedly several times disclaimed both in words deeds and writing as Acts 2. 34 35 36. ch 4. 10 11. ch 5. 31 32. ch 8. 14. ch 10. 25 36 42. ch 11. 2 to 19. 1 Pet. 2. 6 7 13 14 17. ch 5. 1 to 7. 2 Pet. 2. 1 10. ch 3. 2 15. directly and infallibly assure us against this Pontifical whimsey Or 4ly What irrefragable proof that St. Peter ever sate an actual or sole Bishop of Rome or fixed his Soveraign Episcopal Chair or See for ever in it which the Sacred and Evangelical story seems to contradict Or 5ly That ever Christ himself or St. Peter transferred or perpetually appropriated this Soveraign Universal Kingly and Priestly power to any or every the Bishops of Rome that should succeed him in that See in case he ever sate there to the end of the world though an Heretick Schismatick Adulterer Sodomite Nicromancer Symoniack Childe Tyrant or the most ambitious avaritions vitious flagitious luxurious impious atheistical Prelate ever breathing in the world as many of them have been or a notorious strumpet as Pope Jone as their own other Historians attest to omit the frequent plurality of Popes at once condemning excommunicating murdering degrading one another as antichristian and uncanonical Till all these with other particulars be fully demonstrated by Scripture or other irrefragable Authorities not by their own Testimonies in their own cases this Text to which themselves entitle the Virgin Mary as Queen Empresse of heaven and earth will no more evince St. Peters or the Popes Vniversal Monarchy then those premised Their second claim and Title to it is Phil. 2. 9 10 11. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him Christ Jesus not Peter and given him not Peter or his Roman successors a Name above every Name that in the Name of Jesus not Peter or the Pope of Rome every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth And that every tongue should confesse that Jesus Christ not Peter not the Pope is Lord to the glory of God the Father not of St. Peter or his successors at Rome But how this Text which they likewise alledge for the Virgin Maries Universal Monarchy can with any colour of truth or without highest blasphemy injury to Christ be applyed appropriated by Popes and their Parasites to Mary or to Peter and themselves as Christs Vicars upon earth let all who have judgement or conscience discern Since St. Paul the Apostle hath appropriated it to Jesus Christ alone as highly exalted to and sitting down on his Fathers throne at the right hand of his Majesty in the highest heavens as his words expresly resolve and it is altogether incommunicable to St. Peter much more to Popes as every syllable in the Text context and the illative Wherefore infallibly demonstrates They must therefore for ever disclaim any colour right or Title to this their Universal Soveraign Monarchy or any other mis-alledged Texts which I have elsewhere answered at large and shall not here insist on The original basis ground-work reason of St. Peters and the Popes Vniversal Monarchy in Temporals and Spirituals is thus laid down by Dr. Marta and other Pontificians Duo tempora considerantur in Christo Alterum ante passionem tunc propter humilitatem judicare recusavit Nam Lucae c. 12. dixit Quis me constituit divisorem inter vos Joan. c. 18. Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo Alterum verò post resurrectionem tunc dixit Data est mihi omnis potestas in coelo in terra Mat. ult Joan. ult

himself saith of Christ in reference to his ascending into heaven The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly That God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Which he thus seconded both before the Councel and High Priest of the Jews Acts 5. 31 32. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgivenesse of sins and we are witnesses of these things And in his Sermon to Cornelius Acts 10. 36. he addes He not I is Lord of all Which St. Paul whom he stiles Our beloved brother and fellow Apostle and whose Epistles he voucheth as concurring with his own 2 Pet. 3 15 16. thus amplifies 1 Cor. 15. 24 25 26. For Christ must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his feet the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death Then cometh the end when he shall deliver up the Kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power Compared with Ephes 1. 20 21 22. Col. 1. 17 18 19. Phil. 2. 9 10 11. 2 Tim. 5. 14 15 16. And St. John thus thirds Rev. 11. 15 16 17. And there were great voices in heaven saying The Kingdoms of the world are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and He not St. Peter or the Pope his pretended successor shall reign for ever and ever And the twenty four Elders fell upon their faces and worshipped God saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty which art wast and art to come because thou hast taken to thee not delegated to the Pope or St. Peter thy great power and hast reigned And Rev. 19. 6. I heard as the voyce of a great multitude and as of mighty thunderings saying Allelujah for the Lord God omnipotent not Pope reigneth Moreover David in relation to the Kingdom Kingship of Christ after his resurrection and ascension assures us Psal 29. 10. The Lord sitteth King for ever Psal 97. 1. The Lord reigneth let the earth rejoyce let the multitude of Isles be glad thereof Yea Dan. 2. 44. c. 4. 3 34. c. 6. 26. c. 7. 14 27. Luke 1. 33. It was prophesied and predicted of Christ That his Kingdom shall never be destroyed that his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and his Dominion an everlasting Dominion from generation to generation without any inter-regnum or succession and shall be even unto the end and shall not passe away or be transferred and shall not be left to other people therefore not to St. Peter or Roman Pontiffs of several Nations and all Dominions shall serve and obey him not St. Peter or Popes Compared with Mich. 4. 7. And the Lord not Popes shall reign over them for ever Isa 9. 6 7. Luke 1. 38 39. And the Lord God shall give him the throne of his Father David and the government shall be upon his shoulders and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom and of the encrease of his government there shall be no end Therefore by the concurrent verdicts of St. Peter himself backed by St. Paul St. John and all these sacred Texts it is infallible that Christ neither at his ascension nor at any time else ever transferred the right exercise dominion of his Kingdom Church or government thereof much lesse of all Kingdoms Nations Monarchs in the world to St. Peter or his Roman successors but intirely reserved it to himself as personal and untransferrable to any other And so they must bid farewell for ever to St. Peters pretended Universal Monarchy and Patrimony as Christs Successors or Vicars by the Testimony of all these sacred Texts whereon they would gladly found and establish it The third Texts are such as destroy both St. Peters and all Popes Titles to Christs Universal High Priesthood or Shepherdship over the Catholick Church as the precedent do their Kingship The first is St. Peters own expression 1 Pet. 5. 2 3 4. Feed the flock of God which is amongst you neither as being Lords over Gods heritage but being ensamples to the flock And when the Chief Shepherd Christ shall appear therefore Christ not he was then Chief Pastor of the Sheep you shall receive a Crown of glory that fadeth not away The next is that of St. Paul Hebr. 13. 20. Our Lord Iesus Christ brought again from the dead is the Great Shepherd of the Sheep to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen compared with Hebr. 7. 21. to the end ch 10 12. 15 to 22. and Psal 110. 4. The Lord sware and will not repent in relation to Jesus Christ and his Priesthood Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedech And they truly were many Priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death but this man because he continueth ever hath an unchangable or untransferrable Priesthood that passeth not to another by succession or delegation therefore not to St. Peter or any other Roman Pontiff Wherefore he is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him not by Peter Mary or the Pope seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them For such an high Priest became us who is holy harmlesse undefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the heavens are any Roman Pontiffs so qualified and who needed not daily as these Priests did and all Popes and Masse-Priests too to offer up sacrifice for their own sinnes and then for the peoples for this he did once when he offered up himself and is consecrated for evermore For by his own blood he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us After he had offered one sacrifice for ever he sate down at the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool for by one offering he hath perfected for ever those that are sanctified And having him an High Priest over the House of God not St. Peter nor his successors let us draw near with a pure heart in full assurance of faith Popes therefore and their seduced Pontificians must now bid adieu to their Antichristian Titles of Pontifex Optimus Maximus Pontifex Summus Sanctissimus Episcopus Vniversalis Oecumenicus Pastor summus Pastor Pastorum and to their Vicarship and succession in Christs Vniversal High Priesthood as well as to his Kingship unlesse they will renounce all these Canonical Scriptures Vnking Vnpriest our Saviour Christ and usurp both his Royal Throne and Chair upon Christs pretended Donation of them to St. Peter at his ascention who never heard of claimed but professedly disavowed any such Gift and all Popes of Rome too for some hundreds of years Of no greater Credit or Validity then their forged Donation of all Ecclesiastical and Temporal Soveraignty and

which they deem infallible is now conteined in or under the narrow species and circumference of every small consecrated Host Chalice yea in every part thereof without its organical parts and corporeal dimensions locally distinct from each other yet appearing sometimes miraculously as they relate upon the Altar and in the sacred Host or Chalice to some of their Priests and other Saints either in the form of a petty infant lamb or morsel of flesh or some drops of blood for confirmation of their Doctrine of Transubstantiation though he never knew nor taught it but never in the shape or proportion of his full-growen humane body in which he suffered on earth and with which he ascended into heaven which body St. Peter himself and all Creeds resolve the Heavens must receive until the time of the restitution of all things and his comming to judgement and other Texts define to be incorruptible being prepared and given him only by God when he was made flesh and born of a woman and was never corporally present but in one place at once Or in such an inglorious inhuman unkingly despicable body as wants both the form lineaments accidents of a human body appearing in and under the form species accidents dimensions of meer bread and wine which every Communicant worthy or unworthy doth not only actually receive into his mouth but chew with his teeth swallow into his belly yea rats and mice may devour in consecrated wafers and which the meanest vilest Priest can make and create at his pleasure as well as the greatest holiest Pope Bishop and then lift up and down turn or overturn imprison under lock and key in a Pix and send abroad to every sick person carry about in procession or devour at his pleasure Or in such a strange body as is really corporally insensibly present in above ten thousand Hostia's Altars Pixes Chalices at once which yet they solemnly adore with Latria as their very Lord God Saviour Creator and doom all for Hereticks who comply not with them herein Or 3ly They picture carve represent pray to and adore him as still hanging on yet nailed to but not taken down from his Crosse whereon he suffered their most usual representation of him in all their Crucifixes Churches Chapels Colledges Crosses Closets Missals Breviaries Offices Litanies Manuals or Books of Devotion Caeremonials Processionals Statues Pictures and Good Friday Devotions as if he were not yet risen again for their justification or sitting at Gods right hand to intercede for them as their advocate Or 4ly As yet lying in his grave in their Good Friday Enterludes wherein they not only re-crucifie but re-interre him in his Sepulcher as if not formerly crucified dead buried And not only so but in the famous City of Venice in Italy as Sir Edwin Sands an eye-witnesse assures us they have erected a stately Sepulcher of Christ whereon is written Hic situm est Corpus Domini nostri Iesu Christi with verses annexed Conditur hoc tumul● as if his crucified body were there yet actually interred and never ascended into heaven where there is likewise hanging in a printed Table a prayer of St. Austin with Indulgence for no lesse then fourscore and two thousand years granted by Pope Boniface the eighth and confirmed by Benedict the eleventh to whosoever shall say it before his Tombe and interred Body and that for every day toties quoties which is very observable for that in a few dayes a man may provide for a whole million of worlds pardon if they did last no longer then this hath done hitherto But if Christs body be still interred in that Venetian Sepulcher as the inscriptions attest or elswhere S. Paul assures both them and us 1 Cor. 15. 12 to 20. that their faith preaching and this their prayer and indulgence too are vain yea they are yet in their sins are of all men most miserable and their deceased Roman Saints and ancestors are likewise perished In this inglorious unkingly manner do they now usually represent pray to and adore our glorified Savior Jesus Christ the King and Lord of glory On the contrary how do the Churches Popes Prelates Priests of Rome and all their Members usually paint portray represent stile invoke adore and blazon abroad the Soveraign Imperial and Regal Authority of the Virgin Mary over all Angels Creatures Persons powers both in heaven earth purgatory hell yea over God himself and Christ her sonne to the derogation subversion both of Christs Soveraign Universal Monarchy Priesthood and chief branches thereof if not of his Prophetical office and of St. Peters and all Popes pretences Rights Titles to them which because not hitherto pressed against them in this kind or to this end by any of our Protestant Writers I shall the more largely and fully charge against them 1. They usually Carve pourtray paint the Statues Pictures of the Virgin Mary as visible experience attests past contradiction and represent her by them to their eyes thoughts when they pray unto her in all their Offices Primers Psalters Howers Rosaries Missals Breviaries Books of Devotion Churches Chapels Monasteries Altars of our Lady especially on all their publike Festivals dedicated to her honor in greatest State Majesty Crowned with a Crown or Rayes of glory as the Empresse Queen Lady of heaven earth and all creatures in them but Christ her sonne only in the form or shape of a small sucking infant lying in her lap bosom arms or at her feet 2ly They stile pray to invoke worship adore her in all their publike Liturgies Offices Howers Rosaries Crowns Anthems Psalters Primers and private Devotions and in their Postils Sermons Writings proclaim assert her to be in respect of her Regal Vniversal Monarchy Imperatrix Augusta Regina et Domins Coeli coelorum Mundi Terrae et Totius Orbis ac exercituam cunctorum Angelorum et Martyrum Imperatrix or Regina Angelorum Patriarcharum Prophetarum Apostolorum therefore of St. Peter and his pretended successors of Rome Confessorum Virginum et omnium Sanctorum yea Imperatrix Regina Domina or at least Ferulae Diabolorum ipsa enim contrivit Diaboli potentiam sicut praedictum fuit Gen. 3. dum ipsi Diabolo Dominus ait Ipsa conteret caput tuum confunditque ejus astutiam juxta illud Judith 14. Vna mulier Hebraea confusionem faciet in Domo Nabuchodonosor Item dejecit ejus maliciam juxta illud quod ipsius in persona dicitur Judith c. 9. Erit memorialis primus tui cum manus foeminae dejecerit eum And if this be not sufficient Ambrosius Catherinus in the Council of Trent sessio 2. stiled her Fidelissima Dei et Christi Socia Cardinal Bembus in his Epistle to the Emperor Charles the 5th calls her Dominam et Deam nostram our Lady and Goddesse And others Dea Dearum The Goddesse of Goddesses 3ly They positively assert that the Virgin Mary not St. Peter during the time of Christs

every thing that hath breath as well beasts fowls fishes and creeping things as men prayse the Lord not our Lady as Bonaventure hath blasphemously perverted it 4ly Whether they be not more sottish stupid herein then the very worst of Pagan Idolaters who by the light of Nature never prayed to any Saint Angel creature for help in time of trouble nor adored any thing but what they really believed to be a God and their God able to help and save them Hence Plato in his Alcibiades 2. De Oratione ad Deum Legum Dialog l. 4. 6. and in his Definitiones Philosophorum Rerum resolves That God only is to be adored sacrificed and prayed to in publike and private defining Sacrificium est donum Victimae DEO Praecatio est petitio bonorum aut quae bona videntur hominibus à DEO The like saith Cicero in his Books de Natura Deorum Ovid. Fastorum lib. Tristium l. 1. Eleg. 1. Virgil. Aeneid l. 3. Homerus Iliad l. 9. Terentius Phormion Act. 2. Scen. 2. Dionysius Halicarn Antiqu. Rom. l. 2. pa. 5. Plutarchi Numa Pompilius Pindarus Euripides Sophocles in their Poems Diodorus Siculus Alexander ab Alexandro Gen. Dierum lib. 3. cap. 13. and other Heathen Authors attest whence Jonah 5 6. when God sent a mighty tempest so that the ship wherein Jonah fled from Tarshish was like to be broken the heathen mariners being afraid cryed every man to his God Yea the shipmaster comming to Jonah who lay fast asleep said unto him arise call upon thy God if so be that God will think upon us that we perish no● After which ver 14. They cryed unto the Lord and said we beseech thee O Lord we beseech thee let us not perish c. So Jonah 3. 8. The King and people of Niniveh proclaiming a fast prescribed that both man and beast should cry mightily unto God The Psalmist assures us Psal 107. 18 19 23 28 29. That all sorts of men in their affictions and all that go down to the sea in ships like the mariners in Jonah do then cry unto the Lord God in their trouble and storms not to any Saint Angel or other creature and he bringeth them out of their distresses Thus the Priests of Baal cryed and prayed unto Baal to hear them as to their God 1 Kings 18. 21 24 26 27. Thus the Idolaters transplanted from Assiria and other Countries to Samaria being destroyed by Lions made and served several Gods of their own and yet feared the God of the land 2 Kings 17. 26. to 35. So the Israelites revolting to Idolatry cryed and offered incense only unto the new Gods they had chosen to save them in the time of trouble which they could not do Yea the most sottish Idolater who planted watered a tree burnt one part thereof and made the residue a God fell down unto it worshipped and prayed unto it upon this account alone that he beleeved it to be his God saying Deliver me for thou art my God Isa 44. 9. Yea Cyrus and Artaxerxes two heathen Kings prescribed prayers and sacrifices to be made unto the God of heaven for their lives and the lives of their sons Ezra 6. 8 9. c. 7. 21. And the Athenians erected an Altar to the unknown God they ignorantly worshipped As the Scriptures are expresse that God only is to be adored worshipped prayed to That the Apostles Saints in the Old and New Testament never made any prayers or supplications to any Angel Saint but God alone yea Christ himself in the Lords prayer instructed his Disciples to pray only to God no petition or clause of that exact pattern of prayer being communicable to any Angel creature but only to God So the Roman Historians and Poets as Tacitus Annal. l. 4. c. 3. l. 16. c. 6. Seneca de Consolatione ad Polybium c. 31 32. Martial Epig. l. 4. Epig. 1. l. 7. Epig. 51. l. 10. Epig. 32. l. 11. Epig. 4. C. Plinius secundus Epist l. 10. Epist 44 45 60 101. Panegyr Trajano dictus p. 21 25 49 52 59 142 167 168. Iulius Capitolinus in Vita Antonini Pii p. 10. Aelius Lampridius p. 280 281 333 to 358 388 in the Lives of Antoninus D●odumenus Alexander Severus Iulius Capitolinus p. 412 413 423 424 439 440 459 460 473 c. 490 491 492. Flavius Vopiscus p. 860 to 693. record that the Pagan Romans prayed only to their Gods and none else for the lives safeties of their Emperors and others yea reputed prayer a divine worship adoration peculiar only to the Gods and incommunicable to any others If therefore the Roman Church Popes beleeve not Mary and other Saints to be real Gods and yet invoke adore her or them as their only Ayders Protectors Saviours Deliverers in their distresses They are farre more sottish idolatrous then the very bruits and sottishest Pagan Idolaters there being no president in the Old or New Testament of any prayer made to Angels or Saints departed or other creature but unto God alone or what was reputed to be a God who knew searched the very secrets of their hearts and was able to save and deliver them in their extremities which none but the true God alone can do Now whereas Popes and Popish Doctors have fancied that the Virgin Mary and other Saints departed do know their persons necessities hear their prayers and can supply their wants it is directly contradicted by Job 5. 1 c. 24. 20 21. 2 Kings 22. 20. 2 Chron. 6. 9. c. 34. 28. Eccl. 3. 22. c. 6. 4 12. c. 7. 24. c. 8. 7. c. 9. 5 6. Isay 63. 1 6. c. 8. 19. c. 26. 13 14. Psalm 88. 5 10. Psal 115. 17. Lam. 3. 6. John 5. 25. Augustinus De Cura pro mortuis p. 13 14 15. And whereas they suggest That they see all their prayers and necessities in the looking glasse of the Deity as their Seraphical Doctors resolve it is the most sottish whimsie that ever was invented For 1. the Scripture assures us that God is invisible in his own essence that no man nor eye hath seen or can see God at any time Rom. 1. 20. Col. 1. 15. 1 Tim. 1. 17. c. 6. 16. Heb. 11. 27. John 6. 46. cap. 1. 18. 1 John 4. 12. 20. If then God be thus invisible in himself how can he be fancied to be a meer common looking-glass which not only all Saints departed clearly behold but likewise see all things done or spoken on earth by reflection in him who is invisible 2ly No species can be received into or reflected by or from a glasse but only at a convenient distance and that by a corporeal visible substance capable to receive reflect corporeal species visible to the eye But that all things acted yea all prayers uttered on earth should be visible or reflected in God a Spirit at so grand a distance as the highest heavens are from earth and that so visibly as all the Saints