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heaven_n	church_n	kingdom_n	visible_a	4,215	5	9.6422	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62900	The principles of the Papists by which their leaders put them upon bloody and treacherous practices, plainly demonstrated by the Scriptures to be most erroneous and wicked. And a few better principles briefly laid down, for them (or others) to meditate on, tending to a peaceable life among men, &c. And also a few quæries left them last of all, to satisfie their consciences in. Partly for the sakes of those among them whose consciences have some tenderness in them, and are not quite feared: partly also for those who through ignorance are too much inclining to them. Also there may be some service of these things to others. By a lover of truth, mercifulness, plain-heartedness, humility and fidelity, W. T.	Tomlinson, William.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1850; ESTC R221759	49,364	105

will easily be convinced that the withdrawing from this Church of Rome doth not make a man a Heretick I also further affirm That he is no Heretick that doth justly loves mercy and walks humbly with God because these are the weighty things which the Lord requires in man He is no Heretick that abides in the Doctrine of Christ and in the innocent life of Christianity but he is the Heretick that strives against these things to overthrow them to overthrow the Doctrine of Christ to overthrow innocency truth just and upright walking and mercy In every Nation he that fears God and works righteousness is accepted of him therefore cannot be a Heretick but he that casts the fear of God behind his back and works the works of him that was a Lyar and Murderer from the beginning he is the Heretick because he hath chosen Inventions and false Doctrines of his own to follow contrary to the Lord's requirings Having done now with this Principle wherewith they so magnifie themselves and would frighten others I proceed to the next 5. The 5th Principle I named is this That out of the Church is no salvation Extra Ecclesiam non est salus say they This is to be understood of their Church And that being sufficiently laid open by their own practice I think it needs no further evidence to disprove it unless people will needs believe that there is no salvation but among blood-thirsty Murderers and Lyars and false Swearers and such like But observe the craft and cunning of this Principle which Rome makes use of to her own advantage First It serves as a Decoy to draw in the simple among them under hopes that there they may find salvation Secondly It serves as a Jaylor to keep them in when they are in for thereby they terrifie them as if it were damnation to depart from their Church yea or to entertain thoughts that others who are out of their Church can be saved for out of the Church say they there is no salvation and they would have you believe that there is no true Church but theirs and so out of their Church there is no salvation This they would make men believe although by their fruits the Lord hath made them manifest to be a Nursery of abominations But put case that the Church of Rome were the only true visible Church or understand any other true visible Church any people whatsoever gathered and constituted into a visible body yet even in such a case I do not see how it can hold true that out of that Church there is no salvation Let those that are otherwise minded prove it for my part it is plain to me according to the Scripture That in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him And that God will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality to them he will render eternal life Rom. 2.6 7. And again upon this occasion when a Centurion being a stranger as to Israel which was then the Church came to Jesus to have his Servant healed of the Palsie and desired him but to speak the word and his Servant should be healed hereupon Christ said I have not found so great saith no not in Israel And then he adds further these words And I say unto you that many shall come from the East and from the West and from the North and from the South and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven but the Children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness Mat. 8.11 Luk. 13.29 What signifies this but that many Children of a visible Church shall be cast out when as many others that appear not of it shall come from all parts and sit down in the Kingdom of Heaven with Abraham Isaac and Jacob Sixthly Another of their Principles is this Fides non est servanda cum Haereticis that is Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks If Joshua had been under the Church of Rome's Doctrine he would not have kept faith with the Gibeonites when they obtained a league with Israel by craft But he had a better instructer than the Pope and gave better instruction and therefore both he and the Princes of Israel would not that the Gibeonites should perish because of the league and peace made with them and because they had sworn unto them yea although these Gibeonites were of the Nations that were to be rooted out So great authority had an Oath and Covenant and did so greatly oblige at that day as you may read Josh 9. But the Pope he can trample upon all Solemn Oaths Leagues and Covenants whatsoever and break all bonds at pleasure yea and all bounds of humanity and solemn Engagements when he pleases if he do but say They are Hereticks with whom the League is made What is it that can bind him or his Disciples Therefore in the end who will trust the Papists to make any league with them or at leastwise depend upon that league with security and not rather secure themselves against them as well as they can Time was when an Oath or Covenant gave rest to people but now it can give none to people of another profession that have to deal with the Papists because faith is not to be kept with them as they say Thus they are fallen from the fidelity of mankind to the deceitful tricks of Satan Formerly men rested in one another's friendship and ceased from strife and controversie and fear one of another when they had passed their Oath because it was then an immutable thing among men and so an Oath was the end of all strife as you may read it was so between Laban and Jacob Gen. 31. And the same immutability and weight that was in an Oath among good men the same immutability and stedfastness Christ Jesus did require in words under his Ministration Let your yea be yea and nay be nay But the Papists hold to neither of these neither to truth in Words nor truth in Oaths So that you may plainly see that herein the Pope and his Children and Confederates in Antichristianism are faln away not only from Christ's Doctrine but also from the fidelity of that first Ministration which said Thou shalt not forswear thy self We are commanded to put away Lying Eph. 4.25 But false Swearing and Covenant breaking is the height of Lying Lye not one to another seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds saith the Apostle Col. 3.9 But the Pope teaches his Children to put on the old man and his deeds and to give themselves up to Lying and false Swearing and Covenant breaking whereof many instances might be produced take these two or three About the year 1444. if Bucholcer compute aright when the Turke and Christians had confirmed a Truce between them by solemn Oaths on both sides Eugenius the