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Planēs apokalypsis Popery manifested, or, The papist incognito made known : by way of dialogue betwixt a papist priest, Protestant gentleman, and Presbyterian divine : in two parts : intended for the good of those that shall read it / by L.B.P.
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principalities and powers to obey magistrates to be subject to every good work You see that good works and obedience to Magistrates are joined together and appointed to be equally prest upon the people by the Exhortations of Christs Ministers In the 1 Pet. 2.13 c. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of men for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free but not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness but as the servants of God Fear God honour the King You see it is the will of God that with well-doing that is by obeying the King and his Governours we should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men who thought that Religion freed them from the yoke of subjection and that we should not make Christian liberty a cloak of maliciousness a pretence of Disobedience and Rebellion but as servants to God honour the King and submit our selves to him for the Lords sake Therefore it is a great impiety and hypocrisie to pretend Gods cause and interest for rebelling and disobeying when he bids us for his sake to obey and to be subject 2. That none must presume upon any account whatsoever to rebel against the Sovereign or Supreme Governour read Num. 16. at the 3. v. you shall find that Korah and his rebellious crew pleaded that the people was the Lords people and that they were holy every one of them and therefore say they to Moses and Aaron Why lift ye up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord But at the 32. v. The earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all that appertained to them And by that dreadful and unheard-of judgment God manifested how much he detests Rebellion that following Ages might beware of the heinousness of that crime So in 1 Sam. 24.5 and 6. Davids heart smote him because he had cut off Sauls skirt and he said to his men The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords Anointed to stretch forth mine hand against him seeing he is the Lords Anointed And c. 26. v. 9. David saith unto Abishai Destroy him not for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anointed and be guiltless David was then Anointed King he was persecuted wrongfully by Saul Saul was rejected of God and he had most barbarously put to death the Priests of God and their whole families and yet because he was King over the people Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anointed and be guiltless God as you see allows no pretence at all for Rebellion for that as I have shewn you Kings have their Authority from him By me Kings reign saith the Divine Wisdom Prov. 8.15 and therefore Solomon joins God and the King together as the objects of our respect and obedience Prov. 24.21 My son fear thou the Lord and the King and so Eccles 8.2 I counsel thee to keep the Kings Commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God 3. We are not to speak evil of the King but rather to pray for him in 22. Exod. 28. Thou shalt not revile the Gods that is Supreme Magistrates nor curse the Ruler of thy people Job 34.18 Is it fit to say to a King Thou art wicked and to Princes Ye are are ungodly So it was witnessed against Naboth by his false accusers That he blasphemed God and the King 1 King 21.13 and then he was stoned to death Whereby it appears that in Israel it was one of the greatest impieties to speak ill of the King As also it is commanded by Solomon Eccles 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thoughts c. And you may see what a black character the Apostles set upon those that despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities in the Epistle of Saint Jude and in 2 Pet. 2.10 Now that it is our duty to pray for the King we have these examples 1 Sam. 10.24 when Saul was anointed the people cryed God save the King and so likewise when Solomon was anointed 1 King 1.39 But what need any more than this precept of St. Paul 1 Tim. 2.1 and 2. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in Authority for it is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour Lastly That we are to pay Tribute to Kings and Sovereign Princes read Rom. 13.6 and 7. For this cause pay you Tribute also for they are Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour If the Heathen Emperours were Gods Ministers and therefore to receive Tributes and Customs much more the Christian Kings that now reign over us Moreover we have the example of Christ himself who when he had not wherewithal to pay that Tribute which the Roman Kings had imposed upon the Jews was pleased to work a miracle for to get money to pay it withal Mat. 17.24 c. He that was and is King of Kings and Lord of Lords the God of Heaven and Earth pleaded no exemption from paying Taxes but bound this duty upon all his followers by his own example and thereby confirmed also that precept which he gave us when the Jews asked him whether it was lawful to pay Tribute to Caesar Mat. 22.21 of rendring to Caesar the things that are Caesars as well as to God the things that are Gods Now therefore let no Christian dare to go against these so many and so plain and express Scriptures in disobeying or resisting his King and Sovereign under pretence of Religion or of removing evil Councellors or of fighting for the Kings Authority against his Person or because the Pope or the Presbyterian Synod enjoin him so to do for the good of souls for the cause and interest of Christ and the Gospel for you see that God makes no reservations and allows of no distinctions or equivocations but bids every soul to be subject and threatens damnation to any that shall not And now Sirs I leave you to meditate upon what you have heard and I heartily wish it may do you good FINIS ERRATA In the first Part. PAge 4. line 25. for cryed read erred P. 11. l. 11. f. falsam r. falsum P. 22. l. 5. f. fanfie r. suffer In the second Part. In the Preface P. 3. f. are r. err Pag. 11. l. 19. add we P. 16. l. 7. add lost P. 26. l. 12. f. ever r. even P. 39. l. 25. f. then r. them P. 50 l. 7. r. did reach no further than the end of P. eadem l. 27. add it is P. 64. f. general r. quarrel P. 72. l. 8. f. subject r. ready
fell at the Angels feet to worship him Rev. 19.10 the Angel hindred him saying See thou do it not I am thy fellow-servant worship God Who told you 't is more lawful now Or that they are not still of the same mind for belike the Worship of Latreia was not offer'd them and how can you call on the Saints for help being you have not yet put them in your Creed for S. Paul saith Rom. 10.14 How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed And more than so he gives us warning against the plausibility of the Doctrin of worshipping Angels Col. 2.18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen vainly puft up by his fleshly mind I take the practice of our Church in worshipping God alone to be much safer for we are bid by our Lord Jesus Christ so to do Mat. 4.10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve It is said in the Acts Acts 2.11 Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved Could you produce as much for the Worshipping of Saints we would do it as devoutly as you But rather to the contrary we find that when the Apostles desired Christ to teach them to pray not only to pray God but in general to pray Luc. 11.1 he told them When ye pray say Our Father c. there was not a syllable for the Saints And S. Paul when he had said Heb. 4.16 That Christ is our High-Priest in heaven infers let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtein mercy He doth not say Let us go to the Saints that they may obtein mercy for us Nothing is to be found in Scripture but what discountenanceth the Practice of your Church in Praying to Saints Pray what reasons have you for it besides the command of the Pope P. There may be many but I can tell you of two very strong ones First Because they know our necessities and the very thoughts of our hearts and so can hear our prayers at all times Bellarmin is express in it Bellar. de San. beat l. 1. c. 20. Non verum est quod assumitur Sanctos ignorare quod ab illis petimus nam etsi dubitatio esse possit quemadmodum cognoscant quae solo cordis affectu interdum proferuntur tamen certum est eos cognoscere And secondly Because they are our Mediators and intercede with God for us Ibid. Neque est cur timeamus nomen mediatoris transferre ad Sanctos sicut ad eos transferimus nomen advocati intercessoris And accordingly it was decreed by the Council of Trent Mandat sancta Synodus omnibus Episcopis Con. Trid. S. 25. Decret de Inv. Sanct. c. omnes fideles instruant de Sanctorum intercessione invocatione reliquiarum honore legitimo imaginum usu Doceant eos bonum atque utile esse eos invocare ad eorum orationes opem auxiliumque confugere Imagines Christi Sanctorum in templis habendas eisque debitum honorem venerationem impertiendam Quod per imagines quas osculamur coram quibus caput aperimus Christum Sanctos adoremus veneremur The people must be taught by the Clergy to pray to Saints to flee to them for succour and help and also for their intercession to honour their shrines and reliques to have their images in Churches and give them their due honour and worship by kissing of them and by kneeling and being bare to them G. Yes I know you do so and burn Candles and go on Pilgrimages to them and offer gifts to them and a great deal more than I can think of But the more shame for you for were your reasons true yet they could not justifie such doings but rather what we all grant and practise that the Saints should be mentioned with honour that the memory of them should be pretious to us and that we would imitate their virtues and thank God for all the blessings we receive from them And yet 't is very improbable that they should know the thoughts of all men at once for 't is a thing that belongs to God only and seems to contradict these Scriptures Eccl. 9.6 7. That the dead know not any thing of what is done under the Sun That God only knows the heart of all the children of men 1 Kings 3.39 Rev. 2.23 And that it is he that searcheth the reins and the hearts And as for your second reason we deny not but that the Saints glorified may pray for the Militant Church only we say that to make them our Mediators and Intercessors and to pray by their merits is expresly against these Scriptures 1 Tim 2.5 1 John 2.1 2. Joh. 14.6 There is one Mediator between God and men the man Jesus Christ I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me not by the Saints If ye ask any thing in my name Ibid. 13 14. that will I do If ye ask any thing in my name I will do it Eph. 2.18 not if ye ask in the name of the Saints Through him we have access by one spirit unto the father and lastly to conclude and shew that the Practice of our Church is well grounded and safe It is said Heb. 7.25 He Christ is able to save to the utmost those that come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them As for your representing God in bodily shapes and worshipping the Images of Saints 't is well the Council of Trent is so express for it for I am sure the Holy Scripture doth not in the least authorize but rather condemn it Deut. 5.8 Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above Ib. 4 15â— c. and in another place Take ye good heed unto your selves for you saw no manner of similitude when the Lord spake to you in Horeb lest ye corrupt your selves and make you a graven image the similitude of any figure c. And that Images should not be worshipped in any wise Ex. 20.5 what can be more express than the second Commandment Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them And now who will wonder that you believe Doctrins not contein'd in Scripture when ye teach and command what is so directly against it P. You fansie that we transgress the Commandments but we say that we can fulfil them all and that some do so Bellar. de Just l. 4. c. 13. De Monac l. 2. c. 7. and more than is commanded too There are those amongst us who are so far from committing any sin that they can do more than is required of them by God Potest homo facere plus quam