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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55436	Popery banished with an account of their base cheats, especially, making the Word of God of no effect. And that their worship, although contrar to the Holy Scripture, they call best. January 17 1688[/]9. This may be printed. Rob, Midgley.	Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2924; Wing M1995A_CANCELLED; ESTC R217815	5,688	13

POPERY BANISHED With An Account of their Base Cheats especially making the Word of GOD of no Effect And that their Worship although contrar to the Holy Scripture they call best January 17 1688 / 9. This may be Printed ROB. MIDGLEY EDINBVRGH Re-printed Anno DOM. 1689. A TRUE Character of Popery WE do not find that God ever owned above two Religions in the World the one of Ceremonies the other without The first dictated to Moses by God himself which tho it consisted of several peculiar Rites Oblations and Ceremonies yet was their Institution grounded upon Reason being either Remembrances of their Deliverances or Types and Significations of the great Sacrifice which was to come insomuch that God did not require of the Jews to have any other Gods but him but for a particular Reason The second Religion was that which the coequal Son of God first taught in Judea and commanded his Disciples to spread over the World. A Religion plain and Simple and as I may say without Welt or Guard but so full of Truth and Sincerity so full of vertuous precepts all tending to make Men happy both in this and the other Life that it may truly be said to have descended from Heaven and to have been the untainted Doctrine of a most perfect Deity Now as no Government can subsist without Religion we thought our selves the most happy people in the World when once reform'd not only to the protestant Religion which is that which comes nearest to the Rules of Sacred Institution but to the most refined Exercise of the protestant Religion now practis'd in the World Wherein there is neither Defect of Devotion nor redundances of Superstition a Decency with Gravity a Decorum avoiding the Moroseness of a Clownish Behaviour to the Soveraign of Heaven No Superstitions assuming to its self a Sanctity above others but a piety and Charity grounded upon and warranted by Scripture without which all Religion is but a seeming and no true Religion For this Reason it was that the Author of this ensuing paper a person of no less piety and Learning then Sarpness of Wit and Soundness of Judgment wrote with such an Abhorrence as he does of the popish Religion if it may deserve to be call'd a Religion as the Gentleman well observes and that he laboured to set it forth in its proper Colours as if he had intended it as his last Legacy to this Nation to shew how ruinous it would be to us should we be again compell'd to imbrace it and with the Dog be constrained to return to our former Vomit And as it were Prophetically to let us understand what a Deliverance GOD has been pleased to bless us withall in so lately freeing the Kingdom from that Inundation of Antichristian Pomp and Vanity and Cheats of Romish Superstition which was about to have overwhelmed it 'T is true the touches are bold but it is a Description to the Life And bold Stroaks in Painting are many times more grateful to the Eye and Master like than the smooth Touches of an effeminate Pencil For which Reason it was thought expedient to abstract these few Pages srom the rest of the Treatise and to hang them up in the Fac of the Nation as the most lively Picture of the Sensuality Vanity and Treachery of the Romish Profession The Words themselves are these In short says he there is nothing comes nearer in Government to the Divine Perfection then where the Monarch as with us enjoys a Capacity of doing all the Good imaginable to Mankind under disabilities to all that is evil And as we are thus happy in the Constitution of our State so are we yet more blessed in that of our Church being free from that Romish Yoak which so great a part of Christendom do yet draw and labour under That Popery is such a thing as cannot but for want of a Word to express it be called a Religion Nor is it to be mentioned with that Civility which is otherwise decent to be used in speaking of the Differences of Human Opinion about Divine Matters Were it either open Judaism or plain Turkery or honest Paganism there is yet a certain Bona Fides in the extravagant Belief and Sincerity of an erroneous Profession may render it more pardonable But this is a Compound of all the Three an extract of whatsoever is most Ridiculous and Impious in them incorporated with more peculiar Absurdities of its own in which those were deficient and all this deliberately contrived knowingly carried on by the bold Imposture of Priests under the Name of Christianity The Wisdom of this fifth Religion this last and insolentest Attempt upon the Credulity of Mankind seems to me though not ignorant otherwise of Times Degrees and Methods of its Progress principally to have consisted in their owning the Scriptures to be the Word of God and the Rule of Faith and Manners but in prohibiting of the same their common Use or the Reading of them in publick Churches but in a Latin Translation to the Vulgar There being no better or more rational way to frustrate the very Design of the great Institutor of Christianity who first planted it by the extraordinary Gift of Tongues then to forbid the use even of the ordinary Languages For having thus a Book which is universally ●●●●…ed to be of Divine Authority but sequestring it only into such Hands as were entrusted in the Cheat they had the Opportunity to Vitiate Suppress or Interpret to their own profit those Records by which the poor People hold their Salvation And this necessary Point being once gained there was thence forward nothing so monstrous to Reason so abhorring from Morality or so contrary to Scripture which they might not in prudence adventure on The Idolatry for alas it is neither better nor worse of Adoring and Praying to Saints and Angels of Worshipping Pictures Images and Relicts incredible Miracles and palpable Fables to promot that Veneration The whole Liturgy and Worship of the Blessed Virgin. The saying of Pater noster's and Creeds to the honour of Saints and of Ave Mary's too not to her honour but of others The publick Service which they can spare to GOD among so many Competitors in an unknown Tongue and intangled with such Vestments Consecrations Exorcisms Whisperings Sprinklings Censings and Phantastical Rites Gesticulations and Removals so unbeseeming a Christian Office that it represents rather the Pranks and Ceremonies of Juglers and Conjurers the Refusal of the Cup to the Laity The Necessity of the Priests Intention to make any of their Sacraments effectual Debarring their Clergy from Marriage Interdicting of Meats Auriculat Confession and Absolution as with them practised Penances Pilgrimages Purgatory and Prayer for the Dead But above all their other Devices that Transubstantial Salacisme whereby that glorified Body which at the same time they allow to be in Heaven is Sold again and Crucified daily upon all the Altars of their Communion For GOD indeed may now and then do a Miracle