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A34540	Rome in her fruits being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1662, near to the standard in Cheapside : in the which sermon the author sets up his standard in opposition to the fruits and practices of Rome, and likewise answers in brief a late pamphlet, entitled Reasons why Roman Catholicks should not be pe[r]s[e]cuted / by Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1663 (1663)	Wing C626; ESTC R5572	26,955	38

and Sublunary matters do not I pray your Holinesse intrude upon Heaven do not defile upwards God's holy Truth authorized by the Spirit of Truth calls not for assistance to the Devil's pedling-School of Lying Now O thou imperious Wh●re blush a little if thou can'st Here let my Soul dilate her self Shall I be damn'd to an Eternity of Torments by a most good and most just God because I cannot believe eternal invincible and unmatchable Lyars most maliciously and knowingly sinning against the same God as he is the God of Truth Beloved Countrymen let me prophesie in a word or two After a few yeares I mean when our old Men here are silenc'd and laid to sleep in the Grave the Truth of the Gunpowder-Treason which as yet many thousands now living amongst us know from the Collections and Evidence of Sense shall be declared against ex sacrâ Cathedrâ out of the sacred Chair at Rome and holily si●ned Annulo Piscatoris with that holy Signet of his Holinesse Tell me now Romanists How shall we afterwards believe you in other things We are instructed from your Civilians Mendax semel mendax sempet praesumitur He that does gloriosè mentiri he that is once a notorious magnificent and glorious Lyar is presumed to be a Lyar alwayes This will make us tremble at the Canonization of Saints who are not Canoniz'd untill the Age be dead wherein they liv'd Melchior Canus thou learned Rabbin amongst the Papists come forth stand in the mid'st of this Congregation and speak to the matter Dolentèr dico potius Melch. Can. in Locis Theol. lib. 11. c. 6. quàm Contumeliosè multo a Laërtia Ethnicis Historicis Philosophorum vitas severiùs scriptas quàm a Christianis Vitas Sanctorum Gr●evingly I speak it rather than contumeliously The lives of the old Philosophers are more strictly and severely written by Laërtius and other heathenish Historians than the lives of our Saints by Christians Romanists There we have you Quoniam incidit in foveam obruatur Because he is fallen into a ditch of his own digging throw durt upon him bury im Now the Curtain is drawn and we plainly see who they are that forsake in the pursuit of their evil Ends by indirect Means Viam Regiam the Princely way of Psalm 40. 4. Truth and turn aside to lyes When water leaves its Channel and turns aside there to abide it quickly stinks The Vulgar Latin gives in the place of lyes insanias God Vulg. falsas false madnesses The Septuagint led the way who render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lying madnesses St. Hierome Sept. diggs to the Root in the Hebrew and calls it Pompam Mendacij the Pontifical Pomp or profession of a Lye a S. Hier. Church-Lye going in holy State Give me leave to draw forth before you as upon a Table a Triangle of Questions which all cast an eye upon holy Scripture First who is Pater Mendaciorum the Father of Lyes so declared by the true God and the same the God of Truth Ye all know him and it would be superfluous to name him Now learn to know his Children Ye shall truly know them by their Lyes Secondly who shall be excluded from the communion of Saints in Heaven as the last and worst of all the Rout The beloved Disciple as truly answers whosoover loveth and maketh a lye customarily Revel 22. 25 maketh it because he loveth it Thirdly Why were not Pictures and Images entred of old into the Jewish Common-wealth Philo Jud. lib. de Gigant Philo the Jew hands the Reason to us Picturam atque Statuariam a suâ Repub. rejecit Moyses quod veritatem mendaciis vitient illudentes per oculos animabus facilibus The Arts of Picture and Statuary Moyses inspired by God rejected from his Common-wealth because they vitiate that is deflowr Truth with lyes deluding easie Souls by the eyes Moses God's Vice-gerent was greatly afraid even of dumb lyes that have mouthes and speak not of lyes in their very first ineaments of colour and Figure Concerning the seventy Cells built in observance to the commands of Pt●loncy whereas St. Justine gives to every Elder a Cell St. Epiphanius one to every two St. Hierom to promote his Latin Edition joines them altogether and professes Nescio quis primus Author septuaginta S. Hierom. Praefat. in Pentateuchum Cellulas Alexandriae mendacio suo extruxerit I know not who as the first Author built seventy Cells at Alexandria with a Lye But I know the persons that have built seventy times-seven Babel-Towers in the Minds of Men with their Lyes I most humbly call God to witnesse I have been these forty years acquainted with Popish-Priests of the which notwithstanding I never knew one no verily not a little one whom either in his words or practices I could reasonably difference from a theatrical Mountebank or a nimble-finger'd Jugler Hitherto we have preambled Now we state our Text Ye shall know them by their fruits It seems to be resisted ex obliquo obliquely by the first words of the Chapter Judge not that ye be not judged Howsoever Know we may when Things are evidently demonstrated by their effects or Fruits Scientia saith Aristotle est ejus cujus est Demonstratio we know a Thing when it is evident to us by Demonstration Know we may we may not judge Knowledge draws life from evidence D. Tho. p 1. q. 1. art 6. ad 3. Aquinas speaks cùm judicium ad sapientiam pertineat VVhenas Judgement pertains to VVisdom Does it so Then as we know we may judge also if we judge according to the Dictates of VVisdom To Christ the Son of God to whom VVisdom is signally attributed Judgement is likewise assigned There are therefore two sorts of Judgement Judicium rectum Judicium temerarium Right otherwise call'd wise Judgement and rash Judgement Judge not that is not rashly Rash Judgement is cùm Judicium fit ex incertis incognitis when judgement is given concerning Things uncertain and unknown Right Judgement is cùm Judicium fit ex notis evidentibus when judgement is given concerning Things known and evident Knowledge and Right judgement will stand and stable together Yea the one necessarily supposes the other and this other infers that one again Right judgement supposes Knowledge and Knowledge infers Right Judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Searcher and Knower of the Heart is one of God's proper Titles He only knows the Heart in the Heart but we know and judge other mens Hearts when out of the abundance of the Heart the mouth speak●th Excellently Euaristus writing to the Evar. ep 2 ad Epist Aegypti Bishops of Egypt and alledged by Gratianus Deus omnipotens ut nos a praecipitatae sententiae prolatione compe●ceret cum omnia nuda aperta sint oculis ejus mala Sodomae noluit audica judicare priusquam manifeste agnosceret quae dicebantur The omnipotent Ged that he might retract us from the

precipice of rash Judgement although all things are naked and open to his eyes yet would not judge the sins of Sodom upon hearsay he would manifestly see the truth of the matter in the Theatre of practice and expresse a conclusion from the secret Inwards of Experience Not that God acquires Knowledge expe●imentally or otherwayes Experience being a knowledge gathered from par●iculars but for our learning Unde ipse ait saith my Author Descendam C. The Lord said because the Cry of Sodom and Gomorrah was great ver 21. I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether acco●ding to the cry of it which is come unto Gen. 18. 20 me and of not I will know God seems not to know what he knows that we may know what we know not Knowing and seeing he went down to see and know that we may proceed from Evidence to Judgement Our Knowledge and Judgement are grounded in this particular and the like may be said hereafter concerning the Judgement and Knowledge of our Children and of their children and their childrens children to the end of the World upon such Evidence as holy Scripture is abundantly satisfied with yea such as according to the level of Right Reason proportion'd to the Word of God falls open 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into a Quad●ate the Figure of New Jerusalem in quadro sitâ fou●-squar'd Which Knowledge and Judgement if we or our children to the last man should in a black day wave or lay aside God our most gracious Father Benefactor and true Protector would be most unworthily defrauded of his Worship and Glory most due to him as performable by publick Acknowledgement Psalm 44. 1 and Thanksgiving VVe have heard with our ears O God our Fathers have told us what work thou didst in their days in the times of old ver 2. How thou didst drive out the Heathen with thy hand and plantedst them how thou didst afflict the people and cast them out Let us continue the Song that God may continue his Deliverances How thou didst deliver our most wise and most learned James King of England Scotland France and Ireland and all his Nobles and People from the most horrible and most derestable Usurpation of the Papists attempted by a most hellish Powder-plot and how the Traitours were caught by the very covert mention of their own Snare and how thou didst afflict them with death and cast them out yea how thou didst continue the Government upon his Shoulder which we most heartily and most humbly desire thee notwithstanding all Popish and Popish-fashion'd Machinations to continue likewise upon his posterity for ever Amen Know then we may yea by fruits when they are evident as we see they are in our case and from Knowledge we may passe to Judgement Now let us enquire further concerning these fruits lest the Papists should imitate that impure person who called his Whores by the name of the Muses or be like the popish Painter who preferred the picture of his Iewd Mistress under the name of the blessed Virgin that it might be worshipped First These fruits have no correspondence or analogy with Christ the Bridegroom of the Church and of Souls as he is described in his person by his Eyes in his ordinary practice by his pasture or feeding in his Office of Mediatorship by his Name in his extraordinary fruits by his Obedience unto death His eyes Cant. 5. 12 are as the eyes of Doves by the Rivers of waters The Dove abiding with pleasure by the waters discovers the Birds of prey in the Ayr by their shadows in the waters and then presently wings it in the Ayr for her security there 's all she does shadowing innocent Christians that in the Sallies of persecution should flye Cant. 6. 3 from City to City He seedeth among the lillies The lillies are not blood-colour'd but white pure and lifted up by a long stalk from the pollutions of the Ground or Earth which open'd her mouth to receive the blood of Cain's brother Abel His Names were Jesus the Saviour and the Lamb of God in opposition to the Destroyer and his Office Our Lambs are innocent but the Lamb of God was innocent as God superlatively innocent As to the transcendent fruits of his Obedience Phil. 2. 8 he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Crosse St. Gregory speaks appliably S. Greg. lib. 35. Moralium in Job cap. 12. Obedientia victimis praeponitur quia per victimas aliena caro per obedientiam vero voluntas propria mactatur Obedience is preferred before Sacrifice because in Sacrifice other Things in obedience our own wills and selves are kill●d that is mortified and offered to God He humbled himself his whole self and became obedient unto death Death saith Franzius like the Lion tears all Franz in Leone Secondly These bloody fruits have no consanguinity with the Spouse of Christ which is the Church and the Righteous Soul The Church may be consider'd in her Name deciphering her gracious Nature in her different States calme and troubled and in her perpetual practice Open to me saith Christ to his Church my Cant. 5. 2 sister my love my dove my undefiled She is Christ's Sister like him in Nature and in deportment his Love his beloved Sister because like him and likenesse causes liking his Dove because harmlesse as the Dove and like him in his dear Innocency his Vndefiled because his Dove the Dove not being defiled with blood The Council of Aix declared Meminisse oportet Concil Aquisgranense Can. 134. quia Columba est in divinis Scripturis Ecclesia appellata quae non unguibus lacerat sed alis piè percutit It behoveth us all to remember that the Church is stiled in holy Scripture an innocent Dove for her Gentlenesse which tears not with Talents but piously strikes with her wings In Statu Pacato in her State of peace and prosperity the Church is as St. Cyprian pencils her in operibus S. Cyp. ep 4. Fratrum Candida white in the works of the Brethren these are the lilies among which Christ feedeth In Statu perturbato in her state of Adversity and persecution She is as the same Father addeth in the same place in Martyrum cruore purpurea purple in the blood of her Martyrs these are her Rod-Roses and her truly-Christian S Cypr. ibidem Cant. 5. 10 Cardinals she is as her Beloved white and ruddy It is again appositely observed by St. Cyprian Ut appareret Innocentes esse qui propter Christum necantur Infantia innocens ob nomen ejus occisa est That it might appear those who dye for Christ should be harmlesse S. Cypr. ep 24. his very first Martyrs were innocent children baptized Baptismo sanguinis with the baptism of their own blood and these were Primitiae Martyrum the first fruits of the first Martyrs and they were early fruits For those whom the Casuists call Adultos grown