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A31347 A Catholick pill to purge popery with a preparatory preface, obviating the growing malignity of popery against Catholick Christianity / by a true son of the Catholick apostolick church. True son of the Catholick apostolick church. 1677 (1677) Wing C1495; ESTC R15262 39,661 102

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that is every doctrine which men bragging of the Spirit do teach but trie them whether they be of God no a Examine all things hold fast that which is good a 1 John 4.1 b 1 Thes 5.21 C. Whereby shall I try them M. By the Scriptures John 5.39 Acts 17.11 C. I am unlearned and the Scriptures are hard to be understood M. There are indeed many things in them hard to be understood 2 Pet. 3.16 but such things as are necessary to be known of all to salvation are plainly set down Prov. 8.9 The meaning of which place is this The Word of God in points necessary to salvation is easie unto all that have a desire unto it Turn to the places of Scripture added to every answer of the Catechism and you shall find this to be most true C. Is there no other way and means whereby to try and know the truth and the true professors M. Yes it may be done even by the aforesaid grounds of Religion Whatsoever Doctrine is agreeable thereunto is true and to be received but whatsoever is contrary to the same is false and to be rejected but whatsoever is contrary to the same is false and to be rejected As many as do sincerely and soundly imbrace profess and practise the same they are the Catholick Church that is parts and members of the Catholick Church and true Catholicks indeed But such as teach profess and practise things contrary thereunto are not the Church nor true Catholicks C. The Papists say that they only are the true Church and true Catholicks and that we are not M. So the Jews cried a The Temple of the Lord b We are the seed of Abraham the children of God a Jerem. 7.4 b John 8.33 41. But Christ told them they were the children of the Devil John 8.44 C. Are not the Papists then good Catholicks M. No but rather gross Hereticks C. What is an Heretick M. One that doth erre in any fundamental point of Christian Religion and doth obstinately teach maintain and defend the same C. Do the Papists erre in the fundamental points of Religion M. They do teach and maintain many false opinions against the very grounds of Religion as by and by shall be shewed in many particulars C. Are all Papists then Hereticks M. No for there are no doubt many of them that do erre of simplicitie and ignorance and which would be brought from their errors if they had the means namely the Scriptures in their own language preaching catechizing and the like We do not therefore account them all Hereticks but onely those before mentioned C. How do you prove that they are not good Catholicks M. I prove it thus They are good Catholicks which are of sound faith and good life Aug. lib. quaest in Mat. cap. 11. but Papists are neither of sound faith nor good life therefore they are no good Catholicks C. How do you prove that they are not of sound faith M. Even by the Apostles Creed which may serve instead of a rule whereunto the faith of all men ought to agree contrary whereunto they teach many things C. Shew me wherein M. The Creed is a confession of faith containing the sum of the Gospell and of such things as are necessary to be believed of all that will be saved They have devised many other new Articles of Faith besides and contrarie to the Articles of the Apostles Creed which they hold necessarily to be believed of all that will be saved As namely Indulgences and a treasurie of Saints merits the reall presence the Popes Supremacie Purgatorie and such like In the Council of Trent the curse Anathema is pronounced upon all such as deny these or any of them Master Perkins first vol. Page 621. The Creed teacheth what every one in particular is to know and believe and a true faith cannot stand without certain knowledge The Papists maintain an implicite or an ignorant faith namely that it is enough to believe as the Church beleiveth though they know not what the Church is nor what the Church believeth And they commend this faith by the example of an old devout father a Colliar who being tempted of the Devil and asked how he believed answered That he believed as the Church believed being asked again how the Church believed he answered As I believe whereupon the Devil as they say was fain to depart C. It should seem it was but a simple Devil for if he had been wise he would have asked him this question What if the Church believe that thou art a fool what would the Colliar think you have answered then M. I think he would have said nothing for if he should have said I believe so too the Devil might then have begged him for a food indeed And yet such fools are the simple and ignorant Papists which content themselves with this kind of faith for thus one may reason with them You are to believe as the Church believeth but the Church believes that you are fools therefore you are to believe so too This their implicite faith every one of himself may have The Devils in some fence may be said to have a better saith then this for they know what is contained in the Scriptures and believe it to be true Mat. 4.6 Iam. 2.19 This fond and ridiculous kind of saith is a notable means to nuzzle people in blindnesse superstition and perpetuall ignorance Again Faith is a certain and true perswasion of the heart whereby we are perswaded and in some measure assured of the forgivenesse of our sins and eternall salvation The Papists say it is presumption to be assured of salvation and will have men to doubt thereof the which is contrary to tht nature of true faith They call the certainty of remission of sins a faithless perswasion and the faith of Devils not of Apostles Concil Trid. Sess 6. cap. 9.12 13. Rhem. Annot. 1. Cor. 9. Sect. 9. DIALOGUE 2. C. Shew me I pray you what things in particular they teach contrary to any Article of the Creed M. I could shew you many but I fear that then I should be tedious to you I will therefore set down onely the chiefest In the second and third Article is described and set forth unto us both the person and office of our Mediator namely that he is both God and man a Prophet Priest and King Concerning his Person although in words they confess him to be God and man yet in deed they deny it for they ascribe to him a body invisible and infinite they teach that he is corporally present in infinite places at once which is proper onely to God and contrary to the nature of a true body And so in effect they do even deny his Manhood The Son of God is called Jesus because he is a Saviour yea the onely and perfect Saviour which saveth us from our sins That is hath delivered us not only from the blame or guilti●ses but fully also from the punishment due to our