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A10380	A warning to come out of Babylon, in a sermon preached by Master Andrew Ramsay, minister at Edinburgh; at the receiving of Mr. Thomas Abernethie, sometime Jesuite, into the societie of the truely reformed Church of Scotland	Ramsay, Andrew, 1574-1660.	1638 (1638)	STC 20657; ESTC S115617	27,981	57

bee good and vertue to bee evill except shee would sinne against conscience Likewise in offering incense to the Saincts in generall sweareing by them praying and vowing to them which are partes of Divine worshippe Doe they not commit vile idolatrie And in worshipping of images forbidden so clearlie and frequently in Gods word whether it be with relative terminative or conterminative worship in all these they prove idolaters Further their Idolatrie doth manifest it self in worshipping Saint Christopher the three imaginarie Kings at Culen and others who never had life breath nor being as their Saint Longinus whom ignorance hath canonized transforming the speare that pierced Christs side called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into Longin●●s a religious Latine Saint What credit is there to be given to their forged reliquies let any man judge when the heads and bodies of Saints parcels of the crosse nailes and speares that pierced Christ have exceeded and daylie do exceed their just number and quantitie Neither are they inferiour in idolatrie to the prophane Gentiles who were aliens from the common-wealth of Israel without GOD without hope for as they had tutelarie Gods for the protection of nations cities places and Gods for averting of evils and curing of diseases as also for conferring all manner of benefites So also in the Romane church they have their tutelarie saints for nations cities places for curing of diverse diseases and conferring of benefites Finally as the Samaritans did worship that which they knew not and the Athenians did erect an altar to the unknowne GOD so also in the sacrament of the Lords body they worship and know not what they worship whether bread or the body of the LORD for seeing the change of the body of Christ dependeth upon the Priests intention as they affirme and they being uncertaine of his intention do worship and know not what they worship whether bread or the body of Christ To conclude one of their cheif schoolemen Vazquez confesseth that they have no Scripture for the worshipping of images and is further bold to say that they may worship lawfully upon ignorance the divel lurking under the crucifixe Therefore that we be not partakers of her spirituall whoordomes and idolatries and thereby receive of her plagues let us come out of Babylon As to the fift and last sin moving God to powre out the vials of his wrath upon Rome is her corrupt doctrines and heresies for shee is loaden not with one heresie only but heaps of heresies For clearing of this heresie is to be considered materially and formally A materiall heresie is an erronious doctrine● opposing and everting the saving grounds of religion A formall heresie when a doctine everting the saving grounds of Truth is maintained with obstinacie Materiall errours was received into the Church of Corinth when the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead was called in question The like befell the churches of Galatia when circumcision and the works of the law was thought necessare supplements to Faith to make up our justification before GOD Yet because these foresaid errours was not defended with obstinacie the maintainers were not formally hereticks But in the Romane church doctrines everting Ground trueths are defended with obstinacie and the opponents persecuted with fire and sword wherefore shee is justlie charged with heresies and that both against faith and the dueties commanded in the law as followeth It is an hereticall doctrine maintained in the church of Rome with obstinacie that the Scripture is unsufficient for salvation and is but a partiall rule of our Faith seeing according to the Divine Apostle Paul It is able to make us wise to salvation and perfect to every good work It is more hereticall then this to affirme that their church traditions which are uncertain shall equall the written Word of God given by divine inspiration There is a third hereticall doctrine that surpasseth the two former that the last resolution of our faith shall not be grounded upon Gods Word but upon the church that is according to their glosse upon the Pope who only as they misbelieve is priviledged from all errour It is an hereticall doctrine which teacheth Christ to be offered up 〈◊〉 in an unbloudie sacrifice for the expiation of sin under the bare speces of bread and wine being repugnant to the eternitie of Christs Priesthood who liveth for ever repugnant to the perfection of his sacrifice by reiteration repugnant to his Majestie who hath entered into the heavenly tabernacle in glory and is not any more Priest on earth repugnant finally to his merit which being in it self infinit is redacted to a finite worth and measure at the pleasure of every Messemunging-priest It is an hereticall and arrogant doctrine which teacheth man by the merit of condignitie to deserve life everlasting seing when we have done all we can we are unprofitable servants and when we have suffered what is possible to us these momentanie asslictions are not worthie of that infinit weight of glory layed 〈◊〉 for us in Heaven And seing the righteousnesse of the most just as David Esay and others can not stand before God it is an hereticall doctrine and preiudiciall to salvation to place our justification before God in our owne maimed inherent righteousnesse It is a Divine trueth that there is no name under Heaven to be saved but by the name of Christ Contrare to this is that heretick doctrine of the Romane church that the merits intercession and bloud of Saints and Martyres are mixed as satisfactorie for our redemption with the bloud merit and intercession of Christ The Scripture telleth us that man in his creation was made according to the image of God perfect in holinesse and righteousnesse The doctrine of the Romane church jumpeth with the heresie of Florinus which holdeth that God made the inferiour and sensuall part of mans soule with a propension and inclination to sin In the doctrine of Free-will besides the fond opinion they have in advancing immoderatly the libertie of the same they have fallen upon sundrie hereticall positions in extolling the power thereof for seeing man as saith the Apostle hath no aptitude in himself so much as to thinke a good thought and worse then that We are dead in sinnes and trespasses by nature and if worse can be yet our hearts are said to be meer stones Is it not then an heretical assertion that there is in us any active power to do good being in such a miserable condition Moreover such being our corruption that all the imaginations of our heart are altogether set upon evill and that without the holy Spirit we cannot say so much as the Lord Jesus Is it not an heretick doctrine which teacheth that man unregenerat and voide of the sanctifying Spirit may inact and produce a good morale work wherein there is no sin Further to averre not God but the will to determine it selfe

to the accepting of grace in the article of conversion is hereticall in so far as it is contradictorie to the sayings of the Apostle Who hath separate thee what hast thou that thou hast not received A likewise It is not the runner nor the witter but God that showeth mercie Lastly the Romanists prove hereticall in the cooperation of mans will with grace giving unto it not only a proper working by it selt but also the first place setting God beside the coushen in the second roome which hath a flat opposition to the Apostles words I dare not faith he speak of any thing which Christ hath not worught by mee to make the Gentiles obedient in word and deed As also that every good gift and perfect donation is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights I may joine to the ro●mer heresies these of the Semip●lagians of Massilia touching conditionall predeltination and free will mentioned by Prosper and Hilarius to Augustine which are now refined by the Jesuits and goe most curient in the Romane church as best coine to be layed up in the treasurie of mans merits and rightreousnesse The meanest of these foresaids heresies against faith are of greater moment then the old heresies of the Quartodecimani c. recorded by 〈◊〉 Epiphanius and Augustine Neither have these pes●●erous weeds of heresies spread their roots to the suppression of Faith but also to the destruction of the law Teach they not that divine worship is to bee given to creatures against the first Commandment images to bee worshipped against the second and dispensation with perjuries against the third Saints dayes are among them in greater estimation then the Lords day contrare to the fourth commandement they liberate children from obedience to parents and Subjects from the oath of Alleadgance to their native Princes against the fift They yoak Christian Princes in bloodie wars and persecute the Saints of GOD to death contrare to the sixt They allow incestuous marriages and tolerat stewes prohibite in the seventh they transferre Kingdomes and Empires at their arbitrement being a great injustice contrare to the eight they tolerat lies equivocations and mentall reservations prohibite in the ninth and lastly they deny concupisence to be formally sin after baptisme as if in any article of time it might be said of man that he is without all sin Since then this Romish Babylon is so fraughted with heresies let us all obey the voice of God from heaven and come out of her least being partakers of her sins we receive of her plagues If it be demanded when and how these errours came in and what was the cause that being so grosse and palpable they get such acceptance of the learned I answere that many errours and a-abuses have creept in into the Romane church even of late since the reformation began by the Valdenses As that superstitious festivitie of the forged transubstantiat bread into the body of Christ jubilees depriving the laicks of the cup erecting of images in resemblance of the blessed Trinitie schoole divinitie more Aristotelian then Scriptur●li diverse orders of begging Monks Jesuites and others bowing at the name of Jesus and now lastly Pelagianisme doth prevaile so far in the doctrine of election conversion and freewill that GODS grace is made a subservient cause to nature and the immaculate and pure conception of the blessed Virgine without originall sin against reason and Scripture is now almost universally maintained These I say are the late cockle and dornell that have sprung up sowne by that ill One since the light of reformation so that the light of GODS word hath beene to them as the Sun to the clay to harden them more and more As to the errours before the reformation though they pretend antiquitie it shall be found that some of them were unknown to the church for many hundred years and the most ancient of them hath nothing but an humaine antiquitie which being compared with Divine antiquitie is but a meer noveltie Where was that doctrine of prayer for the dead in the dayes of Irenaeus who lived in the 180. year of God and some others about these times and long after who thought the souls to rest in subterranean places till the last Judgement Where was the antiquitie of worshipping the Crosse when Minucius Felix who flourished in the 206. year of God averreth in the person of Octavius his dialogist that Christians did neither wish nor worship crosses Where was images in the church when they were condemned in the councel holden at Eliberis And Epiphanius who lived in the 370 year of God seeing a vail haying in it the Picture of Christ or some saint as hee sayeth hung without the door of the temple of Anablet●a moved with an holy indignation did cut the same in twaine which doing is approven by Hierome Was the worship of Angels received in the church when the councill of Laodicea did prohibit the same and Theodoret who lived in the 430. year of God in his commentar upon the 2 Col●ss condemneth it likewise Doeth not Gregorie bishop of Rome about the 600 yeare of God writing to Serenus bisop of Marsilia condemne the worship of images Was the Saints worshipped in the church when Augustine who was in the 420. year of God in his book de verarelig affirmeth that they did honour the saints with charitie and with noworship And in his 22. book of the Citie of God We name the Saints saith he when wee pray but we do not pray to them Was not these books which now the Romane church accounteth to be Canonick Scripture esteemed to be Apocryph in the councell of Laodicca and by Hierome in his prologue called Gal●atus and by the Christian church in these dayes Was the imputation of Christs righteousnesse unknowne to the Ancient church when Augustine in his Enchiridian ad Laurentium clearely averreth the same as also Bernard in the larter dayes Was the title and power of Oecumenick or universall bishop received and approved in the church of Christ when Gregorie the great did averre that whosoever did assume that style was either the Antichrist or the fore●unn●r of the Antichrist Or was the supremacie of the Pope over the church acknowledged when Polycrates with the rest of the eastern bishops did resist Victor bishop of Ro●e The holy Martyr Cyprian did resist St●phanus and Corn●lius both bishops of Rome And the bishops of Africk in the Milevitan councell whereat Augustine was present did inhibite all transmarine appellations to the Sea of Rome Was the doctrine of the substantiall changing of the bread in the body of Christ nothing remaining of the bread but naked accidents received and approved when Theodoret plainly affirmeth that the bread doth abide in its substance unchanged The same doeth Gelasius bishop of Rome after him Bertrame and Scotus one of their chiefe schoolemen testisyeth lib.