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A52816	A Protestant antidote against the poyson of popery clearly proving the religion of the Church of Rome to be 1. superstitious, 2. idolatrous, 3. damnable, 4. bloody, 5. novel, 6. inconsistent with the publick peace, 7. irreconciliable to true Christianity ... / by Christopher Nesse ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing N461; ESTC R14548	103,633	225

thee thy Elders and they will tell thee Deut. 32.7 as indeed they did tell them Judg. 6.13 and Psal 44.1 2. Thus Bildad bids Job Enquire of the former Age Job 8.8 of their Radmonim as the Jews called their Ancestors whose heart they said was as the Gate of the Temple large and beautiful but the heart of their Posterity was as the Eye of a Needle narrow and of no Receipt in comparison and therefore they are referred to their Progenitors for better Information 5. Yet this Maxim quod Antiquissimum Verissimum that is truest which is Ancientest must be taken in sano sensu cum grano salis in a sound sense and with a grain of Salt therefore did I affirm before the Authority of Antiquity with this caution to wit when it is right Antiquity 't is the Noble saying of a Noble Writer that Antiquity must have no more Authority than it can maintain with truth Old Age saith Solomon is indeed a Crown of Glory but 't is only so when 't is found in the way of Righteousness Prov. 16.31 and not otherwise Antiquity disjoyn'd from Verity is but a filthy Hoariness and deserveth no more Reverence than an old Fornicator or Malefactor which because old is so much the more odious and as Manna the longer it was kept against the Command of God the more it stank so doth Error Enormity and Heresie Custom without Truth is but mouldy Error though the Romanists call their Religion the old Religion which is their common decoy yet is it a mouldy putrefied and stinking Religion having not the Salt of Truth to preserve it and it cannot truly be called the Old Religion because it cannot be found in the Scripture of Truth This Bellarmine himself confesses to part of the Popish Religion to wit Invocation of Saints saying Cum seriberentur soripturae nondum caeperat usus vovendi sanctis there was no vowing nor bowing to the Saints departed when the Scriptures were written Bell de Cult Sanct. cap. 5. 6. Suppose it may be said of Popish Superstitions as 't is said 1 Chron. 4.23 These are ancient things old and obsolete never a whit the better for that 'T is here at best as in Books some of which are adoranda Rubiginis of adored rustiness which are of more Antiquity than of Authority Laban the Idolater pretends Antiquity for his Gods in his Oath to Jacob wherein he appealed to the Gods of Abraham of Nahor and of their Father Terah all which served strange Gods Josh 24.2 but Jacob in his Oath riseth no higher than his Father swearing only by the fear of his Father Isaac Gen. 31.53 Though the Idolater pretended the Antiquity of his Gods in his going so high as his Grandfather c. yet surely Jacob that pleaded it not worshiped the truer God and more rightly Thus the Image at Ephesus which occasioned such a tumult Act. 19. had its Antiquity and could not be spoken against by any reason as the Town-Clerk told the people And why because it was wonderfully ancient so ancient that though the Temple of Diana had been seven several times re-edifyed yet this same Image was never altered Pliny lib. 16. cap. 40. Yea so ancient that though it was made by Canetias a certain Artificer as Records relate yet for the great Antiquity of it those covetous and idolatrous Priests gave out that it did fall down from Jupiter to make it the more venerable amongst the blind Heathens Act. 19.35 And by a craft not much unlike this of those Pagan Craftsmen the Papagan or Popish Priests do now shew some shivers of the Cross whereon our Lord suffered yea some shreds of the tale of the Ass whereupon he rode to Jerusalem To go yet higher sinning and lying are ancient things as ancient almost as the world yet are they not the better but worse for this Antiquity neither doth Christ hereby commend the Devil in calling him a Murtherer from the beginning John 8.44 All ancient things are not the best things 7. But to come closer to the point and to shew that the Romish Religion is so far from any true Antiquity that it is no better than a Novice Novelty and a mere Innovation and therefore the charge of Novelty the Romanists would fasten upon us ought indeed to be retorted upon them they do crastily to call Novellers first and it may be they learn'd this craft from Ahab that sold himself to work wickedly who first called the Lords Prophet Atroubler of Israel but the Prophet retorts it back upon him saying Thou and thy Fathers house be the troublers of Israel 1 Kin. 18.17 or rather the Romanists might learn this craft from Korah and his Conspirators that accused Moses and Aaron for taking too much upon them when indeed it was their own Crime and therefore 't was justly charged by way of retortion upon them by Moses what they had unjustly charged upon him and Aaron Numb 16.3 7. And thus our retorting upon Popery the charge of Novelty wherewith the Papists falsely reflect upon us is warranted by Scripture And here I cannot omit how Scaliger truly and trimly told the Jesuits Nos non sumus Novatores sed vos estis Veteratores we are not young Novellers but sure I am you are old Cheaters The truth of this learned mans Testimony will be more evident in handling the Jesuits tricks in Chapter 6. 8. The Novelty of Popery appeareth in the sequel more particularly although we be able as hath been said to look far beyond Luther yet sure I am the Romanists in their present faith cannot look beyond Antichrist I mean the Western Antichrist the Pope Assuredly Popery rose not until the Star Wormwood fell which was not till the third Angel sounded Revel 8.10 which must be after that great flood of Arrianism that seemed to drown the World again insomuch that the good Father cryed out totus mundus fit Arrianus Now this great Star blazing Comet or burning Meteor must needs be that grand Apostate of Rome whom Phocas the Parricide set up in his Chair of Pestilence and this great Star is called Wormwood not only because he was in the Gall of Bitterness himself but also because he imbittered others and proved exceeding bitter to others He was the Son of Perdition so called both Actively and Passively in working the destruction of others and being for destruction himself at last After Gregory the Great in the sixth Century who was the worst of all the Popes that went before him and the best of all them that came after him Boniface the Third was his immediate Successor in whom there was a great fall from Primitive Integrity into the deepest Gulph of Impiety and then arose the smoak of the Bottomless Pit Revel 9.1 2. to wit Heretical Opinions insomuch that all the old Hereticks were said to flee and hide themselves in the Popish Clergy Then did the smoak of School-Divinity-Notions darken the Sun or light of the Gospel and this

cultum non tantùm ad Creaturas et Idola transferimus verùm illum nostris inventis ac mendaciis vitiamus which in plain English is not only to worship a false God but also to worship the true God by false means is Idolatry 86. There is Idolatry of the First Commandment and Idolatry of the second when men esteem and adore any thing for God which is not the true God this is Idolatry against the First Commandment But when the True God is indeed worshipped but he is worshipped in Images in Saints and Angels and all false Mediums and not by means of Gods own prescribing this is Idolatry against the second and there is great Affinity between them 87. 'T is said 2 Chron. 33.17 The People sacrificed in the high places yet to the Lord their God Their Sacrificing formerly was Idolatry against the first Command but now 't was Idolatry against the second as failing and falling short of the true manner in worshipping the true God There is such a resemblance 'twixt them that they are one in Genere 88. Their Sacrificing now in the high places yet to the Lord was in general of the same kind with their sacrificing formerly in those high places to Baal The scope of the second Command is to condemn all Will-worship as Idolatry which is not warranted by the word of God 'T is said Deut. 12.4 Thou shalt not do so to the Lord thy God 'T is not said thou shalt not do so to those Idols but not so in that manner to the true God as they did to their Idols v. 30 31. 89. Polanus in his Syntagni Theolig lib. 9. cap. 3. makes two sorts of Idolatry The 1. he calls tectior et subtilior when the true God is indeed worshiped but with another manner of worship than he hath commanded himself to be worshipped in his word as those that worship God by Statues and Images are idolatrous although they deny Centies millies says he that they worship any thing beside the true God 90. The second sort of Idolatry which he calls Crassior et Apertior is when any thing is religiously worshipped for the true God which is not God This was the Idolatry of the Gentiles worshipping Devils Men and other Creatures with religious worship and this is saith he the Idolatry of the Papists in their religious worshipping of not only Saints and Angels yea the very Images or Statues of them but also of the Cross Reliques yea of those that were Nequaquam Sancti aut nunquam in rerum Naturâ 91. If this be so that this grosser sort of Idolatry be found in the Romish Church how much more that which is subtiler and of a finer spun thread pretending they worship God in their Images as the worshipping of Jehovah by or in the golden Calf which Aaron made in the Wilderness was plain Idolatry In like manner as the worshipping of God by the two Golden Calves that Jeroboam set up at Dan and Bethel was flat Idolatry 92. Although we find Aaron pretended that by or in that Calf they worshipped Jehovah that brought them out of the Land of Aegypt Exod. 32.4 5. compared with Nehem. 9.18 which says This is thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt they or at least some of them intended to worship the true God in this false manner Hence the Feast is not proclaim'd to the Golden Calf but to Jehovah 93. Suppose there be truth in Dr. Hammond's Notion that the Golden Calf in the Wilderness was made in the Figure of a Cherub after appointed to be in the Tabernacle Exod. 25.18 and of which he says Aaron might then have some intimation compare Ezek. 1.10 with 10.14 yet could not Israel be so notoriously stupid as to believe that either the Golden Cherub or Calf wrought all those wonders in Aegypt and brought them thence 94. And Jeroboam made the same pretence in his Calves the same Phrase being used 1 Kin. 12.28 Behold thy Gods O Israel which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt meaning a representation of the true God of Israel as if he drew them not to worship any other God than the God of their Fathers which brought them as his Redeemed People out of the Aegyptian Bondage for by this Title God describes himself Exod. 20.2 Ezek. 20.5 6. Lev. 19.36 Amos 2.10 95. And as Israel learnt this abomination among the Aegyptians among whom they had so long lived and where the Idol Apis was worshiped in the shape of an Oxe and Thus 't is said of Israel they changed their glory to wit their God that redeemed them out of Aegypt into the similitude of an Ox that eateth Grass Psal 106.19 20. So Jeroboam brought his Calf-making from Aegypt too where he had lately lived 1 Kin. 11.40 96. Although those worshippers of the Calves both in Aaron and Jeroboam's time probably pretended that they did not worship the Calf but God in the Calf as did also Jehu 2 Kin. 10.16 29. In having zeal for the Lord yet adhering to Jeroboam's Calves their worship being not as some excuse it by any means terminative in the Creature before their eyes yet are they expresly called Idolaters 1 Cor. 10.7 97. And though the Idolatry of Israel in the Wilderness was indeed of a deeper dye than the Idolatry of Jeroboam because it was against greater means and mercies the Ten Tribes under Jeroboam had not upon their hearts such a fresh tast of Deliverance from Aegypt they had not the pillar of Glory nor the Tabernacle of Gods Presence they had not a Moses that was faithful in all the house of God only Priests of the basest of the People 1 Kin 13 33. yet the Idolatry of Rome is worse th●● that in the Wilderness 98. The Israelites in the Wilderness gave the Glory of Christ who dwelt in a Cloud and Pillar unto a Calf or Cherub but these Idolaters of the Church of Rome give the Glory of Christ when he is dwelling in our Flesh and glorified in Heaven to a Creature which they worship as God indeed giving it to their Crucifixes Agnus Dei c. so there is a greater abomination In this Idolatry than in the Idolatry of former times 99. The Lord makes a comparison betwixt Aholah and Aholibah Ezek. 2● 4 5 11. (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Tent. Aholah had indeed played the Harlot v. 5 〈◊〉 (d) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My Tent in her Hebr. Aholibah was more corrupted than she 〈◊〉 So if we compare Aholah the Jewish Churc● with Aholibah the Romish Church that says God 's Tent is in me as the word signifies in the Hebrew we shall find her the greater Harlot of the two 100. Thus we see the plea of the Romish Church for her worshipping God in Images from the Israelites worshipping God in the Calves falls to the ground and to worship God in at or before an Image is Idolatry 't is a worshipping of the true God

absolutely then it would follow that if Christ had not come amongst the Jews they had not been sinners and Gentiles that had not the Gospel were without sin which be both absurd but Austin in Tract 89. understands Sin there the great Sin of Unbelief under which all Sins are comprehended and saith expressly that though those which never had the Gospel have some excuse for their unbelief yet none for other Sins 181. The same Augustine proceeds saying such as amongst whom Christ came not may indeed have their excuse for sin but yet are not thereby freed from being damned for Sin for the Apostle is plain They which sinned without the Law shall perish without the Law Rom. 2.12 Yet there are degrees of Punishments as there be of Sins which Humane conjectures cannot comprehend they to whom Christ came and spake shall want this excuse they cannot say we have not seen nor heard him 182. And in Tract 91. in Johan he says others that can thus excuse themselves if they be not delivered from all judgment yet certainly their judgment shall be somewhat lighter than those that had seen his great works for Christ did works which none other did As the feeding of five thousand with a few Loaves and Fishes his walking upon the Water and causing Peter to come to him his turning Water into Wine and his opening the Eyes of the man that was born blind c. for which he deserv'd their best love but having hatred for Love after all these great works their Sin was inexcusable 183. To this Purpose also Chrysostom in Hom. 76. in Johan saith the Lord Christ having according to Moses Law confirmed his Doctrine by marvellous works sheweth that the Jews withstanding him yet should have no pardon For Moses had charged them to obey (f) Christ wrought Miracles as a Master by his own Authority and Command All others but as Servants him who proved his Doctrine by miracles such as none other ever did yea themselves restified that (g) John 9.32 There was never the like done in Israel and since the World began was it heard that any opened the Eyes of one born blind 184. Seeing then not to have heard any thing of Christ doth not sufficiently excuse Infidelity because it many times happens through mens own fault God justly punishing their own sin thereby with a denyal to them of the Preaching of the Gospel (h) Polan Synt. Theolog. lib. 9. cap. pag. 591.1 Col. Polanus saith well Ignorantia non excusat eos qui fidei capaces sant quandoquidem ignorantia in Adamo in quo omnes peccârunt voluntaria fuit et debent omnes et scire et credere 185. He saith also that Negative Infidelity vel sola damnat et a Regno coelorum arcet It is no hard matter to prove that even the want of a due preaching of the Gospel and of a right propounding of the knowledge of Christ to them is a punishment for their sin and sin can never excuse sin Infidels ought themselves to seek after the knowledge of the truth now if Negative Infidelity do damn the Heathens then Positive Infidelity such as is in Papists that hear and believe not must needs double damn them 186. The Papists are despisers of most clear light of the truth that hath been spread before them by many famous men so they sin against knowledge and have no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or pretence for their Sin Minor erat culpa ubi erat culpae Ignorantia saith Ambrose lib. 9. Ep. 71. But because they say they see as the Pharisees that saw the works of Christ therefore their sin of a (i) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Twice dipt Scarlet Sin double dye remaineth (k) John 9.41 187. But to let pass their blind charity for blind Infidels which is a mere design for up holding their Kingdom and palliating their opinions about an implicit Faith I come to their uncharitableness towards us in making us worse than Infidels and passing this partial censure that Protestants cannot be saved though Infidels may (l) Coster Resp ad Refut Osiand propos 8. Costerus saith Fierinequit ut Lutheranus moriens salvetur This is a brave Romish Dictator 188. And it is determined by a general Council and the Pope that no man can be saved out of their Church as headed by the Pope extra Ecclesiam Romanam nulla est salus that it is necessary to Salvation to be a subject of the Pope of Rome Yet can they take in Infidels and lay the Church as common to the world for as many as will but believe in the Pope though they believe not in Christ whose Vicar he pretends to be 189. How can this Popish Censure be of any moment that Judges no Salvation can be among us yet if we were Infidels we might be saved so we had but an implicit Faith and believed in the Pope But the choicest Saint and Servant of God that hath an explicit Faith in Christ cannot be saved if he believe not in the Pope and be of the Church of Rome Is this a Judging according to God 190. If it had been essential to Christianity and necessary to salvation to believe in the Pope or Church of Rome then the Apostles would have preached it for converting the People would have baptized the converted into the Pope and Roman Church and it would have been inserted in some of those antient Creeds or in some of the expesitions of them but there is not a word in Scripture or any Ecclesiastical History that intimates any of those Premises and sure such a necessary point would not have been omitted 191. But Thousands and Millions were saved in the Primitive times without ever believing in the Pope or Roman Church and Paul and Silas were much mistaken when the Jaylor cryed to them Sirs what must I do to be saved in answering him Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house Act. 16.30 31. According to the doctrine of the Romanists they should have directed them thus Thou must believe in the Pope and in the Roman Church and thou shalt be saved 192. It cannot be proved that one Christian believed in the Pope or Church of Rome for many an hundred year after Christ much less that all believed so yet for want of this belief not only we Protestants are all damned by the Romish Church but such is their uncharitableness that they damn all the Christians among the Greeks Moscovites Armenians Abassines Aethiopians Waldenses c. that believes not in the Pope 193. (m) Baxter's Key for Catholicks pag. 262. Mr. Baxter very acutely retorts upon the Romanists for this uncharitableness saying If Charity be the life of all the Graces or holy qualities of the Soul and that which above all others proveth a man to be justified and in a state of Salvation then judge by this Argument of their own whether our charitableness to them or