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Prophecys concerning the return of popery into England, Scotland and Ireland by Arch-bishop Usher, Mr. Herbert, Dr. D. Pareus ... [et. al.]
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Ussher, James, 1581-1656.
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life Some other for lack of knowledge follow after willful and blind masters and become Arrians or Pelagians and thus they blaspheme the Son of God Some others give themselves over to their own affections and as he saith rejoyce and triumph in their filthiness without fear of God without conscience of sin and so tread down the blood of the Testament under feet and this do they for lack of teaching because they have not learned men and preachers to shew them what they should do O saith our Saviour Christ the good shepherd and bishop of our souls my harvest is beaten down and lost and there is none that will go abroad and save it My people run headlong to their own destruction not of Malice but of very simplicity only because they are not taught because they know not my father nor me Also it is not my fathers will that any of them should be lost But for the hope of posterity I report me to all you which are fathers and have children for whom you are careful Although your selves have a zeal and care for the house of God yet will you breed them up keep them at School until four and twenty years old to your charges that in the end they may live in glorious poverty that they may live poorly and naked like the Prophets and Apostles Our posterity shall rue that ever such fathers went before them And Chronicles shall report this contempt of learning among the punishments and murrains and other plagues of God They shall leave it written in what time and under whose raign this was done Or if we grow so barbarous that we consider not this or be not able to draw it into Chronicle yet fortain Nations will not spare to write this and publish it to our everlasting reproach and shame In the mean time what may be ghessed of their meaning which thus ravin and spoil the house of God which decay the provision thereof and so basely esteem the Ministers of the Gospel they cannot say to God The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up Howsoever in other things they do well howsoever they seem to rejoyce at the prosperity of Sion and to seek the safety and preservation of the Lords Anointed yet needs must it be that by these means forraign power of which this Realm by the mercy of God is happily delivered shall again be brought in upon us Such things shall be done unto us as we be for suffered the truth of God shall be taken away the holy Scriptures burnt and consumed in fire A marvellous darkness and calamity must needs ensue For if the tempest be so dark in the sea that the load-star lose her light and the needle tail to give token of the North Pole no marvel though the ship lose her course and be swallowed in the sands The Gospel of Christ is the fountain of light and of knowledge It cannot be maintained by ignorance and darkness These be the props of their kingdom which take away the Scriptures which hold the people in blindness which flie the light which have their common prayers minister the Sacraments marry bury their dead in a strange tongue that the people may understand nothing which make a famme of hearing the word of God which stop up the springs of the water of life which take away the keys of the kingdom of Heaven and neither enter in themselves nor suffer them that would enter which say ignorance is the mother of devotion and the Church is then in best order and the people most devout when they are hood-winckt and blinded and see nothing These are not fit instruments wherewith we may overcome the adversaries This is not the sword of the spirit these are not the spiritual weapons which cast down holds and every high thing that is exalted against the kingdom of God When man that would keep out his enemy will pull down his holds what Captain that meaneth to give a forcible assault upon the enemy will discourage his fighting souldiers but our Souldiers are out of courage our Castles are falling therefore that which we tear will fall upon us Bishop Gauden THese and such like are the uncouth expressions used to usher it under the names of Liberty Curiosity sublimity nothing but Ignorance Idleness Atheisme Barbarity Irreligion and utter confusion in this Church or at best as I shall afterward more fully demonstrate they are but van-courriers or agitators for Romish superstitions and Papalusurpations the end of all this gibberish is Venient Romani Put all these fine fancies and affected phrases together with all those strange phantasms in Religion which of late have haunted this Church like so many unquiet vermin or unclean spirits truely they spell nothing but first popular extravagances which are the embasings and embrovlings of all true and reformed Religion next they portend Popish interests and policies prevailing against this Church and state whose future advantages are cunningly but notably wrapt up in these plebeian furies and fondnesses as grocery wares are in brown paper Be confident the spirit of Rome which is very vigilant and and active doth then move most potently upon the face of our English waters when there is to be seen nothing but a sea of confusion a meer Chaos of the Christian and Reformed Religion Which feared deluge and by wise men forseen devastation of the Reformed Religion once wisely established honourably maintained and mightily prospered in the Church of England is already much spread and prevalent among many people under the plea and colour of I know not what liberty to own any or no Minster any or no Religion any none or many Churches in England The visible decayes and debasings of the true and Reformed Religion in England as to piery equity unity and charity as to the authority of its Ministry and solemnity of its Ministrations are so palpable both in the outward peace and profession also in the inward warmth and perswasion that it is high time for all sober and wise men that love God Religion and their Country mightily to importune the mercies of God that breathing upon us with a spirit of meekness and wisdom truth and love humility and honesty he would at length asswage that deluge of contempt and confusion the troubled and bitter waters of wrath and contention which have overwhelmed the highest mountains of this Church over-topping by their salt waves and aspersions the gravest wisest most learned and religious both Preachers and Professors of the Reformed Religion in this Church and Nation Which licentious insolencies have made all sober Christians so sick weary and ashamed of them that they cannot but be infinitely grieved to see and fore-see the low ebbe to which the Reformed Religion in its purity and power must in time fall in England while the pristine dignity and authority of the Evangelical Ministry is so invaded baffled and depised while the authentick derivation and Catholick succession of that holy power is so
danger than the most are aware of and that is 1. Papists who plead not as other parties onely by the tongue but by exciting Princes and States against us and disputing with the Fagot or Hatchet in their hands And if we have not Arguments that will confute a Navy an Army or a Powder-Plot we can do no good against them 2. Prophaneness animated by Apostate Infidels This is the Religion that men are born in And men that naturally are so indeared to their lusts that they would not have the Scripture to be true will easily hearken to him that tells them it is false Yea so much doth Popery befriend men in a vicious course that some are apt to joyn those together thinking at the heart that Christianity is but a Fable but yet for fear it should prove true they will be Papists that they may have that easie remedy for a reserve If God will preserve us but from these two dangers Popery and Prophaneness animated by infidelity it will go well with England 1. Either Scripture is true or not true If not Popery is not true which pleadeth its warant from it and some of them argue as if they purposed to disprove the Scripture and to imitate Sampson in pulling down the house on their heads and ours in revenge for the dishonour they have suffered by the Scripture If it be true as nothing more true then Popery is not true which palpably contradicteth it as in the points of Latine service and denying the Cup in the Lords Supper and many other is most evident 3. Either the judgment of the Antient Doctors is sound or not If not then the Church of Rome is unsound that is sworn to expound the Scripture only according to their consent If it be sound then the Church of Rome is unsound that arrogate a Vniversal Government and Infallibility and build upon a foundation that was never allowed by the Antient Doctors as in the third Disp. I have fully proved and which most Christians in the World do still reject 4. Either Reason it self is to be renounced or not If it be then none can be Papists but mad men If not then Popery must be renounced which foundeth our very faith upon impossibilities and teacheth men of necessity to believe in the Pope as the Vicar of Christ before they believe in Christ with many the like which are afterwards laid open 5. Either our five Senses and the judgment made upon them is certain and infallible or not If not then the Church of Rome both Pope and Council are fallible and not at all to be trusted For when all their Tradition is by hearing or reading they are uncertain whether ever they heard or read any such thing and we must all be uncertain whether they speak or write it And then we must not only subscribe to Fransc. Sanches Quod nihil scitur but also say that Nihil certo creditur But if sense be certain and Infallible then the Church of Rome even Pope and Council are not only Fallible but certainly false deceivers and deceived For the Pope and his Council tell the Church that it is not Bread and Wine which they take eat and drink in the Eucharist But the senses of all sound men do tell them that it is I see that its Bread and Wine I smell it I feel it I taste it and some what I hear to further my assurance And yet if Popery be not false it s no such matter One would think the dullest Reader might be quickly here resolved whether Popery be true or false Look on the consecrated Bread and Wine touch it smell it taste it and if thou canst but be sure that it is indeed Bread and Wine thou mayest be as sure that Popery is a delusion And if thou can'st but be sure that it is not Bread and Wine yet thou mayst be sure that the Pope or his Council nor any of his Doctors are not to be believed For if other mens senses be deceitful theirs and thine are so too Reader Adhere to God and the Righteousness of Christ and the Teachings of the Holy Ghost by the Scriptures and a faithfully Ministry in the Communion of the Saints and as a member of the Catholick Church which arising at Jerusalem is dispersed over the World containing all that are Christians renounce not right Reason or thy senses and live according to the light which is vouchsafed thee and then thou shalt be safe from Popery and all other pernicious damning Errors Mr. Luther NOn Citius c. No sooner have we reformed but those arise among us who speak perverse things and destroy that in a week which we had been some years setting up whose hand is this is it not the adversaries who sows these Tares but the Enemy who finding he cannot prevail openly undermines us secretly who seeing he cannot succeed against us bare-faced attempts us under the vizard of a deluded people God of his mercy put a stop to those delusions which if they proceed will ingulf us again in Popery These cry down the Ministers of the Gospel the Papists can do no more they do the Papists work for them alas alas c. Archbishop Grindal TWo great dangers I really fear Atheism and Popery both me thinks I see arising out of our needless divisions and differences fomented and cherished I fear by Satan the enemy of mankind and the Pope the enemy of Christendom that Antichrist the mystery of whose iniquity yet worketh among us but that she letteth who also did let and will let by her power and authority given her of God for God until which God avert though their enemies endeavour she be taken out of the way By these differences the enemies of our Religion â—gain this That nothing can be established by Law in the Protestant Religion whose every part is opposed by one or other of her own professors so that things continuing loose and confused the Papists have their opportunity to urge their way which is attended with Order and Government and our Religion continued thus distracted and divided some vile wretches lay hold of the Arguments on one side to confute the other and so hope at last to destroy all In quae reservamur tempora Bishop Jewel NOw let us behold the present state of our country These words of Christ our Saviour were never more true than we finde them now in these our days The harvest is great and the labourors very few the poore people sieth forsaken and left as it were sheep without a guide the afflicted in conscience have no man to quiet them they grow wild and savage as it were a people that had no God they are commanded to change their religion and for lack of instruction they know not whither to turn them they know not neither what they leave nor what they should receive Some other defie and spit at the holy Gospel of our Saviour Christ and refuse the covenant of everlasting