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A67644 A defence of the doctrin and holy rites of the Roman Catholic Church from the calumnies and cavils of Dr. Burnet's Mystery of iniquity unveiled wherein is shewed the conformity of the present Catholic Church with that of the purest times, pagan idolatry truly stated, the imputation of it clearly confuted, and reasons are given why Catholics avoid the Reformation : with a postscript to Dr. R. Cudworth / by J. Warner of the Soc. of Jesus. Warner, John, 1628-1692. 1688 (1688) Wing W907; ESTC R38946 162,881 338

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A Defence of the DOCTRIN AND HOLY RITES OF THE Roman Catholic Church FROM THE Calumnies and Cavils OF Dr. BURNET'S Mystery of Iniquity Unveiled Wherein is shewed The Conformity of the present Catholic Church with that of the purest Times Pagan Idolatry truly stated The Imputation of it clearly confuted And Reasons are given why Catholics avoid the Reformation With a Postscript to Dr. R. Cudworth By J. Warner of the Soc. of Jesus The Second Edition LONDON Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel And are sold at his Printing-house on the Ditch-side in Black fryers 1688. The Preface IT is now more than Ten Years since this Book was first published and althô very few Copies of it could be then conveyed into England by reason of the trouble which gives occasion for this second Edition yet one came to Dr. Burnet's Hands who having read it said He was resolved to have nothing to do with its Author These words may proceed as well from a low esteem as otherwise so they did not alter my opinion of the Book it self which I leave to the Readers Judgment I called it Anti-Haman from some resemblance betwixt Haman the Macedonian in an Eastern Court and Dr. Burnet in this Western yet I could not foresee that the Paralel would go so far as since it has done even to set G. B. fair for compleating the last Scene of that Factious Stranger I follow in my Answer Dr. B. Step by Step and to shew that I neither alter his Sense nor dissemble the Strength of his Reasons I give them in his own words I studied to be as short as I could yet I hope I say enough to satisfie an indifferent Judgment only in some few places I have enlarged the thing there treated being in a new Dress and requiring it Such is the Accusation of Idolatry brought in against the Catholic Church by the old and new Iconoclasts but by Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet so much changed that it is quite another thing The first of our late Reformers accused us of using Images and giving to them a Religious Worship not unlike that which the Idolaters gave to their Idols yet they owned this difference that Images were reverenced only for Honor due to God or his Friends the Saints whereas the Pagans in them adored Dead Men or Living Devils that is False Gods. See Calvin l. 1. Inst c. 11. n. 9. Now Dr. E. S. will have the Pagan Jupiter to have been the True God the other Pagan Deities to have been either Names of his Attributes or Spirits Mediating berwixt the Supreme God and Men. An Error so new that I scarce believe any one Christian or Pagan before him ever held it and therefore it may be called the Stillingfleetian Error To confute it it is enough to read any of those Fathers who wrote against Pagans Tertullian or Justin Athenagoras or Minutius Lactantius S. Cyprian Arnobius or Julius Firmicus there being not one of all these but convinces this gross Error But he little expected to be confuted out of any of these by any Priest having assured that none of us read more than Bellarmin and Coccius Which is not the only rash Assertion found in his Works Were this Doctrin true the whole Debate betwixt the Primitive Christians and Pagans were at an end and the Cause yielded to the later For the Pagans said Jupiter was the True God The Christians said he was not the True God but was a Man Born Dead and Buried as other Men What says Dr. E S. Jupiter was the True God Here we see the whole Body of Christians of the four first Ages all the Martyrs the Doctors the Confessors and so many Apostolical Men condemned as denying the True God and that by one who professes himself a Christian and a Doctor of Divinity and Champion of the Reformed Church Those Primitive Christians went farther yet they not only denied him to be God but accused him of grievous Crimes of Adultery of Incest of Rebellion against his own Father and of other most unnatural Sins which are so many horrid Blasphemies if Jupiter be the True God. And which is yet worse all those Blessed Martyrs continued to their last Breath in them and sealed them with their Blood. What will what can Dr. St. say to this And what can a Christian Reader judge of him In fine this bold Assertion of E. S. and some Divines of the new Stamp is contrary to the Apostles who Planted Christian Religion opposit to Jupiter and all Pagan Deities contrary to the Glorious Martyrs who watered it with their Blood contrary to the Holy Fathers who defended it with their Writings contrary to the Primitive Church which professed it amidst the severest Persecutions and Torments contrary to God who confirmed it with Miracles and contrary to that same very Jupiter himself who owned himself to be a filthy seducing Devil What can the Learned World judge of so rash an Assertion What will he stop at who to oppose Popery will contradict all the first Ages of Christianity and God himself What credit can he deserve in obscurer Points of Divinity who in so clear a Matter of Fact dares contradict all Antiquity I hope he will open his Eyes acknowledge his Error and give Glory to God by renouncing that Arch-Devil otherwise it may be written on his Tomb Here lieth E. S. who owned no other God but the Pagan Jupiter This Epitaph will be very Honorable to the Church of England in which he makes so great a Figure There was published lately a Treatise in which the Idolatry as found in Scripture is very Learnedly and Solidly Explicated Some fancied a disagreement in our Sentiments because that Honorable Person says the Pagan Deities were Stars and I say they were Men. Yet in this there is no contradiction at all for he explicates that Idolatry which is mentioned in Scripture and reigned in the East and he adds that the Greeks to get the reputation of Antiquity to their Nation cut off the Heads of those Idols and set on them others of their Kings that is they retained the Gods but called them by the Names of such as have been famous amongst them either for Regal Power or for War or for inventing some useful Arts. And it is known to all the World that the chiefest Gods of the Romans were taken from the Greeks Now that I confined my self to the Idolatry of the Greeks and Romans is evident for Chap. 7. Sect. 3. pag. 52. I say Our only Dispute is about the Greeks and Romans whose Idolatry was banished the World by Christian Religion And Sect. 5. pag. 83. Our Dispute is not of the first Beginners and Planters of Idolatry but of those who lived at and since the time of Christ till Christianity prevailed But in my Revision of D. M. his Second Letter pag. 122. I distinguish these two sorts of Idolatry and give the precedency in Time