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A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

your private enjoyment of some things for publick good But they of Rome will impose upon you a Relgious prohibition of Meat and differences of diet superstitiously preferring Gods workmanship to it self and willingly polluting what he hath sanctified But wherefore should ye being dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the world as though living in the world be subject to Ordinances Touch not taste not handle not which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will-worship and humility and neglecting of the body c. Neither may you onely go against the Word of God but even against Reason it self If you be a Papist you must believe the body of Christ in ten thousand places at once and yet in no place you must believe it in heaven and yet every where you must believe it flesh and no flesh several members without distinction a substance without quantity and other accidents or substance and accidents that cannot be seen felt or perceived and so your Saviour a monster or nothing Yea you must go against your own senses You must see Bread yet not believe it you must taste Wine yet say it's blood And yet to what pass are we brought if we cannot believe our senses Yea you must worship those whom the Scriptures declare wicked for Saints and adore them whom all the world know were lewd for Martyrs You must honour Rebels Villains with Temples Altars and Invocations and yet you must believe them who lived according to scripture-rule to be villains c. Wickliff a blasphemer Luther a devil Calvin a Sodomite Tyndal a whoremonger Beza and King apostates Protestants hereticks Q. Elizabeth a lewd woman our Bishops ordained in a tavern O thus thus must you live against Scripture against Experience against Sense against Reason 10. We desire you to attend upon Gods Ordinance humbly reverently and in faith and say his Ordinances are his power to their salvation that so wait upon him But alas they of Rome will force you to believe that when you have prepared your selves to meet your God in his ways yet it shall be to you onely according to your Priests intention If he intend the Sacrament to your good it 's your life if not you receive it to your damnation Alas who knows when the Minister intends what he is about How shall you if you are Papists know whether you hear effectually whether you pray savingly whether you receive the Sacrament successfully seeing you depend wholly upon the Priests intention We must needs pity that religion that is not sure of lawful Bishops because they know not their intention that ordained them no regular Priests because they know not their thoughts that ordained them a religion this sure that was contrived to perplex the world 11. We desire to be helpers of your joy and promoters of your eternal comfort that through the comfort of the Scriptures opened by us you might have hope They of Rome make it their business to torment and frighten you to vex and perplex you they will make you believe that so soon as you are born you must be cast remedilesly unto the eternal pains of hell for want of Baptism which you could not live to desire Thus they damn all your infants and throw all those innocents to hell whom our Saviour thought fittest for the kingdome of heaven And if you have lived beyond your baptism they will fright you poor souls with expectation of feigned torments in Purgatory not inferiour for the time to the flames of the damned How wretchedly and fearfully must you poor men live how sadly will you die in that way wherein you are sure to go through a hell to heaven yea you are not sure you shall ever go to heaven for they will perswade you that you neither can nor ought to be assured either of present grace or of future salvation We indeed wish you to make your calling and your election sure but they say you cannot Oh an uncomfortable religion wherein I must enter to an eternity but God knoweth whether of woe or weale wherein I must say to an immortal soul Animala vagula blundula quâ vadis in loca c. O poor soul whither art thou going Neither must you onely live in fear of your estate in another world while you are in that way but in infinite cares and vexations in this while they rack your consciences with the needless torture of a necessary shrift wherein the vertue of Absolution depends on the fulness of Confession and that upon examination and the sufficiencie of examination is so full of ●…ruples besides those infinite cares of unresolved doubts in this pretended penance that the poor soul. never knows when it is clear And that they may compleat your misery they take you off from that comfort you receive from your Saviours satisfaction for you and make you relye upon your works whereby no man was ever justified before God yea and when all is done by Christ and your selves you must go to the flames and thence be redeemed with such corruptible things as silver and gold Beloved if they could shew you a more excellent way for Gods glory the advancement of grace and the settlement of your comfort we would perswade you to follow them but now it appears that they desire onely the advancement of the Pope whom if you submit to you may believe what you will for he writ to Queen Elizabeth that he would confirm all her and our Religion if she would but own him head of the Church Now it appears that they destroy religion endanger poor souls and disturb the world onely for a few mens interests who seek their own Mark and avoid them have nothing to do with them lest if you perish your blood be upon your own heads keep close to God stick fast to his truth keep within his Church live by his grace keep up the power of religion in your hearts be at peace among your selves and your blood be upon our heads if you perish Bishop Sanderson But if what is spoken upon examination appear to have any repugnancie with godliness in any one branch or duty thereunto belonging we may be sure the words cannot be wholesome words It can be no heavenly Doctrine that teacheth men to be earthly sensual or devillish or that tendeth to make men unjust in their dealings uncharitable in their censures undutiful to their superiours or any other way superstitious licentious or profane I note it not without much gratulation and rejoycing to us of this Church There are God knoweth afoot in the Christian world Controversies more then a good many Decads Centuries Chiliads of Novel Tenents brought in this last Age which were never believed many of them scarce ever heard of in the ancient Church by Sectaries of all sorts Now it is our great comfort blessed be God for it that the Doctrine established in the Church

of England I mean the publick Doctrine for that is it we are to hold to passing by private Opinions I say the publick Doctrine of our Church is such as is not justly chargeable with any impiety contrarious to any part of that duty we owe either to God or man O that our conversation were as free from exception as our Religion is Oh that we were sufficiently careful to preserve the honour and lustre of the truth we profess by the correspondencie of our lives and actions thereunto And upon this point we dare boldly joyn issue with our clamourous adversaries on either hand Papists I mean and Disciplinarians who do both so loudly but unjustly accuse us and our Religion they as carnal and licentious these as Popish and superstitious As Eliah once said to the Baalites That God that answereth by fire let him him be God so may we say to either of both and when we have said it not fear to put it to a fair tryal That Church whose Doctrine Confession and Worship is most according to godliness Let that be the true Church FINIS 〈◊〉 1 Dan. Pri. Arist. pol. 1. Val. Mar 16. Halic l. 2. Iustinian l 2. Theodor l. 6. Euseb. vit Const. 3. 13. Socrates eccles Hist. 6. Niceph. 8. 7. Theodor. ecl H. 4. 4. Surius Concil Tom. 1. 2. 2 Dang prin B●lson Chr. sub l. 1. Carel. juris l 2 Confes. fid O● Eccles. ●●●ic Church Engl. Fides Jesu ●● Vid Hospin thist His l 4. Mercure Hist. p 1 p 884. Sanctarel de haer Extrau de obed Dr. Cracanth Popes mon B●●●n co●●p 1 R●p Thuan passim Hist 1 Tom. ●● hoc 3 Du plest●● Hist. Pap. and many more gathered together by Goldastus Mistery Jes. Antico●…om printed Anno 1633. Censura sacrae ●…cologiae Paris in Librum Anti. sanct Paris Pory 1626. Alphonsa di varos Tolet. d●…aratio ad ●…ges Christianos stratagem Aulit ●…uc Jes. ●…monarch orb●…s sib iconficiendam A. 1641. King 〈◊〉 to all Christian K●…ngs In vocc Ty●…n De Reg. In●…t l. c. 1. Insit l. c. 3. Ibid. A●… 1●… Ib●… Hist Fam. H. 4. Hist Ga●… l 1. p. ●…26 See Dr. 〈◊〉 way c 10. p. 46. G●…ston Hast. Xeth p. 764. Thuan. l 7●… 3 Jac to c. 〈◊〉 2●…6 Arraign Traytors Theol. Hon. 1. c. 12. See Bensor chap. c●…r B●…shop Taylor Serm Dedic to the late ●…chbishop of Ca●… 1●… de Po●…t Rom. 〈◊〉 Parl. l. 3. Apol. Cor. c 3. Philop. Sect. 2. de offic Princ. Chr. c. 5. Treshar deb Watsons quoal p. 295 Fudaem Apol. Gorn suarez def fin 6. B. P. Epist. ●…R Impr. Anno 1609. 〈◊〉 p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6. Bell de Parl. 5 6. Tred Ep. ad Pope Greg 9 Innocent 4 Record by Math. Paris p 332 Mr. Prynne Epist. before Vindic. Vid Sund. ●…m ad Clerum 2. Vid. ●…ook 7. Thes. 1. Vid. et l. Regis Elench Mo. 1 Vid. Proc Pul. Se Speed p 1181. Cambd. Q. Eliz. Cooke Inst. 7. de Pont. 1 c. 1 Jac. 1. Be they Cath. p. 350. See Maffae ●…s V●…geus Petrus ●…deniera in ●…ta Ignatii Loyol Hayli●…s M●…cto 〈◊〉 p 17 9 See Lewes O●… his Jesuites Looking glass printed London 16●…9 the ●…pistle to the Reader p 48 to 58 ●…bilaeum sive speculum Jesuiticum printed 644. p. 307. to 213. Hospin Hist. Jesuitica l. 2. * Speculum Jesui●… p 210. see Romes Master-piece 〈◊〉 Doom p. 435. c. Hidden Work o●… Da●…ness 88 144. Mercure Jesuit to●… 1. p. 67. Speculum J●…suiticum p 156 See ●…ewis Owen his running Register his Jesuited Loo●… glasse The 〈◊〉 of the English Nunnery at Lisbon g De Monarchia Hispanica p. 146 147 148 149 204 234 235 236 185 186. h See Tho●…a Campan●… de Monarchia Hispan watsons quodl bets Co●…tona Post huma p 19. to 107. C●…dinal de Ossets Letters Arcana Imperii Hispanici Deiph 6●…8 Advice a tous les Estat's de Europe touches les maxi mas Fundamentales de Gvernment 〈◊〉 ●…spaginols Paris 16●…5 Psal. 19. 5. Psal. 119. 118 140 〈◊〉 138. 2 Tim. 3. 16. Phil. 4. 8. Bishop Halls disswasive Bishop Hall Ibid. 〈◊〉 See Aen. Sylvius Telesphorus Platina and Baron Annal Bishop Hall Bishop Hall Ibid. Bishop Hall ibid. Ep. 87. Fran. S. Vic. ord praed sum sacr art 184. p. 124.