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A46370	A preservative against the change of religion, or, A just and true idea of the Roman Catholick religion, opposed to the flattering portraictures made thereof, and particularly to that of my Lord of Condom translated out of the French original, by Claudius Gilbert ...; Préservatif contre le changement de religion. English	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1683 (1683)	Wing J1211; ESTC R16948	129,160	215

brought them out of Egypt If it be the Intention of Jesus Christ that there shall be in his Church a perpetual Sacrifice of his Body and of his Blood we must not flatter our selves we follow not the Religion of Jesus Christ But if that continual Sacrifice hath not been instituted by the Lord assuredly they make a new Christianism and a new Religion The Question then is to know if without any other Mystery we should pass into a Religion which is Essentially different from ours 2. But it is not only the Question to know If Men should introduce into the Church a new Sacrifice but if Men should Sacrifice the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God It is the greatest Oblation the Noblest and most important in the World And that deserves well methinks to have Reflexion made thereon before we engage to Re-union whereto they invite us If any rash Person would sprinkle with the Blood of Oxen and Sheep their Altars according to the Usage of all People and of the Ancient Church there would not be Thunders enough to crush to death such an Undertaker If such an Impious Man should form a Society wherein they might practice such Sacrifices they would arm all the Powers of Christianism to abolish such a Religion Yet would that agitation be but about the Sacrifices of some Beasts The business is to Sacrifice the God of Heaven the Master of the World and they will perswade us that it is a business of Nothing 3. The Question again is to know Whether they should put into the hands of a Man the GOD of the Universe as an Oblation in the hands of a Sacrificer that is if we should debase the Creatour into the hands of a Creature It is a Truth which good Sense dictates among all Nations and all Ages that the Sacrificer is greater than the Oblation Without contradiction the lesser is blessed of the greater It is the Principle of St. Paul the Priest blesses the Oblation They put the Lord Jesus Christ into the hands of a Priest as an Oblation they then lift up the Priest above Jesus Christ We cannot but have regard to that as to a very good Affair 4. We cannot also keep our selves from seeing that this Doctrine doth annihilate the Priesthood of Jesus Christ by good and legitimate Consequences If the Lord Jesus Christ was to have Successors in his Off ce of Priest he is not then himself an Eternal Priest Either St. Paul's Reasoning is bad or my Proof is invincible For in fine I Reason like him He said If Perfection had been in the Levitical Priesthood was it needful that another Priest should arise after the Order of Melchisedeck and who should not be called after the Order of Aaron The Priesthood being changed there must of need be a change of the Law I say the same If Perfection was found in the Priesthood of Jesus Christ who is the Eternal Priest of Melchisedecks Order why should Men introduce new Priests which much more like to be after the Order of Aaron than after the Order of Melchisedeck And if the setling of a new Priesthood after the Order of Melchisedeck hath overthrown the Levitical Priesthood doth not the Priesthood of these Sacrifices annihilate the Priesthood of Jesus Christ This is your Errour say they you suppose that this is a new Priesthood and it is not so for it is the same it is the Priesthood after the Order of Melchisedeck which is Eternal because it abides still in the Church and without that the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ would not be Eternal after the way of that of Melchisedeck Why would Men oblige us to believe things that are incredible to justifie the Church of Rome They tell us That the Priesthood of their Priests is the same as that of Jesus Christ I know not whether Heaven and Earth are more distant and if Light and Darkness be more different Jesus Christ is God those Priests are Men. Jesus Christ abides for ever those Priests die No Man succeeds Jesus Christ Priests succeed one the other Jesus Christ offered not for himself the Priests offer for their own Sins as for those of the People Jesus Christ is Holy separate from Sinners Priests are often engaged into great Disorders Jesus Christ hath offered once one sole Sacrifice these offer every day and reiterate their Sacrifice Jesus Christ finishes his Sacrifice in the Holy Places not made with hands Priests make their Sacrifices upon Altars of Stone and in Temples made by Mans hand In fine Melchisedeck was a singular Man and only it must needs be therefore that he who was to sustain that Priesthood whereof his was the Figure should be a singular and only Person but the Priests are in great Numbers After that can Men deny that Priests are Sacrificers much rather like the Order of Aaron than that of Melchisedeck And if it be so we say it once more The Establishment of their Priesthood destroys that of Christ by good Consequence Though that should be granted say they it is a disavowed Consequence and which by consequence should not prove an obstacle to the Re-union To that I say Though Men disavow it yet we see it and fear it still because it produces actually its effect It is not in Points of Practise as in those of Speculation In these it is true so the Consequence be disavowed it must not be imputed although it do arise from the Speculative Principles of those that disavow it But when a Practise or Worship destroy by consequence an important Truth that is in vain to disavow the Consequence while People remain in the Worship and in that Practise they are actually guilty of having done prejudice against such a Truth For Example A Pagan doth joyn to the Adoration of God the Sovereign many Inferiour Deities We tell him That by this Worship he offers a great Wrong to the Soveraign God He may Answer That it is a Consequence which he disavows and that his Intention is to render an infinite Honour to this Soveraign God Because he disavows the Consequence is he justified 5. Finally We cannot keep our selves from seeing That the Sacrifice of the Mass doth a great dishonour to the Sacrifice of the Cross for if it be needful to reiterate every day that Sacrifice the first Oblation which was made thereof must have been insufficient We Reason as the Apostle that saith The Sacrifices that are offered every year cannot sanctifie them that have recourse to them otherwise they had ceased them from offering them since the Offerers being once sanctified should have had no more Conscience of Sin We Reason as these Doctors themselves We shall hear one of them presently saying to us If the Mass were infinite it were in vain to offer many Masses Let 's be permitted to say also If the value of the Sacrifice of the Cross were infinite it is in vain to offer so many others It is here that

above her Son that they give her all the glory of our Salvation It 's Father Cresset himself that teaches us that And when should we have done if we would cite all that Father Mainbourg in his History of the Icenoclastae and what so many others have said lately to establish that Worship of the Virgins and of the Saints For in fine Let any one visit the Presses and Libraries of St. Jame's Street or go to Michallet or all the others let him see if ever more Books were printed fit to nourish People in the Worship of Saints and entertain them in those Excesses that Men fain to condemn It 's there that Men shall find the Slavery of the Admirable Mother of God the Worship and Veneration which is due to the Nine Orders of the Celestial Hierarchy the Life of St. Josse and that of St. Peter the Chaplet or perpetual Adoration of the most Holy Sacrament l'Abbriegé del Indulgences the Statutes of the Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of the Holy Trinity and Redemption of Captives the Mysteries of the Virgin the Panegyricks of St. Rose by the Father Oliva General of the Jesuites All these Books and a thousand others are newly printed and there we find a Theology and Devotions which should cause a true Grief to them that are truly jealous of the Glory of God and of his Honour Nothing is more capable to make us see in what Spirit Men serve and invoke the Saints than the Sacrifice of the Mass which they celebrate to their Honour My Lord of Condom makes an Article thereof and turns the thing to the fairest side let him not take it ill if we examine it in its Native state That they may not accuse us of Calumniating I will represent here the very Words of the Council of Trent If any one maintain that it 's an abuse to celebrate Masses to the honour of Saints and to obtain their Intercession with God as the Church understands let him be Anathema Here is happily the strangest thing in the World and which hath not been well considered of to this day They offer a Sacrifice to the honour of a Creature It 's true that the Council of Trent saith formally that they offer not Sacrifices to Saints But these Gentlemen will permit us to observe that in every Tongue to do Service to some Person or to do it in honour of that Person signifie the same thing We say The Pagans have built Temples to their False gods and to the honour of their False gods They have established Feasts to the honour of Demons and to Demons they have made Sacrifices to Idols and to the honour of Idols We believe then that we say by the second Expression the same thing as by the first Men do not speak otherwise in the World They say Men have erected a Statue to the Prince or to the honour of the Prince they have put up this Triumphers Ark to the King or to the honour of the King Those Gentlemen must make us Vocabularies quite new and advertize us that they are not pleased to speak like all Mankind Let 's a little unravel this confused Idea They may offer the Sacrifice of the Mass to the honour of a Saint by the hand of a Priest That is to say They may offer a God to our God to the honour of a Creature by the hands of another Creature The Victim is God the Son he to whom they offer him is God the Father he to whose honour he is offered it 's a Saint a Creature and he that offers is a Priest that is to say another Creature If that be not called to go against the Order observed in all the Religions of the World I know not how it may be called In every Religion Men observe in all their Sacrifices a certain gradation of Dignity among these Three things The Minister of the Sacrifice the Oblation and he to whose Honour the Oblation is offered The Oblation is always the least excellent for before time they were only Animals He that offered was much more excellent because it was a Man But lastly He to whose honour the Sacrifice was offered was infinitely greater than the Priest seeing they considered him as God And even this Order is found in this admirable Sacrifice of the Cross which seems to be gone beyond all Rules The Human Nature which is the Victim is in the lowest degree of Dignity The Lord Jesus Christ as God and Man together is the Sacrificer and under that regard he is more than the Victim In fine He in whose honour this Sacrifice is offered it is God who is superiour both to the Victim and to the Sacrificer For although the Lord Jesus Christ be equal in all things to his Father by his Divinity yet considered as God and Man he is Inferiour and it s in this regard that he saith The Father is greater than I. But in the Sacrifice which they celebrate to the honour of Saints this Order is turn'd upside down The Victim is infinitely more excellent than he to whose Honour it is offered for they offer the Body of Jesus Christ to the honour of Saints Behold a thing which may yet seem more incomprehensible The Council of Trent saith That Jesus Christ who offered himself on the Cross is the same who offers himself this day by the Ministry of the Priests that is to say that Jesus Christ offers himself he is then properly the Sacrificer His Sacrifice is celebrated to the honour of the Saints thence it follows that Jesus Christ offers himself to his Father to the honour of the Saints To offer to the honour of the Saints it is to honour and to serve them So Jesus Christ who is the Master and the Creator serves and honours the Saints which are the Creatures in Sacrificing himself to their honour Methinks this Consequence comes not far yet it appears to me terrible Here is another that is but little less In all Sacrifices the Sacrificer is the Suppliant and he that demands favours He to whose honour men offer is the Person of whom these favours are demanded and the Victim is the Means by which the Suppliant inclines him of whom he demands Here the end is to implore the Protection of the Saints and to obtain their Intercession with God They are the very words of the Council He that labours to obtain this Grace is the Sacrificer and this Sacrificer is Jesus Christ the Victim by means whereof he essays to obtain this Grace it is his Body and Blood Gather all these things together and say The Son of God God himself blessed for ever offers to God the Sacrifice of his Body and of his Blood to obtain from a Saint his Protection and his Intercession for the Faithful According to that is it not true that Jesus Christ renders himself Mediator and Intercessour with the Saints sor to obtain of those Saints the Grace of their Intercession for

Oath of Fidelity of transporting their Kingdoms to others and exercising in general all Actions of that Power which is attributed to him by the Canon Law It is clear then I must regard the Pope not by what the French say of him but in what he is and what he doth Men may say that a thing should be white when it is black and blacks others that changes nothing therein Besides that I see not why they could not regard him in France under the Character they give him in France it self The Council of Lateran wherein the Pope was called The Divine Majesty Vice-●od King of Kings puts himself above all Councils is printed in France with the Kings Priviledge under the di ection of the Fathers Labbé and Cossart without any Correctiff Can France have lost the Memory of that terrible Harangue which was made in the grand Convention of the States 1615. by Cardinal Perron in the Name of all the Clergy of the Kingdom They would have passed an Ordinance in those States That no Subject under any Pretence could be dispensed from the Oath of Fidelity The Gallican Church by the Mouth of a French Cardinal opposed it and attributed to the Pope all that excess of Power that frights us How after that can any Man boast of the Sense of the Gallican Church But happily pretend they That Innocent the Eleventh who holds now the Seat hath renounced to all those Pretences that so offend us and hath reduced himself to the Moderation of the Gallican Church because he approves by a Brief Monsieur de Condom s Book and that Book of Monsieur de Condom saith That there are things whereof they Dispute in the Schools which the Ministers cease not to alledge to render that Puissance odious but that it is not necessary to speak thereof seeing they are not of the Catholick Faith In Conscience can Men believe that the Court of Rome by the touch of a Pen and without being either forc'd or sollicited had renounced all her magnificent Pretences to all those Priviledges which they have acquired by the effusion of so much Blood and for which they were like to have overthrown all during the Sitting of the Council of Trent in the fear they had that it was intended to have a stroak at them These Disputes of the Schools in the Sense of the Court of Rome are but the Nice Trifles wherein Canonists agree not although in the sight of my Lord of Condom they are possibly what we regard as Capital Men know how to find a commodious Sense in Terms more difficult to turns and the Court of Rome finds enough to satisfie themselves in these Words of Monsieur de Condom That Men ought to render to the Pope the Submission and Obedience which the Holy Councils have always taught the Faithful The two last of those Holy Councils are the Fifth of Lateran which is Counted General and that of Trent for which my Lord of Condom hath so great a respect Those two Councils carry the Popes Authority as far as it can go at least it will not be a Dispute of Schools to know whether they may call the Pope Our holy Lord for the Council of Trent seldom calls him otherwise although the Apostles have not called the Son of God but Our Lord simply It must neither be a Dispute of the Schools to know whether the Pope be Superiour to the Council for the Council of Trent submitted so fully to him that they did nothing withut his Order and seeing they proposed nothing but by the Pope Proponentibus legatis since it declared not to pretend to touch the Authority of the Holy See nor submit him to their Canons and since it demanded from the Pope the Confirmation of all their Decrees and indeed the Pope is at this day so far Master of this Council that he Dispenses against all their Canons After all this how can they invite us to re-enter into the Roman Church whilst such a Power shall subsist We that pretend That the Power of Pastours is a Pure Ministry We that believe That Jesus Christ hath not left them any Jurisdiction on Consciences We that acknowledge no other Universal Head of the Church but Jesus Christ We that believe That Humility is of the Essence of the Ministry Evangelical We that ascribe no Adoration nor Divine Majesty but to GOD ARTICLE XVII Of the Points which Monsieur de Condom hath forgotten Of the Worship in an Vnknown Tongue Of the Multitude of Ceremonies Of Masses without Communicants Of forced Celibat I Do heartily consent to what Monsieur de Condem wishes to lay apart divers Questions that we regard not as a lawful Subject of Rupture but we cannot advance our Complaisance so far as to confess all that he hath left and whereof he hath not spoken be of this Number I could add divers Points which are most Essential and which Justifie our Separation but I confine my self to Four that I may not be accused to make Subjects of Separation where there are none I. The First is the Necessity which the Roman Church hath imposed on her self to have their Service in the Latin Tongue which is not understood of the People I know not why Monsieur de Condom doth not take away the Scruples that we could have thereon but we are obliged in Conscience to advertize them that that alone would be capable of hindring us from re-entring into the Roman Church though there were nothing else to stay us because that nothing is more opposed to the Intention of Jesus Christ who hath instituted his Service with purpose that his People might be Edified thereby Although they could say the best and holiest things in the World that could serve for nothing seeing that the Spirit and the Heart that could not understand them could not be edified thereby II. The Second thing which Monsieur de Condom hath forgotten is the multitude of Ceremonies and it is an Article that we cannot pass any more than the others that makes an Essential difference between Religions Judaism and Christianism differ Essentially and only by that they call us to another Yoke like to that of the Jewish Church We do not believe we can suffer it with a good Conscience I have considered those Ceremonies as opposed to the true Service of God because the most are destined to honour Saints Images Relicks the Sacrament of the Eucharist and other Creatures At present I consider only their Number and their Uselesness and under that regard I maintain that they are absolutely opposed to the Spirit of Christianism We must not imagine that it is but a small ill to be useless in matter of Religion The Gospel condemns to the Fire the Useless Servant and punishes with Eternal Pains Unfruitful Works Let them not say That at the most those Ceremonies are Useless That which doth not serve in Religion doth much hurt Those Ceremonies are not come from a good place for the most