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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90720	Sectaries vnmasked and confuted. By the treating upon divers points of doctrine in debate betwixt the Presbyterialists and sectarists, Anabaptists, Independents, and Papists. / By George Palmer wel-wisher to a warrantable uniformity in godly religious exercises.	Palmer, George, b. 1596 or 7.	1647 (1647)	Wing P229; Thomason E396_27; ESTC R201662	58,190	61

manner of similitude in the day the Lord spake with them in Horeb c. lest they should corrupt ●hemselves and make a graven Image the similitude of any figure the ●ikenesse of male or female or the likenesse of beast fowle fish or ●reeping thing or sun moon or stars or host of Heaven and so they ●hould be driven to worship them and serve them I pray observe the word driven viz. God will deliver such a one up to the power of Sa●an and so become a worshipper of the Image it self and truly it is the onely way to become an Idolater First to invent a similitude of God and make it accordingly and then worship God by it and after that to worship and adore the thing it selfe and History doth declare thus much to us as we may read in the book of Wisdome chap. 14. ver. 12 13 14. to the end of ver. 20. Now if we have cause to beware of Idolaters then much more of Popish Idolaters for they are more dangerous then those former Idolaters were for these do more persecute the true Servants of God then those Idolaters did these professe they do God good service in slaying of us the true Servants of God as our Saviour foretold and we always have found it to be true by all their treacherous and murtherous plots yea they are so much the more dangerous because that although they call themselves Christians in way of dissimulation they call us Hereticks and our Religion Heresie too and therefore wee ought to bee more wary of them then of other Idolaters for all the Devils in hell cannot devise a more dangerous People and Religion then they and theirs is therefore it is good to lay out some of their Tenets by the which we may see them the more clearly to bee the Doctrine of Devills leading to damnation And thus I do begin briefly They hold that there is a Purgatory or a place to purge us of our sins after this life so that if wee bee not the true servants children of God in this life yet notwithstanding we may be there made capable of everlasting salvation in heaven the which will nourish all men in sin that so beleeveth for if men be perswaded that there is another place after their death to prepare them for heaven then they will live here as they list and so be damned But to what end is the doctrine of faith and sanctification so much preached in this life both by the Prophets our Saviour his Apostles and succeeding Ministers And why is Dives complaining in hell so to speak if this be a truth Those that are not converted in this life shall not be acknowledged by Christ after this life ended he will then say to them Goe yee cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Secondly that Images of God and Saints are to bee worshipped Thirdly that prayers to Saints departed are to be made and their intercession to be required Fourthly that there is a propitiatory Sacrifice to be offered daily in the Masse for the sinnes of the quick and dead Fifthly that a man may merit heaven by his good works Sixthly that it is a mortall sin to read the Scripture but by the Popes dispensation Seventhly that their Clergy ought to preach in an unknown tongue Eightly that if the Pope do pronounce a man to be a Saint he then is one and must be so Ninthly that there is a vertue in their water with which they baptize their infants that doth conjure the evill spirits out of them putting oyle upon them and salt and spittle in their mouths Tenthly that the Pope cannot erre in his judgement or decrees 11 That the Laity are not to drink the blood of Christ in the Sacrament viz. the Wine 12 That those are Hereticks that have recourse to the Hebrew and Greek Tongues 13 They represent God the Father in the similitude of an old man 14 They represent God the Son sometimes like a Lambe c. they may as well make a Rock a brasen Serpent a Pillar in a Cloud c. 15 They resemble the Holy Ghost like a Dove and why not as Cloven tongues as Fire but as the Holy Ghost saith by the Prophet Esay 46. 5. To whom will ye liken me that I may be like him 16 They pray to the Crosse blasphemously in these words Haile Crosse our only hope give to the godly righteousnesse and to the guilty pardon yea all that passe by it must worship it otherwise they are liable to be punished 17 They offer Cakes to the Picture of the Virgin Mary and worship it 18 Bonaventure hath transformed the Psalter of David to the honor of the Virgin Mary changing God into Goddesse and Lord into Lady and where it is said by David Praise the Lord by him it is said Praise the Lady and for trust in the Lord trust in the Lady and in his 35 Psalm are these words Incline the countenance of God upon us and compell him to have mercy upon us 19 Bellarmine affirmed that if the Pope did erre commanding vice forbidding vertue the Church should bee bound to believe vice to be good and vertue to bee evill except shee would sin against conscience 20 They offer incense to the Saints in generall and pray unto them and sweare by them 21 The Roman Church maintaineth that the merits intercession and blood of the Saints and Martyrs are mixed as satisfactory with the blood merits and intercession of Christ O horrid blasphemy 22 They baptize Bels and Ships 23 They blesse Holy water as they call it and sprinkle it upon Men and Beasts upon St. Anthonies day as they call it and on all the horses and beasts in the Countrey as some that are converted from their Religion affirm whereby the Monks get abundance of mony to maintain them in their base knavery and idlenesse a long time afterward 24 They allow incestuous marriages contrary to the fourth Commandement 25 They deny concupiscence to be formally sin after Baptisme as if in any article of time it might bee said of man that he is without sin 26 Notwithstanding all these blaspemies and abominations hee yet affirmeth himself to bee the Vicar of Christ yea the head or supreme over the Catholick Church of Christ And now I will note the Popes Pride 1 Frederick Barbarossa was forced to lay down his neck upon the stairs of the Church of St. Mark as it is called in Venice to bee trod upon by that proud man of Sin and his son after the Pope had crowned him was uncrowned again by the Popes kicking off his Crown with his foot c. 2 Kings and Emperors must act the parts of Foot-grooms to lead his horse by the bridle and supporting him by holding his stirrup and mounting him upon his horse 3 They must be as Pioners or Porters to beare him upon their shoulders 4 They must be as Pages to hold water to his