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A53528 Sound advice to Roman Catholics, especially the residue of poor, seduced and deluded Papists in England who obstinately shut both eyes and ears against the clearest light of the Gospel of Christ and surest evidences of Scripture and reason to which is added a Word to the people called Quakers / by T.O. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1689 (1689) Wing O56; ESTC R15543 17,650 24

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SOUND ADVICE TO Roman Catholicks Especially The Residue of Poor Seduced and Deluded Papists in England who obstinately shut both Eyes and Ears against the clearest Light of the Gospel of Christ and surest Evidences of Scripture and Reason To which is added A Word to the People called QUAKERS By T. O. Luk. 22.67 If I tell you you will not believe LONDON Printed and sold by Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Court in Pater-Noster-Row 1689. Licensed Jan. 25. 1688 / 9. SOUND ADVICE TO Roman Catholicks c. THough there be none in this Nation who upon the account of Merit oweth less kindness to your Tribe yet as one well acquainted with the Intrigues of both Churches upon the account of Brotherly Love and Charity I humbly present you with my Christian and best Advice earnestly desiring you seriously to consider the sandy Foundation of your Romish Church and no more pin your Faith and confidence of Salvation to the implicit assertions of a pretended Authority and usurped Supremacy to believe every Contradiction of Nonsense which is or can be affirmed by the Spiritual Apostates of so abominable an Harlot whom with the Ephesians Act. 19.28 you term your Great Diana and unspotted Mother-Church and therefore ought to be believed without any further enquiry though the Turks may on as good grounds perswade the World to embrace their Religion and their chief Mufti as well claim Christ's Vicarage upon the account of John of Constantinople as the Pope of Rome can on the Succession of Peter their Principles being neither more ridiculous nor contrary to the Scriptures of Truth and Apostolick Christian Faith than the Doctrine of the Church of Rome is at this present time Indeed I my self was lulled asleep by the allurements of the Popish Syrenes and the bewitching Sorceries of the Man of Sin as by the impetuous current of Babel's streams driven headlong to the brink and shore of the See of Romish Abominations But as Joseph was sold to Aegypt for the Preservation of his Brethren so was I laid aside by the permission of Divine Providence for the safety both of my King and Country Therefore with the Apostle Paul who was once a Persecuter knowing the terrour of the Lord and the danger of Popish Apostacy I perswade all men to renounce the Doctrine of Devils and embrace the Christian Faith freely offered to us in the Gospel And because I would gain ground on the meanest Capacities and discover the nakedness of the Roman Harlot in puris or rather nudis naturalibus I shall for the benefit of those who have not money to buy nor time to read great Controversies set down in this small Treatise some obvious and abominable Errours of the Romish Church in such capital and legible Characters that they who run may read MYSTERY BABYLON c. on the face of that impudent Harlot and unless they shut their Eyes Ears and all their Senses the Gates of their understanding be ready to cry out Men and Brethren what shall we do to be saved The first blow that I intend to strike is at the Pope's Supremacy and Infallibility the two great Pillars whereon the Church of Rome or rather Fabrick of Antichrist leaneth The first God hath as evidently prohibited Mark 10.42 as he hath Murder and Adultery in the sixth and seventh Commandments and since Papists unanimously acknowledge that all the Apostles received the gift of the Holy Ghost and Peter only the Keys the Orders and Badge of his Supremacy before they prove his Superiority and Dignity above the rest of the Apostles they must prove that those Keys were a thing better and more precious than the rest received yea than the Holy Ghost or God himself which none but Antichrist and his Members dare to affirm Peter indeed being a forward Man Self-confident and Audacious first answered our Saviour's Question Matth. 16.16 and our Saviour very gently continued his discourse to him not excluding the rest But were I to give the Supremacy to any Apostle I would rather give it to James the Lords Brother or to Paul or Barnabas to whom Peter himself gave the right hand of fellowship Gal. 2.9 or to John who could be more intimate with Jesus than any of the rest as is clear from Joh. 13.23 and was termed the Disciple whom Jesus loved Joh. 21.20 Yet what Fool will from thence conclude that he hated all the rest though the Papists foolishly affirm that because Christ gave the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter he gave them to none else He was pleased to wheedle over the rest with smaller enduements priviledges and preheminence though they received both the Father and the Son. Thus did Peter according to the Canon of the Church of Rome receive a more noble Gift and was inspired with a greater Spirit than God himself though our Saviour saith Joh. 10.29 My Father is greater than all Yet for all these Keys were so precious that bloody Sodomite Pope Julius the Second threw them in the River Tiber as he was marching before his Army the number whereof was as the sand of the Sea Whence Bibliander doth conclude that Pope Julius did resign all his pretended Right and Power of shutting and opening Heaven and Hell to the River Tiber or the Fishes or other Creatures therein For casting away the Keys the Testimony of his Authority he did deprive and spoil himself and all his Successors of Peter's Inheritance But to approach a little nearer to this glorious Mitre whose dazling brightness darkneth all the Crowns in Christendom I would gladly know how the Pope of Rome came to be Peter's Successor and if he came honestly by his Popedom If Peter was Crucify'd at Rome his Succession must be by Usurpation and his Right to the Holy Chair but a meer Robbery But it is acknowledged by all that the Titles of Pope of Rome Universal Bishop Peter's Successor Christs Vicar and God upon Earth were not known till about 600 years after our Saviour The Patriarchs of Constantinople and Rome did both by Letters and Legates sollicit the Emperour Mauritius for the Title of Bishop of Bishops instead of Servus Servorum But Gregory the First abhorring that Blasphemous Name and calling it the Mark and Badge of Anti-christ Lib. 4 Epist 27. wrote to the Emperour thus Exclamare compellor ac dicere O tempora O mores Ecce cuncta in Europae Partibus Barbarorum juri sunt tradita Destructae ●●bes eversa Castra depopulatae provinciae nullus terram Cultor inhabitat tamen Sacerdotes qui in pavimento cinere flentes jacere debuerunt vanitatis sibi nomina experiunt novis ac prophanis vocabulis gloriantur That is to say I am compelled to cry out O Times O Manners Behold in all the parts of Europe all things live under the reverence of barbarous people Towns are destroy'd Castles are over-thrown Provinces are spoiled No Labourer inhabiteth the Land notwithstanding the Priests who should lye in ashes