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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27449	Rome tyrannical, idolatrous and heretical the origine of her errors with an answer to her objections : also three short sermons of repentance against swearing and drunkenness preached to the ships company before Admiral Aylmer and several captains / by Peter Berault.	Berault, Peter.	1698 (1698)	Wing B1956; ESTC R30222	55,952	193

they are deceived for they ought to remember that the Keys given were the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and consequently by this Authority of the Keys he cannot meddle with Terrestrial Kingdoms to shut out those that are in them And they ought also to remember that he has no more Authority by the Power of his Keys or of Binding and Loosing than any other Bishop for the Keys were given to all the rest of the Apostles as well as to St. Peter For Christ speaks thus Receive ye the Holy Ghost whosoever Sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whosoever Sins ye retain they are retained It is then manifest that it is contrary to the Will of Jesus Christ that any Minister of the Gospel should claim Authority above another for they are all indifferently joyned in one Commission and consequently have all equal Authority And therefore the Pope has no more Authority by the Vertue of his Keys than any other Bishop that is to say none at all to Depose Kings and Princes from their Thrones His Duty is rather to obey them and teach the same Obedience to others as the Apostles of Christ did For in the first Epistle of St. Peter 2. 13. It is Written thus Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Men for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supreme And St. Paul to the Romans 3. 1. saith Let every Soul be Subject to the higher Powers And Jesus Christ himself said that his Kingdom was not of this World He refused to be made a King he payed Tribute to Caesar and commanded others to do the same If then Christ were Subject to Caesar is it not a great shame to the Pope to exalt himself above Caesar I mean above Kings Some Papists do Answer that he got this Sovereign Authority by Donation from the Emperor Constantine but let it be granted that some Christian Emperor was so foolish as to give his Empire which is neither likely nor credible yet I say it was not Lawful for him to take it if he will be a true Minister of the Gospel or lawful Successor of the Apostles For Christ has expresly forbidden his Apostles and in them all the Ministers of the Gospel all such Dominions when he told them Matth. 20. 26. Ye know that the Princes of the Gentiles exercise Dominion over them but it shall not be so among you Which words being prohibitory shew that they must not Reign like Kings of Nations but must serve in the Church and be diligent in the great Charge that Jesus Christ has laid upon them It is then evident by what I have said here before that the Pope has no Authority over Kings and Princes and is not above them This may be seen by these Words of Tertullian in Apolog. We Honour saith he the Emperor as the next Man to God and Inferior to god only And in another place he saith that the King i● the second to God the first next after God and before and over all Men. Optatus Cont. Parmen l. 13. saith that there is none above the Emperor but God only which made the Emperor And St. Chrysostome ad Pop. Anthio hom 2. saith He has no equal on Earth And Gregory Bishop of Rome himself affirms that Power is given to Princes from Heaven not only over Souldiers but Priests also Which is confirmed by St. Peter when he saith in his first Epistle 2. 13. Submit your selves to every Ordinance for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supream It is then evident that the Popes are not Infallible that they have no Authority to Depose Kings and Princes from their Thrones and that they are not above them And therefore that the Church of Rome does add to the Word of God when she holds and teaches such a Doctrine Secondly I say and shall endeavour to make it appear that the Roman Church diminishes from the Word of God several Points of Faith and Practice 1. Because she Prays Sings and gives Thanks to God in the Church in an unknown Tongue 2. Because she forbids the Reading of the Holy Scriptures to the common People 3. Because in the Lord's Supper she takes away the Cup from them and from the Clerks that are not Priests 4. Because she forbids every one to eat Flesh in certain Time and Days and all Priests Monks and Nuns to Marry 1. I say that the Roman Church diminishes from the Word of God when she Prays Sings and gives thanks to God in the Church in a Tongue unknown to the common People For St. Paul will not only have us to speak in the Church with a known Tongue but also he shews the Confusion of them that speak in an unknown Tongues Except Pipe or Harp saith he 1 Cor. 14. give distinction in the sound how shall it be known what is Piped or Harped If the Trumpet gives an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself to the Battle So likewise you except ye utter by the Tongue Words easie to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken For ye shall speak into the Air. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the Voice I shall be unto him that speaketh a Barbarian and he that speaketh shall be a Barbarian unto me Object St. Paul saith the Church of Rome thereby speaketh concerning Sermons and consequently doth not speak against her because she Preaches in a known Tongue I answer that St. Paul speaks concerning Prayers Psalms and Thanksgivings If I Pray saith he in an unknown Tongue my Spirit Prayeth but my Understanding is Unfruitful What is it then I will Pray with the Spirit and I will Pray with the Understanding also I will Sing with the Spirit and I will Sing with the Understanding also else when thou shalt bless with the Spirit 〈◊〉 shall ●e that occupyeth the Room of the Unlearned say Amen at thy giving of Thanks seeing he understands not what thou sayest And notwithstanding this Ordinance of St. Paul and the Confusion of them which go against it as it is declared by the Comparisons of the Pipe Harp and Trumpet the Roman Church Prays Sings and gives Thanks in the Church in a Tongue unknown to the common People And though in the Primitive Church all Prayers were made in the vulgar Tongue Linguâ auditoribus non ignotâ omnia peragebantur consuetudo ita ferebat ut tota Ecclesia simul pssalleret And though St. Austin says Deus vult ut quod Canimus intelligamus humana ratione non quasi Avium voce canamus God will have us to understand what we Sing and not be like Parrots which do not understand what they say Yet the Church of Rome doth not obey this Commandment but continue still in that Error The Origine of this Error proceeds from the Popes of Rome who being exalted in an eminent degree of Grandeur could not be contented until they had set up Laws though very irregular and unreasonable and

Tears and did wipe them with the Hairs of her Head and kissed his Feet and Anointed them And what did happen unto her She heard Christ saying thy Sins which are many are forgiven What happened to David and Mary Magdalen will certainly befall us if we do imitate them in their Repentance Though your Sins be as Scarlet saith the Prophet Isaiah they shall be as white as Snow though they be red like Crimson they shall be as white as wool Secondly Repentance is useful because thereby we obtain the Grace of God Indeed there is nothing more advantageous to Man than God's Grace For thereby we are made the Children of God not by Nature but by Adoption Thereby we are made Heirs of God and Joint-Heirs with Christ Rom. 8. 17. And thereby we are made Partakers of all the Treasures and Riches which are found in the Kingdom of Heaven It is then certain that by Repentance we obtain the Grace of God For according to all Divines it is a Motion from Sin unto Grace In a Motion there are two ways the way whence we depart and that which we go to The way whence we depart and which we forsake is Sin and that which we go to and which we obtain is Grace The Publican whom it is spoken of in St. Luke 18. 3. Does verifie the Truth of my Proposition He comes unjust into the Temple and standing afar off would not lift up so much as his Eyes unto Heaven but smote upon his Breast saying God be merciful unto me a Sinner and he obtained Grace for he went down to his House justified Is any one of us a Swearer or Drunkard Slanderer Proud or given to any other Vice He has lost the Grace of God Is he willing to recover it Let him humble himself before God let him fall upon his Knees let him sigh weep confess his Sins Repent of them and like the Publican let him smite upon his Breast and say God be merciful to me a Sinner and then he will recover the Grace of God and go into his Cabine justified Thirdly Repentance is useful because therein consists the Salvation of all Men. Man was lost twice First by the original Sin which is nothing but the Crime of Adam and called ours because our Will was inclosed in his Secondly by personal or actual Sin so called because it was committed by our own Will The Sacrament of Baptism according to the common opinion was ordered by Jesus Christ to save Mankind from that first Ship-wrack and Repentance was Established by God to save them from the second Therefore it is called the second plank after Ship-wrack and for that Reason therein consists the Salvation of all Men. Certainly we cannot hope to be Saved without that most excellent and necessary Virtue If all the Angels and Saints in Heaven would pray for the Salvation of an unrepenting Soul their Prayers would be vain and without any good Effect And Jesus Christ himself saith Thomas Aquinas cannot make happy and save an unrepenting Soul ut sic that is whilst she remains in Sin for there is a contradiction between to be happy and remain in Sin between to be saved and to be unrepenting Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Therefore by a contrary consequence if ye repent ye shall be saved and therefore in a true and sincere Repentance consists the Salvation of all Men. Dear Friends have mercy upon your Souls be careful to preserve them for they are infinitely more to be valued than all the things in the World besides because they are made after the Image of God For it was God that breathed into Man the Breath of Life as ye may read in the 2. Ch. of Genesis Now God being of the greatest excellency the more any thing is like him the more it is to be valued But it is certain that no Creature upon Earth is at all like God but the Soul of Man and therefore nothing ought to have so much of your care As for your Bodies ye ought to imploy them for His Majesty's Service for the defence of your Country for the maintainance of your Wives and Children for the Glory of your Nation and for the preservation of your Properties and Liberties and especially of your Religion which ought to be dearer to you than your Lives ye ought not to be afraid to be wounded nor even to be killed for it is appointed to all men once to die and there is nothing more glorious than to die for these aforesaid considerations Horatius Scevola and several others brave and generous Men so much renowned in the Roman History did willingly give their Lives for the Service of their Princes and for the preservation of their Country I speak only of your Souls and of the great care ye are to take of them for if ye once lose them they are lost for ever If ye had two Souls in losing one ye could save the other but ye have but one and if ye be so unhappy as to lose it this loss cannot be recovered I grant ye cannot lose your Souls in one sense that is so lose them that they shall cease to be but ye may lose them in another that is ye may lose that happy Estate to which they were created and plunge them into the extremest misery In a word ye may lose them in Hell whence there is no fetching them back and so they are lost for ever Take then care of your Souls at least as much as ye do of your Bodies For when your Bodies are out of Order as soon as ye are sick or wounded presently ye call for the Physician and Surgeon But when your Souls are sick wounded by Sin and infected with several spiritual Distempers ye do not care to cure them by repenting of your Sins Nevertheless if ye do not repent ye shall perish for ever ye look upon Death as if it was very far from you and perhaps at this very moment in one of these Ships that are here at anchor there is some body dead without repenting of his Sins and if so his Soul is lost for ever Think seriously of this and make a good use of this first instruction I give you to day obey the exhortations threatnings and commandments of Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer Behold saith St. Austin with what care and diligence an unhappy Lover obeys his Mistresses Commandments He had rather disoblige every body than displease her The only thing he fears is to hear these dreadful words be gone I will see thee no more A naughty Woman saith I will see thee no more if thou doest not what I command thee and that frights him so much that he is forced to obey And Jesus Christ who gave his life for our Salvation saith unto us if ye do not repent of your Sins ye shall be separated from my face ye shall eternally perish and be cast into Hell-fire for ever and we will not obey Are we