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A89813 The plain mans defence against popery: or, A discourse, shewing the flat opposition of popery to the Scripture. By J.N. chaplain to a person of honour J. N. 1675 (1675) Wing N22; ESTC R9788 31,034 79

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3.1 Exod. 23.20 not of a created Angel for a created Angel did not redeem him from all evil as he saith there 29. Q. Should prayers and the service of God be performed in a tongue unknown not understood by the people what saith St. Paul of this A. Except ye utter words easie to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken how shall the unlearned say Amen in the Church I had rather speak five words to edification than Ten thousand words in an unknown tongue 1 Cor. 14.9.16 19. Note St. Paul in 1 Cor. 14. Throughout disputes against praying and speaking in a strange language in an unknown tongue yet the Papists will have their prayers in Latine though the people understand not one word of them Note The Papists themselves acknowledge that Christ and the Apostles and the primitive Church for more than six hundred years did not use prayers in an unknown tongue Note The Papists have a wicked design to keep people in ignorance and therefore will not suffer them to understand their own prayers 30. Q. Should we pray for the dead A. Now the Child is dead why should I fast and pray 2 Sam. 12.21 Blessed are they that dye in the Lord Rev. 14.13 Note They that dye in the Lord need not our prayers and they that dye in their sins can have no benefit by them Note The Popish Priests get so much money by prayers for the dead that they are unwilling to acknowledge it to be an errour Note For praying for the dead or praying to the Saints we have 1. No command from God 2. No promise to be heard 3. No example in Scripture 31. Q. Are aequivocations of mental Reservations good and lawful A. Ye shall not deal falsly or lye Lev. 19.11 Their tongue speaketh deceit Jer. 9.8 Let your Communication be yea yea and nay nay Matt. 5.37 He that hath not sworn deceitfully shall receive the blessing from the Lord Psal 24.4 An oath is the end of all strife Heb 6.16 Thou shalt swear in truth c. Jer. 4.2 Note If it be lawful to aequivocate if this be not lying as Papists teach 1. The Devil cant be the Father of lies for he could never want a mental Reservation 2. The Martyrs were fools and self murtherers in not saving their lives by this Jesuitical trick 3. There can be no such thing as perjury falshood in any but Idiots and naturals that have not wit enough to aequivocate 4. There can be no sincere faith or trusts in oaths covenants contracts promises leagues of agreement either publike or private for who knowes what secret evasions restrictions men may have in their minds 32. Q. Was St. Peter Prince of the Apostles or had they all equal power and Authority A. Jesus said the Princes of the Gentiles exercise Dominion but it shall not be so among you Mat. 20.25 The Apostles sent Peter and John Act. 8.14 see also Gal. 2.7 2 Cor. 11.5 Gal. 2.9 33. Q. When Christ said to Peter Thou art Peter and upon this Rock I will build my Church I give unto thee the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven c. Mat. 16.18 Was this spoken to the rest of the Apostles and doth it belong to them as well as to St. Peter A. Ye are built upon the foundation of the Apostles Eph. 2.20 The City had 12 foundations and in them the names of the 12 Apostles Rev. 21.14 Then Jesus said to them the Apostles whose sins ye remit they are remitted whose sins ye retain they are retained John 20.23 Mat. 18.18 Note St. Peter was never head of the Church or Prince of the Apostles But if he had been so how should the Pope come to be his successor where doth Christ give this power to the Bishop of Rome 34. Q. Is there no other head of the Church but Christ A. Christ is head of the Church Col. 1.18 God hath given Christ to be head over all things to the Church which is his body Eph. 1.22 As the Husband is head of the wife so Christ is the head of the Church Eph. 5.23 The head even Christ Eph. 4.15 Note If the Pope be head of the Catholick Church then 1. St. Paul was greatly mistaken 2. The Catholick Church must be the Popes body and spouse 3. The Church would have no head when there is no Pope 4. The Church must have two or three heads when there are two or three Popes as sometimes have been for several years 5. The Church should have an unsound head when the Pope is Heretical as sundry Popes have been by confession of their own Doctors Note Queen Elizabeth King James King Charles would not be called head of the Church because they thought that title Antichristian entrenching upon the right of Christ 35. Q. Doth the word justifie in Scripture signifie to absolve or pronounce a man righteous not to infuse or put righteousness into a man A. They shall justifie the righteous and condemn the wicked Deut. 25.1 He that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just are an abomination to the Lord Pro. 17.15 Esa 5.23 Note The Scriptures speaking of justification makes it a discharging and acquitting from accusations and so doth legally make just not qualitatively as if to justifie were to make just holy as the Papists contend who confound justification with sanctification Note This is not a vain strife of words for the great Article of our Religion depends upon the right discovery of the use of the word if to justifie signifie to give us an inherent righteousness then by that we may appear before God but if to justifie signifie to acquit us being accused for sin through the grace of God and righteousness of Christ then we are to go out of our selves and to rely upon Christs righteousness nor can the Papists produce any one place of Scripture where the word justifie is put for making righteous by habitual and actual righteousness inherent in us as they would have it 36. Q. Is the Doctrine of imputed righteousness clearly taught in Scripture A. Blessed is the man to whom God imputeth righteousness without works Rom. 4.6 That righteousness might be imputed to them also Rom. 4.11 It shall be imputed to us also if we believe Rom. 4.24 Note Christs righteousness is made ours as our sins were made his and that is only by imputation 2 Cor. 5.21 Note We do not say that Christs righteousness is our formal righteousness but it is the matter whereby we stand justified fore God Note The Popish party flout at this Doctrine calling it the putative and chinerical righteousness and yet affirm that the merits of one Saint may be imputed to another 37. Q. Are we accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ applyed by faith and not for our own works and merits A. By the Obedience of one shall many be
our Saviour excepted keep all the commandements without the least sin A. There is not a just man upon Earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccl. 7.20 Who can say I have made my heart clean Pro. 20.9 If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves 1 John 1.8 In many things we offend all Jam. 3.2 Note we are so far from perfect keeping the Law that we cannot perfectly do any good work as the Church and St. Paul confesses Esa 64.6 Rom. 7.21 Note The Papists have taught the Quakers this arrogant Doctrine of perfection whereas the ancient Fathers affirm that the highest perfection of a Christian in this life is to see his own imperfection Note The grace of God in this life never raiseth man to perfect exact unsinning obedience but it creates in him a sincere obedience to the whole Gospel and quickens him to bewail his frailties and infirmities all the perfection attainable in this life is when the will habitually entertains nothing that is contrary to the love of God Note If a man could perfectly fulfil the law then he need not daily pray as our Saviour hath taught for the pardon of his sins 2. Then after grace received and sanctification he would no more need Christ as a Mediator 3. Then he might be justified and obtain eternal life by the law which is contrary to the Doctrine of St. Paul Note The impossibility of keeping Gods commandments perfectly is not from the nature of his commands but the corruption of mans nature and thus we are to understand the ancient Fathers when they say that God doth not command things impossible 25. Q. May a true believer in this life be certainly assured that he is in the state of grace is this certainty more than a bare conjectural hope is it an infallible assurance grounded upon the promises of God the inward evidence of those graces unto which those promises are made the Testimony of the spirit witnessing that we are the children of God A. Hereby we know that we know him if we keep his commandements 1 John 2.3 We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren 1 John 3.14 These things have I written unto you that ye may know that ye have eternal life 1 Joh. 5.13 We desire you to shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope Heb. 6.11 The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits that we are the Children of God Rom. 8.16 Grieve not the spirit whereby ye are sealed to the day of Redemption Eph. 4.30 God is willing that the Heirs of the promise should have strong Consolation Heb. 6.17.18 Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 Note All the ancient creeds agree to this they have this article expresly I believe the forgiveness of sins now the meanning of it as St. Augustine and the Schoolmen observe is this I believe that Remission of sins by Christ is given to me because I believe in him So that it was the judgment of the primitive Church that men should believe the forgiveness of their own sins Note A Papist in saying the Creed believes no more than the Devil himself doth viz. That God gives Remission of sins to his Church and people and so in saying the Lords prayer he believes no more than the Devil doth viz. That God is a Father to some not that he is his Father in Christ Oh! into what a gulph of discomforts doth Popery plunge men their Souls must hang in fears and doubts all their dayes they cannot tell whether they shall be saved or damned it 's a Hell on this side Hell 26. Q. Should we pray to the Apostles and Saints departed the B. Virgin Mary c. Should we give Religious worship to them or to God alone Should we go to God in the mediation of Christ alone or do we need the Saints departed to be mediators and intercessors for us what direction doth the Scripture give A. Call upon me in the day of trouble Psal 50.15 Say our Father which art in Heaven Luke 11.2 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only Mat. 4.10 My glory I will not give to another Esa 42.8 How shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed Rom. 10.14 Let no man beguile you in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels Col. 2.18 There is one mediatour between God and men the man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 Through him we access unto the Father Eph. 2.18 Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Col. 3.17 Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name I will do it John 14.3 No man comes to the Father but by me John 14.6 We have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous 1 John 2.1 27. Q. Is there any ground for us to believe that the Saints in ●eaven know our particular persons wants necessities desires or doth the Scripture intimate the contrary A. Doubtless thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel know us not Esa 63.16 Thou sendest man away his Sons come to honour and he knows it not they are brought low but he perceives it not Job 14.21 28. Q. If an Angel should appear to us or if the Apostles were present upon Earth with us or the blessed Virgin would they suffer us to kneel down and give religious worship and adoration to them with such solemnity as the Popish Crue adore and worship Angels and Saints departed and their Images A. I John fell down to worship before the feet of the Angel then saith he see thou do it not for I am thy fellow servant worship God Rev. 22 8 9. Cornelius fell down at Peters feet and worshipped him and Peter said stand up I my self also am a man Act. 10.25 They would have done Sacrifice and Paul and Barnabas run in among the people crying Sirs why do yee these things Act. 14.14 Note The Papists pray as much or more to the Virgin Mary and Saints departed as to God What is spoken of God and to God in the Psalms they apply to the Virgin Mary in a book called our Ladies Psalter they teach that it is lawful to say the Lords prayer to the Virgin Mary and the Saints departed that we say to them our Fathers hallowed be your name and so of all the other Petitions Note We find in the word of God but two kinds of worship a Religious worship due only to God and a civil honour used amongst men the Popish distinction of Religious worship into Dulia and Latria the former to men the latter to God is blasphemous contrary to Scripture directly a new coined device to palliate Idolatry Note The Papists by praying in that manner as they do to the Saints departed do give them the highest Religious worship and adoration that can be and so are guilty of fearful Idolatry Note The Angel Gen. 48 16 must be understood of Christ who is called an Angel Mal.