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A13158	A briefe examination, of a certaine peremptorie menacing and disleal petition presented, as is pretended, to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, by certaine laye papistes, calling themselues, the lay Catholikes of England, and now lately printed, and diuulged by a busie compagnion, called Iohn Lecey	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1606 (1606)	STC 23452; ESTC S117870	127,037	159

as idolaters psal 114. for that they worshipped images of siluer and gold and the worke of mens handes What excuse then can the Papistes alleadge for themselues that they passe not the condemnation worshipping gods both of metall and stone and falling downe before the works of their own hands 10 The apostle 1 Cor. 10. saith the gentiles offred sacrifices to deuils and the reason is for that they offred them in honoure of men and without warrante translating gods honoure to creatures are not the papistes then ashamed of their masses that are no better then sacrifices to deuils being offered in honoure of men and to the dishonoure of Christ and christian Religion 11 The Prophet Hieremie c. 7 taxeth them as idolaters that builte high places in the honoure of god being neuer commanded by god so to doe there also the idolatry of those is reprooued that made vowes to the Queene of heauen and serued her This reproofe therefore is much rather deserued by the Papists which builde high places and altars to men and without warrant serue our Lady whome they call the Queene of heauen making more praiers and vowes to her then to God 12 Jn the Booke of Baruch c. 6. the Babylonians are reputed idolaters for that they caried their Gods of golde filuer and stone vpon their shoulders and adorned them with costly apparell and worshipped them Why then shoulde the Romanists deny them selues to be idolaters that cary their idols in procession and adorne them with costly apparel and iewels and kisse them as their delites 13 The idolatrous Jewes are noted Hierem. 2 for saying to a stock thou art my father to a stone thou hast begotten me and yet the sencelesse papists say to stocks and stones Pater noster and to a wodden crucifix thou hast redeemed me as Bellarmine lib. 2 de cult sanct c 23. confesseth 14 S. Iohn 1 epist 5 where he warneth Christians to keepe them selues a simulacris that is from images or similitudes set vppe to be worshipped dooth signifie that papistes worshipping such images decline to the customes of the gentiles 15. The Israelites confesse their sinne Iudges 10. in worshipping Baalim or the images of god Happy were the Papistes if they woulde likewise acknowledge their sinne in worshipping moulten and grauen images both of god and of creaturs their idolatry is no lesse greeuous then that of the Israelits 16. The worship of angels by the councell of Laodicea c. 35 is tearmed idolatrous and by Hierome in epist ad Riparium by other fathers in expresse tearmes hath bin condemned The same is also flatly forbidden coloss 2 and Apocalyps 22. do not the papists then worshipping angels fall within the compas of this prohibition and of the crime of idolatry 17 The Iews 2. paral 30 ar taxed for offring incēse to idols 2 King 18. to the brazen serpent Marcellina noted as an idolatrous heretick for burning incēse to images neither did the Heathen Emperors require more at the hands of Christians thē sacrifice to incense before the statues And yet the papistes when they haue offered incense to theire images wipe their mouths and suppose they haue committed no idolatrye But they are as blind as the images which they worship 18. To sacrifice in honour of creatures is idolatry for that is an honour due to God only as the papists themselues confesse But Papists doo offer sacrifice in honour of Saints as the prayers of the Masse doo declare They giue them also the sacrifice of prayers are they not then grosse idolaters 19. Tertullian lib. de idololatr dooth shew vs that the worship of images and similitudes is idolatry Omnis forma aut formula idolum se dici exposcit inde idololatria omnis circa omne idolum famulatus seruitus Euery forme or small image sayth he ought to be called an idole and thence it commeth to passe that idolatry is the worship or seruice bestowed vpon euery idole Again speaking to idolaters qui seruitis lapidibus sayth he qui imagines facitis aureas argenteas ligne as lapideas You which serue stones and which make images of golde and siluer of wood and stone 20. S. Ambrose de obit Theodosij saith that Helene finding the crosse of the Lord did adore hir King and not the wood Forasmuch as that was the error of the gentiles The papists therefore worshipping wooden crosses runne into the error of the idolatrous gentiles 21. Epiphanius haeres 79. affirmeth that the diabolicall inuention of images hath adulterated the seruice of god and brought in spirituall fornications The same father did also teare a vail wherin either Christ or some saint was painted and thought it no fit thing to hang in the church dooth he not then ouerthrow and condemn the common practise of papists 22. The fathers of the councel of Francforde vnder Charles the great say that the cause why they refused to worship and adore images was least they shold proue idoles which argueth that images worshipped are nothing els but idoles 23. Tertulliā de praescript aduers haeret and Hierome in Abacuc c. 2. teach vs that heresie is a kind of idolatrie Who then cā deny but that papists maintaining so many heresies are also guilty of grosse idolatry 24. Reason doth also conuince the Papists to be idolaters For what more reasonable then that such as worship idols should be reputed idolaters further idolatry is nothing else but the translation of gods honour to creatures Thirdly an image worshipped religiously is nothing but an idole Tertullian lib. de idololat defineth an rdole to be nothing else buta little forme or image Finally why should not they be coudemned to bee idolaters that do the same things for which the gentiles were condemned as idolaters But the papistes by worshipping images make them idoles They translate gods honour to the sacrament to crosses to the Virgin Marie to the images of the Trinity They deny not that they worship images for religion sake they cary about their images kisse them pray before them burn incense to them as did the gentiles 25. Finally the papists by their own confession are proued idolaters Bellarmine lib. 2. de imag inib. c. 5. sayth that an idole is a false similitude and representeth that which is not But Papists do worship the false similitudes of God the Father God the holy ghost and of the Trinity Likewise they worship the images of Saint George that killed the dragon of Dunstane that tooke the diuell by the nose of Catherin Christopher diuerse saints that either neuer wer in the world or are falsly represented and belyed They confesse also that it is idolatry to giue latrian or diuine honor to creatures But this honor they giue to the Crucifix to the images of the trinity and to the sacramēt As is shewed before Furthermore their consciences inwardly accusing them of idolatry they haue blotted out the 2. commandement against the worship of grauen images and other similitudes

princes and say that for one of ours they haue an hundred but they shew themselues shame lesse to speake vntruth without any shew of proofe For if they looke into all histories they shall not finde eyther parliament or prince within this realme that allowed the wicked decrees of the conuenticle of Trent Neither did the clergy or the vniuersityes of England euer approue thē Here againe they they tell vs of a child King and woman Queene as if they had Queens that were no women or disallowed of the succession of children to their fathers So their fift reason is very childish Their sixth reasō had been more allowable if they could haue proued theire antecedent For if their faith had been that which Saint Paule so highly commendeth and which was first taught the English by Gregorie then should wee not much contend with them about matters of fayth But helas poret soules these laypapistes read not S. Paules Epistles nor canne they tell what he taught and as for their Masters they shall proue themselues desperate fellowes if thèy take vpon them to proue their transubstantiation and massing sacrifice and other poynts of popery out of S. Paule they should also but abuse their readers if they should vndertake to proue that popery is Catholike doctrine as hath been often shewed Finally if Gregorie the firste were iudge yet should they neither proue the popish worship of images nor the vniuersall headship of the pope nor the inuisibility and impalpability of Christes body in the sacrament the contrary rather out of Gregoryes doctrine may be concluded The 7. reason is nothing els but a repetition of matters formerly denyed They say we haue receiued our Bible our gospell and the canons from the Church of Rome The truth is that all true Christians haue receiued both the Bible the Gospell from Christ and his Apostles-likewise we haue receiued auncient canons from auncient general councels from the same the Church of Rome hath receiued both lawes and canons But the doctrine of the modern churche of Rome concerning the 7. sacramentes halfe communions the carnall eating of Christes body with the mouth and such like Mysteries of the masse they are contrary both to scriptures and actes of councels and were neuer knowne to the auncient church of Rome In theire 8. reason they affirme that the Romish Church is our Mother Church But then is she a cruell mother that persecuteth and murthreth her children Of the old Roman Church diuers nations receiued the faith and therefore to them she might be reputed the Mother church and so his maiesty meant when he spoke of the old church of Rome But this later Romish church is rather a stepmother then a mother and rather the mother of fornications as Saint John calleth her or the mother of errors as Francis Petrarch calleth her then the mother of Christians nay we haueby diuers reasons demonstrated that she is neither the mother church nor Christs church but the whore of Babylon and Synagogue of Antichriste Their ninth reason is drawne from the maner of the firstē arising and condemnation of heresyes For if there neuer yet arose any heresy but both the names of the authors and of the councells that condemned them were well known then if neither the authors of the masse or of Purgatory or of prayers to saints can be named nor any councell found out that condemned them then they suppose that these poyntes came from Christ and the apostles But by the same reason hee mighte prooue that the heresie of the Angelikes Collyridians Messalians Nudipedalls Nazarites Apostolikes and diuers of that sorte came from Christ and the Apostles For neither is Coleton able to name the first authors of these heresyes nor excepte it bee the Angelikes condemned in the councell of Laodicea can hee shew that any of these hereticks were condemned by councels Further wee shew who were the first deuisers of the masse and these lay papists confesse that the author of euery little ceremony and the time thereof is known we knowalso that purgatory for satisfaction for tēporal pains after that the guilt of sin is remitted praiers to saynts was first deuised by schoolmen among christians by idolaters among Heathen men Their last reason is deriued from the fruites of true religion which as they say are loue vnity concord piety acts of charitie and deuotion as fasting praier almes building of monasteryes erecting of vniuersities founding of Hospitals conuerting of Nations and such like But first the erection of monasteries and such like dennes of superstitious persons and Sodomites is neither a worke of Charity nor deuotion Secondly these fruites of religion that are heere mentioned neuer proceeded from the modern superstition of Rome And that is most apparent not only by common experience but also by the testimony and confession of papists themselues In Jtaly other countries where popery moste reigneth there is little true loue no vnitie nor concord either among the teachers or among their followers no steppe of christian piety no acts of Christian charity nor signe of sincere and internall deuotion their prayers are directed to saynts angels for the most part and little vnderstood of the vulgar sort being in strange lāguages Their fasts ar superstitious their alms ar pharisaical for the most part euil bestowed The popes their cōplices massacre murdre true christians with deadly hatred prosequute on another Their enemies they empoysō murdre such as they cannot kill they curse and hate They make banks of vsury set vp bordell houses for maintenance of whoredom baudry they haue empouerished christians occasioned the progresse and successe of Turkes and as for new Rome it hath confuted no heresyes nor called any lawfull councels nor erected any vniuersityes nor taught any obedience to princes nay contrariwise the popes of Rome haue dissolued the bands of obedience and with preferring men vnworthy fostering Iebusites haue ouerthrowne vniuersities Finally teaching that the pope is aboue councels they haue taken away al authority frō councels teaching the idolatrous worship of saynts images and the sacrament and setting for ward their traditions they haue destroyed all religion and this in the abridgement or suruey of popery is proued both by testimonyes and examples agaynst vs certes they shall neuer be able to prooue any such matters They charge Master Caluin Knox Luther Godmā with teaching cōtēpt of power authority and neglect of laws obedience that vnder the colour of liberty of the gospel But this is a cōmō practise of papists when they are at a stoppe to father lies vpon Luther Caluin and other godly men How sincerely they deale it is apparent when they alledge such authors as lay papists vnder payne of excōmu nication may not read affirme that to bee taughte by them which those godly teachers vtterly dislike and condemne Absurdly also wher they vndertake to defend themselues they run out