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Fair-play on both sides: or, the surest way to heaven Discovered in a dispute between a Roman-Catholick, and a Protestant.
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Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.
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stile The simple People you beguile The Lord is weary of your feasts (k) Isa 1.14 And likes not your devised rests All days are like in holiness None holy more none holy less (l) The difference betwixt dayes is in observation and use and not in the nature of the day if one day had been in nature holier then another the Sabbath might not have been altered Paul thought his labour was in vain Where days distinctions did remain (m) Gal. 4.10 11. Thou hop'st to put us in some fear With speaking of the Kalendar (n) Saints Canonized Thou ask'st what Faith all those did hold Whose Names are found therein enroll'd I tell thee plain 't is nought to me What many a one there nam'd might be My faith 's not so set on the rack To seek strength from the Almanack Yet sure I am what we profess Some that are there believ'd no less (o) As Peter Paul Mary c. and some there named which suffered persecution in the ten first Persecutions of the Church Our Faith and theirs doth well agree And you with them at variance be You Churches make and holy days Unto the Saints and Martyrs praise But us which do believe the same You seek to kill and to defame Thou ask'st who them canonized Whose names are there enregistred You say the Pope I ask again Wilt thou that sainting power maintain (p) The custom of Canonizing Saints was not heard of till one thousand years after Christ in the dayes of Alexander 3. and Gregory 7. Can any mortal Creature tell Who goes to Heaven and who to Hell All judgement Paul bids us forbear Until the Lord himself appear (q) 1 Cor. 4.5 In Heaven to sit or high or low Is it in mans power to bestow (r) Mat. 20.23 What Bishops can or Saints invest Or shut men from eternal rest Someone Pope doth a Saint enstall His grant another doth recall (Å¿) Bonifance 8. caused Hermanus Ferrariens who had been Canonized for a Saint 30. years before to be taken out of his Grave and burned ann 1300. 'T is but a silly dignity That 's subject to uncertainty Among your Saints even those are seen Which to their Prince have Traytors been As Thomas Becket and Elizabeth Barton called the holy Maid of Kent and others Though that our Church such Saints despise To it it is no prejudice Popish Rime Hereticks OUr Saviour warns us to have care Of false Prophets to beware (b) That makes us take heed of you Which in his name shall come Not sent yet they shall run (c) There be many of your Church come amongst us to work mischief before you be sent for Thieves not entring by the Door (d) A lively description of the Popes Clergy That kill and steal and keep a stoor Wolves in Shepheards cloathing That kill the Soul and steal the Tything Dogs Foxes and Masters of lies That new Sects will devise Bringing in dissention And heap thousands to perdition Where have you been this many a year That none of you durst once appear Ever since our Saviours time To whom did your light shine (e) To those which had eyes to see it Where did your principal Pastor sit (f) In Heaven Who kept your keys who fed your sheep (g) You have butchered a good sort of them Shew some Churches you have built I can shew many you have spilt How might a man have found you out To have trial in a matter of doubt (h) You be too proud to learn it is the first lesson you teach your Disciples to admit no conference Where for so many a year No such Company did appear Until Luther a lying Frier (i) If Luther had continued a true Friar he had never been good Upon whom the Devil had desire Brâ—ke his Vow (k) Herods vow is better broken then kept and married a Nun And there your Sect (l) Our Sect is the same that Pauls was Acts 28.22 first begun (m) Either thou knowest this to be a lie or thou knowst nothing And favoured in Saxony By a Duke that loved liberty And in King Edwards time truly (n) There were English men in England who bare witness to this truth by suffering death for it long afore King Edwards time It first infected our Country For a thousand years you say That Papistry did bear the sway And during all that space No Protestant durst shew his face (o) The more they lay hid the greater was your tyranny yet many then both shewed their faces and lost their lives Who kept (p) Indeed you kep them so fast that the people could have no comfort by them the holy Scriptures then From the hands of wicked men Who had authority to ordain Our Priests and Bishops again For he that entreth without Order As a Thief doth kill and murder And one thing maketh me to muse That no Priest you do refuse (q) A very tale Being ordred by the Church of Rome But he was accepted soon If he would say the New Service He should have a Benefice Without any further Order And accounted for the better (r) He that hath once been an eager Papist and is converted truly is to be the better thought of because having known the abomination of Popery he must needs detest it more How can she make a lawful Priest If she be not the Church of Christ Answer this O Protestant If thou canst I will recant (Å¿) I believe you will not be so good as your word But while an answer you devise (t) A man need not be long in making you an answer I counsel all men that are wise To hold the faith maintained here The space of a thousand year Brought unto us English men By our Apostle (u) Who made him an Apostle Saint Austen Who from Rome was hither sent When Ethelbert was King of Kent Who learn'd his Faith of Gregory †This Gregory accounteth him the fore-runner of Antichrist who so should seek to be called Vniversal Bishop from this Faith you are gone His Faith was kept successively By threescore Bishops and three Since Saint Peter's time truly Who learn'd his Faith of Christ Jesu Who is the Son of God most true Protestants Answer Hereticks THe Caveat touching Hereticks Doth make against false Catholicks We know full well that Popery Is but a Mass of Heresie Those Errors which of old were hatcht Your Church together hath them patcht (u) It maintaineth free will and merit of works with the Pelagians Augustine The Pelagians held Children to be without sin Aug. contra Jul. lib. 3. cap. 5. So the Church of Rome saith Concupiscence is no sin It holds Imagery with the Simonians Basilidians and Carpocratians and with the two latter they secret their Religion Iren. lib. 1. cap. 23. Epiph. Haeres 24. It alloweth praying in an unknown tongue with the Osteni Epiph.
form of Absolution to Penitentiaries runneth thus The passion of Christ and the merits of the blessed Virgin of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and of other he and she Saints be unto thee in remission of sins We do the Virgin Blessed call (b) Luke 1.48 And say she passed Women all But when you call her Gate of Grace (c) Coeli fenestra Regis alti janua c. We say Christs honour you deface The thing that made her Spirit glad Was that she such a Saviour had (d) Luke 1.47 Can she on him commandment have Whose help she needed her to save * What honour is due to the Saints This honour to the Saints we give We crave Gods grace like them to live (e) 1 Cor. 11.1 We care to keep their memory (f) Heb. 13.7 And God in them we glorifie (g) Gal. 1.23 †Holy Ceremonies Whoso readeth the Canon of the Mass shall there see a world of idle and ridiculous ceremonies Your Ceremonies idle be And favour most of vanity You stand so much on outward show That you the substance overthrow With Images and Pictures gay You steal the Peoples hearts away Well may you please the outward eye The spirit you do not edifie A pretty play to see a Priest Tossing his God between his fist Such gestures and such apish mowes Such warbling and such antick showes Now bends now ducks now stands upright Then turns him to the Peoples sight Now sighs now twenty Crosses makes And ore his head the Wafer shakes Then washeth then the Chalice licks And shuts his Idol in the Pix But still the man is much afeard Lest ought should hang upon his Beard Mean while the Vulgar in a maze Upon the Caky Idol gaze And knock and kneel and think them well That they have heard the sacring Bell. Tell me I pray thee doth God will With such fond Rites his Church to fill They never came into his thought (i) Jerem. 19.5 Tradition onely hath them brought (k) They say indeed that they have the form of the Mass by the Tradition of the Apostles Rhem. 1 Cor. 11. s 22 but the truth is that it was now a piece and then a piece patched up by their own Popes Sixtus 2. brought in the Sanctus Innocentius 1. the Pax. Leo 1. added this clause A holy Sacrifice and unbloody Host Gelasius the Prefaces Collects Gradualls Symmachus the Gloria in excelsis Agapetus 1. Processions Pelagius 2. nine Prefaces before the Canon Sergius 1. Agnus Dei and Gregory 1. confesseth that one Scolasticus made most part of the Canon Holy Mass or Sacrifice Your Rites and Mass do well agree Both full of gross Idolatry Both are unholy and unsound Both wanting holy Scripture-ground You say that in the Eucharist To God is offered by the Priest A Sacrifice in Wine and Bread (l) Rhem. Heb. 7. sect 8. Concil Trident ses 22. cap. 1. Both for the living and the dead (m) Conc. Trid. ses 22. cap. 2. Look first what Christ did institute (n) Mat. 26.26 Mark 14.22 Luke 22.19 1 Cor. 11.24 And that one place shall you refute What he did we must do likewise (o) This do ye 1 Cor. 11.25 There 's no word of a Sacrifice By this said Christ Remember me That shews he would not present be (p) Bodily We keep such things in memory Which we behold not really The Priests of old did every day Some Off'ring on the Altar lay (q) Heb. 10.11 Christs holy Off'ring is but one Performed by himself alone (r) Heb. 10.12 If Christ shall often offred be We shall his sufferings multiplie As on the Cross he died not twice So there 's no second Sacrifice (ſ) Heb. 9.25 to 28. There 's now no sacrificing Priest That Office rested upon Christ (t) Heb. 7.23 24 It comes to none successively 'T is his for all Eternity (u) The office of a Priest so far forth as we understand thereby a Sacrificer whom the Grecians call Hiereus belongs onely to Christ and cannot pass from him to another neither the name of Priest in that sense but as the name of Priest cometh from the Greek word Presbyteros which signifieth an Elder it cannot simply bee misliked How can a Mass a pardon bring Sith 't is a bloodless Offering †Heb. 9.22 Christ hath procur'd Remission (x) Heb. 9.12 What needs a new Oblation (y) Heb. 10.18 See then your holy Sacrifice A thing without all warrantize Of Scriptures or of Writers sage Which lived in the purest Age. (z) The Mass as it is now was not in use in the Church 1200. years after Christ It never came to the full perfection though it was in hatching before until the Council of Lateran under Inno. 3. The Sacraments †Holy Sacraments in number twain You eek't have with a longer train The seven-headed Romish Beast (a) Revel 17.7 The two to seven hath encreas'd Both Baptism (b) Mat. 28.19 and that holy feast (c) 1 Col. 11.24 c. Commanded are by Christs beheast Shew me but one commandement To prove another Sacrament (d) No Father within an 100. year after Christ acknowledged seven Sacraments of the New Testament And Augustine saith The Sacraments are Numero paucissima fewest in number Ep. 118. Now two is the least number Two in the Old (e) Viz. Ordinary two in the New So shall we have proportion true Name what in th' ancient (f) Viz. The form of Gods worship under the Law Liturgy Your five false Symboles do supply (g) The Sacraments of the New Testament succeed the Sacraments of the Old if then they can name no Sacraments of the Old Testament in the place whereof their five supposed Sacraments should come then they cannot justifie them to be Sacraments Those Sacraments which holy be You stain'd have with your Pedlary In Baptism Oyl Lights Spittle Cream Your Exorcism and conjur'd Stream Were these invented by Gods Spirit Or found you them in holy Writ Whence had you all that rituous store Us'd in the Mass and nam'd before You speak next of †Holy dayes Festivities And holy-day Solemnities Thou think'st by this with easiness To prove thy Churches holiness Truth is mens Conscience you enthral (h) Bellarmine saith men are bound in Conscience to keep the Festivities of the Church lib. 3. cap. 10. prop 3. and so do the Rhemists Gal. 4. s 5. To many an idle Festival (i) very near 200. if we put these together which were determined of Concil Oxon. sub Steph. and which we read in the marginal Notes upon the Rhemists Testament You 'll have them be as strictly kept As Gods own day by his precept Of feasts some low some higher be Some great some lesser in degree Some double more some double less A treble fault some to transgress So with your doubling and redoubling