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A12211	A friendly advertisement to the pretended Catholickes of Ireland declaring, for their satisfaction; that both the Kings supremacie, and the faith whereof his Majestie is the defender, are consonant to the doctrine delivered in the holy Scriptures, and writings of the ancient fathers. And consequently, that the lawes and statutes enacted in that behalfe, are dutifully to be observed by all his Majesties subjects within that kingdome. By Christopher Sibthorp, Knight, one of his Maiesties iustices of his court of chiefe place in Ireland. In the end whereof, is added an epistle written to the author, by the Reverend Father in God, Iames Vssher Bishop of Meath: wherein it is further manifested, that the religion anciently professed in Ireland is, for substance, the same with that, which at this day is by publick authoritie established therein.	Sibthorp, Christopher, Sir, d. 1632.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1622 (1622)	STC 22522; ESTC S102408	494,750	610

helpe and to give all gifts and graces requisite unto men Inasmuch then as it is a part and a chiefe part of Gods glorie to call upon him in prayer and that God himselfe saith thus I am Iehovah this is my name and my glorie will I not give to any other How can men bee excused of robbing GOD of his honour and glorie when they praie not unto him but unto Saints or Angells or such as bee but creatures Yea why should anie pray unto anie Saints or Angells or such as bee but meere creatures when they know not the secret intentions affections thoughts and hidden closets and corners of their hearts For it is God only that knoweth the hearts of all the children of Men as Solomon expresly witnesseth Besides yee cannot finde so much as one president or example throughout the whole Booke of God either in the old Testament or in he new of anie godlie man that made his prayer at anie time to anie deceased Saints or to Angells or to anie other but to God onely What strange people then bee they that both contrarie to the Scriptures and without anie president or example in those Scriptures to be found will dare to invocate and call upon Saints and Angells in their praiers Let the blessed Virgin Marie and other Saints Angels have their due regard and reverence that belongeth to them But let them not have that glorie honour and worship that belongeth onelie and properlie unto God Honorandi ergò sunt propter imitationem non Adorandi propter religionem Saints and Martyrs therefore are to bee honoured for imitation saith S. Augustine but they bee not to bee adored or worshipped for religion Sanctos Martyres neque Deos esse dicimus neque adorare consuevimus laudamus autem eos potius summis honoribus quòd pro verite strenuè certarunt fidei sinceritatem servarunt VVee saith S. Cyril neither say the holy Martyres are gods neither are vvee vvont to worship them wee rather commend them verie highly that they have so stronglie stood for the truth and kept the sinceritie of faith Yea as touching the worshiping of Angells S. Paul also expreslie condemneth it Whereupon it was decreed as Theodoret witnesseth in the Councell of Laodicea that men should not pray unto Angells And therefore doth Saint Augustine likewise reckon amongst Heretickes a Sect called Angelici which were inclined to the worshipping of Angels And Epiphanius also amongst other wicked opinions and doings noteth the Ca●anes for invocation of Angells Yea wee may as S. Augustine againe sheweth learne of the Angells themselves not to worship them And so indeede doth it appeare For when S. Iohn himselfe fell downe before the Angell that shewed him the Revelation to worship him the Angell said unto him See thou doe it not for I am thy fellow-servant and fellow-servant of thy brethren which have the Testimonie of Iesus worship God Where you see plainely that the Angell refuseth to bee worshipped and biddeth to worship God onely as being himselfe a fellow-fellow-worshipper of God with the rest of his servants If then the Angels of heaven bee not to bee worshipped which thing you see here manifest I hope you will soone conclude that then the Saints in heaven also are not to bee worshipped I know that yee have a distinction betweene Latria Doulia saying that yee give Latrian that is worship unto God but Doulian that is service unto Saints and Angells So that the effect of this your speech and distinction appeareth to bee this that yee worship God but serve Saints and Angells As though yee were not bound to serve God aswell as to worship him S. Paul sheweth that yee are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to serve him aswell as to worship him Yea doth not Christ Iesus himselfe say that it is thus written Dominum Deum tuum adorabis illi soli servies Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God him onely shalt thou serve For so is your owne latin Translation Whereby you see it evident that yee are aswell to serve God as to worship him yea that yee are to serve him and to serve him onely in the waie of religion And so also doth Samuel the Prophet further expreslie teach And therefore wee may not serve anie Saints or Angells or Images or anie other creatures whatsoever in waie of Religion as the Popish Church most wickedly teacheth and practiseth But againe even in those verie prayers which they make to God himselfe they also verie impiously have divers Mediators therein also they seeke refuge by another as vaine a distinction as the former saying that they in their praiers make the Saints and Angells Mediators of Intercession but not of Redemption as though Christ Iesus were not aswell our advocate medi●atour and intercessor betweene God and us as our Redeemer S. Iohn saith thus These things I write unto you that ye sinne not and if anie man doe sinne wee have an advocate with the father even Iesus Christ the righteous Againe S. Paul saith That Christ is at the right hand of God and maketh intercession for us Againe it is written that Christ is able perfectly to save them that come unto God by him seeing hee ever liveth to make Intercession for them And divers other Texts of Scripture doe manifestlie proove that Christ is aswell our Mediatour and Intercessor as our Redeemer insomuch that unto him onely is given this title To bee the Mediatour of the new Testament Yea S. Paul hath further directly tould us that as There is but one God so there is but one Mediatour betweene God and men namely the man Christ Iesus Why then or for what cause or reason will you have other Mediators or Intercessors Is not Christ Iesus sufficient to prevaile with his Father for us Or bee anie Saints or Angells in greater grace or favour with God then his owne Sonne whom hee hath also appointed to this verie office to bee the Mediator and Intercessor for us Why then without warrant from God yea contrarie to the expresse tenor of the Scriptures and contrarie to Gods owne appointment will yee take upon you to have other Mediators and Intercessors beside Christ Iesus as namelie the blessed Virgin Marie and other Saints and Angells this is no small or slender impietie But you answer that wee bee not worthie to come directlie and imediatelie to God without a Mediator neither may wee bee bold so to doe This is verie true which yee thus say in respect of our selves and our owne unworthinesse But therefore it is that hee hath given us a Mediator namelie Christ Iesus his owne most deerely beloved Sonne in whose name mediation we are allowed though most unworthie in respect of our selves to have accesse unto God and may with an humble reverence bee bold to approch unto him and to aske of him whatsoever is necessarie or expedient for us

Priests Teachers and Leaders unlesse they be sure that they direct and teach aright for there be false Teachers as well as true Teachers and some that be blinde leaders of the blinde who cannot therein excuse the People because They both as Christ himselfe affirmeth in that case doe fall into the Ditch Neither is it a sure or sufficient ground for anie of them to build upon to say that their Religion of Popery is of a great long continuance in the world For Paganisme and Mahometisme have beene likewise of verie great and long continuance in the world and yet are they never the truer for all that A Custome therefore or Prescription or Continuance though it be for manie hundreth yeares in the world nor anie Antiquity ye can alledge though you could alledge it never so truely is not sufficient in this case unlesse it be the most ancient antiquitie extant in the daies of the Apostles and from their times deduced and in the sacred and Canonical Scriptures to be seene and there approved For there is an Antiquitie in Error and wickednesse as well as in Pietie and right Religion and a Mysterie of Iniquitie as well as a Mysterie of Godlinesse and an Antichristianisme as well as a Christianisme and a growth succession and proceeding in them both they both growing together as Wheate and Tares doe in a field untill they be separated Which Mystery of Iniquity otherwise called Antichristianisme that yee may know of what Antiquitie it is S. Paul telleth you that it began to work in the Apostles daies even in his time And so also doth S. Iohn expresly testifie although it then climbed not to that great growth and height that afterward by little and little and by degrees it ascended unto So that Mysticall Iniquity or which is all one Antichristian Errors and heresies began as you see verie early and went on forward endevoring to corrupt and infect Gods Church and his Religion and in continuance of time so encreased and prevailed as that at last like a Leprosie it overspread the whole Body miserably defiling polluting and deforming it and that for sundrie Ages even untill the time appointed of God came wherein Antichrist and that mysterie of Iniquitie were to be discovered and that the Church and Religion thereupon were to be reformed by the Booke of the Holy Scriptures opened and the true doctrine thereout once againe preached and delivered to the world which was not to come to passe untill the Sixt Angell had begun to blow his Trumpet as is shewed in the Revelation of S. Iohn that is not till toward the latter end of the world For under the blowing of the Trumpet by the seventh Angell the world is to end as appeareth in the same Revelation Now then what cause hath anie knowing and considering these Prophesies in the Booke of God concerning the state of the Church to marvaile or wonder that the Church and religion had such corruptions and so manie errors by degrees accrued unto it and continued so long in them or where our Church and Religion was all that while For this Prophecy and foretelling of these things thus to come to passe namely that the Church was to have these corruptions to grow upon it and to be continued therein for so long a time and that it was not to begin to be reformed or purged of them untill the blowing of the Trumpet by the sixt Angell giveth a full answer solution and satisfaction to all those demands and requireth everie one to cease questioning marvailing or wondering anie longer in that behalfe Would anie then know where our Church was all that while and untill they made an actuall separation from the Popish Assemblies The answer is verie easie and apparant namely that it was where those corruptions were and even where the Papacy and Antichristianisme was For Gods people doe sometimes dwell and be even where Sathans Throne is yea Antichrist himselfe being at length mounted aloft and placed in his Throne did then as was foretold he should doe sit in the Temple of God domineering over it So that Protestancie and Poperie that is true Christianitie and Antichristianisme were then mingled together with much griefe and sorrow to the true Christians untill they afterwards through the crueltie and persecution of their enemies and in detestation of their abhominations were forced to make and did make an actuall separation from them Which thing also was foretold that so it should come to passe for a voice sounding from heaven commanded them to Come from them to a more pure and heavenly-minded Church and to Goe out from amongst them lest being partakers of their sinnes they should also receive of their plagues When they were thus commanded to depart and to separate themselves and to goe out from amongst them it is evident that before and untill this their departure and going out from them they were amongst them and intermingled with them Yea even in those times namely under the blowing of the Trumpet by the sixt Angell when the Temple came to be measured it is apparant that the false Christians there noted under the name of Gentiles were the most and greatest number and did tread the rest that were the true Christians under foot so that even then as there appeareth there were some that were right and true worshippers of God in that Temple Yea euen during the time that they were thus intermingled together did God neverthelesse distinguish put a difference betweene them for he would have one part namely Atrium that is The Court or outer part under which those false Christians that is the Antichristian people are comprehended which outwardly pretended to worship God aright and yet were not the right and true worshippers of him indeed to be excluded and not to be measured or reckoned as anie part of the holy Citie or holy Temple that is of the true Christian Church Which I here observe the rather because some upon this That Antichrist was to sit in the Temple of God verie inconsequently and no lesse untruely inferre that therefore the Popish or Antichristian Church or people be the true Church For you see them here directly excluded from being anie part of the holy Citie or true Church Albeit therefore both Protestants and Papists were in those times thus intermingled together yet was not the Papacie the true Church as is here apparant For indeed Poperie to the Church is but as a corruption contagion or disease is to the bodie of a man or as a plague or pestilence is to a Citie and therefore they that made a separation from Poperie separated themselves not from the Church of God but from the disease corruption and contagion of the Church and from the plague and pestilence in that Citie and consequently cannot but most uniustly be termed Schismatickes especially considering that they also made this their separation by the warrant

selling let any communion be had vvith them that loosing the solace of humanitie they may be compelled to returne from the error of their vvay And vvhosoever shall doe the contrary let him as being a partaker of their iniquitie be sentenced to be Anathema and they if they be taken by Catholike Princes let them be committed to prison and loose all their goods In the Councell of Lateran likewise assembled against the Albigenses whom they call Cathari and Pat●rini it was said thus Eos defensores eorum r●ceptores Anathemati decernimus subiacere Et sub Anathemate prohibemus ne quis eos in domibus vel in terra sua tenere vel fovere vel negotiationem cum ijs exercere praesumat VVee decree Them and their defenders and receivers to bee under the sentence of Anathema And under the same curse VVee forbid that no man presume to keepe or harbour them in their houses or upon their land or to negotiate vvith them In like sort did Pope Martin the fift in his Bull of condemnation against Iohn Husse and Hierome of Prage annexed to the Acts of the Councell of Constance straightly charge and command that such as they were which would not be obedient to the Sea of Rome nor hold communion with that Church should not be permitted Domicilia tenere larem fovere contractus inire negotiationes mercantias quaslibet exercere aut humanitatis solatia cum Christi fidelibus habere to have any house or home to make any contracts or to use any trade or trafficke or to enioy any solace or comforts of humanitie vvith the faithfull of Christ. And as if all this were too little Pope Boniface the eight did further say and decree that it was de necessitate salutis subesse Romano pontifici of the necessitie of salvation for everie man to be subiect to the Pope of Rome Thus you see that this Image of the Beast that is the Emperor-like State and governement of Rome by the Popes was able to speak for her owne exaltation and advancement amongst the Inhabitants of the earth and what manner of speeches they were and how terible dammageable and in conclusion deadlie to all that would not worship it and become obedient thereunto But no onely by words speeches sayings perswasions doctrines and decrees but by miracles signes or wonders also was this Image of the beast to bee erected For the Text saith that this second Beast the false-prophet Antichrist did great Wonders so that he made fire come downe from heaven on the earth in the sight of men and deceived them that dwell on the earth by the signes which were permitted him to doe in the sight of the Beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make the Image of the Beast c. So that the drift of all these Miracles was but to make the Image of the Beast And this agreeth with that of S. Paul where hee saith that the comming of Antichrist shall bee by the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying vvonders and with that also of the False-prophet mentioned in this Revelation of S. Iohn that hee did Miracles Which False-prophet cannot be understood of Mahomet the False-prophet amongst the Turkes and Sarazens for hee did no miracles but prevailed with his religion an other way and especiallie by force of Armes and dint of Sword Yea Mahomet openlie protested saying Non sum miraculis aut indicijs ad vos missis I am not sent unto you vvith miracles or signes And so also doth Dionysius Carthusianus testifie that Mahometes asserebat Deum sibi dixisse quod non permisit eum Miracula facere Mahomet affirmed that God said unto him that hee permitted him not to doe miracles But againe the Myracles which this false Prophet mentioned in the Revelation did hee did them before the Beast and in his ●ight and presence Rev. 13.14 Rev. 19.20 that is at Rome and in the view of the Romane State and not amongst Turkes or Sarazens The false Prophet then here mentioned in this Revelation which did these Miracles appeareth to bee such a false Prophet as is among Christians to delude and deceive them and not any such as is amongst the Turkes or other Infidels of the World Now amongst the rest of the miracles which this second Beast that is this false Prophet amongst Christians viz. Antichrist was to doe this is speciallie mentioned that hee made fire come downe from heaven on the earth in the sight of men Bellarmine and some other Papists would have this to bee understood litterally of materiall fire And yet if they will needes have it so to bee taken it will advantage them nothing For in the Papacie they have made fire come downe from heaven on the earth as even their owne writings doe declare As for example in their Legend for the feast of Corpus Christi to confirme their error of Transubstantiation and the adoration of their consecrated Bread in the Sacrament they report that a Priest carrying the Host to a Sicke man lost it by the way and being perplexed for so great a losse there appeared a Pillar of fire shining like the Sunne from heaven to the earth pointing to the verie place where the Bodie of Christ lay attended with a companie of devout Beasts● which falling downe upon their knees adored it Yea Bellarmine alledgeth no lesse then seven miracles for confirmation of this error Likewise to confirme another error of theirs concerning the worship of Saints they alledge sundrie miracles and amongst the rest they fetch fire from heaven for that purpose For of Thomas they say that a burning light descended fower times and kindled the Tapers in honour of that Saint In the Legend of Iacinth and Eugenne they also fetch fire from heaven to consume Melance the false accuser of Eugenne Againe in the Legend of Edward the Martyr there is a Piller of fire brought from heaven to the earth to shew the place of his buriall In the Legend of S. George they also fetch fire from heaven to burne Dacianus who had be headed him In the Legend likewise of S. Barbara they fetch fire from heaven wherewith her Father that persecuted her was consumed In the Legend of S. Martyn they to make him like to the Apostles doe say that the holy Ghost descended upon him in the forme of Fire as it did upon the Apostles But to leave all other errors of Poperie which want no Miracles amongst them to confirme them and to come to this verie point in hand touching this Image of the Beast that is touching the Papall Empire or Emperor-like State erected in the Popes at Rome upon the subversion of the Emperors Was not Pope Hildebrand otherwise called Pope Gregorie the seventh the first that is most famous or rather most infamous for resisting and weakening the Emperor of his time by rebelling and making Warre against him Doth