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saint_n	incense_n	prayer_n	smoke_n	1,391	5	11.4786	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00554	The bloudy rage of that great antechrist of Rome and his superstitious adherents, against the true church of Christ and the faithfull professors of his gospell. Declared at large in the historie of the Waldenses and Albigenses, apparently manifesting vnto the world the visibilitie of our Church of England, and of all the reformed churches throughout Christendome, for aboue foure hundred and fiftie years last past. Diuided into three parts ... / All which hath bene faithfully collected out of the authors named in the page following the preface, by I.P.P.M. ; Translated out of French by Samson Lennard.; Histoire des Vaudois. English	Perrin, J. P. (Jean Paul); Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1624 (1624)	STC 19768.5; ESTC S114511	267,227	475

that is that the Saints doe appease the wrath of God when he is angry with sinners But wee are not to beleeue any such thing for if it were so there could be no true conformity betweene the will of the Saints and the will of God for it should seeme that the Saints are not angry with those against whom God is moued to anger Secondly by this magnification and inuocation of Saints the people fall into Idolatry putting their trust more in Saints then in God and seruing them with greater affection then the onely God which they shew by the effects by the ornaments of their Altars which are most precious by their excellent Musicke the multiplication of their Tapers and by other solemnities By which meanes the simple people are induced to thinke that the Saints are more mercifull then God because they free him from damnation by those prayers they make vnto God whom God had condemned Beside this to maintaine these things the simple people are taught that the Saints desire that men should offer oblations vnto them and take pleasure in their praises and that they mediate principally for those that offer incense vnto them and other honours all which things wee are to abhorre and carefully to flie Of this Inuoucation therefore we are now to speake and to make knowne what our opinion is touching this prayer vnto Saints And first let vs see what Inuocation is Inuocation is a desire of the whole vnderstanding and soule sent vnto God by the voyce and by prayer Secondly we know and beleeue that the man Christ Iesus is Mediator betweene God and man and Aduocate to God the Father who hath payed for our sinnes that come vnto God by him seeing hee euer liueth to make intercession for them Heb. 7.25 No man comes to the Father but by him And whatsoeuer yee shall aske in my name that will I doe saith he Iohn 14.13 Who giueth to all abundantly and reproacheth no man Iam. 1 He is our Aduocate to God the Father and hee forgiueth our sinnes He offereth himselfe vnto vs by all meanes before we offer our selues vnto him He is at the doore and he knockes that we may open vnto him he shutteth out all Idolatry being at the right hand of his Father in Heauen and his will is that all the faithful haue him in their mindes and looke onely vnto him for all the care of the faithfull must tend vnto Christ by thought and affection and must imitate him that is aboue According to that which is said If you be risen againe with Christ seeke the things that are aboue where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God He is the doore by which whosoeuer shall enter shall be saued No man commeth to the Father but by me saith he We beleeue in the third place that the Saints are not proposed vnto vs to worship but to imitate Saint Paul saith Be ye followers of me as I am of Christ Saint Peter would not suffer himselfe to be worshipped by Cornelius nor the Angell by Saint Iohn the Euangelist And therefore saith Saint Augustine in his Booke of true Religion O ye Religious saith he giue not your selues to the seruice of the dead for if they haue liued holily they are not such as seeke for honours or desire to be serued by vs but by him by whom they are illuminated they reioyce that we are their companions And therefore they must be honoured by imitation and not adored by Religion All these things duly considered wee say that there is not any man borne of other body then Christ which may be adored or can be the true Aduocate and Mediator betwixt God and Men or Intercessor for sinners with God the Father but he alone neither is it necessary that they should be inuocated by the prayers and intercessions of the liuing It is hee that by speciall priuiledge obtaines whatsoeuer he demands for mankinde whom hee hath reconciled by his death Hee is the one and onely Mediator betwixt God and man the Aduocate and Intercessor to God the Father for sinners and in such sort sufficient that the Father denyeth not any man what he demandeth in his name but for the loue of him he heareth those that pray vnto him or demand any thing at his hands by him For being neere vnto God liuing by himselfe he prayeth alwayes for vs. For it was necessary that we should haue such a soueraigne Sacrificer as was holy innocent without blemish separated from sinners and exalted aboue the Heauens the first Sonne begotten of his Father which onely sonne being aboue all men hath power and authority to sanctifie the other to pray and to mediate for them Saint Augustine writeth concerning Christ in his 64 Psalm saying Thou art the Sacrificer thou art the Sacrifice thou art he that offereth and thou art the offering Iesus is not entred into places made with hands which were figured correspondent to the true but hee is entred into Heauen it selfe euen now to appeare for vs before the face of God Of him it is that Saint Iohn saith 1 Iohn 2.1 We haue an Aduocate with the Father euen Iesus Christ the righteous And Saint Paul saith Rom. 8.33 That Iesus Christ who dyed for vs is also risen againe and sitteth at the right hand of God making intercession for vs. And therefore hee is but a foole that will desire any other Intercessor For Christ is alwayes liuing and prayeth to God the Father for vs and is alwayes ready to succour those he loueth And therefore if we keepe our selues to that he hath said we neede not desire any other Saint to be our Mediator because he is more gentle and more ready to helpe then any other can be Adde hereunto that the minde of him that prayeth wandereth and is confounded with the multitude of Saints to whom he prayes when the affection is remoued from Christ and therefore is much weakened being diuided amongst many Howsoeuer many there are that thinke that when the prayer is directed to one onely a man hath that only one for a Mediator wheras more giue more spirituall helpe But the Church would increase a great deale more if it knew not this multitude of intercessions now inuented And therefore it is a great folly to forsake the Fountaine of liuing waters and to goe to troubled waters and such as are afarre of This then doth plainly appeare that a man cannot obtaine any thing of God but by the Mediator Christ Iesus In the second place it shall be more expedient to worship Christ among those that are simply men for hee is a good and benigne Mediator euen in the highest degree both in the one and the other extremity Thirdly if we keepe our selues vnto his Word we neede not addresse our selues to other Saints for intermedlers since that he is more ready to helpe vs then other Saints being ordained of God for this purpose that is to the end that the intercession might

loue our enemies To be willing to suffer labours slanders threats contempts iniuries all manner of torments for the truth To possesse our weapons in peace Not to be coupled in one yoke with Infidels Not to communicate with the wicked in their euill wayes and especially with those that smell of Idolatry referring all seruice thereunto and so of other things Encar en qual maniera li fidel debian regir li lor corps Non seruir a li desirier mortal c. Againe in what manner the faithfull ought to rule their bodies NOt to serue the mortall desires of the flesh To keepe their members that they be not armes of iniquitie To rule their outward sences To subiect the body to the soule To mortifie their members To flye idlenesse To obserue a sobriety and measure in their eating and drinking in their words and the cares of this life To doe the workes of mercie To liue a morall life by faith To fight against the desires To mortifie the workes of the flesh To giue themselues in due times to the exercise of Religion To conferre together touching the will of God To examine diligently the conscience To purge and amend and pacifie the spirit FINIS THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE THIRD PART OF THE HISTORY of the Waldenses and Albingenses Contayning a refutation of sundry Doctrines of the Church of Rome This Booke of Antichrist is in an olde manuscript wherein there are ma●y Sermons of the Pastors dat●d the yeer 1●20 and therefore written before Waldo and about the time of Peter Bruis who taught in Languedos where hee was burnt at Saint Giles before Waldo departed from Lion And this Treatise was afterward preserued by the Waldenses of the Alpes from whom we had it with diuers others As the smoake goes before the fire the battell before the victory so the temptation of Antichrist before glory CHAPTER I. A Treatise of the Waldenses and Albingenses of Antichrist ANtichrist is the falshood or vntruth of eternall damnation couered with an outward appearance of the truth and the righteousnesse of Christ and his Spouse opposite to the way of truth righteousnesse faith hope and charity and to the morall life and ministeriall verity of the Church administred by false Apostles and obstinately defended by both powers Ecclesiasticall and secular Or Antichrist is a delusion which hides the truth of saluation from things substantiall or it is a fraudulent contradiction against Christ and his Spouse and euery faithfull member It is not any speciall person ordained in any degree or office or ministery but it is that falsehood it selfe which opposeth it selfe against the trueth which couereth and adorneth it selfe with beauty and pietie out of the Church of Christ as with names and offices and Scriptures and Sacraments and diuers other things That iniquity that is after this manner with all the Ministers thereof great and small with all those that follow them with a wicked heart and hood-winked eyes this congregation I say thus taken altogether is called Antichrist or Babylon or the fourth Beast or the Whore or the man of sinne or the sonne of perdition The Ministers are called false prophets lying teachers the Ministers of darkenesse the spirit of errour the Apocalipticall whore the mother of Fornication cloudes without water trees without leaues dead and twice rooted vp waues of a troublesome sea wandring starres Balaamites and Egyptians It is called Antichrist because being couered and adorned vnder the colour of Christ and of his Church and the faithfull members thereof it oppugneth the saluation purchased by Christ and truely administred in the Church of Christ whereof the faithfull are partakers by Faith Hope and Charity Thus it contradicteth the truth by the wisedome of the world by false religion by counterfeited holinesse by spirituall power secular tyrannie riches honours dignities and the delights and delicacies of the world Forasmuch therefore as it is manifest to euery one that Antichrist cannot come in any forme or fashion whatsoeuer but so as that all these things aboue mentioned must bee ioyned together to make a perfect hypocrisie and falsehood that is to say with the wise of the world the Religious Pharises Ministers Doctors with the secular power with the people of the world ioyned all together who then altogether make the man of sinne and errour fully compleate For notwithstanding Antichrist were long since conceiued in the Apostles times yet it was then in the infancie and it wanted members both inward and outward And therefore it was the more easily knowne and destroyed and kept vnder and being but rude and rusticall as yet was dumbe For it had not the wisedome nor the reason to excuse it selfe to define and pronounce sentence It had not as yet Ministers without truth it wanted humane Lawes and Statutes and outwardly it had no religious followers And therefore though it were fallen into errour and sinne yet it had nothing wherewith to couer its villany and the shame of errour and sinne for hauing neither riches nor doctations it could not winne Ministers for seruice nor multiply and preserue and defend its owne for it was destitute of secular power and helpe and could not inforce or constraine any from the trueth to falsehood And forasmuch as many things were wanting it could not pollute nor scandalize any with its trumperies and ther●fore being as yet tender and feeble could obtaine no place in the Church But afterwards growing in its members that is to say in its blinde Ministers and hypocrites and the vassals of the World it is growen to a perfect man in the fulnesse of age that is to say when the spirituall and secular louers of the World blinde in faith were multiplied in the Chureh with all power These being wicked and willing to be entreated and honoured touching things spirituall they haue couered their maiesty malice and sinnes by making vse of the wise men of the World and the Pharises to this purpose as it is said before Now this is a great wickednesse to couer and to adorne that iniquity worthy excommun●cation and to establish it by such a meanes as cannot by man bee giuen to man but belongs onely vnto God and to Iesus Christ as he is Mediator Most deceitfully and by rapine to take these things from God and to transferre them to it selfe and it workes seemes to be a great robbery as when it attributeth to it selfe the power to regenerate to forgiue sinnes to distribute the graces of the holy Spirit to make Christ and other the like things And in all these to couer it selfe with the cloake of authority and of the Word deceiuing by this meanes the rude people who follow the World separating themselues from God and the true Faith and the reformation of the holy Spirit from true repentance and the powerfull operation of perseuerance in good forsaking charity patience humility and that which is worst of all departing from the true hope and putting their trust in the vaine