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saint_n	intercession_n	mediator_n	redemption_n	1,722	5	9.9845	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13554	The progresse of saints to full holinesse described in sundry apostolicall aphorismes, or short precepts tending to sanctification, with a sweete and divine prayer to attaine the practise of those holy precepts / by Thomas Taylor ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1630 (1630)	STC 23850; ESTC S1019	235,792	462

thus 1. Because they have most neede to borrow 2. Because they are most liable to wrong and oppression 3. The commandement of Loane is made especially for their good 4. Vsurie on them is a more grievous sinne and crying Exod. 22.21 Object But if it were unlawfull God would forbid it to the stranger Sol. 1. The morall Law forbids it to all 2. It is by God dispensed with by a Iudiciall for the hardnesse of the hearts of the Iewes for the unjustice of the Gentiles who exacted it on the Iewes and for the overthrow of the Canaanites The word is Deut. 23.20 not Lemicro but Lamicro extranc● huic that is to this stranger meaning the Canaanite 3. It is no more lawfull than Poligamy or a bill of divorce which was against the Institutor 4. When the Canaanites were destroyed all usury was afterward absolutely forbidden Psal. 15. and Prov. 28.8 Ierome on Lev. 18. In the Law usurie is forbidden onely to brethren but in the Prophets to all absolutely and in the Gospell much more because all are now brethren So much for the second Rule Thirdly in all doubtfull Doctrines that is the truth which gives most glory to God and least unto any creature for as God in all things intends his owne glory most which is the maine end of all his courses so doth his word which after a speciall manner resembleth himselfe This word so propoundeth all the frame of mans salvation from the lowest staire to the highest as God may have his glory in all 1 Cor. 1.29.31 That he that glorieth might glory in the Lord and that no creature migh● share with him in his glory which he never would communicate to any other verse 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That no flesh might glory in his presence To apply this to particulars 1. The Church of Rome maintaines a Doctrine that Saints departed are to be invocated as Mediatours though not of redemption yet of intercession Wee affirme the contrary according to the Scripture Bring now this point to this tryall whether gives more glory to God and lesse to the creature we who affirme him to be a God hearing prayer who onely knowes the hearts of the sonnes of men and is omnipresent to heare and omnipotent to helpe all which are incommunicable Attributes of the Deity or they which against the Scripture robbe God of this part of his honour and bestow it on creatures which are not capable of it Isay 63.16 2. The same Church of Rome teacheth that to the justifying of a sinner before God is required not onely an imputed righteousnesse but an habituall righteousnesse which are workes of charity which makes a man of just more just Wee in this Doctrine of Iustification utterly exclude humane merit Now bring this different Doctrine to this Rule Whether gives more to God and lesse to the creature that Doctrine of Iustification by faith onely which utterly takes from man all that hee can thinke of to justifie himselfe withall and ascribes the whole worke of salvation from first to last unto God or that Doctrine which puffes up man in conceit of some righteousnesse in himselfe and takes from the Lord this honour to be Hee that justifies the ungodly And this is the Rule to which the Apostle brings the same Doctrine to be tryed Rom. 3.27 28. By what Law is boasting excluded Not by the Law of workes but by the Law of faith And because this Doctrine excludes all boasting hee concludes Therefore is a man justified by faith without the works of the Law See Rom. 4.2 3. The Church of Rome also maintaineth the Doctrine of humane satisfactions and enjoynes many penances to satisfie the justice of God for veniall sinnes Wee on the contrary teach that wee must every day pray for the pardon of our daily sinnes Now bring this different Doctrine to this Tryall Which gives more to God and lesse to the creature that which applies an infinite justice to God the violation of which must be made up by an infinite person or that which imputes to him an imperfect justice such as a sinfull man may satisfie and an imperfect mercy if our owne workes make not supply 4. The same Church teacheth and so the Church of the 〈…〉 that God hath elected all to salvation and Christ hath redeemed all and every particular man We according to the Scripture holde that God hath chosen onely heires of salvation and that Christ for his part redeemed not all particulars but all kindes for hee that would not pray for the world would not die for the world How shall we bolt out the truth Answ. Bring the Doctrine to this Rule Wee aske If God have elected and Christ have redeemed every particular man why is not every particular man saved Because say they God foresawe who would beleeve and who would not which is to make Gods election frustrate as electing such as hee foresaw would not beleeve as also dependant on the will of man and mans will to overrule Gods And not mans salvation to depend on Gods will and election than which nothing can be more dishonourable to the Majesty of God Rom. 9 19. Who ever resisted his will Adde hereunto that in the Doctrine of falling from grace Gods glory suffereth for thereby the seede of God loseth the glory of being incorruptible and Gods truth suffereth who saith it abideth for ever 5. The same Church teacheth according to their ordinary practise at this day that the Pope hath power to make lawes to binde the conscience hee hath power to dispence with lawfull oathes and untie the conscience which Gods law hath bound he hath power to dispense for marriages within degrees prohibited by God the like We deny any such power can agree to any mortall creature and holde it a tyrannicall usurpation Bring these and the like positions to this Tryall Whether gives more glory to God and lesse to the creature to acknowledge him the Lord of his owne Law onely above it or to set a Prelate not onely in his chaire of estate but above God who is able to reverse and abrogate his Lawes at his pleasure and to sit in the consciences of men which is the Lords owne and onely consistory That is the third Rule Fourthly all sound Doctrine directs and leades unto Christ magnifies and sets up Christ who is the end of the Law and Gospel and as Christ prooved the Iewes not to be of God because they dishonoured him the Sonne of God Iohn 8. So whatsoever Doctrine dishonours Christ cannot be of God And if we bring the whole body of Popery to this rule of Tryall it will appeare not to be of God 1. Their whole Doctrine of merits and humane satisfactions how doth it obscure the merit of Christ yea abolish the absolute satisfaction of Christ who hath paid the uttermost farthing This Doctrine makes Christ but a peece of a Saviour halfe a Iesus for every man must be a

Iesus to himselfe and whereas the Apostle saith There is no other name given under heaven whereby to be saved hereby every man hath a name to save himselfe 2. That damnable Idol of the Masse wherein as they say Christ is offered by the Priest for the sinnes of the quicke and dead what is it else but an utter renouncing of Christs owne and onely oblation arguing it to be imperfect and an insufficient satisfaction For so the Apostle concludes against Leviticall Sacrifices Heb. 7.27 They were many because they were imperfect this is perfect therefore but one and once See chap. 9.26 3. Their unholy Order of Priesthood and sacrificing shavelings what else doth it but wage battel against the Priesthood of Christ which being after the Order of Melchizedeck is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and cannot passe from him to any other Heb. 7.23 24. There were many Priests because of their impotency but this man hath an everlasting Priesthood therefore needes no successour on earth nor had none as they had 4. The maine pillar of Popery which stands on the Popes headship over the Church how dishonourable is it to Christ who being every where present by his Spirit and grace is implied thereby to be absent and to stand in neede of a Vicar Besides it makes the deare Spouse of Christ a Monster having two heads being but one body Besides the infinite constitutions of this supposed head cleane contrary to the lawes and government of the one and onely lawfull head and King of his Church Iesus Christ. 5. Their Doctrine of unwritten Traditions which are pari pietatis affectu to be received with the written word how manifestly doth it dishonour the Propheticall office of Christ How could he be the onely true Prophet if hee left halfe the will of his Father unrevealed but lapt up in obscure Traditions How could he satisfie his Propheticall office if he deteined from his Church some Doctrine needful for her to know How was he faithfull in the house of God as a Sonne if he came behind Moses his servant who brought a perfect patterne from the Mount for the direction of the smallest things in the Tabernacle How did he teach us all things when he came as Ioh. 4.25 if the Church may still coyne new Articles of faith as Scotus Before the Lateran Councell Transubstantiation was no Article of faith it seemes our Saviour left something alone for the Councell of Trent and the Lateran Councell to determine and that the Samaritan was deceived 6. Their blasphemous prayers to Saints Angels and Relikes how pull they men from the Mediatour who is but One and dishonour his Intercession which now he makes for the Saints while they have one prayer to Christ they have twenty to the Virgin What can be more blasphemous and more derogatory to his power and glory than to joyne with him in the administration of his kingdome the Virgin Mary that hee must dispense justice but she mercy yea in the omnipotent worke of his mediation saluting her and praying unto her by the title of Mediatrix hominum Mediatresse of men nay giving her a power farre above him Iure matris impera Command him in the right of a mother Thus our mighty God and Saviour is become an underling to a poore creature These can be no sound Doctrines which so dishonour the Sonne of God and spoyle him of his royalties as the souldiers did spoile him of his garments to whom the Father hath given a name above all names that all tongues should confesse him and all knees bow unto him So much for the fourth Rule Fifthly that is the soundest Doctrine which most restraines corrupt nature and fleshly affections Tit. 2.11 12. The grace of God hath appeared teaching us to deny ungodlines and worldly lusts which is the maine intendment of the discovery of grace a maine fruit of the Gospell is the crucifying of the flesh with the lusts and a mortifying of our members upon earth which of all things a carnall man cannot brooke Therefore in all differences of Doctrines observe which of them presseth most precise obedience to Gods will which of them gives least toleration to the least offence of God which of them is most unpleasant and unsavoury to the nature of man which of them most boulsters and gives liberty to naturall inclination and you have tryed the truth from errour For example The whole Doctrine of Popery how pleasing is it to the nature of man seeing there is nothing in it but a naturall man may performe it without any speciall grace of regeneration which indeede is the chiefe cause why a great part of the world is taken with the love of it 1. What a deale of paines cuts it off in reading studying and meditating on the Scriptures while it teacheth that Ignorance is the mother of devotion and it is lost labour which is spent on the Scripture and while they burne the Scriptures as formerly wicked King Ahaz did or Antiochus or Maximinus calling them the Heretickes Bookes so as a man may truly say that the Papists hate the Bible as a theefe hates the gallowes This is farre easier than to call after knowledge and cry after understanding to seeke her as silver and to search as after treasures 2. How can there be devised a more easy faith and sooner got than confusedly to beleeve as the Church beleeves without any distinct knowledge or faith of their owne A faith got without all paines and of which we may well say It is worth nothing because it is had for nothing a faith wherein they never neede to looke to the essentiall markes and sound growth of it This is sooner done than to proove a mans owne selfe whether he be in the faith or no. 3. How doth it please nature to magnifie nature to deny it to be so corrupt and dead as it is but halfe dead as the man betweene Iericho and Ierusalem to tell it it hath good preparations and abilities of it selfe to conceive and practise much good and with a little helpe it can keepe the Law and come out of Gods debt What man wanting grace would not finde something in nature to bring before God to bring himselfe into request by For every naturall man is a Iusticiary Wheras our Rule saith that it is a new creation which is of nothing and a quickening where no life of grace was yea a death in sinnes and trespasses and not a recovery as out of a swoone 4. How pleasing is it to nature to be tolde and taught that no paines is required to keepe the heart nor to resist the first motions to evill which they say are not evill that some sinnes are veniall in their nature put away with a light sigh a knocke on the breast or an Ave Mary that a man may lie in sport or officiously for his advantage and if hee steale a small thing it is