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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64551	A vindication of the true Christian religion in opposition to the abominations of popery in a sermon upon Ezek. 21: 24,25,26,27 : being the text appointed by the Pope for Master Whitebread, one of the popish conspirators, to preach upon the accomplishing of their wicked design for taking away the life of His Most Sacred Majesty ... / by J. Thomas, Rect. of S. Nicholas.	Thomas, J. (John)	1679 (1679)	Wing T967; ESTC R30165	19,027	41

depose the King or to dispose of his Kingdoms his present Majesty Charles the II. being the 26th that successively in the right Line from the Conquerour have reign'd absolute Kings of England c. Now I will shew you by way of Application who have fallen off from the Faith under the New Testament and that plainly and particularly in what points and then you may judge whether the like Curse as was so dreadfully denounced against Israel may not be also hanging over their heads and pointing at their doors being palpably guilty of the lille Charge The Church of Rome Canonizing as de fide a new Doctrine contrary to the Catholick Faith for the first five or six hundred years after Christ is become a false Church or the Church of Antichrist which is no part of the true Church of Christ but an Imposthume or a bad humour in the body and no part of the body I mean the true Spiritual and Mystical Body of Christ And as the ten Tribes of Israel fell off from the Worship of God and ador'd the Golden Calfs made by Jeroboam and turn'd Bethel the House of God into Bethaven a House of Iniquity so have Papists turn'd the Roman Church which was once a pure flourishing Church to a corrupt Den of Thieves And yet it is granted by judicious Protestants that some may possibly be saved though with great hazard that are in Communion with her and groan under the lewd and Antichristian Doctrines and Practices impos'd by her as necessary to Salvation which overthrow the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith although held by themselves and are contrary point-blank to the Catholick Faith once delivered to the Saints particularly these following 1. The Church of Rome hold and affirm the Pope to be Universal and Supreme Head of the Catholick Church Caput totius Ecclesiae Militantis Universal Father of the Church the only Dispenser of Apostolick Benedictions thus dignified he Lords it over all the Clergy upon Earth Our Creed composed by the Apostles teacheth us to believe first in God the Father c. and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord and the Nicene Creed explains it I believe in one God c. and in one Lord Jesus Christ The Scripture explains this plainly in the 4th of Eph. 15. Speaking the truth in love grow up into him in all things which is the Head even Christ By which it appears we have no Universal Head for the Church Militant but our Lord Jesus Christ 2. The Church of Rome is held by them to be the Catholick Church contrary to our Belief in our Creed which saith I believe in the holy Catholick Church and explain'd in the Nicene Creed I believe in one Catholick and Apostolick Church All the Elect of God that ever have been now are or ever shall be in the world comprehending all particular Churches which were before the Roman Church and were in the same time that she flourished in other Provinces in Asia and Europe and now are separated from her making up one Catholick Church the Mystical Body of Christ 3. The Doctrine of the Popes Infallibility that he cannot Err and that his Authority confirm'd by Councils is greater and more certain than the Scriptures doth fly in the face of all the Foundation of our Faith for we take as the holy Catholick Church hath ever done the holy Scriptures for the only certain Rule of our Faith and Practice from which we own no higher Authority to appeal unto no though an Angel did preach things contrary to the Scriptures they are to us an Anathema he the Pope can dispence they say against Paul and Peter that is controul and wrest the sense of the Scriptures written by Paul and Peter yea against the Old and New Testament he can plenitudine potestatis as much as God This Doctrine you will find often boasted of in their Canons and Decretals 4. The Church of Rome doth plainly and point-blank oppose and overthrow the Catholick Faith concerning the Remission of sins The Apostles in the Creed as all the New Testament most amply and largely explaineth teach us to believe the forgiveness of sins and the Roman Church doth set it up on quite other terms by proposing that gift I mean the forgiveness of sins to be sold by the Pope and his Priests if any will be so fondly blind as to buy in the vile Market of Indulgences so in a word the Catholick Faith is to believe the forgiveness of sins and the Doctrine of Popery is to sell and buy it 5. The Popish Faction overthrow and utterly confound by their new Doctrine and Practice the Faith and Practice of the Catholick Church in Prayer Our Saviour Christ himself taught us to pray after this manner c. directing our Petitions to God the Father by the help of the Holy Ghost in the Name and by the Mediation of God the Son so are all Prayers made in the Old and New Testament But the Papists call upon Saints and Angels and because they believe it for it is a prevailing Argument with them that the Kingdom of Heaven is divided into two parts the Kingdom of Mercy to the blessed Virgin c. but the Kingdom of Justice to Christ they pray more for mercy unto Mary than unto God through Christ 6. They contradict and oppose the Christian Faith in the first six hundred years by the most unreasonable Point to be impos'd for matter of belief as ever any man can hear of Transubstantiation come out of the Council of Lateran under Pope Innocentius the III. He who contended with John King of England They believe that the Bread and the Wine in the Lords Supper after Consecration is substantially and materially changed contrary to our Natural Sense Seeing Tasting and Feeling and we believe it that they are Signs and Symbols of a Spiritual Food and refection which our Souls receive from Christs Body and Blood which was given for us These things being considered every Christian man will say that it was piously done of all the Reformers Luther in Germany Jerome in Prague Valdus in France Wickliffe Bilney and Tindal in England to separate from this Apostate Church lest they should be partakers of her sins and afterwards receive of her Plagues Rev. 18. 4. Hos 4. 15. 1 Cor. 10. 14. whose judgment now of a long time lingreth not and her damnation slumbereth not Rev. 13. Let him that understandeth count the number of the Beast There 's a set time appointed for his Judgment mention'd in 2 Thes 2. 7. until he be taken out of the way as it is in the Text until he comes Let any serious unbyass'd spirited man weigh these Points and Scriptures before-recited and he will soon resolve himself how tottering the See of Rome is and how miserable the honour of the Ignatian Tribe is who brag if they had not been Rome had not been the Angel had long since said It is fallen it is fallen Use 1.