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The blacke yeare Seria iocis.
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Nixon, Anthony.
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himselfe by me Kings raigne Pri ãâ¦ã haââ dominiân Paul confesseth plainâly that the weapons of their war-fare are not carnall but mightie through God thââ is spirituall And it manifest by the practise of the Apostles and all their precepts commaunding all Christians to obey their rulers their Kinges Princes yea though they werâ persecutors and the Apostles nââer had any such authoritie committed to them Christ himselfe saith this Kingdome was not of this world and refused to be made a King Christ himselfe paid tribute vnto Câsar co ãâ¦ã nded others to giue the ãâã and all other dâetie of subiectiââ and obedience to Caesar. 9. Ninthly The Pope of Rome holdes that he hââh absolâtâ pâwer to forgiue sinners But the Scribes in the Gospel could say none can fârgiue sinnes but God Iob saith who can bring a cleaâe thing out of filthines there is not one And Esay saith speaking in the person of God I eâân I ãâã he that pâtteth away thine iniquiâies for mine owne sake and will not remember thy siââes And Paul confidently affirmeth when he saith Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen it is God that instifieth who shall condemne it is Christ which is dead yea or rather which is risen againe who is also at the right hand of God and maketh request for vs. Againe the Lord iââââw to anger and of great mercie forgiuing iniquity And in another place God speaking in âiâ ãâã person said Tâââs âe ãâ¦ã th ãâã fââ ãâ¦ã ds ãâã ãâã and transgr ãâ¦ã ãâã ãâã c. 10. Tânthly the Church of Rome doth teach that the Scriptââes c ãâ¦ã noâ all thoââgs nâcessarie ââsalâatiân but their vâwritten traditions must as they say âe all receiâed with âqââll and like authoritie for so âath the Counââll of Trent determiââd But S Iââh saith that these thinges are written that yee may bele ãâ¦ã and that in bâlâââing yee may haâe life eternall And Saint Paul saith that the Scriptures are profitable tâ reprââââ to teach and correct to instrâct and pââfect thâ man of God and fââther that the Scriptââes are able to âake men wise vnto salnatiââ and God himselfe doth say yee shall pââ noâââng to the word whâch I coÌmanÌd you neithâr take ââght there froÌ Againe whatsoeâer I commaând you that taâe hââd yââ doe put nothing thereto nââ take ougât thâre from And S. Iohn in his Reuelation saith that If any man shall adde to tâis thing God shall ãâã vnto him the plagues which are written in this booke and shaââ taââ awây lâs part out of the booke of life I might yet adde further touching the Offices of Christ for that the Church of Rome will yeeld that the Office of Christ consisteth in these three poinâes namely that he iâ both a Prophâs a Priest and a âââg which in wordes onely not in deedes and veritie they wâll acknowledge For how miserably the Church of Rome hath mangled and defaced the reuealed will of this sacred Prophet their vnwritten traditions their popish Canons their owne deuises makes too apparanâ Touchâng his Priesthood which consisteth in two things namely the offering vp of himself for once a ful perfect sufficient sacrifice his intercession to his father which remaineth to the worlds end it is so pittifully defrauded abused and dshonoured by them as no pen with any modestie can set downe As by their purgatory picck-puâsc their propitiatory Masses for the quick and the dead the blasphemous titles attribute to the Virgin Mary For he callâth her the Quâân of ãâã the gate of Paradice their life sweetnes âhe âeasure of ârace the reââge of sinners and the Mediatrix of âân And not onely to her but to Saintes departed they intreate wiâh like inâercession and holde them theâr mediators Touching how they deale with Christ in hiâ rule and gouerment the Pope he will raigne in mens consciences and will be tituled with Holy vniuersall Mother Church which cannot erre holy father the Pope Bishop vniuersalâ Prince of Priests supreame head of the Chârâh Vicar of Christ and the admiration of the world â Touching his iurisdiction hee challengeth to himself both the swords that is the keyes of the spirituall and the Scepter of the Laitie Not onely subduing all Bishops vnder him aduaââcing himselfe aboue Kinges and Emperors causing some of them to lye vnder his feeâe some to holde the stirrope Kings to leade his horse by the Bridle Some to kisse his feeâe placing and displacing al degrees of people pretending power and authoritie to inuest Bishops to giue benefices to spoile Churches to giue authoritie to binde and lose to call generall councelles to sette vp religions to cannonize Saintes to take appeales to binde consciences to make lawes to dispense with the lawe and word of God to deliuer from purgatorie and to commaund Angels c. By which it appeares that as hee presumeth to goe beyond Christ in this world so wold he if he knew how expulse him also from heauen Now in equall ballance single eye honest heart it may easily be censured whether the church of Rome be the spouse of christ and whether Gods word allowe and warrant his dooings I haue but in briefe past ouer the particulars for to discourse of these pointes would aske large volumes Yet I doubt not but all indifferent men may beholde by this vppon what rocke these Treasons haue beene builded if the cause as is pretended hath beene in regard of Religion and their conscience and such of what condition soeuer ãâã ãâã beene and are still ledde on to daunce after the Pipe of Priestes Iesuites and Seminaries may see what ground and warrant they finde to approue and allowe their actions liues in desending and setting foorth the Kingdome of their Maister the Pope whose creeping in corners whose outward holynesse whose Hypocrisie Masses Dirges Beades Crucifixes Prayers Vowes whippings crosses and Agnus deies haue heatherto brought foorth nought bââ rebellion and disobedience to Prince and breach of Lawer and gouernment Sybil Erithraâ speaking of Rome telleth that her name dooth comprehend manye woefull destinies and that in these verses translated out of Greeke into Latine by Castalion Porro quater decies complebis terque trecentes Annos atque octo cum te pertingere metam Tristia fata tuo completo nomine cogent Nowe after what sorte that Prophecye is fulfilled Castilion shewes in his Annotations vpon the same place namely that Antychrist should bee ouerthrowne and strangled with linnen that is with interpretations of holy Scripture imprinted in paper made of linnen That Rome else-where hath a name according to her nature it is apparant by a certaine answere of Pasquill Roma quid est qualis docâââ ãâ¦ã ordo Quid docuit iungââ ãâ¦ã s. ãâã amor est Amor est qualis praeposterus vnde hoc Roma Noli dicere plura ãâã Heereof also in respect of her outward falshood which is lincked oftentimes wââh the spirituall âornication she is worthyly called in holy scripture an Harlot c. Let vs ââen abandon all good respects of her and her popish instruments let vs tuâne froÌ these seducers their curssed Doctrine and superstitious ceremonies imbrace the pure word of God and willingly ând thankefully come to heare the same taught and preached And if this yeare the premises remembred and their treacheries from time to time duely considered proue not blacke and fatall to them that was intended to be balefull to vs If I say their pride âw not now suppressed to the rooting out of their Hypocrisie the setting forth of Gods glory foâ which euery faithfull Christian prayeth we may then expect their conspiracies to be still secretly continued tâeiâ ãâ¦ã tes to be encouraged and his Kingdome so happy made by the late discouerie not to be yet from imminent dangers throughly freed or secured FINIS In vita Anselmi Arist. Li. Li. 2. Rhetor. ad Theodectten cap. 10 Galen de cog amin Morb. C. 2. Quintil. l. 2. Cap. 3. He that to all will heere be gratefull thought must giue accept demaaud much little naught Horat. Lib. Serm. 2. Horat. L. 1. Epist. Ouid. lib. ãâã fast Act. 8. 1. Mat. 12. 17 Reuel 12. 6. 7. 1. Kinges 19â c. 2. King 16 Ma. 22. 29. Ioh. 5. 39. Coloss. 3. 16. Act. 17. 1. Cor. 1â Luke 16. Lu. 23. 43. Ioh. 5. 25. Phil. 1. 2. 3 2. Cor. 5 1. Reu. 14. 13 1. Pet. 1. 9. Gen. 6. Ierem 7. Rom. 3. 10. Heb. 11. ãâã Ro 14. 23. Ioh. 15. 1. ãâã Mat. 26. 27 1. Cor. 11. 23. 28. 1. Cor. 1â 26. 28. Luke 1. Dan. 2. 20. 4. 14. â1 2. Cor. 10. 4. Ro. 13. 1. 2 3. 4. 1. Pet. 2. 13 Tit. 3. 1. Ioh. 18. 36. Iohn 6. 15. Ma. 22. 21. Mark 2. 7 Iob. 14. 4. Esa. 45. 11. Rom. 8. 33 34. Numb 14. â8 Exo. 34. 7. 2. Tim. 3. 15. Deut. 4. Deut. 1â Reuel 22. Libro 8.
whereas the Church of Rome will be known to be the true church by the Visibilitie Antiquitie and multitude thereof and so bee seene and pointed at with the outward eye and finger you shall finde that Visibilitie Antiquitie multitude are not the markes of the true Church but a little flocke few in number and yet of greatest Antiquitie as by these places may appeare For tell me I pray you where the Church was visible when being assembled at Ierusalem there arose agreat persecution against it insomuch as they were all dispersed and âcaââred And where or ãâã ãâã the church visible when Christ was smitten and all the rest was scattered and hid and concealed themselues Doth not S. Iohn in his Reuelation expresly witnesse that the church of Christ signified there by a woman fled into a desert or wildetnesse where shee had a place prepared for her of God and where she could not for a certaine season be found of the persecutors Where was the Church in the time of Elias the propheâ when he said They haue forsaken thy ãâã they haue destroyed thine Altar and slaâne thy Prophets with the sword and I am left alone Agai ãâ¦ã That vnder the raigne of Achas there was takeÌ patterne of a the Altar of the Idolâters of D ãâ¦ã sens and Vrias the high-priest remoued the Altar of the Lord. It appeareth thereby that the Priesthood was corrupted the Altar remooued consequentlye the sacrifice ceased I trust then there is no Papist so impudent to âay that either the true Church âas in the Scribes Pharises or in the time of Achas Mââasses and many other Kinges of Israel so visible and populous as they would haue it But that the Church of Christ were in that small number where soâuer dispearsed 2. Secondly the Church of Rome holdes that Ignorance is the mother of deââtion But Christ saith Ignorance is the mother of ârrâr saying you ârre not knowing the Scriptures And Christ âiddeth the people to search the Scripture Paul commauÌded that word of God should dwell p ãâ¦ã sly in the people whereby they might themselues and the Bereans examined the Scriptures 3. Thirdly the Church of Rome teacheth that the Scriptures ãâã to ââread and prayers to be vsed in a strange tangue Saint Paul faith He that speaketh in a strange tongue speaketh not ãâã ãâã but vnto God for no man heareth him howbeit in the spirit hee speaketh secret thinges Hee that speaketh in a strange language edifieth himselfe I would that you al spake strange languages but rather that you prophecied For greater is hee that prophecieth then hee that speaketh diuers tongues except he expound it that the church may receaue edification And now bretheren if I come vnto you speaking diuers tongues what shall it profit you c. Morcouer things without life which giue a sound whether it bee Harpe or Pipe except they haue a distinction in the sound how shall it bee knowne what is piped or harped So likewise by the tongue except you vtter wordes which haue signification how shall it be vnderstood what is spokeÌ for you shal speak in the ayre 4. Fourthly The Church of Rome doth teach there is a Purgatorie Christ in the Gospell sheweth onely two places namely heauen and hell Christ said to the good Theefe this day shalt thou bee with me in Paradlce Christ saith verily verily I say vnto you he that heareth my wordes and beleeueth him that sent me hath eternall life and commeth not into condemnation but passeth from death to life Saint Paul saith I coâet to be dissolued and to be with Christ Againe for we know that when this earthly Tabernacle of ours is dissolued we haue a building of God not made with handes but eternal in the heauens Againe Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence foorth they rest from their labours and their workes followe them And Saint Peter telleth the Saââtes and Children of God and assureth them of it That the end of their fayth is the Saluation of their soules 5. Fiftly The Church of Roâe teacheth that since the fall of Adam man hath free-will whereas God saith After that time that the imaginations of mens heartes are onely euill eâerâe day Christ saith No man cân come vnto me except the Father draw him Againe Conuert thou me and I shall be coââerted Also There is not one that dooth good ãâã not one Againe without faith it is impossible to please God And againe whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne Also except men be ingrafted into him they can bring foorth no fruites c. 6. Sixtly the Church of Rome deliuereth the Sacrament ãâã in one kind namely bread Christ saith Drink ye all of this Cup. Paul saith Let a man examine himselfe and so let him âate of this bread and drinke of this Cup. 7. Seauenthly The Church of Rome holdeth Transubstantiation in the Sacrament and this they would seeme to ground vpon these wordes This is my bodie which they wil haue to be expounded liberally But why then doe they not expound the wordes of Christ literally also concerning the cupp For the Text saith in the 27. and 28. verses that he tooke the Cup and said this is my blood I am sure they wil not say that the Cup was the blood of Christ as the wordes bee but they will graunt a signe in those wordes namely that by the Cup is meant the wine in it If then they will admitte a figure in this why may there not be a figure in the other namely this is my body should be vnderstood thus This bread is a figure of my body which was broken for you circumcision was called the Lordes couenant when indeed it was not the couenant So likewise the Pascall Lamb is called the Passouer when indeed it was but a signe of the Passouer Christ saith Doe this in remembrance of mee And Saint Paul saith plainelye and expresly that the communicants doe eate bread and therefore it remaineth breade after the wordes of consecration For if it were transubstantiated into the bodye of Christ then were there no Breade to eate but the bodye of Christ is the thing that should be eaten But none doe eate the verye bodye of Christ For if euerie Communicant did eate the verie bodie of Christ nturally cârnally really as they ââossely suppoââ Christ should haue a number of bodies âesides if C ãâ¦ã gaue his body to be eaten really by his Disciples at the timâ of the institution of this Sacrament what was it that did hang vpon the Crosse on the morrowâ moreuer it is said as touching the bodie of Christ. The heanens musâ contaiââ ãâã to the end of the world Eightly The Church of Româ holââââ the Pope hâth âoritie to depose Kingââ and Pri ãâ¦ã s. God deposeth the mightye from theâr seates and exâlteth them of the low degree It is God that testifieth of