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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40089	A sermon preached before the judges, &c. in the time of the assizes in the Cathedral church at Gloucester on Sunday Aug. 7, 1681 published to put a stop to false and injurious representations / by Edward Fowler.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1681 (1681)	Wing F1716; ESTC R10669	23,348	42

the Non-necessity of the Laity's partaking of the Cup in the Lords Supper and their being Rob'd accordingly of their share therein expresly contrary to our Saviours institution and the Practice of the first Ages of the Church and of all other Churches in the world What say you to their well known Doctrine Of the Non-necessity of Repentance before the imminent point of death And to this other that goes beyond that viz. that meer Attrition or sorrow for sin for fear of hell if accompanied with the Sacrament of Penance is sufficient to a sinners justification and acceptance with God This the Council of Trent doth plainly take for granted in the fourth Chapter of their fourteenth Session What say you to the Doctrine of Opus operatum which makes the meer work done in all acts of Devotion sufficient to the Divine Acceptance particularly the bare saying of Prayers without either minding what they say or understanding it And agreeably hereunto the Romish Church enjoyns the saying of them in a Language unknown to the generality of her children notwithstanding the perfectly contrary Doctrine delivered by S. Paul in the 14 th Chap. of the first to the Corinthians What say you to the Doctrine of the Insufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for mens Salvation and her denying them to be a complete Rule of Faith and Practice in things necessary without her Traditions Wherein she gives the Lye to the same great Apostle who tells his son Timothy that the Scriptures are able to make wise to Salvation and that by them the man of God may be perfected and throughly furnished to every good work What say you to her Doctrine of the Gospels obscurity even in things of absolute necessity to be believed and practised devised on purpose to perswade the people to an implicit belief in her self and to receive without examining whatsoever doctrines she shall please to call Articles of Faith This is a wicked Doctrine in it self also as well as upon the account of the Design of it It being most unworthy of God to require all under pain of damnation rightly to understand those Points which are obscurely revealed What say you to her Doctrine of the dangerousness of the vulgars reading the Holy Scriptures and her Practice answerable thereunto of denying them the Bible in their own language What say you to her Doctrine that Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks What say you to this Doctrine that the most horrid villanies are then lawful when necessary to the promoting of the interest of the Catholick cause I do not say that this is decreed in any Council or that it is in express terms taught by any of them But however if it be lawful to judge of mens opinions by their constant practices we may without a Calumny call this also a Doctrine of the Church of Rome Particularly the world hath for a long time been well acquainted with her most horrible Cruelties upon the account of Religion To mind you of a few famous instances in the persecution of the Albigenses and Waldenses were miserably murthered no fewer than a thousand thousand In the Massacre of France in the space of three months an hundred thousand In the Low-Countries in a few years were cut off by the hand of the common hangman thirty and six thousand Protestants And by the holy Inquisition as Vergerius witnesseth who was well acquainted therewith were destroyed in less than thirty years space one hundred and fifty thousand with all manner of the most exquisite cruelties I need not mind you what a vast number were Burnt at the stake in our own Country in the Reign of Queen Mary Nor what additions have been made since to Romes Butcheries in Piedmont and Ireland And what a horrible slaughter had there been in England by the Gun powder Treason if it had not been prevented by a Wonderful Providence And also what work the Romanists would have been at here again before this time if God in his infinite mercy had not defeated the Councels of those bloudy Achitophels all who do not wilfully shut their eyes and are not Papists at least in Masquerade should one would think acknowledge themselves satisfyed after so great evidence So that we need no further proof that the Woman hath Rome Christian for her principal Seat upon whose head S. Iohn tells us was a name written Mystery Babylon the great the mother of Harlots and Abominations of the earth and whom he saw drunk with the bloud of the Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus But we have farther proof that the now mentioned wicked doctrine may truly be charged upon the Church of Rome For her abominable Practices do not only justifie this charge but several of the Doctrines of her darling sons those pretious youths the Iesuits and which as they tell you are much elder than their order viz. That of the lawfulness of Equivocations and Mental Reservations even before Courts of Iudicature at least if they consist of Hereticks of the putting which vile principle into practice we have had of late diverse marvelous and most astonishing instances That of the Popes power of Dispensing with the most Solemn Oaths and of Absolving Subjects from their Allegiance to Heretical Princes That of the Lawfulness nay Meritoriousness of taking Arms against them of Stabbing and Poisoning them And we of this Kingdom too well know that the Romish Church make no bones of practising upon these Principles I might still farther proceed in instancing in her most corrupt and wicked Principles but you have had enough in all Conscience And but that now especially we are obliged to take all opportunities for the exposing of the vileness of the Romish Religion I would e'en be as soon engag'd in stirring Jakes's and raking dunghills as in such work as this God be thanked for that mighty Spirit that hath been stirred up throughout the Nation against Popery Oh that it more generally proceeded from our sense of the hatefulness thereof and the extreme dishonour it brings to Christianity and its infinite injuriousness to the Souls of men as well as from the concern we have for our Temporal interest which is but a mean and pitiful consideration in comparison of those other And the better the Principles of Popery and the Practices of the Papists are understood the greater and more lasting must their zeal against them needs be who have any hearty kindness either for Christianity or for Natural Religion either for Christianity or for good Morality and common honesty or even mere good nature I will not so far imitate the horrible uncharitableness of the Romish Church as to say that 't is impossible to find any sincere Christians in her Communion and much less that no honest or good natur'd people are among them But this we are very certain may safely be said that whosoever is throughly instructed in the Popish Principles and acts accordingly is so much a