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Of romanizing recusants, and dissembling Catholicks. A counter-maund of a counterfeit embassage. Or, An answer to the posthume pamphlet of Ralfe Buckland sometime a popish priest secretly printed and published after his death about a yeere a goe.
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Sanderson, Thomas, 1560 or 61-1614.
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Foxe pag 130. though your Pope Adrian commaunded thē to be taken for Laymens Kalenders Inuocation of Saints your Invocation of Saints is a derogation from my glory which I will not giue to any other Esay 42.8 I neuer commanded you by any praecept I neuer invited you by any godly example I neuer incouraged you by any promise in my holy word to any such deuotion Your forgiuenes of sinnes by your Popes indulgences Indulgences and your selling of pardons is paltry trifling and prophane Marchandizing in my holy Temple Heavenly glorie What heauenly glorie do you dreame of that my faithfull Protestants beleeue not much better then yee are able Popish difference of jnfernall paines your difference of infernall paines I am not acquainted withall I know none but eternall fire prepared for the diuell and his adhaerents your temporall purgatorie flames are but poëticall fables Purgatorie a poëtical fable Iustification your Iustification of the liuing by faith and works together is partly coyned in your owne forge and partly raked vp out of the Pharisaicall pride Praier for the dead Your praying for the dead is bootles they hauing now their Iudgemēt passed on them as the day of death hath left them so the day of finall Iudgement shall finde them either blessed or cursed for euer No prayers now shall preuaile or hurt them any whit at all Popish faith hope charitie Moreouer your faith is a confused Confidence nay rather an jmplicite and vnknowne assent you know not vnto what full of distrust and diffidence your hope builded thereuppon must needs be hopeles and voyd of sound and heauenly comfort your Charitie to me is very slender and luke-warme like theirs once of Laodicea Apoc. 3.15 for yee loue your selues as well as me your owne merits you joyne with mine vngratefully diminishing my meritorious sacrifice and the price of my bloud Oh sinfull Nation supply yee my pure and perfect obedience with your owne foule and filthie righteousnes Is this your loue to me to pretend the purchase of heauen together with me thus to be ouer-enamoured of your selues Fie Fie I cannot endure a Co-partner with me in this great worke of Redemption and saluation Therefore your jmagined freewill to good your merits of congruence and of worthines where are they your fastings and prayers conceited and practised not onely as means but as meritorious workes of eternall life I hate and will surely punish as the fumes and fomes of the pride of your old Adam As for sinnc yee knowe not the power thereof that suppose any one to be veniall in it selfe being committed against so eternall and jnfinit a Maiestie as I am And what haue you to doe with my counsell and decree of predestination Predestinatiō Will you or can you infringe the infallible Certainty therof that ye teach men to doubt of my loue why doe yee not tell them rather that though they cannot choose but doubt by reason of their many 1. Cor. 15.58 and mighty sinnes which is humane jnfirmitie yet they ought to be stedfast and vnmoouable in their faith being builded on me Mal. 3.6 Pro. 19.21 Heb. 13.5 who am God and am not changed whose Counsell is immutable who will not faile neither yet forsake them that put their trust in me yea though they beleeue not without great weaknes 2. Tim 2.13 yet I am God faithfull and true and cannot deny myselfe Finally what meane you to adde vnto my canonicall scriptures the Apocryphall writings of Iudith Tobias Maccabees and others which I neuer yet allowed to be put into the canon Nay to thrust in your owne vnwritten Traditions and Papall constitutions to make them of equall authoritie with the same Nesanda secreta These your nefarious hidden doctrines I will haue cancelled and abolished I cannot abide that yee should goe a whoring after your owne imaginations Goe and learne what that meaneth In vaine they worship me Mat. 15.9 reaching for doctrines mens precepts And that vers 13. Euery plant which mine heauenly Father hath not planted shal be rooted vp Thus haue you in deed almost in the whole summe of Religion tossed ouer euerie stone reuersed the whole frame of faith and turned all vpside downe And therefore take you heed yee obstinate Recusants least your departure and diuision from my true Church be a more then sufficient warrant of your heauy Iudgement with Arrius Nestorius Eutyches I adde with Manichees Marcionits Pelagians and other old Haereticks in the bottomles pit for that you haue not in one point but in many varied from the christian faith The false Embassador How abhominable the Scriptures Prayers and Churches of Haereticks are CAluinisme then being doctrine so diabolicall c. Oh how illusion bewitcheth you c. Their profane bread c. Their Rites and Ceremonies c. As Fasts Holy daies c. Yea their Churches and Temples c. Bethel was my house c. The Lord Christ. SVrely the Scriptures praiers and Churches of Haereticks are not well pleasing vnto me They are abhominable Papisme therefore being the verie doctrine of deuils your popish Scripture as being none of my word Popish Scripture The Latine vulgar edition authēticke among the Papists very erroneous but the word of the deuill so false and adulterated so poysoned and full of corruptions as it is in your latine vulgar edition authorized by your Trent Councell oppugning vndermyning and overthwarting my true faith and Catholike Church I disclame as a counterfait coppie and renounce altogether as no writ of myne Popish prayers Your praiers also are no better in mine eares then the howling of Wolues that prey vppon the soules of men the lowing of Oxen and the roaring of Bulls screeching of Owles and Night-Rauens yelling and bellowing Infernall blasphemies against my sacred Maiestie in vnknowne and vnconceiued in loud bawling in discording from my heart both tongues and tunes Popish Priests Your priests are perfect Chemarims and Priests of Baal officers of the very Antichrist his heralds and proctors his Apostles and Angels of his Kingdome of darknes Popish Communion Goe yee and suck the adders Eggs lesse poysonable out of doubt then your Communion bread and cup. Popish Ceremonies Your Ceremonies are not few but most fantasticall offensiue both in their nomber and in their nature apish and plainly ridiculous jmitations partly of the Heathnish superstitions and partlie of those Rites which my heauenly Father sometimes ordayned to his people Israell Your fastes are fish delicates wine Popish fasts and other dainty fare farr more jncentiue of filthie Lust in pampering of the body then any other foode and your abstinence sometimes a feasting sometimes a most Pharisaicall and Hypocriticall sowring of your faces and other ostentation of will-worship in neglecting the body Coloss 2.22.23 not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh as myne Apostle paints it out
and Land to make one Proselyte and having made him transforme him two-fold more the child of Hell then they themselues are What doe I or what should any of my servants respect what your Tridentine assembly decreed against them They were blinded Haereticks themselues and they had all and every one the marke of the beast in their foreheads Prov. 26.2 As for their Anathema The curse that is causeles shall not come for of my faithfull Protestants I still pronounce Blessed is he that blesseth them and cursed be he that curseth them The false Embassador Haereticks how precisely to be shunned BEsides that principall praecept of louing God aboue all c. If you will but a little looke about you ye shall find that I haue yet left you another commandement c. Well then whose spirit but mine inspired and established as a perpetuall obseruation to the worlds end that Haereticks c. The Lord Christ WHat an jdle ExpostulatioÌ„ is this for it shall bee graunted vnto you that Haereticks should be vtterly auoyded as such and such whom you haue alleadged and described truely out of the scriptures But that the Protestants are the Haereticks and you the true Catholicks shall not be graunted So that yee haue impertinently abused the scriptures Wherefore speake no more presumptuously let not arrogancy proceed out of your mouth Not they that come to Protestants but rather yee that hold and hang with Papists participate with Infidels haue fellowship with Beliall and the cup of Deuils are in darkenes Ioyne with Lucifer come to the solemnitie of Babylon make a bargaine with hell and with accursed Death and that not so much for feare of any worldly losse or crosse as for affection to your sinne Therefore I counsell you repent and turne you from your abhominations else I will come against you shortly and giue you your portion with the whore the beast the false-prophet and the Dragon whome you serue in the lake that burneth with fier and Brimstone the same is the second death Schismaticks are infected with haeâ—esy and not with pure schisme only The false Embassador SHal they then which professe Haeresie with Haereticks be found cleare c. The Lord Christ NOw the Schismaticks are infected with Haeresie and of this you haue chalenged them long agoe But thus you seeth and boyle your coleworts ouer and againe thus for lack of matter you fill an Idle and vngodly message full of vaine and wicked words charging and challenging thundring and thretning and drawing as much as in you lieth poore and distracted seely soules into desperation of my mercie for entring into the rightway Thus did your father the Deuill deale with my servant M. Luther when I began to call him first from your Pauilions For hee would needs perswade him that he shoud bee damned in the Protestant profession Luther de Missa priuata because he had byn once a popish Priest had sayd Mass had turned the Eucharisticall bread into my body and done such other like feats of your superstition and now was revolted from it How absurdly and how jmpudently do you compare my true beleeuers in England to the Canaanitish jnfidels but that you haue a Custome to abuse my word and to misapply the scriptures I will surely punish you for this thing What fire or flame or Sea-surges or pitch is this you prate of do not I know yee erre not knowing what you say But let me see how learnedly and diuinely you prooue your supposed Schismaticks to bee Haereticks Your learning is to say and not to prooue Your diuinitie was neuer founded on my word but fashioned and framed in your owne forge For what are the Haeresies wherewith they are infected forsooth euery one almost rarer is he then a white Crowe who doth it not either cancelleth fasting daies by his owne Authoritie or dispenseth with meats prohibited as often as he list or doubteth of some Article of Faith if not of all What do they cancell fasting daies and which I pray you I say those onely of your popish institution And how jn that they fast not after your popish fashion I wisse a very great offence I but of their owne Authoritie they doe it No They haue the Authoritie of the Lawfull Magistrate to beare theÌ„ out They dispence with meats prohibited as often as they list By the law of my eternall Ghospell ther are no meats prohibited For doth not my Apostle tell you 1. Tim. 4.4.5 that euery Creature of God is good and nothing ought to be refused if it be receaued with thanksgiuing for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer If then not as often as they list that is your calumny but as often as necessity requireth and as they may without publique scandal or offence they make no difference of meats but vse them all without scruple of Conscience put betweene this and that Oh sure it is a greeuous crime It is jndeed amoÌ„g your superstitious orders but not among my holy Saints who haue learned that this your prohibition of meats proceedeth from the spirit of Error 1. Tim. 4.1 and is a doctrine of Deuils Are these your Haeresies to cancell Popish fasting dais eat of meats prohibited by the Church of Rome But I say these are actions crossing the Haereticall doctrine of your Antichristian Canons they are no haeresies Besides to doubt of this or that Article of faith yea of all the Articles of your faith call you this jnfection of Haeresies But I say to dissent from the moderne faith and doctrine of the Romane Church and stoutly to maintaine the contrary is not Haeresie in my sight much lesse onely to doubt of any or of all the articles thereof For first as many of theÌ„ as are different from the Protestant profession they are the erroneous articles of a false Church a synagogue and conventicle jnfected with many haeresies Againe if they were all granted to be true yet seejng all Haeresie is a confirmed and setled error Haeresis error confirmatus See Aug. cont CrescoÌ„ Gram. and whosoever doubteth is ever stammering as yet vnsetled and vnresolved because he doubteth therefore hee that doubteth of whatsoever poynts cannot bee sayd fitly properly either to be well affected to the truth or to be jnfected with haeresie why because hee standeth jndifferent and jrresolute though declining from the one yet not as yet embracing or jndeed jnfected with the other Neverthelesse let it now be yeilded vnto you that they who are not perfect Haereticks yet may be jnfected with haeresies or haereticall opinions tell mee what and which they be whereof you challenge these your Schismaticks You say One improoueth Confession another Purgatory this man inuocation of Saints or vse of Images that man prayers for the dead or the office in Latine doubtles a very greevous accusation and miraculous poynts of Haeresie But will you neuer learne that your Auricular confession in a Corner your Pagan