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A70861 Prophecys concerning the return of popery into England, Scotland and Ireland by Arch-bishop Usher, Mr. Herbert, Dr. D. Pareus ... [et. al.] Ussher, James, 1581-1656. 1682 (1682) Wing P3675; ESTC R7049 20,153 35

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danger than the most are aware of and that is 1. Papists who plead not as other parties onely by the tongue but by exciting Princes and States against us and disputing with the Fagot or Hatchet in their hands And if we have not Arguments that will confute a Navy an Army or a Powder-Plot we can do no good against them 2. Prophaneness animated by Apostate Infidels This is the Religion that men are born in And men that naturally are so indeared to their lusts that they would not have the Scripture to be true will easily hearken to him that tells them it is false Yea so much doth Popery befriend men in a vicious course that some are apt to joyn those together thinking at the heart that Christianity is but a Fable but yet for fear it should prove true they will be Papists that they may have that easie remedy for a reserve If God will preserve us but from these two dangers Popery and Prophaneness animated by infidelity it will go well with England 1. Either Scripture is true or not true If not Popery is not true which pleadeth its warant from it and some of them argue as if they purposed to disprove the Scripture and to imitate Sampson in pulling down the house on their heads and ours in revenge for the dishonour they have suffered by the Scripture If it be true as nothing more true then Popery is not true which palpably contradicteth it as in the points of Latine service and denying the Cup in the Lords Supper and many other is most evident 3. Either the judgment of the Antient Doctors is sound or not If not then the Church of Rome is unsound that is sworn to expound the Scripture only according to their consent If it be sound then the Church of Rome is unsound that arrogate a Vniversal Government and Infallibility and build upon a foundation that was never allowed by the Antient Doctors as in the third Disp. I have fully proved and which most Christians in the World do still reject 4. Either Reason it self is to be renounced or not If it be then none can be Papists but mad men If not then Popery must be renounced which foundeth our very faith upon impossibilities and teacheth men of necessity to believe in the Pope as the Vicar of Christ before they believe in Christ with many the like which are afterwards laid open 5. Either our five Senses and the judgment made upon them is certain and infallible or not If not then the Church of Rome both Pope and Council are fallible and not at all to be trusted For when all their Tradition is by hearing or reading they are uncertain whether ever they heard or read any such thing and we must all be uncertain whether they speak or write it And then we must not only subscribe to Fransc. Sanches Quod nihil scitur but also say that Nihil certo creditur But if sense be certain and Infallible then the Church of Rome even Pope and Council are not only Fallible but certainly false deceivers and deceived For the Pope and his Council tell the Church that it is not Bread and Wine which they take eat and drink in the Eucharist But the senses of all sound men do tell them that it is I see that its Bread and Wine I smell it I feel it I taste it and some what I hear to further my assurance And yet if Popery be not false it s no such matter One would think the dullest Reader might be quickly here resolved whether Popery be true or false Look on the consecrated Bread and Wine touch it smell it taste it and if thou canst but be sure that it is indeed Bread and Wine thou mayest be as sure that Popery is a delusion And if thou can'st but be sure that it is not Bread and Wine yet thou mayst be sure that the Pope or his Council nor any of his Doctors are not to be believed For if other mens senses be deceitful theirs and thine are so too Reader Adhere to God and the Righteousness of Christ and the Teachings of the Holy Ghost by the Scriptures and a faithfully Ministry in the Communion of the Saints and as a member of the Catholick Church which arising at Jerusalem is dispersed over the World containing all that are Christians renounce not right Reason or thy senses and live according to the light which is vouchsafed thee and then thou shalt be safe from Popery and all other pernicious damning Errors Mr. Luther NOn Citius c. No sooner have we reformed but those arise among us who speak perverse things and destroy that in a week which we had been some years setting up whose hand is this is it not the adversaries who sows these Tares but the Enemy who finding he cannot prevail openly undermines us secretly who seeing he cannot succeed against us bare-faced attempts us under the vizard of a deluded people God of his mercy put a stop to those delusions which if they proceed will ingulf us again in Popery These cry down the Ministers of the Gospel the Papists can do no more they do the Papists work for them alas alas c. Archbishop Grindal TWo great dangers I really fear Atheism and Popery both me thinks I see arising out of our needless divisions and differences fomented and cherished I fear by Satan the enemy of mankind and the Pope the enemy of Christendom that Antichrist the mystery of whose iniquity yet worketh among us but that she letteth who also did let and will let by her power and authority given her of God for God until which God avert though their enemies endeavour she be taken out of the way By these differences the enemies of our Religion ●gain this That nothing can be established by Law in the Protestant Religion whose every part is opposed by one or other of her own professors so that things continuing loose and confused the Papists have their opportunity to urge their way which is attended with Order and Government and our Religion continued thus distracted and divided some vile wretches lay hold of the Arguments on one side to confute the other and so hope at last to destroy all In quae reservamur tempora Bishop Jewel NOw let us behold the present state of our country These words of Christ our Saviour were never more true than we finde them now in these our days The harvest is great and the labourors very few the poore people sieth forsaken and left as it were sheep without a guide the afflicted in conscience have no man to quiet them they grow wild and savage as it were a people that had no God they are commanded to change their religion and for lack of instruction they know not whither to turn them they know not neither what they leave nor what they should receive Some other defie and spit at the holy Gospel of our Saviour Christ and refuse the covenant of everlasting