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A47214 Veritas evangelica, or, The Gospel-truth asserted in sixteen useful questions which being seriously searched into, will open the way to find out assuredly the true and saving faith of Christ which is but one, as the apostle affirms / written by T.K. and now published by R.C. T. K. (Thomas Kemeys) 1687 (1687) Wing K256; ESTC R13531 80,587 135

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the Protestant Profession be Christ's True Religion and the Pure Light of his Gospel but hath ever made use to effect this admirable work of his Power and Mercy of the Blind and Superstitious Religion of the Papists That God for the space of above a thousand years in the Conversion of Heathen Nations and their Kings hath ever made use of Papistry is evident out of the Histories of former times which relates the Conversion of Nations Yea even in these latter times in which since the rising of the Protestant Religion the Faith of Christ hath been infinitely spread in the East and West-Indies and in divers vast Islands of the Sea amongst Heathen and Barbarous Nations God hath utterly neglected the True Religion and the pure Light of the Gospel that is the Protestant Religion And hath made use only of Papistry to make these Nations Blessed in Christ Now is not this a very likely thing if Papistry be a False and Protestancy the True Religion As likely certainly it is as that the Sea doth burn as that the Sun is dark and Snow black For to speak plain English If Protestancy be Gods Religion and Papistry the Devils in regard that God cannot in very deed be Author of both these Religions they being opposite and contrary one to the other How can God neglect the Protestant Religion and make use of Papistry to spread the Faith of his Son over the World to make thereby the Nations of the Earth Blessed in him Nay how can they be made Blessed in Christ by the help of the Devils Religion How can it become the Wisdom and Goodness of God to neglect his own Religion and to spread increase and exalt the Devils To neglect the True Light of the Gospel and to delude the Nations of the Earth with the Superstitions of Papistry Who then is so short and dim sighted that he doth not see that even from hence is most clearly prov'd that the Protestant Profession is not Gods Religion is not the Pure Light of the Gospel ordain'd by God to give Light to the Gentiles and to make them Blessed in Christ But a late and new Invention suggested by the Enemy of God to destroy in these Northern parts of the World that Religion which God made use of heretofore to root out Him and his Idolatrous Worship and to make these Nations Blessed in his Son I conclude then this Question with this Syllogism That is Gods Religion and the True Gospel and Doctrine of Christ which is Preached over the World to spread therein the Name and Faith of Christ for a Testimony to all Nations But Papistry and not Protestancy is so Preach'd over the World Ergo Papistry and not Protestancy is Gods Religion and the True Gospel and Doctrine of Christ The Major is certain and clear out of the Words of Christ Matth. 24. above-related The Minor is certain and also clear out of the Histories of former Times and also of this present Age. The conclusion follows well And so it rests demonstrated that the Holy Catholick Roman Faith Nick-nam'd Papistry is Gods Religion and the True Gospel of Christ Which will appear yet more clearly out of the Questions following Question V. Whether it be not a very inconsiderate thing and full of danger to prefer in matters of Faith and Religion the Teaching of Men before the Word of God ALthough the Arguments of the precedent Questions be firm and strong and sufficient to make Considerate Protestants to look about them yet many of them will be little mov'd therewith because they are possess'd with a strong imagination that Their Religion is grounded upon the word of God is squar'd out thereby and wholly or at least very much cleans'd from the Doctrines of men To free them from which false and dangerous Conceit and Perswasion I here demand Whether it be not a thing of great Inconsideration and of no small danger to prefer in matters of Faith and Religion the Teaching of Men the Doctrine of This or That Preacher before the Word of God Yea in effect to hazard and pawn ones Soul that the Teaching of these or those new Masters is truer and rather to be follow'd than the express word of God it self This will seem to Protestants a strange demand because they esteem Papists not a little culpable for relying too much upon the Doctrines of Men And therefore they will here bid me take my self by the Nose Nevertheless whatsoever they imagine I will easily here free Papists and prove them guilty of preferring the Doctrines of Men before the express Word of God. That Papists are not guilty of this Crime is clear enough First Because no Text of the Word of God taken in its proper Sense and as the Antient Fathers the general Councels the ever visible Catholick Church of Christ did take it doth directly contradict any Article held by the Roman Church For example no Text doth say that we are not justify'd by Faith and Good-Works That Works of Grace done in the state of Grace are not Meritorious That the Body of Christ is not really in the Holy Eucharist That Lawful Priests have not Power as Gods Instruments to Absolve from Sins rightly Confess'd That no Satisfaction is necessarily requir'd on our Parts That there is no Purgatory That it is not Lawful or Profitable to Pray to Saints to Honour them as Sanctify'd Creatures to respect Reverently their Reliques to have Holy Pictures and Reverently to regard them for the Love of Christ or his Saints and the like No Text I say of the Word of God doth expresly condemn These and the like Articles believ'd by Catholicks Though many make expresly for them as Catholick Divines do shew Secondly Although all True Catholicks do Humbly and Obediently believe as the Church Teaches And thereupon do firmly imbrace divers Articles propos'd by Her which are not in express Terms found in the Scriptures Yet in these very Points they do not believe the Doctrines of men or prefer the Doctrines of men before the express Word of God or hazard their Souls that the Teaching of Their Pastors is truer or rather to be follow'd than the Word of God But in these particular Articles they rely upon the Authority of God and believe the Word of God speaking in and by his Church which will not be hard to shew For the Office of Preaching the Word of God by Christ committed to his Apostles dy'd not with them but continu'd with their Successors And so the Preaching of their Successors was the Preaching of the Word of God not only in the first Age after the Apostles but in all succeeding Ages the Holy Ghost Ever abiding with them John 14. And Teaching them all Truth in matters of Faith John 16. Moreover in the Ages after the Apostles not only those who had Skill and Means to Read the Scriptures But those also who could not Read them might believe in Christ and might be Saved by him And consequently
at all And as for the Scriptures as from thence we may easily gather that the Apostles were Papists So we find not there the least Sign that they were Protestants For if as Reason dictates we will judge of their Faith by their practice we cannot admit that in Faith they were like the Protestants seeing that in their practice they were plainly Papists For they lived perpetually Chaste yea and if ever any other they also Guelded themselves for the Kingdom of Heaven by a Vow of perpetual chastity according to the Counsel of our Saviour given Matth. 19. 12. They forsook all to follow Christ and to attain to perfection according also to the Counsel of Christ given Matth. 19. 21. as Saint Peter doth confidently profess Matth. 19. 27. whereby they practised both Poverty and Obedience Poverty in forsaking all Obedience in following Christ wherein they were so exact that they doubted not at his appointment to leave both Country and Friends and to expose both themselves and their Lives to infinite Labours and Hazards while they enterprized the Conversion of the Gentiles from their carnal and inveterate Idolatry to the Holy and Divine Religion of Christ And therefore we may truly say that the Apostles were Religious Men even such as are in the Catholick Church practising Poverty Chastity and Obedience and imitating thereby in an excellent manner their Blessed Master who was so poor that he had not whereon to repose his Head Luke 9. 58. So Chaste and so great a Friend of Chastity that even he would be born of a Virgin and so Obedient as he was Man to his Heavenly Father that he gave his Life at his appointment for the Redemption and Salvation of Mankind Philip. 2. 8. By the practices of which excellent Virtues this Blessed Lord laid the Foundation of the Regular or Religious Life consisting chiefly in the profession and due observance of perpetual Poverty Chastity and Obedience so much practiced afterwards in his Church For from him as from the Original Fountain the same hath hitherto flowed and doth yet flow with so full a Stream in his true and Catholick Church For the Vowing of these things had never been of so high esteem and of so frequent use among the Ancient and Learned Fathers and the choicest pieces of Christian Sanctity had it not been the nearest imitation of the Holy and mortified Life of Christ and of the practice of the Apostles of John the Baptist of Elias To which practice of the Apostles if we add their frequent Praying Act. 2. 42. Act. 12. 5. Act. 10. 9. and their often Watching and much Fasting Act. 14. 22. 2 Cor. 6. 5. 2 Cor. 11. 27. it will manifestly appear that they were as far from being Protestants as Monks and Fryers now are These things being wholly out of use amongst Protestants and not only contrary to the Liberty of their new Gospel but even fruitless vain superstious toys according to the Tenets and Principles thereof By all which it seems to be manifestly Convinced that the Apostles of our Saviour were not Protestants but rather truly and really Papists both in their Belief and practice their outward practice shewing their inward Belief according to that of our Saviour Out of the abundance of the Heart the mouth speaketh Mat. 12. 34. 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