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A48824 Papists no Catholicks, and popery no Christianity Lloyd, William, 1627-1717. 1677 (1677) Wing L2688; ESTC R20529 17,492 16

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people But the Church of Rome endeavours to keep the people in ignorance especially in the business of Religion and therefore forbids them the use of the Scriptures giving them service in an unknown tongue amusing them with Images exterior ornaments and addresses the people to where they know nothing giving them undiscernable marks as the succession of Chairs whereof some are more antient than that of Rome and their successions imbroiled with many interruptions and contradictions in History The Ministers of the Reformed Church will be judged by the word of God but the Priests of the Romish Church will be judges of the word of God which argues their guilt for when they are accused of Heresies and Blasphemies they will be themselves judge of this question and consequently will be both judge and party The Protestant Ministers have a charge and calling the institution whereof is found in the holy Scripture for the word of God speaks oftentimes of Pastors Doctors and Ministers This being as clear as the day the calling of the Priests of Rome falls necessarily to the ground and is of no use for in the Ordination of their Priests they are not charged to preach the Gospel But they are expresly established to be sacrifiers of the body of Jesus Christ which is an Imaginary Charge never established by Jesus Christ nor practized by the Apostles and whereof there is not any one word in all the New Testament And yet these are they which question others concerning their Calling whereas there is not any word of the sacrifiers of the body of Christ. The Reformed Church in the Sacrament of the Eucharist indeavours to raise up mans heart to Jesus Christ which is in heaven But that of Rome abaseth Jesus Christ and puts him into the hands of men they make their breaden God adore and then eat him up And according to their doctrine Christ did eat his whole self and drink his own body for they will have the body to be in the Cup which is highly scandalous both to Jews and Turks And note in all sacrifices that which is offered must be consecrated and they pretend to sacrifice the body of our Saviour which cannot be consecrated For who can consecrate the Son of God who is he alone that doth consecrate us So then the sacrifice of the Mass doth in this appear to be null And as to their Objection Take eat this is my body It must be either cibus animae vel corporis if bodily food how can it nourish the soul if spiritual how can it enter into the body Besides Deus non potest facere qua naturae suae sunt contraria Now Ambrose resolves this with us and says That Corpus nutritur pane symbolice anima vero corpore Christi Which agrees with the whole scope of the Scripture speaking of it every where in a spiritual sense and ●●guratively Moreover if Christs Body be really present in the Sacrament as Papists affirm where is the outward visible sign And the Institution of the Eucharist being but to last usque quo venerit until I come If Christ be really corporeally and substantially present in the Sacrament as the Church of Rome teacheth her creatures to believe upon pain of damnation their Transubstantiation is a meer cheat for the Sacrament then ceaseth The Council of Trent also determined that there are neither more or less but just seven Sacraments whereas instead of seven the Romish Church hath thirteen For themselves say That the Sacrament which they call Orders is subdivided into seven which have each of them a particular form and different Ceremonies Vid. The Porters Readers Conjurers Acolytes Subdeacons Deacons and Priests But let them justifie if they can their seven or thirteen pretended Sacraments In the mean time the Reformed Church doth as clearly as the Sun evidence that there are but two and that these two are sufficient seeing one of them which is Baptism is the Sacrament of our spiritual birth and entrance into the Church And the other which is the Eucharist is the Sacrament of our nourishment and growth untill we attain unto the measure of the perfect stature of our Lord Jesus Christ. Besides The Reformed Church hath no Rules which teach Vice But the Romish Religion hath many Rules which teach to disobey God in doing evil Such is the Rule of the Council of Constance That no faith is to be kept with Hereticks Such is the Doctrine which saith The Pope may dispense with Oaths and Vows i. t. may give a man leave to forswear himself and not make good what he hath promised to God Such is the disobedience of Children to their Parents authorized by the Church of Rome when a child enters into a Monastery or Nunnery against his or her Fathers will Such is the allowance of Bawdy-houses for which the Pope receives a Tribute out of Rome it self Such is the revolting of Subjects against their Prince when the Pope dispenseth with them for the allegiance they have sworn to their King Such are the Taxes in the Popes Chancery wherein Letters for absolution are given for every sin at a certain price But offences done against the Pope are always rated higher then sins against God Such is their calling Marriage a great Sacrament that it might appertain to the Church and thus take from secular Judges the cognizance of cases matrimonial Such is the order of Canonists and Scholasticks which they have set up against the power of the Civil Law which antiently maintained the power of the Emperor and Princes and they have confirmed those Canonists and their Decretals to be unquestionable thus as much as in them lies to annihilate the authority of the holy Scriptures Such are their plae fraudes pia mendacia their aequivocations their godly deceits and lies as are made and told for the advancement of Religion and to stir up Devotion Hence they bely their Adversaries in their Lives Doctrine and Deaths as we know in Luther Calvin Beza Bishop King and others Hence they counterfeit false Fathers and by their Index Expurgatorius make the true ones speak as they list and thrust thousands of lies on the poor people as the history of Loretto the Dalmatian Priest who having his bowels plucked out of his body by the Turks took his guts in his hand if we will believe it and went many days to Loretto and there was cured They also abuse the credulous people by their Legends in Latin English and other Languages That the power of St. Patricks prayer as they write made a sheep bleat in the belly of him that stole it and of an Heretick who was converted by seeing St. Anthonies horse worship the Host with innumerable like ridiculous fopperies Obj. But may not bad actions happen in a good Religion Ans. This of the Church of Rome is not only a malady of manners and these examples are not only bad actions but they are prescribed Laws and
resemblances of things in Heaven and bow down to them and worship them beside they make Images of God himself and represent him both in carved work and painting which are used in their Churches and are received almost everywhere as Bellarmin confesseth in lib. 2. of Images c. 8. And is not this contrary to this Law which God himself uttered with his own mouth and wrote with his own finger Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them and also contrary to what God expressly forbids in Deut. 4. and Isay chap. 40. And this they audaciously do notwithstanding the penalty that is added to such Vid. Confounded be all they that worship carved Images Psalm 97. 7. Fourthly The Romish Church commands under pretence of Religion on certain days to abstain from certain meats and forbids Marriage to Priests and thus directly opposes St. Paul and expresly teaches what this great Apostle calls a doctrine of devils Col. 2. 2 Cor. 10. 2 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. Fifthly The Popish Church professes to believe that Jesus Christ is on earth in respect of his humane nature which is contrary to what he himself saith in St. John ch 18. 16. and contrary to the express words of St. Peter Acts 3. That the Heaven must receive him until the times of the restitution of all things Sixthly The Romish Church teaches that Christ is offered often in the Sacrament of the Ma's which directly contradicts the Apostle who expresly saith and without exception That he is not offered often Seventhly Papists teach the Mass is an unbloody sacrifice and yet propitiatory for the remission of the sins of the quick and dead which directly opposeth the Apostle who saith in express words without shedding of blood there is no remission And where there is remission of sins there is no more offering for sin but in the sacrifice which Jesus Christ offered to God on the Cross there is remission of sin therefore there is no more offering for sin and consequently it is false that the Mass is an offering for sin and a propitiatory sacrifice Eighthly Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Institution of his holy Supper presents the Cup to all those to whom he had distributed the bread saying to them Drink ye all of this c. But the Church of Rome forbids the people the use of the Cup of the Lord and therefore directly and formally opposeth our Lord Christ and his Apostle St. Paul who ordains in express words Let a man examine himself and so let him drink of that Cup. Papists believe and teach that the Souls of those that dye in the Lord are tormented after this life in a fire which they call Purgatory which is directly contrary to the Holy Ghost who declares in express terms that Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them and against the express words of the book of Wisdom which was Canonized by Trent Council The souls of the just are in the hand of God and no torment shall touch them The Popish Church ordains a prodigious number of Festivals against the express clause of that Law which the Soveraign Law-giver hath given Six days shalt thou labour whence we argue thus Whosoever forbids people to work six days of the week on pain of a mortal sin doth manifestly set himself above God who expresly permits us to work six days But the Pope and his Prelates do forbid people to work six days of the week on pain of a mortal sin Therefore the Pope and his Prelates do manifestly set themselves above God Papists say that the works of regenerate men are Christs works in them not their own and as Christs they save and so are saved by Christs merits Whereas St. Paul saith we are not saved by such works as God hath ordained regenerate men should walk in Eph. 2.10 And St. Paul opposeth all works done in matter of Justification and Salvation to the Grace of Christ Rom. 11.6 Phil. 3.8 Rom. 3. 27. This their finest web being so clearly cut in sunder by those plain texts they grosly dare avouch and teach that a man is saved by works and can merit the eternal felicity of Heaven and degrees of glory and bliss and thus directly fight against the doctrine of the Son of God and of his blessed Apostles Luke 17. When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do And Ephes. 2. By grace ye are saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast And in Rom. 6.11 The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. And if it be by grace then it is no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace but if it be of works then it is no more of grace otherwise work is no more work And thus Papists works become not only unprofitable unto them but plainly damnable yea and blasphemous because they ruinate the very foundation of our faith and make frustrate the all and alone sufficient sacrifice of our Redemption viz. the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Shall we then call those Catholiques or think such men believe in Christ and are Christians indeed when St. Ambrose saith Non videtur ab his exhiberi fides Christo à quibus evacuatur passio ejus atque distrahitur It seems not that such men do believe in Christ who go about to frustrate and distract his passion Obj. Is not then a Papist a true Christian Ans. No. Qua● Papist But as a thief is a true man in regard of his essence as he is a creature indued with reason but not a true man in regard of his honesty or goodness So the Popish Church is a true Church in regard of the essence of a Church as a Church is a company which profess Christ and are baptized but it is a false Church in respect of its heretical doctrine Obj. But can a man belong to the visible Church of Christ and to the Synagogue of Satan Ans. They maybe of the visible Church in regard of some part of their outward profession who in regard of their inward disposition of mind and of their external conversation yea and of the greatest part of their outward profession also are hateful unto God and execrable in the eyes of the founder part of the visible Church of Christ. So may a legion of devils incarnated if they will profess the name of Christ and be admitted by the Baptism of Christ may be of the visible Church so was Judas an Apostle and a traytor too but the more wretched because an