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The plain mans defence against popery: or, A discourse, shewing the flat opposition of popery to the Scripture. By J.N. chaplain to a person of honour
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J. N.
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1675
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Wing N22; ESTC R9788
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sins the Remission of pain and guilt for the living and the dead This Doctrine is most filthy and injurious to that All sufficient Sacrifice of Christ offered once for ever upon the Cross here again the Popish-Doctrine razeth the foundation of Religion to the very bottom Note A real and outward Sacrifice is against the nature of a Sacrament especially the Supper of the Lord for one end thereof is to keep in memory the Sacrifice of Christ Again in a Sacrament God gives Christ to us whereas in a real Sacrifice God receives from man he gives something to God in the Popish Sacrifice of the Masse the Priest pretends to give Christ to God Note The Masse may well be so called for it 's a Mass and heap of blasphemies and abominations it is like a Beggars Cloak patch't up with many pieces one Pope puts in one patch another another it was not fully patch't up as now it is till twelve hundred years after Christ Note The Masse being Idolatrous it is not lawful to be present at it as appears by 1 Cor. 10.14 Flee from Idolatry these Scriptures forbid going to Masse 2 Cor. 6.16 17.1 Cor. 10.21 Psal 26. 4.1 Joh. 5.21.1 King 19.18.1 Cor. 6. 20. Rev. 21.8 Rev. 13.7 It is not lawful for a man outwardly to accommodate himself to Popish Idolatry though he doth keep his heart to God and in his mind address all Religious worship to God alone Matt. 10.33 Rom. 10.10 The example of Naaman 2 King 5.18 will not excuse our Masse Gospellers for 1. Naaman made open profession by word and deed of Adoring the true God only 2 King 5.17 2. His bowing was only a civil honour to the King his Master who leaned upon him as t is the custom of Princes in state to do when the King bowed Naaman must stoop also to hold up and support the King 50. Q. Is Christ Corporally in the Lords Supper Is there a change of the substance of the Bread Wine into the substance of Christs body and blood or shall Christs body abide in Heaven till the end of the World A. He shall send Jesus Christ whom the Heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things Act. 3.21 The poor ye have alwayes me ye have not alwayes Mark 14.7 Christ sits at the right hand of God Col. 3.1 This do in remembrance of me 1 Cor. 11.26 They follow the Lamb whethersoever he goes Rev. 14.4 A Spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have Luk. 24.39 Jesus took bread and break it 1 Cor. 11.24 As oft as ye eat this bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come 1 Cor. 11.26 Note The Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation viz. The change of the Bread and Wine into the natural body and blood of Christ is repugnant to plain Testimonies of Scripture overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament hath given occasion to most grosse Idolatry and manifold Superstitions doth contain infinite absurdities and contradictions as 1. Then Christ must hold himself in his own hands yea devour and eat up himself and yet sit whole and entire at the Table with his Disciples 2. His body must be in a Thousand places at the same time 3. His whole body must be in every Communicants mouth at once 4. His whole body must be less in quantity than the least limb of his body 5. His body must at the same time be broken and yet not broken 6. His body must at the same time both ascend and descend 7. His body must be subject to corruption and putrefaction c. Note Matth. 26.26 This is my body is to be understood this doth signifie and represent my body Christ is called a Rock 1 Cor. 10.4 A door Joh. 10.9 A Vine John 15.1 Believers are called one bread 1 Cor. 10.4 Can any one be so senseless as to think that Christ was Transubstantiated or turned into a Rock a Door a Vine or the whole Church into Bread Note The Papists have infinite disputes and cannot agree among themselves whether Christs body be made in the Bread or brought into it whether his body under the form of bread be living have all the parts of a man have weight Why it is not perceived whether the Priest make his Maker by blessing the Elements or by saying This is my body c. The ancient Fathers say nothing of Transubstantiation the first determination of it was 1200 years after Christ for the proof of it they alledge this miracle that on a time St. Francis found a Spider in the Communion Cup which he would not cast out but drank up with the Wine afterwards rubbing his thigh where it itched the Spider came whole out of his thigh without harm to either Note John 6. Is not to be understood of any corporal eating of Christ in the Sacrament as Papists falsly pretend but of spiritual eating and drinking by faith whether in the Sacrament or without as is plain John 6.35 John 6.47 51. Q. Are not the Papists guilty of horrible Idolatry in giving Divine worship to the Sacrament In giving the same Religious worship to the bread which the Priest holds in his hands which is due to the true God In adoring a Breaden God A. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me Exod. 20.3 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only Matth. 4.10 My glory will I not give to another Esa 42.8 Note The Papist adore and give Divine worship to the very Sacrament and require it of all who have Communion with them there they err again in the very foundation for that we should give Religious worship to God alone is the first and principle command of Gods Law and it is the great and chief foundation of the Gospel as our Saviour teaches John 17.3 It was the main crime of the Jews and also of the Heathens to render to the Creature the glory and adoration due to God The N. Testament threatens eternal Damnation to Idolaters 1 Cor. 6.10 Rev. 21.8 Note It will not at all excuse the Papists to say that they worship not the bread but Christ for they suppose the bread to be Christ this argument cannot excuse the Papists from Idolatry for if it doth it will excuse the greatest Heathen Idolater for those Heathens that worshipped the Sun did suppose the Sun to be God they that worshipped Jupiter did suppose him to be God If this will excuse from Idolatry ye shall not find any thing that can be justly called Idolatry Gal. 4.8 52. Q. Should people receive but half the Sacrament the bread but not the cup of the Lord A. He took the Cup and gave it to them saying drink ye all of it Matth. 26.27 He took the Cup and gave it to them and they all drank of it Mark 14.23 Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that Cup 1 Cor. 11.28 see 1 Cor. 10.16 Note The Papists are guilty
shall be discharged from all temporal punishment for his sins both in this life and in purgatory Now this is the received Doctrine of the Roman Church for which they have no proof of Scripture nor testimony of the ancient Fathers nor can they agree among themselves about the effect and validity of these pardons and indulgencies yea this Doctrine is evidently contrary to Scripture absurd and basphemous For 1. Experience shews that the Popes pardons do not free men from sickness and death therefore not from all temporal sufferings 2. If Christs satisfaction be enough what need the Saints merits be joyned with it 3. How came the Treasure of the Church into the Popes keeping When did Christ give him the keyes of it 4. Why doth not Christs satisfaction remit the temporal punishment as well without the Popes indulgence as with it 5. The Scripture teaches that all punishment of sin is remitted by the merits and satisfaction of Christ alone Esa 63.3 Matth. 26.28 6. The Scripture affirms that God forgives sin fully and freely Rom. 8.1 7. No Saints have superabounding merits for their best works are imperfect Psal 130.3 8. One Saint cannot satisfie or merit for another every man shall bear his own burthen Gal. 6.5 Ezek. 18.20 Psal 49.8 Matth. 25.9 Prov. 9.12 Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour 1 Cor. 3.8 Ezek. 14.20 Note The Popish Jubilee is now brought from every fiftieth year to every five and twentieth year or as oft as the Pope pleases he promises to give full remission of sins to all that personally visit the Apostles Churches at Rome if they be truly penitent and confessed this hath been so gainful a Trade that one of the Popes left 115000 Ducats to his Successor which he had scraped together by selling pardons upon computation it hath been found that the Pope hath had Three hundred thousand pounds yearly out of England for indulgences pardons Peter-pence jubilees and such like Popish trumpery in so much that England was by the Popes styled an inexhaustible Mine 43. Q. Is there any such place as Purgatory or doth the Scripture acknowledge only two places for men after this life viz. Heaven and Hell A. In Hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afarr off and Lazarus in his bosome Luke 16.23 They shall sit down with Abraham c. In the Kingdom of Heaven but the other shall be cast out into â—tter darkness where shall be weeping and â—nashing of Teeth Matth. 8.12 He that believeth shall be saved he that believeth not shall be damned Mark 16.16 2 Cor. 5.1 Rev. 14.13 Rev. 22.13 Esa 57.1 2 Tim. 4.8 Note It is blasphemy to say that men are purged by suffering of pains in purgatory whereby they satisfie for lesser sins and for the temporal punishment of their greater sins for the blood of Christ is the only purgatory for our sins Heb. 1.3 Heb. 9.14 Note The Papists divide Hell into four Regions 1. The Hell of the damned the place of eternal torment this we grant but the other are not only unwritten in Scripture but contrary to it 2. Purgatory next adjoyning to Hell and the torments of purgatory they say are as extreme as Hell torments but not eternal here they say the Souls of the faithful are tormented it may be a 100 or a 1000 years or longer except they be delivered by the Prayers Masses Alms of the living or the Popes pardons 3. The place or receptacle of Infants dying without Baptisme who they say suffer the loss of Heaven but no pain or torment 4. The place or receptacle of the Saints who dyed before Christ where they did remain in darkness but without pain until they were delivered by Christs descending into Hell Note The things which are seen are temporal the things which are not seen are eternal 2 Cor. 4.18 Hence it follows that there is no invisible place after this life which is not eternal therefore no Purgatory or Limbus Patrum Note The Apostle saith the whole Church all the Family whereof Christ is Head is either in Heaven or upon Earth Eph. 1.10 Eph. 3.15 Therefore there is no Purgatory or Limbus Note If any did need satisfactory purgation after death sure that Thief who was converted upon the Cross ought to have suffered the pains of purgatory many hundred years yet he went not into purgatory but Paradise Luke 23.43 Note If it be necessary as the Papists hold that the Saints must satisfie God for the guilt of temporal punishment and for lesser sins which they call venial then the Saints that are alive upon the Earth at Christs second coming must first go into purgatory before they can meet the Lord in the Air which is contrary to the Scripture 1 Thes 4.17 Note The Fable of purgatory came into the Romish Church out of the Heathen Writers Philosophers and Poets Plato Virgil Ovid c. Note The more men are afraid of the fire of purgatory the more money they will give for Indulgences Pardons Masses Prayers to be made for them after death The Popish Church knowing how gainful this Doctrine is contend fiercely for it for want of better proofs flye to Enthusiastick lying visions revelations forged miracles in their Legends strange stories are told of persons that have come out of purgatory and have related the manner and extremity of sufferings there which things have been believed by the ignorant multitude 44. Q. Are there more than two Sacraments namely Baptisme and the Lords Supper A. Go tâ—ach all Nations and Baptise them Matth. 28.19 Jesus took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it saying Take eat this is my body c. 1 Cor. 11.23 By one Spirit are we all Baptized into one Body and have been all made to drink into one Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 see 1 Cor. 10.2 3. Note The Papists reckon seven Sacraments viz. Baptism the Lords Supper Confirmation Penance Matrimony Orders extreme unction But there can't be seven Sacraments properly so called For 1. They are never mentioned in any Scripture Creed or ancient Father they were first devised by Peter Lumbard 1439. Afterwards confirmed in the Council of â—â—ent 2. The Conditions required to a â—â—crament agree only unto Baptism and ◠〈◊〉 Lords Supper Note Five Conditions are required to a â—â—crament of the Gospel 1. That it be inâ—â—uted by Christ himself immediately 2. That it have some sensible sign 3. That it â—â—ve the promise of God concerning saâ—ng grace and eternal life added to the â—â—gn 4. That it represent seal and apply to â—elievers Christ and the benefits of the â—ew Covenant 5. That it be given to the â—hole Church to continue to the end of â—â—e world Note Though the Papists and Quakers â—gree in many things yet in the Doctrine â—f the Sacraments they differ very much â—or the Papists will have too many Sacraments and the Quakers none at all Papists set up false Sacraments and Quakers reâ—ect