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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33078	The Church of Rome unmask'd, or her false principles briefly detected with some reasons of so many retaining or returning to communion with her, and the great danger of everlasting destruction, that such persons, especially after separations from her, return to her communion, do run themselves on / written by a learned divine, by way of letter to a friend in the country.	Learned divine.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4196; ESTC R18501	78,331	77

aurem tuam in maerore meo laetifica me Tu es fortitudo mea refugium meum consolatio mea protectio mea ad te clamavi cùm tribularetur c●r meum In manus tuas Dom na commendo spiritum meum meam totam vitam diem ultimum that is in thee O Lady have I put my trust let me not be confounded for ever receive me into thy favour incline thine ear to me and in my mourning comfort me Thou art my strenght my refuge my consolation and my protection unto thee have I cryed when my heart was troubled Into thy hands O Lady do I commend my spirit my whole life my last day See here is there not herein beside the outward worship of the body and the bodily act of invocation a profession of the most inward worship proper unto God and most incommunicably to be reserved unto him Is there not here then gross Idolatry and Blasphemy ascribing to a creature that that is peculiar unto God Of the like sort is that in Psal 71. Resperge Domina cor meum dulcedine tuâ c. Besprinkle my heart O Lady with thy sweetness make me to forget the miseries of this life stir up everlasting desires in my soul and inebriate or make drunk my mind with the joys of Paradise and in Psa 46 aliàs the 47 thus Omnes Gentes plaudite manibus psallite Jubilo Virginis gloriosae quoniam ipsa est porta vitae Janua salutis Via nostrae reconciliationis spes paenitentium solamen lugentium pax beata cordium atque salus c. that is ô clap your hands all ye Nations sing with a joyful voice to the glorious Virgin because She is the Gate of Life the Door of salvation and the Way of our Reconciliation the Hope of those that repent the Comfort of those that mourn the blessed peace and safety of hearts c. with reference to Psal 18. it is also said Religiosi omnes honorate illam quia ipsa est Adjutrix vestra specialis Advocata Esto refrigerium nostrum gloriosa Mater quia Tues totius Religionis mirabile firmamentum c. that is All ye Religious men or Cloysterers honour ye Her because She is your helper and special Advocate Be thou our refreshing O glorious Mother of Christ for thou art the marvelous foundation or establishment of all Religion upon Psal 20. Exaudi Domina succurre Animae cùm deseruerit corpus suum mitte Angelum in occursum ejus per quem ab hostibus defendatur sentiat in paenis refrigerium tuum concede locum inter Electos Dei that is Hear O Lady succour my soul when it shall leave it's body send an Angel to meet it by whom it may be defended from it's enemies let it feel thy refreshing in the pains of Purgatory and give it a place among the Elect of God And if this do not sufficiently shew their guilt of Idolatry I shall add a passage or two that will shew it with greater Blasphemy as when they say in Psal 34. Quia Domina humillima fuisti Verbum Increatum ex te carnem suscipere coegisti that is Because thou O Lady wast most humble thou didst constrain or compel the Increated Word to take flesh of Thee and in Psal 36. Mater Dei inclina vultum Dei super nos coge illum peccatoribus misereri Mother of God incline the countenance of God towards us compel him to be merciful to sinners But enough of this blasphemous Idolatry with her Yet all this and much more is to be found in that Psalter of the blessed Virgin said to be made by their Seraphical Doctor St. Bonaventure Bishop of St. Albans and one of the Cardinals of the holy they might better have said unholy Church of Rome And their Primer made for their children after the use of Salisbury printed with a privilege according to the Kings and Queens Majesties Letters in the reign of Queen Mary is of like complexion with that Psalter as is to be seen in Fox Martyro volum 3. pa. 273. witness these among other passages Holy Mary So comfort us in our Desolation That by thy prayer ond special Mediation We may enjoy the reward of the Heavenly reign c. And again The dolorous passion of Gods sweet Mother Bring us to the Bliss of Almighty God the Father Again O Thou meek Mother have mercy therefore On Wretches for whom thou hadst these pains all Seeing thy Son that Vine-cluster pressed sore And from the pestilence of death eternal Keep us by voiding the Fiend Infernal And join us with them that rewarded be With eternal Life seeing the Deitie Nor only with Her do they commit this Idolatry but with others also both Apostles and others of less worth if not evil persons as may appear from the same Primer Whence they teach their Children to be such in Idolatry betimes teaching them not only to say O Lord defend us always through the continual succours of St. John Baptist or with reference to the Apostles Peter and Paul Hear us mercifully and grant that through the merits of them both we may obtain the glory everlasting but also with respect to Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury murthered by occasion of contempt against the then King this is said By the blood of Thomas which He for thee did spend Make us Christ to climb whither Thomas did ascend O Blasphemy And with respect to St. Nicholas O God which hast glorified blessed Nicholas thy holy Bishop with innumerable miracles grant we beseech thee that by his merits and prayers we may be delivered from the fire of Hell To these I shall add some passages that Dr. Moor hath mentioned in his Antidote against Idolatry giving that in English that He hath therein set down in Latine only Being pieces of Devotion publiquely read or sung with Stentorian voices as he phrases it in their very Churches as to St. Cosmas and St. Damian two Quondam Physitians they thus sing O Medici piissimi Qui meritis clarissimi In Coelis refulgetis A peste clade corporum Praeservetis operum Moribus nè langueamus Nec moriamur spiritu Sed Animae ab olitu Velociter surgamus Et vivamus in gratiâ Ad sacra Caeli palatia Donec regrediamur O Physitians most pious Who in merits being famous Brightly in the Heavens do shine Keep us from pestilence noisom The bodies death and also from Bad manners lest in them we pine Neither let us in spirit dy But from Souls death hastily Let us rise again And that we may live in grace Till to Heavens sacred Palace We return to reign St. Francis they bespeak to this purpose Sancte Francisce properè veni Pater accelera ad populum qui premitur teritur sub onere paleâ luto latere sepultos Aegyptio sub sabulo nos libera carnis extincto vitio Holy Francis come apace hasten Father to the people pressed and worn out under their

Peter and Paul to Thomas and Sergius c. And what the Papists alledge of their doing all the same things that we Protestants do but they do more also is but all one in this matter as if a Woman should say that she doth all things to her Husband that another honest Woman doth to hers but she doth this more that whereas the other honest Woman yields her Body to her Husband only and admits no other man into her Bed besides she out of respect to her Husband admits him and his Servants and familiar Friends also And as a wise Husband would scarce think that a good honour given or done to him by his Wife no more will God take such adulterous embraces of the Saints and their Images and the like as a good honouring of him its like also as if the false Apostles and their followers should have pleaded against the true Apostles and theirs that they did the same things with them but they exceeded them and did more for they not only Baptized into the Name of Christ but Circumcised too and were Circumcised after the manner of Moses nor did they only celebrate the Lords Supper but also observed the dayes and times appointed in the Law and surely there was more colour for their so pleading than for these mens for they had something formerly of Gods appointment to shew for themselves but these have nothing at all but many prohibitions there against to produce Nothing said I Yes I remember the Plea of a Jesuite for the Picture of Christ though nothing for worship to be given it nor for worshiping the Saints and their Images from the Apostles saying to the Galathians that they were Fools to turn to Moses law when Christ Jesus had been set forth and evidently crucifyed among them the word saith he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is was Pictured and therefore they had the Picture of Christ drawn before their Eyes even of Christ Crucifyed surely the Jesuits was hard put to it for a proof that he was fain to fetch one from that word by the same way he might prove that the Prophets of old were Painters and Image makers because it s said in Rom. 15.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so it should be translated whatsoever things were Pictured aforetime were Pictured for our Instruction he might have found the Pictures of other men besides Christ though not of the Saints unless such saints as some of them of the Roman Church may be for Jude tells us of some that were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall we read Pictured out unto this Condemnation Jude 4. ungodly Men. Surely the Jesuit was either a man of little judgment or which is rather to be judged of a profligate conscience that mattered not with what colours to paint over his matters or else he would have waved such a proof for so bad a purpose and have remembred that the Apostles and their fellow Labourers whither they did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ingrave or pourtray yet it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not in Tables of Stone as the Romish Picturers work but in the fleshly Tables of the heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not with Ink or such like Paint but with the Spirit of God as the Apostle writes in 2 Cor. 3.3 and with such a manner of drawing I suppose their Picture makers have little or no acquaintance nor indeed would it have deserved the title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Foolish Galathians had the false Apostles only drawn them from a Christ Crucifyed as represented in an externally visible Picture or Image of him wherein nothing but his body and flesh or rather the external lineaments proportion and complexion of it could be represented and so the shape of a man Crucifyed nothing of his Deity and inward Virtue as they deserved for being drawn from him as Painted forth by the Spirit in the Gospel to the eyes of their understandings as the Son of God and so as God manifested in the flesh and baring our Sins in his Body on the Tree and there through geting the victory over Sin and death and the Divel which no Painters in matters of Stone or other Metals could draw to the Life the other might rather offend them and give the false Apostles advantage against believing on him than perswade to constancy therein there being nothing but a Crucifyed man represented to them therein But I have been tedious in making good this charge but therein I suppose I have abundantly discovered the truth thereof that Rome Papal is as arrant a Whore as Rome Pagan was nay in one respect far greater and worse for in those times she was not espoused to Christ as such therefore was not charged then as commiting adultery from him or breaking Wedlock as now that having been the Catholick Church and her Faith that that was preached in the whole World and she a famous Mother without it yet she hath played the Harlot from him like Jerusalem in Ezek. 16.15 as being corrupted from the simplicity in him to swarve so much from her loyalty to him and admit a multitude into the Bed of love besides him yea the Kings of the Earth also with whom she hath truckt for their honours and riches crowns and scepters accommodating her self to their wills that she might lift up her self by them and get her will on them as in the famous Story of her Bishop Boniface chaffering with Phocas who having Murthered his own Master Mauritius and his Children was owned as Emperour in his stead by the said Boniface that he might as he was be made and declared by him to be the Universal Bishop over all the Churches in Christendom upon a fond pretence never before thought on its likely that because Christ said to Peter that he would give him the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven therefore the Bishops of Rome however unlike to St. Peter and without any delegation of them by him in any of his Epistles or other ways of conveyance of them to them must rule over all the Church in all after ages A notable reward of Romes Whoredom with that Murtherer but that may lead me to another particular charge agreeable also with the character given her which also declares her to be the Babilon spoken of by the holy ghost in the book of the Revelations viz. That 8. The Church of Rome is not only a Whore and the great Whore but a Bloody Whore too else she should not be that Babilon for St. John was shewed that so she would be for he saw her drunk with the Blood of the Saints and with the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus to his great admiration and amazement and that in her was found the blood of the Prophets and of Saints and of all that were Slain upon the Earth Rev. 17.6 and 18.24 and indeed it may be doubted whither she slew more in her Pagan state to raise and maintain