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A52816	A Protestant antidote against the poyson of popery clearly proving the religion of the Church of Rome to be 1. superstitious, 2. idolatrous, 3. damnable, 4. bloody, 5. novel, 6. inconsistent with the publick peace, 7. irreconciliable to true Christianity ... / by Christopher Nesse ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing N461; ESTC R14548	103,633	225

lib. 8. To say nothing of look beyond Luther at large and of Dr. Humphrey in his Prax. Jesuitismi fol. 17. who shews how many witnesses Oxford hath afforded against the Romish Religion which I speak largely of in my Appendix to the Treatise of Antichrist I shall conclude this Paragraph with setting Dolman against Dolman who confesseth ingeniously in his pag. 19. that either Simon Zelotes the Apostle or Joseph of Arimathaea the Disciple brought Religion into this Land from Jerusalem Hence I Argue if it came hither first from Jerusalem then it came not hither first from Rome as he elsewhere saith 13. Moreover if we consider either the name or the thing the Novelty hereof will be more evident 1. Consider the name Papist 't is but a novel name and not found among the Ancients What need any further Testimony of this when their own Father Bristow doth confess it saying in his eighth Demand that the name Papist was never heard of till the time of Pope Lee in the fifteen hundredth year of Christ Habemus reum Confitentem 't is enough The Testimony of an Adversary against himself is unquestionable Secondly Consider the thing Popery in its Popish Points which are all novel Points and not known to the ancient Church We are able to shew the first Authors of their corrupt Doctrines which were not received into the Church for six hundred years after Christ and though we could not do this yet would it not follow that the Romish Church is the true ancient Church For first Many Heresies did spring up after the Apostles time yet none knew how 1 Joh. 2.18 and 4.1 yea Popery it self began to work at that time 2 Thes 2.7 Secondly The Head of some Errors may be as hard to discover as the Head of the River Nilus and the rather because Satan that Super-Seminator sows his Tares in the night while men slept Mat. 13.15 They are so privily and so creepingly brought in Gal. 2.4 2 Tim. 3.6 2 Pet. 2.1 and Jude 4. But above all that Grand Error of Popery in as much as it is called a Mystery of Iniquity was foisted in less discernably Thirdly The Romanists themselves do acknowledge that there are many Errors crept into the Church the first Authors whereof cannot be named And Fourthly It would be enough to discover the Novelty of Popery by demonstrating that it cannot be found in the Holy Scriptures which is the truest Antiquity 14. I have already discovered the Novelty of many Popish Points of the Romish Religion in pag. 26. Paragraph 65 66. c. of this Treatise That they were not from the beginning but are all additions by the man of sin and therefore accursed Revel 22.18 My Additions therefore thereunto shall be such only as my brevity proposed can admit to say but little to their inferior practick Points as of their Popish Beads Holy Water Missal Vestments Latin Service c. 1. The use of their Beads in their blind devotion came not from Peter the Apostle but from Peter the Hermit that Trumpet to the Holy War so called who taught them the manner of praying with Beads that thereby they might reckon their Prayers as if God should be verily in their Debt for their so many Pater Nosters and Ave Maries whereas true Devotion is not so much Numeranda ut Ponderanda numbered as pondered with the Lord he will have weight and worth in right Prayer and not Vain babbling Mat. 6.3 Battilogia Pentificia vel ipsum Satanam pudeat Their vain Repetitions are so gross and shameless that the Devil himself had he any shame in him would be ashamed of them faith learned Beza 2. Their Holy Water Polidor Virgil makes Pope Alexander the first to be its Author Anno Domini 118 or 121. see Prideaux his Introduction pag. 69. I confess they may go to Nama Pompilius and other Heathens for consecrated Water long before this Pope Alexander for they had their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at their Idol-Temple doors and their Baronius alledges Juvenal's sixth Satyr for their Lustral Water Surely this is not an Antiquity for the Romanists to boast of to borrow from Devil-worshippers 15. It must not be denied that if their Holy Water be derived from Numa Pompilins it hath Antiquity in it because Numa was seven hundred years before Christ a good Warrant for Christian Holy Water and in nothing better than in this that Numa was a reputed Conjurer and so a fitter Author of that conjured Water It is truly called so from their own form of consecrating this Holy Water which is as followeth I conjure thee O thou Creature Water in the Name of God † the Father Almighty and in the Name of Jesus † Christ the Son and by the power of the Holy † Spirit with certain Prayers mumbled over it then they blasphemously equal it to the blood of Christ for purging away sins you may suppose 't is only such Sins as have no deep rooting in us that a few drops of this Holy Water can wash away I wonder they should overlook that Holy Water mentioned Numb 5.17 there 's Antiquity indeed better than Baronius's sixth Satyr of Juvenal Baron Annal. ann 44. but the mischief is that was an Holy Water that caused the Curse Num. 5.21 Water is indeed an Element that God hath given us both for Natural and Celestial use the first in Household Affairs the second in the Sacrament of Baptism these are truly ancient things but the Romanists converting it beyond all Divine Ordination by their Exorcisms and Inchantments to other Magick and Idolatrous Uses This is a mere Novelty and Nullity The words of their Exorcisms run thus Exorcizo te Aqua Benedicta ut fias aqua exercizata c. that thou maist have power to drive away Devils Oh ridiculous Much more might I say to this point but my Book intended little swelleth much already 16. So I must be abrupt in it as likewise 3. In their Missal Vestments wherein they do plainly Judaize yea more than so or rather Heathenize it therein For 1. They cannot plead the Garments of the Levitical Priesthood seeing this were to send the Messiah to Moses School and so to deny that Christ is come in the Flesh Which is the spirit of Antichrist 1 Joh. 4.2 3. for Christ by his coming changed the Law of the Levitical Priesthood Heb. 7.11 and together with it the Rites and Apparels which glittering Garments could not congruously correspond with the Simplicity of the Gospel 2. Popish Priests do more than Judaize in as much as they abound more in their Holy Garments than ever the Mosaical Priests did for the High Priests had but seven Garments appointed them and the other Priests but two yet the Popish Priests have six their Popish Prelates nine more Ration Divin Offic. lib. 3. cap. 1. and Bellarm. lib. 2. de Miss cap. 14. And the Popes in their Pontificalibus said Erasmus may better be compared to Julius Caesar

Action will prove less difficult than the Agitation the Contrivance will be harder than the Accomplishment The second Ploughing of Fallow Ground is more easie than the first and the third is more easie than the second the Ardua as well as Arcana Imperii are now before your Honours You are got into a Wood Wilderness and Labyrinth no less is your Generation-work God hath called you to and were I as worthy as Jonathan I would do that Office of Love yea duty for you which he did for his dear David when he went into the Wood to him and strengthned his hands in God 1 Sam. 23.16 by minding and reminding you of the Promises Providences and Protection of your God My Cordial Prayers to God for you shall be constantly that you may be coming out of the Wilderness leaning upon your Beloved Cant. 8.5 and going thence with our English Israel towards the Land of Promise yea and I doubt not but you have a better Threed than that of Ariadne which helped Theseus out of the Labyrinth even the Wisdom of the wonderful Counsellor to extricate you out of all those Popish Intreagues you are now involved in And that I may the better Strengthen your hands in God I cannot hide from you those Presaging Providences of Gods Prevalent Actings in tendency to our deliverance from Popery at this juncture of time all which buoys up my Faith above my Fear and I hope may do yours The first Presaging Providence is Great Discoveries do presage great Deliverances God hath marvellously brought to publick light those private Popish and Diabolical deeds of darkness Prevision is tantamont Prevention both in Sacred and Civil History praevisa jacula minùs-feriunt et premoniti premuniti forewarn'd forearm'd and Darts foreseen are dintless God hath shot three Arrows as in David's Case 1 Sam. 20.21 22. three Witnesses Mr. Oats Mr. Bedlow and Mr. Prance Arrows all not to wound us but to warn us that the intentions of Bloody MEN were for our utter destruction Thus when Mordecai was Informed or Jadang Hebr. came to know of the bloody Decree this was Gods means to break the Neck of cruel Haman's wicked design Esth 4.1 c. Thus also the marvellous discovery of the Powder Plot in this Land was in Gods hand the marvellous disappointment of it And surely 't was no bad Argument which Sampson's Mother used to his Father Manoah If God would have destroyed us he would never have discovered these things unto us Judg. 13.23 The second Presaging Providence is Division is the Mother of Destruction God forbid it should be amongst us sicollidimur frangimur if we clash we break but now praised be God 't is found among our Enemies The Language of Babel-Builders is divided and confounded oh how do Priests and Jesuits now divide and discover Priests and Jesuits c. Hereby their Nimrods or cruel Hunters with all their cursed Chamites are dispersed from their Babel-Building Gen. 11.7 8 9. Our Lord saith If Satans Kingdom be divided against it self it cannot possibly stand Matth. 12.25 26. The third Presaging Providence is A Beginning hath a Presaging Tendency to the End To this Zeresh Haman's Wife and probably a prudent Woman spoke shrowdly and pertinently saying If Mordecai be of the Seed of the Jews before whom thou hast begun to fall thou shalt not be able to stand but thou shalt surely fall before him Esth 6.13 Principium per media tendit ad finem Haman was but barely begun to fall a little below Mordecai in honour Hence his final Fall was foretold either by Divine Instinct as the Sybils and Caiphas or only by Humane Prudence drawing this notable Conclusion from the common custom of Rising and Falling Favourites And may not we inferr also that seeing some of Gods and the Kingdoms Adversaries have certainly begun to fall before you the true Mordecai's of our day they shall not be able to stand but shall surely fall before us Oh that it may be a final and an irrecoverable Fall The fourth Presaging Providence is Persecution of Protestants peaceably dissenting is much turned into Justice upon Papists bloodily designing Whereby the Lord intimates he will perform with his Hand what he hath promised with his Mouth to wit of taking the Cup of Trembling out of the hand of Sion and of putting it into the hand of Babylon Isa 51.17 22 23. to make her drink the very dregs of it Rev. 14.10 Babylon shall drink not only unto drunkenness but also unto madness she shall Spue and Fall and rise no more Jer. 25.18 21. The fifth Presaging Providence is A changing the Kings Word This was a Praesage of Deliverance to Gods Triary the three Nobles of Babylon that the Kings Word or Counsel was changed they had been taken into the Kings Council Dan. 1.20 and 2.49 but afterwards were impeached and cast into the Furnace Those Servants of the most High God were not only delivered but promoted to their former and greater Honours Dan. 3.28 30. In concurrence herewith the Kings Word or Counsel is now changed some Persons of Honour who have been highly honoured but afterwards Impeached and cast into the Tower are again Promoted to be of the Privy Council and one as another Daniel to be President thereof The Rising of New Favourites is always the Fall of Old ones as Mordecai's was of Haman's No doubt the same God that hath changed the Kings Word or Counsel can influence his Heart as he did the Heart of Cyrus Ezra 1.1 The Kings Heart is in the Hand of the Lord Prov. 21.1 to turn it as easily as the Ploughman doth his Water-course with his Paddle or the Gardiner with his hand The sixth Presaging Providence is The mighty Turn which is wrought upon the Spirit of the Nation in General 'T is expresly said that the Sibbah hebr Circuit Revolution or turning about of the Spirit of the Ten Tribes was from the Lord 1 Kin. 12.15 As the Heart of the King so the Hearts of the Kingdom are in the Hand of the Lord and he ordereth all disorders Judg. 9.23 1 Sam. 8.19 22. There is a Cry in our Ears at this day Oh Wheel And there is a Wheel within a Wheel Ezek. 10.10 13. 't is the Father of Spirits that sets on or takes off the Spirits of People and vox Populi est vox Dei To Summ up all the seventh and last Presaging Providence is God hath put his Hand to the Plough and he will not look back Luke 9. 62. The Wheel of Providence goes streight forward and returns not as it goes Ezek. 1.9 12 17. But to the Place whither the Head looks the Wheels follow it They turned not as they went Ezek. 10.11 God positively Protesteth When I begin I will also make an end 1 Sam. 3.12 When he once begins his Execution of Justice quod Verbis minatur reipsa praestabit he will perform with his Hand what his Mouth hath spoken and go through stitch with his