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A62900	The principles of the Papists by which their leaders put them upon bloody and treacherous practices, plainly demonstrated by the Scriptures to be most erroneous and wicked. And a few better principles briefly laid down, for them (or others) to meditate on, tending to a peaceable life among men, &c. And also a few quæries left them last of all, to satisfie their consciences in. Partly for the sakes of those among them whose consciences have some tenderness in them, and are not quite feared: partly also for those who through ignorance are too much inclining to them. Also there may be some service of these things to others. By a lover of truth, mercifulness, plain-heartedness, humility and fidelity, W. T.	Tomlinson, William.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1850; ESTC R221759	49,364	105

to God to devotion to himself to serve his own turn And 2. he thereby robs people of their deliverance from the power of Satan who rules in darkness as God rules in light And so 3. and consequently he robs people of receiving forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in Christ Jesus for that 's the end of turning men from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God namely that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among God's sanctified ones But this will not stand with the Interest of him who seeks the glory and greatness of this World and an uncontroulable Kingdom over all without questioning what he doth and therefore Ignorance must be the nourisher of blind obedience to him which he blasphemously calls devotion to God And in this work now though he seek to be as high as Lucifer yet hath he made himself a slave to the Rulers of the darkness of this World whose principal drudge he is in labouring to keep men in darkness where Satan's power is We find in Scripture that darkness is the perishing state out of which God calls his people Eph. 5.8 Ye were sometime darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of the light 1 Pet. 2.9 Ye are a chosen generation that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light Col. 1.12 13. Giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darkness And therefore to abide in darkness and to abide in a perishing state is all one in Scripture-language as also to be rejected of the Lord is expressed by being cast out into outer darkness 1 Joh. 2.9 10 11. He that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes And Darkness is the place where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Mat. 8.12 and 22.13 Now then it is easie for any to judge whose Minister he is that hides light from men to keep them in the darkness and whose work he doth He is none of Christ's Minister nor doth his work to promote his Kingdom which is a Kingdom of light but he doth the work of the Rulers of the darkness of this World and his own work to keep men in slavery to him who seeks the glory of this World And this now is one of the stratagems of the mystery of iniquity and one principal prop of Antichrist's Kingdom and a chief guard about the Pope to let him sleep at quiet Thus the Sword or carnal Weapons of Cruelty and Ignorance and such like means are the props and guards of this Kingdom which the Papists are Subjects to and not the pure and uncorrupted Truth recorded in Scripture And therefore that some of them may deliver themselves from that mystery of iniquity if the Lord please to open their eyes is the end of my writing these things And though some expressions in this Treatise may perhaps seem too harsh to some of them yet having to deal with such bad Principles in persons who pretend to be invested with authority and power derived from Christ in the work of his Ministry and in his service I could not use easier language than I have done And as I have here manifested the destructive Principles of the Papists to be most erroneous and wicked I say the same against the destructive zeal of any professors of Christianity upon what Principles soever they go and under what Name soever they stand and likewise affirm That no destructive zeal is renewed after the image of him that hath created us and made us new creatures for as God sent not his Son into the world to destroy so he came not a destroyer but a Saviour to save mens lives Therefore would he not suffer James and John to destroy nor Peter when he drew his Sword and cut off Malchus his Ear but bid him put it up and then heal'd the Ear again which he had cut off and hath left it upon record that his Servants shall not go about that Work to root out the tares out of the field that is the World that 's a Work reserved for the Angels at the end of the World I shall now for conclusion leave a few Queries for the Papists to satisfie their own Consciences in rather than to expect an Answer to them and I desire them to be impartial while they consider them 1. Whether the Lord hath taken up an outward Succession again since he laid aside Abraham's natural Succession 2. Whether any be a true Successor of Peter or of the rest of the Apostles who doth not walk in the same Spirit and Doctrine 3. Whether Christ hath substituted a Patron of Lying Perjury Plots Conspiracies Cruelty and Murders to be his Vicar to represent him upon Earth and to be the Head of his Church and an example to the Flock And whether it be not great blasphemy to affirm it 4. Whether he be a friend or an enemy to Christ who opposes the main ends of his Coming As namely in these particulars 1. In point of Enlightning 2. In point of Innocency 3. In point of Worship First Because Christ came to enlighten the World and to bring them out of darkness but the Popes stop the light and keep men in darkness Secondly Christ came to raise up a harmless inoffensive quiet innocent people and of them a Kingdom of Peace where nothing should hurt nor destroy but the Popes bring forth a people quite contrary harmful offensive unquiet disturbers of the Civil Peace by Plots Conspiracies Murders c. Thirdly Christ came to bring forth a people that should worship God in spirit and in truth such as the Father seeks to worship him but the Pope requires such Worshippers as will stoop to his Superstitions and idolatrous Worships after the Formality that he prescribes or else they must expect an Inquisition or some other usage as bad Now consider whether he that thus opposes the Ends of Christ's Coming be not an Enemy 5. Whether he that knoweth sin aforehand and yet entices or encourages his Children into it by promising them pardon and indempnity if they do it doth not very aptly follow the steps of that old Serpent that deceived Eve who told her Ye shall not die though ye eat 6. Whether those Roman Casuists do err that say It 's no sin to swear a falshood if they have a Reserve in their mind to salve it with Or it 's the Pope that errs in promising Pardons for such Oaths so making them sins For Pardons are Relatives to Sins 7. Whether Equivocations and mental Reserves will stand as a good plea for Lying and Perjury at that day when the righteous Judge of all the World shall judge every man according to

man who had need to repent and pray God that the thought of his own heart may be forgiven him Argument 2. I come now to a second Argument against the Pope and to shew that he is no true Successor to Peter which I prove by shewing that he is not of Abraham's spiritual seed which of necessity every one must be that succeeds either Peter or any of the holy Apostles of Christ Jesus To make this clear let us take notice of these two things 1. What manner of Succession is cut off 2. What manner of Succession doth remain First What manner of Succession is cut off There was a Succession once which was lineal in the same seed outwardly and so from Abraham to Christ they succeeded one another as the Son succeeds the Father But this was cut off as the Scripture plainly sheweth Rom. 2.28 29. For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly but he is a Jew which is one inwardly Again Rom. 9.8 The Children of Promise are counted for the seed So also Gal. 3.7 They which are of faith the same are the Children of Abraham And again the Apostle speaking of the cutting off of the Jews through their unbelief shews that we who are of the Gentiles are grafted in into Abraham's stock only by faith and so by faith we stand Rom. 11.20 Well because of unbelief they were broken off and thou standest by faith be not high-minded but fear So then you see that outward succession in Abraham's line was cut off through unbelief Hence I argue thus If God hath laid aside that outward succession in Abraham's line who was called the Friend of God he will not take up any outward succession again to entail his promises upon and if succession be cut off from that natural seed for want of faith then all outward succession as from place or any other outward thing whatsoever will not hold where true faith is wanting but will fail him that depends upon it as well as it failed the Jews So then whosoever pretends a succession in Abraham's seed without which he cannot be a Successor to Peter he must establish his Succession in another thing than either in an outward seed or in place or any such like outward thing Therefore secondly let us now take further notice what manner of Succession that is which abides and wherein that is established which makes one a Successor in the seed of Abraham This doth not stand in any outward thing but in that faith which follows the steps of Abraham Rom. 4.11 12. Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness before he was circumcised as the foregoing words do shew That he might be the Father of all them that believe though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imported unto them And the Father of Circumcision to them who are not of the Circumcision only but also walk in the steps of that faith of our Father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumessed Here you may see plainly who are Abraham's Children now and so Christ's namely they that walk in the steps of that faith of our Father Abraham and they only For it 's said Rom. 11.20 Thou standest by faith he not high-minded but fear Ver. 21. For if God spared not the natural branches take heed lest he also spare not thee Ver. 22. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God on them which fell severity but towards thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off So here you may see it 's plainly exprest what cuts a man off from the seed of Abraham and so from Christ and also what establishes him in that seed It is walking in the steps of that faith of Abraham and continuing in the goodness of God that establishes a man and he that continues not therein shall be cut off Now examine and apply these things to the Pope Doth he walk in the steps of the faith of Abraham Surely his works loudly proclaim the contrary If ye were the Children of Abraham ye would do the works of Abraham saith Christ Jesus Joh. 8.39 c. But now ye seek to kill me this did not Abraham Ye are of your Father the Devil and the lusts of your Father ye will do He was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth That the Pope is in this murthering spirit many Nations have felt it and the Earth rings of it How many Massacres how many bloody and inhumane Butcheries have been acted under him How many private Murders and secret Conspiracies to destroy mens Lives How many stabbings and poisonings of persons of all degrees many Countreys can witness Is this to walk in the steps of the faith of Abraham Is this to continue in the goodness of God who lets his Sun shine on the good and on the bad and sends rain on the just and on the unjust The Pope doth hereby clearly manifest himself to be cut off from walking in the steps of the faith of Abraham for thus did not Abraham Or doth he continue in the goodness of God who walks in the steps of him that was a murderer from the beginning I desire you poor captiv'd Souls to consider it who are under his yoke and deceive not your selves in trusting to him for you may plainly see by his works what Spirit your Pope is ingrafted into namely into his Spirit who was a murderer from the beginning and not into his Spirit who came not to destroy mens lives but to save They who have been ingrafted into Abraham's faith and so into Christ the true seed were never such murderers and bloody creatures but merciful and tender-hearted Nay if we go no further than the common Body of the Protestants they never were so bloody to you as your Pope hath taught you to be to them When did they commit any such Massacres upon you though you have highly provoked them as you have done to them even without provocation And still you hold on to attempt the like and repent not of your wickedness which shews plainly that they have more of the true spirit and faith of Abraham among them than you have and you partake more of the spirit of him that was a murderer from the beginning which is infused into you with the Principles that you suck in from your Pope and his Church I will tell you who your Pope is by the fruits he brings forth He is a great Agent of that Apollyon that is Destroyer spoken of Rev. 9.11 Who is King over them that have power to hurt men and he is the outward head of that mystery of iniquity which was to arise and you cannot find another like him to act such horrid wickedness and yet under the pretence of Christianity as if Christ that innocent Lamb of God who came not to destroy mens lives but to save were now become a Patron to devouring Wolves Here is the mystery of wickedness shrowding it self under

said unto them He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man the field is the world the good seed ar● the children of the Kingdom but the tares are the children of the wicked one the enemy that sowed them is the Devil the harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are the Angels Now read the Parable as Christ hath expounded it The Servants of Christ the Son of man discover tares that is Children of the wicked one sprung up in the field the world where Christ sowed good seed that is Children of the Kingdom They state this Question to Christ and ask him Wilt thou that we go and gather them up or root them out here 's the Question Now Christ's determining of it follows But he said nay and withall gives a reason why they should not lest while ye gather up the tares the children of the wicked one ye root up also with them the wheat the children of the Kingdom Then he gives a positive Precept or Command Let hoth grow together until the harvest the end of the world And to satisfie his Servants and stay their minds from further enquiry or doubt in this matter he tells them upon whom he will put this work In the time of harvest at the end of the world I will say to the reapers the Angels Gather ye together first the tares the children of the wicked one and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat the children of the Kingdom into my barn What can be more clearly exprest to shew That the Children of the Kingdom are not to root up or destroy the Children of the wicked one out of the World But they are hereby plainly commanded to let both grow together in the Field that is in the World until the end of the World Now admit which yet is not granted That the Papists were in very deed the Children of the Kingdom and that the Protestants were the Children of the wicked one and pestilent Hereticks as they please to term them yet you see what Rebels these Papists are against the Doctrine and Command of Christ in seeking to root them out and what incorrigible usurpers and intruders they are who thrust themselves upon that work which Christ hath declared shall be the work of the Angels by his appointment So now you may plainly see that the Papists as they are fallen from the Spirit of Christ so also they are fallen from the Doctrine of Christ into plain disobedience and rebellion against him And therefore if any of them shall out of zeal seek to destroy Hereticks you see their zeal is but a blind zeal without knowledge they that do so are ignorant of God and of Christ and his Doctrine for that 's the reason that Christ gives of a bloody zeal These things will they do unto you because they know neither the Father nor me It may be they can talk high things of God and of Christ with their tongues but I say they know him not they know not the divine Nature nor are partakers of it and therefore are they of a bloody zeal Let the Priests Jesuits Monks Confessors or Pope himself scorn it as much as they will yet I say such know him not bloody-minded men know not God the Father nor Christ Jesus they have no fellowship with his Spirit being acted by him that was a Murderer from the beginning I have now done with these their unsound and erroneous Principles whereby they animate their people and harden their Consciences to run on into mischief And I hope the error and wickedness of these Principles will be plain to the meanest capacities by the Scriptures of truth produced to disprove them I shall now set before you a few better Principles for them to meditate on which will better abide the tryal being according to plain Scripture and which will bring more peace at the last to those that are found walking according to them whereby also you may take some Prospect of the dangerous Paths of the Leaders of the Papists 1. That Jesus Christ came into the world to save mens lives not to destroy them and therefore would not suffer his Disciples to be destroyers Luk. 9.56 From this Principle it 's easie for any to draw this Inference That therefore destroyers and murderers are not of him but of their Father that was a murderer from the beginning 2. That Jesus Christ came a light into the world that whosoever believeth in him and followeth him should not abide in darkness Joh. 12.46 But should have the light of life Joh. 8.12 Hence you may safely infer That he that keeps people in darkness and makes them believe that Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion doth not walk in the steps of Christ but opposes this end of his Coming to enlighten the World 3. That the not knowing the Scripture and power of God is a cause of error for so Christ taught Mat. 22.29 Hence it 's plain That depriving people of the use of the Scriptures which testifie of Christ the power of God is not the way to keep them out of error but to keep them in it 4. That Christ Jesus our Lord came to establish truth in the Earth and to extirpate falshood not only in Oaths and Covenants according to the first ministration but even in every little word without swearing therefore he teacheth Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay Mat. 5.37 This Inference easily follows hereupon That they that speak lyes in hypocrifie do not give heed to him and his Spirit but to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Devils as the Apostle witnesseth 1 Tim. 4.1 2. And therefore Lyars are excluded the Kingdom Rev. 21.27 and Gh. 22.15 5. That our Lord and Master Christ Jesus humbled himself and became of no reputation and we are bid to be like minded Phil. 2.5 6 7. He was meek and lowly in heart and bids us learn of him Mat. 11.29 Hence we may take notice That exalted Spirits fierce and high-minded Spirits who seek the greatness and glory of this World are no good examples to follow because they have not learned that of Christ 6. That he that humbles himself as a little Child the same is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 18.4 Then he is not the greatest that exalts himself above all as the Pope doth God beholds the proud afar off Psal 138.6 Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased Mat. 23.12 7. That Christ Jesus our Captain and Lord came to set up a peaceable Kingdom consisting of a people peaceable harmless and innocent in the World They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy Mountain saith he Isa 11.9 Then he came not to beget or bring forth a turbulent fort of Plotters Contrivers and Actors of mischief and violence so contrary to his own nature Where will such hurters and destroyers find place in all God's holy Mountain 8. As ye would that men should do unto you