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A53528 Sound advice to Roman Catholics, especially the residue of poor, seduced and deluded Papists in England who obstinately shut both eyes and ears against the clearest light of the Gospel of Christ and surest evidences of Scripture and reason to which is added a Word to the people called Quakers / by T.O. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1689 (1689) Wing O56; ESTC R15543 17,650 24

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blood And although Paul wrote many things hard to be understood which the unlearned and unstable wrest yet did not Peter who giveth an Item of it in his second Epistle 3.16 desire his Writings to be taken from them Meat and Drink must not be rejected because of Drunkards and Gluttons Better some men be Debauch'd than all the World Starv'd Better there be a possibility of some's wresting the Scripture than that all the World should lye in Ignorance Since Heresies must be that they who are approved may be made manifest as good they be by this means as other ways Yet Chrysostom saith Scripturarum ignoratio haereses peperit And again Barathrum est Scripturarum ignoratio Whence I may rationally infer that the Pope of Rome shutteth the Kingdom of Heaven against men and sendeth all the Rabble of vulgar Papists who dare not read nor know the Scriptures in a broad way to Hell. Certainly it is the just condemnation of the World that men love to walk in Darkness when they may walk in Light. And although the Scriptures be but a Riddle and Sealed Book to the Wicked yet are the secrets of the Lord with those that fear him They are a Sun which show themselves with their own Rays if within our Horizon giving light to the humble dazling the cutious eye and striking the ambitious spirits blind A River wherein an Elephant may swim and an Insect wade and drink A Feast affording Milk for ●a●es and strong Meat for Men of understanding They are an inexhaustible Treasure to which God hath promised his immediate and continual presence Isah 59.21 The everlasting Gospel is convey'd with an Angel Rev. 14.6 This is that Light and Sun which the Man of Sin hath put under the Bushel of prohibition and as it is Prophesied Rev. 16.10 made the Kingdom of the Beast full of darkness Now it is the earnest desire of my Soul that the Church of Rome grant to all her Children the priviledge of reading the Holy Scriptures and shew her self the true Mother by feeding and not the Step-Mother by starving her Children lest her Flock go astray and perish in Ignorance and their blood be required at the Clergy-men's hands For if the Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost 2 Cor. 4.3 My third Objection shall be against the Doctrine of Venial Sins for though some sins be more heinous in the sight of God than others yet is no sin small or venial The Law of God is a fiery Law every spark burneth The wages of Sin without exception is Death God's Wrath and Curse hangeth over the head of every sin Gal. 3.10 But since all conclude that every sin by Nature is evil let us abstain from all filthiness both of the flesh and of the Spirit My fourth Objection shall be against the Doctrine of Purgatory which Papists term a Place or Pit of fire Ordained by God for purging the Souls of Men after Death from Venial Sins But this Doctrine nititur facto supposito for if there be no Venial Sins then is there no Purgatory But in few words there can be no unsanctify'd Saints God doth not pardon by halfs he forgiveth all thine Iniquities he healeth all thy Diseases Psal 103.3 The blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin It were a ridiculous piece of Nonsense for a King to pardon a Malefactor of his Murder and yet cause him to be whipp'd at the Cart for his provoking Language God doth not forgive great heinous Sins and retain small ones he taketh away as saith the Prophet all our iniquities healeth all our back-slidings forgiveth us freely loveth us freely maketh us pure and clean whiter than the Snow and preserveth us spotless till we appear before him They that continue in sin in expectation of a Purgatory may be mistaken and fall in the lake which burneth with for and brimstone which is the second Death Rev. 21.8 My fifth Objection shall be against the Popish Limb●● Infantum an imaginary place where the Roman Clergy bar up all unbaptized Infants eternally from the presence of God. This is an uncharitable Opinion and cannot consist with the goodness mercy wisdom and fore-knowledge of God who hath found out and ordained a sufficient Remedy for lost man which under some circumstances cannot be administred for frustranea est illa potentia quae nequit reduci in actum Now I hope the Papists will not deny that some Children are sanctify'd in the Mothers Womb Jer. 1.5 and if such a Child should dye without Baptism who dareth to affirm that he is separated from the presence of that God who hath promised to be both the God of the faithful and of their seed My sixth Objection shall be against Popish Baptism For what a brutish thing is it to adulterate the Water and Element of this Holy Sacrament with Oyl Salt and Spittle Is sensual man wiser than the Omnipotent God If he Work who can lett And who can say unto the King of Kings what dost thou Every thing ought to be done in decency and order but this nasty and brutish trick is the shame of Sacraments the blush of Babylon the impudence of Popery and the absurdity of abominations Will it not satisfie you to eat up the good Pastures but with the Idol-shepherds in old to tread down the residue with your feet Will it not satisfie you to eat God's Body Cancel the Scriptures and debar the people from the Word of God but must you also spit on his Sacrament Homologating the deeds of Judas and Pilate and of those Wicked Jews who served him so when they Crucify'd him Will it not satisfie you to drink all the Wine at his Supper unless you spit in this Element of Water because it doth not answer your drunken Appetites O wretched Hypocrites How can ye escape the Damnation of Hell. And what a ridiculous wicked thing is it to Baptize Bells Churches and other Ecclesiastical Necessaries in the Name of Christ Whether is it to mock or spite the Christian Religion Did he ever Dye for Metal Stones and Wood Were these the posterity of Adam Have Stocks and Stones Wood and Metal Immortal Souls And has Christ commanded some Stones such as are in Church-Walls and such Metal as is moulded in Bells and such Wood as is converted to Roods and wherewith we Roof Churches to be Baptized and not every Pot and Pan Stick and Stone we meet with If they have right to the Sacraments why not to the Word And why do you not Preach to them Why do you not Administer to them the Lord's Supper since he can eat and drink with the Priest's mouth as well as other Laicks My seventh Objection shall be against the Popish Eucharist wherein they pretend both to make and eat God as is affirmed by Innocencius in his Mysteries of the Mass lib. 4. cap. 19. Panis in Cristum transubstantiatur ita in Creatorem sic ergo Creatura quotidie fit Creator And Bonner in
the V. to Rebel against his good Old Father who at last by his assistance beat him from the Empire and brought him to beg his Bread so that he lived and died miserable and was caused to lye rotting above ground without burying five years at the Pope's special command Innocent IV. called Henry III. King of England his Vassal Slave and Page whom he could imprison and put to open shame at his pleasure Hadrian IV. fell out with the Emperour of Germany for holding his wrong Stirrup Innocent III. took from John King of England both his Crown and Kingdom and gave it to Lewis the French Kings Son without any just cause Celestine III. Crowned the Emperour and Empress of Germany with his Feet and throwing off the Crowns again with his Toe said Th●ve power both to make and unmake Kings and Emperours Nicolas III. begot a Bastard Son that had Claws and Hair like a Bear. Boniface VIII because Philip King of France would not suffer the Revenues of his Kingdom to be transported to Foreign Countries Cursed both him and his to the fourth Generation He likewise gave Authority to Ecclesiastick Persons in England to deliver the people to Satan twice a year This man came by the Popedom after a most devilish and treacherous manner for finding his Master Pope Celestine the Fifth a simple doting Man he hired one of his Bed-chamber to make a Ghostly noise in a long Reed through a hole which he had caused to be made privately in the Wall of his Holiness's Chamber crying CELESTINE CELESTINE give over thy Charge for it is above thy strength and ability The Old Man thinking the Infernal noise had been the Voice of an Angel sent from Heaven in spite of all opposers gave over the Popedom on St. Luke's Eve and went to a Desart to lead an Eremit's life as Massaeus writeth But the Impostor Boniface who had thus cheated the simple man and gotten to be his Successor fearing that the people would follow him as Pope apprehended Old Celestine and put him in close Prison where he lay till the day of his Death But Boniface himself did not escape the just Judgment of God for he dyed in a miserable condition with a guilty Conscience This is he of whom it was said He enter'd like a FOX he reigned like a LYON and dyed like a DOG Clement the V. caused his Hang-man to take Francis Dandalus a Venetian Duke and bind him with Chains and throw him at his Feet under his Table where for very hunger he gnaw'd bones like a Dog. Clement VI. caused to Poyson the Emperour Lewis without any cause but Pride Covetousness and desire of Superiority Urban VI. drowned seven Cardinals because he suspected that they had conspired against him with Charles King of Naples and Clement his Competitor an Antipope This Urban whom some termed Turban for his wicked and troublesome life as he was in haste riding from Naples with his Spiritual Court of Rogues and Sodomites caused one of his Cut-throats to kill the Bishop of Aquilo his Prisoner leaving his dead mangled body on the way because after his racking and tormenting he could not ride so fast as His Holiness Pope Sixtus IV. gave liberty to several Families of the Clergy to defile their bodies with all manner of filthiness and brutish uncleanness for the three hot months June July and August Innocent VIII begat sixteen Children on sixteen several Women and was so brutish every way that after his Death this Epitaph was made upon him Octo Nocens pueros genuit totidemque puellas Hunc merito poterit dicere Roma patrem Spuricies Gula avaritia atque ignavia Deses Hoc octave jacent quo tegeris tumulo Benedict the XII bought with a large summ of money the Sister of Francis Petrarch a very beautiful Woman to satisfie his Carnal desire Alexander the VI. lay with his own Daughter on whom after her death this Epitaph was made Hic jacet in tumulo Lucretia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nuras Paul III. in disguise lay with a young Gentlewoman under pretence of Wooing her by whom he had a Son called Peter Aloysius the express Image of such a Father For being General of his Father's Army he caused his Souldiers violently to hold the Godly Old Bishop of Fane till he in spite of the poor Old Man's heart committed that abomination with him that is neither proper to be Written nor spoken of the Bishop afterwards dying for very grief This Pope Paul had a Daughter named Constantia whose Husband he poison'd to enjoy her person with greater convenience and with her to wallow in uncleanness With whom also her Brother Peter Aloysius in imitation of his Father made bold to commit Incest This Pope also kept a List of 45000 Harlots about Rome which paid him a monthly Tribute for Liberty of Whoring These are Demonstrations of the Pope's Fallibility and the fruits of his manifest Wickedness These are the doings of the Son of Perdition and the wicked Works of the Romish Man of Sin which to number up all or as many of them as have been published in Popish Historians would make a book larger than twenty Church Bibles But ex ungue Leonem We may know by this little what the whole Volume would be and what metal the Mystery of Iniquity is made of Are these the Works of him that hath the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Anti-christ Tell me ingenuously Reader how you relish this drop of the Cup of Romish Abominations and if you can digest a whole Draught of it without Poysoning your Conscience Doth it surfeit your Soul to a future forbearance and force you to cry out O Man of God Death is in the Cup The second thing that I object against the Church of Rome is the keeping the Laity from reading the Holy Scriptures It is life eternal to know God Joh. 17.3 but how to know the God of Truth without the knowledge of the Scriptures of Truth I never could yet find out they being the right way and appointed guide to lead us unto Christ himself Our Saviour saith Joh. 5.39 Search the Scriptures And it was the commendation of the Noble Bereaus Act. 17.11 that they tried the truth of Paul's Doctrine by the Touch-stone and Scriptures of Truth For the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets All the Apostles wrote to the Saints in general and Paul desired the Colossians to read his Epistle publickly in the Churches and charged the Thessalonians by the Lord to read his Epistle unto all the holy brethren Now shall I conclude that there are no Saints but great ones and learned Doctors No Church or Congregation but what consisteth of Learned Rabbies and Clergy-men No Brethren but Bishops Abbots Priests Monks and Friers c God forbid For as Augustine saith Conf. lib. 3. cap. 8. Men unlearned earnestly contend for Heaven whilst learned Men without understanding wallow in flesh and