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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70924	Romes destruction, or, Expresse texts and necessary consequences drawn out of the word of God, for the condemning of the doctrine of the Roman church, and justifying of that of the reformed churches first written in French, by C.D.R., a French noble-man ; and now published in English, at the solicitation of divers religious men of this nation by Jam. Mountaine.	C. D. R.; Mountaine, James.	1641 (1641)	Wing R11; ESTC R10609	52,610	234

prove it by this expresse text out of Saint Paul And you saith he being dead in your sinnes and through the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickned together with him having forgiven you all trespasses Colos. 2. 13. Now even as a dead man cannot doe so much as to stir his fingers end unlesse he be raised againe So a man dead in sinne cannot doe any good work unlesse God raise him first and regenerate him inwardly by his spirit The same Apostle teacheth it plainly in another place saying That it is God which worketh in us both to will and to doe according to his good pleasure Phil. 2. 13. The holyest men though endued with the spirit of God and ordinarily accompanied with his grace have alwaies acknowledged themselves to be sinners and very unable to doe good works Saint Paul speaketh thus of himselfe and also of all others in his person For I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandement came sinne revived and I died I am carnall sould under sinne I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing For to will is present with me but how to performe that which is good I finde not For the good that I would doe I doe not but the evill which I would not that I doe Rom. 7. 9. 14. 15. 18. 19. Is it not then a meere ridiculous foolery to teach that a man destitute of the Grace of God may doe any good work to obtain Grace seeing that these which have this Grace already doe not doe the good they would but doe the evill which they would not having alwaies some corruptions of the flesh opposing the desires of the spirit And therefore they must confesse that we doe good workes after we have received Grace whence it followeth that their Doctrine is false as I prove it by this argument If we doe good works after we are received into Grace Then it followeth that our works doe not dispose us to obtaine that Grace which we have already and without which we cannot apply our selves to good works But the Antecedent is true therefore the Consequent also CHAP. IV. That our Lord Jesus Christ hath fully and perfectly satisfied the justice of God for our sins both for the guilt and punishment thereof and consequently that it is a vain and unprofitable thing to desire to satisfie again unto the same by works THat which our Adversaries teach concerning satisfaction is That God releaseth unto the sinner all the guilt and forgiveth him the eternall punishment due unto it But that he will have it turn'd into a Temporal punishment alledging that if in our Justification nothing were found but the forgivenesse of sins it would be perfect mercy but that there is some other thing whereby the justice of God appeareth To be short The Doctrin of these Doctors is that God for the manifestation of his justice wil have the justified sinner to satisfie Gods justice for the Temporal punishment of his sinnes otherwise his justice is not satisfied Answer It is an old wile of Sathan which he hath alwaies practised by his false Prophets to smother and bury as much as in him lyeth the meanes whereby God is pacified with us and his justice fully satisfied Therefore I aske of them whether Christ hath satisfied to the justice of God or no If he hath not satisfied it he is not our Saviour and we are still in our sinnes lyable to the curse of the Law Galat. 3. 13. But if Christ hath satisfied the justice of God for sinne it followeth that it is satisfied and declared in this alone satisfaction of his and by consequent that it is a vain and an unprofitable thing to desire to satisfie the same again Now that Christ hath satisfied fully the justice of God for sinne these expresse texts shewe it clearly and plainly He hath born our griefes and carried our sorrowes He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed The Lord hath laid on him the iniquitie of us all Esay 53. 4. 5. 6. And the Apostle Saint Paul teacheth us That he hath reconciled all things unto himselfe having made peace through the blood of his Crosse whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven Colos. 1. 20. Again The Mediator is one between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus who gave himselfe a ransome for all 1. Tim. 2. 5. 6. Now the Jesuits and other Doctors of the Roman Church to avoid this use to make a distinction of guilt and punishment saying that Christ hath satisfied for the guilt and eternall punishment but not for that Temporal punishment reserved for the sinner justified for which he is bound to satisfie the justice of God But this is brought in to no purpose For I will stop up this passage upon them in producing expresse texts and necessary consequences drawn out of the Word of God that shew plainely the contrary First of all the Prophet Esay hath told us in the forenamed place that Christ hath not onely borne our griefes but our sorrowes also which are not the guilt but the punishment of our sinnes And to say that this is true as touching the eternall and not the Temporall punishment is to no purpose For S. Paul saith That there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8. 1. But what punishment soever is imposed for the satisfying of Gods justice is a condemnation Therefore there is no punishment imposed to satisfie the justice of God Secondly The same Apostle teacheth us That by Grace we are saved through Faith and that not of our selves it is the gift of God not of works least any man should boast Saint Paul teacheth us That he hath reconciled all things unto himselfe having made peace through the blood of his Crosse whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven Colos. 1. 20. Again The Mediator is one between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus who gave himselfe a ransome for all 1. Tim. 2. 5. 6. Now the Jesuits and other Doctors of the Roman Church to avoid this use to make a distinction of guilt and punishment saying that Christ hath satisfied for the guilt and eternall punishment but not for that Temporal punishment reserved for the sinner justified for which he is bound to satisfie the justice of God But this is brought in to no purpose For I will stop up this passage upon them in producing expresse texts and necessary consequences drawn out of the Word of God that shew plainely the contrary First of all the Prophet Esay hath told us in the forenamed place that Christ hath not onely borne our griefes but our sorrowes also which are not the guilt but the punishment of our sinnes And to say that this is true as touching the eternall and not the Temporall punishment is to no purpose For S. Paul saith That there

ROMES DESTRUCTION OR Expresse Texts and necessary Consequences drawn out of the Word of God for the condemning of the Doctrine of the Roman Church and Justifying of that of the Reformed Churches First Written in French by C. D. R. A French Noble-Man And now Published in English at the Solicitation of divers Religious Men of this Nation By JAM MOUNTAINE Psal. 137. 8. O Daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served Vs LONDON Printed by Stephen Bulkley and are to be sould by Henry Twyford at the three Daggers in Fleetstreet neer the Inner-Temple-Gate 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND most Illustrious Lord PHILIP Earle of Pembroke and Mongomery Baron Herbert of Cardiffe and Shurland c. Lord Chamberlaine of his Majesties Household Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Privy Counsell RIGHT HONOVRABLE IF Books were to be esteemed for their Bulke and not for their Worth I would not presume to Dedicate so little a Book as this is to so great a Lord as You are But since it is their Goodnesse and not their Bignesse that makes them recommendable the Book it selfe I hope shall answer for me For in It your Honour shall finde a great deale of good matter contained in a little roome In It You shall see the Doctrine of the Church of Rome flatly condemned and the Doctrine of the Reformed Church fully Justified And that not by any passages taken out of the broken Cisternes of the Traditions of men but by many expresse Texts and necessary Consequences drawn out of the Pure Fountain of the very word of God In a word though it be of a contemptible Stature yet you shall finde It to be a pretty tall Man of his hands skilfull in his weapons and so full of mettle and spirit that like a little DAVID comeing in the name of the Lord and being armed with his Word he foyles and utterly overthrowes that Great GOLIAH of Gath I meane the Church of Rome And now most Illustrious Lord the thing that hath encouraged me to make choice of Your Honour and seeke after Your Patronage is that my Author of Noble extraction himselfe Dedicated this Book of his to a Great and Religious Princesse of my Nation Daughter to that Renowned Prince the late Duke of ROHAN by which example I thought my selfe obliged not to disparage it in England But the most prevalent Motive and as I may say the very Loadstone that hath attracted me thereunto is chiefly those transcendent vertues which I see shine so brightly in Your Honor and wherewith God hath adorned Your Soule as with a garment I meane that Fervent love You have to the Truth That Ardent Affection You shew to the Sincerity of Religion and that Inbred and Holy Hatred You beare not onely to all Popery and Superstition but also to the least thing that might conduce thereunto And for the Confirmation of this testimony of mine Give me leave Most Noble Lord to boast that I am very strong and may with as much right as any man use in this the common English Proverbe that saith I come with a Witnesse since I bring no lesse with mee than the Voyce of the whole Kingdome For indeed Right Honorable though I have been in most places of England and have carefully and diligently observed the bent and affections of the People I never yet met with any man that dissented from that opinion What hopes then should not I have that Your Honor will accept of this poore Labour of mine and afford It Your Protection since It sutes so wel with Your disposition and that You shall see in It the Truth of that Religion which You Professe and the Falshood of that Religion which You Detest Vouchsafe therefore Most Illustrious Lord to receive It with a gracious eye and to afford It Your Countenance I know that for Your Honors sake it will be welcome to this Nation when they see Your Honorable Name in the front of It. And I make no question but after they have read It they will love it also for its owne sake If in these times wherein many looke back towards Babylon again and Popery hath been here so bold as to thinke her selfe at home the Publicke receive any fruit thereby they shall be obliged unto Your Honor for it but I more especially who will acknowledge my selfe bound so long as I live to be and remaine Your Honours most humble and most devoted Servant J. MOVNTAINE To the Reader THe Jesuits and other Doctors of the Romane Church having lurk'd a long time under the Cloake of a pretended Antiquity personall Succession false Miracles Councels and ancient Fathers And now perceiving that this old ragged covering is not able to hide any longer those Errors and Idolatries which the Pope hath brought into the Church because that the people whom they have deceived and by this meanes kept in their Errors beginne now to know That the Religion which hath the truth of the Word of God hath the Antiquity and that on the contrary That Religion which hath not this Truth hath the Falshood and Novelty Moreover That there is no succession of true Pastors where there is no succession of true Doctrin That Miracles belongeth now to Antichrist and are a marke of Apostasie and not of the Truth as the Word of God plainly teacheth Mat. 24. 24. 2. Thes. 2. 9 That they are forced to confesse That divers Councels and ancient Fathers have Erred and that they are not rules of the Word of God but that they ought to be ruled by the same Word They have been forced running from their colors to forsake their weather-beaten shelter to seek for a new retreat and cast themselves into a new intrenchment there to hold and lurke yet a while which is to aske of us some expresse texts out of the Word of God and necessary Consequences drawn out of the same for the proofe of our Doctrine and condemnation of theirs thinking by such means to perswade the simple people that we have bragd in vain that our Doctrine was conformable unto the word of God that we had expresse texts necessary Consequences drawn out of the same for the confirmation thereof and are not able to produce any But these Doctors imagining to hide themselves thereby have on the contrary stript themselves so stark naked that it is impossible for them to subsist any longer For I will shew in this Treatise with the help of the Lord that according to their own Maxime and proper Confession the Doctrine of the Roman Church is most false and That of the Reformed Church most true To come therfore to the Point without using any long digression We must understand that our Adversaries do confesse ingenuously That the Doctrine which may be proved both by expresse texts out of the Word of God and necessary Consequences drawn out of the same is

containe all things necessary to Salvation That â—t is but a piece of a rule a nose of wax a two-handed sword But for to supply the Scriptures want there is a Tradition and unwritten Word which they cause to be received with like credit and certainty as the very Word of God And with this artifice and cunning the Pope hath set up himselfe in the Temple of God and hath changed the Christian Religion into Idolatry superstition and false Doctrine causing the people to receive whatsoever he saith and decrees as the very Word and ordinance of God though they be things directly contrary to the same which things by the grace of God I shall make plainly appeare by many places of the Word of God and necessary consequences drawne out of the same First as touching the darknesse of the Scripture which they suppose for to hinder the simple people from reading the same I say that in this very thing they truely shew themselves to be those blinde and incredulous ones of whom S. Paul speakes when he saith If our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost In whom the God of this World hath blinded the mindes of them that beleeve not Lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them 2. Cor. 4. ver. 3. 4. If the Word of God be dark it is not in regard of it selfe but of men that are blinde by nature in things that are of God The natural man saith S. Paul receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishnesse unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned 1. Cor. 2. 14. And our Lord teacheth us that they which are not of God cannot heare the Word of God Joh. 8. 47. The Word of God is not dark to them that have received the Spirit of God that they may know the things which are freely given to them of God 1. Cor. 2. 12. I prove it by these arguments Whatsoever is a lampe unto the feet of the Faithfull and a light unto their paths the same is not dark unto them But the Word of God is a lampe unto the feet of the Faithfull and a light unto their paths Psal. 119. 105. Therefore the Word of God is not dark unto them Item Whatsoever illuminateth and makes the simple to have understanding the same is plain unto them But the Word of God enlightneth and maketh the simple to have understanding Psal. 119. 130. Therefore the Word of God is plain unto the simple Secondly The Pope and his Adherents teaching that the Word of God containeth not all things necessary to Salvation shew themselves wholly and absolutely adverse to Saint Paul these words are plain toTimothy The holy Scriptures saith he are able to make thee wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproofe for correction and for instruction in righteousnesse That the Man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2. Tim. 3. 15. 16. 17. The written Word of God hath the vertue and power to save soules S. James teacheth the same when he saith Receive with meeknesse the engrafted Word which is able to save your soules Jam. 1. 21. If you continue in my Word saith Christ You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free Joh. 8. 31. 32. These things are written saith S. John that you may beleeve that Jesus is the Christ the Sonne of God and in beleeving you may have life through his name Joh. 20. 31. The written Word of God therefore containeth all things necessary to Salvation and it is a needlesse thing to have recourse to mens Traditions Againe Christ saith That they worship him in vain teaching for doctrines the commandements of men Mark 7. 7. He would not therefore have men to take upon them to make laws commandements in his Church But rather that al should submit themselves to his doctrine and Commandements contained in his Word without either adding unto it or diminishing from it Deut. 4. 2. Apoc. 22. 18. 19. The fear of this people saith he is towards me through the commandements of men Esay 29. 13. In a word Christ and his Apostles in many places doe send us to the written Word of God but never to an unwritten word or humane Traditions But rather on the contrary S. Paul exhorteth the faithfull to take heed least they be surprised by the Traditions and vain deceits of men If any man saith he yea even an Angel from Heaven preach unto you any other Gospel than that which you have received let him be accursed Galat. 1. 8. The written Word of God therefore containeth all that which is necessary to salvation and consequently we need not seek after any other unwritten Word for that purpose Moreover We doe not reject all kind of Traditions but onely such as are contrary unto the Word of God or invented by men for to impose a yoake upon the consciences of men which God hath not imposed The true Church groundeth no Articles of faith upon the Traditions of men but upon the Word of God But our Adversaries build their Articles of faith upon the Tradition and the unwritten Word onely which they preferre before the holy Scriptures and set it up far above the same Gabriel de S. Maria in his treatise of the Authority of Scripture chap. 7. pag. 162. saith that If we doe compare the Tradition with the written Word of God we shall finde that the Tradition excels it infinitely for that it hath more necessity more light more firmenesse and more authority than the written Word of God The Church of God useth some Traditions but such as are not contrary unto the Word of God and which doe not impose a yoake upon the consciences of men But the Traditions of the Roman Church which as our Adversaries say excel the Word of God infinitely are directly contrary unto the same and impose a yoake upon the consciences of men which God hath not imposed which is clearly verified in these examples following 1 In the first place The Tradition and unwritten Word of the Roman Church teacheth That all the Faithfull ought not to reade and meditate upon the Word of God This doctrin is contrary to these places of the written word of God Blessed is he that readeth the Words of this Prophesie c. Apoc. 1. 3. Seek unto the Book of the Law and reade c. Esay 34. 39. 2 The Tradition and unwritten Word of the Roman Church teacheth That Saints departed are our advocates and mediators towards God This Doctrine is contrary to these expresse places of the written Word of God God is one and the Mediator one between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus 1. Tim. 2. 5. If any man sinne we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous John

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