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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

in a false manner For 1. Such binds Gods Presence and Influence of Grace to such places as God never bound his presence c. unto 2. There is neither precept nor promise for it 3. 'T is expresly forbidden Deut. 4.16 17 18 19. 101. And though they say we intend not to worship the Image but God in the Image this is not a sufficient salvo for the Israelites worshiped not the Calf but God in the Calf yet are they said to worship the Molten Calf and to sacrifice unto it in Gods account Exod. 32.8 God writes up sin where they write up service and 't is no matter what their meaning is in their worship so long as God abhors the manner of their worship 102. The Heathens in their Idolatry had such a meaning as this as Arnobius contra gentes lib. 6. tells us Deos per simulachra veneramur just saying as the Papists say at this day The Athenians and other Gentiles worshiped the true God Act. 17.23 yet by false mediums and meanings and if this worshipping the true God falsely be not Idolatry there hath been little in the World 103. Oecumenius tells us that the whole Inscription upon the Altar mentioned Act. 17.23 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which intimates that besides Penates or houshold Gods for whom they had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or devout Adorations they had also Gods of Asia Europe and Lybia which they religiously worshipped Yet the ultimate end of their adorations was to the true God whom yet they knew not dwelling in thick darkness 1 Kin. 8.12 Hereby Paul takes occasion to inform them that the worship of the true God consisted not in those made Gods the work of mens hands but in Spirit and Truth John 4.22 23. 104. But to leave the Idolatry of the Gentiles I have consulted Josephus about that of the Jews in the days of Jeroboam who says that Jeroboam worshiped God in his Calves yet was he esteemed an Idolater (c) Josephus Antiqu. lib. 8. cap. 3 4. He brings in Jeroboam speaking thus God is in all places in my two Temples at Dan and Bethel as well as in Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem therefore I have Consecrated two Golden Calves in those two places to the end that ye may adore God He doth not say Adore my Calves 105. Yet when Jeroboam's Wife went to the Prophet about their sick Son the Prophet as Josephus says bids her tell Jeroboam from God that he should be rooted up for honouring his new Gods and his people should be carried Captive for adoring those Gods that he had forged But more plainly and fully 1 Kings 14.9 Thou hast made thee other Gods not representations of God though he accounted them so yet God did not so account of them but was provoked to anger by them for no sin provokes God more to anger than Idolatry 106. Whereas the Romanists plead they do but worship God before their Images as Israel worshiped God before the Ark I answer Israel had an express Command from God to worship before the Ark and they had a promise also that their Persons and Prayers should be accepted there When the Church of Rome shall produce such a Precept and such a Promise for their worshipping God before an Image I shall then believe that she is not herein guilty of Idolatry 107 The Church of Rome indeed covers her Idolatry with Coverings but not of Gods Spirit Isa 30.1 rather with such Cobweb Coverings as that of the Harlot Phaedra who committing lewdness with Hypolitus protested she embraced her Husband Theseus in him whom Hypolitus so nerely resembled As this protestation of Phaedra's would not free her from the guilt of Adultery no more will the protestation of the Whore of Rome saying she embraces the Person whom the Image nerely resembles while she commits lewdness with the Image it self free her from the guilt of Idolatry (f) Bishop Wren abandoning Scots Covenant pag. 20. Bishop Wren hath a good Notion saying Every thing that is not the Covenant of God is Baal let them nick name it what they will 't is an Idol and all the worship they give it is flat Idolatry no better than the worshiping of Baal That worship which is not found in the word or Covenant of God is Baal worship in his account no better than Idolatry the Romanists be halters 'twixt God and Baal 109. They that halt do incline their Bodies now one way and now another the Romanists as those Idolatrous Israelites 1 Kin. 18.21 halt in their worship 'twixt God and their Images inclining their minds now one way and now another to worship two Gods is a sin against the first Commandment but to mix the means of Gods worship is a sin against the second 110. That was a mixed Religion in 2 Kin. 17.28 32 and 34. 'T is said there that those Idolaters feared the Lord and also that they feared not the Lord v. 25. because though they worshiped the true God yet not according to his Law v. 38. as (g) Bishop Wren pag. 31. Abandoning of Covenant Bishop Wren in libro supra dicto pag. 31. says they thrust into their new model of Religion whatsoever pleased themselves so 't is accounted no fear at all They worshiped the true God and their own Gods too there was right worship of the true God but it was mixed with tricks of their own 111. That Mongrel Generation feared the Lord to wit acknowledged Jehovah to be a God and did offer some slight services and sacrifices to him yet 't is said they served their own Gods too v. 33. called Graven Images v. 41. Their Adrammelech which signfies a glorious King yet made in the shape of an horse and their Anammeleck or afflicting King in the form of a Mule Satan was glorious in their esteem yet afflicted them in the burning of their Sons to him 112. Those old Samaritans were halters betwixt two opinions They would swear by the Lord and swear by Malcham too Zeph. 1.5 They would consecrate themselves as by Oath to the service of God and yet they would worship Malcham also that Idol of the Ammonites otherwise called Molech 1 Kin. 11.7 and 2 Kin. 23.10 13. and Jer. 49.3 This is a joyning light and darkness or God and Belial together 2 Cor. 6.14 15. 113. Those worshippers of Malcham would not utterly renounce the true God yet would they set up Rivals with him to share of his honour which he will not give to another God cannot admit of any Corrivals They mixed Gods worship with their Idolatry or they worshipped God in this Idolatrous way as the Israelites did so the Papists do that divides worship some to God and some to their Images they swear by God and by their Saints too they pray to God and to their Saints also committing themselves to them together with God as to Patrons of their protection 114. Hereby the Church of Rome discovers her self not to be the true Mother of

Work he will neither dally nor desist till it be done and assuredly none can deny but the Great God hath begun this his Great Work called his strange Work Isa 28.21 and God will Accomplish his Fury Ezek. 5.13 for All his Works are perfect Deut. 32.4 He is not like the foolish Builder in the Gospel that lays the Foundation and hath not wherewith to finish Like 14.28 30. But the good Work that God hath begun he will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ Phil. 1.6 Notwithstanding the pauses that Providence makes in its Passage and Progress such are but as so many Parenthese's which never interrupt but rather Illustrate the Sence of a Sentence Sometimes 't is the Method of Providence in order to the fulfilling of Promises to step backward as David after he was Anointed the first time by Samuel was brought to Saul's Court to drive away the Evil Spirit from Saul which could not but give him some hope of the Crown God had promised him by Samuel yet after this was David brought thence to his Country Life of being a Shepherd Notwithstanding Gods Providence as the Battering Ram that steps backward comes on with greater Force again Now My Lords and Gentlemen Having all these Presaging Providences humbly Proposed not peremptorily and Dictator like Imposed for your Encouragement Arise and be doing for the Lord is with you 1 Chron. 22.16 The sound of Gods goings is gone out before you the Footsteps of his Anointed Psal 89.51 and you may hear an hurrying noise upon the very tops of those tall Cedats you have impeached in the Tower therefore now must you up and at it and with holy David bestir your selves like Men yea like Gods against those uncircumcised Philistins 2 Sam. 5.23 24. That the Lord may give you the Gift of Miracles not only for Removing those great Mountains that lye in your way but also to cast out those seven Unclean Spirits mentioned in this Treatise out of the Land so as never to return upon us any more Mark 9.25 That God may be your Arm every Morning Isa 33.2 And that the Arms of your Hands may be strong by the blessing of the Everlasting God of Jacob Gen. 49.24 and that your Bow may abide in strength until you have shot the Arrows of England's Deliverance 2 Kin. 13.17 So Prayeth Your Daily and Most Devoted Grator Christopher Nesse TO THE READER Candid and Christian Reader IN Common Calamities every one is bound pro virili suâ to Contribute his best Assistance though it be but one Bucket full of Water to quench a general Fire or one sod of Earth to stop an universal Deluge wherewith the sworn Swordmen of Rome have now threatned us I have therefore cast in my Mite into the Common Treasury this Opus Diei in die suo a Word and Work in season to wit a Graphical Description of the Romish Religion How it is as the Empty House in the Parable Matth. 12.43 44. Possessed with seven unclean Spirits How seven Abominations are in the very Heart of it Prov. 26.25 26. all Hateful to God and hurtful to men How 't is no better than the Babylonish Brat whose Father was an Amorite and Mother an Hittite Ezek. 16.33 The Mother of Harlots and of all Abominations Rev. 17.5 How there is Mors in Ollâ Death in the Pot 2 Kin. 4.40 and the Broth of Abominanable things in its Vessel Isa 65.4 How Mene Tekel is writ upon its Wall and being weighed in the Balance of the Sanctuary 't is found light Dan. 5.25 to be driven away by the Breath of Christs Mouth 2 Thess 2.8 How this Foreign Plant is no better than a stinking weed that hath never thriven in any Land but where it hath been watered with Blood and therefore is not to be Planted but to be Rooted up Matth. 15.13 This Manual is made publick That such a cursed Plant may be plucked up Root and Branch and never be Replanted in Immanuel's Land Isa 8. ● or England wherein God hath so remarkably even in capital Characters Recorded his Name Exod. 20.24 And wherein this wretched Weed hath had so many marvellous Extirpations by our Princes Parliaments and People That this Nation so great by having God so nigh it Deut. 4.7 may never suffer such a Notorious Witch to live in it Exod. 22.18 Nor this cursed Jezebel to Prophecy in the Bosom of it Revel 2.20 That we may not as the house in the Parable though swept of Moral Vices and garnished with moral Vertues which God knows is not yet be empty of the Power of Godliness which is the Intus existens prohibens alienum and so give an Opportunity for the unclean Spirit of Antichrist to Reenter with those seven worse than the former that Christ within us If he be but here our Nation shall not dye John 11.21 32. may keep Antichrist without us That Popery may never Return to us according to Dr. Usher's Fear and the Jesuit Campian's hope crying at Tyburn Proculdubio vincemus brevi for our Multitude of Jesuits will be too hard for your Parliaments c. That this Jesuits Hope may be as the giving up of the Ghost which is but cold Comfort Job 11.20 That we may not with fond Ixion Embrace a Cloud for Juno nor with blind Isaac mistake the Younger Religion for the Elder nor with cheated Jacob Entertain blear-eyed Leah the Romish for beautified Rachel the Reformed Religion nor call Evil Good and Good Evil Isa 5.20 This in Short I would not have you to catch Cold in the Poreh is the Unfeigned Prayer and Utmost Endeavour of Your Brother in The Best Bonds Christopher Nesse From my Study in Fleetstreet London J●●● 1. 1679. AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST POPERY 1. REligion is the totum hominis the whole duty of man Eccles 12.13 the (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. one thing needful which is (b) what have we more than it as Judg. 18.24 Which blesseth what we have to us that better past that shall never be taken from him Luk. 10.42 therefore should man chuse it above all things and among all our gettings we should get this principal thing Prov. 4.7 For God looks down from Heaven not to see how Rich or Strong or Beautiful we are but principally how Righteous how Religious Ps 14.2 Rom. 3.10 2. Religion gives not only a Relative but also a real worth to them that possess it it makes them more excellent than their neighbours Prov. 12.26 Gods peculiar Treasure Exod. 19.5 Precious Jewels Mal. 3.17 Yea such as the World be pot worthy of Heb. 11.38 While irreligious men be vile those are precious they but Chaff those Wheat they reprobate Silver those refined Gold they Briars and Thorns those be noble Vines 3. Yea while Strangers to Religion are but terrae filii base born ones those that are truly Religious are of the Blood-Royal of Heaven and in a word not only in alliance but Union with the

filios the Product of the Gods because they spring up without Seed yet are they but the sweat and superfluity of putrefyed Earth and therefore never can continue many Months Weeks or Days but soon shrivles into Fuz-balls This is the exact Resemblance of the Beast with seven Heads to Plot with and ten Horns to Push with ascending out of the Earth or Sea or Hell Revel 13.1.11 and Revel 11.7 and of his Beastly Religion that Smoke which ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit Revel 9.2 with abundance of Craft and Cruelty Though the Romanists say of it as the Town-Clerk said of Diana's Image that it fell down from Jupiter or as the Syriack reads it which descended down from Heaven Act. 19.35 yet Christ saith to them as John 8.23 Vos Infernales estis ye are from beneath Earth-sprung as so many Mushrooms and born from base Beginnings God grant they may dwindle away into Fuz-balls yea into nothing when their forty two Months the Beasts Lease are expired Assuredly Christ will smite Antichrist that Earthy one that lump of Earth which is both cold and dry heavy and bearing downward toward Hell as Earth with the Rod ef his Mouth Isa 11.6 And if John Baptist could say Christ must increase but I must decrease much more may this Earthy Antichrist this Toadstool Beast that only speaketh of the Earth not at all minding Heaven say so John 3.30 31. 6. 'T is Inconsistent with Rublick Peace in its Principles and Practices Insomuch that the very Collect for Gunpowder-Treason day in the Comon-Prayer Book calls the Romish Religion no better than absolute Rebellion How then can may or dare any sober mind do but hate this Religion as Rebellion it self which is as the Sin of Witchcraft 1 Sam. 15.23 Yea Dr. Davenant and Dr. Prideaux the two worthy Professors of our famous Universities have both determined that an absolute Papist living under a Protestant Prince and standing up to his own Principles must be an absolute Traitor And Mr. Fuller of later date affirms that an absolute Papist living under a Protestant King is battered with this two horn'd Dilemma of being either a Traitor if he walk up to his own Popish Principles or an Heretick if he deny them he cannot serve two Masters Matth. 6.24 This cursed Achan with his Babylonish Garment c. hath troubled Israel's peace in all Lands and therefore is to be stoned and burn'd Josh 7.15 to 25. with Rev. 17.16 Lastly 'T is Irreconciliable Implacable Rom 1.31 that admits not of a Truce much less of a peace like the old hatred of the Philistins to Israel Ezek. 25.15 or like the inveterate Enmity of the Seed of the Serpent against the Seed of the Woman that can never be reconciled but will last as long as the World lasts When you hear that the Devil is reconciled to God then may you have the Romish Religion reconciled to the Reformed 't is not any Amicable Reconciliation with Rome our Lord hath foretold but an utter extirpation Oh! then let not my Countrymen now Court the Whore which hath been so long Carted for a Whore the affection that is due to the Beast and his beastly Religion is hatred and not love Revel 17.16 I conclude this first Part with a lightsome story of a French Gentleman that being asked merrily which was the best Religion the Romish or Reformed Answered I may best know for I have been of both and surely saith he the Reformed which I left is the better for when I changed I had this Romish Religion and three hundred Crowns per year to boot Oh! pray that those seven unclean Spirits with the Romish Religion may be cast out of England for ever and never to return Mark 9.25 FINIS Books newly Printed for Dorman Newman at the King's Arms in the Poultrey THe Sinners last Sentence to Eternal Punishment for Sins of Omission where is discovered the Natuee Causes and Cure of those Sins by George Swinock price 2 s. 6 d. 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