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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25329	The Anatomy of popery, or, A catalogue of popish errours in doctrine, and corruptions in worship together with the agreement between paganism, pharisaism, and popery.		1673 (1673)	Wing A3058A; ESTC R9334	77,450	240

or their Bishop because they are the Princes of the people of God to whom it belongeth to distribute the common Goods of the Church 5. That the power of Order is not necessary to give Indulgences but the power of Jurisdiction only and therefore the Pope or Bishop may grant Indulgences though they be not in Orders 6. Neither is this power of Indulgences lost by any deadly sin Of the Disposition required to be in them that receive Indulgences 1. THe Papists say that Indulgences D● Willet Controv. may be granted to a sinner and for such works as are done while he is in the state of sin as if a sinful man do contribute toward the recovering of Jerusalem 2. Yet a man cannot perceive the fruit of such Indulgences unless he be in the state of Grace 3. If the good work enjoyned to be done be accompanied or joyned with venial sin it hindereth the fruit of Indulgence 4. That he that will receive benefit by these Indulgences must confess and be truly penitent 5. He cannot enjoy the Indulgence that doth not perform all the works that are enjoyned 6. That Indulgences may be profitable to those that will not though they can satisfie for themselves but do rest in the satisfaction of others How the Papists hold that Indulgences are profitable for the dead 1. THat the Praiers of the living and other works by way of impetration profit the dead ergo the same works being also satisfactory do also benefit them by way of satisfaction 2. That the faithful departed make one Body and one Church with the faithful living therefore say they the satisfactions of the living may be applied to the dead 3. As to the manner how Indulgences are applied to the dead some of them affirm that the Pope may judicially absolve the Souls in Purgatory and that they do belong unto his J●●●●diction and so he may extend 〈◊〉 indulgences to them as unto the living Some say that Indulgen●●● 〈◊〉 profitable to the dead after 〈◊〉 ●●●ner of the suffrage of the C●●●●● as the Praiers of it do 〈◊〉 by way of merit impetration satisfaction so Indulgences are granted to the dead as they are satisfactory and so after the manner of a suffrage as it is satisfactory Some of them think that Indulgences do profit the dead of condignity and worthiness 4. They hold that Bishops and other inferiour Prelates cannot apply Indulgences to the dead but only the Pope 5. That Indulgences directly belong to the living indirectly to the dead no otherwise than as the living do perform the works enjoyned for the dead 6. That Indulgences do not profit the dead in common otherwise than as they rejoice one for anothers good but only those Souls are delivered thereby to whom they are particularly intended 7. That the Pope may release unto a man living the pain of Purgatory which otherwise he were subject unto But when the Papists have cast up their accounts they shall find that neither Purgatory nor Pardons will serve their turn their summa totalis will be Christ crucified As for Indulgences and Popes Pardons the antient Councils were never of Council with them the old Fathers never favoured nor so much as savoured them Their Errours concerning Fasting VVE are so far from condemning of Fasting which is so often recommended in Scripture and joyned with Praier that as Praier sanctifieth the Fast so the Fast may add heat unto Praier and bring down the insolency of the Flesh Sobriety preserveth Chastity bridleth Lust and is a help to Watchfulness Our complaint of the Roman Church about Fasting is 1. That she hath changed Fasting into a distinction of Meats They place their Fasts not in Sobriety or Temperance in Meat and Drink neither in a total abstaining from all Meat and Drink for a certain time which was used of the Antients but in abstinence from Flesh and white Meats 2. They put Fasting among Merits and Satisfactions of an exercise of Humility making an occasion of Pride 3. The Pope hath taken this occasion to raise his Empire to set a Rule to the Markets to the Kitchins to the Bellies reserving to himself the authority to dispence having to that effect multiplied Fasting-days to that number that they are more than one quarter of the year taking upon him to give Laws to the universal Church whereas in old time Bishops gave Orders every one in his Diocess without any dependance upon the Prelat of Rome as Doctor Du Moulin noteth 4. That of sins against Gods Law as Fornication Stealing and Lying the least Priests can give the Absolution but eating a bit of Flesh in the holy Week is a sin for which a man is sent to the Bishop or to the Penitentiary And they account that man to commit a more heinous crime who should taste Flesh upon the days forbidden than he that should be taken in Adultery or other wickedness And in Italy and Spain men are in greater danger for tasting Flesh upon the days inhibited than for committing capital crimes 5. In the Roman Church he that hath eaten his belly full of Fish is accounted to have fasted but he that for want of other meat hath eaten a little Flesh is thought to have violated the Fast 6. They lay a strait Yoke upon mens shoulders charging them under pain of damnation to keep their Fasting-days making it deadly sin yea Heresie to transgress them as one Lawrence Staple was persecuted anno 1531 because in Lent having no Fish he did eat Butter and Cheese 7. There are many Mockeries in their Popish Lent-fast 1. They permit most delicate Fishes to be eaten which are more dainty than any Veal or Mutton such as are Pikes Trouts Salmonds Gudgeons Lampreys Oysters c. These use to be Dainties many times in the more costly Banquets of rich men perhaps of Noble Personages The use of these and the drinking of choice Wines are a fit means forsooth to tame the Flesh 2. And that these Hypocrites may seem to fast till evening they sing their Even-song at Dinner-time that afterward they may freely banquet and take their repast as if God did not know the hour of the day but by their Service and Singing 3. In the evening they make a Collation so they call it with divers delicate Sawees Confections Spices Almonds and Wine and in the mean time they bear the World in hand that they fast notably 8. In the Roman Church one man fasteth for another as if a Judg ought to release a Fellon because his Brother hath not dined as a learned man noteth 9. That the Penances of Fasting imposed on a sinner are redeemed with Money and that corporal pains are changed into pecuniary 10. That this opens a wide Gate unto Traffique so far that the Book called the Taxation of the Apostolical Chancery puts a certain price to the Letters of such Dispensations in these Words That a Lay-man may not be obliged to fast upon the days to which he is