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A41608	A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A two-fold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of that popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years fill'd it with fears and jealousies and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess : with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principal grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. ; to which is annexed, Roman-Catholick principles, in reference to God and the King.	Gother, John, d. 1704.; Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715. Roman-Catholick principles.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1334; ESTC R8084	89,548	131

that she is to be thus protected taught and assisted being not only while the Apostles liv'd or for the first three four or five hundred years next after but for ever to the end of the World Behold I am with you all days Matt. 28. 20. He will give you another Paraclete that he may abide with you for ever Joh. 14. 16. And the thing that she is to be thus taught to the end of the World being all truth He shall teach you all truth Joh. 16. 13. Now being assured by these Promises that the Church of Christ shall be taught all Truth by the special assistance of the Holy Ghost to the end of the World he has Faith to believe that Christ will make his Words good and that his Church shall never fail nor be corrupted with Antichristian Doctrine nor be the Mistress of Errours but shall be taught all Truth and shall teach all Truth to the consummation of things and that whosoever hears her hears Christ And whosoever despiseth her despises Christ and ought to be esteemed as an Heathen or a Publican Matt. 18. 17. The like assistance of the Holy Ghost he believes to be in all General Councils which is the Church representative as the Parliament is the Representative of the Nation by which they are especially protected from all Errour in all Definitions and Declarations in matters of Faith So that what the Apostles pronounc'd concerning the Result of their Council Act. 15. 28. It hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to Vs He does not doubt may be perfix'd to all the Determinations in Point of Faith resolv'd on by any General Council Lawfully Assembled since that time or to be held to the Worlds end The Assistance being to extend as far as the Promise And tho' 't is possible that several of the Prelates and Pastors in such an Assembly as also many others in Communion with the Church of Christ should at other times either through Pride or Ignorance prevaricate make Innovations in Faith teach Erroneous Doctrines and endeavour to draw numbers after them yet he is taught that this does not at all argue a Fallibility in the Church nor prejudice her Faith but only the Persons that thus unhappily fall into these Errours and cut themselves off from being Members of the Mystical Body of Christ upon Earth Whilst the Belief of the Church remains pure and untainted and experiences the Truth of what St. Paul foretold That Grievous Wolves shall enter in among you not sparing the Flock Also of your own selves shall Men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them Act. 20. v. 29. 30. which as it prov'd true even in the Apostles time by the fall of Nicholas and his followers as also of several others So it has been verified in all Ages since by turbulent and presuming Spirits broaching new Doctrines and making Separations and Schisms But this without casting any more aspersion on the Church or Congregation of the Faithful than the fall of Judas did on the Apostles or the Rebellion of Lucifer on the Hierarchy of Angels which was no more than that such wicked and presuming Spirits went out from amongst them and were expell'd their Communion as unworthy Neither does it reflect at all on the Churches Authority or make the truth of her Doctrine questionable to him that many of her Eminent Members Doctors Prelates and Leading Men have been or are great enormous Sinners infamous for their Pride covetousness or other Vices whatsoever The Promises of God's continual and un-interrupted assistance to his Church being not to be frustrated by the wickedness of such particular Men tho' in great Dignities These Promises being made surer to her than ever the Jewish Church Which nevertheless stood firm in her Authority and the Delivery of Truth notwithstanding the frequent Idolatry of the People Nadab and Abihu's Consecrated Priests offering strange Fire Corah Dathan and Abiram's making a great Schism and the sins of Moses and Aaron and other High-Priests in all her succeeding Ages Nay tho' all things touching Religion and Virtue were in a manner run to decay in our Saviour's time both in Priests and People yet did he maintain the Authority of the Jewish Church and commanded all to be Obedient and submit to those who had the superiority without calling in question their Authority or doubting of the reasonableness of their Commands The Scribes and Pharisees says he Matt. 23. 2. sit in Moses 's Chair All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do But do ye not after their works If therefore God's special assistance was never wanting to the Church of the Jews so as to let it fail in the Truth of its Doctrine or its Authority notwithstanding the Pride Covetousness Cruelty Impiety Idolatry of many of her Levites Elders Priests and High-Priests Why should not he believe the same of the Church of Christ which as St. Paul says is built on better promises and that it remains entire in the Truth of her Doctrine and her Authority notwithstanding the viciousness of many of her Governours Especially since he 's in a manner confident that there has been nothing so infamous acted by any Priests Prelates Popes or others since Christ's time but what may be follow'd Nay was out-done by the Priests of the Jews XVIII Of the POPE HE believes the Pope to be his great God and to be far above all the Angels That Christ is no longer Head of the Church but that this Holy Father hath taken his place and that whatsoever he Orders Decrees or Commands is to be received by his Flock with the same respect submission and awe as if Christ had spoken it by his own mouth For that his Holiness having once receiv'd the Triple-Crown on his Head is now no more to be look'd upon as Man but as Christ's Vicar whose Office it is to Constitute and Ordain such things as Christ forgot when he was upon Earth not throughly considering what would be the Exigencies of his Flock in future Ages And for this intent he is assisted with a certain Mysterious Infallibility such as hides it self when he is upon his own Private Concerns exposes him to all the Designs Cheats Malice and Machinations of his Enemies and lets him be as easily over-seen as imprudent as silly as his Neighbours But when he comes into his Chair to hear any Publick Business then it begins to appear and protects him from all Mistakes and Errors and he becomes immediately full of the Holy Ghost though he had the Devil and all of Wickedness in him just before HE believes the Pope to be none of his God neither Great nor Little That he is not above the Angels but only a Man He believes that Christ as he is supreme Master Governour and Lord of all created things so also of his Church of which he acknowledges him to be the Founder and Head But as notwithstanding this Lordship and Headship of Christ

A PAPIST Mis-represented and Represented OR A twofold Character of Popery THE INTRODUCTION THE Father of Lies is the Author of Mis-representing He first made the Experiment of this Black Art in Paradise having no surer way of bringing God's Precept into Contempt and making our First Parents transgress than by Mis-representing the Command which their Maker had laid upon them And so unhappily successful he was in this his first attempt that this has been his chief stratagem ever since in all business of difficulty and concern esteeming That his best Means for preserving and propagating Wickedness amongst Men by which he first won them to lose their Innocence And therefore there has nothing of Good yet come into the World nothing been sent from Heaven but what has met with this Opposition the Common Emeny having imploy'd all his Endeavours of bringing it into discredit and rendring it Infamous by Mis-representing it Of this there are frequent Instances in the Old Law and more in the New The truth of it was experienc'd on the Person of Christ himself who tho' he was the Son of God the Immaculate Lamb yet was he not out of the reach of Calumny and exempt from being Misrepresented See how he was painted by malicious Men the Sons of Belial Ministers of Satan a prophane and wicked Man a breaker of the Sabbath a Glutton a Friend and Companion of Publicans and Sinners a Fool a Conjurer a Traytor a Seducer a Tumultuous Person a Samaritan full of the Devil he hath Belzebub and by the Prince of the Devils casteth he out Devils Mark 3. 22. There being no other way of frighting the People from embracing the Truth and following the Son of God but by thus disfiguring him to the Multitude reporting Light to be Darkness and God to be the Devil The Disciples of Christ every where met with the like encounters Stephen had the people stirred up against him because they heard he had spoke blasphemous words against Moses and against God Acts 6. 11. Paul also and Silas for exceedingly troubling the City Acts 16. 20. Jason also with them because he had turned the World upside down and did contrary to the decrees of Caesar Acts 17. 6 7. Paul again because he did teach all men every where against the people and polluted the holy place Acts 21. 28. And because he was a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the World to which the Jews also assented saying that these things were so Acts 24. 5 9. Neither did these Calumnies these wicked Misrepresentations stop here he that said The Disciple is not above his Master if they have called the Master of the house Belzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold did not only foretell what was to happen to his Followers then present but also to the Faithful that were to succeed them and to his Church in future ages they being all to expect the like Fate that tho' they should be never so just to God and their Neighbour upright in their Ways and live in the fear of God and the observance of his Laws yet must they certainly be reviled and hated by the World made a by-word to the people and have the repute of Ideots Seducers and be a scandal to all Nations And has not this been verify'd in all ages See what was the state of Christians in the primitive times when as yet Vice had not corrupted the purity of the Gospel 'T is almost impossible to believe in what contempt they were and how utterly abominated Tertullian who was a sharer of a great part gives us so lamentable an account of the Christians in his time that 't is able to move compassion in stones He tells us so many malicious slanders were dispers'd abroad concerning the manner of their Worship and their whole Doctrin describ'd not only to be folly and meer toys but also to be grounded on most hellish Principles and to be so full of Impieties that the Heathens believ'd a man could not make profession of Christianity without being tainted with all sorts of Crimes without being an enemy to the Gods to Princes to the Laws to good Manners and to Nature Hence they conceiv'd such prejudice against them and they were render'd so impious in the opinion of the Vulgar that whatsoever accusations were brought in tho' never so false and malicious whatsoever Villanies were laid to their charge all was welcom to the enraged Multitude to which nothing seem'd incredible concerning those that were thus already odious Upon this it was that they were brought in guilty of Atheism of Superstition of Idolatry of Cruelty of Sedition of Conspiracies of Treasons and bloody Persecutions were rais'd against them to which the people were exasperated by Fears and Jealousies Quod Pontifices as Spondanus says Gentilitiae superstitionis Christianos more solito calumniis circumvenissent quasi aliquid contra imperium molirentur Because the Priests did use to divulge it abroad that the Christians were plotting against the Government Nor were these Crimes the whole Sum of their Charge For besides every publick calamity and misfortune that befell the Commonwealth was thrown upon them If Daphnes Temple was consum'd by Lightning from Heaven yet must the Christians be condemn'd as the Incendiaries If the City was laid in Ashes it must be reveng'd on the Christians Nay as Tertullian has it if Tiber overflowed if Nile watered not the Plains if Heaven stop'd its Course and did not pour its Rains here below if there were Earth-quakes Famine or Plague they would immediately cry out Christianos ad Leones Cast the Christians to the Lions as the cause of all the Calamities that arrived in the World and all the Evils that People suffer'd And now the Christians being thus reputed Prophane in their Worship Enemies to the Government and the undoubted occasions of every misfortune throughout the Empire 't is easie to conceive in what contempt they were and how detestable amongst the Heathens But because none can relate it so to the life as Tertullian has done I 'le set it down in his own words as translated by Dr. Hovel in his History of the World Is it not strange says he that the hatred wherewith this name is pursued in such manner blinds the minds of most Men that when they witness the probity of a Christian they mix in their Discourse as a reproach that he hath embraced this Religion One saith Truly He of whom you speak is an Honest Man if he were not a Christan and his life would be free from blame Another Do you know such a one who had the reputation of a Wise and Disceeet Man He is lately turn'd Christian Again These People by an extreme blindness of hatred speak to the advantage of the name Christian when they strive to render it Odious For say they How pleasant and of what a good humour was that Woman How sociable

Mark 6. 13. And tho' there be no express Command in Scripture for Blessing Water Bread c. yet there is this assurance that every Creature is sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer 1 Tim. 4. 5. and frequent Promises That God would hear the Prayers of the Fai●hful Why therefore should he doubt but that these Creatures on which the Blessing of God is solemnly implor'd by the Word of God and the Prayers of the Priest and People for their sanctification are really sanctified according to the assurance of the Apostle and the Promises of God St. Cyril of Jerusalem who liv'd in the Third Century made no question but that as those things which are offer'd to Idols tho' pure in their own nature are made impure by the Invocation of Devils So on the contrary simple Water is made Holy and gets a Sanctity by virtue receiv'd from the Invocation of the Holy Ghost Christ our Lord and his eternal Father Cyr. Catech. 3. St. Augustine was of the same Judgment touching the Benediction of Bread affirming that the Bread which the Catechumens did take tho' it was not Christ's Body yet it was holy yes and more holy than the Meat wherewith we are nourish'd Aug. Tom. 7. l. 2. de Pecc Mer. Remis c. 26. The like is to be seen in the Epistle of St. Alexander who govern'd the Church but fifty years after St. Peter where he declares the Custom even at that time of blessing Water and confirms the Practice of it by his Command And that Water thus bless'd was capable by virtue receiv'd from Heaven of working effects above its own Nature was the Sentiment of Christians in the Primitive times Epiphanius makes early mention Tom. 2. l. 1. cont haer 30. where he relates a passage at length how that Water being blessed in the Name of Jesus and sprinkled upon Fire which by witchcraft was made unactive and hindred from burning immediately the Enchantment ceas'd and the Fire burn'd As also that a Possess'd person being besprinkled with bless'd Water the Party was immediately cured Theodoret has the like Narration of the Devil hindring fire from burning and how that he was chaced away and the Charm dissolv'd by blessed Water being thrown on it lib. 5. Eccleshist c. 21. And does not St. Hierom in vit Hilarion p. 323. Paris print make this relation how that Italicus took Water from blessed Hilarion and cast it on his bewitched Horses on his Chariot and the Barriers from whence he us'd to run and that the Charm or Witchery did cease upon the sprinkling this Water so that all cryed out Marnas victis est a Christo Christ hath conquered Marnas the Idol And now there 's no jeering and Ridiculing these things will ever make them look like idle Superstitions to one that considers seriously how much they are grounded upon Reason the Word of God Antiquity and the Authority and Practice of the Catholick Church which though it approves the use of them yet it teaches plainly that there is no Confidence to be put in any thing but only in Jesus Christ and what power these things have they have not of themselves but only from Heaven and by the invocation of the Name of Jesus who as by his heavenly Blessing he enables us to do things above the power of Nature so also by the Prayers of his Church he blesses these things in order to the working effects above their own natural qualities that by them his Fatherly Benefits may be applied to us and that so the Faithful may more particularly honour and bless him in all his Creatures XXIV Of Breeding up People in Ignorance HE is train'd up in Ignorance and 't is the chief means made use of by his Church for preserving Men in that Communion to hide from them her manifold Mysteries of Iniquity her sottish Superstitions her un-christian Doctrines by performing all in un-known Tongues and not permitting the poor missed People to look into or understand any thing that they Believe or Profess And by this blindness they are perswaded to embrace such infinite numbers of gross Errors that were but the vail taken from their eyes but for one half hour and they but permitted to have one fair prospect of their Religion thousands and thousands would daily desert her and come over to the Truth HE has all the liberty encouragement and convenience of becoming learned of any People or Perswasion whatsoever And none that has ever look'd over any Library and found that the greatest numbers and choicest Books of all Sciences have men of his Communion for their Authors None that in his Travels has taken a thorough view of the Vnivers●●ies in Popish Countries of the Sorbon Louvain Salamanca Boloign c. and consider'd their laborious studies in Philosophy Divinity History the Fathers Councils Scripture c. and besides the Students here has seen how many thousands there are in Religious Houses who free from the disturbances of the Word make Virtue and Learning the business of their whole Life will ever lay Ignor●nce to the charge of the Papists but must in justice confess that amongst them are to be found as many and as great Scholars as amongst any People or Societies in the World And tho' the Vulgar and common sort of that Profession understand not Latine yet are not they train'd up in ignorance of their Religion nor led along in blindness but are so provided of Books in their own Mother-tongue of Instruction and Devotion wherein is explicated the whole Duty of a Christian every Mystery of their Faith and all the Offices and Ceremonies perform'd in the Chruch that they must be very negligent or else very meanly parted who do not arrive to a sufficient knowledge of their Obligation in every respect And whosoever has seen the great pains and care some Good Men take abroad in Explicating on Sondays and Holy-days in their Churches and on Week-days in the Streets the Christian Doctrine to the crowds of the ignorant and meaner sort of people not omitting to reward such as answer well with some small gifts to encourage Youth and provoke them to a commendable emulation will never say that the Papists keep the poor people in Ignorance and hide from them their Religion but rather that they use all means for instructing the Ignorant and omit nothing that can any ways conduce to the breeding up of Youth in the knowledge of their Faith and letting them see into the Religion they are to profess Neither does it seem to him even so much as probable that if the Church-Offices and Service c. were perform'd in the Vulgar-Tongue that upon this the now-Ignorant and blindled people would immediately discover so many idle Superstitions sensless Devotions and gross errors that they would in great numbers upon the sight become deserters of that Communion in which now they are profess'd Members For since there is nothing done but in a Language which the Learned Judicious and Leading Men

Or that can forgive him his sins for a sum of Money â„Ÿ Amen VII Cursed is he that believes that Independent of the Merits and Passion of Christ he can Merit Salvation by his own good Works or make condign satisfaction for the guilt of his sins or the pains Eternal due to them â„Ÿ Amen VIII Cursed is he that contemns the Word of God or hides it from the people on design to keep them from the knowledge of their Duty and to preserve them in Ignorance and Errour â„Ÿ Amen IX Cursed is he that undervalues the Word of God or that forsaking Scripture chuses rather to follow Humane Traditions than it â„Ÿ Amen X. Cursed is he that leaves the Commandments of God to observe the constitutions of Men. â„Ÿ Amen XI Cursed it he that omit any of the Ten Commandments or keeps the people from the knowledge of any one of them to the end they may not have occasion of discovering the Truth â„Ÿ Amen XII Cursed is he that Preaches to the People in unknown Tongues such as they understand not or uses any other means to keep them in Ignorance â„Ÿ Amen XIII Cursed is he that believes that the Pope can give to any upon any account whatsoever Dispensations to Lie or Swear falsly Or that 't is Lawful for any at the last hour to protest himself Innocent in case he be Guilty â„Ÿ Amen XIV Cursed is he that encourages sins or teaches Men to defer the amendmeut of their lives or presumption of their Death-Bed-repentance â„Ÿ Amen XV. Cursed is he that teaches Men that they may be Lawfully drunk on a Friday or any other Easting-day tho' they must not taste the least bit of Flesh â„Ÿ Amen XVI Cursed is he who places Religion in nothing but a pompous shew consisting only in Ceremonies and which teaches not the People to serve God in Spirit and Truth â„Ÿ Amen XVII Cursed is he who loves or promotes cruelty that teaches People to be Bloody-minded and to lay aside the meekness of Jesus Christ â„Ÿ Amen XVIII Cursed is he who teaches it Lawful to do any wicked thing tho' it be for the Interest and Good of Mother-Church or that any Evil action may be done that Good may come of it â„Ÿ Amen XIX Cursed are we if amongst all those wicked Principles and Damnable Doctrine commonly laid at our Dores any one of them be the Faith of our Church And Cursed are we if we do not as heartily detest all those Hellish Practices at they that so vehemently urge them against us â„Ÿ Amen XX. Cursed are we if in an answering and saying Amen to any of these Curses we use any Equivocations Mental Reservations or do not assent to them in the common and obvious Sense of the Words â„Ÿ Amen And can the Papists then thus seriously and without check of Conscience say Amen to all these curses Yes they can and are ready to it whensoever and as often as it shall be requir'd of them And what then is to be said of those who either by Word or Writing charge these Doctrines upon the Faith of the Church of Rome Is a lying spirit in the mouth of all the Prophets Are they all gone aside Do they back-bite with their tongue do evil to their Neighbour and take up reproach against their Neighbour I 'le say no such thing but leave the impartial Considerer to judge One thing I can safely affirm that the Papists are foully Mis-represented and shew in publick as much unlike what they are as the Christians were of old by the Gentiles that they lie under a great Calumny and severely smart in good Name Persons and Estates for such things which They as much and as heartily detest as those who accuse them But the comfort is Christ has said to his Followers Ye shall be hated of all men Matt. 10. 22. and St. Paul we are made a spectacle unto the World and we don't doubt that who bears this with patience shall for every loss here and content receive a hundred fold in Heaven For base things of the World and things which are despised hath God chosen 1 Cor. 1. 28. FINIS The CONTENTS 1. OF Images Page 1 2. Of Praying to Saints 2 3. Of Praying to the Virgin Mary 4 4. Of Relicks 5 5. Of the Eucharist 6 6. Of Merits and Good Works 8 7. Of Confession 9 8. Of Indulgences 10 9. Of Satisfaction 11 10. Of Reading the Holy Scripture 12 11. Of Apocryphal Books 13 12. Of the Vulgar Edition of the Bible 15 13. Of the Scripture as a Rule of Faith 17 14. Of the Interpretation of Scripture 18 15. Of Tradition 19 16. Of Councils 20 17. Of infallibility in the Church 22 18. Of the Pope 25 19. Of Dispensations 27 20. Of the Deposing Power 29 21. Of Communion in one kind 31 22. Of the Mass 32 23. Of Purgatory 34 24. Of Praying in an Vnknown Tongue 37 25. Of the Second Commandment 39 26. Of Mental Reservations 41 27. Of Death-bed Repentance 42 28. Of Fasting 43 29. Of Division and Schisms in the Church 45 30. Of Fryars and Nuns 46 31. Of Wicked Principles and Practices 48 32. Of Miracles 52 33. Of Holy Water 53 34. Of Breeding up People in Ignorance 55 35. Of the Vncharitableness of the Papists 57 36. Of Ceremonies and Ordinances 61 37. Of Innovations in Matters of Faith 67 Roman-Catholick PRINCIPLES In Reference to GOD and the KING PARAGRAPH I. Of the Catholick Faith and Church in General I. THE Fruition of God and Remission of Sin is not attainable by Man otherwise then in and by the Merits of Jesus Christ who gratis Purchas'd it for Us. II. These Merits of Christ are not apply'd to Us otherwise than by a Right Faith in Christ III. This Faith is but One Entire and Conformable to its Object being Divine Revelations to all which Faith gives an undoubted assent IV. These Revelations contain many Mysteries transcending the Natural Reach of Humane Wit or Industry Wherefore V. It became the Divine Wisdom and Goodness to provide Man of some Way or Means whereby he might Arrive to the Knowledge of these Mystrries Means Visible and Apparent to all Means propotionable to the Capacities of all Means Sure and Certain to all VI. This Way or Means is not the Reading of Scripture Interpreted according to the Private Reason or Spirit of every Disjunctive Person or Nation in Particular But VII It is an Attention and Submission to the Doctrine of the Catholick or Vniversal Church established by Christ for the Instruction of all Spread for that end throughout all Nations and visibly continu'd in the Succession of Pastors and People throughout all Ages From which Church Guided in Truth and secur'd from Errour in Matters of Faith by the promiss'd Assistance of the Holy Ghost every one may and ought to Learn both the Right Sence of the