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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90146	A balm presented to these nations, England, Scotland, and Ireland to cure the wounds of the bleeding Protestants, and open the eyes of the deluded papists, that are ignorant of the truth ... or, A seasonable antidote against the errors of popery and pernitious [sic] doctrines of the Church of Rome ... By T.O. ...	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing O31B; ESTC R42274	8,035	25

A BALM presented to these Nations England Scotland and Ireland To Cure the Wounds of the Bleeding Protestants and open the Eyes of the deluded Papists that are Ignorant of the Truth c. By T. O. Licensed according to Order Printed for ● ● A BALM Presented to these Nations England Scotland and Ireland to Cure the Wounds of the Bleeding Protestants and open the Eyes of the deluded Papists that are ignorant of the Truth Being A Timely Warning to Protestants OR A Seasonable Antidote against the Errors of POPERY AND Pernitious Doctrines of the Church of ROME Wherein they are stated and Learnedly Confuted plainly shewing the Deceitfulness and vanity of so foolish a Religion when duly weighed and considered by the Word of God and by what Cruelty Fraud and Ignorance it is upheld Together With Prayers and Thangsgivings for our great deliverance from POPERY To which is added a Treatise of French-Persecution or what Protestants may expect from Papists if they get the power over us By T.O. D.D. A Warning to Protestants c. Psal CXXIV Ver. 2. 3. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us Then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us THough the Romanists with many specious pretences have especially since the Reformation endeavoured to prove the Verity and Validity of their Church yet we no where find that they have proposed any thing so material to that point but it has been either confuted or considered as a weak Pillar to support a decaying and tottering Superstructure For I would fain be informed by any moderate Communicant of the Romanists from whence or upon what account the Pope of Rome claims a Superiority or Headship Or why the acknowledgment of the Catholick or Universal Church of Christ should own any Infallible Head upon Earth And since both the Disputers and Writers of that Community that term themselves the Roman Catholick Church have either waved it as not to their purpose or for some other end equivocated with the Scriptures to support a building upon a sandy Foundation Before I proceed to the main matter intended I shall give some light into this affair It so happened that the Roman Empire having been divided into East and West the latter especially was extreamly harrassed by the barbarous Nations of the North so that the Supream Power lay in that of the East or Greek Empire and although several Popes of Rome had opposed any sole Headship or Supremacy one over another holding all Bishops equal in their Province or Diocess yet Phocus General to the Eastern Emperour Mauritius having murthered this Emperour his Empress and their Children and for that dispised and rejected by his own People what does the then Pope of Rome do but clap in with him and the more to gain a Power or Advantage over the other Bishops by many flattering and insinuating Letters extol his proceedings And amongst others we find these Expressions viz. Let the Emperour Phocus live and let the Angels clap their hands and rejoyce that so worthy a Man whose grateful Influence shines on the Bishop of Rome is advanced to the Throne of the Eastern world by the especial Providence of the Almighty From which time tho' by what unjust means I leave to the consideration of the Reader Rome dated her Spiritual Greatness to fulfill the Prophesie of St. John in his Revelations c. And as indeed it was founded upon blood and vio●●nce so has it been hitherto maintained more than by any other ways or means as by Racks and Tortures to such as at any time began to inquire into the Authority of that Usurpation and s●●● their Errors and by keeping the more un thinking part of those that adhered to it in the Region of Agnorance and darkness by blinding their understanding with fables instead of real Truths and placing the Traditions of Men instead of the sacred Uerity of the wor● of God and when at any time where they have a temporal power inquiry is made 〈◊〉 their many lying wonders and feigned miracles their superstitions in worship errors and absurd contradictions the answer is tha● they ought to believe as their Church be● believes though indeed few of them themselves know what she does believe and 〈◊〉 this be refused they are not only brand●● with the name of Hereticks but in dang●● of their Lives and many times expire 〈◊〉 flames by Racks and Tortures or languishing and lingering deaths which is t●● true mark of the Beast of which St. Joh● speaks viz. That kills all those that 〈◊〉 not receive his mark in their forehead worship his Image And this fatal exp●rience has taught the World by the m●● Massacres unjust Wars Burnings 〈◊〉 ●●stations poysoning and stabbing of M●narchs to such a degree as has made 〈◊〉 Infidels blush to be outdone in Treacher● and Cruelty and these mes●ly ●alling 〈◊〉 these that with a complyance with the 〈◊〉 lasting Gospel opposed the errors and unwarrantable Traditions of that Church as their holding a Wafer after Consecration to be a God and no less than the second person in the glorious Trinity even our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Essential and Corporal as well in Soul as in Body with all the substantial parts of a Body as he offered himself upon the Cross for the Redemption of the World The praying for the Dead saying Mosses for the deliverance of Souls out of Purgatory attributing to the Uirgin Mary the Honours only due to God himself praying to Saints adoring Relicks consecrated Candles holy Roses Agnus Dei's and Confessions to Men with many other Fables and Fopperies and for gain-saying these have flowed a scarlet Sea of Blood with which as St. John says I saw the Woman drunk with the blood of the Saints and the Martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondered with great admiration Rev. 17. 6. And these were they whose Souls cry under the Altar How long how long O God Holy and Righteous will it be e'er thou avenge our blood on those that dwell on the Earth And although as to the first of these our Saviour did declare at the eating the Passover that the Bread and Wine were his Body and Blood yet it then and at all times appeared to be meant only figuratively and mistically for at the same time when the Bread was eaten and the Wine drank his Body remained the same as before undiminished and untouched Uisible and Corporal both to be felt and understood and what more confirms it was his commanding his Disciples as often as they did it to do it in remembrance of him till his coming which an imply nothing more than to leave and ingraft more perfectly the remembrance of his Crucifixion and Death in the minds of his People and Church for as the Passover which he then eat was a Type of him to keep us the remembrance and expectation of his coming in the mind of the