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A61684	Pagano-papismvs, or, An exact parallel between Rome-pagan, and Rome-Christian, in their doctrines and ceremonies by Joshua Stopford ...	Stopford, Joshua, 1636-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing S5744; ESTC R20561	127,566	354

Theat lib. 3. p. 69. Durantus Rational divin Officior lib. 5. cap. 1. num 6. CONCLVSION I Could easily give you many other Instances of this Conformity and Agreement between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian which hath been as you heard confessed by many and defended by some of their greatest Doctors But I have already exceeded my Bounds and therefore will conclude with one Inference from the preceding Discourse Hence it appears How extremely hazardou● 'tis to live and dye in the Roman Communion For what Blasphemy Superstition and Idolatry is disfused through all the Veins of their Worship and Religion Antichrist 〈◊〉 Man of Sin is called the Son of Perdition 2 Thes ● 3 and so he is both actively and passively he is damned himself and the cause of the damnation of others Read v. 9 10 11 12 of that Chapter His coming is after the working of Satan with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a l●e that they all might be damned And they whom the Whore of Babylon hath made drunk with the Wine of her Fornication shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God Rev. 14. 9 10. The only doubt is Whether the Pope be Antichrist which seem'd so probable to the famous Lord Bacon that being asked by King James Whether he thought him so to be 'T was not less truly than wittily answered by him That if an Hue and Cry should come after Antichrist which should describe him by those Characters by which he is decyphered in the Bible he would certainly apprehend the Pope for him And whosoever will but peruse with an impartial eye the Authors on both sides that have treated of this Subject will I doubt not conclude the notorious weakness of their Answers to our Allegations to be at least an high Presumption of the Truth of our Assertion if not sufficient to put an end to all further Doubtings Quest Is not then Salvation possible in the Roman Church Or may not a man who lives and dyes in the Communion of that Church be saved Answ Many of our Divines have answered this Question Affirmatively with some limitations Which charitable Concession is grosly abused by our Adversaries of Rome When they meet with some weak and ignorant Persons whom they endeavour to proselyte the medium which they commonly use is this That their Religion is the safer And they prove it thus By our Confession Salvation may be had in their Church but their Doctors absolutely deny the possibility of Salvation This Objection hath been most solidly confuted by the learned Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury in ours and therefore by the Confession of both Parties they may be safe but of us there 's a great question for none but our selves say that we can be saved That I may give the Reader the true state of and return a full Answer to the Question propounded I will lay down these following Propositions 1. That we have great reason to think That many of the Laity in the Romish Church if not the greatest number of them do not cordially embrace many of their Corruptions in Doctrinals nor the most dangerous of them 2. That these are commonly tainted with so much of their Corruptions as renders their Salvation extreamly hazardous 1 Cor. 3. 12 15. If any man build on this foundation wood hay stubble He shall be saved yet so as by fire This Phrase so as by fire is Proverbial and notes the extream danger a man is in and yet escapes They are not saved with less danger than the Seven Thousand were among the Idolatry of the Ten Tribes 1 King 19. 18 or the Corites in the Tents of Corah their Father Num. 26. 11. 'T was an extraordinary Mercy that preserved the one and I cannot tell how rescued the other 3. That a Protestant leaving the Communion of our Church doth incur a greater guilt and consequently run a greater hazard than one who was bred up in the Communion of the Church of Rome and continues therein by invincible ignorance For a Protestant is suppos'd to have sufficient Convictions of the Errors of the Roman Church or is guilty of wilful Ignorance if he hath not And although we know not what allowance God will make for invincible Ignorance and the impresses of Birth and Education yet we are sure that wilful Ignorance or chusing a worse Church before a better is a damnable Sin and unrepented of destroys Salvation 4. When we say That Salvation may be had in the Roman Church 't is grounded on the hopes we conceive of their Repentance and not the goodness of their Religion 5. That man who embraceth Popery in its latitude that is the Canons of the Tridentine Council and as they are explicated by many of their greatest Doctors and whose practices exactly correspond therewith cannot be saved 1. Because he embraceth damnable Errors as worshipping of Images and the Host in the Sacrament 2. Because a Reprobate may do nay often doth as much and more than many of their chiefest Doctors have placed among the Agenda of that Church for the attainment of eternal life I grant that damnable Errors do no more than damnable Practices as Whoredom Drunkenness actually damn men when sincere Repentance intervenes this will obtain from God a Pardon of the one as well as of the other But the Repentance prescribed by their Doctors falls so far short of that required by God in his word that if a man rest in it and I fear too many do he adds Impenitency to his other Crimes and consequently is excluded from all hopes of Salvation This will appear if we remark the nature of that Repentance which say they is sufficient to obtain remission of sin In the new Law saith Lay-man after the commission of a mortal sin true Contrition is not necessary to a man who is about to receive the Sacrament of Penance but Attrition is sufficient though he know it to be no more And when 't is said That of Attrite by vertue of the Sacrament a man is made Contrite it is not to be understood as if the act of Attrition did pass into an act of Contrition but that the sinner by Attrition with the Sacrament of Penance is as well justified as by Contrition without it Theol. Moral lib. 5. tract 6. cap. 2. And Fillincius starting this Question Whether Attrition in the Article of Death be sufficient with the Sacrament or a man ought to have Contrition Answers That according to Divine Justice a man that 's attrite with the Sacrament is not obliged to be contrite in the Article of Death and he gives this reason Because the opinion of the sufficiency of Attrition with the Sacrament is practically certain according to the Council of Trent Quaest Mor. Tom. 1. Tract 6. cap. 8. num 197. And Escobar affirms That this is the received opinion of their School-men and Casuists Theol. Moral Tract ● Exam. 4. cap. 7. Reader My hearty prayer is That God would give thee a right understanding in all things that concern Religion and thy Salvation and to those of the Romish Perswasion Repentance to the acknowledgment of the Truth that they may recover themselves from the snare of the Devil FINIS To the READER SEveral Errata's have past in this Impression by reason of the Authors distance from the Press which the Candid Reader is desired to pardon and amend with his Pen.