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truth_n	believe_v	receive_v	unrighteousness_n	1,743	5	11.2223	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16459	A defence of the olde, and true profession of Christianitie against the new, and counterfaite secte of Iesuites, or fellowship of Iesus: Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman, borne in Borges, & Professor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued, howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus, and how farre off they are, from the thing signified thereby, and what their profession, and purpose is in truth: otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande.; Assertio veteris ac veri Christianismi adversus novum et fictum Iesuitismum seu Societatem Iesu. English	Boquin, Pierre, d. 1582.; T. G., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 3371; ESTC S116194	81,465	194

of God shewing him selfe that he is God that euen in his time the mysterie of iniquitie began to be wrought that his comming should be with the effectual working of Satan with al power and signes and lying wonders and in all deceaueablenes of vnrighteousnes among them that perishe because they receiued not the truth that they might be saued and that therfore God should sende them strong illusions that they might beleue lyes that all might be damned which beleeued not the trueth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes In these words the Apostle doth most fully and liuely set foorth the whole kingdome of Antichrist to wit that he should bring with him a departing from the fayth as the word doth sounde that he should be openly discouered to the world to be the man of sinne full of all abhominall and haynous attempts agaynst the maiestie of God that he should be the childe of perdition working his owne and others destruction that he should not onely directly set and oppose him selfe but also exalt and lift vp him selfe agaynst God that he should sitte with authoritie in the Church of God and aduaunce him selfe as God he declareth further that euen from the time of the Apostles Satan hath priuily sought to laye the foundation of this his Antichristian kingdome and the meanes to bring the same to passe he also describeth to wit that it was done by the effectuall and mightie working of Satan with all power and lying signes wonders and myracles and all subtiltie craft and deceite Finally he sheweth who they are that shall be seduced and deceiued thereby namely they that are castawaies and ordeined to destruction and he addeth therewithall a reason thereof the contempt of the trueth whereby they might be saued and that this shall be the iust iudgement of God to giue them therefore ouer to the strong illusion of seducing and erroneous spirites to their vtter confusion destruction These things Right Honorable beeing considered and layde together and compared both with the former and the present state of the Church of Christ on the one side and the pernitious practises of Satan in both we shall easily perceiue that in the later he hath farre passed the former and that in both he hath euer striuen agaynst Christ the foundation of his Church and the very effectes do declare the same if we looke but a litle therevnto For immediatly at the first publishing of the Gospell he brought to passe that Christ became a stumbling blocke and a rocke of offence vnto the Iewes as he is also at this day and to the Greekes and Gentiles foolishnes as likewise in their ofspring the Cerinthians Marcionites Maniches Arrians Nestorians Eurichians and such like heretikes oppugning his diuine and humaine nature and at last in the Turkes we see it euidently come to passe All which waying the doctrine of Christ crucified with the balances and waightes of humayne reason the course of nature Philosophie and mans wisedome haue accounted it but mere folly and playne vanitie Neuertheles these being open and professed enemies and caste out of the body and bowels of the Churche haue not bin so hurtfull and daungerous as Antichrist priuily lurking as it were in the very bosome and sitting in the middest therof pretending him selfe not onely to be a true Christian but also to be the head of the Church of Christ the Vicar of Christ the successor of the Apostles and his Romish religion and doctrine onely to be the Christian Catholike and Apostolike though it be neuer so expresly and directly to the contrary and by his Traditions Canons Councels and determinations chalenging vnto him selfe authoritie vppon the consciences of men in making them equall and of like force with the written word of God and exacting obedience therevnto vpon payne of condemnation To be short erecting a blasphemous sacrifice of the Masse expiatorie and satisfactorie for the quicke and the dead agaynst the onely most sufficient and perfect sacrifice of Christ robbing him at once of his kingly Priestly and Propheticall dignitie and office and so consequently spoyling him of his soueraigne titles and names Iesus and Christ and therewithall his Church of the benefite cause and ende of his comming in fleshe By this Romishe Antichrist and his members Satan hath more mightily preuayled agaynst the Church of Christ and shaken the foundation thereof more daungerously subtilly secretly and continually then euer he did before For although he hath not in flat wordes with the Iewes Turks Arrians and such like heretikes denied the Godhead of Christ or his manhood yet in effect hath he done the same in depriuing him of his office as I haue sayde and the end and scope of his comming which is to be the onely Christ the annoynted and holy one of God Therefore Iohn describing Antichrist sayth he shall denie Iesus to be that Christ and that therein he should deny the father and the sonne because whosoeuer denieth the sonne the same hath not the father And agayne Euery spirite that confesseth not Iesus Christ to haue come in the flesh is not of God and this is the spirite of Antichrist of whom ye haue heard howe that he shoulde come and now already he is in the world But to omit the monstrous and manifolde errors drawen from the sinkes and puddles of all heretikes wherwith this confuse and huge Babell of this Antichristian kingdome haue bin buylded vp the meanes and instruments wherby the same haue bine brought to passe are rather at this time shortly to be noted and marked as seruing most vnto my purpose The Apostle Paule as I haue touched before sheweth that Satan should to the accomplishing therof vse all power falshood deceit strange illusions And the same doth the spirit of God set foorth in the Reuelation by the image of a whore gorgeously arayed with purple and searlet attyred with golde precious stones and pearles hauing a cuppe of golde in her hande full of the abhominations and filthines of her fornication wherewith she maketh drunken the kings and inhabitauntes of the earth Hereby the spirite of God paynteth out the hypocriticall and goodly outwarde shew which as well Antichrist and his ministers as his doctrine should make vnto the world therby to seduce and deceiue the same This although it may be perceiued to be most true frō time to time in the hypocriticall swarmes of Popish Abbots Monkes Fryers and suche other religious orders as likewise in the scholmen and Canonistes the spirituall enchauntments and bewitchings of whose gloses distinctions definitions and conclusions haue as strong illusions beguiled the world and not onely the simple sort but the very wysest them selues and most learned yet especially the same is to be seene at this daye in the new and lately inuented Secte of the Iesuites which the Romishe Antichrist hath set foorth as the laste proppe and staye of his totering

A Defence of the Olde and True profession of Christianitie against the new and counterfaite secte of Iesuites or fellowship of Iesus Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman borne in Borges Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus and how farre off they are from the thing signified thereby and what their profession and purpose is in truth otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande ¶ VBIQVE FLORESCIT LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolf and Henry Kirkham and are to be solde at the little North dore of Paules at the signe of the Blacke Boy To the Right Honourable his verie good Lorde the L. Fraunces Russell Earle of Bedforde Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell T. G. wisheth encrease of grace true zeale and knowledge together with all spirituall giftes in Iesus Christ AS our Sauiour Christ Right Honorable hath buylded his Church which he hath so dearely bought and purchased vpon him selfe the onely sure rocke and foundation thereof then the which as th Apostle sayth no other can be layde So on the other side hath Satan alwayes sought nothing more then to vndermine shake and if it were possible to ouerthrow the same For he well perceiueth that so long as this spirituall house glorious buylding standeth firmly and surely grounded and founded vpon Christ the euerlasting trueth the way and the life contayned in the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles whiche they not onely haue deliuered to the Church by liuely voyce but as the faithfull Notaries and Secretaries of the holy Ghost haue also registred and cōmitted to writing in the sacred Scriptures for the continuall comfort and instruction thereof it remayneth vnremoueable and inuincible agaynst hell gates and all the formes and tempests raysed agaynst it by him and all his instruments Wherefore he layeth all his batterie and bendeth all his forces agaynst this foundation labouring by falsehood and lyes whereof he is the father to corrupt depraue alter obscure and deface the Gospell of Christ and the worde of life and thereby to subuert and ouerturne or at the least to weaken and shake the fayth of the faithfull resting wholle therevpon This hath bene euer from the beginning his practise and is at this lay and shal be vntill his kingdome be vttterly remoued and taken away Wherefore he is fitly named by Christ a lyer and a murtherer from the beginning For as by lyes he laboreth eyther to extinguish and abolish eyther to discredite and peruert the trueth of the worde So doth he therby intende and purpose the murdering and destruction of mankinde both body and soule For the which cause our Sauiour Christ as a moste wise and prouident and therwithall louing and carefull head and gouernour of his people foreseeing the daungerous and malicious attempt of his and their aduersaries giueth warning thereof vnto them before hande that they might not be founde vnprouided and vnfurnished when they should be assaulted and so by securitie and carelesnes loose the field and the victorie Therefore as well Moses and the Prophets before the comming of Christ inspired with his spirite as also at his comming in flesh he him selfe and his Apostles do giue vs a watchworde and often admonishe vs to auoyde and take heede of false Prophets false Apostles and false teachers though they worke signes and myracles and come in sheepes clothing that is make neuer so great a shewe of the true Prophets of God in outward apparāce yea though they following the steppes of their father Satan who transformeth him selfe the sooner to deceiue into an angell of light turne them selues into the Apostles of Christ Herehence is it that the Apostle Paule chargeth the Galathians not to beleeue an Angell cōming from heauen but rather to holde him accursed if he should teach vnto them any other doctrine then that which at his mouth they had recevued In which words he implieth a high and a waightie reason to wit that the trueth of the glorious Gospell of Christ is such and so great that not onely no humayne authoritie and waye of perswasion whatsoeuer should moue vs to forsake the same but that no angelicall or heauenly messenger whatsoeuer shoulde perswade vs to the contrarie thereof To the same purpose Iohn willeth the faithfull no● to beleeue euery spirite but to trye the spirites whether they be of God because many false Prophets are entred into the world But albeit this warning and ca●eat agaynst false Prophets be in diuers places giuen vnto vs yet then especially doth our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles labour to stirre vp the godly to a more continuall and earnest watchfulnes and warynes when they foretell of the state of the later dayes wherein we liue by howe muche they foresawe those times should be more perilous then any other in the which Satan perceiuing his time and kingdome to be short should rage most violently and vse most extreme tyrannie and put in vre most straunge and vnwonted practises to driue them from the onely foundation Christe Take heede sayth our Sauiour speaking of these later times that no man deceiue you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many and there shall arise false Cristes and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders so that if it were possible they should deceiue the very elect beholde I haue tolde you before Paule the Apostle likewise sayth that in the later tymes which he therfore calleth perilous men should depart from the fayth and should giue heede vnto spirites of error and doctrines of diuels which should speake lyes through hypocrisie and haue their consciences burned with a hote yron that moreouer some should haue a shewe of godlines but should denie the power thereof from which he willeth vs to turne awaye that as Iames and Iambres resisted Moses so should these resist the truth being men of corrupt mindes and reprobate concerning the fayth Peter also Iude declare that there should be false teachers which should priuily bring in damnable heresies euen denying the Lord that had bought them and that many should folow their destructions by whom the waye of trueth should be euill spoken of and should turne the grace of God into wantonnes and deny God the onely Lordae and our Lorde Iesus Christ But that is chiefly to be considered and marked which the Apostle Paule writeth of Antichrist and his comming For before the later day he sheweth that there should come an Apostacie and departing from the faith and that the man of sinne should be disclosed euen the sonne of perdition which is an aduersary and exalteth him selfe agaynst all that is called God and is worshipped so that he shall sit as God in the temple