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A55499 A Christian caveat to all loyal subjects, or, A looking-glass displaying the foul face of phanaticism ... A. P. 1684 (1684) Wing P3; ESTC R14437 11,685 23

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pride is not the fruit of their faith but the fault of those men and they must answer for 't But the most intollerable pride of some Phanaticks of the first magnitude and highest elevation among them which I shall mention was approved by their followers and therefore may justly be imputed to them Tim I cannot say but you speak reason go on in your discourse Phil. Did you never hear Tim of John of Leyden that famous Phanatick This monster of mankind at length arriv'd to that height of blasphemous pride and insufferable arrogancy that he took upon him to be Jesus Christ himself and true Saviour of the World and sent abroad from Munster where he had got by pious artif●ces and rebellious principles the temporal power into his hands his twelve Apostles to preach his new Gospel unto the World and his crew of followers did maintain him in this pro●igious pride and blasphemy till at length divine vengeance fell heavy on his and their accursed heads to terrifie others from such antichristian Blasphemies But to come home to our selves In the time of the long Parliament who by no mean pride made themselves Kings by by destroying Monarchy was not one James Naylor for his wonderful seeming Sanctity cry'd up for the Saviour of the World by the Phanatick Rabble and set upon an Ass to ride in triumph on Palm-Sunday as our blessed Saviour did to Jerusalem they using to him the same acclamations and he glorying in their Blasphemies Can any Pride be comparable to this Lucifer's ambition was to be but like to God ero similis altissimo but these Men or rather antichristian Monsters must be no less than Jesus Christ and God himself 'T is true this blasphemous Naylor was afterwards punish't for this prodigious pride but his Followers call'd it a Persecution However let not Phanaticks rail so simply against Popish Pride till they themselves afford some Examples of Humility I know Tim you are no small Scripturist read the third Chapter of the second Epistle to Timothy and you will find a perfect description of these men For are not they boasters of their own ways and holiness prond above measure blasphemers disobedient traitors heady high minded having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof Can this be denied of them And therefore I say to thee Tim what St. Paul there says to us all From such turn away Tim. I think your counsel 's good For 't is time to turn from those whom I see now endeavour to overturn the Christian World with Pride and Blasphemies The Fourth Lesson Of Phanatical Prayers and Devotions Timothy ARE not those strange devotions Phil which the Papists use related in the Protestant Looking-Glass Phil. Yes truely Tim strange and rediculous enough as there related if any Papists be so silly as to use them But take my word for 't if the adversaries of the Church of Rome had no better arguments to confute her devotions they will not be thought the worse of by rational men However if some Papists may be guilty of rediculous devotions I am sure Phanaticks of all men have no reason to lay it to their charge who too often disgrace this principle part of Christian-worship by their extempore effusions in their publick meetings What think you of this Presbyterian Cant among other such stuff by a Scotch Minister before Sermon Lord maintain thine own Cause gu'd Lord maintain our holy Covenant Lord let the Covenant and the Common Prayer Book wrastle gu'd Lord wrastle wrastle I say Lord and I am sure the Covenant will throw the Common Prayer book upon his back Is not this pittiful rediculous Stuff to be made use of in the place of Publick Worship One might fill a book with such canting stuff in Presbyterian prayers and preaching But if you come to Phanaticks of a higher elevation who discover Gospel-verities by a mysterious light which is unintelligible what a Rapsody have you of fine words in themselves which signify nothing as they jumble them together in their nonsensical devotions What strange disorders and confusions are they guilty of by their pretending to the Spirit and Light within fathering their lyes on the Father of Lights with horrid Blasphemies And I have been told by those who have been present at the Meetings of some Phanaticks that they have seen such absurd Impieties and Abominations as are not once to be named among Christians And yet all these will needs be Saints and being strongly deluded by Satan think all the World in a Error besides themselves If I should descend to Particulars there would be no end Tim. I have enough of them and am resolv'd to be no longer deluded by them Phil. Let me also tell thee Tim That what the Protestant Looking-glass speaks of Popish Pardons and Penances c. is such jeering scurrilous stuff fill'd with such abominable Lies and unchristian Censures that if the Author had any sense of Christianity he would blush to abuse the World with such Railaries I am not one who will Patronize ridiculous Penances but this I am sure of that a Religion which enjoyns Penances for Crimes committed is more agreeable to the Practice of primitive Christians than that which has none at all and laughs at such Devotions Tim. For my part I shall not trouble my self to know what the Primitive Christians did I am for the Purity of the Gospel which holy Scripture declares unto us The Fifth Lesson Of Phanatical Miracles Phil. IT is evident from Sacred Writ That the Christian Faith was confirm'd by innumerable Miracles from Heaven that both Jews and Gentiles might by such Divine Attestations believe in Jesus Christ and save their Souls The Acts of the Apostles declare this sufficiently without dispute And that in after ages God did work many Miracles in his Church for the manifestation of Truth and conversion of Unbelievers cannot be denied by rational men Now if besides such as cannot rationally be doubted of in unquestionable Records some foolish wicked men have counterfeited Miracles for politick ends their faults are not to be imputed to the Church of Rome who severely punishes such Impostors Tim. Methinks Phil you incline too much to the Romish side Though your Discourse has brought me to dislike Phanaticism yet I hate Popery as much as ever Phil. And I love any one who is a Loyal Subject to his Soveraign My aim Tim is to make you a good Subject which Phanaticks neither are nor can be by their Principles But pr'ythee Tim if all Miracles are ceas'd in the Christian Church and must no longer attest to supernatural Truths why did Calvin so endeavour by a counterfeited Miracle to confirm his Doctrin Tim. Why you jest Phil did he so Phil. 'T is a well known story related of him by good Authors That compacting with a Zealous Sister and her Husband he was to counterfeit himself dead and the Wife to come running out crying in the Streets That her Husband died suddenly at