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A70924	Romes destruction, or, Expresse texts and necessary consequences drawn out of the word of God, for the condemning of the doctrine of the Roman church, and justifying of that of the reformed churches first written in French, by C.D.R., a French noble-man ; and now published in English, at the solicitation of divers religious men of this nation by Jam. Mountaine.	C. D. R.; Mountaine, James.	1641 (1641)	Wing R11; ESTC R10609	52,610	234

ROMES DESTRUCTION OR Expresse Texts and necessary Consequences drawn out of the Word of God for the condemning of the Doctrine of the Roman Church and Justifying of that of the Reformed Churches First Written in French by C. D. R. A French Noble-Man And now Published in English at the Solicitation of divers Religious Men of this Nation By JAM MOUNTAINE Psal. 137. 8. O Daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served Vs LONDON Printed by Stephen Bulkley and are to be sould by Henry Twyford at the three Daggers in Fleetstreet neer the Inner-Temple-Gate 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND most Illustrious Lord PHILIP Earle of Pembroke and Mongomery Baron Herbert of Cardiffe and Shurland c. Lord Chamberlaine of his Majesties Household Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Privy Counsell RIGHT HONOVRABLE IF Books were to be esteemed for their Bulke and not for their Worth I would not presume to Dedicate so little a Book as this is to so great a Lord as You are But since it is their Goodnesse and not their Bignesse that makes them recommendable the Book it selfe I hope shall answer for me For in It your Honour shall finde a great deale of good matter contained in a little roome In It You shall see the Doctrine of the Church of Rome flatly condemned and the Doctrine of the Reformed Church fully Justified And that not by any passages taken out of the broken Cisternes of the Traditions of men but by many expresse Texts and necessary Consequences drawn out of the Pure Fountain of the very word of God In a word though it be of a contemptible Stature yet you shall finde It to be a pretty tall Man of his hands skilfull in his weapons and so full of mettle and spirit that like a little DAVID comeing in the name of the Lord and being armed with his Word he foyles and utterly overthrowes that Great GOLIAH of Gath I meane the Church of Rome And now most Illustrious Lord the thing that hath encouraged me to make choice of Your Honour and seeke after Your Patronage is that my Author of Noble extraction himselfe Dedicated this Book of his to a Great and Religious Princesse of my Nation Daughter to that Renowned Prince the late Duke of ROHAN by which example I thought my selfe obliged not to disparage it in England But the most prevalent Motive and as I may say the very Loadstone that hath attracted me thereunto is chiefly those transcendent vertues which I see shine so brightly in Your Honor and wherewith God hath adorned Your Soule as with a garment I meane that Fervent love You have to the Truth That Ardent Affection You shew to the Sincerity of Religion and that Inbred and Holy Hatred You beare not onely to all Popery and Superstition but also to the least thing that might conduce thereunto And for the Confirmation of this testimony of mine Give me leave Most Noble Lord to boast that I am very strong and may with as much right as any man use in this the common English Proverbe that saith I come with a Witnesse since I bring no lesse with mee than the Voyce of the whole Kingdome For indeed Right Honorable though I have been in most places of England and have carefully and diligently observed the bent and affections of the People I never yet met with any man that dissented from that opinion What hopes then should not I have that Your Honor will accept of this poore Labour of mine and afford It Your Protection since It sutes so wel with Your disposition and that You shall see in It the Truth of that Religion which You Professe and the Falshood of that Religion which You Detest Vouchsafe therefore Most Illustrious Lord to receive It with a gracious eye and to afford It Your Countenance I know that for Your Honors sake it will be welcome to this Nation when they see Your Honorable Name in the front of It. And I make no question but after they have read It they will love it also for its owne sake If in these times wherein many looke back towards Babylon again and Popery hath been here so bold as to thinke her selfe at home the Publicke receive any fruit thereby they shall be obliged unto Your Honor for it but I more especially who will acknowledge my selfe bound so long as I live to be and remaine Your Honours most humble and most devoted Servant J. MOVNTAINE To the Reader THe Jesuits and other Doctors of the Romane Church having lurk'd a long time under the Cloake of a pretended Antiquity personall Succession false Miracles Councels and ancient Fathers And now perceiving that this old ragged covering is not able to hide any longer those Errors and Idolatries which the Pope hath brought into the Church because that the people whom they have deceived and by this meanes kept in their Errors beginne now to know That the Religion which hath the truth of the Word of God hath the Antiquity and that on the contrary That Religion which hath not this Truth hath the Falshood and Novelty Moreover That there is no succession of true Pastors where there is no succession of true Doctrin That Miracles belongeth now to Antichrist and are a marke of Apostasie and not of the Truth as the Word of God plainly teacheth Mat. 24. 24. 2. Thes. 2. 9 That they are forced to confesse That divers Councels and ancient Fathers have Erred and that they are not rules of the Word of God but that they ought to be ruled by the same Word They have been forced running from their colors to forsake their weather-beaten shelter to seek for a new retreat and cast themselves into a new intrenchment there to hold and lurke yet a while which is to aske of us some expresse texts out of the Word of God and necessary Consequences drawn out of the same for the proofe of our Doctrine and condemnation of theirs thinking by such means to perswade the simple people that we have bragd in vain that our Doctrine was conformable unto the word of God that we had expresse texts necessary Consequences drawn out of the same for the confirmation thereof and are not able to produce any But these Doctors imagining to hide themselves thereby have on the contrary stript themselves so stark naked that it is impossible for them to subsist any longer For I will shew in this Treatise with the help of the Lord that according to their own Maxime and proper Confession the Doctrine of the Roman Church is most false and That of the Reformed Church most true To come therfore to the Point without using any long digression We must understand that our Adversaries do confesse ingenuously That the Doctrine which may be proved both by expresse texts out of the Word of God and necessary Consequences drawn out of the same is

Word of God since to be Antichrist is nothing else but to be contrary to Christ But the antecedent is true I have proved it already here above as touching the doctrine It is as easie also to prove it touching manners 1. First our Lord Jesus Christ shewed himselfe so humble that although he was King both of heaven and earth yet would he not shew himselfe to be such in this World He fled unto a Mountaine when the Jewes would have made him King John 6. 15. He saith That his kingdome is not of this World John 18. 30. But the Pope exalteth himselfe above the Emperor and above al Kings Princes of the earth Therefore he is contrary unto Christ in his manners 2. Christs mind did not runne upon heaping up treasures on earth but his onely care was to do the Wil of God his Father He testifieth That the Foxes have holes and the birds of the ayre have nests but he had not whereon to rest his head Mat. 8. 20. S. Peter also saith That he had neither Gold nor Silver Act. 3. 6. But all the Popes care is to gather up treasures and riches Therefore he is contrary unto Christ in his Manners 3. Christ willing to shew himselfe a patterne of humility washed the feet of his Apostles John 13. But the Pope will not be so officious but on the contrary he makes others to kisse his feet devoutly out of his pride Therfore he is contrary unto Christ in his Manners 4. Christ was Crowned with a Crowne of Thornes but it pleaseth his Holinesse to weare three Crownes that are not of the like matter 5. Christ went into Cities and Townes preaching and shewing the Doctrine of Salvation Luk. 8. But the Pope dispenseth with himself handsomely from that labour 6. Christ commands his Apostles to give for nothing that which they have received for nothing Mat. 10. 8. But the Pope is wiser than so to give any of his wares gratis 7. Christ teacheth us That if any man will be his Disciple and follow him that he must take up his Crosse Mat. 10. that is all manner of afflictions and poverty denying himselfe and his affections But the Pope followes not this precept and by Consequent cannot be put or placed into the number of Christs Disciples 8. Christ forbids Fornication and the Pope ordaineth it in suffering publick Stewes in Rome and other places that bring him in great profit 9. The Pope likewise shewes himselfe contrary unto Christ in greatnesse and Worldly pompe It is an admirable thing to see him in his Pontificalibus crowned with three Crownes or carried upon mens shoulders through the City of Rome attended with Suitzers and other guards both a Horse-back and a Foot and to see the people upon their knees worshipping him in the streets 10. In a word The Pope is absolutely contrary unto Christ in magnificence of apparell garments moveables Horses and Officers all which he hath in great number Item in meats drinks baths unctions corporal delights pleasures Musick Playes sports and all Earthly contentments Wherefore the Consequence of my Argument is most true and therefore none ought to doubt but thar he is that Antichrist spoken of in the Word of God Item That that Congregation which acknowledgeth him for its Head is not the Church of Christ but the Synagogue of Antichrist from which we ought to separate our selves according to Gods command Apoc. 18. 4. and cleave to the Reformed Church which is the true Church the onely Pillar of Truth out of which there is no Salvation Apoc. 14. 9. 10. If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his marke in his Forehead or in his hand the same shall drink of the Wine of the wrath of God which is powred out without mixture into the Cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lambe FINIS Imprimatur Tho. Wykes R. P. Episc. Lond. Capell Domest.

Apostles Creed we beleeve and confesse That he ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Item That from thence hee shall come to judge the quick and the dead Therefore it is a thing contrary unto the truth of God to teach that he is here below on earth in the hands of a Priest in as many places as there are Masses said But for asmuch as they alledge without any respect to Gods truth that it is his wil manifested in these words This is my body I wil shew that it is no more his will which cannot be contrary to his truth For the will of our Lord Jesus Christ was to institute a Sacrament But in all Sacraments there should be two distinct things to wit the signe and the thing signified the one thing terrestriall and the other celestiall It was his wil therefore that these two things should be in the Sacrament of the supper which he instituted that is the bread and the wine which are the signe and the terrestriall thing And his body and blood which are the celestiall and signified thing The signes received by the corporal mouth and the thing signified by faith according to that which the Apostle saith Christ dwelleth in your hearts by faith Ephes. 3. 17. Whereupon it followeth that it was not his will that the bread and wine should be transubstantiated into his body which they should signifie And indeed he did not say this is transubstantiated into my body but only This is my body And that conformably unto the style of the holy Scripture which giveth alwayes to the signe the name of the thing signified using in all Sacraments the word is for signifieth But forasmuch as all the difficulty lyeth upon this word is to know whether it ought to be taken properly or by signifieth in this euunciation this is my body I prove that it ought not to be taken properly but by signifieth Here is my argument If in all Sacraments the signes doe beare the name of the things signified Item if the word is is put for signifieth or representeth It followeth that the bread and the wine which are signes in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ought to beare the name of the body and blood of Christ Item that the word is is put for signifieth or representeth But the first proposition is true Here are my proofes 1. The Circumcision was a Sacrament among the Jewes that signified the Covenant of God as it is said in the 17 of Genesis vers. 10. 2. 4. 7. Every man-childe among you shall be circumcised and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt mee and you But in the same chapter this Circumcision is called the Covenant it selfe I will make my Covenant betweene me and thee As for mee behold my Covenant is with thee I will establish my Covenant betweene me and thee All that is said of the Circumcision it was then called the Covenant of the name of the thing whereof it was a signe So Christ following the style of the holy Scripture did call the bread his body 2. The Paschall Lambe was also a Sacrament among the Jews which represented the passeover of the Angel that passed by in Egypt Neverthelesse it is called even the passeover it selfe And thus shall ye eate it with your loynes girded your shooes on your feet and your staffe in your hand and ye shall eate it in haste for it is the Lords passeover Exod. 12. 11. 3. The Arke of the Covenant was also a Sacrament among the Jewes which represented the Lord but it is called the Lord himselfe in the Word of God as we see in these words And David arose and went with all the people that were with him from Baal of Juda to bring up from thence the Arke of God whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hostes that dwelleth upon it betweene the Cherubins 2 Sam. 6. 2. 4. The Rock from which came out waters in the Wildernesse was also a signe and a sacrament among the Jewes that signified the refection and spirituall food which the faithfull have in our Lord Jesus Christ but it is called Christ even by Saint Paul Our Fathers did all eate the same spirituall meate and did all drinke the same spirituall drink for they all drank of that spirituall rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ 1. Cor. 10. 3. 4. P●anigarolle in his Lessons page 477. deceiveth himselfe grossy being of opinion that in this place Christ is called a rock and therefore that this word Was is to be taken for being and not for signifying 1. For if it were the sence and meaning of the Apostle he would not have said that the rock was Christ but that Christ was the rocke 2. Also he would not have said in the passive tense was but in the present tense is For he is alwayes both the fundamentall and chiefe corner stone of the Church 3. To discerne the truth wee must but consider the words of the Apostle for hee saith That our Fathers did all eate of the same spirituall meate and did all drinke of the same spirituall drinke 1. Cor. 10. 2. But this spirituall meate was the Manna Exod. 16. 15. which he calleth spirituall because it was a figure of Christ Likewise this spirituall drinke was the water issuing forth of the rock Exod. 17. 6. Numb. 20. 10. 11. which also he calleth spirituall drinke because its signification was spirituall But as by this spirituall meat Saint Paul did not meane Christ himselfe So by this spirituall drinke he did not understand Christ himselfe but the water that flowed out of the Rock It is therefore cleare enough that this Rock whereof he speaketh is the same whence the waters flowed in the Wildernesse which he calleth Christ because it was a figure of Christ The which is plainely shewed in the foregoing words of Sea and Cloude For the Sea the Cloude and the Rock are used in one and the selfe same kind and to one and the selfe same end Even so then as it was a true Sea and a true cloude so this Rock was a true Rock And it is said it followed the people because the streames of waters that issued forth of this Rock followed this people a long time in the Wildernesse Againe Christ saith That he is the true Vine John 15. 1. That he is the doore of the Sheep John 10. 7. And Saint Paul saith That the bread which we break is the Communion of the body of Christ 1. Cor. 10. 16. Howbeit the bread is not the Communion it selfe but a Sacrament thereof As for Baptisme S. Paul saith That by it we are buried with Christ Rom. 6. 4. Col. 2. 12. because it representeth the death of the old man and of our naturall corruption But without going from the Sacrament whereof we now treat there is sufficient matter to shew plainly That in these

not at all in principality and superiority of jurisdiction Moreover they alledge againe That Christ said to Peter Thou art Peter and upon this rocke will I build my Church Therefore say they Peter was established the head and foundation of the Church I answer That Christ did not build upon the person of Peter but upon himselfe and upon the confession of Faith which Peter had made and therefore this conclusion That S. Peter is head and foundation of the Church is false For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid saith S. Paul 1. Cor. 3. 11. But this foundation which is laid is Christ Jesus Therefore no man can lay any other foundation than Christ Jesus Againe Christ hath plainely distinguished Peter from the Rock that is Simon Peter from the living Rocke upon which is builded the Church For he saith not super te Petrum but Super hanc petram that is to say upon this Rocke and not upon thee Peter Moreover let every one judge whether it is more convenient the Church should be grounded upon Peter than upon Christ upon the Son of the living God whom Peter had confessed or upon Peter who presently after denied the Son of the living God upon him who hath vanquished Satan or upon him whom Christ calleth Satan Mat. 16. 23. Upon him who is called the chiefe corner stone or upon him who was a scandal that is to say a stumbling stone Againe the Popes Disciples alledge that Christ said thrice to 〈…〉 my sheep But there is gr●●● difference betwixt feeding Christs sheep and to be Universal Head of the Church and Prince of the Apostles Christ saith not to him feed my sheep universally or soveraignly the same commission of feeding the sheep is given to all the Apostles The holy Ghost saith Saint Paul hath established you Bishops to feed the Church of God whom he hath purchased with his owne blood Act. 20. 28. Feed the flock of Christ which is committed unto you saith S. Peter 1. Pet. 5. 21. Christ speaketh unto Peter onely and biddeth him three times feed his sheep because he had denyed him thrice Christ draweth three confessions from him to remedy his threefold denying at the end of which he is reestablished in the office of a Pastor Therefore this being prooved that Saint Peter was not head of the Church nor Prince of the Apostles It followeth that the Pope who challengeth it but as his Successor hath intruded himself into that office without any lawfull calling and maintaineth himselfe therein by tyranny doing and practising that which neither Christ nor Peter ever did or practised 1. For neither Christ nor Peter ever shewed themselves in Pontificalibus crown'd with three crowns nor caused the Kings of the earth to kisse their feet as the Pope doth at this day having changed the Christian Religion into Idolatry superstition and false doctrines contrary unto the Word of God 2. Saint Peter never exalted himselfe above men and Angels as the Pope doth in that he willeth and commandeth all men to worship him and the Angel refused it saying to John that would have worshipped him See thou doe it not I am a servant with thee worship God Apoc. 22. 9. Saint Peter likewise made Cornelius the Centurion to arise saying unto him That he himselfe was a man Acts 10. 16. 3. Saint Peter never bragged that he had all power both in heaven and in earth as the Pope doth Item he never gave away the kingdomes of the World nor for that end dispensed with any Subjects for their oath of allegiance 4. Saint Peter never caused himselfe to be called God as the Pope doth Can. satisf distinct 96. nor said that he was neither God nor man but somewhat betwixt the Divinity and the Humanity as saith the Glosse upon the Clementines and never made himselfe to be called most holy Father 5. Saint Peter never stiled himselfe the Spouse of the Church The Prince of the Apostles the Universall Monarch the Soveraigne Pastor the Lyon of Juda the Saviour of the Church as the Pope doth Councell of Lateran Session 6. Who in so doing taketh upon him those titles which belong onely unto Christ 6. The Councell of Florence saith That the Pope may add to the Symbole of the Apostles which is as much in effect as to account and acknowledge him to be God For none but God alone can add to the Symbole And make Articles of Faith in his Church to bind the consciences of men Upon this objection De Raconismaketh a pleasant answer toPeter du Moulin That which you produce saith hee in his triumph of truth page 127. of the Councell of Florence that the Pope may add to the Apostles Creed avayleth nothing The meaning of it is only that he may whether in a Councell or out of a Councell establish Articles of Faith But not that hee will place them as thirteenth fourteenth or fifteenth Articles of the Apostles Creed This Doctor being smitten on his visible head was so amazed with the blow that he knew not what he wrote Master du Moulin tels him that the Councell of Florence saith that the Pope may add to the Apostles Creed Thereupon hee answereth that the onely meaning is that the Pope may make Articles of Faith Is not that well answered Doubtlesse if the Pope may add to the Symbole hee may make Articles of Faith Therefore he should have proved first that the Pope may add to the Creed and then it had been time for him to tell that he may make Articles of Faith But who hath told him that the onely meaning is that the Pope may make Articles of Faith What audaciousnesse is it in this Doctor so to restraine and wrest the words of this Councell which saith in expresse tearmes that the Pope may add to the Creed Mark therefore that De Raconis doth not say that the Pope may not add to the Creed but that the Articles of faith which he may make he will not place them as thirteenth fourteenth or fifteenth Articles of the Creed I answer it matters not since the Pope will have whatsoever he saith and decreeth in matters of Religion to be received with like credit authority and certainty as the Articles of the Creed Moreover I deny that the Pope may add to the Creed and make Articles of Faith And it is De Raconis part and the rest of the Doctors of the Roman Church to prove it by expresse texts of the Word of God or by necessary consequences drawne out of the same For lack of which I maintain that this alone is sufficient to prove that the Pope is Antichrist since he takes upon him that power which belongeth onely to God which is to be able to add to the Creed and make Articles of Faith to bind the consciences of men In a word if the Pope be wholly contrary to our Lord Jesus Christ both in doctrine and in manners It followes hee is that Antichrist spoken of in the