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A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

We have preached and do preach to you a Religion plain and close which requires not so much shrewd and subtle heads as good and honest hearts Luk. 8. 5. The Testimony of the Lord that is sure making wise the simple We made your way plain before you They of Rome will perplex you with those infinite rules of Faith which the Learned among them cannot comprehend When you have endeavoured to know the minde of God in the Scripture that you might believe and in believing might have lise you have d●… nothing there are endless traditions which no one man ever saw which you shall never know but yet must believe them many Volumes of Councils which you never saw you must receive all the Popes Decrees whereof some are not yet published you must assent to before you can be saved To day you may believe all the Traditions Councils Decrees and Impositions of the Church of Rome and be saved and to morrow the Pope may set out a new Decree or a new Article of Faith which if you do not believe you are damned While you are here secure you know not but that there is a new article of Faith defined by the Pope which you do not know and not knowing cannot believe and not believing may perish for ever Ah! happy you who need not say Who shall go into Heaven or Hell or the uttermost parts of the Earth to fetch down a rule of Faith from thence The word is nigh even in your hearts and in your mouths 3. We have perswaded and do still perswade you that without knowledge the minde is not good we have intreated you to grow in all knowledge and in all goodness and we cease not to pray that you may abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgement You have a sure word of prophecie to which we say you would do well to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place a light to your feet and a lanthorn to your paths We say when an holy wisedom entereth into your hearts and knowledge it 's pleasant unto your souls discretion shall preserve you and understanding shall keep you to deliver you c. There are those abroad a part of whose Religion it is to make you perish for want of knowledge to keep you under the power of darkness that you may walk after the vanity of your minde having your understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in you because of the blindness of your hearts That Scripture which we have translated for you which is your meat your drink your delight sweeter then honey or the honey-comb of more value than the world must be taken from you and if they prevail as we know they will not it will be no less than death to read that word which is dearer to you than your lives your faithful Ministers to whom you would have given your right eyes must be removed into corners yea and must seal that Doctrine with their blood which they now deliver you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is to behold the Sun If the light that is in us be darkness how great how sad is that darkness A God we must own but shall not know him a Saviour we must have but we must that come to him though this is life eternal to know him and the Father who hath sent him Duties we must do that we may live but we shall not understand them Scriptures there are written to our comfort but we must not read them We erre not knowing the Scripture saith out Saviour we erre by knowing the Scripture say the Roman Catholicks Hear read saith God and your souls shall live Read saith the Papist and you shall surely dye O wretched mankind a great part whereof Mahomet hath taught not to hear reason that they may judge in themselves what is right a great part whereof the Pope hath traught not to hear the Scripture which is no vain thing which is our life A sad Religion if I may call it Religion that sets up the kingdom of darkness by which the Devil may rule in the children of disobedience A Religion that hoodwinks poor people in forced ignorance when alas we are all too willingly ignorant lest we should know Gods will or any way to Heaven but theirs so as millions of souls live no less without Scripture than if there were none that forbids spiritual food as poyson and fetcheth God's Book into the Inquisition 4. Although the Church and our selves by her appointment first discovered to you the eternal truth yet have we not suffered you to rest upon us who may deceive and be deceived but have led to the Rock that is higher than us and resolved your Faith into a foundation that cannot fail the truth and authority discovered in his Word by his Spirit They they of Rome who are now so busie will take you off from the foundation of God which standeth sure they will perswade you that the Word of God which you know is pure is corrupt that the Law of God which you know is perfect is defective that the Scriptures which you know in things necessary evident are dark and all this to what purpose but to settle you upon men who you know are a lie to make you rest on Councils who saith Bellarm. himself l. 2. c. 11. p. 153. May erre Particular Councils confirmed by the Pope may erre in Faith and Manners Some Catholicks affirm saith Bell. de Concil Ecclesiasticis l. 2. c. 5. p. 110. or upon Popes whereof some have been Infidels and privately conferring with their Cardinals said Oh how much gain this Fable of Christ hath brought us Others have been Witches others Murtherers others Whoremongers ravishing women in the Apostolick doors others as their own Records testifie by Bribes by Devils by VVitches have climbed up to the infallible Chair Oh can you trust your souls with those men which have confessed to have given their souls to the Devil that they might be Popes yea which is worst of all the poor Catholicks when they have relied upon this man as infallible today must tomorrow relie upon another Pope as infallible who may declare this man an Heretick if they believe not he is infallible they are damned and if they believe not he is an Heretick when declared by another Pope to be so they are damned too Ah poor men 5. We teach you to serve the true God and him onely to worship and we tell you he is a jealous God and he will not give his honour to another and that idolatry hath been the ruine of all Nations in this World and is the damnation of men without repentance in the World to come You know that Idolaters shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven for without are Idolaters Rev. 22. 15. Yet they they who now with fair words deceive the hearts of the

several disguises yea an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel in or near Westminster some few years since under Conne the Popes Nuntio on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars thereby to endanger shake subvert these Realms and destroy the late King as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece published by the Commons special Order An. 1643. who occasioned excited fomented the first and second intended but happily prevented wars between England and Scotland and after that the unhappy Differences Wars between the King Parliament and our three Protestant Kingdoms to bring them to utter desolation and extirpate our reformed Religion We conclude this Importunity with the Prayer on the 5 th of November for your Majesty O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our enemies that delight in bloud infatuate and defeat their counsels abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices Strengthen the hand of our gracious King Charles and all that are put in authority under him with Judgement and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn religion into rebellion and faith into saction that they may never prevail against us or triumpth in the ruin of thy Church among us But that our gracious Soveraigns Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodnesse protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thanks in thy holy congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PHILOLAUS OR Popery discovered to the People In a serious Disswasion from it Dear Country-men and beloved in the Lord Jesus YOu are so conscious of your Duty to Kings so obliged to their Government so faithful to their Person so regardful of the peace and happiness you enjoy under them every one under his own Vine and under his own Fig-tree and so sensible of the Misery of rebellion disturbance and confusion that we need not use any other argument to disswade you from Popery than this That it is a Religion written in many of your dread Soveraigns sacred blood a Religion whose prime Article as some of them say is Treason a Religion managed by conspirators and advanced by those who are born for the overthrow of States and Kingdoms who turn the World upside down We know your souls abhor these courses and detest these villanies but this is not all this way threatneth not onely your Kings but your selves endangereth not onely Their lives but your souls It 's not onely a great inconvenience that hindereth your peace and settlement in this World but a mischief that may hinder your Salvation in the next We hope indeed that you have received the truth of your own Religion in much assurance that you are rooted and grounded in the Faith Since you have scarched the Scriptures which the Papists kept from you and finde that these things are so Since you have felt the power and comfort of the Truth in your souls Since you finde it owned by Gods wonderful dispensations in the World whereby it 's great and doth prevail and seated in your hearts by his Spirit Since you see it eminent in the lives of many good men and confirmed by the death of as many excellent Confessors and Martyrs who vouch it with their last breath and seal it with their dearest blood Since you know it 's owned by the Church of Rome its self which hath nothing which we may call a Religion but ours viz. The Scriptures the Lords Prayer the Creed and the Ten Commandments c. to which they have added their own idolatrous superstitious idle and vain inventions which is all the Religion they have differing from us We are perswaded that you will not easily be moved from the the hope of the Gospel Yet that we may according to our duties assist our gracious Soveraign and endeavour to establish your hearts while he is establishing your Religion that while he with the advice of his great Council by a serious Law restrains you from Popery for fear we by serious motives may refrain from it for conscience sake The scandals given you are many the seducers are numerous their insinuations are plausible their temptations are taking you many of you are weak and we the Lord forgive us have been too careless and almost asleep while the Enemies sow Tares among us therefore we must leave with you a few plain words that you may have always before you Yea that they may be in your heart that you may teach them diligently to your children that you may talk of them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way when you lie down and when you rise up Many may write to you with more profoundness none write to you with more sincere servencie and earnest desire to save you and we are very sensible that while exact learned writings are taken up onely by learned men it is necessary that there be some plain discourses written whereby the truth may with evidence be conveyed to you 1. We taught you who are our joy and crown who we hope will be our rejoycing in the day of our Lord Jesus we taught you a Religion pure and undefiled before God which consists in solid virtue serious holiness an exact conversation led soberly righteously peaceably and Godly in this present World a Religion perfect right pure sure faithful holy just spiritual lively operative heavenly that enlighneth the minde sanctifieth the heart reforms the life frames a man after Gods own image in righteousness and true holiness We taught and do teach you a truth which is after Godliness a Mystery of Godliness a Religion that may make you wise to Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus which may be profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that you may be perfect and throughly furnished unto all good works in whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virture if there be any praise Alas The Papists having nothing besides the Scripture which we have as well as they which yet you shall not read but vain shadows of holiness a gross form of godliness which they cozen the Vulgar with consisting in Latine-service Images Tapers Rich Vestures Crosses Sentings Holy-water Offerings Prostrations Processions Pilgrimages and other bodily exercises that profit nothing whereas that true godliness which you profess is profitable for this life and for that which is to come They can teach you nothing but their own vain and useless inventions whereby they make void the Commandments of God nothing that may settle the heart establish the conscience satisfie the soul weaken sin strengthen grace promote your comfort or secure your eternity 2.

place they all speak with tongues and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers and they say that they are mad so that the great God is blasphemed Christian Religion is dishonoured Atheism is promoted and the world is ready to be shut up in unbelief 8. We our God our Church hath taught you a Religion that teacheth to deny all ungodliness and all worldly lusts to hate every false way to allow no evil inclination in our nature nor disorder or sin in our life A Religion that teacheth us to deny our selves to walk in a narrow way to mortific our lusts to abstain from all appearance of evil to walk circumspectly to live without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation to set God always before us and not allow our selves or others in the least evil The poor deluded souls of Rome endeavour by all means to set up a way that professeth to be a baud to sin whilst both in practice they tolerate open Stews and prefer fornication in some cases before marriage which is honourable among all men and the bed undefiled and gently blanch over the breaches of Gods Law with the name of venials and such favourable titles of diminution daring to affirm that venial sins are no hinderance to a mans clearness and perfection They would deceive you and themselves with a pretended power in the Pope to dispense with those sins which none can forgive but God They encourage one another and the vitiously inclined world to all excess of riot with a vain hope that sin may be bought and sold that pardon may be had for money and that riches will profit in the day of wrath So as Hell can have no Dives no rich men in it but fools and the friendless Devils indeed are tormentors there yet men can command Devils and money can command men We have taught you to fear an oath and to swear in truth righteousness and judgement and to speak the truth one to another for the peace and security of the world How can men live by one another unless they can believe what each speaks or swears to other But alas Rome would impose upon us a Religion shall I call it a Religion that allows jugling equivocations and reserved senses in our very Oaths O sad swear one thing mean another mock God and deceive the world Hear what Cardinal Ostatus reports of Pope Clement the eighth who said he urged that the King of France should joyn with Spain in the invasion of England but the Cardinal replyed that that King was tyed by an oath to the Queen of England whereunto the Pope answered and they say he is infallible that the oath was made to an Heretick but he was bound in another oath to God and the Pope and that Kings may allow themselves all things which make for their advantage Indeed saith he using the Duke of urbins words everyone doth blame a noble man that is not a Soveraign if he keep not his word but supream Princes may without any danger to their reputation make covenants and break them or betray and perpetrate other such like things What shall a Confessor do saith Franc. de S. Victoriâ an ingenious Papist and a learned reader of Divinity in Salamanca if he be asked of a sin that he hath heard in confession may he say that he knows not of it I answer saith he according to all our Doctors that he may But what if he be compelled to swear I say that he may and ought to swear that he knoweth it not for it is understood that he knoweth it not besides confession and so he swears true But what if he be asked upon oath whether he knew it in confession or no I answer saith he that a man thus urged may still swear that he knoweth it not in confession i. e. not so as to reveal it O wise cunning deep and holy perjuries unknown to our fore-fathers Yea which is worst of all they do obtrude upon the World so many idle Legends so many false Discourses so many lying Miracles so many pious Frauds as that they have shaken mens belief of all Antiquity such ridiculous and improbable things that they sure can hardly deliver them without laughter pleasing themselves to see how they deceive the world and their abettors cannot hear them without shame and confusion of face It 's a sad thing to see the wiser sort of the World read those stories on winter-nights for sport which the poor credulous multitude hear in their Churches with a devout astonishment Neither do they satisfie themselves with these false suggestions they have thrust upon the world but in conscience of their untruth they go about to deprave all Authors that may give evidence against them to outface ancient truths and to deface all monuments of Primitive belief and practice leaving nothing unattempted against heaven or earth that may promote their interest and disable us their innocent adversaries though thereby they blot out all Religion and suppress all truth We teach you to keep holy the Sabbath day prescribing the careful observation of this day and others as the onely means to keep up the life and power of Religion in the world But alas they turn not away their feet from the Sabbath from doing their pleasure upon God's holy Day they call not the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord and honourable neither do they honour it but upon it they do their own ways they finde their own pleasure and speak their own words 9. Our Church indeed preserveth teacheth openeth confirmeth and urgeth the truth yet so as your selves being judges and allowed a judgement of discretion she urgeth nothing contrary to Scripture Sense and Reason Yet if our Church were overthrown there are they that would overthrow with it Scripture Sense and Reason Not to mention their infinite vanities introduced to the Church which rob poor souls of the sound and plain helps of true Piety and Salvation they take from you one half of that heavenly which our Saviour left for his last and dearest Legacie to his Church for ever As if Christs Ordinances were superfluous or they were wiser than their Redeemer against express Scripture which saith Drink ye all of this Cup. They would have you mock God with a few Latine Prayers without faith ignorantly without comfort unprofitably expresly contrary to the 14 Chapter of the 1 Epistle to the Corinthians And lest ought should here be wanting to the affront of the Scripture and the setting up of the doctrine of Devils they forbid to marry yea they teach it is better to burn then to marry And when our Church hath taught you that all things are lawful that every creature of God is good and none to be refused all things being yours as you are Christs onely that you must admit three moderations of your Christian Liberty Sobriety Charity and Duty in obedience to your Soveraign forbidding

of England I mean the publick Doctrine for that is it we are to hold to passing by private Opinions I say the publick Doctrine of our Church is such as is not justly chargeable with any impiety contrarious to any part of that duty we owe either to God or man O that our conversation were as free from exception as our Religion is Oh that we were sufficiently careful to preserve the honour and lustre of the truth we profess by the correspondencie of our lives and actions thereunto And upon this point we dare boldly joyn issue with our clamourous adversaries on either hand Papists I mean and Disciplinarians who do both so loudly but unjustly accuse us and our Religion they as carnal and licentious these as Popish and superstitious As Eliah once said to the Baalites That God that answereth by fire let him him be God so may we say to either of both and when we have said it not fear to put it to a fair tryal That Church whose Doctrine Confession and Worship is most according to godliness Let that be the true Church FINIS 〈◊〉 1 Dan. Pri. Arist. pol. 1. Val. Mar 16. Halic l. 2. Iustinian l 2. Theodor l. 6. Euseb. vit Const. 3. 13. Socrates eccles Hist. 6. Niceph. 8. 7. Theodor. ecl H. 4. 4. Surius Concil Tom. 1. 2. 2 Dang prin B●lson Chr. sub l. 1. Carel. juris l 2 Confes. fid O● Eccles. ●●●ic Church Engl. Fides Jesu ●● Vid Hospin thist His l 4. Mercure Hist. p 1 p 884. Sanctarel de haer Extrau de obed Dr. Cracanth Popes mon B●●●n co●●p 1 R●p Thuan passim Hist 1 Tom. ●● hoc 3 Du plest●● Hist. Pap. and many more gathered together by Goldastus Mistery Jes. Antico●…om printed Anno 1633. Censura sacrae ●…cologiae Paris in Librum Anti. sanct Paris Pory 1626. Alphonsa di varos Tolet. d●…aratio ad ●…ges Christianos stratagem Aulit ●…uc Jes. ●…monarch orb●…s sib iconficiendam A. 1641. King 〈◊〉 to all Christian K●…ngs In vocc Ty●…n De Reg. In●…t l. c. 1. Insit l. c. 3. Ibid. A●… 1●… Ib●… Hist Fam. H. 4. Hist Ga●… l 1. p. ●…26 See Dr. 〈◊〉 way c 10. p. 46. G●…ston Hast. Xeth p. 764. Thuan. l 7●… 3 Jac to c. 〈◊〉 2●…6 Arraign Traytors Theol. Hon. 1. c. 12. See Bensor chap. c●…r B●…shop Taylor Serm Dedic to the late ●…chbishop of Ca●… 1●… de Po●…t Rom. 〈◊〉 Parl. l. 3. Apol. Cor. c 3. Philop. Sect. 2. de offic Princ. Chr. c. 5. Treshar deb Watsons quoal p. 295 Fudaem Apol. Gorn suarez def fin 6. B. P. Epist. ●…R Impr. Anno 1609. 〈◊〉 p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6. Bell de Parl. 5 6. Tred Ep. ad Pope Greg 9 Innocent 4 Record by Math. Paris p 332 Mr. Prynne Epist. before Vindic. Vid Sund. ●…m ad Clerum 2. Vid. ●…ook 7. Thes. 1. Vid. et l. Regis Elench Mo. 1 Vid. Proc Pul. Se Speed p 1181. Cambd. Q. Eliz. Cooke Inst. 7. de Pont. 1 c. 1 Jac. 1. Be they Cath. p. 350. See Maffae ●…s V●…geus Petrus ●…deniera in ●…ta Ignatii Loyol Hayli●…s M●…cto 〈◊〉 p 17 9 See Lewes O●… his Jesuites Looking glass printed London 16●…9 the ●…pistle to the Reader p 48 to 58 ●…bilaeum sive speculum Jesuiticum printed 644. p. 307. to 213. Hospin Hist. Jesuitica l. 2. * Speculum Jesui●… p 210. see Romes Master-piece 〈◊〉 Doom p. 435. c. Hidden Work o●… Da●…ness 88 144. Mercure Jesuit to●… 1. p. 67. Speculum J●…suiticum p 156 See ●…ewis Owen his running Register his Jesuited Loo●… glasse The 〈◊〉 of the English Nunnery at Lisbon g De Monarchia Hispanica p. 146 147 148 149 204 234 235 236 185 186. h See Tho●…a Campan●… de Monarchia Hispan watsons quodl bets Co●…tona Post huma p 19. to 107. C●…dinal de Ossets Letters Arcana Imperii Hispanici Deiph 6●…8 Advice a tous les Estat's de Europe touches les maxi mas Fundamentales de Gvernment 〈◊〉 ●…spaginols Paris 16●…5 Psal. 19. 5. Psal. 119. 118 140 〈◊〉 138. 2 Tim. 3. 16. Phil. 4. 8. Bishop Halls disswasive Bishop Hall Ibid. 〈◊〉 See Aen. Sylvius Telesphorus Platina and Baron Annal Bishop Hall Bishop Hall Ibid. Bishop Hall ibid. Ep. 87. Fran. S. Vic. ord praed sum sacr art 184. p. 124.