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A07444	The iudge of heresies one God, one faith, one church, out of which there is no saluation. Excluding all infidells, Mahumetans, Iewes, obstinate papists, and other heretikes of all sorts, and consequently all newters, who conforme themselues onely externally to any religion, from hope of participation of the kingdome of heauen. If they finally persist therein, and returne not to the knowledge and zealous profession of the true faith. By Iohn Merideth, Sub-Deane of Chichester.	Meredith, John, b. 1579 or 80.	1624 (1624)	STC 17830; ESTC S112660	68,232	98

Charitatem in Intentione Loue in thy Intention and Veritatem in Electione Truth in the choyce of thy B●ru Religion For if thou doest loue God and yet doest not serue him according to the Truth of his word thou hast the zeale of God but not according to knowledge therefore thou art not excused by doing that which thou doest beleeue ought to be done for thy beleefe being euill yea being no faith indeed but a light rash Credulity maketh thy purposes like that wicked ones prayer to be turned into sinne and the deuill doth deceaue thee by making thee conceipt it to be faith for as Pirats at Sea are wont in the darke time of the night to set vp lights in places full of sandy shelues and hidden Rockes thereby to allure Passengers vnder hope of attaining to an hauen of Safetie to shipwra●ke and destruction Such is this light of false faith kindled by the Spirits of the Ayre not whereby they may saue the poore Sailers on the Sea of this world and the flouds of this wretched life but by which they may sinke them into the bottomlesse pit of hell and damnation In this respect St. Paul saith that Satan transformeth himselfe into an Angell of light Therefore we that wa●t on the floods of this life must not beleeue euery light vnlesse we fall among Heresies which ruinate the soule while we purpose to reach the true Church which is the pillar and ground of Truth So in matters of Faith and case of Religion a man may intend the true worship of God and yet commit Idolatry as you Papists do● in your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or worshipping of the Sacramentall Bread which is meere Idolatry therefore Bonauentura saith ●●p 3. Se●t dist 9. that a man may be deceaued in his worship Nisi fiat secundum directionem regulam fidei If it be not done according to the direction and rule of Faith for one may De facto adore the diuell transformed into an Angell of light intending it vnto God Neither may his ignorance excuse him for he hath a treble helpe assigned him to preuent error First the prediction of the Scripture saying Many shall come in my Name Math. 24. Secondly prayer vnto God for inward illumination Thirdly suspention of his Credulity For we must not beleeue 1 Ioh. 4. euery spirit but try the Spirits which are of God otherwise if he be an Idolater he may be iustly taxed for worshipping hee knoweth Ioh. 4. not what In vaine doe we beleeue to attaine to the end of our Hope if so be we are ignorant of the right way which leadeth thereunto how much greater is our danger if running a Contrarie or By-way we will not be reclaimed but goe forward therein presumptuously notwithstanding admonition and direction of cunning guides whom we despise Which is as much as if a man who is drunke should thinke himselfe to be sober and doe all as a drunken man doth and yet thinkes himselfe to be sober and would be so accounted by other Such are they who being ignorant of the Truth haue a seeming shew or shadow of the same and doe euill as if it were good and runne on to destruction as if it were to saluation yea and binde themselues by their supposed knowledge to persist in their ignorance and error reiecting the meanes of Reformation saying with the wicked We will none of the knowledge of thy wayes Iob. ●1 O bloody deuotion sprouting from that Hel-bred Ate which made the Heathen to sacrifice their sonnes and daughters to the deuill and causeth the like in you that are deuoted vassals to the Pope in respect of your soules and your children also who may truly cry out against you Parentes sensimus p●rricidas wee haue 〈◊〉 found our Parents the murtherers of our Soules for preuention whereof St. Iohn as I haue said would haue vs try the spirits whither they be of God if through negligence to examine and finde out the truth thou art deceiued the fault is in thy selfe for as Chrysostome saith They cannot excuse themselues from condemnation Ho●●il S●p Math. who had meanes to finde the truth if they had a desire to seek after it for if the truth be the saluation and life of them that know it M●gis debet quaeri quam quaerere It ought rather to be sought for by other then that it should seeke after vs. And surely Negligence in learning the Grounds of Christian Faith is the chiefe cause that suffereth Man to fall into error when men are carelesse to seeke after Gods helpe therefore they are worthily depriued thereof is not he worthy to haue his house darke that shutteth vp the doores thereof and the windowes against the bright beames of the Sun●e which would enlighten it Such persons must know that faith is not Naturall but proceedeth ●phes from the Election of Gods goodnesse and is Donum Dei the Gift of God for were it Naturall all men would hold the selfe-same Faith nor should there be so great dissention about it as we see at this day therefore it is to be sought of God and therefore as the Sunne is not to be seene but by his owne light So the Sunne of Righteousnesse whereby the day spring from an high hath visited vs is not to be seene but by the light of God● grace But because many are rebellious against this light therefore they are wilfully blinde Another cause is Auersion of the vnderstanding from those things which are to be beleeued and from those which might induce them to beleeue them and conuersion vnto Error for as hee that hath his eyes turned from those obiects which he should behold and turned vnto other in that Auersion cannot see what hee should Such are those who embrace false opinions and damnable Sects with such contumacy that they will not vouchsafe to thinke or heare of the contrary and stand out with so great an hatred against those who hold the truth that they will not so much as giue care to their Arguments but resist the holy Ghost who speaketh by their mouth of which sort of men Salomon spake truly A foole hath no delight in vnderstanding vnlesse thou doest sooth him in the conceipts of his owne heart as the v●lgar translation Prouerb 18. hath it For as Vigilius saith Mans minde being before poysoned with Lib. 1. contra Eutichen fla●●● sub J●it the error of false opinion is growne obstinate against the entertainment of the truth nor will yeeld to any testimony bee it neuer so Authenticall for it had rather maintaine a false conceite wherewith it is once infected then renounce it though it bee reputed with neuer so good authority Therefore St. Paul holdeth such Incorigible and not to be de●lt withall who after the first and second admonition persist obstmate Tit. 3. and censureth them condemned euen by the verdict of their owne conscience He that seeth an imminent danger and runneth vpon

it is the cause of his owne destruction or if a man would goe vnto a place and knoweth not the way which leadeth thereunto but hauing a conuenient guide to direct him at hand enquireth not the way is not the cause of his going astray to bee imputed vnto himselfe If thou seest a Stranger or blinde man to goe out of the way thou art bound to recall him and direct him aright and to deliuer him from danger much more thy selfe Wherefore that Negligence in not seeking the way of truth and saluation is culpable and damnable neither may you pretend Ignorance For God gaue his diuine precepts to this end Vt homo de Ignorantia excusationem non habeat that Man might not Aug. lib. d● G●a lib. arb pretend Ignorance for an excuse But say that a man should fall among two Doctors of contrary profession the one an Orthodoxall Christian the other a Popish Hereticke and bee not able of himselfe to iudge whom he should beleeue would God require at his hands that he should diuine which is the true Faith I answer that in this case he must implore Gods helpe as Augustine saith and earnestly intreat him that he would enlighten his heart and vnderstanding to that part of the contradiction which is true and acceptable vnto him and we may presume that God in his mercy will open vnto him that so knocketh and that if his negligence in seeking after the truth or some other soule Sinne hinder not God will so worke in his heart that hee shall not giue way vnto error for God preserueth them that loue him Extra de spons cap. Iuvents Otherwise if he feare to bee perplexed hee must follow the counsell of the Law Semper in re dubia securior tutior pars est eligenda in euery distresse by scruple or doubt we must cleaue vnto that part which is most secure and safe But the Religion of the Protestants is the most safe for the Soule especially in the fundamentall point of Iustification as their best Diuine after long cauillation confesseth in these words Propter incertitudinem Iustitiae propriae periculum in an is gloriae tutissimum Bellarum lib. 5 de Iustisicat Cap. 7. est fiduciam totam in sola Dei miscricordia benignitate reponere Because of the vncertainty of our owne righteousnesse and the danger of vaine-glory it is the safest way to repose our whole trust in thealone mercy and loue of God The which when he proued to be true by many testimonies of the Fathers he concludeth his Chapter with these words following His accedit ratio manifesta c. And reason confirmeth the former position for saith hee Either a man hath true merits or else he hath not if he hath not he is dangerously deceaued and seduceth himselfe by trusting in false Merits for they are false Riches which hinder the true Riches But if he hath he loseth nothing thereby in not trusting in them but in God only for God knoweth them well and considereth them and will not suffer them to be vnrewarded To this purpose and almost in the same words speaketh Rosfensis in his Booke De fide miserecord●a Dei. Ad Axie●●● 12. But aboue all that we might be vnexcusable God hath assigned vnto vs a certaine remedy to preuent error and heresie whereinto we might be seduced by false teachers and that is Confeience with the holy Scriptures Thus the Berrhaeans daily searched and examined the Scriptures Act. 17. to know whither that which Paul and Sylas preached were true or not Chrysostome expounding these words When yee shall see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place saith That Christians that would be secured of the true faith are commanded to flyeto no other thing then vnto the Scriptures Our Lord said that the Sadduces error sprang from their Ignorance of the Scriptures for which cause St. Ierome would haue vs In lib. 3. in Epla ad I phes cap. 4. reade them diligently that like cunning exchangers we may bee able to discerne good coyne from counterfeit for as another saith They who are conuersant in the Scriptures cannot be deceiued by T●co●● Sup. cap. 15. Luc. any meanes for they are the Lanthorne whereby the thiefe is discryed The abridging hereof from the people hath beene in all ages the cause of ruine of Religion Our Sauiour chargeth the Lawyers that they tooke away the Luk. 17. key of knowledge they would not enter themselues and hindred other who would enter into the kingdome of heauen On which words saith Lyra Similes sunt Doctores Ecclesiae speaking of his owne time Such are the Doctors of the Church who hinder the vnderstanding of the truth which is necessary vnto S●luation with strange and curious words and opinions The Doctors and Teachers in the Romish Sinagogue where Satan dwelleth imitating the aduice of Varro the Heathen Philosopher preach vnto the simple credulous people meere falshoods and shut vp the truth Inter par●etes scholarum within the precincts of their Schooles to be disputed of though by their disputations they neuer attaine vnto it Neither will they suffer the people to search any farther or to seeke for the truth least they should forsake their damnable falsehood● And this was an old pollicy of the Pagans whereof saith Lactantius Hinc sida silentia Sacris instituta sunt vt nesciat Lib. 5. de Iustitia cap. 20. populus quid colat Cunning fellowes silenced Men from acquaintance with sacred matters that the multitude should not knowe what they worshiped In what a miserable case are such people who belieue they knowe not what not beeing able to giue a reason why they should be perswaded but flye onely to the Iudgement of their Auncestors that they were wise and hang on the opinions of their seducing teachers that they approue they knowe what is best and consequently bere aue themselues of their sences rob themselues of reason while they giue credit to their errors and thus being wrapped vp in ignorance they know neither themselues nor their Religion But like the poore seduced people in the time of Arr●anisme Credunt quod non credunt Hillar ad Constant Intelligunt quod non intelligunt They beleeue without faith they vnderstand without knowledge This is no faith but Folly not effectuall to Saluation but bringing certaine damnation Constat fidem st●ltam non prodesse Aug. in qu●st ●et test qu●st 43. sed pot●us obesse It is certaine that foolish faith doth not proffit but rather hurt yet this is the thraldome of the poore people who beleeue this deceiptfull opinion that Minores saluantur in fide Maiorum The ignorant Lay-people are saued B●ll●rm lib. 1 de Justific cap. 7. by the f●ith of their learned Priests bee their faith meere falshood whereof saith the great Cardinall T● per obedientiam c. Thou canst not be deceiued by thy obedience toward thy Prelate whom

the Church doth beare Cusa lib. 6 Exc●t●t yea though he command other things then he ought to doe vnreasonable obedience is the most sound and perfect obedience that is when you obey without asking a reason thereof as a beast obeyeth his master From whence you may gather that they repute you of the Lai●ie to be no better then brute beasts and therefore say they Pearles are not to be c●st vnto them because they be sw●ne nor holy things because they be dogges But you will obiect and say our Teachers are as learned and as iudicious as yours who are Protestants and therefore it is Ob●ect likely that they should know the truth and consequently they would not teach vs falshood contrary to their owne knowledge and if so they should doe and we through simple credulity and obedience toward them as our Pastors should entertaine and beleeue it we are excused I answer that I confesse and know that many of the most learned of your Clergie who haue more curiously examined the Mysteries of Religion then your ordinary Scrible●s haue had the right knowledge and true vnderstanding in many points of faith and those fundamentall which is manifest in that they haue held many contradictions against the common Tenent of their Sinagogue their conscience vrging them to no lesse yet through feare they haue reuersed all with submission to their Sinagogues censure and partly for couetousnesse par●ly fearing they should lose the vaine glory of the world they haue hidden the truth and laboured by fraudulence to peruert the ge●unie sense of the Scriptures Thus dealt the Scribes and Phariseas who did shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men vpon which words saith Chrysostome Math. 23. Chrysost a●ud Al●xand in des●r vitiorum lib. 6. cap. 79. Ex. homil 41. ●●cris 〈◊〉 Christ would shew that the Priests of the Iewes did all for couetousnesse sake Who did certainely know the comming of Christ by the Scriptures But they considered that if Christ had bèene beleeued the custome of offering Sacrifices had beene extinct and the Sacrifice of righteousnesse had pr●uailed and therefore by peruer●e interpretation they shut vp the Gate of the law and the Prophets against the people who spake manifestly of Christ his comming that they might seperate men from the faith of Christ fearing least happily if Christ were beleeued they should be defrauded of their Sacr●fices for they rather desired that the law continuing their Sacrifices should be in vse by which they were inriched And not God for when the law ceased the sacrifices of Righteousnesse should come in vse with which God is delighted and faithfull men are magnified The holy Scriptures are called the kingdome of heauen because the kingdome of heauen is laid vp in them The Gate is the faithfull vnderstanding of them the Preachers are the Porters vnto whose fidelity the word is committed to teach expound the Scriptures it followeth How did the Priests shut vp the Scriptures Aliud pro alio Interpretantes by expounding one Sense for another as where Esay saith Behold your God commeth with vengeance euen God with a recompence he● will come and saue you then shall the eyes of the blinde be lightened and the eares of the deafe be opened c. These should be the signes of the comming of Christ When as therefore afterward Christ did heale the dumbe and the deafe the Iewes out of a peruerse excogitation said This man casteth out deuils no otherwise but through Belzebub Math. 12 the Prince of Deuils That they might turne away the people from beleeuing in him or else they did shut vp the Gate of the truth when they made this Decree That if any called h●m the Sonne of God he should be cast out of their Synag●gue Vpon which words of St. Chrysostome a right learned and zealous Diuine who liued aboue 200. yeares since here in Alex. ●bisupra● England maketh this Inference of the like abuse practised by the Clergie of his time saying Sic modo Sacerdotes claudunt Ianuamveritatis sciunt enim quoniam si manifesta fuisset veritas corum Ecclesia non esset Thus doe the Priests in these dayes saith he shut vp the gate of the truth for they know that if the Truth were made manifest their Church should haue an end and they should fall from Priestly dignity to popular vility And this is the reason why they keepe the Laitie in grosse ignorance least they discerning the Truth should relinquish their damnable politicke heresies whereupon the ruine of Baal and his Epicurish Priests must ineuitably ensue For most of the substantiall and accidentall parts of their Religion is nought else but a fardell of blasphemous absurdities inuented by cousening mates to deceiue the simple people of their money as is manifest in those of Purgatory and Pardons of which saith one of your owne Writers Videnou● enim in dies quod ex spelunca indulgentiarum procedunt latr●res Ioh. Rawlins S●● quadrages●imal● 94. A. We see that theeues come out of the denne of pardons daily who preach false things vnto the people to drawe thei● money from them wh● with their cunning w●t make a net to take ●lyes that is money The like complaint is made by thei● owne Writers concerning the Masse pecuniary satisfaction Reliques c. as vpon iustoccasion shall be de●lared But in this houre of thei●s and this power of darknesse what shall the people doe If the blinde sh●ll follow these blinde guides they must fall with them into the dit●h Therefore our Lord hath forwarned what is to be done to preuent thi● danger where he speaketh of that Abominatic● of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet that should sit in Math ●2 the holy place by which he meaneth Antichrist and his H●resies as the Current of the Fathers expound it hee annexeth an admonition in the words following Then let them that are in Indaea ●lye vnto the mountaines saith our Sau●our which words are thus expounded by the golden mo●thed Chrysostome Idest q●●i in Christianitate sunt sugiant ad Scripturas Ho●●il 49. in Math c. That is let those who liue in Christs Church ●lye vnto the Scriptures The Mountaines signifie the writings of the Prophets and Apostles Our Lord knowing the confusion that was to en●ue in th● last dayes therefore commandeth that Christian men that beleeue in him and desire to be established in the true faith should be take themselues to nothing else but vnto the Scriptures otherwise if they haue regard vnto ought else they shall be offended and perish not vnderstanding what is the true Chur●h Therefore if any one be deceiued in his Religion it commeth to passe through his owne negligence in the faith because he is carelesse to vnderstand the faith which is made manifest in the Scriptures and consequently is vnexcusable especially those who liue in such places where Gods word is pres●nted vnto them but they shut vp their eyes against

yet were not without sinne no more are the Papists In the person of whom Paul speaketh saying I knowe nothing 1 Cor. ● by my selfe and yet am I not thereby iustified Neither is it to any purpose that they say My Conscience doth not iudge mee to bee culpable but contrarily doth iudge me to be in the right way for I say this iudgement is erroneous and therefore is condemned by the highest Iudge and if their conscience be their chiefe booke wherein they learne that which they will retaine without instability they must know that they are bound to correct the Booke of their Conscience if it be corrupted by comparing it and correcting it by the true Booke of the Generation of Iesus Christ which is the word of God The neglect whereof is the chiefe cause of the retardation from conuersion of our Pseudo-Catholiques who hauing studied their whole time in the false and vncorrected booke of their owne conscience wherein they finde nothing but falsehoods yet refuse to trie and examine their Religion by the word of God but make ignorance their deuotion like those Hereticks called Gnosimachi Damascen lib. d● 100. h●r●s 88. Who prohibiting all knowledge in Christianity taught That they who sought after knowledge in the holy Scriptures Suparfluum quid faciunt tooke in hand a needlesse labour for they said that God required nothing but good deedes of Christians and that therefore it is best for Christians to walke plainely and not to search after the knowledge of any articles of Religion But if you doe obiect that it is dangerous for you being an ignorant Layman to looke into the Mysteries of Faith whereof you are not able to iudge but that it is more safe for you to beleeue in generall as the Church doth though you doe not know any of the particulars I say vnto you with the Father you are deceaued in your opinion for Tutior est Affectus vera quaerendi quam Incognita procognitis praesumend● The desire to seeke the Truth is more safe then that a man should presume o● things vnknowne insteed of things which hee is bound to know And farther I say with the golden Father If thou wouldest Ho●il 44. ●ap 23. Nath. go vnto any place vnto which thou diddest not know the right way to gaine some great necessary commodity thou wouldest not neglect thy iourney because of thy ignorance of thy way but thou wouldest enquire after cunning guides and learne the direct path of them So if thou wilt learne the way to heauen thou must pray vnto God thou must reade the Scriptures thou must enquire of those Priests who are the Porters vnto the Scriptures But if thou wilfully refuse this meanes thy case is desperate because thou louest darkenesse more then light for as he that plucketh out his owne eyes can neuer recouer his sight so he that hateth the knowne truth Ex malitia cannot possibly repent for the Spirit of truth is the light of our soule but if our eye be euill the whole body must needes be darke If thou sayest thou doest not hate the truth but art not able to discerne it I answer this argueth naturall blindenesse of thy soule for the light discouereth the differenc●s of obiects vnto him that can see which is wholy vnprofitable vnto the blinde pray therefore vnto God that hee would bring thee out of that darkenesse of Aegypt and that he would open thine eyes that thou mayest behold the wonderfull things of his Lawes and that hee would giue thee a wise and vnderstanding heart Then shouldest thou behold the slauery of Aegypt and tyrannie of Pharaoh which in that time of palpable darkenesse thou couldest not Exod. 10. Prou. 2. see But when wisedome entereth into thine heart and knowledge delighteth thy soule then shall counsell preserue thee and vnderstanding shall keepe thee and deliuer thee from the euill way and from the man that speaketh froward things that is Antichrist and from them that leau● the wayes of righteousnesse to walke in the wayes of darkenesse CHAP. 5. Answereth Obiections made from the diuine Philanthropy or loue of God vnto mankinde who say they will not condemne vnto euerlasting death such infinite multitudes of people who die in infidelity and Heresie and saue but only a fewe true beleeuing Christians where is plainely proued also that very few in respect of those who are to be● damned shall be saued ANother Reason which is the last and of greatest moment is a certaine blinde kinde of pitty whereby such persons become impious against God and while they thinke otherwise of God then the truth is they offend against the Truth and this is drawne from the Diuine Philanthropy or loue of God vnto man they demand how Gods mercy should elect so few vnto Saluation and forsake so many vnto damnation especially seeing he is more prone to saue then to condemne or that his Mercy is not lesse to take pitty and to pardon then his Iustice to reuenge and punish They say it standeth not with the goodnesse of God to be cruell against his creatures and that hee should suffer any of those whom he hath made to perish And thus while they thinke They honour his goodnesse they offend his Truth From whence they conclude that the immensity of Gods mercy and goodnesse is such that he will saue euery man in his owne faith law sect or religion if so be he beleeue the same to be good and pleasing vnto God They argue farther That it is a great presumption to suppose that a fewe Christians should thinke themselues only to be saued the whole remaining multitude of euill Christians which farre exceede the good in number beside Iewes Saracens and Pagans being cast off to destruction Doth it stand with Gods Maiestie who is Lord of heauen and earth to haue moe slaues then freemen more adiudged to torments then faithfull Subiects Why should the mercifull God create so great a multitude of those to be damned and not rather saue them I would haue these men to know that Qui puis fuit vt non existentia crearet Iustus est vt errantia et Hugo de Sancto Vict. lib. 1. de Sacram. part 8. cap. 5. delinquentia Indice● As God is mercifull in creating those who before had no being So hee is iust to punish them that e●re and offend against him It is certaine that hee created them out of the riches of his goodnesse and bestowed many great guifts on them freely But hee neuer punished any without their most iust desert Whence it appeareth that the Iustice of God is the efficient cause of their damnation but their owne euill deserts are as it were the materiall and meritorious cause of their perdition But that there are so many damned and so few which are and shall be saued is caused partly by the Iustice of God partly through want of disposition in Man to receiue and entertaine Gods mercy Therefore whereas some doe reason

he dwelleth and he hsth promised to raise them vp againe to glory in the last day if we doe glorifie him in them in these dayes of our flesh but such dishonour him with them who with patience can behold him blasphemed in the Masse and bow their knees to their Wafer Idoll And againe I doe say vnto you Pseudo Catholicks who entertaine such Pseudo Proselites and drawe them with temporall earthly rewards to lose eternall Celestiall blessings you are strangely deceaued in them for they are apparantly dissemblers and respect neither your persons nor your Religion but your money and maintenance and consequently deride you and as a Philosopher said of such Non deum sed Themis●i a●ud Socrat. lib. 3. Eccles hist cap. 21. purpuram colunt and that they were like vnto a streame raised by a great raine which sometime runne one way sometime another way Before they went out from vs they were as chaffe among Corne as euill humours in the body which pressed the breast they were not of vs their departure hath cased the Church of a loathsome burden and it is fit that the chaffe and the Tares should haue one society here seeing their end shall be the same hereafter they shall be burned in vnquenchable fire I doe wish that all Christian Princes would practise what Theuderichus the Affrican Prince did before them The Act was la●dable though himselfe an Arrian He had a certaine Deacon who professed the Orthodoxall Theodorus Lect. Collectan lib. 2. faith whom he loued and cherished entirely who to gratifie the Prince as he pretended forsooke the H●mousian faith and embraced Arrianisme which being knowne to Theuderichus he forgate his loue and presently after beheaded him saying Si Deo sidem non seruast● quomodo homini sinceram Conscientiam seruabis If thou hast not beene faithfull to God how canst thou carry a good Conscience toward man If the like course were vsed against all Counterfeite Church-Papists Christian Princes might liue in more security the number of Athiests would decrease and the doubtfull would be more firmely established in the truth And I say vnto both sorts what Augustine did vnto the Manicheas In vobis qui Papistae ficti sunt mali sunt Lib. 6. Contra Faust cap. 11. qui ficti non sunt vani sunt c. Among you those who are counterfeit Papists are euill and they who are not counterfeite are vaine for where the faith it selfe is feigned both he that liueth in it though a Counterfeite doeth deceaue and they who embrace it as true are deceiued To conclude I doe exhort and aduise all those who are intangled with popish heresies and deceaued with erro●s of any other false Religion if they be carefull of their own Saluation if they doe not preferre blindenesse before the light if they will not destroy their owne soules by wandering ouerlong from the light of the truth in the palpable darknesse of vaine opinions if they desire to benefit themselues by being Christians let them lay aside all childish shamefastnesse and forsaking the dangerous imaginations of humane error in which they falsely supposed themselues to haue found the truth and in which vnder the pretext of the name of Christian they were farre distant from the confession of Christ that they hasten with all conuenient speed with all their might and with the strongest endeuours of their faith to finde out the true and straite way of the Holy Catholicke and Apostolike Faith which is now by the mercy of God professed in this Church of England and when they haue found the true way of Saluation let them proclaime with bold liberty of voice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wee haue found the truth let vs reioyce together otherwise beleeue most firmely and that without all doubting that not only all Pagans but also Iewes Hereticks and Schismaticks who depart this life out of the Catholike August lib. d● 〈◊〉 cd Pct. Church shall goe into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the Deuill and his Angels FINIS