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A35694	The burnt child dreads the fire, or, An examination of the merits of the papists relating to England, mostly from their own pens in justification of the late act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants : and further shewing that whatsoever their merits have been, no thanks to their religion and, therefore, ought not to be gratified in their religion by toleration thereof by William Denton ...	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1675 (1675)	Wing D1064; ESTC R16886	91,543	165

carry along with them their own warranty and so secretly invite belief which at length become meerly serviceable to the interests of those that manage them viz. the Popes and consequently disserviceable and disadvantageous unto Princes and all temporal Governments And such Orders being received and continued by the present Princes are no small obligations to their Heirs and Successors to continue them by reason of that former Authority engraven upon them by Custom and their Predecessors Now what does this Act do give a stop to the open and publick profession of the true Antient Catholick and Apostolick Faith as the Romanists bespatter and give out Nothing less It only discountenanceth the publick and open Profession of the Romish Tridentine Faith which in those Articles wherein they differ from the Protestants is neither True nor Antient nor Catholick but is an entire Apostasie from it and doubtless is the most Catholick and greatest Heresie in the Christian World A Religion that upon due examination and chioce no Man can embrace without reproaching his Maker and his Redeemer by renouncing his reason nay his very outward senses wherewith God hath endued him A Religion that by the same reason that they endeavour to justifie Transubstantiation I instance in this because I find more do wave the observance of the Act on the account of the Declaration and Subscription than of the Oaths therein a Man may as well believe every Hobby-horse to be a Barbe on Courser of Naples or the picture of every Bruit on a Sign-post to be really the Bruit it self Nay to doubt or deny that ever there was such a person as Jesus Christ upon Earth or that he or any of the Saints which slept did rise from the dead after him or that the Graves did open or that the Vail of the Temple was rent or that there was darkness over the whole Land from the sixth hour to the ninth c. I appeal to all the World if ever God declared either by word or practice that he would make use of artes praestigiariae Jugling Arts by deceptio sensuum or otherwise Nay hath not his practice ever been clearly contrary in all the Miracles that he or his Son ever wrought And the learnedst of the Romanists would infinitly oblige us if they would demonstrate unto us which of Christs Body it is that is Corporally in the Sacrament whether his glorified or not glorified Body and clear it of all the monstrous absurdities that opinion is guilty of The Antient Catholick and Apostolick Faith partakes not of their fopperies nor of their absurdities for their concealments and spunges are no better needs no captious reasonings no equivocations requires no implicit or blind faith or obedience uses no knaveries No no pure Religion and undefiled is of a better Brood of a more Noble Extract of a more Divine Origine The profession thereof joyned with Holiness and Righteousness ennobles every Soul scorns to obscure any Truths needs no prohibition of Gods Word no Indices expurgatorii hath superlative priviledges the greatest ornament any Sublunary Majesty can have scorns to use any indirect Artifices to Create Subtilities or Coyn Evasions to conceal or adulterate any of her Truths from ignorant or learned or to abuse any of our Senses as if we could not distinguish Bread from Stones or Fish from Serpents What have we from without us common to all Mankind so infallible as our Senses to cause Belief that Jesus Christ lived upon the Earth was Crucified Buried and Rose again The only Argument that Christ himself used to convince diffident St. Thomas to Believe was by his own Senses of seeing and feeling John 20.25 27. And if the Senses of all Christians in all Countries have been deceived above these 1600. years since Christs death in one Point why may not we by the same reason question and suspect the Senses of all those that lived contemporary with him in more Points as whether any of these things were so or no. So happy I confess are the Papalins in their Disputes against Protestant Religion that many of their Arguments by retortion only are as strong against their own Religion and indeed as strong against all Religions as against ours Light is come into the World but these men love darkness rather than light And why because their Deeds are evil every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his Deeds should be discovered but he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God 3 John 19.20 21. Take but a short view but of Four of their Opinions that are so Diametrically contrary to Scripture that nothing but lowd and bawling Impudence can deny and in which the meanest capacity cannot be mistaken no not those Lucifugae Scripturarum that are only most blind not because they cannot but because they will not see nor yet understand though as directly opposite to Scripture as light to darkness truth to error God and Scripture GOd in the Second Commandment 20. Exod. forbids the very making of any graven Image or the likeness of any thing 2. Forbids the very Bowing down to them 3. He Commands them to take good heed unto themselves for that they saw no manner of Similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto them in Horeb out of the Fire lest they corrupted themselves and make a graven Image the similitude of any figure the likeness of male or female c. Deut. 4.15 16 17.4 He Cautionates them not to forget the Covenant he made with them viz. that they make not a graven Image or the likeness of any thing which the Lord the God had forbidden 5. He minds them that he was a Jealous God and would not have his Glory imparted to another 6. He was a consuming fire able to revenge all disobediences 23.7 He curseth the very man that maketh any graven or molten Image an Abomination to the Lord Deut. 27.15 Pope and Popish Doctrine NOtwithstanding all these solemn Prohibitions and Reasons delivered so dreadfully on the Mount by God himself in Fire with Thunder and Lightning thick Clouds and Smoak so that the whole Mount quaked greatly Yet so Super-omnipotent is Dominus Deus vester Papa that he doth not only dare to leave this very Commandment out of the Decalogue but Commands even under Anathema's and practises the clean contrary And it is justified and averred to be constans Theologorum c. The constant judgment of Divines that the Image is to be honoured and worshipped with the same Honour and Worship wherewith it is worshiped whereof it is an Image Jo. Azorius the Jesuit Institut mor. tom 1. lib. 9. cap 6. And Tho. Aquin. Concludes that the same reverence is to be given to the Image of Christ and to Christ himself and because Christ is to be Adored with Latria or Divine Worship that his Image is to be Adored with the Adoration of Latria Tho

special Argument and Motive I must confess and well becoming P. the Dialogist when he hath no better to perswade King and Parliament to give new and fresh Indulgence to the Papists that they might with the better Grace and more Authority impune peccare As to this pitiful begging Argument of this P. viz. That because many of them deny much of the Popes Authority therefore they should have Tolleration now I shall only apply matter of Fact viz. the chiefest and most of them that I have named had in the times of H. 8. and E. 6. either by preaching writing reading or arguing taught all people to condemn yea to abhor the Authority of the Pope for which purpose they had many times given their Oaths publickly against the Popes Authority and had also yielded to both the said Kings the Title of Supreme Head of the Church of England next under Christ and yet they refused to allow Queen Eliz. the Title of Supreme Governor though to gratifie them she omitted the very Title of Supreme Head at the begin of her Reign and this is demonstrable by many of their Books and Sermons against the Popes Authority printed both in English and Latin to their great shame and reproach to change so often but especially in persecuting such in Queen Maries days whom themselves had taught and established to hold the contrary in H. 8. days a sin bordering on the sin against the Holy Ghost scarce to be forgiven And shall we be gull'd again by such Sophisters Was Queen Eliz. ever the more safe in her person or her Dominions the more secure from Troubles Insurrections or Rebellions because some few protested Loyalty Let all Impartial Histories and their and our own Memories be Judg. Come out of their fellowship and you will not partake of their plagues else they that will ship themselves with the Devil must Sail with him But why trouble I my self or the Readers with this frivolous Argument when it cannot be the least dust in the Ballance to perswade That upon this Dialogist Warrant or only Intimation rather he and his Seculars and who those are we know not and not possible for us to distinguish shall use loyal and peaceable behaviours nay what if they should be as good as their Word deny the Popes Exorbitant powers and swear Allegiance maugre the Popes Mandates to the contrary Is this an Argument prevalent enough to perswade us to nurse and nuzzle up the Popes Imps whose Seeds-men and Legates are both Priests and Jesuits and suffer him that hath already cursed Her Majesties person and in her all her Successors removed her Crown discharged her Subjects invaded her Dominions * In the days of H. 8. the Earl of Desmond profered Ireland to the French King the Instrument whereof yet remains upon Record in the Court at Paris and the Pope afterwards transferred the Title of all our Kingdoms unto Charles the 5th which by new Grents was con●i●●tect unto his Son Philip in the days of Queen Eliz. with a resolution to settle this Crown upon the Spanish Infanta Bishop Ushe s Spech at Dublin f. 12. and given them away to others and now to suffer them to steal from our Kings and Queens their peoples Hearts and reonile them to that Mother of Abominations that dares call light darkness and darkness light dock Communions and Decalogues and worship Idols whole Brow is Brass and whose Heart is harder than the neather Mill-stone that hearing will not hear and seeing will not see nor understand charm the Charmer never so wisely never so sweetly and all this under the vizard of Catholick Religion and feigned Devotion which in truth is nothing less but is superstitious Idolatrous and Abominable the Tolleration and Allowance of which cannot possibly be Indulged without manifest breach of Gods Law against which there is no plea or excuse to be allowed joyned with the subversion of the Crown and Royal State For how is it possible that light should agree with darkness God and Belial Christ and Antichrist the same Moment any persons is reconciled to Rome the same Moment he is become a sworn Votary and Vassal to Rome subject to another head Were this humble Petition and desire only for Earthly and not Heavenly things and did it not concern Christs Glory but the Indempnity of our Kings and people what a pittiful toy is it for a few Friars well versed in the Arts of Equivocation to think themselves meet Pledges and Hostages for the security of so great a Prince and people Submission to God and your Prince would be more preswasive and authentique and would better become you It is not enough to renounce the exorbitant powers claim'd by the Pope except withall you renounce the idolatrous Worship of Rome and her Doctrins of Infallibility and of probability of Transubstantiation Demy-Communions praying in an unknown Tongue debarring the people the use of the Bible and a thrave of other false and Heretical Doctrins and practises having only lowd and bawling Impudence for their Justification without either Sense Reason or Scripture The most Honourable and Grave Sages of this Nation understand you so well that I believe you find they will not easily be cheated with kanting words or specious pretences made use of only to obumbrate and shadow the clearness of their long and grounded Experience purchased by clear demonstration and matter of Fact at the dearest rate and expence of Blood and Treasure I do heartily joyn Issue with this Dialogist and believe as he doth That it is not for the safety of our Church to receive those who do not believe as we do In this we are good Friends but I doubt he will be as angry with me as with the seasonable discourser for accounting the Popish Religion to be Superstitious Idolatrous and Absurd and the Protestant to be the True Antient and Apostolick Religion Neither shall I much differ with him in some other of his Concessions viz. That it is the right of every National Church to provide for the particular concerns thereof and and without his Peradventure that the Church of England hath preserved the face of a continued Mission and uninterrupted Ordination which is impossible for the Romanists to do their Doctrin of Intention being allowed for currant that her moderation in Doctrin is great that her Discipline preserves Episcopal Government He concludes may we not therefore because the Popish Religion is accounted stupid be permitted to say our prayers in private which is all the Indulgence allowed us and that sure it is no part of the goodness of the Protestant Church to hinder others from being as good as they can and the worse our Religion is the more need we have of praying to make us better § As it is no part of our Doctrin to hinder prayers and devotions that are in truth so according to Christs Constat or men to be as good as they can so it is no part of our practise and it