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The plain mans defence against popery: or, A discourse, shewing the flat opposition of popery to the Scripture. By J.N. chaplain to a person of honour
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J. N.
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1675
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Wing N22; ESTC R9788
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3.1 Exod. 23.20 not of a created Angel for a created Angel did not redeem him from all evil as he saith there 29. Q. Should prayers and the service of God be performed in a tongue unknown not understood by the people what saith St. Paul of this A. Except ye utter words easie to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken how shall the unlearned say Amen in the Church I had rather speak five words to edification than Ten thousand words in an unknown tongue 1 Cor. 14.9.16 19. Note St. Paul in 1 Cor. 14. Throughout disputes against praying and speaking in a strange language in an unknown tongue yet the Papists will have their prayers in Latine though the people understand not one word of them Note The Papists themselves acknowledge that Christ and the Apostles and the primitive Church for more than six hundred years did not use prayers in an unknown tongue Note The Papists have a wicked design to keep people in ignorance and therefore will not suffer them to understand their own prayers 30. Q. Should we pray for the dead A. Now the Child is dead why should I fast and pray 2 Sam. 12.21 Blessed are they that dye in the Lord Rev. 14.13 Note They that dye in the Lord need not our prayers and they that dye in their sins can have no benefit by them Note The Popish Priests get so much money by prayers for the dead that they are unwilling to acknowledge it to be an errour Note For praying for the dead or praying to the Saints we have 1. No command from God 2. No promise to be heard 3. No example in Scripture 31. Q. Are aequivocations of mental Reservations good and lawful A. Ye shall not deal falsly or lye Lev. 19.11 Their tongue speaketh deceit Jer. 9.8 Let your Communication be yea yea and nay nay Matt. 5.37 He that hath not sworn deceitfully shall receive the blessing from the Lord Psal 24.4 An oath is the end of all strife Heb 6.16 Thou shalt swear in truth c. Jer. 4.2 Note If it be lawful to aequivocate if this be not lying as Papists teach 1. The Devil cant be the Father of lies for he could never want a mental Reservation 2. The Martyrs were fools and self murtherers in not saving their lives by this Jesuitical trick 3. There can be no such thing as perjury falshood in any but Idiots and naturals that have not wit enough to aequivocate 4. There can be no sincere faith or trusts in oaths covenants contracts promises leagues of agreement either publike or private for who knowes what secret evasions restrictions men may have in their minds 32. Q. Was St. Peter Prince of the Apostles or had they all equal power and Authority A. Jesus said the Princes of the Gentiles exercise Dominion but it shall not be so among you Mat. 20.25 The Apostles sent Peter and John Act. 8.14 see also Gal. 2.7 2 Cor. 11.5 Gal. 2.9 33. Q. When Christ said to Peter Thou art Peter and upon this Rock I will build my Church I give unto thee the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven c. Mat. 16.18 Was this spoken to the rest of the Apostles and doth it belong to them as well as to St. Peter A. Ye are built upon the foundation of the Apostles Eph. 2.20 The City had 12 foundations and in them the names of the 12 Apostles Rev. 21.14 Then Jesus said to them the Apostles whose sins ye remit they are remitted whose sins ye retain they are retained John 20.23 Mat. 18.18 Note St. Peter was never head of the Church or Prince of the Apostles But if he had been so how should the Pope come to be his successor where doth Christ give this power to the Bishop of Rome 34. Q. Is there no other head of the Church but Christ A. Christ is head of the Church Col. 1.18 God hath given Christ to be head over all things to the Church which is his body Eph. 1.22 As the Husband is head of the wife so Christ is the head of the Church Eph. 5.23 The head even Christ Eph. 4.15 Note If the Pope be head of the Catholick Church then 1. St. Paul was greatly mistaken 2. The Catholick Church must be the Popes body and spouse 3. The Church would have no head when there is no Pope 4. The Church must have two or three heads when there are two or three Popes as sometimes have been for several years 5. The Church should have an unsound head when the Pope is Heretical as sundry Popes have been by confession of their own Doctors Note Queen Elizabeth King James King Charles would not be called head of the Church because they thought that title Antichristian entrenching upon the right of Christ 35. Q. Doth the word justifie in Scripture signifie to absolve or pronounce a man righteous not to infuse or put righteousness into a man A. They shall justifie the righteous and condemn the wicked Deut. 25.1 He that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just are an abomination to the Lord Pro. 17.15 Esa 5.23 Note The Scriptures speaking of justification makes it a discharging and acquitting from accusations and so doth legally make just not qualitatively as if to justifie were to make just holy as the Papists contend who confound justification with sanctification Note This is not a vain strife of words for the great Article of our Religion depends upon the right discovery of the use of the word if to justifie signifie to give us an inherent righteousness then by that we may appear before God but if to justifie signifie to acquit us being accused for sin through the grace of God and righteousness of Christ then we are to go out of our selves and to rely upon Christs righteousness nor can the Papists produce any one place of Scripture where the word justifie is put for making righteous by habitual and actual righteousness inherent in us as they would have it 36. Q. Is the Doctrine of imputed righteousness clearly taught in Scripture A. Blessed is the man to whom God imputeth righteousness without works Rom. 4.6 That righteousness might be imputed to them also Rom. 4.11 It shall be imputed to us also if we believe Rom. 4.24 Note Christs righteousness is made ours as our sins were made his and that is only by imputation 2 Cor. 5.21 Note We do not say that Christs righteousness is our formal righteousness but it is the matter whereby we stand justified fore God Note The Popish party flout at this Doctrine calling it the putative and chinerical righteousness and yet affirm that the merits of one Saint may be imputed to another 37. Q. Are we accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ applyed by faith and not for our own works and merits A. By the Obedience of one shall many be
body the Church A. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols Come out from among them and be ye separate touch not the unclean thing 2 Cor. 6.16 17. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels c. not holding the head Col. 2.18 Come out of her my people that ye be not partaker of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Rev. 18. ver 4. Note The Church of Rome is guilty of Idolatry many wayes 1. In giving Divine and Religious worship to the Sacrament as their God 2. In worshipping and praying to Angels and Saints especially the Blessed Virgin Mary whom they honour above Christ 3. In worshipping of Images Images of the Trinity of Christ upon the Cross of the Saints 4. In ascribing a Divine and supernatural efficacy to the reliques of Saints the sign of the Cross holy water c. to cure diseases restore health cast out and drive away Devils 15. Q. Doth the second Commandement expresly forbid any Religious Adoration and worship either outward or inward to be given to any Images of God of the Saints or any other Creature A. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image or any likeness of any thing in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the water under the Earth thou shalt not bow down thy self to them c. Command II. Exod. 20.4 Note The second Commandement forbids all Images referring to Divine worship and religious use The first Commandement forbids false Gods this in its primary sense the worshipping of the true God by false means as Images c. Note The second Commandment forbids not only the higher but also the lowest degree of religious worship to Images the very bowing down to them thou shalt not bow down thy self to them it forbids all religious worship and honour of Images whether absolutely or relatively mediately or ultimately for it saith Thou shalt not serve them Note The Hebrew word Pesel signifies any Image whatsoever and the following words plainly shew the meaning of it Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image or any likeness of any thing in that is thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor any other of what kind so ever for religious worship Note The Papists are sorely put to it to shift off the force of this Commandement that doth so clearly and evidently condemn their Idolatry in giving religious worship to Images Therefore some of them would make people believe that only Idols or Images of false Gods are here forbidden others say that this Commandement is Ceremonial and proper to the Jews only now though they cannot agree about the exposition yet they agree to leave the second Commandement out of their Books and craftily conceal it from the people least by the light thereof the mystery of their iniquity should be discovered Note The second Commandement can not be Ceremonial or binding the Jews only for 1. It is not repealed in the Gospel 2. It is ratified in the Gospel 3. It is a Commandement of the Decalogue equally ranked amongst the Morals which are alwayes binding 4. The reason of it is immutable therefore this law is so 16. Q. How doth Moses expound the second Commandement A. The Lord spake unto you ye heard the voice but saw no similitude only heard the voice Take ye therefore good heed for ye saw no manner of similitude least you corrupt your selves and make you a graven Image the similitude of any figure c. Deu. 4.12 c. Note â—he second Commandement forbids the worshipping of the true God by Images as is plain by Moses his interpretation of it God did forbear to shew himself in any visible shape at the delivery of the law to the end that it might be the better made known that the worshipping of Images not only as they have reference to the Creatures or false Gods but also as they have relation to himself did come within the compass of Idolatry 17. Q. Doth the Scripture in sundry places condemn the worshipping of the true God by Images for abominable Idolatry A. Aaron after he had made a Golden Calf he built an Altar before it and made Proclamation and said to morrow is a feast to the Lord Jehovah Exod. 32.5 I had wholly dedicated the Silver unto the Lord Jehovah Now I know that the Lord Jehovah will do me good because I have a Levite to my Priest Judg. 17.3.13 Behold thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt 1 King 12.28 One of the Priests whom they carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord 2 King 17.28 Note The Scripture manifestly attests that those who erect Images to God and in and by them worship God do commit Idolatry thus the Israelites by making a Golden Calf committed Idolatry they could not be so silly as to think that the Calf that they made was God that brought them up out of Egypt but because the Egyptians worshipped their false Gods by Hieroglyphick signs in the shape of an Oxe they would worship Jehovah in like manner So Micha made an Image in honour of Jehovah So also Jeroboams Calves were made to represent not false Gods but Jehovah as it is evident by the fore-mentioned Scriptures The Jews are now so sensible of the evil of Idolatry that they say there is no punishment which befalls them but there is a drachme weight of the Golden Calf in it and when they see any Church in which there are Images they call it Beth Hatturpha the house of filthiness 18. Q. Doth the Scripture affirm that they who worship God by Images are indeed worshippers of Devils and Idols whatever they intend A. They provoked him to jealousie with strangé Gods they Sacrificed unto Devils Deut. 32.17 They made a Calf in those dayes and Sacrificed to the Idol Act. 7.41 Note The Golden Calves are called Idols and the Jews are said to Sacrifice to Devils Now this is not to be understood of the judgment and intention of the men worshipping them as if they did design to worship Devils and false Gods by them but of the truth of the thing and of the judgment of God testifying that such worship being contrary to his command did displease him and had the Devil for its Authour and so whatever they intended was indeed the worshipping of Devils and false Gods By all this it appears that the Papists are as vile Idolaters as were the Jews of old or the Heathens 19. Q. Did the Heathens hold the Images themselves to be Gods or when their blocks were so old that they placed new in their stead did they think that by this change of their Images that they made a change also of their Gods what saith the Scripture of this A. Consider diligently and see if there be such a thing hath a Nation changed their