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A60243	The Romish priest turn'd protestant with the reasons of his conversion, wherin the true Church is exposed to the view of Christians and derived out of the Holy Scriptures, sound reason, and the ancient fathers : humbly presented to both houses of Parliament / by James Salago.	Salgado, James, fl. 1680.	1679 (1679)	Wing S380; ESTC R28844	30,919	39

upon the person but considers the person as believing so or otherwise and so condemneth him And how a man that cannot err as they say in matters of Law should err in matters of Fact cannot be conceived by reason he having ones Book and being an infallible searcher and interpreter of ones meaning can fall into the question of Fact out of the question of Law and so pronounce that this and no other was the meaning of the Author 2. Because Law maketh a prescription unto a Fact it is not likely that he who cannot err in matters of Law should do so in matters of Fact. 3. Because sometimes out of a Fact ariseth a Law therefore the same question which was before a question of Fact after it is become by long continuance a question of Law may be handled and decided by the Pope infallibly 4. By this way the Pope shall never be able to condemn a Heretick or strike him with a thunder of an Anathema as one that hath a fallible judgment in matters of Fact which shall not be admitted by the Papists 5. That the Pope may err in matters of Law and that most horribly we have shortly shewn the same a little higher So that hence we may perceive how sallibly they believe that place the infallibility in the Pope For the last followeth the third meaning of the Papists viz. That the infallibility of the Church resides in the Pope and Council together But Incidit in scyllam qui vult vitare charybdin Because the same difficulties which were proposed before arise again Besides it will be dubious which of them parties viz. if the Pope unto the Council or the Council unto the Pope doth communicate the infallibility Afterwards if the Pope be absent and be there by his Messengers if they have the same authority he should have if he was present The same they could not have because it is his own formally or else he could grant it as well to all the Bishops of the Council as to his Messengers Moreover it will be very doubtful if those Decretals which were framed in the Popes absence will be infallible and binding the Conscience for if all the Decretals are of no value without the Pope's confirmation it cannot be conceived how that these Constitution made in and by the Council of Trent can be ratified extraconciliariter or without it by reason the Popes infallibility doth not consist as he is separated from the Council but as he is joyned with it Hence then every one that hath not a face of a Wizell may see how the Papists make their business to catch a shadow and affirming their Church to be Infallible doth not know nor cannot agree amongst themselves wherein this Church doth consist and so they do not know how to satisfie their own selves nor others neither although they brag very much of it Projiciunt ampullas sesquipedalia verba I my self remaining yet in the Popish Religion did perceive my self to be entangled by these difficulties and therefore I often considered how to be extricated out of them that so I might praise God in purity and holiness with the freedom of my Conscience And although being in Spain which is my native Country I did hear very much of the Protestant Churches nevertheless I could never meet with any Books written by the Divines of that Communion by reason we are severely forbidden to read them But because I did hear that they found all their Doctrine upon the Scriptures I took a great desire to read the same and to search after the Truth in order to my Salvation Neither do they forbid in Spain as a Countrey religious above the rest of the Papists to read the Holy Bible And after I had made it my business to read the Holy Word of God I met with those words of the Apostle Paul 2 Tim. 3.16 17. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness That the man of God may be perfect thorowly furnished with all good works Here it seemed unto me that the Apostle had drawn a portraicture of a Minister and proposed not only the method of Preaching but also the matter and the off spring of it and so declared by what means a Man of God that is a Minister of Christ might come to a full perfection of learning in order to the Instruction of their souls that should be committed to his care Namely he meant the Holy Scriptures of which he thought they did contain the treasure of the Divine Wisdom when he pronounces them to be able to make one wise unto salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 and expresseth the four fountains of Christian Morality to be contained in them and chargeth not only himself but an Angel likewise with an Anathema Gal. 1.8 Gal. 6.16 Isa 8.20 if he should preach any other Gospel unto us than that he hath preached and pronounceth his blessing upon them that walk according to this rule God himself is willing to reduce his People from them that have familiar spirits and from wizards unto his will and counsel sendeth them to the law and to the testimony and addeth That for them that do not walk according to this word there is no morning that is no life everlasting according to the phrase of the Psalmist when he saith Psal 46.5 God shall help Jerusalem when the morning appeareth that is when the day of our salvation will be approaching This was the reason that John on his Revelation declareth If any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy Apoc. 22.19 God shall take away his part out of the book of life Seeing then that the Apostle Paul did speak so highly in the commendation of Scriptures as a man that hath not shunned to declare all the counsel of God Act. 20.27 Act. 26.22 saying no other things than those which Moses and the Prophets did say should come I concluded presently that there was no other fountain out of which we could derive the true Church but only out of Scriptures by reason we are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Eph. 2.2 Jesus Christ being himself the chief corner-stone And I saw likewise that the Ancient Father Austin L. 3. cont Ma. Arian did not disagree with my opinion when he saith Neither will I alledg the Nicene nor do you alledg the Council of Arimine unto my prejudice Let matter with matter cause with cause reason with reason decert by the authority of the Scriptures which are not belonging only to one party but impartial witnesses of both Contra Donat. There that is in the holy Scriptures as he saith somewhere else Let us search after the true Church and handle our questions But searching more narrowly after the Purity of particular Churches I found none answering so exactly the Scriptures as the Protestant Churches Therefore I

the prostration of John but says Worship God. Rev. 19.10 A Heathen Poet could tell that God only should be worshipped when he saith Nec ela sum dixit nec sacro thuris honore Humanum dignare caput Why should we Christians then be so unjust to the Almighty God as to deprive him of his honour The distinction which they use betwixt Latreia and Duleia and Hyperduleia is of no value and I have seen many which sufficiently yea abundantly refuted the same Only I will conclude in this matter that if Papists cannot be accused of formal Idolatry surely they are guilty of material Their exceptions betwixt the coherence of Signum and Signatum and other small exceptions in that kind are vain Every man is an Image of God but I do believe they will not worship every one Having thus far shewen the truth of the Protestant Churches in defending of the holy Scriptures and in conforming their Doctrine to them in the most weighty points I will infer this conclusion that the Protestant Church is a true a faithful and a sincere Church which was to be the conclusion This I will add for the last that namely the Papists seeing they could not prevail with the Protestants in the way of disputing of their Doctrine They questioned the Ministry of the Protestant Clergy saying the same was not lawful But besides that their own Scholasticks Bannes Canus as Bannes Canus and others doth allow that per haeresin potestas ordinandi non amittitur Likewise they shew the contrary by their practise because they do not re-ordain them that are ordained in our Churches as to the substantial part and it is sure enough that a bad Governour or Governours of the Church may send good labourers into the Vineyard of Christ as I will shew by an instance in answer upon the next following argument A Papist once discoursing with me about the Clergy of the Protestants that namely they were unlawful because they were ordained by them that fell off from the Church of Rome and so became Hereticks framed this argument against me viz. That Antichrist can send no servants for Christ But the Roman Pope as the Protestant saith is an Antichrist and he cannot send any servants for Christ It seemed unto me a very strong argument at the first till at last after a little while I answered him thus That Antichrist that hath nothing of Christ in him cannot send servants for Christ I allow but the Roman Pope is such an Antichrist I deny and so do the Protestants because they do not affirm the Pope to be quite without Christ or else he is not an open Antichrist but a hidden one under a Cloak of a Vicar of Christ who distributeth the Offices of his temporal and earthly Court. And that such a one may send good men and willing to serve Christ I have shewed it by an instance which was this When Christ was upon earth and the limits of the Church were within the compass of Canaan the Church was very much corrupted Christ calleth their learning fermentum leaven their lives sepulchra dealbata painted Coffins Paul calleth the High Priest a whited Wall and yet they did send out good Workmen into the Vineyard of the Lord as viz. Joseph Nicodemus and others Thus I stopt the mouth of the Papists and here I will make an end of my book In the mean time I thank the Almighty God for that he hath been pleased to open mine eyes for they see the way of truth and pray him to confirm me in it And wish that every one may reject the way of abomination and be rooted and built up in Christ and stablished in the faith lest he be spoiled by vain deceit Col. 2.7 8. after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ Surely the Popish Religion as it is considered in it self and so by consequence their Church is nothing else but Babylon Apoc. Exite igitur ex ea popule mi Go out of it my people lest you should be partakers of their sins Imbrace the true Protestant Religion which is pure in her Doctrine holy in her Manners true to God and King to which both who will obey let him be a true Protestant FINIS