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A65422	Popery anatomized, or, A learned, pious, and elaborat treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of controversie, between us and papists, are handled, and the truth of our doctrine clearly proved : and the falshood of their religion and doctrine anatomized, and laid open, and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture, fathers, and also by some of their own popes, doctors, cardinals, and of their own writers : in answer to M. Gilbert Brown, priest / by that learned, singularly pious, and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch ...; Reply against Mr. Gilbert Browne, priest	Welch, John, 1568?-1622.; Craford, Matthew. Brief discovery of the bloody, rebellious and treasonable principles and practises of papists.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1312; ESTC R38526	397,536	586

purity and liberty as thou hast had Or if ever Nation after us shal have so long a day after such a manner again And it seems to me that as the LORD confirmed Ezechiah of his promise by causing 2. Kings 20. the Sun to return back again miraculously by the degrees whereby it went down So the LORD hath confirmed his superabundant love towards us in causing the light of the Gospel to return again as it were oft times and that most wonderfully and miraculously by the degrees whereby our iniquities in the righteous judgement of God did hasten it to go down upon us Yea the blessing of Abraham hath come upon us For he hath blessed them that blessed us and hath cursed them who hath cursed us he hath striven against them who hath striven against us and hath made our oppressors to eat their own flesh and to drink their own blood no instrument formed against thee O Church of Scotland hath ever prospered and the tongue that hath risen against thee the LORD hath condemned that all flesh might know that GOD was thy Savior and the strong GOD of Jacob thy avenger And certainly if ever people might have been called Jephzibas Esai 62.6 that is the LORDS delight or their land Beula that is married unto him the Church and Kingdom of Scotland might have been so called For the LORD had delight in us and our land hath a husband even the LORD our Redeemer he was an ornament unto us Esa 60 19. he set his beautie on us Ezech. 16.14 he crowned us with glory and a Diadem by the hand of our GOD was set upon our heads Esai 6.2 And true is that of us which our Savior spake to his disciples Luke 10.24 Many Kings and Prophets hath desired to see the things that we have seen and hear the things that we have heard and have not seen them nor heard them So who are so ladened with mercy and kindness as we have been for we have been made the head and not the tail Deut. 28.13 as the LORD promised And surely if ever people should have been Joshurim Deut. 32.15 that is upright and straight in the eyes of the LORD we should have been so No who should have been so holy as we Who so strong in CHRIST and rooted and grounded in him as we Coloss 2.7 Who so rich in all grace and fruitful in all good works as we For who had so many and so glorious means to have made us to have abounded in all grace as we had What could the LORD have done more to us then he hath done Isai 5.4 For we wanted no mean that ever the LORD commanded in his Word either to have bred grace in us or to have preserved it and increased it But they to whom much is given much shal be required at their hands again For as the LORD made us a spectacle of his mercy wherein he did demonstrat the riches of his free grace in CHRIST JESUS unto all the Kingdoms of the earth and above them all So it had been our part proportionably to have met him with thankfulness again and to have been examples of all grace godliness righteousness and of all good works unto all others and above all others But alace sinful Nation laden with iniquities Esai 1.4 who is so sinful as thou art What Nation so polluted with all abomination and wickedness as thou art Thy iniquities are mo then the sand of the sea they are grown up so high that the top of them reach up to the very heavens Hosea 9.7 and the cry of them is like yea beyond the cry of Sodom there is such a burden of iniquity upon this Land that considering all circumstances both of the means and of the time and space the LORD hath given us to repent I know not if ever Nation was so great in the eyes of the LORD as this Land is For may not that which the Prophet spake of Juda. Ezechiel 22. be most justly said of thee O Scotland For art thou not replenished with blood from corner to corner so that blood touches blood Are not thy Nobles in thee every one ready to shed blood In thee the father and the mother are despised in the midst of thee the widow and the fatherless are oppressed In thee the very abominations of the Gentils are committed The discovering of the Fathers shame and adultery with thy neighbors wife thou art so laden with adulteries incests and whoredooms that the Land groans under thee thou hast prophaned his Sabaths despised his Law contemned his Gospel withholden from him the fruits of his Kingdom and hast trodden under foot the blood of CHRIST and hast grieved that Spirit of grace So that when I think of the number and greatness of our sins I cannot but wonder that the LORD should not have withdrawn his Kingdom long since from us and have given it unto others that would have brought forth the fruits thereof Matth. 21.41 Yea I wonder that he hath not caused the Land to vomit us out for the abominations and sins wherewith we have defiled it in so great a light And surely when I think of the severity of the Justice of GOD in punishing other Nations and Kingdoms for the contempt of his Gospel and the withholding of the fruits of his Kingdom from him my soul trembles For wherefore did the LORD reject the natural branches that chosen generation of whom the Fathers was and of whom CHRIST was according to the flesh Rom. 11 2● 9.5 and gave them and their posterity over to the hardness of their hearts this 1500. years and more to be damned for ever and ever in that everlasting darkness and yet his wrath is not turned back but because they would not be gathered and knew not in that their day the things that belonged to their peace and would not render to him the fruits of his Kingdom in due season Matth. 23.37 Luke 19.42.43 Mat. 21.41 And wherefore did the LORD remove his Candlestick Rev. 2.5 from a great many of the Churches both of the East and of the West which were planted by the Apostles and were once lanterns of light and hath given them over to strong delusions to believe lies 2. Thes 2.10.12 the one to the impiety of Mahomet and the savage Tyrant of the Church the other to the bondage of that second beast and fearful darkness of that bottomless pit Rev. 13.11 9.1 But because they received not the love of the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness as the Apostle saith 2. Thes 2.12 Now if GOD spared not them but gave them over to a most fearful bondage both of soul and body both spiritual and corporal temporal and eternal how should we not fear as great or rather greater judgements seeing we had all these as examples before us to have fore-warned us and to have made us to fear For we are not to think as our Savior saith to the Galileans that they

Sabbath that we may set forth wheat c. Vers 9. I will cause the Sun to go down at noon and darken the earth in the clear day And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs to lamentations c. And vers 11. I will send a famin in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the Word of the Lord. And they shal wander from sea to sea and from the North even to the East they shal run to and fro to seek the Word of the Lord and shal not find it Zech. 11.8 Their soul abhorred me then said I I will not feed you that that dieth let it die Now is not the wearying despising slighting and contemning of the Ordinances of Christ so evident among us that he that runs may read it 4. A fourth sin for which the Lord threatens to give up with folk is formality and lukewarmness contenting themselves with a form of godliness without the power thereof 2. Thess 2.10.11.12 Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shal send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie c. And Laodicea is threatned for her lukewarmness to be spewed out of Christs mouth Rev 3.16 Now what age or generation could ever parallel this for formality and lukewarmness in the matters of God And may we not be justly given up to the delusions of Antichrist 5 A fifth sin is unbelief and disobedience to the call of God in the Gospel Hosea 9.17 My God will cast them away because they did not hearken unto him and they shal wander among the Nations Was it not for this sin that the Lord upbraided those Cities wherein most of his mighty works were done and threatens to bring desolation on them Matth. 11.21.22.23.24 Were not the Jews cut off for their unbelief Rom. 11.20 And is there no sad evidences and symptoms of this sin every where How few are they that have received Christ by faith is endeavoring Gospel-obedience And may we not fear lest the judgement of Chorazin Capernaum and Bethsaida be ours 6. A sixth sin for which the Lord threatens to remove the Candlestick is falling from our first love Rev. 2.4 Now have we not declined not only from the love and zeal which our fathers had but also even from that love zeal and diligence in duty that once we our selves had 7. A seventh sin is stupidity and impenitency under all Gods dispensations whether of mercy or judgement Jer. 8.5.6 7. And is not this sin so manifest that he that runs may read it Who is smiting on his thigh and saying What have I done How few are noticing what God is contending for or laying their iniquities to heart Several others might be instanced but these may suffice to show us what ground of fear we may have of Gods giving us up to the delusions of Antichrist yea is he not in a great measure departed from us Hath he not sore cracked if not broken the staves of beauty and bands our unity and authority We are divided in his anger and contempt is powred upon us Is not the blessing of Ordinances much restrained How few are converted and built up by the Gospel Yea what deadness decay and withering is upon all even the Lords people And how many are content to live without God and suffer him to be gone Now lay all these together and we will see that the ground of fear is greater then is apprehended by many Therefore let us be laying the hazard of the Church and of our selves and posterity to heart and let us be stirring up our selves to deal with the Lord by mourning and repentance prayer and supplications for the turning away of his wrath and for the powring out of his vials upon Antichrist If ever there was a time wherein repentance and mourning for our sins and the sins of the Land was called for it is now For are not our sins very great And is not the cry of them come up to heaven And is not the Lord hearkning and hearing if any man will repent him 〈◊〉 the evil of his doings and say What evil have I done For he is waiting to see what we will do before he leave us altogether For he hath in a great measure left us already For are we not stricken with blindness confusion and astonishment and trembling of heart Is he not in a great measure departed from his Ordinances For is not that light darkned that life withered that strength abated that presence evanished that tenderness gone these influences withholden that sometimes were wont to be felt in Ordinances Yea is not prayer restrained and love waxed exceeding cold and hardness of heart grown universal delight in God and in his Word and in the exercises of godliness grown exceeding rare Doth not God hide his f●ce from us and answer us with terrible things in righteousness All which speak that the glory of the Lord is departed from the Temple to the threshold Let us therefore lay these things seriously to heart and break up our fallow ground and circumcise our selves to the Lord and take away the fore-skins of our hearts lest his fury break forth like fire and burn that none can quench it Jer. 4.3 For is he not crying both by his Word and dispensations Be instructed O Jerusalem O Britain lest my soul depart from thee lest I make thee desolat a land not inhabited Jer. 6 8. Repentance and Reformation is only the mean to prevent our ruine therefore let us be dealing with him who is the Prince exalted to give repentance and remission of sins for the powring out of that spirit upon the land O! if we were all about this work then there might yet be hope in Israel concerning us The Lord who is rich in mercy grant us mercy so as to be stirred up to true mourning and repentance and to be laying more seriously to heart the grounds of his contention Amen FINIS Errata Page 1. line 7. for Churches read Church p. 9. r. Rev. 14.11 p. 33. l. 19. r. Arim. p. 37. l. 30. r. Bellarmins p. 58. l. 32. r. Sacramentis p. 92. l. 23. r. imports p. 128. l. 5. r. naturis p. 151. l. 9. r. is p. 172. l. 18. r. books p. 212. l. 9. r. The eleventh p. 388. l. 7. r. if it be of works p. 393. l. 32. r. one p. 413. l. 33. r. Ephes p. 443 l. 6. r. so great and l. 13. r. King p. 481. l. 33. r. gravest p. 484. l. 10. r. persecute p. 489. l. 22. r. Protestants of integrity

POPERY ANATOMIZED OR A LEARNED PIOUS AND ELABORAT Treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of Controversie between us and Papists are handled and the truth of our Doctrine clearly proved And the falshood of their Religion and Doctrine anatomized and laid open and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture Fathers and also by some of their own Popes Doctors Cardinals and of their own Writers In answer to M. Gilbert Brown Priest By that learned singularly pious and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch Minister of the Gospel first at Kirkubright next at Air in Scotland and last at S. John d'Angely in France The second Edition revised corrected and divided into Sections To which is annexed A Discovery of the bloody rebellious and treasonable principles and practises of Papists in dissolving Oaths committing Treasons raising Warrs and Commotions and using imparalleled cruelties toward Protestants By MATTHEW CRAFORD GLASGOW By ROBERT SANDERS Printer to the City and University 1●72 In hanc pij docti Auctoris Diatriben pij docti viri M. Matth. Crafordij additamentum decastichon Latino-Scoticum ROmulidum qui sacra oupis cognoscere sacra Et fugere haec sancti perlege scripta viri Perspicuè solidè Babylonia scita refedit Queîs miseras animas turba dolosa capit Quae nunc heu passim nullo prohibente vagatur Pro sapidis dapibus toxica tetra ferens Non minimas CRAFORDI etiam vir docte mereris Grates addideris quòd bona multa libro Vulnera quò capiat meretrix Romana nefandi Propinans stupri pocula plena sui The same in English WHo cursed Rome and Romish rites would know And them eschew this Book will clearly show It Babels doctrine truly doth declare Wherewith poor souls false Papists do ensnare Who now alace run freely as they will For wholsome food with poyson them to kill Great thanks also should learned CRAFORD get For these good things he to the Book hath set Which may help much to give Romes Whoor a wound Whose whoordoms so doth in the Land abound J. A. THE PREFACE TO THE LOVERS OF THE REformed Religion in Britain and Ireland DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD The name and memory of that Apostolick and singularly godly and faithful servant of JESUS CHRIST M. John Welsch who now is attending his Masters work in the Upper-House without wearying night and day is so precious in the Church of CHRIST that the revising republishing of any of his works who praise him in the gate will I hope be very acceptable to all the learned and godly especially this subsequent Treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of Controversie betwixt us and Papists are learnedly and solidly debated and the truth of our Doctrine evidently demonstrated and the error superstition and idolatry of the Church of Rome excellently anatomized and solidly refuted especially in such a time as this when Popery so much every where prevaileth and the Pope and his Agents are most active and diligent using all-means to get their deadly wound cured sending over to these Nations dayly swarms of Priests and Jesuits with books beads medals and the like Romish trash thereby to seduce the poor people who are in great hazard partly through their ignorance of the Controversies betwixt us and Papists partly through the lamentable decay of zeal against Antichrist and love to the truth partly through the sad divisions and distractions that are among our selves whereby the poor people are sorely brangled and tempted to Scepteiism and is made use of by Priests and Jesuits as a strong motive to perswade them to Popery although there be far greater divisions among Papists then among us as I have elsewhere demonstrated We shal not detain you long in the entry but only speak a little of the Author and of this Treatise and the causes that moved the reviving and republishing thereof at this time The now triumphing and glorified Author needeth none of our commendation he being among the spirits of just men before the throne and his memory being deservedly very precious in the Church of Christ But because the lives of godly men are useful for imitation we shal give a short description of his life He was descended of an ancient and respective family being a son of an ancient house of the name of Welsch in Nithsdale He was born a little after that blessed work of Reformation began in Scotland and being trained up at Schools he profited very much so that he was excellently accomplished in all kind of literature and eminent for piety and zeal for the Kingdom of Christ And being called to the Ministery of the Gospel about the year 1588. at the town of Kirkubright he was most diligent and laborious in preaching catechising visiting the sick and disputing and convincing of Papists which that Countrey abounded with And his labors were singularly blessed of God for many were brought by his Ministery to see the error superstition and idolatry of Popery and to embrace the truth and many were really converted to God and others were edified and built up confirmed comforted and strenthened so that he as a shining and burning light did inlighten that whole Countrey who at that time was in many places destitut of Pastors After he had remained there several years the General Assembly thought fit to transport him to Air as a Town of greater note and more populous where he was most assiduous and diligent in the work of the Ministery for he preached not only twise on the Lords day but also twise on every day of the week from nine to ten in the morning and from four to five at night where the Lord wonderfully blessed his labors for both in Air and in the Countrey about many were converted by him some of whom were as eminent and lively Christians as readily have been known of latter times After he had continued in the work of the Ministery several years at Air he was commissioned by the Presbytery with some other of his brethren to keep the Assembly indicted at Aberdene anno 1605. for which he with M. John Forbes M. Andrew Duncan M. John Sharp M. Robert Dury and M. Alexander Strachan were arraigned imprisoned and at length banished anno 1606. whereupon he went to France and in a very short time learned the French tongue and acquired such a facility therein as was thought strange by these who knew it He was called to the Ministery in S. John d' Angely a Protestant town in France where his Ministery was much blessed with success But the Civil Warrs arising while he was there that City was besieged on the Protestant interest M. Welsch did much encourage the people and told them that their adversaries should not prevail But in process of time the town was sore straitned and ready to be taken the enemy having raised a battery and by a close approach had made a great breach in the wall M. Welsch hearing

some of the Priests themselves did abstain from communicating and therefore laws was made as well Ecclesiastical de consec dist 2. cap. Velatum est as Civil Carol. Magn. lib. 5. cap. 93. lib. 6. cap. 118. addi 2. cap. 7. to constrain them to communicat at all times after the consecration So that by these degrees the Cōmunion in the Sacrament was lost also among the Ministery first from an ordinary communion which they used it passed to three or four and from the three to one and from this one to the Clark that rang the bell and ofttimes to the Priest himself alone And this losing of the Communion in the celebration of the Supper first among the people next among the Clergy was the first step to their pretended sacrifice Now when the people did communicat there was so much bread and wine in a great quantity brought to the Table to be consecrat by prayer as might serve them then as the number of the communicants decayed so was the bread and wine proportionably diminished And as it came to this at the last that none did communicat but the Priest and his Clark and oftentimes none but the Priest only so no more bread and wine was brought to the Table to be consecrat but that that served him And so from many breads it came to one and from a great bread to so smal a bread that it might be parted in three and in end it is come to the quantity of a denier as Durandus a Papist saith And such like of the wine from many great vessels to smal pottels from many cups to one and from a great cup to a smal And this was the second step to their pretended sacrifice Thirdly from the peoples negligence in communicating proceeded their negligence in bringing their oblations for these two were joyned together their communicating and their offerings a part whereof was taken for the maintenance of the Clergy But the Priests they would not want their offerings and therefore they procured civil laws to be made to constrain the people to bring their offerings Therefore Charles the Great made a law Carolus Magnus lib. 7. cap. 94. lib. 6. That the people might be admonished to communicat and to bring their offerings every Sabbath for the one ceasing the other ceased also and the Priest did demand the one under the pretext of the other And here was the third step the avarice of the Priests But while as neither Civil nor Ecclesiastical Laws could prevail with the people to make them to communicat and to bring their offerings they devised this damnable doctrine and taught it to the people That not only the Lords Supper was a Sacrament and so was profitable only to them that did comunicat but also it was a sacrifice to God and therefore was profitable for all them that were beholders of it and by the merit thereof they might obtain mercy and grace yea that it was not only meritorious to the beholders but also to all these for whom the Priest said it as well dead as living absent as present not only for the soul but also for all other necessities as well of beasts as of men so being they brought their offerings also to the Priest the which they ●aught be meritorious both for them and theirs For to keep the people therefore in some devotion as we say for to move them to bring their offerings unto the Priests this doctrine of Christs Sacrament that it was a most meritorious sacrifice and of the peoples oblations that they were profitable for them and theirs was first invented by the avaricious Clergy and taught to the people And therefore Charles the Great in his Laws injoyned to the Priests to make the people to understand distinctly the force of the Mass how far it was profitable both for them and theirs both for the living and the dead And to the people That they should bring their offerings continually unto the Priest and that because their offerings to the Priest was profitable both to themselves and also to these that appertained to them Now as for the Priests part they needed not laws to urge them to teach this doctrine For they were carried as it were with the chariots of their avarice to the performance of the same for otherwise their Masses would have been left desolat And from thence came this their doctrine that the Mass served to appease Gods wrath to obtain remission of sins Gabriel Biel lect 85 in expos Canon in 4. sent dist 12. qu. 3. redemption of souls and all spiritual grace and salvation And that it served for all other necessities as well of man as of beast as well for the dead as for the living as well for the absent as for the present Missal c. in canone Pap. Innocent 3. tract de missa Thomas de Aquin. Eckius de missa lib. 1. cap. 10. Concil Trident. sess 6. Canon 2. And from hence came this three-fold force which they ●scribe unto their Mass the one most general for all another more special for him that saith it and the third after a midway which was in the hands of the Priest to apply it to what person or persons dead or living it pleaseth him equally or unequally and that God the Father dispenseth the fruits thereof according to the determination of the Priest Gabriel Biel lect 26. And from this did spring their treasures and riches through the aboundance of the peoples oblations and from this came also the rich Donations Prebends Colledges and Lands as may be seen by the common form of the if donations in their Charters I offer to God all the things which are contained in this Charter for the remission of my own sins and of my parents to maintain the service of God in sacrifices and Masses As the Scribes and Pharisees therefore taught the people Matth. 15.5.6 that by offering a gift albeit they honored not their father and mother yet they should be free and have profit abrogating the Commandments of God through their traditions so did the Priests teach the people that suppose they neglected the commandment of God in communicating in the Sacrament yet by their presence at the sacrifice and by their gifts that they offered unto them they should be free from that sin and should have profit not only to themselves but also to all that appertained unto them And to content the people that they should not be offended that they were deprived of the Communion and received nothing for their offerings but a bare sight and hearing of the Priest eating and drinking all himself alone they invented their holy bread which they distributed unto the people every Sabbath and the kissing of the Pax that is the covering of the calice to supply the want of the Communion whereby they might think that they were not altogether frustrat of the same And as for the people because they received not the love of

the truth for no exhortation or admonition no Laws Ecclesiastical nor Civil could make them to reverence the Lords institution in receiving the sweet pledges of their salvation as the Lord had commanded therefore the Lord gave them over as it was fore-told to strong delusions that they might believe lies And beside this just judgement of God as this doctrine was most profitable to the Priests so was it most agreeable to their corruption and therefore was easily embraced and believed For what was more easie to practise then to hear and see a Mass and to bring their offering unto the Priest This required no examination of themselves before no mortification of their sin no sad and heavy hearts with fear and trembling to come to the same as the Communion did but only their eyes to see and ears to hear suppose they neither knew nor understood what was said or done in the same And yet what was so profitable as it was which was able to obtain remission of sins and redemption of souls to appease Gods wrath and to obtain all grace and to help for all necessities both for the living and dead present and absent man and beast as they affirmed So this was not the strait way to salvation for who was not able to practise this doctrine that is to see and hear a Mass And yet our Savior saith The way is strait that leads to eternal life and many shal seek to enter in and shal not be able Matth. 7.13 From this sprang the aboundance of their oblations that they spared neither silver nor gold houses lands nor heritages For what would not a man give to get salvation so easily both to himself and to others So it was no wonder suppose the Priests were earnest in beating in the ears of the people such a profitable doctrine for themselves For it was a gold mine unto them And suppose the people having forsaken the love of the truth and being given over of God to believe such strong delusions for the contempt of his ordinance embraced such a plausible doctrine which brought heaven to them and theirs so easily as they supponed and by these degrees the pretended sacrifice of the Mass was not a little promoved And yet these abuses crap not in while after Gregory the Great who lived in the 600. year after Christ suppose a great part of these abuses is ascribed to him Hitherto now hath this sacrifice been confusedly conceived and all things almost prepared for her birth From these now followeth other corruptions which did ripen this monstrous birth As first where the Priest was wont to bless and cons●crat by prayer so much bread wine as might serve the whole people who did communicat in the primitive Church the communion of the people in this Sacrament being lost as we heard before and the Priest himself alone or at the least two or three with him only communicating the oblations of the people which was not only of bread and wine and water according to the express Canons of the Church de consecrat dist 2 cap. Non oportet cap. In sacramento But corruption growing with the riches of the Church also of gold silver of sheep and oxen as we read in the time of Gregory in Dialog These oblations I say was not brought unto the altar to be consecrated by prayers to God but only so much bread and wine as might serve the Priest only and which at last the abuse growing he began to make himself and to bring unto the Sacrament Upon the which followed other two abuses The first that the stile of offering and sacrifice in the Sacrament was taken from the peoples action of offering their oblations for the which cause especially the Sacrament was called a sacrifice therefore the prayer in the Canon was not in Gregories time pro quibus tibi offerimus for the which we offer unto thee but qui tibi offerunt who do offer to thee And their oblation was called sacrifices as is manifest by the ordinance of Pope Gelasius where it is ordained that the sacrifices which the people should offer up in the Mass should be distribut in four parts This stile I say of offering and sacrifice was taken from them and ascribed only to the Priests action and his action was called the sacrifice And this was no little step to their pretended sacrifice The next which did put even some life and breath in it was the applying of all the prayers which was used to be said and made in the sanctification of the oblations of the people to the sanctification of that smal round bread and portion of wine which was reserved for the Sacrament and appointed for the Priest and the few that was to communicat with him So that here was a manifest change wherein they passed from the oblations of the gifts which was presented to God by the people and offered to him in the Sacrament of the Supper which were called sacrifices as we have proved it before to a sacrifice of a round bread and a little cup of wine which the Priest only or at the least with other two or three eat and drink in the same and consequently from a sacrifice of the fruits of the earth offered to God by the people to a sacrifice of the eternal Son of God which the Priest supponed he offered up to God in the same So by this means it received as it were some life and breath This alteration is so manifest that the prayers in their own Canon of the Mass and Liturgies will prouve the same Precamur te saith the Canon ut accepta habeas benedicas haec dona haec munera haec sancta sacrificia illibata that is We pray thee thou wouldest accept and bless these gifts these presents these holy and unspotted sacrifices And again Remember of them pro quibus tibi offerimus vel qui tibi offerunt hoc sacrificium laudis pro se suisque omnibus that is These for whom we offer unto thee or who doth offer unto thee this sacrifice of praise for themselves and all theirs And again Supra quae sereno propitio vultu respicere digneris accepta habere sicut accepta habere dignatus es munera Abelis Abrahae Melchisedech c. that is That thou wouldest vouchsafe to look upon them with a favorable and merciful countenance as thou hast vouchsafed to accept of the gifts of Abel Abraham and Melchisedeck c. And again Jube haec perferri per manus angeli tui in sublime altare tuum that is Command them to be carried by the hands of thy angel unto thine hie altar in the sight of thy Majesty And again Tua de tuis that is We offer of thy own thy own to thee I would ask you M. Gilbert dare ye in your conscience say that these prayers were made of the eternal Son of God whom ye pretend to offer up in your Masses For can either

much less do we hold that the Pope may loose all subjects from their oath of loyalty and command that a Jesuit stob or poyson a King when he turneth enemy to the Roman faith Satan himself cannot charge us with these therefore we intreat that none would hearken to the Author of Philanax Anglicus or the like who endeavor to traduce and calumniat us as if the Protestants of integrity did teach and practise rebellion c. Look to our Confessions and the approved writings of our Doctors and to the practises of Protestants in the Kingdoms and Common-wealths where they live and they will be forced to confess we own no such doctrine Who more loyal subjects then the Protestants in France to King Henry the third and King Henry the fourth They owned them assisted and fought for them when almost all others abandoned them How faithful were our predecessors in Scotland to King James they crowned him in his cradle they preserved him owned and assisted him and made him a glory to Europe for understanding learning and wisdom I shal not insist further on this seeing Peter du Moulin hath learnedly vindicated the Reformed Churches from this false aspersion hatched in hell of purpose to alienat the affections of the Magistrat from us But this only say as we desire to render to God the things that are Gods so we desire to render to Cesar the things that are Cesars But to conclud Doth not the truth and honor of God which ought to be dearer to us then our own salvation our own and posterities welfare and safety in body soul and all that is near and dear to us call us to consider and seriously to lay to heart the increase and prevalency of Popery Since the Reformation there was never generally more prevailing of Popery and more hazard of being ruined thereby then now and yet never less sense thereof zeal against it In former times the least appearance of the prevalency of Popery did alarm all to deal according to their place and station most seriously for suppressing thereof I shal not insist in shewing how zealous our predecessors in Scotland were against Popery and how they left no mean unessayed for total extirpation thereof out of the land nor how ready they were upon the least appearance of any danger to discover the danger and petition and supplicat the Kings Majesty and Estats of Parliament for remedy For instance when news came of the preparation of the Spanish Armado 1588. what fasting praying and humiliation was all the Land over and all other means essayed for preventing that dismal-like stroke And anno 1592. when the plots of the Popish Lords who had conspired to bring in the Spaniards in the Kingdom was discovered what zeal and forwardness did all the Land show for defence of the Reformed Religion and suppressing of Popery I will not I say insist at large on these seeing the Acts of our Parliaments wherein there are so many excellent statuts and laws made against Popery and the Histories of these times doth abundantly declare what ze●l and hatred all ranks and degrees had against that Romish Whoor But I shal only make this inference If they had such love to the truth and such zeal against Antichrist who had not such light and were not so strongly engaged as we are shal they not arise in judgement against us and condemn us For should not the truths of God be as precious to us as to our predecessors Are there not as many obligations lying upon us as was upon them Is not Popery that same damnable Antichristian idolatry now that it was then Why then are we so dreadfully lukewarm and indifferent and so little zealous against it Should we be silent when Christ suffers If in any thing and at any time we be obliged to confess him before men and to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints is it not in this thing and at this time when Antichrist is endeavoring to rob us of the purity of the Gospel and to entangle us with the yoke of his Idolatry and superstition Do we not see what we may expect if Popery prevail notwithstanding of all their specious pretences and fair and plausible insinuations The massacre of Paris the Spanish Inquisition and their unheard-of cruelty in Ireland to our own flesh and blood together with the Marian days in England ought never to be forgotten by us but alwayes raise in us a perfect detestation of and holy zeal and indignation against that Scarlet Whoor What may we expect if Popery prevail but that sad Dilemma either to be burnt at a stake or loose our souls and bodies eternally for the portion of these that worship the Beast and receive his mark is to be casten in that lake that burneth night and day Rev. 14.10.11 THE CONCLVSION NOw although we can expect nothing but either loss of life and all that is near and dear to us or to loose our souls eternally if Popery prevail yet how little concerned are we in these matters How luke warm and indifferent are we in this age and generation as to any Religion How few are they that are stirred up to deal with God by prayer and supplication for continuing of the Gospel in purity with us and to lay seriously to heart the abounding iniquity of these days that may justly provoke the Lord to give us up to the tyranny of Antichrist It is true many apprehend no hazard from Antichrist and think that all the noyse that is made of the prevalency of Popery is without any real ground and cause But let such think what they please yet really our hazard is not so little as is apprehended if we consider the diligence activity and vigilancy of Antichrist upon the one hand and the lightness unstability lukewarmness and Gallio-like temper of this generation together with the dreadful evils whereby the Lord is provoked to remove the candlestick and give us up to strong delusions to believe lies on the o her hand I. First I say if we consider the diligence and activity of Antichrist for is not Antichrist as active and diligent as ever Hath he not been still endeavoring by all manner of way to get his deadly wound cured and the Reformed Churches brought again under his subjection and especially Britain and Ireland which he looks upon as his great eye-sore Therefore he hath erected for educating of the children of Scots and English Papists a Colledge at Doway in Flanders another at Rome the third at Valladolit in old Castile a fourth in Sevil in Spain a fifth in S. Omers in Artois a sixth in Madrid in new Castile in Spain a seventh in Lovain in Brabant an eight in Liege in Luikland a ninth in Ghent in Flanders Now these that are educated in these Colledges especially at Rome they are bound by oath to come over to Britain and Ireland for propagating of Popery and accordingly some comes over to