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A31347 A Catholick pill to purge popery with a preparatory preface, obviating the growing malignity of popery against Catholick Christianity / by a true son of the Catholick apostolick church. True son of the Catholick apostolick church. 1677 (1677) Wing C1495; ESTC R15262 39,661 102

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simple and plain manner Secondly it began to admit some increase of ceremonies especially the offrings for the dead which was but a thanksgiving for them untill more then two hundred years after Christ Thirdly prayers for the dead got entrance into the Lords Supper about the year four hundred and then came in Purgatory and the redemption of souls from thence by Masses M. Perkins 2. Vol. 554. 1. D. Again you are to know that Mass is like a beggers cloak patcht up with many pieces whereof some were put in at one time some at another One Pope puts in one patch another Pope puts in another and it was not fully patcht as now it is till twelve hundred yeares after Christ Acts and Monuments pag. 1274 c. And in the Canon of the Masse there are to be found a full half hundred of errours and blasphemies Synopsis Papismi the 13. general controversie quaest 8. C. But how can the Mass be so late and new seeing that the Fathers in their writings make mention of it M. The word Missa which is now called the Mass in the Fathers signifieth a publick meeting to the Communion and to Prayers or the solemn dismission of that meeting or even the form of their religious worship And the Phrase Missam facere used in some of the Fathers doth not signifie to say the Popish Mass but to dismiss some out of the assembly After the Sermon the Catechumenists that is such as learned the Catechism and were not admitted to the Lords Supper are dismissed And hereupon the Communion was called Missa figuratively because when it began there was a dismission of some Perkins 2. Vol. 552. 2. D. 553. Synopsis Papismi the 13. generall controversie Quaest 2. C. I am satisfied touching the Sacrifice of the Mass by which as I do now plainly perceive they do even denie the Priesthood and the onely Sacrifice of Christ I pray you now to shew me wherein else they denie his Priesthood M. Christs Priesthood consisteth of two parts Satisfaction and Intercession As by his owne Sacrifice once offered he hath made a perfect satisfaction for our sins so he now continually maketh intercession to God for us Rom. 8.34 Heb. 7.25 Papists teach that the Saints in Heaven doe make intercession to God for particular men according to their several wants and that having received particular mens prayers they present them unto God And so herein they do also deny the Office of Christs Priest-hood Rhem. on Luke 16. Sect. 4. on 2 Cor. 1.3 on 2 Pet. 1. Sect. 3. and in many other places C. They say that Christ indeed is the only Mediator of Redemption but the Saints are also Mediators of Intercession M. This is but an idle distinction for Christ only is the Mediator as well of the one as the other For in a true and sufficient Mediator there must be these properties first of all the Word of God must reveal and propound him unto the Church Secondly he must be perfectly just and such a one as in whom was no sin ever found Thirdly he must be a Propitiator that is bring something to God that may appease and satisfie his wrath and justice for our sins Now these three properties are not to be found in any creature but in Christ alone and therefore he is the only Mediator of Intercession as well as of Redemption Perkins 1. Volum 603 604. C. Do they teach any thing contrary to the Kingly Office of Christ M. Yes they teach that the Pope is Christs Vicar and head of the Church that he can make Laws to bind the conscience that he can make new Articles and abolish the old that he can dispense with all the precepts both of the Old and New Testament And so herein and in many other such like things they deny the Kingly Office of Christ C. It seemeth then to me by this which you have said that though in words they confess Christ yet in deed and in truth they deny him M. They do so indeed for whosoever denieth the Office of Christ for the performance whereof he came in the flesh denieth in effect Christ to be come in the flesh but the Papists deny his Office therefore they deny him to be come in the flesh and so they are no good Catholicks but rather Hereticks C. What should move the Church of Rome in words to acknowledge Christ and yet to deny his Office M. It makes much for her profit and by this means they do the more easily deceive people That their profit and advantage is the only end they aim at appeareth by a most blasphemous speech of a Pope of Rome Leo the tenth who being somewhat moved against one of his Cardinals for alledging a place against him out of the Gospel concerning Christ answered him thus Quantum nobis profuit ista fabula de Christo O what advantage hath this fable of Christ brought us Sleydan de statu Relig. c. Reip. lib. 1. They are herein much like to a Fowler who spreading his net to catch Larks hath tied to his net an artificial Lark a Lark in shew but not indeed This he causeth to move and stir the which the Larks perceiving and thinking it to be a Lark indeed they fall down by him and so are caught in the net So they have a Christ in their mouths to draw people to them but it is a counterfeit Christ Or if it be the true Christ yet they do it but as the Lark catcher doth who many times hath in his net a true and living Lark indeed but it is to deceive the Larks and the more easily to catch them in his net So they profess Christ have his Word and Sacraments among them but it is only to deceive simple people and to make a prey of them DIALOGUE 4. C. Do they teach any other thing contrary to any other Article of the Creed M. Yes divers things In the Article we profess to believe that Christ was conceived by the holy Ghost so he h● only was conceived without Original sin They ●each that the Virgin Mary was also conceived without Original sin and that by this means it came to pass that Christ was free from all spot Concil Trid. Sess 5. cap. 1. de peccato originali And so herein they do altogether overthrow this article of Christs conception by the holy Ghost to whose only power the Scripture doth impute Christs holiness and not the Virgin Mary which was no less then all others conceived and born in sin and did need Christ to be her Mediator as well as the rest of mankind There was a long time a foul stir in the Church of Rome between the Dominicans and the Franciscans about this point Acts and Monuments p. 732. It was the common opinion of Fathers and Writers until Lumbards time which was about the year 1150. that she was conceived in Original sin Perkins 2. Vol. 596. In the fourth Article we profess that Christ