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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63267	Popery, the grand apostasie being the substance of certain sermons preached on 2 Thes. 2, v.1 to 12 on occasion of the discovery of that desparate plot of the papists against the King, kingdom and the Protestant religion / by John Troughton ...	Troughton, John, 1637?-1681.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2315; ESTC R23765	68,596	168

reaches The Host hath its Temples its Holydays and all divine honours given to it also the power of healing diseases casting out Devils and working all manner of miracles ascribed to it The Virgin Mary hath more temples offerings and prayers made to her than either the Father or the Son Her name is most sacred in oaths and a greater offence it is to speak any thing derogatory to her honour Vid. spec Europ Sands Jure matris impera redempotri than to blaspheme the name of God In her they put their trust and to her they ascribe authority over Jesus Christ himself It is true in words the Schoolmen distinguish the worship of the Virgin which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from fo the worship of God yet they confess a higher worship is due to her than to any creature and when we can make a medium betwixt the creator and creature then may we assign a worship which is not divine and yet superiour to the civil respect due to creatures But the same learned author observes that whosoever travelleth in Italy will see in their practice no such distinctions but that more honour and worship is given to the Virgin than to God himself It is known to all that Papists are more zealous for the worship of the Host and Virgin whom they call their Lady than for the honour of God and make the worship of them a greater cognizance of their religion than any part of the religion of Christ 2. The Churchof Christ acknowledgeth and trusteth in one only Mediator the Lord Jesus Christ None can reconcile sinners to God nor intercede with God for them but he that is equal with God God himself no creature can approach so near the infinite Majesty or have any much less such authority with him therefore the divine honour that is given to Christ the Mediator doth not derogate from the honour of God nor is any robbery of him because Christ is one with himself 1 Cor. 8.6 There is but one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him But the Papists do own trust in and pray to many Mediators besides Jesus Christ even all the Angels in heaven who are therefore to be honoured and worshipped as inferiour Magistrates under a King and Courtiers under their Lord Catech. Rom. in 1. praec Q 4. Nostras preces deo offerunt Lachrymas They present our prayers and tears to God Also the Saints in heaven who they say being prayed to will obtain for us the remission of our sins and the favour of God Si enim gaudium est in Coelo super uno peccatore poenitentiam agente Ibid. Q. 5. nonne etiam coelestes cives poenitentes adjuvabunt Nonne rogati peccatorum veniam impetrabunt conciliabunt dei gratiam The invocation and worship of Saints as both lawful and necessary is avouched and decreed by the Council of Trent Ses 25. Decr. 2. Nor will their evasion excuse them that they make Saints and Angels only mediators of intercession to pray to God for us but not of redemption to reconcile us to God intercession depends upon redemption and satisfaction and is as proper a part of the priesthood of Christ as the sacrificeof himself was even Christs intercession would not have been prevalent unless he did thereby present his blood and merits to the Fathers and as the Saints couldnot intercede for us unless they had merited for us so the Church of Rome doth ascribe such merits to them viz. to their works of supererogation whereby they have done more than God required which merits they say are kept in the treasury of the Church to be applied to sinners as the Pope feeth fit and especially to their Martyrdom though they die for rebellion to their lawful Princes according to that known prayer Per Thomae sanguinem quem pro te impendit fac nos Christe scandere quo Thomas ascendit Vid. Tho. Becket of Cant. Grant that we may come to Heaven through the blood of Saint Thomas which he shed for thee It is the merits and prayers of Saints that must relieve the souls in Purgatory Concil Trid. ses 25. decr 1. ibid. dec 22 23. ch 1. yea every Mass-priest they say celebrating Mass doth offer up Christ to the Father as real and proper a sacrifice as he offered himself on the Cross and hereby makes reconciliation both for the living and dead viz. that are in Purgatory If then Christ was a compleat Priest merited and satisfied for us in sacrificing himself then every Popish Priest doth merit and satisfy for us when he offereth the same sacrifice as Christ did to the same intent and purpose 3. The Church of Christ is to worship him with spiritual rational worship Christians are to give themselves to God as a living and the only acceptable sacrifice which is their reasonable service Rom. 12.1 and to worship Godin spirit and truth in opposition both to the superstition of the Heathen and the ceremonies and bodily worship of the Jews in any place convenient for that purpose John 4.22 23 24. The outward worship of Christians consisteth in prayer and praises with understanding sometimes adjoyning fasting for the furtherance of repentance and mortification in hearing Gods word and the reverent use of his sacraments which Christ hath appointed which though they are outward and visible signs yet they are but few plain and familiar and the efficacy of them dependeth upon the rational and spiritual consideration of the things signified But the Papists have changed the whole worship of God into a pompous carnal dead service They have taken away the Scriptures from the people and give them dumb images in stead of them Con. Trid. Ses 25. Dec. 3. Cat. Rom. in 1. praecep Q. 14. to teach them and to excite their devotion Instead of preaching the word most of their preaching is to set out the praises and lying miracles of their Saints Their prayers both publick and private are in a tongue unknown to the people and very often to the Priest also who only reads by roat and hereby prayer is made but a bodily exercise When the Jesuites had published an English prayer book for our English Papists the Pope called it in and prohibited the use of it There Lords supper they have changed to a sacrifice which the Priest offereth with many mystical but ridiulous ceremonies and gestures which they say obtains the pardon of sin and the grace of God for the people for whom it is offered though they understand not what is saidor done yea though they be absent following their worldly business or their lust at the same time They darkne the nature meaning of baptism by conjuring the water putting milk and honey into the mouth spittle into the ears and on the tongues anointing the head using salt many such things which being all in Latin not understood by the people are more like magical

and so other miracles are for them that believe not who have not received the Gospel but not to them that believe 1 Cor. 14.21 22. who have already been convinced of the truth and fulness of the Scriptures to which God expects they should yield their full assent and obedience Ver. 10 11 12. In them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness In these words we have the subject of Antichrists delusions those on whom his signs and lying wonders should have effect viz. they that perish though many of the godly may have been entangled by Popish superstitions yet none receive them throughly or give up themselves to them but those that are to perish Rev. 17.11 They that dwell on the earth wondred after the beast even they whose names were not written in the book of life We have also here the reason why God suffereth so many to be delivered to their own destruction viz. because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved and this is further amplified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for this cause viz. because they love not the truth God shall send them strong delusions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 delusions that shall be effectual to make them believe a lie who believed not the truth i. e. obeyed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness that so they might be damned Gods judgements are suitable to mens sins those that love not the truth he suffereth to lose the truth and they that are willing to receive false doctrines and false worship that they may more quietly practise unrighteousness God suffereth them to have temptations to it and to be prevailed with by those temptations and this is the case of the Papal world because men delight not in the true knowledge of God to fear him and be thankful therefore he gave them up to worship Images and to serve the Creatures more than the Creator as he dealt with the Heathens before them Rom. 1.21.25 Men lov'd not the knowledge of Christ valued not his love and death but loved to boast of their own wills abilities and performances therefore God suffered them to lose the sound doctrine of justification faith an assurance and to make men and Angels their Mediators and to trust in the merits of their own works and sufferings men had no pleasure in holiness but in unrighteousness and licentiousness therefore God suffered them to be deprived of the Scriptures the mean and rule of holiness and to spend their days either in will worship superstition and voluntary severities bodily exercise which profits not 1 Tim. 4.8 or else in all filthiness and profaneness and yet to delude themselves with the vain hopes of pardons indulgencies dispensations penances and venial sins Moreover because men delighted not in spiritual things and heavenly mindedness they were deprived of the true knowledge of heaven and the comfortable hopes of Salvation to be taught to live in endless doubts and fears that can never be satisfied and to count it a favour to go to Purgatory at last there to suffer some thousands of years the torments of hell and to believe that their deliverance from thence depends upon the will of Popes and Priests and is to be bought with money Men were weary of the spiritual worship of God Faith and love prayer and thanks giving hearing the word and receiving the Sacraments with a serious heart and desire to profit by them therefore they are given up to be content to be deprived of Gods word and to hear little but the lying miracles of feigned Saints and humane Traditions and commandments of men also to have their prayers and Sacraments in a language they do not understand and to fool themselves with a belief that the Opus operatuns their bare presence at them and performance of the outward work is sufficient to save them Lastly because men were weary of a pious profitable and learned ministry therefore they are delivered to be enslaved by a generation of men for the most part abominably wicked ignorant and superstitious who deceive the people and are themselves deceived briefly natural conscience will not suffer men to be content without some religion and some hope of a better life and some persons to instruct them in it but their unruly lusts and affections make them love and chuse a religion that they may play and trifle with and such is Popery where men may seem very devout and zealous in external worship and for the Traditions of their fathers and yet live in all wickedness and notwithstanding hope to go to heaven Vse 1. This may lessen our wonder that Popery should so much prevail upon the world and that men should be so ready to return to it after they have received the knowledge of the truth and Popery been discovered to be false and ridiculous to common reason it is the righteous judgement of God to suffer them to be deceived who would be deceived and to suffer them to take up a false and absurd religion who are weary of the true though most excellent and most rational for this reason no means can withdraw men from their superstitious and Idolatrous practices and from their brutish obedience to the Pope and their Priests because God hath given them eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear and hearts that cannot perceive and understand till he hath executed all his wrath upon them 2. The best means to be preserved from Popery is to maintain in our selves love to the truth It was want of this that provoked God to give up the world to delusions and still to continue it under the power of them in a great measure He that will do the will of him that sent me he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God saith our Saviour John 7.17 Scripture and reason will not suffer us to receive Popery as a truth or as any religion but as a meer humane device to keep up the power of the Pope and his adherents and sense also will confute some of their errors as Transubstantiation and many of their miracles but if we love not the truth interest or fear may make us willing to believe a lye and submit to it unfeigned love of the Gospel and a lively sense of spiritual things will prevent this that we shall not be willing to let go the truth and then God will not suffer us to be led into errors If we delight in the knowledge of God he will never suffer us to be bewitcht with Idols that can neither see nor hear nor help If Christ be precious to us the chiefest of ten thousands and altogether lovely God will never suffer us to put our confidence in Creatures as our Mediators or in our own