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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.
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True son of the Catholick apostolick church.
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vertues of the heathen but splendida peccata glittering dross and beautiful deformities C. Do they teach any thing contrary to the moral Law and to the Doctrine of good works M. They do both teach and practise many things directly contrary to Gods Commandments They teach for good works such things as are not commanded but rather forbidden in the Law of God as namely to go on Pilgrimage to vow single life to fast forty days and forty nights c. First concerning set Pilgrimages unto certain Images there was none of the Fathers did so much as dream of them for Six Six hundred years after Christ at the least Perkins 2 Vol. pag. 541 542. Secondly the necessity of the vow of continency was established first and annexed unto Orders about Three hundred and eighty years after Christ and that by Pope Siricius But it had no universal admission until the time of Pope Hildebrand in the year 1070. Perk. 1 Vol. 583. to 587. 2 Vol. 575 576. Acts and Monuments 1151. Thirdly their Doctrine of single life was never commanded of God nor known in the Primitive Church but hath sprung up since and is indeed the very Doctrine of Devils 1 Tim. 4.13 So as is also the forbidding of meats for Religions sake They teach also that a man may fulfil the Law yea do works of supererogation that is more than the Law doth require and that men of their abundance may allot to others such works of supererogation Rhem. on 1 Cor. 9. sect 6. 2 Cor. 8 sect 3. This Doctrine of theirs makes the Law of God to be unperfect and is directly contrary to the words of Christ Luke 17.10 And it was not know of the Ancient Fathers They spake indeed sometimes of Sepererogation but in a far other senâ—e then Papists do There are no such works to be found in the person of any meer man or Angel but only in the person of Christ God and man Perk. 1 Vol. 598 599. 2 Vol. 540 541. DIALOGUE 8. C. Shew me I pray you in particular what things they teach contrary to the Commandments M. I could plainly prove unto you that they do both teach and practise many things contrary to every one of the Commandments but I will only set down the chiefest and such as most men know to be true The first Commandment concerns the inward worship of God the ground of which worship is the true knowledge of God and without which none can truly worship and serve him for such as our knowledge is such is our worship 1 Chron. 28 9. Psal 9.20 Jer. 9.24 The Papists teach that Ignorance is the mother of devotion but the truth is it is the mother of superstition and Idolatry Gal. 4.8 The Papists therefore being ignorant and without the true knowledg of God cannot truly worship him but must needs be Idolaters worshipping they know not what The first Commandment requireth that we have the true Jehova for our only God They make Christs body to be God because they hold that it may be in many places at once which thing is proper only to God They make the Pope to be God and that in plain words Christopher Marcellus said to the Pope Thou art another God upon earth and the Pope took it to himself Concil Later Sess 4. They give the power to the Pope which is proper to God and so make him to be God As that he can make holy that which is unholy pardon sins c. Perkins 1 Vol. 400. 1. and they give Divine Worship to creatures and so make them their Gods The second Commandment concerneth the outward worship of God or the form and manner of his worship This Commandment they have clean put out of the Decalogue and to fill up the number they divide the last into two The scope of this Commandment is that no Image is to be made of God nor any worship performed to him him in an Image Deut. 4.15 16. But they teach it lawful to make Images of the true God and to worship him in them and that there is a Religious worship due to them Belarm de imag sanct lib. 2. cap. 21. And in the second Nicen Council it was decreed that the Image of God should be worshipped with the same worship that is due unto God Their practice is answerable to their Doctrine for they worship the Images of God of Christ the Saints the wooden Cross yea a piece of bread C. They say that they do not worship the images but God Christ and the Saints in the image M. Suppose that this were true yet in so doing they commit gross Idolatry and the same that the people of Israel did for which God plagued them greatly Exod. 32.5 28. I think there is none so very a Calf as to think that they did worship the Calf it self The Calf was but a representation of God and yet they sinned greatly in making it and worshipping God in it The Heathen in times past could say as much for themselves concerning their worshipping of Images as the Papists now do and yet as they were Idolaters so are the Papists for as touching their superstition and Idolatry blood cannot be more like to blood or an egg to an egg then the one of them is to another The Heathen had for every Nation and Province some peculiar god Among them the Elements had their several gods to rule over them The Heathen had a certain god assigned to their cattel The Heathen had peculiar gods for learning and learned men and for handy-crafts men And all these have the Papists likewise The Heathen erected Altars ordained Priests to offer Sacrifices fell down before their Idols c. So the Papists deck and adorn their Images go on Pilgrimage to them fall down upon their knees before them and make their prayers unto them And what is all this but to worship the very images themselves the which is most gross Idolatry Musculus on Psal 16. verse 4. pag. 139 140. Virels grounds pag. 87. to 92. Attersol on Philemon pag. 63 64. C. They say that there be degrees of Religious Worship the highest is Latria and this is due unto God the lowest is Dulia proper to Saints c. Bellar. de imag Sanct. lib. 2. cap. 25. The Scripture acknowledgeth one only kind of Religious Worship and that due only to GOD Matth. 4.10 Revel 22.9 And this distinction of theirs was not known and received into the Church till Four hundred years after Christ Perk. 1 Vol. pag. 696. 2 Vol. 530. C. Was not the making and worshipping of Images approved of by the Ancient Fathers M. There was no use of Images among Christians especially in their Churches for Three hundred seventy years after Christ Adoration of Images was never publickly authorized till Seven hundred eighty eight years after Christ in the second Council of Nice Perk. 1 Vol. page 696. 2 Vol. 421. If you be disposed to see more at large when Images first came up how they
the Sacrament belongeth unto Christ sitting in Heaven and is an inward worship of the heart or lifting up of the mind being stirred up with the outward signs Pope Honorius the third in the year 1220. was the first that ever instituted the adoration of the Sacrament And after him Vrban the fourth ordained a Feast in honor of the body of Christ Perkins 2 Vol. 564. Attersol on the Sacraments 388 389. Fourthly they turn the Sacrament into a sacrifice for the quick and the dead abolishing the fruit and remembrance of the death of Christ disannulling his Priesthood giving him to his Father whereas the Father hath given him to us c. ib. p. 309. Fifthly they maintain Transubstantiation These are their very words If any man shall say that there remaineth the substance of Bread and Wine in the Sacrament after the words of consecration or shall deny that the whole substance of Bread and Wine is changed and converted into the body and blood of Christ the forms and shews only of Bread and Wine remaining which singular and miraculous conversion the Church calleth Transubstantiation let him be accursed Con. Trid. Sess 13. Can. 2. This their Doctrine of Transubstantiation is a very fable to mock fools withal and it overturneth both the nature and use of the Sacraments pag. 45 46. pag. 365. to 369. If there were a miraculous conversion as they say there is of the Bread and Wine it would appear to the outward senses For all true miracles are wrought openly cleerly and evidently to mens senses John 6.26 But the Bread and Wine by the judgment of all the senses remaineth and appeareth to be the same in substance which it was before of the same quality quantity colour taste handling smelling vertue and nourishment there is not any one sense or all the senses together that can judge otherwise of it then it did before If a man should be called in when the Bread and Wine is set on the Table and bidden to consider well what he there seeth smelleth and tasteth and then is willed to go forth and to come in again after the Consecration is ended by the Priest and to do the like and then is asked what he thinketh of it he no doubt will answer unless fear of persecution make him to conceal the truth I see feel smell and taste the same wafer-cake and wine that I did before I can perceive no natural and substantial change therein And therefore it followeth that there is no miracle wrought and consequently no Transubstantiation at all The difference that is is in the end and use only Before consecration it was common Bread and Wine ordained for the nourishing of our bodies After consecration it becometh holy Bread and Wine sanctified by the Lord not so much to feed the body as the soul C. Did not the Ancient Fathers hold this Doctrine of Transubstantiation M. They knew nothing hereof for at least Eight hundred years after Christ Afterwards begun the disputations of Transubstantiation but not approved as an Article of Faith The Church for a whole thousand years taught no other then spiritual receiving of Christ In the year One thousand two hundred and fifteen Transubstantiation was decreed and determined in the Council of Lateran under Pope Innâ—cent The third and made a main matter of Faith Perk. 2 Vol. 558 559. C. What say you then of their Transubstantiated or consecrated host as it is called or the bread in the box carried in procession and worshipped M. Surely it is nothing else but a wheaten or breaden god or rather an Idol nothing inferior to Aarons Calf or Jeroboams Calves or the Nehustan and piece of Brass that Ezechias brake in pieces nay as vile and detestable as an Idol among the Heathen And for a conclusion of their doctrine of Transubstantiation I will here set down a witty conceit which one shewed me not long since I have kept the matter but changed the Meeter to make it somewhat the sweeter The Priests do make Christs body and blood Hereof none must once doubt They eat they drink they box him up They bear him all about DIALOGUE 7. C. I am satisfied touching the first point namely that the Papists are not of sound Faith but how do you prove that they are not of good life seeing they do so many good works M. I prove it thâ—â— Where the Doctrine is corrupt the life â—annot be good but their Doctrine as yea have heard is most corrupt therefore then life cannot be good A true saith is the ground of a good life and without which it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 yea whatsoever is not of Faith is sin Rom. 14 23. A true saith they have not and therefore their works cannot be good and such as may please God That they have not a true and sound Faith hath bâ—â—n shewed in many particulars and it further appeareth also in this that they do even wilfully reject the means whereby it is wrought namely the preaching hearing and reading the Word of God They have not neither will they have the Scriptures to be soundly preached read and heard in their own tongue That they cannot abide to have them in their own Language appeareth by this one example One Panier a Town clark of London in the time of King Henry the Eighth hearing that the Scriptures should be put into English he spake to this effect and confirmed it with an Oath viz. that if he knew that the Scriptures should be put into English and that the King would have them to be read in the Church rather then he would live so long to see it he would cut his own throat But as Hall saith who heard him speak it he was not so good as his word for instead of cutting his throat he hanged himself C. What is the cause that they cannot abide to have the Scriptures in â—heir own Language M. S. John gives the reason For every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to it lest his deeds should be reproved and discovered John 3.20 If the Owl flieth abroad by day the bâ—dâ—â—â— and by discern him follow him and â—all upon him and therefore he flies abroad in the night and then he is quiet If the Scriptures should be suffered to be expounded and read of all Nations in their own Language thâ—n that Owl of Rome the Pope I mean with all his fooleries and abominations would be discerned and discovered and then the world would hate him follow after him and persecute him even as the small birds do the Owl and therefore they cannot abide the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue but love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evil C. What say you then to their good works as building of Churches giving of alms c M. These and such like works required in the Law of God in themselves are good and to be practised of all but to them they are as the Fathers called the