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A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

simple have a design to bring you to worship stocks and stones with the same honour that is due to God blessed for ever And lest your hearts should rise against graven Images lest you should not bow down to them nor worship them against the Letter of the second Commandment they leave out those words of that second Commandment as a needless illustration in their Chatechisms and Prayer-books to the people The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals and fashioneth it with hammers and worketh it with the strength of his arms yea he is hungry and his strength faileth he drinketh no water and is faint The carpenter stretcheth out his rule he marketh it out with a line he fitteth it with planes and he marketh it out with the compass and maketh it after the figure of a man according to the beauty of a man that it may remain in the house Thus he maketh a god even his graven image he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith Deliver me for thou art my God They have not known nor understood for he hath shut their eyes that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot understand And none considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say I have burnt part of it in the fire yea also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof I have rosted flesh and eaten it and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination shall I fall down to the stock of a tree He feedeth of ashes a deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a lie in my right hand Isai. 44. 12 13. 16. to 20. In a voluntary humility do these men worship Angels who said expresly to St. John Worship thou God Now you seek God in his Ordinances and desire to see him in his holy Temple If you be seduced by them you must go onely to poor creatures like your selves 6. We or do we onely doth not our God likewise teach you that if any man adde to his holy Word he shall adde to him the plagues that are written in this book Yet if ever they prevail you must believe more Scripture then ever God inspired or his ancient Church received and you must do it upon no less penalty then if God himself should speak from heaven Sad You must believe what an Angel from heaven is accursed if he teach you They have a designe Beloved to set up a man in stead of God who may create new Articles of Faith at his pleasure and impose them upon necessity of salvation In vain it seems came Christ from the bosome of the Father to reveal his will in vain doth the Spirit lead us to all truth in vain have we thought that our Priests lips should preserve knowledge and that the people should seek it at their mouth in vain have we gone to the Law and to the Testimonies concluding that if men spoke not according to them it was because there was no light in them If we must lay aside all and wait upon the Popes Oracles how shall we be sure that he is infallible Not because he saith so for if he bears witness of himself his witness is not true Not because the Scripture saith so for that they say is no further true then he confirms it Not because he is St. Peters successour for we are not sure St. Peter was at Rome if he was there we are not sure that he was Bishop there being an Apostle of the Circumcision i. e. of the Jews and not of the Romans If he was there Bishop we are not sure he was infallible who denyed his Master thrice and dissembled once If he was infallible we are not sure he left any heirs of his grace and spirit or if any we are not sure he left one in a perpetual and visible succession at Rome That he so be queathed his infallibility to his Chair as that whosoever sits in it cannot but speak true that all which sit where he sate must by some instinct say as he taught That if Peter was infallible by vertue of Christs promise yet that what Christ said to him absolutely ere ever Rome was thought of must be referred yea tyed to it that the Pope whose life whose pen whose judgement whose keys may erre yet in his pontifical Chair cannot erre That the line of this Apostolical succession in the confusion of so many long and desperate schisms when there was one Pope in one place another in another shamefully corrupt Usurpations and Intrusions confessed Heresies open Profaness and celebrated Infidelity neither was nor can be broken If you are not sure of these and many more things whereof some are impossible most are improbable you are sure of nothing in Popery Oh the lamentable hazard of so many millions of poor souls that stand upon these slippery termes O miserable grounds of Popish faith whereof the best can have but this security that perhaps it may be true 7. We and our Church have taught you a serious Religion which Angels desire to look into which men reverence which carrieth a divine authority a heavenly awe a spiritual power along with it that prevails upon all that hear it Ten men are ready to lay hold on him who is a Jew i. e. a professor of the true Religion and say VVe will go with you for God is with you But alas they of Rome have set up a Religion that made sport to our plain fore-fathers with the remembrance of her gravest devotion How oft have we seen them laugh at themselves whilst they have told of their creeping Crouch their kissing the Pax offering their Candles signing with Ashes partial shifts merry Pilgrimages ridiculous Miracles and a thousand such Maygames which we are ashamed to name While you are taught that decent worship that solemn devotion those comely approaches to the Throne of Grace that make all Christians rejoyce to behold your order grave solemn and heavenly We cannot but pity that Religion whose vanities very boyes do shout and laugh at if for no more but this that it teacheth men to put confidence in Beads Medals Roses hallowed Swords spells of the Gospel Agnus Dei c. Ascribing unto them divine virtue yea so much as is due to the Son of God and his precious blood You are taught to draw neer to God to hear his Word in a Language you understand and to make your requests known unto God in a wholesome form of sound words you can assent to and there come in some it may be when you are gathered together in one place that believe not or one unlearned he is convinced of all he is judged of all and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest and so falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth When they of the Church of Rome are together in one

than he keeps under the Papists and as they would perswade the world all Christians too when there is evident knowledge of the fact Subjects may Lawfully exempt themselves from the power of their prince before any declaratory sentence of a Judge so they have but strength to do it hence it followes that the Papists of England and Saxony are to be excused saith he that do not free themselves from the power of their Superiors nor make War against them because commonly they are not strong enough It is indeed generally and charitably believed that the Pope raiseth his power over Kings and Princes onely for their and the Churches spiritual good Ah narrow souled We look about you and It hath saith one been one of the most detestable crimes and highest Impeachment in the world against the Pope of Rome that under a Saint like religious pretense of advancing the Church cause the Kingdom of Christ they have for some hundred of years Usurped to themselves as sole Monarchs of the world in the right of Christ whose vicars they pretend themselves to be both by Doctrinal position and treasonable practices an absolute Soveraign Tyranical power over all Christian Emperours Kings Princes of the World who must derive and hold their Crowns from them alone upon their good Behaviours at their pleasure not only to excommunicate censure judge depose murder destroy their Sacred Persons but likewise to dispose of their Crowns Scepters Kingdomes and translate them to whom they please Thus O Kings are you served in ordine ad spiritualia by the Papists while We poor Protestants think That we cannot do any evil against you that the greatest good many come to us or the Church thereby If men came to us to discover any design against your Sacred Majesty whom God preserve and asked our advice about it we must neds have abhored it as treason and have charged them not to touch Gods annointed and have urged them with this can a man touch the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse If they come to Gar●…et in England about a powder plot or to Guignard in France about a murther Tirannus jure Interini potest say the one its good and commendable and Heroick saith the other and both dismisse them with their blessing prayer and absolution When those licentious men among us acted as we are verily perswaded by Jesuitical Insinuations and Popish principles assaulted and murthered hislate Majesty of blessed memory We were all amazed Our Nobility offered to dye for him our Clergy writ prayed and preached against it our whole Nation abhorred it some dyed at the very hearing others were distracted and the whole face of England Scotland and Ireland gathered blacknesse When Clement murthered Hen. the 3d. of France Voiez commends him the Preacher at Colen connes a whole Sermon to extol him and the Pope Sextas Quintus makes a solemn Panegyrick upon him on September 11. 1589. in the Consistory in order to his Canonizations Comparing him to Ehud and Eleazar And concluding with this memorable saying I pray God finish what he hath begun When Ravillac stabbed Hen. the 4th of France he hath no lesse then two Apologies made for him the one by Veruna the other by Guignard who writes as if he would have done as much himself yea he saith that Clements murther was most Heroical and most praise-worthy adding moreover these words if we in the year 1572. on St. Bartholmews day in the general Massacre of the French Protestants had cut off the Basilicon vein H. King of Navarre we had not fallen out of a Feavour into that plague we now find sed quioquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi sanguini parcendo that K. Henry should be but over mildly dealt with if he were thrust from the Crown of France into a Monastery and there had his Crown shaven that if hecould not be deposed without a War a War must be raised against him but if a War could not be levyed against him the Cause being dead Let him be privily murdered as he was and taken out of the way and when this Guignard was justly executed by the Parliament of Richeome makes an Apology for him and the whole Society expostulates against the Arrest of Parliament We say to this day of the powder Traytors Cursed be their wrath for it was cruel and their anger for it was sierce our Souls come not yet into their secrets Bellarmine he hath written an Apology for Garnet Gretzer hath seconded him Eudaemon he goeth along with him the whole Church hath Canonized the Traytors Hallowed the Treason and consecrated the Villany We your Protestant Subjects stood firmly to your Predecessor Hen. 8. Obeyed heartily that Godly Prince Fd. the 6. suffered patiently under Q. Mary assisted our Gracious Q. Fliz. with our prayers lives and fortunes opened the way cheerfully and unanimously to your famous Grandfather King James to his haereditary Dominions and Territories and the sounder part of us had the honour of being involved in the fate and ruine of your Father of blessed Memory that Royal Champion and most resolved Martyr for the Protestant cause The Papists in the mean time oppose resist abuse affront revile and excommunicated H. 8. rebelled with Ket and other Northern men against Ed. the 6. they incite Q. Mary to destroy and banish her Subjects in whom consisted her strength and honour They excommunicate Q. Elizabeth encourage Cullen and others to murther her assuring them it was not only lawful by the Laws but that they should merit Heaven and Gods favour by it Further adding with Jacques Francis That the Realm of England then was and would be so well setled that unless Mrs. Elizabeth so he called Q. Elizabeth were suddenly taken away all the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail to shake or overturn it there was a Bull that came along with the Spanish Fleet in 88. When in it was expired That the Pope by the power given from God by Lawful Succession from Catholick Church for the defection of H. the 8th who forcibly separated himself and his people from the Communion of Christians which was promoted by Edward the sixth and Elizabeth who being pertinacious and impertinent in the same Rebellion and Usurpation Therefore the Pope incited by the continual perswasions of many and by the suppliant prayers of the English men themselves N. B. Hath dealt with divers Princes and especially the most potent King of Spane to depose that woman and punish her pernicious Adhaerents in that Kingdom c. he adds moreover that Pope Sextus before him prescribed the Queen and took from her all her Dignities Titles and Rights to the Kingdomes of England and Ireland absolving her Subjects from the Oath of Fidelity and Obedience he chargeth all men upon pain of the wrath of God that they afford her no favour help or aid but use all their strength to bring her to punishment and that all the