rest of the whole Flock to hinder the traficking of your private Idolatrous Masses or the feeding His Majesties best Subjects with Fragments of Communions or to mock the weaker Brethren with prayers not understood or weary them with ridiculous Gestures and to hinder the giving the Glory that is due to God unto Stocks and Stones Prayers understood or not understood to Saints Pictures and Idols Ave Maries and Beads Agnus Dei's and such Abominations which will never prevail with God for Blessings but will rather pull down his Curses and Judgments upon you Prayers to God and his Son are by God commanded and are acceptable to him without dispute to Wafers Saints and Pictures are not so it being indisputable Idolatry to give Divine Honour to a Creature to a Wafer-God that Dogs Mice and Rats may eat Do but what our Saviour undeniably did viz. break and give to all Mat. 26.26 27 28. that all may be partakers oe Bread 1 Cor. 10 16 17. Divide the Cup that all may drink thereof Do that which he commanded to be done who first ordained this Mystery Do that which St. Paul received of the Lord and delivered to the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 11.23 24 25. Do that I say which the Primitive Church of Christ always did and you need not doubt of publick Allowance nor of publick places and oratories Do not make your selves wiser than God himself by putting a Padlock on the Scriptures which Christ hath commanded every man to search for in them ye think to have Eternal Life and they are they which testifie of me John 5.39 and which was taught Timothy from a Child and are able to make wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus and is profitable for Doctrin for Reproof for Correction for instruction in Righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works 1 Tim. 3.15 16 17. Do not go about to rob God of his Glory by denying the Work of his own hands and the Redeemed of his own Blood the Efficacy of the Scriptures with the assistance of his Spirit nor us of our Senses as if we could not distinguish Bread from Flesh or the Juice of the Grape from the Blood of Christ Do not substract from Gods own Decalogue one of his own Commandments under the pain of Eternal Damnation add 14 new Articles to the Apostles Creed which squint more at belief in the Pope and Papal Definitions than towards God and his Word lest ye Incur the plagues denounced against such Arithmetick and your part in the Book of Life be taken away Rev. 22.18 19. Neither be of those many which corrupt the Word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speake and write in Christ 2 Cor. 2.17 These few of many are sins so gross that they go open before to Judgment and are as manifest as the Deeds of the Flesh which are Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Murders Revelings c. Gal. 5.19 20 21. which both God and Nations abhor and make Laws against and Prohibitions so that none can be deceived but such as are given up to a reprobate sense and unto strong delusions to believe Lies 1 Thes 2.11 § It is true you have reconciled some Proselytes unto your Church which hath made both King and Parliament so Industrious to preserve the rest from Infection and Seducements and by so doing you have made them two fold more the Children of Hell than they were before meer Samaritans Worshippers of they know not what whereby we have lost little and you hve not got much For indeed it matters little what Religion Men profess if they live not according to to the Decalogue It is neither Circumcision nor Vncircumcision Gal. is 9. but a new Creature that availeth Gal. 6.15 For no man either knows or believes in God otherwise than the Devils do that doth not keep his Commandments And God knows the love of men towards him only by their keeping of his Commandments and by abstaining from that black Catalogue of sins Recorded Gal. 5.19 and without Holiness it is impossible ever to see the face of God with comfort I know no medium between a Saint and a Devil nor any Purgatory bktween Heaven and Hell As the Tree falls so it lies Heaven and Hell will divide the whole World at last As it hath been the unhappiness of former Ages so of this also that they that depart from evil make themselves a Prey and they that live Holily Godlily and Righteously in this present evil World are jeered and accounted but the off-scowring of the World Penitentiarii Asini Formal Fops But I fear when the King of Terrors shall Attacque the Copyholds of such Flowters and Magor-Missabib Fear and Terror shall be round about them and when they are drawing near to the Chambers of Death that then their Groans will be like the Groans of a deadly wounded man and their Hopes like the giving up of the Ghost and that then the 'l wish that both their lives and their deaths had been like those Formal Fobbs Therefore my hearty desire is That both this Dialogist and all the perverted reconciled Proselytes to Rome would return from whence they are fallen and repent and come out of that Inchanting City and Sink of sin that hath spawned more false Doctrins of a Scarlet Dye than all the Christian Churches in the World and be separate and no doubt but this Church will receive them and our Kings and Queens will be their nursing Fathers and Mothers and you will become their Sons and Daughters else What fellowship can righteousness have with unrighteousness what Communion can Light have with Darkness What Concord can Christ have with Belial and what agreement can the Temple of God have with Idols Wherefore come out from among them and be ye seperate and God and this Church will receive you and God will be a Father unto you and ye shall be his Sons and Daughters 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16 17 18. § Reasons are as strong and convincing against Tolleration if the case be considered upon a Politick Account and Interest as well as upon a Religious for to draw away Subjects to depend upon a Forrein Prelate or power from their Natural or Lawful Sovereign is in a Politick Consideration as the defiling of the Kings Bed and debauching of his Consort from him and this is that which makes Popery Intollerable on a Politick Account neither can any Merits render it tollerable or reasonable Notwithstanding their pretensions of Merit are so high that they are not content with connivance safety which they enjoy without grudging and with more freedom and less trouble than many non-assenting Protestants nor yet with Honours which they have had also in great measure nor yet with power and trust of which they have had their shares also and yet are not contented Lords Paramount they must be or else restless
also of all the old School-men and he there reckons up Twenty of them viz. Cajetan Capreolus Paludanus Ferrariensis Antoninus Soto Alexander of Hales Albertus Magnus Bonaventura Richardus de Media Villa Dyonisius Carthuganus Major Marsilius Tho. Walder sis Turrecremata Angestus Clichtoveus Turrian and Vasquez And Zacharias Boverius the Spanish Friar in his Consultation directed to K. Charles of ever Blessed memory when Prince says That the Images of Christ and of the Saints should with pious Religion be worshiped by Christians Part. 2. reg 1. p. 189. Edit Matrit Anno 1623. And Styles that glorious Martyr spes Anglicanae Ecclesiae The hope of the English Church Part. 1. reg 4. p. 58. And princeps futura orbis faelicitas The future felicity of the World Part. 2. reg 2. p. 196. Thus impudently Sacrilegious are they though the Prophet pronounceth all them Confounded that worship graven Images and boast themselves of Idols Psal 97.7 Take but the judgment of one of your own Church even of that incomperable Servite who lived and died in the same Communion At the end of the Confession of his Faith whereof he hath made 54 Articles much more Orthodox than those of Trent concludes thus viz. Quemadmodum credimus de ceremoniis sacramentorum quod nomini fas sit eas immutare sic etiam credimus de lege dei nulli mortalium hic licere quidquami Innovare detrahere aut adjicere quia scriptum est Deut. 4.2 Ne addite ad verbum illud quod praecipio vobis neque detrahite de eo Homini itaque Christiano fas non est detruncare Decalogum quod tamen fecit Pontifex Romanus cum propter commodum suum expunxit praeceptum de non faciendis Imaginibus ne plebs persentisceret imagines ejus atque Idola a Deo esse prohibita f. 255. As we believe concerning the Ceremonies of the Sacraments that it is lawful for no man to alter or change them so we believe concerning the Law of God that it is not lawful for any Mortal to innovate detract or add any thing because it is written Deut 4.2 Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it c. Therefore it is not lawful for any Christian to dock the Decalogue which notwithstanding the Roman Pontiffs have done when for their Coffers they expunged the 3 d. Comandment of not making Images lest the people should perceive that Images and Idols were prohibited by God God and Scripture CHrist when he instituted the Blessed Sacrament gave to his Disciples both Bread and Wine and to whom he gave the Bread he said Take Eat to whom also he gave the Cup saying Drinking ye all of this Cup Mat. 22.26 and they all drank of it Mark 14.23 And St. Paul writing to the Church of God which was at Corinth and to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours 1 Cor. 1.2 saith to them all without distinguishing the Priest from the People as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew that Lords death till he come Chap. 11.26 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup c. Vers 27. Whereby it plainly appears that all indefinitely are both to eat of the Bread and drink of the Cup And there is not the least shadow or colour of any pretence or practice that ever this Sacrament was to be administred or taken in one kind only by any person whatsoever and yet such is the impudence of Roman Hereticks as contrary to their own Knowledg and Confession even in the Body of the Canon it self to order and decree That Priests that say Mass shall communicate under both kinds but the Lay-persons shall communicate under the species of Bread only though the contrary was practiced for above 1000 Years And yet such Brows of Brass have they to boast of the Antiquity of their Tenets § The unquestionable Conclusion is Let a Man examine himself and so let him eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup 1 Cor. 11.28 Pope and Popish Doctrine THe Council of Constance held Anno 1415. Sess 13. hath declared defined and decreed with a non obstante Gods Ordinance even Christs own Institution and although acknowledged by them to have been the constant practice of the Apostles and of the primitive Christians to Communicate under both kinds That they that celebrate this Sacrament should participate both of Bread and Wine and the Laiety of Bread only and doth command under pain of Excommunication that no Presbiter do communicate the people under both kinds Likewise that pact Conventicle of Trent declareth and teacheth Sess 21. c. 1. That the Laiety and Clergy which do not celebrate are by no precept of God bound to receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist under both kinds And further declareth c. 2. That although at the beginning of Christian Religion the communion of both kinds was very much used yet the Holy Mother Church hath decreed That it shall be accounted for a Law and hath confirmed it with accursed Canons viz. Can. ◠If any man shall say that by the Commandment of God or of necessity all and singular the faithful of Christ ought to receive both kinds Let him be accursed and yet Leo was of another mind when he declared it was a Taken of an Heretick not to receive in both kinds What is this less than matchless Antichristian impudence that whilst themselves Confess both that Christ instituted it under both kinds and also that he his Apostles and the Primitive Christians Religiously observed the same that yet we that practice according to Christs constat must be accounted Hereticks for so doing and be punished by the Bishop his Officials and Inquisitors And that they should boast so much of Antiquity and of the conformity of their Creed to that of the primitive Church and yet so openly and palpably renounce both in this so chief and principal a Point God and Scripture SEarch the Scriptures forin them ye think ye have Eternal Life and they are they which testifie of me John 5.39 The Scriptures are able to make wise unto Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 2.15 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine Reproof for Correction for Instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works Vers 16.17 The Boereans were esteemed more Noble than those of Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so Acts 17.11 St. Pauls Epistles to the Romans Corinthians Thessalonians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians were all written to all the Brethren in general in a language vulgarly understood with a charge to be read unto them all so far were they from
Eul. Postellus attributes to Terra sancta cui Gallia ob primariam orbis nomen jus substituitur eo quod Ambae toti orbi legem sunt daturae I now proceed to shew you how faithful the Papists were to the Crown of England after King James came to it The first Meritorious Act towards King James was to calumniate him with a breach of promise as made to some of them before he came into England for a Tolleration of their Religion which now he did deny to perform which had this intended double mischief in it viz. That it should bring an Odium upon him from the Protestants for making such a promise and the like from the Papists for the breaking of it And unto whom should this promise be made but unto that Arch-traitor Percy and to that false Priest Watson both afterwards found in other Treasons for which being condemned Watson confessed to the Earl of Northampton purposely sent by the King to examine him who was the first first Author of that false report at Winchester a day or Two before he was Executed 17. b. at which time no man is presumed to lye that he never could receive any spark of Comfort touching ease of Counscience to Catholicks from His Majesty how unjustly soever the World had made him Author of that Scandal though withall he added how unwilling he had been to declare to his Fellows how averse the King shewed him in his own Words lest over great discouragement might render them desperate The like did Percy another desperate Traitor aver after his return out of Scotland both before and after the Queens death that in the point of Conscience he found the Kings intent and final purpose to be peremptory Proceedings against Traitors 182. A. 6. 45.6.46 The like slander and Scandal was raised upon the King by the Lord of Belmerinoth his Scotish Secretary by sending the Pope Word the King James would become his obedient Son who afterwards being Arraigned acknowledged his offence in devising Letters and sending them to Rome which himself got cunningly Signed in shuffling them in amongst others His Majesty being utterly ignorant of the Contents Speed 917. Another faithful service towards King James his Person Crown and Posterity was plotted by Watson and Clark Two Secular Italianated Priests who drew others of the Nobility and Gentry into their Hellish Confederacy as Lord Cobham Lord Gray of Wilton Sir Walter Raleigh Lord Warden of the Stanneries Sir Griffin Markeham Sir Edward Parham George Brooke and others their design was to have surprised the Kings person and his Son Prince H. to have kept them prisoners in the Tower or in Dover Castle and there by violence to obtain their Ends viz. A Tolleration of Religion and a removal of evil Councellors or to put some other projects in Execution and then to obtain their Pardons Watson to have been Lord Chancellor Lord Gray Earl-Marshal of England George Brooke Lord Treasurer Sir Griffin Markham Secretary c. Thus did they divide the Bears-skin which is not yet caught though the same Generation in all probability be still in hot pursuit of the same Quarry viz. A Tolleration and Change of Religion in the transferring of all Crowns from Protestant to Popish Princes and Government according to Parsons and Campanella's Plat-form Of those Confederates only Sir William Parham was acquitted and Three only Executed viz. George Brooke Clark and Watson who had taught equivocating and to avoid his other solemn protestations both by Word and Writing that the Act was lawful being done before his Coronation for that the King was no King before he was Anointed and the Crown solemnly set on his Head By this we may conclude that there is no trust to be reposed in Papists of any Order What Man in the World could profess and publish to all the World in Writing more obedience and faithfulness to a Prince than Watson did to Queen Eliz. most fiercely and bitterly blaming the Jesuits for their iterated and re-iterated Treasons and Rebellions against her and for creating disturbances in all the states of the World where they are As he lived to see so I hope he lived to repent of his 2in and error for he left this brand and suspicion on the Jesuitical Order at his death that they in revenge had cunningly and covertly drawn him into this Action which brought him into this shameful End § What shall I say more 18. b. 31. Vox faucibus haeret I am now come to that monstrum horrendum Informe Ingens cui Lumen Ademptum unto Guy Fawks and his dark Lanthorn that never to be parallel'd Gunpowder-Treason in which I will say with the Grave Senator repertum est hodierno die facinus quod nec Poeta fingere nec Historia sonare nec Minus Imitare poterit This plot of plots is yet so fresh in memory and so well known all the World over that I will not enter into the particulars of it though there are some so desperately Jesuited that either out of simplicity or Impudence will not confess the truth thereof others extenuate it by saying they were only a few discontented persons desperate in Estate or base or not setled in their Wits without religion Habitation Gredit Means or Hope and as our Apologizer for Catholicks f. 5. A few Desperadoes But most certain it is that they were Gentlemen of good Houses of excellent parts and of Competent Fortunes Besides that Percy was of the House of Northumberland Sir William Stanley who principally imployed Fawks into Spain and John Talbot of Graston both of great and Honourable Families others say That there was never a Religious Man in this Action which is no truer than the other Whoever yet knew a Treason without a Romish Priest In this there were many Three of them Legiers and States-men Henry Garnet alias Waller superior of the Jesuits Legier here in England T. F. Creswel Legier Jesuit in Spain Fa. Baldwin Legier in Flanders as Parsons at Rome besides their Itinerant or Cursory Men as Gerrard Oswald Tesmond alias Greenway Hamond Hall and other Jesuits Proceedings 27 18. Others of them condemn it now that happily would have commended it it had taken effect Prosperum Scetus virtus vocatur would have been a good Axiom then such Hellish Actions being of their Nature and Number quae non Laudantur nisi peracta Now against whom was this Hellish Plot contrived not to name Parliament Council Nobility Gentry c. but against King James that peaceable obliging Prince who had sought all Mild and Royal means possible to have reduced them unto a quiet peaceable and Loyal Temper and yet even 1 Jac. when His Majesty used so great lenity towards Recusants in that by the space of a whole Year and Four Months he took no penalty due by Statute of them For at the time of Watsons Treason when some of the greatest Recusants were convented at Hampton-Court and not found Participes Criminis were
full of Arrians and the Laws of Valence his Unkle making for them fearing some general Tumalt if he should prefently destroy so many gave leave That every Religion might have Churches and Oratories with Freedom and Immunity But being once settled and joyned with Theodosius he commanded that all Heresies should keep silence for ever as interdicted by the Law of God and Man That none should any longer teach or learn prophane Doctrin Cod. 1. Tit. 5 lege emnes The same prohibition did Arcadine and Honorius continue with great severity Let all Heretacks understand that all places must be taken from them as well Churches as other places and of private Houses also In all which let them be debarr'd from senvice both by night and by day the Lord Deputy to be fined 100 if he permit any such thing in sight or in secret Ibid. lege cuncti Theodosius the younger and Valentinian his Cousin comprising a long Bed-roll of sundry sorts of Heresies appointed That no where within the Raman Empire their Assemblies or Prayers be suffered and that all Laws made to prohibit their meeting should be revived and stand good everlastingly Ibid. lege Ariani The Papists in the time of Queen Elizabeth wrote divers Books and used many Arguments against the Oath of Supremacy and for a Tolleration of their Religion alledging the Examples of other Countries and admonishing Her Majesty that she must answer to God not only for things done by her command and knowledg but for whatsoever is done unjustly by her Name and Authority though she never knew thereof but Her Majesty respecting her duty and account that she was to make to God of all things done in the flesh whether they were good on evil denied to bear the burden of their wicked abuses and poisoned errors which no civil Magistrate are can avoid that permitteth their sinful Masses and licenceth their wicked Rites because the seeing and suffering their Impieties having power to suppress and hinder them is a plain consent and in a manner an open Communion with their unfruitful works of darkness The downfall of Ely a dear Servant of God once a Judg in Israel for Connivence only and foolish Pity where even Bowels of Nature might seem if not to dispence with severeties yet to excuse his lenity Scriptures have Registred for our warning and terror And if Religion be not as meer a Fable as any in Aesop the greatest Governments in the World will one day be called to a most severe Account for their so doing § That other Countries and Kingdoms otherwise affected in Religion than themselves were nevertheless contented to suffer their service vvithin their Dominions prevailed not vvith Queen Eliz. she vvell considering that their doings could be no warrant nor discharge for her who was not to imitate the Vices but the Vertues of Princes Besides that in such tolleration they did well ought first to be proved before their Examples should be urged as they were in her days It being the duty of every Prince to consider and do what every Prince ought to do by Gods Law and not regard what other Princes please to do what seemeth best in their own Eyes And Her Majesty for so refusing to countenance their Religion deserved more countenance and protection with God and praise with Men for that in guiding her people she rather embraced Christian Piety than irreligious policie and chose rather to walk by Gods Precepts than by the ill Example of other Princes Besides Her Majesty well knew that amongst the Germans and Helvetians Examples in their Writings urged many Dukes Landtigraves Marquesses Counts yea Bishops Barons Abbots and Gentlemen had Regal Jurisdiction within their respective precincts And it is no news to see divers Laws under divers Lords and divers Religions under divers Regiments As for any other Countries or Kingdoms as Polonia Hungaria c. not able without Blood and War to reduce their Countries to the profession of the true Faith neither may we reprove them as negligent nor the Papists alledge them as warrantable Examples since not their own fault but other mens force keepeth them from attempting any redress by their Princely power which the Nobles restrain and the Commons receive with this Proviso that their accustomed freedom of Conscience be no ways prohibited nor interrupted Other Examples of Turks Pagans Arrians and the like are unfit for Christians David Josiah and other Kings of Judah are to be imitated in this not Sarazins Moses and other Holy Writers are very plain and positive against this dawbing with untempered Morter Exod. 23.13 32 33. Deut. 12.2 3. Deut. 13.6 Jer. 15.19 Deut. 12.10 Come out from among them and be ye seperate and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6.17 18. Levit. 36.12 Isa 52.11 Was not the Church of Thyatira otherwise beautified with many Graces highly blamed for suffering the false Prophetess to teach and to seduce I know thy Works and Charity and Service and Faith and Patience all excellent Graces notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that Woman Jezabel which calleth her self a Prophetess to teach and to seduce servants to commit Fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto Idols Rev. 2.19 20. which fearful Effects made Constantine to decree That all Temples of Hereticks should without any denial be overthrown and in no place publick or private should their Assemblies be suffered Jovinianus refused to govern those that were not found in Faith Socrat. lib. 5. c. 1. The privateness of the place when the fact is ill acquitteth not the doer from sin nor excuseth the permitter from negligence No Corner so secret no Prison so close but their Impieties there suffered do offend God infect others and confirm their own frowardness Private permission of error is unlawful as well as publick if Popish Religion be good Why should it lack Churches If it be naught why should it have Corners St. Paul hath put in a Caviat against that slight of permitting which in truth is consenting Rom. 1. Ely reproved his Sons yet was sharply punished of God for his Indulgency which is all one with Connivance 1 San. 2.22 St. John saith He that receiveth into his house or biddeth an Heretick God speed is partaker of his evil deeds Eph. 2 1011. How then can Kings bear with your Sacrilegious prophaning of the Lords Supper and forbidding Gods own Word to be read and licence the rest of your Impieties and Blasphemies and hope to be free from your plague When Valentinian the younger was requested to wink at the renewing of an Altan for the Pagans in Rome St. Ambrose disswaded him in these words All men serve you that be Princes and you serve the Mighty God He that serveth this God must bring no dissimulation no Connivance but faithful zeal and devotion he must give no kind of