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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B16717	Advice from a Catholick to his Protestant friend, touching the doctrine of purgatory ...		1687 (1687)	Wing A632; ESTC R7268	153,167	378

i●… must necessarily follow that the Roman Church canno●… be the Catholick Church mentioned in the Apostles Creed and consequently is not the Mother-Church as the Papist●… would have her to be Thus the Papists have so overcharg'd this Argument to shoot at us as it recoils an●… flyes in their own faces And of kin to this is their grand Battering-piece o●… all which so thunders in the ears of all Papists and makes the Popes power so absolute and the poor credulous Papist so obedient and that is the power given by our Saviour to St. Peter in the 16th of St. Matthew beginning the 18th Verse Thou art Peter and on this Rock I will build my Church and give thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whomsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whomsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven and these words the Papists understand literally that St. Peter's person is the Rock that Christ builds his Church on which cannot possibly be by the verses just following For there when our Saviour tells his Disciples of his going to Jerusalem where he must suffer many things and be killed and raised again the Third day Peter took him and rebuke him Be it far from thee Lord this shall not be unto thee But our Saviour turned and said unto Peter Get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence to me for thou savourest not the things that he of God but those that be of men By which words 'tis most clear and evident that our Saviour did not mean Peters person could be the Rock of the Christian Church For if Peter's person had been that Rock meant sure our Saviour would never have removed it behind him and it would be not only irrational but impious to believe that Christ would build his Church on Satan for so he calls St. Peter's person and it were as unreasonable to believe that the Rock of Christ's Church could be an offence to him as St. Peter's person was and as improbable again as all this that Christ's Church the Foundation of all Christianity should savour not of the things that be of God but those that are of Men as Peter's person did Therefore if you but please to read the words of our Saviour carefully you shall find they are most plain for Verse 13th When Jesus came into the Coast of Caesarea He ask'd his Disciples Whom do men say that I am and they said Some say that thou art John the Baptist some Elias and others Jeremias or one of the Prophets but whom say ye that I am and Simon Peter answered and said Thou art Christ-the Son of the Living God And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this Rock not this person I will build my Church that is upon this Rock of Faith that I am Christ the Son of the Living God I build my Church and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it Now this must necessarily relate to his faith not his person for the gates of Hell that 's the power of evil did prevail against Peter's person or he had not deny'd and forsworn his Lord and Master again and again and been afterwards proved blame-worthy by St. Paul to his face and indeed as blame-worthy as any of his Disciples So that 't is most plain that Christ's words of making him the Rock of the Christian Church related not to his person but his faith of Christ's being the Son of the Living God. And for the other part whereas the Papists believe a particular favour and power given by our Saviour to St. Peter of the Keys of Heaven that was given as much to the Eleven Disciples as to him as you may read in the 18th of St. Matthew and in the 20th of St. John's Gospel Vers 23 24. As my Father hath sent me even so send I you and when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them Receive ye the Holy Ghost whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whosesoever sins ye retain they are retained So that you see this power is general to the Disciples and not in particular to St. Peter more than to any of the rest as the Papists misbelieve The Papists have many such Questions which I am sure Madam you have neither the patience to read nor I the time to write but those that are most material of them you will find I have here presented you truly answer'd by pure Scripture clear reasons plain arguments and all in few words fit for the weakest memory or smallest pocket to carry about them For true reason doth not consist in large Volumes long Gowns or gray Beards for many live to One and twenty without attaining to years of discretion the degrees of Age being not still the measures of Wisdom For the World will never be without old Fools and young Philosophers And truly Madam for my part I cannot so much as think of the Papists Religion without wonder that so many rational men of them should rather fasten their faith of salvation on the pretended infallibility of their Church which is deny'd by most Christians than on the Holy Scripture which is granted by all to be the will and word of God and the very Foundation of their Churches Foundation as containing in it all things necessary to our salvation And we Protestants have at least this satisfaction and advantage that not only the Papists but all sorts of Christians that are in the circumference of the whole World meet and joyn with us in this center of Faith That the Scriptures contain all things necessary to our salvation which being a general granted Truth I confess I admire how any Papist can make the least scruple which is the safest Heavenly Guide the Pope or the Gospel If there be any rational man so extravagant as to put them in the same ballance and to commit a rape upon his Reason I shall only desire him to consider this plain Question If he were to go a Journey in an unknown way would he not think it more rational and safe to follow a certain true Guide that all the Christians in the World declare is certainly able and ready to shew him the right way than to follow a pretended Guide which the greatest part of the Christians in the World assures him will lead him out of it And this being the real difference between the Papist and Protestant in gross concerning the Heavenly Guide the Bible and the Pope I think I need now say no more because so many have already said so much and I am sure enough to satisfie any except such who will believe a crooked Rule is better to draw a straight line by than a right one And now Madam I shall only beg so much of your patience as to let me tell you that the plot and Heads of this following discourse I have Extracted out of the worthy Collingworth Before I begin

murmuring against him And the Duke of Mantua put another to death for the like Offence and must Blasphemy against the Almighty go unpunish'd in such pretended Sanctimonious Religiosi as these Jesuits seem to be But we 'll leave the punishment of this Crime to that Lord whose Motto is Revenge is mine Father Garnett the Jesuit one of the Gun-powder-Plot had this Question put to him by the Earl of Nottingham Whether if any one should confess to him in the Morning that he intended to murther the King next Evening he was bound in Conscience to reveal it To whom he answered in the Negative and Binetus another of the Tribe confirms this Opinion in these words to Casaubon Praestare Reges omnes perire quam si vel semel Confessionis Sigillum violaretur Regem enim ait humani Juris Imperium esse Confessionem Juris divini Nay farther another Jesuit in France was so audacious as to affirm openly Si Dominus noster Jesus Christus in Terris versaretur morti obnoxius et aliquis sibi in Confessione dixisse velle se illum occidere priusquam Confessionem revelaret passurum se ut Christus occidatur that is If our Lord Jesus Christ were upon Earth Mortal and a Person should Confess to him that he would kill him he would rather suffer our Saviour to be murthered than reveal his Confession Nor are they less practised in horrid Murthers than Blasphemies 'T was a young stripling of this Pious Order that stabbed Henry the Fourth in the Mouth with his Parricide Knife intending his Murther tho it only proved the loss of a Tooth which moved the good King to no other return than this pleasant Repartie Falloit il que les Jesuistes fussent convanicus par ma bouche Must the Jesuits be confuted by my own Mouth Hereupon they were commanded to depart the Kingdom by a certain Day and a new Stone-Gallows erected before the Palace Gate for the Execution of the Offender tho the Parliaments Decree against this wicked Act was made null at Rome and afterwards the Pusillanimous Prince removed it out of fear which made one descant wittily upon this timorous Action of the King 's in this French Quatrain Sire si vous voulez du tout a l'advenir De l' Assassin Chastel oster le souvenir Ostant la Pyramide l' Arrest qui le touche Qu'on vous remette donc une dent dans la bouche Great Sir if you will have succeeding times Ignorant of th' Assassine Chastl's Crimes Waving th' Arrest and Gibbet Sovereign dread Let him another Tooth set in your Head. But this was only a Prologue to the ensuing Tragedy acted by Francis Raviliac born at Angoulesme in France who after he had attempted four several times to kill the King tho still happily prevented began that day with Confession and seeming Devotion whereon he perpetrated that horrid Murther which was on Friday the 14th of May An. 1610. and employed the remaining part to follow the Kings Coach to find out a convenient opportunity which he met with at last to the great damage and irreparable loss of that Kingdom which he accomplisht at last with a Stilletto and two Stabs in the side near the Church of St. Innocents at the end of the Street of Ferronnerie the King being in his Carosse that was put to the stand by the stoppage of a Coach and Cart which he perceiving being then in a shop hard by waiting the good hour as he thought came out and killed the King and suffered for it upon a Scaffold in the usual place of Execution where he died with most exquisite and deserved Torments All which was done by the Instigation of this wicked and cruel Society They perswaded this Monster that the King intended to make War against the Pope and that to make War against him was a Theomachy or open War with the Deity and there was found about him a Character with a Heart of Cotton hung about his Neck which he shewed the Jesuit D' Aubinie who confessed him and the Knife whereon was ingraven a Heart and a Cross and that which was one occasion of this barbarous Fact was That these Persons of the Popes Party had published throughout the whole Kingdom that whosoever should serve Henry the Fourth in these Wars tho he was their Lawful and undoubted King could not avoid damnation The Gun-powder Plot was another Jesuitical Contrivance The Provincial Father Garnet was privy to it in its very infancy so were others of that Society as Baldwin Hammond Tesmund and Gerard who were all particularly named by the Conspirators in their Confessions A Fact of that dreadful Consequence had it taken effect and so heinous in it self that Garnet the Jesuite said himself before Doctor Overal and others That he would give all the world were it at his disposal to clear his Conscience or Name from that hateful Treason Yet when it did miscarry many of that Society had a Religious Veneration for these Irreligions Wretches who were deeply engaged in it What a Coil was there about the feigned Miracle of Garnet's Structure and his Picture as well as Gerard's was to be seen at la Fleche and other Places among the Martyrs of that Society In the Town of Dole towards Lorrain the Jesuits have a great House given them called L'arc and Henry the Fourth gave them la Fleche upon the River Loire two stately Covents among many other Houses for change which they have see the gratitude of these Villains to be the Death of their princely Patron tho this latter may be called a Quiver containing 8000 poysoned Shafts of all sizes hereupon their Ferrier played upon them this merry Distich Arcum Dola dedit dedit his la Flecha Sagittam Sed quis funem illis quem meruere dabit La Fleche th' Arrow Dole gave them the Bow But who'll on them the deserv'd Rope bestow Nay his Holiness himself Pope Clement the 8th who first promoted this Treason by his Breves did sufficiently testifie his good Will towards them by making the Jesuit Tesmund Penetentiary at St. Peter's in Rome after the discovery of this Horrid Plot. And their Divinity is of as deep a Scarlet Dye as their sanguinary and bloody Actions for they give free liberty and permission to any Person to kill another from whom he fears any Prejudice or Damage either in Reputation or Estate though he is assured he will be damned this is Molina's Opinion who averrs that this Molina de Just commutat tr 3. d. 13. n. 1. p. 762. Circumstance ought not to be pleaded in Bar of the Action to hinder him from the Murther and that there is no Law of Justice or Charity it self which obligeth us to spare the eternal Life of the Soul any more than that of the Body These are Tenets fit to be drawn out in blood worse than those of Draco the Roman Legislator As for their Doctrine of mental Reservation it is very