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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61799	A consultation about religion, or, What religion is best to be chosen with an appendix upon this question, whether every one may be saved in his own religion / translated out of Latin in which it was written by an eminent professor of divinity.	Lechmere, Edmund, d. 1640?	1693 (1693)	Wing S5928A; ESTC R27505	93,395	238

might easier confute them and make their Religion scandalous as to say That Papists worship Images Stocks and Stones as the Heathens did their Idols so whatsoever there is in Scripture against the worship of Idols the same they alledge against our veneration of Holy Images wherein they deal not sincerely and candidly but very fraudulently and falsely for they know or may easily know if they will that the Images of Saints are never adored in the Church as Gods or with that adoration which is due to God only as the Heathens worshipped their Idols nor in that manner do they reverence Images for any excellency in them but so as it may pass to the Prototype or to the Saints reigning with Christ For the external mark of adoration which is made before an Image is a veneration of the Original or that which is represented by the Image As to erect the King's Statue or to stand bare before it is no Honour to the Statue but is an honour and reverence give to the King That the Honour which we exhibit to Saints is not Cultus Latriae or the Honour due and proper to God only is manifest because we worship not any Saint as Supreme Lord and Creator of all things but only Honour them as his Friends who is the Supreme Lord and Creator of all things For we so highly esteem God as to repute his Friends whom he hath so highly exalted worthy of Honour likewise which certainly can be no injury to God but rather to God's greater Honour and Glory as 't is more Honour to the King whose Courtiers are honoured out of love and respect to the King because they are his Domesticks Ministers and Friends c. I mention these things because many ignorant People stumble at them Again they cry out against Papists for worshipping Bread as God and therefore Calvin frequently calls Catholicks Bread-worshippers or Worshippers of Breaden-Gods But here also they use a grand deceit to beguile the People for they know well enough that Catholicks believe there remains no substance of Bread and Wine in the Eucharist but that the Body and Blood of Christ together with his Soul and Divinity is there truly really and substantially under the Accidents of Bread and Wine and so they do not adore the Bread and Wine but Christ there totally present Then again they alledge that Papists put not their confidence in Christ's Merits but in their own and in the Merits of the Saints Again That Papists teach that Man is not justified by the Faith of Christ but by their own Merits and Good Works and the like which are nothing else but meer Shams and Lies invented to make the Catholick Religion odious and gull the People I could bring here above an hundred Tenets falsely imposed upon the whole Church or the Catholick Doctors if need were Who can say now the Spirit of Christ was in such Men or that they proceeded sincerely in this affair or were willing to establish the Truth Secondly They do not only impose false Tenets on us but also false Accusations and Calumnies especially on those whom they imagine will most hinder their success namely Slaughters Massacres Treasons against Princes and all kinds of Villany Good God how many Libels were formerly published by the Lutherans and Calvinists and now yearly are spread amongst the Vulgar wherein they charge Religious Men with most horrible and dreadful Crimes though never so innocent But these deceits have been easily discovered For partly in the publick Letters of the Magistrates the innocency of these Religious Men is witnessed and the falsity of their Accusers declared and partly out of the narration it self and by the circumstances thereof they were clearly refuted for in some of their Libels there are above fifty manifest Lies detected in others twelve fifteen twenty c. For Hatred or Malice is a thing so raging inveterate and blind that it cares not what mischief it invents though without any probability of Truth in the matter so it may do harm but this harm is only momentary and soon after the impudence of the Slander is manifested it turns to the greater commendation of them that suffer it patiently and greater shame and detestation of those that contrived it Finally They use false dealing in confirming their Principles as by adding diminishing changing or omitting something of Scripture and Sayings of the Fathers or by letting pass the clear places of Scripture and citing some obscure places to favour their Doctrine For Luther to establish his Doctrine of Justification by Faith only where the Apostle says we account a Man to be justified by Faith adds only and being asked why he did so he answered in these Words Epist ad Amicum de Verbo Sola If any Papist is displeased at this that I should add to the Text the Word only tell him from me that a Papist and an Ass is all one so I will have it so I command it my Will stands for Reason and Law We will be no Disciples of the Papists but rather their Masters Once out of Pride we will insult and vapor over these Asses Again Prethee answer these Asses nothing else about the Word only saving this Luther will have it so he is the Doctor over all Papist's Doctors c. Behold the modesty of this Prophet in excusing his Fraud The said Luther translating that saying of St. Peter Wherefore Brethren labour the more that by Good Works you may make your Calling and Election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 leaves out these Words by Good Works which are clear against his Tenet that Good Works are not profitable to Salvation The Psalmist says Vow and pay to the Lord your God upon which Words Luther makes this Gloss in the Margent containing a tripple Fraud Vow that God shall be your God which is according to the First Commandment and make no Vows to the Saints or other Vows It is written in the Proverbs 31.10 who can find a valiant Woman Luther in a Love-song put in the Margent of the Text in the German Language this sense nothing is more lovely upon Earth than the love of a woman to him that can obtain the Happiness of enjoying her St. Paul says 1 Cor. 9. Have we not power to lead about a Woman a Sister Luther adds a Wife as if the Apostles led about their Wives whereas St. Paul meaneth plainly the devout Women of Jerusalem which served the Preachers in necessaries of which sort many followed Christ and sustained him and his Followers So does St. Chrysost Theodoret and all the Greek Fathers together with St. Augustine and St. Hierome take it Zwinglius instead of those words in Scripture This is my Body against all the Greek and Latine Copies puts in his German Bible This fignifies my Body In the Acts of the Apostles it is written Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell Acts 2.27 but Beza translates it thus Thou wilt not leave my Carcas in the Grave