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A78296 A new and true description of the world as it is now divided in four parts Heathens, Jewes, Turks & Christians. S. C. 1673 (1673) Wing C123A; ESTC R223563 12,960 32

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opression and cruelty doth exceedingly abound and execrations of damnation and drinking healths directly and indirectly against the Kings command frequently used by Capital offenders the worst of men And yet all these call themselves christians and say they believe in the Catholick Church and have forms of Worship answerable to their profession but their worship is in vain as good never a wait as never the better and the nearer their Church the further from God For he cares neither for them nor their worship but hates such combustable stuff and so do I O Lord gather not my soul with sinners for I hate the Church of evil doers Psal 26 And if there by any as I hope there are many in their Church which hate these iniquities and enormities yet they are unclean while they partake with such sinners in their Spiritual worship publiquely or privately for the precious ought to separate from the vile and must be holy in all manner of conversation And although many of their Church members are Civil in their dealings about common affairs courteous loving kind natured free hearted true and trusty in matters of accompt betwixt man and man What of this Do not the heathens the same And cannot the Turks say as much for themselves Yet it doth not prove them to be the people of God no more are these They are of the world and therefore not of the Church But the Papists set down marks as unitie universaltity and constancy to prove that their church is the true Church but alas This their plea is not sufficient It may serve as well for Turks and Heathens who exceed them in number and are unanimous and prosperous constant and conceited in their wayes But let the Roman Catholick church have her due she saith she is the mother Church And indeed she is the mother Church of false Churches Misterie Babilon the great the Mother of harlots And the working of the man of sin in the misterie of iniquitie is after the working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying wonders So the Apostle describeth Antichrist Therefore Miracles are not the marks of a true Deut. 13 1 5. Church nor of a true Prophet And the throne of iniquitie may have outward Rev. 13. 7 Dan. 7. 21 24. prosoeritie and wear out the Saints of the most high and continue as appeareth by the Scriptures But the Papists will not prove their Church to be true by the Scriptures contemned and condemned by their general Counsells but labour to prove se Ainsworth against Ainsworth their Church by their Church The same by the same So the false Apostles measur'd themselves by themselves which practice the Apostle Paul condemned as irrational and rational men count it rediculous ● Cor. 10. 12 But they have an exceeding high estimation of their Sacrament of their Altar They say it is a Sacrifice and the bread they say is the real body of Christ after that is done which they call consecration but it is execration for they kneel down before it and worship it and then eat it up And because they hold the Mass to be a Sacrifice propitiatory for the quick and the dead they have of their own divising erected an Office of Priesthood here on earth to offer it up And the Priests of the Church of England as well as of Rome a number of sinfull mortal infirm and imperfect men neither of the Tribe of Levi● nor of Judah are Ordained Priests by office without Oath and so void utterly void by the Law and by the Gospel As appeareth in the Heb. 9. 24. 12 Epistle to the Hebrewes Heb 7. 12 16 18 21 23. 28. and 9. 10. 10 1. But the proper Office of Priesthood is in the heaven it selfe wh●●e the Lord Jesus Christ the only high Priest executeth that Office at the right hand of God not on earth for the Scripture saith if Christ were here on earth he should not be a Priest Heb 8. 4. But when Christ ascended up on high he gave gifts unto men some Apostles Eph. 4. 11 12. and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pasters and Teachers No Offices of Popes Cardinals Abotts Monks Arch-Bishops Lord Bishops Parsons Vicars Curates and such like false Priests false Christs who hold an Office of Priesthood among themselves by a succession to offer up at their Altars the supposed flesh and blood of Christ And they have made seven orders of Priesthood and the Priesthood belonging thereunto are the seven heads of their monstruous Beast having the names of blasphemie upon them and they are called seven Mountaines for bigness for they are many upon which the great whore of Rome even the great City sitteth Reigning over the Kings of the earth And one of his heads was as it Rev. 13. ● were wounded 〈◊〉 death saith the Revelation and his deadly wound was healed but their end shall be eternal destruction for that Beast and the false Prophet that worketh miracles before him shall be both together cast alive into hell And there is likewise an Image of Rev. 19. 20 that beast the particular National Prelatical convocations as Wilkinson makes it out in his learned Exposition upon the 13th chapter of the Revelations But they say they have the marks of a true Church of Christ The Word truly Preached To which I answer That Balam the the false Prophet Preached Gods Word truly in Balaks Assembly but that could never prove them to be a true Church nor did the people of God go to hear him but slew him Josh 13. ●2 And they say that they have also the Sacraments duly administred And so the Papists say for themselves But these are but their bare words at the best and its better disprove them then believe them But the common Protestants say their Church of England is true because they hold justification by faith only and seem to blame the Parents and disprove their Church for h●●●ing justification by their own works and yet they hold the like if not the same erronious opinion of saving vertue in their own works as if they conferred grace as appeareth in the second answer in their Common Catechism concerning Baptism an inferior work which they prefer above the the Lords Supper although the Apostle Paul held and hath shewed Baptism to be so inferior that he thankes God that he baptised none of the Christians but Crispas and Gayus and the houshold of Stephanus and remembred not that he baptised any more and saith Christ sent him not to baptise but to preach the Gospel But indeed the Papists have an exceeding high opinion of outward Baptism that it washeth away Original sin and saveth them from being damned They cross their children on their foreheads and have God-fathers and God-mothers So have the Prelatical Party but they do not spit in their mouths as the Popish Priests do as King James saith in his Book to all Christian Kings and Princes