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A17864	An examination of those plausible appearances which seeme most to commend the Romish Church, and to preiudice the reformed Discovering them to be but meere shifts, purposely invented, to hinder an exact triall of doctrine by the Scriptures. By Mr Iohn Cameron. Englished out of French.; Traicté auquel sont examinez les prejugez de ceux de l'église romaine contre la religion reformée. English	Cameron, John, 1579?-1625.; Pinke, William, 1599?-1629.	1626 (1626)	STC 4531; ESTC S107409	97,307	179

gift of God not by workes to the end that no man might boast They beleeue that we are saved partly by grace through faith partly by merits and workes that faith is partly the gift of God and partly an effect of our freewill Antiquitie beleeued that we are not saued by workes of righteousnesse which we haue done They beleeue that we are saved ex congruo by the workes which we doe before our regeneration and ex condigno by those which follow it Antiquitie prayed the Lord not to enter into iudgement with his servants because that before him no flesh shall be iustified They beleeue that the Lord shall enter into iudgement with them for they beleeue to be iustified by the merit of their workes Prim●tiue and Apostolicall antiquity beleeued that Gods election was every way free that election is of grace that if it be of grace it is no more of works otherwise grace were no more grace but if it bee of workes it is no more of grace otherwise workes were no more workes They beleeue that it is of grace and of works too Antiquity beleeued that it is God which effectually produceth in vs to will and to doe according to his good pleasure They attribute both the one and the other in part to their owne free will Antiquitie beleeved that we are not able to think any thing of our selues but that our sufficiency is frō God They attribute our sufficiency in part to our owne selues Antiquity beleeued that wee can doe nothing without Christ. They beleeue that we can without Christ while we are not yet engraffed into him doe workes which merit eternall life ex congruo as before our regeneration and that without the grace of God a man may for a time be without sinning Antiquity beleeued that of our owne nature wee are the children of wrath they beleeue that by the strength of our owne nature we are able to prepare and to dispose our selues for grace Antiquity beleeved that before Christ hath quickned vs we are dead in sinnes They beleeue that we haue freewill to good Antiquitie beleeued that the spirit fighteth against the flesh and the flesh against the spirit that they are contrary things in vs. They beleeue that we are able to fulfill the law of God perfectly that is to say without sinne Antiquitie beleeved that the lusting of the flesh is enmity against God and cannot bee subiect to the law of God They acknowledge even in the flesh a freewill to good Antiquitie beleeued that Christ prayed not for the world but for those whom the Father hath giuen him out of the world They beleeue that it is no certaine number for which the Lord hath prayed but that he prayed indifferently for all The Ancients beleeved that all they who haue heard of the father and haue learned of him come vnto Christ and that no man commeth vnto him vnlesse the father drawe him They beleeue that they who come not to Christ haue heard of the father as well as the other and that there is no grace nor particular election in the calling and conversion of a Christian. Antiquitie beleeved that it is Christ which chooseth vs and not we that choose him They on the contrary beleeue that wee choose Christ for they make that grace by which hee calleth vs to him vniversall and suppose it indifferently proposed to all so that in respect of Christ there is no election seeing he promiscuously calleth all but that we choose of our selues to goe vnto him Whence that is alwaies in their mouthes Fac vt praedestineris si non es praedestinatus Make thy selfe predestinated if thou art not Antiquitie beleeued that God hath mercy vpon whom he will haue mercy and compassion of whom he pleaseth to haue compassion that hee hath mercy on whom he will haue mercy and whom he will hee hardneth They bereaue God of this liberty and accuse them of blasphemie who attribute it vnto him Antiquitie beleeued that they who fall away who goe out from among the faithfull were neuer of the number of the faithfull for if they had beene of vs saith S. Iohn they would haue tarried with vs. They beleeue that they who are truely faithfull to day may fall away to morrow and that no man can be assured of his perseuerance Antiquitie beleeued that wee haue not receiued the spirit of bondage to be againe in feare but the spirit of adoption which cryeth in our hearts Abba Father They beleeue that the spirit of the faithfull is a spirit of feare that they must alwaies liue in doubt that to haue a setled assurance is presumption Antiquitie beleeued that whosoeuer beleeueth in Christ hath everlasting life They say that he who beleeueth in Christ cannot be certaine of life albeit the Lord hath said it which is in effect to beleeue that wee must not beleeue in Christ for how shal he beleeue in Christ who doubteth whether Christ loueth him or not Whether Christ will loue him continually as they teach him to doubt Antiquitie beleeued that there is no feare in loue and that perfect loue casteth out feare They commend feare in those which ought to burne with loue not that feare of offending God that filiall feare but a feare of being damned a seruile feare Antiquitie beleeued that there is but one naturall body of Chri●t a●d that composed of the substance of the blessed Virgin They would seeme indeed to beleeue so too but by the infini●e multitude of their hosties or sacrifices each of which they s●y is Christs body attributing vnto him also b●dies ma●e of bread they betray their dissimulation and shew themselues to beleeue the quite contrary Antiquitie beleeued that the Sa●rament of the alt●r was broken bread they beleeue that it is the bodie of Christ which is not broken Antiquitie beleeued that the heavens must containe Christ vntill his second comming They beleeue that the body of Christ is evey where where their hostie● a●e Antiquitie be●eeved that those were not to be beleeued which should say Here is Christ there is Christ he is in the secret chambers They thinke and say the contrary every day when they haue him about the streets when they carry him to the sicke when they shut him vp in the Pixes Antiquitie beleeued that Iesus Christ is offered but once they beleeue that he is offered a numberlesse number of times Antiquitie beleeued that it was impossible Christ should be offered often vnlesse hee suffered often They beleeue that he is offered every day without suffering Antiquitie bele●ued that we haue but one Mediatour towards God They beleeue that we haue many Antiquitie beleeued that we ought to call vpon none but him in whom we beleeue They beleeue that we must call vpon many in whom it is not lawfull to beleeue namely the Saints and Saintesses of Paradise Antiquitie

Christ that his Disciples should not be like to the kings of the nations the example of Christ who being himselfe Lord of Lords King of Kings during the time of his abasement became tributary to a Prince a tyrant The commandement of Christ when he bid to pay vnto Caesar that which is Caesars and vnto God that which is Gods The practice of this commandement in the Apostles who acknowledged themselues subiects to superiour powers subiecting to them every soule by their e●hortations when they protested that they were the servants of the faithfull for Christs sakee that they had no power over their faith These considerations make that which ravisht fleshly eyes mishapen hideous and terrible to a spirituall view especially when it shall bee considered that this boundlesse power and transcendent dignity is a character of Antichrist the true condition of his Antichristian kingdome directly contrary to that of our Lord Iesus Christ. Certainely be it as it will that there haue beene are and will be many Antichrists and false teachers which oppose themselues against Christ yet there is one of them to whom this title is by an vnhappy excellency principally due Inasmuch as that beside the abominable impurity of his doctrine which is common to him with the others hee invades the royall prerogatiue of Christ hoising himselfe aboue the Magistrate and the Angells themselues and so aboue all that is called God for these are they to whom this name is allowed in Scripture whil'st arrogating to himselfe a power over consciences hee pretends a supremacy over all Christians a supremacy of religion and which is spirituall and so fits in the temple of God behaving him●elfe as if he were God taking vpon him the power of binding loosing consciēces of making that sinne which God hath not called sinne of giving dispensations where God giues none of rating good workes and setting a price vpon them enhauncing and moderating the market according to his occasions When he hath terrified the consciences of the greatest Monarchs working this impression into them by his deputies that how serious soever their repentance may be yet they cannot enioy peace either of soule or body vnlesse his absolution come betweene Whil'st he makes vncleane the vse of creatures whom God hath sanctified by his word not commending a fast but inforcing an abstinence from certaine creatures against the expresse word of God which pronounceth this doctrine a doctrine of Divells Whil'st he vndertakes to make marriage vnlawfull which the Scripture hath called honourable amongst all men and the bed vndefiled When hee dispenseth with the breaking of vowes when hee allowes for honest those marriages which the word of God hath declared to be incestuous When he declares by his indulgentiall Bulls that prayers had in a pl●ce by him assigned are more pretious then if they had beene without his assignation Exercising this traffique that with the sale of things spiritual of soules and consciences he may stuffe his treasures which he imployeth as the world knoweth either in maintaining warre against Christian Princes or in promoting his kindred or in making his proud prophane Epicurean court swimme in superfluities of dissolute luxury What shall we say more When he vndertaketh to shut and open at his pleasure the gates of Paradise to prolong or abbreviate the torments of those that are departed When arrogating to himselfe this power he vseth such a partiality in the execution of i● partiality say we When he proceeds in such niggardlinesse and avarice yea such barbarous inhumanity savîng only whom it pleaseth him to saue being able if you will beleeue himselfe to saue all Is not this to arrogate a power proper and peculiar to God alone But this power which in God the Lord and Master of all is no whit tyrannicall in man who is obliged to doe for another all he can possible to loue his neighbour as himselfe more then tyrannicall Finally when out of his authority he employeth the Angells in the pretended execution of his commandements v●urps not he an authority more then humane altogether divine Yet notwithstanding this so strangely vsurped power is the master sinew of that policy by which this vnwildy body subsisteth the Colossus and maine pil●ar of the Roman Church a nerue which taking its originall from the head straggles through the whole body being distributed to every member proportionably to its vse even as in the kingdomes of the world the Monarches reserving with themselues as it were the spring-head and sunne of soveraignety nevertheles communicate the streames of this spring the beames of this sunne in proportion to their officers according to each of their functions CHAP. XII That although it hath beene foretold that Antichrist should sit in the Temple of God yet that Church which acknowledgeth him cannot be the true Church BVt there remaineth yet this scruple that how tyrannicall and Antichristian soever this policy be yet the Church where it is practised may not a whit the lesse bee the true Church Yea rather seeing that Antichrist must sit in the Temple of God considering this power and dignity wee haue iust reason to presume that the Church of Rome wherein it beares sway may be truly the Temple of God This scruple cannot stagger or stay him who shall examine whether this power be to be exercised by the Church or against her to be approved or de●ested by her who will consider that the followers of Antichrist at any time now if he be already come as certainely he is or for the future if he be not yet come as a great part of the world dreameth may oppose the church by the same argument alleaging that they are the true church because Antichrist is amongst them One therefore adventured to interpret these words sitting in the Temple of God in a sense which runnes sitting against the Temple of God grounding vpon the words in the originall which may denote as well an opposition against the church as a residence in it But let vs take the words in the former sense that Antichrist must sit in the church of God yet it will never follow that that church which a●knowledgeth him for her head obeyeth and adoreth him hath any thing of the church but the bare name Let him then be in the church but as a canker is in the body a tyrant in the commonwealth It may seeme that for this cause the Apostle vsed the word Temple rather then Church that hee might expresse vnto vs this mystery of iniquity by allusion to the Temple of Ierusalem called by an excellency the Temple of God signifying vnto vs that as the Temple of God had beene anciently the place which God had consecrated to t●e outward exercise of his service but that men aft●rward transformed it into a den of theeues retaining for all that the title of the Temple of God in regard of it's primitiue and sanctified