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authority_n	apostle_n	church_n	minister_n	2,916	5	6.7721	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33507	The whore unvailed, or, The mistery of the deceit of the Church of Rome revealed being a brief answer to a book entituled, the reconciler of religions, or, A decider of all controversies in matters of faith, written by a professed Roman Catholick who subscribes his name A.S. in which he endeavoured to prove the Church of Rome to be the true church ... / by a servant of the Lord, Josiah Coale ; whereunto is added the 14th Chap. of A.S. his book in which he declares the Protestant ... not to be true preachers ...	Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4760; ESTC R37745	41,902	55

then that which is already laid 1 Cor. 3.11 which is Jesus Christ So he is the first and the last the beginning and the end and A.S. his affirmation is nothing worth for his purpose nay it 's worse then nothing for it discovers his deceit and ignorance though I perceive his intent and aime was to gratifie his Master the Pope by pleading his Supremacy under pretence of setting Peter above the rest of the Apostles when indeed its manifest enough that his intent was to set up the Pope as Lord and Master over Gods heritage Gentile like contrary to that saying of our one Lord Christ viz. be not many masters for one is your Master even Christ and all ye are brethren Mat. 23 8. So that Peter was not set up as a visible head over the Church of Christ as A.S. saith the Pope is over the Church of Rome neither was Peter above other of the Apostle● but a fellow servant with them and they all fellow workers together with Christ 2 Cor. 6 1. and Paul was not at all inferiour to Peter in relation to his spiritual authority for he himself said yet not bo●stingly but truly that he came not behind the very chiefest Apostles 2 Cor. 12.11 So that Peter was no more the rock then Paul was and what was Paul or what was Apollo or Peter either But Ministers by whom the Church believed 1 Cor. 3.5 so it was not the work of the Apostles to set themselves one above another for they abased themselves that the Lord Jesus Christ might be exalted Neither did they preach themselves but Jesus Christ the Lord and themselves servants c. 2 Cor. 4.5 by which it appears that the Pope doth not truly succeed Peter in the same spirit that he and the rest of the Apostles were in who had the spirit and mind of Christ who made himself of no reputation Phil. 2.7 but the Pope truly succeeds those whom the Apostle saw would come that should be covetous boasters and pr●ud blasphemers 2 Tim. 3.2 as doth appeare by his preaching up himself and his boasting of his great power and superiority witnesse Fox his Acts the first Volume pag. 1023. and so on where you may read at large how several of the Popes of Rome have sufficiently declared themselves to be covetous boasters and proud blasphemers and have also laid themselves open enough to the view of all who have an eye to see so that I need not produce any farther Argument to prove the Pope a proud blasphemer Then next A.S. in his third chapter undertakes to prove That neither all sects nor any one of them is the true Church c. Whose Cause I am not engaged in nor intend to plead therefore I shall let that passe But his fourth and fifth Chapters contains several Arguments by which he undertakes farther to prove the Church of Rome to be the true Church together with some Queries propounded To which I intend to return a brief and sober Answer 1. First A. S. saith That which was once the true Church is now c. But the Roman Pontificial was once the true Church c. I answer I do not deny but that there was a true Church at Rome in the Apostles dayes but that the Church now at Rome is therefore the true Church that doth not follow for as I have before proved the true Church in the Apostles dayes was far different both in Discipline and Practice from the Church of Rome that now is But then A.S. saith If the Roman Pontificial did fall what Church did she fall from If she did faile when c I answer Paul in the first Chapter in his Epistle to the Church of Rome spake of some who when they knew God did not glorifie him as God but became vain in their imaginations and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible man and so not likeing to retain God in their knowledg God gave them up to a reprobate mind and they were filled with unrighteousness fornication and wickedness covetousness envy murther c. Rom. 1.21.23.28 29. And is not this the very state of the Church of Rome at this day is she not now filled with these things Surely yes Thousands of thousands must acknowledg it if they consider it and speak the truth Oh the murthers acted by her and the blood she hath drunk as before hinted and the adulteries committed within her borders Indeed these and many other her abominations are innumerable as she her self full well knows therefore she is indeed falne and deeply revolted from that pure spirit in which the true Church stood in the Apostles dayes Thence she is falne and the time when she fell was when she began to enter into these aforesaid abominations that is now found in her Well 2. But then A.S. saith That if the true Church be infallible she must have alwayes remained without interruption since Christs time to this day c. I answer although the true Church be infallible yet it doth not absolutely follow that she must have always remained without interruption unto this day for as I have already proved the true Church was interrupted by the Dragon and was persecuted into the Wildernesse but she did not fail but remained there and had a being there a place prepared of God for her concerning which I shall have occasion to speak more fully shortly 3. But A.S. saith That no other Church on earth hath remained unto this day without interruption besides the Roman Pontificial and therefore she is the true Church I answer no she is not therefore the true Church but the Whore for as I have already proved the true Church was interrupted and yet remained 4. But then said A.S. If any can say that there hath remained any other Church on earth since Christs time unto this day without interruption and error let him tell what was she or what is she where was she or where is she what is her name what Bishops Pastors and Believers had she or yet hath she what Emperors or Kings did adhere to her or now do what general Councils did she hold what Hereticks did she condemn what Accademies did she errect or confirm what Churches or Monastries did she build c. And then said he To these and such like Interrogatories all the Schismaticks Sectaries and Hereticks in the world cannot answer Answ To which I answer Although all the Sectaries in the world cannot answer those questions yet there are many who are members of the true Church not of the Church of Rome that can answer them and first I say there hath remained another Church since Christs time to this day besides the Roman Pontificial tha● now is though not without interruption yet the true Church as before proved was interrupted And as to those questions viz. What was she or what is she c. I answer she was in Johns day a wonder in Heaven a woman cloathed