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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44852	The Puritan convert, not to prelatick Protestantism and yet to prelatick Protestantism, nor to popery and yet to popery, but absolutely and without reserve to apostolical Christianity ..., or, A discourse by way of a letter shewing that prelatick Protestants, if they will be true to their practises and principles, have all reason to turn papists in all things as to what papists indeed hold, but in nothing as to what papists are vulgarly believed to hold ... / by W. H.	W. H.; Hubert, William.	1676 (1676)	Wing H3246A; ESTC R41017	28,965	38

peradventure there can be no Real Presence of Christs Body The same remaining the same without any change must needs be the same But if there be any change made in Accidents its evident there 's none our Senses and all Popish Doctors confessing as much If therefore there be any change it must be in the substances of Bread and Wine and if so what can such a Change be more properly called than Transubstantiation or the change of the substances of Bread and Wine into the substance of our Blessed Saviours Body and Blood the accidents of figure tast and colour remaining unaltered The Prelatick Protestant wonders that the Puritan when he is going out of this World should find difficulty to make a particular Confession of his sins if any grievous matter lye upon his Conscience and humbly desire the Prelatick Priests Absolution saying over him after his special Confession By the Authority of Jesus Christ committed to me I Absolve thee from thy sins in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost The Puritan replies if Jesus Christ has Instituted any such Ordinance he sees not why every one should not frequent it every year or as often as he finds himself conscious of any heynous crime with the Papist But Jesus Christ having Instituted no such Right or Sacrament he wonders any dare be so bold to press it upon any Christian living or dying and indeed least of all dying when sure if ever we ought to have a care not to seek to please Almighty God by unprescribed Will-worship or Inventions of our own Moreover the Prelatick Protestant wonders at the Puritans Niceness that he can by no means be perswaded to Bow at the Sacred Name of Jesus when Nature teaches us a Relative Reverence to any thing that has a Relative Respect to a Person whom we Honour Every one without scruple standing bare in the Presence-Chamber nor does any one pass the Kings Chair of State without a Reverend Bow whether His Majesty be there or no. And the simple Puritan deems it as gross Idolatry to worship Sounds as Colours Names as Pictures and stranges that any one who does so superstitiously cringe and bow at the Name of Jesus should smile at a Papist for respectfully putting off his Hat when he passes by the Picture of the same Jesus The sound of the Name of Jesus being vanish'd and gone before the superstitious Worshipper can make his Mimical Congy whereas the Picture a far more lively Representation of the same Great Lord is permanent and remains to receive its Devout Reverers Relative Respect The Conformist wonders what there is in a decent White Surplice that should boggle the skewish Puritan And the Puritan admires how any one can think a Surplice should become a publick Minister of the Divine Worship and yet throw away as Babilonish Rags the Popish Girdle Stole and Casuble which add Splendor and Decency to the same unwritten superstitious Garb unless it be because they are more chargable The Conformist wonders at the Puritans scrupulosity that he cannot say Amen to that Prayer in the Burial of the Dead That we with this our Brother and all other departed in the true Faith of thy Holy Name may have our perfect Consummation and Bliss both in Body and Soul c. We must pray for the Dead says the Rector of St. Martins in Oxford in his Sermon called the Schismatical Puritan Thy Kingdom come O Lord raise the dead Prisoners in the Grave And herein we pray for their Souls and Bodies God be with them to comfort their Souls deprived of their Bodies And to the Puritan this seems plain Popery In fine the Prelatick Protestant wonders at the Puritans pride that he will not submit his Judgment in matters of Faith to the determination of a Council of all the Reverend Bishops of the Land His Majesty as supreme Head and Governor presiding And the Puritan is amazed that if we may pin our Faith upon another mans sleeve safely believe as a particular Church in England believes how it can be unsafe to submit ones judgment to the determination of a General Council of all the Learned Bishops of the Christian world his Holiness the Pope as supreme Pastor presiding believe as the Universal Church of Christ believes 'T is fitting says the Conformist that for order sake in Christs Church there should be in every Nation some supreme Governors to whose Directions in matters of Divine Worship all should submit else we shall have as many Christian Religions and ways of Worship as there are Parishes nay as there are private Families or particular Persons The Puritan replies if we must conclude our Lord Jesus governs his Church as our reason tells us it's fitting he should for Union Decency and Order govern it and not according to the infallible written Rule of the New Testament If the Case be this It seems to him as rational that he should for the same Reasons of conserving Union Decency and Order in his Church appoint one supreme Pastor over all Christians dispersed in all the Nations of the World whom all should obey in the vacancy of General Councils for fear forsooth otherwise there should be as many ways of Christian Worship as there are several Christian Kingdoms of Common-wealths I speak not this to revile the established Religion of the Nation but to excite the Professors of it to observe devoutly what they Christianly profess as to Holy-days Lent Fridays and other Fasting-days Confession of sins to a Priest and other Holy and Profitable Rites when Piously and Reverently performed and by which they are distinguished from Non-conformists And by this time I hope My Dearest Relations you understand what I mean by a Prelatick Protestant But what do I understand by Popery and a Papist Why what should I understand by a Papist but what the generality of people understand by a Papist Those things we call Stones which every body commonly speaking calls Stones and so I understand by Popery and a Papist what every body commonly speaking calls a Papist and Popery By a Papist then I understand one that worships Stocks and Stones Medals and Pictures of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary and other Saints as Gods and consequently prays to them and puts his whole confidence in them as the ancient Heathens did in their dumb Idols of Jupiter Mars and Venus c. I say one that worships Pictures of Jesus Christ as Gods Not barely one that has such Pictures and for pious purposes also for that Prelatick Protestants have as well as they Protestants have Pictures of Jesus Christ and his Holy Mother not only in their private Houses and publick Churches but even their very Common-Prayer Books are full of them in the last Impression to excite in the Beholders mind a lively apprehension of our Blessed Saviours life and death Nor can I think they that are so ceremonious in devoutly Bowing when they hear the Holy Name

THE PURITAN CONVERT Not to Prelatick Protestantism and yet to Prelatick Protestantism nor to Popery and yet to Popery but absolutely and without Reserve to Apostolical Christianity That is to whatsoever Doctrine or practice Prelatick Protestant or Papist can prove to have been taught the World by the Apostles of Jesus Christ OR A DISCOURSE By way of a LETTER Shewing That Prelatick Protestants if they will be true to their Practises and Principles have all reason to turn Papists in all things as to what Papists indeed hold but in nothing as to what Papists are vulgarly believed to hold And that de facto Non-conformists would turn Papists were they not imposed upon by false Principles and notorious Slanders devised by the first Separatists from the Church of Rome By W. H. Come and I will teach you how great things God has done for my Soul Printed Anno Domini MDCLXXVI Permissu Superiorum THE CATHOLICK NAKED TRUTH OR THE PURITAN CONVERT TO Apostolical Christianity BVT why the Naked Truth Because I design a Candid Naked Description of a Puritan Prelatick Protestant Papist c. I expect the fate of Poor Robins Adamite Some body or other will have a lash at me But if I scape so well as the Author of the Prelatick Naked Truth has done I hope no blood will follow To wit to be first lashed by a severe Animadverter and then to be stript Naked afterwards Had the Candid Author been stript first and then whipt his Case had been more pitious The Animadverter was a little too hasty A Third I hear has taken him to task but they say he is a more Gentle Whipster With my Soul I compassionate him as one meerly imposed upon by Forgeries and false Principles devised by the Reformers and amongst others especially by this that the New Scripiure is the adequate Rule of Christian Faith and Worship Go on Worthy Sir to Fast and Pray whilst others Feast and Play at Lantrelue The First Letter What the Author means by a Prelatick Protestant Puritan c. My Dearest Friends and Nearest Relations IT is my hearts desire to speak with every one of you and to tell you with all Sincerity what the All Good God has done for my Poor Soul but the troublesomness of the times and your great distance from one another not permitting me so great a comfort I have thought fit to communicate to you my good Wishes of your Eternal Happiness by Ink and Paper Our dear Redeemer Jesus Christ Bless my Poor Labours to you all and stir up others who are better able more fully to instruct you in the way to Everlasting Bliss which I know to be the great desire of your Souls After the search of many years spent in Prayer Reading and conference with Persons of different perswasions I doubt not but I have found out the Truth Almighty God be forever Blessed for it I doubt not but I have found out the True Church of Jesus Christ the indeed People of God who walk in the direct Path to endless Beatitude and whosoever walks as they walk and teach shall infallibly see God for ever I confess I am Converted from Puritanism But to what to Prelatick Protestantism No nor to Popery neither But to Antient Apostolick Christianity Though indeed I have not so much left Puritanism as Prelaticks call it as added that to it wherein I found it and I hope many of you will find it come short of the Holy Apostles Doctrine and Institutions That you may the better understand me in my ensuing Discourse I will briefly Explain to you what I understand by a Puritan what by a Prelatick Protestant and what by a Papist and what by an Apostolical Christian which I profess my self by the Grace of Jesus Christ to be I understand by a Puritan one that being Visited from Heaven by rousing checks of Conscience could find no Rest for their troubled Soul by living under the liveless Ministry and Spiritless form of the established Religion of England One who by reading some portion of Holy Scripture or other Spiritual Book or by hearing some awakening Sermon was so struck from above that he had nothing in his Heart nor Mouth but that great Question of the man concern Sirs What must I do to be Saved One who from the Visitation from on high had so much life in him as to be sensible of the heavy burden of a hard Heart and whose great Prayer to the Almighty was To take from him his Heart of Stone and to give him a Heart of Flesh No Books no Company no Sermons no Thoughts were gustful to him but such as were conducing to the melting and changing of his Heart and Soul All Lip-labour he deem'd but lost Labour so long as his Soul within was not chang'd so long as his Heart was hard he could find no satisfaction in words and expressions though never so Pathetical whether uttered by himself or others or set down in Printed Books Nay he was so far from being satisfied with such wordy Devotions that he was even afraid to use them for fear of being guilty of damnable Hypocrisy For Example to say or read by way of Prayer O my God my All How I love you How my Soul is grieved that ever I have offended you his Conscience telling him he had no such Affections but that his Heart was hard as a very Stone No relenting of hearty sorrow for past iniquities no tender resentments of the innumerable Divine Benefits no strong hopes of future Eternal Goods nor yet affrighting fears of the dreadful day of wrath Conscious to himself of a great deal of ill past and clear conviction of no present good disposition in his Soul and yet assuredly perswaded there must some good be in the Soul or no hopes of enjoying the Almighty for ever without holiness true Internal Holiness Heart-Holiness Spirit-Holiness in this life no hopes of seeing the All Good God in the next And thus much of a Puritan I think none that has any sense of a God can mislike of whatsoever perswasion he is whether he be Papist Protestant or Phanatick I do not use these terms to revile or exasperate any one but meerly for distinction sake And I beseech my Reader not to be offended at them if he meet with them now and then in my following Discourse God forbid I should willingly anger those wounds which with my Soul I desire to cure But what do I understand further by a Puritan I understand one who wearied out with wrastling against the corruptions of his own Heart still finds much evil in the interior of his Soul boylings of anger flames of concupiscence greedy desires of Money and the things of this life and however exteriorly reformed and changed he may seem to be to the World he 's dis-satisfied within himself that he is not changed enough nor changed enough I say although his profane Kindred and acquaintance think him changed but too too much

great Lord Jesus in Heaven represented by those Figures Put all that has been said together and you will see there is no great wonder in it that the commonalty of our sadly divided Countrey should believe a thousand lies in matters of Religion concerning their Catholick Neighbours especially if you add that those who have been about 150 years slandering of them have withall told the vulgar that Catholicks are such a cunning and deceitful people that you may not believe them in one word what they say to you concerning their Religion but being asham'd of their Fopperies they will deny them if you lay them to their charge Or if at any time you meet with any whose candor and sincerity you are so convinced of that you cannot think he would tell you a lye Then you must imagine him to be of a particular belief and temper from all other Catholicks and though he hold no such absurdities by reason of his better understanding learning c. yet the generality of the people most certainly hold them all O the craft and cunning of the Devil and deceitful Men thus to blind and miserably impose upon the simple and well-meaning vulgar Jesus of his Mercy open their Eyes and make them see who they are that thus sadly delude and cheat them Besides the Laws being very severe against Catholicks many are afraid to have a better opinion of them than they are taught to have though they even see they are much slandered lest they should be convinced of the truth of their Religion and then be obliged either to damn their Souls if they would not embrace it or loose their Estates and Preferments if they did embrace it Finally Catholick Religion is a Holy and Strict Religion and therefore no wonder if the Professors of it be hated and ill spoke of by the wicked and loose world Libertines willingly speak ill of those that are strict and very conscientious in their ways but being ashamed to revile them for their Vertues though that be the real quarrel which they have with them they mis-interpret their innocent and good Actions and calumniate their persons with a thousand slanders For Example Catholick Religion teaches that if any one have wronged his Neighbour by cheating cozening or stealing any thing from him he 's bound if he be able under pain of damnation to make restitution and without this no Tears no Prayers no Faith in the Blood of Christ can save him The same Religion teaches also that you are bound under pain of damnation to confess your most secret sins to a Priest and that if you be truly penitent and resolved to lead a new life upon the Priests absolution on Earth you are most certainly pardoned in Heaven It teaches also that you have a like obligation to abstain from Flesh in Lent and upon other days of Abstinence Fridays Vigils c. Now Flesh and Blood does not like these Restraints And hence those that have no mind either to make Restitution of ill gotten Goods or to discover their shameful sins to a Priest or to abstain from Flesh on certain days and understanding that Priests when people confess to them enjoyn them to make Restitution and if they be not able to fast enjoyn them oftentimes to give Alms in lieu of it and in such cases dispense with the Ecclesiastical Law of Abstinence this is ground enough to calumniate poor Papists and to tell the simple Multitude that they can buy pardon of their sins for Money and have leave from their Priests to break any Law of God for Money and let them commit what villanies they please 't is but confessing them to a Priest and this without any repentance or purpose of Amendment Misereor super turbam What Christian Heart would it not make to bleed to see how the well-meaning Multitude are abused and imposed upon by their deceived Guides My Dear Relations For the love you have to your Immortal Souls do your selves that right as but familiarly to converse with your Catholick Neighbours and with as little passion as you can do but ask them an account of their Religion and do not against all common sense and reason believe the Testimony of their Adversaries concerning them and their Religion rather than them themselves and if you do not find that you have been taught a thousand lies concerning them and that they hold nothing nor practice nothing but what they are able to give a very satisfactory Account of to any impartial Enquirer then say I am a Knave a Lyer and a Cheat one that deserves no Mercy from God or Man in this World or the next but if you find what I have said to be most true pray for those that have deceived you and think seriously what it behoves you to do and whetehr you have not reason to suspect those Church-men who stand in need of such notorious lies and slanders thereby to defend themselves against their Adversaries If Popery be such a doltish and senseless Religion then what need of belying it and slandering it to make it odious to the People and what fear of Its overspreading the Nation by a free and unlimited Toleration But the truth is it 's a Holy and most rational Religion and such as Men must cease to be Men or they cannot but acknowledge the Finger of God in it when it is duly and truly represented as it is in it self devoid of all those fopperies and lies with which it is calumniated by its Adversaries For the love of God what Papist in the world believes that the Gospel is but a Fable of Christ that the Bishop of Rome is a God Not any sin but is or may be indulged amongst them and scarce a known sin but there is a known price for it and at their Market-rate you may commit them when you will that they allow Whoredom all the year long and the practices of other uncleannesses not to be named among Men in some Months of the year that mortal sins are put away by Agnus Dei's by little parcels of the Gospel by Popes and Bishops Pardons c. That Christ is the Saviour of Men only but of no Women for Women are saved by St. Clare and Mother Jane That the Pope may check when he pleases the Epistles of St. Paul and controul any thing avouched by all the Apostles That we must simply believe the Church of Rome whether it teach true or false and if the Pope believe there is no life to come we must believe it as an Article of our Faith What Papist in the world believes one of all these Madnesses and Blasphemies and yet the whole Roman Church is charged with them all by no less a Man than the present Arch-Bishop of York if that Book be his Grace's which is commonly sold in London with his Name to it and the Printers also under the Title of a Manul of Active Positive and Oppositive Divinity written by him to preserve a Noble