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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23667	The mystery of iniquity unfolded, or, The false apostles and the authors of popery compared in their secular design and means of accomplishing it by corrupting the Christian religion under pretence of promoting it	Allen, William, d. 1686.	1675 (1675)	Wing A1066; ESTC R10549	54,027	163

being to be adored by the people as St. Peters successor as Christs Vicar and visible head of his Church and to be saluted with the appellation of The most Holy Lord the Pope and to have Kings do homage and kneel to them yea and to kiss their very feet That Pope understood well enough what he said when he said What need of the Net when the Fish is caught Certainly this seeking and receiving honour from men at this rate by the Popes hath been no very good argument to prove themselves St. Peters successors who was so shie as we know of being worshipped by Cornelius and of receiving too much honour from men when he had wrought a Miracle indeed for he said Ye men of Israel why marvel ye at this or why look ye so earnestly on us as though we by our own power or holiness had done this Act. 3.12 Unity in Religion indeed hath been pretended as the reason of the necessity of such an universal visible Headship as the Bishops of Rome have claimed But unity of Consent and endeavour in the people to honour them as such and to maintain them in that magnificence which hath followed that pretence and claim hath doubtless been at the bottom when the other hath been at the top as is visible in the effects of it If this were not so they would never so patiently endure those many differences and bitter contests about Religion as they do which are among the several Orders of men under their Government provided they do but all agree in owning the Pope and his claim of Succession Supremacy and Universal headship Whereas let any but whisper any thing against this and he shall quickly find a watchful eye over him and a heavy hand upon him So that 't is self-interest which is the White aimed at that still governs in the use of what power and preheminence is obtained though other things to cover the design are pretended S. 17.2 Another of their corruptions is a pretence to an Insallibility in the Popes in their Decrees Canons Constitutions and Determinations derived from St. Peter by virtue of their succeeding him Not that it can be reasonably thought that they can in earnest believe any such thing concerning themselves For several things uttered and done by them or some of them have bewrayed their own misgivings as to this as I could shew However they think fit to set a good face on 't outwardly to the world as being a thing necessary and useful for the carrying on of their worldly design For by perswading the people to believe such a thing concerning them they get a great advantage to make them become perfectly their creatures For if the people be made to believe that the Popes are Infallible and cannot err in the things aforesaid then they can have no pretence to dispute any thing imposed upon them by them but according to their own belief must become perfectly Vassals and yield absolute obedience to them A thing than which what could be more cunningly contrived by the Popes and their Confederates to serve their ends upon the people S. 18.3 And because several Religious Orders of men were thought as necessary to support this Ecclesiastical Monarchy as the Janizaries and Bassa's are to support the Turkish therefore some things likewise were thought necessary to procure reverence and respect to the Popes dependants in their several Orders and Degrees to the end the people might stand the more in awe of them and be the more ready to yield Obedience to them in execution of the several Offices and Orders they have received from the Pope their Head One of which is a power of Absolution and Forgiveness of sins vested in their Priests Another is a power of making a God for the people to worship by Transubstantiating the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament into the Real Body and Blood of Christ And who would not be glad of the favour of such wonderful men and do any thing to please them And by Auricular confession to a Priest another of their corruptions they lay the people under their mercy being thereby masters of their Secrets besides the advantage of giving intelligence in special cases which must needs keep them in a continual awe of them And by their receiving the Sacrament in both kinds when the Laity are suffered to receive it but in one another of their corruptions a great and sacred difference forsooth is put between the Clergy and Laity And besides the effect of the peoples publick Devotions is made to depend upon the intention of the Priest another corruption and therefore no need of having their Divine Service in the Vulgar tongue another corruption likewise added to that All still tending to make the people the more dependant upon the Clergy and the more governable by them in all things while they live and to be in the better disposition to be directed and prevailed upon by them in disposing of a good part of their Estates to the use of the Church when they die S. 16.4 Although the Scripture saith that every one shall bear his own burden and give an account of himself to God and tho' Christ hath said Search the Scriptures and the Bereans for doing so were highly commended yet in contradiction hereto the doctrine of Implicitie faith is set on foot by which men are taught to believe as the Church believes i. e. as their Priests believe they believing what the Pope or the Pope and a General Council of their own have defined for matter of faith And this also is one of their corruptions and the forbidding the Laity to read the Scriptures without licence from their Bishop is another and so is their Tenent that Ignorance is the mother of devotion And what is their end in these things Vnity in the faith and to keep people from running into heresie is pretended and is not puting out a mans own eyes that he may be led by another a good expedient not to miss his way but their end is to secure their corrupt principles and fraudulent arts from being inquired into by the people and that the Laity may depend upon them as infallible Oracles even in those things which are imposed upon them under one Religious pretence or other when in truth it is but to serve the Pope and his Clergies interest and to work their ends upon them undiscovered It is that the people might entirely and tamely resign up themselves to them and be wholly at their dispose in what they would have them believe and do though otherwise it should seem to them never so unreasonable And therefore Bellarmine de Rom. pontif l. 4. c. 5. fin was not ashamed to affirm that if the Pope should err in forbidding Virtues and commanding Vices yet the Church were bound to believe Vices to be good and Virtues bad unless she should sin against conscience But when the blind that are led and the blind that lead are both in the