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A63267	Popery, the grand apostasie being the substance of certain sermons preached on 2 Thes. 2, v.1 to 12 on occasion of the discovery of that desparate plot of the papists against the King, kingdom and the Protestant religion / by John Troughton ...	Troughton, John, 1637?-1681.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2315; ESTC R23765	68,596	168

Heathens they say they do not worship them as God the Heathens said the same and as truly but they do ascribe to them the praise trust homage and subjection fear and reverence which is due only to God which is above the condition and desert of our fellow Creatures who depend upon God and the merits of Christ as much as we and this doth take off the Heart from God and makes men believe that the Saints and Angels are nearer to us more merciful more ready to help us than God is and more concerned for our good than our blessed Lord whose whole work it is to redeem and interceed for us 6. Their imposing the belief of Transubstantiation and worship of the bread in the Sacrament Most of our Marian Martyrs were put to death upon this point only their not believing the real presence as they Papists call it of Christ in the Sacrament i. e. that the bread was substantially turned into the body of Christ If men would impose upon us the belief of the least untruth though in natural or civil things we must not submit to them much less when they impose such an untruth as this Tiansubstantiation which is against the plain letter of Scripture which saith that Christ did not only take which was before Consecration but also that he gave bread and wine to be eaten and drunk by his disciples which was after they were consecrated 1 Cor. 11.22 23. which is also against our senses the eye the smell the touch and taste all witnessing the Elements to be still bread and wine against Philosophie which teacheth such a change of one body into another especially so small a one as that of a Wafer into so large as the body of Christ to be absolutely impossible yea and against common reason which knows whence the bread and wine came how they were made how they go into the stomach are digested refresh and are carried off like other food should such a Paradox be admitted there can be no certainty in any thing For by the pretence of such a change or miracle all evidence may be evaded and so the Apostles that saw Christ in the body heard him handled him both before and after his Resurrection might for what we know be all mistaken and all the witnesses of the miracles that confirm both Testaments might all failin their sense and judgement of things and so nothing be certain in Religion seeing there is continually in innumerable places such a prodigie as the Host which is as they say the glorified body of Christ now in Heaven and yet sense and reason take it to be a bit of bread what may they not perswade and impose on people that can prevail with them to believe this The worshipping of the bread doth also destroy the nature and use of the Sacrament where instead of a comfortable remembrance of Christ and his death to increase faith in him and love to him men are taught only ignorantly to worship a bit of bread and that with more solemnity than Christ himself was honoured with on earth 7. Because they take away the cup from the people in the Sacrament hereby they take upon them to alter Christs institution at their pleasure they deprive the people not only of one part of the Sacrament but in so doing wholly obscure the meaning of the Sacrament for seeing they break not the bread but give it whole nor pour out the wine nor suffer the people to see and drink it the people have no representation of the death of Christ neither of the breaking or bruising of his body nor shedding his blood and in this the Papists are most insolent of any other their Corruptions for that their Councils of a Sess 13. Constance and b Sess 21. Trent do acknowledge that Christ gave both Elements to his disciples and that the Primitive Church continued the like custom for many ages and yet they can presume to alter it upon trivial reasons 8. The Papists greatly obscure the Doctrine of Justification the Gospel is the glad tydings of peace the word of reconciliation 2 Cor. 5. ch 19 20. v. that God is in Christ reconciling the world to himself is the chief thing committed to the Ministers of the Gospel if therefore this be obscured the Gospel is in a great measure rendred ineffectual and the Ministry useless for the end it was appointed for It is the chief enquiry of sinful man what he should do to be saved Act. 16.31 and on this depends all his worship of God for till man be reconciled to God he cannot worship him acceptably nor can he trust love and fear God aright unless he know upon what grounds and in what way God will have this done If we lose the doctrine of Justification we lose the substance of the Gospel and of all Religion Now this the Papists do obscure so much that a man can scarce tell amidst their Doctrines what Christ hath done for him and what he must expect from Christ They say a natural man improving the gifts of nature doth in some fort merit the grace and spirit of God and when he hath that grace he doth ex condigno properly and of due debt merit the continuance of Gods favour and heaven it self yea over and above may merit for other men and if a man do commit sins after conversion his voluntary penances his patient bearing of Gods corrections in this world and Purgatory in the next together with alms-deeds fastings and such good works do make full satisfaction for all these sins and he that wants penance and satisfactions of his own may be supplied out of the treasury of the Church by Masses and the Popes indulgences Now this is not only the doctrine of Schoolmen but the chief part of Religion and worship among them and the chief things the Priests teach and are imploy'd about 9. The Popes claim of supremacy is blasphemous and not to be submitted to by the Churches Under the Gospel Christ hath appointed no high Priest to whom all Ministers should be subject no place of worship to which all Nations should repair no Mother Church on which they should depend none to be his Vicar on earth but all this the Pope and Church of Rome claim and usurp which tendeth to bring all the Churches on earth into bondage to them and to exclude the conduct of the spirit in the Ministers and Churches as if it were peculiar to them only it is also a power which no Creature is capable of and derogates from the honour of Christ who doth by his Godhead spirit and word preside in govern and guide his whole Church 10. Because the Papists have wholly changed the discipline of the Gospel into a pompous worldly Polity Christ appointed Pastors and teachers for the edifying of the Saints till they all come to the perfect man in Christ Eph. 4.12 13. but the Papists have changed this into a visible worldly Monarchy though under

the pretence of Religion and the name of spiritual of which the Pope is the head his Cardinals Princes all his Priests and Clergy officers and Factors for him to hold the Consciences of men in subjection to him and to keep Princes and their Kingdoms in homage and tributary to his Coffers By all these things it appears that the Papists have quite altered both the foundation and superstructure of the Church of God and the government of his house and retained little more than the name of Christ his Church and Gospel and therefore it was necessary they should withdraw from them who had any care of the honour of God or their own salvation Obj. The Papists Object that the Protestants acknowledge the Church of Rome to be a true Church and therefore not to be separated from Answ 1. Suppose it were a true Church are not other true Churches also What obligation lyeth upon all Churches to be members of subject to the Church of Rome more than on the Church of Rome it self to be a member of any other true Church surely none from the notion of a true Church seeing all Churches of Christ that are true are at least equal with her in this attribute If they say that the Church of Rome hath the Primacy of all Churches and dominion over them from Peter the head of the Church this is but to beg what they can never prove that Peter had the headship of the Church committed to him and his successors and which is denyed of their own Council of Constance Sess 15. 2. Because the Church of Rome doth retain the profession of Christanity the general creeed and the holy Scriptures however they deviate from them in their expositions and practice therefore the Protestants dare not deny it absolutely to be a Church of Christ but that he may be still striving with it and may have many in it who may keep themselves from the great corruptions of it even as the 7000. in Israel who had not bowed the knee to Baal and so she may continue a Church in this sense and in this State till her finall rejection and destruction nevertheless they unanimously agree that she is an Idolatrous Apostatical Church under great and fatal corruptions though she hath not quite forsaken the name of Christ or he utterly forsaken her as the ten Tribes under Jeroboam became idolatrous and Apostatical and are said to have worshipped Devils in worshipping the Calves though they pretended them to represent Jehovah 2 Chron. 11.15 and when they were in this state of backsliding all the people as well as the Priests and Levites that did set their hearts to seek the Lord God of their fathers forsook them and went to Jerusalem to sacrifice and joyned themselves to Judah 2 Chron. 11.13.17.16 and in the time of his successours those that were upright and had opportunity did still resort to Jerusalem to worship whence the Idolatrous Priests are complained of for laying wait and Nets for them in Mispah and Tabor and this they did notwithstanding that God did still contend with Israel by his Prophets and sent many eminent ones to them as Elijah Elisha Hosea Jonah with many others to call them back again to himself to continue to warn and invite them to repentance even untill their dispersion and captivity 2. A 2. Question is whether there may be any reconciliation of Potestants to or with the Church of Rome And here I must distinguish betwixt particular persons members of that Church and the body of the Church it self There are many particular persons in the Popish Communion that be wail their corruption that complain of their bondage and are moderate toward Protestants for these we may have charity respect and compassion but to the Church of Rome the general communion and society of Papists under the Pope the ir head there may be nocommunion or reconciliation 1. Because they have redressed none of their errors and corruptions for which the Protestants at first forsook them If our first separation from Rome was just and necessary so it is still for they have not mended or redressed any of the grounds of our separation but on the contrary when they were intreated and in a sort compelled to call the Council of Trent to compose matters besides the many unworthy arts they used to have men chosen to their mind and of their own party they did severally confirm every error in doctrine and corruption in worship which the Protestants accused them of and Anathematized all that held the doctrine of the Protestants and as if this were not enough their Priests are all to be sworn to maintain this Council and a Catechism was ordered to be composed out of it to be the standard of the Doctrine of that Church which was done accordingly 2. As they have not so they cannot mend or alter any thing considerable The constitution of the Roman Papal Church depends on the corruptions they maintain and practise Should their Clergy marry they would not be at the Popes command should they lay aside private Masses image worship and Purgatory their Priests would lose a great part of their maintenance and the Pope a great jewel in his Crown viz. the power of canonizing Saints and freeing souls from Purgatory and if the people should have the Scriptures and publick service in their own tongue they would quickly discern the corruptions of their Church and impostures of their Pope above all should they alter any thing of moment decreed by the Council of Trent which was also confirmed by Pope Pius the 4th it would shake the foundation of the Church the Popes infallibility for either the Council and Pope Pius erred in their decrees or that Pope must err who alters any thing of those decrees hence it was that the Pope and Council of Trent would not yield so much as the cup in the Lords supper to the Laity at any time or in any case though greatly importuned to do it by the Emperor Ferdinand the 1. and his son Maximilian 3. The Church of Rome is the body of Antichrist or man of sin she hath made him her head and hath espoused her self to him as her Lord the whole religion of Popery is fitted only to exalt the Pope and his Clegy and cheat the people both of the knowledge of God and of their money To unite with Rome is to joyn our selves with a company of Rebels and fugitives from Christ that have conspired against him and set them up another King and Lord. 4. Rome haht of long time and doth maintain an opposition against the Churches of Christ She contends for the universal headship of the Pope she decreeth and compasseth as far as she can the destruction of all Hereticks i. e. of all that will not submit to her corruptions for about 900 years together and still attempts the same To joyn with Rome is to condemn all the Confessors and Martyrs that have suffered by them and to bring the guilt of their blood upon our selves as our Saviour saith Math. 23.35 all the righteous blood that was shed upon the earth from Abel to Zacharias should be required of that generation because they persisted in the footsteps of their fathers and were of the same body and succession with them that shed that blood 5. Rome is appointed for destruction That State or Polity that City and people are appointed by our Lord Jesus Christ to be utterly destroyed as in the 17 18 19. of the Rev. at large and their destruction is not threatned conditionally in case they repent not as it is to other Nations but it is absolutely foretold as of a people abhorred of the Lord forsaken and given over by him because they forsook him first Christ hath declared war against Rome which he will pursue till he hath conquered her and triumphed over her therefore there may not be that desire or attempt of union with her as with other backsliding Churches Gods people are called to come out of Babylon upon pain of their destruction therefore are not to make peace with her Who would joyn with a perishing Church with a Party devoted to destruction and with a perishing religion whereas Christ will have a Church pure and triumphant which shall survive and triumph over Babylon Rev. 19.1 c. FINIS