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A35694	The burnt child dreads the fire, or, An examination of the merits of the papists relating to England, mostly from their own pens in justification of the late act of Parliament for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants : and further shewing that whatsoever their merits have been, no thanks to their religion and, therefore, ought not to be gratified in their religion by toleration thereof by William Denton ...	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1675 (1675)	Wing D1064; ESTC R16886	91,543	165

may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works Vers 16.17 The Boereans were esteemed more Noble than those of Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so Acts 17.11 St. Pauls Epistles to the Romans Corinthians Thessalonians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians were all written to allthe Brethren in general in a language vulgarly understood with a charge to be read unto them all so far were they from concealing any of Gods Word from any body whatsever Christ rather than all people should not understand his Gospel endued miraculously his Apostles with other Tongues that every Nation under Heaven might hear and understand the wonderful Works of God his Laws and Precepts in their own Tongues and St. Paul hath written the whole 14. Ch. of the 1 Cor. demonstrating the impossibility of Edification with out understanding and why the Laiety may not read the Bible as well as have it taught them by the hPriest is past all understanding but Romish Pope and Popish Doctrine THe Pope exalting himself above all that is called God forbids the use of the Bible to Laicks and their Prayers Offices and Hours to be in a Language vulgarly intelligible witness their Breviaries Missalls and Hours in Latin And the Bible is placed in the front of prohibited Books and Books to be expunged whereof there are Seven Indices extant And Bellarmine can produce no such prohibition before that of Pius Quartus who lived but in the time of the Council of Trent they had need brag of the Antiquity of their Doctrins and forbad the Translation of the Bible into vulgar Tongues and cites for it the Council of Trent 22. Sess c. 8 9 Caenon and also the Fifth General Rule before the Indices expurg viz. Cum experientia docuerit ex permissione Sacrorum Bibliorum lingua vulgari plus inde ob hominum temeritatem ignorantiam aut malitiam detrimenti quam utilitatis oriri pro hibentur Biblialingua vulgari extantia cum omnibus earum partibusimpressis aut manuscriptis c. prohibentur pariter Horae earumque differentiae lingua vulgari ut patet in Catalogi tertia classe verbo Horas Seeing Experience hath taught that through the rashness ignorance or malice of men more detriment than profit hath risen by the permission of the Bible in vulgar Tongues let Bibles in such Tongues be forbidden with all their parts printed or in manuscript And they account all Languages vulgar but Hebrew Greek Latin Caldean Syriack Aethiopick Persian Arabick The like for their Horary and other Devotions what are these Popes that thus turn their Spirits against God and make themselves wiser than the Almighty and that let such Decrees pass sub annulo Piscatoris And what are his Jannizaries that call the Scriptures a Dumb Judg. Pighius de Hier. Eccl. A Black Gospel Inken Divinity Eccius and that if the Scriptures were not supported by the Authority of the Church they were of no more value than Aesops Fables Vide chemnitij Exam. de S. Can. p. 47. And that the people were permitted to read the Bible was the invention of the Devil Peres de tradit par assert 3. What is this less than by craft to call Christ and his Apostles Devils God and Scripture ST Paul Rom. 12.1 recommends unto us reasonable service as Holy and acceptable unto God Pope and Popish Doctrine THe Romanists recommend unto us Ignorance as the Mother of Devotion and a blind Obedience and Implicit Faith to believe as the Church 1. as the Pope believes without farther Examination Licet praeceptum praelati sit irrationale pro tali merito quandoque haberi petit tenetur tamen subditus illud observare Joh. de Rada part 2. Theol. strou inter Scotum Thom. Tho. St. 20. ar 2. Conclus 6. Though the command of the Prelate be unreasonable yet the inferior is bound to obey it And according to Ignatian Doctrin If the Church affirm that to be Black which our own Eyes judg to be White we ought also then to declare that it is Black Siquid quod occulis nostris apparet Album Nigrum illa esse definierit debemus itidem quod Nigrum sit pronunciare Ignat. Exercitia spiritualia apud finem regulae aliqnot servandae ut cum Orthodoxa Ecclesia vere sentiamque Reg. 13. and this is not to be questioned being strongly ratified by the Bull of Paul the 3d. 1548. I find that the Popes are told Quod onnia possint sic quod facerint quicquid liberet etiam illicita sic plus quam deus Card. Zabar de Schism inter Germ. script p. 703. They could do all things and might do any thing were it never so nnlawful and by that means they could do more than God that they might dispense against the Law of Nature c. 15. q. 6. Authoritatem in glossa against the Old Testament Extra de conces prebend pro ponit in Gloss and against the Apostle Paul Ibid. De justicia facere possint justiciam They might make wrong right Ibid. Et in his que vellent iis esse pro ratione voluntatem Ibid. They might do as they list and none might say Domine cur ita facis Sir why do you so Such power was rarely well calculated for Pope Joane Foemina v●●t quia vult stat pro ratione voluntas haec ratio quamvis sit rationis inops Si homicidium Sampsonis quod ex se malum est interpretamur quod instanctu divino fuit factum multo magis omne factum sanctistimi Patris interpretare debemus in bonum fiquidem suerit furtum vel aliud ex se malum interpretari debemus quod divino instinctu fe teste Joh. de Parisiis de potestate regia papali c. 23. If we impute the slaughter which Sampson made of the Philistines to an inspiration of Gods Spicit much more are we bound to interpret in the best part whatsoever the Holy Father the Pope doth if it be Thest or any other thing which of it self is evil as for Example Murder or Adultery dict 40. non nos in blossa we must likewise impute that to the inspiration of Gods Spirit Episcopos Romanos ne peccata quidem sine laude committere Massonus de verb. Epic. lib. 3. in vita Johan 9. I could furnish you with such unreasonable Doctrins usque ad nauseam But I forbear leaving every unbiassed reader to judg how inconsistent with reasonable service those Doctrins and Teachments are Now whether it be better to obey God than these Men judg ye Acts 5.29 § I have now done concluding that it is high imprudence Periculosum Principi habere consiliarios Papisticos Molinaeus Gregorio Capucino in Enchirid. Eccles impress venetus 1588. nay very destructive for any Christian Governours to hearken or have recourse unto the Advisoes and Councils of any that own another Head or Authority or indeed that

Fortunes as also others of them of meaner rank ventured both Lives and fortunes very gallantly for their Sovereign but it was still against a Protestant not against a Popish party however I wish they may continue heartily Loyal against all parties and that all of that Religion were so minded which though I may wish yet can never rationally hope to see whilst they continue true to Romish Principles which oblige them to set up another Supreme Head within those His Majesties Dominions in derogation of this Imperial Crown and Scepter I shall not trouble you with the repetition of many store of the disguised and dark Actings of the Papists against the King and Crown of England they being already extant in several Treaties viz. In hidden works of darkness brought to light Jus Patronatus Mr. Prinne his Speech in Parliament his Memento his Epistle to a reasonable and legal vindication c. Quaders unmarked In which and other Books many particulars may be seen of their secret undermining Actings In the Year 1638. when the Kings had great need both of Men and Money and the Hearts of all his Subjects and their contributions whether Popish or Protestants his Holiness gave directions to his Catholicks in England whereof these following were part viz. You are to command the Catholicks of England in general that they suddenly desist from making such offers of Men towards this Northern Expedition as we hear they have done little to the advantage of their direction And likewise it is requisit considering the penalties already imposed they they be not forward with Money more than what Law and Duty enjoyns them to pay without any Innovation at all or view of making themselves rather weaker Pillars of the Kingdom than they were before Declare unto the best of the Peeres and Gentry by word of mouth or Letters that they ought not at this time to express any averseness in case the High Court of Parliament be called nor shew any discontents against the Acts which do not point blank aim at Religion being in general the most fundamental Law of this Kingdom Advise the Clergy to desist from the foolish nay rather illiterate and childish Custom of distinction in the Protestant and Puritan Doctrin and especially this Error is so much the greater when they undertake to prove that Protestanisme is a Degree nearer to the Faith-Catholick For since both lye without the verge of the Church it is a needless Hypocrisie yea it begets more malice than it is worth All busie Inquirers are defended but especially into Arcanes of States It is affirmed by in a printed Speech before a great Assembly 4. September 1654. p. 16 17. That he knew very well that Emissaries of the Jesuits never came over in those Swarms as they have done since these times That divers Gentlemen could bear witness with him that they had a Consistory and Council abroad that Rules all the Affairs of the things of England That they had fixed in England in the limits of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the particular Instruments an Episcopal power with Arch-Deacons and other persons to pervert the people in the midst of all our sad Distractions And I presume it will not be denied Inde quod nuper veteres com gravere Coloni that very many of them have been sent or come over from Forrein Seminaries into England under the disguises of Converted Jews Phisitians Chyrurgians Independants Quakers Fifth Monarchy Men Agitators Mechanicks Merchants Factors Travellers Souldiers that they might the more unsuspectedly have an Influence on the Committees Agitators and Officers of the Army It was confessed to one of the English Nobility at Rome by the English Provincial there that they had then above 1500. of their Society in England able to work in several professions and Trades which they had there taken upon them the better to support and secure themselves from being discovered Who ever considers the fore-mentioned Plat-form laid subtilly by F. F. Parsons and others to work insensibly our Ruine Vide Smiths Preface fo 12. the Swarms of Papists here ready to joyn Heds and Hands and Hearts on all occasions and opportunities to bring it to pass the new printing about the time of that borrid matchless Murder of their Dolman that Infamous and Traiterous Libel against our Kings under a new Title of several Speeches delivered at a Conference concerning the powers of Parliaments to proceed against their Kings for mis-government together with what is averred for truth and offered to be justified when ever called thereunto by that learned and worthy Divine Du Moulin in his Vindication Se. 58 59 60. c. will easily conclude that their Merits have not been of that Nature as to be used as Arguments for a Tolleration no nor yet for the least of kindness viz. When the business of the late bad times are once ripe for an History and time the bringer of Truth to light hath discovered the Mysteries of Iniquity and the depths of Satan which have wrought so much crime and mischief it will be found that the late Rebellion was raised and fostered by the Arts of the Court of Rome That Jesuits professed themselves Independent as not depending on the Church of England and Fifth Monarchy Men that they might pull down the English Monarchy and that in the Committees for the destruction of the King and the Church they had their Spies and their Agents § The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who when he saw the fatal stroke given to our Holy King and Martyr flourished with his Sword and said Now the greatest Enemy we have in the World is gone When the News of that horrible Execution came to Roan a Protestant Gentleman of good credit was present in a great company of Jesuited persons When after great Expressions of Joy the gravest of the Company to whom all gave ear spake much after this sort The King of England at his Marriage had promised us the re-establlshing of the Catholick Religion in England and when he delayed to fulfil his promise we summoned him from time to time to perform it we came so far as to tell him That if he would not do it we should be forced to take those courses which would bring him to his destruction We have given him lawful warning and when no worning would serve we have kept our Word to him since he would not keep his Word to us That grave Rabbies Sentence agreeth with this certain Intelligence which shall be justified whensoever Authority will require it That the Year before the Kings death a select number of English Jesuits were sent from their whole party in England first to Paris to consult with the faculty at Sorbon then altogether Jesuited to whom they put this Question in writing That seeing the state of England was in a likely posture to change Government whether it was lawful for the Catholicks to work the change for the advancing and securing the

of God Jeremiah Ezechiel c. to the ruine of the City and Kingdom was the fault of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah And at this day it is the fault and folly of Christian Kings that suffer the grand Seignior of Rome to impose upon them and that the Church of Rome is not either reduced to her primitive truth and purity from which she is degenerated and brought to better confortymity vvith the truly Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church or else demolished as the Jewish Synagogue vvas § Gratian at his first entring finding all places full of Arrians and the Laws of Valence his Unkle making for them fearing some general Tumult if he should presently destroy so many gave leave That every Religion might have Churches and Oratories with Freedom and Immunity But being once settled and joyned with Theodosius he commanded that all Heresies should keep silence for ever as interdicted by the Law of God and Man That none should any longer teach or learn prophance Doctrin Cod. 1. Tit. 5. lege omnes The same prohibition did Arcadius and Honorius continue with great severity Let all Hereticks understand that all places must be taken from them as well Churches as other places and of private Houses also In all which let them be debarr'd from service both by night and by day the Lord Deputy to be fined 100 l if he permit any such thing in sight or in secret Ibid. lege cuncti Theodosius the younger and Valentinian his Cousin comprising a long Bed-roll of sundry sorts of Heresies appointed That no where within the Roman Empire their Assemblies or Prayers be suffered and that all Laws made to probibit their meeting should be revived and stand good everlastingly Ibid. lege Ariani The Papists in the time of Queen Elizabeth wrote divers Books and used many Arguments against the Oath of Supremacy and for a Tolleration of their Religion alledging the Examples of other Countries and admomshing Her Majesty that she must answer to God not only for things done by her command and knowledg but for whatsoever is done unjustly by her Name and Authority though she never knew thereof but Her Majesty respecting her duty and account that she was to make to God of all things done in the flesh whether they were good or evil denied to bear the burden of their wicked abuses and poisoned errors which no civil Magistrate can avoid that permitteth their sinful Masses and licenceth their wicked Rites because the seeing and suffering their Impieties having power to suppress and hinder them is a plain consent and in a manner an open Communion with their unfruitful works of darkness The downfall of Ely a dear Servant of God once a Judg in Israel for Connivence only and foolish Pity where even Bowels of Nature might seem if not to dispence with severeties yet to excuse his lenity Scriptures have Registred for our warning and terror And if Religion be not as meer a Fable as any in Aesop the greatest Governments in the World will one day be called to a most severe Account for their so doing § That other Countries and Kingdoms otherwise affected in Religion than themselves were nevertheless contented to suffer their service vvithin their Dominions prevailed not vvith Queen Eliz. she vvell considering that their doings could be no warrant nor discharge for her who was not to imitate the Vices but the Vertues of Princes Besides that in such tolleration they did well ought first to be proved before their Examples should be urged as they were in her days It being the duty of every Prince to consider and do what every Prince ought to do by Gods Law and not regard what other Princes please to do what seemeth best in their own Eyes And Her Majesty for so refusing to countenance their Religion deserved more countenance and protection with God and praise with Men for that in guiding her people she rather embraced Christian Piety than irreligious policie and chose rather to walk by Gods Precepts than by the ill Example of other Princes Besides Her Majesty well knew that amongst the Germans and Helvetians Examples in their Writings urged many Dukes Landt-graves Marquesses Counts yea Bishops Barons Abbots and Gentlemen had Regal Jurisdiction within their respective precincts And it is no news to see divers Laws under divers Lords and divers Religions under divers Regiments As for any other Countries or Kingdoms as Polonia Hungaria c. not able without Blood and War to reduce their Countries to the profession of the true Faith neither may we reprove them as negligent nor the Papists alledge them as warrantable Examples since not their own sault but other mens fore● keepeth them from attempting any redress by thei● Princely power which the Nobles restrain and th● Commons receive with this Proviso that their accustomed freedom of conscience be no ways prohibited nor interrupted Other Examples of Turks Pagans Arrians and the like are unfit for Christians David Josiah and other Kings of Judah are to be imitated in this not Sarazins Moses and other Holy Writers are very plain and positive against this dawbing with untempered Morter Exod. 23.13 32 33. Deut. 12.2 3. Deut. 13.6 Jor. 15.19 Deut. 12.10 Come out from among them and be ye seperate and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6.17 18. Levit. 36.12 Isa 52. n. Was not the Church of Thyatira otherwise beautified with many Graces highly blamed for suffering the false Prophetess to teach and to seduce I know thy Works and Charity and Service and Faith and Patience all excellent Graces notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that Woman Jezabel which calleth her self a Prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit Fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto Idols Rev. 2.19 20. which fearful Effects made Constantine to decree That all Temples of Hereticks should without any denial be overthrown and in no place publick or private should their Assemblies be suffered Jovinianus resused to govern those that were not sound in Faith Socrat. lib. 5. c. 1. The privateness of the place when the fact is ill acquitteth not the doer from sin nor excuseth the permitter from negligence No corner so secret no Prison so close but their Impieties there suffered do offend God infect others and confirm their own frowardness Private permission of error is unlawful as well as publick if Popish Religion be good Why should it lack Churches If it be naught why should it have Corners St. Patil hath put in a Caviat against that slight of permitting which in truth is consenting Rom. 1. Ely reproved his Sons yet was sharply punished of God for his Indulgence which is all one with Connivance 1 Sam. 2.22 St. John saith He that receiveth into his house or biddeth an Heretick God speed is partaker of his evil deeds Eph. 2 10