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A43788	The grand apostacy of the church of Rome, from her primitive purity and integrity with a vindication of the Church of England, in her separation from her, and the hazard of salvation in communion with her : discoursed in a sermon preached at St. Mary le Bow, London on Sunday the 28th of December, 1679 / by John Hill.	Hill, John, d. 1709.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1996; ESTC R12819	28,385	79

and lose their name in this Thus much as to the Doctrinal part From what hath been said may naturally be inferred I. The impossibility of Reconciliation to such an Apostatiz'd Church I know there are some who think that there is little difference between the two Churches of England and Rome and undertake to shew us the several Advances the one hath made towards the other and these are either 1. Some Politick Romanists who hereby would extenuate the foulness of Popery or 2. Some ignorant and loose Protestants who live void of the knowledge and conscience of all Religion men who live tanquam poeniterent non pecudes natos as if they repented they were not made Beasts whose Reason is their burden and light of mind their offence who are so given up to their sensual Appetites as if they were all flesh and had no Spirit who rake up those heavenly Sparks their Souls in ashes never considering their original capacity and end or that Viaticum Aeternitatis provision that is to be made for them unto Eternity These men are moulded for Heathenish as well as Popish Impressions But if we rightly consider the Purity of our own Church and the Apostacy and Corruptions of the Church of Rome you will finde an impossibility of Reconciliation For rebus sic stantibus as the case is that Church must put off it self and cease to be what it is ere it can begin to be once again what it was for Substance Credit Fame Vertue and Honour have at once forsaken her and by long disuse have left her worse than naught Neither can we see how these houses can be repaired but they must be pulled down to the very foundations and then built from the ground But if there be any possibility it must come either from her self or others not from her self because she obstinately defends her Errours not onely with Tongue and Pen but with Fire and Sword and will not yield so much as that she can erre refusing to amend those notorious Abuses which by the moderate Verdict of her elect Cardinals are condemned and by the palpable Flatteries of her last and worst Parasites the Jesuits is grown not onely secure but more proud and arrogant than ever she was Can it be then from others How oft hath this been endeavoured to no purpose Rome may be sacked and battered as it hath often been by Military Forces but purged by Admonitions Convictions and Censures it will never be Now the impossibility of our Reconciliation besides these things I have already named ariseth from the pride and usurpation of the Head of their Church being armed with that Position That he cannot Erre This without hope of Reconciliation divideth Christendom and many other Doctrinal Controversies are subtilly kept on foot to be a Stalking-horse for this Adde to this their hatred against our Religion above all others Jews and Grecians are tolerated in Rome it self their Ceremonies Synagogues Services yea and Circumcision it self administred to the dead as well as to the living by which the Romanists declare themselves to be better friends to the Turks and Jews than to the Protestants not to insist on that detestable Virulence of their Tongues and Gall in their Ink against our first Reformers which hath not stayed there but broken out into their most barbarous Butcheries and cruel Bloud-sheddings They oblige the Consciences of Catholicks to a Separation from all our Ecclesiastical Assemblies are afraid that any of our Books especially our Translations of the Bible should be read in any of their Dominions and where they cannot turn will be sure to burn Protestants O the many miserable Massacres Canibal-like Conspiracies and tragical Murders that they have been guilty of Who are ignorant what Fierceness Fears and Fires were raised to consume the innocent bodies of the Saints living and dead and that in such sort as every corner of the Land seemed as hot as Nebuchadnezzar's Furnace even seven times hotter than it used to be wherein were to be cast whosoever would not fall down and worship the Image which that Romish Nebuchadnezzar had erected Now what Arguments can be used to perswade us of their Reconciliation to us either in the whole or in part of our Religion since they deem it no other than a peccant humour necessary to be purged out every few years either by Murder if it prevail in the Head or by Massacre if in the Body of any Nation And rather than it should not they will not stick with Blassius at the Commandment of their great Gracchus to set on fire the Capitol it self to lay hands on sacred Majesty and to imbrue them in his Royal bloud to subvert Religion to sacrifice our Lives Liberties and all to their ambitious Lusts and Revenge When then you are willing that your Souls shall be damned and Bodies destroyed then think of Reconciliation II. Let us now see our duty which is first to hate and oppose the Popish and to embrace and keep close to the Protestant Religion First Hate and oppose the Popish Religion Let the high praises of God be in our mouths and a two-edged sword in our hands to be avenged on that Scarlet Whore that Mother of Fornications that hath made her self drunk with the bloud of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus They must be punished by us or we shall be so by them Let 's make no friendship with angry men much less with bloody men 'T is the greatest honour that can be put upon us to be Instruments of their destruction This duty respects us in whatever relations we are be we either Magistrates Ministers or private Christians The Magistrates by repressing those Perverters of our Faith and encouraging Protestant Principles and Practices 'T is not Reason of State but Ruine of State to gratifie those men who would rejoyce to see our Glory in the dust Ministers by preaching up the excellency of this way preserving the pattern of wholesome words and speaking the things which become sound Doctrine to take heed of their own mixtures and not adulterate the Doctrine of Faith to please men The beauty of heavenly Truths wants not the paint either of Humane or Heretical Additions The Babes of Christ must be fed with sincere Milk and the soreness of mens eyes must not hinder the Lights of the Church from shining And next by confuting Gain-sayers not onely have a voice to call their Sheep but to drive away Wolves one to establish Truth and another to oppose Errour one of their hands must work the other hold the weapon Their breasts should be Store-houses of Spiritual Armour be furnished with skill in Scripture in which they should be mighty and in the writings of men even of Hereticks themselves to beat them with their own weapons to kill Goliah with his own sword Are we in the lower Orb of private Christians We must oppose this many-headed Monster and that 1. By confuting the debauched Romanists with the Language of our heavenly