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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63805	A dissvvasive from popery to the people of Ireland By Jeremy Lord Bishop of Dovvn.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1664 (1664)	Wing T319; ESTC R219157	120,438	192

is publikely avowed and practis'd in the Church of Rome to rely upon the Saints Intercession and this intercession to be made valid by the Merits of the Saints We pray thee ô S. Iude the Apostle that by thy Merits thou wouldst draw me from the custom of my sins and snatch me from the power of the Devil and advance me to the invisible powers and they say as much to others And for their Satisfactions the treasure of the Church for Indulgences is made up with them and the satisfactions of Christ So that there is nothing remaining of the honour due to Christ our Redeemer and our Confidence in him but the same in very kind is by the Church of Rome imputed to the Saints And therefore the very being and Oeconomy of Christianity is destroyed by these prayers and the people are not cannot be good Christians in these devotions and what hopes are laid up for them who repent to no purpose and pray with derogation to Christs honour is a matter of deepest consideration And therefore we desire our charges not to be seduc'd by little tricks and artifices of uselesse and laborious distinctions and protestations against evidence of fact and with fear and trembling to consider what God said by the Prophet My people have done two great evils they have forsaken me fortem vivum the strong and the living God fontem vivum so some copies read it the living fountain and have digged for themselves cisterns that is little phantastick helps that hold no water that give no refreshment or As S. Paul expresses it they worship and invocate the Creature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 besides the Creator so the word properly signifies and so it is us'd by the Apostle in other places And at least let us remember those excellent words of S. Austin Tulius jucundius loquar ad meum Iesum quam ad aliquem sanctorum spirituum Dei I can speak safer and more pleasantly or chearfully to my Lord Jesus than to any of the Saints and Spirits of God For that we have Commandment For this we have none for that we have example in Scriptures for this we have none there are many promises made to that but to this there is none at all and therefore we cannot in faith pray to them or at all rely upon them for helps Which consideration is greatly heightned by that prostitution of Devotion usual in the Church of Rome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to every Upstart to every old and new Saint And although they have a story among themselves that it is ominous for a Pope to Canonize a Saint and he never survives it above a twelve-moneth as Pierre Mathieu observes in the instances of Clement the IV. and Adrian the VI. yet this hinders not but that they are tempted to do it too frequently But concerning the thing it self the best we can say is what Christ said of the Samaritans They worship they know not what Such are S. Fingare S. Anthony of Padua S. Christopher Charls Borromaeus Ignatius Loyola Xaverius and many others of whom Cardinal Bessarion complain'd that many of them were such persons whose life he could not approve and such concerning whom they knew nothing but from their parties and by pretended revelations made to particular and hypocondriacal persons It is a famous saying of S. Gregory That the bodies of many persons are worshiped on earth whose souls are tormented in Hell and Augustinus Triumphus affirms that all who are Canoniz'd by the Pope cannot be said to be in Heaven And this matter is beyond dispure for Prateolus tells that Herman the Author of the Heresie of the Fratricelli was for twenty years together after his death honour'd for a Saint but afterwards his body was taken up and burnt But then since as Ambrosius Catharinus and Vivaldus Observe if one Saint be called in question then the rest may what will become of the devotions which are paid such Saints which have been Canoniz'd within these last five Centuries Concerning whom we can have but slender evidence that they are in Heaven at all And therefore the Cardinal of Cambray Petrus de Alliaco wishes that so many new Saints were not Canoniz'd They are indeed so many that in the Church of Rome the Holidayes which are called their Greater Doubles are threescore and four besides the Feasts of Christ and our Lady and the Holidayes which they call half double Festivals together with the Sundays are above one hundred and thirty So that besides many Holidays kept in particular places there are in the whole year about two hundred Holidays if we may beleive their own Gavantus which besides that it is an intolerable burthen to the poor labourer who must keep so many of them that on the rest he can scarce earn his bread they do also turn Religion into superstition and habituate the people to idleness and disorderly Festivities and impious celebrations of the day with unchrististian merriments and licentiousness We conclude this with those words of S. Paul How shall we call on him on whom we have not believed Christ said Ye believe in God believe also in me But he never said Ye have believed in me believe also in my Saints No For there is but one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Iesus And therefore we must come to God not by Saints but onely by Jesus Christ our Lord. SECT X. THere is in the Church of Rome a horrible impity taught and practised which so far as it goes must needs destroy that part of holy life which consists in the holiness of our prayers and indeed is a conjugation of evils Of such evils of which in the whole world of Society of Christians should be least suspected we mean the infinite Superstitions and Incantations or charms us'd by their Priests in their exercising possessed persons and conjuring of Devils There was an Ecclesiastical Book called Ordo baptizandi cum modo visitandi printed at Venice A. D. 1575. In which there were damnable and diabolical charms in somuch that the Spanish Inquisitors in their Expurgatory Index printed at Madrid A. D. 1612. commanded deleatur tota exorcismus Luciferina cujus initium est Adesto Domine tui famuli that all that Luciferian Exorcism be blotted out But whoever looks into the Treasure of Exorcisms and horrible Conjurings for that is the very title of the Book printed at Colein A. D. 1608. shall finde many as horrid things and not censur'd by any Inquisitors as yet so far as we have ever read or heard Nay that very Luciferina or Devilish Exorcism is reprinted at Lyons A.D. 1614. in the institutio baptizandi which was restored by the Decree of the Council of Trent So that though it was forbidden in Spain it was allowed in France But as bad as that are allowed every where in the Church of Rome The most famous and of most publike use