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A77347	Saul and Samuel at Endor, or The new waies of salvation and service, which usually temt [sic] men to Rome, and detain them there Truly represented, and refuted. By Dan. Brevint, D.D. As also a brief account of R.F. his Missale vindicatum, or Vindication of the Roman Mass. By the same author.	Brevint, Daniel, 1616-1695.	1674 (1674)	Wing B4423; ESTC R212267	257,888	438

glorious appearance Roman Miracles and Visions have most commonly some black Mark which may convince any sober man that they are not what they seem to be Consider in the holy Scriptures what all the true Saints of God both holy Angels and Apostles say or do whensoever they meet with more honor then is their due and ask S. Austin what Spirits those are who take it whensoever given or call for it when it is not No Saints or Angels saies this holy Father e August cont Faust l. 20. c. 21. 22. will take of others what they know to be due only to God as it appears by Paul and Barnabas who tore their clothes to shew they were mere men Act. 14. and by that Angel who rejected adoration Unclean Spirits are for Worship and tho they care little for Flesh yet they pride themselves with Sacrifices only because they are due to God And in another Place f Idem De vera Relig. c. 55. Good Angels are for this one thing namely that with them we may serve God in whose contemplation they are happy but those who invite us to serve themselves are like proud men c. only the serving of proud Devils is more hurtful And in another place g Idem de Civit. l. 10. c. 7. Celestial and happy h Ibid. c. 16. Spirits will have us Sacrifice not to themselves but unto God whose Oblation they are as well as we and therefore all Revelations and Miracles that invite us to serve more then one God are such Seductions of Devils as any pious and prudent men must needs throw off for this is their proud malice who by that token are noted to be neither good Angels in themselves nor the Angels of a good God For the i Ibid c. 7. item l. 9. c. 23. good Angels love us so well that they will not have us serve them but serve the true God Bring now to these Christian Rules most of the Roman Apparitions and Miracles Shew me where this humble Spirit whom they worship did the like good Angel ever reject one worshipping or devout Adoration shew me where she tore once her clothes at the hearing the Te Deum and the whole Psalter of David sung and applied most blasphemously from God to her I am sure I find in her waies for several centuries of years the steps of another Spirit seeking continually for more honor We shall behold one who strokes k Caesarius l. 7. Hist c. 55. and kisses pious men because they both l Leandr de vrt is Illustrib Chron. Deip. an 1372. begin and end their best Devotions with her Praises who teaches in what godly form they must m Chronic. Deip. an 1178. pray to her for all Blessing who calls them into brakes n Franc. Hierasc in Vit. Henr. Sylvice of Thornes and Nettles and sometimes into holes under ground to find and adore her Images one who can put on the shape either of a o Odo Gissaeus Histor. Virg. Aniciensis Stag or p In vita Manaveri ap sur 5. Jun. a Pigeon or a great r Arch. Gian Cent. 3. Annal. l. 4. c. 9. Queen purposely to shew the place and stone where she must needs have an Altar or a Chappel or a great Church that there she Å¿ Od. Gissaeus supra may be served and worshipped to the worlds end and there t Niceph Eccl. Hist l. 15. c. 25. walk and delight her self one I say who in all these Churches brags among men as if she were the u Blosius in Monili Mother of Campassions the Lady x Menol Cisterc 22. Dec. of the House of Praier and the fountain y Chronic. Deip. an 1467. of all Blessings lastly one who spreads forth about her a great Mantle therewith to betoken the great z Tho. Malvenda Tom. 1. Annal. Ord. Praedic an 1221. largeness of her mercies and favors which she saies she denies to none that will come to her with faith Hereupon let S. Austin judg what kind of Creatures these Spirits are and what great difference there is between those which among Pagans did perpetually labor for Sacrifices and these which now among Papists are all for Masses and the greatest Oblations that can be set on Romes Altars Mean while we may be confident that none but God alone can own Sacrifices Altars and Churches to be served with and that none but Devils ever owned Images to speak move or in any wise to work in Such Spirits as these may be the Authors of all the Roman Apparitions and Miracles and such Apparitions and Miracles are very fit for such Spirits and both foretold and reserved for the last times And so you may guess what that Church is that hath her proper establishment both from such Wonders and such Saints CHAP. IV. Concerning the Protection and Assistance of Roman Saints THIS pretended help of men and women who after their departure out of this world and their being Canonized by some Pope are called Saints are another great Enchantment to keep and draw People to Rome Their Souls are conceived to be still ready to go about any business which their worshippers have in Heaven and their Bodies even to the least of their Bones their Clothes and their Shoes withal can at every good occasion work great Cures and Feats on Earth Thus one Saint is upon this account worth as much or more then any two Angels What sober man therefore would not be temted to turn a Roman Catholic and who would turn from being so tho there were no other reason for either then the getting and losing such Friends The perswasion of Romanists is that all such Souls as deserve their Canonization at Rome go up directly to Heaven as to a place where their happy Rest from all their Labors and an happy Possession of an eternal Glory with God is not all what they expect they must have also Government and Regencies a Bell. de Sanct. Beati t. l. 1. c. 18. over the whole world wherefore they fancy them sometimes like so many great Captains marshalling all the Natione under Christ with an Iron Rod sometimes like great Pillars above holding all Churches under them And because so much were too much for any one Saint to manage it well and that no Creature is capable of such an Universal Burden except the Virgin Mary above and the Pope of Rome here below to facilitate b Gab. Biel. in Can. Lect 32. N. the business they divide the whole among themselves that every one may be troubled with no more then his proper share First by this imaginary Distribution they divide their Saints into Countries c Salmero 1. ad Tim. c. 2. Disp 7. S. James is to take care of Spain S. Sebastian of Portugall S. Denys of France S. Mark of the Venetians S. Nicolas of the Moscovites S. Ambrose of Milan the three Kings of the Electorat of

demonstrated already that St Peters Roial Power was not believed by the Apostles nor in any Apostolical times and made it good out of Acts and Evidences altogether incompatible with destructive of this Belief namely His being rebuked by St. Paul both to the Face and publicly his being called to account by his Brethren his being sent to Cesarea c. Can you think that if at his return they had found him guilty of such a foul miscarriage as would send whole Nations to Hell they had thought it presumtion as the Canon Law saies it is to ask wherefore he did so Was it ever heard among the twelve that besides the general Commission of Preaching Christ St. Peter had another more special and proper Power of degrading all such Princes as would not be ruled by his Bulls And if he had it not Is it likely that the present Roman Popes have more Secular Power from Christ then he for compensation of their having less Holiness To come lower to the holy Fathers read their Epistles to the then Popes and judg whether St. Cyprian St. Basil c. did believe them to be their Monarchs when they call them as commonly they do their Brethren and Fellow-servants Did St. Augustin and his Brethren the worthiest Prelats of that Age submit themselves very modestly to the Roman Papal Power of controlling by their Legats and Officers the African Church Affairs when they called it again and again Secular y Conc. Afric sub Bonif. Ep. ad Bonif. Ep. ad Celest Pride and do the African z Codex Canon Afric Can. 28 sect Item placuit ut Presbyteri Canons the best Ecclesiastical Rules that the Church hath look upon Popes as their lawful supreme Visitors when they do forbid all Church-men under pain of Excommunication in any Church business to appeal to Rome During this long misunderstanding which lasted the lives of three Popes did Sozimus Boniface and Celestin Learned and Wise Roman Bishops believe that clear Texts of Scripture did sufficiently assert the Papacy when they were afraid of their Cause unless they could help it up better by forging false Nicene Canons And on the other side What meant the honest African Fathers in sending a Concil Afric ibid. to Constantinople to Alexandria and Nicea for true Copies with profession of a readiness of submitting to all the true Nicene Canons if they had thought That feed my flock and Thou art Peter and such other Texts of Scriptures better worth then all the Councils had so much as nodded the Roman way Or if the Papists say for I know not what they can say else that these places of Scripture which they now mainly stand upon are not so clear to their purpose without the help of Tradition Did St. Augustin and all the rest of Africa not yet know what Tradition was or what it said Was the ancient Tradition of the Universa Church then quite lost among the eighty Nicene Canons which some b Alph. Pisan l. 3. in Conc. Nic. Ep. ad Marcum fondly suppose to have bin burnt by the Arrians Books and Papers indeed may have bin burnt but Christian Faith and Tradition written no where so legibly as in Mens hearts could not be so unless the whole Church had bin burnt also Besides the general Practice whatsoever becomes of Tradition must remain still for you cannot imagin that the Church of Rome could actually exercise an universal Jurisdiction over all the Churches of the World without imagining in these an universal submission to that Power To this purpose tell me I pray Whether and where S. Chrysostom or St. Basil did swear Canonical Obedience to his Holiness when they were consecrated What sums of Money did they send to Rome when they had thence got their Pallium And when or where among a thousand Prelats in the old Times do you find one either subscribing himself or being called by others as now they do and are Arch-Bishops or Bishops of Milan of Constantinople or any other Diocess by the Grace of God and of the Holy Apostolical See fairly acknowledging themselves thereby little better then what they are now meer Suffragans Vicars or Curats of that Universal Bishop I am sure that Pope Gregory abhorred as long as he lived that very Title and much more the Usurpation as c Greg. Magn. Regist l. 4. Ind. 13. Ep. 33. Item l. 5. Indict 14. Epist. 39. a Mark of Antichrist and as a Destruction of the Faith Now it is cherished at Rome not only as a Catholic Doctrine but as the very Fundamental that makes the Catholic Church Thus Knaves grow great upon cheating and Rebels become Kings upon a Murther and Mens Crimes prove sometimes their Pride and Exaltation 2. From the Roman Supremacy go on and look upon the Roman Mass you know what great proportion that Sacrifice has among them Whole Popery depends or tends that way as on its Center and if the Roman Pope is that Churches Head this Roman Service is its Body I say then in the second place that this vast and comprehensive Bulk is nothing less then Catholic Catholic is By all Mens acknowledgment that which hath bin alwaies believ'd if a Doctrine or observed and practiced if a Service since Christian Antiquity in all Christian Churches and Ages Go therefore and seek when and where the twelve Apostles ever offered in Preaching their Savior to men to offer him up and to make him a Victime to God Enquire of all the Holy Fathers when and where they sung any Mass publicly without any Communicants except the Priests When and where they ever solemnly and publicly administred the holy Communion under one kind When and where they ever heard one single syllable of those Unchristian Doctrines that now a daies make the Main Fundamentals of the Romish Religion to wit that Christ offered up himself to God as an Expiatory Sacrifice any where else but on the Cross that the Natural Body of Christ is both in Heaven upon a Throne and on Earth on a thousand Altars that here his Body contracts shrinks it self into the compass of a small Crumb of Bread or any the least drop of Wine that these appearing Crumbs and Drops altho emtied to all Substance and attenuated to meer Accidents can both well subsist by themselves and whithersoever they be driven pull along with them the Flesh of Christ If these and other like Doctrines which now are essential to Roman Mass had in Ancient time bin Preach'd and heard as essential to Christian Faith Where was all the wit of Celsus or the malice of Julian and such Enemies of Christ Jesus when they fell foul upon the Blessed Trinity the Incarnation and Resurrection of Christ and all such other Articles as seemed to them ridiculous to spare both the Mass-Sacrifice and the Transubstantiation that both are and seem to be so Where was either the wisdom or the care of Origen Eusebius St. Augustin and

you think to have done all for who is the honest Penitent that might not think to have done enough when he hath freed himself from sin and from the eternal Misery that follows it there remains still the temporal which may make you burn for every one of these sins you think pardoned in a Fire as hot as Hell some say seven some ten others twenty Years for every one of your Mortal Sins You may hear God protesting by most of the Holy Prophets That if you turn and believe He will not so much as remember your sins any more But Romes Purgatory Vengeance tells quite the contrary You hear an Apostle preaching among the ancient Romans That there is no condemnation at all for them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 That is true for Hell say now the Modern Romans but not for Purgatory You hear another Apostle telling you That the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth you from all sins when you have committed any 1 John 1.5 but not saies the Roman Church from all the Punishments and Burnings which you must suffer Nay more these will tell you also that t Bell. de Indulg l. 2. c. 7. Christ hath most fully satisfied for all Sins and Punishments both in Hell and in Purgatory What can they say and you wish more one should think so but they only mock you For Christ say they hath satisfied so for you but 't is upon condition that you shall satisfie also for your self Good God! I thought my Savior had satisfied fully for all my Debts if by Repenting and Believing and leading a Christian Life I should make my self capable of his full Satisfaction Now it seems he hath satisfied Divine Justice in case I do satisfie it my self he hath freed me of all my Debts if I pay them he hath obtained the full pardon of all my sins if I be sufficiently punish'd for them So I receive and may expect this favor that I shall not be punish'd neither so long nor in Hell and that I shall not be drawn and quartered on Tower-hill if I be hang'd at Tiborn This certainly is no full Pardon nor full Satisfaction nor full Paiment They say it is if you apply it well It is full to all ends and purposes when it is applied by Baptism it is full after Baptism for all Mortal Sins and Eternal Punishments in Hell if it be well applied by temporal and worldly pains So I need not trouble my self for Hell or Sin But what must I do to free my self from Purgatory Here therefore is the Corner where you must pay the utmost Farthing Here in good earnest lies all the trouble and hence the Roman Clergy gains the profit For after you have bin at the trouble of continual Pilgrimages Fastings Scourgings and great Expences no body can well assure you that seven Years of such hardships in this sad Life shall x Soto in 4. Dist 21. q. 2. a. 1. save in Purgatory one hours burning You must have your recourse to Masses and redeem your self out of that terrible Fire with whole thousands of these as they call them Celestial Victimes for they properly are intended for that purpose and many rich Men every day grudg not to destitute their Children and to bestow their vast Estates to this good end How much this hath raised up the Roman Church you may see by those vast Lands and Patrimonies which she enjoies and how little it can help poor Souls you may see also by this that after Millions of Masses so dearly bought none of the Priests will think their Founders Souls so free from the pains of Purgatory but they will sell and sing as many more for their greater security In a word after all is done which both Mass and Mass-Priests can do there is no safety but in the Pope and Indulgences If you will know what they Blaspheme Christ himself with his whole Body and all his Blood tho a hundred times Sacrificed in a hundred Masses is far short of what the Pope can do in one plenary Indulgence and what Heaven and Earth may tremble at his Roman Holiness sometimes applies more of Christs Blood in a single piece of Parchment then Christ himself will do in three or four thousand Mass-Sacrifices Therefore besides all you can get of the Mass-Priests with their Supercelestial Victims the Pope promises you far more out of his Celestial Store-house This he can open as wide or little as he thinks fit So you may have Bulls of all sizes some for 40 daies Quadragens Afterward they grew to one Year as that solemn one which * Baron an 1177. n. 49. Alexander the third bestowed in Ferraria upon St. Georges high Altar Some other grew to seven some to ten some to twenty years but all things well considered these small Indulgences proved too weak and insignificant to help one out of Purgatory For alas who can tell us whether one sin may not require as much or more to be burnt out therefore you may have larger Indulgences even for hundreds and for thousands of Years such is that which Pope Boniface † Job Diacon ap Caes Reston l. 2. c. 14. granted when he dedicated the Chappel Misericordia being worth one thousand Years to the Romans two thousand to remoter Neighbors and three thousand to them who came to it from beyond Sea This is nothing ten and twenty thousand Years came to be an usual rate for every Month in the Year and sometimes y Indulgentiae Rom. Italice Edit Veterb 1645. for many daies in some Months Read the Account of Roman * Ibid. Indulgences there you shal find some of thirty three thousand Years In one of the Altars of the Lateran Church which they call Ara Maxima z Caes Reston de Basil Lateran l. 2. c. 14. p. 207. there is one of 48000 for every day They say the Venetians have one granted to them by Benedict the 11th which extends to above fourscore thousand at last they are grown and in one Church for example in the Lateran to a a Ibidem pag 204. number beyond all calculation and they who think to guess best at it do not find them less then the many small grains which you may find in a good handful of Sand or the many small drops of Water that can fall in three whole daies and nights of Rain This way of mesuring Indulgences by a greater or lesser number of Years is as it were an old Rag of the old Relaxations which the Popes are pleased to tear off either to blind or to countenance the newness of their Indulgences The Primitive Church sometimes did punish scandalous Men with Censures that lasted some five some ten some fifteen and some twenty Years and if she saw reason for it she used to remit more or less of this time of humiliation according as the Penitent seemed to make better use of it Now the Pope by his Indulgences remits

mouths possessed me in the beginning of his waies I was set up from everlasting when he prepared the Heavens I was there c. and so all along They scruple not o Bust Marial Serm. de Nomin Mariae to say of her what God Almighty saies of himself Malach. 1.11 From the rising up of the Sun unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentils And that of Christ Matth. 28.18 * Novarin Vmbra Virgin l. 4. excurs 122. n. 1149. All power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth and what John the Baptist saies p Antonin 4. part tit 15. c. 6. sect 3. of her Fulness have all received c. namely q Salazar Prov. c. 3. v. 29. n. 200. the Sinner Pardon the Righteous Grace the Angels joy and the whole Trinity Glory And therefore r Idiot Contempl. 1. say they as blasphemously God hath highly exalted her and given her a name above all names that in her name all knees should bow c. Phil. 2.9 10. And after the same rate what God saies of his only begotten Son Heb. 1.6 Let s Vitis Florig Lect. 27. all the Angels of God worship her and let Men boldly come unto the Throne of Grace from him to her that we may obtain Mercy and find Grace to help us in time of need Hebr. 4.16 It were endless to rehearse all 4. Fourthly They allow her a whole Psalter * Vid. Psalter S. Bondvent as the Church doth to God Almighty And whatever David could say in the Highest strein of his Zeal towards the magnifying of Gods Glory or the imploring of his Mercy or the expressing his Faith in him Gods name being out and that of the Virgin in they both transfer and improve it towards the magnifying of this Lady For Example in the first Psalm instead of Blessed be the Man c. it begins thus Blessed be the Man that loves thy name O Virgin Mary Thy mercy shall comfort his Soul c. The second Why do the Heathen c hath it thus Why do our Enemies imagine vain things against us Thy right hand O Mother of God shall protect us Come ye to her all ye that Travel and are heavy laden and you shall find rest for your Souls c. The fourth thus When I did call thou O Lady heardest me Thou wert pleased to remember me out of thy high Throne for thy mercy is on all them that call upon thy holy Name and thy Majesty be blessed thro out all Generations Glorifie her O all ye Nations c. The 16. thus Save me O Lady for I have put my trust in thee c. The 19. thus The Heavens do declare thy glory O Virgin c. The 29. thus Bring to our Lady O ye Sons of God bring praise and worship to our Lady Give strength to thy Servants O holy Mother and bless them that magnifie thee Let Heaven and Earth bless thee the Sea and all the corners of the World c. The 42. thus Like as the Hart desires the water Brooks so longs my Soul after thy love O holy Virgin for thou art the Mother of my life the Nurse and restauration of my flesh and both the beginning and end of my Salvation c. The 44. thus We have heard with our ears O Lady and our Fathers have told us that thy Merits are ineffable and thy Miracles wonderful Thy Virtues are innumerable and thy Mercies inestimable Rejoice in her O my soul for many good things are laid up for them that praise her Blessed be thou O Queen of Angels c. The 51. thus Have mercy on me Lady who art call'd the Mother of Mercies and according to the Bowels of thy Compassions make me clean from all mine Iniquities Pour thy Grace upon me and withdraw not thy usual Mercies from me c. The 68. thus Let Mary arise and let all her Enemies be crush'd under her feet c. The 72. thus Give the King thy judgments O Lord and thy Mercy to the Queen his Mother Salvation and life O Lady are in thy hand perpetual Joy and glorious Eternity c. The 73. thus Truly God is loving unto Israel even to such as worship his Mother c. The 84. O how amiable are thy Dwellings O Lady of Hosts c. The 92. It is a good thing to give thanks and confess to the Virgin Mary and to sing Praises to her Glory to tell of her Merits that rejoice the heart and to imitate her Works which rejoice the Angels c. The 94. It is the Lord God to whom Vengeance belongs but thou art the Mother of Mercy who turnest him to compassion The 95. thus O come let us sing to our Lady let us heartily rejoice in the Virgin our she Savior The 103. Praise the Virgin Mary O my Soul and all that is in me praise and glorifie her name c. The 110. thus The Lord said unto my Lady Mother sit thou at my right hand Be thou reigning with me Have mercy upon me O Lady Mother of splendor enlighten me O thou Mother of Truth and Virtue c. The 117. O praise the Lady all ye Heathen glorifie her all ye Nations for her Merciful kindness remains upon us for ever whosoever will serve her shall be justified but whosoever neglects her shall die in his sins c. The 144. begins thus Blessed be our Lady who teaches her Servants to fight c. The 148. thus O praise our Lady of Heaven praise her in the height Praise her Sun and Moon And so all along to the very last O praise the Lady in her Holiness praise her in her Virtues and Miracles Let every Spirit or every thing that hath breath praise our Lady This Service goes under the name of a Superangelical and Seraphical Doctor a Roman Saint and a Cardinal besides whom they call St. Bonaventura Give this Worship what name you please it is all that David and Moses and other Prophets could bestow on the Lord God of Israel Now when the same is bestowed upon a holy Creature how great and holy soever yet a Creature judge what it is 5. Fifthly Lest the Lord God of Israel should receive any kind of honor from Men where the Lady had not her share what ever more eminent pieces of Divine Service they can find scattered in Holy Scripture they will be sure to give it her For example that of Moses Deut. 32. Give ear O ye Heavens to what I will speak of the Virgin Mary Magnifie her with me c. O perverse and crooked Generation acknowledg our Lady for thy she Savior Is she not thy Mother that hath begotten thee in Faith If thou forsakest her thou art no friend unto our Soveraign Cesar O that thou wert wise and wouldest consider thy last end As an Infant cannot live without his Nurse no more canst thou be saved without this our Lady Therefore let thy