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Appello Cæsarem A iust appeale from two vniust informers· / By Richard Mountagu.
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Montagu, Richard, 1577-1641.
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enlarged the inhabitants increasing and growing on so fast more than they did in the dayes of old as in popular Cities the multitude groweth greater every day and greater So that Limbus puerorum in their opinion hath and out of conveniency it was necessary it should swallow up Limbus Patrum ANTE adventum CHRISTI saith one sancti Patres descendebant eò Nunc verò pueri qui absque Baptismo discedunt sine poenâ sensibili detinentur Others do conceive of it as inane vacuum and this is the commonly received opinion of the Romane Schooles In effect therefore the Popery of Limbus Patrum is this That in regard of state the Fathers who died before CHRIST were quoad locum in a part of HELL in the uppermost Region of Hell and quoad statum without all paine as also without all joy without fruition or seeing of GOD That at CHRIST'S descent into Hell which was locally only into this part of Hell but virtually and powerfully into all places and regions of Hell they were drawn out thence led forth in triumph and translated into Heaven in regard of place unto seeing enjoying and fruition of GOD in respect of state But this is not the Tenet of Antiquity A man may deny their being in Heaven and yet not inferre they were thus in Hell Now to come to the point The question is concerning their soules onely for their bodies it is confessed in ordinarie dispensation doe sleep in the dust It is confessed on both sides which is most materiall concerning them That being immortall in their better Part after dissolution and separation they still have a Being and are subsisting in aliquo ubi for though the nature of a soule is not to be circumscriptively in place as TERTULLIAN fancied as M. YATES and M. WARD are when they are in their Pulpits yet are they confined in their proper ubi definitively and indistanter as they speake that is they have not nor can have an ubique-subsistence but a determined and defined Being heere at that instant they are not there for omnipresence is the absolute Peculiar of the ALMIGHTY Truely then and indeed they must and doe subsist in place or rather ubi though where and how who can tell For the Scripture content with their state and beeing is silent for particular touching their place And accordingly the best learned of all times and places have if not declined quaestionem loci yet not beene curious nor resolved for it So heere is a maine difference at the first betwixt the Papistry of Rome and M. MOUNTAGU'S Popery They de fide resolving the place to have been thus He returning Ignoramus we are not ascertained we cannot tell AGAIN in that their Vbi wheresoever subsisting as they had Being and Subsistence so did they also performe actions of life and motion congruous and convenient unto their nature and kind And though they are said to be at rest yet is it qualified with In what sort They rest from their Labours saith the SPIRIT where the latter word Labors giveth species unto and determineth the former word Rest For all maner rest is not predicated of them not such as that rest of the bodie in the grave They rest not as in a sleepe out of minde without motion as not in action at all as the frame of Nature did in the dayes of IOSUA or as ADAM in that deepe sleepe wherein EVA was framed out of his side Thus to rest is contrary to their nature and condition intellectuall though it hath beene the opinion of some Popes they say and is of some Anabaptists at this day such as against whom M. CALVIN wrote his Psychopannychia But being now separated from the bodie they live move exercise performe and put in practice acts naturall and coïncident unto their proper kindes understanding conceiving willing judging loving rejoycing and such like proper acts of naturall rationall intellectuall creatures Next inasmuch as there are and have beene alway in this life two sorts amongst the sonnes of men Beleevers in CHRIST for their profession Holy in course for their life and conversation then Misbeleevers and faithlesse in regard of GOD Wicked mis-agents in respect of living so proportionably there are and have beene ever two states and conditions of the soules of men in their separation after death some rewarded with happinesse in their being for ever with GOD some condemned unto woe and wretchednesse for ever estranged from GOD. All men when they dye as sooner or later all do and shall in regard of that unchangeable Law of kinde Thou shalt Dye the Death are said in SCRIPTURE To goe the way of all flesh or of All the Earth for never man had a priviledge of absolute or totall exemption And in regard of their being or subsisting after their death are said To sleepe with their Fathers touching their bodies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to be gathered to their Fathers or their People in respective of their soules were they good or bad For all are a society a collective people eyther in happy or in a miserable state The good goe to enjoying of happinesse without end the wicked to enduring of torments everlasting Thus is their state diversified to their deserving and herein the Scripture speaketh plaine and evident But now for Place we are not resolved so particularly Certaine it is in common course of kinde Place is ever fitted disposed proportioned to state and condition of the therein placed And therefore when this mortall shall have put on immortality when those that have won many unto righteousnesse shall shine as the Sunne and be clothed with glory and immortality in the day of the resurrection of the just then we reade of a fitted Place a new heaven and a new earth Now fitting unto this two-fold state and condition of soules after death I beleeve and professe that evermore there was is and shall be two severall different distinct proportionable Places or Vbies for them knowne ever commonly by that generall name of Hell and Heaven I beleeve also and professe that the soules of the Fathers Kings Prophets Priests Patriarchs righteous and good men that lived and dyed before CHRIST came in the flesh in eandem communem spem nobiscum venerunt expectantes CHRISTUM as IGNATIUS speaketh and so when they were gathered unto their people went not into Hell locally in respect of Place because not to Hell interpretatively that is into wretchednesse in regard of state They went to Heaven locally as to their proper Vbi they went to Heaven figuratively that is into happinesse and health into joy in heavenly palaces unto GOD into the presence of GOD the Tabernacles of peace into Paradise ABRAHAMS bosome Eadem est fides nostra quae fuit illorum Hoc nos credimus esse factum quod illi crediderunt faciendum They hoped to be saved in through and by him in whom we doe hope They lived by that faith as well as we though not
all hostilitie calling themselves interim Musulmans that is the right Beleevers so that religion is openly pretended for hostilitie Furthermore yet MAOMET personally as a private man and a false Prophet was truely and indeed a man of Sinne not only for his morall parts in his loose licentiousnesse lewd carriage abominable life impietie improbity and impuritie every way unto the highest but in his ALCORAN that execrable Law of his damned Sect he commendeth and tendreth unto not only alloweth and tolerateth in his Sectaries all filthie carnall pleasures and prostitutions and in reward of such a life a semblable recompence also after death in a Paradise of that uaure abounding withall beast-like brothelries Seventhly hee directly and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without more ado thrusteth himselfe into the roome place state and office of CHRIST He exalteth himselfe above CHRIST above the Prophets Apostles all holy men all holy things and his Successors in State arrogate and challenge unto themselves absolute supreme independent power over the Kings and Monarchs of the earth calling themselves in their high-swelling stiles Lords of Lords GOD of the earth c. as is to bee seen in the Letters of SOLYMAN AMURATH and others challenging absolute irresistable incontrouleable power to set up pull downe order alter and dispose the world and all things in the world at pleasure That wretch MAOMET like ANTICHRIST indeed commandeth his ALCORAN and most abominable Law to bee received of all as the Message of GOD beeing nothing but a TYROTARICHON and hotch-potch of errors fables lies impieties impurities blasphemies derived from and made up out of Iewish Paganish Manichean Arian heresies religion and superstition He commendeth it unto his Followers as comming downe from heaven by the ministery of his familiar and old acquaintance the Angell GABRIEL He preferreth it before the Law the Gospell all or any Word of GOD. Hee threatneth torments eternall unto the despisers of it and unto the observers promiseth his carnall Paradise abounding with all sensuall delights and carnall pleasures and to conclude as in effect in despight of GOD conculcating and trampling under foot whatsoever is named GOD advanceth his owne blasphemous reprobate and forlorne miscreant as he is divine power and authority forsooth in the Divels name above all things whatsoever in heaven and earth If these be not certain signes and remonstrances of ANTICHRIST I cannot tell what are or may be thought to be Eightthly the TURK is and hath been long possessed of Ierusalem and the Land of promise that pleasant Land and holy City HOMAR the successor of MAOMET took it and since it hath been a neast of uncleane birds in the hands of those barbarous blasphemous miscreants except for some few yeers under the French The Iewes when MAOMET first declared himselfe came flocking unto him as unto their MESSIAS the sooner and rather because he was circumcised as bee all of his Sect at this day receiving in their flesh the marke stamp and character of the Beast They greatly advanced and propagated his impiety They paid him tribute to the intent to incite him against CHRIST and Christians and having prevailed and instigated him thereunto assisted him readily in that enterprize Ninthly the TURK fitteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is verified in him take the meaning for either IN the Church or AGAINST the Church in both which senses it is expounded Take Templum materially or formally or figuratively any way that note will also fit him At Mechae was he buried in the Church there HOMAR his Successor enshrined him there appointed an Obit and Anniversary for him there made it meritorious to visit his Sepulchre to undertake Pilgrimages unto his Reliques which religion and custome continueth yet unto this day And yet more The same HOMAR having after two yeares siege taken in Ierusalem Templum exquisivit as writeth THEOPHANES cited by BARONIUS quod SALOMON extruxerat ad Blasphemiae suae Oratorium constituendum Which being done and his Oratory erected in place of the Iewish Temple SOPHRONIUS the then Patriarch of Ierusalem took up this saying as having reference unto ANTICHRIST In veritate ista est abominatio desolationis quae dicta est à DANIELE Prophetâ stans in loco sancto And yet farther MAOMET the Great having taken Constantinople and ruined the Empire of the Greekes sate him downe and made his Palace in the Cathedrall Church of SAN SOPHIA and in the Close and Cloisters the Bishops and Priests lodgings thereabout where is his Seraglia unto this day Part of that large and admirablest piece of worke one of the wonders of the world the Church of SAN SOPHIA namely the Chancell of that Church where stood the High Altar or Communion-Table and Patriarchall Throne is now made and so used as a Turkish Moschie whither the GRAUND SIGNIOR also himselfe goeth often a Procession unto their Service or blasphemous Rites and Ceremonies of their Religion Spiritually figuratively he sitteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against or upon the living Temples of GOD the Church of the Redeemed by the bloud of IESUS because hee hath demolished ruined and brought unto confusion very many famous and renowned Christian Churches in Syria Palestina Egypt Persia Armenia Arabia Africa and Asia the Lesse and the More Graecia Thracia and many other Countries Those Churches all but one to which Saint PAUL wrote Those in the Revelation hee hath removed put out cast off their Candle and Candlestick bereft them of their spirituall life in CHRIST of the power of his Kingdome in preaching the Gospell hath set the marke of the Beast upon them circumcised them in their flesh taught them to blaspheme and to open their mouthes against the GOD of heaven He maketh and ever hath made warre against the Saints that is against the Christians called according to the calling of grace unto a profession holy and sanctified eo nomine alone because they professe the Name and Faith of CHRIST that they acknowledge the Onely true GOD and Him whom GOD hath sent CHRIST IESUS the Saviour and Redeemer of all mankinde and because they detest those execrable blasphemies of that false Prophet and man of sinne against GOD against CHRIST and true Religion seeking by all meanes to make them as they speake Musulmans that is to deny CHRIST IESUS and to goe to hell And for this cause one amongst many hee extremely tyrannizeth upon their bodies and temporall states a note of ANTICHRIST to doe so but in more cruell and wretched sort upon their soules especially in that his barbarous and unheard of Tribute of CHRISTIANS children every third year or as occasion serveth oftner or seldomer to be violently rest away from their Parents from their GOD Redeemer Religion hope of Salvation and everlasting life to become the Eunuchs in his Seraglia worse than those in the Court of the King of Babylon his Ianisaries Spahies Beglerbegs and Bashaes the publick meanes and instruments of his Tyranny and insolences against GOD and his Church Tenthly