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A90146	A balm presented to these nations, England, Scotland, and Ireland to cure the wounds of the bleeding Protestants, and open the eyes of the deluded papists, that are ignorant of the truth ... or, A seasonable antidote against the errors of popery and pernitious [sic] doctrines of the Church of Rome ... By T.O. ...	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing O31B; ESTC R42274	8,035	25

Praying her Divine worship and in their Rosary and other books Blaspemously Attribute to her what Prophets have foretold of or Ascribe to our Saviour tho' God has declared himself a Jealous God and that he will not give his Honour to another And now to make this seem no Idolitry they have taken away the fourth Commandment and devided the fifth into three to make up the number As for their Crucifixes Beads Relicks Holy Oyl Holy Waters Agnus Dei's Blessed Roses Pardons Indulgences Absolutions c. They are altoge●her new and only the Immentions of tourzening Priests to pick the pockets of the simple layity having by that means rather reduced Popery to a Trade than a Religion and as for Auricular confssion it was as all Authors of our Church agree to get into the Cabinet Councils of Princes that so they might the better in all places carry on the interest of Rome tho' to the hazard and ruin of those Princes in whose bosoms they ly like snakes till many times they sting them to death holding no blood shead a crime that is spilt to ear●y on the interest of their Church this Fatally felt Henry the Second of France who was without any provocation kill'd with a Consecrated Daggar in his Royal Tent Surrounded with his Army by one Clement a Jaccobin Moak sent for that purpose tho' under a fained pretence of delivering a Message and altho' this King was of the Romish Communion yet the Pope was so far from dissembling it that he Magnified the Villany and Cannonized the murtherer By the like fate and encouragement fell Henry the fourth of France who was stabbed by Raviliack a Ruffain as he was passing the streets in his Coach and we may fear they had too great a hand in the Barbarous Murther of King Charles the first c. But should I pass into the bloody field of their many fatal Massacres Private Murthers Violation of Faith Leagues and Daths it would amaze and startle the reader to think so much wickedness should be in men professing Christianity or so much as owning the name of Christ and the better to colour their persidiousness when they contrary to the Letters of safe conduct given them had burnt the two famous Bohemian Martyrs Huss and Jerome they go a decree passed in the Councel of Constance that no Faith is to be kept with Heretick and such they account all that are note o● their Church a tast of which Queen Mary gave us who after she had promised us Religion and Liberty was prevail'd with by the wicked Councils of the Priests to 〈◊〉 a raging Persecution be the reward of those who had Seated her on the Throne In which during her Reign suffer'd for th● confession of a Good Faith five Bishops Twelve Divines Eighteen Gentlemen Eighty four Artificers One hundred Husband men servants and labourers Twenty Sir Wives Twenty Widdows Nine Uirgins two Boys two Infants in all two hundred Eighty seven all of them burnt alive besides Sixteen that dyed in Prison seven scourged as unmercifully as T. O. and a great many that were found Languishing and Released by Queen Elizabeth From which Cruelty and Crucl men God of his mercy as he has at present most Miraculoussy done preserve and keep these and all other Protestant Kingdoms and unite our hearts in the defence of the true Faith and Religion for the sake of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Amen A Prayer for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion against Popery c. O Lord God great and Glorious whose Eys Run too and frow threw the Earth to behold the ways and Actions of the Sons of men look upon us thy unworthy servants and ●ut of the multitude of thy tender mereys sence about with thy Almighty Arm the Uine that thy own right hand has planted water it with the dew of heaven that it may spring and grow up to thy Glory suffer not the wild Bore of the forest to Root it up nor the little foxes to pluck off its render Branthes Guard thy Church in the Purity of Religion and soundness of Doctrine against the rage and malice of our enemies and keep her her in perpetual safety for we of our selves are nothing but our help alone resteth in thee O God through the Merits and Meditation of Jesus Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer of thanksgiving for our Late Miraculous Deliverance from Popery c. BLessed be thy holy name O Lord God of Israel who out of the multitude of thy never failing Compassion has interposed thy mercy and made bare thy Almighty Arm to save us from the Jaws of the Lyon and the Paw of the Bare that were Roaring against us and ready to devour us we offer in all humility our tribute of praise and thanksgiving to thy Divine Majesty for all thy loving kindness to wards us but more especially for Miraculously saving us at this time from the Malice and Cruelty of our implacable Enemies which we beseech thee to continue towards thy Church and People that we may ever praise and Magnifie thy Holy Name Amen French Persecutions Or what Protestants must expect from Papists if they get the power over'um THe Popes of Rome when they had no power and were not arrived at their Greatness were indeed against Persecution but when they had once arrogated to themselves a Spiritual power that commanded the Temporal and at length incroached upon the Civil Justice in all Kingdoms where the Roman See by the insinuation of the Clergy could gain Credit then and not till then the bloody Banner was displayed but to particularize upon the many bloody Murthers and Massacres would be too tedious It is not unknown to English Protestants that France has been the Scourge of Christendom especially that part of it professing the Gospel in its purity wherefore the better to give them a light into what must be expected if ever a Popish power prevail I shall instance some of their Cruelties In the Reign of Charles the ninth though the papists and even the King promised the protestants the greatest security imaginable yet when they had made them supine or fearless of the Danger by many Oaths and promises not only by chance but by the Kings immediate Order and Decree they were Murthered and Massacred throughout the whole Kingdom Women were Ripped up alive young Children dashed against the Pavement Embrio's torn from the bleeding Womb Hoary Hairs stained with Blood Churches Robbed Houses Fired Women Ravished Virgins Deflowred and then Murthered with the most exquisite Torments And before this stream of blood stopped at which the Pope extreamly rejoyced and stiled it The Triumph of the Church Two hundred thousand of all sorts Ages and Sex were slain beside a greater number that were obliged to lcaye the Country and all they had behind them The like has hapned at other times but more especially renewed in time of this present King Lewis who set on by the Priests first put out an Edict or proclamation That all persons within his Dominion should turn Roman-Catholicks Whereupon all Officers that refused were turned out of places of Trust even from the Waggoner to the greatest Courtier But this the priests thought too Gentle tho' thousands of Familes was Ruined thereby whereupon they proceeded to set the Dragoons to Quarter upon them at Discretion and to use them with all manner of Rigor so that coming into the Towns where the protestants lived and getting knowledge of their Houses they Intruded themselves crying Turn Catholicks or be Killed And when they had thus opprest and plundered them eating up all their Provisions they fell upon their Persons torturing them by hanging up some by the Heels in smoaking Chimneys ducking others in Wells till almost stified keeping some from sleeping by frequent ratling Kettels and brass Pans over their heads pricking and tossing them from one to t'other till they had made them distracted and them force them to sign an Abjuration their Children they took from them and thrust them into Monasteries making one Gentlewoman after they had ravished her before her Husbands face kill him by putting a Rapier into her hand and forcing it into his body but perceiving that this would not do whilst the Ministers remained they committed many of them to the Gallies others they banished sending them away without their Wives and Children whom they retained to bring by force to the Roman Religion those that attempted to escape were many of them surprized and put into dark Dungeons where for want they miserably perished their Relations that attempted to relieve them being reduced to the same Condition The Pope all this while encouraging this wickedness which how near such usage comes to primitive Christianity which according to the word of God is all Gentleness and the dictates of the Prince of peace our ever blessed Lord and Saviour I leave to the Protestant Reader and conclude From Popery and its Tenents Good Lord deliver us seeing even the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel FINIS

A BALM presented to these Nations England Scotland and Ireland To Cure the Wounds of the Bleeding Protestants and open the Eyes of the deluded Papists that are Ignorant of the Truth c. By T. O. Licensed according to Order Printed for ● ● A BALM Presented to these Nations England Scotland and Ireland to Cure the Wounds of the Bleeding Protestants and open the Eyes of the deluded Papists that are ignorant of the Truth Being A Timely Warning to Protestants OR A Seasonable Antidote against the Errors of POPERY AND Pernitious Doctrines of the Church of ROME Wherein they are stated and Learnedly Confuted plainly shewing the Deceitfulness and vanity of so foolish a Religion when duly weighed and considered by the Word of God and by what Cruelty Fraud and Ignorance it is upheld Together With Prayers and Thangsgivings for our great deliverance from POPERY To which is added a Treatise of French-Persecution or what Protestants may expect from Papists if they get the power over us By T.O. D.D. A Warning to Protestants c. Psal CXXIV Ver. 2. 3. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us Then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us THough the Romanists with many specious pretences have especially since the Reformation endeavoured to prove the Verity and Validity of their Church yet we no where find that they have proposed any thing so material to that point but it has been either confuted or considered as a weak Pillar to support a decaying and tottering Superstructure For I would fain be informed by any moderate Communicant of the Romanists from whence or upon what account the Pope of Rome claims a Superiority or Headship Or why the acknowledgment of the Catholick or Universal Church of Christ should own any Infallible Head upon Earth And since both the Disputers and Writers of that Community that term themselves the Roman Catholick Church have either waved it as not to their purpose or for some other end equivocated with the Scriptures to support a building upon a sandy Foundation Before I proceed to the main matter intended I shall give some light into this affair It so happened that the Roman Empire having been divided into East and West the latter especially was extreamly harrassed by the barbarous Nations of the North so that the Supream Power lay in that of the East or Greek Empire and although several Popes of Rome had opposed any sole Headship or Supremacy one over another holding all Bishops equal in their Province or Diocess yet Phocus General to the Eastern Emperour Mauritius having murthered this Emperour his Empress and their Children and for that dispised and rejected by his own People what does the then Pope of Rome do but clap in with him and the more to gain a Power or Advantage over the other Bishops by many flattering and insinuating Letters extol his proceedings And amongst others we find these Expressions viz. Let the Emperour Phocus live and let the Angels clap their hands and rejoyce that so worthy a Man whose grateful Influence shines on the Bishop of Rome is advanced to the Throne of the Eastern world by the especial Providence of the Almighty From which time tho' by what unjust means I leave to the consideration of the Reader Rome dated her Spiritual Greatness to fulfill the Prophesie of St. John in his Revelations c. And as indeed it was founded upon blood and vio●●nce so has it been hitherto maintained more than by any other ways or means as by Racks and Tortures to such as at any time began to inquire into the Authority of that Usurpation and s●●● their Errors and by keeping the more un thinking part of those that adhered to it in the Region of Agnorance and darkness by blinding their understanding with fables instead of real Truths and placing the Traditions of Men instead of the sacred Uerity of the wor● of God and when at any time where they have a temporal power inquiry is made 〈◊〉 their many lying wonders and feigned miracles their superstitions in worship errors and absurd contradictions the answer is tha● they ought to believe as their Church be● believes though indeed few of them themselves know what she does believe and 〈◊〉 this be refused they are not only brand●● with the name of Hereticks but in dang●● of their Lives and many times expire 〈◊〉 flames by Racks and Tortures or languishing and lingering deaths which is t●● true mark of the Beast of which St. Joh● speaks viz. That kills all those that 〈◊〉 not receive his mark in their forehead worship his Image And this fatal exp●rience has taught the World by the m●● Massacres unjust Wars Burnings 〈◊〉 ●●stations poysoning and stabbing of M●narchs to such a degree as has made 〈◊〉 Infidels blush to be outdone in Treacher● and Cruelty and these mes●ly ●alling 〈◊〉 these that with a complyance with the 〈◊〉 lasting Gospel opposed the errors and unwarrantable Traditions of that Church as their holding a Wafer after Consecration to be a God and no less than the second person in the glorious Trinity even our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Essential and Corporal as well in Soul as in Body with all the substantial parts of a Body as he offered himself upon the Cross for the Redemption of the World The praying for the Dead saying Mosses for the deliverance of Souls out of Purgatory attributing to the Uirgin Mary the Honours only due to God himself praying to Saints adoring Relicks consecrated Candles holy Roses Agnus Dei's and Confessions to Men with many other Fables and Fopperies and for gain-saying these have flowed a scarlet Sea of Blood with which as St. John says I saw the Woman drunk with the blood of the Saints and the Martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondered with great admiration Rev. 17. 6. And these were they whose Souls cry under the Altar How long how long O God Holy and Righteous will it be e'er thou avenge our blood on those that dwell on the Earth And although as to the first of these our Saviour did declare at the eating the Passover that the Bread and Wine were his Body and Blood yet it then and at all times appeared to be meant only figuratively and mistically for at the same time when the Bread was eaten and the Wine drank his Body remained the same as before undiminished and untouched Uisible and Corporal both to be felt and understood and what more confirms it was his commanding his Disciples as often as they did it to do it in remembrance of him till his coming which an imply nothing more than to leave and ingraft more perfectly the remembrance of his Crucifixion and Death in the minds of his People and Church for as the Passover which he then eat was a Type of him to keep us the remembrance and expectation of his coming in the mind of the