Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11218	A briefe resolution of a right religion Touching the controuersies, that are nowe in England. Written by C.S.	C. S., fl. 1590.; Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626, attributed name.	1590 (1590)	STC 21482; ESTC S100915	24,293	41

they cannot doo they thinke vnlesse they haue the peoples heartes and they perswade themselues that the people of the other side will neuer be reconciled to their Romish Church vnlesse their religion be easie plausible and pleasant to the outward sight and delight of the flesh Hereupon haue they graunted their Bulles their dispensations and all other their licentious doctrines which geue free leaue and authoritie to commit any sinne or sinnes for as long or as short a time as they listed so that they might take their choise of pleasant sinnes to sport themselues at their pleasure and conuenient leisure which to atchieue notwithstanding they must pay good currant coyne for Behold gentle Reader the two pillers of the church of Rome viz. The glorie and riches of their proude Pope and prelates was one and the libertie preached to the people was the other So that the pope I thinke went about to builde a kingdome for himselfe on earth rather then to build a church for God in heauen Hereupon is he magnified with so many titles Hereupon after he began to growe in ambition he vsurped the tytle of Supremacie ouer all kinges princes and Emperours of the world And when the pope had all this iurisdiction and preheminence what was it els but to say with the Whore of Babylon d Reue. 18.8 Sit as Queene I wonder that all the Papistes of the world are not ashamed of their vnholye father whose kingdome whose Church whose religion is onely to preach libertie and licentious kinde of liuing to the people seeking his owne onlie glorie and renowne and not the glorie of God This is that the Iesuits fight for that the Seminaries perswade and contend for that the papistes boast of that they dare challenge al the world in disputation for the defence thereof namely the erecting of the downfalling pride of the Pope in their subtill perswasions to reconcile sillie vnstable soules vnto their Romish Sea They can paint out the honour of Rome with most princelie building in the authoritie of their Pope with more then kinglie tytles and the glory of their splendant Church with no lesse eloquence insomuch as they haue made their tongues as sweete as musicke to enchant and their reason nothing but sophistry to deceiue of whom I wish all men to take heede as of rauening wolues and to flie them as venemous serpents For the true Church of God dooth not stande in such outward glystering pompe as these men would make beleeue but in trueth of the word of God deliuered in sacred scriptures as heretofore hath bene declared But all the pomp wherewith the Romaine Iesuits Seminaries and papistes doo so aduance their proude Pope withall and calling their Church the mother Church What dooth it els represent vnto vs but the glorious state of the Whore of Babylon which was clothed with e Reue. 17.4 purple and decked with golde with pretious stones and pearles hauing a cuppe of golde in her hand full of th'abhominations and vncleannesse of filthinesse and in her forhead was written not the mother Church but great Babylon the mother of fornications and of abhominations of the earth O but I doo the Pope great iniury for he calleth himselfe Seruus seruorum the seruant of seruants but what matter is it to cal himself so in name when in deed he sheweth himself Rex reguÌ„ a king of kings and a Lord aboue all nations as his title of supremacie his vsurped authoritie of-excommunication of princes his putting downe of kinges and giuing their kingdoms away to whome he list doth manifestly bewray So that this is but a mist cast ouer mens eies to blind fold men from beholding the vsurped princelinesse of the Pope In trueth the Church of Rome sauoureth of too much earthly pompe to haue any part in the true church of God though it boast neuer so much and trust in lying words saying the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord The papistes can say that concerning Rome they haue the testimonie of Paule who in his Epistle to the Romanes writeth to al that be in Rome calleth theÌ„ f Rom. 1.7 beloued of God called saints but what profiteth it theÌ„ that in times past there was a true spouse of Christ in Rome sith now and manie yeares since it is become an adultresse and hath forsaken her first loue her first faith But al this is outcountenanced with the authority of the pope being Peters successor as he glorieth And the pope he chalengeth the Apostolike Sea so that hee will be Peters successour and yet vicarius dei what is this els but to assure vs that Antichrist shall sit in the Temple g Thess 24. of God as God boasting himselfe to be God The Pharisees in Christes dayes could say who can forgiue sinnes but God and yet the Pope hee will arrogate vnto himselfe that authoritie to wreath from kinges their crownes and scepters what is this but to sit in the temple of God as God and boasting himself to be God Now how well he dischargeth the office of an Apostle I think al men vnderstand he braggeth to be Peters successour but what glory is it to be Peters successour in place and not to retaine the doctrine and performe the office of the Apostle Peter It is the maner of papistes altogether to glorie of names persons and places and such outward titles they neuer looke to the trueth of inward puritie so that al there religion is nothing els but a painted schulchre fayre to the eye but within full of rotten bones because the pope was successour to a good Apostle It followeth not no more then an vsurper of a kingdome shal be said a lawful king because he is a successour to a lawfull king Though Peter were a true apostle yet the pope may be a false Apostle and that the Pope is a false Apostle appeareth by the notes of a true and false Apostle Peter had his calling from Christ to be an Apostle and so entred Peter into the Apostleship For Christ is the h Ioh. 10.1 dore whosoeuer entereth not in by the doore but climeth vp some other way the same is a theefe and a robber therefore let the Pope shew that he entred in by the dore or els hee is not like Peter a lawful Apostle In doctrine how the Pope and Peter agree is soone seene Peter saith if i 1. Pet. 4 1â— anie man speake let him speake as the words of God the pope hee blotteerth out his owne traditions his vnwritten verities and vomiteth out the puddle of his owne brayne yea he wil preache matter contrarie to the word of God and peruert the worde of God as when Paule sayth and the whole Scripture agreeing with hym that by the k Rom. 3.20 workes of the lawe no flesh shal be iustified before God the Pope and Papistes holde and teache that good woorkes are meritorious yea and that

all to try the truth therof out of the sacred scriptures they bind mens consciences with the decrees of their own councels without apellation We say with the Prophet Esay That all our righteousnes is like a defiled cloath and with Paule that Christ is made vnto vs a 1. Co. 1.3 ct righteousnesse by the bountifulnes of God and wisedome and redemption that as it is written He that b Iere 9 23 reioiceth should reioice in the Lord. We say with Christ that no man can come vnto him vnlesse it bee c Iohn 6 65 giuen him from his father We say also with Paule in plaine tearms that it is d Phil. z 3 God that worketh both the will and thee deede They say they haue free will of themselues to good acceptable to God by I knowe not what blinde light of nature they haue good woorkes yea workes of superogation meritorious for themselues and others also wherein they may boast and bragge but not before e Rom. 4 2 God So we ascribe all all glorie to God and they robbe God of his glory and take it to themselues Peter was commanded to feed the f ohn 21 flock of Christ and he did according The Pope he starueth the flocke of Christ without any foode and yet he taketh the fleece for ignorance saith he is the mother of deuotion and heathen Idols be the bookes that Lay-men must looke on and this is the foode he ministreth and the knowledge and trueth Christ biddeth the people Search the g Iohn 5.39 Scriptures the papisticall church saith no It breedeth sectes and schismes as though they wer wiser then christ The religion of God is sincere holy and pure for money a man may haue a pardon and dispensation of the Pope for all kindes of beastlie vilanies what dooth this shew but that their bellye is theyr God their kitchin is their roligion yea they are not ashamed to publish murther of christian princes to be a matter meritorious and wherfore contend they for this but that they may raigne themselues in earthly pompe and sit aboue kings adorned with large exteÌ„ded authority This last point is such a blur to their religion that he is wilfully blind that seeth not the falshood thereof yea it is such a spot to their religion to giue a commission to commit murder that by the name of meritorious that it bewraieth al the rest of their religioÌ„ to be ful of fraud deceit open trecherie For what man of sound wit can be perswaded that he that is a true faithful apostle indeed can dispeÌ„ce in anie sort with such open grosse faults which are euen odious to the law of nature readie footpath to bring the bodie into bondage the soule to hellish tormeÌ„ts I would wish therfore no mans im plicita fides to be so intangled with his open sleightes as to beleue him in anie thing for he sheweth himself reuera to be verie Antichrist in such perspicuous maner that no man can doubt thereof for what doth he els but sit in the h 2. Thess 2. temple of God and boast himselfe to be God when claiming the Apostolike sea he calleth himself the vicar of Christ in earth the head of the church that he cannot erre that he can forgiue sinnes matters that belong peculiarly to God alone and yet that proud Antichrist will be extolled with those titles what is this but to sit in the seate of God as God Also that he claimeth to be Dux ducum Rex regum imperator imperatorum that hee hath authoritie to depose and set vp princes at his pleasure to build and ouerthrow kingdomes what is this but malepertly and moste blasphemously to thrust himselfe into the seat of God boasting himselfe to be God for it is God per quem Reges regnant ac principes dominantur But let all the Romanistes knowe this that is also written in the same Chapter concerning their Antichrist the pope that for the decite wherewith hee hath deceaued the inhabitantes of the earth and for his treasons and blasphemies against the mighty God the Lord from heauen shall consume him with the i 2. Thess 28. spirite of his mouth and confound him in the brightnesse of his comming Babilon must k Reul 18 2 fall yea great Babilon must fall and must become an habitation of deuils a prison of alvnclean spirits Now let him boast that he is Peters successor that maketh him neuer a iote the more lawful apostle vnlesse he perform the office of a sincere Apostle as Peter did l Iohn 10 1 for otherwise he is a l theefe a robber and a Woolfe that appeareth in sheepes clothing of whome Christ bad vs beware And therein he doth nothing els but like the deuils impe transform himself into an angel of light to deceiue simple soules Let them glory in the name of the church crying that Rome is the mother church the mother church what benefite is it to haue the name and to want the thing for in trueth all their preheminence is onely in names of the church of Peters place in the statelinesse of their Hierarchie of goodly order of their carnal cardinals and in such outward pompe and glorie But alas these painted clothes bewray the raggednesse of their religion for the churche of God is not builded vpon such outward shewes but vppon sinceritie of doctrine and conuersation Therefore leauing the Lion to be knowne by his clawes whome times and seasons haue so manifestly disclosed I counsell thee to forsake the pope and to learne of Peter build thy faith not vpon the pope who of himselfe wanteth a foundation but vpon Paule and Peter and the rest of the Apostles Christ Iesus himselfe being the corner stone Take heed of implicita fides learne thy selfe out of the worde of God what thou beleeuest and wherevpon thy faith is builded for if it be builded generallie vpon men thy faith is wauering and doubtfull but if vpon God then is it built vpon a rocke against which the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile Followe the aduise of Christ n Iohn 5 39 Searche the scriptures diligently read them with reuerence in all humilitie and pray to God earnestly so shall his word be a light vnto thy feete o Psal i19 105 and a lanterne to thy pathes to direct thee in the way of trueth to keepe thy minde sincere and thy eye cleere to see and discerne the trueth from falshoode a shepheard from a woolfe a true Apostle from a false and Christ from Antichrist FINIS

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