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A90212 Speedy advice to all Roman Catholicks; especially, those concerned in Scotland and Ireland Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1689 (1689) Wing O56aA; ESTC R230350 17,548 24

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whole Christ and that the eater and the eaten were the same and that the Apostles were Canibals and did eat Christ alive when he was dead in his Grave and that the B. Virgin did cruelly tear in pieces and eat up her own Son every bit and crum and that God in Christ who made Men Rational and is the Author of Order and not Confusion did confound the World both in Sense and Reason and that in this Sacrament there is Form without Substance and Substance without Form and yet no Forma Substantialis and that Christ's Body is in Heaven Earth France Spain Italy and all the World over at once without Bilocation or Ubiquity Or in few Words to affirm that a Wicked Debauch'd Priest can make that which was never unmade viz. The Eternal ever-living holy God and then eat up the invisible Deity is such a piece of ridiculous impudent absurd brazen-fac'd blasphemous self-contradicting Nonsense as driveth the Turks Pagans and Heathens to astonishment staineth Christianity and confirmeth all ungodly Wretches in Atheism and Idolatry and ought not to be named among Christians For as Vigil lib. 4. contra Eutych speaking of Christs Body saith When it was on Earth surely it was not in Heaven And now because it is in Heaven certainly it is not on earth My eighth Objection shall be against the Church of Rome's depriving her Laity of the Communion-Cup For if our Saviour was so liberal of his Body and Blood as to give both to unlearned Fishermen yea to Judas whom he knew to be both a Thief and a Traytor I think the Romish Clergy may do the same to the vulgar after Confession without fear of the falling of drops of blood or mammocks of flesh for it was no less disparagement to Christ's Body and Blood to be in the Self-murdering Son of Perdition's Belly than to lye in a Church floor My ninth Objection shall be against the Doctrine of Popish Merit For if Man in his best estate be but Vanity all his righteousness and best performances but filthy rags and the best of men but unprofitable Servants What can foolish men merit at the hand of God Or what reward can he expect for his empty performances Yet are the deluded Papists so simple as to affirm that many of their supposed Saints did live so holily that they left in bank a superplus stock of good Works more than merited Heaven to themselves and Wicked Kinsmen which now his Holiness of Rome hath laid up in bank as Spiritual Revenues to be sold to ungodly rich sinners for ready Money to buy their Salvation and redeem their deceas'd Friends out of Purgatory But this principle is so evidently abominable that there is no need to refute it to a Rational Man for there can be no greater absurdity thrown at it than its own impudence and filthiness For if Christ's Merits be infinite and his Raiment which he proffereth freely be white as snow what necessity is there to lay out our money for that which doth not profit and buy filthy rags which cannot cover our nakedness My tenth Objection shall be against the Adoration of Images For notwithstanding that the changing the Glory of the Incorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible Man and to Birds and Four-footed Beasts and creeping things was the abomination of the Gentiles whom being vain in their Imaginations God gave up to vile Affections yet are not Papists ashamed to build the Sepulchers of their Fathers painting the Immortal Deity in similitudes of their own Invention O Fools Doth not God fill Heaven and Earth Are not all Nations before him less than Nothing and Vanity To whom then will ye liken him Or Who shall be his equal It would be reputed a spiteful piece of Misdemeanour if not High Treason in any Subject to take the Picture of a Hog Dog or Bear and set it up in his Chamber and call it the Picture of his King. Yet there is greater disparity betwixt God and the best of Creatures than betwixt a King and a Bear. And what an impudent deluded thing is it in them to pray to the Images of supposed Saints Statues Stocks and Stones Gods of their own making and not acknowledge themselves Idolaters For say they We Worship not the Image or Statue but its Representative But O deluded Wretches What Fool will conclude that the Israelites when they Worshipped their Molten Calf did believe that it was their real God which had smitten Aegypt with Plagues and divided the Red Sea before them but only his Representative Yet for their Idolatry how many thousands fell in one day Neither is it less sin to pray to Angels and Saints than to Idols of Stone Wood and Clay for if there be but one Omnipotent Omnipresent God who is only able and willing at all times to hear and help us How dare you slight him who inviteth us freely to embrace those who are neither able to hear nor help For Papists cannot deny that they pray Holy Michael defend us in Battel that we perish not in the fearful Judgment And to the Blessed Virgin O Glorious Saint in whom I put my trust the Mother of Grace The Port of Salvation my Confidence my Refuge and my only hope c. And to another thus Let me obtain Heaven by the Blood of St. Thomas Becket as if the blood of a Traytor were more efficacious and propitiatory before God than the blood of Christ Moreover what an abominable thing is it to pray to St. Nicholas to protect Mariners St. Luke Painters St. Crispin Shooe-makers St. Gal Geese and Antony Pigs c. as if God whose Providence reacheth the Sparrows were not the Confidence of all the ends of the Earth and of those who are afar off upon the Seas Moreover it is ridiculous to pray to that which can neither hear nor help and say O Holy Cross help me And again ange piis justitiam reisque dona veniam Increase Righteousness in the Godly and grant Pardon to Sinners And to an old rag to say O Sancte Sudari Ora pro nobis O Holy Napkin pray for us These are the Works of Delusion yea the Mystery of the Man of Sin which I earnestly desire and request all Papists to forsake and pray only to God in Christ the only Mediator and Advocate betwixt God and Man as Jerom in an Epistle to Riparius Writeth Christians neither adore nor Worship Martyrs nor Sun nor Moon nor Angels lest they should therein rather serve Creatures than the Creator My eleventh Objection against Papists shall be their praying in an unknown Tongue for as Paul saith 1 Cor. 14.9 Except ye utter by the tongue words easie to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken for ye shall speak unto the Air Yea in this same Chapter vers 23. he compareth those who are guilty of this foolery to Barbarians and Mad-men and telleth that tongues are for a sign to them that believe not but Nonsense