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A52816	A Protestant antidote against the poyson of popery clearly proving the religion of the Church of Rome to be 1. superstitious, 2. idolatrous, 3. damnable, 4. bloody, 5. novel, 6. inconsistent with the publick peace, 7. irreconciliable to true Christianity ... / by Christopher Nesse ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing N461; ESTC R14548	103,633	225

A PROTESTANT ANTIDOTE Against the POYSON OF POPERY CLEARLY Proving the Religion of the Church of Rome to be 1. Superstitious 2. Idolatrous 3. Damnable 4. Bloody 5. Novel 6. Inconsistent with the Publick Peace 7. Irreconciliable to true Christianity Published for the Publick Good By Christopher Nesse Minister of the Gospel in Fleetstreet London Every Plant which my heavenly Father hath not Planted shall be rooted up Matth. 15.13 LONDON Printed for Dorman Newman at the King's Arms in the Poultrey 1679. To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons of England Right Honourable c. 'T IS a most Conspicuous and undeniable Truth that You are the grand Patriots and present Patrons of all that is near and dear to us both as we are Men and as we are Christians You are our blessed Zerubbabels which signifies Born in Babel or far from Confusion the good Lord grant that however ye might be born in it ye may be graciously removed far from it Or our sweet Shezbazzars which signifies Joy in Tribulation the good Lord make you no less to these three Nations whom God hath raised up in this critical conjuncture of Babylonish Confusion as Saviours upon Mount Sion to judge the Mount of Esau or Romish Edom that the Kingdom may be the Lords Obad v. 21. Even a Kingdom of Righteousness and true Holiness wherein the Crown may be placed upon our Lord Christs not Antichrists Head Cant. 3.11 1 Chron. 29.11 Isai 33.22 that there may be a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a divine or holy Government and that the Temple of the Lord which hath been burnt and broken down may be built again that the Lord our God may dwell amongst us It must be acknowledged that as Zerubbabel or Shezbazzar had in his way so you have in your way great Mountains Zech. 4.7 Mountains of Prey Psal 76.4 5. Yea destroying Mountains Jerem. 51.25 Though Babylon be called there a destroying Mountain and seated upon a Rock that is unaccessible and not underminable yet God hath promised for your encouragement that he will level it and lay it low enough v. 28. This destroying Mountain God will make a burnt Mountain like a great heap of Rubbish and Ashes as this City lately was when burned down by Babylonish hands the Lord will Retaliate and pay Rome with her own Coin as it is foretold of her that Radix omnium malorum Rev. 17.16 17. Tota eris in Cineres quasi nunquam Roma fuisses Wo wo wo to her God will make Rostmeat of her Flesh and burn her for an old Bawd with fire this destroying Mountain shall be destroyed when God cometh to Thresh those Mountains and beat them as small as Dust before him Isa 41.15 Oh that you may be a new sharp Threshing Instrument having Teeth in the hand of the Lord to mash in pieces those mighty Mountains and to level the loftyest of them that are set aloft and overtopping the poor feeble Jews Nehem. 4.2 the Seed of God and to bring them to the lowest place which is fittest for them to wit the Footstool of Christ Surely every Mountain though never so great shall become a Plain or a Champiagne Passable Path the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it saying Who art thou O Great Mountain before Gods Zerubbabels thou shalt become a Plain Zech. 4.7 which is the Virgin Daughter of Sion's lofty Interrogation insulting over the defiled and defiling Daughter of Babylon notwithstanding her Greatness and Haughtiness 2 Kin. 19.21 There is no Mountain so strong but it may be moved if not removed by an Earthquake when God terribly shaketh the Earth Hag. 2.6 Nah. 2.3 Babylon meddles not with her match in meddling with a matchless God who is more glorious and excellent than all Mountains of Prey Psal 76.4 All Mountains melt at his Presence Nah. 1.5 Psal 114.3 6 7. He that giveth the gift of Miracles whereby to remove Mountains 1 Cor. 13.2 must needs have that power much more himself A quo aliquid tale est illud est magis tale The Rabbins say that the Pillar of Glory which was Israel's Conduct from Aegypt to Canaan stubbed up every Bush and levell'd every Mountain that lay in their way to the Land of Promise Right Honourable The Lord of Hosts be with you and the like Pillar of Providence to do the like Offices of Love for you in your difficult Work go before you As the Temple lately burnt cannot be built again until those Mountains of Rubbish which lyes upon the ground be removed so the Temple of God cannot be Repaired by you our Zerubbabels untill this work be done Your Present and Primary Work is to remove Mountains of Rubbish the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which now Letteth will Let until it be taken out of the way 2 Thess 2.6 7. The Spirit of the Lord be upon you that as you have already given many hearty lifts at the Rubbish so you may not only effectually remove it but be able also to cast it all into the Brook Kidron 2 Chron. 29.16 and 30.14 and 2 Kin. 23.12 Oh! what good man will not assist you in casting such Trash into the Town-ditch such a sordid place was Kidron that you may go on and Prosper as Asah Hezekiah and Josiah did in the Name of the Lord. What true Englishman will not say The blessing of the Lord be upon you Psal 129. ult And say God speed your Plough that hath so much fallow ground to break up before you that you may not sow among Thorns Jer. 4.3 Alas you do meet with much Fallow Ground a Mispah with its Snares a Tabor with its Nets Hos 5.1 A Beth-Aven much Land of darkness all Fallow Ground in England although it was ploughed up in Edward the Sixths and in Queen Elizabeth's time c. The Plough of the Gospel must go oft over the Land before it be fit Soil for the Celestial Seed from the best of Sowers the blessed Seedsman the Lord Jesus 'T is for Wo and Lamentation that our Land is grown fallow again and should it not by your Plough be broken up our Nation would soon be broken up The breaking up of those bloody Romanists may prevent the breaking up of this blessed Nation should those cursed Thorns be suffered to grow up again with their sharp Pricks as they did after the first Ploughing by Edward the Sixth in the Marian days Oh! what dreadful Flames Burnings and bloody Cruelties would fall upon us Witness that Praelibamen or Foretast thereof not only in those frequent Fires but also in that Barbarous Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey before the Power of the Nation was made over to them My Lords and Gentlemen Ploughing Work is a Work of great difficulty especially among tall overgrown deep rooted and churlish Thorns rending and tearing up of Fallow Ground and turning it upside down is a Work of great Difficulty yet the Removens prohibens removing Remora's hath most hardness in it when this is done the

te sanguine quem sitisti eujnsque insatiabills semper suisti Justin hath been insatiable of Blood The Rabbins well understand the Romanists those false Brethren the Popes Bloodhounds by the Edomites That pursued their Brethren with the Sword and cast off all pity their Anger tearing perpetually c. Amos 1.11 See the Parallel in (c) Dr. Taylor 's Romish Edomite Dr. Taylor 's Romish Edomite 286. The Burthen of Duma in Isa 21.11 which is Idumaea or Edom the Hebrew Rabbins apply it to Rome reading Roma for Duma for there is great affinity betwixt their Daleth and Resh and their Vau is likewise read sometimes V and sometimes O and they say Quia vix acriores hostes experti sunt Judai quàm Idumaos ideò Romanos illis infensissimos vocârunt novos Idumaeos (d) Dr. Ellis bellum in Idumaeos pag. 7. And they call the Kingdom of the Pope Regnum Edom impium 287. Now Edom signifies Red a Name put upon Esan Geu 25.30 not only because he was greedy of the Red Pottage but also because lie was Red in Complexion and colour of his Body ver 25. being overgrown with Red Hair all over importing the bruitishness of the man and the monstrousness of his manners in whose person God prefigùreth the bloody and barbarous disposition of such as persecute his Church and dye their Garments Red with the blood of his Children 288. Such bloody Edomites are the Romanists for as the Edomites had an ancient intestine and inbred Enmity against the Seed of God in their first Founder Esau against his Brother Jacob continued yea perpetuated in Esau's Posterity Amos 1.11 and that notwithstanding the neerness of kindred between them Mal. 1.2 and the fair and friendly Carriage of the Israelites towards them in their passage to Canaan Deut. 24.6 and the Laws made after in favour of them above other Neighbour Nations Dent. 23.7 yet none were so spiteful and cruel to Israel as they Amos 1.11 Obad. 10.14 Psal 137.7 289. So the Romish Edomites have been found a bloody Generation by smarting experience in all ages and in all countreys whose malignity against the seed and Israel of god hath been so inveterate and implacable that no obligations either of Oaths asseverations yea or of execrations could banke it in much less have they been bounded in with bonds of either affinity or Consanguinity As Edom of old not at all remembring the brotherly Covenant Am. 1.9 290. The tragedies they have acted in so many Kingdoms and commonwealths notwithstanding all professions and protestations yea and obligations of oaths to the contrary doth abundantly Evidence this whose cruelties hath exceeded that of Diomedes who fed his dogs with mans flesh or that of Perillus who tormented men in an hot brazen bull and indeed all paralells unheard of among Pagans Turks or any Barbarians 191. They are found most notoriously true to that damned principle of their Church to wit Nulla fides cum Haereticis Keepe no leagues with hereticks and 't is no more Sin to kill one of them then to kill a Dog Yea all their other Principles are steep'd in blood tollerating Rebellion against King and Kingdome murdering of Princes blowing up of Parliaments kindling coals of Devision hotter then coals of Juniper between confederate states wherein they live in too much peace Witness many Kingdoms at this day 292. Oh what maps of blood are represented to us of Germany Ireland France England c. All which they made Aceldama's or fields of blood wherein those bloudy Papists with their vizards pull'd off acted more like incarnate Devils then men of reason and common Humanity to shew that they are of their Father the Devil who was a murderer from the beginning and (e) John 8.44 the works of their father they will doe And (f) Ezek. 21.31 that they are a Brutish people skillful to destroy Ezek. 21.31 293. It would make ones ears tingle and ones bowells yerne to read or hear related what those Engineers of cruelty acted upon the Stage of those several countreys making it their sport to torture poor Protestants and striving which of them could be most barbarously exquisite in tormenting them as if it had been some meritorious and supererogating work in those fire-brands of Hell like bloudy Vulters to suck the blood of Saints 294 Except we enter into the confines of Hell where can wee find a fellow to that Blood-thirsty Monster (g) Idaea Reform Antichr tom 1. part 2. cap. 6. Cardinal Farnesius who desir'd to wade in the blood of the Lutherans up to his Horse bridle And to shew that their Religion is founded in blood the very Doctrine of that bloody Molock Antichrist and his Clergy thrusts Instruments of cruelty into the hands of their vassals saying an Heretick loseth all right to all that he hath (h) De paenis Heret Azor. Instit mor. li. 8. And being declared Hereticks any one may kill them though Kings or Princes (i) Symancha Instit lib. 23. Sect. 11. and Sanders de visib Monarch l. 2. cap. 4. Yea though they change their Religion as Henry the 4. of France by Ravilliac 295 And t is no wonder if Edom like they trample under foot all Covenants when they are taught that by heresie all bonds and obligations of Nature of Covenant of Oaths and of duties are ipso facto dissolved and Hereticks may be slain by sword or by treason even with the destruction of many innocent Catholicks Oh doctrine of devils yea that Hell-born plott of the Gunpowder-treason found an Apology from this same Eudamon approbation from Claudius Aquavina excuse from Bellarmine and absolution from Hamon all Jesuites 296. To conclude this 4. cursed property of the Romish Religion the Bloodiness and cruelty of it which is the fourth of those seven unclean Spirits that like the empty house Christ speaks of Math. 12.43.44 it is compleatly in this number of perfection possessed with And this is an unclean spirit with an Emphasis a Diabolical spirit from the old Man-slayer that red Dragon which both rules in and rides on even whipping and spurring the rageing Romanists who do not only walk but even run in the way of Cain the Devil 's eldest Partriarch and the first Apostate Jude 11. in (k) Agarius Instit moral lib. 8. cap. 13. (l) Eudaemon's Apologa pro Gathil cap. 4. (m) Pridtaur Sermon on the 5. of November murdering and Massacring their brethren in Christianity Cain is still butchering his brother Abel and the older he grows the more bloody he becomes That Scarlet whore hath made blood her drink in all Ages and yet the more withered and wrinkled she grows as those persons in a Hydropical Consumption the more she drinks the more she thirsts she is now become more bloodthirsty unto this land then ever witness those Nimrods of our day the mighty hunters after the blood of men who instead of Sacrificing their beast or beastly lusts unto the Lord

redibis c. And Aio te Aeacida as King James saith right enough they learned it from the Devil yet the Jesuits out-do the Devil himself in their holy Fraud for he calls his Equivocating Oracle in plain terms a lying Spirit v. 22. I will go and be a lying Spirit in the mouths of all these Prophets of Baal c. But the Jesuits defend their holy Fraud to be no lying But Mr. Thomas Fuller hath excellently evidenced that every Aequivocator is at least a secret Lyar saying that surely Speech is but the Copy of the heart Sermo est index Animi and that cannot be accounted or avouched for a true Copy that hath less in it than the Original Such an one is a secret Lyar as by Mental Reservations and other tricks doth deceive him to whom he speaketh being lawfully called to deliver all the truth Hence saith he it oft comes to pass Fuller's Prophane State pag. 390. When Jesuits unto us answer Nay * Which in Greek doth signifie Yea. They do not English speak 't is Greek they say 10. The late order of the Jesuits whom King James calls Papae mancipia Apology p. 76. the Popes Manciples or rather Blood-hounds or the Devils last by-blow to uphold the tottering Kingdom of the Beast hath found out this Arcanum or profound secret as a Catholicon or universal Remedy and Salvo for Catholick Consciences Some conceit that it was shak'd by a Miracle out of their St. Francis his Sleeve for their Casuist Navar tells of him that being asked which way the murtherer did flee that ran by him St. Francis putting his hand into his Sleeve answered he went not that way meaning his Sleeve Navar tom 3. cap. 12. But wheresoever the Jesuits so happily hit of it I know not yet surely this new trick they have abundantly exposed as a choice and Soveraign Unction and whereby they can slip all Examinations all Impositions and all Oaths and Obligations whatsoever Thus their casuistical Rabbies teach their Novices and Disciples If any man or Magistrate do examine you whether you did such a deed or no Though you did it yet may you answer I did it not provided you reserve in your mind that your meaning is not at this time when he asks or not to tell him or some such like Evasions whereof they have plenty and this they judge not only lawful but necessary This is their general Doctrine whereby they quite overthrow not only the nature of all humane Testimonies but also the genuine Juncture of all Humane Societies as famous Sir Walter Rawleigh upon his History of Joshua's Oath to the Gibeonites most excellently and amply sheweth saying That it admits of no Evasion or distinction neither leaves it any hole at all open to creep out at to that cunning perfidiousness and horrible deceit of this latter Age called Aequivocation that God-mocking Sin to swear one thing and mean another is found among Image worshippers which are of an Apish Religion they break no faith saith he that have no Faith to break whosoever hath true Faith and the fear of God dare not do so God will not be mocked Gal. 6.7 Gustavus King of Sweden told the Jesuits they would neither preach Faith to others nor keep Faith with others they could play fast and loose with their Equivocations 11. The fourth Jesuitical Principle destructive to common safety is Their Oath of blind Obedience 'T is notoriously known that in all Popish Seminaries the old Foxes The Fathers impose an Oath of Obedience upon all their young Plants and Novices wherein they Vow Obedience to their general Fathers in those Schools as those General Fathers are all sworn Vassals to their Grandfather the Pope whatever Errand they send them they must walk and work they must run per Mare per Terras c. even the Devils Round Job 1.7 and the Devils Errands and not dispute but dispatch what they are commanded without any Hesitation This Oath of blind Obedience saith that Royal Interpreter of Revel 13.16 17. King James in his Premonition to all Princes p. 93. is the mark of the Beast in their right hand signifying their actual implicit Obedience unto that Beast which thinks he cannot err whatever the Pope or under him their Superior commands them their hand that hath received this mark must execute their Command though it be to Rebel against Depose or Destroy rheir Natural King and Native Kingdoms see much more to that purpose Idem ibidem All this the Jesuits are sworn to King James shows in their Oath de caecâ Obedientiâ and in the English Seminaries beyond Sea the young Jesuits take this Oath to wit to return to England and to Convert their Countrymen and Kindred when and as often as it shall seem good to the Superior of that Colledge see Fuller's Church History Cent. 16. Book 9. p. 92. This Oath of blind Obedience Jesuiticos Pontificios ad omnia Imperia quantumvis impia superiorum spiritualium suorum Exequenda paratissimos Reddit makes the Jesuitiz'd Papists or Jesuits to be ready pressed for performing all the Precepts of their spiritual Superiors though never so wickedly hainous for those Superiors do sometimes injoyn conceited Coxcombs and that under the opinion of some supererogating merit such things as are very pernicious to Kings and Kingdoms Alas there is too plain proof hereof in both former and later years both in this and other Kingdoms see Dr. Davenant determ Quaest 17. p. 83. circa finem 12. Hence it is that such swarms of Jesuits are poured in upon us out of those foreign Seminaries which do plainly threaten an inundation from the See of Rome The Royal Interpreter King James aforesaid upon Revel 16.13 14. in his Premonition to all Princes p. 96 97. makes the Jesuits to be the three unclean Spirits like Frogs coming out of the mouth of the Dragon of the Beast and of the false Prophet This Sect he saith of unclean Spirits were raised up for the defence of the falling Throne of Antichrist by the ignorance of its Priests whereof few then were able to read Latin much less to understand it Those Spirits thus spewed out from this three-fold Authority Satan Antichrist and the Apostate Church for defence of their Triple-Crown'd Monarch are well likened to Frogs for they are Amphibious and can live in either Element Earth or Water Church or State for though they be Churchmen by Profession yet can they use the Trade of Politick Statesmen going to the Kings of the Earth c. And rather than fail that they may with less observation draw people off from Obedience c. by their subtle Insinuations they scruple not to change their Names to put on laick Habits yea and undertake any Callings of Handy-craft c. either in City or Country so that a Jesuit may be found among all Ranks of men even from the Noble Man to the Dust Man and of any Trade or Profession in England yea in the Pulpit also

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