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A63267	Popery, the grand apostasie being the substance of certain sermons preached on 2 Thes. 2, v.1 to 12 on occasion of the discovery of that desparate plot of the papists against the King, kingdom and the Protestant religion / by John Troughton ...	Troughton, John, 1637?-1681.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2315; ESTC R23765	68,596	168

them yet they must go through Purgatory hereby robbing them of the comfort of the Gospel and miserably enthralling their consciences to themselves and their Tradition By all this it is evident that the Papists have altered the nature and ends of Christian religion which was the doctrine and institution of Jesus Christ to exalt him as the only mediator of the Church by whom only we should come to God and have framed a new platform of a carnal worldly religion to exalt the Pope and his Clergy and to worship the creatures instead of the Creatour Let us add their doctrine of persecuting and destroying all Hereticks as they call them that is all that will not obey them The first Lateran Council Ann. Dom. 1215. decreeth Sub Innoc. 3. P. That if any Prince or Lord be a Heretick or favourer of Hereticks or will not destroy his own subjects being Hereticks he shall be deprived of his dominion and it be given to some other Catholick Prince Accordingly they gave away the Estates of divers Earls Ramund Earl of Tholouse the Earl of Besieres and others because the former favoured the other would not destroy the Albigenses their Subjects Vid. Hist Walden The Inquisition giveth orders not only to destroy Hereticks but also all such as favour them or habour them or give them any relief in their distress or conceal them or any of their goods Yea that those who do not discover and accuse their own relations or friends being Hereticks shall themselves be punished as Hereticks In Concil Constan Pope Martin the 5. decreed by a Bull That Hereticks should not be suffered to buy or sell or to injoy the benefit of humane society This Doctrine and their practice according to it makes them an Apostatical body or society maintaining it self in opposition to the pure Church of Christ and therefore to take part with them to joyn with or submit to their interest is to desert Christ and to side with or become a member of that great Apostasie Let us now take notice of the several characters or marks that the Apostle gives of this Apostasie which will further prove the Papists to be guilty of it The first is v. 3. That the Head of it is the man of sin the son of perdition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Hebraism where the genitive of the substantive is put for the adjective and that by way of eminency The sinful or wicked man as he is afterward called v. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wicked or lawless man v. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the son of perdition this is exegetical of the former viz. such a wicked man as is ripe for and appointed to destruction By this is meant not a particular person but a state or government in the hands of one or more persons though perhaps some one of those governors may be intended in a special manner as more singularly wicked and active than others even as Nebuchadnezzer was said to be the head of Gold of the great image Dan. 2. i. e. in special manner though the whole series of the Assyrian and Babylonian Monarchs for 1300. years was represented thereby Thus the Devil is expressed singularly when the whole society of those wicked spirits is intended and no one particular meant And the four Monarchies are expressed by 4. Dan. 7. Beasts though they were possessed not only by many Kings but the last by the people of Rome for a long time consisting of the Senate and Plebeian The Papists would infer from these notes of particularity that Antichrist this man of sin must be but one particular person Vid. Whit. resp ad Sand. Q. 1. and therefore not the Popes who have been many But themselves grant what is here said v. 8. He that letteth will let till he be taken out of the way is meant of the Roman Empire which was in the hand of many successively though expressed as one man and it is common so to express States or Kingdoms when we speak of their constitutions prerogatives or Laws And when our Saviour Matth. 16.18 19. said to Simon Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church and I will give thee the Keys of the Kingdom c. they will needs have it meant that this was granted to Peter and all his successours the Popes though none but Peters name is mentioned Why then may we not so understand the man of sin here The Apostles sense is there well come an apostasie of the Church a declining in and from religion which will encrease till the man of sin be revealed i.e. till these apostates shall frame themselves into a body and state of a most wicked government this is the Pope and his Clergy who successively govern and manage that Apostasie This will appear if we consider the wickedness of their Persons Doctrines and Practices 1. For their persons There was a series of Popes for about an hundred years in the 10. and 11. Centuries who were Magicians Murderers open Adulterers and destroyers of each other of whom Genebrard the Jesuite saith they were Apostatici potius quam Apostolici apostates rather than Apostolical men Gregory the 7. they report poysoned 6 Popes his Predecessours to obtain the Papacy and was himself a known Magician he threw the host his breaden God into the fire because it would not answer him in his Magical charms Many others of them have been professed Magicians some bold Atheists as Leo the 10. who said to Cardinal Bembus Behold what great riches we get by that fable of Christ Quantas opes nobis tulit ista fabula de Christo Most Adulterous Sodomites Simoniacks and some have lived in incest with their own Sisters and daughters insomuch that one of themselves gives this testimony Nemo hodie in Pentificibus Romanis virtutem aut pietatem requirit Invita Pauli tertii optimi putantur si vel mediocriter boni sint vel minus mali quam caeteri mortalium esse solent i. e. No man looks for virtue or godliness nowadays in the Popes they are accounted most excellent if they be but indifferently good or not quite so bad as other men The Cardinals and all their Clergy are like their head and father being allowed Sodomy fornication and adultery to keep them chast i. e. from marrying Where shall we find a man of sin if this be not him 2. Next consider we their wicked doctrines 1. That of absolute subjection to the Pope that whatsoever he commandeth must be done though never so wicked Bellarmine saith Etiamsi Papa erraret prohibendo virtutem praecipiendo vitium c. Though the Pope should forbid virtue and command vice he must be obeyed And their law saith si Papa totos populos secum in insernum traheret nemo potest ei dicere Domine cur ita facis i. e. Though the Pope should draw whole Nations into Hell with himself yet none may say to him why dost

shall that wicked be revealed c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wicked or lawless person when the restraint and laws of the Emperours were taken off then was the time for the lawless person to appear who professeth himself subject to no law but above all humane and divine The removing the imperial seat from Rome to Byzantium by Constantine the Great gave the first advantage to the aspiring minds of those Bishops for then the eyes of all were upon them instead of the Emperours then they disdained to come to Councils and set Ambassadours in their names two or three at a time in Princely manner then they cried up the dignity and primacy of Peter and of the Apostolick See and insinuated themselves into the affairs of all Churches again when Rome was sackt by the Goths and Vandals and the Emperours power decayed in Italy the Bishops of Rome assumed more authority to themselves and were ready to comply with barbarians and invaders against their natural and Christian Prince to increase their own power When Odoacer had taken Rome and made himself King of Italy Pope Gelasius joyned with him called a Council of seventy Bishops at Rome and presided in it in the presence of the usurper Ann. 570. After this when the Imperial race was almost extinguisht in the East by the impious Tyrant Phocas Boniface 3. readily joyns with him writes flattering letters to him and obtained of him the long desired title of universal Bishop Ann. 606. And now the Emperours are beholding to the Bishops of Rome to hold their dominion in Italy yet this was a Clog to them that their election must be approved by the Emperours when therefore they had prevailed with Constantine 4. to release them of this obligation and to grant that whom the Senate and people of Rome chose he should be received as Pope without asking the Emperours consent then they had perfectly shaken off the yoak and the following Popes Gregory the 2. and 3. excommunicated 2. Emperours Philippicus and Leo for opposing Image worship absolved their Subjects from their Oath of allegiance and raising war against them finally drove them out of Italy about the year 750. Yet the Lombards troubled the Pope till he called in Pipin who subdued them and his Son Charles the great who put an end to their Kingdom And now the Pope was Lord of Italy and giveth Charles the tile of Roman Emperour and after about 6 generations he tranferred it to the Germans And now the Pope had a new and his last difficulty these German Emperours challenged the confirmation of the Popes election and the investing of all Bishops within their dominons but the Pope was grown so strong that by plain force and continuall wars he at last compelled the Emperours to renounce all power over the Popes and Italy it self to resign the investiture of all Bishopricks to the Pope yea to have his own election confirmed by the Pope and to hold his Crown as his gift which was principally managed though not finished by Hilderbrand Pope Gregory 7. about the year 1077. And now the man of sin was revealed indeed and come to maturity and from his time divers learned men of every nation declared and proved the Pope to be Antichrist and ever since the Pope hath filled all the West with wars Massacres and the private murders of his inquisition to uphold the power he had so honestly gotten he hath also made attempts upon the Eastern Churches and he gained some power over them while the Latines reigned in Constantinople but that fell with them and the East hath been oppressed by the Turk as the West by the Pope though not altogether in so terrible a manner for he for money grants the Christians their Churches and exercise of their religion but the Pope will suffer none to live that will not submit to him It may justly be a wonder how it was possible the Bishops of Rome many of them mean and inferiour men and many most flagitious could possibly attain so great power and dignity It was a mystery saith the Apostle and it was done insensibly At first the Bishops of Rome were eminent for parts piety and sufferings as usually such men are preferred and imployed in great especially Metropolitical Cities this gained them great credit with all Churches and both Ministers and people had them in great veneration and desired their judgement and counsel in weighty cases then the Emperours newly become Christian thought they could not bestow honour and power enough upon the Church especially on the Imperial seat they granted them their Courts their Apparitors and attendance with leave to all Christians to bring their causes to their Courts this made them Pettie-Princes then they challenged the right of appeals from all Churches though opposed and shamefully foiled by the Churches of Africk they would receive any persons and causes into their patronage the more unjust the better for them for the criminal persons having no hope of redress in their own Churches wholly relied upon the Popes authority and he to increase his authority would do his utmost for them and this was the reason why the Popes of Rome who long maintained the true doctrinal worship at length set up image worship Transubstantiation and all the rest of their superstitions viz. because the promoters and defenders of these corruptions fled to the Popes authority to shelter themselves from the power and censure of the sounder part of the Church and the Pope still sided with the worst that thereby he might oppress those who would not acknowledge his universality and supremacy at last the Pope having by these means insinuated into the minds and affections of the worst but greater part he did by force establish his throne above all and by force he hath kept it moreover the sloth and ignorance of may in the ministry and the pride of others who sought to advance themselves by advancing the Pope did not a little contribute to his power also the confusions of the Empire by the invasions of the Barbarians much helpt it forwards for they overturned the government destroyed the more knowing people in themselves being both Pagans and void of all learning received Religion from the Pope and superstition together and suffered themselves to be inslaved by him under the pretence of obedience to Christ and is chief Apostle St. Peter and his successours and their poor Princes suffered their people to be deceived and were deceived themselves by these plausible arts insomuch that they gave up their power to that Roman beast and thought it good service to Christ when they could serve his pretended Vicar 't is reported that 30 Kings and Queens of England have left their Kingdoms and gone to Rome to see St Peters successor and to die there A fair warning to Princes and magistrates to maintain their own power and the dignity of their places and to all Ministers to look to their own charge and to the people to