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A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

We have preached and do preach to you a Religion plain and close which requires not so much shrewd and subtle heads as good and honest hearts Luk. 8. 5. The Testimony of the Lord that is sure making wise the simple We made your way plain before you They of Rome will perplex you with those infinite rules of Faith which the Learned among them cannot comprehend When you have endeavoured to know the minde of God in the Scripture that you might believe and in believing might have lise you have d●… nothing there are endless traditions which no one man ever saw which you shall never know but yet must believe them many Volumes of Councils which you never saw you must receive all the Popes Decrees whereof some are not yet published you must assent to before you can be saved To day you may believe all the Traditions Councils Decrees and Impositions of the Church of Rome and be saved and to morrow the Pope may set out a new Decree or a new Article of Faith which if you do not believe you are damned While you are here secure you know not but that there is a new article of Faith defined by the Pope which you do not know and not knowing cannot believe and not believing may perish for ever Ah! happy you who need not say Who shall go into Heaven or Hell or the uttermost parts of the Earth to fetch down a rule of Faith from thence The word is nigh even in your hearts and in your mouths 3. We have perswaded and do still perswade you that without knowledge the minde is not good we have intreated you to grow in all knowledge and in all goodness and we cease not to pray that you may abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgement You have a sure word of prophecie to which we say you would do well to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place a light to your feet and a lanthorn to your paths We say when an holy wisedom entereth into your hearts and knowledge it 's pleasant unto your souls discretion shall preserve you and understanding shall keep you to deliver you c. There are those abroad a part of whose Religion it is to make you perish for want of knowledge to keep you under the power of darkness that you may walk after the vanity of your minde having your understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in you because of the blindness of your hearts That Scripture which we have translated for you which is your meat your drink your delight sweeter then honey or the honey-comb of more value than the world must be taken from you and if they prevail as we know they will not it will be no less than death to read that word which is dearer to you than your lives your faithful Ministers to whom you would have given your right eyes must be removed into corners yea and must seal that Doctrine with their blood which they now deliver you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is to behold the Sun If the light that is in us be darkness how great how sad is that darkness A God we must own but shall not know him a Saviour we must have but we must that come to him though this is life eternal to know him and the Father who hath sent him Duties we must do that we may live but we shall not understand them Scriptures there are written to our comfort but we must not read them We erre not knowing the Scripture saith out Saviour we erre by knowing the Scripture say the Roman Catholicks Hear read saith God and your souls shall live Read saith the Papist and you shall surely dye O wretched mankind a great part whereof Mahomet hath taught not to hear reason that they may judge in themselves what is right a great part whereof the Pope hath traught not to hear the Scripture which is no vain thing which is our life A sad Religion if I may call it Religion that sets up the kingdom of darkness by which the Devil may rule in the children of disobedience A Religion that hoodwinks poor people in forced ignorance when alas we are all too willingly ignorant lest we should know Gods will or any way to Heaven but theirs so as millions of souls live no less without Scripture than if there were none that forbids spiritual food as poyson and fetcheth God's Book into the Inquisition 4. Although the Church and our selves by her appointment first discovered to you the eternal truth yet have we not suffered you to rest upon us who may deceive and be deceived but have led to the Rock that is higher than us and resolved your Faith into a foundation that cannot fail the truth and authority discovered in his Word by his Spirit They they of Rome who are now so busie will take you off from the foundation of God which standeth sure they will perswade you that the Word of God which you know is pure is corrupt that the Law of God which you know is perfect is defective that the Scriptures which you know in things necessary evident are dark and all this to what purpose but to settle you upon men who you know are a lie to make you rest on Councils who saith Bellarm. himself l. 2. c. 11. p. 153. May erre Particular Councils confirmed by the Pope may erre in Faith and Manners Some Catholicks affirm saith Bell. de Concil Ecclesiasticis l. 2. c. 5. p. 110. or upon Popes whereof some have been Infidels and privately conferring with their Cardinals said Oh how much gain this Fable of Christ hath brought us Others have been Witches others Murtherers others Whoremongers ravishing women in the Apostolick doors others as their own Records testifie by Bribes by Devils by VVitches have climbed up to the infallible Chair Oh can you trust your souls with those men which have confessed to have given their souls to the Devil that they might be Popes yea which is worst of all the poor Catholicks when they have relied upon this man as infallible today must tomorrow relie upon another Pope as infallible who may declare this man an Heretick if they believe not he is infallible they are damned and if they believe not he is an Heretick when declared by another Pope to be so they are damned too Ah poor men 5. We teach you to serve the true God and him onely to worship and we tell you he is a jealous God and he will not give his honour to another and that idolatry hath been the ruine of all Nations in this World and is the damnation of men without repentance in the World to come You know that Idolaters shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven for without are Idolaters Rev. 22. 15. Yet they they who now with fair words deceive the hearts of the

see in speculum Jesuit p. 187. 188. who have dogmatically asserted that the Pope hath absolute power over Princes to change Government as God to pull down some Kings and set up others as Bensarchius profanely speaks not onely to excommunicate but judicialy to suspend to mult with tempor all penalties depose dethrone put to death and destroy any Christian Emperours Kings Princes Potentates by open sentence war force conspiracies private assassinations and to give away their Crowns and Dominions to whosoever will invade them by treason or rebellion at the Popes command who may translate Kingdomes to whom he pleaseth all Kings deriving their Crowns from him alone upon their good behaviour at his pleasure We are of opinion that the Government of the Church is enough if not too much for the Pope and innocently perswade our selves he need not be so busie in other mens matters but we know nothing we are taught by the Papists that non solum potest Papa c. sed debet c. That the Pope not onely can but ought to shew himself above Princes why say we why say the Jesuits of Paris against Arnoldus to keep them that is Kings within their duty that in case of heresie schisme disobedience to Rebellion against the Pope and see of Rome Male administration refusal to defend the Pope Insufficiency to govern negligence vitiousness of life Incorrigibleness Tyranny or as Sanctarellus taught our late disturbers learned the necessity of Publick good or the safety of the Church and State or the cause of God guess now who set up the high Court of justice Now that your bloud may not rise against this here is nothing unequal or unfit For saith the said Sanctarellus multum aequum reip expediens ut sit aliquis supremus M●…narcha qui Regum ejus modi excessus noscit corrigere de ipsis justitiam ministrare i. e. in English demand justice justice against delinquency set up a high Court of Justice 3. We and the more harmless part of the world thought that no man could lay his hand upon you the Lords Anointed and be guiltless and would teach men that you are secured by the laws of God men against all the assaults of the sons of violence But we are a soft headed and short sighted people Emanual Sa that dangerous Papist assures us that lat a sentententia quisque potest fieri executor any man may rid us of a Tyrant but sure none of those that have sworn obedience to him may lay violent hands on the King etiam qui juraverit c. yea he who hath sworn obedience if the Prince will not be ruled sure every man can not do it potest autem e populo any man may do it anyman that is careless of his own life may be master of his Soveraigns yes but say some smooth tongued apologist this was rashly spoken do not deceive your selves 40. Annos In cubui saith the solemn D. I studied it 40. years a well studied point I assure you but his friends do not own him no ile warran●… you why this book of his is the ordinary manual of the fraternity It s the Bible that belongs to the society of Jesus I hope you will say no man talkes at this rate but this melancholly father Ans. If there be but one traytor among the Jesuites they are much wronged alas he was but a dull melancholy man indeed to Mariana who tells us that we need not stay for the Popes order if a company of learned and a few discontented men do but agree upon it Jure interimi potest he may lawfully be killed but the Learned are many of them honest most of them ingenuous and all depending upon the the Prince nay then we need no more ado saith Ozorius but any man may consider the Law and the matter of fact and if the case be evident he may proceed to execution presently here is as Hugh Peters said a short way to work and that all mortals may not loose themselves in insignificant general Mariana tells you how it may be done particularly by poisoning a chair as the Conclave at London resolved to dispatch K. Charles the first It was Jesuites that saught that excellent Princes bloud 2. by poysoning saddles as Lopez should have served Q. Elizabeth and this he saith is an excellent way for it is the Moors way in Spain 3. By poysoning Boots so as gouty Henry of Fra●… was cured of all diseases And this is a good way too quel est Artifice Roi moris 4. By poysoning gloves and by this slight of hand they complemented Joan Albretta Q. of Navarre to death onely for favouring and protecting the Protestants in France against their violence 5. By stabbing as they let out Hen. 3. and H. 4. of France great souls into an other world and by Pistoling as they served William Prince of Orange Anno 1584. which great man they sent within three dayes into another world 7. By a stone poyson wherewith men may be seven years a dying going to another world by piece-meals and dying dayly as Stephen Botskay of Transylvania By Powder the Fryers invention as they designed to blow up this whole Kingdom assembled in Parliament Villany was innocent afore and the world simple now it was compleat and raised to the utmost that Hell could attain to What say the good honest Priests do they disown M●…iana and disclaime his doctrine It were well for the Christian world if you did Indeed the whole Vniversity of Paris Anno 1625. and 26. censured Zuares Bellarmine and Mariana for these passages as not only most pernicious detestable damnable erronious and perturbing the publick peace but likewise as subversive of Kingdoms States Republicks seducing subjects from their obedience and subjection and stirring them up to wars factions seditions and the Murders of Kings But what say the whole society in their apology 1610. They are all enemies to the name of Jesus that condemn Mariana c for any of these Doctrines O how Gretzer is taken with Marianas book how pious how useful how elegant It s the least recompence he can have for this work to give Mariana a name in the Amphithatre of honour De Onan the Provincial of Toledo would have lived and died reading that book Iterum tertio Facturus c. again and again would he have read Marianaes excellent book if he had been at leasure Yow will say are such things as these licensed Licensed yes by any means Hoyveda the visitor general of the Jesuites sayes he could do no less then licence that pretty thing ut approbatum a viris doctis gravibus ex eodem ordine as approved by learned and grave men of the same order you may guess what they are by this Arnold indeed arrests them at Paris for these tenents but they cry Veritas defensa contra actionem

several disguises yea an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel in or near Westminster some few years since under Conne the Popes Nuntio on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars thereby to endanger shake subvert these Realms and destroy the late King as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece published by the Commons special Order An. 1643. who occasioned excited fomented the first and second intended but happily prevented wars between England and Scotland and after that the unhappy Differences Wars between the King Parliament and our three Protestant Kingdoms to bring them to utter desolation and extirpate our reformed Religion We conclude this Importunity with the Prayer on the 5 th of November for your Majesty O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our enemies that delight in bloud infatuate and defeat their counsels abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices Strengthen the hand of our gracious King Charles and all that are put in authority under him with Judgement and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn religion into rebellion and faith into saction that they may never prevail against us or triumpth in the ruin of thy Church among us But that our gracious Soveraigns Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodnesse protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thanks in thy holy congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PHILOLAUS OR Popery discovered to the People In a serious Disswasion from it Dear Country-men and beloved in the Lord Jesus YOu are so conscious of your Duty to Kings so obliged to their Government so faithful to their Person so regardful of the peace and happiness you enjoy under them every one under his own Vine and under his own Fig-tree and so sensible of the Misery of rebellion disturbance and confusion that we need not use any other argument to disswade you from Popery than this That it is a Religion written in many of your dread Soveraigns sacred blood a Religion whose prime Article as some of them say is Treason a Religion managed by conspirators and advanced by those who are born for the overthrow of States and Kingdoms who turn the World upside down We know your souls abhor these courses and detest these villanies but this is not all this way threatneth not onely your Kings but your selves endangereth not onely Their lives but your souls It 's not onely a great inconvenience that hindereth your peace and settlement in this World but a mischief that may hinder your Salvation in the next We hope indeed that you have received the truth of your own Religion in much assurance that you are rooted and grounded in the Faith Since you have scarched the Scriptures which the Papists kept from you and finde that these things are so Since you have felt the power and comfort of the Truth in your souls Since you finde it owned by Gods wonderful dispensations in the World whereby it 's great and doth prevail and seated in your hearts by his Spirit Since you see it eminent in the lives of many good men and confirmed by the death of as many excellent Confessors and Martyrs who vouch it with their last breath and seal it with their dearest blood Since you know it 's owned by the Church of Rome its self which hath nothing which we may call a Religion but ours viz. The Scriptures the Lords Prayer the Creed and the Ten Commandments c. to which they have added their own idolatrous superstitious idle and vain inventions which is all the Religion they have differing from us We are perswaded that you will not easily be moved from the the hope of the Gospel Yet that we may according to our duties assist our gracious Soveraign and endeavour to establish your hearts while he is establishing your Religion that while he with the advice of his great Council by a serious Law restrains you from Popery for fear we by serious motives may refrain from it for conscience sake The scandals given you are many the seducers are numerous their insinuations are plausible their temptations are taking you many of you are weak and we the Lord forgive us have been too careless and almost asleep while the Enemies sow Tares among us therefore we must leave with you a few plain words that you may have always before you Yea that they may be in your heart that you may teach them diligently to your children that you may talk of them when you sit in your house when you walk by the way when you lie down and when you rise up Many may write to you with more profoundness none write to you with more sincere servencie and earnest desire to save you and we are very sensible that while exact learned writings are taken up onely by learned men it is necessary that there be some plain discourses written whereby the truth may with evidence be conveyed to you 1. We taught you who are our joy and crown who we hope will be our rejoycing in the day of our Lord Jesus we taught you a Religion pure and undefiled before God which consists in solid virtue serious holiness an exact conversation led soberly righteously peaceably and Godly in this present World a Religion perfect right pure sure faithful holy just spiritual lively operative heavenly that enlighneth the minde sanctifieth the heart reforms the life frames a man after Gods own image in righteousness and true holiness We taught and do teach you a truth which is after Godliness a Mystery of Godliness a Religion that may make you wise to Salvation through Faith which is in Christ Jesus which may be profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that you may be perfect and throughly furnished unto all good works in whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virture if there be any praise Alas The Papists having nothing besides the Scripture which we have as well as they which yet you shall not read but vain shadows of holiness a gross form of godliness which they cozen the Vulgar with consisting in Latine-service Images Tapers Rich Vestures Crosses Sentings Holy-water Offerings Prostrations Processions Pilgrimages and other bodily exercises that profit nothing whereas that true godliness which you profess is profitable for this life and for that which is to come They can teach you nothing but their own vain and useless inventions whereby they make void the Commandments of God nothing that may settle the heart establish the conscience satisfie the soul weaken sin strengthen grace promote your comfort or secure your eternity 2.