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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40089	A sermon preached before the judges, &c. in the time of the assizes in the Cathedral church at Gloucester on Sunday Aug. 7, 1681 published to put a stop to false and injurious representations / by Edward Fowler.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1681 (1681)	Wing F1716; ESTC R10669	23,348	42

you in the first place to her Doctrine of Infallibility Which speaks her uncapable of erring in any of her Decrees and Determinations Which Infallibility the Iesuits will have seated in the Popes Chair others in the Pope in conjunction with a General Council that is a Number of Bishops and Priests packt together of his own Faction For there is nothing he hates more than a Council truly General I call this not only a false but a wicked Doctrine because of the infinite mischief that it doth in the world For the Romish Church's pretence to Infallibility is that which enables her to Lord it at that intolerable rate over the minds and Consciences of her Subjects and to make them the greatest of Slaves and Vassals And 't is this also that makes her utterly incurable of her gross corruptions her other notorious Heresies and the ungodly and horrid practices founded upon them So that so long as she continues to assume to herself the Title of Infallible there is no hope to be conceived of her being ever in the least Reformed either in her Principles or Practices But never was a Doctrine more shamefully baffled than this hath been as easily it may there being nothing but Interest to uphold it nor one syllable in all the Bible to befriend it As for that promise of our Saviour that the gates of hell shall never prevail against his Church the most that can be concluded from thence is that he will ever have a Church upon earth in spight of all the endeavours of Hell to destroy it But thanks be to God this Promise would be no whit the further from being performed although the Devil should be permitted totally to extinguish the Church of Rome though to be sure he understands his own interest better than once to attempt it But if the meaning of this Promise be as the Romanists would have it that the gates of Hell shall never so prevail against the Church as to occasion her falling into errors of Iudgment why may we not as well extend it so far as to secure her also from errors of Practice these being no less dangerous or destructive than those of Iudgment But I retain so much Charity for the Romish Church still as not to think her so forsaken of all Modesty as to deny that in this sense the Gates of Hell have prevailed against her with a vengeance And as for the other Promises which they lay any stress on they are either such as 't is manifest the Apostles only and first planters of the Gospel were concerned in or else such as belong to all Christians without exception thus far as that while it is their sincere endeavour to know the truth and to live up to their knowledge they shall be secured from pernicious and damnable errors Again What say you to the Doctrine of the Popes Supremacy over all other Churches and Kingdoms too and his having a Grant of as vast Dominions upon Earth next and immediately under Christ as Christ himself hath under God the Father his being King of all Kings and Lord of all Lords and that both in Spirituals and Temporals I might easily tire you upon this head of Discourse but all I will say to it shall be this that the Charter pretended for so mighty an Empire is much too obscurely exprest to be ever understood by any other people than the Pope and his Vassals There is not a tittle in the Holy Scriptures for it though we know what a noise and fluster they make with two Texts Pasce Oves meas and Dabo tibi Claves c. as if this Supremacy were as plainly legible in each of them as the Doctrine of the Creation in the first verse of Genesis But which is worst of all how many thousands of honest people have been barbarously butcher'd merely because their eyes would not serve them to read this Doctrine of theirs in those two Texts And this is that Doctrine which gives them a pretence for their restless and unwearied endeavours to get these Kingdoms again within their Clutches and for all their desperate and hellish designs against us What say you to their Doctrine of Image-Worship with which I will joyn that other of Praying to Saints and Angels In their Adored Council of Trent it is decreed that The Images of Christ the Virgin mother of God and other Saints be especially kept in Churches and that due Honor and Veneration be given unto them And afterward this Council expresseth its allowance of Picturing the Divinity it self and accordingly Pictures of the Blessed Trinity Oh hateful sight are ordinarily to be beheld in the Popish Churches Now would we know what the Council means by Debitus honor veneratio the due honour and veneration that is to be given to Images this appears by these following words We decree doing honour to them because the honour which is done to them is referred to the Prototypes which they represent So that in the Images which we kiss and before which we uncover our heads and fall down we adore Christ and Worship the Saints which they represent c. So that the Honour and Veneration which they determine should be given to Images do imply all external Acts of Adoration and that the Image of our Saviour is to have the self same Adoration paid to it that would be due unto himself were he personally present And the Universal Practice of the Romish Church wholly to pass over the Vile stuff of their Doctors Schoolmen and Casuists will tell you the meaning of their debitus honor veneratio The consent of Nations saith the Learned Grotius have made Sacrifices Oblations and Incense proper signs of Divine Worship but though I had time I need not stand to shew that the Images of Christ Angels and Saints especially that of the Blessed Virgin are every where Worshipped with these signs and with all the Rites of the most solemn Invocation in Sacred Offices and in places set apart for Divine Worship And they do all the external honour to the Saints and Angels in the Addresses they make unto them whether immediately or as represented by Images that 't is imaginable they should do to our Saviour himself or the Blessed Trinity Nay They pray unto them not only for Temporal or Ordinary Blessings but for Spiritual and Supernatural such as the Pardon of their sins and the Holy Spirit and eternal life as might be shewn at large Now what is Idolatry if such doings are not why they tell us and we cannot blame them that the true Notion of Idolatry is only the Worshipping some Creature for the most High God supposing it to be the most High God But if so the Worshippers of the Golden Calf to be sure were no Idolaters for they can be little better than mad themselves who are able to imagine that the Israelites were so mad as to believe that the Calf which they saw made and that of their own