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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

cultum non tantùm ad Creaturas et Idola transferimus verùm illum nostris inventis ac mendaciis vitiamus which in plain English is not only to worship a false God but also to worship the true God by false means is Idolatry 86. There is Idolatry of the First Commandment and Idolatry of the second when men esteem and adore any thing for God which is not the true God this is Idolatry against the First Commandment But when the True God is indeed worshipped but he is worshipped in Images in Saints and Angels and all false Mediums and not by means of Gods own prescribing this is Idolatry against the second and there is great Affinity between them 87. 'T is said 2 Chron. 33.17 The People sacrificed in the high places yet to the Lord their God Their Sacrificing formerly was Idolatry against the first Command but now 't was Idolatry against the second as failing and falling short of the true manner in worshipping the true God There is such a resemblance 'twixt them that they are one in Genere 88. Their Sacrificing now in the high places yet to the Lord was in general of the same kind with their sacrificing formerly in those high places to Baal The scope of the second Command is to condemn all Will-worship as Idolatry which is not warranted by the word of God 'T is said Deut. 12.4 Thou shalt not do so to the Lord thy God 'T is not said thou shalt not do so to those Idols but not so in that manner to the true God as they did to their Idols v. 30 31. 89. Polanus in his Syntagni Theolig lib. 9. cap. 3. makes two sorts of Idolatry The 1. he calls tectior et subtilior when the true God is indeed worshiped but with another manner of worship than he hath commanded himself to be worshipped in his word as those that worship God by Statues and Images are idolatrous although they deny Centies millies says he that they worship any thing beside the true God 90. The second sort of Idolatry which he calls Crassior et Apertior is when any thing is religiously worshipped for the true God which is not God This was the Idolatry of the Gentiles worshipping Devils Men and other Creatures with religious worship and this is saith he the Idolatry of the Papists in their religious worshipping of not only Saints and Angels yea the very Images or Statues of them but also of the Cross Reliques yea of those that were Nequaquam Sancti aut nunquam in rerum Naturâ 91. If this be so that this grosser sort of Idolatry be found in the Romish Church how much more that which is subtiler and of a finer spun thread pretending they worship God in their Images as the worshipping of Jehovah by or in the golden Calf which Aaron made in the Wilderness was plain Idolatry In like manner as the worshipping of God by the two Golden Calves that Jeroboam set up at Dan and Bethel was flat Idolatry 92. Although we find Aaron pretended that by or in that Calf they worshipped Jehovah that brought them out of the Land of Aegypt Exod. 32.4 5. compared with Nehem. 9.18 which says This is thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt they or at least some of them intended to worship the true God in this false manner Hence the Feast is not proclaim'd to the Golden Calf but to Jehovah 93. Suppose there be truth in Dr. Hammond's Notion that the Golden Calf in the Wilderness was made in the Figure of a Cherub after appointed to be in the Tabernacle Exod. 25.18 and of which he says Aaron might then have some intimation compare Ezek. 1.10 with 10.14 yet could not Israel be so notoriously stupid as to believe that either the Golden Cherub or Calf wrought all those wonders in Aegypt and brought them thence 94. And Jeroboam made the same pretence in his Calves the same Phrase being used 1 Kin. 12.28 Behold thy Gods O Israel which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt meaning a representation of the true God of Israel as if he drew them not to worship any other God than the God of their Fathers which brought them as his Redeemed People out of the Aegyptian Bondage for by this Title God describes himself Exod. 20.2 Ezek. 20.5 6. Lev. 19.36 Amos 2.10 95. And as Israel learnt this abomination among the Aegyptians among whom they had so long lived and where the Idol Apis was worshiped in the shape of an Oxe and Thus 't is said of Israel they changed their glory to wit their God that redeemed them out of Aegypt into the similitude of an Ox that eateth Grass Psal 106.19 20. So Jeroboam brought his Calf-making from Aegypt too where he had lately lived 1 Kin. 11.40 96. Although those worshippers of the Calves both in Aaron and Jeroboam's time probably pretended that they did not worship the Calf but God in the Calf as did also Jehu 2 Kin. 10.16 29. In having zeal for the Lord yet adhering to Jeroboam's Calves their worship being not as some excuse it by any means terminative in the Creature before their eyes yet are they expresly called Idolaters 1 Cor. 10.7 97. And though the Idolatry of Israel in the Wilderness was indeed of a deeper dye than the Idolatry of Jeroboam because it was against greater means and mercies the Ten Tribes under Jeroboam had not upon their hearts such a fresh tast of Deliverance from Aegypt they had not the pillar of Glory nor the Tabernacle of Gods Presence they had not a Moses that was faithful in all the house of God only Priests of the basest of the People 1 Kin 13 33. yet the Idolatry of Rome is worse th●● that in the Wilderness 98. The Israelites in the Wilderness gave the Glory of Christ who dwelt in a Cloud and Pillar unto a Calf or Cherub but these Idolaters of the Church of Rome give the Glory of Christ when he is dwelling in our Flesh and glorified in Heaven to a Creature which they worship as God indeed giving it to their Crucifixes Agnus Dei c. so there is a greater abomination In this Idolatry than in the Idolatry of former times 99. The Lord makes a comparison betwixt Aholah and Aholibah Ezek. 2● 4 5 11. (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Tent. Aholah had indeed played the Harlot v. 5 〈◊〉 (d) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My Tent in her Hebr. Aholibah was more corrupted than she 〈◊〉 So if we compare Aholah the Jewish Churc● with Aholibah the Romish Church that says God 's Tent is in me as the word signifies in the Hebrew we shall find her the greater Harlot of the two 100. Thus we see the plea of the Romish Church for her worshipping God in Images from the Israelites worshipping God in the Calves falls to the ground and to worship God in at or before an Image is Idolatry 't is a worshipping of the true God

Star falling by degrees so far as to adore St. Ignorance so much that the works of Bellarmine their great Champion and of Gregory de Valentia were not allowed to be sold in Italy because the Arguments which the Protestant Authors use in their own defence are rehearsed in them The longest look the Romanists can take is at this blazing Star that Lieutenant General to the Dragon who sent forth whole bands of Locusts to wit Monks Fryars Priests and Jesuits both numerous and voracious Rev. 9.3 9. Even their own Bellarmine speaks something that hath a tendency to the gradual falling of this Star Wormwood saying Ab eo tempore quo per vos papa Antichristus esse capit non modo non erevit ejus imperium sed semper magis ac magis decrevit Bellarm. do Pap. Rom. lib. 3. cap. 1. Since saith he you Protestants began to call the Pope Antichrist he did not only not increase but a great part of his Command and Commodity hath decreased and is lost Whence I note by the way 't is not cautelously done by any of our Divines in my judgment so much as to doubt at this day who is the Antichelst Seeing we have here their own great Champion quasi Reum penè si non planè confitentem as if guilty almost if not altogether confessing the thing and the rather because he doth so ingeniously acknowledg that the very calling the Pope Antichrist hath been an Ordinance in Gods hand to bring down the Kingdom of the Beast and to make this bitter Star fall gradually And how probable it is that the Key of the bottomless Pit was given to this falling Star falling from the heavenly doctrine of the Christian Church at Rome in the Apostles time and after down into the Carnal and Earthly Religion of the now Romish Antichristian Church with which Key he lets into the bottom less Pit Souls innumerable insomuch that in the days of Hildebrand that Pope which was called The Brand of Hell alluding to his Name some Letters were set forth as sent from Hell wherein the Devil and his Angels give the Popish Clergy many thanks for sending them in so many Souls as they never had in any Age before Now if Popery began at this Star then it cannot be accounted an ancient thing 10. I know the Romanists use to beguile people by telling them that men of their Religion built all the Churches Colledges Hospitals c. in all the world To which I answer 't was not men of the Popish but of the Christian Religion that did most of those things Constantine built a Church on Mount Calvary and Justinian built another at Constantinople and our Ethelbert built Paul's here at London These were all done before the fall of the Star Wormwood or before Popery was heard of in the World and before the man of Sin that mistery of Iniquity was revealed 'T is true indeed Dolman alias Parsons doth labour in the very fire to defend the Antiquity of the Romish Religion here making all the three Conversions of England to be from Rome and to the Romish Faith but the absurdity hereof appears out of their own Baronius Who 1. confesses that Joseph of Arimathea came into England nine years before Peter went to Rome from whence it necessarily follows that our Church must be ancienter than that at Rome by nine years 2. The Christians here kept their Easter after the Eastern manner upon the fourteenth day which they would not have done had they received the faith from the Western Church from Rome 3. Pope Victor in the second Century would have altered this custom had this Land been then under his Jurisdiction 4. The Mother of Constantine Helene one of this Island did not hold any such points of Popery as the Romish Church now holdeth 11. To these add 5. Pelagius one of this Island also differed not from Augustine in the Third Century only in Freewill and Original Sin no other Popish points were known to them or discussed between them 6. Pope Elentherius did acknowledge our King Lucius to be Gods Vicar in his own Land which was far from those Ambitious Popes his Successors who make themselves Gods Vicars in all Lands As to that pretended Conversion by Austin that Arrogant Monk which Dolman would defend 't is answered that factious fellow found much opposition here about his imposing upon our Ancestors those Romish Rites of Easter day Church-musick Letany single life of Priests processions c. though at that time we read not a word of Pardons Indulgencies Transubstantiation the Sacrament in one kind c. all of them upstart things Hereupon Austin the Monk thus opposed doth conspire with King Ethelfred to cut off 1200 of his Opposers to wit the holy Monks of Bangor who were altogether unlike the Monks in after Ages for they lived by the sweat of their brows and by the labour of their hands and gave themselves to Fasting and Prayer not only lest the Christian Britains should be overrun by the heathen Saxons but also lest they should be corrupted by the Romish Superstitions which this insolent Austin whom they discerned and disowned as no man of God by his pride and ambition would have from Gregory in the sixth Century intruded upon them hence Gregorii Vicarius was justly stiled Gregis Sicarius and his Reformation so called was rather a Deformation yea his Conversion as Dolman terms it was rather a Perversion and which is worse as much as in him lay a plain Eversion in the slaughter of those holy men so that instead of a Prophet's Reward he better deserved the Punishment of a Murderer Beda lib. 2. cap. 2. Isaac Chronol pag. 406. Fuller's Chur. Hist 2. b. 10. Anno Dom. 605. 12. I might add many other Witnesses which all do witness that the Christian Religion which is the same that we Protestants do protest to profess and practice was long before the Romish Religion as now it is found any footing amongst us and that many in this Island suffered Martyrdom for it in the time of Diocletian the Emperor long before this Austin Beda hist lib. 3. Bishop Vsher De Primord Eccles Britan p. 102 and De Ecclesiae statu Successu at large and Aicentinus in his Annals lib. 3. to say nothing of Pareus Osorius or of the Magdeburg Centurists whom Dolman scornfully calls a Quadrilio or round Table because writ by four men Illyricus Vigandus Judex and Faber because prejudiced against them Their own Gregory of Monmouth confutes that fond opinion of Pope Gregory's sending this Austin to plant the Christian Faith in this Island seeing it had been planted here above four hundred years before Austin's time saying In patria Britonum adhuc vigebat Christianitas qua ab Apostolorum tempore nunquam inter cos defecerat it had never failed amongst them since the Apostles times And that Austin found many great places all furnished with good religious men Greg. Monmouth de Britan. Gestis