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love_n	believe_v	faith_n	heart_n	5,328	5	5.2153	4	true

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A41608	A papist mis-represented and represented, or, A two-fold character of popery the one containing a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries, and wicked principles of that popery which hath disturb'd this nation above an hundred and fifty years fill'd it with fears and jealousies and deserves the hatred of all good Christians : the other laying open that popery which the papists own and profess : with the chief articles of their faith, and some of the principal grounds and reasons, which hold them in that religion / by J.L. ; to which is annexed, Roman-Catholick principles, in reference to God and the King.	Gother, John, d. 1704.; Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715. Roman-Catholick principles.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1334; ESTC R8084	89,548	131

Paul Preaches That he that giveth not his Virgin in Marriage doth better than he that does and that she that is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord how she may be holy both in body and spirit They therefore chuse a single state Consecrating their Virginity to God that so they may be wholly intent on his service and be careful how to please him while she that is married cares for the things of the World how she may please her Husband 1 Cor. 7. 32 33 34 38. The Gospel Proclaims that those that will follow Christ must deny themselves they therefore renounce their own wills and without respect to their own proper inclinations pass their life in a perpetual Obedience And because the World is corrupt so that to a pious Soul every business is a Distraction every diversion a Temptation and more frequently the provocations to Evil than Examples to Good they therefore retire from it as much as possible and confining themselves to a little Corner or Cell apply themselves wholly to Devotion making Prayer their business the Service of God their whole imploy and the Salvation of their Souls their only design And now if in these Retirements where every thing is order'd as it may be most advantageous for the promoting Virtue and Devotion nothing permitted that is likely to prove a disturbance to Godliness or allurements to Evil yet some live scandalously and give ill example to the World What can be said but that no State can secure any Man and that no such provision can be made in order to a Holy Life but it may be abus'd But yet he does not think that such abuses and the viciousness of some can be argument enough to any just and reasonable Man to condemn the whole and the Institution it self Is not Marriage abus'd an infinite number of ways and many forc'd to embrace this state or at least to accept of such particular Persons contrary to their own choice and liking Is there any state in this World any Condition Trade Calling Profession Degree or Dignity whatsoever which is not abus'd by some Are Churches exempt from abuses Are not Bibles and the Word of God abus'd is not Christianity it self abus'd and even the Mercy of God abus'd If therefore there is nothing so Sacred and Divine in the whole World which wicked and malicious Men do not pervert to their will designs to the high dishonour of God and their own Damnation How can any one upon the meer consideration of some abuses pass Sentence of Condemnation against a thing which otherwise is Good and Holy 'T is an undeniable truth that to embrace a Life exempt as much as can be from the turmoils of the World and in a quiet retirement to Dedicate ones self to the Service of God and spend ones days in Prayer and Contemplation is a most commendable undertaking and very becoming a Christian And yet if some who enter such a course of life as this fall short of what they pretend and instead of becoming eminent in Virtue and Godliness by their un-exemplar lives prove a Scandal to their Profession Is their Rule and Institution to be condemned or rather they who swerv'd from it No let not the Dignity of an Apostle suffer for the fall of Judas Nor the Commandments lie under an aspersion upon the account of those that break them XXXI Of Wicked Principles and Practices HE is Member of a Church which is called Holy but in her Doctrine and Practices so Foul and Abominable that whosoever admires her for Sanctity may upon the same grounds do homage to Vice it self Has ever any Society since Christ's time appear'd in the World so black and deform'd with Hellish Crimes as she Has not she out-done even the most Barbarous Nations and Infidels with her Impieties and drawn a scandal upon the name of Christian by her unparallel'd Vices Take but a view of the horrid Practices she has been engag'd in of late years consider the French and Irish Massacres the Murders of Henry III. and IV. Kings of France the Holy League the Gun-powder-Treason the Cruelty of Queen Mary the Firing of London the late Plot in the Year 1678. to subvert the Government and destroy His Majesty the death of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and an infinite number of other such-like Devellish Contrivances And then tell me whether that Church which has been the Author and Promoter of such Barbarous Designs ought to be esteem'd Holy and respected for Piety and Religion or rather be condemn'd for the Mistereis of Iniquity the Whore of Babylon which hath polluted the Earth with her Wickedness and taught nothing but the Doctrine of Devils And let never so many pretences be made yet 't is evident that all these Execrable Practices have been done according to the known Principles of this Holy Church and that her greatest Patrons the most Learned of her Divines her most Eminent Bishops her Prelates Cardinals and even the Popes themselves have been the chief Managers of these Hellish Contrivances And what more convincing Argument that they are all well approved and conform to the Religion taught by their Church HE is Member of a Church which according to the 9th Article of the Apostles Creed he believes to be Holy and this not only in Name but also in Doctrine and for witness of her Sanctity he Appeals to her Councils Catechisms Pulpits and Spiritual Books of Direction in which the main design is to imprint in the hearts of the Faithful this comprehensive Maxim of Christianity That they ought to love God above all things with their whole Heart and Soul and their Neighbour as themselves And that none flatter themselves with a confidence to be sav'd by Faith alone without living Soberly Justly and Piously as 't is in the Council of Trent Sess 6. c. 11. So that he doubts not at all but that as many as live according to the Direction of his Church and in observance of her Doctrine live Holily in the Service of and Fear of God and with an humble confidence in the Merits and Passion of their Redeemer may hope to be receiv'd after this Life into Eternal Bliss But that all in Communion with his Church do not live thus Holily and in the fear of God he knows 't is too too evident there being many in all places wholly forgetful of their Duty giving themselves up to all sorts of Vice and guilty of most horrid Crimes And tho' he is not bound to believe all to be Truth that is charg'd upon them by Adversaries their being no Narrative of any such Devillish Contrivances and Practices laid to them wherein Passion and Fury have not made great Additions wherein things Dubious are not improv'd into certainties Suspicions into Realities Fears and Jealousies into Substantial Plots and down-right Lies and Recorded Perjuries into Pulpit nay Gospel-Truths Yet really thinks that there has been Men of his Profession of every rank and degree Learned and

were excluded the Land of Canaan As in the Case of David 2 Sam. 12. who was punish'd in the loss of his Child after his sin was forgiven Secondly That there are some sins which of their own nature are Light and Venial such as cool the fervour of Charity but do not extinguish it from which even Holy Men are not exempt and of which it is said that the Just Man falls seven times Augustin Enchir. c. 70. lib. Quaest Oct. tr 9. 26. Thirdly That to all sins whether great or small some Penalty is due to the Justice of God who as he has Mercy to forgive has also Justice to punish so that as St. Augustin says in Enarr in Psal 50. Whosoever seeks to God for mercy must remember that he is just and that his sin shall not pass unpunished Fourthly That generally speaking few Men depart out of this life but either with the guilt of some light offences and venial sins or else obnoxious to some Temporal Punishment due to former sins forgiven From these Heads Discourse leads him immediately to the Necessity of some Third Place For since the Infinite Goodness of God can admit nothing into Heaven which is not clean and pure from all sin both great and small And his Infinite Justice can permit none to receive the Reward of Bliss who as yet are not out of debt but have something in Justice to suffer There must of necessity be some Place or State where Souls departing this life pardon'd as to the Eternal Guilt or Pain yet obnoxious to some Temporal Penalty or with the guilt of some venial faults are Purg'd and Purify'd before their Admittance into Heaven And this is what he is taught concerning Purgatory Which though he knows not Where it is of what nature the Pains are or how long each Soul is detained there yet he believes that those that are in this Place being the Living Members of Jesus Christ are reliev'd by the Prayers of their Fellow-Members here on Earth and that the Charitable Works perform'd upon their Death-bed and the Alms dispos'd on in their Last Will are very available afterwards in order to their speedier release XXIV Of Praying in an Unknown Tongue HE is counsell'd by his Church to be present at Sermons but never permitted to hear any he is able to understand they being all deliver'd in an unknown Tongue He is taught to Pray but it must be in Latin He is commanded to assist at the Church-Service and to hear Mass but it must be without understanding a word it being all perform'd in a Language of which he is altogether Ignorant And thus is miserably depriv'd of all the comfortable Benefits of Christianity Hearing but without Understanding Praying but without Reaping Fruit assisting at Publick Assemblies but like a Stock or a Stone without feeling or any the least sense of Devotion HE is counsell'd by his Church to be present at Sermons such as he is able to understand they being always deliver'd in the Vulgar Language of every Country In France French in Spain Spanish in Italy Italian in England if permitted English They being purely intended for the good Instruction of the Congregation present He is taught to Pray and always provided of such Books of Devotion as he is capable of understanding every Nation being well furnished with such helps extant in the Language proper to the Country He is commanded to assist at the Church-Service and to hear Mass and in this he is instructed not to understand the Words but to know what is done For the Mass being a Sacrifice wherein is daily commemorated the Death and Passion of Christ by an Oblation made by the Priest of the Body and Blood of the Immaculate Lamb under the Symbols of Bread and Wine according to his own Institution 't is not the business of the Congregation present to imploy their Ears in attending to the Words but their Hearts in contemplation of the Divine Mysteries by raising up servent affections of Love Thanksgiving Compassion Hope Sorrow for sins Resolutions of amendment c. That thus having their Heart and Intention united with the Priests they may be partakers of his Prayers and of the Sacrifice he is then offering than which he believes nothing is more acceptable to God or beneficial to true Believers And for the raising of these affections in his Soul and filling his Heart with the extasies of Love and Devotion he thinks in this case there 's little need of Words a true Faith without these is all-sufficient Who could but have burst forth into Tears of Love and Thanksgiving if he had been present while our Saviour was tyed to the Pillar Scourg'd and Tormented though he open'd not his mouth to the By-standers nor spake a word who would have needed a Sermon to have been fill'd with Grief and Compassion if he had seen his Saviour expos'd to the scorn of the Jews when he was made a bloody spectacle by Pilate with Ecce homo Lo the Man Who could have stood cold and senseless upon Mount Calvary under the Cross when his Redeemer was hanging on it though he had heard or not understood a word that he spoke Does any one think that those Holy Women who follow'd their Lord in these sad Passages and were Witnesses of his Sufferings wanted Holy Affections in their Souls because he spoke not or were they scandaliz'd at his silence Was not their Faith in him that suffer'd by which they believ'd him to be Christ Jesus true God and Man laying down his life for the Redemption of Man sufficient to excite in their Souls all the Passions due from a sinful Creature to his bleeding Redeemer to his Crucified Jesus The like Faith also is sufficient to fill him with Devotion when he is present at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass For believing that Christ is there really present before him under the Species of Bread and Wine and that He that lies upon the Altar is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the World What need of more to quicken in his Soul all the Affections of a Devout Lover Can he behold his Redeemer before him and not break forth into Love and Thanksgiving Can he see him that gives sight to the Blind health to the Sick and life to the Dead and yet stand still senseless and un-mov'd without putting any Petition to him without asking any thing for his blind sick and sinful Soul Can he believe that he that gives his life for the World and died for our sins is there before him and not be touch'd with sorrow and contrition for his Offence Can he see commemorated every doleful passage of his Saviour's sufferings in the several Misteries of the Mass and yet not be fill'd with grief and compassion Is not Jesus welcom to a devout Soul although he come in silence Is not the Presence of Christ a more forcing motive to a Christian than any Humane Words could be And if he