Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	majesty_n	subject_n	3,135	5	6.4839	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03480	Four tracts. I. A short discourse about divorce and its causes, fornication and adultery. II. A charge to judges, juries and witnesses concerning oaths. III. About infant baptism. IV. A letter to a lady, who hath forsaken [t]he Protestant religion for the Romish. / By J. Gailhard, Gent.	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1699 (1699)	Wing G121A; ESTC R202025	118,480	174

Sess 13. But to come close the Romish Society we charge it with Idolatry and Superstition 't is a Religion Bloody Damnable Trayterous Blind and Blasphemous and Madam I go upon sure grounds for I well know their Doctrines having Read them in their chief Authors and by way of Discourse and Disputes with their Priests c. and as for their Practices I have been long enough at Rome among them and in other Places to observe them I come to prove the Charge first their Religion is Idolatrous because it gives the Creature the Dead and Images the Honour due to God alone the Images and Wafer-God of Papists are Dumb Idols as well as those of the Heathens Their distinction of Latreia and Douleia is idle and frivolous for in (n) Rev. 22. Scripture the Servants of God which adore him are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so Paul calls himself (o) Rom. 1.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Servant of Jesus Christ and in Rev. 19.10 the word there to adore is not derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but these things I must not trouble you with Now to Pray to Saints to the Dead to Adore the Wafer to Worship Images is not all this to give the Creature the Worship due to God alone and is it not to pay Relicks Divine Worship as to fall down kneel before and kiss them to go in Pilgrimage to their Shrines and Sepulchres and to expect help from them Secondly 'T is a Superstitious Religion upon the account of innumerable vain Fopperies in their Devotions wherein they place Religion as the Virgins Milk Peter's Beard Christopher's Tooth the Head Rib Arm Finger c. of such a Saint such things Rome is full of and hardly any of their Churches but hath some such things to shew What are their Holy-Water Salt Spittle Holy-Oil Beads Whippings Fish-days Nunneries Pilgrimages Baptising of Bells Fonts Crossing themselves c. Now let us look into their Rituals and by their Practices judge of their Belief and we shall find whole Almanacks full of Saints of their own making I dare say of some who never were in the World and of others who perhaps are now Tormented in Hell they have many more Saints than there are Days in the Year To these they pay the same Ceremonies in the self-same words attended with the same bowings and kneelings as they do to God himself Farthermore they directly to them offer their Prayers Consecrate Churches appoint Holy-days and make Vows to them which are but Creatures now Dead and lying in their Dust and Ashes if this be not Superstition and Idolatry I cannot tell what is so Thirdly 'T is a Bloody Religion witness their many Massacres of the Waldenses Albigenses and others their Bartholomew-Eves in France Cruelties in Ireland and in so many other parts of Europe their Principles and Canons of some of their Councils their Inquisitions and Congregations de Propaganda fide are well known Fourthly That Religion is Damnable for it overthrows the very Foundation of Christianity for their Transubstantiation destroys the Truth of Christ's Human Nature their Expiatory Sacrifice or the Mass his only Sacrifice for Sin offered once for all their Doctrine of Merits his Merits the multitude of Mediators among them makes void the only Mediator between God and Men the Man Jesus Christ their Sacrificing Priest overthrows Christ's Priestly Office as their Traditions do his Prophetical so is the great Article of the Forgiveness of sins and free Justification through Gods Grace in Jesus Christ by their Doctrines of Merits Pardons Indulgences Treasures of the Church and Works of Will-Worship Fifthly 'T is Blind which is plainly made out by their Doctrines of blind Obedience and implicit Faith according to them 't is enough for one to be a good Christian to believe what the Church believes tho' he knows not what the Church doth believe Sixthly 'T is a Treacherous Religion for they teach That the Pope may Depose Kings and lawfully Absolve Subjects from their Oath of Allegiance Lastly we charge it to be Blasphemous because the peculiar Excellencies of Divine Majesty and the Prerogatives of our Lord Jesus Christ it ascribes to the Virgin Mary whose Psalter by Bonaventura doth contain abundance of Blasphemies for all the Glorious things in the Book of Psalms spoken of the Son of God they blasphemously apply it to the Blessed Virgin who is but a Creature and that which is proper to him they give not only to the Virgin but also to multiply their Idolatry to other Creatures both dead and alive as to their Popes to whom and to their Priests they attribute a power to forgive Sins which is a downright Blasphemy for who can forgive sins but God alone Mark 2.7 Now I come to the second part of the Non-succession and shew that Peter was no Bishop of Rome or else he had been a Non-Resident and he never was at Rome herein to be ingenuous we shall say we have no positive proofs but next to that we have that which is as good neither can they with true and good Authority shew that ever he was there though they make use of Legends and spurious things and those who hold the Affirmative ought to prove it though they which are for the Negative should not yet we hope to demonstrate he never was Bishop in Rome After our Saviours Ascension Peter for several Years together continued in the Land of Judea and thereabouts for in the Book of the Acts we read of him in Chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6. tho' in this not particularly named but contained under the Name of the twelve 8 9 10 11 12. when having by the Angel been miraculously delivered out of Prison he left Jerusalem where we find him again in chap. 15. for he was present at the Synod or Council where Luke who followed Paul and in the rest of his Book gives an account of Pauls progress in Preaching the Gospel leaues him Now the Council was held in the 15th year after Christ's Resurrection and the 48th after his Birth till which time we cannot find he at all stirred out of Judea except when he was in Antioch where when for fear of the Jews he withdrew himself from the Gentiles Gal. 2.12 Now let us compare times Paul was Converted in the year of our Lord 35. and two years after his Ascension when going to Damascus out of which City he was by night let down by a Wall in a Basket Acts 9.25 thence he went to Jerusalem v. 26 27. and was by Barnabas brought to the Apostles he speaks of another Journey which (a) Gal. 1.18 three years after he took to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days and in the 2 Chap. v. 1. he saith how fourteen years after he went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas at which time he also met there with Peter v. 9. and not long after at Antioch v. 11. 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