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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

restrictive as intimating that there be some heresies which are not damnable and so 't is to be restrained to the worst sort of Heresies only but rather descriptive as describing what heresie is in Suo Genere that it hath in it a downing nature Especially when there is a Concatenation of them as in this place 234. The holy Ghost uses the word here in the plural number to point out to us that there should be many of them linked together and indeed one heresie persisted in with an obstinate mind ushers in others dato vno absurdo mille sequntur Thus some Etymologists derive the word Heresie ab Haerendo because of ' its Glutinous property men do pertinaciously cleave to it but 't is rather a Greek word so cannot have a d Latin Thema but comes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to chufe an Opinion 235. (e) 'T is a choice that cannont be reclained Such be the Heresies of the Romish Religion as they are damning in nature so they are many in number as justification in part by the works of the law This is a damning heresie If Paul say true Gal. 5.4 such are faln from Grace and Christ shall profit them nothing as their doctrine of merits de Congrue et Cendigno which is not holding of the head Col 2 19. But a despoiling of Christ his plenteons Redemption and becoming Saviouts to themselves 236 As also their congruent merits afforded by nature their freedome and innate power of will excited to apply and determine it self to Gods gracious perswasion Their expiation of Sins both of quick and dead by the unbloody Sacrifice of their Masses And many others ejusdem forma Which are both tanght and believed of the Romanists whereof I shall speak more particularly in the 2. part 237 (f) The 7. Scripture Evidence The 7. Scripture Evidence is Tim. 4.1 Popery teaches many Doctrines of devils as I have shewed in my treatise of Antichrist their forbidding of meats and marriages their teaching the lawfulness of Committing fornication which is the divelifh Doctrine of the Nicolaitans Revel 2.15 Or worshipping Idols of murthering Princes and of massacring Protestants and that because they are Hereticks Now these Doctrines of Devils must needs carry them to the Devil 238. The Apostle in this 1. Epistle to Timothy speaketh of latter times and in his 2. to Timothy 3.1 of the last times In the latter times those Doctrines of devils are broached to wit in the times of Antichrists rise and revelation when the Antichristian leaven shall be spreading it self over all christian Churches as 2. Thess 2.8.10 but in the last times which he says shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to wit about Antichrists destruction the harvest of those devil Doctriners shall be ripe and God will cut them down with his sharp sickle and cast them in bundles to the devil in Hell from whence they came 239. Thus both those times in both those Epistles have relation to Antichrist and the older Antichrist grows the worse and more perilous times shall be For those Doctrines of Devils shall like an Epidemical and vniversal Pestilence be so Contagious and catching that men yea good men will be put hard to it how to secute themselves from that overspreading Abomination then the Righteous should scarcely be saved were not their Names writ in the Lambo book of Life 240. But as for those dwellers upon the Earth whose Names are not found written in that Book these doctrines of Devils prevails with them and brings in that black bedroll of Sin whereof sinful self Love is the first of 19 as the Root of them all and love of pleasures the last all which lead directly to damnation and are found most predominant in the Romish Church above all others which hath a form of Godliness but denies its power 2 Tim. 3.1 to 6. 241. Having thus from Scripture Evidences made this clear demonstration how dangerous a Religion the Popish Religion is to live and dye in how can we but conclude that the Romanists are in a damnable State For 1. (g) Revel 13.8 Their Names are not found in the Lambs book of life 2. (b) Revel 14.9 10 11. They must drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God 3. (i) 2. Thess 2.10 They are in a perishing State 4. (k) 11 12. And believe lyes to be damned 5. (l) Rev. 19.21 Depart ye cursed shall be denounced against them 6. (m) 2 Pet. 2.1 They hold damnable Heresies And 7. (n) 1 Tim. 4.1 They ●uch and believe doctrines of Devils 242. But some will object here and say this is to pass the same uncharitable censure of them that they do of us and this is to conclude all that ever have dyed in Popery to be in a state of damnation To which I answer 1. Their censure of us may truly be termed uncharitable because it is unwarrantable being not grounded upon any clear Scripture Evidence but arising from their obstinate blindness which causeth them to (o) Jude v 10. speak evil of what they know not 243. And 2. I answer 't is not we but the Word of God that judges them by which they must be judged at the last day John 12.48.3 As we do not conclude all Pagans whom God suffered to walk in their own ways Act. 14. 16. to be damned for God might have vessels of mercy among them some became Proselytes so nor all those Papagans for some have held the head Col. 2.19 (p) 1 Cor. 3.11.15 and been sound in the Foundation although they lose their stubble yet not their Souls neither did Popish Errors come to their height at first but now their Heresies be more damnable than ever 244. I might have added several other Scripture Evidences as 1 Cor. 6.9 No Idolater shall inherit the Kingdom of God And Revel 21.8 All Idolaters and all lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Now that Popery is Idolatry and a Compound or Cento of many lying Doctrines I have shewed before why then should we be afraid to say that Papists living and dying in the Trent Faith without Repentance are Castaways and destinated to damnation Why strengthen we the hands of the wicked that he cares not to return by promising him life Ezek. 13.22 245. What warrant from the Word of God can be found of any hope that such damnable Hereticks as hath been made apparent they are can be saved or such plain Infidels in as much as they believe not either the Al-sufficiency of Christs meritorious Passion or the incommunicable Propriety of his mediatory Office in which two points lies the very life and soul of true Faith and Religion and thus far they are Infidels in saying that men must satisfie for their own venial sins and that Saints and Angels meritoriously intercede for us 246. What probability is there that such Infidels as believe not the holy Scriptures to be the word of

dispositionis This par ratio is defended by him against the judgment of Gerson in lect 4. de vitâ spirituali and of Hugo de Sacram. p. 6. c. 5. 155. And de Clara confesses that there are others Qui asserebant Deum non permissurum ut aliquis decipratur in aliquâ veritate fidei absque suâ culpâ and then adds his opinion Ego ut ingenuè meum sensum hâc in parte aperiam c. to speak my own sence freely I think that the common people committing themselves to the instruction of their Pastors trusting their knowledge and goodness if they be deceived it shall be accounted invincible Ignorance 〈◊〉 saltem probabilis which truly excuses from fault 156. He goes on and says Im●… aliqui Doctores tantum tribuunt instructioni 〈◊〉 quibus incumbit cura ovium c. that if those Pastors on whom the care of the Flock dependeth do teach hic et nunc that God would be hated the rude Parishioner is bound to believe them Azorius also saith Rusticus et Imperitus qui parocho suo fidem babens credet diquid contra articules fidei excusatur a peccate where he cites Scotus and Gabriel to be of the same Opinion 157. 'T is true If their Priests did infallibly keep knowledge as they falsely sense those words in Mal. 2.7 saying further that the Law given is not a Law but in the mouth of the Priest then would it be the less sin to pin their faith upon the Sleeves of their Priests and the ignorance of their Laity would be invincible ignorance for want of information from their Clergy but we find in Story how notoriously their Priests have fallen short of keeping infallibly the knowledge of the Law of God 158. It is manifest in Ecclesiastical History that the Popish Priests like the Sons of Eli are Sons of Belial that knew not the Lord 1 Sam. 1.12 nor the Law of their God witness that (y) Acts and Monuments Fox Popish Bishop of Dunkelden in Scotland who boasted yea thanked God that he never knew what the Old and New Testament were and that he would care to know nothing but his Portuise and his Pontifical As likewise that Popish Priest in Germany who being asked by the Visitors whether he taught his people the Decalogue answered that he had not the Book so called 159. And of our own Popish Priests in England that were notorious Ignoramuses our Martyrology gives many examples as that Priest that told Justice Leland that the New Testament of Tindal's Translation was plain Heresie and none worse than it and bloody Bonner burning of Bibles and his Kinsman Darbyshire that said the Scriptures were sufficient to Salvation but not to Instruction but I would not rake in this Kennel Those Priests lips kept knowledge well 160. Chrysostom had long before discovered and lamented Multi Sacerdotes et tamen pauci multi in Nomine pauci in opere and Petrarch complained in his time that the stench of that Sink the Romish Clergy was come up to heaven this Ribera bewails also But above all Famous Luther speaks home to this affirming that Hell is paved with the Skulls of those prophane Popish Priests and Erasmus likewise lays them open in their colours who did them more mischief jocando than Luther did stomachando how can sober minds hang (z) As Luke 19. last 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Ears at such lips as those 161. But the Romanists falsifie that Text in Mal. 2.7 reading it The lips of the Priests keep knowledge making it a plea for their Infallibility as if all things knowable were locked up in the Cabinet of their Breasts whereas in the Hebrew it is the Priests lips should keep knowledge which is not a prophesie but a Commandment by those words God doth not foretell that the Priests should never turn from the true Doctrine but forbiddeth them to turn from it 'T is equally absurd to make Commands Prophesies as to make Prophesies Commands (a) Moulin's Buckler of Faith pag. 65. as if Christs foretelling One of you shall betray me had been a bidding them betray him 162. And the following Verses in Mal. 2. plainly shows how those Priests lips had not preserved knowledge but had seduced the people and corrupted the Covenant of God They had forsaken the way and caused many to stumble v. 8. and must the Law be only a Rule in their mouths as if God were beholding to them for owning it (b) Cajetan Com nent on Matth. Cardinal Cajetan confesses thus much of the Popish Priests that they which should have been by their places the Salt of the Earth had lost their savour and minded nothing but the Rites and Revenues of the Church 163. Now are such Priests fit to be confided in in matters of knowledge and goodness as de Clara would bear us in hand must the people only believe as they believe must they look after no other knowledge and goodness but what is to be found in those doltish prophane Priests Our Lord gives us better direction than this quirking Fryar in bidding us try the Spirits 1 John 4.1 and prove all things 1 Thess 5.21 as those noble Bereans did Act. 17.11 and in telling us that if the Blind lead the Blind both falls into the Ditch Math. 15.14 164. Those blind guides indeed shall lye lowermost and have the worst of it but wo to them that follow their pernicious ways hoodwinked and blindfold This is their implicit faith believing as the Church believes and their blind Obedience walking in darkness and they know not whither but can never be judged invincible Ignorance to excuse from blame although Franciscus de Clara do affirm it especially here in England where so many Bibles godly Books and so much powerful Preaching may be easily come to 165. The holy Scriptures were written that we might believe John 20.31 and we are commanded to search them John 5.39 that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a more sure word 2 Pet. 1.19 upon the testimony of which we must depend primariò and not upon the Church as they say for this is to leave the Fountain and a going to broken Cisterns and 't is a damnable Religion that keeps ignorant of the Scriptures They have Moses and the Prophets c. Luke 16.29 31. 166. It is worth our observation to take notice what difference there is betwixt the Apostolical and Antichristian Spirit the Apostolical Spirit saith thus Moreover Brethren I would not that you should be ignorant 1 Cor. 10.1 he would not have them ignorant in spiritual things but would have them zealous according to knowledge but the Antichristian Spirit is well content that the Brethren should remain ignorant and continue in blind Devotion 167. This Popish Religion is therefore a blind Religion so dangerous and damnable because it puts out the eye of knowledge Thus Antichrist saith to the Inhabitants of the World just as Nahash the Ammonite said to the men of Jabesh-Gilead On

Alexander and Croesus than to Christ or to any of his Apostles Illyricus Catal. Test Verit. pag. 2052. Yea Bernard long before Erasmus said that the Pope in his pomp was more like the Successor of Constantine than of Peter Idem ibidem 163. Greg. Nazian c. 3. They do plainly Heathenize which is worst of all for Tertullian saith de Corona Militis mihi crede hoc Rita habitu Apparatu Idolis immolatur In such like Vestments believe me the Heathens do sacrifice to their Idols 17. They do heathenize in their Holy Garments in their Holy Water and in many other things if we believe Baronius who saith not only their Lustral Water and sprinkling of Sepulchres may be found in Juvenal's sixth Satyr as before but also their Lights in Sepulchres are mentioned in Suetonius his Octavius and their Lamps lighted upon Saturdays in Seneca's 96th Epistle and distribution of Tapers among the people in Macrobius's Saturnals c. Good Warrants all as if God had never said to his people Be not like unto the Heathen do not conform to their customs Matth. 6.8 not so much as to name their Gods without abhorrency Exod. 23.13 Psal 16.4 Yet Cardinal Bembus most grosly affirmeth of their St. Francis Quòd in Numerum Deorum ab Ecclesiâ Romanâ sit Relatus that he was reckoned by the Romish Church among the number of the Gods This must be the Heathen Gods for Christians know but one Only and True God 1 Cor. 8.4 5 6. The Gods of the Heathen are good fellows thirty thousand of them in Hesiod's time as his Verse snews 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Romanists have made them a great Army since that time with their St. Francis and many other Canonized Saints much good may this good fellowship do St. Francis It was the Devil's Grammar that first taught to decline Deum in the Plural Number Ye shall be as Gods Gen. 3.5 but the true God is a jealous God and will not share his Glory with another Isa 43.10 11. and 45.5 6 14. and 48.11 But to return to their Priestly Vestments Assuredly such Vestments were not known in primitive times nor were they reputed among necessary things in that first Council Act. 15. wherein the Holy Ghost sat President The necessary things are there mention'd but not Garments and Paul bids Timothy be content with Food and Raiment 1 Tim. 6.6 7. but he bids him not load himself with Pontifical Raiment yet speaks he of Women's Raiment in Chap. 2. The Novelty hereof therefore appears that it is not found in the Word but only in the Synodal Acts of Anselm in the eleventh Century Anno Dom. 1106. as Authors shew 18. Fourthly their Latin Service is a mere Novel Novice Device which hath the Inscription of the Heathen Altar at Athens Act. 17. upon it to the unknown God It is not a getting under the Tree of Knowledge and looking towards the Tree of Life it is not a praying with the Vnderstanding and using 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Words easie to be understood 1 Cor. 14.9 c. Thus its absurdity appears when a Popish Priest gets into a corner and mumbles over his Latin Services which the people cannot so much as hear much less understand but least of all how can they say Amen to it as Christ in his Apostle commands but Antichrist forbids Their own Commentators confess it were more to edifying but the Church hath allowed it upon weighty Grounds Why do they not preach in Latin as well as pray Dr. Davenant Determ pag. 185. and the Novelty of it appears in this that Pope Vitalianus appointed Latin Service● in the year 666. the Number of the Beast Rev. 13. last Magdeburg Cent. 7. cap. 6. pag. 141. and Osian Cent. 7. cap. 10. pag. 191. c. Balaeus Cent. 1. 19. The Conclusion Thus might I enlarge in shewing the novelty of all the other inferior yea and superior points of the Popish Doctrine and Practice but to avoid prolixity I shall only make a reference of them to Authors the first Author is Duplessis or Philip Mornaeus De Sacrâ Eucharistiâ who shews the Novelty of the foppery of Popery He saith first that about the year 340. they began to give Panem Vino intinctum Bread dip'd in Wine before they took away the Cup pag. 270. which was not done till Thomas Aquinas time pag. 257 297 298. the Eastern Church using both 2. Worshipping of Images began from the second Lateran Council which established it pag. 447. Which Council brought in also 3. the Canon of the private Mass about the year 1200. pag. 605.4 Forbidding Priests Marriages he shews was from the Heathens pag. 649 667. and that Nicolaus Diaconus brought it into the Church pag. 698. which was after confirmed by Pope Hildebrand that Brand of Hell who notwithstanding kept his Whore Matildah pag. 706. which caused a World of wickedness pag. 712. and 717.5 Their Purgatory he shews was from the Heathens pag. 1003. and how it had its progress in the Romish Church pag. 1059.6 Their Invocation of Saints was not known in the Church for four hundred years after Christ pag. 1215.7 Their Transubstantiation was not any Article of their Faith until the Trent Council pag. 1666 8. He shews also the foppery of their Altars Crosses c. and that they were unknown till a thousand years after Christ pag. 382. Cum multis aliis c. The second Author is famous Peter de Moulin de Novitate Papismi both French Worthies He and Du-plessis whose Book stands unanswerable to the everlasting disgrace of the Romish Religion The third Author is honourable Bishop Vsher de Statu Successu Ecclesiae which can never be answered The fourth is Reverend Mr. Baxter both our own Countrymen who hath challenged the Papists for Novelty in thirty two points in his Key for Catholicks pag. 143 144. yet unanswered The fifth Author learned Dr. Willet in his Synopsis Papismi at large The sixth Author Godly Hildersham upon John pag. 37. and pag. 141. Numb 46. To say nothing of their Monks Fryars and Nuns see Dr. Willet on Rom. pag. 711. Dr. Boy 's Postil's in fol. pag. 572. Rosse's Panscheia pag. 259. and many others of this and all other their fooleries all which shew the Romish Religion is a Religion to be abhorred as an upstart Religion of all sober minds The last Author is King James in his Tortus lyes confuted where he shows the Novel Doctrines thereof with a brief declaration of their Novelty See the Particulars CHAP. VI. The Sixth Property Its Inconsistency with Publick Peace 1. THere is a three-fold Inconsistency that the Romish Religion hath as a remark upon it As 1. It s Inconsistency with holiness to God as it both allows of and wallows in a most impure worship which is both contrary to his Holy Nature in their downright Idolatry by Adoration of Images and Invocation of Saints and Angels and contrary to his holy Scripture in the very

Letter of it by their setting up another Head besides Christ whom they rob of all his Offices Regal Sacerdotal and Prophetical by establishing Free-will Merit Sins in their own nature Venial and by adding to and diminishing from the Word of God in many points as in their seven Sacraments and other parts of Popery yea generally the whole System and Body of it as such being fully contradictory to the Scripture of Truth as my Second Part doth plainly demonstrate 2. It s Inconsistency with Righteousness to Man by its accounting all of any other Religions Hereticks and that Faith is not to be kept with such as they account so also that force and violence such as is used in their bloody Inquisitions yea and death it self may be inflicted upon those they call Hereticks and that merely quà tales for their being such though otherwise they do nothing either in word or deed either to disturb the Peace or justly provoke the powers of those Popish Countries wherein they live see Dr. Heylin's large Geography fol. 90. and 231. Popery lays such barbarous Obligations upon every Papist that he holds himself bound to kill any Son of Adam whom he pleaseth to term an Heretick contrary to the Laws of God of Nature and of Nations How can this be consistent with Righteousness to Man 2. 3. It s Inconsistency with publick peace and common safety in States and Kingdoms to say no more of the two former Inconsistencies is the main matter I would here demonstrate and that by discovering how the very Principles intrinsecally essential to Popery are all of such dangerous Influence and Consequence which their Religion binds them unto by reason whereof no Protestant State or Kingdom wherein Popish Priests and people live can be secure from disturbance by them or yet ought to trust to the Loyalty of such as by the very Religion they profess may lawfully be disloyal when they please yea and not only may be but must be disloyal being bound to be so when they are able and have advantage Upon this very consideration undoubtedly it was that our own learned Dr. Davenant in his seventeenth Question determineth that Jesuitiz'd Papists cannot possibly be good Subjects saying Non esse extra controversiam est c. That they are not so 't is beyond all Controversie for their many hainous Conspiracies against Kings and Kingdoms do make a clear demonstration But saith he all the question is seeing 't is plain they are not whether they can be good Subjects in as much as their very Principles which the Jesuites have imposed and which all Jesuitiz'd Papists have received do necessarily hinder them from being so Whoever therefore he be that owns the Jesuits Principles and not only approve them but also improve them by drawing those Principles into practice whether he be of the Clergy or Laity saith he such a one can by no means so much as have the very name of a good Subject Let us now take a view particularly of their Principles which are Inconsistent with Peace Their 1. Principle is Their owning of and acting by a Foreign Power and disowning Subjection to the power of their Native Princes This dogmatical Principle alone makes all Romanists especially their Priests and Jesuits to be so far uncapable of being numbred amongst good Subjects as that they cannot be so much as reckoned as Subjects at all in as much as they hold themselves exempted from all secular Powers and to be Subjects to none but to their holy Father the Pope quite contrary to the Doctrine of the Holy Apostle Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul whether Clergy or Laity be subject to the higher Powers Surely Paul to the Romans could not mean the higher powers of the Roman Pope see ver 3 4. c. 3. Their great Champion Bellarmine pleads this Exemption for his Romish Clergy saying They are not obliged to Civil Laws by any Coactive but only by a directive Obligation Bellarm de Cler. lib. 1. Against this Dr. Davenant acutely answereth But What if they will not be directed but trample the Civil Laws under their Feet Bellarmine replies They cannot notwithstanding be punish'd by the Civil Magistrate Our Dr. Davenant goes further saying But what if they commit that grand wickedness of High Treason To this Eudaemon the Jesuit rejoyns saying That Clergymen cannot properly commit Treason and their Zimanca expresly teacheth that a Clergy-mans Rebellion is not properly High Treason for he is not subject to the King By this they cut the very sinews of all Political Laws while they plead this exemption from the Yoke of all secular Power and hereby 't is manifest they are so far from being good Subjects that they do profess themselves no Subjects at all by this Exemption This is quite contrary to the Doctrine of Paul of Peter and of Christ 1. Of holy Paul Rom. 13.12 4. Vbi Lex aut Evangelium non distinguit ibi non est distinguendum The Apostle saith Let every Soul be subject without any distinction why do they make distinctions where God makes none as if the Generation of a Clerick were the Corruption of a Subject in this Exemption what is this but to make the Church to destroy the State If the Magistrate be a Minister ordained of God to punish Evil Doers as this Apostle affirmeth then Popish Clericks that are Evil Doers can in no wise be exempted from his Cognizance unless they do not acknowledge God the Ordainer of that Power to be a Superior Power to theirs 2. Of Holy Peter their own pretended Head 1 Pet. 2.13 14. Submit your selves to Kings and Governours Chrysostom shews that this Command is to all Clergymen yea even to the very Apostles and Evangelists and were it not so it would be a loss unto Princes to have any of their Subjects become Clergy-men if thereby he should lose that subjection which was due to him before But opposite to this is that excellent Note which Zanchy that Magazine of Learning gives in his Epistle Dedicatory to his Miscelanea In the Kingdom of Christ this is wonderful that he Wills and Commands all Princes and Potentates to be subject to his Kingdom Psal 2.9 11 12. And yet he Wills and Commands likewise that his Kingdom be subject to the Kingdoms of the World Rom. 13.1 1 Pet. 2.13 14 17. 4. As this Principle of exemption is contrary to the Doctrine 1. Of Holy Paul and 2. Of Holy Peter so 3. Of the Holy Holy Holy Christ who Preached up that Doctrine of Rendring to Caesar the things that were Caesar's Matth. 22.21 'T is observable that not only the Mother of our Lord though big bellied and so might have pleaded Exemption goes up to the Chief City to be taxed by Caesar Luke 2.1 3 4. but also our Lord himself who might above all have pleaded his own freedom paid his Tribute to Caesar that so Caesar should not think the Gospel to be a contradiction to his Government Matth. 17.27 Yea