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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

lib. 8. To say nothing of look beyond Luther at large and of Dr. Humphrey in his Prax. Jesuitismi fol. 17. who shews how many witnesses Oxford hath afforded against the Romish Religion which I speak largely of in my Appendix to the Treatise of Antichrist I shall conclude this Paragraph with setting Dolman against Dolman who confesseth ingeniously in his pag. 19. that either Simon Zelotes the Apostle or Joseph of Arimathaea the Disciple brought Religion into this Land from Jerusalem Hence I Argue if it came hither first from Jerusalem then it came not hither first from Rome as he elsewhere saith 13. Moreover if we consider either the name or the thing the Novelty hereof will be more evident 1. Consider the name Papist 't is but a novel name and not found among the Ancients What need any further Testimony of this when their own Father Bristow doth confess it saying in his eighth Demand that the name Papist was never heard of till the time of Pope Lee in the fifteen hundredth year of Christ Habemus reum Confitentem 't is enough The Testimony of an Adversary against himself is unquestionable Secondly Consider the thing Popery in its Popish Points which are all novel Points and not known to the ancient Church We are able to shew the first Authors of their corrupt Doctrines which were not received into the Church for six hundred years after Christ and though we could not do this yet would it not follow that the Romish Church is the true ancient Church For first Many Heresies did spring up after the Apostles time yet none knew how 1 Joh. 2.18 and 4.1 yea Popery it self began to work at that time 2 Thes 2.7 Secondly The Head of some Errors may be as hard to discover as the Head of the River Nilus and the rather because Satan that Super-Seminator sows his Tares in the night while men slept Mat. 13.15 They are so privily and so creepingly brought in Gal. 2.4 2 Tim. 3.6 2 Pet. 2.1 and Jude 4. But above all that Grand Error of Popery in as much as it is called a Mystery of Iniquity was foisted in less discernably Thirdly The Romanists themselves do acknowledge that there are many Errors crept into the Church the first Authors whereof cannot be named And Fourthly It would be enough to discover the Novelty of Popery by demonstrating that it cannot be found in the Holy Scriptures which is the truest Antiquity 14. I have already discovered the Novelty of many Popish Points of the Romish Religion in pag. 26. Paragraph 65 66. c. of this Treatise That they were not from the beginning but are all additions by the man of sin and therefore accursed Revel 22.18 My Additions therefore thereunto shall be such only as my brevity proposed can admit to say but little to their inferior practick Points as of their Popish Beads Holy Water Missal Vestments Latin Service c. 1. The use of their Beads in their blind devotion came not from Peter the Apostle but from Peter the Hermit that Trumpet to the Holy War so called who taught them the manner of praying with Beads that thereby they might reckon their Prayers as if God should be verily in their Debt for their so many Pater Nosters and Ave Maries whereas true Devotion is not so much Numeranda ut Ponderanda numbered as pondered with the Lord he will have weight and worth in right Prayer and not Vain babbling Mat. 6.3 Battilogia Pentificia vel ipsum Satanam pudeat Their vain Repetitions are so gross and shameless that the Devil himself had he any shame in him would be ashamed of them faith learned Beza 2. Their Holy Water Polidor Virgil makes Pope Alexander the first to be its Author Anno Domini 118 or 121. see Prideaux his Introduction pag. 69. I confess they may go to Nama Pompilius and other Heathens for consecrated Water long before this Pope Alexander for they had their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at their Idol-Temple doors and their Baronius alledges Juvenal's sixth Satyr for their Lustral Water Surely this is not an Antiquity for the Romanists to boast of to borrow from Devil-worshippers 15. It must not be denied that if their Holy Water be derived from Numa Pompilins it hath Antiquity in it because Numa was seven hundred years before Christ a good Warrant for Christian Holy Water and in nothing better than in this that Numa was a reputed Conjurer and so a fitter Author of that conjured Water It is truly called so from their own form of consecrating this Holy Water which is as followeth I conjure thee O thou Creature Water in the Name of God † the Father Almighty and in the Name of Jesus † Christ the Son and by the power of the Holy † Spirit with certain Prayers mumbled over it then they blasphemously equal it to the blood of Christ for purging away sins you may suppose 't is only such Sins as have no deep rooting in us that a few drops of this Holy Water can wash away I wonder they should overlook that Holy Water mentioned Numb 5.17 there 's Antiquity indeed better than Baronius's sixth Satyr of Juvenal Baron Annal. ann 44. but the mischief is that was an Holy Water that caused the Curse Num. 5.21 Water is indeed an Element that God hath given us both for Natural and Celestial use the first in Household Affairs the second in the Sacrament of Baptism these are truly ancient things but the Romanists converting it beyond all Divine Ordination by their Exorcisms and Inchantments to other Magick and Idolatrous Uses This is a mere Novelty and Nullity The words of their Exorcisms run thus Exorcizo te Aqua Benedicta ut fias aqua exercizata c. that thou maist have power to drive away Devils Oh ridiculous Much more might I say to this point but my Book intended little swelleth much already 16. So I must be abrupt in it as likewise 3. In their Missal Vestments wherein they do plainly Judaize yea more than so or rather Heathenize it therein For 1. They cannot plead the Garments of the Levitical Priesthood seeing this were to send the Messiah to Moses School and so to deny that Christ is come in the Flesh Which is the spirit of Antichrist 1 Joh. 4.2 3. for Christ by his coming changed the Law of the Levitical Priesthood Heb. 7.11 and together with it the Rites and Apparels which glittering Garments could not congruously correspond with the Simplicity of the Gospel 2. Popish Priests do more than Judaize in as much as they abound more in their Holy Garments than ever the Mosaical Priests did for the High Priests had but seven Garments appointed them and the other Priests but two yet the Popish Priests have six their Popish Prelates nine more Ration Divin Offic. lib. 3. cap. 1. and Bellarm. lib. 2. de Miss cap. 14. And the Popes in their Pontificalibus said Erasmus may better be compared to Julius Caesar

Work he will neither dally nor desist till it be done and assuredly none can deny but the Great God hath begun this his Great Work called his strange Work Isa 28.21 and God will Accomplish his Fury Ezek. 5.13 for All his Works are perfect Deut. 32.4 He is not like the foolish Builder in the Gospel that lays the Foundation and hath not wherewith to finish Like 14.28 30. But the good Work that God hath begun he will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ Phil. 1.6 Notwithstanding the pauses that Providence makes in its Passage and Progress such are but as so many Parenthese's which never interrupt but rather Illustrate the Sence of a Sentence Sometimes 't is the Method of Providence in order to the fulfilling of Promises to step backward as David after he was Anointed the first time by Samuel was brought to Saul's Court to drive away the Evil Spirit from Saul which could not but give him some hope of the Crown God had promised him by Samuel yet after this was David brought thence to his Country Life of being a Shepherd Notwithstanding Gods Providence as the Battering Ram that steps backward comes on with greater Force again Now My Lords and Gentlemen Having all these Presaging Providences humbly Proposed not peremptorily and Dictator like Imposed for your Encouragement Arise and be doing for the Lord is with you 1 Chron. 22.16 The sound of Gods goings is gone out before you the Footsteps of his Anointed Psal 89.51 and you may hear an hurrying noise upon the very tops of those tall Cedats you have impeached in the Tower therefore now must you up and at it and with holy David bestir your selves like Men yea like Gods against those uncircumcised Philistins 2 Sam. 5.23 24. That the Lord may give you the Gift of Miracles not only for Removing those great Mountains that lye in your way but also to cast out those seven Unclean Spirits mentioned in this Treatise out of the Land so as never to return upon us any more Mark 9.25 That God may be your Arm every Morning Isa 33.2 And that the Arms of your Hands may be strong by the blessing of the Everlasting God of Jacob Gen. 49.24 and that your Bow may abide in strength until you have shot the Arrows of England's Deliverance 2 Kin. 13.17 So Prayeth Your Daily and Most Devoted Grator Christopher Nesse TO THE READER Candid and Christian Reader IN Common Calamities every one is bound pro virili suâ to Contribute his best Assistance though it be but one Bucket full of Water to quench a general Fire or one sod of Earth to stop an universal Deluge wherewith the sworn Swordmen of Rome have now threatned us I have therefore cast in my Mite into the Common Treasury this Opus Diei in die suo a Word and Work in season to wit a Graphical Description of the Romish Religion How it is as the Empty House in the Parable Matth. 12.43 44. Possessed with seven unclean Spirits How seven Abominations are in the very Heart of it Prov. 26.25 26. all Hateful to God and hurtful to men How 't is no better than the Babylonish Brat whose Father was an Amorite and Mother an Hittite Ezek. 16.33 The Mother of Harlots and of all Abominations Rev. 17.5 How there is Mors in Ollâ Death in the Pot 2 Kin. 4.40 and the Broth of Abominanable things in its Vessel Isa 65.4 How Mene Tekel is writ upon its Wall and being weighed in the Balance of the Sanctuary 't is found light Dan. 5.25 to be driven away by the Breath of Christs Mouth 2 Thess 2.8 How this Foreign Plant is no better than a stinking weed that hath never thriven in any Land but where it hath been watered with Blood and therefore is not to be Planted but to be Rooted up Matth. 15.13 This Manual is made publick That such a cursed Plant may be plucked up Root and Branch and never be Replanted in Immanuel's Land Isa 8. ● or England wherein God hath so remarkably even in capital Characters Recorded his Name Exod. 20.24 And wherein this wretched Weed hath had so many marvellous Extirpations by our Princes Parliaments and People That this Nation so great by having God so nigh it Deut. 4.7 may never suffer such a Notorious Witch to live in it Exod. 22.18 Nor this cursed Jezebel to Prophecy in the Bosom of it Revel 2.20 That we may not as the house in the Parable though swept of Moral Vices and garnished with moral Vertues which God knows is not yet be empty of the Power of Godliness which is the Intus existens prohibens alienum and so give an Opportunity for the unclean Spirit of Antichrist to Reenter with those seven worse than the former that Christ within us If he be but here our Nation shall not dye John 11.21 32. may keep Antichrist without us That Popery may never Return to us according to Dr. Usher's Fear and the Jesuit Campian's hope crying at Tyburn Proculdubio vincemus brevi for our Multitude of Jesuits will be too hard for your Parliaments c. That this Jesuits Hope may be as the giving up of the Ghost which is but cold Comfort Job 11.20 That we may not with fond Ixion Embrace a Cloud for Juno nor with blind Isaac mistake the Younger Religion for the Elder nor with cheated Jacob Entertain blear-eyed Leah the Romish for beautified Rachel the Reformed Religion nor call Evil Good and Good Evil Isa 5.20 This in Short I would not have you to catch Cold in the Poreh is the Unfeigned Prayer and Utmost Endeavour of Your Brother in The Best Bonds Christopher Nesse From my Study in Fleetstreet London J●●● 1. 1679. AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST POPERY 1. REligion is the totum hominis the whole duty of man Eccles 12.13 the (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. one thing needful which is (b) what have we more than it as Judg. 18.24 Which blesseth what we have to us that better past that shall never be taken from him Luk. 10.42 therefore should man chuse it above all things and among all our gettings we should get this principal thing Prov. 4.7 For God looks down from Heaven not to see how Rich or Strong or Beautiful we are but principally how Righteous how Religious Ps 14.2 Rom. 3.10 2. Religion gives not only a Relative but also a real worth to them that possess it it makes them more excellent than their neighbours Prov. 12.26 Gods peculiar Treasure Exod. 19.5 Precious Jewels Mal. 3.17 Yea such as the World be pot worthy of Heb. 11.38 While irreligious men be vile those are precious they but Chaff those Wheat they reprobate Silver those refined Gold they Briars and Thorns those be noble Vines 3. Yea while Strangers to Religion are but terrae filii base born ones those that are truly Religious are of the Blood-Royal of Heaven and in a word not only in alliance but Union with the

redibis c. And Aio te Aeacida as King James saith right enough they learned it from the Devil yet the Jesuits out-do the Devil himself in their holy Fraud for he calls his Equivocating Oracle in plain terms a lying Spirit v. 22. I will go and be a lying Spirit in the mouths of all these Prophets of Baal c. But the Jesuits defend their holy Fraud to be no lying But Mr. Thomas Fuller hath excellently evidenced that every Aequivocator is at least a secret Lyar saying that surely Speech is but the Copy of the heart Sermo est index Animi and that cannot be accounted or avouched for a true Copy that hath less in it than the Original Such an one is a secret Lyar as by Mental Reservations and other tricks doth deceive him to whom he speaketh being lawfully called to deliver all the truth Hence saith he it oft comes to pass Fuller's Prophane State pag. 390. When Jesuits unto us answer Nay * Which in Greek doth signifie Yea. They do not English speak 't is Greek they say 10. The late order of the Jesuits whom King James calls Papae mancipia Apology p. 76. the Popes Manciples or rather Blood-hounds or the Devils last by-blow to uphold the tottering Kingdom of the Beast hath found out this Arcanum or profound secret as a Catholicon or universal Remedy and Salvo for Catholick Consciences Some conceit that it was shak'd by a Miracle out of their St. Francis his Sleeve for their Casuist Navar tells of him that being asked which way the murtherer did flee that ran by him St. Francis putting his hand into his Sleeve answered he went not that way meaning his Sleeve Navar tom 3. cap. 12. But wheresoever the Jesuits so happily hit of it I know not yet surely this new trick they have abundantly exposed as a choice and Soveraign Unction and whereby they can slip all Examinations all Impositions and all Oaths and Obligations whatsoever Thus their casuistical Rabbies teach their Novices and Disciples If any man or Magistrate do examine you whether you did such a deed or no Though you did it yet may you answer I did it not provided you reserve in your mind that your meaning is not at this time when he asks or not to tell him or some such like Evasions whereof they have plenty and this they judge not only lawful but necessary This is their general Doctrine whereby they quite overthrow not only the nature of all humane Testimonies but also the genuine Juncture of all Humane Societies as famous Sir Walter Rawleigh upon his History of Joshua's Oath to the Gibeonites most excellently and amply sheweth saying That it admits of no Evasion or distinction neither leaves it any hole at all open to creep out at to that cunning perfidiousness and horrible deceit of this latter Age called Aequivocation that God-mocking Sin to swear one thing and mean another is found among Image worshippers which are of an Apish Religion they break no faith saith he that have no Faith to break whosoever hath true Faith and the fear of God dare not do so God will not be mocked Gal. 6.7 Gustavus King of Sweden told the Jesuits they would neither preach Faith to others nor keep Faith with others they could play fast and loose with their Equivocations 11. The fourth Jesuitical Principle destructive to common safety is Their Oath of blind Obedience 'T is notoriously known that in all Popish Seminaries the old Foxes The Fathers impose an Oath of Obedience upon all their young Plants and Novices wherein they Vow Obedience to their general Fathers in those Schools as those General Fathers are all sworn Vassals to their Grandfather the Pope whatever Errand they send them they must walk and work they must run per Mare per Terras c. even the Devils Round Job 1.7 and the Devils Errands and not dispute but dispatch what they are commanded without any Hesitation This Oath of blind Obedience saith that Royal Interpreter of Revel 13.16 17. King James in his Premonition to all Princes p. 93. is the mark of the Beast in their right hand signifying their actual implicit Obedience unto that Beast which thinks he cannot err whatever the Pope or under him their Superior commands them their hand that hath received this mark must execute their Command though it be to Rebel against Depose or Destroy rheir Natural King and Native Kingdoms see much more to that purpose Idem ibidem All this the Jesuits are sworn to King James shows in their Oath de caecâ Obedientiâ and in the English Seminaries beyond Sea the young Jesuits take this Oath to wit to return to England and to Convert their Countrymen and Kindred when and as often as it shall seem good to the Superior of that Colledge see Fuller's Church History Cent. 16. Book 9. p. 92. This Oath of blind Obedience Jesuiticos Pontificios ad omnia Imperia quantumvis impia superiorum spiritualium suorum Exequenda paratissimos Reddit makes the Jesuitiz'd Papists or Jesuits to be ready pressed for performing all the Precepts of their spiritual Superiors though never so wickedly hainous for those Superiors do sometimes injoyn conceited Coxcombs and that under the opinion of some supererogating merit such things as are very pernicious to Kings and Kingdoms Alas there is too plain proof hereof in both former and later years both in this and other Kingdoms see Dr. Davenant determ Quaest 17. p. 83. circa finem 12. Hence it is that such swarms of Jesuits are poured in upon us out of those foreign Seminaries which do plainly threaten an inundation from the See of Rome The Royal Interpreter King James aforesaid upon Revel 16.13 14. in his Premonition to all Princes p. 96 97. makes the Jesuits to be the three unclean Spirits like Frogs coming out of the mouth of the Dragon of the Beast and of the false Prophet This Sect he saith of unclean Spirits were raised up for the defence of the falling Throne of Antichrist by the ignorance of its Priests whereof few then were able to read Latin much less to understand it Those Spirits thus spewed out from this three-fold Authority Satan Antichrist and the Apostate Church for defence of their Triple-Crown'd Monarch are well likened to Frogs for they are Amphibious and can live in either Element Earth or Water Church or State for though they be Churchmen by Profession yet can they use the Trade of Politick Statesmen going to the Kings of the Earth c. And rather than fail that they may with less observation draw people off from Obedience c. by their subtle Insinuations they scruple not to change their Names to put on laick Habits yea and undertake any Callings of Handy-craft c. either in City or Country so that a Jesuit may be found among all Ranks of men even from the Noble Man to the Dust Man and of any Trade or Profession in England yea in the Pulpit also