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A30059 The contrariety of popery to the blessed word of God wherein may be seen that the doctrine and practice of the Church of Rome are not consistent with the sacred oracles of the Old and New Testament ... / written by Digby Bull ... Bull, Digby. 1695 (1695) Wing B5410; ESTC R8749 67,944 72

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Subjects are strictly commanded to be subject and obedient to their lawful Governors and are like to perish if they rise up against them And to command them to rebel and rise up against their lawful Governors is to command them to break these sacred Commands of the Gospel and to do that for which they are like to perish and be damned Rebellion Perjury and Murder are very great and black Crimes and for such are men like to go to the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone as St. John shews Rev. 21.8 Murderers and all Lyars are to have their part therein and perjured Persons may be reckoned in the front of Lyars To command men to do these things is to command men to do things which are extraordinary sinful and wicked and to be the great Firebrands of the world And yet such is the Practice of the Church of Rome to do these things flat contrary to the clear Commands of the Gospel of Christ and to the destroying of whole multitudes of men both here and hereafter too XV. Their debasing and vilifying of the blessed Word of God as obscure and dangerous and insufficient and productive of Errors and Heresies And their making their oral Traditions of as great Authority as the Word of God and letting them take place of it is sinful enough and inconsistent with the sacred Scriptures We are to believe that the Wisdom and Goodness of God hath taken sufficient care that the Canon of the sacred Scriptures should be perfect and compleat and that there should be no defect in them And we are to believe that they are plain and clear enough to direct all men to eternal Life that will diligently read them and hear them read and preached and carefully practise what they are taught therein And this is St. Paul's testimony of them 2 Tim. 3.15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation thro' faith which is in Christ Jesus These sacred Writings will furnish all men with sufficient Instructions for Salvation And saith he ver 16 All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness That the man of God may be perfect thorowly furnished unto all good works St. Paul doth here shew that the sacred Scriptures are sufficient to make men perfect and thorowly furnished with Instructions to all good works Tho' some places in them are somewhat dark and difficult to be understood yet such as will carefully mind these sacred Writings may there clearly see their duty and what they are to do that they may obtain eternal Life and there are no Instructions compararable to them And we may see that oral Traditions ought not to be had in as great a veneration as the sacred Word of God and be made of as great Authority For this would be little less than adding to the Word of God to make such Traditions as sacred and of as great Authority as it And this we are commanded not to do Deut. 4.2 Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you neither shall you diminish ought from it that ye may keep the Commandments of the Lord your God which I command you And Deut. 12.32 What thing soever I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it Thus strictly did God command that nothing should be added to or diminished from his sacred Word and Commandments And the Jews are sharply rebuked by our blessed Lord for making void the Commands of God by their Traditions Matt. 15.3 But he answered and said unto them Why do you also transgress the Commandment of God by your tradition For God commanded saying Honor thy father and mother and he that curseth father or mother let him dye the death But ye say whosoever shall say to his father or his mother It is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me and honor not his father or his mother he shall be free Thus have ye made the Commandment of God of none effect by your Tradition And saith he Mar. 7.7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men For laying aside the Commandment of God ye hold the tradition of men The Jews are sharply rebuked for setting up their Traditions so high and making the Word of God void by them and yet they pleaded as much for their Traditions as the Church of Rome can for her's And here we see how vain a thing it is for men to pretend to serve God while they teach for doctrines the commandments of men and follow their own vain traditions and make them of equal authority with the Word of God and prefer them before it And saith St. Paul to Titus Tit. 1.13 Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the Faith not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth The Commandments of men if they once come to vie with the sacred Word of God are utterly to be rejected By these places and what hath been said before we may see that it is great wickedness to set up any thing in competition with the sacred Word of God The Practice of the Church of Rome in undervaluing the blessed Word of God and setting up of Traditions in competition with it and preferring them before it is repugnant to the sacred Scriptures and a very great Crime XVI Lastly the bloody Cruelty of the Romish Church is not at all consistent with the Gospel of Christ The bloody Wars that have been raised by the Papists against the Protestants and such as refused the Communion of the Romish Church upon the account of Religion the cruel Inquisitions that have been set up in the Popish Countries the merciless Massacres that have been committed and perpetrated by them and the horrid and hellish Burnings that they have used towards the Protestants are not at all agreeable to the sacred Scriptures The Persecutions of the Romish Church exceed all the Persecutions of the Pagan Emperors and more Christian Blood hath been shed by Papists than ever was shed by the Heathen Emperors But such bloody Cruelty and such treacherous Murdering and destroying of men by thousands is not at all agreeable to the Gospel of the blessed Jesus the Prince of Peace that came to save mens Lives and not to destroy them When Solomon's Temple was built it was built without the noise of hammers and axes and iron tools 1 King 6.7 And the Gospel was introduced without the noise and use of iron-weapons Our blessed Saviour and his Apostles practised no such Cruelty and commanded no such thing to be practised by Christians but the quite contrary Our Saviour gave no positive command to his Disciples to take up the Sword as I conceive by those Words Luk. 22.36 And suffered St. Peter to cut off Malcus's ear ver 50 only that