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A17864	An examination of those plausible appearances which seeme most to commend the Romish Church, and to preiudice the reformed Discovering them to be but meere shifts, purposely invented, to hinder an exact triall of doctrine by the Scriptures. By Mr Iohn Cameron. Englished out of French.; Traicté auquel sont examinez les prejugez de ceux de l'église romaine contre la religion reformée. English	Cameron, John, 1579?-1625.; Pinke, William, 1599?-1629.	1626 (1626)	STC 4531; ESTC S107409	97,307	179

which to speake truely sustaineth the Romish Church she rather vpholdeth them by whom she is said to be vpheld So they cannot properly be tearmed her Patrons Shee domineers over them even in temporall matters she holdes their authorities and estates fastned to her beckand pleasure It s a small matter for her to vsurp the power of excommunicating them vnlesse she also take vpon her the authority to depriue them of their sovera●gneties When it pleaseth her she plucks away the scepter tramples the crownes vnder her feet so that now a strange alteration the nursing father trembles before his nursling and the Guardian stands in feare of his pupil● not with such a feare wherewith of●imes God strikes his enemies a feare proceeding from a secret cause when he hath caused his uoice Touch not mine annointed to giue a startling sound to the most inhumane and sauage hearts but with an affrighting apprehension of conspiracies poyniards powder-plots the ruine of their estates and reuolt of their subiects O barbarous and vnnaturall pupill o vnfortunate and ill-rewarded Protectors What shall the Church which vsurpeth this authority practiseth this cruelty be the true Church surely he hit the point well who was the first that said that deuotion begate wealth but the daughter devoured the mother A prodigious child deliuery that Religion should send forth so vnnaturall a monster so contrary to the disp●sition of its mother But it was the purpose of God He had foretold that Kings should giue their kingdomes to the Beast that they should vndergoe its yoake This prediction was to be accomplished Now then l●t the Romish Church proceede and pra●cke it lusti●y let her triūph in this imperiall greatnesse seeing it is the greatnesse of the Beast let her scorne at our homelinesse and scoff at our penury seing it is the condition of the Church CHAP X. That the Ceremonies of the Romish Church doe not Commend but disparage her BVt let vs examine whether the multitude of ceremonies in the Romish ●hurch can giue her that title which her pompe cannot and whether the want of such a troupe amongst vs will procure vs that disparagement which the meanesse of our estate cannot Certainely all alike one as much as the other So that wee still stand vpon the same tearmes with them their glory shameth them our ignominy honoureth vs their ceremonies make them superstitious our simplicitie notifieth that we haue the true Religion· This will clearely be discerned if we consider that there was indeede time whē the ceremonies the rudimēts of the world had place and were vsefull in the Church of God who then manifested himselfe in types and shadowes But this time lasted no longer then whilst the Church was in her infancie while the heire was a child he was to be gouerned as a child his tendernesse being not capable of a full liberty and of a manlike instruction The day spring from on high the sunne of righteousnesse was not yet risen The bodie of the shadowes the truth of the figures was not then exhibited But the fullnesse of time being accomplished the time of the Churches infancy being expired the heire being come to a perfect stature the Sunne of righteousnesse being already risen the body and rea l truth being now represented the rudiments of the world tooke their leaue the shadowes vanished the types gaue place to truth the carnall schoole-mastership yeelded to a spirituall liberty obscurity and imperfection to clearnesse and perfection For this cause the Apostle said Let no man condemne you in meate or in drinke or in respect of an Holy day or of the new moone or of the Sabbath daies the reason was because these things were shadowes of things to come but the body as he addes Christ· Proceeding farther he comes even to cut off a●l those ceremonies which were got into the Church by humane institution If ye be dead saith he with Christ from the rudiments of the world why a● though liuing in the world are ye subiect to ordinances Touch not taste not handle not which are to perish with the vsing after the commandements and doctrines of men which things haue indeede a shew of wisedome in will worship and humilitie in that they spare not the body and haue no regard to the satisfying of the flesh What could be more effectually and vrgently spoken for the banishment of ceremonies out of the Church for by this we see that they are altogether incompatible with the nature of the Church vnder the Gospell 1 the Church is dead with Christ and so to liue spiritually 2 these ordinances are a burden the Lord hath eased her of it 3 they are perishable true piety is permanent 4 they are doctrines of men the doctrine of Gods worship is divine sent downe from heauen 5 They haue a flash of humane wisedome some shew of humilitie but they are indeede will-worships Vainely then and impertinently in this case are the pretences of a good meaning vsed meere fig-leaue couerings It is for Princes to prescribe rules according to which they will be serued not for subiects to inuent them to themselues he is a ●ebell who attempts it How much more rebellious shall the bole sacriledge of them be accounted who either bringe in to or keepe in the church a seruice of God patched vp meerely of humane institutions The more these ceremonies increase the more vnm●nnerly presumption and sacriledge there is in the Church and shall they be the markes of a true Church Let vs consider the Primitiue Church flourishing more in times of the Apostles then euer it did afterwards who will not admire her great simplicity in all points and especially in ceremonies For excepting the celebration of baptisme by washing of water and of the holy supper according to the lords institution in taking the bread and wine and distributing them after thanks giuing excepting also the imposition of hands vpon those which extraordinarily receiued the holy Gost whether it weare in a generall calling or a particular to a charge in the Church and annealing for a miraculus effect of healing the fick I say these excepted their will not be found any other ceremony in those primitiue times so admirable was their simplicity But the number of them was multiplied after wards not by diuine but by humane institutiō St. Austē entring in to discourse about ceremonies with Ianuarius s●yes wel that our Lord hath subiected vs to ā easie yoke and a light burden and therefore hath vnited his new people by the sacraments very few in number v●ry easy to be o●serued very excellent in their signification as is Baptisme cons●crated in the name of the Trin●ty and the Communion of his body and b●ood and if their bee any other thing commended in Scripture not comprehending the ceremonies which are to bee read in the Pentateuch which made the seruitude of the

tyrannicall This is their comfort that they haue gotten on the one side that which they haue lost on the other so they would haue it choosing rather to be subiect to one who is far from them and whose greatnesse dependeth of theirs then to many which are neare them and whose lustre might obscure theirs In regard of this order therefore there is no succession in the Church of Rome In the ancient Church there were Elders tearmed Presbyteri from whence came the name of Prebsters Priests But the Priests of the Romish Church retaine nothing of them but the name Their Principall office was to teach and instruct where as the Romish Priests for the most part are vnlearned idiots and by consequence are no otherwise successours of those Primitiue ones then darknesse pouerty sicknesse succeed light wealth health Now this default cannot be excused by alleaging that it is the fault of the persons for so it is in Ecclesiasticall functions that were the incapacity of the person is the function cannot bee I call here the incapacity not simply the fault of the person but the impossibility of discharging the function The womā which hath no milke cannot be a nurse and if she take the office of one who hath vpon her this cannot be in the qualitie of a nurse shee cannot be a nurse beyond the name So he which hath not in some sort the abilities requisite for reaching he cannot possibly be a teacher if he succeede one that could and did teach he succeedeth him not as teacher but onely in his name Moreouer the Principall part of the priests office consisteth now a dayes in mumbling of masse and in being sacrificers of which there is no mention in the Primitiue ordination of Priests In the ancient Church there were Deacons now there are Deacons Archdeacons subdeacons But what haue these people of the ancient Deacons beside the name Take they any care of the poore yea they suck their blood by a cruell and importunate exaction of their reuenues Doe they serue tables yea themselues are sumptuously attended at their owne In a word seeing they doe not the office of the ancient Deacons how shall they be their successiours Concerning Monkes and Nunnes there will no● be found a syllable in scripture to signifie that there were any in the age of the Apostles St. Hierome who hath much extolled this profession fetcheth its originall from Paul the Hermite a faire time after the Apostles If else where he referreth its beginning to a time more ancient he contradicteth both himselfe and the truth being carried away by the excessiue affection he bare to this profession Howsoeuer the Monkes of these times cannot iustly be accounted the successours of these Monkes which St. Hierome so much commendeth What maketh a monke sayd he within citties These not onely abide in citties but euen in them build citties In St. Austens time it was theft for a Monk to beg now it is an especiall point of their sanctifie In St. Cyprians time it was not vnlawfull for him who had vowed continencie to marry afterwards now it 's a matter monstrously hereticall except when the Pope dispenceth with it who like a God vpon earth can doe whatsoeuer it pleaseth him and more also then God in heauen for he can make vice vertue and vertue vice by his dispensations CHAP XXVIII That the Ceremonies of the Romish Church are not of Apostolicall institution IF we consider the Ceremonies of the Romish Church we shall quickly see that the ancient simplicity and Apostolicall purity is not to be found in her that those decent customes of true antiquity are either quite changed by her or so extreamely abused that they are made vnprofitable In the flourishing time of the Apostles there was nothing vsed in baptisme but water afterwards there was added Chrisme and since that salt spittle What successiō haue these additions these new superfluities seing they had not their originall at the first institution of that sacrament The channell pipe as it were of succession here grew faulty and receaued in this stinking water running athwart The disguisement which they haue put vpon the holy supper is yet more prodigious they haue miserably and vnhappily mangled it they haue cleft the seale of the King of heauen in the middle and cast away the one halfe of it What is it that superstition dareth not to venture vpon We haue the institution canō of this holy sacrament recited by three Euangelists and by St. Paul Can there be any thing more pure more simple lesse stuffed with superfluous superstitious ceremonies lesse accompanied with pomp compliments Now compare with that purity simplicitie that nakednesse as I may say of ceremonies the histrionicall pomp the apish gestures and anticke trickes of the Masse can there be any thing imagined more vnlike vnto it and disproportionable What succession then may be conceiued or acknowledged where the dissimilitude is so great but a succession of evill to good or corruption to purity Moreouer what shall we say of their superstitious consecration of chappels altars pixes fonts Chalices plates vestiments holy oile holy bread holy water of their Beads Agnus Dei Images of their christning of Bells of the hallowing of ensignes and swords From whence will they fetch the institution of these trumperies Had they a heart of lead a face of iron a for●head of brasse yet they would not dare to affirme that any of these fopperies were in vse in the age of the Apostles What succession then of them can they pretend Lastly their processions their stately pompe at funeralls so Proud and magnificent that now they fondly liue and die altogether Came it from the Apostles Yea is it not a relique of the Pagā superstition CHAP. XXIX That there is no succession in respect of doctrine in the Romish Church BVt the worst of all is that they destitute of the succession of the truth which is the soule and life of the Church True antiquite beleeued that they which die in the Lord rest from their labours they beleeue that at their departure out of this life they goe to Purgatorie there to fry in as scorching a fire as that in hell True antiquity beleeved that when we shall haue done all that which is commanded vs we are but vnprofitable servants because wee shall haue done no more then was our dutie to doe They teach that man already culpable before God may merit eternall life ex condigno by exact proportion of the worke of the wages True antiquity beleeued that the sufferings of this present life are not sufficient to counterpoise the glory which is eternall They beleeue that they doe counterpoise them in merits Antiquitie beleeued that we are saued freely They beleeue that we are saved by the merit of our works Antiquitie beleeved that we are saved by grace through faith and that not of our selues it is the