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<P>A SHORT and SEASONABLE DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PROTESTANT AND A PAPIST: SHEWING The Indi&s;cretion and Unadvi&s;edne&s;s of all APOSTATES from the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Langley Curtis</HI> on <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dgate-Hill, 1679.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A SHORT and SEASONABLE DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PROTESTANT AND A PAPIST: SHEWING The Unadvi&s;edne&s;s and Indi&s;cretion of all APOSTATES from the Go&s;pel.</HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>PROTESTANT.</SPEAKER>
<P>Good morrow Neighbour.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Papi&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>I would al&s;o bid you Good morrow were it not for your Here&s;ie, but I am bound to be an Enemy of your Religion and its Profe&s;&s;ors.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Protestant.</SPEAKER>
<P>How come you to be bound to &s;uch an unrea&s;onable temper? Have we not lived many years as good Neighbours? I never wrong'd you, but have been always ready to &s;erve and help you according to my power; I have lent you Money ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of my Pocket, and you never de&s;ired any kindne&s;s from me that ever I refu&s;ed. Why are you now &s;o &s;trange? why will you now be at enmity with your Friends upon the account of Re|ligion?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Papist.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;hall be excommunicated if I countenance and favour &s;uch as you are, and be curs'd to the Pit of Hell by my mo&s;t Holy Father.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Prote&s;tant.</SPEAKER>
<P>He mu&s;t be a very unrea&s;onable Tyrant that will require any &s;uch ridiculous and wicked re&s;olution from you, as pernicious to your &s;elf as to us <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in this Nation; for, if you declare enmity again&s;t us, can you expect our protection where we are Ma&s;ters? if you &s;tudy to embroil the Nation, can you de&s;ire from us to be treated as Friends and Coun|trymen? if in &s;tead of wi&s;hing us a good morning, or a good day, you are plotting to cut our
<PB N="4" REF="3"> Throats, can you in rea&s;on and ju&s;tice expect to live in &s;afety among&s;t us? Who&s;oever there|fore hath given you this ill devili&s;h temper, and enmity again&s;t your Countrymen and Neig|bours, never wi&s;h'd you well. They &s;eek your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uine and ours together, and to advantage them&s;elves by the Tumults and Di&s;orders of the Nation. Don't you perceive their wicked de&s;igns to de&s;troy us all, under the pretence of Religion, and to &s;et over us a foreign Power, a <HI>Frenchman</HI> or an <HI>Italian?</HI> and mu&s;t not you be a Mad-man to encourage &s;o great a Trea&s;on again&s;t your Natural Prince and Countrymen? Have you more inclination to be a Slave to a Foreigner, than to enjoy the freedom of a Subject? are you &s;o blind to think that God's ho|nour is promoted by your enmity with us? Let our Here&s;ie be never &s;o great, That relates to our &s;elves, not to you. You may enjoy the liberties of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Subjects, and the Laws would never have concern'd them&s;elves with you, no otherwi&s;e than with the re&s;t of the Nati|on, were you but as peaceably affected and di&s;po&s;ed as they are all, and as mindful of the Publick &s;afety. Why will you by your hatred draw upon your &s;elves tho&s;e mi&s;chiefs, puni&s;h|ments, and re&s;traints, which you may avoid by being as good to us as we have de&s;ired to be to you?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Papi&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;peak rea&s;on, were not the bu&s;ine&s;s of Religion concerned, and the glory of our God. But this makes us not only hazard our lives and fortunes, but declare an unrecon|cilable hatred to our deare&s;t Relations whom we judge to be contrary to the &s;ame. We cannot be well affected to tho&s;e who are not &s;o to our Pope and the holy Ma&s;s, which two things we honour above all earthly concerns, and cannot &s;uffer the lea&s;t thought which might injure &s;o tender a part of our Religion. This makes us look upon you&punc; Hereticks, though our Country|men, as the greate&s;t Enemies of truth and goodne&s;s; and the more a ver&s;e we are to you, the more we &s;hall merit Heaven, and de&s;erve the greater favour from Chri&s;t and his Vicar.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Protestant.</SPEAKER>
<P>What a &s;trange Per&s;wa&s;ion is this? what Infatuation hath po&s;&s;e&s;s'd your Souls? Religion do ye &s;ay, is your Religion the cau&s;e of your enmity again&s;t us your Brethren? is it your Religion that prompts you and per&s;wades you to be cruel and inhumane to your own blood, to nouri&s;h hatred in your minds, and break out into Di&s;orders and Barbarities? From &s;uch a Religion, good Lord deliver us&punc; My Friend, pray tell me what is the Religion thou do&s;t profe&s;s. Is it Chri&s;t's Religion; or the Pope's?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Papi&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>They two are but one, for I am a <HI>Roman Catholick,</HI> taught to live according to the Rules of Chri&s;t and his ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tles, as they have been delivered to and by the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> the Mother of all other Churches of the World.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Prote&s;tant.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou delivere&s;t in few words a heap of the greate&s;t ab&s;urdities imaginable: Chri&s;t's Religion and the Pope's are two di&s;tinct Profe&s;&s;ions, as oppo&s;ite as Light and Darkne&s;s, as the <HI>Nadyr</HI> and the <HI>Z<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nith</HI> of the A&s;trologers, or as the <HI>Antipodes</HI> are to our Climate; for Chri&s;t's Religion allows of no bowing to, or before Images of Stone, Timber, Gold, or Sil|ver: the Pope's Religion commands this Idol-wor&s;hip, and furni&s;hes us with an infinite num|ber of Beads, Images, Cro&s;&s;es, Relicks, and &s;uch-like Trinkets that we are to reverence and wor&s;hip. Chri&s;t's Religion &s;aith, that we have but one Mediator betwixt God and Man, the Man Chri&s;t Je&s;us. The Pope's Religion &s;aith, that we have thou&s;ands and thou&s;ands of Saints and Angels, who&s;e Merits and Interce&s;&s;ion &s;ave us as well as the blood of the Lamb of God that was &s;acrificed for us upon the Cro&s;s. Chri&s;t's Religion teaches us that God hath made him alone the Head of the Church; and, though in Heaven, he governs all things ac|cording to his plea&s;ure on Earth, he defends his People, &s;aves them from ruine and de&s;tructi|on; he di&s;&s;appoints the Plots of wicked Men. The Pope's Religion &s;aith that the Pope is the Head of the Chri&s;tian Church, by who&s;e wi&s;dom and direction we are to govern our acti|ons;
<PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y"> and that he hath power to aboli&s;h the Laws of God, and e&s;tabli&s;h new ones at his plea|&s;ure. Chri&s;t's Religion hath recommended to us two Sacraments, as Seals of the Covenant of Grace: The Pope's Religion &s;aith there are &s;even. Chri&s;t's Religion teaches how we are to admini&s;ter the&s;e two Sacraments, Bapti&s;m, and the Lord's Supper, as he hath &s;hewed us in the Go&s;pel. The Pope's Religion hath introduced Salt, Oyl, and &s;o many conjuring Tricks, Motions, and various Po&s;tures, that agree not with the holy &s;implicity of the Go&s;pel, nor with the e&s;&s;ential parts of Chri&s;tian Religion. Chri&s;t's Religion hath no Ma&s;&s;es, Tran&s;ub|&s;tantiation, Pilgrimages, and &s;uch-like Fopperies, that render the <HI>Papists</HI> ridiculous to their <HI>Heathen</HI> and <HI>Mahometan</HI> Neighbours. Chri&s;t's Religion commands Hone&s;ty, Charity, Love, Mercy to Enemies, as well as Friends, enjoins an obedience to all the Moral Law; forbids Cruelty, Rebellion, Murder, Adultery, Fornication, and &s;uch-like wickedne&s;s contrary to the Light of Rea&s;on. The Pope's Religion teaches Inhumanities, encourages Faction and Rebellion, uncleanne&s;s, and Di&s;orders; and for worldly ends allows of the greate&s;t Villanies and Abu&s;es. How can you think now that the&s;e two Religions are but one, that are &s;o con|trary in their Principles? Pretences and Cloaks will avail nothing to palliate the&s;e fowl Acti|ons and Doctrines. All the World &s;ees that what I have here &s;aid of them both is true. The Church of <HI>Rome</HI> never learn'd from Chri&s;t, nor his Apo&s;tles, to murder Kings, to a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate Princes, to ma&s;&s;acre millions of Souls, to di&s;pence with Oaths, to forbid Matrimony, to al|low Concubines, to countenance Crimes, to encourage Sin. The Church of <HI>Rome</HI> never had from Chri&s;t, nor his holy Apo&s;tles, any thing of the Doctrines of <HI>Prergatory,</HI> Tran&s;ub&s;tan|tiation, the Merits of the Saints, the wor&s;hipping of Angels, and a great deal more that I pur|po&s;ely omit.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Papi&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>From hence I warrant you you will conclude, that <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> are no Chri&s;tians.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Prote&s;tant.</SPEAKER>
<P>They are Chri&s;tians by name, and our comprehen&s;ive charity will allow them &s;omething more, to be Chri&s;tians becau&s;e of their Chri&s;tian Initiation by Bapti&s;m, though corrupted and &s;ophi&s;ticated with their idle Inventions. But they are no Chri&s;tians in reality, if they ob&s;erve &s;trictly the Rules of their Popi&s;h Religion, and &s;tick clo&s;e to the Doctrines and Commands of the Pope. They for&s;ake Chri&s;t and his Go&s;pel when they allow them&s;elves li|berty to &s;in by the Pope's Authority, and may be reckon'd among&s;t the Apo&s;tats of Chri&s;ti|anity, becau&s;e they begin well, and ingage them&s;elves by Bapti&s;m to Chri&s;t's mo&s;t holy Pro|fe&s;&s;ion; but immediately after they deviate from it, and run head long a quite contrary way to that which Chri&s;t hath appointed by his Commands and holy Examples. They are Chri&s;ti|ans as the <HI>Arrians, Socintans,</HI> and other Hereticks that denyed the Divinity of our ble&s;&s;ed Redeemer, and other Fundamentals of the Chri&s;tian Faith. They are as the circumci&s;ed <HI>Jews</HI> that embrac'd the Idolatries of Pagani&s;m, and left the Religion which God had com|manded them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Papi&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>But how comes it to pa&s;s that &s;ome of your Mini&s;ters &s;ay, that it is po&s;&s;ible for <HI>Pa|pi&s;ts</HI> to be &s;aved, if they be not, or &s;uch bad Chri&s;tians as you have repre&s;ented.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Prote&s;tant.</SPEAKER>
<P>I think there is none but a Flatterer that will &s;ay, that it is po&s;&s;ible to be &s;aved by the Religion of the Church of <HI>Rome;</HI> for not &s;alvation, but damnation is declared and threatened in Gods Holy Word, to all &s;uch Per&s;ons as &s;hall for&s;ake Chri&s;t and his Merits, to rely upon Saints and Angels, as &s;hall practice all tho&s;e abominations that the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> recommends to us. It may be &s;ome out of a very great Charity may &s;ay, that it is po&s;&s;ible to be in the Communion of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Church, and yet obtain &s;alvation from the infinite good|ne&s;s of a God who&s;e mercy is above all his works. It belongs not to us to tell who are, and who are not &s;aved. It is an impudency in Man to pre&s;cribe Rules and Laws to the great
<PB N="6" REF="4"> Creator, and appoint whom he &s;hall, and whom he &s;hall not admit into his <HI>Paradi&s;e</HI> and glo|ry; or to cur&s;e, or damn his Fellow Creatures. God may wa&s;h and clean&s;e from &s;in the vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t of Men, and the impure&s;t of Heathens; and pardon them all their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, and make them partakers of the blood of a cruci&s;ied Chri&s;t, by an infu&s;ed Faith at the moment of their departure out of the World: God may find out means that we are not aware of, to &s;ancti|fie and glorifie whom he plea&s;eth. Therefore we may &s;ay, that &s;uch may be &s;aved notwith|&s;tanding their former unworthine&s;s and ba&s;ene&s;s; but 'tis not by that Life they led on Earth. Thus we confe&s;s many good and religious <HI>Roman</HI> Catholicks may be &s;aved, but not by that Religion which they profe&s;s; not by Ma&s;&s;es, <HI>Purgatory,</HI> Images, the Merits of Saints; for we may confidently affirm, that by the&s;e things no Man can be &s;aved. This Charity of ours &s;hould not encourage you in your Errours and Here&s;ies, but rather oblige you to for&s;ake them: For, is it a &s;ufficient Rea&s;on for a Man to ca&s;t him&s;elf Over-board, to &s;ay he may by chance &s;wim to Shore through the Billows of the Sea, when he may be &s;afely carried to Land other|vi&s;e, by abiding in the Ship. The Thiefs fate upon the Cro&s;s makes us believe that Thieves and Robbers may at la&s;t find a gracious Saviour, and a good God to pardon them: but is this the way to obtain it, to rob our Neighbours, and plunder their E&s;tates? A Man may e&s;cape through a Fire, and only his Clothes may be &s;inged, but we mu&s;t no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> therefore ca&s;t our &s;elves in|to it without a nece&s;&s;ity. But let me tell you Neighbour, if you, or any other <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> knows the truth, and wilfully &s;hut your Eyes to all the di&s;coveries of it; if you &s;ee your errour and mi&s;takes, and think that by profe&s;&s;ing them you may be &s;aved, you will find your &s;elves cozened at la&s;t; for Gods grace &s;eldom or never works upon an ob&s;tinate heart, hardened by wilful con|tinuance in a known Sin, or Errour; and there is no &s;alvation to be expected for a re&s;olved lover of Vice or Errour, who prefers them to his Duty, and Gods holy Commands.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Papi&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>But how comes it to pa&s;s, that &s;o many ingenuous and learned Men, who&s;e Byes are as much open as yours, or your Mini&s;ters, not only continue in our Religion, but now a-days for&s;ake your Religion to return again to the Religion of the Pope of <HI>Rome,</HI> and are zealous <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> as you call them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Prote&s;tant.</SPEAKER>
<P>Truly it may &s;eem a very great wonder, that Men of any rea&s;on in them, not preju|dic'd by Education, &s;hould embrace &s;o ridiculous a Religion, &s;o full of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">opperies and Extravagan|ces as yours is of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> and &s;hould become &s;o great Enemies of their humane Nature, and of their pre&s;ent, as well as of their future Intere&s;t. Ridiculous I call the Popi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Religion, becau&s;e it teaches that a bald-pated Pope can forgive me all my &s;ins, di&s;pen&s;e with the Laws of God, change and alter the fundamental Laws of the humane Nature: It reache<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> us to pray to God and the Saints in unknown Tongues, wherein Men &s;peak as often Non&s;en&s;e as Rea&s;on: It teaches us to call upon them that cannot hear us, nor yield any a&s;&s;i&s;tance in time of need; that a piece of Bread with a few words is altered into an humane Body, like that of our Saviours upon the Cro&s;s: that though it ta&s;tes like Bread, and looks like Bread, or a Wafer, that it is a real Saviour, a Chri&s;t, an <HI>Emanuel,</HI> a God, and what not: That we mu&s;t not believe all our Sen&s;es, but give them the Lye on this occa&s;ion: That this tran&s;ub&s;tantlated Body is circum&s;cribed by place and time, and yet every where upon every Prie&s;ts Fingers: That their God is to be eaten by Mice and Rats, carried away by Devils, and abu&s;ed by wick|ed Men, and &s;ubject to all the a&s;tronts that the meane&s;t of Creatures are &s;ubject to, or &s;uch ridiculous and extravagant fancies&punc; that no Man of any rea&s;on can entertain any &s;uch wild opinions of his omnipotent and infinite Maker, or make profe&s;&s;ion of a Religion that advances any &s;uch horrid ab&s;urdities. It may &s;eem very &s;trange, that Men of any rea&s;onable Education can yield to any &s;uch Doctrines as are Con&s;equents to the Tran&s;ub&s;tantiation, the wor&s;hip|ping
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y"> of Images, the praying to Saints and Angels, the Fancies of <HI>Purgatory,</HI> the Indulgen|ces of <HI>Rome,</HI> and &s;uch-like Opinions, which are &s;o plainly repugnant with our Rea&s;on, that none but Mad-men and Fools, none but Blind-men and So<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, can &s;ubmit to &s;uch inhu|mane and unrea&s;onable Impie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ies, which are as prejudicial to a glorious God, as they are to a rea&s;onable Soul, and tend to give us &s;uch mean conceits of our great Creator, that the&s;e Do|ctrines mu&s;t needs proceed from the Devil, the great Enemy of us both, &s;eeing they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">end to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urn God into <HI>ridicul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Papi&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hold, hold; we can &s;hew the Word of God to prove all the&s;e things that you won|der at, and the Writings of the holy Fathers; unto them you &s;ay that our rea&s;on ought to &s;ubmit and yield obedience, and why not in the&s;e Particulars?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Prote&s;tant.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is a great mi&s;take, to &s;ay the Word of God, or the approved Fathers of the Primitive Church allows your errours. Where have you any thing of Ma&s;&s;es, <HI>Purgatory,</HI> Tran|&s;ub&s;tantiation, bowing to Images, praying to Saints and Angels, and &s;uch-like things, in the Word of God, or the Writings of the Fathers? but rather we can &s;hew you out of them Pa&s;|&s;ages contrary to the&s;e Errours. I de&s;ire not that you &s;hould &s;hew me the names, but the things &s;ignified thereby. It is impo&s;&s;ible, whatever your Doctors &s;ay, to &s;hew the lea&s;t &s;ign of tho&s;e Doctrines, that we deny to be Chri&s;tian, or rational. I could mention &s;everal Pa&s;&s;ages that &s;peak the contrary, which, becau&s;e they are well known, I &s;hall omit. But are not Men ridiculous and blind, in hopes of preferment, or for worldly advantages, to become <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> when they may &s;afely profe&s;s a better, and a more rea&s;onable Religion, not guilty of &s;uch wild and mad Principles? They are Fools that will prefer the pre&s;ent advantages, benefits, and honours of Life, to the immortal po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions and glories of Eternity; they are wor&s;e than Fools that cannot &s;ee the Extravagancy of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Faith: and what &s;hall we &s;ay of tho&s;e that &s;ee it, and ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> embrace it? Men that are brought up in the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Religion, as it is mi&s;-called, but &s;hould be rather named the old <HI>Catholick Apo&s;tolick</HI> Religion, which Chri&s;t and his holy Apo&s;tles have profe&s;&s;ed before us, and recommended to the Doctors and Bi&s;hops of the fir&s;t Ages, and they have delivered to us, and which is recorded for us in the Word of God. Men that &s;ee the follies of an implicite Faith, and the dangers they run into by deny|ing Rea&s;on that liberty which God and Nature allow it; Men that are not b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;&s;ed to the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> by Education, that &s;uch men &s;hould for&s;ake the Church of <HI>England,</HI> and become <HI>Papi&s;ts:</HI> after that they have had a full Pro&s;pect and Knowledge of Chri&s;t and his Go&s;pel, is a &s;trange My&s;tery that we cannot very well under&s;tand, nor unfold, unle&s;s we knew all the Intrigues of their Lives, and the Inclinations of their Hearts However &s;uch men, let their Rea&s;on and Learning be never &s;o great, become ridiculous in the Eyes of their unprejudiced Neighbours. Their uncon&s;tancy is an unpardonable Crime, which a <HI>Turk</HI> or a <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ew,</HI> looks upon to be a great di&s;grace in this ca&s;e, unle&s;s the Errour be palpable; but to be uncon&s;tant in the ways of God, to for&s;ake his Word, and his Religion, to &s;tifle the motions of Con&s;cience, to abandon our Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, in his Promi&s;es and ever|la&s;ting Rewards, to make profe&s;&s;ion of &s;o ridiculous and &s;o in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">umane a Religion as the <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|pi&s;h,</HI> &s;o directly oppo&s;ed to that of our Ble&s;&s;ed Saviours, is an uncon&s;tancy and weakne&s;s that is aggravated with the mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ainous Circum&s;tances, in regard that Religion appears &s;o fooli&s;h and childi&s;h in the Eyes of all rational men, and recommends to them &s;uch Fop|peries and Whim&s;eys, that none that hath the lea&s;t &s;hare in this light of Nature, can well entertain them without blinding this Natural Eye. If we &s;hould &s;earch into the Souls of tho&s;e under&s;tanding per&s;ons, as Apo&s;tatize to the Pope, we &s;hould find them to be either <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hei&s;ts,</HI> Men of no Faith, nor Belief of God, Hell, or Heaven; of the Rewards of the,
<PB N="8" REF="5"> one, or the Puni&s;hments of the other; &s;uch are inclinable to any Religion that may &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e with their chief aim to render their lives plea&s;ant upon Earth, and may agree with their Delights and Intere&s;ts; or they are &s;en&s;ual Worldlings, who are per&s;waded of the Being of God, and of Rewards and Puni&s;hments of another life, but are willing to cheat them&s;elves into a per&s;wa&s;ion and po&s;&s;ibility of obtaining Heaven without &s;uch a &s;trict adherence to <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> and his Religion. Their &s;trong inclinations to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;t bia&s;&s;es their Judgments before their minds, and leads them headlong into their Eternal Damnation; many are turned to <HI>Popery</HI> more by Lu&s;t than by Rea&s;on, becau&s;e it is a Religion that allowes them that liberty which the &s;trict Rules of the Go&s;pel forbid: And after all their plea&s;ures and follies, it a&s;tures them of obtaining a Heaven for a little Mony. Neighbour, I would not have you, nor any one el&s;e, to ground your Faith upon &s;o un&s;ound a Foundation as mens lu&s;tful Ap|pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es, which occa&s;ions their change, but &s;ettle it upon God's holy Word which will never fail you. There you &s;hall &s;ee that <HI>Popery</HI> is the Devil's Religion, which by Blood-&s;hed and Cruelties &s;trives to &s;ettle his Empire upon the Souls and Con&s;ciences of men, and to lead them into everla&s;ting Perdition. There you &s;hall under&s;tand that <HI>Popery</HI> is a Politick Contri|vance to promote the Popes Empire in the World, to en&s;lave all Nations to his proud See, and to cau&s;e him to hold by the Power of the Keys what the <HI>Roman</HI> Empire held by the power of the Sword. But here in <HI>England</HI> we are not &s;o ea&s;ily cozen'd by him and his Wicked Agents, neither will we &s;ubmit to his horrid Abominations; though our &s;incerity and con&s;tancy co&s;t us our lives and fortunes, we &s;hall be glad to &s;acrifice them all in the main|tenance of God's Truth and Go&s;pel.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Pap.</SPEAKER>
<P>I thank you for your In&s;tructions, I &s;hall con&s;ider what you have &s;aid to me.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Prote&s;tant.</SPEAKER>
<P>I pray God you may, and that he would open your Eyes and the Under|&s;tandings of all Nations, that they may not &s;uffer them&s;elves to be cheated of their Honours, Glories, Monies, E&s;tates, and Souls, under the pretence of Religion, by the Pope and his Emi&s;&s;aries. That they may at la&s;t break the Fetters of the <HI>Roman</HI> Bondage, and free them&s;elves from the Tyranny of that Imperious City.</P>
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