A Golden Chain

The moral law containing perfect righteousness, is flat opposite to man• corrupt nature: therefore whatsoever Religion shall repeal and make of none effect the commandments of the moral law, that same religion must needs join hands with the corruption of nature, and stand for the maintenance of it. This doth the religion of the Church of Rome: it may be it doth not plainly repeal them, yet in effect it doth:^a & if it shall frustrate but any one point of any one commandment, yea, the whole law thereby is made in vain. 1. The first commandment requireth, that we have the true Jehovah for our only God: Church of Rome maketh other gods beside this true God: it maketh the body of Christ to be god, because they hold it may be in many places, in heaven, in earth at the same time, which thing is only proper to God. It maketh every Saint departed to be God, because it holdeth that Saints do hear us now being upon the earth, & that they know our thoughts when we pray to them, which none but the true God can do. It maketh the Pope to be God, and that in plain words. ^bPope Nicholas saith, Constat, summum Pontificem à pio principe Constantino Deum appellari: It is well known that the Pope of the godly prince Constantine was called God. Again, in ^cthe extra•agants of the same Cannon law it is written, Dominus Deus noster Papa, Our Lord God the Pope. And again,^d Christopher Marcellus said to the Pope, Tu es alter Deus in terris, Thou art another God upon earth: and the Pope took it to himself. As the Pope in plain words is made God, so the power given to him declareth the same. ^eHe can make holy that which is unholy, and justify the wicked and pardon sins: ^fhe may dispense contrary to the saying of •n Apostle: he can change the nature of things, and of nothing make somewhat.