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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44800	Mistery Babylon the mother of harlots discovered her rise, and when, with many of her sorceries, with her merchants of divers orders, and ranks, and merchandize of divers sorts this many hundred years, also her last merchants, with their delicate merchandise discovered : in answer to a book tituled The directory for the publick worship of God through England, Scotland, and Ireland, which now is the chief traffick her last reformed merchants trades with, in all these nations / published by F.H.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3173; ESTC R16766	30,606	42

made many orders and sent out many Merchants to carry abroad her traffique and her merchandize to the Nations and whole ships were filled full of it vessels full of it which went upon the Sea and road upon the waters upon Kindreds Tongues Nations and Peoples who received of her merchandize and bought of several sorts of merchandize which the several Merchants traded with who had several orders prescribed then as Popes ●ardinals Jesuites Fryers of many orders and Monks of many orders Jesuites of many orders and all these carryed their several wares traffique and many more Tradesmen many more merchants whom she sent out with her merchandize who have been made rich by her merchandize and other merchants were Bishops Arch-bishops Deacons Arch-Deacons Pryors and Covents Vicars Comissaries Chapters Chancellors Vice-Chancellors Doctors of Divinity Batchellors of Divinity Doctors of Art Masters of Art Batchellors of Art Priests and Curats by which they were made rich and abounded in Treasure And the Beast whom all the world wondred after compelled all to worship him both small and great upon which the whore rides the scarlet-coloured Beast which hath guarded all her Merchants and made all Nations buy their ware and hath compelled all People to buy the whores Sorceries even all the invented and heathenish trumperies which the whore hath patched up and their Merchants painted over which they have patched up some from the Jews some from the Heathen some from the Saints words mixt with their own imaginations and deceit and has holden forth these as the publick worship in the Nations and Kindreds Tongues and Peoples their many Creeds many Confessions of the Faith many Catechismes and many forms of worship and when the people is weary of one sort of Merchandize then brings another in more deceitfull and worse and the Beast hath compelled the Nations to buy it and to hold it as the publick profession of the Nations though never so unsound and rotten though damnable doctrines and doctrines of Devils though invented and heretical opinions invented since the Apostles dayes yet cryes the Beast the Church hath ordained it and the antient Fathers has agreed upon it and the Councels has confirm'd it and the Devines has ratified it and the Bishops and Arch-bishops and reverend Fathers has confirmed it and recommended it for Orthodox and Authentick And therefore sayes the beast upon which the whore rides the false Church the mother of Harlots if you will not agree to it you are Hereticks for the Church has power to censure you to excommunicate you and to curse you and to deliver you up to Satan and then the beast having made Laws for the sale of the whores Sorceries and for the guarding of her Merchants and their ships if you consent not to the Articles of the Faith and Confessions you break the Law of the Nations and are not subject to Authority and now you are not punished for Religion sake nor for Christs sake nor the Gospels sake but as evill-doers and Transgressors of the Laws of our Kingdom or Nation and thus the mother of Harlots which got up since the Apostacy who hath drunk the blood of the Saints and shed the blood of the Martyrs and slain the witnesses and hath put to many cruel deaths She saith I am clear we kill none for Conscience sake we persecute none for the Gospels sake nor Christs sake nor for Religions sake but you suffer as Hereticks and you have transgressed the law of Kings Emperors Councels and Parliaments and are enemies to States and Governments and Rule in breaking their wholsom Laws cryes the Harlot who hath lost the savour and her Merchants which calls that which stinks and is corrupt wholsome and so saith the beast we persecute you not for Religion neither in persons liberties or estates but the Church hath recommended this Doctrine these Articles of Faith these Creeds and Pater-nosters this publick worship or that mass-Masse-book or that Common prayer-Prayer-book or this Directory and are not they the fittest to judge of Religion who hath the Tongues and the Original and is fittest to give meanings and interpretations of the Scripture And therefore we make a Law that the Masse-book shall be holden out for the publick profession of these Nations as the Pope Cardinals Jesuits and Fryers think fit and that the Common Prayer-book be holden forth as the publick worship which the Bishops Arch-bishops Deacons Arch-Deacons hath recommended unto us as that which is consonant and agreeable to the primitive times and to the Church which hath been established so many hundred years and whosoever will not consent and perform all the Rites and ceremonies let him be indicted and let him be presented and let him be cited to appear before a Bishop and let him imprison him and fine him and take away some of his Estate and excommunicate him and then its fit that the Secular power take notice of him for transgre●sing of their Law and pillory him or cut off his ears or stigmatize him and banish him and let his Estate be confiscate to the King or Prince against whom he hath transgressed for he suffers as an Evil-doer and hath brought this upon himself because he would not be subject to our Church orders and to the laudable Customs of our Nations or Country And saith some other of the whores Merchants who are of another order distinct from the rest and carries other sorts of ware and traffiques with other sorts of Merchandize and some newer fashion which is liker to bewitch people they cry out to the Rulers of the Earth to propagate their trading and their merchandize and saith it were fit that some Doctors and Orthodox men were called together to consider and consult about their trade and what sort of ware or traffique will most bewitch people and inchant their minds that so her Ships may go on the Sea for if Kindreds Tongues and People will not buy her ware her Ships cannot go and their trade will goe down if ever Nations come to the Rock or people come to some stability or know the precious treasure and the heavenly treasure in the earthen vessels they will buy no more of us if the Sea be dried up that no more a gallant Ship can passe thereon nor never a Gally with oars then we shall all turn bankrupts and then may we cry alas alas we that have been made rich are now become poor therefore what doe we do let us take counsel together and if any tell that they have obtained the heavenly treasure and are come to the durable riches and to the treasure that cankers not and that they have found it in themselves then let us cry out its heresie and damnable Doctrine and if any man shall say that they need no man to teach them but the annointing that dwels in them by which they know all things then let us give our vote with one consent that that 's a delusion and let us frame Arguments and say