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A64551	A vindication of the true Christian religion in opposition to the abominations of popery in a sermon upon Ezek. 21: 24,25,26,27 : being the text appointed by the Pope for Master Whitebread, one of the popish conspirators, to preach upon the accomplishing of their wicked design for taking away the life of His Most Sacred Majesty ... / by J. Thomas, Rect. of S. Nicholas.	Thomas, J. (John)	1679 (1679)	Wing T967; ESTC R30165	19,027	41

their call c. and the King heard thereof he was wroth and sent forth his Armies and destroyed those Murtherers and burnt up their City It is strange to see with what a scornful state the proud ambitious Usurper of the Chair of Peter would trample upon the Necks of all his Brethren and how he looks from aloft upon the honest Protestants reproving him he looks upon them far below him and with supercilious looks despiseth them for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Thus he and all his Train of the Scarlet Conclave the Cardinals with the sly Jesuite thinking themselves righteous despising others as the Spirit of God rebuketh them Luc. 18. 9. do aggravate their former Revolt and Apostacy this thousand years standing and call all to remembrance that at last they shall through the fire of Gods wrath hereby incens'd be taken with the hand as the Text speaks But as for the meekness and humility of the Church of England and our readiness to condescend and submit to the Truth let the World be our Witness as learned Bishop Jewel declares it If any learned man of our Adversaries or of all the learned that be alive be able to bring any one sufficient Sentence or Testimony out of any old Doctor or Father or out of any old General Council or out of the holy Scriptures of God or any one Example of the Primitive Church whereby it may be clearly and plainly proved that there was any private Mass or that the Bishop of Rome was delegated for Universal and Supreme Head of the Catholick Church with Invocation upon Saints worshipping of Images and buying of Indulgences and Pardons or that the Roman Church was accounted and call'd the Universal and Catholick Church or any thing own'd as Transubstantiation at that time for the space of six hundred years after Christ we are content to yield and to subscribe otherwise we hold our selves strictly obliged to retain the Religion and Faith of Christ which we do now profess and as it is now by our Laws established Inference the third from God provoked Ye shall be taken with the hand Idolatry Bloodshed Oppression Prophaneness and Blasphemy are the crying sins that provoke God safest and hasten his unavoidable Judgments soonest In Ezek. 22. 3. The City maketh Idols against her self to defile her self Idolatry is an open defiance to the Deity therefore abhorr'd of God above other sins and call'd by Gods Spirit the Abomination and therefore it is said in the Text v. 24. Because you have made your iniquity to be remembred this was so odious that it was the cause that made other sins to be remembred and for Bloodshed and Idolatry being put together it is expresly declar'd by the Prophet Chap. 22. 4. that they have hasten'd their destruction And thou hast become saith he guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed and hast defiled thy self with thine Idols which thou hast made and thou hast caused thy days to draw near And as to their oppression prophaneness and blasphemy it is declared in Ezek. 22. to be so notorious and palpable that God blew the fire of his wrath to consume them Their sins did testifie against them the way of peace they knew not truth was fallen in their streets and equity could not enter and Esay crys out that he wondred there was no Intercessor Es 59. 16. Esay Jeremy and Ezekiel spend their breath and their books in declaring the falling away of these people from God and his worship insomuch that at last you see the fierce anger wrath and indignation of God fell upon them in this King Zedekiah's time 4. Inference from the Charge Thou wicked and prophane Prince is this It is such as revolt from the Faith despising holy things and fall to the practises of the Heathen World that the Scriptures call wicked and prophane and never charge any so that keep the true Faith and Worship of God These people were justly charged and their Prince also as wicked and prophane and that for these Reasons 1. They had forsaken the Lord and his Law which is declar'd by good King Josiah in 2 King 22. 13. Our Fathers hearken'd not unto the words of this Book meaning the Book of the Law found by Hilkiah in the House of the Lord to do according to all that is written concerning us And this falling away from Gods Law the Scripture calls Fornication comparing these people of Israel to sordid men Ezek. 16. 15. Thou playedst the Harlot and pourest out thy fornications on every one that passed by 2. They despis'd the holy things of the Lord Manasseh built Altars for Baal in the House of the Lord and set a graven Image of the Grove which he had made in the House of which the Lord had said In this House will I put my Name for ever Therefore doth Ezek. Chap. 22. 8. cry out against them Thou hast despised my holy things and hast prophaned my Sabbaths And ver 26. Her Priests have violated my Law and prophaned my holy things I am prophaned among them 3. These people were justly called wicked and prophane for they follow'd the Idolatrous practises of the Heathen World Zedekiah did as Jehoiakin had done and Jehoiakin as Jehoiakin his Predecessor and he did as Jehoahaz and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that his Fathers Manasseh and Ahab had done Now Manasseh built up the High-places rear'd up Altars for Baal made a Grove and worshipped the Sun and the Moon and the Planets and all the Host of Heaven 4. They delivered their Children to pass through the fire to Moloch at Topheth and shed Innocent blood And behold saith the Prophet the Princes of Israel every one were in thee to their power to shed innocent blood like ravening Wolves to destroy Souls for dishonest gain Ezek. 22. 27. These Abominations were grounds enough to charge them as the Prophet doth here Thou wicked and prophane And besides all these there did Oppression and Usury Lewdness and Uncleanness reign in the highest degree amongst them Now having seen who the Scriptures call wicked c. in the Old Testament it lies upon us to know who are so charged also in the New Testament and for what and that appears plainly 2 Thes 2. 7 8 10. S. Paul tells you He who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way and then shall that wicked be revealed i. e. He that letteth and opposeth Christs Doctrine and Kingdom is that wicked one which in his appointed time shall be reveal'd and in the 10th verse he gives the reason why he calls him wicked Because they received not the love of the Truth This is much like that of Queen Esther spoken concerning Haman who had conspir'd to destroy all the Inheritance of God the Generation of the Jews This Adversary and Enemy is that wicked Haman So in Eph. 6. 12. we find that the Church of Christ