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A33996	A word in season being a parallel between the intended bloody massacre of the people of the Jews, in the reign of King Ahasuerus and the hellish powder-'plot against the Protestants in the reign of King James : together with an account of some of the wicked principles and practises of the Church of Rome, demonstrated in their barbarous and cruel murders and massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Piedmont, the Albigenses, &c. : also shewing that the present Church of Rome is an apostate church ... / by H.C., a lover of true Protestants.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C537; ESTC R13082	42,613	54

he Instituted the Sacrament Why do your Priests then wear so many foolish antick Garments more fit for a Stage-player than a Minister of Christ Which of the Apostles wore the Amis or Linnen-Vail or Albe Who commanded you to wear a Girdle in signification of that Cord you say Christ was bound in the Garden withal the Maniple that bound Christ to the Piller The Stole a Cord by which Christ was led to be Crucified with I do not remember I have read of such a Cord in the Scripture neither do I find any Chalice the Apostles used nor a Pattin or Altar-Clothes Corporal or Pall. Where did Christ ever say the Sacrament is for three sorts of Men those in Heaven to encrease Glory them in Purgatory to free them from pain them on Earth to encrease Grace or the Ministers going back three steps from an Altar in token of Christ's prostrating himself Where did the Priest learn to beat his Brest at Mea culpa and to bow at the Confiteor and to kiss the Altar Where do you find in God's Word the Introit In what Chapter do you find the Kyrie Eleison to repeat nine times Lord have mercy upon us three times to the Father three times to the Son three times to the Holy Ghost What Book in the Scripture do you find Prayers called the Collects or that Allelujah is repeated at Easter more than any other time of the Year Where is the Trackt to be found that is to be read with a slow and a long Voice Where did any of the Apostles reade the Gospel at the North-end of the Altar or St. Peter or St. Paul sign the Book with the sign of the Cross Or the Minister and People sign themselves in three places with the sign of the Cross on the Forehead on the Mouth and on the Brest Where do we find Christ wash his Fingers just after the Sacraments Institution as your Priests do In what Epistle do you find the Apostles adore the Bread and Wine that were in his Hand when he Administer'd it Where have you any Office of the Virgin Mary consecrated in Scripture as Hymns Psalms Canticles Antiphones Versicles Responsories and Prayers which you divide the Virgins Office in Not in holy Writ I am sure Who bid you beg for the assistance of the Virgin Mary to perform your service to God's Glory Where did the Apostles ever pray that God would pardon their negligence in the service of the blessed Virgin What Rule have you for keeping a Feast in remembrance of our Saviour's Birth or for the observation of Circumcision or Epiphany day What Rule have you for blessing your Candles you use in your Worship and why must the Day call'd Candleman-Day be the day above all others So we may ask a Rule for the keeping of Ascension-Day Pentecost Trinity Sunday Corpus Christi Transfiguration Day as you call it Who commanded this I pray The Pope not Christ So Advent-Sunday the four Lords-Days which precede Christmas-Day as you say Where do you find that the Apostles observed those four Days which preceded the Resurrection of Christ Septuagesima Sexagestma Qui●●●●gesima Quadragesima hard words for the Simple to understand Which are four days of Penance and Mortification Where do you find a Lent commanded by Christ In what Chapter is Palm Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 y or Passion Sunday mentioned or Low-Sunday Who taught you to keep a Feast and solemnly observe the Conception Nativity Presentation Annunciation Visuation and Assumption of the blessed Virgin Where is any time in Scripture set apart for the People to confess their Sins to a Priest Where are any holy Ashes spoken of in Scripture to be used on the Forehead on Ash-Wednesday These and forty more Ceremonies I could recount that the Church of Rome practiseth all which prove her to be a Superstitious Harlot Let the Church of Rome prove that she hath received those Ceremonies from the Spirit of God as she pretends and I will own them too Tenthly I might show that this Harlot is a rich Harlot See what Rev. 18. throughout saith The Merchants of this City which were made Rich by her they seeing her Destruction shall say Alas alas that great City which was clothed in fine Linnen and Purple and Scarlet and decked with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls Her Worldly Pomp she hath in her present Church state even among the Clergy only is quite out of the reach of the best Arithmeticians Add to this that of Experience and it will shew us that when that Church had her Domination in this Land they knew where the best ground lay as the Ruins of their Abbies do evince APPLICATION Is it so that the Church of Rome is this Mystery Babylon Mother of Harlots Then let all the People of God that are out of it bless God for that Mercy Had God suffered Popery to continue in England as it was in the Marian Days had not thousands and ten thousands in all probability of us in England been in that False Worship which now are freed from it O let us bless God in Deed with all our Hearts lest our Sins should let her in again upon us as the Sins of Israel brought in the King of Assyria upon them and not only so but laid their City desolate and caused God to take away their Prophets Priests Ark Vrim and Thummim their Solemn Assemblies Sabbaths and appointed Feasts Let us keep our ground that we have got against Antichrist and stand up as Witnesses for the Lord Though we may be slain for it comfort your selves in this the Witnesses shall live again 2. Let all that are in Babylon be exhorted to take the Counsel of the Spirit of God in Rev. 18. 4. Come out of her And that first because she is a false Church Whatever she pretends as marks to denote her a true Church she cannot be so because National The Church of the Jews was so indeed But the Gospel-Church is Congregational only such to be Members of the Gospel-Church which can give an account of the Work of Grace upon their Hearts Acts 2. 42 43. Acts 8. 12 13 14 15 16 17. As little can they say for their Holiness which they say must be in a True Church See the Lives of many of them which have been Heads of that Church I mean the Popes some have been Drunkards some Whore-mongers Thieves given more to War than to Christ prophane Scoffers of Christ Murderers Poisoners of their own Parents calling on the Devil to help them Players at Dice and Drinkers of the Devil's Health Traitors to Princes c. Bernard was a little moved with the Popes of Rome when he called them Tyrants Defrauders Ravenous Traitors Darkness of the World Wolves and Devils Are these St. Peter's Successors I am sure he never taught Men to live at this rate neither did he live so himself If they will have Peter's Seat they must have Peter's Doctrine and Life But the

A Word in Season BEING A Parallel between the intended Bloody Massacre of the People of the Jews in the Reign of King Ahasuerus and the Hellish Powder-Plot against the Protestants in the Reign of King James TOGETHER With an Account of some of the Wicked Principles and Practices of the Church of Rome Demonstrated in their Barbarous and Cruel Murders and Massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands France Ireland Piedmont the Albigenses c. ALSO SHEWING That the present Church of Rome is an Apostate Church and so discovered to be that Mystery Babylon Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth mentioned in the Revelations By H. C. a Lover of true Protestants LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange 1679. The Author to the READER Courteous Reader NOt because I envy the Person of any Man of any Persuasion so consequently not those of the Papal Church who at present I am concerned with but 't is their Capital Errors and Damnable Principles I aim at in this my Discourse knowing they are contrary and repugnant to the Word of Truth which is the Rule of Faith and Manners and having compassion on Souls which may be Ignorant lest they should fall into the Errors of the Wicked and especially young ones which are not aware of their Principles I have taken a little pains to gather up some of their Horrid Practices and Soul-destroying Principles into a narrow Compass that so in a little time any may perceive what kind of condition they shall be in that do taste touch or handle any of them therefore I beg of you all to whom this shall come to reade it considerately and compare their Principles and Practices with the Word of God and you will see that there is as much difference between them as between Light and Darkness Good and Evil Heaven and Hell God and the Devil And this is not my Opinion alone but the Opinion of almost all the Reformed Churches For that the Pope is Antichrist hath been put into most of the Confessions of Faith I shall only recite the Testimony of one whose incomparable Learning and Piety may make his Words received or mine at least not over-hastily condemned it is the Reverend Doctor Usher Arch-Bishop of Armagh who in his Catechise writ thus As Christ is the Head of the True Church so Antichrist is the Head of the Romish Church which is his Body Quest Who is that Antichrist Answ He is one who under a colour of being for Christ nd under Title of being his Vice-gerent exalteth himself above and against Christ opposing himself against all his Offices and Ordinances both in Church and Commonwealth bearing Authority over the Church of God ruling over that City with seven Hills which did bear Rule over the Nations and put our Lord to Death a Man of Sin a Child of Perdition a Destroyer establishing himself by Lying Miracles and False Wonders All which Marks do agree together to be none but the Pope of Rome Quest What is the use of all his Doctrine Answ That whosoever are partakers of the Sins of Rome are also under the same Curse Quest What further Answ That there can be no sound agreement between Popery and the Gospel no more than between Light and Darkness Falshood and Truth God and Belial and therefore no Reconciliation can be devised betwixt them For if the Antichrist shall be destroyed we cannot in any sort communicate with them in their Errors unless we will bear them company in their destruction also An Account of which Errors Heresies and wicked Practices this Book may give you light in which I had not concerned my self withal at this time but that I was stirred up from the consideration of their Damnable and Hellish Designs of late against England so that they may thank themselves for what I have done and a great many more who are no friends to Popery If these few Sheets shall do any good to the Establishing of those that have received the Truth as 't is in Jesus or informing the Ignorant animating the Spirits of any against those Principles and Practices or bring any out of that gross Egyptian Darkness and leading them into the path of Light and Life I shall have my desire and I desire you may give God the Glory Which that it may be so shall be the hearty prayers of him that is a lover of the true Protestant Religion H. C. A Parallel betwixt the Jews Deliverance from the intended Bloody Massacre in the Reign of Ahasuerus and our Deliverance from the Hellish Powder-Plot in the Reign of King James BEloved Friends and Country-Men I am this Day as God's Messenger to remind you of a very Signal but almost-forgotten Deliverance which England received in the Year 1605 from that hellish Powder-plot of the blood-thirsty Papists Which was not only a general Mercy then received but as it was a kindness to our Grand-Fathers and Fathers so also to us For had Popery then entred England which hath been yet is and I hope will be Emmanuel's Land what in all probability had we been at this time Now for as much as God delights to have his wonderful Works remembred Psal 111. 4. by those that are in the fruition and enjoyment of them and more especially considering the need we may have of as great a kindness as then received already through Grace begun to be shewed the Lord of his rich Mercy bring Ahitophel's Counsel to nought totally what cause have we to be praising God this day that so your Hearts may be animated and stirred up to the Work I shall in this my Discourse at this time run a Parallel between the wicked Conspiracy made against the Jews and People of God in the days of King Ahasuerus and the hellith Powder-Plot in the days of King James of happy Memory for defending the Protestant Religion and discountenancing the contrary and I hope by that time I have done you will see what great cause there is to bless God for his unspeakable Goodness and also see what Enemies Papists are to all true Protestants and so I shall now begin what I have to say 1. As in the days of Ahasuerus who Reigned from India even to Ethiopia over one hundred and seven and twenty Provinces Esther 1. 1. there was a Massacre designed upon all the Men Women and Children which were of the Nation of the Jews the Church of God Esther 3. 13. So in the days of King James 1605. about seventy three Years since there was a Powder-Plot against this Nation and all the People of God for there was thirty six Barrels of Gun powder in a Seller under the Parliament House And in stead of Shot they had laid upon the Powder Bars of Iron Logs of Timber massy Stones Iron Crows Pickaxes and all their working Tools and to cover all that the Plot might not be discovered they had laid great store of Billets and Faggots