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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95925	Rome not called a church	Vincent, Humfrey.	1641 (1641)	Wing V399; Thomason E1102_2; ESTC R208341	1,919	7

ROME NOT CALLED A CHURCH JEREMIAH 7. 4. Trust ye not in lying words saying The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these Printed in the year 1641. To Mrs ELIZABETH FOOT Early begin to think upon thine end Long'st do they live who are dispos'd to dye In youth when many wholly doe offend Zeal is most pleasing to the God most high And they who have been long enur'd thereto Be able much to suffer more to do Even shame for Christ which drives the most away They can receive with meeknes and with joy H ere's the true Christians shield and Sunne and stay Fix fast thy Foot unto the word divine Othere there onely doth Gods wisdome shine One beame whereof is first discover'd here That which I think did never yet appear Yours H. VINCENT ROME NOT CALLED A CHURCH ROMANS 1. 7. YOu who reade Paul to the Romanes now with us Know Pauls Epistle is inscribed thus To th' Saints that are at Rome Why how now Paul What was that famous Rome no Church at all To th' Saints why not To th' Church why didst not thou Write To the Church at Rome didst not allow That Rome was then a Church why other places Thy Spirit-guided pen thus sweetly graces To th' Church To th' Church yea further even there Where grosser errours and corruptions were As Corinth and Galatia yet dost thou Write Church and Churches what 's the matter now Why Rome's not so saluted sure it is The blessed Spirit had some ayme in this Rome was a Church most pure and excellent Rome was a Church most highly eminent Yet neither in that Salutation there Nor I beleeve it any other where Is Rome once call'd a Church or in Gods book He that expects to find it let him look Doth that all-seeing knowing spirit of thine Those two so thwarcing syllables conjoyne Of Rome and Church or Church and Rome no no The Church of Rome the Scriptures do not know And sure if I be asked whether I Hold Rome a Church of Christ thus I le reply Where is it said that Rome or new or old Or old or new where have the Scriptures told That Rome or is or ever was a Church Where is' t precisely called Church I search Th' Apostles writings yet I cannot finde That ever Christ hath so reveal'd his mind Unlesse it be the Church which blessed Peter Calls Church of Babylon and no man meeter Save Iohn himself to cry aloud to all Come out of Babylon before it fall Come out of Rome for now by strong delusion There nought remains but horrible confusion In Rome's no room for me and such as I All you who love your souls and bodies fly But O all you who do the Scriptures search Shew me where else Rome's ever called a Church And O ye Popish Priests take this not ill That I stand stiffely to the Letter still You you your selves even you have taught me this For when we say we may be sure of blisse You aske and think thereby to Non-plus us Where our admired Scripture speaketh thus Thou Iohn thou Thomas shalt attaine Salvation Thou Iames thou Philip shalt escape damnation And though we say and shew it that the Word Doth what 's equivolent thereto afford Yet will not this suffice for still you crave Where any of us such a Scrtpture have And why may we not then with you so deale And say this unfound text to us reveale Where Rome is call'd a Church and chiefly too Because we are commanded so to doe To you who seek to shake our comfort thus Accordingly as you have done to us Say then and shew us where the Lord affirmes Pure Rome a Church in strict and even tearms No no I know there 's no such place at all In Peter Mathew Mark Luke Iohn Iames Paul Or in that little book of faithfull Iude No Letters left our spirits to delude But Lord what was thy very mind therein Surely thou sawest that the man of sinne Would there not onely in the time to come Rule reign and rage roar rather even at Rome But also to be thought to hold the truth Would have the Church the Church still in his mouth You must beleeve the Mother-Church of Rome The Cath'like Church or else receive your doome Among the Devils and the damned souls The Church the Church of Rome keeps Christ his rowles Thou Lord foreseeing that those croaking frogs Would count all other even thy children dogs Who cannot grant belief unto their lye Which under name of Church they magnifie Wouldst not so much as give a Churches name To such as turn their glory into shame Thou didst foresee sweet Lord that all their noise Would be the Church the Church the Church thus saies And therefore would'st not give a Churches name Though what was fully equall to the same Thou saw'st sweet Lord that they who should sueceed Would not thy dear-bought flock with Scriptures feed But with their own Traditions and decrees Not with pure milk but poison dregs and lees And yet all this for wholsom'st food must go Because the Church the Church will have it so And therefore wouldst not say to th' Church of Rome Though then thy Gospel there did kindly bloome Yea though thou gav'st that very name to such Whose blots were more whose fame not halfe so much FINIS