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A62900	The principles of the Papists by which their leaders put them upon bloody and treacherous practices, plainly demonstrated by the Scriptures to be most erroneous and wicked. And a few better principles briefly laid down, for them (or others) to meditate on, tending to a peaceable life among men, &c. And also a few quæries left them last of all, to satisfie their consciences in. Partly for the sakes of those among them whose consciences have some tenderness in them, and are not quite feared: partly also for those who through ignorance are too much inclining to them. Also there may be some service of these things to others. By a lover of truth, mercifulness, plain-heartedness, humility and fidelity, W. T.	Tomlinson, William.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1850; ESTC R221759	49,364	105

She hath reigned over the Kings of the Earth and they have committed fornication with her but God will put it into their hearts at last to hate the Whore and make her desolate and good cause when there is no fidelity to be found in her except they be absolute slaves to her to do what she will have them to do Object Thus this 3d. Verse together with the Angel's interpretation of it doth so fully point at Rome that seven-headed or seven-hilled City that the Popish Writers have confessed it to be Rome only they frame this evasion which stands need to be answered before I pass from it viz. That this great Whore is not Rome present but Heathen Rome that is Rome under the Government of the persecuting Emperors who were before Constantine the Great who in their time persecuted the Christians and shed much blood Which thing say they put John to great admiration as is exprest ver 6. And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondred with great admiration This they say was to see so much Christian blood shed by the persecuting Emperors Answ But I pray you what great admiration or new admiration could that put John to to see open Enemies of Christians drunk with their blood Or what new thing was this to John who was a companion in tribulation with those that suffered persecution in those times which he had seen before he writ this Book of the Reuelations This could not procure such new admiration to make him wonder so much but the ground of so great admiration lay here To see a people in vision to rise up under that Name that was then persecuted and under a great profession of Christianity to have them represented to him to be drunk with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus while they so highly professed Jesus here was ground indeed of astonishment to John But it 's a weak and silly thing to turn this off from Rome present to Rome heathen under the persecuting Emperors as some of no small Note do whom at present I forbear to name Suppose any of us had lived in the days of John and had seen such persecutions as he had seen and had been a companion in the same tribulation under open professed Enemies would this be such a matter of wonder to us to have it represented to us over again in vision No the frequency of a thing takes away the wondring at it especially with so great admiration But to see a new thing so strange a thing so contrary to the nature of the thing In plainer words to see Christians drunk with the blood of Christians to see so high professing Christians who would honour almost every thing that appertained to Christ honour his Mother honour his Apostles honour his very Sepulchre and the very Cross upon which he was crucified yea the very images of a Cross for his sake if I may not say adore them A people that should keep days in memorial of the Birth of the Suffering of the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ keep days in memorial of his holy Apostles and sing forth their praises in their solemn Assemblies and publick Worships and magnifie themselves as the only Church of Christ and count all others who joyn not with them in these things to be Hereticks To have such a people represented as drunk with the blood of Christians drunken with the blood of Saints and of the Martyrs of Jesus a thing so contrary to what they bear a profession of here was matter of wonder indeed to cause John to wonder with great admiration as is expressed ver 6. And this now aptly agrees with the title of the great Whore which title the persecuting Emperors did not so fitly bear seeing they never owned Christ as their Head and Husband nor themselves to be his Spouse But Rome that now is doth challenge this near relation to him and yet doth these things against those that profess him as well as her self Thus you see how fully the Spirit of the Lord doth discover the state of degenerate Rome by what hath already been signified to us And I might here pass on to other Principles but because they are so highly exalted in this conceit and it is so rooted a Principle among them that they are the only true Church of Christ I shall desire the Reader 's patience to view also what further discovery is left us upon record in the two next following Verses of this 17th Chap. viz. in ver 4. and 5. Ver. 4. And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls that is with all the glory of this World with which bait the Devil would have catched Christ himself but could not But the Church of Rome hath swallowed down the bait and for the glory of this World hath stooped to his terms to bow down to him and let in his Spirit who was a lyar and murtherer from the beginning and so she hath her reward the pomp and glory of this World And she holds forth also a golden cup to the Nations to make them drink of the same cup of fornication with her as it follows in this Verse Having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication This aptly sets forth the Worship of the great Whore and the wine wherewith she makes the Nations drunk This wine is the wine of her fornication and it 's in her Cup which Cup is in her hand and beautiful to look at being golden or guilded with gold She carries the Cup of her worship in her hand it 's external or outward for a shew not internal and in the spirit it lyes in that which her own hand hath formed and carved out to her self according to her own devices And it is always ready being composed and bundled up for any one in Orders even the vilest and wickedest person among them to carry in his hand and offer up And it hath a fine golden outside to look upon to please the eye her worship is sumptuous and glorious enough outwardly to the eye and she hath also guilded it with all the daintiest expressions that she could pick out of the Scriptures to please the ear and composed Songs and Anthems and Hymns and prepared Organs and musical Instruments and Quires of Singers to accompany them to elevate the minds of people as if they were wrapt up in a heavenly melody for a while But look within the Cup and what 's there There 's Fornication Superstition Will-worship Idolatry falling down before Images and Pictures and Crucifixes worshipping of Saints and Angels which God never commanded nor they ever suffered men to do to them but forbad them They come not behind Nebuchadnezzar in their worship when he caused all to fall down and worship the Image which

them when ye see the multitude before them and behind them worshipping them Thus it is also in the streets of the great City mystical Babylon Rome and among her Children when they go about the streets with their Host besides all the rest of their Idolatry committed in their places of Worship and in secret 3. As Babylon of old was exalted above all and call'd Lady of Kingdoms Isa 47.5 and the glory of Kingdoms Isa 13.19 So Rome exalts her self in like manner and calls her self Mother Church and Caput omnium Ecclesiarum i.e. the Head of all the Churches and sits as Queen over all in her own exalted mind But then 4 thly and lastly Rome is most fitly call'd Babylon because she holds the seed of God in bondage and captivity Whom she leads captive once she will hardly let them escape without danger of their lives or cruel torments in her Inquisitions they must become perfect slaves to her Superstitions Will-worships and Idolatries And what bondage is like to this that people to whom God hath given reason and understanding shall not make use of it but lay it aside and submit wholly to the understandings or rather wills of others though it be against their own and so be urged to submit to that which is against the light in their own Consciences And this is the greatest bondage and captivity of all and therefore well may Rome be called Babylon the great She is also called Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth She brings forth Harlots that is such Children as go a whoring with her after her Inventions Those that in tenderness of Conscience and in subjection to the words of Christ who said In vain do you worship me after the traditions of men will not joyn with them in their invented traditions and superstitions such she owns not for her Children she will be no Mother or Nurse to such but seeks to murder them in cold blood as none of hers she will be only Mother of Harlots that can prostitute themselves with her to her Idolatries and Inventions and if they can do that it shall not break the band between them although they be common Harlots in the vulgar sence but she will remain their Mother She is also Mother of abominations in the earth Not only Mother of abominations in Worship and superstitious Inventions but also Mother of abominations in the earth abominations as to the civil life of men without the consideration of worship abominations to men as they are men living upon the earth To manifest this I shall quote one Scripture and then her own actions will testifie the truth of it against her It is Prov. 6.16 17 18 19. These six things doth the Lord hate yea seven are abomination to him A proud look a lying tongue hands that shed innocent blood an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations feet that be swift in running to mischief a false witness that speaketh lyes and him that soweth discord among brethren Now see and judge if Rome be not Mother of these abominations Who more lofty in spirit than the Pope and his Romanists Can any compare with him who exalts himself over all makes his Cardinals as Princes his Bishops and whole Clergy as great men and makes his whole Train dispise others as Hereticks not worthy to live in the earth Here 's a proud look indeed And for a lying tongue Rome's Children are so pregnant with that that one cannot tell how to believe either what they say or what they swear How miserably were the Protestants in Ireland cheated by them by fair promises and deep oaths that they would secure their Goods for them in the time of that bloody Massacre and yet when they had got them into their hands refused to restore them yea and afterwards murthered them And so 3dly They have hands that shed innocent blood none like them for that 4thly An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations Whose hearts are so full of wicked imaginations Plots Conspiracies and devices of Cruelty as Rome's Children 5thly Whose feet are swifter in running to mischief than the Papists who in one brunt can cut off so many thousands by Massacres before they make an end Their feet are speedy to do mischief when they get but the opportunity 6thly Another abomination is a false witness that speaketh Lyes If we go no further than this year how have they endeavoured to choak all true reports among us with their lyes and falshoods Witness the false reports and lying stories that they gave forth about the death of Worthy Godfrey till the truth appeared by Evidence and could no longer be hid 7thly and lastly He that saweth discord among brethren is also one of the abominations in the earth This is one of Rome's Principles Divide impera Divide and then command Divide what 's that but sowing of discord destroying of concord setting one against another that she may fish in troubled waters Whether she made the former division and discord between the late foregoing King and the People or no I will not say but if they did it 's but according to their Principle Thus you see Rome is a fruitful Mother of abominations of the earth And now you may also at leisure view all these things over again and see how pertinent all these Characters of the great Whore are to Rome they fit her as a garment that sits close and compleat upon a man's back And why then we should be afraid to look upon her as that great Whore here described by the Angel to John I know no reason especially if we add that which follows in the 6th Ver. of this 17th Chap. viz. And I saw the Woman that is the great City seated on seven Hills drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus And when I saw her I wondred with great admiration But having spoken of this afore and shewed that it must be Rome professing Christianity and not heathen Rome that caused this great admiration I forbear to speak more of it now I say till Rome shew the contrary to these Characters by a better lise and conversation they will rest upon her And it 's not by her poysoning and stabbing fire and faggot Inquisitions and Massacres that she can clear her self No that way confirms and fixes these marks more fully upon her the more she seeks to wipe off the stains of blood that are upon her by such means the more and greater they still appear And now for the deciding of the Question in hand which all that I have said tends to Let any that have any reason of their own to make use of and any honesty and faithfulness in their hearts towards God and Christ Jesus our Lord judge and determine the Question Whether this Church of Rome so guilty of these things be the only true Church of Christ now and all others that draw from her be Hereticks I hope whosoever considers these things

he had set up when they heard the sound of the Cornet Flute Harp Sackbut Psaltery Dulcimer and all kinds of Musick nor much behind him for Fire and Faggor to devour those that will not worship with them We read but of one Furnace that he caused to be heated to burn dissenters in but they have burnt multitudes of dissenters who would not consent to their worship witness Smithfield and other places in Queen Maries days Add hereunto the many Murthers done otherways by Inquisitions and bloody Massacres her unsatiable blood-thirstiness and blood-guiltiness So that you see although the Cup of Rome's worship be a golden Cup to look at yet within it's full of filthiness of her fornication it 's full of dead mens bones and all uncleanness like the painted Sepulchres of the Pharisees Israel's worship which was of God's own appointment became an abomination to him so that his soul hated it for these two things which Rome is eminently guilty of one was Because their hands were full of blood Isa 1.13 14 15. The other was Because they had chosen their own ways and their soul delighted in their abominations Isa 66.3 Now for Rome's worship it 's of her own forming not of God's institution and for blood her hands are fuller of that than ever Israel's was and for superstitious inventions Israel cannot compare with her Therefore her worship must needs be more detestable and abominable in the sight of the Lord than Israel's was being also aggravated hereby that whereas Israel was but under types and shadows as under a Schoolmaster but she lives in the days of greater light under the ministration of the second Covenant or new Covenant which far excels the first Covenant in the glory of its light 2 Cor. 3.10 So that for her now with bloody hands and with deceitful dissembling hearts to approach to worship the Lord this must needs be an abomination Judge in your selves I desire you ye of the Romish Church what acceptance this can have with the Lord for a people that plots and contrives the subversion of Kingdoms and sticks not to poison or stab or murder those that they fear may hinder their wicked designs who barbarously massacre people more merciful than themselves who are manifested thereby to partake more of the heavenly nature than they For a people that sets up to themselves Stocks and Stones Images and Pictures in abundance and falls down before them and bows themselves to the work of their own hands and prays to them that are no Gods nor present in all places with them to hear their prayers a people that turn away in their hearts from the living God and think to make Men and Angels their Intercessors for such a people to approach before the Lord and sing forth their Anthems and Allelujahs unto God Judge ye if this worship be not abominable and like the painted Sepulchres which appear beautiful outward but within are full of dead mens bones and filthiness yea and full of dead mens blood too which cryes to the Lord under the Altar How long Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth And yet Rome would paint over all these abominations to blind the eyes of men that she may seem holy in the practice of all these things She will tell you that all these that she kills are Hereticks and it 's no sin to kill them She will tell you that she doth not worship Pictures and Images though she bow down to them but she doth it in honour to God and such like shifts and mists she casts over her actions to blind the carnal eye and leave it in a mist And therefore how fitly doth the Spirit of God meet with her jugling evasions and fixes this as one of the marks of the great Whore upon her forehead as a Name written viz. Mystery as it follows in the next Verse which comes now to be considered Ver. 5. And upon her forehead was a name written Mystery Babylon the great the Mothes of harlots and abominations of the earth This is the Name that the Spirit of God fixes upon the forehead of the great Whore Mystery She commits Whoredom and Idolatry in a mystery she sheds innocent blood in abundance and yet in a mystery She would not be thought to be an Idolatress nor to commit Whoredom nor to be a Murderer she would juggle you out of a belief of that which your eye sees and your ears sufficiently hear of her here is mystery indeed but it is the mystery of iniquity not the mystery of plain-hearted godliness And this Name is set in such a place that it 's easie to read it it 's set where she cannot hide it if she do but shew her face it stands upon her forehead The Front of all her Zeal carries Blood and Idolatry written in it but yet vailed and you must not believe it to be so Though you should see her prostrate her self before her Idols you must not take her to be an Idolatress though you should be attempted to be slain by her hands and though you should see many massacred round about you yet you must not take her to be a Murderer and though you should hear her Children lye to your face and prove themselves lyars by their actions yet you must not take this to be lying yea though they forswear and perjure themselves yet you must not take this to be swearing out of truth But you must take her to be a holy Mother and pious worshipper of God under Idolatry and a charitable tender-hearted Mother in the midst of Massacres and a maintainer of truth by lyes and perjury and equivocations She is an exact observer of the footsteps of her grand Champion to walk thereafter who though he be never so wicked yet you must reverence his Holiness Again Another part of her Name is Babylon the great Names of many things under the Old Testament are applied to like things under the New As Prayers and Thanksgivings are sometimes called Sacrifices and Incense New Covenant is called Mount Sion and Jerusalem c. So Babylon and Sodom and Egypt are words sometimes used to express a like people by There be three or four things remarkable in Rome for which the Name Babylon is put upon her 1. Confusion and so the word Babylon and Babel signifie for Rome hath confounded all things under the New Covenant with her traditions and superstitious inventions 2. As Babylon of old was a place of great Idolatry so also is Rome Read but the Epistle of the Prophet Jeremy to them that were captives to be carried to Babylon and you may see how like they are you may find it in the Apocrypha Baruch 6.4 5. Ye shall see in Babylon gods of silver and of gold and of wood born upon shoulders which cause the Nations to fear Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers neither be ye afraid of