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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Commentary But may we not be too bold to come to Christ and by him to God the next away Would it not be more decent and mannerly to come by Angels As when we come to a King we make use of Courtiers to get access to the presence Chamber But the Scripture plainly tells us we must come to God by Christ alone John 14. 6. Besides what will it avail us to go to God by Saints they cannot hear our R●quests neither know they our Wants nor can supply them Heb. 4. 15. Fifthly She is a Drunken Blood thirsty Cruel Inhumane Harlot Not without cause is she called the Scarlet-coloured Beast having drunk so much of the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus Rev. 6. 9 10 11. And when he had opened the fifth Seal I saw under the Altar the Souls of them that were slain for the Word of God and for the testimony that they held And they cried with a loud voice saying How long O Lord Holy and True dost not thou judg and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth Rev. 17. 4. These came out of great Tribulation Rev. 16. 6. For they have shed the blood of Saints and Prophets Rev. 18. 20. Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you on her Ver. 24. And in her was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain on the Earth This further confirmed For under Charles the Ninth of France more than thirty thousand Protestants were slain in one Month Anno 1572. Bellarmin confesseth that an hundred thousand of the Albigenses were slain in one day under Pope Innocent the Third Let me here call in the Powder-Plot against England 1605 for a Witness to this truth Let me not forget the many thousands Americans whose guilt was their Gold Also that Inquisition of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands which he called the Council of Blood where were above fifty thousand Christians murdered at once Will not Ireland witness for me here where were about three hundred thousand Massacred Starved and Drowned whose Blood calls aloud to be reckoned for So in Piedmont how many quiet peaceable souls were murdered there Shall I not bring in their Design of firing London Semptember 2. 1666 as a Witness in this matter Let me not forget Sir Edmond-bury Godfry who will in the great Day of Judgment come in against this Church and prove her a Blood-thirsty Harlot yea the Mother of Harlots I would not have you forget this last Conspiracy in some part blessed be God discovered Sixthly She is a Lying dissembling Harlot Which appears in her pretended Miracles And this is one sign and mark the Apostle gives of Antichrist 2 Thess 2. 9 10. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all Power and Signs and Lying Wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish Rev. 13. 14. He doth great Wonders insomuch that he maketh Fire come down from Heaven on the Earth in the sight of Men. And that you may not think this is real but only seeming in the 14th vers the Apostle saith He deceiveth them that dwell on the Earth Bellarmine and some others would not have the Pope and Rome to be this mystery of Iniquity because saith he the Pope never brings down Fire from Heaven in the sight of men Answer But the Pope pretends to it or as bad if you will believe their Legends How often by them are Images counterfeited to move to sweat to nod to speak in the account of poor simple Men and Women that they may be assured to the worshipping of those Images they see The Devil did often speak in the Images of Heathen Rome and no doubt but the Devil doth sometimes speak in the Images of Mystery Babylon Now the Apostle Paul calls them Lying Wonders and Signs 1. In respect to the End because they serve to seduce Men. 2. Called so in respect of the Matter For they are either the counterfeits of Lying Men or the Wonders of Deceitful Spirits 3. In respect of the Form For whereas true Miracles exceeded Nature and were wrought by the Omnipotent Power of God false Wonders are those that are effected by Natural Causes and partly by the power of Satan The Miracles of the first kind have been infinite in the dark Kingdom of Antichrist the Apparitions of Spirits the Visions of Angels our Lady Mary How often hath she been coming gliding out of Heaven How often have the miserable Souls crept puling out of Purgatory besetting High-ways and recounting their Torments to procure Men to pity them Hence the Market of Purgatory is grown so very gainful How often have Images walked on foot if you will believe it the Bells struck alone without help the Angels like Choristers chant it in Canterbury Minister and play upon Dunstan's Harp the Apostles to come down from Heaven to help Basil to say Mass These Lying Miracles were feigned by Cheating Priests to confirm strange Lyes and cozen simple People of their Coyne For how often hath a Spirit been apprehended by a Magistrate Angels stript and our Lady sent to her Cell All of them have been notably whipt so that they had better have been in Purgatory These had a shew of Miracles but were not really so Nay how have they pretended to confirm their Mass with Miracles and the Transubstantiation Witness that Pillar of Fire from Heaven falling to the Earth upon that place whereby the negligence of the Priest as the Legend doth report the Body of God fell out of the Pix upon the Grals that Pillar of Fire shining like the Sun about the Body of God so that all the Beasts of the Field except one black Horse which bended but two bended all their four Legs to the Body of God This is like the rest of her Miracles Pray see a few of their own Authors against their pretended Miracles Lyranus saith The People in our Church are grievously guld with Miracles the Priests fain for worldly Gain So Ludovicus Vives a learned Papist saith There be those who thought it a piece of Piety to tell Lyes for Religion Saith Chrysostom Miracles were of good use in the Apostles days but of none now But because there is none now think not there were none then St. Augustin saith He that asketh now for a Prodigie or Miracle is a Prodigie himself Theophilact speaking of the Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghost saith They were ceased long a-go So Erasmus saith That the gifts of Miracles are now ceased The Colledg of Paris in a Writing in 1389. saith Miracles ought to be suspected since our Lord saith Mat. 24. False Prophets shall arise From whence I infer from this last Mark That whoever pretends to work Miracles which are nothing else but Lyes and Impostures is Antichrist But the Church of Rome doth so pretend yet nothing but Lyes is the bottom of it Therefore