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A47567	Mystical Babylon availed wherein is proved, I. That Rome-papal is mystical-Babylon, II. That the Pope of Rome is the beast, III. That the Church of Rome is the great whore, IV. That the Roman-priests are the false prophet : also A call to the people of God to come out of Babylon / by Hanserd Knollys ...	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing K718; ESTC R17048	27,872	35

MYSTICAL BABYLON UNVAILED Wherein is Proved I. That Rome-Papal is mystical-Babylon II. That the Pope of Rome is the Beast III. That the Church of Rome is the great Whore IV. That the Roman-Priests are the false Prophet ALSO A CALL To all the People of God To come out of BABYLON By HANSERD KNOLLYS a Servant of Jesus Christ Isa 57.14 Take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my People Rev. 18.6 Reward her even as she Rewarded you Printed Anno Domini 1679. Isaiah Thomas NEC ELATUS NEC DEJECTUS An Epistle to the Reader Ingenuous Reader IT is an Astonishment beyond the ●●nary Comprehensions of Nature Reason and Religion that the Papists esp●●●●●● the Priests and Jesuits of the Church of Rome so odious in their bloody Tenents so prodigious in their Hellish Plots such inc●●crable Incendiaries and furious Ass●●ns for murdering of Princes should be suffered to increase and indulged to multiply in a Protestant Nation as of late years they have done in this Kingdom Assuredly it could never have been so but that the Lord in his just Indignation against us for our God-provoking Sins of Atheism Idolatry Profaneness Adultery and other heinous wickedness intends and suffers us to ripen and be prepapared for some dreadful Judgment which God may justly bring upon this Land and Nation by the hand of the Papists if we Repent not of those Abominations and do not reform them It is more than Manifest by woful Experience that the main End of the Papists in all their Plots and Conspiracies is the utter Destruction of the Protestants whom they call Hereticks and the Protestant-Religion in England especially and the Re-establishment of the Popish-Religion of the Church of Rome in this Kingdom which End the Popish-Recusants in England in this Bloody and Traiterous design that Damnable and Hellish Plot contrived and carried on by them for Assassinating and Murdering the King Subverting the Government and for Rooting out and Destroying the Protestant-Religion as the King and Parliament have voted and declared are still endeavouring 〈◊〉 effect and bring to pass The concurrent 〈◊〉 our grand and greatest Enemies 〈◊〉 the World durst not entertain a Thought of Invasion did they not Hope when Time serves to find amongst us a Side and Faction of numerous and Seditious Papists to joyn with them Were we rid of the Papists and were Idolatry Atheism Whoredom and Blasphemy put away as in Policy Reason and Religion these ought to be The Royal Person of the King would be safe from Assassination and the Government secure from Subversion And the Protestants and Protestant-Religion free from utter Destruction by the blessed Protection of Almighty God Conformity unto all Oaths Tests and outward formal Satisfactions of State concurring with a full Mystical-Babylon Vnvailed The Method that I have chosen to Unvail Mystical-Babylon is by proving these four Propositions viz. 1. That Rome-Papal is Mystical-Babylon 2. That the Pope of Rome is the Beast 3. That the Church of Rome is the great Whore 4. That the Roman-Priests are the false Prophet Proposition I. That Rome-Papal is Mystical-Babylon EAstern Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar in Chaldaea was a famous City Called the Lady of Kingdoms (a) Isa 47.1 5. and the glory of Kingdoms (b) Isa 13.19 under whose Kings the People of God were Captivated and oppressed violently (c) 2 Chron. 36.14 -20. and Jer. 51.34 35. For which violence done to Zion and other God-provoking Sins that great City and Kingdom was destroyed by Cyrus King of Persia (d) Isa 45 1-4 and 47 1-9 whom God raised up to execute his righteous Judgments upon them for their Iniquities lo●● before Saint John's time Therefore Mysterie Babylon the great so Named Revel 17.5 is some other great City which doth resemble Old-Babylon for Idolatry Jerem. 5.47 Persecution Lam. 5.1.5 Violence Jerem. 51.25 Oppression Jerem. 50.33 Isa 14.4 and Pride Isa 47.1 5 7. And thou saidst I shall be a Lady for ever I am and none else besides me And so doth Mystical-Babylon say in her Heart Revel 18 7. I sit a Queen Also Blood-guiltiness Psalm 79.1 2 3. The blood of thy Servants have they shed like Water round about Jerusalem and so doth Mystical-Babylon Revel 26.6 For they have shed the Blood of Saints and Prophets Rev. 18.24 As the City Jerusalem was Spiritually called Sodom and Aegypt (e) Rev. 11.8 where our Lord was crucified So Rome Pagan and Papal is Mystically called Babylon where the Saints have been and shall be killed (f) Rev. 6.9 10 11. Rev. 11.7.16 6. Rev. 18.13 24. And in her was found the Blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain upon the Earth That which Jesus Christ revealed by his Angel unto his Servant John touching Mystical-Babylon in this Prophecy of the Revelation can agree to no other City but Rome only For first No other City in Saint John's time was built upon Seven Mountains or Hills but Rome only Revel 17.5 8 9 18. And the seven Heads are seven Mountains on which the Woman Sitteth called the great City verse 18. whose Name is Mysterie Babylon the great verse 5. So Propertius (g) Propert. Eleg. 10. l. 3. Septem urbs alta Jugis toti quae praesidet Orbi Virgil (h) Virgil. Georg. 2. ω. Pulcherrima Roma Septem quae una sibi Muro circumdedit arces Ovid. 1. de Tristibus l. 3. Elog. 7. Dumque suis victrix septem de Montibus Orbem Prospiciet domitum Martia Roma Legar Ovid i Cornel. à Lap. (k) Cornel. à Lap. in Apoc. 17.3 9. In septem Montibus patet denotari Romam Bellarm. l Bellar. de R. P. l. 2. c. 2. l. 3. c. 12. So do Viegas Suarez Ribera and divers others affirm That by Babylon in the Book of the Revelation Rome is Figured forth And the Remists in their Testament acknowledge That by Babylon is meant Rome See their Notes on 1 Pet. 5.13 and upon the 17. and 18. Chapters of the Revelation Secondly No other City in the World had seven Kings that is Seven several Kinds of Governours succeeding one another but Rome only Revel 17.10 And there are seven Kings five are fallen and one is and the other is not yet come The five Kings that were fallen past and gone before John's time are mentioned by Tit. Livius l. 6. What the Romans did saith Livy under their Kings and after under their Consuls Dictators Decemvirs and Consular-Tribunes whither as to Wars abroad or suppressing Troubles at home I have set forth in five Books And this One is (m) Rev. 17.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. the Emperour for the Caesars were the the sixth Head of Rome who Reigned in St. John's time The other is not yet come viz. the Seventh Head of Rome or the Seventh King or Kind of Roman-Governour to wit the Popes of Rome Revel 17.11 And HE that is the POPE is of the Seven and goeth into Perdition This

Seventh Kind of Government of the Roman-Kingdom by Popes was not come in Saint John's Time So then it is manifest that Rome is the City which had seven Kings Heads or Kinds of Governours that succeeded one another Now let any One shew us another City that hath had seven Kings or several Kinds of Governours Et erit mihi magnus Apollo And let him be Pope Thirdly No other City in Saint John's time did Reign over the Kings of the Earth but Rome only Rev. 17.18 And the Woman which thou sawest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is that City the Great verse 5. Mystery Babylon the Great viz. Rome which Reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Yea it is very evident by the Testimony and Confession of many Popish-Writers who for their Learning and Dignity in the Church of Rome were Eminent That Rome is that great City which by the Emperours Authority in Saint John's time and by the Pope's Power since hath Reigned and still Reigneth over the Kings of the Earth (n) Bellarm. lib. 3. de Pont. R. c. 13. Per Meretricem intelligi Romam Bellarmin saith That Rome is to be understood by the great Whore Cardinal Poole (o) Polus Cardinal de Concilio p. 91. Petri Cathedram super omnia Imperatorum Solia omnia Regum tribunalia Constituit Christus saith Christ hath set Peter's Chair above all the Thrones of Emperours and above all the Tribunals of Kings But Christ did not sit in any such Chair of Kingly State as the Pope doth nor did Saint Peter nor any of Christ's Apostles no not Saint Paul the chiefest of all the Apostles 2 Cor. 11.5 and 12.11 (p) Isodorus Musconius de Majestate Ecclesiae Milit. l. 1. c. 7. p. 26. Venetiis anno 1602. Pontifex Romanus est Judex universalis Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium Abra. Bzovius de Pont. Rom. Coloniae Agrip 1619. says Papa est Christianorum Monarcha Mortalium Supremus Judex Coeli Arbiter Orbis cap. 1.3 16 32 45. Celsus Mancinus de Juribus Principatuum Romae 1596. lib. 3. cap. 1 2 c. saith Papa est totius Orbis Dominus Potestas Papae temporalis est omnium aliarum Potestatum eminentissima Aliaeque Potestates omnes ab illo dependent Isodorus Musconius saith That the Pope of Rome is the Universal Judge HE is King of Kings and Lord of Lords However That Testimony recorded Luke 2.1 2 3. is undeniable And it came to pass in those Days that there went out a DECREE from Caesar Augustus the Roman Emperour that all the World should be Taxed From what hath been Confessed and Testified by the Papists themselves it is plain and evident That Rome-Papal is Mystical-Babylon (q) Viegas in Apoc. 17. Com. 1. S. 3. Inquit Nomine Babilonis urbem Romam significari in hoc Apocalypsis opere ubi toties Babilon nominatur vid. Orosium lib. 2. c. 3. Hist Par. in Apoc. 14.8 Proposition II. That the POPE of Rome is the BEAST THe great Monarchs and Monarchies of this World have been Figured forth by Beasts of Prey God shewed his Prophet Daniel the four great Kingdoms of this World viz. the Assyrio-Caldean the Medi-Persian the Grecian and the Roman Kingdoms by a Vision of four Ravenous and devouring Beasts Dan. 7.3 4. 8. (a) Dan. 7.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And behold a fourth Beast the Roman-Kings and Kingdoms with seven Heads and ten Horns and upon the Horns ten Crowns And upon his seventh Head two Horns like a Lamb Rev. 13.1.11 dreadful and terrible c. ver 7. Exceedingly And divers from all the other three Beasts And Jesus Christ shewed his Apostle John the same fourth Beast Rev. 13.2 And the Beast that I saw was like unto a Leopard and his Feet were as the Feet of a Bear and his mouth as the mouth of a Lyon And the Dragon (b) That old Serpent the Devil and Satan For the Devil and the Pope are alike as Father and Son in many Things The Devil contradicted Gods word Gen. 3.4 So doth the Pope 1 Tim. 4.3 forbidding to Marry This confesseth Christ Mark 3.11 but denies his Laws So doth the Pope Rev. 13.11 15 16 17. The Devil would be worshipped as God Matth. 4.6 The Pope would be Exalted above all that is called God or that is worshipped 2 Thes 2.4 gave him his Power his Throne and great Authority And he spake as the Dragon ver 11. The most full Description of the Roman-Papal Beast is expresly written in the 17. Chapter of the Revelation And the Angel said unto me ver 7. I will tell thee the Mystery of the Woman and of the Beast c. This BEAST the Angel described unto St. John in three particulars which can agree with no other Persons Powers Emperours Kings The Devil challengeth to be the disposer of all Kingdoms of the Earth Luke 4 5 6 7. So doth the Pope of Rome vid. Bellarm lib. 5. cap. 8. de Pont. Rom. nor Dominion in the World but the Popes of Rome only First by his Past Present and Future State ver 8. The Beast that Was and Is not and yet IS Secondly by his twofold Number ver 11. HE is the Eight and 〈◊〉 of the Seven Thirdly by his Rise and Ruine vers 8. 11. The Beast shall ascend out of the bottomless Pit and go into Perdition That lawless One the Son of Perdition and goeth into Perdition First The Beast is described by his PAST State Rev. 17.8 The Beast which thou Sawest WAS and is not that is to say The Roman State and Kingdom was formerly and even in St. John's Time what it is not now in our Time in divers Respects viz. 1. The Roman Kingdom was then a Power ordained of God Rom. 13.1.7 unto which Roman-Power our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ being then in the Form of a Servant Phil. 2.7.8 was obedient to Death So were Christs Disciples and the Primitive Christians Search those Scriptures (c) Mar. 12.17 Acts. 25.10.11 1 Pet. 2.13 14 15. Tit. 3.1 Not only Paul but Peter and Christ himself was Subject to the Roman-Pagan Emperours Kings and Governors But the Beast of the eighth Head the Pope of Rome will be the Supreme Power over all Kings Kingdoms In Bella Coenae Dom. Sect. 3 4 5. against Queen Elizabeth and all Hereticks vid. Remonstran Hibernorum per R. Caron part 1. cap. 3. Sect. 4. pag. 7. The Roman Powers though Pagan Persecutors of Christ and Christians WAS Gods Ordinance of Magistracy until the Ten Kings gave the Beast the Pope of Rome his Power his Throne and great Authority Rev. 13.2 And then the Angel told St. John HE is not viz. The Beast of the seventh and eighth Head is not Gods Ordinance of Magistracy nor a Power ordained of God Here let it be Seriously considered That the Dragon which gave the Beast his Power Throne and great Authority Was not the Roman-Pagan-Emperours for they never gave their Power and great Authority

receive my Soul at the Hour of Death and wouldst bring me to life everlasting To Saint George they pray thus He save us from our Sins that we may rest with the Blessed in Heaven To Saint Erasmus ô Erasmus Grant that by thy Merits and Prayers we may overcome all the snares of our Enemies and be freed from eternal Death (c) Possevin bibl select pag. 295. Boz de sig Eccles Tom. 2. pag. 200. To Francis the Fryer they pray thus O Francis singular crucified-Saint be thou to us the way of Life make satisfaction for us alway shew to Christ the marks of thy wounds (d) Exut Franciscum tunica laceroque cucullo Qui Franciscus erat jam tibi Christus erit Francisci exuviis si qua licet indue Christum Jam Franciscus erit qui modo Christus erat This Fryer Francis they make equal to Christ as those Blasphemous Verses of two shameless Jesuites Turselline and Bencius do plainly declare And to the Image Veronica they pray thus Haile holy Face imprinted on a Clout (e) Chemnit exam Concil Trident. de Imagin Purge us from all Sin within and without c. Thus also the Papists by the Commandements of Men viz. Popes Jesuites Priests yea and general Councils and the Church of Rome do worship Images Pictures Crosses Crucifixes and Reliques which they say are to be worshipped after the same Manner as Images are (f) Vasq de adoratione lib. 3. dis 3. cap. 2. Reliquiae eodem modo atque Imagines sunt adorandae Conci Trident. Decret de Reliq Sanct. It 's written of Dunstan the Abbot of Glastenbury that he blessed the right Thumb of Editha the Abbesse of Wilton which being found uncorrupted after all her Body was turned to dust and ashes in her Grave became a Relique (g) Guliel Malmsbur lib. 2. de Pontif. Vincent li. 25. cap. 33. How many things about our Saviour are turned into Reliques viz. the Manger his linnen Cloth his Cradle his Shirt the Table on which Christ eat his last Supper the Cup wherein he gave his Blood to be drunk are Reliques to be seen at this Day as the Papists and other Pilgrims and Travellers report in several places and Churches in Rome Spain Ravenna Pisa at Andegavum c. The Church of Rome is guilty of gross Idolatry and spiritual Adultery in Adoring and worshipping the Host for at the Priest's Elevation of the Host the Papists breaden God they all fall down upon their Knees and worship it with very great Devotion and whosoever refuseth so to do is counted an Heretick (h) Bellarm. de Sacrament Euchar l. a. cap. 29. Coster Enchir. de Euchar. Rubric in Missal Rom. And yet some Priests have poisoned the Host intending to add Murder yea wilful and Sacrilegious Murder thereby to their gross Idolatry as the Monk Bernhardine who poisoned the Host to the intent that he might poison the Emperour Henry of Lucenburgh as he also did at the Instigation of Robert King of Sicily Baronius (l) Cuspinian Nauclerus Egnat Baron Spondan An. Eccles an 1055. Volateran Hoveden Math. Paris c. tells us of a Priest that either did or would have poisoned Pope Victor 2d at the Sacrament And William Arch-bishop of York was poisoned at the Mass by his own Chaplins by that which they put into the Chalice What can be more Heathenish and palpable Idolatry than to worship the Bread consecrated by a Priest which is maintained commanded and Practised by the Church of Rome by all her Priests and Papists Another branch of the Spiritual Whoredom and Adultery of the great Whore the Church of Rome is the Adoration and worshipping the Cross it Self on which Christ suffered say they also the Image of the Cross and the Sign of the Cross (m) Vasques de Adorat l. 3. cap. 2. Bellarm. de Imagin lib. 3. c. 27 28 29. Aquin. Sum. part 3. art 4. Vasques the Jesuit affirmeth that this is the Doctrine of the Roman-Church and so doth Bellarmine and Thomas Aquinas and many other great Doctors of the Church of Rome It is testified (n) Chrys à Visitat de virb Domini tom 4. Lib. 6. c. 7. that a famous Papist and a Professor of Divinity who dedicated his Book to Pope Clement 8th saith thus We worship the Cross with the same Worship wherewith we adore Christ himself c. Again Whereas we Asserted That the Church of Rome is the Mother of Harlots for a full proof thereof let it be considered First That the Church of Rome owns her self to be the Catholick and Mother-Church of all those Churches in Italy Spain France Germany c. whether National or Parochial that receive believe and practice her damnable Doctrines and Idolatrous worship which are false Churches and Harlots with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication and the Inhabiters of the Earth have been made drunk with the wine of her Fornication and therefore the Church of Rome Mystical-Babylon as before proved is called the Mother of Harlots Rev. 17.2 5. And Abominations of the Earth Secondly That the Church of Rome hath begotten born and nourished all those National and Parochial Churches before-mentioned which are called the Cities of the Nations Rev. 16.19 which National Churches are Harlots as Nineveh was called Nahum 3.4 because of the multitude of their spiritual Whoredoms and abominable Idolatries whereby it appears that the Church of Rome is the Mother of Harlots for She hath infused her false Doctrines worships and all her Idolatries into those Churches Thirdly That the Church of Rome as the Mother of Harlots imposeth her false Doctrines Idolatrous Worships and damnable Practices upon all those and other National Churches whom She calleth her Daughters owning her Authority over them as being their Mother And First It doth appear that the Church of Rome is the great WHORE by her spiritual Whoredoms and Fornications Rev. 17.4 And the Woman had a golden-CVP in her hand full of Abominations and filthiness of her Fornication All kinds of Idolatry Image-worship and Superstitions in the Service of God is spiritual Whoredom (f) Prid. de Antichristo Lect. 11. Non in Babilona solum sed in Sodomam Roma degeneravit ut non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 modo Meretricum sed ut habet liber Complutensis Regius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hoc est Catamitarum Ganimedum Mater habeatur Sic Heptades de Antichristo pag. 99. 129-131 Doun Diatr de Antichristo l. 1. c. 7. Etiam M. Antonius de Dom. Archiep. Spalat de Rep. Eccles lib. 4. cap. 3. n. 26 -29 ac Hieron adver Jovin lib. 2 c. Marlor in Apoc. 18.24 in Apoc. 13. p. 37. 64 65. And such are those Images and Idols those Crosses and Crucifixes those Pictures and painted forms or Representations of our Saviour Christ of the Virgin Mary and of Saints deceased whom the Papists set up fall down before and worship The Kings of