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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

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

Bohemicos sub Felice Papâ pag 1447. saith The Pope may Change the holy Gospel and may give to the Gospel according to the place and time another Sense Michael Medina Gratian Abb. Panorm Felinus and all the Roman Priests assert and Teach The Pope may dispence against jus divinum and against the New Testament and thereby deceiving and seducing them are become the false Prophet like Thyatira's Jezabel Rev. 2.20 which called her self a Prophetess viz. The false Prophets in that Church who taught and seduced the people of God to commit Fornication so the Roman Priests do teach them that worship the Beast and his Image to worship Saints deceased yea to worship Idols Crosses Crucifixes and Images which the Church of Rome hath set up and Commanded to be Adored and Worshiped especially their breaden God and Sacrilegious Host teaching the People and Seducing them to Believe That the self same Body of our Lord Jesus Christ who was once in the fulness of Time and but once made of a Woman Gal. 4.4 by the Power of God is every Sacrament Day made of a Wafer by the power of a Romish Priest By all which and by several other false Doctrines it is plain and evident to those that have understanding in the holy Scriptures of Truth That the Roman-Priests are the false Prophet meant and intended by Christ Rev. 13 14. and 16.13 and 19 20. As for their Doctrines of Purgatory Pennances Pardons and many other false Doctrines taught by the Roman-Priests I pass by as not worth mentioning Having thus far unvailed Mystical-Babylon that is Rome-papal I shall now proceed to Call the People of God to come out of Babylon fand to forsake Papal Rome to Renounce the Church o Rome as the great Whore and Mother of Harlots to Deny the Popes Imperial and Pontifical Supremacy as the Beast with his two horns like a Lamb and not to hear nor hearken unto the Roman-Priest that false Prophet which teach the false Doctriness of the Church of Rome and Seduce the Servants of God And this Call I give the People of God especially in England in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ A Call to all the People of God to come out of Babylon REvel 18.4 And I heard another voice from Heaven saying Come out of HER my People That ye be not Partakers of her Sins And that ye receive not of her Plagues This Call is the Call of God our Saviour unto all his People in Mystical Babylon Papal-Rome to come out of HER. Come out of her my People which Call of Christ was given by an audible voice And I heard another voice from Heaven saying c. And this Call from Heaven is urged and enforced upon the People of God by two Cogent Arguments or Reasons 1. That ye be not partakers of HER Sins 2. That ye receive not of her Plagues Two things in this Call need Explanation 1. What this voice was 2. What it is to come out of HER To both these I shall speak briefly and then proceed to speak more largely of this Call First This voice hath Heaven's Authority It was from Heaven to wit the voice of Christ in the Ministry of the Gospel ordinarily and by the powerful Efficacy of the holy Spirit also 1 Thes 1.5 For our Gospel came not unto you in Word only but also in Power and in the holy Spirit and in much assurance So had the voice of the Angels of God by whom Christ then Spake unto his Servant John Rev. 14.6 13. with a loud voice ver 7. which St. John heard from Heaven ver 13. And so have the voice of the faithful Ministers of God by whom Christ also now speaks unto his People Luke 10.16 He that heareth you heareth me c. to wit Heavens Authority Secondly To come out of HER is to Seperate themselves from the Church of Rome which is now become a false Church called the great Whore and Mother of Harlots 2 Cor. 6.14 18. ver 17. Wherefore Come out from among them and be ye Seperate saith the Lord. The Lord Jesus Christ would have his People to be Seperated under the Gospel from the unbelieving Jews and their false worship which Christ calleth vain worship Matth. 15.8.9 And St. Paul did Seperate the Disciples from the Jewish Synagogue of unbelievers Acts 19.8 9. And also from Idolatrous Gentiles that worship Images as the Church of Rome doth and from their Idol-Temples Churches and Chappels For the Gentile Papists and Church of Rome their Pope Cardinals Jesuits and all the Roman-Priests do tread under foot the holy City Rev. 11.2 Jerusalem viz. the Church and People of God 2 Cor. 6.16 17. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said Levit. 20.24.26 and 26.12 I will dwell among them and walk among them And I will be their God and they shall be my People wherefore Come out from among them and be ye seperated saith the Lord and touch not the unclean Thing c. The Papists Images Crosses Crucifixes their Consecrated Wafers holy Waters and Saints Pictures the Image of the Virgin-Mary and of our Saviour upon the Cross unto which Images the Papish Priests and people fall down and worship yea their Ave Maria and prayers to Saints deceased all their holy Bells Beads Prayer-Books and Candles c. are all as an unclean thing and ought to be seperated from and not touched by the People of God whom Christ calls upon with a loud voice to come out from among them These two particulars explained the Argument which Christ urgeth to inforce this his Call unto his People followeth That ye be not Partakers of HER Sins and that ye receive not of HER Plagues As if Christ had said I do by the voice of my faithful Ministers Call and Command you my People to Come out of Mystical Babylon Papal-Rome and to Separate your selves from the Church of Rome which is fallen is fallen from her Apostolical Purity in Doctrine Worship and Discipline or Ecclesiastical Government and is become an Harlot a false Church the great Whore the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth The Synagogue of Satan the Habitation of Devils the Hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird. But if you my People as if Christ had said will not obey my voice nor hear my Call If you will not come out from the Church of Rome and seperate your selves from the Papists and leave going to and worshiping in their Popish Temples Churches Chappels and private Cloysters Nunneries Priories Religious Houses Meeting-places and holy Roods of Auricular Confession c. then in the first Place you will be Partakers of their Sins that is you will become guilty of their Will-worship and spiritual Fornication Rev. 17.2 of their Idolatries Adulteries Thefts Murders c. Rev. 9.20 21. And of their Impenitency added unto their Iniquities And in the