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A85551	Truths victory against heresie; all sorts comprehended under these ten mentioned: 1. Papists, 2. Familists, 3. Arrians, 4. Arminians, 5. Anabaptists, 6. Separatists, 7. Antinomists, 8. Monarchists. 9. Millenarists, 10. Independents. As also a description of the truth, the Church of Christ, her present suffering estate for a short time yet to come; and the glory that followeth at the generall resurrection. / By I.G. a faithfull lover and obeyer of the truth. Imprimatur, John Downame.	Graunt, John, of Bucklersbury.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1597; Thomason E277_7; ESTC R200005	70,586	79

truth revealed and given from heaven by God assuredly received and believed by the elect acknowledged and obeyed by the believer to salvation this is the spirituall house or Church consisting all of living spirituall stones Christ Jesus being the foundation or chief corner stone and the great Master workman and builder of it himself as the Scriptures testifie 1 Pet. 2. 2 3 4 5 6 7. Heb. 8. 2. of this Assembly and Congregation doth our Lord say Yee are the salt of the earth yee are the light of the world Mat. 5. 13. 14. And I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing they shall aske it shall be done c. Matth. 18. 19. and to these only is the promise made to receive the Spirit of God to lead and guide them into all truth Joh. 16. 13. And again I will pray the Father and hee shall give you another Comforter that hee may abide with you for ever Joh. 14. 16. which Spirit of truth is the great Substitute and Advocate that Christ hath left with his Church all the while of his personall absence through whose grace and wisdome they are they only that make use of the keys of the kingdome of heaven according to Matth. 18. 18. Joh. 20. 13. Therefore Pope I say unto thee thy vicardome is blasphemy thy keys arrogancy thy chair heresie thy succession vanity thy Cardinals and chief Priests Pharisees thy imposition impurity thy washings uncleanness thy holy unction extreme pollution thy crossings Idolizings thy confessions absolutions abominations you say you are the Church of Christ and that your succession is from the Apostles where hath Christ and his Apostles prescribed to you that trash and trumpery which you call pure holy divinity your breaden god your unbloody sacrifices your golden pardons of all rates and prizes your pilgrimages your purgatories your baptizings to convey grace and wash away all manner of original sin your idols your altars your masses your dirges your execrations by bell book and candle your Avie maries and your babling prayers by numbers in an unknown tongue your silken copes your shaven crownes your vowed chastitie and poverty and a thousand more such fables and heathenish imitations of the Heathens and wicked mens inventions which now Gods Word by the testimony of his faithfull regenerated children of truth have for ever discovered you and your Religion to be but a filthy heap or wall of mud and dirt whited over a painted Sepulchre though outward to the shew and appearance of men beautified trim'd and adorn'd with silver gold and all manner of rich and precious things under the mask of the Spirits ornaments yet within nothing but stinking noysome carrion rottennesse filthinesse and uncleannesse and all your abominable worship of the Heathens that you were to maintain for a day a moneth a yeere the whole amounting to two and forty moneths that is so many yeers of dayes even an 1260. yeers which is the antiquity you so much brag of yet do not consider the older you are the neerer your dissolution notwithstanding your Religion be made and woven of all the glorious matter of the gods of the Heathenish Monarchs that were before you which were worshipped with such vain pomp varieties of voyces and musicall Instruments as Rimmon and Baal Ashtaroth and Milcom and the rest of abominations that had Priests and Altars hesaints and she-saints of their own makings like unto you as also your devillish doctrines just after the manner matter of the heathens idols Oracles which vain worldly glory hath so lifted thee up with pride that thou hast advanced thy self above the stars of God yet let us wait now but a few dayes and we shall see thy glory shame thy greatnesse contemptuousnes thy gorgeous apparel nakedness thy life death thy habitation destruction and as you have done cruelly to others so shall others deal cruelly with you your name and generation shall be utterly forgotten and your judgement shall seise on you so that your place shall be no more found Rev. 17. 46. And you may as easily keep the Sun from shining the wind from blowing the Sea from motion and the earth from springing as to divert this judgement of God determined against thee therefore all you that will escape her judgements come out of her and separate your selves from her lest you partake of her sins and be made partakers of her plagues 2 Cor. 6. 16. And what I say unto you the head of Sects I say unto all the rest Come out of Babylon and submit to Sion of which universall mother Gal. 4. 26. wee shall often have occasion to describe and discover Heres This man is not for our turn hee is clear contrary to our doings he upbraideth us with our offending the Law and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education What will you call the holy Church of Rome to question the Pope the holy Father who I am sure is not Antichrist for the Antichrist is sin and not a man but the Pope of Rome is the Father of the Church holy and good and teacheth the world the Gospel of Jesus Christ now by Images as the Prophet Moses taught the Jewes in Gods holy Law by Ceremonies heretofore Truth This man that speaketh now is a Familist who as he saith Sin is Antichrist so hee believeth and teacheth that righteousnesse is Christ and so turns both Christ and Antichrist from persons to qualities and the whole Scripture into Allegories who by cunning and crafty expressions exceeds all others in fulfilling that saying of our Lord Matth. 24. 24. And there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and this is such a false Christ and false prophet as there is not the like in the world making Christ a phantasie a meere fiction a righteousnesse of their own invention and so they conceive of Antichrist to be Sin which things of themselves are not persons and yet they confesse and preach that Christ is the seed of the woman and sin the seed of the Serpent and to deceive mens understandings sometimes they will call Christ the new Man and sin the old man or humane nature of Christ and so in their preachings writings and conferences use the Scripture terms and phrases yea their creed or confession of their faith runs word for word with ours only differing thus for they make all their Articles to expresse the present time in those things wee believe to be past and to come they do acknowledge Jesus of Nazareth but he to be no more Christ the Saviour of the world then they are that have taken in the light as they use to speak and upon this ground confesse that every one of their illuminated ones are conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate are crucified dead and buried risen from the dead the third day and ascend into heaven and there sit on the right hand

By I. G. A faithfull lover and obeyer of the Truth Now I beseech you Brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them Rom. 16. 17. Imprimatur JOHN DOWNAME TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFULL Sir BENJAMIN RUDYARD Knight one of the Honourable House of COMMONS SIR AS formerly I have acquainted you with two small Treatises which were dedicated to his MAJESTIE and the Right Honorable the High Court of Parliament so now I have presumed on Christian affection to dedicate this victory of Truth to your religious view and meditation The odds in the conflict was much ten to one and every one of them being roots of a thousand branches even so many in number and so grosse in nature that if I should speak all I know of them it might seeme incredulous to your exercised and experienced judgement and prejudicious unto many that want the like knowledge and discernment so that for this time I thought thus briefly to disarme the Leaders that so the following multitude of the Army may have premonition before the time come that all the enemies of Christ shall be slaine before him and the secrets of all manner of hearts discovered And for my own particular Sir finding the boldnesse and impudency of error as well as the multiplicitie whereby the whole Citie is in every part and place infected and from thence as from a fountain the Countryes also I could rest no longer silent for as much as God of his own goodnesse and infinite mercy hath been pleased to communicate and impart the knowledge of the mystery of his Word unto me in some measure notwithstanding my own unworthinesse and weaknesse this truth received in my heart hath been as a fire which I could no wayes hinder from burning into a flame through the light whereof by the means of your grave and prudent countenance he that reads it may have information of the evill and error without prefigured and within this Treatise manifestly revealed as also the good and happinesse of truth the old path and straight way of the Lord in some measure opened and declared to which all that are not of the houshold of faith are strangers and most of them perverters And Sir I pray of one thing take notice in the figure that he that is most obscure in his person is most dangerously subtill and mysterious in his doctrine and at this very time in which you sit in Parliament with the whole Counsell of the Kingdome he doth more hurt in one houre then in ten heretofore his badge is F. Wherefore Right Wor be pleased to take notice of the Churches enemies and let the despised and persecuted wife of Christ and her little children have your love helpe and assistance These are all that are intreated for to be granted by you most vertuous and noble Senator to him that is your faithfull and humble servant JOHN GRAUNT Truths Victory against Heresie TRVTH NOw all you Heresies new and old that have mustered up your powers and forces against me that am the Truth of God and have drawne out your Companies into Regiments and your Brigades into an Army of strong armed fighting cruell men whom all this world long have plotted devised and waged battel against me and my generation and by your subtile discipline in the artillery of error iniquity and deceit have made your selves so skilfull and artificiall that you have alwayes boldly and scornfully given mee many alarmes summons onsets skirmishes underminings stormings killings firings poysonings murthering of my Children and Witnesses denying us quarter or any mercy although we have cryed out for pity and compassion above these four thousand yeeres I pray you take notice therefore that I do now in these last dayes of the world even now in this little time to come that makes an end of sins and finisheth transgressions and which also accomplisheth my injuries and sufferings my teares and sorrowes my lamentation and weeping Now I say even in this day in which you are so much increased and grown so innumerable I challenge you all even all your multitudes and gatherings of what degree and condition Sect or Religion sex age tongue or nation soever you are of for that you have usurped my names and titles my house and children my birth my birth-right and inheritance my priviledges and my dignities my honour and authority my kingdome and Throne it self and that you all have robbed oppressed spoyled reproached belied persecuted beaten wounded and killed me in my truth and innocency at all times and in all places with despite and scorne contemptuously have cast me out from amongst you and defam'd my sincerity with heresie my purity with iniquity my fruitfulnesse you have call'd barrennesse and my faithfull fervency you call hypocrisie HERESIE What strange voyce is this that wee heare Truth saith shee what is that were you made to reprove our thoughts we tell you you are grievous unto us to behold let us therefore examine her with despitefulnesse and torture and let us condemn her with a shamefull death Truth Thus hath ever been your dealing with mee and mine from the beginning for your Cain kill'd my childe Abel and so your Ishmael mockt and persecuted Isaac my son of promise and my Lord of life was slain by your children of death and as alwayes you have been at enmity and sworn adversaries so from the beginning of this world to this very day you have had power and authority in your own hands to work your will and pleasure against us even the greatnesse of the pomp and glory of temporall dignity majesty in and by whom you have wrought your malice and implacable anger and wrath upon us The great Image consisting of the four Metalls which the Prophet Daniel described to be the four great powerfull Monarchs which should rule and govern in this world the golden head the silver breasts and arms the brazen belly and thighs the iron legs and the feet and toes they consisted part of iron and part of clay Dan. 2. 31 32 33 42. And all you my old sworn enemies have in and by them all even in all and every part of this terrible and great Images power and strength you I say again have wrought and effected under and in a seeming bright and excellent way your own wicked spleen and indignation against me your father the Devill exercising his false accusation and lies his enmity and cruelty in the Monarchie of the Babylonians which was the head of gold and after him he stirr'd up the Assyrian Monarchy to the self-same purpose deciphered by the breasts and arms of silver and when that power grew old weak and so failed him then hee stirred up the Grecian Monarchy who exceeded for strength though not for wealth whereby my children were cruelly oppressed to their great destruction for as their nature so is their operation declared by the Prophet to be a belly and thighs of brasse