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A66982	The fall of Babylon, or, Seasonable reflections on the novelties of Rome with the rise, growth, and final overthrow of Antichrist now at hand, occasioned by the preface to a treatise called Nubes testium, or, A collection of primitive fathers giving testimony to the faith once delivered to the saints, being (as the author stileth it) a full discovery of the sentiments of the ancient fathers in the chief points of controversy at present under debate : written upon the first coming forth of the said treatise (but not permitted to be then made publick) for the benefit of all who abominate the corruptions of the great whore and would not be partakers of her sins of plagues / by B.W.	Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3467; ESTC R27594	163,329	256

refuse to restore both their Ecclesiastical and Civil Rights He might by Execrations or Censures and Arms be compelled to his Duty Being assisted by this Opportunity some Bishops and Princes of Germany who had been long aggrieved by this wild Beast into the place of Henry who by his great wickedness and forseited the Kingdom chose Duke Rodulphus who with that modesty and integrity which becomes a King forthwith sent Messengers to me by whom I might understand that He was forced to undertake the Government of the Kingdom but however that He was not so desirous of Reigning but that he had rather obey us than those who had promised the Kingdom that He would be always in the Power of God and us and that we might believe that He will do this hath promised to give his Sons Hostages At this Henry began to be incens'd and to beseech us at first that by * * Banning Cursings we would hinder Rudolphus from seizing the Kingdom I said I would see to whom the Right belonged and for that Reason would send Messengers who should take Cognizance of the whole Affair and would judge thereupon whether of them had the better Cause Henry forbad that our Messengers should declare him King and slew many of the Clergy and Laity Robbed and Profaned several Churches and by this means bound himself the faster with the Bonds of an Anathema or Excommunication denounced against him Wherefore trusting in the Judgment and Mercy of God and the Patronage of the Blessed Virgin and supported also with your Authority Henry himself and his Abettors do I bind with the Bonds of an Anathema and the second time deprive him of Royal Authority and forbid all Christians absolved of that Oath whereby Fealty is used to be Sworn to Kings in any thing to obey Henry and that they accept Rudolphus for King whom many of the Princes of the Province or Empire rejecting Henry have chosen to be their good King For 't is fit that as Henry for his Pride and contumacy is deprived of all his Privileges so Rudolphus who is acceptable to all should for his Piety and Religion be endowed with Royal Dignity and Power Go to now therefore ye most most Holy Princes of the Apostles and what I have said interpose your Authority to confirm that all men at length may understand whether you can bind and loose in Heaven and also on Earth are not able to take away or give Empires Kingdoms Principalities or whatever else mortal Men can enjoy For it ye can judge those things which belong to God what are we to think of inferiour and profane things It it belongs to you to judge the Angels who rule over proud Princes what doth it become you to do to their Servants Let Kings and all the Princes of the World now learn by the Example of this Henry what your Power is in Heaven and how great you are with God and let them hereafter dread to contemn the Commands of Holy Church And this Sentence forthwith execute ye on Henry that all may know that 't is not by mere chance but through your Assistance that the Son of Iniquity hath fallen from the Kingdom Only this I would request from you that being led to Repentance He may through your intercession obtain Grace in the Day of Judgment And now And now Whether this be not to have a Mouth speaking great things and Blasphemies Whether this be not to speak as a Dragon let the World judge Nay I was going to say the World hath already judged it For so Aventinus tells us l. 5. p. 352. Annal. Boior that upon this and the great outrages thereon committed by Rudolphus and his Adherents most Men openly as well as privately began to cry out against so great a Villany in publick to curse Gregory and wish all Mischief to this Hildebrand publishing that 't was out of Malice and an intemperate lusting after Rule that he was thus hurried on Headlong and declaring him to be Antichrist Nay farther yet He hath herein judged Himself For was it not hereupon that He undertook to foretel that before the Feast of St. Peter and he did all He could to verifie what he had foretold by tampering with Assassines to murder him Henry should die or lose his Kingdom this He did publickly in a Sermon to the people ascending the Pulpit of St. Peter's and in his Pontifical Habit adding that He would no longer be accounted Pope if this Prophecy should fail as Benno is cited to attest it Histor Magd. Cent. 11. cap. 8. p. 435. Shew any thing like this in any other History whether Civil or Ecclesiastical besides that of Rome and we will give up the Cause and allow any to be Antichrist besides Him whom this concerns we will strike Hildebrand out of the List and He shall not be so much as thought of neither He nor any of his Proud Successors in the day when Babylon is to come into remembrance Rev. 16. 19. It may seem a long Digression what we have here run but it being of so high import towards the clearing up so great a part of the Book of the Revelation as what relates to Antichrist in his Rise Progress and full Growth is I could not well pass by what is here said of Hildebrand especially considering How at the same time that we erre no longer in the Person 't is decreed by the third Roman Council under Him Ut Papae nomen Unicum esset in Universo orbe Christiano nec liceret alicui seipsum vel alium eo nomine appellare that there should be but one who should have the Name of POPE in the whole Christian World and that it should not be lawful for any other to call himself or any one else by that Name so then here 's the mark of the Beast the Name and Number of his Name all concurring in One Anno 1076. For then it was viz. in the same Council in which Hildebrand and depos'd the Emperor that this Name was thus appropriated to the Bishop of Rome As Longus à Coriolano relates p. 317. And 't is very observable what we meet with to this purpose in Aventinus Annal. Boior l. 7. p. 420 421. where the Covetousness Luxury Strife Hatred Envy Ambition c. of the Romish Chair is most highly inveighed against in opposition to the Humility Meekness Patience Charity which the great Shepherd of our Souls gave as the Rules of his Religion and was Himself the great Pattern of them And in particular this Hildebrand of whom we have been speaking is pitcht upon as most guilty of the contrary Vices and that under the express stile of Antichrist the Person who there charges Him is the Chief Priest of Juvavia his words are Hildebrandus ante annos centum atque septuaginta primus specie Religionis Antichristi imperii fundamenta jecit Hoc bellum nefandum speaking of what opposition the Emperors had constantly found from the Popes after

old and clouted Shooes of old Garments and dry and mouldy Bread Joshua 9. 4 5. whereby 't is easie to make out the Allusion those for whom he writes are so much concern'd to hide all their Cheats will be but a poor proof of their coming from a far Country let me so express the remote and distant Ages of the Church unless they bring with them what the Gibeonites did not Truth and Sincerity For is there not some Standard by which Antiquity it self must be tryed For however error can never be quid primum yet it may be quid antiquum we know it is as ancient as the Fall of Man Nay more than that as the Fall of Lucifer So that the pretence of Antiquity alone were all granted which is brought for such would not be sufficient to establish matters in Debate unless what is urged as antiquum or what is ancient be proved likewise to be primum or first i. e. to be the same with that Truth which obtain'd before the Ancients either glossed on or witnessed to it which whither it be or no will appear by that time we shall have reflected on the Preface To begin therefore where the Author doth viz. That Novelty in Faith is so great a scandal to any that lay claim to the Truth of Christianity that wheresoever it is effectually proved there all pretences immediately fall to the ground and there can be no Truth in that Society beside the noise of it and the Name I am very ready to grant and shall only consider that we may come plainly to the matter in Debate these two things 1. What Novelty in Faith is 2. Whether the Collection of the Primitive Fathers giving Testimony to the Faith once delivered to the Saints as 't is here pretended will justifie those the Author pleads for from Novelty CHAP. I. What Novelty in Faith is 1. NOvelty in Faith is whatsoever is brought in how early soever it be contrary to the Rule of Faith as once delivered to the Saints i. e. to the Holy Church as then Establisht in its Purity and Perfection by Christ and his Apostles For that is what must be understood by that Phrase as 't is found Jude v. 3. it being the greatest absurdity to imagine that the Apostle should speak as he there doth of his giving all diligence to write unto them that were Sanctified of the common Salvation or exhort them earnestly to contend for the Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints if the necessary Principles of that Salvation had not been already made common sufficiently given forth and publisht or the Faith it self not fully delivered for which they were so earnestly to contend I am sure St. Paul thought so when he exhorted Timothy 2 Tim. 1. 13. to hold fast the form of sound words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the model or delineation the short prescript and certain Rule of wholsome Doctrine he had heard of him and more at large in the third Chapter of the same Epistle v. 14 15 16 17. required him to continue in the things which he had learned and been assured of knowing of whom he had learned them and that from a Child be had known the holy Scriptures which were able to make him wise to Salvation through Faith which is in Jesus Christ All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for Instruction in Righteousness that the Man of God may be perfect throughly furnisht unto all good Works And St. Peter prefers its Evidence before any Collection of Testimonies whatsoever for he prefers the Evidence of the written Word before a voice from Heaven 2 Pet. 1. 19. For we have a more sure Word of Prophesie whereunto you do well that you take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the Day-Star arise in your hearts knowing this first that no Prophesie of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation for the Prophesie came not at any time by the Will of Man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost To these we may add St. John speaking of it As what they i. e. the Christians had heard from the beginning 1 Joh. 2. 24. What was the word of life 1 Joh. 1. 1. what was theTruth 1 Joh. 1. 8. But we have a better Witness than all these even our Lord himself promising his Apostles before he left them that the Spirit of Truth should guide them into all Truth John 16. 13. i. e. as himself enlarges it chap. 14. 26. should teach them all things and bring all things to their remembrance whatsoever he had said unto them And as it is in that forecited Joh. 16. 13. should shew them things to come which what was it but to assure them that whatsoever was needful to be known either of the Precepts or Mysteries of the Gospel whatsoever for the comfort of the Church was needful to be foretold should be th●rowly reveal'd to them Nothing that was matter either of Faith or Practice should be left to uncertainties the Spirit which was to come down in so miraculous a manner as he did on the Apostles on the day of Pentecost would declare to them the wholewill of God would not leave them as Orphans without sufficient instructions in the Gospel they were to Preach without comfort and assistance in those things they were to suffer as Martyrs for it And was not this effectually wrought by him For 1. What are the Gospels but the things that Christ did and taught brought to their Remembrance 2. What the Epistles written by St. Paul and others of the Apostles but the teaching them all things fully informing them and by them the Church in all matters of Faith and good Life which were less clearly laid down in the Gospels 3. What the Revelation of St. John with those other Predictions scattered abroad in the Writings of the other Apostles but the shewing them things to come And if so If there were so full a discovery of Truth made to the Apostles that all that our Lord promised herein was actually made good to them whilst in their Ministry here on Earth and by them to the Church which is and can be built only upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner Stone Ephes 2. 20. If not only St. Peter 2 Epist 3. 2. makes this the whole of the Christian to be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the Holy Prophets and of the Commandment of them the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour But St. Jude himself from whom the Author takes the Argument of his Collection as 't is to give Testimony to the Faith once delivered to the Saints v. 17. gives this as his weighty Caution that they should remember the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ 't will leave it beyond all doubt