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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67317	A Christian warning-piece for all true Protestants by way of Christian counsel and advice to the King's most excellent Majesty, and all his good Protestant subjects, founded forth out of the written word of God : wherein is clearly shewed ... / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1680 (1680)	Wing W476; ESTC R34705	36,250	36

who by agreement with Adonikam's name is said to be a God standing up or exalting himself above all that is called God meaning above Christ by his assuming into the Office of Christ to give Laws or Directions in Worship which only belongeth to Christ the Prophet like unto Moses so was he faithful in all his House Heb. 3. 2. Now as in the Mystical Body of Christ's Church * 1 Cor. 12. 14. 27. many Members make one Body or ‖ Eph. 3. 15. Family all honouring Christ the † Col. 1. 18. Head of the Body as Children do a Father and serve God in Worship by his Direction and Appointment are therefore of the number ‖ Acts 1. 25. of his Name called Christians * Acts 11. 26. Isa 65. 15. do grow up in him unto a perfect Man unto the Measure and Stature of the Fulness of Christ Ephes 4. 13 15. Even so as the false Church is an Harlot the Man of Sin the Pope being Head their Lord and Law-giver in Worship consisting of many Members which serve and worship by his Directions are joyned to that Harlot † 1 Cor. 6. 15. together with her Head the Pope all make one Body or Man ‖ 2 Thess 2. 3 4. of Sin so are they of the number of his * Rev. 13. 18. Name as Children to their Reverend Father in God making one Family with him as the Sons of Adonikam 666 made one Family to their Father and thus the number of the Beast is the number of a Man by this borrowed speech 666. So that in some respects the Beast may be likened to the Image Nebuchadnezzar saw Dan. 2. 31. The Pope with his Triple Crown who is proclaimed for a Vice-God † Lib. Benedictus printed at Bonenia Anno. 1608. Hen. Ains Animad pag. 100. the Invincible Monarch of of the Common-wealth and vehement Conserver of the Popish Omnipotency he is the Head of Gold the Cardinals and Prelates are next to him as Brests and Arms of Silver the other Belly-god Clergy is the strong brazen Panch the Lay-People are as Legs and Feet of Iron and Clay which carry and bear up the Bulk and the unclean ‖ Rev. 16. 13 14. 2 Thess 2. 9. spirit of Satan giveth life and effectual operation to the Beast and to be a member of this their Body and Church the Papists themselves * Bellarm. de Eccles l. 3. c. 2. profess that there is not any inward Vertue required so then there is no need of the Spirit of God to join the Limbs of the Beast together Moreover that these Popes are Beasts note farther what Henry Ainsworth saith to John Ainsworth the Papist Their Vows of Chastity being but to defile themselves with vile Sodomy Adultery and Fornication So that the six thousand Childrens Heads found Murdered in Pope Gregory's Fish-pond made him reverse his own wicked Decree in restraining the Clergy from their Wives And again saith John Traper in his Treasure of Holy Truths Pag. 153. That Pope Leo the 10th admiring the huge masses of Money which he had raked together by Fraud and Wile said to Cardinal Bembus See what a deal of Wealth we have got by this Rable of Christ And when the same Bembus brought a place of Scripture to comfort him lying on his Death-bed Away saith he with these Bawbles speaking concerning Christ Moreover saith John Napier aforesaid on his Paraphrase of the Revelation Pag. 58. proved out of the Papists own Authors That of Popes thirteen were Adulterers three were common Brothellers four were Incestuous Persons eleven were poisoned with Sodomy seven were Whoremongers and Inventers of Brothel-Houses finally one was a Whore and died being delivered of a Bastard in open Procession Now surely on those People God hath sent strong Delusions that believe that these sinful wicked Popes can pardon Sins and give power to his Priests so to do upon a false ground gathered from Christ's Words to Peter Matth. 16. 19. Whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven When this Power belongeth not to one Man but when any obstinate Sinner is cast out of a true Church and upon his repentance he is received in again as it is written to the whole Church To whom ye forgive any thing saith the Apostle Paul † 2 Cor. 2. 10. I forgive So that this Power is not given to one Man but to every true Church of Christ in God's Order and Manner aforesaid But how is it possible that either the Popes or the whole Church of Rome can forgive Sins when the present Church of Rome cannot be proved a true Church no nor in all likelihood the Natural Posterity of the Saints in S. Paul's time First Considering the many Changes in the Roman State so that * Rev. 6. 14 15. Heaven departed as a Scrowl when it is rouled together and every Mountain and Island were moved out of their places Kings and Captains fled and hid themselves So great was the Judgment of God on the Roman Power for Murdering the Lord Jesus and after Persecuting him in his Members As for particulars Alaricus with his Goths in the Year of Christ 414 took * Hierony in Epist See Henry Ainsw Animad p. 102 the many Authors quoted to prove it and spoiled Rome in burning it Forty four Years after Gensericus with his Vandals took and spoiled it so that Rome for a time remained without Inhabitants Some Years after did Odoacer with another Company invade Italy and Conquered Rome and put the Emperour to flight made himself King Then Theodoricus with the Ostrogoths took it and after him again Bellisarius with his Army wan it But above all Totilus King of the Goths in the Year of our Lord 546 after all the former Invasions did overthrow Rome quite cast down the Walls burnt the Houses and made it so Desolate that there remained in it neither Man nor Woman These Turmoils in Rome within a few Years and the possessing of that Land by Foreigners as the Goths mixing themselves with the People degenerated into the name of Italians afterwards the † Blond l. 2. d. 2. Fascic temp f 66. Saracens killed innumerable People in Rome and Italy All which may teach us how unpossible it is that the present Church of Rome is so much as the Natural Stock of the Saints in Paul's time which if they were can be no better than the Ishmalites and Edomites the natural stock of Abraham could be justified to be the Church of God then as Rome now or the Amorites and Jebusites * Josh 10. 1. in Jerusalem because † Gen. 14. 18. Melchisedeck Priest of the most High God with his faithful company lived there five or six hundred Years before as well as the Romish Church be now pleaded for because above 1600 Years ago a true Church once lived there Now let all Protestants