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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42148	Some prison-meditations and experiences with some hints touching the fall of the mother of harlots, and the exaltation of the son of God upon the throne of David / written ... by John Griffith ...	Griffith, John, 1622?-1700.	1663 (1663)	Wing G2004; ESTC R11497	73,641	162

of Satan is If Rome be that then so no Church it is Of Christ I 'm sure But for to prov 't she pleads Antiquity and that the Pope succeeds Th' Apostle Peter in his sacred Chair And saith that he by Christ is placed there And that he hath receiv'd the sacred Keys And power hath to do what ere he please To bind or loose and what he doth on earth Is ratifi'd in heav'n nay more she saith That she hath such Authority receiv'd If you do think this Whore may be believ'd So great that he doth give but his command And strait the gates of Heaven will open stand To let in who he pleaseth to admit And any one if he shall think it fit He 'l canonize and make a Saint of him Provided he be paid for 't well but them That can't or don't shall never be a Saint By his good will nor never will he grant A License unto such that they may go To Heav'n they may be sure he won't do so But unto Purgatory at the least If not to Hell but if he think it best They shal not stay there long he 'l pray them out If he be paid but well he 'l make no doubt And that he might the better cheat and blind Poor souls he will not suffer them to mind The holy Scriptures lest they should espy His great deceits and all his knavery That he in ignorance might still them keep And in the dark he 'l hardly let them peep For if they do he will them plainly tell They must forbear or they will go to hell Then they are frighted thinking this is true But as for those with whom this will not do He with his Bulls will such men fright and scare But otherwise he 'l say the Scriptures are So full of mysteries so deep and great That for the Laytie 't is not fit nor meet That they should read them much less them expound That are such mysteries and so profound The Laity have no other work to do But yeild obedience to the Clergy so That whatsoe're they say you must receive And them obey believe as they believe The Fathers of the Church have thought it good That only Priests the Scriptures understood As for the Laity they should be content With what the Fathers said and did and meant They ought to take no care nor heed no other But what the Church commands who is their Mother Which they must do upon a pain no less Then losing of eternal happiness For no Salvation can there be saith she Unless with her in all things they agree Be an obedient child a son or daughter With such like stuff would fil a man with laughter But more the Fathers taught and did agree That no Church-service should performed be But all in Latin ought and must be read And there 's good reason for 't as Rome hath sed It 's meet there should a Uniformity Be in the Church that so the unity Thereof might be preserv'd that there be no Such Hereticks that Heresie do sow Which to prevent it is not fit that they The Laity should know what the Priest doth say That were the way to make them all as wise As we our selves how should we hide our lyes No 't is decreed throughout the Universe There shall no Priest presume nor Monk rehearse No Mass no Prayer nor no Ave Mary And from this Edict none must dare to vary That what the Laity doth not understand They may the more admire and wonder and Fall down and worship with such great devotions With smiting of their breasts and invocations With stamping crossing howling bawling and Such Superstitions as would make one stand Amaz'd to see such extream foolery Their madness and their great idolatry They are so mad and drunk one well may judge With blinded zeal they 're made the Devils drudg Besotted so they are with ignorance That he is able them to lead what dance Best pleaseth him what suits most with his will They like his children will his mind fulfill They are begotten after his own likeness And ready are to do what works of darkness That he their Father shall of them command They at his beck will go by sea or land His Kingdom to uphold or to enlarge And faithfully their duty will discharge To him their Father and his works will do As many martyr'd Saints have found it true For out of doubt the Devil is their Father They be his children the Whore's their Mother 'T will now be fit that we should briefly speak To Romes Antiquity Succession eke Both which she boasteth of that she them hath Above all other Churches on the Earth And doth conclude from thence that none but she Forsooth the true and Mother-Church can be Then as to her Antiquity we must Begin and therefore we will ask her first A sober question which if she doth please Is answer'd in the Negative with ease And that is Whether Christ did ever make A Pope of Peter or he ever take Upon him such a Lordly Pope to be That unto him men stoopt and bow'd the knee Or whether any man did ever know That Peter was so proud men kist his toe Or whether Peter was so high and great That Kings and Princes gave to him their seat At at his pleasure and command lay down At Peters feet their Scepters and their Crown And such as pleas'd him them set up but those That did displease him curse and them depose And all such Princes that refus'd to bow Unto his will Or would he not allow Their subjects unto them such honor give Under whose Government they then did live As he the Church should do did once command As in his Letter they may understand If Rome can answer this from Scripture-proof In the affirmative I think she doth More than her Doctors ever did before Ere since the Spirit saith she was a Whore But Peter was so far from being Pope He was no Lord I may conclude I hope If that be so as that it is then we Believe the Pope is younger far than he For Peter leaves this charge with Elders as Peter himself an Elder also was That they should feed the Flock of God that were Among them and of them should take the care Both willingly and of a ready mind No such in Babylon a man shall find That neither by constraint do undertake The charge nor yet for filthy lucre sake No nor as Lords for Lords they must not be Nor lord it ore Gods Heritage but see They good ensamples were unto the Flocks And by that means they might lay up a stock In Heav'n above which Christ to them will give At his appearance But such men must live In faith in love in peace and purity In godliness and in the verity In Doctrine unreproveable that so Those that unlearned be the truth may know Not in the pride of life but always he Cloth'd with humility he ought to be And