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A10380	A warning to come out of Babylon, in a sermon preached by Master Andrew Ramsay, minister at Edinburgh; at the receiving of Mr. Thomas Abernethie, sometime Jesuite, into the societie of the truely reformed Church of Scotland	Ramsay, Andrew, 1574-1660.	1638 (1638)	STC 20657; ESTC S115617	27,981	57

the same lyking better the Mosarabick and that of Isidorus then the Romane Liturgie The religious Votaries of Bangor resisted the Romane liturgie till blood and death What opposition was made against single life of Church-men in Germanie England and many other places it is notore to all that are not strangers in historie When images were received in the Kirk with a relative worship about the seven hundred year of GOD the German● and French bishops did resist the same and a Councel was holden by Charles the great in Germanie at Franksurd where images with their worship were condemned and the books yet extant called Libri Caroli magni do evidence the same A little after this there arose some disputes about the manner of Christs presence in the Sacrament when the seeds of Transubstantiation were in sowing Bertram stirred up by GOD did oppose the same The like did Scotus Erigena Rabanus and after these Beringarius till Pope Innocentius the third with his prevailing faction in the 1215. year of GOD did determine that monstrous errour of Transubstantiation A litle before this time Hildebrand bishop of Rome was not only content to liberat himself from the investure of the Emperours but also did subject the Imperiall crown to this Priestly mitre and thereby put the Christian world in a combustion which he effectuat not without great opposition even of the Cleargie for the Cleargie of Germanie did resist and many Divines did account him to be the Antichri●● And in this his more then sacrilegious jurisdiction usurped over the Kirk of Christ in councels not only the Cardinall of Arles Sorbonists of Parise but the generall councel holden at Constans did oppose and condemne And in late dayes Valla Erasmu● Beatus Renanus with many others though they lived in the societie of the Romane Kirk did condemne many errours and abuses therein Besides these publick Opponents there were many thousand private Opponents who were as these seven thousand in the Church of Israel who bowed not their knees to Baal but if not openly yet secretly did oppose the same as Nicodemus lived amongst the Pharisees and Joseph of Arimathea amongst the Counsellours who condemned Christ and these who had not defiled themselves but followed the Lamb mentioned Revel 14. 4. There were thirdly many whose eyes GOD did illighten in the article of death who not finding any comfort in the intercession of Saints and doctrine of merits and therefore leaving these impure cisternes had their recourse to the living fountaines of waters which did spring out of the intercession and merits of Christ to the eternall refreshment of their souls If it bee replyed how the Romane Kirk being as we call an adulterous Church could beget Children to GOD as also being a false and corrupt Church how shee could bring furth Orthodoxe and true professors I answer An adulterous woman may bring surth Children to her Husband and to her Paramours as is evident Hos chap. 2. vers 2. Pleade with thy mother saith the LORD That shee put away her whoordomes from betwixt her breasts c. Here sons of GOD and yet their mother is an adulteresse Sons of GOD they are because they plead for GOD against their mother for her adulteries So an adulterous Kirk may beget children to GOD as also a false and corrupt church may beget true professors As the Jewish Church in the dayes of Christ for the leaven of the Scribes and Pharisies did infect the same and Christ commandeth his Disciples to beware of that leaven and yet to obey the Scribes and Pharisees as they sate in the chai●e of Moses By their leaven Pharisees did poyson the soules of many to their destruction and sitting in the chaire of Moses teaching the Law of Moses and not their owne inventions did beget children to GOD. After this manner the voice of Christ and the voice of the Antichrist sounding in the church of Rome thereby children was begotten to Christ and the Antichrist Thevoice of Christ was heard in holy Scriptures written for our consolation the voice of the Antichrist is heard in his traditions The voice of Christ is heard in the administration of Baptisme and the Lords Supper the voice of the Antichrist in the administration of his five bastard sacraments The voice of Christ is heard in the saving doctrine of his merite and righteousnesse the voice of the Antichrist is heard in the doctrine of the merite and righteousnesse of man The voice of Christ is heard in the blood of Christ that speaketh better things then the blood of Abel the voice of the Antichrist in the forged satisfactorie blood of Martyres If it be demanded how in the Romane church the voice of Christ was known and distinguished from the voice of the Antichrist I answere That Gods children have a discretive judgement given unto them whereby they know the voice of Christ from the voice of the Antichrist My sheep hear my voice sayeth Jesus Christ and they follow me And this should not seeme strange for if the lambe amongst the bleeting of ten thousand sheep can discerne the voice of her mother much more the lambs of Christ Jesus can discerne the voice of their Father and Sheepheard Christ Jesus And since GOD hath given by a naturall instinct unto the beasts by smell and taste to discerne what hearhes are wholesome and convenient for their food and what noysome shall wee not think that GOD much more will enable by his grace and Spirit his owne children bought with no lesse price then the blood of his Son to discerne what is hurtfull what conduceable for their salvation Neither will it follow by any necessare inference that the Romane kirk is a true Kirk because by it children are begotten to God seeing this falleth out not properly but accidentally for Papacie tendeth not to beget children to Christ but to Antichrist Therefore obey this voice from Heaven and come out of Babylon The reasons to move us to come out of Babylon here mentioned are two her sinnes and her plagues for her sins Sins and plagues are copulative Who so sinneth shall bee plagued Therefore if we partake of her sins we shall partake of her plagues If it be asked what be these her sins I answere what sins do not reigne in her But passing the generall I will mention five sins in speciall for the which Babylon shall bee plagued and destroyed viz. Pride Crueltie Deceit Idolatrie Heresie Such is her pride that although there be besides her the Kirkes of Grece Syria Africa and Ethiopia which disclaime her power as Antichristian yet shee arrogantly usurpeth the title of the Catholick church as proper and due only to her when in effect shee is neither the Catholick Kirk nor a sound member of the same Pride also in a high degree possesseth all her Cleargie The meanest Priest is stiled as a Knight and the meanest Nunne as a Ladie of Honour Bishops and Archbishops are as Lords and

Princes and Cardinals above Princes and the Man of sin the Pope their head exalteth himselfe not only above Kings and Emperours but also above God himselfe John the 2. King of England by the Popes tyrannie was forced to do homage upon his knees to Pandulf his Legat and to resigne his crown Henrie the second was whipped for putting to death Thomas Becket a Traitour So also the Earle of Tulloes a Prince in eminent place was whipped for the death of a priest And the French King Henrie the fourth was whipped by a Deputie Cardinal Perron before he was accepted in favour with the Pope The Emperour Henrie the fourth was caused to stand barefooted in the cold winter three dayes and three nights at the gate of Hildebrand before hee gote accesse Frederick Barbarosso was forced to lay down his neck upon the staires of the Kirk of Saint Marke in Venice to be trode upon by that proud Man of sin and his son after the Pope had crowned him was uncrowned the Pope kicking off his crown with his foot signifying thereby that it was in his power to King and unking to crown and uncrown at his pleasure The book called the Book of 〈◊〉 onies teacheth us what are the base and servile dueties to be performed by Kings and Emperors to the Pope that they should inact the part of footgroomes in leading his bridle of supporters in holding his stirrop and mounting him upon his horse of pyoners in bearing him upon their shoulders and pages in holding water to his hands Neither doth he exalt himself above Kings and Emperours only but above the Angels commanding them to transport soules out of Purgatory Yea his pride is more then Luciferian and Divellish for the Divell when he made an offer of all the Kingdomes of the World to Christ he acknowledged that hee had received them of GOD to give to whom he pleased and in so doing would seeme to submit himself to GOD But the Pope extolleth himself above GOD for he dispenseth with the Lawes of GOD and to dispense with Lawes is a note and marke of Superioritie for no inferiour may dispense with the Lawes of a superiour but a superiour may dispense with the lawes of an inferiour This way dispensing with the lawes of God hee doeth lift himselfe up above God Yea more then this hee is daring to repeale the lawes of God tolerating and allowing incestuous marriage condemned in the Word of GOD as also lying perjuries and equivocations murthering and killing of Princes c. Joine unto this pride their crueltie for the Kirk of God may say that from my youth they have persecute mee and the plowers have plowed on my backe and drawne long furrowes Whatsoever the Kirk of God suffered by the Jewes and Herod by the ten persecuting Pagan Emperours by hereticall Emperours and Hereticks by Julian the Apostate by the Donatists Circumcellians and other Shismaticks● by Istigerdes and Gornoades Kings of Persia for the overthrow of their Pyr●um by the Gothes and Vandals in Africa by the Saracens after the dayes of Heraclius by Turks and others whatsoever I say the Church hath suffered by these former Persecutors being paraleled with these her sufferings in the last dayes shall be found not to equiponderat in crueltie the Popish and antichristian persecution Hovv many hundreth thousands of the Valdenses have beene murthered by them Hovv many Hussites and Taborites in Bohemia have suffered for the name of Christ Hovv many thousands in France Germanie Italy Pole Hungary England Scotland and low Countreyes since the reformation begun by Luther and Zuinglius have beene massacred and mutthered by them What river have they not dyed with the blood of the saints What fornace have they not made to smoake vvith their bones vvhat tovvn and citie have they not made a shambles to boutcher their bodies If the blood of one Abel cryed to heaven for a vengeance shall not the blood of so many millions whom they have martyred for the name of Iesus cry more shrill and loude in the eares of GOD for his just vengeance upon this mystick Babylon Therefore come out of Babel lest being partakers of her sins yee receive of her plagues Adde to these former the third sin of mystick Babylon which is deceit wherein they are so expert that they exceed all others mentioned in any historie The Scribes and Pharisies never did compasse sea and land to gain proselyts more craftily then they do for these fishers have baits to catch all sorts of fish these hunters have nets to insnare simple souls They delude the ignorant with lying miracles the blinde Zelotes with superstitious rites and ceremonies they spoile others with Philosophie or Sophistrie rather others with pretended antiquitie and that they may gaine what they intend O what guile and deceit have they used in falsifying the writs of the Auncients by adding changing deleting as their Trent Indices Expurgatorii do make knowne to the world And such is their policie and craft that they have found out wayes to make themselves masters of moyens lives secrets and consciences of men What bee their emunctorie and chetting arts to gain moyens and riches to themselves it is notore by their pardons purgatorie messes merits indulgences At what rate doe men buy Heaven upon the opinion of the merite of good works What will any spare to lay out for remission of his sins And what charges will any refuse to give who is demented with their superstition to relieve his own soul and the souls of his fathers friends and familiars from the parching flammes of their supposed purgatorie By these cousenages they have enriched themselves wonderfully As they this way catch the moyens of men they have brought the lives or men within the compasse of their power for such is their opinion of their Tarpeian God the Pope whom they worship that they esteeme it proper to him to canonize and make saincts whom he pleaseth whereby they are emboldned to adventure upon the killing of Princes and other such flagitious facts the promises being made to them of life everlasting by the Pope or in his name by their superiours It is therefore most probable that the monstrous parricides committed against the royall and sacred persons of Henrie the 3. and 4. Kings of France were hatched by the Pope and some other at his command For Thu●nus recordeth that Pope Sixtus the fifth was so rejoiced at the murther of Henrie the third that he gave thanks to God in full consistorie for that treacherous and bloudie fact and was so excessive in extolling it that hee was not affrayed to compare the same to the mysterie of the incarnation of Christ and was about to have canonized the Actor of that bloudie treason if hee had not beene disswaded for weightie respects Such was that Poulder-plot transcending in crueltie all other in former ages conceived in the Consistorie of Rome extinguished at the