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england_n	henry_n	king_n	pope_n	16,586	5	6.9376	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42547	God's soveraignty displayed from Job 9. 12. : Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him? &c., or, A discourse shewing, that God doth, and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth, as to the matter what, the place where, the time when, the means and manner how, and the reasons thereof : with an application of the whole, to the distressed citizens of London, whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the fire : an excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal, the ends that God aims at in it, with directions how to behave themselves under their losses / by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.; Gearing, William. No abiding city in a perishing world.	1667 (1667)	Wing G435A; ESTC R18630	101,655	265

Popes they were not then come when John wrote After the Heathen Emperours were taken away Rome was left vacant for the Pope and although the Christian Emperours had some power yet they did not reside at Rome but continued for a long time at Constantinople or Ravenna and after the power of the Christian Emperour was broken by the Barbarians the Pope got Rome and setled himself there and so becometh the seventh Head of the fourth Beast Now the sixth and seventh Head of this Beast one that was then in being and one that was not then come were the grand Enemies of the Church of Christ 1. The sixth Head the Roman Emperours they raised many bloody persecutions against the Church of Christ and though God restrained some of them and gave his Church a breathing yet many of them tortured their own brains to devise cruel torments wherewith to torture the Christians as Nero Tiberius Domitian Trajan Antoninus Decius Maximinus Dioclesian c. under whom many thousand Martyrs sealed the truth of Christ with their blood Such was the favour of God to this Realm that they escaped all except the last Persecution which was under Dioclesian and Alban was the first that suffered Martyrdome in this Land for the Gospel of Christ But the Pope the seventh and last Head hath been more mischievous and continued longer than all the rest Take his first rise from the time the Heathen Emperours were cut off and the Pope hath continued 1360 years or thereabout and Rome was builded about a thousand and sixty years before the Pope arose so that this Head hath continued neer three hundred years longer than all the other six which may give us hopes his time is now almost expired and since the Church hath been vexed by him for so many Ages it is not so much to be admired he should fall speedily as that he hath stood so long The Pope was born about the time of Constantine the Great and came not to his full stature till about the year six hundred or somewhat after then Boniface III. made by Phocas universal Pastor of all the Churches of the world appeared with his Ecce duo gladii hic Behold here the two Swords challenging Imperial and Papal Dignity The mischief done to the Church by this seventh Head hath been partly by fraud partly by open violence partly by bringing in corruptions in matter of Doctrine Popery is not a single Heresie like that of Apollinaris or Arrius but a heap and sink or common sewer in which there is a confluence of Heresies and corrupt Doctrines meeting together and partly by rage and cruelties witness their cruelties to the Albigenses and Waldenses About the latter end of the reign of King Henry the Second King of England Pope Alexander III. held a Council at the Lateran Church in Rome where they consulted about the extirpation of the Albigenses They were a people that did not acknowledge the Pope prayed to none but to God alone had no Images went not to Mass denied Purgatory and read the holy Scriptures The Pope therefore gave the same graces to them that should spill the blood of these poor Christians as to them that crossed themselves to go to the holy Sepulchre and fight against the Sarazens Hereupon Dominick the Author of the Order of Dominicans put above two hundred thousand of them to death This was done in the time of John King of England and by the instigation of Pope Innocent the III. And of the Albigenses and Waldenses Pope Julius the II. was the cause of the death of two hundred thousand Now whosoever be the Instruments of great trouble to the Church or changes in the world it is the hand of the Lord that doth it we have no cause to repine and murmure at such and such but have just cause to blame our selves for it others have not dealt so ill with us as we have dealt with God therefore when God takes away peace and sends trouble takes away the fruits of the earth and sends famine takes away health and sends Epidemical diseases in all these we are to eye God remember that the Judgments of God are a great deep and like the great Mountains if we do not thorowly search the reason of it let us confess our understandings are too short to reach to the bottom of it let us not accuse God of injustice but confess with Job Lo he goeth by me and I see him not his wayes are unsearchable and past finding out CHAP. III. II. GOd takes away what he pleaseth in respect of the place where So Jobs Children were taken from him when they were feasting in their Elder Brothers house a place seemingly of great security Naomi lost her Husband and her two Sons in a strange Land when she sojourned in Moab she was left a childless Widow in a strange Country therefore saith she Call me not Naomi but Marah for I went out full but the Lord hath brought me home again empty Ruth 1.21 So Jacob had his beloved Rachel taken away from him on a journey as they were travelling in the way III. In respect of the time when Nebuchadnezzar lost the use of his reason when he was in the height of his glory walking in his stately Palace of Babel Dan. 4.30 being puffed up with pride Is not this great Babylon that I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty and while the word was yet in his mouth a voice came from heaven saying to thee it is spoken the Kingdome is departed from thee and the same hour was it fulfilled upon him So the rich man in the Gospel had his soul taken from him even then when he promised himself many years enjoyment of his wealth IV. The Lord taketh away by what means and instruments and in what manner he pleaseth Job's Oxen and Asses were taken away by the Sabeans his Camels by the Chaldeans his sheep burnt by fire from heaven his children slain by the fall of an house yet in conclusion Job doth not say The Lord hath given and the Chaldeans and Sabeans have taken but the Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken Now God is said to take away when Instruments do take away it is seldome that God dealeth with a people immediately but in these outward Providences he stirreth up Instruments to do what is done but that which Instruments do the Lord is said to do Isai 42.24 Who gave Jacob to the spoiler and Israel to the robber did not I the Lord Men robbed and spoiled them yet it was the Lords act to send these spoilers upon them the Act is from the Lord though the wickedness of the act be from the evil instruments There are many wayes that God useth to take men away some die with the Pestilence and such like contagious diseases some die by the Sword one is consumed with famine another is killed with thirst some are choaked in waters others