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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80630	The powring out of the seven vials: or An exposition, of the 16. chapter of the Revelation, with an application of it to our times. Wherein is revealed Gods powring out the full vials of his fierce wrath. 1. Upon the lowest and basest sort of Catholicks. 2. Their worship and religion. 3. Their priests and ministers. 4. The house of Austria, and the Popes supremacy. 5. Episcopall government. 6. Their Euphrates, or the streame of their supportments. 7. Their grosse ignorance, and blind superstitions. Very fit and necessary for this present age. Preached iu [sic] sundry sermons at Boston in New-England: by the learned and reverend Iohn Cotton BB. of Divinity, and teacher to the church there	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6449; Thomason E145_1; ESTC R22938	145,386	230

it was never Gods counsell nor meaning in the New Testament But now the contrary being the doctrine of the Church of Rome and on that ground justified When Princes are excommunicated they doe depose them and being deposed discharge subjects from their allegeance and then judge you what treason redownds to Christian Princes and what conspiracie and rebellion groweth in the state of a Kingdome when some take part with the King deposed and others with him that is substituted by the Pope and so there is Treason both against Prince and State and Kingdome And therefore it is an ancient justice of God that hath so ordered it that those that shall draw Gods people from the Allegeance of their Prince shall be judged Traitors and suffer paine of death Reas 5 And for a fift reason mentioned in the Text it is taken from the law of retaliation that look how men have dealt with others they should be so dealt withall themselves Now these Priests and Jesuites and their Abettors in the time of Queene Mary and Henry the eighth and all the Kings since the Statute against Lollards in England as also against the Hugonites in France if a man were suspected of hereticall pravity and pronounced guilty thereof by the Church he was to be delivered to the secular power onely he might have leave to consider of it But if he fell againe there was no hope of mercie but he must looke for bloud as if he were no better then a child of death And yet they were men that never troubled the State but quietly suffered for their Religion and Conscience So that these Jesuites and Priests delivering up so many innocent Lambs of Christ Ministers of the Gospel and holy Saints to the Secular power to be burnt at the stake in Smithfield and elsewhere and the Abettors of these Priests and Jesuites being very zealous to cut off such Lollards from the land of the living it is just and right with God They have given thy Saints and Prophets bloud to drinke and therefore looke as they have measured to others it is measured to them by the ancient Law of God that is the same and will be for ever Rev. 13.10 He that killeth with the sword must be killed by the sword So you see this point is plaine That upon the discovery of the deadly corruption of the Religion in the Romish Sea it was the righteous judgement of God and such as argued him to be unchangeable and ever the same that the Priests ands Jesuites which carryed the waters of that Sea that Religion up and downe the Nation should be condemned to a bloody death you see the truth of the point and the reasons of it For the use of the point it may first serve to justifie the holy Vse 1 and righteous equity of all those laws above mentioned whether in England or Holland for putting Popish Priests and Jesuites to death and there was a like law also made in France upon the murther of Henry the fourth that all Jesuites should be put away out of the Countrey and their studies demolished c. but they made it in policie But the Text speakes of England and Holland it was a just and righteous law that these rivers and fountains of waters should become blood you see there is blasphemy in their worship against the Lord Jesus Christ they doe seduce the people of God and turne them from the Lord and thrust them from him by their justification by workes by their callings on Saints and Angels and trusting in other Mediators besides the Lord Jesus in the intercession of Saints and Angels It hath beene a just hand of God that they that worry like ravenous wolves the soules of Gods people should themselves be worried that they that have made firebrands of Christians should drinke blood themselves they that over-whelmed Christians in confusion and tumult it is just with God that they should be over-whelmed they that have beene so busie in putting to death innocents that they should also be put to death you see this is just with God it is well becomming to the unchangeable righteousnesse of God thus it was in the old Testament and why should it be changed in the new You will say it was but a typicall matter then and you Ob. must looke for a spirituall death in the New Testament Why I pray you Brethren consider 1. Answ The Papists are not of that mind but they execute it in the letter they have put to death the Prophets and servants of God in the letter hunted them up and downe the Inquisition is incomparably more bloudy then any other other Butchery They doe not nor may not plead any such thing they beleeve it is true in the letter And let me say further the holy Ghost makes it as true in the letter this Text is in the New Testament not in the Old Thou hast given them bloud to drinke for they are worthy and he speaks of the very bloud of the hearts of men And it is parallel with Gods justice of old it was just then and it is just now Zachary intends the dayes of the New Testament though written in the Old that when a fountaine is opened to the house of David and inhabitants of Ierusalem for sinne and for uncleannesse then the father and mother of a false Prophet shall accuse him to the Magistrate and shall say unto him He shall not live Was it an abomination then to speak lyes in the Name of the Lord and no lesse then blasphemie and shall it be more favourably interpreted now A man may now speak a lye and bring in a false Christ a false Mediator and false meanes of satisfaction and false merits now he may without perill of his life in the Old Testament he might not Why but was it not sufficient to have a spirituall judgement Even they had spirituall judgements then but God saw it meet to inflict some temporall judgement as well as spirituall and is now his judgement changed Besides are not Moses Morall Lawes of perpetuall equity and therefore to be observed in all Ages Is blasphemy more tolerable in the New Testament or thrusting men away from God is it not as odious now as then Is not murther of soules as damnable now as then Is not conspiracie and sedition as damnable and capital now as then Is not the law of retaliation as just in the New Testament as in the old and therefore a man would wonder that such frivolous interpretations should come into the hearts of men to hinder the free passage of the justice of God on such notorious offenders Ob. But you will say Conscience should not be forced and men should not be put to death for their conscience Answ Why doe you thinke Heretiques were not as conscionable in the Old Testament as now If any man had a conscience to turn men from God he would have men of as much conscience to cut them off if they make