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A66982	The fall of Babylon, or, Seasonable reflections on the novelties of Rome with the rise, growth, and final overthrow of Antichrist now at hand, occasioned by the preface to a treatise called Nubes testium, or, A collection of primitive fathers giving testimony to the faith once delivered to the saints, being (as the author stileth it) a full discovery of the sentiments of the ancient fathers in the chief points of controversy at present under debate : written upon the first coming forth of the said treatise (but not permitted to be then made publick) for the benefit of all who abominate the corruptions of the great whore and would not be partakers of her sins of plagues / by B.W.	Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3467; ESTC R27594	163,329	256

THE Fall of Babylon OR Seasonable REFLECTIONS ON THE Novelties of Rome WITH The Rise Growth and Final Overthrow of ANTICHRIST now at Hand Occasioned by the Preface to a Treatise called NVBES TESTIVM OR A Collection of Primitive Fathers giving Testimony to the Faith once delivered to the Saints Being as the Author stileth it A full Discovery of the Sentiments of the Ancient Fathers in the chief Points of Controversy at present under debate Written upon the first coming forth of the said Treatise but not permitted to be then made Public For the Benefit of all Who abominate the Corruptions of the Great WHORE AND Would not be partakers of her SINS or PLAGVES By B. W. D. D. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Printed for George Powel and to be sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall MDCXC TO THE KING OF ENGLAND And all Crowned Heads and Soveraign Princes whatever IT is the Advice of the Royal Prophet to you his Royal Brethren Psal 2. 10 11 12. Be Wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth Serve the Lord with Fear and rejoice with Trembling Kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his Wrath is kindled but a little Blessed are all they that put their trust in him And the reason of it was beeause he that sitteth in the Heavens who is so much Superiour to the highest of them all had set his King upon his holy Hill of Zion ver 6. and as the result of his Eternal Decree had bid him ask of him and he would give him the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth for his Possession ver 7 8 and as the Effect of that his Royalty he should break them with a Rod of Iron and dash them in pieces like a Potters Vessel Now the time seems to draw on when this is to befully accomplish'd and is it not the duty of the Watchman to give the warning before it is too late For what will it advantage to be told of Danger when it will not be in your Power to prevent it To be minded of the Approach of Christ's Kingdom when his Iron Rod shall be shaking over you and your Power your Interests your Alliances your Glory your Wealth and Kingdoms all dashing in pieces against one another For if you chance to be of those who give your Power to the Beast this will unavoidably be your Fate both yours and Babylon's in one Hour to come to Confusion Rev. 18. 10. For the preventing whereof this following Treatise is here with all humility presented and may it among those many Voices and Trumpets which have of late sounded to the World have that good effect to awaken your most Serene Majesties to what alone is your true interest of State and that is to hate the Whore and make her desolate and naked Rev. 17. 16. for otherwise there can be nothing better expected than to partake of her Plagues Rev. 18. 4. Would you Soveraign Princes as it befel Nebuchadnezzar your Golden Head as he is called Dan. 2. 38. be contented it should be be said to you the Kingdom is departed from you and they shall drive you from amongst Men Dan. 4. 31 32. Would you be contented to see the Hand put forth before you and MENE MENE TEKEL written on the Walls of all your Palaces as it was to Belshazzar when he lifted up himself against the Lord of Heaven Dan. 5. 23 c. If not then vouchsafe to take the Warning and submit in time to that Kingdom which it is said the God of Heaven should set up in their Days and in the days of those other Monarchies which were to succeed in the World Dan. 2. 44. For it was not for nothing that so much Scorn and Contempt was thrown upon those mighty Monarchs Monarchs who were so indeed for they wanted no Allies or Confederates to support them for they were Kings of Kings Dan. 2. 37. and all People Nations and Languages trembled and feared before them whom they would they slew and whom they would they kept alive and whom they would they set up and whom they would they put down Dan. 5. 19. Believe it great Sirs it was not for nothing that such memorable Examples were set forth it was for your Admonition upon whom the Ends of the World are come as it is 1 Cor. 10 11. 'T was that after Ages might grow Wife as knowing there is no resisting that Soveraign who is higher than the highest no withstanding that Power which can so easily break in pieces and consume all other Kingdoms but it self shall stand for Ever Dan. 2. 44. It hath in Effect done all this already the Babylonian the Persian the Greek Monarchies have already been utterly destroyed by it and the Roman so far as to stand upon its last Legs or rather to express it in the words of the Vision Dan. 2. 33. to have both its Legs and Feet so broken as to stand only on some of its Toes Some of those ten Kings I mean which after the taking of Rome became the parts and support of that Empire And as Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar Thou art this Head of Gold Dan. 2. 38. So to you O Kings may it be said you are those Toes it is on you subsists what is still behind of the last Monarchy as it hath been divided into several Kingdoms and of how great concern must it be to you to be rightly informed how you may perpetuate your Royalty and so establish your Thrones that you may not be of those whom the Stone cut out without Hands shall smite and break in pieces Dan. 2. 34 Think let Men what they will of the outward Weakness of Christs Kingdom of the little Assistance it hath or is like to meet with in the World let there be no Hand seen to cut out this Stone no humane Strength or Policy that is ready to contribute toward the forming of it yet it will grow into a great Mountain and fill the whole Earth ver 34 35. The Gold the Silver the Brass the Iron and Cley must all give place to it it is a goodly Image indeed which these make in Nebuchadnezzar's Vision but it is but an Image and must vanish before this Stone as the Dream that first prefented it Be Wife now therefore let me again repeat it O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth let nothing draw you from what is your true Interest let none of the Allurements none of the Sorceries of the great Whore of her who hath glorified her self and lived deliciously who hath said in her Heart I sit a Queen and am no Widdow and shall see no Sorrow but whose Plagues notwithstanding shall come in one Day let no tenderness for her with whom any of you have lived deliciously make you pity bewail and lament her lest your Judgment too come in

Rome Boasts can stand in stead in the day of Wrath No Think of nothing but the Blood of Christ and that Sacrifice offer'd by him our only Advocate and Mediator but whose True Members Rome hath so long Persecuted And let me in all Humility beseech you once more to think and that is on those who have been using all their Sorceries to deceive you in these weighty matters and to rob you and your Subjects of the benefit of that Blood Think too Great Princes how they have entrenched on your Royal Dignity in every advance they made towards their Greatness It was by taking him out of the way that hindred that Antichrist the Man of Sin and Son of Perdition i. e. By the removing the Roman Emperor that he was first capable of Exalting himself Consider how by their siding one while with the Eastern another while with the Western Emperor after the Empire ceased at Rome they made these to clash against one another themselves still gaining by the Rupture Consider how it was in the Prosecution of this their wicked purpose they called in first the Emperor of Constantinople and then Pepin against Aistulphus King of Lombardy And what became of his Territories and the Exarchat of Ravenna in the Issue which instead of being restored to the Emperor as was demanded by his Ambassadors were decreed by Pepin to the Pope Consider they are Contemplations worthy your Royal Thoughts what was their Design in beginning a new Empire in the VVest and clapping the Crown by surprize on the Head of Charles the Great as it is reported to have been done whilst he was upon his Knees at his Devotion What indeed but to lessen the Eastern Empire and from the Authority Leo the then Pope assumed to himself to Found for the future a Right in Creating and Confirming all Princes See the Tenure Great Monarchs they prescribe for all your Royalties to be held by And if whilst it was to serve them they call you the Vicars of Christ for there was a time when themselves told you this was your Stile yet how soon did they forget the Allegiance due to it and under that very Stile since usurpt the Power over you and your Kingdoms Will it not be too great an humbling to you Mighty Princes to shew you no fewer than seven Emperors i. e. Henry the Fourth Henry the Fifth Conrad Frederic Barbarossa Philip Otho Frederic all almost successively Excommunicated some of them deposed and others brought to that degree of Submission as to hold the Pope's Stirrup one having his Crown kicked off of his Head by him all spurned and trampled on as if they had been the vilest Vassals And is it any wonder that Kings and other Princes have the honour to follow their Emperors herein Baronius in his Annals Anno 1162 brings in the Kings of France and England at once performing the Office of Yeomen of his Stirrup and leading his Horse one by one Rein the other by the other till from the place where they met Him they had conducted Him to the place of his Reception And lest full Homage should not be paid to Him he gives an account at the same time of a Prince of the Saracens bowing the knee before him kissing his feet and this in the Name of his Master the King of the Mahometans 't was to Alexander the third whom Baronius so much magnifies for his meekness moderation and goodness Ann. 1177. that these Ceremonies were perform'd in which he likewise joins all Orthodox Kings and Princes as crowding in for a part in so glorious a service And the Truth is your own Records great Prince will give you but too many Instances of that Injustice that Insolence those Indignities of all sorts with which the Romish See hath so often treated the most Royal Persons Sicily Lombardy Sardinia Portugal Spain France and indeed almost what Christian State is there for the Eastern Empire hath not been free from their Pretensions that yields not Precedents of this Nature Scarce any War any Contest any Rebellion of Subjects against their Princes any difference between Princes in which they have not been Parties if not the Promoters Scarce any Boat in which this Fisherman this Peter let me use the Stile he pretends to hath not had his Oar scarce any troubled Waters in which he hath not Fished But I must not pass by what by us of these Kingdoms must not be forgotten viz. The treatment of Innocentius the Third towards King John by his Legate Pandulphus when having interdicted the Kingdom for six Years together an admirable way to propagate Faith by shutting up the Church Doors denying the use of the Sacraments refusing Christian Burial to all c. And in a word treating the whole Nation as well as the King who had offended him as if they were Heathens or Dogs excepting such only whom the purchase of their Money i. e. the Mammon of Vnrighteousness had made good Christians He forced him to take off the Crown from his Head and lay it down at his Feet to be disposed of as the Pope should please and taking it up kept it three or four Days not restoring it but upon condition that he and his Successors should hold the Kingdom of the See of Rome at the annual Tribute of a thousand Marks viz. Seven Hundred yearly for England and three Hundred for Ireland whereupon they both became subjected to the Pope To what degree that Exaction grew ought to all concerned in either Kingdom to be the lasting Subject of their Indignation To this I might add that great Diminution it is to you in the exercise of your Royalty in what of your Kingdoms you do enjoy to rule by the Laws of those who have so unworthily usurped upon you the Canon-Law I mean and other their Constitutions brought in upon some of you to the subversion of all the ancient Rights of your Countries I was going to say to the dis-inherison of you and your People And how are those of you in effect deposed whilst you still seemingly sit on your Thrones where the Inquisition a name at which Humanity startles is made the standing Law of your Kingdoms or where the Decrees of Draco are recalled and whatever can drain your Subjects of their Wealth or Blood made the false Eulogies of flourishing Kingdoms Says St. Paul Let no Man deceive you by any means speaking with reference to Antichrist that Man of Sin and Son of Perdition 2 Thes 2 3. And let me in all humility make the same Address It is too long already that this great Impostor hath been so audaciously enterprizing upon you wait no longer Royal Sirs for the decision of the point it is manifest and you have but too many Demonstrations of it who is this Man of Sin and Son of Perdition viz. He who thus hath opposed and exalted himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of

and nothing certainly more fit to do this than those Excommunications which were so frequent with them and made use of upon every occasion to support Antichrist and his Cause And Mens blaspheming the name of God which hath Power over these plagues upon their being scorched with great Heat i. e. fretted and vexed with these Darts but withal not repenting to give him Glory may very aptly be explained by the great regret and deep resentments they had against the Papal Tyranny but yet so that whatever their prejudices against the Pope were and his Usurpations they continued still in the profession of that corrupt Religion he taught For this is not to give Glory to God to let the punishment lose the end for which it was sent by not being amended by it which being the condition of those who had the Mark of the Beast and worshipped his Image 't is no wonder the Judgment is still continued on them and that by the means of the Beast himself it being but righteous with God thus to avenge himself on those who are so stupid as not to take his former warnings Nor indeed could it well be otherwise it being by such Exorbitances that Antichrist was to rise to that heighth of Impiety which was at last to be punished with the final ruin of himself and all his wicked and incorrigible Adherents But then a little to see how it was this Sun under this Vial had power given him to scorch Men with Fire and what the great Heat was with which Men were scorched How Fire was brought down from Heaven by Hildebrand or Gregory the seventh we have above touched it ch 5. p. 19. With relation to the Excommunications by him thundered out against the Emperor and shall now for the farther explication of it only add that there 's nothing more familiar with the Popes themselves than to express such their Censures by Thunder and Lightning which in the propriety of Speech is Fire from Heaven and if we consider these in the end to which they pretended to make them serve was it not to signifie the fire of Gods Wrath and Indignation they hereby taking upon themselves to denounce his displeasure towards Offenders 'T is true indeed applying this to Hildebrand there was something in that Insolent Usurper that seemed literally to explain this for so Cardinal Benno in his Book Entituled Vita gesta Hildibrandi c. relates it cum vellet manicas suas discutiebat in modum scintillarum ignis dissiliebat eis miraculis oculos simplicium veluti signo sanctitatis ludificabat when he list he used to shake his Sleeves and Fire did fly out in mannner of Sparks and by those Miracles as by a sign of Holiness he deluded the Eyes of the simple And the Patern Hildebrand gave in his Excommunicating as Henry Emperor of the West so Nicephonus Emperor of the East for him likewise he pretended to excommunicate Anno 1078 his Followers have not been wanting to transcribe thus Calixtus the 2d Anno 1119 Excommunicates the Emperor at Rhemes Adrian the 4th doth the same to Frederic 1159 Innocent the 3d to Philip 1201 and to Raimond Earl of Tholouse 1208 and again to Otho twice viz. 1210 and 1211 and Honorius the 3d to Frederic 1221 which Innocent the 4th renews Anno 1242 and Anno 1245 deposes him sends some to kill Frederi c. 1247 Excommunicates Conrad 1251 sends Forces against Conrad and offers Sicily to Richard Earl of Cornwal who refuseth it Urban 4 th Excommunicates Manfred 1262. Nicolas the 3d altered the form of Government in Rome and took away the Title of Vicar of the Empire from Chharles 1278. Martin the 4th Excommunicates and deposes Peter of Arragon and gives it to Charles Valois youngest Son to the King of France 1283. Honorius the 5th continueth the Excommunication All this excepting what was done by Gregory the 7th in the time of the Expeditions to the Holy Land And if we look farther though I make it not necessary that every Vial must just suceed one another but as I have before noted it it is no inconsistency to suppose them to be contemporary or in the same Age and time but I say if we look farther we shall see this great Heat which scorched Men to be still continued if not encreased most frequent indeed and almost upon every occasion was this Fire Heaven or Excommunications made use of Thus Anno 1297 Boniface the 8th deposeth John and Peter of Columna Cardinals and prosecuteth their Families and that we may see what their Opinion was of the extent of their Power at the Jubilee 1300. He stiles himself Lord in Spirituals and Temporals and Anno 1301. He excommunicates the French King for burning his Bull by which he commanded him to acknowledge himself his Vassal and 1302 giveth France to the Emperor this is that Baniface of whom it was said a form of Speech Baronius applies to several others of the Popes quòd intrarit ut Vulpes regnaverit ut Leo mortuus sit ut Canis That he came in as a Fox reigned as a Lion and died like a Dog Anno 1317. John the 22d boasts that he had Power to depose Kings but was opposed herein by Ockham and de facto first excommunicates Viscount Milan and after great contests with Lewis of Bavaria or Lewis the 4 th chosen Emperor he Excommunicates him Anno 1324 and that which incensed him to it is supposed to be the offence he took at the Stile Ulric the Emperor's Secretary though without his knowledge had given him in his Letters of the Beast rising out of the Sea And Anno 1329 the Pope publishes his Excommunication against the Emperor the second time which Bennet the 12th Anno 1335 likewise continues and makes King Edward the 3 d of England Vicar of the Empire The said Excommunication is also continued afterward by Clement the 6 th Anno 1343 and Absolution denied to the Emperor unless he would resign the Empire to the Pope which he refusing Anno 1346. He causes some of the Electors to chuse a new Emperor and to depose Lewis whom he had branded with the Stile of Heretic and Schismatick And here I shall put a stop to what I have to say on this head the Princes of the Empire upon the occasion of the Treatment Lewis met with for so many years together from several of the Popes having as I may say put their stop too to this Exorbitant Power the Popes had for several Ages tyrannized over them with For so it was deereed at Franckfort Anno 1347. That the Yoak of the Pope should be cast off quòd servus servorum fastu libidineque dominandi ita insaniat in preceps abeat Because he who was the Servant of Servants out of an Haughtiness and Lust of Ruling did so rage and run headlong into such rash and precipitate things And as for Charles the 4 th whom the aforesaid Clement had caused to be

chosen Emperor in the place of Lewis whom he had deposed they deny him to be lawfully chosen as being neither chosen nor Crowned in the Places proper for either as also because it was all a clancular proceeding and when there was no Vacancy of the Empire whereupon they chuse King Edward the third of England but he having Affairs of his own to mind returns his Thanks for the great honour done him and waves it The Pope however sends his Legate after the Death of Lewis to absolve the Princes of the Empire who adhered to Lewis on condition they would swear that the Emperor had no Power to depose the Pope and that from thenceforward they would not obey their Emperor unless he be approved as Emperor by the Pope The Ecclesiasticks most readily approve this and the Laicks as fiercely oppose it whereupon the Pope is forced to abate something let me so express it of this great Heat with which they had so long scorched Men and remit this Oath and absolve them from the Excommunication And this may be sufficient to explain this Vial Only here as before it will be asked what is this to the Fall of Antichrist These and such like Instances for many more might be given and particularly in our own Story witness 1. the Controversy between William the second and Urban the second Anno 1097. in the Case of Anselm's appealing to the Pope who was thereupon about to Excommunicate the King but having a little before excommunicated the Emperor Henry the fourth he forbore it lest otherwise Excommunications by being made common might be slighted as also 2. between him and Henry the first in the case of Investitutes in which Anselm likewise opposed the King in behalf of the Pope's Pretensions to them 3. Between him i. e. his Legate and King Stephen and again 4. in the case of the Legatine Powee between him and Henry the Second 5. Between him and King John whom the Excommunicated and Interdicted the Kingdom and upon his submission to him at the instance of Pandulphus at whose Feet he laid down his Crown to be disposed of as the Pope should please which Pandulphus took up and kept it three or four days nor restoring it then but upon condition that he and his Successors should hold the Kingdom of the See of Rome at the annual Tribute of 1000 Marks which was the great occasion of that Slavery in which Rome so long held this our Nation all tending to aggrandize him in his most insolent Tyranny but if so yet 't is too for the Encrease of that Guilt which will at last be so thorowly avenged as will appear by that time we shall have rellected on the following Vials The first whereof i. e. the fifth is directly on Antichrist i. e. The very Seat of the Beast The second or sixth is likewise on Antichrist though so as to affect the whole Seat of the Roman and Mahometan Empires i. e. The Eastern and Western Empires thus joined again for they shall be both then hastening towards the day of Vengeance And as for the third or seventh it is to end in the final Ruin of both and all the Antichristian Powers under them or rather in the Kingdom of Christ set up against Antichrist in its utmost extent in that lasting Triumph he shall then give his Church over him and all other her Enemies But then as in this Vial we have been now speaking of so in that which next follows this will be again to be observed that it is not necessary it should immediately succeed the other or not to be to begin till the other is fully expired no it is necessary in the nature of the thing that several of the Vials should be contemporary with one another forasmuch as they are Punishments for Sin and did not the Sin continue to which Men are often judicially given up the Punishment inflicted for it would not be so agreeable to the manner of Gods proceeding in the ways of his Judgment the Rule being Isaiah 27. 9. By this therefore shall the Iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his Sin Now then these being spoken of as distinct Vials i. e. The Punishment and Sins which bring them on if instead of having their Iniquity purged Men shall run into more gross and hainous Iniquity if instead of that Fruit they ought to bring forth upon the Chastisement which is to take away their sin they shall fructifie only in Malice and Wickedness if which is the case in these Vials they who are punished for having the Mark of the Beast on them and worshipping his Image shall continue still to wear that Mark and worship his Image which I take to belong to the second third and fourth Vials for on such it is not so properly on the Beast himself they are poured out what can be expected but that the Plague should go along with the Sin that calls for it down And that if the Beast himself do not so immediately suffer in those Vials that it should be because to Him more particular Judgments are reserved or both He and they to go on from one wickedness to another till there be no Remedy 2 Chron. 36. 16. CHAP. XV. Of the fifth Vial Rev. 16. 10 11. AND the fifth Angel poured out his Vial upon the seat of the Beast and his Kingdom was full of Darkness and they gnawed their Tongues for Pain And blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their Pains and their sores and repented not of their Deeds What is the seat of the Beast but Rome What the Vial poured out upon his seat but the depriving it of what gives it its Lustre Dignity and Wealth i. e. as it is exprest in the former Vial of its Sun the Pope I mean whose more benign aspect and influence were so highly beneficial to it whilst it was the place of his Residence but being removed thence how is its Greatness and Glory forthwith Eclipsed How all things black and dark and under the thickest Cloud Now when happened this but when Clement the fifth Anno 1305 being chosen Pope in his absence in France called the Cardinals thither and settled his Residence at Avignon 'T was now the City that was full of People sat solitary and became as a Widdow now she that was great among the Nations and Princess among the Provinces became Tributary Lam. 1. 1. She that before received the Riches of so great a part of the World that had so great Honour and Devotion paid to her now sends her Wealth and pays homage herself to another shrine This lasted for seventy four Years together till Gregory the Eleventh brought back his See to Rome but so that after his Death the French Cardinals would have a Pope of their Nation and accordingly chose Clement the 7 th the rest of the Cardinals having chosen Urban the sixth Urban keepeth at Rome but Clement at Avignon The Schism continued