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Bloody Babylon discoverd
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[Londinatus, Christianus].
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generall Day of Judgment when the world shall be no more But let me desire of all such Star-gazers and Star-believers seriously to ponder that place of Scripture in the 47th Chapter of Isaiah from the first verse to the end and lean no longer upon such broken Reeds which will deceive their dependence into a self-destruction Babylon there had trusted in the multitude of divinations and the great abundance of inchanters saying to her self I am and none else I shall not sit as a widow neither shall I know the losse of children as the Rooters do We are the onely Saints we shall prevail Upon no other ground but their own strength and the trust which they put in their prosperous wickednesse Now observe God's manner of denouncing his judgments Therefore saith the Text verse the 11 th That is because you have thus sinned in punting confidence in these Star-gazers and forsaken me the God of the Scars and my unerring precepts shall destruction come upon thee and thou shalt not know the morning thereof Ruine shall fall upon thee which thou shalt not be able to put away destruction shall come on thee suddainly unawares Where by the way take notice that as the Church's extremity is God's opportunity for deliverance when their hearts are saddest and indeed almost hopelesse if they consult onely with flesh and blood So the destruction of the wicked shall come upon them when they are at the highest of their hopes and dream not of a change then even then unawares shall suddain destruction fall upon them The Text saith They shall not know the morning thereof that is not the time of their ruine but after they have slept as it were a whose night in security supposing all to be setled for a continuance by the prosperity of their wickednesse then shall God in the morning unthought-of unexpected come against them in judgment and destroy them in his fury Further in the 12th verse upon their approaching ruine observe how God doth upbraid them with their sins Stand now among thy inchanters and in the multitude of thy sooth-sayers with whom thou hast wearied thy self if so be thou maist have profit or strength Let the Astrologers the Star-gazers vers 13. and Prognosticators now stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee That is see if these your confidents can be a preserving skreen between you and my destroying anger No no hopes of help from them are but vain for in-the 14th and 15th verses see the judgment of heaven denounced against the Star-gazers themselves Behold saith the Text they shall be as stubble the fire shall burn them they shall not deliver their own lives from the power of the flame c. Every one shall wander to his own quarter none shall save them c. Thus shall God say Do you that adhere to the politick spirit of Lilly and forsake the commands and directions of the God of spirits even in that day when you have filled full the measure of your sins when the Harvest of your full-grown iniquities is ripe then shall God enter in with his sickle of judgment and cut you off and even then your consciences shall upbraid you and bid you go to Lilly in whom you have trusted see whether he can save you in that your extremity try whether or no he can administer the least hopes of comfort to your souls for the future but all in vain O my brethren there will be sad thoughts at such a time and at the hour of death when your souls are ready to take their flight from their fleshy cages Therefore consider of these things betimes before the hour-glasses of your lives are shivered into pieces Repent and return in your dependence onely upon the God of truth and his revealed will the holy Scriptures lest you exchange this life for an eternally-continuing death with those never-dying damned in hell To what end think you were and still are your lying Pamphlets and daily flying Diurnalls sent abroad but like so many petty pieces of the same deceiving spirit thereby to continue the poor people in a disaffection to the King and his so just a cause and working of them into an approbation of the Conspirator's designes casting in them sable lines of dishonour on the white innocence of his Majesty's actions and covering over the rotten wall of their own black undertakings with a seeming whitenesse witnesse that apostatizing Politicus alias Necum Lucifer fallen from the heaven-approving heighth of truth and loyalty to the deepest hell of perjury falshood rebellion and treason whose lines are nothing else but lying invectives murderers of Religion and Reason as well as of Royalty and Loyalty What suppose you my abused country-men is the reason why the Conspirators endeavours tug so much to engage all if it were possible to be equally guilty with them some by perjurious oaths and engagements others by sacrilegious barterings for the Churches Lands some by unjust possession of his Malesty's Revenues and Royall Estate with the Lands of his loyall Subjects and not a few Judases Accuser of Col. Andrews and many others exchanging their souls with the devill by apostacy and treachery for a pecuniary reward It is onely that they may be as numerosi proditione so form dolosi numero that their number may seem terrible and what they cannot maintain as just by Reason Religion or Law they may seem to justifie the maintenance thereof by the irreligious Sword But do thou O Lord God of Hosts scatter those people that delight in war that speak not peace but devise deceitfull matters against the quiet of the land They smite down thy people O God and trouble thine heritage they slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherlesse O Lord God the avenger O God the avenger shew thy self clearly Lord how long how long Lord shall the wicked triumph and the workers of iniquity vaunt themselves Lastly I shall contract all these into a narrow compasse and as I have already made it appear Indep Faction that the * present ruling Powers are so far from being entitled Conquerors that they have confessed themselves to be Rebells and Traitors so all others shall affirm them as to be such so also the bloodiest of Cheaters and State-juglers And this I shall do first by inserting a sad modern story and then taking a comparative notice of the parties employed with the end of their then employment and these Rooting-cheaters who would be styled Conquerors I have been informed that in Ireland at the first arise of that bloody Rebellion there were some of the Papisticall faction resolved upon the surprisall of a Protestant Justice of Peace where by the way take notice that some of his servants were privy to the conspiracy the death of him ruine of his family and possession of his Castle But they supposing it in vain to attempt it by force resolved upon a more subtle way by putting
King and Destroy his Royall off-spring infringe the liberties of their Persons and Estates burden them with Taxes upon taxes and domineer onely by the Tyrannizing Sword Can a man be so senselessy Stupid as to Suppose that any one man in England would have contributed the least assistance tending to such destructive ends Surely not Their Plotts had been as abortive-births dead in the very womb Like letters written on Sand invisible at the next windy blast and themselves had met with the reward of Traytors in the Originall of their Treason But I say they must out of a Politick necessity by Pretences of a reformation c. prepare the Common people for a Compliance and upon their deceived Compliance hammer out by degrees their ugly Plot to a perfection Away then with your most blasphemous entitling God's approbation to your Succeeding Villanies when as it is not Smiling Providence that waites upon your designes as you would make the people beleeve but the Graduall Effects of your politick Knaveries and methodical Treasons Indeed the All-just and wise God hath long suffered you to deceive the people of England and them to be so deceived But Gods designe thereby is to Chastise them for their instability and disobedience in not valuing or else lightly esteeming the blessings of Peace and punish them for their not prizing the Enjoyment of the Gospell of Peace and that you your selves by your additionall Sinnes might be left inexcusable at that great day of Account when the Judg of Heaven and Earth shall pronounce that unrepealable doom Ite Maledicti Go ye Cursed into Everlasting burnings Again to make this appear more plain take a further hint of their Rebellious Method which course had they not observ'd they could have done nothing tending to the acquisition of their designed Ends. In the first place they though falsly suggested into the Multitude's beleif an alteration of our religion on his Majestie 's part And these ungrounded Pretences made way for Jealous and Suspicious thoughts among the Common people and these though caussesse Jealousies occasion the Multitude constant in nothing but in Inconstancy to Stagger in their Sworn Alleagiance In the next Place following Machiavells irreligious rule Vehementer increpate et aliquid adhaerebit they back them with lying invectives ray ling exclamations against his Majesty his indeed Peaceable Just Merciful Government whereby the affections of many began to totter their dutie to shake their needlesse fears to encrease Again they Publickly cry'd up themselves though most untruly as Assertours Maintainers and Preservers of our Religion and the Lawes And these false allures attract the Aguish Judgments of too too many to incline to them in their belief and blinded Obedience Againe the more to ingratiate themselves with the Common People and hoodwinck them with Suppositions that they were Persons affecting Justice they Presse for Execution of Pretended Justice upon some Supposed Delinquents who indeed were no other but immoveable Loyall Rocks hindering their Progressive Rebellious Plotts And upon this account the incomparable Earl of Strafford and the unparallel'd Archbishop of Canterbury two main supporting pillars of Church and State were offered as bloody sacrifices to the common people's ignorant zeal and the conspirator's designes In the next place they vilifie the honour of the King's person advising the rabble of the City rudely to press into his Court bawling for Justice which never was denyed and by this means the respect and honour due to his Majesty was weakened the ill-manner'd people following the counsell of their teachers apt schollars of their black mouth'd master the devill began to revile the King despise Dominions and speak evill of Dignities With these and such like additionall insolent deportments of the City-scum his wearied Majesty was enforced for his own safety to leave London After which these rooting-Plotters persecute him with dethroning Propositions under the notion of Reformation delivered most commonly out of a Cannon's mouth or mockingly tormenting him with * vid Collect Parl. Ord. humble and loyall Petitions of Subjects presented upon the point of a bloody Sword Pretty Subjects indeed Thus thus England thou wast gull'd into a rebellious Army to bring to passe their Conspirator's designes upon the score of thy own destruction the losse of our peace dishonour of our Religion ruine of the King's Majesty and the Laws of England This done Blasphemy the Pulpit-Dragoons must interest the Deity in their quarrell Rebellion must be styled The Cause of God O horrible blasphemy as if the righteous and all-just God gave precepts for the commission of the most unrighteous unjust Caedem faciunt Scriptur aâ—um ad materiam suam and wicked actions that ever were committed To this bad purpose they cut and mangle multiply and diminish the holy Scriptures wresting them to a corrupt sense proper onely to their designes notwithstanding that Anathema Revel 22. vers 18 19 If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book and if any shall diminish the words of this prophecy God hall take away his part out of the book of life And by this means the poor people were seduced in matter of conscience obeying the politick Pulpit-directions quite opposite to the commands of God and their own former judgments and practises All this while Lying Dissimuâ—â—tion the rooting Engineers of State were busily busied in abusing the King and cheating the people senslesly in their Declarations dividing the power of the King from the King's person as if there possibly could be in a true sense the exercise of a Kingly power without the person of a King But seasonable it was for them so to do when as they unjustly made use of power without nay contrary to his commands and maintained Armies to fight against his Person Next to this Perjury succeed new obliging Oaths and Covenants correspondent to the sense of their designe and dissonant from the legall rationall and religious sense of all former lawfull Oaths witnesse their Negative Oath their first and second Vow and Covenant with their last and worst the Engagement all which must be as chains to the people's consciences with which being once shackled many of the Pulpits speak nothing but a performance of these Oaths and Engagements in the Rooters destructive sense as if such politick State-Engines carried more truth in them than the Scriptures themselves Thus they made human policy Mistresse of Divinity nay to tyrannize over her Indeed the Scots-Covenant as it was styled carried a compound sense in some Articles speaking seemingly-loyall and religious pretences but they were but seeming ones although in other nothing but an enforced change of both Ecclesiasticall and Civill Government Which compared with precedent and subsequent actions even untill his Majesty was snatched away from the Presbyterian Power Isle Wight maketh me grieve with admiration and admire with grief at many who still