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A53985	The true mark of the beast, or, The present degeneracy of the Church of Rome from the faith once delivered to the saints a sermon on November 5, 1681 / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1106; ESTC R1620	19,445	35

THE TRUE Mark of the Beast OR THE PRESENT DEGENERACY OF THE Church of Rome FROM THE FAITH once delivered to the SAINTS A SERMON on November 5. 1681. By EDWARD PELLING Rector of St. Martin's Ludgate and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Somerset Quid Romae faciam Mentiri nescio Juv. Sat. 3. Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots then may Ye also do Good that are accustomed to do Evil. Jer. 13. v. 23. Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that Man of Sin be revealed the Son of Perdition Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that He as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing Himself that He is God 2 Thess 2. v. 3 4. London Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh at the Black-Bull in Cornhill and Walter Davis in Amen Corner 1682. To his Grace my ever Honoured and Dear Lord CHARLES Duke of SOMERSET Marquess and Earl of HERTFORD Viscount BEAUCHAMP and Baron of TROWBRIDG My Lord SEldom do some men make any Comments but they chuse me for their Text. Since I presented to your Grace a little Sermon preached on the 30 of January Factious people have accused me of Partiality for not Publishing this that was Preached on the 5th of November last and thence the Charity of our Modern Blessed Saints who like the Old Nestorians are nati ad Calumniandum rarely gifted in those two Virtues Lying and Slandering hath concluded that I am a secret friend to the Popish Interest Which manifest and gross injury I have yet the less reason to repine at since so many thousands of men who are far my betters have an equal share of it so that all who are not given to change all who are not weary of a Happy Peace all who Dread to be Slaves again to their Fellow-Subjects all that are true friends to the Government Establisht in Church and State all that love the Person and acquiesce in the Wisdom and Counsels of the King all Ranks and Degrees of men even Peers and Prelates who Abhorr the seditious practises of Ambitious Revengefull and unquiet Spirits are Libell'd under the notion of Tantivyes Popishly affected Papists in Masquerade Irish Bog-trotters and under I know not how many Nick names more Little do they consider in the mean while how they Dishonour the Reformed Religion and what great Service they do the Romanists when they call every Honest man a Papist and make Knavery to be a Characteristical note of a TRVE PROTESTANT And though the Sons of the Church of England be thus traduced as unfaithfull to their Mother yet we hope the indifferent world will consider that none but they have effectually undertaken the defence of the Protestant Cause all a long And 't is observable that since the discovery of the late Popish Plot whereas the Church of England hath both by Preaching and writing industridusly Laboured against Popery the Dissenters have Laboured with all their might and main against the Church of England which when men of Judgment and Integrity shall consider they will soon discern who they are amongst us that are the best friends to the Church of Rome As to mine own particular My Lord I do sincerely protest as in the presence of the Eternal and Omniscient God that I have ever liv'd and by Gods grace am resolved to dy a true member of our Church as it is now Establisht And for the rest of my Brethren the Conformable Clergy they cannot be suspected but either by Ignorant or by Ill men it being impossible for those who give their Vnfeigned Assent and Consent to our Liturgy to entertain any kind or favourable Opinion of those Errors and Corruptions which we justly Condemn in the Roman Church Therefore to deal truly with your Grace the onely Reason why this Sermon was not Publisht before was because I looked upon it as so inconsiderable a thing in comparison of what has been done by men of Great Learning and True Worth that I could not take the confidence to shew it the World Some discourses may be fit enough for the Pulpit which may not be so fit for the Press and such I conceive this Discourse to be However since 't is going abroad it will not take up much room in the World and this advantage I gain by it an opportunity of presenting my most Hearty Service and Duty to your Grace and of professing my self what I am My Lord Your Grace's most Obedient Obliged and Affectionate Servant and Chaplain EDWARD PELLING March 16 1681. A SERMON PREACHED ON The Fifth of November 1681. Rom. 1. 8. First I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your Faith is spoken of throughout the whole World YOu see by the Verse preceding that St. Paul directed this Epistle to the Church of Rome that then was and you may be sure that the Modern Romanists have not failed to make the most use of this Text more indeed by far than the Apostle ever intended to give them occasion of making for as it is their constant custom when they Comment upon the Fathers if they meet with any little passage though it be but the clink of a word that seems to favour their Errors to catch hold on it presently as if all the world were their own whereas they abuse the Writer all the while and either willingly mistake or studiously wrest the place contrary to the true sense of the Author so when they are Commenting upon the Scriptures if they light upon any one Text which with all their Art and Skill they can but take advantage by to plead from it and to Hallow their Impieties they run away strait with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 glad that they have found a booty a dainty and strong Argument for their Cause But if St. Paul the great Apostle of the Gentiles an Apostle that together with Peter preached and suffered Martyrdome at Rome an Apostle to whose Writings the Protestants do frequently Appeal and whose Epistles some of the Romanists have been very angry with because they do too much favour the Hereticks as they have been pleased to say if this Great man did so commend the Faith of the Church of Rome as he doth in this Text and if He spake so Honourably of it as that it was admired by the whole world we may reasonably expect to hear enough of their Brags And indeed this is their Starting place whence they run out into very high Encomiums of their Church and they tell us of a great number of Ancient Fathers that join with them in their Applauses they would perswade us that St. Paul here doth not only Declare what the Church of Rome was then but moreover that he did Prophecy that it should be an Excellent Church unto the worlds End and that his Commendation respecteth as well the Christians at Rome in his