had 7 mountaines so Rome therefore called by some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. probl Rom the citty with 7. heads that is 7. hils Capitolinus Palatinus Aventinus Exquilinus Caelius Viminalis and Quirinalis Neither is it sufficient to say that it is shrunke into the plaine of Campus Martius for though it may be true of the body of the towne yet the Lateran Church and palace which by a charter of Gregory 2. was made the head of all churches almost 250. yeeres since after him by Pius 4 and lately by Pius 5 in which there haue beene held by severall Popes some 33. Provincial or National and 4 Generall Councels for the raising vp of Antichrists throne where those two monsters first were bred of Transubstantiation the deposing of Kings this Church stands to this day vpon the hill Coelius The Babylonians when there came any warre had their Priests to consult with their Gods where they might hide themselues Baruch 6.48 so doe they in Rome otherwise the Virgin had never taught Hiacynthus what to doe as they faine of her image Severin de vita mirac act canon 12. Hâ—â—cynth l. 1 c. 13. Babylon was tearmed the pride of the Chaldeans tender and delicate Rome was held the glory of the westerne world and pride of the Romanes Babylon had all kingdomes in subiection to her Rev. 17.18 Rome had the like for Ierusalem in S. Iohns time was made an heape of stones The Babylonians grew in their prosperitie as fat calues in the grasse and bellowed as Buls who hath not heard the like of Monkes and Fryers eating saith Luther till they came to be all belly liuing to do nothing but eating of the labours of other men groaning vnder the burden of Epicurisme surfetting and crying Heu quanta patimur pro amore Christi Babylon was a land of Images where they doted on their Idols Bell. de imag Ier. 50.38 Rome deifieth images as much Babylon was noted for her oppression and exacting of gold Rev. 18.13 Is 14.4 Rome is infamous for her covetousnesse and marchandising of soules Babylon vaÌ„ted I shall be a Lady for ever I shall not be a widow nor knowe the losse of children Is 47.7 Rome hath the same wordes v. 7. of this Chapter All that is spoken of Babylon In 17. Apoc. com 1. sect 3. In Apoc. 14. Num. 42. fitteth Rome saith Viegas Ribera denieth not that Rome is mysticall Babylon he saith truth perswaded him to beleeue it not only of heathenish Rome but also of Christian Rome Antonius Puccius Clericus Apostoli 3. Non. Mai. 1515. Sess 10. told Leo in the Councell of Lateran that S. Peter called Rome Babylon Bâ—ll l. 2 de Rom. Poâ—t c. 2. Bellarmine hath no Scripture argument to proue S. Peters being at Rome but taking this for a ground that Rome is Babylon I omit many testimonies of Tertullian adversus Iudaeos and of S. Ierome in prologo Dydimi and Ep. 17. and in Is 47. of Austin de Civ Dei l. 18. c. 22. It is the vnanimous opinion of almost all the Fathers Episc Eliensis in sortura Torâ—â— p â—87 Oâ—os l. 2. c. 3. Babylon and Rome had the like beginning the like power the like greatnesse the like times Looke to words before my Text. All nations dranke of the wine of the wrath of Babylons fornications What nations haue not beene afflicted with warres treasons cruelties and many calamities from Rome The Kings of the earth committed fornication with Babylon Haue not many Monarchs suffered themselues and their Kingdomes to be corrupted with Romish superstitions The Marchants of the earth waxed rich with the abundance of the delicates of Babylon What wealth hath beene caried about by means of Popish pardons selling Salvation yet are they but gulleries Once heathenish Rome now Babylon saith Petrarch For as heathenish Rome was founded in bloud by Romulus the first builder killing his brother Remus Aug Civ l. 15. c 5. so was Popish Rome setled in full possession by bloud some 607 yeares after Christ Palmerius Iuxta Bedam 612. Magdebur Centur 7. when Pope Boniface obtained of the Emperor Phocas that murtherer which slewe his Master Mauritius that the Bishop of Rome should be called the vniversall Bishop the Church of Rome the head of all Churches so that now the Pope like heathenish Anius will bee King and Priest a King of Kings as Paul 4 ad Ducem Florent Rex Anius Rex idem hominum Phaebique sacerdos Virg. Ae. n. 3. and Prince of Priests Cupers de Eccl. pag. 25. Num 62. Is Rome now become Babylon Vse 1. and is there so little hope of salvation there O then blesse wee the name of the Lord praise we him and magnifie him for ever that this our Church is freed from that land of darknesse and house of bondage where their holynesse is hypocrisie their zeale fury their faith vncertaine their chiefest ground vnwritten tradition But our faith is the same with the faith of the Patriarches and Prophets righteous Fathers from the beginning of the world Let vs looke vpon them and consider with our selues Were they Idolaters Abel Enoch Abraham Isaac Iacob David Had they any to go vnto for Indulgences and Pardons Did they one call vpon the other Happy are wee that are in such a case to follow these worthies Blessed are we that haue God only to bee our Father this Church to be our Mother Rome was sometimes a glorious citty Ignatius cald it Castissimam TertulliaÌ„ saide it was a happy Church because the Apostles of Christ suffered martyrdome in it B Iew. in def of apol and left their whole doctrine vnto it but now saith he O Roma a Roma quantum mutata vetusta es Nunc caput es scelerum quae caput or bis er as Seeing there are some Godly amongst the wicked 2. Vse let them striue against the common sins the best else may be overtakeÌ„ Hence is it that for the warning of all for a caveat to the people of God that they who thinke they staÌ„d may take heed least they fal CriminatioÌ„s as wel as the coÌ„mendations of the best are registred in scripture Noahs drunkennes as wel as his vprightnes Lots incest as wel as the grieving of his righteous soule The weaknes of Moyses at the waters of Meribah wheÌ„ he spake vnadvisedly with his lippes as well as his zeale when he brake the tables comming down from the mount Sinai Ionah his flying from Tharsis as wel as his preaching in Niniveh and here the elects being in Babylon is noted to the world and they publiquely admonished to leaue this cage of vncleane birds this den of Divels O the patience of a mercifull God never striking but first warning not suddenly taking revenge How patient is he towards many beastly Belly Gods and swinish drunkards that seeke to bespatter the blood of Christ with their surfets and filthie vomits Towardes horrible blasphemers
A HEAVENLY PROCLAMATION TO FLY ROMISH BABYLON A SERMON PREACHED AT OXford in St MARIES Nov. 21.1613 BY SAMPSON PRICE Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge and Preacher to the City of Oxford 2. COR. 6. 1◠Wherefore come out from among them and be yee separate saith the Lord and touch not the vncleane thing and I will receiue you AC OX AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes 1614. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL AND TRVELY WORTHY KNIGHT SIR ROGER OWEN all happynesse SIR the mistery of iniquity doth now worke Gr. l. 4. ep 38. Never was Antichrist and his army of Priests as Gregory calleth them more enraged to oppugne the true Church thē in these daies conceauing in likely hoode that he hath but a short time Rev. 12.12 and that the time is at hand which the Lord hath promised shal bring vpō Babel the vengeance of the Lord and the vengeance of his temple Ier 51.6.11 Rev. 18.20 The Lord make good his word hasten his worke that the heavens may reioice and the Apostles and Prophets Rome was sometimes famous for her faith but now it is become Babylon as Ierome in his time confessed Hier. ad Marcell viduam praef l. Didimi de Spir. Sancto Euseb l. 3. c. 26. l. 4. c. 21. praising God that he was freed from it It cōceived about the times of Traian saith Egesippus and now hath brought forth the man of sin whose pride doing reverence to no mortal man Cerem Rom. l. 3. Sect. 1. fol. 120. and his challendge of the title of supreame and immediat Pastour are badges of Antichrist Gr l. 6. ep 30. This purple Idoll Reg. Indict 15. causeth traditions to be matched with the written word of God and is therein iniurious to the wisdome of God he causeth mans merits to bee mingled with the merits of Christ therein iniurious to the grace of God he causeth divine worship to be communicated to stockes and stones therein iniurious to the glory of God Thus the daughter of Syon is become the Whore of Babylon In the councell of Lateran strict charge was given to all Preachers that none should speake of the comming of Antichrist Caranza sess 11.19 Dec. 1516. Praeside Leone 10. which prohibition argued the guilt of their consciences But now the Pope hath his followers in triumph to giue him the number of the beast as those books of Benedictus de Benedictis Bononiae excus Anno. 1608. and Theses Caraffae Neapoli excusae 1609. Take the numeral letters V. 5. L. 50. V. 5. V. 5. l. 1. C. 100. D 500 it is the number of the beast 665. Rev. 13.18 dedicated vnto him with this inscription PAVLO V. VICEDEO do sufficiently proue as is vrged by that Noble Phillip Mornai Some would haue Antichrist to be but one man standing vpon the greeke article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Ioh. 2.18 It is in Bell. l. 3. c. 2. de Rom. Pont. By as good reason there should bee but one Davell because Christ saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Adversary came sowed tares Mat. 13.25 but one righteous man because S. Paul saith that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The man of God may be absolute 2. Tim. 3.17 How truely many Popes of Rome haue deserved this name I haue laboured to prooue in this Sermon which I present vnto your Worship I confesse the argument is great know that the blame of imperfection is so much the more when it lighteth vpon a high choise D. Sutcliffe D Abbot D. Downam Mr G. Powel But this subiect being handled so plentifully by many worthies in our Church I vndertooke the burthen the more willingly and now offer this mite Talents I haue none into the publique treasury I was importuned to publish this Sermon by some learned and religious friends leasure fitted not since the preaching of it so opportunely as now I dedicate it to you as the chiefe Patron of my studies by whose means I obtained my setled abode in this place That Hon. Iudge your Reverend Father did countenance encourage my aged and painfull Father in his Ministry in that flowrishing towne of Shrewsbury Since your favours haue beene extraordinary and bountifull Accept from me I beseech you these small fruits of my studies as a pledge of my true observaunce vnto you being a sincere lover of the truth generally honoured for your excellent learning So wishing to your good worship the encrease of all good graces and blessings as also to your elect Lady sweet oliue-branch I take my leaue From my study at Exeter Colledge Oct. 28.1614 Your Worships in all humble duty at commande SAMPSON PRICE REVEL 18.4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying come out of her my people that yee be not partakers of her sins and that yee receiue not of her plagues THe Almighty God whose throne is heaven the firmament his pavilion and the earth his theater the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end the first the last and the revealer of secrets Da. 2.22 Victorin in Apocal Cuius antiquit as immortalitas whose antiquity is immortality gaue an especiall priviledge to his messenger Iohn an Apostolical Prophet to write this Prophecy to all succeeding ages a booke never reiected by any but the grossest Heretiques Epiph. That as he preferred Abel before Cain Iacob before Esau David before Eliab Mathias before Iudas so he preferreth S. Iohn before al the other Disciples in this general charge to his Church And he that made Moyses who was a courtier Iob the Potentate Samuell the Iudge Elisha the Plowman Amos the Neat-heard Gr. super Ezeck Ieremy a Priest Isaiah of the bloud royal a Prophet Mathew a Publican Peter a Fisher and Paule a Tentmaker all to be penners or preachers of his word now inspireth a poore exile to write the history of the Church in these intricate visions and revelations which he saw vpon the Lords day Pro merito voluminis laus omnis inferior est Rupert in lib. Where having sent to the seaven Churches and shewed the authors of his message God the Father and the Sonne in the 5 first chapters he commeth to predictions of things to come c. 6. obsignations of those to be saved c. 7. Indignations vpon things to be destroied c. 8.9 His warrant to write to many peoples and nations and tongues and kings c. 10. The Churches Prophets fighting falling by the beast yet rising againe c. 11. Her body compared to a womā cloathed with the sunne with the moone vnder her feet and a crowne of 12 stars vpon her head c. 12. Her combats and they blessed that die in the Lord c. 13.14 Her threatnings with 7 golden vials ful of the wrath of God c. 15. Her iudgements vpon her enimies in general c. 16. and in these 17 and 18 chapt her victories gotten against the Romish church wherein Princes converted to the gospell figured by a mighty
of conscience promise of preferment faculties for treason and murthers of the Lordes annointed facilities to climb heaven not by Iacobs ladder the grace of Christ but by merits of Saints supererogation of workes and pardons of Popes sinfull miserable all of them abominable many of them Gr. 9. refused the Gospell of Christ and insteed there of substituted a legend Balaeus l. 5. vit Pont. compiled by a Monke named Cyril Pope Paulus Venetus painted himselfe Plat vil Adr. 1. desiring to seeme a woman Pope Hildebrand Gr. 7. whome all good men saw Annal. l. 5. pag. 455. to be of the kingdome of Antichrist saith Aventinus though Bellarmine cald him a Saint caused Pope victor the 2 to bee empoysoned in the wine of the Eucharist and cast his God into the fire Benn Card. vit Hild Abb. vesp vit H 3. Guicc Chron. Ital l. 11. Anno. 1513. C. 11. Ann. 954. because it answered him not of his event in war with Hen. 4. Leo 10. vpon the day of his coronation spent one hundred thousand Duckets and called the Gospell of Christ a fable as Guicciardine telleth Iohn the 12 dranke to the Divell Luit prand rer Europ l. 6. c. 6. The whole Councel of Constance Sess 11. concludeth of Iohn 23. Atempore iuventutis suae From the time of his youth he was ever of an evill disposition shamelesse vnchast a lyar disobedient to his Parents and given to many other vices Innocentius 8 had 16 bastards by severall strumpets Octo nocens pueros genuit totidemque puellas Hunc merito poterit dicere Roma patrem Marul de Innoe 8. Gnic l. 16. Many Popes are vsually praised for goodnesse not exceeding others in wickednesse so they witnes of one Bonus Pontifex nihil memoria dignum reliquit Bened. 1. Sisinius Geneb l. 4. Chr. of Another Nisi podagram habuisset nesciremus Many haue beene trised away suddenly it being suspected they would be over good They may haue the testimony of one of their owne who afterward was Pope himselfe Aene as Sylvius If time would permit I could bring forth many examples of Romane Bishops that were sound either to be Heretiques or else defiled with other vices De geslis concil Basil l 1 de Ro. Pont. yet all must be stiled Popes of godly memory because say their Scribes Gloss Extrav l. 5. ca. Du. lum authorized by Gr. 13. we herein respect not what they did but what it became thē to haue done by which reason the honour of bonae memoriae belongeth to Ieroboam amongst the Kings Balaam amongst the Prophets Iudas amongst the Apostles He must know all things erre in nothing direct informe animate expound scriptures canonize saints forgiue sins create new Articles of faith and in all these be as absolute as his maker He must encroach vpon the offices of Christ. His Kingdome Priesthood Prophecie O yee heavens bee astonished at this and let all Christian hearts tremble to heare such blasphemies Looke vpon all the succession from Pope Boniface 3 downeward D. Downam de Antich and you wil confesse it is Antichrist I say nothing of the now Pope Paule 5 Aunswer to a nameles Cathol Burghesius but what the Seminarie Priests sometimes spake of him He is a rash speaker a headie vndertaker of a violent spirit impatient of contradiction Hee challengeth the succession of Peter and name of Paul but followeth neither I search not over farre their orders of Benedict which hath beene so fruitfull that they say all the new orders which in latter times haue broken out are but little springs Volladerius de Canoniza Francis Ro. in epist and drops this the Ocean which hath sent out 52 Popes 200 Cardinals 1600 Archbishops 4000 Bishops 50000 Saints approued by the Church Looke on their pardons Leo 10 for onely rehearsing the Lords Prayer and thrise repeating the name of Iesus gieuing 3000 yeares indulgence Boniface acknowledging so many Indulgences to be in that one Church of Lateran that none but God can number them Indulgences are giuen not onely to the Franciscans themselues but to their Parents to any which die in their habits to any which desire they may doe soe to those who are wrapped in it after death though they did not desire it and fiue yeares indulgence to those who doe but kisse it Rodol Cupers de Eccl. vnivars fol 4. Scappus de Iure non Scrip. l. 1. c. 25. Their Cardinals are so bound to the Pope that it is not lawfull for them without license first obtained from him to bee let bloud in a fever yet he calleth them his brothers Princes of the world and Co-iudges of the whole earth I leaue their Priests and Iesuits spirits of the Divell in many places of this land breathing out infections But blessed be the name of the Lord who hath sent vs a North wind as is prophecied c. 16.13 to driue away these Popish frogges to the place whence they came where they are dealt with as the old Romans did with their dogs in the capitol Cic. prosex Roscio vnlesse they did barke their legges were broken so these vnlesse they libell against he worthiest of our Saints or often contradict things against conscience they haue neither countenance nor maintenance I enter not into their Monasteries 225044 as Durus de Paschalo reckons thē I◠ep Hulderic Ep. August Anno 866. were the cause that there were 6000 Infants heades found in a fish-pond neither lead you into their bloudie inquisitions or horrid dungeons but ende this circūstance with that advise of S. Steven O saue your selus from this wicked Antichristian generation and so I hasten to my last part The punishment of Babylon plagues The plagues of Babylon for her persecuting the Church are many Mortalitie Beasts Famine c. 6.8 sores bloud shed by sea and land c. 9.10.11 wounding with the sword c. 13.14 vnseasonable distēpred aires darkning her kingdom Doct. c. 16. here plagues Whēce this doctrine appeareth God in iustice will be revenged vpon the enimies of his Church The proofs of this are many What Tyrāt hath escaped without some iudgment Sueton. Domitian is slain with the daggers of his own servāts his wife consenting Adrian after he had crucified at once ten thousand Christians hath an issue of bloud spitteth out his lungs Spartian l. 2. c. 12. and is so afflicted with a Dropsie that he would haue laid violent hands vpon himselfe Eus hist l. 7. c. 30. Valerian by the meanes of the K of Persia is flaied aliue powdred with salt Dioclesiā thrusting the Christians out of their offices and burning their Bibles Ruff. had his house fired with lightning himselfe so terrified with thunder Niceph. chris that in a madnesse he killed himselfe Maximinus rotteth with wormes and the apple of his eye falleth out Aurelian hath his throat cut Morindus is devoured of a monster that came out of the