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A62900	The principles of the Papists by which their leaders put them upon bloody and treacherous practices, plainly demonstrated by the Scriptures to be most erroneous and wicked. And a few better principles briefly laid down, for them (or others) to meditate on, tending to a peaceable life among men, &c. And also a few quæries left them last of all, to satisfie their consciences in. Partly for the sakes of those among them whose consciences have some tenderness in them, and are not quite feared: partly also for those who through ignorance are too much inclining to them. Also there may be some service of these things to others. By a lover of truth, mercifulness, plain-heartedness, humility and fidelity, W. T.	Tomlinson, William.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1850; ESTC R221759	49,364	105

he had set up when they heard the sound of the Cornet Flute Harp Sackbut Psaltery Dulcimer and all kinds of Musick nor much behind him for Fire and Faggor to devour those that will not worship with them We read but of one Furnace that he caused to be heated to burn dissenters in but they have burnt multitudes of dissenters who would not consent to their worship witness Smithfield and other places in Queen Maries days Add hereunto the many Murthers done otherways by Inquisitions and bloody Massacres her unsatiable blood-thirstiness and blood-guiltiness So that you see although the Cup of Rome's worship be a golden Cup to look at yet within it's full of filthiness of her fornication it 's full of dead mens bones and all uncleanness like the painted Sepulchres of the Pharisees Israel's worship which was of God's own appointment became an abomination to him so that his soul hated it for these two things which Rome is eminently guilty of one was Because their hands were full of blood Isa 1.13 14 15. The other was Because they had chosen their own ways and their soul delighted in their abominations Isa 66.3 Now for Rome's worship it 's of her own forming not of God's institution and for blood her hands are fuller of that than ever Israel's was and for superstitious inventions Israel cannot compare with her Therefore her worship must needs be more detestable and abominable in the sight of the Lord than Israel's was being also aggravated hereby that whereas Israel was but under types and shadows as under a Schoolmaster but she lives in the days of greater light under the ministration of the second Covenant or new Covenant which far excels the first Covenant in the glory of its light 2 Cor. 3.10 So that for her now with bloody hands and with deceitful dissembling hearts to approach to worship the Lord this must needs be an abomination Judge in your selves I desire you ye of the Romish Church what acceptance this can have with the Lord for a people that plots and contrives the subversion of Kingdoms and sticks not to poison or stab or murder those that they fear may hinder their wicked designs who barbarously massacre people more merciful than themselves who are manifested thereby to partake more of the heavenly nature than they For a people that sets up to themselves Stocks and Stones Images and Pictures in abundance and falls down before them and bows themselves to the work of their own hands and prays to them that are no Gods nor present in all places with them to hear their prayers a people that turn away in their hearts from the living God and think to make Men and Angels their Intercessors for such a people to approach before the Lord and sing forth their Anthems and Allelujahs unto God Judge ye if this worship be not abominable and like the painted Sepulchres which appear beautiful outward but within are full of dead mens bones and filthiness yea and full of dead mens blood too which cryes to the Lord under the Altar How long Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth And yet Rome would paint over all these abominations to blind the eyes of men that she may seem holy in the practice of all these things She will tell you that all these that she kills are Hereticks and it 's no sin to kill them She will tell you that she doth not worship Pictures and Images though she bow down to them but she doth it in honour to God and such like shifts and mists she casts over her actions to blind the carnal eye and leave it in a mist And therefore how fitly doth the Spirit of God meet with her jugling evasions and fixes this as one of the marks of the great Whore upon her forehead as a Name written viz. Mystery as it follows in the next Verse which comes now to be considered Ver. 5. And upon her forehead was a name written Mystery Babylon the great the Mothes of harlots and abominations of the earth This is the Name that the Spirit of God fixes upon the forehead of the great Whore Mystery She commits Whoredom and Idolatry in a mystery she sheds innocent blood in abundance and yet in a mystery She would not be thought to be an Idolatress nor to commit Whoredom nor to be a Murderer she would juggle you out of a belief of that which your eye sees and your ears sufficiently hear of her here is mystery indeed but it is the mystery of iniquity not the mystery of plain-hearted godliness And this Name is set in such a place that it 's easie to read it it 's set where she cannot hide it if she do but shew her face it stands upon her forehead The Front of all her Zeal carries Blood and Idolatry written in it but yet vailed and you must not believe it to be so Though you should see her prostrate her self before her Idols you must not take her to be an Idolatress though you should be attempted to be slain by her hands and though you should see many massacred round about you yet you must not take her to be a Murderer and though you should hear her Children lye to your face and prove themselves lyars by their actions yet you must not take this to be lying yea though they forswear and perjure themselves yet you must not take this to be swearing out of truth But you must take her to be a holy Mother and pious worshipper of God under Idolatry and a charitable tender-hearted Mother in the midst of Massacres and a maintainer of truth by lyes and perjury and equivocations She is an exact observer of the footsteps of her grand Champion to walk thereafter who though he be never so wicked yet you must reverence his Holiness Again Another part of her Name is Babylon the great Names of many things under the Old Testament are applied to like things under the New As Prayers and Thanksgivings are sometimes called Sacrifices and Incense New Covenant is called Mount Sion and Jerusalem c. So Babylon and Sodom and Egypt are words sometimes used to express a like people by There be three or four things remarkable in Rome for which the Name Babylon is put upon her 1. Confusion and so the word Babylon and Babel signifie for Rome hath confounded all things under the New Covenant with her traditions and superstitious inventions 2. As Babylon of old was a place of great Idolatry so also is Rome Read but the Epistle of the Prophet Jeremy to them that were captives to be carried to Babylon and you may see how like they are you may find it in the Apocrypha Baruch 6.4 5. Ye shall see in Babylon gods of silver and of gold and of wood born upon shoulders which cause the Nations to fear Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers neither be ye afraid of

of Superstition and Idolatry in falling down before Images and Pictures c. I might name many more gross abominations all indulged by the Pope their Father and Patron Vicar not to Christ but to him that was a lyar and murtherer from the beginning Object If any one here object and say That these and such like wickednesses are practised among others as well as under him Look among the Protestants and you shall see Murthers Adulteries Thefts Robbing Drunkenness Swearing Lying c. are frequent among them as well as under the Pope's Government Answ I Answer These and such like sins are too frequent among them for which the Lord may chastise them as also he hath done But yet observe how great a difference here is The Protestants by such evils bring themselves under the danger of Penalties by their Laws The Papists can act the greatest wickednesses under hopes of indulgence and memorable reward of honour among them so the Protestants do that in danger and are discountenanced where the Papists are countenanced in the same evils Again It is the looser sort of Protestants that do such things but the Leaders and principal Men among the Papists from the Pope to the lowest Graduate are chief Incendiaries therein Again The Protestants do such things against the Principles of their Religion but the Papists do them according to the wicked Principles of their Church that is from iniquity established by a Law and if Satan rule any where sure it 's there where he hath got iniquity and murther c. into a Law and so under a mantle of Piety to escape the censure of the purblind Eye So that the Papists Church is become a very Spring of wickedness through their principles and leading men who with deliberation counsel and contrivance instigate their people to the most inhumane wickedness and make them believe it's good service done to God and his Church Other Arguments might be produced against the Pope to manifest him to be none of Christ's Vicar or Peter's Successor but I rest in these as sufficient testimony against him Seeing he is one with Simon Magus in that evil thought of his heart That the gift of God may be purchased with money And secondly Because he is not of the faith of Abraham and so not of the seed of Christ but one that walks in the steps of him that was a murderer from the beginning And thirdly Because he walks parallel with that Man of Sin that Son of Perdition or destruction who exalts himself above all that 's called God and yet sits in the Temple of God as if he were God laying his own Impositions upon the Consciences of men thereby bearing shew of God among them and over them 2. I come now to the next Principle which is this That the Pope is infallible But these things foregoing being manifestly proved against him by his own practice quite overturn his Infallibility For who will say that he is infallible who is guilty of that sin which excluded Simon Magus from having any part or lot in dispensing the spiritual gifts of God and which discovered him to be in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity Who will say that he is infallible who walks not in the steps of Abraham's faith but in his steps who was a murtherer from the beginning Who will say that he is infallible that exalts himself above all that 's called God or that is worshipped who sits in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God and yet is called That Man of Sin and Son of Perdition How can the Popes be infallible when the makers of them are so fallible that they have sometimes made two at a time who have continued excommunicating one the other as Alexander tertius and Victor quartus did about the year 1159. We may well say of them as it was formerly said of Images and their makers They that make them are like unto them Was that poysoning Pope Alexander the sixth infallible who poysoned Joannem Michaelem a Cardinal of Rome and afterwards attempting to poyson Cardinal Adrian his familiar friend with a cup of poyson at a Banquet was by the just hand of God poysoned himself with the same for the cups being mistaken by the servants that cup which was appointed by him to be given to Adrian was given to himself and so he died therewith This was about the year 1503. as Chronicles tell us Will you say this Murderer was infallible But not to expatiate too far in this it being so gross a thing to conceit that such men are infallible I proceed to the next Principle viz. 3. That the Pope hath power to pardon sins And here as I said of Infallibility so I may say of this If Simon Magus if the murtherous Jews if the Man of Sin that 's exalted above all have power to pardon sins then may we grant the same power to the Pope but not else for all these conditions are his as hath been shewed But if the Pope have all those sins lye at his door that are committed by his order or instigation or countenancing of them if he lye under the weight of them all and be found guilty of them all let him first repent and pray to God that if it be possible his own sins may be forgiven him David was charged with the death of Vriah because he ordered and contrived it and this one man's blood lay heavy upon him and the sword was never to depart from his house therefore 2 Sam. 12.9 10. Now how many Murders are committed by the Pope What multitudes of innocent Souls have been slain by the Cruelties of Popes in the barbarous massacring of many Thousands whose innocent blood cryes to Heaven for vengeance For all the blood shed by his approbation and suggestion and instigation and indulgence will lye as a mighty Mountain upon him and his Confederates who promote such things Let him first get from under the guilt and weight of his own sins before he pretend to pardon others Will any man think that Judas who had betrayed the Lord of Life had power to remit sins No surely none are so destitute of understanding Now if Christ our Lord will look upon that which is done to one of the least of them which believe in him as a thing done to himself then how often will the Pope be found guilty of killing the Lord of Life in his little ones who believe in him The innocent blood of multitudes will rise up in witness against him being shed under his patronage How many thousands in Ireland How many thousands in France How many thousands in Piedmont and other places have been slain under the mystery of iniquity wherein he is Head being King over them that have power to hurt men and might restrain such Insolencies and Cruelties if he did disallow thereof Therefore all these besides the secret Murders and Conspiracies done by his Indulgences and besides all the hidden works of