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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79498	To His Highness the Lord Protector, &c. and to the Parliament of England. Valiant swordmen, and honorable gentlemen, ...	Chidley, Samuel.	1656 (1656)	Wing C3844; Thomason E896_9; ESTC R206683	4,466	8

but whosoever sweareth by the gold of the Temple he is a debtor But Christ saith Wo unto you ye blinde guides Ye fools and blinde for whether is greater the gold or the temple that sanctifieth the gold Matth. 23.16 17. So it may be said contrariwise of these Whether is greater the Crosses or the Steeples the pillars and foundations thereof Therefore when they pulled down the Crosses from off the Steeples they should have pulled down the Steeples also the Steeples being as idolatrous and useless as the other Therefore down with these old Chyming chimneys of the drunken whore of Babylon that so the fire and smoke of abomination which maketh desolation may be utterly extinguished with the names of the idols out of those places It is written in the Law Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations served their gods Deut. 12.2 and you shall break down their idolatrous pillars Deut. 7.5 12.3 And what are these Steeples are they not the Popes pillars for they were erected by the Catholick Papists in honour to their Popish gods Therefore although these towers of Babel are builded to reach up to heaven * As Sin Botolphs Steeple at Boston in Lincolnsh upon which a thunderbolt came a year since and some of them have as many steps in height as there are days in the year down with them and their Babylonish Bells to the very ground and let not a stone of them remain upon another And in so doing ye shall do well Fare ye well Postscript BEing informed that the Parliament is about to establish the Cathedral of Gloucester to be used constantly as a place of publick Worship and knowing that God will have such places utterly rooted out In discharge of my conscience I have here published this following Letter which hath layn by me divers years Dated from Gloucester the 24 day of the 11 Month 1652. and directed to me Loving friend Mr. Chidley HAving received so many favours from your self I am thereby engaged to acknowledge your love to me and to return you hearty thanks for all your kindness Through the goodness of God I am more satisfied in the justness of your publike business then when I was at London though then I thought it my duty to endeavour the utter extirpation of superstition and quite plucking down not onely of the abominable High-places but also of all the Idols Temples in general as being no fit temples for the holy Ghost to be worshipped in The honour of God is the chief moving cause if my heart deceive me not The next motive is from what I have seen and heard since I came to this ancient I may say deluded City of Gloucester where the people for the major part are so deluded by the Antichristian Priests that they are even wedded to the grand Idol of that place called the Colledge or Collegiate Church so as they have some purposes to sell two or three of the Idols Temples that thereby they might be better able to uphold that place wherein doth still remain most abominable provocations to superstitious Worship the Priest himself affirming a plain lye to the people the last first day in the open Auditory And the chief end for ought I hear of their preaching in that place is onely to keep it from being accounted an useless Collegiate place for they have eight or nine Steeple-houses and but four Priests in the Town And for my own satisfaction and that I might write unto you something that my eyes have seen I took an oportunity to go to see the place But for me to set out the abominations that have been and some of which still-remain would be too tedious to recite But the full conclusion of what I have to say of it is onely this It is a pillar upon which Popery hath been established There are about it several Cloysters Within the Quire at the East-end is the Altar the steps to the Altar-place and the Tables of the Commandments still remain Behinde this is a place called Purgatory still standing with three open holes at the top thereof the place being somewhat dark In a Gallery over the high Altar and over Purgatory is a place which is called the Whispering-place and behinde it is a place prepared for the Abbots c. to sit where they could hear the people what they whispered by reason of the hollowness of the whispering place and when the people came before them they could tell the people what they had said and so the people took them for Gods by reason of this piece of knavery Over the High-altar are two holes in the top of the Leads over which are two round boards to cover the holes and two strings with which they could let down a Pigeon or two and there they perswaded the people that the holy Ghost ascended and descended upon their Sacrifices through those holes one of the strings are still on the top of the leads Vnder the Quire is a place called The Bone-house where at this day are heaps of dead mens sculls and dead bones piled up like piles of faggots and lock'd up within that place the Sexton keeps the key There are several Chappels in one whereof lies the last Abbot that was Abbot Parker with a Lion at his feet an Angel under his head and a Mitre upon his head his picture is not at all defaced Much more might be written but time will not give me leave at present The Lord in his due time will root out all such abominations and raze to the ground those idolatrous high-High-places Thus with my respects to your self and all other friends in general I at present take leave and subscribe my self Your friend c. FINIS

PRotectors Parliaments and all see hear And quake for fear O do not jeer nor swear ' Gainst God who roars from Sion on your sin ' Gainst such High-places which you worship in Jah with his burning blasts of lightnings quells The Peoples Idols-Temples-Steeples-Bells A most prodigious fearefull storme of winde lightning thunder mightily defaceing With comb-church in Deuon burneing and slayeing diverse men and women all this in service-time on the Lords day Octob 21 〈…〉 TO His Highness the Lord Protector c. AND To the Parliament of England Valiant Swordmen and Honorable Gentlemen NAaman the Syrian was a man high and honourable because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syri● he was also a mighty man in valour but he was a leper And he was wroth against the Prophet of the Lord without a cause and so went away in a rage But his servants came neer and spake unto him and said My father if the Prophet had bid thee do some great thing wouldest thou not have done it how much more rather then when he saith to thee Wash and be clean Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in Iordan according to the saying of the man of 〈◊〉 and his flesh name again like unto the flesh of a little childe and he was clean And being thus cleansed of his leprosie he promised thenceforth not to offer unto other gods but unto Jehovah Yea he knew it was a sin to go into the house of R●mmon to wait upon his Master the King to be his leaning-stock in that Idols temple when he worshipped there 2 Kings 5.10 11 12 13 15 17 18. Sirs I presented you formerly with a Book intituled Thunder from the throne of God against the temples of Idols which the foolish people count a work of madness but indeed were solid words of truth and soberness yet such thundering and convincing Arguments were not acceptable nor delectable unto you being for the quite plucking down of the Idolatrous High-places which are still kept up under pretence of usefulness and convenience for Worship But humane pretences without divine precepts are like an empty Parliament-house without members or a Parliament without power even so is a bare name of godliness famous with men but infamous with God like that fear towards him which is taught by the precepts of men Tell me ye great men did not Constantine the great give the Heathens Idol-temples for Christians to worship in and was it not a snare to him and them like the Cross in his Banners And what followed at the last was not Constantinople lost and the head of Constantine held upon the top of a spear And how can such your frequent appearances of evil avail you in your Spanish Wars O ye mortal gods who must die like men and fall like one of the Princes Psal 28.7 Is it not remarkable that the Jews for the space of these 1600 years were not so totally blinded as to hold such a correspondencie with Gods enemies the Papists as to uphold their Idols or Idols Temples but do pray heartily for their utter destruction And the Law of God for the quite plucking down of all the Idols Temples is not repealed by Christ And although the Jews whom the foolish people would convert as the Spaniards the Indians are not permitted here by the Law of this Land yet I would not that ye should be ignorant of this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part I say not wholly but in part ●●●●pened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in and so all Israel shall be saved Rom. 11.25 26. But concerning the Idolatrous Gentiles who profess Christ but deny him in their works there is no such promise but contrariwise it is prophesied concerning them That after the destruction of the third part of men by the fire and smoke and sulphur the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which neither can see hear nor walk neither repented they of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornications nor of their Thefts Rev. 9.18.20 21. The Jews at mount Sinai had Ten Commands given unto them from God Exod. 20. Deut. 5. the Gentiles in mount Sion had Four given unto them in charge Act. 15 20. for so it seemed good unto the holy Ghost and the holy separated Church to lay upon the Christian Gentiles no other burden then those four necessary things vers 28. amongst which to keep themselves from things offered to idols was one principal Acts 21.25 But the Idols Temples with the Steeples and Bells are so as may appear unto you by this ensuing Treatise and therefore they must be demolished that the names of the Idols may be utterly destroyed out of the Land O ye Senators of England you are raising money now to maintain Wars against the Spaniards and to Wars you will go Go and prosper But be well advised and take direction out of the book of the wars of the Lord for there it is written When the Camp goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee from every evil thing Deut. 23.9 Idols Temples the Steeples and Bells are evil things and ought to be thrown down So long therefore as you will uphold them how can ye expect the victory for they are great stumbling-blocks to the Jews and hinder them from embracing Christianity and do encourage the Gentiles in their idolatry and do give offence to the Church of God yet you will uphold these Steeple-houses under pretence of usefulness and convenience for Worship But what have you to say to the Steeples themselves doubtless you cannot but confess they are very useless and unprofitable yea they are idolatrous and ought to be utterly destroyed Our first Parliament after seven years service and experience driving a great trade in that Ware-house of Justice which you keep began to be such perfect Crafts-men that they had no further need of their Masters cunning whereupon they were so witty as in the very nick of time to cut off his Royal head to strengthen themselvs in the Regal power and abolished the Kingly Office as useless and unprofitable How much more ought these Steeples to be demolished for the uselesness and unprofitableness thereof And therefore you ought to root them out lest the great God of heaven root you out as he did your predecessors They took away the Crosses from the tops of the Steeples as idolatrous but gave no order to demolish the Steeples for their judgments were not informed they saw not that the Steeples were idolatrous as the Crosses thereupon But it is no new thing for better wiser then they to be mistaken like the Scribes and Pharisees who held a tradition that Whosoever sweareth by the Temple it is nothing