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in all respects for their purpose when doubtlesse they suruaid the strength of the building and capacitie of euerie roome If the Law should take notice of their vnlawfull assembly as that was the least of their feares then they had the French Ambassadours House for a Cloake to which it was adioyning Or if the People should rise as this was one of their assayes or tryals before they durst appeare to play in publike to proue if all men were growne tame enough to be muzled and hood-winked and whether they would start at holy Water a Masse a Procession or the like then the Ambassadours House should be their Sanctuarie against the force and rage of the people And because it might be perillous to the Spanish Ambassadour to haue the first publication at or about his House who hath beene the first and principall moouer to introduce or restore Idoll-worship in this Island to the generall discontentment of the people therefore the French Ambassadours House must be chosen not for the Papists affection but for ours as lesse suspecting that Nation for all our antient enmities then the Spanish for all their new friendship and high alliance hoped for which they proffred with one hand and snatched away with the other as if they had beene too great for our Royall coniunction when I prayse God ours was too good for their commixtion Thus the place is secured against man but who can secure it against God Not the French or Spanish Ambassadors though they haue more powre and priuiledge in England to serue their Idols then the Prince himselfe could haue in Spaine to serue God For though his Chaplaines were sent thither to satisfie him and vs yet might they say nothing as we heare when they came there to satisfie them Secondly The time is obserueable It was their fifth of Nouember wherein they perished by anticipation as they would haue dealt with vs before vpon the fifth of our Nouember Here is the difference they fell downe as they would haue blowne vs vp and did alone feele the furie of that sodaine confusion without stirring their Neighbours Houses as they would haue blowne vs vp with the necessarie ruine of diuerse places adioyning And this they suffered from God when from the King they had in their fond conceites and mistaken hopes obtained that for which they would haue made him his vs ours so miserably suffer without mercie But we see though Pardons and tollerations passe freely at Rome and in other places for politique respects yet they are not sure till they be Sealed and Inrolled in Heauen Thirdly Obserue the Play-House stands in that place vnshaken though too often laden with sin-full multitudes of all sorts sexes and sects because it professeth it selfe to be no better then it is a Play-House and perhaps some Houses of Corporall Fornication stand there also because for custome sake that they may haue the more commings in they desire to seeme what they are Brothels But this House which professeth it selfe for Christ when it is for Antichrist and playes with the Word and Sacraments in a most Anticke or Apish fashion euen when it pretends to be most serious and teacheth men to commit Spirituall Fornication vnder the shew of Sanctitie and Holinesse this must not stand but the Lord makes it a spectacle of his Iudgement as he made the Beare-Garden long since whilst they prophaned the Sabbath day a day at the Creation ordayned for peace and rest in that beastly sport of crueltie betwixt the Creatures proceeding from Gods curse vpon our Fore-fathers sinne which sight should make Adam Abell and Seth with their pious posteritie weepe as it makes Caine Lamech Cham Nimrod and Esau laugh with all their Sauage and impious Seed and succession These Houses therefore must not stand when they touch vpon the skirt of Religion to prophane and pollute the holy things of God whereof man is not so carefull a keeper and zealous defender as of his own right and interest It may perhaps not seeme friuolous to some that I mention here what I haue heard for truth concerning an other Play-House called the Fortune in which repeating their Playes vpon a Sabbath day in the afternoone at night following the House fell on fire and was consumed to ashes The Gallorie in the preaching place at White hall which stood from the dayes of King Edward to King Iames must fall then vnder the Spanish Ambassadours feet when he was sent the second time to perfect what he had before but rough drawne I doe not wonder that it fell then hauing stood so long I rather wonder it fell not before being oftentimes as heauely laden except with the sin of Idolatry But that Gods prouidence must reserue it to that instant at that I wonder and me thinkes it told me the Spanish footing was not so certaine in this Land as he presumed but that whilst his power did tread downe the preaching places of the Land he might hap to tumble with them and by opposition giue a happy occasion to reedifie their ruines more strongly Fourthly Obserue no Idols Crucifixes Crosses Holy-Water Medals Beades or any sacred Relique or Agnus Dei whereof doubtlesse there was great prouision laid in could preserue or protect from this blow Let this open the eyes of their superstitious and bewitched Customers and abate the price and esteeme of such Romish and Anti-Christian Reuel 18 11. merchandize teaching wise men to distinguish betwixt toyes trash and reall safeguards And here I make bold to demand What became of those Wafer-cakes which the Priest had before turned into gods for doubtlesse some were there or in the roome vnder which was the Massing place reserued for the sicke What were all of them brayned with the Timber and Brickbats and did they perish with the Priest and the rest of the people O blind men lift vp your eyes and see your owne absurdities Should I feare the ruines of Heauen if he who sits at the right Hand of God the Father stood by me to support the Roofe from his owne omnipotent and my impotent Head Reply not ye blind who make others blind with your sophisticating tongues but pray to God for your selues as I doe for you that he would vouchsafe to giue you grace to acknowledge the truth which you cannot choose but see When our Sauiour rose from the Graue the Priests hired the Souldiers to say His Disciples came and stole away his body Math. 28 11. whilst they slept Had he not risen alone I should neuer haue beleeued he could raise me now I can neither doubt his power or will Saint Thomas his seeing and feeling hath resolued me Hire you some Souldiers if Souldiers will be such hirelings as doubtlesse you may fit your selues with some zealous Reformados vpon promise of absolution or otherwise make shift with your owne equiuocating Locusts armed at all points for the purpose with mentall reseruations and dispensations to say they saw the consecrated

would make him more famous being finished and compounded by his meanes then if he had conquered the whole world And now to conclude by returning to the Romane Catholiques I desire them that they would not slightly passe by that Iudgement of God executed vpon their Brethren in the Black-Fryars but that they would lay it to heart and confesse ingeniously it was neither Chance nor Accident that did it but the Hand of Gods power which is in all actions yea in the ouerthrow of that house wherin the children of Iust Iob feasted Shall there be euill in a Amo. 3. 6 Citie and the Lord hath not done it Who is he that saith and it commeth to passe the Lord commandeth it not Confesse then your wisedomes had charmed many wise and sensible men but you could not charme senselesse Stones Man may be mocked and deluded God cannot Submit your selues therefore to him Kisse the Sonne lest Ps 2. 12 he be angry and so ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little Acknowledge your Pope to be Antichrist that Man 2 Thes 2 of sinne that Sonne of perdition that sits in the Temple of God as God that is dispensing pardoning absoluing binding the conscience making new Articles of Faith which none but God can doe exalting himselfe also aboue all that is called God and worshiped that is aboue Kings Princes and Gouernours Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall aboue Saints and Angels whom he appoints to be worshiped and canonizeth or condemneth at pleasure All those that write and despute and labour the point so eagerly about personall and visible succession thereby to retaine you still in their superstitious bonds doe but labour to proue the Pope to be Antichrist For prouing a visible Temple of God at Rome they proue a visible Antichrist to be there The Field was well knowne to be Math. 13 the Householders wherein he first sowed Wheat the enuious man after sowed Tares If it had belonged to the enuious man why should the Householder or his Seruants complaine Might not he sowe what Graine he would in his owne Field But it was not his Field it belonged to the Householder and therefore his intrusion to intermingle Seed for the spoyling of the whole crop was an effect of Enuie The Doctrine of Christ and Antichrist is mingled in your Church as the Tares and Wheat both in one Field doe but distinguish that which is of God and that which is of man and the controuersie is cleared We confesse you haue sauing Truth amongst you but it is mingled with all-condemning falshood as Apotheocaries mixe poyson and preseruatiues And therefore the rising of Antichristianisme in the Church is called A Mysterie of Iniquitie for the subtile and close creeping in of Errour and winding about the Root of Truth so that they seemed all one and of one age This Mysterie began to worke euen in the Apostles time and good men perhaps out of good entention were made Seeds-men against their wills whilst one inuented one thing another man another one added this Ceremonie thereby to intice the people another that to win the Heathens from a grosser Idolatry to a lesse as they thought and thus doubtlesse if Errour be examined it shall be found to be verie old and much of it fathered vpon none of the worst men nay much of it will be found to be so ancient as the time when it was brought in and the person who introduced it will hardly be found yet if this be compared with the pure Wheat of the Word which God by his Sonne and the Ministerie of his Seruants the Apostles of Christ hath sowne in the Church it will easily be found to be Tares and trash of humane inuention Doe but cast Mar. 5. 15. out the Diuell therefore whose name is Legion or Multitude and the man is ours which is amongst you and will sit quietly at Iesus Feet Acknowledge also your Rome as it is the Seat and Sea of Antichrist and the Head Citie of your Church to be Babylon and as in the ruines of Shilo Ierusalem was Ier. 7. 12 taught to see her future miserie so in this shadow behold what the Lord will doe though perhaps mystically as Rome is mysticall Babylon to the Sinagogue of Satan which you now stile the Romane Catholique Church when it shall be fulfilled which the Spirit of God proclaimes Apocal. 18. 2. Babylon the great is falne is falne c. Not that I beleeue the Citie it selfe shall be ruined and burnt the Houses and Temples puld downe and your Pope no more named but that I thinke the Truth shall be reuealed to such as now sit in darkenesse and in the shadow of death and then Kingdomes and Countreys and Churches will one after another reforme themselues and forsake the Doctrine of Diuels that absurd Superstition and Idolatry which you now zealously out of a scornefull Ignorace exercise thinking you doe therein God good seruice This seemes to be Hieroms opinion vpon these words 2 Thes 2. 8. Quem Dominus D. Hieron Com. in Mich C. 5. interficier Spirituoris Haec interfectio non abolitionem significat ●aith he This interf●●tion doth no signifie a totall abolition but a cessation of euill life which they led before Et destruet illustratione aduentus sui And shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming Nun quam autem destrueret si interfectio abolitionem sonaret cum iam esse cessasset But let vs returne to consider the words vsed by the Angell Apocal. 18. 2. Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of Diuels and the hould of euerie foule Spirit and a cage of euerie vncleane and hatefull Bird For all Nations haue drunke of the Wine of the wrath of her Fornication Marke the note of vniuersalitie whereof the Church of Rome so much glories All Nations Marke also the Metaphor vsed to expresse beguiling Errour Drunke The most wise and learned man may be ouertaken and mistaken in drinke And the Kings of the Earth haue committed Fornication with her Marke the Metaphor doting Lust will doe much And the Merchants of the Earth are waxed rich through the aboundance of her delicacies Marke the Metaphor for couetousnesse and commoditie will preuaile verie farre and make euen good men looke through their fingers but for bad men they will easily be perswaded to proue such Merchants as Iudas was and to sell their Master Christ for pleasure and profit Here is the strength of Wine of Women and of Wealth or of the King ioyned 1 Esd 3. 10 11 12 against the strength of Truth yet at length Magna est veritas preualet Truth is strongest and beares away the victorie Yet Truth must struggle for the victorie her opposites are strong enough to striue and will not be conquered till we haue fought vnder her Banner and resisted vnto blood Heb. 12. 4. Now after you haue heard and considered this aduisedly then attend to that which followes immediately after at the fourth Verse And I heard another voyce from Heauen saying Come out of her my People God hath a People God hath a number of Elect names God hath a Church in Babylon that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues For her sinnes haue reached vnto Heauen and God hath remembred her iniquities Reward her euen as she rewarded you and double vnto her double according to her workes In the Cup that she hath filled fill to her double How much she hath glorified her selfe and liued deliciously Marke what she hath assumed challenged and arrogated to her selfe so much torment and sorrow giue her for she saith in her heart I sit a Queene and am no Widow and shall see Es 47. 8. no sorrow Doth any Church boast so but the Romish Therefore shall her plagues come in one day death and mourning and famine and she shall be vtterly burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God who iudgeth her Stronger then all the Kings that would defend her And doe not say or hear others saying that such as perished were greater or lesse sinners then the rest of the Romish Idolators that suruiue since we iudge not their persons but opinions and actions For except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish The Lord open your eyes that you may discouer Antichrist in the midst of his masking and open your eares that you may heare Christ in the midst of the Candlesticks and turne your hearts from following the vanitie and Idolatry of those superstitious Fathers of your Flesh that you may beleeue the Veritie of God the Father of your Soules and so possesse an eternall habitation with him in Glorie and Immortalitie Amen FINIS