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A47567	Mystical Babylon availed wherein is proved, I. That Rome-papal is mystical-Babylon, II. That the Pope of Rome is the beast, III. That the Church of Rome is the great whore, IV. That the Roman-priests are the false prophet : also A call to the people of God to come out of Babylon / by Hanserd Knollys ...	Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing K718; ESTC R17048	27,872	35

receive my Soul at the Hour of Death and wouldst bring me to life everlasting To Saint George they pray thus He save us from our Sins that we may rest with the Blessed in Heaven To Saint Erasmus ô Erasmus Grant that by thy Merits and Prayers we may overcome all the snares of our Enemies and be freed from eternal Death (c) Possevin bibl select pag. 295. Boz de sig Eccles Tom. 2. pag. 200. To Francis the Fryer they pray thus O Francis singular crucified-Saint be thou to us the way of Life make satisfaction for us alway shew to Christ the marks of thy wounds (d) Exut Franciscum tunica laceroque cucullo Qui Franciscus erat jam tibi Christus erit Francisci exuviis si qua licet indue Christum Jam Franciscus erit qui modo Christus erat This Fryer Francis they make equal to Christ as those Blasphemous Verses of two shameless Jesuites Turselline and Bencius do plainly declare And to the Image Veronica they pray thus Haile holy Face imprinted on a Clout (e) Chemnit exam Concil Trident. de Imagin Purge us from all Sin within and without c. Thus also the Papists by the Commandements of Men viz. Popes Jesuites Priests yea and general Councils and the Church of Rome do worship Images Pictures Crosses Crucifixes and Reliques which they say are to be worshipped after the same Manner as Images are (f) Vasq de adoratione lib. 3. dis 3. cap. 2. Reliquiae eodem modo atque Imagines sunt adorandae Conci Trident. Decret de Reliq Sanct. It 's written of Dunstan the Abbot of Glastenbury that he blessed the right Thumb of Editha the Abbesse of Wilton which being found uncorrupted after all her Body was turned to dust and ashes in her Grave became a Relique (g) Guliel Malmsbur lib. 2. de Pontif. Vincent li. 25. cap. 33. How many things about our Saviour are turned into Reliques viz. the Manger his linnen Cloth his Cradle his Shirt the Table on which Christ eat his last Supper the Cup wherein he gave his Blood to be drunk are Reliques to be seen at this Day as the Papists and other Pilgrims and Travellers report in several places and Churches in Rome Spain Ravenna Pisa at Andegavum c. The Church of Rome is guilty of gross Idolatry and spiritual Adultery in Adoring and worshipping the Host for at the Priest's Elevation of the Host the Papists breaden God they all fall down upon their Knees and worship it with very great Devotion and whosoever refuseth so to do is counted an Heretick (h) Bellarm. de Sacrament Euchar l. a. cap. 29. Coster Enchir. de Euchar. Rubric in Missal Rom. And yet some Priests have poisoned the Host intending to add Murder yea wilful and Sacrilegious Murder thereby to their gross Idolatry as the Monk Bernhardine who poisoned the Host to the intent that he might poison the Emperour Henry of Lucenburgh as he also did at the Instigation of Robert King of Sicily Baronius (l) Cuspinian Nauclerus Egnat Baron Spondan An. Eccles an 1055. Volateran Hoveden Math. Paris c. tells us of a Priest that either did or would have poisoned Pope Victor 2d at the Sacrament And William Arch-bishop of York was poisoned at the Mass by his own Chaplins by that which they put into the Chalice What can be more Heathenish and palpable Idolatry than to worship the Bread consecrated by a Priest which is maintained commanded and Practised by the Church of Rome by all her Priests and Papists Another branch of the Spiritual Whoredom and Adultery of the great Whore the Church of Rome is the Adoration and worshipping the Cross it Self on which Christ suffered say they also the Image of the Cross and the Sign of the Cross (m) Vasques de Adorat l. 3. cap. 2. Bellarm. de Imagin lib. 3. c. 27 28 29. Aquin. Sum. part 3. art 4. Vasques the Jesuit affirmeth that this is the Doctrine of the Roman-Church and so doth Bellarmine and Thomas Aquinas and many other great Doctors of the Church of Rome It is testified (n) Chrys à Visitat de virb Domini tom 4. Lib. 6. c. 7. that a famous Papist and a Professor of Divinity who dedicated his Book to Pope Clement 8th saith thus We worship the Cross with the same Worship wherewith we adore Christ himself c. Again Whereas we Asserted That the Church of Rome is the Mother of Harlots for a full proof thereof let it be considered First That the Church of Rome owns her self to be the Catholick and Mother-Church of all those Churches in Italy Spain France Germany c. whether National or Parochial that receive believe and practice her damnable Doctrines and Idolatrous worship which are false Churches and Harlots with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication and the Inhabiters of the Earth have been made drunk with the wine of her Fornication and therefore the Church of Rome Mystical-Babylon as before proved is called the Mother of Harlots Rev. 17.2 5. And Abominations of the Earth Secondly That the Church of Rome hath begotten born and nourished all those National and Parochial Churches before-mentioned which are called the Cities of the Nations Rev. 16.19 which National Churches are Harlots as Nineveh was called Nahum 3.4 because of the multitude of their spiritual Whoredoms and abominable Idolatries whereby it appears that the Church of Rome is the Mother of Harlots for She hath infused her false Doctrines worships and all her Idolatries into those Churches Thirdly That the Church of Rome as the Mother of Harlots imposeth her false Doctrines Idolatrous Worships and damnable Practices upon all those and other National Churches whom She calleth her Daughters owning her Authority over them as being their Mother And First It doth appear that the Church of Rome is the great WHORE by her spiritual Whoredoms and Fornications Rev. 17.4 And the Woman had a golden-CVP in her hand full of Abominations and filthiness of her Fornication All kinds of Idolatry Image-worship and Superstitions in the Service of God is spiritual Whoredom (f) Prid. de Antichristo Lect. 11. Non in Babilona solum sed in Sodomam Roma degeneravit ut non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 modo Meretricum sed ut habet liber Complutensis Regius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hoc est Catamitarum Ganimedum Mater habeatur Sic Heptades de Antichristo pag. 99. 129-131 Doun Diatr de Antichristo l. 1. c. 7. Etiam M. Antonius de Dom. Archiep. Spalat de Rep. Eccles lib. 4. cap. 3. n. 26 -29 ac Hieron adver Jovin lib. 2 c. Marlor in Apoc. 18.24 in Apoc. 13. p. 37. 64 65. And such are those Images and Idols those Crosses and Crucifixes those Pictures and painted forms or Representations of our Saviour Christ of the Virgin Mary and of Saints deceased whom the Papists set up fall down before and worship The Kings of