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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

She hath reigned over the Kings of the Earth and they have committed fornication with her but God will put it into their hearts at last to hate the Whore and make her desolate and good cause when there is no fidelity to be found in her except they be absolute slaves to her to do what she will have them to do Object Thus this 3d. Verse together with the Angel's interpretation of it doth so fully point at Rome that seven-headed or seven-hilled City that the Popish Writers have confessed it to be Rome only they frame this evasion which stands need to be answered before I pass from it viz. That this great Whore is not Rome present but Heathen Rome that is Rome under the Government of the persecuting Emperors who were before Constantine the Great who in their time persecuted the Christians and shed much blood Which thing say they put John to great admiration as is exprest ver 6. And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondred with great admiration This they say was to see so much Christian blood shed by the persecuting Emperors Answ But I pray you what great admiration or new admiration could that put John to to see open Enemies of Christians drunk with their blood Or what new thing was this to John who was a companion in tribulation with those that suffered persecution in those times which he had seen before he writ this Book of the Reuelations This could not procure such new admiration to make him wonder so much but the ground of so great admiration lay here To see a people in vision to rise up under that Name that was then persecuted and under a great profession of Christianity to have them represented to him to be drunk with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus while they so highly professed Jesus here was ground indeed of astonishment to John But it 's a weak and silly thing to turn this off from Rome present to Rome heathen under the persecuting Emperors as some of no small Note do whom at present I forbear to name Suppose any of us had lived in the days of John and had seen such persecutions as he had seen and had been a companion in the same tribulation under open professed Enemies would this be such a matter of wonder to us to have it represented to us over again in vision No the frequency of a thing takes away the wondring at it especially with so great admiration But to see a new thing so strange a thing so contrary to the nature of the thing In plainer words to see Christians drunk with the blood of Christians to see so high professing Christians who would honour almost every thing that appertained to Christ honour his Mother honour his Apostles honour his very Sepulchre and the very Cross upon which he was crucified yea the very images of a Cross for his sake if I may not say adore them A people that should keep days in memorial of the Birth of the Suffering of the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ keep days in memorial of his holy Apostles and sing forth their praises in their solemn Assemblies and publick Worships and magnifie themselves as the only Church of Christ and count all others who joyn not with them in these things to be Hereticks To have such a people represented as drunk with the blood of Christians drunken with the blood of Saints and of the Martyrs of Jesus a thing so contrary to what they bear a profession of here was matter of wonder indeed to cause John to wonder with great admiration as is expressed ver 6. And this now aptly agrees with the title of the great Whore which title the persecuting Emperors did not so fitly bear seeing they never owned Christ as their Head and Husband nor themselves to be his Spouse But Rome that now is doth challenge this near relation to him and yet doth these things against those that profess him as well as her self Thus you see how fully the Spirit of the Lord doth discover the state of degenerate Rome by what hath already been signified to us And I might here pass on to other Principles but because they are so highly exalted in this conceit and it is so rooted a Principle among them that they are the only true Church of Christ I shall desire the Reader 's patience to view also what further discovery is left us upon record in the two next following Verses of this 17th Chap. viz. in ver 4. and 5. Ver. 4. And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls that is with all the glory of this World with which bait the Devil would have catched Christ himself but could not But the Church of Rome hath swallowed down the bait and for the glory of this World hath stooped to his terms to bow down to him and let in his Spirit who was a lyar and murtherer from the beginning and so she hath her reward the pomp and glory of this World And she holds forth also a golden cup to the Nations to make them drink of the same cup of fornication with her as it follows in this Verse Having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication This aptly sets forth the Worship of the great Whore and the wine wherewith she makes the Nations drunk This wine is the wine of her fornication and it 's in her Cup which Cup is in her hand and beautiful to look at being golden or guilded with gold She carries the Cup of her worship in her hand it 's external or outward for a shew not internal and in the spirit it lyes in that which her own hand hath formed and carved out to her self according to her own devices And it is always ready being composed and bundled up for any one in Orders even the vilest and wickedest person among them to carry in his hand and offer up And it hath a fine golden outside to look upon to please the eye her worship is sumptuous and glorious enough outwardly to the eye and she hath also guilded it with all the daintiest expressions that she could pick out of the Scriptures to please the ear and composed Songs and Anthems and Hymns and prepared Organs and musical Instruments and Quires of Singers to accompany them to elevate the minds of people as if they were wrapt up in a heavenly melody for a while But look within the Cup and what 's there There 's Fornication Superstition Will-worship Idolatry falling down before Images and Pictures and Crucifixes worshipping of Saints and Angels which God never commanded nor they ever suffered men to do to them but forbad them They come not behind Nebuchadnezzar in their worship when he caused all to fall down and worship the Image which