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nation_n	drink_v	earth_n	fornication_n	1,692	5	11.2341	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43562	Three sermons preached at the Collegiate Church in Manchester by Richard Heyricke.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1641 (1641)	Wing H1751; ESTC R27425	61,652	202

waters with whom the Kings of the earth have committed fornication the Inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication so hee carryed me away in the spirit into the wildernesse And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast full of names of Blasphemy having seaven heads and ten hornes and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearles having a golden cup in her handfull of Abominations and filthinesse of her fornication and upon her forehead was a name written Mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and the abominations of the Earth and I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus and when I saw her I wondred with great admiration That by the great whore that by Babylon here spoken of Rome is understood the Romanists themselves doe freely confesse the Rhemists doe not peremptorily but faintly deny it they distinguish indeed of Babylon in Rome and the Church in Rome they tell us Saint Ambrose Tertullian Ierome these confesse it I could adde some more ancient Bellarmine freely acknowledgeth it Indeed they say Saint Iohn speaketh of Rome Ethnick not of Rome Christian Rome under the persecuting Emperour not of Rome under the Christian Pope It is enough they confesse that Babylon is Rome and Rome the seate of Antichrist and we all know Saint Iohn writes a Prophecy not a History Hee tell us what should bee not what then was and if Saint Iohn spake of Rome it must necessarily follow that he spake of Rome as now it is not of Rome as then it was of Rome Christian not Rome Ethnicke of Rome under the Pope not under the Emperor Thus you see Rome is compared to a Whore to a great whore that sits upon many waters rules many nations who made the Kings of the earth drunke with the wine of her fornication that is clothed in Scarlet Purple Gold Silver precious stones and the like and now mark how easie a thing it is to bee seduced inticed bewitched by the Church of Rome what an alluring enticing tempting Religion it is you see it is compared to a Whore to a great Whore to the chiefest of whores to the mother of Harlots she hath in her hand a Violl of Gould full of abominations You that are not acquainted with the Arts and Crafts and subtilties of Whores read what Salomon saith who was the wisest of men yet shamefully befooled by them A thousand women took hold of him and of them all he professed he found not one good hee spake much of them because hee was much abused by them and knew much by them as in other places so in the seaventh of the Proverbs The Whore there spoken of makes Religion her pretext uses much art flattery and impudency This great Whore that bewitcheth the soules of men she pretends Religion Saint Iohn saith She had in her hand a golden Cup though in that Cup was abundance of abomination yet the Cup was of Gold There are in the Church of Rome many singular excellent and admirable truths and things which as a golden cup she holds forth She hath the Scripture the Sacraments the Articles of the Creed the Lords Prayer the Tenne Commandements many excellent things whatsoever the Church of Rome holds with the Church of England is pure silver and pure gold All that she adores besides is at the best hay and stubble yea much poyson and abominations Saint Paul saith verse the fourth the man of sin sits in the Temple of God not in that materiall Temple which was at Ierusalem a fond conceit of some of the Ancients The Papists themselves how willing soever they are to embrace any thing that may take it from Rome yet they themselves refuse it that Temple Daniel saith shall never be restored Christ saith not one stone shall be left upon another and History reports that when they went about to build that Temple again GOD from heaven by fire destroyed it But in the Temple of God that 's the man of sin that sits in the Church of God the most eminent of all the Churches of God where God had a great people and whence God gathered his people Antichrist though he be an Adversary and the adversary Saint Paul speaks of the greatest adversary that ever the Church had yet notwithstanding is no open profest adversary as the Turke and Iew but a secret close mysterious adversary that sits in the Temple of God In that Temple see what bewty and glory to dazle the eye and to charme the mind of the beholder This great Whore is not only arrayed in gold and silver Scarlet Purple and precious stones as a woman may be and therefore is called a woman also but hath the attire of an Harlot wanton lascivious attire a superstitious and Idolatrous dresse look into their Churches and see not only the bewty and glory of them as a woman may have but a superstitious Idolatrous dresse as their Images Crucifixes Altars Crosses and burning Tapers all set forth lively to sight Looke into their service and see what Pompe and glory and outward state What rich Robes what Mucsicke what singing what sweet and burning Incense and the like The Temple in Ierusalem was not more glorious in outward Pompe more gloriously arrayed there were not more sacrifices and ceremonies then there are in the Church of Rome at this day It was necessary to bee so at Ierusalem God would have it so the people were a carnall people meere children in understanding God led them as a Nurse by the hand pleased them with carnall objects with glorious buildings with multitude of significant Ceremonies with terrene and earthly delights God did it to this end that hee might wooe and invite them to his service The Church was then in its Infancy but now the Church is growne neere unto perfection in it 's last age therefore they are not now necessary Gods people how are a spirituall people The Church of Rome useth now what Ierusalem did then what then God commanded now hee forbids what then hee blessed now hee curses To draw them to superstition and Idolatry both which are ever beutifull and specious full of pomp and ceremony Secondly in the Papacy there is nothing hard nor difficult nothing which a meere Carnall man which a voluptuous person a very Epicure and Libertine cannot easily digest All the Religion of the Church of Rome is like the Religion of the Scribes and Pharisees the true fathers of them a very outward Religion an empty Casket a dead and naked Carkas what is Popery but a painted outside Their Church prayers they doe not understand their private prayers they measure by weight their Repentance and confession it is in some small pennance their faith is the faith of the Church they live not by their owne faith Their Obedience is to the Pope not