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A95762	The judgement of the late Arch-bishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland. Of Babylon (Rev. 18. 4.) being the present See of Rome. (With a sermon of Bishop Bedels upon the same words.) Of laying on of hands (Heb. 6. 2.) to be an ordained ministery. Of the old form of words in ordination. Of a set form of prayer. / Published and enlarged by Nicholas Bernard D.D. and preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes-Inne, London. Unto which is added a character of Bishop Bedel, and an answer to Mr. Pierces fifth letter concerning the late primate.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642.; Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing U189; Thomason E1783_1; ESTC R209661	108,824	393

works retracts that which might seem to Cross this title about the Popes dividing the new world to the Portugals and Spaniards And tempers that which he had said that Christ himselfe whose Vicar the Pope is had no temporal Kingdome and lastly asserts more roundly contrary to his former opinion viz. That the Church may deprive infidels of their Dominion which they have over the Faithfull yea albeit they do not endeavour to turn away the Faithful from the Faith Howsoever she doth not alwayes so because she wanteth strength or doth not judge it expedient but questionlesse if those same Princes do goe about to turn away their people from the faith they may and ought to be deprived of their Dominions I shall not need to call to rememberance here what Faith or infidelity is at this day in the Roman Language when Paul the Fift teacheth the Catholickes that they cannot take the Oath of Fidelity salva fide Catholica with safety of the Catholick Faith which shewes that if the Pope may deprive infidels of their Dominions how much more such as are Christians being thereby more under the verge of his Authority concerning the Popes ruling over the Kings of the Earth this may suffice The Angel which in the begining of this Chapter proclaimeth the fall of Babylon saith that all Nations have drunke of the wine of the wrath of her Fornication and the Kings of the earth have committed Fornication with her In the Greek the Text is so but might as well for the force of the Words and better for the circumstances be rendred of the wine of the heat of her Fornication And so Chapter 14.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This seems to be a Declaration of the liquor contained in the golden Cup which she hath in her hand full of Abominations and unclean Fornications And in this Chapter Verse 23. See also Chapter 14.10 by thy Sorceries were all Nations deceived by all which is meant that with hot intoxicating love drenches she had besotted the Kings of the Earth to be enamored of her How to declare this of Heathen Rome I cannot well tell unless it were that by benefits favours and shew of honor Kings and Provinces were alured to bear the Romane yoak and conform themselves to Rome but for Papal Rome the matter is more easie for under the pretence of religious Holiness and Spiritual profit the blessing of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostle Saint Peter and Saint Paul Christs Vicar and Saint Peters successor the Keyes of Heaven fulness of Power And the Apostolical Sees Exemptions Dispensaons Pardons Faculties Indulgences Jubilees inlarging of souls out of Purgatory she hath brought all sorts to her love and lure Princes and great men finding how needful her favour is for dispensing with some disadvantagious Oaths or incestuous marriages or a soldering some crackt title to some signory have been in Emulation and jealousie one with another about her love and contented their subjects should flatter her and be seduced by her so as at length she hath brought them to believe at least to make profession that they believe She cannot deceive them though she would never so fain Volens Nolens errare non potest If this cup of Inchantment were not were it likely were it possible that she should perswade Christians to be content not to hear Christs Voice speaking in his Word not to receive the Holy Sacrament of his body and blood whole and intire though he so gave it and the Church for many Ages so kept it Not to pray with understanding in a known tongue not to take the ten Commandements as God pronounced and wrote them twice with his owne finger but as she hath rased and deformed them Not to say Amen to the Lords Prayer in the company with other Christians because she would not allow it were it not for this cup of Errour could she have ever perswaded that she can dissolve the bonds of fealty betwixt Subject and Prince depose and denounce Kings and warrant their Subjects to kill them and had she not first with this cup of Sorcery transformed men into beasts could she have found any that would have adventured to execute these her ungodly and wicked designs Here by the way let me tell you of an old Babylonian trick by which especially the Westerne Babylon hath conveyed this cup of Errour into the hands of all Nations We read in the first of Daniel that Nebuchadnezzar commanded the Master of his Eunuches That he should bring certain of the Kings seed and of the Princes Children in whom was no blemish and of able witts to teach them the Learning and Tongue of the Chaldeans Thus were Daniel and his fellowes used and had other name● and education given them that they might forget their own though Gods special Grace in them went beyond the pollicy of Babylon Such and worse hath been and is the practice of new Babylon in drawing younger Brothers of great houses and good wits to Rome and Romish Colledges and Seminaries some of their names changed makeing them their chiefe instruments of State to mould and frame their own Families and Countreyes to the Romane Doctrine and Obedience Those of the Council of the Samaritanes that resisted the building of the Temple render the reason of their careful advertising the King of his interest Ezra 4 viz. that because they were salted with the salt of the Palace it was not meet for them to see the Kings damage how should not they that have had their Education at the new Babylons Charges but in gratitude further her affaires and draw all they may to her Obedience and Devotion And thus much concerning Babylons Cup. It followeth after in process of our Lords speech upbraiding her that she glorifies her selfe and lives in wantonness and pride and saith I sit as a Queen and shall not be a widow nor see any sorrow c. It would require a long time to recite the Prov●rbs and by words only which have been cast up and down concerning the wantonness and uncleanness of Rome since she came to be the seat of the Popes Court and how she hath drawn to her self and spent the wealth of all Nations in this matter I will spare rather your Ears and this place then my own pains for the Boast of sitting as a Queen consider her maximes viz. The Church of Rome is the Mistress and Teacher of all Churches without spot or wrinckle and it is necessarie to salvation to every humane Creature to be under the Bishop of Rome that no man may judge him nor say unto him Domine cur ita facias If any man have a desire to see the vaunts of Rome in this kind let him be pleased to view the image of the Man of sin exalting himself in the Temple of God as it is drawn by Master Fox in the end of the former Tome of his Acts and Monuments Ecclesiastical out of the Popes own Decrees and

be a certain great City called Babylon in a Mysterie Proof THis we finde directly laid down in the Revelation that a a Apoc. 17. v. 18. 18 v. 2. 21. great Citie called b Apoc. 17.5 in a mystery Babylon should become the mother of the spiritual whoredome and abominations of the earth so that the c Apoc. 17 2. 18. v. 3. Kings of the earth should commit fornication with her and the Inhabitants of the earth should be made drunke with the wine of her fornication The second Position THat by this great City Babylon the Mother of all the abominations of the earth is understood Rome Proof 1. BY the clear Testimony of Scripture in the seventeen Chapter of the Revelation where this City is described unto us First by the situation that it is seated upon seven Hills v. 9.18 and then by the largeness of the Dominion thereof That it is that great Citie that ruleth over the Kings of the earth v. 18. Now that by these two marks Rome was most notoriously known in the Apostles dayes may appear even by the Romane Poets who describe Rome just after the same manner as d Horat. in Car. seculari Dii quibus septem placuere colles Ovid Sed quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem Montibus imperii Roma Deumque locus Trist lib. 1. Eleg. 4. Lib. 3. Eleg 10. Rome the place of the Empire and of the Gods which from seven hills doth take a view of the whole world And more shortly Propertius Septem urbs alta jugis toti quae prafidet Orbi The City mounted on seven hils which ruleth the whole world No man reading Propertius ever made question but that Rome was here described and therefore no reason why any doubt should be made what that great Citie may be which with the same colours is painted out unto us in the book of the Revelation 2. By the judgement of the anancient Fathers affirming expresly that Rome is meant by Babylon in the seventeenth Chapter of the Revelation as the Rhemists themselves doe voluntarily confess in their last note upon the first Epistle of Peter 3. By the Confession of those who are most Devoted to the See of Rome as to name one for many e De Rom. Pontif. lib. 2. cap. 2. Bellarmine the Cardinal Jesuite whose words are these John in the Revelation every where calleth Rome Babylon as Tertullian hath noted in his third Book against Marcion and in his Book against the Jewes and it is plainly gathered out of the seventeenth Chapter of the Revelation Where great Babylon is said to sit upon seven Mountains and to have Dominion over the Kings of the earth For there is no other City which in the time of John had Dominion over the Kings of the Earth but Rome and the building of Rome upon 7. hills is a matter most famous Hitherto Bellarmine The third Position THat old Rome onely under the Heathen persecutors from the time of the first Emperour till Constantines dayes was not Babylon as the Proctors of the Church of Rome would perswade us but Rome in her last dayes being free from the Government both of Heathen and Christian Emperours And that Rome was to be that Babylon which should draw the Kings and Nations of the world unto Superstition and Idolatrie from such time as it ceased to be subject to the civil Prince and became the Possession of the Pope until the last destruction thereof which is yet to come Proof 1. THe matter of Babylon is revealed unto Saint John as a mysterie Apoc 17.6 But the persecution of the Church by the Heathen Emperour was far from being a mysterie For it being openly committed Apoc. 1.9 Saint Iohn himself at the same time being a companion with the rest of the Saints in this tribulation banished for the Word of God and for the witnessing of Iesus Christ into the Iland Pathmos this could not be shewed as a secret and mystical thing And therefore some further matter not then openly known to the world must here be intended 2. The state of Babylon after her fall is thus declared Apoc. 18.2 It is fallen it is fallen Babylon the great Citie is become the habitation of Devils the hold of all foul spirits and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird for all Nations have drunken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and the Kings of the Earth have committed fornication with her c. If Heathen Rome onely were Babylon it would follow that upon the fall thereof in the dayes of Constantine the Emperour Rome professing the Faith of Christ should then become the habitation of Devils and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird Which being a most grosse and absurd imagination it must needs be granted that afte● 〈◊〉 ●ayes of the Christian Emperou● the faithful Citie should become a harlot even Rome whose Faith was once renowned throughout Romans 1.8 all the world should become Babylon the mother of whoredomes and abominations of the Earth Apoc. 17.5 3. Such a Desolation is foretold should come upon the great City Babylon which in the second position is proved to be Rome that it should utterly be destroyed and never built again nor reinhabited Apoc. 18. v. 21 22 23. Now at that very time when this judgement shall come it is said that the Kings of the Earth which have committed fornication with her shall bewail her and lament her Rev. 18. verse 9. whereby it is most evident that Rome is not to cease from being Babylon till her last destruction shall come upon her and that unto her last gaspe she is to continue her spiritual fornications alluring all Nations unto her superstition and idolatrie 4. Saint Paul 2 Thessalonians 2.7 Declareth that there was One in his time who did hinder the revealing of that wicked man who was to be the head of this Apostacie and falling away from the Faith And when that he should be taken out of the way then saith the Apostle Verse 8. Shall that wicked man be revealed He that with-held and made this hinderance in the Apostles time could be no other but the Emperour in whose hands as long as the possession and governement of Rome remained it was impossible that that wicked One of whom the Apostle speaketh should raigne there So that upon his removal that man of sinne must succeede in his roome whereupon that great Citie wherein he placeth his Throne falleth to be that Babylon Revel 18.23 which should deceive all Nations with her inchantments Now all the world can witnesse that the Emperour who sometime was the Soveraigne Lord of Rome is now quite turned out of the Possession thereof and the Pope entered thereupon in his stead Whereupon it followeth that the Pope for all his Holiness is that wicked one of whom the Apostle Prophesied 2 Thess 2.4 that he should sit in the temple of God exalting himself above