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A43788	The grand apostacy of the church of Rome, from her primitive purity and integrity with a vindication of the Church of England, in her separation from her, and the hazard of salvation in communion with her : discoursed in a sermon preached at St. Mary le Bow, London on Sunday the 28th of December, 1679 / by John Hill.	Hill, John, d. 1709.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1996; ESTC R12819	28,385	79

Sun when she appears in her Meridian glory If you do but cast your eye on the former Chapter you will finde enough and I shall need no more to prove it Then 1. The Woman that is the Whore of Babylon is said to be a City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth and this was onely the Roman Monarchy at that time there being no other City in the world but this that had such a Jurisdiction And so it is expounded not onely by some Greek Authors but by most Latine Writers as Iraeneus Tertullian St. Ambrose St. Jerome St. Augustine and others Prosper also a Latine Writer saith Who cannot understand what City it is that carrieth a cup full of Abominations of Vncleanness and fornication of the whole Earth when that is called Eternal which is but Temporal Verily it is a name of Blasphemy when mortal men are called Divi Gods and their Suppliants say unto them To your divine Power to your Altars and to your Eternity This the Learned know to be the City of Rome which was called Vrbs AEterna and wherein the Emperours were called Gods and the People flattered them with Altars and Titles of divine Power and Eternity as now they do their Popes with the like Antichristian terms of The most Holy and Your Holiness Who have also as blasphemous tokens of Divinity as any of the heathen Emperours had in their Triple-Crowns riding on mens shoulders their being attended on by Kings and Emperours their Thrones in Churches higher than Altars and such-like magnificent Pomps of Heathenish and Antichristian pride Ambrosius Ansbertus a Latine Writer also 850 years since calls Rome the second Babylon who sitting aloft on her seven Hills rules the Scepter of the whole world and in the name of that City is figured the power of the whole earthly Dominions Hence II. In the seventh verse she is said to sit on a beast having seven heads and ten horns which seven heads be seven hills whereon the woman sitteth Now 't is well known not onely to learned Christians but to Heathens themselves that Rome alone is a City builton seven hills This is thought to be a very silly Argument by that Renegado Sanders and others by the seven hills to prove the See of Antichrist to be at Rome because the City is now gone from the Hills and standeth in the Plain of Campus Martius and the Pope sitteth on the other side of the River To which it is well answered That though the greatest part of the City be not now on the seven Hills and his Unholiness his Palace of Pleasure be on the other side the River yet on these hills stand Churches Abbeys and Monasteries where the Papal Authority is put in execution and there is never an one of those hills whereon the present Religion of Rome is not practised Being galled with this they make two Romes Rome Pagan and Rome Christian The Whore spoken of is they say Heathenish Rome which was ruled by those Monsters of mankind Nero Domitian Calignla c. who writ their Laws and rouled their Garments in the bloud of Christians but the Christian Rome is not here meant Whereas 't is obvious to every one that hath but common rational notions alive within him whose Conscience is not quite vitiated and Minde putrified with noisome Lusts but must see that the present Rome in respect of State Princely Dominion and Cruelty in persecuting the Saints of God is all one with the Heathenish Empire the See of the Bishop being turned into the Court of the Emperour and Shambles of the Butcher To avoid this they farther say That Babylon is drunk with the bloud of the Saints and Martyrs shed not in Rome but in Jerusalem where the Lord was crucified and the two Prophets being slain lie there in the streets This is excellently answered by St. Hierome who saith That it is not meant of Jerusalem but of Rome and Christ is said to be crucified there either 1. Because the Authority whereby he was crucified was from the Roman Empire or 2. Because Christ in his Members was and is dayly there crucified though locally in his own person he was crucified at Jerusalem But besides the Authority of Scripture in this case it were easie to adde in the third place 3. The favour and defence which this Exposition hath received from a multitude of Antient and Modern learned men Hence St. Bernard saith That the Beast spoken of in the Apocalypse to which a mouth is given to speak blasphemies and to make war with the Saints is now gotten into St. Peter's Chair as a Lion prepared for his Prey And in another place speaking of the Romish Priesthood They are called saith he the Ministers of Christ yet serve Antichrist And Petrarch saith Once Rome but now Babylon And Joachim Abbas Antichrist was long since born in Rome and now strives every moment to get higher and higher 4. And lastly I answer That it was such a Babylon that for a while Gods people were lawfully in her but when her Corruptions did increase they were commanded to depart which cannot be affirmed of Rome Pagan but of Rome Papal and therefore Come out of her my people This brings me to the second thing viz. the great defection this Church hath made from her Primitive Purity and Integrity The Spouse is now become an Harlot and the chast Virgin a Mother of Fornications her Apostacy is now as infamous as ever her Faith was glorious Some things she is confessed to hold right as a true God in three Persons true Scripture though with additions a true Christ though mangled with foul and erroneous consequences true Baptism though shamefully deformed with rotten Traditions and if you compare Rome Christian with Rome Roman you will see her defection in these five grand instances thereof 1. In the unlimited Jurisdiction of the Triple-Crown The Councils of Basil and Constance decreed that a general Council was of greater Authority than the Pope and that he ought to be subject to it The Council of Nice appointed him his bounds and limits and the Council of Chalcedon made the Bishop of Constantinople equal with him in Authority and Jurisdiction And Gregory himself who sate in the Papal Chair writes That whoever stiles himself Universal Bishop or desires to be called so is the forerunner of Antichrist and many learned Papists believed this to be true But since that time the case is much altered for the Councils of Lateran and Trent have determined the contrary insomuch that he whose Primitive stile was Servant of servants doth now exalt himself above all that is called God The beginning of this Supremacy over other Bishops was in Boniface the third's time who with great ado obtained of Phocas a fit Master to prefer such a Servant to be made Oecumenical Bishop Which Authority his Successors have enlarged and now his Janizaries the Jesuits tell us he is that Statue in Daniel which shall