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A Christian warning-piece for all true Protestants by way of Christian counsel and advice to the King's most excellent Majesty, and all his good Protestant subjects, founded forth out of the written word of God : wherein is clearly shewed ... / by Thomas Wall.
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to ‖ 2 Cor. 6. 17. Isa 52. 11. Rev. 18. 4. touch none of their unclean things as God's Word commanded but sat down under a part of the Romish Ministry and Service with many other Devices For it was neither Christ nor his Apostles that appointed Priests Apparel as long Gowns Tippits four horned Caps but as * See Hen. Ainsw Counterpoyson pag. 234 235. proved out of sundry Authors Writers say did Pope Zachary nor white Linnen Surplices to wear at Service-time as did Pope Silvester nor ringing of Bells to call the People to hear Service as did Pope Sabiniam and to make up the Musick Pope Vitalian brought in the Organs and if these or other Popes had brought in to the Worship under the Gospel the 120 Trumpets †2 Chron. 5. 12. and other Instruments of Musick used in the Ceremonial Worship under the Law as well as Priests Garments would it not have bin as lawful to have used them Yea but Protestants should not be unmindful how that Christ by his Death abolished all the Ceremonial Figurative Ordinances ‖ Ephes 2. 15. out of his Worship as also the Instruments of Musick and hath made or appointed * Rev. 21. 5. all things new in Worship a new Ministry new Ordinances new Maintenance new time and order for Gospel-Worship So was Christ faithful in his own House or Church as a Son †Heb. 3. 5 6. as was Moses being but a Servant So that whosoever professeth to bear the Name of a Protestant or true Christian may remember what is written to them A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethren like unto me him shall ye hear ‖ Acts 3. 22 23. in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you And every Soul that will not hear that Prophet to wit Christ Jesus shall be destroyed from among the People And to conclude with these Protestants under the performance in Worship of so many Popish Devices let us hear what some of the Martyrs have sealed with their Bloods whose Tombs they garnish with their approving their Sufferings as true Martyrs of Jesus John Wickliff * Acts and Monum Edit 5. pag. 114. saith That the Arch-Bishops Bishops Deacons Dians be the Disciples of Antichrist William Swenderby †Ibid. pag. 431. saith That the Pope Cardinals Bishops Prelates making Laws contrary to Christ's Living and his Laws or any other ground put in Ruling the Church of Christ but by Christ and his Laws is very Antichrist Adversaries to Christ and his Apostles Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham saith ‖ Ibid. pag. 518. The Priests Prelates and Monks are the very Body of the great Antichrist and that the Possessions and Lordships of the Clergie are the Venom of Judas shed into the Church John Claidon burnt in Smithfield * Ibid. pag. 588. professed That the Arch-Bishops Lord-Bishops Arch-Deacons Deans Parsons Vicars and the rest of that sort are the Disciples of Antichrist the very Antichrist themselves Now though these Men be dead yet with Abel they †Heb. 11. 4. speak and their Blood with all the Martyrs that have Suffered for the Testimony of Jesus crieth for * Luke 18. 7 8. Rev. 6. 9 10. Vengeance against all that uphold that Popish Prelacy Therefore as one chief Reason among others that Jerusalem was destroyed was for the Sins of her Prophets and Iniquities of her †Lam. 4. 13. Priests that have shed the Blood of the Just in the midst of her Therefore O England by this be warned who they are that hasten thy Destruction Now we have seen what a lame Reformation was here made by many thousand Protestants when they came out of Spiritual Egypt for so the Romish Church is called Rev. 11. 8. having utterly forgot or else for fear regarded not the Word of the Lord to God's People of Old when they came out of Temporal Egypt After the doings †Lev. 18. 2 3. with Deut. 12. 30 31 32. of the Land of Egypt shall ye not do as is foreshewed and written for our ‖ Rom. 15. 4. Learning So that instead of being fully separated to touch no unclean thing yet a part of the Romish Egyptian Ministry of Lordly Prelates was imbraced and the Service aforesaid by Law of oversight established so that there was another false Ecclesiastical State neither Spiritual nor Civil set up to the great dishonour of Christ's Spiritual State and the Civil State or Government in the Nation And hereupon saith John I beheld another Beast * Rev. 13. 11. coming out of the Earth therefore not from Heaven having two Horns like a Lamb as if he were the only Vican of Christ as the Pope pretends on Earth And who more than they against the Pope until as aforesaid the Civil Power had established them by Law And thereby Life was given to the very Image of the Pope the first Beast who because they were so near a-kin as a Child is to the Father begotten after his own Image or likeness which was not only so in its like false Ecclesiastical State but also in Mind and Quality and therefore this second Beast is said by the Spirit of God not only to speak like a Dragon but to * Rev. 12. exercise all the power of the first Beast before him causing the Earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first Beast by retaining a Ministry and Service and other things in Worship of his devising very little refined but still of the same nature So that no Man might Buy nor Sell save those that had the Mark of the Beast in their Fore-head or Hands that is yield professed Obedience to his Commands in Worship to God by Law established whether they had Faith or no. Now the Lord in his Mercy towards this Nation that was scarce come half out of Babylon sent others of his Servants under the name of another †Rev. 14. 8. Angel declaring to all Protestants both Prince and People that Babylon is fallen and for more certainty again saying It is fallen That so they might come fully out from all her devices in Worship and so might no longer ‖ Rev. 18. 4. partake of her Sins lest they receive of her Plagues But so soon as this false Ecclesiastical State or * Rev. 13. second Beast perceiving with †Acts 19. 27. Demetrius that if Christ's true Ministry and Government as it was in the Primitive Days of ‖ Ephes 4. 11. Pastors Teachers Elders and Deacons were imbraced their gain of Shrine-making or keeping People in Ignorance what the true Ministry Government and holy Order of Christ's Kingdom of Worship is would be lost and their Princely Revenues by the King as their Elder Brethren Lord-Abbots Cardinals c. by former Kings be converted to Charitable Uses and they if they had any Grace must by laborious Preaching live of the free * 1 Cor. 9. 7
all degrees saw how they had been deceived but also Kings by the Light of the Gospel saw how their Senses were stupified and made Drunk with the Wine of the Whores Fornication so that not only in other Nations but in this Nation also the Kings who had long given their Power to the Beast until the Words of God should be fulfilled Rev. 18. 17. began to hate the Romish Whore and the Beast that carried her so that a part of the Beast's power out of this Land was destroyed when the Cardinals Jesuits and others aforenamed were Abolished By which means the power of the Beast was abated and more of the Lord's Servants came boldly forth * Rev. 7. 14. out of great Tribulations all signified by an Angel flying through the midst of Heaven to Preach the Everlasting †Rev. 14. 6. Gospel unto them that dwell on the Earth So that by this time the Temple of God was opened in Heaven ‖ Rev. 11. 19. and the Ark of the Testament meaning God's Law clearly seen in the truth thereof as was signified by the Lightnings and Voices and Thunderings which wrought such an Earthquake among the Antichristian Professors that the tenth * Rev. 11. 13. part of the City fell meaning the great City the Romish Church that Reigned over the Kings of the Earth to the number of God's Elect in Israel 7000 of which number of Faithful Elect Precious Living Stones were many famous Churches established in England Scotland France Germany Holland and other parts to the great joy of Christendom And thus according to the Mystery signified to Zechariah by a Man with a †Zach. 2. 1 2. Ezek. 40. 2 3 5. Measuring-Line in his Hand signifying that Jerusalem should be built the second Temple in it and God's true Worship restored as was done in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah Even so according to the Figure was it shewed to * Rev. 11. 1. John by a Reed given him to measure the Temple of God the Altar and Worshippers that God's Temple of living Stones and holy Truth and Order of Worship should be restored by a Call of the Lord's People out of the Spiritual Babylon in these latter Days as aforesaid So that as Judah their Figure must separate themselves from all the †Ezra 6. 21. filthiness of the old Babylonians in Worship in so much that they admitted no Man to the work of the Priesthood but such as could prove their * Neh. 7. 64. Chronology according to God's Law neither suffer any Priest that had fallen down before an Idol never †Ezek. 44. 12 13. more to Administer in the Priests Office because they were Figures of Christ our High Priest in his Office Even so the forenamed Christian Protestants by the number 7000 would not take a Stone of Babylon for a Corner * Jer. 5. 26. or for a Foundation that is any one to be their Minister by virtue of Romes Ordination because the Ministers under the Gospel that enter not into their Ministry by the Door of Christ's Ordination as afore shewed are accounted by Christ but Thieves and Robbers So that as Virgins not defiled with Women or the devices of false Churches Rev. 14. 1 4. Heb 12. 22 ought all those to be that follow the Lamb Christ Jesus on Mount Sion no more bearing the Beast's * Rev. 13. mark in serving God by Mens devices but the †Isa 42. 4. Mat. 12. 21. Name or Law of Christ in their Fore-heads serving the Lord in Worship by the Appointment of the Lord Jesus only As it is written This is my beloved Son hear him Luke 9. 35. Moreover dear Protestants note that in the Earthquake aforesaid there were besides the 7000 aforesaid a Remnant * Rev. 11. 13. who seeing and hearing the powerful Doctrine of true Faith in Christ Temperance and Judgment to come like Felix ‖ Act. 24 25 trembled or as the Scripture saith were affrighted to see the great Power of God in the work of Conversion Of 7000 with Caleb and †Num. 14. Joshuah following the Lord fully gave Glory to the God of Heaven as some in Acts 5. 13. but durst not joyn themselves with them yet by the small glimps of the Light they saw they began to take their Journey towards Sion after the fore-named Christians But in the Wilderness †Rev. 12. 14. Ezek. 20. 35. Gal. 1. 16. of this World meeting with some Crosses and Troubles in the Flesh for Christ's sake began to reason with Flesh and Blood like some Israelites whether God were able to furnish a Table in the ‖ Numb 11. 4. Wilderness So these having received the Seed of God's Word on a Rock had no root * Luke 8. 13. that is having no more Love to Christ than to any Worldly Joy or Pleasure in time of Temptation fell away So that they would go no farther than the King and the most went in that Day not willing to suffer any more for Christ's sake were content to go so far as to have the Pope's Supremacy Lord Abbots Cardinals Jesuits Monks and Friars expelled the Land but staid there and sat down in the mid-way between Sion and †Rev. 18. 4 Babylon or * Rev. 11. 8 Egypt under a part of the Romish Ministry and Service-Book some of the grossest things being wiped out And this was the state of many Protestant Congregations as may be seen at this day as is also confirmed by Mr. Fox in the Acts and Monuments of those Times some of which Report is as followeth Acts and Monuments Edit 5. pag. 1180 1181 1184. The Priests and Clergy that yielded to the King's Laws were suffered to keep their Places and Livings After this the King appointed the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury with other Bishops to make one convenient and meek Order Rite and fashion of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments who did so Then in the next Parliament following it was agreed that all Ministers in the Realm should be bound to say and use the Mattines Even-Song Celebration of the Lord's Supper in such Order and Form as was contained in the said Book and not otherwise Now because some small Alteration was made Complaint was made how * Ibid. 1186. by the cloaked Contempt and wilful Winking and stubborn disobedience of the Bishops and old Popish Curates the Book of Common-Prayer was long after the publishing of the same either not known at all or else very irreverently used through many places of the Realm Yet was there no great cause why the People should so despise it for as the King answered the Rebels in Devonsh †Ibid. 1189. If the Service was good in Latin it remained good in English for nothing was altered but to speak with Knowledg that which was spoken in Ignorance And thus we see that these Protestants did not separate themselves fully in coming out of Babylon so as