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A03335	Mystical babylon, or Papall Rome A treatise vpon those words, Apocal. 18.2. It is fallen, it is fallen Babylon, &c. In which the wicked, and miserable condition of Rome, as shee now is in her present Babylonian estate, and as she shall be in her future ineuitable ruine, is fully discouered: and sundry controuersiall points of religion, betwixt the Protestants, and the Papists, are briefly discussed. By Theophilus Higgons, rector of the parochiall Church of Hunton, neere Maidstone in Kent.	Higgons, Theophilus, 1578?-1659.	1624 (1624)	STC 13455; ESTC S118140	129,351	289

respect and seruice vnto the Emperours till the subiect became the Souereigne of his Prince and a spirituall Pastour was changed into a temporall Monarch Likewise for the Church of God the same Saint Peter doth thus instruct all Pastours To feed the flocke of God c. which is an Office now too base for so great a Monarch and then not to comport themselues as if they were Lords ouer the heritage of God as it is 1. Pet. 5.2 3. For what is more contrarie to an Apostolicall spirit then pride exaltation aduancement of themselues with the contempt of others For which cause the Bishops of Britaine vpon the aduise of an holy person in those times reiected Augustine the Monke whom Gregory the Great sent into England and refused to treate with him when they discouered the pride and insolencie which appeared in his demeanure as venerable Beda himselfe though very fauourable to the proceedings of Augustine doth recount in the Historie of our English Church Now let vs obserue the Apostolicall stomacke for what is not Apostolicall in that seat a glorious name to insnare poore seduced soules of the holy Father in Babylon and whether such courses examples rules and ordinances of monstrous Pride were euer knowne or doe remaine vpon the Records of Antiquitie euen from the beginning of the World vnto this present day in any other Monarchie Kingdome or State of whatsoeuer qualitie or degree This Luciferian pride the fittest Epithete for the Papall you must goe into Hell and leaue the Earth if you will finde the like doth appeare in fiue particular instances as being sensible demonstrations of the same FIRST the pride of the holy Father appeareth in the particular facts of certaine Popes vpon the presumed Souereigntie of their Apostolicall seate He was a Pope that crowned and decrowned Henrie the Sixth the Germane Emperour with his foot shewing thereby that as the Imperiall Crowne was vnder the Papall and subiect vnto his Dominion euen vnder his foot so it is in the Popes great power vpon his holy pleasure to giue Kingdomes and to take away Kingdomes to erect Kings and to suppresse them againe as if they were the Tennis balls wherewith his Holinesse doth play He was a Pope who in disdaine of the Imperiall dignitie made Henrie the Fourth attend barelegged and barefoot with his Empresse and their sonne by way of penance in the Winter season at his Apostolicall gates Hee was a Pope that treading vpon the necke of Fredericke Barbarossa the Emperour with his Apostolicall foot insulted gloriously vpon the poore deiected Prince and profanely abused the sacred Scripture to his Apostolicall purpose Thou shalt walke vpon the Lyon and Aspe the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou tread vnder thy feet Psal 91.13 It is no maruell then that our King Henry the Second did humble himselfe so farre as to kisse the knee of his Legate whose foote to haue kissed is a matter of speciall grace according to the Constitutions of the Papall Church as you shall immediately perceiue for now wee insist onely vpon the matters of fact whereof I haue made a little remonstrance in a few examples referring you vnto the Histories which yeeld copious testimonies in this kind SECONDLY then this pride appeareth in their owne Ceremoniall Ordinances formally prescribing the courses of humilitie vnto Christian Princes in their attendance of the Apostolicall Father There the Emperour holdeth his bridle when the Pope rideth in Apostolicall pompe there Kings and Princes being marshalled according to the new Herauldry of Babylon march before him in their rankes Sometimes the Pope beeing aduanced vpon mens shoulders in a goodly Chaire of Apostolicall state the Emperour and Kings precede in their due order as so many Vshers of his Holinesse who throweth abroad his Apostolicall benedictions vpon the people with his sacred fingers This pride may yet seeme to be humilitie in comparison of his glorious exaltation in the Church of Saint Peter for vnder his name passeth all this exorbitancie where Monarchs humbling themselues vpon the ground meekly kisse his Apostolicall feet and then are afterwards admitted vnto so great a fauour as to kisse his cheeke All which was performed in the person of Charles the Eighth the French King vnto Alexander the Sixth as Guicciar dine relateth in his first Booke with humble seruice in so great a Prince deserueth the note of base deiection vnto the Triple-crowned Beast But thus the purpled Whore can either inchant with her cup or subdue with her Sword the greatest and most puissant Princes of the World Where is the exemplum dedi from Christ Iesus in this case The Vicar and the Master stand in Diametricall opposition almost in euery point as well as in this the Master kissed the feet of his poore Disciples but heere the Vicar requireth the greatest Monarchs vnto the kisses of his feet he proudly challengeth this submission from them and they basely performe it vnto him that so hee might appeare to bee what hee is euen Antichrist Lifting vp himselfe aboue all that is called God THIRDLY this pride appeareth by his vsurpation ouer the Crownes of Princes and that in different manner Sometimes by a particular interest as hee pretended in Scotland to diuert thence the militarie forces of King Edward the first Sometimes by donation or surrender as he pretended in England by the submission of King Iohn and therefore called his Sonne Henrie the Third by the ignoble stile of his Vassall and so by artificiall insinuations and colourable Titles he intrudeth vpon seuerall Dominions to make some speciall challenge thereunto If no such oblique and sinister course may serue his turne yet he hath two other wayes to come vnto his designed ends and that is either INDIRECTLY and as hee is Pastour of the Church to take Kingdomes from their owners for their offences and to collate them vpon other Princes as for example the Pope stirred vp Charles the Earle of Angeow against Manfredus the King of Sicilia the true Lord and possessour thereof by the gift of his Father Fredericus the Second and also the Pope stirred vp the said Charle against Cunradinus the Sonne of Conradus and Grand-child of the said Fredericus to depriue him of his life and to disseize him of his lawfull inheritance in the Kingdome of Naples both which Kingdomes he bountifully bestowed vpon the said Charles in like manner the Pope dealt with Iohn d' Albret King of Nauarre and with our late renowned Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory and glorious name though not with like euent or else DIRECTLY and as he is Lord of the World from whom all Princes haue their dependent power to bestow them at his pleasure as iust occasion shall mooue and good discretion shall direct his Holyship in this case which last opinion hath a daily growth in Babylon amongst the Parasites of the Court. For you must distinguish with Gerson betwixt Aula and Ecclesia the Court and the Church of Rome This Pride in the

be not intangled with her voice She cryeth Venite come vnto me the mother of the faithfull but Christ saith Exite goe out of her my people that you bee not partakers of her plague for she is the Mother of Fornications And so much of the second fall of Babylon which hath now prepared vs vnto the third THIRDLY then this word doth signifie such a ruine as is without recouery with extreame vastitie horrible miserie vnspeakable desolation which Babylon shall more sensibly feele then we can truly declare res superat fidem the matter exceedeth beliefe humane beliefe that standeth vpon reason but not Diuine which is grounded vpon reuelation as I shall haue speciall occasion to declare more fully in my ensuing Discourse Meanewhile to iustifie this last acception and sense of this Word according to the tenour of the holy Scriptures I produce vnto you certaine instances very agreeable to our purpose For if wee speake of the persons inhabiting in Babylon then Dauid writeth aptly of such falling Psal 36.12 They mine enemies are cast downe they are fallen in the words immediatly before and shall not be able to rise But if we speake of the place it selfe Iericho is an example in this case Iosh 6. The walls fell downe man and woman young and old with all the cattle were destroyed therein And to fill vp the measure of the calamitie thereof shee was to lie buried in the Tombe of her owne ruines and a curse laid by Ioshua vpon the man that should repaire and reedifie the same To conclude the pitifull but vnpitied vastation of this Babylonian Citie her dolefull fall to follow the prescript euidence of my Text is resembled in the iust affliction which fell vpon the Citizens and Citie of Sechem which Abimelech destroyed and sowed the place thereof with Salt Iudic. 9.45 Such shall bee if any patterne can exemplifie her case the fall the fatall end the wofull period of this great and glorious Citie It is finall for I reade of none after it it is singular for I reade of none such before it For to passe by the conflagration of Rome by the Gaules when she was yet in the time of her minoritie and youth and to come to the state of her declination in the time of Honorius the Emperour vpon the yeare of Christ 414. we find in the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Histories that Alarichus King of the Gothes tooke the Citie of Rome rather by Famine then by the Sword as Saint Hierome doth relate burned some part thereof slue the Citizens despoyled them of an infinite abundance of riches but as I noted before gaue them their liues that could take Sanctuarie in the great and magnificent Church of Saint Peter After his decease which happened within a short time after this expilation of Rome his kinsman Ataulphus returned vnto Rome with a mightie power resoluing to put all the Citizens to the sword to raze the Citie vnto the very foundations to erect another in some commodious place and to impose the name of Gothia vpon it from which resolution he was diuerted by the humble supplications and gentle perswasions of his deerely beloued wife Placidia sister vnto Honorius and so Rome did then escape that ruine vnto which she is yet reserued and which she shall certainly feele in the due appointed time Afterward vpon the yeere 450. Gensericus King of the Vandals so sacked and ransacked the Citie of Rome that for some time it remained without any inhabitant to dwell therein But much more grieuous and fearefull was her desolation by Totilas King of the Goths vpon the yeere 547. a great part of the walls being cast downe the houses burned the Citizens killed so that neither man nor woman remained therein as Bellarmine himselfe out of Blondus doth briefly recite C. de Pont. Rom. l. 4. c. 7. but to a very poore and simple purpose as you shall heare anon in the passage of my discourse Meane while descending neerer vnto our times I smile at the fearefull apprehensions of Pope Alexander the sixth vpon the yeere 1494. when hee was troubled and all Rome with him at the militarie approach of Charles the eight of France and therefore vpon a treatie of peace hee accepted the Articles imposed vpon him by the victorious Prince for the time but with a perfidious heart as the sequell of things did discouer who thereupon was receiued into Rome with tender demonstration of singular respect and loue otherwise hee had certainly imitated the president of the conquering Gaules ancient times and burnt the whore with fire which worke did rather appertaine vnto his successours in the Crowne of France as time the mother of truth shall one day reueale to fulfill that which Truth the Sonne of eternitie Christ Iesus himselfe doth here foretell But leauing Rome in that passion of feare let vs behold her in the passion of sense vpon the yeere 1524. when the Imperiall Armie of Charles the fifth marching vnder the conduct of the Duke of Burbon who was fatally slaine before the walls of Babylon first surprised the Suburbes and then inuaded the Citie it selfe in whom it is doubtfull saith Guicciardine lib. 18. which Historie well deserueth your reuiew whether bare more rule the humour of crueltie to kill or the appetite of lust to deflower or the rage of auarice to spoile What honour and reuerence did these Catholike Souldiers performe then vnto the holy Father and his worthy Prelates As for him hee was made a prisoner in his owne Castle and redeemed himselfe from farther dangers at a great proportion of monyes and remained in custodie vntill it pleased the Emperour out of his speciall grace to release him againe As for them many of them were set vpon Asses and leane Moyles with great dignitie and contempt hauing their faces reuersed to the crowpe of the beasts and so being apparrelled with the habites and markes of their dignitie were made a spectacle of derision in the publike view while some other Cardinalls being naked and soled along with buffets and bastinadoes redeemed their liues with deepe exhaustion of their plate and treasure Now if in these calamities of Rome which are the praeludia and as it were the figures of her future destruction wee see such furious actions of hostilitie against her not onely by barbarous enemies but by them who carrie the names and titles of Christian and of Catholike by particular stile what incomparable crueltie will so many seuerall Nations exercise against her with implacable hatred vnder the Ensignes of so many seuerall Princes enraged against her for her violation of their Crownes stirred vp by the speciall iudgement of God O vnexemplifyable fall I want termes to expresse it And therefore as the Painter being to represent by a liuely Image the behauiour of the father of Iphigenia lamenting and bewayling her pitifull death drew a veile before his face that being a more proper signification of his griefe which could not be expressed in any

reuenues of their subiects issuing forth of their Kingdomes to the supportation of Babylon partly to permit their Clericall subiects to be exempted from their Regall authoritie and many other courses whereby the proud vsurping Beast doth either closely like a Fox insinuate into their Crownes or violently like a Lion insult vpon the same by their owne folly tendernesse and ignorance in the beginning that so Gods Word might be fulfilled herein I say I cannot neglect the obseruation of this point that now these Kings not the same in person but in succession should beginne to bee wise to vnderstand his tyrannie to see their owne miserie and to reuenge these wrongs with fire and with sword without compassion and without remorse Leo a Bishop of Rome but in more happy times yet one that in some things prepared a way for the aduancement of this second Beast which from a Pygmie became an Hercules and by seuerall augmentations grew vp more and more from small beginnings vnto the full proportion of his greatnesse wherein he stood long but now beginneth to fall thou O blessed Leo by the venerable authoritie of thy graue and gracious person by thy perswasiue Eloquence and gentle intreates diddest once diuert the hostile inuasion of Attila King of the Hunnes from Rome not then Babylon and thou wast a Sauiour vnto her as many of the Iudges in ancient Israel were called not by a Sword but by thy word full of power and efficacie in thy religious mouth But now this Spirit this excellencie shall not bee in thy successours when the fatall houre of her last desolation and fall is come for the wrath of these Kings shall bee specially incensed against this Beast a Lyon indeed not in heroicall fortitude and Christian magnanimitie but in crueltie oppression insultation stirring vp these Kings vnto this furie which no perswasion no eloquence no policie can appease And now to conclude this point I find two obseruations that attend this last passage of my discourse The FIRST concerneth a dogmaticall errour and false opinion preuailing very much in the Synagogue of Rome to wit that Antichrist shall destroy Rome which false opinion by misinterpretation arose out of the true doctrine of S. Paul viz. That Antichrist shall not be disclosed vntill the Romane Emperor were taken out of the way which then withheld and so kept downe all other power that Antichrist could not exalt himselfe Hence the ancient Fathers as namely S. Hierome epist 151. quaest 11. and long before him Tertull. in apologetic cap. 32. whose iudgement also S. Augustine doth follow de Ciuit. Dei l. 20. c. 23. but vpon another ground taken and mistaken out of the Prophet Daniel doe very truly deduce and inferre that the Romane Empire shall not bee destroyed vntill the comming of Antichrist and therefore they seemed reasonably to suppose also that it shall bee destroyed by him and so consequently that Rome it selfe shall suffer her finall ruine by his power and by his meanes Which erroneous deduction seemeth to haue had a generall applause in the ancient times of the Church as wee may see by the testimonie of Lactantius who liued in the time of Constantine the Great vpon the yeere 320. Thus therefore hee writeth Institut diuin l. 7. c. 25. That the end of the world will not come till the destruction of Rome and that the abominable Tyrant Antichrist shall performe that worke But as Lactantius with many other Christians was infected with sundry false appehensions as in this very Chapter That the world should stand but two hundred yeres after their time and else where That Christ should reigne a thousand yeeres on the earth c. so in this particular conceit he and others digressed apparantly from the truth as wanting the cleere euidence of times and the successe of things to helpe them in the right interpretation of the Scriptures in this propheticall kind It is then a very certaine and pregnant truth which Tertullian Augustine Hierome Chrysostome and others did conceiue that the Romane Empire should stand till the reuelation of Antichrist according to the prediction of S. Paul And againe it is true in a great part that Antichrist hath destroyed it for the Popes were a speciall meanes to exclude the Emperour out of Italy and Rome which they haue inuaded and erecting a new Empire in the Kings of France and after in Germanie they finally made this Nominall Emperour of Rome a Reall slaue of Babylon though sometimes with great reluctation and opposition of the Emperours as he was able to resist whom therefore the Popes did gladly suffer to bee depriued of their rights in Italy the same being a Countrie specially accommodated for the aduantage and securitie of his greatnesse because there are sundry formes of gouernments and many particular states therein In regard whereof as one hath a diligent eye to obserue and hinder the increase and inlargement of another so if any of them oppose his Holinesse hee is readie with his thunderbolts to shake that State in pieces and to raise vp other Princes there to make an execution of his sentence And because he doth pretend some particular interest in the goodly and rich Kingdome of Naples he therefore installed the Kings thereof with this caution and reseruation That they should neuer take the Empire vpon them fearing thereupon the potencie of so neere a neighbour as being preiudiciall vnto his triple Crowne This was a matter of speciall exception taken against Charles the fifth in his election vnto the Imperiall State though not pursued because there was no remedie against so mightie a Prince who as hee seemed to accept the Empire against the ancient prouision of the Popes so he seemed vnmannerly to resigne the same vnto Ferdinand his brother and to establish him therein without the notice and approbation of the holy Father Thus farre then we agree with the iudgement of antiquitie touching the Romane Emperour and Antichrist because it agreeth very well with the prediction of Saint Paul But the predictions of Saint Iohn doe sufficiently refute the last opinion which seemeth to be inferred out of the former by an emptie and barren speculation to wit that the Citie of Rome shall bee destroyed by Antichrist and his associats as Lactantius lib. 7. c. 16. doth erroniously conceiue For the Second Beast in Rome is Antichrist himselfe to whom the ten Kings gaue their power and Babylon shall be destroyed not by this Second Beast but for this Second Beast the ten Kings not being now his helpers and assistants in this subuersion of Babylon but his enemies assailants to ruinate Babylon wherin he reigneth because of his abominable comportment therein as the context of the Scripture it selfe doth infallibly demonstrate and conclude And therefore as in many other points concerning Babylon and Antichrist the ancient Christians were much deceiued so particularly in this namely to imagine that he should destroy Rome who is the Man or rather the Beast that