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The Pope's comment upon the Ten Commandments
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THE Pope's Comment UPON THE TEN Commandments The PREFACE THere 's one LAWGIVER able to destroy But save Believers in Eternal JOY The Words which CHRIST hath spoken shall us judge And from Gods Laws his JUDGMENTS will not budge Popes make LAWGIVERS new in every Age Who multiply new LAWS upon the Stage But this Distinction shews they disagree They all can kill yet none can save but HE. God's Law is perfect Mens Laws are not so God's Laws are just whether to Friend or Foe God's Law once made for ever doth endure Mens Laws repeal'd new made and never sure Commandment I. GOd's Laws allow no GODS but Onely-One Popes make more Gods than Stars or Days are known Yea Sun and Moon and Stars adored be Is there a DAY from Adorat'on free Popes ALMANACKS are cloyed with Red Names Which thus ador'd their VOTARIES enflames Although already Places are so scant SIMON and JUDE they crowd in One for want All Saints together jumbled in one Day All Souls another unto whom they pray Yet They poor fools commit all sins to have A canonized name when in the Grave God-Fathers and God-Mothers Bishops Kings Images Pictures Crosses and such things Mother of Christ's four Brothers Sisters all Popes VIRGIN-QUEEN of HEAVEN her install Who next but MOTHER CHURCH that Scarlet WHORE Catholick Common Churches Sons adore Yea FATHERS of the Church of the fame Blood And HUSBANDS too of that incestuous Brood But that which is than all the rest most strange THEMSELVES they call the Church and Sexes change Though the sublimest Church and God of all Is there GOD-POPE and ev'ry CARDINAL BELL-CHURCHES also built of Brick and Stone Thus when they please they All or Any own But how came POPES this Power all to have Forsooth their FATHER-DEVIL them it gave The Devil offer'd Christ once to bestow All Kingdoms with their Glories here below Which he refus'd But since to Popes are given All Kingdoms of this World and KEY of Heaven Alas CHRIST knew not how to cringe and bow POPES can do All and all adore them now Poor Soul Christ had not Pride enough to bring MAJESTY due unto one earthly KING POPES give more Titles Glories in one Day To all those Kings who only them obey Than CHRIST Himself did ever here assume And over Kings or Caesars did presume Commandment II. GOD blasts all Worships but his own with Evils POPES command all to Angels Men and Devils Popes make both Gods and Worships more and more Popes make GODMAKERS to increase their store Popes make PREISTS BISHOPS CARDINALS and They Make WAFER GODS by Thousands in a Day Those IDOL-GODS must all adored be Yea WAFER-FLESH and BLOOD unseen must see A Task too hard for Bal'ams ASS t' endure Though God gives Eyes men have no seeing sure Saints worship GOD in Psalms and Hymns and Songs They in all Gestures also unknown Tongues And when they come their PA-GOD-POPE before KINGS kneel to kiss the SLIPPER of the whore Drunk with the Wine of Fornication Kings reel into their own Damnation Their WAFER-GODS with Latin-Charms they hallow Which People thousands in a Moment swallow The Three-crown'd-little-HORN here doth enter To change both Times and Laws he doth adventure Blaspheming God and wearing out the Saints The WITNESSES to kill he never faints And in the Streets their Corps lye in dead Letter The NATIONS see them but are not the better Mornings and Evenings are their WITNESS read But Hearers like the WITNESSES are dead For though Gods Doctrin's read once and agen They hear the Word of God but obey MEN. For with his MARK the BEAST so domineers That all Gods words pass thorough both the Ears When PRIESTS found perjur'd Traytors hanged are They worship RELIQUES of their Blood and Hair Cart-loads of CROSSES Maries Gown of Silk Rags Nails Bones Stones Maries VIRGIN-MILK 'T would Horses tire Legions of Saints to read With all their IDOL-PRAYERS to the Dead Yet that they may their Time in Worship spend Their BEADS and CROSSES round can have no End IDOLATRY God pardons not a whit But every Eye and Ear makes Judge of it Yea every Hand is EXECUTIONER God bids no wife nor Son nor Daughter spare Kings Princes Prophets Nations must not scape God makes it as a VINTAGE of the Grape Five Midian-Kings and Kingdoms were destroyed And PHINEAS his Priesthood so enjoyed Yea two and thirty Kings and Nations Were all destroyed with their Stations Who are they then more merciful than GOD They spill the Child because they spare the ROD Chusing IDOLATERS to rule and kill All NON-IDOLATERS at their own Will GOD therefore sends IDOLATERS to kill us Because we kill not THEM as God doth will us Commandment III. GODS NAME IN VAIN Christ bids SWEAR NOT AT ALL POPES command ALL to swear both great and small Swear must both rich and poor both bond and free None must escape this MARK of CRUELTIE With the right hand held up this MARK is took Swearing unknown Contents and kiss the BOOK 'T is the BEASTS Mark the fatal MARK of HELL Without which none may freely buy or sell On this Beast's MARK are founded all their LAWS This Beast's MARK also WORSHIP overaws All Popish-Courts have OATHS at their command Without an Oath no POPISH-COURT can stand In Popish-Courts no JUSTICE can be had But what with OATHS and SACRAMENTS are clad And though by OATHS Conspiracies are made Yet they allow FALSE-SWEARING as their Trade For so Demetrius-Art comes in by Stealth By CRAFT of Oaths they know they get their Wealth All PAPISTS cast away Gods Laws and then They swear and only Keep the Laws of Men. Can men believe for this the LAND must mourn Yea must for OATHS lie wast and all forlorn O brave-soul'd-QUAKERS who all OATHS withstood In spight of Laws of Prisons Famine Blood And yet can live in Peace and Trade and gain Thus proving SWEARING-OATHS to be in vain He that will swear will lie the Proverb saith He that will lie will swear both of like Faith What 's more than YEA or NAY Christ saith is EVIL Whence comes all SWEARING then but from the DEVIL Us'd to insnare the CONSCIENCE of the Just To plot all TREASONS or deceive all TRUST Commandment IV. GOds SABBATH is the SEVENTH-DAY of Rest Which GOD did hallow after SIX and blest POPES more than all the Six the SEVENTH prophane And in its stead the FIRST-DAY do ordain Rest God commands when we have labour'd SIX Popes do before all Labour REST prefix God makes the DAY from Even unto Night Popes from the Morning to next Morning-Light GOD links sev'n dayes in Weeks as in a Chain POPES break all Times and Weeks and Links as vain Men therefore blush not to blaspheme and say CHRIST was the CHANGLING did change the DAY Thus breaking Gods own Law make CHRIST a Sinner And of all SABBATH-BREAKING the Beginner Yea because Christ of Sabbath-Day is LORD To change it therefore he doth thus accord
Supposing him as PRODIGALS to spend Or lose or change his BIRTHRIGHT to no end The Father thus and Son are set at Odds As Heathens fancy of their IDOL-GODS As if the Father ended with Creation Or Iesus were confined to Salvation And both of THEM at strife which greater were Or which of THEM did best deserve the CHAIR If all these fail then every day is holy Which to make good their CHURCH maintain this Folly No wonder then their Almanacks they gild With glutted Names of Saints and Angels fill'd Or else their Wits must with the WORLD go round And so ONE Day is either lost or found Fools as they are not heeding how the SUN Doth carry on the DAY since he begun Here some do Joshuahs-Sun slily object Others on Hezekiahs do reflect But Ioshuahs SOLSTICE was computed then And Hezekiahs Sun turn'd back agen For Prophets with the People the Suns Race Did so direct that SABBATHS keep their place But then at last who can tell which is which Though Jews and Turks and Popes may unbewitch They all three witness which of these should stand Since each doth bring the SEVENTH-DAY to hand TURKS keep the SIXTH prove SEVENTH not yet come POPES keep the FIRST the Seventh's lost at Rome Thus JEWS alone do still the SEVENTH keep A PETER did between too SOLDIERS sleep And CHRIST between two THIEVES was crucified So 'twixt the SIXTH FIRST the SEVENTH'S decried Commandment V. WIth PROMISE God hath crown'd this FIFTH Command As these few Lines may give to understand Honour thy PARENTS all with HONOUR due That in thy Land thy Days may not be few The POPE cries CORBAN serve the Mother-Church And give her ALL leave Parents in the Lurch But yet of Parents all GOD is the FIRST SONS that obey not him are Sons accurst For HE is Parent of all Parents HE Before all Parents must obeyed be Father of Fathers King of Kings most high GOD lives for ever but all MEN must die And yet the Pope doth proudly arrogate Hee 's GOD of GODS at least Gods SURROGATE And by Christs Rule greatest to be of All Servant of Servants He himself doth call He takes the Title of a cursed CHAM He acts the WOLF in Title of a LAMB The Son of MARY was both GOD and MAN The POPE is neither is He DEVIL then If Kings and Parents then will be obey'd Let them serve God themselves or be afraid If SONS and SUBJECTS know not which t' obey Ask Conscience GOD or MAN which will it say Commandment VI. THou shalt not commit MURDER saith the Lord But I may saith the POPE I have the Sword 'T is the Priests Office for to kill and slay Of Sacrifices Thousands in a Day By Jacobs Sons Sechem and Sons all slain Meroz was curst that wore the Sword in vain The Levites Execution did with SWORD On Brethren and on Friends at MOSES Word How should we HERETICKS suppress if we Did not use Poisons Swords and Treacherie Were 't not for Oaths and Swords and penal Laws Our CHURCH would starve with Magpies Jackdaws And Church-men might as idle go pick Straws GOD saith his Blood that shed Mans shall be shed Both POPES and KINGS do pardon without Dread But this Command brings JUSTICE to the Bar Did Gods Command Gods Justice ever marr To reconcile them both the SCOPE comes in Whether it were for GOODNESS or for SIN 'T is sin to do what GOD doth once forbid 'T is Goodness to obey what God doth bid 'T is JUSTICE then whom God commands to kill 'T is MURDER without God Mans blood to spill If Princes bid us murder kill and slay The Quest'on then is new which to obey SAINTS or IDOLATERS the OBJECTS be Which we may kill or we may let go free GOD kills IDOLATERS of SAINTS takes care POPES kill all Saints Idolaters they spare Commandment VII ADULTERY forbidden is by God And FORNICATION must feel the Rod. Lasciv'ous Words and Gestures Looks of Eye Gods written-Word doth in the Heart espie Unvoluntary DREAMS do Man defile How pure is God! How impure Man and vile All Lust therefore and Sin for to prevent God ordains MARRIAGE sufficient But Popes more holy far and far more pure All BIBLES curse and will not them endure They forswear Marriage as most prophane Catholick STEWS they rather do maintain Yet for the Vulgar LAITY such stuff As solemn Marriage is good enough And for them made a holy SACRAMENT Whence PRIESTS as one of seven gather Rent Licenses Weddings Child-beds Christenings Churches Whoredoms Divorces profit brings But Popes Priests Cardinals and Orders holy Forswear all MARRIAGES as costly Folly Theirs is a far more frugal SACRAMENT They swear a single Life of more Content Their LUST they satisfie with little Cost Without a TAMAR Onans Seed is lost They sometimes get into a NUNNERY And there increase their sworn VIRGINITY By which means there 's no want of VIRGINS Milk To be ador'd with Maries GOWN of SILK They sometimes WIVES absolve and then they meet Two SACRAMENTS together in a SHEET Sometimes young BOYS and GIRLS they sanctify In exercising their VIRGINITY And yet to be more chast and Innocent Their Chastity's on harmless TURKEYS spent Now to conclude God doth allow DEGREES Of keeping this COMMAND and they are these First which is rare a Life ANGELICAL An EUNUCH truly EVANGELICAL TO CHRIST an EUNUCH wedded as was PAUL Next MAN and WIFE whom GOD hath join'd in ONE As was in PARADISE-PERFECTION Lastly POLYGAMY Gods Word connives Only to HUSBANDS never unto WIVES Unless the Husband 's gone or Husband 's dead Then WIVES are given to another Bed All other Mixture painted ne'er so well If they repent not God condemns to HELL All White-sheet Money Pennance cannot hide Black SODOMY nor WHOREDOM of the Bride Gods holy Eye will pardon no such Evil They all came from and must go to the Devil Commandment VIII STeal not saith GOD unless five or four fold Thou shalt restore if poor thou shalt be sold Tush saith the POPE all this is too much Pity And that the Proverb saith will spoil the City THIEVES if they live may live to steal again And so all rich Men gather Wealth in vain Hang up the Thief then he can steal no more Let WIFE and CHILDREN beg from door to door Hang Thieves confiscate all their Goods to ME To terrifie starve their POSTERITY JEWS did but plunder Mutton Beef or Meal Now Treasures Crowns and Kingdoms men dare steal Rich men had rather LIFE than MONEY lose If put to choice they rather Death would chuse Besides this was the old way of the JEWS Which is not lawful now for us to use Wealth answers All GOD-MAMMON of this Life For whom all KINGDOMS have a constant strife But if that Men do covet to obtain Their OWN and Thieves restore it back again They guilty are of the same THEFT as They And both may hang together in a Day The reason 's plain as