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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62534	Tydings from Rome: or, Englands alarm Wherein several grounds to suspect the prevalency of the popish interest are seasonably suggested; Londons ruine pathetically lamented; arguments to disswade from the popish religion, are urged; and the duties of Christians in this time of common danger, and distraction, perswaded.		1667 (1667)	Wing T1160; ESTC R11783	29,044	33

there were many horrid Opinions A Wolf may as well give Laws to the understanding as he whose dictates are only propounded in violence and written in blood and a Dog is as capable of a Law as a Man if their be no choice in his obedience no discourse in his choice no reason to satisfie his discourse Are you not like to have the same measure you mete to us meted back to you again with an overplus if this enemy prevail and then you 'l find how good it is to afflict for Conscience sake Certainly if you resolve to be fai●hful to protestant Principles you will escape upon no easier terms then us Are not these very persons against whom you discharge your cannons and woory up and down by your apparitors like to prove as stiff assertors of the Protestant cause if God call for more blood to witness to it as your selves you find them I believe inflexible enough to your Ceremonies all your menacies and punishments cannot cudgel them into conformity with them because they find aliquid commune cum antichristo a spice and tang of Popish Superstition in them and doubtless they will as freely lay down their lives in defence of ●he fundamental and weightier points of Religion as their Places Liberties and Earthly Comforts for the lesser Circumstantial truths thereof and is it not pity that you should especially at such a time as this suppress afflict and silence such men whose abilities might now be improved to such singular advantage But aquilia non capit muscas Lordly spirits scorn to stoop to such mean composures or take notice of a creeping Pamphlet Let me therefore speak to the Body of the People and especially to those among the People who profess to fear the Lord and tremble at his Judgments Will you shut your ears to seasonable counsel also Will you despise your dangers till you are suprised by them O England Wilt thou not begin to fear till thou art past hope Shall thine Enemies find thee sleeping and leave the dead Wretehed England here is thy misery that thou knowest not thy time but as the fishes are taken in an evil net and as the birds are caught in the snare so wilt thon be snared in an evil time when it falleth on thee suddenly Ecles 8.12 May I freely express my apprehensions in the Case I much doubt thine Enemies have so contrived and laid their design against thee that in their apprehensions at least all thy struglings now are but as the flutterings of a bird in the net which instead of freeing doth but the faster intangle her However if God at last will but open thine ears to seasonable Counsel and perswade thine heart to thy present duties who can tell but the Lord may yet be gracious to his Land and spare his people It is not so much their confidence as our impenitence that is to be feared Haman was as confident as they can be and had cast Pur for the Jews as well as they for us Esth. 3.7 So was Pharoah too when he said I will pursue I will pursue God can quickly give their pregnant designs a miscarrying womb so that they which have conceived mischief shall bring forth but a lie and thou that fearest continua●ly because of the Enemie shalt yet praise him and say The h●athen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net which they hid is their own foot taken the Lord is known by the judgments which he executeth the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion ●elah Psal. 9. 15.16 and when the Enemie cometh in like a flood the Spirit of thy God can set up a Standard against him if men cannot winds and waves shall fight for thee as they have done in former exigencies O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat aether Et conjurati veniunt ad classica venti Only obey the Counsels of God and let thine ear be circumcised and as ever you expect that a door of hope should be opened to you in this valley of achor let these following Counsels be speedily and heartily practised 1 COUNSEL Abhor Popery and be eminent in your zeal against it Rome is that Amalek with whom God will never make peace neither should we It was Queen Elizabeths Motto No peace with Spain and it should be ours No peace with Rome My dear Countreymen I beseech you be not deceived with vain words suffer not your selves too be circumvented by a Stratagem of the Enemy let not prejudice and discontents which they endeavour to beget and foment in you against your real friends cause any of you to fall in with the Design and Interest of your Enemies it is a dangerous thing to comply with that Interest which God hath engaged himself against and as sure as Christ sits at his Fathers right hand shall be destroyed and what cause you have to abhor Popery you will see by that time I have shewed you that it is a FALSE BLOODY BLASPHEMOUS UNCOMFORTABLE AND DAMNABLE RELIGION First It is a False Religion and that 's reason enough to abhor it You would be loath to be cheated with Counterfeit Coin especially if you were to receive your whole portion in it how much more with a False Faith when it amounts to as much as all your soules are worth in another World the falsity of the Popish Religion if it yet remain a question with any among us may be thus evinced That Religion which is not built upon the Foundation the Prophets and Apostles but stands in the wisdom of man is a False Religion But the Popish Religion is not built upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles but stands in the wisdom of man therefore the Popish Religion is a False Religion The ma●or proposition is undeniable and stands upon the authority of these Scriptures Ephes 2 20 And are built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Iesus Christ himself being the chief Corner Stone 1 Cor. 2.5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God Isa 8.20 To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them The minor proposition is as evident For 1. the Papists themselves acknowledge that their worshipping of Creatures Mass Purgatory the Popes Supremacy and most other Doctrines wherein they differ from us cannot be confirm'd by Scripture Az●rius instit mor. par 2 d. lib. 4. ca. 18 2. They set up the Pope as a Judge above the Scriptures subjecting them to the Popes authority this many of their Learned Doctors are not ashamed expresly to affirme and defend Pigh●us Hierarch Lib. 1 Cap. 2.3 4. Card. Cusan Epist. 7th ad Bohem. Cocteus Holli●s c. ●3 They reproach and deprave the Scripture calling it an uncertain thing dead letter an insufficient guide of it self without their tradition or unwritten Word Belar de sut Serip