mine thy estate shall be mine thy children shall be mine but thy God shall not be mine thy Religion shall not be mine And for assistance we may lend Babylon no hand to uphold her we are commanded not to seeke the prosperity of Babel all our daies because the Lord hath divoted her to destructiō but especially those whose hands and swords God hath sanctified to this purpose whensoeuer God shall put it into their hearts they want neither charge nor calling to reward her as she hath rewarded them as she hath levied forces against the Princes of the earth so must they levie forces against her and the cup of death and wrath which she hath filled to them they must fill her the double 3. We must depart corporally from them even in respect of place and habitation If an house be ready to fall it must oppresse all that are under the roofe If a Citie be summoned to warre by the sound of a trumpet carefull men will desire to leave that Citie Or if a Citie be infected with a raging pestilence we need not perswade men to flie forth of that danger Here is a ruinous state ready to be made an heap Shall the little mice by naturall sagacity presage the ruine of the house and flie and shall we stay till we be oppressed under the ruine The Lord hath proclaimed open war against this rebellious city and shall we stay the mounting of the Canon No where can a man bestow himselfe in Popish countries but he shall meet with that poysoned aire a thousand times more infectious than ever was any citie with most hot pestilence and can any man be safe casting himselfe upon such adventures Secondly for the manner of our departure from Babel we must come our 1. Cito 2. Longe 3. Totaliter 4. Finaliter 1. Wee must depart hastily Lot was commanded to hasten out of Sodome and prolong no time because the danger was neere delay which is in all things dangerous may here prove desperate and therefore we are commanded to fly out of Babel which is a swift motion beseeming Gods people in their obedience and because of the neerenesse of the danger unto them 2. We must depart farre from Babel even as farre as may be Many are afraid to offend the Babylonians by departing too far from them But as Moyses calling the congregation from Corah and his complices said I pray you depart from the tents of these men and touch nothing of theirs lest yee perish in their sinnes so we must pray to have no societie or comporting with Romish Babylon in her heresies Idolatry or superstitions for this were not to depart far enough from them 3. We must depart wholly thy selfe and all thine When Lot was called out of Sodome he is willed to call and carry out with him all and every one of his kinred his wife his children his sonnes in law and all whom he loued And Moyses calleth not only the head of families from Corah but their wiues sonnes and little children we may not thinke our selves departed from Babylon unlesse our wives and children be departed with us He is but halfe departed whose other halfe is a Recusant neither can a man of reason thinke him departed that sends his pawnes his sonnes and daughters for education in Popish countreys 4. This heavenly voice would have us depart finally never to returne more Lot must not depart out of Sodome to looke backe againe nor out of Egypt with the Israelites to turne backe after the leekes and onyons nor with Spalato run backe to Babel when we have fild our purses nor for rumor of danger turne away from the truth received for suppose God should kindle a fire of persecution in his Church this were but a fire of triall and castigation whereout the Lords golden vessels should come out onely brighter and better But if we returne to Babylon there is nothing but a fire of destruction and finall ruine to burne up such huskes and chaffe as wanting substance of grace are blowne away with every wind of doctrine every blast of change and every shadow of turning I had now come to the second part of my text if there stood not three sorts of men in my way to whom I must in few words apply my selfe and this part and being men of no good qualities I will make what haste from them I may The first sort of these are Romanists the second Separatists the third Apostates The Romanists cudgell us for departing from Rome The Separatists lay load upon us for not departing from Babylon can both their blowes fall right The Papists tell us with great audaciousnesse that wee are Schismatikes and Heretikes because wee have departed from the Catholike Church and keepe out of the lap of our mother Church yea out of the Arke out of which is no salvation But our text hath taught us that wee are not departed from the Church of Christ but from Babylon Neither can they prove us Schismatikes for departing from them whom we can easily prove to have departed from Christ by a generall Apostasie contrary to the whole Kingdome of Christ onely fit for Antichrist the Catholique Heretike Neither are we departed from our Mother but from the mother of whoredome and we may not mingle with Harlots 3. Neither of our owne head but by this voice from heaven 4. Our dutie bindeth us to avoid her sinnes and our safetie to avoid her plagues Let them bring vs a Text or voice from heaven to bring us backe againe and we will returne but Texts of Scriptures and heavenly voices cannot be contrary to themselves 2. The Separatists say we are in the midst of Babylon our assemblies are Antichristian our selves no people of God because we leape not over the pale and fly out with them But first they have not nor can prove the Church of England to be Babylon unlesse Babylon be in covenant with the Lord and hath both the Deeds and Seales of that Covenant to shew in all the substantiall parts of them rightly administred according to the Institution and now standeth to the determination of the Scriptures in all things for thus doth the Church of England but not so Babell and therefore we are not scarred with the windy termes of false worship false ministry bowing downe to traditions or denying the power of Christ in ruling his Church which is both preached and defended happily amongst vs. 2. They have not nor can prove that Christ hath given us a Bill of divorce as he hath to Babel or that the reformed Churches have separated from us as they have from Babylon As for their discoveries what hath a schisme of private men to doe to excommunicate whole Churches or why get they no Churches to joyne with them or if they could get all the Reformed Churches to them we expect orderly admonition before rash excommunication For if a private man must be admonished twice or
and the receiver the murderer and consenter the traitor and concealer and as just it is that he that will partake in the sinnes of others shall partake also in the sorrowes of them What can it be but danger in not departing from her who is departed from God and God from her For what is all that Religion in the points wherein it differs from us but an apostasie and a Catholike departure from the Christian faith nay that very great Antichristian departure fore-prophesied not from the Roman Empire but of that Empire from the Christian faith as appeareth 1. By their departure from the Scripture and divine writings to humane trash traditions and fables 2. By their departing from the merits doctrine sufferings and obedience of Iesus Christ in effect to a new Christ new saviours new mediatours new intercessours new merits new advocates and patrons 3. By their departure from the old way and the ancient faith of the Prophets Apostles and of the famous Church of Rome in the Apostles dayes to a new faith and Religion not knowne to the Scriptures nor to the Prophets nor Apostles nor to their successors the Fathers and Pastors for six hundred yeeres at least after them 3. What else besides ruine can he expect that staieth in such a society so addicted to the basest wickednesse every one will say that ruine and mischiefe must be his end that runneth and sorteth himselfe with base villaines Who baser than the limmes of Antichrist who are all vassals to the servant of servants but a iust hire of those that refuse the Lord of life and liberty What is like to bee the end of him that runnes after whores and harlots but utter confusion and what other can they expect that ioyne themselves to that harlotry Religion who goe an whoring from God like hatefull and unsatiable harlots What can bee his end but ruine that sorteth himselfe with mutinous and rebellious persons plotters and contrivers of mischiefe against the persons estates lives and kingdomes of Princes and people But such are Papists taught to bee by the present doctrine of the Church of Rome And by such positions and principles were the Gunpowder Traitors thrust on to their ruine and all other that run upon their owne ruine by rising up against our late and present Soveraigne Let all good Christians and good subiects say as Iacob of Simeon and Levi brethren in evill Into the secrets of these men let not my soule come Heere are reasons enow for our utter renouncing of Popery Wouldst thou be without the reach of the plagues that amate her get out of Babylon Fearest thou not God to avoide her sinnes Feare thy selfe and thine owne danger who hast heard that the Lord is comming with his mighty power to make warre upon that damned Citie and State for her utter desolation Wouldst thou share in the salvation of Gods people open thine eares to this voice of God Fly out of Babel and every man save his owne soule Save your selves from this perverse Generation I say not that no Popish person can bee saved but whosoever will bee saved must depart from the fundamentall errors of Popery for which Christ hath given that Synagogue a bill of divorce I say therefore againe to all Gods people Get away from this people of a strange language Get away from the den of devills and habitation of Idolls Whosoever are now within this voice and call of God make use of it for thine owne safetie Some perhaps hearing the call of Gods people out of Babylon they like Lots friends scorne and mocke out this warning of God for so doe reprobates and men of gracelesse hearts spurne and fleere where they should stoope and feare and tremble but let such know that as the Sodomites were first strucke with blindnesse and then with a fiery shower so are they under the former of these plagues already and God is hastning the latter upon them if they hasten not their repentance The Poets have a saying that when Iupiter will strike a man he first putteth out his eies and so indeed doth the iust God first blindeth the eies of Infidels who are willing to bee blinded and then destroieth them he giveth them up to the devill who as an hangman first covereth their eies and then turneth them off 2. That the time is hastning when they shall say they were warned and called out but now cannot bee either pittied or helped As Lots cousins though they made but a merriment of Lots admonition yet they saw the Lord in earnest and then too late wished they had departed according to the voice of the Lord but now God will not and Lot cannot helpe them Neither can they shift themselves out of the fire when the dreadfull shower falleth Doe thou sit out the summons at thy perill but one of two thou must chuse either thou must goe out of Babylon or goe into her destruction FINIS AN EVERLASTING RECORD OF THE VTTER RVINE of Romish AMALECK Delivered in a Sermon at BLACK-FRIERS in LONDON LONDON Printed by J. H. for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sold at the Golden Cup in the Gold-Smiths row in Cheapside 1624. THE VTTER RVINE OF Romish AMALECK EXODVS 17.14 And the Lord said to Moses Write this for a remembrance in the booke and rehearse it to Iosua for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amaleck from under Heaven THis Chapter setteth downe two great perils which tooke the children of Israel presently upon their deliverance from the red sea for the way to our Canaan is strewed with crosses The former was of thirst to the eighth verse The lattter of warre for seeing their thirst made them contend with God God doth justly raise them up enemies to contend withall In this warre are three things 1. The circumstance of 1. Persons Amaleck rose against Israel 2. Place Rephidem vers 8. 2. The manner of the warre which was partly 1. By power and Armes vers 9 10 11 12. 2. By prayer of Moses If Iosua be on the vallie Moses must be on the hill meanes must be used but not trusted in and prayer without use of meanes where appointed and afforded is but a mockerie 3. The events of this doubtfull warre and they be three 1. The overthrow of Amaleck by the sword of Ioshuah vers 13. 2. Gods decree of destroying utterly the whole nation of the Amalekites 3. The building of an Altar for a trophee and the perpetuall memorie of so happie a victorie The verse read containeth the second of these events namely the severe decree for the utter destruction of the whole nation of Amaleck Where are two generall points 1. The record or registrie of the sentence 2. The reason For I will utterly put out the remembrance c. The record hath two parts 1. The writing of it write this 2. The rehearsing of it to Iosua In the writing are foure things 1. Who must write it The Lord said to Moses
the Pope who claimeth to be Christs Vicar the husband of the Church as if an husband must needs have a Vicar or as if he can be honest that is Vicar to an husband or shee chaste that admitteth a Vicar to her husband 2. As an whore inveigleth all shee can by meretricious Arts shee draweth in the young man by her flatteries and subtleties but most of all shee allureth great persons to folly for great rewards Even so this whore of Babel seduceth by craft and in a mysterie all whose names are not written in the Booke of Life but especially shee hath inveigled the Kings and Princes of the earth to commit fornication with her 3. As the harlot loveth the darke and seeketh the twilight so this whore of Babylon flieth the light of the Scriptures and loveth the darke night of ignorance What else is the mother and nurse of their devotion but ignorance Where doth Romane religion dominere but over ignorant countries and persons Where doe Priests and Iesuites sculke and lurke but in dens and thickets of ignorance When doe these Owles and Bats flutter abroad but in the twilight Egypt covered with darknesse was covered with Locusts and Frogs but Goshen having light was rid of Locusts and such vermines 4. An whore exhausts a mans substance and brings him to a morsell of bread so the whore of Rome hath by cunning and for things not worth thanks exhausted the chiefe treasures of Kings and Kingdomes Her Peter-pence gathered by tyrannie and hypocrisie have equalled the Kings tribute an unsuspected witnesse of her unsatiable gathering is that Orbis in urbe that world of wealth which that great Citie hath robbed the great world of and yet as was said of Paulus 3. Eius avaritiae totus non sufficit Orbis 5. An whore enervates and weakeneth the strength and seeketh the precious life of a man Shee consumeth the flesh and the bodie saith Salomon So this Whore of Babylon hath weakened all the power of Princes in their owne kingdomes claiming all their Authoritie Crowns Laws and making them but her vassals to execute her designes which if any of them thinke unreasonable then by all false arts positions and practises shee hunteth the precious lives of such Princes sometimes by her owne Emissaries and sometimes by their owne subjects armed with fraud and force with dags and daggers with poisons or powder-plots And what difference saith Mariana whether thou killest him with poison or stab there be many examples saith he both ancient and moderne of enemies killed this way 3. They are like in state and condition Babylon signifieth Confusion and in both was a Confusion of tongues that one could not understand another And in both a confusion of vices and a Chaos of all filthinesse similia mala saith Orosius sinnes of highest degrees against God and man for what else can be expected of a people left by God What else but a chaine of sinne reaching up unto heaven in that state the head of which is the man of sinne I may not now rake in this sinke hee had need have a vizard on his face that should speake or heare of Babels filthinesse the best way to expresse the filth of ordure is quickly to cover it therefore I will imitate the Painter who to expresse the deepest sorrow that might bee did cover the partie with a veile 4. They are parallel in their ruine and miserable destruction which in both is 1. Certaine 2. Totall 3. Finall 1. Of both was said Babylon is fallen Babylon is fallen the present tense for the future and ingemination or doubling of the prophecie noteth the certaintie of their ruine 2. Both Babels must be turned to heapes both of them must be burnt mountaines turned into ashes as the Kings did to that Babel so shall the ten Kings hate this Whore and leave her naked and eat her flesh and burne her with fire 3. Both of them shall be finally destroyed never to be recovered againe Both of them shall bee as a milstone cast into the sea by the Angell never to be lifted up any more Both of them must be destroyed as Sodome and Gomorrah which were never recovered In neither of them shall be found bridegroome or bride the sound of milstone or light of a candle or any craftsman and therefore shall neither of them bee inhabited by man any more but Zim and Iim shall dwell there and the Ostriches shall dwell therein but never shall sonne of man remaine there any more neither shall Babel ever rise from the evill Object But how unlikely is this that so strong a staffe and beautifull rod should be broken to peeces And we will be readie to say with Mary But how shall this be I answer As God rained a shower of fire and brimstone upon Sodome which was as the Garden of God and turned her to ashes suddenly so will he raine a great shower of haile like talents of lead vpon Babel And as the faire sun-shine morning could not save them no more shall the faire sun-shine of prosperitie save these for God which condemneth her is a strong Lord. Having declared who is this Babylon and why now we come to the third branch of the Commandement Come out of her As by Babylon we meane not only the walls and plot of ground on which the Citie of Rome standeth but the whole Papall State and Religion so the heavenly voice enjoynes all the people of God both a spirituall and corporall egresse from them In few words take into our view 1. The Matter 2. The Maner of our departure First for the Matter All Gods people must depart from the Romish Church both in Iudgement and Affection 1. In respect of spirituall presence we must depart 1. Mente 2. Manu 3. Corpore In Iudgement we must renounce their Doctrine Faith Worship and whole Religion so farre as it differeth from the Scriptures and the Harmonie of Confessions of the Reformed Churches agreeable to the Scriptures We must also in our Iudgement renounce all Romane power executed by the Pope and his Clergie over the Scripture over Princes and their subiects and over any other Churches without their owne precincts In our Affections we must give our hearts to the truth of God and detest and damne to hell their blasphemous doctrines their hatefull Idolatrie grosse superstitions wicked manners and the detestable courses of that wicked Citie and State contrary to many Polititians who give us their presence but their hearts are in Babylon Christ hath the shell but they reserve the kernell for Antichrist 2. Wee must depart from needlesse association and assistance how can we strike hands and embrace amitie and societie with such as have broken off with God How can iron and clay temper together What societie betweene light and darknesse What agreement betweene a member of Christ and a limbe of Antichrist How can any of Gods people say thy person shall be
thrice before excommunication much more may a whole Church expect it 3. We are come out of Babylon by Gods blessing in that we have pulled downe the Temples of their Idols in that both in substance of Doctrine and Sacraments our Ministery agreeth with the Scriptures the head of Dagon is cut off his stump cast downe and cast out and we labour in purging away all the scent and stinke of him so far are we from worshipping the beast or receiving his Image 4. We cannot therefore separate from the Church of England but we must goe out from the true Church of God and from the Spouse of Christ who acknowledgeth Christ for her head and foundation and by beleeving in his righteousnesse alone is made a member of his body No reason will serve these unreasonable men for then I might now get from them but their importunity staies me to answer one objection and so I will leave them Obiect But what a number of corruptions have you an heape of mens Traditions which Christ never acknowledged but bred and borne in Babylon and what a number of Gods ordinances doe you want which a true Church of Christ cannot want and can you be a Church of Christ Answ. 1. Was not Lot got out of Sodom when he saw the smoke of the Citie If it were granted then that a little smoke of the Citie did trouble our eies must it follow that we are still in the midst of Babylon 2. They point us to some corruptions and errors to which I say 1. Let them shew me a soyle in the world where Wheat groweth without some chaffe and I will goe with them But that is not at Amsterdam 2. None of the corruptions which they falsly terme are of that high nature as to call for a personall separation because none of them are fundamentall The least corruption that we can certainly espie which yet is not in constitution but in execution we must separate from in iudgement in affection in practise but to separate personally for any error not fundamentall let them teach it them to whom all errors are alike but we may not be so dull 3. Our Church being ioyned to the head Iesus Christ and retaining the vitall parts of the Word and Sacraments neither if wanting of something which should be present nor if remaining something to be cast out can thrust her from the right and title of the Church of God but is in essence and being a Spouse of Christ. For example cut off both a mans armes both his legges cut off his eares and nose now he wanteth many things which a man should have but yet so long as the head stands alive upon the body and other vitall parts remaine he is indeed a man although a maimed one Againe suppose a man had ten fingers on an hand or three armes or suppose an hand stood where the foot should stand or the mouth were set in the forehead here were a great aberration and confusion against naturall symmetrie of a mans body yet hee is a man though a very deformed one whereas where there is no head or no union of members to that head there were no body no man So whatsoeuer they can say though falsly is wanting in our Church or whatsoever they say is redundant or superfluous she being founded on Christ her head and truly dispensing the word and Sacraments they cannot overthrow her being of a true Church of Christ. 4. To conclude with them some things make to the being of a Church some to the comelinesse and well being of it if their nimble eies could finde never so many abuses not fundamentall all these shall only make to the disgrace and vncomelinesse of the Church but shall never overthrow the being of it Whatsoever we want let not God want his praise nor we thankfulnesse that we want not that whereby Gods people may enioy the ioy of their salvation And this may serve for answer to those Separatists if all the corruptions they charge us with were truly obiected against us as they are not 3. To the three sorts who goe away from us to Babylon because they were never of us would to God they would timely consider 1. If the Lord be so earnest that his people which are in Babylon should fly out of her it cannot but be too preposterous and desperate for those that are gotten out to run in againe 2. That if it be a signe of the Lords people to depart out of Babylon it must needs be a signe of him or her that is not the Lords to run into her and so to continue 3. What is the fearefull hire of Apostasie and Apostates of whom the spirit of the Lord speaketh lothsomely as of dogs and swine turning to their vomit and wallowing What can be the expectation of such as forsaking the sound profession of the Gospell fall away from Christ to Antichrist but the most dreadfull doome which is to be awarded against the Lords most cursed enemies 4. That they sinne without a cause which aggravates the sinne nay against so cleare a light and truth enacted protected crowned and in these daies after 70. yeeres of the sunshine of the Gospell which hath beene the best time the Gospell hath had in the world for so long together this thirteene hundred yeeres so as for our meanes we might have beene as stable as rocks upon our rocke and foundation 5. That they sinne against a speciall commandement of God yea against a voice from heaven in this text they cannot say in the day of the Lord they were not warned Lastly because they love to looke upon pictures now leaving them I will leave with them an Emblem of such gracelesse Apostates as themselves When Israel was in the Wildernesse God gave them a daily harvest of Mannah from heaven but they grew weary of the Lords provision they remember the garlike the leekes and onyons of Egypt and backe they will to Egypt in all haste but all the while they remembred not the oppressions tyranny stripes labours sighs burdens the bricks and fiery furnaces So doe these looke after the pompe pride wealth and liberty of Romish Egypt but remember not the miserable servitude and bondage and their tyranny upon their consciences they remember not their traiterous doctrines their miserable attempts against kings and kingdomes their furious fires their perfidious massacres their bloudy inquisition They remember not what comfortlesse hopes that doctrine and Religion will afford them in the day of their death for there 's no understanding Papist dare trust unto it and yet looke backe they will But what is the issue and conclusion of all As all they in the wildernesse miserably died and never entred into the Land of rest so these Apostates may exchange Mannah with Garlike for the present but in the day of the Lords visitation they shall reape according to their sowing when greatnesse nor wealth when Iesuiticall subtilties nor penall satisfactions neither shall
their painted and Poeticall Purgatory helpe or ease them they would not be stayed by a voice from heaven but backe they would to Babylon and now must they partake in her eternall plagues by a sentence from heaven which is irrevocable That ye partake not of her sinnes This second part of our text hath three things considerable in it 1. That Babylon hath great sinnes 2. That not to depart from her is to partake in her sinnes 3. Who they be that doe partake in her sinnes For the sins of Babylon they were most transcendent both against God and against man I may not tire your patience with the enumeration I cannot name a fewer number than two which the Scriptures usually insist upon in this argument 1. Idolatry 2. Cruelty 1. Babylon was full of Images and false gods they worshipped Bel for God and made them Succoth and Benath The Dragon was worshipped also among them as God In a word it was a land of graven Images and they doted on their Idols Now all the Idolatry of that Easterne Babylon was a type and shadow of the unheard of Idolatries of this Westerne Babylon who not onely committeth but commandeth shamefull filthinesse neither onely defendeth her owne whoredomes but teacheth and forceth the same upon others Therefore the Scriptures call her a mistresse yea a mother of whoredoms with a full cup of filthinesse and fornications in her hand which she reacheth and forceth upon all her lovers That as all men both high and low small and great must fall downe before the God which Nebuchadnezzer king of Babel hath erected so must every man worship the breaden brazen woodden and golden gods which that Nebuchadnezzer of this Easterne Babel hath set up But I know not by what windlace the Iesuits as nimble as mischiefe it selfe have brought it about to a demurre among Divines whether these Babylonians be Idolaters or no which wise men see to be but the raising of a cloud of dust to trouble our eies whilest they worke their stratagems amongst and against us 1. For Doth the spirit of God call Babylon the mother of whoredomes and are they not Idolaters 2. Doe they translate adoration from the Creator to the creatures which is Nazianzens description of Idolatry and are they not Idolaters 3. Doe they erect and worship Images of the invisible God and are they not Idolaters 4. Doe they give all the honour to the Image which is due to the samplar and are they not Idolaters 5. Doe they command and compell every man to fall downe on his knees and adore their Hoast in their processions being an externall religious worship and are they not Idolaters 6. They doe teach that to Images as Images a proper religious worship is due as doe their learned Papists and are they not Idolaters 7. Doe they invocate all the Hoast of heaven and their Hoast in earth and is not this formally to Idolatrize 8. Are they so puzled in this argument as the greatest schollers are forced to say that some Idolatry is lawfull as Gregory de Valentia If some be lawfull let them give a reason why not all as well and if all or any be lawfull with them are they not Idolaters Thus while shee claimeth to bee the mother Church not without wrong both to Hierusalem and Antioch where the Gentiles were first called Christians we must in the Scriptures dialect hold her the mother of whoredomes And if the Iewes could not abide to be borne in fornication let us that are free borne scorne to take a notorious whore for our mother and leave her to the bastardly brood that are borne and bred up to Antichrist of whom may be verified Like mother like daughters The second sin noted in Babylon was cruelty and tyranny against the Church of God where she was called a destroier and a destroying mountaine and the hammer of the whole world As was the Easterne Babylon to Gods people among the Iewes so is the Westerne to the Christian Church among the Gentiles the great Abaddon and Apollyon called the scarlet Whore drunke first with the wine of her fornication and then drunke with bloud for in her is found the bloud of all the Prophets and of all the Saints The tyranny of Easterne Babel had three properties wherein the Westerne Babel doth farre surpasse 1. That was a Covetous cruelty for Nebuchadnezzer spoiled the city and the Temple Here Asa sackt Gods house and the kings house and besides carried away all the wealth of the land Even so the Romish Nebuchadnezzer robbeth the house of God carrieth away the Word the Sacraments the Scriptures preaching and the pure worship of God figured by these golden vessels instruments and pillars and besides robbeth and spoileth Kings and Princes of their kingdomes crownes treasures and revenues so as there is no kingdome in Christendome which hath not drunk deepe of his tyranny 2. That was an unnaturall and barbarous cruelty for they raged against Infants the seed of the Church and dashed their heads against the stones So is this Babylon as fierce and unnaturall in her cruelties hatching up savage monsters and parricides by teaching counselling acting triumphing and patronizing murders unheard of unread of in Babylon as Mastives which lie in the shambles have commonly bloudy mouthes so doe their mouthes run over with Romish Rhetoricke Vre seca occide Burne kill poyson stab blow up whom strangers friends old young men women brethren fathers kings princes kingdomes countries nay your owne king your native countrey shed bloud shed innocent bloud make no end of shedding innocent bloud let bloud touch bloud oh cruell Tigers to the life of man to the life of kings and kingdomes and so to the very life and soule of the world Nebuchadnezzer of Babel is not content to burne the three children of God but hee must make the fire seven times hotter than ever to shew that hee would burne them seven times over apeece if he could This Westerne Nebuchadnezzer hath kindled fires against Gods servants seven times hotter than that furnace devising torments as neere hell fire as any hellish tyrant could invent The Acts of the Church and the Acts of iustice record that not farre from this place the Romanists first murthered Richard Hun a grave and wealthy citizen and then hanged him and then condemned him for an Heretike and then burnt the dead man in Smithfield because hee appeared not being summoned to recant his supposed heresie 3. That Babylonish tyranny was as unsatiable as unnaturall The Church sate weeping in Babylon which noteth a long captivity so under this Westerne Babylon hath the Church endured a long Captivity not of 70. yeeres but of 7. times 70. almost thrice told and yet an end is not come These horseleaches are unsatiable doe not these enemies of mankind desire riuers of bloud to ride their horses to the saddles in the bloud of the Lutherans Domitius Nero