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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42148	Some prison-meditations and experiences with some hints touching the fall of the mother of harlots, and the exaltation of the son of God upon the throne of David / written ... by John Griffith ...	Griffith, John, 1622?-1700.	1663 (1663)	Wing G2004; ESTC R11497	73,641	162

All evil works proceed do from the Devil He only is the author of them all Idolatry and errors great and small And men do willingly adhere to him And to his wayes and works rather than them That God appointed this is very right Such men love darkness and do hate the Light For let the Whore command them what she will If 't be to murder any one or kill Be 't Prince or People any what eare they For willingly the Whore's mind they obey Such dear obedient children they have bin Her to obey they think can be no sin But as I said the reason why she doth Forbid to reade the Scripture may be both Because she would not any man should see The Truth and also 't is because that she Fears the Scripture her Whoredoms will make known And all her works of darkness will be shown And therfore that she may her Whoredoms hide The use of Scripture she will not abide Though Christ it 's clear did very well approve The searching of the Scriptures and did move The Jews thereto by his commands that so They might there find wh'ther he were Christ or no. But this proud painted Whore will give to none That liberty but her they all must own Without all doubt or any jealousie But she must be the Church of Christ and why Because her Doctors say 't that 's their belief That 's Ask my fellow whether I 'm a thief They and their writings as she saith by far Must be esteem'd more than the Scriptures are Her Fathers and her Councils and what they Decreed we sooner far must all obey Than any scripture-Scripture-Writings for they be Or were writ in the Churches infancie But now the Church is grown to such a state And such maturity we scorn and hate To learn or follow any thing that 's there It is below us and our holy Chair And more than that it will bewray us all The people will us know and then we fall As Dagon did before the holy Ark We then our dogs can send no more to bark Against the Scripture and those holy wayes That practis'd were in the primitive dayes For this we know full well there is no ground In holy Scripture can or will be found For that great pomp and state we now live in Should this be known there 's none would care a pin For us the people very soon would bait Our greatness and our doing soon would hate And quickly pluck us from our holy Chair And pull our feathers till we were so bare That all the world would quickly plainly see What monstrous coz'ning cheating knaves we be But if we can but keep them ignorant We then shall lord it still and ore them vaunt T is but the hiding Scripture from their eyes By thundring threats or under some disguise We then are safe enough and all things still Will go according to our mind and will And therefore 't will be best for us to play That very game we have this many day For that 's the game we by experience find That holds us up and doth the people blind Well now we having briefly shown and seen Her whorish face that saith she sits a Queen And shall no sorrow ever know or see We 'l hint a little what her plagues will be And that there is good ground we may expect That men as well as God will her reject Those plagues that will come on her in one day Nay in one hour and shew what plagues are they What Judgments God hath now laid up in store Against that day that God will plague the Whore First then God will lift up a Banner on The Mountains high that will not be alone The Voice shall he exalt and shake the hand That they may enter in within her Land And go into her Nobles gates and be The great forerunners of her miserie For then God's sanctified ones will he Command and call his mighty ones that be Appointed for his anger who rejoyce In him his Highness and commanding Voice Then shall she howl the day of God's at hand And all among her shall amazed stand Because destruction will upon her fall From the Almighty and the weapons all Of his great indignation then will stand Against her they shall waste her and her Land They come from far so far that from the end Of Heav'n her to destroy God will them send To fear for paints and sorrow they shall drive This Scarlet Whore they shall against her thrive And she shall be in pain as woman are That are in travel and be fill'd with fear So much amaz'd her brats will look and stare At one another wondring what they are Whose faces are as flames for so they 'l be When she the coming of this day doth see That cruel day of anget and of wrath Which day will come though God seems to be loth To plague her for her sins yet when they are Become full ripe he will no longer bear But will against proud Babylon arise Her nakedness uncover and her thighs And lay her in the dust with loathsom shame Cut off from her both son and nephew name And remnant too that there shall be no more Left nor remain of this proud painted Whore For this great Work shall certainly be done When God shall say to Jacob Fear thou none Worm Jacob then shall so exalted be And from the Lord receive such strength that he Shall by Jehovah out of doubt be made According as the Prophets have fore-said A threshing Instrument both sharp and new To thresh this Mountain with this tale is true God will the Mountains beat therewith so small And make the Hills as chaff and fan them all The wind shall carry them away and when The whirlwind shall them scatter Jacob then Shall magnifie and praise the Lord with songs And give the praise to whom the praise belongs For in the holy One of Israel he Shall glory now and everlastingly When God shall give to Zion this Command Arise and thresh up Zion then shall stand Her horns shall then be made as Iron when Her hoofs shall be as brass with which those men I mean of Babylon or Rome shall be Beat all in pieces for their cruelty For God will bath his Sworn in Heav'n and then He 'l send it down upon those wicked men All them that are the people of his Curse That will not turn but still wax worse and worse To Judgement it shall come to judge the Whore For all her cursed deeds which she hath store For when the day of Vengeance shall come in The heart of God he 'l punish all her sin That day of Vengeance which to God is known That year of Recompences for Zion For Zion's controversie shall it be When God shall judge and plague the Whore for he Will tread her down in fury and will make In anger Romes foundations all to shake Then wil the Lord bring down her pride strength Unto the