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A12095	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse laying open the Beast, and his marks. Vpon the 14. of the Reuelations, vers. 9.10.11. By Richard Sheldon, a conuert from out of Babylon. Doctor in Diuinitie, His Maiesties chaplaine.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1625 (1625)	STC 22398; ESTC S117172	45,770	62

ignorant of the altitudes of the Beast or not obstinately wedded thereunto are in the way of saluation but I say of such that they are in the Popish Church though not of the Popish Church and that they suck onely the good which is in that Church but haue a reluctancie against the errours and superstitions against the immanities and presumptions of the Beast and of his State If any one aske mee how this can bee so my answere is very facill for that in that Church there is the Creed of the Apostles there are How saluation may be thought to be had in the Popish Church also the holy Scriptures though partly corrupted why then shall it bee thought impossible for many in that Church to professe the holy Creed in its true sense and to imbrace so much of the holy Scriptures in the true sense as is necessary to saluation And as for practise most certaine it is that diuers in that Church neither adore their Images nor their God in bread nor greatly heed praying to Saints nor the Popes Supremacie nor Purgatory flashes with such like and as for Papall Pardons Graines Meddalls Agnus-deyes with such like trumperies they doe both scorne and detest them though for feare of the Pharisies they dare not so professe Of these and such like I will confidently thinke and affirme that they may so fairely bee in the way of saluation as Nicodemus was Iohn 3. 2. whilst hee came to Christ by stealth in the night and as some of those thousands were of whom God to Elias who had not bowed their knees to Baall This point I might further enlarge and more fully confirme but time permits mee not so to doe yet time by your Christian patience and leaue shall yeeld mee libertie to giue a necessarie instruction vnto such if any such heare mee this day who trembling and fearing where there is no iust cause of feare do fearefully presage and feare to themselues that there may happen and also that the same is at hand some generall fall and change from Religion A vaine feare of change of religion conuicted and reproued to Popery in this renowned State and Kingdome Against the vanitie of this conceit though I nothing doubt but that there are who endeuour such a fall and most perfidiously endeuour it let me thus confirme and arme you That such a thing is Morally Royally and Diuinely impossible First it is morally impossible that a Kingdome so setled and established in Christs Gospel should euer indure to behold the puppit playes of Popery had the truth bin so established in King Edwards reigne as now by Gods fauour it is wee should not haue seene nor heard of so sudden a change as was made presently after but what was the cause therof the Calues of Bethel were then fresh in remembrance the Beast then but entred into her consumption with vs the wordes of God there and then are fulfilled when and where her flesh is eaten and her bones consumed The Gospel was indeed planted in King Edwards dayes but not watered before Queene Maries Tragedy The good seed was cast into the ground but it rooted not till it was watered and after it was watered with the blood of Saints euer since it hath flourished as the Palme and shall still God saying Amen flourish maugre the malice of Satan and of Antichrist Cast your eyes round about this present World reflect your memories into Generations al Generations past and shew me if you can any State or Kingdom which hauing once fully fully I say shaken off the Papall yoke by a perfect reformation did euer setledly receiue the same again How many pretended vnions of subiection aboue halfe a score haue beene made betwixt the Church of Rome and those of Constantinople and of the East and as yet they haue not setledly agreed neither will they euer so do The Muscouian Empire which is now of the Greekes beliefe had it not rather fall into the hands of the Turke then into the Beares Feet And is not such the resolued affection of most Reformed professions States Not for any loue they beare to the Turkish profession as Turce-Papizing Reinolds calumniously Coluino turc lib. 7. inferres and deduces but for that there is a Greater Clemencie in Turke then in Pope the later incessantly persecuting with fire and faggot all reformed Professors whom the other Clemently tolerates and respectiuely protects as likewise he doth those of the Papal faith who are tolerated likewise if peaceable within the bounds of his Empire And to conclude this point where the light of the Gospel hath beene throughly preached and the puppet-like vanities of Popery haue been liuely displaied it is not possible that any Intelligent or vnderstanding Nation should bee brought to creep to a wodden stocke or to fall downe and adore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a God of bread which after digestion is to be cast in secessum into the priuy or which locked vp in a Tabernacle may be knawen by a Mouse or Rat or consumed by Wormes c. Thus is alteration and change of religion in this renowned State and what States-man knoweth not so much shewed to be morally impossible more might bee added I said in the second place that such a change was diuinely impossible for how else to dispute probably and why may not such be the sense of the Holy Ghost shall the words of God be accomplished that those States and Kingdomes Apoc. 17. 1● which first loued the whore should afterwards hate her yea so hate her that they should eat her flesh and consume her bones with fire and what is this else but to make her desolate without any hope of euer recouering her former state againe The Scripture speaketh thus of all the haters of the whore haters of the whore I say such as make a perfect reformation not in part but wholly not in substance only but in ceremonies likewise such as eat and deuoure the delicacy of all her superstitious rags and consume the very body of her errours and heresies the Scripture affirming this of all the haters of the Whore may we not with great probabilitie apply and assume the same to this renowned State and Church which is become as an Assyle and Sanctuary to all sincere haters of the Whore to all such whom the Tyranny of the Whore and her Confederates may force into exile and to all such whom the force of Truth may effectually moue to abandon all subiection to the Whore The Word of God is gone forth and by what is alreadie happily begun let vs bee most assured that her vtter ruine will in time bee accomplished what if our disguised Aduersaries vaunt to their deceiued Dames and deluded wantons the contrary what though our Luke-warme Laodiceanizers halters betwixt Baal and God dreame to the contrary gaping after preferments by such meanes which are neuer likely to come to passe what though the Couert-chaffe of Communion-Recusants doe

instable persons laden with sinne who thinke that to be a most facill religion which teacheth dames and maides men and boyes to disburden their loaded soules into a Priests lap to confesse and to bee absolued and then all to bee cock-sure for say they the Priests sentence on earth is also ratified in the very heauens yea though the sentence bee giuen wel-nigh in the very heat of the sinne yea more in the gilt of cankeriated and seared consciences prepared and ready to returne as the dog to the vomit to the same sinne againe How vaine to thinke that our Aduersaries shal be euer able to preuaile by the way of truth when as their fingers neuer cease by additions detractions and immutations to corrupt they say to correct Ancient Authors when as they dare not suffer any of theirs to read any of our See Azor. institut moral p. 1. l. 8. c. 16. bookes but curse with bell booke and candle all those who without speciall licence shall attempt the same And though they may bee thought to deale discreetly in Manifest timidity in the Popes not to allow the reading of any of our bookes no not to their Prelates that they doe not indifferently permit the reading of our bookes to the promiscuous multitude yet that they should not allow their learned Laicks more their learned Priests more their learned Pastors more their Doctors and Prelates to read our bookes What else can bee the cause but a conscience of their own weaknesse On the contrary Truth goeth on so confident like a Lion and couragious in all Protestant States or most of them that welnigh an infinitie of Popish Authors are therein permitted and yet notwithstanding such an infinite libertie which How Popery tolerated and yet to little effect in a true sense may bee called a toleration of Popery euen in her cunningest and readiest mystery of deceit yet how few of our learned iudicious and vnderstanding professors are by such meanes drawne away from vs to them blasts and puffs of discontent do indeed driue away some from vs But should such a libertie of our bookes bee allowed amongst them it were not possible but that the tenth if not more of theirs both learned and iudicious would repaire to vs And is not this an argument Ostensine that truth is with vs and not with them And againe that their bookes though tolerated amongst vs to vse Chrysostoms phrase do rather confirme and settle solid minds then moue or shake them Chrysost in 1. ad Corinth Thus much haue wee noted of their bookes tolerated but to adde a few words for your instruction where in any State Protestant it may happen any Ignatians or other Popish Priests and Friers to bee tolerated or conniued at what is the primest and onlyest weapon and meanes by which they vse to negotiate Soules and to draw seduced fooles into their net of perdition surely it is fraudulent latencie and seerecie to worke in secret not suffering them whom they assault if possibly they may bee so perswaded to make knowne their attempts to any of our learned Doctors and Pastors Carbo contesting and opposing The fraudulent endeuours of Popish Friers c. against Silla his sworne enemy was wonted to affirme of him That in Silla hee fought both against Fox and Lion yet that hee feared more from the Fox then from the Lion Our Contestation and opposition being against these our most deuoted Enemies Roman Sillas we are in them to oppose both against Fox and Lion yet in my opinion we may iustly feare more from the Fox then from the Lion I meane more from their craftie subtilty then from their open hostilitie and imm●nitie Amongst all the subtilties of the Fox his hole is the primest Amongst all the subtilties of the Ignatians Friers and Monkes where the publike face of religion is nor theirs but they may onely happen to be tolerated or conniued at no one Their greatest subtilty is Latency subtiltie is like to that of their Latencie who as they there desire to go disguised in their habits and to walke in many colours and formes sauing their owne yea and had rather be conniued at to goe so disguised then to bee tolerated to goe in their owne habits themselues for being subdolo●● workmen they shun nothing more then the light so aboue all things they endeauour that the perswasions which they vse to draw any from the truth may be secret latent and not knowne If then the wisdome of any Protestant State should for some high respects thinke it A necessary aduice meet to tolerate or to conniue at such manner of persons then aboue any cautions to bee vsed against their subtilties diuices and circumuentions I dare be bold to giue this and in the feare of God and in his presence to charge you with it that so soone as any of you may bee assaulted with their secret and sugred perswasions to forsake Gods truth and to imbrace their Idolo-many that forthwith and with all speed yee make the same knowne to some learned and discreet Diuines who by the rule of reason by the Authoritie of venerable Antiquitie but aboue all by the sacred Word of God the rule of our Faith may prearme you against all their superstitious and sophistical vanities I said before discreet learned Ministers for aboue all things those who are so assaulted must beware of those men who are Semi-Admirers after the Beast I meane such who who hauing put on the Dalmatian Apostatizing spirit or at least are beginning to put on the same doe hold that the Papall Church is the true Church of Christ and that the obstinate Papists so liuing and dying without repentance are in the state of saluation Further who affirme and dare to dogmatize that there are no Heresies publikely defended and maintained in the Papall State and that there is no fundamentall difference betwixt the Roman and the Reformed Churches and yet lest these Neutralizers should bee taken in their hypocrisie they will fairely mince the matter and refine their words For they will acknowledge the Roman Church to be O Egregious aliqualiter corruptam in somewhat corrupted These these Sinoes yee must by all means auoid for howsoeuer they seeme to bee ours yet they are not in truth of vs but are ready to goe out of vs driuen by any blast of discontent or allured by any gayle of promotion and that wee haue now more such amongst vs it ariseth from the vanitie of false hopes and expectations And yet let mee not here bee mistaken in that which I so resolutely affirme against the saluation of Papists or of their being in the state of saluation This I affirme not of or against all but against wilfull vnrelenting and vnrepentant Papists For no doubt can be made but that in the Popish Church there are and haue bin diuers which if wee will speake properly and according to the nature of termes wee may not call Papists who