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spirit_n	corruption_n	flesh_n	reap_v	5,289	5	10.9811	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76237	A seasonable warning and word of advice to all papists, but most especially to those of the kingdome of France; for them to turn from their idolatry, and gross superstition, and speedily to repent, and hast to meet the Lord by amendment of life, least he come on them, and smite them unawares ... / Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles, 17th century.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473A; ESTC R170471	59,588	68

several houses for himself to dwell in but inricheth all his posterity purchasing to one of his kindred a Prince-ship and by this it appeareth he hath not forsaken all but covets all or as much as in him lyeth to have Christ when he rode was contented with an Asse but the Pope when he goeth forth though but a mile or two is carried by men and notwithstanding hath several Horses to attend upon him and a Coach with six pompered Horses to tend upon him empty which is a horrid shame for any single eye to behold in such a one who taketh upon him the name of Christs Vicar upon Earth did he do it only in the name of an Earthly Prince his abomination would not be altogether so great but this sheweth him to be in the way of the vain Heathen and not a man of God nor God-like in these actions for Paul when he was called of God into his holy Ministry he immediately obeyed the Heavenly voyce and went and preached the Gospel and not go and shut himself up in great possessions and there give forth Indulgences for pardons for sins but on the contrary declared the terrors of the Lord against all sin and said Such as men sowed such should they reap if they sowed to the flesh they should of the flesh reap corruption but if they sowed to the Spirit they should reap life everlasting And also said That the wages of sin is death So that this was far from giving pardons for sins as the Pope doth Christ saith The Heathen exercise Lordship one over another but with you it shall not be so speaking to those who had truly forsaken all to follow him He that will be greatest among you let him be servant to all for he that exalteth himself shall be abased and he that abaseth himself shall be exalted saith Christ who said Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart But with the Pope and in his Dominion there is Lording and exercising Lordship one over another striving who shall be greatest amongst them as may be seen in the Ecclesiastical Courts in Rome and elsewhere where they are suing and striving for honour and by this they shew they are wholly degenerated from the holy life of Christ and his righteous Commands who was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief who sought not his own glory but the glory of him that sent him who was in travels and tumults in revilings and reproaches giving his back to the smiter and his cheeks to him which plucked off the hair when he was reviled reviled not again when he was persecuted he entreated and rendred not evil for evil but sought the good of all and bore the contradiction of sinners This was his holy life and example in the dayes of his flesh even in that body which was prepared him to do the will of his Father in leaving all his holy examples to follow And now let the Pope and all his Adherents be measured by these fruits they will be found wholly contrary and against him for instead of being acquainted with grief they cause others to be grieved and shut themselves up in the fattest possessions and they are fatned themselves as for the day of slaughter sporting themselves with Wine and Musick destroying and devouring the fat of the Creation this is apparent to every single eye And the Pope instead of bearing the contradiction of sinners is one with them and tollerates them in it and suffereth none to come to speak with him without using a deal of flattering and deceit and when they do obtain the liberty must fall down and worship before him and commonly kisse his toe which is a horrible and detestable thing in the sight of God and instead of being persecuted causeth all to be persecuted within his Dominion that will not bow to these his wicked practices And instead of submitting his body to do the will of God he pompers it dayly Dives-like whilest the poor fatherless and widdow is oppressed one need not go far to prove this for it may be seen all over his Dominion in the open streets Christ saith Freely ye have received freely give For his Ministry is a free Ministry but the Popes is altogether contrary for there is nought to be had of his Ministers but what the people must give money for yea when they have given money all the dayes of their life they must give money to be prayed for after they are dead Ages and Generations cannot paralel this horrible cheat which they through deceit and hypocrisie deceive the hearts of the simple with not an Age I say since the Apostacy can shew the like And thus it is the people are spending their money for that which is not bread and their labour for that which profiteth not ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth as plainly appeareth for if they had come to the knowledge of the truth the truth would have made them free as saith Christ who preached no such thing as Purgatory neither did he tell people they must give money for Masses to be said for them after they were dead to be had out from thence as the Popes doctrine teacheth So this is not with but against Christ and so Antichrist for saith Christ Whosoever is not with me is against me and the tree is known by its fruit and this is a mark for evermore for by their fruits we know them though they may put on Sheeps cloathing yet inwardly they are ravening Wolvs alienated from the Spirit of truth which would lead into all truth and being from it erred are given over to believe lies that they might be damned and so run greedily on in the way of destruction and having lost the key of true knowledge have run on in the fleshly knowledge and wisdome which is earthly sensual and devilish and in it are at enmity against God for that wisdome never knew him but on the contrary ever persecuted them which did it being the Seed of the Bond-woman which persecuted the Seed of the free-woman from righteous Abel unto this day enmity being put between the two Seeds for ever and each Seed is manifestly known by its fruits the one gendereth to sin bondage and corruption and the other keeps the Commandments of God the one a Persecutor and Murderer and the other a Sufferer So here one may see the Pope and all his Adherents as in a glass what seed and lineage they are of even by these their fruits which to their faces testifies what Generation they are of witness their Inquisition and places of tortures which they have so that if any seem to arise or stir among them and declare any thing which is not altogether suitable to their lusts then presently to the Inquisition with them away with them they are Hereticks and deserve not to live and so imprison and shut them up it is much if ever they come out except

will-worship and voluntary humility and nothing to the edifying of the body and so by degrees hath crope in more and more as the dark night of apostacy came in which time Christ Jesus said would come wherein no man could work And also the Apostle saw before his decease as I said before even such a falling away in his time that he said All Asia was turned from him Likewise Peter John and Jude speak of it for John in his Revelation saw all the world wandering after the Beast and none could buy or sell but those who received the mark of the Beast yea such will be the misery of the sons of men who are wandering after him saying Who is able to make war with him And the Harlot rides upon the Beast cloathed with Scarlet with the Cup full of abomination and filthiness in her hand which hath made all Nations drunk Let him which hath wisdome read and understand and consider whether the Pope and Cardinals in Rome doth not wear her Livery without and within yea or nay are they not built upon blood and to this very day are thirsting after it if not what means their Inquisitions and secret places of murder yet they themselves will shew and tell of the place they call by the name of Amphiatar where they say the Christians were put in in former times to be destroyed with wild Beasts though the same they themselves do at this very day even to those who have the least desire after the Lord by which they come to misturst the Idolatrous way they are in and if this be perceived amongst them then presently he or she is termed under the name of an Heritick and then to the Inquisition with them where the wild bruit Beasts set about them to devour them though at first they may flatter and fawn upon them like a Dog and if they see they cannot prevail with them that way it is much if ever they escape their devouring hands and this is not unknown to many but the Lord God of Heaven and Earth is risen to make inquisition for the blood of the slain and it is not the Inquisition which shall be able to conceal it from him for he will rip it open and lay it desolate for ever so that it shall become a hiss and a by-word by all the passers by for it shall be made like their Amphiatar for ever open and free and Gods eternall Glory and Truth shall freely be declared in it with free consent every way and this will the Lord work for his own Gloryes sake and none can prevent the Lords purpose which he hath determined for all the world hath wandered after the Beast and hath given their glory and honour unto him I say notwithstanding all this the Lord will raise up to himself an holy seed which shall make war with him and overcome him his chosen ones have already read the number of his name which is the number of a man and all that rise up and joyn in war with the Beast against them woe woe will be to them for ever The Angels of the Lord are going forth with Commission from the God of Heaven to curse the Earth because of the abominations of the Inhabitants thereof Therefore O ye people be awakened and warned and seriously consider what you are a doing for of a truth woe and vengeance will be powred out upon you in an unresistable manner except ye repent speedily therefore as one who is a follower of the Lamb through tribulations do I warn you in obedience to my King and Law-giver to kisse the Son least he be angry that ye may obtain mercy in this day of love and visitation to the sons of men for the Lord hath certainly determined to reap the earth of all corruption which aboundeth and superaboundeth therein the harvest is fully ripe and long hath the Lord born and forborn and his righteous Spirit hath long been oppressed even as a Cart is pressed which is laden with sheaves therefore will he plead with all flesh with the sword and with fire which none shall be able to withstand therefore be ye warned that your souls may live And though many of them make vows in their own wills to abstain from meats and women this shall stand them in no stead for in words they say they will do this and that but being out of Gods will lust burns in their hearts they not being come to that which would subdue the evill in themselves and these are they which the Apostle speaks of They promise others liberty whilest they themselves are the servants of corruption for of what a man is overcome by the same he is brought in bondage 2 Pet. 2.19 for at best they say they are of such a Saints Order which will avail them nothing they not being sanctified themselves were it so that Saints were of several Orders and Lifes but that 's an absolute lye and a false conception and this is only to blind the minds of the simple-hearted thereby to get the more several Inheritances and fat possessions to themselves by going in several habits and going under several denominations by which policy and deceit where they have been most believed received they have got the fattest and best possessions and notwithstanding go a begging and a roving up and down and take and receive from them who have great families to maintain which thing is grievous to be born in the Land but God will judge for this hypocrisie and deceit and ease the Land of this oppression of a Truth and their lyes and feignedness shall be laid open to every eye for the Saints were not of many Orders but of one only true Order which was truth in the Inward parts which is the root and ground of Religion in which they did not shut up themselves in houses and live in idleness and eat the bread thereof which the poor laboureth hard for and purchaseth by the sweat of their brows and with it these men under a pretence of holiness feed themselves without fear and this is not the order of Saints but of belly-gods for the Apostle writing unto the Saints saith He that will not work let him not eat He being an Example unto them though he laboured in the Gospel above many yea and the care of all the Churches were upon him yet notwithstanding his own hands ministred to his necessities which is a witnesse against the idle drones of this Generation which you take for your Confessors and they pretend to have power to absolve you from your sins and are not cleansed from their own Therefore hear and consider all people who are thus kept in blindnesse and ignorance there is nothing but the pure Holy Spirit of God which is able or can forgive sins for to it only is the power committed and not unto you who live in sins And therefore be awakened out of this horrid delusion for Christ Jesus said to his Apostles Whose