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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95878	Babylons beautie: or The Romish-Catholicks svveet-heart. Containing a most lively and lovely description of Romes cardinall vertues and rarest endowments, with her apostolicall benedictions on kings and kingdomes, under her tyrannicall subjection; briefly and bravely depainted, in their native-splendour. A worke most seasonably composed for the revived eternall shame of all the mad-maintainers and idolizers of Romes great Diana, so cried-up and fought for, now a daies, by papists, atheists, and formall malignant Protestants. / By John Vicars.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1644 (1644)	Wing V293; Thomason E44_9; ESTC R23310	32,354	40

and loathed But if ye will blindly and blockishly persist maugre all that can be said or shewne unto you in this your grosse folly doe ye not manifest to the whole world that ye are Romae amentes haud amantes not only starke fooles but Romes meere mad-men who will bestow your love on such a lovelesse and ●●●thsome stinking strumpet Yea in thus doing and doting are ye not like those idolatrous sots mentioned by the Prophet who having cut downe their Cedar trees and chopt and chipt them and with part thereof made them a wooden god and with the other part thereof made them a fire and warmed themselves thereat saying Aha we are warme and have seene the fire made of a part of the same Cedars whereof we have made our gods which we worship O grosse absurdity in their so doing wherof I say may not all wise hearted and godly Christians fitly turn that sottish Aha into a just Haha of laughter scorne and derision to see and observe with those idolatrous Hebrewes the Romish sots and idiots of ours and former times call and account admire and adore such Romish Beasts such stupendiously execrable Strumpets of spirituall fornication and idolatry most worthy of all contempt and hatred their gods and their Saviours For shame for shame flie from them hate and abhorr them as most noy some loathsom poysonous stinging Serpents as the bitter bane and mortiferous Henbane of your estates bodies and soules And as Elijah said to the slaggering Israelites of his times so say I to you all both Papists and formall wavering Protestants as I touched this passage at the beginning of this Treatise if the Lord be God follow him and him only But if Baal be God the contrary whereof I thinke hath been abundantly proved then follow him O why halt ye thus between 2 opinions Or rather why joyne ye your selves so closely to such false-gods such lying vanities which doe you infinitely more hurt than good nay who never did you any good at all but alwaies did you the worst and bitterest evill both to bodie and soule that is possibly able to befall you even the damning of them both to infinite and endles miserie O how happy were it for you if once it would please the Lord to open your eies and mollifie and rectifie your hearts to see and consider what ye have done whence ye are fallen and whither you are headlong tumbling and then seriously and sincerely to resolve on that Piam Christianam crudelitatem that holy and Christian cruelty as I may me thinkes fitly call it mentioned by the Spirit of God himselfe namely That if thy dearest Brother the sonne of thy Mother thy sinne or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosome yea or thy nearest and dearest friend who is unto thee as thine owne soule should secretly entice thee or openly endeavour to allure thee to goe a whoring after idoll-gods By all meanes be so farre from consenting to them as contrarywise not to suffer thine eyes to pitty or spare them like that most noble and renowned Christian convert famous Galeacius Caracciolus Marquesse of Vice but to throw them from thee to trample and tread on them and to cause thine owne hand to be first upon them even to stone or kill them because they sought and wrought to thrust and draw thee from the Lord thy God to idolatry That thus by thine example as the holy Spirit of God goes on there others of the same superstitious and idolatrous rank and rabble may see and heare and feare and doe no more such wickednesse as this is among you And for a close of all and with which I will conclude O that all idolatrous Papists would seasonably and seriously consider how close that fearfull sentence and peremptory malediction of the pious Prophet David comes to the heart and stings the soule of all the obstinate and desperate idolaters of Rome who so flashily and foolishly glorie in that badge of the Beast the title and appellation of Romish Catholicks forsooth who I say breakes out against them all in this most emphaticall and plaine and positive execration Confounded be all they that worship or serve graven images and that boast themselves of Idols and fals-gods O therefore who ever thou art that belongest to God for I am not so uncharitable but to beleeve God hath some yet blinded ignorant and captivated soules even in Spaine and Rome it selfe whom he will timely take out from among them lay this I say as close to thy heart as it comes close unto thee and most nearly concernes thee And readily and speedily imbrace that gracious invitation of thy most sweet Saviour and only precious Redeemer and efficatious Intercessour the Lord Iesus Christ Who having already peremptorily declared and foreshowne the certain ruine and confusion of the red Dragon the Scarlet Whore the Antichrist of Rome with such indubitable assertions and asseverations thereof as is cleare Revel 18. 2. as if it were already done in these words Babylon the great is fallen is fallen see what a serious asseveration is here with an ingemination in the present tense and is become the habitation of devils the hould of uncleane spirits and a very cage of all uncleane and ravenous hatefull birds as I thinke hath been aboundantly seen and shewne to the purpose in this little Treatise Therefore I say in regard her ruine is so certain the Lord Jesus Christ most graciously invites all his poore people whom though mixed among the Romish Babylonians he hath a purpose to save and preserve to come out of Babylon unto him saying ver 4. Come out of her my people come out of her that ye be not partakers of her sins and so consequently that ye may not receive of her plagues Which now without all controversie the Lord is pouring out upon her and resolving ver 6. to reward her as she hath rewarded Gods Saints and to double unto her double according to all her abhominable works and in the Cup which she hath filled to others to fill her double Even so Come Lord Jesus come quickly to revenge the precious bloud of thy slaughtered Saints hasten thy comming and for thine Elects sake as thou hast promised shorten the dayes of their sorrow Amen and Amen Omnis Gloria solius est Domini FINIS Christendomes grand-quarrell Whither God or Baal Christ or Anti-christ shall raigne 1 King 18. 24. Joh. 4. 23 24. The ground of all Europes intestine contentions 2 Thess 2. The method of this worke 1. Pride and Insolencie 2. Covetousnesse and Avarice 3. Incontinencie uncleannes 4. Blasphemies impieties 5. Tyrannie and cruelty 6. A faire frame for this picture In an exact paralell or Antithesis of the ancient doctrin of Christ and the opposite new doctrine of Antichrist And a Hortatory Epilogue 1. Pride and Insolencie The Pope proudly casts the Sacrament into the fire The

therewithall she immediately died O was not here a brave breach of their loud and lying bragge of an uninterrupted succession of Popes and Bishops of Rome And yet so impudent are they to cry out unto us to this day of their lineall succession as a maine marke of their Apostolicall but indeed Apostaticall Church Pope Benedict the eighth also being he that was fore-mentioned that sold away his Popedome to Gregorie the sixth for a 1500. lb. was a most notorious fornicatour and adulterer and such an horrid Nigromancer and sorcerer that at last he was most hideously strangled to death by the devill himselfe as their owne Popish Historians testifie Pope John the thirteenth also was a most filthie and lustfull man and condemned of many grosse enormities especially for his Incontinencie being accused before the Emperour Otho the fourth in a Synod at Rome that he had committed incest with two of his owne Sisters that he had destored maidens turned his sacred palace forsooth into a stinking Stews that he had lyen with one Stephana his fathers Concubine and with the widow Reynera and with another widow called Anna and with his neece and at last he was stabbed to death by the husband of one that found him in the act of adulterie with his wife Pope Hildebrand also that brand of hell of whom we made mention before for his monstrous pride and insolencie was also a most notorious and filthy adulterer yet most stiffely and desperately forbad Priests marriage O most abhominable and monstrous hypocrite This devillish Beast was also a most wicked Nigromancer and Inchanter Honorius the 2d Pope of Rome sent into England one John of Crema Cardinall of S. Grison his Legate which Cardinall in a Councell by him held in London condemned all married Priests and the very night following he himselfe was taken to give you the very expression of my Historian with the theft in his hand was taken in bed with a wicked woman in the very act of adultery And was not here another egregious Romish hypocrite And Pope Innocent rather Nocent the eighth had eight sons and eight daughters yet never was married And might not they all most properly indeed say unto him O Papa O Father but most improperly and injuriously most holy Father And which was most extreme impudence in the Popes of Rome they most of them having many bastards both before and after they came to be Popes were so farre from being asham'd thereof that they let the world see how fatherlike care they had of them that they made some of them Kings Dukes Popes Cardinals Arch-bishops Queenes and Countesses and lifted them up to such like princely preferments And finally so horribly wicked was John Arch-bishop of Benevent and deane of the Apostolick-chamber for sooth and Nuncio to Pope Julius the 3d that he compiled a booke in commendation and praise of the abhominable sinne not fit to be once named which said booke was printed at Venice And doe not all these most odiously and infamously shew what a pure and chaste Spouse of Christ this Vicar forsooth of Christ and head of his Church this beastly Whore of Babylon is who thus frequently and filthily prostitutes soule and bodie both in her selfe and proselites to such more than belluine abhominations And is not here a deepe dyed colour even in graine of this most audacious brazen fac'd Strumpets Babylonish Beauty And yet though as the Lord bad the Prophet Ezekiel we have thus far digged into the wall and seen within thus many of Romes secret abhominations Yet I say I must desire the good Readers Christian patience and I shall as the Lord again and again bad the said holy Prophet goe yet farther into the Temple at Rome and shew you yet greater abhominations if it may be than all these before specified in now delivering and observing in the next place the most accursed and Atheisticall Blasphemies and other impieties of this most vicious Vicar forsooth of Christ of this spurious Successour of pious Peter and wherein we shall shew you how patly he followes the patterne and imitation of Christ and his Apostles in their pure Apostolicall vertues and graces And first I shall instance in that Pope John the 13th fore mentioned and branded as then with most blacke markes of infamie for his abhominable lust and incontinencie so now also againe with the hellish coale of diabolicall blasphemie For this Pope in playing at dice for no small summes of money ye may believe invocated the devill to get the games And in his cups would drinke healths to the devill as Luithprandus an ancient Historian testifies Pope Sylvester the 2d also from his youth gave himselfe extremely to Inchantments and Witch-craft and as Platina writes of him he contracted and covenanted with the devill in his youth to give him both his body and soul conditionally that he might by his means attain to great worldly pomp and dignities Which the devill accordingly performed for him being as the Scripture cals him the Prince of this world yet but by Gods permission and that only in the sons of disobedience who afterward ascending up to the Popes Chair and being by the devils assistance made Pope of Rome he had a Copper-head which he kept secret which alwayes gave him an answer of what from time to time hee demanded of the devill At last hee was desirous to know of the devill how long he should be Pope Who as his custome alwayes was even in the oracles at Delphos and els where doubtfully answering tould him he should not die untill he had said Masse in Ierusalem Hereat Pope Sylvester much rejoyced resolving and purposing with himselfe never to goe to the City of Jerusalem But it was a custome in Rome that on a certaine fixed day in Lent the Popes of Rome must say Masse in the Church of the holy-Crosse called also Jerusalem Where and when Sylvester being forgetfull of the devills deceipt celebrated Masse there and was instantly taken with a great burning fever The Pope then Sayes Petrus Premostratensis and Bennon two ancient writers Knowing by the roaring of the devills that his end was neare and being in extreme sorrowes besought those about him to cut off his hands and tongue giving them the reasons of his desire therein and so shortly after died See here then O blinde Roman Catholicks as ye like to be call'd and counted tell me can your holy father the Pope of Rome erre or not Where now was his pretended spirit of infallibilitie so inseperably inherent as ye most lyingly prate to the Papall Chaire And it is frequently reported and testified by their Historians that all the Popes from this Pope Sylvester the 2d to Gregorie the 7th a notorious villaine for his life and a great Inchanter which were 18 of them successively immediately one after another were notorious Inchanters and Nigromancers a sweet brood hatcht up