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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

satisfaction to all truly religious Christians and pious Protestants I rest Thine in the Lord John Vicars BABYLONS BEAVTIE OR The Romish-Catholicks Sweet-heart THis faithlesse faultring and backsliding world hath now for about 14 or 1500 years been haulting and staggering between not only 2 but many distracted opinions both touching the true God as it was between the heathens and primitive Christians and also as now it is and long hath been between Protestants Papists and other Sectaries Concerning the pure and sincere worship of the true God whether Christ or Antichrist Simple plaine and pure worship or miserably mixed idolatrie and superstition should stand or fall be loved or disliked And from this ground and bottome have all the flames of Contention and bloudy broyles over the whole Christian World even for these many hundred yeares been raised and blazed abroad even to the utter depopulation and ruine of many Countries and Kingdomes And although the Lord God of Heaven and Earth may be said to have taken that most wise Course which once he himselfe dictated and directed to his Zealous and pious prophet Elijah inspired with heavenly wisedome and Courage to prove and clearely demonstrate to his apostatizing faithlesse and faultring Israelites in wicked Ahabs time the true God from false and abusive Baall even by miraculous fire from heaven And as the false god Baal was most notably discovered by his false-prophets notwithstanding their vehement calling and crying on their blockish god yea and that with cuttings and slashings of their flesh to move him to heare them and to answer them by fire also which hee could not to be a false-god or indeed no god at all Even so I say our most wise God the onely true God hath after a certaine manner taken the same course even by the true heavenly and supernaturall fire of sound Faith which workes by Love Zeale and true holinesse of life and conversation in his Saints and Servants from time to time most aboundantly and evidently hath manifested to the world in all ages that as hee is the onely true God and a most pure and incomprehensible Spirit so hee will be worshipped in plaine Simplicity in Spirit and truth of all his true worshippers And that Antichrict and all his foolish and faithlesse not praying but prating Priests and babling Baalists mumbling and muttering over so many Paternosters and Ave-Maries together with all their Good frydayes whipping-cheer lashing and gashing their flesh just like Baals Priests are but very lyers and abhominable impostures and deceivers and that God hates and abhorrs all their rotten painted and polluted idolatry and Superstition which Antichrist that most audacious and brazen-fac'd Whore of Rome hath by her Ignatian and truly igneous flaming Iesuites and Popish proselites endevoured and strenuously striven with fire and sword with juglings and delusions to uphould and maintaine but all in vaine to this present time though I must confesse with much misery ruine and desolation to Gods Church and Children in all those foresaid many hundred yeares even ever since Antichrist the Baal and Belial of Rome grew up to such an ungodly growth and pernicious power by the too great lenity indulgence and over-honest affection and favour which the primitive Christian Emperours Constantine and others exhibited to those Patriarkes and Popes of their times who afterwards in short time most grossely abused their honest love and liberality unto extreme and excessive pride and insolencie even till at last they grew to that highth that they proved not only intolerable but untameable to posterity all along Now although as I touched before our most wise and patient God had from time to time in all Antichrists insulting and usurped authority and tyranny let the world see if at least it would have seen that his will and worship revealed only in his Word not Antichrists unwritten rotten trash and traditious Decrees and Decretals was the old way and the good way to be walked in yet such hath been the unexpressible knaverie impostures and juglings together with unsufferable cruelties and tyrannies exercised on Gods people by the Popes and their most nefariously pestilent and pernicious Jesuites Fryers and lyars those croaking Froggs ascending out of the foggie fumes and black smoake of the bottomlesse pit of hell that either by force or fraud they have wonderfully wrought upon the spirits of men to be misled by them and sillily and sottishly driven or drawne them to beleeve and imbrace Romes either lying wonders or frying furies and cruelties Now then I say this being the maine and mightie ground and most bainfull bottome of all the warres and jarrs that are now in the Christian world namely whither Romes usurped rule and regiment or Christs evangelicall Truth and Testament shall stand and prevaile whither Christs pure and precious Comelinesse or Romes inwardly rotten though outwardly specious and painted Beauty or rather Bauderie is fittest to be followed and affected In short whither Christ or Antichrist shall be King and sole Lord and Soveraigne I have therefore in this short Treatise undertaken to set forth in her proper and most genuine and native deepe-died colours in graine the great Diana of Rome so cryed-up admired and adored by almost the whole world at least of sottish and senslesse onely nominall Christians and perishing sonnes of disobedience who give themselves up to believe lyes that they all may be damned who will not receive the love of the truth in righteousnesse as the Apostle Paul most notably shewes yea and to limn and delineat Romes most lively picture and faire or rather infamous figure and feature most unquestionably knowne to all knowing and ingenuous Christians to be most properly and peculiarly hers and only or mainly hers as all Ecclesiasticall Histories and Historiographers both ancient and moderne besides the sensible experience of pristine and present suffering Christians in all ages have and doe decipher and set her forth and without all cause of controversie most faithfully prove and testifie And because all these things which I now intend in this Treatise to deliver and that with all historicall fidelitie and convenient brevitie are so well knowne to all learned and intelligent Christians I have resolved for the avoiding of tediousnesse and intricate prolixitie to the ordinary sort of Readers who are like to be the greatest number to set downe most succinctly the Histories themselves barely and plainly without much or almost any marginall notes or quotations of authours that so my honest and plain Readers may with more full delight and content see and seeing admire and admiring be amazed at the egregious madnesse and stupid sottishnesse of our Popish admirers and adorers both Princes and people of such a rotten ramish Whore and most bold and brazen-fac'd a painted Strumpet Who dares so audaciously abuse and intoxicate them with such deepe drafts of her golden-cup of mortiferous poyson of Romish fornications to the fatall and finall ruine and perdition without

in a booke lately published entituled Plots Conspiracies and Attempts of Domestick and Forraigne Enemies of the Romish Religion against England Scotland and Ireland since the Reformation in Qu Elizabeths daies very worthy to be read for fuller satisfaction in this kinde I might heere also promp my country-mens dull memories and O shame yea most extrem shame for us that we should already want jogging at the elbow that we should so soon so slightly and so ungratefully forget such a matchles mercy concerning that mighty deliverance the Popish pouder-Plot Upon occasion of the licensing of my historie wherof that base back-sliding Apostate of our late daies D r Baker one of the Arch-Prelate Lauds white-boys of those times was not asham'd most impiously and audaciously to say that we were not now a-daies so angry with the Papists these bloudy hel-hounds as they were 20 or 30 years before so forward and hopefull it seems was the reconciliation of England to Rome Even that hell batch'd bloudie and most barbarous conjuration and exorbitant treason invented contrived and attempted too by those Romish Wolves in sheeps-skins by that Jesuite Priest Garnet the Arch traitour and his twelve Apostles or rather devils incarnate I meane that most horrid and hellish Popish Gun-powder Plot to have blowne up into the aire and miserably torne in peeces the bodies of our King Queen Prince and both the whole-Houses of Parliament then full fraught with the entire creame of the Kingdom of Peers and Commons all these at one most furious and sulphurious blow as one time in the twinckling of an eye besides the most bloudy miseries thereof had it taken intended effect which certainly are unexpressible by any mans most dexterious pen and ingenie All these yea any one of these should me thinkes be enough and farre too much to make that abhominable Whore of Rome to blush and be asham'd if it were possible and that she had not too evidently put on such a brazen browe and brawny Whores fore-head that nothing can make her blush or be one jot asham'd And finally I might here call to mind and yet me thinkes I should not need 't is so fresh in our present memorie being so late and lamentable as a last but not least peece of glistering varnish to set off and set home to the purpose this Whore of Babylons Romish-rotten Beautie and bloudie Braverie in telling the Christian Reader of the late and long and still lasting matchlesse miseries and unpattern'd and unparalell'd calamities of our poore distressed and desolate sister Germanie now for the space of 23 or 24 yeares made of the most flourishing faire and famous garden of Europe a most lamentable Chaos and Golgotha of bloud and slaughtered carkasses a rude ruinated and forlorne Wildernesse the particular and personall sorrowes and sufferings of which people men women and children of all conditions ages and both sexes to relate would make both the Writers and Readers haire to stand an end and their hearts and hands to quake and tremble to faint and faile them exactly to expresse and set them forth but it being already done to our hands in a fearfull manner in a book entituled Germanies Teares I shall referre the farther sight and knowledge thereof if any desire it to the said Booke And all this also being most perniciously perpetrated and acted on the persons estates and habitations of that pittifully depopulated Country by the most insatiable rage and mercilesse matchlesse accursed cruelty of the bloud-sucking Wolfe Tyger Monster what can I fitly call her of Rome and her inhumane roaring raging and all ruining sons and nurssings And to conclude and shut up all with that which is equall if not transcendent to all or any of the generall or particular barbarities and matchlesse immunities of those wilde Beares and Boares of Rome I meane the marvellous miseries and deep-died distresses of our dearer because nearer Sister bleeding nay even dying Ireland at this present and hitherto for above a 12 months space wherin also I may not unduly intermix the present pitious sad and bad plight and condition of our owne English being both imbarked tossed and tumbled at this time in one and the same Ocean of distresse and bloudy broyles though not yet ever glorified be our God for it not in Irelands heighth and universalitie tragically acted and perpetrated also by her owne most unnaturall viperous natives those beastly basely and matchlesly murderous Irish-rogues and Rebels of that forlorne kingdome even those right black and bloudie sons of their monstrous-Mother the Whore of Rome whom to make and set up as their bloudie-god they have so dealt with all Gods English Protestant people there whom they could reach and catch into their foule Harpeian fingers and vulturous claws and tallons that truly I dare not for fear and trembling undertake to set forth and decipher the particulars they are so sad and bad so bitter and terrible but must and will for brevity sake also referre the Reader that desires to heare or know them to two other books extant also in print the one entituled Irelands Lamentation the other Irelands Remonstrance Where he may sadly see how those too-apt Schollars of Rome have even transcended their teachers which is most admirable and one would have thought till now impossible in their exquisitest and deepest Lectures patterns and presidents of damnable and detestable cruelties most hellish villanies and blasphemies to the intolerable terrour of those that doe but reade them Ah poore soules what was it then to those that suffer'd and endur'd them And thus I think I have sufficiently set forth and blazoned the 5th part or peece of Babylons Beauty and painted out this sanguine colour of cruelty tyranny and treacherie of this Scarlet strumpet of Rome and of her most scelerous sons and pernicious Popish proselites and Iesuiticall monsters the horrid and hideous incendiaries and bloud-suckers of the whole Christian world Now therefore in the 6th and last place I shall briefly endeavour to set this picture of the Pope and his pestilent progenie into a faire frame and so fit it to be hung up to the most conspicuous view and visible aspection of all that will but bring their equall and impartiall eyes and fight along with them that so this most famous or rather infamous Harlot of Rome may be seene the more clearly to be the Antichrist indeed even the grand Adversarie of the Lord Iesus Christ not only by most abhominable carriage and conversation in life as now you have seen set forth to the life but also in corrupt and counterfeit Doctrin too most faithlesly and falsly perverting and abusing the most sacred Scriptures whereby Rome and all her Popish rabble of Trentine Romanists most apparently precipitate and cast themselves head-long both soules and bodies into everlasting perdition without true and timely repentance as is most cleare by the infallible testimony of the Spirit of God the most faithfull