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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

authour of Sacred Writ And that the Reader may see this horrible presumption and audacious and blasphemous arrogancy of the Pope and his damned Tridentine Doctours I shall give thee a most exact Ocular-paralell in certaine briefe Antitheses or opposite tenets and most evident differences and contrarieties betweene Christ the pure fountaine of Truth yea Truth it selfe and Antichrist the muddy puddle of errour and heresie yea errour it self in the abstract which are as follow Jer. 6. 16. Thus saith the Lord stand in waies and behold and ask for the old way which is the good way and walk therin and ye shall find rest for your souls But they the Romanists said we will not walke therein Christ 1. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that the holy Scripture hath sufficient authority of it self and contains all necessarie doctrine to piety and salvation 2 Tim. 3. 15 16 17. 2. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that ignorance of Gods word is the mother of errours and therfore bids all Christians to reade and search the Scriptures Mat. 22. 19. Ioh. 5. 39. 3. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that many deceivers and fals-prophets are gone out into the world that therefore the faithfull are to prove the spirits whither they be of God 1 Ioh. 4. 1. and that the holy Scripture is the touch to try thē Act. 17. 11. So that all doctrin whatsoever contrary to it ought to be rejected Gal. 1. 8. 1 Tim. 1. 3. 1 Pet. 4. 11. 4. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that we ought to worship and serve God alone who is the Creator and Governor of all the world following herein the doctrine of Christ Mat. 4. ●0 5. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that the lawfull worship of God is founded on the holy Scriptures and that God will be served according to his own will and word in spirit and truth Ioh. 4. 24. and not after the opinions and traditions of men Ezek. 20. 18. Mat. 15. 9. 6. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that the worship of images is an abominable thing Deut. 27. 15. and expressely forbidden in the 2 Commandement Exo. 20. 4. and that the holy Spirit cals images teachers of lies and vanities Ier. 10 8. and therefore not to be allowed in Churches Gal. 4. 1. 7. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that Christians ought to imitate the faith godlines and good doctrine of Saints as they imitated Christ 1 Cor. 11. 1. But not to invocate them or put any confidence in them Isa 48. 11. Revel 19. 10. 8. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that Iesus Christ being true God and man is the onely and perfect Saviour of the world Isa 63. 3. And the only Mediatour 'twixt God and man Act. 4. 12. Mat. 11. 28. 9. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that Iesus Christ by the perfect sacrifice of him 〈◊〉 once offered on the crosse hath reconciled all the faithfull to God and that there remaines no more sacrifice for sin Heb. 9. 12. 26. c. 10. 12 18. 10. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that we are justified only by faith in Iesus Christ without the works of the law Ro. 3. 24. Gal. 2. 16. Rom. 4. 23 24. 11. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that faith is not doubtfull but assured of salvation which it hath by Christ and that true faith is not barren but full of good works the fruits thereof Heb. 11. 1. Gal. 5. 6. Phil 1 11. 12. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that Iesus Christ is the head and Spouse of the Church which he governeth and teacheth by Word and Spirit and that the duty of the Church is to heare and obey the voyce of her Spouse Mat. 17. 5. Iohn 10 27. 13. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that the use of strange tongues is unprofitable in the Church of God to the ignorant auditory but all things in the Church must be for edification 1 Cor. 14. 3 6 7 8 14 The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that Jesus Christ in the institution of the holy Supper brake the bread and gave it to his disciples and afterwards the wine saying drinke ye all of this making no difference at all 1 Cor. 11. 23. 15. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that Matrimony is honourable among all men Heb. 13. 4. And that it is better to marry than to burne 1 Cor. 7. 9. And that to forbid marriage is a doctrine of devils 1 Tim. 4. 3. 16. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that that which entreth into the mouth defileth not the man Mat. 15. 11. And that all meats are clean to the faithfull and sanctified to them by the word and prayer 1 Tim. 4. 4. Tit. 1. 15. 17. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that it is the duty of all men that are godly to speak the truth keep their faith and promise to all yea though to their hinderance Psal 15. 2. 4. Zach. 1. 16. Eph. 4. 25. 18. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that every soule ought to be subject to the higher Powers which are the Magistrates Rom. 13. 1 2. 1 Pet. 2. 23. 19. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that Antichrist as God sits in the temple of God attributing to himself that w ch is proper only to God 2 Thes 2. 4. that the place of his sitting is the great City w ch hath 7 mountains w ch raigned over the kings of the earth as Rome do's Re. 17. 9 18 20. The ancient Doctrine of God teacheth that for all soules departing this life there remain but 2 places heaven and hell Joh. 5. 14. Joh. 3. 36. Luk. 16. 22 23. Antichrist The new Doctrin of Rome teacheth that the word of God hath no authority of it self that it is imperfect unsufficient to piety and salvation without the approbation of the Church unwritten traditions Bel. de verb. Dei 〈◊〉 scrip l. 4. The new doctrine of Rome teacheth that ignorance is the mother of devotion and that it is safest to keepe Lay-men from reading the Scriptures as being the causes of many errors and heresies Bel. de verb. Dei The new doctrine of Rome teacheth that whosoever contradict the Pope and his decrees and humane traditions be false-teachers and that the Pope hath authority to judge all controversies of faith and to give the true sense of the Scriptures and that from him there is no lawfull appeale Bel. de verb. Dei interp l. 3. cap. 3. The new doctrine of Rome teacheth that we ought not to serve God alone but also Saints and Angels as patrons of kingdomes cities people societies and infirmities Bel. de sanct beat l. 1. c. 12. The new doctrine of Rome teacheth that in Gods worship the traditions and ceremonies of the Church of Rome ought to be observed and that her Canon laws and constitutions are equall in value to the Gospell and that it is most necessarie to keepe them Dist 15. cap sicut

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