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A62900	The principles of the Papists by which their leaders put them upon bloody and treacherous practices, plainly demonstrated by the Scriptures to be most erroneous and wicked. And a few better principles briefly laid down, for them (or others) to meditate on, tending to a peaceable life among men, &c. And also a few quæries left them last of all, to satisfie their consciences in. Partly for the sakes of those among them whose consciences have some tenderness in them, and are not quite feared: partly also for those who through ignorance are too much inclining to them. Also there may be some service of these things to others. By a lover of truth, mercifulness, plain-heartedness, humility and fidelity, W. T.	Tomlinson, William.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1850; ESTC R221759	49,364	105

so do ye unto them this is Christ's Doctrine and the sum of the Law and the Prophets Mat. 7.12 Ponder this you destructive Plotters Jesuits Priests Confessors c. Would you have others seek your ruine Would you have others to lye to you to deceive you till they could destroy you Are your Consciences so far seared or your Understandings blinded that you are not able to judge aright in this case concerning your selves and then concerning others Or do you see these things viz. that you do those things which you would not have done to you and yet in defiance of Christ's Doctrine will continue to go on in doing so Consider your ways and take warning you will find it hard kicking against the pricks How far are you from doing as you would be done by when as you use them despitefully that harm you not 9. The Ministers of Christ they used only spiritual weapons for the propagating of the Church of Christ The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but yet mighty being spiritual saith the Apostle and so they were such as reached the Understanding and Conscience to bring down high imaginations and every thought into obedience to Christ 2 Cor. 10.4 The Pope's Ministers seek to propagate their Church with carnal weapons such as cannot inform the Understanding and Conscience therefore they are altogether unlike the true Ministers of the Gospel in their way In what rank of the Ministers of Christ then will you appear that use such weapons for your work when every man's work shall come to tryal 10. Christ Jesus sets before us the example of our heavenly Father to follow in doing good against evil that we may be worthy to be accounted his Children Mat. 5.44 45. How far then are they from doing good against evil that do evil to them that seek not their hurt How shall we account them Children of our heavenly Father 11. We are to follow men as they follow Christ 1 Cor. 11.1 Because he left us an example that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 Hence we may infer That it 's needful that men know the Scriptures that they may be acquainted with the life and conversation of Christ and so knowing his spirit and life they may be able thereby to judge of the steps of those they follow for otherwise how shall they judge of mers steps by his Is not this the reason then why you leaders of the Papists keep your people from the free use of the sincere Scriptures of truth that they being ignorant thereof you may lead them as you please 12. Christ Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life the faithful and true Witness whose words were so established in truth that though Heaven and Earth pass away yet his words shall not pass away Mat. 24.35 Solomon also witnesses that the lip of truth shall be established for ever but a lying tongue is but for a moment How long then will your deceitful tongue bear you out whose words are full of lying and slandering reports and whose oaths are full of equivocation and mental reserves to make your tongue utter to the Understandings of men a false thing Is this the lip of truth that belyes the Mind Is not speech given for this end to utter the Mind Where have you any example or precept or consent for this deceit either from Christ or any of his followers Who then that would follow Christ can follow you Are not you to be turned away from as persons leading out of the footsteps of him that was and is the faithful and true Witness I shall not multiply more These few Principles if men did live in them as they ought to do if they be Christians how peaceably how securely how comfortably might they live together in the World though of several perswasions in many points of outward observations about Worship But what peace what security what rest can men have among those who are bloody-minded and deceitful and treacherous giving themselves up to speak lyes in hypocrisie who are among men as Beasts of prey among the Flocks as Lions lurking in their dens watching for the prey If there be any room left in your hearts ye Romanists for consideration of your ways I entreat you for your own good ponder with your selves a little and consider your latter end and the Judgement that will follow when the impartial Judge will bring every thing to light and render to every man according to his deeds done in the body What plea will you then have when he shall say to evil doers Depart from me I know you not ye workers of iniquity The wickedness now of the foregoing Principles of the Papists being laid open and upon good grounds rejected and some better Principles according to Scripture set before them yielding more peace among men and in a man 's own Conscience also and better hopes of future happiness I shall now touch a little their great Bulwarks or Props whereby they uphold this their Kingdom of darkness upon these rotten Principles And they are these two principally namely Cruelty and Ignorance and these are like two Arms wherewith they hold fast their Subjects There be many other things accompanying these as Lyes Slanders Defamations scornings of others proud boasting of their Antiquity and of their Succession to those whose lives and spirits they have quite deserted wrestings of truth and true reports making people believe falshoods false glosses put upon their own wicked actions and designs to do mischief and a great deal of such like stuff they raise a mist with to blind peoples eyes What a pudder did they lately make about the Death of that Worthy Godfrey whom they most barbarously murthered in Somerset-house covering their Cruelty every way by turning it upon his own head as if he kill'd himself or as if he were kill'd by Robbers c. But God infatuated them in the action and made it manifest that neither he himself had done it nor was he kill'd by Robbers for they that rob by the High-ways take away Money not only Writings And for killing himself they could not make that hang together neither for he could not fall upon his own Sword after he had broke his own Neck and how could he break his own Neck after he had faln upon his Sword or how could he do both at once as some would have excused it Yet these and such like Forgeries how did they fly about and were backed with that confidence that they dazled the minds of many especially of great persons among whom the Papists most conversed Thus they manifest their Kingdom to be a Kingdom of Crnelty backt with lyes and falshoods and other works of darkness But Godd hath been pleased to force out the truth of this bloody action from some that were privy to it and could relate the circumstances of it so that it 's blazed upon the house-tops in spite of all their windings and turnnigs to hide it Their

he had set up when they heard the sound of the Cornet Flute Harp Sackbut Psaltery Dulcimer and all kinds of Musick nor much behind him for Fire and Faggor to devour those that will not worship with them We read but of one Furnace that he caused to be heated to burn dissenters in but they have burnt multitudes of dissenters who would not consent to their worship witness Smithfield and other places in Queen Maries days Add hereunto the many Murthers done otherways by Inquisitions and bloody Massacres her unsatiable blood-thirstiness and blood-guiltiness So that you see although the Cup of Rome's worship be a golden Cup to look at yet within it's full of filthiness of her fornication it 's full of dead mens bones and all uncleanness like the painted Sepulchres of the Pharisees Israel's worship which was of God's own appointment became an abomination to him so that his soul hated it for these two things which Rome is eminently guilty of one was Because their hands were full of blood Isa 1.13 14 15. The other was Because they had chosen their own ways and their soul delighted in their abominations Isa 66.3 Now for Rome's worship it 's of her own forming not of God's institution and for blood her hands are fuller of that than ever Israel's was and for superstitious inventions Israel cannot compare with her Therefore her worship must needs be more detestable and abominable in the sight of the Lord than Israel's was being also aggravated hereby that whereas Israel was but under types and shadows as under a Schoolmaster but she lives in the days of greater light under the ministration of the second Covenant or new Covenant which far excels the first Covenant in the glory of its light 2 Cor. 3.10 So that for her now with bloody hands and with deceitful dissembling hearts to approach to worship the Lord this must needs be an abomination Judge in your selves I desire you ye of the Romish Church what acceptance this can have with the Lord for a people that plots and contrives the subversion of Kingdoms and sticks not to poison or stab or murder those that they fear may hinder their wicked designs who barbarously massacre people more merciful than themselves who are manifested thereby to partake more of the heavenly nature than they For a people that sets up to themselves Stocks and Stones Images and Pictures in abundance and falls down before them and bows themselves to the work of their own hands and prays to them that are no Gods nor present in all places with them to hear their prayers a people that turn away in their hearts from the living God and think to make Men and Angels their Intercessors for such a people to approach before the Lord and sing forth their Anthems and Allelujahs unto God Judge ye if this worship be not abominable and like the painted Sepulchres which appear beautiful outward but within are full of dead mens bones and filthiness yea and full of dead mens blood too which cryes to the Lord under the Altar How long Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth And yet Rome would paint over all these abominations to blind the eyes of men that she may seem holy in the practice of all these things She will tell you that all these that she kills are Hereticks and it 's no sin to kill them She will tell you that she doth not worship Pictures and Images though she bow down to them but she doth it in honour to God and such like shifts and mists she casts over her actions to blind the carnal eye and leave it in a mist And therefore how fitly doth the Spirit of God meet with her jugling evasions and fixes this as one of the marks of the great Whore upon her forehead as a Name written viz. Mystery as it follows in the next Verse which comes now to be considered Ver. 5. And upon her forehead was a name written Mystery Babylon the great the Mothes of harlots and abominations of the earth This is the Name that the Spirit of God fixes upon the forehead of the great Whore Mystery She commits Whoredom and Idolatry in a mystery she sheds innocent blood in abundance and yet in a mystery She would not be thought to be an Idolatress nor to commit Whoredom nor to be a Murderer she would juggle you out of a belief of that which your eye sees and your ears sufficiently hear of her here is mystery indeed but it is the mystery of iniquity not the mystery of plain-hearted godliness And this Name is set in such a place that it 's easie to read it it 's set where she cannot hide it if she do but shew her face it stands upon her forehead The Front of all her Zeal carries Blood and Idolatry written in it but yet vailed and you must not believe it to be so Though you should see her prostrate her self before her Idols you must not take her to be an Idolatress though you should be attempted to be slain by her hands and though you should see many massacred round about you yet you must not take her to be a Murderer and though you should hear her Children lye to your face and prove themselves lyars by their actions yet you must not take this to be lying yea though they forswear and perjure themselves yet you must not take this to be swearing out of truth But you must take her to be a holy Mother and pious worshipper of God under Idolatry and a charitable tender-hearted Mother in the midst of Massacres and a maintainer of truth by lyes and perjury and equivocations She is an exact observer of the footsteps of her grand Champion to walk thereafter who though he be never so wicked yet you must reverence his Holiness Again Another part of her Name is Babylon the great Names of many things under the Old Testament are applied to like things under the New As Prayers and Thanksgivings are sometimes called Sacrifices and Incense New Covenant is called Mount Sion and Jerusalem c. So Babylon and Sodom and Egypt are words sometimes used to express a like people by There be three or four things remarkable in Rome for which the Name Babylon is put upon her 1. Confusion and so the word Babylon and Babel signifie for Rome hath confounded all things under the New Covenant with her traditions and superstitious inventions 2. As Babylon of old was a place of great Idolatry so also is Rome Read but the Epistle of the Prophet Jeremy to them that were captives to be carried to Babylon and you may see how like they are you may find it in the Apocrypha Baruch 6.4 5. Ye shall see in Babylon gods of silver and of gold and of wood born upon shoulders which cause the Nations to fear Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers neither be ye afraid of

them when ye see the multitude before them and behind them worshipping them Thus it is also in the streets of the great City mystical Babylon Rome and among her Children when they go about the streets with their Host besides all the rest of their Idolatry committed in their places of Worship and in secret 3. As Babylon of old was exalted above all and call'd Lady of Kingdoms Isa 47.5 and the glory of Kingdoms Isa 13.19 So Rome exalts her self in like manner and calls her self Mother Church and Caput omnium Ecclesiarum i.e. the Head of all the Churches and sits as Queen over all in her own exalted mind But then 4 thly and lastly Rome is most fitly call'd Babylon because she holds the seed of God in bondage and captivity Whom she leads captive once she will hardly let them escape without danger of their lives or cruel torments in her Inquisitions they must become perfect slaves to her Superstitions Will-worships and Idolatries And what bondage is like to this that people to whom God hath given reason and understanding shall not make use of it but lay it aside and submit wholly to the understandings or rather wills of others though it be against their own and so be urged to submit to that which is against the light in their own Consciences And this is the greatest bondage and captivity of all and therefore well may Rome be called Babylon the great She is also called Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth She brings forth Harlots that is such Children as go a whoring with her after her Inventions Those that in tenderness of Conscience and in subjection to the words of Christ who said In vain do you worship me after the traditions of men will not joyn with them in their invented traditions and superstitions such she owns not for her Children she will be no Mother or Nurse to such but seeks to murder them in cold blood as none of hers she will be only Mother of Harlots that can prostitute themselves with her to her Idolatries and Inventions and if they can do that it shall not break the band between them although they be common Harlots in the vulgar sence but she will remain their Mother She is also Mother of abominations in the earth Not only Mother of abominations in Worship and superstitious Inventions but also Mother of abominations in the earth abominations as to the civil life of men without the consideration of worship abominations to men as they are men living upon the earth To manifest this I shall quote one Scripture and then her own actions will testifie the truth of it against her It is Prov. 6.16 17 18 19. These six things doth the Lord hate yea seven are abomination to him A proud look a lying tongue hands that shed innocent blood an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations feet that be swift in running to mischief a false witness that speaketh lyes and him that soweth discord among brethren Now see and judge if Rome be not Mother of these abominations Who more lofty in spirit than the Pope and his Romanists Can any compare with him who exalts himself over all makes his Cardinals as Princes his Bishops and whole Clergy as great men and makes his whole Train dispise others as Hereticks not worthy to live in the earth Here 's a proud look indeed And for a lying tongue Rome's Children are so pregnant with that that one cannot tell how to believe either what they say or what they swear How miserably were the Protestants in Ireland cheated by them by fair promises and deep oaths that they would secure their Goods for them in the time of that bloody Massacre and yet when they had got them into their hands refused to restore them yea and afterwards murthered them And so 3dly They have hands that shed innocent blood none like them for that 4thly An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations Whose hearts are so full of wicked imaginations Plots Conspiracies and devices of Cruelty as Rome's Children 5thly Whose feet are swifter in running to mischief than the Papists who in one brunt can cut off so many thousands by Massacres before they make an end Their feet are speedy to do mischief when they get but the opportunity 6thly Another abomination is a false witness that speaketh Lyes If we go no further than this year how have they endeavoured to choak all true reports among us with their lyes and falshoods Witness the false reports and lying stories that they gave forth about the death of Worthy Godfrey till the truth appeared by Evidence and could no longer be hid 7thly and lastly He that saweth discord among brethren is also one of the abominations in the earth This is one of Rome's Principles Divide impera Divide and then command Divide what 's that but sowing of discord destroying of concord setting one against another that she may fish in troubled waters Whether she made the former division and discord between the late foregoing King and the People or no I will not say but if they did it 's but according to their Principle Thus you see Rome is a fruitful Mother of abominations of the earth And now you may also at leisure view all these things over again and see how pertinent all these Characters of the great Whore are to Rome they fit her as a garment that sits close and compleat upon a man's back And why then we should be afraid to look upon her as that great Whore here described by the Angel to John I know no reason especially if we add that which follows in the 6th Ver. of this 17th Chap. viz. And I saw the Woman that is the great City seated on seven Hills drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus And when I saw her I wondred with great admiration But having spoken of this afore and shewed that it must be Rome professing Christianity and not heathen Rome that caused this great admiration I forbear to speak more of it now I say till Rome shew the contrary to these Characters by a better lise and conversation they will rest upon her And it 's not by her poysoning and stabbing fire and faggot Inquisitions and Massacres that she can clear her self No that way confirms and fixes these marks more fully upon her the more she seeks to wipe off the stains of blood that are upon her by such means the more and greater they still appear And now for the deciding of the Question in hand which all that I have said tends to Let any that have any reason of their own to make use of and any honesty and faithfulness in their hearts towards God and Christ Jesus our Lord judge and determine the Question Whether this Church of Rome so guilty of these things be the only true Church of Christ now and all others that draw from her be Hereticks I hope whosoever considers these things