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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33996	A word in season being a parallel between the intended bloody massacre of the people of the Jews, in the reign of King Ahasuerus and the hellish powder-'plot against the Protestants in the reign of King James : together with an account of some of the wicked principles and practises of the Church of Rome, demonstrated in their barbarous and cruel murders and massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Piedmont, the Albigenses, &c. : also shewing that the present Church of Rome is an apostate church ... / by H.C., a lover of true Protestants.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C537; ESTC R13082	42,613	54

ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH THese words Beloved contain the Inscription that is written upon the Forehead of Antichrist and they may be written in Capital Letters in our Bibles to show unto us that this Inscription is as plain obvious and legible upon the Forehead of Antichrist as in our Books By the Forehead we may safely understand the Principles and Practices of the false Church For as what is written on the Forehead is plain apparent and obvious to all Spectators So all that will but take a prospect of Romes Practices and Principles through the Glass of God's sacred Word must needs read this Inscription Mystery Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth 1. She is called Babylon because she resembles Babylon where the the Jews and the People of God were seventy Years in Captivity For as Literal Babylon held the Bodies of Men in Captivity so Rome which is Mystery Spiritual Babylon keeps their Souls Therefore some of the Learned have said Babylon was the first Rome and Rome is the second Babylon 2. She is called Mystery Babylon because she pretends to be Sion but is truly Babylon That that is a Mystery is something hidden So Rome is Babylon but hidden under the name of the Mother Church God's Temple the Mistress of Faith Rome hides her Fornication under the name of the pure Spouse her Impiety and Blasphemy under the name of Piety and Infallibility she dares not appear to be what she is 3. She is called the Mother of Harlots because she is the Head of the great Apostacy from Christ and is not only a Harlot her self but hath many Daughters of the same Nature whom she hath taught to commit Spiritual Whoredom How many Kings Kingdoms Nations and Languages hath she infected by the Golden-Cup of her Fornication This poor Nation of England was once greatly infected and poysoned by that Harlot that indeed to this day some Reliques of her Poyson which was then drunk remain The good Physician of Value cleanse this Nation wholly of all such Poysonous and Infectious Doctrines Hence 't is the Spirit hath this Emphatical phrase in the Text GREAT because there never was nor will be a greater Harlot than she is and hath been there is not a worse to be found she is the Mother the first the greatest that can be named 4. She is called the Abomination of the Earth because she is the Mother of all false and Adulterous Churches so the Abomination of the Earth the Mother of Impious and Idolatrous Practices The Doctrine from these words is this Doct. That the Church of Rome is Mystery Babylon the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth This Doctrine appears to be true if we consider the description the Sripture giveth of Rome She standeth or is built upon Seven Mountains or Hills This is her Scituation as you may see Rev. 17. 9. The seven Heads are seven Hills on which the Woman sitteth that Woman in my Text the Mother of Harlots And this stands strongly against them unless they can find out another City which is so Situated which is impossible and this they cannot deny but the City is so Situated many of the Fathers acknowledg it Beside Rome being built on seven Hills her own Poets sing loudly of it as Virgil Ovid Propertius See the Book intitled The Man of Sin Also the Reverend Bishop Vsher is of the same mind But that which they Object is this Object 1. Say they This is meant of Rome in her Heathen State and not in her State of Christianity Answ 1. That cannot be meant of Rome in its Heathen State because the Apostle spake Prophetically of a Time to come Rome consisted of seven forms of Government called Seven Kings Rev. 17. 10. to govern the Common wealth 1. Kings properly so called 2. Consuls 3. Decemviri 4. Tribunes of Souldiers 5. Dicrators 6. Emperors properly so called 7. Antichrist the state of the Beast which is a note of difference from all the others which were yet to come Now five of those in the Apostles days were fallen one then was in being namely the Roman Emperor and the other that was the Beast Antichrist was yet to come Therefore if the Antichrist the Beast the Mother of Harlots was not then in being in the Apostles sense it could not be Rome under the Reign of the Emperors in her Heathen State But Rev. 17. 10. clears this fully 2. It cannot be Heathen Rome because she never made a Covenant with God and broke it The Antichrist is a Whore a Harlot one that hath left her first Husband Heathen Rome never professed Christ therefore it cannot be her It must needs be Rome Apostate For the Antichrist the Man of Sin is some Apostate as you may see in 2 Thess 2. 3. The Apostle there exhorting the Saints to constancy in the Faith and that they should not expect Christ's coming which they so much looked for till there was some great Apostacy from the Faith ver 3. Let no Man deceive you with vain words by any means for that Day shall not come except there be a falling away first and that Man of Sin be revealed the Son of Perdition So that this Beast is one that falls from the Truth which Heathen Rome never did But Rome in its profest Christian State hath so done For she was once a famous Church when the Apostle Paul writ the Epistle to them Rom. 1. 8. St. Paul thanks God that their Faith was spoken of throughout the whole World and many Elders and Christians did suffer under the sixth form of Government But now she is Rome Apostate the fallen Star mentioned in Rev. 9. 1. I saw a Star fall from Heaven to the Earth to earthly Concupisence an earthly Mind which had the Key of the bottomless Pit The Pope c. pretend to have the Key of Hell By that means they delivered Trajan the Emperor's Soul out of Hell a great Persecuter of the Christians But I shall not impose the belief of this on you in the least Rome did once shine as a glorious Star but now a place of Darkness by reason of the Smoke that comes out of the Pit The Sun and Moon are darkned True Principles of Christ are hid from a great part of the World by the black and smoaky principles of the fallen Star So in my Text she is called a Whore a Harlot Which she would not have been called had she not defiled her Lord's Bed We have her portraied to the life in 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter Times some shall depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and doctrines of Devils speaking Lyes in Hypocrisy having their Consciences seared with a hot Iron forbidding to Marry and commanding to abstain from Meats which God hath ordained to be received with thanksgiving Who is this but Rome Christian St. Ambrose St. Augustin think it Antichrist Know we not