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A53471 The popes ware-house, or, The merchandise of the whore of Rome published for the common good by Titus Oates. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1679 (1679) Wing O49; ESTC R16997 82,556 82

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did this our native Countrey for some Hundreds of years groan for when God in his anger for its sin had removed the Candlestick from it what Plagues attended this dealing of Almighty God with out forefathers I shall not need my Brethren to report to you for I question not your care and zeal and therefore I humbly conceive that you do at your leisure consult and will enquire into those Memoirs left upon Record in order to your more ample satisfaction in this particular and besides all this the experience of those sober men who have and do still converse in those Countreys and Kingdoms where the true Gospel of our Lord Christ is still opposed and persecuted and in its place trifling Ceremonies unworthy Cheats and Devillish Idolatries are used and practised might be a suffient testimony in this case yet for your sakes my Brethren I did think it not at all inconvenient to expose to publick view the great vanity and unspeakable delusion to which God hath given up the Synagogue of Rome even to believe a lye so that her dissembling Votaries might be damned for not receiving the truth of Gods word in the love thereof I confess my Brethren God hath raised up his Servants who have been very vigilant in the discovering of the Intrigues of the Whore of Rome both in respect of her profession and practises who by their pains and skill have exploded her pretended Miracles and have in a lively manner painted her Phanaticism and exposed her abominable Cheats to the world Of these labours and services of good men we have enjoyed the benefits and as ●●●se have had the happiness and opportunity of doing Gods Church very eminent services by improving their parts and learning for her advantage I thought it my duty to imploy some spare hours for your service in reviewing her old Trade of Merchandizing and to revive the memory of the great advantage she hath made of her Mock-Indulgences and Mock Pardons and Mock-Miracles Cheats and Villanies so that the consideration of these things may stir you up to hate this abominable Strumpet and burn her flesh with sire Of this Trash and Trumpery you have an exact Catalogue in this Book an incredible gain of which hath been made to their Popes Bishops and Clergy both Secular and Regular to the latter especially who to mine own knowledg have judged their Reliques and Indulgences more advantageous to their Monasteries and Convents than the enjoyments of Lands and Tenements are to those that are of the Laity for a testimony of which the consideration of the vast Treasure that was found in their Dens when these Foxes were un●●ennell'd by Henry the 8th is proof sufficient and to this very day the English Regulars so called have gotten and do still get yearly Four thousands of pounds sterling out of England from their Votaries to the great damage of this our Native Countrey against which they are sworn Enemies nay some that would have the honour of being called Protestants have been highly guilty of an underhand contribution to their Devillish Idolatry and Abominable Cheats to the great dishonour of Almighty God and of Protestant Religion to the disparagement of their Prince and Countrey to whose Laws they pretend to pay all manner of obedience and when at home can swear their Prince into a belief of their loyalty and fidelity I will not name that person in whom his Prince and Countrey have reposed great Trust witness the Employ he hath had for some years for whose sake to mine own knowledg many thousands of Masses have been said for the health of his soul for the preservation of his body and for the rectifying of his unstable Judgment and all this at their priviledged Altars endowed with stores of Indulgences and with a goodly crop of their Reliques and Trumpery But I shall leave him as I fear God hath done to believe the lyes and cheats of those sons of Antichrist whom he hath most heartily entertained at his Table tho Traytors to his Prince and Countrey haters of Almighty God and of all his Servants So that my dear Brethren you may perceive that by means of these Reliques and Merchandize and of their pretended power of conferring grace holiness and eternal life many professing the same holy Faith with us have fell away by the subtilty of the crafty sons of the Synagogue of Rome whom they have perverted from paying their duty to Almighty God and from the profession and practice of Gods true Religion and some of these have become either monstrous Monks chattering Channons flattering Friars heretical Hermites Antichristian Anchorites superstitious Nuns railing Recluses Limbs of Antichrist nay of the Devil himself and have denied the Lord that bought them with no less price than with his own blood and have been led into a deplorable state of Captivity by these Votaries of that filthy and abominable Strumpet and detestable Dragon of Rome who have set up and continued the Trade of making Merchandize of our fellow-subjects and brethren and have devoured the Houses of our Widows by their pretended zeal and devotion to and for this trash and of which in this Book you have a fair account and they have privily for well near an hundred years acted this part till these twenty years last past in which they have had more countenance and indulgence yet their ingratitude is such that they have returned evil for the good-will of our Magistrates one of whom you know they have wickedly murthered our City of London they fired and several Rapes and Cheats they have with that impudence acted so that it is next to an impossibility for us to be safe whilst they subsist for our Peace they have disturbed our Interest Property and Liberty they have endeavoured to betray into the hands of a French Devillish Power and have attempted once more to bring us under the Roman yoke which yoke we nor our Fathers were ever able to bear Yea they have endeavoured the death of our Prince and to overthrow the Government and Laws by which we subsist and live and without which we must of necessity run into confusion did not God appear in mercy to prevent our Ruin and their Malice But I do not much admire their Impiety because I well know their damnable and wicked Principles of which their Practices are necessary Consequences of which I shall here give you a short account I. They say That to comply with Protestants in obedience to Laws and Government would be an act unreasonable irreligious and damnable Now what security can we have from such unreasonable and irreligious Miscreants and Cut-throats that my Brethren I shall leave to your gravest judgments and considerations II. That the Protestant Ministry is false and intruded and with it they ought not upon pain of damnation to communicate This Proposition being by them believed as an Article necessary to salvation I suppose it will be by all wise and considerate persons concluded That all