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would make him more famous being finished and compounded by his meanes then if he had conquered the whole world And now to conclude by returning to the Romane Catholiques I desire them that they would not slightly passe by that Iudgement of God executed vpon their Brethren in the Black-Fryars but that they would lay it to heart and confesse ingeniously it was neither Chance nor Accident that did it but the Hand of Gods power which is in all actions yea in the ouerthrow of that house wherin the children of Iust Iob feasted Shall there be euill in a Amo. 3. 6 Citie and the Lord hath not done it Who is he that saith and it commeth to passe the Lord commandeth it not Confesse then your wisedomes had charmed many wise and sensible men but you could not charme senselesse Stones Man may be mocked and deluded God cannot Submit your selues therefore to him Kisse the Sonne lest Ps 2. 12 he be angry and so ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little Acknowledge your Pope to be Antichrist that Man 2 Thes 2 of sinne that Sonne of perdition that sits in the Temple of God as God that is dispensing pardoning absoluing binding the conscience making new Articles of Faith which none but God can doe exalting himselfe also aboue all that is called God and worshiped that is aboue Kings Princes and Gouernours Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall aboue Saints and Angels whom he appoints to be worshiped and canonizeth or condemneth at pleasure All those that write and despute and labour the point so eagerly about personall and visible succession thereby to retaine you still in their superstitious bonds doe but labour to proue the Pope to be Antichrist For prouing a visible Temple of God at Rome they proue a visible Antichrist to be there The Field was well knowne to be Math. 13 the Householders wherein he first sowed Wheat the enuious man after sowed Tares If it had belonged to the enuious man why should the Householder or his Seruants complaine Might not he sowe what Graine he would in his owne Field But it was not his Field it belonged to the Householder and therefore his intrusion to intermingle Seed for the spoyling of the whole crop was an effect of Enuie The Doctrine of Christ and Antichrist is mingled in your Church as the Tares and Wheat both in one Field doe but distinguish that which is of God and that which is of man and the controuersie is cleared We confesse you haue sauing Truth amongst you but it is mingled with all-condemning falshood as Apotheocaries mixe poyson and preseruatiues And therefore the rising of Antichristianisme in the Church is called A Mysterie of Iniquitie for the subtile and close creeping in of Errour and winding about the Root of Truth so that they seemed all one and of one age This Mysterie began to worke euen in the Apostles time and good men perhaps out of good entention were made Seeds-men against their wills whilst one inuented one thing another man another one added this Ceremonie thereby to intice the people another that to win the Heathens from a grosser Idolatry to a lesse as they thought and thus doubtlesse if Errour be examined it shall be found to be verie old and much of it fathered vpon none of the worst men nay much of it will be found to be so ancient as the time when it was brought in and the person who introduced it will hardly be found yet if this be compared with the pure Wheat of the Word which God by his Sonne and the Ministerie of his Seruants the Apostles of Christ hath sowne in the Church it will easily be found to be Tares and trash of humane inuention Doe but cast Mar. 5. 15. out the Diuell therefore whose name is Legion or Multitude and the man is ours which is amongst you and will sit quietly at Iesus Feet Acknowledge also your Rome as it is the Seat and Sea of Antichrist and the Head Citie of your Church to be Babylon and as in the ruines of Shilo Ierusalem was Ier. 7. 12 taught to see her future miserie so in this shadow behold what the Lord will doe though perhaps mystically as Rome is mysticall Babylon to the Sinagogue of Satan which you now stile the Romane Catholique Church when it shall be fulfilled which the Spirit of God proclaimes Apocal. 18. 2. Babylon the great is falne is falne c. Not that I beleeue the Citie it selfe shall be ruined and burnt the Houses and Temples puld downe and your Pope no more named but that I thinke the Truth shall be reuealed to such as now sit in darkenesse and in the shadow of death and then Kingdomes and Countreys and Churches will one after another reforme themselues and forsake the Doctrine of Diuels that absurd Superstition and Idolatry which you now zealously out of a scornefull Ignorace exercise thinking you doe therein God good seruice This seemes to be Hieroms opinion vpon these words 2 Thes 2. 8. Quem Dominus D. Hieron Com. in Mich C. 5. interficier Spirituoris Haec interfectio non abolitionem significat ●aith he This interf●●tion doth no signifie a totall abolition but a cessation of euill life which they led before Et destruet illustratione aduentus sui And shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming Nun quam autem destrueret si interfectio abolitionem sonaret cum iam esse cessasset But let vs returne to consider the words vsed by the Angell Apocal. 18. 2. Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of Diuels and the hould of euerie foule Spirit and a cage of euerie vncleane and hatefull Bird For all Nations haue drunke of the Wine of the wrath of her Fornication Marke the note of vniuersalitie whereof the Church of Rome so much glories All Nations Marke also the Metaphor vsed to expresse beguiling Errour Drunke The most wise and learned man may be ouertaken and mistaken in drinke And the Kings of the Earth haue committed Fornication with her Marke the Metaphor doting Lust will doe much And the Merchants of the Earth are waxed rich through the aboundance of her delicacies Marke the Metaphor for couetousnesse and commoditie will preuaile verie farre and make euen good men looke through their fingers but for bad men they will easily be perswaded to proue such Merchants as Iudas was and to sell their Master Christ for pleasure and profit Here is the strength of Wine of Women and of Wealth or of the King ioyned 1 Esd 3. 10 11 12 against the strength of Truth yet at length Magna est veritas preualet Truth is strongest and beares away the victorie Yet Truth must struggle for the victorie her opposites are strong enough to striue and will not be conquered till we haue fought vnder her Banner and resisted vnto blood Heb. 12. 4. Now after you haue heard and considered this aduisedly then attend to that which followes immediately after at the fourth Verse And I heard another voyce from Heauen saying Come out of her my People God hath a People God hath a number of Elect names God hath a Church in Babylon that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues For her sinnes haue reached vnto Heauen and God hath remembred her iniquities Reward her euen as she rewarded you and double vnto her double according to her workes In the Cup that she hath filled fill to her double How much she hath glorified her selfe and liued deliciously Marke what she hath assumed challenged and arrogated to her selfe so much torment and sorrow giue her for she saith in her heart I sit a Queene and am no Widow and shall see Es 47. 8. no sorrow Doth any Church boast so but the Romish Therefore shall her plagues come in one day death and mourning and famine and she shall be vtterly burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God who iudgeth her Stronger then all the Kings that would defend her And doe not say or hear others saying that such as perished were greater or lesse sinners then the rest of the Romish Idolators that suruiue since we iudge not their persons but opinions and actions For except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish The Lord open your eyes that you may discouer Antichrist in the midst of his masking and open your eares that you may heare Christ in the midst of the Candlesticks and turne your hearts from following the vanitie and Idolatry of those superstitious Fathers of your Flesh that you may beleeue the Veritie of God the Father of your Soules and so possesse an eternall habitation with him in Glorie and Immortalitie Amen FINIS