darkness done in his cruel Inquisitions will all press upon him And yet this Man whose Sins and Cruelties and unmerciful Massacres reach to Heaven he must be the Man to forgive men their sins Oh the blindness and besotted condition of men whom the Lord hath given up to strong delusion I beseech you let us understand who they are that are given up to strong delusion to believe a lye if they be not that train that follows the Pope and depends upon him for the pardon of their sins For the strong delusions are to come upon them that follow the Man of Sin the Son of Perdition who exalts himself above all that 's called God and who sits in the Temple of God as the Pope doth And so you may find these deluded ones spoken of as the train of that exalted Man of Sin in the same Chapter with him 2 Thess 2. But the Pope pretends to have power to pardon sins because Christ gave that power to his Apostles for he boasts of his Succession to them especially to Peter But I aver that he that is departed and fallen away from the Apostles Spirit and Doctrine is no true Sucessor to them nor hath that power which they had The Apostles were innocent holy humble men of heart not seeking the glory of this World as the Pope doth not exercising dominion over mens Faith and Conscience as the Pope doth nor lording it over God's Heritage as the Pope doth but were ensamples of piety and holiness to the Flock of Christ But the Pope walks contrary to their Example and to their Doctrine being a devouring Wolf where he cannot exercise dominion over mens spirits He indeed arrogates to himself the title of Holiness but is far from the life of it being a ring-leader into wickedness murthers massacres perjury dissimulation and wicked fraud encouraging his Children to take Tests or Oaths so that they may lurk among us like Foxes under Sheeps cloathing until they can seize upon their prey Is not here plainly a departing and falling away from the upright and innocent spirit and wholesom doctrine of the Apostles When will your eyes be opened you that are his Subjects and Slaves When will you be sensible and understand what manner of Holiness you have set before you to follow I pray you consider what is it above and beyond these wickednesses that he shall live in who is such a Man of Sin and Son of Perdition See if you can find out grosser abominations among all that profess Christianity for which those titles may be put upon any man more justly So then seeing he is thus departed and fallen away from the Apostles spirit and doctrine who will trust to him for the remitting of their sins who have any good understanding or sound reason left in them and are not given up to strong delusion to believe a lye 4. I proceed to a fourth Principle of the Romish Church viz. That the Church of Rome whereof the Pope is Head is the true Church of Christ and all that depart from them are Hereticks That there was once a true Church and a precious Church of Christ at Rome I grant while they followed the Doctrine and innocent Life of Christ and his holy Apostles But since they are fallen therefrom into the murthering and lying treacherous spirit they are become degenerate and thereby cut themselves off as a Branch withered is cut off from the Vine But here by the way before I proceed any further I desire to be rightly understood that the bent of my Discourse is not against those that are simple-hearted and harmless among them and honest according to their knowledg but it is against the ruling and leading part who lead the rest into evil these are fallen away from Christ and hold others in bondage and keep them in captivity as the Israelites were kept captives in Babylon of old So there is a people that God calls his people in Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and abominations of the Earth For saith the Scripture Come out of her my people which words were insignificant if he had not a people in the midst of Babylon This being premised which I desire may be minded all along I shall now for the finding out of the truth or falshood of this 4th Principle put the Question thus viz. Whether the present Church of Rome that is the ruling leading part and the ruled part from the Pope to his meanest Minister or Subject who are spirited to teach or actively to put in practice the destructive principles of their Church be the only true Church of Christ Now for the readier finding out of the truth or falshood in this Question I shall set another by it which may run parallel with it to give light to it namely Whether a people teaching or by principles practising lying perjury or false swearing hypocrisie and dissimulation Plots and conspiracies to destroy others assassinations secret murders and open massacres and other such like abominations and all this with consent and approbation of their Church Whether such a people be the only true Church of Christ and all that withdraw from them be Hereticks Thus the Question is truly stated concerning the present Church of Rome as their actions make it manifest and being thus stated I think I may leave the deciding of it to the meanest capacity where there is any grain of honesty left in their hearts towards Christ Jesus the Head of his Church for certainly none will say that such a Church is the only true Church of Christ and all others Hereticks except they have sold themselves to speak wickedly Now that the Pope and his Romanists are such a people they themselves prove by matter of fact and by their actions they sufficiently declare it to this present Age which is constrained for its own security to use the best means it can to preserve it self from their assassinations stabbings stranglings sinothering of their persons burning of their Houses and Cities and from their bloody hands and merciless massacres The Church of Christ in the Apostles days was the pillar and ground of truth upholding and holding forth truth in the World by teaching it and by living in it and so by living a just and innocent harmless life among men so that they were of no danger to others among whom they lived But the Church of Rome is come to that that she is become the pillar and ground of lyes and slanders of equivocation false accusations truce-breaking hypocrisie to seem one thing and be another to deny or hide their own Principles for wicked ends she is so far fallen from an innocent harmless life that she is become the pillar and ground of Plots and wicked designs to contrive the blowing up of Parliaments the ruine of Nations the destruction of Kings and Rulers the massacring of multitudes and butcherly murthering of thousands of innocent people that do them no harm This is the Pope's Roman
his deeds And when a greater plea shall have no acceptance as namely Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works But Christ shall say unto them Depart from me ye workers of iniquity Mat. 7.22 23. 8. Whether ever the true Christian Church or any members of it standing faithful dissembled their profession by denying or swearing against their Principles in open words to save themselves thereby from men 9. Whether that be not a denying of Christ before men to deny that Truth which he hath left us to profess and hold forth in the World And whether he will not deny such and be ashamed of them before his Father You that think you are in the truth and yet deny it apply this to your selves 10. Whether they who dare not avouch their Religion and Principles before men in truth and sincerity when called to it have any Religion in them worth the owning 11. Whether a mercyless people or a more merciful people be nearer to the true Church of Christ 12. Whether a people degenerated from the true upright humble inoffensive peaceable quiet sincere holy life of Christianity and faln to Lying Treachery Plots Murders Massacres and such like evils be the only true Church of Christ And whether all others are Hereticks who shall depart from their Communion Let your Consciences speak as it will do before the Tribunal of the Lord. 13. Whether a people that make the Times perillous through their Plots Assassinations Murders Treacheries and such like evil courses although they should retain a form of godliness in outward shew be not such as are to be turned away from according as the Apostle admonishes 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5. 14. Whether a people full of violence as the old World was and as Sodom of old was a people full of Slanders and Lyes to hide their works of darkness as if they were afraid that the World should see their treacherous intents before they put them in execution Whether such a people be not well-nigh ripe for destruction These Queries I leave with you to satisfie your Consciences in if there be any fear of God remaining in them and let me entreat you not to deal deceitfully with your own Consciences which will be witness against you at the great Day when the Pope's Indulgences and Pardons will do you no good As for Answer to me in these things I cannot rationally expect any from the Scriptures of Truth for they are not contrary to themselves I know the Pope and his Romanists have one Catholick or universal Answer for all Objections Arguments Doubts Oppositions Questions c. whereby to prevent discoveries of their weakness or rather wickedness And that any one may expect that writes or speaks against their mystery of wickedness and it 's the same wherewith they have silenc'd Godfrey For they are sensible that their Cause will not abide the light and therefore they flee from that to this work of darkness to murder which they back with Lyes and Slanders And therefore let this be a Testimony to all that have any understanding That they are Children of darkness and not Children of the light for it is the testimony of our Lord himself That he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God But every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved or made manifest Joh. 3. POST-SCRIPT FOr the sake of some honest-minded People ' who perhaps may think that I too much limit the Mystery of iniquity or the Great Whore or Babylon the great in seeming to fix them to any particular People to such I give this Account in short That the Mystery of iniquity and Great Whore which carries that Mystery written on her forehead and Babylon the great and such like Titles are not given in Scripture to the universal or general Kingdom of Satan but to a limited Mystery both as to time and place For 1. That Mystery of iniquity had not its rise or beginning till after the appearance of Christ in the flesh it began but to work in the Apostles days but was not then revealed openly 2. It was to follow or accompany a falling away from Christ in life and power though not in profession 3. It was letted for a time by an Enemy namely when Satan in his open hostility raged against Christianity in the persecuting Emperors and so by them letted or kept down the rising of the Mystery of iniquity until that Enemy was taken out of the way 4. It is also limited or bounded as to time of discovery and consumption and after that of rooting out for the Kings of the Earth who have given their power to the Beast and so to the Whore and so also to the Mystery for they are all linked together in a Chain they shall survive or out-live it for they shall hate the Whore and eat her flesh and burn her with fire and make her desolate Rev. 17.16 5. Lastly It is limited as to place thus far That the chief Seat of it where it is to be found is particularly described by the Angel though its influence may extend far And therefore it is not that general Dominion or Kingdom of Satan which he hath had in wicked men from the beginning and in all wicked men and shall have every where among them until the end But it is a certain circumscribed Mystery limited both as to time and place of its chief Seat though extended far for place and long for time FINIS Books Printed for a general Service BArclay's Apology for the true Christian Divinity as it is held forth and preached by the People called Quakers being a full Vindication of their Principles by Arguments deduced from Scripture and right Reason and the Testimony of famous Authors both Ancient and Modern Robert Barclay's Apology for the true Christian Divinity vindicated from John Brown's Examination and pretended Confutation thereof R. 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the pretence of Christianity but the Lord will pluck off his vizzard from off his face and let people see that no murderer hath any inheritance in the Kingdom of God 1 Joh. 3.15 No murderer hath eternal life abiding in him And Rev. 21.8 it 's said The fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Again Ch. 22. it 's said Without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lye All these you see are without they are not within neither in the Kingdom of Christ nor in the seed of Abraham nor of the true Body of Christ which is his Church These very sins actually cut them off If thou continue not in his goodness thou also shalt be cut off saith the Apostle So they that are such they actually cut off themselves there needs no other testimony against them than the current of their own evil deeds Pray consider a little you that are Papists and give me leave to reason the case with you who are led by this man of sin into such abominations Will the disguise of a Name stand you in stead when God shall judge the World in righteousness by Jesus Christ Will it serve your turn to say We were called Christians by thy Name Will not he say for all that Depart from me I know you not ye workers of iniquity What will the Name of Christians do you good if you be not found in his nature but in a quite contrary nature doing the will and work of him that was a murderer and lyar from the beginning What! Christians in Name and Murderers in Nature and think that the Name or your Pope will bear you out when the righteous Judge shall judge every man according to the things done in the body whether good or bad and when his all-piercing eye shall search and judge the secrets of all hearts I aver that neither he nor you that obey his will in bloody Murders and Massacres are Christians further than in Name any more than the persecuting Jews were the true and spiritual seed of Abraham They were of their Father the Devil as our Saviour told them because they had murder in their hearts and are not you of the same Father who have murders and such horrid murders too not only in your hearts but also in some of your hands How will you excuse your selves in the day of the Lord's Vengeance when he shall make inquisition for blood Will it serve you to say then We did as we were instructed and put on and led by our Teachers When as Christ himself hath told you aforehand That if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch No you shall then curse your King and your God even your Pope whom you have taken to be so to yourselves and followed him into those evils that are excluded out of the Kingdom of God Or will you think to say We did what we did in a good intent Will that excuse Whenas you are admonished not to do evil that good may come thereof and that admonition is left upon record also Will you say We knew it not Then see your blindness see how your Leaders have kept you in blindness lest you should see and know the truth and deliver your selves from under their yoke What hath God given you reason and understanding for Is it that you should throw it away or lay it aside or be led as a Horse or Dog is wholly by the will of another Wherein then do you differ from Bruits Do you not hereby manifest your selves to be those staves and souls of men mentioned to be in Babylon Rev. 18.13 I do not speak these things so plainly to you to vilifie you or in a way of despising of you but to open your eyes that you may see where you are even at the pits brink and that you may retreat before it be too late and may obey that voice from Heaven which calls out of Babylon out of such confusion of wickedness and abominations as you are admonished Rev. 18.4 And I heard a voice from Heaven saying Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Her plagues will follow her sins therefore beware and take warning You your selves cannot but know what abominations be in her what whoredoms and murders and lyes and perjury and such like all countenanced and indulged by him that is King over your Consciences the Pope So that I say he walks not in the steps of that faith of our Father Abraham he is not of him but of Apollyon the Destroyer the Murderer and so is cut off from being of Abraham's seed and consequently from being related to Christ as his Vicar or to Peter as his Successor And for you his Disciples or Followers it 's no marvel that you run on to such horrid abominations beyond the very Infidels and savage people of the World who know nothing of Christ since you throw away your own reason and give up your selves as slaves to be led as Horses and acted by those who teach you to outface Conscience and to out-dare the checks and scruples thereof and even to strive against the principles of good nature and humanity as I am perswaded some of you must do who also to quiet your Consciences make you believe That a Pardon or Indulgence from the Pope will clear all Oh the execrable wickedness that your Leaders prompt you on unto Lying Hypocrisie Perjury Plots Treasons Murthers Massacres to be Truce-breakers false accusers and what not Will you not hereby in the end besides the just judgement of God against such things bring your selves also into that Odium with men that no Man or Nation will trust any thing you say or swear or confide in any Truce that you can make with them and so make your selves fit to be spewed out of the Earth Ponder these things I beseech you and do not stubbornly destroy yourselves but exercise reason as men and hearken to the checks of your Consciences if they be not seared and cast away lying and speak truth that you may be believed and take heed of sighting against God whose hand you may see is against your designs of wickedness and darkness and learn to be inoffensive and without blame in the World as the true Disciples and Believers in Christ were and still are to this day I have a little digressed for your sakes who are led as captives by this Man of sin and instigator to Murthers and Massacres that you might be convinced that he walks not himself nor leads you on to walk in the steps of Abraham's faith and so you should beware of him 3. A third Argument now against the Pope I take from this Scripture 2 Thess 2. where the Apostle speaking
Pope writ to Cardinal Julian thus Nullum valere faedus quod se inconsulto cum hostibus Religionis percussum esset that is That no Covenant was of force which was made with the enemies of Religion without his advice Whereupon the Truce was broken with the Turks and they thought perfidiously to have surprized them but the vigilant Turk Amurates was too nimble for them and had prepared a great Army to meet them which was done so suddenly that it was first seen before it was heard of which struck great terror into the Pope's Army and after a great slaughter on both sides the Turks went away Conquerors whereby providence would have taught them That faith was to be kept with enemies though enemies of Religion And so Aeneas Sylvius was convinced before he was made Pope for saith he speaking of this War Victores evadunt Turcae qui juramenta non solum domesticis fidei sed etiam hostibus servanda demonstrant The Turks go aâ—… Conquerers who shew that Oaths of fidelâ— eye to be kept not only with the housholds of faith but also with enemies Whether this Aeneas might condemn the same again afterwards or not I know not for he writ things before he was Pope which he condemned after he was made Pope whence this scoff was put upon him Aeneas probavit Pius damnavit Aeneas approved it but Pius condemned it for he was call'd Pius secundus after he was made Pope Sure there is a curse of Error adheres to the Pope's Chair and not a blessing of Infallibility But to keep to the thing in hand How treacherously was the Noble Admiral Coligni slain and thrown out at a Window at Paris contrary to promise and Oaths of security And at the same time many thousands of Protestants murthered Parry a Papist and Servant to Queen Elizabeth though he had several times sworn to be true to her yet for all that sought to kill her Because faith is not to be kept with Hereticks You see how safe it is for Protestants to keep Papists about them for such murtherous actions is one of the Papists works of Supererogation for which they merit to be canonized for Saints among the Pope's Catalogue This Perfidiousness of the Roman Catholicks is so notoriously known among Protestant Nations and especially of late among our selves that there needs no further demonstration thereof than the treacherous concealed Murders of several among us very lately who it 's very probable have been trappann'd under fawning and fair pretences into snares where they have lost their life as Worthy Godfrey loft his I am now come to the last Principle which I named which is as the close of these bloody Principles and Practices of the Papists viz. 7. That it is no sin to kill a Heretick or at leastwise it shall not be imputed to them as a sin but rather is a meritorious work to destroy Hereticks whether they be Kings or People Noble or Ignoble so that it be for the advantage of their Church This serves as a Spur to prick forward the Pope's Train to such bloody work especially when they see such as are most active therein canonized for Saints and so highly magnified I question not but many of them may be spurred forward in themselves with the desire of gain to enrich themselves in the ruine of others and with other the like sordid and earthly Considerations But I let that pass and apply my self to this Principle of theirs as a Case of Conscience only I suppose they will not deny this Principle to be theirs If they do their practice will make them lyars by their murtherous actions and wicked Plots and Designs against the Protestants to destroy them together with their Honour that they put upon such wicked practitioners To overthrow this Principle of theirs there is no need of much labour therein For it so fully manifests it self to be contrary to the Spirit of Christ and end of his Coming and also opposite to the Doctrine and Command of Christ that every Boy that can read the Scriptures may easily perceive it First As to its contrariety to the Spirit of Christ and end of his Coming he himself shews it plainly When James and John out of their great respect and love to him and zeal they had for him would have called for fire down from Heaven to consume those that did not receive him He turned and rebuked them and said Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of For the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them Luk. 9.54 55 56. What can be more plainly spoken to shew that this way of destroying mens lives for his sake or because they do not receive him is contrary to the Spirit of Christ and end of his Coming Therefore suppose that the Pope's Church were infallibly in the truth which yet is not granted but admit so and that the Protestants were most certainly in error yet for them to destroy the Protestants upon that account this is far worse than James's and John's action for they did but desire with subjection to Christ to do what they would have done but these not subjecting themselves to Christ's words kill and burn the Protestants and destroy mens lives out of a blind incorrigible furious zeal whereby they greatly aggravate their wickedness Secondly This Principle and Practice of theirs is directly opposite to the Doctrine and Command of Christ which he taught his Disciples Mat. 13.24 c. where he first teaches the People by a Parable and then gives his Disciples the Interpretation of it The Parable is of the Tares of the Field which sprang up among the good Seed And the Servants of the Master of the Field came to him and said Sir didst not thou sowe good seed in thy field from whence then hath it tares He saith unto them An enemy hath done this The servants said unto him Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up But he said nay lest while ye gather up the tares ye root up also the wheat with them Let both grow together until the harvest and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers Gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat into my barn This Parable is as a Question stated on purpose and determined by Christ himself to put an end to all such thoughts or doubts Whether the Children of the Kingdom may root out the Children of the wicked One out of the World Mind therefore how Christ expounds his own Parable and it is a presumptuous wresting of the truth of it to divert it to any other sence for who knows the meaning of a Parable so well as he that gives it especially as the Lord that gave it At the request of his Disciples who said Declare unto us the Parable of the tares of the field he opened it to them ver 37. and so forward He answered and
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