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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

we must be subject to the higher Powers which are Magistrates and Princes Rom. 13. 1 2 3. c. The Pope exempts himself and all his Clergy Priests Monks Friars Jesuits Nuns and all Religious Persons from the Jurisdiction of the Civil Magistrates and takes upon him to absolve all their Subjects from their Oath of Allegiance if they do not please him and give away their Kingdoms and Dominions to others that will submit to him and do him better service As Gregory did spoil Leo the third in taking from him all the Government of the West Again her Pride is seen in laying the Sriptures of God so low and trampling upon them The Council of Trent saith That holy Council was to have the same Veneration and Honour as the Scripture And we read in their Decrees That the Doctrine of the Christian Religion is rather taken from the Popes mouth than the Scripture 'T is they that have pronounced the Apocrypha Authentick which was not written by the Prophets nor received by the Jewish Church And how often do they take from and add to the Scripture Yea say they the Scripture owes its Authority to the Church and she is superiour to it And none are Commandments of Christ but such as are accounted so by the Church and that Tradition is the very rule of Truth and the Pope's Instructions better than the Scripture say the Decrees The Scripture is a dumb and dead Thing and the tale of Christ saith Leo the tenth No less is his pride seen when he calls himself the Foundation Head Husband Lion of the Tribe of Judah the Root of David And though the Scriptures speak sufficiently of their own clearness Psal 19. 7. 2 Tim. 3. 15 16 17. c. Yet Antichrist is of another mind he saith they are very ambiguous in their meaning and may be twisted any way like a Nose of Wax or Leaden Ruler therefore 't is not for the Common People to look into them lest they are poisoned with Errors and Heresies and say they the Scripture is defective in many things and there is much more of the Mind of God to be known than in the Scripture which is conveyed down by unwritten Traditions Now those truths in which the Scripture is defective are such as these the Offering on the Altar Sacrifice Invocation of Saints Prayers for the Dead the Primacy of the Bishops of Rome above Kings and Princes the Sacraments of Confirmation Orders Matrimony Penance Extream Unction Merits of Works Auricular Confessions and many more weighty and necessary truths say they which must be supplied by Tradition because the Scripture is silent in them and I question not but ever will Will you hear the Decree of the Council of Trent That Traditions are to be received with the same pious affection as the holy Scripture O pride above all pride One Marta expounds that saying in Psal 8. 6 7 8. Thou hast put under his feet the Popes all Sheep and Oxen Christians and Sarazens Fowls of the Air the Angels in Heaven the Fishes in the Sea and Souls in Purgatory Again In the Year of Jubilee the Pope is carried in Procession in a Chair of State a sumptuous Canopy born over his Head by Kings and Nobles He is a King over all the Children of Pride His Pride is Illustrated in his endeavouring to have the whole World at his command and to wear his Mark in their Foreheads and Hands She hath but too many Souls that have received this Mark. So Rev. 11. 3. The World wandred after the Beast ver 16. He causeth all both Rich and Poor Small and Great Free or Bond to receive a Mark in their right Hand or in their Foreheads and that no Man might buy or sell but he that hath the Mark or the name of the Beast or the number of his Name In Rev. 17. 1. her pride is painted out there to the life she sits upon many Waters that is People Multitudes Nations and Tongues Ver. 3. And I saw a Woman sit upon a Scarlet-coloured Beast full of names of blasphemy having seven Heads and ten Horns Seven Heads which is seven forms of Government and ten Horns ten Kings that gave their power to the Beast The Woman is the City the Beast is Antichrist her Names of Blasphemy you have heard The Beast is called a Scarlet-coloured Beast to shew her sins are of a very deep Dye they are Scarlet-sins and accompanied with the greatest Impenitency Fourthly Her Character She is an Idolatrous Harlot Which is made manifest in her worshipping of Images And that she may do this with the more ease they have taken away wholly the second Commandment out of their Bibles And lest the People should miss one they divide the Tenth into two And when they are urged with the breach of the second Commandment they say 'T is not Images we are forbidden to worship but 't is a Thing in the Original Suppose that be true Is not an Image a thing Notwithstanding this second Commandment they set up Images in their publick places of Worship of the Virgin Mary of St. Winifred of God like an old gray-headed Man sitting in a Chair and of the Trinity like a strange Monster with three Faces before which the People fall down and worship O horrid Idolatry And that they might make the World believe this is lawful though forbidden in Scripture they feign that Christ in the thirty first Year of his Age himself sent his own Image to King Abdager and made it also by Miracle on the Handkerchief of St. Veronica and on his own shroud He that will believe it may This we might have put among the popish Lyes and Forgeries And therefore the Nicene Council anathematizes Image-breakers that is such as shall break them in contempt or scorn and all such as alledg the places of Scripture which are against Idols against their sacred Images 'T is one of the Articles of the Popes Creed I do hold that the Images of Christ ever blessed Virgin and all other Saints are to be had and adored with due worship They commit Idolatry at Mass also when they shall bow to a Wafer as if it were a God after Consecration also they make Mediators of Saints and Angels though the Apostle Paul speaks so very plainly that there is but one Mediator between God and man the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. The Pope hath found out a great many The Virgin Mary is prayed to that she would command her Son to have mercy on them For as one of the Jesuits saith The Virgin 's milk is as precious as the Blood of Christ And as for what St. Paul saith in this Case 't is not much to be heeded For as one Canon in the Decretal saith St. Paul spoke against all Reason and Truth and others have said That if the Apostle St. Paul be not warily expounded he will smell of Heresie and that St. Paul ' s Epistles have need of a Roman

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 Practices 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 and so discovered to be that Mystery Babylon Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth mentioned in the Revelations By H. C. a Lover of true Protestants LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange 1679. The Author to the READER Courteous Reader NOt because I envy the Person of any Man of any Persuasion so consequently not those of the Papal Church who at present I am concerned with but 't is their Capital Errors and Damnable Principles I aim at in this my Discourse knowing they are contrary and repugnant to the Word of Truth which is the Rule of Faith and Manners and having compassion on Souls which may be Ignorant lest they should fall into the Errors of the Wicked and especially young ones which are not aware of their Principles I have taken a little pains to gather up some of their Horrid Practices and Soul-destroying Principles into a narrow Compass that so in a little time any may perceive what kind of condition they shall be in that do taste touch or handle any of them therefore I beg of you all to whom this shall come to reade it considerately and compare their Principles and Practices with the Word of God and you will see that there is as much difference between them as between Light and Darkness Good and Evil Heaven and Hell God and the Devil And this is not my Opinion alone but the Opinion of almost all the Reformed Churches For that the Pope is Antichrist hath been put into most of the Confessions of Faith I shall only recite the Testimony of one whose incomparable Learning and Piety may make his Words received or mine at least not over-hastily condemned it is the Reverend Doctor Usher Arch-Bishop of Armagh who in his Catechise writ thus As Christ is the Head of the True Church so Antichrist is the Head of the Romish Church which is his Body Quest Who is that Antichrist Answ He is one who under a colour of being for Christ nd under Title of being his Vice-gerent exalteth himself above and against Christ opposing himself against all his Offices and Ordinances both in Church and Commonwealth bearing Authority over the Church of God ruling over that City with seven Hills which did bear Rule over the Nations and put our Lord to Death a Man of Sin a Child of Perdition a Destroyer establishing himself by Lying Miracles and False Wonders All which Marks do agree together to be none but the Pope of Rome Quest What is the use of all his Doctrine Answ That whosoever are partakers of the Sins of Rome are also under the same Curse Quest What further Answ That there can be no sound agreement between Popery and the Gospel no more than between Light and Darkness Falshood and Truth God and Belial and therefore no Reconciliation can be devised betwixt them For if the Antichrist shall be destroyed we cannot in any sort communicate with them in their Errors unless we will bear them company in their destruction also An Account of which Errors Heresies and wicked Practices this Book may give you light in which I had not concerned my self withal at this time but that I was stirred up from the consideration of their Damnable and Hellish Designs of late against England so that they may thank themselves for what I have done and a great many more who are no friends to Popery If these few Sheets shall do any good to the Establishing of those that have received the Truth as 't is in Jesus or informing the Ignorant animating the Spirits of any against those Principles and Practices or bring any out of that gross Egyptian Darkness and leading them into the path of Light and Life I shall have my desire and I desire you may give God the Glory Which that it may be so shall be the hearty prayers of him that is a lover of the true Protestant Religion H. C. A Parallel betwixt the Jews Deliverance from the intended Bloody Massacre in the Reign of Ahasuerus and our Deliverance from the Hellish Powder-Plot in the Reign of King James BEloved Friends and Country-Men I am this Day as God's Messenger to remind you of a very Signal but almost-forgotten Deliverance which England received in the Year 1605 from that hellish Powder-plot of the blood-thirsty Papists Which was not only a general Mercy then received but as it was a kindness to our Grand-Fathers and Fathers so also to us For had Popery then entred England which hath been yet is and I hope will be Emmanuel's Land what in all probability had we been at this time Now for as much as God delights to have his wonderful Works remembred Psal 111. 4. by those that are in the fruition and enjoyment of them and more especially considering the need we may have of as great a kindness as then received already through Grace begun to be shewed the Lord of his rich Mercy bring Ahitophel's Counsel to nought totally what cause have we to be praising God this day that so your Hearts may be animated and stirred up to the Work I shall in this my Discourse at this time run a Parallel between the wicked Conspiracy made against the Jews and People of God in the days of King Ahasuerus and the hellith Powder-Plot in the days of King James of happy Memory for defending the Protestant Religion and discountenancing the contrary and I hope by that time I have done you will see what great cause there is to bless God for his unspeakable Goodness and also see what Enemies Papists are to all true Protestants and so I shall now begin what I have to say 1. As in the days of Ahasuerus who Reigned from India even to Ethiopia over one hundred and seven and twenty Provinces Esther 1. 1. there was a Massacre designed upon all the Men Women and Children which were of the Nation of the Jews the Church of God Esther 3. 13. So in the days of King James 1605. about seventy three Years since there was a Powder-Plot against this Nation and all the People of God for there was thirty six Barrels of Gun powder in a Seller under the Parliament House And in stead of Shot they had laid upon the Powder Bars of Iron Logs of Timber massy Stones Iron Crows Pickaxes and all their working Tools and to cover all that the Plot might not be discovered they had laid great store of Billets and Faggots