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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57829	Mirmah, or, The deceitful witness a prophecy of Solomon, now first and seasonably discovered, wherein the deceitful witnesses of Rome are made manifest to all, and our Protestant witnesses are justified, praised, and defended, chiefly the late happy discoverers of the Romish plots & deceits : being a sermon preached Novemb. 5 on Prov. 14.25 : a true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies, or, as the original signifies, the lord of Rome speaketh lies / by William Ramsay ...	Ramsay, William, B.D.; Ramsay, William, fl. 1680. Mirmah, Maromah, Maroum.	1679 (1679)	Wing R219; ESTC R13073	11,934	34

been able to fix scarce a seeming Contradiction on the Testimonies of our Witnesses no not on their longest Narratives which is a strong evidence of their sincere Veracity But because perhaps neither their Narratives nor their Testimony is yet at an end I shall say no more of that but conclude First with a word to these Witnesses Let them proceed in a faithful Testimony with courage and confidence in the God of Truth speaking and avowing the Truth for Truths sake not to confound their Enemies yet the Confusion of their enemies will justly follow but let their design be to preserve the Innocent to serve the Church of God to save their King and his People to Deliver Souls Following the Example of their Lord and Master that Hed-emeth That Great Witness of Truth whose glory is to save and not to destroy and who came to save his Enemies if they would have been saved Secondly A word to these deceitful Witnesses of Rome and to all Papists that are led by their Deceits O ye Bar-Jesuses The Word of God is fulfilled concerning you which he spake by his Servant Paul 2 Tim. 3.13 Evil men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived You first began to equivocate with God and your own Consciences speaking lies in hypocrisie having your Consciences seared as with a hot Iron 1 Tim. 4.2 Then you proceeded to equivocate with one another The Pope with the Priest and the Priest with the Pope and the Priest with the People and the People with the Priest deceiving each other with great and glittering words of Catholick and Infallible of Papal and Apostolical power of almighty Bulls and Briefs of Jubilees Pardons Dispensations Indulgences plenary semiplenary superplenary with all the Market-stuff-terms of Penance Mass and Purgatory and you have deceived many Nations with these your deceitful Lies poor England for many Ages At last you came to that Supremacy of Equivocation that your very Head and most holy Lord calling himself The Servant of the Servants of God and the most humble Servant of Kings means to serve them only as his Vassals to destroy them at his pleasure and to Curse all them that serve them in a better sence And see what progress you have made in that Service First you took upon you to Crown Kings you soon took leave to Censure the Kings you Crown'd then to Excommunicate them then to Depose them and to raise and arm their Subjects against them and this way failing you take the Crown into your own hand and give it to what Vassal of yours you please But all these open methods failing you proceeded to Fraud and Stratagems but Frauds above ground failing you went under the Earth as deep as Hell to blow up King and People with Powder-mines But these too failing you brought the Lake of Fire and Brimstone on the Earth and refin'd double and treble all the Arts of Hell and you laid a Plot which you thought invincible and that Heaven and Earth could not defeat it But Heaven has shewn its power in England and you are utterly confounded and the God of Heaven seems now to say of you 2 Tim. 3.9 They shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men And now You Papists of England I hope the Folly the Deceitfulness the hellish Cheats the damnable Principles the Devilish Practices the Antichristian Religion of Rome is manifest to you all And that whether you have been concern'd in this Plot or no yet you will never be concern'd with such Teachers more to be led by their Deceits nor continue Members of so hellish a Body under the influence of so devilish a Head Now we for whom God has done such wonderfull things what manner of persons ought we to be How ought we to love to serve to praise to fear to obey to follow to death our God and Lord Christ Jesus who is the true and faithful Witness who delivereth our Souls from Death who has so often and so wonderfully deliver'd this Kingdom and I believe will deliver it from all its enemies especially the Enemies of his Gospel and has promised to do great things for us and seems to provoke us to love even while we provoke him to Anger That he may make us fit to receive his Favours to the end Let us pray O God who gavest the Son of thy Love to the World to be the Witness of Truth that by the power of his Grace and by the light of his Gospel all men might be deliver'd from Darkness and eternal Death But men receiving not the Truth in love thou didst send them strong delusion to believe the lies of Antichrist the deceitful Witness But in great and tender Mercy thou deliveredst this Nation from that Delusion and hast by late and miraculous Providence deliver'd our King and People from the horrid Plots of that Man of Deceit O let the Glory of thy Truth still shine upon us and be thou our God and we thy People and let the Great Witness of Truth seal this Mercy for ever And let every faithful Soul say Amen FINIS Books sold by Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-press in Cornhill CHristian Religions Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Barr of Common Reason Wherein is proved That 1. The Apostles did not delude the World 2. Nor were themselves deluded 3. That Scripture matters of fact have the best Evidence 4. The Divinity of Scripture is as demonstrable as the Being of a Deity By John Smith Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester Fol. Price 12. s. Of Baptism and the Lords Supper Two short Discourses opening the Nature Design and Ends of those two great Gospel Ordinances and teaching the Holy use and Improvement of them 12o. Price 6 d. A Sermon Preached before the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen of the City of London at Guild-hall Chappel August 18. 1678. By Robert Neville B. D. Rector of Ansly in Hertford-shire 4o. Price 6 d. The Necessity of Receiving the Holy Sacrament that great Test both of the Christian and Protestant Religion Declared in a Sermon at a Conference of the several Ministers of the Deanry of Braughin in the County of Hertford appointed by the Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop of London to be held at Ware August 28. 1678. By R. Neville Rector of Ansly 4o. Price 6 d.