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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49210	To the Pope, and all his cardinals, bishops, Jesuits, monks and friars, with all the rest of his people, who are reprobates concerning the faith of Christ, gospel-order, and true religion, and also the papists prov'd to be a seditious sect being something in answer to Æneas Mach. Gilmury, and Mauritius Bern, who call themselves students of art / J.L. J.S.	Lancaster, James, d. 1699.; Stubbs, John, 1618?-1674.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1671 (1671)	Wing L311; ESTC R9411	27,585	36

the Dragons power she rules And out of this Beasts power have your false Prophet gone crooking up and down the Nations and creeping under the Mountain like Froggs the unclean spirits and these spirits are Devils that came out of the Mouth of the Beast and false Prophet that should work Miracles and deceive the World But a day of Famine will come and Plague and Death to this Life that you live in and flaming Fire for strong is the Lord God that judgeth her the great Whore and false Church her smoak is seen and we know that you will begin to knaw your tongues for Pain for your Kingdom is full of Darkness For the Angel hath Power over your Thrones and your Rivers will be dried up which is muddy Water For hath not your City bin divided into three parts and the Turk got one part and the Protestants another And all your noisom Smells begin to smell who have the Beasts Mark in your Fore-heads and have worshipped his Image that have been out of the Image of Christ and so the Lord is True and Righteous in his Judgments for he hath judged the great Whore which hath corrupted the Earth with her Forhication and will avenge the blood of his Servants at your hands she hath corrupted the Earth with her Idols and Idolatries and Inventions and Fables and so we are come through the Light of Christ Jesus above her by which we see the Heavenly Jerusalem the true Spouse the Lambs Wise Christ the Head the true Church and the new Earth wherein dwells Righteousness and your old Earth which the Devil compasseth wherein dwells Unrighteousness filled with Idolatry and Corruption and filthiness of flesh and spirit that which cumbers the Ground fruitless Trees that have born no Fruit to God The Gates of our City Heavenly Jerusalem are not shut neither by Night nor Day but any that come to the Light of Christ Jesus they may enter through the Light into our City which is far above your Mystery Babylon false City false Church VVhore Dragon false Prophet which hath been the Drinker of the Blood of the Righteous Persecutors and Murderers by the Devils power and authority which Christ who is our Head comes to destroy who was before the Devil was and will be when the Devil is gone who was First and Last the Beginning and End the Top and Corner-Stone who is our Rock which our House is built upon and our Foundation upon which we are built Glory to God in the Highest for evermore And now to something further VVhereas you tell us a long Tale of Anaxagoras a Philosopher you have just hit your own Condition for it suits your present Condition and it is a very fit Comparison for you who would make People believe you can make a godd and christ and make a head for your Body the POPE and so deceive people as he makes people believe That the Snow was Black and the Sun was a broad Plate of Nettal And so you are so perverse in Nature though you are confuted and convinced in your Consciences you will not be brought from your Error as before mentioned and out of your Seditious and Erronious wayes and so you have gone about to confound Truth but it is too hard for you for the Devil is out of it And as for your prophane Impiety you say we draw people to that is your own Condition and Jewish Fables and Heathens also you may find enough of them at home in your own Houses and Fields nay worse then the Iews It seems you cry out That we Disturb the Tranquility of the Christian Religion Nay it is your false Religion which you have made who are a Seditious Sect who are erred from the Pure Religion that is above that keeps from the Spots of the World which is to visit the Fatherless Widdows and Strangers and you instead of this cast into Prison and let your Poor go Begging up and down your Streets and Fatherless and Widdows as look into France and other Parts And if you were in this Religion which you as a Seditious Sect are erred from which would keep you from the Spots of the World which is pure from above and undefiled before God you would not tell people of a Purgatory And so the pure Religion we stand for against all your false Ones and every one among us may Minister as they have received the Grace as good Stewards and they may all Prophesie one by one And God hath poured out his Spirit upon his Sons and Daughters and Hand-maids and Young-men and Old men that every one hath somewhat to offer to God but this is a Strange Paradox to your false Church and seditious Sect that are erred from the Apostles who limit your Preaching to such as have got the Natural tongues and so Nebuchadnezar like whom you please you set up and whom you please you pull down and whom you please you open their Mouths and whom you please you stop them and they that would not Bow at the sound of your PIPE and ORGAN you cast into the Fire Nebuchadnezar like But this is a Strange Paradox you can make Ministers as you can make a Christ and a Godd one like the other out of Truth an● so in so doing deny the true Ministers and the true Christ and God who is to be worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth which Christ set up above 1600 years since and since you have forsaken Christ that is worshipped in the Spirit and in the Truth you compel others do not you so who is the same to day yesterday and forever But from this Infallible Worship that Christ s●t up in the Spirit and in the Truth which the Devil is out of are you erred from the Spirit and Truth become a Seditious Sect an Erronious and Schismatical Sect and Persecuting the true Worshippers of the living God in Spirit and Truth which Truth and Spirit is within by which Spirit the God of Truth is known It seems John Stubbs and James Lancaster have sorely angred that Seditious Sect of Rome And whereas thou tellest us of Phanatick Assertions which we are clear of but thou mayst look at home for that and take in thy old fathers Puddles of Errors and Blasphemies which we deny And as for Phanatick is there a People more like them in the World then you in Rage and Fury and Madness against the Righteous for your Godd you have made and your Images and Idols and Fables And have you not tewed your selves about them as much as ever Tubal did about the godds they made For the Spirit of God is Gentle and Meek and so your Phanatick Humours have sufficienly spoken forth themselves to the Nations And whereas thou speakest That we have rightly tituled the Mother Church of Rome the Old-Woman ☞ Though thou hast got some Glory in it which seems to paint thee off a little but thou shouldst have taken all our words The Mother Church

over them and Authority over them and are called Gratious Lords it must not be so amongst you Here you slight Christ's words in making a Head and setting up your Gratious Lords your Popes to exercise Lordship over the People in dispite against Christs Command and so plainly manifest an Antichrist a Schismatick and a Sect degenerated from the true Brotherhood and true Head and he that will be the Greatest must be as the Least he that is Chiefest as he that Serveth c. and so he brings to an even rule And in many places it is plain that Peter never took the Headship to himself as your counterfeit Head hath done in opposition to the True Church and true Christ in dispite against him and this makes no Contradiction for the Chiefest must be as he that Serveth and the Greatest as the Least this cuts off your Lordship for the Scribes and Pharisees were reproved for that And thou bringest an Argument to prove that Peter was Head of the Apostles though the Apostles sent him Thou sayest Though the Father sent the Son yet to say that the Father hath greater Power then the Son thou sayest is Blasphemy Christ saith of Him That his Father is Greater then He John 14.28 and that was no Blasphemy in Christ And how was he Greater was it not in Power Yet we tell thee again that the Father and Son is one according to his Divinity he is God and God was in Christ and according to the Flesh he Suffered it was not God that Suffered that Died the Eternal God but Christ Suffered according to the Flesh as the Scripture declares for what God was that Christ prayed to and said Father if it be possible let this Cup pass from me but not my Will but they Will But these things are a Mystery to you and your dark spirits who it seems are ignorant of the Scriptures neither are the Holy Men of Gods words fit to come into your Mouths And whereas thou sayest Christ would have I relates to be humble People Look over the Popes Church and what Humility do you see Are not your Women full of Spots and the Pope with his Tripple-Crown and their Gorgious Attire Was this like Mary the Mother of Jesus who was brought to Bed in a Stable and laid Jesus in the Mainger Now we shall hardly have room in your Stable but in your Fires and Inquisitions for the Devil would Destroy True Christianity throughout the Earth who is become a false Christian in you but Christ will brake the ●e●d of hi● And if Peter was at Rome yet he was not Pope over all the Churches nor any of his Disciples nor none of Peters Follower all these things will not cover your Seditious Head nor this Catalogue of Bishops that were set up not for the first Six Hundred Years after Christ there was no Universal Pope all that time till as I said before Boniface the third was set up by Phocas the Murderer and after came in the Turk and then came in the Devil that hath filled your Cup to the brim with a Raging spirit and a Murdering spirit And thou sayest the truth of this Succession is gathered out of Matthew which proves nothing at all of this to you for your counterfeit Church hath been prevailed against by them which worship Mahomet Christ was with Peter to the end of his dayes and with all them that be in his Spirit the Spirit of Christ Jesus But what is this to you who have erred from Peter's Spirit and are got into a Murderous spirit who Persecute People to Death for your Rudiments Peter did not Persecute People for not owning Christ nor for not following Idols or images the Works of mens hands Another false Cover these Papists have which they daub People with concerning Peters being Head of the Church where it is said in Matth. 16. where Christ asked his Disciples Whom do men say that I am And their Answer was That he was John Baptist some say and others Elias and others Jeremiah or one of the Prophets But he said Whom do you say that I am Peter said Thou art Christ the Son of the Living God And Jesus answered and said unto him Blessed art thou Simon Barjona for Flesh and Blood hath not revealed this to thee I s●y unto thee th●u art Peter and upon this Rock I will build my Church and the Gates of H●ll shall not prevail against it Now if this Church had been built upon Peter as he was a man of Flesh and Blood as you say then when Peter was put to Death the Gates of Hell had prevai'ed then and here the Papists would give Christ the Lye but Christ saith That Flesh and Blood had not revealed this to thee and thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church That his Flesh and Blood had not revealed unto him thou art Peter And what signifies Peter If Peter signifies a Rock and if Christ built his Church upon the signification of Peter's Sur-name which signifies but an outward Rock which outward Rock may be brought as a Figure of Christ or a Parable or Comparison if it be built upon the Parable it is not built upon the thing it self Must not then all your Popes names be call'd Peter if they be the Rocks of your Church and so your Church must be built upon their Sur-names Now if it be built upon Peter as a man and your Popes as men as you say it is as Flesh and Blood c. then it is built upon the signification of the word Man which is not the signification of Peter's Sur-name but the signification of Man is Adam for Son of Man is Son of Adam as Ben Adam Ben Elohim and Adam signifies Red Earth does it not And so the Interpretation of the Popes Rock is That he built his Church upon Red Earth and Red Earth is not a Rock And what is that which Flesh and Blood hath not revealed Thou art Christ the Son of the Living God and upon this Rock is Christ's Church built that his Flesh and Blood had not revealed and the Gates of Hell shall not preva●l against this Rock Christ Jesus it destroyes the Devil and his works and his Power is over Hell and Death and they are Living Stones that be Members of his Body What is all this to the Popes counterfeit Head and Church which the Gates of Hell have prevail'd against their fleshly Foundation their fleshly Church and their carnal Head which is devilish And thus they have erred and degenerated from the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and Christ Jesus being the Top and Corner-Stone for Christ was their Rock the Apostles confessed and the Rock that followed the Jews was Christ And so it is clear that you are the Foolish Builders that have built your House on the Sand the Sea shore and many of your Houses are walled down for they that built up●n the Rock Christ Jesus which Flesh

they will not eat your gods and your christs that you have made and Worship it And is not this worse then the Heathen Did the Heathen eat their gods when they had made them So it is clear that you are erred from the Catholique Cross which is the Power of God from the Catholique Faith that works by Love from the Catholique Head Christ Jesus from the Catholique Church the Body of Christ Jesus and cannot maintain your rudiments nor your christ that you have made to the Apostles days for did they set up any such thing Your doctrine concerning Purgatory Meats Drinks Holy-dayes Lent nor your Cloths nor your Bell Book and Candle nor your Popes Head of the Church none of these things can you maintain nor your Persecuting about Religion nor your Mass-mongrey-Stuff nor your several Orders nor your Triple-Crowns nor your Nunneries nor your Crucifixes nor your forbidding to Marry not your Schools of Arts to make Ministers none of all these things can you make good that they were acted or practised by the Apostles or that they did persecute any people about outward things 10thly You are a Seditious Sect and have left the Commands of Christ Jesus who saith Freely you have received and Freely give therefore you who have set up both Easter-Reckonings and Midsummer-Dues and Tythes are a Sect that serve your selves and not Christ Jesus that mind Earthly things and are Enemies to the Cross of Christ and are gone in the way of Cain to Envy Gainsaying Carah against the true Church and its practice and run after the Error of Balaam for Gifts and Rewards the Wages of Unrighteousness Unrighteous Wages and like to Flimas the Sorcerer who seek to turn People from the Catholique Faith that works by Love whose Eyes are blind groping up and down in your Rudiments and among your Idols and Inventions of your Fore-fathers who erred from the true Church And as for the Pelagian-Heresie look at home you Papists and as for the Arians you may look at home for we are none of that spirit Whereas thou givest us a Catalogue of some that did succeed Peter at Rome or Paul but thou doest not tell us of Pope Jone and make a Catalogue of her that had a Bastard nor thou dost not tell us of the Bishop of Rome whom thou callest Pope that sacrificed to the Heathen gods and denied Christ What will you say that these were Rebellious Actions And thou dost not tell us of Boniface the third set up by Phocas that murdered his Master Mauritius about six hundred years after Christ then began your firs● general Pope and you may say if you should do so Satan would be divided against Satan and so could not stand You are far from giving freely who have set up so many Glebe-land and Tythes and I aster-reckonings and fat Parsonages that you might live in the Glory of the World not like a suffering Seed but that you are Enemies to the suffering Seed 11thly You are a Seditious Sect you have cast the Royal Law of God behind your backs which teacheth to do unto others as you would others should do unto you for would you have others to Burn you to Hang you to Imprison you because that you do not conform to their Way or Religion Would you have the Turks and Tartars and Protestants and Jews to Rack and Torture and make Inquisitians for you and Burn you and Hang you because that you do not conform to their Religion Blind the Royal Law of God To do to others as you would have them to do unto you Speak plainly if you can or date or is Ishmael that S●●ff●r Cain the first Persecutor of his Brother Nebuchadnezar and Hammon and the Murdering Jews and the Devil the Dragon become Christians Are not you sound in this nature to the brim And was this divine Cain was a mighty man in Arts as high as you and so was Nimrod in his Building but God confounded him and his Works and so he will do yours it is all under the Chain together with the Workmen And are not you more like to the proud Pharisees with their long Robes that love to be called of men Master and the Gentiles Gratious Lords who loved the Praise of men and Honour one of another a Mark of no Believer Is not this Ti●le and these things forbidden by Christ Jesus See John 5. But I must tell you in your Catalogue you say that many did succeed Peter Where do you read that in all his time he was called Gratious Lord or Pope or that Timothy or Titus or any other that he was set up above another by the Apostles Did not Paul reprove Peter for some things This makes nothing for the Pope the Catalogue you have brought neither doth it suit the matter for your whole Church as you call it together with your Head the Pope is judged by Christ and the Apostles and the primitive Church and therefore because that you have lost the Key of David and Tongue of the Learned the Pope must have the outward Key and you must have the Tongues that begin at Babel which your Brother Pilate set on the top of Christ when he Crucified him and therefore must studdy Arts and so Tubal Cain and this proves you a Seditious Sect and have lost the Crown of Life and therefore he must set up 3. Crowns on his head a Triple-crown this becomes the old Fool that is erred from the Spirit that maketh wise and gives understanding he is far short of them that said An outward Crown did not become a Preacher of the Gospel Let him look the History and see if he can sind such a one in the Church-History before the Pope was But his Head must be beyond Nebuchadnezars Head of Gold for he sets a Tripple-crown upon h●s bead But there is a Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands that will dash his Head of Gold to pieces with his Crown So it is not the handy works of mens hands make them never so strong that will stand before this Stone Glory to God in the highest forever And this Stone will become a great Mountain and fill the whole Earth it is encreasing and in vain do the Pot-shreds of the Earth and Briars and Thorns set themselves in Battel-array against it for his Ensign and Flag of Defiance against all Idolatry with their Idols is hell forth and his Truth spreads and his Light shines by which they all see the Foundation and Rock of Ages And this Stone is fallen upon your Head and Body and will grind you to Powder for when your Head is dead you make another with a great deal of quarrel and strife and many times Blood is shed that some of your Members are killed about making of a head when the body makes him like to frantick men that have lost their Brains But for your Racks Fires and Fagots your rude Rabble would never be kept in order for that noble