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A67263	A discoverie of the beasts being an exposition of the XIII chapter of the Revelation of Jesus Christ : wherein all true Christians (yet in Babylon) are admonished to come out, and the anti-Christians fore-told what their plagues will be / by I.W.	I. W.	1641 (1641)	Wing W41; ESTC R6846	38,588	101

suffered in any Kingdom or Common-wealth and so they blaspheme the Tabernacle of God in a high degree as if Gods people were a company of ungodly rebels and wicked conspiratours but the righteous Lord will in due time visit his people and rebuke his enemies And on the other side for Gods people now to deny the kingdom of the Beast that is as they call it the holy Catholike Church Militant to be the true Church of Christ To refuse to partake and communicate with them in their abominations delusions and unlawful works of darknes is adjudged disobedience schisme and contempt of the power and authorty of the Church To speak against their proceedings sedition disturbance of the peace of the Church heresie impiety and what not Thus they adorne the Harlot which corrupteth the earth with her fornications with the title of the Church and Spouse of Christ and Tabernacle of God and so blaspheme the Tabernecle of God as if it were not a communion of Saints by calling and profession but an habitation of Divels an hold of foule Spirits and a Cage of every unclean and hatefull Bird. Further it is said of the Beast that it did blaspheme those that dwelt in heaven that is the Saints departed this life Those that dwell in heaven are then blasphemed when it is said of them that they take it as an honour done unto them when we make them our Patrons build them Temples set up their Images offer and pray unto them and make them Mediatours between Christ and us for by this they are made not onely Idols but also favourers and chief maintainers of Idolatry They are also blasphemed when the doctrine which they taught and practised is condemned for heresie or when erronious doctrines vaine traditions superstitious rites ceremonies and customes are fathered upon them as received from them by Tradition as unwritten verities but the world hath been brought to believe that Saints in heaven might by these means be as it were bought and sould between Priest and people wherein they have been highly blasphemed Moreover it is said that it was given to the Beast to make warre with the Saints and to overcome them and power was given him over all Kindreds and Tongues and Nations Warre is made with the Saints when they are accused to Rulers and Governors to be Heretikes Schismaticks wicked and ungodly persons and they may then be said to be overcome whem their accusers are justified and they condemned according to this this Scripture hath been fulfilled and verified Great and of long continuance have been the warres which the Beast hath made with the Saints and many have been the victories of this kinde which the Beast hath had against them as the Histories and other records of the Nations do plentifully witnes It was given to the Beast to make warre with the Saints when Rulers and Governours gave way to the Beast to devise and make laws at their own pleasure concerning Religion and the worship of God and then to condemne for Delinquents and evill doers all that would not observe those Laws How free and forward Rulers and Governours have been to give such power unto the Beast they themselves have felt by long and wofull experience for much woe hath the Beast wrought not to the poore and meaner sort of the Saints onely but even to Emperours and Kings and all degrees of people and therefore it is said in the words following that power was given unto this Beast over every Kindred Tongue and Nation So that the exaltation thereof was such as to be a Father above all fathers to every Kindred a Lord above all Lords to every Tongue a King above all Kings to every Nation Thus was this Beast exalted and sate as a Queen triumphing over them having all of all degrees brought in bondage unto her Dominion which was a just recompence upon their heads that gave such power unto this Beast yet see how the world was herein deluded they were not captives against their wills but in blind devotion had this Beast in most high reverence as being a devine power ordained and given by God and not from the Dragon Thus did the Lord give them over to be deluded by this Beast as a just reward of their vngodlynes in that they receaued not the loue of the truth but tooke pleasure in vnrighteousnesse Further it is declared in the words following That all that dwell vpon the earth must worship him that is the Beast whose names are not written in the booke of the life of the Lamb slayne from the foundation of the World by those that dwell on the earth is ment those that have set their habitation there and choose rather to enioy the prosperitie of the world and plesures of sinne together with the Beast then to sufffer affliction for the truth and for witnessing against the Beast these are they that worship him that is receaue their precepts and rules for their doctrine and wholesome instuction and observe their ordinances and Lawes as perfect rules of eqitie and righteousnesse casting the word of God declared in the holy scriptures be hind their backes and treading his Ordinances vnder their feete making farre more conscience not to eate an Egge on Friday then to steale or to commit adulterie But of such it is said that their names are not written in the Booke of life of the Lamb which was slaine from the beginning of the world That is they are not of the number of Gods Elect and Choosen in Christ and given vnto him for his portion and heritage whose condition is to be hated despised persecuted and afflicted in the world for righteousnes sake in whom the Lamb Christ Jesus as in his members hath been slaine since the beginning of the world which condition those which cannot brook and endure but count it a pleasure to live deliciously for a season and take delight to enjoy the pleasures of sin may thereby be discribed not to have their names written in the Book of life Concerning these things it is added If any man have an eare let him heare As if it should be said few there be which have an eare to heare these things For who can indure to heare that Catholike Church which they account to be spirituall holy and heavenly to bee compared to a Beast ugly in forme and horrible and monstrous in nature Who can endure to heare that Power that Throne and that authority which they believe to be of God to be said and affirmed to be of the Dragon that old Serpent the Divell and Satan Who will believe that a righteous God would give way to his enemies the workers of iniquity so farre to prevaile and so long time as for many hundred years together to delude the Nations to bring them into bondage and to keepe them in slavery And that a few poore despised people of no reckoning in the world here one and there another should see more and be wiser then

the Dragon said of the Kingdomes of the world Luk. 4.6 All these are in my power I give them to whom I will So likewise saith this Beast his Vicar the Prelate of Rome The Empire and Kingdoms of the earth are in my power and at my disposition and to me it belongeth to depose and set up Emperours and Kings at my pleasure as shall be behovefull for the peace of the Church And thus may the Beast in this be known by his voice likewise in divers other particular blasphemous speeches and divelish doctrines Further it is said of this Beast That he exerciseth all the power of the first Beast before him and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first Beast whose deadly wound was healed In that this beast is said to exercise All the power of the first Beast before him therby was signified That what the first beast could do by her motherly authority and power under the usurped title and name of the holy Church the same could this beast do by the authority and power of his fatherhood under the title pretence of Christs Vicar Peters successor universal Bishop c. But that this Beast may yet further be discerned it is said of him That he caused the earth and those which dwell therein to worship the first Beast c. By causing the earth to worship the first Beast was foreshewed that the Pope would exact of the earth the tenth part of the fruits thereof for the maintenance of the holy Church and this is indeed to worship For as the paying of Tithes in the time of the Law was a part of the true outward worship of God so this is the worship of the Beast And further by causing the Inhabitants of the earth also to worship the first Beast was shewed that he would carefully see due homage service and obedience to be yeelded and performed to the holy Church so that though the Prelate of Rome as a son of Perdition did exalt himselfe above measure yet still doth he maintaine the power and dignity of the Catholike Church the estimation of her Motherhood must still be maintained her voice must still be heard and obeyed not to come when she calls is contumacy and contempt not to be indured they that dare so far to despise her authority as not to obey her Paritors Processe are by her doom to be accounted cursed children and worthy of no lesse censure and punishment then to be struck with that terrible Thunderbolt of her Excommunication the violence whereof is such as who can indure it Who will not rather ride run dance attendance crouch kneele pay pray or do any thing else which Master Officiall or his Register will enjoyne them then undergo so heavie a burthen as the censure of Excommunication Thus will the Pope have the magnificence of this Diana to be maintained The earth and those which dwell in it must yeeld unto her the Tithe of all their increase as also Mortuaries Offerings and many other Church duties which she requireth of them for she is a Goddesse and must be worshiped And this diminisheth the Popes glory never a jot the two estates of the Whore and false Prophet can well agree and stand together as Father and Mother in one Family and therefore the second Beast as Father of all will have the first Beast worshipped that is obeyed and maintained in glory as Mother of all And further observe in that the Pope hath executed all authority of the Catholike Church thereby is confirmed the truth of the exposition that the first Beast was the Catholike Church and the second Beast the Pope as hath been before observed And he doth great wonders so that he maketh fire to come down from Heaven on earth in the sight of men First by the wonders which he did was foreshewed what wonderfull things the Prelate of Rome that false Prophet should bring to passe as namely under the title of the servant of the servants of God which indeed all Ministers of the Word and other Church Officers ought to be to creep up and exalt himselfe above Emperours and Kings and all other estates in the earth which being considered is indeed a thing wonderfull for first the Prelacy and Cleargie in respect of the pretended holinesse of their Orders were exempted and freed from being subject to any secular jurisdiction and power Vide Consiliū Matis Can. 9.10 the meanest of them might not bee produced before any secular Judge for any crime or offence how hainous soever yet unto this Beast they must be obedient in all things as servants to their Lord upon him they must depend with all observation as children upon their fathers And as for Emperours and Kings and other worldly States it is plaine to be seen that though they stand highly upon their titles and dignities not to have them impaired or in any thing diminished which is a thing which they will withstand to the shedding of abundance of blood yet to be made such vassals to this Beast as to hold his stirrop to lead his Horse by the bridle to kisse his feet they thought it no abasement but an honour And notwithstanding that very many of that beastly ranke have been notorious wicked men and abominable livers yet have they the craft so to delude and besot all people of all degrees in the world as to bring them to believe that the truth is so infallibly annexed to that seat of the Beast that it is not possible for him to erre in judgement yea he made the world to believe it as an Article of faith that his determination and judgement of any controversie or point of doctrine is a more indifficient and infallible rule of faith then is the holy Scriptures That these and the like grosse doctrines is beleeved and received are great wonders Further He maketh fire to come down from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men c. By fire in this place was foreshewed the punishment which should be inflicted on the Saints which was burning with fire And in that the fire was said to come from Heaven Psal 82.6 wherby was foreshewed that the Iudges of the earth Who are called gods and their seats as the Throne of God in Heaven should be so corrupted by the Pope as that they should believe the Saints and Servants pf God which refused to obey the Pope and his Laws to be therefore Heretikes Schismatikes refractary rebellious and disobedient persons and therefore should condemne them to be burnt to death This they have done thinking they did God there in good service and that it was the just judgement of God upon them Thus he made fire to come down from heauen For true it is that the judgements rightly pronounced by the lawfull Magistrates are the Iudgements of God and their punishments Gods punishments and therefore it is that Magistrates are called Gods but seeing Magistrates have been thus