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A66982	The fall of Babylon, or, Seasonable reflections on the novelties of Rome with the rise, growth, and final overthrow of Antichrist now at hand, occasioned by the preface to a treatise called Nubes testium, or, A collection of primitive fathers giving testimony to the faith once delivered to the saints, being (as the author stileth it) a full discovery of the sentiments of the ancient fathers in the chief points of controversy at present under debate : written upon the first coming forth of the said treatise (but not permitted to be then made publick) for the benefit of all who abominate the corruptions of the great whore and would not be partakers of her sins of plagues / by B.W.	Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3467; ESTC R27594	163,329	256

for above forty Years for the cure whereof a Council is called at Pisa which creates Alexander the fifth Pope so that now there are three Popes at once Gregory the Twelfth for he was chosen to succeed at Rome Bennet the thirteenth to succeed Clement the seventh in France and Alexander the fifth and not long after John the 23d and after him Martin the fifth upon which the Schism ended But such were the contests prevarications and cruelties of those Times such the Barbarities of these Vicars of Christ as they would all fain be stiled that it is a shame they should be named among Christians I shall give but one or two Instances The first is that of Urban the 5 th wrapping up five Cardinals in Bags and commanding them to be cast into the Sea The second that of Innocent the seventh who when the Romans were earnest with him to take away the Schism that had been so long in the Church and that he would extinguish the Wars and Seditions the King of France having promised his Assistance herein and Peter de Luna the Antipope no way resisting such an accord he sent the Romans who thus addrest him to Lewis his Nephew then residing at the Hospital of the Holy-Ghost in Saxia and by his Authority they are forthwith all Murthered and thrown out at the Windows and the reason given for it was Eo modo tolli seditiones Schisma non alio quidem posse That that was the way that Seditions and Schisms were to be taken away and that it could be done no other way So Longus a Coriolano p. 373 374. He that shall read the History of those times shall not need to go far for an Expositor to explain to him what is to be understood by the Beasts Kingdom being full of Darkness and they gnawing their Tongues for pain such the Envy and bitter Malice they had against one another such the Torment Vexation and Rancour of their envenomed Minds such the disorder and confusion that was among them every thing dark and black as Hell it self from whence it came As neither will he for a Comment on what follows viz. Their blasphemingthe God of Heaven because of their Pains and their Sares and repenting not of their Deeds For what could be so highly to the dishonour of God himself what so much to Blaspheme his Name as to pretend Religion the cause of Christ and the Right of governing his Church for all their excess and outrage And to say no more to use his Holy Name in thus Excommunicating one another What so much for the Disgrace of those Princes and others who were so highly scandalized at such Enormities as to continue still in Communion with those who had let me so speak Excommunicated all Holiness and Charity I may say even Christ himself and his Gospel from their Church For was it not too in this Season that the Gospel was made to give place to the Papal Constitutions the Word of God made of none Effect through the Traditions of Men Mark 7. 13. I mean in that Authority to which the Canon-Law was advanced Which being begun by Cyratian Anno 1145 enlarged by Boniface the 8th Anno 1298 and having the Clementines added to it by Clemeus the 5th Anno 1308 and the Extravagancies by John the 22d Anno 1320 became the Rule and Standard of Popery And what could this produce but the grossest darkness in the Kingdom of the Beast For what must the mist be that is cast hereby upon the Understandings of Men when instead of that Word which is a Lamp unto our Feet and a Light unto our Path Psalm 119. 105. Only such a fatuus ignis as that of foolish Man's Invention is shall be allowed to guide us How is this for the Blind to lead the Blind and what 's the Consequence thereof what can it end in but in making both fall into the Pit Indeed this I could not here well pass by as being at least part of that heavy Judgment which was then inf●…icted on Antichrist not but that this darkness began earlier to spread it self over the Kingdom of the Beast than the time we mark out for that particular Vial said here to be poured on his Seat according to what we have already taken notice of viz. That it is not necessary that each Vial in its full extent should be just confined to some one Period wherein none other of the Vials were pouring out and will in some degree continue as long as any thing of this Kingdom shall remain for indeed the Kingdom of the Beast is nothing else but the Kingdom of Darkness it being only by Error and Ignorance he can hope to prevail For let but the light of the Gospel once clearly shine forth and all Mists and Clouds will vanish forthwith and this Kingdom of the Beast it is by that at lastit is to be overthrown will vanish with them But one thing more is to observed of this Vial as it was poured out upon the Seat of the Beast and that was as now Princes began to despise the Power of the Popes and make themselves their Judges it was what they had sometimes attempted before but the Popes still got the better of them in the contest but now they effectually made them to be deposed and submitted them to the Authority of Councils as in that of Constance Nay they came to that Indiffereucy that several of them owned neither the Pope at Rome nor at Avignon and Charles the 6th King of France went so far as by a publick Edict to decree ne quis suorum Romanum aut Avenionem excutreret ad Pontifiem That none of his Subjects should go either to Rome or Avignon to the Pope Besides it was what did not a little encrease their pains and sores what happened to the Seat of the Beast under this Vial from Wiclef and his Followers who so highly declaimed against the Pope as being Antichrist and so stronuously opposed the Doctrines of Purgatory of Images of Invocation of Saints of Transubstantiation of Indulgences c. For however Wiclef's Doctrine was condemned at Constance Jerome of Prague and John Hus Burnt for defending it yet how did the Light of the Gospel by them Preached begin to dispel the Mists and Clouds which this Kingdom of Darkness had cast abroad How did it but make way for that clearer Light which shone forth yet clearer at the Reformation When according to Hus's Prophecy viz. Nunc quidem torretis Anserem at veniet Cycnus quem non poteritis torrere post centum Annos Deo mihi respondebitis Now indeed you rost a Goose alluding to his own Name which signifies a Goose but there will come a Swan whom you shall not be able to rost after 100 Years you shall answer to God and me Luther appeared against the Corruptions of the Church of Rome And here let us leave them full of Darkness as they are and gnawing their Tongues for

Rome Boasts can stand in stead in the day of Wrath No Think of nothing but the Blood of Christ and that Sacrifice offer'd by him our only Advocate and Mediator but whose True Members Rome hath so long Persecuted And let me in all Humility beseech you once more to think and that is on those who have been using all their Sorceries to deceive you in these weighty matters and to rob you and your Subjects of the benefit of that Blood Think too Great Princes how they have entrenched on your Royal Dignity in every advance they made towards their Greatness It was by taking him out of the way that hindred that Antichrist the Man of Sin and Son of Perdition i. e. By the removing the Roman Emperor that he was first capable of Exalting himself Consider how by their siding one while with the Eastern another while with the Western Emperor after the Empire ceased at Rome they made these to clash against one another themselves still gaining by the Rupture Consider how it was in the Prosecution of this their wicked purpose they called in first the Emperor of Constantinople and then Pepin against Aistulphus King of Lombardy And what became of his Territories and the Exarchat of Ravenna in the Issue which instead of being restored to the Emperor as was demanded by his Ambassadors were decreed by Pepin to the Pope Consider they are Contemplations worthy your Royal Thoughts what was their Design in beginning a new Empire in the VVest and clapping the Crown by surprize on the Head of Charles the Great as it is reported to have been done whilst he was upon his Knees at his Devotion What indeed but to lessen the Eastern Empire and from the Authority Leo the then Pope assumed to himself to Found for the future a Right in Creating and Confirming all Princes See the Tenure Great Monarchs they prescribe for all your Royalties to be held by And if whilst it was to serve them they call you the Vicars of Christ for there was a time when themselves told you this was your Stile yet how soon did they forget the Allegiance due to it and under that very Stile since usurpt the Power over you and your Kingdoms Will it not be too great an humbling to you Mighty Princes to shew you no fewer than seven Emperors i. e. Henry the Fourth Henry the Fifth Conrad Frederic Barbarossa Philip Otho Frederic all almost successively Excommunicated some of them deposed and others brought to that degree of Submission as to hold the Pope's Stirrup one having his Crown kicked off of his Head by him all spurned and trampled on as if they had been the vilest Vassals And is it any wonder that Kings and other Princes have the honour to follow their Emperors herein Baronius in his Annals Anno 1162 brings in the Kings of France and England at once performing the Office of Yeomen of his Stirrup and leading his Horse one by one Rein the other by the other till from the place where they met Him they had conducted Him to the place of his Reception And lest full Homage should not be paid to Him he gives an account at the same time of a Prince of the Saracens bowing the knee before him kissing his feet and this in the Name of his Master the King of the Mahometans 't was to Alexander the third whom Baronius so much magnifies for his meekness moderation and goodness Ann. 1177. that these Ceremonies were perform'd in which he likewise joins all Orthodox Kings and Princes as crowding in for a part in so glorious a service And the Truth is your own Records great Prince will give you but too many Instances of that Injustice that Insolence those Indignities of all sorts with which the Romish See hath so often treated the most Royal Persons Sicily Lombardy Sardinia Portugal Spain France and indeed almost what Christian State is there for the Eastern Empire hath not been free from their Pretensions that yields not Precedents of this Nature Scarce any War any Contest any Rebellion of Subjects against their Princes any difference between Princes in which they have not been Parties if not the Promoters Scarce any Boat in which this Fisherman this Peter let me use the Stile he pretends to hath not had his Oar scarce any troubled Waters in which he hath not Fished But I must not pass by what by us of these Kingdoms must not be forgotten viz. The treatment of Innocentius the Third towards King John by his Legate Pandulphus when having interdicted the Kingdom for six Years together an admirable way to propagate Faith by shutting up the Church Doors denying the use of the Sacraments refusing Christian Burial to all c. And in a word treating the whole Nation as well as the King who had offended him as if they were Heathens or Dogs excepting such only whom the purchase of their Money i. e. the Mammon of Vnrighteousness had made good Christians He forced him to take off the Crown from his Head and lay it down at his Feet to be disposed of as the Pope should please and taking it up kept it three or four Days not restoring it but upon condition that he and his Successors should hold the Kingdom of the See of Rome at the annual Tribute of a thousand Marks viz. Seven Hundred yearly for England and three Hundred for Ireland whereupon they both became subjected to the Pope To what degree that Exaction grew ought to all concerned in either Kingdom to be the lasting Subject of their Indignation To this I might add that great Diminution it is to you in the exercise of your Royalty in what of your Kingdoms you do enjoy to rule by the Laws of those who have so unworthily usurped upon you the Canon-Law I mean and other their Constitutions brought in upon some of you to the subversion of all the ancient Rights of your Countries I was going to say to the dis-inherison of you and your People And how are those of you in effect deposed whilst you still seemingly sit on your Thrones where the Inquisition a name at which Humanity startles is made the standing Law of your Kingdoms or where the Decrees of Draco are recalled and whatever can drain your Subjects of their Wealth or Blood made the false Eulogies of flourishing Kingdoms Says St. Paul Let no Man deceive you by any means speaking with reference to Antichrist that Man of Sin and Son of Perdition 2 Thes 2 3. And let me in all humility make the same Address It is too long already that this great Impostor hath been so audaciously enterprizing upon you wait no longer Royal Sirs for the decision of the point it is manifest and you have but too many Demonstrations of it who is this Man of Sin and Son of Perdition viz. He who thus hath opposed and exalted himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of

given to the divine Justice even so Lord God Almighty true and righteous are thy Judgments To the Souls under the Altar in the sixth Chapter it was said that they should rest yet for a little Season until their Fellow-Servants also and their Brethren which should be killed as they were should be fulfilled and here the Judgments and Vengeance those concerned in the Viass may be lookt upon to have called for fall on their Murtherers exprest by a grievous and noisom Sore falling upon the Men which had the Mark of the Beast and upon them which worshipped his Image by the irruptions of the Saracens in the first Vial. By the Seas becoming Blood in the vast effusion of it whereof the People Multitudes Nations and Tongues were made the Subjects in the expedition to the Holy Land under the second Vial And then By the Rivers and Fountains of Waters becoming likewise Blood in what the Princes and People jointly felt though not so generally as under the former under the following Crusade with the particular reference to the Contest for so 't is too in the third and fourth Trumpet which carry something paralled to what we here observe which not only in the third but in all the three first Vials there was between the Bishop of Rome and Soveraign Priuces for the Supremacy All which being heavy Judgments on the Roman Empire whether in the whole or in its Parts are animadverted on as the result of that Cruelty they in any Capacity had exercised on the Saints before indeed by the Irrnptions of the Goths and Vandals and Hunns he that had led into Captivity was led into Captivity Rome taken and the Calamities which attend a Captive state thereon ensuing here he is followed with farther Vengeance and the reflection the Holy Ghost makes thereon is to comfort the Saints whose Patience and Faith is said to be here ch 10. 10. and to assure them that their Blood is not so spilt on the Ground but that the Cry ef it shall be heard in its just time against the enraged and bloody Persecutor This was the state of the Empire both in its Civil and Ecclesiastical Capacity under the three first Vials and the reason of it as before is mentioned was For they have shed the Blood of Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them Blood to drink for they are worthy But then it will be said what is this to Antichrist To the Beast For all this is but to aggrandize him to set him upon the Throne and make the Princes of the World to submit their Scepters to his Pastoral Staff But be it so For thus he is got into the Chair yet if it be nothing to the Beast if all be so much for his temporal Grandeur however certainly they were Plagues upon the Men who had the Mark of the Beast and upon them which worshipped his Image chap. 16. 2. Plagues too upon the Beast himself whilst he is permitted to go on from one Degree of Wickedness to another it is not his prospering in his Mischief makes it the lesser but the greater Judgement as it is the certain tcken of utter ruin that shall attend him when as 't is said of the Ammonites Gen. 15. 16. His Iniquity shall be full Only it will be demanded because I here make the Reflection on the 5 6 and 7th verses of the 16th Chapter to be as it were a second answer to the Cry of the Souls under the Altar to whom it was said that they should rest for a little Season until their Fellow-servants also and their Brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled it will I say be demanded 1. Who of their Fellow-Servants and Brethren had been killed in that Season Or 2. Whether they were then fulfilled As to the first Who of their Fellow-Servants and Brethren had been killed in that Season 'T is manifest it was in that Season the Albigenses and Waldenses were so barbarously Murthered for it was then Innocent the 3d published the taking up of the Cross against them about the year 1211. In the managing whereof Simon Montford was General and above a hundred thousand of them then slain but in the whole Prosecution of the War infinite numbers are said to perish such was the slaughter of them that in France alone unhappy France to have been so early and so long the scene of so great Barbarity But happy France too which hath brought forth so many faithful Witnesses who cannot be so overcome and killed but that they are to revive their Cause and Interest at least to be so set up as to strike Fear Terror and Amazement to all that make War against them Revel 11. 7 11. If Historians rightly recount it no fewer than ten hundred thousand were destroyed And As to the second it is not necessary to the making good our Observation that all should be fulfilled when it pleased the Holy-Ghost to make this Reflection 't is sufficient that it is what might very well serve to confirm the Faith of suffering Christians at present for as for the others to whose Cry the reply is made t is manifest they have their Reward and are placed in a state of Triumph by the white Robes which are said to be given to every one of them Rev. 6. 11. that they might see that God makes Inquisition for their Blood that though there be a final day of reckoning when the Enemies of the Church shall drink of the full Cup of Vengeance yet all is not deferred to that day but that in the mean time it shall be known by the Judgments that are executed on the Earth that as it is Psal 116. 15. precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints CHAP. XIV Of the fourth Vial Revel 16. 8. AND the fourth Angel poured out his Vial upon the Sun and power was given unto him to scorch Men with Fire And Men were scorcht with great Heat and blasphemed the Name of God which hath Power over these Plagues and they repented not to give him Glory By the Sun I am apt to think can be meant nothing but Antichrist in his highest Glory such is what he arrived at when as hath been shewed in the preceeding Vials he had so far gained the Ascendant of those in Soveraign Power as to make them like the Moon and Stars to shine only with the borrowed Light they had from him i. e. No farther to exercise those relieks of Soveraignty which still remained in them than He thought fit to give way to it And if so then the Vial poured upon the Sun and Power thereby given him to scorch Men with Fire will be very well interpreted by the continuance of that high Usurpation and Tyranny over the secular Powers and their Subjects for so Men may not unfitly be construed but then these Usurpations and Tyranny being exprest by scorching with Fire will direct to something that will answer that Allusion