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A Christian warning-piece for all true Protestants by way of Christian counsel and advice to the King's most excellent Majesty, and all his good Protestant subjects, founded forth out of the written word of God : wherein is clearly shewed ... / by Thomas Wall.
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Wall, Thomas.
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Scepter * Psal 45. 6. of our Lord Jesus blessed for ever his Word being commanded to be purely taught without corrupting or swerving either to the right Hand or to the left Which when the Primitive Christians observed not but neglected their Watch †Rev. 3. 3. in suffering false Doctrine to creep in among them as in the Church of Pergamos reigned the Doctrine of Balaam ‖ Rev. 2. 14 15. and the Nicolaitans and in Thyatira the Doctrine of Jezebel * Ver. 20. Ephesus †Rev. 2. 4 having left her first Love and among the Corinthians and other Christians both Men and Women were they not reproved for walking in a vain Conversation Whilst Men wearing long Hair the ‖ 1 Cor. 11. 14. shame of Nature their Women likewise wearing of Gold Pearl * 1 Tim. 2. 9. 1 Pet. 3. 3. plaited Hair uncovered expresly in plain words forbidden by the Apostle not becoming modest Women professing Godliness with good Works For which Evils and Disorders with others because the Churches punished them not according to God's Order by casting the ‖ Mat. 17. 18. obstinate Sinners out of the Churches the Lord Jesus threatned to cast them into a Bed of great Tribulation †Rev. 2. 22. under the term of ten Prophetical Days meaning Years which some have observed to come on the Churches in the Year of Christ in the Reign of Trajan the Emperour So that if God in his just Judgment for the Sins of the ten Tribes delivered them of old into the Hands of the Kings of Assyria and likewise Judah into the Hands of the King of Babylon even so for like Cause did the Lord deliver the East Churches into the Hands of Mahomet and the West Churches into the Hands of the Beast the Pope and his Clergie Unto which agreeth Mr. Fuller's Testimony in his History of the Holy Wars worth all Protestants observation especially in this Day of Apostacy in Chap. 6. pag. 6. in these words But the Sins of the Eastern Countries and chiefly their damnable Heresies hastened God's Judgments on them and in the Western parts Heresies as an Angle caught single Persons which in Asia like a Draw-Net took whole Provinces The staid and settled Wits of Europe were not easily removed out of the old Road and Track of Religion whilst the active and nimble Heads of the East were more desirous of Novelties more desirous and cunning to invent Distinctions to cozen themselves more fluent in Language to express their Conceits as always Error groweth fastest in hottest Brains Hence it came to pass the Melchites Maronites Nestorians Euticheans Jacobites overspread those parts Then it was mark that just with God saith he to suffer them that would not be convinced by Christian Counsel to be subdued by the Pagans Sword And again saith he it may justly seem Admirable that that sensless Religion should gain so much ground on Christianism especially having neither real substance in Doctrine nor winning behaviour in Ceremony to allure Professors being but the scum of Judaism and Paganism sod together here and there strawed with a spice of Christianity Thus was fulfilled what was written on those that received not the love of the Truth God gave them over to believe Lyes and punished them with the Pagans Sword and being no whit bettered then the Lord prepared the four Angels or Messengers of his Wrath whom John Napier a Nobleman of Scoland observeth to be the four Mabometan Nations that inhabit about or beyond the River Euphrates to wit the Saracens Turks Tartarians and Arabians all Confederates together in one Law of Mahomet and under one great Emperour Ottoman whom God for the Sins of Christians had prepared for an Hour a Day a Month and a Year to slay the third part of Men By whom saith the learned Ainsworth God scourged Christendom with Fire Smoke and Brimstone out of the Horses Mouths and Horsemen conducted by the Angel of Destruction Yet the * Rev. 9. 20. Remnant of Men not killed by these Plagues repented not of their Works that they should not worship Devils and Idols of Gold and Silver and Brass and Wood and Stone which can neither hear nor see nor walk See Ainsworth Arrow pag. 96. Notwithstanding the Judgments of God upon the Primitive Apostate Churches some falling to Mahometism others to Papistry yet no Apostate Church retained more Idolatry than Rome and that that Church is the great Whore Mystery Babylon and the Beast that she rideth on is the Popish Prelacy is plainly shewed in the Answer of that famous Protestant H. Ainsworth to John Ainsworth the Papist That whereas in their Letters written to each other John Ainsworth saith The seven Mountains in Rev. 17. are said to be seven Kings none of which agree with the Pope Yea saith Henry Ainsworth the seventh agrees very well for the Woman is the great City Rome the Beast on which she rideth hath seven Heads which are expounded there to be seven Mountains and seven Kings Rev. 17. 3 9. The seven Mountains are famous through the World as Palatinus Capitolinus Aventinus Esquilinus Caelius Virminalis Quirinalis on which Mountains Rome was builded The seven Kings are also seven Governments of Rome renowned also in Histories as by * Cornel. Tacitus ◠1. Kings by Consuls by Decemviry by Dictators by Triumphiry by Cesars by foraign Emperours and Popes therefore when John wrote the Five first were fallen and removed Rev. 17. 10. and one saith he is namely the Sixth by the Cesars and another is not yet come which was the Foraign Emperours as Trajan the Spaniard and the like who when they come should continue but a while Constantine going to Bizantium and the Empire being over-run by the barbarous Goths and the Beast saith he is the eighth and is one of the seventh Rev. 17. 11. meaning the Popes who by an Ecclesiastical Government differ from the Civil Emperours and so are the eighth yet because they Reign together with the Emperours they make as it were one Government So the eighth is one of the seven as the Scripture saith Unto this agrees the words of St. Bernard The Beast †Bernard Epist 125. that hath a Mouth speaking Blasphemies occupieth Peter's Chair Moreover saith the Scripture Rev. 13. 18. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast for it is the number of a Man and his number is 666. Now for the better understanding of this Mystery we must know that it is the general Course of the Spirit of God throughout the Revelations to take Words and Phrases out of the Prophets and apply them to the things there prophesied as in this number of the Beast which is by a borrowed speech taken from the name of a Man and his Familie in Ezra 2. 13. the Man's name being Adonikam by signification a God ascending or standing up his Sons were 666. Now the Beast by signification is called a Man to wit of Sin
Gift of the Flock they feed and Vineyard they dress when they had degraded themselves by repentance of their false Ministry and the People if they thought fit to Elect and Ordain them in God's Order into the Work of the Ministry But this was so contrary to these Prelates minds that they sent forth their Pursivants to take and bring before them all that should either refuse to come to their Worship or did speak against their Ministry So that in the Year 1592 †As was mentioned in a Petition to the Parlament at that time on a Lord's Day they took to the number of fifty six Persons as they were serving God according to Christ's Directions in his last Will and Testament in the very place the like Christians were forced to serve God in Queen Marie's days and sent them by two and two into the several Prisons in and about London some of which by long Imprisonment were near Starved others were Bapished and three they Hanged two at Tiburn namely Mr. Henry Barrow Mr. John Greenwood and Mr. John Penry was hanged at Thomas a Watering near Southwark in the Year 1593. That these were true Protestants appeareth to any that have or shall read Mr. Barrow's Discovery his Answer to Gifford Mr. Barrow's and Mr. Greenwood's Conference in Prison with several Persons beside all their Examinations before the Lord Treasurer and some Justices all Printed at that time So that they were put to Death contraty to Queen Elizabeth's Mind as was then specified in Print * As was afterwards noted in an Apology presented to King James by the same Church because she sent her Reprieve two several times to fetch them back when they were carrying to be Executed but contrary to her knowledg it may be supposed were they at last put to Death sooner than the ordinary time a day by means of the Prelates as I find in a certain printed Relation of their Sufferings in these words Mr. Barrow and Mr. Greenwood were put to Death by the Prelates in Queen Elizabeth's Time without her knowledg or privity and that early in the Morning the figure of their Sufferings being seen in the Skie by Mariners that were in other parts and it was supposed by the beholders of the Figure then to be done in England because of the Women wearing of Hats The two poor Widows that attended upon them in the Prison waited on them to the Gallows bearing their winding Sheets Now dear Protestants if the Blood of God's Servants shed in King Manasses days for bearing their Testimony against the inventions of Men set up in Worship contrary to the Law of God written by Moses was charged near eighty Years after on their Posterity who followed the steps of their Fore-Fathers in Persecuting the Lord's Prophets for like Work in Jeremiah's * Jer. 15. 4. days and if the righteous Blood shed from the days of Abel †Mat. 23. 35. was by Christ charged on the Jews for persecuting him and his Disciples for telling them they worshipped God in vain ‖ Mat 15. 9. teaching for Doctrine the Commandments of Men how may Protestants now fear that the Lord may have like Indignation against this Nation or Generation for persecuting the Lord's Servants who call them from the Devices of Men in Worship to worship God as he hath appointed by his Son Christ Jesus in his Testament Now therefore before the Judgment is poured on us Oh that the King 's most Excellent Majesty would do the Work herein that belongeth to Kings to abolish all Inventions set up by other Kings out of Worship and every good Protestant to do his Duty to touch none of the unclean * 2 Cor. ◠17. things of Mens Inventions in Worship Then may we expect as Jacob did when he purged the Church from all Idolatry that God would turn the Hearts of Kings to be as God hath ordained them †Isa 49. 22. Nursing Fathers to the Lord's People as Pharoah was to the Church in Jacob's days But when Jacob's Posterity after his Death had corrupted themselves with the Idols of Egypt then God turned the Heart of King Pharoah to afflict them So when all that go by the name of Protestants shall do as aforesaid God will turn the Hearts of Kings to them and until this Work be done God will make Kings the Rod * Isa 10 5. of his Anger against a Hypocritical Nation as he did the King of Assyria and call them his Servants as he did Nebuchadnezzar †Jer. 25. 9. to afflict his People Therefore let no Protestant like Children envy the Rod but consider the cause for which the Rod is prepared and amend those things that are amiss and God will break the Rod and turn it against our Enemies and then Kings will as God hath ordained them be Nursing Fathers to preserve the Church of God from all Injuries and Wrongs as it is written ‖ Rev. 12. 16. The Earth helped the Woman as is very excellently shewed by Mr. Penry in his Examination before two Justices of the Peace Mr. Fancha and Mr. Young in the Year 1593 April the 10th in his Answer to some Questions put to him The first was this Quest 1. You labour to draw her Majesties Subjects from their Obedience to her Laws and from this Church of England to hear you and such as you are teach in Woods Mr. John Penry's Answer Answ Nay I persuade all Men unto the Obedience of my Prince and her Laws Only I dissuade all the World from yielding obedience and submission unto the Ordinances of the Kingdom of Antichrist and would persuade them to be subject to Christ and his Blessed Laws as I assure my self that the same is warranted thereby Her Majesty having granted in Establishing and Confirming the great Charter of England whereunto as I take it the Kings and Queens of this Land are sworn when they come to the Crown That the Church of God under them should have all her Rights and Liberties inviolable for ever Now let the benefit of this Law be granted unto me and others of my Brethren and it shall be found that we have done nothing but what is warrantable by her Laws Quest 2. What is it meet that Subjects should charge their Prince to keep Covenants with them and enter to scan what Oaths they have taken for this purpose VVhere find you this warranted by Scripture Answ The Subjects are in a most lamentable case if they may not alledg their Princes Laws for their Actions yea and shew what their Princes have promised to the Lord and to them when the same may be for declaration of their Innocency And it is the Crown and Honour of Princes to be known not only to hold but even to be in Covenant with their Subjects that they will maintain and preserve them from Violence and Wrong Nay Heathen Princes have thought themselves honoured when their mean Subjects have charged them very earnestly