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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

of Rome with all her Old-Womans Fables this thou tearmest to be a Scoff But is it not a Scoff in thee to call us the Young Woman for calling that the Mother Church of Rome the Old Woman with her Fables that Harlot who hath drunk the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus she hath 〈◊〉 ●onour from God nor her saints and her Reward will be the Flames and all that hold her up the Flames of Hell read in the Revelation her Portion And there is no comparison between your Mystery Babylon and the Old Woman of Rome that you cry up so and Christ Jesus the Saviour and the true Church but it manifests your Ignorance and Darkness and as them that call Darkness Light and Light Darkness Good Evil and Evil Good And your Mother Rome doth begin to be out of date and is out of date with many that are come to Christ Jesus their Head the true Church and do lay her aside like an old Almanack Thou sayest because we call her the Old Woman of Rome this was enough to convince us of our Arguments Nay nay she is a Harlot and not the Spouse of Christ you speak as men that have lost your brains For though we do say the Old Woman with all her Fables yet we deny her to be the Spouse of Christ Jesus for she hath shed the Blood of the Martyrs and is brim full of Idolatry and her Cup is full of Abominations which corrupt the Earth and to the Brim she must have a Cup of Indignation of the Wrath of the Lord God Almighty And as for the Weather-cocks blown about with every rew and false doctrine look into your own Fields and look at Rome How many false Doctrines have blown you about and false Wayes and several Images and Orders have you set up since the Apostles dayes by that persecuting murdering spirit Do not you call your old Mass-house your Church Do not you Worship there And when you come into them do not you put off your Hats And do not you worship when your Host is carried and fall upon your knees and worship your Image Is not here your Church founded upon Idolatry And did not the Apostles speak of your Antiquity and worshipping of Angels and that were Intruders into those things that they did not see that did not hold the Head and neglect the Body and so you are Worshippers of Angels and neglect the Head and have set up a Head of your own making And have not the Gates of Hell prevailed against your outward House which you call a Church and your People Now you seem to shuffle and call the People your Chruch and say The Gates of Hell hath not prevailed against your Church that is against your People The Reason you say is The Spirit of Truth Christ saith shall lead his Church into a●●●●th which he would send to them And Christs saying to Peter Vpon this Rock will I build my Church And therefore because Christ said these words to his Disciples therefore the Gates of Hell hath not prevailed against your Church and your Church hath stood without Interruption to this present day neither Fails nor Corrupts Mark People how impudent these Men are What without blushing they can speak such words Is not all their Brothel-house and Stew-houses and Fornication and Adultery is not this Uncleanness And all their Idols and Images from their false Church silled to the brim with that And all their bloody Persecutions is not this from an unclean spirit But he saith Their Church hath stood without the least Interruption And now people you know that since Boniface the third the first Universal Pope was set up by a Murderer one Phocas who Murdered his Master and since their Church hath been held up by Murder he saith That their Church hath stood without the least Interruption Now since the Pope got up did not the Turk get up And did not the Turk get from the Pope Jerusalem Constantinople Aegypt Greece and many other Parts of the World that might be mentioned How can these men be so audations as to say Their Church hath stood without Interruption And if the Turk be the Gates of Hell he hath prevailed against you And are there not Protestants in France Yea at Rome Protestants in Switzerland Protestants in Germany and many Princes as King of Denmark King of Sweedeland and Low-Countries and Ireland Scotland and England and other places which have forsaken the Pope and his Church in words Now have not the Gates of Hell prevailed against this People Have not these Papists lost their Reason and Understanding as men What hath not the godd of the World blinded you that you cannot see Oh that men should be so blind and so bold to utter such Falshood as to say That it hath been without the least Interruption the Pope and false Church Nay it is their City that hath been divided what I yars are these I that love to Lye to Flatter and Dissemble on this manner and to Deceive the Simple they are simple indeed that will be deceived Alas alas You are driven up into a narrow scantling over you were at first Did not you Burn with Fire and Fagot in England in Bonner's time If these be the Gates of Hell they have prevailed against you and your counterfeit Church too and your Head also And it hath been the unclean Ghost that came from the Dragon that hath led you into all these Images and Idolatry and Sedition and Blackness and Darkness which is over you We know that Christ did pray to the Father and he hath sent the Spirit of Truth that leads the true Church into all Truth of which Church Christ is the Head And whereas thou speakest Of Peters Feeding his Lambs and Sheep you have torn the Sheep in pieces and Lambs also and rul'd by Force and Cruelty and sed the Wolves and Peter having Power to Bind and so did the rest of the Apostles and to Loose What is this to your counterfeit Church whom the Gates of Hell hath prevailed against And a great stir you make to hold up the Pope your counterfeit Head And you cavel at that in the Acts of Peter's being sent by the Disciples to Preach Acts 8. for you would fain have Peter a Pope that you may hold up your Pope and this clearly proves that Peter was not above his Brethren but they were all Brethren as Christ said they were his Brethren you abuse Christs words in saying that he made him the greatest and Head for Christ tells his Disciples all his True Church are Brethren But doth thy Christ that is made of Bread and Wine tell thee that Peter was Head And so you will make a Head of the Pope and your Pope and you will be Pead of your christ that you have made and Christ said to his Disciples when they were at Strise who should be counted greatest Christ tells them The Kings of the Gentiles exercise Lordship

Fore-men of the World that led into Error as you may read in John and Mat. 7.21 A dread Timothy where the spirit speaks expresly in the latter dayes of forbidding Marriage and of 〈◊〉 the doctrine of Devils And read Jude such as should go in Cain's way and Balaam's way and Corah's way gainsaying the Gospel persecuting for Gifts and Rewards and here your Fruits are clearly seen the Son of Righteousness shines over your heads amongst his Peop●e and so here you went from the Apostles Head Christ if you had been of them no doubt but you would have continued with them Christ saw you inwardly ravening from the Spirit of God from the Spirit of Truth the Word of God in the Heart from the true Faith that works by Love from the true Doctrine and so are up to the very brim in false doctrine and Idols and Images of your own making and Inventions and so you may see in the Revelation how the Beasts got up the first out of the Sea the second out of the Earth and how the Dragon gave his Power to the Beast and how his Worship was set up and how the Whore the false Church got up and there are the Names of the Beast which we leave you to interpret and how long the Beast must be worshipped and how long the true Church was to be in the Wilderness and to be fed of God and the Man-Child taken up to God and he should be brought forth again and to rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron and the Bride should come forth again and the Marriage of the Lamb should be known again and the Lamb and the Saints should have the Victory So read your Antiquity and how that all that would not receive the Beast's Mark and drink the Whores Cup the false-church she drunk the Blood of the Saints What hath she been as a Queen and hath she seen no sorrow But now is she losing her Children and the Scripture is fulfilling Glory be to the Lord God forever But you shall cry Alas Alas What have we had a Golden Cup that is full of Abomination What have your Kings drunk it and do some begin to hate her Oh! You must drink the Cup of the fierceness of the Wrath of God Almighty before this cup of Abomination be purged out of you The Angels begin to sound their Trumpets and the Everlasting Gospel is preached a●ain and that makes you to roar it sounds to Rome and to the Turks and to the Maguls the Jews and Gentiles the Everlasting Power of God before the Devil was will awaken you The Gospel-Bell begins to Ring it is beyond Aaron's Bells Christ the High-Priest is entring into his Temple For had you been of the Apostles no doubt but you would have continued with them for your doctrine is forbid by Christ and his Apostles for Christ bid F●ed my Lambs And you Wolves worry them and have got the Sheep Clothing in three or four Languages you have learned naturally and they that had the gift of Tongues were but tinckling Cymbals and sounding Brass who had not love and therefore all your Sounds it hath been but in comparison the sound of Brass and your tinckling but as Cymbals and your own Inventions And so your head is false not being found of that Catholique Faith that works by Love And the Word of the Lord God is kindling that Fire that will burn the Whores Flesh and will take her together with the Beast and the Dragon and cast her and them alive into the Lake of Fire What you to profess Christ Jesus in words and Murder and Persecute the true Christians to death What is this but Ishmael and Cain and Sodom and Egypt and the Jews and the Heathens spirit and nature and the Whore and the Beast and the Dragon and the Devil and false Prophets and false Apostles and Antichrist against the true Apostle and Christ Jesus who saith Love Enemies Love one another Oh Seditious Sect For when the second Beast rose out of the Earth then all your earthly Idols were established earthly Inventions earthly Images and then got your Whore on the top of the Beast your false Church Mystery Babylon arrayed in Purple and Scarlet deckt with Gold and Precious-Stones and Pearls do you see how she is decked a Golden Cup in her hand full of Abomination of Filthiness of Fornication and upon her head written Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots Yea of all the Harlots from God from Christ from the Apostles from the Spirit from the Faith from the Truth from the Power of God the Cross of Christ from the Righteousness and from Christ the true Head and from the true Church And this Whore thus decked has drunk the Blood of the Saints and Jesus his Martyrs Who cannot but wonder to see such a Monster And from whence came he that this Whore this Woman this false Church sits upon but from the Bottomless-pit and thither must they return again with his Horns And now is the Cry is Come out of her my People signifying that God hath a People to come out there lest they be Partakers of her Plagues This is the day that the Lord is calling Come out of her my People we have heard his Voice and can rejoyce over her for God will be avenged on her and she shall be cast down like a mighty Mill-stone read Rev. 17. For mark Here is the Devil the Dragon and the Whore and the false Prophet as Companions that came out of the Beast like Froges These go altogether to wit the Beast and the Dragon and the Whore on the top of the Beast the Dragons Power and his worship hath been set up and she is riding on the Devils power killing and murdering the Lord Jesus his Martyrs and Prophets What! Hath your Church lived deliciously and been as a Queen and no Widdow Doth she profess to be a Married Wife and a Queen She hath made many of her Merchants rich and is not she become the Habitation of Devils and Hold of every foul spirit and Cage of every hateful Bird And hath not the Beast had two Horns like a Lamb and exercised the power of the first Beast and all that will not worship and receive h●s Image and drink the Whores Cup must be made war against and their Blood drunk The Son of Righteousness is risen that shines that shews his Horns his Marks his Names what is written upon the Whores Fore-head and so against them that have kept the Testimony of Jesus the Spirit of Prophesie by which they have seen you you have made War against them and against them that have kept the Commands of God the Remnant of her Seed which is the Seed of the Woman whom the Dragon was wrath withal and was fled into the Wilderness there to be fed of God one thousand two hundred sixty dayes and this Dragon gave his power to your Beast that the Whore sits upon and so by

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-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