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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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who by agreement with Adonikam's name is said to be a God standing up or exalting himself above all that is called God meaning above Christ by his assuming into the Office of Christ to give Laws or Directions in Worship which only belongeth to Christ the Prophet like unto Moses so was he faithful in all his House Heb. 3. 2. Now as in the Mystical Body of Christ's Church * 1 Cor. 12. 14. 27. many Members make one Body or ‖ Eph. 3. 15. Family all honouring Christ the †Col. 1. 18. Head of the Body as Children do a Father and serve God in Worship by his Direction and Appointment are therefore of the number ‖ Acts 1. 25. of his Name called Christians * Acts 11. 26. Isa 65. 15. do grow up in him unto a perfect Man unto the Measure and Stature of the Fulness of Christ Ephes 4. 13 15. Even so as the false Church is an Harlot the Man of Sin the Pope being Head their Lord and Law-giver in Worship consisting of many Members which serve and worship by his Directions are joyned to that Harlot †1 Cor. 6. 15. together with her Head the Pope all make one Body or Man ‖ 2 Thess 2. 3 4. of Sin so are they of the number of his * Rev. 13. 18. Name as Children to their Reverend Father in God making one Family with him as the Sons of Adonikam 666 made one Family to their Father and thus the number of the Beast is the number of a Man by this borrowed speech 666. So that in some respects the Beast may be likened to the Image Nebuchadnezzar saw Dan. 2. 31. The Pope with his Triple Crown who is proclaimed for a Vice-God †Lib. Benedictus printed at Bonenia Anno. 1608. Hen. Ains Animad pag. 100. the Invincible Monarch of of the Common-wealth and vehement Conserver of the Popish Omnipotency he is the Head of Gold the Cardinals and Prelates are next to him as Brests and Arms of Silver the other Belly-god Clergy is the strong brazen Panch the Lay-People are as Legs and Feet of Iron and Clay which carry and bear up the Bulk and the unclean ‖ Rev. 16. 13 14. 2 Thess 2. 9. spirit of Satan giveth life and effectual operation to the Beast and to be a member of this their Body and Church the Papists themselves * Bellarm. de Eccles l. 3. c. 2. profess that there is not any inward Vertue required so then there is no need of the Spirit of God to join the Limbs of the Beast together Moreover that these Popes are Beasts note farther what Henry Ainsworth saith to John Ainsworth the Papist Their Vows of Chastity being but to defile themselves with vile Sodomy Adultery and Fornication So that the six thousand Childrens Heads found Murdered in Pope Gregory's Fish-pond made him reverse his own wicked Decree in restraining the Clergy from their Wives And again saith John Traper in his Treasure of Holy Truths Pag. 153. That Pope Leo the 10th admiring the huge masses of Money which he had raked together by Fraud and Wile said to Cardinal Bembus See what a deal of Wealth we have got by this Rable of Christ And when the same Bembus brought a place of Scripture to comfort him lying on his Death-bed Away saith he with these Bawbles speaking concerning Christ Moreover saith John Napier aforesaid on his Paraphrase of the Revelation Pag. 58. proved out of the Papists own Authors That of Popes thirteen were Adulterers three were common Brothellers four were Incestuous Persons eleven were poisoned with Sodomy seven were Whoremongers and Inventers of Brothel-Houses finally one was a Whore and died being delivered of a Bastard in open Procession Now surely on those People God hath sent strong Delusions that believe that these sinful wicked Popes can pardon Sins and give power to his Priests so to do upon a false ground gathered from Christ's Words to Peter Matth. 16. 19. Whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven When this Power belongeth not to one Man but when any obstinate Sinner is cast out of a true Church and upon his repentance he is received in again as it is written to the whole Church To whom ye forgive any thing saith the Apostle Paul †2 Cor. 2. 10. I forgive So that this Power is not given to one Man but to every true Church of Christ in God's Order and Manner aforesaid But how is it possible that either the Popes or the whole Church of Rome can forgive Sins when the present Church of Rome cannot be proved a true Church no nor in all likelihood the Natural Posterity of the Saints in S. Paul's time First Considering the many Changes in the Roman State so that * Rev. 6. 14 15. Heaven departed as a Scrowl when it is rouled together and every Mountain and Island were moved out of their places Kings and Captains fled and hid themselves So great was the Judgment of God on the Roman Power for Murdering the Lord Jesus and after Persecuting him in his Members As for particulars Alaricus with his Goths in the Year of Christ 414 took * Hierony in Epist See Henry Ainsw Animad p. 102 the many Authors quoted to prove it and spoiled Rome in burning it Forty four Years after Gensericus with his Vandals took and spoiled it so that Rome for a time remained without Inhabitants Some Years after did Odoacer with another Company invade Italy and Conquered Rome and put the Emperour to flight made himself King Then Theodoricus with the Ostrogoths took it and after him again Bellisarius with his Army wan it But above all Totilus King of the Goths in the Year of our Lord 546 after all the former Invasions did overthrow Rome quite cast down the Walls burnt the Houses and made it so Desolate that there remained in it neither Man nor Woman These Turmoils in Rome within a few Years and the possessing of that Land by Foreigners as the Goths mixing themselves with the People degenerated into the name of Italians afterwards the †Blond l. 2. d. 2. Fascic temp f 66. Saracens killed innumerable People in Rome and Italy All which may teach us how unpossible it is that the present Church of Rome is so much as the Natural Stock of the Saints in Paul's time which if they were can be no better than the Ishmalites and Edomites the natural stock of Abraham could be justified to be the Church of God then as Rome now or the Amorites and Jebusites * Josh 10. 1. in Jerusalem because †Gen. 14. 18. Melchisedeck Priest of the most High God with his faithful company lived there five or six hundred Years before as well as the Romish Church be now pleaded for because above 1600 Years ago a true Church once lived there Now let all Protestants
with the Covenants whereby they were bound unto their People The Laws of this Land are so full this way as no Man conversant in them can be ignorant that our Princes have preferr'd the observing of those equal Covenants whereby they are tied unto their People before the accomplishing of their own private Affections yea and Commandments in some Cases Hence it is that the Judges of this Land are bound by Law to administer Justice and Equity unto the poor Subjects notwithstanding that the Prince's Letter be directed to them to the contrary And as to the Law of God all Kings and Princes are bound thereby to be so far from thinking themselves tied by no Bonds unto their Subjects as they are plainly forbidden to be lifted up in Mind above their Brethren Deut. 17. 20. For so the word in that place calleth their Subjects and Servants The Kings of Judah who had the greatest Priviledges and Prerogatives both Ecclesiastical and Civil over their People that ever any Kings or Princes can have because they were Types and Figures of that Great King of Kings the Lord Jesus yet entred into Covenant notwithstanding with their People even particularly besides the general former Law whereby they were bound unto them Yea the Prophet Jeremiah being in no less danger and disgrace with all Estates than I and my Brethren are at this present required his Soveraign Lord and King Zedekiah to promise that he would do him no Violence nor Wrong nor yet suffer others to do the same for telling him the truth of the Word in the things wherein the King required to be resolved at his hands The which thing Zedekiah yielded unto and that by an Oath and Covenant of the Lord Jer. 38. 15 16. Whereby it appeareth that it is not without great Warrant of the Lord that Princes should enter into Covenant with their Subjects and that Subjects should require Promise and Oath to be kept with them otherwise Whereto serveth the Covenant But alas I enter not to scan her Majesties Oath I only tell you what her Laws allow me and my poor Brethren and I am assured if her Majesty knew the equity and uprightness of our Cause we should not receive this hard measure which we now sustain seeing we and our Cause are never brought before her but in the odious weeds of Sedition Rebellion Schism Heresie c. therefore it is no marvel to see the edge of her Sword turned against us Quest 3. Hath not her Majesty by her Laws established these Offices and this Order that now is in the Church of England Answ Her Laws have I grant of oversight as taking them for the right Offices and Order which appertain unto the Church of Christ which because we evidently see that they are not therefore flie we unto her former Promise and Act whereby she granteth us the enjoying of all the Priviledges of the Church of God In the next place There be other Protestants that have come yet farther out of the Romish Babylon in disclaiming the Service-Book Surplice Organs Cross in Baptism Priests Garments and the like because they were Popish Yet it is to be admired why such cannot as well disclaim the Order of the Ministry received from the Bishops as the Bishops received it from the Pope one Minister ordaining another without the Congregations knowledg where they are to take Charge and likewise pay and receive Tithes for their Ministers Maintenance which Pope Pascalis 827 Years after Christ * Qu. 19. cap. 1. Decimus a populo first ordained for his Priests These Protestants cannot think to escape the Judgments of God who †2 Cor. 6. 17. Rev. 18. 4. touch the unclean things forbidden and are not fully come out of Babylon as Judah our Figure was who sent away all Babylon's filthiness ‖ Ezra 6. 2. Zech. 5. 8 9 11. with the Wings of a Stork into the Land of Shiner or Babylon where they were hatched as afore-shewed Moreover There are other Protestants who though they have forsaken the Ministry Service and all the fore-named Romish Inventions yet they retaining the Romish Errors of Free-will falling from true Grace general Redemption and denying that glorious Doctrine of Election cannot think to escape the Judgments of God because Error in Faith is so heinous in the sight of the Lord being likened to Leaven * Mat. 16. 6 12. 1 Cor. 5. Darkness †Luke 11. 34. 35. and Poyson ‖ Deut. 32. 3. that God threatned the Church of Pergamos to fight against them for not punishing them by Excommunication that maintained the Error or Doctrine * Rev. 2. 14 16. of Balaam and the Church at Thyatira for suffering the Women Jesebel to teach †Ver. 20. and to deceive them All which came on the Churches afore-shewed in Pag. 13. also Junius on Rev. 2. 10. Again There are other Protestants that are not guilty of the fore-named Errors yet for other sins of disorder in making * Gen. 6. 4. Ex. 34 16. 1 Cor. 7. 39. Marriages with them they cannot joyn with in the Ordinances of Worship and their walking in the shame of Nature long Hair †1 Cor. 11. 14. and Perriwigs which Evils as well as other sinful Conversations not in God's Order punished the whole Church becomes ‖ 1 Tim. 5. 22. Ps 26. 5 6. Pro. 11. 21. Josh 22. guilty of one anothers Sins As saith the Law Whatsoever the unclean Person toucheth shall be unclean and the Person that toucheth him shall be unclean Numb 19. 22. Again There are others that would be called they know not what who refuse the use of God's Ordinances in Worship to wit Baptism of Water and the Lord's Supper and suffer their Females * 1 Cor. 14. 34 35. Jesebel like to teach their Imaginations For no Person can teach any other thing concerning God or Christ in the work of Man's Redemption to Salvation that own not the written Scripture as the †John 5. 39. Gal. 6. 16. 1 Kings 8. 25. with 2 Chron. 6. 16. Ground of Faith and the Rule to try all Doctrine and Worship by who as it is said do deny the Resurrection of the Body Unto such the Apostle hath said If the Body rise not then is not Christ risen and so to them All Preaching is vain and they are yet in their Sins ‖ 1 Cor. 15. 14 17. and of all Men most miserable Another great mistake is among many Protestants in understanding the Prophecies and Mysteries in the Prophets literally concerning the Spiritual Glory of the Church under the Gospel or Christ's Reign with the Saints on Earth I would fain have these Protestants first to remember that Christ's Kingdom * John 18. 36. is not of this World neither the Warfare nor Weapons †2 Cor. 10. 4. Carnal and in all things exemplary to the Church under the Gospel we are exhorted to behold Israel ‖ 1 Cor. 10. 18. our Figure