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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33996	A word in season being a parallel between the intended bloody massacre of the people of the Jews, in the reign of King Ahasuerus and the hellish powder-'plot against the Protestants in the reign of King James : together with an account of some of the wicked principles and practises of the Church of Rome, demonstrated in their barbarous and cruel murders and massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Piedmont, the Albigenses, &c. : also shewing that the present Church of Rome is an apostate church ... / by H.C., a lover of true Protestants.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C537; ESTC R13082	42,613	54

the Church of Rome is this Antichrist this Beast this Man of Sin this Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth Seventhly The Mother of Harlots the Church of Rome is a cross crooked Harlot The Holy Ghost saith one thing she another quite contrary The Spirit saith 'T is lawful for all sorts and degrees of men to Marry But Antichrist forbids it and saith That the Priests must not though Whoredom probably may pass or else six thousand Infants Sculls had not been found in the Pope's Pond And a Book in Henry the Eighth's days represents to the King that there were one hundred thousand Whores made by the unmarried Clergie And Pope Joan had a Bastard proving her self the Literal Whore of Babylon They say 't is much less sin for a Priest to have many Whores than have one Wife and he that hath no Wife but in stead of that a Whore may not for that be suspended the Communion Many Instances we might give At Bath one Monk had seven Whores three married four single and was a Sodomite to boot At Monk-fairlee the Prior had nine Whores and the Convent many more At Maiden-bradly the Prior had five Whores and six Bastards Many more Instances might be given but let these suffice Here are too many of these Again God saith that all our Righteousness is as filthy Rags and menstruous Clothes But the Pope saith That our good Works do properly merit Salvation so that God would not be Just did he not reward our good Works with Heaven And that we have ability to do all that God commands and more too so that we may merit for our selves and others These are Works of Supererogation Look but into the Lives of the Popes and you will see this confirmed backward Again Christ in his last Institution said Drink all of this Cup all my Disciples But the Pope saith The People must be contented with half the Sacrament which is enough for the poor inferiour sort of People the Priest alone must drink of the Cup. Again The Scripture never speaks of the Minister's Communicating by himself But this the Church of Rome doth which they call private Mass See what the Scripture saith to this 1 Cor. 10. 16. But 't is enough for the People to stand and gaze on the Priest saith the Pope while he mumbles over his Latine saying something they know not what and doing something they care not what and drinking something they taste not and yet 't is a Communion for all this Again The Scripture saith That the Heavens must retain Christ's Body till the time of the Restitution of all things But the Pope saith and is not this a cross Harlot that as soon as the Priest hath said these few words Hoc est Corpus meum This is my Body that the Bread and Wine are transubstantiated into the same Body of Christ that was born of the Virgin Mary and hung upon the Cross When if People did but believe their own Eyes Taste and Feeling they must needs conclude 't is nothing but a Wafer which the Priest makes many scores of and consecrates at the same time And though this be done in a thousand places besides so many Bodies Christ must have O horrid O sensless and unreasonable that a man cannot be a Papist but he must become a Beast Again The Word of God saith That Christ by his own Offering hath for ever perfected those that are Sanctified Heb. 10. 12 14. Heb. 9. 24 25 26. But this cross Harlot saith That Christ is offered up once every day as an Unbloody Sacrifice for the Quick and the Dead to fetch souls out of Purgatory and every time the Priest lifts up the Wafer he makes an Attonement for the sins of the People But 't is dangerous to trust to that Atonement 'T is an Article in the Pope's Creed I profess that there is offered up in the Mass to God a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the Quick and Dead The Scripture is full and clear that Christ's Propitiatory Sacrifice for sin in number is but one Heb. 10. 14. For Time but once offered the Priest was himself alone the Place upon the Cross the Manner not Unbloody but Bloody for the Virtue Exceeding Effectual For what reason then doth the Pope devise another Propitiatory Sacrifice I know not except it be to fill his Coffers Yea they give the same Honour to their departed Saints as to Christ Thus they speak of Gregory Let him save us from our Sins 'T is true what some say Christ can hardly be discerned from the Apostles Again O blessed Mother sanctifie us from our Sins by the right of Mother command a Redeemer So she forbids Meats 1 Tim. 14. 1 2 3 4. in Lent and other times which God hath commanded to be received with Thanksgiving And is not this a perverse Harlot Eightly This Harlot is an impenitent yet a secure Harlot notwithstanding all the Blood she hath shed and all the Judgments threatned she is yet secure and impenitent and will be like Babylon of old that Type of Mystical Babylon Isa 47. 7. Thou sayest thou shalt be a Lady for ever So Rev. 18. 7. For she saith in her Heart I sit as a Queen I am no Widow and shall see no Sorrow And as God plagued Imperial Rome with sending the Goths and Vandals to burn up their City So God will plague Mystery Babylon yet she will not repent of her Fornication Rev. 16. 8 9 10. Men are scorched with Fire and great heat shall be their Judgment But how will they behave themselves Do they repent and beg for Mercy No They blaspheme more and more the Name of God which had power over those Plagues and they repented not to give him Glory Ver. 11. They blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their Pains and their Sores and repented not of their Deeds No they could not for they were judicially hardned in their Sins So in Rev. 11. 18. when Judgment is poured down upon them they are angry they fret and vex they cannot have their Will on God as they have had on his Saints So in Rev. 9. 20. The rest of the men that were not killed by those Plagues yet repented not of the Works of their Hands that they should not worship Devils and Idols of Gold Silver and Brass Stone and of Wood which neither can see nor bear nor walk Ver. 21. Neither repented they of their murders mark that nor of their Sorceries nor of their Fornication nor of their Thefts Thus you see she is an impenitent Whore a brazen-faced Harlot she is not ashamed of any thing she hath done against God or his People Ninthly She is a Superstitious Harlot full of Ceremonies that Christ never gave any Toleration for Out of what Evangelist did Christ command your Altar Did not he Administer the Sacrament at a Table in all probability Where do you find any other Garments that Christ wore than his usual Garments when