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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

drunk deep of the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and also because she sets at nought God 's holy Word therefore we cannot we will not bow to her Golden Image that she hath set up notwithstanding all her Threats As Nebuchadnezzar threatned the three Worthies with a burning fiery Furnace if they would not bow down to the Image of Gold which he had set up So this Mother of Harlots if you will not put your Necks under her Yoke then comes an Armada an Inquisition a Massacre a Powder-plot Fire Faggot Racks Assassinations Stranglings witness Justice Godfry Who for taking but an Examination which was his Place and Work and Sworn to it those Men of Blood could not sleep quietly till their malice was vented on his Body by strangling and other Tortures they put him to as is more than probable to protract his misery and after a considerable time thrust a Sword into his Body to make the World believe it was his own Act. Surely had he done it himself some Blood would have appeared on the Ground where he lay but the Sword being run into his Body some considerable time after Strangling the Blood being coagulated nothing appears but a black Water which usually followeth after the Bloods coagulating And that Act inhumane and horrid Act was done by the Papists is clear from their taking his Pocket Book where the Depositions and Examinations were which was that they wanted though not his Gold nor Silver 'T is true his great Lace Band he went out withal in the Morning was taken away the Gentleman being strangled doubtless the Band was torn in the Fray and to have let that gone would have told the Story too plainly But this Blood as well as the Blood of many millions more crieth for Vengeance That one instance in Ireland in that most inhumane Massacre in 1642 wherein were more than three hundred thousand in a few days put to Death some burnt some slain with the Sword some shot to Death some smothered some starved and pined to Death some killed with Staves some cut in pieces some hanged twice or thriee many thousands drowned at Portendown-Bridg And when the poor Souls came swimming by the River side to save their Lives the Papists knockt them on the head with the But-end of their Musquets But the Instance I mind is that at Portendown-Bridg a Woman was seen to rise Brest-high out of the River her Hair hanging down with Skin as white as Snow often crying out Revenge Revenge Revenge which made the Persons much amazed that saw and heard it This was attested by one Elizabeth Price whose Husband was thrown into that River before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose with many more that might be named 4. Sudden Death was designed by wicked Haman after one Years provision and preparation for the Work as the Spanish Invasion was five Years before compleated so there was to be one Year For on the 13th day of the first Month the King's Scribes were called to make the Writings and on the 11th day of the twelfth Month the month Adar the Massacre was appointed and then nothing but sudden Death in one day Saith the Word They were to Destroy Kill and to cause to Perish all Jews both young and old little Children and Women in one day Esther 3. 12 13. So in like manner Sudden Death was like to be the portion of the Protestants in England Time for Repentance would have been reckoned too good for an Heretick To kill them and send them to Hell speedily is an act meritorious and cause of Triumph when there was near one hundred thousand lives in three days time taken away in France which it seems no less could quench the thirst of that unsatiable Whore and Harlot his Holiness at Rome at the same time made Bonfires rings his Bells shoots off his Guns and sang O horrid Blasphemy Te deum Laudamus We praise thee O God As if he would draw in the most Gracious God to be accessary to his Murders and an accomplisher of his Bloody and Abominable Impieties Sudden death is that they delight in when so many Barrels of Gun-powder were under the Parliament House and Chair of State Thirty six Barrels would soon have dispatcht the King Princes Clergie Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of the Flower of Glory Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons and Brothers Foes Papists Protestants all at one blast and after that had been done then a sudden Massacre throughout the Nation and so would have altered Religion and Government and brought in a Foraign Power But our good God hath prevented them hitherto praised be his holy Name O what a settled Detestation and fixed Opposition should we have against that Religion whose Faith is Faction whose Promises are Equivocations whose Worship is Idolatry whose Principles are high Treason whose Mercies are Cruelties whose practices are Stabbing Strangling and poysoning of Kings whose frame of Government is a politick design to enslave the World and to bring the Necks of Princes under their Iron Yoke and whose God is a pretty little tiny thing which the Priests first create with a Charm of four Words long and then worship the Works of their own Hands and when they have done chop him up at a bit and make no Bones of him 5. Much Deceit and Hypocrisy was acted by wicked Haman when he intended to have the Jews Massacred For he pretended to the King Ahasuerus that this People had Laws diverse from the King's Laws and that they kept not the Laws of the King and besides that it was not for the Kings profit to suffer such People Est 3. 8. This he pretends to the King as the great reason why he would have them destroyed when indeed it was not out of love he had to the King's Honour but his own through the pride of his own Heart All the reason was because Mordecai would not bow to him Esther 3. 5. As hypocritical and deceitful hath Rome been in bringing about her wicked Designs at all times for concerning this Powder-plot the better to bring about her design Mr. Percy takes some Rooms of one Mr. Winyard which Rooms served for withdrawing Rooms in Parliament-time for the Lords for these Rooms adjoyned to the Wall of the Parliament-House and Percy took Fauks under pretence to be his Man who changed his name into Johnson he had the Keys and keeping of the Rooms and these Rooms were taken for Lodging Rooms They took also another House and a Seller just under the Parliament House under pretence to keep Coals and Wood which was to make the Serpents Nest in thus their deceit appears Yea further When they wanted to bring the Plot upon the Protestants for that they would have done one of the Conspirators Mr. Keys a Relation of Mr. Pickring of Tichmarsh Grove in Northamptonshire which Pickring was a Protestant and a great Favourite of King James's who had a very choice Horse This

that she forbids her Priests to Marry and to abstain from Meats under pretence of doing Penance for Sin and imitation of Christ who fasted forty days 3. Had it been Heathen Rome the Apostle spake of he would not have spoken of her as a Mystery He calls her Mystery Babylon and mystery of Iniquity 2 Thess 2. 7. Now it was not a Mystery for Heathen Rome to persecute Christians but for Christians to persecute Christians that was a Mystery indeed The Pope pretends he loveth Christ but hates his People He is Christ's Vicar by Name but Enemy in Deed he is not Iniquity publick openly and professedly but Iniquity in a Mystery in a dark and hidden way 4. Nor could the Apostle John have made Heathen Rome the Merchants of Souls which only subdued Nations by Force and not infected them by Poyson it kept a Shambles for Bodies but not a Market for Souls as Mystery Babylon doth Rev. 18. 13. And in her was found Slaves and Souls of men Among all the Traffick of Rome none is so gainful as Souls Her Merchants are the Monks and Jesuites called the false Prophets who are to be cast into the bottomless Pit Rev. 19. 20. That the Apostacy is not a Civil Apostacy but Religious is the opinion of some of their own as Nical Delyra Theodoret St. Augustin Oecumenicus and others 5. It cannot be Heathen Rome because she never did sit in the Temple of God as Antichrist is described 2 Thess 2. 4. Heathen Rome never pretended to be God's Temple but the Church of Rome doth She saith she is God's House and doth not Apostate Rome answer to all those Phrases 2 Thess 2. 4. First She opposeth and exalteth her self above all that is called God Doth she not oppose Kings and exalt her self above all Magistrates called Gods in Scripture in respect of their Authority Secondly Doth she not oppose and exalt her self above what is worshipped God saith in his Word You shall worship Me only not Images Saith the Pope quite contrary you shall worship Images In the Nicene Synod 567 the Pope with three hundred and eighteen Fathers as they call them ordained the making and worshipping of Images Thirdly Doth not he pretend to sit in God's Temple and make himself as if he were a God In many things he makes himself equal with Christ in forgiving Sins in redeeming Souls by their Satisfactory Propitiatory and Explatory Sacrifices which they blasphemously say they make in their unbloody Sacrifice at Mass Besides The Pope and his Council can make new Articles of Faith as if he were the thirteenth Apostle and he is much troubled that he cannot find the name of Pope mentioned in the four Evangelists therefore he hath made other Articles of Faith which Christ never made Take an account of some of them 1. That St. Peter and so consequently say they the Pope is the Rock on which the Church is founded 2. That the Virgin Mary is our Mediatrix 3. That all other Saints sustain that Office 4. Religious Worship is to be paid to Stocks and Stones yea old Clouts called Reliques of Saints 5. That Images do as great Miracles as Christ himself if not greater 6. Christ's Sufferings will not make satisfaction for our Sins but we must also make satisfaction our selves 7. Such as died before St. French's time were saved by Christ since by St. Francis 8. All buried in the habit of St. Francis whether Jew or Turk shall be saved 9. That Chrism takes away Sin as Christ's Blood 10. That there is no Salvation without praying to Saints They deemed our Lord Jesus Christ but half a Saviour and therefore they devised Francis Peter Baruardons Son as if he had been wounded with the same Wounds of Christ and in the same parts and consecrated him in the Lateran Council the typical Jesus Also how prophanely do they speak of the Scripture calling it A Leader Rule Aesops Fables a Nose of Wax black and inkie Divinity a Delphian Sword and Christ's Ministers Scripture-Men Inkie Divines He will judge all Men but will be judged by none Therefore I infer he that fitteth in the Temple of God and opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God is the Man of Sin the Antichrist But thus the Pope of Rome doth therefore 't is not Rome Heather but Rome Apostate that is this Mother of Harlots Object 2. It cannot be say they the Church of Rome that can be this Mother of Harlots the Antichrist Because the Scripture sets him out to be a single Man 2 Thess 2. 3. called there that Man of Sin and Son of Perdition Answ This word here Man of Sin doth not respect the singleness of the Person but the nature of the Antichrist He shall be a Man or succession of Men which shall be full of Sin a Man of Sin as if there was nothing but Sin in him As Christ is called a Man of Sorrows to shew that his whole Life was full of Sorrows So the whole state of Antichrist is a state of Sin A Man of Sin 't is an apparent Hebraism 't is one given up to commit Iniquity We reade of Men of Knowledg of Patience a Man of Strife which are Persons arrived above the common pitch So he is called a Man of Sin also Son of Perdition one past all hopes of Honesty Secondly It cannot be one single Person as some of the Fathers suppose or one of the Tribe of Dan a Jew which shall rise in Jerusalem he must not be a Jew but a pretended Christian And the City cannot be Jerusalem because she is not built on seven Hills nor can Antichrist be one single Person because we find he had a being in the Apostles days 2 Thess 2. 7. For the mystery of Iniquity doth already work And this mystery of Iniquity will continue until the coming of Christ whom he shall destroy ver 8. Now surely this Person if a single Man must be very Aged that should be in the Apostles days and continue till Christ come in the Flesh the second time What is his Name Where doth he dwell It is ridiculous so to think You see therefore it must intend a succession of Men and not one single Person Object 3. Rome Christian cannot be Antichrist Because the Apostle St. Paul saith that Antichrist that Man of Sin was in his days 2 Thess 2. 7. But he whom the Apostle speaketh of Rev. 17. 10. was not then in being by your own account which you say must be the Antichrist Answ 'T is true Antichrist was then in being But though he was then in being he was not then revealed as the Apostle phraseth it 2 Thess 2. 8. he had not arrived to his full Power which is that the Apostle St. John means when he saith Five are fallen one is and the other is not Not that he meaneth he had no beginning no for he tells us he had in that phrase Rev. 17. 8. The Beast that was is not and