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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

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 Practices 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 and so discovered to be that Mystery Babylon Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth mentioned in the Revelations By H. C. a Lover of true Protestants LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange 1679. The Author to the READER Courteous Reader NOt because I envy the Person of any Man of any Persuasion so consequently not those of the Papal Church who at present I am concerned with but 't is their Capital Errors and Damnable Principles I aim at in this my Discourse knowing they are contrary and repugnant to the Word of Truth which is the Rule of Faith and Manners and having compassion on Souls which may be Ignorant lest they should fall into the Errors of the Wicked and especially young ones which are not aware of their Principles I have taken a little pains to gather up some of their Horrid Practices and Soul-destroying Principles into a narrow Compass that so in a little time any may perceive what kind of condition they shall be in that do taste touch or handle any of them therefore I beg of you all to whom this shall come to reade it considerately and compare their Principles and Practices with the Word of God and you will see that there is as much difference between them as between Light and Darkness Good and Evil Heaven and Hell God and the Devil And this is not my Opinion alone but the Opinion of almost all the Reformed Churches For that the Pope is Antichrist hath been put into most of the Confessions of Faith I shall only recite the Testimony of one whose incomparable Learning and Piety may make his Words received or mine at least not over-hastily condemned it is the Reverend Doctor Usher Arch-Bishop of Armagh who in his Catechise writ thus As Christ is the Head of the True Church so Antichrist is the Head of the Romish Church which is his Body Quest Who is that Antichrist Answ He is one who under a colour of being for Christ nd under Title of being his Vice-gerent exalteth himself above and against Christ opposing himself against all his Offices and Ordinances both in Church and Commonwealth bearing Authority over the Church of God ruling over that City with seven Hills which did bear Rule over the Nations and put our Lord to Death a Man of Sin a Child of Perdition a Destroyer establishing himself by Lying Miracles and False Wonders All which Marks do agree together to be none but the Pope of Rome Quest What is the use of all his Doctrine Answ That whosoever are partakers of the Sins of Rome are also under the same Curse Quest What further Answ That there can be no sound agreement between Popery and the Gospel no more than between Light and Darkness Falshood and Truth God and Belial and therefore no Reconciliation can be devised betwixt them For if the Antichrist shall be destroyed we cannot in any sort communicate with them in their Errors unless we will bear them company in their destruction also An Account of which Errors Heresies and wicked Practices this Book may give you light in which I had not concerned my self withal at this time but that I was stirred up from the consideration of their Damnable and Hellish Designs of late against England so that they may thank themselves for what I have done and a great many more who are no friends to Popery If these few Sheets shall do any good to the Establishing of those that have received the Truth as 't is in Jesus or informing the Ignorant animating the Spirits of any against those Principles and Practices or bring any out of that gross Egyptian Darkness and leading them into the path of Light and Life I shall have my desire and I desire you may give God the Glory Which that it may be so shall be the hearty prayers of him that is a lover of the true Protestant Religion H. C. A Parallel betwixt the Jews Deliverance from the intended Bloody Massacre in the Reign of Ahasuerus and our Deliverance from the Hellish Powder-Plot in the Reign of King James BEloved Friends and Country-Men I am this Day as God's Messenger to remind you of a very Signal but almost-forgotten Deliverance which England received in the Year 1605 from that hellish Powder-plot of the blood-thirsty Papists Which was not only a general Mercy then received but as it was a kindness to our Grand-Fathers and Fathers so also to us For had Popery then entred England which hath been yet is and I hope will be Emmanuel's Land what in all probability had we been at this time Now for as much as God delights to have his wonderful Works remembred Psal 111. 4. by those that are in the fruition and enjoyment of them and more especially considering the need we may have of as great a kindness as then received already through Grace begun to be shewed the Lord of his rich Mercy bring Ahitophel's Counsel to nought totally what cause have we to be praising God this day that so your Hearts may be animated and stirred up to the Work I shall in this my Discourse at this time run a Parallel between the wicked Conspiracy made against the Jews and People of God in the days of King Ahasuerus and the hellith Powder-Plot in the days of King James of happy Memory for defending the Protestant Religion and discountenancing the contrary and I hope by that time I have done you will see what great cause there is to bless God for his unspeakable Goodness and also see what Enemies Papists are to all true Protestants and so I shall now begin what I have to say 1. As in the days of Ahasuerus who Reigned from India even to Ethiopia over one hundred and seven and twenty Provinces Esther 1. 1. there was a Massacre designed upon all the Men Women and Children which were of the Nation of the Jews the Church of God Esther 3. 13. So in the days of King James 1605. about seventy three Years since there was a Powder-Plot against this Nation and all the People of God for there was thirty six Barrels of Gun powder in a Seller under the Parliament House And in stead of Shot they had laid upon the Powder Bars of Iron Logs of Timber massy Stones Iron Crows Pickaxes and all their working Tools and to cover all that the Plot might not be discovered they had laid great store of Billets and Faggots

Commentary But may we not be too bold to come to Christ and by him to God the next away Would it not be more decent and mannerly to come by Angels As when we come to a King we make use of Courtiers to get access to the presence Chamber But the Scripture plainly tells us we must come to God by Christ alone John 14. 6. Besides what will it avail us to go to God by Saints they cannot hear our R●quests neither know they our Wants nor can supply them Heb. 4. 15. Fifthly She is a Drunken Blood thirsty Cruel Inhumane Harlot Not without cause is she called the Scarlet-coloured Beast having drunk so much of the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus Rev. 6. 9 10 11. And when he had opened the fifth Seal I saw under the Altar the Souls of them that were slain for the Word of God and for the testimony that they held And they cried with a loud voice saying How long O Lord Holy and True dost not thou judg and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth Rev. 17. 4. These came out of great Tribulation Rev. 16. 6. For they have shed the blood of Saints and Prophets Rev. 18. 20. Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you on her Ver. 24. And in her was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain on the Earth This further confirmed For under Charles the Ninth of France more than thirty thousand Protestants were slain in one Month Anno 1572. Bellarmin confesseth that an hundred thousand of the Albigenses were slain in one day under Pope Innocent the Third Let me here call in the Powder-Plot against England 1605 for a Witness to this truth Let me not forget the many thousands Americans whose guilt was their Gold Also that Inquisition of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands which he called the Council of Blood where were above fifty thousand Christians murdered at once Will not Ireland witness for me here where were about three hundred thousand Massacred Starved and Drowned whose Blood calls aloud to be reckoned for So in Piedmont how many quiet peaceable souls were murdered there Shall I not bring in their Design of firing London Semptember 2. 1666 as a Witness in this matter Let me not forget Sir Edmond-bury Godfry who will in the great Day of Judgment come in against this Church and prove her a Blood-thirsty Harlot yea the Mother of Harlots I would not have you forget this last Conspiracy in some part blessed be God discovered Sixthly She is a Lying dissembling Harlot Which appears in her pretended Miracles And this is one sign and mark the Apostle gives of Antichrist 2 Thess 2. 9 10. Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all Power and Signs and Lying Wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish Rev. 13. 14. He doth great Wonders insomuch that he maketh Fire come down from Heaven on the Earth in the sight of Men. And that you may not think this is real but only seeming in the 14th vers the Apostle saith He deceiveth them that dwell on the Earth Bellarmine and some others would not have the Pope and Rome to be this mystery of Iniquity because saith he the Pope never brings down Fire from Heaven in the sight of men Answer But the Pope pretends to it or as bad if you will believe their Legends How often by them are Images counterfeited to move to sweat to nod to speak in the account of poor simple Men and Women that they may be assured to the worshipping of those Images they see The Devil did often speak in the Images of Heathen Rome and no doubt but the Devil doth sometimes speak in the Images of Mystery Babylon Now the Apostle Paul calls them Lying Wonders and Signs 1. In respect to the End because they serve to seduce Men. 2. Called so in respect of the Matter For they are either the counterfeits of Lying Men or the Wonders of Deceitful Spirits 3. In respect of the Form For whereas true Miracles exceeded Nature and were wrought by the Omnipotent Power of God false Wonders are those that are effected by Natural Causes and partly by the power of Satan The Miracles of the first kind have been infinite in the dark Kingdom of Antichrist the Apparitions of Spirits the Visions of Angels our Lady Mary How often hath she been coming gliding out of Heaven How often have the miserable Souls crept puling out of Purgatory besetting High-ways and recounting their Torments to procure Men to pity them Hence the Market of Purgatory is grown so very gainful How often have Images walked on foot if you will believe it the Bells struck alone without help the Angels like Choristers chant it in Canterbury Minister and play upon Dunstan's Harp the Apostles to come down from Heaven to help Basil to say Mass These Lying Miracles were feigned by Cheating Priests to confirm strange Lyes and cozen simple People of their Coyne For how often hath a Spirit been apprehended by a Magistrate Angels stript and our Lady sent to her Cell All of them have been notably whipt so that they had better have been in Purgatory These had a shew of Miracles but were not really so Nay how have they pretended to confirm their Mass with Miracles and the Transubstantiation Witness that Pillar of Fire from Heaven falling to the Earth upon that place whereby the negligence of the Priest as the Legend doth report the Body of God fell out of the Pix upon the Grals that Pillar of Fire shining like the Sun about the Body of God so that all the Beasts of the Field except one black Horse which bended but two bended all their four Legs to the Body of God This is like the rest of her Miracles Pray see a few of their own Authors against their pretended Miracles Lyranus saith The People in our Church are grievously guld with Miracles the Priests fain for worldly Gain So Ludovicus Vives a learned Papist saith There be those who thought it a piece of Piety to tell Lyes for Religion Saith Chrysostom Miracles were of good use in the Apostles days but of none now But because there is none now think not there were none then St. Augustin saith He that asketh now for a Prodigie or Miracle is a Prodigie himself Theophilact speaking of the Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghost saith They were ceased long a-go So Erasmus saith That the gifts of Miracles are now ceased The Colledg of Paris in a Writing in 1389. saith Miracles ought to be suspected since our Lord saith Mat. 24. False Prophets shall arise From whence I infer from this last Mark That whoever pretends to work Miracles which are nothing else but Lyes and Impostures is Antichrist But the Church of Rome doth so pretend yet nothing but Lyes is the bottom of it Therefore