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A66982	The fall of Babylon, or, Seasonable reflections on the novelties of Rome with the rise, growth, and final overthrow of Antichrist now at hand, occasioned by the preface to a treatise called Nubes testium, or, A collection of primitive fathers giving testimony to the faith once delivered to the saints, being (as the author stileth it) a full discovery of the sentiments of the ancient fathers in the chief points of controversy at present under debate : written upon the first coming forth of the said treatise (but not permitted to be then made publick) for the benefit of all who abominate the corruptions of the great whore and would not be partakers of her sins of plagues / by B.W.	Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3467; ESTC R27594	163,329	256

chosen Emperor in the place of Lewis whom he had deposed they deny him to be lawfully chosen as being neither chosen nor Crowned in the Places proper for either as also because it was all a clancular proceeding and when there was no Vacancy of the Empire whereupon they chuse King Edward the third of England but he having Affairs of his own to mind returns his Thanks for the great honour done him and waves it The Pope however sends his Legate after the Death of Lewis to absolve the Princes of the Empire who adhered to Lewis on condition they would swear that the Emperor had no Power to depose the Pope and that from thenceforward they would not obey their Emperor unless he be approved as Emperor by the Pope The Ecclesiasticks most readily approve this and the Laicks as fiercely oppose it whereupon the Pope is forced to abate something let me so express it of this great Heat with which they had so long scorched Men and remit this Oath and absolve them from the Excommunication And this may be sufficient to explain this Vial Only here as before it will be asked what is this to the Fall of Antichrist These and such like Instances for many more might be given and particularly in our own Story witness 1. the Controversy between William the second and Urban the second Anno 1097. in the Case of Anselm's appealing to the Pope who was thereupon about to Excommunicate the King but having a little before excommunicated the Emperor Henry the fourth he forbore it lest otherwise Excommunications by being made common might be slighted as also 2. between him and Henry the first in the case of Investitutes in which Anselm likewise opposed the King in behalf of the Pope's Pretensions to them 3. Between him i. e. his Legate and King Stephen and again 4. in the case of the Legatine Powee between him and Henry the Second 5. Between him and King John whom the Excommunicated and Interdicted the Kingdom and upon his submission to him at the instance of Pandulphus at whose Feet he laid down his Crown to be disposed of as the Pope should please which Pandulphus took up and kept it three or four days nor restoring it then but upon condition that he and his Successors should hold the Kingdom of the See of Rome at the annual Tribute of 1000 Marks which was the great occasion of that Slavery in which Rome so long held this our Nation all tending to aggrandize him in his most insolent Tyranny but if so yet 't is too for the Encrease of that Guilt which will at last be so thorowly avenged as will appear by that time we shall have rellected on the following Vials The first whereof i. e. the fifth is directly on Antichrist i. e. The very Seat of the Beast The second or sixth is likewise on Antichrist though so as to affect the whole Seat of the Roman and Mahometan Empires i. e. The Eastern and Western Empires thus joined again for they shall be both then hastening towards the day of Vengeance And as for the third or seventh it is to end in the final Ruin of both and all the Antichristian Powers under them or rather in the Kingdom of Christ set up against Antichrist in its utmost extent in that lasting Triumph he shall then give his Church over him and all other her Enemies But then as in this Vial we have been now speaking of so in that which next follows this will be again to be observed that it is not necessary it should immediately succeed the other or not to be to begin till the other is fully expired no it is necessary in the nature of the thing that several of the Vials should be contemporary with one another forasmuch as they are Punishments for Sin and did not the Sin continue to which Men are often judicially given up the Punishment inflicted for it would not be so agreeable to the manner of Gods proceeding in the ways of his Judgment the Rule being Isaiah 27. 9. By this therefore shall the Iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his Sin Now then these being spoken of as distinct Vials i. e. The Punishment and Sins which bring them on if instead of having their Iniquity purged Men shall run into more gross and hainous Iniquity if instead of that Fruit they ought to bring forth upon the Chastisement which is to take away their sin they shall fructifie only in Malice and Wickedness if which is the case in these Vials they who are punished for having the Mark of the Beast on them and worshipping his Image shall continue still to wear that Mark and worship his Image which I take to belong to the second third and fourth Vials for on such it is not so properly on the Beast himself they are poured out what can be expected but that the Plague should go along with the Sin that calls for it down And that if the Beast himself do not so immediately suffer in those Vials that it should be because to Him more particular Judgments are reserved or both He and they to go on from one wickedness to another till there be no Remedy 2 Chron. 36. 16. CHAP. XV. Of the fifth Vial Rev. 16. 10 11. AND the fifth Angel poured out his Vial upon the seat of the Beast and his Kingdom was full of Darkness and they gnawed their Tongues for Pain And blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their Pains and their sores and repented not of their Deeds What is the seat of the Beast but Rome What the Vial poured out upon his seat but the depriving it of what gives it its Lustre Dignity and Wealth i. e. as it is exprest in the former Vial of its Sun the Pope I mean whose more benign aspect and influence were so highly beneficial to it whilst it was the place of his Residence but being removed thence how is its Greatness and Glory forthwith Eclipsed How all things black and dark and under the thickest Cloud Now when happened this but when Clement the fifth Anno 1305 being chosen Pope in his absence in France called the Cardinals thither and settled his Residence at Avignon 'T was now the City that was full of People sat solitary and became as a Widdow now she that was great among the Nations and Princess among the Provinces became Tributary Lam. 1. 1. She that before received the Riches of so great a part of the World that had so great Honour and Devotion paid to her now sends her Wealth and pays homage herself to another shrine This lasted for seventy four Years together till Gregory the Eleventh brought back his See to Rome but so that after his Death the French Cardinals would have a Pope of their Nation and accordingly chose Clement the 7 th the rest of the Cardinals having chosen Urban the sixth Urban keepeth at Rome but Clement at Avignon The Schism continued

iniquis resisto Fidelibus autem praesto adsum auxilium fero Non enim libens volens hanc sedem conscendi sed invitus lachrymans quod me indignum judicabam qui tam in excelso throno sederem Haec autem dico quia non Ego Vos sed Vos me elegistis gravissimum pondus humeris nostris imposuistis In me autem vestro jus●u montem ipsum conscendentem clamantem annunciantem populis eorum scelera filis Ecclesiae peccata mèmbra Diaboli consurrexere ad Sanguinem usque manus suas in me conjecere Astiterunt enim Reges Terrae Principes seculi cum his conjurarunt Ecclesiastici quidam Vulgares in Dominum nos Christos ejus dicentes Dirumpamus vincula eorum projiciamus a nobis jugum ipsorum Hoc autem fecere ut me vel morte vel exilio mulctarent quorum de numero fuit Henricus quem Regem vocant Henricus inquam Henrici Imperatoris filius qui cornua calcem contra Ecclesiam Dei superbe nimium erexit facta conjuratione cum multis Episcopis Italici Germanici Gallicique nominis cujus superbiae vestra adhuc restitit Autoritas qui fractus potius quam ad sanitatem redactus ad me in Cisalpinam perveniens absolutionem Anathematis suppliciter quaesivit Hunc Ego quem ad poenitentiam venisse credideram in gratiam recepi huicque tantummodo communionem reddidi non tamen in Regnum e quo eum in Romana Synodo depuleram restitui nec Regni ut ad Fidem redirent concessi Hoc ideo feci ut si redire in gratiam cum finitimis suis quos semper vexaverat differret reddereque tum res Ecclesiasticas tum profanas ex foedere abnueret cogi ad Officium Execrationibus armis posset Hac opportunitate adjuti quidam Germaniae Episcopi Prineipes ab hac fera Bestia diu vexati in locum Henrici suis Flagitiis regno cadentis ducem suum Rodulphum deligunt qui regia modestia integritate usus statim nuncios ad me misit a quibus intelligerem se coactum regni gubernacula suscipere non esse tamen adeo regnandi cupidum ut non malit nobis quàm regnum pollicentibus obtemperare futurum se in Dei potestate semper ac nostra idque ut arbitremur nos facturum filios obsides pollicitus est Stomachari tum Henricus coepit nos primo quidem precari ut Rodolphum ab occupatione Regni execrationibus propelleremus Dixi me velle videre cui jus competeret eo missurum nuncios qui rem omnem resciscerent meque deinceps judicaturum Uter ipsorum in causa potior habendus esset Vetuit Henricus quo minus Rex a Legatis nostris decerneretur multosque tum Seculares tum Ecclesiasticos interfecit Ecclesias diripuit profanavit atque hoc modo Anathematis vinculis sese illigavit Hanc ob rem fidens in Dei Judicio Misericordia inque Patrocinio beatae Virginis fultus etiam autoritate vestra ipsum Henricum ejusque fautores vinculo Anathematis colligo atque iterum Regiam potestatem ei adimo interdicoque Christianis omnibus illo juramento absolutis quo fides Regibus dari consuevit ne Henrico ulla in re obtemperent Rudolphum in Regem suscipiant quem multi provinciae principes abrogato Henrico in Regem Optimum sibi delegere Eternim par est ut sicuti Henricus ob superbiam contumaciam facultatibus suis privatur ita Rudolphus omnibus gratus pro sua Pietate Religione regia dignitate potestate donetur Agite igitur Apostolorum Sanctissimi Principes quod dixi vestra autoritate interposita confirmate ut omnes nunc demum intelligant si potestis in coelo ligare solvere in terra quoque imperia regna principatus quicquid habere mortales possunt auferre dare non posse Si enim quae ad Deum pertinent judicare potestis quid de his inferioribus profanis censendum est Et si Angelos dominantes superbis principibus vestrum est judicare quid in servos illorum vos debet facere Ediscant nunc Reges hujus Exemplo omnes seculi principes quid in coelo possitis quantique apud Deum sitis ac deinceps timeant Sanctae Ecclesiae mandata contemnere Hoc autem judicium cito in Henricum exercete ut intelligant omnes iniquitatis filium non fortuito sed vestra opera è regno cadere Hoc tamen a vobis optaverim ut Poenitentia ductus in die judicii vestro rogatu gratiam a Domino consequatur O Blessed Peter Prince of the Apostles and Thou O Paul Doctor of the Gentiles afford to me your Ears a little I beseech you and mercifully hear me For ye are the Disciples and Lovers of Truth the things I shall speak are true This Cause I undertake for truth's sake that my Brethren whose Salvation I earnestly desire may be the better satisfied in their Obedience to me may know and understand that relying on your assistance next unto Christ and his Mother always a Virgin I resist the flagitious and unjust but that to the Faithful I am always ready to give aid For I did not by my own choice or willingly mount this Chair but unwillingly and with Tears because I judged my self unworthy to sit in this high Throne Now these things I say because I chose not you but ye have chosen me and laid this most heavy burden on our Shoulders However against me ascending to this high Place by your Command Proclaiming and telling their People their Wickedness and the Sons of the Church their Sins the Members of the Devil have risen up together and laid hands upon me to Murder me For the Kings of the Earth stood up and the Rulers of the World and with these some of the Churchmen and the People have conspired together against the Lord and against us his Christs saying Let us break their Bonds asunder and cast away their yoke from us and this they have done that they might bring us to Death or Banishment of which number was Henry whom they call King Henry I say Son of Henry the Emperor who hath too proudly lift up his horn and heel against the Church of God entring into Conspiracy with many Bishops of Italy Germany and France whose Pride hitherto your Authority hath resisted who being broken rather than restor'd to a sound Mind coming to me on this side the Alps humbly begged Absolution from Excommunication Him whom I believ'd to have come Penitent I have receiv'd into favour restored to Him Communion but not his Kingdom from which I had deposed Him in a Synod held at Rome nor did I grant leave to the Tributaries of the Kingdom to return to their Fealty This I therefore did that if he should delay to be reconciled to his Neighbours whom He had aggriev'd and should