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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76237	A seasonable warning and word of advice to all papists, but most especially to those of the kingdome of France; for them to turn from their idolatry, and gross superstition, and speedily to repent, and hast to meet the Lord by amendment of life, least he come on them, and smite them unawares ... / Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles, 17th century.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473A; ESTC R170471	59,588	68

by their cruel usage they be made to conform to their Wills this is evident amongst them insomuch that many of them have been kept many years and not been told the cause why for if they have but a Jealousie of a man he shall hardly escape their hands And now what they have to be spoken against let the moderate Reader seriously consider if there be any thing else but abominable Idolatry in all their Worship even such Idolatry as all the Heathen of old never exceeded As for Example in Rome which is the Fountain from whence all this abomination springs they pourtray the likeness of an Old Man upon a Wall and they call him the Image of God the Father with a Cross before him with the Portraicture of a dead man upon it and the likeness of a Pigeon on the top of it and this in their Imaginations they call the Father Son and Spirit And this being openly tollerated in Rome the bordering Nations are made stark drunk with the same abominations and Idolatry So that if one in love and in pity to their souls speak to reclaim them from their gross darkness they are ready to tear them in pieces though it be plainly manifest that they are of those who have changed the Glory of the Incorruptible God into Images made like unto Corruptible men wherefore God hath given them up to uncleannesse through their lost and corrupt hearts who have changed the Truth of God into a lie and do worship the Image which themselves have made more than the Creator who is God blessed for ever This is such gross darkness as was in Egypt even such as might be felt And in God there is no ancientness of dayes who is a Spirit infinite and eternal who created all things by the Word of his power and upholdeth all things thereby unto this day To whom will ye liken me saith the Lord Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my Footstool hath not my hand made all these things all things being created in and by the Word of his Power which is Christ Jesus for so is his Name who was glorified by his Father before the World began and is the express Image of his Father whose likeness cannot be made by the hands of men therefore it is horrible Idolatry for you to make the Image of a dead man and say it is the Image of Christ and so bewitch the minds of people with those false conceptions and imaginations woe be to them by whom these things are wrought and upheld for the Vengeance and Indignation of the Lord God is kindled against them for they are the unreasonable Task-Masters of Egypt who keep the Seed in bondage and slavery so that the people cannot come to the knowledge of the true God that him only they might serve honour and obey in all things who is the only King Judg and Lawgiver of his people who sheweth mercy unto all who come unto him in his Sons Name for there is no other Name given under Heaven for Salvation but his And all who are in the praying to Saints are in the wicked Idolatry and do forsake the Fountain of living mercy and have hewed to your selves Cisterns which will hold no Water For the true Voyce saith Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest And saith the Prophet All you which are a thirst come and you which have no money come buy and eat yea come buy Wine and Milk without money and without price Why do ye lay out your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Heare and eat that which is good and let your souls delight themselves in fatness Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your souls shall live And I will establish with you my everlasting Covenant even the sure mercies of David Behold I have given him for a Witnesse to the people This is all free even the free gift of God Who hath so loved the World that he hath given his only begotten Son into the World that all through him might believe for whosoever believes in him shall not abide in darkness but shall have the Light of life who is the Way the Truth and the Life who hath enlightned every one who cometh into the World with his true Light and they which turn to the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned them they come to Christ who is the free Gift of God This likes not the Pope and his Ministers for they make the people pay tenths of all their increase besides Money for Beads Crosses and Crucifixes and Money for pardon for sins and for Masses to be said for them while they are alive and after they are dead and Money for Christening of Children as they call it and Money for Marrying and all that they doe which thing sheweth plainly that his Ministers are not like the Ministers of the Gospel for that was and is a free Ministry and the Ministers thereof ministreth forth freely as they have received and are moved of God freely thereunto So the Pope is not with Christ but against him in all his actions for Tithes were only due to Levi and that from his Brethren yet they were not Levi's but the Lords and was to be put into the store-houses for to relieve the widow the fatherless and the stranger but how the Pope and his Adherents doth this let the wise in heart judge who devour the Tenths and much more upon their lusts as the Nations may witness against them which plainly shews they are neither of the Tribe of Levi nor of the Flock of Christ And the Apostle who was a Minister of the Gospel speaking of Levi said That Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change of the Law for the Priesthood being changed it is evident that the Law is disanulled which took them so that this paying of Tithes is but a usurpation of those which crope in in this dark night of Apostacy which Christ foretold us of saying The Night would come wherein no man could work And Paul saw this coming in For I know this saith he that after my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the Flock And such did come in who taught things they ought not for filthy lucres sake The Pope and his Adherents will plainly appear to be of that stock and spring from that cursed Root and Spirit as his and their fruits will plainly manifest for they who forsook the right way did run on in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards but they have far exceeded all their Ancestors and will not be content with a gift and reward but rob and take by force where they cannot have it otherwise so far as their power reacheth And this running out of the way and commandement of God is the cause why they profit not the people at all though they creep into houses and lead silly

the strength of the Creature being to stand still bearing his dayly cross and thereby is made subject unto him who is able to save to the utmost all who come unto him in and through Christ the Door Power and Wisdome of God who is the Light of the World Therefore Salvation is not of works but of grace which is freely tendered to all mankind upon the face of the whole earth for the grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2.11 14. Therefore were your Priests truly in the knowledge of God and his Misteries they would bring you to the knowledge of the Mistery that hath been hid from Ages which without controversie is great to wit God Manifest in the flesh which was Christ in the Saints the Hope of glory and were you rightly instructed you would come to know the riches of the glory of this Mistery Col. 1.27 for it would be your glory also for it was the Saints hope of their glory which hope will perfectly save you and cleanse you from sin and evill and thereby purifie you as Christ is pure for this is the only and true hope which anchors and stays the soul And if you once come to this then their Trade is spoyled but they are as ignorant of it as you your selves but the true Ministers of the New Covenant preached nothing but what themselves were witnesses of therefore saith John That which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes and looked upon and our hands have handled of the Word of life that they did declare to the people that the people might come to have fellowship with them and their fellowship was with the Father and with his Son because their living and walking was in the Light as God was in the Light 1 Joh. And this is the end of the true Ministers ministry who were Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter neither did they boast of other mens sayings made ready to their hands as your Priests do for what they pray preach and speak unto you are other mens works yea the greatest part of your worship which is the Masse and the rest thus they make merchandise of your for dishonest gain made and put in by the will of men and by the will of men are upholden and guarded by a Law that none must speak against their open abominations but the day of the Lord hath overtaken them as a thief in the night and their works of darkness must and will be brought to light let them fence themselves never so wisely and dig as deep as Hell for Counsel yea the day is come and though they should exceed all their fore-fathers in burning and persecution it would but add to their torment for the Sword of the Lord is drawn and will never be sheathed until it hath cut them up root and branch yea the cup of Gods fury is filled even to the brim and they must drink the dregs thereof though they be made and upholden by men yet of a truth men shall not be able to save them for let them daub and flatter never so much to make them a wall or shelter the wall which is daubed and the daubers shall fall together This of a truth is the determination will and counsel of the most high God though bryers and thorns do set themselves against him in battel all shall be in vain for the breath of his mouth shall burn and consume them for ever for he of a truth is arisen before whom all Nations are as the drop of a bucket and as the small dust of the ballance Behold he taketh the Isles as a very little thing yea all Nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him lesse than nothing and vanity He measureth the waters in the hollow of his hand and meeteth out the Heavens with a span and comprehendeth the dust of the earth in a measure and weigheth the mountains in scales and the hills in a ballance I say even he whose presence fills Heaven and Earth is risen to plead the cause of the Innocent the poor and the needy and to make way for the meek that they only may reign over the works of his hands in his Son who must and shall reign over all for ever and this will he perfect for his own names sake the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it therefore it is a vain thing for men to cloath themselves some in one habit and some in another and one saith he is of such an Order and another sayes he is of such an Order whilest they are all in the order of sin and uncleannesse the root thereof stands firm and untouched within them though they disguise themselves like so many Anticks in severall shapes more like men of unmodest deportment than like men fearing God which doth in no wise consist in such like disguised habits but in a clean heart for The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom which leads to the true understanding of the use of all the creatures of God and how to use them in decency and true order and in the moderation for which end they were created and made even to serve man and man his Creator in fear with a clean heart and pure mind but man being degenerated from this holy life gets into habits and meats by diversities and calls some holyer than other though in the beginning they were all created good as it is written Every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused But these men get into several habits and call them holy as though the wool that came from the sheeps back availed any thing and thus the Pharisees were in dayes past in outward observations of dayes and things and went in long robes esteeming one thing holyer than another for which Christ rebuked them saying Whether is it greater the gift or the Altar which sanctifieth the Gift And likewise in those days being ignorant of that which sanctifieth and maketh clean by which all things comes to be sanctified to the Creature whether meat drink or apparrel through the use of which only they should have had regard to the Giver who regardeth not nor respecteth the person of any man much lesse the cloathing or meats or drinks which desileth not the man but of all Nations He that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him as saith the Scripture But these things the Apostles saw was crept in amongst many in their dayes as Touch not tast not handle not which thing had a fair shew but it was but