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A85807 A brief discovery of that which is called the popish religion with a word to the Inquisition discovering their seat of injustice and cruelty, and also a word to them who are in bondage under this deceit that upholdeth the Beasts worship. And a word to the Pope who calls himself a bishop and is not, his throne of deceit is discovered, by the Spirit of the eternall God. / Given forth by me who am called of the world. A. Gargill. Gargill, Anne. 1656 (1656) Wing G258; Thomason E887_2; ESTC R202273 29,419 34

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authority hath both one root and that root is the Divel the Father of lyes a lyer he was from the beginning upon that root is thy center thou art centred upon deceit thy seat is abhomination to the Lord thy refuge is the Devill no other dost thou know The true God is a stranger unto thee and his Commandement thou never knew the seat of pride is exalted in thee The Devils habitation is thy fenced City a City builded upon deceit is the throne of thy authority Thy Author is like unto thee he who is the Prince of darkness upholdeth thee in thy pride and thy vain practise it is a shame to all thy generation to see thy vanity and thy pride If it they minde that is the light that sheweth darkness then will they see thee and whence thou came and whither thou wilt go If thou repent not be ashamed of these things thou beastly man who taketh upon thee the seat of God was ever man so impudent as these Generations In the days of old it was not so the Apostles and Prophets were diligent men and wandred up and down from one Countrey to another where ever the Lord did call them Contrary to their own wits by the will of him that sent them they were guided to do their Fathers work they preached the Gospel without gain unto themselves or any self advantage thou seeks gain unto thy self and the glory of the world hath blinded the eie Concupiscence lodgeth in thee thou art a hater of all good Good is it for thee if thou repent and turn from thy evill ways Come down from thy abhominable throne of wickedness and deceit and cast thy triple Crown from thy head and thy deceitfull garments thy vestment of Babylon thy vesture of holy Roodes as thou calls them are for the fire the indignation of the Lord will consume thy glory thy throne shall be laid in the dust in dust hath thy habitation been builded no foundation but vain imaginations of man Is not this an imagination to throw thy self in pride and exalt thy self above all other he that exalteth himself shall be abased and thy base practice is disallowed on by the children of light and life life establisheth the kingdom of God amongst the sons of men but thy kingdom lyes in death thou art dead whilst thou livest thou bearest a name to live and is dead thy glory is thy shame Art thou not ashamed to call thy self a Vicar Christs Vicar thou sayest thou art what is a Vicar canst thou tell out of the pit th●u hast stoln this title and by no Scripture-rule there is no such name there as Vicar nor no such practice spoken of as thou dost imitate as to sit in a Chair with a triple Crown on thy head and a Shepheards Crook in thy hand and the Keys of Heaven and Hell sayest thou Is not this horrible blasphemy against the Lord and his anointed can any man enter Gods kingdom by a carnall authority thou art known to be Carnall thou cannot be hid any longer thy deceit is manifested to the children of light Thy dark actings are seen by them who dwell in the light of the Lord. Light it is which discovers darkness Thou sayest thy Church as thou call'st it is a figure of Noahs Arke and thou sayest all without thy border shall be damned by what Spirit dost thou judge is it the Spirit of God yea or nay all other Spirits are for judgement but thy Spirit is seen and thy judgement is a lye judgement doth belong onely to God and to no carnall man Thou sayest thy Church as thou callst it hath seaven heads and standeth upon seaven Hills and giveth light unto the Nations but thou tells a lye shall I shew thee the seaven Heads and ten Horns The beastly nature of man standeth in the four Elements and in the five sences compleated by disobedience these are ten Horns builded upon seaven Heads whereon thy Church as thou callest it stands The seaven Heads is the abhomination of man which gathereth in swift destruction to his soul the root of these seven Heads is the Devill which is the foundation of thy practice which Center doth proceed from these seven Heads shall I shew thee these seaven Heads what they are and whence they come The Dragon hath cast forth her poyson and infected the five sences of man the will and the minde compleateth the seaven Heads where the fountain of iniquity springs which gathereth in swift destruction unto man all the sences are poysond through disobedience even the Smoke of Sodom hath infected and strangled man and hindreth man of his well being A well being had man before deceit entred through disobedience was Adams fall and this fall was unto death and death is the end of those that fear not God God is the end of all things under the Sun when the Sun of righteousness doth arise with healing under his wings the first nature he disolveth he dissolves all those that lives in Sodom as smoak before the wind shall the wicked be consumed by the breath of the Lord yea the breath of his Nostrils shall consume his enemies yea the Lord shall consume their glory and bring their building under his feet he will trample on their abhomination A consumption shall come upon the ends of the earth and all that is exalted above the Lord shall be abased and his own kingdom shall be exalted which standeth in righteousness and true holiness with equity will the Lord judge the ends of the earth with equity the innocent Lamb shall be now exalted over his enemies will he reign his reign is endless and blessed are they who are witnesses of Christs reign A witness he hath in thee who calls thy self a Bishop and art none Read in the Scripture and consider the office of a Bishop he is not to be covetous nor selfly minded A selfly minded man art thou thy fruits makes thee manifest consider thy self whether or no thy fruits be of God or of the Devill Righteousness and peace dwelleth in them that fear the Lord the kingdome thou cannot reconcile thou art an author of iniquity from thy root doth all iniquity spring the Well Spring of life thou never knew nor thy auncestors before thee which builded upon this root the root of iniquities thy head and thy Author and this head is compleate in thee thou Son of iniquity iniquity hath abounded long in these Generations now is the Lord a coming to reckon with all flesh the ends of the earth shall be gathered and swift destruction shall come upon all those that are exalted above the Lord and his anointed the holy one of Israel is he called a name which thou knows not neither thy ancestors before thee nor thy successors the Cardinalls I mean where have they stoln this name but out of the pit an exalted title you have no rule for it Is there any such name in the Scriptures as Cardinals Jesuit Carmalin
Jacobin or Augustin are they not these inventions of names and tytles which you have gathered out of the pit as for your Seminaries and Monks beastly names they are and Fryers of severall orders as you call them which I have not here mentiond shamefull orders not ordered by the Lord but by the Devill which is your Author he is the Author and finisher of this practice A Company of Drones who live in Monasteries and Cloysters like drones among Bees eating up the fruits of others labours feeding themselves with the fat and cloathing themselves with the Wool and calling themselves holy men is this the fruit of holiness yea or no the holy men of old they did not so they did not lye still in a House they went up and down and had no certain abiding they laboured with their hands untill the Lord called them by his eternall Spirit from one Country to another as the Lord did order them in his wisdom they followed not the tradition of man as you do you say them which you call your antient Fathers devised your orders of Priests Monks and Fryars the light of Christ Jesus discovereth all your folly and all your abhomination which you have received by tradition your Purgatory and all your stuffe which you talk of did you ever read in the Scriptures of a Purgatory to purge sin yea or nay is not Christ a redeemer and a cleanser of them that believe in him yea verily he is a redeemer to all that do believe in him for salvation by no other thing can man be cleansed but by the blood of Jesus Christ Jesus is a redeemer of all that fear and keep his Commandements all your staffe which you call your Mass and Sacrifice it is abhomination to the Lord it is a Sacrifice to the Devill and not to God you Sacrifice the works of your hands you are hirelings and greedy dumb Dogs such as the Prophet Jeremiah cryed against if they would not put into their mouths they prepard war against them you say your Mass is a Sacrifice and an atonement for the sins of the people and you call it the flesh of Christ and makes an offering of it Christ Jesus offered up himself once for all he is a free will offering to his Father but you sell yours for money that which you call your Sacrifice your price of it 8 d. Is not this a shame be ashamed of all your ungodly deeds and come down to the light of Jesus to the witness for God placed in your Consciences that your evill deeds may be discovered I am the light of the world saith Christ Jesus and in me there is no darkness at all this light discovereth sin and all manner of abhomination by his stripes we are healed he is afflicted when we transgress the innocent Lamb beareth the iniquity of his people be is afflicted that never sinned the iniquities of sinfull men burdneth the Lord. A rebellious generation hath turnd their backs of the living God minde that which groweth for redemption his true witness placed in your Consciences minde the Cry of the poor and the Fatherless that the Pi●grim and the stranger may have an habitation in thy house thou that is exalt●d shall be innocent and doth not witness Christs reign he that is exalted shall be abased he that is slain in thee is the Lord thou persecutest afresh the Lord of life in all thy actings and thy abhominable practice subtlety have been the Author of it the Lambs innocencie thou never knew Philosophy and Logick these are set up and exalted in the stead of innocencie this can never enter Gods kingdom it can never enter the eternall God as bid from all your subtlety and deceit you are strangers to his ways yea you are strangers that nature wherein you stand is shut out of his heavenly kingdom yea it is shut out for ever and ever never will God own you if there you stand you shall never see his face in that nature his face is even as clear as Christall and his glory excelleth the Sun at noon day Early in the morning will God arise and blast the blossoms which in the night have sprang The secrets of darkness shall be dissolved and their glory brought to shame the root of iniquity shall be removed and the righteous plants shall live for ever The fruits of ungodliness shall be blasted even as Grass withereth so shall all your glory be burned up with the brightness of the Sun The Son of righteousness will arise and consume the works of your hands and burn up your Schools of learning and and your Libraries of Books and all your compleated subtlety against the living God of life have you acted confusion and builded Babylon This is the whore that sitteth upon many waters the floods of iniquity you have suckt in swiftly to the destruction of your souls Innocencie shall guide innocencie shall be exalted above all son ever and ever never will God suffer the unrighteous to reign for the destruction of his people any longer The innocent shall judge and that judgement is true his righteous kingdom shall now be advanced and the iniquity of man shall be abased This was I eternally moved by the Spirit of the eternall God to rip open your deceit to all those whose minds are honest that they may see the abomination of your practice for ever will God be known in the hearts of them who fear his name and keep his Commandements Amen so be it VVritten per me from the Spirit of truth who is called of the world A. GARGIL FINIS
cannot give the worlds treasure is but vanity and a lye by a lye are the Kingdoms of the earth upheld in their vain concupiscence long yea long hath the heritage of the Lord laid waste I pitty your souls that lye in darkness you see not the light which doth not change all is changeable under the Sun the Son of righteousness never changes your light changes and burns out your Lamps and Candles in your Synagogues of Satan and you ●ight them again to beautifie and adorn the place of your lust where your life stands what glory is this to the Lord and what doth it advantage you to do these things God never required when did God require any of these things at your hands as for going into Cloysters or Monasteries do you hear any such names in Scripture for Saints to lodge in their habitation was in the Lord and not in earthly Houses their habitaiton is a House without hands a building of God and God is the Author of that practise which the Saints follow no other Author have we but the Lord he is our Lord and Law giver you have Lords many and Laws many and as you make them you break them your selves you say you should not murder nor steal nor commit adultery and you your selves are adulterated from God you have committed fornication with the Scarlet coloured Whore and drunken the Cup of her Abhomination is not this murthering of the just one which is a friend to all and would not the death of any You have no pitty to your own souls you lye in your Blood and do not see the God of the world hath blinded the eye the Eternall eye of God dis●overs all your abhominations which are gathered in by your subtill minds and inventions imitating and practizing by tradition thus hath one generation deceived another Many Authors have you for your traditions all from one Root and the Root is evill As for Augustins Jesuits and Caputians when did the Lord by his Spirit guide you to these names there is but one name to be saved by and that name leadeth out of all names the Lord giveth a new name and a white stone to his people and none knows it but they that have it you change your names from one name to another but where is the life that leadeth to salvation that you know not you cannot witness a change by the power of God from your evill wayes and what doth it advantage for you to change your names How vain is this how naked is your conditions before the Lord you cannot be hidden any longer Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill now will the Lord appear in the children of light to discover all your abhominations and your deeds to be evill Evill minded men you are who deny the Lord to be the Author and finisher of your faith he that hath faith as a grain of mustard seed removeth mountains mountains of sin I mean which hath been exalted above the Lord and his anointed you annoint your Priests with Oyl to imitate Aaron where is the fruits of this anointing the anointed of the Lord is pure purity and peace becometh his House for ever where is this House witnessed by you Are not your minds corrupted with dumb Idols And self-inventions and your Gods is like unto your dead and dumb Idols is your hearts addicted too you mind not the living God that quickneth and raiseth from death to life from the power of Satan to serve the living God your prayers and inventions is all in the fall it is Cains sacrifice all your worship is abhomination unto the Lord you act it in the old nature which is enmity against God out of the light of Jesus do you busie your minds praying to Mary and making of Images and likenesses you are not you worship the works of your hands by vain tradition have you been led from one generation to another have you lived in Idleness and sloath not knowing the Cross of Christ that Crucifies sin your Crosses of wood and stone cannot save you nor redeem you from your vain conversation you bow to your Cross and rise again as wicked and carnall as ever the Cross of Jesus is not so it teaches to deny self selfly minded men cannot please God neither can they in all their imitation performe the minde of God in that which standeth in the old nature all must be destroyed all your inventions come down to the light of Jesus which shines in a dark place dark is the heart of man a light hath God placed therein bring your deeds to it there your fruits may be made manifest whether they are wrought in God yea or nay did God ever require or when did you hear his voice that you say you are guided by his Spirit and you say the true Church cannot erre This is true the Church of Christ cannot erre who are guided by his eternall Spirit his Spirit you never knew to guide your minds and to lead you to these practices as worshipping Images you deny the resurrection of Jesus you serve your lusts and your Popes Invention by his Articles you are guided to deprive Kings of their authority and sit in the seat of Justice as you call it If you were spirituall there things need not concern you you are usurpers in all your practices you say that which you call your Church is above the Law it is above the Law indeed you neither fear God nor man you are Lawless livers to make your Churches as you call them a preservation for murd●rers he that sheds mans Blood by man shall his Blood be shed All manner of evill do you uphold for money murderers and adulterers and say you can for give them did you ever read in the Scriptures that ever pardons were sold for money where is your example for these things why do you hide the Scripture from the people or by what authoritie were they not given forth by the Spirit of God for generations to come God excludes none all that will come may and drink of the water of life freely free is that Spirit that leads to righteousness it straitens none that will believe and turn to the Lord. Come all ye that are heavy laden saith the Lord and I will give you ease he burdneth none his yoke is easie and his burden light unto all them that desire to live with him he is a cherisher of the innocent and a destroyer of deceit deceit hath gathered into your hearts swift destruction to your souls if you repent not repent and turn to the Lord that your evill deeds may be forgiven come near unto the Lord by the light of Jesus which shines in darkness the heart of man is dark it comprehendeth not the light but the light of Jesus comprehends you all and discovers your deeds to be evill and all your practices abhomination to the Lord repent and turn in