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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42412	Oida sou ta erga. Or, the divine fore-knowledge of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, display'd in his epistles to the Churches Wherein is shewed (in way of paraphrase, and notes,) that the said epistles are a prophecy of the Church of Rome, from the beginning to the reformation. By W.G.	Garrett, Walter.	1700 (1700)	Wing G270A; ESTC R223645	19,159	20

Practise which they will be Continually Tampering with in this period NOTES This may be referr'd also to the Rebellion of Bernard Brother's Son to Ludovicus the Undutifulness of his Own Sons and the Excommunication thundred out against him by his Bishops So soon came the Judgments on the Empire here Denounc'd and from which it scarce had any Respite afterwards in all this Interval 12. Him that Overcometh in this Interval so Remarkable for the Devotion of Building of Churches and Going in Pilgrimages the Boldness of Excommunicating and Deposing Emperors and the Policy of Employing them in Foreign Expeditions will I make a Pillar in the Temple of my God the Reformed Church whose Door is that that I said ver 8. was set Open before thee and he shall go no more out as Excommunicated or as sent on Errands by the Pope And I will write upon him the Name of my God whose Only Servant he shall be and not the Pope's and the Name of the City of my God which is New Jerusalem which cometh down out of Heaven from my God he shall be a Member of the Church by a wonderful Providence of my God Reform'd from the Corruptions that it is at present Overspread with and I will write upon him My New Name Protestant or Professed and Open Opposer of the Papal Usurpations NOTES This verse we see is the Close of this Interval at which very Time there happen'd a Notable Difference between the Emperor Frederic I. and the Millanese who having newly Rebuilt their City would needs in Contempt of their Liege Lord the Emperor and in Honour of Pope Alexander his Open Enemy call their City by the Name of Alexandria But the Emperor with much adoe by Force of arms and solemn Capitulation with the Citizens obtain'd at length to have it call'd Caesaria To which Contention there is a very manifest Allusion in the verse we are upon that cannot miss our Observation See Sigon lib. 14. de Regn. Ital. Myst In. Progr 49. We are here to note once for all That God always Dispenses Rewards and Punishments not only Equally and Justly with respect to our Merits but Fitly also and Discreetly with regard to our Circumstances As the Proud shall be Debas'd and the Humble Exalted and the like Examples are Infinite For which reason as you may Observe all a long I have thought my self Oblig'd to expound the Rewards of each Interval with an Eye to the Chief things that were Transacted in it 13. He that hath an Ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches 14. And unto the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans 1200. Write These things saith the Amen 2 Cor. I. 20. The Only Infallible Guide The Faithful and True Witnes's of the Will and Word of God which is now in this Interval of Learning about to break forth with great Lustre and Convinciveness who does not turn all Religion into a Multitude of Empty Questions Argued pro and con as is the Fashion of the Schools who Abuse their Talent but Peremptorily and without Fear or Favour or any other partial Affection declares the Truth and in the persons of his Servants as Once in his Own is now about to Seal his Testimony with his Bloud Who is also The Beginning of the Creation of God that is the Reformation of the Church Rev. IV. 11. which by his Special Favour shall Commence in this Interval 15. I know thy Works That thou art neither Hot nor Cold neither so Zealous for Religion as to Reform it thy Self nor so Regardless of it as Quietly to permit Others to do it for thee I would thou wert Cold and wouldst suffer Others to Promote a Reformation or Hot and wouldst set thy Self to work about it NOTES This Luke warmness may also be applied to that Indifference in Religion which was Visible in the Schoolmen's way of Teaching it who indeed would Hotly Canvass every Punctilio but with Equal Zeal for Both sides of the Cause and rather in the way of Fencing than of Fighting for the Truth And the People too instead of being Roundly dealt with to Amend their Lives and Forsake their Errors were only Nestled in their Sins by Pardons and Indulgences and Principled to Believe as the Church believes without Examining whether Right or Wrong or perhaps so much as knowing what the Church Believ'd But then in this way these words I would thou wert Cold or Hot will want a Convenient Sense For I would thou wert Less than Indifferent or no Christian at all which seems to be Imported by the Cold Extreme of that sort of Lukewarmness would sound very Harsh For it is one thing to say with S. Peter It had been Better for them not to have known the Truth c. which seems to be only a more Emphatical way of Exhorting to Obedience and another to Wish they did not know it Dr. Hammond is caught in such a Net and therefore leaves this Passage to expound it self 16. So then because thou art Luke-warm and neither Cold nor Hot wilt neither Suffer Others to Reform Abuses nor Do it Thy self I will e'en Spew thee out of my Mouth and will Raise up a Generation in thystead that by their Pious and Zealous Instructing of my People in My Name shall make Thy ways to appear Nauseous and Loathsom to them The times of Ignorance in the two former Intervals I winked at but your Rebelling against the Clear Light of This I cannot away with NOTES This is that Cutting off that S. Paul denounces against the Church of Rome if they Continued not in God's Goodness Rom. XI 22. 17. Because thou O P. Boniface VIII 1295. saist I am Rich and Encreased with Goods Spiritual and Temporal and have need of nothing insomuch that thou hast now set up a Fair or Market which thou callest a Jubilee for the Vending of thy Wares and Knowest not but I will make thee to know by the Contempt that I will pour upon thee that thou art Wretched and Miserable and Poor and Blind and Naked NOTES He was Chastis'd for his Insolent Boasting at the Opening of the Jubilee for he was the Author of it in Rome with being Spoil'd of All his Rich Treasures and himself put upon a wanton Colt with his Face towards the Tayle and made a Ridiculous Spectacle to all the People Soon after which he Died of Displeasure that he had Lost his Riches and Sustain'd so great Shame This is he of whom it was truly said That he Entred as a Fox Liv'd as a Lion and Died as a Dog Symson Eccles Hist in Boniface VIII Where also he tells us how in Solemnizing his Jubilee he shew'd himself the first day in his Pontifical Garments with S. Peter's Keys carried about him but the second day in Royal Apparel with a Naked Sword carried before him and an Herauld proclaiming Ecce Potestas Utriusque Gladii So Rich and Self-sufficient is Vain Man apt to think himself even when he is