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A62896	An awakening voice to the Papists declaring to them the fallen state of the Pope from Peter's, and of the Church of Rome from what it once was : in love to the souls of those who have any uprightness in their hearts towards the Lord (but through ignorance are held in bondage) that they may be awaked, and see where they lie, and if any shall smother these things, lest they should come to the sight or knowledge of that people, let them take heed, that they bring not upon themselves the guilt of their blood / William Tomlinson.	Tomlinson, William.	1673 (1673)	Wing T1845; ESTC R10231	20,715	28

of their Souls and so setting his Subjects against them and animating them to destroy such 4. And for being an Ensample to the Flock he is far from that from being such an Ensample as Peter would have him for certainly Peter who was so well acquainted with the Lamb of G●d Christ Jesus our Lord would have Elders and Bishops to hold forth his Example to the People Meekness Lowliness of Mind a Saving Spirit that came not to destroy but to save Now if we look no further then these principal things How can a Proud Man be an Example of Humility How can a Lofty Mind that exalts it self beyond all Patterns of Holy Apostles or Bishops be an Example of Lowly Mindedness How can be that smites Righteous Men be an Example of meekness in Suffering for Righteousness Sake How can he who destroyes harmless Mens Lives who suffer for their conscience Sake be an Example of saving Men's Lives He whose Principles lead to Blood how can he hold forth the Example of Christ the Saviour who came not to destroy but to save but the Popes have been Examples of the contrary of Cruelty of Persecution of Blood Therefore from their Examples and Principles what Beating what Stocking what Imprisoning what Tortures and Cruclties what Hanging and Burning with Fire and Faggot what Massacrees and Inhuman Butcheries have been committed and acted by their Subjects Oh the Cry of Blood cryes loud against thee thou Bloody Mystery of Iniquity And thou Froud Lucifer who art got to the Top-Stone thereof and binds all the Building together and sits as Head how is thy Countenance stained with Blood the World rings with thy Cruelties and Massacrees Is this that wherein Peter bid thee be an Example to the Flock Art thou his Successor herein for shame hide thy Face come down and hide thee in the Dust and wash thy Bloody Face that thou mayst behold Peter with a better Countenance Was ever any of Christ's Disciples encouraged or countenanced from Christ to do so But shall I set before thee what Race thou art of Thy Name is Apollyon or at least wise thou art grafted into that Spirit that is Apollyon or Destroyer and quite out off from Peter for all thy Boasting of him and thou art a Pattern of Blood-Guiltiness and not of Love in saving the Lives of Men. If any be minded to take up the Pope's Cause for him let him shew where Apoll●on is to be found or Abaddon as it is called in the Hebrew Tongue both which signifie a Destroyer let them show I say within all the Compass of Christendom as it is called or among all that profess Christianity where that destroying Spirit is to be found that exceeds all others in destroying if it be not among the Papists As for the Protestants though they have too much tincture yet of that Spirit yet they have not committed such Cruelties and Butcheries of Massacrees upon the Papists as the Papists have acted upon them neither have they made such Shambles of Papist's Flesh and Blood as the Papists have made of theirs in their publick Cities and Towns where they have had Power So that neither in Way of Judicature nor in the confused Tumults of Massacrees have they done like the Papists When did they ever act like that which was done in our Nation in Queen Mary's Dayes or like the Massacres done in Ireland of later Years not to mention the many cruel and bloody Massacrees in Forreign Nations Now tell me where must we find Apollyon but where the greatest Destroyers be and he is their King over them If you can find out another besides the Pope or that Spirit which acts the Papists in such Cruelties I am willing to give Ear to it but if you cannot then know by whom you are acted in such things and whose Example you follow whether Peter's or the Pope's for they are not both alike one holding forth Christs Example the other a quite contrary after which his Subjects walk and therefore are they found so guilty of these things For if he did hold forth the same Ensample as Peter did his Followers would be like-minded as it was and is with the true Disciples of Christ Jesus our Lord who take him for an Example none of them are Destroyers of Men's Lives for their Religion 5. One Difference more still here appears between Peter and the Pope from these very Words of Peter before mentioned The Pope hath made a Distinction among his Believers thus some he calls Clergy and some he calls Laity The Flock or Body of his Believers he calls Laity whereas Peter calls the Plock that believed in Christ and were to be sed and nourished with the Word of Life Peter calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Clergy that is Heritage or Lot so he calls the Body of true Believers God's Lot or Heritage and the Pope applies that only to his Clergy who are in his Holy Orders as he accounts them thus he hath cast off the Form of Peter's sound words and hath taken up another unsound Form of Words contrary to Peter of whom he boasts And the Protestents have not yet reformed themselves throughly in that particular but they still call their Priests or Teachers Clergy and the rest-Laity as much as to say the Common People Thus as the State of the Popish Church is fallen from its Purity so their Language is also changed with it And seeing the Pope who boasts of being Peter's Successor hath thus degenerated from the written Tradition of Peter what safe ground can any have to believe him in those he calls unwritten Traditions Thus you may see what a vast Difference there is between Peter and the Pope who pretends to descend from him 1. Peter fed the Flock and exhorted the Elders who were to be Bishops over the Flock to feed them 2. Not to seek after filthy Lucre as the Pope doth 3. Not to Lord it over God's Heritage or Flock as the Pope doth 4. But to be good Ensamples to the Flock which the Pope is not Such Bishops as these Peter appointed And for any other sort of Bishops as Universal Bishop or Lording Bishop there is no footing in Scripture for such a one from any of the Writings of the Holy Apostles and Servants of the Lord but against them there is sufficient Testimony of Scripture as this of Peter and that of Christ himself before mentioned Mat. 20.25 26. It shall not be so among you saith Christ So also Paul the first Planter at Rome ●hat the Scriptures mentions and the Lords chosen Vessel which 1 Cor 8.6 To us there is but one Lord Jesus Christ I● the World there may be those that are called Gods many and Lords many but to us who are the Church of Christ and his Servants to us there is but one Lord Jesus Christ not another Universal Lord or Universal Bishop nor any other Lords under him for to us there is but one Lord. Therefore these

of murderring the Innocent And such principles as this is part of that Smoak that hath risen out of the bottomless pit of Men's Imaginations and hath darkened the bright shining of the Gopel of Truth and kept Men in the destroying Nature ignorant of God and of Christ And he that opened this bottomless pit and let out such Smoak was a Star fallen from Heaven The Angels or Ministers of the Churches Christ called Stars Apoc. 1.20 Now this was a star fallen to whom the Key of the Bottomless pit was given who had power to open the pit This must needs be in the Churches of Christ for there were the Stars Now what is the Use or power of a Key but to let forth or shut in This Star had got that power that he could let forth smoke out of the bottomless pit He could establish Principles and Doctrines and Traditions of his own and so open the bottomless pit of Men's Inventions and Imaginations for there is no bottom to be found And so here rises a smoak out of this pit which darkens the Sun the pure Light received from Christ And so the bright Sunshine of Truth being darkened with smoaky Imaginations of Men's Hearts and Wisdom of the Flesh out comes the Locusts out of this smoak who have Power to kill and so comes in the murdering Spirit again which was once cast out by the Doctrine of Christ and of his Holy Apostles And the King over these murdering Locusts was he that was the Angel of the bottomless pit the Star that was fallen from Heaven Rev. 9.1 2 3 11. Thus you see whence was the reviving of the killing Spirit which had been prohibited by Christ It was from a fallen Star one that was fallen from the pure Doctrine of Christ and from an Innocent and Heavenly Life yet retained such Power from his place that he was in that he could make his own smoaky Imaginations take place and his fleshly Wisdom which works contrary to the Wisdom of God Thus this man of Sin being exalted above all that is called God or that is worshipped you may understand what Power he hath and whereto it tends It works quite contrary to Christ Jesus and to the Holy Apostles though under pretence of honouring them he bears up himself in peoples Imaginations as Successor to them and the chief Father in the Church of Christ People open your Eyes and be not so befooled with that doating blockish principle that Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion but search the Scriptures and try all things and hold fast that which is good as you are exhorted in the Scripture to do 1 Thes 5.21 And those at Berea that did so when Paul preached to them were commended for it and counted of a more Noble Spirit then others in that they would search and see with their own Eyes and not take things upon trust therefore many of them believed as you may read Act. 17.10 11 12. Is it likely that Ignorance should make men more devout to God Have not the most knowing Men in the World been alwayes the most devout to God Search the Scriptures from end to end and see Begin at Enoch who saw Dayes that are yet to come so far of was not be devout to God think you who had this Testimony that he walked with God Was not Abraham devout towards God who fore-saw the Day of Christ in his time and rejoyced Did Moses want Devotion Did his being brought up in all the Learning of Aegypt or his great Knowledge in all the Counsels of God make him less devout to God Was David less devout because he made the Testimonies of the Lord his Delight and his Meditation and doth not he pronounce him Blessed whose Delight is in the Law of the Lord Was Daniel less devout by understanding by Books the time of their Captivity O sottish principle contrary to all Experience have not the most devout Men mentioned in Scripture been Men of deep Understanding in the things of God for shame you Teachers among the Papists teach them better Doctrine and let it appear that you do so by their Liberty and Boldness to search into all Truth For we know you do but lye if you say you teach them otherwise whilst they live according to that principle and dare not search the Scriptures Do ye not remember that it was said of old Hos 4.6 My People are destroyed for lack of Knowledge What do you delight in the Destruction of people that you keep them lockt up by such a principle from searching the Scriptures It s a Doctrine to be abhorred by all Men as fit only for Hell and the Kingdom and Children of Darkness who hate the Light lest their Deeds should be discovered But it s not to be admitted among the Children of Light who are not of the Night but of the Day who love the Light and bring their Deeds to the Light that they may be made manifest that they are wrought in God If the Pope and his Subjects were Children of the Day they would not fear the Light but love it as all Children of the Light do But being in Darkness they love the Darkness and its fit Doctrine for his Kingdom to keep his Subjects and Slaves in Darkness lest they should discover his Abominations and so deliver their own Souls from under his Thraldom for Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion to him and to the dead Forms of Worship and vain Repetitions and Traditions which he keeps the People in Bondage to for his own Gain But let him or any of his shew from the Writings of the Holy Men of God where ever such Doctrine was taught among them It s he that hath the Key of the bottomless Pit that hath taken away the Key of Knowledge darkening the Sun and the Air with his smoak It s he that hath let out that Doctrine out of the bottomless Pit Deliver your selves you poor deluded People who are held Captive in his Chains of Ignorance under that serpentine Fallacy that it is the Mother of Devotion for its only so to him but not to God who will have the Knowledge of himself to be as the Waters that cover the sea as he hath promised and shall be fulfiled in due time And therefore Peter opens to you the Way to Knowledge but this false Successor shuts up the Way to Knowledge Add to Faith Vertue saith Peter and to Vertue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness and to Godliness Brotherly-Kindness and to Brotherly-Kindness Love for if these things be in you and abound 2 Pet. 1. they make that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see far off and in that Blindness would the Pope and his Agents keep you by Doctrines of Darkness lest you should see too far to be ruled by them If you did