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A33996	A word in season being a parallel between the intended bloody massacre of the people of the Jews, in the reign of King Ahasuerus and the hellish powder-'plot against the Protestants in the reign of King James : together with an account of some of the wicked principles and practises of the Church of Rome, demonstrated in their barbarous and cruel murders and massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Piedmont, the Albigenses, &c. : also shewing that the present Church of Rome is an apostate church ... / by H.C., a lover of true Protestants.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C537; ESTC R13082	42,613	54

so that nothing was wanting to carry on their wicked Design Neither were the Jesuites and Priests slack on their parts who usually concluded their Masses with Prayers for the success of that Good day as they called it 2. The chief Conspirator in King Ahasuerus's days was wicked Haman a Person of no small note So in like manner those that had a hand in this Gun-powder Plot were great Men men of Note some that could give many Hundreds to carry it on Mr. Percy and Mr. Catesby finding the Charge lay heavy call in Sir Everard Digby of Rutlandshire and Francis Tresham Esquire Catesby also took in Ambrose Rockwood and John Graunt two Recusant Gentlemen besides Winter Fanks John Writh And Sir Edmund Baynam an attainted Person who stiled himself Prince of the damned Crew was sent to the Pope to acquaint him of the Gun-powder Plot. These were some of the Instruments imployed in this Design 3. And as Haman was willing to be at vast Expences to have the Jews Massacre'd for he offers ten thousand Talents of Silver for the accomplishing the thing Esther 3. 9. So those men and many more did not care what Expences they were at Sir Everard Digby offers one thousand five hundred Pounds and Tresham two thousand and Percy four thousand to forward the Action And they were in great hopes of having in a few Months ten times as much The Pope himself was willing to give one Million of Money to compleat the Spanish Armada which he called the Invincible Armada but God made it vincible for of one hundred and thirty four sail of Ships that came for England Sir Francis Drake with eight Fire-ships by God's blessing destroyed so many of them that but fifty four returned to Spain But will the Pope give this Million of Money gratis and expect nothing for it No I 'le warrant you for he lays but one half down and the other half when they had won any notable Haven in our Dominions and with this proviso that the Crown of England should be held Tributary to the See of Rome in token whereof he bestows on the King of Spain his Apostolical Benediction and the Title of Defender of the Faith Not at so little Charge was the King of Spain whom the Pope animated to the Work by persuading him that the Church of God could not be more gloriously nor meritoriously propagated than by the Conquest of England extirpating Heresie and planting the Catholique Roman Religion and that the subduing England was but a just thing considering that the Queen of England Queen Elizabeth was Excommunicated and persisted contumaciously against the Church of Rome By this means the King of Spain like Haman was willing to be at vast Expence to please the Pope whom indeed he dared not to displease for it was as much as his Crown was worth And so that word is verified that she Raigneth over the Kings of the Earth Rev. 17. 18. His Charges must needs be great for they were five Years a preparing their Fleet which consisted of an hundred thirty and four Sail containing fifty seven thousand eight hundred and eight Tun wherein were eight thousand and forty five Mariners nineteen thousand two hundred and ninety five Souldiers to cut the poor Protestants Throats had they been landed Two thousand eighty eight Gally-Slaves and so sure were they that England should pay the Shot they spared no cost for Furnishing they were provided for Sea and Land they had Bullets of great shot two hundred and twenty thousand of Powder four thousand and two hundred Kintals every Kintal containing one hundred pound weight Musquets seven thousand of Partizans and Halberts ten thousand with store of other murthering Pieces as double Cannon they had also store of Torches Lamps Lanthorns Whips Butcherly Knives to murder and torment the poor English This Army cost the King of Spain thirty two thousand Ducats every day Oh who would be at such charges to do God service as the Pope and King of Spain Catesby Tresham Percy Haman c. were to do the Devil service Don Pedro being asked the question of the intent of their coming to England by some of the Privy Council stoutly answered To subdue your Nation But what would you have done with the Papists We would have sent them good men in the Nation to Heaven and you Hereticks to Hell But what meant you to do with your Whips of Cord and Wyer We meant to whip Hereticks to death But what would you have done with the young Children Answer Them that were above seven years old should have gone the same way their Fathers did them under should have lived only we would have branded them in the Forehead with the letter L. for Lutherans and reserved them for perpetual Bondage This Rome's cruelty is one infallible mark of her being the Whore of Babylon which is a better sign of her being a false Church than her pretence of Unity Antiquity Universality Infallibility and Miracles will render her to be a true one For these Denominations do as rightly belong to the Devil himself as to her I conceive to both alike 4. The chief cause and reason why Haman sought the lives of the Jews was because Mordecai the Jew would not bow and stoop to him He was so full of Ambition that all the Honour the King conferred on him signified nothing so long as Mordecai would not bow Esther 5. 13. So in like manner because we will not bow to the Pope and acknowledg him to be Head of the Church who is a great Enemy to God by worshipping Idols to Christ by its new-found Mediators to the Holy Ghost by putting a Pope in his room to the Scripture by its Legends and corrupt Traditions to Reason by its imposed Absurdities to Common Sense by its most foolish and Idolized Transubstantiations to all tender dissenting Consciences by Fire and Faggot an Enemy also to all Civil Government that refuses to be subject to it by Plots Assassinations and horrid Massacres Shall we stoop to her that will not stoop to God Let Rome know that as Mordecai which was a Jew would not stoop to Haman Son of Hamadatha the Agagite Esther 3. 1. The Heathen King the Person and People whom God sent Saul to destroy 1 Sam. 15. 2 3. which People were called Amalekites Agag being King of them they were a People hated by the Lord and of whom God said Numb 24. 20. That Amalek was the first of the Nations but his latter end should be that he perish for ever Now Mordecai knowing that they were a People of God's hatred and knowing Haman to be one of them Mordecai out of Conscience I conceive would not bow to him and also considering that they had been Enemies to the People of God So in like manner we knowing Rome to be an Enemy to the People of God and that God hath purposed to destroy her and give her Blood to drink being worthy Rev. 18. 6. because she hath

we must be subject to the higher Powers which are Magistrates and Princes Rom. 13. 1 2 3. c. The Pope exempts himself and all his Clergy Priests Monks Friars Jesuits Nuns and all Religious Persons from the Jurisdiction of the Civil Magistrates and takes upon him to absolve all their Subjects from their Oath of Allegiance if they do not please him and give away their Kingdoms and Dominions to others that will submit to him and do him better service As Gregory did spoil Leo the third in taking from him all the Government of the West Again her Pride is seen in laying the Sriptures of God so low and trampling upon them The Council of Trent saith That holy Council was to have the same Veneration and Honour as the Scripture And we read in their Decrees That the Doctrine of the Christian Religion is rather taken from the Popes mouth than the Scripture 'T is they that have pronounced the Apocrypha Authentick which was not written by the Prophets nor received by the Jewish Church And how often do they take from and add to the Scripture Yea say they the Scripture owes its Authority to the Church and she is superiour to it And none are Commandments of Christ but such as are accounted so by the Church and that Tradition is the very rule of Truth and the Pope's Instructions better than the Scripture say the Decrees The Scripture is a dumb and dead Thing and the tale of Christ saith Leo the tenth No less is his pride seen when he calls himself the Foundation Head Husband Lion of the Tribe of Judah the Root of David And though the Scriptures speak sufficiently of their own clearness Psal 19. 7. 2 Tim. 3. 15 16 17. c. Yet Antichrist is of another mind he saith they are very ambiguous in their meaning and may be twisted any way like a Nose of Wax or Leaden Ruler therefore 't is not for the Common People to look into them lest they are poisoned with Errors and Heresies and say they the Scripture is defective in many things and there is much more of the Mind of God to be known than in the Scripture which is conveyed down by unwritten Traditions Now those truths in which the Scripture is defective are such as these the Offering on the Altar Sacrifice Invocation of Saints Prayers for the Dead the Primacy of the Bishops of Rome above Kings and Princes the Sacraments of Confirmation Orders Matrimony Penance Extream Unction Merits of Works Auricular Confessions and many more weighty and necessary truths say they which must be supplied by Tradition because the Scripture is silent in them and I question not but ever will Will you hear the Decree of the Council of Trent That Traditions are to be received with the same pious affection as the holy Scripture O pride above all pride One Marta expounds that saying in Psal 8. 6 7 8. Thou hast put under his feet the Popes all Sheep and Oxen Christians and Sarazens Fowls of the Air the Angels in Heaven the Fishes in the Sea and Souls in Purgatory Again In the Year of Jubilee the Pope is carried in Procession in a Chair of State a sumptuous Canopy born over his Head by Kings and Nobles He is a King over all the Children of Pride His Pride is Illustrated in his endeavouring to have the whole World at his command and to wear his Mark in their Foreheads and Hands She hath but too many Souls that have received this Mark. So Rev. 11. 3. The World wandred after the Beast ver 16. He causeth all both Rich and Poor Small and Great Free or Bond to receive a Mark in their right Hand or in their Foreheads and that no Man might buy or sell but he that hath the Mark or the name of the Beast or the number of his Name In Rev. 17. 1. her pride is painted out there to the life she sits upon many Waters that is People Multitudes Nations and Tongues Ver. 3. And I saw a Woman sit upon a Scarlet-coloured Beast full of names of blasphemy having seven Heads and ten Horns Seven Heads which is seven forms of Government and ten Horns ten Kings that gave their power to the Beast The Woman is the City the Beast is Antichrist her Names of Blasphemy you have heard The Beast is called a Scarlet-coloured Beast to shew her sins are of a very deep Dye they are Scarlet-sins and accompanied with the greatest Impenitency Fourthly Her Character She is an Idolatrous Harlot Which is made manifest in her worshipping of Images And that she may do this with the more ease they have taken away wholly the second Commandment out of their Bibles And lest the People should miss one they divide the Tenth into two And when they are urged with the breach of the second Commandment they say 'T is not Images we are forbidden to worship but 't is a Thing in the Original Suppose that be true Is not an Image a thing Notwithstanding this second Commandment they set up Images in their publick places of Worship of the Virgin Mary of St. Winifred of God like an old gray-headed Man sitting in a Chair and of the Trinity like a strange Monster with three Faces before which the People fall down and worship O horrid Idolatry And that they might make the World believe this is lawful though forbidden in Scripture they feign that Christ in the thirty first Year of his Age himself sent his own Image to King Abdager and made it also by Miracle on the Handkerchief of St. Veronica and on his own shroud He that will believe it may This we might have put among the popish Lyes and Forgeries And therefore the Nicene Council anathematizes Image-breakers that is such as shall break them in contempt or scorn and all such as alledg the places of Scripture which are against Idols against their sacred Images 'T is one of the Articles of the Popes Creed I do hold that the Images of Christ ever blessed Virgin and all other Saints are to be had and adored with due worship They commit Idolatry at Mass also when they shall bow to a Wafer as if it were a God after Consecration also they make Mediators of Saints and Angels though the Apostle Paul speaks so very plainly that there is but one Mediator between God and man the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. The Pope hath found out a great many The Virgin Mary is prayed to that she would command her Son to have mercy on them For as one of the Jesuits saith The Virgin 's milk is as precious as the Blood of Christ And as for what St. Paul saith in this Case 't is not much to be heeded For as one Canon in the Decretal saith St. Paul spoke against all Reason and Truth and others have said That if the Apostle St. Paul be not warily expounded he will smell of Heresie and that St. Paul ' s Epistles have need of a Roman