And where ever the world was Christian, it was now Catholic, all submitted to the Church of Rome; and so by this means all the world admired him, they received doctrine and worship from Rome, they will go for pardon of Sin thither: They make Pilgrimages to Rome, Appeals to Rome; From thence they receive ⟨p. 52⟩their fundamental Constitutions, Dispensations, Persecutions, deposition of Princes; They receive and undertake general war from thence for the recovery of the holy Land: And in one word, in such admiration the Beast of Rome was, that it was a Proverb among them, He ruled all the world; and therefore he ruled all the Churches, and was esteemed to be God on Earth: Thus did all the world wonder after the Beast, and admire him, and so did they also hi• power: They did exc•• dingly admire his power; Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make war with him? It is not clear adoration, but it is an attributing to the Beast, that which is peculiar to God; Who is like unto the Lord our God? Exod. 15. 11. It is a style of the high and mighty God: This admiration of this wonderful power and holiness it is now added to the Pope: Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make war with him? Who is the Lord of hosts but our God? as if he were invincible: For they had found, that when some of the Grecian Emperors that had given their power to the Beast did vary in point of judgment (as they did not love to take up the worship of Images) then the Beast is offended, and excommunicates him, and deprives him of his Empire, and gives it to Charles the Great; takes away the Kingdom of France, puts him into a Monastery, removes Frederick, first and second: And what he did with King John of England, you know; He deprived him of his Kingdom, and he makes some of them do very hard penance, whiles he was solacing himself with his Harlot: She being more compassionate then he, besought his Holiness to have compassion on him, and so he sent him back, yet afterwards they made him away: And his Son, when they came to Crown him, it must be with the Popes foot; and when he hath done, he dasheth it off, to show, that he hath power to take it as easily from him, as to fell it from his head. Though great men, and greatly beloved of the people, all is nothing, if they be alienated from the Pope: All mens affections are his; when he turns, the whole body turns;
And where ever the world was Christian, it was now Catholick, all submitted to the Church of Rome; and so by this means all the world admired him, they received doctrine and worship from Rome, they will goe for pardon of Sin thither: They make Pilgrimages to Rome, Appeals to Rome; From thence they receive ⟨p. 52⟩their fundamental Constitutions, Disp•nsations, Persecutions, deposition of Princes; They receive and undertake generall war from thence for the recovery of the holy Land: And in one word, in such admiration the Beast of Rome was, that it was a Proverb among them, He ruled all the world; and therefore he ruled all the Churches, and was esteemed to be God on Earth: Thus did all the world wonder after the Beast, and admire him, and so did they also hi• power: They did exc•• dingly admire his power; Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make warre with him? It is not cleare adoration, but it is an attributing to the Beast, that which is peculiar to God; Who is like unto the Lord our God? Exod. 15. 11. It is a style of the high and mighty God: This admiration of this wonderfull power and holinesse it is now added to the Pope: Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make warr with him? Who is the Lord of hosts but our God? as if he were invincible: For they had found, that when some of the Grecian Emperours that had given their power to the Beast did vary in point of judgment (as they did not love to take up the worship of Images) then the Beast is offended, and excommunicates him, and deprives him of his Empire, and gives it to Charles the Great; takes away the Kingdome of France, puts him into a Monastery, removes Fredericke, first and second: And what he did with King John of England, you know; He deprived him of his Kingdome, and hee makes some of them do very hard penance, whiles he was solacing himselfe with his Harlot: She being more compassionate then he, besought his Holinesse to have compassion on him, and so he sent him back, yet afterwards they made him away: And his Son, when they came to Crown him, it must be with the Popes foot; and when he hath done, he dasheth it off, to shew, that he hath power to take it as easily from him, as to fell it from his head. Though great men, and greatly beloved of the people, all is nothing, if they be alienated from the Pope: All mens affections are his; when he turns, the whole body turns;
