The ruin of Rome, or, An exposition upon the whole Revelation wherein is plainly…The ruine of Rome, or, An exposition upon the whole Revelation wherein is plainly…

Therefore from these words, I would thou wert either cold or hot, saith he, I would thou wert either all Romish, or admit of a through Reformation: blaming those Angels only, and those that cleave to them, Priests and Laity; who being bewitched with ambition and covetousness, do scornfully reject this holy Reformation, not enduring the remedy, but accounting that worse then the disease: this Churches disease, therefore, is more desperate.

Therfore from these words, I would thou wert either cold or hot, saith he, I would thou wert either all Romish, or admit of a through Reformation: blaming those Angels only, and those that cleave to them, Priests and Laity; who being bewitched with ambition and covetousnesse, doe scornfully reject this holy Reformation, not enduring the remedy, but accounting that worse then the disease: this Churches disease, therefore, is more desperate.

Therefore he saith in plain terms, that the Bishops, which he calls no better then Lord-beggars, because their riches and honours (for the most part) they get by fawning, flattering, bribing, being ambitious to get under great men, and so creep into the Court for preferment. But (saith he) both they and their whole luke-warm Hierarchy shall quite be overthrown, and never recover their dignity again: and at their overthrow, they shall endanger the people, by reason of their consenting to them; Yet the people shall escape overthrowing; but it is to be feared, the people shall feel some adversity: But God will not suffer the Hierarchy to escape; for they seeking honours and riches, and not those things which are Christ's, ⟨p. 10⟩shall have reproachful judgements; few or none shall sigh or sob for them; but they and their Priests shall be vile before the people, and men shall read the reports concerning them with delight: and they shall be cast out, and spued up as vomit out of a corrupted stomach, that no man will be willing to take up again, from these words, Therefore because thou art luke-warm, and neither hot nor cold: It shall come to pass that I will spew thee out of my mouth. For thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not how thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Therefore, saith he, purge out thy Romish leaven, dote not on thy riches and honours, but mind his things and honour, who for thy sake became poor and contemptible; set up faithful Ministers in every Congregation; repent thee of the injury done to thy faithful watchmen, casting them into prison, and out of their livings, who have reproved thy superstition, and contended for this Reformation. We have need of zeal, Princes, Peers, Angels, People, earnestly to bend our selves with all our power to turn away this evil that hangeth over our heads, by seeking a full Reformation: for as yet we hang by Geometry, as it were between heaven & hell, the steam of the Romish foggy lake doth deadly annoy us: let us therefore, saith he, mark what hath been