Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be…

Parallel. Rome Papal or Church of Rome is not only a mystical Woman, City, but a very evil Woman, a City indeed of confusion; there is the name of the lamb much spoken of, but his doctrine contemned slighted and under valued and his Laws and Ordinances trample• upon, and notoriously violated, his institution not regarded, nor his example imitated, either by the Bishop himself, his Cardinals or inferior Orders, they having his humility and self-denial only in their mouths, but none of it i• their hearts, like those the apostle speaketh of who in words profess they know God, but in work• deny him. For under this verbal and pretended humility lies covered the greatest pride ⟨p. 43⟩in the world, and under this verbal meekness and self-denial the greatest oppression, cruelty, superstition, covetousness, vain glory and love of the world that ever was manifest, as appears by their pompous and glistering garbs, their cruel persecutions, and the vast sums of money brought in from all parts of their dominions, by sleights, cunning and deceitful Cheats: Besides a mere hodge-podge of principles, one Order or Fraternity professing that which another writes against, and cries down; which is the more strange to come from a Church infallible, and that cannot err. Besides the strange mixtures in their visible worship, of traditions, and humane inventions, of lying and diabolical tricks, of blessing by a Cross, Pardons and Indulgences for money, consecrating holy water, and cleansing by it, which are too numerous and tedious to relate, and less needful to mention, because so well known to all men. And let any people in the Christian world pretending to religion be compared to them, for supernumeraries, trifling & insignificant ceremonies crowded into their pretended worship; Nay, let all the people in the Christian world be laid in the balance against the Church of Rome in this respect, and they will be found inconceivably wanting, for which we have this Reason to •udge her to be Babylon or the City of confusion.

Parallel. Rome Papal or Church of Rome is not only a mystical Woman, City, but a very evil Woman, a City indeed of confusion; there is the name of the lamb much spoken of, but his doctrine contemn'd slighted and under valued and his Laws and Ordinances trample upon, and notoriously violated, his institution not regarded, nor his example imitated, either by the Bishop himself, his Cardinals or inferior Orders, they having his humility and self-denial only in their mouths, but none of it i their hearts, like those the apostle speaketh of who in words profess they know God, but in work deny him. For under this verbal and pretended humility lies covered the greatest pride