Mystical Babylon availed wherein is proved, I. That Rome-papal is mystical-Babylon, II. That the…

Proposition III. That the Church of Rome is the great WHORE.

THE Church of God under the Law was Resembled by the Prophet unto a comely and delicate Woman. And the Church of Christ under the Gospel was Revealed to the Apostle^(b) by the Similitude of a Woman clothed with the Sun, having a Crown of twelve Stars on her Head. Such was the Church at Jerusalem, and the Churches in Judea, in the Days of the Apostles; And such was the Church at Rome, whose Faith was Famous throughout the whole World^(c) and such also were the Churches in Asia, those golden Candlesticks (whilst Jesus Christ walked in the midst of them) and their shining Lights, Like Stars, the Able Ministers of the new-Testament called Angels, whom the Lord Jesus Christ held in his right-hand,^(d) But when the Church of Rome departed from the Faith, as was foretold by the Apostle ^(e)and Apostatized both in Doctrine and Manners and fell away, as was also foretold by the same Apostle, ⟨p. 14⟩^(f)then she became a false Church, whom Jesus Christ showed unto his Servant John, in a Vision and Revelation, like a Woman, that is an Harlot, and the Mother of Harlots, and calls her the great WHORE^(g) whose Name is Mystery, Babylon the great, &c. which is Papal-Rome, as hath been clearly, and fully Proved. And I shall now prove, and plainly Demonstrate, this third Proposition,

THE Church of God under the Law was Resembled by the Prophet unto a comely and delicate Woman. And the Church of Christ under the Gospel was Revealed to the Apostle