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<P>BELLS FOUNDER Confounded, OR Sabinianus confuted: With his damnable SECT.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Jeremiah chap. 50. ver&s;. 2.</BIBL> <HI>Bel is confounded.</HI></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Chap. 51. v. 17.</HI></BIBL> Every man is bruti&s;h by his knowledge. Every Founder is confound|ed by the graven Image: For his molten Image is Fal&s;hood, and there is no breath in them.</Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Ver&s;e. 18.</HI></BIBL> They are vanity, the works of errours, in the time of their vi&s;itation they &s;hall peri&s;h.</Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Ver&s;e, 19.</HI></BIBL> The portion of Iacob is not like them.</Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Ver&s;e, 44.</HI></BIBL> I will puni&s;h Bell in Babylon and I'le bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath &s;wallowed up and the nations &s;hall not flow to|gether any more unto him, yea the walls of Babylon &s;hall fall.</Q>
<P><HI>Written by a Lover of Mu&s;ick, e&s;pecially in Churches.</HI></P>
<P>Barns, Durand, <HI>and</HI> Platino <HI>tells, That Pope</HI> Sabinnian <HI>brought in bells. Anno,</HI> 603.</P>
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<HEAD>The Preface.</HEAD>
<P>FOrasmuch as the <HI>PARLIAMENT</HI> hath voted down the <HI>Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hedrals,</HI> for &s;atisfaction of the <HI>PUBLICK FAITH;</HI> it's humbly de&s;ired by the best affected, that they would proceed therein, according as the <HI>WORD OF GOD</HI> &s;hall direct them, and take into their &s;erious con&s;ider|ation, the Bill that's drawn up for the demolli&s;hing of the <HI>Cathedrals;</HI> with &s;ome exceptions of tho&s;e which &s;hall appear to be to the wor&s;hip onely of the true <HI>GOD,</HI> that &s;o there may be &s;atisfaction provided for the <HI>PUBLICK FAITH</HI> accordingly; and whereas it hath been moved, that the <HI>Bells</HI> &s;hould be pulled down al&s;o for &s;atisfaction of the <HI>PUBLICK FAITH,</HI> It's humbly de&s;ired that the <HI>PAR|LIAMEMT</HI> would proceed therein likewi&s;e, accor|ding to the Rules and Examples of the <HI>WORD OF GOD.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>ERRATA's.</HEAD>
<P>PAge 4, line 25, for <HI>occa&s;ion</HI> read <HI>Oration:</HI> l. 27, for <HI>&s;overaign</HI> read <HI>&s;uffregan:</HI> l. 29, for <HI>God</HI> read <HI>the Lord:</HI> p. 9, l. 30, for <HI>the late</HI> read <HI>your late.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Babels Bells confounded BY SIONS ARGVMENTS.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Humbly propo&s;ed to the con&s;iderations of the <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IF <HI>the Brazen Serpent</HI> made by Gods ap|pointment was <HI>broken in peeces</HI> when it was Idolized, and that we mu&s;t <HI>fight a|gainst &s;pirituall wickedne&s;&s;es &s;et up in high places;</HI> If <HI>Baal mu&s;t not be pleaded for;</HI> If <HI>Bell mu&s;t be confounded;</HI> if <HI>the bleating of the Amalekites fat Cattel &s;pared by King Saul</HI> was offen|&s;ive to the <HI>Almighty;</HI> If <HI>Babel</HI> is &s;o &s;ick of the <HI>Popi&s;h Catholike di&s;ea&s;e</HI> that no balm will heal her; If the indignation of the <HI>mo&s;t high</HI> is manife&s;ted from <HI>Hea|ven</HI> again&s;t the high places, by <HI>thunder and light|ning, fire and brim&s;tone, Storms and Tempe&s;ts,</HI> O let the pillars of your hearts tremble, and be ye moved at the terrour of the Lord, <HI>who doth great things both in Heaven,</HI> and Earth, and hath &s;aid he <HI>will de&s;troy the High places;</HI> Flee therefore from &s;uch abomi|nations, and <HI>deliver every man his &s;oul, Plead not for Baal, but let Baal plead for him&s;elf,</HI> and put to your hand to the throwing down of all the monuments of <HI>Idolatry;</HI> for &s;o you have &s;worn to do, and it's not for you now to repent thereof: Therefore let it not
<PB N="2" REF="3">be grievous in your eys though <HI>the Hou&s;es of Baal be broken to pieces,</HI> and the <HI>founded bells of Babels bulls confounded and di&s;olved.</HI></P>
<P>For &s;urely if the&s;e the&s;e things had been quite abo|li&s;hed in the days of <HI>King Henry the eight, and King Edward the &s;ixt,</HI> many a precious life would have been pre&s;erved, which now is de&s;troyed; but there being many <HI>Idols Temples,</HI> and other <HI>monuments</HI> of <HI>Idolatry</HI> left unde&s;troyed, <HI>Queen Mary</HI> did &s;peedily &s;et up her <HI>abominable Idolatry</HI> in all the&s;e <HI>High pla|ces</HI> as much as ever; and had the more time to exer|ci&s;e her &s;elf in mo&s;t cruel per&s;ecution. And when <HI>Queen Elizabeth</HI> came to the <HI>Crown,</HI> &s;he threw not down the&s;e abominations; neither did <HI>King Iames,</HI> nor the late <HI>King,</HI> but did &s;till let them remain to the di&s;honour of the <HI>living God,</HI> and plaguing of the <HI>Kingdomes.</HI> And although &s;ince the beginning of the&s;e late troubles, there hath been &s;ome reformati|on made by demoli&s;hing of <HI>Cro&s;ses,</HI> and <HI>Idolatrous pictures,</HI> yet nothing is done &s;o much as ought to be: for the Roots of &s;uper&s;tition, even the <HI>Idolatrous high places</HI> are not yet removed, though many of them were built intentionally in the forms of <HI>Cro&s;&s;es,</HI> and con&s;ecrated to <HI>Popi&s;h Saints,</HI> that thereby the people might the-more adore them: Neither have you ta|ken away <HI>the Popi&s;h bells,</HI> though they are abomina|ble <HI>Idols</HI> in the very <HI>conception, formation, dedicati|on, con&s;ecration, exaltation and occupation</HI> thereof, and therefore ought to be taken down, and utterly demoli&s;hed.</P>
<P>Oh therefore that the Honourable Hou&s;e of <HI>Par|liament</HI> were throughly &s;en&s;ible how greatly the Name of <HI>God</HI> hath been bla&s;phemed; and many thou|&s;ands of poor &s;ouls deluded, bewitched, and led head|long
<PB N="3" REF="3">into hell by &s;uch abominable Idols. Now that none may hence forward plead ignorance in omit|ting of this duty of demoli&s;hing of the&s;e <HI>Idols</HI> the <HI>bells,</HI> which proceeded from the <HI>Dragon;</HI> which is the <HI>Divel and Sathan,</HI> I &s;hall lay open the filthine&s;s &amp; abomination therof, <NOTE PLACE="marg">See the com|plaint of Ja|cobus Selesta|dien&s;is to Ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">imilian the Emperour.</NOTE> as tho&s;e who have read their books &amp; the <HI>Chronicles,</HI> and have &s;een their practi&s;es, have &s;poken &amp; can &s;peak by experience, What <HI>great abomination</HI> hath been committed about the&s;e cur|&s;ed <HI>Idols</HI> the <HI>Bells!</HI> What horrible <HI>bla&s;phemies of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In Mr. Foxes acts and monuments.</NOTE> and of the Saints in Heaven!</HI> What &s;olemn <HI>profana|tion of the Name of the living God,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">See al&s;o The. Bacon upon the reliques&punc; in|dulgences, par|dons, &s;tations, Exorci&s;inse, con&s;ecrations; benedictions, where you &s;hal &s;ee the abomi|nations of the Bells.</NOTE> and of <HI>his holy &s;pi|rit!</HI> What abu&s;e and mi&s;-application of the &s;acred Word, by their filthy polluted lips! What <HI>Exorci&s;ms, <HI>by the living God, the God of Elizeus the Pro|phet,!</HI></HI> What <HI>&s;uplu&s;&s;ing,</HI> &amp; <HI>&s;toleing!</HI> What <HI>cro&s;&s;ing and cringing,</HI> with the <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> &amp; <HI>Clarks &s;inging!</HI> What <HI>in|vocations, execrations, conjurations, and benedictions, blind devotions, and admirations! What wiping, anoin|ting&punc; &s;weetning, &amp; perfuming!</HI> What &s;prinkling, with choi&s;e of <HI>Godfathers and Godmothers,</HI> naming the pretty <HI>bables for babies,</HI> the <HI>bels for Babels buls!</HI> What <HI>&s;inging and ringing!</HI> What <HI>drinking and roaring!</HI> What <HI>Go&s;&s;iping</HI> at the &s;aid <HI>Chri&s;tenings</HI> of the&s;e abo|minable Idols! Far wor&s;e then the <HI>Calves of Beth-ha|ven,</HI> or the <HI>Image of King Nebuchadnezzar,</HI> which was <HI>&s;et up in the plains of Dura:</HI> for the&s;e are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">van|ced above the re&s;t of their <HI>Gods,</HI> even in the <HI>highe&s;t pla|ces</HI> of their <HI>Idols temples,</HI> That the <HI>bels</HI> which through their prayers have been <HI>brought into a right &s;hape into Chri&s;tendome</HI> (as they &s;ay) <HI>may make &s;weet melody like Davids Harp, and ring merrily</HI> as their <HI>Prie&s;ts and Clarks</HI> did <HI>&s;ing merrily</HI> af<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">er it was ca&s;t, <HI>Te Deum,</HI> and <HI>De pacem,</HI> and <HI>a Domi|ne
<PB N="4" REF="4">factum e&s;t i&s;tud, &amp; e&s;t myrabila in occulis no|&s;tris. This is the Lords doings, and is marvel|lous in the eys of us:</HI> Oh horrible! the Founder foundeth it, and they &s;ay, <HI>it is the Lords doings,</HI> when it is the <HI>Divels doings:</HI> For from whence came the&s;e <HI>cur&s;ed bells,</HI> but from the <HI>Idol Bell and the Dra|gon, Belzebub the Prince of the Divels?</HI> Thus <HI>the children of <HI>Belial</HI></HI> have called their <HI>bells</HI> by the name of <HI>old Bell of Babel,</HI> even the <HI>God</HI> whom they wor&s;hip; and as <HI>Babel</HI> &s;ignifieth confu&s;ion, &s;o the <HI>almighty</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Bell &s;hall be confounded, Ile pu|ni&s;h Bell, Bell &s;toopeth;</HI> and indeed the <HI>Bells</HI> begin to &s;toop already, and it's hoped <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> will di&s;&s;olve them in his fury. But how have the eys of the people been blinded and made to dote upon the&s;e dete&s;table Idols, that they prayed for <HI>the virtue of the Holy Gho&s;t to be put thereon,</HI> and again, <HI>that the &s;ame may be &s;anctified and hallowed of the Holy Gho&s;t;</HI> and in another prayer, <HI>that the Bell may be repleni&s;hed with his heavenly ble&s;&s;ing;</HI> and in another prayer, <HI>that the dew of the Holy Gho&s;t may be poured out thereon.</HI></P>
<P>Oh what power and glory, what virtue and good|ne&s;s do they a&s;cribe unto this <HI>Bell,</HI> for as <HI>at King Herods occa&s;ion, the people cried, the voice of God and not of men,</HI> &s;o the&s;e ignorant &s;ots, after the <HI>Bi&s;hops or &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">raign hath wiped the bell with a linnen towel, &s;ing, Vox Domine &s;uper aquas, the voice of God is upon the waters; Deus maje&s;tatis intonnuit, Domine &s;uperaquas multas, vox Do|mine in virtute; vox Domine in magnificentia, vox Domine confringentis cadros,</HI> and al&s;o a&s;|cribe that &s;alvation to the&s;e bells, which belongs to <HI>God, and onely to his Chri&s;t; <HI>that the &s;ound and
<PB N="5" REF="4">noi&s;e thereof, &s;hall drive away the fiery darts' and power of the enemies, and make their army a|fraid.</HI></HI> And as the <HI>Heathen Romans</HI> of old a&s;cribed deliverance to <HI>mother Idaea,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">See Mayers hi&s;t. pag. <HI>125.</HI></NOTE> upon the comming forth of a <HI>Prophe&s;ie of Sibil, that if Idaea the mother of the Gods were brought to Rome, they &s;hould be able to drive the forraign enemy out of Italy, whereupon Emba&s;&s;a|dours being &s;ent to Attalus King of Pergamus to fetch her, and by the way the Oracle of Apollo being con&s;ulted with, he</HI> (that is that Devil) <HI>an&s;wered, that they mu&s;t have a care to bring this Idaea into the worthie&s;t mans hou&s;e in Rome; wherefore with great &s;olemnity one that was judged by the Citizens of Rome to be the worthie&s;t, was required to meet the Idoll, being then</HI> 50 <HI>miles off the City, together with a company of Matrons, who brought Idaea the mother of their Gods by turns upon their &s;houlders, all praying as it entred, that it would willingly enter, and be propitious unto them;</HI> &s;o the fooli&s;h people now, who hold <HI>ignorance</HI> to be <HI>the mother of devotion,</HI> are made to believe, <HI>that the &s;ound and noi&s;e of the Bels &s;hall drive away the fiery darts and power of the enemies and make their armies afraid; and with &s;uch words do they pray at the dedication of the Bell; and likewi&s;e that the imaginations of fanta&s;ies, the &s;triking of Lightnings, the hurt of Thunderings the cala|mity of Tempe&s;ts, and all &s;tormy &s;pirits by the noi&s;e and &s;ound thereof may depart and go far a|way, and all the lying await of the enemy may be far put back, that the beating of the Hail, the &s;torm of Winds, the violence of Tempe&s;ts may be mi|tigated and a&s;&s;waged;</HI> moreover that the <HI>fierce thundering and boy&s;trous &s;torms may be &s;o mea|&s;ured that they do no harm, or hurt his creatures;
<PB N="6" REF="5">in fine, that the powers of the air hearing this bel may tremble and &s;hake for fear, and flee before the Banner of the holy Cro&s;&s;e, and that when the &s;ound of the bell pierceth through the clouds that the hands of the Angels may keep the congrega|tion;</HI> yea, they a&s;cribe &s;uch power unto the <HI>bells, as when the walls of Ierico fell to the ground,</HI> and would make the people believe that <HI>the pre&s;ence of God is in them to work wonders, as at the di|viding of the &s;ea and turning back of the waters of Iordan,</HI> and &s;ay <HI>when it is demanded, where|fore? it may be an&s;wered, the earth was moved at the face of the Lord, at the face of the God of Iacob, which turned the hard rocks into rivers of waters, &amp; the flint &s;tones into watry &s;treams;</HI> and thereupon &s;ay, <HI>that when this pre&s;ent bell, (as the other ve&s;&s;els of the Altar) is touched with the holy chri&s;om; and anointed with holy oil all they that come &amp; draw near to the &s;ound &amp; noi&s;e thereof, may be free from all temptations of the enemies;</HI> and they a&s;cribe &s;alvation to t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tch|ing creatures, as if there were <HI>power in them to deliver their &s;ouls from hell &amp; cau&s;e them to pa&s;&s;e into heaven:</HI> Thus <HI>God</HI> is di&s;honoured, his <HI>my steries</HI> mocked, his <HI>creatures</HI> abu&s;ed, <HI>&s;uper&s;tition</HI> and <HI>idolatry</HI> upheld, the <HI>poor people</HI> deceived, O therefore make ha&s;t, vote them down, down with them, down with them to the very ground, for <HI>God</HI> hath a controver|&s;ie with them, and with all them that cry them up, and let them not be exalted any more to the <HI>heaven,</HI> but bring them down and de&s;troy them, for <HI>if you will not demoli&s;h them, God him&s;elf will do it &s;ome other way,</HI> either by &s;ending &s;ome other power to do it, or el&s;e by proceeding as he hath begun with <HI>Lightning
<PB N="7" REF="5">and Thunder to destroy them,</HI> notwith&s;tanding all their prayers to be delivered from &s;uch judgements, the <HI>bels</HI> you &s;ee can't deliver them&s;elves, and of all places in their <HI>Churches, <HI>Gods lightning</HI></HI> lighteth upon the <HI>Belfraies,</HI> &s;o that in divers countries the <HI>bells</HI> are melted, by the vehemency of the flames of <HI>I A H,</HI> and many people killed outright this year, as well as heretofore, and others dangerou&s;ly hurt, in &s;o much as we &s;ee <HI>THE FINGER OF GOD</HI> pointing at them, directing you to de&s;troy them.</P>
<P>Moreover, what abundace of good chear the&s;e <HI>bels</HI> with the <HI>Dragons Prie&s;ts</HI> have devoured by the <HI>great Go&s;&s;hops fea&s;ts,</HI> which were made at the <HI>bap|tizing</HI> thereof! What <HI>gifts</HI> &amp; <HI>offerings</HI> to the great impoveri&s;hing of the inhabitants, who&s;oever rea|deth <HI>the book of Martyrs</HI> may &s;ee, where it is com|plained of. I would add &s;o~ething more, <HI>how the Lords name is di&s;honored, the Sabboth prophaned, drunke~ne&s;s upheld,</HI> and many other vices by the continuation of the&s;e ungodly trinkets, and how much money is day|ly rai&s;ed by the ringing of the <HI>bells</HI> for the <HI>dead,</HI> and mocking of many people, by making them pray for the <HI>dead,</HI> as if they were alive and dying! But what hath been &s;aid and done is enough, unle&s;s you would have God &s;peak and do more then he hath.</P>
<P>If you doubt whether they belong to the <HI>Common|wealth,</HI> a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves that <HI>what&s;oever ammuniti|on is &s;ent to the enemy (if it be taken) it's lawfull prize, &amp; belo~geth of right to the Co~monwealth;</HI> &s;o the&s;e trin|kets being devoted to the &s;ervice of <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> do properly belong to <HI>the Common wealth,</HI> to do by them as <HI>A&s;a, Ieho&s;aphat, Hezekiah, and Io&s;ia,</HI> did by &s;uch <HI>idolatrous dedicated</HI> things, without any further di&s;|pute or asking leave of the <HI>idolatrous propriators,</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="6">and as many <HI>high places</HI> were aboli&s;hed by <HI>King Henery the Eight,</HI> and many <HI>Cro&s;&s;es</HI> from of the <HI>Steeples</HI> and <HI>May-poles</HI> and <HI>&s;uper&s;titious &s;igns</HI> by the <HI>Parliament</HI> were taken down. Yea, their <HI>Or|gans</HI> in their <HI>Churches</HI> were de&s;troyed al&s;o by <HI>or|der</HI> of <HI>Parliament,</HI> although they were never &s;o tu|nable &amp; delectable to the ear &amp; heart, &amp; had multi|plicities of <HI>notes,</HI> and all the <HI>flats</HI> and <HI>&s;harps</HI> ther|unto belonging, were full of <HI>divi&s;ions, &s;ubdivi&s;ions</HI> and <HI>varieties of parts,</HI> far exceeding the brave&s;t <HI>Bag-pipes,</HI> or the lu&s;tie&s;t <HI>Lanca&s;hire Horn pipes</HI> with all their <HI>drones,</HI> none of all which properties the <HI>bels</HI> in any one of your <HI>Steeple &amp; have,</HI> and the <HI>Or|gans</HI> required not &s;o many to be occupied in the &s;etting them on work as the <HI>bels, one</HI> was enough to <HI>blow</HI> and an <HI>Organi&s;t</HI> to <HI>play,</HI> which was done with le&s;&s;e toil and &s;weating then the <HI>ringing of bels,</HI> &s;ome <HI>bels</HI> requiring <HI>&s;ixteen men</HI> to <HI>ring</HI> each of them, and at the be&s;t are but <HI>novelties</HI> in compa|ri&s;on of the <HI>Organs,</HI> which is of four thou&s;and years &s;tanding, the <HI>bels</HI> being brought in by <HI>Pope Sa|binianus in Anno</HI> 603. yet you have broken the <HI>Organs to pieces,</HI> and the <HI>rails of the Communi|on Tables,</HI> and the <HI>Founts,</HI> although &s;ome <HI>Pa|ri&s;hes</HI> and per&s;ons claimed a <HI>peculiar intere&s;t,</HI> and property therein; even &s;o ought you to de&s;troy the&s;e abominable <HI>bels,</HI> and this is a general maxime, <HI>that what&s;oever is devoted to &s;uper&s;tition and idolatry, is forfeited to the Common-wealth,</HI> and you ought to &s;eiz upon the &s;ame, as of the goods of <HI>Traytors,</HI> which is devoted to the enemy, and if you take not the oppor|tunity now <HI>God</HI> hath put a prize in your hand, your neglect wil be as a <HI>dead flie in the Oyntme~t of the A|pochecary:</HI> If the <HI>ignora~t people</HI> alledg <HI>that the noi&s;e
<PB N="9" REF="6">of the bell is heard a far off, and how &s;hall they know when to go to Church, if they be al taken down?</HI> Wot you not that in a Market one <HI>bell</HI> is enough to give warning to the people? and Tread not that God ordained any bells for his <HI>Church,</HI> but what were made of <HI>Gold,</HI> and they were not for the <HI>a&s;&s;embling</HI> of the Congregation neither, but when they were a&s;&s;embled, but indeed <HI>God ordained &s;ilver Trumpets for the a&s;&s;embling of his con|gregation, and Trumpets of Rams horns, at the throwing down the walls of Ierico,</HI> in&s;tead whereof the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> have ordained <HI>bells</HI> telling us, <HI>they are good to clear the air,</HI> but if the&s;e <HI>bauling bells,</HI> were metamorpho&s;ed into <HI>roring Canons,</HI> and charged with <HI>Gun-powder and flying bullets,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>gates</HI> of our <HI>enemies,</HI> they would <HI>clear the air better,</HI> and make a better noi&s;e then now they do, and be a better <HI>recreation;</HI> therefore I pray delay not to aboli&s;h them: now make an end where God hath begun, le&s;t he prevent you; for out of heaven hath he thun|dred upon them, and his judgements findeth them out in the val|leys as well as on the hills.</P>
<P>If you &s;ay that you <HI>fear the People,</HI> I an&s;wer, <HI>They are but an arm of fle&s;h and you need not fear them at all,</HI> for now you have no enemy in the Land in arms again&s;t you; but when you threw down the <HI>Cro&s;&s;es</HI> and <HI>May-poles,</HI> and other <HI>monu|ments of idolatry,</HI> you had the <HI>late King and his forces,</HI> and an unconquered people to oppo&s;e you, yet you went on and the <HI>Lord</HI> pro&s;per'd you: now you are &s;trong but then you were weak; now the <HI>government</HI> is &s;etled in the way of a <HI>Commonwealth,</HI> but then it was not &s;etled; you had the <HI>King,</HI> and <HI>Lords,</HI> and their <HI>Armies</HI> to oppo&s;e you; <HI>And who can harm you if you are followers of that which is good?</HI> When you demoli&s;hed the <HI>Ca|thedral at Leighfield, <HI>by the late Order,</HI></HI> who oppo&s;ed you? <HI>When King A&s;a threw down the high places, and aboli&s;hed the Idols,</HI> it is &s;aid, <HI>the land was quiet before him.</HI> Do but you your duty, and I'le warrant you wil do wel enough, the people wil not harm you; GOD can cau&s;e his <HI>fear</HI> and <HI>terrer</HI> to fal upon them, and <HI>thunder</HI> upon them by his <HI>power,</HI> &s;o that if they wil contemp|tuou&s;ly &s;tand to <HI>Plead for Baal,</HI> they &s;hall certainly <HI>peri&s;h,</HI> and <HI>fall;</HI> and if they will have the <HI>Idol Bel,</HI> they mu&s;t have the <HI>Dra|gon too.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Sub&s;cribed by</HI> SAMUEL CHIDLEY,</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q><L>On the behalf of all Saints,</L>
<L>And for the cure of all Souls,</L></Q>
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<PB N="10" REF="7" MS="y">
<HEAD>To the Honourable <HI>Committee for regulating the Markets.</HI> The Humble Petition of <HI>Samuel Chidley.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat although <HI>GOD</HI> hath commanded, That the <HI>places wherein the nations wor&s;hipped their gods,</HI> &s;hould be <HI>utter|ly de&s;troyed.</HI> Yet there is &s;uffered to &s;tand &s;till <HI>that abominable idol <HI>Pauls,</HI></HI> that <HI>old bawdy hou&s;e</HI> of the <HI>whore of Babylon,</HI> which was built, dedicated, and con&s;ecrated, fir&s;t by the heathens, and after that by the <HI>Antichri&s;tians,</HI> In which place <HI>filthy I|dols</HI> have been &s;et up, <HI>abominable idolatry</HI> practi&s;ed, <HI>horrible bla&s;phemies</HI> uttered, again&s;t <HI>THE NAME</HI> of <HI>THE MOST HIGH GOD,</HI> and <HI>cruel murthers</HI> committed again&s;t the <HI>Martyrs</HI> of <HI>IESVS CHRIST,</HI> The <HI>repairing</HI> whereof (though impo&s;&s;ible to be fini&s;ht without <HI>abundance of money</HI>) hath <HI>robbed the people of millions of trea&s;ure,</HI> and made them poorer then <HI>Iob,</HI> and <HI>occa&s;ioned much &s;trife,</HI> and <HI>many hou&s;es to be pulled down,</HI> which were round about it, Who&s;e <HI>highe&s;t &s;pire,</HI> the <HI>light|ning from <HI>heaven,</HI></HI> &amp; <HI>fire</HI> hath con&s;umed once or twice, The form of <HI>that hou&s;e</HI> being a <HI>compleat cro&s;s,</HI> the <HI>univer&s;al badge</HI> of <HI>a Papi&s;t,</HI> And the <HI>ruines therof cumbring the ground,</HI> &amp; <HI>the mid|dle place thereof being ready to fall of it &s;elf,</HI> the <HI>whole Fabrick thereof</HI> being no <HI>ornament,</HI> but <HI>a di&s;grace to the City and whole nation, and is of no repute</HI> among&s;t any <HI>rational men,</HI> but a com|pany of <HI>fool, <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI></HI> and <HI>Atheists,</HI> &s;uch <HI>bea&s;ts whom St. Paul fought with at Ephe&s;us after the manner of men;</HI> Be&s;ides, &s;ome per&s;ons out of covetou&s;ne&s;s have lately &s;toln away very much of the Leads, after the HOUSE had <HI>voted the de&s;truction of the Cathedrals for payment of the</HI> PUBLICK FAITH.</P>
<P>Your Petitioner in con&s;cience to his <HI>GOD</HI> humbly begs, that that <HI>great Idol</HI> may be &s;peedily rooted up to the very bot|tom of <HI>Sin Faiths,</HI> for &s;atisfying of the PUBLICK FAITH of <HI>this nation,</HI> And that there may be a NEW MARKET erected there (and called by another name) that the <HI>adjacent &s;treets</HI> may have a free pa&s;&s;age without that u&s;ual interrupti|on, by <HI>crowds of people, Carts,</HI> and <HI>Coaches,</HI> on every &s;ide, All which will no doubt tend very much to the good of <HI>the Commonwealth</HI> in general, and <HI>the City of London</HI> in par|ticular, and be plea&s;ing to <HI>GOD,</HI> which is be&s;t of all.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And your Petitioner &s;hall ever pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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