The Sentence.
Rome Thou hast been Indicted by the Name
of Mystery, Babylon, Mother of Harlots,
Scarlet-coloured Whore, and False Church, or
pretended Spouse of Jesus Christ. And found guilty
of all these horrid and prodigious Crimes, following:
Thou didst first fall from the Holy Religion of
God and his Son, which were established and professed
in the Apostles time. Thou didst set up the vile
Monster the POPE, the Man of Sin, that foul,
Blasphemous Beast. Thou didst most sacrilegiously
give those Attributes and Titles to him, that belong
to Jehovah and the Great Emanuel. Thou mad'st
his Decrees in Wicked Counsels, above the Laws of
God, (the Universal Sovereign). Thou hast made
void the Laws and Constitutions of the Gospel, forming
whole Nations into Churches, though the greatest
part do shew themselves the worst of Men. Thou
hast made Nurseries of Priests and vile Men, and
impowered them to take Confessions for Money, and
forgive Sins. Thou hast hypocritically abused all sorts
of People, by perswading them that thou hast power to
heal their souls here, and help them hereafter, by
which cursed frauds thou hast drawn a great part of
the Riches of Europe into thine unhallowed hands.
Thou hast laid Close Siege to the Courts of Princes,
and drawn them into the highest strains of Wickedness,
to commit
fornication, promote
Idolatry, and
take away the lives of
Innocents. Thou hast layn in
wait (where they would not fulfil thy bloudy and barbarous
Lusts) to contrive
Treasons, Sedition and
Rebellion against them, to Depose and Murder them
by
Excommunications, Poysons and
Powder-Plots.
Thou hast corrupted all Countrys and Kingdoms
(where thy power extended) by such downright
and abominable
Ieolatrys, that
Heathens themselves
were never guilty of worse. Thou hast not only
countenanced
Stews and
Brothel-Houses, where
abominable
Sodomy and
Adulteries are practiced,
but even thy very
Nunneries are become Habitations
of Whoredom and Filthiness, the bottoms of whose
Motes and Ponds, have shewed the Murders of New
born Babes. Thou hast killd the best Men; thou hast
not spared delicate Women and sucking Children.
Thou hast made away many Millions both of
Christians
and poor
Heathens. And after so Hellish a sort,
that the best learned Heart and Tongues want
Rhetorick
to set it forth; Thou hast cut them to peices in
Cool Bloud, thou hast chained to Stakes and burnt
them. Thou hast ripped up Women with Child, and
Ravisht Women and Maids—and then hast barbarously
slain them—Thou hast been guilty of burying
alive, Roasting upon Spits, scalding with burning
Oyl and boyling Lead—Blowing their Heads
in pieces with Gun-Powder; thou hast made Women
Widdows, Children Fatherless; Houses and Villages,
Towns and Cities without Inhabitants. Thou hast
destroyed by Fire and Sword and all manner of Hostilities
and Outrages. Thou hast fomented Wars betwixt
Kingdoms and Nations. Thou hast done thy
endeavour to make all men slaves, but thy own accursed
Tribe of
Cardinals, Arch-Bishops, Bishops, &c.
Thou hast Murder'd multitudes of Souls, as well as
destroy'd multitudes of Bodys. In short, thou hast
filled the Earth with Corruption, and loaded it with
Oppression, and standest in the way of its promised
Deliverance and Restitution. And for all this
Apostacy,
Oppressions, Adulteries, Fornications,
Rebellions, Treasons and
Blasphemies, with the
guilt of a mighty
Mass of Innocent Bloud, which
hath been proved against thee, and from which they
canst not defend thy self, and for which, both by the
Law of God, Nature and Nations, thou oughtest to
suffer, thy
Sentence therefore is—
Thou shalt continue in safe Custody till the
1260 Years be expired, (which is now very near)
and then thou shalt be taken from off the Beast,
where thou art imperiously Mounted, thy Golden
Cup (with which thou hast deceived the Nations)
shall be taken out of thy hand, and by the Hand
of God, the Horns of the Nations, and Swords
of Good Men, thou shalt have these Judgements
come upon thee in one day, Death, Mourning and
Famine, and thou shalt be utterly burnt with Fire,
like a Woman that hath broken Wedlock, and
slain her Sovereign; At which all the Host of
Saints and Angels, shall say Amen,—Hallelujah.
