SECT. 6. The close of the first Booke.
LAstly, and to conclude the Discourse touching the Popes Te∣nents of the first Magnitude, I will close them with the Magistrate, from whose Power and Jurisdiction they exempt
Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht
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- Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht
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- Spittlehouse, John.
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- Printed at London :: by Thomas Paine, and are to be sold at his house in Goold [sic] Smiths Alley in Redcrosse Street,
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their Ecclesiasticall persons, whereas in the time of the Law (from whence they derive all their trumperies) if the Priest ministring at the Altar, had committed wilfull murther might be taken from it, and put to death by the Magistrate, wherein appear∣eth the soveraigne right and power, which then the civill Magi∣strate had over the Priests of the Law (as they were subject to the Magistrate, in which respect, neither are the Ministers of the Gospel any more exempted now from the Civill, power then them Priests were then, for the Apostle saith, Let every soule be sub∣ject to the higher powers, Rom. 13. 1. In which generall speech none are exempted, yea Christ himself, who might have pleaded greater priviledges in that behalf then any, refused not to pay tri∣bute for avoyding of offence, Mat. 17. 27. So that touching the outward man, we see both Christ and his Apostles yeelded them∣selves unto Caesar, viz. to the Civill Magistrate.
Thus have I, by Gods assistance, discovered the greatest part of the grand treacheries of the Church of Rome, or their Masse of delusions, by which they have melted away all true religion, and devotion from their ignorant followers, as also have drawn tri∣bute and advantage to themselves, by wasting and melting their su••stances, and running it into their own Coffers; the Lord there∣fore in mercy open the eyes of these poore Creatures, who have been so long deluded by that man of sinne, who hath so long reigned over their bodies and soules in that tyrannous manner, and that they may apply themselves to the Prophets direction, to aske for the old way, which is the good way, and to w••lke therein, Jer. 6. 16. as also to give them a heart to loath and abhor those damnable doctrines, which are maintained by him, and his adherents, so di∣rectly against the Word of God; as hath been made manifest in this Treatise, which the Lord in mercy grant.