# Conclusion Of The Matters Here Related.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: CONCLUSION OF THE MATTERS HERE RELATED.



We will now take leave of the popes, and let
them pass. It is enough for us to know, that their
succession, of which the papists boast so much, is
confused and vain, or, at least, without tenable
grounds. How we have proved this, is not for us
to say; we let others judge.

This would be a proper time—in order to exhibit
the highly renowned Latin church, the Roman
Babylon, in her full form—to bring up from the
bottom, and present minutely and in the best order,
the manifold and implacable contentions which
have arisen from time to time in, with, and among
them, on matters of faith, although they have so
much to say about their extraordinary unity: how
the popes contended against the councils, and the
councils against the popes; how one annulled and
rejected what the other had made and instituted;
yea, how they sometimes persecuted one another
even unto death, and devoured and killed each
other in the most cruel manner, even as though
they were fighting with their avowed enemies; to
say nothing of the great amount of superstition and
human invention,70 which, like horrible monsters
and abortions, have proceeded, now by one, then
by another, from the lap of the misnamed holy
Roman church; for to treat of this, as the subject
demands, would be almost an endless task, or, at
least, require a whole book. What was once a
comedy (with respect to the gay and merry regime
of the papal dominion) has, through the beginnings
of its downfall, been changed into a tragedy. However,
what we have shown, relates only to this
present life; but the most mournful tragedy, according
to the threatening of God (still we hope
for the best), is yet to come, and concerns the future
and eternal life.71

Besides these most ungodly things which we
have mentioned, they were drunk with the blood
of the saints; yea, they did not only pour out as
water the blood of the beloved friends and children
of God, and cool their thirst for blood therewith,
but, besides inconceivable cruelties, they heaped
also the greatest ignominy upon their bodies,
throwing them like mire upon the earth, or giving
them to the beasts for food, or, on stakes and
wheels, to the birds to devour.72

God shall certainly visit this yet upon them, and
not let it go unavenged. “He that toucheth you,”
says Zechariah to the church of God, “toucheth
the apple of his eye.” Zech. 2:8.

O, that they would become converted betimes!
O, that they would anticipate the uplifted rod of
the divine wrath! O, that they would fear, and
escape, through genuine repentance, the fearful
kindled fire of his everlasting displeasure, which
the wicked and impenitent shall certainly incur.
That meanwhile all those who are still imprisoned
57in Babylon, and sit in the darkness and shadow of
death, would, for the preservation of their souls,
flee out of her; that they would set out for Jerusalem,
the spiritual vision of peace (understand, the
true church of God); that they would seek their
souls’ salvation while it is time, yea, that they
would find, obtain and preserve it! This is certainly
a thing to be wished for.

Note.—“Come out of her, my people, that ye
be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive
not of her sins.” Rev. 18:4.

These words as it appears are taken from the
address of the prophet Jeremiah to the Israelites
who were in bondage, in Babylon, saying as in a
hasty and affrighted voice: “Flee out of Babylon,
and deliver every man his soul; be not cut off in
her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord’s
vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.”
Jer. 51:6.

In like manner men must also hastily come out of
the spiritual Babel, out of the confusion and many
corrupt, human forms of worship and vanities of
the world. “Save yourselves from this untoward
generation.” Acts 2:40. “The Lord give thee
understanding in all things.” 2 Tim. 2:7.
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