A Warning to Come Out of Babylon [bound with] Abjuration of Poperie

Black leather spine & corners over marbled paper-covered boards, binding probably 19th or early 20th century, 7-1/2" x 5-3/4"; [2], 46, + 48 pp. Different devices to each title page, page edges stained red & they appear to be untrimmed. Two anti-Catholic tracts: Ramsay's is theological, and Abernathie "sometime Jesuit, now penitent sinner" is more sensational, and more typical of converted-Catholic tracts. "I speak nothing of their brutish and Sodomistic life, worse than that of the Pagans, described by the Apostle, which although it be not universall thorow all the popes dominions; yet it is common and notorious in the privie chamber (that is Italie) ofthe Babylonish whoore, and to me by auricular confession. Neither touch I that superstitious and hypocriticall life in publick of their ghostly Fathers, and their odious licentious lives in their private cloisters and chambers.almsot hourely familiar conference with women of all conditions, both publickly and privately." Ramsay was sympathetic to King Charles I, and was deposed from his various positions twice for it.…