XI. Ramsay-“Out of Babylon” the Authority for Leaving Rome

ANDREW RAMSAY (15741659), Scottish clergyman and Latin poet, was probably educated at the University of St. Andrews. He studied theology in France, where he was later given a professorship in the University of Saumur. Returning to Scotland in 1606, he was admitted minister of Arbuthnot. In 1620 he became professor of divinity in the college of Edinburgh, and also rector. In 1629 he was made subdean of the Chapel Royal at Holyrood, and in 1616 was again appointed rector of Edinburg University—from which he was later separated because of his protests against the innovations coming into the church.PFF2 555.3

Picture 2: MEDALS MEMORIALIZE PAPAL CLAIMS AND ASSUMPTIONS
Paul II likens slaughter of bohemian heretics to hunting wild boars (first pair, left); Julius III Consigns england to ruin under edward VI (first pair, right); leo X appropriates title “lion of the tribe of Judah” (second pair, left); fallen England is revived by pope julius under “Bloody Mary” (second right); Calixtus III asserts “All kings are obedient to It”-the triple crown (third Pair, Left); gregory XV decrees “Heavenly Honors” to five (third pair, right); Louis XIV asserts “heresy extinguished,” through revocation of edict of nantes, in 1685 (fourth pair, Left); alexander VII borne aloft as he elevates the host (fourth pair, right)
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He preached a sermon, A Warning to Come Out of Babylon, upon receiving the former Jesuit Thomas Abernathie into the Reformed Church of Scotland, and gave as answer to the challenge of Rome for authority to depart and secede from Rome the divine command of the Apocalypse to come out of mystic Babylon, which he proves from Scripture to be the Antichrist church of Rome.” ^{73Andrew Ramsay, A Warning to Come Out of Babylon, pp. 3-13.}PFF2 557.1