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<P>Sions Memento, AND Gods Alarum. IN A SERMON AT VVEST|min&s;ter, before the Honorable Hou&s;e of Commons, on the 31. of <HI>May</HI> 1643. the Solemne day of their monethly Fa&s;t.</P>
<P>By FRANCIS CHEYNELL late Fellow of <HI>Merton College in Oxford.</HI></P>
<P>Printed and publi&s;hed by order of the Hou&s;e of COMMONS.</P>
<Q><BIBL>REVEL. 19. ver. 19. 20.</BIBL>
<P><HI>And I &s;aw the Bea&s;t and the Kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together, to make war again&s;t him that &s;ate on the Hor&s;e, and again&s;t his army. And the Bea&s;t was taken, and with him the fal&s;e Prophet.&mdash;The&s;e both were ca&s;t alive into a lake of fire burning with brim&s;tone.</HI></P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>REVEL. 17. 1, 2.</BIBL> <P><HI>Come hither, I will &s;hew unto thee the</HI> judgment of the great whore <HI>that &s;itteth upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication.</HI></P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for SAMUEL GELLIBRAND, at the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard. 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE HONORABLE Hou&s;e of COMMONS, now a&s;&s;em|bled in PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<P>_I <HI>Dare not di&s;pute your</HI> Power, <HI>for even Dr.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dr. <HI>Fern</HI> his Con|&s;cience &s;atisfyed lately printed at Oxford. &s;ect. 2. pag 6.</NOTE> Ferne <HI>him&s;elf is</HI> Satisfied in his Con&s;cience <HI>(or el&s;e he would never have granted it in his Tract, entituled</HI> Con&s;cience Satisfied) that the two Hou&s;es of Parliament are, in a &s;ort, Coordinate with His Maje&s;ty <HI>ad aliquid, to &s;ome</HI> Act, or Exerci&s;ing of Supreme Power, that is, to the making of Laws, by yeelding their con&s;ent: and this <HI>(&s;aith he)</HI> they have by a Fundamentall Con&s;titution: <HI>Nay, the Order of the Hou&s;e of Commons cannot in rea&s;on but ob|lige all the Commons of</HI> England; <HI>it doth not indeed oblige the King, he is exempt by his Soveraignty; the Lords plead</HI> Peerage, <HI>I have not yet heard of any other Plea, and therefore I will not di|&s;pute your Power, but obey your Order. You &s;hall have the glory to command,</HI> mihi autem <HI>ob&s;equii gloria</HI> relicta e&s;t, <HI>pardon the expre&s;&s;ion: we</HI> Merton College men <HI>have been u&s;ed to</HI> Tacitus, <HI>'tis his expre&s;&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The times are &s;ad, my Text was &s;ea&s;onable: Though</HI> Baby|lon <HI>be at</HI> Rome, <HI>yet there are &s;ome</HI> &s;onnes <HI>and</HI> daughters <HI>of</HI> Babylon <HI>too here in</HI> England: Sion <HI>is now &s;urrounded by them, and your Honourable Hou&s;e is mo&s;t eminently oppo&s;ed by them: Many there are that plot again&s;t you, all the Antichri&s;tian Po|liticians in the Chri&s;tian world are beating their brains how to de&s;troy you, but their Plots are di&s;covered, their De&s;ignes defeated by the</HI> watchfull providence of an Omni&s;cient God, <HI>Many
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there are that fight again&s;t you,</HI> again&s;t you, <HI>I &s;ay, for it is evi|dent that tho&s;e many thou&s;ands who are up in Arms, do not fight</HI> for the King, <HI>but</HI> again&s;t the Parliament: <HI>This man fights for a place at Court, and the other, perchance, for a place in the Church, or rather over the Church:</HI> O bloody Simony! <HI>&s;ome fight for</HI> Pluralities, <HI>and &s;ome for</HI> Bi&s;hopriks, <HI>&s;ome for</HI> Patents, <HI>&s;ome for</HI> Monopolies; <HI>&s;ome have lo&s;t their places in the</HI> Star-Chamber, <HI>and</HI> High Commi&s;&s;ion, <HI>and have &s;carce any thing to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ra&s;t to but the &s;word. The</HI> Papi&s;ts <HI>fight to &s;ubvert Religion:</HI> Delinquents, <HI>to &s;ubvert the Laws, and the Parliament too, be|cau&s;e it hath power to</HI> make, declare, enforce the Law: <HI>The</HI> Roy&s;ters <HI>fight to de&s;troy your per&s;ons, and gaine your e&s;tates to pay their</HI> Tavern-tickets: <HI>and yet there is a Divine, one Dr.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erne, <HI>who &s;eems to excu&s;e all this, and by his excu&s;e, doth cer|tainly encourage them, to do what is inexcu&s;able. And the good Doctor would fain per&s;wade you and all the Commons of</HI> England, <HI>to &s;it &s;till the while&s;t,</HI> and lo&s;e your Religion for Con&s;cience <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ake; <HI>your Laws, Liberties, E&s;tates, Lives, for</HI> Peace <HI>&s;ake: And what will</HI> Peace <HI>advantage your Po&s;terity, if the Army in the North will give them</HI> Peace <HI>upon no other terms then the&s;e; that either they mu&s;t turn</HI> Papi&s;ts, <HI>or el&s;e be content to be</HI> Beggers, <HI>and which is wor&s;e,</HI> Slaves? <HI>Some that gloried in the Title of</HI> Royali&s;ts, <HI>do now perceive,</HI> That it is not enough, to &s;tand for the King, unle&s;&s;e they will declare them&s;elves for the Queen: <HI>and they are not a little &s;tartled at that:</HI> Is this the Bi&s;hops holy War for the Catholique Church? <HI>Be it the Bi&s;hops War, &s;aith Dr.</HI> Ferne <HI>in his fir&s;t Book&punc; Well, be it &s;o: Why, then &s;ure the Bi|&s;hops have much blood to an&s;wer for. For it is well known to this whole Kingdom, and to &s;ome Churches abroad, that the Parlia|ment de&s;ired to have all Church-matters fairly debated,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>as</HI> Nazianzen <HI>speaks, not by an</HI> Army, <HI>but by an</HI> A&s;&s;embly; <HI>the Bi&s;hops then have clearly declined this Rati|onall way of triall, and taken up Arms again&s;t the Parliament in the old quarrell, and &s;ure the Parliament hath good rea&s;on to de|fend them&s;elves. It &s;eems the Bi&s;hops arguments are &s;pent, and therefore they</HI> call for Powder and Bullets, to prove that Pre|lacie is <HI>Jure divino. I &s;ay</HI> Prelacy, <HI>for there is a great deal of difference between</HI> Prelates, <HI>and</HI> Bi&s;hops.
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<L><HI>Pontifices</HI> nunc <HI>Bella</HI> juvant, &s;unt caetera <HI>nugae.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Palingenius.</NOTE></L></Q>
<HI>What they cannot prove by the</HI> Word, <HI>they would fain make good by the &s;word. What? becau&s;e men of tender con&s;ciences can be no longer pur&s;ued in their</HI> Courts, <HI>mu&s;t they be pur&s;ued even unto death, by force of</HI> Arms? <HI>but &s;tay: What's their fault? Why, they are enemies: They are enemies to &s;uch pomp and &s;tate as (&s;ome Bi&s;hops cannot but confe&s;&s;e) may well be spared. This Plot came from</HI> Rome, <HI>for I remember</HI> Ho&s;tien&s;is <HI>&s;aith, That from the dayes of</HI> Pope <HI>Adrian, till his time, the</HI> Cardinals <HI>and</HI> Bi&s;hops <HI>of</HI> Rome <HI>had &s;carce ever laid down their Arms.</HI> <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Nunc belligeran|tur Epi&s;copi, nec ali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d fere quam belligerantur. Era&s;. Annot in cap. 3. Luc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> Era&s;mus <HI>complained, that in his time the Bi&s;hops were men of warre. When the Duke</HI> D'Alva <HI>tyrannized over the</HI> Netherlands, <HI>there were new Bi&s;hops</HI> <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>Fullers</HI> Pro&punc; fane State. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">. 19.</NOTE> Sees <HI>erected in every City, and then pre&s;ently the</HI> In|qui&s;ition <HI>was brought in upon them: as if there could never have been any ab&s;olute tyranny without the help of the Bi&s;hops. But you will tell me, that</HI> the Men <HI>may be faulty, and yet</HI> the Order <HI>blamele&s;&s;e. I an&s;wer, that the dignity of their Order &s;hould be tried by the</HI> Word, <HI>and the men being faulty, &s;hould not be prote|cted by the</HI> Sword&punc; <HI>Blu&s;h ye heavens, and be a&s;hamed, O earth, that ever proud ambitious spirits &s;hould enflame differences be|tween King and Parliament, onely that they may feed them&s;elves with vain hopes of being</HI> Bi&s;hops <HI>at la&s;t, and enjoying</HI> Pluralities <HI>the while&s;t. Let the</HI> Searcher of hearts <HI>judge between us, and let them beware that they do not hear aconfounding voice, like that in the Hi&s;torian,</HI> Quintili Vare redde Legiones, Tu Epi&s;cope redde Legiones, redde Animas. <HI>I was bold in my Sermon to lay</HI> Prelacy <HI>as low as</HI> Prelaticall <HI>men have laid</HI> Monarchy. <HI>I was too bold, they &s;ay, in calling the Pope whore &s;o often. But it is as certain that Pope</HI> John <HI>the eighth, (or</HI> Joan <HI>the fir&s;t) was a Whore, as the credit of impartiall Hi&s;torians (I except the Sacred</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>See Mr.</HI> Alexan|der Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">k <HI>his Dia|logue about Pope</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oane. Cognomine Angli|cus, natione Mo|guntinus&punc; vide F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|&s;ci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> temporum ata|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> 6. ad An. 854.</NOTE> <HI>onely) can make a matter of fact certaine, which was done &s;o long ago. The ancient Popi&s;h Hi&s;torians acknowledge this truth. The Succe&s;&s;our of</HI> Leo <HI>the fourth is generally de&s;cribed, by name</HI> John <HI>the eighth, by firname</HI> Engli&s;h, <HI>by place a</HI> Pope, <HI>by &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">x a</HI> woman, <HI>aod by her lu&s;t a</HI> Whore: <HI>She tyrannized &s;omewhat above two years, &s;ome reckon the moneths and dayes; &s;he played the bea&s;t with one of her own &s;ervants, and died in travail, in time of &s;olemn Pro|ce&s;&s;ion
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in the high &s;treet. No man ever went about to prove this Story a Fable, but he proved him&s;elf a Foole. For this &s;tory is con|firmed by the te&s;timony of</HI> <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> Theodoricus de N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">em, <HI>one of the Popes Secretaries, by</HI> <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> Charanza <HI>Archbi&s;hop of</HI> Toledo, <HI>by</HI> <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ulgo&s;us, <HI>&s;ometimes Duke of</HI> Gen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a, <HI>by</HI> <NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mora<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> Platina, <HI>keeper of the Library in the</HI> Vatican <HI>at</HI> Rome, <HI>a man commanded to write the truth by</HI> <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">De <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> <HI>Pope</HI> Sixtus <HI>the fourth; a man that had been racked and deprived of his dignities by</HI> Paul <HI>the &s;econd: it &s;eemes he bad spoken truth too freely, and therefore</HI> Sixtus <HI>re&s;tored him to his</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> <HI>dignities, and did not onely enjoyn, but encourage him to write the truth. To the&s;e I might adde</HI> John <HI>of</HI> Paris, <HI>Divinity Reader in the &V;niver&s;ity of</HI> Paris, g Pola<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s <HI>an Archbi&s;hop, and the Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es Pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">tiary,</HI> h Trithemius <HI>Abbot of S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> Martins <HI>Mo|na&s;tery,</HI> i Philippus Bergomen&s;is, <HI>I will not omit</HI> Krantius, <HI>he is an excellent Chronographer, and</HI> k Bellarmine <HI>&s;aith, not to be &s;uspected, becau&s;e he wrote before</HI> Luther, <HI>nor is</HI> Achil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es Gra&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erus <HI>to be d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;respected, becau&s;e he collected his Epitome out of ve|ry ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ce Hi&s;torians. Here is weight in the&s;e te&s;timonies, if any man look for number, he may &s;ee</HI> Sigebert, Boccace, Mantuan, Petrarch, Gotefridus, Viterbien<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, Palmerius, Nauclerus, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">abellicus, Volateran, Schedel, <HI>and divers others cited at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arge in that learned <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t of Mr.</HI> Alexander Cook, <HI>&s;et out on purpo&s;e to confirm this truth: or he may read Mr.</HI> Bell <HI>his Mo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ives, or his Survey of Popery; Books that I never yet &s;aw an|&s;wered. But what if one</HI> Pope <HI>were a</HI> Whore, <HI>and delivered of a Ba&s;tard before all the People, peradventure the re&s;t of the Popes</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> D <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> <HI>were more holy. No,</HI> John <HI>the eleventh was promoted to the Pope|dome by</HI> Theodora <HI>a famous Whore:</HI> John <HI>the twelfth, was a</HI> Ba&s;tard <HI>begotten of</HI> Marozia <HI>(another mans wife) by Pope</HI> Ser|gius <HI>the third:</HI> John <HI>the thirteenth abu&s;ed his fathers Concu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">e. Some Popes have been notorious for Ince&s;t and Sodomy,</HI> Ju|lius <HI>the &s;econd,</HI> Martin <HI>the &s;econd, and divers others;</HI> Boniface <HI>the eighth had i&s;&s;ue by both his Nieces,</HI> Lucretia <HI>was daughter and whore to Pope</HI> Alexander <HI>the &s;ixth; her Epitaph will be more la&s;ting then Bra&s;&s;e or Marble,</HI>
<Q><L>Hoc jacet in tumulo <HI>Lucretia</HI> nomine, &s;ed re</L>
<L><HI>Thais, Alexandri</HI> filia, &s;pon&s;a, nurus.</L></Q>
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<HI>You may &s;ee more in&s;tances in</HI> Platina, O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">phrius, Sleidan. <HI>We are &s;o much given to</HI> Romane Court&s;hip <HI>now adayes, and our ears have been &s;o little u&s;ed till now of late to the old expre&s;&s;ions of zealous Prote&s;tants, that &s;uch like pa&s;&s;ages will be counted little le&s;&s;e then rayling by &s;ome</HI> Gentle Readers; <HI>but let &s;uch hear what Reverend Dr.</HI> Abbor, <HI>&s;ometimes Bi&s;hop of</HI> Sarum, <HI>a man of a meek spirit, ob&s;erved when he treated of this Argument. The</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ib. ubi &s;upra pag. 199.</NOTE> Pontificall Chair, <HI>&s;aith he, was &s;o infected with that</HI> She-Pope <HI>and famous Whore</HI> John <HI>the eighth, that &s;carce any man ever &s;ince climbed up to that Seat of Pe&s;tilence, but he hath &s;tunck of that, or &s;ome other</HI> Whore. <HI>I will not give you occa&s;ion to &s;top your no&s;es, by ripping up the bea&s;tline&s;&s;e of the fat Monks, and wanton Prie&s;ts, whom the people might well call</HI> Fathers, <HI>becau&s;e they be|got</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ien&s; de Orig. M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nach lib. 6 c. 3.</NOTE> <HI>&s;o many</HI> Ba&s;tards;
<Q><L>Non male &s;unt <HI>Monachis</HI> gra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a indita nomina Patrum,</L>
<L>Cum numerent natos hic &amp; ubique &s;uos.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>There hath been enough &s;aid, to give (and I know all impartiall men will take) &s;atisfaction. The</HI> great De&s;igne <HI>I had in my Ser|mon, was to overthrow</HI> Babylon, <HI>and build up</HI> Sion. <HI>I touched upon the</HI> Here&s;ie, Idolatry, Tyranny, <HI>of the Antichri&s;tian Facti|on, that Prote&s;tants might be mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e watchfull, and Popery more odious, It is my daily prayer, that God would unite the King and Parliament; and my</HI> great Reque&s;t <HI>to your Honourable Hou&s;e was, that you would put forth your &s;trength for the recovery of that Power, which the Antichri&s;tian Faction by force, or fraud hath wre&s;ted out of the Kings hand, that when it is regained, it may be &s;etled upon the Kings Royall Per&s;on, and Po&s;terity. For this end and purpo&s;e, I made an humble Motion to you, that you would &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider what Points we mu&s;t &s;tand upon, and what Errours we mu&s;t Prote&s;t again&s;t, that &s;o there might be a more speciall and punctuall</HI> Covenant of Peace <HI>drawn up, &s;ub&s;cri|bed, nay &s;ealed,</HI> and King and Parliament might Victoriou&s;ly <HI>joyn in an happy</HI> Union <HI>again&s;t the Antichri&s;tian Faction,</HI> this in England, <HI>which is</HI> intimately Confederate with that in Ire|land, <HI>and equally Rebellious again&s;t the</HI> Kings <HI>Authority in His highe&s;t Court of Ju&s;tice. In my di&s;cour&s;e about the Covenant, I mentioned a Book, which directs us how to make a</HI> Chri&s;tian Pa|cification
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by a thorow Reformation: <HI>The Authour of that Book did not &s;et him&s;elf to dispute with Turks, or Jews, or gro&s;&s;e Papi&s;ts, but with &s;ome treacherous Reconcilers, who under</HI> colour of Pacification, <HI>and &s;ome pretence of a</HI> moderate Reformation, <HI>would take away</HI> half Chri&s;t <HI>at lea&s;t, and</HI> three quarters of our old Creed, <HI>as if they could make us amends, by giving us</HI> a New one, <HI>and we might</HI> Covenant to tear Chri&s;t and his Go&s;pel to pieces for Peace &s;ake. <HI>The Prote&s;tants talked much of the Cau&s;e of Chri&s;t (&s;aith the &s;ame Authour) as long as they had</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> <HI>their &s;words by their &s;ides, but when they had laid down their Arms, and were in danger of their lives, then they forgat the Cau&s;e of Chri&s;t, and began to think that zeal was ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, and con&s;tancy &s;tubbornne&s;&s;e. But if we love Chri&s;t and our &s;ouls better then our lives, let us re&s;olve</HI> never to embrace any conditions of Peace <HI>which mingle the Inventions of men with the truth of God: Let us maintain the</HI> Doctrine of free Ju&s;tification, <HI>our Salvation depends upon it, and let us pre&s;erve the</HI> Wor&s;hip of God entire and pure; <HI>for &s;aith he, if we look onely to</HI> matters of Faith, <HI>and contend not for</HI> purity of Wor&s;hip, <HI>we &s;eem to</HI> have le&s;&s;e care of Gods honour, then of our Salvation. <HI>Moreover, in matters of &s;uch moment, we mu&s;t weigh and con&s;ider every</HI> phra&s;e, word, title, <HI>le&s;t by ob&s;cure, or &s;lipper<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> terms, our Adver&s;aries evade, and leave us in the lurch. This is the &s;ub&s;tance of the fir&s;t Cha|pter. His &s;econd Chapter concerns</HI> Ju&s;tification, <HI>and he would have us con&s;ider, that it is not enough to &s;ay,</HI> we are ju&s;tified by Faith, <HI>but we mu&s;t &s;ay,</HI> we are ju&s;tified by Faith, becau&s;e Chri&s;ts righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is imputed, and our &s;ins are not im|puted to us that beleeve. <HI>We mu&s;t not deny our Regeneration, and yet we mu&s;t not confound it with our ju&s;tification. We mu&s;t obey God with all our heart, and all our &s;trength, and yet we mu&s;t not plead any other obedience</HI> for our Ju&s;tification <HI>at the Tribu|nall of God, &s;ave the obedience of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. Our good works &s;hall be rewarded, that's encouragement enough; but the reward is grounded upon a free Pardon, and a gracious acceptation: if we were not fir&s;t ju&s;tified, our works would not be accepted, nor re|warded; Becau&s;e our per&s;ons are accepted in Chri&s;t, therefore our works are rewarded for Chri&s;t; that imperfect righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of works which we have, doth wholly depend upon the righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e
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of faith; now the imperfection of our righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is pardoned, the &s;incerity of our obedience is accepted, and yet we are not ju&s;tified by our own &s;incere obedience, no not in part, but are onely (and whol|ly, becau&s;e perfectly) ju&s;tified by the compleat and perfect obedience of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. We mu&s;t then tru&s;t with our whole &s;oul to the obedience of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and not tru&s;t at all to any good quality infu&s;ed into us, or good works wrought by us, for our Iu&s;tification: This is the pure Prote&s;tant Religion, commended to us in the &s;e|cond Chapter. In his third Chapter, he doth largely explain the of|fice, and u&s;e of Faith, becau&s;e Faith is the in&s;trument of our ju|&s;tification, and we can never keep the unity of Faith in the bond of Peace, if we do not agree about the Nature, or the Offices, and u&s;e of Faith. I am &s;orry I mu&s;t lay a&s;ide this Book, but if you will be plea&s;ed to take it up, I may conclude my Epi&s;tle; onely give me leave to renew my &s;uit to you, concerning a Nationall</HI> Co|venant, <HI>a Nationall</HI> Thank&s;giving, <HI>a &s;peedy and free</HI> A&s;&s;em|bly: <HI>If the Prelaticall men are di&s;plea&s;ed, that &s;o many Bi&s;hops are pa&s;&s;ed by, let them remember what the Archbi&s;hop of Canter|bury</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Schol G&punc; Naz. d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> vit Cer. <HI>Archb. Cant. Re|lat. p.</HI> 27.</NOTE> <HI>&s;aith, That there have been &s;ome corrupt crafty Bi&s;hops, who by plots and tricks have di&s;turbed all Synods, and mo&s;t Councels.</HI> A&s;tutos &amp; veteratoriae improbitatis Epi&s;copos, qui ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ibus &s;uis ac dolis omnia Concilia perturbabant. <HI>I &s;hall conclude all with that Prayer which I u&s;ed at the Fa&s;t. Lord, never was there any Kingdom that made an higher Appeal to thy Maje&s;ty then our poor Kingdom hath made: Both &s;ides appeal to thee, not onely by a Warre, but a Prote&s;tation Lord, be plea&s;ed to decide the Con|trover&s;ie, let that &s;ide prevail which doth mo&s;t &s;incerely de&s;ire thy glory, the Kings good, the Kingdoms welfare by an happy Refor|mation, and a Chri&s;tian Peace: I am &s;ure you will &s;ay Amen to the prayer of</HI></P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SOme pa&s;&s;ages in my Sermon have reference to a little treati&s;e, which I lately publi&s;hed about So|ciniani&s;me: in that booke you will meet with much Latine which is not tran&s;lated, yet if you turne over but the fir&s;t foure or five leaves, you may without the helpe of Latine, if you read attentively, pick out the &s;cope of the book; &s;ome quotations were &s;chola&s;ticall, and would not beare En|gli&s;h, &s;ome are full of bla&s;phemies, others there are that will &s;eeme &s;uperfluous to any but a &s;cholar, who delights to know every circum&s;tance. Be plea&s;ed to read the booke, the Sermon, and Epi&s;tle, beleeve and obey the Scriptures, and prepare for Martyrdome, we know not how &s;oone we may be called to &s;eale the truth with our deare&s;t bloud; lend the Author thy patience and thy prayers.</P>
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<HEAD>A SERMON PREACHED AT THE late Fa&s;t, before the Commons Hou&s;e of PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
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<Q><P>Deliver thy &s;elf, O Zion, that dwelle&s;t with the daughter of Babylon.</P></Q>
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<P>_BEhold two Nations, two manner of peo|dle &s;trugling in the bowels of this Text and Kingdom, <HI>Jacob</HI> and <HI>E&s;an, Sion</HI> and <HI>Babylon.</HI> Now the Kingdom lies groaning in its throws and pangs, in its agony and bloody-&s;weat; let us fall into a devout agony and penitent &s;weat, if we cannot &s;weat blood let us &s;weat tears, let every pore of our body be a weeping eye, a crying, a praying mouth, to beg a &s;afe delivery for our labouring Mother, who travails in the angui&s;h of her &s;pirit. Let us intreat God to comfort <HI>England,</HI> as he did <HI>Rebekah, Gene&s;.</HI> 25. 23. <HI>And the Lord &s;aid unto her, Two manner of people &s;hall be &s;epa|rated from thy bowels:</HI> O let us pray that either <HI>Babylon</HI> may be &s;eparated, expelled out of the bowels of <HI>Sion,</HI> or <HI>Sion</HI> deli|vered out of <HI>Babylon.</HI></P>
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When the poor <HI>Iews</HI> were pri&s;oners in <HI>Babylon,</HI> by the rivers of <HI>Babylon</HI> there <HI>they &s;at down and wept,</HI> and <HI>wept</HI> amain, <HI>when they remembred Zion,</HI> P&s;al. 137. 1. Oh for <HI>Ieremies</HI> tears, and <HI>Ieremies</HI> &s;pirit, that we might write another book of <HI>Lamentations,</HI> to bewail the mi&s;erable &s;ecurity of this pre&s;ent age! <HI>Sion</HI> &s;its down by the <HI>rivers</HI> of <HI>Babylon,</HI> the waters of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> &s;trife, and <HI>rivers</HI> of <HI>Confu&s;ion,</HI> and &s;hall there be no fountain in our Head, or Heart; no penitent &s;treams flowing from our eyes? The God of heaven make this marble &s;weat, that we may not keep a <HI>Mock-fa&s;t</HI> to day, with dry eyes and hard hearts.</P>
<P>Come, let us blow off the a&s;hes from our zeal, let us en|flame our hearts with &s;ad but &s;ervent devotion: Sure if, as <HI>Heraclitus</HI> dreamt, our &s;oul were but an <HI>Exhalation,</HI> the heat <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> of our devotion would melt it into one indivi&s;ible tear: Our &s;oul would be its own tear, and we might well weep out our eyes and &s;ouls together on this day of tears. Oh let us re|member to joyn <HI>Zecharies</HI> zeal with <HI>Jeremies</HI> tears, let us lie upon our faces to day, but up, up to morrow; the Prophet cryes <HI>Ho, Ho,</HI> in the ver&s;e before my Text, to awaken and enflame your <HI>zeal</HI> and <HI>indignation</HI> again&s;t <HI>Babylon. Come, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pread abroad like the four winds of heaven, &s;aith the Lord: De|liver thy &s;elf, O Zion, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>In the words ob&s;erve <HI>Zions</HI> bondage, and <HI>Zions</HI> deliver|ance: <HI>Zions Memento,</HI> and <HI>Gods Alarme. Zions Memento,</HI> to put her in minde of her &s;ad condition, &s;he was yet in the hou&s;e of Bondage, like <HI>Galba's</HI> wit &s;he had but a foul habi|tation, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> an ill &s;eat, and wor&s;e neighbours: <HI>Zion</HI> that dwelle&s;t with the daughter of <HI>Babylon.</HI> But that's not all, it is not a bare <HI>gentle Memento,</HI> in a &s;till voice; <HI>Heus, heus, divinum</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, Heark, heark, God him&s;elf &s;ounds an <HI>Alarme. Zion's</HI> fa&s;t a&s;leep, &s;he &s;norts again, and therefore the Pro|phet lifts up his voice, and cryes, So Ho, O <HI>Zion</HI> awake, a|wake, rouze up thy &s;elf out of thy &s;ecure plea&s;ing dream: Thy &s;oul is a&s;leep, awake, quicken thy &s;pirits, put on &s;trength O <HI>Zion,</HI> put forth thy &s;trength, u&s;e all po&s;&s;ible diligence for thy redemption and Deliverance. <HI>Deliver thy &s;elf O Zion, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The Text at fir&s;t glance pre&s;ents the&s;e two Propo&s;itions to our &s;erious con&s;ideration.</P>
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1. <HI>It is &s;ometimes the hard lot of</HI> Zion <HI>to dwell with the daughter of</HI> Babylon: This point is &s;o clear that I need not explain or confirm it, wee'l let that pa&s;&s;e, and ha&s;ten to the &s;econd.</P>
<P N="2">2. Zion <HI>mu&s;t take all fair opportunities, and u&s;e all lawfull meanes to deliver her &s;elf from</HI> Babylon: I de&s;ire to &s;pend my &s;trength upon this Doctrin.</P>
<P>Give me leave to open the point a little: Come, let us <NOTE PLACE="marg">Explication.</NOTE> walk the Round and &s;urvey the bounds of <HI>Zion,</HI> and the bounds of <HI>Babylon.</HI> By <HI>Zion</HI> the Prophet means the people of God, who&s;e <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Anima e&s;t ubi amat, non ubi ani mat, <HI>Bernard.</HI></NOTE> hearts were &s;et on <HI>Zion,</HI> becau&s;e God had of old &s;et up his Ordinances there, and made them a graci|ous promi&s;e, <HI>That they &s;hould return thither again, and enjoy him once more in the Beauty, the Glory of Holine&s;&s;e.</HI> There were two Mounts which did belong to <HI>Hieru&s;alem, Mount Moriah,</HI> and <HI>Mount Zion;</HI> the Temple was built upon <HI>Mount Zion,</HI> and therefore <HI>Zion</HI> was the <HI>Mount</HI> of <HI>Holine&s;&s;e,</HI> and as it were the <HI>Throne of God</HI> here below, thither did the people flock, <HI>Micah 4. 2. Come, let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord</HI>&mdash;for <HI>the Law &s;hall go forth of Zion:</HI> behold <HI>Zion</HI> is the <HI>Mountain</HI> of the Lord. But we mu&s;t con&s;ider further, that be&s;ides the <HI>Iewi&s;h Sion,</HI> there is a <HI>Chri&s;tian Sion</HI> &s;poken of in the Pro|phets; and this very place of <HI>Micah</HI> which I have cited, points at the <HI>Chri&s;tian Sion,</HI> a <HI>Church</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of <HI>all Nati|ons, Gentiles</HI> as well as <HI>Jews;</HI> be plea&s;ed to peru&s;e the words. <HI>But in the la&s;t dayes it &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e, that the Mountain of the hou&s;e of the Lord &s;hall be e&s;tabli&s;hed in the top of the Mountains, and it &s;hall be exalted above the hills, and people &s;hall flow unto it: and many Nations &s;hall come and &s;ay, Let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord,</HI> ver&s;e 1. 2. That this is clearly meant of the <HI>Chri&s;tian Sion,</HI> be&s;ides the evidence of the words them|&s;elves, the la&s;t ver&s;e of the former Chapter, the third Chapter of <HI>Micah,</HI> doth &s;ufficiently declare: for the <HI>Iewi&s;h Sion,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ullum re&s;tabit Civitatis ve&s;tigi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, pars in arva pars in rudera, mons eti|am <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">mus Dei in excel&s;a ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bit &s;il|vo&s;a, nec non <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eraru~ lu&s;tra vide Ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> <HI>Sion</HI> in the letter, was to be plowed as a field, and the <HI>Moun|tain</HI> of <HI>that Hou&s;e</HI> was to be left as de&s;olate as the high-places of the Fore&s;t. Moreover this Prophe&s;ie was to be fulfilled in the <HI>la&s;t dayes,</HI> Micah 4. 1. Finally, <HI>the Law &s;hall go forth of Zi|on,</HI> &s;aith the Prophet <HI>Micah,</HI> to the <HI>Jews</HI> the <HI>Law came forth
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of Sinai,</HI> but to the <HI>Chri&s;tian Church</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of <HI>Jews</HI> and <HI>Gentiles,</HI> the <HI>Law</HI> came forth of <HI>Sion</HI> when the Spirit was plentifully powred down upon &s;ome of all Nations at <HI>Ieru|&s;alem, Acts</HI> 2. and therefore not <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rom. 11. 16, 17.</NOTE> <HI>Rome,</HI> but the <HI>Church</HI> which was gathered at <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> (if any Church) was the <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">. Theo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Hi&s;t. Eccle&s;. l. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">. 9. I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ieru&s;alem prim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> fan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">a Eccle&s;ia totius or bis Eccle&s;ias &s;emi|navit, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iero<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ym. Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">n I&s;a c. 2. 1, 2</NOTE> Me|tropolitane or mother Church, and younger Churches were the daughters of that <HI>Evangelicall Sion: For we are not come to the Mount that burnt with fire,</HI> Heb. 12. 18. <HI>but unto Mount Sion,</HI> Ver&s;e 22. The Apo&s;tle doth expound this Allegory more fully, <HI>Galat. 4. 24. Which things,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>are an Alle|gory; for the&s;e are two covenants,</HI> (or <HI>te&s;taments) the one from Mount Sinai which gendreth to bondage, the other then is from Mount Sion, which tendeth to freedom,</HI> a <HI>covenant</HI> of <HI>Grace,</HI> the &s;pirit of <HI>grace</HI> and <HI>holine&s;&s;e</HI> which is more plentifully pou|red <NOTE PLACE="marg">Se<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Reverend M. <HI>Reynol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> his lear|ned Annotations on p&s;al. 110. from p. 269. to 274. <HI>Hiero<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">olyma~ Ma|tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m</HI> &amp; Fontem Religionis vocat Teitull. cont. Mar|cion, lib 2. <GAP DESC="foreign"> per orbem <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rrarum di&s;per&s;a, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">yus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ives &s;umus, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uorum <GAP DESC="foreign"> e&s;t in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s Vide Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Annot. in c. 4 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Gal. ver. 26.</NOTE> out upon the <HI>Chri&s;tian Sion,</HI> makes us precious &s;onnes of <HI>Sion,</HI> free-men indeed. You &s;ee the <HI>Bounds</HI> of <HI>Sion.</HI></P>
<P>Let us now take a view of <HI>Babylon.</HI> I need not &s;ay any thing of <HI>Babylon</HI> in <HI>Egypt,</HI> my Text points me to <HI>Babylon</HI> in <HI>A&s;&s;yria;</HI> the <HI>Scriptures</HI> mention a third <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 pet 5. 13<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Babylo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">is nomen multis plac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t <GAP DESC="foreign"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">fic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">te con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;i|onem in urbe Ro|mana, Ioach, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ame|rar. Babylona au|tem pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ie acc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> pro celebit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lla A&s;&s;yriae urbe. Annot <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">b. Decem reges odio habituros purpuratam meretricem, id e&s;t, Romam, Bel. l. 3. de Rom. P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nt. c. 13. Hieronymus cum Romae ad A&s;ellam &s;crip&s;it in haec verba. Ora autem ut de Babylone a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Hiero&s;olymam regrediar. Cum in Babylone ver&s;ares &amp; purpuratae Meretricis e&s;&s;e Colonus a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ure Quiritium v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rem. Hierenym ad Ger<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nt. de monogamia.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Babylon,</HI> and in my Application the times will call upon me by <HI>Analogy</HI> and proportion to &s;peake much of this third <HI>Babylon,</HI> which is a <HI>My&s;ticall Babylon,</HI> the <HI>Romi&s;h Babylon;</HI> and yet I think wee need not travaile &s;o farre as <HI>Rome</HI> to finde out <HI>Babylon:</HI> did you never heare of an <HI>Engli&s;h Babylon</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and an <HI>Iri&s;h Babylon</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> and a <HI>Romi&s;h Babylon</HI> even in <HI>Scotland?</HI> Is there not a <HI>Babylon</HI> in the <HI>North,</HI> and <HI>another</HI> in the <HI>West?</HI> a <HI>Babylon</HI> almo&s;t in every City, towne and pari&s;h? nay if we are impartiall in the &s;earch, we &s;hall certainely finde &s;ome <HI>Malignant lu&s;ts,</HI> &s;ome <HI>brats</HI> of <HI>Babylon</HI> in our owne bo&s;ome: you &s;ee the <HI>bounds of Babylon.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall begin with the <HI>Jewi&s;h Sion,</HI> and &s;hew you what rea|&s;on this <HI>Sion</HI> had to deliver her &s;elf from the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian Babylon.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The fir&s;t Rea&s;on is, becau&s;e God had &s;o often cal|led <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rea&s;ons.</NOTE> upon <HI>Sion</HI> to &s;eparate from <HI>Babylon:</HI> the people were Fir&s;t, awakened by <HI>Jeremiahs</HI> prophecy. Secondly, they
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were encouraged by <HI>Cyrus</HI> his <HI>Proclamation:</HI> you may finde both put together, <HI>Ezra 1. 1. Now in the fir&s;t yeare of Cyrus King of Per&s;ia (that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might bee fulfilled) the Lord &s;tirred up the &s;pirit of Cyrus King of Per&s;ia that he made Proclamation, &amp;c.</HI> There was a three&s;old Call, a call from God, a call from the Prophet, and a call from the King; and the Lord who &s;tirred up the &s;pirit of <HI>Jeremy,</HI> and the &s;pirit of <HI>Cyrus,</HI> did &s;tirre up the &s;pirit of his people to an&s;wer this call, and depart from <HI>Babylon;</HI> for upon this Proclamation divers of the children of the Captivity went up to <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> under the conduct of their Generall <HI>Z<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rubbabel,</HI> as you may read, Ezra 2. 1, 2. <HI>Now the&s;e are the Children of the Province, that went up out of the Captivity of tho&s;e which had beene carried away unto Babylon, and came againe unto Ieru&s;alem and Iudah, every one unto his City, which came with Zerubbabel, &amp;c.</HI> Thirdly, the Governors &amp; people were quickned to this great duty of for&s;aking <HI>Ba|bylon,</HI> and building <HI>Sion</HI> by the mini&s;try of the Prophet <HI>Hag|gai,</HI> and about two moneths after by the Prophet <HI>Zechariah. Ezra 5. 1. Hag. 1. 1. Zech.</HI> 1. 1. They both prophecied in the &s;econd yeer of <HI>Darius, Haggai</HI> in the &s;ixth moneth, &amp; <HI>Zechary</HI> in the eight moneth. But it &s;eemes too many of the people upon &s;ome Carnall di&s;couragements were unwilling to goe to <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> which was now but an heap of old rubbi&s;h and dead a&s;hes, nay &s;ome were as willing to &s;tay in <HI>Babylon</HI> as <HI>Lots</HI> &s;ons-in-law to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tay in <HI>Sodom.</HI> God therefore gave them <HI>another Call</HI> yet in the &s;eventh yeere of the raigne of <HI>Artax|erxes,</HI> and then many went up from <HI>Babylon</HI> upon the moti|on of <HI>Ezra</HI> the &s;cribe: <HI>Ezra 7. 6, 7, 8. ver.</HI> But there were many lingerers behind yet, and our long-&s;uffering God who is rich in patience did vouch&s;afe <HI>another Call</HI> yet, about thir|teene yeeres after in the twentieth yeere of <HI>Artaxerxes,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or about that time <HI>Nehemiah</HI> began to &s;tirre, as you may read, <HI>Nehem.</HI> 2. 1. You &s;ee here is <HI>Call</HI> upon <HI>Call;</HI> this may &s;uffice for the fir&s;t Rea&s;on; <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">, the Church takes it, very name from its obedi|ence to Gods cal. <HI>Omnes in Eccle&s;ia non &s;unt ex eccle|&s;i&acirc;.</HI></NOTE> becau&s;e nothing but obedience to the Call of God can declare us to be the true Church of God.</P>
<P>My &s;econd rea&s;on is taken from the <HI>Terminus &agrave; Quo,</HI> the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rea&s;. 2.</NOTE> place from whence they were called, <HI>Babylon;</HI> or the <HI>daugh|ters</HI>
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of <HI>Babylon,</HI> the City of <HI>Babylon</HI> was the <HI>Metropolis</HI> or <HI>mo|ther Citty,</HI> the adjoyning townes and villages are called the <HI>daughters</HI> of <HI>Babylon,</HI> becau&s;e they followed the ill example of the City, they were nur&s;ed up in all manner of <HI>Babylo|ni&s;h Idolatry</HI> and <HI>Impiety;</HI> Some of the people that belonged to <HI>Sion</HI> did certainely loyter too long in the&s;e townes and villages, and therefore the Prophet calls upon them in my Text. <HI>Deliver thy &s;elfe, O Zion, that dwelle&s;t with Babylon, with the daughters of Babylon</HI> that are as bad as their mother. <HI>Baby|lon</HI> is, in the language of <HI>Augu&s;tine,</HI> The <HI>City of the Devill;</HI> and was it fit that the <HI>people of God</HI> &s;hould lye loytering in the <HI>Ci|ty</HI> of the <HI>Devill? Babylon</HI> was the <HI>Malignant Church,</HI> the <HI>Sinke</HI> of <HI>Sinne,</HI> the &s;tall of <HI>Bea&s;ts,</HI> the <HI>Throne</HI> of <HI>Idols,</HI> the <HI>Temple</HI> of <HI>Devills,</HI> and <HI>mother</HI> of <HI>confu&s;ion.</HI> No place more infamous for their pride and tyranny, their cruelty and Idolatry; well might <HI>Sion</HI> be weary of &s;uch a loath&s;ome pri&s;on, and noi|&s;ome dungeon, which could not but be offen&s;ive by its &s;tench and darkne&s;&s;e, even as <HI>Babylon</HI> the great is the <HI>Habitation</HI> of <HI>Devills,</HI> the <HI>Strong hold of foule &s;pirits,</HI> Rev. 18. 2.</P>
<P>The 3d. Rea&s;on is taken from the <HI>Terminus ad Quem,</HI> the place unto which they were called, unto <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> unto <HI>Sion.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rea&s;. 3.</NOTE> Every motion takes its denomination from its <HI>Terminus ad Quem,</HI> but here even the <HI>Travailers</HI> them&s;elves who were to move take their Title from that Place unto which they moved. The people are called <HI>Sion,</HI> becau&s;e they were called forth to goe <HI>to Sion. Deliver thy &s;elf O Zion. Sion</HI> was a place <HI>beloved of God,</HI> and all his people, the people were in love <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">.</HI> 87. 2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">: Lord loves the gates of <HI>Zion</HI> more then all the dwellings of <HI>Iacob.</HI></NOTE> with Sion with re&s;pect to Gods Election, in&s;titution, Pro|mi&s;e, Ble&s;&s;ing. God had <HI>cho&s;en</HI> that place for his <HI>Seat</HI> of <HI>&s;pe|ciall Re&s;idence,</HI> and did there exhibite him&s;elfe to his people by a vi&s;ible pre&s;ence. Moreover God had by a &s;peciall <HI>In&s;ti|tution</HI> recorded his name, and &s;et up his ordinances in <HI>Sion,</HI> and therefore the Temple was to be built againe on that mountaine; the Jewes were confined to a certaine place, to <HI>Sion;</HI> Some parts of publique wor&s;hip were &s;o appropriated to that place, that they were to be performed there, and no where el&s;e: <HI>Deut. 12. 13, 14. Take heed to thy &s;elf that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou &s;ee&s;t, but
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in the place which the Lord &s;hall chu&s;e in one of the Tribes, there thou &s;halt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou &s;halt do all that I command thee:</HI> The particular offerings are more di&s;tinctly &s;pecified in the 11. ver&s;e of the &s;ame Chapter: <HI>Your burnt offerings, and your &s;acrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offer|ing of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord.</HI> Finally, God had <HI>promi&s;ed</HI> a <HI>ble&s;&s;ing</HI> to all them <HI>who came up to Sion, to wor&s;hip the Lord in the Beauty of Holine&s;&s;e:</HI> At fir&s;t there was a generall promi&s;e given, <HI>Exo 20. 24. In all pla|ces where I record my Name, I will come unto thee, and I will ble&s;&s;e thee.</HI> But when God had cho&s;en <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> for the <HI>Seat</HI> of <HI>Royalty,</HI> the place of Ju&s;tice, and <HI>Sion</HI> as the Mountain of Holine&s;&s;e, and place of publique Wor&s;hip, then all the Tribes were to go to <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> for Ju&s;tice, and to <HI>Sion</HI> to &s;a|crifice, <HI>P&s;al. 122. 4, 5. Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord unto the Te&s;timony of I&s;rael, to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord. For there are &s;et Thrones of Iudgement, the Thrones of the hou&s;e of David.</HI> The poor people had long been depri|ved of the <HI>benefit of Iu&s;tice,</HI> and the <HI>liberty of Religion;</HI> but now God had promi&s;ed by his Prophet <HI>Zechary</HI> that their Common-wealth &s;hould be &s;etled, their Church e&s;tabli&s;hed, their City and Temple both new builded, <HI>Zech. 1. 16, 17. Therefore thus &s;aith the Lord, I am returned to Ieru&s;alem with mercies, my hou&s;e &s;hall be built in it, &s;aith the Lord of Hoa&s;ts: my cities through prosperity &s;hall yet be spread abroad, and the Lord &s;hall yet comfort Zion, and &s;hall yet choo&s;e Jeru&s;alem.</HI> The fir&s;t Temple was as glorious as Art and co&s;t could make it: but God who hath gold and &s;ilver, heaven and earth at his di&s;po|&s;ing, had pa&s;&s;ed his word to them, that he would &s;hake hea|ven and earth, &s;ea and land, and fill the latter hou&s;e with the glory of the Lord Je&s;us, who is the de&s;ire and glory of all Nationa, <HI>Haggai</HI> 2. from the 6. ver&s;e to the 9. <HI>Yet once it is a little while and I will &s;hake the heavens, and the earth, and the &s;ea, and the dry land. And I will &s;hake all Nations, and the de&s;ire of all Nations &s;hall come, and I will fill this Hou&s;e with glory, &s;aith the Lord of Hoa&s;ts: the &s;ilver is mine, and the gold is mine, &s;aith the Lord of Hoa&s;ts: the glory of this latter Hou&s;e &s;hall be greater then of the former, &amp;c.</HI> The Prophet you &s;ee had good
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rea&s;on to invite them to <HI>new Jeru&s;alem</HI> here below, a kinde of <HI>heaven</HI> upon <HI>earth,</HI> to <HI>Sion</HI> the <HI>habitation of Iu&s;tice, and mount of Holine&s;&s;e,</HI> the prai&s;e of the Jews, the glory of the Gentiles, the Hou&s;e of God, and Type of Heaven.</P>
<P>Fourthly, God had now removed all rubs, he had opened the Kings heart and the pri&s;on doors, if they would be active <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rea&s;on 4.</NOTE> it was in their own power to deliver them&s;elves, and there|fore the Prophet calls upon them to u&s;e their power, and to take that fair opportunity which was offered for their deli|verance, and their glory, <HI>Deliver thy &s;elf, O Zion:</HI> Why <HI>Zion,</HI> wilt thou be a <HI>Felo de Se?</HI> thy &s;hackles are knockt off, the Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ts are open, the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> is now <HI>&s;ealed;</HI> come, be not cruell to thy &s;elf: what wilt thou be thine own tormen|tour, thine own pri&s;oner? Before the &s;eventy years were ex|pired, thou wa&s;t detained in <HI>Babylon,</HI> thou wa&s;t a pri&s;oner there, but now thy time is out, and therefore if thou &s;taye&s;t longer yet, thou are not a <HI>Pri&s;oner,</HI> but a <HI>dweller in Babylon. Deliver thy &s;elf O Zion,</HI> that [dwelle&s;t] <HI>in Babylon:</HI> There's the <HI>Empha&s;is</HI> and &s;trength of the Prophets exhortation.</P>
<P>The U&s;e of this Point is to &s;tirre up the <HI>Chri&s;tian Zion,</HI> all true <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> to deliver them&s;elves from <HI>Antichri&s;tian Ba|bylon,</HI> from the Babyloni&s;h army, &amp; the Babyloni&s;h Church. The <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">wi&s;h Zion</HI> had a miraculous deliverance from the <HI>A&s;|&s;yrian Babylon;</HI> though God be the <HI>Lord</HI> of <HI>Ho&s;ts</HI> and hath all armies at his command, yet <HI>Zion</HI> was to be delivered <HI>not by might or by the power</HI> of an <HI>Army,</HI> but by the <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts,</HI> by the <HI>Immediate hand of God,</HI> Zech. 4. 6. But I doe not find that <HI>Chri&s;tian Zion</HI> &s;hall be delivered upon &s;uch ea&s;ie termes from <HI>Antichri&s;tian Babylon,</HI> doe not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">latter your &s;elves with vaine hopes, our deliverance will co&s;t bloud. 1. This is cleare to any man that hath &s;tudied the booke of the <HI>Reve|lation,</HI> &amp; what upon prayer &amp; &s;tudy God hath revealed by the clear Texts of the <HI>Revelation,</HI> I will this day deliver unto you though I were &s;ure to die <HI>S. Iohns</HI> death, or to be bani&s;ht into <HI>S. Iohns Iland.</HI> The God of heaven give us a further <HI>Revela|tion</HI> of this <HI>Revelation,</HI> that it may be interpreted by the &s;ame Spirit by which it was written. <HI>S. Iohn&punc;</HI> tels me that the <HI>Spirits</HI> of <HI>Devills</HI> &s;hall <HI>go forth to the Kings</HI> of the <HI>earth, &amp; of the whole
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world, to gather them to Armageddon, to the battel of that great day of God Almighty, Rev. 16. 14. 16. Secondly</HI> I know it is a great while yet to that <HI>great battell,</HI> yet the <HI>Spirits</HI> will be <HI>Scouting</HI> out long before. And &s;ure the&s;e Spirits have been at worke of late in <HI>Ireland, England, &amp; Scotland</HI> too; the <HI>Babylonians</HI> are active, &amp; mu&s;t the <HI>precious &s;onnes of Sion be</HI> meerely <HI>Pa&s;&s;ive?</HI> No, they mu&s;t all <HI>Li&s;t</HI> them&s;elves under the <HI>King</HI> of <HI>Kings,</HI> who&s;e ve&s;ture will be dipt in <HI>Anti-Chri&s;tian bloud:</HI> For as <HI>S. Iohn</HI> &s;hewes that the <HI>whore,</HI> the <HI>bea&s;t,</HI> the <HI>fal&s;e Prophet,</HI> the <HI>Kings of the earth,</HI> and the <HI>Devill</HI> joyne forces and gather their armies together; So will the <HI>Omnipotent Lambe, who&s;e name is the Word of God,</HI> judge in <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and make war, Rev.</HI> 19. 11. He will overthrow the &s;pirituall Iuri&s;diction of <HI>Anti-Chri&s;t</HI> by his Word and Spirit, by that &s;harpe &s;word which goes out of his mouth. <HI>ver.</HI> 15. the con&s;ciences of men <NOTE PLACE="marg">In temple D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;e det Antichri&s;tur, hoc e&s;t, An&s;elmo Interprete, in men|tibu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> fidelium. An&s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> in 2 The&s;. cap. 2. In templo Dei, id e&s;t in eccle&s;ia, qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> multi de Eccle&s;ia illum recipient, vel &s;ecundum Augu&s;t&punc; quod in templo Dei &s;edeat, id e&s;t, princi|petur. Aquin. in 2 The&s;. 2. l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ct. 1. Aug de C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">. D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i lib 20. cap. 19.</NOTE> &s;hall be &s;o convinced by the powerfull preaching of the <HI>Go&s;|pell,</HI> that <HI>Anti-Chri&s;t</HI> &s;hall no longer <HI>&s;it as God in the Temple of God,</HI> in the * con&s;ciences of men, which are the peculiar <HI>Temple</HI> of <HI>God;</HI> and for this rea&s;on the <HI>Anti-Chri&s;tian</HI> faction doth &s;o violently oppo&s;e all powerfull preaching. But then for the <HI>Temporall dominion of Anti-Chri&s;t: Ie&s;us Chri&s;t hath prepared a Rod of Iron, which &s;hall breake in pieces</HI> all his u&s;urped <HI>power,</HI> and <HI>dominion,</HI> like <HI>an earthen ve&s;&s;el,</HI> becau&s;e he hath his power from earth, and not by any ordinance from Heaven; Chri&s;t will come and over-rule him with <HI>a Rod of Iron,</HI> and <HI>tread the Wine pre&s;&s;e of the fiercene&s;&s;e &amp; wrath of Almighty God, Rev.</HI> 19. 15. and in that day of wrath <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> will have an army in the field, Rev. 19. 19. <HI>And I &s;aw the Bea&s;t, and the Kings of the Earth, &amp; their armies gathered together, to make war again&s;t him that &s;ate on the hor&s;e, and again&s;t his Army.</HI> Behold the <HI>Noble Army</HI> of the <HI>Lord <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;us!</HI> and ob&s;erve further, that it is &s;uch an <HI>Army</HI> as is &s;tirred up to fight from <HI>Scripture motives,</HI> not from <HI>Politique con&s;ideratious,</HI> and therefore it is added in the 21. <HI>ver. That their bodies were &s;laine with that &s;word which pro|ceeded out of the mouth of Chri&s;t:</HI> &amp; yet it was a bodily &s;laugh|ter, for it followes, <HI>all the Fowles were filled with their fle&s;h:</HI> and no marvaile if the&s;e &s;ouldiers were encouraged to fight up-Scripture-motives, if you con&s;ider what kinde of &s;ouldiers
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they are who doe the deed; <HI>Men Cho&s;en and Faithfull.</HI> For when the Kings of the earth have given their power to the Bea&s;t, the&s;e choi&s;e-&s;ouldiers will be &s;o faithfull to the King of Kings, as to oppo&s;e the Bea&s;t, though armed with <HI>King-like power.</HI> So S. Iohn, <HI>The&s;e</HI> [Kings] <HI>have one minde, and &s;hall give their power and &s;trength to the Bea&s;t; The&s;e &s;hall make war with the Lambe, and the Lambe &s;hall overcome them, for he is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, and they that are with him are Called, and Cho&s;en, and Faithfull.</HI> Rev. 17. 13, 14. You &s;ee the faithfull people make no &s;cruple at all of fighting a|gain&s;t the Bea&s;t, though their enemies were like enough to &s;ay, that by fighting again&s;t the Bea&s;t, they did rebell again&s;t their owne Kings, who had given their power, and &s;trength unto the Bea&s;t. Mark what that Text &s;aith, they were called to this &s;ervice, cho&s;en and pickt out on purpo&s;e, &amp; therefore they had not been faithfull had they de&s;erted the Cau&s;e, and refu&s;ed the &s;ervice. Nay they are encouraged to war by a promi&s;e of victory, and therefore are re&s;olved to fight again&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">De<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e aute illa quae it a coaluerint reg|na&mdash;cu~ Agus pugnabunt, victoria tamea tande~ penes Agm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m Dominum no&s;trum futura. Appl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">c. Illud dudu~ factu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> e&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">&abque; etiamnum fit: Hoc etiam aliquat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> factu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">, &s;ed multo~ glorio&s;io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> victorta quandoque impletu~ <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i &s;peramus. Vti Docti&s;&s;imus Inter|pret C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">nt <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> A|pocal. p. 261.</NOTE> the Bea&s;t, though hee come armed with the power and &s;trength of <HI>ten Kings,</HI> &s;o S. <HI>Iohn.</HI> I could now tell you a long &s;tory of the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> &amp; another of the King of <HI>France;</HI> but the times call upon me to &s;peak plain and home, and yet I will not &s;peake Trea&s;on neither. To what end &s;hould we wa&s;te time about a di&s;cour&s;e of <HI>Hull,</HI> and the <HI>Militia?</HI> Come &s;peake to the point. If a King of the Prote&s;tant Profe&s;&s;ion &s;hould give his &s;trength and power to his Queene a Papi&s;t, and &s;he give it to the Iefuits, to the Bea&s;t, it is neither Rebellion nor Trea&s;on to fight for the King, to recover his power out of the hand of the Bea&s;t; I &s;ay, for the King, that the <HI>power</HI> being regained may be &s;etled upon the Kings Royall per&s;on, and po&s;terity; and then it is to be hoped that the King &amp; they will take warning and beware how they tru&s;t out their power another time. We are enga|ged to fight again&s;t the Anti-Chri&s;tian faction by our very <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">tu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> ad Martyr.</NOTE> Bapti&s;me: <HI>Vocati &s;umus ad hanc Militiam Dei vivi iam tunc cum in Sacramenti verba re&s;pondimus,</HI> as <HI>Tertullian</HI> to the Martyrs. <NOTE PLACE="marg">See a little trea|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;e which I late|ly put forth of the Ri&s;e, &amp;c. of Sociniani&s;ine.</NOTE></P>
<P>But the <HI>Socinians</HI> and <HI>Anabapti&s;ts</HI> &s;o much complained of, do here ca&s;t in a &s;cruple: We Chri&s;tians, &s;ay they, are called
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to faith &amp; charity, and therefore it doth not become us to go to war. It is true, Chri&s;tians are called to faith, and therefore to de&s;end the faith, they mu&s;t <HI>contend earne&s;tly for the faith,</HI> and <HI>be valiant for the truth.</HI> The Apo&s;tle reckons acts of valour <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude v. 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Jer. 9. 3. Heb. 11. 33, 34.</NOTE> among&s;t acts of faith: <HI>Through faith they waxed valiant in fight, &amp;c.</HI> Much more is it an act of faith to be valiant in the de|fence of the faith, an act of Ju&s;tice and Religion; &s;o <HI>Augu&s;tin.</HI></P>
<P>And if you talk of charity, con&s;ider that of the Authour, <HI>Omnes, omnium charitates</HI> Patria <HI>complectitur, Cic. off. l.</HI> 1. give me leave to &s;ay, <HI>Chri&s;tus complectitur.</HI> That is not true charity which will not con&s;i&s;t with faith: Be charitable to thine own &s;oul, and the Church of God: Love thy Countrey, thy Religion, and thy Saviour better then thy e&s;tate, thy life, thy friends: be out of charity <HI>with the Whore and the</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Quid enim culpatur in bello? an quia moriuntur quande|que morituri ut dominentur in pa|ce victur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t hoc re|prehendere <HI>tim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|dorum</HI> e&s;t, non <HI>Religio&s;oru~&mdash;</HI>Alioquin Iohannes cum ad cum bap|tiz andi milites ve|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">irent dicentes, Et nos quid faciemus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> re&s;ponderet, <HI>Arma abjicite, Militiam I&s;ta~ de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erite&mdash;</HI>&s;ed quia &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iebat eos, cum hac militand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> facerent, non e&s;&s;e Homicidas, &s;ed mi|ni&s;tros legis, &amp; non ultores injuriarum &s;uarum, &s;ed Salutis publicae Defen&s;ores, vide Augu&s;t contra Mantch. lib. 22. cap. 74.</NOTE> <HI>Bea&s;t,</HI> they are fitter objects of thy hatred, then of thy cha|rity; nay we mu&s;t hate the Whore, and burn her fle&s;h; there is no mercy to be &s;hewen to this <HI>Whore,</HI> &s;he will never be quiet till &s;he is burnt. It concerns the Governours of <HI>Sion,</HI> who are as the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Angelus vinde|miator adbibitis Sanctis, quorum ad hoc negotium ei praefectura deman data e&s;t, betros Be|&s;tianos putabit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ab&s;ci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">detque: Eaque putatione &s;ua faciet in Armag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">dduntem congregari, &amp;c. Con&s;ulas velim eruditi M. Mede Comment. in cap. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Apocal. p. 255. &amp; 265. ubi hac verba legas: Qua multorum manibus peraguntur, Angelo tamen tanquam <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">i gerenda Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;idi &amp; Duci pre communi l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">quendi more tribuuntur.</NOTE> Angels of the Lord, to thru&s;t in their &s;ickle into the Romi&s;h vineyard, &amp; cut down vine, and grapes, and all, becau&s;e it is the <HI>Vine of earth,</HI> it is not the <HI>Vine of heaven,</HI> all the Antichri&s;tian clu&s;ters mu&s;t be gathered together, and thrown into thegreat Wine-pre&s;&s;e of the wrath of God: and when once the Wine-pre&s;&s;e comes to be troden, beleeve it blood will &s;pring up to the very Hor&s;e-bridles, for the &s;pace of a thou&s;and and &s;ix hundred furlongs, <HI>Revel.</HI> 14. 19, 20. This prophecy hath reference to that great &s;laughter which &s;hall be made, <HI>Revel.</HI> 19. when the Lord Je&s;us &s;hall come to tread the Wine-pre&s;&s;e, ver&s;. 15. You may gue&s;&s;e further yet at the greatne&s;&s;e of the &s;laughter, by the invitation of the fowls of heaven to &s;upper, at the latter end of the day; <HI>Come, gather your &s;elves together unto the &s;upper of the great God,</HI> ver&s;e 16. You may read the bill of fare in the 18. ver&s;e, Come ye fowls of heaven, <HI>Come, eat the fle&s;h of Kings, and the fle&s;h of Captains, and the fle&s;h of mighty men, and the fle&s;h of Hor&s;es,
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and of them that &s;it on them, and the fle&s;h of all men, both free and bond, both &s;mall and great.</HI> This Prophe&s;ie &s;hall not be ful|filled till the pouring out of the la&s;t vial, for this is the la&s;t blow it will prove a bloody and a fatall Day; for the &s;eventh Angel pours out his vial, and cries the deed is done, 'tis fi|ni&s;hed when all the <HI>Babylonian</HI> troops &s;hall be gathered to <HI>Armageddon.</HI> the de&s;truction of troops, as the word imports. The Bea&s;t &s;hall receive many a wound before, but this blow <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> &s;hall di&s;patch him, he &s;hall never hold up his head more. <HI>De|liver thy &s;elf,</HI> then <HI>O Zion.</HI> Chri&s;t is the great Deliverer, but though Chri&s;t be Principall, we mu&s;t be In&s;trumentall in this great work of our own deliverance. <HI>Deliver [thy &s;elf,] O Zion;</HI> and if thou can&s;t not be delivered without fighting, fight for thy deliverance. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;idera|tions.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1. Con&s;ider that <HI>Rome</HI> is <HI>Babylon;</HI> St. <HI>Iohn</HI> never &s;peaks one good word of <HI>Rome,</HI> quite thorowout the book of the Revelation; he calls it <HI>Egypt,</HI> or <HI>Sodom,</HI> or <HI>Babylon,</HI> the <HI>throne</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">In Apoc. 17. ap|pellatur Anti-Chri&s;tus, meretrix Magna, Sander. De Ant. Demon&s;t 13. <HI>The Pope is the whore that rides the Bea&s;t, yet St. Iohn doth &s;ome|times call this whore the Bea&s;t, Rev. 1 <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> ver&s;e 11, 12. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span">. 17. becau&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> is the head of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word">, that is, of tho&s;e people &amp; Nation, which are as &s;ubject to the Pope a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> a poore bea&s;t to a mercile&s;le<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="2 letters"> rider.</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, &s;id <GAP DESC="foreign">, &s;cilicet <GAP DESC="foreign">. Non dicit ip&s;a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word">. Be<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> a e&s;t, ut perperam vertit vul<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">atus interpres, &s;ed ip&s;e, &s;cil. rex. octavus e&s;t. Vide Dounam, de A<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span">o lab. 1. cap. 5. &s;ect. 11. p. 57.</NOTE> <HI>of the Bea&s;t,</HI> the <HI>&s;trong-hold of foul-&s;pirits,</HI> the <HI>habitation of Devils. Rome</HI> was once the Spou&s;e of Chri&s;t, but behold, &s;he is not onely turned an whore, but the mother of Harlots, and fornications, the Metropolis of Apo&s;ta&s;ie, and my&s;tery of Iniquity, the great whore, <HI>Revel.</HI> 17. 1. a bla&s;phemous whore in the third <HI>ver&s;e,</HI> a whore in purple, <HI>ver&s;e</HI> the fourth, an impudent whore, that hath her bea&s;tline&s;&s;e written, not onely upon her Cell, but upon her Forehead, <HI>ver&s;e</HI> the fifth, a drunken whore, a bloody whore, in the &s;ixth <HI>ver&s;e, I &s;aw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints, with the blood of the Martyrs of Ie&s;us.</HI> We need not run to Antiquity to ask their opinion, what whore, and what bea&s;t this is, or where this whore dwells; St. <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;peaks &s;o plain, that the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Vltimum caput Be&s;tia (impertum Romanura tenentem &s;ine nomine Imperatotus) A<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span">i&s;tum e&s;&s;e fa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">etur Bellarminus lib. 3. de Pontifice c. 15. Con&s;ulantur Viegas in Apo. 17. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word">. 3. Ribera in Apot. 14. Numb 27.&mdash;20. Ambro&s;ius An&s;vertus in Apocalip. lib. 6. Vbi e&s;t illa dudum &s;uper omma regna exaltata in<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">lyta Roma, Babylon &s;ecunde? Beatus Rhenanus, Petrarcha, Aventinus, Dantes, Ludovicus Vives in ab 18. Civ Dei. c. 22. Prima&s;ius in cap. 16. Apocalip. Roma e&s;t qua&s;i &s;ecunda Baby|lon, Aug de G<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="3 letters">. con<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">. Manich. lib. 2 c. 1. Hieronym. Epi&s;t, ad Eu&s;toch. Paulin. Marcell. Idem in Catal. Script. Eccle&s; in Marco Antichri&s;tus j am pridem natus e&s;t Romae, &amp; al<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ius extolletur in &s;ede Apo&s;tolic&acirc;, inquit Ioa|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> Abbas. Mal o de Antichri&s;to p. 182, Bellarm. l. 3. de Rom. Pont. cap. 13.</NOTE> Je&s;uits them&s;elves are forced to confe&s;&s;e that this whore was to do|mineer
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at <HI>Rome:</HI> It is the City which is built upon &s;even Hills, which had had &s;o many governments, five of which <NOTE PLACE="marg">Septem urbs alta jugis, toti qua proe|&s;idet orbi, Propert. l. 3 eleg. 10. Tertul. adv. Iudaeos. Idem Centra Marcion. l 3. c. 13.</NOTE> were fallen before St. <HI>Iohn</HI> writ this Book, <HI>Kings, Con&s;uls, Tribunes, Decemvirs, Dictatours;</HI> one remains &s;till &s;aith St. <HI>Iohn,</HI> namely the government of <HI>Emperours,</HI> and the other, that of <HI>Popes,</HI> was not then come. And that we might be &s;ure not to mi&s;take, St. <HI>Iohn</HI> tells us, that it is the great Ci|ty which reigned over the Kings of the earth in his time, <HI>Revel.</HI> 17. 18.</P>
<P N="2">2. Con&s;ider who is the Generall, or the Commander in Chief, of the <HI>Babylonian</HI> Army; St. <HI>Iohn</HI> hath &s;et him forth like a God of the world, with Titles enough, the <HI>Serpent,</HI> the <HI>Dragon,</HI> the <HI>Angel of the bottomle&s;&s;e-pit,</HI> for 'tis he, that gives all the orders and directions to Antichri&s;t: He advi&s;es him to lay claim to a Power which belongs not to him. <HI>Irenaeus</HI> long &s;ince hath clearly &s;hewn that the Bea&s;t with two horns, and the Fal&s;e Prophet, are but one and the &s;ame Bea&s;t: Learned M^r. <HI>Mede</HI> hath &s;hewn that the Bea&s;t with ten horns, doth &s;ignifie the Secular Power of ten King|doms, who by the impious &s;ubtilty of the Dragon, com|bine <NOTE PLACE="marg">Nam &s;epte~ capitu~ numerus Romani regni in&s;igne e&s;t, ut &amp; decem cormium ge&s;tamen&mdash;cor|nibus (quae &s;olius novi&s;simi capitis &s;unt, impo&s;ita dia|demata regnu~ illud &s;ub novi&s;&s;imi capitis vice exhiberi o&s;t c~|dunt. M. Med. Co~. Apocal. p. 182. Per Be&s;tiam c 13. Apoc. de terra a&s;|cendentem&mdash;omnium concordi &s;ententia de&s;ignatur Antichri&s;tus, Io|doc. Clict in Dam. l. 4. c 27. Antichri&s;tu~ <GAP DESC="foreign"> ob&s;ervavit Cyrillus <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> together to make a Body, a <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Common-wealth; the Bea&s;t with two Horns is, as you u&s;e to call it, the Eccle&s;ia|&s;ticall Power. The ten Kings, or Kingdoms, were to make up but one Bea&s;t of burthen, for the Whore to ride upon; that is, they all joyn together to &s;upport the Whore, and there|fore the&s;e ten Horns are all placed upon the &s;eventh Head, that is, they &s;trengthen the la&s;t government, the Popi&s;h go|vernment. Now as the great Dragon did manage the whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, while&s;t that Heatheni&s;me was &s;upported by the power of the <HI>Romane</HI> Emperours, as St. <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;hews in the twelfth Chapter of the <HI>Revelation;</HI> &s;o doth the Dragon over-rule the whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in the time of the Antichri&s;tian Popes, as St. <HI>Iohn</HI> &s;hews in the thirteenth Chapter; for the Dragon gave the Bea&s;t his Power, and his Seat, and great Au|thority, <HI>Revel.</HI> 13. 3. and they wor&s;hipped the Dragon, who gave power to the Bea&s;t, <HI>ver&s;e</HI> the fourth, and therefore the Bea&s;t is &s;aid to a&s;cend out of the bottomle&s;&s;e&punc; pit, <HI>Revel.</HI> 17. 8. If you look upon the Pope as Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome,</HI> &s;o he
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came up out of the earth, his Ordination was not from hea|ven; but if you look upon him as Pope, as Univer&s;all Bi&s;hop, &amp; a Temporall Monarch, a King even of kings, we &s;ay he had <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">. <GAP DESC="foreign">. A Cy<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ll<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> tempore ratio ineunda e&s;t, uti de Alexandrinis &s;ermo habetur; ut i &agrave; tempore Bo|n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i: ter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ii, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">, Nu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">us enim Ponti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">icum Romanorum univer&s;alis Epi&s;copus &s;alutatus erat a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">te Bo|ni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">cium <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> blacker In&s;titution, he a&s;cended out of the bottomle&s;&s;e-pit. Take it thus then, Satan had his Seat in Heathen <HI>Rome,</HI> but he hath his Throne in Popi&s;h <HI>Rome;</HI> ever &s;ince the <HI>Romane</HI> Court hath had the confidence to call it &s;elf the Catholique Church, it hath offered more violence, and done more mi&s;|chief to the true Church of Chri&s;t, then ever was done by the <HI>Romane</HI> Empire; and therefore as the 7. trumpets did &s;ound an Alarme again&s;t the <HI>Romane</HI> Empire; &s;o the 7. vials are all to be poured out upon the Popi&s;h Empire, the Anti-chri&s;tian State.</P>
<P N="3">3. Con&s;ider that where the Pope and his Agents prevail <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">demque a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">|tium in par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">emanni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Mat <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> intelligas <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> by a <HI>Babylonian</HI> Army, there they do con&s;tantly exerci&s;e a <HI>Babylonian</HI> Tyranny. When the people were &s;o mad as to prefer <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> before Chri&s;t, God gave them into the hand of the <HI>Romane</HI> Emperour, and he tyrannized over them, and God would not deliver them; ju&s;t as he threatned before|hand by his Prophet <HI>Zechary, 11. 6. I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his King, and they &s;hall &s;mite the land, and out of their hand will I not deli|ver them.</HI> The Emperour did &s;mite the land indeed, but the Pope of <HI>Rome</HI> will tyrannize far wor&s;e then the Emperour. If ever God for our &s;ins &s;ell us into the hand of that Man of &s;inne, he will not onely tyrannize over our bodies and e&s;tates, but over our con&s;ciences too: If ever he enter <HI>England</HI> with his tripple-crown, with his &s;word in one hand, and his keyes in the other, he will tyrannize like a Pope, he will curtall our Creed, and yet enlarge it: I beleeve in the holy Catholike Church, that is, as they interpret it too often, in the Pope; that mu&s;t be our onely Creed, and we &s;hall finde that a large one. We mu&s;t <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">In Bapti&s;m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> e&s;&s;e &amp; Im<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">|tum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ament<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eatenti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ga Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">m <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> &s;wear obedience to the Popes Commands, they &s;ay, that vow of obedience is im|plied
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in their Bapti&s;me, and therefore they name the Trini|ty but for fa&s;hion &s;ake, and do indeed baptize their chil|dren in the name of Antichri&s;t. Now if the Popes Com|mands are in force, and the Commands of God di&s;pen&s;ed with, the Commands of the Pope will &s;oon ju&s;tle out the Commands of God. You know the Pope hath by the <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Capi&s;t p 23. B. Papa e&s;t qua&s;i D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in terr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">, ma~|jor homine &amp; mi|nor De<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l, Penitud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|nem <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">nens Pe|ta&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">. Vide qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> lu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;at &s;up<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ique bla&s;phem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> de Pau|l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> 5. &s;crip&s;it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">us ab Al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a|&s;ar in Apoc. ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. ad Ioan. Apo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.&mdash;qui nu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">lit p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Antichri&s;tus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;it &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">vus, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">amen adora<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> vult ut Deus. Iren<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">. 5&punc; c penultimo.</NOTE> Ple|nitude of his power &s;truck out the &s;econd Commandment, and by the &s;ame authority he may when he plea&s;e, &s;trike out the fir&s;t Commandment, and by con&s;equent all the re&s;t; and then he may make a new Preface, and a new Decalogue, if that number will content him, he may &s;ay as the <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Credere Dominu~ Deum no&s;trum Pa|pam&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">onditorem dictae Decretalis&mdash;non &s;ic potui&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> prout &s;tatuit Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Gl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Ca|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">xtr. Ioan, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">2 de verborum &s;ignificat c. Cum in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">. Reform<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Glo&s;&s;ae exemplar a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;piciis Grego<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">. editum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> illam (&s;cil De<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">) Vitio Typographo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">um omi&s;&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> re|&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">t. Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">i|mum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">|vit R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Epi&s;copu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">t Diat&punc; ib de A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">, l. 4. c. 10. p. 311.</NOTE> Extrava|gant &s;aith, that he him&s;elf [is the Lord our God,] who de|&s;ires to bring us into the land of <HI>Aegypt,</HI> the hou&s;e of bon|dage (he &s;hould do well to put in that) where we &s;hall have no other God but the Pope, for he exalts him&s;elf above all that is called God; but we may have as many Images, and Idols as we plea&s;e, and &s;o take the Name of our God in vain; we mu&s;t keep all the Saints dayes, and then we &s;hall not be at lei&s;ure to keep the Lords-day; you know the Popes Agents here in <HI>England,</HI> about four years ago, did not onely di&s;pen&s;e with the people for ob&s;erving the Lords-day, but enjoyn them to prophane it: you know their Doctrine about Aequivocation, and Fornication; they do too often count Murther meritorious, a Doctrine which doth well be|come the mouth of that purple whore, who is drunk with the blood of Saints. St. <HI>John</HI> hath drawn this Mon&s;ter to the life; you may gue&s;&s;e how the Pope will tyrannize by the very picture of the Bea&s;t, <HI>Revel.</HI> 13. 2. No one bea&s;t hath ill qualities enough to furni&s;h the Pope, and therefore he bor|rows &s;omething from the <HI>Leopard,</HI> and &s;omething from the <HI>Bear,</HI> and &s;omething from the <HI>Lyon,</HI> be&s;ides what he hath from the <HI>Dragon;</HI> this Antichri&s;tian Monarch hath all the tyrannizing qualities of three of tho&s;e Monarchies which the Prophet <HI>Daniel</HI> hath de&s;cribed; the <HI>Leopard</HI> was the type of the <HI>Graecian,</HI> the <HI>Bear</HI> of the <HI>Per&s;ian,</HI> the <HI>Lyon</HI> of the <HI>Babylonian</HI> Monarchy; it is ob&s;ervable that he hath the Mouth of a <HI>Lyon,</HI> a <HI>Babylonian</HI> mouth, he will plead for <HI>Babylon,</HI> he will &s;end forth &s;uch Edicts as <HI>Nebuchadnezzar</HI>
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did, they &s;hall be burnt alive who will not wor&s;hip the Image which he hath &s;et up: You &s;ee he hath the mouth of a <HI>Lyon,</HI> nay the mouth of a <HI>Dragon,</HI> for though he pretends that he is the <HI>&s;ervant of &s;ervants,</HI> (and the cur&s;e of <HI>Cham</HI> indeed is a fit title for him) nay though he &s;ay he is Chri&s;ts Vicar, and hath two horns like a <HI>Lambe,</HI> yet he &s;peaks like a <HI>Dragon, Revel.</HI> 13. 11. What &s;ay you then, brethren, &s;hall we run into the paw of this <HI>Bear,</HI> into the mouth of this <HI>Lyon,</HI> this <HI>Dragon,</HI> who is as great a tyrant as the <HI>Graecians, Per&s;ians, Babylonians,</HI> put them all together? nay he comes in the power of the <HI>Dragon,</HI> of the Devill him&s;elf, and there|fore he will not onely tyrann<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ze as an Emperour, but as a Devill. <HI>Deliver thy &s;elf, O Sion,</HI> from the <HI>Babylonian</HI> Army, that thou maye&s;t never groan under the iron yoak of <HI>Baby|lonian</HI> tyranny.</P>
<P N="4">4. Con&s;ider that the men of <HI>Europe</HI> are mo&s;t given to ad|mire the <HI>Babylonian Bea&s;t,</HI> and to &s;ubmit unto him; <HI>All the world,</HI> &s;aith St. <HI>Iohn, wondred after the Bea&s;t,</HI> Revel. 13. 3. this was the <HI>Europaean</HI> world; take heed ye men of <HI>Europe,</HI> do not wonder after the <HI>Bea&s;t,</HI> for fear you wor&s;hip him, for &s;o it follows in the very next <HI>ver&s;e;</HI> fir&s;t they wondred, and then they wor&s;hipped: be not terrified with the &s;trength and provi&s;ions of the <HI>Babylonian</HI> Army; if any man be &s;tricken with fear and admiration both at once, and cry out with tho&s;e admirers, and wor&s;hippers of the Bea&s;t, <HI>Revel. 13. 4. Who is like unto the Bea&s;t, who is able to make warre with him?</HI> let him take the&s;e following Encouragements, and then he &s;hall &s;ee, that there is one that is able to make war with the <HI>Bea&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>1. My fir&s;t way of Encouragement is to remove your di&s;|couragements, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Encourage|ments.</NOTE> and to affright you out of all your fears; you are afraid of the threats and rage of the <HI>Babylonian</HI> Party. I will fright you more, Chri&s;t doth out-threaten Antichri&s;t, therefore if you will be affrighted, feare Chri&s;t mo&s;t, the wrath of God, and the effects of his wrath, his puni&s;hments, are far more terrible then any that can be inflicted by the <HI>Babylonian Army:</HI> read the fourteenth Chapter of the <HI>Reve|lation,</HI> the ninth and following ver&s;es: <HI>If any man wor&s;hip the
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Bea&s;t, and his Image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his [hand,]</HI> ob&s;erve that, though by his forehead he may &s;eem a Neuter, yet if he have the Mark in his hand, and work clo&s;ely under-board for Antichri&s;t, <HI>that man &s;hall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture, into the cup of his indignation, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;hall be tormented with fire and brim&s;tone, in the pre&s;ence of the holy Angels, and in the pre&s;ence of the Lamb: And the &s;moak of their torment a&s;cendeth up for ever and ever, and they have no re&s;t day nor night, who wor&s;hip the Beae&s;t, and his image, and who&s;oever receives the mark of his name.</HI> What think you now? have not they who comply with Antichri&s;t, greater di&s;couragements then they that op|po&s;e him? had not a man better adventure up to the very mouth of a Cannon, then be tormented with the fire of He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, or the wrath of God? Let the fear of God pre&s;erve thee from all fal&s;e fears. <HI>Timor Dei efficit ut caetera non timeantur.</HI> Fear not them that kill the body, but fear him who can ca&s;t thy &s;oule and body into Hell, yea feare him. Do&s;t thou not be|leeve a Re&s;urrection? why then do&s;t thou fear them that kill the body? &s;hew me an army that can keep my body from ri&s;ing, or my &s;oul from a&s;cending, &amp; I will be afraid of them.</P>
<P>My &s;econd Encouragement is taken from Gods dealing with <HI>Babylon</HI> of old. I &s;hall not tell you any long &s;tories out <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Encourag.</NOTE> of <HI>Xenophon, Herodotus,</HI> or the re&s;t, about the taking of <HI>Baby|lon,</HI> but content my &s;elf with what I finde in Scripture.</P>
<P N="1">1. God did dry up <HI>Euphrates,</HI> a river &s;o deep and &s;wift, that the <HI>Babylonians</HI> laughed at all the attempts of any ene|my that &s;hould go about to take their City, and yet <HI>Babylon</HI> was &s;oon taken, when God did but &s;ay to the deep, <HI>Be dry, I&s;ai.</HI> 44. 27. God did plead the cau&s;e of <HI>Sion,</HI> and dry up the &s;ea of <HI>Babylon,</HI> and all the &s;prings. <HI>Ierem.</HI> 51. 36. And will not God plead the cau&s;e of his Evangelicall <HI>Sion?</HI> will he not dry up the <HI>Euphrates,</HI> the Sea of <HI>Rome,</HI> and all her &s;prings? Yes &s;urely, God doth intend to dry up the <HI>Romi&s;h Euphrates, Revel.</HI> 16. 12. The River is not now &s;o deep, it doth not overflow the banks &s;o far as it hath done of late dayes; we have gained much ground from the <HI>Romi&s;h-&s;ea.</HI> Let us look to our <HI>Banks,</HI> and keep what we have gained.</P>
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2. God did give up the <HI>Babylonians</HI> to luxury, drunken|ne&s;&s;e, &s;ecurity; <HI>I will make them drunken that they may rejoyce, and &s;leep a perpetuall &s;leep, and not awake, &s;aith the Lord,</HI> Jerem. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">. 39. The people of <HI>Babylon</HI> were drunk, and a&s;leep, and left the gates open, <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 45. 1.</P>
<P N="3">3. God did break thorow all their Fortifications, and make all tho&s;e gates, and bars which were fa&s;t, flie open, to make way for <HI>Cyrus,</HI> I&s;ai. 45. 2.</P>
<P N="4">4. God did di&s;cover all the hid trea&s;ure, and &s;ecret wealth of <HI>Babylon,</HI> I&s;ai. 45. 3.</P>
<P>Finally, God did &s;peake terrour to the hearts of the <HI>Baby|lonians,</HI> their hands did faint, their hearts did melt, their fa|ces were like a pale trembling flame, which ri&s;es now, and anon it falls, and at la&s;t goes away in a &s;moak; &s;o I under|&s;tand that place, <HI>I&s;ai. 13. 8. Their faces &s;hall be as the faces of the flames.</HI></P>
<P>It is certain, that God loves his <HI>Evangelicall Sion</HI> as well as he loved the <HI>Iewi&s;h Sion,</HI> and he hates the <HI>Romi&s;h Babylon</HI> more then ever he hated the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian Babylon:</HI> let us then depend upon the love and power of God, the promi&s;es of the Go&s;pel, the wi&s;dom and fidelity of Chri&s;t, for the de|&s;truction of <HI>Romi&s;h Babylon.</HI> The time will not permit me to &s;peak di&s;tinctly of tho&s;e &s;everall Heads: Yet take a third Encouragement.</P>
<P>3. All the People of God are called upon to deale with <NOTE PLACE="marg">3. Encourag.</NOTE> this <HI>Romi&s;h Babylon</HI> as &s;he hath dealt with them. <HI>Reward her, eve~ as &s;he rewarded you;</HI> nay higher yet, double <HI>unto her</HI> double, <HI>according to her workes: in the Cup which &s;he hath filled, fill to her double,</HI> Revel. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">8. 6. <HI>Babylon</HI> was wont to ca&s;t out <HI>Sion,</HI> let <HI>Si|on</HI> now ca&s;t out <HI>Babylon;</HI> the ba&s;e &s;onnes of <HI>Babylon</HI> bani&s;hed &s;ome precious &s;onnes of <HI>Sion</HI> as farre as <HI>America,</HI> and when they had done, they &s;coffed at them as if they were <HI>Barbari|ans,</HI> becau&s;e bani&s;hed into a rude Barbarous Country, they might better have &s;aid as <HI>Salvian</HI> did of old, <HI>Barbaros i&s;tos fecit no&s;tra barbaries.</HI> Come then, let us deale as ju&s;tly with the <HI>Babylonians</HI> as they have dealt cruelly with us, let <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> have as little encouragement to &s;tay in <HI>England,</HI> as &s;trict Prote|&s;tants have had; let tho&s;e men of iron entrailes, and brazen
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bowels, who are <HI>Spaniardized</HI> and <HI>Italianated,</HI> I meane <HI>Je&s;u|ited,</HI> goe live in <HI>Spaine</HI> or <HI>Italy,</HI> &s;uch Mon&s;ters are not fit for our Climate. You are <HI>Phy&s;itians</HI> to the State, and the&s;e are Purging times, let all Malignant Humours be purged out of the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, and Politique Body. O let the Excrements be expelled, the vitall, and integrall pre&s;erved in health and &s;trength. But if there be any who out of &s;implicity have wondred after the Bea&s;t, and are now probably reduced and credibly penitent, &s;uch may be &s;pared in hope: yet it will not be ami&s;&s;e to give them a little Phy&s;ique to prevent a Relap&s;e.</P>
<P>4. Chri&s;t is &s;tronger then Antichri&s;t; Oh let us depend upon his love to his Brethren, his Members, his Church, his <NOTE PLACE="marg">4. Encourag.</NOTE> Spou&s;e. God will in due time make his enemies know that his Church hath an husband which will maintain her cau&s;e, &amp; avenge her quarrell. The effectuall power, and watchfull providence of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, is con&s;tantly imployed for his Churches good; the &s;even Hornes of the Lamb are &s;tronger then the ten hornes of the Bea&s;t. S. <HI>Iohn</HI> doth de&s;cribe Chri&s;t by the Similitude of a Lambe with &s;even hornes and &s;even eyes, to note his power, and providence, Rev,. 5. 6. Though the Bea&s;t hath ten horns, yet he wants the&s;e &s;even eyes, the&s;e &s;even &s;pirits. Now the Lambe with &s;even eyes will di&s;cover all the plots, &amp; projects of the enemy, al the <HI>Arcana Belli,</HI> and <HI>Arcana Imperii</HI> too. What though the Drago~ a&s;&s;i&s;t the Bea&s;t, be of good comfort, Chri&s;t hath overcome the Devil, he hath broke the Serpents Head, and that is the rea&s;on that the Po|liticians wits are &s;o often crackt, and that they delude them|&s;elves with &s;uch feaveri&s;h conceits, and brain-&s;ick inventi|ons. The &s;trength of a City was u&s;ually in the gates, and there they commonly &s;ate in Councell, but Chri&s;t hath pro|mi&s;ed that Hell gates, that is, the Power and Policy of Hell, &s;hall never prevaile again&s;t his beloved Church. Chri&s;t hath this &s;ame crackt-braine Serpent in a chaine, he can rebuke him, or trample on him. The three troublers of <HI>Sion,</HI> the Bea&s;t, the fal&s;e Prophet, and the Devill, &s;hall be all three <HI>tormented together in Hell for ever and ever.</HI> Rev. 20. 10. <HI>And at the battell of the great day of God Almighty the Bea&s;t and the fal&s;e Prophet &s;hall be both taken, and thrown alive into the lake
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which burns with fire, and brim&s;tone,</HI> Rev. 19. 20. So let all thine enemies, all thy implacable and incorrigible enemies pe|ri&s;h O Lord. I &s;hall clo&s;e up this point with the words of the Prophet <HI>Jeremiah, Put your &s;elves in aray again&s;t Babylon round about, all yee that bend the bow &s;hoot at her, &s;pare no arrowes, for &s;he hath &s;inned again&s;t the Lord&mdash;take vengeance upon her, as &s;he hath done doe unto her,</HI> Ier. 50. 14, 15.</P>
<P>Hitherto we have con&s;idered the Babylonians as gathe|red into an Army, and I have &s;hewne what encouragements we have to fight again&s;t them. I mu&s;t now looke upon them as gathered into a Church, and &s;hew you what rea&s;on wee have to <HI>&s;eparate</HI> from them; this point is very pertinent to the Text, and times and therefore give me leave to in&s;i&s;t up|on it. <HI>Flee from the Land of the North,</HI> &s;aith the Lord in the ver&s;e before my Text, <HI>Babylon</HI> &s;tood North from <HI>Ieru&s;a|lem,</HI> and therefore <HI>Flee from the Land of the North</HI> is as much as if he had &s;aid, Flee from <HI>Babylon,</HI> deliver thy &s;elfe <HI>O Zion</HI> that dwelle&s;t in <HI>Babylon,</HI> dwell there no longer, but de|liver thy &s;elfe by a <HI>Separation.</HI> The Prophet <HI>Ieremy</HI> will make <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ierem. 51. 6. 11.</NOTE> the Call full and compleat. Flee out of the mid&s;t of <HI>Babylon,</HI> and deliver every man his &s;oule, be not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lords vengeance. <HI>ver.</HI> 6. yea the vengeance of his temple. <HI>ver.</HI> 11. Now that we have the &s;ame Call from Heaven to depart from Romi&s;h <HI>Babylon,</HI> is mo&s;t e|vident, Rev. 18. 4. <HI>And I heard another voice from Heaven, &s;a|ying,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> Ari&s;t. Topic.</NOTE> <HI>Come out of her my people:</HI> and that for the&s;e two rea&s;ons, they are both &s;pecified in the Text, the 1^t. is, <HI>That ye be not partakers of their &s;innes,</HI> the 2^d. <HI>That ye receive not of her plagues.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Be not Partakers of her &s;innes, e&s;pecially tho&s;e &s;innes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sententia D. Davenant. de Pace procuranda inter Evangel p. 8. En grande &amp; hor|rendum ob&s;taculum quo Eccle&s;iae Re|formatae non ab&s;&abque; &s;ummo animi dolore &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">orrore coguntur extra Eccle&s;iae Romana commu|monem manere.</NOTE> which corrupt the wor&s;hip of God, or faith of Chri&s;tians, do not joyne with her in that Grand &s;inne, for which S. <HI>Iohn</HI> calls her Whore &s;o often, the &s;inne of <HI>Idolatry;</HI> it is &s;uch an unrea&s;onable &s;inne, that a &s;ober and rationall man would be a&s;hamed to be overtaken with, as the Prophet <HI>Jeremy</HI> ob|&s;erves, Cap. 51. 7. <HI>Babylon is a golden Cup in the Lords hand, it hath made all the earth Drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine,</HI> therefore <HI>the Nations are Mad:</HI> drunken and mad, or el&s;e they would never commit Idolatry. S. <HI>Iohn</HI> in like man|ner
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points at the Romi&s;h Harlot, the great Whore of <HI>Baby|lon,</HI> and bids us ob&s;erve the golden Cup in her hand full of <NOTE PLACE="marg">En &s;tigma Catho|licae <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> abominations and filthine&s;&s;e, in the 17. <HI>Chapter</HI> of the <HI>Revel. ver.</HI> 4. and tho&s;e that drink of this amorous Cup, full of en|chantments, are bewitched and drunk, or el&s;e they would never wor&s;hip the Bea&s;t, and the Devill, as it is plaine they <NOTE PLACE="marg">Principale crimen generis humani, &s;ummus &s;aeculi rea|tus, Idolololat<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ia. Tertull de Idol.</NOTE> do, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13. 4. I hope I need not &s;pend time in di&s;&s;wading a|ny here pre&s;ent, from wor&s;hipping the Devill and the Bea&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. Another &s;inne there is with which the Great whore doth u&s;ually poy&s;on her daughters, and her lovers, 'tis <HI>Here|&s;y,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide D. D<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">wnam de Antichri&s;t lib. 3 c. 7. Catalogus error. de Principiis, nec non partibus Theologiae. Haere&s;is illa magni momenti&mdash;de l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tifica|tione &amp; &s;alute ex Meritis operum &s;peranda&mdash;ju&s;to Dei judicio in Ec|cle&s;iam admi&s;&s;a: ne n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">mir<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">m qui Dei longanimutatem Te&s;tiumque praedi|cationem tamdiu, tamque pertinac<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">|ter co <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">emp&s;erant&mdash;po&s;tmodum ac|ciperent de fructu A<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ber<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters"> vitae &amp;c. Com Ap<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">c. p 258. Vide bullam Pai quarti &s;uper farm&acirc; lura<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">. euti profe&s;&s;i|onis fidei. Ego N. firm&acirc; fide credo&mdash;omnia &amp; &s;ingula quae continent <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">rin Symb<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">lo fide<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">, quo &s;ancta Romana Eccle&s;ia utitur, viz. Credo in unu~ D<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">u~ Patre<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">n: &amp; deinde &s;equuntur 12 arti|culi novi Symboli. Articulus duo. leci|mus &s;ic &s;e habet. Caetera item omnia a S <HI>S</HI> T<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="3 letters"> Synodo definita recipio, da~. nata rejicio. Vide Staepl. Relect. cont 4. q. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters"> a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">3.</NOTE> a kind of Catholique Here&s;y, all the Heretickes almo&s;t that ever were, have emptied their back ditches into the Sea of <HI>Rome,</HI> that receives all the filth of former ages; but of all their Here&s;ies, there is none more dangerous then that of ex|pecting Iu&s;tification, &amp; &s;alvation, for the merit of their own works. Learned M^r <HI>Mede</HI> ob&s;erves, that <HI>Rome</HI> had played the whore a great while before God gave her up to beleeve this lye. But now, &s;aith he, by the ju&s;t judgment of God, &s;he hath received that Reco~pence of her errour which was meet: God for herpertinacious co~tempt of the preaching of the wit|ne&s;&s;es, hath by giving her up to this Here&s;y, as it were turned her out of Paradi&s;e (that's his meaning) le&s;t &s;he &s;hould eate of the tree of life &amp; live for ever. The Papi&s;ts repeat the Apo&s;tles Creed, but they doe not beleeve it in the Apo&s;tles meaning. Now it is evident that a new &s;en&s;e doth make a new Creed. But they are not &s;o mode&s;t as to content them&s;elves with this grand corruption, though weak delu&s;ion, for they have added new Articles of faith to our old Creed, they have compo&s;ed a <HI>Trent-Creed,</HI> and they will not admit any man into their Communion, who beleeves the Apo&s;tles Creed, unle&s;&s;e he will beleeve this <HI>Trent-Creed.</HI> Con&s;ider that the private fancies of a domineering Faction were Canonized with a Cur&s;e, in the Conventicle of <HI>Trent,</HI> and in&s;erted in|to the Creed by Pope <HI>Pius</HI> the fourth. And <HI>Stapleton</HI> tells us plainly, that the <HI>Trent</HI> Councell had power to make a Propo&s;ition an Article of faith, <HI>Etiam&s;i non confirmetur ne probabili te&s;timonio Scripturarum.</HI> I need not then &s;ay any more in this weighty point. For the truth is, our Creed is the
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Creed of <HI>Sion,</HI> and theirs the Creed of <HI>Babylon,</HI> their Creed is <HI>Romane,</HI> and ours <HI>Catholique.</HI> The greate&s;t Article in their <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> account, which they adde to the Creed, concerns the Supre|macy of the Pope, <HI>Sube&s;&s;e Romano Pontifici e&s;t de nece&s;&s;itate &s;a|lutis;</HI> we mu&s;t build our faith upon the Popes Infallibility, and beleeve that he is the Foundation&punc; the Head, and Hu&s;|band of the Catholique Church; we know not how to par|don this bla&s;phemy, or to hold this Head, unle&s;&s;e we de|po&s;e Chri&s;t, and &s;et up Antichri&s;t, who if he had nothing el&s;e to hinder him, but the frailty and corruption of his na|ture, all the world knowes that he cannot &s;u&s;taine, quicken, &s;ave the Church, and therefore is not the Foundation, Head, or Husband of the Catholique Church, but the Head of the Malignant Church, the Whore that rides the Bea&s;t, the great Antichri&s;t, <HI>Romes</HI> God, and the Devills Vicar. Nay the Pope hath proceeded higher yet, hee hath given us a new Bible too, nay the Popes have given us more then one, wee mu&s;t take one from <HI>Sixtus,</HI> and another from <HI>Clement,</HI> two Bibles which doe not agree with the Originall, or with one another; the Papi&s;ts are puzled which of the&s;e tran&s;lations &s;hould be received: whether they &s;hould adventure to bee cur&s;ed by <HI>Sixtus,</HI> if they receive <HI>Clement's</HI> tran&s;lation, or to be cur&s;ed by <HI>Clement,</HI> for receiving <HI>Sixtus</HI> his tran&s;latio~. I am not at lei&s;ure to &s;ay any thing of the <HI>Rhemi&s;h</HI> tran&s;lation, or their Notes: I could give you many other rea&s;ons why you &s;hould &s;eparate from <HI>Rome,</HI> but the&s;e may &s;uffice, if you will not A|po&s;tati&s;e, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Omnes Eccle&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Evangelic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> cum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> idol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">|di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Se|cundarii capit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ive Fu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">menti <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> talp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;pertiliones a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ceru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Dave&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">s ubi <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">up<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> quar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Fun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ame<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">to M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ial<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> p. 65.</NOTE> and commit folly with her, you cannot po&s;&s;ibly communicate with her, unle&s;&s;e you will build upon a new Foundation, the Popes Infallibility, or the Ie&s;uites Prudenti|all Motives; in a word, you cannot be admitted into the Ro|mane Communion&punc; unle&s;&s;e you will have a new Bible, a new Creed, a new Religion, a new Head of the Church, that is in plain Engli&s;h&punc; unle&s;&s;e you'l pul downe Chri&s;t, &amp; &s;et up An|tichri&s;t in the Throne of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t: &amp; if you yeeld to that, all the plagues in this brooke will light upon you; I need &s;ay no more of the 2^d. rea&s;on. But &s;tay, if wee &s;hould &s;eparate from the Antichri&s;tian faction, here in <HI>England,</HI> we may bee guilty of a grievous Schi&s;me, for our &s;eparation will bee
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grounded, as they &s;ay, upon the judgement, or rather opini|on of a few <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Divines in a kinde of Nationall A&s;&s;embly, and our Antichri&s;tian men challenge all the world to give one Precedent for &s;uch a &s;eparation. I doe this day accept their challenge, and &s;hall an&s;wer them in a word. The <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">And this is &s;aid to have amoun|ted into a formal Separation from the Church of Rome, &amp; to have continued &s;ome|what more then an hundred years. Archbi&s;hop of C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">elat. p. 172. The church of A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">ck made this separation in a Nationall Councel of their own. Ibid. p. 174.</NOTE> <HI>Afri|can Church</HI> made a direct &s;eparation from the <HI>Church of Rome</HI> for an hundred yeares at lea&s;t, and their &s;eparation was groun|ded upon no other Judgment then the Judgment of a Natio|nall A&s;&s;embly in <HI>Africa,</HI> and occa&s;ioned meerely by the u&s;ur|ping pride, and tyranny of the Pope. It is evident that all the Martyrs, which did &s;uffer in the time of that bitter per&s;e|cution under the <HI>Vandals&punc;</HI> died in the time of this Separation. If we have more weighty rea&s;ons then any that are drawn from the Popes tyranny, we &s;hall be no greater Separati&s;t's then tho&s;e glorious Martyrs, and tho&s;e famous Fathers, <HI>Au+gu&s;tine,</HI> and <HI>Fulgentius,</HI> for they were <HI>Formall Separati&s;ts. Baro|nius</HI> was the fir&s;t man that ever had the face without fore|head, or rea&s;on, to call this truth into que&s;tion; <HI>Binius</HI> fol|lowes him; <HI>Bellarmine</HI> &s;aw that he mu&s;t que&s;tion; the mo&s;t faithfull, and famous editions of the Councells, if he denyed a truth written with a Sunne-beame, and therefore he had &s;o much wit as to cry, <HI>Nihil affirmo,</HI> in his 2^d book <HI>de Roma|no Pontifice,</HI> &amp; 25. Chap. It &s;eems the great Cardinall was put to his wits end, when he had beat his braines and turned his books, he dur&s;t not deny it, &amp; yet would not affirme it. The Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> though no great friend to the~ who &s;eparate from <HI>Romi&s;h corruptions,</HI> is &s;o ingenuous as to &s;ub&s;cribe to the convincing te&s;timony <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">The edition Anno 1524. by <HI>I&s;idore:</HI> an olde <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i|t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on printed, 1530. P. <HI>Crabbe</HI> his edition im|printed Anno 1538. the editi|on of <HI>Valentinus Iove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 1555&punc; of <HI>Suriu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 1567. of <HI>Nicolinu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 1585. <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> R. Pont. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">b 2 cap. 25.</NOTE> of &s;o many unque&s;tionable edi|tions of the Councells, you may read fro~ p. 172. of his Relati|on, to the 175. And it is well known how o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ten <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Tota fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e Ger|ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">ab is ante no|&s;tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tatem &agrave; &s;e|de Roman<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ce&s;|&s;ionem fecit Semel <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> divortium fa|cere cum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">xo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gerent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r Pre&s;|byteri <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">terum cum Gregorius &s;eptimus Hen&punc; quanto Imperatori infe&s;tus Germanos f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lminando vellet ab ip&s;o divelle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e. Omittam recentior<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Exempla, qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> per &s;e expendant &s;ani Lect<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">res Vide Tractatum de vera Pacificatio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s &amp; Eccle&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> reformand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ratione ab exi|m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o Theologo ante annos 80. editum. Num po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">nte &s;imili occa&s;ione recu&s;um ope<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a D. Riveti. Vide Animadver&s;. Rive<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> in Annot. H. G. c. 15. p. 65.</NOTE> <HI>Germany</HI> hath made a Formall &s;eparation from the Antichri&s;tian faction.</P>
<P>But it will be further objected, That the A&s;&s;embly which you intend to call, is no <HI>Convocation,</HI> and therefore it cannot be of &s;o much Authority as a <HI>Nationall A&s;&s;embly.</HI></P>
<P>To which I an&s;wer, That the Per&s;ons whom you have no|minated,
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I except but one [my &s;elf,] are more learned &amp; ju|dicious, more pious, nay more peaceable, take &s;o many for &s;o many, then the members of the <HI>la&s;t Convocation.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, You have found by wo&s;ull experience, what it <NOTE PLACE="marg">Hieronym, C<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">m ment in Soph<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="3 letters"> Au<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">eret Dominus nominae vanae glo|ria &amp; admirati<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">|n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">al<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">, quae ver|&s;antur in Eccle&s;ia&mdash;&s;ed &amp; nomina &s;acerdotum cum &s;a|cerdotibus qui <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;tra &s;ibi applaudunt in Epi&s;copali nomine &amp; in Pre&s;by|ter<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">i dignitate, &amp; non in opere Ed<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters">. Ba&s;il. 1537 p. 251.</NOTE> is to rely upon &s;uch as are the Standing Members of a <HI>Con|vocation,</HI> or &s;uch as are cho&s;en after the ordinary manner, by per&s;ons as corrupt as them&s;elves. St. <HI>Hierom</HI> hath a kinde of prophe&s;ie in his Commentary upon <HI>Zephaniah;</HI> That in the dayes of Reformation, idle Bi&s;hops &s;hould be removed, for God will take away all Names of <HI>vain glory</HI> out of the Church, the names of Prie&s;ts, nay the Prie&s;ts them&s;elves, who did vainely boa&s;t of the <HI>Epi&s;copall Title, and dignity of Prie&s;thood,</HI> but did nothing worthy of that Title or Dignity.</P>
<P>Thirdly, In the&s;e winnowing-times, when the chaffe is in &s;ome mea&s;ure &s;eparated from the wheat, the &s;ecrets of many hearts are di&s;covered, and tho&s;e that are approved are made <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;eah 4. 15. vide Hieronymum in locum. Non deb<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ororis quonda~ tua in fornicatione exempla &s;ectari, &amp; cum e&acirc; idola <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters">lere&mdash;&amp; ne a&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">en<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">as in Betha|ven&mdash;quia po&s;t&punc; quam auret ibi vituli po&s;iti &s;unt&mdash;non domus Dei appellatur, &s;ed domus Idoli&mdash;tanquam vacca la|&s;civteus a&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">o per|cita in&s;anivit I&s;ra|el fornicationis &s;piritu percu&s;&s;us.</NOTE> manife&s;t, the State hath good rea&s;on to approve tho&s;e whom God him&s;elf hath approved, by making their fidelity manife&s;t in this Day of tryall, the&s;e di&s;tingui&s;hing times: but the State hath no rea&s;on to tru&s;t them to Reform the Church, who have indeed corrupted the Church.</P>
<P>Fourthly, It cannot be denied, but that a Church may re|form it &s;elf, <HI>per partes,</HI> if the whole will not joyne; <HI>Though I&s;rael play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend:</HI> if they will not amend with us, what rea&s;on have we to peri&s;h with them?</P>
<P>Fifthly, If a State &s;hould make choi&s;e of men of mean parts, and ordinary gifts to reform the Church, meerly be|cau&s;e they have been found faithfull, mu&s;t the&s;e men be con|temned for their weakne&s;&s;e, when they preach none but <HI>Ca|tholike Doctrine,</HI> and pre&s;&s;e men to &s;ubmit to <HI>Primitive Di&s;ci|pline?</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide Theodoret. Eccle&s;. Hi&s;t lib. 4. <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp;c. Haeretitorum omnium &s;emper intentio fuit, captare gloriam de &s;ingularitate Scientia. Bernard, in Cant. Ser. 65. Vi|tis plebecula quicquid non intelligit plus miratu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">. Hieron. Epi&s;t ad Nepot.</NOTE> No &s;ure, they &s;hould rather be re&s;pected and encoura|ged for their faithfulne&s;&s;e. Sure I am, there is a kinde of Maje&s;ty in Truth, and &s;omewhat more then Maje&s;ty, to wit <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Dignitatus Scriptura e&s;t ip&s;a divini|ta<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters"> n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">m &s;ive Auctorem, &s;ive Argumentum, &s;ive Interpretem (Spiritum Sanctum) &s;pectes, omnia divina &s;unt, &amp; &s;pirat<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> divinitatem&punc; vide Mendo&s;. Praefat. in Com. in lib. Regum.</NOTE> Divinity, in Scripture-truths, and therefore &s;uch Truths need not borrow any thing from the &s;peaker, for the &s;ingle
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Vote of one that is Orthodox, is to be more re&s;pected then the Votes of many hundred learned Heretiks.</P>
<P>In the 6^t^h^. place, give me leave to u&s;e their own Argument, which they commonly urge again&s;t the Councell of <HI>Trent:</HI> they &s;ay, That Councell was of no Authority, becau&s;e it did con&s;i&s;t of men that were profe&s;&s;ed enemies to all that called for Reformation or a free Councell. This rea&s;on is alleaged, and magnified by the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See the Arch-Bi&s;hop of Cant. his relation of the Conference. &s;ect. 27. p. 214.</NOTE> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and I be|leeve it will conclude as roundly again&s;t a Convocation, <HI>re|bus &s;ic &s;tantibus,</HI> as it doth again&s;t the Councell of <HI>Trent:</HI> I hope, &s;aith the Archbi&s;hop, an A&s;&s;embly of enemies are no lawfull Councell, and the Decrees of &s;uch an A&s;&s;embly are <HI>Omni jure nulla;</HI> give me leave to adde, like the Decrees of the la&s;t Convocation.</P>
<P>Their la&s;t exception again&s;t the <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> is, becau&s;e you have named &s;ome men that are Schi&s;matikes; their rea|&s;on is, becau&s;e they deny &s;ubjection to their Bi&s;hop or Me|tropolitan.</P>
<P>They &s;hall receive an an&s;wer to this objection from <HI>An|tonius de Dominis,</HI> a man Prelaticall enough. It is not Schi&s;|maticall, &s;aith he, to deny Juri&s;dictionall &s;ubjection to a Bi|&s;hop, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Si autem &s;er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ata u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">tate &amp; charitate negetur alicui Epi|&s;copo, vel Metropo|litano, vel Primati &amp;c. obedientia &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|la, &s;ola&abque; Iuri&s;dicti|onalis &s;ubjectio, non e&s;&s;e vere ac propri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Schi&s;ma, quando cum &s;ola per&s;ona Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ti di&s;&s;en&s;io|nes &amp; &s;imultates exerceantur. M. Ant. de Dom Rep Eccle&s;ia&s;t. lib. 7. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">. 10. &s;ect. 74. <HI>Se<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Dr.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erne. Secundum Honorum vocabula, &amp;c. Augu&s;t. Epi&s;t. 19. Audi &amp; aliud te&s;timonium in quo manife&s;ti&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ime compro|batur <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">und<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m e&s;&s;e Epi&s;copum atque Pre&s;byterum. Hieron. Epi&s;t. ad Evagrium. Vide Era<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mi Annotat. Excel|lenter tamen Canones duos tantum &s;acros ordines appellari cen&s;ent, Diaconatus &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">il &amp; Pre&s;byteratus, qui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hos &s;ol os Primitiva Eccle&s;ia legitur habui&s;&s;e, &amp; de his &s;olis pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ceptum Apo&s;toli habemus. P. L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">b&punc; lib 4. di&s;t. 24. <HI>And when the Ma&s;ter of the Sentences comes to &s;peak of the</HI> Quadripertite <HI>Order <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e pa&s;&s;es this cen&s;ure.</HI> Horum autem di&s;cretio &agrave; Gentilibus introducta videtur, quod &s;uos Flamines alios &s;impliciter Fla|mines, alics Archi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">amines, alios Protho&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">amines appellabant. Archiepi&s;copos &amp; Epi&s;copos Flam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &amp; Archi&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ami<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> loco in Anglia in&s;titutos <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;&s;e a Fagano &amp; Derviano &agrave; Papa El<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">utherio in Britanniam mi&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> probat D. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;erius vir di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">u&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">im<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> eruditioni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> de Britan. Eccl. Primord. c. 5.</NOTE> or Arch-bi&s;hop, by rea&s;on of &s;ome Per&s;onall excepti|ons again&s;t him, becau&s;e &s;uch a man may embrace Com|munion with the Church, and yet &s;eparate from the Bi&s;hop, or Arch-bi&s;hop without breach of charity, if his exceptions again&s;t him be ju&s;t, and nece&s;&s;ary. But they will, I know, reply, That &s;ome men whom you have cho&s;en, do not onely except again&s;t the Per&s;on, but the Office of a Prelate. To which I an&s;wer, that they them&s;elves do now confe&s;&s;e, that Monarchy is not <HI>Jure Divino,</HI> becau&s;e they &s;ee it is clearly proved, that Epi&s;copacy is but <HI>Iure Humano;</HI> for they are re&s;olved, that Epi&s;copacy &s;hall be at lea&s;t as high as
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Monarchy. They acknowledge that there is &s;ufficiency of power to govern in a State, where there is no Monarch; and why then by the &s;ame rea&s;on, is there not &s;ufficiency of power to govern in a Church where there is no Bi&s;hop, I mean Prelate? They mu&s;t not be angry, if we lay Epi&s;co|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">acy as low as they them&s;elves have laid Monarchy. Be|&s;ides, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">d and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">d Bi&s;hop <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll</HI> proves at large that Pre|lates are not <HI>Iure Divino,</HI> in h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s de|fence of the Apo|logy of the Church, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">art 2. p 99 10<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, 101.</NOTE> I would advi&s;e them to take heed how they call every man a Schi&s;matike who denies Prelacy to be <HI>Iure Divino,</HI> le&s;t by that cen&s;ure they condemn their betters. Our Con|clu&s;ion then &s;tands firm, You may deliver your &s;elves from the Antichri&s;tian faction in this Kingdom, by a ju&s;t and ne|ce&s;&s;ary &s;eparation.</P>
<P>Be plea&s;ed to ob&s;erve what I &s;ay, We have ju&s;t and ne|ce&s;&s;ary cau&s;e of &s;eparation from the Antichri&s;tian faction in <NOTE PLACE="marg">In fronte per pro|fe&s;sione; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> manum, per operationem. Augu&s;t de Civ. Dei. lib. 20 c. 9. Inter &s;eptem Sa|cramenta tria &s;unt in quorum p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">|tione Character Antichri&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ur&mdash;I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Bapti&s;mo q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">dem <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cculte Character impr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">itur, in q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o tacitum e&s;&s;e dicu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t &amp; implicitum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">|ramentum obedion|tiae <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">a Pap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&mdash;An ideo baptizan. tur <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">omines in Chri&s;tum ut &s;ervi|ant Antichri&s;to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> Down d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Antich l. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 words"> p <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">42.</NOTE> this Kingdom; under which Notion, many will be compre|hended who call them&s;elves Prote&s;tants; fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> admit the&s;e men are not of the Popi&s;h Religion, it is enough that they are of the Popi&s;h faction; they have received the mark of the <HI>Bea&s;t,</HI> if they have not received it in their forehead, yet they have received it in their brain, and in their hand too, for the grand Delinquents do plot for Antichri&s;t, and fight for Antichri&s;t, and that's more then enough. The Papi&s;ts have Covenan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed to protect the&s;e Capitall Delinquents, (in de&s;pight of the highe&s;t Court of Ju&s;tice in the Kingdom) and they again in requitall, mu&s;t maintain the Catholique Cau&s;e, and promote the Antichri&s;tian De&s;igne, and there|fore the&s;e men are of, or belonging to the Antichri&s;tian fa|ction. I doubt not but that there is many a man in <HI>Italy,</HI> nay at <HI>Rome,</HI> who is not a Papi&s;t in his heart, the folly, and villany of the Prie&s;ts being &s;o notorious as it is, and yet for &s;ome Temporall advantages, they receive the mark of the Bea&s;t, becau&s;e no man is permitted <HI>to buy or &s;ell</HI> (no nor to keep what he hath bought) <HI>&s;ave he that hath the Mark, or the Name of the Bea&s;t, or the</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Concerning the number 25. which is the root of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">. the number of the Bea&s;t; Set Mr. <HI>Francis P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ers</HI> Interpretation; as al&s;o of the oppo&s;ition be|tweene <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">2. and 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Chri&s;t had 12. Apo&s;tles, Antichri&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">5. Cardinalls. In England there were at fir&s;t 25. Bi&s;hops, and 3&punc; Archbi&s;hop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> as lear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Dr. <HI>&V;&s;her</HI> &s;hewes Antiqu. Brit. c. 5. There were 25. Abbots in England who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad voices in Parliament, as Mr. <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">den;</HI> and Mr. <HI>F. Potter</HI> Interpretat. c. 24. p. 167.</NOTE> <HI>number of his Name;</HI> as St. <HI>Iohn</HI> hath it, <HI>Revel.</HI> 13. 17. And you know how it is now in <HI>Eng|land</HI>
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at this very day: Let us not then Complement any lon|ger; to &s;eparate from them with whom we are forbid to communicate, is not Faction, but Religion. I would not be mi&s;taken, I do not go about to &s;educe you to <HI>Browni&s;me,</HI> I am farre enough from that, for I willingly embrace com|munion with all Reformed Churches, or Congregations; but you know we mu&s;t not communicate with any Church, or Congregation in their pre&s;ent errour, though that Con|gregation be willing to be reformed, and have all things in it which are &s;imply nece&s;&s;ary to &s;alvation; much le&s;&s;e may we communicate with the Antichri&s;tian Faction, or with any company of men who do &s;tubbornly maintain their er|rours, and reject communion with all men who will not communicate with them, even in their known and palpable errours.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But &s;uch a &s;eparation as this would be exceeding &s;candalous. To which I an&s;wer in the words of <HI>Bernard,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cum carpuntur vi|tia, &amp; inde &s;cand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|lum oritur, ip&s;e &s;ibi &s;candali cau&s;a e&s;t qui fecit quod ar|gui debet, non ille qui argu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t, <HI>Hernard</HI> Ep. 78.</NOTE> That the Delinquents indeed are &s;candalous, and the cau&s;e of all the &s;candall which ari&s;es upon the publike reproof of their &s;candalous &s;ins. I &s;hall clo&s;e up this point with a word of Cau|tion: Proceed you may to a Separation, but proceed you mu&s;t not to a peremptory damnation of all that do yet lin|ger in <HI>Babylon;</HI> for &s;ome may remain there out of the &s;im|plicity of their hearts, and they that for the pre&s;ent are ene|mies, as concerning the Go&s;pel, may be beloved as touching the Election, <HI>Rom.</HI> 11&punc; 28. In the &s;ixth of <HI>Zechary,</HI> and the 6^t^h^. I read of &s;ome <HI>black Hor&s;es</HI> &s;ent into the North-countrey, that is, again&s;t <HI>Babylon,</HI> but there went out &s;ome <HI>white Hor|&s;es</HI> after them, to &s;hew that God had &s;till a remnant in <HI>Ba|bylon;</HI> and the&s;e <HI>white Hor&s;es,</HI> the&s;e <HI>good Angels,</HI> were &s;ent with a me&s;&s;age of peace, to invite them to repentance, and bring them home to <HI>Sion;</HI> and what by the &s;ervice of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide Tarnovium in locum.</NOTE> <HI>black Hor&s;es,</HI> and the mini&s;tery of the <HI>white,</HI> the &s;pirit of the Lord was quieted in the North-countrey, ver. 8. nay in the 14. ver&s;e crowns were prepared for &s;ome that were yet in <HI>Babylon;</HI> Let us then &s;u&s;pend our cen&s;ures of this or that mans finall e&s;tate, though if we con&s;ider his pre&s;ent e&s;tate, we have no rea&s;on at all to communicate with him, but all
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the rea&s;on in the world to &s;eparate from him.</P>
<P>3. Deliver your &s;elves from <HI>Babylon</HI> by a thorow Re|formation: Do not wonder that I talk of a Reformation af|ter &s;eparation, for you mu&s;t &s;eparate before you can re|forme: there is an untoward generation, which will never be reformed; take St. <HI>Peters</HI> coun&s;ell, <HI>Acts 2. 40. Save your &s;elves from that untoward generation,</HI> and then reforme; and con&s;ider withall, that you are like to finde a great many men that will be forward enough to &s;eparate, and yet un|willing to reforme. Do you think there are no States-men, who love the Mount of <HI>Moriah,</HI> better then Mount <HI>Sion?</HI> they would prefer the State, but no matter for the Church, they care not if it &s;ink and peri&s;h; I could wi&s;h that the&s;e Secular men, ju&s;t of <HI>Gallio's</HI> temper, would con&s;ider that when the <HI>Iews</HI> thought they might pre&s;erve their State, if they did curry favour with the <HI>Romanes,</HI> and reject Chri&s;t, God made them &s;laves to the <HI>Romans</HI> for rejecting of Chri&s;t. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> need not apply. In the 11^t^h^. Chap. of our Prophet <HI>Zechary,</HI> we read of two &s;taves, the &s;taffe of <HI>Beauty,</HI> and the &s;taffe of <HI>Bands,</HI> When the people broke Covenant with God, by di&s;o|beying the Ordinances of God, and rejecting Chri&s;t, then God cut his &s;taffe of <HI>Beauty</HI> a&s;under, and broke that Church-Covenant, the externall Covenant which he had made with <NOTE PLACE="marg">T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> not the Covenant of Grace, but a cove|nant which con|cerned the Ad|mini&s;tration of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> mea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> of Grace.</NOTE> that people, ver. the tenth, he did unchurch them, deprive them of his Ordinances, which are the &s;trength, the beauty, the glory of a Nation, and therefore are called the <HI>&s;taffe of Beauty.</HI> Ob&s;erve a little farther, that when the <HI>&s;taffe of Beauty</HI> was broken, it was not long ere the <HI>&s;taffe of Bands</HI> was cut a&s;under: <HI>Then I cut a&s;under my other &s;taffe, even Bands,</HI> ver. 14. Then, When? Why, when they undervalued the Lord Je|&s;us, they thought him worth but 30. pieces, a goodly price; read the 12. and 13. ver&s;es: <HI>Then I cut a&s;under my other &s;taffe, I broke the brotherhood between Judah and I&s;rael:</HI> they were, in a word, deprived of Gods Ordinances, and given up to Civill-wars&punc; the ninth ver&s;e of that Chapter doth &s;uffici|ently expre&s;&s;e their mi&s;ery. <HI>Then &s;aid I, I will not feed you, that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off: and let the re&s;t eat every one the fle&s;h of another.</HI> If that
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be not full enough, read the &s;ixth ver&s;. <HI>I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, &s;aith the Lord: but lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his King, and they &s;hall &s;mite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.</HI> A &s;ad Text. Learn from hence: That when a people are Un-churched, they are undone; if you de&s;ire to pre&s;erve the State, be &s;ure to pre&s;erve the Church, and if you de&s;ire to pre&s;erve the Church, O then reform it, and do it &s;uddenly too, for fear the di&s;ea&s;e grow too &s;trong for Reme|dies. Beleeve it, that part of <HI>England,</HI> which adheres to the <HI>Babyloni&s;h faction,</HI> and will not be reformed, that part mu&s;t be de&s;erted; there is good ground for it, <HI>Jerem. 51. 9. We would have healed Babylon, but &s;he is not healed; for&s;ake her;</HI> that's plain-Engli&s;h.</P>
<P>But what needs a Reformation? (&s;ay &s;ome) were not our <NOTE PLACE="marg">Petrus de Alliaco Card. Camerac. Li|bellum obt<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">dit in Concil. Con&s;tant. de Reformatione Ec|ele&s;iae contra opini|onem eorum qui putatunt Concilia Generalia minus nece&s;&s;aria e&s;&s;e, quia omnia bene &agrave; Pa|tribus no&s;tris ordi|nata &s;unt. Fa&s;cic. Rerum Expet. p. 28.</NOTE> Fathers wi&s;e and hone&s;t men? what need we be more wi&s;e, or pure then they were? they lived happily here on earth, in peace and plenty, and they do now triumph gloriou&s;ly in heaven, what can be de&s;ired more?</P>
<P N="1">1. I an&s;wer, Many of our Fathers were hone&s;t, and &s;ome of them very wi&s;e in their generations, con&s;idering their light, and their means; we enjoy their labours, the fruits of their wi&s;doms, and God be prai&s;ed, a more glorious light, and therefore no marvaile, if we &s;ee &s;ome things more clearly then our Fathers did.</P>
<P N="2">2. Again, our Fathers &s;aw many things ami&s;&s;e, which they were not able to reform.</P>
<P N="3">3. Had our Fathers enjoyed the &s;ame happy light which &s;hines round about us, and tho&s;e fair opportunities which God hath let fall from heaven into our lap, there is no que|&s;tion but they would have reformed more in one year, then we have done in two.</P>
<P><HI>Par&s;ons</HI> ob&s;erves, that the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> in the beginning of Queen <HI>Elizabeths</HI> reign, rejected the Catho|like Doctrin, Popi&s;h Doctrins he means, but &s;aith he, they retained &s;omething of the Catholike u&s;e in the whole go|vernment of their Church; and therefore Mr. <HI>Cartwright</HI> found fault with them, and &s;hewed them what was yet
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farther to be reformed: but <HI>Scotland,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Par&s;ons, Holland, Zeland,</HI> and &s;ome parts of <HI>France,</HI> followed M^r <HI>Cartwrights</HI> way; but Bi&s;hop <HI>Bancroft</HI> was the principall oppo&s;er of this faction, he meanes Reformation in <HI>England,</HI> You &s;ee M^r <HI>Cartwright</HI> did what he could, but Bi&s;hop <HI>Bancroft</HI> and the <HI>Babylonian</HI> faction were too potent, &amp; contrary to the judg|ment of <HI>Sion,</HI> of the Reformed Churches abroad, <HI>Bancroft</HI> prevailed, for he &s;ugge&s;ted that this di&s;cipline of <HI>Sion</HI> would not onely overthrow the <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI> Monarchy, but the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Monarchy al&s;o. But it &s;hould have been con&s;idered, and let it be con&s;idered now,</P>
<P N="1">1 That the government of the Church is not <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Optato Scriptors Africano qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">iam Epi&s;copi di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <GAP DESC="foreign">: &s;ed qui jam aet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">te Augu&s;tini ad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o|vendam ambitione~ &s;uam vel altenam, e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ppellationem quidam tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ant&mdash;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n Conc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lio Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">thag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">en&s;i, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">llo quo typhus titulo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> e&s;t coercitus, etta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> i&s;te Princeps Sa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erdotum damna+tur. Et <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aron<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o quidem in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> hi&s;toria factum di|&s;plicet &s;ed viris &s;ancti&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">im<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> ratio facti con&s;titit: Et quae &s;unt dei<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">eps <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">uta, quae&abque; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">dem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, Deum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">lio prae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e, &amp; illos Patr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">iritu f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;&s;e act<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s prophetico&punc; mani|fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ime argu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t, &amp;c. I&s;aac. Ca&s;aub. Exercit. 15.</NOTE> Monar|chicall, no Monarch &s;ave Chri&s;t alone is Head and King of the Church, though every Monarch that's truly Chri&s;tian be a King in the Church; For it is one thing to be a King in the Church, and another to be King over the Church.</P>
<P N="2">2. Every King as a member of the Church, is in an Eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall &s;en&s;e &s;ubject to the di&s;cipline of the Church; for &s;uch a kind of &s;ubjection will well con&s;i&s;t with his Civill So|veraignty, becau&s;e it is not a Civill Subjection. Judicious <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Neque tamen i&s;ta inter &s;e pugnant, ide~ ut imperet <HI>Collegio Eccle&s;ia&s;tico &amp;</HI> pareat idem: imperat enim qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">ad|modum medico imperat Rex, paret ut paret medico. Nam &s;i medicum facientem officium morte m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lct et, non|faci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t quod decet &s;ap. entem Principem, &s;ed quod faciunt furio&s;i &amp; in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ani&mdash;Rex enim cum Sen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tui Eccle&s;ia&s;ti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o paret non par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bedientia Civili qua Collegium re&s;piciat, &s;ed obedientia Religio&s;a quae Deum re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">t. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">amero Pralect&punc; de eccle&s;ia, T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mo primo; Eclit. quart. pag. 25.</NOTE> <HI>Ca|mero</HI> was a man very tender of pitching upon any conclu&s;ion which might be prejudiciall unto Kingly power, and he u|&s;eth an excellent &s;imilitude to illu&s;trate this point: As it is in the cure of the body, &s;o is it in the cure of the Soule; now a King for the Cure of his body, mu&s;t patiently yeeld him&s;elfe to his College of Phy&s;itians, for though he rule over them as a King, yet he mu&s;t be ruled by them as a patient. In like man|ner a wi&s;e King will (and every King ought to) be per&s;waded by the College Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall in point of di&s;cipline to obey the Rules and orders of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t; for the King in this point doth not obey the College, but Chri&s;t him&s;elfe.</P>
<P N="3">3. It is well knowne that Kings and Emperours have beene &s;ubjected to Epi&s;copall, and too often en&s;laved by Prelaticall power. Who knowes not that the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Mil|laine</HI> <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Fatetur Bellarminus Antichri&s;tum fore ulti|mum qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> tenebit Romanum Imperium &s;ine nomine Romani Imperat. Bellarm. de miraculis Antichri&s;ti, c. 15.</NOTE>
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would not admit the Emperour to the Communion till he had repented of that outrage, and bloud&s;hed at <HI>The&s;&s;alo|nica,</HI> which was occa&s;ioned by the Emperours pa&s;&s;ionate Command? It is generally confe&s;&s;ed, that <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> did well in rejecting the Emperour from the Communion, and that the Emperour was no le&s;&s;e an Emperour, and a farre better <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioannes Con&s;tanti|nopolitanus fuit pracur&s;or Anti-chri&s;ti, Bonifacius ip&s;us erat Anti-chri&s;tus. Down. de Antichri&s;to. l. 2. c 8 &s;ect. 2 p. 130.</NOTE> man by &s;ubmitting to a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pell, preaching, and admini&s;tring &s;ome part of the di&s;cipline of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. All the world knowes that <HI>Babylon</HI> grew great at fir&s;t by claiming an univer&s;all Juri&s;diction in Spiritualls over the whole Church of God, by vertue of that u&s;urped, and Anti-chri&s;tian title of <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ego autem fiden|ter dico quod qui&s;|qui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e &V;niver&s;ale~ Sacerdotem vocat, vel vocari de&s;iderat, in elatione &s;ua An|tichri&s;tum procur|rit Greg. Ep l. 6. Indictione 15 cap. 194. Epi&s;t 30. p <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">8 Edit Par|rhi&s;. in aedibus Io|ann<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Parvi L'an. de grace mil cinq ce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s &amp; dixbuit. Proce&s;&s;u temporis Epi&s;copus Con&s;tant&punc; univer&s;alis Patri|archa, Romanus univer&s;alis Papa dictus erat uti Onuphr. Annot. in Platin. Bonifac. 3. Phocam &agrave; Boni|facio rogatum &s;ta|tui&s;&s;e ut Eccle&s;ia Romana e&s;&s;et caput omnium Eccle&s;ia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u~ &amp; Magi&s;tra. Nam antea Eccle&s;ia Co~|&s;tantinopolitam primam &s;e&s;e &s;cribe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">at omnium Eccle&s;iaru~ Math. We&s;tmona&s;terien&s;is Mauritius titulum hunc <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rivolum, Gre|gori<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;tultum v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|citarunt. Gregori<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> ubi &s;upra.</NOTE> Vniver&s;all Bi&s;hop. I have not breath or &s;trength enough to tell you the &s;tory of <HI>Boniface</HI> the third at large, nor am <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">at lei&s;ure to relate how Pope <HI>Hildebrand</HI> laid a&s;ide the two-edged &s;word of the Word, &amp; tooke up the two|handed &s;word of Temporall &amp; Spirituall Juri&s;diction; it is cleare that by the power of the&s;e two &s;words, <HI>Babylon</HI> was rai&s;ed to &s;uch an height, that the Popes have ever &s;ince ty|rannized like <HI>Babylonian</HI> Monarchs, over Kings and Em|perours, as if the Pope had been <HI>Nebuchadnezzars</HI> &s;ucce&s;&s;our, who&s;e Title is confe&s;&s;ed by <HI>Daniel</HI> to be King of Kings, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2. 37. Much le&s;&s;e can I relate what violence hath been u&s;ed for the oppre&s;&s;ing poore Prote&s;tants in every corner of the world, by this Bea&s;t of <HI>Babylon:</HI> but give me leave in the name of all the Churches to renew that charge of the Pro|phet, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Jer. 51. ver&s;e 35.</NOTE> <HI>The violence done unto me, and to my fle&s;h, be upon Babylon, &s;hal the inhabitant of Zion &s;ay,</HI> &s;hal <HI>Germany</HI> &s;ay, and <HI>France</HI> &s;ay, <HI>and my bloud upon the Chaldeans, &s;hall Jeru&s;alem &s;ay,</HI> &s;hall <HI>Ire|land</HI> &s;ay, nay <HI>England,</HI> poore <HI>England,</HI> doth this day joyne in the Charge again&s;t all the Antichri&s;tian Prote&s;tants, (give me leave to call them &s;o) who are of the Antichri&s;tian facti|on, and joyne with the popi&s;h army, in &s;hedding the bloud of Saints, under the notion of Parliament dogges, and Rebells; the bloud of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> be upon all them who have &s;hed the precious bloud of Prote&s;tants out of a pre|&s;umptuous and malicious wickedne&s;&s;e. This &s;cruple being re|moved I &s;hall now proceed, if my voice will hold, to give you &s;ome plain Directions for a thorow Reformation: the fir&s;t Direction is Negative.</P>
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1. You mu&s;t not build <HI>Sion</HI> with the Materials of <HI>Babylon,</HI> with any thing that may truely, and properly be &s;aid to be fetcht from <HI>Babylon;</HI> as old <HI>Babylon</HI> was not to be built any more, &s;o was there no &s;tone to be taken from thence to build any other place: <HI>They &s;hall not take of thee a &s;tone for a cor|ner, nor a &s;tone for foundations, but everla&s;ting de&s;olations &s;hall be upon thee, &s;aith the Lord,</HI> Jerem. 51. 26. Beware then how you receive any Principles, any Fundamentals, or Corner|&s;tones from <HI>Romi&s;h-Babylon,</HI> let everla&s;ting de&s;olations dwell upon it. Let us not receive the <HI>Babylonian-Creed,</HI> the <HI>Trent-Creed,</HI> nor the <HI>Romi&s;h-Liturgie;</HI> the Church of God hath a &s;pirit of Prayer, and therefore needs not &s;end to <HI>Ba|bylon,</HI> to <HI>Rome</HI> for prayers.</P>
<P>The Papi&s;ts &s;eem to acknowledge, that their <HI>Liturgie</HI> is corrupt, becau&s;e they have often pretended, and as &s;ome boa&s;t, have really made &s;everall Reformations of their Li|turgie. You &s;ee then, that tho&s;e men have &s;teeled&punc; their brows with a more then <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI> impudency, who have been ever and anon altering the <HI>Engli&s;h Liturgie</HI> for the wor&s;e, as if the <HI>Mi&s;&s;all</HI> had been <HI>Jure divino,</HI> and there|fore the Liturgie could never come near enough to the <HI>Ro|mane Ma&s;&s;e.</HI> Beleeve it, if the Faction that is now up in Arms prevail, we &s;hall have that Service book which was prepared for <HI>Scotland,</HI> or a <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Some Offices, Lita<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ies, Ro&s;a|ries, P&s;alters com|po&s;ed in honour of the Queen of Heaven.</NOTE> wor&s;e, &s;ome <HI>Babylonian-Service,</HI> impo&s;ed upon us as Divine-&s;ervice; and can any man that hath but an <HI>Engli&s;h-heart</HI> within him, bear &s;uch a Cheat? If we had but the noble valour which dwelt in the <HI>Britains</HI> of old, while&s;t they wor&s;hipped the <HI>Godde&s;&s;e</HI> of <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Terram Britan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> ante adventum Chri&s;ti in uni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Dei religionem minime con&s;en&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e, nomina|tim vero And<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a|&s;ten, &s;ive Andaten, Victoria Deam, Dio Ca&s;si<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, alii Apoll. &amp; Dianam coli con&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">vi&s;&s;e pro|dider<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Arch. Armac. Brit. Eccl. Ant. c. 1.</NOTE> <HI>Victory,</HI> before they knew Chri&s;t, it is impo&s;&s;ible but our &s;pirits &s;hould ri&s;e again&s;t &s;uch <HI>grand</HI> Impo&s;tures. But I forget you and my &s;elf. Be &s;ure that there be no <HI>Babylonian gods,</HI> no <HI>Ro|mi&s;h Idols</HI> tolerated in <HI>England;</HI> let it be no longer counted the <HI>piety</HI> of the times, to make our Churches hou&s;es of tem|ptation, let that prophe&s;ie <HI>Micah</HI> 1. 7. be fulfilled in our dayes: <HI>Let the graven Images be beaten to pieces, and the hires thereof burnt with fire, let all the Idols be laid de&s;olate; for all was gathered of the hire of an Harlot, and they &s;hall return to the hire of an Harlot:</HI> You know there is hire taken for both kindes
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of Harlotry at <HI>Rome.</HI> Let us have no more <HI>Babylonian</HI> Mini|&s;ters, Prie&s;ts, (&s;o they would be called) let us have no more <NOTE PLACE="marg">Per &s;ingulos Mar|tyres Ie&s;us conde~|natur: &s;i condemna|tur Chri&s;tianus pro hoc tantum quod Chri&s;tianus e&s;t, Chri&s;tus e&s;t qui condemnatur Orig. in Ier. Hom 11.</NOTE> <HI>Babylonian</HI> Altars, for fear they bring in the <HI>Babylonian</HI> Sa|crifice: You know how many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Martyrs did &s;acrifice their lives in prote&s;ting again&s;t the &s;acrifice in the Ma&s;&s;e, and though &s;ome black-mouthed Prie&s;ts of late have called them <HI>Foxes-Martyrs,</HI> yet I will be bold to call them the Martyrs of the Lord Je&s;us, and the Martyrs of the Holy Gho&s;t. I mu&s;t beg time to prove what I &s;ay, it is a weighty truth, and we know not how &s;oon we may be called to &s;eal this truth with our deare&s;t blood. The Apo&s;tle proves it un|deniably, by &s;undry arguments, in the Epi&s;tle to the <HI>Hebrews,</HI> in the 7. 8. 9. and 10^t^h^. Chapters. I will pitch upon the tenth, becau&s;e there you have the &s;umme of all. There is no other Sacrifice which can take away &s;in, but the Sacrifice which Je&s;us Chri&s;t him&s;elf offered upon the Cro&s;&s;e; read the tenth ver&s;e. <HI>By the which will we are &s;anctified through the offering:</HI> of what? of a wafer-cake? no, <HI>of the body of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t:</HI> But how often mu&s;t his body be offered? <HI>once for all,</HI> not as often as there is a Ma&s;&s;e, but <HI>once for all.</HI> But who mu&s;t offer the body of Chri&s;t? why, Chri&s;t him&s;elf, <HI>this Man,</HI> ver&s;e the 12^t^h^. a Ma&s;&s;e-Prie&s;t cannot offer up the body of Chri&s;t, for Chri&s;t is both Prie&s;t, and Sacrifice. But may not a Ma&s;&s;e-Prie&s;t offer &s;ome other &s;acrifice for &s;innes? No, there is but <HI>one &s;acrifice for &s;inne,</HI> ver. 12. <HI>But this man after he had offer|ed one &s;acrifice for &s;innes,</HI> and that <HI>one &s;acrifice</HI> is to be but <HI>once offered;</HI> the Apo&s;tle repeats this, that we might not for|get it, this &s;acrifice was offered <HI>once for all,</HI> ver&s;e 10. <HI>once for ever,</HI> ver&s;e 12. <HI>once for all &s;innes, once for all times,</HI> it is of perpetuall vertue and merit, once for ever: Is not that plain and full? Oh but Chri&s;t is gone to heaven, and we are not yet perfected. Why vain man, Chri&s;t hath fini&s;hed his work, and therefore is gone to heaven, he is <HI>&s;ate down,</HI> ver. 12. and he hath done his work, or el&s;e he would not &s;it down, he hath not left any part of the Service to be perfe|cted by a Ma&s;&s;e-prie&s;t, and therefore do not expect to be perfected by any other offering in the Ma&s;&s;e, or out of the Ma&s;&s;e: read the 14. ver&s;e, <HI>For by one offering he hath perfected
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for ever them that are &s;anctified: Ye are &s;anctified by that one offering,</HI> ver&s;e 10. and <HI>perfected</HI> by it, ver&s;e 14. But who is the witne&s;&s;e of this truth? why, the <HI>Holy Gho&s;t,</HI> in the very next ver&s;e, the 15^t^h^. ver&s;e; <HI>Whereof the Holy Gho&s;t al&s;o is a witne&s;&s;e to us.</HI> Judge now, whether they that did bear wit|ne&s;&s;e to this truth, be not Co-martyrs with the Holy Gho&s;t, and therefore Co-heirs with Je&s;us Chri&s;t. You &s;ee what rea&s;on we have to Prote&s;t again&s;t that <HI>Babylonian</HI> &s;acrifice in the Ma&s;&s;e. You have now received the knowledge of this truth, and if you <HI>&s;inne wilfully after you have received the knowledge of the truth,</HI> it is principally meant of this truth, <HI>there remains no more &s;acrifice for &s;inne,</HI> becau&s;e ye have wil|fully and maliciou&s;ly rejected the <HI>Onely All-&s;ufficient</HI> Sa|crifice of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, tru&s;ting upon &s;ome other Sacrifice, that of the Ma&s;&s;e, or the like, and done de&s;pite to the Spirit, by a mo&s;t malignant contempt of the witne&s;&s;e of the Spirit. What argument can be more prevailing, to per&s;wade us to hold fa&s;t the Profe&s;&s;ion of our Faith, <HI>the Prote&s;tant Faith,</HI> le&s;t we fall from a coldne&s;&s;e and neutrality in Religion, into a de&s;perate malignity, and unpardonable Apo&s;ta&s;ie. Away with <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI> Ge&s;tures, Names, and Titles, Rites, and Ce|remonies, away with <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI> Garments too: our profe&s;&s;ed <HI>Babylonians</HI> begin now to air the mouldy <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a agenda <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">us. Epi&s;t. ex Regi&s;t. Greg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> 12. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> 15. Augu|&s;tino Epi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">op<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> An|glorum de u&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;uper <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">nes qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">uti &s;wit ve&s;tibus alients&mdash;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">mplentes tem|plu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us impieta|te &amp; dolo-induite Chri&s;tum, induite vi&s;cera mi&s;ericor|dia&mdash;pro mi&s;e|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">cordi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ndui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">ur <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e, pro v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">|tutibus vit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u, (i.) pro Chri&s;to Anti-chri&s;to. Hieron. in Soph c. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> <HI>Copes,</HI> they wear the <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI> Garment that they may have the wedge of gold, and in their own phra&s;e, they di&s;&s;emble under a Cope, and are, if you will beleeve them, Prote&s;tants in their Hear<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s. Our Prophet <HI>Zechariah</HI> will informe you how to deal with the&s;e men, <HI>Put them into an Ephah,</HI> that they may be kept within compa&s;&s;e, within their bounds, by &s;evere di|&s;cipline, <HI>and clap a talent of lead,</HI> a weighty cen&s;ure, <HI>upon the mouth of the Ephah,</HI> Zech. 5. 8. <HI>Let the Ephah be lifted up on high, between heaven and earth,</HI> ver&s;e 9. that is, let the &s;en|tence be &s;o Publike that all may take notice of it, and then let the <HI>Ephah be carried away quite out of Sion, and let an hou&s;e be built for it in the land of Shinar,</HI> that is <HI>Babylon,</HI> ver. the 11^t^h^. let their Habitation be there, from whence they drew their Corruption, for there they may &s;ettle upon their own <HI>Ba&s;e,</HI> their own <HI>Lees,</HI> their own corrupt <HI>Principles.</HI> If &s;uch as are
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Notorious, and Incorrigible, were Excommunicated by an A&s;&s;embly of Divines, and &s;ome Civill-puni&s;hment inflicted upon &s;uch as are within your reach, by an Ordinance of Parliament, the &s;inne would not be Nationall, <HI>men would &s;ee and fear, and do no more &s;o wickedly</HI> in <HI>England.</HI> For the &s;har|pe&s;t puni&s;hments are inflicted onely <GAP DESC="foreign">, by way of Prudence, for terrour, and reformation, not <GAP DESC="foreign">, by way of retribution; for no puni&s;hment inflicted by man, can po&s;&s;ibly countervail a &s;in again&s;t God.</P>
<P N="2"> 2. Make Gods Authority your Foundation, build upon it, it is an Impregnable Rock; though the windes blow, the rain beat, the waves roar and da&s;h them&s;elves into Foame, yet your Hou&s;e wil &s;tand and your Orders can never be di&s;a|nulled, if built upon the <HI>Rock.</HI> Make <HI>Gods word</HI> alone the Rule of Reformation, and keep clo&s;e to your Rule, and then all your Orders will be acknowledged to be <HI>Re&s;pon&s;a prudentum,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Re&s;pon&s;a Pruden|tum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">m legis ob|tinebant apud I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">di|ces, qua po&s;tea di|cta&s;unt Re&s;cripta Principum.</NOTE> and &s;uch as de&s;erve to be <HI>Re&s;cripta Principum:</HI> this is the way to make your Orders prevail, not onely by your Authority, but by their <HI>Own</HI> Authority.</P>
<P N="3">3. Pray for the Holy Spirit, for the Spirit gives both Light, and eyes: You will meet with &s;o many new &s;innes, new dangers, new temptations, new mercies, new troubles, that you had need beg hard for a &s;pirit of Prayer, that you may be able to make new Prayers every hour, &s;everall Prayers upon &s;everall occa&s;ions. <HI>Sion</HI> mu&s;t prevail by Prayer, <HI>Sion</HI> was the Mount of Prayer, there was the hou&s;e of Prayer; this is, as they u&s;e to call it in &s;ome Reformed-Churches, a <HI>Prayer-day,</HI> but every day mu&s;t now be a day of prayer, ex|traordinary prayer, we mu&s;t &s;pend more time then ordinary in our private devotions. Get ye up to <HI>Mount Olivet,</HI> and there pray for <HI>Mount Sion,</HI> joyn heads, and pur&s;es, and forces, and prayers together; <HI>Jo&s;uah's</HI> &s;word will not prevail with|out <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> his prayer: Be of good comfort, though your enemies can out-&s;wear you, yet they cannot out-pray you: If they be a thou&s;and thou&s;and &s;trong, and march again&s;t you with all their might, <HI>Call upon the Name of the Lord, and re&s;t upon your God; A&s;a</HI> did &s;o, and by the prayer of faith pre|vailed again&s;t a thou&s;and thou&s;and <HI>Ethiopians,</HI> and three
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hundred <HI>Chariots,</HI> 2 Chron. 14. 9, to the 12^t^h^. ver&s;e: Oh &s;end to <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and <HI>Germany</HI> for their experi|mentall Prayers.</P>
<P N="4">4. Humiliation is an excellent Preparative for Reforma|tion, and there is no duty more pertinent to the Text, and proper, not onely for this day, but for the&s;e times: <HI>In tho&s;e dayes, and in that time,</HI> &s;aith the Prophet <HI>Jeremy</HI> the 50. Chap. and the 4. ver&s;e; what times? what dayes? why, when <HI>the children of I&s;rael &s;hall come out of Babylon, they and the children of Iudah together; going and weeping, they &s;hall go and &s;eek the Lord their God. Honourable,</HI> and <HI>Beloved,</HI> let us this day &s;eek our God with tears; if ye would be Princes with God, and have power with him, as Prince <HI>Jacob</HI> had, you mu&s;t weep and make &s;upplication in <HI>Bethel,</HI> the hou&s;e of God, there God will be found, and there, here he hath &s;poke with you to day; read the twelfth of <HI>Ho&s;eah,</HI> the third and fourth ver&s;es. Ble&s;&s;ed be our great God, who did put it into your hearts, to draw up a Catalogue of the &s;ins of this Nation: O that you would weep over every &s;in in that Catalogue, be|fore you &s;leep. O let us read our &s;ins in tho&s;e mi&s;eries which are come upon us. We have nouri&s;hed Malignant lu&s;ts with|in us, which rebell again&s;t the &s;pirit, and fight again&s;t the &s;oul; we have made &s;port &amp; pa&s;t-time with tho&s;e &s;ins which &s;hed the blood of the Lord Je&s;us, O let tho&s;e &s;ins draw tears from us, which drew blood from Chri&s;t. We have grieved the holy Spirit, and therefore well may the Spirit refu&s;e to comfort us, who haue grieved him. Well may the God of heaven bathe his &s;word in our blood, and make the land <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">at with our carca&s;&s;es, for we have forfeited our very E&s;tates, and lives; we do not de&s;erve one bit of bread, or drop of water; ju&s;tly may God feed us with the bread of &s;orrows, and give us tears to drink. We would not <HI>&s;erve God with joy|fulne&s;&s;e, for the abundance of all things,</HI> and therefore well might God <HI>&s;end us to &s;erve our enemies in the want of all things; Deut. 28. 47&punc; 48&punc; Behold, the heaven is as bra&s;&s;e, and the earth as iron:</HI> becau&s;e we have had a brazen brow, and there is an iron &s;inew in our necks, we have gone on impudently, and &s;tubbornly in our &s;innes: Gods Doctrine hath dropped as
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the raine, and di&s;tilled as the dew, but not as the dew up|on the tender herbe; for our hearts have not been tender, our lives have not been fruitfull, well might our unfruitfulne&s;&s;e be the cau&s;e of the lands barrenne&s;&s;e. We have abu&s;ed Gods ble&s;&s;ings for the maintenance of our pride, luxury, wanton|ne&s;&s;e, we have &s;ought again&s;t God with his owne ble&s;&s;ings, and therefore he hath good rea&s;on to di&s;arme us.</P>
<P>Oh let us weepe for <HI>Ireland</HI> &amp; weepe for <HI>England,</HI> weepe for the <HI>King,</HI> and weepe for the <HI>Parliament:</HI> you know that all the Politicians in the Chri&s;tian world are now beating their braines, and &s;tudying how to &s;educe our beloved King, his Throne is compa&s;&s;ed about with &s;nares, and he is even wed|ded to a Temptation, his very <HI>Coun&s;ellours</HI> are, too many of them, <HI>Seducers,</HI> or flatterers, like the hou&s;e of <HI>Achzib,</HI> a lie to <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h 1. 14.</NOTE> the Kings of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> &amp; therefore it is no marvaile if our King be mi&s;led. O then let us weepe for our tempted King, for our &s;educed King; Be it knowne to all the world that we doe &s;till Reverence both his per&s;on, and Authority, and are ready to obey any lawfull Commands which he &s;hall &s;end us in a Le|gall way. Be it knowne to our enemies, that we weepe for our King, and pray for our King, onely we dare not flatter him, we dare not &s;trengthen that party which doth &s;educe him, becau&s;e we doe truly love and honour him.</P>
<P N="5">5. Let us enter into a covenant of Reformation; this was the &s;tratagem of <HI>Sion,</HI> when they came out of <HI>Babylon;</HI> &s;ee whether their ca&s;e be not ours, you may read it, <HI>Neh.</HI> 9. 36. and following ver&s;es. <HI>For the Land which thou gave&s;t our Fa|thers, to eat the fruit thereof, and the good thereof: behold, we are &s;ervants in it, and it yeeldeth much encrea&s;e unto the Kings whom thou ha&s;t &s;et over us, becau&s;e of our &s;ins; al&s;o they have dominion over our bodies, and over our Cattell at their plea&s;ure, and we are in great di&s;tre&s;&s;e; And becau&s;e of all this we make a</HI> Sure Cove|nant, <HI>&amp; write it, and our Princes, Levites, &amp; Prie&s;ts &s;eale unto it&punc;</HI> The people of this land have made a generall <HI>Covenant</HI> by ta|king the <HI>Prote&s;tation,</HI> but we want &s;uch a di&s;tinct, and &s;peciall Covenant as this was, you may reade the particular points of the Covenant, <HI>Neh.</HI> 10. Oh that you would be plea&s;ed to make as di&s;tinct a Covenant, as you have made a Confe&s;&s;ion.
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Let us come to particulars in our Prote&s;tation, there will be but little Reformation till this be done, nay there can be no Safe, Rationall, Chri&s;tian Pacification till this be done: That you may be fully convinced of this truth, be plea&s;ed to per|u&s;e a book of <HI>Chri&s;tian Pacification, and Reformation,</HI> printed about 80, yeares &s;ince, but lately publi&s;hed by judicious, and learned D^r <HI>Rivet,</HI> you &s;hall finde it at the end of D^r <HI>Rivets</HI> Animadver&s;ions upon <HI>Grotius</HI> his Annotations on <HI>Ca&s;&s;ander.</HI> In that book you will finde what errours we mu&s;t prote&s;t a|gain&s;t, and what points we mu&s;t &s;tand upon when we come to conclude a <HI>Pacification.</HI> For, &s;aith that Reverend Author, our enemies know that we &s;hall never have peace if they can &s;educe us from the Authour of peace, and if they can prevaile with us to let go one truth, they will hope to prevaile with us in due time to let goe all. For when men doe wilfully let fall any truth, God doth u&s;ually give them up to beleeve lyes. Thinke &s;adly of this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e; beleeve it, no bu&s;ine&s;&s;e is of higher concernment, you had need have a Choice Committee of both Hou&s;es, and an A&s;&s;embly of learned, pious, and experienced Divines, to con&s;ult about it; till Articles of agree|ment are drawne up, it is impo&s;&s;ible we &s;hould ever agree, and therefore there is no way like this to &s;ettle truth and peace at once, and make them greet and ki&s;&s;e each other. Be plea&s;ed to take &s;ome cour&s;e that this Covenant may bee <HI>Nationall:</HI> you know the godly part of a <HI>Nation</HI> are the <HI>Nati|onall</HI> Church. You &s;ee a Rea&s;on why I do not medle with par|ticulars, that's not the worke of one man; onely let us be thus punctual for the pre&s;ent, let us every one in our &s;everal places &amp; callings re&s;olve to do all that lyes in our power to Reforme particular <HI>Congregations,</HI> and our owne particular <HI>Per&s;ons.</HI> Fir&s;t for particular <HI>Congregations,</HI> you know the great grievance in every pari&s;h. <HI>Sion</HI> dwells with <HI>Babylon,</HI> with a prophane ignorant multitude who are all borne with a <HI>Pope</HI> in their belly, and are not yet <HI>redeemed from that gro&s;&s;e &s;uper&s;tition and vaine Conver&s;ation which they received by Tradition from their Fathers.</HI> We have <HI>a little Temple, and a great Court,</HI> as it is, Revel. 11. 12. Give me leave to &s;peake unto you as <HI>Jotham</HI> &s;pake to the men of <HI>Sechem, Iud. 7. 9. Hearken unto me,</HI> you
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Worthies of <HI>England, that God may hearken unto you.</HI> I be|&s;eech you by the tender mercies of God and the bowells of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, that there may be &s;ome cour&s;e taken to keep back <HI>Dogges from &s;natching away the childrens Bread:</HI> my Soul melts within me when I con&s;ider that men that are &s;candalou&s;ly ignorant &amp; prophane men that have not know|ledge enough <HI>to di&s;cerne the Lords body,</HI> or grace enough to <HI>Examine,</HI> or prepare them&s;elves, are &s;uffered <HI>to eat and drinke their own damnation.</HI> Oh con&s;ider what it is for &s;o many thou|&s;ands in <HI>England</HI> to remaine <HI>guilty of the body and bloud of the Lord Ie&s;us:</HI> can a deluge of our bloud wa&s;h away a guilt of &s;o deepe a dye? You know our chiefe&s;t happine&s;&s;e doth con|&s;i&s;t in communion with God in Chri&s;t, and therefore wee &s;hould con&s;ider to whom we deliver the &s;eales of this Com|munion. Why &s;hould any that are not yet Saints be admit|ted to one of the highe&s;t priviledges of Saints, Church com|munion in the highe&s;t? The Sacrament of the Lords Supper is a di&s;tingui&s;hing Ordinance, and therefore it is not fit that men &s;hould come as promi&s;cuou&s;ly to the <HI>Sacrament</HI> as to an <HI>Ordinary</HI> The <HI>Canaanite</HI> of old was a thorne in the eyes and &s;ides of Gods people, but in the day of Reformation, the <HI>Canaanite</HI> was to be turned out of the hou&s;e of the Lord of ho&s;tes, they are the la&s;t words of our Prophet <HI>Zachary.</HI> They who have no union with Chri&s;t can have no Communion with him; they who have not yet ta&s;ted of the &s;peciall love of God the Father, the grace of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, or the communion of the holy Gho&s;t, can have no right to this com|munion, this Sacrament; for he can never eat the Body of Chri&s;t who hath not the Spirit of Chri&s;t, becau&s;e it is to be &s;piritually eaten. There were of old <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Greg. l. 9. Ep. 61&punc; vide bella<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m. de Ec. le&s;. l. 3 c. 2.</NOTE> Communicatory let|ters &s;ent from one Church &amp; Country to another; and why might there not in perplexed Ca&s;es be &s;ome Communica|tory letters &s;ent from an Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall College to direct poor &s;imple congregations, and doubting Pa&s;tors, who &s;hould be admitted, and who rejected? I cannot omit one Caution, which is briefly this, that no man mu&s;t be excommunicated meerely becau&s;e it doth not evidently appeare that he is rege|nerate, becau&s;e a man may be regenerate, and yet not able
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to evidence his Regeneration to him&s;elf, much le&s;&s;e to others. In &s;ome ca&s;es a regenerate man may be &s;ecluded for a while, and one that is not known to be unregenerate may be ad|mitted, till his &s;candalous conver&s;ation doth &s;et &s;ome black mark, or brand upon him: <HI>For &s;ome mens &s;ins go before to judge|ment, and others follow after;</HI> glorious hypocrites, and clo&s;e Malignants cannot long be hid, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 5. 24, 25.</P>
<P>In the la&s;t place, let us make it our &s;adde&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to re|form our own particular per&s;ons. <HI>Honourable,</HI> and <HI>Beloved,</HI> are there no &s;innes among&s;t you? even among&s;t you? <HI>Quis cu&s;todiet ip&s;os cu&s;todes?</HI> Have the Reformers no need of Re|formation? turn your eyes inward, tell me &s;adly, what do you di&s;cover there? are there no <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI> Inmates protected there? &s;uch as can never be defended? are there no unruly pa&s;&s;ions, no unmortified lu&s;ts, no &s;elf-ends, or &s;ini&s;ter re|&s;pects, &s;uch as beg your priviledge, and enjoy your favour? The&s;e, the&s;e are the Brats of <HI>Babylon;</HI> O happy, thrice hap|py &s;hall he be, who takes the&s;e <HI>Infant-lu&s;ts,</HI> before they are grown up, <HI>and da&s;heth them again&s;t the Rock;</HI> as it is in <HI>P&s;.</HI> 137. ver. 9. This is the proper work of a Fa&s;t. What have you done to day? You have &s;ate here five or &s;ix hours, and mi&s;|&s;ed a dinner; Is this the Fa&s;t that God hath cho&s;en? is this all that he requires of you? Doth he not command you to humble your &s;ouls, to break your hearts, to afflict your &s;pi|rits, to mortifie your lu&s;ts, deny your &s;elves, reform your lives, take up your cro&s;&s;e and follow Chri&s;t? Will you cut off your right hands, and pull out your right eyes? Will you take Chri&s;ts yoak upon your necks, his burthen upon your &s;houl|der? Will you lay down your honours, your e&s;tates, your lives at the feet of Je&s;us Chri&s;t? Will ye live to him, and if he calls you to it, will you die for him? If you have wrought your hearts to this temper to day, then you have fa&s;ted to the Lord. God takes notice of your zeal; you beat down Cro&s;&s;es, and Images, but take heed you do not leave &s;ome idols &s;tanding in your own bo&s;omes: Is there no lu&s;t of co|vetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, or lu&s;t of uncleanne&s;&s;e, no pride, ambition, en|vie, malice, en&s;hrined within your hearts? Down, down, with the&s;e. You know there are <HI>Idola &s;aeculi,</HI> as well as
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<HI>Idolatempl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">:</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>&s;unt</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">; all your lu&s;ts mu&s;t be <HI>Anathematized,</HI> Cur&s;ed, that they may, like the fig-tree, after it was cur&s;ed, die and wither at their very root. Tell me, is not &s;elfe-love an Idoll? is it not the great Whore? is not lu&s;t a Bea&s;t, a Mon&s;ter with many heads and horns? Oh hate this Whore, mortifie &s;elfe-love, and you &s;tab the Bea&s;t to the heart, for &s;elf-love is the very heart and &s;oul of Ori|ginall &s;inne, it is the la&s;t enemy which will be de&s;troyed: it was <HI>primum vivens,</HI> and it will be <HI>ultimum moriens:</HI> Come then, let us beat down our bodies, and cry to God to humble our &s;ouls, and beat down our corruptions, let not onely Rea&s;on Vote down your lu&s;ts, but Faith and Zeal pray them down. The precious &s;ons of <HI>Sion</HI> are mo&s;t troubled with this &s;ame <HI>Babylon</HI> within, and therefore they do make mo&s;t frequent and penitent complaints again&s;t them&s;elves, and put up mo&s;t zealous prayers to God, to give them power and victory over their head-&s;trong and &s;tomackfull corrupti|ons: and in their prayers, their faith ever clo&s;es with &s;uch promi&s;es as a&s;&s;ure them of grace enough to re&s;i&s;t temptati|ons, and mortifie their corruptions; this is the way to keep <HI>a faithfull, penitent, holy, zeaelous, heavenly Fa&s;t.</HI> This is to fa&s;t as our <HI>Saviour</HI> did, who made it <HI>his meat and drink to do the will of his Father.</HI></P>
<P>Be plea&s;ed to con&s;ider that you mu&s;t not only beat down <HI>Babylon,</HI> but <HI>build up Sion, Sion</HI> is built by <HI>faith</HI> and <HI>holi|ne&s;&s;e:</HI> In the fir&s;t place then,</P>
<P N="1">1. Look to your faith: The walls of <HI>Babylon,</HI> like the walls of <HI>Jericho,</HI> are battered down by faith: all the faith|full pri&s;oners in <HI>Babylon,</HI> who&s;e hearts were <HI>&s;prinkled</HI> by the <HI>blood of the Covenant,</HI> were pri&s;oners of hope, and therefore were &s;ure to be delivered from the bottomle&s;&s;e-pit, in which there is no water; for <HI>Babylon</HI> was a type of <HI>Hell. As for thee al&s;o by the blood of thy Covenant, I have &s;ent forth thy pri|&s;oners out of the pit, wherein is no water,</HI> Zechar. 9. 11. <HI>Bea&s;ts</HI> live by <HI>&s;en&s;e, Heathens</HI> live by <HI>rea&s;on, Chri&s;tians</HI> mu&s;t live by <HI>faith,</HI> they mu&s;t mortifie their lu&s;ts, renounce their merits, re&s;t onely upon <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> perfect obedience, and full &s;atisfacti|on for their ju&s;tification; for we cannot be <HI>Con&s;tituted righte|ous
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but by the obedience of Chri&s;t,</HI> Rom. 5. 19. In this faith, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> let us live, in this, let us die.</P>
<P N="2">2. Study <HI>Holine&s;&s;e: Holine&s;&s;e</HI> is the <HI>beauty</HI> of <HI>Sion,</HI> for there they were to <HI>wor&s;hip God in the beauty of holine&s;&s;e,</HI> there can be no beauty in our &s;ouls, no glory in our Congregati|ons without <HI>holine&s;&s;e. Sion</HI> was the <HI>Mount of holine&s;&s;e,</HI> Zech. 8. 3. Holine&s;&s;e is the end of Humane &s;ociety;
<Q><L>&V;tque alios alii de Relligione docerent,</L>
<L>Contiguas Pietas ju&s;&s;it habere domos,</L></Q></P>
<P>Certainly this Age is even grown Barbarous, or el&s;e <HI>Ho|line&s;&s;e,</HI> which is the end of Humane &s;ociety, and the life of Chri&s;tian &s;ociety, would never be contemned, and de&s;pi&s;ed, as it is now adayes in this wicked generation. <HI>O</HI> what a ba&s;e thing is it for a <HI>Nation</HI> to be <HI>a&s;hamed of its glory,</HI> and to <HI>glory in its &s;hame!</HI> Men think it a <HI>ba&s;e</HI> thing for to be <HI>holy,</HI> and yet God him&s;elf is <HI>glorious in Holine&s;&s;e,</HI> Exod. 15. 11. Certainly if this Nation would be <HI>glorious in Holine&s;&s;e,</HI> Gods <HI>right hand would be glorious in power, and da&s;h our enemies to pieces,</HI> Exod. 15. 6. Without <HI>holine&s;&s;e</HI> we cannot have any in|timate acquaintance with God, or good men: We long for <HI>Peace,</HI> but <HI>Peace</HI> is a <HI>Iewell</HI> which God gives to none but tho&s;e that are of his acquaintance. <HI>Iob 22, 21. Acquaint now thy &s;elf with him, and be at Peace, thereby good &s;hall come unto thee.</HI> A <HI>godly</HI> life, is the <HI>life of God:</HI> tho&s;e that were <HI>&s;tran|gers to a godly life,</HI> are &s;aid to be <HI>alienated,</HI> or <HI>e&s;tranged from the life of God,</HI> Ephe&s;. 4. 18. They then that &s;trike at <HI>holi|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> &s;trike at the <HI>life of God,</HI> and have a kinde of <HI>Athei&s;ticall</HI> murther in their thoughts, they would lay the <HI>Church</HI> a blee|ding, let out the very <HI>heart-blood</HI> of <HI>Religion,</HI> and take away the <HI>life of God.</HI> If <HI>England</HI> will not be <HI>holy,</HI> it cannot be <HI>hap|py,</HI> if we continue in our lukewarmne&s;&s;e, and profanene&s;&s;e, <HI>Wo, wo be unto us,</HI> though it go well with <HI>Sion,</HI> it will go ill with us; <HI>Sion</HI> was pre&s;erved, even when <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> was de|&s;troyed and <HI>England</HI> may be de&s;troyed for its <HI>unthankfulne&s;&s;e, unfruitfulne&s;&s;e, here&s;ie, idolatry, lukewarmne&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>profanene&s;&s;e,</HI> &amp;c. and yet the <HI>Church</HI> pre&s;erved, for the <HI>Church</HI> is not con|fined to any place. It concerns us then to be <HI>&s;uch manner of
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men, in all holy conver&s;ation,</HI> 2 Pet. 3. 11. &s;uch <HI>pilgrims</HI> on <HI>earth,</HI> and <HI>citizens</HI> of <HI>heaven,</HI> that it may appear that <HI>we &s;eek a bet|ter Countrey,</HI> an <HI>Heavenly,</HI> and then <HI>God will not be a&s;hamed to be called our God,</HI> Heb. 11. 16. But if we go about &s;pirituall duties, with carnall hearts, and worldly mindes, if we lie at catch, waiting for a fair opportunity to return into <HI>Egypt,</HI> the <HI>God of heaven</HI> will be <HI>a&s;hamed to own us for his people.</HI> Heb. 11. 15, 16. <HI>Brethren, if we live in the &s;pirit, let us walk in the spirit,</HI> as the Apo&s;tle advi&s;es, <HI>Gal.</HI> 5. 25. let us March fair and &s;treight, in rank and file, as the word &s;ignifies, <GAP DESC="foreign"> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mihi videtur <GAP DESC="foreign"> aliquid amplius qu&agrave;m <GAP DESC="foreign"> &s;ignificate, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">mpe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters">a inced<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">re ut certum ordi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> te|neas, &amp; qua&s;i line|amnen tran&s;ilias. Bez<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. Annot. <GAP DESC="foreign"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t ordo in aci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ervatus, &agrave; fron<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> incipi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">, &amp; p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r &s;uccenturiatos a tergo <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ive Sub&s;ti|tes &s;igillatim ad extrem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m agm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1+ letters"> porrectus.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="foreign">, walk according to the <HI>Canon</HI> given to <HI>Evan|gelicall Souldiers,</HI> Gal. 6. 16. and if we walk according to Rule, this <HI>Rule of the new Creature,</HI> Ver&s;e 15. <HI>mortifying</HI> our lu&s;ts, <HI>crucifying</HI> our &s;elves to the world, and living unto Chri&s;t in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and true holine&s;&s;e, <HI>Peace will be upon us,</HI> and <HI>upon Sion the I&s;rael of God,</HI> ver&s;e 16. We mu&s;t not conceive, that we may walk every man according to a <HI>Canon</HI> of our own devi&s;ing, this man according to one <HI>Canon,</HI> and that according to another; no, it behoves us all <GAP DESC="foreign">, to walk according to <HI>the &s;elf &s;ame Rule,</HI> or <HI>Canon,</HI> and <GAP DESC="foreign">, to minde, <HI>&s;avour, reli&s;h,</HI> the <HI>&s;elf &s;ame thing,</HI> to promote the <HI>great De&s;ign,</HI> namely the <HI>quickning,</HI> and <HI>&s;ea&s;on|ing</HI> this <HI>Kingdom</HI> with the <HI>Power of godline&s;&s;e;</HI> for we have been a great while &s;ick of a <HI>Form of godline&s;&s;e,</HI> a mortall di&s;|ea&s;e, for it was but a <HI>dead Form; The Lord quicken, and awake us out of our Dead-&s;leep,</HI> for if we content our &s;elves with this <HI>Dead-form,</HI> we are in danger to be buried in our <HI>own ruines.</HI> You &s;ee we are not afraid to <HI>di&s;cover</HI> our <HI>Plots,</HI> and truely I am guilty of no other, then what I have this day di&s;covered: I &s;hall employ my utmo&s;t &s;trength, con&s;e|crate my <HI>Totum nil,</HI> blow my <HI>Rams-horn</HI> again&s;t <HI>Babylon,</HI> and &s;tudy how to build up <HI>Sion,</HI> that's all I intend. Ho|nourable, and Beloved, let us as it becomes men of <HI>Sion,</HI> devote <HI>our &s;elves</HI> to God, and &s;pend our &s;trength in the <HI>Practi&s;e of Piety:</HI> Let us be better acquainted with our &s;elves, and with our God; let us learn what &s;inne, and what grace meanes; let us be watchfull over our own hearts, with an holy jealou&s;ie; nay let us &s;et a watch before our mouthes.
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and all our &s;en&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, nay let us watch over one another, that we may provoke one another unto holine&s;&s;e, and good works. Let us be&s;eech the God of heaven to kindle gracious de&s;ires in our hearts, that we may oppo&s;e and conquer all our filthy and unplacable lu&s;ts, for our lu&s;ts &s;et us all in a Combu&s;tion. <HI>From whence come wars, but from the lu&s;ts of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 4. 1.</NOTE> <HI>pride, envy, malice, ambition, covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e?</HI> The Lord &s;peak to our <HI>con&s;ciences,</HI> and convince them, to our <HI>implacable lu&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>mortifie</HI> them, and we &s;hall be all at <HI>peace.</HI> Beleeve it, we want <HI>peace,</HI> meerly for want of <HI>holine&s;&s;e:</HI> Keep clo&s;e to the <HI>rule</HI> of <HI>holine&s;&s;e,</HI> and I dare warrant you, you &s;hall (as <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> did) <HI>die</HI> in <HI>Peace,</HI> though <HI>you are killed in Warre.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. In the third place, let us &s;tudy <HI>Thankfulne&s;&s;e:</HI> We may well &s;it down and con&s;ider how to be <HI>thankfull</HI> to our good God, for the <HI>dawnings of our deliverance:</HI> The &s;onnes of <HI>Sion</HI> were very joyfull in the <HI>Hou&s;e of thanksgiving,</HI> long <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezra 6.</NOTE> before their work was fini&s;hed. Should we not be thank|full for <HI>Ireland?</HI> hath not God been the helper of the friend|le&s;&s;e? hath he not wrought miraculou&s;ly, even <HI>without meanes, above meanes,</HI> and <HI>again&s;t meanes?</HI> And &s;hould we not be <HI>thankfull</HI> for <HI>England?</HI> hath not God done wonders enough for our Nation, to &s;tirre up your hearts to enjoyn a <HI>&s;olemn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">day</HI> of <HI>Thanksgiving</HI> quite thorowout the King|dom? Some of our <HI>Deliverances</HI> have been <HI>Nationall;</HI> Oh let the <HI>Thanksgiving</HI> be <HI>Nationall,</HI> as well as the <HI>Deliver|ance.</HI> You did not long &s;ince hear good news from the <HI>We&s;t,</HI> but were you <HI>thankfull?</HI> if you were not, why then, &s;ure you may conclude, that the &s;ad news which you lately received from thence, was the ju&s;t puni&s;hment of your un|thankfulne&s;&s;e. The very <HI>Heathens</HI> will condemn us for our unthankfulne&s;&s;e; they never received a <HI>con&s;iderable victory,</HI> but they brought in their <HI>Opima spolia Jovi Feretrio. O let us &s;ing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriou&s;ly, he is our &s;trength and &s;ong, and is become our &s;alvation: He is our</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>God, our fathers God, and we will exalt him: Iehovah is a man of warre, Iehovah is his Name. He hath redeemed us in his mercy, and he will guide us in his &s;trength to his holy Ha|bitation;</HI> The <HI>Lord</HI> will <HI>e&s;tabli&s;h</HI> his <HI>Sanctuary</HI> among&s;t us,
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and he &s;hall reign over us, and our po&s;terity for ever and ever. <HI>Who is like unto thee, O Iehovah, amongst the mighty ones, who is like unto thee? glorious in Holine&s;&s;e, fearfull in Pray&s;es, and doing wonders?</HI> Who is like unto thee, O <HI>Ireland?</HI> The <HI>Eternall God, who rideth upon the Heavens,</HI> is thy <HI>refuge,</HI> and <HI>underneath</HI> are his <HI>everla&s;ting armes,</HI> he &s;hall <HI>thru&s;t out</HI> the <HI>Enemy</HI> from before thee, and &s;hall &s;ay, <HI>De&s;troy them.</HI> O <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 33.</NOTE> let <HI>Ireland</HI> be a land of <HI>Plenty,</HI> let the <HI>Heavens drop down their dew, and the fountain of Iacob be upon it.</HI> And happy art thou, O <HI>England;</HI> who is like unto thee, O people, &s;aved by <HI>Iehovah,</HI> the <HI>&s;hield</HI> of thy <HI>Help,</HI> and the <HI>&s;word</HI> of thy <HI>Ex|cellency?</HI> thine <HI>Enemies</HI> &s;hall be <HI>found Lyers</HI> unto thee; keep <HI>Covenant with thy God,</HI> and thou &s;halt not be <HI>Confounded world without end.</HI></P>
<P>In the la&s;t place let us keep a <HI>Charitable Fa&s;t</HI> to day; here's a <HI>Bill</HI> pre&s;ented for a <HI>Contribution</HI> to <HI>Maimed Souldiers,</HI> I want &s;trength to publi&s;h it di&s;tinctly and audibly. I beleeve you will ea&s;ily be per&s;waded to part with your money to them who have &s;hed their bloud for you; <HI>their bodies</HI> have bled already, now let <HI>your pur&s;es bleed;</HI> And here is an Or|der which concernes <HI>Ireland.</HI> Oh let <HI>Ireland</HI> live in your bo|&s;ome! why doe we not fa&s;t, three or foure times every weeke, that we may &s;end &s;ome provi&s;ion to the poore <HI>Prote|&s;tants</HI> in <HI>Ireland?</HI> If our fa&s;ting may keepe the mo&s;t con&s;ide|rable part of that kingdome from &s;tarving, are we not <HI>bound</HI> to <HI>Fa&s;t?</HI> And forget not the other <HI>Churches,</HI> they all come under this endearing <HI>Title [thy &s;elfe.] Deliver thy &s;elfe O Zion:</HI> Is not <HI>Ireland</HI> our <HI>&s;elfe?</HI> &amp; <HI>Scotland</HI> our <HI>&s;elfe?</HI> and <HI>Bohemia</HI> our <HI>&s;elfe?</HI> are not all the <HI>Reformed Churches our &s;elfe?</HI> plot for them all, &amp; pray for them all, love them &amp; treat with them, &amp; &s;o far as the <HI>Scripture</HI> will give you leave, conforme to the~ in point of <HI>Di&s;ciplme,</HI> that we may all <HI>&s;peake the &s;ame thing,</HI> and be per|fectly <HI>joyned</HI> together in the <HI>&s;ame minde,</HI> and the <HI>&s;ame Judg|ment.</HI> And the Lord pre&s;erve this re&s;olution in the hearts of us, and all his people for ever, that we may all live like <HI>Saints,</HI> or <HI>die like Martyrs.</HI> Amen, Allelujah, Amen, Amen.</P>
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