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<P>THE Mad Mans PLEA: OR, A SOBER DEFENCE OF Captaine <HI>CHILLINTONS</HI> CHURCH.</P>
<P>SHEWING The De&s;truction and Deri&s;ion ready to fall on all the Baptized Churches, not Bap|tized with Fire, who&s;e forms of Religion &s;hall be made ridiculous among men, when the power of righteou&s;ne&s;s and glorious appearance of God in his people &s;hall come to the Nation.</P>
<P>By <HI>W. E.</HI></P>
<Q><P>Thus &s;aith the Lord God, thou &s;halt drink of thy &s;i&s;ters cup deep and large; thou &s;halt be laught to &s;corn, and had in deri&s;ion, it con|taineth much,</P>
<BIBL><HI>Ezek. 23.32.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed 1653.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Lords Fools and Mad Folks.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Friends,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Speak not now of <HI>mans fools or mad men,</HI> who are in their wits, and wi&s;e to do evil, who are neither Chri&s;tian nor civil, love not truth nor peace, nor Saint, nor State; the&s;e I leave to the mercy of God, and Ju&s;tice of men.</P>
<P>Neither &s;peak I of civil matters, but of My&s;teries: for as God is a My&s;tery, &s;o man is a My&s;tery al&s;o; the number of the Bea&s;t being the number of a man, <HI>Rev.</HI> 10.7. <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.18. And as <HI>Hagar,</HI> and <HI>I&s;mael,</HI> with <HI>Sarah</HI> and <HI>I&s;aac</HI> were Allegories, though &s;uch per&s;ons were, <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.24. &s;o <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Apollo</HI> were pre&s;ented in a figure 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 4.6. as in the Captaines per&s;on, the Church is pointed at which lies with the whore, in my third Argument hereafter men|tioned, <HI>Rev.</HI> 17.2.</P>
<P>But becau&s;e I would fir&s;t comfort the Lords fools and mad folks, let me tell the wi&s;e, That fools are the wi&s;e&s;t men, and mad men the mo&s;t &s;ober minded (as babes are the highe&s;t men) with God, <HI>Mat.</HI> 11.25. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.18. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.13.</P>
<P>Ye <HI>&s;uffer fools gladly,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Paul,</HI> &s;uch a one was he <HI>to the Church for Chri&s;t his &s;ake,</HI> 1 Cor. 4.10. 2 Cor. 11.19.</P>
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<P> And not onely <HI>Paul,</HI> but <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> was counted <HI>mad,</HI> and <HI>be|&s;ides him&s;elf,</HI> by his own friends, or kin&s;men, and by the Church of the Jews, <HI>Mark</HI> 3.21. the rea&s;on is, the <HI>wi&s;dome of God is fooli&s;hne&s;s with men,</HI> 1 Cor. 1.18. Act. 26.25.</P>
<P>How <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> being the <HI>wi&s;dom of God and power of God</HI> &s;hould appear to men as a <HI>fool and a madman,</HI> is the My&s;tery of God manife&s;t in fle&s;h, crucified through weakne&s;s, yet ju&s;tified in &s;pirit, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.16. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.4. That is, God the eternal &s;pirit took fle&s;h into union with him&s;elf, that he might crucifie fle&s;h to him|&s;elf, and make the man appear as weak as a worm, a <HI>worm and no man,</HI> that God might be All in All, and that nothing might be &s;aid to be in the man, but God, <HI>God manife&s;t in fle&s;h.</HI> P&s;al. 22.6. Joh. 8, 28. Joh. 14.10. 2 Cor. 13.4.</P>
<P>This is a My&s;tery that fle&s;hly and natural men under&s;tand not, therefore 'tis fooli&s;hne&s;s to them, who &s;ee not the &s;pirit in man, but when fle&s;h is in &s;trength, wi&s;e, and &s;ober: but as the <HI>fooli&s;hne&s;s of God is wi&s;er then men,</HI> and the wi&s;dome of men fooli&s;hne&s;s with God; &s;o 'tis no wonder that the prophet of old was called a mad fellow by the King: and he that departeth from iniquity now, ma|keth him&s;elf a prey, or is <HI>counted mad,</HI> as 'tis in the margin, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 59.15. 1 <HI>King.</HI> 9.11.</P>
<P>But if we be be&s;ides our &s;elves, it is to God, and if we be &s;ober 'tis for your cau&s;e, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.13. Mark, when <HI>Paul</HI> a&s;cended to the My&s;tery of God, he was as a man be&s;ides him&s;elf; but when he was &s;ober, 'twas onely to conde&s;cend to their capacity, in carnal things, in outward order, ordinances, duties, and commands; no higher were the Churches then carried, though &s;ome Saints were &s;piritual and in things above.</P>
<P>But the Church (though once a &s;pou&s;e) is now become a harlot joyning with man and with many, yea, the great whore who&s;e fle&s;h mu&s;t be eaten, tormented, and burnt with fire: men therefore now mu&s;t be &s;ober to God, but &s;tarke mad with the Church, in plaguing, vexing, and de&s;troying all her delicacies, <HI>Rev.</HI> 18.6, 7.</P>
<P>Therefore 'tis come to pa&s;s, as 'twas with the Church of I&s;rael, <HI>The dayes of vi&s;itation are come, the dayes of recompence are come, I&s;rael &s;hall know it: the prophet is a fool, and the &s;piritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity and the great hatred,</HI> Ho&s;. 9.7. that is, God being come to vi&s;it the Churches
<PB N="3" REF="3">and recompence them for their iniquity, for their great hatred (of his glorious appearance and people) makes the prophets fools, and &s;piritual men mad, to harden the Churches the more. For &s;o it follows, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 8. <HI>the watchman of Ephraim is with my God</HI> (that's &s;aid of the &s;piritual man who waits on God onely) <HI>but the pro|phet is the &s;nare of a fowler in all his wayes, and hatred in the hou&s;e of his God;</HI> that is as the prophet is hatred in the Church; &s;o all his words and wayes are &s;nares to catch them; for they have deeply corrupted them&s;elves <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;o that all men may &s;ee and know them, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 9.</P>
<P>Well, the Prophet then is a fool, and the &s;piritual man is mad. Truely (friends) I am neither prophet, nor &s;piritual man, but have the folly and madne&s;s of both: 'tis God has made me &s;o for the Chur|ches &s;ake. For if God makes natural innocents, why not &s;piritual fools? and mad men too? And if God had not made me a fool, &s;urely I &s;hould never have made the Mini&s;ters mad.</P>
<P>That which I &s;pake of Captaine <HI>Chillingtons</HI> Church or Hor&s;e|guard, was my folly and madne&s;s: but as the fooli&s;hne&s;s of God is wi&s;er then man, &s;o I cannot but ob&s;erve the wi&s;dome of God in bringing &s;orth my words at &s;uch a time, (a &s;trange provi|dence) when there was &s;uch a tumult and confu&s;ion in the Captaines Church, which truely I never heard of, till I had ended my publike afternoons di&s;cour&s;e; which was far more peaceable; as al&s;o our di&s;pute with the Mini&s;ters the week before; though <HI>Politicus</HI> be plea&s;ed to pre&s;ent it to the world with manife&s;t lies, as of a mutiny, and tearing womens Kerchiefs in the place, which is mo&s;t fal&s;e, as hundreds can witne&s;s. Therefore if <HI>Pragmaticus</HI> be turned <HI>Poli|ticus,</HI> that's in plain Engli&s;h a turn-coat, or a man of the times; let him now as a Chri&s;tian confe&s;s his mi&s;take in the next weekly <HI>Mer|cury,</HI> el&s;e truely, I'll to&s;s him in a Blanket (with the Mini&s;ters) in a &s;heet of paper; then blow him away as du&s;t into the four windes: for the pre&s;ent powers are re&s;olved, that their Mini&s;ters &s;hall tell no more lies to the Nation. <HI>Politicus</HI> &s;ays that the <HI>Di&s;pute had like to have thrown down the church with the mini&s;ters;</HI> that's fal&s;e again, &amp; not &s;o true as that the Captaines Church might have confounded City and Army; but ble&s;&s;ed be God who hath pre&s;erved both from fools and flatterers. Indeed folly and madne&s;s appeared to men in my proving the Captaines Church not to be of Chri&s;t, in the&s;e fol|lowing rea&s;ons.</P>
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<P> Fir&s;t, His Church being not according to the order of the Go&s;|pel, becau&s;e made of a Hor&s;e-guard in <HI>Pauls.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, Becau&s;e Faith is not there, for you all know <HI>Faith</HI>'s Church to be under <HI>Pauls.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, There's no repentance appearing in that Church; for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> prelates had their penance, the <HI>Scots</HI> Presbytery a Stool of Repentance, but in Captaine <HI>Chillingtons</HI> Church there's neither <HI>Penance nor &s;tool of Repentance</HI> for men who lye with their maides.</P>
<P>Fourthly, There's no &s;alvation or &s;afety there to be found, for two men (as they &s;ay) building there on high, fell down, and were like to break their necks.</P>
<P>Truely as <HI>Eliah</HI> jeer'd at <HI>Baals</HI> prie&s;ts; &s;o though I am &s;ad and &s;erious at other times, yet now I could not but je&s;t out the&s;e Argu|ments, becau&s;e they would not an&s;wer mine in earne&s;t. For in &s;ober &s;adne&s;s, I proved in my <HI>Call to the Churches,</HI> that the bap|tized Churches have no <HI>Go&s;pel-faith</HI> at all, <HI>Joh.</HI> 7.39. for as there is <HI>faith</HI> in Chri&s;t, and faith on Chri&s;t; &s;o there is the Faith of Chri&s;t, the Faith of the Son of God, which was not on promi&s;es (as legal, and as our Go&s;pel-believers) but onely on the Father, who was all in all in him, acting all his works, and &s;ugge&s;ting or prom|pting every word that he &s;pake: &s;o do not the Baptized Churches believe, <HI>Joh.</HI> 5.19.30. <HI>Joh.</HI> 8.28. <HI>Joh.</HI> 14 10.</P>
<P>Again, as there is faith in dependance, and the Faith of evi|dence; &s;o the Faith of operation, or the work of faith with power, when the power of God that was on Chri&s;t, appears in the Church; this the baptized Churches cannot &s;hew, <HI>Joh.</HI> 14.12. For as there was the gift of Faith proper to the Church, (how el&s;e could the <HI>Elders of the Church heal the &s;ick?</HI> &amp;c. 1 Cor. 12.9. Jam. 5.14.) &s;o there was the grace of Faith common to the Saints, called the My&s;tery of Faith in a pure con&s;cience, which the baptized Churches know not, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.9.</P>
<P>Secondly, There's no repentance appearing in their Churches, for as their prayers are called howlings (on their bed of ea&s;e and fulne&s;s, <HI>Amos</HI> 6.1, 4, 6. ver&s;es) &s;o they a&s;&s;emble them&s;elves for corne and wine, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> that is, for worldly ends the mo&s;t of them meet, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 7.14. yea, all of them return, but not to the mo&s;t high, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 16. this &s;hews, there may be a repentance, but not to God, for every re|pentance
<PB N="5" REF="4">for &s;in is not to God; yea, there may be a repentance to God, but not to the mo&s;t high. I &s;corn to &s;peak of tho&s;e who from Independants turn to be Anabapti&s;ts; there are &s;ome more &s;piritual and &s;incere Saints in Baptized Churches, who return, but not to the mo&s;t high, they are content to lye below in the waters, not to a&s;cend to the fire and &s;pirit of burning that was, and mu&s;t be againe, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 4.4. <HI>they return, but not to the mo&s;t high,</HI> to the highe&s;t di&s;coveries of God, to the <HI>height of Zion</HI> Jer. 31.12. but &s;it down in their formal doctrines and dippings, whereas <HI>Paul</HI> was ever returning and repenting (that is) <HI>forgetting what is be|hinde, he was reaching forth to the price of the mo&s;t high call|ing of God in Chri&s;t,</HI> that is, to attain to the <HI>re&s;urrection of the dead,</HI> Phil. 3.11, 12. For as the re&s;urrection is, when <HI>God &s;hall be All in All,</HI> 1 Cor. 15.28. &s;o the Churches of Chri&s;t (living onely in death, in the <HI>dying of the Lord Je&s;us, baptized into death, and &s;hewing forth his death till he come</HI>) were alwayes repenting, or returning (not from &s;in onely, but) <HI>to the mo&s;t high,</HI> to higher di&s;coveries of God daily, <HI>growing up in grace and in the know|ledge of our Lord;</HI> but when the re&s;urrection comes and the Saints come to the <HI>mo&s;t high;</HI> then there's no more returning, <HI>repentance is hid from mine eyes,</HI> Ho&s;. 13.14.</P>
<P>Thirdly, I &s;aid there was no <HI>&s;alvation in baptized Churches;</HI> that which I &s;pake in je&s;t, they may &s;ee in earne&s;t very &s;hortly: 'tis not &s;alvation hereafter which I mean, for &s;o &s;ome Prote&s;tants hold that hone&s;t Papi&s;ts may be &s;aved as well as we; but to be &s;aved from <HI>Babylons</HI> plagues (<HI>death, mourning, famine, and fire,</HI> Rev. 18.8.) to be &s;aved from that fire, from <HI>Babylons</HI> fall, and from tho&s;e <HI>fearful pangs</HI> prophe&s;ied of <HI>Ier.</HI> 30.6, 7. Yea from that <HI>fire and brim&s;tone in which all &s;hall burn who wor&s;hip the bea&s;t or his image,</HI> &amp;c. Rev. 14.9. let the baptized Churches look to it, that there be not much of man, of the <HI>wi&s;dome of man, and power of man</HI> (that's the Bea&s;t) in their wayes: and &s;o that their wor&s;hip have not the <HI>Image of the bea&s;t,</HI> when the wi&s;dome of God and power of God appears not in their <HI>dipping,</HI> Rev. 13.18.</P>
<P>Truely, I &s;pake not then, nor now, of the Captaines Church in private revenge, but in that publike &s;pirit of vengeance, that is in ten thou&s;and of Saints (though they &s;peak not) again&s;t <HI>carnal Churches,</HI> and again&s;t ungodly ones, who <HI>&s;eparate them&s;elves,
<PB N="6" REF="5">not having the &s;pirit,</HI> Jud. 19. for is it not ridiculous to build Churches now, when <HI>heaven and earth are &s;haking,</HI> Joel 3.16? yea <HI>in the day of the great &s;laughter when the towers fall,</HI> I&s;a. 30.25? for if the day of the Lord be again&s;t every high tower, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 2.25. the Towers fall will be on the Churches, as the Kingly power fell on the Prelates, the Parliamentary Tower fell on the Presbyters, and though the Independant and baptized Churches build a Babel Tower to heaven, 'twill fall upon their heads at la&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. Is it not ridiculous for Anabapti&s;ts to build a Church at <HI>Pauls</HI> (in the highe&s;t place of the City) when <HI>Paul</HI> never owned a Church of Anabapti&s;ts or dippers?</P>
<P N="3">3. Is it not ridiculous that they cannot &s;ee old <HI>Pauls</HI> in a new coat of Free &s;tone, as a vi&s;ible monument of the folly and madne&s;s of Bi&s;hops?</P>
<P N="4">4. Is it not ridiculous that the Anab apti&s;t Church &s;hould expend &s;o much on &s;ticks and &s;eats in a Hor&s;e-guard, when living &s;tones and members of Chri&s;t want the money?</P>
<P N="5">5. How far is this Hor&s;e-guard from the order of Go&s;pel-Chur|ches, who never made a meeting place for them&s;elves, to preach and pray in, but went forth to the world, to the Temple or Synagogues to preach, and to pray in their own hou&s;es.</P>
<P N="6">6. An&s;wer, ye Anabapti&s;ts, Was ever water-bapti&s;m in a Go&s;pel|way without the bapti&s;me of fire before? Did ever any baptize who was not fir&s;t baptized with the &s;pirit him&s;elf? was not the way of bapti&s;me by wa&s;hing the &s;eet, or going down to the waters up to the anckles, and not by dipping?</P>
<P>Againe, how are you buried with Chri&s;t by bapti&s;me, when Chri&s;ts burial was not his going into the earth, and ri&s;ing &s;uddainly as you do out of the waters, but his burial mu&s;t be three dayes and three nights, which is a My&s;tery you know not: let the Ana|bapti&s;ts lye &s;o long in the waters, then I'll &s;ay they are dipt in|deed.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, let the world judge if the mode&s;ty of Go&s;pel-Churches would &s;uffer &s;o many naked women to be dipt with men? and whether &s;uch mode&s;t garments as your Confe&s;&s;ion mention for the the admini&s;trator, and for baptized per&s;ons to wear, be according to Scripture or &s;en&s;e? &s;eeing all <HI>Iudea came forth to be baptized</HI> of <HI>Iohn;</HI> and three thou&s;and, yea, five thou&s;and in a day baptized by
<PB N="7" REF="5">the Apo&s;tles, how could &s;o many be dipt in a day or in an after|noon? (for <HI>Peters</HI> Sermon la&s;ted all the morning, and more) and where could &s;o many mode&s;t garments be had in a moment? &s;urely all the Taylors and Sem&s;ters in Jeru&s;alem could &s;carce make &s;o ma|ny in a moneth.</P>
<P>But to return to the bufine&s;s of the Church or Hor&s;e-guard at <HI>Pauls,</HI> made it &s;eemes to preach and pray in, and to break bread together. Did ever Chri&s;t or his Apo&s;tles pray in publike with their preachings? were not prayers as private and proper to the Church, as fellow&s;hip and breaking of bread? <HI>Act.</HI> 2.42. Did not <HI>Peter</HI> and <HI>John</HI> go up to the Temple to preach, but to their own company to pray? <HI>Act.</HI> 4.23. therefore the whole Church that was praying for <HI>Peter,</HI> met in <HI>Maries</HI> hou&s;e, where <HI>many were ga|thered together,</HI> Act. 12.5, 12. yea, when there was three thou|&s;and, afterward five thou&s;and in the Church, the Church met to pray, and break bread onely in private, from hou&s;e to hou&s;e, or at home, as the margin reads, <HI>Act.</HI> 2.46. <GAP DESC="foreign">. Neither was it fear of per&s;ecution (or want of liberty of con&s;cience) that made them to pray in private; for they were not afraid to preach in pub|like, in the Temple, and Synagogues,</P>
<P>Therefore though men may &s;ay, that my rea&s;ons before were but <HI>ridiculous,</HI> it was becau&s;e their <HI>religion</HI> is &s;o, and God will make it a <HI>deri&s;ion</HI> to all, becau&s;e by their carnal ordinances and dippings, they not onely captivate the &s;pirits of the Saints among them, but crucifie Chri&s;t al&s;o, and keep under that &s;pirit of glory which is breaking forth in the Saints of the mo&s;t high, in whom the Lord &s;its; and as he that &s;its in heaven <HI>laughs them to &s;corn;</HI> yea, the Lord &s;hall have them <HI>in deri&s;ion,</HI> P&s;al. 2.4. &s;o he &s;hall <HI>laugh at their calamity, and mocke when their fear cometh,</HI> Prov. 1.26. <HI>For they return, but not to the mo&s;t high, they are as a deceit|ful bow. Their princes &s;hall fall by the &s;word, for the rage of their tongue, this &s;hall be their deri&s;ion in the land of Egypt,</HI> Ho&s;. 7.16.</P>
<P>This land (though the hou&s;e of bondage) &s;hall one day break forth into &s;inging; and &s;mile at tho&s;e empty forms of Religion, when the power of righteou&s;ne&s;s appears, and all their oppre&s;&s;ors peri&s;h, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 72.4, 7, 11. ver&s;es.</P>
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<P> No &s;uch oppre&s;&s;or as he who embondageth the &s;pirit of liberty, even the &s;pirit of the Lord Je&s;us, who is for the &s;alvation of men, and not for the de&s;truction of any, but of him who is the de&s;troy|er, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11.18. <HI>Luke</HI> 9.56.</P>
<P>Therefore 'tis &s;aid he will <HI>laugh at their calamity,</HI> &amp;c. for the Churches fall will be like Babylons, with <HI>great joy in Heaven, Rev.</HI> 18.20.</P>
<P>Babylons la&s;t fall will be in the fall of the&s;e la&s;t <HI>Churches,</HI> who &s;hall be <HI>thrown down</HI> not by man (as former Churches have been) but by the hand of an Angel, that is, by the mighty appearance of God in his people, <HI>Rev.</HI> 18. Neither is it by controver&s;ie (as before) nor by di&s;putes (as now) but by deri&s;ion and &s;corne, they &s;hall all &s;ink as a &s;tone in the &s;ea, or like a great mil&s;tone in mighty waters, <HI>Exod.</HI> 15.5. <HI>Jer.</HI> 51.63. <HI>Rev.</HI> 18.21. compared.</P>
<P>Therefore, <HI>Go ye forth of Babylon, flee from the land of the Chaldeans with a voice of &s;inging, declare ye, tell this, utter it, even to the end of the earth, &s;ay ye, The Lord hath redeemed his &s;ervant Iacob,</HI> I&s;a. 48.20. The Lords &s;ervant is the man who waits on God, and for God onely; the&s;e (though captives now) &s;hall be redeemed from forms and fle&s;h, and &s;ing at the fall of both.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, If <HI>madne&s;s be in the heart of every man,</HI> Eccle&s;, 9.3. then this is the <HI>I&s;land of great Bedlam,</HI> and (as a great man of the Sea &s;aid, when he heard of the Parliament di&s;&s;olved) <HI>Come, let's all be mad together.</HI></P>
<P>Truely there's a <HI>cup of trembling</HI> coming for all the <HI>Nations</HI> to drink, and for this fir&s;t, for <HI>Iudah and Ieru&s;alem,</HI> Jer. 25.17, 18. and <HI>if they refu&s;e to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then &s;halt thou &s;ay unto them, Thus &s;aith the Lord of ho&s;ts, Ye &s;hall certainly drink,</HI> ver&s;. 28. <HI>drink and be moved, and be mad becau&s;e of the &s;word I &s;hall &s;end among them,</HI> ver&s;. 16. As the &s;word is the &s;pirit of burning, and Bapti&s;me of fire: &s;o the cup is that golden cup of abominations in the hand of the whore, who is gorgeou&s;ly arayed with precious &s;tones, and Saints with glorious Ordinances. O this is the golden cup full of filthine&s;s and fornica|tions of the whore, who&s;e fle&s;h or forms of doctrine and wor&s;hip as it mu&s;t be burnt with fire: &s;o the Churches, e&s;pecially tho&s;e Bap|tized
<PB N="9" REF="6">ones are the woman that &s;its on many waters, <HI>Rev.</HI> 17.1, 2, 3, 4.</P>
<P>But where's the <HI>Sober Defence</HI> of Captaine <HI>Chillingtons</HI> Church?</P>
<P>I an&s;wer, fir&s;t, 'Twas well defended by &s;ouldiers. Again, there's now a <HI>Sober Defence</HI> of Citizens or Holderds.</P>
<P>Secondly, The de&s;truction that is coming on the Church from God, is their <HI>Defence</HI> by man, for man is &s;ure to defend what God will &s;troy.</P>
<P>Thirdly, the pure&s;t Saints and Primitive Churches &s;ought no De|fence but God, though man would de&s;troy them.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, the Church coming out of Babylon, would not have a guard of Hor&s;e to defend them, as the Captains Church or hor&s;e|guard had, <HI>Ezra</HI> 8.22. <HI>I was a&s;hamed to require of the King a band of &s;ouldiers and hor&s;emen to help us again&s;t the enemy in the way, becau&s;e we had &s;poken to the King, &s;aying, The hand of our God is upon all for good that &s;eek him; but his power and his wrath is again&s;t all them that for&s;ake him.</HI></P>
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