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A62901	A word of information to them that need it briefly opening some most weighty passages of God dispensations among the sons of men, from the beginning, and insisting a little upon the state and condition of the nations, wherein they now stand, and particularly of England : for this end, that men may remember themselves, and turn unto the Lord, and seek to be delivered from the mysteries of iniquity, to walk with God in fellowship and communion : to which (as pertinent hereunto) is annexed, An addition concerning Lord-Bishops, and Common-prayer-book : with a tender admonition to those called priests, or ministers : and also, a loving exhortation to those that have separated from their superstitions / by W.T.	Tomlinson, William.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1854; ESTC R16928	33,341	46

for their advantage and over-reach one another for the greediness of gain Promise-breakers who will promise to one another and frequently fail one another in their Promises so that you dare hardly trust one another Is not your Church now made up of these and such like persons guilty of these and such like wickednesses Pick out all that are such in your thoughts and see how many will be left behind If any be they are called out by the Lord who saith Come out of her my People lest you partake of her sins and so partake of her plagues To be superstitious though never so much in the traditions of men it will not keep off the wrath of God from such workers of Iniquity And you have nothing else that 's peculiar to your selves in your Church-state to be zealous of as hath been manifested in another Writtng called A Reproof to your Priests or Ministers c. Now consider in the fear of God as if you were to give account of your judgment in that thing before him and before his holy Angels Are such as these think you such I say as are reckoned up such as your Church is made up of Are such I say the Church of Christ Are these the Church in God the Father sanctified by his Spirit Are these the body of Christ Are these the pillar and ground of Truth For the true Church of Christ is all these If such persons as you consist of be the Church then tell me who are the World Oh how apparent it is what you are and yet have you Teachers heaped up to your selves after your own lusts answerable thereunto who sew pillows under your elbows and bear up your name for CHRISTIANS in this State If any one oppose the things here written I shall more closely come to him with these QVAERIES following which I require him to answer in himself clearly without dawbing lest he stop his own way and the way of others from returning and looking after the Kingdom of God Quaery 1. Whether there be such a thing as a Cup of Fornication over-spreading the Nations since the dayes of Christ wherewith the Nations are made drunk according to Revel 19.2 Chap. 18.23 Quaer 2. Whether there be such a thing as a great Whore that sitteth upon many Waters that is Peoples Multitudes Nations and Tongues according to Revel 17.1 15. Quaer 3. Whether she hath not prevailed to corrupt the Earth with her Fornication according to Revel 19.2 even to give to all Nations to drink of the Wine of the Wrath of her Fornication Chap. 14.8 and 18.3 and so to make them drunk therewith Revel 17.2 Yea and prevailed over the Kings of the Earth also to make them drink of the same Cup Revel 17.2 Chap. 18.3 Quaer 4. Whether this great Whore shall not be judged from the Lord and burnt with fire according to Revel 18.8 Quaer 5. Whether shall not they that partake of her sins partake of her plagues according to Rev. 18.4 Quaer 6. Whether cannot this Whore be known to the Servants of the Lord seeing the Book of the Revelations which declares her was written for this end to shew unto his Servants things which were to come to passe Revel 4.1 Ch. 1.1 Quaer 7. Whether it doth not highly concern us all to be able to know her and the Cup of her Fornications that so vve may avoid her plagues by coming out of her More particularly thus Whether it doth not highly concern us all to know What this Whore is What her golden Cup of Fornication is and by what means she reacheth it forth unto the Inhabiters of the Earth to make all Nations drunk therevvith that so vve may take heed of it and seek to be cleared from it If these QVAERIES be yeilded unto then in the next place for discovering a little further what this Whore and her Fornication is it is Quaeried 1. Whether she be not called WHORE for departing from the Bed of Christ to another husband More plainly thus for departing from being chaste to the Counsels of Christ and from lying down in his Wisdom to let in the Wisdom of the flesh and submit to the Inventions of man instead of Christs Counsels Whether her Whoredom doth not lye herein principally according as the Israelites formerly were charged with Whoredom for the like Ezek. 6.9 2. And whether this be not the golden Cup of her Fornication wherewith she hath overcome the Nations and made them drunk namely A Pack of mens Inventions and Traditions gallantly composed to the fleshly mind and decently ordered together and imposed and upheld with great reverence as to outward appearance and as all Idols have been upheld with a like reverent Solemnity so that therewith she hath taken the minds of the Inhabiters of the Earth so generally and the Kings of the Earth also and hath subjected them to those Inventions and overcome their minds to fall under them as under the Counsels and Ordinances of the Lord and with that conceit hath made them drunk so that they being intoxicated with that conceit like drunken men will hear no reason against them though evident from the Scriptures but even like Drunkards fight and quarrel and are ready to buffet and kill and slay them that shall not submit to the same Inventions with them and call them and count them Ordinances of God as they do Let any one that opposes this shew what the general Cup of Fornication is since the dayes of Christ if this be not it and let him shew how his Cup will answer the things spoken of in the Revelation concerning it Let him shew another Cup so general wherewith the Nations have been made drunk according to what is said Revel 14.8 and 17.2 and 18.3 23. and 19.2 3. If the Cup of Fornication be thus understood then it is Quaeried Whether the means by which she reacheth forth this Cup to the Inhabiters of the Earth so generally be not by their National Ministries Whether any other way is found large enough and adaequate to the work namely to effect a general Fornication to mens Inventions and to subject the minds of men so generally to own Inventions and Traditions of men for Ordinances of God and to keep them resting under that Fornication but Ministries that may go over them all 4. Whether the Nations be willing to lye down under and submit to or have layen down under and submitted to the Deceivings of any Ministries but them they own and pay Wages to If they be deceived as the Scripture witnesses they are Rev. 18.23 Then is it not from their own Ministries seeing they will not receive Truths nor Deceits neither from any other but fight against them Now thou who hast read these things and thereby receivest any light into thine understanding take heed henceforth of reviling the Servants of the Lord who in his fear follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes leading them out of the Mystery of Inniquity