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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61852	A voice from heaven, calling the people of God to a perfect separation from mystical Babylon as it was delivered in a sermon at Pauls before the Right Honorable the Lord Major and Aldermen of the city of London, on Novem. 5, 1653 / by William Strong ...	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing S6012; ESTC R686	21,131	40

merchandize of them And when in this work it shall be told you that it belongs not to you to meddle with Religion your power is only in things Civil being a Civil Magistrate Do you consider the foundation of honesty is laid in Godliness and all the duties of the second are grounded in the obedience of the first Table That men are to obey you for conscience sake and conscience respects God only and if you set their consciences at liberty in the things of God sinfully you may expect that God shall let their consciences loose from obedience unto you judicially for furely they that are to obey you only out of conscience to God if they make no conscience of obedience to him it cannot be rationally expected that they should be conscientious in obedience towards you The Magistrate is to rule with God and his great care is to be that nothing provoke God to depart from his Government for what ever men imagine it is the Lord that builds the house that keeps the City Ezech. 10.2 and fire taken off the Altar burns more fiercely when scattered over the City then common fire Let therefore the great things of Christ and of his Gospel be your care and be you very vigilant against all the wiles of Antichrist for he is a Beast issuing out of the Earth Rev. 13.11 of a base original and yet growing up insensibly Stirpium more Mede and his horns are like a Lamb when he speaks like a Dragon The more subtilty there is in this Adversary the greater circumspection is required in you So shall you be chosen Instruments in the Lords hand to keep this people from returning to Babylon so shall you eminently serve your Generation lay down your sword in peace and the ruine intended endeavored upon this City shall not be in your hands which is the humble and hearty prayers of him who is Yours to serve you in the Gospel VV. S. A Voice from Heaven Calling the People of God to a perfect separation from mystical BABYLON REV. 18.4 And I heard another voice from Heaven saying Come out of her my People that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues THis Book sets forth the state of the Church and of the Empire under the two last heads of the fourth Beast and it contains in it in reference to the Empire three great Prophesies First of the Seals which I conceive refer unto Rome Pagan Secondly Of the Trumpets which refer unto Rome Christian after the time of Constantine the Emperour Thirdly Of the Vials which refer unto Rome Antichristian after the Apostasie spoken of 2 Thes 2.3 There must come a falling away first that the man of sin may be revealed the son of perdition the rise of Antichrist is set down in this Book Ch. 13. under the representation of two Beasts noting his double power one temporal so he is a Beast arising out of the Sea with seven heads and ten horns The other Ecclesiastical so he is a Beast arising out of the Earth having two horns like a Lamb c. and his ruin is described Chap. 16. where are set down the several steps and degrees thereof These words of the Text refer unto the time of the fifth Vial which is to be poured out upon the Throne of the Beast Chap. 16.10 which in this Chapter is more fully set forth with the manner and the several circumstances thereof when a mighty Angel shall cry with a strong voice saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird These words now read unto you Quamobrem aliquot Electi delitescunt adbuc in eluvione Romanae impietatis quorum Deus meminit in communi perditione improborum Bright are taken out of Jer. 51.45 My people go ye out of the midst of her and deliver ye every man his own soul from the fierce anger of the Lord and they contain in them two things first An exhortation unto the people of God who are yet supposed to be mixt amongst the Romish Idolaters yea even then when Rome comes to receive its last plagues in these words come out of her my people Secondly The reason given thereof taken from a double evil First of sin that ye be not partakers of her sins Secondly of suffering that ye receive not of her plagues Two things are to be spoken of by way of explication before I can propose the Doctrine which I intend and they are these First What is meant here by Babylon Secondly What is the destruction which is here threatned unto Babylon First what is meant by Babylon for the understanding thereof we read Chap. 17. ver 3 4 5. Of a woman sitting upon a scarlet coloured Beast full of names of Blasphemy c. and her name was written in her forehead Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots Babylon therefore here spoken of is described to be a Woman and vers 18. the Woman is interpreted to be that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth so that Babylon in the sense of the holy Ghost is a great City and that antient Babylon cannot be here meant is plain partly because the ruin thereof was prophesied Isa 21.9 Jer. 51.64 Thus shall Babylon sink and shall not arise from the evil that I will bring upon her Which threatnings were inflicted long before Saint Johns time but the City here spoken of did then raign over the Kings of the Earth and John in this book doth speak of nothing but the things that were and that should come to pass hereafter as appears Chap. 1.19 Write the things which thou hast seen the things which are and the things which shall be hereafter It appears also because the Spirit of God hath given us two words of purpose to keep us off from a literal sense one Chap. 11.8 which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiritually called Sodom and Egypt it is a City therefore that is here spoken of that hath the name of Sodom and Egypt yet not to be literally but spiritually understood and the other is Chap. 17.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mysterie Babylon the Great it is not therefore to be literally but mystically interpreted and what City in S. Johns time did rule over the Kings of the Earth but Rome called every where in this Book the great City and by Historians Orbis totius compendium orbis terrarum lux regina c. Cum caput illud O●bis ●ccidet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esse caeperit quis dubitet venisse jam finem rebu● humanis orbique terrarum Illa est enim civitas quae adhuc sustentat omnia c. Ne Tyrannus lumen illud effodiat cujus interitu mundus ipse lapsurus est Lactan. de divin praem lib. 7. cap. 25. Yea and A Lapide himself though a Jesuit doth