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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90388	Babylon the Great described. The city of confusion. In every part whereof Antichrist reigns. Which knoweth not the order and unity of the spirit, but striveth to set up an order and uniformity according to the wisdom of the flesh, in all her territories atd [sic] dominions. Her sins, her judgements. With some plain queries further to discover her, and some considerations to help out of her suburbs, that her inward building may lye the more open to the breath and spirit of the Lord, from which it is to receiv [sic] its consumption and overthrow. Also, an exhortation to the powers of the earth. By Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1153; Thomason E770_2; ESTC R203128	52,975	64

flesh is grass and the glory thereof as the flower of the field Surely this people is grasse and their zeal and profession of God like the fading flower Some plain Queryes drawn out of the Book of the Revel for all sorts of Professors of this age to answer between God their own souls that they may see whether they have received that light from him which his Spirit judged necessary to give forth to keep people chast to him to preserve them from the several painted beds of Antichrists fornications and whoredoms from the life Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophesie and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand Rev 1. 3. The time of deceit was then at hand for Antichrist with his false Church and false Prophets to get up which were to last til the houre of judgement Rev 14. 7 8. Hast thou read hast thou heard hast thou kept the things written in this book then happy art thou But hast thou not read in the Spirit hast thou not heard the true sound of these things from the Spirit of life hast thou not kept the things written therein Then thou hast been deceived with the mistery of iniquity and must smart with the whore in the hour of her judgement The Queryes are these which follow I. What woman was that which was cloathed with the Sun and had the Moon under her feet c Rev 12. 1. Whether it was the true Church or no II. What that wilderness was whereinto she fled where she had a place prepared of God that they should feed her there 1260 dayes vers 6. III. How long those 1260 dayes did last and whether they he yet expired and whether the true Church is anywhere else to befound all the time of the 1260 days but in that place in the wilderness IV. What are all the Churches the Ministry the Ordinances that appear out of the wilderness all this while while the true Church is there V. What was that beast which came out of the Sea to which the Dragon gave his power his seat and great authority which all the world worshipped Rev 13. ver 1. to 5. VI What is that Sea and those ships wherein wherewith the Merchants of the earth traded with Babylon and were maderich by their traffique what were those Merchants what their Merchandize and what kind of riches was this Rev 18. ver 15. to 20. VII What was that name of God and that Tabernacle and those inhabitants of heaven which was blasphemed by the beast that arose out of the Sea all the time of the 42 Moneths Rev 13. vers 5 6. VIII What is the Lambs book of life and where is it and how are the names of any so written in it as to preserve them from the worship of the beast Rev 13. 8. IX What is that beast that came up out of the earth with the horns of a Lamb as if it came up in the Lambs power which doth great wonders and iustifieth his sacrifice by making fire come down from heaven in the sight of men who both causeth men to make an Image to the first beast and also putteth life into the Image which men make Rev 13. ver 11. c. So that here 's not a meer dead Image but there 's life in the beasts knowledge ordinances and worship yet with God all this is dead for it is not the true life X. What is the beasts mark his name his number Rev 13. 17. For if I do not infallibly know this I may have receved his mark I may help to make up his name I may be of his number and be unknown to my selfe a worshipper of him and his Image and so be liable to partake of the torment of the fire and brimstone threatned to such Rev 14. 9 10. XI What is that song which none could learn but the 144 thousand which were not defiled with women but remained Virgins Rev 14. 3. XII What was that other woman which took and kept the place of the former woman after she had fled into the wildernesse and enlarged her territories in Nations Kindreds tonguus and peoples Rev 17. 4. ver 15. XIII What was the purple and scarlet colours and the gold and precious stones she was decked with ver 4. XIV What was the golden cup she had in her hand which was ful of abominations and filthinesse of her fornications in the midst of all her glorious appearance of zeal devotion humility and holinesse ver 4. XV What kind of drunkenness was it wherewith the Kings and inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of this cup Rev 17. 2. XVI How may th●se who have hated the whore and made her desolate and naked and cat her flesh and burned her with sire yet after all this give their kingdom again to the beast Rev 17. v 16 17. How may this be done and how often may it be done These are plain simple Queryes not to intangle mens minds or set their brains on work for that way shall they never be able to resolve them but to awaken the simplicity in them which will readily let them see what the Lord hath revealed to them herein and in which they are to wait for the knowledge hereof that they may escape or come out of the snare And in the mean time not to boast as Israel of old did when the Prophets from the mouth of the Lord accused them that they had not polluted themselves they had not gone after Baalim Jer 2. 22 23 v 35. but wait O backsliding Christian and thou shalt see thy way in the valley And though thou hast of●en traversed thy ground to change thy path gadding from one form to another from one notion to another yet all this hath been out of the life out of the pure power and stil in the whoredom Open the weak sick eye in the weak heart For how weak is thy heart while thou hast done all this and let the languishing simplicity be my witnesse for under all thy wisdom thy zeal thy knowledge thy worship that faints that fails that is not what it was in the beginning Though thou art grown much higher wiser and greater otherwise yet there thou hast lost and happy wilt thou be if all thy gains ever since may become losse to thee for the recovering of this Some considerations helping out of the Suburbs or out-skirts of Babylon that her inward building may be the better come at and lye the more open to the Axe and Hammer which is to batter it down and to cut it up for the fire FIrst Consider what it was the Church fled out of when she fled into the wildernesse Was it not out of that Church-state or building which the Spirit of God had raised up for her here in the world to which her ordinances and way of Church-worship belonged Was it not here that the Dragon