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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

the spirits of men for such a Persecution Sixthly What means else that general revolting unto the Doctrines of Popery and Arminianism The spirits of Popery which the Jesuits being the Popes Janizaries have laboured most in and had great contests with the Dominicans about them before ever the name of Arminius was heard of in the world and that they are Symbolical and the passage easie from one to the other the examples of Bertius Tilenus Vorstius and many others do make manifest But we need not go abroad for instances We saw in Episcopal times that those that were most forward in receiving and propagating these Doctrines of the Jesuits they soon fell into the superstitions of Rome in all their ways of Worship and we have reason to expect that it should be so in our time also Those Doctrines being as infectious now as they have been in times past Seventhly What may a man think of that general endeavor that there is to take off the odium from Popery and Papists among us That courting of them associating and complying with them so that with too many a Papist finds more favor then a faithfull Minister of the Gospel Nay what means that general neglect of the observation of this day In perpetuam Pontificiorum ignominiam Nay why is it denyed by some and the Religious observance thereof as if it were not a thing plotted by them but rather fained by us Eighthly What is the meaning of that design now on foot against the Ministers of the Gospel and their maintenance both being so clearly laid down in the Scripture and the latter having been so fully proved by the Law Is it not to be feared that all this is because they are the men that are lookt upon to stand in the light and do hinder the bringing forth of some such accursed birth according unto the Politick Counsel of Contzen the Jesuite who exhorts them to take away those that are forward and hot men Zealous for truth Haeresiarchae doctores errorum Repub pellendi sunt una vice si commodè fieri queat sin minus sensim paulatim li. 2. Politic. ca. 18. modus reducendae verae religionis and then error for so he calls truth cui patrocinium deerit sine pugna concidet or at least they being removed those may be be brought in who are unable either to discern truth from error or to convince the gainsayer and so the blind leading the blind both may fall into the Ditch Ninthly That general outcry that is upon all Truths Ordinances and ways of Religion among us as Antichristian Our Churches Antichristian our Ministry Antichristian our Laws Antichristian c. For it is Satans manner when he would set up Antichrist indeed to blend all the things of Christ with the Name of Antichrist thus giving the Wine of her Fornication in a golden Cup For Antichrist must blaspheme Gods name his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven neither hath this been a late design only for none of the Opinions or Practices that are amongst us are new but there was a book written many years ago Entituled Praemonitiones Christi Apostolorum de abolendo Christo vero per Antichristum Wherein the Doctrine of the Trinity the two natures of Christ his suffering in the flesh and his satisfaction unto God for sin All these are said to be Antichristian Doctrines and endeavoured to be censured under that Notion of a design of Antichrist to undermine the true Christ who saith the Author is Christ in the Spirit and not in the flesh Let none therefore be moved to hear every thing now termed Antichristian whether in Doctrine or practice according unto the licentiousness of men but rather fear lest under the name of Antichristian the things of Christ be cast off he who is truly Antichrist brought in who comes with all deceivableness of unrighteousness Tenthly When I consider also that general carelesness and inadventencie that is even amongst the people of God concerning these things a spirit of slumber and it is to be feared in Judgement being come upon them so that no man mourns under it no man lays it unto his heart I can remember when the Doctrines of Arminianism were revived in England by Mr. Mountagues Book what impression it made upon the spirits of the godly called then the Puritans of this Nation what mourning fasting praying writing there was against it but now even Godly men sleep whilst the Enemy sows these Tares This makes me to see need of pressing this exhortation that you come out that you keep out of Babylon Oh that the Lord would make it a Voice from Heaven to you For though there be many abominable Heresies Sects and Errors in this Land at this day and in this City Yet upon the forementioned grounds I am enclined to conceive that they all play small game but the Papists who insinuate themselves under all these Forms and thereby intend worse to us then a Powder plot if the Lord prevent it not and I am perswaded they had never greater hopes of it Use 2. But seeing God hath brought us out of Babylon what may we do to keep our selves from returning thither again Here I shall offer to you these few Directions as Preservatives First Receive the truth in the love of it 2 Thes 2.10,11 For this was the cause that did provoke God to give men up unto that efficacy of deceit at first Endeavor therefore to know and to be established in truth that you be not carried away with every wind of Doctrine and do not plead for truth as Lawyers plead causes by other mens evidences but get an experimental knowledge thereof in your own souls Consider it is the great depositum committed unto you to keep Buy it therefore and sell it not contend earnestly for the faith claim it as your inheritance for ever Secondly Let all those that fear God unite against this common adversary your divisions will always be his advantages their way having always been to fish in such troubled waters Captare tempor a impacata Rev. 15.1 though the Sea of glass be mingled with fire yet they that have gotten Victory over the Beast should stand together upon the same Sea with the Harps of God in their hands Commune periculum concordiâ pulsandum It is the observation of Bullinger several times in his Book de Persecut Eccles That because of the dissention of Brethren among themselves God did give them up into the hands of the Enemy ad abstergendum aeruginem quae quotidie magis as mag is crescebat Temporibus Aureliani Imperatoris c. Christiani optime inter se conveniebant sed ardens illud fludium imminutum dissentiones auctae sunt praecipue inter Episcopos doctores Ideoque Dominus passus est infideles Ethnicos manum Ecclesiae injicere Ita temporibus Constantini c. Yet let not this union be sinfull and unworthy unto that I exhort you not For Castam Christi sponsum decet casta concordia but you that agree in the Foundations the great things of Religion though in certain forms you differ or in truths of lesser alloy yet take Luthers Counsel to the Synod at Norinberg to silence your disputes untill a fitter opportunity Meum consilium est ut causam hanc sinatis ad tempus sopitam jacere hoc tempore enim animis sic affectis venenum est disputare And be sure in your diversity of opinion you endeavor to keep unity in affection Thirdly Suspect all new Doctrines For we are to enquire for the old way the good way that we may find rest to our souls we are to go forth by the steps of the Antient flocks Novelty hath always leaven in it the people of God antiently feared not only novel Doctrines or Tenents but new coined words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for with such false teachers use to come Felix Ecclesin cum nova de Deo dicere lascivia crederetur that Church is in a happy condition when all Novelties in Doctrine are suspected to be barely the fruit of wanton wits and prophane hearts Fourthly Take heed of hearing any of those that would bring in Popish leaven Your ears are not your own take heed what you hear itching ears seldom consent to true but ordinarily to unsound Doctrine 2 Joh. 10. If they bring not this Doctrine receive them not into your house bid them not God-speed Those common civilities which unto some strangers are a duty they cannot without sin be performed towards men that corrupt truths and hunt souls Fifthly Let Magistrates do their duty towards Religion It is Bellarmines Doctrine that they are Religionis defensores non Judices but you Right Honorable with the rest in Authority ought to Judge which is the true Religion and to endeavor to maintain it Christianity taking in all our relations and the Lord having promised Isa 49.23 That Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and Queens thy nursing Mothers that which is promised to the Church as a mercy Magistrates should make Conscience to perform as a duty Do you therefore afford favor and encouragement unto those that are good and be you a terror unto them that are evil Mark those that cause Divisions and raise Distractions among you Sixthly Give unto God the glory of the mercy of this day Let your Vials be gold and full of Odours The Enemies fall before the praises as well as the prayers of Gods people Out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings he hath ordained strength Psal 8.2 which is rendred by Christ thou hast perfected praise Mat. 21.16 and this shall be powerfull to still the Enemy and the avenger I shall conclude all with that 2 Chron. 20.22 when they began to sing and to praise the Lord the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon Moab and Mounseir that they helped to destroy one another FINIS