you cannot build none so great Fourthly The New Church must be built of pure gold like unto cleare glasse but you have got none of that to build with for the gold growes in the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3.18 Which wee have forsaken Fifthly You have no Iasper stone for your wall nor fine linnin which is bright and pure the justifications of the Saints to trime your Church with but your Bride hath got a menstruous garment of mans righteousnesse that sayes stand a part I am holier then thou or I will stand a part and separate from you thus you have neither gold nor precious stones nor white raiment to trime your Church but your builders are all divided and your language confounded before you begin you shall build a Babel for the New Church comes from heaven and the builder and founder of it is God and the government of it must come from God before we shall have one as I tould you three yeares since in my Epistle to the Booke of the bloud of the Lambe but you believed it not but thought you should have had a better Reformation and government before this time but are deceived and not I. It followeth for the first Heaven and the first Earth are passed away Question What shall the other Churches then of the Gentiles faile come to decay for hath heaven noteth out the Church as you have proved Answer We need not trouble our selves to prove it for the divisions of all Churches and people against themselves doe shew it for they are sending one another to hell as fast as they can by sword persecution hatred envy and malice dissention heresies sects and schismes and drunkennesse and covetousness they make post hast to hell-ward For where the heaven of a Church is divided against itselfe it cannot continue Matth. 12. But the Church of the Lutherans and of Calvinists and of Papists and of English are heaven of Churches that are divided against themselves Ergo they cannot continue they are heavens that are waxed olde as a garment and as a vesture shall hee change them The Pope and all his Idolaters and his ceremonies the dead faith consubstantiated Lutherans and the luke-warme faith of the English and Calvinists shall be spewed out of Christs mouth Rev. 3.10 And the Heretickes Seperators from the Church with the profane unbelievers shall be rooted out Ma. For every plant which my heavenly Father planted not shall be rooted out Matth. 15.15 Ma. But they which will not buy gold white raiment and eye-salve are plants which my heavenly Father hath not planted Con. Ergo they shall be rooted out Quest As touching the reformed Churches What shall the receiving of the Jewes bee the estranging of the Gentiles from being Churches as if casting away the Church of the Jewes was the reconcilement of the world i. e. Of the Churches of the Gentiles Rom. 11.15 Answ It is very plaine because the Apostle certifieth us in that place that there is a certaine fulnesse of the Gentiles to be made up which is to be at the calling of the Jewes vers 25. for if John saw the former heaven and the former earth departed then you must appoint them a time to passe away in And when the luke-warme Angels of Laodicea is spewed out of Christs mouth i. e. which is the last Church of the Gentiles they shall passe away for being any more churches for the former heaven are the Churches of the Gentiles which he saw departed Ergo they shall passe away Object The Gentiles which are saved shall walke in the light of the new Jerusalem Answ Answ Then they shall leave the candle-lights of the Churches of the Gentiles which are called Candlesticks Rev. 1. they were of and walke in the light of the new Church that shall be on earth and be one with them For blessed is he that doth his commandements that his right way may be in the tree of life that bee may enter in through the gates of the City Rev. 22.14 Object And the Kings of the Earth shall bring their glory and honour to that Church of the new Jerusalem Answ An. This makes against you also for if they doe so then they shall leave to honour their olde Churches and their governments and shall honour the holy City to be the only true Church And as we have had Kings of England that above all the Kings in Christendom have been Kings of Jerusalem So wee shall have againe Kings of England that shall be Kings of the Church of new Jerusalem Let our King hearken to this for the Kings of the earth shall bring their honour and glory both vers 14. The causes why the Churches of the Gentiles shall depart and their Sees and the Church of new Jerusalem appeare Object It seemes there shall be a flourishing Church of the Gentiles when the Jewes shal be called For saith Paul If the casting away of the Jewes were the riches of the Gentiles or the reconciliation of the world what shall their assuming be life from the dead I answer it is true for the Lutherans that escape the bloudy Civill warr and turne shall arise out of the dead faith and the Calvinists and the English shall arise out of the luke-warme faith to walke in the golden street of the lovely faith of the merits of Christs death in one baptisme for the remission of sins as the 3000. did Acts 2.38 and so Papists and Heathens shall arise out of their idolatrous and superstitious faith and embrace the true faith of the new Jerusalem of the Jews and Gentiles v 24. Out of which words we gather that the fulnesse of the Gentiles is not a certaine end of their believing at the calling of the Jewes as if faith should utterly fall away among the Gentiles as nothing can be powred more into a full vessell but that there shall be a more plentifull comming in of all the Nations of the Earth leaving their olde dead luke-warm and Idolatrous Churches and shall obey the true faith of the Church of the new Jerusalem as Zach. 14.9 The Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day there shall be one Lord and one faith and one baptisme saith Paul Ephes 4.5 whereas now wee have many and his Name shall be one i.e. and the name of his Church shall be one new Jerusalem Rev. 3.12 God will write it on them and one Shepheard and one sheepe-fold John 10.16 and Isa 25.7 8. And the Lord shall destroy in this mountaine the covering that covereth all people and the vaile that is spread upon all i. e. the vail of ignorance of their baptisme into Christs death for the remission of sinnes Rom. 6.3 Acts 2.38 For few have this vaile of infidelity removed and the Lord shall wipe all away all teares from their faces and he will take away the rebuke of his people out of the earth i. e. at the calling of the Jewes as Psalm 77.9 10 11. For the Kings
The Propheticall INTELLIGENCER Shewing The causes why all corrupt Churches of Christendome shall passe away or depart and all their Sees of corrupt Doctrine and Discipline shall be abolished and that the holy City of the Church of new Jerusalem is now comming down from my God out of HEAVEN LONDON Printed by M. Simmons and are to be sold by John Hancocke in Popes-head Alley 1647. The Propheticall Intelligencer shewing the causes why all corrupt Churches of Christendome shall passe away or depart and all their Sees of corrupt Doctrine and Discipline shall be abolished and that the holy City of the Church of new Jerusalem is now comming downe from my God out of Heaven Revel 21.1 And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more Sea SOme falsely gather that this is to be understood of the Church Triumphant after the resurrection but what need the Church then to be described to be comming downe from heaven it should rather be seene going up to it And what need shall there be of gates a Wall and City and a Tree when all the Saints shall be as the Angels of God in heaven and equall unto them Math. 22. Luke 20 But the Holy Ghost doth not paint out unto us here that Angelical happinesse of the Saints to come For it is spoken of matters to be done in this life upon earth as the sequell shall declare for it is spoken of a new church that shall be upon earth For the glory of the heavenly and pure Church cannot bee seene nor conceived off the heart of a mortall man 1 Cor. 2.9 Neither can it be set forth with words of comparisons of earthly things but seeing it shall be an heavenly Church therefore the glory and dignity of it is commended in heavenly things and yet the description thereof maketh a way to comprehend in our mindes heavenly felicity for if the glory of the Spouse be so great upon earth what manner of things and how excellent are those which God have prepared for his Saints in the fulnesse of joy truely our mindes are too dull and dimme to meditate of these things let us turne our eyes to contemplate of this blessed paradise which shall openly be seene in the world as 2 Esdras 8.52 For unto you is paradise opened the tree of life is planted Rev. 2.7 The time to come is prepared plenteousnesse made ready the City builded v. 18. and rest prepared perfect goodnesse and absolute wisedome the root of evill is sealed up unto you Dan. 9.24 the weakenesse and moth is destroyed from you and into hell fleeth corruption to be forgotten Rev. 21.8 Sorrowes are vanished away and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortalitie v. 4. I follow him as he goeth with Scripure Now the interpretation of the new heaven may be taken out of Heb. 12.26 whose voyce did then shake the earth but now he hath denounced saying yet once more will I shake not the earth onely but also heaven where to shake heaven and earth is by the interpretation of the Apostle to abrogate the former Church worship Temple to cast off the earthly people of all Nations that would not receive him by a New birth Joh. 1.11 Io. 3.3 And so he will cast off all people that are earthly of all Nations whether of the Churches or heathen that will not receive his counsell to buy of him gould tried in the fire to make them rich 1. Rev. 3.18 The lively faith of the merits of Christs death in our baptisme for remission of sinnes and white raiment justification to cloth them that the shame of their nakednesse might not appeare and eye salve of the spirit in the scriptures that men may see Heaven is by a borrowed speech taken for the Temple the legall worship and the Church of the Jewes whereof the Temple was a seate and dwelling place the shadow of heavenly things Heb. 8.5 and we know that the Church is called the Kingdome of Heaven in many places of Scripture as Psal 107. Mar. 4.2 So that shake heaven is to abolish the visible Church that were of the Jewes or are now of the Gentiles Matth. 13.41.43 Luke 10.9 Col. 1.13 For where God will shake the heaven first of the Church and the Earth of unbelievers they shall be abolished Heb. 12.27 but once more saith the Lord will I shake the heaven 1. Of the Church and the Earth 1. Vnbelievers Ergo they shall be abolished By the Earth is meant in that place men corrupt unbelievers as O Earth heare the word of the Lord. Ma. 1. O men that are earth of all Nations of the Earth and all the Kingdomes of the Heathen shall be shaken as Hagg. 2 27. as well as the Churches For behold saith the Lord I have begun to plague the City which my Name is called upon and should you escape you shal surely drinke Iere. Mi. So God will shake the heaven of the church of Christians and should the Earth of Turkes and Heathens escape they shall be overthrowne Con. To shake the earth therefore is to shake the corrupt unbelieving earthly people out of their places as he shooke the Iewes heaven of the church and the Earth of the heathen because they received not one baptisme into Christs death for remission of sinnes but despised the counsell of God against their owne soules and to make a church and therefore he shooke them downe Luke 7.30 Eph. 4.5 Act. 2.38 Ro. 6.3 So that heaven you see is put for the Church and the earth for all corrupt unbelieving people Therefore as God shooke the heaven and the earth after Christs death for their not receiving of him by baptisme into his death as Ioh. 1.9.10 Gal. 3.27 For every soule that will not heare that Prophet 1. To be baptised in his Name if he have not for the remission of sinnes Act. 2.38 Shall be destroyed among the people and they were destroyed from being the church and people of God and became the Synagogue of Sathan Rev. 2.9 God rejected the old church of the heaven of the Iewes and set up a new heaven of the Church of the Gentiles that did receive Christ by baptisme and faith as the 3000. did and the Churches of all Nations So when God shall have mercy upon the forlorne forsaken Nation and make them partakers of salvation by Christ he shall shake the former heaven of the corrupt Idolatrous dead lukewarme churches of the Gentiles because they believe not one baptisme into Christs death for remission of sinnes as Act. 2.38.22.16 Rom. 6.4 and make the dignity and honour of the holy City of the New Ierusalem of Iewes and Gentiles to be so glorious as a new heaven and a new earth Hence I gather this Doctrine Observati ∣ on That there shall be a new church of the new Jerusalem upon earth and this I prove by Esay 65.17 For behold I
by the Lutherans and the sea of the Calvinists by the Calvinists now if the counsell of Gamaliel approved on in Scripture be true then they must all come to nought For every counsell or worke of man shall come to nought but that which is of God shall stand Acts 5.28 But the Popedome or Sea of Rome Sea of an Hierarchie of Bishops Sea of Lutherans and Calvinists are counsels and workes of men Ergo. they shall come to nought but the church and government of the New Jerusalem from God shall stand Reason 6 Where a great voyce shall be heard out of heaven saying behold the Tabernacle of God is with men there the church must be governed by the Oracles of Gods word and not by a sea of discipline of men for the Oracle is in the Tabernacle but in the New Jerusalem there shall be a voyce out of heaven saying behold the Tabernacle of the Lord is with men Rev. 21.3 Ergo there the Church must be governed by the Oracle of Gods word and not by a Sea of discipline of men Reason 7 For as fishes swimme and live in the Sea so have Christians sailed sworne and lived in the Sea of Rome Canterbury of Lutherans and Calvinists for they lived and walked in their Iurisdiction government discipline for as the Sea have drowned many that have sailed in it so that Sea of Rome and of Canterbury and of Lutherans Calvinists that have drowned many mens faiths in perdition that sailed in them they are worthy to be no more but the Sea of Rome have drowned mens faith in Idolatry and purgatory and the Lutheran Sea have drowned mens faith in confustantiation dead faith and workes to the Calvinists the Sea of our Episcopacy and sea of Calvinists have drowned many faiths in Lukewarmnesse Ergo they are worthy to be no more all these have drowned the faith of one baptisme into Christs death for remission of sinnes for if this faith had swome in other Seas what needed a Popes pardon a purgatory a pilgrimage consubstantiation and workes not perfect before God and a luke-warme faith without assurance of salvation Reason 8 Those Seas that have devoured abundance of substance of poore Christians and worthy to be no more But the Sea of Rome by purgatory pardons and pilgrimage and the seas of Lutherans and Calvinists and of our Episcopacy by licences visitations and courts have devoured abundance of substance of poore Christians Ergo. they are worthy to be no more Of the overthrow and departure of all the corrupt Seas of jurisdiction of the churches of the Gentiles For as the Sea compasseth the Land and sendeth Springs or Rivers to all parts of the Land to water it So did the See of Rome and of Canterbury and of the Lutherans and Calvinists paâ—se through all the parts of their Dominions to water them with their Jurisdiction For who was free in any Popish kingdome from Saint Peters pence or Inquisition Court and Maâ—se and power of the Pope and who was freed in our Hierachy of the Episcopacy from the high Commission Chauncellor or Commissaries courts Synods Licences or Parators or freed in the Lutheran or Calvinists Sees from their Iurisdiction and Discipline Now if the See of the Iurisdiction of the Hierarchy of England be so departed that it can be no more then the Sees of Lutherans and Calvinists and of Rome must follow because the Text saith there shall be no more Sea But by the decree of God Rev. 3.16 and by the vote of Parliament and the Oath of the people the See of the Iurisdiction of the Hierarchy of England is so departed that it can be no more For though King Parliament were agreed to set up an Episcopacy or Presbytery but the Independents and Souldiers would never endure it for they rout them where they come Ergo the Sees of Lutherans and Calvinists and of Rome must follow because the Text saith there shall be no more Sea Judgement is begun at the house of God for their See what shall become of the wicked See of Rome even that which came upon olde Babylon shall come upon the new Babylon of Rome I will maintaine thy cause and take vengeance for thee I will dry up her Sea and make her Springs dry for the people of Gods cause Ier. 51.36 See O heaven rejoyce of her for God will punish her to be revenged of her for your sakes For when a mighty Angel tooke up a great stone like a mil-stone and cast it into the Sea saying with such violence shall that great thy of Babylon be cast and shall be found no more Revel 18.20 21. If the great city of Babylon of Rome shall be so cast what shall become of their See He that believes not that Rome is Babylon that shall be destroyed hath not so good a faith as the Devill who knows it is his habitation vers 2. and an hold of all foul spirits Reason 10 For as the Sea useth to roare presaging stormes which causeth Marriners to beware Ps 46.3 But he breaketh the raging of the Sea when the waves thereof doe roare Jer. 31.35 So when Martin Luther powred out his viall of Doctrine of free Iustification how did the See of Rome and Leo 10. roare against him with his execrable bull but the Lord brake off part of that See and it became a Lutheran Calvinian and Cantuarian See And when the Lutheran See began to roare against the Calvinists for consubstantiation and persecuted them the Lord hath broken that See with one breaking after another And when the See of Canterbury roared against the white-raiment christians and Non-conformists suspending them and cast them into prison On worthy Prin Doctor Bastwick And though a Shepheard got a piece of an eare out of the mouth of a lion Amos 3. yet our Lion loved rost cheekes and eares so well that he left never a piece Therefore the Lord hath broken the waves of the Cantuarian and Episcopal See when it roared and that See shall be no more and the See of Lutherans that have roared at the Calvinists shall be stilled and the See of Rome that have roared and devoured the Martyrs of Jesus shall be dryed up and shall be burne and be no more For as Christ rebuked the materiall Sea when it roared against his Disciples he stilled it So because waves of the Metaphoricall seas that have roared against Reason 11 his people he will still them and they shall be no more for as the raging troubled Sea casteth out mire and dirt Esa 57.10 So have the troubled See of Rome Lutherans Calvinists and of Canterbury been like this troubled Sea for when any troubled their seas by writing or preaching the truth they conceived it was against them how have they foamed out mire and dirt of bloud and persecution Reason 11 Now if there shall no uncleane thing enter into the new Jerusalem then no such miry diâ—ty Seas shall come into it Ma.
as the See of Rome Lutheran Calvinian or Episcopall See for they are uncleane Mi. But there shall no uncleane thing enter into the new Jerusalem Rev. 21. Con. Ergo no See of Rome Lutheran Calvinist or Episcopacie shall come into it for they are uncleane We finde when the second Angel poured out this Viall upon the sea and it became as the bloud of a dead man and every living thing dyed in the Sea Rev. 16.3 That is when Calvin had powred out his viall upon the sea of Romes corrupt jurisdiction and Doctrine for a Calvinian governement For Luther a former Angel had poured out his viall of Doctrine upon the earth i. e. upon earthly Papists and there fell a noisome grievous fore upon the men that had the marke of the beast upon them and worshipped his image i. e. upon Papists which worship the Pope and call him their Lord and made them sore i. e. in conscience by hatred malice envy railing and persecution of the truth of Luthers Doctrine But when Calvin I say had powred out a viall of Doctrine upon the See of Romes corrupt Jurisdiction and Doctrine then the See of Rome became as the bloud of a dead man for then they began to fill their See of Rome with bloudy massacres as of France Germany Netherlands and the bloud of the Martyrs of England that as when Moses stretched out his rod over the waters of Aegypt and all was turned into bloud and all the fish in the waters dyed Exod. 7.20 21. So when Calvin the second Angel had powred out his viall of Doctrine on the See of Romes discipline and Doctrine they became so mad as to murther and massacre the Protestants for the Pope was more mad at Calvin then at Luther as the Papists more hate the Calvinists then the Martinists then all the fish in the Popes See dyed for their Sea was become as the bloud of a dead man for they made all the Catholikes believe that they should merit heaven by killing the Hugonits and they must doe all for the Catholike cause and sang a Te Deum for the murdering of multitudes of Saints and thus was the See of Rome become as the bloud of a dead man and thus all the fish of Papists of the sea of Rome dyed in the faith and in conscience For he that hateth his Brother is a murtherer you know that no murtherer hath eternall life or of faith abiding in him 1 Iohn 3.15 But all that lived in the See of Rome hate their Brethren and are murtherers by rejoycing at the martyrdome of the Saints of Iesus As for the massacres of France Germany and now in Ireland so that all Papists must needs dye and cannot live by faith in the sea of black bloud which is also a sea of Idolatry by Idols of silver and gold and wood and stone by Indulgences pilgrimages purgatory prayer for to the dead a sea of whoredome Re. 9.20 fornication and witch-craft How could any thing live in such a corrupt sea of doctrine and discipline when they made all guilty of the murther of Martyrs under the name of Hereticks and they killed the life of faith into one baptisme into Christs death for remission of sins by teaching no man could have assurance of salvation but he must goe to Purgatory for his sinnes except it were such a fish as could bring up above twenty pence in the mouth or some great piece of money so that as no fish can live mari mortuo in the dead Sea So no true faith can live in the dead bloody idolatrous See of Rome For all men may see that per accidens it was turned into a bloudy dead and rotten stuffe by rejoycing at the murthers of the sanctified And concerning our luke-warme see of Jurisdiction and Hierarchy of England You will graunt that it shall be no more for Christ hath spewed out the Angell and his Episcopacie out of his mouth for luke-warmeneâ—se in faith and conscience For they made a net of 110. articles to have insnared many soules and to have catched many faiths in a new Oath of c. to be Jure Divino and to have tyed mens consciences to a raile and to cringings and to an high Altar and to so many Popes weedes of mans braine How could any good fish live in such pudled waters of a luke-warme sea but would have dyed in faith or conscience therefore because Christ hath spewed the Angell and his Hierarchie out of his mouth there shall be no more luke-warme sea And the See of the Lutherans is become nought and shall passe away for it hath a name it lives but is a dead See lyes in a dead faith that their workes are not perfect before God for they hate their brethren the Calvinists for consubstantiation They sleepe in sinne for they will not be awaked out of the dead faith though Christ become upon them as a Thiefe that is by the judgement of a robbing killing and destroying warre for the Thiefe commeth not but to steale and kill and to destroy John 10.10 If thou wilt not repent and remember what thou hast heard of i. e. by the spirit of Martin Luther and received of the white raiment justification to make thy workes perfect before God and of one baptisme into Christs death for remission of sinnes Christ will never leave comming upon thee as a Thiefe for he hath been upon thee as a Thiefe in judgement to plunder thee by a civill War and as a Thiefe to kill thee sometimes man woman and child he will come upon thee as a Thief to destroy by the Turk For Christ threatened your church that he would come on you as a Thief and now you see he is come and now see Rev. 16.15 Behold I come as a Thiefe and therefore he will never leave comming on thee as a Thiefe and therefore repent and buy gold white raiment and eye-salve or else the Turke will come to destroy thee because thou keepest not Christs garments but walkest naked in sin Also the Presbyterian See of Calvinists will be abolished for suffering Drunkards Usurers and prophane and especially Anabaptists to swim in their See Doe you not know that the denying of their first baptisme was the cause why the Lord sent the Turke into the church of Greece and removed the Candlesticke of the Church out of that place because they forsooke their first love i. e. their first baptisme wherein the first love of Christ is shewed Ephes 5.26 Tit. 3.5 Of the overthrow and departure of all corrupt Sees of Jurisdiction of the churches of the Gentiles for baptisme is good enough by whomsoever a man be baptized If they have faith to believe they were then washed from their sins in Christs bloud Revel 1.5 For hee that believeth and is baptized into Christs death for remission of sinnes shall be saved Mar. 16.16 It is not said in mans state or in Infancy baptized by a faithfull Minister