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A44285	A sermon preached afore Thomas Andrews Lord Maior and the aldermen, sheriffs &c. of the honorable corporation of the citie of London in which discourse is held forth I. The order, method, and succession of times and things both good and evil ... as an explanation of his former sermon before the said honorable assembly upon Octob. 8, 1650. 2. A touch upon the two witnesses. 3. An iconism or picture of the present apostacie in England. 4. A systeme of symptomes of them that will have the spiritual falling - sickness to depart from the faith / by Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2575; ESTC R29231	23,573	34

I say no more here 2. Prophanation of the Lords day Of which sin the Edict or Book of Sports was I am perswaded a main meritorious cause to bring our two last Kings to untimely ends and the practise of it brought Gods judgements upon hundreds as the Book of Gods judgements on sinners and that other of Gods judgements on Sabbath-breakers do declare And we are extremely guilty still Thousands chusing to walk in fields on the Lords day rather then to hear the Preaching of the Word For now they are free from enforcement to hear the Service-book they return this for their thanks They will hear nothing at all And thus they daily do about London though the worthy Lord Maior present and others formerly have much endeavoured to prevent it But let me say to those Profaners Tolle Diem tolle Deum cultus Take away the Day and you take away the Deity of Worship Are these all Against our Neighbour No. There is another Predicament or Table of sins against our Neighbour Viz. False accusations Injustice Bribery Oppression Circumvention Have we yet All Against the Church of Christ No. There is another of sins against the Universal Church of Christ Reproaching of Ordinances Disgracing all ways of Worship Questioning all Ministeries reproaching their Persons and Offices pining them from maintenance and professing their hope as some have expressed that within few years the name of Minister shall be odious For testimony we have their Books common expressions and deeds Would God all the Lords people were Prophets or that you need not to be taught by men but were fully taught of God But mean while Lord turn those mens hearts or else dispose of us that we may not see your ruine Have we yet all Sins against the State No. There is one Predicament more of sins against the State 1. Self-power every man would rule or bring the Majestie of Magistracie as lowe as themselves a dangerous preface to cutting of throats an Adamitish diabolical Levellism 2. Self-ends Most men care for their Cabins whiles the Ship the Common welfare is in danger They are like the Romane Consul that was deaf with delight in his Garden whiles the Drums of the enemy beat at the walls of the City 3. Sycophancie with pretence of the Common weal to fill ones own pockets O this State-eating this Commonwealth-devouring I wish I might see men go quite beyond Iehu and like Nehemiah do that which all may have a share in O England I am afraid concerning thee and London concerning thee The Swedes and that party are fallen from their first zeal and have unworthily made agreement with Antichristian Amalek with whom in such a Case and Cause no Peace was to be made The Netherlands unhappie in their League with one limb of Antichrist and in their assistance of another limb of him to be their neer ill neighbour The Scots have fallen from their own Articles profession of Reformation and their quondam Principles to bring Malignants to condign punishment But England and London are mightily fallen from Religion Not long since you were neer the highest in profession of Religion above all the Nations of the earth England was the Paradise and London the midst where were the choice trees of knowledge and of life But now in many main things of Religion ye are fallen lower then Lutherans Papists Iews Turks and Heathens in despising Christ denying the Scriptures and professed Atheism England is a waste wilderness of decayed Religion and London the nest of all unclean birds Therefore am I afraid of the Citie of my habitation and of the Land of my nativity I fear not the French Danes Scots c. I fear the sins of England and London For when Balak could not beat us nor Balaam enchant and curse us we received and acted the Doctrine and Counsel of Balaam the Nation is full of Adulteries Corporal and Spiritual beside those clouds of sins afore appearing Can God in justice put up these things at our hands and not do by us as by Israel for that Balaamitish defection till Zimri and Cozbi Num. 24. and thousands more were destroyed unto death some killed with a javelin others hanged and Four and twenty thousand destroyed by the Pestilence What though glorious times for the Universal Church are not far off England is but a small spot of ground and may have an hour fo temptation and yet that designe little or nothing interrupted A storm of Lightning Thunder and Hail may fall in the dawning of a most glorious fair Summers day as it proves afterward Israel was got quite out of Egypt yet often sinning in the way towards Canaan were often sorely punished 1 Cor. 10. And if any Believers among them concurred in the sin they escaped not the punishment The Lord forgave their iniquities Psal 99.8 but took vengeance of their inventions Yea when Israel had begun to enter Canaan and had conquered Iericho Of the Two Witnesses and their time and place of lying dead and rising yet for a great sin before Ai they fall Though the Two Witnesses have been long time slaying the Question still is Whether they have layn their three days and an half dead Which being not yet fulfilled it will be a Common calamity when and where it falls And not altogether unsutable 't is the judgement of some piously learned That the time of all the great troubles to be on the Christian Gentiles is not yet over but that there is a time yet to come in which the Popal power shall dowineer over all Europe afore its full ruine Their Arguments are two The one from Revel 17. 1 Argum. in which say they is intimated a two-fold subjection of the ten Horns that is of the ten Kingdoms of Europe to the Beast The first in vers 12 13. where it is said emphatically They all ten of them had one minde sentence judgement or resolution to give their power to the beast They then being all of one Religion under the same gross Ignorance and Superstition they were by that means all of one minde Secondly in vers 17 God put Greek gave into their hearts to make so again in the Greek one minde sentence judgement or resolution to give their kingdom to the Beast For I am bold to observe this for them That though in both places 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one minde sentence judgement or resolution yet there is this singular difference that in vers 13. 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is They have one minde sentence judgement or resolution in vers 17. 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To make one minde sentence judgement or resolution Before from innate Principles of the same superstitious Religion they were of one minde But now upon debate policie confederacie and designe they make one minde sentence judgement or resolution How Why say they the Text tells us God gave it into their hearts to make that one

minde That is as 't is said in a like phrase Rom. 1. God gave them up and Rom. 9. God hardens some mens hearts God gave them up in just judgement that as many of the ten Horns as should after destroy the Whore ver 16. should notwithstanding afore that having been enlightned and in good measure delivered from Popery revolt from that illumination and deliverance and close confederate and covenant into one determination with the other of the ten Horns or Kingdoms of Europe that continually abode in Popery For say they Now in vers 17. all the ten Horns were not of one minde till by consultation and agreement they made themselves of one minde Some of them as we said but now had been enlightned and escaped from Popery but now revolt into one minde with Popish Kingdoms and Nations and their powers And this must be say they else how shall the Witnesses of all Gods people lie dead three days and an half For these Witnesses of all Believers are not found in Kingdoms that still contined in Popery Therefore they must be in Nations that once being enlightned departed from Rome but as 't was said afore revolt again unto subjection to Rome And this last subjection to Rome is that which precedes next before the ruine of Rome by the resurrection of the Witnesses who must rise up out of those Nations before enlightned though since revolted but now again returning to the Truth God stirring up his people to that animosity For not all the ten Horns or Kingdoms shall hate and destroy the Whore because 't is express Rev. 18. that some of them shall lament her ruine But the meaning is that some of the ten Horns shall destroy her Synechdoche generis pro specie totius pro parte As 't is said with the same figurative speech The Thieves that is de specie latronum some of the kinde of Thieves as well as of Souldiers c. reviled Christ though but one of them did it 2 Argum. Their other Argument is from Revel 18.7 That before the total fall of Babylon even a little afore that ruine she shall glorifie her self saying in her heart I SIT A QUEEN AM NO WIDOW AND SHALL SEE NO SORROW But say our Authors 't is not yet so with the Popedom For my part I had not time in my sudden warning to this work to debate these things to my full satisfaction nor have I time in this hour to determine how far I close with these things in all particulars further then to tell you that so far I conceive them to be right as in the main they make out my Text and Doctrine That an eminent falling down of Religion and arising up of Antichristianism will be before the next appearance of Christ and sutable perdition successively will attend upon it And both will be the more general and high where they are not timously prevented You will ask How should there be any prevention in any degree We answer out of the Text three things 1. Three Preventions To beware aforehand take warning Fear and repent Blessed is the man that feareth always as is the general scope of the Text. And our Saviour to the lapsed Churches in the second and third Chapters of the Revelation gives this antidote in the word Repent threatens to remove the Candlestick or to do so and so unto them unless they did repent and aggravates their sin that he gave them time to repent and they did not and commands them to repent and do their first works It should seem Christ distinctly requires affectionate and effectual Repentance to prevent those judgements Affectionate in deep workings of the affections as the word intimates and effectual in doing our former works as t is there express Repentance it should seem will avert such threats Non-repentance lets in ruine as a deluge In Revel 16. at pouring out of one Vial 't is added afore the next be poured our that they repented not at the pouring out of the former Repentance is fully described A Motlon for days of Humiliation 2 Cor. 7.11 And to help on this I would Parliament and Citie and Kingdom would not lose their acquaintance with days of publike Humiliation Now for Sins as formerly for Judgements The former is a weightier cause and includes the business of the later And to go to the work afore we are whipt to it Forcement to that duty will neither speak for our sincerity nor for our hopes in the day of solemn cries Poor Nineve of Heathens scaped by this course of Repentance Think of it you English Professors and promote it Mean while let us be marked with the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * The first letter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Law Doctrin Instruction Word of God Thereby signifying men whose hearts are deeply affected with the Word of God to judge and do according to it T as 't is in the Hebrew noting us for them that mourn and sigh and cry for the abominations of the land Ezek. 9.4 And you Senators and Judges of Sessions and Judicatures Let justice be done according to the Law as the Persian Emperour said of judging a mighty Queen in Esth 1.15 chiefly on Blasphemers and Atheists who are worse then many Thieves you hang. And let all of us call upon our apostatized friends and reclaim or constrain or restrain them 2. 2 Prevention The Text doth intimate that all shall not be deceived to fall totally away else the Apostles admonition to the Thessalonians had been totally vain Therefore let us search into our hearts and try our ways by the candle of the Lord as Solomon speaks meaning Divine light whether we be of them that are like to have this Falling-sickness of Apostacie from Religion Symptomes of the spiritual Falling-sickness or Apostacie from Religion like to fall away from our Profession I shall here for brevity sake give you but Five Symptomes 1 Symptome is Not to receive the LOVE of the Truth So vers 10. after my Text where 't is not said onely receive THE TRUTH but the LOVE of the Truth Truth and love of Truth and to love it as Truth And that not meerly to be prudent wise understanding men but as 't is there also to be saved And salvation as S. Austin well upon Mat. 1.21 is to be saved from our sins Truth must be a Science closed with the Stock of the heart by Love It must be a Plant set in a moist heart Jam. 1.21 An implanted or engrafied Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thy heart and the Word must live and grow up together as a Stock and a Science or Scion And which is wonderful the Science must change the nature of the Stock 2. He whose heart is willing to sin 2 Sympto● but only 't is restrained by something without the heart as in Laban Balaam and at a time in Saul and Pilate he that very man is like to