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A13558 Tvvo sermons the one A heavenly voice, calling all Gods people out of Romish Babylon. The other An everlasting record of the utter ruine of Romish Amalek. By Thomas Taylor, preacher of the Word at Redding in Berkshire. Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. 1624 (1624) STC 23853; ESTC S118190 35,162 74

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Two Sermons THE ONE A HEAVENLY VOICE CALLING ALL GODS people out of Romish BABYLON The Other AN EVERLASTING Record of the utter ruine of Romish AMALEK By THOMAS TAYLOR Preacher of the Word at REDDING in Berkshire LONDON Printed by J. H. for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sold at the Golden Cup in the Gold-Smiths row in Cheapside 1624. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND worthie Knights and Burgesses of the Lower-House of PARLAMENT IN most humble sense of mine owne unworthinesse which holdeth no comparison with the height of your authoritie place judgement and learning I have emboldned my selfe to present unto your wisdomes this voice from Heaven calling all the people of God out of Babylon For what voice can be more worthie of audience than a voice from Heaven What voice more seasonable than this amongst the grave consultations of the most important affaires and weightiest causes of God of his Majestie and of this flourishing Kingdome Or who more fit to heare this voice directed to Gods people than you the representation of all the people of God in this Kingdome You I say who sit in the places of your worthie Predecessors by whose consent and assent with that Higher and Honourable House the whole Kingdome was formerly set out of Babylon so farre as by the blessing of God now it is God will without mee saith Ioseph speake for the life of Pharaoh and without mee effect all his good purposes for the prosperitie of his Majestie and his people and you without mee well know the managing of the weightie businesses which you have in hand neither can my candle adde any light unto your Sunne onely having begunne to speake let me finde grace in your eyes and pardon to encourage you in the doing of what you doe Your wisdomes know that what were the two studs of the house in which Sampson played that is Religion and Iustice in the Common-wealth if they be pulled downe or shaken the Church and Common-wealth fall together and all under the fall must needs perish of the two Religion claimeth our first and chiefe care as intending Gods glorie more immediately and mans good not temporarie chiefly but eternall And therefore whereas heathen Governors could provide for the observation of the second Table Christian Governors as the gates of the world lift up their heads that Christ the King of glorie may enter in among them And all godly Parlaments whereof we have not a few examples in Scripture first setled the causes of God and Religion and then the causes of the King and of Civill Iustice as all the companies gathered for the Lords battels must say on everie side of the Host For the Lord and for Gideon Now of all the great and important causes of God which can be offered to your tractation none is more weightie than the subject of this little Treatise none more neerely concerning your selves to whom the care of your brethren is now committed as Benjamin was by his father to Iudah and on whom next to his Majestie the breath of our nostrils and that Higher and honourable house the care of all our safetie is now laid And as all the voices of the land have made you the eyes of the land so are all the eyes of the land held upon you to helpe us against these Babylonians who have beene and are so busie to bring us backe into our former Babylonish Captivitie and to oppose your selves stoutly with our Darius against these adversaries of Ierusalem who like the Midianites have too long troubled us with their wiles And because the planting of Christs Kingdome is the onely meanes to supplant the Kingdome of Babylon and the breath of Christ can onely blast the hopes of Antichrist a readier way cannot bee devised to effect this voice from Heaven than to provide that the knowledge of the Sonne of God may bee propagated thorow the land and that the blowing of the rams hornes of the Gospell may lay downe the wals of this Romish Ierico even with the ground If your wisdomes should send men over the Kingdome as Moses did the spies to search the land of Canaan they would bring you backe a true report that a great part of this Kingdome still lieth as a barren wildernesse destitute of the blessed means of grace and that many great parishes are as the mountains of Gilboa on which the sweetshowers and raines of the Gospell fall not or verie seldome neither doe the happie dewes of holy doctrine fall on them in their night nor the beames of the Sun of grace dart upon them in the day These faithfull messengers would informe you that all this waste and untilled ground is left for the Babylonians for Seminaries Priests and Iesuites to inhabit That these parishes are the verie thickets in which these snakes and vermins hide themselves who beare nothing about them but poison treason and seduction That these places of such blacke and reigning ignorance lie open to spoile and hazard to be drawne easily away by the poysoned breath of the most sottish Priest not to Poperie onely but even to rebellions and treasons which for most part arise out of ignorant and blinde zeale And now who knoweth whether the supply of this want and the remedie of so great an evill bee reserved for the crowne of his Majesties age and the eternall renowne of this Honourable Parlament So noble a worke requireth no lesse noble an Agent such a glorious and famous act well suiteth with him who for wisdome and understanding is the glorie and fame of the whole earth And now noble and worthie Gentle-men God forbid that you should not take to heart the miseries of your brethren wanting food who behold our Lord Iesus Christ more grieved in spirit to see his Country-men want Preachers than when hee saw them in bondage under the Romans God forbid that you should sinne against God and not bestirre you by planting the true knowledge of God to pull downe the strongest pillar of Poperie that you should not move everie stone for the beautifying of Bethel for the setting open of the gate of heaven here upon earth for the establishing of Gods pure worship and for the removall of everie scandall and advantage of Babylon Goe on therefore worthie men in the Lords strength open your mouthes for the dumbe and silent and be faithfull mediatours for the Kingdome of Christ as you desire him to be a faithfull Mediatour for you in the Kingdome of his Father And from hence would arise another happie fruit wherein the glorie of God and his Gospell would shine out in great brightnesse to the infinite disappointment of these Babylonians namely a more religious and conscionable observation of Gods holy Sabbaths whose honour is wofully violated not without the great scandall of our religion by ordinarie travels both by land and by water Oh that your wisdomes would earnestly move our highest terrene Majestie upon earth for the Sabbaths