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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50415	A sermon against schisme, or, The seperations of these times preacht in the church of Wattlington in Oxford-shire, with some interruption, September 11, 1652 : at a publick dispute held there between Jasper Mayne, D.D. and one ----- ...	Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing M1475; ESTC R32061	18,720	25

in it which S. Iohn never saw Namely th●y see Babylon in our Churches and uncleane Birds in our Assemblyes Nay though the Divels being Spirits are too invisible to be seen yet by the benefit of a New-light they can see sights which no other Eyes can see without being present in the place to which soul Spirits do resort as if they had borrowed one of Galilaeo's Glasses they can see Divels take Notes at our Sermons But whether in short-Hand or at length S. Iohn hath not revealed Pardon me I beseech you you who are of the more grave and nobler sort that I am thus pleasant in the pulpit I am compelled to be so when I meet with people who deale with the Scripture as men of melancholly Fancyes use to deale with the Clouds For as I have knowne some Hypocondriack men who have faigned to themselves flying Horses winged Troops and Ships sayling in the Aire Nay as I have knowne some who like the Melancholly man who thought himselfe a urinall have thought they have seene two Armyes in the Skie and have mistaken Clouds and Meteors for Soldiers Trumpets Drums and Cannons So I do not wonder that our Gifted thinking people should so mistake the Revelation as they doe or that they should see Monsters in the Scripture Clouds Where the Scripture is most cleare they hardly understand it How then should they finde out the Key to such da●ke prophecies as this But here may some man say to me if they mistake this place what 's your Interpretation of it Why my Interpretation is the very same which S. Iohn Himselfe delivers Rev. 14.8 Where the Angel expresseth himself in the very same words And sayes Babylon is fallen is fallen That great City which made all Nations drinke of the Wine of the Wrath of her Abominations And what was that Great City Why the City built on seven Hills As 't is described in another place of the Revelation That Great City which was the Queen of Nations Namely the City of Rome when 't was the seat of Heathen Emperours Lastly that Great City which gave Laws to all the World to worship her False Gods and to partake of her Idolatryes And this was that Great City which S. Iohn calls Babylon either because speaking of the Fall and Ruine of it He thought it not safe to call it Rome or by its right and proper Name Lest if he had done so he might draw persecution on the Christians Or els Because as Babylon was the Head City of the Persian Monarchy so Rome was then the Head City of the Roman In a word this is that Great City which was then the great Court of Idolatry the Queen of Superstitions And therefore justly called by the Angel which spoke to S. Iohn The Habitation of Divels and Cage of uncleane Birds And from this Babylon this Rome the then City of confusion the Angel of God bid the Christians of those Times to come forth and separate themselves lest they should be partakers of her sins and go sharers in her plagues But to say as they do that the Church of England is that Babylon the great or that our Parish Congregations from which they do divide themselves are the Habitation of Divels the Hold of foule spirits and Cage of unclean Birds here mentioned in this chap. is such a piece of Ignorance as well as zealous slander that they will never be able to prove it till they can make the Capitol of Rome stand in our London streets or till they can make the River Tiber run where now our Thames doth or till they can change the Countries in our Mapps and make the Mid-land Sea flow on our English shore And farther then this I will not trespasse on your patience or inlarge my selfe to prove to you that Separation is a Sin THE END Jude 13. * Levit. 26.11 * Esay 52.11 * Esay 52.11 † 2 Pet. 3.16 † Col. 3.5 * Mat. 13. Jam. 3.6