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A79477	Sions memento, and Gods alarum. In a sermon at VVestminster, before the Honorable House of Commons, on the 31. of May 1643. the solemne day of their monethly fast. By Francis Cheynell late Fellow of Merton College in Oxford. Printed and published by order of the House of Commons.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing C3816; Thomason E55_13; ESTC R16225	52,682	55

blow it will prove a bloody and a fatall Day for the seventh Angel pours out his vial and cries the deed is done 't is finished when all the Babylonian troops shall be gathered to Armageddon the destruction of troops as the word imports The Beast shall receive many a wound before but this blow shall dispatch him he shall never hold up his head more Deliver thy self then O Zion Christ is the great Deliverer but though Christ be Principall we must be Instrumentall in this great work of our own deliverance Deliver thy self O Zion and if thou canst not be delivered without fighting fight for thy deliverance 1. Consider that Rome is Babylon St. Iohn never speaks one good word of Rome quite thorowout the book of the Revelation he calls it Egypt or Sodom or Babylon the throne of the Beast the strong-hold of foul-spirits the habitation of Devils Rome was once the Spouse of Christ but behold she is not onely turned an whore but the mother of Harlots and fornications the Metropolis of Apostasie and mystery of Iniquity the great whore Revel. 17. 1. a blasphemous whore in the third verse a whore in purple verse the fourth an impudent whore that hath her beastlinesse written not onely upon her Cell but upon her Forehead verse the fifth a drunken whore a bloody whore in the sixth verse I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus We need not run to Antiquity to ask their opinion what whore and what beast this is or where this whore dwells St. Iohn speaks so plain that the * Jesuits themselves are forced to confesse that this whore was to domineer at Rome It is the City which is built upon seven Hills which had had so many governments five of which were fallen before St. Iohn writ this Book Kings Consuls Tribunes Decemvirs Dictatours one remains still saith St. Iohn namely the government of Emperours and the other that of Popes was not then come And that we might be sure not to mistake St. Iohn tells us that it is the great City which reigned over the Kings of the earth in his time Revel. 17. 18. 2. Consider who is the Generall or the Commander in Chief of the Babylonian Army St. Iohn hath set him forth like a God of the world with Titles enough the Serpent the Dragon the Angel of the bottomlesse-pit for 't is he that gives all the orders and directions to Antichrist He advises him to lay claim to a Power which belongs not to him Irenaeus long since hath clearly shewn that the Beast with two horns and the False Prophet are but one and the same Beast Learned Mr. Mede hath shewn that the Beast with ten horns doth signifie the Secular Power of ten Kingdoms who by the impious subtilty of the Dragon combine together to make a Body a Romish Common-wealth the Beast with two Horns is as you use to call it the Ecclesiasticall Power The ten Kings or Kingdoms were to make up but one Beast of burthen for the Whore to ride upon that is they all joyn together to support the Whore and therefore these ten Horns are all placed upon the seventh Head that is they strengthen the last government the Popish government Now as the great Dragon did manage the whole businesse whilest that Heathenisme was supported by the power of the Romane Emperours as St. Iohn shews in the twelfth Chapter of the Revelation so doth the Dragon over-rule the whole businesse in the time of the Antichristian Popes as St. Iohn shews in the thirteenth Chapter for the Dragon gave the Beast his Power and his Seat and great Authority Revel. 13. 3. and they worshipped the Dragon who gave power to the Beast verse the fourth and therefore the Beast is said to ascend out of the bottomlesse pit Revel. 17. 8. If you look upon the Pope as Bishop of Rome so he came up out of the earth his Ordination was not from heaven but if you look upon him as Pope as Universall Bishop a Temporall Monarch a King even of kings we say he had 〈◊〉 blacker Institution he ascended out of the bottomlesse-pit Take it thus then Satan had his Seat in Heathen Rome but he hath his Throne in Popish Rome ever since the Romane Court hath had the confidence to call it self the Catholique Church it hath offered more violence and done more mischief to the true Church of Christ then ever was done by the Romane Empire and therefore as the 7. trumpets did sound an Alarme against the Romane Empire so the 7. vials are all to be poured out upon the Popish Empire the Anti-christian State 3. Consider that where the Pope and his Agents prevail by a Babylonian Army there they do constantly exercise a Babylonian Tyranny When the people were so mad as to prefer Caesar before Christ God gave them into the hand of the Romane Emperour and he tyrannized over them and God would not deliver them just as he threatned before-hand by his Prophet Zechary 11. 6. I will deliver the men every one into his neighbours hand and into the hand of his King and they shall smite the land and out of their hand will I not deliver them The Emperour did smite the land indeed but the Pope of Rome will tyrannize far worse then the Emperour If ever God for our sins sell us into the hand of that Man of sinne he will not onely tyrannize over our bodies and estates but over our consciences too If ever he enter England with his tripple-crown with his sword in one hand and his keyes in the other he will tyrannize like a Pope he will curtall our Creed and yet enlarge it I beleeve in the holy Catholike Church that is as they interpret it too often in the Pope that must be our onely Creed and we shall finde that a large one We must a swear obedience to the Popes Commands they say that vow of obedience is implied in their Baptisme and therefore they name the Trinity but for fashion sake and do indeed baptize their children in the name of Antichrist Now if the Popes Commands are in force and the Commands of God dispensed with the Commands of the Pope will soon justle out the Commands of God You know the Pope hath by the b Plenitude of his power struck out the second Commandment and by the same authority he may when he please strike out the first Commandment and by consequent all the rest and then he may make a new Preface and a new Decalogue if that number will content him he may say as the c Extravagant saith that he himself is the Lord our God who desires to bring us into the land of Aegypt the house of bondage he should do well to put in that where we shall have no other God but the Pope for he exalts himself above all that is called God