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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12705	A sermon preached at Cheanies the 14. of September, 1585, at the buriall of the right honorable the earle of Bedforde, By Thomas Sparke Doctor of Divinitie	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1594 (1594)	STC 23023; ESTC S114843	60,544	120

verse 11. And besides all this the spirite of GOD inwardly in the heartes of all such teacheth them to crie Abba Father Romanes 8.15 and testifieth to their spirits that they are the children of God ver 16. and so sealeth them vp to the day of redemption 2. Corint 1.22 Vpon which euidence to grounde an assured confidence to enioye the thing promised who may not Yea the Lord hauing giuen such euidence ground vnto vs of assurance who seeth not that this notwithstāding to doubt whether the thing promised shall bee giuen vs or no is most horrible sinne against the Lorde calling his trueth into question 1. Iohn 5.10 And therefore whatsoeuer they say to the contrary wee know it is our dueties to yeelde vnto the exhortation made to all them that beleeue aright in Christ Heb. 10.19 c. which is this Seeing therefore brethren that by the bloud of Iesus we may be bolde to enter into the holy place by the new and liuing way which hee hath prepared for vs through the vaile that is his flesh and seeing we haue an hie Priest that is ouer the house of of God let vs drawe neare in a true heart in assurance of faith sprinkled in our hearts from an euill conscience washed in our bodies with pure water and let vs keepe the profession of our hope without wauering for he is faithful that hath promised Thus I hope you see proofe sufficient to prooue The popish faith 〈◊〉 antichristian popery antichristianity that the popish faith is not that faith whereby men can grow into an vnion with Christ and consequently not the faith wherby any can dy in the Lord. Howbeit because they shall not say the I was driuen to seeke for forraine profes to proue this haue no proofe or argumēt to cōfirme it in this my presēt text giue me leaue to vse one argument more to prooue it and that deduced from the very circumstances of my text which I thus frame Whosoeuer dieth bearing the marke of the beast either in forhead or hād dieth not in the Lorde but in the Babylonish that is Antichristian religion but whosoeuer dieth in this popish faith dyeth bearing the mark of the beast in the forhead or hād ergo so far off is it that such a one dyeth in Christ that in deede and trueth hee dyeth in Antichrist The first part of this argument they neither can nor will deny For they reade vers 9.10.11 that who so worshippeth the beast and his image and receiueth his marke either in his forehead or hand the same shall drinke the wine of Gods wrath and be euerlastingly tormented Yea what then wil they say your assūption or second part of pour argument is vtterly false Well that then being prooued the conclusion must bee yeelded vnto This themselues grant that by Babylon the fall whereof heere denounced shall followe vpon the preaching of the Gospel vers 6.7.8 is ment the florishing kingdome of Antichrist and they confesse that by wearing the marke of the beast in foreheade or hande is vnderstoode perseuering still a fauourer and liker of Antichristianity notwithstanding the warning here giuen to the contrary And if they woulde deny either of these they coulde not for shame the text in this booke and the circumstaunces thereof are so preguant to prooue them If therefore I can prooue that by Babylon here we haue to vnderstande Rome By Babylon we are to vnderstande Rome and that Antichristianitye and Popery be al one then I am sure that they must needs graunt my assumption For the first of these I doe boldly affirme that here by Babylon we must vnderstande Rom. My reasons are these The phrase vsed in this booke generally is figuratiue and not literallye to bee taken and therefore it is not likely but by Babylon is ment same other Citye which figuratiuely might bee so termed And it is euident that Iohn speaketh of such a Babylon as florished in his time and should long after and yet that should in the end haue a fall and therefore not of Babylon in Chaldea for that was fallen and decayed before Neither is it straunge in the Scripture to finde one Citye and people called by the name of another for the liklihood of manners bewixt the one and the other For Isai 1.10 wee reade that God speaketh thus to the Princes and people of Israel that dwelt in Canaan Heare the word of the Lord O Princes of Sodome harken vnto the law of our God O people of Gomorrha By which reason most aptly after the same figure of speech may Rome be called Babylon For as old Babylon vexed the Church in the olde Testament with long captiu●●y so hath Rome done the Church of Christ in the newe as that ouercame the Iews and burned their City so hath also this doone by Titus and Vespasian as Babylon was the seat and fountaine when it floorished of Idolatrye and all abhomination so hath Rome beene both in the time of the beast and his image that is both in the time of Paganisme vnder the heathen Emperours and nowe in the time of Papisme vnder the Popes the Princes thereof And it is no small reason to mo●ue vs by Babylon here to vnderstand Rome that it is called Babylon the great City that hath made all nations drimke with the wine of the wrath of her fornication that is that hath infected all nations with a false faith and religion whereby men in falling from their fathonely in the true and onely husbande Christ fall to put their trust and confidence in other thinges that are not CHRIST and to commit fornication spiritually with those thinges for the which the Lorde is wroth with them Which cannot bee sayde of Babylon in Chaldea nor of any other Citye so called For none of that name haue doone so since Iohns time but most fitly as appeareth by viewe of the popish doctrine and faith may be said of Rome and the Princes therof the Popes So that thus you see by the way that their glory is turned to their shaure For they bragge of their vninersalitye and generall consent which yee see heare their doctrine being as you haue hard is a most plaine note of the Antichristian Babylon But which is of all reasons the most forcible whereas it cannot be denied but by the purple silken and proud whore of Babylon is ment Antichrist Apoc. 17.4 their she is described sitting vppon a Crimson coloured beast full of names of blasphemy which had seuen heades and ten homes vers 3. which seuen heades are by the Angell vers 9. expounded to be seuen mountaines on which the woman sitteth The names of the bils be these Cap●olitius Palatinut Auentinus Caelius Exquilinus Viminads Quirinasis And the woman is sayde verse 1● to be that great Citie which raigneth ouer the kings of the ●a●th Then by which description it was impossible more playnely to describe ●ome which then w●● the mistresse and these of