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A90388	Babylon the Great described. The city of confusion. In every part whereof Antichrist reigns. Which knoweth not the order and unity of the spirit, but striveth to set up an order and uniformity according to the wisdom of the flesh, in all her territories atd [sic] dominions. Her sins, her judgements. With some plain queries further to discover her, and some considerations to help out of her suburbs, that her inward building may lye the more open to the breath and spirit of the Lord, from which it is to receiv [sic] its consumption and overthrow. Also, an exhortation to the powers of the earth. By Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1153; Thomason E770_2; ESTC R203128	52,975	64

of Jesus Christ even by this false woman which rides on the beast by whose power and strength she overcomes the Saints She sets up a way of doctrine a way of worship in a Nation and gets laws made for the defence of it and against them that will not submit to it and here she is too hard for the Saints by this means she overcomes the Martyrs and Witnesses and keeps the truth down and keeps up her way of deceit which without this prop would soon fall This whorish spirit scents the Spirit of the Lord she knows it will soon be her death if she cannot make it appear odious and suppresse it Therefore she hunts this spirit she hunts the life and power of what she her self professes especially if it appear vigorous and strong in any she seeks advantages against the servants of the living God representing them to the earthly powers as persons of dangerous principles and bad practises inventing all manner of what can be called evil against them and spreading it among the people that the truth may start up no where in the earth but every where be knocked down by the violence of the multitude or by the sword of the offended Magistrate Now what is the matter of all this great noise and fury Why this A Lamb is risen up in the innocency the pure harmless spirit is appearing in the earth the true life which discovers the hypocrisie and dead forms and wayes of the whorish spirit is breaking forth Therefore she makes a great out cry awakpeople awak the church is in danger arise Magistrates Magistracy and Ministry wil down if this Lamb-like spirit be suffered Nay nay These shall stand but Babylon shall fall and her mistery of iniquity be discovered and her deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnesse made manifest and the true life and Spirit shall arise and take possession of the hearts of people and make them a clean and fit habitation for God and people that are subject hereto shall feel it and enjoy it though the Merchants of Babylon say men shall never be made cleane while they live but must stil have a body of sin and death hanging about them But how shall they put on Christ who have not put off the body of sin Shall those who are made Kings and Priests to God here on earth minister in their filthy garments These are some of the sins of Babylon that painted harlot which is subtle in heart and lyes in wait to deceive in the absence of the true Church whose cloathing and resemblance she takes up and appears in And when she hath done all this When like Aegypt she hath kept the seed in bondage in all her Territories and Dominions in every Church she hath set up and by all her Ministries and Ordinances When like Sodom she hath filled the whole world with filthinesse uncleanesse and all manner of spiritual abominations When like old Jerusalem the bond-woman she and her children have scoffed at the Spirit in every appearance all the time of her reigne and have trampled upon and domineered over them who have but spoken of the coming of the just one in his people sporting her self in her own deceivings Yet after all this She wipes her mouth and saith she hath done no harm She hath been for the Gospel and Church and Ministry and Ordinances and the saith once delivered to the Saints and only against deceivers seducers blasphemers and hereticks But the Spirit of the Lord cannot be thus deceived nor shall the Nations be allwayes thus deceived and suffer her to sit as a Queen upon their consciences but she shall see sorrow and they shall taste joy at the sound of the everlasting Gospel when once again it cometh to their ears Rev 14. 6. Chap 19. 6 7. The judgement of Babylon BAbylon the great this great City of abominations which hath reigned over the whole earth which hath bewitched all sorts of professors with the golden cup of her fornications which hath subtilly led from the life and held all sorts captive in the witchery of her deceit and hath triumphed over the holy seed making Sion their mother desolate who sat in the dust and was trampled upon by her This great City this glorious City this rich City this mighty powerful City this Queen of the earth which knows not what belongs to Sions misery sorrow poverty and desolation with Antichrist her King and husband who hath cloathed himself with the garments of light and appeared in the likenesse of the King of Sion and hath long been so acknowledged and worshipped is to be judged by the Spirit of life which ariseth up out of the dust of Sion And though Babylon the great whore who in all her transformings hath still remained an enemy to the life hath great power and great wisdom and can shift very subtilly to save her self by both yet strong is the Lord God who judgeth her and he also is wise and she shall not escape his hand but he will pursue her with his voices with his thunderings with his hail-stones with his earth-quakes with his woes with his plagues with his cups of indignation till he hath made her manifest till he hath broken her in peeces till he hath crumbled and laid her in the dust till he hath brought her down to the very pit where the feet of Sion shall trample upon her for ever Sing sing O inhabitant of Sion dost thou not behold the Crown of pride going down apace The decree is sealed against her she cannot escape yea she is fallen she is fallen she is already taken in the snare the eye of my life seeth it and rejoyceth over her in the living power The plagues of God Allmighty from the fiercenesse of his indignation are visiting her whole Territories and passing over all her Land Nothing can help her to avoid his stroak no paint will serve no cover will hide no profession no practise no duties no ordinances no Church no Ministry can avail to conceal her but that spirit is pursued by the Spirit of the Lord and found out every where and plagues are prepared and powring out upon her Nay though she leave all her forms and pretend to wait and seek for the Lord yet she is found out there also Now what is her judgement Destruction and utter desolation from the hand of the Lord to be an hissing and reproach throughout all generations to be brought down by powrings forth of the wrath and vengeance of the Allmighty into the pit and there to drink the fulnesse of his wrath for ever Sion shal be exalted Sion shall drink the cup of life the cup of blessing the cup of love the cup of salvation for ever but Babylon the cup of fury the cup of indignation for ever and ever Sion shall sing but Babylon shall howl and all that saw any beauty or took any pleasure in her shall mourn over her Alas alas for her she who hath so many ages gone for the

but so much as read in the Scriptures concerning the power of life the Saints formerly enjoyed the living Ministry and Ordinances their sweet walking and fellowship in the light the presence of the spirit in their worship and in their whole course their sincere love in the spirit and tender bearing with one anothers weaknesses doubts and differences which he that reads singly cannot but pant after And the state of the Gospel was not to be a decaying and dying in these things or a loosing of them so that the power of the spirit and the revelations thereof should cease as the whorish spirit which hath gone out from the life pleads but to grow and increase and the last times to abound most of all with the power and glory of truth I say were it possible for persons who should read and entertain the least tast or savour of these things to be satisfied with any of those dead wayes and forms which the whore hath set up instead of them unless they were wholly bewitched and altogether deprived of their sences being made dead drunk which the whores mingled wine in this dark night of apostacy Yea professors are drunk they have deeply drunk of the cup and are sorely overtaken and their hearts overcharged with strong liquor which makes them even mad to draw others into their beds of fornication and to stand up themselves in great rage and call also to the Magistrates for the defence of them Yea like the clamourous woman they make a great noise about ordinances duties Ministry Church c. I have decked and perfumed my bed saith the loud woman the subtilhearted woman Prov 7. 16 17. but do not soberly consider which are the painted ones which the truth We have run on headily after these things too long it is now time to stand stil a while and wait for the purging out of the wine wherewith all our brains have been overturned that we may come into soberness and into a fit temper to be led by the Spirit of life out of the bed of fornications and out of the wayes worships ordinances and duties of fornication into the bed of the true and undefiled Spirit Now he that worships God aright must feel life within and that life raised and strengthned by him who begets it and this will savour death and faithfully following its guid will come out of the land of death even that land wherein all the false worshippers inhabit and wherein all the false wayes and worships duties ordinances Ministeryes c. are set up and flourish Now these secret sins of Babylon are the same with the more open and gross the great difference is their secrecy their not appearing like sins their paint their colour whereby they are swallowed down for holy and good As to instance There is fornication or adultery from the life in the finest in the purest way of worship man can invent or imitate but the fornication doth not so plainly appear here but they who have drunk of the cup take these things for the wayes and appointments of God Those that set up the whores Church do not call it so nor perhaps think it to be so those that set up the whores Ministry or ordinances do not give them that name but call them the Ministry and ordinances of Christ yet this is as truly as really fornication from the life as the grossest wayes of Heathenish worship O mark it mark it If thou hast read the Scriptures and thrust thy selfe into any practices thou there findest mentioned without the raising up of a living thing in thee and without thy following by the guidance thereof thou hast done this by the whores advice and in this thou art committing fornication and erring from the life for the true worship lies in the Spirit and in the truth and it is the new birth that God seeks to worship him but the spirit of man thrusting it selfe into these things the Lord abhors and rejects And this spirit never can be thus cleansed and fitted to enter into Christs bed but only gets a paint from Scripture and enters into the painted bed and bosome of the harlot where it remains unrenewed unchanged unmortified in the midst of all it's great talk and profession of these things And thus the Scriptures the Holy Scriptures of truth which were given forth from the pure spirit of life the whorish spirit maketh use of to estrange from the life For what sort of persons which have fornicated from the life but make use of the Scriptures to maintain their whoredoms by and to bewitch others into their whoredoms with Every sort cryes up their own way and worship to be the way and worship according to the Scriptures and if any be gathered out of all these witcheries into the power of God then the bewitched say that such are bewitcht Then as for all the abominations of the earth all the filth that defiles the heart it is to be found on the skirts of the whore even in her most refined dresse For her religion her worship her profession her practices do not reach to the purifying of the conscience but only to painting over of the old Sepulcher where rottennesse still lodgeth within The sore was never throughly searched the heart was never throughly circumcised or baptized the old man was never put of nor the new man put on the blood of purifying which truly washeth away the sin was never felt in it's vertue and power but only an apprehension and talk that they are cleansed in Christ from a notion they have stollen out of the Scriptures but not from the sensible feeling of the thing in life and power in their consciences And so the evil nature stil remains the evil heart of unbelief is stil to be found in them and they want the life they want the power they want the Spirit they want the love they want the humility they want the meekness they want the patience they want the innocency and simplicity of the Lamb and Dove And when the Lord comes to provoke them to jealousie by the shining of his light and by the appearance of his power in some whom they despise then the pride the passion the envy the heart-burnings the hard speeches the false surmisings with the rest of the enmity which still abides with them stirs and rises against the life and power and their hypocrisie is made manifest Yea some of the strictest among them can scoffe and jeer at the appearance of life so strong is the evil and unmortified nature in them and so conceited are they in their wayes and practices because of their cover under which all this iniquity for the most part lyes hid from their eyes But for all that it is there it is there the Lords candle will search it out and thine owne eye shall see it and find in thy selfe bloody Cain scoffing Ishmael prophane Esau the uncircumcised Jew who is angry that his brothers sacrifice is

is kindled the fiercenesse of his wrath is kindled against the professors of this age and wo is from the Lord towards them Wo to the Protestant Congregations wo to the select Churches wo to their pastors who have helped them to wander from the life to dead idols which cannot profit Wo to them who are exalted in notions and high knowledge ye have judged and condemned the Papists and the Lord hath found out the same spirit of idolatry in you But turn from your Idols return to your simplicity put away your adulteries from between your breasts and returne to your first love and the Lord wil receive you though ye have wandred after many lovers and have been inflamed with the love of idols under every green tree but in these your Church wayes and worships the soul of the Lord abhors you and all your former zeal and simplicity is blotted out and forgotten and in your present adultery and idolatry shall ye dye unlesse ye hear the voice of the Lord recalling you and turn at his reproofe Now in tender bowels to help you a little consider that which follows The same spirit that stealeth away the true simplicity raiseth up and stealeth in a false image thereof which there is no perceiving at present unlesse the soule lye very low and be kept open and cleer in the pure light And as in the true simplicity the true light the true knowledg the true faith the true hope the true love the true meekness the true zeal the true poverty and humility c. springs up and is nourished so in the false image of simplicity which the Devil secretly conveys in when he steals away the true there 's a likeness of all these springing up and growing And here 's the beginning of Babylon in the heart here are the inward riches and treasures thereof What can Sion pretend to which Babylon hath not in the resemblance Is there simplicity of heart in Sion and is there not simplicity of heart among the inhabitants of Babylon yea a false image Is there light in Sion and is there no● also light in Babylon yea there 's the light of the Sun and the light of the Moon and the light of the Stars which fel from heaven and the light of many candles shining in Babylon Is there true knowledge in Sion There 's knowledge fasiy so called in Babylon a false knowledge of the Crosse of Christ a false knowledge of his death a false knowledge of his blood without feeling the living vertue thereof which truly washeth away the sin So for faith hope love meekness zeal humility c. There are false images of all these in Babylon and of what ever else is wrought in truth in the inhabitants of Sion Now when the truth is lost and the false image crept in both which are done at unawares while the husbandman is asleepe and so he perceives it not but thinks in his very heart that it is stil the seed of truth that is growing up in him then begins the mistery of fornication idolatry witchcraft and all manner of spiritual wickedness and deceit to work in the heart Thy beleeving thy hoping thy love thy zeal thy praying thy waiting c. All here is abomination it 's from a false root it 's of a false kind it is not of the true seed the enemy hath stollen away that while thou wast negligent and slumbering and all this ariseth in thee from the seed which he did sow instead thereof and is the fruit of the Land of Babylon And having thus committed inward whoredome in thine own heart then thou seekest and settest up outward wayes of whoredom also Having first set up an inward image of the inward life of the Saints thou then seekest and settest up another image of their outward worship an image of a Church an image of a Ministry an image of Ordinances an image of praying an image of singing an image of preaching an image of baptism an image of the Saints communion And thus thou art defiled within and without and art mad with envy and rage that thou canst not bewitch the inhabitants of Sion who are kept pure from all these defilements and reserved as witnesses against thee into thy bed of whoredoms And thus while thou thinkest thou art the chiefe worshipper thou art all over polluted the whole head is sicke and the whole heart faint there isno cleanness no soundnesse within or without but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores which have not been closed neither bound up nor mollified with oyl but the hurt of the daughter of my people hath been healed deceitfully by Physitians of no vallue who had notthe oyl Isa 1. 5 6. Ezek 13. 10. This is generally the state of professors at this day but they cannot see it for they have put out the eye of the simplicity wherewith alone God will suffer the things of life to be seen and God hath blinded the eye of their wisdom that they shall not see nor be converted and healed that way So that exceeding miserable is their estate They will not see Gods way and God will not let them see their way So that though there be line upon line precept upon precept here a little and there a little yet it is that they might stumble and fall and be snared and broken and taken For as discoveries of truth grow more cleer and manifest so they grow more hardned against it And as they on the one hand increase in walking contrary to God so God on the other hand proceeds in walking contrary to them delighting more and more to stumble the wise disputing part which would so fain know but must be made blind that the eye of the babe may be opened which sees that in the childish simplicity which the other eye can never reach in the most manly wisdom Therefore put away all your images and likenesses of truth Put away your false faith which can never overcome the worldly nature and spirit in you and your false hope which can never purifie your hearts and your fained humility and self-willed fasts which can never bring down the lofty exalted nature in you and your false love wherewith ye can never love the brethren in the truth but only the brethren in your own or some such other likenesse of the truth and your false zeal meekness holinesse c. All which spring and grow up from the wrong seed in a seeming simplicity and all your praying reading preaching c. which ye have taken up and practise in your own wils which should be crucified and wherewith no service worship or performance can be pleasing to God and wait for the raising of the true seed of life in the true simplicity whereby ye may serve God acceptably here and be saved hereafter And be not mockers lest your bands be made strong for the consumption is determined against you by that Spirit of life whose breath wil wast you All