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A82521 The propheticall intelligencer, shewing the causes why all corrupt churches of Christendome shall passe away, or depart; and all their sees of corrupt doctrine and discipline shall be abolished, and that the holy city of the church of new Jerusalem is now comming down from my God out of Heaven. I. E. 1647 (1647) Wing E12; Thomason E404_19; ESTC R201854 31,177 24

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to nought Re. 9 Ma. For where the Sunne ariseth the light of the candle must depart for the light of the Churches of the Gentiles was but as candles for the churches were but golden Candlesticks Rev. 1.6 Mi. But the light of the New Jerusalem is as the light of the Sunne that shall never goe downe and their light of the Sunne shall be 7. fold and as the light of seven days Con. Ergo the light of the churches of the Gentiles must vanish because their light is but as candles Object Some say it is not said the former heaven and the former earth went away but that they departed as if these words did not respect the churches of the Gentiles at all but the legall worship of the Jewes onely For a man may call that the first heaven by right as which was instituted by God himselfe in the beginning of the World a little time after the floud But the Christian people among the Gentiles was neither the first heaven neither were their Ordinances which are observed of them the first Ordinances that were delivered from heaven unto the church so that some would have it taken in this manner as if it were said although this people of the Jewes did thirst after their olde rights and worship all this while of their rejection and did make their bragges of it that the time would come when they should have power given them one day to exercise their former worship freely after their old manner which is the thing they have boasted of till this day Yet in this restoring of the Jewes they shall so wholly frame and apply themselves to the will of God that they shall willingly renounce their ancient customes used in the service of God which they shall then acknowledge to have had their end in Christ and by this meanes they shall make it plaine to all men that the first heaven and the first earth which they hoped to see againe was departed was past for ever Object The Pope that would have Saint Peters chair to remain to the end of the world and all Sectaries that would have their church way as they falsely call it and all other that are loth their churches should depart like this interpretation best Answ But this is false to this place of Scripture For the first heaven cannot be meant of the Churches of the ancient Jewes but of the churches of the Gentiles these are my Reasons First because the olde church of the Iewes was not called by the name of heaven for John the Baptist and Christ were the first that preached the kingdome of heaven to be at hand therefore the first heaven must belong to the Gentiles for the last shall be first and the first shall be last i. e. the last Church of the Gentiles shal be the first heaven and the first church of the Jewes shall be the last new heaven Secondly If this should be expounded of of the Jewes church then there should have been no heaven of a church among the Gentiles ever since Christs time But onely the first heaven hath been among the Jewes all this while and the Gentiles have had none in the 7. churches although Christ wrote to them yet they were no heaven or church too absurd Thirdly this must be understood of the church of the Gentiles because the Jewes were broken off as Rom. 11.15.24 i. e. from being a church and the Gentiles graffed in and made an heaven Fourthly for the Kingdome of heaven which was offered to them and preached among them but they put it away from them Acts 13.46 The Kingdome of heaven was taken away from them and given to the Gentiles above 1600. yeares and therefore the Jewes could not be the first heaven because they did not receive it when it was offered but despised the counsell of God therefore if the first kingdome of heaven was given to the Gentiles then the first heaven belongs to them For as Christ came to his owne but his owne received him not so the kingdome of heaven was preached to them but they received it not The causes why the Churches of the Gentiles shall depart and the Church of New Ierusalem appeare Note Fiftly This cannot be meant of the Iewes that they are now the first heaven because as the Apostle speaketh of Oxen doth God take care for Oxen. 1 Cor. 9.9 So doth God take care for Iewes that are made the Synagogue of Sathan Rev. 2.9 For that which is so is not an heaven Therefore the first heaven that passed away is to be understood of the Church of the Gentiles for the true Church of the Gentiles was the Kingdome of Heaven Matth. 3. Matth. 13. Now the causes why the first heaven of the Churches of the Gentiles depart are these Causes why the Churches of the Gentiles depart First the church of Ephesus was a famous heaven watered with the bloud of the Martyrs in the 10. persecutions of the primative Church built upon the baptisme into Christs death for remission of sinnes and faith in the same as Act. 2.38 Act. 8. Act. 10. Act. 16. and Act. 22.16 and on the love of God shewed in the same as Eph. 5.25 Tit. 3.5 Rev. 1.6 But because they forsooke their first love of Christ 1. e. Their first Baptisme wherein the first love of Christ was shewed to take a second Baptisme which they did by the counsell of the Hereticks Pelagians and Donatists that all that were baptized by Hereticks must be baptized againe and because they did not know who was baptized by Orthodox men they rebaptized the people which was iniquity of so high a nature a sinne against the worke of the Holy Ghost that Christ removed the Candlestick of the church out of that place by the Turke and so that heaven is departed 2. The church of Smyrna though a famous rich conquering reigning Church in the time of Constantine the great for it was rich as the Lord said Rev. 2.9 i. e. In the faith of one Baptisme for remission of sinnes as the Article of the Niceen Creed declares but in time they followed after Ephesus as all the other churches of Greece they forsooke the truth of one Baptisme the first love of God declared Tit. 3.5 as many now doe in these dayes by forsaking their first Baptisme into Christs death for remission of sinnes for it was never knowne that the truth did continue in one place above an hundred yeares but they forsooke it or fell from it into some false faith or reigning sinne Ma. 3. The church of Pergamus 1. e. Of old Rome is departed from being a church because they maintained the doctrine of Balaam i. e. Idolatry and fornication and the Doctrine of the Nicholaitans by Stewes whoredome Mi. Therefore Christ fought against them with the sword out of his mouth and Con. they are departed from being true church for where God fights against a church for sinne by the sword out of his
But the Church have been abused and evill entreated a longtime of the Gentiles Con. Ergo shee will forsake them and goe to another people Re. 5 Now those heavens that waxe olde as a garment and as a vesture shall hee change them and they shall be changed shall passe away because they are impure in his eyes Job 15.15 Now this cannot be so properly meant of the starry heavens as of the Churches for how should they be impure in Gods eyes which never sinned neither can any shew that God ever imputed any sin to them or curse as to the Earth for Adams sake for they are as God have made them and they all continue by his appointment But the Church of the old World waxed olde and the church of the Jewes and the heaven of Papists Lutherans Calvinists and England are waxed olde because they are impure in his eyes for he saith he hath some things against them Ergo they shall passe away For the heaven of the visible Churches of England Lutherans and Calvinists are not only uncleane at this day in a small manner Now mistake mee not to thinke that I meane the justified people of God of all these 3. churches for I believe they are cleane every whit The causes why the visible Churches shall depart and the Church of new Jerusalem appeare perfectly righteous and holy without spot before the Throne of God But of the outward visible Church and all separate Synagogues that call themselves churches of Hereticks Sectaries and Schismaticks which I count farre worse then the seven churches because Christ wrote to these by name and hath his Elect amongst these but he writes not to the other and if the Fathers say true hee hath not God for his Father that hath not the church for his Mother and the Scripture saith God added to the Church such as should be saved yet I say the visible church is uncleane not in a small manner though it be called by so glorious a name as heaven which is spoken in respect of the darke dungeon of hell of the Jewes Turkes Heathens and Papists then for any heavenly clearenesse of the glory of God in gold of the merits of Christs death in one baptisme for a perfect remission of sinnes or for the glory of the Lambs white rayment justification for an everlasting righteousness Shew me a church on Earth that is found in the faith of these three gold white raiment and eye-salve Phillida solus habebis let her be thy Love Re. 6 Ma. For the Church is defiled with a false faith or reigning sinne there the church is uncleane and shall therefore be removed Mi. But all the churches of the Gentiles are defiled with a false faith or reigning sinne for why should Christ say else hee hath some things against them Con. Ergo they are uncleane in Gods sight and shall therefore be removed For what foote steps of one baptisme for remission of sinnes and of a white raiment Justification doe remaine For doe not all visible Churches hold they must goe knocke at heaven gates every day to get a pardon for their sins as if they were not forgiven as Col. 1.14 Rev. 1.6 And to wipe off olde scores as if God did score up sinnes every day till they pray and they must goe get God to cast all their sins into the bottome of the Sea as if they were not cast into the bottom of the red Sea of Christs bloud already Mic. 7.19 in baptisme into Christs death Acts 22.16 And confesse God is angry with them for their sinnes and see sinne in them and punish them for the same is not this to ser●e an angry God as all heathens Turkes and Jewes doe and not a reconciled Father which if it were to get remission of sins to the conscience I would not fault it but to the person as if that were not reconciled it crosseth Coloss 1.21 And the article of the Creed i. e. I believe the remission of sinnes as for the Lutherans of Sardis they are in the dead faith and their works not perfect before God Rev. 3.1.2 Their dead workes of hatred to the Calvinists declare their dead faith And as for the English luke-warme Laodiceans they hold as the Bishop of Canterbury did at his death he said he hoped God would forgive him his sinnes Now such as the faith of the great Angel was such is the faith of most people of the Church What heathen Jew Turke Papist or Devill had not as good a faith as this to say I hope God is mercifull and will forgive me my sinnes he might goe to Purgatory if there were one for all this faith The decay in knowledg of one baptisme for remission of sins and in the Articles of the Creed they doe not preach or pray in this faith that we have redemption as Colos 1.14 And that our sinnes are forgiven us for his names sake 1 John 2.12 It is an hard thing to finde a Minister that hath assurance of salvation or that can tell where he had remission of sins for few of them believe they were made in their baptisme members of Christ children of God and Inheritors of the Kingdome of heaven or believe that in the white raiment they are so cloathed that God beholds no shame of nakednesse of sin in them And seeing this faith is lost what new Errours spring up every day and broached in many places olde ones are called backe from hell by hereticks Anabaptists Papists Familists Adamites Arminians Socinians Brownists Seperatists all the profession of unity spirituall peace turned to bloudy and civill Warre in all the churches in Christendome These are fearefull signes and evident Prognostications that the Churches are departing Re. 7 Ma. For where the churches are fallen from the trueth it is an argument the church shall depart from them For thus saith the Lord Remember from whence thou art fallen Rev. 3.5 Or else I will remove the Candlesticke out of his place Mi. But all the visible churches are fallen from the truth as Papists to idolatry Lutherans to a dead faith and workes Re. 3.1.2 and the English and Calvinists to a luke-warme faith reigning sin usury or drunkennesse for it was never known that the truth did continue in any one church above 100. years but they fell from it as the homily of our church of the perill of Idolatry 3. p. c. it is 100. yeares since England received the truth and therefore the time is come by their owne confession that they should fall from it Con. Ergo it is an argument the church should be removed Re. 8 Ma. Every kingdome city or house divided against it selfe cannot stand but come to nought Matth. 12. Mar. 1. Mi. But all the former churches of the Gentiles are kingdomes cities or houses divided against themselves witnesse the Papists Lutherans Calvinists and English You see what fighting and writing there is now one against another Con. Ergo they cannot stand but come