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death_n	jesus_n	lord_n	sin_n	17,540	5	4.4979	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28514	An alarme beat vp in Sion, to vvar against Babylon, or, The svmme of a sermon upon Revelation 18 and the 6 preached at Knowle, before the Honourable the Committee of the county of Kent, on the 13 of Iune, anno 1664, and by the said Honourable Committee required to be published / by Joseph Boden ...	Boden, Joseph, b. 1605 or 6.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3390; ESTC R15357	27,628	40

proposition That as the unbeleeving Iews through ignorance and unbeliefe did performe Gods determinate counsell and will in putting to death the Lord Iesus Christ the Lord of life and glory so it behoves the beleeving Gentiles through faith and knowledge to performe Gods determinate counsell and will in the utter overthrowing of Antichrist that man of sinne and sonne of perdition with all his glory and pompe that they may descend with shame and sorrow into everlasting infamie and oblivion Secondly we have not onely Gods vote but his worke to argue from in this case for he goes before us and begins to his people in this businesse of Babylons fall and ruine so that it is no shame for us to follow nay it is a sinne if we doe not when we have such a leader Now the Lord professeth of himselfe with a note of observation and remembrance Behold I am against thee oh thou most proud saith the Lord of hosts for the day is come and the time that I will visit thee Ier. 50. 31. And what will be the conclusion or upshot of this visitation A very bitter and intolerable end to Babylon for so it follows vers. 32. And the most proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his cities and it shall devoure all round about him The Lord will make an end of all he will leave her neither name nor srup Yea the Lord is yet more full and cleare in this particular for if the Church in remembrance of the wrong Babylon hath done her complaine to God and tell him Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon hath devoured me he hath crushed me he hath made me an emptie vessell he hath swallowed me up like a Dragon he hath filled his belly with my delicates he hath cast me out The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon shall the Inhabitant of Sion say and my blood upon the Inhabitants of Chaldea shall Ierusalem say The answer then of the Lord is this for the comfort and refreshment of his people Therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I will plead thy cause and take vengeance for thee and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry non of her defences shall be a securitie for her when the Lord on Sions behalfe comes against her And Babylon shall become heaps a dwelling place for Dragons an astonishment and an hissing without an inhabitant Here is the Lord doing and doing to purpose in way of avenging Sion upon Babylon good reason therefore it is that Sion should be up and acting seeing the Lord is not onely with her but before her in the worke even to the making of Babylons fall compleat and full For as we have heard before Ier. 51. 34 35 36 37. So the Lord goes on further to note what he will doe vers. 57. I will make drunke her princes and wise men her captaines and her rulers and her mightie men and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleep and not wake saith the King whose name is the Lord of hosts It is no good signe of a good souldier to shrinke back and take to his heeles when his captain is valiant in the battell It were a most reproachfull thing to the people of God if they should faint be cowardly and give out in acting for Babylons compleat fall and ruine when they have a King to lead them a king who wants neither counsell strength or means to defeat and conquer his enemies For his name is the Lord of hosts But thirdly this is the end why the people of God are fetched out of and delivered from corruptions that there may be some meetly qualified disposed and fitted to worke her fall and ruine we cannot thinke that God hath caused light to arise out of obscuritie that there should be no acting against the children of the night and darknesse If he have discovered unto us the filthinesse of the whore it is that we may hate her and burne her flesh with fire and give her blood to drinke It is no wonder that our forefathers hands were bound and that they did little or nothing against the Beast and the Babylonians for their eyes were blinded they were in the darke and could not see to worke much lesse to fight But that we having cleare visions and full discoveries made of the Beast and her abominations should sit still be carelesse and suffer her for ever to play her beastly prancks it is a most notorious shame and staine unto us true fire hath its heat as well as its light and true grace doth not onely enlighten but also ennoble our spirits it doth not onely make us to know but to doe the will of God It puts us upon action it cannot be otherwise but that where the love and life of God is there will be working and endeavouring to ruine and bring under all the enemies and opposers thereof as well those open and in the view of the world as those more secret and shut up in the heart of a Christian We have the true and saving knowledge of Christ that we may be the more quickned and encouraged to act against and to bring down Antichrist It is a shame not to do Gods work that he hath designed us unto especially when he affords us day-light to accomplish it in Our light is lent us that the king and kingdome of darknesse may be troden down not onely amongst our selves but where ever he hath subjected the souls of men to Babylonish thraldome and slavery For though we cannot give others light yet we may we must endeavour their libertie But fourthly I shall presse the point by an argument taken from the prayers of Gods people It is the dutie of all them who have escaped Romish pollution to be instrumentall for Babylons compleat fall and ruine that so as farre as in them lies they may speed and hasten an answer to their own prayers concerning her fall and ruine when their spirits are stirred up to act towards the accomplishment of their own desires and requests The men of Israel are beaten before the Inhabitants of Ai the cursed Canaanites can both repulse and kill Israelites the reason is though not then known because there is an accursed thing in the camp Ioshua betakes himself to the old and sure way the souldiers fall before their enemies in battell the Commander fals down before his God in prayer Ioshua 7. 5 6. he enquires after the cause and reasons out the case with his God and this is good so farre but this is not enough there must be some what more then prayers to set all right againe Ioshua must up and act he must finde out and put out of the Camp the accursed Achan the troubler of Israel So we and our forefathers have prayed and doe pray againe and againe for the ruine of Rome have not we like those souls under the Altar flaine for the word