am about to create new heavens and a new Earth as if he should say I will institute a more pure church faith and worship in spirit and in truth and I will take unto me a new people in the Assemblies wherof I will be worshipped and honoured and I will make a new Earth of new creatures for if any man be in Christ he is a new creature 2 Cor 5.17 For old things are passed away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 which shall be most plainely verified when the old churches passe away and the new Jerusalem appeare as Esay 43.19 Behold I will doe a new thing in the Earth now it shall spring forth shall yee not know it when may some say Ans Rev. 21.5 Behold I make all things new and he said to me write for these words are true and faithfull 1. There shall be a new heaven and a new Earth a new church and people for he that sat on the Throne bad Iohn write it and he hath given me a minde to know him that is true and for to write of things that are true for if it be true as it is â—â—th Behold I make all things new then that must be a new church or else al things shall not be new for as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make shall remaine before me saith the Lord compare the place with this and you shall finde it agree with this and cannot agree to the former churches of Ephesus Smyrna Pergamus Thyatira Sardis Phyladelphia Laodicea for they shall passe away but the church of new Jerusalem shall remaine For to him that overcometh in the Churches I will make him a pillar in the Temple of my God and shall goe no more out and write upon him the Name of the new Ierusalem that cometh downe from my God out of heaven Rev. 2.12 but when is this to be when the lukewarme Angell that is neither cold nor hot is spued out of Christs mouth Rev. 3.16 in Laodicea of England this new Church is to appeare but now the lukewarme Angels are spued out Ergo. It is now to appeare I could prove this by many Arguments but I set downe but five Reason 1 The causes why the Churches of the Gentiles shall depart and all their Sees of iurisdiction and the new Ierusalem appeare Ma. For if there shall be an holy City of new Ierusalem come downe from God out of Heaven trimmed as a Bride for her Bridegroome then there must be a new Church upon Earth for by new Ierusalem is meant the Church of God Mi. But Iohn saw the holy City the new Ierusalem come downe from God out of heaven Rev. 2â— 2 Con. Ergo there must be a new Church upon earth Reason 2 Ma. That City which shall be foure square and shall be measured by an Angell a man with a golden reed 12000. Furlongs must needs be upon Earth for there is neither squares nor furlongs nor reedes nor men measurers of any thing there for all was prepared for thee before the foundation of the world Matth. 25 34. Mi. But the Church of the new Ierusalem shall lye foure square and be measured by an Angell a man with a golden reed 12000. Furlongs Con. Ergo it must needs be upon earth for there is no squares reeds or Furlongs or men measurers in actuall glory Reason 3 Ma. That City which shall have twelve gates and twelve Angels and the Names of the Tribes of Israel 3. On the East 3. On the North 3. On the South 3. On the West Mi. must needes be meant of a Church or City upon Earth for there is no East nor West North nor South in actuall glory or but twelve gates or but twelve Angels for there is more then twelve Legions of Angels there but the Church of the new Jerusalem shall have twelve gates and twelve Angels and the names of the twelve Tribes of Israel 3. to the East 3. to the North 3. on the South 3. on the West as Rev. 21.13 Con. Ergo it must needs be a City or Church upon earth and â—t shewes it must be a Church of the Iewes baptized and made new creatures for the Gentiles have not twelve Tribes and if there be any gates in heaven they were â—t made long before their were any tribes of Israel v. 12.13 Reason 4 Ma. That City which shall have a Wall with twelve foundations and in them the Names of the Lambs twelve Apostles must be new Church upon earth build on the doctrine of the twelve Apostles Mi. for the Apostles can be no foundation of a Wall of a City in heaven for it was made before there were Apostles before the foundation of the world Matth. 25. But the new Ierusalem shall have a Wall with twelve foundations and in them the names of the lambe twelve Apostles as v. 14. Con. Ergo. It must be a new Church upon Earth Reason 5 That City which shall have the Nations that are saved to walke in the light of it and the Kings of the Earth to bring their glory and honour to it must be a new Church upon Earth Ma. For the people that are saved they shall not need to walke in heaâ—en for they shall be as the Angels of God in heaven which flie or passe in an inconceivable time as the body of Christ to heaven and the things of the Earth shall bring no honour or glory to heaven for heaven shall give glory and honour to them Mi. But the Church of the new Jerusalem shall be such wherein the Nations that are saved shall walke in the light of it and the Kings of the Land shall bring their honour glory to it Rev. 21.24 i. e. they shall account it their honour and glory to be Citizens of new Ierusalem and bring their subjects to it Con. Ergo it must be a new Church upon Earth I could give more reasons if these be not sufficient Objection Shall there be a new Church upon earth Then say the Anabaptists Brownists Seperatists Familists Adamites Millenaries Antitrinitarians Arminians Socinians Sectaries and Selectaries all which are commonly notable Pharises and by a superabundance of religion Which have no assurance of salvation for out of the church is no salvation nor assurance of it like scabs and warts by the abundance of humors grow out of the body of man so by the humours of their braine doe these grow out of the Church and seperate from it then we will goe make a New Church Answer You are greatly deceived not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God for first it must come downe from heaven from my God Ergo man cannot build it 2. That which is of God shall stand for God is the builder and founder of that City Heb. 11. But the worke or Church that is of man shall come to naught Act. 5. Thirdly The Church of new Ierusalem must be built 12000. Furlongs in length breadth and height
third we will build another way all of you say so for you cannot see the New Jerusalem but are divided Ergo. you cannot stand but come to nought Matth. 12. I proceed of the overthrow and departing of all corrupt Sees of Iurisdiction And there was no more sea or the sea was extant no more Now what is meant by the word sea in this place we must finde out this ridle or enigmaticall metaphor or else we shall faile to finde the new Jerusalem for it must not be founded on a sea for it commeth downe from heaven from my God but the seas are upon the Earth or the Earth upon them for they make but one globe as Cosmographie declares Now this cannot be understood of the materiall sea as if when the new Jerusalem come downe from God out of heaven there should be no more seas for ships to saile in for then how should the Kings of the Earth bring their honour and glory to the new Jerusalem if there were no more seas to saile on which dwell beyond Sea as v. 24. And how should men goe downe to the Sea in ships and occupy their businesse in great waters if there were no more materiall sea of waters to faile in wherefore as God made heaven and Earth the Sea and all things therein so long as the Earth shall remaine there must be a materiall Sea for God hath founded the Earth upon the Sea and prepared it upon the flouds Psal 24.2 This cannot properly be understood of the molten Brasen Sea which Salomon made 2 Chron. 4.25 For the Priests to wash in which shall not come into the new Jerusalem for that Sea of Brasse and that legall ceremony or worship never came into the heaven of the church of the Gentiles therefore much lesse shall it come into the holy city of the church of New Jerusalem which shall be most free from all legall cermonies It is true that the Jewes have a proper Sea of their owne of Brase even till this day which is most grosse foule and darke like to the rageing Sea that the wicked Jewes are like which foameth out mire and dirt Esa 57.20 for they cast out many forged doctrines out of their owne braine and legall devises as touching a Messias to come and a legall worship with sacrifices and righteousnes by the law and many other heads of corrupt doctrines which shall all depart from the Jewes and shall never come into the heavenly Jerusalem neither was this in the church of the Gentiles and therefore this Sea here spoken of must be such an one as was in the heaven of the churches of the Gentiles that shall be no more Thirdly for the Sea here spoken of is such as the heaven was as Meyer noteth a metaphoricall heaven and a metaphoricall sea and that is the sea of the Iurisdiction of corrupt doctrine and discipline or government which have been in the heavens of the churches of the Gentiles in their seas for what hath been more common for these many 100. yeares then to talke of the holy Sea of Rome and for the church of England to talke of the Sea of Canterbury and the Sea of Yorke and of the Bishops Sea as such an impropriation belongs to the Sea of Norwich and such a land to the Sea of Eli and appeales were made to the Sea of Rome and so were our appeales from one Bishops Sea to another but there shall be in the new heaven and in the new earth no more Sea Ergo. there shall be no more Sea of Rome or Canterbury or Yorke and of Bishops or Lutherans or Calvinists Sea for all Seas of Iurisdiction of government of a corrupt discipline and doctrine shall now depart and not enter into the holy Church of the new Jerusalem and that this is the meaning of the place these are my Reasons Reason 1 Ma. For if the materiall heaven and earth should passe away the Sea must not remaine for the Earth must be with the Sea for it is founded upon it Mi. so if the metaphoticall heaven and Earth of the Church and people passe so must their Sea of Iurisdiction as text but the first heaven and the first earth of the Churches shall passe away Rev. 11.1 Con. Ergo so shall their seas of Iurisdiction for if a Church depart then the government also must depart with it and where the government of a church depart the church commonly departs with it for if a Kingdome depart or passe away must not the government depart with it Reason 2 So if a church depart that had the government of an Hierarchie of a popedome Episcopacy for Presbytery or Independent or any other government for the Sea or discipline of a church cannot remaine where the church depart except you can make an accident remaine without a subject for sublato subjecto tollitur etiam accidens quta accidentis esse est inesse for take away the subject and the accident of it is taken away because the being of an accident is to be in the subject as true reason and the best Phylosopher shewes Reason 3 Ma. For if we shall have an holy city of new Jerusalem i.e. a new church come downe from heaven trimmed as a Bride for her Bridegroome then we must have a new government from heaven also which must not be a Sea for that was old and not from heaven or else it will not be very trimme long Mi. But we shall have a church of New Jerusalem come downe from heaven trimmed as a Bride for her Bridgroome Reason 4 Rev. 21 2 Con. Ergo. we must have a new government or else it will not be trimme long for if it be true that God saith behold I make all things new then there can be no more a Sea of Rome Iurisdiction or of an Episcopacy or Lutherans or Calvinists or of any other Church that shall passe away for all these are old and in that he saith a new covenant he hath abrogated the old He. 8.13 And that which is disanulled and waxed old is ready to vanish so in that he saith I make all things New he hath abrogated the old churches and seas But it is true that God saith behold I make all things new v. 5. Ergo there can be no more Sea of Romes Iurisdiction or of an Episcopacy or Lutherans Calvinists or of another Church that shall passe away for then all things should not be become new Reason 5 For every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out Matth. 15.13 But of the Sea of Romes Iurisdiction or discipline or of the Episcopacy of England or of the Sea of Lutherans or Calvinists are plants which my heavenly Father hath not planted if you say they be prove it if you can But you cannot for the Sea of Rome was set up by the Pope and Papists the Sea of the government of the Bishops by the Protestants of England and the government or Sea of the Lutherans
by the Lutherans and the sea of the Calvinists by the Calvinists now if the counsell of Gamaliel approved on in Scripture be true then they must all come to nought For every counsell or worke of man shall come to nought but that which is of God shall stand Acts 5.28 But the Popedome or Sea of Rome Sea of an Hierarchie of Bishops Sea of Lutherans and Calvinists are counsels and workes of men Ergo. they shall come to nought but the church and government of the New Jerusalem from God shall stand Reason 6 Where a great voyce shall be heard out of heaven saying behold the Tabernacle of God is with men there the church must be governed by the Oracles of Gods word and not by a sea of discipline of men for the Oracle is in the Tabernacle but in the New Jerusalem there shall be a voyce out of heaven saying behold the Tabernacle of the Lord is with men Rev. 21.3 Ergo there the Church must be governed by the Oracle of Gods word and not by a Sea of discipline of men Reason 7 For as fishes swimme and live in the Sea so have Christians sailed sworne and lived in the Sea of Rome Canterbury of Lutherans and Calvinists for they lived and walked in their Iurisdiction government discipline for as the Sea have drowned many that have sailed in it so that Sea of Rome and of Canterbury and of Lutherans Calvinists that have drowned many mens faiths in perdition that sailed in them they are worthy to be no more but the Sea of Rome have drowned mens faith in Idolatry and purgatory and the Lutheran Sea have drowned mens faith in confustantiation dead faith and workes to the Calvinists the Sea of our Episcopacy and sea of Calvinists have drowned many faiths in Lukewarmnesse Ergo they are worthy to be no more all these have drowned the faith of one baptisme into Christs death for remission of sinnes for if this faith had swome in other Seas what needed a Popes pardon a purgatory a pilgrimage consubstantiation and workes not perfect before God and a luke-warme faith without assurance of salvation Reason 8 Those Seas that have devoured abundance of substance of poore Christians and worthy to be no more But the Sea of Rome by purgatory pardons and pilgrimage and the seas of Lutherans and Calvinists and of our Episcopacy by licences visitations and courts have devoured abundance of substance of poore Christians Ergo. they are worthy to be no more Of the overthrow and departure of all the corrupt Seas of jurisdiction of the churches of the Gentiles For as the Sea compasseth the Land and sendeth Springs or Rivers to all parts of the Land to water it So did the See of Rome and of Canterbury and of the Lutherans and Calvinists paâ—se through all the parts of their Dominions to water them with their Jurisdiction For who was free in any Popish kingdome from Saint Peters pence or Inquisition Court and Maâ—se and power of the Pope and who was freed in our Hierachy of the Episcopacy from the high Commission Chauncellor or Commissaries courts Synods Licences or Parators or freed in the Lutheran or Calvinists Sees from their Iurisdiction and Discipline Now if the See of the Iurisdiction of the Hierarchy of England be so departed that it can be no more then the Sees of Lutherans and Calvinists and of Rome must follow because the Text saith there shall be no more Sea But by the decree of God Rev. 3.16 and by the vote of Parliament and the Oath of the people the See of the Iurisdiction of the Hierarchy of England is so departed that it can be no more For though King Parliament were agreed to set up an Episcopacy or Presbytery but the Independents and Souldiers would never endure it for they rout them where they come Ergo the Sees of Lutherans and Calvinists and of Rome must follow because the Text saith there shall be no more Sea Judgement is begun at the house of God for their See what shall become of the wicked See of Rome even that which came upon olde Babylon shall come upon the new Babylon of Rome I will maintaine thy cause and take vengeance for thee I will dry up her Sea and make her Springs dry for the people of Gods cause Ier. 51.36 See O heaven rejoyce of her for God will punish her to be revenged of her for your sakes For when a mighty Angel tooke up a great stone like a mil-stone and cast it into the Sea saying with such violence shall that great thy of Babylon be cast and shall be found no more Revel 18.20 21. If the great city of Babylon of Rome shall be so cast what shall become of their See He that believes not that Rome is Babylon that shall be destroyed hath not so good a faith as the Devill who knows it is his habitation vers 2. and an hold of all foul spirits Reason 10 For as the Sea useth to roare presaging stormes which causeth Marriners to beware Ps 46.3 But he breaketh the raging of the Sea when the waves thereof doe roare Jer. 31.35 So when Martin Luther powred out his viall of Doctrine of free Iustification how did the See of Rome and Leo 10. roare against him with his execrable bull but the Lord brake off part of that See and it became a Lutheran Calvinian and Cantuarian See And when the Lutheran See began to roare against the Calvinists for consubstantiation and persecuted them the Lord hath broken that See with one breaking after another And when the See of Canterbury roared against the white-raiment christians and Non-conformists suspending them and cast them into prison On worthy Prin Doctor Bastwick And though a Shepheard got a piece of an eare out of the mouth of a lion Amos 3. yet our Lion loved rost cheekes and eares so well that he left never a piece Therefore the Lord hath broken the waves of the Cantuarian and Episcopal See when it roared and that See shall be no more and the See of Lutherans that have roared at the Calvinists shall be stilled and the See of Rome that have roared and devoured the Martyrs of Jesus shall be dryed up and shall be burne and be no more For as Christ rebuked the materiall Sea when it roared against his Disciples he stilled it So because waves of the Metaphoricall seas that have roared against Reason 11 his people he will still them and they shall be no more for as the raging troubled Sea casteth out mire and dirt Esa 57.10 So have the troubled See of Rome Lutherans Calvinists and of Canterbury been like this troubled Sea for when any troubled their seas by writing or preaching the truth they conceived it was against them how have they foamed out mire and dirt of bloud and persecution Reason 11 Now if there shall no uncleane thing enter into the new Jerusalem then no such miry diâ—ty Seas shall come into it Ma.
as the See of Rome Lutheran Calvinian or Episcopall See for they are uncleane Mi. But there shall no uncleane thing enter into the new Jerusalem Rev. 21. Con. Ergo no See of Rome Lutheran Calvinist or Episcopacie shall come into it for they are uncleane We finde when the second Angel poured out this Viall upon the sea and it became as the bloud of a dead man and every living thing dyed in the Sea Rev. 16.3 That is when Calvin had powred out his viall upon the sea of Romes corrupt jurisdiction and Doctrine for a Calvinian governement For Luther a former Angel had poured out his viall of Doctrine upon the earth i. e. upon earthly Papists and there fell a noisome grievous fore upon the men that had the marke of the beast upon them and worshipped his image i. e. upon Papists which worship the Pope and call him their Lord and made them sore i. e. in conscience by hatred malice envy railing and persecution of the truth of Luthers Doctrine But when Calvin I say had powred out a viall of Doctrine upon the See of Romes corrupt Jurisdiction and Doctrine then the See of Rome became as the bloud of a dead man for then they began to fill their See of Rome with bloudy massacres as of France Germany Netherlands and the bloud of the Martyrs of England that as when Moses stretched out his rod over the waters of Aegypt and all was turned into bloud and all the fish in the waters dyed Exod. 7.20 21. So when Calvin the second Angel had powred out his viall of Doctrine on the See of Romes discipline and Doctrine they became so mad as to murther and massacre the Protestants for the Pope was more mad at Calvin then at Luther as the Papists more hate the Calvinists then the Martinists then all the fish in the Popes See dyed for their Sea was become as the bloud of a dead man for they made all the Catholikes believe that they should merit heaven by killing the Hugonits and they must doe all for the Catholike cause and sang a Te Deum for the murdering of multitudes of Saints and thus was the See of Rome become as the bloud of a dead man and thus all the fish of Papists of the sea of Rome dyed in the faith and in conscience For he that hateth his Brother is a murtherer you know that no murtherer hath eternall life or of faith abiding in him 1 Iohn 3.15 But all that lived in the See of Rome hate their Brethren and are murtherers by rejoycing at the martyrdome of the Saints of Iesus As for the massacres of France Germany and now in Ireland so that all Papists must needs dye and cannot live by faith in the sea of black bloud which is also a sea of Idolatry by Idols of silver and gold and wood and stone by Indulgences pilgrimages purgatory prayer for to the dead a sea of whoredome Re. 9.20 fornication and witch-craft How could any thing live in such a corrupt sea of doctrine and discipline when they made all guilty of the murther of Martyrs under the name of Hereticks and they killed the life of faith into one baptisme into Christs death for remission of sins by teaching no man could have assurance of salvation but he must goe to Purgatory for his sinnes except it were such a fish as could bring up above twenty pence in the mouth or some great piece of money so that as no fish can live mari mortuo in the dead Sea So no true faith can live in the dead bloody idolatrous See of Rome For all men may see that per accidens it was turned into a bloudy dead and rotten stuffe by rejoycing at the murthers of the sanctified And concerning our luke-warme see of Jurisdiction and Hierarchy of England You will graunt that it shall be no more for Christ hath spewed out the Angell and his Episcopacie out of his mouth for luke-warmeneâ—se in faith and conscience For they made a net of 110. articles to have insnared many soules and to have catched many faiths in a new Oath of c. to be Jure Divino and to have tyed mens consciences to a raile and to cringings and to an high Altar and to so many Popes weedes of mans braine How could any good fish live in such pudled waters of a luke-warme sea but would have dyed in faith or conscience therefore because Christ hath spewed the Angell and his Hierarchie out of his mouth there shall be no more luke-warme sea And the See of the Lutherans is become nought and shall passe away for it hath a name it lives but is a dead See lyes in a dead faith that their workes are not perfect before God for they hate their brethren the Calvinists for consubstantiation They sleepe in sinne for they will not be awaked out of the dead faith though Christ become upon them as a Thiefe that is by the judgement of a robbing killing and destroying warre for the Thiefe commeth not but to steale and kill and to destroy John 10.10 If thou wilt not repent and remember what thou hast heard of i. e. by the spirit of Martin Luther and received of the white raiment justification to make thy workes perfect before God and of one baptisme into Christs death for remission of sinnes Christ will never leave comming upon thee as a Thiefe for he hath been upon thee as a Thiefe in judgement to plunder thee by a civill War and as a Thiefe to kill thee sometimes man woman and child he will come upon thee as a Thief to destroy by the Turk For Christ threatened your church that he would come on you as a Thief and now you see he is come and now see Rev. 16.15 Behold I come as a Thiefe and therefore he will never leave comming on thee as a Thiefe and therefore repent and buy gold white raiment and eye-salve or else the Turke will come to destroy thee because thou keepest not Christs garments but walkest naked in sin Also the Presbyterian See of Calvinists will be abolished for suffering Drunkards Usurers and prophane and especially Anabaptists to swim in their See Doe you not know that the denying of their first baptisme was the cause why the Lord sent the Turke into the church of Greece and removed the Candlesticke of the Church out of that place because they forsooke their first love i. e. their first baptisme wherein the first love of Christ is shewed Ephes 5.26 Tit. 3.5 Of the overthrow and departure of all corrupt Sees of Jurisdiction of the churches of the Gentiles for baptisme is good enough by whomsoever a man be baptized If they have faith to believe they were then washed from their sins in Christs bloud Revel 1.5 For hee that believeth and is baptized into Christs death for remission of sinnes shall be saved Mar. 16.16 It is not said in mans state or in Infancy baptized by a faithfull Minister