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A27590 The command of God to his people to come out of Babylon, Revel. 18. 4, demonstrated to mean the coming out of the present papal Rome with a most earnest perswasive to all to come out who are in it, ... Beverley, Thomas. 1688 (1688) Wing B2132; ESTC R18831 42,746 48

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of Scripture give to the Expositions and Discourses out of Doctrinal parts of Scripture And certainly had God stirr'd up the Spirits of the Reformed by the most industrious Indeed prophecy if not thus conceal'd could not have been fulfill'd Searches into the Word of God to have conjoyn'd the one with the other and to have bestow'd that Time and Diligence in the Explication of Prophecy of Scripture that they have done in Researches into the Ancients the Controversie had been long ago at an end and the Apostasie exploded But God hath in the deep ways of his Judgment reserved the lustre of open Prophecy to the Times nearer to the Kingdom and Coming of Christ and the Brightness of his Appearance that so the Man of Sin May be consum'd by it Hereby arises a Judgment upon other Prophesies of Scripture that respect this Grand Apostacy as that of the Apostle John's Spirit of Antichrist and The Antichrist For whatever Community or City under the Name of a Church is continually saying Who shall go up to Heaven as to other Mediators besides the One Mediator Brings down Christ from Above as if He had not Ascended or were not Set down on the Right Hand of God to make Intercession for us And when the same False Church is continually Saying Who shall descend into the Deep of Purgatory by those many Sacrifices and ways of Propitiation This is to bring up Christ from the Dead as if He Himself had not made a perfect Sacrifice Once for all All which are a perfect Denial that Christ is come in the Flesh and an Antichrist in many regards worse then Judaism and always branded as Heatheanism in the Prophecy and the very worst of Heathenism This Prophecy rightly understood would expound to us that whole prophetical Chapter 2. Pet. 3. those Predictions of our Saviour concerning the Signs of his coming and of the End of the World Those three Mystical Cities Sodom Samaria and Jerusalem that are never to be recover'd that Edom the Border of wickedness against which God hath indignation for ever It would expound to us that Discourse of the Apostle against any Church being so wise in its own conceit as to think it self perfect till the Calling and Conversion of the Jews Those dreadful Menaces on the then truly Famous Roman Christian Church of its being Cut off and that more irrecoverably than the Jews who shall be grassed in again e're the end of the World into their own Olive But it is beyond my Intention to ingage further into these Things and it is enough to give only Intimations of them It shews us the Care God hath taken of his Servants in all Times since the first working Inference 2. of the Mystery of Iniquity to preserve them out of the Midst of this Congregation and Assembly of the Dead these Deeps of Hell the Damnation of those who are given up to the strong Delusions of Believing so horrible a Lye upon Christianity as Popery is who perish in not Receiving the Truth in the Love of it Who Believ'd not the Truth but had Pleasure in the Deceivableness of Vnrighteousness whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life from the Foundation of the World Who are led away with the Errors of the Wicked God hath graciously Sealed his own Servants whom he hath chosen to Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of Truth who are not wandring Stars falling from their own Stedfastness but fix'd by Grace as the Wise who shall shine as the Firmament and as the Stars for Ever let us therefore Consider the several Methods of the Grace of God herein and the various degrees of it according to the variety of Times and of the various Temptations upon them to Seduction All which have been so many Comings out of his People from this Babylon 1. That which hath been Universal to all his Saints and Servants hath been the Ingaging them to stand fast in the Traditions The True sincere Traditions of the Gospel of Jesus Christ first in the immediate word of the Apostles Preaching by the Holy Ghost sent from Heaven and then Sealed in Scripture without taking from or adding thereto in Doctrine Worship Practise or Government 2. When this Apostasie was risen so High that the Gentiles were come to their Forty two Months His Servants were so observant of it that they immediately put on their Sackcloth This was precisely their Testimony Finish'd before their prophecy ends Rev. 11. 7. and Prophecied in it against the Apostasie and when the Apostasie rose higher and became a Throne of Satan the Pope became a Balam an exalted False Prophet yet they did not Deny the Name of Christ but held fast his Name Even in the time when Antipas or the Anti-Papal Martyrs were slain Although in the mean time They might not be wholly free from some of the shade of that Doctrine on which account It is said They had those who held the Doctrine of Balam and are call'd the Church of Pergamus that High Tow'ring Church that was then aspiring higher and higher These Witnesses were retired out of it while in the midst of all that Corruption and they Fed on hidden Manna and were satisfied with the Absolution of the White Stone peculiar to themselves which all the World Damn'd for Hereticks which shewed they were retired form Rome and call'd by its Name as if of that Church although thus gently censur'd 3. When this City was become Jezebel the Mother of Harlots under the Name of a Church and that the Witnesses of Christ were slain by her and her Prince that had sold Himself to Work Wickedness before the Lord They then declar'd against it as such a Painted Prostitute and separated from it though they were encompass'd with it as with Lyons and Men set on fire with Rage to Burn them Alive and were forced to suffer this False Church while they were come out so far as not to have nor had it in the Account and Reputation of a Church and yet in signification of being in the midst of it are called Ihyatyra One of its Names 4. The Churches of the Reformation made not only an avow'd Separation from it by Coming out of it but by Laws and Sanctions prohibited the Superstitions and Idolatrys of it and of its Prince who ought to be under this Two-fold Caution as the Church of Sardu is Admonish'd and They under it 1. Of pursuing the Reformation to the utmost according to the Highest Spirit and Truest Perfection of it being else in Danger of being Reprov'd for not having their Garments Pure and undefiled nor their Works filled up before God in a perfect Coming Out 2. Of not receiving back into a Sufferance or Toleration the open bare-fac'd avow'd Sins of Spiritual Sodom and its Impurities seeing the Providence of God hath so far deliver'd them lest Many Return as a Dog to the Vomit and have Complacency in what was cast out with Detestation by a Nation and Church 5. But whereas these Things have not yet been done by the Servants of God so avowedly under the Banner of this Prophecy when the Beast's Forty Two Months are out There shall be more Solemn Voices that Babylon is Fallen is Fallen and if any Man continue to Worship the Beast c. He shall Drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God without mixture That All may Come Out and Reform 9. When the Vials are about to be powred out as the Plagues of Aegypt and Fire from Heaven upon this Spiritual Sodom and Aegypt there may be some Romanists in it who pertain to the Election of Grace on whom the Lord being Merciful to them He lays hold and pulls them as Brands out of the Burning and even forces them to come Out as of old He pull'd Lot out of Sodom that very Moment and with a Holy Violence of Grace to them Rescues them from the Flames After that Time He that is Filthy shall be Filthy still He thai is Vnjust shall be unjust still But He that is Justified from that Apostasie shall be for ever juctified from it After that time there is neither Reformation nor Apostasie FINIS