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A13558	Tvvo sermons the one A heavenly voice, calling all Gods people out of Romish Babylon. The other An everlasting record of the utter ruine of Romish Amalek. By Thomas Taylor, preacher of the Word at Redding in Berkshire.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1624 (1624)	STC 23853; ESTC S118190	35,162	74

the Pope who claimeth to be Christs Vicar the husband of the Church as if an husband must needs have a Vicar or as if he can be honest that is Vicar to an husband or shee chaste that admitteth a Vicar to her husband 2. As an whore inveigleth all shee can by meretricious Arts shee draweth in the young man by her flatteries and subtleties but most of all shee allureth great persons to folly for great rewards Even so this whore of Babel seduceth by craft and in a mysterie all whose names are not written in the Booke of Life but especially shee hath inveigled the Kings and Princes of the earth to commit fornication with her 3. As the harlot loveth the darke and seeketh the twilight so this whore of Babylon flieth the light of the Scriptures and loveth the darke night of ignorance What else is the mother and nurse of their devotion but ignorance Where doth Romane religion dominere but over ignorant countries and persons Where doe Priests and Iesuites sculke and lurke but in dens and thickets of ignorance When doe these Owles and Bats flutter abroad but in the twilight Egypt covered with darknesse was covered with Locusts and Frogs but Goshen having light was rid of Locusts and such vermines 4. An whore exhausts a mans substance and brings him to a morsell of bread so the whore of Rome hath by cunning and for things not worth thanks exhausted the chiefe treasures of Kings and Kingdomes Her Peter-pence gathered by tyrannie and hypocrisie have equalled the Kings tribute an unsuspected witnesse of her unsatiable gathering is that Orbis in urbe that world of wealth which that great Citie hath robbed the great world of and yet as was said of Paulus 3. Eius avaritiae totus non sufficit Orbis 5. An whore enervates and weakeneth the strength and seeketh the precious life of a man Shee consumeth the flesh and the bodie saith Salomon So this Whore of Babylon hath weakened all the power of Princes in their owne kingdomes claiming all their Authoritie Crowns Laws and making them but her vassals to execute her designes which if any of them thinke unreasonable then by all false arts positions and practises shee hunteth the precious lives of such Princes sometimes by her owne Emissaries and sometimes by their owne subjects armed with fraud and force with dags and daggers with poisons or powder-plots And what difference saith Mariana whether thou killest him with poison or stab there be many examples saith he both ancient and moderne of enemies killed this way 3. They are like in state and condition Babylon signifieth Confusion and in both was a Confusion of tongues that one could not understand another And in both a confusion of vices and a Chaos of all filthinesse similia mala saith Orosius sinnes of highest degrees against God and man for what else can be expected of a people left by God What else but a chaine of sinne reaching up unto heaven in that state the head of which is the man of sinne I may not now rake in this sinke hee had need have a vizard on his face that should speake or heare of Babels filthinesse the best way to expresse the filth of ordure is quickly to cover it therefore I will imitate the Painter who to expresse the deepest sorrow that might bee did cover the partie with a veile 4. They are parallel in their ruine and miserable destruction which in both is 1. Certaine 2. Totall 3. Finall 1. Of both was said Babylon is fallen Babylon is fallen the present tense for the future and ingemination or doubling of the prophecie noteth the certaintie of their ruine 2. Both Babels must be turned to heapes both of them must be burnt mountaines turned into ashes as the Kings did to that Babel so shall the ten Kings hate this Whore and leave her naked and eat her flesh and burne her with fire 3. Both of them shall be finally destroyed never to be recovered againe Both of them shall bee as a milstone cast into the sea by the Angell never to be lifted up any more Both of them must be destroyed as Sodome and Gomorrah which were never recovered In neither of them shall be found bridegroome or bride the sound of milstone or light of a candle or any craftsman and therefore shall neither of them bee inhabited by man any more but Zim and Iim shall dwell there and the Ostriches shall dwell therein but never shall sonne of man remaine there any more neither shall Babel ever rise from the evill Object But how unlikely is this that so strong a staffe and beautifull rod should be broken to peeces And we will be readie to say with Mary But how shall this be I answer As God rained a shower of fire and brimstone upon Sodome which was as the Garden of God and turned her to ashes suddenly so will he raine a great shower of haile like talents of lead vpon Babel And as the faire sun-shine morning could not save them no more shall the faire sun-shine of prosperitie save these for God which condemneth her is a strong Lord. Having declared who is this Babylon and why now we come to the third branch of the Commandement Come out of her As by Babylon we meane not only the walls and plot of ground on which the Citie of Rome standeth but the whole Papall State and Religion so the heavenly voice enjoynes all the people of God both a spirituall and corporall egresse from them In few words take into our view 1. The Matter 2. The Maner of our departure First for the Matter All Gods people must depart from the Romish Church both in Iudgement and Affection 1. In respect of spirituall presence we must depart 1. Mente 2. Manu 3. Corpore In Iudgement we must renounce their Doctrine Faith Worship and whole Religion so farre as it differeth from the Scriptures and the Harmonie of Confessions of the Reformed Churches agreeable to the Scriptures We must also in our Iudgement renounce all Romane power executed by the Pope and his Clergie over the Scripture over Princes and their subiects and over any other Churches without their owne precincts In our Affections we must give our hearts to the truth of God and detest and damne to hell their blasphemous doctrines their hatefull Idolatrie grosse superstitions wicked manners and the detestable courses of that wicked Citie and State contrary to many Polititians who give us their presence but their hearts are in Babylon Christ hath the shell but they reserve the kernell for Antichrist 2. Wee must depart from needlesse association and assistance how can we strike hands and embrace amitie and societie with such as have broken off with God How can iron and clay temper together What societie betweene light and darknesse What agreement betweene a member of Christ and a limbe of Antichrist How can any of Gods people say thy person shall be

thrice before excommunication much more may a whole Church expect it 3. We are come out of Babylon by Gods blessing in that we have pulled downe the Temples of their Idols in that both in substance of Doctrine and Sacraments our Ministery agreeth with the Scriptures the head of Dagon is cut off his stump cast downe and cast out and we labour in purging away all the scent and stinke of him so far are we from worshipping the beast or receiving his Image 4. We cannot therefore separate from the Church of England but we must goe out from the true Church of God and from the Spouse of Christ who acknowledgeth Christ for her head and foundation and by beleeving in his righteousnesse alone is made a member of his body No reason will serve these unreasonable men for then I might now get from them but their importunity staies me to answer one objection and so I will leave them Obiect But what a number of corruptions have you an heape of mens Traditions which Christ never acknowledged but bred and borne in Babylon and what a number of Gods ordinances doe you want which a true Church of Christ cannot want and can you be a Church of Christ Answ. 1. Was not Lot got out of Sodom when he saw the smoke of the Citie If it were granted then that a little smoke of the Citie did trouble our eies must it follow that we are still in the midst of Babylon 2. They point us to some corruptions and errors to which I say 1. Let them shew me a soyle in the world where Wheat groweth without some chaffe and I will goe with them But that is not at Amsterdam 2. None of the corruptions which they falsly terme are of that high nature as to call for a personall separation because none of them are fundamentall The least corruption that we can certainly espie which yet is not in constitution but in execution we must separate from in iudgement in affection in practise but to separate personally for any error not fundamentall let them teach it them to whom all errors are alike but we may not be so dull 3. Our Church being ioyned to the head Iesus Christ and retaining the vitall parts of the Word and Sacraments neither if wanting of something which should be present nor if remaining something to be cast out can thrust her from the right and title of the Church of God but is in essence and being a Spouse of Christ. For example cut off both a mans armes both his legges cut off his eares and nose now he wanteth many things which a man should have but yet so long as the head stands alive upon the body and other vitall parts remaine he is indeed a man although a maimed one Againe suppose a man had ten fingers on an hand or three armes or suppose an hand stood where the foot should stand or the mouth were set in the forehead here were a great aberration and confusion against naturall symmetrie of a mans body yet hee is a man though a very deformed one whereas where there is no head or no union of members to that head there were no body no man So whatsoeuer they can say though falsly is wanting in our Church or whatsoever they say is redundant or superfluous she being founded on Christ her head and truly dispensing the word and Sacraments they cannot overthrow her being of a true Church of Christ. 4. To conclude with them some things make to the being of a Church some to the comelinesse and well being of it if their nimble eies could finde never so many abuses not fundamentall all these shall only make to the disgrace and vncomelinesse of the Church but shall never overthrow the being of it Whatsoever we want let not God want his praise nor we thankfulnesse that we want not that whereby Gods people may enioy the ioy of their salvation And this may serve for answer to those Separatists if all the corruptions they charge us with were truly obiected against us as they are not 3. To the three sorts who goe away from us to Babylon because they were never of us would to God they would timely consider 1. If the Lord be so earnest that his people which are in Babylon should fly out of her it cannot but be too preposterous and desperate for those that are gotten out to run in againe 2. That if it be a signe of the Lords people to depart out of Babylon it must needs be a signe of him or her that is not the Lords to run into her and so to continue 3. What is the fearefull hire of Apostasie and Apostates of whom the spirit of the Lord speaketh lothsomely as of dogs and swine turning to their vomit and wallowing What can be the expectation of such as forsaking the sound profession of the Gospell fall away from Christ to Antichrist but the most dreadfull doome which is to be awarded against the Lords most cursed enemies 4. That they sinne without a cause which aggravates the sinne nay against so cleare a light and truth enacted protected crowned and in these daies after 70. yeeres of the sunshine of the Gospell which hath beene the best time the Gospell hath had in the world for so long together this thirteene hundred yeeres so as for our meanes we might have beene as stable as rocks upon our rocke and foundation 5. That they sinne against a speciall commandement of God yea against a voice from heaven in this text they cannot say in the day of the Lord they were not warned Lastly because they love to looke upon pictures now leaving them I will leave with them an Emblem of such gracelesse Apostates as themselves When Israel was in the Wildernesse God gave them a daily harvest of Mannah from heaven but they grew weary of the Lords provision they remember the garlike the leekes and onyons of Egypt and backe they will to Egypt in all haste but all the while they remembred not the oppressions tyranny stripes labours sighs burdens the bricks and fiery furnaces So doe these looke after the pompe pride wealth and liberty of Romish Egypt but remember not the miserable servitude and bondage and their tyranny upon their consciences they remember not their traiterous doctrines their miserable attempts against kings and kingdomes their furious fires their perfidious massacres their bloudy inquisition They remember not what comfortlesse hopes that doctrine and Religion will afford them in the day of their death for there 's no understanding Papist dare trust unto it and yet looke backe they will But what is the issue and conclusion of all As all they in the wildernesse miserably died and never entred into the Land of rest so these Apostates may exchange Mannah with Garlike for the present but in the day of the Lords visitation they shall reape according to their sowing when greatnesse nor wealth when Iesuiticall subtilties nor penall satisfactions neither shall