stand The Sea as you know is the confluence of all the Rivers and Fountaines of waters they all finally are gathered together into one place and are called Sea And truly the confluence concourse of all the springs of the Churches they do meet together in one Religion that is the common receptacle of all All my fresh springs are in the Lord Psal 87.7 In that Religion which the Church professeth And therefore Religion was resembled in the 4 of the Revel vers 6. By the sea of Glasse like unto Chrystall that is all the Ordinances of God they were so cleare as that you n ight see Christs face in them as in a mirrour or glasse 2 Cor. 3.18 Wherein the state of Religion in the New Testament differed from the state of Religion in the old Testament Where the Brazen sea in Salomons Temple was indeed bright as brasse but thicke and not transparent you could not see so clearly the blood of Christ in it and yet there was a sea of Waters What to doe In the 2 Chron. 4.2 to the end of the 6. verse which was for the Priests to wash in Now what is it that can cleanse the Priests but onely the blood of the Lord Iesus Now that was resembled by the water in the Brazen sea Therefore all the Ordinances of Christ which did hold forth the blood of Christ to the washing and purging of the Priests and people of God that is the sea Now this sea as you heard in the 15. Chapter of the Revelation the 2. verse In the Reformed Churches is a sea of Glasse though mingled with Fire mingled with some contention yet the face of Christ might be cleerely seene in it But this sea heere that is the Popish Religion is the confluence of all their Ordinances as they doe administer the worship of God And upon this sea upon this Religion is the second Viall poured In the former Viall First men stumbled at the lives of Papists and therupon at the lives of them that led them at their Priests covetousnesse ignorance and hipocrisie they liked not their lives though at first they stumbled not at their religion but thought it was the fault of their lives but soone after they stumble at their Religion so that the next Vial is poured on their Religion the Ordinances themselves as they are dispenced by them the Viall is poured on them so farre as they differ from Reformed Churches Then what This being the sea how is this sea come to be as bloud That is this Religion of theirs is convinced and discovered to be not such as holds forth the cleansing blood of the Lord Iesus as the Sea in Salomons Temple did and as the sea of Glasse like unto Christall did but holds forth the blood of a dead man A dead Christ and dead Ordinances to any spirituall life There is no life no power no savour of goodnesse in it as the blood of a dead man which is not like the living blood of Christ to cleanse and purifie and to give life Whosoever eats my flesh and drinks my bloud hath eternall life John 6.54 But this is the blood not of the liveing God but of a dead man there is the best of it and what is that Fit to pollute and defile fit to choake a man but not to feed him not to cleanse and purge him And every thing living in that sea dyed Every thing That is every soule that had no other life but what was bred and fed in that Religion and had no other Christian life but what he sucked and derived from that Religion they all perished everlastingly this is the meaning of the words of the Text. Now then it may be further demanded for clearing of this meaning who is this Angell that poures out this viall of Gods wrath on this sea the sea you say is Antichristian religion for the first began with the earth this goes up higher and so higher and higher till it come to the throne and till at length Babilon be fallen So that all these plagues fall on the antichristian state But who is this Angell that poureth out this Viall There be some conceive that they are they who met in the councell of Trent and gathered all the streames of Popish priests and their doctrine and practise and ratified them all in that Councell yea some thinke that Bellarmine hath done the Church of God good service in gathering the body of Controversies betweene protestants and popish Churches and hath delivered them in so many volumes that you might have a whole sea of antichristian doctrine worship and governement by him confirmed though I doe not dislike the notion and it will fall into the true meaning yet that holds not close to the letter of the Text for the Text makes all the Angels to be such as come out of reformed Churches * Rev. 15 5.6 the Temple open in heaven members of reformed Churches all cloathed in pure and white linnen godly Christians righteous soules and girded with golden girdles stablished in the truth of the Gospell therefore they cannot be the Bishops and Doctors of Rome nor Bellarmine nor any of them that have held forth Popish Religion in a Popish Church What then Then it must bee other Ministers and Professors of reformed religion who have discovered the religion of the antichristian state to be as it is Obiect You will say can they turne Popish Religion to bloud Answ The Doctors of Trent indeed have Bellarmine makes it worse by maintaining and confirming of it True but can Ministers of reformed Churches be said to doe so Marke they are sayd to poure out a viall not by making their religion worse but making it appeare as bad as it was They being righteous men they could not corrupt religion but discover it and make it appeare that all the decrees of the councell of Trent and of Bellarmine and such Popish writers they discovered them to bee nothing but a sea of corrupt doctrine and worship all the streames that run in that sea are all polluted and filthy that who so lives and dies in them perisheth everlastingly And such were all those worthy servants of Christ that have written either against the Trident Councell or against Bellarmine that have convinced their Doctrine and worship to be all polluted and corrupted and to be such that if a man know and practise and beleeve no better he cannot be saved such hath been Chenmitius and Junius Chamier Whitaker and Reignolds Perkins and Ames and the rest of the holy Saints of God that have poured out this viall of Gods wrath that is that by their doctrine and writings from the word have poured out such cleare conviction and refutation of their doctrine and worship that to all that are not partiall it appeares to be not the bloud of the Lord Iesus but of a dead man and therfore who ever lives and dies in that religion hee cannot die better then a reprobate nor
live better then an hypocrite this is the true meaning of the second viall The first note that we may gather I will not be long in it nor Doct. in this place the matter requires it not in some places it might As upon the corruption of common Christians followes the corruption of religion so by the discovery of the corruptions of Christians or upon the discovery of the corruption of common Christians followes the discovery of corruption in Religion This note followes upon the former words compare this verse with the second trumpet vpon the sounding of the second trumpet there was brought in corruption of religion in the Imperiall Christian world as in the 8. Chapter of this booke and the 7.8.9 ver The first Angell sounded and there followed â—aile and fire mingled with bloud whereby all the green grasse was burnt up c. The first Angell poured out fire and bloud that is vncharitablenesse and contentiousnesse and so corruption grew in the spirits of common Christians and what followed upon that And thereupon the second Angel founded and there fell a great mountaine burning with fire cast into the sea on the contentiousnesse and quarelling of common Christians and their ambition There grew contention about primacy in Church Governours and that so far corrupted the sea A mountaine of high prefermâ—nt being cast into the sea that a third part of the sea became bloud here was a third part a great part of their religion specially that which concernes governement became bloud very noisome both their doctrine and governement so that looke as on the corruption of the lives of Christians presently religion grew corrupt so on the discovery of corruption in common Christians In this second viall follows the discovery of corruption in religion it self in this second viall and looke by what degrees the trumpets sounding brought in corruption into the Church by the same degrees the vials bring forth the discovery of corruption in the Church the vials of Gods wrath discover corruption pollution in Religion The reason of this point is taken from the powerfull efficacy Reason of all religion to transforme the sincere professors of it to the like nature with it selfe looke what the religion is such is the spirit of all that are sincere and serious professors of it and therefore if there come in any corrupt doctrine corrupt religion our Saviour tells us by their fruits ye shall know them for such as their corruption is in judgement such will it bee in their lives in Mat. 7.15 Beware of false prophets c. by their fruits you shall know them a good tree cannot bring â—orth evill fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fâ—uit and so it was with the Pharisees though they were the strictest sect of the Iewists Religion Act. 16.5 Yet as they were corrupt in their lives so their Religion was corrupt and those that were Proselites to it Mat. 23.15 They made them twofold more the children of hell then themselves 2 Tim. 3.13 Evill men and deceivers waxe worse and worse deceiving and being deceived and the ground of that is this the concurrence of the spirit of God with his owne word and the concurrence of the spirit of Satan with his ordinances and instructions there is a spirit goes with both that doth assimulate and transforme a powerfull professor of sincere Religion to be sincere in heart And the Professors of corrupt Religion to transforme them into the nature thereof In the 59. of Esay verse 21. My Spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed from henceforth and for ever Gods spirit goes with his owne Ordinances where ever they are rightly and sincerely received as alway by some they are where ever they have free passage they will have some good issue and some persons or other on whom they will worke such a change in 2 Cor. 3 18. We all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of God are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord. Consequently if Antichrist come with his delusions hee shall come with all the power of Satan whose comming saith the Apostle 2 Thess 2.9.10 is after the working of Satan and with all power of signes and lying wonders with efficacie of delusions a signe these delusions are not meerely Nationall but effectuall to transforme the heart like unto the minde their will like unto their judgement and their life like unto both that you shall have the whole frame of their state such as is their Religion if the lives of Catholike Professors be corrupt an evident argument their Religion is corrupt and if their Religion be corrupt their lives cannot bee sound they that live by that Religion must needs be corrupt so that upon the discovery of the corruptions of the lives of Catholikes then men began to scruple their Religion at first it was fairely interpreted of some Catholikes that were reformed and brought to the truth they thought that all abuses found in the Friars Monks was but from the lives of men their religion was better their religion did not teach them so and therfore thought still they might appeale to the Pope himself as Luther did they thought it was the ignorance of the Priests that brought Pardons into the Countrey to sell them for groats and shillings but this was but a charitable opinion and in truth the Priests the ministers of that Religion did but act the spirit of that Religion the whole heart was sicke and the whole head and body mortally distempered The Use is thus much it must be a word of holy admonition and warning to all Professors Vse 1 in this Countrey and Church members to all that professe they came out of England for purity of Ordinances to be very circumspect pure and faithfull and zealous in all their whole conversation for beleeve it you will finde this true and remember it while you live if you bee corrupt in New-England if you be unfaithfull here if you be worldly minded here false of your words and promises here injurious in your dealings here beleeve it one of these two will unavoidably follow either all England will judge your Reformation but a delusion and an invention of some of your Magistrates or Elders or otherwise looke at you as not sincere but counterfeit This unavoidably you will finde true you cannot poure forth a Viall of more wrath on Religion as it is heere reformed and established through the blessing of God you cannot load it with a heavier Viall of Gods wrath then if heere you shall grow worldly and covetous deceitfull and contentious and unbrotherly Are these your Church members such such things were done but I hope it was not your Church Members are we not all brethren Doth our Estates
giving him glory let all run in that streame that we acknowledge his justice and truth and mercy and grace and look up to him for receiving from him whatever is of his mercy and grace needfull for us and then we shall avoid those plagues and judgements which are threatned or gone forth against us and shall recover from under Gods hand like gold out of the fire THE FIFT VIALL REVEL 16.10 11. And the fifth Angell poured out his Viall upon the seat of the Beast or as the word is in the Originall the Thrones and his Kingdome was full of darkenesse and they gnawed their Tongues for paine And blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their paines and their sores and repented not of their deeds IN these words you have described the powring out of the Viall of the fifth Angell and described it is First by the subject on which it was powred On the throne of the Beast Secondly by the effect of it which is double 1. Proper and primary His Kingdome was thereby darkened 2. The secondary and accidentall events were three 1. Anguish and indignationâ— They gnawed their Tounges for paine 2. Blasphemy They blasphemed the God of Heaven 3. Impenitency They repented not of their deeds This Scripture and the interpretation of it is the more difficult because it is generally conceived that the execution of Gods judgements upon the Beast hath not yet gone beyond the powring out of the fourth Viall therefore conjectures about it will be the more difficult and it may be more uncertaine yet because the Scripture in it selfe is not darke how darke so ever we may be in our apprehensions The Kingdome of the Beast is darke but not the Kingdome of Christ And the Lord hath promised a gracious blessing upon all that read and heare the words of this prophecy Chap. 1. verse 3. so that by the comparing of one part of this prophecy with another and observing the due poise of every word in his place with holy feare and reverence the Lord is wont to lead his people into truth according to the promise made to the Apostle Iohn 16.13 which is fulfilled to every successour of theirs in some measure Let us therefore goe on in the feare of God to consider of these things First the difficulty chiefely lyeth in opening the subject whereon this Viall will be powred for open that and the rest will be cleare The seat of the Beast is generally taken for the City of Rome and it is confirmed from the like speech Rev. 13.2 Where the Dragon gave the Beast his power and his seat or throne and great authority and therefore they gather from hence the ruine of Rome applying also hereunto some prophecies of the Sibills who in their Language tell us thus much that Rome shall then be desolate and be as if it had never been a state Now though we have much cause to glorifie God for the labours of such of his servants as have giveÌ„ that exposition yet I must confesse I cannot rest satisfied with that interpretation for I finde it cleare in the sequell of this Chapter that Babilon which is doubtlesse meant of Rome As throughout the seventeenth Chapter it is also is said to come up into Remembrance before God in the 19. verse of this Chapter And that is in the powring out the seventh Viall which implyeth that before it came not up in remembrance before God in point of actuall punishment for things are said to come up into â—â—â—â—â—brance before God when he taketh in hand either to shew mercy to them or to powre out wrath upon them a signe that the Viall and fiercenesse of his wrath was not yet powred out upon Rome besides it is expressed in this Text that upon the powring out of this Viall the Kingdome of the beast was darkened but there is a great difference betweene darkning and destroying Egypt was darkened before Pharoh was destroyed or the body of Egypt overwhelmed in the red Sea Upon these grounds therefore I cannot conceive that it is meant of Rome but of something else which in Scripture is to be understood by Throne sometimes it is put for that forme of government and authority which any person or state sitting on that throne doth administer as it is said of Christ that his throne is a throne of Righteousnesse and that is not so much spoken of the place where he governeth as of the government it selfe so in the 89 Psalme 29. 36 37. I will make his throne as the dayes of Heaven and againe his throne shall be as the Sunne before me It shall be established for ever as the Moone and in Psalme 122.5 Thrones of judgement are distinguished from the thrones of the house of David to wit such as David hath erected so by the like proposition it is here meant of that forme of government which the beast exerciseth in the Church both subjectively that which himselfe doth occupy over the Churches subject to him and effectively that which proceedeth from him and is exercised by others in other Churches according to the frame and forme of government received from him and that is such a peerelesse kind of government as wherein one alone doth rule for a throne is such a kind of seate wherein one of peerelesse authority doth governe as a Monarch in his owne Dominion Indeed the universall supremacy of the Pope both in spirituall and temporall things whereby he challengeth transcendent authority over all Kings and Princes that was violated by the fourth Viall of these Angels but yet still here is another throne which yet hitherto remaineth unplagued and that is his singular sole authority and monarchicall government whereby he sitteth chiefe and onely Judge in Ecclesiasticall causes in his own jurisdiction and like unto which he hath established the government of all National Provinciall and Diocesan Churches and so this interpretation doth very fitly suit with the proper effect of the powring out of this Viall expressed in the Text his Kingdome was darkened 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and what kinde of government is that such as wherein one doth raigne as they are wont to say there must be but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One Prince in a state this forme of government himselfe doth exercise still in his owne jurisdiction inviolately and this he hath brought into all national and Provinciall and Diocesan Churches in the world where popery hath prevailed and which still continueth in some Protestant Churches where though the Doctrine and worship of Popery be abolished and the transcendent supremacy of his government yet the forme of his government monarchicall or sole and singular government by one that is Episcopacy is still continued Who is then the fifth Angel that hath powred out his Viall upon this peerelesse government the Episcopacy Though it be said this Viall is not yet powred out and though it haply was not powred out with the writings of such men who so conceived were under their hands
saw them out of those mouthes out of those mouthes they had came thence they had their originall and from thence they sprange Much inquiry there is who they should bee I will not trouble you with variety of mens judgements The Dragon is no more here the Turkish Empire then before but the Dragon here is hee that is before called Satan acting Rome and so hath seven Heads and ten Hornes which are the Armes of Rome as yee have heard before not of Constantinople And it is hee that consults and conspires with the Beast of Rome to send forth these three uncleane Spirits Now if you shall put all together that hath beene observed by different Interpreters and consider withall what kinde of spirits the Catholique Church and the head thereof the Bishop of Rome hath troubled the Church withall yee shall finde they all fall under three sorts three sorts of spirits they doe all issue from and these have all inspired and breathed into them the very Character of the nature which is found in the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet There are many rables of popish orders which were endlesse to name now But they are all summed up in three Heads for all the other are but hangbies and traines to them all the Emissaries of Rome the spirits whereby shee hath troubled the Church they all fall under these three either Cardinalls Bishops or Jesuites and under the Jesuites I ranke all regular Fryers they are all of them of one nature regular men Cloyster-men of which the Jesuites are the cheife and I would rather instance the Jesuites because the rest of that rabble the other orders of Fryers and Monkes they are described not under the name of Frogs but under the name of Locusts chirping Creatures as the Frogs are Croking and both come out of the bottomlesse pit But the other are more like to Locusts in the 9 Revelations 3 to 11. They be both of them mischeivous both the Locusts and the Frogs too but the Frogs are a little too dull for this kind of imployment which is attributed to the Frogs but these three the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet send forth the Cardinalls the Bishops and the Jesuites yee shall finde the quintessence of nimble wits in these Spirits active and nimble spirits yee shall finde them close and secret in their conveyances like spirits no part can be so secretly watcht but they will enter in no Gates of Princes Pallaces so secret but thy will enter them And uncleane they be as neither fit for meat nor for sacrifice as uncleane Beasts were They are neither fit for Church nor Common-wealth neither fit for the one nor the other neither for meate nor sacrifice uncleane also arising out of the mud uncleane in their Doctrine rooting out the Doctrine of Life uncleane in their conversation as all false Teachers more or lesse bee Iude 8. and 10 Verse And making the Countries uncleane where they come they let loose the raines and open a doore unto all Licentiousnesse and Prophanesse Three unclean Spirits like Frogs This description of them likening of them to Frogs doth exclude them from the Locusts for they are not Amphibia as they call them such as can live upon the Waters or Earth for Locusts love not to be in the Waters but these are indifferent on Earth or Waters Therefore these three can indifferently live either upon the waters or upon the Earth and even as well in the one as in the other It is indifferent to them whether yee imploy them in Church worke they can domineer there or whether you imploy them in state matters they are as free and as busy there in the Courts of Princes and the states of Commonwealths and as impetuous there and as active there and as cunning and as dominering and Lordly there as they are in the Church And therefore looke as were the plagues of Egypt which is called Sodom so are these plagues of spirituall Sodom The Frogs they came upon them cunningly and would come into the Kings Pallaces and no place could be kept free from them Even such are these three uncleane spirits no place can they be kept out from And like unto Frogs are they for their continuall croking nothing but one kinde of tune their own matters they never leave croking of not like these Frogs here in America that have a severall tune in each part of the yeare but they are alwayes in one or two or three at the most either the Catholique visible Church or the Pope the Judge of controversies or of visible succession And then looke as yee see it is with Frogs they are most busy with their notes when it growes darke and in the heat of the day they are a great deall more silent for then they get them downe into the mud so it is with these uncleane spirits they ly close if the light of the Gospell shines forth brightly And if it grow warme in the zeall of the spirits of Christians then yee here no newes of them but they are in some muddy places then they are husht then I if you should come with a Torch in the midnight they are silent and still then But now when there is want of light or want of heat of Religion then it is indeed that these spirits are most croking and tumultuous and unquiet but otherwise if the spirits of Christians and States-men grow warme in Religion ther 's no noise nor newes of these spirits so these are the three uncleane spirits that come out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet And these three have left a spice of their own nature in them the Devill hath left a spice of his murther and malice against religion and well ordered government tending to disorder the Catholique Church hath left them hir state and preheminence hir Lordly Dominion and spirituall supremacy and authority carying all before him The false Prophet hath left them corrupt Doctrine and corrupt worship These corrupt all where they come and with cleanly conveyance in the Name of the Lord and thus saith the Lord when indeed it is nothing but the meere inventions of the sinfull false hearts of the sonnes of men To goe on a little further in the exposition of these spirits They are the spirits of Devills That is to say all of a devillish nature they are not Gods spirits men they will be accounted to be but they are spirits of the bottomlesse pit the spirits of Devills Devills for learning and Devills for deceit and Devills for mischeife Working miracles It is a proper worke of the second Beast but they are all but lying wonders they come saith the Apostle Paul with all power of signes and lying wonders 2 Thes 2.9 And these being all thus furnisht the Text tells you They goe forth unto the Kings of the Earth by Earth in this booke is meant the
no conscience of the blaspheming the name of God the Lord would have men make no conscience of cutting them off from breathing in the aire of God If men make no conscience of murthering soules or raising sedition and tumult and murthering men better then themselves the Lord would have men make no conscience of paying every man in his owne kind But let me answer again But mark what I say the Lord will easily provide for this and so he doth and in England I am sure he hath what in Holland I know not but he hath provided there That if a Jesuite or Priest or their abettors shall come in and take the oath of fidelity to the State and so carry matters before some Justice of Peace the Law dischargeth them from capitall punishment And the Law of God in the New Testament is that such should be once or twice admonished but if he still continue the Apostle would have him cast out of the Church the Church hath no farther power if they be proceeded with farther it must be by the Magistrate Him that is an heretique ofter once or twice admonition reject knowing that he that is such is subverted c. So that it must be for Fundamentall Articles of Religion in doctrine or worship which are so clearly delivered in the Word that no man that understands Scripture and the wayes of salvation but may be satisfied in conscience what is the holy and acceptable will of God in such points and therefore he takes it for granted if a man be once or twice admonished he is convinced of himselfe he is subverted he is turned off from the foundation that now no man is put to death for his conscience but for sinning against the light of his conscience his owne conscience hath convinced him and the light of the Word is so cleare as cannot but convince him that the way of God runnes just quite contrary to his interpretation and seducement And therefore now if you sinne you sinne against conscience and therefore you justly suffer for being subverted and turned off from the foundation from Chrift Jesus and holding another foundation and persisting therein obstinately So there are two things in an heretique he is both subverted himselfe as an house from the foundation it is against the foundation of Religion and he holdeth out obstinately against light of conscience with stubbornnesse and now in such a case thine eye shall not spare him A soule that sins of ignorance may be pardoned but if he still continue obstinate thine eye shall not spare him the wrath of God now goes out against a person against a City if it were against a Tribe they goe about by force of Armes to redresse it they shall not suffer such in a Country This is then the Answer to the second Objection and still justifies the equity of that Law Obj. 3 There is a third Objection Ay but is it not written that you shall suffer tares to grow with the wheat lest while ye gather up the tares ye root up also the wheat with them Mat. 13.30 Now our Saviour tending to clemencie and moderation he saith Let both grow together untill the harvest c. Answ Ay but tares and wheat they may grow together but he doth not say ye may suffer bryars and thorns to grow with them for then you choak all the wheat And therefore it hath been a false interpretation of the Popish sort and taken up by the Anabaptists that tares signifie indifferently all sorts of wicked men but I know none that expound them better then Ierome and none so well the tares are very like the wheat in Jury what they are in other Countries I know not but they are like to the wheat there and you will not know the difference in the greene blade nor in the spindling untill it grows towards the harvest then you will finde it but an empty eare and thin and yet it grows so close with the other wheat and like it that if you pluck it up you may pluck up the wheat with it let therefore both grow together till the harvest What is then meant by Tares Not such as sinne through obstinacie but hyhocrites that are like the servants of God that you would think they are such after you discover them they are empty eares and hollow have no fatnesse of graine and that is indeed none of the wheat Now let Hypocrites grow together with the Elect doe not cast them out meerly for hypocrisie though you finde them halting unlesse they break forth to scandalous behaviour either in doctrine or worship or conversation as they appeare to be bryars and thornes if they be manifest fruits of the curse away with them Why cumber you the ground for else you shall neither have Church censure nor cavill to stand Such notorious wicked persons adulterers Idolaters railers refractory and scandalous persons drunkards and the like are not tares we must not abuse Scripture that because tares and hypocrites are suffered therefore refractory scandalous notorious wicked men and heretiques may be suffered no that is not the meaning they are not ears you may see them afar off you shall not need to feare rooting up the wheat by cutting off them the wheat is nothing like them So you see the first Use to justifie the equity and soveraignty of such capitall punishments on Priests and Jesuites and consequently on such as bring in other Gods or another way of worshipping the true God then that wherein we may enjoy fellowship with the true God the justice and suitablenesse of it to the holy will of God since there were any Lawes made amongst Gods people For a second Use it may serve to reprove the carnall and sinfull Vse 2 foolish pity that is found in any State that shall be sparing of spilling such bloud of the Priests and Jesuites It is you see contrary to the unchangeable justice of God the Lord loathes this kinde of lenity and gentlenesse and indulgence and toleration of such kind of persons and ordinary receivings of them if men will suffer such in the State truly they shall doe it to the subversion of their owne safeties and dignities and disturb their whole State It is a very sad speech which the Lord utters in the 48. Ier. 10. Cursed is he that doth the work of the Lord negligently and cursed is he that keepeth back his sword from bloud when the Lord calls us to sheath the sword of Authority in such kind of delinquents as these be if we shall now spare them and neglect this work of God cursed be such A State shall be separate from God and a Kingdome more and more corrupt and leavened by such toleration the wrath of God will break forth tumults and seditions and all kind of scandalous and unrighteous and ungodly proceedings will set a whole Kingdome in combustion Church and Common-wealth at variance There can be no peace to such a State where such persons are tolerated
God assist the servants of God in this glorious work but they are sent forth indifferently to protect Gods servants by sea or by land And I finde no Scripture to shew that they are more particularly sent to the sea or to the earth but indifferently to protect Gods servants in their out-goings and in-commings Vse 7 Lastly it may serve to teach us a true estimation of Ministers If Popish Priests be rivers and fountaines of waters drinking bloud because they have made Gods servants and Prophets drink bloud then it shews what place other Ministers be in where the sea is cleare as glasse like chrystall where you may see the face of Christ as in a glasse 2 Cor. 3.18 what then where the sea is pure all Ministers of the Countrey and Elders of Churches carry forth the doctrine and worship of Christ they are as rivers and fountaines and being living water rivers of fresh water and water all the Countrey This is the office of of them in opposition to those in 2 Pet. 2.17 that are wells without water without sweet water Godly Ministers therefore are fountaines of sweet water and from them issue forth streames of living water In Psal 88. ult All my fresh springs are in thee I would onely apply it thus and leave it and the Text with the time That therefore looke as a man when he would goe forth to a new Plantation or sit downe in any place or if he would set his dwelling house in a place he would wisely fore-cast to have a fountaine of living water a living spring neere to his house or some sweet spring run neere him Why If he be without fresh water it is a great want for the provision of his houshold Water they must have either a fresh tiver or a fresh spring the one of the two if they can have both they covet both and there is great need of both not onely to quench fire and water gardens c. but for boiling of meat and drink washing of cloathes and sundry victuals Water is ever necessary as any thing nothing more This is mens care when they goe about Plantations or whether they plant townes or villages or their owne dwelling houses they have a care to provide for fresh water All I would say is this Take heed you doe not provide for fountaines of ordinary water and neglect rivers of sweet water That is beware of going about such work without carrying such fountaines with you as may from the sea of pure Religion pure doctrine and pure worship carry forth some such sweet streams as may make glad the hearts of your families and Church of God where you goe But you will say Have not Christians so much liberty a Ob. company of godly men liberty to enter into covenant and make some beginning of things and so call some or other whom they know are well gifted men furnished with gifts may we not call them to come and help us and have we not that liberty purchased by the bloud of the Lord Jesus All this is true brethren I would infringe no part of it Onely Answ this let me say you would be loth to provide no better for temporals you would be loth to set a towne where there are no rivers nor fountaines and if you doe sit downe where there are no fountaines yet you have liberty to fetch water from other places Christ hath purchased it True he hath purchased all liberties for his Church but you will not think it wisdome to sit downe where there are no rivers because you have no right to them by the bloud of Jesus that would not be a sufficient reason in things concerning this naturall life why then doe not build further on the bloud of Christ for spirituall rivers then you will doe for naturall but rather prize spirituall rivers above naturall as more worthy then all naturall comforts to be looked after Therefore when ever you are about such a work as this take the Lord Jesus Christ along with you and take rivers and fountaines of waters that as you look for rivers and fountains for the refreshment of your cattle and servants and children you may finde a living fountaine of the bloud of Christ conveighed and running in the plantation where you intend to sit downe otherwise you will finde the springs there and the fountains and rivers you sit downe by rise up in judgement against you that these are the things you sought for and out of regard to these you left the fountains and rivers of Gods house the ordinances of God behind you and goe and live in the outmost corners of a countrey or in some other countrey all is one Therefore sit downe no where without good Ministers if it be possible and sure possible it is else Christians may resolve to tarry where they are as Ezra tarried by the river Ahava in the 8. of Ezra 15. till he had got some Levites to goe with them that they might goe and make a comfortable worke of it that they might not leave the Ordinances behind them and yet there were some there before whither they went It is true some may goe and make a beginning but yet never make a beginning but where you may come and partake of the waters of Gods house every Lords day and let them that cannot so travell let them continue where they are and drink of the waters of eternall life rather then run such hazards You have seene when some have made a beginning without Ministers they have staid three or foure yeeres before they have got any help and when they have got them they have had much adoe to settle they have been suddenly unsettled though they have not gone rashly about it but with good advice but for want of this there not taking these rivers and fountaines with them they have been at a losse and therefore in such a case let it be the wisdome of sincere hearted Christians that come from old England for liberty and purity of Ordinances not to leave them now for fresh medows and fountaines and for want of planting ground and the like it will not be suitable to these ends for which you left your native Countrey The Fourth VIAL Revel 16.8 9. And the fourth Angel poured out his vial upon the Sun and power was given to him to scorch men with fire And men were scorched with great heat and blasphemed the name of God which had power over these plagues and they repented not to give him glory ALl the seven Angels that are described to pour out the seven Vials of the last fierce wrath are all of them said to come out of the Temple of the Tabernacle opened in heaven in the 5 Verse of the 15 Chapter That is to say all of them to proceed and to come forth out of reformed Churches such as had gotten the victory over the Beast and his Image and his Name and the number of his Name In the 6 Verse of this
Princes odious Princes that shall be odious to God and malignant to the people If you still provoke me and for all this turn not to me I will set such over you them that shall be odious to me and odious to you that shall make you more and more to corrupt your wayes And if God at any time give them good Princes he will leade them into temptation for their sin In 2 Sam. 24.1 you read there the wratâ— of the Lord was kindled against Israel and he provoked David against them to say Go number Israel and Iudah The wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel and he provoked David c. To what end That so a plague might come upon Israel So that minde you how the sins of the time rise from the contagion of the hearts and lives of the people That look as a man catcheth cold on his feet it fils the head with distempers Catch but cold in the lowest part about the ancles or feet or suppose the stomack be somewhat annoyed through ill dyet or ill digestion what then It strikes up to the head presently you cannot annoy the feet ancles or middle parts but the head will feel both So if either Ministers be corrupt or common people the head the Rulers will straightway bee corrupt it will not bee otherwise If the Prophets prophesie lyes and the Priests bear rule by their means and the people love to have it so what will be the end Do you think there will come any Princes that will reform them Do you think the Lord will take any course to reform such great evils as these be As evill first begins with the common people so they are first plagued For a third Reason As evill first begins with the people and they are first plagued and as for them it is derived to the Priests and Princes and they are by that meanes corrupted either are not good or led into some temptation Reas 3 So thirdly the Lord is deeply provoked against the lights and guides of the Church whether Civill or Ecclesiasticall Church-mâ—n or Common-wealths men the Lord is provoked against both for suffering their people to bedable themselves with some corruption in Religion and religious conversation In the 34. Ezek 7 to 10. Heare this O yee Shepheards of Israel and he speakes as best Interpreters expound it both to Ecclesiasticall and Civill Shepheards to the Priests in the Church and the Princes in the Common-wealth he speakes expresly to both Heare O yee Shepheards because you have suffered my people to wander and my flock to be a prey therefore I am against you and he professeth he will rend his people from them and rend the very cause of their heart and execute judgement upon them and he will judge betweene the Rams and the Hee Goats and tender Kids and will deliver them and set them one Shepheard over them that shall be more faithfull to him and his people even his servant David he meanes Christ and they that are of David's spirit that shall in his name rule his people So that mind you the wrath of God is carried an end in this course he begins with the people first because they are first corrupt and then with Rulers for had not they been soon corrupted it had not been possible that the Church should so quickly have become a wildernesse So here he begins with the common sort and then with Ministers and then with the great Lights that rule by day that rules the affaires of the Church and Common-wealth For the use of this point briefly Vse 1 It may serve then to be a watchword and warning to the common sort of Christians First look you to it men and brethren and beloved in Christ Jesus look you to it tenderly and seriously that neither doctrine nor worship of God nor Church Government be corrupt to your best discerning but preserved by diligent examination of all things according to the patterne shewed in the Word as it hath been hitherto held forth to you Looke to it that the Sea you wash and bathe your soules in be not defiled let it be so clear that the vertue of the bloud of Christ may be discerned in it otherwise beleeve it though you may think it least concernes you Let Church-officer look to it and let Civill Magistrates see to it it is their calling to look to Worship and Government in their time and place though that be true they must look to it and God will require it else at their hand yet if you look not to it the wrath of God will be powred out upon you If men unprepared shall most giddily rush into the Church what will the issue be The Lord will powre a cold haile-storme upon you never such coldnesse fell upon men as there wil be when they rush into Churches before they be warmed with the bloud of Christ Jesus Revel 8.7 that was the first Trumpet of Gods vengeance there heavy grievous hailestones great hailestones and which is wonderfull you will think it marvellous but it is true as they were cold in Religion so they were zealous for contention and Coveteousnesse and Ambition and personal respects that if they got an opinion by the end they contended for it as pro aris focis for fire on the hearth as if there were no warmth but in that though the opinion were never so unsavoury when men thrust into the Church and take it very ill if they be examined What will the issue be Nothing but cold shill dead-heartednesse falls upon them and then a wild fire of rage and crotchetly opinions and then grow so zealous therein as if religion lay in some quintessence notions of theirs therefore first look for and beware of corruption in the common people Then secondly let the Lords Ministers I speak to my selfe Vse 2 as much as any other in a speciall manner look to these things that we diligently looke to religion and the purity of doctrine and worship and of every ordinance of God with circumspection and faithfulnesse and diligence and sedulity and watchfulnesse that nothing of the holy things of God may be corrupted that are committed to us for we shall next feele the smart of it For as religion will be corrupt in the people first and so far as that you shall have no power nor life of godlinesse in it and the bloud of Christ will be as the bloud of a dead man So then the Ministers of the Gospell must looke to it for the next thing will bee some heavy judgment or other God will bring upon them if they be not vigilant to see that all things bee done according to the true platforme left to us in the word you know the Prophet Malachy complaines of it in Malac. 1.11 12 13. that men began to waxe weary of sacrifices and snuffed at the cost of it and brought the blinde and lame and any thing for Sacrifice and the Table of the Lord was
polluted and what then And now saith the Lord O yee Priests this Commandement is for you in the first verse of the second Chapter it is a very sad word which the Lord speaks if you will not heare and lay it to heart what should they lay to heart This hailstone Corruption of the people this snuffing at the Ordinances if you lay not this to heart I will send a curse upon you and will curse your blessings yea I have cursed them already because you doe not lay it to heart and I will corrupt your seed c. in the 1 2 3 verse and so he goes on very sadly in threatning the Ministers of God upon this point The people corrupted their wayes and were weary of holy duties cold hearted and only quick for contention and division and what then because the Ministers of God doe not bestirre them the Lord brings a curse upon their blessings their best gifts in heart and outward blessings he blasts both and therefore it marveilously concernes Ministers to be most tender this way to see that all be carried exactly according to the word of God Vse 3 And thirdly this may be a word of warning to Magistrates as the greatest lights in the Common wealth for as I said before I will exclude neither for both are the Sun in their several Sphear a great light and he speaks of the greatest light the Antichristian state had and so I speak of the greatest light this State hath Thus much let me say to you if religion be corrupted the people may first smart for it if there be any corruption it springeth there and we shall smart for it before you yet if this be not redressed God will reserve a vial for you he will pour out a vial upon the very Sunne that you would think were out of gun-shot but how high soever they be among the Stars of God exalted above all their brethren yet the Lord can tel how to cast some vial upon your authority to eclipse and darken and staine it if the Lord helpe you not to continue watchfull in this kind It is true there is an order to looke to all corruption in doctrine and worship and government that are stirring in the Countrey And it is true matters of religion are first and properly considerable in the Churches themselves by the officers and brethren of the Church But if Magistrates shall find Brethren or Officers defective or neglective it will be their parts to give free passage to all undertakings for redresse and if any thing come to your cognizance before it come to the Church then it will concerne you to stirre up the Church to looke to doctrine worship and government and you will find in this case you will deliver your soules from danger and Church-officers and people too otherwise you see the danger of corruption in religion if the earth be corrupt the sea will be corrupt and the rivers and fountaines and the Sunne wil be corrupt and all alike more or lesse afflicted and plagued of God for toleration of such evils as are found amongst them So much for the first point let me speak a word of another and so come to an end The next note is this A wicked heart will not repent of sin no not under the wrathfull Doct. 2 hand of God who hath power over his owne judgements to give him the glory but will rather break forth to further wickednesse even to blaspemy against the name of God It was said of Ahaz that when he was in distresse on every hand yet in his distresse he did trespasse more against the Lord 2 Chron. 28.22 This is that King Ahaz as who should say brand him for an hypocrite and a reprobate that in his distresse trespasseth yet more why for he went and sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which smote him because the gods of the kings of Syria help them c. In stead of humbling himself under Gods hand to give him glory he breaks forth into blasphemy and hardens his heart and repents not to give him glory but waxes more fierce against the Lord to blaspheme And another prophane King of Israel Ioram 2 King 6.31 32 33. He weares sackcloth indeed upon his loynes but being in distresse by reason of the famine hee breakes forth into fury and rage God doe so to mee and more also if the head of Elisha shall stand on him this day hee meant to cut off Elisha's head by reason of the famine when an Asses head was sould for fourescore peeces of silver and in the 33 verse Shall I wait for the Lord any longer There he breaks forth into blasphemy hee is full of fiery indignation and blasphemy against the God of Israel see you this son of a murtherer While he yet spake this the Messengers came down unto him and he said Behold this evil is of the Lord what should I waite for the Lord any longer So you read in Isa 8.21 They in their distresse shall curse the Lord and their King and look upward This is the frame of carnall and wicked hearts And the Reason is Reas 1 First from the Ignorance of such wicked spirits their Ignorance is such they know not who smites them but think it is some chance as the Philistims in 1 Sam. 6.9 If he go up the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh then he hath done us this evil but if not then we shall know it was but some chance that happened to us They neither see the hand of God that smites them nor their own desert that provokes the Lord thus to smite them and so they repent not to give him glory but blaspheme him And a second Reason is Reas 2 Secondly from the prophane pride of a carnall heart some kinde of carelesnesse and it is incident to all prophane kinde of spirits that they will not see the hand of God nor own their own sinfulnesse when the judgements of God are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousnesse Isa 26.9 10 11. But they will not behold the majesty of the Lord When thy hand is lifted up they will not see it but they shall see it and be ashamed c. They will not see it a good while that either their own sin hath brought this judgement or that it is a just hand of God upon them they will not see such things as these So you see the Reasons of the point not to speak of what high reasons might be given of Gods heavie vengeance upon mens unprofitablenes under the hands of God they grow worse and worse 2 Tim. 3.13 That the Lord leaves them to hardnesse of heart and gives them up to themselves to obstinate their spirits as Pharaoh that they will exalt themselves against him and though you bray a fool in a morter yet his folly will not depart from him The Use of the Point is thus much Vse 1 First it may report to you from the Oracle
observation and the powring out thereof is the worke which the Lord calleth men principally to attend upon and wherein God hath manifested his presence most and wil goe on still to manifest more of the presence of his wrath unto other states now the points that arise from the words are two That forme of government wherein one by sole and singular Doct. 1 authority doth govern the Church specially many Churches and most of all all Churches doth spring from the Earth and savoureth of the Earth for so it appeareth to be from the Text for all these Angels powred out their Vialls upon the Earth Verse 1. Not as Earth is opposed to other elements but as it is opposed to Heaven so that as their Earth is earthly so is their Sea and their Rivers and Fountaines and their Sunne and this throne is but an earthly throne you see no such throne in the Tabernacle of the Testimony opened in Heaven so farre as Churches are Heavenly these thrones are not set up in them for this is it which Iohn reprooveth 3. Io. 9. in Diotrephes that he loveth to be a primate and would not regard a letter from Iohn himselfe though an Apostle for the brethren he would not receive them himself and forbad them that would and cast them out of the Church the true spirit of an earthly Primate for they savour of earthly ambition and covetousnesse love Balaams wages they stick not to buy their places for silver care not what they give for them but having gotten them with buying they must maintaine them by selling they must sell Ordinations and Absolutions and Dispensations and must be maintained by the benevolences of their obedient Clergy and in truth the summe of the matter is quid mihi dabis and what is all this but earthly bravery if ever you have beene at their thrones though it were but the thrones of their chauncellors and Officialls you shall see nothing but that which savoureth of the Earth earthly pride or pleasure or Covetousnesse I am and have lesse cause then many others from my last Diocesan who being more learned was more ingenuous and favourable then many others not wont to speake these things yet when the necessity of clearing my Text leadeth me to them I may not without unfaithfullnesse to God and his Church keepe silence we came not hither to speake hardly of other Churches but when the Word of God calleth for it we should be wickedly silent if we should not let the people know what the mercy and blessing is which we doe enjoy and what we are delivered from Rea. 1 The first Reason of the Doctrine is from that forme of Church estate which Christ hath instituted in his Word which is no other but the government of a Church of a particular visible Congregation He owneth no other nor giveth any government to any besides them If thy brother offend thee goe and tell the Church and must the offence stay till all the world be gathered together or if it were meant of one Diocesan or provinciall Church when will they meete therefore the Church that must heare al offences is the Church of a particular Congregation which may all of them meete together in one place 1 Cor. 14.23 and then though offences come thicke they may all be orderly heard and remooved And consider moreover that which further cleares up this first ground what variety of officers God hath given to this Church not many Parishes to one Bishop but many Bishops to one Church so as that Paul writteth to the Saints at Philippi with the Bishops and Deacons Phil. 1.1 And he sendeth for the Elders of the Church of Ephesus Acts 20.17 Whom he calleth Bishops Verse 28. And they were more then one in every Church according to Acts 14.23 They ordained them Elders in every Church directly contrary to the practise of the Lord Bishops of these dayes These things we speake that the people may know we set forth no new inventions though it be true that there is a newnesse in all the blessings of the new Testament whereas all the inventions of men wax old as doth a garment and there is no new thing under the sunne as touching mens inventions but they will grow old and vanish away as all Diocesin Churches will doe which the Lord hath not instituted Though indeed in the old Common wealth of Israel the Church was Nationall and there was but one high Priest who was a type of Christ but now Christ is come he hath delivered all his counsell to his 12. Apostles and they have left the ordering of his Church to some pastors and some teachers and some ruling Elders and some Deacons But besides these the Gospel knoweth no other The second ground is taken from the kinde of power which Rea. 2 God hath given to his officers in his Churches hath he given to them a Lordly or a Ministeriall power surely no Lordly power neither over their fellow Elders nor over the Church But he hath in his Word prohibited both these Math. 20.25 26 27. The Princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them they that are great exercise authority upon them but it shall not be so amongst you but whosoever will be great amongst you let him be your Minister and whosoever will be cheife amongst you let him be your servant Amongst the Officers of Christ honour is carried by the most labour and not by most outward splendor But those that sit upon the throne of of the Beast doe not labour in any kinde of government but that which is merely antichristian to foment sin and let loose the reines of all prophanesse neither doe the officers which Christ hath set in his Church reach after outward honour but the cheife of them make themselves equall with them of the lower sort as Peter though an Apostle when he writeth to the Elders stileth himselfe a fellow Elder 1. Pet. 5.1 and exhorteth them to feed the flock of God not as Lords over Gods heritage but being examples to the flock so the Apostle in his second and third Epistle stileth himselfe an Elder so farre is he from affecting Lordly authority by all which we may see that all this kinde of Lordly and stately government is no way compatible to that government which Christ hath instituted in his Church The third reason is taken from that authority which the Lord Rea. 3 hath given to every Church over their Bishops as well as to their Bishops over them which cannot stand with Episcopall soveraignty It is true the Lord hath given them power over the Church let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour c. 1 Tim. 5.17 A power they have to call the Church together as the Apostles did for the choise of Deacons Acts 6.2 And to open the doores of speech and shut the doores of silence Act. 13.15 A power they have also to dismisse the assembly as they see cause for
will doe it for he hath promised it and hath begun to power out this Viall and will not cease untill he have left the Pope neither roote nor branch Vse 2 Secondly this may serve to teach us the ready way to subdue the Tyrants of the World and to take away all their supportance their walles and Bullworkes How should you take Babylon dry up Euphrates and Babylon is taken with a wet finger as when they dryed up Euphrates they found it but a worke of burning of Reedes to take old Babylon And how shall you overcome the Turkes dry up but the Fountaines of the Corruptions of Religion and you remoove Antichrist and make the Turkes easily Conquerable he will not be defenceable then whereas now he standeth like a wall of brasse and so will doe untill these streames of corruption be dryed up It was a notable practise that which the Lord directed his people unto Iudges 10. When they cried unto the Lord to deliver them from their enemies that oppressed them The Lord recounteth the gratious deliverances which he had shewed them yet saith he Verse 13. you have forsaken me and served other Gods wherefore I will deliver you no more goe and cry unto the Gods which you have chosen and let them deliver you in the time of your Tribulation When they heard that they confessed their sin and put away the strange Gods from among them and served the Lord and his soule was grieved for the misery of Israel then the Lord stirreth up the people to thinke upon Iephthah and they easily goe through the worke of vanquishing the oppressing Enemies In like manner bring but in false Doctrine worship and government into the Church and you bring in monsters of men among you the grand seigniours of the World will oppresse and rule over you On the other side let the Churches be reformed in France in England in Scotland c. Whatsoever other nations there be by that have defiled themselves with Popish doctrine worship and government let them but fall to this worke of reformation and verily the Lords Soule will be grieved for their misery that they are so oppressed with a base Priest and his Clergy who is in the meane while nothing else but a dunghill of corruption and what need have we earnestly to strive in prayer with God for these things and as great Nations are healed so are particular persons also by being purged from their Idolatries Fornications Thefts and Murders they are preserved from those personall evills which by Sea or Land might prevails against them And the Lord is able to doe it for great Nations as well as for particular persons for as he puts it into the hearts of Princes to agree and give their Kingdomes unto the Beast so he can as easily withdraw their hearts from him and cause them to see the vanity of their subjection to him Let us therefore give the Lord no rest untill he have fulfilled his word and overturned all his Enemies That the powring out of the wrath of God upon the Romish Doct. 2 Superstition and Tyranny as it will be the drying up of the Popish and Turkish Tyranny so it will prepare a ready way for the conversion of the Iewes When they shall see Christ riding upon a white horse and going forth conquering to conquer then shall they be gathered unto him Rev. 19. Because popish delusions Idolatry and Superstitions are the Reason greatest impediments of their conversion No man is acquainted with their writings but knoweth that these things stand in their way when the streames of Idolatry Sorcery Martyrdome of the Saints of God Fornication and robbery be dryed up then will there be a prepared way for the glorious conversion of the Iewes together with the rest of the Nations which cannot enter into the Temple untill the seven plagues of the seven Angels are fulfilled and then will they come in as honourable maides attending upon the Queene it will be like unto the resurrection from the dead unto them many devises there are in the mindes of some to thinke that Jesus Christ shall come from Heaven againe and reigne here upon Earth a thousand yeares but they are but the mistakes of some high expressions in Scripture which describe the judgements powred out upon Gods enemies in making a way for their conversion by the patterne of the last judgement Vse This may serve to provoke us and all the Churches of Christ to hold fast the purity of Doctrine worship and government in the Church of Christ let no streames of Idolatry nor love of the world run in our hearts If our Cowes be our Gods the Lord will power out a Viall upon them that from 25l. they shall fall to 5l. price the Lord hath sometimes threatned that he will famish all the Gods of the Earth Zeph. 2.11 So that all the Gods of the Gentiles shall not be able to provide any more offerings to be brought unto their Altars neither Apollo nor Iupiter nor Hercules can have any victuals and so will God deale with our Cattell if they be our Gods they shall either be worth little or else he will deny us todder for them if they devoure our spirits and take off our mindes from the Ordinances of God he will rend away any thing that standeth between him and our soules Therefore as ever we desire that we may prosper and that their may be a ready way prepared for our comfort let no streames of Idolatry be found among us then will the Lord make way for many of his deserved ones to come in among us or else wil make us wel without them For all the silver and gold in the world is his as the Cattell are his on a 1000 Hills Only let us take part with this Angell in powring out Vialls upon the corruptions that are found in our own hearts looke that their be no corruptions in us but such as are stil drying and drying up and see if God be not faithfull and gratious to us aboundantly stir we up our selves therefore and one another hereunto and pray that God would stir up other Nations and People hereunto then shall we see Gods ancient people brought home and the Lord shall be one over al the Earth and his name one which wil prove a Resurrection unto all the Churches of the Saints The second part of the sixth Viall VIALL 16. REVEL 12 Ver. to 14. XII And the sixth Angell powred out his Viall upon the great River Euphrates and the water thereof was dryed up that the way of the Kings of the East might be prepared 13. And I saw three uncleane spirits like Frogs come out of the mouth of the Dragon out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet 14. For they are the spirits of Devills working miracles which goe forth unto the Kings of the Earth and of the whole World to gather them to the battell of that great day of