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A79477	Sions memento, and Gods alarum. In a sermon at VVestminster, before the Honorable House of Commons, on the 31. of May 1643. the solemne day of their monethly fast. By Francis Cheynell late Fellow of Merton College in Oxford. Printed and published by order of the House of Commons.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing C3816; Thomason E55_13; ESTC R16225	52,682	55

the Devill Babylon was the Malignant Church the Sinke of Sinne the stall of Beasts the Throne of Idols the Temple of Devills and mother of confusion No place more infamous for their pride and tyranny their cruelty and Idolatry well might Sion be weary of such a loathsome prison and noisome dungeon which could not but be offensive by its stench and darknesse even as Babylon the great is the Habitation of Devills the Strong hold of foule spirits Rev. 18. 2. The 3d. Reason is taken from the Terminus ad Quem the place unto which they were called unto Ierusalem unto Sion Every motion takes its denomination from its Terminus ad Quem but here even the Travailers themselves who were to move take their Title from that Place unto which they moved The people are called Sion because they were called forth to goe to Sion Deliver thy self O Zion Sion was a place beloved of God and all his people the people were in love with Sion with respect to Gods Election institution Promise Blessing God had chosen that place for his Seat of speciall Residence and did there exhibite himselfe to his people by a visible presence Moreover God had by a speciall Institution recorded his name and set up his ordinances in Sion and therefore the Temple was to be built againe on that mountaine the Jewes were confined to a certaine place to Sion Some parts of publique worship were so appropriated to that place that they were to be performed there and no where else Deut. 12. 13 14. Take heed to thy self that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest but in the place which the Lord shall chuse in one of the Tribes there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings and there thou shalt do all that I command thee The particular offerings are more distinctly specified in the 11. verse of the same Chapter Your burnt offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and the heave-offering of your hand and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord Finally God had promised a blessing to all them who came up to Sion to worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holinesse At first there was a generall promise given Exo 20. 24. In all places where I record my Name I will come unto thee and I will blesse thee But when God had chosen Ierusalem for the Seat of Royalty the place of Justice and Sion as the Mountain of Holinesse and place of publique Worship then all the Tribes were to go to Ierusalem for Justice and to Sion to sacrifice Psal. 122. 4 5. Whither the tribes go up the tribes of the Lord unto the Testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord For there are set Thrones of Iudgement the Thrones of the house of David The poor people had long been deprived of the benefit of Iustice and the liberty of Religion but now God had promised by his Prophet Zechary that their Common-wealth should be setled their Church established their City and Temple both new builded Zech. 1. 16 17. Therefore thus saith the Lord I am returned to Ierusalem with mercies my house shall be built in it saith the Lord of Hoasts my cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem The first Temple was as glorious as Art and cost could make it but God who hath gold and silver heaven and earth at his disposing had passed his word to them that he would shake heaven and earth sea and land and fill the latter house with the glory of the Lord Jesus who is the desire and glory of all Nationa Haggai 2. from the 6. verse to the 9. Yet once it is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land And I will shake all Nations and the desire of all Nations shall come and I will fill this House with glory saith the Lord of Hoasts the silver is mine and the gold is mine saith the Lord of Hoasts the glory of this latter House shall be greater then of the former c. The Prophet you see had good reason to invite them to new Jerusalem here below a kinde of heaven upon earth to Sion the habitation of Iustice and mount of Holinesse the praise of the Jews the glory of the Gentiles the House of God and Type of Heaven Fourthly God had now removed all rubs he had opened the Kings heart and the prison doors if they would be active it was in their own power to deliver themselves and therefore the Prophet calls upon them to use their power and to take that fair opportunity which was offered for their deliverance and their glory Deliver thy self O Zion Why Zion wilt thou be a Felo de Se thy shackles are knockt off the Poâ—ts are open the Commission is now sealed come be not cruell to thy self what wilt thou be thine own tormentour thine own prisoner Before the seventy years were expired thou wast detained in Babylon thou wast a prisoner there but now thy time is out and therefore if thou stayest longer yet thou are not a Prisoner but a dweller in Babylon Deliver thy self O Zion that dwellest in Babylon There 's the Emphasis and strength of the Prophets exhortation The Use of this Point is to stirre up the Christian Zion all true Protestants to deliver themselves from Antichristian Babylon from the Babylonish army the Babylonish Church The Iâ—wish Zion had a miraculous deliverance from the Assyrian Babylon though God be the Lord of Hosts and hath all armies at his command yet Zion was to be delivered not by might or by the power of an Army but by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts by the Immediate hand of God Zech. 4. 6. But I doe not find that Christian Zion shall be delivered upon such easie termes from Antichristian Babylon doe not â—latter your selves with vaine hopes our deliverance will cost bloud 1. This is cleare to any man that hath studied the booke of the Revelation what upon prayer study God hath revealed by the clear Texts of the Revelation I will this day deliver unto you though I were sure to die S. Iohns death or to be banisht into S. Iohns Iland The God of heaven give us a further Revelation of this Revelation that it may be interpreted by the same Spirit by which it was written S. Iohn tels me that the Spirits of Devills shall go forth to the Kings of the earth of the whole world to gather them to Armageddon to the battel of that great day of God Almighty Rev. 16. 14. 16. Secondly I know it is a great while yet to that great battell yet the Spirits will be Scouting out long before And sure these Spirits have been at worke of late in Ireland England Scotland too the Babylonians are active must the precious sonnes of Sion be meerely

Sions Memento AND Gods Alarum IN A SERMON AT VVESTminster before the Honorable House of Commons on the 31. of May 1643. the Solemne day of their monethly Fast By FRANCIS CHEYNELL late Fellow of Merton College in Oxford Printed and published by order of the House of COMMONS REVEL. 19. ver. 19. 20. And I saw the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sate on the Horse and against his army And the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone REVEL. 17. 1 2. Come hither I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication LONDON Printed for SAMUEL GELLIBRAND at the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1643. TO THE HONORABLE House of COMMONS now assembled in PARLIAMENT IDare not dispute your Power for even Dr. Ferne himself is Satisfied in his Conscience or else he would never have granted it in his Tract entituled Conscience Satisfied that the two Houses of Parliament are in a sort Coordinate with His Majesty ad aliquid to some Act or Exercising of Supreme Power that is to the making of Laws by yeelding their consent and this saith he they have by a Fundamentall Constitution Nay the Order of the House of Commons cannot in reason but oblige all the Commons of England it doth not indeed oblige the King he is exempt by his Soveraignty the Lords plead Peerage I have not yet heard of any other Plea and therefore I will not dispute your Power but obey your Order You shall have the glory to command mihi autem obsequii gloria relicta est pardon the expression we Merton College men have been used to Tacitus 't is his expression The times are sad my Text was seasonable Though Babylon be at Rome yet there are some sonnes and daughters of Babylon too here in England Sion is now surrounded by them and your Honourable House is most eminently opposed by them Many there are that plot against you all the Antichristian Politicians in the Christian world are beating their brains how to destroy you but their Plots are discovered their Designes defeated by the watchfull providence of an Omniscient God Many there are that fight against you against you I say for it is evident that those many thousands who are up in Arms do not fight for the King but against the Parliament This man fights for a place at Court and the other perchance for a place in the Church or rather over the Church O bloody Simony some fight for Pluralities and some for Bishopriks some for Patents some for Monopolies some have lost their places in the Star-Chamber and High Commission and have scarce any thing to â—rast to but the sword The Papists fight to subvert Religion Delinquents to subvert the Laws and the Parliament too because it hath power to make declare enforce the Law The Roysters fight to destroy your persons and gaine your estates to pay their Tavern-tickets and yet there is a Divine one Dr. â—erne who seems to excuse all this and by his excuse doth certainly encourage them to do what is inexcusable And the good Doctor would fain perswade you and all the Commons of England to sit still the whilest and lose your Religion for Conscience â—ake your Laws Liberties Estates Lives for Peace sake And what will Peace advantage your Posterity if the Army in the North will give them Peace upon no other terms then these that either they must turn Papists or else be content to be Beggers and which is worse Slaves Some that gloried in the Title of Royalists do now perceive That it is not enough to stand for the King unlesse they will declare themselves for the Queen and they are not a little startled at that Is this the Bishops holy War for the Catholique Church Be it the Bishops War saith Dr. Ferne in his first Book Well be it so Why then sure the Bishops have much blood to answer for For it is well known to this whole Kingdom and to some Churches abroad that the Parliament desired to have all Church-matters fairly debated {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Nazianzen speaks not by an Army but by an Assembly the Bishops then have clearly declined this Rationall way of triall and taken up Arms against the Parliament in the old quarrell and sure the Parliament hath good reason to defend themselves It seems the Bishops arguments are spent and therefore they call for Powder and Bullets to prove that Prelacie is Jure divino I say Prelacy for there is a great deal of difference between Prelates and Bishops Pontifices nunc Bella juvant sunt caetera nugae What they cannot prove by the Word they would fain make good by the sword What because men of tender consciences can be no longer pursued in their Courts must they be pursued even unto death by force of Arms but stay What 's their fault Why they are enemies They are enemies to such pomp and state as some Bishops cannot but confesse may well be spared This Plot came from Rome for I remember Hostiensis saith That from the dayes of Pope Adrian till his time the Cardinals and Bishops of Rome had scarce ever laid down their Arms a Erasmus complained that in his time the Bishops were men of warre When the Duke D'Alva tyrannized over the Netherlands there were new Bishops b Sees erected in every City and then presently the Inquisition was brought in upon them as if there could never have been any absolute tyranny without the help of the Bishops But you will tell me that the Men may be faulty and yet the Order blamelesse I answer that the dignity of their Order should be tried by the Word and the men being faulty should not be protected by the Sword Blush ye heavens and be ashamed O earth that ever proud ambitious spirits should enflame differences between King and Parliament onely that they may feed themselves with vain hopes of being Bishops at last and enjoying Pluralities the whilest Let the Searcher of hearts judge between us and let them beware that they do not hear aconfounding voice like that in the Historian Quintili Vare redde Legiones Tu Episcope redde Legiones redde Animas I was bold in my Sermon to lay Prelacy as low as Prelaticall men have laid Monarchy I was too bold they say in calling the Pope whore so often But it is as certain that Pope John the eighth or Joan the first was a Whore as the credit of impartiall Historians I except the Sacred onely can make a matter of fact certaine which was done so long ago The ancient Popish Historians acknowledge this truth The Successour of Leo the fourth is generally described by name John the eighth by firname English by place a Pope by

see what reason we have to Protest against that Babylonian sacrifice in the Masse You have now received the knowledge of this truth and if you sinne wilfully after you have received the knowledge of the truth it is principally meant of this truth there remains no more sacrifice for sinne because ye have wilfully and maliciously rejected the Onely All-sufficient Sacrifice of Jesus Christ trusting upon some other Sacrifice that of the Masse or the like and done despite to the Spirit by a most malignant contempt of the witnesse of the Spirit What argument can be more prevailing to perswade us to hold fast the Profession of our Faith the Protestant Faith lest we fall from a coldnesse and neutrality in Religion into a desperate malignity and unpardonable Apostasie Away with Babylonish Gestures Names and Titles Rites and Ceremonies away with Babylonish Garments too our professed Babylonians begin now to air the mouldy Copes they wear the Babylonish Garment that they may have the wedge of gold and in their own phrase they dissemble under a Cope and are if you will beleeve them Protestants in their Hearâ—s Our Prophet Zechariah will informe you how to deal with these men Put them into an Ephah that they may be kept within compasse within their bounds by severe discipline and clap a talent of lead a weighty censure upon the mouth of the Ephah Zech. 5. 8. Let the Ephah be lifted up on high between heaven and earth verse 9. that is let the sentence be so Publike that all may take notice of it and then let the Ephah be carried away quite out of Sion and let an house be built for it in the land of Shinar that is Babylon ver. the 11th let their Habitation be there from whence they drew their Corruption for there they may settle upon their own Base their own Lees their own corrupt Principles If such as are Notorious and Incorrigible were Excommunicated by an Assembly of Divines and some Civill-punishment inflicted upon such as are within your reach by an Ordinance of Parliament the sinne would not be Nationall men would see and fear and do no more so wickedly in England For the sharpest punishments are inflicted onely {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by way of Prudence for terrour and reformation not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by way of retribution for no punishment inflicted by man can possibly countervail a sin against God 2. Make Gods Authority your Foundation build upon it it is an Impregnable Rock though the windes blow the rain beat the waves roar and dash themselves into Foame yet your House wil stand and your Orders can never be disanulled if built upon the Rock Make Gods word alone the Rule of Reformation and keep close to your Rule and then all your Orders will be acknowledged to be Responsa prudentum and such as deserve to be Rescripta Principum this is the way to make your Orders prevail not onely by your Authority but by their Own Authority 3. Pray for the Holy Spirit for the Spirit gives both Light and eyes You will meet with so many new sinnes new dangers new temptations new mercies new troubles that you had need beg hard for a spirit of Prayer that you may be able to make new Prayers every hour severall Prayers upon severall occasions Sion must prevail by Prayer Sion was the Mount of Prayer there was the house of Prayer this is as they use to call it in some Reformed-Churches a Prayer-day but every day must now be a day of prayer extraordinary prayer we must spend more time then ordinary in our private devotions Get ye up to Mount Olivet and there pray for Mount Sion joyn heads and purses and forces and prayers together Josuah's sword will not prevail without Moses his prayer Be of good comfort though your enemies can out-swear you yet they cannot out-pray you If they be a thousand thousand strong and march against you with all their might Call upon the Name of the Lord and rest upon your God Asa did so and by the prayer of faith prevailed against a thousand thousand Ethiopians and three hundred Chariots 2 Chron. 14. 9 to the 12th verse Oh send to France and Ireland and Germany for their experimentall Prayers 4. Humiliation is an excellent Preparative for Reformation and there is no duty more pertinent to the Text and proper not onely for this day but for these times In those dayes and in that time saith the Prophet Jeremy the 50. Chap. and the 4. verse what times what dayes why when the children of Israel shall come out of Babylon they and the children of Iudah together going and weeping they shall go and seek the Lord their God Honourable and Beloved let us this day seek our God with tears if ye would be Princes with God and have power with him as Prince Jacob had you must weep and make supplication in Bethel the house of God there God will be found and there here he hath spoke with you to day read the twelfth of Hoseah the third and fourth verses Blessed be our great God who did put it into your hearts to draw up a Catalogue of the sins of this Nation O that you would weep over every sin in that Catalogue before you sleep O let us read our sins in those miseries which are come upon us We have nourished Malignant lusts within us which rebell against the spirit and fight against the soul we have made sport past-time with those sins which shed the blood of the Lord Jesus O let those sins draw tears from us which drew blood from Christ We have grieved the holy Spirit and therefore well may the Spirit refuse to comfort us who haue grieved him Well may the God of heaven bathe his sword in our blood and make the land â—at with our carcasses for we have forfeited our very Estates and lives we do not deserve one bit of bread or drop of water justly may God feed us with the bread of sorrows and give us tears to drink We would not serve God with joyfulnesse for the abundance of all things and therefore well might God send us to serve our enemies in the want of all things Deut. 28. 47 48 Behold the heaven is as brasse and the earth as iron because we have had a brazen brow and there is an iron sinew in our necks we have gone on impudently and stubbornly in our sinnes Gods Doctrine hath dropped as the raine and distilled as the dew but not as the dew upon the tender herbe for our hearts have not been tender our lives have not been fruitfull well might our unfruitfulnesse be the cause of the lands barrennesse We have abused Gods blessings for the maintenance of our pride luxury wantonnesse we have sought against God with his owne blessings and therefore he hath good reason to disarme us Oh let us weepe for Ireland weepe for England weepe for the King

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