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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

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