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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87005	Syons redemption, and original sin vindicated: wherein are these particulars largely handled and discovered. I. That sprinkling of water in the name of the father, son and Holy Ghost is not baptism, ... II Infants not the subjects appointed by God to be baptized, ... III That the second death was never threatned to be inflicted upon Adam ... IV A clear and large discourse as touching Gods decree, of election and reprobation. V A large exposition upon the ninth chapter to the Romanes, ... VI A brief disproof of the unlawfulness of the paying or receving of tithes, ... VII The ordination of the national ministery examined and disproved. VIII The answer of objections against the Jews return out of their captivity ... IX A clear discovery of the glorious effects (or that which will be effected) under the sound of the seventh trumpet. X A full discovery of Judah and Israels glory to be enjoyed in their own land, ... Published for the instruction and comfort of all that wait for the appearing of the Lord Jesus and Zions redemption. Being an answer to a book of Mr. Hezekiah Holland, sometimes preacher in Sutton-Valence in Kent. By George Hammon pastor to the Church of Christ, meeting in Biddenden in Kent.	Hammon, George.	1658 (1658)	Wing H504; Thomason E958_1; ESTC R207642	184,723	213

spirits in prison which implies that there is a place of Purgatory that Christ went thither o● to hell to preach and bring them f●om thence and so they shall come forth when they have paid the utmost farthing and this is Romes doctrine and the article of your faith he descended into hell And again you by your Articles must believe in the Catholick Church but you were better to believe and put your trust in God and how can you have a Catholick or universal Church so as to be an over spreading Whore unlesse you uphold Infant Baptisin the which makes all persons to be of the Church and so receiving the mark of the first Beast and are a cage of all man●er of unclean birds for as saith the Spirit All Nations have drank of the wine of her fornication and the Kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and you Merchants have been made rich through her and therefore you uphold and plead for her But wo wo wo unto thee Virgin daughter of Babylon thy Mothers pride and uncleanness and traditions seen in thee wo unto the Cities of Nations you must f●ll and then your Mother MISTERY BABYLON through whose loyns ye came shall come in remembrance before God so that both she and you that have commited fornication with h●r shall be cast into a bed together And again wo wo unto thee thy day is coming it hastens therefore flee out of her that the day of the Lords wrath fall not on you because it will fall with a heavy consumption on all that are found out of the simplicity of the Gospel but I passe to the next thing which is say you We may be true Ministers although come from Rome as Christ was the true Christ which came from Adam which wa● finful lines This is plainly the sense of what you say To which I answer and say That although Christ came through the womb of the holy Virgin yet he was not begotten of or by man for if he had been in Adam as we were then had he been a sinner as we were for we all sinned in him and then no Saviour Rom. 5. but I passe this advising you to learn that great mystery of godliness to wit God minifest in flesh c. And whereas you say you may be a true Ministery and yet have your Ordination in or thorow Rome because Christ came from Adam as aforesaid to which I say there is no parallell because Christ was not of Adam or by the will of Adam as your Ordination was of the Pope and by the will of the Pope through his assigns viz the Bishops and much I might say to shew that there is no fit parallel either in Christ coming through the womb of the Virgin which was Gods appointment or Aaron● Priesthood Christ owns not that Priesthood that comes through Roms the which was according to Gods appointment but that God hath appointed a true Ministers approbation and Ordination to be from or through Rome or that they may be accounted as true Ministers which have their Ordination that way and so come through Rome I am yet to learn for who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean no not one and also such stones as come from Babylon must not be a corner-stone in Zion Christs Priesthood came not through a false state but was to be ordained in and by a true Church and all Ministers that are otherwise Ordained are not Christs Ministers And again whereas you tell me of a great story of several that lived in England who did refuse to submit to the Popes Supremacy and that also say you Origen confesseth that Christianity was in England in his time To this and such like discourse of yours I answer and say suppose it was granted that Christianity was in England long before Origens time to which possibly I could speak somewhat but if I should when I have done all possibly as few would believe me in that as do believe you in this which you have said Therefore our businesse is not to shew how long ago it was that Christianity was believed or practised in England but our businesse is to shew whether the Ministery or our Nation had their Ordination by a true Church or Presbyter or whether it were from the salse Church and Presbyter as the Lord B●shop and so consequently from the Pope for what if the Gospel were preached and believed in England and so we may comparatively say that one of the Beasts heads was wounded yet there hath been time for his deadly wound to be healed and all the world to wander after him bence it comes to passe that we have in England a worldly Sanctuary and a worldly Ministery the which is not of God or by his appointment and therefore must fall and so I come to shew these two things First That the Ministery of the Nation as they now stand and have for a long time so stood are not Christs Ministers First in respect of the persons qualification ordaining And secondly the persons qualification ordained And thirdly their Office or work what they are appointed to and these in order And first to the first which is The persons qualification ordaining and the first is whether the Lord Bishop was a lawful Presbyter yea or nay the which if not then it wil appear plainly that the Ministery of the Nation is not a lawfull Ministery being not lawfully Ordained to the work of the Ministery The Ministry of the Nation no true Ministers of Christs appointment And fi●st we may consider his ordination or appointment whence it was whether by a true Presbyter or whether it were from a false to which I say of necessity it must be a false for whether it were the Pope Gregory the great or the like it is plain it was not from a true Presbyter because your own grant is that your Ordination came from Rome in the 27 page say you We were in Rome or came through Rome therefore I shall not trouble my self about the succession of your Ministery because it is affirmed by you and readily believed by me that it came from Rome But Secondly To his qualification as touching his good manners in life and conversation all England knowes that knows any thing that he was of such an evill conversation that he did not onely tollerate sin in himself but also in others 2 Tim. 4.2 so far he was from charging the Ministers ● as Paul did Timothy to preach the word instant in season and out of season that he in P●int gave liberty to propha●ation and to lay aside the preaching or Gods word for a season and to interpose Romes inventions together with dancing and laciviousness upon the first day when persons ought to be imployed in holy duties these things together with imprisoning men that were conscientious was the practice of him from whom as under the Pope you Ministers of the Nation were assigned and appointed