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A41439	A full survey of Sion and Babylon, and a clear vindication of the parish-churches and parochial-ministers of England ..., or, A Scripture disproof, and syllogistical conviction of M. Charles Nichols, of Kent ... delivered in three Sabbath-dayes sermons in the parish church of Deal in Kent, after a publick dispute in the same church with the said Mr. Charles Nichols, upon the 20. day of October 1653 / by Thomas Gage ...	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing G111; ESTC R5895	105,515	104

A full SURVEY OF SION and BABYLON And A clear Vindication of the Parish-Churches and Parochial-Ministers of England from the uncharitable Censure the infamous Title and the injurious Nick-name of Babylonish Or A Scripture Disproof and Syllogistical Conviction of M. Charles Nichols of Kent his Erroneous Assertions Justifying his Separated Congregation for the true House of God and branding all the Parochial Churches and the Parish Officiating Ministers in England with the infamous Title of Babylonish Delivered in three Sabbath-dayes Sermons in the Parish Church of Deal in Kent after a Publick Dispute in the same Church with the said Mr. Charles Nichols upon the 20. day of October 1653. By Thomas Gage Preacher of the Word to the Church within the Bounds and Limits of Deal in Kent 2 Tim 3. vers 9. They shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifest to all men Gen. 49. vers 6. O my Soul Come not thou unto their secret unto their Assembly mine honour be not thou united Ex Augustino Con. Epist. Pelag. Lib. 1. Cap. 1. Cum non desinant fremere ad Dominici gregis caulas atque ad diripundas tanto pretio redemptas oves aditum undique rimari commune nobis est pestilentibus insidiantibus eorum scriptis medentia munientia scripta praetendere quibus rabies qua furunt aut etiam ipsa sanetur aut à loedendis aliis repellatur London Printed by W. Bentley and are to be sold by Ioshuah Kirton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church yard 1654. To the Worshipfull his ever Honoured Friend Captain JOHN LIMBERY Esquire Iustice of the Peace for Middlesex and of the Admiralty for Oyer and Terminer SIR OF all things which the Lord hath made in this great World Man is the most noble for whose sake other Creatures were created to whose feet the things below are subjected Of all the Essentials which Man the little World doth consist of the Soul is the most excellent It is infused by God which notes out the Dignity of it It hath command of the body which notes out the Authority of it It is a work as one calleth it both great Divine and admirable Of all the powers in the Soul none is comparable to the Reason Of all the Branches in the Reasonable part none is equal to the Minde none excelleth the understanding Of all the vertues in the Minde Wisdom gives the greatest light Wisdom swayeth with chiefest might Oh the breadth that Wisdom spanneth Oh the length that Wisdom reacheth Oh the heigth that Wisdom climbeth Oh the depth that Wisdom gageth when once it comes into a Soul cleared by Gods Spirit in some good measure from those duskish Clouds of Ignorance and Errour with which before it was obscured Without this how can men discern of things that differ how can they see what is good and what is evil and so exercise the power of their reason in ensuing the one in eschewing the other When dangers are imminent and coming against us Wisdom foreseeth them forecasteth against them When troubles are incumbent and lying upon us it doth either remove them or preserve us in them In a word what Walls are to Cities what skins are to beasts scales to fishes feathers to birds and shells to some creeping and baser Creatures the same is wisdom to that naked born Creature Man even a Covering a defence Yea Wisdom saith the Preacher strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the Citie And they are truely endowed with wisdom who by the light of it do distinguish Gospel-truths from errours and keep their Souls pure and undefiled from the infection of false and time-poysoning Doctrines Wisdom truely is in them who by the light and guidance of it have found out and continue in the true Church of Christ the true Zion of God where salvation is truely placed where pardon of sin is onely obtained where Soul-feastings and Divine teachings are truely enjoyed where are protections on every dwelling place where are true Ministers cloathed with salvation where the Saints do shout aloud for joy where all afflictions are sanctified where all good news are to be heard and where God hath commanded the blessing and life for evermore And such a gift of wisdom Worthy Sir have I admired in you by which light in your far and forraign travails you have alwayes discerned good from evil Truth from Errour Religion from Superstition Zion from Rome and Babylon It is true in you that wisdom hath preserved you from many snares to folly If Riches be snares the Riches of the West-India's even those Treasures amongst the Spaniards never ensnared your conscience If honour entice who of our English Nation was ever more honoured by Spaniards in the West-India's than your self as the ●ime of your abode in Hispaniola and at the Court of Santo Domingo doth sufficiently witness If favour of Great men and Princes doth allure and often obscure the light of true wisdom who ever of our English Nation enjoyed such a favour from that Gre●t Don of Spain the Duke of Medina Sidonia as your self as also from the Duke of Nacara the Duke of Maqueda the King of Spains Chief favourite that great Conde Dugue Earle of Olivares and the Count of Castilia then President of the India's being trusted by the first to go and view the Silver and Golden Treasures of America a favour denied unto others and fully empowered by him to make choice of what Ports you pleased and there to lade your Ships with what Commodities might seem most advantagious unto your self If pleasures and vanities do tickle where do they abound more than in the India's and in that place especially where with so much honour from the best and Noblest in Santo Domingo you did sometime abide Yet in the midst of all these snares with wisdoms light you eyed Zion still you kept your self free from errours you were never defiled with Babylons superstitions Yea when troubles and evils were incumbent and lying upon you even the loss of ship and of Riches at your return into England wisdom preserved you in the midst of evils and as a true Member of Zion you found your losses and afflictions sanctified unto you Zion and Babylon Truth and Errour are the subject of these my weak indeavours which must be known by the light of wisdom With which light as you have hitherto discerned good from evil so I desire you may with the same take notice of Zion and of Zions true Ambassadours pointed out unto you in this my Treatise and eschew those Errours of Babylon and Antichristian fallacies which as Rocks and Sands under the waters are here discovered to be amongst us under a pretence of Christian and Gospel-Truths I must confess that when I called to minde that Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 know thy self I was not without some ●nwillingness drawn to a publick Dispute and afterwards to preach in publick upon this subject not being ignorant

either of mine own weakness or of the weightiness of so great a Task and with more unwillingness was I overcome to commit it to the Press from whence to be scanned by the judgements of all for Comes calami calumnia and I am sure the●e will be many Censurers of this my work that of the Apostle may be applied Vnus sic alter autem sic one judgeing after this manner another after that one speaking well another ill But as a Commanding Authority of the Spirit within me for a just defence of the Parochial Churches and Ministers of England both cried down with scandal by an opposing Adversary was the cause of the former so overruling importunity of some friends well-wishers to Zion hath effected the latter and now like an Infant new born my Book and Dispute is come naked into the World subject unto the nippings and bitings of the times It was the saying of the Spouse in the Canticles We have a little sister and she hath no breasts And I may say the like of this I have a little Bird and she wanteth wings yet fly she must into the open air and shift for her self But Alas what can she do before her wings be grown or her weak feathers come to ripeness It is impossible that she should escape and not be torn in pieces by the sharp eyed vultures the time-consuming Criticks of our time except some Eagle shall in pity to so poor a wanderer shadow her with the wings of protection Your ever known disposition Worthy Sir in giving incouragement to the Ministers of Christ in doing Justice and Right to such as suffer wrongfully hath imboldned this little Bird to shrowd herself under the roof of your Protection and favour and my self to Dedicate this small fruit of my Studies unto you whom with a most thankfull heart I must ever acknowledge my chief incourager in my work since after my Conversion from Babylon to Zion I have been a poor and unworthy labourer in the Vine-yard of Christ. And if at this time I may obtain your Love in accepting this small token of my thankfulness for those many and undeserved favours conferred by you upon me I shall receive a most comfortable incitement to go on forwards in my Studies and be for ever bound to pray for a blessed increase of all Graces spiritual and temporal both for this life and the life to come unto your self with your most vertuous aud truely Godly and Religious consort unto all yours both at home and abroad and their succeeding posterity for ever And so I commend you to God and to the word of his Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance amongst all them that are sanctified And the Lord of Peace himself give you peace alwayes by all means So prayeth he who is Sir Your constant Oratour before the Throne of Grace and faithfull servant in the Lord Jesus Christ. Thomas Gage To my beloved Parishioners and approved Friends the Inhabitants of upper and lower Deal in Kent Grace and Peace be multiplied My dearly beloved in the Lord ARistotle in penning his moral instructions of Philosophy thought all his indeavours well bestowed if he might profit as he saith any one thereby much more if Towns and Cities How happy then may I think my labours imployed if by these small pains I may rightly instruct you all not in moral vertues but in Divine and Gospel-verities not in precepts of manners onely but in Mysteries of true Religion On which I will not say the Civil Nurture or gay Deportment of the outward Man but the life of your Souls and hope of all eternity dependeth With which if you covet to enrich your Souls two things I request at your hands The one is not to frame an overweening conceit or bear too partial affection to such as are of contrary judgement unto me the other to peruse this Treatise with an indifferent and single eye and with a greedy zeal of imbracing truth from whose mouth soever I know the subtilty of Sathan and snare of Schismaticks hath ever been as the Apostle saith By good words and fair speeches to deceive the hearts of the simple By faigned words to make merchandize of you Their chiefest project and principal study is with meretricious and painted Eloquence to entertain their followers and whilest they fill their ears with delight to instill into their Souls most poysoned Doctrine But the great Oratour Demosthenes can tell you that the riches of Greece consist not in words And the Apostle pronounceth Not in lo●tiness and sublimity of speech not in the perswasible words of humane wisdom are the Mysteries of Christ but in the power of God and Doctrine of the spirit Be not therefore be not I beseech you inveagled with the smooth tongue or filed speech and stile of our new Novations but consider the matter weigh the Reasons examine the proofs they all alleadge and you shall finde such silly Arguments such slender stuff as Augustine espied in the eloquent and lofty discourses of Faustus Manichaeus and the rest of his crew when not regarding as he saith what gallant dish or vessel of speech but what food of knowledge he propounded unto him not hearkening to the sound of words but to the pith of matter Albeit they bragged much and promised nothing more than Truth Truth yet he is discovered as he witnesseth No truth amongst them nothing but lies vanities and vile superstitions The like shall you discern in some new upstart Professours of these times For although they vaunt of the word of God vaunt of Scriptures and Scriptures onely seem to follow yet because as Ambrose teacheth By the word of the Law they impugne the Law framing their private sense and construction to countenance the perversity of their mindes by the Authority of the Law It is more than evident they follow not the Oracles of God but rather the fancies of their own brain the suggestion of Sathan For by perverse interpretation as Hierome testifieth of the Gospel of Christ is made the Gospel of man or which is worse the Gospel of the Devil And Martial the Poet speaketh to this purpose Quem recitas meus est Offidentine libellus Sed male cum recitas incipit esse tuus The Book thou doest recite Offidentine is mine Reciting it amiss it groweth to be thine Secondly they boast of their pure preaching of the word whereas in this my small Treatise and disproof of Mr. Nichols his errours you shall discover that some of them have no Authority to preach no laying on of the hands of the Presbytery no Mission no Vocation much less to Administer the Sacraments which requireth the power of the Keyes They are Theeves saith Christ who enter not by the door but climb another way to steal kill and destroy your Souls They are the false Prophets who cry Thus saith our Lord when our Lord said it not nor sent them nor gave them Commission to

true Zion and of the errors and Antichristian practises of Babylon Oh what a grief is it to think how in these times the true Zion is mistaken unknown yea by seducing spirits even termed Babylon Oh beloved if so many blessings comforts Soul-feastings as I have shewed unto you belong to Zion what enquiry what search ought we all then to make to finde out this true Zion that our Souls may not be deprived of the blessing and life for evermore which God hath en●ailed unto his Zion I beseech you judge it not passion then in me if I shall yet pursue what the other day was by way of dispute but begun in this place and for want of time could not then be finished My conscience leads me to this work the spirit commands me to clear this point unto you though some Adversaries do threaten me with stones as the Iews did Christ and to heave me out of this place to deprive me and mine of the lively-hood I here enjoy because with Scripture and reasons I oppose their contrary judgements yet I must not be unfaithfull to that trust and charge which from my Master Iesus Christ I have over your Souls I may say with Paul I have kept back nothing that was profitable unto you but have shewed you and have taught you publickly Acts 20. vers 20. and vers 27. I have not shunned to declare unto you all the Counsell of God these five years together and therefore though now so much threatned by some I resolve to say with Paul in the worst triall of my Adversaries spight and malice None of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my work w●●h j●y and the Ministerie which I have received of the Lord Iesus to testifieth Gospel of the grace of God Acts 20. vers 24. But not for my trust over your Souls onely shall I make a large search into Zion and Babylon but also for mine own Souls sake so dear unto me that I must ingenuously confess before you that for the saving of it I have hitherto forsaken the pleasures of sin and Egypt which for twelve years I enjoyed in the parts of America from whence the Lord in mercy hath brought me to his marvellous light unto Mount Zion and unto the Citie of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable companie of angels to the generall assembly and Church of the first born Heb. 12. vers 22 23. For the which Zion I have forsaken all kindred after the flesh and in the which Zion I acknowledge to have enjoyed these fourteen years many sweet comforts many Soul-feasts and banquets And now to hear from Mr. Charles Nichols that neither you nor I belong to this Zion but rather unto Babylon hath so much troubled me that I could not in conscience shun a publick dispute with him about it resolving with my self that after so many steps as may be in nine thousand miles which through Gods mercy I have travailed to finde out Zion in England if he could shew me by the word on step further out of Babylon cheerfully to go out of her and according to my present observation from Zechariahs Counsel to loyter no longer about Babylon but to take so fair an opportunity to deliver my self and you also from whatsoever he might prove to be Babylonish in our Church and worship Let us therefore beloved with care and diligence for our Souls good search the Scripture and in them search out Zion and Babylon and what the last Thursday want of time allowed us not let us again examine Mr. Charles Nichols his three Propositions as stated by him against us against our Parochiall Churches and against ours and all Parish officiating Ministers affirming further his Congregation separated from us and our Parochiall meetings to be the true house of God which in these words he thus laies down 1. Proposition Parochiall Churches are Babylonish 2. Proposition We i. e. the Church I serve in Christ are the house of God 3. Parish officiating Ministers are Babylonish I shall to these give my answer in order as they lye and faithfully lay down my Arguments with his answers as far as on the twentienth day of this moneth we proceeded and then go on to prove by reason and Scripture how falsly and erreneously these Propositions are asserted by him for that neither our Parochial Churches are B●bylonish neither his Congregation or Church wherein he serves is Gods house Nor the Parish Officiating Ministers justly to be termed Babylonish My first Argument against his first Proposition was framed thus a definitime ad defi●itum from the parts defi●ing or describing a thing to the thing defined or described which is a most sure and infallible kinde of Argument to convince and prove any thing that is doub●ed of or denied As for example A man is defined and described essentially by these parts to wit that he is a living Creature Risible and Rational if then I prove these parts to be in Peter I shall evidently conclude Peter to be man and if these essential parts be not in him I shall on the contrary conclude that he is no man You may then remember that my first Syllogi●me was from the essential parts constituting and describing a Parochial Babylonish or Romish Church in the Major or first Proposition And in the Minor or second Proposition shewing that those parts were not to be found in our Parochial Churches and then concluding our Parochial Churches not to be Babylonish thus 1. Argument A Parochial Babylonish Romish Church is a people living under obedience to the Pope gathered together under the Advocation or Patronage of some particular Popish Saint for whose greater glory on his day yearly they enjoy from Rome pardon of sins and Indulgences Congregated under a Popish Priest whose Mass they hear to whom au●icularly they confess and from whose h●nds they once a year at least receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper under transubstantiated Bread and Wine But our Parochial Churches are not a people living under obedience to the Pope nor gathered together under the Advocation or Patronage of any particular Popish Saint nor for any such Saints greater glory on his day enjoying from Rome pardon of sins and Indulgences nor congregated under any Popish Priests whose Mass they hear to whom Auricularly they confess and from whose hands they once a year at least receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper under transubstantiated Bread and Wine E●go Our Parochial Churches are not Babylonish This Argumen● Beloved was so convincing that indeed it was never in order answered but rather complaint made by Mr. Nichols that it was so long that he could nor well repeat it nor remember it for the helping of whose memory I propounded one by one the contents of the Major and desired him then like a Schollar to grant deny or distinguish which by no means I could get him to do But at last

the God of Heaven bathe his Sword in our bloud and yet bring more forreign Enemies upon us and make the Land fat 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 o● sorrows and give us tears to drink we would not serve God ●i●h joyfulness and with gladness of heart 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. v. 47 48. Behold the Heaven is as brass and the Earth as iron we have had a brazen brow and there is an iron Sinew in our Necks we have gone on impudently and stubbornly in our sins Gods Doctrine hath dropped as the rain and distilled as the dew but not as upon the tender Herb for our hearts have not been tender our lives have not been fruitfull We have loathed Manna the Spiritual food of our Souls and well may God loath us and cast us off from him we have alienated our selves from our good God we have separated one f●om another we have increased divisions and well may God take away his mercies and his blessings from us and increase our divisions and make our breaches greater yet and wider than hi●herto they have been We have by reason of our sins given occasion to our friends and Neighbours to unchurch us though in them it have been unjust but if we humble not our selves for these our sins God may justly unchurch us unpeople us and cast us quite away for ever being more his people Oh than Let us humble our selves at the feet of Christ. let us with Marie Magdalen weep at the feet of Christ for our sins let us at the feet of Christ break our Alabaster boxes our hearts I mean for that we have broken his Laws and have made great breaches in the Land 2. Duty But secondly Let us make it our earnest business from hence forward to reform our particular persons Oh are there not Babylonish Inmates protected within us Oh Let us turn our eyes inward and every one search what he can discover within his heart Are there no unruly passions there no unmortified lusts no self-ends no lusts of Covetousness no lusts of uncleanness no pride no envy no malice enshrined there These these are the Brats of Babylon for the which we are called by some Babylonish Oh happy yea thrice happy shall he be who taketh these Infant lusts before they are grown up and dasheth them against the Rock as it is in Ps. 137. vers 9. The times wherein we live are said to be Reforming times we have talked of Reformation these ten years and upwards we have beaten down whatsoever hath appeared outwardly Babylonish either in Altars or in Crosses or in Images but oh let us take heed we do not leave some Idols yet standing in our own bosomes There are b●loved Idola saeculi as well as Idola Templi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all our lusts must be cursed anathematized that they may like the Fig-Tree af●er it was cursed die and wither at their ve●y Root Tell me Is not self-love an Idol Is it not in some of y●u the great whore Is not lust a beast a Monster with many Heads and Horns Oh hate this Whore mortifie self-love and you stab the beast to the heart for self love is the very heart and Soul of Original sin it is the last Enemy which will be destroyed it was primum vivens and it will be ultimum moriens Come then Let us beat down our bodies and cry to God to humble our Souls and beat down our corruptions Let not onely reason vote down your lusts but Fai●h and Zeal pray them down The precious Sons of Zion are most troubled with this same Babylon within and therefore they do make most frequent and penitent complaints against themselves and put up most zealous p●ayers to God to give them power and victory over ●heir head-strong and stomackfull corruptions and in thei● prayers their Faith ever closeth with such promises as assure them of Grace enough to resist temptations and morti●ie corruption This is the fi●st which I exhort you to do to deliver your selves from Babylon within you that dwelleth within your hearts as an Inmate in the same house by Humiliation and Reformation Bu● secondly I beseech you to consider that you must not onely bea● down Babylon but you must build up Zion and that is to be done by faith and holiness 3. Duty Therefore in the third place Look well to your Faith The Walls of Bab●lon like the Walls of Iericho are battered down by Faith All the faithfull Prisoners in Bab●lon whose hear●s were sprinkled by the bloud of the Covenant were prisoners of hope and therefore were sure to be delivered from the bottomless pit in which there is no water for B●bylon was a Type of Hell As for thee also by the bloud of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy prison●rs out of the pit wherein is no water Zach. 9 vers 11. and in the next verse following these are said to be prisoners of hope Beasts live by sense Heathens live by reason Christians must live by Faith they must mortifie their lusts renounce their merits rest onely upon Christ his perfect obedience and full sa●isfaction for their justification for we cannot be constituted righteous but 〈◊〉 the obedience of Christ Rom. 5. vers 19. In this Faith let us live in this let us die By this we shall shew our selves to be true Sons of Z●on And let us beware we become not Babylonish in these times by yielding to new Doctrines which may make us fall from our Principles from the true word of Christ as revealed unto us and faithfully expounded to us by able Pastours and Teachers and so be brought at last to fall from our Faith in Christ. 4. Duty Fourthly and lastly my beloved be exhorted to study holiness and to cry down by your holy lives those that c●y you down for B●bylonish for want as they ●ay of holiness Holiness is the beauty of Zion for there they were to worship God in the beauty of holiness There can be no beauty in our Souls no glory in our Congrega●ions without holiness Zion was the Mount of holiness Za●h 8. vers 3. Holiness is the end o● humane society Vtquè alios alii de Religi●n● 〈◊〉 Contiguas Pi●tas jussi●●abere domos Certainly this age is even grown Barbarous or else Holiness which is the end of humane society would never be contemned and despised as it is now adayes in this wicked generation O what a base thing is it for a Nation to be ashamed of its glorie and to glorie in its sin and shame Men think it a base thing for to be holy and yet God himself is glorious in holiness Exod. 15. vers 11. Certainly if we would be glorious in holiness Gods right hand would be glorious in po●e● and dash our Enemies to pieces Exod. 15. vers 6. Without holiness we cannot have ●ny intimate acquaintance with God or good men We long for peace but peace is a Jewel which God gives to none but to those that are of his acquain●ance A●quain● now ●●y s●lf with him and be at peace the●eby good shall come unto 〈◊〉 Iob 22. v. 21. A Godly life is the life of God and those that were strangers to a Godly life are said to be alienated or ●stranged from the life of God Ephes. 4. vers 17 18. They then that strike at holiness strike at the life of God and have a kinde of Atheistical murther in their thoughts they would lay the Church a b●eeding let out the very heart-bloud of Religion and take away the very life of God O if England will not be holy it cannot be happy if we continue in our lukewarmness and prophaneness Wo wo be unto us though it go well with Zion it will go ill with us Zion was preserved even when Ierusalem was destroyed and England may be destroyed for i●s unthankfulness unf●uitfulness Schisme Id●latry lukewarmness and prophaneness and yet the Church preserved for the Church is not confined to any one place It concerneth us then to be such manne● of men in all h●ly Conversation 2 Pet. 3. vers 11. Such Pilgrims on Earth and Citizens of Heaven that it may appear that we seek a better Countrey an Heavenly and that God will not be ashamed to be called our God Hebr. 11 vers 16. But if we go about spiritual duties with carnal hearts and worl●ly mindes if we lie at catch waiting for a fair opportunity to return int● Egypt the God of Heaven will be ashamed to own us for his p●ople Hebr. 11. vers 15 16. Therefore my beloved if we live in the Spirit let us walk in the Spirit Galat 5. vers 25. Let us march fair and straight in rank and file as the word signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 walk according to the C●non given to Evangelical Souldiers Galat. 6. vers 16. and if we walk according to Rule this Rule of the new Creature vers 15 mor●ifying our lusts crucifying our selves to the World and living un●o Christ in righteousness and true holiness Peace will be upon us and upon Zion the Israel of God vers 16. Let us ther●fore as it becometh men of Zion devote our selves to God and spend our strength in the Practise of Piety Let us be better acquainted with our selves and with our God let us learn what sin and what Grace means let us be watchfull over our own hearts with an holy jealousie may let us set a watch before our mouths and all our senses nay let us watch over one another that we may provoke one another to holiness and good works let us beseech the God of Heaven to kindle gracious desires in our hearts that we may oppose and Conquer all our filthy and implacable lusts which set us all in a Combustion of War and divisions Iam. 4. vers 1. Thus shall we be delivered from Babylon and by our Holiness we shall become the Beauty of Zion And thus beloved have I imployed my utmost strength consecrated my Totum nil blown my Rams Horns against Babylon and indeavoured to build up Zion that all you here present may be Members of it to Gods praise to whom be glorie throughout all Ages Amen Soli Deo Honor gloria FINIS