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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29365	Babylons downfall a sermon lately preached at Westminster before sundry of the honourable House of Commons / by William Bridge ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1641 (1641)	Wing B4448; ESTC R5651	21,012	41

of sinne is the starre that is fallen from heaven who in the 2 Thess. 2. 3. as some observe is called in the abstract Apostacie not an Apostate a falling away not one that is fallen away so notorious is hee for sinfull falling and as God rewards grace with his owne grace so hee rewards sinne with it's owne likenesse 2. How else shall Sion rise if Babylon doe not fall It is said when the Lord exalteth the low tree he bringeth downe the high tree then shall all the trees of the Forrest rejoyce God is making way to such a Jubilee therefore Babylon must fall and that assuredly 3. Those that are too bigge for themselves and cannot mannage their owne greatnesse must needs fall Pride goes before a fall It is the naturall genius of Babylon to bee proud and great great and proud Babell was at first built to affront providence that the world might be no more drowned Afterwards sayes that King in Daniel Is not this great Babylon that I have built for mine honour And Revel. 18. saith our late Babylon Isu a Queene c. They have beene great and in their owne eyes great surely therefore their owne waight shall sink them 4. Must not those needs fall that are set in dark and slippery places whom the Angell of the Lord drives Now if ever the places of Gods enemies are very slippery themselves in the dark and the Angell of God driving them Therefore they shall fall and fall assuredly And if so Then learne wee how to take notice of and behold these great works of God concerning the fall of Babylon as they fall out in our generation It is in regard of the evill that comes to evill men as in regard of the good that comes to the good Now when the Saints doe receive any mercy their hearts stick not in it nor their eyes on it but they see it lying under it's relation in relation to the word and promise saying It is indeed a great mercy that I have a house and place to dwell in but God hath not onely given me sweet habitation but he hath given it mee in the way of a promise to performe the mercy promised Hee hath given mee wife children and friends to performe the mercy promised Nay he hath given mee Christ himselfe to performe the mercy promised Luk. 1. Thus they see all things lying under a promise in that relation So also when ye see any judgement befall the enemies of Gods Church you are not to looke upon them as meere works of God but to looke upon them in their relations in relation to the threatning as lying under the threatning and the fruits of it and the reason hereof is this especially because otherwise you doe not see the whole work of God when you doe see it before you As it is said of Israel Deut. 29. 4. Yet the Lord hath not given you eyes to see c. As now suppose that a foole a mad man or a beast should come into the congregation though they should see the water of Baptisme yet they would not see the Sacrament or halfe the Sacrament because they could not see it under it's relation Wherefore my beloved when ever you shall behold the hand of God upon the world in the fall of Babylon and his great works that way be sure that ye behold them under the relation in relation to the Lords threatning and say True here is a Babylonish Priest crying out Alas Alas my living I have wife and children to maintaine and all is gone my preferment is gone my hope is gone my place and office gone But all this is to performe the judgement threatned God threatned before that he would put it into the hearts of the Princes of the earth to eat her flesh and drink her blood Revel. 17. 16. Now it is in a great measure fulfilled for her great revenues and rich livings are in part her flesh and blood God said before Revel. 18. That her Merchants should stand a far off weeping wailing and saying Alas alas that great Citie Thus is the word of the Lord fulfilled and God is faithfull As the fall of Babylon is very certaine so it is the duty of the Saints to speake of it as if it were done already Wee are bound to honour the faithfulnesse of God more than the faithfulnesse of any other because other things are faithfull to us as Salvian observes because he is faithfull We expect cooling and cleansing from the water and that is faithfull Why For God is faithfull he bids it be faithfull to us Wee expect warmth and light from the fire and that is faithfull Why for God is faithfull hee bids it bee faithfull to us In all these faithfull creatures there is but a drop of Gods faithfulnesse and when they promise we beleeve them and shall wee not beleeve him when hee promises and when hee threatens When a faithfull friend promises wee say it shall be but wee are to honour Gods faithfulnesse more and therefore to speak of the thing promised or threatned as if it were done already When wee doe but begin a good worke God speaks of it as done already Heb. 11. 17. It is said by faith Abraham offered up Isaac yet hee did not actually offer him up but intended it and set him selfe to doe it at Gods command Exod. 4. 20. it is said that Moses tooke his wife and sonne and returned to the land of Egipt Yet hee was but in the beginning of his returne When we have begun any good work for God he speaks of it as done altogether therefore he having begun that great and good work for the Churches the fall of Babylon it is our duty also to speak of it as if it were done already Let us therefore correct our manner of speaking If any storme or trouble arise upon the Churches wee are ready to break forth into dispondent conclusions saying God is now gone mercy gone the ordinances gone wee were in good hope to have seene good dayes the ruine of the Churches enemies but they doe so prevaile as that wee have no hope at all in this particular But though the extremity of the Church bee never so great and the enemies never so flourishing wee ought to say They are fallen they are fallen But how can wee speake thus when an utter improbability and unlikelihood dwells upon the businesse Yes For when God destroyes his enemies hee either takes them away by a weake hand as Jer. 50. 45. The least of the flocke shall draw them out Or they shall perish by their owne hands as Psalm 9. 16. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Or they shall be destroyed without hands As Job 34. 20. The mighty shall bee taken away without hands And is this true may the soule say that the enemies of the Church shall perish by a weake hand or by their owne hand or without hands then will