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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44800	Mistery Babylon the mother of harlots discovered her rise, and when, with many of her sorceries, with her merchants of divers orders, and ranks, and merchandize of divers sorts this many hundred years, also her last merchants, with their delicate merchandise discovered : in answer to a book tituled The directory for the publick worship of God through England, Scotland, and Ireland, which now is the chief traffick her last reformed merchants trades with, in all these nations / published by F.H.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3173; ESTC R16766	30,606	42

and new ●oyned expressions and rhe●o●ical speeches and P●ilosophical phrases this will go off at a good rate and by this the Merchant may procure his Discourse to be printed which may procure his fame and renown among ignorant people besides it may be he gets profit by printing his Sermon setting all set-wages tythes salleries aside but if it be amongst poor Count●y people or an odde corner of the Land then any ordinary traffi●ue a Sermon which it may be he hath sold four times over this will go off among ignorant people and make them more ignorant and as you say a Text out of the ●salms or any other Scripture as the Mi●ister shall thinks fit will serve to treat upon Reader thou mayest take notice that here is no notice taken of the holy Ghost or Spirit what it thinks fit but what he that preaches hath ready must go off and counted as fit for that people Direct And in the 36 Page your Direction is to the Merchant not to rest in general Doctrine but come to particular application whi●h is a work of gre●t diffi●ul●y to himself requiring prudence and moderation and to the natural corrupt man it will be very unpleasant Answ. The Doctrines and the Applications of the natural corrupt man will not be profitable nor powerfull at all upon the Hearers neither will disarm the thoughts of the heart at all and you that gives prescriptions to natural corrupt men what to preach who sets them about performing the work of God that knows it not are very ignorant for the natural man understands not the things of God and the corrupt man in heart sees not God and he that understands not the things of God must needs preach a devination of his own brain Well let who will take this traffi●ue the Children of light will have none of it it may be such husks as these will satisfie a herd of swine and so let them take it Direct And you say he that preaches is to be perswaded in his own heart that all that he teaches is the truth and that he is to walk before his flock as an example Answ. How is he like to be perswaded in his own heart that sins presumptiously against the checks of his own conscience And you set examples indeed but they are but bad ones would you have your flock to follow your example would you have every one of your flock to have a long Gown or a long Robe and make them all like Cardinals Princes Would you have every one to have a Ring on his finger and a company of Points at his knees like a Besom and a company of Ribons and Cuffs like a Fidler Or would you have any of your Flock to come and fetch away a yoak of your oxen or a couple of your horses or take his Teem and come into your field break down the hedges and throw open the gates and load his waggon with corn if one could not pay it him for conscience sake Or would you be sewed up two hundred miles into a Court for a Tythe Hen worth four pence or six pence and thrown into the Fleet a year or two for four or five shillings Many such evidences and examples we have from you you late Reformers but to the light in all consciences I leave to judge which you have presumptiously sinned against what examples you are to your flocks Direct And now Reader I come to prayer after Sermon and thou shalt see what traffique is there The Minister is to give thanks for the bl●ssing received as Election V●cation Adoptio● Justification and hope of glory and likewise to turn the heads of his Sermons into some few Petitions and after to pray for the preparation for death and to entreat of God to forgive the iniquity of your holy things Answ. ●ere Reader thou mayst see as bad Merchandi●e as the story of the Lady of Laureita or the story of Saint Francis which the begging Fryers your fellow-merchants traffique withall First you give thanks for Election Vocation ●ustification and hope of Glory and afterwards to pray for the forgiveness of the iniquity of your holy things How are your things holy when they are full of iniquity and sinful Is that which is holy iniquity and sinful Or is that which is iniquity and sinful holy Are they Elected Justified Adopted and Sanctified whose sins are not blotted out whose iniquities are not forgiven let the wise in heart judge of this dream What are not they well prepared for death that are Elected Adopted Justified and Sanctified but they must needs have your prayers full of iniquity will that prepare them better What ignorance is here And where learned you this Article of ●aith to turn the heads of the Sermon into Petitions let the wise judge Was not Prophesie one thing and Prayer another But now Prophesie must be turned into Prayer and Prayer into Prophesie Sermons into Petitions and Petitions into Sermons what mangl'd traffique is this Direct In the 38. page this kind of prayer fore-mentioned ended a Psalm may be sung if it be convenient if some other Ordinance doth not follow Answ. Then it seems that your Psalm is no Ordinance but if it be it must give way however if the Priest thinks fit God must have no prayers at that time it may be sprinkling of an Infant may serve in stead Direct And now I come to the great Ordinance Infants Baptisme falsly so called In the 40. page the Minister is to use some words touching the Institution how that it was instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ that Infants should be Baptized and that it is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace and of our grafting into Christ and of our union with him and of remission of sins Regeneration Adoption and Eternal Life Answ. Reader Take notice Christ never sent them forth as Ministers to tell lies as to say he ordained that which he never did And furthermore thou may take notice that the Spirit of the Lord is turned out of doors there is no place for it outward water with which the Infant is sprinkled hath taken up the authority and the work of the Spirit the Ministers of Christ declared that the Spirit of Promise and the Spirit of Truth was the Seal of the Covenant of Grace and remission of sins Regeneration and Adoption and that the Faith and the Spirit is the Seals of Eternal Life But these Reformers hath excluded both and have set up a beggerly Element in the room let the spiritual man judge what kind of traffique this is Direct And in the 42. page that children by Baptisme are received into the Bosome of the Church distinguished from the world Answ. Now what kind of a Church yours is and what kind of a bosome your Church hath distinct from the world the wise in heart may judge You have confessed that Magistrates Ministers and the whole Nation doth not so much as endeavour after mortification and a newness of

they offer the more they sin and how the rest of their Ordinances will end thou mayest judge before thou pass any further Direct And now I come their sanctification of their sabboth the whole day you say is to be celibrated as being the Christian Sabbath If you intend the first day of the week where is that called the Christian Sabbath the Sabbath in the first Covenant was given for a sign of the Christian Sabbath which was to be revealed when they ceased from their own works words thoughts then the rest was to be known the Christian Sabath and whether is a Christian Sabbath a visible or invisible thing But stay Sirs do you keep this day which you call a Christians Sabbath holy to the Lord is not this your Market day upon which you sell your Traffique one or two Glasses for 20 or 30 s. a day besides what you get for sprinkling of Infants do you not speak your own words nor think your own thoughts nor work your own works If you say you do not how comes it to pass that there are all these defects in your performances all this iniquity in your holy things I hope you dare not say that defects is from God or that iniquity or sin is of God and if you have not a male in your flock let sacrificing or offering alone and do not think that God will be pleased with your lame blind maimed defective sacrifices neither with your strangled things nor your swines flesh so I say unto you repent and learn to be reformed your selves before you prescribe rules for others least both you and them that follow you fall into the pit and because the Merchants of this rank and orders doth love to be medling with every thing wherein there is hope of any thing to be got they will try all kinds of merchandize and so present they their direction about mariage to any who will take their ignorant Councel Direct They say Mariage is no Sacrament nor peculiar to the Church of God and they say we judge it expedient that it be done by a lawfull Minister and to be published three times before it be solemnised by the said Minister Answ. If you mean by Sacrament a holy thing then mariage is either holy or unholy if unholy then fit to be done by none if holy why is it not proper and peculiar to the Church of God if they who are Members of the Church of God may marry in the Lord in the covenant in which man was made the male and the female then what hath any to do with it who are not of the Church of God and what hath the Church of God to do with them that are without and what hath a Priest to do with this where was Abrahams and Sarahs Priest when they were maried and where was the Priest to solemnize the mariage of Isaac and Rebeccah and of Sachariah and Elizabeth and because you say it s not peculiar to the Church of God whether were these of the Church of God before mentioned but what hath the Priest to do to publish it three times like a Belman for the loss of a Horse or Cow thorow the Market or rather why ought not the man and the woman both in the fear of the Lord if they be moved thereunto by the Lord publish their own intentions And moreover their joyning together in the Church of God when the members of the Church of God are present but this frustrateth the Priests 5 or 10 s and his Clerk 6 d. or a shilling more or less as they can get Direct Furthermore they say it may be done any time of the year but on a Fasting-day or on the Lords day Ans. Why are these days prohibited if mariage be a holy thing or an honorable thing why may it not be done in the fear of God and the power of God why not on any day was days made for man or man made for days your ignorant Predecessors the Pharisees judged as you do that it was not expedient or convenient that he should heal a Daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound on the Sabbath day And now they say that the honourable Estate of Mariages is the Covenant of their God and before they said it was not peculiar to the Church of God if entering into a state of Mariage be the Covenant of God and if the Covenant of God be peculiar to the Church of God then what is the reason you Reformers that Mariage is not peculiar to the Church of God And now take their directions who hath a desire to Trade any more with their Merchandize concerning the visitation of the sick Direct The party sick is to send for the Minister timely and seasonably before their understanding fail them and if the Minister susp●ct the party of Ignorance he sh●ll not examine them in the Principles of Religio● especially touching Repentance and Faith and to make known unto him the danger of desering Repentance Answ. If he be such a one who is sick as hath traded much with the Priests Merchandize if he be capable of understanding there is some hope he may give the Priest 5 pound or ten pound and it hath been high time for the Minister to have shown him the danger of de●ering Repentance before now when he is like to go out of the body not to have deferred his exhortation till this time and if the party be ignorant it were more time to inform him about the Principles of Religion and Repentance and Faith than to have him make Answers to that which he knows nothing of and then you conclude if desired the minister shall pray for him to this effect Direct Confessing and bewailing original and actual sin and the miserable condition of man by nature and that God would give him an ev●dence of an interest in Christ and the Seal of Eternal Life by Christ Answ. In sin you began and in sin you will end complaining of original and actual sin before you know what it is and hold on till you come to the grave and never depart from it and what must not the Minister pray except he be desired it seems they alwayes must please other mens desires rather then mind the Spirits motion in themselves And what is interest in Christ yet wanting and Evidence and Seal of Eternal Life yet wanting and it may be the Party 40 or 50 years old What was not this man baptized when he was an infant and have not you said and in the 48 page and 45 page of your Directory that water-Water-baptism is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace and of being ingrafted into Christ and of Regeneration Adoption and Eternal Life and what is the Evidence and Seal lost now Useth not this to be the doctrine amongst you once in Christ and ever in Christ and whom he loves once he loves to the end and hath not this man partaken of the Sacrament and eat the flesh

life and that you are blind hard-hearted full of unbelief impenitent secure and luke-warm and have not so much as endeavoured to receive Christ into your hearts by Faith as in the sixteenth page of your Directory may be seen and how your Church and the bosome of it is distinct from the world if your Church be as you have said the understanding may judge for you that are impenitent and full of unbelief and have not received Christ into your hearts you are of the world and your bosome full of deceit and are none of the Church of Christ Direct And moreover the Minister that baptized the Infant which is a Popish invention and not an Institution of Christ however he is to press it upon people as such a one and to exhort them to look back to their Baptisme and to repent of their sins against God and to stir up their faith Answ. Said ye not even now that Baptisme with water was an ingrafting into Christ and of Regeneration and of Eternal Life and he that is baptized hath the Seal of all this and yet they are to repent of their sins and how should their Faith be stirred up that hath none which yet hath to repent What blind Doctrine is this that these blind merchants of this last edition hath given out for a plat-form Direct In the 44. page the Minister is to joyn prayer with the word of Institution for sanctifying the water to this spiritual use Answ. Mark Reader what Sorcery is here Was not the water instituted in the beginning by the word and gathered together into one place by the Word and then i● was sanctified and holy and how became it unholy again and how hath the water transgressed that it s become unholy that it needs sanctifying again but in stead of sanctifying it you abuse it and would make it serve for that end which God never ordained viz. to be a Seal of the Remission of sins a Seal of Regeneration and Eternal Life all which is contrary to the Scripture contrary to the Ministers of Christ and contrary to the precepts of the Ministers of Christ but are indeed institutions of your Mother mystery Babylon Direct And now I come to the celebration of your great Sacrament of Bread and Wine you say in the 48. page we judge it convenient to be done after the Morning Sermon and that all ignorant and scandalous are not fit to receive this Sacrament Answ. And why after the Morning Sermon ye great Reformers If you intend that Christs breaking of bread and giving the Cup to his Disciples that this must be your foundation for your Sacrament that was at Supper in the same night he was betrayed and if he had judged it more convenient why could he not have given it them after some Morning Sermon What example have you for so doing it may be Saint G●egory Benedict or Damasen or some other of your Mothers Merchants And if they be unfit that are ignorant and scandalous to receive this Sacrament as you call it then none more unfit then your selves none more ignorant and scandalous which hath left that undone which God hath injoyned and hath done that which he never commanded and that not only out of ignorance but also presumptiously against the checks of your own consciences and motions of his Holy Spirit what not so much as endeavoured after mortification or newness of life but are a blind hard-hearted unbelieveing and impenitent people witness the sixteenth page of your Directory and if such as you be fit to receive this Sacrament as you call it I know none unfit to receive it ●irect In the 50. page the Minister is to warn all that are ignorant and scandalous and prophane that live in any sin or offence against their conscience that they come not to this Holy Table and on the other hand to incourage and assure them of refreshment and strength by coming to this Table if they desire a farther progress in grace Answ. Whom do you call ignorant and prophane and scandalous Is not he a scandalous person that sins presumptiously and against the checks of his own conscience and Gods Holy Spirit and if such be prohibited all you Reformers are excluded and if you do come you are like to have no refreshment or strength here if your own Doctrine must stand good for refreshment and strength you promise to them that hath a desire after the progress in grace But say you of your selves we have no desire after mortification or amendment of life and so you are without hope come or not come Furthermore Bread and Wine was a Seal of Eternal Life before you said and now ease refreshment and strength is promised to the weak I say as the Apostle said to them who discerned not the Lords Body but came unworthily For this cause many are weak and many are sick and many are fallen asleep and though they have come to your Table they have come sick and weakly and have gone away so and hath found your promises and assurances of no effect at all Dir. And now I come to the Consecration The Minister is to begin the action with blessing the bread and wine setting them aside for this holy use An. I say bread and wine was sanctified by the Word for that end and use that God created them that is to say for the nourishment of man and they were holy and good before ever the Priest touched them as it is written Vnto you that believe are all things clean but if you set them apart for any such end or use as to be a Seal of remission of sins Regeneration and Eternal Life then you convert them or rather pervert them to that end which God never intended But this is like the rest of your idolatrous merchandize Dir. Then after the Sacrament is taken in the 55 page The Minister is to put them in mind of the Grace of God held forth in the Sacrament and to entreat for pardon for the defects of the whole service An. The Church of Rome your Mother saith that the Body and Blood of Christ is held forth in the Sacrament and you say the Grace is held forth in the Sacrament and the Seal of Eternal Life What do you think to make it the Fountain of Life from whence all good comes in the conclusion of all the whole a Sacrifice must be offered up for the defects of your whole service what pitifull blind Merchandize is this before it was a Seal of the Vocation and Election eternal life and pledges of Adoption and by it the Comers thereunto are not made perfect but are full of defects and sinfull your whole services full of iniquty and sin and defects will not any who hath but the least sight abhor your ●ypocritical Sacrifice and your mouldy rusty cankered Traffique and now their holy Ordinance and their most holy things is ended in defect in sin and iniquity and these Worshippers the more