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A19548	A sermon at the solemnizing of the happie inauguration of our most gracious and religious soueraigne King Iames wherein is manifestly proued, that the soueraignty of kings is immediatly from God, and second to no authority on earth whatsoeuer : preached at Paules Crosse, the 24. of March last 1608 / by Richard Crakanthorpe ...	Crakanthorpe, Richard, 1567-1624.	1609 (1609)	STC 5979; ESTC S308	49,514	56

faile nor fall away is that very same Babylon which is the mother of Idolatries and all abhominations which shall most vndoubtedly receiue those iudgements of desolation eternall condemnation from the Lord. What a wofull and miserable thing is it then to bee a Papist a member of the Church of Rome or which is all one of Babylon Especially seeing God himselfe hath foretolde Apocalipse 18 4. that they who pertake of her sinnes shall receiue also of her plagues And againe Apocalipse 14 9 10. If any receiue the marke of the Beast that is subiection vnto him the same vnlesse hee repent and goe out of Babylon shall drinke of the Wine of the wrath of God and bee tormented in fire and Brimstone before the holy Angelles and before the Lambe Thinke now with your selues what a blessing and happinesse wee do all inioy who vnder the most Religious raigne of our Soueraigne are freed and secured from that Iron and more then Babylonish Captiuity who in aboundance of peace and tranquility liue to serue God in Bethel and at IERVSALEM in the house of God and Citty of peace not in BETH-AVEN not in BABYLON in the house of vanity of confusion and vtter desolation Let me say yet one thing more whereas the Spirite of God hath fore-told that sundrie Kings and Kingdomes loathing and detesting the abhominations and Idolatries of Babylon which is confessed to bee Rome shall not onely forsake the Whore but hate her and make her desolate and naked and burne her with fire which Prophesie is in part begunne to bee fulfilled but in due time shall be fully accomplished Though I am no Prophet nor sonne of a Prophet that I can deuine yet as one of those who expect and pray for the performance of Gods promise and full deliuerance of all his people from that miserable thraldom crying How long Lord holy and true doest thou not auenge our blood It may well I say be hoped considering the piety Zeale and magnanimity of our most Religious Soueraigne that either himselfe or some of his most happy and Religious off-spring shall be the very Generall the first and chiefe Leaders of the Armies of the Lord of Hoastes against Babylon and so not onely giue cause to all the people of God with endlesse ioy to sing that triumphant song for the ruine thereof foretold by the Apostle Apoc. 18 20. O heauen reioyce of her and ye holy Apostles and Prophets reioyce for God hath giuen your iudgement of the Whore but purchase also to themselues that blessing and happinesse which God hath promised d wil vndoubtedly performe to the ruinaters destroyers thereof O daughter of Babylon wasted with misery happy shal he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs Blessed shall hee bee which taketh thy children dasheth them against the stones To this blessing of Piety and Religion let me adioyne another of neerest affinity and which is also a speciall meanes to continue the former happines vnto vs to wit the peaceable and happy setling of the Ecclesiasticall gouernment and affaires of our Church Would to God that tumult in the Church might neuer be remembred but buried in eternall obliuion which the new Donatists of this age haue made who like those in Saint Austens time can abide no spot nor wrinckle in the Church who cry vnto others Depart depart ye go out from thence and touch no vnclean thing or stand apart and come not neare vs wee are holier then you and who glorying as S. Austen sheweth in these words of the Apostle Take away euill from among you Ad sacrilegium scismatis occasionem praecisionis vsurpant They abuse those Apostolicall words to make a Scisme which is Sacriledge and for an occasion of Praecision of cutting off and seperating themselues from the true Church of God which by a late learned man is condemned for Diabolicall though otherwise a man liue an Angelicall life But alas it is too apparent to the world the church which hath felt the smart thereof hath grieued and groned to see her owne children whom she hath nourished and tenderly brought vp to rebell against her and with Corah Dathan and Abyram to go apart and make a faction against Moses and Aaron and with disdainefull insolency to say vnto them Moses and Aaron ye take too much vpon you seeing all the congregation is holy wherefore lift ye vp your selues aboue the congregation of the Lord. Nay though the Church out of the tendernesse of a mothers compassion would willingly couer and conceale all these wronges yet are they too well knowne in Gath and published in the streets of Askalon and the vncircumcised Philistims by these mens occasion haue and do daily blaspheme the name of God and his glorious truth and Gospell which we do professe who reioycing in our discordes and saying among themselues There there so would we haue it do euen laugh and triumph to see how those who should haue turned their edge against Amalecke and Babylon the enemies of the Lord haue bin most sharpely whetted and seditiously backed also to wound their owne mother and those who in the church are like Eliah the very Chariots and Horsemen of Israel It is not my purpose at this time to intreat eyther of the dignity or of the Diuine and Sacred authoritie of those most reuerend Fathers of the Church which in another very learned and Academicall assembly I haue some yeares since at large demonstrated to haue an assured and vndeniable warrant not onely from all antiquity and the renowned practise of the whole Primitiue Church but euen from the Apostles themselues and from the diuine institution and ordinance of the Lord. Nor is it my purpose at this time to make euident vnto you how that Imperious nay rather Imperiall presbiteriall Consistory which those new builders had fancied besides that it wants all ground of Scripture and of Antiquity is in truth and in experience would prooue a very Seminary of sedition and a Sanctuary to euery turbulent and seditious Gracchus both in Church and kingdome Nor was it possible that a fancy so repugnant to Scriptures Fathers and all Antiquity so contrary to the peace and Tranquility both of Church and kingdome could euer haue found like entertainment if the maintainers and abetters thereof had not bin guided nay blinded with two most dangerous affections both for Church and Common-wealth affectation of Singularitie and of Popularity That which I would onely mention at this time is the great blessing which by the happy meanes of our Salomon we now enioy who seeing and grieuing to see a rent in Gods Church himselfe like Phinees stood in the gap and with more then Princely Clemency and Moderation made vp the breach appeased those affaires and remoued that shame and reproach from Israel which the vnquietnesse of contentious spirits had brought vppon it Who being wise as the