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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

Images and such other like merchandizes of the baser sort is all bought and received without question as merchandizes of great worth and things belonging to happiness and felicity but alas 't is almost day and the night is far spent and the people in these Nothern Regions are come past midnight some towards the dawning of the day and they question our merchandize and with some the night is quite over and they are come to the day-break and to the rising of the sun and with these there is no hope of trading though with the best of all our commodities though with Cinimon and odours and oyntment and frankincense yet they will buy none of our ware nor ther 's no hope of trading with them any more for they are come to know the Pearl which is more pretious than rubies and the heavenly treasure that doth not rust and the word which is sweeter than the honey and the honey comb ther 's no hope of them but this is the misery they will not be content with what they have found but imparts it to others and so begets a dislike in other peoples minds to the best of all our Merchandize However them that are gone from us and denies our mother and her golden cup and denies all her merchants great and small not onely them that trades in wood and vessels and brasse and iron but even them that trades with the best merchandize as gold and silver precious stones and pearls fine linen purple silk and scarlet however let us excommunicate them and give them up to Sathan and let us call to the beast with his seven heads and ten horns who is scarlet coloured dreadful and terrible and let us accuse them of heresie schism and blasphemy and call them seducers and deceivers and false Prophets and let us brand them with names of reproach as Sectaries and say they are seditious and rebellions and mutenous and they are enemies to Church and State and all good government peace-breakers factious and pestilent fellows that brings all the Nations into an uproar and if that will not do le ts petition to Kings Princes Dukes Parliaments Protectors and Counsels that some speedy and effectual course may be taken for suppressing of these hereticks and for stopping of these blasphemous doctrines as that the Steeple-house is not the Church and sprinckling of Infants no ordinance of Christ and singing of Psalms by tradition no part of the true worship of God and it may be we shall get some Law or Act of Parliament against them or call them vagabonds and get them whipt abroad and put in prisons while we take away their oxen and goods at home and so by this means it will stop others whom we traffique withal that they will not dare to hearken unto them for if they will not buy our wares and take our measures by a glasse in love to it yet because of fear of imprisonment or losse of their goods or estates they will be constrained to trade with us But alas it is otherwise with us now then it was in Queen Maries dayes when masse mattens and even-songs professionings Ave-maries Creeds and Pater-nosters took up most part of the time and went off ●mongst people for spiritual worship at a good rate neither is it with us now as it was in the days of Bishop Laud our great Metropolitan and the rest of our mothers merchants Then would common prayer translated out of the mass-book into the English and Creed Letany Pater noster with a Lor● have mercy upon us or we beseech thee to hear us good Lord fourty times over in a quarter of an hour with some of Davids Psalms turned into meeter by Hop●●ns and Srer●hold masters of musick sung with Organs with Choristers and boyes with bowing to the Altar and such like merchandize which then was precious in the eyes of our mothers children Then whosoever would not be obedient to all the Rites and Ceremonies then we branded them with the name of Puritans and Non-conformists and haled them before Sessions Courts and Magistrates cited them to appear before the Bishops served them up to the High-Commission Court before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal falsely so called and there the flesh was gnawn to the bone and ears cut off stigmatizing and burning with irons imprisonment and banishment Now as people came nearer the day they began to suspect all this as not to be the spiritual Worship of God having no ground nor footing from the Spirit of Truth nor example from the Scripture nor from the primitive Churches then them over whom our mother once reigned began to question her whether she was the Lambs wife yea or nay And whether our Predecessors and Brethren were the messengers sent out by the true Church yea or nay And whether the Ordinances and Practises were the institution of Christ and his Apostles yea or nay in the primitive times and the day dawning upon them and the spirit came to be revealed and did shine into their hearts and they began to search the Scriptures and to compare the true Church which was cloathed with the Sun and crowned with the crown of twelve Stars with our mother mystery Babylon and they began to compare the Apostles and Ministers in the primitive times with our Predecessors Babylons merchants and also compared the Institutions and Ordinances which were delivered to the true Church with the Institutions and Rites and Ceremonies and inventions of our mother mystery Babylon And so they found all out by the ●evelation of the Spirit and by searching of the Scriptures they found out the rise of our mother after the woman was fled into the wildernesse and that she sate not as a Queen upon Nations Kindreds Tongues and Peoples till after the woman did fly away upon the wings of an Eagle into the wildernesse for a time times and half a time and likewise they found out that our predecessors and fellow-merchants were not like the Ministers of Christ in the primitive times neither our Doctrines and Ordinances like the Ordinances and Doctrines which were once delivered to the Saints before ever wee merchants set sail or floated in a ship on the Sea And so finding our City to be raised up in its glory since the glory of God was lost in the earth and finding our Queen mystery Babylon ruling in our City since the Lambs wife fled and finding us merchants to receive her traffique from her City since the faith was lost that once was delivered to the Saints and did see our Creeds and Beliefs and Pater-nosters our prayers and our hymns that they are quite another thing which was part of her traffique they have concluded and that upon infallible grounds warranted by a cloud of witnesses in the Prophets and Apostles that our mother is a whore and her predecessors are her merchants and that our Ordinances are and traffique have been invented by some of our mothers children which are Apostates and they have found