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A13558	Tvvo sermons the one A heavenly voice, calling all Gods people out of Romish Babylon. The other An everlasting record of the utter ruine of Romish Amalek. By Thomas Taylor, preacher of the Word at Redding in Berkshire.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1624 (1624)	STC 23853; ESTC S118190	35,162	74

Two Sermons THE ONE A HEAVENLY VOICE CALLING ALL GODS people out of Romish BABYLON The Other AN EVERLASTING Record of the utter ruine of Romish AMALEK By THOMAS TAYLOR Preacher of the Word at REDDING in Berkshire LONDON Printed by J. H. for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sold at the Golden Cup in the Gold-Smiths row in Cheapside 1624. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND worthie Knights and Burgesses of the Lower-House of PARLAMENT IN most humble sense of mine owne unworthinesse which holdeth no comparison with the height of your authoritie place judgement and learning I have emboldned my selfe to present unto your wisdomes this voice from Heaven calling all the people of God out of Babylon For what voice can be more worthie of audience than a voice from Heaven What voice more seasonable than this amongst the grave consultations of the most important affaires and weightiest causes of God of his Majestie and of this flourishing Kingdome Or who more fit to heare this voice directed to Gods people than you the representation of all the people of God in this Kingdome You I say who sit in the places of your worthie Predecessors by whose consent and assent with that Higher and Honourable House the whole Kingdome was formerly set out of Babylon so farre as by the blessing of God now it is God will without mee saith Ioseph speake for the life of Pharaoh and without mee effect all his good purposes for the prosperitie of his Majestie and his people and you without mee well know the managing of the weightie businesses which you have in hand neither can my candle adde any light unto your Sunne onely having begunne to speake let me finde grace in your eyes and pardon to encourage you in the doing of what you doe Your wisdomes know that what were the two studs of the house in which Sampson played that is Religion and Iustice in the Common-wealth if they be pulled downe or shaken the Church and Common-wealth fall together and all under the fall must needs perish of the two Religion claimeth our first and chiefe care as intending Gods glorie more immediately and mans good not temporarie chiefly but eternall And therefore whereas heathen Governors could provide for the observation of the second Table Christian Governors as the gates of the world lift up their heads that Christ the King of glorie may enter in among them And all godly Parlaments whereof we have not a few examples in Scripture first setled the causes of God and Religion and then the causes of the King and of Civill Iustice as all the companies gathered for the Lords battels must say on everie side of the Host For the Lord and for Gideon Now of all the great and important causes of God which can be offered to your tractation none is more weightie than the subject of this little Treatise none more neerely concerning your selves to whom the care of your brethren is now committed as Benjamin was by his father to Iudah and on whom next to his Majestie the breath of our nostrils and that Higher and honourable house the care of all our safetie is now laid And as all the voices of the land have made you the eyes of the land so are all the eyes of the land held upon you to helpe us against these Babylonians who have beene and are so busie to bring us backe into our former Babylonish Captivitie and to oppose your selves stoutly with our Darius against these adversaries of Ierusalem who like the Midianites have too long troubled us with their wiles And because the planting of Christs Kingdome is the onely meanes to supplant the Kingdome of Babylon and the breath of Christ can onely blast the hopes of Antichrist a readier way cannot bee devised to effect this voice from Heaven than to provide that the knowledge of the Sonne of God may bee propagated thorow the land and that the blowing of the rams hornes of the Gospell may lay downe the wals of this Romish Ierico even with the ground If your wisdomes should send men over the Kingdome as Moses did the spies to search the land of Canaan they would bring you backe a true report that a great part of this Kingdome still lieth as a barren wildernesse destitute of the blessed means of grace and that many great parishes are as the mountains of Gilboa on which the sweetshowers and raines of the Gospell fall not or verie seldome neither doe the happie dewes of holy doctrine fall on them in their night nor the beames of the Sun of grace dart upon them in the day These faithfull messengers would informe you that all this waste and untilled ground is left for the Babylonians for Seminaries Priests and Iesuites to inhabit That these parishes are the verie thickets in which these snakes and vermins hide themselves who beare nothing about them but poison treason and seduction That these places of such blacke and reigning ignorance lie open to spoile and hazard to be drawne easily away by the poysoned breath of the most sottish Priest not to Poperie onely but even to rebellions and treasons which for most part arise out of ignorant and blinde zeale And now who knoweth whether the supply of this want and the remedie of so great an evill bee reserved for the crowne of his Majesties age and the eternall renowne of this Honourable Parlament So noble a worke requireth no lesse noble an Agent such a glorious and famous act well suiteth with him who for wisdome and understanding is the glorie and fame of the whole earth And now noble and worthie Gentle-men God forbid that you should not take to heart the miseries of your brethren wanting food who behold our Lord Iesus Christ more grieved in spirit to see his Country-men want Preachers than when hee saw them in bondage under the Romans God forbid that you should sinne against God and not bestirre you by planting the true knowledge of God to pull downe the strongest pillar of Poperie that you should not move everie stone for the beautifying of Bethel for the setting open of the gate of heaven here upon earth for the establishing of Gods pure worship and for the removall of everie scandall and advantage of Babylon Goe on therefore worthie men in the Lords strength open your mouthes for the dumbe and silent and be faithfull mediatours for the Kingdome of Christ as you desire him to be a faithfull Mediatour for you in the Kingdome of his Father And from hence would arise another happie fruit wherein the glorie of God and his Gospell would shine out in great brightnesse to the infinite disappointment of these Babylonians namely a more religious and conscionable observation of Gods holy Sabbaths whose honour is wofully violated not without the great scandall of our religion by ordinarie travels both by land and by water Oh that your wisdomes would earnestly move our highest terrene Majestie upon earth for the Sabbaths

Haman in his bitter hatred of the Iewes may bee invited to the Queenes banquet but little knoweth hee how neere mischiefe is unto him Herod went on a while stretching out his hand against Peter and Iames but little knew he that God was preparing lice to eat him up Shemei cursed David with an horrible curse and carried it a great while after Davids death but at length he knew that hee had spoken it against his owne life And most memorable was that example of the Iewes who carried the death of the Sonne of God forty yeares and never bethought themselves but when they thought all was forgotten then came the Lord like a lion upon them and teared and spoiled and paid them once for all and wasted and scattered them with so fearefull a curse as never befell any Nation under heaven the which lieth upon them and all their posterity even till this day Let this move all men to feare to offer the least reproach or injurie to the least of Gods Children Wise men are afraid to incurre the Kings indignation and therefore it is said that in Hesters time the feare of the Iewes fell upon the land so let the feare of Gods children fall upon thee whosoever hast formerly distasted them and let it binde thy hands and thoughts from conceiving or acting the least evill or hard measure against them Vse 1. To comfort the Church of God in these threatning times when Gebal and Ammon and Amalek have gathered and combined their forces against this citie of God For 1. If we looke towards God he hath undertaken to revenge the just quarrels of his people that if themselves would put up the wrongs and oppressions inflicted by the adversaries yet the Lord will not put them up or passe by them without revenging them Adde hereunto that he hath written in a booke the ruine of her foes neither can they prevaile in their purposes so long as the Lord turneth an enemie and fighteth against them that provoke him Let the enemies lift up their heads and hands aloft and speake presumptuously against the mountaines of Israel yet feare not worme Iacob nor faint thou citie of God thou hast the hand of the highest lifted up for thee and the arme of the Almighty stretched out for thy defence and safety 2. If we looke to the enemies they are many and mighty but Amalekites we have to doe with cruell enemies but accursed in their persons in their enterprises and in all the wicked meanes of accomplishing the same and if we looke a little into the resemblance we shall see that as Romish Amalek have notably expressed the like cruelty with these in our text so shall they meet with the same certaine perdition they being written by God to destruction as truly as the former For 1. Amalek signifieth a smiting people and of all Religions never was any so fierce or smiting as Romish Amalek their cruelty transcendeth the barbarous cruelty of Turkes or Scithians no degrees of men could avoid their strokes with both their swords they make no difference of men but strike at Princes and people Kings and kingdoms they smite the living and the dead and make no bones to blow up three whole kingdomes at once with one terrible blow or stroke The blowes of the old Amalekites were gentle and soft to the blowes of this smiting Amalek 2. Amalek then came forth against Israel presently upon their deliverance from Pharaoh presently upon the fruition of Manna from heaven and waters out of the rocke Amalek cannot endure Gods grace to Israel in those means of their sustentation nor yet in the pillar of the cloud and fire for their safety and direction Even so the Romish Amalekites presently encampe themselves against the people of God so soone as ever they are gotten out of the darknesse and bondage of Egypt Wilfull enemies are they against the grace of God and against the word of his grace which is the Mannah and Water of life for our refection thorow this our wildernesse 3. Amalek was the first enemie that Israel had after their comming out of Egypt and waged war against Israel to hinder them from going into Canaan and not onely by force but by fraud they spoile the people of God for they come as Grashoppers in multitude and destroy the fruit of the earth and leave no food for Israel so as Israel was exceedingly wasted Even so the Romish Amalek and Antichrist was one of the first enemies of the Church of the new Testament he began in his forerunners in the Apostles daies presently after our redemption wrought by Iesus Christ from the hellish Pharaoh and ever since her rise hath laid in the way of the Israel of God to hinder them from the heavenly Canaan and hath by force and fraud wasted the Church sending into our kingdomes besides forcible instruments of violence and infinite bloudshed innumerable armies of seducing Priests and Iesuits who would have left the people of God no food by the word and Sacraments and not only robbed them of their spirituall meanes but in their temporall state by crafty conveyances carving to themselves whatsoever fat or sweet the kingdomes of the earth have affoorded 4. Amalek forgetteth all kindred and all bonds and respects of Nature they regard not that they were of the same bloud with Israel which might have beene some restraint to their fury So the Romish Amalekites forget all naturall bonds and most heathenishly lay themselves in the vaults caves of blacke darknesse for the destruction of their owne naturall and loving Prince with purpose to spare neither root nor branch Old Amalek would eat up and destroy their enemies countrey these Amalekites like so many Vipers would eat up the bowels of their owne mother and native country Duke Medina his sword knew no difference betweene a Protestant and a Papist no more doth the powder and iron barres but send up suddenly to heaven as in a fiery chariot even them of their owne Religion such fiery zeale as carried Alphonsus Diazius out of one kingdome into another to kill his owne brother Iohn Diazius with his owne hands for surenesse only because he was a Protestant Old Amalek cannot equall these Savages and Monsters with whom no respect of age or sex no degree of honour or learning no plea of Religion nor Iustice no instinct of humanity or manhood it selfe can prevaile for a drop of mercy or pitie from them 5. Amalek commeth cowardly upon Israel and smiteth the hinmost and falleth upon the women and children in their fainting and wearinesse The same course doe the Romish Amalekites take in their plots for seduction and destruction Their seducing Priests fall upon the weaker sex and sort as the devill did at first and overcome first the weake and faint ones such as lag after their colours as cowardly as the old Amalekites encountred Israel so also doe these Nay they come in warlike manner after they had declared