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A10380	A warning to come out of Babylon, in a sermon preached by Master Andrew Ramsay, minister at Edinburgh; at the receiving of Mr. Thomas Abernethie, sometime Jesuite, into the societie of the truely reformed Church of Scotland	Ramsay, Andrew, 1574-1660.	1638 (1638)	STC 20657; ESTC S115617	27,981	57

was in Babylon being a servant and a tenant of the scarlet whoore c. And more clearly to Marcella in the name of Paula and Eustochium hee inviteth her to come out of Rome being that Apocalyptick Babylon whereby it is clear what Hierome did esteeme of Rome And in the preceeding chapter the whore is said to sit cloathed in purple dyeed with the bloud of the Saints with a golden cup full of fornications in her hand having in her fore-head A mysterie Babilon Rome therefore is that mystick Babylon the citie situat upon seven hilles which did reigne over all the kingdomes of the Earth at that time And it is observable that the Popes ordinarie vesture is Scarlet and in the frontispice of his Mitre as Joseph Scaliger witnesseth in his notes on the New Testament is written Mysterie which he learned by the report of Lord Montmorency who was certified thereof in his being at Rome Moreover the same Scaliger sayeth there that the Masse in all languages hath the name of Mysterie which I doubt not is by Divine providence for it is full of mysteries in all the parts gestures actions and rites thereof in so far that for their exposition they require a voluminous treatise as Durandus Rationale and idle pennes of others imployed upon that superstitious subject doe testifie Yea there is no part of their white garments that wanteth its mysterie wherefore the better reformed churches have rejected them for their forged operation and popish mysticall signification The scarlet the golden cup the mysterie the imperiall citie situat on seven hilles do evidence what that mystick Babilon Rome is and the pope who resides there In this book of Divine Revelation Rome is branded with three titles and names of Egypt Sodome and Babilon It is called Egypt in the XI Chapter because it oppresseth the people of God and maketh them worke in brick and clay of corrupt doctrines and humane inventions It is there also called Sodome because of idlenesse and fulnesse of bread and that filthie and unaturall lust not to be named which made GOD to raine fire and brimstone thereupon for many idle bellies be there dumb dogs that preach not prodigalitie and luxurie do reigne amongst them and these unnaturall lustes wherewith the Sodomites were infamous so abounds in Rome that Petrus Damianus leaving Rome and betaking him to the wildernesse in detestation of this Sodomiticall villanie published a book intituled by him Gomorraeus which he did dedicat to Leo the ninth Cardinal Baronius in his Annales clearly confesseth the same And the Archbishop de la Casa was not ashamed to present to the view of the world a treatise in the commendation of filthie Sodomie which was printed and reprinted at Venice O Coelum ad haec non sadas O terra non dehiscis O Heavens doe yee not blush O Earth doest thou not open thy mouth and swallow such vile and grievous sinners But O LORD great is thy patience which the impenitent abusing do treasure up to themselves wrath against the day of wrath Thirdly Rome is called Babilon which signifieth confusion for the confusion of tongues at the building of Babell because in Rome mystick Babilon there is a confusion of secular and ecclesiasti●k governement distinguished and divided by GOD himselfe in the persons of Moses and Aaron and from thence as is evident in the reigne of Jehosaphat except in extraordinarie cases untill the dayes of the Macabees whose successours confounding church and policie as a thing ordinare did loose both church and policie And unto Peter the keyes of the kingdome of Heaven was committed and not keyes of the kingdome of the earth And the Canons of the Apostles so called interdict ecclesiastick persons from medling with civile affaires The prime and purer Antiquitie not onely condemneth the same but in the last and corrupt dayes Bernard ad Eugenium enveyeth against all secular governement in the persons of Churchmen But Babilon hath confounded these giving in both the plenitude of power to the Pope and from him as the source and spring all power to streame forth and bee derived at his pleasure in spirituall and temporall governement This is a great confusion but there is a greater and worse in mixing and confounding trueth with errour in the worship of GOD for they have joyned with the word GOD their traditions with the two Sacraments of GOD their five bastard sacraments with the bloody sacrifice of CHRIST their unbloodie sacrifice of the Messe with the merit of Christ the merit of man with the adoration of the Creator the adoration of the creature with the blood of Christ the blood of Martyrs And this way have built up their Babell of confusion And because of this double confusion if they repent not double confusion in GODS just judgement is prepared for them Therefore that we may eschew this confusion and GODS fierce vengance let us come out of Babell To come out of Babylon is not only to come out with the feet of our body but three wayes we must come out of Babylon In minde affection and action In minde and judgement disproving and condemning their errours in heart and affection hating them in action in deed and body forsakeing them and that with resolution never to returne And he who in these three forsaketh Babel may bee said truely to come out of Babel But this coming out of Babel presupposeth a residing and dwelling in Babel Whereby we may answere to these who aske us where our Kirk was before the dayes of Luther I aske likewise where they who came out of Babel was before their coming out of Babel It must bee said that they were in Babel So our Church before the reformation which was three hundred yeares before Luther was in mystick Babylon the Romane church But though it was in it it was not of it for if it had beene of it as John sayeth it had not went from out of it It was in it and with it as a masse of metall consolidat of gold silver and tinne wherein though the gold and silver be mixed with the tinne they are no part of the tinne and by the melting of the skilfull founder are separate and distinguished one from another So were the good and the bad mixed together in the Romane church till GOD by the Reformers as so many skilfull founders did separate and divide his own Elect from the reprobate If it bee further demanded who these were of our profession that did remaine in the Romane church I answer they were of three sorts Publick opponents to the Romish errours Private opponents and a third who were neither publick nor private opponents Publick opponents I might name many but I will content mee with some most remarkable When the Gregorean Liturgie was obtruded to the Christian Kirk in these Westerne parts these of Millan did oppose the same being better pleased with the Liturgie of Ambrose these of Spaine did

but in regard of us for though the authoritie of John the baptist the miracles of Christ the testimonie of one sent from the dead the voice of an Angell from Heaven and the voyce of GOD heard of the disciples in the Mou●● were of themselves divine and infallible yet in respect of us as testifieth Peter GOD will have his word to be of a more certaine authoritie In it God hath judged and determined all contraversies and his decision registrate by the Prophets and Apostle● continueth to the end of the world and the duetie of the Kirk is to search out his decisive sentence conteined in the holy Scriptures and apply the same Our adversaries to ●id this divine authoritie of Gods written word have forged four deceit full rules Antiquitie Councels Traditions and the voice of the Church which being tryed shall be found no rules for the rule of faith must be inf●llible these are not so the Pha●●sees pretended Antiquitie which Christ rejected tradition which also he rejected the voice of the Church even of the doctors that sate in Moses chair the Lord bids the people beware of it calling it the Leaven of the Pharisees which he interpreteth to be the Doctrine of the Pharisees Shall they alleadge Councels Christ His Apostles and their doctrine were condemned in them● yea and even by the testimonie of our Adversaries these rules shall prove no rules The ancient Doctors and Fathers of the kirk have erred in many things which the Adversaries themselves confesse The like they affirme of Councels On traditions they never yet could agree And as for the voice of the Church which by their glosse and commentarie is the voice of the Pope it hath beene by many of themselves condemned for heresie Therefore let us come out of Babel least we be pertakers of her plagues By these plagues is understood her destruction which shall not bee speedie but a lent destruction and by degres as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a consumption importeth a Thess 2 till at last she be totally and eternally destroyed For as the mysterie of iniquitie did grow and advance by degrees so shall it fall by degrees It was conceived as holy Scripture witnesseth in the dayes of the Apostles it was quickned in the time of Victor and did stirre more powerfully under Stephanus and Cornelius bishops of Rome more yet under Damasus and others following most strongly did it move in the time near the birth under Leo the first It was borme and brought to the view of the World by Boniface the third upon whom the title of universall bishop was conferred by Phocas Emperour as a sythment and satisfactorie price for the bloud of his Master Mauriti●● cruelly and treasonably shed This bruid of iniquitie did grow and was advanced much by the decay of the Greeke impire and donations of the western Emperours till at last it came to the full hight and maturitie in Hildebr and in whom the Antichrist was so visible that many of the Cleargie in France and Germanie and others did avow him to bee the Antichrist This destruction GOD shall bring to passe three wayes as Wee learne out of holy Scripture First by the sword of the Spirit 2 Thess● chap. 2. vers 8. Next by the sword of the Kings on Earth Revel 17. chap. 16 and 17. verse Lastly by the brightnesseof the Lords coming 2 Thess 2. 8. God also hath wounded her by the sword of the Spirit first in raising up the Valdenses against her of whom Frier Reinerius who wrote against them thus reporteth saying That they were of all the most pernicious s●ct for Antiquitie some holding they were from the Apostles time for generality there scarce being any nation where they are not And tastly for shew of piety in that they live justly before men and believe all things touching GOD aright and all the articles of the Creed only they blaspheme and hate the church of Rome By these Vaidenss the Romane beast gote so deep a wound that though by all meanes they laboured to cure the same yet shall it not bee cured but waxeth more and more incurable for the publick and open reformation begun by them did not so wound that Beast as the reformation by Wickleph who did more clearly espie and more sharply refure the Mysterie of iniquitie then others before him and that reformation by Husse made the wound yet deeper and after him by Luther and Zuinglius it was deepest of all so this wound is incurable And as the mysterie of iniquitie rose by degrees so doeth it fall by degrees Neither doth the article ' O help their cause as if the Antichrist were one singular man seing it is usuall in Scripture under one to comprehend many The woman in the Revelation cloathed with the Sun having the Moone under her feet though shee be but one representeth the Church which is a collective body and comprehendeth many So the Angels in every one of the seven Churches is interpreted by many collectively for many Pastors and Messengers of God And every one of these four beasts recorded by Daniel doth signifie not on● singular King only but a race of many Kings and Kingdomes as is clear by the 23. and 24. verses of the seventh chapter of Daniel Yea the Popes of Rome abuse the name of Peter pretending his name to all their usurped tyrannie Therefore it is that their large possessionm Italy are calleds Peters Patrimonie their Pole-money collected sometimes out of England Peters pence And their Plen●tude of jurisdiction they claime over the whole church Peters keyes and that one rocke in a popish glosse upon which they will have the church to be built is a lawfull succession of the Bishops of Rome which they affirme to have descended from Peter the blessed Apostle notwithstanding they be as far different from Peter in a doctrinall succession which is the only true succession as Cajaphas that condemned Christ was from holy Aaron first high Priest of the Jewish nation It may be haplie objected that many Bishops of Rome were godly and suffered martyredome for the Christian faith I answere that it is the antichrist and the antichristian Kingdome and not every person in that line that is appointed for destruction for what is recorded of Victor Lee the first and others who being tickled with the itch of ambition aspired to a supremacie over the church doth not argue them to be reprobates but men compassed with infirmities Who were building Babylon not knowing that they were building Babylon even as faithfull Gideon when he was making his Ephod of the ear-ring given him of the spoile of the Midianites was erecting a monument of idolatrie to the destruction of his house and knew not he was so doing So the Bishops in affecting Soveraignitie were ignorantly promoving the antichristian Kingdome which God appointeth to destruction Therefore Come of Babylon the