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A79477	Sions memento, and Gods alarum. In a sermon at VVestminster, before the Honorable House of Commons, on the 31. of May 1643. the solemne day of their monethly fast. By Francis Cheynell late Fellow of Merton College in Oxford. Printed and published by order of the House of Commons.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing C3816; Thomason E55_13; ESTC R16225	52,682	55

see what reason we have to Protest against that Babylonian sacrifice in the Masse You have now received the knowledge of this truth and if you sinne wilfully after you have received the knowledge of the truth it is principally meant of this truth there remains no more sacrifice for sinne because ye have wilfully and maliciously rejected the Onely All-sufficient Sacrifice of Jesus Christ trusting upon some other Sacrifice that of the Masse or the like and done despite to the Spirit by a most malignant contempt of the witnesse of the Spirit What argument can be more prevailing to perswade us to hold fast the Profession of our Faith the Protestant Faith lest we fall from a coldnesse and neutrality in Religion into a desperate malignity and unpardonable Apostasie Away with Babylonish Gestures Names and Titles Rites and Ceremonies away with Babylonish Garments too our professed Babylonians begin now to air the mouldy Copes they wear the Babylonish Garment that they may have the wedge of gold and in their own phrase they dissemble under a Cope and are if you will beleeve them Protestants in their Hear●s Our Prophet Zechariah will informe you how to deal with these men Put them into an Ephah that they may be kept within compasse within their bounds by severe discipline and clap a talent of lead a weighty censure upon the mouth of the Ephah Zech. 5. 8. Let the Ephah be lifted up on high between heaven and earth verse 9. that is let the sentence be so Publike that all may take notice of it and then let the Ephah be carried away quite out of Sion and let an house be built for it in the land of Shinar that is Babylon ver. the 11th let their Habitation be there from whence they drew their Corruption for there they may settle upon their own Base their own Lees their own corrupt Principles If such as are Notorious and Incorrigible were Excommunicated by an Assembly of Divines and some Civill-punishment inflicted upon such as are within your reach by an Ordinance of Parliament the sinne would not be Nationall men would see and fear and do no more so wickedly in England For the sharpest punishments are inflicted onely {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by way of Prudence for terrour and reformation not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by way of retribution for no punishment inflicted by man can possibly countervail a sin against God 2. Make Gods Authority your Foundation build upon it it is an Impregnable Rock though the windes blow the rain beat the waves roar and dash themselves into Foame yet your House wil stand and your Orders can never be disanulled if built upon the Rock Make Gods word alone the Rule of Reformation and keep close to your Rule and then all your Orders will be acknowledged to be Responsa prudentum and such as deserve to be Rescripta Principum this is the way to make your Orders prevail not onely by your Authority but by their Own Authority 3. Pray for the Holy Spirit for the Spirit gives both Light and eyes You will meet with so many new sinnes new dangers new temptations new mercies new troubles that you had need beg hard for a spirit of Prayer that you may be able to make new Prayers every hour severall Prayers upon severall occasions Sion must prevail by Prayer Sion was the Mount of Prayer there was the house of Prayer this is as they use to call it in some Reformed-Churches a Prayer-day but every day must now be a day of prayer extraordinary prayer we must spend more time then ordinary in our private devotions Get ye up to Mount Olivet and there pray for Mount Sion joyn heads and purses and forces and prayers together Josuah's sword will not prevail without Moses his prayer Be of good comfort though your enemies can out-swear you yet they cannot out-pray you If they be a thousand thousand strong and march against you with all their might Call upon the Name of the Lord and rest upon your God Asa did so and by the prayer of faith prevailed against a thousand thousand Ethiopians and three hundred Chariots 2 Chron. 14. 9 to the 12th verse Oh send to France and Ireland and Germany for their experimentall Prayers 4. Humiliation is an excellent Preparative for Reformation and there is no duty more pertinent to the Text and proper not onely for this day but for these times In those dayes and in that time saith the Prophet Jeremy the 50. Chap. and the 4. verse what times what dayes why when the children of Israel shall come out of Babylon they and the children of Iudah together going and weeping they shall go and seek the Lord their God Honourable and Beloved let us this day seek our God with tears if ye would be Princes with God and have power with him as Prince Jacob had you must weep and make supplication in Bethel the house of God there God will be found and there here he hath spoke with you to day read the twelfth of Hoseah the third and fourth verses Blessed be our great God who did put it into your hearts to draw up a Catalogue of the sins of this Nation O that you would weep over every sin in that Catalogue before you sleep O let us read our sins in those miseries which are come upon us We have nourished Malignant lusts within us which rebell against the spirit and fight against the soul we have made sport past-time with those sins which shed the blood of the Lord Jesus O let those sins draw tears from us which drew blood from Christ We have grieved the holy Spirit and therefore well may the Spirit refuse to comfort us who haue grieved him Well may the God of heaven bathe his sword in our blood and make the land ●at with our carcasses for we have forfeited our very Estates and lives we do not deserve one bit of bread or drop of water justly may God feed us with the bread of sorrows and give us tears to drink We would not serve God with joyfulnesse for the abundance of all things and therefore well might God send us to serve our enemies in the want of all things Deut. 28. 47 48 Behold the heaven is as brasse and the earth as iron because we have had a brazen brow and there is an iron sinew in our necks we have gone on impudently and stubbornly in our sinnes Gods Doctrine hath dropped as the raine and distilled as the dew but not as the dew upon the tender herbe for our hearts have not been tender our lives have not been fruitfull well might our unfruitfulnesse be the cause of the lands barrennesse We have abused Gods blessings for the maintenance of our pride luxury wantonnesse we have sought against God with his owne blessings and therefore he hath good reason to disarme us Oh let us weepe for Ireland weepe for England weepe for the King

Iesus Christ All the world knowes that Babylon grew great at first by claiming an universall Jurisdiction in Spiritualls over the whole Church of God by vertue of that usurped and Anti-christian title of * Vniversall Bishop I have not breath or strength enough to tell you the story of Boniface the third at large nor am ●at leisure to relate how Pope Hildebrand laid aside the two-edged sword of the Word tooke up the two-handed sword of Temporall Spirituall Jurisdiction it is cleare that by the power of these two swords Babylon was raised to such an height that the Popes have ever since tyrannized like Babylonian Monarchs over Kings and Emperours as if the Pope had been Nebuchadnezzars successour whose Title is confessed by Daniel to be King of Kings Dan. 2. 37. Much lesse can I relate what violence hath been used for the oppressing poore Protestants in every corner of the world by this Beast of Babylon but give me leave in the name of all the Churches to renew that charge of the Prophet * The violence done unto me and to my flesh be upon Babylon shal the inhabitant of Zion say shal Germany say and France say and my bloud upon the Chaldeans shall Jerusalem say shall Ireland say nay England poore England doth this day joyne in the Charge against all the Antichristian Protestants give me leave to call them so who are of the Antichristian faction and joyne with the popish army in shedding the bloud of Saints under the notion of Parliament dogges and Rebells the bloud of England and Ireland be upon all them who have shed the precious bloud of Protestants out of a presumptuous and malicious wickednesse This scruple being removed I shall now proceed if my voice will hold to give you some plain Directions for a thorow Reformation the first Direction is Negative 1. You must not build Sion with the Materials of Babylon with any thing that may truely and properly be said to be fetcht from Babylon as old Babylon was not to be built any more so was there no stone to be taken from thence to build any other place They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor a stone for foundations but everlasting desolations shall be upon thee saith the Lord Jerem. 51. 26. Beware then how you receive any Principles any Fundamentals or Corner-stones from Romish-Babylon let everlasting desolations dwell upon it Let us not receive the Babylonian-Creed the Trent-Creed nor the Romish-Liturgie the Church of God hath a spirit of Prayer and therefore needs not send to Babylon to Rome for prayers The Papists seem to acknowledge that their Liturgie is corrupt because they have often pretended and as some boast have really made severall Reformations of their Liturgie You see then that those men have steeled their brows with a more then Babylonish impudency who have been ever and anon altering the English Liturgie for the worse as if the Missall had been Jure divino and therefore the Liturgie could never come near enough to the Romane Masse Beleeve it if the Faction that is now up in Arms prevail we shall have that Service book which was prepared for Scotland or a a worse some Babylonian-Service imposed upon us as Divine-service and can any man that hath but an English-heart within him bear such a Cheat If we had but the noble valour which dwelt in the Britains of old whilest they worshipped the Goddesse of b Victory before they knew Christ it is impossible but our spirits should rise against such grand Impostures But I forget you and my self Be sure that there be no Babylonian gods no Romish Idols tolerated in England let it be no longer counted the piety of the times to make our Churches houses of temptation let that prophesie Micah 1. 7. be fulfilled in our dayes Let the graven Images be beaten to pieces and the hires thereof burnt with fire let all the Idols be laid desolate for all was gathered of the hire of an Harlot and they shall return to the hire of an Harlot You know there is hire taken for both kindes of Harlotry at Rome Let us have no more Babylonian Ministers Priests so they would be called let us have no more Babylonian Altars for fear they bring in the Babylonian Sacrifice You know how many English Martyrs did sacrifice their lives in protesting against the sacrifice in the Masse and though some black-mouthed Priests of late have called them Foxes-Martyrs yet I will be bold to call them the Martyrs of the Lord Jesus and the Martyrs of the Holy Ghost I must beg time to prove what I say it is a weighty truth and we know not how soon we may be called to seal this truth with our dearest blood The Apostle proves it undeniably by sundry arguments in the Epistle to the Hebrews in the 7. 8. 9. and 10th Chapters I will pitch upon the tenth because there you have the summe of all There is no other Sacrifice which can take away sin but the Sacrifice which Jesus Christ himself offered upon the Crosse read the tenth verse By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of what of a wafer-cake no of the body of Iesus Christ But how often must his body be offered once for all not as often as there is a Masse but once for all But who must offer the body of Christ why Christ himself this Man verse the 12th a Masse-Priest cannot offer up the body of Christ for Christ is both Priest and Sacrifice But may not a Masse-Priest offer some other sacrifice for sinnes No there is but one sacrifice for sinne ver. 12. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sinnes and that one sacrifice is to be but once offered the Apostle repeats this that we might not forget it this sacrifice was offered once for all verse 10. once for ever verse 12. once for all sinnes once for all times it is of perpetuall vertue and merit once for ever Is not that plain and full Oh but Christ is gone to heaven and we are not yet perfected Why vain man Christ hath finished his work and therefore is gone to heaven he is sate down ver. 12. and he hath done his work or else he would not sit down he hath not left any part of the Service to be perfected by a Masse-priest and therefore do not expect to be perfected by any other offering in the Masse or out of the Masse read the 14. verse For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Ye are sanctified by that one offering verse 10. and perfected by it verse 14. But who is the witnesse of this truth why the Holy Ghost in the very next verse the 15th verse Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witnesse to us Judge now whether they that did bear witnesse to this truth be not Co-martyrs with the Holy Ghost and therefore Co-heirs with Jesus Christ You