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The propheticall intelligencer, shewing the causes why all corrupt churches of Christendome shall passe away, or depart; and all their sees of corrupt doctrine and discipline shall be abolished, and that the holy city of the church of new Jerusalem is now comming down from my God out of Heaven.
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mouth it must depart from being a true church but the church of Pergamus was such Rev. 2.16 Ergo. Fourthly The church of Thiatira of new Rome is departed from being a true church because she suffered the woman Iezabel amongst them which was a Witch a whore and a murderesse and though God hath given her space yea the longest space to repent of any other yet she repented not of her witchcraft in bewitching men to Idolatry not of her whoredome and abomination nor of her murdering the Saints for the scarled coloured Whore is drunke with the bloud of the Martyrs And therefore Christ hath made her the Synagogue of Sathan Rev. 3.9 because they 〈◊〉 themselves Iewes or a catholique church and are not because they have had time to repent and did not they shall be destroyed They are divided against themselves France against Spaine and Spaine against it selfe it must downe Now if any will account the Martyrs and true believers that lived for 200. yeares before Luther that suffered the manners of the Iezabel of Rome amongst them that should have been put away out of the church as Luther and Calvin and England did I account it the truth but that which is spoken to Iezabel is spoken to Rome as their sinnes declare The church of Sardis of the Lutherans is departing because they are in the dead faith which brought forth dead workes that were not perfect before God Rev. 3.1.2 and dead in love to the Calvinists and in love one to another their faith of consubstantiation is a dead faith that believe not their workes are perfect before God by justification neither can they believe so that live in hatred and persecution of their brethren the Calvinists that church is divided against it selfe thus the Sweeds and Danes both Lutherans were at Warre one with another lately which have shot downe the one side of their church from within and a Papist the Emperour and a Calvinist is undermining the other side for both Papists and Calvinists fight against the Lutherans and they fight one with another truly if one stone of a church should fight against another could it stand no it must fall Sixtly The Phyladelphian church of the Calvinists is passing away because they have not held fast that they had for they had the true faith and one baptisme into Christs death for remissions of sinne taught by Calvin and that doctrine established amongst them but many of them have not held fast that they had but have let the Anabaptists take their crowne for the crowne of a christian is his baptisme for therein are all the Elect crowned Rev. 1.6.5 10. with the crowne of pure gold of the merits of Christs death for remission of sinne and made Kings and Priests to God their father Rev. 1.9 for as no man is a King before he be crowned so no man is a King and Priest to God till he be baptized many of them have lost this crowne by turning Anabaptists and Sectaries a Papist a Lutheran and an Anabaptist are pulling downe the one side of their church and a Sectary and a Drunkard are cutting and beating downe the other side therefore it cannot stand for Anababtisme and drunkennesse will destroy any church wheresoever they grow witnesse the churches of Greece and Munster and many places in Iermany for Heresie is like Ivie that kills an Oake by growing over it and then men cut downe Oake and Ivie too and so where Heresie is suffered to grow in a church it kills the church by overgrowing it then God will destroy the church and heresie too as shall be seene by the church of Calvinists in suffering Anabaptists it will be the destruction of the church of Holland The church of Laodicea of England is passing away for Christ spues the Luke-warme Angels people that are lukewarme in the faith of their baptisme for remission of sinnes and in the white raiment for England hath been divided against it selfe and also Scotland and Ireland fights against them both and divided against it selfe also The Papists and Cavalleers have shot great holes in the one side of our church to get an Episcopacy but cannot because Christ spues it out of his mouth an Anabaptist stands as it were with a rope to pull downe the steeple for he called it first a Steeple-house and the Hereticks Sectaries and Selectaries have pulled up all the foundations as instance Baptisme the Creed the Lords prayer the Decalogâ—â— the Eucharist and Christmas day and the Eucharist which hath bin as a foundation of all the seven churches ever since the Apostles time and so divided as I know not whether the King and Parliament will be reconciled ever but the Presbyters and Independents will never for their quarrell is begun and will never end for they scould can such a church stand no it must depart and passe away for the people have so many frothings of religion in their braines so many opinions and Heresies that they will fall from being a church to be a Babel for as the Babilonians having a strange phantasie would begin to build a tower to reach to heaven yet had no good materialls but made brick instead of stone and had slime instead of morter this was mans invention and it came to confusion for God confounded their language scattered them so many Hereticks Sectaries have got a conceipt in their crowne to goe make a new church as a Tower to reach to heaven for they would all goe to heaven if they could goe their owne way and they have concocted brick of the Brownists braine instead of doctrine and they have discipline of phantasie instead of morter I am not against doctrine or discipline if they be from heaven but our new church-mungers have no good materialls of gold white raiment and eye-salve from heaven to build with but the new Ierusalem must be builded of pure gold like cleare glasse Rev. 21.18 Of the gold of the merits of Christs death in regeneration for remission of sinnes and of white raiment to make the Bride trimme and eye-salve of the Scriptures that every thing may be done according to the patterne shewed in the mount of Gods word But doe you thinke blinde men are fit to build a church you will say no no more are all the Pharises of our time of all Sectaries and Hereticks whose froathing faith or fancie makes them boyle out of the church which are blind leaders of the blinde for they leade many from Christs ordinance for remission of sinnes and blind in the assurance of salvation for they know not where they had remission of sinnes but runne after every winde of Doctrine and know not whether they shall be saved or be damned or goe to heaven or to hell are you fit men to build a church that are all so blinde that you cannot see spirituall things so here sayes one wee will build this way so there says a second we will build that way so here sayes a
you cannot build none so great Fourthly The New Church must be built of pure gold like unto cleare glasse but you have got none of that to build with for the gold growes in the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3.18 Which wee have forsaken Fifthly You have no Iasper stone for your wall nor fine linnin which is bright and pure the justifications of the Saints to trime your Church with but your Bride hath got a menstruous garment of mans righteousnesse that sayes stand a part I am holier then thou or I will stand a part and separate from you thus you have neither gold nor precious stones nor white raiment to trime your Church but your builders are all divided and your language confounded before you begin you shall build a Babel for the New Church comes from heaven and the builder and founder of it is God and the government of it must come from God before we shall have one as I tould you three yeares since in my Epistle to the Booke of the bloud of the Lambe but you believed it not but thought you should have had a better Reformation and government before this time but are deceived and not I. It followeth for the first Heaven and the first Earth are passed away Question What shall the other Churches then of the Gentiles faile come to decay for hath heaven noteth out the Church as you have proved Answer We need not trouble our selves to prove it for the divisions of all Churches and people against themselves doe shew it for they are sending one another to hell as fast as they can by sword persecution hatred envy and malice dissention heresies sects and schismes and drunkennesse and covetousness they make post hast to hell-ward For where the heaven of a Church is divided against itselfe it cannot continue Matth. 12. But the Church of the Lutherans and of Calvinists and of Papists and of English are heaven of Churches that are divided against themselves Ergo they cannot continue they are heavens that are waxed olde as a garment and as a vesture shall hee change them The Pope and all his Idolaters and his ceremonies the dead faith consubstantiated Lutherans and the luke-warme faith of the English and Calvinists shall be spewed out of Christs mouth Rev. 3.10 And the Heretickes Seperators from the Church with the profane unbelievers shall be rooted out Ma. For every plant which my heavenly Father planted not shall be rooted out Matth. 15.15 Ma. But they which will not buy gold white raiment and eye-salve are plants which my heavenly Father hath not planted Con. Ergo they shall be rooted out Quest As touching the reformed Churches What shall the receiving of the Jewes bee the estranging of the Gentiles from being Churches as if casting away the Church of the Jewes was the reconcilement of the world i. e. Of the Churches of the Gentiles Rom. 11.15 Answ It is very plaine because the Apostle certifieth us in that place that there is a certaine fulnesse of the Gentiles to be made up which is to be at the calling of the Jewes vers 25. for if John saw the former heaven and the former earth departed then you must appoint them a time to passe away in And when the luke-warme Angels of Laodicea is spewed out of Christs mouth i. e. which is the last Church of the Gentiles they shall passe away for being any more churches for the former heaven are the Churches of the Gentiles which he saw departed Ergo they shall passe away Object The Gentiles which are saved shall walke in the light of the new Jerusalem Answ Answ Then they shall leave the candle-lights of the Churches of the Gentiles which are called Candlesticks Rev. 1. they were of and walke in the light of the new Church that shall be on earth and be one with them For blessed is he that doth his commandements that his right way may be in the tree of life that bee may enter in through the gates of the City Rev. 22.14 Object And the Kings of the Earth shall bring their glory and honour to that Church of the new Jerusalem Answ An. This makes against you also for if they doe so then they shall leave to honour their olde Churches and their governments and shall honour the holy City to be the only true Church And as we have had Kings of England that above all the Kings in Christendom have been Kings of Jerusalem So wee shall have againe Kings of England that shall be Kings of the Church of new Jerusalem Let our King hearken to this for the Kings of the earth shall bring their honour and glory both vers 14. The causes why the Churches of the Gentiles shall depart and their Sees and the Church of new Jerusalem appeare Object It seemes there shall be a flourishing Church of the Gentiles when the Jewes shal be called For saith Paul If the casting away of the Jewes were the riches of the Gentiles or the reconciliation of the world what shall their assuming be life from the dead I answer it is true for the Lutherans that escape the bloudy Civill warr and turne shall arise out of the dead faith and the Calvinists and the English shall arise out of the luke-warme faith to walke in the golden street of the lovely faith of the merits of Christs death in one baptisme for the remission of sins as the 3000. did Acts 2.38 and so Papists and Heathens shall arise out of their idolatrous and superstitious faith and embrace the true faith of the new Jerusalem of the Jews and Gentiles v 24. Out of which words we gather that the fulnesse of the Gentiles is not a certaine end of their believing at the calling of the Jewes as if faith should utterly fall away among the Gentiles as nothing can be powred more into a full vessell but that there shall be a more plentifull comming in of all the Nations of the Earth leaving their olde dead luke-warm and Idolatrous Churches and shall obey the true faith of the Church of the new Jerusalem as Zach. 14.9 The Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day there shall be one Lord and one faith and one baptisme saith Paul Ephes 4.5 whereas now wee have many and his Name shall be one i.e. and the name of his Church shall be one new Jerusalem Rev. 3.12 God will write it on them and one Shepheard and one sheepe-fold John 10.16 and Isa 25.7 8. And the Lord shall destroy in this mountaine the covering that covereth all people and the vaile that is spread upon all i. e. the vail of ignorance of their baptisme into Christs death for the remission of sinnes Rom. 6.3 Acts 2.38 For few have this vaile of infidelity removed and the Lord shall wipe all away all teares from their faces and he will take away the rebuke of his people out of the earth i. e. at the calling of the Jewes as Psalm 77.9 10 11. For the Kings