by abusing the worthy name of God speaking reproachfully of him and his Son Christ and slighting those Laws and Ordinances which are given forth to be practised till his second and great coming with the abusing of themselves in uncleaneness and Lusts of the flesh amongst which they contend for the community of Women which is none of the least of their Uncleanenesses and make themselves worse than the savage Beasts Of that sort are the rude Ranters and the blasphemous Quakers the which have cast off Civil Humanity and this generation of men are the men that will cause the Lord to arise and take vengeance upon the earth for so saith the word of the Lord in these words And Enoch also the seventh from Adam Prophecied of these saying Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly amongst them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlily committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly Sinners have spoken against him So that we may see that the Lord will send his Son in flaming fire against all ungodly men but chiefly they that walk after the Lust of the flesh in uncleaneness as hee once did destroy the world and such like Sinners with an over-flowing Floud Gen. 6.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Jude 4. compare 14 15. 2 Pet. 2.4 compare 10. cap. 3.3 compare 10. See also vers. 7. From hence you may see that that ungodly generation of men that are now in the World is a lively sign of Christs coming And so I pass briefly to the third The Third sign of Christs coming Is the Echo or sound of these two things in the World as namely the Preaching of the Gospel about in the Nations and the Warres and rumours of Warres that do accompany it for when these two things go together then Christ saith the end is very nigh and although the Gospel have been preached before in a private way that is to say in some particular Nation or privately in that Nation yet never was the Gospel preached to Nations and Rulers as it is in our days Obj. If it should be Objected and said That the Gospel hath been preached in Nations a great while by the Ministery of the Nation To which I answer Ans. That as the Congregations of the Nation was never called a Church of Christ nor her Teachers the Ministers of the Gospel neither hath that kinde of Doctrine which they have preached been called the preaching of the Gospel If it should be demanded of me what it is I should answer to them in their particuler order First the National Church is called by the name of the Cities of the Nation which is a borrowed word from Christs Church Yee are a City set upon an Hill Mat. 5.14 Rev. 16.19 and that this City of the Nations is meant the National Church is because they shall begin to decay and sink and shall also be destroyed at the time that Babylon shall come in remembrance before God whereby she shall receive the Cup at his hands for the Nations or the National Church hath been stained is and shall be with the corruptions or pollutions of Romes Doctrine Jer. 51.7 8. Again if you shall ask me what the National Ministers are called in Scripture I shall shew you as followeth they are called Merchants of the Earth or the Angels of the Waters now the word Angel signifieth Minister as Revel. 1.20 and the Waters signifie Nations for so saith the Spirit The Waters that thou sawest are Multitudes Nations and Tongues Rev. 17.15 so it is clear that the Angels of the Waters are meant the Ministers of the Nations so that they are neither called Ministers of Christ nor Ministers of the Gospel but the Ministers of the Gospel are called by another name in the same place even the Angel of the Altar and that Christ is our Altar is clear see Heb. 13.10 Rev. 16.7 Thirdly Why their Preaching is not called Gospel-preaching although they make use of the Gospel is because they teach for Doctrine the Traditions of their Fathers and the Apostle calleth not such Gospel-preaching but saith to the Galathians I marvel that you are so soon moved away from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel which is not another but there are some that trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ Gal. 1.6 7. so that those persons that do pervert any of the sayings of Christ according to Scripture account cannot be called the Ministers of the Gospel nor their Preaching Gospel-preaching which the Ministers of our Nation have done that is to say mingled the Commands of Christ with their Traditions and so cannot be meant that Gospel-preaching which shall bee the fore-runner of Jesus Christ but that the Gospel shall be preached again in the plain way of it that is to say in the way which Christ appointed when hee ascended up on high is clear Mat. 24.14 Rev. 14.6 The Fourth and last Sign of the second coming of Jesus Christ is those false Signs and Miracles that shall bee wrought by the false Prophets for a little before the coming of Christ there will be a Generation of men that will deny the way and Ordinances of the Gospel because they are not accompanied with Miracles and so shall deny the power of the Word The Devil seeing this hee shall impower the false Prophets whereby they shall do great Signs and lying Wonders to deceive by multitudes all incredulous persons who will beleeve a lying Sign before they will beleeve that Word that was confirmed by Signs for when persons do not like to retain God in their knowledge God is pleased to send them strong delusions to beleeve a Lye and that there are many such now in our days that have denied the Truth that once they owned and are grown to such a height as that they do shew many lying Signs if any shal question the truth of this let them but go to London and go to those Meetings that they call the Quakers Meetings and they shall see it apparently enough But now to prove that false Signs and lying Wonders before-runners of Christs coming see from these Scriptures following Mat. 7.22 Cap. 24.24 2 Thess. 2.9 Rev. 13.13 14. Cap. 16.14 15. Friends I should adde some more Signs of Christs coming as the gathering together of the Jews into their own Land which certainly might easily be proved did we but understand the consultation that there is amongst them but the returning of the Fleet from the Straights will give us more certain intelligence as to that thing and so I shall leave these few Signs unto your consideration and pass to the Tenth and last Particular A profitable Application of the Sum of what is fore-mentioned Christian Reader I having shewed you what excellent injoyment the Lord hath laid up for his people even for such as seek him as for hidden treasure Sith
A DISCOVERY Of the Latitude of the loss of the EARTHLY PARADISE BY ORIGINAL SIN Occasioned by a Disputation betwixt Mr. Matthias Rutton Min: of Boughton Munchalse in Kent and the Author hereof branched out in these particulars as followeth I. First An Examination of his Apologetical Letter with a full Answer thereunto II. Secondly Six arguments to prove that Original Sin exposed Adam and his Posterity but to the first death III. Thirdly A Discovery of the false and corrupted Ministers by Ten Characters IV. Fourthly a Discovery of the true Ministers by Ten Characters By George Hammon Pastor to the Church of Christ meeting in Biddenden in Kent But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Gen. 2.17 And in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return London Printed by Ro Ibbitson for Francis Smith and are to be sold at his Shop in Flying-Horse Court in Fleet street 1655. The Epistle Dedicatory To Mr. Matthias Rutton Minister of Boughton Munchalse and to the rest of his Brethren the Clergy who have ecclipsed and darkned the Doctrine of the Gospel by the humane traditions received from the Fathers SIR I Having received your apologetical discourse in a Letter sent to a friend of mine in reference to what discourse you and I formerly had in the which Letter you discovered your self to be a great Antagonist unto the truth the Ministry thereof Moreover it doth appear by your Letter that it is your Pulpit discourse frequently to calumniate the people of God upon the consideration whereof I thought my self bound in duty to spend some time in shewing the difference betwixt true and false Ministers by several characters to the end you may see your selves to be such as you accuse the Ministers of Christ to be viz. the false corrupt Ministers and so consequently the Ministers of Sathan to the end you may cease to pervert the right way of the Lord and repent of your abusing Gods People and Ordinances for assuredly Sirs your turning of things upside down will cause the Lord to turn you out of his presence unlesse you repent for God in all ages hath been very zealous of his order hence it came to passe that the Lord threatned the Priests of old to shew them his back and not his face in the day of their calamity the reason was because they had caused the People to stumble from the antient path to walk in a way not cast up and doubtlesse it you look into the antient path of Christ which he and his Apostles and Disciples walked in you will find that you are got far out of that path for they did not teach for hire to make themselves the Rabbies of the times but were willing to demean themselves and be the servants of all men for Christs sake neither did they cast up such a Path as Infants baptisme to make whole Nations to be a Church but did command persons to come out from the multitude and thereby compacted Christs Churches together of sanctified Stones that is to say men separated from the National multitude by repentance faith and baptism which became the spiritual house Moreover Sir whereas you abuse the People of God by casting reproachfull ignominious slanders on them know the Lord takes it as done unto himself they being as dear to him as the apple of his eye and if Samson would be revenged of the Philistins for his eyes surely the Lord will be revenged of such as labour as much as in them lieth to pluck out his eyes Sirs are you not like unto those Pharisaical Priests that Christ reproves which did build the toombs of the prophets and garnish the Sepulcher of the righteous pretending great love to them and yet notwithstanding persecute the friends of Christ which walk in that way which Christ hath left them to walk in by your sect and example I say if the blood of the righteous should be required of such a generation repent you and break off your sins by righteousnesse before the wrath of the Lord break out and there be no remedy But to passe that and come to the matter in hand I have perused your Letter and given you a full answer to it in the following treatise one thing I strange at that you should so much forget your self as to charge me that I fell upon you with abusive words for a Sermon you delivered in the which you said you proved me and such as I were to be the Ministers of Sathan when in very deed and truth I knew not that you had delivered such a Sermon neither did I begin with you but after you had answered to some questions that were propounded to you by another and that in your speech you had cast reproachfull speech upon the people of God I could do no lesse but answer to your speech but not with abusive words as you may see more at large in the answer to your Letter and several other things you did mistake your self in but I have shewed you them in their time and places as before mentioned Moreover Sir take this word of advise that if your memory be so shallow that you cannot retain any thing without Book when you have the like occasion again take down what is spoken in writting so that you may affirm the truth for I doe assure you to speak untruth is a shame and reproach to any people but more especially to such as professe themselves to be the Ministers of Christ and as to original Sin which was a thing we contested about I have also shewed you in the following treatise what punishment it brought upon the Sons of men and what death it was that was threatned as to be the punishment of it the which death reigned over all from Adam to Moyses and yet righteous Noah and several others were not damned so desiring your conversion much more than your confusion I rest but not to be your servant and all mens for Christs sake George Hammon The Epistle to the Reader Curteous Reader THere is inclosed in this little Treatise many weighty particulars the which did concern all persons to look into in former ages but more especially we that live in the last age If therefore thou shalt read this Treatise with a single heart and an impartial affection doubtless it will be worth thy time and pains Moreover I do desire that thou wouldest search the Scriptures and bring those things that are contained herein to them that so by the Touchstone of Gods Word thou maist discern between Truth and Error and thereby thou wilt become obedient to that Command of the Lord which is Try all things and hold fast that which is good Remember that the Bereans were counted more noble than the men of Thessalonica because they received the words of Paul which
smote the people with a continual stroak he that ruled the Nations in anger is per secuted and none hindereth vers. 6. So here we see he is called the King of Babylon and in verse 24 25 26. in these words The Lord of Host hath sworn saying Surely as I have thought so shall it come to passe and as I have purposed it shall stand that I wil break the Assyrian in my Land and upon my Mountains tread him under foot then shall his yoke depart from them and his burden depart from off their shoulders This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole Earth Hence you may see that he is also called the Assyrian and that you may see it is meant the last Antichrist before spoken of from the fourteenth Verse of the same Chapter and fifteenth And see more vers. 32. in these words What shall one then answer the Messengers of the Nations for the Lord hath founded Sion and the poor of the people shall trust in it And that foundation in Sion or Sion so founded so as it may bee an object for the people to trust in which will not bee until the Lord Jesus is laid as a foundation or set as a King upon the Holy Hill of Sion and then the poor of the people shall trust in him and lye down under the shadow of his wings in peace and none make them afraid and somuch briefly as to the discovery of the manner of the rise of the Man of Sin and also for the proving of him not to be the Romish Babylon and so pass briefly to the Third which is the discovery of the taking of the City and Temple from the Jews for a small time The spoyling of the Jews for a swall time and the taking of their City and Temple Now when the Jews are returned into their own Land and have brought their substance with them and having no King amongst them the Man of Sin shall have this evil thought come into his minde for to take from them their substance and to make Jerusalem the throne of his glory professing himself to be the King they wait for but through their knowledge they will not beleeve him to be their King for the which cause he shall spoyl them and take away by force their City setting up his Seat in the glorious holy Mount I shall give you some lively Prophecies that shall make good this Particular as brief as may be In that day saith the Lord I will assemble her that halteth and her that was driven out and her that was afflicted now why dost thou cry out aloud is there no Knig in thee Is thy Counsellour perished for pains have taken thee as a woman in travel Be in pain and labour to bring forth O Daughter of Sion like a Woman in travel for now thou shalt go forth out of the City and dwell in the field and thou shalt go even to Babylon there shalt thou be delivered there shall the Lord deliver thee from the hands of the enemies now therefore are many Nations gathered against thee that say Let her be defiled and let our eyes look unto Sion but they know not the thoughts of the Lord neither understand they his counsel for he shall gather them as sheaves into the floor arise and thresh O daughter of Sion for I will make thy Horn Iron and thy hoofes Brass and thou shalt beat in peeces many people and I will consecrate thy gain unto the Lord and thy substance unto the Lord of the whole earth Micha 4.6 7. compare verses 9 10 11 12 13. You may see also from Ezekiel 38.7 8 9 10 11 12. in these words Be thou prepared and prepare for thy self thou and all thy company that are assembled unto thee be thou a guard unto them after many days thou shalt be visited in the latter years thou shalt come into the Land that is brought back from the sword and is gathered out from many people against the Mountains of Israel which have been always wast but it is brought forth out of the Nations and they shall dwell safely all of them thou shalt ascend and come like a storm thou shalt be like a Cloud to cover the Land thou and all thy bands and many people with thee thus saith the Lord It shall come to passe that at the same time shall things come into thy minde and thou shalt think an evil thought and thou shalt say I will go up into the Land of unwalled Villages I will go to them that are at rest that dwell safely all of them dwelling without wals having neither bars nor gates to take a spoyl to take a prey to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited and upon the people that are gathered out of the Nations which have gotten Cattel and Gods and that dwell in the midst of the Land Hence we may see that after Israels last and general return and their bringing their riches with them as they once did out of the Land of Aegypt that this Gog which is the great and last Antichrist as you may see for he saith it is in the latter days even in the very last before the coming of Christ as you may see Ezek. 38.16 17 18 19 20. And that he shall take the prey and spoyl Israel for a small time even until Christ deliver them is clear from the Prophet Zecharies words Zech. 14.1 2 3 4. Behold the day of the Lord cemeth and thy spoyl shall be divided in the midst of thee and I will gather all Nations against Jerusalem to battel and the Cities shall be taken and the Houses rifled and the Women ravished and half of the City shall goe into Captivity and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the City then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those Nations as when he fought in the day of Battel and his feet in that day shall stand upon the Mount of Olives which is over against Ierusalem From these Prophecies you may see that the Man that great and last Antichrist shall spoyl the Iews for a small time and take from them their City and place his Tabernacle in the glorious holy Mountain Dan. 11.45 which the Apostle Paul saith shall bee the Temple for that will be the place of his Seat or Tabernacle 2 Thess. 2.4 Much more might be said to this Particular but I hasten to the Fourth Particular in the which I shall discover the manner of the rising of the Sun of Righteousness and the gathering together of his Army and shall also prove that he is a man and so hee shall come and reign But to passe that and to the thing in hand which is the manner of his arising and the gathering of his Army The manner of the Sun of Righteousness arising and the gathering together of his Army When the full appointed time of the Father shall approach and the measure of Sin is full
they that run may discern it and so briefly to the first The first Character of the true Ministers is as followeth They are not only sent by Jesus Christ to preach but also Gifted by him whereby they are inabled to preach at all times instant in season and out of season they do not want a great Library of Books neither do they want a weeks time to preach a Sermon neither do they preach other mens Works and so receive not their Ministery of man or from man as the Apostle Paul saith Gal. 1.1 but receive it as a free Gift as you may see Ephes. 3.8 And so much in brief to the first The Second Character whereby they are known is As they are Gifted by him so they preach his words only going forth with the words of his Commission preaching Repentance and Faith and having thereby made Disciples they Baptize them according to the command of Christ Mat. 28.19 Go teach all Nations and Baptize them shewing clearly that persons must be taught before they are Baptized it is also pertinent Mark 16.15 16. compared with Acts 2.37 38 39. Chap. 8.12 vers. 37 with many other Scriptures which will not only prove it to be a precept of Christ but also the practise of the Ministers of Christ in the Primitive times and so in our time so they Constitute Churches if it may be so called not by Generation but by Regeneration my meaning is this That they do not make Church-Members by succession as Beleevers Seed but by faith and profession which doth intitle Persons to be Abrahams Seed and Heirs according to promise And so much briefly to the second Character The Third Character whereby they are known is As they go forth with his words and Commission so they are contented with what Wages hee gives them they take not up the Ministery for filthy Lucres sake but are willing to suffer hunger and cold and many such like things if they are called thereunto they do not ask the People to whom they preach what they will give them but are willing to labour with their hands to supply their wants this you may see was the carriage of the Apostle Paul who was a Minister of Christ and a pattern of good works to the Ministers that should succeed him as you may see Acts 20.33 I have coveted no mans Silver or Gold or Apparrel yee your selves know that these hands of mine have communicated unto my wants and to them that are with me so it is with the true Gospel Ministers in our time they are willing to lay themselves out to preach the Gospel frequently in several places and yet notwithstanding are as willing to let their hands communicate to their wants and to their Family to the end they may make the Gospel of Christ without charge and also not to lay a stumbling-blocke in the way to cause them that are weak to fall and in a word they seek not the Fleece but the Flock as the Apostle Paul saith not yours but you And so much to the third Character The Fourth Character whereby you may know the true Ministers of the Gospel is They are men of the lowest rank and of the weakest capacity or prudency in Natural things whereby the Children of this World are wiser in their Generation than they therefore if you will know the true Ministers of the Gospel or finde them our you must not go amongst the wise Rabbies of the times but you must look amongst the weak despised rejected people for in their weakness Christ hath promised to manifest his strength and hath also said He will destroy the wisdom of the wise and destroy the wisdom of the prudent you shall see these Scriptures in the room of many first by Prophesie secondly fulfilled Psal. 82. in these words Out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings thou hast ordained strength Isa. 28.7 Mat. 11.25 there Christ gives thanks that God had begun to make good his Promises saying I thank thee O Lord Father of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes therefore the Apostle saith in 1 Corinth 1.20 Where is the wise where is the Scribe where is the disputer of this World Compared with Verse 26. which saith For you know your calling Brethren that not many wise men after the flesh nor many mighty nor many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise that no flesh should glory in his presence vers. 29. c. according as it is written that he that glorieth may glory in the Lord As if he should have said That forasmuch as Persons are ready to set up the Creature and look so little at the Creator I will now give Strength and Wisdom and Gifts to men of the least account as in reference to Human Part that Persons may not attribute praise to the Creature as to his Wisdom or Learning or such like things but may attribute praise only to me the Creator for the less fleshly parts or Human Wisdom is seen in the Creature the more the gifts of Gods Spirit is magnified And so much of the Fourth Character The Fifth Character You shall know them by their being rejected of the Wise and Learned men of the Times whereby they bee often in Tumults nay you shall know them by their rejoycing in those things which others count shame as you shall find by the carriage of the true Ministers of old Acts 5.40 41. When they had called the Apostles and beaten them they commanded them that they should preach no more in the Name of Jesus and they departed from the presence of the Council rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name also in 2 Cor. 6.4 You may see there how persons prove themselves to be Ministers of Christ in these words But in all things approving our selves the Ministers of God in much patience and afflictions necessity and distress in stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours So the Apostle though he were in favour with the chief Priest when hee went to Damascus yet no sooner did he turn to be a Preacher of Christ in simplicity and forsook the old Jewish form but he was fain to escape out of their hands in a Basket out of a Window being afterwards taken was smote by the High Priest who once owned him So it is with the Ministers of our time no sooner do they forsake the Ceremonies of the Nation but presently they become a prey especially of the Priesthood of the Nation so that he that runneth may read the true Minister from the false And so much to the Fifth Character The Sixth Character is They are always counted Broachers of new Doctrine Hereticks and turners of the World upside down their Doctrin called Heresie and they Ring-leaders of the Sectaries so it was in the Primitive age and so it is now that
it is so now the continual out-cries of the Priesthood of the Nation against the Ministers of Christ doubtless sounds forth or otherwise I shall willingly be corrected by the Christian Reader and that it was so in the Primitive time I shall prove clearly as from two or three instances of Scripture in the room of many more Acts 24.5 which saith We have found this man a pestilent fellow a mover of seditions amongst all the Jews throughout the World and a Ring-leader of the Sects of the Nazarens this was spoken by Paul Acts 17.6 the last clause in these words Those that have turned the world upside down are come hither also Acts 28.22 Concerning this Sect we know That it is every where spoken against Chapter 22.22 Then they lift up their voices and said Away with such a fellow it is not fit that he should live chap. 25.24 And Festus said King Agrippa and all men that are here present with us yee see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me about at Jerusalem and also here crying that hee ought not to live any longer So that you may see plainly that as the Ministers of the Gospel then were looked upon as pestilent Fellows and the Ring-leaders of the Sectaries in that time by the wise learned Jews so are the Ministers of the Gospel looked upon in our days by the blinde formal people of this Nation And so much to the Sixth Character The Seventh Character of the true Ministers is they are not ashamed of the meanest ways or Ordinances of Christ though they are contemptible to the Wise men of our times Rom. 1.16 2 Tim. 2.11 the Gospel Ministers do not pick out those for such Doctrines as please the fancies of men as the Apostle saith If I yet please men I am not the Servant of Christ They preach the Gospel in the plain mean way of it for the which they suffer reproach nevertheless they are not ashamed for they know whom they have beleeved even their Lord and Master who went before them leaving them an example Who turned not away his face from shame and spitting Isa. 50 4 5 6. Heb. 12.2 3. Phil. 2.6 2 Cor. 8.9 So that you may know the Ministers of the Truth by their boldness for the Truth being not ashamed to preach Christ in his low despised ways at all places where the Lord sets a door open unto them And so much for the Seventh Character The Eighth Character whereby you may know a true Minister is They never call for a Magistrate or Temporal Lord to incounter with their Enemies or more properly Christs Enemies Christ hath prohibited them teaching them another Lesson That he that taketh the Sword shall perish by the Sword so that the Weapons of their Warfare are not Carnal but Spiritual so that when they meet with Truths Enemies they take the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and that is the Weapon by the which they put the enemies to the worst and by that Sword at the last Christs enemies shall be destroyed Revel. 2.16 Chap. 19.15 and this is the Magistrates Sword or Champion that the Ministers of the Gospel in case of opposition fly to And so much for the Eighth Character The Ninth Character whereby you may know a true Minister is They are not Lords over Gods heritage that is to say they will not Lord it over their fellow Brethren neither do they desire the preheminence over the inferiorest Member in the Church they are indeed the Churches Servants and not their Lords they can bee content to suffer want when happily the Church or some of them are fed to the full they can be contented to bee abased when the Church doth abound they make not a prey of their Flocks they labour not to be rich nay they can cease from their own wisdom they can willingly be counted fools for Christs sake they seek not the goods of the Church but their good not yours but you as the Apostle saith 2 Cor. 12.14 Much more might be said as concerning the Self-denial of the true Ministers of the Gospel but I shall pass to the Tenth and last Character The Tenth Character of a true Minister is as followeth They may bee known by the hardship that will follow them by reviling by scoffing by buffetings by tumults they shall be a by-word in the mouth both of men women and children for Signs and Wonders in the Nation where they live as it hath been prophesied of them Isa. 8.18 I and the Children that thou hast given me are for Signs and Wonders The Phrases of Carnalmen are as followeth What such a Fellow a Minister a Cobler Tailor or Tincker and such like Mechanicks are they fit for Ministers Where had such Fellows their Learning Are they not blind leaders of the blind say the wise Carnalists of our time and by such like terms they set the World in an uproar against them Was it not so with Christ and the true Ministers in the Primitive time Did not the wise Jews and Scribes and Pharisaical Priests deride Christ and call him the Carpenter and Carpenters Son and wondered from whence he had his Doctrins Did not the Wise learned men of the Jews call his Disciples ignorant and unlearned men which knew not the Law and were accursed and yet notwithstanding Christ did chuse Mechanicks as Fisher-men and the like and did reject the wise and learned and yet that was a hard thing to be received in those days and so it is in ours and you may see that Christ was a poor Christ in Carnal mens account His face was more marred than the Sons of men he had no form nor comlinesse when any lookt upon him that they should desire him Isa. 53.1 2 3 4. so are his Ordinances and his ways mean that if men look upon them with a Natural eye there is no form or comliness and so it is with the Ministers of the Gospel as I have shewed you hee calleth not the rich but the poor not the wise but babes not the learned but the ignorant that hee may make such to know Doctrin that the wise men may stumble and fall and bee taken but as it is written He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord and so much briefly to discover the false Ministery and the true so that hee that will view this with an impartial eye or single heart may clearly discern who are the true Ministers and who are the false to that end they may not be misled but may be followers of the Lamb wheresoever he goeth that thereby they may have him to be their refuge when all falshood shall be discovered and the refuge of lies swept away MYstery Babylon the Romish Whore That hath fill'd the World with thy false Doctrines store Thy cousening shifts are almost out of date And thou shalt weep when as it is too late All Nations that of thy Cup