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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

the Devill Babylon was the Malignant Church the Sinke of Sinne the stall of Beasts the Throne of Idols the Temple of Devills and mother of confusion No place more infamous for their pride and tyranny their cruelty and Idolatry well might Sion be weary of such a loathsome prison and noisome dungeon which could not but be offensive by its stench and darknesse even as Babylon the great is the Habitation of Devills the Strong hold of foule spirits Rev. 18. 2. The 3d. Reason is taken from the Terminus ad Quem the place unto which they were called unto Ierusalem unto Sion Every motion takes its denomination from its Terminus ad Quem but here even the Travailers themselves who were to move take their Title from that Place unto which they moved The people are called Sion because they were called forth to goe to Sion Deliver thy self O Zion Sion was a place beloved of God and all his people the people were in love with Sion with respect to Gods Election institution Promise Blessing God had chosen that place for his Seat of speciall Residence and did there exhibite himselfe to his people by a visible presence Moreover God had by a speciall Institution recorded his name and set up his ordinances in Sion and therefore the Temple was to be built againe on that mountaine the Jewes were confined to a certaine place to Sion Some parts of publique worship were so appropriated to that place that they were to be performed there and no where else Deut. 12. 13 14. Take heed to thy self that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest but in the place which the Lord shall chuse in one of the Tribes there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings and there thou shalt do all that I command thee The particular offerings are more distinctly specified in the 11. verse of the same Chapter Your burnt offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and the heave-offering of your hand and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord Finally God had promised a blessing to all them who came up to Sion to worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holinesse At first there was a generall promise given Exo 20. 24. In all places where I record my Name I will come unto thee and I will blesse thee But when God had chosen Ierusalem for the Seat of Royalty the place of Justice and Sion as the Mountain of Holinesse and place of publique Worship then all the Tribes were to go to Ierusalem for Justice and to Sion to sacrifice Psal. 122. 4 5. Whither the tribes go up the tribes of the Lord unto the Testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord For there are set Thrones of Iudgement the Thrones of the house of David The poor people had long been deprived of the benefit of Iustice and the liberty of Religion but now God had promised by his Prophet Zechary that their Common-wealth should be setled their Church established their City and Temple both new builded Zech. 1. 16 17. Therefore thus saith the Lord I am returned to Ierusalem with mercies my house shall be built in it saith the Lord of Hoasts my cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem The first Temple was as glorious as Art and cost could make it but God who hath gold and silver heaven and earth at his disposing had passed his word to them that he would shake heaven and earth sea and land and fill the latter house with the glory of the Lord Jesus who is the desire and glory of all Nationa Haggai 2. from the 6. verse to the 9. Yet once it is a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land And I will shake all Nations and the desire of all Nations shall come and I will fill this House with glory saith the Lord of Hoasts the silver is mine and the gold is mine saith the Lord of Hoasts the glory of this latter House shall be greater then of the former c. The Prophet you see had good reason to invite them to new Jerusalem here below a kinde of heaven upon earth to Sion the habitation of Iustice and mount of Holinesse the praise of the Jews the glory of the Gentiles the House of God and Type of Heaven Fourthly God had now removed all rubs he had opened the Kings heart and the prison doors if they would be active it was in their own power to deliver themselves and therefore the Prophet calls upon them to use their power and to take that fair opportunity which was offered for their deliverance and their glory Deliver thy self O Zion Why Zion wilt thou be a Felo de Se thy shackles are knockt off the Po●ts are open the Commission is now sealed come be not cruell to thy self what wilt thou be thine own tormentour thine own prisoner Before the seventy years were expired thou wast detained in Babylon thou wast a prisoner there but now thy time is out and therefore if thou stayest longer yet thou are not a Prisoner but a dweller in Babylon Deliver thy self O Zion that dwellest in Babylon There 's the Emphasis and strength of the Prophets exhortation The Use of this Point is to stirre up the Christian Zion all true Protestants to deliver themselves from Antichristian Babylon from the Babylonish army the Babylonish Church The I●wish Zion had a miraculous deliverance from the Assyrian Babylon though God be the Lord of Hosts and hath all armies at his command yet Zion was to be delivered not by might or by the power of an Army but by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts by the Immediate hand of God Zech. 4. 6. But I doe not find that Christian Zion shall be delivered upon such easie termes from Antichristian Babylon doe not ●latter your selves with vaine hopes our deliverance will cost bloud 1. This is cleare to any man that hath studied the booke of the Revelation what upon prayer study God hath revealed by the clear Texts of the Revelation I will this day deliver unto you though I were sure to die S. Iohns death or to be banisht into S. Iohns Iland The God of heaven give us a further Revelation of this Revelation that it may be interpreted by the same Spirit by which it was written S. Iohn tels me that the Spirits of Devills shall go forth to the Kings of the earth of the whole world to gather them to Armageddon to the battel of that great day of God Almighty Rev. 16. 14. 16. Secondly I know it is a great while yet to that great battell yet the Spirits will be Scouting out long before And sure these Spirits have been at worke of late in Ireland England Scotland too the Babylonians are active must the precious sonnes of Sion be meerely

present estate we have no reason at all to communicate with him but all the reason in the world to separate from him 3. Deliver your selves from Babylon by a thorow Reformation Do not wonder that I talk of a Reformation after separation for you must separate before you can reforme there is an untoward generation which will never be reformed take St. Peters counsell Acts 2. 40. Save your selves from that untoward generation and then reforme and consider withall that you are like to finde a great many men that will be forward enough to separate and yet unwilling to reforme Do you think there are no States-men who love the Mount of Moriah better then Mount Sion they would prefer the State but no matter for the Church they care not if it sink and perish I could wish that these Secular men just of Gallio's temper would consider that when the Iews thought they might preserve their State if they did curry favour with the Romanes and reject Christ God made them slaves to the Romans for rejecting of Christ 〈◊〉 need not apply In the 11th Chap. of our Prophet Zechary we read of two staves the staffe of Beauty and the staffe of Bands When the people broke Covenant with God by disobeying the Ordinances of God and rejecting Christ then God cut his staffe of Beauty asunder and broke that Church-Covenant the externall Covenant which he had made with that people ver. the tenth he did unchurch them deprive them of his Ordinances which are the strength the beauty the glory of a Nation and therefore are called the staffe of Beauty Observe a little farther that when the staffe of Beauty was broken it was not long ere the staffe of Bands was cut asunder Then I cut asunder my other staffe even Bands ver. 14. Then When Why when they undervalued the Lord Jesus they thought him worth but 30. pieces a goodly price read the 12. and 13. verses Then I cut asunder my other staffe I broke the brotherhood between Judah and Israel they were in a word deprived of Gods Ordinances and given up to Civill-wars the ninth verse of that Chapter doth sufficiently expresse their misery Then said I I will not feed you that that dieth let it die and that that is to be cut off let it be cut off and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another If that be not full enough read the sixth vers I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land saith the Lord but lo I will deliver the men every one into his neighbours hand and into the hand of his King and they shall smite the land and out of their hand I will not deliver them A sad Text Learn from hence That when a people are Un-churched they are undone if you desire to preserve the State be sure to preserve the Church and if you desire to preserve the Church O then reform it and do it suddenly too for fear the disease grow too strong for Remedies Beleeve it that part of England which adheres to the Babylonish faction and will not be reformed that part must be deserted there is good ground for it Jerem. 51. 9. We would have healed Babylon but she is not healed forsake her that's plain-English But what needs a Reformation say some were not our Fathers wise and honest men what need we be more wise or pure then they were they lived happily here on earth in peace and plenty and they do now triumph gloriously in heaven what can be desired more 1. I answer Many of our Fathers were honest and some of them very wise in their generations considering their light and their means we enjoy their labours the fruits of their wisdoms and God be praised a more glorious light and therefore no marvaile if we see some things more clearly then our Fathers did 2. Again our Fathers saw many things amisse which they were not able to reform 3. Had our Fathers enjoyed the same happy light which shines round about us and those fair opportunities which God hath let fall from heaven into our lap there is no question but they would have reformed more in one year then we have done in two Parsons observes that the Parliament of England in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths reign rejected the Catholike Doctrin Popish Doctrins he means but saith he they retained something of the Catholike use in the whole government of their Church and therefore Mr. Cartwright found fault with them and shewed them what was yet farther to be reformed but Scotland saith Parsons Holland Zeland and some parts of France followed Mr Cartwrights way but Bishop Bancroft was the principall opposer of this faction he meanes Reformation in England You see Mr Cartwright did what he could but Bishop Bancroft and the Babylonian faction were too potent contrary to the judgment of Sion of the Reformed Churches abroad Bancroft prevailed for he suggested that this discipline of Sion would not onely overthrow the Babylonish Monarchy but the English Monarchy also But it should have been considered and let it be considered now 1 That the government of the Church is not a Monarchicall no Monarch save Christ alone is Head and King of the Church though every Monarch that 's truly Christian be a King in the Church For it is one thing to be a King in the Church and another to be King over the Church 2. Every King as a member of the Church is in an Ecclesiasticall sense subject to the discipline of the Church for such a kind of subjection will well consist with his Civill Soveraignty because it is not a Civill Subjection Judicious b Camero was a man very tender of pitching upon any conclusion which might be prejudiciall unto Kingly power and he useth an excellent similitude to illustrate this point As it is in the cure of the body so is it in the cure of the Soule now a King for the Cure of his body must patiently yeeld himselfe to his College of Physitians for though he rule over them as a King yet he must be ruled by them as a patient In like manner a wise King will and every King ought to be perswaded by the College Ecclesiasticall in point of discipline to obey the Rules and orders of Iesus Christ for the King in this point doth not obey the College but Christ himselfe 3. It is well knowne that Kings and Emperours have beene subjected to Episcopall and too often enslaved by Prelaticall power Who knowes not that the Bishop of Millaine c would not admit the Emperour to the Communion till he had repented of that outrage and bloudshed at Thessalonica which was occasioned by the Emperours passionate Command It is generally confessed that Ambrose did well in rejecting the Emperour from the Communion and that the Emperour was no lesse an Emperour and a farre better man by submitting to a Minister of the Gospell preaching and administring some part of the discipline of

Tim. 5. 24 25. In the last place let us make it our saddest businesse to reform our own particular persons Honourable and Beloved are there no sinnes amongst you even amongst you Quis custodiet ipsos custodes Have the Reformers no need of Reformation turn your eyes inward tell me sadly what do you discover there are there no Babylonish Inmates protected there such as can never be defended are there no unruly passions no unmortified lusts no self-ends or sinister respects such as beg your priviledge and enjoy your favour These these are the Brats of Babylon O happy thrice happy shall he be who takes these Infant-lusts before they are grown up and dasheth them against the Rock as it is in Ps. 137. ver. 9. This is the proper work of a Fast What have you done to day You have sate here five or six hours and missed a dinner Is this the Fast that God hath chosen is this all that he requires of you Doth he not command you to humble your souls to break your hearts to afflict your spirits to mortifie your lusts deny your selves reform your lives take up your crosse and follow Christ Will you cut off your right hands and pull out your right eyes Will you take Christs yoak upon your necks his burthen upon your shoulder Will you lay down your honours your estates your lives at the feet of Jesus Christ Will ye live to him and if he calls you to it will you die for him If you have wrought your hearts to this temper to day then you have fasted to the Lord God takes notice of your zeal you beat down Crosses and Images but take heed you do not leave some idols standing in your own bosomes Is there no lust of covetousnesse or lust of uncleannesse no pride ambition envie malice enshrined within your hearts Down down with these You know there are Idola saeculi as well as Idolatempl● {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sunt {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} all your lusts must be Anathematized Cursed that they may like the fig-tree after it was cursed die and wither at their very root Tell me is not selfe-love an Idoll is it not the great Whore is not lust a Beast a Monster with many heads and horns Oh hate this Whore mortifie selfe-love and you stab the Beast to the heart for self-love is the very heart and soul of Originall sinne it is the last enemy which will be destroyed it was primum vivens and it will be ultimum moriens Come then let us beat down our bodies and cry to God to humble our souls and beat down our corruptions let not onely Reason Vote down your lusts but Faith and Zeal pray them down The precious sons of Sion are most troubled with this same Babylon within and therefore they do make most frequent and penitent complaints against themselves and put up most zealous prayers to God to give them power and victory over their head-strong and stomackfull corruptions and in their prayers their faith ever closes with such promises as assure them of grace enough to resist temptations and mortifie their corruptions this is the way to keep a faithfull penitent holy zeaelous heavenly Fast This is to fast as our Saviour did who made it his meat and drink to do the will of his Father Be pleased to consider that you must not only beat down Babylon but build up Sion Sion is built by faith and holinesse In the first place then 1. Look to your faith The walls of Babylon like the walls of Jericho are battered down by faith all the faithfull prisoners in Babylon whose hearts were sprinkled by the blood of the Covenant were prisoners of hope and therefore were sure to be delivered from the bottomlesse-pit in which there is no water for Babylon was a type of Hell As for thee also by the blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water Zechar. 9. 11. Beasts live by sense Heathens live by reason Christians must live by faith they must mortifie their lusts renounce their merits rest onely upon Christs perfect obedience and full satisfaction for their justification for we cannot be Constituted righteous but by the obedience of Christ Rom. 5. 19. In this faith let us live in this let us die 2. Study Holinesse Holinesse is the beauty of Sion for there they were to worship God in the beauty of holinesse there can be no beauty in our souls no glory in our Congregations without holinesse Sion was the Mount of holinesse Zech. 8. 3. Holinesse is the end of Humane society Vtque alios alii de Relligione docerent Contiguas Pietas jussit habere domos Certainly this Age is even grown Barbarous or else Holinesse which is the end of Humane society and the life of Christian society would never be contemned and despised as it is now adayes in this wicked generation O what a base thing is it for a Nation to be ashamed of its glory and to glory in its shame Men think it a base thing for to be holy and yet God himself is glorious in Holinesse Exod. 15. 11. Certainly if this Nation would be glorious in Holinesse Gods right hand would be glorious in power and dash our enemies to pieces Exod. 15. 6. Without holinesse we cannot have any intimate acquaintance with God or good men We long for Peace but Peace is a Iewell which God gives to none but those that are of his acquaintance Iob 22 21. Acquaint now thy self with him and be at Peace thereby good shall come unto thee A godly life is the life of God those that were strangers to a godly life are said to be alienated or estranged from the life of God Ephes. 4. 18. They then that strike at holinesse strike at the life of God and have a kinde of Atheisticall murther in their thoughts they would lay the Church a bleeding let out the very heart-blood of Religion and take away the life of God If England will not be holy it cannot be happy if we continue in our lukewarmnesse and profanenesse Wo wo be unto us though it go well with Sion it will go ill with us Sion was preserved even when Ierusalem was destroyed and England may be destroyed for its unthankfulnesse unfruitfulnesse heresie idolatry lukewarmnesse and profanenesse c. and yet the Church preserved for the Church is not confined to any place It concerns us then to be such manner of men in all holy conversation 2 Pet. 3. 11. such pilgrims on earth and citizens of heaven that it may appear that we seek a better Countrey an Heavenly and then God will not be ashamed to be called our God Heb. 11. 16. But if we go about spirituall duties with carnall hearts and worldly mindes if we lie at catch waiting for a fair opportunity to return into Egypt the God of heaven will be ashamed to own us for his people Heb.