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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

had of old set up his Ordinances there and made them a gracious promise That they should return thither again and enjoy him once more in the Beauty the Glory of Holinesse There were two Mounts which did belong to Hierusalem Mount Moriah and Mount Zion the Temple was built upon Mount Zion and therefore Zion was the Mount of Holinesse and as it were the Throne of God here below thither did the people flock Micah 4. 2. Come let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord for the Law shall go forth of Zion behold Zion is the Mountain of the Lord But we must consider further that besides the Iewish Sion there is a Christian Sion spoken of in the Prophets and this very place of Micah which I have cited points at the Christian Sion a Church consisting of all Nations Gentiles as well as Jews be pleased to peruse the words But in the last dayes it shall come to passe that the Mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the Mountains and it shall be exalted above the hills and people shall flow unto it and many Nations shall come and say Let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord verse 1. 2. That this is clearly meant of the Christian Sion besides the evidence of the words themselves the last verse of the former Chapter the third Chapter of Micah doth sufficiently declare for the Iewish Sion Sion in the letter was to be plowed as a field and the Mountain of that House was to be left as desolate as the high-places of the Forest Moreover this Prophesie was to be fulfilled in the last dayes Micah 4. 1. Finally the Law shall go forth of Zion saith the Prophet Micah to the Jews the Law came forth of Sinai but to the Christian Church consisting of Jews and Gentiles the Law came forth of Sion when the Spirit was plentifully powred down upon some of all Nations at Ierusalem Acts 2. and therefore not * Rome but the Church which was gathered at Ierusalem if any Church was the a Metropolitane or mother Church and younger Churches were the daughters of that Evangelicall Sion For we are not come to the Mount that burnt with fire Heb. 12. 18. but unto Mount Sion Verse 22. The Apostle doth expound this Allegory more fully Galat. 4. 24. Which things saith he are an Allegory for these are two covenants or testaments the one from Mount Sinai which gendreth to bondage the other then is from Mount Sion which tendeth to freedom a covenant of Grace the spirit of grace and holinesse which is more plentifully poured out upon the Christian Sion makes us precious sonnes of Sion free-men indeed You see the Bounds of Sion Let us now take a view of Babylon I need not say any thing of Babylon in Egypt my Text points me to Babylon in Assyria the Scriptures mention a third b Babylon and in my Application the times will call upon me by Analogy and proportion to speake much of this third Babylon which is a Mysticall Babylon the Romish Babylon and yet I think wee need not travaile so farre as Rome to finde out Babylon did you never heare of an English Babylon in Ireland and an Irish Babylon in England and a Romish Babylon even in Scotland Is there not a Babylon in the North and another in the West a Babylon almost in every City towne and parish nay if we are impartiall in the search we shall certainely finde some Malignant lusts some brats of Babylon in our owne bosome you see the bounds of Babylon I shall begin with the Jewish Sion and shew you what reason this Sion had to deliver her self from the Assyrian Babylon 1. The first Reason is because God had so often called upon Sion to separate from Babylon the people were First awakened by Jeremiahs prophecy Secondly they were encouraged by Cyrus his Proclamation you may finde both put together Ezra 1. 1. Now in the first yeare of Cyrus King of Persia that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might bee fulfilled the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia that he made Proclamation c. There was a threefold Call a call from God a call from the Prophet and a call from the King and the Lord who stirred up the spirit of Jeremy and the spirit of Cyrus did stirre up the spirit of his people to answer this call and depart from Babylon for upon this Proclamation divers of the children of the Captivity went up to Ierusalem under the conduct of their Generall Zâ—rubbabel as you may read Ezra 2. 1 2. Now these are the Children of the Province that went up out of the Captivity of those which had beene carried away unto Babylon and came againe unto Ierusalem and Iudah every one unto his City which came with Zerubbabel c. Thirdly the Governors people were quickned to this great duty of forsaking Babylon and building Sion by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai and about two moneths after by the Prophet Zechariah Ezra 5. 1. Hag. 1. 1. Zech. 1. 1. They both prophecied in the second yeer of Darius Haggai in the sixth moneth Zechary in the eight moneth But it seemes too many of the people upon some Carnall discouragements were unwilling to goe to Ierusalem which was now but an heap of old rubbish and dead ashes nay some were as willing to stay in Babylon as Lots sons-in-law to â—tay in Sodom God therefore gave them another Call yet in the seventh yeere of the raigne of Artaxerxes and then many went up from Babylon upon the motion of Ezra the scribe Ezra 7. 6 7 8. ver. But there were many lingerers behind yet and our long-suffering God who is rich in patience did vouchsafe another Call yet about thirteene yeeres after in the twentieth yeere of Artaxerxes â—or about that time Nehemiah began to stirre as you may read Nehem. 2. 1. You see here is Call upon Call this may suffice for the first Reason * because nothing but obedience to the Call of God can declare us to be the true Church of God My second reason is taken from the Terminus Ã Quo the place from whence they were called Babylon or the daughters of Babylon the City of Babylon was the Metropolis or mother Citty the adjoyning townes and villages are called the daughters of Babylon because they followed the ill example of the City they were nursed up in all manner of Babylonish Idolatry and Impiety Some of the people that belonged to Sion did certainely loyter too long in these townes and villages and therefore the Prophet calls upon them in my Text Deliver thy selfe O Zion that dwellest with Babylon with the daughters of Babylon that are as bad as their mother Babylon is in the language of Augustine The City of the Devill and was it fit that the people of God should lye loytering in the City of

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 Poâ—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 Iâ—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 â—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

Sion as well as he loved the Iewish Sion and he hates the Romish Babylon more then ever he hated the Assyrian Babylon let us then depend upon the love and power of God the promises of the Gospel the wisdom and fidelity of Christ for the destruction of Romish Babylon The time will not permit me to speak distinctly of those severall Heads Yet take a third Encouragement 3. All the People of God are called upon to deale with this Romish Babylon as she hath dealt with them Reward her eveÌ„ as she rewarded you nay higher yet double unto her double according to her workes in the Cup which she hath filled fill to her double Revel. â—8 6. Babylon was wont to cast out Sion let Sion now cast out Babylon the base sonnes of Babylon banished some precious sonnes of Sion as farre as America and when they had done they scoffed at them as if they were Barbarians because banished into a rude Barbarous Country they might better have said as Salvian did of old Barbaros istos fecit nostra barbaries Come then let us deale as justly with the Babylonians as they have dealt cruelly with us let Papists have as little encouragement to stay in England as strict Protestants have had let those men of iron entrailes and brazen bowels who are Spaniardized and Italianated I meane Jesuited goe live in Spaine or Italy such Monsters are not fit for our Climate You are Physitians to the State and these are Purging times let all Malignant Humours be purged out of the Ecclesiasticall and Politique Body O let the Excrements be expelled the vitall and integrall preserved in health and strength But if there be any who out of simplicity have wondred after the Beast and are now probably reduced and credibly penitent such may be spared in hope yet it will not be amisse to give them a little Physique to prevent a Relapse 4. Christ is stronger then Antichrist Oh let us depend upon his love to his Brethren his Members his Church his Spouse God will in due time make his enemies know that his Church hath an husband which will maintain her cause avenge her quarrell The effectuall power and watchfull providence of Iesus Christ is constantly imployed for his Churches good the seven Hornes of the Lamb are stronger then the ten hornes of the Beast S. Iohn doth describe Christ by the Similitude of a Lambe with seven hornes and seven eyes to note his power and providence Rev 5. 6. Though the Beast hath ten horns yet he wants these seven eyes these seven spirits Now the Lambe with seven eyes will discover all the plots projects of the enemy al the Arcana Belli and Arcana Imperii too What though the DragoÌ„ assist the Beast be of good comfort Christ hath overcome the Devil he hath broke the Serpents Head and that is the reason that the Politicians wits are so often crackt and that they delude themselves with such feaverish conceits and brain-sick inventions The strength of a City was usually in the gates and there they commonly sate in Councell but Christ hath promised that Hell gates that is the Power and Policy of Hell shall never prevaile against his beloved Church Christ hath this same crackt-braine Serpent in a chaine he can rebuke him or trample on him The three troublers of Sion the Beast the false Prophet and the Devill shall be all three tormented together in Hell for ever and ever Rev. 20. 10. And at the battell of the great day of God Almighty the Beast and the false Prophet shall be both taken and thrown alive into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone Rev. 19. 20. So let all thine enemies all thy implacable and incorrigible enemies perish O Lord I shall close up this point with the words of the Prophet Jeremiah Put your selves in aray against Babylon round about all yee that bend the bow shoot at her spare no arrowes for she hath sinned against the Lord take vengeance upon her as she hath done doe unto her Ier. 50. 14 15. Hitherto we have considered the Babylonians as gathered into an Army and I have shewne what encouragements we have to fight against them I must now looke upon them as gathered into a Church and shew you what reason wee have to separate from them this point is very pertinent to the Text and times and therefore give me leave to insist upon it Flee from the Land of the North saith the Lord in the verse before my Text Babylon stood North from Ierusalem and therefore Flee from the Land of the North is as much as if he had said Flee from Babylon deliver thy selfe O Zion that dwellest in Babylon dwell there no longer but deliver thy selfe by a Separation The Prophet Ieremy will make the Call full and compleat Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every man his soule be not cut off in her iniquity for this is the time of the Lords vengeance ver. 6. yea the vengeance of his temple ver. 11. Now that we have the same Call from Heaven to depart from Romish Babylon is most evident Rev. 18. 4. And I heard another voice from Heaven saying Come out of her my people and that for these two reasons they are both specified in the Text the 1t is That ye be not partakers of their sinnes the 2d That ye receive not of her plagues 1. Be not Partakers of her sinnes especially those sinnes which corrupt the worship of God or faith of Christians do not joyne with her in that Grand sinne for which S. Iohn calls her Whore so often the sinne of Idolatry it is such an unreasonable sinne that a sober and rationall man would be ashamed to be overtaken with as the Prophet Jeremy observes Cap. 51. 7. Babylon is a golden Cup in the Lords hand it hath made all the earth Drunken the nations have drunken of her wine therefore the Nations are Mad drunken and mad or else they would never commit Idolatry S. Iohn in like manner points at the Romish Harlot the great Whore of Babylon and bids us observe the golden Cup in her hand full of abominations and filthinesse in the 17. Chapter of the Revel. ver. 4. and those that drink of this amorous Cup full of enchantments are bewitched and drunk or else they would never worship the Beast and the Devill as it is plaine they do Rev. 13. 4. I hope I need not spend time in disswading any here present from worshipping the Devill and the Beast 2. Another sinne there is with which the Great whore doth usually poyson her daughters and her lovers 't is Heresy a kind of Catholique Heresy all the Heretickes almost that ever were have emptied their back ditches into the Sea of Rome that receives all the filth of former ages but of all their Heresies there is none more dangerous then that of expecting Iustification salvation for the merit of

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