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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

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 evē 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. ●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 Dragō 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

Passive No they must all List themselves under the King of Kings whose vesture will be dipt in Anti-Christian bloud For as S. Iohn shewes that the whore the beast the false Prophet the Kings of the earth and the Devill joyne forces and gather their armies together So will the Omnipotent Lambe whose name is the Word of God judge in righteousnesse and make war Rev. 19. 11. He will overthrow the spirituall Iurisdiction of Anti-Christ by his Word and Spirit by that sharpe sword which goes out of his mouth ver. 15. the consciences of men shall be so convinced by the powerfull preaching of the Gospell that Anti-Christ shall no longer sit as God in the Temple of God in the consciences of men which are the peculiar Temple of God and for this reason the Anti-Christian faction doth so violently oppose all powerfull preaching But then for the Temporall dominion of Anti-Christ Iesus Christ hath prepared a Rod of Iron which shall breake in pieces all his usurped power and dominion like an earthen vessel because he hath his power from earth and not by any ordinance from Heaven Christ will come and over-rule him with a Rod of Iron and tread the Wine presse of the fiercenesse wrath of Almighty God Rev. 19. 15. and in that day of wrath Christ will have an army in the field Rev. 19. 19. And I saw the Beast and the Kings of the Earth their armies gathered together to make war against him that sate on the horse and against his Army Behold the Noble Army of the Lord ●esus and observe further that it is such an Army as is stirred up to fight from Scripture motives not from Politique consideratious and therefore it is added in the 21. ver. That their bodies were slaine with that sword which proceeded out of the mouth of Christ yet it was a bodily slaughter for it followes all the Fowles were filled with their flesh and no marvaile if these souldiers were encouraged to fight up-Scripture-motives if you consider what kinde of souldiers they are who doe the deed Men Chosen and Faithfull For when the Kings of the earth have given their power to the Beast these choise-souldiers will be so faithfull to the King of Kings as to oppose the Beast though armed with King-like power So S. Iohn These Kings have one minde and shall give their power and strength to the Beast These shall make war with the Lambe and the Lambe shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are Called and Chosen and Faithfull Rev. 17. 13 14. You see the faithfull people make no scruple at all of fighting against the Beast though their enemies were like enough to say that by fighting against the Beast they did rebell against their owne Kings who had given their power and strength unto the Beast Mark what that Text saith they were called to this service chosen and pickt out on purpose therefore they had not been faithfull had they deserted the Cause and refused the service Nay they are encouraged to war by a promise of victory and therefore are resolved to fight against the Beast though hee come armed with the power and strength of ten Kings so S. Iohn I could now tell you a long story of the King of Spaine another of the King of France but the times call upon me to speak plain and home and yet I will not speake Treason neither To what end should we waste time about a discourse of Hull and the Militia Come speake to the point If a King of the Protestant Profession should give his strength and power to his Queene a Papist and she give it to the Iefuits to the Beast it is neither Rebellion nor Treason to fight for the King to recover his power out of the hand of the Beast I say for the King that the power being regained may be setled upon the Kings Royall person and posterity and then it is to be hoped that the King they will take warning and beware how they trust out their power another time We are engaged to fight against the Anti-Christian faction by our very Baptisme Vocati sumus ad hanc Militiam Dei vivi iam tunc cum in Sacramenti verba respondimus as Tertullian to the Martyrs But the Socinians and Anabaptists so much complained of do here cast in a scruple We Christians say they are called to faith charity and therefore it doth not become us to go to war It is true Christians are called to faith and therefore to desend the faith they must contend earnestly for the faith and be valiant for the truth The Apostle reckons acts of valour amongst acts of faith Through faith they waxed valiant in fight c. Much more is it an act of faith to be valiant in the defence of the faith an act of Justice and Religion so Augustin And if you talk of charity consider that of the Authour Omnes omnium charitates Patria complectitur Cic. off l. 1. give me leave to say Christus complectitur That is not true charity which will not consist with faith Be charitable to thine own soul and the Church of God Love thy Countrey thy Religion and thy Saviour better then thy estate thy life thy friends be out of charity with the Whore and the Beast they are fitter objects of thy hatred then of thy charity nay we must hate the Whore and burn her flesh there is no mercy to be shewen to this Whore she will never be quiet till she is burnt It concerns the Governours of Sion who are as the * Angels of the Lord to thrust in their sickle into the Romish vineyard cut down vine and grapes and all because it is the Vine of earth it is not the Vine of heaven all the Antichristian clusters must be gathered together and thrown into thegreat Wine-presse of the wrath of God and when once the Wine-presse comes to be troden beleeve it blood will spring up to the very Horse-bridles for the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs Revel. 14. 19 20. This prophecy hath reference to that great slaughter which shall be made Revel. 19. when the Lord Jesus shall come to tread the Wine-presse vers. 15. You may guesse further yet at the greatnesse of the slaughter by the invitation of the fowls of heaven to supper at the latter end of the day Come gather your selves together unto the supper of the great God verse 16. You may read the bill of fare in the 18. verse Come ye fowls of heaven Come eat the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captains and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of Horses and of them that sit on them and the flesh of all men both free and bond both small and great This Prophesie shall not be fulfilled till the pouring out of the last vial for this is the last

blow it will prove a bloody and a fatall Day for the seventh Angel pours out his vial and cries the deed is done 't is finished when all the Babylonian troops shall be gathered to Armageddon the destruction of troops as the word imports The Beast shall receive many a wound before but this blow shall dispatch him he shall never hold up his head more Deliver thy self then O Zion Christ is the great Deliverer but though Christ be Principall we must be Instrumentall in this great work of our own deliverance Deliver thy self O Zion and if thou canst not be delivered without fighting fight for thy deliverance 1. Consider that Rome is Babylon St. Iohn never speaks one good word of Rome quite thorowout the book of the Revelation he calls it Egypt or Sodom or Babylon the throne of the Beast the strong-hold of foul-spirits the habitation of Devils Rome was once the Spouse of Christ but behold she is not onely turned an whore but the mother of Harlots and fornications the Metropolis of Apostasie and mystery of Iniquity the great whore Revel. 17. 1. a blasphemous whore in the third verse a whore in purple verse the fourth an impudent whore that hath her beastlinesse written not onely upon her Cell but upon her Forehead verse the fifth a drunken whore a bloody whore in the sixth verse I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus We need not run to Antiquity to ask their opinion what whore and what beast this is or where this whore dwells St. Iohn speaks so plain that the * Jesuits themselves are forced to confesse that this whore was to domineer at Rome It is the City which is built upon seven Hills which had had so many governments five of which were fallen before St. Iohn writ this Book Kings Consuls Tribunes Decemvirs Dictatours one remains still saith St. Iohn namely the government of Emperours and the other that of Popes was not then come And that we might be sure not to mistake St. Iohn tells us that it is the great City which reigned over the Kings of the earth in his time Revel. 17. 18. 2. Consider who is the Generall or the Commander in Chief of the Babylonian Army St. Iohn hath set him forth like a God of the world with Titles enough the Serpent the Dragon the Angel of the bottomlesse-pit for 't is he that gives all the orders and directions to Antichrist He advises him to lay claim to a Power which belongs not to him Irenaeus long since hath clearly shewn that the Beast with two horns and the False Prophet are but one and the same Beast Learned Mr. Mede hath shewn that the Beast with ten horns doth signifie the Secular Power of ten Kingdoms who by the impious subtilty of the Dragon combine together to make a Body a Romish Common-wealth the Beast with two Horns is as you use to call it the Ecclesiasticall Power The ten Kings or Kingdoms were to make up but one Beast of burthen for the Whore to ride upon that is they all joyn together to support the Whore and therefore these ten Horns are all placed upon the seventh Head that is they strengthen the last government the Popish government Now as the great Dragon did manage the whole businesse whilest that Heathenisme was supported by the power of the Romane Emperours as St. Iohn shews in the twelfth Chapter of the Revelation so doth the Dragon over-rule the whole businesse in the time of the Antichristian Popes as St. Iohn shews in the thirteenth Chapter for the Dragon gave the Beast his Power and his Seat and great Authority Revel. 13. 3. and they worshipped the Dragon who gave power to the Beast verse the fourth and therefore the Beast is said to ascend out of the bottomlesse pit Revel. 17. 8. If you look upon the Pope as Bishop of Rome so he came up out of the earth his Ordination was not from heaven but if you look upon him as Pope as Universall Bishop a Temporall Monarch a King even of kings we say he had 〈◊〉 blacker Institution he ascended out of the bottomlesse-pit Take it thus then Satan had his Seat in Heathen Rome but he hath his Throne in Popish Rome ever since the Romane Court hath had the confidence to call it self the Catholique Church it hath offered more violence and done more mischief to the true Church of Christ then ever was done by the Romane Empire and therefore as the 7. trumpets did sound an Alarme against the Romane Empire so the 7. vials are all to be poured out upon the Popish Empire the Anti-christian State 3. Consider that where the Pope and his Agents prevail by a Babylonian Army there they do constantly exercise a Babylonian Tyranny When the people were so mad as to prefer Caesar before Christ God gave them into the hand of the Romane Emperour and he tyrannized over them and God would not deliver them just as he threatned before-hand by his Prophet Zechary 11. 6. 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 will I not deliver them The Emperour did smite the land indeed but the Pope of Rome will tyrannize far worse then the Emperour If ever God for our sins sell us into the hand of that Man of sinne he will not onely tyrannize over our bodies and estates but over our consciences too If ever he enter England with his tripple-crown with his sword in one hand and his keyes in the other he will tyrannize like a Pope he will curtall our Creed and yet enlarge it I beleeve in the holy Catholike Church that is as they interpret it too often in the Pope that must be our onely Creed and we shall finde that a large one We must a swear obedience to the Popes Commands they say that vow of obedience is implied in their Baptisme and therefore they name the Trinity but for fashion sake and do indeed baptize their children in the name of Antichrist Now if the Popes Commands are in force and the Commands of God dispensed with the Commands of the Pope will soon justle out the Commands of God You know the Pope hath by the b Plenitude of his power struck out the second Commandment and by the same authority he may when he please strike out the first Commandment and by consequent all the rest and then he may make a new Preface and a new Decalogue if that number will content him he may say as the c Extravagant saith that he himself is the Lord our God who desires to bring us into the land of Aegypt the house of bondage he should do well to put in that where we shall have no other God but the Pope for he exalts himself above all that is called God