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A41439	A full survey of Sion and Babylon, and a clear vindication of the parish-churches and parochial-ministers of England ..., or, A Scripture disproof, and syllogistical conviction of M. Charles Nichols, of Kent ... delivered in three Sabbath-dayes sermons in the parish church of Deal in Kent, after a publick dispute in the same church with the said Mr. Charles Nichols, upon the 20. day of October 1653 / by Thomas Gage ...	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing G111; ESTC R5895	105,515	104

confess among them that were it not for that rack of the Inquisition they would oppose many practises among them and many Canous of Trent as truly I have heard many of their Priests and Divines say which now for fear they dare not do But secondly doth not Mr. Nichols say the like when first he calls B●bylonish Churches Churches And why not rather Confused Synagogues Mr. Nichols if there were no substantials of a Church amongst us Secondly when he sa●th that we are Babylonish because mixed good and bad together But we cannot thus be called Babylonish except there be amongst us in this respect what is also in Babylon or Rome to wit good and bad together Ergo he acknowledgeth that in Romish Babylon there are good and bad together Then further thus I reason Good people are Gods people and Gods Church But by him in Rome there are good people Ergo By his own Assertion in Rome or Babylon there is a people and Church of God Then further yet thus if there be good people amongst them as he implies in his Assertion I argue then from the Philosopher Verum bonum convertun●ur True and good are Convertible and mutually predicable one of the oth●r so that where true is good is also But good people are ●ound among them Ergo True people found also among them Then thus Good people are a good Church in that respect wherein they are good and true people are a true Church in that respect wherein they are true Ergo In Rome the good and true people in that respect wherein they are good and true are in that same respect a good and true Church of God Then further in my judgement laying aside Mr. Nichols his ground for their goodness they are good and true in no other respect but in respect of some substantials of truth in respect they believe in Christ born dead risen and ascended into Heaven in respect they acknowledge the Gospel as from him Baptisme as his Ordinance Ordination by imposition of hands by the Pr●sbytery as his institution Ergo in respect of some substantials they are a good and true Church But thirdly I confess I cannot tell how to uphold a lawfull succession of Ordination from the ●imes of Popery in England and a lawfull Ministery at present in England except it be by acknowledging in the height of Popery in England a Church and a true Church in some substantials of truth especially of Ordination and Baptism For had not Ordination then been held in i●s substance as from Christ and Baptism in its substance as an Ordinance from Christ neither our former Ministers had been rightly ordained neither had our Forefathers been rightly and lawfully Baptized For a true and lawfull and right effect must proceed from a true lawfull and right cause E●go if your Ministers ordination and our Forefathers baptisme were a true lawfull right effect it proceeded from a true lawfull right cause Then thus But such as were formerly the immediate cause of the effect of our Reformed Ministers Ordination and the immediate cause of our first reforming Fore-fathers Baptisme were such as lived before them in Popery Ergo in time of Popery there was a true lawfull and right cause of the effect of Ordination and Baptism Then further The Bishops and Priests in time of Popery were not true lawfull and right in the superstitions of Oy● Chrisme Unction Spittle and other Rites and Ceremonies which against the word of God they had added to Ordination and Baptisme Ergo They were true lawfull and right onely in substantials in the substance of Ordination and Baptisme E●go Then there was a Church quoad substantiam or in some substantial mai●taining for substan●ials such Ordinances as were left by Ch●ist unto his Church thoug● in ●ites and Superstitions false and erroneous Object But if it be objected that all this might be before the Councel of Trent but since that cursed Councel Rome having heigh●ened and multiplied her damnable errours and drawn all the poison into one entire monster and body of sin and errour the l●ke c●nnot be said now that Rome is a true Church or Church at a●l in any su●stantial● I answer that Antichrist hath been working these many years by degrees and although in the Councel of Trent he wrought more than in any Councel ever before Yet still he may if God will permit him to t●y his Elect further work more i●iquity than hitherto he hath done It would yet be a worse work i● he should prevail with all dissenting parties to yield to his supremacy and to his Arbitrary power and Command and worser yet if he should deny that Jesus Christ is come in the ●lesh or if he should deny the words and Gospel to be from Christ and to be a means for the working of Faith or if he should ruine all substantials from which as yet he hath not wholy apostatized Secondly If now there be no Church in Rome quoad substantiam or in any substantials since the Councel of Trent I demand then of Mr. Nichols whether if ever he converted any Papist to his Church he did baptize him again or no Or whether in case he should convert any such he would baptize him again or no If he say he would baptize him again I say that others far more learned and wiser than he whom in these latter dayes long since the Councel of Trent have converted from Popery more Souls than ever he hath converted neither would nor have baptized such again That most Reverend Divine Doctor in Divinity and Cantabrigian Light and Lustre Bishop formerly of Exeter a Star to me at my fi●st coming out of the darkness of Popery my first Father in this Religion my Ananias who ●oundly and faithfully instructed me and guided me in the way of my salvation wherein I walk at present even Doctour Brounrigge one of our Churches pillars a strong supporter of Truth never baptized me again when I opened unto him my ●all from God to the Reformed Church of England But if Mr. Nichols do say with the wiser and more learned that he would not baptize such an one again I demand then of Mr. Nichols why he is baptized already or not baptized If not baptized he ought to baptize him again if baptiz●d then his baptism is a true effect of some true cau●e But this cause was no true cause in the use of superstitious Oyls Unctions and other unlawfull Ceremonies Ergo he was a true cause of the effect of that mans bap●isme onely in the substantials Ergo There are in Rome such as by virtue of the substantials in Ordination do truely administer some Ordinances in their substantials But fourthly Yet in Rome the name of Christ and Ch●istians is set forth and held up in despight of Ie●s Turks and In●idels and for the name of Christ they are hated and ensl●ved by ●urks as well as we Ergo in a substantial acknowledgement of Christ they are true Or

altogether that they were hatched in the Nest of the secret Colledge of Jesuites from which time I have observed more Arguments against our Churches and Ministery more proficients in this Jesuitical Colledge more fire of division and Schisme more ha●red in the people against the true Clergie more tergiversation and backsliding from Order from Government from Discipline than ever before was known in England Nay I am perswaded it will be worse yet if that cunning that subtil Crew and Company of Ignatius Loyola be suffered to lurk in the houses of the forraign Ambassadours A liberty denied it is to our Ambassadours in Spain who indeed may have one Chaplain in their houses to Preach in private but are not suffe●ed to let in any of the Spanish Nation to their exercise nor to harbour any Spanish Priests that shall profess any Doctrine contrary to their Church which if our Ambassadours should do such Priests would soon be taken out and without any respect to our Ambassadour would be translated to their Inquisition dungeon Yet in England by twenties and fourties Priests and Jesuites enemies to our Church and Profession are harboured by Ambassadours by which policy our Religion is indangered divisions are fomented separation is incouraged Jesuites Arguments against us are vented and commonly pleaded and thus those who cry us down for Babylonish practise themselves what is Antichristian not knowing by what subtil Serpent they are let on against us nor who it is that laughs and Triumphs and cries Up Rome to the spoil while we mourn and sigh and grieve to see our divisions dayly more and more to increase And thus beloved having answered Mr. Nichols his second Proposition and having shewed that his Church is not the house of God it not being the Pillar and ground of Truth having also shewed unto you what untruths and Antichristian practises are in it having discovered unto you my judgement in part knowledge from what poysoned Jesuitical fountain those practises of his and many others against us do spring I shall now come to his third Proposition wherein he affi●ms Officiating Parish Ministers to be Babylonish And bec●use his grounds for this his errour were not in publick Dispute discovered I shall handle it more briefly and so conclude wi●h some use of Exhortation unto you My Method therefore in handling this point shall be this First by reasons and Arguments of Learned Divines and by some of my own clearly to shew unto you the contrary to what Mr. Nichols ignorantly and uncharitably affirmeth of us and secondly to answer some Objections which may seem to countenance Mr. Nichols his gross errour I thus therefore p●ove that our Parish Officiating Ministers in England are not as Mr. Nichols saith Babylonish Popish or Antichristian which in his sense must be all one 1. A●gument Those Ministers which are Diametrically opposite to Babylonish Priests and to the Shavelins of Antichrist cannot be Babylonish nor Antichristian But our Parish Officiating Ministers in England are Diametrically opposite to Babylonish Priests and to the Shavelins of Antichrist Ergo Our Parish Officiating Ministers in England are not Babylonish The Major need not much clearing Contraria contrariis repugnant all know that two contraries are repugnant one to the other and one cannot be the other fire cannot be water nor dry moist nor cold hot nor white black The Minor I prove thus First Babylonish Popish Priests are ordained to Sacrifice But our Ministers are sent to Preach and to Preach against Romes unbloudy Sacrifice and to pray Secondly They teach the Traditions of men But ours teach the perfect word of God Thirdly They mix the Sacraments and alter both their number and their nature But ours preserve them in their purity both for number and nature Fourtthly They are for Mass. But ours abhor the Mass as a filthy idol Fifthly They are the Popes s●orn Vassals But ours have witnessed with their bloud against him and his Sixthly Those pervert Souls and draw them from Christ. But ours convert Souls and bring them to Christ as Mr. Nichols and his Congregation can witness for let them but consider whether they did not receive the work of Conversion from sin unto God which they presume to be wrought in them first of all in these our publick Assemblies from which they now separate It was but lately the Confession of one old woman whom Mr. Nichols received into his Congregation that upon the preaching of one Mr. Gardiner a Parish Officiating Minister in Sandwich she had been converted Upon which Confession she was by Mr. Nichols his Congregation judged to be a true Convert and to have sufficient calling to separate from Mr. Gardiner his own wayes of maintaining publick Parish Assemblies who had been Gods Instrument for her calling and conversion to a holy religious course of life though much mistaken in her imbracing Mr. Nichols his separation You see beloved how clearly this first Argument sheweth unto you not onely that we are not Babylonish but that on the contrary we are Diametrically opposite to Babylonish Romish and Antichristian Priests But further against this Erroneous Assertion of Mr. Nichols I argue thus 2. Argument The Parish Officiating Ministers in England are either Christs or Antichrists But they are not Antichrists Ergo They are Christs and so cannot be truely called Babylonish or Antichristian The Major is clear For in the new Testament this distinction may comprehend all Ministers as of and under one of these two and those that be Christs Ministers are true Ministers and those that be Antichrists are the false Ministers The Minor or second Proposition is also as clear and evident as I sh●ll prove thus First because the Parish Officiating Ministers in England are against Antichrist in Doctrine and by Oath against his supremacy have renounced him and so do con●inue preaching against him Their Doctrine from Scripture is their calling from God to witness their departure from him their O●th the best outward trial of truth in man and their preaching an open publication to all men of their Faith against Antichrist what can be further required Secondly Because they do shew no obedience unto Antichrist Obedience is a mark of a servant Rom. 6. vers 16. 2 Pet. 2. vers 19. and Iohn 8. vers 34. Now they be not in bondage unto Antichrist whose Tyrannous Authority with his Laws as far as they be judged contrary to Gods Laws are by our Church abolished Thirdly It is apparent They be none of his because Antichrist himself disclaimeth them not onely as none of his but as no Ministers at all condemning them as Hereticks forbidding all that belong unto him to hear us and if he can get us into his Bearish paw he is by fire and faggot ready to devour us as l●mentable experience of his cruelty doth manifest If we were of him he would love us for the world doth love her own Iohn 15. vers 19. and the Devil is more politick than to be divided

for the satisfaction he had of him that he was a fit man to take care of their state and in the mean time he sends unto them Epaphroditus vers 25. and exhorteth them to receive him in the Lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation vers 29. and this without the peoples Election judging their after-approbation to be sufficient Even so for our peoples Election of a Minister if it be not before the Minister comes to a place and he be sent by a Patron yet sometimes the peoples acceptance and approbation afterwards may supply the want of Election at the first as Iacobs after-consent and acceptance of Leah made her to be his wife though he chose her not at the first Now fourthly For the final cause requisite for the compleating a true Minister of Christ it appeareth in many of us by our profit in converting many Souls Yea those that have separated from us must confess that they also were at the first awakened by us We have then Gods ordinary and dayly assistance in our Ministery for the perfecting of the Saints for the edifying of the body of Christ Ephes. 4. vers 12. which is the end of the Ministery and not Babylonish or Antichristian This is clearly seen and proved for Gods assistance appeareth in his effectual working mens conversion by the work of the Ministery for conversion is by the word 1 Cor. 4. vers 15. Rom. 1. vers 16. through the Spirit and not by the word delivered without the Spirit and it is not in man to move the heart to grace 1 Cor. 3. vers 5.6 2 Cor. 3. vers 5. But God doth take the power of conversion to himself Deut. 30. vers 6. Act. 16. vers 14. The means indeed is the word Iames 1. vers 18. Examples hereof we have throughout the Acts of the Apostles Therefore i● men be here converted God doth aid the Ministers and is with them by the power of his Spirit in that work 2 Cor. 3. vers 3. by which the Apostle proveth to have the power of the Spirit in his Ministery by the conversion of his hearers All which considered and finding the four causes requisite to make up and compleat true Ministers to be with us I conclude that the Parish Officiating Ministers in England for the most part are men sufficiently qualified by God orderly called to the Ministery and to do that work which Christ appointed his Ministers to do and consequently that they are not Babylonish but true and lawfull Ministers of Iesus Christ. 4. Argument They that have the true properties of true Shepheards are Christs true Ministers But the Parish Officiating Ministers in England have the true properties of true Shepheards Ergo The Parish Officiating Ministers in England are Christs true Ministers and consequently are not Babylonish or Antichristian The Minor I prove thus from the 10. of Iohn for first these go in by the door vers 2. that is by Iesus Christ v. 7. by his call and the Churches as I have proved before Secondly the Porter openeth unto them vers 3. who invisibly letting men into the Church by Christ the door is Gods spirit who doth qualifie true Ministers with gifts and graces and is forcible by them to win people And visibly the Porter is the Authority committed by the Church unto some for admitting men into the house the Church of God Thirdly they lead them forth vers 3. that is from pasture to pasture from milk the grounds of Religion to strong meat Catechizing and otherwise interpreting the holy Scriptures unto them Which true properties of a Shepheard being found in the Parish Officiating Ministers here in England it appeareth that they are true Shepheards and so true Ministers of Iesus Christ and therefore neither Babylonish nor Antichristian or Popish Thus having with Arguments proved unto you that our Ministers are true Gospel Ministers for the further clearing this truth it remains that we answer to what they object against us who do separate from us which is chiefly this Object The Ordination of the Ministers who a● this time are Parish Officiating Ministers came from the Romish Synagogue they also were ordained by Bishops Ergo They are not true Ministers or thus Those Ministers which stand by a Romish Institution are no true Ministers But the Ministers of England stand by a Romish Institution Ergo They are no true Ministers but Babylonish and Antichristian 1. Answ. The Minor of this Syllogisme must be denied for we stand by no Romish Institution for Ordination is none of Romes inventions but instituted by the Lord Iesus Christ. So that the Ministers of England stand by an Institution of Christ descending to them from the Apostles through the Church of Rome must be the meaning of this Argument To which we answer that the passing through Rome nulls not the Institution of Christ. As we cast not away the Scriptures Sacraments and what ever Ordinances we have now though they have descended to us from the Apostles through Rome Which Argument runs as strong against Baptisme which though mingled with Romish inventions is not therefore nulled The vessels that were once dedicated to God by his own Institution though they were put into the house of Nebuchadnezars Gods and those that were fit very likely used to drink Wine in when he praised the Gods they were not so much as new cast again but carried to Ierusalem Ezra 1. vers 11. Yea Mr. Iohnson a great man of the separation seeing one that was a Minister in the Church of England afterwards to be chosen a Teacher to a separate Congregation without any new imposing of hands undertakes to justifie the Action thus in five Propositions 1. Imposition of hands is of God and not an invention of man It was not a Post or a Threshold first brought by Antichrist into the Temple of God but had therein before ever Antichrist sate there 2. Baptisme and Imposition of hands are joyned together among the Principles of the foundation spoken of Hebr. 6. vers 2. Therefore they ought to be regarded 3. Imposition of hands is in the Church of Rome still given to the Of●●ce of the Ministery and in the name of the Lord as they do also still administer Baptisme 4. We finde not either precept example or ground in the Scriptu●e binding to the repetition of it 5. The Priests and Levites in Israel becoming unclean when afterward they were cleansed retained still their places of being Priests and Levites and the Children of the Priests and Levites ●ucceeding after them did administer without a new anointing or new Imposition of hands Thus Mr. Iohnson and with him also Mr. Ainsworth though in their judgement both for the Separation opposed rebaptization because baptisme is an Ordinance of God which was had in the Church of Rome before the sell into Apostasie and hath been there continued ever since the Apostles times however commingled with many inventions of their own So likewise Mr. Iohnson defended

the God of Heaven bathe his Sword in our bloud and yet bring more forreign Enemies upon us and make the Land fat with our Carcasses for we have forfeited our very Estates and lives we do not deserve one bit of bread or drop of water justly may God feed us with the bread o● sorrows and give us tears to drink we would not serve God ●i●h joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things and therefore well might God send us to serve our Enemies in the want of all things Deut. 28. v. 47 48. Behold the Heaven is as brass and the Earth as iron we have had a brazen brow and there is an iron Sinew in our Necks we have gone on impudently and stubbornly in our sins Gods Doctrine hath dropped as the rain and distilled as the dew but not as upon the tender Herb for our hearts have not been tender our lives have not been fruitfull We have loathed Manna the Spiritual food of our Souls and well may God loath us and cast us off from him we have alienated our selves from our good God we have separated one f●om another we have increased divisions and well may God take away his mercies and his blessings from us and increase our divisions and make our breaches greater yet and wider than hi●herto they have been We have by reason of our sins given occasion to our friends and Neighbours to unchurch us though in them it have been unjust but if we humble not our selves for these our sins God may justly unchurch us unpeople us and cast us quite away for ever being more his people Oh than Let us humble our selves at the feet of Christ. let us with Marie Magdalen weep at the feet of Christ for our sins let us at the feet of Christ break our Alabaster boxes our hearts I mean for that we have broken his Laws and have made great breaches in the Land 2. Duty But secondly Let us make it our earnest business from hence forward to reform our particular persons Oh are there not Babylonish Inmates protected within us Oh Let us turn our eyes inward and every one search what he can discover within his heart Are there no unruly passions there no unmortified lusts no self-ends no lusts of Covetousness no lusts of uncleanness no pride no envy no malice enshrined there These these are the Brats of Babylon for the which we are called by some Babylonish Oh happy yea thrice happy shall he be who taketh these Infant lusts before they are grown up and dasheth them against the Rock as it is in Ps. 137. vers 9. The times wherein we live are said to be Reforming times we have talked of Reformation these ten years and upwards we have beaten down whatsoever hath appeared outwardly Babylonish either in Altars or in Crosses or in Images but oh let us take heed we do not leave some Idols yet standing in our own bosomes There are b●loved Idola saeculi as well as Idola Templi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all our lusts must be cursed anathematized that they may like the Fig-Tree af●er it was cursed die and wither at their ve●y Root Tell me Is not self-love an Idol Is it not in some of y●u the great whore Is not lust a beast a Monster with many Heads and Horns Oh hate this Whore mortifie self-love and you stab the beast to the heart for self love is the very heart and Soul of Original sin 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 Fai●h and Zeal pray them down The precious Sons of Zion 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 p●ayers to God to give them power and victory over ●heir head-strong and stomackfull corruptions and in thei● prayers their Faith ever closeth with such promises as assure them of Grace enough to resist temptations and morti●ie corruption This is the fi●st which I exhort you to do to deliver your selves from Babylon within you that dwelleth within your hearts as an Inmate in the same house by Humiliation and Reformation Bu● secondly I beseech you to consider that you must not onely bea● down Babylon but you must build up Zion and that is to be done by faith and holiness 3. Duty Therefore in the third place Look well to your Faith The Walls of Bab●lon like the Walls of Iericho are battered down by Faith All the faithfull Prisoners in Bab●lon whose hear●s were sprinkled by the bloud of the Covenant were prisoners of hope and therefore were sure to be delivered from the bottomless pit in which there is no water for B●bylon was a Type of Hell As for thee also by the bloud of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy prison●rs out of the pit wherein is no water Zach. 9 vers 11. and in the next verse following these are said to be prisoners of hope Beasts live by sense Heathens live by reason Christians must live by Faith they must mortifie their lusts renounce their merits rest onely upon Christ his perfect obedience and full sa●isfaction for their justification for we cannot be constituted righteous but 〈◊〉 the obedience of Christ Rom. 5. vers 19. In this Faith let us live in this let us die By this we shall shew our selves to be true Sons of Z●on And let us beware we become not Babylonish in these times by yielding to new Doctrines which may make us fall from our Principles from the true word of Christ as revealed unto us and faithfully expounded to us by able Pastours and Teachers and so be brought at last to fall from our Faith in Christ. 4. Duty Fourthly and lastly my beloved be exhorted to study holiness and to cry down by your holy lives those that c●y you down for B●bylonish for want as they ●ay of holiness Holiness is the beauty of Zion for there they were to worship God in the beauty of holiness There can be no beauty in our Souls no glory in our Congrega●ions without holiness Zion was the Mount of holiness Za●h 8. vers 3. Holiness is the end o● humane society Vtquè alios alii de Religi●n● 〈◊〉 Contiguas Pi●tas jussi●●abere domos Certainly this age is even grown Barbarous or else Holiness which is the end of humane 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 glorie and to glorie in its sin and shame Men think it a base thing for to be holy and yet God himself is glorious in holiness Exod. 15. vers 11. Certainly if we would be glorious in holiness Gods right hand would be glorious in po●e● and dash our Enemies to pieces Exod. 15. vers 6. Without holiness we cannot have ●ny intimate acquaintance with God or good men We long for peace but peace is a Jewel which God gives to none but to those that are of his acquain●ance A●quain● now ●●y s●lf with him and be at peace the●eby good shall come unto 〈◊〉 Iob 22. v. 21. A Godly life is the life of God and those that were strangers to a Godly life are said to be alienated or ●stranged from the life of God Ephes. 4. vers 17 18. They then that strike at holiness strike at the life of God and have a kinde of Atheistical murther in their thoughts they would lay the Church a b●eeding let out the very heart-bloud of Religion and take away the very life of God O if England will not be holy it cannot be happy if we continue in our lukewarmness and prophaneness Wo wo be unto us though it go well with Zion it will go ill with us Zion was preserved even when Ierusalem was destroyed and England may be destroyed for i●s unthankfulness unf●uitfulness Schisme Id●latry lukewarmness and prophaneness and yet the Church preserved for the Church is not confined to any one place It concerneth us then to be such manne● of men in all h●ly Conversation 2 Pet. 3. vers 11. Such Pilgrims on Earth and Citizens of Heaven that it may appear that we seek a better Countrey an Heavenly and that God will not be ashamed to be called our God Hebr. 11 vers 16. But if we go about spiritual duties with carnal hearts and worl●ly mindes if we lie at catch waiting for a fair opportunity to return int● Egypt the God of Heaven will be ashamed to own us for his p●ople Hebr. 11. vers 15 16. Therefore my beloved if we live in the Spirit let us walk in the Spirit Galat 5. vers 25. Let us march fair and straight in rank and file as the word signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 walk according to the C●non given to Evangelical Souldiers Galat. 6. vers 16. and if we walk according to Rule this Rule of the new Creature vers 15 mor●ifying our lusts crucifying our selves to the World and living un●o Christ in righteousness and true holiness Peace will be upon us and upon Zion the Israel of God vers 16. Let us ther●fore as it becometh men of Zion devote our selves to God and spend our strength in the Practise of Piety Let us be better acquainted with our selves and with our God let us learn what sin and what Grace means let us be watchfull over our own hearts with an holy jealousie may let us set a watch before our mouths and all our senses nay let us watch over one another that we may provoke one another to holiness and good works let us beseech the God of Heaven to kindle gracious desires in our hearts that we may oppose and Conquer all our filthy and implacable lusts which set us all in a Combustion of War and divisions Iam. 4. vers 1. Thus shall we be delivered from Babylon and by our Holiness we shall become the Beauty of Zion And thus beloved have I imployed my utmost strength consecrated my Totum nil blown my Rams Horns against Babylon and indeavoured to build up Zion that all you here present may be Members of it to Gods praise to whom be glorie throughout all Ages Amen Soli Deo Honor gloria FINIS