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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44800	Mistery Babylon the mother of harlots discovered her rise, and when, with many of her sorceries, with her merchants of divers orders, and ranks, and merchandize of divers sorts this many hundred years, also her last merchants, with their delicate merchandise discovered : in answer to a book tituled The directory for the publick worship of God through England, Scotland, and Ireland, which now is the chief traffick her last reformed merchants trades with, in all these nations / published by F.H.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3173; ESTC R16766	30,606	42

they offer the more they sin and how the rest of their Ordinances will end thou mayest judge before thou pass any further Direct And now I come their sanctification of their sabboth the whole day you say is to be celibrated as being the Christian Sabbath If you intend the first day of the week where is that called the Christian Sabbath the Sabbath in the first Covenant was given for a sign of the Christian Sabbath which was to be revealed when they ceased from their own works words thoughts then the rest was to be known the Christian Sabath and whether is a Christian Sabbath a visible or invisible thing But stay Sirs do you keep this day which you call a Christians Sabbath holy to the Lord is not this your Market day upon which you sell your Traffique one or two Glasses for 20 or 30 s. a day besides what you get for sprinkling of Infants do you not speak your own words nor think your own thoughts nor work your own works If you say you do not how comes it to pass that there are all these defects in your performances all this iniquity in your holy things I hope you dare not say that defects is from God or that iniquity or sin is of God and if you have not a male in your flock let sacrificing or offering alone and do not think that God will be pleased with your lame blind maimed defective sacrifices neither with your strangled things nor your swines flesh so I say unto you repent and learn to be reformed your selves before you prescribe rules for others least both you and them that follow you fall into the pit and because the Merchants of this rank and orders doth love to be medling with every thing wherein there is hope of any thing to be got they will try all kinds of merchandize and so present they their direction about mariage to any who will take their ignorant Councel Direct They say Mariage is no Sacrament nor peculiar to the Church of God and they say we judge it expedient that it be done by a lawfull Minister and to be published three times before it be solemnised by the said Minister Answ. If you mean by Sacrament a holy thing then mariage is either holy or unholy if unholy then fit to be done by none if holy why is it not proper and peculiar to the Church of God if they who are Members of the Church of God may marry in the Lord in the covenant in which man was made the male and the female then what hath any to do with it who are not of the Church of God and what hath the Church of God to do with them that are without and what hath a Priest to do with this where was Abrahams and Sarahs Priest when they were maried and where was the Priest to solemnize the mariage of Isaac and Rebeccah and of Sachariah and Elizabeth and because you say it s not peculiar to the Church of God whether were these of the Church of God before mentioned but what hath the Priest to do to publish it three times like a Belman for the loss of a Horse or Cow thorow the Market or rather why ought not the man and the woman both in the fear of the Lord if they be moved thereunto by the Lord publish their own intentions And moreover their joyning together in the Church of God when the members of the Church of God are present but this frustrateth the Priests 5 or 10 s and his Clerk 6 d. or a shilling more or less as they can get Direct Furthermore they say it may be done any time of the year but on a Fasting-day or on the Lords day Ans. Why are these days prohibited if mariage be a holy thing or an honorable thing why may it not be done in the fear of God and the power of God why not on any day was days made for man or man made for days your ignorant Predecessors the Pharisees judged as you do that it was not expedient or convenient that he should heal a Daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound on the Sabbath day And now they say that the honourable Estate of Mariages is the Covenant of their God and before they said it was not peculiar to the Church of God if entering into a state of Mariage be the Covenant of God and if the Covenant of God be peculiar to the Church of God then what is the reason you Reformers that Mariage is not peculiar to the Church of God And now take their directions who hath a desire to Trade any more with their Merchandize concerning the visitation of the sick Direct The party sick is to send for the Minister timely and seasonably before their understanding fail them and if the Minister susp●ct the party of Ignorance he sh●ll not examine them in the Principles of Religio● especially touching Repentance and Faith and to make known unto him the danger of desering Repentance Answ. If he be such a one who is sick as hath traded much with the Priests Merchandize if he be capable of understanding there is some hope he may give the Priest 5 pound or ten pound and it hath been high time for the Minister to have shown him the danger of de●ering Repentance before now when he is like to go out of the body not to have deferred his exhortation till this time and if the party be ignorant it were more time to inform him about the Principles of Religion and Repentance and Faith than to have him make Answers to that which he knows nothing of and then you conclude if desired the minister shall pray for him to this effect Direct Confessing and bewailing original and actual sin and the miserable condition of man by nature and that God would give him an ev●dence of an interest in Christ and the Seal of Eternal Life by Christ Answ. In sin you began and in sin you will end complaining of original and actual sin before you know what it is and hold on till you come to the grave and never depart from it and what must not the Minister pray except he be desired it seems they alwayes must please other mens desires rather then mind the Spirits motion in themselves And what is interest in Christ yet wanting and Evidence and Seal of Eternal Life yet wanting and it may be the Party 40 or 50 years old What was not this man baptized when he was an infant and have not you said and in the 48 page and 45 page of your Directory that Water-baptism is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace and of being ingrafted into Christ and of Regeneration Adoption and Eternal Life and what is the Evidence and Seal lost now Useth not this to be the doctrine amongst you once in Christ and ever in Christ and whom he loves once he loves to the end and hath not this man partaken of the Sacrament and eat the flesh

Images and such other like merchandizes of the baser sort is all bought and received without question as merchandizes of great worth and things belonging to happiness and felicity but alas 't is almost day and the night is far spent and the people in these Nothern Regions are come past midnight some towards the dawning of the day and they question our merchandize and with some the night is quite over and they are come to the day-break and to the rising of the sun and with these there is no hope of trading though with the best of all our commodities though with Cinimon and odours and oyntment and frankincense yet they will buy none of our ware nor ther 's no hope of trading with them any more for they are come to know the Pearl which is more pretious than rubies and the heavenly treasure that doth not rust and the word which is sweeter than the honey and the honey comb ther 's no hope of them but this is the misery they will not be content with what they have found but imparts it to others and so begets a dislike in other peoples minds to the best of all our Merchandize However them that are gone from us and denies our mother and her golden cup and denies all her merchants great and small not onely them that trades in wood and vessels and brasse and iron but even them that trades with the best merchandize as gold and silver precious stones and pearls fine linen purple silk and scarlet however let us excommunicate them and give them up to Sathan and let us call to the beast with his seven heads and ten horns who is scarlet coloured dreadful and terrible and let us accuse them of heresie schism and blasphemy and call them seducers and deceivers and false Prophets and let us brand them with names of reproach as Sectaries and say they are seditious and rebellions and mutenous and they are enemies to Church and State and all good government peace-breakers factious and pestilent fellows that brings all the Nations into an uproar and if that will not do le ts petition to Kings Princes Dukes Parliaments Protectors and Counsels that some speedy and effectual course may be taken for suppressing of these hereticks and for stopping of these blasphemous doctrines as that the Steeple-house is not the Church and sprinckling of Infants no ordinance of Christ and singing of Psalms by tradition no part of the true worship of God and it may be we shall get some Law or Act of Parliament against them or call them vagabonds and get them whipt abroad and put in prisons while we take away their oxen and goods at home and so by this means it will stop others whom we traffique withal that they will not dare to hearken unto them for if they will not buy our wares and take our measures by a glasse in love to it yet because of fear of imprisonment or losse of their goods or estates they will be constrained to trade with us But alas it is otherwise with us now then it was in Queen Maries dayes when masse mattens and even-songs professionings Ave-maries Creeds and Pater-nosters took up most part of the time and went off ●mongst people for spiritual worship at a good rate neither is it with us now as it was in the days of Bishop Laud our great Metropolitan and the rest of our mothers merchants Then would common prayer translated out of the mass-book into the English and Creed Letany Pater noster with a Lor● have mercy upon us or we beseech thee to hear us good Lord fourty times over in a quarter of an hour with some of Davids Psalms turned into meeter by Hop●●ns and Srer●hold masters of musick sung with Organs with Choristers and boyes with bowing to the Altar and such like merchandize which then was precious in the eyes of our mothers children Then whosoever would not be obedient to all the Rites and Ceremonies then we branded them with the name of Puritans and Non-conformists and haled them before Sessions Courts and Magistrates cited them to appear before the Bishops served them up to the High-Commission Court before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal falsely so called and there the flesh was gnawn to the bone and ears cut off stigmatizing and burning with irons imprisonment and banishment Now as people came nearer the day they began to suspect all this as not to be the spiritual Worship of God having no ground nor footing from the Spirit of Truth nor example from the Scripture nor from the primitive Churches then them over whom our mother once reigned began to question her whether she was the Lambs wife yea or nay And whether our Predecessors and Brethren were the messengers sent out by the true Church yea or nay And whether the Ordinances and Practises were the institution of Christ and his Apostles yea or nay in the primitive times and the day dawning upon them and the spirit came to be revealed and did shine into their hearts and they began to search the Scriptures and to compare the true Church which was cloathed with the Sun and crowned with the crown of twelve Stars with our mother mystery Babylon and they began to compare the Apostles and Ministers in the primitive times with our Predecessors Babylons merchants and also compared the Institutions and Ordinances which were delivered to the true Church with the Institutions and Rites and Ceremonies and inventions of our mother mystery Babylon And so they found all out by the ●evelation of the Spirit and by searching of the Scriptures they found out the rise of our mother after the woman was fled into the wildernesse and that she sate not as a Queen upon Nations Kindreds Tongues and Peoples till after the woman did fly away upon the wings of an Eagle into the wildernesse for a time times and half a time and likewise they found out that our predecessors and fellow-merchants were not like the Ministers of Christ in the primitive times neither our Doctrines and Ordinances like the Ordinances and Doctrines which were once delivered to the Saints before ever wee merchants set sail or floated in a ship on the Sea And so finding our City to be raised up in its glory since the glory of God was lost in the earth and finding our Queen mystery Babylon ruling in our City since the Lambs wife fled and finding us merchants to receive her traffique from her City since the faith was lost that once was delivered to the Saints and did see our Creeds and Beliefs and Pater-nosters our prayers and our hymns that they are quite another thing which was part of her traffique they have concluded and that upon infallible grounds warranted by a cloud of witnesses in the Prophets and Apostles that our mother is a whore and her predecessors are her merchants and that our Ordinances are and traffique have been invented by some of our mothers children which are Apostates and they have found