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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78030	The sounding of the two last trumpets, the sixt and seventh or Meditations by way of paraphrase upon the 9th. 10th. and 11th. Chapters of the Revelation, as containing a prophecie of these last times. / Digested by Henry Burton during his banishment, and close imprisonment in the isle of Guernsey.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6172; Thomason E174_1; ESTC R6165	58,961	100

court without the Temple here by a Metonymie taking the continent for the thing contained may signifie the company of those in generall that professe to be Christians but yet are indeed and in truth no true members of the true Church they are not of and in the Temple but they are out of the Temple And therefore that which is translated in our English Leave out is in the Originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cast out as also the p E●jce forat Latine and the * jette hors French rightly render it This is as the Lord saith to Ieremie q Ier. 15.19 If thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth So here Iohn having measured the true people of God such as worship him according to his Word is bid here to cast out the refuse such as do not worship God in purity and verity such as worship not in his Temple and at his Altar to wit in Christs only Name who though they beare the common name of Christians yet they are not within the Temple but without in the common-outer court which here is cast out and not to be reckoned to bee of the Temple And this court Iohn must not measure it sufficeth that having measured the true worshippers by describing their true properties out of Gods Word it followeth consequently that all those which are fals worshippers are those of the court without the Temple so to be cast out as r Gen. 21.10 Gal. 4.30 the bond woman and her sonne were cast out of Abrahams house and not to be measured nor nūbred with Gods people And it is added here For it is given unto the Gentiles that is they of this court are to be reckoned among the Gentiles and to bee accounted as Heathen and Infidels For the purpose what are all Papists and all other altar-worshippers and bringers in and setters up and Conformists to strange Service invented by men but Heathen and Infidels For as we said before the very setting up of an Altar and Altar-Service is a flat deniall of Christ the only true Altar and so is meere Heathenisme and Infidelitie Or else by the Gentiles here is understood the antichristian Kingdome or the spirituall Babylon under which the formall Protestants and cold professours of this age under the sixt Trumpet shall be brought in bondage as back-sliding Israel of old was given into the hands of the King of Babylon For these back-sliders and Formalists are those of the outer court that is cast out and the Spirituall Babylon is properly so called for her Heathenish and Babylonish manners as Psal 59.5.8 David calls Saul and his bloudy persecutors Heathen and Esay 1.10 the Prophet calls the degenerate Princes and people of Israel Princes of Sodome and people of Gomorrha as being in manners like unto them especially her manifold Idolatries wherein she resembleth old Babylon as shee is set out Chap. 17. And how truly is this verified of our cold or rather luke-warme Laodiceans in England at this day Is not all England in generall and for the greatest part brought under the Babylonish yoke in her universall conformitie to Popery in setting up of Altars and Altar-service after the manner of Rome Are not all the Ministers and People therein I say for the most part made the Prelates vassals who have of late more then formerly set up the Image of the Beast and his Throne almost in all the Churches and over all the Congregations of England What Minister almost is there at this day dare stand against the Antichristian Tyranny now so highly exalted over all mens consciences Are they not then brought under the Babylonish Captivitie Are they not given to the Gentiles into the power of the Spirituall Babylon a farre worse and more intolerable bondage then that of the ancient people of God either in Egypt or Babylon For that was a bondage of the body but this of the Soule and Conscience And thus this very phrase It is given to the Gentiles alludes to the like speeches in the Prophets concerning revolted and degenerate Jerusalem whereof it is said very frequently in ſ Ier. 32.24 25 28. Jeremy that the Citie is given into the hands of the Caldaeans or Babylonians So here the Court without the Temple is cast out and given to the Gentiles that is as is said before to the Kingdome and power of the Babylonian Beast which succeeds old Babylon in all her Idolatries and bestiall crueltie in captiving of Gods people And it is added here And the holie Citie shall they tread under foot two and forty months This holy City here alludes to the old City Hierusalem as the Gentiles here allude to old Babylon which did tread under feete that holy City 70. yeeres But what is meant here by this holy City This holy City is the true church of God called the t Psal 46.4 city of God and the u 1 Kin. 11.32 elect City and the x Rev. 20.9 beloved city and againe Revell 22.19 the holy city and the y Heb. 12.22 City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem This holy City this Church of God shal the Gentiles to wit the Spirituall Babylon called the Beast out of the bottomlesse pit Verse 7. tread under foote that is shall exceedingly oppresse and afflict making havock of the Saints of God the citizens of this holy city making no more account of them then of dirt and mire in the Streets yea they shall defile and destroy the holy assemblies of the Saints by corrupting the pure worship and service of God and crying downe all holinesse both of life and conversation and Sanctification of the Sabbath or Lords day in the publike assemblies and private families forbidding preaching of the doctrine of Grace and restraining Sermons on the Lords day in the Afternoone and persecuting all Godly powerfull and painfull Ministers and giving publike dispensation to youth and others for following of profane sports on the Lords holy-day to wit his own day many such like outrages they do Thus they trample upon the holy city as labouring to destroy and bring into contempt as it were by setting their foule foot upon all holinesse Like those wicked and false Shepherds in Ezechiel z Ezech. 34.18 19. that devoure the good pasture and tread the residue under their feet that drinke of the deepe waters and foule the residue with their feete so as the flock of God must eate and drink that which their filthy feete have trodden upon and fouled a Note here good Reader that the Author writ this before this time of Reformation happily in part begun and hopefully expected unto a perfection Now when was ever the holy City the true Church of God in all these respects more trodden upon with the feete of false shepherds when was all holinesse ever more hated despised railed upon reviled persecuted oppressed trampled upon then now