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A29365	Babylons downfall a sermon lately preached at Westminster before sundry of the honourable House of Commons / by William Bridge ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1641 (1641)	Wing B4448; ESTC R5651	21,012	41

commodities to other Kingdomes Rome in her latitude with all her Merchants and those that symbolize with her is here to be understood And that Rome and no other is here meant I prove by these reasons 1. Babylon is here in my text called the great Citie and in S. Johns time what was the great Citie but Rome it selfe for suppose a man were in France and should heare another say that such such a work were to be done in the great Citie who would not know that he meant Paris or suppose a man in England should heare another say that some great work were to be done in the great Citie who would not know that hee meant London In S. Johns time the Roman Empire prevailing the great Citie was Rome it selfe and therefore the Holy Ghost saying that Babylon was the great Citie saith expresly that by Babylon is meant Rome 2. This Citie and Whore of Babylon is said to sit upon a beast Revel. 17. 7. Now if we looke into the book of Daniel whereby much of the Revelation is to be interpreted wee shall finde mention made of foure beasts to succeed one another which is there interpreted to be foure Kingdomes or Monarchies The first of the Chaldees The second of the Medes and Persians The third of the Grecians And the fourth of the Romans Now before Johns time the three first beasts were dead and gone the fourth and last onely remained the Roman Empire And what Citie or people hath so ridden the Roman Empire as Rome hath done 3. S. John tells us that this beast that carried the woman this Citie was to have seven heads and ten hornes Revel. 17. 7. which the Holy Ghost interpreteth in the same Chapter saying These seven heads are seven mountaines ver. 9. or seven Kings that is severall sorts of government ver. 10. And the ten hornes are ten Kings or Kingdomes ver. 12. which this Empire did break into Now though some think whilest they looke thorow false perspectives that they see some other Citie sitting upon seven hills yet let any man shew us these three met together in any other Citie Who knowes any other Citie whose building hath beene laid on seven hills so famous that the Citie it selfe is called Septires and whose government hath been of seven sorts and whose Empire hath beene broken asunder in to ten Kingdomes or there-abouts This wee know is agreeable to Rome it selfe and therefore Rome and no other people is here meant by Babylon 4. The Scripture is most expresse telling us totidem verbis that that Citie which in S. Johns time raigned over the Kings of the earth was Babylon Revel. 17. 18. And the woman which thou sawest is that great Citie which raigneth over the Kings of the earth But in S. Iohns time no other Citie then Rome raigned over the Kings of the earth and therefore that and that alone is truly Babylon that is our late Babylon Whereupon Cornelius à lapide considering also how Irenaeus Lactantius Ierome and other Ancients speak fully to our purpose professes that he will not tergiver●●ri but granteth that by Babylon is meant Rome If so what ill office have they done to the Churches and people of God that obtrude this position upon us That the Church of Rome is a true Church But was Babylon a true Church was Sodome a true Church was Egypt a true Church Rome is Sodome Egypt and truly Babylon Oh what abundance of hurt and mischiefe hath this dangerous position done that the Church of Rome is a true Church I my selfe have knowne some that had relinquisht the Church of Rome and written against her who againe stagger'd in their faith I wish I might not say they were revolted when they saw this opinion countenanced and published by great authority And what say the Papists Your owne men say they hold that the Church of Rome is a true Church and that salvation is to be had in her as for the Church of England it is a Schismaticall hereticall Church wherein no salvation is to be had The safest way therefore is to joyne with us where according to all men both ours and yours you may be sure of your salvation And indeed the argument were very strong and home if the premises were true But when it shall appeare by Scripture that Sion is called Babylon and Babylon called Sion then and not till then will I beleeve that Rome is a true Church I know what some urge namely that Antichrist that man of sinne is to sit in the house of God and therefore that the Church of Rome is the house and Church of God But if we consult with the originall wee shall finde that the words are not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the house but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} upon or against the house of God so Austen and others turne it Vpon noting his tyrannie and usurped government so the coherent words also give it Hee shall sit exalting himselfe above all that is called God The whole words being nothing else but a description of his proud government and vile tyrannie If Antichristian and Romish Babylon be truly Babylon then set your selves in array against her round about I meane not in way of warlike hostility O that all your swords were turned into plow-shares my exhortation is no other then that of the Prophet Jeremie concerning old Babylon Chap. 50. 14. Put your selves in array against Babylon round about all yee that bend the bowe shoot at her spare no arrowes for shee hath sinned against the Lord It is the wisedome of every man to observe what designe God hath upon the world a Kingdome or place and to bee in our callings serviceable and helpfull to Gods designes God will help us if we help him Wee love to be on the strongest side God is strongest Now is the time that God is bearing downe the walls of proud Babylon that are raised up in every Kingdome Magistrates Ministers people help Help O you that love the Lord help the Lord downe with them downe with them even to the ground But what shall wee doe to help forward the fall of Babylon Either you are of publick place or private station If you be of a private station yet you ought to be of a publick spirit If you be of publick place give mee leave to tell you out of Gods word what to doe and yet I will not so much direct you to what you are not doing as encourage you from Scripture in what you are doing First therefore ye Worthies of our Israel it lyes you upon to search out and enquire after this Babylonish company and to repay them according to their demerits An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth burning for burning eare for eare liberty for liberty and blood for blood Wee finde in the olde Testament that if there were a noyse and report of Idolatry in the land the