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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13558	Tvvo sermons the one A heavenly voice, calling all Gods people out of Romish Babylon. The other An everlasting record of the utter ruine of Romish Amalek. By Thomas Taylor, preacher of the Word at Redding in Berkshire.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1624 (1624)	STC 23853; ESTC S118190	35,162	74

mine thy estate shall be mine thy children shall be mine but thy God shall not be mine thy Religion shall not be mine And for assistance we may lend Babylon no hand to uphold her we are commanded not to seeke the prosperity of Babel all our daies because the Lord hath divoted her to destructiō but especially those whose hands and swords God hath sanctified to this purpose whensoeuer God shall put it into their hearts they want neither charge nor calling to reward her as she hath rewarded them as she hath levied forces against the Princes of the earth so must they levie forces against her and the cup of death and wrath which she hath filled to them they must fill her the double 3. We must depart corporally from them even in respect of place and habitation If an house be ready to fall it must oppresse all that are under the roofe If a Citie be summoned to warre by the sound of a trumpet carefull men will desire to leave that Citie Or if a Citie be infected with a raging pestilence we need not perswade men to flie forth of that danger Here is a ruinous state ready to be made an heap Shall the little mice by naturall sagacity presage the ruine of the house and flie and shall we stay till we be oppressed under the ruine The Lord hath proclaimed open war against this rebellious city and shall we stay the mounting of the Canon No where can a man bestow himselfe in Popish countries but he shall meet with that poysoned aire a thousand times more infectious than ever was any citie with most hot pestilence and can any man be safe casting himselfe upon such adventures Secondly for the manner of our departure from Babel we must come our 1. Cito 2. Longe 3. Totaliter 4. Finaliter 1. Wee must depart hastily Lot was commanded to hasten out of Sodome and prolong no time because the danger was neere delay which is in all things dangerous may here prove desperate and therefore we are commanded to fly out of Babel which is a swift motion beseeming Gods people in their obedience and because of the neerenesse of the danger unto them 2. We must depart farre from Babel even as farre as may be Many are afraid to offend the Babylonians by departing too far from them But as Moyses calling the congregation from Corah and his complices said I pray you depart from the tents of these men and touch nothing of theirs lest yee perish in their sinnes so we must pray to have no societie or comporting with Romish Babylon in her heresies Idolatry or superstitions for this were not to depart far enough from them 3. We must depart wholly thy selfe and all thine When Lot was called out of Sodome he is willed to call and carry out with him all and every one of his kinred his wife his children his sonnes in law and all whom he loued And Moyses calleth not only the head of families from Corah but their wiues sonnes and little children we may not thinke our selves departed from Babylon unlesse our wives and children be departed with us He is but halfe departed whose other halfe is a Recusant neither can a man of reason thinke him departed that sends his pawnes his sonnes and daughters for education in Popish countreys 4. This heavenly voice would have us depart finally never to returne more Lot must not depart out of Sodome to looke backe againe nor out of Egypt with the Israelites to turne backe after the leekes and onyons nor with Spalato run backe to Babel when we have fild our purses nor for rumor of danger turne away from the truth received for suppose God should kindle a fire of persecution in his Church this were but a fire of triall and castigation whereout the Lords golden vessels should come out onely brighter and better But if we returne to Babylon there is nothing but a fire of destruction and finall ruine to burne up such huskes and chaffe as wanting substance of grace are blowne away with every wind of doctrine every blast of change and every shadow of turning I had now come to the second part of my text if there stood not three sorts of men in my way to whom I must in few words apply my selfe and this part and being men of no good qualities I will make what haste from them I may The first sort of these are Romanists the second Separatists the third Apostates The Romanists cudgell us for departing from Rome The Separatists lay load upon us for not departing from Babylon can both their blowes fall right The Papists tell us with great audaciousnesse that wee are Schismatikes and Heretikes because wee have departed from the Catholike Church and keepe out of the lap of our mother Church yea out of the Arke out of which is no salvation But our text hath taught us that wee are not departed from the Church of Christ but from Babylon Neither can they prove us Schismatikes for departing from them whom we can easily prove to have departed from Christ by a generall Apostasie contrary to the whole Kingdome of Christ onely fit for Antichrist the Catholique Heretike Neither are we departed from our Mother but from the mother of whoredome and we may not mingle with Harlots 3. Neither of our owne head but by this voice from heaven 4. Our dutie bindeth us to avoid her sinnes and our safetie to avoid her plagues Let them bring vs a Text or voice from heaven to bring us backe againe and we will returne but Texts of Scriptures and heavenly voices cannot be contrary to themselves 2. The Separatists say we are in the midst of Babylon our assemblies are Antichristian our selves no people of God because we leape not over the pale and fly out with them But first they have not nor can prove the Church of England to be Babylon unlesse Babylon be in covenant with the Lord and hath both the Deeds and Seales of that Covenant to shew in all the substantiall parts of them rightly administred according to the Institution and now standeth to the determination of the Scriptures in all things for thus doth the Church of England but not so Babell and therefore we are not scarred with the windy termes of false worship false ministry bowing downe to traditions or denying the power of Christ in ruling his Church which is both preached and defended happily amongst vs. 2. They have not nor can prove that Christ hath given us a Bill of divorce as he hath to Babel or that the reformed Churches have separated from us as they have from Babylon As for their discoveries what hath a schisme of private men to doe to excommunicate whole Churches or why get they no Churches to joyne with them or if they could get all the Reformed Churches to them we expect orderly admonition before rash excommunication For if a private man must be admonished twice or