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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

Mistery Babylon the Mother of Harlots DISCOVERED Her Rise and when with many of her sorceries VVith 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. And the Merchants of the Earth shall weep and mourn over her for no man buyeth her merchandize any more Rev. 18.11 And every Ship-Master and all the company in ships and sailers and as many as trade by Sea stood a far off and they cast dust on their heads and cryed weeping and wailing saying Alas alas that great City wherein were made rich all that had ships on the Sea for in one hour she is made desolate Rev. 18.17.16 LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1659. Mystery Babylon c. IN the end of the primitive times when the Apostles had finished their Testimony committed unto them had gathered many out of the world and converted many unto God and many were established in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which purifieth the heart and giveth victory over the world and were led to the beginning before the world was made and the Churches which were in God which had received the anointing by which they knew all things even the invisible things of God and the mysteries of his glorious Kingdom which God through the Spirit did reveal unto them which Spirit they had received being begotten of God by which spirit they called him father and by which Spirit of truth which was manifest from the ●od of truth in their hearts by which Spirit they were led into all truth and became Sons of God and heirs of the promise and this Spirit was their direction and led them to worship ●od aright to obey and glorifie him and his name which brought salvation unto them and into this Spirit they were all baptised by the one Spirit into one body and in this one Spirit they met and worshiped God and were of one heart and of one mind and did know their Director near them and in them and the time did come when they worshipped neither at Jerusalem nor at Samaria but in the Spirit and in the truth wherein the Father was glorified and came to see that fulfilled which the ●rophets bore witness of even him in whom all the Prophets ends in Christ made manifest in them the hope of glory whose voyce they heard from Heaven by which they were quickned raised from death to life by the effectual working of the mighty power of God which wrought in them that did believe and they were in the unity of the Faith by which all their hearts were purified who held it which is a mystery held in a pure Conscience by which they received an assurance and were made partakers of the promises and became Inheritors of life and light and immortality and heirs of the promise and Joynt-heirs with Christ and they sate together with him in heavenly places and eat with him and drank with him in the Kingdom of God which stood in power and in righteousness joy and peace and did not look like the Pharisees loe here or there but first felt it as a grain of Mustardseed in themselves or as a corn of wheat which afterwards springs up as a blade or as an ear of wheat to ripeness to a full corn and they did walk from Faith to Faith from strength to strength and did appear before God in Sion and the Hebr●ws were come to Mount Sion from whence God shined out in perfect beauty who became their satisfaction and peace who had revealed his Son in them whom God had made unto them Justification Sanctification wisdom and so they knew one God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and one Faith one hope one baptisme the one Spirit into which they were all baptised into which they all did drink by which all that did believe were sanctified and did receive the inheritance among the Saints in light and this was the Church that was in God which was begotten by God the father and preserved in Christ Jesus in the lively faith and in the lively hope by which their souls were anchored they established in the truth that made free and they had received the spirit of Prophecy and did speak one by one according to the Revelation of the spirit which led out of confusion into order and they being in the power of God did walk by its order in the order of the Gospel And now was the woman cloathed with the Sun who had the Crown of twelve stars upon her head and the Moon under her feet who stood in that which was unchangeable and immutable and now was the Man-child brought forth which was to rule the Nations and was revealed to the Church which was in God and he was the head by which all the members of the body was united together in one and reconciled to the Father in one and by his Obedience Justification did come upon all that did believe But since the woman fled into the wilderness and the Man-child was caught up unto God the mid-night of Darkness came upon the whole world and the sincerity was lost and the image of God lost the Heir caught up out of the worlds sight Faith was lost Hope lost the Spirit lost the Saints rule and direction And then the whore appeared and made all Nations drunk with the wine of her fornication and they staggered and reeled to and fro hither and thither having lost the Spirit became all waters and unstable and all the world wondered after the Beast which then arose after the primative times and after the Apostles daies and admired him and worsh●pped him who killed the Womans seed and made war against it And then the whore made Decrees who was gone from the Law-giver and she made confessions of faith and articles of faith being out of the power of God who is the Author of true faith being guided by the power of the Dragon she made orders of worship and gave directions for worship having gotten on the free womans attire the outside the Scriptures the form of Godliness but afterwards became more abominable having both lost the power and the form worshipped the Devils power and the Dragons power and came forth in the image of him and reached out the cup of fornication and made the Nations drunk with her Inchantments and sorceries and she drunk the blood of the Martyrs the blood of the Prophets and them that kept the testimony of Jesus the spirit of Prophecy and then prescribed forms of worship forms of prayer and made creeds and faiths and articles of faith and many faiths having lost the order of the Gospel she

and new ●oyned expressions and rhe●o●ical speeches and P●ilosophical phrases this will go off at a good rate and by this the Merchant may procure his Discourse to be printed which may procure his fame and renown among ignorant people besides it may be he gets profit by printing his Sermon setting all set-wages tythes salleries aside but if it be amongst poor Count●y people or an odde corner of the Land then any ordinary traffi●ue a Sermon which it may be he hath sold four times over this will go off among ignorant people and make them more ignorant and as you say a Text out of the ●salms or any other Scripture as the Mi●ister shall thinks fit will serve to treat upon Reader thou mayest take notice that here is no notice taken of the holy Ghost or Spirit what it thinks fit but what he that preaches hath ready must go off and counted as fit for that people Direct And in the 36 Page your Direction is to the Merchant not to rest in general Doctrine but come to particular application whi●h is a work of gre●t diffi●ul●y to himself requiring prudence and moderation and to the natural corrupt man it will be very unpleasant Answ. The Doctrines and the Applications of the natural corrupt man will not be profitable nor powerfull at all upon the Hearers neither will disarm the thoughts of the heart at all and you that gives prescriptions to natural corrupt men what to preach who sets them about performing the work of God that knows it not are very ignorant for the natural man understands not the things of God and the corrupt man in heart sees not God and he that understands not the things of God must needs preach a devination of his own brain Well let who will take this traffi●ue the Children of light will have none of it it may be such husks as these will satisfie a herd of swine and so let them take it Direct And you say he that preaches is to be perswaded in his own heart that all that he teaches is the truth and that he is to walk before his flock as an example Answ. How is he like to be perswaded in his own heart that sins presumptiously against the checks of his own conscience And you set examples indeed but they are but bad ones would you have your flock to follow your example would you have every one of your flock to have a long Gown or a long Robe and make them all like Cardinals Princes Would you have every one to have a Ring on his finger and a company of Points at his knees like a Besom and a company of Ribons and Cuffs like a Fidler Or would you have any of your Flock to come and fetch away a yoak of your oxen or a couple of your horses or take his Teem and come into your field break down the hedges and throw open the gates and load his waggon with corn if one could not pay it him for conscience sake Or would you be sewed up two hundred miles into a Court for a Tythe Hen worth four pence or six pence and thrown into the Fleet a year or two for four or five shillings Many such evidences and examples we have from you you late Reformers but to the light in all consciences I leave to judge which you have presumptiously sinned against what examples you are to your flocks Direct And now Reader I come to prayer after Sermon and thou shalt see what traffique is there The Minister is to give thanks for the bl●ssing received as Election V●cation Adoptio● Justification and hope of glory and likewise to turn the heads of his Sermons into some few Petitions and after to pray for the preparation for death and to entreat of God to forgive the iniquity of your holy things Answ. ●ere Reader thou mayst see as bad Merchandi●e as the story of the Lady of Laureita or the story of Saint Francis which the begging Fryers your fellow-merchants traffique withall First you give thanks for Election Vocation ●ustification and hope of Glory and afterwards to pray for the forgiveness of the iniquity of your holy things How are your things holy when they are full of iniquity and sinful Is that which is holy iniquity and sinful Or is that which is iniquity and sinful holy Are they Elected Justified Adopted and Sanctified whose sins are not blotted out whose iniquities are not forgiven let the wise in heart judge of this dream What are not they well prepared for death that are Elected Adopted Justified and Sanctified but they must needs have your prayers full of iniquity will that prepare them better What ignorance is here And where learned you this Article of ●aith to turn the heads of the Sermon into Petitions let the wise judge Was not Prophesie one thing and Prayer another But now Prophesie must be turned into Prayer and Prayer into Prophesie Sermons into Petitions and Petitions into Sermons what mangl'd traffique is this Direct In the 38. page this kind of prayer fore-mentioned ended a Psalm may be sung if it be convenient if some other Ordinance doth not follow Answ. Then it seems that your Psalm is no Ordinance but if it be it must give way however if the Priest thinks fit God must have no prayers at that time it may be sprinkling of an Infant may serve in stead Direct And now I come to the great Ordinance Infants Baptisme falsly so called In the 40. page the Minister is to use some words touching the Institution how that it was instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ that Infants should be Baptized and that it is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace and of our grafting into Christ and of our union with him and of remission of sins Regeneration Adoption and Eternal Life Answ. Reader Take notice Christ never sent them forth as Ministers to tell lies as to say he ordained that which he never did And furthermore thou may take notice that the Spirit of the Lord is turned out of doors there is no place for it outward water with which the Infant is sprinkled hath taken up the authority and the work of the Spirit the Ministers of Christ declared that the Spirit of Promise and the Spirit of Truth was the Seal of the Covenant of Grace and remission of sins Regeneration and Adoption and that the Faith and the Spirit is the Seals of Eternal Life But these Reformers hath excluded both and have set up a beggerly Element in the room let the spiritual man judge what kind of traffique this is Direct And in the 42. page that children by Baptisme are received into the Bosome of the Church distinguished from the world Answ. Now what kind of a Church yours is and what kind of a bosome your Church hath distinct from the world the wise in heart may judge You have confessed that Magistrates Ministers and the whole Nation doth not so much as endeavour after mortification and a newness of

that that cannot be you want Hebrew Greek and Latin and the Original by which you should expound the Scripture and know the meaning of it and therefore you to conclude that you have received the anointing is dangerous doctrine let us pronounce this man as a heretick for he wil infect people And furthermore if any say that the Lord is become his teacher and he needs no man to teach him but knows the Lord to be his sheapheard then let us cry out of this as dangerous doctrine and cry to the rest of the people that buyes yet our merchandise that he holds hereticall opinions and d●spises the Ministry and the ordinances and the doctrines of our reformed Churches or if any say that the Spirit of the Lord is a sufficient teacher to lead his people into all truth without outward means as naturall learning Hebrew Greek and Latin and the ancient fathers and old Authors and so make void all our arts and part which is the foundation of our Devinity then let us cry in the ears of all the people and in the ears of the Rulers and the Powers of the earth that this is blasphemy and error and ought to be supprest And furthermore if any shall say that hee believes hee shall be made free from sinne in this life by the effectual working of Christ the mighty power of God which condemns sin in the flesh and destroyes the works of the devil then let us cry heresie and blasphemy and let us tell them that the holiest that ever was upon the earth sinned and that the body of sin was un-cut down in them and let us prove it by Pauls words he complained of a body ●f sin and was never in any other condition while he lived upon the earth and so it may be we shall keep them in blindness that they will continue and trade with us and if any say they are come to the baptisme of the Spirit the one baptisme into which all the Saints were baptized in whom all other baptismes ends and so being come to this denies all the figures and the baptisme of ●nfants then let us cry out that they are sectaries and denies the ordinance of God Infants baptisme and let us give them some scripture how that Christ took up little Children in his arms and blessed them and how he bid his Disciples go out into all Nations baptize them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost and many be with an inference or two or two or three consequences raised from this and the like Scriptures we shall make their eye blind that we shall put off this counterfeit ware yet a little while And if any shall deny our Church or Chapel and call it an Idols Temple which God never commanded to be built then let us bring some scriptures how that God commanded a Temple to be built at Jerusalem and how the Jews had Synagogues and how God commanded store-houses to be built for Gods service and worship and it may be such a proof as this will satisfie them that they will come to our shop another time at the hour appointed for the sale of our wares when the market-bell rings and the wares are ready to be set out and so by this means we may hold on our Trade a while And if any shall deny Davids Psalms to be sung in rhime and meeter and with Organs and Pipes to be an Ordinance of God in Gospel-times then let us bring them some scriptures and some fathers tell them in the Church of Corinth that he that had a Psalm might sing and it may be they will know no difference between a Psalm which was given for●h by the spirit and the Psalm which is gotten by tradition from another and let us bring a proof out of Revelation that they that were redeemed from the earth played upon the Harps and sung a new song and it may be they will not see no difference between them that are in the earth and them that are redeemed from the earth and so we may keep up this still as an ordinance invented by our mother Mystery Babylon And let this be agreed amongst us now when many of us is assembled together whose livelyhood and riches stands only in the merchandising of our mother Church that in whatsoever place we sayl to in our ships if any be heard to say that the Spirit of the Lord ought to move first before any Teacher Minister or Believer ought to pray that so they may pray with the Spirit and in the Spirit in publick and in private whether with many or few that so without the Spirit none can be edified let us all agree to this that it be voted down as an error and let us do what in us lyes to prove from Scripture that set-forms of Prayer is lawfull and is an ordinance of God and let us bring the Lords-prayer called by our Mother-Church the Pater-noster and see what that will do and also Hosea 14.2 take with you words and turn to the Lord say unto him take away our iniquity and receive us graciously so with a deduction from these and the like Scriptures we may happily prove that a set-form of words invented by our Church or any of us that trades with her merchandize that this is an ordinance of God and ought to be practised publickly and privately and is accepted with God although the people have not received the Spirit as they had in the primative times and if this will not satisfie then use some prevalent Arguments as our reverend Brother and Fellow-merchant with us Mr. Samuel Boulton in the like case in hand used this forcible Argument Though you cannot command the wind said he yet you may spread your sayles and see what such an argument as this will do but if they will not be content with this as it may be they will not in Englan● ●●otland and Ireland Holland and some other parts who are more quick-sighted than some other places where we merchandi●e if we cannot stand it out against them that none can pray to God a right but he that is come to the Spirit and knows by the signification of it what to ask then let us grant them the thing if we cannot help it if Common-prayer forms of Prayer will not go off as they use to do amongst our Customers then let us agree to them but let that be the last shift that without Faith or the Spirit it is impossible to be accepted or heard of God yet before this be granted let us strive as much as in us lyes by forcible arguments from the Scripture if so be that they will not allow the authority of antient Fathers nor of our ●annon-books how that there is a plat-form laid down in Scripture and the general heads of true prayer is laid down in an Orthodox method in Scriptures that is to say Confession Petition Intercession Supplication with giving of thanks and if this