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A84069	The great earthquake, Revel. 16. 18. or, Fall of all the churches. Discovering the apostasie of purest churches, not yet sensible of their spiritual whoredoms, EZek. 43.9, 10. Or, The great whore made bare and naked before she be judged, and her flesh burnt with fire, Rev. 27. 16. Proving, that none indeed deny the ordinances of Christ, but present churches not being in a Gospel-order. By William Erbery.	Erbery, William, 1604-1654.; J. W.	1654 (1654)	Wing E3227; Thomason E806_7; ESTC R207174	48,514	64

is Deus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 6.70 Mat. 16.23 holy Fathers moderne Divines and Ministers are those Devils as the Worships which great and good Men have set up in the Churches are called the worship of Devils Revel 9.10 Let not this seem strange for not only Ju das was called a Devil but Peter was Satan indeed when he savoured the things of Men more then of God therefore let not our Ministers be moved if hereafter they hear their services called Sorceries as 't is there Rev 9 21 and themselves the Sorcerers of Egypt deceiving the Nation in nothing more then in their Forms of prayer For their preaching begins to appear more powerless flat dead having no discovery of God above the Common Form of Knowledge yea they know less and their preaching is more legal then once it was by the judgment of their wisest Hearers Yea as there are not the prayers of the Church this day as it was neither in power not Form so there is scarce a Christian prayer in private among them though they are full and flow with words at duty-times yet God and their own Conscience can tell how little they pray in their Closets how loose their petitions are in private how seldom they retire into their own spirits yea scarce ever doe they thus seek the Lord as the Prophet speaks that is Jer. 10.21 they seek not any nearer sight of the Lord nor any new discovery of God in them Alass New-lights are laugh'd at by these men though God indeed be the Father of Lights there being more Lights then one begotten and brought forth daily by our God and Father who will shine in us more and more to perfect day till we have a full discovery of himself as he is James 1.17 that is have the Fathers name on our Fore-heads Rev. 14.1 And as the Churches erre in their Formes of publique prayer so they fail in their Forms of private Prayers c. For they pray not to the Father nor secondly in the name of Christ nor thirdly can they pray in the Spirit First They do not pray to the Father but to the first Person in Trinity whom Christ never knew nor acknowledged for had there been a second Person or subsistence in the Godhead coessentiall and coequall with the Father surely Christ should and would have worshipped him but Christ never payed to any Person but to the Father and no Christian ever prayed to the Spirit till the spirit of Antichrist Veni Spiritus Sancte came into the world Not that I deny the holy Trinity according to Scriptures Col. 2.2 8 compared But disclaiming all the Traditions of our Fore-fathers and teachings of men I beleeve that God is Father Son and Spirit and that the Son of God Mat. 28.19 Rom 9.5 1 Cor. 8.6 Ephes 4.6 Isa 96. 1 Tim. 3.16 Luk. 24.49 Act. 1 4 1 Cor. 12.6 7. the Man Christ Jesus is God blessed for ever yet both in a Mystery which no man can manifest or reveal but the spirit Matth. 11.25 Ephes 1.17 The Father being none else but the one onely true God of himself and in himself inhabiting eternity The Son being the same God and Father manifest in Flesh and dwelling among men That one mighty God and Father powerfully going forth and exerting himself or appearing in manifold gifts and operations in flesh is the holy Spirit Which things are not to be carnally understood according to the letter as if God sent his Son 1 Cor. 2.13 John 14 9. Heb. 9.14 1 Cor. 15.45 and the Son sent the Spirit but comparing spirituall things with spirituall we shall perceive that the Son is the Father and the eternall Spirit is both Father and Son so the Father is said to send the Son where he himself appears in flesh from the beginning in the fulnesse of time or this day Heb. 13.8 for Christ is the same to day yesterday and for ever And Christ speaking in the dayes of his flesh that he would send the Spirit is nothing else but that he who dwelt with them should be in them that is when God even the Father who dwelt in his flesh should be manifest in theirs Joh. 14.17 18 19 20. Thus also I confesse that Jesus is the Son of God 1 Joh. 4.15 Joh. 14.7 10 20 verses Phil. 2.6 and that the Man Christ is God blessed for ever God even the Father dwelling in him and doing all in him being all in all in him His flesh being the form of God an image in whom the Godhead appeared to men The Son of God being nothing in himself Joh. 5.19 30. John 8 28. Gal. 4.19 but the Manifestation of the Father and could do nothing of himself but as the Father dwlling in him did all his works and words Again I conceive the Man Jesus Christ the Man-God being in us to be all in all to us Ephes 3.19 John 17.23 God dwelling in us as in him our flesh annointed and filled with the Godhead as his and we perfect in one with the Father as he This is the true Faith and Confession of the Son of God if once revealed in us Gal. 1.16 and 2.20 else how could the Son thus confess'd bring us to God God dwelling in us and we in him thereby 1 John 4.2 3 15. compared I shall not now declare at large how the present Churches deny all the Doctrine of God and of Christ c. which if God will we shall do in his due time onely we are now discovering all their forms of Worship to be false though some may worship the Father in spirit and truth yet in form of words they worship not nor pray to the Father at all Secondly They do not pray in the name of Christ but as saints of the Old Testament knew God in Covenant with them not God in Christ one with them that 's the Father So the Churches apprehend God at a distance standing a far off below in the Temple Heb. 10.19 not able to enter into the Holy of holiest into the Godhead himself but call upon his Name as great and terrible Deut. 28.58 Gal. 4.6 glorious and fearfull for so the Law presented God to Men they have not the spirit of the Son to cry Abba Father the Son being not revealed in them how can the spirit of the Son be sent forth at all I beleeve the Son is in them and the Spirit is there though hid in their flesh but they conceiving Christ at a distance Christ without them as long ago in flesh on earth and now afar off in heaven from them not nigh them and in them They do not pray in his Name Rom. 10.8 Joh. 16.23 They go not as the Son to the Father with that neernesse and confidence as Christ did to God but as strangers and forraigners or as far off from God being very low in the flesh They beg the Father still for Christ Jesus

THE Great Earthquake REVEL 16.18 OR FALL Of all the CHURCHES Discovering the Apostasie of purest Churches not yet sensible of their spiritual Whoredoms Ezek. 43.9 10. OR The Great Whore made bare and naked before she be judged and her flesh burnt with fire Rev. 27.16 PROVING That none indeed deny the Ordinances of Christ but present Churches not being in a Gospel-order The Pastors are become brutish and have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered Jer. 10.21 By William Erbery LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the black spread Eagle at-the West end of Pauls 1654. To the truly Christian Reader THe Author of this ensuing Discourse was a person raised up by the Lord to bear his testimony against all formal and traditional waies of Religion Ordinances and Government in the so called Christian world a designe though seemingly managed by him with some eagerness and severity of spirit if you abstract some passages in this and his other discourses yet in much love and oneness of spirit with the worshippers themselves that their persons might be saved but so as by fire 1 Cor. 3.15 The Doctrine of Persecution for Conscience sake though erronious was a stranger to his spirit and principles which owned no compulsion in matters of Religion but that Scriptural one viz. the energy and effectual working of the spirit of God overpowring the soul and leading it captive by an holy violence to those divine and heavenly discoveries which our Author bore witness to And indeed if we consider the judging and persecuting spirit we shall ordinarily find it to ascend i. The weak are most apt to judge the strong Rom. 13.3 though the strong hath another temptation before him viz. to despise the weak so he that is born after the flesh i. the weak legal Saint persecutes him that is born after the spirit Gal. 4.29 The reason I take to be this The higher a mans spirit is raised in the knowledg of God and of divine mysteries the more large and comprehensive it is as coming nearest to that state of love which beareth all things 1 Cor. 13.7 Hence it is that such men comprehend and embrace all weaker Saints though in different forms as to outward observations in one and the same spirit but on the other side when the spirit of a Christian is captivated to this or that particular rite as to a day meat c. in the narrowness of his heart secluding all others he is carried out with a zeal kindled from the outward letter to the censuring reproaching persecuting such Doctrines as he is not able to comprehend An experiment of this we have in Christ himself who coming forth in the glory of God and holding out higher discoveries then the Saints had formerly attained was opposed by none so much as the religious ones of his daies Scribes and Pharisees that sate in Moses Chair And as the Disciple is not above his Master so the Apostle Paul whose errand was to raise up the spirits of Saints to high and evangelical discoveries was thwarted by none so much as by devout women Acts 13.50 The same measure was meeted to this our Author who in simplicity of spirit and love to all the Saints bewailing the bondage of the whole creation did cast in his mite for the deliverance and relief thereof how was he scandalized by some professors of all sorts having various reproaches heaped upon him to render him the more unserviceable for the great work he was upon hence it is that we have heard the brand of a loose person or a Ranter an Apostate and Blasphemer an Antiscripturist Antiministrist an Antiordinancist an Antitrinitarian Vniversalist and what notinured upon him It will not be amiss for the removing of prejudices out of the minds of some and the renewing of the memory of this worthy labourer in the hearts of others to give a brief account of his spirit and Principles as to every one of the abovenamed particulars 1. He was no friend to loosness and prophaneness either in himself or others his own strict sober and Christian deportment in the whole course of his conversation is his sufficient compurgator against all the reproaches and calumnies of this rank and name yea he bore publique testimony against a licentious spirit in whatsoever appearance in several of his private and publique discourses 'T is true some weaker spirits misunderstanding the Doctrines of this Author concerning the restitution of all things the liberty of the creation and Saints oneness in Christ with God c. from these excellent premises drew forth such conclusions as were agreeable to their own private conceptions rather then the truth which conclusions being seconded by a practice agreable thereunto gave just occasion of offence to those without of bewailing and lamentation to them within amongst which this Author bore not the least share 'T is no new thing This when the Lord holds forth any eminent and remarkable truth which is likely to be of signal advantage to the people of God for Satan to raise up much dust about it to cloud its glory yea somtimes by spreading temptations before the pretenders to it unto personal infirmities to abate the edge of other mens spirits from entertaining that which seems accompanied with so horrid and hideous effects But such men would do well to consider whether such conclusions do necessarily follow from such principles or rather are not the principles wrested to what they never meant Have not other mens Doctrines of greatest affinity to the letter of the Scriptures been as much perverted and abused Was not the grace of God turned into wantonness even in the Apostles daies May not new Wine be put into old bottles even to the breaking distempering and overturning of mens spirits All which things do rather evince the world not ripe for such discoveries which our Author held forth then conclude against the discoveries themselves for when the Lord purposes an effectual manifestation of some eminent truth he adds also a ballanced spirit able to entertain it 2. He was rather a presser forward then an Apostate Forgetting those things that are behind c. 'T is true he was formerly as strict and zealous in all literal observations as any of his equals yea he might have boasted herein as the Apostle Paul if it had been worth his labour But it pleased God to raise him up from all fleshly rites to a more near and secret enjoyment which took him from some outward performances which many Christians please themselves in it were to be wished that such persons could give as good an account of their diligence in these things as he could of his omission of them And indeed the prayers of the Saints in the primitive times before the Apostasie began which even then was appearing seem to have been occasional only pro re nata and not limited to times hours or seasons either in their more publike meetings or

privater assemblings according to the rule of St. James Chap. 5. v. 13. Is any among you afflicted let him pray Is any merry let him sing Psalmes yea the prayer dictated by Christ to his disciples Mat. 6. Luke 11 2 3 4. seems to be of the same import there being some Petitions especially that v. 3. Give us day by day our daily bread squared to the particular condition of the Disciples themselves for they being to be sent out into the world without money or scrip c. and without ordinary accommodation for the relief of the natural man had need have their daily recourse to and dependance upon him for a supply of those things when as they who have tasted of the goodnesse of God in a plentifull provision of outward enjoyments have greater reason to rejoyce in and magnifie that goodness then to goe forth in desires after that which they already enjoy where by the way it may be queried whethere that prayer were intended for the body of the Saints or the Disciples only and for other Saints no otherwise then as their case suited with that of his Disciples Yet even near the Apostolick times the memory of the Jewish observations being fresh some of the Christian Doctors did lalour to reduce the Saints to the same yoke of bondage as to the strictness of time place and season which the Jews were under An instance of this we have in Clemens living in the very age of the Apostles Clem. 1.52 and who is said to have wrote Epistles to the Corinthians as Paul did in one of which he laies it as a duty upon Christians to perform their services and observations statutis Temporibus horis at set times and seasons and saies that God hath commanded it by his supreme will but where that command is to be found he determins not neither is it any where to be found in the New Testament but rather the contrary but from the practice of the Jews in the Old and so a late learned Critick expounds those words of Clemens that the force of the command lies in the Analogy between the old Testament and the new and not in any particular Text or Scripture under the Gospel As for Prayer he was led into the secret places of the Almighty to see that it was not to be limited as the Jews did to morning and evening tides that it was the least part of it to be vocal That all divine performances are to be managed within that it was proper only for Saints and not mixt multitudes upon which account he was not observed to be frequent in the external demonstration of this or other duties yet he prayed alwaies and in every thing gave thanks yea being afflicted with all the sufferings of all the Saints he managed within himself such groans as could not be uttered Rom. 8. How many now adaies do place all their duties in being seen and heard of men How many outward services do they perform one day after another which perish with the using How are we ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth If such men think they stand let them take heed lest they fall Yet our Author wanted not a clearer demonstration of the truth and power of his Religion then any seemingly religious and external rite could afford viz The works of righteousness and mercy amongst men which justified his faith and shewed his religion to be pure and undefiled Jam. 1. 3. He is a Blasphemer that speaks evil of dignities and of those things which he knows not Jude 8.10 If so let them take heed to themselves who are cloudes without water wandring stars c. That place seems to be understood of those that took upon them to be guides and teachers to others for a cloude guided Moses and a star the wise men who pretending to be divinely sent and commissioned yet speak evil of those dominions and dignities those higher discoveries which they cannot comprehend As for our Author his thoughts of God were raised together with his discoveries of him he owned truth in the power of it 't was only the traditional customs which many place their Religon in which our Author did decry upon which account Christ himself bore the brand of a Blasphemer before him 4. The Scriptures were owned by him as given by inspiraration yet the bare letter not rested in but the truth and power being the treasure hid in the field sought after Yea 't were well if men were single in their adhesion to the Scripture not respecting so much any formal or worldly interest as the equity of those rules and directions therein contained the Majesty of which is such that they have been admired even by Heathens an instance we have in our English Chronicle K. John sent Ambassadors to the King of Marocco in Africa proferring him to renounce Christianity and to receive the Mahumetan religion from him The King made answer that he had been lately reading St. Pauls Epistles where he found so many excellent things that if he himself had been without a Religion he would have chosen his and so dismissed the Ambassadors Math. Par. Yet 't is an usual artifice of Satan in all ages to set up the letter of a thing against the truth and power of it yea no opposition so fierce as that which is managed by the man of Form against the true spiritual worshipper 'T is not enough for men to urge the letter of the Scripture for such or such a practice lest they can shew the same spirit animating and enlivening their practice which was in the primitive times otherwise the practice is not the same but another from it because acted in another spirit the spirit being that which gives its true being and denomination to each part of spiritual worship and when the outward practice was abstracted from its primitive and original spirit and graffed on mens own spirits then came in the Antichrist and the deceivablenss of unrighteousness And though the letter of the word in some sense is a Skreen to secure Antichrist yet the spirit of the Lord in his more discerning servants will find him out 5. As is the Scripture such are the Ministers of it i such as act in the truth and power or in the form and notion only when Christ appeared he set himself in directest opposition against the Pharisee i. the Minister of the Law and was in that sense an Antiministrist as having a more excellent Ministry to hold forth to the world the first Ministry of the Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors was not denyed by our Author but how it could be continued during the Apostasit or how and when renewed are questions and cases not so clearly stated but that they may well admit of doubts and scruples especially since the gifts which accompanied the first Ministry are ceased and our Author was of this mind better no Ministry then a pretended one 6. After Ministry follow

12.12 John 14.19 though a Saint may be so called also Christ being in every one and every one in Christ so Antichrist appears most visibly in particular Churches or in Saints joyned in that fleshly fellowship where the Spirit of Christ or Manifestation of the Spirit not appearing the Church must now be called Antichrist the Man of sinn the great Whore How the Church came to be thus Apostate and when the Apostacy began I have not time at present to declare this secret depending much on what the mind of the Spirit shall make out in the Saints and what may be learnt by Ecclesiastick History by both it is manifest that the manifestation of the Spirit in manifold gifts given to the Church ceasing with the Apostles was the first beginning of Apostasie the Apostle John lived about one hundred years after Christ and the seven Churches of Asia types of the apostate Churches stood up a little longer but before the two hundred years compleat the wisdom and power of man so prevailed in the Church the inventions and traditions of Men were so many superstitious and childish ceremonies in Churches that of the British in Wales being the first Christian Church in the world long before the Papall Church in Rome I say the Apostasie of those Churches was so visible the pride of their Ministers so vile Spelmanantiq Britanic the power of their Synods in Glamorgan and Monmouth-shire so prevailing over the Gentry and petty Kings of that Country the canons of their Clergy so potent yea the Churches there and then so carnall in all superstitious Ceremonies both Jewish and Heathenish as never was more gross in the midst of Popery afterward How this Apostasie prevailed and became so powerfull History will tell you that Antichrist never came to be great till Kingdoms began to be Christian and Christian Kingdoms because they were Christian would needs appear and act as Churches call Councels and Synods condemn Heresies Judg of the Truth and Mysteries of God by the gifts of Men. When Kingdoms came thus to be Churches then Churches began to be Kingdoms That is the mysterie of Antichrist and Man of sin was then also working when nothing but the Spirit nothing but the wisdom and power of God appeared in the Churches of Christ I say then the Mysterie of Man the Man of Sin did work then the Churches did begin to act as Kingdoms yea the very Apostles aspiring to a Prelacy would needs exercise authority as Kings and Rulers of the Nations Luk. 22.24 and the Elders not only to seek preheminence as Diotrophes but to Lord it over Gods heritage or Clergie for so the Church was called 1 Pet. 5.1 3. though afterward the Elders or Ministers appropriated that name to themselves for they indeed alone would be the Church as the Pope with his conclave Prelates in their Convocation and Presbyters in their classis call themselves the Church yea the Elders of Independent Churches also have all the power and doe Lord it over their Churches though the Churches carry the name But after that when He that did let was taken out of the way 2 Thess 2.7 that is when the Spirits presence and power from on high in manifold gifts then appearing which did let and hinder the wisdom and power of Man to be so prevalent in the Primitive Churches I say when that manifestation of the Spirit that which did then let was removed then the Man of sin was revealed then the wisdom and power of man appeared visibly in the Churches I will not mention now the Papall Churches where the Popes save raigned as Kings and Emperors yea were called Gods Neither will I mind the Episcopall Churches when Prelates domineered as Lords not only Lording it over Gods heritage but as spirituall Lords in the Civil State I pass by also the Presbytery their Sun being set at noon day their Directory of Worship Confession of Faith Classicall Government their large and little Catechism with all those great works being even at an end The Independent Churches are those my spirit hath been most carryed out against these two last years but could not come forth in a publique contest till now they are come to power carryed up in pomp and state and fleshly glory wherby they discover themselves by their delicacies to be indeed the Great whore deceiving a world of men their Forms being more refined and her flesh fairer for they are men of great Gifts and Grace too this being that purple and skarlet and precious stones Rev. 17.4 the golden Cup wherein they carry their abomination and cause the Kings of the Earth men of highest place and choicest parts to drink the wine of her fornication i. e. Their false worship and Forms of Doctrine which are the Fornications or flesh of the Whore I wil not repeat all that I have written but this with God I shall make good to the world that These are no true Churches of Christ not Zion but The whore though they seem and speak as the Spouse yet are they not like the Gospel-Churches neither in Spirit nor Form No Ordinance among them in the letter much lesse in spirit according to the Gospel For indeed the first Gospel-ordinance or that which constituted the Church in a Gospel Order was the baptism of the Spirit this being not the bare presence of the Spirit for so all the saints under the Law had the Spirit but the spirit in a Gospel-sense was not yet come or as it is in the Greek The Spirit was not yet John 7.39 til Jesus was glorified Again the abundance of the spirit was not this baptism of the spirit for the Prophets had thus the spirit of Christ and Christ breathed the holy spirit on his disciples after his Resurrection but the baptism of the spirit was not till after the Ascension 1 Pet. 1.11 Jhon 20.22 Act. 1.5 The Apostles with all the disciples 120 by name were assembled together yet were they not in a Church-state not constituted in the order of a Gospel-church till they were baptised with the holy spirit Act. 1.15 2 47. yea the Apostles themselves who had a call and a commission from Christ to teach all Nations and to baptize beleevers could not go forth to perform either till the baptism of the holy spirit was come upon them Act. 2.38 Therefore the baptised churches are very carnal in crying out to their ignorant disciples Oh you must obey the command of Christ and Christs command is that beleevers should be immediately baptized c. Act. 8.6 38. Act. 9.18 True if there were a Minister who had the manifestation of the spirit as all who baptized had But again the first command of Christ before baptism was this He commanded them that they should not depart out of Jerusalem till they were baptized with the holy spirit not many dayes hence Act. 1.5 If the saints could stay a while and wait for the spirit not