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A89161 The down-fall of Babylon or, The ruine of Antichrist : being that mystery of iniquity, which beginneth to worke in the children of disobedience, the Independents. / By Alexander Mingzeis minister of Gods Word. Mingzeis, Alexander. 1647 (1647) Wing M2192; Thomason E1184_6; ESTC R204875 9,425 33

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The down-fall of Babylon OR The Ruine of Antichrist Being that mystery of Iniquity which beginneth to worke in the children of disobedience the Independents By Alexander Mingzeis Minister of Gods Word Knowing this first that there shall come in the last dayes scoffers walking after their own lusts And saying Where is the promise of his coming For since the Fathers fell asleepe all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation 2. Pet. 3.3.4 Printed in the Yeare 1647. To His Sacred Majestie CHARLES By the grace of God of England Scotland Fance and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Dread Soveraigne WHither should Faith have its refuge but to Faiths Defender If Apostates dare abuse authority then surely truth may take sanctuary under your sacred protection There are a frie of Locusts in these licentious times smarmd out of the bottomlesse pit which have almost consumed our Vine And while we have gone about to drive out one Antichrist a worse is come in his roome Help therefore O King to drive out these Caterpillars Let not those which deny authority usurpe authority Your humble Subject takes God to witnesse that he aimes not at the godly or truely religious but onely at such as whose consciences accusing them may have time and leasure enough to repent and amend The Lord turne them and preserve and keepe your Majesty from all danger for ever Amen Your Majesties most humble and Loyall Subject Alexander Mingzeis Minister The Downefall of Babylon c. Christian Reader MEE thinkes the very word sets foorth and declares the odiousnesse of the Sect for it intimates in the first place that as they depend of none so they are worthily called Independents and may in time proove pendants if not dependants First therefore they depend of none neither God nor man Of God they doe not because they have denied Christ the truth and principles of the Oracles of God As first the use of the morall law 2. The use of Scripture in generall 3. In speciall or particular First therefore they have and doe deny Christ by their cursed and blasphemous detractions and calumniations First in giving forth that Christ did more hurt in teaching the Lords prayer As divers both in Countrey and City and saving the Thiefe upon the crosse then ever he did good in all his life 2 In giving forth that he was but illegitimate As a Weaver in Kent and a woman in the City A Gentleman in Hartfordshire a I have been credibly informed 1. John 2.12 2. Pet. 2.1 and a Carpenters Sonne 3. And lastly there and have beene some of them which have and doe flatly deny that ever there was such an one as a Christ in the world c. John saith that he is Antichrist which denieth the Father and the Sonne that is which denyeth Christ to be the Son of God and have not our adversaries done so The Apostle Peter telleth us that there shall be false Teachers among us in the last times who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction And have not our adversaries done so And St. Jude saith that they were before of old ordained to this condemnation Jude 4. which should turne the grace of God into laciviousnesse denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ The Jewes deny Christ but never accused him of folly and ignorance as some of our adversaries have done The Turks confesse him to be the great Prophet and Messi as that should come into the world Deut. 18.15 Dan. 9 25. only they deny him to be the Son of God but they never gave forth that he was illegitimate and a Bastard Therefore Independents are worse then either Turks or Jewes Heathens or Infidels Rev. 13 4. The Divine Evangelist maketh mention of a beast that should arise out of the Sea having seven heads and ten hornes and speaking blasphemies 5.6 to whom the Dragon should give his power ● 2. And what is this beast but the pernicious sect of the Independents for are they not risen out of the sea of the promiscous and various multitude of people 2. Is not their power almost become infinite and boundlesse noted by the beasts seaven heads and ten hornes 3. Hath not the Dragon or Devill given them this power for sure I am neither God nor man ever gave it them 4. And lastly doe they not in a most ample and large manner open their mouthes to blasphemy with the beast yea in such a measure as was never heard of among Jewes or Gentiles Turkes or Barbarians insomuch that it is a wonder the Land doth not sinke under the burthen of them But to this it will be objected that this is but the error of a few and is not known nor acknowledged by them all I answer by a part wee may judge of all even as Apelles tooke Hercules length and stature by the measure of his foote Besides as our adversaries cannot deny but that those which have opened their mouthes in such a measure of blasphemy against Christ are also those which are of their owne sect and opinion neither have they beene rebuked by them or written or spoke against so farre as ever I have read or understood by any of them for the same Secondly as these our adversaries have denyed Christ so they have do deny the use of the moral Law bearing us in hand that it is of no force strength or vertue And indeede what can be better for lawlesse people then to have the Law abrogated and abolished Therefore albeit there may seeme to be no dispute against those that deny the principles of faith and reason yet have I undertaken for conscience sake and their owne good to shew unto them the use and necessity of the Law and that it is in as great force strength and vertue according to the inlightening and directing power of it as ever it was And that first by the testimony of Christ himselfe who plainely telleth us that he is not come to destroy the Law and the Prophets Mat. 5.17 but to fulfill them Rom. 3.31 And the Apostle that he did not make void the Law but did establish it And the reason is because the Law is holy 7.12 and the commandement is holy just and good Therefore David made it his delight Psal 119.70 and the Prophet Isaiah concludeth Isay 8.20 To the Law and to the Testimony if they speake not according to this word it is because there is no truth in them I must confesse as many as are led by the spirit of Christ Gal. 5.18 are not under the curse or rigour of the Law by reason that in respect of our selves and our owne weakenesse the Law can make nothing perfect Heb. 7 1● but that hinders not the Law to be still in force and perfect in it selfe Ps 19.7 not only as it
is a rule of righteousnesse and a light unto us but also as it serveth to convince the conscience and to lay it open And therefore David used it as a lampe unto his feete Psal 119.105 and a light unto his pathes And the Apostle plainely concludeth that he had not knowne sinnes Rom. 7.7 but by the Law Wherefore take away this light this lampe and this rule and our adversaries may doe what they list blow out this candle and they may goe whether they please but they must not thinke to escape in the darke or to go away in a mist for wee shall be able even by the very lanthorne of this Law to trace and finde them out And therefore they deny it lest they should be found out ruld by it Joh. 3.19 For light is come into the world and men love darkenesse rather then light because their deeds are evill Thirdly our adversaries the Independents doe not only deny Christ and the use of the morall Law but also the whole Canonicall Scriptures in calling them a dead letter and in comparing them to a fountaine scaled up Notwithstanding the Prophet Isaiah proclaimeth unto all Isay 55.1 to come freely to the waters and to buy wine and milke without money and without price And the Prophet Ezechiel compares them to the waters issuing forth under the threshold of the Sanctuary Ezech 47.5 which grew into a river and became impassible David tells us that the Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soule that the testimony of the Lord is sure Ps 19 7. making wise the simple and that the statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart the commandement of the Lord is pure inlightning the eyes And Paul saith in Timothy that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God 2 Tim. ●3 16. and is profitable for doctrine reproofe for correction for instruction in righteousnesse That the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good workes In the Epistle to the Hebrewes he tells us that the word of God is quick and powerfull Heb. 4.12 and sharper then any two edged sword piercing even to the dividing of soule and spirit and of the joynts and marrow and that it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart And in the Epistle to the Romans he plainely concludeth the Gospell to be the power of God unto salvation Ro. 1.16 And therefore if our Gospel he did saith the Apostle It is hid to them that are lost 2 Cor. 4. 34. in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them I wonder what St. John meaneth whereas he saith Joh. 1.1 In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God I hope our adversaries will not say that God is a dead letter But it is not the sence or scope of Scripture will they object which they call the dead letter but the letter it selfe which is the creature I answer then the Creator with the scapegoat may passe free but take away the letter I wonder what will become of the sence and scope of Scripture Yes our new Enthusiasts and speculative Divines have found out a way to come by the sence and scope of Scripture without the letter and that is by Revelation and inditing of the spirit But what spirit is that which inditeth without Scripture Must not Gods word and spirit be one 1 Joh. 5.7 And doth not the Apostle say plainely that if wee or an Angell from Heaven preach any other Gospel then that which hath beene preached Gal. 1.8 let him be accursed And is it not a new Gospel to deny Christ to deny the Scriptures to deny Magistracie to deny Ministry and to deny the creature or that man hath a reasonable soule But seeing I have proved Independents already to be worse then Jewes Turkes or Infidels let us now see what difference there is betweene them and Papists Papists say that the Holy and Canonicall Scriptures are imperfect and obscure therefore they restraine them from the Laiety Independents say that they are but a dead letter and therefore uselesse and unprofitable and restraine them from all men The Pope arrogates the knowledge and interpretation of Scripture only to himselfe so doe Independents The Pope he saith that he is above and without all Law because he hath the Law written in the table of his breast so doe Independents Only herein is the difference if there be any that the Pope and Papists in some nature refuse not to be tryed by Scripture but our adversaries doe for so much as they notwithstanding Malechie saith Mal. 2.7 the Priests lips should preserve knowledge and they should seeke the Law at his mouth arrogate the key of knowledge and of interpreting the Scriptures only to themselves A woman in Midlesex and plainely give forth that the Scriptures are to be tryed by their spirit and not their spirit by the Scriptures Being contrary to Saint Johns rule 1 Joh. 4.1 which adviseth us not to believe every spirit but to try them whether they be of God adding the reason because many false spirits are gone forth into the world But how should wee try them whenas they have wrung the rule of truth and touchstone of Gods word out of our hands in calling it a dead letter and uselesse creature The Pope he saith he cannot sinne only out of Peters chaire he confesseth he may erre but our adversaries plainely tell us that they cannot sinne at all And why Because God sees no sinne in Jacob Num. 23.21 nor transgression in Israel And he that is borne of God sinneth not Neither indeed can he sinne because his seede abideth in him O happy people a royal Priesthood and a holy Nation 1 Pet. 2.9 I wonder they doe not also say that the showte of a King is among them How hath God sent them the spirit of delusion 2 Thes 2.11 that they might believe a lie 12. to the end that they might all be damned which beleeve not the truth For are they ignorant or do they take no notice that Israel was even then committing whooredome with the Daughters of Moab Num. 25.1 when Balaam did pronounce them without sinne And doth not the same author which saith 1 Joh. 3.9 he which is borne of God cannot sinne also to conclude 1 Joh. 1.8 that he which saith he is without sinne deceiveth himselfe and the truth is not in him Ps 32.1 I confesse the man is blest to whom the Lord doth not impute sinne But that hindreth not but that God seeeth sinne in Jacob and transgression in Israel 1 Sam. 7. 32.33 Yea and that he will punish it with the rods of men though he take not his everlasting mercies from