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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28514	An alarme beat vp in Sion, to vvar against Babylon, or, The svmme of a sermon upon Revelation 18 and the 6 preached at Knowle, before the Honourable the Committee of the county of Kent, on the 13 of Iune, anno 1664, and by the said Honourable Committee required to be published / by Joseph Boden ...	Boden, Joseph, b. 1605 or 6.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3390; ESTC R15357	27,628	40

therefore they cannot they will not lift up thier hands and draw their swords to evenge Sion upon Babylon their onely trouble in these times is that trading is obstructed and that their incomes are so few and disproportionable to their imbounded greedings and gripings after perishing substances here it sticks they cannot act for heaven because their minds are onely set upon things earthly and below An obstinate shutting of mens eyes against the plaine and cleare discoveries of the truth most men speake themselves wilfully obstinate and that they will not heare with both eares they cannot be perswaded to reade on both sides God hath in justice blinded their eyes that they should beleeve alye because they receive neither the knowledge nor love of the truth many have onely looked upon Declarations and Protestations from Oxford though possibly penned with the cheating spirit of some dissembling Priest or Prelate with a purpose onely to deceive some poore and unstable souls that by giving them faire words as the proverbe hath it they may make fooles faine untill they have drawn them into some bloody acts of desperate mischiefe and villany but as for those Remonstrances and Declaration of Parliament holding forth the right of things to the view of heaven and earth these men have lived in an other world they have never heard of them but the truth is though they have heard of them yet they would not read them and so by obstinacie and stiffenesse have preoccupated thier own enlightning and conversion yea their hearts tell them they have been afraid of conviction and coming over to the truth and if this be not a tricke of Popery and the grand policie of the panders for the Babylonish strumpet to keepe men doting upon her painted deformities while they can keepe them hoodwineked from beholding true and reall beauties let the world judge Oh how are we here also striking in with Rome Romanisme who would be thought the onely Protestants of the world No marvell if he will not act for the truth that is resolved and hath determined with himselfe not to know it Personall guilt that lies upon the soule unexpiated When sinne rests upon the heart unpardoned oh how it makes the knees to smite the joynts to tremble and the hands to be feeble in such service as this of rewarding Babylon as she hath rewardedus Oh saith one I would goe forth in these warres and fight too but sinne within fights against me Oh if I should be killed in the battell I should everlastingly perish I have my wherecome drunkennesse Sabbath breaking blasphemies scoffings at the power of godlinesse and a numberlesse number of other transgressions upon my conscience they are unpardoned I have not got them washed away in the blood of Christ and if I should goe forth and be slaine all these would follow me to hell and therefore I conclude it is best to stay at home and make up the measure of my sinnes in this wickednesse also that I dare not act in Gods cause because I am wicked I deny not but some yea too many sinners are too desperate and doe least feare hell though they have most cause to dread it yet this also I am confident of that guilt and the terrour that attends it is a great obstacle in the way of many for how shall be dare to fight for God who considers that there is no reason that God should right with him and for him but against him if souldiers were lesse guiltie our warres would be more successefull it is not how many men but how many good men we send forth to the warre that we 〈◊〉 say of our warriours as David of Ahimaaz he is a good man and cometh with good 2 Sam. 18. 27. guilty men will never be godly souldiers but such as these godly ones we looke for and require in this warfare against Babylon He will fight best against Baal abroad who hath overcome Belial at home subdue thy lust and thy enemies cannot be unsbdued Deut. 28. 7. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thoe to be smitten before thy face They shall come out against thee one way and flee before thee seven wayes A pretence of the cause of the King when the truth is men are false hearted to the cause of God And here I shall make bold since I am fallen upon this rocke not in any way of disloyaltie but if it be possible for satisfaction of those who want or will not use more learned helps to deale with oru staggerers and stumblers in way of querie and that which I shall now propose to them you may call it if you please the Malignants Catechisme First therefore I demand and require them upon their consciences as they will answer before God and his elect Angels to give in replies according to the truth of the light that is in them Is not our King or at least wise should he not be sworn and bound to governe according to the Law of the Land Did not all good people generally before the sitting of this Parliament groane and grieve for want of that Government Wherein hath the Parliament denied the King the benefit of any old established Law In making or proposing new Lawes wherein have they gone contrary to the Kings will but according to the Vote of both Houses for his and the Kingdoms good both spirituall and corporall It is reasonable in our State that the will of the King should be preferred before the Vote of the Kingdome In all overtures hath not the Parliament faithfully counselled and humbly petitioned Have not Parliament and people most grievously groaned under breach of p 〈…〉 edges and promises during this Session of Parliament It is not reason that all other Counsels should cease and give place to the Votes Results and Bils of Parliament Were ever publike offenders against the State so protected by force from the justice of a Parliament Might not the Parliament if they should deal as treacherously with us as many have dealt with them undoe us and all ours for after times both in point of Religion and Libertie in Vote and by one Law even in a moment without either the care cost or feare that they are daily put unto What good thing can the faithfull members of Parliament expect to themselves and their posteritie if the Parliament were dissolved or destroyed since to the sinne and shame of the English Nation they have beene deserted and abused during their Session Is it possible they should have any plot or designe but for the maintenance of true Religion and Libertie Is it utterly impossible that our King should be one of those tenne of whom we read Revel. 17. 13. that have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the beast Have we not seene the same designe driven forwards under diversitie of Agents and meanes Was not the

but she perisheth for her labour Obadiah vers. 15. A desperate hatred of the power of godlinesse the puritie of Religion is the onely thing they set themselves most bitterly against to be bound up and hampered with the rules and lawes of Iesus Christ his Kingdome is that which they cannot endure In this they conclude let their bonds be broke and as for these yokes we will cast them from us If we act against the Babylonians it will produce our own ensnarement let these Belialists be once brought down and the hand of authoritie will be turned upon us our liberties to sinne will then be straitned the occasions and opportunities of nourishing our lusts will quite be taken away we shall be hampered with the strictnesse of a reformation one cannot keepe his whore at pleasure nor another be drunk without punishment nor a third profane Sabbaths without controll nor a fourth blaspheme God and his truth without observation and correction Ministers cannot be non-residents and pluralists to heap up mammon murther souls without censure and people cannot live as they list and doe what is right in their own eyes but all must be under the curb and raigne of Reformation and this is one grand reason why men are so unwilling and backward to a warre against Babylon because they are enemies to Gods great worke of making all things new Let the devill and Antichrist bring in as many new things as they will or can devise in way of superstition idolatry and profanenesse they are then up and acting but if the Lord begin to create new heavens and a new earth wherein dwels righteousnesse then they startle and draw backe and if there be any need of their hands and help in this businesse all they will doe shall be to retard and obstruct it not to prosecute and promote it Shortly thus men wallowing in sinnes defilements will have no minde or care of Sions victory and triumphings in and for the truth if they can enjoy themselves in their lust they matter not though the Church and her glory be utterly lost and put to the worse by the blood-thirsty Babylonians A base and slavish feare of humane frownes in case we set our selves to doe Gods worke and helpe him aginst the mightie Carnall friends and malignant allies are strange and strong gyves not onely upon the hands but hearts of many men in the worke of God now in hand Oh sayes the wretched spirit of some convinced ones if we shall act in this cause which we know to be of and for God then we shall be losers by it at the death of a father and our name will cleane be blotted out in such and such a rich friends will yea possibly for all this the King may yet get up saith another and overtop the Parliament and then I shall be called to an account for all the money I have lent for all the horses and men I have sent forth and for my own appearings in the cause and therefore in respect had to after times it is good for me to be quiet if I can possibly slide through the world unobserved and undiscovered in my neutralitie Let them talke of the Cause and the Cause I shall thinke my self happy to sit still and doe nothing This is the result of these mens thoughts though the whole kingdome be on fire if they can but slide up and down and neither be signed not burnt all is well their cares are for none but themselves A pretending and pleading conscience to keepe them from doing good a strange world that we are now fallen into in point and case of conscience Oh the purenesse and tendernesse of conscience now adayes what a happy time doe we live in that men who never made conscience of burthening and breaking the kingdome with all manner of 〈◊〉 and ungodlinesse are now so conscientious that they dare not take Covenants and make Vowes to serve God and save kingdomes oh the brasen-faced hypocrisie of these mens hearts who dare christen the base malignancie of their spirits with the name of conscience will not these men know that conscience truly called so is universall and carryeth an adequate and equall respect to all Gods commandements conscience doth not startle at the doing of good but evill and if yet they question whether it be go●d or no to make warre against Babylon I referre them to my Text part of the new Testament as they call it a Scripture now much in request with them and there I leave them and yet not leave them for though this conscience of theirs in not taking Covenants through obstinacie be starke nought and indeed not conscience but wilfull pertinacy yet if any comparison here may be made it is farre better with them then those who rashly bind themselves in Covenants to doe for Sion against Babylon and instantly enquire after and resolve upon wayes of breaking and falsifying thier Covenants Oh the wretchednesse of these men God sees the one obstinate and the other perfidious Horrible ignorance of the true Religion while men professe themselves Protestants they know not what it is to be a Protestant All of most mens religion hath been bound up in a Booke of Common Prayer begun and ended with a morning and evening service as they call it as for the Doctrines and Principles of Religion they know them not Men have thought themselves excellently religious if in publique they could pray that the rest of their life hereafter might be pure and holy and as soone as they have departed the Assembly both spoken and acted against both puride and and the pure ones Now that we have hopes to part with those formes the nurses of ignorance and profanenesse men have no spirit or heart for God it were an excellent way to fetch in men and monies to the Parliaments aid and defence to assur them they should have a Masse booke instead of Common Prayer and Bibles and that every fat bellied covetous wanton priest of Baal should have three Livings in place of two oh how men would vent and spend both persons and purses were they nourished with hopes of such wretched dayes and things as these but if every man in his place shall be required to know God and serve him in sinceritie and truth their hearts rise their milts swell and their spirits are so bigge that their hands can doe nothing they are so distempered distracted and discontented in thier inwards that they cannot compose themselves to helpe the Lord and his people in and to their right Papists and most of our common sort of people are so allied to one another in point of Religion that ours by no means will be perswaded to act against the cement of their kindred Popery Base and unworthy love of the things of this world gold is mens God and therefore not to be parted with the heart and eyes of many men are down-wards upon the earth and