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A57199	Babylons ruining-earthquake and the restavration of Zion delivered in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons at Margarets Westminster, at their publique fast, August 28, 1644 / by William Reyner ...	Reyner, William, d. 1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing R1324; ESTC R18099	51,389	67

26. Hate the evill love the good and execute ●udgement in the ga●e it may be the Lord will be good to the remnant of Joseph Am●s 5.15 This doth as it were make the gap up against Gods wrath Let judgement therefore run downe as waters and righteousnesse as a mighty streame Amos 5.24 If you wovld not have God execute judgement upon us all for when men faile to doe it God at last will doe it then doe you execute judgement for the Lord. There be other Uses to be made of this doctrine that concerne nor selves that we may be fitted and prepared for such a storme and earth quake and find mercy in it as God having revealed and threatned it we trust beleeve it 〈…〉 I say beleeve it I say againe cordially beleeve it This I count a point of highest importance the true and diligent use of all other meanes depending thereupon This faith will breed feare for as faith in a promise will breed confidence so faith in a threatning will breed feare and feare will put a man upon the strong use of all meanes of prevention of a plague or of provision against it The true reason why wicked men doe not feare divine comminations and so why they forsake not sinne embrace not Christ nor use other meanes of escaping is because they beleeve them not For were they cordially perswaded of the certainty of the threats of the Word they durst not continue in sinne and affront Heaven as they doe And the reason why they beleeve not the threats of the Word is the Atheisme of their hearts making them deny Gods holinesse justice c. to make a slight matter of sinne and of the Word forbidding and threatning sinne they will beleeve its threatnings when they see them Isa 5.19 as we heard before I had once thought to have passed by this point because that whereas the Prudent man hath long agoe foreseene the plague in sinne de●erving in the Word denouncing it and otherwise the Toole now begins to see it But I revoked my selfe and now put it in the ●●ont of these duties considering that the fools faith comming by sight and sense if there be no more added to it ne●er doth any good N●ab beleeved upon hearing and feared things of which there was ●o sight to be had as yet and so using me●ns e●cap●d Heb. 11.7 whereas the unbeleeving world perished Gen. ● t●e like we may see in Lot his sonnes in law and the Sodomites Gen. 19. ●e●shazzer was so farre from beleeving the threats of the God of Israel against Babylon and his promises for delivering his people by Cyrus our of the Babylomans hands which promis●s he knew had encouraged Cyrus as that he did of purpose make an imp●o●s feast when his City was besieged in contempt of God profaned the Vessels brought from Jerusalem praised the Gods of silver and gold wood and stone above the true God of Israel as Daniel accuseth him as one who could not save his owne Temple and Vessels out of his Grand-father Nebuchadnezzar's hands but whilst he was in the middest of his prophane jollity suddenly appeares the hand-writing upon the wall against him that put him into a desperate feare that night was he slaine his City taken his Empire destroyed and ended Behold here the terrible effects of this Atheisticall unbeliefe and contempt of the denunciations of the Word Beleeve we therefore the threats of the Word To speake the truth this act of faith in beleeving threats goes before and that not onely in nature but in time also the act of beleeving promises Hee that slights sinne will slight Christ he that apprehends not the severity of God against sinne set downe in the prohibitions and commnations of the law will hardly ever or not at all heartily embrace Christ set forth in the promises of the Gospell Be upright in thy generation and walke with God thus did Noah and so escaped the floud Gen. 6.9 7.1 Thou shalt enter into the Arke saith God for thee have I seene righteous before me in this generation When great stormes were comming upon the world and all the foure winds were ready to breake out for the ruine of all the Lord gives speciall charge to the Angels that had the command of the winds that they doe not let one puffe or breath goe out to doe the least hurt till the servants of God were sealed in their fore-heads Rev. 7.1 2 3. c. God remembers them when he makes up his Jewels and will spare them as a man spareth his sonne that serveth him Mal 3.16 17. Though the tribulation be never so great yet thy people shall be delivered saith the Lord to Daniel even every one that is found written in the Booke Dan. 12.1 for God will ever preserve a holy Seede of Saints unto himselfe Isa 6.13 A man must be a mourner in Ston one that laments first his owne sinnes and truly endeavours to forsake them hen the sinnes of others the horrible prophanenesse licenciousnesse blasphemies idolatries heresies of the the times Such an one was Lot who vexed his righteous soule in seeing and hearing of the sinnes of the Sodomites 2 Pet. 2.8 and when they perished he was delivered Thus the Lord causeth one with a vvriters Inkehorne by his side to set a marke upon the fore-heads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done in the middest of Jerusalem when he was about to destroy it Ezek 9.4 Because Josiahs heart melted when he heard of the severe denunciat●ons of God's anger against the Land for the sinnes thereof therefore had he a speciall promise made him of being ga●hered to his fathers in peace before those judgements should be executed 2 Chron. 34.27 28. Contest and contend for God for his pure Word doctrine of Faith pure worship and wayes against the world He that is for God in a time of publique defection God will be for him in a time of publique destruction Caleb f●llowed the Lord fully as it was in his heart and stood against the ten false Spyes that brought up an ill report upon the land ●f promise and against all the people that tooke part with them and therefore when six hundred thousand of these Murmurers fell in the wildernesse he onely with Joshuah escaped that storme and entered into the Lords inheritance Numb 14.24 Josh 14.6 7 8 c. Memorable examples hereof we have in Eliah and Ieremy In Eliahs dayes the people of Israel forsooke Gods Covenant threw downe his Al●ars stoned his Pro●h●s by heapes and hundreds now did this make him comply with them and fall into the streame No he was therefore the more zealous for God all full or futy and zeale for God 1 King 19.10 Well what became o● this Eliah if we doe but read 2 K●n. 2. we shall finde that when Ahab was slaine and his Army destroyed he was sent for up by a fiery hartot into heaven Ieremy was a man that

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They have beene slaine all over the greatest Answ 1 largest and most famous Churches as hath beene declared It is unknowne to me how the Prophets have beene used in those Churches at least in a great part though I know they have beene used badly enough But it will not follow we know it not therefore it hath not beene To which answer I will sticke the Beast was to kill the Witnesses indefinitely set downe Rom. 11.7 that is generally but not universally It is no where said he shall kill all and singular that beare witnesse to the truth the text tels us Exod. 9.6 that all the cattell of Aegypt dyed of the Murraine but yet if we read on to the 20. verse when the plague of the Haile was threatned we shall finde the Aegyptians that feared the word of the Lord driving their cattell into their houses by which it appeares that all and singular of the cattell d●ed not of the Murraine but the cattell generally or the cattell of all kindes The Pharisees said the world was gone after our Saviour Ioh. 12.19 when as yet the hundred thousand part of the world did not beleeve on him then but the meaning is the people of the Countries round about flocked after him so here the Prophets were slaine generally on for the most part not universally The Prophets doe yet Prophesie in sackcloath ergo Object this slaughter and triumph is not past Whether this slaughter be past or to come Answ certaine it is by the Text that the Prophets shall prophecy in sack-cloath after it be both come and gone even untill the Beasts dying day for he and they are contemporanyes as hath been mentioned before their prophecying in sack-cloath and his reigne as they began together so they must end together So long as he lives he will push with the horne and spurne with the heele and woe to them that stand neare him By the mercy of God and the means of this Parliament the Prophets here are a little stagger'd up upon their feet but one of the Beasts fillips would throw them downe again Could but he reach them either with one of his armed hornes or hierarchicall heeles which he mainly endeavours they were gone A mistake concerning the two Witnesses may peradventure make us looke for the earth-quake that shall ruine the Beast's Kingdome as a thing a farre off when yet our selves may be in the middest of it The fifth Viall is not powred Object for that is to be upon the seat of the Beast that is Rome whereby his Kingdome becomes full of darkenesse that is Rome is destroyed Rev. 16.10 therefore it is in vaine to think upon the earth-quake that is to ruine the Beast's Kingdome which comes not till the seventh Viall be powred out For answer Answ 1 I acknowledge Rome to be the seat of the Beast and that darknesse is often put for affliction and misery but I deny the darkning of the Beasts Kingdome there spoken of to be the destruction of Rome there be degrees of darknesse and misery inferiour to destruction Is not Rome darkned in her reputation and so the Beasts Kingdome How many thousands yea millions be there that deny her to be the mistresse of the Faith and the mother of all Churches that account her the mother of harlots that contemne her decrees c Is not shee darkned in her revennues when as so many Nations have withdrawne their supplies from her which were formerly swallowed up in her as in a deep gulfe If Rome be destroyed under the fifth Viall this difficulty or absurdity will follow then have ye Babylon the great to destroy under the seventh Viall Rev. 16.19 whereas Babylon the great in all other places of the booke of the Revelations is constantly put for Rome The fixt Viall is not poured upon the river Euphrates Object which must be before the earth-quake come under the seventh Kev 16.12 c. Answ 1 I must here deprecate the offence of many worthy earned men if lassent not to their expositions of that Viall It shall suffice in a few words to give that which is to me more then probable the sense therof The river Euphrates running through the middest of the world between the farthest west and uttermost east hath b●en for many ages a kinde of Land-marke to separate the western Nations from the eastern so that they have had little communion one with another Now this impedimentall River hath been dried up ever since these Navigations Voyages have been found out into the Indies and other orientall parts Whereupon the Beast finding himselfe mortally wounded here in the west hath as it followes in the text by the unclean spirits his emissaries by which I understand not onely Jesuits and others that are Papists by profession but all Antichrists Agents though cloaked under the name of Protestants with infinite strange and uncouth wiles and wonders laboured to involve not onely the Kings and Kingdomes of these parts of the world but even of the east also into Hormageddon that is a cursed warre as hath been said before This feat the Frogges have most efficaciously wrought for him in these parts of the world as every observing eye may abundantly see and although the Papists doe frequently lye in their reports of the east yet certaine it is that they have made many Countries and States there one way or other more or lesse obnoxious to the Pope as either to submit and acknowledge him as those of Japan c. are said to doe or to oppugne his enemies as the Persian to assaile the Turke whilst they are accomplishing their designes here in the west or at least by way of Merchandize and traffique to be subservient to their supply so that notwithstanding any thing in these two Vials the earth-quake may be at hand And let us beware that mistakes about them doe not make us put the earth-quake further off then indeed it is to our owne detriment and prejudice The Uses are of two sorts some directing us what to doe in respect of the publique others concerne our owne particulars For the publique every one should assist the Lord in his place in shaking downe the Kingdome of Antichrist and all his supporters Object The Church will be shaken too True Answ but it will not be shaken downe by the earth-quake but better rooted and setled Now that we may assist the Lord in this worke three things are to be done We must shake the Kingdome of the Beast by the Word Vse 2 this is to be done by all the Saints especially by the Ministers of the Churches and by them authoritatively Every true Christian hath the Word of truth dwelling in his heart as for instance the doctrine of Gods free grace in Christ for a mans justification and salvation the foundation upon which the Church is built that God is to be purely worshipped in spirit and truth according to his owne prescriptions and such like by these truths he