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A10380	A warning to come out of Babylon, in a sermon preached by Master Andrew Ramsay, minister at Edinburgh; at the receiving of Mr. Thomas Abernethie, sometime Jesuite, into the societie of the truely reformed Church of Scotland	Ramsay, Andrew, 1574-1660.	1638 (1638)	STC 20657; ESTC S115617	27,981	57

bee good and vertue to bee evill except shee would sinne against conscience Likewise in offering incense to the Saincts in generall sweareing by them praying and vowing to them which are partes of Divine worshippe Doe they not commit vile idolatrie And in worshipping of images forbidden so clearlie and frequently in Gods word whether it be with relative terminative or conterminative worship in all these they prove idolaters Further their Idolatrie doth manifest it self in worshipping Saint Christopher the three imaginarie Kings at Culen and others who never had life breath nor being as their Saint Longinus whom ignorance hath canonized transforming the speare that pierced Christs side called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into Longin●●s a religious Latine Saint What credit is there to be given to their forged reliquies let any man judge when the heads and bodies of Saints parcels of the crosse nailes and speares that pierced Christ have exceeded and daylie do exceed their just number and quantitie Neither are they inferiour in idolatrie to the prophane Gentiles who were aliens from the common-wealth of Israel without GOD without hope for as they had tutelarie Gods for the protection of nations cities places and Gods for averting of evils and curing of diseases as also for conferring all manner of benefites So also in the Romane church they have their tutelarie saints for nations cities places for curing of diverse diseases and conferring of benefites Finally as the Samaritans did worship that which they knew not and the Athenians did erect an altar to the unknowne GOD so also in the sacrament of the Lords body they worship and know not what they worship whether bread or the body of the LORD for seeing the change of the body of Christ dependeth upon the Priests intention as they affirme and they being uncertaine of his intention do worship and know not what they worship whether bread or the body of Christ To conclude one of their cheif schoolemen Vazquez confesseth that they have no Scripture for the worshipping of images and is further bold to say that they may worship lawfully upon ignorance the divel lurking under the crucifixe Therefore that we be not partakers of her spirituall whoordomes and idolatries and thereby receive of her plagues let us come out of Babylon As to the fift and last sin moving God to powre out the vials of his wrath upon Rome is her corrupt doctrines and heresies for shee is loaden not with one heresie only but heaps of heresies For clearing of this heresie is to be considered materially and formally A materiall heresie is an erronious doctrine● opposing and everting the saving grounds of religion A formall heresie when a doctine everting the saving grounds of Truth is maintained with obstinacie Materiall errours was received into the Church of Corinth when the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead was called in question The like befell the churches of Galatia when circumcision and the works of the law was thought necessare supplements to Faith to make up our justification before GOD Yet because these foresaid errours was not defended with obstinacie the maintainers were not formally hereticks But in the Romane church doctrines everting Ground trueths are defended with obstinacie and the opponents persecuted with fire and sword wherefore shee is justlie charged with heresies and that both against faith and the dueties commanded in the law as followeth It is an hereticall doctrine maintained in the church of Rome with obstinacie that the Scripture is unsufficient for salvation and is but a partiall rule of our Faith seeing according to the Divine Apostle Paul It is able to make us wise to salvation and perfect to every good work It is more hereticall then this to affirme that their church traditions which are uncertain shall equall the written Word of God given by divine inspiration There is a third hereticall doctrine that surpasseth the two former that the last resolution of our faith shall not be grounded upon Gods Word but upon the church that is according to their glosse upon the Pope who only as they misbelieve is priviledged from all errour It is an hereticall doctrine which teacheth Christ to be offered up 〈◊〉 in an unbloudie sacrifice for the expiation of sin under the bare speces of bread and wine being repugnant to the eternitie of Christs Priesthood who liveth for ever repugnant to the perfection of his sacrifice by reiteration repugnant to his Majestie who hath entered into the heavenly tabernacle in glory and is not any more Priest on earth repugnant finally to his merit which being in it self infinit is redacted to a finite worth and measure at the pleasure of every Messemunging-priest It is an hereticall and arrogant doctrine which teacheth man by the merit of condignitie to deserve life everlasting seing when we have done all we can we are unprofitable servants and when we have suffered what is possible to us these momentanie asslictions are not worthie of that infinit weight of glory layed 〈◊〉 for us in Heaven And seing the righteousnesse of the most just as David Esay and others can not stand before God it is an hereticall doctrine and preiudiciall to salvation to place our justification before God in our owne maimed inherent righteousnesse It is a Divine trueth that there is no name under Heaven to be saved but by the name of Christ Contrare to this is that heretick doctrine of the Romane church that the merits intercession and bloud of Saints and Martyres are mixed as satisfactorie for our redemption with the bloud merit and intercession of Christ The Scripture telleth us that man in his creation was made according to the image of God perfect in holinesse and righteousnesse The doctrine of the Romane church jumpeth with the heresie of Florinus which holdeth that God made the inferiour and sensuall part of mans soule with a propension and inclination to sin In the doctrine of Free-will besides the fond opinion they have in advancing immoderatly the libertie of the same they have fallen upon sundrie hereticall positions in extolling the power thereof for seeing man as saith the Apostle hath no aptitude in himself so much as to thinke a good thought and worse then that We are dead in sinnes and trespasses by nature and if worse can be yet our hearts are said to be meer stones Is it not then an heretical assertion that there is in us any active power to do good being in such a miserable condition Moreover such being our corruption that all the imaginations of our heart are altogether set upon evill and that without the holy Spirit we cannot say so much as the Lord Jesus Is it not an heretick doctrine which teacheth that man unregenerat and voide of the sanctifying Spirit may inact and produce a good morale work wherein there is no sin Further to averre not God but the will to determine it selfe

was in Babylon being a servant and a tenant of the scarlet whoore c. And more clearly to Marcella in the name of Paula and Eustochium hee inviteth her to come out of Rome being that Apocalyptick Babylon whereby it is clear what Hierome did esteeme of Rome And in the preceeding chapter the whore is said to sit cloathed in purple dyeed with the bloud of the Saints with a golden cup full of fornications in her hand having in her fore-head A mysterie Babilon Rome therefore is that mystick Babylon the citie situat upon seven hilles which did reigne over all the kingdomes of the Earth at that time And it is observable that the Popes ordinarie vesture is Scarlet and in the frontispice of his Mitre as Joseph Scaliger witnesseth in his notes on the New Testament is written Mysterie which he learned by the report of Lord Montmorency who was certified thereof in his being at Rome Moreover the same Scaliger sayeth there that the Masse in all languages hath the name of Mysterie which I doubt not is by Divine providence for it is full of mysteries in all the parts gestures actions and rites thereof in so far that for their exposition they require a voluminous treatise as Durandus Rationale and idle pennes of others imployed upon that superstitious subject doe testifie Yea there is no part of their white garments that wanteth its mysterie wherefore the better reformed churches have rejected them for their forged operation and popish mysticall signification The scarlet the golden cup the mysterie the imperiall citie situat on seven hilles do evidence what that mystick Babilon Rome is and the pope who resides there In this book of Divine Revelation Rome is branded with three titles and names of Egypt Sodome and Babilon It is called Egypt in the XI Chapter because it oppresseth the people of God and maketh them worke in brick and clay of corrupt doctrines and humane inventions It is there also called Sodome because of idlenesse and fulnesse of bread and that filthie and unaturall lust not to be named which made GOD to raine fire and brimstone thereupon for many idle bellies be there dumb dogs that preach not prodigalitie and luxurie do reigne amongst them and these unnaturall lustes wherewith the Sodomites were infamous so abounds in Rome that Petrus Damianus leaving Rome and betaking him to the wildernesse in detestation of this Sodomiticall villanie published a book intituled by him Gomorraeus which he did dedicat to Leo the ninth Cardinal Baronius in his Annales clearly confesseth the same And the Archbishop de la Casa was not ashamed to present to the view of the world a treatise in the commendation of filthie Sodomie which was printed and reprinted at Venice O Coelum ad haec non sadas O terra non dehiscis O Heavens doe yee not blush O Earth doest thou not open thy mouth and swallow such vile and grievous sinners But O LORD great is thy patience which the impenitent abusing do treasure up to themselves wrath against the day of wrath Thirdly Rome is called Babilon which signifieth confusion for the confusion of tongues at the building of Babell because in Rome mystick Babilon there is a confusion of secular and ecclesiasti●k governement distinguished and divided by GOD himselfe in the persons of Moses and Aaron and from thence as is evident in the reigne of Jehosaphat except in extraordinarie cases untill the dayes of the Macabees whose successours confounding church and policie as a thing ordinare did loose both church and policie And unto Peter the keyes of the kingdome of Heaven was committed and not keyes of the kingdome of the earth And the Canons of the Apostles so called interdict ecclesiastick persons from medling with civile affaires The prime and purer Antiquitie not onely condemneth the same but in the last and corrupt dayes Bernard ad Eugenium enveyeth against all secular governement in the persons of Churchmen But Babilon hath confounded these giving in both the plenitude of power to the Pope and from him as the source and spring all power to streame forth and bee derived at his pleasure in spirituall and temporall governement This is a great confusion but there is a greater and worse in mixing and confounding trueth with errour in the worship of GOD for they have joyned with the word GOD their traditions with the two Sacraments of GOD their five bastard sacraments with the bloody sacrifice of CHRIST their unbloodie sacrifice of the Messe with the merit of Christ the merit of man with the adoration of the Creator the adoration of the creature with the blood of Christ the blood of Martyrs And this way have built up their Babell of confusion And because of this double confusion if they repent not double confusion in GODS just judgement is prepared for them Therefore that we may eschew this confusion and GODS fierce vengance let us come out of Babell To come out of Babylon is not only to come out with the feet of our body but three wayes we must come out of Babylon In minde affection and action In minde and judgement disproving and condemning their errours in heart and affection hating them in action in deed and body forsakeing them and that with resolution never to returne And he who in these three forsaketh Babel may bee said truely to come out of Babel But this coming out of Babel presupposeth a residing and dwelling in Babel Whereby we may answere to these who aske us where our Kirk was before the dayes of Luther I aske likewise where they who came out of Babel was before their coming out of Babel It must bee said that they were in Babel So our Church before the reformation which was three hundred yeares before Luther was in mystick Babylon the Romane church But though it was in it it was not of it for if it had beene of it as John sayeth it had not went from out of it It was in it and with it as a masse of metall consolidat of gold silver and tinne wherein though the gold and silver be mixed with the tinne they are no part of the tinne and by the melting of the skilfull founder are separate and distinguished one from another So were the good and the bad mixed together in the Romane church till GOD by the Reformers as so many skilfull founders did separate and divide his own Elect from the reprobate If it bee further demanded who these were of our profession that did remaine in the Romane church I answer they were of three sorts Publick opponents to the Romish errours Private opponents and a third who were neither publick nor private opponents Publick opponents I might name many but I will content mee with some most remarkable When the Gregorean Liturgie was obtruded to the Christian Kirk in these Westerne parts these of Millan did oppose the same being better pleased with the Liturgie of Ambrose these of Spaine did