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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44800	Mistery Babylon the mother of harlots discovered her rise, and when, with many of her sorceries, with her merchants of divers orders, and ranks, and merchandize of divers sorts this many hundred years, also her last merchants, with their delicate merchandise discovered : in answer to a book tituled The directory for the publick worship of God through England, Scotland, and Ireland, which now is the chief traffick her last reformed merchants trades with, in all these nations / published by F.H.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3173; ESTC R16766	30,606	42

and new ●oyned expressions and rhe●o●ical speeches and P●ilosophical phrases this will go off at a good rate and by this the Merchant may procure his Discourse to be printed which may procure his fame and renown among ignorant people besides it may be he gets profit by printing his Sermon setting all set-wages tythes salleries aside but if it be amongst poor Count●y people or an odde corner of the Land then any ordinary traffi●ue a Sermon which it may be he hath sold four times over this will go off among ignorant people and make them more ignorant and as you say a Text out of the ●salms or any other Scripture as the Mi●ister shall thinks fit will serve to treat upon Reader thou mayest take notice that here is no notice taken of the holy Ghost or Spirit what it thinks fit but what he that preaches hath ready must go off and counted as fit for that people Direct And in the 36 Page your Direction is to the Merchant not to rest in general Doctrine but come to particular application whi●h is a work of gre●t diffi●ul●y to himself requiring prudence and moderation and to the natural corrupt man it will be very unpleasant Answ. The Doctrines and the Applications of the natural corrupt man will not be profitable nor powerfull at all upon the Hearers neither will disarm the thoughts of the heart at all and you that gives prescriptions to natural corrupt men what to preach who sets them about performing the work of God that knows it not are very ignorant for the natural man understands not the things of God and the corrupt man in heart sees not God and he that understands not the things of God must needs preach a devination of his own brain Well let who will take this traffi●ue the Children of light will have none of it it may be such husks as these will satisfie a herd of swine and so let them take it Direct And you say he that preaches is to be perswaded in his own heart that all that he teaches is the truth and that he is to walk before his flock as an example Answ. How is he like to be perswaded in his own heart that sins presumptiously against the checks of his own conscience And you set examples indeed but they are but bad ones would you have your flock to follow your example would you have every one of your flock to have a long Gown or a long Robe and make them all like Cardinals Princes Would you have every one to have a Ring on his finger and a company of Points at his knees like a Besom and a company of Ribons and Cuffs like a Fidler Or would you have any of your Flock to come and fetch away a yoak of your oxen or a couple of your horses or take his Teem and come into your field break down the hedges and throw open the gates and load his waggon with corn if one could not pay it him for conscience sake Or would you be sewed up two hundred miles into a Court for a Tythe Hen worth four pence or six pence and thrown into the Fleet a year or two for four or five shillings Many such evidences and examples we have from you you late Reformers but to the light in all consciences I leave to judge which you have presumptiously sinned against what examples you are to your flocks Direct And now Reader I come to prayer after Sermon and thou shalt see what traffique is there The Minister is to give thanks for the bl●ssing received as Election V●cation Adoptio● Justification and hope of glory and likewise to turn the heads of his Sermons into some few Petitions and after to pray for the preparation for death and to entreat of God to forgive the iniquity of your holy things Answ. ●ere Reader thou mayst see as bad Merchandi●e as the story of the Lady of Laureita or the story of Saint Francis which the begging Fryers your fellow-merchants traffique withall First you give thanks for Election Vocation ●ustification and hope of Glory and afterwards to pray for the forgiveness of the iniquity of your holy things How are your things holy when they are full of iniquity and sinful Is that which is holy iniquity and sinful Or is that which is iniquity and sinful holy Are they Elected Justified Adopted and Sanctified whose sins are not blotted out whose iniquities are not forgiven let the wise in heart judge of this dream What are not they well prepared for death that are Elected Adopted Justified and Sanctified but they must needs have your prayers full of iniquity will that prepare them better What ignorance is here And where learned you this Article of ●aith to turn the heads of the Sermon into Petitions let the wise judge Was not Prophesie one thing and Prayer another But now Prophesie must be turned into Prayer and Prayer into Prophesie Sermons into Petitions and Petitions into Sermons what mangl'd traffique is this Direct In the 38. page this kind of prayer fore-mentioned ended a Psalm may be sung if it be convenient if some other Ordinance doth not follow Answ. Then it seems that your Psalm is no Ordinance but if it be it must give way however if the Priest thinks fit God must have no prayers at that time it may be sprinkling of an Infant may serve in stead Direct And now I come to the great Ordinance Infants Baptisme falsly so called In the 40. page the Minister is to use some words touching the Institution how that it was instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ that Infants should be Baptized and that it is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace and of our grafting into Christ and of our union with him and of remission of sins Regeneration Adoption and Eternal Life Answ. Reader Take notice Christ never sent them forth as Ministers to tell lies as to say he ordained that which he never did And furthermore thou may take notice that the Spirit of the Lord is turned out of doors there is no place for it outward water with which the Infant is sprinkled hath taken up the authority and the work of the Spirit the Ministers of Christ declared that the Spirit of Promise and the Spirit of Truth was the Seal of the Covenant of Grace and remission of sins Regeneration and Adoption and that the Faith and the Spirit is the Seals of Eternal Life But these Reformers hath excluded both and have set up a beggerly Element in the room let the spiritual man judge what kind of traffique this is Direct And in the 42. page that children by Baptisme are received into the Bosome of the Church distinguished from the world Answ. Now what kind of a Church yours is and what kind of a bosome your Church hath distinct from the world the wise in heart may judge You have confessed that Magistrates Ministers and the whole Nation doth not so much as endeavour after mortification and a newness of

Mistery Babylon the Mother of Harlots DISCOVERED Her Rise and when with many of her sorceries VVith her Merchants of divers orders and ranks and Merchandize of divers sorts this many hundred years Also her last Merchants with their delicate merchandise discovered In answer to a book tituled the Directory for the publick Worship of God through England Scotland and Ireland which now is the chief traffick her last reformed Merchants trades with in all these Nations Published by F. H. And the Merchants of the Earth shall weep and mourn over her for no man buyeth her merchandize any more Rev. 18.11 And every Ship-Master and all the company in ships and sailers and as many as trade by Sea stood a far off and they cast dust on their heads and cryed weeping and wailing saying Alas alas that great City wherein were made rich all that had ships on the Sea for in one hour she is made desolate Rev. 18.17.16 LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1659. Mystery Babylon c. IN the end of the primitive times when the Apostles had finished their Testimony committed unto them had gathered many out of the world and converted many unto God and many were established in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which purifieth the heart and giveth victory over the world and were led to the beginning before the world was made and the Churches which were in God which had received the anointing by which they knew all things even the invisible things of God and the mysteries of his glorious Kingdom which God through the Spirit did reveal unto them which Spirit they had received being begotten of God by which spirit they called him father and by which Spirit of truth which was manifest from the ●od of truth in their hearts by which Spirit they were led into all truth and became Sons of God and heirs of the promise and this Spirit was their direction and led them to worship ●od aright to obey and glorifie him and his name which brought salvation unto them and into this Spirit they were all baptised by the one Spirit into one body and in this one Spirit they met and worshiped God and were of one heart and of one mind and did know their Director near them and in them and the time did come when they worshipped neither at Jerusalem nor at Samaria but in the Spirit and in the truth wherein the Father was glorified and came to see that fulfilled which the ●rophets bore witness of even him in whom all the Prophets ends in Christ made manifest in them the hope of glory whose voyce they heard from Heaven by which they were quickned raised from death to life by the effectual working of the mighty power of God which wrought in them that did believe and they were in the unity of the Faith by which all their hearts were purified who held it which is a mystery held in a pure Conscience by which they received an assurance and were made partakers of the promises and became Inheritors of life and light and immortality and heirs of the promise and Joynt-heirs with Christ and they sate together with him in heavenly places and eat with him and drank with him in the Kingdom of God which stood in power and in righteousness joy and peace and did not look like the Pharisees loe here or there but first felt it as a grain of Mustardseed in themselves or as a corn of wheat which afterwards springs up as a blade or as an ear of wheat to ripeness to a full corn and they did walk from Faith to Faith from strength to strength and did appear before God in Sion and the Hebr●ws were come to Mount Sion from whence God shined out in perfect beauty who became their satisfaction and peace who had revealed his Son in them whom God had made unto them Justification Sanctification wisdom and so they knew one God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and one Faith one hope one baptisme the one Spirit into which they were all baptised into which they all did drink by which all that did believe were sanctified and did receive the inheritance among the Saints in light and this was the Church that was in God which was begotten by God the father and preserved in Christ Jesus in the lively faith and in the lively hope by which their souls were anchored they established in the truth that made free and they had received the spirit of Prophecy and did speak one by one according to the Revelation of the spirit which led out of confusion into order and they being in the power of God did walk by its order in the order of the Gospel And now was the woman cloathed with the Sun who had the Crown of twelve stars upon her head and the Moon under her feet who stood in that which was unchangeable and immutable and now was the Man-child brought forth which was to rule the Nations and was revealed to the Church which was in God and he was the head by which all the members of the body was united together in one and reconciled to the Father in one and by his Obedience Justification did come upon all that did believe But since the woman fled into the wilderness and the Man-child was caught up unto God the mid-night of Darkness came upon the whole world and the sincerity was lost and the image of God lost the Heir caught up out of the worlds sight Faith was lost Hope lost the Spirit lost the Saints rule and direction And then the whore appeared and made all Nations drunk with the wine of her fornication and they staggered and reeled to and fro hither and thither having lost the Spirit became all waters and unstable and all the world wondered after the Beast which then arose after the primative times and after the Apostles daies and admired him and worsh●pped him who killed the Womans seed and made war against it And then the whore made Decrees who was gone from the Law-giver and she made confessions of faith and articles of faith being out of the power of God who is the Author of true faith being guided by the power of the Dragon she made orders of worship and gave directions for worship having gotten on the free womans attire the outside the Scriptures the form of Godliness but afterwards became more abominable having both lost the power and the form worshipped the Devils power and the Dragons power and came forth in the image of him and reached out the cup of fornication and made the Nations drunk with her Inchantments and sorceries and she drunk the blood of the Martyrs the blood of the Prophets and them that kept the testimony of Jesus the spirit of Prophecy and then prescribed forms of worship forms of prayer and made creeds and faiths and articles of faith and many faiths having lost the order of the Gospel she