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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76857	Bloody Babylon discoverd	[Londinatus, Christianus].	1659 (1659)	Wing B3227; Thomason E1928_3; ESTC R209991	40,143	119

generall Day of Judgment when the world shall be no more But let me desire of all such Star-gazers and Star-believers seriously to ponder that place of Scripture in the 47th Chapter of Isaiah from the first verse to the end and lean no longer upon such broken Reeds which will deceive their dependence into a self-destruction Babylon there had trusted in the multitude of divinations and the great abundance of inchanters saying to her self I am and none else I shall not sit as a widow neither shall I know the losse of children as the Rooters do We are the onely Saints we shall prevail Upon no other ground but their own strength and the trust which they put in their prosperous wickednesse Now observe God's manner of denouncing his judgments Therefore saith the Text verse the 11 th That is because you have thus sinned in punting confidence in these Star-gazers and forsaken me the God of the Scars and my unerring precepts shall destruction come upon thee and thou shalt not know the morning thereof Ruine shall fall upon thee which thou shalt not be able to put away destruction shall come on thee suddainly unawares Where by the way take notice that as the Church's extremity is God's opportunity for deliverance when their hearts are saddest and indeed almost hopelesse if they consult onely with flesh and blood So the destruction of the wicked shall come upon them when they are at the highest of their hopes and dream not of a change then even then unawares shall suddain destruction fall upon them The Text saith They shall not know the morning thereof that is not the time of their ruine but after they have slept as it were a whose night in security supposing all to be setled for a continuance by the prosperity of their wickednesse then shall God in the morning unthought-of unexpected come against them in judgment and destroy them in his fury Further in the 12th verse upon their approaching ruine observe how God doth upbraid them with their sins Stand now among thy inchanters and in the multitude of thy sooth-sayers with whom thou hast wearied thy self if so be thou maist have profit or strength Let the Astrologers the Star-gazers vers 13. and Prognosticators now stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee That is see if these your confidents can be a preserving skreen between you and my destroying anger No no hopes of help from them are but vain for in-the 14th and 15th verses see the judgment of heaven denounced against the Star-gazers themselves Behold saith the Text they shall be as stubble the fire shall burn them they shall not deliver their own lives from the power of the flame c. Every one shall wander to his own quarter none shall save them c. Thus shall God say Do you that adhere to the politick spirit of Lilly and forsake the commands and directions of the God of spirits even in that day when you have filled full the measure of your sins when the Harvest of your full-grown iniquities is ripe then shall God enter in with his sickle of judgment and cut you off and even then your consciences shall upbraid you and bid you go to Lilly in whom you have trusted see whether he can save you in that your extremity try whether or no he can administer the least hopes of comfort to your souls for the future but all in vain O my brethren there will be sad thoughts at such a time and at the hour of death when your souls are ready to take their flight from their fleshy cages Therefore consider of these things betimes before the hour-glasses of your lives are shivered into pieces Repent and return in your dependence onely upon the God of truth and his revealed will the holy Scriptures lest you exchange this life for an eternally-continuing death with those never-dying damned in hell To what end think you were and still are your lying Pamphlets and daily flying Diurnalls sent abroad but like so many petty pieces of the same deceiving spirit thereby to continue the poor people in a disaffection to the King and his so just a cause and working of them into an approbation of the Conspirator's designes casting in them sable lines of dishonour on the white innocence of his Majesty's actions and covering over the rotten wall of their own black undertakings with a seeming whitenesse witnesse that apostatizing Politicus alias Necum Lucifer fallen from the heaven-approving heighth of truth and loyalty to the deepest hell of perjury falshood rebellion and treason whose lines are nothing else but lying invectives murderers of Religion and Reason as well as of Royalty and Loyalty What suppose you my abused country-men is the reason why the Conspirators endeavours tug so much to engage all if it were possible to be equally guilty with them some by perjurious oaths and engagements others by sacrilegious barterings for the Churches Lands some by unjust possession of his Malesty's Revenues and Royall Estate with the Lands of his loyall Subjects and not a few Judases Accuser of Col. Andrews and many others exchanging their souls with the devill by apostacy and treachery for a pecuniary reward It is onely that they may be as numerosi proditione so form dolosi numero that their number may seem terrible and what they cannot maintain as just by Reason Religion or Law they may seem to justifie the maintenance thereof by the irreligious Sword But do thou O Lord God of Hosts scatter those people that delight in war that speak not peace but devise deceitfull matters against the quiet of the land They smite down thy people O God and trouble thine heritage they slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherlesse O Lord God the avenger O God the avenger shew thy self clearly Lord how long how long Lord shall the wicked triumph and the workers of iniquity vaunt themselves Lastly I shall contract all these into a narrow compasse and as I have already made it appear Indep Faction that the * present ruling Powers are so far from being entitled Conquerors that they have confessed themselves to be Rebells and Traitors so all others shall affirm them as to be such so also the bloodiest of Cheaters and State-juglers And this I shall do first by inserting a sad modern story and then taking a comparative notice of the parties employed with the end of their then employment and these Rooting-cheaters who would be styled Conquerors I have been informed that in Ireland at the first arise of that bloody Rebellion there were some of the Papisticall faction resolved upon the surprisall of a Protestant Justice of Peace where by the way take notice that some of his servants were privy to the conspiracy the death of him ruine of his family and possession of his Castle But they supposing it in vain to attempt it by force resolved upon a more subtle way by putting

BLOODY BABYLON DISCOVERD Or the Mystery of Iniquity Reveal'd Written long since And now Published for the Instruction and Information of Great Brittaine in generall more particularly intended for that once Famous Flourishing and for Civill Government Admired Honourable City of LONDON By CHRISTIANUS LONDINATUS Melius est inter Barbaros sub specie Captivitatis esse liber quàm sub specie liber●atis esse Captivus Salv. de gub Dei Quaerendum est mihi apud Barbaros Angliae humanitatem quia apud Anglos barbaram inhumanitatem ferre non Possum Salv. If thou warne the Wicked and he turne not from his wickednesse nor from his wicked way he shall dye in his Iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul Ezek. Chap. 3. vers 19. Printed in the year 1659. The Mystery of Iniquity REVEAL'D AS the Compassionate bowells of a tenderly-affecting father toward his Sonnes though refractorie in their demeanours un-naturall in their returns of expressive unsonne-like disobedience for his dear expressions of a father-like affection still continue wooing with intermixed sighs and tears those obstinately wicked Children Nature working as it were against Nature his naturall affection as a father prevailing over his angry inclination by nature as a man with weeping Rhetorick perswading their return from those self-destroying paths By such winning meanes inviting them to the avoiding of approaching misery and injoyment of their almost irrecoverably lo●t felicity Even so Notwithstanding these lines like that passionately wooing-father onely aime at the temporall and eternall happinesse of all those whose past and present worst of actions so Obvious to the World's eye need not argito Monstrari plainer words to speak the concern'd Persons because for these lines alone I cannot but expect to be met with by Envy so unwilling guilty men are to read their Crimes though but in a silently speaking line pursued by Malice ill requitall for really Conferr'd favours to return discourteous persequution and overtaken by bloody revenge though perchance palliated with that false and cheating veile of new-minted Law and Justice strange men to endeavour the ruine of those whose endeavours tend onely to the preservation of them from Ruine My inward thoughts Notwithstanding all these Contrary perswading dangers inhumane and un-christian requitalls inclined me to a passionate Compassion of my dearest Country still by the prevailing rule-lesse over-ruling bloodily-destroying faction of that head-lesse dismembred thing falsely styled Parliament with the additionall treachery of some stupid passivenesse of others grasping those flames which already have sensibly destroyed their once flourishing peace consumed their formerly-happy government into an ashy heap and ere long unavoidably will render each particular man abounding in nothing but in the aboundance of misery wanting store of all things but of want unhappy even beyond the addition of greater unhappinesse being already become Obedientiall slaves to the peremptory Commands Wills and Pleasures of irrationall irreligious lawless blood thirsty and Sacrilegious men these having under unjust pretences of freeing them from a former falsely-supposed tyranny freed them from hopes of being what formerly by vertue of the Law 's Protection they were Free-men indeed To this purpose by the assistance of the God of Heaven who is my shield buckler and defence now even while it is yet day before the approaching night of darknesse over-spread these three Kingdomes with a generall Cloud of destruction I shall by drawing the Curtain of errour which hath overcast the Judgments of the most even to the visible deprivation of that distinguishing Character between men and beasts REASON endeavour hominem homini ostendere shew unreasonable man himselfe in the glasse of reason again dispelling also that thick Misty veyl of Atheism for it is no better let them give it what seeming * The Cause of God Saint-like Title they please which many with as much boasting Confidence put on as if it were the white Robes of Christ's Righteousnesse The Pulpit too often wilfully declaring the irregular faction of that Monstrous House impudently Promulgating Painted Truths which indeed are no other than reall falsities and many people but I hope ignorantly embracing them instead of Substantiall verities being lead by these * Independent Pratlers Lights which like the last blaze of a spent Taper quickly vanishing leaves them as lost men in the dark in stead of that glorious Sun of Light Christ Jesus whose unmixt pure beams apparent onely in his revealed will the holy Scriptures are the directing means able alone to guide them to that celestiall place where there is eternity of light for evermore And because these Kingdoms notwithstanding those many Recipe's for spirituall diseases left us by the Physitian of our souls in the Cabinet of the Scriptures and these repeated in almost a daily application by true Protestant Divines his faithfull servants continue still sick of obstinately progressive sins which like insensibility of a disease in a diseased man is a sure presage of destruction I shall by reviving some medicines proper for our present distemper for what are truely-Orthodox Books but like Physick to consuming bodies as so many restoratives to a languishing Nation endeavour the recovery of them to a re-possession of their former peace now breathing their last The re-enjoyment of truth gospell-Gospell-truth lost almost under a confused heap of Hereticall Schismaticall and Atheisticall errours and the return of their not-long since admired plenty now declining into a necessitous and almost unavoidable poverty But because man is but a dully perswading Orator unlesse the God of spirits speak effectually also to their obdurate hearts Therefore O thou Omnipotent Omniscient All-working Lord God the fountain from whence streameth every good thing in whose hands are the hearts of all men and canst turn and wind them at thy pleasure Cause all the people of England Scotland and Ireland to return unto Thee by an obedientiall subscription to thy everlasting truth and a practicall obedience according to its direction In exchange for their hearts of stone give them O Lord hearts of flesh mollifi'd by thy gently yet prevalently malleating Spirit Throw down all those bulwarks of prejudice raised against the truth of Reason and the reason of thy religious Truth Levell O levell those high-built Forts of perverse resolves wilfully to persist in ill-begun courses because successe for a time waits upon attempts as if the commanding bloody Sword had by its prevalency power as easie to create new commandements and evangelicall truths as by treachery dissimulation tyranny and oppression it hath had to overthrow an antient Government and as if a short prosperity in wickednesse were the certain mark of those that travell in the high way to eternal happinesse When as thou O Lord hast said Psal 92.7 that though the wicked spring as grass and the workers of iniquity do flourish yet they shall be destroyed for ever Summon them by the effectually sounding Trumpet of thy Spirit to a condescention to thy blessed will and pleasure which is