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Against Babylon and her merchants in England ... written by one that travels in spirit for Sions deliverance, John Anderdon.
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Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.
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subdued and who shal withstand his Spirit or resist his Power that he should not ride on Conquering and to Conquer until he hath accomplished God's great work of Salvation in the Earth In which Reformation Liverty and Freedom to the Sons and Daughters of Sion is known and perfect Peace and Establishment in God's Covenant of Light and Life witnessed against which the Gates of Death and Hell shal not prevail Though the people rage and the Heathen imagine mischief in their hearts Yet the Lords work shall go on and prosper in the Land to the shame and confusion of all the opposers thereof who take not warning by the downfal of others that have gone before them But here is our Rock that splits all the Powers of the Earth even that Rock of Ages of which Israel drank in the Wilderness out of which flows the Waters of Life for ever But ye have hewen out unto your selves broken Cysterns that will hold no water and will not come to the Lord the Leader of Israel and Fountain of Living Waters that your Souls might live So that Your Rock is not as Our Rock The Lord hath often Declared and Proclaimed Repentance to the Rulers Priests and People of this Nation from time to time by his Servants the Prophets that have been sent forth in the Power of his Spirit and that he expects a Worship in Spirit and Truth and a Government in Righteousnesse in this Nation to be established in his own way No longer in the oldnesse of the Letter but in the newness of the Spirit and that he requires such to worship him and that he will no longer be served with the abominations of the Aegyptians which sit in Darkness under the Power of Death and come not to the Light of Life in which God is well pleased but this Seed of the Kingdom that 's likened to a Grain of Mustard-seed is that which all the wise Builders in the worlds wisdom have stumbled at and rejected as a thing Common and Unclean and too mean and foolish for them to take Counsel of and so all their wisdom hath been confounded and turned into foolishness because they would not become fools that they might be wise in the way of Gods Salvation for it is a Righteous thing with the Lord to stain the Glory of all flesh that hath been exalted above his Fear in the Earth and that that which hath boasted and gloried above the Cross of Christ should now be abased and ashamed yea and shame shall cover the Faces of the Wicked and all Vizards shall be taken off from all Faces and every man shall appear to be as he is in the Day of the Lords Search in the Land and all the deceitful Coverings of Antichrist stollen from the words of the Prophets of Christ and the Apostles without the Life and Power of God in Christ Jesus shall be stript off and found too narrow to hide from Gods wrath as these that have gone before you and exceeded you therein finds true by sad experience that it s not Words and Pretences but Truth and Righteousnesse the Coverings of Gods Spirit that saves and delivers a People in the time of Straits and Distresse of Nations And though you or others could now after so many Years experience beget a Reformation and Worship of which there is little Hopes and less appearance that you could make your Image speak even with the Tongue of Men and Angels and come not into the right Spirit to know the Voice of the True Shepheard Christ in you all your Labours Services and Performances of VVorship as you may call it would be no better than the cutting off a Dogs Neck or offering of Swines Blood which is altogether abominable in the sight of the Lord For men have so long talked in words of Religion Righteous Laws and Just Government to be set up and established that the Lords Spirit hath been long grieved therewith and he hath cast them out as unprofitable Servants because they came not to the Light to Gods Righteous VVitnesse and Principle in themselves which teacheth men to do Iustly to love Mercy and to walk Humbly with their God for Gods Government is a Righteous Government and it s laid on Christ And can men reasonably expect that Ministers of unrighteousness and Servants of sin and Satan should set up a Righteous Government for God as they stand in that Ground and Nature which is condemned by Gods Righteous Laws forever Can he that is not Born of God do the Will or VVork of God to his Praise Or can any evil Tree bring forth good Fruit no not one It 's high time for men if ever they will come to the Light to the Root and Ground of things in themselves that is good that they may know of what Spirit they are of for most men in this Nation will confess I believe that there is a Spirit of Truth which doth the VVill of God and there is a Spirit of error which is of the Devil and against God in the VVorld Now that Spirit as the Scriptures testifie that confesseth that Christ is come in the flesh is true which is the Power of God that destroys the works of the Devil in the Creature in the Root and Ground that is evil from whence all wickednesse proceeds even out of the heart of man where Satans seat hath been And so this same Spirit that reproves the world of sin and condemns sin in the flesh leads us and those that follow it out of sin and transgression and mortifies lust in the Root and leads us into all Truth and teacheth us to deny ungodsinesse and Worldly Lasts and to walk Righteously Soberly and Godly in this present World no longer in the oldnesse of the Letter but in the newnesse of the Spirit according to the Rule of the new Creature Christ in us the hope of Glory Which changeth and reviveth us in the Spirits of our Minds whereby we are inabled unto every good word and work according to the measure of his eternal Spirit working in us in which we are taught to deny our own wills and to do Gods will in Earth as it is in Heaven the enmity in the carnal Mind being destroyed by the Crosse of Christ which is the Power of God unto Salvation unto all them that believe From which all people and Nations that turn away they crucifie Christ and do but cast lots about his Vestment and retain at the utmost but a form of godlinesse without the Power and so worship a God in their imaginations ignorantly and come not to witness and feel the VVord of Life in themselves which begets the Creature again into the likeness of Gods Image by destroying and casting out that which is begotten in man by the Seed of the Serpent which is Gods and the Creatures enemy And so as the enmity is destroyed in the Root and Ground and the cause of Seperation from God done away so the word
AGAINST BABYLON AND HER MERCHANTS IN ENGLAND ONE GROAN MORE From under the Altar breathed forth from the grief of the Spirit for the Sufferings of the Saints by reason of her cruelties and Abominations and the filthiness of her Fornications Under the Burthen of God's wrath against the present Rulers Priests and People of England that repent not and give glory to God that have drunk of her Cup and Refuse to come out of her at God's Call but remain in the false Church and Worship still that 's not taught by God's Spirit With a Warning to all such that they prepare to meet the Lord in the Way of his Judgements and as they have partaken with her in her sins that they expect also to partake of her plagues which are ready to be poured forth from the Lord God who is Mighty that judgeth her and will certainly avenge the blood of the Martyrs on her for Babylons Destruction is God's Determination in England and the World Behold your Day is past and the Night cometh and God's fulfilling Day draweth nigh Therefore let all the Lord's People hasten out of Babylon in which all men are that follow not the Light of the Lamb that are not guided and led by the present Teachings of God's Spirit and let them that are faithful in the Land be faithful stil to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes for it 's given to him and his Followers to overcome Written by one that travels in Spirit for Sions Deliverance JOHN ANDERDON London Printed for Robert Wilson in Martins near Aldersgate To those of the present RULERS PRIESTS and PEOPLE OF ENGLAND That repent not and give glory to God Cain hath slain his Brother Abel because he was more Righteous than himself Therefore thus saith the Lord. WO to that bloddy City to that rebellious house whose Tents are the coverings of Antichrist whose deeds out-pass the deeds of the wicked whose habitations are the habitations of cruelty which murther the just and shed the blood of the innocent whose iniquities cover the earth as the waters cover the sea whose abominations are gone up to heaven that the holy God of heaven and earth is provoked to anger against you who yet say in your hearts Is not our strength great is it not our right to Reign is not this great Babel that we have built wherein you intend to make you a name that you may not be scattered in the Earth as a people driven out from the presence of the Lord the arm of flesh is your confidence as if the strength of Sodom Egypt should keep you from the wrath of the God of Isral and that great Whore Mystery Babylon the Mother of Harlots that rides on the scarlet-coloured Beast that decks her self with fine Linen Purple and Silk whose Merchandize is on Gold and Silver and precious Stones on Wine and Oyl fine Flower and Wheat and Beasts and Sheep and Horses and Bodies and Souls of men who hath drunk the blood of the Saints now saith in her heart Am not I a Queen and shall see no sorrow And her Merchants and Tradesmen of all sorts ranks and orders cry aloud Great is Diana of the Ephesians because of their crafts which brings them their Gain from their Quarters her Prophets prophesie falsly her Priests bear rule by their means and the people love to have it so who say unto them that despise the Lord ye shall have peace and to them that walk after the imagination of their own hearts none evil shall come upon them so that they are Prophets of lyes deceit and falshood that say the wicked shall prosper And a horrible thing is committed in the Land the whole head is sick the whole heart is saint that from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundneis in you but full of wounds and putrifying sores full of corruption which stink in the nostrils of our God yea and your wayes are become wholly corrupt and abominable before the Lord so that Mercy and Truth Righteonsness and true Iudgment are not found amongst you but Cruelty and Oppression lodgeth within you for by Swearing and Lying and Killing ye break out and Blood toucheth Blood So that the Lord God is come down and will surely visit for these things he hath taken view of all your actions and evil deeds done under the Sun which grieve his Spirit all the day long that his Soul is weary to bear your abominations which are great in the Land for ye have not done the thing that is right in the sight of the Lord but have provoked him more than any that have gone before you having again set up the abominable thing in the Land which maketh desolate and have not regarded the Counsel of the Lord to walk in his ways and to bring forth Righteousness and Truth in the Earth which the Lord expects that Christ's Kingdome might be known amongst the sons of men whose right it is to Reign who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords But you would not have this man to Rule over you but have gone a whoring after the gods of the Heathen in false ways and worships after the corrupt lusts and wicked imaginations of your own hearts ye have stumbled also at that stumbling-stone and Rock of offence CHRIST JESUS the Light of the world and the onely way to the Father upon which many have fallen and are broken And what think ye that they on whom the Tower in Siloe fell were greater sinners than any that dwelt at Jerusalem Nay verily ye also that repent not shall know that it shall be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's Judgments than for you who have had so much large experience of the Lords wayes dealings towards you and the people of these Nations of what the Lord required at your hands in the day of your visitation which ye have not regarded but have cast the Lord's Counsel behind your backs and would not come to him who is the New and living Way the Truth and the Life CHRIST JESUS the Light of the World the rightful King and Law-giver of Nations that ye might in him have found peace and rest in the Land of your Nativity that ye might have eaten the good of the Land and prospered as the glory of Nations but ye have revolted and rebelled against the God of Heaven yet more and more and though he hath smitten you ye have not regarded but have forgotten him dayes without number and though he hath waited long also to be gracious unto you to have gathered you but ye would not but are gone back again into Sodom and Aegypt into your bad old wayes of Sin and Inijuity Superstition and Vanity in the lusts of the flesh the lust of the eye and pride of life that your wickedness and abominations are abounding in the Land more than ever as if ye had said in your hearts