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A90388	Babylon the Great described. The city of confusion. In every part whereof Antichrist reigns. Which knoweth not the order and unity of the spirit, but striveth to set up an order and uniformity according to the wisdom of the flesh, in all her territories atd [sic] dominions. Her sins, her judgements. With some plain queries further to discover her, and some considerations to help out of her suburbs, that her inward building may lye the more open to the breath and spirit of the Lord, from which it is to receiv [sic] its consumption and overthrow. Also, an exhortation to the powers of the earth. By Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1153; Thomason E770_2; ESTC R203128	52,975	64

Church is now proved to be the whore those who have been taken in their several transformings for the true Ministers made manifest to be the false Prophets their ordinances and duties but thefts and imitations things which they have stollen from what they read in the Scriptures but never received from the hand of the Spirit The wrath of God the dreadful cup of his fury and jealous indignation for the cause of Sion is to goe over her whole Land Over her Sea and all the Ships that trade therein and all her Merchants with all their precious traffique and merchandise All her doctrins which she hath stollen out of the Scripture all her disciplines all her experiences all her performances even those which are most like the performances of former Saints nay though she may speak the very words of truth yet as they come from her mouth they shall be thrown by and judged and be of no service or esteem in Sion The preciousest of her ware shall be drosse and dung in the Land of life where there shall be no Sea nor no such kind of Merchants traffique or trading for ever Her Earth also shall be made desolate and burnt up with all that is found therein All her settlement shall be shaken all her fruit-trees shall be rooted up all her fruit shall wither rot dye and perish All her conversions of people to God as she calls it shall come to nothing Yea and if she have yet any more dresses or secret coverings wherein she would appear like the Church again and bring forth again yet she and her children shall immediately be discovered her flesh burnt with fire and her children dash'd against the stones Every street in her City every house and idol in every street every room in every house with every inhabitant shall drink of the cup of astonishment and stumble and fal and rise no more Thou hast long triumphed over me O mine enemy because I have fallen and have long sit in darknesse but rejoyce no longer for I shall rise again and the Lord shall be a light unto me but thou shalt rise no more and thy light shall be put out for ever glory to the meeke suffering-Lamb even to him that sits upon the throne of life for ever Her Aire also shall be darkned The Lord shall enlighten my darkness but the light of Babylon shall be darkness for evermore The light of a candle shall be seen no more at all in thee Many lights hath Babylon set up in the dark night but the rising of the Sun of righteousness shall extinguish them all for ever and Babylon shall be shut up in utter darkness Yea all that have retained to Babylon all that have walked by the light of any of her candles that have cryed up any of her false ware for orthodoxe that have given up their names to her under any of her dresses or appearances or that have received any of her marks they shall partake of her shame of her misery and of her torment from the hand of the Lord God Yea her throne also shall be visited and the seat of Antichrist in every heart shall feele the wrath Rise up from the dust and shout forth with joy O captive daughter of Sion who hast long dwelt under oppression in the midst of the daughter of Babylon Behold Babylons King shall be no longer judge over Sion but thy King shall be judge and he shall judge the King of Babylon And let all the powers and potsheards of the earth strive to their utmost yet saith the Lord have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion and he shal rule in my people and rule over Babylon Therefore O inhabitants of the earth great and smal learn meeknesse learn righteousnesse learn the fear of the Lord Kiss the Son harden not your selves against him calling him a deceiver a blasphemer a seducer an heretick for what ye do to the least that appear in his life ye do to him but hearken to the word of his everlasting Gospel which saith FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOVRE OF HIS JVDGEMENT IS COME and ye cannot escape his hand by that fear which is taught by the precepts of men or by traditional knowledge out of the Scriptures nor while ye seek that honour which came out of the earth and is of the earth and to that which is earthly Therefore let your hearts learne to know him and your tongues to confess him and your knees to bow to him which if ye do ye must forget all that knowledge and those confessions and bowings which ye have learned in Babylon for though ye may have confessed some true things yet having learned this in Babylon ye have confessed falsly even as the Jews who said The Lord liveth yet swore falsly Jerem 5. 2. Now consider ye Ministers of several sorts and ye several sorts of professors We may appear great enemies to you because we witness against your wayes and tel you what the end of them will be but are we enemies to you indeed whose desire it is to save you from this great wrath which hath already entred into the earth and seized on some Should we sooth you up and not witness these things to you which we infallibly know how should we answer it to the Lord our God or to your souls when we shal appear before him If we were in your condition would we be content to be let go on and to be overtaken with this great destruction We cannot be silent Ye must be silent but we cannot We know ye must be silent for that which now speaks in you hath been silenced in us and is not to minister the things of God But the Spirir of the Lord must not be quenched in us no notwithstanding all our weaknes but the treasure must issue forth from the earthen vessel for the relief of the poor in spirit who alone receive the Gospel Therefore though ye hate us though ye persecute us though ye speak all manner of evil against us and use us never so hardly yet there is love rooted in our souls towards your souls yea and towards your persons also and having both felt the wrath and tasted of the mercy we cannot but warn you of the one and invite you to the other and O that ye might find a shelter under the shadow of his wings in the stormy season when wrath shall be showred down without mercy And this we cannot but tel you that the several wayes of Religion in the Christian world are but so many several coverings and that that which is covered with them is the whorish spirit which the Spirit of the Lord is hunting who wil strip her and make her naked and she shall appear to have been the whore under them all Now that which lyeth beneath this Spirit in you which is despised and trampled upon as a thing of nought which is burthened and daily slain by your multitudes of

but so much as read in the Scriptures concerning the power of life the Saints formerly enjoyed the living Ministry and Ordinances their sweet walking and fellowship in the light the presence of the spirit in their worship and in their whole course their sincere love in the spirit and tender bearing with one anothers weaknesses doubts and differences which he that reads singly cannot but pant after And the state of the Gospel was not to be a decaying and dying in these things or a loosing of them so that the power of the spirit and the revelations thereof should cease as the whorish spirit which hath gone out from the life pleads but to grow and increase and the last times to abound most of all with the power and glory of truth I say were it possible for persons who should read and entertain the least tast or savour of these things to be satisfied with any of those dead wayes and forms which the whore hath set up instead of them unless they were wholly bewitched and altogether deprived of their sences being made dead drunk which the whores mingled wine in this dark night of apostacy Yea professors are drunk they have deeply drunk of the cup and are sorely overtaken and their hearts overcharged with strong liquor which makes them even mad to draw others into their beds of fornication and to stand up themselves in great rage and call also to the Magistrates for the defence of them Yea like the clamourous woman they make a great noise about ordinances duties Ministry Church c. I have decked and perfumed my bed saith the loud woman the subtilhearted woman Prov 7. 16 17. but do not soberly consider which are the painted ones which the truth We have run on headily after these things too long it is now time to stand stil a while and wait for the purging out of the wine wherewith all our brains have been overturned that we may come into soberness and into a fit temper to be led by the Spirit of life out of the bed of fornications and out of the wayes worships ordinances and duties of fornication into the bed of the true and undefiled Spirit Now he that worships God aright must feel life within and that life raised and strengthned by him who begets it and this will savour death and faithfully following its guid will come out of the land of death even that land wherein all the false worshippers inhabit and wherein all the false wayes and worships duties ordinances Ministeryes c. are set up and flourish Now these secret sins of Babylon are the same with the more open and gross the great difference is their secrecy their not appearing like sins their paint their colour whereby they are swallowed down for holy and good As to instance There is fornication or adultery from the life in the finest in the purest way of worship man can invent or imitate but the fornication doth not so plainly appear here but they who have drunk of the cup take these things for the wayes and appointments of God Those that set up the whores Church do not call it so nor perhaps think it to be so those that set up the whores Ministry or ordinances do not give them that name but call them the Ministry and ordinances of Christ yet this is as truly as really fornication from the life as the grossest wayes of Heathenish worship O mark it mark it If thou hast read the Scriptures and thrust thy selfe into any practices thou there findest mentioned without the raising up of a living thing in thee and without thy following by the guidance thereof thou hast done this by the whores advice and in this thou art committing fornication and erring from the life for the true worship lies in the Spirit and in the truth and it is the new birth that God seeks to worship him but the spirit of man thrusting it selfe into these things the Lord abhors and rejects And this spirit never can be thus cleansed and fitted to enter into Christs bed but only gets a paint from Scripture and enters into the painted bed and bosome of the harlot where it remains unrenewed unchanged unmortified in the midst of all it's great talk and profession of these things And thus the Scriptures the Holy Scriptures of truth which were given forth from the pure spirit of life the whorish spirit maketh use of to estrange from the life For what sort of persons which have fornicated from the life but make use of the Scriptures to maintain their whoredoms by and to bewitch others into their whoredoms with Every sort cryes up their own way and worship to be the way and worship according to the Scriptures and if any be gathered out of all these witcheries into the power of God then the bewitched say that such are bewitcht Then as for all the abominations of the earth all the filth that defiles the heart it is to be found on the skirts of the whore even in her most refined dresse For her religion her worship her profession her practices do not reach to the purifying of the conscience but only to painting over of the old Sepulcher where rottennesse still lodgeth within The sore was never throughly searched the heart was never throughly circumcised or baptized the old man was never put of nor the new man put on the blood of purifying which truly washeth away the sin was never felt in it's vertue and power but only an apprehension and talk that they are cleansed in Christ from a notion they have stollen out of the Scriptures but not from the sensible feeling of the thing in life and power in their consciences And so the evil nature stil remains the evil heart of unbelief is stil to be found in them and they want the life they want the power they want the Spirit they want the love they want the humility they want the meekness they want the patience they want the innocency and simplicity of the Lamb and Dove And when the Lord comes to provoke them to jealousie by the shining of his light and by the appearance of his power in some whom they despise then the pride the passion the envy the heart-burnings the hard speeches the false surmisings with the rest of the enmity which still abides with them stirs and rises against the life and power and their hypocrisie is made manifest Yea some of the strictest among them can scoffe and jeer at the appearance of life so strong is the evil and unmortified nature in them and so conceited are they in their wayes and practices because of their cover under which all this iniquity for the most part lyes hid from their eyes But for all that it is there it is there the Lords candle will search it out and thine owne eye shall see it and find in thy selfe bloody Cain scoffing Ishmael prophane Esau the uncircumcised Jew who is angry that his brothers sacrifice is

Religion and one of which they serve therein He that is led by the Spirit of God he serves God he worships God He that is led by the spirit of Satan he serves not God but that spirit which appeares in the Temple of God like God and gives such demonstrations that he is God as no flesh can deny 2 Thess 2. 4. Here now is the great deceivableness of unrighteousness In prophanesse in manifest wickednesse Satan is easily seen and men that are found here it is granted that they are serving the Devil but that he should sit as King in gathered Churches in dutyes in ordinances in wayes of self-denyal and mortification and be worshipped here this is hard to be seene yet any of these which the Spirit of the Lord leads not into or which are performed at any time without his Spirit he is worshiped in Consider this ye that are wise in Religion and are dilligently reading the Scriptures and gathering knowledge and rules of worship and applying promises c. Do ye this in the life and Spirit of God or in your own wisdom and according to your owne understanding Doth not the wisdom of that spirit which is out of the truth guid you in your searchings after truth O do not serve that spirit which the Lord hates but come backe to that from which in all this ye erre and which in all this ye cannot serve and worship And let not your Religion any longer consist in meer practising what the Saints formerly practised for that ye may do without the same spirit but in yeelding up to that life power and pure spirit that they were led by And when ye are joyned to this then do not prescribe the Lamb the way that he shall go but follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Do not tell the Shepheard by your gathered wisdom the way that he must lead you in but know the voice and follow For this I can truly testifie that if once ye come in faithfulnesse and true light to follow the Lamb he will lead you in paths ye have not known and out of the paths ye have known 7. Compelling of others to worship Rev 13. 15 16. The false woman and the beast set up a worship in the will and they do not know why any in the will also may not subject and submit to it They can give them reasons they can give them arguments from Scripture and if they will not yeeld to these they are to be looked upon as stubborn and refractory and to be compelled by outward force This hath been the course generally throughout the Land of Babylon But these shew hereby that they themselves are erred from the truth and therefore very unfit and unlikely to teach it others For that which God works upon is the conscience which he convinceth by the light of his Spirit and no other light can truly convince it That therefore which would have a man yeeld to any practise or way of worship till he be truly convinced is of the Devil My son give me thy heart saith Christ the wisdom of God Come not to me with oblations and sactifices but give me thy heart My son give me thy knee give me thy obedience to the wayes I have set up give me thy conformity saith Antichrist saith the adulterated wisdom and if any refuse she endeavours to compel them Thus like Jeroboam the son of Nebat she makes that which she calls Israel to sin or like Nebuchadnezzar she sets up an Idol and causeth all her children to bow to it Thus the load of the iniquity of multitudes lies upon that scarlet whore who forces her cup of abominations and filthiness upon all she can Rev 17. 4. causing all both smal and great in all her Territories to receive her marke and worship her Image The work of the Minister of Christ is to keep the conscience tender that the voice of Christ may be heard and the Law of his Spirit of life which makes obedient to the God of life spring up there but this is the Image here is the way bow conform say the Ministers of Antichrist But we are not convinced in the sight of God that this is the way say poor souls It is your own fault ye may be convinif ye will say the Ministers of Antichrist we are ready to give you arguments and Scriptures to convince you how is it ye are not convinced Ye must be convinced otherwise the Magistrate must deale with you Thus they endeavour to harden the conscience that they may set upon it and ride it and terrifie it from it's subjection to it's only true and lawful King O the havock that hath been made of souls by this means the Lord is requiring it of this generation But let me ask this question to all the learned and wise in all the Regions of Babylon under what painted form or way of worship soever Can any worship God aright before they be truly convinced of his will and way can any be convinced without his light and Spirit were it good and acceptable in the sight of God for any persons to run into that way whereof thou sayest thou art convinced that it is the way before they themselves are convinced If it be not good or acceptable what is that that goes about to compel them Away with thy carnal weapons and if thou wilt draw to God draw by that which is spiritual but if thou wilt still be using outward force running to the laws of men and power of the Magistrate the Lord hath opened an eye which discovers thy nakednesse herein and is able to make it manifest in the sight of all people and thou shalt not long cover thy shame The Lotds people shall be a willing people to follow him in the day of his power but all the Lords people have been unwilling to follow thee in the day of thy power which is neer an end and the very fountain of thy deceit and tyranny over the conscience is opening and making manifest 8. Persecution of such as she cannot compell to her worship She sets up her form of knowledg she sets up her way of worship and those that will not be drawn to own the one and practise the other she sets her brand upon them for erroneous persons Schismaticks Hereticks they must not buy or sel Rev 13. 17. They must be banished or imprisoned or perhaps put to death for she is hardly satisfied til she hath drunk the blood of those who in any eminent degree are the witnesses of Christ against her Rev 17. 6. This was a thing wondered at by John with great admiration to see this woman this great City out of which all the venomous darts are shor against the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus under a pretence of zeal for the Church and ordinances of Christ For this is the engine whereby the Dragon makes war with the true womans seed which keep the commandements of God and have the testimony