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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

Images and such other like merchandizes of the baser sort is all bought and received without question as merchandizes of great worth and things belonging to happiness and felicity but alas 't is almost day and the night is far spent and the people in these Nothern Regions are come past midnight some towards the dawning of the day and they question our merchandize and with some the night is quite over and they are come to the day-break and to the rising of the sun and with these there is no hope of trading though with the best of all our commodities though with Cinimon and odours and oyntment and frankincense yet they will buy none of our ware nor ther 's no hope of trading with them any more for they are come to know the Pearl which is more pretious than rubies and the heavenly treasure that doth not rust and the word which is sweeter than the honey and the honey comb ther 's no hope of them but this is the misery they will not be content with what they have found but imparts it to others and so begets a dislike in other peoples minds to the best of all our Merchandize However them that are gone from us and denies our mother and her golden cup and denies all her merchants great and small not onely them that trades in wood and vessels and brasse and iron but even them that trades with the best merchandize as gold and silver precious stones and pearls fine linen purple silk and scarlet however let us excommunicate them and give them up to Sathan and let us call to the beast with his seven heads and ten horns who is scarlet coloured dreadful and terrible and let us accuse them of heresie schism and blasphemy and call them seducers and deceivers and false Prophets and let us brand them with names of reproach as Sectaries and say they are seditious and rebellions and mutenous and they are enemies to Church and State and all good government peace-breakers factious and pestilent fellows that brings all the Nations into an uproar and if that will not do le ts petition to Kings Princes Dukes Parliaments Protectors and Counsels that some speedy and effectual course may be taken for suppressing of these hereticks and for stopping of these blasphemous doctrines as that the Steeple-house is not the Church and sprinckling of Infants no ordinance of Christ and singing of Psalms by tradition no part of the true worship of God and it may be we shall get some Law or Act of Parliament against them or call them vagabonds and get them whipt abroad and put in prisons while we take away their oxen and goods at home and so by this means it will stop others whom we traffique withal that they will not dare to hearken unto them for if they will not buy our wares and take our measures by a glasse in love to it yet because of fear of imprisonment or losse of their goods or estates they will be constrained to trade with us But alas it is otherwise with us now then it was in Queen Maries dayes when masse mattens and even-songs professionings Ave-maries Creeds and Pater-nosters took up most part of the time and went off ●mongst people for spiritual worship at a good rate neither is it with us now as it was in the days of Bishop Laud our great Metropolitan and the rest of our mothers merchants Then would common prayer translated out of the mass-book into the English and Creed Letany Pater noster with a Lor● have mercy upon us or we beseech thee to hear us good Lord fourty times over in a quarter of an hour with some of Davids Psalms turned into meeter by Hop●●ns and Srer●hold masters of musick sung with Organs with Choristers and boyes with bowing to the Altar and such like merchandize which then was precious in the eyes of our mothers children Then whosoever would not be obedient to all the Rites and Ceremonies then we branded them with the name of Puritans and Non-conformists and haled them before Sessions Courts and Magistrates cited them to appear before the Bishops served them up to the High-Commission Court before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal falsely so called and there the flesh was gnawn to the bone and ears cut off stigmatizing and burning with irons imprisonment and banishment Now as people came nearer the day they began to suspect all this as not to be the spiritual Worship of God having no ground nor footing from the Spirit of Truth nor example from the Scripture nor from the primitive Churches then them over whom our mother once reigned began to question her whether she was the Lambs wife yea or nay And whether our Predecessors and Brethren were the messengers sent out by the true Church yea or nay And whether the Ordinances and Practises were the institution of Christ and his Apostles yea or nay in the primitive times and the day dawning upon them and the spirit came to be revealed and did shine into their hearts and they began to search the Scriptures and to compare the true Church which was cloathed with the Sun and crowned with the crown of twelve Stars with our mother mystery Babylon and they began to compare the Apostles and Ministers in the primitive times with our Predecessors Babylons merchants and also compared the Institutions and Ordinances which were delivered to the true Church with the Institutions and Rites and Ceremonies and inventions of our mother mystery Babylon And so they found all out by the ●evelation of the Spirit and by searching of the Scriptures they found out the rise of our mother after the woman was fled into the wildernesse and that she sate not as a Queen upon Nations Kindreds Tongues and Peoples till after the woman did fly away upon the wings of an Eagle into the wildernesse for a time times and half a time and likewise they found out that our predecessors and fellow-merchants were not like the Ministers of Christ in the primitive times neither our Doctrines and Ordinances like the Ordinances and Doctrines which were once delivered to the Saints before ever wee merchants set sail or floated in a ship on the Sea And so finding our City to be raised up in its glory since the glory of God was lost in the earth and finding our Queen mystery Babylon ruling in our City since the Lambs wife fled and finding us merchants to receive her traffique from her City since the faith was lost that once was delivered to the Saints and did see our Creeds and Beliefs and Pater-nosters our prayers and our hymns that they are quite another thing which was part of her traffique they have concluded and that upon infallible grounds warranted by a cloud of witnesses in the Prophets and Apostles that our mother is a whore and her predecessors are her merchants and that our Ordinances are and traffique have been invented by some of our mothers children which are Apostates and they have found

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

they offer the more they sin and how the rest of their Ordinances will end thou mayest judge before thou pass any further Direct And now I come their sanctification of their sabboth the whole day you say is to be celibrated as being the Christian Sabbath If you intend the first day of the week where is that called the Christian Sabbath the Sabbath in the first Covenant was given for a sign of the Christian Sabbath which was to be revealed when they ceased from their own works words thoughts then the rest was to be known the Christian Sabath and whether is a Christian Sabbath a visible or invisible thing But stay Sirs do you keep this day which you call a Christians Sabbath holy to the Lord is not this your Market day upon which you sell your Traffique one or two Glasses for 20 or 30 s. a day besides what you get for sprinkling of Infants do you not speak your own words nor think your own thoughts nor work your own works If you say you do not how comes it to pass that there are all these defects in your performances all this iniquity in your holy things I hope you dare not say that defects is from God or that iniquity or sin is of God and if you have not a male in your flock let sacrificing or offering alone and do not think that God will be pleased with your lame blind maimed defective sacrifices neither with your strangled things nor your swines flesh so I say unto you repent and learn to be reformed your selves before you prescribe rules for others least both you and them that follow you fall into the pit and because the Merchants of this rank and orders doth love to be medling with every thing wherein there is hope of any thing to be got they will try all kinds of merchandize and so present they their direction about mariage to any who will take their ignorant Councel Direct They say Mariage is no Sacrament nor peculiar to the Church of God and they say we judge it expedient that it be done by a lawfull Minister and to be published three times before it be solemnised by the said Minister Answ. If you mean by Sacrament a holy thing then mariage is either holy or unholy if unholy then fit to be done by none if holy why is it not proper and peculiar to the Church of God if they who are Members of the Church of God may marry in the Lord in the covenant in which man was made the male and the female then what hath any to do with it who are not of the Church of God and what hath the Church of God to do with them that are without and what hath a Priest to do with this where was Abrahams and Sarahs Priest when they were maried and where was the Priest to solemnize the mariage of Isaac and Rebeccah and of Sachariah and Elizabeth and because you say it s not peculiar to the Church of God whether were these of the Church of God before mentioned but what hath the Priest to do to publish it three times like a Belman for the loss of a Horse or Cow thorow the Market or rather why ought not the man and the woman both in the fear of the Lord if they be moved thereunto by the Lord publish their own intentions And moreover their joyning together in the Church of God when the members of the Church of God are present but this frustrateth the Priests 5 or 10 s and his Clerk 6 d. or a shilling more or less as they can get Direct Furthermore they say it may be done any time of the year but on a Fasting-day or on the Lords day Ans. Why are these days prohibited if mariage be a holy thing or an honorable thing why may it not be done in the fear of God and the power of God why not on any day was days made for man or man made for days your ignorant Predecessors the Pharisees judged as you do that it was not expedient or convenient that he should heal a Daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound on the Sabbath day And now they say that the honourable Estate of Mariages is the Covenant of their God and before they said it was not peculiar to the Church of God if entering into a state of Mariage be the Covenant of God and if the Covenant of God be peculiar to the Church of God then what is the reason you Reformers that Mariage is not peculiar to the Church of God And now take their directions who hath a desire to Trade any more with their Merchandize concerning the visitation of the sick Direct The party sick is to send for the Minister timely and seasonably before their understanding fail them and if the Minister susp●ct the party of Ignorance he sh●ll not examine them in the Principles of Religio● especially touching Repentance and Faith and to make known unto him the danger of desering Repentance Answ. If he be such a one who is sick as hath traded much with the Priests Merchandize if he be capable of understanding there is some hope he may give the Priest 5 pound or ten pound and it hath been high time for the Minister to have shown him the danger of de●ering Repentance before now when he is like to go out of the body not to have deferred his exhortation till this time and if the party be ignorant it were more time to inform him about the Principles of Religion and Repentance and Faith than to have him make Answers to that which he knows nothing of and then you conclude if desired the minister shall pray for him to this effect Direct Confessing and bewailing original and actual sin and the miserable condition of man by nature and that God would give him an ev●dence of an interest in Christ and the Seal of Eternal Life by Christ Answ. In sin you began and in sin you will end complaining of original and actual sin before you know what it is and hold on till you come to the grave and never depart from it and what must not the Minister pray except he be desired it seems they alwayes must please other mens desires rather then mind the Spirits motion in themselves And what is interest in Christ yet wanting and Evidence and Seal of Eternal Life yet wanting and it may be the Party 40 or 50 years old What was not this man baptized when he was an infant and have not you said and in the 48 page and 45 page of your Directory that Water-baptism is a Seal of the Covenant of Grace and of being ingrafted into Christ and of Regeneration Adoption and Eternal Life and what is the Evidence and Seal lost now Useth not this to be the doctrine amongst you once in Christ and ever in Christ and whom he loves once he loves to the end and hath not this man partaken of the Sacrament and eat the flesh