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A84069	The great earthquake, Revel. 16. 18. or, Fall of all the churches. Discovering the apostasie of purest churches, not yet sensible of their spiritual whoredoms, EZek. 43.9, 10. Or, The great whore made bare and naked before she be judged, and her flesh burnt with fire, Rev. 27. 16. Proving, that none indeed deny the ordinances of Christ, but present churches not being in a Gospel-order. By William Erbery.	Erbery, William, 1604-1654.; J. W.	1654 (1654)	Wing E3227; Thomason E806_7; ESTC R207174	48,514	64

himself in John John was all in the spirit his flesh fell down as dead ver 17. as Isaiah and Daniel were both undone when they saw the Lord in glory appearing in them Isa 6. Dan. 10. But how comes the Lords day to be the first day of the week or the fourth Commandment speaking of the seventh day prove the sanctifying of the first day Who can prove the change of the day by Christ or that the Apostolick Churches kept holy the first day as God sanctified the seventh especially seeing the next succeeding Ages even the primitive Churches of the first 300 yeers kept the seventh day as the Sabbath yea celebrated the Lords day and Sabbath together for a long time for the Apostacie presently succeeded the Apostles departure Ignatius being but about 100 yeers after Christ sheweth the same After the Sabbath day saith he let every one that loveth Christ celebrate the Lords day the Queen of dayes for the Sabbath day was King or chief as one expounds Ignat. Epist ad Magnes The celebrating of the Lords day alone was first instituted by Constantine the Great Hosp cap. 9. pag. 27. anno 300. Afterward it was established by the Laodicean Councel an 364. commanding Christians not to Judaise in keeping the Sabbath but to work on that day and keep holy the Lords day Hosp Orig. Fest cap 9. pa. 27. In all this 't is observed that the Eastern Churches which were the most part of Christendom did celebrate the Sabbath as I said and the Lords day together Socrates cap. 8. lib. 6. and cap. 21. lib. 6. Mr. Brierwood on the Sabbath against Mr. Bifield pag. 77. Perk. 1 vol. on the fourth Commandment But the Romish or Western Churches would not have their Church-Assemblies on the Sabbath as in all other Churches of the world so the Centuries report Cent. 4. c. 6. p. 477. I am the more large in this that Independent Churches may see their Judaisme in their strict observance of an outward Sabbath their simplicity in sanctifying the first day of the week as the Lords day Their ignorance or connivance not cleering those things which are so certain Their conformity with Popish Churches Their carnal complying with the Protestant State Religion Their Laodicean condition thinking they are rich and have need of nothing that they need no Order nor Ordinance nor Officer whereas they are so poor blind and naked that they have no Gospel-Ordinances nor a Day at all but walking in the dark deceive themselves and others The observation of the Lords Day therefore depends much on Popish Churches and the command of Christian Princes to which the Independent Churches are as conformable as ever Prelates were What I conceive of the Sabbath I shall in a few words declare 1. That the fourth Commandment is mystical as wel as moral for there is a mystery in the four first commandments even the mystery of God is there manifest In the first Commandment God the One onely true God even the Father is acknowledged In the second Ephes 4.6 Col. 1.15 Heh 1.3 the same God and Father is known in the Son the expresse or graven image of his substance and no other graven image is to be made of God but the Man Christ In the third God even the Father so known in the Son cannot be acknowledged Ephes 2.18 nor worshiped in spirit and truth but by the Spirit without this whatever men think of God and Christ they take his name in vain The fourth Commandment holds forth mans spiritual rest in God alone so known in the Son by the Spirit And this indeed is the morality of the fourth Commandment the Ceremoniall part thereof being the sanctifying of the seventh day which was so commanded to the Jewish Church not as a law natural to all Nations as other commandments are written in every mans heart but as a positive law to that particular people now not a Sabbath or a seventh day but the Sabbath and the seventh day from the creation is that which the command speaks contrary to all our Protestant Interpreters who teach that the Christian Sabbath or Lords day is grounded on the fourth Commandment Now this Sabbath or the seventh day was meerly ceremonial as 't is called a signe between God and his people the Jewes that I the Lord sanctifie you and that you are a people sanctified and set apart onely for God Therefore that God is all in all to us and in us and that we are to rest in God onely and alone in the true mystery and morality of the Sabbath Prophets and Apostles witnesse The Prophet Isaiah speaking of the Sabbath saith thus Isa 58. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath doing thy pleasure on my holy day and shalt c all the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own wayes nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord c. Observe that the Sabbath indeed is nothing else but the Lord God rested on and rejoyced in by us when we turn away our foot from the Sabbath and turn to God onely else he had said rather If thou turn thy foot to the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy d●y but this last is not so read as we do from doing c. as if we were forbidden to do our pleasure on his holy day on the Sabbath Nay we are there commanded to do our pleasure as the words read For the Sabbath should be our delight the holy of the Lord honourable and we shall honour him For he himself is the Sabbath that is so honorable the holy day of the Lord is the Holy One the Lord himself only whom alone we are to honour in all our wayes workes and words for if God be all in all in us t is not our words that are spoken nor our workes that are done but as Christ saith The words that I speake I speak not of my self but the Father that dwelleth in me he does all the workes yea verily the sonne can do nothing of himself John 14.10 John 8.28 but as my Father hath taught me I speak these things this indeed is the sanctifying the Sabbath not to abstain from worldly thoughts and words and from working on the seventh day of the week but to sanctifie the Lord alone when he onely is our All when we are nothing but he is our Being and our being in Him when we do nothing but the Father dwelling in us doth all our works When we thus find not our own wayes nor speak our own words nor speak words as 't is in the Hebrew Man neither speaks nor does any thing indeed but God does all and is all in us This the Apostle holds forth to be the Rest or sabbath-keeping of the people of God Hebr. 4.9 not as if this were ●o rest to be entred into in this life ver 1. for we which

have believed do enter into rest ver 3. and what is this Rest When do we enter into this Rest when we cease from our own works as God did from his ver 10. Therefore 't is plain that the seventh day or Sabbath of the Lord was a signe or type of the Lord himself being our rest or Sabbath in truth ver 4. Yea as the Rest which Jesus or Joshua gave to the people in the Land of Canaan was another type of this Rest or Sabbath ver 8 So surely the Rest which Jesus Christ in truth did take in the Father in the Fathers dwelling in him and doing all in him was but a type of the same to us that we should be and abide ●n God and God in us all in all as in Him Ioh. 14.10 19 20. Iohn 4.15 But as Churches know not the mystery of Christ of Christ in us of the sonne revealed in us c. for they know not the mystery and morality of the sabbath For how simple is it what they say of the Lords day as if the eight or first day of the week were the morality of the severth or Jewish sabbath as if Christs appearing so oft after his resurrection on the eight day were a proof of his changing the Sabbath to that day as if that day were now to be kept holy when as Peter with the Apostles went out a fishing on that day Joh. 21.1 2 3. his appearing so oft on the eight or the first day of the week was rather to shew that the observation of the seventh was gone as the Aposties also meeting that day was no more For as their assembling in their Synagogues on the Sabbath day was onely to preach unto the Jewes meeting in most multi udes on that day so the Apostles usuall meeting on the first day of the week was meerly for order only to set in order something in the Churches and to performe some Ordinances among them in the Spirit 1 Cor. 16.2 as breaking of bread Act. 20.1 c. But we have preved and shall more abundantly with God that the present Churches are in no Order of the Gospel and have no Gospel Ordinance among them else they might meet that day indeed to break bread as another day of the week to preach a lecture And truly for love and peace sake I can rest and refrain from labour on that day not in conscience but in a civill respect that men might shew some kindnesse to the poor creature that in mercy the beast might have some rest and that labouring servants might have a day to rejoyce in therefore I will not trouble the State in this but intreat them to consider their own liberty and ours not to the flesh but in God alone There is a Scripture though not written in our Bibles but t is in the originall there being indeed no lesse then 15 severall greek Copies of the new Testament I say the originall copy reades thus Luk. 6. next to the 5 verse this followes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exemplur velustissimum in Italia ab amiti● collatum Complutens proximum Stephanns Gr. Test at large That is on the same day jesus seing a certaine man working on the Sabbath-day said unto him ô Man if thou didst know indeed what thou dost thou wert happy but if thou knowest not thou art cursed and a transgressor of the Law that is if men knew the liberty of the Gospel and their Christian Liberty in the Sabbath day indeed they were truly blessed but if men do they know not what and wilfully offend they obey neither law nor Gospel but are cursed in both T is plaine by all and has been proved from Scriptures That Church-fellowship the last great Ordinance indeed Act. 2.24 I say that the fellowship of Churches this day is the fornication of the great whore or wine of her fornication Rev. 17.2 Act. 2.13.15 16. verse Eph. 5.18 so as the Baptisme of the Spirit the Spirit poured forth in the manifold gifts was that new wine where with the primitive Church of Christ seemed drunk being filled with the Spirit for the present Church having not this fellowship of the Spirit must needs appear as the whore though seemingly the Spouse having saints in fellowship with them their formes and false worships the wine of her fornication All this was typified by the Whoredomes of Israel whose fornications and false worships are so often published by the Prophets of the Lord the Prophet Hoseas taking a whore to his Wife was a Type of this Hosea 3.1 The Prophet being a principall man and chief member of the Church joyned with a woman and adulteresse shewes forth the adulteryes of the whole Church in all her members and ministery who look after other Gods and love Flagons of wine that is false shews of the spirit But see what a poor whore the Prophet takes unto him I bought her to me for 15 pieces of silver for an homer of Barley and halfe an homer of Barley Exod. 21.32 ver 2. Fifteen pieces of silver was but halfe the price of a slave thus saints embondaged to fleshly formes value themselves at so low a rate that rather then they will be of no Church they will be of any Church or fellowship though never so poor and mean yea feed themselves with Ordinances though comming far short of the spirits presence or purest institution that 's also signifyed by an homer of Barley and halfe an homer of Barley or as t is in the Heb. Halfe of Barley Barley is not the best for bread and halfe an homer is but a pottle at the most a small measure besides the graine is not pure for t is but halfe of barley the other halfe of fetches of cockle or chaffe this is cleer the present Churches are content with the smallest measure of the Spirit how else dare they enter into fellowship before they have the fulnesse or Baptisme of the Spirit nay their Ordinances are not all the best for the Baptisme of the Spirit was the first Gospel Ordinance as Prophecy a Psalme a doctrine a Tongue a Revelation an Interpretation were all for the Edifying of the Church these the Churches have not at all and those Ordinances they have are but halfe of barley there is a mixture much of man halfe is of mans invention of mans tradition Therefore I said unto her thou shalt abide for me many dayes and thou shalt not play the harlot and thou shalt not be for another man so will I also be for thee ver 3. the Prophet here speake● in the person of God to the whorish Church that was so much for man for the traditions and teaching of man and for humane additions to divine institutions or ordinances well saith God thou shalt abide for me many dayes and thou shalt not play the Harlot that is when the Law was to be abolished when the old state of the Legall Church was to vanish and a new

they need no order nor ordinance nor officers of the church they see and know all the truths of Christ therefore by the judgement of Christ they are blind and men shall shortly behold their nakednesse Fourthly Laodicea was neither hot nor cold these last churches are not so cold as National churches but they have not that heat and fire which was in the first churches of Christ therefore Christ will spew them out of his mouth and not take up their name into his lips any more nor love them as his church and spouse but loath them as the filth of the great Whore Now to returne to return to that we said before All the Ordinances in the church became defiled unclean and her forms the flesh of the whore not being salted with fire that is when the sacrifice was no more salted with salt which is of a fiery substance and keeps flesh from tainting When that holy fire was found wanting in the church all her flesh her forms and ordinances did stink and became defiled as those that touched an unclean thing or dead body for the manifestation of the spirit being departed from the church the church must needs be a dead body as those dry bones in Babylon signified the state of the church in the apostacy in spiritual Babylon where the church is not in the unity of the spirit and bond of peace but as those divided sticks in the Prophets hand the one for Judah and his companions the other stick for Joseph and his companions this is the dead divided state of the church in Babylon which is a city not in unity with it self as Jerusalem but divided into three parts so Babylon is and so the churches in Babylon are Presbytery Independant and baptized churches For though in the primitive times there were divisions between brother and brother in the churches yet never was there a division between church and church as at this day All the brethren walked in one church-way worshiping God with one consent one church-order ordinances and officers were all by the same spirit alike in all the churches who in this sense at least kept the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace for as there was one body among all so but one baptism but as the churches are now divided bodies so their baptisms are divers one church baptizeth the whole Nation another church baptized only the children of believers the third baptized only believers themselves Thus we may truly say the whore sits upon many waters many baptisms besides those rivers of living waters those manifold gifts of the spirit are dryed up in the churches much less doth the spirit shew them that pure river of life proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb in the new Jerusalem the churches being destitute both of fire and water having not that holy spirit given to the church of Christ must be but a dead body and he that toucheth them is unclean This the Prophet Haggai hinted at when he asked the Priests that if one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and with his skirt do touch bread or pottage or wine or oyl or any meat shall it be holy and the Priests answered no. Then said Haggai If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these shall it be unclean and the Priests answered saying It shall be unclean So is this Nation before me saith rhe Lord and so is every work of their hands it is unclean Hagg. 2.12 13 14. Every Saint in the spirit freed from church-forms or not embondaged to partiality can easily interpret that text That though there be Saints by calling in the present church and she bear holy flesh in her skirt that cannot make any thing clean to her or them and if they touch a dead body as the church now is all that they touch therein it is unclean so is this people and so is this Nation before me saith the Lord and so is every work of their hands and every ordinance among them it is unclean If this be true as true it is that the forms of churchfellowship being defiled forms are become the flesh of the whore then must she be utterly burnt with fire yea those ten Kings which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the beast who with one mind give their power and strength to the beast who make war with the lamb that is with Christ in us with God in the Saints when the lamb shall overcome them and the power of God in the Saints appear above them then these shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked and burn her flesh with fire If the honourable Parliament would but be pleased God so appearing in them to judge things in the spirit and see how dead and desolate the churches are of the gifts of the spirit how naked they are not adorned with one spiritual gift they would no more dote on the whores flesh though nevee so fair nor on any forms though never so oft reformed but burn her flesh with fire when thus the powerfull appearance of the great God shall be manifested in men and Magistrates the churches shall appear no more This is the second appearance of Christ of God in men in the first appearance of Christ the church appeared yet cloathed with all the gifts of the spirit that is God appeared in power in the midst of Saints but when God shall appear now the second time God dwelling among men which is the new Jerusalem then that church nor those first gifts of the spirit shall appear any more but the spirit even God himself shall minister in his own glory and power nothing but God shall appear in man and man shall appear no more no need of churches or ministers when God shall be our church and the house we live in when God in us shall minister all light unto us Thus in the new Jerusalem there is no Temple no churchstate nor ordinance and the city hath no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it for the glory of God shall lighten it and the lamb is the light thereof Sun and Moon are now the lights of the world these are the ordinances of heaven and have been the ordinary means of conveying light to the earth the sun the light of the day the moon and stars the light of the night so there has been a ministry by day and night in the day of Christ and the first appearing of God there was a ministry of Apostles Prophets Pastors and Teachers as the ordinary means of light to the world and to the church when the church came under the night of Apostacy and while the spirit of Antichrist was come in power darkning the sun and the air there was still a ministry of men as the means of light yet as the moon to the night ever changing in several fosms of Popery Episcopacy Presbytery

experiments from outward providences from the writings of Poets and prophane Authors yea from all the Creation Therefore 't is plaine there is no preaching of the Gospell by any Independent-Church or preacher whatsoever But still our Ministers cry Do we not preach as the Apostles did not Paul and Peter hold forth Christ after flesh I answer againe The Apostles indeed did hold forth Christ after the the flesh 1 Because their Ministery was much in the Letter having but the first-fruits of the Spirit 2 They preacht much of Christ after the flesh to the Jewes proving him to be the Messias by Scriptures but to the Heathen who know no Scriptures nor expected the Messias thereby Christ after the flesh is never named to them by the Apostles but Christ only in Spirit God in mans flesh which they manifested yea God manifest in the flesh of the Creation as we said before for this is Christ in Spirit also 3. Though the Apostles did preach Christ after the flesh yet not as the end as the adequate or ultimate object of their ministry or of mens beleiving but Christ being the only way to the Father by him men were brought to God and by him did believe in God that all the Christian knowledg faith of men might tend end in God 1 Pet. 3.18 4. The Apostles were so much Ministers of the spirit yea could so minister the Spirit to men 1 Pet. 1.21 2 Cor. 3.6 Gal. 3.5 that in the man Christ Jesus they could manifest God even the Father in perfect union with Men as with Christ and so raise up beleevers from Christ after the flesh to Christ in spirit to God in their flesh as in his No Minister of the Churches this day has this ministry of the Spirit neither can they manifest the Mystery of Christ in us but carry their hearers no higher then Christ in flesh and there leave them in the flesh which profiteth nothing Joh. 6.63 though God in his free grace and love takes up all his to himself the quickening spirit living in them and revealing himself to men as he pleases Yet this we shall with God make good hereafter when we come to speak of Doctrines that the Churches know not the Doctrine of Christ nor yet so much as Christ after the flesh for what was the Man Christ Jesus but God in flesh the Saviour of men not the Man but God in that man was Jesus the Saviour For as God in Christ was the Reconciler c. 2 Cor. 5.29 so God in Christ was the Redeemer of the world God in him was the Head and Husband of the Church God even the Father was all in all in that flesh brought forth of a Virgin the hypostaticall Union so called being not between the person of the Son and humane Nature but the humane Nature united to God even the Father was the person of the Son The preaching of the Gospel was thus to manifest God in the flesh of men as in the man Christ and men in union with the Father as that Man that Man-God being in us Act. 10.38 Isa 8.8 10. because God was in him for as God was with him so God is with us and God with us is Christ Immanuel Without this knowledge taught of God men preach not Christ but they preach Man and themselves 5. A Psalm was the musick of Churches and the melody of the Gospel but the sound of the Gospel being not heard how we heare a Psalme sung in the Churches Indeed under the Law a Psalm was in ryme and meeter Secondly in tune and melody Thirdly the multitude altogether did sing but a Gospel Psalme was no such thing and the Churches of Christ had no such order women were forbid to speak in the Church much lesse to sing A Psalme then was a special gift of the spirit whereby some one filled with the Spirit and word of Christ did speake the praises of God with exceeding joy and full of Glory I say t was a special gift of the Spirit how is it brethren when you come together every one of you hath a Psalme hath a doctrine hath a tongue hath a Revelation hath an interpretation let all things be done to edifying 1 Cor. 14.26 The Apostle doth not there chide the Corinthians for their disorder as speaking together but he commends their order and decency ver 40. that every one spake that is none spake but according to the gift of the Spirit which each had some had a doctrine that is no common truth delivered but some speciall and glorious discovery of God Esa 29.24 again a tongue and interpretation were two other gifts of the Spirit and a Revelation or the manifesting of the Truth that was long hid from the Churches this was a gift so was a Psalme not which every one had no not all saints but some had a Psalme that is such a one who was filled with the Spirit and word of Christ or Gospel knowledge He could sing that is speak the prayses of God with exceeding joy men thinke they doe not sing unlesse they make a noise like a bird or tune their voice but to sing in the Gospel language is no more then to speak Speaking to your selves in Psalmes hymms and spiritual songs making melody in your hearts to the Lord there was no tune in the voice but in the heart no melody to men but to the Lord God for to sing was to speak his prayses as is plaine 1 Cor. 14 15 16 Ephes 5.20 Col. 3.17 not that every speaking or praysing God is singing but such as was with exceeding joy if any be afflicted let him pray if any be merry let him sing Psalmes Jam. 5. let him expresse his mirth the joy and melody of his heart in the prayses of God as those Re. 14.1 who had the Fathers name on their fore heads i.e. who had a full discovery of God in them were as the voice of Harpers harping with their Harps ver 2. none could sing that song but themselves ver 3. now all all can sing Davids Psalmes the Churches songs but those who sing the song of the Lambe have not Davids harp but the Harpes of God the joy of the Holy Spirit unspeakable and full of Glory Rev. 15.2 'T is too long at present to shew how the Churches as it was said of the Princes of Egypt do err in every work of their hand Isa 19.14 erring in all their Ordinances duties dayes of Fasting feasts of Thanksgiving conforming in all to the National Churches but especially in sanctifying the Lords Day There is nothing they are more dark in then in this whereas the Lords Day is no more then the Day of the Lord the Day of God when God shall reveal himself to men and in them cleerly as John saith of himself Revel 1.10 I was in the spirit on the Lords day that is the manifestation of God in flesh when God did fully reveal

state of a Gospel Church to be instituted the Apostles and Disciples were to waite for the Baptisme of the Spirit before they should sit downe in Church-fellowship or performe any Gospel Ordinances Act. 1.4 Act. 2.47 yet their abiding or waiting then was not many dayes hence But the Church being since fallen away and lying under the Apostacy having lost that Gospel glory and manifestation of the spirit in manifold gifts not appearing The saints are called upon to abide for God many dayes to wait with patience for the second coming of Christ and appearance of the Great God that was the Lord their God and David their King ver 5. For the children of Israel shall abide many dayes 400 yeers saith Junius without a King and without a Prince and without a sacrifice c. that is all the days that men finde themselves in the Apostacie they must abide for God without any Ordinance or sacrifice without any Church-Officer or King Yea but the discoveries of God in the Saints in the later dayes that 's the anoynting shall take off the yoke from off their neck and the burden from off their shoulders that Saints shall be no more embondaged to fleshly forms nor burdened with carnal Ordinances nor yoked to Church-fellowship any more What some Saints scoff at others and others say of themselves that they are above Ordinances I cannot judge nor condemn but for my part I do not profess my self above Ordinances but far below them in mine own feeling though I may be above in the favour and knowledg of God yet as far as I know I am below any Gospel Ordinance having not that manifestation of the spirit that was alwaies with them in the Churches nor that presence and power of the spirit appearing in me as was in them to carry me up from living in Ordinances to live in God alone nor yet that testimony of the spirit to tell me that in the use of Ordinances as they are I may be preserved pure from that uncleanness which sticks upon them through the Apostacy for if every thing in the Church is counted unclean by God which is not wholly according to his word the Independant purest Churches are not clean not being conformed to the first Churches of Christ in any Gospel-Ordinance nor Order but meer forms and confusion in all therefore it is that I am thus a non-conformist still and separate my self from the Churches and their Ordinances as unclean Common prayers and the prayers of Churchs are both alike to me the Prelates weekly Friday-Fasts and the Presbyters monthly Wednesday-Fasts yea the Independant Feastings and daies of thanksgiving are but as the holy daies of Bishops so is their Order Ordination and every Ordinance or work of their hands saith the Prophet it is unclean as we shall shew anon from Haggai 2.14 Truly 't was this that called upon me Depart depart touch no unclean thing For that life and peace which once I found in Ordinances is departed from me and my self dead unto them as I believe many others are though some Saints have still satisfaction and sweetness in them and God seems to accept their prayers yet this is no more then was before when in our ignorance we used common Prayers and mixt Communions c. How sweet and satisfactory was God then unto us though the use of those carnal Ordinances was as unclean as the high places were of old to the people of God God appeared to Solomon in Gibeon though that great high place was never appointed by God for his people to worship in but was contrary to his revealed will yet he appeared to Solomon as well in Gibeon as in the house of the Lord 1 King 9 2. Thus the Lord God and Father of mercies who is free in his grace abundant in goodness and truth being not bound up to means might appear for a time even comfortably to his people even in Gibeon in corruptest forms and fellowship not that he aprroves them but that in his good pleasure he may manifest his everlasting love the more to his people whose life is in their bloud as well as when they are washed and who look as beautifull before God when they are black as when white and ruddy yea the love of God is the same to the Saints however they are 't is not their best performances that please him but he is pleased and rests in his love yea that love may appear more to his people in lowest performances then in highest attainments And surely though God may bear awhile with this singing of Psalmes yet the time is come that he will say T●ke away from me the noise of thy songs Mark it 't is but a noise that their singing makes and 't is the noise of Babel confusion of tongue in all their Psalms but God who hath silenced that Prelatick Pricksong and is now silencing Presbyterian plain-song will also cause the songs of Independant Churches to cease now indeed they have a jolly time of it here Fasts are turned into Feasts their tears into triumphs 't will be quite contrary when their songs shall be turned to lamentation their mirth to mourning their fulness to famin and their forms to fire to be consumed by the Spirit Now these are Babylons last Plagues Death Mourning Famin and Fire which all the people of God abiding in Babylon shall partake of and as death is the spirits absence from all their fellowships So the spirits presence at the second appearing of Christ shall torment their flesh and burn up all their forms as with fire but mourning and famin comes before First mourning when the joy of the holy Spirit unspeakable and full of glory shall not be heard in their habitations but a fleshly carnal joy built upon creaturely and worldly contents and complyances with worldly powers all which falling the Kings and Merchants of the earth shall cry alas alas that is the principal men and Ministers of Churches shall cry and mourn because Babylon the great City is fallen Again Famin shall follow their Feastings and daies of thanksgiving for these are the Whores delicacies Daies of Fasting was a courser fare fit for their times of persecution but now the Churches having rest and rejoycing together the Lord comes and disquiets the inhabitants of Babylon turning their joy into mourning their fatness into famin For this all the Prophets point at even an extream Famin to come upon all the Churches That 's the extremity of Famin when there is such a want of food that men will eat the flesh one of another Both these shall come to pass upon the Churches First they shall be in want of food that is the means of grace as thep call it shall not be any more their meat not give them any sustenance at all indeed they may as the Prophet saith feed on the wind and follow the Eastwind that is the most hurtfull wind for cotn they may as men in a dream think they