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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

us out And now alas a ship will bee hardly able to ride any more upon the waters nor the Sea will hardly bear up our vessels any more the Nations the kindreds the tongues and the peoples are almost dried up especially in the North Regions they will not buy our Merchandize any more our ships are like to stand still and our Merchandize is like to be all shipwrackt therefore let us take Councel least all the Sea dry up and we all sit down in solitarinesse and our song be turned into woe worth the day misery and alas Therefore now it behoves us all reverend Brethren who are of this last edition tything Presbyters to deny our Mother in her greatest fornication and adultery since she hath committed fornication with Kings and Nobles and since all Nations have drunk of her cup But yet let us own her three or four hundred years after the ascention of Christ for then though she was inclining to Adultery and it lodged in her heart yet it was not so openly known then but only to a few and then she held part of the form of Godliness and had part of the true Churches attire and ornaments on the outside and so let us all agree to stick close to her hear and vindi●ate her then and her Merchandize the form of Godliness for if this traffi●ue will not go off we are at an end for either this must serve in the North Regions of the world or we must pull down our sayles and let our ships stand still on dry land let us put on resolution there is some hope that this may serve a while for that our Mother was a true Church 3 hundred years after Christ hardly any in this will gain-say us and let us deny all the Popes Cardinals Legates Fryers Monks Jesuites Semenaries and all their several orders which are one distinct from another and let us deny the rest of our Fellow-Merchants or rather Fathers which did ordain us to be Merchants to trade at Sea seeing that kind of Merchandize which they then traded with which they received from our Mother will not go off now for Nations Kindreds Tongues and People now will not buy that kind of merchandize which hath not the face of Purity upon it and though we were made Ministers by them yet now when they are grown out of date a Parliament having voted them down it s not safe for us to hold them up nor none of their worship nor merchandize so we having a distinct order of our own and are rank'd into another fellowship distinct from the Fryers and the Monks let us keep our fellowship one with another and so we may set up our selves and so may bring honor to our mother Mystery Babylon under another name and so let Bishops Arch-bishops Arch-deacons Deans and Chapters Prelates Vicars and Curates be denyed and seeing their traditional traffi●ue before mentioned will not go off and all the forms of publique worship hath been contrary to the Scriptures and contrary to the primative times and seeing we cannot hinder people from seeing of it therefore we must let it all pass and deny both them and it at least in the hearing of them whom we trade with therefore let them merchandize with it in some other Country for our mother where she hath more reputation and where the beast hath more power and the time may come if we can but perswade People that they cannot understand the Scriptures nor come to know the mind of Christ without our Original Hebrew Greek and Latin in some time it may be this traffique will go off if we can keep People but ignorant enough that so we may be a means to bring our mother and her messengers that she hath sent forth into more reputation than they are Notwithstanding though the day be dawned every mans works made manifest of what sort it is yet it is well enough that we receive the maintenance which our mother Mystery Babylon gave unto our former merchants as Tythes Oblations Obventions and Offerings Easter-reckonings and Midsummer-dues and Mortuaries twenty shillings for a funeral Sermon ten groats at the Grave twelve pence an hour for ringing of bells and such other like commodities that befalls us and besides all this we have got something out of Bishops lands and Deans and Chapters and Prebends lands some good augmentations out of these so that all the merchandizing and traffique lyes in our hand and all the wages that our mother gave to other Officers and Ambassadors of several orders which to speak plainly is the very reins and finews of our Gospel which we preach and therefore if we cannot keep the people blind but they will see our error in most things yet while we have the Powers of the Earth to make us a Law that all may be forced and compelled to pay that unto us which our mother the Church gave us when she was in her exaltation while this is kept up we shall cary about our ships and merchandi●e though the people have no great heart to it we shall cry out to the Magistrates to compel them to buy it or else the people will turn Atheists and Barbarians and however get our price Yet now reverend brethren seeing we cannot keep the People in ignorance and darkness nor hinder the day from dawning nor the Sun from rising while it is but even yet twylight let us work and carry about our traffique for the best sort of merchandize which our mother hath will hardly please now for now it comes to that that nothing but spiritual Ordinances will be accepted among people now therefore we which are of the tything Presbyterian order though we have denyed our mother in some of her sorceries and though we have denyed the Bishops our Fathers and ordinances and their established form of worship we being heirs apparent to their Inheritance and Revenues and wages now we being come to maturity and goes under the name of Reformers yet let our mother Mystery Babylons wages stand unalterable as the Law of the Medes and Persians and though the professions of publick worship have been denyed and abolished let us perswade the Magistrates and Rulers that if they abolish our tythes and set wages then the Gospel will cease to flourish in these Nations and though the Mass-book or book of Common-prayer and the Lateny will not go off for Gospel and longer we shall set something else up in its stead to be called the Gospel and because we have not an immediate Spirit nor an infallable neither ever looks to have it its requisite that we prescribe some form or Directory of worship to be as a rule of Direction to all of our order and if we can get a Parliament to make an ordinance for the recommendation of it to the Nations as the publick worship of God then we may trade yet with out merchandize and whilst our set wages is not altered the matter is of less moment and though