The Prophetical INTELLIGENCER, Showing The causes why all corrupt Churches of Christendom shall pass away, or departed; and all their Sees of corrupt Doctrine and Discipline shall be abolished, and that the holy City of the Church of new Jerusalem is now coming down from my God out of HEAVEN.  
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The Prophetical Intelligencer, showing the causes why all corrupt Churches of Christendom shall pass away, or departed; and all their Sees of corrupt Doctrine, and Discipline shall be abolished, and that the holy City of the Church of new Jerusalem is now coming down from my God out of Heaven.  Revel. 21.1. And I saw a new Heaven, and a new Earth, for the first heaven, and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more Sea. 
SOme falsely gather, that this is to be understood of the Church Triumphant, after the resurrection, but what need the Church then to be described, to be coming down from heaven? it should rather be seen going up to it. And what need shall there be of gates, a Wall, and City, and a Tree, when all the Saints shall be as the Angels of God in heaven? and equal unto them? Math. 22. Luke 20 But the Holy Ghost doth not paint out unto us here, that Angelical happiness of the Saints to come. For it is spoken of matters to be done in this life upon earth, as the sequel shall declare, for it is spoken of a new church that shall be upon earth. For the glory of the heavenly, and pure Church, cannot be seen, nor conceived off the heart of a mortal man, 1 Cor. 2.9. Neither can it be set forth with words of comparisons of earthly things, but seeing it shall be an heavenly Church, therefore the glory and dignity of it, is commended in heavenly things, and yet the description thereof maketh a way to comprehend in our minds, heavenly felicity, for if the glory of the Spouse be so great upon earth, what manner of things, and how excellent are those which God have prepared for his Saints, in the fullness of joy? truly our minds are too dull, and dim, to meditate of these things, let us turn our eyes to contemplate of this blessed paradise, which shall openly be seen in the world, as 2 Esdras 8.52. For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, Rev. 2.7. The time to come is prepared, plenteousness made ready, the City builded, v. 18. and rest prepared, perfect goodness, and absolute wisdom, the root of evil is sealed up unto you, Dan. 9.24. the weakness, and moth is destroyed from you, and into hell fleeth corruption to be forgotten, Rev. 21.8. Sorrow's are vanished away, and in the end is showed the treasure of immortality, v. 4. I follow him as he goeth with Scripure.  
Now the interpretation of the new heaven, may be taken out of Heb. 12.26. whose voice did then shake the earth, but now he hath denounced, saying, yet once more will I shake, not the earth only but also heaven, where to shake heaven and earth, is by the interpretation of the Apostle, to abrogate the former Church worship, & Temple, to cast off the earthly people, of all Nations, that would not receive him by a New birth, Joh. 1.11. Io. 3.3. And so he will cast off all people that are earthly, of all Nations whether of the Churches, or heathen, that will not receive his counsel to buy of him gold, tried in the fire, to make them rich. 1. 
Rev. 3.18.  The lively faith of the merits of Christ's death in our baptism for remission of sins, and white raiment (justification) to clothe them, that the shame of their nakedness might not appear, and eye salve of the spirit in the scriptures, that men may see Heaven is by a borrowed speech taken for the Temple, the legal worship, and the Church of the Jews, whereof the Temple was a seat and dwelling place, the shadow of heavenly things, Heb. 8.5. and we know that the Church is called the Kingdom of Heaven, in many places of Scripture, as Psal. 107. Mar. 4.2. So that shake heaven, is to abolish the visible Church, that were of the Jews, or are now of the Gentiles.  

Matth. 13.41.43. Luke 10.9. Col. 1.13.  For where God will shake the heaven (first of the Church) and the Earth (of unbelievers) they shall be abolished, Heb. 12.27. but once more saith the Lord, will I shake the heaven. 1. Of the Church, and the Earth, 1. unbelievers, Ergo they shall be abolished.  
By the Earth is meant in that place, men, corrupt unbelievers, as O Earth, hear the word of the Lord. Ma. 1. O men that are earth, of all Nations of the Earth, and all the Kingdoms of the Heathen, shall be shaken as Hagg. 2, 27. as well as the Churches, For behold saith the Lord I have begun to plague the City which my Name is called upon, and should you escape, you shall surely drink. jere. Mi. So God will shake the heaven of the church of Christians, and should the Earth of Turks and Heathens escape, they shall be overthrown. Con. To shake the earth therefore is to shake the corrupt unbelieving earthly people out of their places, as he shaken the jews heaven of the church, and the Earth of the heathen, because they received not one baptism into Christ's death, for remission of sins, but despised the counsel of God against their own souls, and to make a church, and therefore he shaken them down Luke 7.30. Eph. 4.5. Act. 2.38. Ro. 6.3. So that heaven you see is put for the Church, and the earth, for all corrupt unbelieving people, Therefore as God shaken the heaven, and the earth after Christ's death, for their not receiving of him by baptism into his death, as joh. 1.9.10. Gal. 3.27. For every soul that will not hear that Prophet (1. To be baptised in his Name, if he have not, for the remission of sins, Act. 2.38.) Shall be destroyed among the people, and they were destroyed from being the church and people of God, and became the Synagogue of Satan. Rev. 2.9. God rejected the old church of the heaven of the jews, and set up a new heaven of the Church of the Gentiles, that did receive Christ by baptism, and faith, as the 3000. did, and the Churches of all Nations. So when God shall have mercy upon the forlorn forsaken Nation, and make them partakers of salvation by Christ, he shall shake the former heaven of the corrupt, Idolatrous, dead, lukewarm churches of the Gentiles, because they believe not one baptism into Christ's death, for remission of sins, as Act. 2.38.22.16. Rom. 6.4. and make the dignity and honour of the holy City of the New jerusalem, of jews and Gentiles, to be so glorious, as a new heaven and a new earth. Hence I gather this Doctrine, Observation. That there shall be a new church of the new Jerusalem upon earth, and this I prove by Esay 65.17. For behold I am about to create, new heavens, and a new Earth, as if he should say, I will institute a more pure church, faith and worship in spirit and in truth, and I will take unto me a new people in the Assemblies, whereof I will be worshipped, and honoured, and I will make a new Earth of new creatures, for if any man be in Christ he is a new creature, 2 Cor 5.17. For old things are passed away behold all things are become new, 2 Cor. 5.17. which shall be most plainly verified, when the old churches pass away, and the new Jerusalem appear, as Esay 43.19. Behold I will do a new thing in the Earth, now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it, when may some say, Ans. Rev. 21.5. Behold I make all things new, and he said to me write, for these words are true and faithful, 1. There shall be a new heaven and a new Earth, a new church, and people, for he that sat on the Throne, bad john writ it, and he hath given me a mind to know him that is true, and for to write of things that are true, for if it be true, as it is ●●th Behold I make all things new, then that must be a new church, or else all things shall not be new for as the new heaven and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me saith the Lord, compare the place with this, and you shall find it agree with this, and cannot agree to the former churches of Ephesus Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Phyladelphia, Laodicea, for they shall pass away, but the church of new Jerusalem shall remain, For to him that overcometh in the Churches, I will make him a pillar in the Temple of my God, and shall go no more out, and write upon him the Name of the new jerusalem, that cometh down from my God out of heaven, Rev. 2.12. but when is this to be? when the lukewarm Angel that is neither cold nor hot is spewed out of Christ's mouth, 
Rev. 3.16.  in Laodicea of England this new Church is to appear, but now the lukewarm Angels are spewed out. Ergo. It is now to appear, I could prove this by many Arguments but I set down but five.  
Reason. 1 The causes why the Churches of the Gentiles shall departed, and all their Sees of jurisdiction and the new jerusalem appear,  
Ma. For if there shall be an holy City of new jerusalem come down from God out of Heaven, trimmed as a Bride, for her Bridegroom, than there must be a new Church upon Earth, for by new jerusalem, is meant the Church of God. Mi. But john saw the holy City, the new jerusalem come down from God out of heaven. Rev. 2●. 2. Con. Ergo. there must be a new Church upon earth.  
Reason. 2 Ma. That City which shall be four square and, shall be measured by an Angel a man, with a golden reed, 12000. Furlongs, must needs be upon Earth, for there is neither squares nor furlongs, nor reeds, nor men measurers of any thing there, for all was prepared for thee, before the foundation of the world, Matth. 25, 34. Mi. But the Church of the new jerusalem, shall lie four square, and be measured by an Angel, a man, with a golden reed, 12000. Furlongs, Con. Ergo it must needs be upon earth for there is no squares, reeds, or Furlongs, or men measurers, in actual glory.  
Reason. 3 Ma. That City which shall have twelve gates, and twelve Angels, and the Names of the Tribes of Israel, 3. On the East, 3. On the North, 3. On the South, 3. On the West, Mi. must needs be meant of a Church or City upon Earth, for there is no East nor West, North, nor South, in actual glory, or but twelve gates, or but twelve Angels, for there is more than twelve Legions of Angels there, but the Church of the new Jerusalem, shall have twelve gates, and twelve Angels, and the names of the twelve Tribes of Israel, 3. to the East, 3. to the North, 3. on the South, 3. on the West, as Rev. 21.13. Con. Ergo, it must needs be a City, or Church upon earth, and ●t shows it must be a Church of the jews, baptised and made new creatures, for the Gentiles have not twelve Tribes, and if there be any gates in heaven, they were ●t made long before their were any tribes of Israel. v. 12.13.  
Reason. 4 Ma. That City which shall have a Wall, with twelve foundations, and in them the Names of the Lambs twelve Apostles, must be new Church upon earth build on the doctrine of the twelve Apostles, Mi. for the Apostles can be no foundation of a Wall of a City in heaven, for it was made before there were Apostles, before the foundation of the world. Matth. 25. But the new jerusalem shall have a Wall, with twelve foundations, and in them the names of the lamb twelve Apostles, as v. 14. Con. Ergo. It must be a new Church upon Earth.  
Reason. 5 That City which shall have the Nations that are saved, to walk in the light of it, and the Kings of the Earth, to bring their glory and honour to it, must be a new Church upon Earth. Ma. For the people that are saved, they shall not need to walk in hea●en, for they shall be as the Angels of God in heaven, which fly or pass in an inconceivable time, as the body of Christ to heaven, and the things of the Earth shall bring no honour or glory to heaven, for heaven shall give glory and honour to them. Mi. But the Church of the new Jerusalem shall be such wherein the Nations that are saved, shall walk in the light of it, and the Kings of the Land shall bring their honour & glory to it, Rev. 21.24 (i. e. they shall account it their honour, and glory to be Citizens of new jerusalem, and bring their subjects to it.) Con. Ergo it must be a new Church upon Earth. I could give more reasons if these be not sufficient.  
Objection. Shall there be a new Church upon earth, Then say the Anabaptists, Brownists, Separatists, Familists, Adamites, Millenaries, Antitrinitarians, Arminians, Socinians, Sectaries, and Selectaries. (all which are commonly notable Pharises, and by a superabundance of religion, 
Which have no assurance of salvation, for out of the church is no salvation nor assurance of it.  like scabs and warts, by the abundance of humours, grow out of the body of man, so by the humours of their brain, do these grow out of the Church, and separate from it.) then we will go make a New Church.  
Answer. You are greatly deceived not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God, for first it must come down from heaven from my God, Ergo, man cannot build it. 2. That which is of God, shall stand, for God is the builder and founder of that City. Heb. 11. But the work or Church that is of man, shall come to naught, Act. 5. Thirdly, The Church of new jerusalem, must be built 12000. Furlongs in length, breadth and height you cannot build none so great. Fourthly, The New Church must be built of pure gold, like unto clear glass, but you have got none of that to build with, for the gold grows, in the Church of Laodicea, Rev. 3.18. Which we have forsaken. Fifthly, You have no jasper stone for your wall, nor fine linen which is bright and pure, the justifications of the Saints, to trim your Church with, but your Bride hath got a menstruous garment of man's righteousness, that says stand a part I am holier than thou, or I will stand a part, and separate from you, thus you have neither gold, nor precious stones, nor white raiment to trim your Church, but your bvilders are all divided, and your language confounded, before you begin you shall build a Babel for the New Church comes from heaven, and the builder and founder of it is God, and the government of it must come from God, before we shall have one, as I told you, three years since in my Epistle to the Book of the blood of the Lamb, but you believed it not, but thought you should have had a better Reformation, and government before this time, but are deceived, and not I. It followeth for the first Heaven, and the first Earth, are passed away.  
Question. What shall the other Churches then of the Gentiles fail & come to decay, for hath heaven noteth out the Church, as you have proved? Answer. We need not trouble ourselves to prove it, for the divisions of all Churches and people against themselves do show it, for they are sending one another to hell as fast as they can, by sword, persecution, hatred, envy and malice; dissension, heresies, sects and schisms and drunkenness, and covetousness, they make post hast to hellward. For where the heaven of a Church is divided against itself, it cannot continue, Matth. 12. But the Church of the Lutherans, and of Calvinists, and of Papists, and of English, are heaven of Churches that are divided against themselves. Ergo, they cannot continue, they are heavens that are waxed old, as a garment and as a vesture shall he change them The Pope and all his Idolaters, and his ceremonies, the dead faith consubstantiated Lutherans, and the lukewarm faith of the English and Calvinists, shall be spewed out of Christ's mouth, Rev. 3.10. And the Heretics, Seperators from the Church, with the profane unbelievers, shall be rooted out. Ma. For every plant which my heavenly Father planted not shall be rooted out, Matth. 15.15. Ma. But they which will not buy gold, white raiment, and eyesalve, are plants which my heavenly Father hath not planted. Con. Ergo, they shall be rooted out.  
Quest. As touching the reformed Churches; What, shall the receiving of the Jews be the estranging of the Gentiles from being Churches? as if casting away the Church of the Jews was the reconcilement of the world. i e. Of the Churches of the Gentiles, Rom. 11.15. Answ. It is very plain, because the Apostle certifieth us in that place, that there is a certain fullness of the Gentiles to be made up, which is to be at the calling of the Jews, vers. 25. for if John saw the former heaven and the former earth departed, than you must appoint them a time to pass away in. And when the lukewarm Angels of Laodicea is spewed out of Christ's mouth, i. e. which is the last Church of the Gentiles, they shall pass away for being any more churches; for the former heaven are the Churches of the Gentiles which he saw departed Ergo, they shall pass away.  
Object. The Gentiles which are saved shall walk in the light of the new Jerusalem?  
Answ. Answ. Then they shall leave the candle-lights of the Churches of the Gentiles (which are called Candlesticks, Rev. 1. they were of, and walk in the light of the new Church that shall be on earth, and be one with them. For blessed is he that doth his commandments, that his right way may be in the tree of life, that be may enter in through the gates of the City, Rev. 22.14.  
Object. And the Kings of the Earth shall bring their glory and honour to that Church of the new Jerusalem.  
Answ. An. This makes against you also: for if they do so, than they shall leave to honour their old Churches, and their governments, and shall honour the holy City, to be the only true Church. And as we have had Kings of England, that above all the Kings in Christendom have been Kings of Jerusalem. So we shall have again Kings of England, that shall be Kings of the Church of new Jerusalem. Let our King hearken to this, for the Kings of the earth shall bring their honour and glory both, vers. 14. The causes why the Churches of the Gentiles shall departed, and their Sees and the Church of new Jerusalem appear.  
Object. It seems there shall be a flourishing Church of the Gentiles, when the Jews shall be called. For saith Paul, If the casting away of the Jews were the riches of the Gentiles, or the reconciliation of the world, what shall their assuming be life from the dead? I answer, it is true; for the Lutherans that escape the bloody Civil war, and turn, shall arise out of the dead faith, and the Calvinists and the English shall arise out of the lukewarm faith, to walk in the golden street of the lovely faith of the merits of Christ's death in one baptism for the remission of sins, as the 3000. did, Acts 2.38. and so Papists and Heathens shall arise out of their idolatrous and superstitious faith, and embrace the true faith of the new Jerusalem of the Jews and Gentiles, v 24.  
Out of which words we gather, that the fullness of the Gentiles is not a certain end of their believing at the calling of the Jews, as if faith should utterly fall away among the Gentiles; as nothing can be poured more into a full vessel: but that there shall be a more plentiful coming in of all the Nations of the Earth, leaving their old, dead, lukewarm and Idolatrous Churches, and shall obey the true faith of the Church of the new Jerusalem, as Zach. 14.9. The Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day, there shall be one Lord, (and one faith, and one baptism saith Paul, Ephes. 4.5. whereas now we have many) and his Name shall be one, i.e. and the name of his Church shall be one, new Jerusalem, Rev. 3.12. God will write it on them, and one Shepherd, and one sheepfold, John 10.16. and Isa 25.7, 8. And the Lord shall destroy in this mountain the covering that covereth all people, and the veil that is spread upon all, i. e. the vail of ignorance of their baptism into Christ's death for the remission of sins, Rom. 6.3. Acts 2.38. For few have this veil of infidelity removed, and the Lord shall wipe all away all tears from their faces, and he will take away the rebuke of his people out of the earth, i. e. at the calling of the Jews, as Psalm 77.9, 10, 11. For the Kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shall bring presents, whereof the King of England and Scotland and Ireland is a King of the Isles, Ergo, he that is or shall be King, shall bring gifts to the new Jerusalem, and the Kings of Sheba and Saba shall bring gifts. Yea all Kings shall worship, all Nations shall serve him. Ergo, the King of England, and the Nation of the English, or else all shall not. For such a contradiction cannot be true, that all should serve him, and some should not; that all Kings should serve, and all Nations, though it be not said every particular man of every Nation, for many shall be cast into the lake, as vers. 8. & 27. But all the Kings of the Earth shall be Citizens of the new Jerusalem, for none shall be counted a true King, except he embrace the faith of the new Jerusalem; that as heretofore the Kings of the Earth have counted it their honour to be Citizens of Rome, and to have brought honour to Rome, and crowned there, so they shall count it their honour and glory to be Citizens of the new Jerusalem, and bring their Subjects to it. The King would have no Presbytery, and the Parliament will have no Episcopacy, and the Independents will have none of both. You may heave and shove, and plot by policy to set up a government, but you shall set up none, as I have told you three years since, until the Church of new Jerusalem appear, that shall have a government from heaven: for all your labour will be but to pull down each other, for you are divided, that your house cannot stand, much less set up a house or government in such a division, and you will say hereafter I could see further into a millstone than you.  
Object. In this common resort therefore of the Nations, how shall the first heaven, i. e. the Church among the Gentiles pass away? must we distinguish the Nations thus? some are Heathens, and some Christians, shall there be an access made of those as the prophecies declare, and do it signify a departure and revolt of these?  
Answ. The vision which these words declare, point at some such matter; for it is said the first heaven parted away, for what other heaven is there amongst men, than th● Church amongst us Christians; for the church is called heaven, as in many places of Scripture, as in page 1. The promise made to Philadelphia, of the Calvinists, namely that it should be a pillar in the Temple of God, never to be cast out, Rev. 3.12. It was, if they held fast that faith that they had, and did not let any man take their crown from them, i.e. the crown of their baptism, 
The gold of heaven.  which is made of the pure gold of heaven, the merits of Christ's death in one baptism for remission of sins, which that church in many places have lost, by taking a second baptism for no remission, but for discipline, and therefore shall have a grievous destruction, as 2 Pet. 2.1. their peace with Spain which procures it, for whilst they were at war with Spain, their Sectaries and Heretics all held together against the common enemy: but now they will all fall apieces as England doth, and the sword destroy them.  
Quest. One asketh this question, to what end was this promised to Philadelphia, as a proper and peculiar benefit, if all the rest enjoy the same together with her?  
Answ. I answer, it belongs to her no more than it doth to all the rest, for what I say to you saith Christ, I say to all, Mark. 13. so what I say to one Church, I say to all; for the Lutherans few names, and the English, that overcome, and bold fast that they have, and let no man take away their Crown of baptism, shall be made a pillar of the Temple, and have the name of the new Jerusalem written upon them as well as the Philadelphians. For all the promises are yea and Amen to them that believe and are baptised, as well as to them. For he that believeth, and is baptised into Christ's death for the remission of sins, shall be saved: and the Philadelphians shall be no more, Mar. 16.16. And this appears to be so by the saying; Let him that hath an ear hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches, not to the Church.  
Doct. Now out of these words thus discussed, I gather, that the former heaven, or the Churches of the Gentiles that are now visible, shall departed and pass away, as by many reasons.  
Re. 1 Ma. For where there is an unfruitful figtree that cumbereth the ground, the destiny of it, when it hath been digged and dunged, and yet bringeth forth ill fruit, it is to be hewed down, that another may be planted as the Jews were. Mi. But the visible Churches of the Gentiles have been unfruitful figtrees, that have been digged and dunged, and yet have brought forth ill fruit, as idolatrous, dead, and lukewarm fruit, as Rev. 2. & 3. ch. Con. Ergo, their destiny is to be cut down, 
Con.  that another may be planted.  
Re. 2 Ma. For where the Husbandmen look ill to the Vine-yard that was let out to them, there it shall be taken away, and let out to others, as the Church of the Jews was to the Gentiles, Matth. 21.41. Luke 13.6. Mi. But the churches of the Gentiles are Vineyards that have been let out to Husbandmen. i.e. Angels, that have looked ill to them. For by the Vineyard let out to Husbandmen, is meant the Church, as the parable declares, and the Husbandmen were the high Priests, Scribes and Pharises, of the Jews, and the Idolatrous, dead, or lukewarm Bishops or Pastors of Christians, Rev. ch. 2. & 3. Con. Ergo, the churches of the Gentiles are Vineyards, that shall be taken away from them, and let out to others. i.e. to the Jews. For the Kingdom of heaven shall be taken away from you (saith Christ) and let out to others. i.e. the Church, which is not only given to the Jews, but also to the Gentiles, that have abused the Church as they. Re. 3 Ma. For where Christ's Ministers are beaten and stoned and killed, there Christ saith he will destroy those murderers, and burn up their City. Mi. But in the Churches of the Gentiles, as of Rome, France, Germany, 
Ma. Mi.  of the Lutherans, and of England, his Ministers have been killed, beaten, and abused with sundry persecutions, Con. Ergo, he will destroy those murderers, and burn up their city, you see a shrewd argument, why Rome, Paris, and many cities of the Lutherans, and London, should be burned.  
Re. 4 Ma. For where the Church hath been abused, and evil entreated a long time, she will bethink herself of trussing up her stuff, and forsake them, and go to another people, as the church of the old world forsook them, and got into the Ark, and the church of the Jews forsook them, and went to the Gentiles, and the Church of Papists forsook them, and went to the Lutherans, Calvinists and English. Mi. But the Church have been abused and evil entreated a longtime of the Gentiles. Con. Ergo, she will forsake them and go to another people.  
Re. 5 Now those heavens that wax old as a garment, and as a vesture shall he change them, and they shall be changed, shall pass away, because they are impure in his eyes, Job 15.15. Now this cannot be so properly meant of the starry heavens as of the Churches; for how should they be impure in God's eyes, which never sinned; neither can any show, that God ever imputed any sin to them, or curse, as to the Earth for Adam's sake; for they are as God have made them, and they all continue by his appointment.  
But the Church of the old World waxed old, and the church of the Jews, and the heaven of Papists, Lutherans, Calvinists and England, are waxed old, because they are impure in his eyes, for he saith he hath some things against them. Ergo, they shall pass away. For the heaven of the visible Churches of England, Lutherans and Calvinists, are not only unclean at this day in a small manner. (Now mistake me not, to think that I mean the justified people of God of all these 3. churches, for I believe they are clean every whit.  
The causes why the visible Churches shall departed, and the Church of new Jerusalem appear perfectly righteous, and holy without spot before the Throne of God. But of the outward visible Church, and all separate Synagogues, that call themselves churches of Heretics, Sectaries, and Schismatics, which I count fare worse than the seven churches, because Christ wrote to these by name, and hath his Elect amongst these, but he writes not to the other; and if the Fathers say true, he hath not God for his Father, that hath not the church for his Mother; and the Scripture saith, (God added to the Church such as should be saved.) yet I say the visible church is unclean, not in a small manner, though it be called by so glorious a name, as heaven, which is spoken in respect of the dark dungeon of hell, of the Jews, Turks, Heathens, and Papists, then for any heavenly clearness of the glory of God in gold of the merits of Christ's death, in one baptism, for a perfect remission of sins, or for the glory of the Lambs white raiment, justification for an everlasting righteousness, Show me a church on Earth that is found in the faith of these three, gold, white raiment, and eyesalve, & Phillida solus habebis, let her be thy Love.  
Re. 6 Ma. For the Church is defiled with a false faith, or reigning sin, there the church is unclean, and shall therefore be removed. Mi. But all the churches of the Gentiles are defiled with a false faith, or reigning sin, for why should Christ say else, he hath some things against them, Con. Ergo, they are unclean in God's sight, and shall therefore be removed. For what foot steps of one baptism for remission of sins, and of a white raiment, Justification do remain? For do not all visible Churches hold they must go knock at heaven gates every day to get a pardon for their sins, as if they were not forgiven, as Col. 1.14. Rev. 1.6. And to wipe off old scores, as if God did score up sins every day, till they pray; and they must go get God to cast all their sins into the bottom of the Sea, as if they were not cast into the bottom of the red Sea of Christ's blood already, Mic. 7.19. in baptism into Christ's death, Acts 22.16. And confess God is angry with them for their sins, and see sin in them, and punish them for the same: is not this to ser●e an angry God? as all heathens, Turks and Jews do, and not a reconciled Father, which if it were to get remission of sins to the conscience, I would not fault it but to the person, as if that were not reconciled: it crosseth Coloss. 1.21. And the article of the Creed. i e. I believe the remission of sins: as for the Lutherans of Sardis, they are in the dead faith, and their works not perfect before God, Rev. 3.1.2. Their dead works of hatred to the Calvinists declare their dead faith: And as for the English lukewarm Laodiceans, they hold as the Bishop of Canterbury did at his death, he said he hoped God would forgive him his sins. Now such as the faith of the great Angel was, such is the faith of most people of the Church. What heathen, Jew, Turk, Papist, or Devil, had not as good a faith as this, to say I hope God is merciful, and will forgive me my sins; he might go to Purgatory (if there were one) for all this faith. The decay in knowledge of one baptism for remission of sins, and in the Articles of the Creed, they do not preach or pray in this faith, that we have redemption, as Colos. 1.14. And that our sins are forgiven us for his name's sake, 1 John 2.12. It is an hard thing to find a Minister, that hath assurance of salvation, or that can tell where he had remission of sins,; for few of them believe they were made in their baptism members of Christ, children of God, and Inheritors of the Kingdom of heaven, or believe, that in the white raiment, they are so clothed, that God beholds no shame of nakedness of sin in them. And seeing this faith is lost, what new Errors spring up every day, and broached in many places, old ones are called bacl from hell by heretics, Anabaptists, Papists, Familists, Adamites, Arminians, Socinians, Brownists, Separatists, all the profession of unity & spiritual peace turned to bloody and civil War in all the churches in Christendom. These are fearful signs, and evident Prognostications, that the Churches are departing.  
Re. 7 Ma. For where the churches are fallen from the truth, it is an argument the church shall departed from them. For thus saith the Lord, Remember from whence thou art fallen, Rev. 3.5. Or else I will remove the Candlestick out of his place. Mi. But all the visible churches are fallen from the truth, as Papists to idolatry, Lutherans to a dead faith and works, 
Re. 3.1.2.  and the English and Calvinists to a lukewarm faith & reigning sin, usury or drunkenness; for it was never known that the truth did continue in any one church above 100 years, but they fell from it, as the homily of our church of the peril of Idolatry. 3. p. c. it is 100 years since England received the truth, and therefore the time is come by their own confession, that they should fall from it. Con. Ergo, it is an argument the church should be removed.  
Re. 8 Ma. Every kingdom, city or house divided against itself cannot stand, but come to nought, Matth. 12. Mar. 1. Mi. But all the former churches of the Gentiles, are kingdoms, cities or houses divided against themselves, witness the Papists, Lutherans, Calvinists, and English. You see what fight and writing there is now one against another. Con. Ergo, they cannot stand, but come to nought.  
Re. 9 Ma. For where the Sun ariseth, the light of the candle must departed, for the light of the Churches of the Gentiles, was but as candles, for the churches were but golden Candlesticks, Rev. 1.6. Mi. But the light of the New Jerusalem is as the light of the Sun, that shall never go down, and their light of the Sun shall be 7. fold, and as the light of seven days. Con. Ergo, the light of the churches of the Gentiles must vanish, because their light is but as candles.  
Object. Some say it is not said the former heaven and the former earth went away, but that they departed, as if these words did not respect the churches of the Gentiles at all, but the legal worship of the Jews only. For a man may call that the first heaven by right, as which was instituted by God himself in the beginning of the World, a little time after the flood. But the Christian people among the Gentiles was neither the first heaven, neither were their Ordinances which are observed of them, the first Ordinances that were delivered from heaven unto the church, so that some would have it taken in this manner, as if it were said, although this people of the Jews did thirst after their old rights and worship all this while of their rejection, and did make their brags of it, that the time would come when they should have power given them one day to exercise their former worship freely, after their old manner, which is the thing they have boasted of till this day. Yet in this restoring of the Jews, they shall so wholly frame and apply themselves to the will of God, that they shall willingly renounce their ancient customs, used in the service of God, which they shall then acknowledge to have had their end in Christ, and by this means they shall make it plain to all men, that the first heaven and the first earth which they hoped to see again, was departed, was passed for ever.  
Object. The Pope that would have Saint Peter's chair to remain to the end of the world, and all Sectaries that would have their church way as they falsely call it, and all other that are loath their churches should departed, like this interpretation best.  
Answ. But this is false to this place of Scripture. For the first heaven cannot be meant of the Churches of the ancient Jews, but of the churches of the Gentiles; these are my Reasons.  
First, because the old church of the jews was not called by the name of heaven, for John the Baptist and Christ were the first that preached the kingdom of heaven to be at hand, therefore the first heaven must belong to the Gentiles, for the last shall be first, and the first shall be last; i. e. the last Church of the Gentiles shall be the first heaven, and the first church of the Jews shall be the last new heaven.  
Secondly, If this should be expounded of of the Jews church, than there should have been no heaven of a church among the Gentiles, ever since Christ's time. But only the first heaven hath been among the Jews all this while, and the Gentiles have had none in the 7. churches, although Christ wrote to them, yet they were no heaven or church; too absurd.  
Thirdly, this must be understood of the church of the Gentiles, because the Jews were broken off, as Rom. 11.15.24. i e. from being a church, and the Gentiles graffed in, and made an heaven.  
Fourthly, for the Kingdom of heaven which was offered to them, and preached among them: but they put it away from them, Acts 13.46. The Kingdom of heaven was taken away from them, and given to the Gentiles above 1600. years, and therefore the Jews could not be the first heaven, because they did not receive it when it was offered, but despised the counsel of God, & therefore if the first kingdom of heaven was given to the Gentiles, than the first heaven belongs to them. For as Christ came to his own, but his own received him not: so the kingdom of heaven was preached to them, but they received it not.  
The causes why the Churches of the Gentiles shall departed and the Church of New jerusalem appear.  
Note Fiftly, This cannot be meant of the jews that they are now the first heaven because as the Apostle speaketh of Oxen, doth God take care for Oxen. 1 Cor. 9.9. So doth God take care for jews, that are made the Synagogue of Satan. Rev. 2.9. For that which is so is not an heaven. Therefore the first heaven that passed away is to be understood of the Church of the Gentiles, for the true Church of the Gentiles, was the Kingdom of Heaven Matth. 3. & Matth. 13.  
Now the causes why the first heaven of the Churches of the Gentiles depart are these. 
Causes why the Churches of the Gentiles departed.   
First the church of Ephesus was a famous heaven, watered with the blood of the Martyrs, in the 10. persecutions, of the primative Church, built upon the baptism into Christ's death, for remission of sins, and faith in the same as Act. 2.38. Act. 8. Act. 10. Act. 16. and Act. 22.16. and on the love of God shown in the same as Eph. 5.25. Tit. 3.5. Rev. 1.6. But because they forsook their first love of Christ. 1. e. Their first Baptism, wherein the first love of Christ was showed to take a second Baptism, which they did by the counsel of the Heretics, Pelagians, and Donatists, that all that were baptised by Heretics, must be baptised again, and because they did not know, who was baptised by Orthodox men, they rebaptised the people, which was iniquity of so high a nature, a sin against the work of the Holy Ghost, that Christ removed the Candlestick of the church out of that place, by the Turk, and so that heaven is departed.  
2. The church of Smyrna, though a famous rich conquering & reigning Church, in the time of Constantine the great, for it was rich as the Lord said. Rev. 2.9. i e. In the faith of one Baptism for remission of sins, as the Article of the Niceen Creed declares, but in time they followed after Ephesus, as all the other churches of Greece, they forsook the truth of one Baptism, the first love of God declared. Tit. 3.5. (as many now do in these days) by forsaking their first Baptism into Christ's death for remission of sins, for it was never known that the truth did continue in one place, above an hundred years, but they forsook it, or fell from it into some false faith, or reigning sin. Ma. 3. The church of Pergamus. 1. e. Of old Rome is departed from being a church, because they maintained the doctrine of Balaam. i e. Idolatry and fornication, and the Doctrine of the Nicholaitans, by Stews & whoredom. Mi. Therefore Christ fought against them, with the sword out of his mouth, and Con. they are departed from being true church for where God fights against a church, for sin by the sword out of his mouth, it must departed from being a true church but the church of Pergamus was such, Rev. 2.16. Ergo. Fourthly, The church of Thiatira, of new Rome. is departed from being a true church, because she suffered the woman jezabel amongst them, which was a Witch, a whore, and a murderess, and though God hath given her space, yea the longest space to repent of any other, yet she repent not of her witchcraft, in bewitching men to Idolatry. not of her whoredom and abomination, nor of her murdering the Saints, for the scarled coloured Whore is drunk with the blood of the Martyrs. And therefore Christ hath made her the Synagogue of Satan. Rev. 3.9. because they 〈◊〉 themselves jews or a catholic church, and are not, because they have had time to repent and did not, they shall be destroyed. They are divided against themselves, France against Spain, and Spain against itself, it must down. Now if any will account the Martyrs, and true believers that lived for 200. years before Luther, that suffered the manners of the Iezabel of Rome amongst them, that should have been put away out of the church as Luther, and Calvin, and England did, I account it the truth, but that which is spoken to jezabel, is spoken to Rome, as their sins declare,  
The church of Sardis of the Lutherans, is departing because they are in the dead faith, which brought forth dead works, that were not perfect before God. Rev. 3.1.2. and dead in love to the Calvinists, and in love one to another, their faith of consubstantiation is a dead faith, that believe not their works are perfect before God, by justification, neither can they believe so that live in hatred and persecution of their brethren the Calvinists, that church is divided against itself, thus the Sweeds and Danes both Lutherans, were at War one with another lately, which have shot down the one side of their church, from within, and a Papist the Emperor, and a Calvinist is undermining the other side, for both Papists and Calvinists fight against the Lutherans, and they fight one with another, truly if one stone of a church should fight against another, could it stand, no, it must fall. Sixtly, The Phyladelphian church of the Calvinists, is passing away, because they have not held fast that they had, for they had the true faith, and one baptism into Christ's death for remissions of sin, taught by Calvin, and that doctrine established amongst them, but many of them have not held fast that they had, but have let the Anabaptists take their crown, for the crown of a christian is his baptism, for therein are all the Elect crowned, 
Rev. 1.6.5 10.  with the crown of pure gold, of the merits of Christ's death, for remission of sin, and made Kings and Priests to God their father, Rev. 1.9. for as no man is a King, before he be crowned, so no man is a King and Priest to God, till he be baptised, many of them have lost this crown, by turning Anabaptists, and Sectaries, a Papist, a Lutheran, and an Anabaptist are pulling down the one side of their church, and a Sectary and a Drunkard are cutting and beating down the other side, therefore it cannot stand, for Anababtisme and drunkenness, will destroy any church, wheresoever they grow, witness the churches of Greece, and Munster, and many places in jermany, for Heresy is like Ivy, that kills an Oak by growing over it, and then men cut down Oak and Ivy too, and so where Heresy is suffered to grow in a church, it kills the church by overgrowing it, & then God will destroy the church, and heresy too, as shall be seen by the church of Calvinists in suffering Anabaptists, it will be the destruction of the church of Holland.  
The church of Laodicea, of England is passing away, for Christ spews the Lukewarm Angels, people that are lukewarm in the faith of their baptism, for remission of sins, and in the white raiment, for England hath been divided against itself, and also Scotland, and Ireland fights against them both, and divided against itself, also, The Papists and Cavalleers, have shot great holes in the one side of our church, to get an Episcopacy, but cannot, because Christ spews it out of his mouth, an Anabaptist stands as it were with a rope to pull down the steeple, for he called it first a Steeplehouse, and the Heretics, Sectaries, and Selectaries, have pulled up all the foundations, as instance, Baptism, the Creed, the Lords prayer, the Decalogue, the Eucharist, and Christmas day, and the Eucharist which hath been as a foundation, of all the seven churches ever since the Apostles time, and so divided as I know not whether the King and Parliament will be reconciled ever, but the Presbyters and Independents will never, for their quarrel is begun, and will never end, for they scold, can such a church stand, no, it must departed and pass away, for the people have so many frothing of religion in their brains, so many opinions and Heresies that they will fall from being a church, to be a Babel, for as the Babylonians having a strange fantasy, would begin to build a tower, to reach to heaven, yet had no good materials, but made brick instead of stone, and had slime instead of mortar, this was man's invention, and it came to confusion, for God confounded their language, & scattered them, so many Heretics & Sectaries have got a conceit in their crown, to go make a new church as a Tower to reach to heaven, for they would all go to heaven, if they could go their own way, and they have concocted brick of the Brownists brain, instead of doctrine, and they have discipline of fantasy instead of mortar, I am not against doctrine or discipline if they be from heaven, but our new church-mungers have no good materials of gold, white raiment, and eyesalve from heaven to build with, but the new jerusalem must be builded of pure gold, like clear glass, Rev. 21.18 Of the gold of the merits of Christ's death in regeneration, for remission of sins, and of white raiment, to make the Bride trim, and eyesalve of the Scriptures, that every thing may be done according to the pattern shown in the mount of God's word. But do you think blind men are fit to build a church? you will say no, no more are all the Pharises of our time, of all Sectaries and Heretics, whose froathing faith, or fancy, makes them boil out of the church, which are blind leaders of the blind for they lead many from Christ's ordinance, for remission of sins, and blind in the assurance of salvation, for they know not where they had remission of sins, but run after every wind of Doctrine, and know not whether they shall be saved or be damned, or go to heaven, or to hell, are you fit men, to build a church that are all so blind that you cannot see spiritual things, so here says one, we will build this way, so there says a second, we will build that way, so here says a third, we will build another way, all of you say so, for you cannot see the New Jerusalem, but are divided. Ergo. you cannot stand but come to nought. Matth. 12.  
I proceed, of the overthrow, and departing of all corrupt Sees of jurisdiction.  
And there was no more sea, or the sea was extant not more.  
Now what is meant by the word sea in this place? we must find out this riddle, or enigmatical metaphor, or else we shall fail to find the new Jerusalem, for it must not be founded on a sea, for it cometh down from heaven, from my God, but the seas are upon the Earth or the Earth upon them, for they make but one globe, as cosmography declares.  
Now this cannot be understood of the material sea, as if when the new Jerusalem come down from God out of heaven, there should be no more seas, for ships to sail in, for then how should the Kings of the Earth, bring their honour and glory to the new Jerusalem, if there were no more seas, to sail on, which dwell beyond Sea, as v. 24. And how should men go down to the Sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters, if there were no more material sea of waters, to fail in, wherefore as God made heaven and Earth, the Sea and all things therein, so long as the Earth shall remain, there must be a material Sea, for God hath founded the Earth upon the Sea, and prepared it upon the floods, Psal. 24.2.  
This cannot properly be understood of the molten Brazen Sea, which Solomon made, 2 Chron. 4.25. For the Priests to wash in, which shall not come into the new Jerusalem, for that Sea of Brass, and that legal ceremony, or worship never came into the heaven of the church of the Gentiles, therefore much less shall it come into the holy city of the church of New Jerusalem, which shall be most free from all legal cermonies, It is true that the Jews have a proper Sea of their own of Brace, even till this day: which is most gross, foul and dark, like to the raging Sea, that the wicked Jews are like, which foameth out mire and dirt, Esa. 57.20. for they cast out many forged doctrines, out of their own brain, and legal devises, as touching a Messiah to come, and a legal worship with sacrifices, and righteousness by the law, and many other heads of corrupt doctrines which shall all departed from the Jews, and shall never come into the heavenly Jerusalem, neither was this in the church of the Gentiles, and therefore this Sea, here spoken of, must be such an one, as was in the heaven of the churches of the Gentiles, that shall be no more.  
Thirdly, for the Sea here spoken of, is such as the heaven was, as Meyer noteth, a metaphorical heaven, and a metaphorical sea, and that is the sea of the jurisdiction of corrupt doctrine and discipline or government, which have been in the heavens of the churches of the Gentiles, in their seas, for what hath been more common for these many 100 years, then to talk of the holy Sea of Rome, and for the church of England, to talk of the Sea of Canterbury, and the Sea of York, and of the Bishop's Sea, as such an impropriation, belongs to the Sea of Norwich, and such a land to the Sea of Eli, and appeals were made to the Sea of Rome, and so were our appeals from one Bishop's Sea to another, but there shall be in the new heaven and in the new earth no more Sea, Ergo. there shall be no more Sea of Rome, or Canterbury, or York, and of Bishops, or Lutherans or Calvinists Sea, for all Seas of jurisdiction of government, of a corrupt discipline, and doctrine, shall now departed, and not enter into the holy Church of the new Jerusalem, and that this is the meaning of the place, these are my Reasons.  
Reason. 1 Ma. For if the material heaven and earth should pass away, the Sea must not remain, for the Earth must be with the Sea, for it is founded upon it, Mi. so if the metaphoticall heaven, and Earth of the Church and people pass, so must their Sea (of jurisdiction) as text, but the first heaven and the first earth of the Churches shall pass away, Rev. 11.1. Con. Ergo, so shall their seas of jurisdiction, for if a Church departed, than the government also must departed with it, and where the government of a church departed, the church commonly departs with it, for if a Kingdom departed or pass away must not the government depart with it? Reason. 2 So if a church departed, that had the government of an Hierarchy of a popedom, Episcopacy for Presbytery or Independent, or any other government, for the Sea or discipline of a church cannot remain, where the church departed, except you can make an accident remain without a subject, for sublato subjecto tollitur etiam accidens quta accidentis esse est inesse, for take away the subject and the accident of it is taken away, because the being of an accident, is to be in the subject, as true reason, and the best Philosopher shows.  
Reason. 3 Ma. For if we shall have an holy city of new Jerusalem (i.e. a new church) come down from heaven, trimmed as a Bride for her Bridegroom, than we must have a new government from heaven also (which must not be a Sea, for that was old, and not from heaven) or else it will not be very trim long. Mi. But we shall have a church of New Jerusalem come down from heaven, trimmed as a Bride for her Bridegroom Reason. 4 Rev. 21 2 Con. Ergo. we must have a new government, or else it will not be trim long, for if it be true that God saith, behold I make all things new, then there can be no more a Sea of Rome, jurisdiction, or of an Episcopacy, or Lutherans or Calvinists, or of any other Church that shall pass away, for all these are old, and in that he saith a new covenant, he hath abrogated the old. Herald 8.13. And that which is disannulled and waxed old, is ready to vanish, so in that he saith, I make all things New, he hath abrogated the old churches, and seas. But it is true that God saith behold I make all things new, v. 5. Ergo, there can be no more Sea of Rome's jurisdiction, or of an Episcopacy, or Lutherans, Calvinists, or of another Church, that shall pass away for then all things should not be become new.  
Reason. 5 For every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted out. Matth. 15.13. But of the Sea of Rome's jurisdiction, or discipline, or of the Episcopacy of England, or of the Sea of Lutherans, or Calvinists, are plants which my heavenly Father hath not planted, if you say, they be, prove it if you can. But you cannot, for the Sea of Rome, was set up by the Pope and Papists, the Sea of the government of the Bishops, by the Protestants of England, and the government or Sea of the Lutherans by the Lutherans, and the sea of the Calvinists by the Calvinists, now if the counsel of Gamaliel (approved on in Scripture) be true, than they must all come to nought. For every counsel or work of man shall come to nought, but that which is of God shall stand, Acts 5.28. But the Popedom or Sea of Rome, Sea of an Hierarchy of Bishops, Sea of Lutherans and Calvinists, are counsels and works of men, Ergo. they shall come to nought, but the church and government of the New Jerusalem from God shall stand?  
Reason. 6 Where a great voice shall be heard out of heaven, saying, behold the Tabernacle of God is with men, there the church must be governed by the Oracles of God's word, and not by a sea of discipline of men, for the Oracle is in the Tabernacle, but in the New Jerusalem there shall be a voice out of heaven, saying, behold the Tabernacle of the Lord is with men, Rev. 21.3. Ergo, there the Church must be governed by the Oracle of God's word, and not by a Sea of discipline of men.  
Reason. 7 For as fishes swim and live in the Sea, so have Christians sailed, sworn and lived in the Sea of Rome, Canterbury of Lutherans and Calvinists, for they lived and walked in their jurisdiction government, discipline, for as the Sea have drowned many that have sailed in it, so that Sea of Rome, and of Canterbury, and of Lutherans, & Calvinists, that have drowned many men's faiths in perdition, that sailed in them, they are worthy to be no more, but the Sea of Rome have drowned men's faith in Idolatry and purgatory, and the Lutheran Sea have drowned men's faith in confustantiation, & dead faith and works to the Calvinists, & the Sea of our Episcopacy, and sea of Calvinists, have drowned many faiths in lukewarmness. Ergo, they are worthy to be no more, all these have drowned the faith of one baptism into Christ's death, for remission of sins, for if this faith had swum in other Seas, what needed a Pope's pardon a purgatory, a pilgrimage, consubstantiation, and works not perfect before God, and a lukewarm faith without assurance of salvation.  
Reason. 8 Those Seas that have devoured abundance of substance of poor Christians, and worthy to be no more. But the Sea of Rome by purgatory, pardons, and pilgrimage and the seas of Lutherans, and Calvinists, and of our Episcopacy, by licences, visitations, and courts, have devoured abundance of substance of poor Christians, Ergo. they are worthy to be no more.  
Of the overthrow and departure of all the corrupt Seas of jurisdiction of the churches of the Gentiles. For as the Sea compasseth the Land, and sendeth Springs or Rivers to all parts of the Land, to water it. So did the See of Rome and of Canterbury, and of the Lutherans and Calvinists, pa●se through all the parts of their Dominions, to water them with their Jurisdiction. For who was free in any Popish kingdom from Saint Peter's pence, or Inquisition Court, and Ma●se, and power of the Pope, and who was freed in our Hierarchy of the Episcopacy, from the high Commission, Chancellor, or Commissaries courts, Synods, Licences, or Parators, or freed in the Lutheran or Calvinists Sees, from their jurisdiction and Discipline.  
Now if the See of the jurisdiction of the Hierarchy of England be so departed that it can be no more; then the Sees of Lutherans and Calvinists, and of Rome, must follow, because the Text saith, there shall be no more Sea.  
But by the decree of God, Rev. 3.16. and by the vote of Parliament, and the Oath of the people, the See of the jurisdiction of the Hierarchy of England is so departed, that it can be no more. (For though King & Parliament were agreed to set up an Episcopacy or Presbytery, but the Independents and Soldiers would never endure it, for they rout them where they come) Ergo, the Sees of Lutherans and Calvinists, and of Rome, must follow, because the Text saith, there shall be no more Sea. Judgement is begun at the house of God for their See, what shall become of the wicked See of Rome, even that which came upon old Babylon, shall come upon the new Babylon of Rome. I will maintain thy cause, and take vengeance for thee. I will dry up her Sea, and make her Springs dry for the people of God's cause, jer. 51.36. See O heaven rejoice of her; for God will punish her to be revenged of her for your sakes. For when a mighty Angel took up a great stone like a millstone, and cast it into the Sea, saying, with such violence shall that great thy of Babylon be cast, and shall be found no more, Revel. 18.20, 21. If the great city of Babylon of Rome shall be so cast, what shall become of their See. He that believes not that Rome is Babylon that shall be destroyed, hath not so good a faith as the Devil, who knows it is his habitation, vers. 2. and an hold of all foul spirits.  
Reason. 10 For as the Sea useth to roar, presaging storms, which causeth Mariners to beware, Ps. 46.3. But he breaketh the raging of the Sea, when the waves thereof do roar, Jer. 31.35. So when Martin Luther poured out his vial of Doctrine of free justification, how did the See of Rome, and Leo 10. roar against him with his execrable bull: but the Lord broke off part of that See, and it became a Lutheran, Calvinian, and Cantuarian See. And when the Lutheran See began to roar against the Calvinists for consubstantiation, and persecuted them, the Lord hath broken that See with one breaking after another. And when the See of Canterbury roared against the white-raiment christians, and Non-conformists, suspending them, and cast them into prison. 
On worthy Prin, Doctor Bastwick.  And though a Shepherd got a piece of an ear out of the mouth of a lion, Amos 3. yet our Lion loved roast cheeks and ears so well, that he left never a piece. Therefore the Lord hath broken the waves of the Cantuarian and Episcopal See when it roared, and that See shall be no more; and the See of Lutherans, that have roared at the Calvinists, shall be stilled, and the See of Rome that have roared and devoured the Martyrs of Jesus shall be dried up, and shall be burn, and be no more. For as Christ rebuked the material Sea when it roared against his Disciples, he stilled it. So because waves of the Metaphorical seas that have roared against Reason. 11 his people, he will still them, and they shall be no more; for as the raging troubled Sea casteth out mire and dirt, Esa 57.10. So have the troubled See of Rome Lutherans, Calvinists, and of Canterbury, been like this troubled Sea, for when any troubled their seas, by writing or preaching the truth, they conceived it was against them, how have they foamed out mire and dirt of blood and persecution.  
Reason. 11 Now if there shall no unclean thing enter into the new Jerusalem, than no such miry di●ty Seas shall come into it, Ma. as the See of Rome, Lutheran, Calvinian, or Episcopal See, for they are unclean. Mi. But there shall no unclean thing enter into the new Jerusalem, Rev. 21. Con. Ergo, no See of Rome, Lutheran, Calvinist, or Episcopacy shall come into it, for they are unclean. We find when the second Angel poured out this Vial upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living thing died in the Sea, Rev. 16.3. That is, when Calvin had poured out his vial upon the sea of Rome's corrupt jurisdiction and Doctrine, for a Calvinian government. For Luther a former Angel had poured out his vial of Doctrine upon the earth. i e. upon earthly Papists, and there fell a noisome grievous fore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, upon them, and worshipped his image (i. e. upon Papists, which worship the Pope, and call him their Lord) and made them sore. i e. in conscience, by hatred, malice, envy, railing and persecution of the truth of Luther's Doctrine. But when Calvin I say had poured out a vial of Doctrine upon the See of Rome's corrupt Jurisdiction and Doctrine, than the See of Rome became as the blood of a dead man; for than they began to fill their See of Rome with bloody massacres, as of France, Germany, Netherlands, and the blood of the Martyrs of England; that as when Moses stretched out his rod over the waters of Egypt, and all was turned into blood, and all the fish in the waters died, Exod. 7.20, 21. So when Calvin the second Angel had poured out his vial of Doctrine on the See of Rome's discipline and Doctrine, they became so mad as to murder and massacre the Protestants, (for the Pope was more mad at Calvin then at Luther, as the Papists more hate the Calvinists then the Martinists) than all the fish in the Popes See died, for their Sea was become as the blood of a dead man: for they made all the Catholics believe that they should merit heaven by killing the Hugonits', and they must do all for the Catholic cause, and sang a Te Deum for the murdering of multitudes of Saints, and thus was the See of Rome become as the blood of a dead man, and thus all the fish of Papists of the sea of Rome died in the faith and in conscience For he that hateth his Brother is a murderer, & you know that no murderer hath eternal life, or of faith abiding in him, 1 john 3.15. But all that lived in the See of Rome hate their Brethren, and are murderers, by rejoicing at the martyrdom of the Saints of jesus. As for the massacres of France, Germany, and now in Ireland, so that all Papists must needs die, and cannot live by faith in the sea of black blood, which is also a sea of Idolatry, by Idols of silver and gold, and wood, and stone, by Indulgences, pilgrimages, purgatory, prayer for & to the dead, a sea of whoredom, 
Re. 9.20  fornication, and witchcraft. How could any thing live in such a corrupt sea of doctrine and discipline, when they made all guilty of the murder of Martyrs under the name of Heretics: and they killed the life of faith into one baptism into Christ's death, for remission of sins, by teaching no man could have assurance of salvation: but he must go to Purgatory for his sins, except it were such a fish as could bring up above twenty pence in the mouth, or some great piece of money; so that as no fish can live mari mortuo, in the dead Sea. So no true faith can live in the dead, bloody idolatrous See of Rome. For all men may see, that per accidens, it was turned into a bloody, dead, and rotten stuff, by rejoicing at the murders of the sanctified. And concerning our lukewarm see of Jurisdiction and Hierarchy of England, You will grant, that it shall be no more; for Christ hath spewed out the Angel and his Episcopacy out of his mouth for luke-warmene●se in faith and conscience. For they made a net of 110. articles, to have ensnared many souls, and to have catched many faiths in a new Oath of &c. to be Jure Divino, and to have tied men's consciences to a rail, and to cringings, and to an high Altar, and to so many Pope's weeds of man's brain. How could any good fish live in such pudled waters of a lukewarm sea, but would have died in faith or conscience; therefore because Christ hath spewed the Angel and his Hierarchy out of his mouth, there shall be no more lukewarm sea. And the See of the Lutherans is become nought, and shall pass away, for it hath a name it lives, but is a dead See, lies in a dead faith, that their works are not perfect before God; for they hate their brethren the Calvinists, for consubstantiation. They sleep in sin, for they will not be awaked out of the dead faith, though Christ become upon them as a Thief, that is, by the judgement of a robbing, kill, and destroying war; for the Thief cometh not but to steal, and kill, and to destroy, John 10.10. If thou wilt not repent, and remember what thou hast heard of (i. e. by the spirit of Martin Luther) and received of the white raiment justification, to make thy works perfect before God, and of one baptism into Christ's death for remission of sins. Christ will never leave coming upon thee as a Thief; for he hath been upon thee as a Thief in judgement, to plunder thee by a civil War, and as a Thief to kill thee sometimes, man, woman, and child, & he will come upon thee as a Thief to destroy by the Turk: For Christ threatened your church, that he would come on you as a Thief, and now you see he is come; and now see Rev. 16.15. Behold I come as a Thief, and therefore he will never leave coming on thee as a Thief: and therefore repent, and buy gold, white raiment, and eyesalve, or else the Turk will come to destroy thee, because thou keepest not Christ's garments, but walkest naked in sin. Also the Presbyterian See of Calvinists will be abolished for suffering Drunkards, Usurers, and profane, and especially Anabaptists to swim in their See. Do you not know, that the denying of their first baptism was the cause why the Lord sent the Turk into the church of Greece, and removed the Candlestick of the Church out of that place, because they forsook their first love, i. e. their first baptism, wherein the first love of Christ is showed, Ephes. 5.26. Tit. 3.5.  
Of the overthrow and departure of all corrupt Sees of Jurisdiction of the churches of the Gentiles, for baptism is good enough by whomsoever a man be baptised. If they have faith to believe they were then washed from their sins in Christ's blood, Revel. 1.5. For he that believeth, and is baptised into Christ's death for remission of sins, shall be saved, Mar. 16.16. It is not said in man's state, or in Infancy, baptised by a faithful Minister or a Judas; for secum valet, if he believe: for baptism administered in the name of the Trinity, the Father baptised, the Son baptised, & the holy Ghost baptised; for if there come true faith that they are washed, sanctified, & justified that evidence it. Now therefore if Christ be, and will come as a Thief with the Turk, upon Germany, for that greatest Church destroying sin of the Protestants, for denying their first baptism, what shall become of your Sees then? my Text tells you they shall be no more, neither Episcopal, Presbyterial, or Independent, but a new Jerusalem, and a new government from heaven.  
I have thought fit to admonish our brethren the Lutherans and Calvinists, that I conjecture by Scriptures that the Turk shall come and destroy Germany. Reason says he is like to come, for his Empire from small beginnings hath risen to such greatness by the discord of Christians which you see to be in Germany, and you know that Soliman the Turk did come with 250000. men, and besieged Vienna, but the sins of Germany was not then full, and for the Protestants sake the Turk was defeated and overthrown by the Protestants, and driven out of Germany, (mark saith Fox what victories God gives to reformers of Religion.) But now your sins begin to be full; he will come again, for your sins, and discord procure him. The conjunction not of stars, but of Scriptures I judge by, are these, Rev. 3.1, 2, 3. Rev. 16.15. Dan. 11.41, 42, 43, 44. For the first of these, you know that the church of the Lutherans is the counterpain of Sardis. For you, as they have a name you live, but are dead, i. e. in the dead faith, that have no assurance of salvation by remission of sins. For you believe not your works are perfect before God, vers. 2. for how can you? when you live in hatred with the Calvinists, for the error of consubstantiation, and they with you, v. 3. Remember both of you what you have received, i. e. one baptism into Christ's death for remission of sins, and heard of Luther out of Christ's word, of free Justification to make the tree good, & the fruit good: but you have not held fast your first baptism, but many among you have given heed to the doctrine of Devils, to deny your first love, i e. your first baptism, and have not repent of this sin, as Ephesus did not, i. e. the Church of Greece, for which God removed the Candlestick out of their place by the Turk. Therefore because thou didst not watch in the faith of thy baptism into Christ, he is come upon thee as a Thief, and will come by the Turk, and spoil thy Candlestick in thy place; and thou didst not know when he would come upon thee as a thief. Now you know that a Thief cometh not but to rob, to kill, and to destroy, as Joh. 10.10. You see Christ is come upon you with a judgement as a Thief, first to rob you, because you have not kept Christ's garments unto you by faith, that were given you in baptism, Gal. 3.27. Therefore he hath been upon you with a plundering, robbing, and spoiling civil war, and he hath been upon you as a Thief to kill you. For many places have been put to the sword, men, women, and children, by Tilly and others, and he will come upon thee as a Thief to destroy by the Turk. For behold I come as a Thief, and therefore will come all the 3 ways of John 10. I tell thee Christ will never leave coming as a Thief to steal, kill, and to destroy, until thou awake out of the sleep of this sin, and repent, and keep Christ's garments unto you, that you walk not naked, without a wedding garment given in baptism, and they see thy filthiness, Rev. 16.15. And for Dan. 11.41. at the end of time, (i. e. of the churches of the Gentiles now at hand) The King of the North (i. e. the Turk saith Brightman, and I judge so too; for the Turk lies North of the place that Daniel writ in) he shall enter into the pleasant Land (this cannot be meant of the Land of Canaan, for the Turk hath possessed that for many years, Ergo, the pleasant Land must be the church of Christians in Germany, where is a true Church) and many countries shall be overthrown, many churches of Idolatrous Christians, beware Hungary, Poland, & Transylvania, that are in his way to Germany: But these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. Now this cannot be meant of the material Kingdoms of these 3. spoken so often on in Scripture, for they were destroyed long since, as the Scripture declared they should be, and those places are in the hands of the Turk already, from Tauris to Syria and Ægypt, & therefore shall not escape out of the Turks hand, as if he should not come there, for those places are in the Turks hands already, or waste, as Geography and Scripture declare. But this is to be understood of the Spiritual Edom, Moab, and Ammon, of idolatrous Christians: for the spiritual Edom is Italy. For 1. as the Edomites came of Isaac, but were now Idolaters. So the Italians came of the Church, but are Idolaters. 2. As the Edomites were always hateful to the Israelites, so are the Italians to the Protestants. 3. As Edom would have killed Jacob, and his posterity, was bloody minded to the Israelites: so have the Italians killed, and are bloody minded to the Protestants. 4 As Edom rejoiced at the day of Jerusalem, saving, down with it even to the ground. 
Ps. 50.  So have the Italians at the day of the Protestants, of the Palatinate, Bohemia, and of Ireland, rejoiced to kill them, and say down with their Church even to the ground, and yet shall escape out of the hand of the Turk; for the destiny of Rome is to be burnt by the Protestants: for reward her as she hath rewarded you (i. e. Protestants, not Turks) give her double, and in the cup she filled to you (of blood and fire) give to her, Rev. 18.6. And the spiritual Moab is Idolatrous Spain. For 1. As the Moabites were afraid the Israelites would ear them up, when they say over against them, Numb. 22 So have the Spaniards been afraid the Protestants would e●t them up that lay over against them. 2. As the King of Moab sent for Balaam the false Prophet, that was near the children of his people, to curse the people of God, believing he whom he blesseth is blessed, and he whom he curseth is cursed; so hath the King of Spain believed that the false Prophet Balaam of Rome that is nigh the children of his people whom he blesseth or curseth, is so. 3. As the King of Moab fought against the true church of the Israelites, so hath the King of Spain against the churches of Protestants. 4. As we have heard of the pride of Moab, his stoutness and his arrogancy, Esay 16.6. Jerem. 48. So we have heard of the pride of Spain, the proudest Nation in Christendom; for only by pride do men make War. 
Pro 49.  5. The Moabites would not let the Israelites dwell with them. For the Lord said, let my banished dwell with thee, Isa 16.6. but they would not. So the Spaniards will suffer no Protestants to dwell with them. For in the Council of Toledo, they made this Decree for the King; Nullum non Catholicum permittere in suo regno degere: and he that breaks that Law, that none, that is not a Catholic to permit him to live in his Kingdom, If any King suffer it, let him be accursed, Maranatha, before the Eternal God, and be made the fuel of eternal fire. I could give 20. reasons out of Scripture why Spain is the spiritual Moab, and may hereafter. And the chief of the children of Ammon (i e. Of the spiritual Ammon of France) so that I cannot tell whether all France shall escape the Turk. Blood may pursue some part of them for their bloody Massacres, see Ez 35.6. Because thou hatest not blood, blood shall pursue thee For as the Ammonites would grant no life to the Israelites at Jabesh Gilead, but upon condition of putting out their right eyes, so the Ammonites of France would grant no life to the Protestants, but upon this condition of pulling out their right eye of faith, and therefore slew them. Secondly, As the King of Ammon abused the Ambassadors of David, shaved off half their beards, cut off their garments by the butocks, & sent them away shamefully entreated, so hath the King of France dealt with the Embassadorus of Jesus Christ, the Ministers of the Gospel, shaved off beards, and heads, and garments, and shamefully entreated their. But Christ will avenge it. 3. As the Ammonites have been one of the greatest enemies to the church of the Israelites, in fight and joining against them: so have the spiritual Ammonites the French been against the Protestants. Witness the bloody Massacre of France, Dan. 11.42. And he shall stretch out his hand on the countries, and the Land of Egypt shall not escape. i e. The spiritual Egypt of Germany shall not escape the Turk. For 1. as Egypt forgot Joseph, that had saved their lives by a great deliverance; so Germany hath forgot Fredericus Earl of Palatine, how he saved their lives, and the Imperial City Vienna, by a great deliverance, from the Turk, 1529. though he besieged it with 20. assaults. 2. As the King of Egypt said, come let us deal wisely with the Israelites to keep them in bondage, lest they be too strong for us, and if there be War, to join with our enemies. So hath the Emperor and his Council plotted to deal wisely with the Protestants, to keep them in bondage, left they should be too strong for them, and join with their enemies 3. As the Egyptians kept the Israelites in bondage to work in brick and clay, and burn it, and made them weary of their lives; so have the Germans made the Protestants consciences work in brick and clay of the Mass, and burn them in the kill of Purgatory, and have made them weary of their lives in serving the Papists Idols 4. As the Egyptians would not suffer the Israelites to go serve the Lord according to the true Religion, nor sacrifice, nor keep a feast to the Lord, lest he come upon them with pestilence or sword, Exod. 5.13. so would not the Popish Germans suffer the Protestants to serve the Lord according to his word, and keep a feast to the Lord, and sacrifice in both kinds, for which he is come upon them with pestilence and sword. 5. As the Lord sent 10. plagues on the Egyptians for oppressing, & not suffering the Protestants to serve the Lord, so hath he brought 10. plagues on the Germans, because they oppressed, and would not suffer the Protestants to serve the Lord. 6. As the Egyptians pursued the Israelites into the red sea, and were drowned, so shall the Germans that have pursued the Protestants into the red sea of a bloody war, be drowned in a sea of bloody War. 7. As the Israelites when their country was overthrown, went into Egypt to dwell there, contrary to the Word of God, that said, you shall return to it no more, and served the Queen of heaven. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, behold I will send and bring Nabuchadnezzar King of Babel, and he shall smite the Land of Egypt with death, captivity and sword, and he shall array himself in the Land of Egypt as a Shepherd putteth on his garment, & departed in peace, Jer. 43 10, 11, 12. So because many Protestants in Germany, when their countries have been overthrown, are returned to Egypt to Idolatry, whereof God hath said to the Protestants, you shall return to it no more, 2 Cor. 6.17. But they have served the Queen of heaven by Ave Maries. Now because they agree in sin, the Lord hath a King of Babel the Turk, that will smite the Land of Germany, and array himself with the land of Germany, as a Shepherd putteth on his garment, and return, for so Dan. 11.43. He shall have power over the treasure of gold & silver, and over all things of the spiritual Egypt of Germany, & departed but scarce in peace. For Daniel saith that the ridings out of the East & north shall trouble him, Dan. 11.44. That is, the tidings of the Eastern Jews called first, for the 3. gates to the East show it, Rev. 21.13. and of the Northern Jews converted. 2. that the river Euphrates shall be dried (as Rev. 16.12.) & make the last Jews a passage into the Turks Dominions, which shall trouble him, and cause him to return: and he shall go forth with great wrath to destroy (for it is the battle of God) and root out many: for Christ will dip his garments in blood, Rev. 19.13. But he shall be overthrown, for he shall come to his end, and none shall help him, Dan. 11.45. For at that time Michael the great Prince that standeth for the children of thy people, i. e. the Jews. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was, i. e. the hour of temptation, Re. 3.10. and thy people (the Jews inwardly) shall be delivered, every one that is written in the book of life, baptised into it, & believe.  
Now the word but, the tidings out of the East, that shall trouble him, must be when he takes the spoil of Egypt, which must be at the time of the Jews conversion. Therefore must be understood of another Egypt, then that which he won, v. 5.13. When Zelimus going to war in Persia, and Gaurius King of Egypt troubling him, he returned suddenly, through Syria, & slew the K. and took the whole kingdom of Egypt, and possesseth it to this day, and therefore shall not go to take the spoil of his own Country. But it must be understood of another Egypt that he shall take the treasures of, at the time of the calling of the Jews, when the tidings shall trouble him, & that is Germany. For old Egypt would be too near, and therefore he is like to be sent a further journey, from the River Euphrates, that the new Christians may have better opportunity to enter into his Dominions. And for Edom, Moab, and Ammon mentioned in Scripture to come to destruction & desolation, Mal. 1.3. They lay upon the borders of the Israelites, & always troubled them. So have Spain, Italy, and France lain upon the borders of the Protestants, and troubled them For as the Apostle saith, doth God take care for Oxen? So doth God take care for Edom, Moab, & Ammon, or those dragons that dwell in them? as Mal. 1.3. To make mention of their escape from the Turk, when he shall array himself with Egypt? for those Kingdoms never were Edom, Moab▪ and Ammon, to the Protestants to trouble them. But he meaneth of the spiritual Moab of Spain, as Amandus Polanus calls it, of the spiritual Edom of Rome, and of the spiritual Ammonites of France, which lay upon the borders of the Church of Protestants (and have some people of God to go out of them) which have been as great enemies and troublers of the Protestants, as these were of the Israelites For what use should we make of the Scriptures that speak of Edom, Moab, and Ammon, If there were not such Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites, to the Protestants as they were. And thou London, I have been much troubled for thee, I could show thee how thou hast taken thy bane. Thy Episcopacy is fallen before Rome's, and I fear thy City will. For there are 3. things that mine heart feareth, and my face is afraid of the fourth. Treason in a City (as firing an house willingly) the assembly of the people, and false accusation (of the brethren and truth) these 3. are heavier than death, Eccl 26.5. Preludiums of ruin, but division overthrows all. O thou City divided within and without: how canst thou stand, & Christ say true, Matth. 12.25. O London wash thy heart from wickedness, thou mayst be saved? how long shall thy wicked (and dividing) thoughts remain in thee, Jer. 4.14. Labour to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. Take Christ's counsel, to buy of him gold, white raiment, and eyesalve, and be zealous of these, and repent. For behold I stand at the door & knock, and will not leave knocking at the door of thy heart, except thou open the door, & hear his voice, let him in to sup with thee & thou with him, Rev. 3.18, 19, 20. You are divided for a Presbytery, & and Independent government, and some for the old. I have counselled you to agree, but you will not, but will have one. Well, upon these conditions I may consent. First you shall prove your government to be from heaven, for it is prophesied that England shall have a government from heaven, that shall last till the day of Doom. But I am sure the new Jerusalem comes down from heaven, Rev. 21.2. and therefore the government must come with it. 2. That you shall find above one good Preacher for every Shire, to make your Classes or governors of, which if you can do, you will shame all the Parliaments that have allowed our books of Homilies to be a good and wholesome doctrine. For these are the words of the 3 d. part of the peril of Idolatry, p. 56. l. 23. It hath been continually true, & will be to the world's end, & in our time, and herein our country too true, that every Shire should scarcely have one good Preacher, if they were divided. Mark, if there shall not be above one good Preacher for every shire, where will you find governor's for your Church. 3. That none shall be chosen for a Governor that hath no assurance of salvation. For how should he set other men to heaven, which knows not whether he shall come there. 4. That no man shall be chosen a governor of a Church that is an Usurer, or ambitiously desire it, for they are most unfit for it, as Abimilech and Absolom were. Therefore agree, for you have pulled down one government, and you shall not set up another, nor that again that you had. For I believe my Text, though you do not: There shall be no more Sea. I tell you plainly you shall not set up, but pull down each other, till the new Jerusalem's government come down from heaven & that shall be it that shall reign. The Presbyters have overthrown the Bishops, & the Independents will overthrow the Presbyters, and the Independents are divided, and shall overthrow the Anabaptists. But the new Jerusalem shall overcome all, For there shall be no more Sea. Written by I. E. Pastor of the New Jerusalem.  
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