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

Independant and baptized Ministers here the ministry changed as the moon yet God in his free grace was pleased in all the times of the Apostacy still to appear enlightning the world by the ministry of men in some dark discoveries of himself But when Christ shall appear the second time when the day of Christ shall dawn after the night of Apostacy is ended when the day of God shall be again and God shall appear the second time binding up the breath of his people and healing the wound that was made by that spirit of Antichrist prevailing in the church then the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be as the light of seven daies that is there will be a perfect light for God shall appear to be the light of men as Christ was ever indeed the light of the world and God in truth was the light of men from the beginning shining in darkness though the darkness did not comprehend it and though men did not know God in them to be their only light but as I said God shall appear in the last daies to be the light of men then men and ministers shall be no more the means of light the sun shall be no more thy light by day neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory Thy sun shall no more go down neither shall thy moon withdraw it self but the Lord shall be thine everlasting light and the daies of thy mourning shall be ended as mourning was Babylons plague the judgement of the great Whore so thou shalt never mourn for want of a minister for the Lord God in thee shall minister light unto thee men and ministers may go down yea the sun may set at noon-day and there may be a withdrawing of all light and all left in darkness but in darkness the Lord will be thy light as well as when thou art in clearest light when thy light shall be the Lord God in thee then God thy Sun shall not go down and God thy Moon shall not be withdrawn yea God shall appear not only thy light but the light of the world the light of every man and the light of every creature thou shalt then clearly see the invisible things of God even the eternal Power and Godhead in the whole creation ' and no more sun or moon shining in the heaven but God ' himself shining in both and his glory filling the earth also and every thing in heaven and earth as the appearance of God This is that fire that burns not only churches but every creature in heaven and earth God appearing in all This is the fire which all the Prophets and Apostles speak of to come in the last daies this fire came down at the first coming of Christ in spirit when the spirit when God in power first appeared in the Gospel-church then the church under the Law the Jewish church was burn up the sun was turned to darkness and the moon to bloud all the glory and light of the Law was darkned the Temple Priesthood Sacrifices and all their Ordinances were change and became as bloud So the same signes in heaven above and signes on the earth beneath shall be again in kingdoms and churches also bloud and vapour and smoak all this was in spirit then performed it shall again be so fulfilled with greater power when the appearance of the great God shall be this fire even God himself that consuming fire and everlasting burnings shall not only burn up churches and the flesh or the Whore but the purest flesh of men and pride of all glory when God our glory shal appear as the glory of heaven and his glory the fulness of the earth then all the works on the earth shall be burnt up with fire as all the works of man shall be burnt up in God that is as now we see the works of men and not God working all in all so now we see only the outward forms of the creation every creature being that form of God but when we shall see God all in all we shall never see no more forms of creatures or churches FINIS

departing from Jerusalem Rev. 21.3 that is God dwelling with men if men could be content with God alone live in God onely behold God dwelling in them and they in God they had not run so fast into the Church nor the churches hastned to send forth their Ministers to baptize Isa 52.11 12. there being no Gospel order nor ordinance among them The Gospel-order was in these three things as the Temple had three parts the first is the manifestation of the spirit in manifold gifts 1 Cor. 12.7 Mark 16.18 James 5.14 Secondly A Ministry of the spirit with gifts given by the laying on of hands 1 Cor. 12.28 Ephes 4.11 1 Tim. 4.14 Thirdly The administration of the spirit in all the Ordinances of the Church which were not only Baptism and Breaking of bread but a Psalm a Doctrine a Tongue 1 Cor. 14.26 an Interpretation and Revelation all these also were the Ordinances of Christ for the edifying of the Church but the present Churches have not any one of these not some of them in name or shew therefore sure the edifice is fallen into a confusion into a Babel and the Churches must needs be in an Apostate condition The Apostacie foretold by the Apostle then began when the manifestation of the spirit ceased when the ministry of the spirit was cast down and when that administration of the spirit was trodden under foot and this is a sufficient notoriety or visible signe that all Church Ordinances were changed into a confusion or fleshly performances when the spirit did so visibly disappear and the Gospel-order to be found no more First The manifestation of the spirit in manifold gifts ceasing is spoken of by John Rev. 7.1 where the four winds are held in that it should not blow c. the four winds being nothing else but the fulnesse of the spirit rushing in as a mighty wind at first on the Primitive Church Act. 2.2 and remaining still in the Churches of Christ till the Church came in to spiritual Babylon Therefore the four winds begin to blow when the people of God are brought from thence Ezek. 37.9 Secondly The Ministry of the spirit cast down is also signified Rev. 9.1 where a star fell from heaven to earth ver 1. The falling star is the fall of the ministry of the spirit sent down from heaven now this fell on the earth when gifts of men succeeding those spirituall gifts of God humane Arts and Parts studied Tongues Interpretations and Commentaries became the key of the bottomlesse pit for when the Mysteries of God were opened by the gifts of men in stead of opening heaven they opened hell and a smoke came out of the bottomless pit darkening the Sun and air both Christ and all the means to communicate Christ were darkened thereby ver 2. Thirdly The administration of the spirit in all Gospel-Ordinances after this was trodden under foot Rev. 11. Here the Temple is to be measured c. that is saints though under this spirituall apostacy were still owned of God as those who worshipped him in spirit but as for outward worship and Church-ordinances which are the outward Court ver 2. that was to be given to the Gentiles that is not heathenish Gentiles but Christian Gentiles the most carnal Christians have by continuance in all ages enjoyed the Ordinances of the Church both Baptism breaking of bread for 't was given to them of God as sutable to their fleshly Spirits rather then to the Saints in truth who are the holy City whom these Gentiles and Christians in common have trodden under foot to this day yea not conforming to Ordinances and Doctrines of men not comming to Church has been the cause still of the treading down of the Saints in all Ages and in this also by the Churches themselves who trample on all not in fellowship with them who cannot conform to their forms of Doctrine and fleshly Ordinances for so they are at the best in their primitive and purest order even Gospel Ordinances were but legall things in truth and bodily exercises but now being defiled through the spirits absence they are not only far below Christian duties but the dues of Gentiles and heathenish exercises For so the Protestants have taught that all things in the service of God not according to the Scripture are not only superstitious but profane This I am now with God to prove that there is no Gospel-Ordinance in all the Churches neither in letter or forme much lesse in spirit and truth neither Baptisme nor breaking of Bread nor Prayers nor Preaching nor a Psalme c. First Their Baptizing of Children is so childish a tradition that both the Baptized Churches and some Presbyterian brethren have fully confuted their folly and yet these Churches also come farre short of the truth of Baptisme in the form and end thereof both these we shal prove hereafter that the outward forme of Baptisme was not by dipping but by washing the Disciples feet those that believed went down to the water as t were up to the ancles for the first rising of waters up to the ancles was but a type of that state of Gospel-Saints who should have the first fruits of the Spirit Ezek. 47.3 for the first Churches and Apostles had no more of the Spirit there-they thus were baptized But Secondly the end of Baptisme with water was not that it should abide for ever Joh. 14.16 that was onely the promise of the spirit the spirit or baptism of the spirit was to abide to continue and increase till the waters which were to the ankles should arise to a fulnesse Ezek. 47. to a floud that no man might passe over the baptism of water was to decrease and die in time he must increase saith John but I must decrease Job 3.30 but by the Apostacie the Baptism of Christ the Baptism of the spirit has decreased and the Baptism of water the Baptism of John hath increased and continued to this day Again the Baptism of water which was in the Apostles times was rather by permission then by command 1 Cor. 1.17 an indulgence to the Church that was for the most part carnall as circumcision and many things of Moses Act. 16.3 Act. 21.24 26. did continue for a time in the Gospel-churches so the Baptism of John the baptism of water was not to continue no longer Therefore the doctrine of Baptisms the first principle of Christ is not yet known by any of the Churches who like the whore sitting upon the waters content themselves with the Baptism of water and that in a false way the Presbyters baptise the whole Nation Independents children of beleevers only the baptised Churches dip beleevers indeed but do not baptise them in a true form nor right end not owning baptism of the Spirit at all For this indeed is the baptism of Christ the baptism of the spirit which is not a bare presence of the spirit in graces or in some gifts for

is Deus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 6.70 Mat. 16.23 holy Fathers moderne Divines and Ministers are those Devils as the Worships which great and good Men have set up in the Churches are called the worship of Devils Revel 9.10 Let not this seem strange for not only Ju das was called a Devil but Peter was Satan indeed when he savoured the things of Men more then of God therefore let not our Ministers be moved if hereafter they hear their services called Sorceries as 't is there Rev 9 21 and themselves the Sorcerers of Egypt deceiving the Nation in nothing more then in their Forms of prayer For their preaching begins to appear more powerless flat dead having no discovery of God above the Common Form of Knowledge yea they know less and their preaching is more legal then once it was by the judgment of their wisest Hearers Yea as there are not the prayers of the Church this day as it was neither in power not Form so there is scarce a Christian prayer in private among them though they are full and flow with words at duty-times yet God and their own Conscience can tell how little they pray in their Closets how loose their petitions are in private how seldom they retire into their own spirits yea scarce ever doe they thus seek the Lord as the Prophet speaks that is Jer. 10.21 they seek not any nearer sight of the Lord nor any new discovery of God in them Alass New-lights are laugh'd at by these men though God indeed be the Father of Lights there being more Lights then one begotten and brought forth daily by our God and Father who will shine in us more and more to perfect day till we have a full discovery of himself as he is James 1.17 that is have the Fathers name on our Fore-heads Rev. 14.1 And as the Churches erre in their Formes of publique prayer so they fail in their Forms of private Prayers c. For they pray not to the Father nor secondly in the name of Christ nor thirdly can they pray in the Spirit First They do not pray to the Father but to the first Person in Trinity whom Christ never knew nor acknowledged for had there been a second Person or subsistence in the Godhead coessentiall and coequall with the Father surely Christ should and would have worshipped him but Christ never payed to any Person but to the Father and no Christian ever prayed to the Spirit till the spirit of Antichrist Veni Spiritus Sancte came into the world Not that I deny the holy Trinity according to Scriptures Col. 2.2 8 compared But disclaiming all the Traditions of our Fore-fathers and teachings of men I beleeve that God is Father Son and Spirit and that the Son of God Mat. 28.19 Rom 9.5 1 Cor. 8.6 Ephes 4.6 Isa 96. 1 Tim. 3.16 Luk. 24.49 Act. 1 4 1 Cor. 12.6 7. the Man Christ Jesus is God blessed for ever yet both in a Mystery which no man can manifest or reveal but the spirit Matth. 11.25 Ephes 1.17 The Father being none else but the one onely true God of himself and in himself inhabiting eternity The Son being the same God and Father manifest in Flesh and dwelling among men That one mighty God and Father powerfully going forth and exerting himself or appearing in manifold gifts and operations in flesh is the holy Spirit Which things are not to be carnally understood according to the letter as if God sent his Son 1 Cor. 2.13 John 14 9. Heb. 9.14 1 Cor. 15.45 and the Son sent the Spirit but comparing spirituall things with spirituall we shall perceive that the Son is the Father and the eternall Spirit is both Father and Son so the Father is said to send the Son where he himself appears in flesh from the beginning in the fulnesse of time or this day Heb. 13.8 for Christ is the same to day yesterday and for ever And Christ speaking in the dayes of his flesh that he would send the Spirit is nothing else but that he who dwelt with them should be in them that is when God even the Father who dwelt in his flesh should be manifest in theirs Joh. 14.17 18 19 20. Thus also I confesse that Jesus is the Son of God 1 Joh. 4.15 Joh. 14.7 10 20 verses Phil. 2.6 and that the Man Christ is God blessed for ever God even the Father dwelling in him and doing all in him being all in all in him His flesh being the form of God an image in whom the Godhead appeared to men The Son of God being nothing in himself Joh. 5.19 30. John 8 28. Gal. 4.19 but the Manifestation of the Father and could do nothing of himself but as the Father dwlling in him did all his works and words Again I conceive the Man Jesus Christ the Man-God being in us to be all in all to us Ephes 3.19 John 17.23 God dwelling in us as in him our flesh annointed and filled with the Godhead as his and we perfect in one with the Father as he This is the true Faith and Confession of the Son of God if once revealed in us Gal. 1.16 and 2.20 else how could the Son thus confess'd bring us to God God dwelling in us and we in him thereby 1 John 4.2 3 15. compared I shall not now declare at large how the present Churches deny all the Doctrine of God and of Christ c. which if God will we shall do in his due time onely we are now discovering all their forms of Worship to be false though some may worship the Father in spirit and truth yet in form of words they worship not nor pray to the Father at all Secondly They do not pray in the name of Christ but as saints of the Old Testament knew God in Covenant with them not God in Christ one with them that 's the Father So the Churches apprehend God at a distance standing a far off below in the Temple Heb. 10.19 not able to enter into the Holy of holiest into the Godhead himself but call upon his Name as great and terrible Deut. 28.58 Gal. 4.6 glorious and fearfull for so the Law presented God to Men they have not the spirit of the Son to cry Abba Father the Son being not revealed in them how can the spirit of the Son be sent forth at all I beleeve the Son is in them and the Spirit is there though hid in their flesh but they conceiving Christ at a distance Christ without them as long ago in flesh on earth and now afar off in heaven from them not nigh them and in them They do not pray in his Name Rom. 10.8 Joh. 16.23 They go not as the Son to the Father with that neernesse and confidence as Christ did to God but as strangers and forraigners or as far off from God being very low in the flesh They beg the Father still for Christ Jesus

neck or slaying of a man because they see not God dwelling with men the great God appearing in the least and lowest Saints v. 2. whom yet they hate casting out their brethren for his names sake that is because of God manifest in them but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed v. 5. they shall leave their name their name is a curse to my chosen that is the legal Churches shall be left as accursed lying under the curse of the Law But the chosen or elect of God as they are called Esa 65.22 not saved persons for such may be deceived by false Christs that is by false Churches for the Church is Christ in truth such elect or chosen persons I say for whom it is impossible to be deceived by those false Prophets and Apostate Churches not deceived by all the fairest forms and flesh of the Whore these servants of God wait on God only who wait for the appearance of God in them these that wait thus on God shall not be ashamed but God shal appear in them to their joy yea God shal call them by another name not the shamefull name of a Church but the name of Christ yea the name of God shall appear in them they shall feast on God and all the Gods of the earth shall be famished that is all men and members of Churches also men of highest parts and purest graces shall be famished by God by Gods appearance in men for man shall be nothing and God shall be all in all Next to Famin to Judgement of the great Whore shall be fire she shall be utterly burnt with fire There is nothing so formidable and dreadfull to Churches and to all their fleshly forms as fire This fire is the spirit this spirit shall burn up all the flesh and forms and fellowship of churches The fire which first set up the churches in the first appearence of Christ the same fire shall burn down churches at the second appearing of Christ God shall appear with more yower in the Saints So that as God spake to the church of Israel They shall goe from one fire and another fire shall devour them so the christian churches have gone from one fire and another fire shall devour them or as 't is in the Hebrew they shall goe from fire and fire shall devour them 't is the same spirit is the first and second appearing of Christ the churches have gone forth from that fire in the first appearing of Christ the fire that comes forth in the second appearing of God in scattered Saints shall burn and devour all gathered churches only the fire of the last day is greater then before that is the manifestation of the spirit shall be more at last then ever in former ages To cleare up this know that all outward formes and Church-Ordinances at the best are but flesh but these forms defiled are called the flesh of the Whore the defilement of these forms and ordinances came by the loss of that fire and baptism of the spirit which did first constitute the Churches of Christ and kept their Ordinances pure for as Christ in flesh foretold that every one should be salted with fire so it came to pass that afterward the Church was baptized with the holy spirit and with fire The Apostles themselves though they had a call and a Commission before to go forth to all the world to teach and baptize yet they could do neither till they were baptized with the spirit and with fire They had the spirit at first and Christ breathed the holy spirit on them after his resurrection but the baptism of the spirit was not till after the ascension till Jesus was glorified 't is said the spirit was not yet given or as 't is in the Greek the spirit was not yet the spirit was before yea abundance of the spirit in some but the baptism of the spirit was not till afterward till then t is said the spirit was not yet and therefore this was the first command not to baptize or be baptized as baptized Churches cry but to wait for the spirit not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the baptism of the spirit and of fire This was the first Command which these last Churches will not obey 'T is confest they have been in Babylon and called to depart but yet they should not depart in haste or go by flight not fly out of their Country nor hasten into Churches till the Lord should go before them and the God of Israel should gather them up as the Hebrew reads 't was nor man but God that gathered the first Church of Christ the Apostles and primitive Saints were assembled and gathered together in company 120 at first but they were not gathered into Church-fellowship till the baptism of the spirit came upon them Acts 2. no preaching the Gospel nor baptism with water in a Gospel way could be but by the holy spirit sent down from heaven The spirit as I said was in them before and God was in men from the beginning God was manifest in the Saints with power also that 's spirit God powerfully appearing in the Saints and this is in Jerusalem indeed and in this sense the Disciples at first were commanded not to depart from Jerusalem and so the Saints in these last daies are commanded not to depart out of Jerusalem but to abide still in God to stay and wait on God in them till he should come forth in power and spirit till the appearance of the great God should be There was the appearance of Christ then when God did powerfully appear in the Church in manifold gifts there were not only gifts of the spirit but the spirit was so given to the Churches that the spirit did appear visibly among them as first in tongues of fire so still afterward the spirit said to the Churches of Antioch Separate me Barnabas and Saul Again the spirit spake to Philip and to Peter plainly so the spirit spake expresly to Paul many a time likewise to John He that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith the Churches Rev. 1.10.12 Rev. 2. and Rev 3. But the Churches are deaf of that ear they will not hear of the spirit they are sore afraid of fire but this was the baptism of the spirit and of fire which did set up the first Churches of Christ in a Gospel order the manifestation of the spirit in manifold gifts The Church under the Law had some gifts of the spirit manifest among them as the gift of prophesie the gift of healing yea raising the dead with signes and miracles and the Angels moving the waters of Bethesda wherein all diseases were healed at an instant this continued in the Jewish Church to the last this is more then present Churches have having less of the manifestation of the spirit then ●hat under the Law therefore must needs be more in bondage in Babylon not having one gift of the