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A90388	Babylon the Great described. The city of confusion. In every part whereof Antichrist reigns. Which knoweth not the order and unity of the spirit, but striveth to set up an order and uniformity according to the wisdom of the flesh, in all her territories atd [sic] dominions. Her sins, her judgements. With some plain queries further to discover her, and some considerations to help out of her suburbs, that her inward building may lye the more open to the breath and spirit of the Lord, from which it is to receiv [sic] its consumption and overthrow. Also, an exhortation to the powers of the earth. By Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1153; Thomason E770_2; ESTC R203128	52,975	64

unclean that the pure life may receive you into unity with it selfe but the spirit that is unpurged from its Babylonish worships and practises the Lord will not suffer to come neer him Therefore search what is Babylon and of Babylon in all your wayes and worships and wait on the Spirit of the Lord to be redeemed out of it and separated from it or ye must remain separated from the Lord and not partake of his life and vertue from which that City with all her inhabitants is shut out for ever The Lord hath had a sore controversie with this Nation with her Rulers her teachers and people for his seeds sake which he hath been begetting to himself and calling forth to worship him according to the pure Law of his spirit of life out of the wayes worships and Heathenish customs of the earthly spirit Israel is his first born whom he will not have any longer kept in bondage They are his own of his own begetting and forming of his own nourishing and bringing up the plants of his own right hand whom he watereth with the dews of Heaven and with the showrs of his everlasting mercy and loving kindness whom he hath gathered by the arm of his power and whom he leadeth and defendeth by his cloud and pillar of fire over whom he is tender as of the apple of his eye They are his anointed ones whom he will not have touched but rebuketh Kings and Parliaments Armyes and Councils for their sakes saying Touch not mine anointed and do my Prophets no harm Have ye not seen how no strength nor Council hath been able to prevail against them They have had no fence but the arm which hath gathered them What plottings and contrivings hath there been against them How are they as sheep appointed for the slaughter destinated to be devoured crushed and trodden under foot what divinations and inchantments have been used against them even to blot out their name and remembrance from the earth But why do ye strive and contend thus with the God of Jacob can ye prosper He that made the earth will not ye let him have room therein for his people Must they be subject to your wils Must they bow to your image shall not the God of the spirits of all flesh have the command of the spirits of his own people can ye stop the Spirit of God from breathing upon them or will ye fal foul upon them if they be obedient to the breathings and movings of his Spirit May it not suffice that they are innocent and harmless among you in their conversations and practises but will ye still Lord it over their consciences will ye put the Lord to it to the very last to try it out with you whether he can defend his people and make way for their liberty Wel If peace be taken from you if your rulers laws and governments be broken in peices if his hand be stretched forth against you if he curse your very blessings whom can ye blame Why do you provoke him against your own souls are ye stronger then he If ye be stronger and wiser ye may prevail but if he be stronger and will put forth his arm his people shall be saved and find a shelter in him in the midst of all that wrath which is powring down upon you Your peace hath been lengthned out for their sakes If it had not been for their sakes for the remnant which the Lord hath had to gather ye had ere this been as Sodom and like unto Gomorrah The Land is ful of filthinesse which the Lords soul loaths and instead of drawing forth the sword against it ye draw it forth against his witnesses There is liberty enough for sin and vanity for excess and riotousnesse for images and idols but to worship God in Spirit to obey his pure movings this kindles your rage and these are the people who are a burthen to you Ah how fain would ye ease you of this people Sion is indeed a burthensome stone and will fall heavy on all that meddle with her But the Lord will ease himselfe of the adversaries of his life and Spirit and he will bring forth his righteousness which he hath prepared and set it up in the earth and none shall be able to stop him Therefore gather your selves together in battel associate your selves that ye may be broken in peices take council together it shall come to nought speak the word it shall not stand but the Lords council shall stand and he will fulfil all his pleasure and will delight himselfe in his people and raise them up by the fall of their enemies and then ye shall see against whom ye have plotted and contended and what ye have helped to bring about by all your secret plots and designs If the Lord had not been on our side now may Israel say if the Lord had not been on our side what had become of his poor people Ah poor worm Jacob how often would the foot of pride have trampled thee down again and again had not the everlasting arm been stretched out for thee But fear not worm Jacob nor be not sollicitous for thy preservation but trust that arm which delighteth to preserve thee Ah foolish people and unwise who strive against your own mercy who see not upon what hinge all your mercies hang but make it your work to break down the Wall that defends you Jerusalem is the City of the great King which is coming down from heaven and Israel is his people and both must have a place in the earth the Lord hath determined it and who can withstand it what prejudice can Jerusalem or the inhabitants thereof bring unto you They are enemies indeed to this earthly state of things and would have all brought in subjection to the life and power of their King and all that stands in opposition to God brought down and made pliable to his spirit and this the unyoked earthly spirit cannot bear But this is the interest of your souls and the way to unity with that life which is their happiness peace and rest for ever for if ye could pass through the fire and bear the burning up of your dross ye also might become vessels for the Finer and might dwell with them in their everlasting habitation The Saints formerly had an entrance ministred to them into the everlasting Kingdom and came to mount Sion which cannot be removed and to Jerusalem the City of the living God Heb. 12. 22. where the blood of sprinkling the peace that passeth understanding the everlasting righteousness and the joy unspeakable and full of glory was witnessed in the renewed spirit which receiveth the Kingdom which cannot be shaken and entreth into the everlasting rest And this is again revealed and the 〈…〉 nesses shall ascend into heaven in the sight of their enemies even into the new heaven and the new earth where righteousness dwells and the old heaven and old earth withal its inhabitants shall be burnt up and then shall it be seen that righteousness becomes and belongs to the house of God for ever And his City shall be a quiet habitation free from all the noise and hurry of Babylon where the pure river of life runs clear free from all the mud and mixtures of Babylon and the Lord God of infinite fulness will not disdain communion with his creatures but will tabernacle among them dwell with them sup with them walk in them and take them into his holy habitation and they shall dwell with him sup with him and walk in him But who shall abide in his tabetnacle who shall dwell in his holy hill He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart c. he who contemns the vile person how great and high soever but honoreth them that fear the Lord be they otherwise what they will This man shall dwell on high above the reach of all low creeping dark spirits even in that holy habitation of life and power which nothing can touch or annoy I shall now conclude with a few words concerning the present estate of this poor distracted Nation This Nation hath long lain wounded and sick She hath had many Physicians on whom she hath spent much who have promised her fair but have not effected her cure Of late her wound hath been much enlarged yea she is become sick at her very heart and in great danger Many are spending their judgement upon her some thinking a King would help all some a Parliament and some hoping for good from the Army but every eye sees her case to be very desperate Ah England England Thou strivest with thy Maker and he overturns thy strength and councils The life and wisdom which thou despisest is that which alone can heal thee Thou strivest to keep off the strokes from the enemies of God and smitest his dear ones how can he spare thee Hand stils joyn in hand to keep the Lords stroke from reaching Babylon which he hath directed at her heart and will not miss her but will peirce through every thing that stands in his way Though the cry hath long been Hurt not the tender conscience it is that on which God works and wherein he chuseth to appear and with which he is pleased and pitties Many promises have been touching liberty of conscience yet still the meek of the earth the innocent lambs of Christ those that are faithful to the light of God in their consciences are persecuted and suffer What canst thou plead O England why the Lord should not break thee all in peices and save his people himself by and in the midst of thy ruins The Lord will have the victory over thee in this particular about which he hath so long striven with thee It would be better and easier for thee to yield unto then be forced by his hand Therefore at length hear his voice which hath so often and so loud cryed unto thee Let my people go that they may serve me The End

that wisdome wherein they stand and to that eye wherewith they look to see Now mark this Antichrists coming when he first deceived was very mighty exceeding strong 2 Thess. 2. 9 10. Whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with al deceivableness of unrighteousness c. Weigh the thing wel Satan used al his art and al his strength to conceive and bring forth this mystery of iniquity so like the mystery of godlines that it might pass for currant in the world and he rule as God in in i● With all power c. no power of deceit wanting he did not spare for signs and lying wonders yea 〈◊〉 gave power to the beast to do wonders and miracles even to make s 〈…〉 e come downe from heaven on the earth in the sight of men which was the sign and wonder whereby the God of Israel was distinguished from Baal power to work this very sign Satan gives to the Beast to confirm the godhead of the Dragon and Antichrist with Rev. 13. v. 13 14. These are the things men look for see but great power signs miracles they are satisfied the whole world stands ready to be deceived with this Yea and if the eye be not opened in persons which can distinguish of power they must needs be deceived Signs wonders and miracles had their place in the first covenant and were to that part to which the first covenant was not to them that beleeve but to them that beleeve not Now after the full demonstration of the truth by signs and miracles the power of Satan riseth up and by lying signs wonders and miracles overturneth the truth Now the unbeleeving part in man expects and cals for signs and miracles and says that wil determine the controversie and settle the state of the Church again but that part is not to prescribe God his way yea he wil steal as a theif upon thee whose ey is abroad and lookest for demonstrations without And as Antichrist got up thus so Antichrist wil go out thus he wil raise up this power and what lying signs wonders and miracles he can to defend himself with now the Spirit of the Lord is risen up to dispossess him and cast him out of the house which he hath long lodged in And he that can be cosened with power with signs with lying wonders which are lying because they come from the spirit of deceit with an intent to deceive though they may come to pass and appear true to mans eye Deut. 13. 1 2 3. or with any of the deceivablenes of unrighteousnes shal never come out of Babylon but only be translated into some of the more refined chābers of it fed with somemore fresh likenesses of truth where he shall stil remain an Inhabitant and worshipper in some Image perhaps of universal love life and liberty and yet be out of the life out of the love out of the liberty of the truth which stands in the power and presence of the Spirit of God and not in the most refined Image or likeness All the world wondred after the beast and they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the beast and they worshipped the beast Rev 13. 3 4. The Dragon is the Devil the beast is that spirit of the earth which he raiseth up and feeds in men with a form and appearance of truth to which he gives his power and his seat and his authority and every man hath a measure of this according to his state condition place and service in Babylon And now what a man doth here in Religion be he never so devout and zealous and frequent in Ordinances and duties is the worship of this spirit and of the Dragon who sits and rules in this spirit I am run into hard expressions very hard because the nature of these things is hid from mens eyes and they are in the mist of Antichrists raising in the smoak which comes from the pit where there is no opening of the true eye nor no true sight of things but truly if ever ye espy the Dragon the beast Antichrist the whore the false Prophet ye must look at home and read within and there having found the thing and seen it in the true light ye will be able to read it certainly abroad also Now do not go about to distinguish these things in the notion of the understanding but come to feel the life to unite with the life and the eye will open which can see into the nature of things and will behold all in it's season for that eye which is so eager to see shall never see these things but that eye alone which waits in stilnesse and quietnesse on the pleasure and good will of the opener Now all this time while Babylon stands while Antichrist sits in the Temple while Satan reigns over all the Antichristian world the true and living God hath not been known feared nor glorified but mens knowledge hath been of a false God they have set up and him they have feared and given the glory to in their worship nay the Gospel hath not been preached the true Gospel the everlasting Gospel the Gospel wherein is the light and power of eternal life to turn men from all Antichristian forms of knowledge and worship to the true life and power But when Babylon falls and Mount Sion begins to appear again then this Gospel is to be preached again even by an Angel who receiveth it from God himselfe Rev 14. 6 7. for man could never recover it again it requires a new inspiration The law is to go forth out of Sion the word of the Lord from Jerusalem And this Gospel is to be preached to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and people v 6. mark There was not one Nation not one kindred not one tongue not one people that kept the everlasting Gospel but it was laid up in Sion it was carried with the Church into the Wildernes and there it hath been hid all the time of the apostacy since the dayes of the Apostles But now Sion is redeeming the true woman bringing back again out of the Wilderness she brings back the true everlasting Gospel with her and there is an Angel chosen in the power of the Lord even in the same power and Spirit that first preached it to preach it again to every Nation Kindred Tongue and people And the Lord hath so ordered it that he will have the voice of this Angel as despicable to the wise in Religion to the zealous in devotion of all sorts of this backsliding age as the former preaching was to the wise and devout both among the Jews and Greeks So that whosoever is wise in Religion according to the flesh whosoever is wise in expectation and waiting for the kingdome whosoever is wise in reasoning about it and can tel the foregoing signs of it c. shall not know the voice but he that can shut his eyes by

Church is now proved to be the whore those who have been taken in their several transformings for the true Ministers made manifest to be the false Prophets their ordinances and duties but thefts and imitations things which they have stollen from what they read in the Scriptures but never received from the hand of the Spirit The wrath of God the dreadful cup of his fury and jealous indignation for the cause of Sion is to goe over her whole Land Over her Sea and all the Ships that trade therein and all her Merchants with all their precious traffique and merchandise All her doctrins which she hath stollen out of the Scripture all her disciplines all her experiences all her performances even those which are most like the performances of former Saints nay though she may speak the very words of truth yet as they come from her mouth they shall be thrown by and judged and be of no service or esteem in Sion The preciousest of her ware shall be drosse and dung in the Land of life where there shall be no Sea nor no such kind of Merchants traffique or trading for ever Her Earth also shall be made desolate and burnt up with all that is found therein All her settlement shall be shaken all her fruit-trees shall be rooted up all her fruit shall wither rot dye and perish All her conversions of people to God as she calls it shall come to nothing Yea and if she have yet any more dresses or secret coverings wherein she would appear like the Church again and bring forth again yet she and her children shall immediately be discovered her flesh burnt with fire and her children dash'd against the stones Every street in her City every house and idol in every street every room in every house with every inhabitant shall drink of the cup of astonishment and stumble and fal and rise no more Thou hast long triumphed over me O mine enemy because I have fallen and have long sit in darknesse but rejoyce no longer for I shall rise again and the Lord shall be a light unto me but thou shalt rise no more and thy light shall be put out for ever glory to the meeke suffering-Lamb even to him that sits upon the throne of life for ever Her Aire also shall be darkned The Lord shall enlighten my darkness but the light of Babylon shall be darkness for evermore The light of a candle shall be seen no more at all in thee Many lights hath Babylon set up in the dark night but the rising of the Sun of righteousness shall extinguish them all for ever and Babylon shall be shut up in utter darkness Yea all that have retained to Babylon all that have walked by the light of any of her candles that have cryed up any of her false ware for orthodoxe that have given up their names to her under any of her dresses or appearances or that have received any of her marks they shall partake of her shame of her misery and of her torment from the hand of the Lord God Yea her throne also shall be visited and the seat of Antichrist in every heart shall feele the wrath Rise up from the dust and shout forth with joy O captive daughter of Sion who hast long dwelt under oppression in the midst of the daughter of Babylon Behold Babylons King shall be no longer judge over Sion but thy King shall be judge and he shall judge the King of Babylon And let all the powers and potsheards of the earth strive to their utmost yet saith the Lord have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion and he shal rule in my people and rule over Babylon Therefore O inhabitants of the earth great and smal learn meeknesse learn righteousnesse learn the fear of the Lord Kiss the Son harden not your selves against him calling him a deceiver a blasphemer a seducer an heretick for what ye do to the least that appear in his life ye do to him but hearken to the word of his everlasting Gospel which saith FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOVRE OF HIS JVDGEMENT IS COME and ye cannot escape his hand by that fear which is taught by the precepts of men or by traditional knowledge out of the Scriptures nor while ye seek that honour which came out of the earth and is of the earth and to that which is earthly Therefore let your hearts learne to know him and your tongues to confess him and your knees to bow to him which if ye do ye must forget all that knowledge and those confessions and bowings which ye have learned in Babylon for though ye may have confessed some true things yet having learned this in Babylon ye have confessed falsly even as the Jews who said The Lord liveth yet swore falsly Jerem 5. 2. Now consider ye Ministers of several sorts and ye several sorts of professors We may appear great enemies to you because we witness against your wayes and tel you what the end of them will be but are we enemies to you indeed whose desire it is to save you from this great wrath which hath already entred into the earth and seized on some Should we sooth you up and not witness these things to you which we infallibly know how should we answer it to the Lord our God or to your souls when we shal appear before him If we were in your condition would we be content to be let go on and to be overtaken with this great destruction We cannot be silent Ye must be silent but we cannot We know ye must be silent for that which now speaks in you hath been silenced in us and is not to minister the things of God But the Spirir of the Lord must not be quenched in us no notwithstanding all our weaknes but the treasure must issue forth from the earthen vessel for the relief of the poor in spirit who alone receive the Gospel Therefore though ye hate us though ye persecute us though ye speak all manner of evil against us and use us never so hardly yet there is love rooted in our souls towards your souls yea and towards your persons also and having both felt the wrath and tasted of the mercy we cannot but warn you of the one and invite you to the other and O that ye might find a shelter under the shadow of his wings in the stormy season when wrath shall be showred down without mercy And this we cannot but tel you that the several wayes of Religion in the Christian world are but so many several coverings and that that which is covered with them is the whorish spirit which the Spirit of the Lord is hunting who wil strip her and make her naked and she shall appear to have been the whore under them all Now that which lyeth beneath this Spirit in you which is despised and trampled upon as a thing of nought which is burthened and daily slain by your multitudes of

assaulted her and from whence she fled into a desolate place and state Secondly What spirit entred into these when she fled out of them Were not these the Conquerors spoils did not Antichrist get possession of the form did not the whore get the Spouses attire did not the Wolves gather up the sheeps cloathing and cloath themselves therewith Was not the outward Court what is the outward Court under the Gospel but the visible Church-state with the visible Ordinances thereof given to the Gentiles who trod under foot the holy City all the while they were worshipping in the outward Court Rev 11. 2. Thirdly What spirit is it directs men to these since the true Church hath been fled out of them and to what intent Is it not that spirit which would keep men from the life that they might not be born of the barren womb in the wildernesse but be born of some of the fruitful wombs of the visible Churches while the true Church is invisible and hath no visible place in the earth but remains in that place in the wildernesse which God prepared for her and where she receiveth her food all the 42 Months Rev 12. ver 6. 14. I have smarted deeply for these things and have been taught by the bryars and thorns of the wildernesse whereby my ears came to be opened to hear the sound of the everlasting Gospel to which they were before through ignorance stopped For I also did beleeve and expect great things in a Church state and way of worship and in simplicity of heart did I enter into it and walke in it and was not without knowledge warmth and experiences there But all this the Lord broke down by a strong hand in one moment and hath taught me since to throw away all my gains here and elsewhere and to count them but drosse and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord And having tasted having seen having felt having handled I cannot but commend the life and disswade all men from all knowledge all worship all Religion all wayes and practises though never so taking pleasant and promising out of the life And this is to know Christ namely to know the life and this is to obey Christ to obey the life and this is the kingdom of Christ which is to come to have the life reign in power and great glory But the knowing or beleeving of an History concerning Christ this is not the knowledge or the faith Antichrist all along the apostacy in all his various forms and dresses hath known and beleeved thus and this kind of knowledge must passe away further then it can find a place and service in the life Be not angry at my testimony it flows from pure love and comes forth in great good will to your souls Yea if it be possible that I might be a little serviceable to you for my soul travels for the redemption of professors from the witchery of the whorish spirit even of such as are ready to revile that which alone can redeem them in the meekness and coolness of your spirits out of the fiery false zeal consider yet a little further these few things following 1. The state of the Gospel is an invisible state a state consisting of invisible things as the Law was a visible state or a state consisting of visible things The light invisible the life invisible the power invisible that which converts invisible that which is converted invisible that which it is converted to invisible and the whole course ofspiritual life lyes in the invisible 2. This invisible state hath a visible way of appearance to the world by garments which it wears by motions and exercises which the life chooseth for itto appear in 3. These garments are subject to corrupt and to be worn by that which is corruptible and corrupted That which hath not the life may put on the garment and that which hath lost the life may stil keep the garment 4. The preservation of the life lyes not in the garment or in the observation of any thing wherein the life did once appeare but the preservation of the garment lyes in the life And the life may change it's garment at it's pleasure and may refuse to wear those any more which the whore hath worn but as the life again leadeth 5. When the life is at any time lost the only way of recovery is by retiring to the invisible and keeping there and growing up there and not coming forth in the visible further then the life leads nor staying there any longer then the life stayes Now this is the mistake of persons generally they look for the finding the invisible life in visibles They run to corrupted ordinances and wayes of devotion and think to find God there but do not wait to feel him in their hearts and to be led by him into what he pleaseth and to stay no where any longer then while he stayeth there but to follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth Some others mistake in running to that and waiting there where they once felt life but do not know the way to wait on the life it selfe and so they are running to an image waiting at an image worshipping of an image and the living God will not meet them there But throw away your images let Ephraim the dear child say to his idols get you hence thrust away your adulteries which provoke the eye of Gods jealousie receive the forerunner the severe purifyer into your bosoms and let the fire of his jealousie cleanse your hearts and the pure will soon come after and lodge again between your breasts Can ye hear this sound That which is born of the same wisdome cannot but hear it but the other birth must have it's ear stopped Now hearken to this advice When the invisible life is felt and known doe not disdain to follow it into what ever visible thing it leads Let not thy wisdom be judge what the life will lead into or what the life is to be followed in but let the life it selfe be judge and let the child which is born of the life follow it singly without murmuring without disputing The life hath foolish wayes to the eye of thy wisdom of breaking the wisdom in thee which is contrary to it which thy wisdom will be reasoning and disputing against and if that wisdom be hearkned to the life is overturned in its course and the head of the Serpent remains sound in thee which the foolish and weak things which the wisdom of God chooseth to crosse and disturb it by would help to break and crush An Exhortation to the present Powers BAbylon the great the mistery of iniquity which hath deceived and held captive the whole Christian world for these many generations under forms and appearances of Godliness and devotion is at length come into remembrance before God who is arisen to judge her and overturn her seat The Army hath been preparing and many Souldiers have