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B25425	Troposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K; Tropologia. Book 4.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Tropologia. aut	1682 (1682)	Wing K101A; ESTC R7039	690,855	608

Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maleac by interpretation a Messenger or Legate one sent and employed in any Work whether of God or Man And those sent of God were sometimes Men as Haggai is called the Lord's Angel or Messenger Hag. 1.13 and John Baptist Mat. 3.1 and generally the Lord's Priests under the Law Mal. 2.7 and Christ's Ministers under the Gospel Rev. 1.20 Vnto the Angel of the Church c. that is the Minister or Pastor of the Church But in special Angels are those heavenly Spirits and fiery Flames that are wise 2 Sam. 14.20 excell in Strength Psal 103.20 Which are all ministring Spirits sent forth to minister unto them who shall be Heirs of Salvation Heb. 1.7 14. The Hebrew Doctors Opinion of Angels is That they are essential Forms created without any material Substance or Body And whereas the Prophet says he saw an Angel like Fire and with Wings c. it is also spoken of prophetical Visions and by way of dark Parables Also that the Angels are lower and higher one than another 't is not in the highness of place as when one Man sits higher or above another but as we speak of two wise Men which excell one another in Wisdom that that Man is higher than this Likewise that there are ten Names that Angels are called by and accordingly ten Degrees of them and the tenth called Men are the Angels which spake with the Prophets and appeared to them in Visions for which they are called Men as Maimon sheweth in Misneh Jesudei Ha●ovah chap. 2. That there are are ten Degrees of Angels the holy Scriptures shew not but Degrees there are as the Apostle mentioneth Rom. 8.38 Col. 1.18 Angels Principalities Powers Thrones Dominions c. Howbeit we are warned not to intrude into those things which we have not seen Col. 1.18 Sometimes the Word Angel is given to Christ himself who is the Angel of the Covenant and the Angel of God's Face or Presence Isa 63.1 In whom God's Name is Exod. 23.20 Thus Ainsworth And in another place he saith That one of the two Angels that appeared to Abraham was Jesus Christ whom Abraham called the Judg of all the Earth Gen. 18.2 who is called Jehovah v. 13. It is the Opinion of some of the Learned that every particular Saint hath an Angel to take care of him Mat. 18.10 which they gather from that passage Take heed ye despise not one of these little Ones for I say unto you That in Heaven their Angels always behold the Face of my Father c. And from that in Acts 12.15 Then said they It is his Angel But others rather conclude That the Saints have many Angels to watch over them and continually to minister to them That the Godly are under the Guardianship of the holy Angels is not doubted or questioned by any worthy Writer The Holy Angels compared to Watchers Dan. 4.13 I saw in the Vision of my Head and behold a Watcher c. Verse 17. This Matter is by the Decree of the Watchers and the Demand by the Word of the Holy Ones Metaphor Parallel A Watcher or Watchman imports such as sleep not or but little their Business is to watch which they cannot do unless they keep themselves awake ANgels are not subject to sleep as Men are they always are awake beholding the Evil and the Good hence said to be full of Eyes Ezek. 1.18 II. Watchers import such as have a Charge committed to them of great importance which they are continually to look after The Apostle speaking of the Care of Ministers Heb. 13.17 saith They watch for our Souls c. II. Angels have a great Charge committed to them they are employed about great and weighty Affairs and that First in reference unto God Secondly in reference unto Saints Thirdly In reference unto wicked Men. First In reference unto God 1. They are his Courtiers attending upon Him continually for his Honour and to set forth his Magnificence I saw the Lord sitting on his Throne 1 Kings 22.19 Act. 7.33 Gen. 16.7 10.12 2 Ki●g 1. L●● ● 26 Acts 10.3 1.11 8.26 27 24. Rev. 1.1 and all the Host of Heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left hand 2. They wait for his Word and do receive Commandment from him 3. They oft-times declare God's Mind and Will to Men. Thus they were employed to give the Law on Mount Sinai and to reveal God's Mind to Abraham to Hagar to Lot to Elijah to the Virgin Mary to the Shepherds to the Apostles to Philip to Paul to John c. 4. To govern the Kingdoms of the World for it is not to be doubted but God makes use of them upon this account Hence they are called Princes yea glorious Princes and are much above the Kings and Potentates of the Earth Dan. 10.13 Eccles 5.8 5. They are God's Warriors to execute his Decrees whether of Mercy as 2 Kings 6.17 or of Judgment 2 Sam. 24.17 2 Kings 19.35 Rev. 16.7 6. They are continually employed in praising of God crying Holy holy holy is the Lord of Hosts Isa 6.3 Rev. 4.8 7.11 12. Secondly In reference to the Church and People of God they have a great Charge committed to them and much Business and Work to do Psal 91.11 He hath given his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways 1. They are as Nurses to bear up and to keep the Godly from Hurt Psal 91.12 They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy Foot against a Stone 2. They are as Stewards to provide for the Godly in their Need. How graciously was Elijah fed by Angels with a Cake baked on the Coals and a Cruse of Water 2 Kings 19.4 5. when he was faint and ready to die 3. They are employed as Physicians as appears by that Passage John 5.4 4. As Comforters in Trouble Gen. 21 17 How sweetly was poor Hagar comforted by an Angel when she said I will not see the Death of the Lad The like was the Prophet Isaiah Isa 6.6 7. Nay our blessed Saviour refused not to receive Comfort from the Angels who ministred to him when he was in his bloody Agony in the Garden Luk. 22 43 5. They are employed as Souldiers to guard them hence called God's Host Psal 34.7 2 Kings 6.17 6. They are Encouragers of the Saints in their Duties 2 Kings 1.15 And the Angel said unto Elijah Go down with him be not afraid c. 7. They are employed to rescue and put the Godly out of Danger as appears in the Case of Lot So concerning Daniel when he was in the Lion's Den Gen. 19.16 Dan 6.22 Acts 5.19 the Angels shut the Mouths of the Lions so that they did Daniel no harm The Angel of the Lord opened the Prison-Door and brought Peter forth and delivered him out of the hands of his Enemies 8. As Prophets and Instructors to

exercises his own People Parallels CLouds are many Who can number the Clouds in Wisdom Job 38.37 So the Calamities of God's People are many innumerable Evils compass me about many are the Afflictions of the Righteous II. Clouds are said to be round about the Almighty Job 22.14 nay thick Clouds are said to be a covering to him and yet he dwelleth in the Light which no Man can approach unto Now when God is said to dwell in Darkness or to have Clouds and Darkness round about him it shews that God's Works and Ways are hid from us so that we are not able to see him nor look up to behold what he doth God's Providences are like Clouds they obscure or hide God's Counsel and way of his working from us he is in the Clouds tho we see him not those Clouds and Darkness which are about him do not hinder his sight of us tho they hinder our sight of him III. Clouds are of different kinds some are said to be thick and very black when others have a kind of thinness in them and are as Mr. Caryl notes as it were transparent some are more gross and opacous quite hindring and intercepting our sight of things beyond them So some of God's Dispensations are dark very dark and others more bright some are so dark and gloomy such black and thick Clouds are over us that we can see no Light we cannot see through them no seeing things beyond them when others are not so dark they are like light Clouds the Mind of God may be seen and plainly understood in them Job was covered with thick darkness he understood not the reason why God contended with him he had quite lost sight of the Almighty I go forward but he is not there Job 23.9 10. and backward but I cannot perceive him on the left hand where he doth work I cannot behold him he hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see him but it was his Mercy God was hid on the right hand for sometimes he hides himself on the left hand from a People IV. Clouds make the day dark dull and People very Melancholly So some of God's dismal Providences make the Dispensation in which we live very dark and uncomfortable and fill us with Trouble and Sorrow V. Clouds are at the Commandment of God he covers the Heavens with them and again dissipates and scatters them at his Pleasure So all the Troubles and Calamities that attend a People or Nation are brought upon them by the ordering and over-ruling hand of God's Providence Is there any evil in a City and I have not done it Who gave Jacob to the Spoil Isa 42.24 and Israel to the Robbers did not the Lord c. and then he again sometimes in an unexpected manner scatters all the thick Clouds in a moment making the day clear serene and comfortable VI. Clouds sometimes grow thicker and thicker threatning a dismal Storm of Thunder and Hail causing all that are in the Field to hasten home So the Dispensations of God's Judgments sometimes are such that all God's People fear a dreadful Storm will come upon them and then those who have strayed abroad and estranged themselves from God begin to look about them and hasten home apace to take Sanctuary in God VII Clouds cover the Face of Heaven many Vapours gathering together rise up and darken the Sun and keep from us the comfortable Aspect thereof I will cover the Sun with a Cloud The same Word that is used for a Cloud doth signify a Multitude So Clouds as Mr. Greenhil observes sometimes signify a Multitude of Men a Multitude of Enemies as it was prophesied concerning Nebuchadnezzar's Army and of the great Gog Thou shalt ascend and come like a Storm and shalt be like a Cloud to cover the Land VIII Clouds are so swift that they are irresistible they pour out the Rain and none can let them So the Enemies and other Troubles come sometimes in upon God's People that there is no stopping them IX Clouds are such plain Emblems of Misery and Affliction that the Hebrew Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a Cloud signifies also Calamity So the Day of the Lord's Wrath in Scripture is set out by Clouds frequently That Day is a Day of Trouble and Distress a Day of Darkness and Gloominess a Day of Clouds and thick Darkness Now the Reasons why God brings Clouds and Darkness upon his People are many which I must pass by Affliction compared to Fire Isa 24.13 Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the Fire Zech. 13.9 I will bring the third part through the Fire c. 1 Cor. 3.13 And the Fire shall try every Man's Work of what sort it is FIre is taken in the holy Scripture two ways either literally or figuratively and metaphorically and so it signifies several Things and amongst the rest these 1. The Wrath of God Mal. 4.1 2. The Effects of his Wrath. Isa 52.4 3. Any sore and dismal Affliction Trial or Persecution Isa 24.15 Note Judgments or sore Calamities are compared to Fire Parallels THere is a great Judgment and Terror in Fire let loose upon a People So when God brings in Enemies or lets them loose upon a People 't is a great Judgment very terrible and amazing II. There are different Fires Some are a Judgment as before but others are profitable as the Refiner's Fire So there are different metaphorical Fires God's Wrath on the Wicked is like a devouring and consuming Fire that burns up all but the Fire in which he puts his own Children is like the Refiner's Fire Afflictions and Judgments upon the Godly are but to burn up their Corruption and make them more pure they shall not consume them III. Some Fires break forth suddenly and unexpectedly So some Judgments break forth upon a People and Nation suddenly when no Man looks for it whether it be Plague Sword or Famine IV. Fire burns terribly when it hath gotten to a Head 't is hard to stop it So when the Wrath of God breaks forth in good Earnest upon the Wicked 't is hard to stop it Tho Wrath hath been quenched by Prayer yet sometimes Prayer cannot quench Wrath Pray not for this People Jer. 7.16 V. The Fire will refine Gold and make it more fit for use but Wood Hay and Stubble it consumeth to Ashes So sincere Christians endure the Fire of Affliction and are made better by it but all drossy Professors and Hypocrites the Fire of Persecution consumes Affliction compared to a Rod. Job 9.34 Let him take his Rod away from me Psal 89.32 I will visit their Transgression with a Rod. Mic. 6.9 Hear ye the Rod c. THE Rod hath divers Acceptations 1. The Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shabat is taken sometimes strictly for a Bough or Sprig growing from the Stock of a Tree because a Rod or Staff is made of a Bough of a Tree 2. It signifies a Scepter the Scepter of a King an

stubborn and mischievous many of them while they seem to have a great zeal for Religion secretly care not what hurt they do to God's Vineyard contriving means how they may undo and ruine the Godly in the Land III. The Goats are a stinking and unclean sort of Creatures there is no Creature saith Gesnar See Topsel out of Gesner that smelleth so strongly as doth a Male Goat by reason of the immoderate Lust which this Creature is exceedingly prone and addicted to above others III. So Wicked Men are unclean filthy and loathsome in the sight of God by reason of their abominable and most beastly Lusts and Uncleannesses Rom. 1.26 27. being given horribly to Fornication Adultery Incest c. From whence cometh the Proverb of those Men that have a strong scent about them that they stink like a Goat IV. A Goat is said to be a very greedy and devouring sort of Creature Pag. 198. for as Dr. Franzius reports that that Field or Pasture that will feed a thousand Sheep will not be enough for a hundred Goats IV. So some Wicked Men are of a very covetous and greedy Disposition not being contented with a small Portion of worldly good things for tho they have some hundreds nay thousands by the Year yet are still craving after more not being satisfied with what they have of their own but also strive to possess themselves of that which is their Neighbours desiring like Wicked Ahab Naboth's Vineyard So that that Portion or Estate which will satisfy and comfortably maintain a thousand Families of good Christians is too little for one of them such is their covetous and greedy Appetite V. Goats feed and lye down with Sheep yet sometimes the Shepherd separates them one from the other V. So tho some Wicked and Hypocritical Persons accompany with the Lord's People and seem to feed lye down with them yet at last the Lord Jesus will separate the one from the other as a Shepherd separates the Sheep from the Goats Simile Disparity GOats are useful some poor People are much supplyed by them both for Meat and Milk BUt some Wicked Men are not only of no use to either poor or rich nay many of them are not only worse than Goats but worse than Infidels so far from relieving others as that they provide not for those of their own Houshold II. Goats have been made use of in the time of the Law for Sacrifice and were also used as clearly typifying Jesus Christ See Ainsworth on Levit. 16.5 8 15. II. But Wicked Men are an abomination to the Lord their very Persons as well as their Sacrifices are detestable no use at all made of them in any part of God's Worship but are excluded therefrom till by hearing the Word they Repent and turn to God and so become the Sheep of Christ Inferences AS this may call aloud to Wicked Men to consider the sad and loathsome Estate they are in so in a special manner it doth reprove all such that like Goats feed and lye down with Christ's Flock and yet are still but Goats and as they so abide they will be found at the left hand of Christ in the day of his appearing to Judgment when they shall be separated so as never to have the Company of the Sheep of Christ more Mat 25.41 and then shall he say unto them on the left Hand Depart from me ye cursed into the everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Wicked Men compared to Thieves Jer. 7.11 Mat. 21.13 Isa 1.23 Rev. 9.21 A Thief 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fur Mat. 6.19 20. 24.43 Joh. 10.8 10. 12.6 he that stealeth cunningly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so a Thief was named of old or as if it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of carrying or taking away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Latro Mat. 21.13 26.65 27.38 44. a Robber In what respect Wicked Men may be fitly compared to Thieves take as followeth Parallels SOme are Thieves from their Childhood they begin betimes to steal and rob So the Ungodly begin betimes to be Wicked they are said to go astray from the Womb telling Lies and are by Nature prone to all manner of Sin and Wickedness hereby depriving God of that Honour Fear and Reverence that belongs to him II. Thieves love not the day lest they should be discovered but are busy and active in the Night So Wicked Men hate the Light They love Darkness rather than Light Joh 3.19 because their Deeds are Evil. III. Thieves run many Hazards and Dangers venture their Lives to accomplish their Designs So Wicked Men run great Hazards and Dangers venture not only the Life of their Bodies but of their Souls also to fulfil their Designs and wicked Purposes IV. Thieves are a great Terrour to honest Men they put many in fear So some Wicked and Ungodly Men are a great Trouble Grief and Terrour to those who are Godly how was the Soul of righteous Lot vexed with the filthy Conversation of the Sodomites 1 Pet. 2.7 V. Thieves greatly abuse rob and wrong others not only such as are of their own Rank and Quality but sometimes set upon and rob Persons in Authority the Judg nay and Prince himself hath been sometimes robbed and abused by Thieves Did not Tho. Blood but few Years since steal the King's Crown So Wicked Men greatly abuse their Neighbours they do often take away the good Name of such who truly fear God and sometimes attempt their Chastity c. This is not all they do not only thus endeavour to rob Men such who are poor Mortals like themselves but they rob God and that many ways 1. They rob him of his Glory And 2. Of their own Strength and Flower of their Age which belongs to him 3. They rob him of their Hearts and Affections and place it upon the World and their own base Lusts 4. They rob him of their precious Time and squander it away in a foolish and idle manner upon their Lusts nay hath not that Man of Blood I mean the Pope robbed Jesus Christ of his Crown and Royal Diadem doth he not assume that Power and Head-ship to himself that only belongs to the Prince of the Kings of the Earth VI. Thieves oft-times Kill as well as Steal and Kill in Stealing so that they make th●mselves guilty of Murder as well as of Theft So Wicked and Ungodly Men by their Ungodly and Sinful Lives makes themselves guilty of the breach of the whole Law of God by adding Sin to Sin and multiplying their Wickedness and so transgress not only in one but in every Point and thereby wilfully murder their own Souls and many times kill and destroy their innocent Neighbours too VII Thieves are sometimes taken in the Fact or by Pursuit are apprehended and laid Hands on that they may answer the Law in that Case made and provided So Wicked Men are sometimes taken in their Wickedness by the Hand of God

the Fulness thereof And Christ saith he is appointed Heir of all Things Joh. 16.15 Joh. 13.3 All Things that the Father hath are mine He knew that the Father had given all Things into his Hands 3. They set forth not only the Greatness and Riches of Christ but also his admirable Beauty He is fairer than the Children of Men. Psal 45. 4. They set forth the Greatness of his Love so far as they can conceive of it or make it known for the Breadth Length Depth and Heighth of it is wonderful Eph. 3 18 19. Mat. 28. as Paul shews and passeth Knowledg 5. They set forth his Power and Sovereignty He has all Power in Heaven and Farth He is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth nothing is too hard for him to do Men and Devils Wind and Seas are at his Command 6. They set forth his great Wisdom He is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God saith the Apostle In him are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledg 1 Cor. 1.24 Col. 2.3 7. They set forth his great and glorious End in coming into the World which was that we might have Life and to betroth us to himself for ever 8. They set forth the Greatness of his Sufferings his wonderful Abasement the Nature of his bloody Agony and Anguish he suffered upon the Tree What! doth not this Jesus saith the Servant of God that comes to you through a Sea of Blood deserve your Affection c. 9. They use Arguments of another nature such as are taken from the Consideration of the Sinners dead cursed and miserable State without him the Blessedness of such as do embrace him and espouse themselves to him and divers others too many here for me to reckon up IV. A faithful Spokesman is not satisfied to see the Person to whom he is in the behalf of his Master a Suiter to be only ready to hear and seem to approve of the Motion he makes unless she at last be brought to a ready and willing Compliance and say with Rebekah Gen. 24.58 I will go along with this Man that is I am resolved to become Isaac's Wife IV. So Christ's faithful Ministers are not satisfied to see Sinners hearken to the Word and seem pleased with the Doctrine of the Gospel which they daily preach unless they leave their Sins and become new Creatures and close in in good earnest with Christ giving themselves to him 'T is said of the Saints They gave themselves to the Lord. If a Man be a Suiter to a Damsel and she seem to like him and be pleased with the Motion he makes and yet never consent to become his Wife will this please him surely no Neither doth it please Christ nor his Ministers to see Sinners go from place to place to hear Sermons and write Sermons and commend this and that Preacher if they do not make a real Contract and become espoused to the Lord Jesus 'T is nothing less than a thorow Work of Grace Regeneration or a true Conversion that will satisfy one of Christ's faithful Spokesmen V. It grieves a faithful Spokesman when he finds his Master is slighted and his dear and noble Lord that sent him rejected and a base and poor Fellow entertained and delighted in instead of him who is so worthy V. So it grieves a faithful Minister when Sinners slight the Message and Tenders of Grace in the Gospel when Christ is not embraced nor closed in with when they only take him into their Lips but keep him out of their Hearts O this wounds their Souls Shall Sin saith the Servant of God that base and filthy Enemy of my Master be entertained and delighted in Shall the Devil have the Rule and Preheminence in you and the Love of the World be so sweet which is Enmity to God And shall Christ who died for you on the Cross he who is so excellent who is able to make you happy for ever be slighted and rejected by you What! will you prefer your base Lusts above all that unconceivable Good there is in God the Father in Christ his only begotten Son in the holy Spirit and in the Way of Holiness VI. A Spokesman when he sees he cannot prevail returns and gives his Master or Friend that sent him an account how Matters go VI. So Christ's faithful Ministers in the Day of Judgment shall doubtless be brought in as Witnesses against stubborn and impenitent Sinners to whom they preached the Gospel Gen. 24.49 And now said Abraham's Servant if you will deal kindly and truly with my Master tell me if not tell me that I may turn to the right hand or to the left That is that I may give my Master an account of my Errand what shall I say to him that sent me So saith Christ's Servant If you will deal kindly and truly with my Master tell me if not tell me that I may turn c. I must declare to the Lord Jesus in the great and dreadful Day how you have slighted or not regarded the Message I am sent about how you are resolved to keep to your other Lovers and remain in your Sins being carnal loose ungodly and that Christ is not precious in your Eye nor will you be persuaded to forsake all and follow him nor be made sensible of that Glory and Beauty that is in Holiness And what a sad thing will this be when a Minister must appear against this Man and that Man and say Lord I spoke to them again and again I preach'd an hundred Sermons to them to engage their Hearts to thee but none of them would take place as thou seest upon their Hearts c. Ministers compared to Clouds Deut. 32.2 My Doctrine shall drop as the Rain c. Isa 5.6 I also will command the Clouds that they rain no more Rain upon it CLouds have divers Metaphorical Notations in the holy Scriptures 1. For Calamities or great Afflictions How hath God covered the Daughters of Zion with a Cloud Lam. 2.1 2. Because of the Number and Multitude of Clouds for in tempestuous Weather a great Plenty of thick Clouds appear so an innumerous Company of Witnesses are compared to Clouds Heb. 12.1 3. They are also used in Comparison Behold he shall come as Clouds that is his Army will I make a vast Appearance the Targum says as a Cloud which comes up and covers the Earth Ezek. 38.9 4. For Vanity and Inconstancy or Emptiness hence false Teachers are compared to Clouds without Rain 5. And upon divers accounts true Ministers of the Gospel may be compared to Clouds for as false Teachers are like Clouds without Rain so true Ministers are as Clouds full or filled with Rain c. How fitly Christ's Ministers may be compared to Clouds will appear by what follows Ministers Parallel CLouds are fit Receptacles for the Water they receive their Water as it is drawn up out of the Fountain of the great Deep For God hath

Wickedness tho an Apostle he is not so far changed since to be fond of a wicked Pope as to make him immediate Deputy to Christ and to impose a Wolf as Shepherd upon the Universal Church 2. Who saith That he is an infallible Judg to determine Articles of Faith and impose them upon great Penalties so that as a Lord he hath Dominion over Mens Faith and Souls too which the Apostles disclaimed 3. Who saith The Church cannot err tho God and the World knows there are not such great Errors in Principles nor such villanous Enormities cursed Actions cruel and immoral Practices in the World besides which the poor Multitude believes and kill others that oppose it and venture Body and Soul upon it 4. That says that a Priest tho he be a treacherous Villain a Contriver of Murther an abominable Adulterer hath Power to absolve his equal and Fellow-Sinner from all his Offences if he come to Confession tho the pretended Penitent keep his old Habit of Wickedness still contrary to what God and Jesus Christ say That the Dauber with untempered Mortar and the Daubed the Layer of the Pillow under sinful Elbows and the Leaner thereon the blind Leader as well as the blind Follower shall all fall together 5. That saith There is a Purgatory that is no part of Heaven or Hell and that Men may be redeemed thence for Money Tho God saith The Redemption of Mens Souls is precious and ceaseth for ever after the Offering of the Body of Jesus once for all that Redemption is not with corruptible Things as Silver and Gold but with the precious Blood of Christ as a Lamb slain without spot 6. That saith That the Hands and Mouth of a filthy unclean Priest can make not only the Bread and Wine sacred but turn both into the real Body and Blood of the Son of God make whole Christ of a pitiful Wafer-Cake that after it is eaten turns to Corruption and before it is earen is a fit Feast for Rats and Mice not only contrary to Reason but the full Verdict of all our Senses 7. That saith That no Person how good and pious soever he be can be saved out of the Pale of their polluted ungodly and devilish Church tho the Scripture plainly affirms That in every Nation he that fears God and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him 8. That says 'T is no Sin to lie swear and forswear to kill slay and murther such as they call Hereticks tho never so good if it be for the Cause of the Church with a thousand Things of the like Import which the People do verily believe And as they dare not gainsay upon their Salvation so will they embrace and use all Opportunities to fight and make Wars overcome Cities and lay waste Countries and Kingdoms to kill and slay by Massacre and all manner of murthering ways all Ranks and Degrees of Men that oppose the horrid Principles and Practices of those cursed Children Nay they will go boldly to their own Death when convict and condemned for Villanies and deny that to day that they were convicted of but yesterday and tho never so notoriously guilty yet will take it upon their Death and Salvation that they are as innocent as the Child unborn What can this be tho they drink it down for most sweet and pleasant Wine but an Infusion of the rankest and most deadly Poyson that the lowest Celler of the Bottomless Pit can afford the very Wine of Fornications and the most dangerous Drunkenness and Intoxication in the World Which is attended with this Aggravation that the best prepared Medicines of the wisest Physician will not recover them for Babylon having made the Multitude drunk with this sort of poysoned Wine how rare is it to have any come to themselves to their right Mind again And to shut up this Head take this Argument Argument If no People in the Christian World hath made the Multitude or common Sort of People drunk corrupted and intoxicated their Minds by wicked Lies and false Doctrine such as before-mentioned as Rome Papal or Church of Rome hath done Then Rome Papal or Church of Rome is this Babylon treated of But no People in the Christian World hath made the Multitude or common Sort of People drunk corrupted and intoxicated their Minds by wicked Lies and false Doctrine such as before-mentioned as Rome hath done Ergo Rome Papal or Church of Rome is this Babylon treated of IX Mystery Babylon is such ill Company as to let Kings be dishonestly familiar with her and make the lower and ruder Sort of her Associates drunk She is said to sit drunk upon a Scarlet-colour'd Beast and this Beast is full of the Names of Blasphemy Rev. 17.3 And I saw a Woman sit upon a Scarlet-coloured Beast full of the Names of Blasphemy c. So that the Woman and the Beast are distinct the Woman the Church the Beast the Secular Power or Civil State This appears evident from divers Considerations arising 1. From other Prophecies relating to the same Thing 2. From the Letter of the Text. 3. From Arguments in Reason 4. From the Confession of the Woman Babylon or the Whore her self Dan. 2. 1. From many Prophecies the latter part of the Image is partly Iron and partly Clay two States really distinct that could never so incorporate as to become one 2. From the Letter of the Text I saw a Woman sit upon a Scarlet-coloured Beast Rev. 17.3 full of the Names of Blasphemy The Colours of the Royal and Imperial Vestments the Angel in the next Words declares distinct and the Apostle in the Vision beheld them distinct 3. They appear to be distinct from Arguments in Reason For 1. The Beast is in the Masculine the Whore in the Feminine Gender Ver. 11 2 4 6 16. compared 2. The Whore else did sit and ride upon her self an high Absurdity 3. The Horns being of the Beast shall hate the Whore if not distinct the Whore must hate her self even to Ruine and Desolation which is nonsensical 4. The Beast shall abide tho in Captivity after the Whore is thrown down or destroyed 4. From the plain Confession of the Woman or Whore her self who saith I sit a Queen I am no Widow Ergo she hath a Head or Husband which is the Beast little Horn or Man of Sin that Paul declared should rise after the removal of the then present Power which did lett which the Primitive Fathers as Tertullian Cyprian Jerome and others understood to be the Imperial Power in its pure civil iron or unmixed State IX Rome Papal or Church of Rome hath not only been ill Company to the Kings and great Men of the Earth in drawing them into her Idol●try Abuse of God his blessed Son the Christian Religion and blessed Books of the Old and New Testament but she hath made the lower and ruder Sort of People drunk too And 't is no Wonder she thinks she may do any thing