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A80630	The powring out of the seven vials: or An exposition, of the 16. chapter of the Revelation, with an application of it to our times. Wherein is revealed Gods powring out the full vials of his fierce wrath. 1. Upon the lowest and basest sort of Catholicks. 2. Their worship and religion. 3. Their priests and ministers. 4. The house of Austria, and the Popes supremacy. 5. Episcopall government. 6. Their Euphrates, or the streame of their supportments. 7. Their grosse ignorance, and blind superstitions. Very fit and necessary for this present age. Preached iu [sic] sundry sermons at Boston in New-England: by the learned and reverend Iohn Cotton BB. of Divinity, and teacher to the church there	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6449; Thomason E145_1; ESTC R22938	145,386	230

no conscience of the blaspheming the name of God the Lord would have men make no conscience of cutting them off from breathing in the aire of God If men make no conscience of murthering soules or raising sedition and tumult and murthering men better then themselves the Lord would have men make no conscience of paying every man in his owne kind But let me answer again But mark what I say the Lord will easily provide for this and so he doth and in England I am sure he hath what in Holland I know not but he hath provided there That if a Jesuite or Priest or their abettors shall come in and take the oath of fidelity to the State and so carry matters before some Justice of Peace the Law dischargeth them from capitall punishment And the Law of God in the New Testament is that such should be once or twice admonished but if he still continue the Apostle would have him cast out of the Church the Church hath no farther power if they be proceeded with farther it must be by the Magistrate Him that is an heretique ofter once or twice admonition reject knowing that he that is such is subverted c. So that it must be for Fundamentall Articles of Religion in doctrine or worship which are so clearly delivered in the Word that no man that understands Scripture and the wayes of salvation but may be satisfied in conscience what is the holy and acceptable will of God in such points and therefore he takes it for granted if a man be once or twice admonished he is convinced of himselfe he is subverted he is turned off from the foundation that now no man is put to death for his conscience but for sinning against the light of his conscience his owne conscience hath convinced him and the light of the Word is so cleare as cannot but convince him that the way of God runnes just quite contrary to his interpretation and seducement And therefore now if you sinne you sinne against conscience and therefore you justly suffer for being subverted and turned off from the foundation from Chrift Jesus and holding another foundation and persisting therein obstinately So there are two things in an heretique he is both subverted himselfe as an house from the foundation it is against the foundation of Religion and he holdeth out obstinately against light of conscience with stubbornnesse and now in such a case thine eye shall not spare him A soule that sins of ignorance may be pardoned but if he still continue obstinate thine eye shall not spare him the wrath of God now goes out against a person against a City if it were against a Tribe they goe about by force of Armes to redresse it they shall not suffer such in a Country This is then the Answer to the second Objection and still justifies the equity of that Law Obj. 3 There is a third Objection Ay but is it not written that you shall suffer tares to grow with the wheat lest while ye gather up the tares ye root up also the wheat with them Mat. 13.30 Now our Saviour tending to clemencie and moderation he saith Let both grow together untill the harvest c. Answ Ay but tares and wheat they may grow together but he doth not say ye may suffer bryars and thorns to grow with them for then you choak all the wheat And therefore it hath been a false interpretation of the Popish sort and taken up by the Anabaptists that tares signifie indifferently all sorts of wicked men but I know none that expound them better then Ierome and none so well the tares are very like the wheat in Jury what they are in other Countries I know not but they are like to the wheat there and you will not know the difference in the greene blade nor in the spindling untill it grows towards the harvest then you will finde it but an empty eare and thin and yet it grows so close with the other wheat and like it that if you pluck it up you may pluck up the wheat with it let therefore both grow together till the harvest What is then meant by Tares Not such as sinne through obstinacie but hyhocrites that are like the servants of God that you would think they are such after you discover them they are empty eares and hollow have no fatnesse of graine and that is indeed none of the wheat Now let Hypocrites grow together with the Elect doe not cast them out meerly for hypocrisie though you finde them halting unlesse they break forth to scandalous behaviour either in doctrine or worship or conversation as they appeare to be bryars and thornes if they be manifest fruits of the curse away with them Why cumber you the ground for else you shall neither have Church censure nor cavill to stand Such notorious wicked persons adulterers Idolaters railers refractory and scandalous persons drunkards and the like are not tares we must not abuse Scripture that because tares and hypocrites are suffered therefore refractory scandalous notorious wicked men and heretiques may be suffered no that is not the meaning they are not ears you may see them afar off you shall not need to feare rooting up the wheat by cutting off them the wheat is nothing like them So you see the first Use to justifie the equity and soveraignty of such capitall punishments on Priests and Jesuites and consequently on such as bring in other Gods or another way of worshipping the true God then that wherein we may enjoy fellowship with the true God the justice and suitablenesse of it to the holy will of God since there were any Lawes made amongst Gods people For a second Use it may serve to reprove the carnall and sinfull Vse 2 foolish pity that is found in any State that shall be sparing of spilling such bloud of the Priests and Jesuites It is you see contrary to the unchangeable justice of God the Lord loathes this kinde of lenity and gentlenesse and indulgence and toleration of such kind of persons and ordinary receivings of them if men will suffer such in the State truly they shall doe it to the subversion of their owne safeties and dignities and disturb their whole State It is a very sad speech which the Lord utters in the 48. Ier. 10. Cursed is he that doth the work of the Lord negligently and cursed is he that keepeth back his sword from bloud when the Lord calls us to sheath the sword of Authority in such kind of delinquents as these be if we shall now spare them and neglect this work of God cursed be such A State shall be separate from God and a Kingdome more and more corrupt and leavened by such toleration the wrath of God will break forth tumults and seditions and all kind of scandalous and unrighteous and ungodly proceedings will set a whole Kingdome in combustion Church and Common-wealth at variance There can be no peace to such a State where such persons are tolerated

Church so that well doth the holy Ghost say here is not the bloud of Christ but the bloud of a dead man Againe I might shew the like in other the chiefe streames whereof their sea consists that Faith which thay have it is built on the Scripture and the authority thereof they have from the Church their faith is built on the Scripture and the Scripture on the Church and so the last resolution of it is but humane authority and so that saith is no assurance for that they say were presumption but humane credulity and so for justification and salvation they will have it by merits and for worship worshipping Saints and Angels and in a strange language which common people vnderstand not an vnreasonable service so that here is nothing but as the bloud of a dead man they want the vitalls of Christianity Vse For the Vse of it It may serve to shew the weaknesse of their imaginations that doe beleeve Popish and Protestant religion may be reconciled together and Popish and Protestant Churches may bee brought to bee one were it not for hot spurred Iesuits on the one side and for hot spirited Protestants Puritants on the other side if moderate spirits had things in hand they have hoped to bring both ends together Alas to bring heaven and earth together goe your waies poure out your vials on the earth their sea is but an earthly sea their sunne is but an earthly sun and their rivers and fountaines are but earthly and yet all may be reconciled the bloud of a dead man and God life and death heaven and hell and all shall be reconciled Vse 2. It shewes what great reason we have everlastingly to stand out against all compromising with them and all subjection to any thing that pertaines to that Religion for they have sacred truthes as they beleeve Father Sonne and Spirit and that Christ is God and man but otherwise for the body of all their other Ordinances they are such as in very truth have not the blood of the Lord Iesus in them but are as the blood of a dead man as they have them and corrupt and pollute them Lastly Every living soule dyed in the Sea why did none live on the earth but were all dead in this Sea All that live on the earth all Catholikes they live in that Religion Iesuits Friats Every living soule died in that Sea The last note then is Doct. 3. A Popish Catholike that lives according to this Religion and no better he lives and dyes in a state of Death and Damnation For so saith the Text Every living Soule in that Sea dyed If he had no other life then by that Religion no other goodnesse then that which he got from that Sea living in those waters which they sucked from that Religion from the Ordinances there if he have no more then that he cannot come to a State of Salvation he dies in that Sea The Reason of the point Is taken First from the Grace held foorth in that Religion Secondly from their Faith Thirdly from their Repentance and Fourthly from thei● Obedience they are all such as are but dead their very Grace holds foorth dead Workes the Faith of a Catholike is a dead Faith their Repentance is dead Repentance their Obedience is dead works and that is all their Religion and in these is the life of a Christian the life of Grace the life of Faith the use of Repentance and the life of Obedience if these be dead what life is there For the grace of God By grace ye are saved not of Workes Ephes 2.8.9 Now they will not have it of Grace but of Workes not of living Grace but of Workes that is the most generall opinion Nor no redemption of Christians but common to all alike Reprobates and true Christians and the difference ariseth in vocation and that is out of workes out of merit of Congruity and their Iustification is out of Merit of Workes and Perseverance in Grace is out of Concurrence of Free will and Glorification is from Merit of Condignity of Workes and if all these be of workes here is all the grace of God to seek what saith the Apostle If it be of Workes it is not of Grace Rom. 11.6 And verily this is the best grace of Popish Religion all their grace is of Workes and then it is utterly evacuated What shall I say to their Faith it is no other but Historicall As that all that is contained in the Word is true and verely the Devill beleeves as much he knowes it to be true and will tremble Iames 2.19 And if that be the Devils faith as Iames saith it is then woe worth all Popish Faith and that faith if you come to apply it That it shall be a confidence on Christ to salvation they looke at that as Hereticall presumption what hope is Vse there that by Faith such should ever be justified or saved And for repentance it is like their Faith such repentance as Iudas held forth as great they require Confession contrition and satisfaction he did it all he was not a little broken with the sence of his sinne and the horror of it Hee makes confession of it I have sinned in betraying the Innocent blood he made satisfaction he brought againe the 30. Pieces of silver and throwes them downe away with them I have sinned in betraying the innocent blood this is the best repentance they have for any repentance that springs from the sight of Gods favour applyed to the faith of Gods people this they will by no meanes heare tell of and yet without faith applyed to the soule by a promise or word of grace there is no life in repentance They see him whom they have pierced and mourne for him they see him pierced by them and for them and this mourning is Evangecall and saving For their obedience they looke at it as such as is able to keepe the whole Law of God and if they can doe that they seeke life then by Workes not of Grace and that Obedience that is able to keepe the whole law of God is the Obedience of the Scribes and Pharisees for they so taught and therefore our Saviour tells his disciples Matth. 5.20 Except your righteousnesse exceedes the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees yee cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Such obedience as that a man is able to keepe the whole Law and by that to merit and doe no more then the Law requires it is the obedience of Hereticall presumption not of confidence and affiance of Faith that is obedience of hereticall presumption that is able to keepe the whole law and make satisfaction to the justice of Christ and then Christ died in vaine unlesse hee died to make us Saviours of our selves and that is as notorious as the former The Vse of this point is Vse 1. To reprove a wicked practise of many Protestants that are not ashamed to sow pillowes vnder the elbowes of