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A41439	A full survey of Sion and Babylon, and a clear vindication of the parish-churches and parochial-ministers of England ..., or, A Scripture disproof, and syllogistical conviction of M. Charles Nichols, of Kent ... delivered in three Sabbath-dayes sermons in the parish church of Deal in Kent, after a publick dispute in the same church with the said Mr. Charles Nichols, upon the 20. day of October 1653 / by Thomas Gage ...	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing G111; ESTC R5895	105,515	104

Antichristian or Babylonish which I prove thus Those who by their life and Doctrine have witnessed against Antichrist could not be Antichristian But our Bishops since the Reformation have witnessed against Antichrist Ergo They were not Antichristian The Minor is clear in Cranmer Ridl●y Hooper Latimer Farrar Iewel Pilkington Sands Babington Abbot Davenant Hall Morton Usher and Dr. Brownrigge in his sound and Orthodox Divinity taught and professed publickly in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge against the unsound and corrupt Divinity taugh● and professed in Rome But thirdly I answer that they did indeed Ordain our Ministers not qua Lord Bishops but qua Presbyte●s and had other Presbyters to joyn with them so that our Ordination from them is valid and may in no wise be disclaimed more than tho●e Ministers who were ordained in the P●imitive Churches They were ordained in Cyperians time by Bishops and Presbyters The fourth Councel of Carthage ordered that no Bishops should ordain without the Counsel of his Clergie Antichrist was not then got in his fea● A Bishop if we consider him meerly as a Bishop was but a Minister and set apart to do the work of a Minister And so Ordina●ion from them was b●t as from Ministers who have Commission f●om Christ to ordain and therefore the Argument proves nothing against us to null our lawfull succ●ssion and Ordination Thus beloved having made a large progress through Mr. Nichols his three Erroneous Propositions having by Syllogist●cal Reasons and by Scriptures shewed unto you what is Babylonish and Antichristian and what not to wit that which is agreeable with the word of God with the express Command of Christ and with practise and example of the Apostles or that which crosseth the word the Command of Christ the practise and example of the Apostles have cleared our Churches and shewed unto you that as Parochial they are not Babylonish neither in their first Constitution Parishes having been constituted before Antichrist was discovered nor in the end of their Constitution that being for the better and more convenient feeding of many Souls by many Pastours nor in their mixture of good and bad together which mixture I have proved in all those Churches to whom Paul in his Epistles did write having shewed also unto you what practises against the word the express command of Christ the examples of the Apostles and according to the Iesuites examples are practized in Mr. Nichols his Congregation which he calls ●he House of God and finally having vindicated our Parochial Pastours and Parish Officiating-Ministers from Mr. Nichols his false aspersion and uncharitable censure of them branding them with the infamous Title of Babylonish I shall draw nearer to an end and conclude wi●h a use of Exhortation to some few duties 2. Vse of Exhortation I have beloved these three Lords dayes carried you about the bounds of Zion and Babylon I have shewed you at large what people what Churches are the Zion of God and what practises are Babylonish and how free our meetings and our Ministers are from such practises and in these three dayes surveying these bounds I have blown my Rams horns that the Walls of Babylon might fall as did the Walls of cursed Iericho formerly at the blowing of them I shall yet cause the sound of them to be heard all the Nation over committing what I have here spoken unto you to the Press that so whatsoever practises are Babylonish in the Land and Nation may be discovered Babylons strength and walls may be more ru●ned while Z●on sh●ll stand as a Rock unmoveable and Hell-Gates Councels and practises shall never I hope prevail against her I have found in my search and Survey of Zions Walls and Bulwarks that yet she stands amongst us Our Churches I have found by the light and truth of Scripture ●o be Gods spiritu●l Zion I have found their Antiquity as Parishes to be ●●om the fi●st P●imitive times and that it belongeth to the Decency and good Order of Z●on that in so stately great a House there be many Chambers and several distinct Tables where the Ordinances of God may be dispensed and the mul●itude of Souls belonging to Zion may be more conveniently fed I have found also out of Scripture that our Parish Officiating-Ministers are true Shepheards with the true properties of Shepheards and true Pastours Ordained by Christ his own Commission to feed the Souls in Zion having the lawfull power of the Keyes by Imposition of the hands of ●he Presbytery without which all Commission given by the people is subreptitious and false and against the Institution of Christ and consequently Babylonish and Antichristian And finally I have found Mr. Ni●h●ls his three Assertions against us to be false not enduring the Trial and Touchstone of the Holy Scriptures and nothing by him truely Objected to prove us Babylonish but that we are a mixt multitude with many cor●upt persons and sinners amongst us which he might as well have Objected against all the Churches mentioned in the several Epistles of Paul to prove Paul false in calling them Saints and Churches and against the Churches of Asia and yet not have unchurched them ●s upon this ground he hath not been able to unchurch us Yet because our sins onely are the great block and beam in his eye which hindreth his sight that he cannot see where a true Church is nor see that we are true Churches yea truer than his I beseech you let it be your care and indeavour for the time to come to give him no further offence by your sins but to live so religiously that this block and beam being removed from his eye he may see that we of Deal as well as those of other Parishes are a Church he may be won and recalled by your Godly walking and Conversation to come back to us and to send back again unto our Churches those whom he hath caused to separate from us Which that ye may perform the better give me leave to conclude this large discourse with an Exhortation to these duties following 1. Duty First Let us humble our selves for our sins which have been such Offences and Scandals to our Friends and Neighbours which have brought such destructions and divisions amongst us which have stirred up forraign Enemies against us which threaten us yet with greater miseries than those which hitherto we have suffered which make us as unclean as Lepers and cause others to loath us yea to separate from us Oh Let us read our sins in our miseries in our wars in our divisions which are amongst us We have nourished Malignant lusts Babylonish and Antichristian Brats within us which reb●l against the Spirit and fight against the Soul we have made sport and pass-time with those sins which shed the bloud of the Lord Jesus Oh Let those sins draw tears from us which drew bloud from Christ. We have grieved the holy Spirit and therefore well may the Spirit refuse to comfort us who have grieved him Well may

speak And the purity of which they crack is as Hieremy declareth A lying Vision and Divination and deceit and beguiling of their heart which they prophesie unto you Thirdly They glory to have purged and Reformed the Church of many errours but you shall see their Reformations have been but abuses and innovations they have broken the peace departed from the unity of the flock of Christ. You shall finde their ancient Faith a new Belief as Gregory Nazianzen said of the Arrians their refined Doctrines meer Novelties new broached Errours Which I pray God both you and all others may have grace to discern in time least you open your eyes and begin to lament these things too late as Constantius the Emperour did of whom the same Gregory Nazianzen writeth That lying on his Death-bed he repented him of three things First that he had commanded his Son in Law to be slain the other that he had nominated Iulian the Apostate to succeed him in his Imperial Throne the third that he had given ear to new devised Doctrines And with these words he yielded up the Ghost The place ye live in my beloved hath formerly been the subject of Learned Authors pens among whom Mr. William Lambard of Lincolns Inne Gentleman in his book intituled A Perambulation of Kent and published in the year 1576. was not unmindefull of you Mr. Camden out of Learned Nennius forgot you not when he derived the very name of the place wherein ye live not so much from the Saxon Pylle which is a plain floor or Level as from the British Dole signifying a lower place or Dale Julius Caesars arriving at this place being repulsed from Dover with his Trenches upon your Coast called Romes work and his own report of you in his Commentaries hath made you known abroad Henry the Eight having shaken off the intolerable yoke of the Popish Tyranny and espying that the Emperour was offended for the Divorce of Queen Catharine his wife and that the French King had coupled the Dolphine his Son to the Popes Niece and married his Daughter to the King of Scots so that he might more justly suspect them all than safely trust any one and fearing least the ease and advantage of descending on Land at this part should give occasion and hardiness to his enemies to invade him amongst other Castles Plat-forms and Block-houses which he builded in all needfull places more especially gave strength to your place and fame abroad by erecting near together the three Fortifications of Sandown Deal and Walmer which might at all times keep and beat the landing place Yea this special matter of Deal Iohn Leland in Cygnea Cantione comprehendeth featly in these two verses Iactat Dela novas Celebris Arces Notus Caesareis locus Trophaeis Renowned Deal doth vaunt it self With Turrets newly rais'd For Monuments of Caesars host A place in Story prais'd And soon after the building those Castles which make you strong and renowned in the Authors verses your place was further honoured with the landing of the Lady Anne of Cleve Oh since then Antiquity hath blazed abroad your Name Writers of Fame have made your place the subject of their Pens Princes have strengthened you with Turrets and Castles Live you so in this your place of Fame that for your godly lives you may be yet more famous for your strength and greater renown To your three Fortifications and Castles add yet one Tower more and let it be that which wise Salomon suggesteth unto you The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous run unto it and are safe Oh Let this Name be sanctified be glorious among you Let this Name be called upon by you with reverence whilest too much irreverently it is spoken against and reviled by others Let this Name be your strength against all temptations Let it be your strong Tower to run unto in all your fears and assaults of Sathan and when Sathans Emissaries and Agents study the ruin of your Souls be ye strong and safe under this holy and reverend Name Psal. 111. vers 9. And since Errours are rise and begin to weaken our strength and bonds of Love and Vnity and some begin to creep in amongst you to draw you from the publick Ordinances let me perswade you unto these things here following First then be real Christians and think it not sufficient that you are Christians in name and that you have a form of Godliness but let Christs Name be great and glorious among you be ye Christians indeed and walk in the power of Godliness be ye true Nathanaels Israelites indeed then and never till then you are worth beholding and admiring Behold an Israelite indeed Ioh. 1.47 Secondly Get your judgements rightly informed the understanding is the eye and guide of the Soul if that be corrupt and do mislead you you must needs fall into the ditch If a disease get the brain it is hardly cured And hence the Learned observe that Corruption in Judgement is worse than Corruption in Manners especially when the minde hath been enlightned with the Truth Leprosie in the head was of all other Leprosies the most dangerous He was unclean that had the Leprosie in his hands or feet but if it were in his head then he was utterly unclean Thirdly Get meek and humble Spirits To these the Lord hath promised that he will teach them his way when spiritual pride is punished with a fall Hunt not after novelties neither be wise above that which is written Fourthly Let your principal care be about practical fundamental points such as Faith Obedience a good Conscience how you may mortifie your special Corruptions and crucifie the flesh with its affections and lusts Live soberly in the use of the creature religiously towards God righteously and justly in all your dealings with the Sons of men And finally I beseech you by all the tender mercies of Jesus Christ that you all minde the same things Let there be no divisions no Sects no Schismes found amongst you but labour to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Paul's farewell to his Corinthians shall be mine to you Finally brethren farewell be perfect be of good comfort be of one minde live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you Which peace that ye may enjoy it hath been the indeavour for above these five years and shall be the constant prayer of him who is the weakest of all his brethren and the meanest in his Fathers house even Your Faithfull and ever ready servant in the Lords great work of the Ministery of the Gospel THOMAS GAGE From my Study in upper Deal March the 10. 1653. To the Christian Reader and all those that truely minde and seek the true Zion of God Grace Peace and Zions blessings be ever multiplied Christian Reader I Am not ignorant what uncharitable censures will be east upon these innocent Meditations and the Penner of them by some turbulent spirits When first

for the satisfaction he had of him that he was a fit man to take care of their state and in the mean time he sends unto them Epaphroditus vers 25. and exhorteth them to receive him in the Lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation vers 29. and this without the peoples Election judging their after-approbation to be sufficient Even so for our peoples Election of a Minister if it be not before the Minister comes to a place and he be sent by a Patron yet sometimes the peoples acceptance and approbation afterwards may supply the want of Election at the first as Iacobs after-consent and acceptance of Leah made her to be his wife though he chose her not at the first Now fourthly For the final cause requisite for the compleating a true Minister of Christ it appeareth in many of us by our profit in converting many Souls Yea those that have separated from us must confess that they also were at the first awakened by us We have then Gods ordinary and dayly assistance in our Ministery for the perfecting of the Saints for the edifying of the body of Christ Ephes. 4. vers 12. which is the end of the Ministery and not Babylonish or Antichristian This is clearly seen and proved for Gods assistance appeareth in his effectual working mens conversion by the work of the Ministery for conversion is by the word 1 Cor. 4. vers 15. Rom. 1. vers 16. through the Spirit and not by the word delivered without the Spirit and it is not in man to move the heart to grace 1 Cor. 3. vers 5.6 2 Cor. 3. vers 5. But God doth take the power of conversion to himself Deut. 30. vers 6. Act. 16. vers 14. The means indeed is the word Iames 1. vers 18. Examples hereof we have throughout the Acts of the Apostles Therefore i● men be here converted God doth aid the Ministers and is with them by the power of his Spirit in that work 2 Cor. 3. vers 3. by which the Apostle proveth to have the power of the Spirit in his Ministery by the conversion of his hearers All which considered and finding the four causes requisite to make up and compleat true Ministers to be with us I conclude that the Parish Officiating Ministers in England for the most part are men sufficiently qualified by God orderly called to the Ministery and to do that work which Christ appointed his Ministers to do and consequently that they are not Babylonish but true and lawfull Ministers of Iesus Christ. 4. Argument They that have the true properties of true Shepheards are Christs true Ministers But the Parish Officiating Ministers in England have the true properties of true Shepheards Ergo The Parish Officiating Ministers in England are Christs true Ministers and consequently are not Babylonish or Antichristian The Minor I prove thus from the 10. of Iohn for first these go in by the door vers 2. that is by Iesus Christ v. 7. by his call and the Churches as I have proved before Secondly the Porter openeth unto them vers 3. who invisibly letting men into the Church by Christ the door is Gods spirit who doth qualifie true Ministers with gifts and graces and is forcible by them to win people And visibly the Porter is the Authority committed by the Church unto some for admitting men into the house the Church of God Thirdly they lead them forth vers 3. that is from pasture to pasture from milk the grounds of Religion to strong meat Catechizing and otherwise interpreting the holy Scriptures unto them Which true properties of a Shepheard being found in the Parish Officiating Ministers here in England it appeareth that they are true Shepheards and so true Ministers of Iesus Christ and therefore neither Babylonish nor Antichristian or Popish Thus having with Arguments proved unto you that our Ministers are true Gospel Ministers for the further clearing this truth it remains that we answer to what they object against us who do separate from us which is chiefly this Object The Ordination of the Ministers who a● this time are Parish Officiating Ministers came from the Romish Synagogue they also were ordained by Bishops Ergo They are not true Ministers or thus Those Ministers which stand by a Romish Institution are no true Ministers But the Ministers of England stand by a Romish Institution Ergo They are no true Ministers but Babylonish and Antichristian 1. Answ. The Minor of this Syllogisme must be denied for we stand by no Romish Institution for Ordination is none of Romes inventions but instituted by the Lord Iesus Christ. So that the Ministers of England stand by an Institution of Christ descending to them from the Apostles through the Church of Rome must be the meaning of this Argument To which we answer that the passing through Rome nulls not the Institution of Christ. As we cast not away the Scriptures Sacraments and what ever Ordinances we have now though they have descended to us from the Apostles through Rome Which Argument runs as strong against Baptisme which though mingled with Romish inventions is not therefore nulled The vessels that were once dedicated to God by his own Institution though they were put into the house of Nebuchadnezars Gods and those that were fit very likely used to drink Wine in when he praised the Gods they were not so much as new cast again but carried to Ierusalem Ezra 1. vers 11. Yea Mr. Iohnson a great man of the separation seeing one that was a Minister in the Church of England afterwards to be chosen a Teacher to a separate Congregation without any new imposing of hands undertakes to justifie the Action thus in five Propositions 1. Imposition of hands is of God and not an invention of man It was not a Post or a Threshold first brought by Antichrist into the Temple of God but had therein before ever Antichrist sate there 2. Baptisme and Imposition of hands are joyned together among the Principles of the foundation spoken of Hebr. 6. vers 2. Therefore they ought to be regarded 3. Imposition of hands is in the Church of Rome still given to the Of●●ce of the Ministery and in the name of the Lord as they do also still administer Baptisme 4. We finde not either precept example or ground in the Scriptu●e binding to the repetition of it 5. The Priests and Levites in Israel becoming unclean when afterward they were cleansed retained still their places of being Priests and Levites and the Children of the Priests and Levites ●ucceeding after them did administer without a new anointing or new Imposition of hands Thus Mr. Iohnson and with him also Mr. Ainsworth though in their judgement both for the Separation opposed rebaptization because baptisme is an Ordinance of God which was had in the Church of Rome before the sell into Apostasie and hath been there continued ever since the Apostles times however commingled with many inventions of their own So likewise Mr. Iohnson defended

the God of Heaven bathe his Sword in our bloud and yet bring more forreign Enemies upon us and make the Land fat with our Carcasses for we have forfeited our very Estates and lives we do not deserve one bit of bread or drop of water justly may God feed us with the bread o● sorrows and give us tears to drink we would not serve God ●i●h joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things and therefore well might God send us to serve our Enemies in the want of all things Deut. 28. v. 47 48. Behold the Heaven is as brass and the Earth as iron we have had a brazen brow and there is an iron Sinew in our Necks we have gone on impudently and stubbornly in our sins Gods Doctrine hath dropped as the rain and distilled as the dew but not as upon the tender Herb for our hearts have not been tender our lives have not been fruitfull We have loathed Manna the Spiritual food of our Souls and well may God loath us and cast us off from him we have alienated our selves from our good God we have separated one f●om another we have increased divisions and well may God take away his mercies and his blessings from us and increase our divisions and make our breaches greater yet and wider than hi●herto they have been We have by reason of our sins given occasion to our friends and Neighbours to unchurch us though in them it have been unjust but if we humble not our selves for these our sins God may justly unchurch us unpeople us and cast us quite away for ever being more his people Oh than Let us humble our selves at the feet of Christ. let us with Marie Magdalen weep at the feet of Christ for our sins let us at the feet of Christ break our Alabaster boxes our hearts I mean for that we have broken his Laws and have made great breaches in the Land 2. Duty But secondly Let us make it our earnest business from hence forward to reform our particular persons Oh are there not Babylonish Inmates protected within us Oh Let us turn our eyes inward and every one search what he can discover within his heart Are there no unruly passions there no unmortified lusts no self-ends no lusts of Covetousness no lusts of uncleanness no pride no envy no malice enshrined there These these are the Brats of Babylon for the which we are called by some Babylonish Oh happy yea thrice happy shall he be who taketh these Infant lusts before they are grown up and dasheth them against the Rock as it is in Ps. 137. vers 9. The times wherein we live are said to be Reforming times we have talked of Reformation these ten years and upwards we have beaten down whatsoever hath appeared outwardly Babylonish either in Altars or in Crosses or in Images but oh let us take heed we do not leave some Idols yet standing in our own bosomes There are b●loved Idola saeculi as well as Idola Templi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all our lusts must be cursed anathematized that they may like the Fig-Tree af●er it was cursed die and wither at their ve●y Root Tell me Is not self-love an Idol Is it not in some of y●u the great whore Is not lust a beast a Monster with many Heads and Horns Oh hate this Whore mortifie self-love and you stab the beast to the heart for self love is the very heart and Soul of Original sin it is the last Enemy which will be destroyed it was primum vivens and it will be ultimum moriens Come then Let us beat down our bodies and cry to God to humble our Souls and beat down our corruptions Let not onely reason vote down your lusts but Fai●h and Zeal pray them down The precious Sons of Zion are most troubled with this same Babylon within and therefore they do make most frequent and penitent complaints against themselves and put up most zealous p●ayers to God to give them power and victory over ●heir head-strong and stomackfull corruptions and in thei● prayers their Faith ever closeth with such promises as assure them of Grace enough to resist temptations and morti●ie corruption This is the fi●st which I exhort you to do to deliver your selves from Babylon within you that dwelleth within your hearts as an Inmate in the same house by Humiliation and Reformation Bu● secondly I beseech you to consider that you must not onely bea● down Babylon but you must build up Zion and that is to be done by faith and holiness 3. Duty Therefore in the third place Look well to your Faith The Walls of Bab●lon like the Walls of Iericho are battered down by Faith All the faithfull Prisoners in Bab●lon whose hear●s were sprinkled by the bloud of the Covenant were prisoners of hope and therefore were sure to be delivered from the bottomless pit in which there is no water for B●bylon was a Type of Hell As for thee also by the bloud of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy prison●rs out of the pit wherein is no water Zach. 9 vers 11. and in the next verse following these are said to be prisoners of hope Beasts live by sense Heathens live by reason Christians must live by Faith they must mortifie their lusts renounce their merits rest onely upon Christ his perfect obedience and full sa●isfaction for their justification for we cannot be constituted righteous but 〈◊〉 the obedience of Christ Rom. 5. vers 19. In this Faith let us live in this let us die By this we shall shew our selves to be true Sons of Z●on And let us beware we become not Babylonish in these times by yielding to new Doctrines which may make us fall from our Principles from the true word of Christ as revealed unto us and faithfully expounded to us by able Pastours and Teachers and so be brought at last to fall from our Faith in Christ. 4. Duty Fourthly and lastly my beloved be exhorted to study holiness and to cry down by your holy lives those that c●y you down for B●bylonish for want as they ●ay of holiness Holiness is the beauty of Zion for there they were to worship God in the beauty of holiness There can be no beauty in our Souls no glory in our Congrega●ions without holiness Zion was the Mount of holiness Za●h 8. vers 3. Holiness is the end o● humane society Vtquè alios alii de Religi●n● 〈◊〉 Contiguas Pi●tas jussi●●abere domos Certainly this age is even grown Barbarous or else Holiness which is the end of humane society would never be contemned and despised as it is now adayes in this wicked generation O what a base thing is it for a Nation to be ashamed of its glorie and to glorie in its sin and shame Men think it a base thing for to be holy and yet God himself is glorious in holiness Exod. 15. vers 11. Certainly if we would be glorious in holiness Gods right hand would be glorious in po●e● and dash our Enemies to pieces Exod. 15. vers 6. Without holiness we cannot have ●ny intimate acquaintance with God or good men We long for peace but peace is a Jewel which God gives to none but to those that are of his acquain●ance A●quain● now ●●y s●lf with him and be at peace the●eby good shall come unto 〈◊〉 Iob 22. v. 21. A Godly life is the life of God and those that were strangers to a Godly life are said to be alienated or ●stranged from the life of God Ephes. 4. vers 17 18. They then that strike at holiness strike at the life of God and have a kinde of Atheistical murther in their thoughts they would lay the Church a b●eeding let out the very heart-bloud of Religion and take away the very life of God O if England will not be holy it cannot be happy if we continue in our lukewarmness and prophaneness Wo wo be unto us though it go well with Zion it will go ill with us Zion was preserved even when Ierusalem was destroyed and England may be destroyed for i●s unthankfulness unf●uitfulness Schisme Id●latry lukewarmness and prophaneness and yet the Church preserved for the Church is not confined to any one place It concerneth us then to be such manne● of men in all h●ly Conversation 2 Pet. 3. vers 11. Such Pilgrims on Earth and Citizens of Heaven that it may appear that we seek a better Countrey an Heavenly and that God will not be ashamed to be called our God Hebr. 11 vers 16. But if we go about spiritual duties with carnal hearts and worl●ly mindes if we lie at catch waiting for a fair opportunity to return int● Egypt the God of Heaven will be ashamed to own us for his p●ople Hebr. 11. vers 15 16. Therefore my beloved if we live in the Spirit let us walk in the Spirit Galat 5. vers 25. Let us march fair and straight in rank and file as the word signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 walk according to the C●non given to Evangelical Souldiers Galat. 6. vers 16. and if we walk according to Rule this Rule of the new Creature vers 15 mor●ifying our lusts crucifying our selves to the World and living un●o Christ in righteousness and true holiness Peace will be upon us and upon Zion the Israel of God vers 16. Let us ther●fore as it becometh men of Zion devote our selves to God and spend our strength in the Practise of Piety Let us be better acquainted with our selves and with our God let us learn what sin and what Grace means let us be watchfull over our own hearts with an holy jealousie may let us set a watch before our mouths and all our senses nay let us watch over one another that we may provoke one another to holiness and good works let us beseech the God of Heaven to kindle gracious desires in our hearts that we may oppose and Conquer all our filthy and implacable lusts which set us all in a Combustion of War and divisions Iam. 4. vers 1. Thus shall we be delivered from Babylon and by our Holiness we shall become the Beauty of Zion And thus beloved have I imployed my utmost strength consecrated my Totum nil blown my Rams Horns against Babylon and indeavoured to build up Zion that all you here present may be Members of it to Gods praise to whom be glorie throughout all Ages Amen Soli Deo Honor gloria FINIS