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Show , Tt.!s.Govcrnmenuneretorebem~a"'"·lfllt!reJ wlfh t•!fe H.mdi, on talfe Tt.rones,by falfe Rul.es, tor faHeEn~s, I blame not the -Eriminer, though he llyle ir, (as julllJ: he may) a i.dfe Govern· mM~ 1 . But to conclude therefore this 14'h Chaprer, the Examiner tell~ th us, He belewetb it i4 abfohmlj necrffary to foe and bew.~He fo mt<cb "'may amtnUlt to cut off the foul. from af•lfe Church, (whether NJtionall, or P JrifhinnaO, or any other faljly canjlit11ted Cburcb) together with tin Minijltry, Worfoip, and Government of it. Now in that which hath been lpoken, wee have ·given acc0unt, fiow fHre we have feeni: any of thefe things to be falfc in the Churchc~, which his charge bath rcfpe8: unto. And fo farrc as we have feene, the Lord knoweth how farre we have bewailed, and cue off our (elves from the Fellow!l,ip thereof. Yea not onely from the fello1.l(lhip of that which we difccrne to be falfe,but aHo from what we have diU:erncd to be unfound and corrupr. If we doc not dif· cerne all thole things to be falle, which he accounteth to be falfe; we have given the grounds thereof from the Scriptures ofT ruth. If we doe not follow him in all his imaginations, it is no marvell: Thelheepe ofChrill know ti)e voyce of their Shepheard: a llranger they will not follow. His chargesofFallhood upon Church-, have been6'ehement,and peremptory,and in a manner forbonicall, without any touch ofScripum-grounds, as if he had learned no1 on ely from them,but from the Conclave of Antichrifl,to obtrude upon the Churches ofChrift,his unwritten imaginations and ccn· forious Decrees, as the very Oracles Qf God. -.Proceed we now therefore to his next Chapter, wherein there is fomc mention of (orne Texts of Scripture, and let us fee, whether they will fpeake more to his purpofe ia that which remaineth. To CHAr. XV. THe Texts of Scripture which M•. Williams alledged, not to prove the Churches of England tobefalfe in their Conflitution, Miniflery, Wor.lhip, Government, (for to that end he allcd- 41eth no Scriptures at all) but to urge upon us a (epa ration from thoim,( evro from hearing in their Alfemblits) were tbree, Tfoi-)2. II. to M4fter Roger Williams. II· 2 Cor. 6. •7· Rev. 18. 4· Whereofl certified him in 11,1y Letter, That two of them (to wit, the firft and lafl) made nothing to hu purpoft. For that of lfaiah, .and the other of the Revelation j]>e•~e of locall jiparation, which he ~new"'' had made : and which 11either he, n.r indeed our [elves apprehended to be fufficimt, though fufficient to anfow, in part, the litera/1 Jince ofthofe Plam. To which he anfwereth, That htci!Uld not weO bave beleeved that M'. Cotton, or any other, would have m>de that comingjonb ufB•bel in!he Antitype, Rev. 18. 4· to be local/ and materiall alfo. For what CiviH State, or Nation, or Countrey in the world, in the Anti type cor~ld llbW be taOd;l Babel.? If any, then fore{! Babel it felfe proper~] fo c.lled: ·btrt there Jll'e finde a trN< Cbmch of fe[U1 Chrijl, I Pet. S· Secondly If Babel be loca/1 now, whence GJds People are callea, then mujl th:re be a )ocall Judea, a Ls11d of Canaan alfo, into wbich thry are ~·ueJ,.&•· Rep.ly. If the Examiner had been plea fed· to have read M'.13rig'btmanon Rev. 18-4- He mi~ht 6nde, I was notthefirlhhat Interpreted, either chat place in Ij:Jiah, or this in R~~-<lation, of a locall fc· Pf.ration. For as there was in old Babel, limdry of Gods Ifraei,In· babif.aJ)ts theQ ·WhCjD the M,dts and P<rftans w~re about to take ir, ;~nd deft roy it: fo Will there be in new Babd fundry of God~ choten pceplt: 1\ill iqhabiting amongll ~~em, even then w_hm .the ten Kings will be ready to take· the Cme, and to burne It Wtth fire. Unto whom as the Lord fent his An!\tls to hafton Lot out of Sodome, when he was abouc· to dellroy it : fo he hath I em a11d wi!l fend the voyce of his Me!kngers to hafien his people, as )'Jell one of new Babel,( as he did out of old) be,fore that fudaine dcfirt:JB:ion fall upon the City, and upJo themi'n it. He need not makeitfo flrange, What CiviO Stute, or 'NJtio"''" Counmy ;, the world [b ali be cJ[/,d Babel now?-As if che >ery cxp. dle letter ofthe T,xt had not clearely enough deciphereJ tl;Jc City of B.o;,., the great City, which in Johns time reigned over the Ki ngs of the Earth, tp be the 8Jbyl•n, (the Ancirype ofB.bel in ChJidea,) whom the Lord would dellroy, and out of whom he callerh his people to depart? Why doth he tell us of B•bel in p,ter, ( Eab,/ in Cbaldea,) as if the Type and the Anti type were literally the fame place l Or as if he wece altogether a !!ranger in the Booke of the lltVelation, and never underllood Romt to be called Babylon ? But |