| it is done as to the Chaldean Babylon, the Type to this Antitype : Both Iſuiah and Feremiah declared in more than one Sermon 1ts certain approaching Ruine. Theſe words are taken from J/a. 21. 9. where the word fallen is doubled, as here. They are found al- ſo, Fer. 51. 8. God here explaineth what he had ſaid before, chap. 14. 8. The words are ſuch as might ſignifie a_finful Fall, or Apoſtacy; and wiat is here, is'true of it in that Tenſe; Jdo/s in Scripture being ordinarily called Devils : but they ſeem rather to be underſtood of a Penal Fall, for ſuch is that ſpoken of, 7/a. 21. 6. after which it ſhould become an e Habitation of Devils, and a Cage of unclean Birds. Sec the like ſpoken of literal Babylon, Ta. 13.16, 20, 2I, Wil Peaits, and hateful Birds uſually frequenting delolate Places. 3 For all naticns * have drunk of the wine of the vrath of her fornication f, and the kings of theearth | nave committed fornication wirh her, and the mer- { Or.4.9% Chants of the earth are waxed rich through the || abun- dance of her delicacies g.
f Thats, her Fornications whicis haye brought this Wrath upon
her. g She hai not only her ſelf committed 1dolatry, bus allu- ; r-d others to 1, tanning them to break the Commandments of God, 2nd hath influcaced Princes to eſtabliſh, and propagate, and ſo up-
FLORES 25
REVELATION.
Chap. XVi1I.
hold, and maintain it; and all ſorts of Men have been bewitched by her, growing rich by her Abundance, and being drenched in her Luxury.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven h,ſaying, * Come out of her my people 7, that ye be nor par- takers of her fins &, and that ye receive not of her plagues / :
h A Command from God. 7 They are the words of God by his Prophet, Fer. 50.8. and 51. 6. calling to his People, that, the years of their Captivity being now expired, and they having a Liberty to g0 back to Hieruſalem, they would not linger longer in Babylon, k nor partake of her Sins; 1 for God was about to deſtroy that place; and 1t they were found in it, they would be in danger- of being de- ſtroyed with it, eſpecially if they were found Partakers of its Sins, But they are alſo a general Warning to all to take heed of any Fel- lowfhip with Idolaters ; and fo the Apoſtle applieth part of theſe words, 2 Cor. 6.17, Here they are applied to myſtical Babylon, which is Rome Antichriftian. God calls to all that either love him, or their on Souls, to forſake the Communion of it ; for while they continue in it, they muſt partake of its Sins, worſhipping the Beaſt, by paying at his Command, a Divine Homage to Saints and Angels, to the Virgin Mary, to Images and Statues ; nay, to a piece of Bakers-Bread ; and doing fo, they will be involved in her Plagues. This Text looks terribly upon thoſe who apoſtatize to that Idolatry ; and inſtead of coming our (in obedience to the Command of God) being come out, go in again, and that not by compulſion, but out of choice, and voluntarily.
5 For her fins have reached unto heaven 7, and * *Ch.16.19 God hath remembred her iniquities m That is, the cry of her Sins; according to what is ſaid of S- dom (one of the Types of Antichriſt,) Gen. 18. 20,21. n The time js come when God will puniſh her for her Idolatry, and %- 5+ "pan and all the abominable things done and committed y her.
6 * Reward her even as ſhe rewarded you, and , "IO double unto her double, according to her works : ks
T in the cup which ſhe hath filled, fill to her — wg
double o. o This Verſe ſoundeth in mine Ears, as if God had reſerved the
* Il.48.20, & 52.11,
| Ruine of the Papacy to be effected by ſome Proteſtant Hands, ſome
of thoſe whom they had Perſecuted ; if not ſome of their Perſons, yet ſome of the ſame Faith.
7 How much ſhe hath glorified her ſelf, and lived deliciouſly, 1o much torment and ſorrow give her p : for ſhe faith in her heart, * I fit a queen, and am *I1fa. 47:7; no widow, and ſhall ſee no ſorrow g. þ This ſpeaketh thus much : That when ever God's time cometh for the Ruine of the Papacy, the Condition of all that Party ſhall appear as miſerable, as it appears now ſplendid and happy. q And one great reaſon of this ſo great Affiaion, will be the Pride, Pre- ſumption, and Security of that FaRtion, much after the rate of old Babylon, Iſa. 47. 8. Old Babylon thought it ſelf impregnable ; and new myſtical Babylon thinks her ſelf infallible and impregnable too ; the only Church (if we will believe her) againſt whom the Gates of Hell ſhall not prevail. 8 Therefore ſhall her plagues come in one day 7, death, and mourning, and famine ; and ſhe * ſhall *c.17.16 be utterly burnt with fire /; For ſtrong zs the Lord God who judgeth her z. r As was threatned to old Babylon, Iſa. 47. 9. In one day, that 1s, 10 4 ſhort time. / All manner of Judgments, till ſhe be fully conſumed. :# For ſhe hath to do with a ſtrong Lord : She thinks ſhe hath ſecured her ſelf from Man, * by: anterefting Kings and Princes in her Quarrel; but it is the Lord that judgeth her, and ſhe will find him ſtrong enough to accompliſh his Word upon her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have commit- ted fornication, and lived deliciouſly with her * «g.,,.26. ſha!l bewail. her, and lament for her, when Þ they 17. ſhall ſee ihe ſmoke of her burning z :- Ver. 3. . # Not all of them, for ſome of them ſhall help to burn her,ch.19, F Ver. 1% I, 2,16. but ſuch as God had left to their Hardneſs of Heart, that they ſtill live in her Fellowſhip and Communion : Or, if others alſo, it muſt proceed from-their Humanity, not being able to ſee ſo ſplen- did a City as that of Ryme ruined, and ſo many ruined as will periſh by her Fall, withoutthe moving of their Bowels by ſome Pity and Commiſeration, {