Babylons downfall a sermon lately preached at Westminster before sundry of the honourable House…

Sal•mon saith, Ecclesiast. 12. 13. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. As God is an all-sufficient being for a man to live upon, so Gods word is an all-sufficient rule for a man to live by. And if we look into Is. 30. 22. We shall find that God doth not only command, that the Images themselves should be destroyed, but that their coverings should be defiled. I remember what Master Dering said in a Sermon before Queen Elizabeth. There hath bin much dust in the house, and though for the present the house be swept, yet the dust is but laid behind the door, and a Hen will come that will spread it all abroad again. Wherefore, I beseech you take heed, that there be no dust left in the house of God in any corner. Give us the ordinances of Christ in their naked, and own colours, so shall they be blest to us, we under them, and you by them.

Sal•mon saith, Ecclesiast. 12. 13. Feare God, and keep his commandements, for this is the whole duty of man. As God is an all-sufficient being for a man to live upon, so Gods word is an all-sufficient rule for a man to live by. And if wee looke into Is. 30. 22. Wee shall finde that God doth not onely command, that the Images themselves should be destroyed, but that their coverings should bee desiled. I remember what Master Dering said in a Sermon before Queen Elizabeth. There hath bin much dust in the house, and though for the present the house be swept, yet the dust is but layd behind the doore, and a Hen will come that will spread it all abroad againe. Wherefore, I beseech you take heed, that there be no dust left in the house of God in any corner. Give us the ordinances of Christ in their naked, and owne colours, so shall they be blest to us, we under them, and you by them.

It is with you also to set up burning, and shining lights in every Candlestick of the Kingdom. First, that the Candlestick be rightly fashioned; secondly, that the lights therein be duly settled with golden snuffers, not brazen extinguishers. This is a special help to the fall of Babylon, for ye heard from the context, that no sooner did there an Angel fly through the midst of heaven with the everlasting Gospel, that is, preaching openly; but another Angel followed presently, crying, Babylon is fallen. You know, that contraries have contrary consequences. Babylon was built by Ignorance,