14. Matt. xxii. 3.
POLITICAL WRITINGS 315 sometimes this very temporal mingling bringeth it to pass that certain men belonging to the city Babylon, do order matters belonging to Jerusalem, and again certain men belonging to Jerusalem, do order matters belonging to Babylon. Something difficult I seem to have propounded. Be ye patient, until it be proved by examples. For all things in the old people, as writeth the Apostle, in a figure used to befall them: but they have been written for our amendment, upon whom the end of the world hath come.^^ Regard therefore that people as also set to intimate an after people; and see then what I say. There were great kings in Jerusalem: it is a known fact, they are enumerated, are named. They all were, I say, wicked citizens of Babylon, and they were ordering matters of Jerusalem: all men from thence to be dissevered at the end, to no one but to the devil do belong. Again we find citizens of Jerusalem to have ordered certain matters belonging to Babylon. For those three children, Nebuchadnezzar, overcome by a miracle, made the ministers of his kingdom, and set them over his Satraps; and so there were ordering the matters of Babylon citizens of Jerusalem. Observe now how this is being fulfilled and done in the Church, and in these times. All they of whom hath been said. What things they say do ye, but what things they do, do not,^^ are citizens of Babylon, ordering the commonwealth of the City Jerusalem. For if they were ordering nothing of the City Jerusalem, whence What things they say do ye? Whence, In the chair of Moses they sit? Again, if citizens they are of Jerusalem
Herself, that shall reign for everlasting with Christ,
13. Cor. X. 11. 14. Matt. xxii. 3.