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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35274	The resurrection of the witnesses and Englands fall from (the mystical Babylon) Rome clearly demonstrated to be accomplished, whereby great encouragement is administred to all saints, but especially to the saints in England, in the handling of a part of the eleventh chapter of the Revelation / by M. Cary ...	Cary, Mary.	1648 (1648)	Wing C737A; ESTC R33344	91,608	233

a devilish power and authority and is one with the devil This is he of whom it is said All the world wondered after the Beast and worshipped the Dragon that gave power unto the Beast and worshipped the Beast saying Who is like unto the Beast Who is able to make warre with him And of whom it was said That there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him to continue fourty and two months c. As you have it pages 46 and 47. But secondly If it be queried What that Woman is that is said Chapter 17. 3. to sit upon this Beast We have an Answer to this in the 18 verse of this 17. Chapter in these words And the Woman which thou sawest is that great City which raigneth over the Kings of the earth Now what that great City was that did then raign over the Kings of the earth though it were not so apparent in severall other histories as it is yet the Scriptures could sufficiently inform us for it informs us that Tribute was paid to Caesar Matth. 22. 17. And that because Caesar was he that raigned over the kings of the earth the Jews said to Pilate If thou let this man go thou art not Caesars friend And that Paul appealed to Caesar as being the highest authority that then was as appears Acts 25. 10 11. Now the place where Caesars royall seat was then was the City of Rome as appears in that Paul was sent thither So that Rome was the City that then raigned over the Kings of the earth And therefore it was that it was accounted such a priviledge to be a Roman Acts 22. 25 26. Now since it is clear in Scripture and all histories do acknowledge it that Rome was the great City that raigned over the Kings of the earth Then it appears That Rome is that Woman that is said to sit upon the Beast Now this being apparent it doth appear the more clearly what the Beast is It was clear before That the Beast was a wicked one in whom the Devill raigned that had received power and a seat and great Authority from the Devil but it did not so clearly appear who that wicked one in particular is But here it appears that it is particularly he upon whom the City of Rome sitteth he that supports it Now it is apparent that it is that wicked one the Pope that is the support of the cursed City He it is that bears her up in her pompe and pride and filthy abominable Sodomiticall practises He is the Beast upon which that great Whore sitteth And the City of Rome hath been and to this day is such a fountain of filthinesse and whoredoms and all cursed abominations as this name appears so perspicuously in her forehead as he that runs may reade it MYSTERIE BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH And it is apparent that She is drunken with the blood of Saints and the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus But thirdly If the Question be What the seven heads of the Beast are The Angel gives an answer to that at the 9 verse of the 17. Chapter The seven heads are seven mountains upon which the Woman sitteth The Woman being the City of Rome the seven heads of the Beast are said to be the seven mountains upon which that City was built And with this Historians agree 〈◊〉 say that the City of Rome was founded upon seven mountains Now these may as properly be said to be the seven heads of the Beast as the ten Kings may be said to be his ten horns as will appear by and by Fourthly If it should be enquired What the ten horns are mentioned Chap. 12. 3. and 13. 1. 17. 3 The Angel answers that in the 12 verse of the seventeen Chapter in these words And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no Kingdome as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the Beast These have one minde and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast these shall make war with the Lamb c. In these words the Angel unveils this also and tels us that those which are mysteriously exprest by the ten horns of the Beast are the ten Kings which did give up their power and strength unto the Beast with one consent one mind and thus it came to passe for when the devil gave the Pope that power and authority whereby the Emperor of Rome was subjected to him then the ten Kingdomes that were under Rome did likewise willingly give up their power to him also and were subjected to the Beast and as he so they also made warre with the Lamb the Lord Jesus in his Saints and so became the ten horns of the Beast by which he became the more dreadfull and terrible for he had not been so dreadful if he had but only had the strength of his seven heads of that great City that is seated upon seven hils but having these ten horns also these ten Kingdoms he was become very terrible But fifthly If it should be queried What the many waters are upon which the Woman sitteth mentioned Chap. 17. 1. 13. 1 The Angel answers that also in the 15. verse of the 17. Chapter in these words The waters which thou sawest where the Whore sitteth are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues So that this is not left in the mysterie neither but the Angel plainly declares That by the waters is meant the peoples and nations and multitudes and tongues And the Whore is said to sit upon them because they have willingly subjected themselves unto her to be as it were vassals to her Now by this time it appears from these 12 13 and 17. Chapters what those Gentiles mentioned in the text to whom the Temple and the holy City was given are in particular for it appears that as though the Church of old had many enemies yet they were particularly given to the Babylonians the Chaldeans So now the Church is particularly given to be trodden under foot of mysticall Babylon Rome and of that wicked one the Pope that hath received from the devil his power and his seat and great authority Now that these particular enemies did as the text declares Tread the holy City under foot appears also in these following passages Rev. 12. 13 14 15. The Dragon persecuted the Woman which brought forth a man-childe and to the Woman were given two wings of a great Eagle that she might flee into the wildernesse into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time from the face of the serpent and the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the Woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood That by the Dragon here mentioned is meant the Pope who is one with him appears page 49. 50. Now he is here said to persecute

Revel 16. 3 4. And to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will How Saints may be said to smite the earth or earthly men with all plagues doth in part appear page 72. where it appears That they doe it by their praiers for when the praiers of the Saints ascended up before God then it is said Revel 8. 5. That fire was cast upon the earth or earthly men and produced dreadfull effects as voices and thundering and lightnings and an earthquake Thus Saints doe smite the Earth with all plagues by their praiers But they doe not only smite the Earth by their praiers but also by their prophesying and holding forth the Testimony of Jesus Christ for by the earth here spoken of is peculiarly expressed those earthly men that in a more especial manner trod the Saints under foot Now they as before appears were the Beast the Pope and his Complices the Babylonian Romans and all that were of that faction Now these the Saints do smite with all plagues by their holding forth the Testimony of Jesus Christ against them as well as by praying against them for thereby is their Doctrine discovered to be a pack of abominable lies and this proves a plague unto them and this pains them at the very heart for by this plague they are like to die it is like to prove a mortall disease unto them and therefore is very grievous Revel 12. 11. The Saints are said to overcome the Dragon by the bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their Testimony for they loved not their lives unto the death Whereby it is evident That by holding forth the Testimony of Jesus Christ and sealing it with their bloud the Saints doe smite the devil in the Beast so as to overcome him And thus by their praiers and by the word of their Testimony Saints doe smite the earth that is their Babylonical enemies with all plagues as often as they will Verse 7. And when they shall have finished their testimony It is but a prefixed terme of time as appears in the third verse That Jesus Christ will have his people prophesie in a despicable sad and low condition cloathed in sackcloth and that is so long as the Beast is to continue as appears by comparing the third verse of this Chapter with the fifth verse of the thirteenth Chapter and that tearm of time which the Beast was to continue and the Saints to be troden under foot and to prophesie in sackcloth is a thousand two hundred and threescore years as appears page 62. Now this 1260. years being added to the year wherein the Beast received his devillish power and seat and great authority in the raign of Phocus the Emperour which was as say Historians in the year 404. I say adding to this 1260. it makes up 1664. And this year 1664 should be the year wherein the Witnesses should finish their giving Testimony Cloathed in sackcloth If this 1260 years should be computed according to the rule of Astronomers allowing 365 daies to a year and to every fourth year adding a day more But we finde that the holy Ghost in this prophesie not observing that rule doth allow but 360 daies to a year and according to that rule 1260 daies to three yeares and an half And therefore in computing the time of the Witnesses prophesying in sackcloth we are to observe the rule which the holy Ghost here laies down to allow 360 daies to a year and so the time of the Witnesses prophesying in sackcloth is to expire eighteen years and almost an half sooner then as by the other account and so the beginning of the year 1645. was the time when the Witnesses prophesying in sackcloth and of being troden under foot of the Beast and his adherents did expire And when they shall have finished their Testimony the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlesse pit That the Pope is the Beast that ascended out of the bottomlesse pit is made evident in p. 49 c. And therefore it is the Pope that is expressed here also by the name of the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlesse pit The Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomles pit shall make war against them This warre which is here mentioned that the Beast was to make against the Witnesses the Saints of Jesus Christ is the late warre that hath been by him made in Ireland and England as will perspicuously appear by comparing it with that description of it which is given in this and the following verses And first that this warre was made by the Beast that ascended out of the bottomlesse pit that is by the Pope is most evident For First What is done by any of the ten Kingdomes that are of his hornes is his act And Secondly Whatever is done by his instigation is done by him Now in both these respects the warre late in England and in Ireland is the Beasts warre For First All that have acknowledged any Kingdoms to be the horns of the Beast have acknowledged England to be one of them Therefore this warre being made by the authority of one of the ten horns of the Beast was made by the Beast But it may be objected But England was fallen from Rome before the warre which was begun in 1641. for Queen Elizabeth long since cast off the Popes Supremacy and it was never since acknowledged by the Kings of England and together with the Popes Supremacy was the Popish Canons and Decrees rejected and for matter of Doctrine the Doctrine embraced in England was purely refined from the dregs of mens inventions And how could England then be said these things being done to be one of the horns of the Beast and a part of the Babylonicall City of Rome Answ Although England had done these things yet England was still one of the horns and a part of that City And this will appear if we consider what it was that made the Bishop of Rome to become the Beast and what made the City of Rome to become the mysticall Babylon Now the Bishop of Rome did then become the Beast when he did receive from the devil for Jesus Christ never gave it him a power to exercise authority over the consciences of all that did professe Christianity and by this power he did oppresse and trouble and afflict the precious Saints of Jesus Christ by this means also did Rome become the mysticall Babylon for heerby did it enslave and vassalize the Saints as Babylon of old did the Church that then was and then consequently all the ten Kingdomes that did exercise this authority over the conscience did thereby become a part of Babylon and the horns of the beast by which he did push and gore and destroy the Saints of Jesus Christ And hereby was the holy City troden under foot Now then though Queen Elizabeth cast of the Popes supremacy and a great part of his devilish doctrine yet England did notwithstanding remain one of the horns