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A81085	The little horns doom & dovvnfall or A scripture-prophesie of King James, and King Charles, and of this present Parliament, unfolded. Wherein it appeares, that the late tragedies that have bin acted upon the scene of these three nations: and particularly, the late Kings doom and death, was so long ago, as by Daniel pred-eclared [sic]. And what the issue of all will be, is also discovered; which followes in the second part. By M. Cary, a servant of Jesus Christ.	Cary, Mary.	1651 (1651)	Wing C737; Thomason E1274_1; ESTC R210569	159,322	385

them in deceiving of them as he did Eve that he will it's likely perswade them to believe that they shall by their power overcome the Saints and as he perswaded Eve to believe that in eating the forbidden fruit they should be as gods knowing good and evil so he will perswade these that in making war they shall overcome the Saints though Jesus Christ be with them Thus this old deceiver and lyer shall deceive the unconverted miserable people among the Nations of the world who during all the time of the thousand yeers will be quiet and never dare to attempt any such thing and yet then they shall gather togetner against the Saints and think to overcome them but when they shall attempt to do it the Saints shall then have no need of swords nor spears to defend themselves against that brunt that one assault for the text says Fire shall come down from God out of heaven and devour all these wicked men Thus is declared what will be done after Satan is loosed and what his reward for this work shall be is declared vers 10. And the devil that deceived the nations was cast alive into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever And now comes to be declared what shall follow immediately upon this and that follows in vers 11 12 13 14 15. And I saw a great white throne and him that sate upon it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works And the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire This is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire In these verses is declared that immediately upon the ruining of all the wicked of the Nations the last and general day of judgement is to follow When comes the Resurrection of all both just and unjust I say the last and general day of judgement and resurrection of all for in this twentieth chapter of the Revelation it is cleer that here is a mention made of two Resurrections and the one to be a thousand yeers before the other and the first is treated of in the 4 5 and 6 verses and is there called the FIRST RESURRECTION and the second is laid down in these verses where it is said that the Heavens and the earth are then to be annihilated to flie away at the presence of the Lord who upon his white throne of righteousness after these thousand yeers are finished is to appear and to judge all the dead small and great who are to stand before him being all raised out of the Graves and out of the Sea and all places where the dead have been laid and to be judged righteously according to the Gospel and according to their works and they being so judged it will follow that whosoever is not found written in the book of life shall be cast into a lake of fire And this general day of judgement here treated of is also treated of in several other Scriptures as in Mat. 25. 31 32 c. Where our Saviour thus describes it and says that in that day he shall sit upon the throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered all Nations and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his Sheep from the Goats and he shall set the Sheep on his right hand but the Goats on the left Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world for I was c. And then shall he say also unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels for c. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Thus in this Scripture is this general day of the final judging of all spoken of also wherein to every one is to be rendred according to his works Again another Scripture to this purpose is that in the first of the Corinthians at the fifteenth chapter where Paul more largely discourses of the doctrine of the Resurrection in some particulars of it then it is any where else in Scripture treated of where in the first part of the chapter he makes it his work to prove the certainty of the Resurrection of the body against those Pharisaical spirits that denyed it And having proved the Resurrection by many undenyable and unanswerable Arguments he comes to declare at the twenty third verse and so on in what order the Resurrection shall be he having before said that all shall be raised But says he it shall be every man in his own order Christ the first fruits and afterward they that are Christs at his coming Here is the Order of the Resurrection Christ the first fruits Well Christ was to be raised first in order of time and that was done already Christ was raised when the Apostle writ this Epistle But who are to be raised next The Apostle tells us It must be they that are Christs And when must they be raised The Apostle answers At his coming Afterward they that are Christs at his coming This is the first Resurrection wherein the Saints must at the coming of Christ be raised to reign with him spoken of Revel 20. 4. But then the general Resurrection and the last great day he speaks of in vers 24. 25. and 28. Where he says Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet the last enemie that shall be destroyed is death And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all Here he declares that Jesus Christ being come and having received his kingdome and his Saints being raised at his coming to reign with him that after his coming and reigning and ruling and putting all enemies under his feet and death it self Then cometh the end when he shall deliver up the kingdom to his father and the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all That is there shall be a cessation of the

away his Dominion and destroy him unto the end And what the issue of all this will be is discovered in the following verse but of that in its place But now it may bee some may slight this interpretation saying that it is not to be regarded seeing severall have given severall Interpretations of Scriptures and most of them have been besides the truth and so may this will they say But to those I have but this to say first that upon this account they may continually sleight all that shall bee said in opening the Scriptures though it be never so consonant unto the Truth and minde of the Spirit of God the Author of the Scriptures And so God with such sleight spirits will not have the glory of his pre-decreeing of the things he will have to come to passe many hundred yeeres after and of his exact bringing things to passe according to the counsels of his own will so many hundred yeeres before resolved upon And secondly they in so doing doe give lesse honour to God then the heathens did to their Devilish Oracles which would pretend to foreshew things to come and lesse then they doe to Astronomers who from the stars do pretend to foretell things whereas God oftentimes frustrateth the tokens of those lyars and maketh those diviners mad Isa 44. 25. and they cannot foreshew any thing infallibly though possibly from the stars they may give some uncertain hints of things but it is that which is proper to God alone infallibly to fore-tell things to come As appeares Isa 48. 3 4 5. and Isa 46. 9 10. and which hee doth from time to time do by his servants the Prophets and therefore what they have declared from God hath been done for our observation Rom. 15. 4 Psa 107. 43. Deut. 29. 29. Wherein we may see that what God hath done from age to age hath all along bin the fulfilling of his word of which we are to give him the glory And thirdly though some Interpreters have failed of truth which it may bee hath been the hardening of the hearts of some yet this will not be a sufficient discharge for any from their duty of observing these things that when the truth appeares God may have the glory But fourthly it is true things have often been ancertainely hit at by some men before they came to passe but these things are come to passe and all prophecies are best understood when they are fulfilled or neer to be fulfilled not but that oftentimes prophecies have been cleerely understood long beforehand by many precious Saints But fifthly this is certaine that when the very minde of God in Prophecies is unerringly laid open being cleerly and convincingly discovered to his Saints and servants that desire to pry into and observe these things according to their dutie that even then some will not receive them neither the wise of the world nor the wicked of the world as appeares Mat. 11 25. and Dan. 12. 10. But though the worldly-wise do not yet they that have wisdome from above shall have these things revealed to them and shall understand them as appeares in the same Scriptures for when truth is revealed the children of truth having one and the same spirit shall see it with the same eye and rejoyce with the same joy in seeing of it My Sheepe know my voice John 10. 27. They know that it is my voice and not anothers voice and indeed it is chiefly for their sakes who know his voice who have his spirit that all truths are revealed But all these are generall answers but for this particular Interpretation I have onely this to say That I do not pretend to be any more exempted from uncertainty then any other of the deare servants of God have been to whom God hath very often revealed his secrets though sometimes some things of their owne suppositions have slipt from them and therefore I shall not presse any to believe these things because I have said them unlesse they do therein hear the voice of Christ and his spirit setting them home upon them For this I know that truth is powerfull enough to to prevaile with Saints and for the truth of these things of which I have spoken or of whatever is laid down in the following discourse I leave them to the great God who hath put me upon the publishing of them to make them prevalent with as many as hee intends good unto by them And further this I must professe that it hath not been a few daies only or since the last Kings death onely that I have thus been made to understand this Scripture But I thus understood it for above nine yeeres ago and to this the Lord is witnesse and severall godly people whom I have made acquainted with it at severall times so that when the late King was in his height I declared my confidence that the Parliament should prevaile over him and at last destroy him But seeing as I have said that all Prophesies are best understood in the fulfilling of them the truth of these things will therefore doubtlesse now be the more prevailing with Saints But one word more and that is this That though it is true that usually Saints know the voice of Christ and are able to say certainly this is or this is not the voice of Christ I say though it be thus usually with them yet there are some cases in which they are uncertaine and some truths about which they can neither say that it is truth or that it is not truth And now if this be the case of any about these things I have spoken of I have onely this to say to them that though they cannot receive them presently yet let them beware how they sleight them and this I must tell them that if the Lord had not all along hitherto in the workes of his providence which in many particulars were very observable evidenced the truth hereof and if hee doe not demonstrate it more and more it might bee the more tollerable for them thus to sleight it but considering how wonderfully from day to day this is cleared and will be cleared Oh let them beware how they wilfully shut their eyes against the light of it for any private interest whatsoever lest in shutting their eyes against light they be shut up in Babylonian darknesse and consequently partake with Babylon both in her sins and in her plagues And now I should here proceed to the 27 verse but because it treateth of the glorious Kingdom which Jesus Christ shall have in the world and that being a subject which my spirit is drawn out to treat more largely and amply of it then any yet have done I shall therefore handle it in an intire book by it selfe closing up this discourse with those expressions of the Psalmist Psal 92. 5 6 7. O Lord how great are thy workes thy thoughts are very deep A bruitish man knoweth not neither doth a foole understand this when the wicked

all the enemies of Christ are made his footstool that at this very time shall Jesus Christ appear with his Saints to raign on earth Of the time when the full deliverance of the Jews and Gentiles shall be compleated But first a word or two about the time when it shall be that Jesus Christ will work this full deliverance for his Saints from their enemies when this great day of his appearing shall be Now in general the time when this last great overthrow of wicked men and this wonderful glorious and compleat deliverance of the Saints shall be after the Lamb hath overcome the ten Kings And after the Gospel hath been preached to all Nations for the bringing in of Jews and Gentiles and after Rome is burnt as we have already said But some may say But how many yeers may it be before these things shall be done If it might be we would know the direct time for it may be long before all these things may be done before the ten Kings are overcome and before the Jews may be converted and the Gentiles fulness come in and before Rome is destroyed and long before that great day come and according to reason it will be a very long time if we should judge according to sense but that we know that beyond sense and reason the Lord can make a short work of it and cut it short in righteousness But if the Scripture do give any hint of the time we desire to know it To this I answer first that I believe this is enough to satisfie a Saint and to make his heart joyful to know that the time of the prevailing power of the Saints enemies over them is come to an end and that they shall never overcome them any more but the Lamb is already seen to be come upon mount Sion where he hath called out his called chosen and faithful ones with which he will go on conquering and to conquer and by whom he will ruine Rome and execute upon his enemies the judgement written I say this is matter of joy to a Saint to know that Christ is a doing these things though they do not know when he will finish this or that particuler work But secondly and more particularly For the yeer in which or neer to which this great day shall be wherein the enemies of the Saints both Jews and Gentiles that shall be converted shall be I shall here propose my apprehensions and leave them to the judicious wise and intelligent Christian to judge of them * Dan. 12. 10. And for this I must have recourse to Dan 12. a chapter which speaks plainly and particularly of this great day of the final deliverance of the Saints in general though particularly it mention but the Jews for the one cannot be without the other as in v. 1. At that time shall Michael stand up the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation This is that great day we have spoken of wherein there shall be such a dismal terrible time to wicked men in general as never was since the world began But it shall be as I said to wicked men but not to the converted Jews nor Gentiles not to the Saints And therefore it follows in this verse And at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in the book When Michael the Prince i. e. Jesus Christ the great Prince of Israel even of all the Israel of God shall stand up for them in this great day then will he vex their enemies put them to such trouble as there never was the like But all his own people who have given up their names to him who are listed in his book shall be delivered This shall be the work of that great day and that which shall follow immediately upon it follows in v. 2 3. of the chap. whereby it is evident that this chapter speaks of this great day of the deliverance both of Jews and Gentiles Though to Daniel being a Jew there is no mention made of the Gentiles but of his people onely Well this being a prophecy of this great day let us now see what in this chapter is spoken of the time Now I finde that this Chapter speaks of three distinct periods of time in which three distinct remarkable things shall come to pass in order to the deliverance of the Saints And the first time mentioned the 6 and 7 verses speak to and in the 6 verse this question is made How long shall it be to the end of these wonders To which in the 7 verse a double answer is given which is confirmed with a very solemn Oath first that it should be for a time times and a half and secondly that when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished Now for the first of these answers because I have had occasion already to open the meaning of it * In my book intituled The Resurrection of the witnesses and have shewed that the same expressions in the Revelation and this here agree in one and point at one and the same thing namely the flourishing time of the Beast the prevailing time of the Beast wherein he shall have power to overcome the Saints and to trample them under foot even fourty two months or a time times and half a time And having cleared this and shewed when that time did expire and that after that time neither the Beast nor the little Horn prevailed any more I say having spoken of these things already I shall refer the Reader thereunto where they shall finde that in 1645 the Beast ceased to prevail against the Saints and the time wherein he should tread the holy Citie under foot then came to an end and neither he nor his associates shall ever prevail more And then this is the effect of the first answer to the question That there should be a time times and an half and then an end should come in which time times and half the Saints should be kept under by enemies but then an end should come and deliverance come And the second branch of the answer makes this clearly to be the meaning of the former which is in these words And when he shall have accomplished to have scattered the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished In which first is clear that there should be a time when the power of the holy people should be scattered the Saints should be destitute of power to oppose an enemy and consequently should be kept under by an enemy Secondly This is clear in these words that there should be a time when this should be accomplished or compleated I mean their power being scattered there should be a time when it should be fully done for then a thing is accomplished when it is fully done as much as

Would live in peace and quietness but he Opposed that and would not let it be But War against the Saints did make that so He might them all destroy and overthrow But now he is destroy'd himself and as He did delight in blood ev'n so blood was Giv'n him to drink are you ev'n you so far From singing songs of praise as that you are Offended at this thing as if you were Of Rome her ruine unwilling to hear O let it not of you of you be said But now do you remember how you 've pray'd Against the Beast the Whore and all the Crew Of their adherents that support them do And give not all the world just cause to say You are not as you were the other day But that whereas you did both pray and fight Against that wicked Crew with all your might You now oppose 〈◊〉 the Saints in the Land Who do unto those first Principles stand Which were for to oppose King Queen and all That did support the Whore that down must fall Which they do still pursue unto the end And wholly unto that their counsels tend But if you will now shew your selves to be The sons of Sion then let all men see That you repent of your evils in that You Camels swallow'd have and at a Gnat Have strained when with foes you have joyned And true Saints have oppos'd because they did Not close with you in ev'ry circumstance And thing that was of lesser consequence But if you do persist herein surely You shall be made ashamed in that day When God shall justly judge between you and His other faithful people in the Land Who always have desir'd your happiness And eke also your liberty and peace If peaceably you would have lived in The place or Nation where you have bin But those that have been medling peace to break Have themselves into trouble put their neck But now if that henceforth you shall no more Support the Beast nor helpers of the Whore But hearts and hands shall joyn with them that do Oppose the enemies of Christ and do Give up themselves to wait upon the Lord And him to serve according to his Word Then upon you shall mercy be and peace And all the Israel of God these days FINIS POSTSCRIPT HAving often referred the Reader in this book unto that intitled The Resurrection of the Witnesses I shall here desire the Reader to take notice That in the last line of pag. 81. in that Book he is for The reign of Phocas the Emperour to reade the reign of Arcadius and Honorius the Emperours There being in that Book a mistake of the Emperours name by reason of a trusting to memory and neglecting to consult the history about it but no mistake of the time for that 's most evident That in the yeer 404 Innocentius being made Bishop of Rome he then first usurped the Papal power and advanced the See of Rome above all other and would have it to be judged by none And presently upon this began the Saints to be persecuted and deprived of their liberties For Innocentius was the first that drove the Novations out of Rome and deprived them of many Churches as witnesses Socrates lib. 7. ch 8. And those that were Novations were the most truly religious people in those times as appears by the several testimonies Historians give of them I will cite but one expression that Socrates hath concerning them lib. 4. chap. 9. The Arrians abhorred them says he because they loved intirely such as embraced the Faith of one substance Those that embraced the Faith of one substance were they that believed the Son of God to be very God and of one substance with the Father and these the Novations loved intirely says Socrates In many other things they are by Historians discovered to be truly religious And these and all that purely professed the truths of Christ from this yeer 404 began to be persecuted and troden under foot by the Popish crew Thus much I thought good here to insert to correct that mistake in the first impression of those books There are two or three other faults escaped in printing but they being not material I shall not trouble the Reader with the mention of them FINIS