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A52084 Two sorts of latter days, proved from Scripture. First, the latter days of perilous times, the which are to be ended before the great and glorious latter days have their beginning. Proved when the elder people or nation is to serve the younger. And by that servitude made blessed. The old and new testament made to agree. And truth vindicated against all heresies. By M. Marsin Marsin, M. 1699 (1699) Wing M813E; ESTC R223742 30,711 48

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Two SORTS OF Latter Days PROVED FROM SCRIPTURE FIRST THE Latter Days of Perilous Times THE WHICH Are to be Ended before the Great and Glorious LATTER DAYS have their Beginning Proved when the Elder People or Nation is to serve the Younger AND By That SERVITUDE made BLESSED The Old and New Testament made to Agree AND TRUTH Vindicated against all HERESIES By M. MARSIN London Printed and Sold by J. Bradford in Little Britain the Corner House over against the Pump Mrs. Michael at the Crown and Cushion in Westminster-Hall And at Mercers Chappel in Cheapside At John Gwillum's over against the Great James in Bishopsgate-street 1699. The Dedication IT is humbly offered his Majesty and the great Council of the Nation that if there is any other place of Scripture which is not answered in this nor my other Book if it stand in any opposition to the Scriptures agreement as to hinder the Witness of the Apostles from agreeing with the Testimony of the Prophets which is the sure word of Prophesie 2 Pet. 1.19 Vnto which the Christians were always to take heed so as to believe nothing in contradiction thereunto by God's assistance it will be made plain And I hope that neither his Majesty nor the Nobles nor the Clergy will be offended that God should bring these great Truths to Light by so weak an Instrument for God often makes use of such to declare great things by that so his Power thereby might be the more eminently seen For had God by the Wise and Learned Doctors of the time removed all the mistaken Notions and made his Word to agree which Man had made so much to disagree And likewise explained the Vision so plain from the word it would have been thought it had proceeded from their great Parts and Learning Therefore God chuses the weak things of this World that all the Praise may be rendered to his Name And it being every ones concern to understand the great Truths of God ' s word Therefore it is desired that into whose hands soever this Book shall come that they will Read it But especially it is more humbly requested of all to whom it is presented that they will read it themselves because it is of very great import and I hope they will reap Satisfaction by it God bless the King and Great Council and remember the Jews in Mercy according to his Promises made to their Fathers TO THE READER Friendly Reader TO know the Scriptures aright is the great concern of Christians the which by the Apostacy from the Truth the right Sentiments of the Word have been lost which mistaken places have since lain as dark Mountains on which the Christians have stumbled And every one hath made an interpretation of them according to their own fancy Whereby they have set the Scriptures at an unreconcilable difference the which has occasion'd some to turn Atheists some Papists some Hypocrites and some Prophane So as thereby now there are but three sorts of People that can believe The first are those that have always walked in a Holy Conversation whereby they have had experiences of God The second are those that fall under a Terror of Conscience The third are those who through the ignorance in the Scriptures each believeth what their Teachers tell them whether they be Papists Protestants or any other Sect. But for any rational Man to read the Scriptures and the strange interpretation put upon them by which they have made the Oaths and Words and Promises of God void that Man must deny the reason that God hath given him if he can believe the Strange Tenets that are held concerning them and whilst we deny so many plain Truths in God's Word it is very improbable that the Jews or Papists should ever be convinced by what we say For as by the Romish Apostasie they have imposed upon the People their false Worship and others having imposed upon the People their mistaken Notions that they have taken up with the which is as a Bridle put into the Jaws of the People causing them to err Isa 30.28 For the Protestants are as much afraid to look into the Truth and to consider it for fear of being led into Error as the Papists are to eat Flesh in Lent And this fear like a Bridle keeps them in Error But when God according to his promise at the time of the end brings the Knowledge of the true meaning of his word to light whereby the Scriptures are made to agree in a Holy Harmony the Teachers that will not take the Bridle out of the Jaws of the People must expect to fall under the same Punishment as those that put it in And therefore that our Teachers may not be found guilty of the great Transgression the which is wilful disobedience to oppose or smother the Truth when God in his own way and at his own time brings again the great Truths in his Word to Light that knowledge thereby might be increased and Man prepared I therefore will here set down some of those Texts of Scripture that relate to the Shepherds and Ambassadors of Peace in our time because what is spoken is about and at the time of Israel's Restoration and therefore must have its chief reference to our Teachers in this Day and it is our Ministers that are reamed Shepherds and Ambassadors of Peace For Israels Priests were never sent of any such Ambassage And therefore that I may clear my self from the Blood of all Men in what God hath employed me in I shall here cite the Places that relate to them that will oppose or smother the Truth For these following Scriptures belong to the Christians Isa 33.7 Isa 29.10 Isa 56.9 10 11. Ezek. 34. the whole Chap. Isa 24.16 17 18. Fear and the Pit and the Snare are upon thee O inhabitant of the Earth I have with fervent and earnest Prayer wrestled with the most High God that he would send Peace that the great Truths of God might be considered and if they are not he will require it And it is God's usual way and method to chuse the weak things of this World to confound the Wise and Mighty For it was the Rulers and Seers when they came to have no Love to the Truth that first laid the Christian World in Darkness So as the Vision of ill becamed Sealed Therefore God declared that the Rulers and Seers he hath covered Isa 29.10 11. whereby is shewed that the Vision of all is not to come forth that way And therefore so many Good Wise and Learned Men have come no nearer the mark of the Truth in this matter For as when Christ first came Israel's Priests did not rightly understand the manner of his coming neither was it at first declared to or by them tho' without doubt there were several good ones amongst them And if Latin Greek and Hebrew could have made the Scriptures agree the Scholars of all parties would not have so much disagreed about them but