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A79562 The camp of Christ, and the camp of Antichrist, all troopers after the Lambe. Revel. 10. 11. 14. or his two horns, Rev. 13. 11, 12. 1642 (1642) Wing C398; Thomason E127_17; ESTC R21625 17,888 16

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to search them out and as opposites compared together will more clearely shew themselves The 144000 is distributed into 12 Tribes and the 12 Tribes into foure Beasts Rev. 4.6 and here we must begin our search Domine ediscere nobis parabolam istam Mat. 15.15 Wee must in the allusion fetch our Campe from the Congregation in the Wildernesse Psal 68.10 Thy Beasts dwelt therein So our English ancient translation hath it and the originall word is so and our new translation gives us the sense of it for by the Beasts we must understand Gods people which in this booke of the Revelation is the ordinary expression of that part of the Church as the 24 Elders are of the Pastours to whom the 24 thrones belong to judge the others and the crownes of gold to shew their rule They are the presbyteries of the Church from the which our Bishops are fallen into a temporall jurisdiction worse then any other Lay-Eldership under the which for this thousand yeares our Church hath groaned and if we will learne a true presbytery we must finde it in the first 600 yeares St Paul speakes of it 1 Tim. 4.14 and Cornelius and Cyprian use it in the same sense and that without the Eldership they did nothing in the Consistorie Epist 6.13.35 Presbyt Diacon Cornel. 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Ep. 46. doubtlesse the 24 Presbyteries allude to the 24 Ephemeries 1 Chron. 24.4 Luke 1.8 But there is now no speaking of Consistories we must follow the Camp as David did from Hebron to take Jerusalem from the Je●usites before wee bring the Arke of God into any peaceable Tabernacle and wee have fixed our selves in the Lambes Campe under foure Standards that expresse both the order and excellency of it The 12 Tribes of old were reduced to foure Ensignes Judah Issachar and Zebulon to a Lyon Reuben Simeon and Gad to a Man Ephraim Manasses and Benjamine to an Oxe or Bullocke Dan Aser and Nephtali to an Eagle Thus were the Tribes quartered and from them we take the spirituall meaning of the Lambes Campe for fortitude and courage in the Lyon for wisdome and prudence in a man for patience and industry in the labouring Oxe for speed and expedition in an Eagle and we may further take notice of the names of Beasts in this Booke to describe both the Campe of Christ and the Campe of Antichrist Beasts are Emblemes for both yet in Greeke their names are not the same Zoa is for Gods people and the word signifies life The other is Therion and there be two of that kinde the Beast with ten hornes and the Beast with two the first makes up Antichrists Army as it consists of the people that follow him and the second is Antichrist himself or the Bishops that abuse the power of the Lamb in the two keys turning them into so many hornes to the hurt of the Saints for if it were not so there should be no such cause to complaine of them as now is done by all men even those that are no enemies to their calling If they had used the keyes aright and not made hornes of them long might they and their calling have flourished but now the crownes on their heads and thrones they have sitten upon are like to be shaken and as Simeon the propheticall Monke foreseeing an earth quake whipped the pillars of the Church bidding them stand fast for they should be shaken so might these pillars have foreseene their scourge if they by whipping of others had not thought their standing had been out of the danger of a Parliament I would wish them to struggle no longer but to joyne their learning with others and seriously observe the times and what mischiefe they have done by the keyes which I cannot but honour in the Episcopall Dignitie and doe verily beleeve that in the Presbytery the Thrones and the Crownes doe not equally belong to all the Elders The thing I shall note is that the Lambes hornes make Antichr st as well in England as at Rome and since Austen the Monke medled with us our Episcopacie hath had too much of divine right and by the excesse of that is like to bring Church Government into a defect if both extreames be not prevented but I say we must have the fire of civill warre quenched before we can be quickned in the right use of the keyes I have begun the Campe at the foure Standards reduced the 12 Tribes to them and now must number the Tribes as they are elsewhere no where numbred Rev. 7. Each Tribe hath the like number and that is compleatly twelve thousand surmounting the Beasts almost one halfe yet put them altogether and they are above halfe short of his number if we compare the great Court of the Temple with the Temple it selfe as the holy Ghost hath done Rev. 11.1 2. What a number of Gentiles may stand in Atrio magno in respect of the inwarp Temple and therefore it we goe on to view both Campes we shall learne out in the end the mystery Certainly in six and twelve is some hidden secret The great and grand Captaine of our Campe hath his under-Captaines and they are the 12 Apostles in this booke called 12 Starres to give the Church light Rev. 12.1 Secondly they lie in the foundation with the Prophets to beare it up for sinking in the sand of unsound doctrine Ephes 2.20 Rev. 21.14 Every building is reduced to its foundation and all companies to their Captaines and in this Antichrist sheweth himselfe that stands so much for Peter that he would lay all upon him because he is called Petros which signifies a stone and among 12 fundamentall stones he is one and perchance may be the first in order but under none and therefore they are laid orderly one by one that the Tribes may build upon them all So was it first and since the 12 Apostles have left their cure to 24 Elders to be understood by the Ephemeries of the Priests and Levites but I suppresse my notion and will set upon the hurtfull hornes of the Church that is Kings and Bishops Kings and Kingdomes that make the Campe of Antichrist and Bishops that make Antichrist to be their Generall I hope Kings that have helped the Whore will hate her and Bishops that are good if any be so for the most beleeve there are none will no more horne it but hate that office and learne as brethren to exercise the keyes Two Captains two Camps Their fatall and finall warres An Instance in our Kingdom Rev. 17.14 These shall make warre with the Lambe THese ten hornes given to the Beast with two horns shall make warres with the Lambe and his called chosen and faithfull Servants The ten horns are these Vortimer and Hengist in England Childerike Gunderike and Theodorike in France Riciarius in Spaine Genserike in Africke Theodemire in Panonia Marcian in Greece Cesar hinders the being of the Beast and these ten Kings make warre for him and the Apostasie from him and Christ