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A86683	Lingua testium: wherein monarchy is proved, 1. To be jure divino. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 3. That monarchy is the absolute true government under the Gospel. 4. That immediately after extraordinary gifts in the Church ceased, God raised up a monarch for to defend the Church. 5. That Christian monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind. 7. England was the place whither the witnesses, (viz. godly magistracy and ministry) never drove by Antichrist. Where is proved, first, that there hath been a visible magistracy, (though in sackcloth,) these 1260. yeares in England. ... Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews, the fall of Antichrist, and the ruine of the Beast of the earth is at hand. Wherein you have the hard places of Mat. 24, and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard texts: ... / Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus, in the yeare of the Beasts of the earth's raign, 1651.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H327; Thomason E632_22; ESTC R202496	43,212	57

pulling thee by timely repentance out of Babylon that is now falling I beseech the therefore since I have not counted my paines purse person nor life to much too prepare it and present it to thee doe not think thy paines to much to read it read it as I writ it with much diligence and fervent prayer and I pray God grant that it may be so effectuall by the operation of the Holy Ghost upon all that reade it that the drooping feebl soul may be incouraged the blind enlightned the obstinate so terrified that the Divels kingdome may be shaken by it Antichrists kingdome may be confounded by it and the Beast of the earth who supports them both may be speedily and utterly ruined by it this is the daily and hourly prayer of him who studies nothing more then thy spirituall welfare The Author to his Book MY little book I only call thee mine because in these dark times I 'm only thine Goe quickly through the world and boldly say that mighty Monark's comming to destroy The church her enemies let proud Rome know from thee shee 's neare her last great overthrow And tell the earth-Beast when the seven Trump ' sounds his death 's designd that Trump ' his power confounds Then let the Dragon also understand Christs comming and his chaining up's at hand And let the house of Austria know and Spain Their sunne shall set and never rise againe This message don my Booke goe to the Jewes and with a cheerefull voyce proclaime this news Our Lord is their Messias and their eyes shall weepe ore him whom now they doe despise Their Native King our Lord shall by his hand restore the twelve Tribes to their Native land They shall put eie to eie that is shall see their Prophets and the Apostles to agree This don go to the Gentiles Church which lies this day o'rewhelmed with deep Calamities Comfort her thus tell her the Scriptures say her witnesses shall rise that Beast to slay In whose destruction the grand power of all the three last Gospell Enemies shall fall Tell her this earth-Beast raignes this howers that day which slayes her witnesses the Scriptures say Bid her not feare those Offices now slaine in Church and State shall shortly rise againe Whose glorious rising shall the world affright and slay this earth-Beast with his men of might Then shall the Vialls run Gods wrath shall rise and ruine his three last Grand enemies Let then that Northern Kingdome understand by this it's day of triumph is at hand It 's now distressed Ministers and King shall mourne no more but Hallalu-jahs sing That church no more her sackcloth shall put on shee shall be clothed with salvation Her King shall Raigne in righteousnesse and make Gods enemies throughout the world to quake He shall be nursing father to the Jewes and shall no acts of grace to them refuse They shall flock in to him he shall destroy their foes that bard them from Salvations way Immediately before this come to passe her troubles shall be such as never was The prefixt symptoms of this day must be her low State and her foes prospertie Hence t is this great dayes prophecies allude to each great Church deliverance since the flood She sings the Song of Moses and the Lambe 'cause out of such deep miserie she came Lift up thine eyes O Zion then and see in this great day thy foretold Enemie Three yeares and halfe thine enemy must rage ore thee by warre which he with thee doth wage One thousand two hundred sixty dayes just O LaVer Vs CroMweLL's name makes who must 50 5 5 100 1000 50. 50 a Three yeares and an halfe by his b sword-power raigne which is that time the c witnesses lie slain Jf who he slayes by ought demanded be t is Kingly Offfce and the Ministry This Beast's that d little horne that puls away three hornes ot'h ten him e Christ comes to destroy This Beasts f deceitfull perjur'd base Love's lies and beares g up Rome with all her blasphemies This is that enemie which doth divide Mount h Olvet and makes the breach so wide Twixt North and South and makes one day like night but when its evening comes it shall be light That is this Beast in Scotland shall rage there but one prophetique day that is one year Jn'th' ' ev'ning of which yeare it shall bee light toth' Church and to this Beast Eternall night This beast betwixt betwixt the seas in Scotland must incamp ●nd there be scattered as the dust Share then my book twixt Zions friends and foes their unexpected lots of joyes and woes Tell Zion now i' th dust full fraught with sorrow her bloodie tears shall bring forth joys to morrow Haste then toth' Scots tell them the prophets say their warre is Christs and he 'l give them the day And this shall be the signe even this alone when the enemie seems most strong they most undone Reader What is deficient in this thou shalt find supplyed in Manus Testium THe method of Gods afflicting providence in the Church since the Creation is worthy the observation of all but more especially of him who undertakes to interpret the Holy Scriptures The method of God in his acts of providence towards his Church are 1. To bring them exceeding low before he deliver them 2. After he hath delivered them from their great troubles and put them in a hopeful way of peace for ends best known to himself he oftentimes dashes their hopes and darkens the way by sad and heavy afflictions As the former is undeniable so the latter is cleer in the Scriptures See this verified in Jacob the Father of the twelve Patriarchs Jacob being newly gotten from a Heardmaster and passed the River with his wifes and substance he resolved to go into the Promised Land when he was got seven dayes journey in all probability out of Labans reach on a sudden the storm riseth Laban pursues him with his forces and Esau prepares to stop him in his flight with 400 men so that we may see here Jacob like Christ on the Cross a miserable object betwixt two Thieves To this Jeremiah alludes when he prophesies of the great troubles of the Church immediatly before the conversion of the twelve Tribes He calls it the time of Iacob's trouble none hath bin like it So likewise when the Church was delivered from Egypt's Bondage and all their Enemies drowned and when they had seen and tasted of the goodness of the Lord from Heaven in raining Manna and of the sweet and spiritual love-tokens of God from Mount Sina when God had given them Lawes and Ordinances and began a glorious Reformation and when they were going into Canaan then riseth Corah Datha● and Abiran against the Witnesses Moses and Aaron and then the people rebell and that glorious Sun of a Reformation went retrogade many thousand of degrees by Asa's Diall So likewise David when

together with whatsoever the German Norman Burgundian Castalian and French atchievements with the intermarriage which eight hundred years had acquired incorporated and brought back into the old Royall Line Hence then I prove if Henry VII were the lawfull Successor of the British Kings then he was the lawfull Successor of Constantine King of England who conquered Rome and if Henry VII be the lawfull Successor of Constantine then those lawfully descended of Henry VII but this lawfull Family of the Stuarts are lawfully descended of Henry VII ergo The Stuarts are the lawfull Successors of Constantine the Great the first Christian Emperor of Rome there are very many other waies which to some seem clearer whereby to prove this truth If so know Oh Rome that the Lion of the North thy lawfull Emperor and true Christian Magistrate will suddainly arise to the utter confusion of that bloudy usurping Prelate which by his subtill treacheries hath caused the lawfull Magistrate the lawfull Emperor of Rome drove into this Wildernesse where in sackcloth the office hath continued having finished that prophetick testimony in the year 1648. to become a slain Witnesse for Christ the other office of the Ministery lying dead ever since but the three years and an half of their lying dead is almost expired and then the same Offices shall arise to the eternall ruine of the Pope and Popish Idolatry but no more of this in this place I hope some Antiquaries will be so truly Noble that they will plead a distressed Kings cause and clear this Title of his which is doubtlesse to them an easie thing and may procure them great renown in after Ages for my part I shall say no more of it in print unlesse I am challenged and then if no body will take up the Cudgells in the Quarrell I am resolved neque clipeum objicere neque causam deserere though indeed I have as much upon my weak arme as I am well able to beare well able to doe I say I professe my selfe as in the undertaking so in the defending of so great a cause as I have taken in hand utterly unable without the Divine hand to support me The reason why I have discoursed so much of Monarchy is because I am fully perswaded that the great Reformation to be wrought amongst Jewes and Gentiles shall be wrought by Monarches when God shall open the eyes of the Jewes to know assured that the Lord Jesus is their true and naturall Monarch according to the flesh and their naturall Priest that is by Birth-right as Melchisedech was then shall they look on him whom they have pierced and mourn over him they shall then be converted Now this conversion is designed in that Gospell Epistle written to the twelve Tribes called the Epistle to the Hebrewes As the knowledge of their true Monarch and Priest shall work wonderfull conversion amongst the Hebrews so the knowledge of a lawfull Magistracy and a lawfull Ministery shall work a wonderfull change at the same time amongst the Gentile Churches who are now overwhelmed with the cruell tyranny of the usurping Prelaticall power of Rome A lawfull Monarch rising shall be the instrument of a glorious Gospel-reformation of restoring the Witnesses and of the overturning of the Roman Empire in its pontifick Head Much of this opinion is that Dutch Divine in his Clavis Apocalyptica to whom Iohn Durie the Scotch man binds himself as in a Dutch duell where he falls to stick and snee with him for saith the Dutch Divine in pag. 89. A high Potentate amongst Evangelicall Professors shall arise and be exalted to the terror of the Papists and shall open again a free course to the Gospell and reestablish the exiled and oppressed Gospellers And Iohn Durie out of the sootie region of a dark intellect gives us this dark notion in p. 70. which he cals the Preface to this Dutchmans Book intending that the Reader should put on his black spectacles to read the Dutchmans white Booke withall I believe saith John Durie that we shall not have any great earthly Potentate at all ever to appear for the Lamb in this battell but that they shall joyn alwayes against the lamb-like nature of the Saints to oppose and destroy it How can two be more contrary I must leave them though I leave Iohn in the dark who participates more of the man of his countrey then of the nature of his Countrymen There are some questions that betray ignorance rather then discover wit as this say some How can it be said that in Henry 8. dayes when the Abbies were pulled down in Q. Elizabeths dayes when the Kingdom it flourished and Religion prospered and was countenanced and so in King Iames's time How can the Witnesses be said then to be in sackcloth In part we have answered to this elswhere but let such take this as one great part of the answer let them read diligently the history of our Nation since Henry the sevenths time and observe the counterworkings of the Pope against the Protestant Reformers and they will say they were in sackcloth I shall conclude this Preface with a short discourse of our former reformations not so much by way of information as premonition to him whom it concerns The objects of every reformation have either been civill 〈◊〉 ●●clesiastick matters A civill reformation hath respect either to the offices in the State or to the Laws in the State the office of State in the Head hath been unquestionable in all ages except in times of rebellion or usurpation and then not the office but the persons in the office have been aspersed and questioned In all which ungodly actions the Pope and the Popish Clergie alwayes had a hand Indeed the Popes have grapled with the supremacy of Kings and usurped a supremacy in this Kingdom over the Kings in Ecclesiastick affairs and in that respect their offices have been questioned but the Kings of England never yeelded up their right to the Pope but kept the supremacy of Church and State affairs in their own hands not only since the Norman line came in but in the time of the Saxon Kings as appears by many of their Lawes and Charters which respect the Clergie wherein the King as Head of the Church doth Ecclesiastica authoritate dispose of the Rites of the Church and the great Offices thereto belonging promoting some and debarring others whom they please from the office of Archbishop or Bishop This supremacy the Norman Kings kept which was mostly the ground of this quarrell betwixt the Kings of England and the Popes who were the cause of the English Kings wearing Sackcloth for the Popes never suffered them to live quietly but alwayes either raised their own subjects to rebell against them or foraigne Princes to invade them but most commonly the Pope sets the Religious Houses against the King for there the Pope kept the Band-dogs to werry Royalty when it opposed this supremacy The insolency strength and wealth of the Clergie caused