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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93209	A short discourse (recommended to all our English divines) concerning the death of the witnesses in general, and the two witnesses in particular plainly shewing, first, the chief and true reason of their death. Secondly, the manner how they are to be slain. Thirdly, the place where. Fourthly, the time when. Fifthly, by whom they are to be slain. Sixthly, the true reason why they are overcome, and why in particular by a war. Seventhly, who they are, and that they have already been slain. The conclusion.		1699 (1699)	Wing S3584B; ESTC R230290	9,279	14

in order to be abrogated it self That which is under Foot and stands not up cannot be thrown down therefore at last it stands up in order to be thrown down but withal in order to rise again and not to be thrown in the Fire like their Enemies The Cedar and the Vine are lopp'd that the Branches may yield more Fruit and flourish more abundantly But to return These Two Syncronizing Powers as at once they make their Entrance so at once they make their Exit yet their respective Scenes are not presently removed there is the same Distance of Time in Proportion as betwixt the Harvest and the Vintage The Harvest as usual begins first and the inner Court is pull'd down that is the Angel puts in his Sickle according to Command and reaps the True Church raises a War cuts down her Two chief Representatives burns her chief City and inflicts many other heavy Calamities upon her Thus ends the Harvest and nothing else is said only Demessa est Terra The Earth was reaped Afterwards in course the Vintage comes and the outward Court is pull'd down and when the Angel had cut down the Grapes the Text saith Misit in Magnum Illum Lacum Excandescentiae Dei He put them into that great Wine-Press of the Wrath of God The Truth is after God hath accounted with the True Church he reckons with the False One viz. with the Whore and her Worshippers and both she and her City are burnt with Fire But betwixt the City of the True Church and that of the False One there is this Difference the First is only burnt with the Fire of Purgation the Latter by the Fire of Indignation And as to the First that Text is fulfilled which saith Although I fall yet I shall rise for she hath risen again and shines very gloriously But when the Latter falls and her Grapes are just ripe she shall never rise again But the Wrath of God abideth on her for ever Amen So be it And now I have demonstrated the Thing so plainly I am very well satisfied that though some may yet others will not believe So That will be fulfilled which was said of Old Behold I work a Work in your Days which ye shall in no wise believe although a Man declare it unto you that is demonstrate it But I cannot conclude without a small Reflection or two more both on our Enemies and our selves viz. When our City Flamed about our Ears and other publick Calamities befel us our Enemies the Jucolae Terrae rejoiced much to see us in such deplorable Circumstances under the Evil of our own Predictions seeing us so low they thought we should never rise again to torment them with Truth therefore they sent Gifts and were glad And we instead of looking up to Heaven and being humble charged our Enemies with our Miseries and proceeded so far as to Record the same not in Brass but in Letters of Stone which indeed ought to be erased for it was GOD that burnt our City and not They but like true Men in Misery we were angry with every Body yes with GOD to and ready to flie in his Face and charge him with Injustice and a Forgetfulness of his Promises Thus we laid the Guilt every-where but where it should be on our selves Ignorant Wretches We neither understood the Methods of God or Nature 'T is God's usual Method to punish his own Child first Judgment always begins with the House of God And as to Nature we would have had Corn and not Reaped we would have had new Corn and not Sowed nay we would have had Branches the first Day the Tree was lopp'd and new Corn the first Day the Seed was sown So ignorant and impatient we were Well! our Harvest has been got in we have suffer'd nothing but our Lot and much less than we deserved Let us humbly thank God for our Chastisement and Visitation And let us have but a very little Patience and we shall see and understand his righteous Judgments We shall see the Difference he makes betwixt Children and Enemies and that we were not in Rome's Stead but in our own necessary refining Fire we shall see our Adversaries Mirth be turned into Mourning and that the Jucolae Terrae Reges Terrae shall weep and mourn and stand afar off and say Alas alas for that great City Babylon that strong City in one Hour thy Judgments are come Amen Be it so And NOW though the preceding Discourse under Seven rational Heads should be Sealed up to others like the Seven Thunders yet to me they have spoke very loudly and I would speak God's Praise in Words as loud if I could and therefore shall call a great Multitude to assist me I mean The Church and in Her Words say Worthy art thou O Blessed Jesus to take the Book and open the Seals because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every Tribe and Tongue and People and Nation and made us Kings and Priests unto God and we shall reign on Earth Worthy is the Lamb to receive Power and Wisdom and Riches and Strength and Honour and Blessing for ever more Great and Marvellous are thy Works Lord God Almighty Just and True are thy Ways Thou King of Saints who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name For thou only art Holy All Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgments are made manifest LONDON Printed and are to be Sold A. Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1699. Price 3 d.

these Two Witnesses were the Answer is Hi sunt Duae Illae Oleae meaning Zerubbabel and Joshua Now none can make any Thing of these Two but a King and a High Priest And though the Temple was measured and THOSE viz. the People who worshipped therein Yet I find the Text points no more but once to the Multitude and indeed 't was needless because they had no Power They are under Care and Protection but cannot represent that they have not And those Persons therefore are much mistaken who suppose a few common Individuals slain in any Country may answer the Death of the Two Witnesses They make no Distinction betwixt the Body and Head 'T is certain the common Mass as living they have no Power so their Death can represent the finishing of none I mean their Death singly and apart yet in Conjunction with their Head the TWO I own their Death adds to the Efficacy and Solemnity and that they ought to fall at the General Harvest by the Angel's Sickle Yet to compleat such a solemn Period and to make it Full and Authentick nothing less than the Solemn Death of a King and an High Priest will do the Business For these being the Heads or chief Proprietors of Power are the most fit and proper Persons to undergo the Passive Solemnity of its Abrogation NOW such a Thing has happened amongst us viz. a King and an High Priest have been slain after an unparalell'd and uncommon Manner or rather after a most proper Manner they were slain in the Face of the Sun with the highest Solemnity that all the World might take notice that the Grand Period of the Old Dispensation was finished And not only in this Point but in all other Circumstances as to Time and Place Process and Arraignment their Death exactly agrees with the Text and Counterpart IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE WORLD THESE TWO WITNESSES REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TRVE CHVRCH OR WHOLE PROTESTANT BODY IN THEIR OWN COVNTRY BY THEIR OWN FRIENDS AT THEIR OWN CHIEF CITY WERE OVERCOME BY A WAR and SLAIN God is True and all the World are Lyars He hath told us In the End it shall speak and not Lye Now here the Vision speaks and who can contradict it This Truth deserves to be writ in Capitals of Gold since it asserts the Veracity of God which foolish and vain Man has so long called in Question I own there are several Persuasions but no Matter by what Names we are called There are only Two Churches a True and False One and I find the Holy Spirit takes notice of no more Yet 't is observable the First is exprest by Four differing Denominations viz. Tribus Populi Linguae Gentes and the Latter but by One viz. Jucolae Terrae Now possibly amongst other Meanings the Difference in Opinion may be one that causeth this Distinction But leaving this Enquiry to the more Curious let the Four be who and what they will 't is certain these Two slain Witnesses were the Head of them all and appointed by Heaven to finish their Old State and Administration The Church is in Two differing States First under the Minor or Guardian State then under the Adult State And these Two slain Witnesses finish the Minor or Guardian State being the Two Last chief Proprietors of Power therein And this gives great Light to those Congratulations of the Church on Christ's Arrival to his Manhood in the Church and by Consequence on his Accession to the Throne We Thank Thee say they Lord God Almighty who art and wast and art to come Because thou hast taken to THY SELF 't was in the Hands of Guardians before Thy Great Power c. This implies a lesser Power in the former State The Millennium is nothing but the Manhood of Christ in his Church and when He comes to his Manhood He is invested of course with his Great Power But I would not be mistaken I prefer the Master before the Servants and am far from making a Comparison betwixt the Death of the Two Witnesses and that of Christ's as to the Merit of it yet I must be forced to acknowledge and the Holy Scripture will bear me out that Their Death is the true Counterpart of His and ought to be attended with much the like Circumstances viz. a Resurrection not Literal Ascension and New Dispensation As to the Two First the Text plainly mentions them and the Last to me is as plain For when John had eaten up the Book of the Old Dispensation he was told That he must PROPHESIE AGAIN before People and Nations and Tongues and many Kings The Words Finishing Prophecy and Prophesying again illustrate one the other nor can we think they will prophesie again what they have finished but turn over a New Leaf and begin a New Chapter And now Notwithstanding any former Opinion which I shall not be ashamed to disown at present the Truth shines so full in my Face that I cannot otherwise think and do hope so will others That the Death of the afore-mentioned Persons was the True Death of the Two Last Witnesses which were to die to finish the Old Dispensation Those who have Objections let them publish them All Christians must own That such a Thing if not done some Time or other in some Place or other must be done and since it must be done let them produce better Reasons if they can that This is not the Fact or that it is yet to be done and I shall willingly acquiesce therein But I am satisfied they cannot It therefore being taken for granted that the Two Witnesses are slain and Old Dispensation finished the next necessary Inference will be that we are on the Premises of the Millennium and that the Downfall of Rome is just at the Door For This black Tragedy as it withdraws the Old Scenes so it presents the World with New ones and opens a wide Door for Light and Truth But to conclude I shall endeavour to bring the Thing yet closer and make it yet a little more plain by Summing up the Whole CONCLVSION There are a True and a False Church or Two Syncronizing Powers enter the Stage of the World these Two Powers are represented by an inward and outward Court the Latter persecutes the Former all the Time they are on the Stage the Former are called Witnesses having this Name from the Nature of their Office which is of a Twofold Nature for they have a Charge to give in Testationem Protestationem to Publish and give their Evidence to Divine Truths and Matters of Fact and to make Protestation against all Iniquity and Idolatry and especially against the Persecution of their Adversaries The Date of their Adversaries Power and theirs is equal but during the greatest part of their appointed Time being persecuted and trodden under Foot little Strength or Power though virtually in them appears but near the Expiration thereof it exerts it self not only in order to pull down and oppose their Adversaries but