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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

have done or suffered doth merit a reward but he will freely give them a glorious reward for all that they have suffered and done for him And shouldst destroy them which destroy the earth This being the time in which he comes to do righteousness and justice in the earth he will render a just reward to the enemies of his people and cause his wrath to go forth against them to their destruction but this is further spoken of in the 19. verse as it follows And the temple of God was opened in heaven and there was seen in his temple the Arke of his Testament and there were lightnings and voyces and thunderings and an earthquake and great haile This verse containes a declaration of two great effects the first of which concernes Saints and the latter concernes the enemies of Christ and his Saints That which concernes Saints is in these words And the Temple of God was opened in heaven and there was seen in the Temple the Arke of his Testament and that which concernes the enemies is in these words And there were lightnings and voyces and thunderings and an earthquake and great haile of this latter effect of the sounding of this Trumpet I shall speake by and by in its place but first of the first effect mentioned in this verse which concernes the Saints which is contained in these words And the Temple of God was opened in heaven and there was seen in his Temple the Arke of his Testament The Temple and the Arke of his Testament are both Old Testament-phrases and for the opening of these things we must first enquire what is meant by these phrases here in the New Testament Now this may be made cleare by comparing Scripture with Scripture for the spirit of God ordinarily cleares that in one Scripture which he leaves more doubtfull in another Now generally in the New Testament our Lord Jesus Christ and his Disciples to whom he opened the * Luk. 14. 22. Scriptures of Moses and all the Prophets do make use of such phrases as the Temple and Jerusalem and Sion and the Priesthood and the Sacrifices and the like to expresse those things by them which the outward things in use under the law did type out and they never spake of these things as they are litterally understood as to be so understood in the times of the Gospell but as being now abolished and those spirituall things which they typed out are alwaies to be understood by such phrases in the New Testament and so the spirit of Christ in the Apostles expresly declares as for instance the Churches of God are now said to be the Temple of God as 2 Cor. 6. 16. for ye saith Paul to the Church of the Corinthians are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people and so also the Church of God is in the New Testament called the heavenly Jerusalem and Sion as Heb. 12. 22. and Gal. 4. 26. and Rev. 21. 2 3. and in the New Testament the title of High-Priest is given to Christ as Heb. 8. 1. and the title of Priest is given to Saints as Rev. 1. 6. and the spirituall services of Saints are termed sacrifices for with such sacrifices saies the Apostle God is well pleased So that these words in this verse The Temple of God and the Arke of his Testament are to be mystically understood and not literally since such things are abolished Now by the Temple of God we are to understand here the Church of God the Saints the people of God which in the New Testament are stiled the Temple of God And as the Arke of the Testament was of old that wherein the Book of the Law was put in the Temple of old so in this New Testament Temple that is to say in the Church of God there is the Arke of his Testament there is the new and spirituall Laws and Ordinances of God contained Now then this follows upon the sounding of the seventh Trumpet That the Temple of God is opened in heaven that is that the Church of God which before seemed to be shut up and to lye in obscurity now it shall be opened that is be more fully discovered and manifested openly it shall no longer remaine shut up and in obscurity but it shall be visible and in it is seene the Arke of his Testament among the Churches the saints of God is to be seen the Law and Ordinances of God set up in Majesty and purity I say it is to be seen it no longer remaines in doubt what the Laws and Ordinances of God are but in his Temple in his Church they are to be seen under the sounding of this 7th Trumpet Thus much concernes and is peculiar only to saints but that which followes concernes the enemies of Christ which is in these words and there were voices and lightnings and thunderings and an earthquake and great haile these words are to expresse terrible things to come upon the opposers of Christ the like words are used Rev. 8. 5. To expresse the terrible Judgements of God that were to come upon his enemies in the sounding of the trumpets in answer to the prayers of Saints which are there mentioned to be presented before God and wee know that thundrings and lightnings and haile is usually very sad and dreadfull weather and earthquakes and voices are very sad and amazing things Now such terrible dreadfull and amazing things doe come upon Antichrist and his adherents upon the sounding of the seventh Trumpet which will prove exceeding dreadfull distracting and destructive to them and this shall be when the saints shall be in greater freedome and liberty and glory and splendor then ever they were and when nothing shall disquiet them for these tempests must come upon the wicked To them there will be earthquakes but there shall be none among the Saints no earthquakes in heaven the Saints and their societies are heaven but Antichrist and his crew and conclave is earth and upon these come these stormes and these earthquakes but the saints are above the reach of them And thus much for the opening of this latter part of the eleventh Chapter of the Revelation which I have the more fully and distinctly opened as it now came in my way in the cleering of this truth in hand because I have already opened all the former part from the first verse to the fifteenth where I now began so that now I have opened the whole Chapter And now in all these thirteen severall Scriptures which I have produced and opened as there was need is this truth which in this twenty seven verse of this seventh of Daniel is asserted or made as cleare as the Sun And having thus cleared this truth in generall which I have done the more fully to be a foundation to what I have in the following part of the discourse to discover There are

And that when that time is the Saints must possesse the Kingdome and reigne on earth so Dan. 7. 22 27. and Rev. 5. 10. The first of these passages mentioned in the Revelation is that Chap. 5. 9 10. which runs thus Thou wast slaine and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall reigne on the earth These words are a part of a song sung by Saints wherein they praise the Lambe and herein they have in their eye as matter for which their hearts are ingaged to honour and glorifie Christ both that which he had already done for them and also that which he had not yet done but would doe for them That which hee had done for them in these words Thou wast slaine and thou hast redeemed us and thou hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and that which should bee done for them by Christ in these words and wee shall reigne on the earth this being that which they knew hee would doe hee having declared it by the mouth of all his Prophets therefore they sing it out we shall reigne on the earth The other passage which is Rev. 11. 15 16 17 18. runnes thus And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in Heaven saying the Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reigne for ever and ever and the four and twenty Elders which sate before God on their seates fell upon their faces and worshipped God saying We give thee thankes O Lord God Almighty which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned and the Nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the Prophets and to the Saints and them that feare thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth And the Temple of God was opened in Heaven and there was seen in his Temple the Ark of his Testament and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an earthquake and great hail This Scripture being so pertinent unto the present purpose and having already in another Treatise opened the former part of this Chapter from the first to the 15 verse I shall therefore be the more copious in opening of this part which is from the 15 verse where I left unto the end of the chapter Verse 15. And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in Heaven saying the kingdoms of this world are become c. The declaration of this truth that the Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of the Lord Christ is here held forth unto us to bee that great and glorious part and portion of the providence and counsell of God that is to be manifested under the sounding of the seventh Trumpet which brings in the seventh and last and greatest judgement of God upon that wicked as the Apostle termes him or that man of sinne That great Saint opposer the Roman Papall Beast and his adherents For by the seven Angels which were to sound the seven Trumpets is to be understood 7 severall remarkeable and great judgements that in so many severall periods of time by so many severall passages of the providence and purpose of God should be brought upon that beast and his associates whereby they should bee gradually ruined The first of them being one degree of bringing them down and the second bringing them lower then the first had done and the third bringing them lower then the two former and the fourth breaking down another part of their greatnesse and glory which was not broken by the three former but the three latter are to bee more terrible and dreadfull unto them then any of the former and therefore they are said to be three great woes which were to come upon that crew Chap. 8. 13. which are there stil'd the inhabitants of the earth for all along in this Prophesie they are cal'd the earth to distinguish them from the Saints who are all along cal'd heaven and as these are said to be woes so they prove woes indeed unto that miserable crew but it is to them and them onely and not to any others As for the Saints all the seven Trumpets produce matter of joy to them because therein Christs enemies and their enemies are from time to time brought low And indeed these seven Trumpets or seven severall judgements of God upon the Beast and his adherents were obtained from God in a great measure by their prayers being offered up by the Lord Jesus their blessed Mediator who perfumed them with the incense of his own righteousnesse and worthinesse in which they are acceptable For upon the offering up of the prayers of Saints with that incense these Judgements were powred out upon the earth that is upon that crew and these angels prepared to sound as appeares Chap. 8. 2 3 4 5 6 c. So that the Saints had cause to rejoyce when these judgements came upon that faction and they indeed did rejoyce and their hearts have been made glad in all these severall Judgements which have come upon them As in that their Doctrines and Doctors Bishops Jesuits and Priests and much of their power and authority which they had over the people have been brought down and laid in the dust in those six severall Trumpres sounding or glorious dispensations already past wherein that party have been troubled perplexed and pained at the heart and now this great and glorious dispensation we are treating of is to bee the seventh and last which is of greatest terror to them and greatest joy to the saints as it followes And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in Heaven saying the kingdoms c. There were great voices in heaven that is there were many in heaven that is in the Church or among the Saints that in the Prophesies of this Book are stiled heaven that did trumpet forth sound forth or clearely hold forth and confidently speake out this truth that the Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever They were voyces it was not only the single voice of one but they are voices it is the voice of many in heaven many among the Saints And they are not the whimsicall notions of unsound and rotten men but they are voices in heaven voyces of reall Saints Great voyces in heaven Being great voices argues first that they are not some poore weak suppositions or may be 's Nor secondly are they some weake faint sayings but they are great that is effectuall convincing and unquestionable speakings such as shall be heard and be received and be beleeved among the Saints they shall be spoken with such

now severall queries that may be made about severall things which are such as these How and by what meanes shall the kingdomes of this world come to bee possessed by Christ and his Saints Whether at all the material sword shall be made use of in the cutting downe the power of men When Christ shall begin to take the kingdoms of the world into his possession Whether or no he shall take them into his possession all at once or when shall the time be when the work shall bee compleatly finished Whether multitudes of the Gentiles shall not bee first brought into the beliefe of the Gospel and the obedience of Christ and when the Jews shall be called Whether at the time of Christs taking the whole world into his possession hee shall not personally appeare on earth Whether his saints that have been sufferers for his sake shall not then be raised and reign on earth Whether or no the world shall then bee burnt with fire Whether temporary enjoyments shall bee enjoyed by saints when Christ shall take the world into his possession Whether the Saints shall then practice any ordinances How long this Kingdome of Christ is to continue and what is to succeed it Now to all these questions I shall give full and cleere answers which that I may do the more cleerely and without confounding of one thing with another I shall not observe that method of answering them particularly as they are laid downe but which will bee more cleare and pleasant and satisfactory when it is done I shall give a generall description of the state of the Church from the Yeere 1645 already past unto the day of the last generall resurrection In which description all these Queries and many others which might be made shall bee answered Now the description or map of this new world from the first entrance into it unto the utmost borders of it as farre as I have yet discovered or rather hath been discovered to me from the Scripture in my weake travels inquiries searches into it followes after this short preface The Preface When the Lord shall build up Sion saith the Psalmist then * Psal 102. 16. hee shall appeare in his glory Implying as if the Lord did never appeare so gloriously as then he doth when he standeth forth to build up his Sion And indeed it is very true that when the Church of God is in a desolate afflicted condition when the enemies of the Church triumph over them and make them as vassals and slaves to them and tread them under their feet as if they were the off-scouring of the world then is the glory of God much obscured and the world cannot at all see it nor is it so visible to his Saints as it shall be But when God arises to shake terribly the earth and to visit the inhabitants thereof for their iniquity especially for the cruelty and malice and inhumanity they have exercised against his own people his peculiarly beloved ones who bear his owne stampe and image and name and nature of whose soules he is the beloved and who are the beloved of his soule Then when he commeth to visit wicked men for these things and to owne his owne people as he did the Israelites of old when hee brought them out of Egypt and to manifest to all the world that they are indeed his people and that hee will avenge their quarrell and when hee comes to rebuke destroy and scatter the Kings and the great ones of the earth for their sakes and when he sets his people at perfect liberty and crownes them with gracious blessings and destroyes all the Nations that indeavour to injure them or disturbe their peace Then I say when the Lord doth these things doth hee appeare in his glory and so hee did when he brought the Israelites out of Egypt and so in a more glorious manner then ever will he do when he buildeth his Sion now in these latter daies wherein hee hath spoken of doing greater things for them then ever hath been done from the beginning of the world as wil appear in the following discourse The description of the new JERUSALEM THat I may set out the more cleerly what the condition of the Church shall be in these glorious times it will bee requisite that I briefly take notice of the condition the Church before this time hath been in as the Holy Ghost hath declared it in Scripture of which having already spoken in my discourse on the former part of the eleventh Chapter of the Revelation and also hinted at it in the beginning of this Book I shall therefore here but nominate some particulars to which I will referre the Reader that so I may avoid unnecessary prolixity Onely necessity compels me for the cleere and orderly proceeding in this present discourse to recapitulate some particular heads of that of which I have already more largely discourst as thus I have shewed that the beloved people of God stiled by the Holy Ghost The Holy City The two witnesses The Olive trees and The two Candlesticks who witnesse too and prophesie the truths of Christ have for above 1200 yeares by divine appointment and decree been kept in a low condition in a despicable sackcloath mourning wildernesse-condition and that so long they have been warred against and overcome by the Beast the Pope and his crew I have shewne and that the ten Kings under the Popes Jurisdiction have been of one mind with him in this trampling upon and persecuting the Saints and that for this end have the ten Kings given their power to the Beast I have also shewed that the King of England was one of those that was of one mind with the Beast and that having one mind with the Beast he persecuted the saints and made war against them and overcame them for a season as the Beast did I have shewed also that the time of this prevalency of the Beast and the Kings under him over the Saints and making war against them and overcomming them was a limited prefixed time and that beyond it they could not go nor have power to overcome the Saints after that time was expired I have also shewed how long time it was that the Scripture declares that the Beast and his Associates should have power to persecute the Saints and prevaile over them and that was 1260. years after which terme was expired they were to prevaile no more I have also shewed when that time expired and that was in the yeare 1645. And now I proceed from this yeare to describe the state of the Church In this yeare as I have said did the time of prevalency of the Beast and his Associates over the saints cease and though those enemies of the Saints do not cease to be after this yeare but they do and shall remaine yet longer yet they cease to overcome the Saints and instead of prevailing they shall be prevailed against and instead of overcomming they shall be overcome by the

destroyed and the manner how it shall be is this When these things we have spoken of shall be thus done viz. When the ten Kings are overcome and do yield obedience to the Lamb and the Gospel is universally preached and Jews and Gentiles are abundantly converted to Christ and Rome is ruined the Pope being then turned out of Rome and he with his Cardinals Bishops and Jesuits being lurking in some other places up and down in the world shall still act like himself and shew himself to be the Beast still retaining his cursed nature continuing in enmity against Christ and his Saints and being so shall resolve not to give all for lost yet though he be thus far prevailed against but shall resolve to make one desperate attempt more against the Saints and to this end shall send abroad his Emissaries unto all the unconverted Kings and great men of the earth whom neither the Gospel of peace nor sword of war hath overcome and shall gather them all together which shall make a very great Army with which they shall think to destroy all the Saints who at this time will be increased to a very great number the Jews and multitudes of the Gentiles being brought in before this last battel but when they are brought in they will meet with opposition from this man of sin and from the rest of the wicked of the world who will not have Christ to raign over them And this Beast I say will gather together all the unconverted Kings of the earth and all their Armies thinking to destroy the Saints Jews and Gentiles but they shall not neither first nor last prevail upon them but they shall be overcome and foiled still so that now at last they shall grow desperate and say as some now do they will now fight for it and they will either win all or lose all for the Beast and the Kings of the earth are gathered together with their Armies of prophane wicked men for none else are with them to make war against Jesus Christ and his Armies of Saints In which last battel wherein the utmost strength of all the enemies of Christ and his Saints shall be united together shall the controversie between the one and the other be decided and the flesh of these Kings and Captains and mighty men of the earth and of all their Armies shall be given to the fowles of the aire and all this more largely appears Rev. 19. 11. 12 c. And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he doth judge and make war his eys were as a flame of fire and on his head were many Crowns and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself And he was clothed with a vesture dipt in blood and his name is called the word of God and the Armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the Nations and he shall rule them with a rod of Iron and he treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS And I saw an Angel standing in the Sun and he cryed with a lowd voice saying to all the fowls that flie in the midst of heaven Come and gather your selves together unto the supper of the great God that ye may eat the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captains and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them and the flesh of all men both of free and bond both small and great And I saw the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against his army And the beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the Beast and them that worshipped his image These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sate upon the horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh In these words we see is a plain description of two Generals and their Armies and of a battel fought between them and of the success of the battel The description of the great Lord General of the Army of Saints The first General is described by his Name by his Frame and by his Aym. First by his Nanme And he is called faithful and true and his name is called the Word of God and he hath a Name written KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS And this is the Name and Title of the Lord Jesus Christ alone But secondly He is described also by his Frame and posture in which he is thus He sat upon a white horse Which manifests his purity And his eys were as a flame of fire Which shews the piercing discerning nature of them being the searcher of hearts and trier of the reins And on his head are many Crowns Which shews that all the Crowns of all Kingdomes must be put upon his head who is KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS And this is the Frame and posture in which he is But thirdly He is described also by his Aym thus that in righteousness he doth judge and make war He ayms at doing justice making war against the Beast and judging that other Army according to righteousness and that he may so do his Aym is to give them blood to drink and that in righteousness for they are worthy and therefore he is said to be clothed in a vesture dipt in blood and that out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the Nations Out of his mouth it goeth that is he commandeth with the word of his mouth a sharp sword to smite the Nations and this justly And his Aym is to rule the nations with a rod of Iron And this in righteousness and to tread the wine-press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God And in all this may it be said unto him Righteous art thou O Lord who hast judged thus The Description of his Army But in the next place we have his Army described thus And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean Where first we may observe the place where they were and that is heaven which shews that they are armies of the Church that they are Saints for the Church of God is all along the Prophecy of the Book of the Revelation called Heaven Now these Armies that follow this General are the Armies in Heaven the Armies in the Churches of Christ and out of heaven also