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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

LINGVA TESTIVM 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 Secondly That this Magistracy in all Ages since Antichrists being visible hath witnessed for Christ against Antichrist Thirdly That the late King who was cut off with the Axe was the lawfull successor of Gods witnesses who for these 1260. yeares have been Witnesses in Sackcloth for Christ against Antichrist whereby t' is evident that he is the slain Witnesse that finished his Testimony Fourthly That his Son the K. of Scotland who is the Witnesse expected 3. yeares and an half after the slaying of the Witnesses to rise again is by an unquestionable title Emperour of Rome and that Prince expected to be the ruine of the Antichristian Monarchy of Rome 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 Where in you have the hard places of Mat. 24 and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard Texts Together with a description of the last Enemies which slay the Witnesses whereby t is evident that England is the place where the Witnesses are slain and no place else Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus In the yeare of the Beasts of the Earth's raign 1651. READER I Have taken upon me one of the hardest Taskes this day in the World and who am I that undertake it but the weakest that ever travelled in this high way I find Gyants in learning stumbling falling stragling and quite tyred in this way many mighty men durst never adventure to put foot therein and few that ever entred it can say they came to their journies end there was still a pus ultra which they all acknowledged This only was my encouragement to enter into this sacred Thicket of Divine Mysteries that that Divine Essence which gave it to the world delights to reveale it to Babes and Sucklings in the world I am sure my Lord and Master the King of Heaven and Earth delights to have it so The great God usually magnifies his grace this way by doing great things by the weakest meanes He made a poore weake despised Maid alone to bring forth the mighty Monarch of Heaven and Earth Indeed in this great work I have been as the blessed Virgin both {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} alone Whiles I was bigge of what I have here brought forth in both these Tracts I was inforced like Elizabeth to hide my self for so grievous were the thrumps and kicks of my friends against it whiles I went in pain of it that I could not endure them and now it is born the Herods of the times doe seek its life I must confesse it goeth adroad in a homely dress yet it is never the lesse nor never the worse truth The Harp is Davids Harp though the Method and the Stile which are as the strings and the fingers are mine which I could heartily wish were better The rudenesse of them I doe acknowledge may give occasion to my enemies to make me the morrall of Lucians Fable who deriding illiterate sauce-boxes tells us of a Supercilious Asses whose aspiring minde looking at least five Sphere above his reach made his rude fingers itch to be playing on Orpheus his Harp snatching it therefore from Apollo to whom 't was dedicated to work he went and made therewith such an hideous noise that instead of making wilde Beasts tame as Orpheus was wont he made the tame Dogs of the Town madde who ran upon him and tore him in pieces I doe not desire to make the morrall of this Fable let if I must because my enemies will have it so if I make such harsh musick of that Sacred Harp the Bible that I inrage the Dogs of this age against me but my enemies remember that my unskilfull fingers make harsh musick onely in Dogs eares and however the harp I play upon is still the same and none but Dogs thereat will be inraged I confesse of all Instruments this of Sigionoth is the hardest and I may truly say that many excellent Musicians otherwayes have made such harsh musick on this Instrument that the Romish Dogs have had to Just a cause to bark at them but as for the Romish party I feare them not because I am sure they cannot come at me for their own Authors they must thrust them through to touch me and so must the Independents likewise so that I have the least cause of any man to feare either of them and as for others I expect by the Law of gratitude faire dealing at their hands if it be asked why this Preface is made a book distinct and not joyned to Manus Testium as it ought I answer 1. 'T is not my fault but theirs that print it these are times of separation 2. I committed them to severall hands that if one miscarried the other might possibly have safe arivall and if either there might be light enough in that alone to tell the the world who the witnesses are where they shall be slain when they shall be slain and who shall slay them and when and where he shall be overcome that slayes them For this cause have I handled many things in this Preface which I have touched on in the Book and touched many things here which I have handled in the Booke that in this Tract I have handled more clearly which I lest obscurely through over much brevity in the Book especially that of Monarchy and that of the Beast which slayes the witnesses in Rev. 17. where I have indeavoured to answer all the hard questions in that Chapter which is the mystery of the Revelations as yet to me never by any one fully and clearely opened I have not studied loftiness but plainness of speech in these Tracts I have not as most Schollars doe eyed onely Schollars but herein playing the Jesuite of our times I have eyed the Vulgar ●ort most and writ to their capacities that so counter-workking the Jesuite of our times I might undeceive poore misled soules who are stung with those Iesuiticall Independent Scorpions and bring them to the knowledge of the true Church a lawfull Magistracy and ministery and discover to them the true Antichrist For this cause reader doe I run a corporall hazard on purpose to save thy soule harmlesse by