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A47573 The vvorld that now is; and the vvorld that is to come: or The first and second coming of Jesus Christ Wherein several prophecies not yet fulfilled are expounded. By Han. Knollys, a servant of Jesus Christ. Rev. I. 19. Knollys, Hanserd, 1599?-1691. 1681 (1681) Wing K726; ESTC R217229 58,589 161

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Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth Which Apostasie happened in the fourth Century as Ecclesiastical Historians tell us when the Church at Rome and other Churches their Bishops Presbyters and Members departed from the Faith and fell away from the sound Doctrine pure Worship and true Discipline of the Gospel And then the Apocalyptical Beast the Pope and the great Whore Mystery Babylon the Great that Mother of Harlots and the false Prophets those Roman croaking Frogs did begin to Rise who afterwards greatly increased in the ten European Kingdoms See my Book intituled Mystery-Babylon unvailed Printed 1679. But the last and greatest Apostasie noted in the holy Scripture of Truth is both in Faith and Manners by Men of corrupt Minds and carnal Principles having the Form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5. This know also that in the last daies perillous times shall come For men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to Parents unthankful unholy without natura laffection Truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good Traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away The particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 1. This likewise or besides directs us to look back to the former Epistle ch 4. v. 1 2 3. before-mentioned to wit the Time of the first Apostasie In the latter daies v. 1. But here the Apostle speaks of the Time of the Last Apostasie v. 1. That in the last daies c. The great Inquiry now will be What Daies the Apostle meant here I answer My Opinion hereof is That by the Last Daies here we are to understand those three Prophetical Daies and an half of the 1260 Daies that Christ's two Witnesses shall prophesie in sackcloth Rev. 11.3 7-12 And I will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth And when they shall have finished their Testimony the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit shall make War against them and shall overcome them and kill them And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three daies and an half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves And they that dwell upon the Earth shall rejoyce over them and make merry and shall send gifts one to another because these two Prophets tormented them that dwelt on the Earth And after three daies and an half the Spirit of Life from God entred into them And they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them Read my Exposition of the Eleventh chapter of the Revelation published 1679. These Daies of slaying the Witnesses are those last Daies and will be perillous Times For 1. The Roman Beast will make war against the Witnesses and overcome them and kill them Rev. 11.7 2. They will be perillous hard difficult dangerous grievous and troublesome Times or Daies because the Rights Liberties and Freedoms of the People will be infringed and taken from them and such temptations and snares will be laid whereby mens Liberties Lives and Estates shall be in great hazard and danger Mat. 24.21 Luk. 21.22 26 27. 3. These last Daies will be so full of amazing Distractions Disturbances and Tribulations that wise men shall be at their Wits end not knowing what to do nor what course to take for their own safety And many eminent Professors of Religion will fall off from their former Principles and Practice and be drawn aside to follow the pernicious waies of ungodly men and so fall in with the sins of those last Daies here mentioned 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lovers of their own selves Self-love is the Root of Apostasie both Political and Ecclesiastical When men of Name began to love themselves more than their most solemn Oaths Vows and Covenants more than Truth and Righteousness more than the good Laws of the Nation and the just Liberties and Rights of the People then began the last and greatest Political Apostasie And when men of Eminency for Religion began to love themselves more than the Waies and Worship of God more than the Churches and Saints of God more than Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God then began the Ecclesiastical Apostasie of those last Daies This is one Sign that Christ gave his Disciples of the Ending Time of this world Matth. 24.3 4 12. And as he sate upon the Mount of Olives the Disciples came unto him privately saying Tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world And Jesus answered and said unto them Take heed that no man deceive you And because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Covetous Danaeus in Loc. saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hic à Paulo dicitur qui sive aurum sive argentum sive agros sive quaslibet alias opes ardenter expetit vitiose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is often rendred studium pecuniae the desire of money And the love of money saith the Apostle 1 Tim. 6.10 is the root of all evil which whilst some have coveted after they have erred from the faith c. How much of the spirit of the world and of the things of this world is crept into the hearts of many Professors and Church-Members in these last Daies who consider not the Testimony of the Apostle against them 1 Joh. 2.15 If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him Covetousness is Idolatry Col. 3.5 Another Character of those Apostates of the last Daies is Pride 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proud so are those covetous self-loving Professors and Church-Members in these evil Daies witness the Perriwigs and Petticoats of London Professors and Sermon hearers in this City Doth not even Nature it self teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him 1 Cor. 11.14 Yea it is a shame indeed for men professing Godliness to wear such long Perriwigs of Womens hair as some men do What an abomination is it unto the Lord to see an hoary Head covered with long hair that hath been cut off from a Whores Head when he is praying to God and worshipping the All-seeing God Heb. 4.13 All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do And doth
with Thanksgiving and after the Bread is so consecrated he ought to break it in pieces and give it unto the Communicants expressing the words of Jesus Christ saying Take eat This is my Body And after the Communicants have eaten the Bread the Minister ought to take the Cup with Wine in it and in like manner consecrate it by Prayer and Thanksgiving and then give it all the Communicants expressing the words of Christ saying Drink ye all of this for this is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for you and for many for the Remission of sins Luk 22.20 Matth. 26.27 28. And the Minister also having received with them 3. They all ought to praise God together in singing an Hymn as Christ and his Disciples did Matth. 26.30 Mark 14.26 Singing is also a Gospel-Ordinance which ought to be performed by the Church as a part of God's Publick Worship Isa 52.8 With the Voice together shall they sing The Matter that we are to sing is the Word of God namely the Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs contained in the holy Scriptures the Written Word of God Col. 3.16 Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all Wisdom c. The Manner of Singing Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs is to Sing in Meeter and Measure with audible Voice as our English manner is The Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs in the Book of Psalms were Sung in Meeter and Measure As they that understand the Hebrew Tongue know well The End of Singing is to make Melody in your heart to the Lord Eph. 5.19 Singing with a tunable Voice makes Melody in our Ears and stirs up our pure Minds to rejoyce in the Lord but Singing with Grace in our Hearts doth make melody to the Lord. Though the Voice of the Church espoused to Christ was sweet and pleasant unto him in the Song of Songs Cant. 2.14 yet the Spirit acting Grace viz. Faith Love and Joy in the Hearts of the Saints is much more sweet well-pleasing and acceptable unto God than their Voice in Singing Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs to the Lord Col. 3.16 Singing with Grace in your hearts to the Lord. Query Did not some of the Saints in the Church at Corinth Sing other Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs which they themselves indicted and sang alone by the Spirit with Grace in their hearts to the Lord Answer I think some Members of that Church did compose a Psalm upon occasion 1 Cor. 14.26 And it is my Opinion That a Minister or Member of the Church if he hath received a Gift of the Spirit to Sing may Sing in the Church to Edification 1 Cor. 14 15. yea and ought so to do 1 Pet. 4.10 11. But this I say First That those Hymns and Spiritual Songs which Ministers or Members of the Church do indict and Sing are not Psalms and we are commanded to instruct and exhort one another in Psalms and to Sing Psalms as well as Hymns and Spiritual Songs Eph. 5.19 Col. 3.16 And I know that the word Psalms is interpreted David's Psalms the Book of Psalms and the Psalms of David Asaph c. Search those Scriptures Acts 1.20 Acts 13.33 35. Luk. 20.42.24.44 Secondly That those Ministers and Members of the Church cannot affirm will not assert that their Hymns or Spiritual Songs are materially the Inspiration of the holy Spirit as the Book of Psalms were they may Sing with the Spirit and with understanding unto Edification but the Psalms of David and of Asaph and the Song of Songs which is Solomons and the Hymns of Jesus Christ and his Apostles must have the Pre-eminence Thirdly Although I have also through the riches of Free Grace received the holy Spirit and have learned in some measure what it is to pray in the Spirit and to pray with understanding Also to Sing in the Spirit and and to Sing with Understanding yet I rather chuse to Sing in the Church those Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs which are contained in the holy Scripture than any of my own inditing for these Reasons because First Although I should be assisted by the holy Spirit of God to indite an Hymn or a Spiritual Song and Sing it in the Church with Grace in my heart and so make melody to the Lord and edifie the Church yet some matter thereof may be doubtful to some persons that hear me Sing it if that matter be Prophetical or Mysterious and they understand it not or if there should be any words or sentences therein expressed which are not sound words For I pretend not to Sing by the Spirit otherwise than to pray by the Spirit to wit as the Spirit helpeth mine Infirmities which I may be subject to and so through my Infirmity may err or utter some unsound words Secondly When I Sing a Psalm Hymn or Spiritual Song which is written in the holy Scripture of Truth none but an Atheist or an Atheistical Spirit will object against the Matter of it for those Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs were given by Inspiration of God and Revelation of the holy Spirit and I do only translate them into English Meeter and Measure out of the Hebrew Text that the Church may Sing them together with their Voice making Melody to the Lord by Singing praises to the Lord with Grace in their hearts Thirdly The Church cannot practise the Lord's Command given by the Apostle to those two Churches and all other Churches of Saints though they Sing Hymns and Spiritual Songs unless they also Sing Psalms which are by the same holy Spirit that inspired David to indite them expounded and interpreted The Book of Psalms and The Psalms of David c. as hath been proved by those Scriptures aforecited which the Reader is humbly desired to search CHAP. IV. Lastly THE Lord Jesus Christ having finished the work for which he came into this WORLD being to leave the WORLD and return to Heaven whence he came Eph. 4.9.10 did at the Request of his Disciples Matth. 24.3 4. foretel them the Signs of his Second Coming and of the End of this WORLD The Ending Time of this WORLD and the Second Coming of Christ have some evident Signs set upon them And God hath caused those Signs to be Recorded and Written in the holy Scripture of Truth First To strengthen the Faith of his People that they might upon Scripture ground believe that this World shall have an End and that the LORD Jesus Christ will come again from Heaven in Power and great Glory And Secondly To leave all Unbelievers without excuse One Sign of the Ending Time of this World is the last and greatest Apostasie of Professors and the Laodicean Lukewarmness of Ministers and Members in the Churches of Christ The first great Apostasie which the Apostle foretold was a departing from the Faith of the Gospel which Christ and his Apostles had preached and which the Churches their Ministers and Members had imbraced and professed 1 Tim. 4.1 3.