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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

her beforehand that then especially when the time of trouble which he also foretold her of should come shee should betake herselfe unto them as he also saith When yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the holy place who so readeth let him understand then let them which be in Iudea flic into the mountains c. Matth. 24. For this was the very time of the great persecution raised by the Dragon against that admirable woman in her most excellent primitive estate described in Rev. 12.1 whereby she was necessitated to flie into the Wildernesse to her place which God had provided for her to take some breath and live She was now to read and understand the written words of his two Testaments and to betake her selfe to them and flie they being the two wings of the great Eagle even the Lord himselfe who gave them unto her to that end and that she might be also nourished by them in that secret desart for a time and times and half a time that is to say three yeares and a halfe of yeares from the presence of the Serpent as verse 14. compared with verse 6. where these three times and a halfe are decribed by 1260 dayes and are to be understood for so many yeares it being also the full time of the reigne of the Beast which was to rise after the Dragons fall For St. Iohn as it seemeth wrote this book of the Revelation at the same time when all the Westerne Churches were by the persecution of Nero and the rest of those cruell Pagan Emperours dispersed and they of Iudea also Iohn himselfe being now for the word of God and witnesse of Iesus Christ in the Isle of Pathmos onely the seven Churches of Asia remaining in their places undispersed and that this was the reason why Iohn speaks not a word of any Churchelse of any place besides those seven of Asia unto whom he was appointed to send the book when he had written it And although notwithstanding that great persecution against all Christians in generall then under the Romane power the name of Christ and profession of Christian Religion increased so that in short time it came to be very generally entertained yet did the true Church herselfe being in respect of her Seed dispersed amongst them never recover her first and primitive estate againe but all things grew worse and worse untill the Beast rose who brought the mystery of iniquity to perfection and set up the abomination of desolation to the full which the Dragon had begun in Ierusalem and Temple thereof to stand where it ought not even in the Temple of the Christian Gentiles the seven Churches of Asia being now also by the Easterne Empire subdued to the Beast and brought under the supremacie and power of his Church of Rome and so they wrought and brought to passe by degrees that the eminent light and beauty of the truly modest and chast virgin Spouse of Christ might no more be seen till the fourty and two months of the Beasts reigne should be expired Therefore as Christ said Matth. 24. Who so readeth let him understand c. So again Rev. 1. Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of the prophesie of this booke and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand verse 3. Verse 5. And if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies and if any man will hurt them so must he be slaine HEre the Lord doth further declare by his Angell what his two Witnesses are in their owne true nature and power in saying If any man will hurt them fire shall proceed out of their mouth c. That is to say if any man shall resist their words and testimony or seem to stop their proceeding and pervert the straight way of the Lord which they declare as the Scribes and Pharisees and those false teachers in Antioch and them of Galatia Elymas the Sorcerer and many other more in the Apostles dayes did or shall wrest their words from their true intention to some other false and evill ends and so turn their prophesie and testimony out of the way to maintaine their blasphemous opinions abominations and lies under pretence of truth as Arius and his followers did and the Beast and his Clergie have done a long time and as many others doe now amongst us at this day to maintain their sundry erroneous and corrupt opinions which they have taken up contrary to the intent and meaning of the Spirit of God in these his two Testaments Look what judgements they have pronounced against such shall surely first or last fall upon them the fire of Gods justice and wrath which proceedeth out of their mouth shall certainly devoure them And let no man marvell at this that they being two are described to have both but one mouth for although they bee two in number and are truly distinct and differing one from the other the one being the Law of sinne and of death so called by reason of us who are all guilty of the breach thereof and so of death which is said to come by Moses the other being the Law of the Spirit of life of grace and truth and is said to come by Jesus Christ yet doe they not speak or will things contrary one to the other but doe truly agree and speake as with one mouth that which is holy and just gracious and true Therefore if any man will hurt them so must he be slain If any man shall make and love to make lies against them or of them and say they speak that which they speak not or mean that which they mean not If any man shall adde to or take from the words of their prophesie see then what their sentence is even in the very finishing of their testimony If he shall adde God shall then adde unto him the plagues that are written in this booke If he shall diminish or take from God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy Citie and from the things that are written in this book Rev. 22.18 19. Blessed therefore are they that doe his commandements that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the Citie for without shall be Dogges and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie Verse 6. These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the dayes of their prophesie and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues so often as they will THat these two Witnesses have power for to doe all these things I suppose no man will deny because it is without question true And that whatsoever they have prophesied against any Kingdome Monarch Nation State Citie People for their wickednesse against

doe partake of according to the words of Christ Iohn 5. where hee saith The houre is comming and now is when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall live verse 25. And then afterward saith Marvell not at this for the houre is comming in the which all that are in the graves shall heare his voyes and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of damnation verse 28 29. Where the first resurrection which is spirituall of the soul and the second universall resurrection of the body are both of them plainly and distinctly described And the Apostle Paul to the Saints of the Church of Colossia saith And yee are compleat in him which is the head of all Principality and power in whom also yee are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ buried with him in Baptisme wherein also yee are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead And you being dead hath hee quickned together with him Col. 2.10 11 12 13. And Coloss 3. hee saith If yee bee risen with Christ seeke those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God vers 1. So Rev. 20. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus and for the word of God and which had not worshipped the Beast nor his Image nor had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years vers 4. And then saith This is the first resurrection Blessed and holy is be that hath part in the first Resurrection for on such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand years vers 5 6. Where the Lord also speaketh to living men and of them who having their part here in the first resurrection spirituall and suffering for the testimony of Christ and dying with him as Paul in another place saith For the rejoycing that I have in Christ Iesus I die daily And again For thy sake O Lord are wee slain all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter may herein be much comforted in respect of the promise that the second death shall have no power on them according to that in John 5. Hee that heareth my word and beleeveth in him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life vers 24. So here Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power but they shall bee Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand years Whereby it is manifest the Lord speaketh to men living in the body and of them such as having their part here in this The first Resurrection for there can be but one first resurrection who although now during the time of the reigne of the great Antichrist especially which was to be a thousand yeares at least they as touching their bodies should for the word of God and witnesse of Jesus Christ bee beheaded slaine c. and for the hope fake in Christ die daily yet in the spirit as touching the soule live and reigne with Christ as Paul saith dying and behold we live c. 2 Cor. 6.9 Again for ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God Col. 3.4 And when the thousand yeares are expired and Satan loosed out of his prison to goe unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battell of the great day of God Almighty according to Rev. 16.14 and 20.8.9 Then the Lord comming in his glory all that are in the graves even every one small and great shall heare his voyce and shall come forth They that through the grace and power of the Spirit of God in the new birth and first resurrection have done good unto the resurrection of life eternall in respect of their body also united now to their soule they being found written in the book of life And they that have done evill those rest of the dead that had no part in the first resurrection spirituall from the death by sinne and so not beeing found written in the booke of life unto the resurection of condemnation in the lake of fire burning with brimstone which is the second death They now have a resurrection and live again though a miserable dying life body and soule for ever And that the first resurrection Rev. 20. cannot possibly bee meant of the bodies of any that are to rise from the dead as the Millenaries would have it wee may perceive plainly by the words of the Text verse 4. where John saith not And I saw the soules that were he headed as if that could bee neither doth he say And I saw the bodies that were beheaded and they lived c. But his words are And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded c. that is of those whose bodies were beheaded of which soules he saith And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years c. The soule can no more truly be said to rise from the dead with the body when it shall rise from the dead nor for the body then it can be said to be beheaded with it or for it For although in some other cases when bodies and soules are living together it may bee said as in Genesis 46. All the soules of the house of Iacob which came into Egypt were threescore and ten verse 27. in such like cases as this the soule being the principall part of man and the body living and moving together with it may rightly and truly bee named for both yet in other cases not so And to name the soule and say when a body is beheaded or dieth the soul is beheaded or dieth or when the body shall arise from the dead the soule riseth from the dead it is to say and speak a very untruth When the bodies of those Saints which slept arose from the dead at the time of Christs resurrection it is not said their Soules arose but their Bodies onely Matth. 27.52 And the graves were opened and the bodies of many Saints which slept arose and appeared unto many The soule cannot with any truth or sense of reasonable understanding bee named for the body nor for both in those cases Nay all the Millenarians in the world how learned or orthodoxall soever they are accounted are not able to prove this thing except they hold and can prove as some have been so bold of late to affirme and publish that the soule of man is mortall and dieth when the body dieth and so lieth dead in the grave with

their testimony and against the Prophets and people of God that stood to maintain the same have and shall certainly come to passe If they prophesie of famine either of the Word and knowledge of God which is the bread of life or of common bread signified here by shutting the heavens that it rain not c. Or if they prophesie of destruction by the sword here signified by turning waters into blood so giving them blood to drink for their shedding the blood of the Saints as it is exprest Rev. 16.3 4.5 6. Or if they prophesie of pestilence of earthquakes or any other calamity or judgement to come signified by smiting the earth with all manner of plagues so often as they will their word is a law such speciall priviledge and power they have that what they say and denounce shall stand not one jot nor tittle of their word shall fail till all be fulfilled According as the Lord spake of his Prophet Jeremiah and by him saying Behold this day have I set thee over Nations and over Kingdomes to pluck up root out destroy and throw down build and plane J●r 1.9 10. And in another place Therefore have I cut them down by my Prophets and slain them by the words of my mouth Hos 6.5 And so Zerubbabel concerning the power that opposed him saying Not by Army nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Who art thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain c. Zech. 4. Now what two men were there ever in the world or what two States of Magistrates and Ministers or other have there ever been that had power to doe all these things and by the word of whole mouth all those judgements of God already past and fulfilled on those former Monarchs Kingdomes Nations Cities people that have been the great adversaries of God enemies to his Word of Truth and destroyers of his Saints have been uttered and pronounced but the mouth of his two Testaments onely which the holy Prophets and Apostles have been the witnessers and recorders of In which respect the Lord did so greatly honour Moses and the Prophets they being dead and their writings onely remaining to the people saying They have Moses and the Prophets let them heare them c. And so to us now we have Moses and the Prophets yea more we have John the Baptist the Elias that was to come and Christ the Messiah promised and his holy Apostles insomuch as wee have their Records and Writings of the great things of Gods two Testaments which they had seen and heard from the Lord. And if we therefore will not heare them nor beleeve their record then neither will we beleeve if Enoch and Elias or Noah and Abraham or any other two or more of the holy Prophets and Apostles should come from the dead and preach anew unto us for so much doe the words of the Lord imply Wherefore it concerneth us greatly to read and consider and to desire of God to give us understanding And blessed is hee that readeth and beleeveth and keepeth the sayings of Gods two Witnesses which are his two Testaments for so I will now take it for granted of all that love the Lord and delight in his Testimonies Vers 7. And when they have finished their testimony the beast which ascendeth from the depth shall make battell against them and kill them THese words in the opinion of some I know will seeme to contradict that which hath been said of the two Witnesses because they will understand their testimony here spoken of to be their prophecying in Sackcloth 1260 dayes mentioned in verse 3. and so as if the words of this 7 verse did imply the killing of them by the Beast to be at the end of those dayes a little before his own death that he shall then get up again out of his consumption and make warre against them and kill them and their carkasses lie in the streets of his great Citie three naturall yeares and a halfe unburied that so the Beast and his false Prophets and those Kings and Nations and the people that worship the Beast may yet rejoyce and triumph over them before the Beast die and his Church come to desolation This they conceive and teach and that the two Witnesses must therefore be some two men of these times as Mr. Burton and the other that suffered with him and were imprisoned as they say three yeares and a halfe just to a day and then set at liberty by the Parliament and so raised from death to life and caused to stand upon their feet again for so they have published in their bookes yet not giving the honour wholly to them alone but joyning also together with them all those Ministers which had suffered and been supprest by the Bishops for not conforming unto their orders and rules who are now restored to places and meanes Some adding to these the zealous Magistrates and States now in place of authority But to answer these Teachers not denying any of Gods faithfull Servants Magistrates or Ministers the least part of their due and right onely let me tell them that so teach They are utterly deceived in their imaginations concerning the two Witnesses and also much mistake the words of the text For first it saith not of the two Witnesses which are the two Testaments onely as hath been sufficiently proved and I now take it for granted And when they have finished their prophecying in Sackcloth as if they should cease so to doe before the Be●st should kill them Neither doth it say when the 1260 dayes of the Beasts reigne shall be accomplished then the Beast should make warre against them and kill them Nay this were very contradictions and unreasonable for how could the Beast kill them when his dayes were ended Or if he could what would it then avail him the time of their prophecying also being expired Nay it had been much more for his advantage to have killed them long before seeing they were before even in the Prophet Zechary his time though they had not yet finished their testimony till about three hundred yeares before the beast rose And 2ly the two Witnesses of God being the two Testaments cannot bee said to finish their prophecying in Sackcloth till all Gods elect are called and sanctified by their word and that the sufferings of Christ in them his members for his Word sake are ended Neither did the two Witnesses ever otherwise prophesie then in Sackcloth that is in mourning All the holy Prophets Apostles and S●ints have in mourning and weeping born record of them and in faith and patience testified the truth of their words to the world and were hated and persecuted for their sake not their own but because they testified and walked in the light of them And in this kind of habit they are to prophesie untill the Lord come in his glory For although the Lord would as he said so give unto his