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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

these things Who yet are not fully perswaded that the Saints suffering times are expired and that the time times and halfe a time is come to a period who possibly may hereby bee further enlightned and satisfied and further ●…couraged to rejoyce in God and in his pre●…nt proceedings in the World And now first if any shal sleight these things because hereby is discovered any delusions in which they are or any folly in the waies they have taken wherein they doe any way support the enemies and oppose the very reall servants of God or for any other by-end whatsoever let them know that their so doing shall not trouble me at all if it hurt not them And secondly if any shall hereby receive any light or any refreshment let them blesse the Lord for it from whom alone it came for I am a very weake and unworthy instrument and have not done this worke by any strength of my owne but have been often made sensible that I could doe no more herein wherein any light or truth could appeare of my selfe then a pensill or pen can do when no hand guides it being daily made sensible of my owne insufficiency to do any thing as of my selfe that to use the Apostles expression and to speak it feelingly for I finde it daily true I must professe I am not sufficient to thinke a good thought but my sufficiency is of God to whom be glory and honour and praise for evermore Amen I have onely one thing more which I judge necessary to acquaint the reader with and that is this In my former book which I published in April 1648 I subscribed my name Cary for that was then my name for which reason I have thought good to subscribe the same name in the title page of this Book also that the reader may not bee put to any doubt by finding different names in the Titles since I have in this Book so often referred the Reader to that but let the Reader know That having since changed my name I am now known by the name of Mary Rande THey that have any knowledge of my self how worthless a worm I am do also know how unfit I am either to write Books or to judge of others writings yet owing respect to this Author I could not deny a word being desired to read and say something And this I must say though not concurring in all things touching the personal (a) Which I eve● accounted a harmless Errour if an Errour reign that this Author hath these things commendable in the ensuing Treatise First That she hath taught her sexe that there are more ways then one to avoid idleness the devils cushion on which so many sit and sleep their last They that will not use the Distaff may improve a Pen. Secondly A holy modest and painfull spirit runs through her endeavours which I desire may not be slighted by any nor thrown by for good wine may be found in this Cluster in this dress you shall neither see naked Brests black Patches nor long Trains but an heart breathing after the coming of Christ and the comfort of Saints Thirdly Scriptures cleerly opened and properly applied yea so well that you might easily think she plow'd with anothers Heifer were not the contrary well known Upon the whole matter I believe that it will be acceptable to all those that desire to see Christ as he is who will not be offended at this Treatise or rather the Spouses wish and longing Make haste my beloved and be thou like a young roe or a hart upon the mountains of Spices Cant. 8. ult Two of this sexe I have met with very famous for more then their mother-tongue and for that we call Learning yet living The one an unhappie branch of that Tree which is cut off and pulling up by the roots of whom I could say much to whom I owe much The other of deserved note in Vtrecht the glory of her sexe in Holland But this my Country-woman speaks the best Language yea I will adde Other daughters have done vertuously but thou surmountest them Prov. 31. 29. More would I say but my feeble thoughts or words will adde but little to her labours Doubtless she had good help from above in her travel for this birth I will bequeath her Solomons last words of his good houswife Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord shee shall be praised Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates Prov. 31. 30 31. Hugh Peters Touching this Treatise the Judgement of H. Jessey SEeing BLESSED is he that readeth and they that hear the words of THIS PROPHECY and that keep the the things that are written therein Rev. 1. 3. it must needs have a tendency to Blessedness to help others in the understanding thereof The giver of any Talent or Talents this way requires the improvement thereof to our utmost for out Lords advantage Matt. 25. I have been frequently greatly refreshed in my spirits for above twenty yeers with the consideration of the GLORIOUS STATE and PRIVILEDGES of the NEW JERUSALEM that shall be on earth and the certainty thereof foretold by the Prophets and Apostles whose prophecies to this purpose being cited in this book are therein with much cleerness familiar ly explained And for the application here of the little Horn to the late King and of the time of the slaying of the Witnesses to 1645 and the Jews conversion to 1656 and Christ's kingdom's being in its compleat glory to 1701 the grounds here laid down deserve to be well weighed and time will make the Truth evident And whereas both here and in the Authors former book on Rev. II. called the RESURRECTION of the WITNESSES their slaying is said to be past and they are said to be risen again henceforth no more to be slain nor to be under Babels power or yoke to this I may say with Jeremiah in another case Amen though yet I know some others acquainted with much of the Lords minde that do judge that the slaying of the Witnesses is not yet past but to come shortly some of them judge before the yeer 1654. to which I say First If this latter judge ment shall prove to be the truth it were best to know the worst before it overtake us unawares And Secondly I account that this worst if it shall prove to be future shall prove but a short time of travel three days and a half space of the woman with childe that had for a long time been in much sorrow and pains and then being delivered she rejoyceth and forgetteth all her pangs and former sorrows Joh. 16. Of these GREAT CHANGES in all the WORLD now at hand of the POURING out of four VIALS and of the slaying and rising of the Witnesses and of the conversion of the JEWS probably before 1658 and of the SCRIPTURES ORDER in these proceedings before the conversion of the Jews

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

them in deceiving of them as he did Eve that he will it's likely perswade them to believe that they shall by their power overcome the Saints and as he perswaded Eve to believe that in eating the forbidden fruit they should be as gods knowing good and evil so he will perswade these that in making war they shall overcome the Saints though Jesus Christ be with them Thus this old deceiver and lyer shall deceive the unconverted miserable people among the Nations of the world who during all the time of the thousand yeers will be quiet and never dare to attempt any such thing and yet then they shall gather togetner against the Saints and think to overcome them but when they shall attempt to do it the Saints shall then have no need of swords nor spears to defend themselves against that brunt that one assault for the text says Fire shall come down from God out of heaven and devour all these wicked men Thus is declared what will be done after Satan is loosed and what his reward for this work shall be is declared vers 10. And the devil that deceived the nations was cast alive into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever And now comes to be declared what shall follow immediately upon this and that follows in vers 11 12 13 14 15. And I saw a great white throne and him that sate upon it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works And the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire This is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire In these verses is declared that immediately upon the ruining of all the wicked of the Nations the last and general day of judgement is to follow When comes the Resurrection of all both just and unjust I say the last and general day of judgement and resurrection of all for in this twentieth chapter of the Revelation it is cleer that here is a mention made of two Resurrections and the one to be a thousand yeers before the other and the first is treated of in the 4 5 and 6 verses and is there called the FIRST RESURRECTION and the second is laid down in these verses where it is said that the Heavens and the earth are then to be annihilated to flie away at the presence of the Lord who upon his white throne of righteousness after these thousand yeers are finished is to appear and to judge all the dead small and great who are to stand before him being all raised out of the Graves and out of the Sea and all places where the dead have been laid and to be judged righteously according to the Gospel and according to their works and they being so judged it will follow that whosoever is not found written in the book of life shall be cast into a lake of fire And this general day of judgement here treated of is also treated of in several other Scriptures as in Mat. 25. 31 32 c. Where our Saviour thus describes it and says that in that day he shall sit upon the throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered all Nations and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his Sheep from the Goats and he shall set the Sheep on his right hand but the Goats on the left Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world for I was c. And then shall he say also unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels for c. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Thus in this Scripture is this general day of the final judging of all spoken of also wherein to every one is to be rendred according to his works Again another Scripture to this purpose is that in the first of the Corinthians at the fifteenth chapter where Paul more largely discourses of the doctrine of the Resurrection in some particulars of it then it is any where else in Scripture treated of where in the first part of the chapter he makes it his work to prove the certainty of the Resurrection of the body against those Pharisaical spirits that denyed it And having proved the Resurrection by many undenyable and unanswerable Arguments he comes to declare at the twenty third verse and so on in what order the Resurrection shall be he having before said that all shall be raised But says he it shall be every man in his own order Christ the first fruits and afterward they that are Christs at his coming Here is the Order of the Resurrection Christ the first fruits Well Christ was to be raised first in order of time and that was done already Christ was raised when the Apostle writ this Epistle But who are to be raised next The Apostle tells us It must be they that are Christs And when must they be raised The Apostle answers At his coming Afterward they that are Christs at his coming This is the first Resurrection wherein the Saints must at the coming of Christ be raised to reign with him spoken of Revel 20. 4. But then the general Resurrection and the last great day he speaks of in vers 24. 25. and 28. Where he says Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet the last enemie that shall be destroyed is death And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all Here he declares that Jesus Christ being come and having received his kingdome and his Saints being raised at his coming to reign with him that after his coming and reigning and ruling and putting all enemies under his feet and death it self Then cometh the end when he shall deliver up the kingdom to his father and the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all That is there shall be a cessation of the