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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57810	Maromah, the Lord of Rome the Antichrist, finally and fully discover'd his name and the number of his name, hitherto wonderfully hid in the words of Solomon and Isaiah, but now reveal'd beyond all scruple and doubt : to the most seasonable comfort of all the faithful, to the everlasting confusion of Pope and popish ministers, to the vindication, praise and encouragement of all Protestant witnesses, peculiarly [sic] the happy discoverers of the late most horrid Popish Plot : being a second sermon on Prov. XIV. 25, preacht in Istleworth Church on Novemb. 16, 1679 / by William Ramsay, B.D. ...	Ramsay, William, B.D.; Ramsay, William, B.D. Mirmah, Maromah, Maroum.	1680 (1680)	Wing R217; ESTC R10342	13,292	37

respect of all Prophecies as Christ observ'd to his Apostles Mat. 24.15 speaking of Daniels Prophecy of the Abomination of desolation Whoso readeth saith Christ let him understand As if Christ had said Many have read that Prophecy and you have read it but who hath understood it None but I tell ye now plainly that it is the utter Destruction of Jerusalem which you shall live to see Even so many have read this Prophecy of Solomon but it follows not that any hath understood it till the appointed time which I shall shew ye is now But this Prophetical obscurity is most peculiar to our case which contains the Discovery of the Name of Antichrist and of the Number of his Name For of this very thing it is written by the Prophet himself who speaks most of this matter Rev. 13.18 Here is wisdom says the Great Prophet John Let him that hath understanding count the Number c. Beloved be ye so far from expecting something obvious to every man that readeth that rather reject ye this Assertion if ye find not both Wisdom and Understanding in it yet not my wisdom or the wisdom of man but the wisdom of the Holy Ghost who knew how to couch so valuable a Prophecy under the contemptible covert of a single term of Solomon And now to discover it by a contemptible Instrument when the very time calls for it Nay not the Wisdom only but the Goodness of God is apparent in these long concealments of prophetical Truths and the open Revelation of them in their proper times For instance had Solomon writ in vulgar and obvious terms that the Lord of Rome speaketh lies Then had Solomon's Books at least if not all the old Scriptures been burnt by the Lords of Rome without some extraordinary Miracles of preservation which did not so become divine Wisdom who knew how to order the matter better without them Again had Solomon writ this in terms obvious to every Reader or had it been discover'd before the time then such Lords of Rome as have been Witnesses of Truth had been branded with an undue Character Now then is the time that this Prophecy should be discover'd and first here in England for here first by the most wonderful Discoveries that ever were made in the world the Lord of Rome appears to be indeed that Great Witness of deceit who speaketh lies and by Lies destroyeth those Souls which the great Witness of Truth came to deliver Proceed we directly to the Discovery The thing to be discovered lyes hid in the Hebrew term which in the Text is render'd A deceitful Witness The Hebrew term is in the first Original written with these four letters onely M. R. M. H Now the Hebrews till above four hundred years after Christ writ no Vowels in their words as a e i o or u but writ the Consonants only and understood the Vowels Which Custom of that Language God himself was the Author of when he gave his Law to Moses written without distinction of Vowels and I cannot doubt but the Divine Wisdom appointed it so to this very end that many things and prophecies might lye hid in that obscure Writing till a proper time to be discover'd And so it came to pass for the Christians discovering daily more and more testimonies of the Truth from the Old Scriptures and confounding the obstinate Jews with their own writings the Masorethans that they might either change or obscure such places in Scripture as plainly made for the Christians against them found out this trick of writing Vowels which however in it self a perfection of writing yet was in them but a trick of corrupting and several places which they could not corrupt they utterly rejected even the whole Book of Daniel and consulted to serve Isaiah so but publick shame could not permit that But Prophecies of the nature of the Text which lay hid in close Coverts of words admitting another vulgar sence as this word Mirmah doth such they could not attempt to change for they could not suspect any prophecy in them and I know there are more in the Scripture and there may be many more which I know not in which the Wisdom of God shines wonderfully to him that understandeth and his gracious Providence to preserve his Truth from them that would suppress it utterly were it in their skill and power These Masorethans added their points and vowels to all the Words of the Old Testament Ann. Chr. 479. twelve hundred years agoe at the most From this 'T is plain that the Vowels of this word Mirmah are not of Divine Authority unless we have other authority than that of the Masorethans But the Letters of the word being originally written by Solomon are of Divine Authority that is M. R. M. H which Letters according to the exact analogy of the Hebrew reading make the entire word of Maromah of which Mirmah is only a contraction for the Word Maromah gives every letter its Vowel but the word Mirmah casts out the middle-vowel O from the letter R and for the long vowel A puts the short vowel i and so draws together three Syllables into two Maromah into Mirmah So that the whole difference is from the Vowels only which as all confess are not Divine Scripture If then the Letters which are certainly of Divine authority contain in them a more profitable Truth than what is exprest by the Masorethans pointing of it and if that Truth be plainly confirm'd by other Scriptures then without all doubt we ought to embrace that Truth and to use the words of the Holy Ghost to the greatest advantage of it So seeing the Scripture of the Holy Ghost is really and literally Maromah as well as Mirmah we may read Maromah as well as Mirmah yea rather Maromah than Mirmah if Maromah be more significant and conform to the Holy Ghost in the other Scriptures as we shall shew it is We reject not the word Mirmah no But We preferre the Word Maromah for reasons to be given and we retain the word Mirmah which in its vulgar use signifies Deceit and so was a most fit word to conceal the Prophecy included in Maromah which Mirmah too includes in its radical signification yea is the same Word essentially with Maromah and is the same word letter for letter in the Original writing of Solomon which was the writing of the Holy Ghost It was necessary then it should be read Mirmah till the discovery of the Prophecy of Maromah contained in it But when the Kernel must be produced then the Shell must be broken Then leave we Mirmah as the Shell and prove we the property of Maromah Maromah literally and grammatically according to exact Lexico-graphy and Etymology of the Hebrew tongue and which is more according to the style of the Prophets Old and New signifies the Lord of Rome I will first prove the grammatical and then the prophetical signification of the Word The Grammatical signification is apparent three wayes

all as plain as Grammatical things can be only as was premised it must not be Obvious to Every Grammarian nor to be read in the School-Dictionary for then where 's the Mystery of which it is said Let him that readeth understand And here is Wisdom And let him that understandeth count the Number c. But you shall see the Wisdom of God shine out from a single word even from this word of Maromah Only have patience and despise not small things which the wise God makes choice of to confound the things that are great And first to foreshew the Lord of Rome which is spiritually Babylon the Spirit would use a Babylonian word for Maromah is an Hebrew word in the Babylonian Dialect for Mar says Buxtorfius is Vox babylonica and signifies a Supreme Lord and is often used by the Rabbies sayes the same Buxtorfius for Bahal or Adon and not only by the Rabbies but by the Holy Ghost too both in the Old and New Prophets Dan. 2.47 Maremalchin a Babylonian word for the Lord of Kings 1 Cor. 16.22 Maranatha a Babylonian word for the Lord cometh Even so Maromah for the Lord of Rome For Rome is Originally a Hebrew word and the Hebrews have no other word for Rome but Roum in the Hebrew Dialect and Romah in the Babylonian or Chaldaick dialect whence comes the Greek word Romη with an η in the end which answers the Hebrews He and from the Greek came the Latin word by turning η into a as in cena musa and a thousand such Indeed the Greek and Latin tongues come originally from the Hebrew as Arpenius has learnedly shown but especially this word Rome came from the Hebrew as will better appear by the consideration of the Hebrew Roum which you may see in every Lexicon Roum is an Hebrew Verb and signifies to be High and exalted or to exalt Ones-self in place power and pride or to usurp high and great things chiefly indeed it is spoken of the exaltation of God above all as Psal 46.10 Know that I am God says the Lord I will be exalted among the Heathen I will be exalted in the earth Aroum baggojim aroum baarets But secondarily the word is used for the pride ambition and usurpation of men as we shall see From the Verb Roum come the Substantives Roum and Romah both which signifie Height in place power or pride from which certainly comes the name of the City of Rome From the same Verb you have also Maroum which is the principal Word we look for and you have it in every Hebrew Lexicon See Buxtorfius in the Radix Roum Now the commonly receiv'd signification of Maroum in the Lexicons is The high One of the Earth or the High thing of the Earth to which if ye joyn the first Etymology in which is shewn that Mar is an usual term for Lord then it will appear plainly that Maroum as Maromah signifies literally and grammatically the Lord of Rome For as it appears in Buxtorfius in the Radix Roum that the Substantives Roum and Romah are all One so it must needs be equally plain that Maroum and Maromah are all One. But if ye ask which of these is the proper and Original Word Maroum certainly with Vau-cholam is the Original Hebrew word in the Hebrew dialect and Maromah in the Chaldean or Babylonian dialect The Pronunciation of Vau-cholam is certainly very hard and I think quite lost among the Hebrews themselves but as for the Greeks and Latins who have no Vau-cholam in their Language neither can pronounce it the Greeks are forced to take an η in the end and for Roum say Romη the Latins take an a and say Roma the English take an e quiescent and say Rome And all because of the difficulty of pronouncing Vau-cholam in the word Roum or rather Rovm After the same manner the Original Word Maroum with Vau-cholam is after the Greek fashion Maromeh after the Latin Maromah after the English Marome with an e quiescent all which alters not the signification of the word but the pronunciation of it only So homo in Latine is made huomo in Italian Hombre in Spanish un homme in French yet all are Originally the same word with homo a man Much more easie is it to conceive Maroum and Maromah to be the same word in the Hebrew tongue which counts not the difference of Vowels nor of accidental but chiefly of essential or radical letters For which Observe that the Radix Roum has two cognate and collateral Radixes one on one side and the other on the other That is Marah and Ramah Marah with an Aleph whence comes Mar a Lord or one that exalts himself has the same signification with Roum to exalt it self but Marah with an He signifies to Rebell which is a thing consequent to pride Ramah is of the same radical letters with Roum only He in the end is put for Vau the middle which as we shewed is an usual thing and Ramah signifies to deceive and thence comes Remijah and Mirmah Deceit So that however the words be taken whether Roum or Romah whether Mirmah Maroum or Maromah whether from Marah Roum or Ramah take the words as you will it still will appear that God has lodg'd the Mystery of Rome and of the Lord of Rome in these words which signifie Pride Rebellion Usurpation and Deceit the certain distinctive Characters of that proud City and of the lofty Lord that rules therein who has deceiv'd the Nations with his Lies This then is the plain issue of this long Grammatical discourse that the word of the Text which is render'd a Deceitful Witness is literally and grammatically to be render'd Maroum or Maromah that is the Lord of Rome Thus much for the Grammatical come we now to the Prophetical property use and signification of this word And first Observe That the Word Mirmah though it signifies in its common use Deceit in genere yet the Scriptures use it not but where Antichrist is foretold or spoken of which argues the peculiar application of that word to that purpose Besides the Text I have noted six places in this Book of the Proverbs where Solomon useth this word and they have all a peculiar application to the Deceitful Witness Antichrist as the Text hath The like may be observed in the other Books as Psal 5.6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord shall destroy the bloody and deceitful man The Word is Mirmah or Maromah And Psal 10.7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud The Word again is Mirmah or Maromah And these places mean plainly of Antichrist But where the place is not applicable to the deceit of Antichrist there Deceit is not exprest by the Word Mirmah but by Remijah toke or some other word But for the Prophetical use of this word we have undeniable Authority in the Prophet Isaiah in the 24 th 25 th and 26 th Chapters In which the Prophet foretells the