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A35177 The summ of two sermons on the witnesses and the earthquake that accompanies their resurrection occasion'd from a late earthquake, Sept. 8 and preach'd on the fast following, Sept. 14 / by W.C., M.A. ... Cross, Walter, M.A. 1692 (1692) Wing C7264; ESTC R31339 35,336 46

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remembring Joseph's Afflictions is too sad a Witness against their Protestantship Prop. 4. V. 4 Though Grace and Gifts too are Supernatural yet when engrafted they become a Second Nature The Church is not like the Candle but the Candlestick that neither has Light nor Aptitude to be turned into a Flame yet when the Light is added she becomes like the Olive-Tree with a native Fatness Rom. 11.17 Christ is the Root of the Olive-tree the Church is a wild Branch engrafted Hear her own Confession Hos 14.8 I am like the green Fir-tree fruitless by Nature But Christ answers From me is thy Fruit sound Prop. 5. V. 5 A Penal Prodigy usually kills the Persecutors of Protestants they die not the usual Death of Men but by prodigious Punishment Monstra Poenarum God by a Visible Hand writes Mene Tekel on their dying Carkasses 1. If any Man hurt great or small If he 2. Will when the Power is restrained if the Enmity remain 3. Kill'd Violence shall be visible 4. There is a Necessity of it He must All Necessity of it with God is only a Decency Heb. 2. It became him to make the Captain of our Salvation a compleat Sufferer 5. After this manner as Elijah did the Captains with their Fifties 2 Kings 1. And as the Earth opened and devoured Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16.30 so an Earthquake ver 13. shall devour them Instances of this are many Charles the V. the first Persecutor after the Solemn assuming that Name dy'd like Dioclesian Philip the II. of Spain the next great Pushing Horn set up the Inquisition for●…d the Armado made it his Business to root out the Reformation was made a remarkable Spectacle of Divine Displeasure He was tormented two Years with Anguish and Pain in his Bowels and the no less loathsom and stinking Disease of Vermin crawling on him and from him than painful His Country remains a Monument of the Divine Stroke in it's VVeakness unto this Day Some complain of the want of an Historia Nemeseos a well-attested Account how evil has hunted the violent man to overthrow him Psal 140.11 But it 's sure there is no want of matter for such a History for fewer Ringleaders of Persecution have escaped than those who have suffered and might deservedly be Chronicled in Tabulis Parcarum But there is a greater Difficulty to find certain Rules of Distinction between such Judiciary Punishments and Common Evils I shall give a few 1st When the Punishment is a Pourtraicture of the Sin as Absalom's Incest was of David's Adultery and as the Dogs licking Jezabel's Blood was of her causing Naboth's Blood to be shed and licked by Dogs Isa 33.1 When thou shalt cease to spoil thou shalt be spoiled When a Person triumphs over another's Distress and is smitten with the same then the Judgment carries the Signature of the Sin and the Rod hath an audible Voice 2ly When Judgments surprizes the Sinner in the Act as it did Herod and Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4.31 Acts 12.23 God executes Sentence against an evil Work speedily for Patterns to prevent others Eccles 8.11 3ly When the Crimes are such as God hath not only threatned Death against but Judiciary Death 1 Tim. 5.4 Some Mens Sins are open before hand going before to Judgment Such an one is Persecution especially in them who take no warning from other Men's Falls Psal 10.5 His ways are always grievous thy Judgments are out of his sight Jer. 2.3 All that devour him shall offend for mine Eyes are upon him saith the Lord. 4ly All National or Universal Judgments though little in degree they are Penal Signs of his Displeasure such as Famine Sword and Plague 5ly When Scripture has foretold the Judgment as here in the Text the Prophecy and Fulfilment make two sufficient Witnesses 6ly So doth the Person and the Judgment Job 34.26 He striketh them as wicked Men in the open sight of others Luke 13.1 7ly When many of a Company as Four or Five of Twelve or Twenty that have been Social Assistants of a Murder 8ly When the Sin lies in the Mean and the Punishment in the End Unjust Means for Honour or Riches cursed with Poverty and Contempt Prop. V. 6 The Prayers of true Protestants are of great Interest in Heaven By no other mean did Moses and Elias work the Miracles referred to in the Text and no less Influence has the Prayers of Saints to the Plagues Symbolized by them though Second Causes are more visible in producing the former Effects The Fire Thundering and Lightning that brought forth the Trumpets came out of the same Censer from which the Saints Prayers did ascend Rev. 8.5 So all the shutting up of Blessings from Heaven and turning the Benefits upon Earth into Curses yea all the Plagues that fall on Babylon comes from their Prayers The Second State is that of their Death contained in other Four Verses 7 8 9 10 which I shall summ up in Five Propositions Prop. 1. V. 7 The seeming hard and Hieroglyphick Terms of Scripture this Book contains are of as fixed and determin'd a Sence as any other Words or Terms in all the Scripture There is a fair Instance of this in the term'd Beast which is the Subject of this Verse and a considerable part of the whole Book which every where signifies the Roman Empire under it's last Form of Government viz. As it is divided in Ten several Kingdoms For 1. That the Four first Beasts in Daniel signifie the Four Monarchies and the Fourth Beast the Roman Empire is an undoubted Axiome 2. That the Beast in the Revelation is the same with Daniel's Fourth is sufficiently evident First The Time and Duration is the same Times Time and Half a Time Secondly From the End thereof at the Beginning of Christ's Kingdom Thirdly From the Form thereof 10 Horns or Dominions to no other Kingdom in the the World can these three Characters agree 3ly The constant Form under which this Book considers the Beast as it 's formal Object is Ten Horns Rev. 17.11 13. and 13.1 Prop. 2. There is necessarily supposed some great Defection and Backsliding of the Protestants or Witesses after their begun publick Testimony before their Death For 1. Sin must always go before Punishment Though this Death is brought for other Ends than meer punishing yet there is no place for Punishment where Sin does not precede 2. Their great Interest in Heaven for plaguing the Earth as often as they will is suppos'd lost when they fall in War before their Enemies 3. The Threatning or Warning given in the 9th and 10th Verses of the 14th Chapter implies a Danger of Apostasie Hence the very Nature of the Sin is pointed at viz. A returning to Babylon and re-conforming to her in Doctrine Worship Discipline Frame of Spirit Life and Conversation with Politick Interest and Ends which some think make the Number of the Beast's Name that is have another Name but may be numbred under that Prop. 3. A providential Work