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A86703	A sharp, but short noise of warr, or, The ruine of Antichrist by the sword of temporall warr, hinted. Written, by Francis Lin,	Line, Francis, 1595-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing H333; Thomason E622_2; Thomason E595_2; ESTC R206422	18,276	32

kind of delight in opposing and in disgraceing of one another tell not this in Gath publish it not in the Streets of Ashkelon least the Daughters of the Philistims rejoyce least the Daughters of the Uncircumcised triumph rather then doe thus labour to stirre up the Gift of God which is in thee pray repent reforme beleeve waite he that is thine helper will not forsake nor faile thee for he is a present helpe in time of need the Lord of Hosts is his name the God of Jacob is thy refuge fight couragiously if need require the God of Victory is on thy side who is God and will be exalted among the Heathen and among the Papists and among all the Enemies of this Reformation and they shall know that they are but men But I am gone a little two farr from the thing in hand I doe not deny this but that there is much of the Scripture already fulfilled in this and in other respects yet I thinke they are not fully verified and fulfilled as for men times and Nations they may be bound they have beene so but the word of God is not bound as the Apostle in another case speaks it is a truth that there shall not onely be Warrs in the dayes and times of the Gospell but there shall be Warrs and rumours of VVarrs and Nation shall rise against Nation and Realme against Realme I shall not long detaine my selfe from what I intend I shall but consider and compare a few Scriptures and presently come to that I have promised the Scriptures are these Isa 21. and Isa 47. Jer. 50. and 51. Chap. 17. 18. Rev. Behold this mans Chariot commeth with two Horsmen and he answered and said Babell is fallen it is fallen and all the Images of her Gods hath he broken unto the ground I was wroth with my People I have polluted mine Inheritance and given them into thine hand thou didst shew them no mercy O Antichrist remember this but thon didst lay thy very heavie yoke upon the ancient and thou saidst I shall be a Lady for ever so that thou didst not set thy mind to these things neither didst thou remember the latter end thereof therefore now heare thou that art given to pleasures and dwellest carelesse she sayth in her heart I am and none else I shall not sit as a Widdow neither shall know the losse of Children but these two things shall come to thee suddenly on one day the losse of Children and Widdow-hood they shall come upon thee in their perfection so on to the end of the 17. of Isa the 50. 51. chapters of Jer. Almost through out a cry of Battail is in the Land and of great destruction how is the Hammer of the whole World destroyed and broken How is Babell become desolate among the Nations I have snared thee and thou art taken O Babell and thou wast not aware thou art found and also caught because thou hast striven against the Lord the Lord hath opened his treasures and hath brought forth the Weapons of his wrath for this is the worke of the Lord God of Hosts come against her from the uttermost border open her storehouses tread on her as on Sheaves and destroy her utterly let nothing of her be left destroy all her Bullocks let them goe downe to the slaughter Woe unto them for their day is come and the time of their visitation Agreeable to these Scriptures is that of the 18. of the Revelation which is New Testament And he cryed out mightily with a loud voice saying it is fallen Babylon the great Citty and is become the Habitation of Devills her sins are come up to Heaven and God remembred her iniquities in as much as she glorified her selfe and lived in pleasures so much give yee to her torment sorrow for she sayth in her heart I sit being a Queene and am no Widdow and shall see no moruning therefore shall plagues come in one day death and sorrow and famine and shee shall be utterly burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God which will condemne her 'T was Babylon in the Old Testament 't is Babylon in the New Testament the one called Easterne the other called Westerne Babylon the which is Rome called Babylon a Mystery great Babylon the mother of Whoredomes Rev. 17.5 The Easterne Babylon is destroyed God did destroy it by a temporall VVarr because Babylon would shew the People of God no mercy the westerne Babylon which is Rome and those which it comprehends is and must be destroyed because they neyther have nor will shew the People of God any mercy they are in the purpose of God and must be in reference to an eternall and visible accomplishment in the sight of men and times it seems God will destroy under this name or notion see or read to this purpose Master Brightman upon the Revelation Master Dent upon the Revelation Master Perkins in his Reformed Catholick p. 3. Doctor Taylor in his Booke Dedicated to The Honourable House of Commons Assembled in Parliament in the Yeare 1624. In which Booke there is this passage at the latter end of one of his Sermons say they were warned and called out but now cannot be eyther pittyed or helped As Lots Cosins though they made a merriment of Lots admonition yet they saw the Lord in earnest and then too late wished they had departed according to the voyce of the Lord. But now God will not and Lot cannot help them neither can they shift themselves out of the fire when the dreadfull shower falleth doe thou sit out the summons at thy perill but one of the two thou must choose eyther thou must goe out of Babylon or goe into her destruction And now I come to that which I call produceing and applying of Scripture as it doth most evidently and certainly threaten ruine and destruction to the generality of Heathens and Papists in this present VVorld by the Sword and temporall Warr severally and in a particular respect I now proceede and apply against Antichristian Papists though I named Heathens first and in my conceite the second Chapter of the Prophecy of Habukkuk doth speake clearely and fully to that seat of iniquity that cursing and that cursed Antichrist that great than of sin the Pope and Popes of Rome and their professed Adherents I shall as I have begun cite this Scripture Behold he that lifteth up himselfe his mind is not upright in him yea indeed the proud man is as he that transgreffeth by VVine therefore shall he not endure because he hath enlarged his desire as the Hell and is as death and can●ot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all Nations and heapeth unto him all People Now who but the Pope and Popes of Rome hath done thus especially in both respects I meane spiritualy as well as temporally See a place in the New Testament 2 Thess 2. Let no man deceive you by any meanes for that day shall not come except there come a

each stake Next to this there is mention made of threescore women who were brought to the Rack by the Fathers of the Popes inquisition who all perished by their horrible cruelty In the History of the Albingenses there is mention made of one hundred and forty men and women who because they refused to submit to the Church of Rome were all of them throwne into a fire at one time and burnt to death by the Earle Simon and the Popes Legat. These few instances fell in by the way there is enough upon record to prove that Antichristian Papists have beene the most bloudiest and the most devouringst Woolves that have had a being upon this Earth therefore for my part I beleive the Lord God will punish this Romish Babylon and will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up and the Nations shall not flow together any more unto him yea the Wall of Babylon shall fall and the dayes are come in which God will doe judgement upon the Graven Images of Babylon and her whole Land shall be confounded and all her slaine shall fall in the middest of her I have now done with Papists only I wish to as many of them as doe belong to the election of grace a visible repentance from sin and Idolatry an actuall faith in the true Scripture 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ the eternall Son of God a holy and a harmlesse life and preservation to their bodies from that Warr and from that destroying Sword which is already occasionally drawne and will be extended to and excercised upon the generallity of willfull stubborne and obstinate Papists all the world over I call it an occationall Sword in a twofold respect First the Papists by committing more sins then I am able to mention and greater sins then I know how to paint out have justly occasioned God to bring the Sword of warr upon them and they have occasioned you I may say inforced the Saints I doe not say to bring Warre upon them but in their owne just defence to maintaine a Warr against them They the Antichristian Papists I meane have beene many hundreds of yeares raising and acting of most cruell and bloudy Warrs upon the people of God called Protestants of late yeares they have made long furrows upon their backs in the parts of Germany in France in Ireland in England for they have beene the hatchers of all these Warrs and they have beene the maine actors of them too and they will continue to raise and to act warr in Ireland in France and it may be in Scotland too they will never end their warr till warr hath ended them or at least their power they will continue their malicious endeavours to destroy the true Church of Christ upon this Earth by warr in that faggot and fire hath now failed them the which God hath made a defensive Citty an Iron pillar and Brazen wall against them and they shall fight against it but they shall not prevaile against in Jer. 1.18.19 for the Lord of Hosts is with his Church to deliver it from the power of every destroying enemy as well temporall as spirituall ones and the Church of Christ shall be upon this Earth in the appointed time as a Citty sought out and not forsaken for glorious things are spoken of thee o thou Citty of God One word more and I have done let all those Papists take notice of this which doe harbour in them the same mind which ha's beene in their Fathers who have not onely by Warr for a long time destroyed the true Members of Christ but by most exquisit and incredible torments as well in prisons and Caves of the Earth as upon Scaffolds and at Stakes have most barbarously and most unhumanly murthered the Saints of Christ see Master Wadsworths booke to this purpose I say seeing that you the seed of those evill doers have now called us into the Field who doe professe our selves friends and Servants to Jesus Christ whom you have mocked and Brethren to those his Servants whom you have cruelly murthered I say take notice of this that you are like to find as much gallantry as you have acted cruelty 〈◊〉 know will fight but we professe to fight fai●● whether it be in Ireland or elsewhere therefore now you brave English spirits shew your selves gallant still ' for the Sword must doe great things according to that which Master Brightman hath sayd that the time shall come when disputing by the pen should cease and that the Sword should end the controversy between the Papists and the Protestants I beleeve this time is now come and be you assured of these things that as these Antichristian Papists shall make Warr with the Lamb so the Lamb shall over come them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull Rev. 17.14 One word to those amongst them that truely feare God thus saith the Lord My people goe out of the middest of her and deliver yee every man his soule from the fierce wrath of the Lord least your heart even faint and yee feare the rumour that shall be heard in the Land a rumour shall come one yeare and after that in another yeare shall come a rumour and violence in the Land Ruler against Ruler Jer. 51. and 45.46 And I heard another voyce from heaven say Goe out of her my people that yee be not pertakers in her sins and that yee receive not of her plagues Rev. 18.4 I now come according to my promise to produce and apply Scripture against the Heathens of these times I desire what I said at my beginning may be remembred that is that I have in some respect spoken to these already and therefore now I shall no● 〈◊〉 much to them onely I shall take notice that there is a very great people now in being upon this Earth who are professed enemies to the Lord Jesus Christ and that these are distinct from Papists and that they have beene and still are great Oppressors of the people that profes Jesus Christ and his Gospell and that the power and pride of these Heathens shall be brought downe by the temporall Sword in these latter dayes and that then they shall become the Inheritance of Jesus Christ to whome God the Father will give the Heathens of these times unto for an Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth to him for his possession by the way I confesse that I am little or nothing seene in the knowledge of the Histories of times neither am I so much in consultation with them as with the God of times I know but very little either of the past or present State of forraigne Countries nor of the externall causes nor humane reasons of the severall new framings and mouldings of those Nations in the remore parts of the Earth nor of those severall new constitutions into which they have in severall peeces of time beene put into by the overruling