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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86696	Væ-Euge-Tuba. Or, The vvo-joy-trumpet, sounding the third and greatest woe to the Antichristian world, but the first and last joy to the church of the saints upon Christs exaltation over the kingdomes of the world. Unfolded in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, at their late solemne fast, May 26. 1647. / By G. Hughes Minister of the Gospell in Plymouth. Published by order of the House.	Hughes, George, 1603-1667.	1647 (1647)	Wing H3310; Thomason E389_9; ESTC R201523	30,609	48

and we may expect 3. Quoad ezercitium Dominii by exercising this power and right over these Kingdomes that are become his and this Lordship he doth exercise severall waies 1. By a powerfull turning of the hearts of Princes from darknesse to light Mojestatem red dit visibilem in ipsis regibus corda fernando c. Brightman in text causing them to consider the things of God which they had not heard and so to shut their mouthes from gainsaying Christ and thrice exalt him in their hearts of such a reformation-change the Lord seems to speake in that Gospell promise I will make thy Officers peace and thy Exactors righteousnesse Isay 52 13 14 15. when peace shall rule and righteousnesse exact then the Kingdom is the Lords 2 By a powerfull restraint upon others not truly called chained up by the devill Revel 20. 2. Psalm 149.8 and binding Kings Princes and Nobles as with fetters that they shall not any longer hinder the Lord from taking Thrones and ruling Thus the Kingdomes of the world universally become the Lords The King that is not converted shall be restrained Thus farre appeares the nature of this Reformation-change To the third 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the time of this change the voyces speak as of the time past saying they are or were become the Lords the time is expressed in this verb also But now where to state this time is the diffioulty mens thoughts running divers waies It hath been determined to be while time the measure of the creatures in their changes lasteth but the speciall point of that time is now desired when those Kingdoms begin to be the Lords For the discovery whereof I shall propose some help from these considerations 1. This seventh Angell is said to sound the third Wo-trumpet which certainly did call for execution of vengeance upon the Kingdome of Antichrist whose Scepter made all the Kingdoms of the earth stoop unto him who had subscribed to his name and worshipped him This was done by breaking the yoke of that Romish Tyran the Pope off from the neck of those States in which very moment the Lord tooke possession of those Kingdomes from which by his great power he drove out that strong one the devil in that man of sin So that this Trumpet seems to contemporize with all the Vials poured out upon States formerly under Antichrist dashing in pieces the great Abettors and turning others to be serviceable unto Christ For however at all times God kept his secret ones within the Territories of Babel who ceased not in all ages to witnesse to his truth yet all this while the States and Kingdomes worshipped the beast So then the time of change of Kingdoms must be eminent and from that instant that any State returned to subjection unto Christs Scepter in the Gospell after the great apostacy seems to begin the sound of the seventh Trumpet for then was it woe to that Antichrist and his vassals but joy to Christ and his Saints Now no hard thing is it to looke back so farre as to finde out that point of time wherein Thrones began to be possessed by Christ and to entertain the Gospell The Histories of Germany Saeveland Denmark England Scotland c. may help us to know this time when our Lord took these States from the Prince of darknesse ruling in that sonne of perdition 2. This Reformation-change is graduall and is carried on in severall portions of time from the turning of the first Kingdom to the finishing of the mystery of God That the meaning of this Trumpet-sound should be a graduall susception of Gods power to reign I am perswaded to believe from the course of the events we see some Kingdoms delivered but not all yet which are expected to be resumed by Christ from that Roman Apostate Now as God performs his prophecies so are we to understand his meaning in them and it is the best help we have rightly to conceive the Prophets speaking of Christ to come by seeing him come and fulfilling what was written of him I take it the same help is to made use of concerning the prophesies of these times and those to come of which the book of the revelations is full So that if we see the Lord hath taken Kingdomes of the world from Antichrist we have the truth of this Trumpet-sound and if yet more Kingdoms are still under vassallage to him this sound declares woe unto them abiding in that slavery but good tidings to Gods hidden ones there that the Lord will in his time take the prey out of the Dragons mouth and rule himselfe And if so then it must be a graduall change from the taking of the first Kingdome to the resuming of the last which we see is partly done in many States and in greater part yet to be accomplished One word yet seems to crosse this interpretation of the time Dub. Reuel 10.7 it is said In the daies of the voice of the seventh Angel when he shall begin to sound the Trumpet even the mystery of God shall be finished c. And if in the beginning of his sound all Kingdoms are changed together and Gods mysterie finished then it cannot be the time mentioned but it must be wholy to come To satisfie this scruple Sel. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 3 16. two expressions here must be opened 1. The mysterie of God which notion is of various use sometimes it notes the secret way of God by manifestation of his Sonne in the flesh c. to make himselfe communicable to his creatures so to effect godlinesse in them and save them Col. 2.3 This is the generall use of it so is it called the mysterie of God of the Father and of Christ Sometimes it is of speciall signification and that two waies Eph. 3.6 1. It notes this secret good will of God toward all the Gentiles to bring them into fellowship with himselfe from the first preaching of the Gospell to them by the Apostles Rom. 11.25 16. to the last by any Ministry 2. It dictates this secret grace of God unto Abrahams seed the Jewes for the bringing them in after their long abdication to an ingrafting into Christ In this last sence it is surely taken and yet I think not excluding the other speciall signification nor the generall in both for as much as that is finished in these 2. When he shall begin to sound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the passage that begets the doubt therefore the right reading of it must be inquired and surely it is not necessary so to read it when he shall begin to sound but vety properly when he shall sound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in such lie instances 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoc. 1.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will spue thee out not onely begin to do it 2 Kings 4.1 and so is it read by good Interpreters as one word in the future tence