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A37463	A complaint of the false prophets mariners upon the drying up of their hierarchicall Euphrates as it was preached publickly in the Island of Garnezey before a sett order of ministers, expounding in their successive turnes the Revelation of St. John / by John De La March ...	De La March, John, ca. 1589-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing D868; Wing L202; ESTC R9089	90,660	125

Officers the most part of them being but lawyers or laikes to use their owne terme no more then they esteeme our Church Elders to be To all which they have given as new Offices of their own moulding and humane invention so likewise new names and titles of their owne fabrication also none of them being * of the fathers planting as saith Christ And such are those of the first forementioned ranke and order as their Suffragan Bishops Chancellors Archdeacons Deanes Commissaries or Highcommissioners which sit as Judges in the said Courts and to whom that Hierarchicall power of the Pope Archbishops c. hath cōmitted the Administration of the keyes not of Christs Spirituall kingdome as Christ himselfe gave to Peter to the rest of the Apostles representing then the whole Church but of their earthly Hierarchicall Kingdomes having appointed them to bee the sole Judges in Ecclesiasticall causes and matters Then the next that follow which are of the second ranke as namely their Secretaries Dataries or Registers Advocates and Procurors occupying Ships Then follow in the last place the third and last sort of them viz. their Promooters Apparitors Solicitorus to which may also be very well added all that table of Questmen Sidemen Inquisitors Church wardens Pursivants c. all which are right Aucupes Aulae or flies of the Inquisition nay all I am sure both great and small birds of a feather and hatcht all of one damme I meane that whore of Babylon All which doe trade on the Sea or word for word as it is in the originall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} labour the Sea Whereby the Holy Ghost al●udeth manifestly to the worke of Hu●bandry and to those that are occupied in that calling to labour the ground breaking the clods of it and cutting it with the plow A goodly metaphor indeed very well befitting and clearely manifesting the right manner of the trading of these Officers upon this seas which is also used elsewhere to the same purpose viz Psal. 129. 2 3. where the Church of God is represented complaining of her E●emies and saying Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth and yet they have not prevailed against me The plowers plo●ed upon my b●●●e they made long their furrowes by which Metaphoricall speech the cruell afflictions of the Church thus laboured or plowed up as it we●e by her Enemies are mea●t Which dealing doth very fi●ly agree to all the P●●aticall offices of those Hierarchicall Courts who plow thus the seas or peoples over which they are established when once they doe fill into their lurches or are brought under their ●yr ●●icall power even as the plowman doth the ground but not as he thereby to fit it and prepare it the better to receive the good seede that it may bring forth the more fruite to the owner but rather as the hirelings use todoe hiring the ground and wearing it with tilling till they have suckt all the fat thereof and filled their owne purses to the great prejudice and manifest dammage of the owner And thus much for the meaning of the words of this present text In the exposition whereof I have beene constrained to insist thus long because it hath beene heretofore otherwise expounded and taken in another sence by the former interpreters then I have done now being led thereunto first by the exposition that the Angell himselfe doth give to the waters or sea wherupon both the whore her selfe sitteth as it hath beene shewed out of * Revel. 17. 15. and these her Officers doe trade as also by the consideration of the type of this Church mentioned before the which I have followed from journey to journey or from one moneth to another especially in the last of the third great Period or part of her voayge through the wildernesse comparing the estate time and events of this christian Church to those of that ancient of Israel whereupon I say I I have grounded this my exposition the which neverthelesse I doe willingly and with all humility submit as I did when I first preached it in publike to the wise and charitable censure of the rest of the most faithfull and painefull labourers my fellow-brethren in the Ministerie rowing hard with us in the true ship of Christ being in the midst of those Seas tossed with mighty waves in great jeopardie that they may bring his true Disciples to the shore of heaven in drawing them out of those troublesome and dangerous hierarchicall seas whom I desire not to cast it away as a new Doctrine though it might seeme so at the first sight but to ponder it well before though they finde it clothed in a very course and homely language and yet borrowed in which having dared to walke thus farre in publike I will yet adventure a litle further observing out of this text thus expounded some few points of Doctrine the which I meane to handle as briefly as I can to apply them to some use of Admonition and exhortation And first in generall considering that all this Hierarchicall forementioned earthly power represented by the said Euphraticall Jordan and all the Officers which doe exercise or administer the same power doe proceed all of them though some more immediately manifestly then the other frō that Vniversall Papall Sea the common Mother of all the other * Harlots and abominations of the earth and that all the said Officers are thus represented unto us in this text under those foresaid titles of Seafaring men or Sailors in ships whose offices and unlawfull practises doe all issue of the same Source this I say may yeeld this point viz. that The Beast of Rome together with the false Prophet have changed Christs fishing Ship or true Church into a very Pirate Ship or denne of theeves who in stead of gaining soules to Christ doe leese them and in liew of bringing them to Heaven cause their passengers to make ship-wrack both of soule and body in hell as it appeares not only by the words of our Saviour speaking to the Scribes and Pharisies of his time the right predecessors of these both of them having beene the murthers and persecutors of Christ and his saints and saying unto them Mat. 23. 15. Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisies Hypocrites for ye compasse sea and land to make one Proselyte and when he is made ye make him twofold more the child of hell And againe speaking of them to his Disciples he saith Mat. 15. 14. Let them alone they be blinde leaders of the blind And if the blind leade the blind both shall fall into the ditch this truth is likewise manifest by that which is said in particular of their followers Revel. 1● 8. That all the names of the dwellers upon earth who should worship the Beast were not wr●tten in the booke of the Lambe sl●●ne from the foundation of the world But especially it is ●l●●re by that which is written in the next chapter viz. 14.

* By which places it is m●…st th●● b● the m●…s of 〈◊〉 Eld●●s who were not ●nely aged men but teachers and govern●●s of the pe●ple things were orderly communicated with the multitude * 2 Cor. 19. 8. 6 In Mat. 5. 22 fore-alleaged Christ doth lay downe the f●●st platforme o● the Church-governement o● discipline which hee would have to b● used in his Kingdome of grace under the N. T. according to that of the old Synagogue to the end of the world which he afterwards doth more fully establish M●t. 18. 15. 16 c which two places are parall●lls expounding one another for the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} shewes what is to bee understood by that other {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} viz not the whole congregation promiscuously but such Elders chosen out of it whereof the smaller Syned●●●ms of every Synagogue or particular Congregations among the ancient Iewes were composed of whom we have spoken before out of Exod. 2. 3. 21. and 19. 3. 7. Againe the word Eccl●sia doth l●kewise shew that by the word Synedrtum we are to understand not onely civill Magistrates call●d also by the title of Elders very often in the Old Testament but likewise such Ecclesiasticall Officers as we now doe speake of being the same 〈◊〉 who as the former are to be chosen from among the godliest wiser and dis●…st of the said Congregation Rom. 12. 9. c According to the practise of the Apostles Acts 15. 3. 2. 4. 6. c. there imitating the ancient practise of the Iewes appealing from the lesse Synedriūs foreno●ed to the great Synedrium at ●●rusalem as it ●…s manifest out 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 19 8. 〈◊〉 and 11. * 〈◊〉 Pet. 5. 5. * Mat. 15. 13. * See also Esa. 8 7. and 18. 2. * Revel. 17. 5. Doct. * Mark 11. 17. * Revel. 11. 13. * Pet. 5. 2. * Revel. 9. 11. Reason 1. c Hee hath beene by these meanes the chiefe cause of all the corporall plagues wherwith God hath so often visited this land as may be seene proved at large in Sione plea And h●reby it appeares also that the plague of the second V●all is both corporall and spi●ituall the spirituall noted in these words it became as the blood of a dead man the s●irituall in the following * Revel. 16. 3. 4 5 6. d As by the forementioned witnesses of Christ and many other besides 2 Reason e In Hebrew Belijragual signifying without profit ●r without yoke I lawlesse rebellious and wicked which name is given unto Sathan or Antichrist opposed unto Christ in 2 Cor. 6. 15 befitting very wall this great Vice-Roy * Sam. 2. 12. See also Iudg. 19. 22. * King 12. 30. c. Numb. 25. 3. and 31. 16. * Psal. 124. 1. 2. c. f This is to be read in the Popes owne Decretals * Prov. 25. 5. * Revel. 20. 10 * Mat. 3. 3. 7. * Gen. 19. 14. Revel. 18. 4. * Mat. 15. 14. * Psal. 58. 6. * Heb. 3. 7. 8. c. * Numb. 16. 26. Math 25. 11 2. Doct. * Ier. 6. 13. * Tim 6. 5. * Tit. 1 11. Mat. 23. 14. Mar 12. 40. Luke 20. 47. 2 Tim. 3. 1. c * 2 Pet 2. 15. * Iude 11. Reason 1. * Mat. 23. 4. * 2 Thes. 2. 4. Reason 2. 3. Reason Vse * 1 Pet 5. 3. * Iohn 10. 1. Exod. 1. 10. c Iudg. 3. 8. 12. and 31. Item 4. 2. c. and 6. 2. c. and 10. 7. c. and 13. 1. 2 King 10. 32 c. and 15. 19. and 17. 3 c. and 24. 1. c. Luke 2. 1 c. Mat. 2. 12 c Luke 13. 1. Revel. 6. 10. Acts 2. 22. 23. and 4. 5. 6. and 20. 27. Revel. 11. 7. 12. 17. and 13. 7. and 17. 14. 3. Doct. * 2 Cor. 4. 8. 9. * Deut. 8. 23. Reas. 1. 2 Reason 3 Reason Vse * Mat. 13. 16. 17. * Revel. 19. 1. 2 * Psal. 66. 〈◊〉 2. c. * Iosh. 5. 10. Cor. 10. 6. and 11. * Deut. 5. 5 6. * Ier. 51. 31. 〈◊〉 * Phil. 3. 19. * Tit. 1. 12. * Iosh. 9. 4 c. Held Anno. 327. Held Anno 419. where Sezim● falsifying the Nicene Councell was 〈◊〉 hstood by Augustine thereupon it was at last decrece by the fathers Ne cuiquam vel Episco●o vel sacerdori ex Africâ aut alijs provincijs metropolitanos habentibus ad Papam Romanum appelare liceat sed sit inquiunt prima cognitio causarum Ecliasticarum penes Episcopos Metropolitanum secunda penes concilium provinciale ultima penes Vniversale Item ne ullum jus dein●eps Romano Papae super Africanas Eclesias concernatur Alsted 29. Chron. concil. pag. 206. * Iosh. 9. 14. 4 Doct. * Thes. 5. 3. * Exod. 14. 25. * Dan. 4. 30. c. * Eze. 7. 9. 10. c. Revel. 6. 15. 16 c. Revel. 18. 7. 8. Reas. 1. * Deut. 29. 19. 20. 2 Reason * Zeph. 1. 1● 13. 14 c. 3 Reason * Deut. 28. 65. 66. * Luke 21. 25. 4 Reason * 2 Thes. 1. 6. 5 Reason * Isa. 33. 10. 11 c. 6 Reason Gen 42. 21. Prov. 10. 23. and 4. 16. Mica 2. 1. 2. and chap. 3 〈◊〉 c. * Per. 2. 10. 11. * Act. 5. 9. and chap. 13. 10. * Isa. 14. 24. 25. 26 c. Revel. 12. 19. * sal. 83. 3. and 13. Exod. 9. 16. * Revel. 12. 15 Exod. 14. 9. Revel. 8. 5. 7. 8. 11 c. a Heare Ammian Marcel speaking of these stormie blustring winds lib. 26. cap. 31. Horrendi tremores per omnem orbis ambitum grassati sunt subit● quales nec fabulae nec veridicae nobis antiquitates exponunt c. Item Hieron. in vita Hilar. Hoc tempore velut per vniversum orbem Romanum canentibus b●●●●nis excitae gentes saevi●●imae limites sibi proximos per saltabant Gallias Rhetiasque simul Alemanni populabantur Sarm●tae Pannonias Quadi Picti Saxones Scoti Attocotti Britannos aerumnis vexavere continuis Thra●ias diripiebant piratorij globi Gothorum c. Am●ian ibid. c. 10. b Hieron. Epist 3. Ante annū 400. viginti eo amplius anni sunt quod inter Constantinopolin Alpes Julias quotidie Romanus sanguis effunditur Scythiam Thraciam Macedoniam Acia Dardaniam Thessalonicam Achaiam Epiros Almatiā cunctasque Pamonias Gothus Sarmata Qvadus Alanus Huna Vandali Marcomanui vastant rapiunt Romans orbis ruit Quid putas nunc anim habere Corinthios Athenienses Lacedaemonios Arcadas cunctamque Graeciam q●ibus imperant Barbari * Revel. 8 1. * Alsted Chronol. 14. Regnorus veterū p. 91. c Paulus diac His Misc. prout ex codice Palatino edidit Janus Graterus Quatuordecim interim dies securā libera direptione omnibus opibus suis miraculis Roma vacuata est In quibus erant Eclesiastica {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} tota ex auro