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A86683	Lingua testium: wherein monarchy is proved, 1. To be jure divino. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 3. That monarchy is the absolute true government under the Gospel. 4. That immediately after extraordinary gifts in the Church ceased, God raised up a monarch for to defend the Church. 5. That Christian monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind. 7. England was the place whither the witnesses, (viz. godly magistracy and ministry) never drove by Antichrist. Where is proved, first, that there hath been a visible magistracy, (though in sackcloth,) these 1260. yeares in England. ... Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews, the fall of Antichrist, and the ruine of the Beast of the earth is at hand. Wherein you have the hard places of Mat. 24, and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard texts: ... / Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus, in the yeare of the Beasts of the earth's raign, 1651.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H327; Thomason E632_22; ESTC R202496	43,212	57

together with whatsoever the German Norman Burgundian Castalian and French atchievements with the intermarriage which eight hundred years had acquired incorporated and brought back into the old Royall Line Hence then I prove if Henry VII were the lawfull Successor of the British Kings then he was the lawfull Successor of Constantine King of England who conquered Rome and if Henry VII be the lawfull Successor of Constantine then those lawfully descended of Henry VII but this lawfull Family of the Stuarts are lawfully descended of Henry VII ergo The Stuarts are the lawfull Successors of Constantine the Great the first Christian Emperor of Rome there are very many other waies which to some seem clearer whereby to prove this truth If so know Oh Rome that the Lion of the North thy lawfull Emperor and true Christian Magistrate will suddainly arise to the utter confusion of that bloudy usurping Prelate which by his subtill treacheries hath caused the lawfull Magistrate the lawfull Emperor of Rome drove into this Wildernesse where in sackcloth the office hath continued having finished that prophetick testimony in the year 1648. to become a slain Witnesse for Christ the other office of the Ministery lying dead ever since but the three years and an half of their lying dead is almost expired and then the same Offices shall arise to the eternall ruine of the Pope and Popish Idolatry but no more of this in this place I hope some Antiquaries will be so truly Noble that they will plead a distressed Kings cause and clear this Title of his which is doubtlesse to them an easie thing and may procure them great renown in after Ages for my part I shall say no more of it in print unlesse I am challenged and then if no body will take up the Cudgells in the Quarrell I am resolved neque clipeum objicere neque causam deserere though indeed I have as much upon my weak arme as I am well able to beare well able to doe I say I professe my selfe as in the undertaking so in the defending of so great a cause as I have taken in hand utterly unable without the Divine hand to support me The reason why I have discoursed so much of Monarchy is because I am fully perswaded that the great Reformation to be wrought amongst Jewes and Gentiles shall be wrought by Monarches when God shall open the eyes of the Jewes to know assured that the Lord Jesus is their true and naturall Monarch according to the flesh and their naturall Priest that is by Birth-right as Melchisedech was then shall they look on him whom they have pierced and mourn over him they shall then be converted Now this conversion is designed in that Gospell Epistle written to the twelve Tribes called the Epistle to the Hebrewes As the knowledge of their true Monarch and Priest shall work wonderfull conversion amongst the Hebrews so the knowledge of a lawfull Magistracy and a lawfull Ministery shall work a wonderfull change at the same time amongst the Gentile Churches who are now overwhelmed with the cruell tyranny of the usurping Prelaticall power of Rome A lawfull Monarch rising shall be the instrument of a glorious Gospel-reformation of restoring the Witnesses and of the overturning of the Roman Empire in its pontifick Head Much of this opinion is that Dutch Divine in his Clavis Apocalyptica to whom Iohn Durie the Scotch man binds himself as in a Dutch duell where he falls to stick and snee with him for saith the Dutch Divine in pag. 89. A high Potentate amongst Evangelicall Professors shall arise and be exalted to the terror of the Papists and shall open again a free course to the Gospell and reestablish the exiled and oppressed Gospellers And Iohn Durie out of the sootie region of a dark intellect gives us this dark notion in p. 70. which he cals the Preface to this Dutchmans Book intending that the Reader should put on his black spectacles to read the Dutchmans white Booke withall I believe saith John Durie that we shall not have any great earthly Potentate at all ever to appear for the Lamb in this battell but that they shall joyn alwayes against the lamb-like nature of the Saints to oppose and destroy it How can two be more contrary I must leave them though I leave Iohn in the dark who participates more of the man of his countrey then of the nature of his Countrymen There are some questions that betray ignorance rather then discover wit as this say some How can it be said that in Henry 8. dayes when the Abbies were pulled down in Q. Elizabeths dayes when the Kingdom it flourished and Religion prospered and was countenanced and so in King Iames's time How can the Witnesses be said then to be in sackcloth In part we have answered to this elswhere but let such take this as one great part of the answer let them read diligently the history of our Nation since Henry the sevenths time and observe the counterworkings of the Pope against the Protestant Reformers and they will say they were in sackcloth I shall conclude this Preface with a short discourse of our former reformations not so much by way of information as premonition to him whom it concerns The objects of every reformation have either been civill 〈◊〉 ●●clesiastick matters A civill reformation hath respect either to the offices in the State or to the Laws in the State the office of State in the Head hath been unquestionable in all ages except in times of rebellion or usurpation and then not the office but the persons in the office have been aspersed and questioned In all which ungodly actions the Pope and the Popish Clergie alwayes had a hand Indeed the Popes have grapled with the supremacy of Kings and usurped a supremacy in this Kingdom over the Kings in Ecclesiastick affairs and in that respect their offices have been questioned but the Kings of England never yeelded up their right to the Pope but kept the supremacy of Church and State affairs in their own hands not only since the Norman line came in but in the time of the Saxon Kings as appears by many of their Lawes and Charters which respect the Clergie wherein the King as Head of the Church doth Ecclesiastica authoritate dispose of the Rites of the Church and the great Offices thereto belonging promoting some and debarring others whom they please from the office of Archbishop or Bishop This supremacy the Norman Kings kept which was mostly the ground of this quarrell betwixt the Kings of England and the Popes who were the cause of the English Kings wearing Sackcloth for the Popes never suffered them to live quietly but alwayes either raised their own subjects to rebell against them or foraigne Princes to invade them but most commonly the Pope sets the Religious Houses against the King for there the Pope kept the Band-dogs to werry Royalty when it opposed this supremacy The insolency strength and wealth of the Clergie caused

accidentally a reformation in the Church which is the proper object of a reformation now this must be premised before we can proceed We must know that Lucius the first Christian King when he erected Bishopricks he gave estates to those Archbishops and Bishops which he placed in the Kingdom he did but according to the light of nature in it For the Pagan Priests had means allowed them The three Archflamins and the twenty eight Flamins of the Pagans the King turned into so many Archbishopricks and Bishopricks Afterwards the Saxon Kings erected many more religious Houses Chanteries Monasteries Hospitalls and to which livings were given for the maintenance of the Ministery and relief of the poor the giving of these livings was not the person that was sowed in the Church as some have erroniously conjectured These Church-lands anciently were called by their right name Appropriations because they were appropriate to a particular Succession of Clergy-men which were of severall Orders and Houses each of which made a body Politique and obtained either of the Pope or of the King that their Successors suppose the Incumbents Priors Abbots or Prebends might without institution or induction of the Ordinary be perpetuall Incumbents so that as one of them died his Successor might forthwith enter into his place Hence they were called Appropriations When the Clergy had appropriated these livings to themselves they grew idle lascivious proud rich and rebellious insomuch that the Pope for the most part making them of his Faction curbed the King of England in his own Dominion whereupon Henry VIII partly to secure himselfe from the inraged Pope but chiefly for the profit of the Abbies and religious Houses pull'd them down which that he might do effectually and with much applause he ingaged the Lords and Commons against them who envying their pride and wealth were easily drawn to concur with the King in the same And that they might gain a party in the Clergy this work of pulling down Abbies was reported as the onely high way to a Reformation of Religion and indeed there was a great alteration in Religion for the better Hereupon the Magistri novae Disciplinae the Masters of new Discipline these were the Protestant Divines they were embraced by the King just as the Presbyterians were by the Parliament when they took away the Bishops lands the King made large promises untill the Parliament had confer'd the Church-land upon him and then the Masters of the new Discipline were as much slighted as the Presbyterians are now and thus appropriations become impropriations justly so called because they were put into improper hands Lay-mens hands From this Discourse I draw these two inferences 1 All the Reformations as yet have been but sackcloth Reformations 2 'T is a land-devouring King destroying God-provoking Soul-damning sin to be guilty of Sacriledge Let that King then that looks for a blessing from God make conscience of restoring that to the Church which is her due notwithstanding long detained from her Let no man think that I plead for my self in this for I am no Clergy man I must break off here abruptly for the Printer grutcheth at my prolixity The blessing of the eternall Trinity be upon thee Reader in reading this and the ensuing Tract that from it thou may'st receive light and comfort in these dark and disconsolate Times FJNJS REader since nothing is more common and nothing more dangerous then Erratas to prevent that common danger I have given thee here the Erratas to keep thee from error thou hast only here those in Lingua Testium and not all those but only the grosse ones such as upon a swift perusall I found most grosse I durst do no otherwise lest the Printer should as those unworthy fellows that printed Manus Testium totally neglect the printing of the Erratas sent them whereby the book suffers exceedingly as also in the leaving out of many clauses misplacing stops Commas and Parentheses and crowding together distinct matter in a confused heap with mistaking of Texts as in p. 14. there Hebrews is put for Revel. and in f. the fourth seventeen for seven Psalmes which seven relate the Church her great distresse and her glorious deliverance by the mighty hand of God and in f. fourth Papists is put for Pa●●ias p. 21. for this present r. the Protestant p. 16. ex ejus r. ex ciis for endatiae r. mendariae p. 17. for Sybillae fraudulentia predicet r. sub illâ fraudulentiâ perdidet and in p. 81. the fifth and sixth lines are confused and severall other places which I have forgot having not the Erratas by me This I give thee to free my self from the censure of tolerating errors especially in that which so nearly concerns me IN the Title in Proposition 7. for never read were in the last words in the Title page for beasts read beast p. 5. l. 24. r. Petrus Galatianus p. 6. l. 21. understood r. understood so p. 7. l. 25. 1650. r. 1650. per their account p. 8. l. 21 beasts r. best p. 10. l. 7. 40. r. 400. p. 16. l. 6 October r. December betwixt p. 16. 17. three words are left out p. 25. penult Pape r. people p. 30. Rome r. powers p. 31. eruditi r. ineruditi p. 32. l. 6. malice r. maladies l. 23. à symbolicis r. à symbolis l. 32. r. who knowes not p. 37. l. 4. raines r. ruines l 25. worst r. most p. 38. l. 26. from Seth the son of Adam r. from Adam p. 42. l 3. wherefore r. where for l. 14. I say have r. I say they have l. 24. thoght r. through p. 44. l. 24. man r. name l. 45. l. 27. this r. his p. 46. l. 3. person r. poyson betwixt p. 40. 41. two or three words are omitted Isay 58. 8. Dan. 7. 25. a D. 7. 25. b D. 11. 38 c Rev. 11. 9 d Da. 7. 8. 9 e R. 19. 10. 20. f R. 13. 13. 14. g Re. 17. 7. h Za. 14. 4. 7 Da. 11. 45.