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A57199	Babylons ruining-earthquake and the restavration of Zion delivered in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons at Margarets Westminster, at their publique fast, August 28, 1644 / by William Reyner ...	Reyner, William, d. 1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing R1324; ESTC R18099	51,389	67

first houre after they were risen for therein is a difference of many yeeres it being almost sixty yeeres from the first breaking of the Empire before ten Kingdomes were set up in it That the word that is here translated one is used also to signifie first we may see in many instances as in that for one Luke 24.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is word for word one day of the Sabbaths or weeke but is generally rendered and so the meaning is the first day of the weeke the women came to the Sepulcher Now if the Kings and the Beast began their reigne together so long since as abovt An. 400. plus minus then is the earth quake that is to ruine him and them also if they persist in his service Dan. 2.44 45. Rev 19 18 19. c. neer at hand Qu. Quest What reason have we to thinke that the Pope about that time began to be the great Antichrist Ans Answ For answer We are to know that there are two particular characters of the Beast as some Divines have observed out of the text the former the cause of the later viz. 1. Blasphemy for he is full of names of blasphemie Rev. 17.3 by which understand haeresie and Idolatry 2. cruelty for he is a skarlet-coloured heast and makes warre with the Saints ibid. ch 13.7 But both these flow from an higher principle which is as I may say proprium quarti modi and a more convertible character of the beast and that is his primacy or supremacy This supremacy hath in it two things that make it up one is a claiming of authority over the consciences of men and so over their faith and worship secondly the extending of this power to all Churches in all Nations I will not say that these two are the same thing nor that they issue both from one and the same root but surely this I may say they are neer a kinne have their roots not farre asunder because they are generally still found in one and the selfe same person That both these meet in the grand Antichrist will appeare First he arrogates authority over the soule so much I take to be intimated in those words of Daniel speaking of him Dan. 7.25 He shall speake great words against the most high and thinke to change times and lawes that he shall arrogate power to himselfe to change Gods lawes as in coyning and altering Articles of Faith apointing worship for God c. high words great words against God so the Apostle 2 Thes 2.4 He as God sits in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God How does he that viz. by Lording it over the consciences of Gods people as if he were God and thereby he deprives Christ of one of the principall Flowers of his Crown which is to have dominion over the Faith see more for this Rev. 13.5 6.15 16. Secondly the great Antichrist is to extend this power at least presumptively and intentionally where he cannot doe it actually over all Kindreds Tongues and Nations Rev. 13.7 It is Antichristian to claime such authority though but over one man or one Church It is more Antichristian to claime such authority over many Churches as the Hierarchicall Bishop useth to do it is yet more Antichristian to claim this authority over whole Provinces as the Hierarchicall Archbishop useth to do it is yet stil more Antichristian to claim it over many Provinces Kingdoms as the Hierarchicall Patriarch useth to do but yet all these do not amount to the grand Antichrist why because there may be a greater but now he that claims such soveraignty over all the Churches of the world is the grand Antichrist indeed for there can be no greater Now this the Pope doth yea that he may be sure to challenge as large a Dominion as Christ hath he doth not onely arrogate authority over all the world but also in heaven and hell where Christ hath power yea even in purgatory where Christ hath no power He that shall but looke upon the sentence condemnatory of Pope Leo the tenth in his his Bull against Luther will find this true wherein he doth not labour to convince Luther of errour by solid demonstrations out of the Word of God but mainly because his doctrine was contrary to the decrees of Popes c. He doth also charge and command all Patriarchs Metropolitans Primates Arch-bishops Bishops and all other ecclesiasticall orders downwards even to the begging Fryars and then all Kings Electors of the Empire Princes Dukes and so on and at last all men throughout the Universall world the very voyce proper and native language of the grand Antichrist upon paine of the great Excommunication that they doe not embrace Luther's doctrine nor adhere to or favour his person Now the Popes have challenged this supremacy in some degrees for above these 1240. yeares Not to speake of their claiming the title of universall Bishop nor yet their assuming the title of Pontifex Maximus the name of the chiefe heathenish Priest among the Romans which dignity many of the Emperours had annexed to their imperiall greatnesse which Gratian the Emperour first renounced about An. 380. and the rest after him they did about that time plainly arrogate and usurpe a judiciary power over the Churches To omit their authoritative excommunications some whereof had been long before they did then claime this Prerogative that appeales aught to be made to the Bishop of Rome from all Churches and he to give the last definitive sentence yea so zealous were they about this that An. 418. and 419. three Popes Zosimus Boniface Coelestine did in the sixt Councill of Carthage in which St. Augustine was present in the Cause of one Appiarius who had appealed out of Affricke unto Rome as many had done before not onely challenge the receiving of Appellations from all Churches but also forge a decree of the great Councill of Nice which had been almost an hundred yeares before to support it This was by the Fathers of the Synod indeed then rejected and the pretended Canon found to be forged and spurious Yet was this as a right by the Popes then challenged I never thinke upon these things but methinks I see the grand Antichrist as a great big Embryo swelling in the wombe ready to come forth or rather as a child lately borne lying in his cradle so that it is probable if not more then probable that between 390. and 420. Antichrist began Daniel speaking of these horns Object intimates that the little horne Antichrist that grew so great should come up after the rest Dan. 7.24 He speakes as it was in his perception and observation Answ the little horne r●se with the rest but he did not nocdiscerne it Answ untill he considered the hornes as it were with a prying eye ver 8. and as it was in the Virion so it was in the accomplishment indeed he rose imperceptibly because the world mistooke what manner of creature he should

their fore-fathers that kept them from blood which they did also shed in part and we see what they doe now But because they durst not it is I take it agreeable to the word it should be so besides there was a fatall concurrence of subordinate causes to hinder them therefore wonder not if you see an earth-quake begin upon it Signe 2 When the enemies of Religion make an attempt upon the whole Church together to ruine it It is with the Church as with a great City it is very molestious to have an Enemy-King lyes loofe off with a mighty Army to hinder all trade and traffique and to catch up and kill now one Citizen then another but if he hath once begirt it with a strong siege made many great breaches threatens to kill man woman and child if the King to whom that City belongs intend to save it he must now appeare to their rescue Even so the Lord can endure the enemies and persecutors of his people for a long time to destroy row one then another of his Saints though they shall at last heare of him for it but when once they determine and endeavour to cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance now the Lord must of necessity and will eft-soon's appeare for if he should suffer all his Church and people to be destroyed what should he doe to his great Name Josh 7.9 he must needes have a people to beare up his Name before the world Doth Pharaoh to all his other cruell persecutions adde this that he will destroy all the male-children of Israel for that strikes at the root of the Church why now have at Pharaoh you shall heare of some mischiefe upon Aegypt ere it be long Doth Hamon get a cruell decree against the Jewes to destroy them altogether upon one day and so to cut off the necke of the whole Church as it were at one blow and that upon a pretence that their lawes differ from all other Nations and that they keepe not the Kings lawes and that it was not for the Kings profit to suffer them an ordinary accusation against the Saints Hester 3.8 9. Well now beware Hamon if we read forward we shall find him hanged anon upon his own gallow's made for another Hest 7.10 When Gog will needs come against the Land of Israel then shall Gods fury come up in his face Ezek. 38. from the 18. ver to the end Surely in that day the Lord will make a great shaking in the Land so that all Creatures shall shake at his presence the mountains shall be thrown down and every wall shall fall to the ground he will call for a sword against him throughout all his mountain every mans sword shall be against his brother he wil plead against him in pestilence blood hailstones fire and brimstone c. When Gog and his Armies doe compasse about the Campe of the Saints and the beloved City intending to ruine all for that I take to be the Emphasis of this word compasse about and this by the way is the last enemy that ever the Church of Christ shall conflict withall here upon earth then suddenly fire comes down from God out of heaven and devoures them Rev. 20.9 The adversaries of Religion have now of late made desperate attempts upon the whole Church plotted the ruine of it every where and had as they imagined a compleat victory both here and else-where they rode in triumph The great Whore began to sing and to say shee was now a Queen againe was no widow and should see no sorrow c. but whilest the meat was yet in their mouthes the heavy wrath of God fell upon them Loe even in the middest of their triumph an hand-writing upon the wall that tels them God hath numbered their Kingdome and finished it An earth quake takes them and hath already shaken thousands of them downe into the pit themselves had digged for others and the earth at this present doth terribly tremble under their whole Kingdome When the Lord ariseth to the succour of his people upon their sufferings and supplications Signe 3 For the oppression of the poore and the sighing of the needy I will now arise saith the Lord. I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him Psal 12.5 and these words are as pure and true as refined silver ver 6. When the blood of the Saints cryed Rev. 6.10 and their prayers also Rev. 8.3 4 5 6. instantly the Cens●r that brought up their prayers is filled with fire ●ed that cast down upon the earth and immediatly follow thunderings lightenings and an earth-quake f●ure Angels with Trumpets sound a desiance against the World and upon that follow foure plagues that utterly ruine the Roman Empire Now God is risen upon the prayers and teares of his people groaning under the intollerable oppressions of Hierarchy Praelates High-commission c. who Lorded it over their faith and consciences and tyrannized over their bodies and estates crying unto him day and night for helpe For I am confident there was scarce ever the like crying of that nature in the world as of late yeares there hath been in England why should it not still be continued The Lord therefore being up will not sit downe againe till he have done his worke and hath made his enemies his owne and his peoples footstoole And whereas the enemies doe consult with hell digging deepe and in the duke for Gods people in these quarrels doe not wrestle with flesh and blood onely but with principalities and powers and spirituall wickednesses yea and whereas they doe with force and fury with fire and sword goe about to propugne their idolatries and persecutions and to withstand the Lord comming with power for the vindication of his inheritance they in so doing doe nothing else but accerse and draw downe upon themselves the more certaine utter and irrecoverable destruction even as the Canaanites of old were hardned in their hearts of the Lord to come against Israel in battell that they might have no favour but be destroyed utterly Jos 11. ●0 For the Lord will not be alwayes bearded and out-braved by man but will even strike through Kings in the day of his wrath he shall iudge among the heathen he shall fill the places w●th the dead bodies he shall wound the heads over many Countries he shall drinke of the brooke in the way like a chafed Conquerour pursuing his flying enemy unto perdition therefore shall he l●fe up his head Psal 110.5 6 7. When God causeth judgement to be heard from heaven he makes the earth feare and be still when he ariseth to judgement to save all the meeke of the earth sarely the wrath of man shall praise him the remainder of wrath shall he restraine Psa 76.8 9 10. If the unjust Judge that neither feared God nor man would avenge the Widdow because of her troublesome importunity and our Saviour bids