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A86686	Manus testium movens: or, A Presbyteriall glosse upon many of those obscure prophetick texts in Canticles, Isay, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk, Zachary, Matthew, Romans, and the Revelations: which point at the great day of the vvitnesses rising; Antichrists ruine, and the Jews conversion, neare about this time. VVherein Dr. Homes, with the rest of the independent antichristian time-servers are clearly confuted, and out of their own writings condemned: and against them proved, that the present usurpers in England are that antichristian party who have slain the witnesses, and shall reign but three yeers and an half, which time is almost at an end. To this book must be joyned Lingua testium, being its proper preface. / Written by Testis-mundus Catholicus Scotanglo-Britanicus.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H328; Thomason E632_23; ESTC R206463	110,211	129

of people know that he was a malicious blood-hound of the persecuting Prelates one that prosecuted honest Christians at the Bishops Courts with most inveterate hatred and how suddenly did this man put off his Paritors Bagge and put on his Prophets Mantle how soon did he that pleaded for Crucifixes Cringings surplices crossings and Popish ceremonies that prayd for Bishops by what names or titles soever distinguished that prayed for our gracious Soveraign King Charles King of great Brittain Defender of the faith and supreme head of the Church in all causes and over all persons how soone did this man turn and how strangely was he altered that in 1642. he should foretell the ruine of his gracious Soveraign and now count the day of his ruine and his Peers that glorious day which literally fulfills the Doctors prophetical Text the young King and the Nobles may by this perceive what good friends the prelatical Bratts are to Monarchy but we proceed from page 20. to p. 27. He takes pains to the purpose to perswade the people to praise God since such glorious wonders are effected this day in these times and he layeth at the Presbyterians with all his might rayling at them that they wil not come in to make up the choice with his holy people he tells them 't is 〈◊〉 defect in their Consciences and if they be Saints they are in the dark or else they are full of prejudice or under some strange temptations nay a little after he saith they are no Saints for it is a contradiction in Adjecto to say a man is a Saint and will not be thankful nay in page 2● he saith they are wilfully obstinate and page 23. miscomplexioned and in page 27. they are weak in judgeme●t and distempered in spirit From the Presbyterians he turns away and betakes himself in his use to his holy people and in page 32. he exhorts them to praise God in opposition to Kings Monarchy being turned into Democracy and Kingdoms into Common wealths here he turns States-man and takes upon him to tell what 's the best Government in the world a regular Democracy saith he assisted with an occasional Aristocracy in trust is the safest Government here he goes about to put his holy Councel of State above his holy Parliament he goeth on and most falsely and most unjustly slanders the Government of the Jews saying that this Democracy that he desired was the ancient Government of the Jews here he doth abuse both Moses and Joshua and all the Judges of Israel which were absolute Monarchs he proceeds and tells us that the first degenerate King was Nimrod observe here how the Dr. insn●res himself First He acknowledgeth the Office of a King to be lawful why else doth he say degenerate King for if a Kingly Government be not lawful Nimrods Office was enough to make him degenerate Secondly He acknowledgeth there were lawful Kings before Nimrod therefore he calls this Nimrod not the first King but the first degenerate King here the Dr. spake truth not at unawares but premeditatively for in page 9. He acknowledgeth that there was a holy King before Nimrod and that was Melchizedeck King of Salem Priest of the most high God Heb. 7. This Melchizedeck he saith was Sem the Sonne of Noah mark then how this wicked perverter of the wayes of truth even against his Conscience contradicts himself for in page 32. he stirs up the people to praise God for the Destruction of Kingly Government and Monarchy that Kingdoms are turned into Common-wealths and Monarchy into democracy and in page 39. brands all those with the mark of Antichristian which go about to uphold Kings or Kingly Government and yet confesseth that Kingly Government is lawful Government can any sober-minded man give credit to such a self condemned wretch he proceeds in page 32. to rayse at Kingly Government saying that God is angry at the peoples asking a King and God gave them a King in anger the 1. Sam. 8. the Doctor never considers it was their manner of asking a King that provoked God neither doth he consider how that God gave them only a King in wrath for God continued the Office when he destroyed the person of the King and God himself those David King after Saul which Government continued unremoved for ●4 Generations together Mat. 1. and at last it was as a grievous punishment for their sin removed But the Doctor forgets or conceals this he proceeds to exclaim against the lives of Kings thereby to defame their Office he calls them ambitious blood-suckers asks what Kings have done since Christs time until now for Christ but even much against Christ true Christians he forgets that the first Christian King in the world was he that subdued this Kingdom of England to the profession of the Gospel he forgets what Constantine that Monarch did in turning all the Empire the most of the world from Paganisme to Christianity I 'le only aske this question of the Doctor what glorious reformation in the world was ever wrought without a Monarch but the Dr. proceeds and tells us page 23. that there is divine reason why States should incline to Democracy one reason is because God did create us not Kings but people take this reason of the Doctors one way it is ridiculous non-sence take it another way it is an absolute untruth for Adam the first man created by God was created a Monarch God put all things under him to be subject and serviceable to him but his chief reason against Monarchy is because God hath setled his decree against Monarchy Dan. 2. Here the Doctors jugling is discovered for it is not Monarchy but degenerate Monarchy that God threatens to throw down this the Dr. doth as good as confess in page 32. where he confesseth that the Monarchy of Nimrod was a degenerate Monarchy because a tyrannical one now to argue because God will overthrow tyranical Monarchy therefore he will overthrow all Monarchy holds no more true in the consequence then because God will damn all reprobated men therefore hee 'l damn all men Thus have I given you a summary view of the chief things in the Doctors Sermon whereby it may plainly appear to every eye that the drift of this fellow as of the rest of his Jesuited fraternity is to prove the Protestants of England their civil Government to be Antichristian and that those that have blowne up the lawful Parl. are the Saints of the holy people whom God hath set apart for such a work and honoured them withall that they have bound Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron this he calls the throwing down of Antichrist which eight years agoe he foretold would come to passe about this year 1650. which is a year that the Independent-time-servers much ha●p upon and this Dr. in special alleaging many Texts of prophetical Scripture to make good what he affirms in this explication of some Texts of Scripture I do acknowledge

as we shall make manifest This battel shall be fought when Christs feet stand on Mount Olivet the great question is What is meant by Mount Olivet or the Mount of Olives Take it literaly it was a Mount which stood on the East side of Jerusalem which for the goodly Olives and the plenty of Olives that it yielded it was called Mount Olivet This was the place of Christs delight there he was most conversant there he preached and there he usually resorted to pray No Mountain in the world had so much of Christs presence and his Ordinances as this Mountain there Judas betrayed him and his Disciples there Christ appeared again after his resurrection his feet stood on Mount Olives before he ascended up into glory there he ascended into Heaven in the sight of those that crucified him for that Mount looked into the streets of Jerusalem and they in Jerusalem could plainly see the Mount of Olives Hence judicious-learned Interpreters conclude that by Mount Olives in the Prophets sense is meant the Church of Christ where the Ordinances of Christ are purely frequently and powerfully taught and where submission to Christ as Lord and King is yielded Upon this ground Martinus applye●s this expression of the Prophets to the Church of Rome affirming Mount Olivet to be the Church of Rome quia ad pedis Christi seipsos subjiciunt because they subject themselves to Christ For Oyl say the learned is an hierogliphick of submission and subjection Ambros in Luke 21. expounds Mount Olivet to be the Church Some of the highest and chiefest of the Independents of this age are of the same opinion and therefore do not stick to say that Mount Olivet is England which is the most delightfullest place for Ordinances in the World Since the Romanist and Independent agree and will have it so it will be treason to gain-say them wee 'll therefore comply as much as may be For my own part I do believe that by Mount Olivet is meant some eminent delightful place in Europe famou● above other places for Religion for Doctrine for Discipline and Government and for eminent Saints I do believe it is meant that place where one like Judas both a Thief and a Traytor and an Apostate and a deceitful Hypocrite riseth up with his armed men and with a kiss of pretending to exalt Christ and promote the interest of Saints betrays the cause of God and the chief Instruments of a Reformation into the hands of the High Priest of Rome who by his instruments crucifies them 2. I believe it is the place whereas Christ was betrayed so there he shall rise again for Christs feet after his resurrection were seen standing on Mount Olivet so I do believe the Witnesses that this Judas-like fellow shall betray to death shall rise again in the same kingdom or place there they shall stand on their feet and be called up to Heaven that is to high promotion far above the reach of their Enemies I conceive this Mount and that in Rev. 16. 16. are one and the same for Harmagedon saith Brightman signifies a Mountain of delight the same saith he in Dan. 11. 45. The enemy that goes against the Church shall pitch his Tents in the glorious holy Mountain or as in the Original in the Mountain of delights of Holyness These expressions of the Holy Ghost in these several places set forth one and the same thing to us if we view but the scope of all for in all three places 't is one and the same Enemy going forth to battel against the Lord Jesus in one and the same place and at one and the same time and produceth one and the same effects for in Dan. 11. the Enemy goeth to utter ruine by the coming of Christ Dan. 12. 1. Rev. 16. 16. that battel produceth the seventh Viall which finisheth all and in Zach. 14. 3. Christ shall fight in that day as when he fought in the day of battel when ever Christ fought a battel he ruined his Enemies so will he here as in Judg. 7. Esay 9. 4. Now if the Romanists and Independents will give me leave to joyn Scotland and England once united accursed be he that was the cause of their separation I will comply with them and conclude that these two Kingdoms are the Mount of Olives where Christs feet shall stand in the day of battel 't is that place where the Witnesses were betrayed and slain and that place where in the sight of their Enemies they shall ascend to Heaven that is be eminently exalted above their Enemies V. 4. And his feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem on the East and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof towards the East and towards the West a very great valley and half of the Mountain shall remove toward the North and half the Mountain toward the South in that day that is the day that the spoil is divided in Jerusalem and the Gentiles gather against Jerusalem to battel the same day that the Beast makes war with the Saints and overcomes them Rev. 11. 7. and Dan. 7. 25. and when they shall gather together to Harmageddon Rev. 16. 16. and when he pitcheth his Tents in the Mountain of delights of holinesse Dan. 11. 45. In this day shall be these great things done as followeth The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof towards the East and the West a great valley Note This is spoken of the last years raign of the Beast of the Earth and therefore 't is called one day a prophetick day which signifies one year For this verse sets forth the great Rent that shall be made by the Beast of the Earth amongst those that were formerly united under one King and in one Faith and locked fast together in one Covenant amongst these there shall be a breach in the last year of the Beast of the Earths raign The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof Here is the great sign fore-going the great battell wherein Christ will appear on his Churches side the half of the Mount of Olives shall remove to the North and half to the South Observe here there was a Union before the North and the South was united and now they are divided the Mount of Olives is divided but one delightful Mountain in the World and that divided this is terrible A great division in the Church of God those that were united in one covenant shall be broken and divided insomuch that Sermons shall clash against Sermons and prayers against prayers and Fast dayes against Fast-dayes it shall be a vast breach for there shall be a Valley towards the East and the West The Chaldee renders it a very great Valley and the Septuagint read it a very great Gulf so that the North cannot passe to the South nor the South to the North There shall be an irreconcileable breach made betwixt them they shall prohibit any

god Mauzzim that he sets up both these are one and the same thing and signifie a sword-power that this Beast shall set up I have many learned Expositors on my side in the interpretation of both texts and some of the Fathers with whom I fall full jump in the explication for they say that the Beast in both places is that Antichrist that shall arise when the Roman Monarchy shall be destroyed and slay the Witnesses and reigne three years and an half Now we must reckon the beginning of this Beasts reign the time that he set up his god Mauzzim and exalted himself above all other government and this was when he got the ships at sea the Forts Castles Forces Magazines whole power of the sword into his own hands at land This was done in the year 1647. and about September or October In the same year so that near about that time we must begin the Beasts raign and then about the evening of the day that is the latter end of that year when he divides the two Kingdoms the Beasts three years an half wil be out but mark what shal come to pass immediately before this year of division Dan. 12. 40. At the time of the end shall the King of the South push at him and the King of the North shall come up against him like a whirlwind with Chariots with Horsemen with many ships In Zach. 14. 14. there you have the Mountain divided into North and South Here you have in this verse the North and the South joyned together to overthrow the Beast of the Earth which hath set up his God Mauzzim his Sword-power This was cleerly fulfilled in the Northern Invasion and the Southern Insurrection I will not inlarge here in so plain a thing but what shall be their success they shall be overthrown by him and he shall enter into the Countries and shall overflow and pass over He that is he that sets up the God Mauzzim he shall overtop both the Northern Invaders and the Southern Insurrections neither the King of the North nor the King of the South shall overcome him he shall pass over them v. 41. He shall enter into the glorious Land I am of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs opinion that Scotland is the gloriousest Land in the world for holiness therefore I think it is meant Scotland that he should enter as he did after he had defeated Hambleton's forces he entred the Kingdom of Scotland and many shall be overthrown Some read and many Countries shall be overthrown but there is no such word as Countries in the Hebrew Therefore I humbly conceive 't is better read and many shall be overthrown that is many noble families many great persons and many people shall but these shall escape out of his hand Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Amon the ancieut and the latter Expositors have mistook this text in allowing it onely a literal sense which the Holy Ghost intends not for by Edom and Moab and Ammon are meant the Enemies of the Church who plead the same priviledges that the Church pleads as Esau was the eldest son of Isaac by birth but he sold his birth-right and became an apostate and so did his posterity who were from him called Edomites But these Apostates pretended as the Church of Rome doth that they were the true Church because they came from the eldest son of Isaac and so Moab and Ammon though most abominable Idolaters yet said that their father was Lot and they were the true Church though they were begotten in incest as all Heresies and Hereticks are gotten by corrupting the Holy Word and Truth of God so that by Edom and Moab and Ammon that escape this Beasts clutches may be understood Hereticks and Apostates if so how cleerly doth this point out of the Beast to us or if by Ammon and Moab may be meant those murtherers of the King Traytors for in 2 Chron. 24. 46. a Moabite and an Ammonite one of the chief of the children of Ammon conspired against the King and slew him so that Apostates Covenant-breakers Hereticks and Traytors conspirers against the King shall escape him wheresoever he comes you may know this beast by his followers for none but such are protected by him and beloved of him By Moab may be meant the malicious party who pretend religiously to curse the Church of God by their hypocritical hirelings such as Balam who for a good place or office will vilifie that cause which they once professed to be a righteous cause V. 42. And the Land of Egypt shall not escape that is Ireland which were more bloudy to the people of God then Egypt to Israel Egipt that is a Kingdom full of abominable Idolatry therefore Rome is called spirituall Egypt V. 43. He shall have power over the Treasures of gold and silver and the precious things of Egypt that is He shall be Governour of Ireland for who hath power over the Treasury but the Governour By Lybians and Ethiopians are meant the common sottish and slavish sort of people which will bow to any body these shall subscribe to him But when he is in Ireland what follows next V. 44. But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him Holland is East and Scotland is North from Ireland now the Treaty in Holland with the King by the Scots shall trouble him V. 45. Tydings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him Ireland the place where the Beast of the Earth shall be that Witness-slaying Beast hath Holland on the East of it and Scotland on the North of it Now tydings from the North and East shall trouble him that is the King of Scotland shall be in Holland that 's to the East of him and the Scots in the North call a Parliament and send Commissioners from Scotland to treat with the King in Holland and so tydings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him This Treaty shall trouble him and call him out of Ireland into England from whence he shall go with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many He shall go with an Army resolving to destroy and utterly to make away the Covenanters in Scotland and this is plainly set down in vers 45. V. 46. And he shall plant the Tabernacles of his palace Some read The Tabernacle of the wrath of his judgment so Brightman reades it Others read it And he shall plant his Tabernacle Aphadno keeping the Hebrew word intire Others there are that translate Aphadno and read the text thus And he shall spread the Tabernacles of his stables This word Aphadno which is read Palace though I know not why Brightman very learnedly unfolds This word saith he is compounded of three words Aph and Din and the affix of the third person Daleth the wrath of his judgment as if he should say He shall plant the Tabernacles of wroth whereby he shall procure to