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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77290	Babels fall, in the foolish virgins sleep. Among which Presbytery lyeth, with predictions of the great disputed to be at the raising of the true ministry. / Written by a witnesse of the truth, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4319; Thomason E554_19; ESTC R205773	24,938	35

the Churches hid estate which is computed to be by the Spirit of God 1260 days prophetically yeares Revel 12.6 which is the full time of Antichrists reign of whom I commend these things to be considered of 1 That the two witnesses comprehend not the whole Ministry of any age but only such who in each age of the predicted time did oppose Antichrist maintaining the Gospel truth against his errours in doctrine discipline or Church Constitution in the several times and ages they lived in so that ones witnesse may differ from another according to the measure of knowledge God had communicated unto them in their day one witnessing against his corrupt doctrine of iustification c. Others against his Idolatry c. Against whom God had still some to oppose and direct the Church to this day this being a part of that time 2. Their witnesse is but for a limited time even the time of the Churches hiding and then ends Revel 11.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There Testimony is not long before it be fulfilled if not already after which they shall teach no more as they have done before 3 Consider but Him that is to put an end to their Ministry and then the time is known when this and by whom it shal be effected Rev. 17.3 I saw a woman that is the Papacy sitting on a Scarlet coloured beast that is the Roman Empire now here Revel 11.7 The beast that is some part of the Civill State of the Roman Monarchy set down Vers 13. By a tenth part of the City which England is being one of the 10 Kingdomes of the Roman Monarchy and a tenth part of the City gets up out of the bottomlesse pit or Antichrists prison the Key whereof the fallen Star keepeth Revel 9.1 which proves her authority thereof 4 The beast thus having broken the prison makes war with the witnesses by questioning their ministry the witnesses could not war with any other weapons then the word and then overcomes them and kils them not slaying their persons but nullifying their ministry 5 Into their carcasses that is into their now dead ministry comes the spirit of life from God that is God comes to restore in their stead the true ministry into the Church againe now that this is meant of their successors not themselves I desire you to observe 1 Their ministry is fulfiled that is that they were to doe by their ministry they have done and are to do no more in the Church 2 Their time being set is now accomplished and are no longer to continue and if they then sure the other antichristian Ministry that is not of God is much more to end 6 The spirit of life entring into their carcasses is the right call and abundance of gifts God shall blesse the succeeding ministry with 7 That the successors of these vers 12. Are called into heaven that is they are acknowledged by the Church to be the true Gospel ministry 8 On this the 10 part of the City falls vers In which a full and perfect deliverance is given to one of the ten Kingdoms from the Antichristian estat and not before Aplic England see where and in what time thou art in and what is to be done in thee for thy cure and how neer thy comfort and Salvation is 2 How contrary the actings of men are to Gods minde the sole cause of all our troubles 3 I cannot passe this by that the witnesses Prophesied in sackcloath Revel 11.3 And so did weare none of the Popes Scarlet or the Bishops silks or had they the rule of States with the Presbytery but were during their whole time of ministry in a sad and suffering condition lamenting their own and the Saints calamities being alw●ys under antichristian persecution for the truth and never having publicke Government in their hands as Presbytery hath had at all 4 These witnesses rise again in the restauration of the true Gospel ministry foretold of God Revel 20. ver 4.5 You shall see in this how God makes good the judgment written of her when shall be fulfilled on her that she did on the messengers of the Gospel that she may say as I have done the Lord hath requited me Revel 18.6 Return to her even as she hath returned to you Now the word is verbum factivum that which God saith here Do shall be done when the time is come people be to whom these words are written For as the Apostle 1 Pet. 1.12 not to themselves but us they did minister these things so these things are ministred to those men that live in that t●me God will have these things done when the Word shall fill their spirits with might to do the will of the Lord. 1 Who is to be returned unto that is her the false Church of Rome 2 How she is to be rewarded and that is as she hath rewarded the true Church of Christ 3 He shews the Rule God wil have observed in returning to her which is That as she hath done she shall be done unto 1 Now consider by policy she first destroyed the Gospel Ministry God will take down hers by the purity and power of his Word again and set up the Gospel Government in her stead 2 By cruelty and disgrace shee destroyed these Witnesses which taught the Gospel of Truth in the time of her Reigne now to this the holy Spirit alludes as being the way of Gods judgment in ●h●ch the Saints are to be execution●rs and to do to her that is Antichrist as she hath done 3 The thing God aimed at herein is to shew Antichrists tyranny used against those God raised up to preach the Gospel by degrading them as in the History of John Huss at Constance and of John Sawtrey the first English Martyr the History in brief being thus The Bishops cause him to be apparelled in Priestly Vestments and to be brought to appear before them when the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel 1399 saith I denounce thee William Sawtrey in the Habit of a Priest as an Heretick I do condemne thee in the name of all my fellow brethren the Bishops c. and of the whole Clergy I do degrade and deprive thee of thy Priestly Order in signe whereof we take from thee the Patent and Chalice and do deprive thee of authority of saying Mass we pull from thy back the Casul and take from thee thy Vestment and deprive thee of all manner of Priestly honour And then having proceeded in manner of pronouncing sentence against him as before he proceeds Wee put thee from the order of a Deacon in token we take from thee the book of the New Testament and the Stole and do deprive thee of reading the Gospel and all dignity of a Deacon As a Sub●eacon they deprive●●● of the Albe and Maniple As a Acolite they take away the Candlestick and Taper As a Exorcist the book of Conjuration As a Reader they took away the book of the Church Legend As Sexton they