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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

LINGVA TESTIVM 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 Secondly That this Magistracy in all Ages since Antichrists being visible hath witnessed for Christ against Antichrist Thirdly That the late King who was cut off with the Axe was the lawfull successor of Gods witnesses who for these 1260. yeares have been Witnesses in Sackcloth for Christ against Antichrist whereby t' is evident that he is the slain Witnesse that finished his Testimony Fourthly That his Son the K. of Scotland who is the Witnesse expected 3. yeares and an half after the slaying of the Witnesses to rise again is by an unquestionable title Emperour of Rome and that Prince expected to be the ruine of the Antichristian Monarchy of Rome 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 Where in you have the hard places of Mat. 24 and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard Texts Together with a description of the last Enemies which slay the Witnesses whereby t is evident that England is the place where the Witnesses are slain and no place else Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus In the yeare of the Beasts of the Earth's raign 1651. READER I Have taken upon me one of the hardest Taskes this day in the World and who am I that undertake it but the weakest that ever travelled in this high way I find Gyants in learning stumbling falling stragling and quite tyred in this way many mighty men durst never adventure to put foot therein and few that ever entred it can say they came to their journies end there was still a pus ultra which they all acknowledged This only was my encouragement to enter into this sacred Thicket of Divine Mysteries that that Divine Essence which gave it to the world delights to reveale it to Babes and Sucklings in the world I am sure my Lord and Master the King of Heaven and Earth delights to have it so The great God usually magnifies his grace this way by doing great things by the weakest meanes He made a poore weake despised Maid alone to bring forth the mighty Monarch of Heaven and Earth Indeed in this great work I have been as the blessed Virgin both {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} alone Whiles I was bigge of what I have here brought forth in both these Tracts I was inforced like Elizabeth to hide my self for so grievous were the thrumps and kicks of my friends against it whiles I went in pain of it that I could not endure them and now it is born the Herods of the times doe seek its life I must confesse it goeth adroad in a homely dress yet it is never the lesse nor never the worse truth The Harp is Davids Harp though the Method and the Stile which are as the strings and the fingers are mine which I could heartily wish were better The rudenesse of them I doe acknowledge may give occasion to my enemies to make me the morrall of Lucians Fable who deriding illiterate sauce-boxes tells us of a Supercilious Asses whose aspiring minde looking at least five Sphere above his reach made his rude fingers itch to be playing on Orpheus his Harp snatching it therefore from Apollo to whom 't was dedicated to work he went and made therewith such an hideous noise that instead of making wilde Beasts tame as Orpheus was wont he made the tame Dogs of the Town madde who ran upon him and tore him in pieces I doe not desire to make the morrall of this Fable let if I must because my enemies will have it so if I make such harsh musick of that Sacred Harp the Bible that I inrage the Dogs of this age against me but my enemies remember that my unskilfull fingers make harsh musick onely in Dogs eares and however the harp I play upon is still the same and none but Dogs thereat will be inraged I confesse of all Instruments this of Sigionoth is the hardest and I may truly say that many excellent Musicians otherwayes have made such harsh musick on this Instrument that the Romish Dogs have had to Just a cause to bark at them but as for the Romish party I feare them not because I am sure they cannot come at me for their own Authors they must thrust them through to touch me and so must the Independents likewise so that I have the least cause of any man to feare either of them and as for others I expect by the Law of gratitude faire dealing at their hands if it be asked why this Preface is made a book distinct and not joyned to Manus Testium as it ought I answer 1. 'T is not my fault but theirs that print it these are times of separation 2. I committed them to severall hands that if one miscarried the other might possibly have safe arivall and if either there might be light enough in that alone to tell the the world who the witnesses are where they shall be slain when they shall be slain and who shall slay them and when and where he shall be overcome that slayes them For this cause have I handled many things in this Preface which I have touched on in the Book and touched many things here which I have handled in the Booke that in this Tract I have handled more clearly which I lest obscurely through over much brevity in the Book especially that of Monarchy and that of the Beast which slayes the witnesses in Rev. 17. where I have indeavoured to answer all the hard questions in that Chapter which is the mystery of the Revelations as yet to me never by any one fully and clearely opened I have not studied loftiness but plainness of speech in these Tracts I have not as most Schollars doe eyed onely Schollars but herein playing the Jesuite of our times I have eyed the Vulgar ●ort most and writ to their capacities that so counter-workking the Jesuite of our times I might undeceive poore misled soules who are stung with those Iesuiticall Independent Scorpions and bring them to the knowledge of the true Church a lawfull Magistracy and ministery and discover to them the true Antichrist For this cause reader doe I run a corporall hazard on purpose to save thy soule harmlesse by

observe how they carry on their Designs as for this Doctor he undertakes to prove the foulest actions that ever were committed by Christians to be the gloriousest and greatest actions that ever were performed by Christians and pretends to fetch all his proofs from sacred Scripture from Propheticall Texts and 't is commonly taught That King Charles who was cut off was the Antichrist and London the city that must be destroyed with seven hills and the Presbytery the Locust that must be destroyed so that ere long we shall have Protestants massacred as Antichristian 't is therfore time to look after such fellows Indeed there are many in print who assume scribendi libertatem as Scaliger saith of the French but have not scribendi facultatem I think the Writers of these times upon this subject edged with the Doctors designes may be distinguished as maladies are amongst the learned some are privative some are positive in some there is seminarium stultitiae in other some seminarium invidiae Now the later of these is most dangerous From hence proceeds heresie and apostasie from truth if we mark it error is a positive act and where it meets a malicious heart and a subtill head it doth infinite hurt Now I shall sooner prove the Doctor one of these then stile him one As for that other sort of Prophetick time-servers though 't is true there be unus utrique error yet poor soules they make such ridiculous nonsense of what they steal from learned men that every man of ordinaryparts cannot but cry out of them as eruditi fures and deserve as much to be slighted as Iohn Goodwins Songs to be laught at The truth is such self-conceited ideots deserve better to be met with a Lacedemonian whip then to be corrected by a sober pen They are such as Hierom complains of Qui loqui nesciunt tacere non possunt I do not mean onely such tinkling cymballs and crackt trumpets as Sterrey and Powell Durie Feake the Furriers Boy Will Sedgwick Iohn Goodwin Simson and Carpenter the converted Jesuite with his Brother Tillam the blasphemer but many others poor soules who are great Zealots against Antichrist but know not what he is a man that hears the contradictions absurdities and egregious falsities that they impudently utter sometimes in one houre would conclude as Lactantius doth against the Philosophers Aut stulti aut in ani nullus enim ager nulla anus ineptiùs deliravit these empty-headed fellowes whose privative malice proceeding of ignorance makes them belch forth such indigested crudities I would intreat good Christians to pray for them for they know not what they say But while I am viewing the followers of the Beast There is a third sort of time-servers the worst of all by how much the more eminent they are for the profession of the Protestant Religion for that of Iuvenali is true Omne animi vitium tantò conspectius in se Crimen habet quantò major qui peccat habetur These are not such lascivious Goats as the Doctor that I deal with nor such silly hogs as those I pass over who like those possessed run in a Herd together down the precipice of Ruine into the Sea of perdition without remorse or stop But these are men of gravity men of sobriety men professing outwardly godliness men that like Judas kiss Christ with their lips and imbrace Christs murtherers in their arms that have their lips in Heaven and their Arms in Hell they are like the Ayr in their constitutions which Element though it proceed ex duobus Elementis à symbolicis yet notwithstanding 't is utrique symbolicum and so are they I mean such as Mr. Nye Mr. Thomas Goodwin Mr. Shadrack Simpson Mr. Bridge Rows of Eaton who though no Priest yet may well be stiled a Franciscan Apostate and I would I could leave out Mr. J. Car. and M. Ob. S. I am loth to name them because I am ashamed that the world should know that two such eminent-godly-learned men are amongst such an Antichristian abominable Faction but who knows that Mr. Caryl is amongst them and that Mr. Obediah Sedgwick keeps publike Thanksgiving dayes for the overthrow of the Scots our Covenant-keeping Brethren Hi sunt illi saith Tullie qui non solùm vitia concipiunt sed etiam infundunt in Civitatem plusque exemplo quam peccato nocent These are those adultae patriae pestes that if it were possible would seduce the Elect How much mischief have these men done by their evill example by their open apostacy from their Church and State-principles by their Covenant-breaking and by their elegant pleading like Job's acquaintance against a righteous Cause and most shamefull extolling and complying with wicked men cursing the righteous whom God afflicts and blessing the wicked whom God abhors These {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Greg. Nazianzen calls them such as will truck away their Religious principles and break their Covenants for the gain of the world notwithstanding their former Writings and Opinions fight with their present actings like the souldiers of Gadmus to their own confusion These men going in the way of Cain and running after the errour of Balam for a reward have provoked me unworthy me like Balam's Ass unexpectedly though out of the anguish of my heart to reprove the madness of these Prophets I no whit wonder that Hereticks and scandalous loose fellows such as Doctor Homes and John Goodwin keep Thanksgiving Dayes and make Ballads at the overthrow of the Church and State of Scotland for they know that Scotland is the greatest Enemy to Heresie and Lechery in the world These go upon that new-found Maxime self-preservation and so have some ground for what they do for doubtless Homes had been hang'd for his uncleanness and abominable lewdness had the Scots Laws been put into English practice and such as Goodwin had been justly banished for open apostacy and obstinate heresie if not hang'd for a blasphemer Therefore I the less blame them for what they do and the rather since their own former Writings save me the labour Doth the Doctor call the Church of Scotland and the Presbyterian Church whore by craft Poor man we very well know that this is not his first mistake it is not the first time that he hath mistaken an honest woman for a whore witness his Congregation that excommunicated him for such gross mistakes and to this day for the same stands excommunicated Were it not therefore through this Doctors sides that I intended to wound the whole Rabble of Deceivers and false Prophets who most egregiously abuse prophetick Texts to the defaming of the true Church and that the Time-servers may know I dare incounter their sturdiest Champions I should have been ashamed to have entred the list with so scandalous a man as Doctor Homes But why should I be ashamed to confute him when the Lord Major of London was not ashamed to make him his Teacher Let no man think that I do