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A45517	The key of sacred scripture, and, leading to it first, an answer to some objections given to the author, by a person of great learning and piety : wherein many mistakes, by which most professors wound themselves, and strengthen the hands of the churche's adversaries, are clearly discovered, and the more invincible weapons of truth inviolable (tending effectually to refel errors, and reform manners) are tendred to them / by Tho. Harby.	Harby, Thomas.	1679 (1679)	Wing H683; ESTC R20417	31,658	56

square Righteousness which shall render and denominate these future 144000 to be that Mystery of God finished and the First-fruits redeemed from the Earth chap. 14.3 4. We shall therefore search the Apostles Times to see if we can find there the principal end of the Scripture and that Righteousness aforesaid for they might have some glimmerings of it though they did not perhaps attain to the true and clear knowledg of it And First But we look for new Heavens and a new Earth according to his Promise wherein dwelleth Righteousness 2 Pet. 3.13 If Peter knew what those new Heavens and that new Earth were and what that Righteousness in them was to be why did he not preach both to the Primitive Churches why did he look for them and it to come in future according to his Promise if that Promise of God was at that time or had been before performed Therefore this Righteousness of Gospel-Promise was not rightly understood but much sealed and hid from the Primitive Saints and Apostles themselves Secondly Christ taught his Disciples and teacheth us to pray saying Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven But the Will of God so done on Earth is the Practice of that future quadrate Righteousness of Gospel-Promise which only or principally is according to the Will of God and well-pleasing to him for all other Righteousness cannot but be faulty before the Throne of God Rev. 14.5 Not but that there will be Sins in Saints then but Sins in subjection or slain Sins as the Ark and Dagon with his Head and Hands cut off were in one Temple Thy Will be done in Earth c. This is a prophetick Prayer which hath not been answered that I find in any Ages nor shall be until the Seals of this Book be opened for until then the Will of God cannot be done in Earth as it is in Heaven because Man's Direction so to do it though not with like degrees of Perfection can be found by no other means Christ therefore had not no doubt taught his Disciples and us to pray saying Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven if it was then actually so done on Earth by any but himself only at that present time or otherwise than by a prophetick Adumbration or Figure The supreme end therefore of the whole Scripture in order to God's Glory or that Righteousness which shall denominate the Mystery of God finished and be the Means of Mens principal Concerns and Safeties was much sealed or did not clearly appear to the Apostles themselves And therefore John wept much Rev. 5.4 And why did John weep much Because he had much cause to weep the Book was sealed in respect to its supreme end and that was cause sufficient to him of much weeping Nothing can be more lamentable than the sealing of that Book nor more blessed and full of joy than that opened For the sealing of it opens the Flood-gates of all Evils Miseries and Mischiefs Hoc solum omnigeni fons origo mali It is the cause of an Inundation of all Evils to Princes and to their People They complain of Plots and dreadful Designs to subvert their Estates Lives and Religion it self as if the World were again and so it is indeed filled with Violence Therefore they labour hard and so they do well to prevent every Man his own utter Ruine But it is not much unlike the Egyptians striving against the Stream of the involving Waters to very little purpose Hydra's adverse Heads spring up faster than they can be cut off Why then do they not seek to open the Seals of this Book and their Work is done The Wolf the Lamb and the Lion agreed well enough in one Ark and shall agree this Book being opened to better purpose Isa 65.25 Saul among the Prophets prophesied with them So Papists Protestants Sects and Turks if that Work be once done will agree to say and do the same things Enmity and Hostility shall cease and the destroying Angel shall stay his hand as he did when he was seen in Arannah's Threshing-Floor 2 Sam. 24.17 25. Therefore Lastly The whole Creation saith the Apostle groaneth and travaileth in pain and not only they but our selves also which have the First fruits c. Rom. 8.22 23. And what moved even the Apostles themselves and with them the whole Creation so to groan and travail in pain It was saith the Text for the manifestation of the Sons of God vers 19. And what is that I answer It is or rather shall be the Name of God written in their Fore-heads Rev. 14.1 For what more manifests a thing than the Forehead and what so much manifests the Sons of God as the Name of God written in their Foreheads And what is that Name It 's that Power of Godliness or that Practice of Right which shall be the supreme end of the whole Scripture in order to God's Glory and in respect to which principally it hath been long sealed All that work not at least to that end aforesaid are like Clocks that go not or go wrong Wherefore seeing that promised Righteousness in Practice which shall be the Will of God done on Earth though not with equal degrees of perfection as it is in Heaven shall be in order to God's Glory the supreme end of the whole Scripture and the most effectual means to Men of their entire Safeties and highest Concerns we shall with some diligence examine what those Works or that Practice of Right aforesaid in respect to which principally the Book is sealed are And first we must distinguish Evil Works are either visibly evil or But seeming good Good Works are subordinate or Supreme And firstly Works visibly evil are the Works of the Flesh Gal. 5.19 Adultery Fornication Uncleanness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strofe Seditions Heresies Envyings Murthers Drunkenness Revellings and such like Such like are those Multitudes of Oaths which make the Land mourn and the Cause of them Atheism Witchcraft is mentioned among these Works of the Flesh which are manifest but I never read or heard of any Witch that durst or did swear or say God damn me This Age is grown hardy in unheard-of Wickedness Envy Hatred Variance are in the same List Schism therefore must be of the same Radix Sloth and Inadvertency are the Root and Foundation of all manifest evil Works and of those that are most mysterious The Doers of those more manifest evil Works are High-way-Hearers or the High-way ground Inadvertists Atheists that give no growth to the Seed of Grace But Secondly Works but seeming good are much more deceitful and difficult to be discerned from subordinate good Works They soon grow and soon cease from growing Hearing Reading Praying ineffectual Alms and pieces or half Performances of Right are seeming good Works And subordinate good Works are the same only these persevere when the other desist The stony and thorny Grounds are lively delineations of the Doers of seeming good Works The Apostle said to the foolish Galatians Ye ran well who hindred you chap. 5.7 So the Doers of seeming good Works seem to run well or rather better at first than they that perform subordinate good Works but before they run far they are hindred and having no depth of knowledg cannot persist in pressing forward or if their Knowledg be competent much Business and worldly Cares choak their good Works and makes them be but dead Works Therefore subordinate good Works seem to fall short at first of those that are but seeming good they are not so splendid nor promise so much when they are first held forth but they persevere when the other perish 〈…〉 * Assemb Annot. * Symp. 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The KEY OF Sacred Scripture And Leading to it FIRST An Answer to some Objections given to the Author by a Person of great Learning and Piety Wherein Many Mistakes by which most Professors wound themselves and strengthen the Hands of the Churche's Adversaries are clearly discovered And the more invincible Weapons of Truth inviolable tending effectually to refel Errors and reform Manners are tendred to them By THO. HARBY De dubio exploratum verum est maximè verum LONDON Printed for the Author 1679. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY To the King 's most Excellent Majesty And the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament HAppy were this Age were its Principles of supposed Truth sound and Practice according But both if considered by a seeing Eye may seem more irreparable than heretofore they have been No City-consuming Fires no sweeping-Plague lays waste our Dwellings no Civil War hath vext of late the Land These Mercies much exceed our Merits but the Causes of all these Calamities and far greater Gross Errors and Mistakes in Opinions and Practice with wicked Contrivances of dreadful peril to Princes and to the Church still remain in a fuller Conflux than in former Times Good Hezekiah had recourse to God and spread before him the Letter that exprest the Churche's seeming unexpressible Sorrows and Snares of Death So I shall spread a List of no less perilous Evils before your Sacred Majesty and this Honourable Senate God's Substitutes that so this Nation may timely foresee and shun them And to that end I count it my indispensible Duty to God to his Majesty and You to tender this Treatise to you because it may much concern your Safeties especially in this juncture of Time My humble Design therein is by God's help and your assistance to remove those many and most dangerous Opinions that hinder the Agreement of all Church-Societies Sects and Nations So God may come not to smite the Earth with a Curse as he lately seemed to be about to do but with healing in his Wings So the subtil Contrivances of secret Enemies may be turned into Amity and Death be disarmed For mistaken wild Gourds were called Death because their Effects were like those of the Waters into which the Star fell whereby they became bitter and deadly but Mistakes in Opinions and Manners are much more in Men and to the Church the poisoned Arrows of Death which cannot be drawn forth nor possibly removed but by the Dictamnum of Truth made manifest All other means without this may seem invalid nor will the most vigilant care avail much till this Work be first done or well begun Difficult it must be and not without danger for the most powerful Efficient to work with much success where the Subject the People almost generally remains uncapable through many mistakes Howbeit as the Ark had no stay till the Waters abated and it rested on Ararat So the Church and the Nations of this World can never find footing of any firm stability till these floods of false Opinions that dash upon the Church and States with Storms and Tempest decrease or be dried up As oft therefore as the best Founders build upon no better Foundations in Men so oft must their Fabrick fall and they as oft renew their labour without effectual success For Effects their Causes continuing must continue That this most needful Work of highest concern to You and to all Men may succeed in your Majesties hand and in the hands of this Honourable House that you and they may be the Master-Builders of lasting Peace and Prosperity to this and all Nations is the incessant Prayer of This Honourable Senate's most observant and humble Servant THO. HARBY The Contents of this Treatise which shew the Design of it are First A Progress Secondly A Digress Thirdly A Regress THe Progress is a brief Proceeding in Answer to some Objections so far that they may all appear to the Reader to be fully refelled The Digress is to shew and that 's the principal Design of this Treatise where the Matter of sundry Texts and Chapters with useful Animadversions upon them begins where it ends and what they hold forth The Regress is a further proceeding to answer the foresaid Objections till they be more perfectly and fully refelled READER I Received a Paper by the hand of a Person of great Worth but not composed as he faith by him but by some other whose Name which seems a note of no fair dealing is not subscribed The ground of the writing of it was this I maintain in my Treatise Intituled What is Truth That the Texts in the 17th and 18th Chapters of the Apocalyps hold forth Rome literal not only as Pagan or Heterodox but likewise as Christian and Orthodox but faln from her first Obedience And not Rome Papal properly nor otherwise than as Primitive Literal Rome faln as aforesaid shadowed forth the Papal grand Apostacy which is the Opinion of some of the best Protestant Writers And by their Authority Reason and chiefly from Scripture I have I suppose sufficiently proved the Truth of this Assertion Howbeit many Doctors and Divines of Note take no notice of their own perilous Deceptions in mistaking a thing almost incredible two whole Chapters together and have not spared to charge me because I therein dissent from them with dangerous Error to my very great dammage and no less danger to the Protestant Religion Nor have I them to deal with but the Learned Dr. Fulk Jewel Whitgift Pareus Mede and many thousands more are consentient in the same Opinion with my Opponent I must humbly confess I am inferior to many of them therefore my task and the difficulty to do it must be the greater But I must as a Duty indispensible endeavour to refel these Magnatum Errores Errors of great Writers most dangerous to the Church by turning in very many places of it even the Scripture it self into a contrary sence Nor need I wish I had the Consubscriptions of all Writers that defend what my Opponent maintains for I suppose I have that already or what is equivalent to it in these Objections which contain so far as I find more and some of them more seeming substantial Arguments than I ever found in all Writers that defend my Opponents Opinions therefore all their Arguments in the refutation of his must be refelled But my Opponent comes as in the Garments of the Gibeonites disguised with many gross Absurdities as if he were some Man of mean Abilities which makes me think that some able Divines joining with that Person of great Learning that gave me this Paper might give him his strongest Arguments and leave the ordering of some of them to him That he should conceal his Name thereby to falsify the Scriptures and affirm anything without controul is unjust in my account And the Reader might count it a Crime in me to conceal that Person of eminence and worth Mr. Joseph Caryl that gave me this Paper

Prophetical counting thirty Days to each Month are 1260 Days doubled And forty two Months Prophetick the time of that Beasts duration are 1260 Years Rev. 14.5 Chap. 11.2 3. which time we find doubled in that Prophetick History Gen. 41. to shew the certainty of it So long it seems for 1260 Years should an excessive Famine of Equity in the actions of Men and Saints superabound in all Nations and confident Ignorance Avarice and evil Manners overspread the World The History is not sealed but as that History is also a Prophecy it is and hath been dangerously sealed The History of Nebuchadnezzar's being in the capacity of a Beast till seven times pas'd over him is not sealed Dan. 4. Not that this whole Chapter intends no more than to be the Narrative of a Man become a Beast in manners for Nebuchadnezzar was before he fell in a Figure that Tree whose height reached unto Heaven and the sight of it to the ends of the Earth He was the Principal and most considerable Power Secular of the whole World and of the true Church also and seemed to prefigure that Man-child who was to Rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron Rev. 12.5 But he fell through Pride and became as a Beast of the Field and a Beasts heart was given unto him till seven times past over him then for then and not before the Book began to be opened in a Figure he lifted up his Eyes to Heaven and his Understanding return'd then he blessed praised and honoured the most High There is nothing sealed or hard to be read in the History but this History holds forth Prophetically and Nebuchadnezzar prefigured the Powers Secular of the Primitive Church chiefly from about 292 to 407 when she and they fell away from Faith and Manners and fled into the Wilderness for 1260 Years she and they had their Habitation so long with Beasts and they ruled her with a Feral mind till seven times the time aforesaid past over them For the seven lean Beasts in Egypt prefigured the seven Heads of the Secular Beast Papal whose last six Heads succeeded each more hungry leaner and worse than its Predecessor and the seven times of Nebuchadnezzar being in the capacity of a Beast adumbrate the same things with the same time of the duration of them to wit 1260 Years For that time is shadowed forth by seven times or seven years in which the Prophetick time is repeated or doubled to shew the certainty of it Dan. 4.16 23. Gen. 41.32 The same time is sometimes held forth by seven half-times or half-years Dan. 12.7 Rev. 12.14 Sometimes by seven-half-days Rev. 11.9 11. for those three days and an half being days Annual are the same time with a time times and an half aforesaid Sometimes it s held forth by forty two Months Rev. 11.2 Chap. 13.5 Sometimes by three Years and six Months James 5.17 Luke 4.25 For three Years and six Months or forty two Months counting thirty days to each Month are just 1260 days which in their Antitype are so many Years The same time is sometimes held forth by 1260 Days expresly as in Rev. 11.3 Chap. 12.6 Sometimes by seven Months 1 Sam. 6.1 Sometimes by seven Days Sometimes by seven Trumpets sounded by seven Priests for seven days together and sometimes by seven Trumpets so sounded in one day Josh 6.13 14 15. I might mention more but these are sufficient all which prefigured these 1260 Years which were the principal time of the Secular Beast Papal being in the deplored state of a Beast But after that time that Beast shall begin to cease to be a Beast and a Mans heart shall be again given unto him with greater Majesty and Glory than ever he had before For at the end of that time he as his Type did shall begin to lift up his Eyes to Heaven and his Understanding to return his Beastial Nature shall pass away and the splendor of his Secular Power shall be restored with far greater brightness to all after Ages Dan. 4.34 36. Then may Men and Magistrates be rightly said to lift up their Eyes to Heaven and to have their Understanding restored when they begin to bend their Minds effectually to the practice of Right in a fourfold conformity But they that in Prayer lift up their Eyes to Heaven without due regard to do Right pray not to God but take his Name in vain His Counsellors and Lords sought unto that Prophetick restored King but what right Counsel can come from his Antitype whiles he retains the habit of a Beast No Man needs to be curious in as king the Question what wholesome Laws that Apostate King so distracted put in Execution What discreet Counsels grave Precepts and good Examples he gave unto his People whiles the wild Asses were his Senators and brute Beasts his Counsellors and Companions Dan. 5.21 He was free enough all that time from all such Attainments Much more must his Antitype the Secular successive Heptarch of the Apostacy of Antichrist be far from giving or receiving any right Counsel and from all practice of Square Right For a Band of Iron and Brass bound the stump of the Root of the Tree that shadowed this forth vers 15 23. And was not a Band of Iron of sufficient strength to keep that Root from bearing Fruit and from growing up It need not be doubted But a band of Brass is added to denote a double incapability in the Tree prefigured to send forth Branches that it may bring forth good Fruit and so long as it sends forth evil Fruit It remains as dead or hewen down But Sects Saints and Professors that exist in the Root of this Antitype Tree will by no means believe that its Root and they themselves therein are bound with a band of Iron and Brass and thereby lie under a double incapability of Inadvertency and Ignorance that they cannot mind to learn to practise Right in a four-fold Conformity or labour to know what that means It s a Misery that never can be too much lamented that the practice of Sects and Professors is and that of Saints seems to be a never ceasing gathering of mistaken wild Gourds for good Potherbs and dead Works for good Fruits For that Right and those Works which they practice and earnestly press upon others as true Obedience to God and Right to Men are mistaken wild Grapes of Deceit incongruous to God's Command and Gospel-Rule or are but half performances which God abhors For this cause strong Confidence in false Opinions and evil Manners is almost all the Fruit they bring forth and that the rather because they mind not to seek to open the Seals of this Book that they might come to the Word and to the Testimony to try their Works but they like this wild Caldean Monarch mind nothing or next to nothing of those things that are of highest concern But this Book by degrees shall be opened though little appears from any Saints or Sects that tends