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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

to profes to be one of his followers so on the contrary Revel 14. 9. there the followers of the Lamb had his Fathers name written on them that was their marke the number of his name There is a difference betwixt the name of the beast and the beast it self the people of the earth measure the beasts name and therefore wonder at him but they that have wisdom number the beast himself and find him in every thing fall short of the true measuring Reed and therefore reject him as an Hypocrite and usurper The number of his name is put here in opposition to the number of the beast in the next verse To have the number of his name is to cry him up for a Saint by his good success and to honour him for his prosperity as fooles do but he that hath wisdom numbers the beast and measures him by the word If the beast be numbred by his name he is a Saint a destroyer of Antichrist one of Christs Instruments to pull down all those that stand up against his Kingdom if you measure his Army by their name they are all Saints the holy ones teachers and preachers men indued with spiritual gifts and divine qualifications beyond any Minister of the Gospel this is their name therefore they are called men of name Revel 11. 13. which shall be slain at the rising of the witnesses they are cryed up for Saints and admired by the world for their successes and Victories they measure only their name and that makes them cry up this beast for a Saint but marke what the Holy Ghost saith v. 18. Here is wisdom let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast Here is wisdom this is a phrase not used by way of exclamation as Pareus would have it but in opposition to those fooles and lack-wits who measure the name of the beast that is look upon him as he hath raised himself into great wealth and honour and esteeme in the world Behold say they his successes behold he is in possession of the three Kingdoms behold his fair promises behold his victories over his enemies behold how God hath answered his appeales to heaven he no sooner appeales to Heaven say they but he hath miraculous success against his enemies the Moon fights for him and the Heavens fight for him and he by a small number discomfits great Hosts of men and will any be so wicked as to think this man and his Army are not all Saints and his cause the just and the good cause whereas these men only measure the beast by his name they count the number of his name but those that have wisdom count the number of the beast Those that have the fear of God which is true understanding measure not the name but the beast let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amongst humanists as well as Divines is put to signifie measure as well as number the phrase is borrowed from the Jews Customs who in all things concerning the Temples service proceeded per number weight and measure Thus the utensels of the Tabernacle were numbred weighed and measured by Moses and those of the Temple by Solomon and the purest Gospel-Church is thus measured Revel 22. number weight and measure was the rule by which to know the truth of all things about Gods house now of these the greatest is number that hath the precedency they all depend one upon another he that numbereth rightly measureth rightly and he that measureth rightly weigheth rightly You may number without measuring or weighing but you cannot weigh or measure without numbering this differeth a foole from a wise man a foole can stretch out a line or fill an Ephah or he can put things into the Scales to weigh but he can neither measure aright nor weigh aright because he cannot number he cannot tell how many pounds it weighs nor how many Gallons it holds because he knowes not how to count and number them A Bowl of the Sanctuary which was of pure Gold had it not been weighed and measured and the weight and measure numbered might possibly have been stole and a guilded peece of Brasse more large and glorious to the sight put i● the Roome which fooles that only looked on the out-side and never measured nor weighed nor numbered it would have thought the more glorious Vessel but now the Officers of the Temple could not be cheated because they weighed measured and numbered it in the Church of God there are many peeces of Brasse and tinkling Simballs which make a farre more glorious showe then those that are just weight measure and number and are pure Gold but when they come to be measured by the golden Reed the word of God and weighed and measured and summed up they are found to light by those that have wisdom though fooles that look on their guilded out-sides dote upon them Let the spiritual wise man come and measure this beast that these fooles cry up so and they find him by the word of God a cheating false distembling guilded Hypocrite they 'l find him by the word of God to be a usurper a murtherer a Covenant-breaker and a Traytor as Mr. Thomas Goodwin calls him and the slayer of the witnesses The man of understanding that weighes him measures him and numbers him will find him to be the number of a man none of Gods number there 's not one such Vessel in the house of God as he he is weighed and found to light and therefore must be cast out from amongst the true Saints This beast and his new Government will be found but the number of a man a patcht piece of mans invention and none of Gods institution And his number is 666. these words seem to assert the former here is the product of his number 't is here summed up to be 666. now this is the number of a man of mans devising and not of Gods for Gods number runs upon 12. Patriarkes were the foundation of the Jewish Church the Church●Officers under the Law were numbered by 12. the Porters and the singers and the Priests their Orders run upon 12. The Gospel Church runs upon 12. The woeman is cloathed with 12. Starres Revel 12. The new Jerusalem is founded on 12. and hath 12. Gates Revel 21. But this beast being numbered he runs upon sixes his number runs upon sixes we reade of one Gyant an enemy to the Church that was famous for having 6. fingers on his right hand and 6. on his left and 6. toes on each of his feete and we read of an Image whose height was 60. Cubits and whose breadth 6. Cubits and here we reade of a beast whose number is 666. he runs upon sixes now whether the number of this beast alludes to that Image in dura which was numbered 66. or not I cannot tell it may be so for as that Image was the cause of dreadful prosecution to the Saints of God so

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

responsionem non mereatur So that you have the time of rising the time of continuance the actions and the ruine of the Beast to be one and the same both in Daniel and the Revelation But that we may not be mistaken in this beast of the earth take a more exact view of this beast as the Holy Ghost describes him in Rev. 13. 13. And he doth great wonders for that he made fire come down from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men and deceived them that dwell on the earth by the signs which were permitted him to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an Image of the beast which had the wound in the head and did live And he did great wonders 't is in the original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great signes Upon the same occasion Christ useth the same words setting out the parties that shall do these signes Mat. 24. 24. There shall arise false Priests and false Prophets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and shall give out great signes these signes shall be held forth to the world immediately before the ruine of the Roman Monarchy v. 29. and the calling of the Jews v. 30. 31. and making all the Nations in the world submit and come into the Gospel To this Text directly answers that in Rev. 19. 20. there the false Prophet is taken 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which wrought miracles in the presence of the other beast whereby he deceived them that received the mark of the beast this clearly demonstrates that it is the same beast in Rev. 13. 14. for there he deceiveth the people and to that the Holy Ghost alludes Rev. 19. 20. I will intreat the Reader to observe how this beast of the earth gets to his power in v. 11. of chap. 18. 't is by the horns of a Lambe and by the tongue of a Dragon What more innocent then a Lambs horns and what more fair and smooth and deceitful then a Dragons tongue Observe this that the two last enemies of the Gospel Church shall arise out of the purest Churches Rome was the purest Church in the world it had the famousest Magistracy and Ministry in the world yet in that Church starts up an Independent Government amongst the Churchmen which is called the Pope-dom and strips both the Magistracy and Ministry of its glory this is called Rev. 11. the Sack-cloth condition of the two witnesses so that out of that pure Church arose the great enemy that drove the wi●nesses into the wilderness and now when the Pope-dom is ready to fall and the witnesses have finished their testimony that is resolved to cast off Independency Prelacy which in its exorbitancy is nothing else but Independency then up-starts this beast of the earth who ariseth out of the purest Church and out of the purest part of the Church he is one that professeth piety beyond all others one that holds all the principles of Religion to be true that cries out against Antichrist more then any As the Popes by pretending the advancement of Christ and Peters chair advanced themselves to that excessive pride and tyranny over Church State so doth the beast of the earth by his pious pre●ences of setting up Christ advance his own wicked designs and slayes the witnesses As the beast of the Sea arose out of the Church where the famousest witnesses viz. Magistracy and Ministry were and drove them into Sack-cloth and into the wilderness that is into some remote Kingdom in Europe where they remain 1260. years so must the beast of the earth in this wilderness arise amongst the witnesses where they are finishing their testimony and there he must kill them therefore when John comes to see the judgement of the whore he was carried into the wilderness i.e. that remote Countrey whither the witnesses by the beast of the Sea were driven Rev. 11. 3. But this place only in the world is England for here only a lawful Magistracy and Ministry hath for 1200. years been visible in Sack-cloth so that you must expect this last enemy of the Church to be more cunning cruel and subtil to deceive then any that ever were before him for he hath all the politick tricks of Rome he doth all that the first beast could do before him did the Pope fall from his first principles so doth he did the Pope depose and murther and rebel agoinst his liege Master the Emperor so doth he against his Soveraign did the Pope persecute the Ministers that would not comply with his designs so doth this beast Did the Pope impudently and ridiculously profess to the world that all his Rebellion murthering of Emperors and Kings and deposing of them was for the promotion of the Gospel and the good of the Church even so doth this beast So that he doth all that the first beast could do before him yea and more too for he doth greater wonders he maketh fire to come down from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men this is one of his great signes whereby he deceives people Observe this his pretences and designs are on purpose to deceive the people and he deceives the people mearly to set up his new Government he sets it up by his doing wonders this is an eminent Character of a cheater and the Antichrist to prove his honesty by his signes and wonders That power is an usurped power that hath no other title then signes and wonders to maintain it 'T is an Antichristian power the Holy Ghost tells us for Antichrist comes with lying wonders 2 Thess 2. I omit to repeat the several strange opinions of both Protestants and Papists upon these words and he maketh fire come down from Heaven neither shall I shew the difference in the Copies because I possibly may do that hereafter At this time I shall only deliver the soundest and most clearest opinions Brocard comes nearest the mark of any Englishman for he conceives it alludes to 2 Kings 1. 10. where Elias proved himself to be a man of God by causing fire to come down and consume those that came against him his allusion is good had he rightly applyed it for this beast of the earth pretends to be by his good success as prevalent with God to destroy those that were against him as Elias was But Cornelius è lapide comes nearer the mark for he conceives this expression of fire coming from heaven alludes to that in the 2 Chron. 7. 1. where Solomon sacrificed in the sight of all the people after he had made his publick prayer in the sight of all the people had by fire coming down from heaven upon his sacrifice an unquestionable evidence of Gods acceptance of his prayers This allusion is also good for this beast of the earth pretends to be the only man to build Gods house and for that end makes a glorious profession and proclaims Fasts wherein as if indued with Solomons spirit he makes

publick prayers unto God to blesse him in his undertakings for him and his cause after which he proceeds to act the highest murther treason and rebellion and succeeding well in it he c●yes out to the people behold providence behold a return of prayers we fasted yesterday and to day we have had success this is the fire which comes down but observe it 't is in the original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be made fire Observe that 't is fire of his own making he plotted the design and then fasted he conveies the fire under his own sacrifice 't is false fires that he makes I conceive it alludes to that in 1 Kings 18. 36. 38. where Elias that eminent Servant of God proved himself to be a true Prophet and all the rest to be but Baalls Prophets by the fire which God sent from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men so doth this Beast of the earth endeavour by his signes to prove himself as prevalent with God as Elias and as true sincere a worshipper of God as Elias and all that oppose him or crosse his designs to be put Baalls Priests and thus he proves it I fast saith he and my enemies fast they fast to preserve the ancient Government I fast to throwe it down after I have fasted I prevail but though my enemies fast God hears them not they have no fire comes near their sacrifice though they cry and weep day and night but so soone as I fast the things I fast for is presently accomplished and this his success in this audacious villainy murther rebellion against Gods Law natures Law and his own solemn Vows and Covenants he makes the silly people believe is the return of his prayers the fire of Gods sending from heaven upon his sacrifice This notes that this Beast in his slaying of the witnesses shall pretend to act eminently for Christ and make the world believe he is an eminent Saint and that all the godly faithful Ministers are but Baalls Priests as they are now termed to him But observe the next verse v. 14. And be deceived them that dwell on the earth he for all his signes is but a cheater therefore he is called Rev. 19. 20. the false Prophet He pretends to be such as Elias who was a true Prophet but he is a false Prophet and only cheats the people therefore Mat. 24. 24. he is said with his company of seducers like himself to seduce if it were posible the very Elect and for this end he cheats them to submit to his Government which he hath set up by the power of his sword that 's the meaning of these words saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an Image of the Beast which was wounded with the sword and did live This is the end of all his pretences and pious acts it is to subject the people to that Government which he sets up he fasts and prayes and humbles himself but 't is to cheat the people and all this he doth in the sight of the Beast that is the Pope for there is no other beast in being but the Pope that the Holy Ghost intends now to do it in the sight of the Beast saith the Roman Glossary is to do it with the beasts good liking so that what he doth the Pope approves of and likes well of Indeed I believe the Pope will never frown at the beheading of a Protestant King and blowing up of a Protestant Parliament who resolved and were agreed to unhorse his ●surped holiness power in the three Kingdoms The Pope cannot but look on with great content yea and triumph in this year of Jubilee which falls out according to the Prophesie Rev. 11. 10. when they give thanks for the removing of the witnesses it shall be a year of rejoycing with the enemy to see a King and Parliament utterly broken who covenanted to break Rome and to see an Assembly of Divines battered and broken and their labor in a reformation utterly frustrated this cannot but rejoyce the Pope and his Conclave What To have that accomplished now which Digby Faux Catesby Winter and Garnet and all those Gunpowder-Saints could never accomplish to have it now accomplished by his new canonized Saints This cannot but be well liking to the Pope V. 15. And it was given to him to give life to the Image of the beast that the Image of the beast should speak and should cause that whosoever would not adore the Image of the beast should be slain This Image of the beast hath allusion either to that Image which Nebuchadnezer set up in the plain of Dura enjoyning all men upon pain of death to fall down and worship it which the consciencious godly Jews refusing great and extraordinary provision was made for their destruction but when the Souldiers had bound the three consciencious Saints and all the great men of the times came to see their destruction behold they that threw them into the fire were destroyed and the poor Saints stood upon their feet Christ appears amongst them in the Furnace forthwith they are released and immediately after all the Kingdoms in the world are made to know that the persecuted Saints God is the true God by sound of Trumpet so shall 〈◊〉 be with the Saints in this beasts Raign he that will not adore this beasts Image that is subject to his Government subscribe to be true and faithful to his usurped and unlawful Government shall be killed or in a civil sence he shall be out-lawed and made incapable of bearing Office in Church or State Nebuchadnezers Image was 60. Cubits high and 6. Cubits broad a high Image but the number of this beast who sets up this Image is 666. he is exceeding in cruelty and wickedness all the enemies of the Church that went before him at least 600. times Or else Image alludes to that in Dan. 11. 38. where the King there is said to honour the God Mauzzim that is a sword-power And this Image here is the same for 't is a sword-power such as Cesar erected by the sword and supported by the sword until he had compleated his Conquests There in Daniel he makes his God Mauzzim to rule over many and here in the Revelation he causeth that as many as will not submit to this Image of the beast should be killed I conceive that these two Texts agree with each other And it was given him Observe this beast is one single person that sets up this Image I am very prone to believe that the Image that this beast sets up is that mentioned in Revel 17. 12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten Kings which yet have received no Kingdoms but receive power as Kings one hour with the beast 'T is absurd to say these ten Kings are the ten Kings under the Roman Emperor which denominate Rome the beast as they say with ten horns 1. Because the ten Kings subject to Rome they were distinct