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A85605	The great mysterie of God: or, The vision of the evening and the morning opened. Whereby comparing Scripture with acts of divine providence, will plainly appeare that the ruine of mysticall Babylon, and the erecting of spirituall Jerusalem are the ground of these present commotions; which are not to cease till by meanes of this present Parliament. The worke being so compleated, that Christ shall in and by his saints in tranquility reigne on earth one thousand yeares.		1645 (1645)	Wing G1713; Thomason E276_4; ESTC R209877	70,009	80

of their mindes but this is a preposterous way they may sooner root their hearts out of their brests But we see Christs way he useth the Civill Sword to take away all Antichrists power which he got by the Civill Sword Christ useth a spirituall sword to remove and cast out all those errors that are in mens spirits and so slays him carry him captive and likewise dry up that River Euphrates but spiritually to slay men in removeing darknesse and ignorance out of their understanding and so consequently errors and heresies he hath a spirituall Sword fit for the worke So the seventh Angel poured forth the seventh Viall into the aire and then came a great voice out of the Temple of Heaven Rev. 16.17 from the Throne saying It is done By aire is meant that Antichristian ignorance and darknesse wherewith Antichrist had filled the whole world Rev. 16.10 Rev. 14.6.7 By voices is meant the Gospel By Temple is meant the Church or Churches of the Saints 2 Cor. 6.16 This voice came out of the Temple that is the Churches of the Saints sent forth Messengers or Ministers to preach the Gospel Rev. 14.6 to every Nation kinred tongue and people The Temple of Heaven from the civill throne Christ and his witnesses being in Heaven the high place of Judicature where they have their throne the Spirit of God joines the Temple and this Heaven together and Christs civill Magistrates and his Churches go hand in hand and with joint consent send forth Ministers to preach the Gospel Rev. 14.6 therefore it is said I saw an Angel flee through the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel to preach c. saying It is done These Ministers shall declare to all the world that now the worke is done the Kingdomes and Dominions are taken from the Beast Dan. 7.11 12. and their bodies given to the burning flame and their Armles utterly destroyed and given up to the slaughter and so the worke is as good as done Isa 34.2 And another shall come after them and say Rev. 14.8 Babylon is fallen Babylon is fallen And another after him shall come and pronounce the judgments of God against every man that retains and holds fast those Antichristian errors Vers 9 10. saying If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his marke in their hands or in their foreheads the same man shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lambe Upon this great voice of the Gospel shall follow two great effects or consequences First the bringing in of the fulnesse of the Gentiles Secondly the calling home of the Jewes First the fulnesse of the Gentiles shall come in declared in these words That there were voices and thundering and lightning Rev. 16.18 and there was a great earthquake By voices lightning c. is meant great stirs and combustions amongst men not in a warlike way as were before but in disputing and arguing about matters of Religion And by earthquake is meant a great falling off and renouncing those Antichristian tenets and errors which they formerly held to imbrace the sincere truths of the Gospel both for Doctrine and Discipline which is called the bringing in of the fulnesse of the Gentiles And this earthquake shall be so mighty and so great as was not the like since men lived on the earth there will be such a generall falling off and renouncing of their errors Rom. 11.25 and such a true and thorow imbracing of the truths of the Gospel as never was since men were upon the earth this is called the first resurection Rev. 20.6 And this great City is said to be divided into three parts Rev. 16.19 one part is to be slaine civilly to have all their civill power taken from them as those seven thousand were slaine in Scotland Rev. 11.13 at the fall of the tenth part of the City by Christ and his witnesses that sit in Heaven Secondly Another part is to be slaine by the naturall sword Rev. 19.11 and 14. by him that sits upon the white Horse and they which follow him upon white Horses in Heaven upon the high places of the field in his Army Thirdly The third part is to be slaine spiritually by that spirituall sword of the Gospel which proceedeth out of the mouth of Christ which is that voice that came out of the Temple So this great City is divided into three parts Vers 21. and thus great Babylon is said to come into remembrance before God and to drinke of the cup of the wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath and fury Thus will the Lord deal with Babylon even deal with her as she did with the Saints yea reward her double Rev. 18.6 she brake the Saints to peeces so shall she be broken to peeces like a Potters Vessell that shall not be set together againe Psal 2.9 Rev. 2.27 she devoured the Saints so shall she be devoured Every man that is found of her shall be thrust through and every one that is joyned to her Isa 13.15 shall fall by the sword She slew the Saints by a civill sword and tooke away all their powers from them and led them into captivity so shall she be civilly slaine by the same Sword and carried captive Rev. 13.10 and shut up as prisoners in a pit and civilly bound for many yeares They laid the witnesses dead bodies in the streets of that spirituall Sodome Isa 24.22 so shall they lye dead and bound with Satan a thousand yeares Rev. 20.3 5. not put into their graves Isa 14.19 nay worse they shall be cast out of their graves like on abominable branch loathsome and vile for all men to behold even as the rayment of him that is thrust through with a Sword and as a carkasse trodden under foot thus shall it be done to mysticall Babylon the mother of Haroots Rev. 17.5 rindx and the abominations of the whole earth the zeale of the Lord of Host will do all this in his appointed time And the Lord gives the reason of all this his fury Esa 37.32 and wrath and indignation against Babylon and saith Isa 34.8 It is the day of the Lords vengeance the yeare of recompences for the controversie of Zion and it is the vengeance of the Lord even the vengeance of his Temple Jer. 50.28 the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon shall the Inhabitants of Zion say and my blood upon the Inhabitants of Chaldea Jer. 51.35 shall Jerusalem say Thus will the Lord pleade his Churches cause and take vengeance for her The second great effect which followes upon the seventh Vials pouring forth is the calling of the Jewes The

Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover Israel Isa 11.11 When the Jews shall see the utter ruine of the Romish Beast and his Image the Pope with the dissolution of all his Images and Idols And likewise the extirpation of all that cursed tradition and invention which Antichrist is said to bring into the world with him by his power which are said to be 666. Here is wisdome Rev. 13.18 let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast for it is the number of a man and his number is 666. That is he that hath wisdome to distinguish between those traditions which that Antichristian Beast brought into the world and mixed his cup with and those pure Ordinances of Worship which he tooke from Christ and his Saints in the day he entred into the Temple let him but divide between the one and the other and he shall finde those traditions to be 666. And when all these abominations are cast out of the worship and service of Christ and they likewise heare those blessed voices of the Gospel Rom. 3.25 26. Jer. 20.37 Rom. 11.25 which came out of the Temple and likewise hearing the same voices of the Gospel declaring the truth of the promises made to their fathers of old and Gods free grace and love and mercy in Jesus Christ shall thereby be brought into the bond of the Covenant for saith the Text blindnesse happened unto the Jewes but untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles came in and then all Israel shall be saved Here we have first the meanes of their calling secondly the manner of it thirdly the effects of it First the meanes or way by which they shall be called is by the sound of the Trumpet of the Gospel Matth. 24.31 and he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet Isa 11.12 and they shall gather together his Elect meaning the Jewes from the foure windes from one end of the Heavens to another Secondly the manner of their callings Then shall the Lord poure upon them his spirit of humiliation and godly sorrow that they shall looke upon him whom they pierced and shall mourne bitterly as one that mourneth for his onely Sonne yea Zach. 12.10 as the mourning of Hadda-drimmon in the Valley of Megiddon which was the greatest mourning that ever we read of Again Jer. 13.9 with weeping and supplication will I lead them Thus then the manner of it shall be with much sorrow lamentation and humilation Thirdly the effects which follow upon this their great humiliation and conversion is they shall enquire after the true Church-way of the Gospell which way the Lord Christ will be worshipped in his House and Temple asking the way to Sion with their faces thitherwards which notes Jer. 50.6 that their hearts shall be fully set to worship Christ after his owne way and it notes likewise their willingnesse and readinesse to the worke but yet not all of them shall God take into his House and Temple no but one of a City Rev. 3.14 and two of a Family and bring them to Sion his Church Secondly But all of them shall have their owne Ezek. 28.25.20.42.34.13.24 I and given them again for an everlasting possession and they shall dwell in it for ever and none shall make them afraid and they shall be no more a prey to the Heathen Againe I will bring againe the captivity of my people Israel and they shall build the waste places and plant Vineyards and drinke the Wine thereof Jer. 9.14 15. and make Gardens and eat the fruit thereof and I will plant them upon their owne Land and they shall be no more pulled up out of the Land which I have given them saith the Lord. Now the Jewes being scattered to the foure winds of Heaven amongst all the people in the world therefore this is noted of them that they amongst whom they lived in all Nations shall bring them to their owne Land upon horses and in Chariots and in Litters and upon Mules and upon swift Beasts Isa 65.20 for an Offering to the Lord to his holy Mountaine Jerusalem Gods Covenant in an outward way is with all the naturall seed of Abraham to bring them all into their own Land and to give it them for an everlasting possession and they shall no more be two Nations nor divided into two Kingdomes any more Ezek. 37.22.24.25 Jer. 3.18 even the Lord Christ shall be King over them for ever as he sits King over Nations But that Sion and Church-Covenant shall be but with some of them By which Covenant God is said to be married to them Therefore saith the Lord Jer. 3.14 I will take you one of a City and two of a Family and bring you to Sion my Church and Temple For we are not to suppose that the whole Nation of the Jewes from Generation to Generation for so many hundred yeares will be all godly men and women no but all indeed shall submit to that outward way of worship as other Kingdomes shall Zach. 14.16 over whom Christ in his Saints shall reigne a thousand yeares But not all godly and holy men and women fit to be taken to Sion into that new Jerusalem and holy City Rev. 22.1 where God and the Lambe hath their spirituall Throne Therefore saith the Lord to Daniel All thy people shall be delivered that is with an outward deliverance from that captivity and slavery that wicked men kept them it Dan. 12.1 2. But some of them shall awake to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and contempt Now we are to speake of the time of the pouring forth of these three last Vials and the end of Antichrist with the finall deliverance of the Churches from their captivity and the beginning of that glorious reigne of Christ and his Saints for a thousand yeares the time of the little horne Antichrist and the last enemy of the Church we have it set downe in Dan. 12. by a three-fold gradation The Question being put by one Dan. 12.6 to the man cloathed in linen How long it should be to the end of those wonders after a solemne Oath taken by him that lives for ever Which Oath notes the certainty and infallibility of the thing he sware to he gives a three-fold answer First That it should be for a Time verse 7. Times and halfe a Time Secondly a thousand two hundred and ninety dayes Thirdly a thousand three hundred and five and thirty dayes The first is the full time of Antichrists reigne in which he was to scatter the Churches power Dan. 12.7 called the power of the holy people Which power he scattered from the time of his beginning to reigne not so much over the Empire as over the Saints to the end of his reigne from the yeare 375. to the yeare 1635. the full time of 1260. yeares vid. chap. 3. which is