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A38773	The bloudy vision of John Farly, interpreted by Arise Evans. With another vision signifying peace and happiness. Both which shew remarkable alterations speedily, to come to pass here in England, also a refutation of a pamphlet, lately published by one Aspinwall: called a Brief discription of the fifth Monarchy. Shewing that the late Parliament was that beast mentioned, Rev. 13. that this representative is the image thereof, and that the fifth Monarchy will shortly be established in the person of Charles Stevvart	Evans, Arise, b. 1607.	1653 (1653)	Wing E3454; ESTC R208636	45,880	81

and lost the kingdom 1. Sam. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aspin wall concerning your throwing away of our Laws therein you talk idly for do you think that your generation who are of no such wisdom and learning as our former Parliaments were can make better Laws in one year then out Laws be which were in making and ●●●●…ing above five hundred years and had not our former Parliaments the word of God for their direction therein as well as you or any now a daies and were they not more sober and prudent in the understanding of those Lawes I pray entertain no such foolish conceit And you tell us likewise of the Statutes of Omri Mica 6. 16. that is even such things as you set up for if you observe Jeroboam Omri and Ahab though they had many sorts of worship yet any one abject of the people served to be a Priest or a Teacher of them 1 Kin 12 31. 2 Chro. 12 8 9. 1 Kin 16. 25 26. And must the statutes of David be cast away because the statutes of Omri be nought must the statutes of K. Hen. 8. K. Edw. 6. and Q Eliz. which are against popery be cast away because other Kings statutes are Idolatrous and for popery And further you tell us an untruth That Jehojada the Priest having the supreme authority in his hand took men recommended to him by some others whom you call the Church to put them in civil authority No Sir Jehojada had not as you affirm the supreme Authority then for it is evident Athaliah did reign that six veers while he was guardian to the Kings Son 2 Kings 11. 3. But in the seventh yeer he being the Priest of God God stirred up the Spirit of Jehojada to do right to the King Princes and Levites so that he sent to bring the Princes who by right were rulers over hundreds and took an oath of them to be true to the King and presented him before them and they by his command gathered the faithful Levites to come to their charge neither took he anv mans advise in the businesse nor was any upon the attest of others received by him and put into Civil Authority as you falsly assert for he had the Spirit of God to direct him as our every one to his charge and place and directed them in what they should do as from the mouth of God and all of them did so obey Jehojada that the work was perfected even the King set on his Throne as you may see 2 Kings 11. 2 Chron. 23. But you seem by such fal●e grounds to set up the tenent of the Romish Church which is if a man by birth be Heir to a Kingdom and ought there to rule yet if the Church of Rome do not approve of him they will deprive him if they can and give his right by their attest unto another whereby to enjoy that Civil power so that their Church do unjustly in this thing Thus there will be brave stir when your divided Churches which are part of Iron part of clay even the toes of the Image Dan. 2. 33 34 42. go about to set up men by their attest to govern in Civil Authority Then Jack Straw is set up by one Congregation and Hob. Carter by another to throw him down so that there shall be an endlesse war among them until the Stone cut out of the mountain without attest of hands to justify it smite the Image upon the feet and break it to shivers Dan. 2. 34 35 45. for the King needs not the attest of men because all know him to be the Ruler by right Another untruth you would force upon us on that Text in Gen. 49. 10 which saith The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet untill Shilo come from Judah many Kings have sprung who gave good laws kept the Scepter what say you of David and Salomons writings are there therein no Laws given out by them sure they had power from God to do it and Iesus Christ himself alloweth of their Laws insomuch that he somtimes defends himself thereby against his enemies and did not Jesus himself come of Iudah who removeth that earthly Scepter from Iudah according to the word and gives it to Shiloh which Shiloh we must understand to be another Tribe come from Japhets loyns and not from Sem Gen. 9. 26 27. yet you say the kings of Iudah gave no laws nor could any give laws till Iesus came How contrary to the truth even to Christs own words this your assertion is is manifest by the Scripture Christ would no● be troubled with such outward things for when the people would have enforced him to be their King he absolutely refused it Joh. 6. 15. neither would he be so much as a Iudge in a civil cause Luk. 12. 13 14. nor would he take but rather give tribute Mat. 22. 17 to 22. 17. 24. to 28. Therefore your assertion is utterly false and you force the Text to a quite contrary sense as you do in all the rest of your Pamphlet wrest other Scriptures Now for the law of Christ it is altogether a spiritual law which serveth not for any particular Country but for all in general as a rule whereby to frame laws Therefore saith Christ By me kings reign and Princes decree justice by me Princes rule and Nobles even all the Judges of the earth Pro. 8. 15 16. that is what laws they make according to his word are made by him For this cause the Apostle Peter saith 1 Pet. 2. 13. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake first to the king as supreme then to them that are sent by him And why because whatever is done by the king and his nobles or judges is done by the Lord Iesus for they being his ministers Rom. 13. 4 5 6. are directed by him and the kings heart is in the hand of the Lord Pro. 2● ● therefore his mouth cannot err in judgment Pro. 16. 10. Now to leave Gods rule and set up silly mean fellows to be judges they to search for precepts that are as you say scattered up and down the scripture whereby to rule all Countries in all causes and then be subject to their wresting those Scriptures what way they please would be a brave way of judging the people who having no known laws whereby to walk must be alway waiting what scripture the Iudge will make use of to please his fancy either to make them offenders or to favour them and if you say the Iudge must allow a dispute then may the greatest offender beat him with his own weapon and escape no Christ hath not promised to rule by such vile persons but by men of eminency viz. by kings princes nobles judges who decree justly Pro. 8. 15 16 and if that land be blessed whose king is the son of Nobles Eccl. 10. 17. then that land is cursed whose rulers are sons of clowns that

the late Bishop of Canterbury was the same man for the number of his name as divers affirm that in all businesses which he subscribed he wrote only thus Will Laud And I find the number of this name VVILL LaVD to be 666. for the numeral letters are these and they be the very same that ye have in the other names before DLL 600. LVV 60. VI 6. so that in all they come to 666. But if we take notice of the name of this man of God as it is at large we shall find another mysterie therein For I find the number of this name VVILLIaM LaVD to be 1667. And the numeral letters are these M 1000. DLL 600. LVV 60. VII7 so that in all they come to 1667. and that is the yeer of rest for before it be Anno Dom. 1667. most of the world yea and Rome it self will acknowledge their error see the truth and submit to William Lauds rule in form of worship doctrine and discipline as the only way to salvation the most decent and agreeable to Gods word being without doubt the true way whereby to worship God long before preordained of God to abide for the direction of men for ever and ever which Rule was given in King Edw. 6. his days preserved and refined in Queen Elizabeth and King James their days sealed and perfected to the glory of Jesus Christ with the blood of his noble mattyrs chiefty of King Charls and Bishop William Laud who as the Scripture saith Heb. 11. 35. would not accept of deliverance when he was offered by the Parliament to go into New England with M. Peters but he chose rather to die that he might obtain a better Resurrection Therefore to conclude I say that the Book of Common Prayer as it was established in the Church of England is the only true way whereby to worship God as I have sufficiently proved by the Scripture in my Book called A Voice from Heaven and in my other Book called An Eccho to that Voice from Heaven written in the yeers 1651. and 1652. And as for your vain jangling God hath not any delight in it 1 Tim. 1. 6. 2 Tim. Titus 3. 9. for the coming neer unto God with the mouth and the worshipping of God according to the Commandments of private men is a vain thing Mat. 15. 5 6 7 8 9. that is when they command that every one may do in the worship of God what seemeth right in his own eyes Judg 17. 5 6. and 21 25. as Israel did when they had no King But the event of such a State was destructive to them as you may read and see Judg. 19. and 30. and 21. But for the Kings Command it is said Eccles. 1. 2. I charge thee to keep the Kings commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God thou hast sworn to obey him Again it s said Prov. 16. 10. A divine sentence is in the lips of the King his mouth erreth not in judgement Thus a true Christian King is endued with an infallible judgement and so is the sentences of K. Charls his mouth To this King the Apostle commands obedience in all things 1 Pet. 2 13 14. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours as them that are sent by him For the Apostle foresaw by the Scripture Zach. 14. 2. Zeph. 3. 9. That the Lord would hold forth at last a King whose Laws in all things should be right of this you have more at large in my fore mentioned Books for there is no right nor peace to be had but where there is a King of righteousnes and a King of Peace That is when the King Comes in by the right way being the right Heir And though the title King be given by the Scripture somtimes to Usurpers set up by the peoples power and by money which is but a molten Calf God owns them not but calls them their Idols for saith he Hos. 8 4 5 6. They have set up Kings but not by me they have made Princes and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them Idols that they may be cut off Thy Calf O Samaria c. And again saith he Eze. 43. 9. Let them put away their whordoms and the Carcasses of their Kings far from me and of such Kings he speaks Rev. 17 12 13 14 15 16 17. as you shall find it made Cleare at large in the postscript of my book called A Voice from Heaven And of such Kings the Lord saith that they had set their thresholds by his thresholds their post by his post Ezek. 43 8. for the Lord had a post by which his Kings of the seed of David stood 2 Kin. 11. 14. Ezek. 46. 2. according to Gods command it seems the usurping Idolatrous kings set up by the people presum'd to come there as our great Ones presume now to bury their friends in the Royal sepulchers at Westminster where none but the Kings Family was wont to be buried yet certainly their carcasses shall be removed as the Lord hath spoken Eze. 43 7 8 9. But the true King that cometh to judge the wicked ones is called the glory of the God of Israel that is the glory of Jesus Christ for he is the God of Israel And if we compare Scripture with Scripture we shall find it so for you shall fine Ezek. 43 1 2. That the King coming form the Ea●t with his Train and Armie is called the glory of the God of Israel and v. 3. he saith it was like the glory that he saw when he came to destroy the Citie That is like Nebachadnezzars coming in the head of his Army to destroy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and v. 5. he saith that the glory of the Lord filled the house v. 6. he tels us that this glory spake to him and it a man saith he the man stood by me and he said unto me c. v. 7 8. he tels you what this glorious king said to make it yet more clear observe v. 4. that this glory came into the house at the east gate And compare it with Eze. 44 1 2 3. and you shall find that the East gate must be shut that none must com in or out by that gate but the king Here M Aspinwall may see that the true Kings set up of God may come to the post and the threshold of that gate as their own place Ezek. 46 2 2 Chron. 23. 13. and that the usurping Kings set up by the people and called their Kings must be put away Ezek 43 9. And though Saul who indeed was the Lords Anointed 1 Sam. 24 6. 1 Sam. 8 4 5. 1 Sam. 12 13. 1 Sam. 13 13 14. yet for that the first moving cause for him was from the people his heart was not real to God Therefore Saul relying so much upon them t●●●ease the people disobeyed the command of God