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A78030	The sounding of the two last trumpets, the sixt and seventh or Meditations by way of paraphrase upon the 9th. 10th. and 11th. Chapters of the Revelation, as containing a prophecie of these last times. / Digested by Henry Burton during his banishment, and close imprisonment in the isle of Guernsey.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6172; Thomason E174_1; ESTC R6165	58,961	100

in our time that we neede not doubt but that this is the time of the Sixt Trumpet under which wee now live How are the godly and painfull Ministers of God in England misused their mouths stopped their wives children and families dispossessed and cast out of their habitations all holy and true professors among the People vexed wearied and even worried by the Pursivants and courts of Prelates so as they are forced many of them to forsake their houses and sweete native country to go seeke for refuge among wild beasts and wilde Salvages and wilde deserts b Heb. 11.37 38. wandring up and down as the Apostle speakes in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth of whome the world is not worthy c. Thus is not the holy City trodden under foote of these Gentiles yea worse then the old Gentiles the Babylonian Beast and his broode having lost all humanity and all the properties of reasonable men like c Dan. 4. Nabuchadnezzar when he grazed among the beasts of the field when nothing will satisfie them but the utter desolation and extirpation of the Saints of God and of all holinesse What neede then have Gods people to cry and pray with David d Psal 83.1 2 3 4. Keepe not thou silence o God hold not thy peace and be not still O God For loe thine enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee have lift up the head They have taken crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones They have said come let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israell may bee no more in remembrance For they have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against Thee But do thou unto them as unto the Madianites as to Sisera c. as it followeth to the end of the Psalme Let them be confounded and troubled for ever let them be put to shame and perish that men may know that thou whose name alone it Jehovah art the most high over al the earth But e Psal 94.3 4 5 6 7. how long shall these wicked thus triumph How long shall they utter and speak hard things and all the workers of iniquitie boast themselves How long shall they breake in pieces thy people O Lord and affl●ct thine heritage How long shall they slay the Widow and the stranger and murther the fatherlesse How long shall these Atheists say The Lord shal not see neither shal the God of Jacob regard it How long shall these Gentiles thus tread under foot the holy Citie of our God It is said here Two and forty moneths Surely as the words doe sound no very long time Two and forty moneths make up three yeers and a halfe and not much more then those thousand two hundred and threescore days in the next Verse Now whether these forty two moneths be taken literally and strictly or whether they signifie some longer or shorter time is uncertain to us this we may certainly build upon that the time of Antichrists afflicting of Gods Church under this Trumpet shall not be long But this number of forty and two moneths being so precisely laid downe as containing three yeeres and a halfe we may be the bolder to take it literally for this space of time Nor is it unusuall in Scripture so to number according to the strict letter thereof as of Israels affliction in Egypt from Abrahams calling just foure hundred and thirtie yeeres and the Jews Captivitie in Babylon just seventy yeeres And in Daniel f Dan. 7.25 A time times and halfe or part of a time is taken for three yeers and part of the fourth wherein that proud King Antiochus who was a type of Antichrist should and did afflict the people of God A time or times being interpreted by Daniel himselfe to bee so many g Dan. 4.16 11.13 yeers The like phrase whereunto wee have Revel 12.14 that the Church should be persecuted of the Dragon a time times and halfe a time Which is to bee interpreted according to those times in Daniel three yeers and a halfe And hereupon it is that the Jesuits as Bellarmine and others stand so stiffe that Antichrists Reigne shall continue but three yeeres and a halfe by which they think to excuse the Pope from being Antichrist But it will not serve their turn For we easily grant that three yeers and a halfe being the summe of fortie and two moneths is that space of time wherein the Beast out of the bottomlesse pit that Antichrist shall afflict Gods Church under this sixt Trumpet And so likewise this space of time doth answer that time times and part of time wherein Antiochus the type of Antichrist afflicted the ancient people of God which was a good part of three yeeres and a halfe as Tremelius well sheweth in his notes upon Daniel And if we consider the practices of Antiochus in that time and compare them with Antichrists practices in this sixt Trumpet we shall find a marvellous correspondence between them Now of Antiochus Daniel saith h Dan 7.25 He shall speak great words against the most High and shal weare out the Saints of the most High and think to change times and Laws and they shall be given into his hand untill a time and times and the dividing of time Whereupon Tremellius notes that this Antiochus was most blasphemous against God and a most cruell Tyrant over Gods people in so much as he took upon him and did arrogate unto himselfe divine authoritie in abolishing the Sabbaths and other Laws of God and did institute and impose new Laws and Ceremonies according to his owne humour and pleasure Now what doth Antichrist and his Limbes the Prelates in these our days Doe they not most proudly i See the Prelate of Canterbury his last Book throughout toge●her wi●h all his practices arrogate to themselves divine authoritie and impiously blaspheme God and Christ in saying Christ thought it fittest to appoint them as his Viceroys in governing his Church Doe they not hereupon beare themselves as so many gods sitting in Christs throne imposing their owne devices Ceremonies Canons upon the consciences of Gods people Doe they not vilifie the holy Scripture as an insufficient and imperfect Rule of Faith and preferre the Tradition of their prelaticall Church before it Doe they not abrogate the moralitie of the fourth Commandement as not binding us Christians to keep the Lords day for our Sabbath day Do they not dispense with the profanation of it by most licentious and lascivious Sports and Pastimes to all youth and others thereby also dispensing with the fifth Commandement when Masters may not restrain their own Servants nor Parents their Children from their laudable Sports as they call them that day Doe they not forbid Ministers to preach twice on that day Doe they not altogether forbid sound preaching of the doctrines of Grace And do they not i Dan. 7.25 weare out

mettle is to be set up in the worship of God But the Romanists with all their Prelats and Priests doe set up in their Temples not only one but infinite numbers of Altars according to that which the Prophet saith of revolted Israell i Hos 8.11 Because Israell hath made many Altars to sin Altars shall be unto him to sin And According to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the Altars And if they object and say Israell built Altars to other Gods I answere so they did to the true God too as they pretēded as at Bethel and Dan. But all these their Altars were alike abominable to God and for which he utterly cast them out And indeed all false Altars with their service what ever men pretend to the contrary are set up and done to the k 2 Chron. 11.15 Devill who in Ierobohams calves and on those Altars was worshiped And such Altars such service as men have devised are not done to God he utterly abhors them Such are all Popish Altars and Altar-Service Secondly as these Altar-worshipers transgresse in the multitude of their Altars so also in the measure of them they doe not observe that due proportion prescribed in Gods Law but some are bigger some lesser some longer some shorter some higher some lower as pleaseth mans fancie And therefore these their Altars are in no respect conformable to Gods law but they are meere heathenish Damascen Altars either of mans or of the Devills devising chuse which they will Now such Altars with all their pompous service being in these our dayes so outragiously cryed up in all prelaticall Churches not only in dishonour but desperate defiance of Christ the only true Altar of all true Christians and whereas under this Sixt Trumpet Christ gives such a charge to his servant John and so to all his faithfull Ministers of the Gospell to take the Reed that is in his hand his holy word and therewith to take a just measure as of the Temple his Church that all may know and distinguish it from Antichrists false Church so of the Altar which is himselfe that all may know wee Christians have no other Altar whereon to offer our Spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God but only Christ all other altars being false and counterfeit heathenish and Idolatrous and a service done to the Devill and not to God as being altogether and directly contrary to his Word and a flat deniall of Christ the true and only Altar hence we may safely conclude that this is the very time of the sixt Trumpet wherein wee now live How ought the true Ministers of Christ then in these our dayes to bestir themselves and fall a measuring the true Temple and Altar and that with no other Reed but that in Christs hand and with no other Rule but his owne word that so his people being truly and thorowly informed which is the true Church of Christ and which the false and Antichristian Church which the Prelats place in their Hierarchie and which is the true and only Altar whereon to offer all their Sacrifices that they may be sanctified and accepted of God namely Jesus Christ and that therefore all other Altars and Altar-Service devised by man are abominable in Gods sight may have no more communion with such Altars and such Altar-Service then with Antichrist whose Altars and Service they be Otherwise such as communicate with them cannot be called the people of God but are indeed the members of Antichrist For as the Apostle saith l 2 Cor 6 14 15 16. What fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse And what communion hath light with darknesse And what concord hath Christ with Belial Or what part hath hee that believeth with an infidell And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For yee are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people And so we come to the third thing here to be measured and that is Them that worship therein that is those that are true members of Christs true Church that are m 1 Pet. 2.5 Ephes 2.21 22. living stones of that living Temple that are the n Ioh. 4.23 24. true worshipers which worship God in Spirit and Truth that worship at no other Altar but Jesus Christ praying and praising God in his name These be they here whom with the Temple and the Altar John and the Ministers of Christ and more especially under this Sixt Trumpet are to measure with the same Reede So as the true people of God may be known and distinguished from those that be false and counterfeit professors false and counterfeit Christians For under this Trumpet how many thousands I speak not of those in the profest Popish Churches but even in the Church of England where the Gospel hath been a long time imbraced preached and professed do o Though now since this Treatise was written we see blessed be God by a late Order from the honourable House of Commons the Altars to be dismounted communicate with Altars and with the Superstitious and Idolatrous worship and service thereunto appertaining according to humane Ordinances and Inventions and yet would passe in the ranke of good Christians and Protestants who if they knew what it were to worship at Altars they would abhorre all such Service How ought Ministers therefore in these times to take the just measure of those that be true Christians by teaching the people out of Gods Word what a true Christian is and wherein hee must differ from all such false Christians as communicate with Antichrist in altar-Service and Worship which is so rife and ruffleth so pompously in this our time whereby it appeareth plainly that now the sixt Trumpet is a sounding But perhaps Ministers will plead for themselves that if they shall so doe they must necessarily undergoe great persecutions and suffer at least the losse of their Livings and perhaps of their liberty too and of their bloud and members of their bodie and of all they have as some others have lately done If this they stand upon and so for feare forbeare to doe their dutie they may then sit them downe confessing they are no faithfull Ministers of Christ as Iohn here was for obeying the command of Jesus Christ Much lesse will such ever prove such witnesses as by and by are mentioned in this Chapter who forbearing testimony to the truth are willing to lay downe their precious lives But of this in its proper place Verse 2. It followeth But the Court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy Citie shall they tread under foot forty and two moneths This Court without the Temple alludes to that utmost large court which was without the Temple in Jerusalem where all the common Jews assembled as also those of other Nations And this