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A44854	Hē apostasīa, ho antichristos, or, A scriptural discourse of the apostasie and the Antichrist, by way of comment, upon the twelve first verses of 2 Thess. 2 under which are opened many of the dark prophecies of the Old Testament, which relate to the calling of the Jews, and the glorious things to be affected at the seventh trumpet through the world : together with a discourse of slaying the witnesses, and the immediate effects thereof : written for the consolation of the Catholike Church, especially the churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland / by E.H.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1653 (1653)	Wing H325; ESTC R11943	203,833	222

a corrupt vine and so it relates as well to the Roman Apostasie from the Gospel which is expressed in ver 32 33. Their Vine is worse then the Vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah their grapes are grapes of gall their clusters are bitter their wine is the poyson of Dragons and the cruel venome of Asp●… Of these words I shall g●…ve no other exposition then what I fetch from Scripture Observing this first before wee proceed that Vine cannot in this place relate to the Jewes as some would have it but to those their enemies that shall then oppresse them for if you please to observe it their Rock in ver 31. and their Vine ver 32. relate to each other and both stand in opposition to our Rock ver 31. But it is concluded on all hands that Our there implyes the whole Nation of the Jewes who had God for their Rock and by their profession owned him so to be 'T is granted by our opposites that ver 37 38. are or at least wise may be meant of the Gentiles their enemies if so it will easily follow that ver 32 33. must also be meant of the Gentiles for there is no disjunctive to be found betwixt them so that their Vine must either mean the Turkish or the Roman Politie but I rather incline here to the Romish Tyrannie which was most inhumane Vine signifies both the Head of a Church and the Church it self both these you have in one expression Psalm 80. 8. this Vine signifies the Church of God brought out of Egypt into Canaan before whom the Heathens fell and this also signifies CHRIST who was brought out of Egypt after the death of Herod he being Head of the Church who hath overcome the world and subdued all the powers therein to be subservient to his glory and his Churches good Now there is Gods Vine and the Divels Vine there is the Vine that Gods own right hand hath planted and there is the Vine of Sodom which is of the Divels planting which grows in the fields of Gomorrah both these Vines have grapes and clusters and yeild wine there is in Gods clusters red wine wine which maketh glad the hearts of the sons of God but there is in the Divels Vine bitter clusters and poisonous wine the wine of Dragons and no wonder here Moses his Vine yeilds the wine of Dragons for Revel 13. 2. the vine is of the Dragons planting Hee gave him his Power and Seat and great Authority Here wee take Vine for the Head of the Church i. e. of the Apostate Church of Rome and so the Pope is this Vine of the Divels planting as the next significant word expresseth for Moses by Vine of Sodom hints to us the place where this Vine shall be set and that is Rome for Rome is called Sodom say the Learned from Revel 11. 8. where when the Witnesses are slain 't is said they lay in the street of the great Citie which spiritually is called Sodom i. e. in one of the Kingdomes not all the Kingdomes subject to Rome which is this Sodom So that by Vine of Sodom is meant the head of the Church of Rome 'T is questioned whether Sodom relate to the Street or Citie If to the Street then how comes the place where the Witnesses are slain to be a Sodom 'T is answered Antichrist and his followers make it a Sodom and from such accidents it is usuall in Scripture to change the names as 2 King 23. 13. There Mount Olivet whose proper name is Har Hammishcha Mount of Unction is by reason of the Idols Chemosh and Molech set on that hill called Har Hammashchith the Mount of corruption 3. Or Vine of Sodom as it signifies a Church so it may signifie the great apostasie and generall defection that that Church hath made The Vine and Grapes and Clusters and Wine and all are mortall and deadly poyson The wild Vine 2 King 4. is rank poyson and such is the Church of Rome this day it is become the degenerate plant of a strange Vine Moses sets the Roman Church forth as Iohn under the representation of a Vine as in Revel 14. which Vine the Angels pray the Lord Christ to cutdown which ver 18 19. he doth with great furie and in Revel 17. where 't is Romes great Vintage time then when she is neer her ruine there she comes with a golden cup which she holds out to all and what is in it but the juice of her own grapes full of the filthinesse of her fornication This Revel 18. 3. is that wine of fornication which shee hath made the Kings of the earth drunk with So that by the wine of Dragons and the venome of Asps is meant the Blasphemies Idolatries Heresies and Abominations of that degenerate Vine the Church of Rome for of the Roman Monarchy neer its ruine Moses prophesies as wee shall make out and now it onely stands upheld by the Papal politie which every sober judicious Christian knows is the most idolatrous blasphemous heretical venemous Government and Power against the true Church both in its Head and Members And of this doth Moses prophesie the destruction when the Jews shall be converted to the Lord Jesus and united into one body with the true Church of Gentile gospellers Thus have you Moses in this prophetick Song of his setting forth 1. The Jews rejection of the Gospel and their captivity under the Romans as a punishment for their Apostasie 2. The mystery of the Jews conversion to the Gospel in the latter end and of the Roman Churches Apostasie from the Gospel 3. Now follows in the third place the signes of the grand Apostasies finishing and the Jews conversion for the ending of one i●… the beginning of the other the ending of the Apostasie is at the beginning of the Jews Conversion ver 36 37 38. Ver. 37 and 38 I take to be blasphemy of the Antichrist as in Dan. 7. 25. And he shal say I cannot see how this can be meant of God as sóme would but Antichrists boasts Where are your Gods i. e. your Magistrates What 's become of your Cause your Covenant your fasting and praying where is that God in whom ye trusted At this blasphemy of Antichrist in the next verse ver 39. God riseth up as one jealous of his honour and saith in answer to Antichrists boasting Behold now I even I am he c. 4. There 's the coming of Christ to ruine Antichrist finish this Apostasie and convert the Jews ver 39 40 41 42. 5. An Hallelujah throughout the Gentile Churches with and for the Jews conversion ver 43. the reign of Antichrist and the finishing the Apostasie parallel with Rev. 19. and Rom. 15. 10. where Paul tels us plainly that there is a day to come when the Iews and Gentiles shall rejoyce together which is not yet come In ver 36 37 38. there are two signes of the Jews conversion the Gentile Churches resurrection and the ruine

love of complacency 't is a kinde of death to them to be disswaded there they are resolved to love there to live there to die and there to be damned which the Holy Ghost tells us is their certain doom notwithstanding all their flourishes and feigned shewes of sanctity As it is impossible to pluck a reall Saint from Christ because he is elected so 't is impossible to pluck one of these mook-Saints from Antichrist because they are destinated to be damned the foregoing signes of whose damnation is their rejection of the the truth cleaving to the lie and taking pleasure in the unrighteousnesse All therefore that I have to say to the Churches in generall and to every particular Saint from what I have said is tollete legete take up the Bible and read take up Moses and read him take up the rest of the Prophets and read them take up Christs prophecies of the Antichrist and Pauls and Peters and Iudes and Iohns and see what they say What readest thou what finde ye there finde ye not that the ends of the world are come upon ye finde ye not this day those Scriptures fulfilling in your eyes Learn from them to know the times and the seasons that so the great and terrible day of the Lord which is neer upon all the Gentiles may not come upon you unawares be sober and watch unto prayer gird up the loines of your minde stand fast in the faith quit your selves like men your enemies on all hands are great and furious The Devil is now exceeding wrath knowing he hath but a little while a short reign Let 's therefore be incouraged to patience and let me write one word of comfort from my prison to those Saints of God that seem to be prisoners to the Devil that are held in the dreadfull black chains of desertion that groan out their souls in dolesul complaints Let them be comforted with this Behold the day of the Lord draweth nigh your chains are dreadful but not eternall Lift up your heads for the time of your redemption draweth nigh Satan that hath chained you shall anon be chained and sealed in hell he hath oft assaulted you but he shall assault you no more to deceive you Maintain the combate with constancie patience and faith help is at hand hope in the Lord yet a little while he that cometh will come and will not tarry he 'l come to your aid and comfort and salvation who manfully resist the Devils blaspemous injections when he 'l come to the damnation of those who willingly imbrace and joyfully entertain all his temptations leaping and laughing triumphing in the Devils chains as with bleeding hearts we hear of them see thē every day These are of the night of the black night reserved for chains of darkness but ye who are children of the light though for the present in darkness keep on in duty and in a way of obedience though you finde no comfort in it God may have most glory when you have least comfort and you therein expresse most grace most obedience Faith and patience though in the storm you see it not your acts of faith may be tossed but the habit abides firm that seed of God shall never suffer Ship-wrack in the greatest storme the Mariners skill is seen then most when he saves the ship in a stormy night when he hath neither Sun nor Moon nor Stars to direct or comfort him Keep at the helme of Ordinances let not Ministers nor the Communion of Saints be grievous or irksome to you let the oares of duty be played Pray for the day stars appearing long for the comming of Christ to destroy the beast and the false Prophet and the Dragon according to his prophetick promises for certain that great day is neer and doubtlesse that day will bring great comfort to distressed and deserted souls as well as others therefore long and pray and groane for this comming of Christ which will raise the Witnesses refresh his afflicted Saints and convert the twelve Tribes and chain up the old Dragon Even so Come Lord Iesus Christ Come quickly AMEN FINIS THE POST-SCRIPT AFter I had put an end to what I have writ upon the foregoing subject an eminently learned Text-man having viewed my papers sent to me this insuing note Sir If I mistake not you and I differ much concerning the time of the destruction of Antichrist for there are two great battells to be distinguished the one of the Resurrection of the witnesses Revel 11. which is called a great Earth-quake tending to the fall of the tenth part of the Citty the other the field Armageddon Revel 16. Such an Earth-quake as was not since men were upon the Earth so mighty and so great v. 18. then the great City and the great enemies fall together also I am of opinion that we are under the sixth Viall These words in themselves as also in their effects upon me are as Apples of Gold in pictures of Silver i. e. of ten times greater value then they promise to the outward view Nothing could come more opportunely to me for hereby I have an occasion given me to gather up those sacred mysterious fragments in the Revelations which I onely left behind because I thought Pauls basket I meane the 12. verses I treated on would not well hold them all The things then to be discoursed of from this happy occasion are first of the two great battells the one Revel 11. the other Revel 16. under this the time of the destruction of Antichrist falls to be largely and clearly discussed Secondly of the time of the pouring out of the Vialls For the first I am so far from questioning it that I fully consent to the truth thereof and rather then detract I will add a third battell to be distinguished amongst the rest or at least wise make it questionable The first Revel 11. 1●… 13. when the witnesses rise and the Earth-quake shall beate down the tenth part of the City The second battell Revel 14. 15 16 17 18 19 20. when the Vine of the Earth i. e. the Mahumetan Church is destroyed The third battell Revel 16. 16 17 18. compared with Revel 19. 18 19 20. when the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet are destroyed Now to question much whether these two latter are not one but of that in its order we shall discusse if we have roome As for that Battle Rev. 11. though I improperly call it a Battle it is clearly distinct from that in Revel 14. 16 17 18 19. and that Revel 19. 19. I cannot well call this in Revel 11. a Battell because in the raising of the witnesses the fall of the tenth part of the City and the slaying of the seven thousand heads of men we finde not so much as a sword unsheathed nor a battell fought for it But verse 11. the Spirit of life from God entring into the witnesses hath this double contrary effect it sets the slaine

the four Angels then a Star fallen from heaven to earth and now in this place you have the Head of the same Roman Church called a Beast that doth rise out of the Sea having seven heads and ten horns Now is the Apostasie come to the height He is a Beast It alludes to Daniel's four beasts to note that he usurpeth the throne of a Monarch he is got to that independent Greatnesse to be an uncontrolled Potentate therefore a beast Then he is a beast of the Sea his rise is from the Clergy from the Chair of the Church he claims his right to the Throne of universal uncontrollable Monarchie therefore Revel 9. 1. he is called a Star fallen from heaven to earth from God to the world And then his seven heads and ten horn●… tell us plainly that this evill Angel fallen Star and Beast of the sea is that Head or Polity over the Church in Rome for the City with seven heads and ten horns which through the bloudy cruelty and persecution of this Apostate Government and the supporters of it becomes drunk with the bloud of the Saints is by both Protestants and Papists confessed to be the City of Rome Rev. 17. Thus have I gone over a large and an uncommon circuit in this survey of the Apostasie and the heads thereof being willing to say as much as I find the Scripture to say of it and no more CHAP. IV. I Have but one word more to write concerning this Apostasie and then I have done with it and shall pass to the discription of the Antichrist and that is concerning the time of the Apostasie wherein by the assisting power of the Holy Ghost we doubt not but to make this Apostasie more manifestly distinct from the Antichrist then as yet it hath been there are five Texts give light into this Apostasie as Revel 11. 1 2. Rom. 11. 25. Luke 21. 24. Deut. 32. Dan. 12. 6 7 9 very briefly of each Of Revel 11. 2. I shall do little more at this time then repeat the words Here Iohn is commanded to measure with a reed the Temple of God the Altar and they that worship therein But the Court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy City shall they tread under foot forty and two months This Text may well be put amongst those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Revelations for it is exceeding hard to be understood Iohn measures the Temple and the Altar in the Temple and they that worship in the Temple that is the Jewish Religion and those obstinate unbelieving Jewes who professed that Religion all these Iohn measures Now what the meaning of this measuring is I profess I do not know this I have learnt from the Jewish Antiquaries that the reed went as well to Mount Golgotha as to Mount Olivet it was to ruine as well as to rear up it was sometimes used to pull down and sometimes used to build up and for which of these ends Iohn is commanded to use his reed like a rod I cannot tell but if it be meant for ruine as most probable it is notwithstanding others contrary opinions then it must be meant of the ruine of the Jewish Religion that Temple which they bragged of saying The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord this Temple of the Lord must now be meted out to destruction and the Altar and those that worship therein must be measured with the rod of destruction so that according to Christs words not one stone should be left upon another and they should be led captive into all Nations I know nothing prophesied of their dissipation by the Romans in all the Revelation but this Herein Iacobs Prophecie is fulfilled Gen. 49 10. The Scepter shall not depart from Iudah untill Shiloh come i. e. there shall be a Church and State of the Jewes until Christ come and then for their Rebellion against Christ they should be both un-Churched and un-Stated and that the definite Particle until imports what ever others say my weak capacity knows not how to make sense of this Prophecie or truth of their sense other wayes And the court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not i. e. according to the former Exposition do not ruine the Gospel Church of the Gentiles with the Iewes for it is given to the Gentiles and they shall tread under foot the holy Ci●…y forty and two months that is the Gentile Church which worship God through Christ according to the Gospel they shal be exercised with affliction under the Gentile Apostasie As the Church and State of the Jewes by Iohns measuring line were dissolved and ruined and the Nation dissipated so the true Believers under the Gospel shall be persecuted and drove into the Wilderness by the Gentile Apostasie that is say some learned Papists by Antichrist who shall be a Gentile but I rather affirm it to be by the four Angels that were Gentiles and the by Star fallen from heaven to earth who is a Gentile and by the Beast of the Sea with ten horns and seven heads who is the Pope of Rome a Gentile to these Apostate Gentiles the Church was to be given and they were to tread the holy City under foot forty and two months not to measure it with a reed to the destruction of the Church as the Jewes By the holy City is meant the Church of God Revel 21. 2. in its state of holy conformity to Christ her Head maintaining his Truths in uprightness and sinceritie this holy City was to be trodden under foot by Apostate Gentiles for forty and two months and this is more evidenced by ver 3. which tells us that for the space of One thousand two hundred and sixty dayes which is just forty two months the two witnesses shall prophesie in sackcloth poor clothing for such worthy persons and high Officers as Monarchy and Ministry this is but to shew the sad condition of the true Church under the Apostasie of the Gentiles for if it fare thus with the Pastors how ill must it needs go with the Sheep There is one verse from Christs mouth that seems fully to comprehend all that Iohn hath said both of the Jewes dissipation and the Gentile Gospel Churches affliction in the three verses of Revel 11. and that is in Luke 21. 24. There shall be wrath upon this people meaning the Jewes and they shall fall by the edge of the sword and they shall be led away captive into all Nations here is Iohns measuring reed like a rod indeed passing over the Church and State of the Jewes to their ruine and mark what follows And Ierusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled This Prophesie is given in Iohns phrase and method by Ierusalem is meant the Church of God worshipping him according to the Gospel rule and by treading down is signified the

the Sickle and the same reason of the words for the Harvest is ripe observe how materially they agree in Ioel 3. 2. 14. the multitude of Gentiles comming together against the converted Jewes and Gentiles is called the gathering of the nations to bring them into the valley of Iehosephat ver 2. and ver 14. that gathering together is called the day of the Lord and in Revel 16. 12. when preparation was made for the Kings of the East to passe the enemies were gathered together ver 16. to Armagedon ver 14. their gathering together is called the battell of the great day of God Almighty Look we farther into Ioel 3. 15. The Sun and the Moon shall be darkned and the Starrs shall withdraw their shining i. e. the Roman and Turkish policy shall be thrown down This is an effect of that day of the Lord and the same effect we shall finde from the battell of the great day of God Rev. 16. for ver 19. the great City was divided into three their usurped Supremacy fell the Sun in that Horizon was darkned and the Cities of the nations fell and great Babilon came to the block and every Island fled away and the Mountaines were not found though the expressions in this and that differ yet they materially agree in this to set forth the incredible and terrible prodigious things which shall befall the enemies of the Church at the seventh Trumpet as in Rev. 14. 18 19 20. that Vine of the Earth may be meant the Turkish Monarchy in Rev. 19. 18. the flesh of Kings and Captains and mighty Men shall in that day be Doggs meat and Crows meat for if it be done thus to the green tree what shall be done to the dry if Judgement begin at the house of God and the righteous can scarcely escape where shall the ungodly and sinners appeare what great things may we look for to be effected in these latter times from these prophetique Texts Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Iudges of the Earth Seek the Lord with feare and rejoice with trembling kisse the Son lest he be angry One thing more we have in Ioel to prove that this prophecy of his is to be fulfilled under the seventh Trumpet Ioel 3. 7. it is to be fulfilled after the time that the Jewes are sold to the Graecians to the Sonnes of the Graecians i. e. into Europe their seventy years captivity was fulfilled in Asia under the African Monarchy but this captivity of the Jews is to be under the Roman Monarchy in the Europian part of the world we know Titus Vespatian sold them for slaves into Greece and other parts of the world and they after that suffered grievous and bloudy conflicts under the Roman Emperours now their redemption from under their last and longest captivity under the Romans and the Turks is not to be untill the sound of the seventh Trumpet Mat. 24. 31. And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather together his Elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other Mathew calls it the great sound of a Trumpet and Isaiah calls it the great Trumpet Isa. 27. 12 13. when God shall gather his Elect one by one it shall come to passe in that day that the great Trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish in the Land of Assyria and the out-casts in the Land of Egypt at the seventh Trumpet the twelve Tribes shall be redeemed from all the quarters of the world This alludes to the sounding of the Trumpet which proclaimed the yeare of Jubilee which was to sound aloud throughout the whole Land that all the poore captives might heare and rejoice thereat for then they were to be set free and restored to their own possessions Levit. 25. even so at the sounding of the seventh Trumpet shall the Jews be restored to their ancient possessions from which they have so long time been driven out as those many clear texts which we have quoted do evince Thus have I humbly presented my opinion of the two battels and how they are to be distinguished and not confounded they being as distinct as the first and second wo. I have also given my reason why I think we are not undr the 6. viall the reason why I have said so little of the vialls is because time to come will be their best Expositer as men have made time past their worst I will not fly reproachfully upon any that have writ upon the vialls for their fancy once had drawn me fully to their opinion but since I searched more into it I cannot finde it is either obvious to sense I do not say fancie or apparent to reason or agreeable at all with Scripture to say that any of the vialls are as yet poured out upon Rome it is absolutely as farre as I see contrary to Scripture for Revel 17. at that time when she is come to judgement ver 1. ver 15. the Whore i. e. the last policy or government in Rome rules over peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues the Prophecy mentions not onely the extent but the efficacy of his power in blasphemy and murder and seducements The policy of Rome prevailes so much Revelat. 18. 7 8. in those Kingdomes and States formerly under or now subject unto its spirituall whoredomes that in its pride it saith like an audacious proud and secure Whore I sit a Queene and am no Widdow and shall see no sorrow therefore shall her plagues come in one day that day that shee thus vaunts it and boasts of prosperity and successe seeing I suppose the Witnesses lye dead that day shall death and mourning and famine and consuming fire fall upon her and what 's all this but the effects of the vialls which in one day come upon her I cannot tell whether this one day be put for one year or one age but 't is put I presume to signifie the speedy end that God will make with Rome when he begins to pour out the vialls so speedy as that the Kings of the Earth her confederates beholding with astonishment fear and wonder such suddain and unexpected judgements on Rome call this day one hour 't is I suppose an hyperbolicall speech comming from the mouthes of men amazed and terrified with such dreadfull judgements comming so suddainly and unexpectedly upon that mighty City all is to tell us that when the vialls are poured out they are poured out orderly but not leisurely there will not be hundreds of yeeres nor months betwixt Viall and Viall I scarce beleeve dayes For God when he begins to judge the Whore he will make a speedy end with her At the seventh Trumpet this mysterie of God shall be finished I le conclude my Discourse of the seventh Trumpet with setting downe in figures not in words that part of Iohns Prophesie which properly falls under the seventh Trumpet viz. Rev. 11. 15. to