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A57095	The Revelation reveled By two apocalyptical treatises. Shewing. I. How neer the period of the time is, wherein the mysterie of God shall bee fulfilled. II. What things are already fulfilled, and what shall shortly follow thereupon, as they are foretold in the Revelation. Translated out of High-Dutch. With an introductorie preface, shewing that besides the accomplishment of the particular historical events, spoken of in the Revelation, which are com, ... there is a deeper mysterie, and matter of more necessarie and profitable knowledg, to bee reflected upon in the words of this prophesie; whereof also a summarie and a key, ... to bee thought upon by all the Godlie-wise in the three nations.	Dury, John, 1596-1680.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1651 (1651)	Wing R1190A; ESTC R220789	91,312	257

Rider the woman sitting upon the Beast which John seeth in a vision Chapter 13. vers 3. doth govern the civil State in the divided Romane Empire as the Beast with ten horns and this is the seventh sort of Government and withal the Ecclesiastical Popish Government also which is the eighth sort But becaus the Woman sit's up on the Beast and both doth make one Complexum or a Rider And the Woman doth after her pleasure ride and govern the Beast therefore both the last forms of the Romane Common-wealth the Ecclesiastical and Political Government in Poperie are counted for One wherefore the Angel saith The eighth is of the seven Whence wee conclude that by the Beast which ascended out of the bottomless pit is understood the Popish Ecclesiastical Government which useth the Temporal sword and the power of worldlie Potentates as a Rider maketh use of the power and and strength of his hors Of this Beast is said here that it shall make war against the two witnesses and shall overcom them and kill them That is there shall bee in the Romane Empire a persecution set a foot against the Evangelical Protestants by the instigation of the Pope and the Prelats towards the end of the appointed time in the last sixtie years from the one thousand five hundred ninetie fifth until the one thousand six hundred fiftie fifth year The two Witnesses shall bee overcom and killed That is they shall bee removed and thrust out of all Ecclesiastical and Political Offices and imploiments Vers 8. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great Citie which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified Here is the place described where the persecution shall happen It is not an universal persecution which goe's throughout the whole Romane Empire but a particular Act becaus the dead bodies of the two Witnesses do not lie in all the streets but onely in One in the street of the great Citie By the great Citie is understood the Citie of Rome of which the Angel saith in the 17. chapter vers 18. The Woman which thou sawest is that great Citie which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Which is called in the 14. chapter vers 8. Babylon the great Citie And that by Babylon is meant the Citie of Rome is granted by the Jesuits themselvs as Blasius Viegas in cap. 17. Apoc. sect 3. Remacius de Vaulx in Harpocrate divino part 1. fol. 235. Bellarm. lib. 2. Pontif. Rom. c. 2. lib. 3. c. 5. But by the Citie with the streets is the whole Romane Popish Empire set forth as it is elswhere compared unto a Beast with ten horns chap. 13. and 17. and unto the Sea with rivers and fountains Chapter 16. Compare also Luc. 14. vers 21. 23. The Citie of Rome is called spiritually that is the Citie of Rome or the Romane Papacie Is among the Hebrews especially the Prophets to bee called signifieth as much as to bee and that in a singular high manner and waie as appeareth by Isaiah chapter 1. vers 26. chapter 7. vers 14 chapter 9. vers 6. chapter 56. vers 7. chapter 60. vers 14. chap. 26. vers 4. Ierem. 3. vers 17. chap. 23. vers 6. Ezech. 48. vers 35. Zach. 6. vers 12. chap. 8. vers 3. Finkius Can. 49. Cent. 11. Spiritually that is Mystically in a mysterious sens and resemblance Another Sodom becaus of their Paederastia and other horrible Sodomitical Abominations and sins which not onely are committed but commended there As Sleidan lib. and Balaeus in Catalogo do write concerning Ioannes de la Cata Archbishop of Benevent that hee published in print a Treatise to commend Sodomie so that this is fully agreeable to that which the Prophet Isaiah saith chap. 3. vers 9. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them and they declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not Shee is another Egypt becaus of the great blindness and hardness of heart as also becaus of the Tyrannie and grievous bondage wherewith shee doth afflict the people of God driving and compelling them to a slavish servitude of Poperie Shee is also a true likeness of Ierusalem becaus shee like the Iews doth despise God and his word killeth the Prophets nay refuseth to hear and to receiv the Son of God himself blaspheming calumniating persecuting and crucifying him in his members as by experience is cleerly seen And their dead bodies shall lie in the street These words are spoken as it were with som amazement abruptly and without the concluding word to make up the sens The dead bodies of the Witnesses in this street But which street A Citie hath manie streets and so hath the papal State which is here called the great Citie having under it manie streets and Kingdoms in subjection those wee must reflect upon to discover where such wars and persecutions in these years from the one thousand five hundred ninetie fifth of our Lord are hapned Three principal streets or Kingdoms hath the Oriental Antichrist the Truth in his subjection hee hath not used anie such persecution against the Christians in his Dominions Seven are under the Occidental Antichrist In Italie France Spain and the British Kingdoms no such remarkable persecution did happen within this time nor also in Poland The attempt which was made in Prussia in the one thousand five hundred ninetie fifth year of our Lord was of no long continuance What came to pass in Hungarie and Transylvania in the year one thousand six hundred two and som following was quieted by the Putshkeyish insurrection and cannot bee referred to this The tenth Horn yet remain's Germanie or the Germane Empire which in the whole Beast or Empire cannot bee counted otherwise but one horn and a Kingdom by it self in the whole bodie of the fourth Monarchie This is the principal street in the great Citie the principal horn of the Beast the principal Kingdom in the fourth Monarchie whose head is represented by the Citie of Rome This Germane Empire is here called the street per excellentiam becaus it is the principal street in the Empire which doth appear hence 1. By reason it is called the Romane Empire 2. By reason it is as it were a figure and Image of the old Romane Empire having seven heads in regard of the seven Princes Electors and ten Provinces in respect of the ten Circles into which it is distributed 3. By reason that the head of the Germane Empire hath still the name of a Romane Emperor and hath the the preeminencie above all other Kings adhering to the Papal State Now in this street wee must seek the warr and wee shall also finde it if wee consider what is passed from the one thousand fiue hundred ninetie fifth year until this present hour against the true Professors of the Gospel The Pope indeed hath from the beginning of the Reformation which hapned by Doctor Luther alwaies aimed at this how hee might wholly

his Vial upon the rivers and fountain● of water and they became blood Frequens est sacris Literis per flumin● significare Imperia quod Graeci Latinique faciunt Hugo Grotius in Annotatis ad V. Testam Esaiae c. 11. v. 15. The Romane Empire is elswhere compared to a Beast with ten horns to a Citie with its streets So likewise here to a Sea with it's rivers The rivers are the Kingdoms which although they are not at this present members of the Political State in the Romane Empire yet they have their tie and dependance upon the Popish Romane Empire as Spain France England Poland Hungarie c. For the greatest Where sit's upon manie waters Revel chap. 17. vers 1. aud reigneth over the Kings of the earth vers 18. The fountains of water are the Kings their Roial Council is Parlaments and other great and prime Lords in those Kingdoms who are interessed in the Government How this Vial of the wrath of God hath been poured out over great Brittanie and the well thereof and how the river and the head-Spring there became blood and doth yet sprout out is alas evident to all the world And although those who are the Fax and Clamor sive Tuba in these proceedings wee know not how to excuse yet wee must by virtue of this cleer text saie with the Angel Lord thou art righteous becaus thou hast judged thus How France doth feel the pouring out of the wrath of God out of this third Vial and how much more it will bee sensible of it in time to com time will discover The caus which the Angel maketh mention of here in the sixth vers saying For they have shed the blood of the Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthie concerneth France more particularly becaus there was so much innocent Christian blood shed therein in these hundred years last past How the other Kingdoms in this Classis shall fare time will shew chiefly that whose head-spring did flow out the eighth of April Anno one thousand six hundred five The Ecclips of the Sun which on the seventh of April one thousand six hundred fiftie two will darken the locum Hylegialem thereof whereupon within a short time it may stop happily the flowing out of the same and change it's river into blood Vers 7. And I heard another Angel out of the altar saie c. A voice is heard out of the Thysiasterion or place of Sacrifices where the souls of them that were slain did lie whereof wee may read in the sixth chapter vers 9 10. that they crie to the Lord for vengeance The sens and meaning of which words is this that the Martyrs prais God for the hearing of their praiers and the execution of vengeance applauding the Angel saying Even so Lord God Almightie true and righteous are thy Judgments Hence also may bee concluded that this vengeance shall then begin when the last war against the two Witnesses shall bee finished whereof hath been spoken in the 11. chap. Vers 8. And the fourth Angel poured out his Vial upon the Sun c. By the Sun all the Expositors commonly understand the Sun of righteousness Mal. 4. vers 2. Jesus Christ wherewith the Woman is clothed Revel chap. 12. vers 1. But this is repugnant to the scope and intention of these plagues which are poured all over the earth that is upon the Systema mundi Papistici over the Popish world which is opposed to the Church-Heaven of the faithful Children of God wherein the Lord Jesus is the Head Therefore wee must seek this Sun in the popish Heaven and search what in the Revelation of John is represented by the Sun in other places The Sun became black as a sackcloth of hair Revelations 6. vers 12. whereby the ruine of the Imperial dignitie in the Heathenish Church-heaven which happened in the time of Constantine the great is intimated The third part of the Sun was smitten according to the prophesie of the fourth Trumpet Chapter 8. vers 12. That is The smal remainder of the greatness and brightness of the old Romane Empire shall wholly bee abolished and pass away An Angel did stand in the Sun Revelations 19. vers 17. That is a great Potentate an Evangelical valiant Prince gathered together a great Armie against the Papists The Citie hath no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it chap. 21. vers 23. That is hath no need of anie Temporal Potentate to govern it If wee compare these texts with the Sun upon which the Angel poureth out the fourth Vial wee finde that thereby a great and high head of the State is signified who in Systemate Mundi Papistici doth uphold all and by his splendor and government giveth strength unto all like as the Sun Systemate Mundi Physico by it's light and motion doth guide and move the forces of nature And power was given unto him to scorch men with fire And men were scorched with great heat c. When the Head which hath been a mightie support hitherto to the Papal State shall lie down and rest then the fire of God's wrath will extremely scorch the Papists The Lord will make them like a fierie oven Psal 21. vers 9. But for all this they will not amend nor repent and give God the glorie but rather continue in blaspheming the name of God and grow more and more obstinate Vers 10. And the fifth Angel poured out his Vial upon the seat of the Beast and his Kingdom was full of darkness Assoon as the Beast with ten horns was risen up out of the Sea Revelations 13. vers 1. the Dragon immediately gave him his power and his seat and Citie of residence the Citie of Rome Which the Beast hath possessed hitherto without beeing disturbed from thence and reigned over the Kings of the earth chapter 17. vers 18. Now the Angel poureth out the fifth Vial of the wrath of God upon this seat the Citie of Rome as mention hath been made hereof above in the 11th chap. vers 13. that after the two Witnesses were ascended up there was a great Earth-quake and the tenth part of the Ci●e fell and was destroied And the Kingdom was full of darkness c. By the distruction of the Citie of ●ome shall the Government and power of the Pope which hitherto hee ●ath used bee made extremely void ●nd all his dispatches or commissions spended But the Papacie shall not it by this means bee utterly dissolved ●●d taken away For this doth follow afterwards at the pouring out of the ●●venth Vial in the last war in a ●ace called in the Hebrew tongue Ar●●geddon vers 16. Whereof is spoken ●●ore at large in the 19. chapter vers ●● until the 21. by this plague the Papists are yet more embittered and more and more hardned Vers 12. And the sixth Angel poured out his Vial upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was

return into their land and furnished them with monie handie-craftsmen workmen materials and other helps and commanded them to build up the Temple again and re-establish the Levitical service And the Jews had imbraced such offers of assistance laid the foundation and begun the building thereof God himself did destroie their work by thunder and lightning from Heaven with terrible earthquakes and fire-bals and totally overthrew the foundation of the Temple insomuch that Cyrillus then Bishop at Ierusalem was forced to confess and to acknowledg that now the words of Christ which hee spoke of the Temple unto his disciples Matthew 24. vers 2. were fulfilled That there shall not bee left one stone upon another that shall not bee thrown down Hereof may bee further read Ammianus Marcellinus lib. 23. Socrates lib. 3. c. 17. Theodoretus lib. 3. c. 17. a● the end Sozom. lib. 5. cap. 21. Tri ●●rt lib. 6. cap. 44. and others more 7. The one thousand two hundred sixtie ●●ars must for the space of thirtie years bee ●●otracted and begin later and at lest ●●th the year of our Lord three hundred ninetie five becaus they expire together ●●th the one thousand two hundred ninetie years Here wee must observ and look whether the Characters and Tokens which are set upon the beginning of the one thousand two hundred sixtie years may bee applied to the three hundred ninetie fifth year Wee have three several Characters 1. The Division of the Romane Empire into two parts Revel chapter 12. vers 14. 2. The beginning of the treading underfoot of the holie Citie Chap. 11. vers 2. 3. The rising of the Beast out of the Sea chapter 13. vers 2. The first Character is described in the Revel 12. vers 14. in these words And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle that shee might flee into the wilderness into her place where shee is nourished By the great Eagle is understood the Romane Empire by the two Wings is meant the division of the same into two parts Constantine the great though hee removed the Imperial Seat from Rome to Byzance or Constantinople yet hee reteined to himself the Government over the whole Empire during his life after his death it wa● divided among his three Sons into three parts But this Division did no● last long but did soon determine fo● Constantius did reign after his Brother's death over the whole Romane Empire himself alone as also after hi● Iulian and other Emperors following But after the death of Theodose th● Great who died the 17. of Ianuari● 395 the Romane Empire was divided between his two sons Arcadius and and Honorius so that Arcadius reigned ●● the East and Honorius in the West And thus this Character may bee well applied to the three hundred ninetie fifth year 1. Becaus of the division of the Romane Empire into two parts whereby ●e wings of the Eagle are spread 2. Becaus the Barbarous Nations ●●d invade and over-run the Romane Empire on all sides in the verie same ●ar whereby the holie Citie was ●●rribly trodden under foot and the ●oman put to flight in the wilder●ss The second Character is expressed in the ●velations 11. vers 2. in these words ●is given unto the Gentiles that they shall ●ad the holie Citie under foot By the Conversion of Constantine the ●eat was the Child which the Woman the christian Church had ●ught forth established upon the ●t of God and by that means the ●hristian Emperors came to the Go●●●nment and the Heathenish service of the Dragon got thereby a huge grea● downfal But in the daies of Theodosius the Great the great Dragon in the Romane Empire was quite overthrown and ca● to the ground At that time the Church of God did triumph and was gloriously built and propagated But afte● Theodosius in the year of our Lord three hundred ninetie five in Ianuarie w● dead and his two sons Arcadius and Honorius had entred into the Government the treading under foot of the ho 〈…〉 Citie did soon begin when the Goth● Huns Alans with other barbarous Nations under the Command of their King Alaricus invaded first the Oriental other made an irruption into th● Occidental Empire and took the Citie of Rome in the year four hundred ten Now by these desolations how th● Christian Churches were destroied the Countries spoiled the Christian persecuted and reduced to a most pit● ful condition may bee gathered from ●●e lamentation of the old Father Ie 〈…〉 me whereof you may read in his first 〈…〉 om the Epist 3 d pag. 18. and Epist ●1 pag. 44. Likewise Augustine in his ●ooks of the Citie of God doth give ●further information hereof and espe 〈…〉 ally Ludovicus Vives in his Preface up 〈…〉 the same 3. The third Character is set down in 〈…〉 e Revelation chap. 13. vers 2. in these 〈…〉 ords And a beast rose up out of the Sea 〈…〉 ving seaven heads and ten horns and 〈…〉 on his horns ten Crowns The Old Heathenish Empire is com 〈…〉 red to the red Dragon which hath 〈…〉 ven heads seven Mountains in the 〈…〉 itie of Rome and ten horns Pro 〈…〉 nces and upon his heads in the Ci 〈…〉 e of Rome seven Crowns seven 〈…〉 rts of Government namely Reges 〈…〉 ns●les Dictatores Decemviros Tri 〈…〉 nos militum Caesares 10. Reges Here the new Romane Empire under the Christian Emperours and Kings is brought in which hath not seven Crowns upon the seven heads upon the Mountains in the Citie of Rome but hath ten Crowns upon the ten horns that is in the Kingdoms into which the Romane Empire is divided But wee must not seek the beginning of this beast in the time when it had already fully his horns Kingdoms but but when it rose up out of the Sea that is when it invaded the Romane Empire by force of Arms and made such a progress in it that it subdued the Citie of Rome And although the Barbarous Septentrional Nations have manie times invaded the Romane Empire with great power yet they could never so far prevail that they could take Rome Alaricus was the first who as was mentioned already in the second Character in the year of our Lord three hundred ninetie five made an irruption into the Romane Empire with two hundred thousand Goths Huns Alans prevailed against the Romans and at length ●ook Rome in the year four hundred ●●n About the same time som other Nations invaded the Romane Empire which they tore into so manie pieces ●●at in the year of our Lord four hundred fiftie five and also sixtie years af●●r the first Invasion ten Kings each by ●imself reigned in the Romane Empire Wherefore the beginning of the Beast 〈…〉 i th ten horns or the rising of the ●ame out of the Sea is referred to that ●ear when Alaricus with his Nations invaded the Roman Empire name●y to the three hundred ninetie fifth ●ear since the birth of Christ Wee see also that all the three

dried up c. By Euphrates are understood the Nations which border thereupon that is the Turks But by the drying up of the water is meant the ruine and overthrow of those Nations as it is evident out of the Prophets as Isaiah chapter 19. vers 5. chap. 44. vers 27. Jeremiah chap. 48. vers 34. chap. 50. vers 38. chap. 51. vers 36 Ezekiel chap. 30. vers 12. chap. 31. vers 4. The Application of this text to the ruine of the Turkish Empire doth agree with the eleventh chap. of Isa vers 13. 14. whereupon soon followeth the destruction of the Citie of Rome The second Wo that is the Turkish Empire is past Moreover the drying up of Euphrates is a preparation for the great work which shall bee performed at the pouring out of the seventh Vial. For as in times of old the red Sea was divided to make a drie waie for the Children of Israël when at their going out of Egypt they were pursued by Pharaoh to the end that they might pass thorough safe and Pharaoh should bee drowned Exodus 14. vers 12. until the twentie ninth And as God did drie up the river of Jordan and made a waie thorough it so that Israël could go through it on drie Land and enter into the promised Land so is here Euphrates spiritually dried up and the Turkish Empire ruined That the waie of the Kings of the East might bee prepared By this the conversion of the Jews is intimated which immediately after the destruction of the Citie of Rome shall bee advanced as also may ●ee seen by the 19. chapter vers 6 7. whereunto may bee referred what Isaiah writeth chapter 14. vers 10. until the sixteenth Zach. chap. 10. vers 11. 4. Esr chap. 13. vers 47. Hereupon followeth the pouring out of the seventh and last Vial of the wrath of God wherewith also the seventh Angel soundeth and the seventh plague and the third and last Wo over the Papacie of Rome and the fourth Monarchie doth take effect bringing with it the total ruine and destruction thereof The preparations of this are described before hand thus Vers 13. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs com out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the fals Prophet The Dragon the Beast and the fals Prophet are three companions and fellow-Commoners who from the beginning of the demutation as it appeareth by the thirteenth chapter have stuck close one to another and have been equally honored and worshipped by those that were under their power Now at the end of their reign they also agree and need requiring it they send their Ambassadors and Agents abroad unclean talkative Spirits Spirits of Devils working Miracles c. That is when the Citie of Rome shall bee destroied and the Papal seat overthrown the Turkish Empire ruined and the Jews converted unto Christ The Devil the Romane Papacie and the whole Clergie shall not bee able to conclude anie thing els but that their end is now at hand and that they will bee utterly destroied Therefore they trie their utmost endevors and call together the best men of their orders and such as are most fit for this work chiefly those that have made profession in the eleventh Classis these they send to the Courts of all Catholick Potentates throughout the whole Romane Popish Empire persuading them and the Professors of their Religion to stir up the utmost of their power and to join and offer themselvs together with others to the war against the Professors of the Gospel In that great daie of God Almightie at the pouring out of the seventh Vial. The time when Constantine the great destroied the Empire of the Dragon and overthrew the Dragon with the heathenish worship of the same is called the great daie of his wrath Rev. c. 6. V. 17. But the time here when the Beast and the fals Prophet shall bee cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and the Dragon shall bee shut up in the bottomless pit is called That great daie of God Almightie Above in the 11. ch V. 18. at the sound of the Trumpet of the seventh Angel it is called the time of the dead that they should bee judged and to give a reward c. By the Prophets in the Old Testament and by Christ and the Apostles in the New Testament it is frequently called that daie But to shew what properly is meant and understood by this great daie of God would require a large and particuliar exposition And becaus the Holie Scripture especially the Revelation of St John and the Prophets do not agree with the common opinion usual to prove and to make out at large at this time is contrarie to the scope and intention of this present Treatise Therefore it is is thought expedient to defer it till another time Vers 15. Behold I com as a thief Blessed is hee that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest hee walk naked and see his shame Here is declared the sudden and unexspected pouring out of the seventh Vial and plague which unawares and suddenly shall light upon the Papal State Therefore the Son of God himself doth exhort all men to watch and to stand continually in readiness by serious repentance and a godlie conversation And hee gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon In these words is described the place in which the Papists shall have the Rendez-vous of their Armies which they shall have gathered against the Professors of the Gospel The place is called Harmageddon Mountain of Lamentations whereby is intimated the place where King Josiah fought a battel unhappily where hee was slain 2 Chron. chapter 35. vers 24 25. For which the Jews made manie and great lamentations and at last it became a custom that when they would mourn for som extraordinarie sad accident they used to make mention of this defeat given at Megiddo Upon this lamentation of the Jews and Custom doth St John here point shewing thereby that the Papists will lament and mourn over the issue of this war as the Jews did mourn for the death of King Josiah and the great overthrow they received at Megiddo Vers 17. And the seventh Angel poured out his Vial into the Aër The aforegoing Vials have been poured out upon particular places The first upon the Ecclesiastical State and Popish Religion in common The second upon the Political State by the means of this Germane war The third upon the particular Popish Kingdoms and their Heads The fourth upon an High-head a strong pillar of the Papacie The fifth upon the Citie of Rome The sixth upon the Turkish Empire which keep 's a great part of the old Romane Empire in subjection and as an open Antichrist sit's in the seat of the Dragon Now followeth the seventh Vial which is poured out upon the Aër And as the Aër doth contein all things so likewise this pouring out

or the beginning of the Apocalyptical one thousand two hundred sixtie years bee rightly referred to the three hundred ninetie fifth year of our Lord In the Prophetical keie certain characters and marks have been set down and applied whereby the certaintie doth appear which wee shall here repeat and confirm with more proofs As 1. First becaus the Epocha of the one thousand two hundred ninetie years of the Prophet Daniel chapter 12. vers 11. is exactly incident into the three hundred sixtie fifth year it followeth that the one thousand two hundred sixtie years must com thirtie years later and so begin Anno three hundred ninetie five becaus they end together 2. Secondly becaus by the division of the old Romane Empire into two parts in the three hundred ninetie fifth year the Romane Eagle got two wings and becaus in the verie same year the Septentrional Barbarous Nations invaded the Romane Empire whereby the Woman the Christian Church fled into the Wilderness wherein shee should bee preserved and nourished during the space of one thousand two hundred sixtie years or 3½ times chap. 12. vers 6. till the 14. 3. Thirdly Becaus with the beginning of the invasion of these Barbarous Nations in the three hundred ninetie fifth year the treading under foot of the holie Citie begun which should continue fortie and two moneths Revelations 11. vers 2. 4. Fourthly becaus by this invasion the Beast with ten horns rose up out of the Sea That is becaus by this war which began in the three hundred ninetie fifth year the Romane Empire was by little and little so divided that in the four hundred third year alreadie som horns and in the four hundred fiftie fifth year fully ten horns or Kingdoms appeared in it 5. All the Historians generally do agree that the ruine of the Romane Empire did begin in the three hundred ninetie fifth year as som of them were quoted in Elavi Apocalypt Now both the antient and later Teachers of the Church do conclude by the words of the Apostle Paul 2 Thessalonians 2. vers 6 7 8. That the Antichrist should then com when the Romane Empire should begin to fall As wee read in Tertulliano in Apologetico c. 32. Item de resurrect carnis Irenaeo lib. 5. adversus Haereses Hieronymo quaest 2. ad Algasiam Chrysost Homil. 4. in Thes 2. Hence it is that Joannes Cluverius in Comentario posthumo in Apol. Tom. III. writeth thus Totius Negotii cardo versatur in inveniendo exordio Antichristi quod in ruinam Imperii Romani incidere ostendimus 6. The Beast with two horns the Antichristian Pope of Rome came out of the Earth quietly about the time of the three hundred ninetie fifth year Revelations 13. vers 11. when hee arrogated unto himself the Primacie and preeminencie over the Ecclesiastical and civil State Before the Nicene Synod which was held in three hundred twentie fifth year of our Lord the preeminencie of the Bishop of Rome over other Churches was not known Wherefore Aeneas Sylvius in Epistola 288. writeth Ante Nicaenum Concilium quisque sibi vivebat ad Romanam sedem parvus habebatur respectus Besides the succeeding Popes Liberius I. Felix II. and Damasus did not seek anie such matter Nay in the three hundred ninetieth year in the third Council of Carthage Can. 26. this Canon was made Ut primae sedis Episcopus non appelletur Princeps Sacerdotum aut summus Sacerdos aut aliquid hujusmodi sed tantùm primae sedis Episcopus Tom. Concil p. 544. Innocent the first who in the four hundred second year of our Lord succeeded Anastasius at Rome was the first that made an Act that the Hereticks should bee compelled to imbrace the Catholick faith And hath also attributed unto himself Autoritie and power not onely over the common people but also over the Highest Civil Autoritie in Christendom in that hee excommunicated Arcadius the Emperor at Constantinople when hee removed Chrysostome from his function In like manner hee did vehemently bestir himself to obtain the Primacie for the Romane Church and especially hee endevored to get the Government of the Bishops and Churches in Africa The like was practised also by Zosimus Bonifacius 1. Celestine 1. whereof Daniel Paraeus in Medullâ Hist Eccles universali pag. 200. Whence it is that Socrates lib. 7. Hist. Eccles cap. 3. where relating how in the time of Celistine the 1. it fared with the Novatians hee addeth these words Episcopatus Romanus non aliter atque Alexandrinus quasi extra Sacerdotii fines egressus ad secularem Principatum jam antè delapsus erat In like manner Sericius who after Damasus from the three hundred eightie fifth until the three hundred ninetie eighth year was Bishop of Rome was the first who held the Priests who companied with their married wives uncapable of the Ministerie As wee read hereof in his first Epistle chap. 7. and Epist 4. c. 6. Tom. 1. Concil page 530. 534. In Jure Canonico Distin 82. And in concilio Taurinatensi in the three hundred ninetie seventh year of our Lord was determined chap. 7. qui in Ministerio genuerunt filios nè ad majores gradus ordinum permittantur Synodi decrevit autoritas In Concilio Carthaginensi in the three hundred ninetie eighth year sub Anastasio was concluded on Cap. 3. Placuit Episcopos Presbyteros Diaconos secundùm propria priora vel prima statuta etiam ab ●xoribus continere Quod nisi fecerint ab Ecclesiastico removeantur officio Tom. 1. Concil p. 517. Vid. Distinct 84. cap. 3 4 5. 7. In the eleventh chapter wee have seen that the two Witnesses at the end of the one thousand two hundred sixtie years shall bee fought against overcom and killed which as hath been proved above is hitherto com to pass The last Act is now shortly to bee exspected in the Province of Silesia Whether now this bee performed in this or in the next following year thereupon their raising again will follow after 3½ years And becaus the seventh Trumpet shall sound in the one thousand six hundred fiftie fifth year and between it and the raising again of the two Witnesses two accidents happen as 1. The destruction of the Citie of Rome 2. And the ending of the second Wo therefore the two Witnesses may well bee raised again before the one thousand six hundred fiftie fifth year shall begin For Modicum nec Praetor cur at nec Propheta Unto this may also bee added these following reasons as secondarie Arguments 1. The Prophesie of the Apostle Peter whereof Augustin lib. 18. c. 53. and 54. de Civit. Dei. writeth That the Gentiles in his time did report that the Apostle Peter had thought that the Christian Religion should continue but three hundred sixtie five years Which Augustine holdeth to bee a Fiction wherewith the Heathen would cast a reproch upon the Christian Religion But if this bee well considered it may well prove so indeed that Peter did declare that the Christian