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The camp of Christ, and the camp of Antichrist, all troopers after the Lambe. Revel. 10. 11. 14. or his two horns, Rev. 13. 11, 12.
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their deliverance David danced in one not so costly as this for it seemes to rise as high as Aarons Ephod But Gideons good intention for God proved superstition in the people who went a whoring after it as soone as he was dead and what he made for God that they speedily dedicated to Baal Ready they were to change their Government and to take any man for God that did them good though he were but the instrument and God to shew how the best men may fall gives them over in some things to shew they are but men Thus was it with the Bishops of the Church who by the keyes of the Lambe gained power with his people and might command eares and eare-rings hearts and hands to set up any monument to God and time turned all humane inventions into grosse Idolatrie and the very keyes of Bishops prevailed with Princes to goe higher then their eares even to the top of their heads and take off their crownes and cast them into the laps of Bishops which have so handled their keyes that they are become hornes held as upon the head of the Lambe but made to fight against him and having gotten such interest in the Kings of the earth and their Crownes worke them as hornes with theirs to wage warre with the Lambe and he is blinde that sees it not in that part of the Street of the great Citie that is in our Kingdome Brute a Romane for killing of his Father was banished into this Land 1108 yeares before Christ the first King we reade of in our Nation and some 58 yeares before Christ Julius Caesar being twice beaten out of the feild and having his sword taken from him by a valiant Duke and Labianus a Romane Tribune slaine by it yet civill warres gave Caesar the Conquest in the end and when he lost his Crownes in all his Monarchie he had the same fortune with us and Vortiger a murtherer of his lawfull Prince to hold that Crowne craves ayde of the Saxons and Hengist for his good service marries his Daughter and brings in the Saxons so fast that as tumbling stones they came upon us and at the last over-bare us and then in this division comes in the Monke and finds hornes fitted for him and so the ten and two in all Kingdomes agree to warre with the Lambe and these miserable slaves to Satan hold up his Soveraigntie against Christ and not like Gideon grant Christ his due but as the people will have it take all to themselves We see in our dayes jurisdiction without Empire to doe well in the Low-Countreys and the States rule and their Generall the Prince of Orange warres for them and they prosper and may be some thinke they should doe better if the Prince of Orange were their Emperour and the States changed to be his servants There is Empire with Jurisdiction this is two-fold merum and mixtum Imperium Meere Empire is absolute Monarchie and that is divine or humane Divine when God alone rules the Lord shall rule over you Judg. 8.23 yet at this time was there an Aristocratie assisting this Thearchie for Elders left by Moses Numb 11.17 and that out-lived Joshua Judg 2.7 kept the people to God and might have done without kings in all ages for we are mistaken to tye God to them as by a Law of nature to rule the world The Apostle saies not be subject to kings but to the higher powers Rom. 13.1 and to confirm us in them all saies Th re is no power but of God and therefore to resist one power with another is as well damnation as to withstand one alone and therfore the forms of Government must be obeyed as well as the men In the Thearchie of God the Elders as well as the Judges were to be obeyed and may be with the disobedience of God the people disobeyed their Elders and for both were punished Judges successively one by one are raised and for the life of their judge they are said to obey and being dead the people presently sin again and I may think if they had been constant the people would have been the worse for if God had not humbled them by oppression and so for a time made them sensible of their sorrow they would as they were in the wildernesse have kicked at their Commanders Deut. 32.15 And it appears so at the last as the book of the Judges ends their story for Thearchie that when they had no kings that is no Judges every man did that which was right in his own eyes This is arbitrary Government when no form is observed and as his Majestie accuseth the Parliament thereof I dare say if we forsake that Government our government will be as the King saith an arbitrary Government for meer Monarchie is no other The two Horns have long strugled for it and the Pope hath gotten it over all Bishops and what is his Government but an arbitrarie rule to rule all men as if all men should rule themselves and because Cesar kept Antichrist from this meer Empire to the thraldome of all the world so Antichrist having gotten it from Cesar cannot endure one king to reign in Italie Dan. 7.24 till he have subdued them all I told you of Martian a good Emperor in the East and the story of him is that the Gothes Vandales Hunnes and Herules gained from him the West which in the dayes of Theodosius belonged to Constantinople and from them it was gained again by the valour of Belisarius Mundus and Narses and lost again to the Lombards and by Antichrist assisted by the French they are expelled and the French too and the two Horns evidently the absolute Lord of Rome and hath used his horns so well that he hath by one means or another tamed all the ten horns and either by power or policie makes them serve him It s true hatred is spoken of Revel 17.16 and in point of Supremacie Princes have since Luther looked to this two horned Beast but their hatred as yet is not hot enough to eat the flesh of the Whore that Antichrist labours to cherish in all Countreys I said this Whore ends her street with us for Brute a Romane and Cesar Romes perpetuus Dictator have given us more then Ireland and Scotland our denomination to be in the Romane jurisdiction and I see Historians this way carrie it no further then us which makes me suspect this our present time to agree with Revel 11.7 The street that from Jerusalem stretcheth to us receives our dead bodies that is the Church and kingdom which politically are taken for the two witnesses for blessed be God in spite of all that Antichrist but Church and Kingdom do witnesse against him and he must do to us as he hath done in other parts of this street over-seas bring us into straits with them and the time is when they and we shall be about to finish our testimonie and then riseth the last warre to lay us as lowe as the graves mouth but not to be able to bury us and the reason is the same that we have 2. King 13.21 The invasion of the Moabites make the Israelites cast by the dead body and fall to their Armes It is thought our Bishops the worst of them intended again to bury us in the grave of Poperie and would have done it solemnly in an honourable mixture of their sweet spices and ointments and if Scotland had liked well of their preparation we had gone down together into the grave without redemption But Scotland tasted the Myrrhe and Aloes to be too bitter to be born by them and there is no Nation up to hinder the buriall and Ireland and England follow and over-seas the watres preceded and God hath so tempered them that if the Papists were at peace amongst themselves they would put hard but they would heave us into their grave again and make their own peace by our buriall They are glad they have such an opportunitie to kill us but their joy will not be long to hurt us with their horns That the horns of Antichrist are in it is more then manifest and our Bishops so blinded that they see it not and if his Majestie cannot through the thick mist see it God of his goodnesse expell the clouds that hinder it Admiration it is to see Papists flock to the Church take the oath of Supremacie by some dispensation from the Pope for certain it is he loves meer Monarchie and may perswade Kings so to do for if his Majestie would come to mixt Monarchie and consider that his Parliament by the form of Government in this Kingdom must joyn with him he would not forsake it or suffer Papists to abuse his Crowns to be as horns to goare his own body to prevent an arbitrarie Government where it cannot be to set up one where it ought not to be I say it is impossible to make the Parliament an Arbitrarie Government for all the world cannot invent a better means against it and his Majestie saies the power of it is sufficient to prevent tyrannie and therefore it cannot set it up But Anarchie and absolute Monarchie that is not Thearchie is and ever will be an arbitrary form of Government the good God of heaven preserve us from both for we are in the way to fall into them FINIS