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A79857 A voice from the temple to the higher povvers. Wherein is shewed, that it is the work and duty of saints, to search the prophesies and visions of holy Scripture, which concern the later times: and that Jesus Christ will reveal the understanding of them, neer the end of their accomplishment. And so much, is here clearly proved, and the objections to the contrary answered. Also severall prophesies are here opened, concerning the time of the end; as what is the present work of the Lord in the world: and wherein the saints (whether the higher powers or others) are now to move and follow him. Likwise [sic] what will be the work of the Lord forward, and all along from year to year, till the mysterie of God be finished, both among the Christian gentiles, and Jewes. By John Canne. Canne, John, d. 1667? 1653 (1653) Wing C443B; Thomason E699_16; ESTC R207049 36,136 47

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earnest intreaty they sent hither some relief against the Scots and Picts having done their work immediately returned back again leaving the Brittons to themselves Thus their Histories serve to give some light unto Daniels visions concerning the Times Howsoever their thoughts were not at all carried out on such a thing 2. Who ever was the last certain it is that England was the first of the ten horns and therefore here first were the throns set up and judgement given upon the King and Kingdome True and righteous are his judgements Rev. 19.2 3. The high Court of Justice which was erected in the Year 1648. before which the last of our kings had his tryal and sentence was no other then that throne of God mentioned in Dan. 7.9 10. I doe not confine the thrones in Daniel and the sitting of the ancient of dayes unto England For I know the Lord will have his thrones speedily set up in other kingdomes as France Spain Denmark c. and as he proceeded here so he will do there JVDICATORY against Kings and Kingdomes But to the point in hand What was done by the Parliament and High court of Justice in taking away the king and changing in part the form of Government was no other then a fulfilling of that prophesie in Daniel Not that our Statesmen thought so or so intended but God did put it in their hearts to fulfill his will that it should be so And whereas this thing not being before heard of possibly will be sleighted therefore for prevention I shall let the Reader know my reasons for it 1. It was given by the Angel unto Daniel that the continuance of the ten horns or kingdomes after their rise and appearing should be onely 1260 years untill the thrones were set In the year 1648. that term expired for against the English horn the Ancient of dayes came and gave judgement So that it must necessary follow in the year 388. the Brittons became one of the horns We need not be beholding to humane histories where the Scripture is clear notwithstanding in this point our Chronocles as I said even now agree with Daniel as to the rise of the Brittish horn 2. From accommodating the years let us consider the work and thrones For the work first It is true in all ages before this Kings have been deposed imprisoned put to death but it was rather mans siting on the throne then the Ancient of dayes for what they did was only cutting off one horn or Tyrant and setting another up whereas root and branch was here taken away And this is the proper work of Thrones to change the times seasons dissolve foundations and remove former Pillars I say absolutely and utterly to break in pieces and consume the ten horns or kingdomes their places must not be found any more upon earth But a new form of government is to be constituted and set up 3. That the Ancient of dayes hath set up his throne in England I am further confirmed by the happy dissolution of the late Parliament really I have wondred that the Lord should suffer such men so long to prophane his throne Psal 89.14 Justice and judgement are the habitation of thy throne Psal 9.4 Thou satest in the throne doing right saith David Psal 9.4 I know many are in darknesse concerning this great change not able to apprehend the true ground and cause therof they run some into mistakes some into discontents some into rage and fury For the satisfying therefore of such people who desire to eye God and his hand which is lifted up I shall shew what is the true cause that the Parliament was dissolved The Ancient of days having set up his throne amongst us from which he will speak to and plead with the Nations round about was pleased to honour those men formerly in place as to admit them to sit upon his Throne And because like Jehu they did well in executing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and did unto the house of Charls Stuart all that was in his heart the Lord suffered them many years to sit on the throne of England but taking no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel but flying upon the spoile and giving countenance and encouragement to the sins of Jeroboam God at last rejected them as he did Saul And for this cause raised up the Generall I say for the Thrones sake that they might be no longer polluted and prophaned by such a generation of corrupt men And had not the Generall done what he did to have the Thrones purged from that drosse and filth which cleaved thereto I know not how he could have answered God for that power and trust which he hath put into his hands And here by the way let me speak a word unto such as shall sit next upon this Throne I would have men consider well beforehand what they doe Its Gods own throne and to speake comparatively it is the onely Civil Throne he hath now in the world By it he will doe mighty and terrible things And therefore such as are not for Christ and for the carrying on of his designe in the world he will lay them aside one after another And set such up as shall poure out the last Vials quickly upon Monarchs and the Antichristian Kingdome One thing more I shall add in Rev. 16.10 It is said And the fift Angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the Beast so the Greek hath it throne not seat and his kingdome was full of darknesse By the throne of the Beast I understand the ten horns that is the States and Kingdomes of the World which gave authority and power to the Beast By darknesse I doe not understand at least not chiefly that which is spirituall as in reference to their Errors Superstitions Idolatries c. for so that kingdome was full of darknesse before but it is meant of amazement and distraction not knowing what to doe nor seeing any way how to come out For application to the thing in hand after the death of the late king his throne and kingdom perishing under the fifth Vial how were people then generally at their wits end in such darknesse as they fell one upon another So upon the dissolving of this Parliament which was so degenerate as it lookt more like the throne of the beast then Gods throne what a thick darknesse is now gone over men as if an Angel had smitten them with blindnesse as were the Sodomites And this you must expect still along that as Thrones States Powers are broken to pieces so confusion destraction and darknesse will ever follow especially among hypocrites time-servers and the Antichristians None of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Dan. 10.12 And therefore for the Generall and such with him whom the Lord used as seasonable and good instruments to dissolve the late Parliament here may they see a divine stamp and
the little horne that is the Antichristian Kingdome Yet they are to be differenced in point of time as not having their beginning and rise together In this place the Antichristian Kingdome is the little horne but not the vile person because the basenesse and abhominable iniquity of that State was not so high and full as afterwards it was and appeared to the world and therefore then rightly called the vile person and not the little horne But to proceed from the State-plague I come to what is personall After the Ecclesiasticall Kingdom shall be destroyed Every plant which the heavenly father hath not planted Mat. 1. ● 13 rooted up the Antichristians and worshippers of the Beast will remaine and in as much blindnesse and hardnesse of heart as before And so much appears Revel 18.9.11 12 c. where the Kings of the Earth and the Merchants are brought in weeping and wailing when they see the smoake of the burning Now to finde out the time of the end concerning these mens destruction we must enquire after the first warr which the worshiprers of the Beast made against the Saints Twice the woman is said to flye into the wildernesse Rev. 12.6.14 And two warres the Antichristians made against her the former when that State was the little horne the later when it was the vile person Of the first now I intend only to speak Although the later which was against the Waldenses be more memorable both for the cruelty and continuance of it and will give much light to the matter I have in hand and therefore I purpuse by the good hand of God assisting me shortly to set it forth The first warre I finde made against the people of God by the Antichristians was in the yeare 406. About that time wee read of a people called Donatists who by the Antichristian Clergy and others were held Schismaticks Hereticks Blasphemers c. and no otherwise proceeded against and persecuted then if they had beene indeed most wicked people Others after them specially the Priests even to this day as Carriers horses follow the steps of their fore-fathers not taking notice who were their accusers nor the particulars whereof they were accused These Donatists by what doth appeare in the writings of their adversaries were honest men sound in the faith and suffered very much for the Truth sake Concerning their opinions howsoever we have them not but as reported and set downe by their Enemies who no doubt made things as bad as they could yet we shall take them as from them 1. They denyed the publique Assemblies that is the Parish Churches of the Papists as not being the Churches of Christ rightly constituted and separated from them because of the leaven and abhominations therein 2. They refused to submit to that power and form of Government which the little horne had devised and set up 3. They held that the Sacraments were no otherwise holy then as they were given and taken by holy men 4. It was their opinion that the Magistrate should not compell mens consciences not force unto acts of Religion 5. They are accused as being Millenaries that is did believe and teach that Jesus Christ in his humane nature should personally reign upon Earth I know other things are laid to their charge but so improbable yea impossible if such particulars as these were their Tenets as their Enemies might have been asham'd to put them gether and others since more asham'd of their ignorance and simplicity as not to see how ridiculous absurd and contradictory the old Popish Fathers are Augustine himself in the Story which they have left behind them concerning the Donat ●sts But to proceed Against these good men in whom began the witnesses that should prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes Note cloathed in sack-cloath warred the little horne in his worshippers by Canons Rev. 11.3 Councels Emperiall Edicts c. to the shedding of much innocent and precious blood And this was as I said before in the yeare 406. to which 1260. yeares being added it comes to the yeare 1666. and to the number of the Beast 666. So then in briefe my opinion is this As the Antichristian State shal be destroyed before or by the year 1660. and all that fulfilled which is set down Rev. 18. so not beyond the yeare 1666. shall the Antichristians themselves and worshippers of the Beast escape the vengeance of the Lord and of his Temple But either by repentance from dead workes come in and put themselves under the glorious Scepter of Jesus Christ or cast into the great Wine-presse of the wrath of God and so that fulfilled Rev. 19. And here the Lord wil put an end and period to all the troubles of the Gentile Churches not to goe beyond or further then the yeare 1666. After that time they shall be called to the marriage supper of the Lamb and sing Allelujah salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord God Allelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth I have done for this time with the first Prophesie For the second which concerns the 70. weeks I know 't is generally applyed to the coming of Christ in the flesh and to his death and sufferings but I understand it otherwise as being one of the choisest and clearest Prophesies in all the Scripture concerning the later times chiefly the two Witnesses a matter at this time much spoken of and about which godly men are diversly minded I am not willing to enter upon it now but promise the Reader he shall suddenly have it in an entyre Tract for it lies ready by me for the Presse From the Gentiles therefore I come to the time of the end belonging to the Jewes set down in Dan. 12.11 12. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abhomination that maketh desolate set up there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety dayes Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty dayes It is most certain that Jesus Christ by his death did put away all Jewish sacrifices he did I say Iure and in right destroy them vertually by his owne sacrifice the fulnesse and end of all their shadowes Notwithstanding facto and actually after his death many years and by divers steps and degrees For after the taking and sacking of Jerusalem by Titus the Citie not destroyed the Jewes still there inhabited and continued their vaine worship with more ignorant zeale then before For 1. In the Reign of Adrian the Roman Emperour who built and dedicated a Temple in Jerusalem to Jupiter Olympius at which the Jewes being offended rebelled and made head and in the end were overcome and dispersed and the Citie named Aelia and given into the possession of the Gentiles whereas before untill that time they had not ceased there from sacrifice 2. Being expelled the Citie yet they continued their superstitions in the Countrey and built an