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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93209	A short discourse (recommended to all our English divines) concerning the death of the witnesses in general, and the two witnesses in particular plainly shewing, first, the chief and true reason of their death. Secondly, the manner how they are to be slain. Thirdly, the place where. Fourthly, the time when. Fifthly, by whom they are to be slain. Sixthly, the true reason why they are overcome, and why in particular by a war. Seventhly, who they are, and that they have already been slain. The conclusion.		1699 (1699)	Wing S3584B; ESTC R230290	9,279	14

A SHORT DISCOURSE Recommended to all Our English DIVINES Concerning the Death of the Witnesses in general AND The Two Witnesses in particular Plainly Shewing First The Chief and True Reason of their Death Secondly The Manner How they are to be Slain Thirdly The Place Where Fourthly The Time When. Fifthly By Whom they are to be Slain Sixthly The True Reason Why they are Overcome and why in particular by a War Seventhly Who they are and that they have already been Slain The CONCLVSION I. FIRST The chief Reason of their Death is not their Adversary's Malice as hath been generally supposed no This is only the Secondary and Instrumental Cause thereof the True and Chief Reason of their Death is the Necessity thereof for having Finished their Testimony they Ought to die New Evidence is to be given therefore They are to be thrust out of Court Come Vp Hither saith the Text this Great Voice was not made or directed to them for They and Their Testimony were slain But to the New-Risen Witnesses investing Them with Power and authorizing Them to give in Their Evidence and to commence a New Dispensation Was the Death of Christ for I must all along make a Comparison therewith Necessary to put a Period to the Jewish Dispensation and Ceremonies then Their Death was necessary to put an End to the Christian I mean the First Christian Dispensation No Dispensation can be finished without Death and without a Death there can be no Resurrection and without the intire Dissolution of the Old there can be no New Dispensation So 't is self-evident That the Death of the Witnesses is Necessary for would the Old Dispensation have served God's Purposes and the World's Necessities 't is certain they had not been slain 'T was impossible it should be otherwise Father saith Christ if possible let this Cup pass from me But since it did not pass what doth his Death imply but that 't was impossible it should be otherwise And since the Head could not according to God's Appointment escape Death on account of Finishing the Old and Commencing a New Dispensation 't is much more impossible for the Body or Members to avoid Drinking of the same Cup when they are in the same Circumstances and Predicament II. Secondly As to the Manner How they are slain To this I answer That Sickness Persecution or any other Abuse or Alteration in the same Subject Body or Constitution is not This special Death they are to undergo My Reasons are First If This sort of Death might have served the Turn Then Christ had had no Occasion to have prayed Father if possible c. For it had been possible and feasible enough to have Effected the Great Design without his Drinking the Bitter Cup For a Scourging a Whipping or any other Abuse to his Sacred Person would have served the Turn Secondly Would This sort of Death have served the Design of God then they might have died and rose often because they might be persecuted and abused often But 't is self-evident That This Death ought to be Circumstanced so and be of such a Nature that they may die but once because Christ died but once and indeed no Man can die twice Thirdly Would This sort of Death have done the Business then they would have risen Bare grain with their Old Bodies and this contradicts the true Analogy of a Resurrection There ought to be nothing Old in the Resurrection but all Things New And Christ himself in relation to this Great Scene saith Behold I make all Things New Sickness or Weakness is not Death Restitution is not Resurrection The Powers and Constitution of the Old Church and State ought not to be impaired or weakned but totally dissolved to make it Death and not restored or repaired but absolutely Rebuilt to make a Resurrection otherwise the true Analogy of Death and Resurrection will not be answer'd And when I say the Church and State are thus absolutely to be dissolved I think I need not say that both Head and Member ought so to be for I comprehend both under the Denomination of Witnesses III. Thirdly As to the Place where It ought not to be in an Inland Country And therefore not in Rome Piedmont Germany Bohemia Hungaria France c. as some have thought I freely own that some Members or Parts of the Body of the True Church and in a common Sense the Witnesses of Jesus in all these Countries have been abused persecuted and slain but These were not final but intermediate Deaths and as the Church can have no Abortive Birth so no immature Death But Secondly As such Abuses and Persecutions have no Title to the Denomination of This Special Death so the Places are very improper for it Because it must be acknowledged that Inland Countries are unfit to begin a Dispensation in and nothing is more certain than that the Witnesses are slain on purpose that a New Dispensation may commence Further The Head was slain in the East the Body ought therefore to be slain in the West But this will be more confirmed if we consider The Holy Writings make mention of Two Harvests the First in the East and by consequence the Latter in the West for the usual Custom of Reapers confirms it who usually begin at the End of a Field The World is this Field The First Harvest was the Jewish Ceremony and Pagan Idolatry they were to be Reaped down so the Reapers of those Times viz. the Old Witnesses began Their Work in the East and Now the Christian Superstition and Papal Idolatry is to be reaped down so 't is convenient the Reapers that is the New-risen Witnesses begin their Harvest in the West Nature will direct us in this Affair The Sun and the Gospel are Fellow-Travellers They Finish their Journey in the West and then set out again for the East But Lastly The Witnesses and their Two chief Representatives are to be slain in their own chief Country and own chief City Because Christ was slain in Judea at Jerusalem otherwise there will not be a due Conformity betwixt the Body and the Head And as for the Place being called Sodom and Aegypt it imports Little because 't is Spiritually called so for Judea by the Prophets has often been Spiritually called Sodom and so very well may the Witnesses Country with a Salvo to their Holy Function IV. Fourthly As to the Time When. To this I answer 'T is When they have come to their Journey 's End When they have Finished their Course and Testimony When they have Acted that Part and Published those Truths Heaven has appointed them to Publish When the Minor or Guardian State of 1260 Years are Ended When the Church is come to her adult State When she is grown a Woman or come Ad Mensuram Staturae Christi adulti This is called the Fulness of Time And Then it is they are slain Then it is that a Solemn Period is put to the Old Dispensation Then it is a

these Two Witnesses were the Answer is Hi sunt Duae Illae Oleae meaning Zerubbabel and Joshua Now none can make any Thing of these Two but a King and a High Priest And though the Temple was measured and THOSE viz. the People who worshipped therein Yet I find the Text points no more but once to the Multitude and indeed 't was needless because they had no Power They are under Care and Protection but cannot represent that they have not And those Persons therefore are much mistaken who suppose a few common Individuals slain in any Country may answer the Death of the Two Witnesses They make no Distinction betwixt the Body and Head 'T is certain the common Mass as living they have no Power so their Death can represent the finishing of none I mean their Death singly and apart yet in Conjunction with their Head the TWO I own their Death adds to the Efficacy and Solemnity and that they ought to fall at the General Harvest by the Angel's Sickle Yet to compleat such a solemn Period and to make it Full and Authentick nothing less than the Solemn Death of a King and an High Priest will do the Business For these being the Heads or chief Proprietors of Power are the most fit and proper Persons to undergo the Passive Solemnity of its Abrogation NOW such a Thing has happened amongst us viz. a King and an High Priest have been slain after an unparalell'd and uncommon Manner or rather after a most proper Manner they were slain in the Face of the Sun with the highest Solemnity that all the World might take notice that the Grand Period of the Old Dispensation was finished And not only in this Point but in all other Circumstances as to Time and Place Process and Arraignment their Death exactly agrees with the Text and Counterpart IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE WORLD THESE TWO WITNESSES REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TRVE CHVRCH OR WHOLE PROTESTANT BODY IN THEIR OWN COVNTRY BY THEIR OWN FRIENDS AT THEIR OWN CHIEF CITY WERE OVERCOME BY A WAR and SLAIN God is True and all the World are Lyars He hath told us In the End it shall speak and not Lye Now here the Vision speaks and who can contradict it This Truth deserves to be writ in Capitals of Gold since it asserts the Veracity of God which foolish and vain Man has so long called in Question I own there are several Persuasions but no Matter by what Names we are called There are only Two Churches a True and False One and I find the Holy Spirit takes notice of no more Yet 't is observable the First is exprest by Four differing Denominations viz. Tribus Populi Linguae Gentes and the Latter but by One viz. Jucolae Terrae Now possibly amongst other Meanings the Difference in Opinion may be one that causeth this Distinction But leaving this Enquiry to the more Curious let the Four be who and what they will 't is certain these Two slain Witnesses were the Head of them all and appointed by Heaven to finish their Old State and Administration The Church is in Two differing States First under the Minor or Guardian State then under the Adult State And these Two slain Witnesses finish the Minor or Guardian State being the Two Last chief Proprietors of Power therein And this gives great Light to those Congratulations of the Church on Christ's Arrival to his Manhood in the Church and by Consequence on his Accession to the Throne We Thank Thee say they Lord God Almighty who art and wast and art to come Because thou hast taken to THY SELF 't was in the Hands of Guardians before Thy Great Power c. This implies a lesser Power in the former State The Millennium is nothing but the Manhood of Christ in his Church and when He comes to his Manhood He is invested of course with his Great Power But I would not be mistaken I prefer the Master before the Servants and am far from making a Comparison betwixt the Death of the Two Witnesses and that of Christ's as to the Merit of it yet I must be forced to acknowledge and the Holy Scripture will bear me out that Their Death is the true Counterpart of His and ought to be attended with much the like Circumstances viz. a Resurrection not Literal Ascension and New Dispensation As to the Two First the Text plainly mentions them and the Last to me is as plain For when John had eaten up the Book of the Old Dispensation he was told That he must PROPHESIE AGAIN before People and Nations and Tongues and many Kings The Words Finishing Prophecy and Prophesying again illustrate one the other nor can we think they will prophesie again what they have finished but turn over a New Leaf and begin a New Chapter And now Notwithstanding any former Opinion which I shall not be ashamed to disown at present the Truth shines so full in my Face that I cannot otherwise think and do hope so will others That the Death of the afore-mentioned Persons was the True Death of the Two Last Witnesses which were to die to finish the Old Dispensation Those who have Objections let them publish them All Christians must own That such a Thing if not done some Time or other in some Place or other must be done and since it must be done let them produce better Reasons if they can that This is not the Fact or that it is yet to be done and I shall willingly acquiesce therein But I am satisfied they cannot It therefore being taken for granted that the Two Witnesses are slain and Old Dispensation finished the next necessary Inference will be that we are on the Premises of the Millennium and that the Downfall of Rome is just at the Door For This black Tragedy as it withdraws the Old Scenes so it presents the World with New ones and opens a wide Door for Light and Truth But to conclude I shall endeavour to bring the Thing yet closer and make it yet a little more plain by Summing up the Whole CONCLVSION There are a True and a False Church or Two Syncronizing Powers enter the Stage of the World these Two Powers are represented by an inward and outward Court the Latter persecutes the Former all the Time they are on the Stage the Former are called Witnesses having this Name from the Nature of their Office which is of a Twofold Nature for they have a Charge to give in Testationem Protestationem to Publish and give their Evidence to Divine Truths and Matters of Fact and to make Protestation against all Iniquity and Idolatry and especially against the Persecution of their Adversaries The Date of their Adversaries Power and theirs is equal but during the greatest part of their appointed Time being persecuted and trodden under Foot little Strength or Power though virtually in them appears but near the Expiration thereof it exerts it self not only in order to pull down and oppose their Adversaries but