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A56200	Sad and serious politicall considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Protestant brethren in Scotland, their late great overthrow, and the probable dangerous consequences thereof to both nations and the Prorestant [sic] religion which may serve as a satisfactory apology for such ministers and people, who out of conscience did not observe the publike thanksgiving against their covenant, for the great slaughter of those their brethren in covenant.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing P4058; ESTC R5356	63,285	75

he be afraid because Wars and miseries rage in all Coasts of the world For this is the eternal Law of Creatures which the Creator imposed upon them at first that the Birth of one thing should be the Death of another and that the order of Nature should be preserved by the vicissitudinary course of alternate Mutability And why should we be offended at warres amongst men when there are daily and continual Conflicts between the Elements themselves Cities Republiques Empires and Families are mortal as men have their states of Birth Infamy Growth and Old-age as well as they Glory Majesty Arts and Soveraignty began in Asia by the Assyrians from them departed to the Medes and Persians and from them before they had well tasted the sweetnesse of them translated to the Grecians and next to the Romans The Glory of the Roman Empire was eclipsed and humbled by the barbarous Inundations of Goths Huns Vandals and other savage Nations who being themselves once civilized and mollified by the Effeminacies of Italy and the West were in 560 years space overthrown by the Potency of Charlemain and the Germans Germany hath now fully possessed the Imperial dignity 790 years and before fifty years moe be past shall be made a scorned Servitor of the King of the North whose Power and Religion shall transcend the utmost Confines of East and West In the beginning of which Empire Venice shall not brag of being inaccessible by the circumfluent Ocean and London Paris Antwerp and Prague the IV Ladies of Europe shall be humbled to sit in the dust of eternal Destruction The consideration of this must teach men humility in prosperity carefulnesse to know God and keep his Commandments seeing every Plant which he hath not planted shall be plucked up and nothing can be permanent but by his favour and protection XV. Thou therefore the eternall and incomprehensible Father of lights the indivisible God of peace and unity look down at length upon the afflicted estate of thy Gospel and mournfull face of thy Church clouded with sects and schisms rent by civill combustions dying by the wounds which her sons have given and wallowing in that gore which was shed by the hands of her own children Though our sins have deserved that we should for ever be cast out of the sight of thy countenance yet respect thou the bloud of thy Sonne crying better things then that of Abel and be once at one again with thy inheritance● Abraham knows us not Israel is ignorant of us but thou art our Father and in thee shall be all our a●fiance with whom even the worst of men have found mercy Extend the light of thy loving-kindenes to the Tribes of Iacob and return to the many thousands of Israel for the time to build up Zion is come and the daies of restoring Jerusalem cannot be prolonged For why Thy servants think upon her stones and favour the very dust thereof But remember Edom O Lord as thou remembredst Babel which have cryed so oft Down with it down with it to the very earth Pour thy-vengeance down upon the Beast of Rome and the red Dragon of Constantinople who never knew thy name that so the sorrowfull sighings of the Prisoners may come before thee● and thy servants be preserved that are appointed to die Let thy work be upon the MAN of thy right hand and upon the Son of man whom thou hast made so strong for thy self that Pharaoh Elam Mesheck with the sonnes of Tubal may fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword and may descend into the midst of hell with all that help them even the whole multitude of the Uncircumcised whose Lot is to goe into the nether parts of the Earth There shall they have their beds with the Uncircumcised near those Valiants which are gone down to the grave with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads because they were the fear of the mighty in the Land of the Living But what shall be said to the Captain of the Nations or to the Angell destroying Edom and Babylon Even this That the Lord hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall trust in it He will leave an afflicted people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord He shall give them a pure Law that they may pray to him with one consent He shall open the doors of darknesse the gates of obscurity shall he break down that the world may be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea O thou sower of discord and Captain of iniquity how long wilt thou delight to murther spoil and pursue the distressed Knowest thou not that it will be bitternesse in the end Command the people to return every man from pursuing his brother for lo a Nation is risen against you a mighty Nation and terrible from the East whose horses ace fire and his Chariots flames of fire to devour his men are as swift as the Eagle who will have no compassion on the fruit of the womb nor shall their eye pity They shall encompasse ●hy Tents with an intent to lay all waste before them but neverthelesse be con●ident and bold in the Lord of Hosts for fire shall come down from Heaven and return their wickednesse upon their heads and their doings upon their own pates O thou worship of Israel how wonderfull art thou in thy doings toward the children of men● Bringing light out of darknesse strength out of weaknesse and making Justice the mean to the manifestation of thy goodnesse and glory As for me I will expect him who is as well the King of Salem Peace as Melchised●ck the King of Justice all my daies and will heartily pray for his coming who shall bring every work into judgement and every thing to a legall triall whether it be good or evill He is the Lamb upon the white Throne before whose face Heaven and Earth shall fly away and the Sea be no more found Death and Hell shall give up the dead that are in them and every Name that is not written in the Book of Life shall be cast into the Lake of fire For which time all the Creation groaneth crying out to be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption and restored to the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly that sin may be destroyed for ever and righteousnesse eternally established in stead thereof Amen FINIS For●itan hunc aliquis verbosum dicere librum Non dubitet forsan multò praestantior alter Pauca reperta pu●et quùm plura invenerit ipse Des●s impatiens nimis haec obscura probabit Pro capt●● Lectoris habent sua fata Libelli Sed me juditij non p●enitet haec benè vobis Commis● quibus est amor sapientia juxtà Et Labor in studijs ijsdem celebratus inhaeret Vos sequar in vestro satis est examine cautum * Exact Collection p. 663.666

rebuild their Temple but God destroyeth them all by Lightnings and Pestilences Horrible Earthquakes cast up into the Air the foundations which had been buried in rubbish till then Therefore Daniels compute of the Temples finall ruine must but begin then there begin his two Numbers Chap. 12. ver 11 12. of 1290 and 1335 which in all must but make 1335 years which added to 363 make up and point to Anno Christi 1698 the joyfull Jubile of the Churches Deliverance from all Adversity Anno Mundi 4373 The first Trumpet blown Fire and hail war and bloudshed Anno Christi 426 cast into the troublesome Sea of the Roman-Western-Empire by Valentinian and the succeeding Emperours untill the end of the Western-Empire The savage Inundations of Goths Huns Vandals and Bulgarians into Italy Revel 8.7 Anno Mundi 4553 The second Trumpet blown Boniface that Mountain of fiery Anno Christi 606 Combustions obtaineth of Phocas the Popish Supremacy Hence wars betwixt the Emperours and Popes Revel 8.8 9. Anno Mundi 4613 The third Trumpet blown The Romish Bishop the great Anno Christi 666 Star of the Western Christian Clergy falleth from the Heaven of Truth and Godlinesse and of a vigilant Pastour becomes a ravenous Robber of the Church and the gifts thereof Revel 8.10 11. Anno Mundi 4946 The fourth Trumpet blown The Pope fallen from Piety Anno Christi 999 and his Clergy from the Pulpits Christ the Sun of righteousness with his Merits the Church the Moon and the Ministers the Stars thereof are eclipsed and vilified by Sylvester II Revel 8.12 13. Anno Mundi 5018 Satan loosed out of prison beginneth to rage by Gregory VII Anno Christi 1071 against the Gospel of Christ Revel 20.4 Anno Mundi 5140 The fifth Trumpet blown The Vicar of Christ with his Anno Christi 1195 Keyes openeth hel's mouth to let out his Cloister-fiends and satanical Locusts to overspread the Earth of Christendome described by Iohn most graphically Revel 9.9 to 13. Anno Mundi 5245 The sixth Trumpet blown The Ottoman Empire ariseth invadeth Anno Christi 1300 first the Eastern-Empire of Constantinople and winneth it then flieth upon the Germane Emperour with barbarous millions of invincible Armies Revel 9.13 to the end The saying Revel 9.15 of the Turks preparation for a day a moneth and a year beginneth now Which Number allegorically taken maketh 398 years which added to A. 1300 the year of the original of the Turkish Empire sheweth that A. 1698. shall be the final down●al of the same Anno Mundi 5462 The last Trumpet is blown The Thrones Principalities and Anno Christi 1517 Dominions in Heaven rejoyce that God would now at length take his Churches Cause in hand and raise up Luther and other Sons of Thunder to vindicate the quarrel thereof against the Romish Antichrist to the ruine of his Kingdom Revel 11. from ver 15. to the end By eating of the Book Chap. 10. Measuring the Temple and slaying the Witnesses Chap. 11. is understood the Reformation by Luther and downfall of the Papacy under Charles the fifth Anno Mundi 5504 The first Vial poured out England Scotland and Ireland by Anno Christi 1559 the Reign of Queen Elizabeth renounce the Papacy which generates the ulcers of spight and malice in the Romish Church against England Revel 16.2 Anno Mundi 5518 The second Vial poured out Martin Chemnitius and others pronounce Anno Christi 1572 the vengeance of God against the mortiferous Sea of the Councel of Trent Revel 18.3 Anno Mundi 5528 The third Vial poured out The stinking Waters of the Papacy Anno Christi 1583 are infected with bloud in murthering of the Popes and Romanists in Rome the slaughters of the Spaniards in the Low-Countreys and the Discomfiture of the Spanish-Armado in Anno 1588. Revel 16.5 6 7. Anno Mundi 5540 The fourth Vial poured out The Protestant Champions Pareus Anno Christi 1605 Polanus Whitakers Perkins Andrews King Iames and others pour light upon the Sunne of the Gospel in writing against Bellarmine Stapleton Campian and other Papists Revel 16.8 9. Anno Mundi 5565 The fifth Vial is now pouring out The Swedes in Germany Anno Christi 1630 An. 1632. The English in England 1640 combine against the Papists Jesuites proscribed in Poland and Swethland Anno 1648. This Vial shall end in the ruine of Rome Anno 1666. Revel 16.10 11. Anno Mundi 5594 The sixth Vial beginneth to be poured out Three barbarous Anno Christi 1659 Nations sack Hydruntum in Apulia made enrodes into the Eastern Coasts of Italy and sack them with fire and sword Factions and Massacres in Rome and Tuskany The Pope contemned and invaded The Western Christians make an Army and fire Rome in the 2419 year after Romulus laid the foundation thereof as Sibylla prophesied Oracul lib. 4. Revel 16. from ver 12. to 17. Anno Mundi 5595 The faithfull and true Warriour riding upon a white Horse Anno Christi 1660 descendeth from heaven with his Souldiers riding upon white horses to fight against the enemies of his Church The Angel in the Sun calleth to all the fowles of heaven to come to the feast of God to eat the flesh of Kings Captains mighty Men and horses Rev. 19.11 17 18. And I saw the beast and the Kings of the earth and the Warriours gathered together to warre against him that sate on the horse and against his Souldiers But the beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that worketh miracles before him whereby he deceived them that have received the beasts mark and them that worship his image These two were cast alive into the lake burning with fire and brimstone c. Ibid. 19 20. Anno Mundi 5601 Vrbs antiqua ruit multos dominata per annos Anno Christi 1666 Destruiturque armis gens scelerata suis. Go out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins nor receive of her plagues Forasmuch O Rome as thou glorifiedst thy self and livedst in pleasure saying I sit a Queen am no widdow and shall see no sorrow therefore shall thy plagues come upon thee in one day death sorrow and famine and thou shalt be burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God that judgeth thee The Kings of the earth shall bewail thee and thou shalt never more be inhabited the light of a candle shall shine no more in thee and the voice of the Bridegroom and of the Bride shall be heard no more in thee Rejoyce O heavens for righteous are Gods judgements He hath condemned the great Whore Then they sung Hallelujah and her smoak arose up for evermore Rev. 18.7 8 20. 19.3 Anno Mundi 5614 Rome being destroyed Jews dwell amongst Protestants and begin Anno Christi 1679 to search into the Scriptures and learn the waies of God Anno Mundi 5618 A g●eat Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in Leo. The Jews Anno Christi 1684 converted in the West prepare to unite with their Brethren

summa Reddet Occasum sub leges mittet inermem Thus Englished Alas ill race to dismall Fates reserv'd By whom dire Beasts are tamed and preserv'd See what thou wert and art Thy first issue Inclines to War Plague doth the next subdue But Lion fierce sprung from the Northern shore Shall bring from deepest Hell and waves that rore A blasing Army he shall men o'rerun Cities and cattel yea the Moon and Sun Shall he remove and Father-like the least Make highest and give Laws to the weak West Yet he that returns back in reviewall of the conjunctions and fiery Triplicities may see how they have in part prognosticated the present troubles and and distractions of Europe with the Common-wealths of England and Scotland Anno 1603 in the first great conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in the fiery triplicity K. Iames came to the Crown of England and so was fulfilled that Prophecie which an holy Anchoret made 890 years agoe English men for that they wonneth them to drunkeinesse to treakson and rechlesenesse of Got's house firsten by Dancs thenth by Nortmans and the thrid time by Scots whom they holden lest worthen of all they shallen be overcompn Then the world shallen be unstable and so various and diversable that the unstablenesse of thoughts shallen b● betookeineid by many manner diversity of cloathing This could never be fulfilled but by a Scottish King swaying the English-scepter and therefore never came to passe till the Union of the two Kingdoms under the said King As the second Conjunction Anno 1623. found Germany and most of the West involved in civil Wars and as the third An. 1643. found the King and Subjects of England in the field one against the other so the fourth Conjunction An. 1663 in Sagitarius shall begin those destructive Combustions in Italy which shall allure the Protestant Armies to make a third all-conquering Party in the same and the fifth An. 1683 in Leo shall bring forth the Conversion of the Jews but the sixth Conjunction happening in Taurus An. 1703 shall behold that which many glorious Saints and children of God have read of and ●ejoyced and desired to see and yet could not see them For now Revel 22.1 ●hall the Sea that is the miserable estate of the World by Wars Desolations and Sicknesses be destroyed and no more extant Now shall the time of Tribulation War and desolation the time of torments temptation heresie and persecution be utterly abolished from the memory of men For a new Heaven and a new Earth a renovated Church purified Saints shall succeed in the room of those Wolves who in sheeps-cloathing devoured the Flock of Christ. These are the dayes for the hope of which the stones of ●ion cry day by day though little esteeming seven thousand deaths in regard of that precious assurance g●aven in their Brests that they shall then and in that day behold the Lord which hath mercifully gathered them from all Nations and hath so wonderfully preserved them from the sorcery of Babylon which hath destroyed all the Earth that leadeth them in and out bef●re Pagans Hereticks and Idolaters before the covetous and foolish-wise of this world so prudently and so invisibly that they seeing are not seen and living are not known But from these low things let us ascend up to Scripture further to prove the certainty thereof Daniels Image as it gave the first so it gave the fullest Knowledge of this great Mystery of the Church of God Dan. 2. per tot In which Image is described in brief the Estate of the World from the very day God revealed this to Daniel and he to Nebuchadnezzar to the full and final End and Conclusion of time By the golden Head silver Arms brazen Belly and iron Legs we must understand the Chaldean Persian Macedonian and Roman Monarchies which successively one after another tyrannized over mankinde by cruelty and by cruelty came to as miserable Destructions in the end The feet part of Iron and part of Clay denoted the declining Estate of the Roman Empire after that indiscreet Division of it under Charles the Great into the Eastern and Western under the present Papacy and now-vulturizing house of Austria which hitherto doth and shall continue until An. 1694. Therefore the Stone cut without hands in the 34 verse which smote the Image on his feet that were part of Iron part of Clay and so brake them to pieces that the Iron Brasse Clay Silver and Gold became as chaff of the Summer-flowers that the winde carried them away and no more place was found for them And the Stone that smote the Image became a great Mountain and filled the Earth must needs be understood of a glorious Monarchy of the Church of God upon Earth which by the Conversion of the Universal Nation of the Jews shall overcome all her Enemies and reign triumphantly in all Nations under Heaven in universality uniformity integrity and inn●cency of life and conversation This blessed and happy estate of Christs Church upon Earth after the aforesaid battel of Gog and Magog described Ezech. 38. and 39 Chap. of which enough before is graphically deciphered in the nine last Chapters of the same Prophet beginning at the 40 where under a specious and large type of restoring the old Jewish Temple with the Sacrifices chap. 40. the measuring ordering and disposing of it in every thing thereto belonging chap. 41. as the chambers of the Priests in the Temple the holy Utensils chap. 42. the glory of God filling the house chap. 43. his paternall upbraiding the Israelites for their antient Idolatry and demonstrating his great and affectionate love to them for the present chap. 44. is contained as I said before a pithy discourse how powerfull and magnificent these new converted Christians shall be how holy learned and unanimous their Ministers should be how ardent and studious they shall be in communicating the Gospel of Christ to such as yet sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death chap. 45. how vigilant their Princes and Magistrates shall be in being keepers of the house of God that is in incouraging the Ministers tam praemio quàm paenâ to instruct the people in the knowledge of the truth that so both Ministers and people may render due obedience to their common Saviour in love to God and charity toward men And again the reserved portions of Land for the Temple City Priests and Princes all in just measures and dimensions the waters issuing out of the Temple ever increasing in Latitude and Profundity the severall divisions of the particular lots of Priests Temple Levites the City and the Princes secondarily repeated in the 45 46 47 and the last Chapters evidently declare the undoubted certainty and verity of this wonderfull mystery that the Jews shall repossesse their antient possessions and severall inheritances in the Land of Iudea how devout pious and chearfull they shall be in the worship and service of God intimated by