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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

which Christ in that place chiefly intends in comparing the time of Noah with the latter times for howsoever the prophane wretches then neither knew nor foresaw the coming of the flood yet Noah (e) Gen. 6 7. and 7.4 did he I say both foresaw and foretold the time of the old worlds destruction It was indeed concealed from the wicked because it was to come upon them as a snare in the night but revealed unto Noah for (f) Heb. 11.7 his own and the Churches preservation Even thus saith (g) Luk. 17 30. Christ shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed that is some shall know nothing of the times but go on in their ignorance and unbelief as become (h) 2 Pet. 3.34 scoffers and walking after their own lusts and saying where is the promise of his coming and so perish in the coming destruction others on the other hand by faith like Noah shall prepare an Ark to the saving of their own souls 2 As concerning the Saints Christ doth not simply and absolutely deny unto them the knowledge of the time for he knew that the time was to be revealed unto them (i) Dan. 12.4 9 10 near the end but he denyeth it onely to the Saints present and far distant from the end to whom it was not to be (j) Dan. 12.4.10 made known as being unseasonable and not expedient and would have occasioned rather hurt then good Christ saith in a certain (l) John 7 6 10. place My time is not yet come neverthelesse within a little while after he goes up to the feast so concerning the godly whether we respect the dayes of Daniel or Christ the time then was not come that the prophesies of the End should be opened to them yet they shall be opened and made known to Saints near the finishing and before their accomplishment Object 3. (m) Mark 13.32 But of that day and hour knoweth no man no not the angells which are in heaven neither the Son but the Father I know there are severall answers given som not as meere man Others though not the day and hour yet the year might be known both to Christ angels and men But to let these things passe my answer is Christ as the Son of man knew it not till he was ascended and glorified hence it is that he is acknowledged n Rev. 4 5 9 worthy to take the book and to open the Seals thereof mark the reason For thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood so then as (o) Rev. 1.1 God gave unto Jesus Christ the Revelation to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to passe so this is as a fruit of his sufferings rising again and fitting at the right hand of his father And this is a point of marvellous consequence though little minded for it is matter of encouragement to ask wisdome of God that we may understand Daniel and the book of the Revelation what is meant by (p) Dan. 7.25 Time times and dividing of time what by the (q) Rev. 11.2 42 Moneths the 1260 dayes what by the (r) Rev. 13.18 number of the Beast which is 666. and (s) Dan. 6.12 6. how long it shall be to the end of these wonders Because Christ by his death became worthy to open the Seals that is with other things purchased by his blood for us this great priviledge to know the time and seasons and to make them known unto his Church and people If it be a thing which a man owns and hath a lawfull interest and right in it he can ask it with the more boldnesse and confidence and doubts not but to have it So here c. Object 4. Many learned and godly men diving and searching into these mysteries and hidden things have been greatly mistaken and by their extravagances have lost themselves which makes others warie and cautious how to meddle with them Answ 1. By the same reason other Scriptures are not to be searcht for learned men have most corruptly and falsely interpreted them 2 Though it be asserted by us that it is possible needfull yea required to search out the accommodation of the years yet we do not say every man howbeit learned and godly shall understand for the Lord may do what he will with his own 3 That many formerly have been mistaken it is not strange because the time was uncertain in which they lived the Revelation being reserved as I said before for the Saints of the last age Besides that many I do not speak of all even in these our dayes misse the mark no marvell For 1. Some of them (t) Prov. 3.5 6. lean unto their own wisdome humane learning arts sciences authority of men and seek not the Lord by faith and prayer to have direction light and counsell from him and hence and justly too is that verefied on them u Rom. 1.2 professing themselves to be wise they became fools 2 It is an usuall thing with Scholars to follow one another right or wrong The old Fathers as they are call'd applyed many things to their times which as then had no relation others coming after say the very same and look no further and so one leads another out of the way 3 Another cause of many mens mistake in the accommodation of years is confounding one thing with another and disorderly setting down that first which should be last and last first thus they appply promiscuously to Jews and Gentiles what should be distinguished as proper but to one Again distinguish not between the Ecclesiasticall and Civill State as to the rise and fall of both cry up a present glorious condition of the Church far before her warfare is accomplished Lastly for such as are warie and cautious how to meddle with the times I shall say no more but thus If a man towards the beginning of Harvest should travell through the Countrie from London to York possibly then he would see very few Harvest labourers in the fields but let him passe the same way a few weeks after he shall see people every where at work and every one his hands full At present we are but at the beginning of the Harvest but I believe and note it well before one year is expired the Lord will send forth such a multitude of labourers into his Harvest as not a man that is come out of Babylon and hath seperated himself from all the abominations thereof but will make it his speciall work to search Daniel and the Revelaion and diligently seek after the knowledge of the Times Objection 5. This pretending to Inspirations Revelations and the spirit of prophesie is no other then what John of Leiden Herman Rotman and Chipperdoling did and so the Munster businesse whereby multitudes were betrayed and driven to Rebellion and great mischief and miserie followed Answer 1. This is no other aspersion and scandalons reproach then hath

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

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

removed what will our next Governours have to say for themselves if they doe not appear and act earnestly for just and righteous things If a man did certainly know the day of his death what appetite or desire could he have to meat an hour before he was to dye It may be those things which I here write some will not receive but howsoever I shall discharge mine owne conscience and therefore this I do declare with confidence to the world that corrupt men and selfe-seekers their trade is coming down and two years shall not be expired mark it but they shall vomit up what they have gotten by injustice falshood bribery c. and God shall cast it out of their bellie But more particularly to the present worke Such as will act well hereafter and serve their generation they must in most things do otherwise and contrary to what others have done before them I shall only instance some particulars briefly 1. They must be active and quickly dispatch the business which they take in hand and not to tell people as others usually did of the Thankes of the House and that it was under Debate referred to a Committee c. and here was all But let Petitioners be speedily relieved in their just applications I have seen at the foot of great houses Images set out in such a posture as if the building lay on their backs Such pictures we had as made shew to have the Church and Common-wealth on their shoulders whereas in truth for most of them neither the one nor the other had any reall help or supportance from them 2. They must not seek nor desire to grow rich and great in the world by being in Authority but advance the Publique Interest and not their owne A thing formerly not practised by many but left the care of publick concernment to enrich themselves Hence it is that many of them who before the Parliament began were not worth two or three hundred pounds a year have now made it up some to a thousand some to fifteen hundred some to two thousand pounds a year and more These must be served as Esop did his fellow-servant he gave him warm water to drink by which means he vomited up the stollen figges 3. It is a work now proper to the higher Powers to be carefull what men they appoint as Justices and Magistrates in the Common-wealth hitherto in Towne and Countrey such have been in many places as have most grosly abused the people exercised even an arbritary power where they liv'd and done what they list as knowing if their insolencies and exorbitances should be complained of they had a * Of this thing wee had a memorable example in Hull where one Master Shaw a notable Turn-coate and Time-server as lives hath committed such scandalous actions as seldome are heard of yet no Justice could passe against him by reason of the corrupt Mayor The things are so foule against them both as honest men wonder they should be suffered But so long as the last Parliament stood Mr. Shaw was supported in all the mischiefe he plotted either against the Towne or honest men The last Speaker Baron Thorp and Sir Henry Vane know who I meane and who did helpe Shaw to make three or foure unworthy Aldermen at a clap all Brothers and to have what Mayor and Sheriffs Shaw would to carry on his Designe which was to disquiet the peace of the place and affront the honest party I heare hee studieth to get favour amongst those who are now in place But that no honest man may be deceived by him this I testifie publiquely and of knowledge he is a most corrupt man and hitherto countenanced by men as corrupt and rotten as himselfe friend in the House would bear them out in spight of all accusers Hence a man every where might have seen that in Solomon fulfilled When the wicked beareth rule the people mourn 4. How many years hath it been under Debate in the House concerning the propagation of the Gospell Now I desire every one that fears God to observe what progresse they have made herein This I affirme to be true they have left standing in the Nation a Clergy or generation of Priests more scandalous prophane wicked insufficient c. then was in the Bishops time and before they began to sit Notwithstanding they would send their Acts to these wretches that they should pray and give Thanks for them Whereas Hezekiah sent to Isaiah the Prophet to lift vp his prayer for the remnant That these unworthy men are to be removed from their unsanctified places and standing the word of God is clear for it but whether he will so far honour our next Governours in putting them upon so glorious a worke a little time will shew 5. Be sure that ye be real and faithfull to such men whom you know to be reall and faithful to that Cause and Worke you are upon Of late Turn coats Time-servers Apostates and such like have been most favoured soonest heard and prefer'd The which was one speciall cause of their ruine and will destroy others if they do the like As fire taken off from the hearth and put to the Thatch will burn down the house Even so if men in place with-draw their affection from honest and good men to act for unworthy ones they cannot stand Let them associate themselves and they shall be broken take counsell together and it shall come to nought 6. Psal 4.3 Ps 101.6 As the Lord will set apart him that is godly And David saith mine eyes shall be upon the faithfull of the land So in choosing men to publique employment carnall relations must be laid aside and men fearing God pitch't upon It would be worth the while to consider how many are in place who hate to be reform'd count it their grace that they are gracelesse yea despight the spirit of grace in Saints If a man should sow Tares in his Field or plant thornes and thistles in his Garden would it be a wonder afterward to see fruit according to the kind he hath sown and planted Those that do set and plant in the Common-wealth crafty men covetous and deceitfull fellows I meane as to have places of great trust and concernment if they deceive the State no marvail Who will expect grapes of thornes or figs of thistles 7. There is another abuse which honest men desire speedily to have reform'd namely a multitude of unnecessary and uselesse Officers publiquely employed in civill affairs whereby the Revenues of the Common-wealth are extreamly wasted which men if removed not onely many thousand pounds a year would be saved but the worke speedier and much better done Besides it is well known that some of the late Parliament have devised new Offices where there was none before Note and whereof there is no use in the world purposely to set in some of their own kindred for sallarie 8. Whereas many have gotten great estates by falshood

deceit unfaithfulnesse done many unjust actions and doe fraudulently detain much of the publique treasure in their hands and some are ready to manifest and prove so much It is desired not only that some men may be appointed to heare and receive the Informations and Charges which shall be brought forth against such Delinquents but speciall care be taken about the choise of them as that they be able men Exod. 18.21 such as feare God men of truth hating covetousnesse As those last men in power were for the most part men most corrupt so ordinarily they set none in places under them but men corrupt and rotten as themselves And therefore no marvail though some much desired to have their olde Masters in again for they knew they were NONE SUCH to serve their turne The glasse-window lets in light but keeps out winde and raine I hope to see such in place as will heare and receive the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and keep back partiality respect of persons relations private Interests 9. For the Regulating of the Laws and other corruptions amongst us here it is expected that things be now done speedily and effectually The turning of the Law into English no way eased or lessened the grievances of the people Cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently Remember the TWO PLAGUES of this Nation PRIESTS and LAWYERS Because thou hast let goe out of thy hand 1 Kin. 20.42 a man whom I appointed to utter destruction therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people 10. Take heed of making Parties and running into factions as the former ever did to carry on particular and private designes The worke before you is publique and generall and therefore be not divided in Schismes and Factions but unanimously accord together in the present worke of the Lord. In raysing up a materiall house when the workmen sweetly agree together the building goes forward apace so here How farre the Lord will carry on his work instrumentally by such as shall be next in power as to consider of these and other things I know not neither what the Lord intends to doe by them concerning the breaking in pieces the fourth Monarch and Antichristian Kingdome But this I know if these come not up to the work others shortly will For it shall not be left undone beyond the yeare 1655. A people then shall be created to fulfill the will of God and he will put it into their hearts in order to the Prophesies of the later time Hab. 23. For the vision is yet for an appointed time but in the end it shall speake and not lie A Post-script Reader I Have considered that there are two things wherein thou maist be much unsatisfied concerning this subject 1. How to destroy the little horne or Antichristian Kingdome can stand with Tolleration of Religion and liberty of Conscience allowed by the present Government and upon just and good grounds 2. To break the fourth Monarchy tends not to make this Common-wealth happy and flourishing which the higher Powers are to seek after but to preserve Peace and so Trade with other Nations is much better for our prosperity welfare and happinesse I shall answer both 1. The Antichristian Kingdom is a State guilty of blood and accordingly to be arreigned and executed In Rev. 18. after Babylon is said to be destroyed the reason of it is shewed in the last verse In her was found the blood of the Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain upon the earth So that hence it doth appear that no wilfull murtherer more justly can be put to death then the power of the Beast destroyed for shedding innocent blood 2. As the times may be some acts of Justice may be forborn which afterward ought and must be done David complains 2 Sam. 3.29 that the sonnes of Zerviah were too hard for him yet Solomon following being in a better capacity put one of them to death and justly too For a more cleare illustration Though murther be discovered and the person known yet no execution can be done upon him till he fall into the hands of Justice Indeed then if the Magistrate neglect his duty and suffer him to escape he wraps himself in the blood and guilt of the Malefactor That blood-guiltinesse lies on the Antichristian Kingdome this hath been known to Saints in former ages but the sonnes of Zerviah were alwayes too hard for them but now when the power shall be in their hands not to execute judgment upon the murtherer is as I conceive to be no otherwise then accessary to the blood of the Prophets and of the Saints in the great City Babylon 3. To give liberty tolleration I am clearly for yet so as the known will of God be fulfilled concerning the work of this present time And therefore we must distingush between persons and things Persons are to be tollerated though diversly minded in point of Religion but where the vengeance of the Lord and the vengeance of his Temple Rev. 18.6 is expresly cal'd for and to be executed thus and thus What tolleration is to be granted here in such a case I desire those to consider of who are specially concerned in it Lastly seeing I have mentioned so often the Antichristian Kingdom to be destroyed by the Ancient of dayes sitting upon his Throne c. It will not be amisse that I give the Reader my meaning more fully This Antichristian Kingdom or State was first erected against Jesus Christ that is to corrupt his word and worship and to destroy his people under a pretence of blasphemy heresie schisme c. The which in Popery Prelacy and Presbytery hath been both profest and prosecuted whereby much innocent blood hath been shed and would be still if the Magistrate would give his power to them Besides by this Antichristian State against the Lord Jesus Christ a Church Ministery Worship Government hath been devised and set up All which the Saints neer the end will call to an account and finding the same to be guilty of innocent blood and a main let to the present exaltation of Christs Kingdome will judicially give sentence that it be thrown downe and be no more at all Reward her even as she hath rewarded you Rev. 18.6 and double unto her double according to her works In the cup which she hath filled fill her double As if he should say whereas this bloody Kingdome most falsly judged you in the Saints which were before to be Hereticks Blasphemers Schismaticks and persecuted you by imprisonment banishment confiscation of goods yea death it self And would not suffer you to walk in the faith and order of the Gospel Reward her even as she rewarded you that is as God hath put the power of Nations into your hand and the day and judgement of Babylon being now come Wheresoever the Lord carries you forth execute the vengeance of the