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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29275	The churches going in and coming out of the wildnernes opened by the unworthiest of the gospel-ministers, John Brayn.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4320; ESTC R23803	12,764	20

and commonly to the most unlikely means that none may glory in man nor man in himself but all in God 1 Cor. 1. 20. 5. In the spirit of humility I beseech all publike persons to consider how sad a thing it would be if the time of the Churches Revelation being at hand any thing of Power or Authority should be made use of to keep it from us and from the world did not the Spirit of God stir up the Spirit of man within him for the love of Christ and the Gospel to undergo any thing what means may this be to bolt out the Kingdom of heaven from us and to shut it up from us for ever 6. Conclusion hence is that until the Kingdom estate be brought forth to the world the world will not see peace It is good for Magistrates and Ministers to help it forth but not to hinder it a woman in travel though her throws for a time cease yet they leave her not but come upon her until she be delivered of her childe the woman now travels in pain again to be delivered as heretofore Rev. 12. 2. Isa. 56. 8. Shall a Nation be born at once It is well observed of learned Broughton That while Solomons Temple lay waste all the world was in war and in flames of fire as it were but when it was restored God blessed all the world with a sweet peace which change of our estate observe it well will be in some kinde agreeable hereunto as all shall see who live to behold it Psal. 118. 22 25. when the stone shall become the head stone laid for the building God will send prosperity and not before A third general ground to prove the Churches not being yet come forth may be from Rev. 12. 7. There was war in heaven c. 1. The holy Spirit having ended with the Churches time in the wilderness comes to shew what should succeed it in her coming thence 2. In her beginning visibility there is a war between those are of her visible Members in this war many Ministers are cast down or Angels v. 8. Their place was found no more in heaven 3. Ver. 10. A voyce cryed saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ 1. Here is a clear difference made betwixt heaven before the war and the kingdom after the war 2. This diststinction is apparently clear in the Word now if now then not before being the most certain note and distinction of time 3. When this comes comes Salvation strength and the power of his Christ and not before shewing there would in this war be much weakness until then and then God would bless it with strength and power by which the Church should prove victorious in the world But of these things I forbear to speak more of but refer it unto the Exposition I have intended to write much more particularly and at large if the Lord give leave as these things come to be discussed of Obj. These are dubious Scriptures and therefore the proof cannot be sufficient and again many are the contrary Expositions made by the learned against this of yours which are rather to be assented unto c. 1. Friend the hiding and time of the hiding of Church must be hence or now here 2. The Scripture is dubious indeed before but plain in the fulfilling 3. The Scripture was given against doubts not to occasion them and to reveal beforehand the purposes of God to his Church near before the accomplishment whereof God usually reveals them by the Word and Spirit to some of the Church as in Huss Prediction of Luther Brightman of the fall of Episcopacy Now for the contrary Expositions made of some of the most eminent that I have read I shall in brief insert 1. Junius makes the 1260 days to be from the beginning of the rebellion to the end of the destruction and Temple which was done before John wrote his book of the Revelation who saith of the things in the book they are things shortly to come to pass so that I think it is clear he alludes to nothing past in this book 2. Others make this time agree with the wise mens coming to Christ and end with Herods death which is sufficiently answered in that made to the former 3. Opinion is That the 1260 days and the time times and half a time are one and the same being three years and a half Resp. 1. These are not the same they differ in maner of revelation as in the words themselves appear 2. They differ in time the one before the Churches coming forth the other after many things came to be done between as the War and fall of the Dragon the fall of the Angels the coming of Kingdom The one I think concerns the Jewish Church who is the woman brought forth the Male Childe the other the Gentiles The Jews shall have their place appointed them of God for safety their time times and half as the Gentiles their 1260 days whom infinite floods of persecution most certainly are to attend from all which God will most graciously save that people and joyn them to himself 1. This War is at the end of the 1260 days 2. At the end of the two Witnesses Prophesie when God will have the Church ministred unto in another way then before and all other ways of ministery before extant will cease and be put an end unto 3. The same hour is an earthquake a strange change of things In Church and state ver. 12. 1. If it be to come we are warned of it as of the saddest time the Saints yet saw which we shall instantly know 2. This sorrowful sad time ends in a heavenly happiness the time of suffering being to endure but three years and half 3. It occasions the greatest change of things that ever was occasioned on earth 4. Herein the deliverance will be so wonderful that the enemies will be affrighted at it and see God so in it as to glorifie God when that of Isa. 11. will be fulfilled God making the Lyon to lie down with the Lamb the Calf and the Bear together and shall not hurt nor destroy so that the Church will after this sad dying time see God honoring her again more then ever she was honored in this present world 1. Again to return to the former purpose this being one Vision the two numbers cannot be of the same time 2. It is not to be thought that this Book being so short and containing in it so much of History and Prophesie as concerns the Church to the end and Antichrist rise and fall withal that in that there is a repetition of one and the same thing in one and the same Vision Object You make the 42 Moneths Rev. 13. 5. and the 1260 days the same Rev. 12. 7. though these are set out by differing terms as the other of a time times and half a time differs in terms from the

1260 days Resp. 1. This of the 42 Moneths and 1260 days are spoken of in two Visions 2. These are of the same thing meant it is plain which is the one of Antichrist and her time of Tyranny the other of the Church and her time of suffering under this same Tyranny of Antichrist 3. This sweetly sets out the wisdom of God setting out one by the Moons Government the Governess of the night and sea on which she sits and rules and the other by the Sun the Governor of the day and Church in which he reigns Illust. That as the Israelites in the time of their persecution had light in their dwellings when their persecutors were under darkness 2. To shew That the worst of Saints estate was more comfortable then the best of the enemies Heb. 11. 25. God would ever keep and teach us to keep a difference between the godly and ungodly in this as in the other divisions made of God betwixt them set down in the Scriptures as Israel had the bright side the Egyptians the dark side of the Cloud toward them Mr. Fox Constat enim sub Nerone Domitiano Trajano Severo Commodo Decio Dioclesiano Imperium draconis longe supra triennium constitisse Wherefore he takes the second greater number from the Baptist to Constantine Quae persequutionum tempora si certè ex Historiis supputentur us vnictum Satanam sub Constantino effluxerunt menses 42 Anni 294. But the way of making up this account I suppose is very unwarrantable Vt Daniel enumerat suas Hebdomadas itidem nos singulos menses in Septenarium annorum numerum deducamus à primo enim persecutionis initio hoc est decollationis Johannis Baptistae ad pacem ecclesiae sub Constantino restitutam Anni 294. 1. These things square not they must with this Exposition bring in the times of Persecution before the beginning of the Prophesie 2. Nor was this the beginning of Persecution The beginning of the Persecution I suppose rather to have been in Herods murthering the thousands of Infants of Bethlehem and the driving of Christ into Egypt which was many years before 3. There is an express direction for that way of account to Daniels Prophesie but none to this 4. I suppose there is no way justly to account these moneths by but these two 1. By the years they make which is three years and an half 2. By reducing them to days which are 1260. Now Mr. Fox saith That the Churches persecution must be more then three years and an half and therefore not to be accounted by the years they make 2. The Reason why God accounts Antichrists time the persecutor by moneths and the Saints time the presecuted by days I have spoken of before Cooper Bishop of Galloway on the words saith The words are used of God as a Riddle in which he signifies a time unknown to us but certainly known to him For shall we think the Church will be forced to flee into the wilderness but three years and an half from Christs Resurrection to the end of the world Mr. Mead Apost. of last times saith The days of this hiding of the Church begun at the healing of the deadly wound the Beast received which was in the destruction of Rome by the Goths about 410. And if we consider That the Church was set up in the Heathen world after Christs death we have no cause to draw the beginning of the hiding of it from the beginning or any other part of time of his life but rather thus The Church is visible in the ten persecution the red or bloody Dragon the Emperors of Rome persecute it which were Antichrists Predecessors belonging all to the sixth Head of that seven headed beastly Monster who could not by all their open killing courses destroy the Christian Profession though many thousands were ofttimes slain in a day but when that the seventh Antichristian Head came up who was worse then all She hath the Spots of the Leopard the Feet of the Bear the Mouth of the Lyon the Power and Authority of the Dragon and that all written in the Vision Cap. 13. from ver. 1. to the 10. appears because in this Vision the Horns have their Crowns on them which was onely permitted under the Reign of the seventh Head and not under the Reign of the sixth Revelations 12. 3. The Crowns are on his heads he permitted not Kingly power to any to Reign with him as the Pope unless to two or three onely extraordinarily as in Herod and Lucius When the severnth Head Reigns she by force 1. Persecuting the sincere truth as bloodily as the Heathen Dragon before her or worse and pulling down the building of Truth 2. Setting up a counterfeit way of her own carrying a false light with it by which she bewitched the Nations with her cup of abominations deceiving silly souls with the outward shews of Religion and Piety by which she overthrew more then by her cruelty and did more against the Church then by open rage of fire and faggot 3. By corrupting History by false Expositions of Scriptures by subtile distinctions by corrupt and false Traditions by abominable Blasphemy speaking against God his Tabernacle his Saints rendring them odious to the world a way too common in these days which came from Rome I wish some men in time to consider who is meant by the Accuser of the Brethren who are to be cast down without question it is not the Devil onely he was cast down a long time since they accuse them before God night and day their day who ever they are is near yea next and he or they must be cast down upon which followeth much joy in heaven among them that dwell therein for their fall See God gives them the Devils name that do the Devils work 4. As I suppose the truth appears plain That the first ten verses do appertain to the Reign of the last and seventh Head of beastly Antichrist and then it is more plain That the 42 moneths is the time of that Heads continuance and that the Churches hiding began in her time and ends with her ending 5. The persecution was grievous without question and tedious before the Church could be brought to such obscurity as appears in the Heathen Dragon who was made red with her blood and as ver. 4. With his tail he had cast down the third part of Stars to the earth 6. It was not given to the sixth Head but this seventh Head to overcome the Saints the other Head made War but could not overcome them this doth which it could not have done had it not been given him to do Rev. 13. 7. 7. If we make the hiding of the Church to be the time before Constantine then there was never a time in which it was visible Now if it were never visible how could it be said to be hid at all 8. It hath been the practice of the godly and learned to judge her visibility