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A96871	The two vvitnesses: discovered in severall sermons upon the eleventh chapter of the Revelation, wherein, after the prophesie opened, the great question of these times. Viz. whether the two witnesses are slain, yea or no, is modestly discussed. / Preached at Lawrence-Jewry in London, by F.W. lecturer of the said place. It is this seven and twentieth day of April, 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that these sermons intituled, the two witnesses, be printed for Luke Fawne. John White.	Woodcock, Francis, 1614?-1651.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W3433; Thomason E100_1; ESTC R13873	76,978	106

it was born When this takes not then are they brought unto the furnace and however the people of God Vers 13. and 17. Sanguis martyrum semen Ecclesiae did multiply in their persecutions and their numbers encreased by those very courses they took to lessen them in like manner as did Israel before yet was not the furnace of the Romish Egypt lesse scorching then of the other nay rather the furnace in this Egypt is heated seven times hotter then ever that of the former It could be no lesse when besides all those who were put to death in the tenne Primative persecutions at least ten hundred thousand of the Waldenses and Albigenses as was hinted before are after made away by the Antichristian Power And since those bloody times to our dayes no fewer destroyed by this Egyptian fiery furnace also In the first thirty yeers after the Order of the Jesuites was brought forth were Baldwin de A●tich cap 6. Fra Iunius Tilmus ad Bell. slain of godly Christians neer ninety thousand And the Inquisition it self in the space of scarce thirty yeers made away with no lesse then a hundred and fifty thousand whereto if we should adde all the blood of Martyrs spilt in Germany France and England together with that Protestant blood now shed in Ireland what would all this amount unto but the former is sufficient for our purpose and what hath been said abundantly shewing that Rome is to the people of God the house of Bondage for which together with its notorious Idolatry 't is not unelegantly by the holy Ghost stiled another Egypt Rome then for its Idolatry and Cruelty apparently is Egypt now next we enquire which in the Text follows why 't is resembled to the place where our Lord was crucified The Jesuites to the end they might deliver their beloved Rome from the foul and odious stains here asperst upon her will needs turn Ribera Apoc 11. num 12. Bellar lib 3. de Pap Ro. all this over to Jerusalem telling us Jerusalem is the place here described for where say they was our Lord crucified but onely at Jerusalem Of our own there are that carry it thus As Rome before was for its filthinesse Sodom as also Egypt for Idolatry and cruelty so now in her blasphemous Masse for crucifying Christ Petra Epist 19. afresh every day and killing these Witnesse as once indeed she did Christ himself is therefore here call'd Spiritually Jerusalem But if this please not you may refer this clause to that which went before I mean those words the street of the great city as if the Verse ran thus And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city where also our Lord was crucified According whereunto the meaning must be this Our Saviour was crucified in the street of the great city where also lie dead the bodies of these Witnesses Object But some may say Our Saviour was crucified in Jerusalem how then in any street of Rome Resol I answer in both He was crucified at Jerusalem That was the certain literall place as I may call it where he was crucified yet in regard he was not put to death by any power the Joh. 18. 31 Jews had for they acknowledge It was not lawfull for them to put any man to death but by the Roman power in regard Pilate a Roman Judge passes sentence And further because adjudged to dye a Roman death And this in a place at that time under the Roman Jurisdiction within the Roman Territory therefore with good congruitie he is here said to be crucified in the street of Rome also In brief our Saviour was crucified within the Roman jurisdiction This as we saw before is The street of the great City Gather up now the sum of all the former into one and the result of all is clearly thus much These Witnesses formerly slain in their office and now continuing in that state of civill death their slaughter brought them into thus lie dead within the Dominion and Territory of Rome which Rome is for her filthynesse Sodome for her Idolatry and cruell persecuting of the people of God Egypt which when heathen puts our Saviour to death now Antichristian puts to death his Witnesses The words thus opened the observations now follow 1. Is the street of the great City the Roman Territory then if the salying of the Witnesses should be yet to come as also to be accomplished in all the Roman territory then only out of the Roman territory can be exemption expected from this slaughter onely in the further parts of the world or some more priviledged place neerer home if there be any such can any Witnesses hope this killing shall not befall them 2. Is Rome Sodome Take notice then of that strange blindnesse or rather perversenesse of the Romish Crew Rome is in their apprehension and in their mouthes also Sancta Roma holy Rome notwithstanding there being no place so unholy t is by the holy Ghost deservedly called Sodome 3. Is Rome become Sodome Observe from hence the sad yet proper punishment of Idolatry Rome through her Idolatry is by a just judgement transformed into Sodome These by their Idolatrous imaginations depose the Lord into the likenesse Rom 1. 23 24 25 26 27. of themselves God by a just punishment deposes them into worse then very beasts For this cause God gives them over to vilo affections They entertain unbecoming thoughts of God and God gives them to do things altogether unbecoming themselves 4. What a mercy was it to be delivered from Rome What a mercy was it for Lot to be delivered out of Sodom from so much filthinesse and from such an unclean Generation the beholding whereof could be no other to a gracious heart then a 1 Pet. 2. 7. continuall vexation 5. If Rome from her Idolatry and cruelty is become another Egypt How thankfull then should we bear our selves for our deliverance from it an Idolatrous place as also a cruell such as would by the former destroy the soul or if it could not that then by the latter the body should not the deliverance from such a place be alwayes had in remembrance 6. If Rome be Egypt Ah cruell they that have formerly and dayly do contend to bring a poor escaped people into Egypt back again Israel had a Law That none should bring again a Deut. 23. 15. servant who because of the harsh usage of his Master had got away from him This was and yet continues to be our case and is among us the great quarrell at this day Poor we are scaped from Egypt from Rome being able to bear her harsh usage no longer and cruell hard-hearted they by all endeavours possible will trie to bring us thither again 7. Is Rome the place where our Lord was crucified Oh the destruction and vengence that doth await Rome when God shall recompence upon her the blood of Proph●ts the blood of Saints yea the blood of

and Jeshua Moses and Elias Moses and Aaron you have seen what they do They spend themselves into the Candlesticks to the Churches they are as Oyl is to the Lamps nourishing and keeping them alive all the time of Antichrists prevailing if any attempt to wrong them fire proceeds out of their mouths and destroyes such as do attempt it And for the wrongs the Antichristian Gentiles offer the Church these Witnesses shut heaven upon them that it rain not nay pour forth all the Vials of the wrath of God upon them Thus you have all the active part of these Witnesses already drawn forth That which follows is their passive which when I have touched upon one or two observations from these last words I shall without any other interruption fall upon The Observations are these 1. Is heaven shut by these Witnesses so that no rain falls upon the Antichristian party all the glad tydings of forgivenesse and reconciliation withheld from them How sad must needs be the condition of such a people What have they to soften them to make them fruitfull when no rain at all falls upon them 2. How fruitfull on the contrary should we be who live under the droppings of heaven and are refreshed with the former and latter rain alwayes in their seasons Poor Papists have no rain Yea how much the rather should we endeavour fruitfulnesse Isa 5. 5 6. lest for default that same be made good upon us which once the Lord threatned his Vineyard withall he would takaway the hedge and would command the clouds that they should rain no rain upon it 3. Do the Witnesses pour forth all the Vials No marvell then they are said to torment them thot dwell upon the earth No Vers 10. marvell those same Inhabitants of the earth rejoyce they are got rid of them as they do when by the hands of these Witnesses is emptied forth so much wrath upon them VERS 7. And when they have finished their testimony the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and shall overcome them and kill them WE have ere while seen who these Witnesses are what they do how grievously they torment Antichrist with his party which because these Witnesses do not carry impune Antichrist not sitting down unrevenged it now follows we see what is done to them and how they are repaid for all the plagues wherewith Antichrist and his party have by them been tormented This is laid down in the words above mentioned as also them that follow And when they have finished their testimony the beast c. In which who so observes shall finde as cleer an allusion to our Saviour as set forth in the story of his death resurrection and ascending up to heaven as before to any of the types whereby these witnesses were formerly represented Our Saviour when he had preached neer three yeers and half about the number of the dayes of the Prophesie of these Witnesses was by Pilate and so by Rome then Heathen as the Witnesses by Rome now Antichristian put to death After three dayes there being a great earthquake rises again and not long after is received up to heaven in a cloud To all which who sees not a plain allusion intended when in the description of these witnesses suffrings and after restauration you have mention of the like death earth-quake resurrection and ascending up to heaven in a cloud also So that if before in what they did they were like Zerubbabel and Jeshua Moses and Elias Moses and Aron here for what they suffer and the sequell they are cleerly resembled to that faithfull and true witnesse Jesus Cha. 5. 14. Christ This much in the grosse but look more particularly and you shall finde in what is mentioned of these Witnesses sufferings such specialls observable as these 1. There is warre waged with these witnesses and the consequent the Witnesses overcome and killed 2. The enemy that wages this warre The beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlesse pit 3. The time when this warre is waged and these witnesses overcome and killed by this beast and this is sayes the Text when they have finished their testimony I shall addresse my self to speak of these in this order First the warre waged and the consequents then that which follows in the order above mentioned And for this warre waged with these Witnesses we must not think this is the first which hath ever been raised against them as though the Witnesses had met with no opposings all the time of their prophesie continuing so many hundred yeers till just toward the end and close of it we must not so conceive at any hand For if you consult the thirteenth Chapter and seventh verse you finde the beast these Witnesses enemy and as old as are these Witnesses so soon almost as he receives being receives power to make warre with the Saints and to overcome Cha. 13. 2. and kill them And in the twelfth Chapter and last verse the Dragon who substitutes this beast and on whom he estates his power throne and great authority himself being now no longer able to hold them in his own name as soon as ever the Woman was scaped into the wildernesse which is now severall hundred yeers agone he goes forth under covert of this beast To make warre with the remnant of her seed which kept the Chapl 12. Vers ult Commandments of God and had the testimony of JESVS CHRIST And sure the event shews as much when above four hundred yeers agone in that one Kingdom of Gaule now called France if Perionius may be beleeved at least ten hundred thousand of those godly Waldenses and Albigenses were butchered by this beast And can we imagine so many Saints slain and none of these Witnesses among all these numbers This warre then here mentioned supposes not the Witnesses untouched all the time of their prophesie before but rather seemes to hold forth some eminent warre now at last to be raised against them which perhaps because it shall differ from all the former in the quality of it or specially in the successe striking of all the Witnesses there where 't is done which no other warre had perhaps done before is therefore by the Holy Ghost thought fit onely to be mentioned Nor yet therefore can we say this warre shall be more grievous and bloudy then all the former possibly it is not mentioned for any eminent bloudshed accompanying it but rather as some conceive for a signe of the instant and neer approaching ruine of Antichrist which but a little after follows it however I dare not say this last warre shall be eminent for bloudshed beyond all the former for this reason I now offer If this same killing of these Witnesses can not be understood in the Letter viz. That indeed and in the Letter these Witnesses should be slain but a mysticall killing is only here understood then sure this cannot be a killing so very bloudy

be ●ut at this time the sixth head should lie a bleeding And indeed it did so for just this very yeer as some observe severall of the ten horns began to appear upon the seventh head the third thing we were to enquire I say severall of those ten horns those ten Kingdoms into which the Roman Empire became divided even this very yeer began to rise up upon the ruines of the now dissolved Empire And sure the six●h head at this time must be very low when severall of the horns of the seventh head which as was in nature so here are after the head were now become visible and conspicuous sure much more the seventh head it self upon which these horns grow was by this time in being and visible also Yet by the way not in being a hundred yeers at least before this time of the first horns springing up which yet they must say who will begin the Beast his 42 months as high as Constantine For though the horns are to be conceived after the head yet 't is an unreasonable thing to imagine them a hundred yeers after especially when we are told That these receive power at one hour with the Beast Chap. 17. ver 12. But this on the by To our purpose therefo●e again The Empire after this had some struglings with the pangs of death for the space of forty yeers or there●bout but when Genserious the Vand●l came about the yeer 455 and sacks Rome a●ain and now burns it at which time all the ten horns were grown out the ten Kingdoms grown compleat then beca●e the Roman Empire utterly extinct But now the question will be From which of these periods must we begin to reckon the Beast his forty and two months whether from the first incursions of the Goths upon the Roman Empire in the yeer 365 or when they sacked Rome in the yeer 410 or else in 455 when the Empire of the West expired or from any point of time between any of these I answer To begin with it from this or that precise yeer I dare not when the fulfilling of this same is cleerer then may we be more bold onely I should aim it to begin sometime between the first Invasion of the Empire 365 and the sacking of Rom 410. Sometime neer Theodosius the Great his coming to the Empire which Historians will tell you was about the yeer 380. And the rather I should pitch it thereabout because neer this time the woman seems to fli● into the Wildernesse also Rev. 12. I say the woman taking the opportunity of this good Prince and by him being holpen with the to Eagles wings scapes into the Wildernesse from the Dragon who in pursuing of her had just before when Valens was Emperour cast forth the Floods of Arrianisme after her hoping though in vain she would have been utterly overwhelmed by them About this time I mean some period between 370 and 380 I should begin to reckon the Beasts 42 months as also make it the common Epocha of all these severall times In which doing besides the former proof made hereof I am not altogether destitute of Authority wherewith to back it but could produce Vid. Alsted Chron. Napier others herein readily consenting also And if so and we begin the Beast his forty and two months also the Witnesses one thousand two hundred and threescore yeers neer that time I mean 380 which in all likelyhood we must do then cleerly they reach over Councel of Trent and so much more the Councell of Constance and the time of the Waldenses and fall into the lap of these times we now are conversant in By this reckoning I say beginning this one thousand two hundred and threescore yeers of the Witnesses Prophesie about 380 which I pitch upon because it is a full number not thinking but this term may perhaps begin two or three yeers before At what time the Beast his forty and two months and the womans time times and half a time in the Wildernesse begin and it not on●ly shews us the Witnesses could not be slain about the time of th● Councell of Trent which was the thing in question but also further acquaints us That we in these times must look for its fulfilling But then every one will ask me Hath there any such thing as the slaying and rising again of these Witnesses been done in our dayes yea or no I answer There hath and face doth not more answer face then something done in our times doth answer the slaying and rising again of these Witnesses And sure I must say ingeniously and so I shall shrive my self in the businesse If this be not the salying and rising again of the Witnesses I am now about to offer I cannot imagine any thing already come to passe that can be but must tell you if this should not prove for any thing hitherto done more likely then this same we are yet to look for it But I keep you too long from sight of this that seems so like to be the killing and rising again of the Witnesses you shall be delayed no longer you shall have a full view of it and perhaps when you have you may not a little be taken with it The Scene wherein these great things of the Witnesses slaying Resurrection and Ascension have been acted appears to be this Island of great Britain and the time some yeers before the calling and since the calling of this Parliament In this Kingdom therefore yet in this not excluding other places for many yeers last past there have been godly Ministers and others who by their Preaching Writing and other wayes testifying against Antichrist and his wickednesses have hereby discovered themselves to be of these Witnesses who in regard they mourned to see Antichristianisme so farre prevail as also because kept under without countenance esteem maintenance Vers 3. by a Popish Prelaticall party themselves the mean while living in all height of honour and excesse might with good congruity be said to Prophesie in Sackcloth And sure he that had seen the condition of the godly Ministers in this Kingdom not many yeers ago especially such who were so bold as to meddle with either Prelacie or the Ceremonies without the help of an Interpreter would have readily pronounced There are no other then the Witnesses in Sackcloth But forward When the date of these Witnesses prophesying draws toward an end which excluding their three yeers and an half lying dead will fall about five or six yeers agone Then the Antichristian power slayes the Witnesses silences suspends throws them from their places thus slaying them And hath not all this been fulfilled in our eyes Were not all the bold opposers of Prela●y and the Ceremonies the great remains of Vers 7. Popery in this Kingdom left undemolished were they not all silenced had their mouths stopped and so slain in this Kingdom There wereindeed some godly Ministers left but was there left a Witness I mean a bold and