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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30061	A letter of a Protestant clergy-man to the reverend clergy of the Church of England, and to all other good Protestants advertising them from the sacred revelation of St. John of the evil which he apprehends to be coming upon the Protestant church, etc. / written by Digby Bull ...	Bull, Digby.	1695 (1695)	Wing B5412; ESTC R40767	54,096	68

Prophets and seeing these Witnesses are sent out as his special Heralds and have such a weighty Charge upon their hands to Proclaim his coming in judgment and to give warning that this second Dreadful Woe is now at hand and coming upon all such as will by no means be Reclaimed and brought to Repentance 6. These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their Prophecy and have power over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all Plagues as often as they will This seems to be spoken in allusion to the Miracles that God wrought by Moses and Elijah Elias saith St. James 5.17 was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months And this was in Ahab's time as we may see 1 Kings 17. and 18. Chapters And Moses at God's command bid Aaron to stretch his rod over the waters and they were turned into blood Exod. 7.19 And many other Miracles did God by their hand in the land of Egypt as we may see in the Book of Exodus And with respect to these do these words here seem to be spoken And by these Witnesses having power to shut Heaven c. we are to understand I conceive That Almighty God will in an extraordinary manner order and Over-rule the Affairs of the world during the time of their Prophecy and will do little less than work Miracles upon their account while they are executing their Offices and fulfilling his Will that they may not be interrupted in the doing of it and others may have the greater opportunity to mind them and that with an high Hand and an outstretched Arm he will keep out Popery till they have done their great Work and the 1260 days of their Prophecy are sulfilled For if God had not with a high Hand kept out Popery it had been here before this time 7. And when they shall have finished their Testimony the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit shall make War against them and shall overcome them and kill them When these Witnesses shall have finished their Testimony and fully executed their Office in Proclaiming the coming in of Popery and the Dreadful Woe that is at hand and have given other seasonable Instructions and Admonitions for such a great juncture of time as this is And when the 1260 days or three years and about an half that are allowed them for this work are ended Then the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit that is the Papacy the Pope and his Agents shall assault them and those of the Romish Religion shall prevail over them and will quite put them to silence and deprive them of all the Rights and Priviledges of living men and pass the Sentence of Excommunication and Death upon them perhaps as seems probable and will then put a stop to all outward appearance of the Protestant Church This seems to be the meaning of Killing them here And here in these sacred Oracles we may see what a sinful Religion Popery is and what a sinful Church the Romish Church is to wit That it is Diabolical and Hellish enough that it comes from the Infernal Pit of Darkness and that it is promoted and carried on by the Devil and his Agents and is a grand Enemy of Christ's Church and the Killer of his faithful Servants Here we may see with what black Characters and Marks our Saviour hath Stigmatized and branded the Papacy and Church of Rome And let no good Protestant then ever any more presume to say that there is any hope of Salvation for such as are of the Romish Church and continue therein and so help to deceive the Papists and such as turn to the Romish Church And Rev. 13.5 6. And there was given un to him a mouth speaking great things and Blasphemies and power was given unto him to make war forty and two months And he opened his mouth in Blasphemy against God to blaspheme his Name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven Here we may see that the Popedom and Romish Church is flatly charged with Blasphemy against Almighty God himself thas the Religion and Practice of the Papists is no better in God's account than down-right Blasphemy against him And how then can any man be saved by joining with those that Almighty God hath declared to be Notorious Blasphemers of him and grand Rebels against him For it is clear that the Popes of Rome and the Popedom are meant by this Beast as I have shewed before by the deadly Wound that was given him in the Reformation and the healing of it up again now when Popery is to be extended as far as it was before and the Pope and his Ministers are like to Lord it over all the Protestant Church again And as for the Beast with two Horns Rev. 13.11 It is clear that he is a Creature subservient to the Popes and Popedom and perhaps these late western Emperors may be meant by him Horns denote Principalities and Power and these Empero's have been some times Kings of France or Spain and Emperors and some times Princes or Dukes and Emperors And the cursed Courts of Inquisition their merciless Racking and Tormenting of poor Souls that are unwilling to join in their Idolatrous and sinful worship and their threatning of men with Fire and Sword and the most terrible Deaths that can be invented may look like the doing of great Wonders and making of Fire to come down from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men ver 13 when by these Terrors in a manner like thunder from Heaven they fright and drive men to fall down and worship this Beast of Rome and own him as it were for a Deity And again Rev. 14.9 And the third Angel followed them saying with a loud voice If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand that is shall own the Pope to be the Head of the Church and join in the Popish Religion and any ways publickly declare himself to be a Papist which we are to understand by worshipping the Beast and his Image and receiving his mark The same shall drink of the wine of the Wrath of God which is poured out without mixture in the Cup of his Indignation and he shall be Tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb And the smoak of their Torment ascended up for ever and ever And can any man now say that Papists may be saved that continue in the Romish Church except he will flatly contradict these sacred Oracles of Truth For all men that will seriously mind this book of the Revelation may see that these things are spoken of the Church of Rome by the Angels interpretation Rev. 17.9 and other places And the more these