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A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

doe partake of according to the words of Christ Iohn 5. where hee saith The houre is comming and now is when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall live verse 25. And then afterward saith Marvell not at this for the houre is comming in the which all that are in the graves shall heare his voyes and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of damnation verse 28 29. Where the first resurrection which is spirituall of the soul and the second universall resurrection of the body are both of them plainly and distinctly described And the Apostle Paul to the Saints of the Church of Colossia saith And yee are compleat in him which is the head of all Principality and power in whom also yee are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ buried with him in Baptisme wherein also yee are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead And you being dead hath hee quickned together with him Col. 2.10 11 12 13. And Coloss 3. hee saith If yee bee risen with Christ seeke those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God vers 1. So Rev. 20. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus and for the word of God and which had not worshipped the Beast nor his Image nor had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years vers 4. And then saith This is the first resurrection Blessed and holy is be that hath part in the first Resurrection for on such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand years vers 5 6. Where the Lord also speaketh to living men and of them who having their part here in the first resurrection spirituall and suffering for the testimony of Christ and dying with him as Paul in another place saith For the rejoycing that I have in Christ Iesus I die daily And again For thy sake O Lord are wee slain all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter may herein be much comforted in respect of the promise that the second death shall have no power on them according to that in John 5. Hee that heareth my word and beleeveth in him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life vers 24. So here Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power but they shall bee Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand years Whereby it is manifest the Lord speaketh to men living in the body and of them such as having their part here in this The first Resurrection for there can be but one first resurrection who although now during the time of the reigne of the great Antichrist especially which was to be a thousand yeares at least they as touching their bodies should for the word of God and witnesse of Jesus Christ bee beheaded slaine c. and for the hope fake in Christ die daily yet in the spirit as touching the soule live and reigne with Christ as Paul saith dying and behold we live c. 2 Cor. 6.9 Again for ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God Col. 3.4 And when the thousand yeares are expired and Satan loosed out of his prison to goe unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battell of the great day of God Almighty according to Rev. 16.14 and 20.8.9 Then the Lord comming in his glory all that are in the graves even every one small and great shall heare his voyce and shall come forth They that through the grace and power of the Spirit of God in the new birth and first resurrection have done good unto the resurrection of life eternall in respect of their body also united now to their soule they being found written in the book of life And they that have done evill those rest of the dead that had no part in the first resurrection spirituall from the death by sinne and so not beeing found written in the booke of life unto the resurection of condemnation in the lake of fire burning with brimstone which is the second death They now have a resurrection and live again though a miserable dying life body and soule for ever And that the first resurrection Rev. 20. cannot possibly bee meant of the bodies of any that are to rise from the dead as the Millenaries would have it wee may perceive plainly by the words of the Text verse 4. where John saith not And I saw the soules that were he headed as if that could bee neither doth he say And I saw the bodies that were beheaded and they lived c. But his words are And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded c. that is of those whose bodies were beheaded of which soules he saith And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years c. The soule can no more truly be said to rise from the dead with the body when it shall rise from the dead nor for the body then it can be said to be beheaded with it or for it For although in some other cases when bodies and soules are living together it may bee said as in Genesis 46. All the soules of the house of Iacob which came into Egypt were threescore and ten verse 27. in such like cases as this the soule being the principall part of man and the body living and moving together with it may rightly and truly bee named for both yet in other cases not so And to name the soule and say when a body is beheaded or dieth the soul is beheaded or dieth or when the body shall arise from the dead the soule riseth from the dead it is to say and speak a very untruth When the bodies of those Saints which slept arose from the dead at the time of Christs resurrection it is not said their Soules arose but their Bodies onely Matth. 27.52 And the graves were opened and the bodies of many Saints which slept arose and appeared unto many The soule cannot with any truth or sense of reasonable understanding bee named for the body nor for both in those cases Nay all the Millenarians in the world how learned or orthodoxall soever they are accounted are not able to prove this thing except they hold and can prove as some have been so bold of late to affirme and publish that the soule of man is mortall and dieth when the body dieth and so lieth dead in the grave with

two Witnesses that notwithstanding all whatsoever the Beast could doe against them they should prophesie the 1260 dayes even every one of the dayes of those fourty two months of the Beasts reigne and the Gentiles treading the holy Citie under foot yet did he not limit their prophecying in Sackcloth within the compasse of those dayes Neither is there a word in all the Scripture to such purpose onely their being killed by the Beast and their corps lying dead in the street of his Sodomiticall Citie c. are limited within that time as we shall see hereafter Neither is it said in the Text the Beast which descendeth into the deep shall make warre against them and kill them but the Beast which ascendeth from the deep c. implying plainly that he should make warre against them and kill them at his ascending or rising or soone after and not at his descending or downfall And that the finishing their testimony here spoken of was to bee before the Beast should rise which we are here duly to consider of as a thing that we ought to know and understand And therefore the Lord foreshewed saying And when they have finished their testimony the Beast which ascendeth from the depth shall make warre against them and kill them That is to say when the holy Prophets Apostles and Evangelists had finished their course written down all whatsoever they had seen and heard from the Lord concerning his two Wils Testaments according as they were guided by the holy Ghost and especially his second or last Will of grace and peace by Jesus Christ His wonderfull conception birth life death resurrection from the dead foretold also by the Prophets His ascension into heaven and his sending the holy Ghost unto them the Spirit of truth to lead them into all truth and to enable them to prophesie through the sevenfold gifts thereof Of Iohn the Baptist who was that Elias which God promised to send before the great and terrible day of the Lord should come the day of judgement and wrath and how he cried out unto the people of Israel and so unto all the world in the spirit and power of Elias requiring every man with strong perswasions great sorrowfulnesse of heart much lamentation and many teares to repent that they might obtaine the forgivenesse of their sinnes through faith in the Messiah the Mediator and Messenger of the Covenant who was now also come to his Temple Which voice of this Elias crieth out unto us all even to this day that we should repent that we may receive also the forgivenesse of our sinnes by faith in Christ lest in that great day when he commeth in power and glory we perish in his wrath and he smite the earth with a curse And how Christ himselfe also preached saving Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand Repent and beleeve the Gospel with many other heavenly Doctrines and most true and gracious sayings And of all his wondrous workes and the things he had foreshewed them should come to passe Of the destruction of Jerusalem and wrath upon that people Of false Christs and false Prophets that should arise Of great tribulation that should befall the Church of Christ during the time of his personall absence And of the signes of his comming and end of the world And after his death and resurrection how hee opened their understandings and among many other heavenly things that he spake of and foreshewed them said unto them Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem And then last of all this book of the Revelation wherein many great mysteries that were sealed up and no man in heaven nor on earth was found worthy to open but the Lamb that was slain are by him revealed 1. The estate of his Church in her primitive time 2. And what her great enemies should be and what shee was to suffer at their hands The first being the great red Dragon Satan reigning in the Pagan Emperours by whose bloody persecutions shee was forced to flie into the wildernesse to escape from his fury as in Rev. 12.3 4 5 6 c. described in Rev. 6.4 by a red horse and one fitting on him that should take peace from the earth The second that of Arius and his followers whose blasphemous doctrines and malicious persecution against those that opposed the same continued five months of years as in Rev. 9.2 3 4 5. described by a black horse Rev. 6.5 The third this of the Beast and his false prophets and whorish Church of whose abominations and filthinesses of the cup of her fornications Kings Princes and people of all Nations have been made to drink and became drunken committing fornication with her and so their souls became lost for ever And her selfe also becomming daily drunken with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus Christ whose bodies she killed because they would not drink of her cup nor commit fornication with her All which being to continue fourty and two months of years as Rev. 11.2 Rev. 13.5 described also in Revel 6. by a pale horse c. ver 8. Then what plagues should bee powred out upon them all for their murders and wickednesse And what and when should bee their end and how great their condemnation And which exceeds all for the comfort of the Church of Christ which was to suffer all these things at her enemies hands how shee should bee delivered from her so great and violent oppressions And what and how great things her Lord hath prepared for her and promised and foreshewed her especially in this booke of the Revelations to be inherited of her for eternity in the world to come when he shall appeare in his glory So the holy Prophets and Apostles and Evangelists having from the Lord perfected his two Testaments which are his two Witnesses they having thus finished their testimony which was never to done before nor from thence forth could ever bee so done after and which might therefore rightly be called Finishing their Testimony and also because no man nor Angel from heaven might or may preach any thing as the testimony of Gods two Witnesses or his Oracles but what is written and contained in them it being the whole counsell of God So I say they having thus finished their testimony and they being prophecying in the plain demonstration of the Spirit and of power turning the hearts of Gods elect to repentance that they might be justified from their sinnes by faith through his grace in Christ which by the Spirit and word of reconciliation was ministred to their broken and contrite hearts And also by the same Spirit and power convincing the wicked perishing world of sinne of righteousnesse and of judgement Of judgement because the prince of this world whom they serve and obey he

inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession Thou shalt breake them with a rod of iron and dash them in peeces like a Potters vessell Psal 2.7 8 9. And again In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the Moon endureth hee shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth they that dwell in the wildernesse shall bow before him and the enemy shall lick the dust c. Psal 72. And the Prophet Daniel declareth saying I saw in the night vision and behold one like unto the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the Ancient of dayes and they brought him neere before him And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not passaway and his Kingdome that which shall not be destroyed Dan. 7.13.14 Again he having spoken of the four Monarchs that in this world should usurp the kingdome saith But the Saints of the most High shall take the Kingdome and possesse the kingdome for ever even for ever and ever vers 18. And again And the Kingdome and dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of Saints of the most High whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome and all dominions shall serve and obey him vers 27.28 This Kingdom of Christ and his Saints is to be after the foure Monarchs are ended as the Prophet doth plainly declare and that it being once set up shall continue much more time then they all it shall not passe away nor be destroyed but remain for ever even for ever and ever It is to have no end as the Angel Gabriel from heaven testified to Mary saying Feare not Mary for thou hast found favour with God and behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a Sonne and shalt call his name Jesus he shall be great and shall bee called the Sonne of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his Father David and he shall reigne over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdome there shall be no end Luke 1.30 31 32 33. And according to all this spake the Lord before by the Prophet Nathan to David saying And it shall come to passe when thy dayes be expired that thou must goe to be with thy Fathers that I will raise up thy seed after thee which shall be of thy sonnes I will establish his kingdom he shall build me an House I will establish his throne for ever I will be his Father and he shall be my Sonne and I will not take my mercy away from him as I tooke it from him that was before thee but I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever and his throne shall be established for evermore 1 Chron. 17.11 12 13 14. And in another place the Lord God confirmeth it again saying Also I will make him my first born higher then the Kings of the earth my mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him his seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven c. Psal 89.27 28 29. And again My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone forth of my lips Once have I sworn by my holinesse that I will not lie unto David his seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the Sun before me it shall he established for ever as the Moon and as a faithfull witnesse in heaven vers 34 35 36 37. And as one Apostle testifieth from another Psalm saying But unto the Sonne he saith Thy throne O God is for ever and ever a Scepter of righteousnesse is the Scepter of thy kingdome thou hast loved righteousnesse and hated iniquity therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnesse above thy fellowes Heb. 1.8 9. Psal 45.6 Many more great and excellent things are spoken of this glorious kingdome of Christ and his Saints which as plainly appeareth by all these Scriptures is to have no end but is to endure for ever even for ever and ever world without end And shall be manifested when the 7th Angel soundeth the great and last trumpet even when Christ shall come in his glory and all his holy Angels with him and then shall he sit in the throne of his glory as himselfe saith Matth. 25. And so it is plain that it cannot bee understood of this world but must needs be of the world to come when all rule all authothority and power all enemies are subdued under Christs feet which in this world are not nor can be untill the end thereof as the Apostle yet further confirmeth saying For unto the Angels ha●h he not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak Heb. 2.5 By which words he first sheweth plainly that all their doctrine of the Gospel tended to an estate of inheritance in a world to come not this present world and that it was not to be in subjection to the Angels But as he saith One in a certain place testifieth saying What is man that thou art mindfull of him or the Sonne of Man that thou visitest him thou madest him little lower then the Angels thou crownedst him with glory and honour thou didst set him over the workes of thy hands thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet c. ver 6 7. according to Psal 8.4 5 6 7 8 9. And then argueth saying For in that he put all in subjection under him he left nothing that is not put under him But now we see not all things put under him saith he But we see Jesus who was made a little lower th●n the Angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of God might tast death for every man for it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sonnes unto glory to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings ver 8 9 10. Now is Jesus Christ crowned with glory and honour in the throne of God the Father at his right hand in the heavens where he is to fit and reigne with him untill he hath put all enemies under his feet as in Psal 110.1 Not onely all the Monarchs and powers of wickednesse but also all enemies besides and death which now hath dominion over the bodies of the Saints it being the last enemy as in another place he proveth saying For as in Adam all died even so in Christ shall all be made alive but every man in his own order Christ the first fruits then afterwards they that are Christs at his comming Then commeth the end saith he when he shall have delivered up the Kingdome to