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A57199	Babylons ruining-earthquake and the restavration of Zion delivered in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons at Margarets Westminster, at their publique fast, August 28, 1644 / by William Reyner ...	Reyner, William, d. 1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing R1324; ESTC R18099	51,389	67

great earth quake was at least sixty yeares in doing its worke for so great a body as the Empire could not by created humane meanes be ruined in a short time And it is very remarkable both because it made so great a change in the Kingdomes of Europe and Affrick planting them almost universally with new Nations and names and in specially because that storme brought our fore fathers into this land setling here a new Nation and language It is thirdly also observable because in it the sixth head of the Roman Monarchy the Emperour went off and the seventh the Pope came on onely the question is about which of these times and degrees of the Empire destruction Haply not so high as Julians death for the Empire stood in good strength after that for thirty yeeres at least Nor so low as 455. when it was quite broken and not long after lost its very name but somewhere between viz. either about 410. when Rome it selfe the head of the Empire was taken or rather about An. ●96 when the Empire first began to be ruined that is plus minus about 400. yeers after Christ Even as the seventy years of the Jewes captivity are not to be computed from the 11. of Zedekiah when the City and Temple were taken and burnt and the State dissolved for from that time there be not sixty years in all till their returne under Cyrus but they must be reckoned from the captivity of Jehojakim ten or eleven years before even so very probably it is here Now if the Beasts reigne began about 400. after Christ then is there above 1240. gone of his 1260. yeeres so that the ruining earth-quake must needs approach And a man may wonder that so much worke should be done in so short a time as seemes to be remaining to it throughout Europe yea throughout the world but that the Text tels us it is the greatest earth quake that ever was Object The sixth head of the Empire continued long after the death of Theodosius the great Not in strength Answ 1 but was still more and more broken unto its dissolution It is not absurd to imagine that the sixth head and the seventh might be in some degrees together For first it is but a comparison not like the naturall head of which there can be but one at once more makes a monster and truly this Beast is a monster Besides the Imperiall and Papall head did not so thwart and crosse one another at first as afterwards they did so that it might be with them as Logicians say of contrary qualities they may consist together in the same subject gradibus remissis non intensis they might both of them have their power and yet not intrench upon each other Popes at first medled in a manner onely with matters of the Church as being desirous to settle their ecclesiasticall authority and the Emperours on the other side almost wholly busied themselves about the civill State to governe and defend the Empire And yet further which may lessen the absurdity before that you should have in the Roman goverment sometimes as it were two heads at once as Consuls who were for their yeere and a Dictator chosen it may be for three months or six mouths upon some extraordinary exigences and necessities of the State who was for the time supreme and namely in matters of warre as the Consuls were supreme for other civill affaires The earth-quake whereby Antichrists Kingdome is to be ruined approaches or is already entered as may apreare by this second Indice or evidence Because it is almost 1260. years since the ten Kings began and the Beast began with them as may appeare Rev. 17.12 The ten hornes which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no Kingdome as yet but received power as Kings one houre with the Beast The ten Kings are the many Kingdomes that sprang up out of the ruines of the Empire as the Kingdome of England the Kingdome of France the Kingdome of Spaine c. These are called hornes aptly because Antichrist did with them as the Beast doth with his horne so the Dragon i. e. the heathen Empire had done before with them whilst they were his hornes Rev. 12.3 that is propugne himselfe and oppugne his adversaries For this hath been Antichrists course all along to push downe and gore even to death for the most part all those that opposed his idolatries and haeresies in all Nations by these hornes that is by the Kings and peoples of those Nations who have given their power and strength to the Beast Rev. 17.13 and who doe generally continue it to the Beast with one mind and consent making warre for him against the Lamb almost all and that most desperately unto this day Which have received no Kingdome as yet For when the Apostle wrote there were no su●h Kings in rerum natura or existent in the world as the King of England the King of France c. These Kingdomes then were hornes of the Dragon i. e. Provinces of the Empire and therefore in the description of the Dragon Rev. 12.3 the Crownes are not said to be upon the hornes that is upon the Kingdomes who had then no Kings of their owne but upon the heads that is upon the imperiall head at Rome as for instance this Land Brittaine was in the Apostles time a Province or Kingdome but it had no King of its owne and so no Crowne that was upon the head of the Emperour at Rome and he had supreme power over this Islrnd but whenas these Kingdames became the hornes of the Beast they came also to have peculiar Kings of their owne England had and hath its King France its King c. And therefore in the description of the Beast the Crownes are not said to be upon the heads but upon the hornes upon his hornes ten crownes Revel 13.1 But received power as Kings one houre with the Beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the Kings and the Beast began their reigne together Now the Kings and Kingdomes began to arise about An. 400. after Christ when the Empire began to be destroyed haply some of them a little before for they had begun to breake the Empire foure or five yeeres before and therefore might then begin to be called Kings for God lookes at and so are we to looke at realities The Histories indeed doe not speake much of them under the name and notion of Kings untill after 400. or 410. but the Histories are very confused and no wonder for those were times of most strange confusion The Beast is said to begin with them at one and the same houre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as the word may be interpreted the first houre the word in the Greeke text that signifies one as all that have any smattering in that language know signifies also first and so it may be interpreted that the Beast began to rise the very first houre the Kings began to rise rather then the

enjoyment of certaine priviledges Answ such as the Church hath not at other times at least not in the like degree The Priviledges are of two sorts Privative and Positive The Church shall be freed from the inundation of prophanenesse with which it hath beene miserably annoyed leavened and infected before Such shall be the piety and strictnesse of the government Ecclesiasticall and Civill that there shall not enter into the Church in any wise any thing that defileth Rev. 21.27 She shall be purged from errors superstition idolatry false and formall worship It is sufficient to prove it that we finde no such thing mentioned in the Scriptures that speake of the state of the Church in the last times besides what hath beene said already and shall be by and by During Antichrists reigne men have beene and still are so zealous and tenacious of their old mumpsimuses they can in no wise indure to heare of parting with them like Micah of mount Ephraim Judg. 18.23.24 that followed after the Danites crying and complaining they turned about and asked him what he ayled Ye have taken away my gods saith he which I made and my priest which he himselfe had consecrated for a priest who should have blessed me and doe you aske me what I ayle What have I more I protest I had as live you had taken away all that I have So it is with the men of our generation from these things shall the Church then be freed She shall have exemption from oppression and persecution both Civill and Ecclesiasticall God shall w●pe away all teares from the Saints eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying c. Rev. 21.4 That must needs be ment of the Church in this world as appeares by the cortext Then shall the Lyon and the Lambe lye downe and feed together and the Tygar become tame the Childe shall play with the Aspe and Cockatrice Isa 11.6.7 65.25 Rev. 7.16 There be two reasons of these privative priviledges The earth-quake going before shall shake downe these evils and all their supporters as we have heard the Beast his Hierarchy his hornes the Kings of the earth that shall defend him to the last And as the Lord did destroy not onely the heathen Empire guilty of so much blood cruelty and idolatry but would not let so much as that very forme of government to stand so it is probable if not more that all the●e dignities that have so desperately opposed the Scepter of Christ shall be taken away Dan. 2.34 5.44 Rev. 19. from ver 17. to the end God will purge out rebels Ezek. 20.38 that at last none shall dare so much as to speake for false worship formall worship c. Then and I doubt not till then will all these Sects and Divisions have an end Sathan shall then be bound and chained up that he shall not seduce the Nations to idolatry and persecution as he hath alwayes before done Rev. 20.2 He hath beene cast downe before as Rev. 12.9 but never bound nor shall be till Antichrist's fall And so this prevents that which might be objected though the wicked be taken away with the Earth-quake yet sinne will revive againe Answ No Sathan shall be tyed up from seducing that he cannot play such reakes in the world as before mans corruption wanting those bellowes to blow it up which did forme●y inflame it The positive priviledges of that reformed State are divers The first consists in the purity and plenty of the Ordinances of God and meanes of grace which that Church shall enjoy Thus R●● 11.19 After the 〈…〉 the Beasts Kingdome the Taberra●● or Temple of 〈…〉 in Heaven in the Church and the Arke of his 〈…〉 Chr●●● represented by the Arke was before kept hid and the Temple shut true preaching forbidden men were not acquainted with the natures and effects of Christ set forth by the Arke as now they shall be the wood of the Arke a ●●pe of Christs humane nature the gold ●verlaying it wholly a type of the divine to which the humane was hypostatically united the Tables of the law in the Arke setting forth the fulfilling of the law in Christ and in the Saints by union with him and power from him the Mercy-seat or cover of the Arke representing Christs righteousnesse covering the sinne of man and the Tables of testimony wherein the curse was contained so as no curse could be seene This purity of the meanes is intended in those expressions Rev. 21. that Gods Tabernacle is with men ver 3. new Jerusalem hath the glory of God ver 10 11. no Temple therein ver 22. There is no need of any such fixed place as the old Temple was but every where his people should have communion with him in his Ordinances Joh. 4.21.23 they shall have no need of the Sunne nor Moone c. ver 23. meaning the spirituall light and glory shall farre exceed all externall and chap. 22.1 2. they shall enjoy a pure River of water of life cleare as chrystall proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the Lamb the tree of life also with his twelve manner of ●●●its c. The second priviledge consists in the multitudes of converts in Antichrists time but a few Witnesses two but an hundred fourty foure thousand sealed ones a man should not need any great art of Arithmeticke to count them but now a great multitude that no man could number Rev. 7.9 then shall those promises in their height be fulfilled the Church shall wonder at her owne fruitfulnesse and aske who begat her those Children seeing she had lost so many being life alone that is a Widow without any earthly protector Isa 49.18 19 20 21 c. Yea her children shall aske her more roome to dwell in ibid. Shee is bidden to lengthen and enlarge the place of her tent c. and promised that shee though a Widow shall breake out on the right hand and on the left and abound in Children for her maker is her husband c. Isa 54.1 2 3 4 5. The Children proceeding from the wombe of the Church shall be like the dew of the morning lying thick upon the ground Psal 110.3 Christ's flock shall not then be a little flock compared with the times which were before the Devill was bound In the excellency of the converts Where the Sunne shines most clearly it heats most fervently The City of the new Jerusalem hath a light like unto a stone most precious even like a Jasper-stone cleare as Chrystall it is of pure gold Rev. 21.18 God is in it dwels with his people he and the Lamb are the light of is Rev. 21.3.22 in this and other respects it is named the Lord is there Ez●k 48.35 the people of it shall be all righteous Isa 60.21 What an admirable Reformation was that which followed the storme in the Wildernesse when all Israel both the ten Tribes and the two of Gad and Ruben and the halfe Tribe of Manasseh abhorred