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A66360	Ho Antichristos the great antichrist revealed, before this time never discovered, and proved to be neither pope, nor Turk, nor any single person, nor the succession of any one monarch or tyrant in any policies, but a collected pack, or multitude of hypocritical, heretical, blasphemous, and most scandalous wicked men that have fulfilled all the prophesies of the Scriptures ... and especially have united ... together by a solemn league and covenant to slay the two witnesses of God, Moses and Aaron ... that is, the supreme magistrate of the Commonwealth, and the chief pastors and governours of the Church of Christ, and the Christian world is requested to judge whether the Assembly of Presbyterians consulting at Westminster, together with the independents, Anabaptists, and lay-preachers be not the false prophet ... and whether the prevalent faction of the long Parliament ... that killed the two witnesses of Jesus Christ, 1. Charles the First ... 2. William Laud ... be not the grosse and visible body of the same antichrist / by Gr. Williams.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2662; ESTC R25201	504,825	313

Weapons were but paper Bullets and his Speares but feeble quills and therefore though they may prevail in Hierusalem the City of God yet oftentimes corruit in platea veritas the Steel cuts the quills in peeces and the truth is trodden down in the streets of Babylon where the Devill ruleth and where this head of the Beast thus wounded with the Sword of truth was healed for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wound of his death or his deadly wound was healed saith the Text that is by the Weapon salve and by the Warre that they made against the truth because the wound was but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi mortifera as it were a deadly wound Non quod revera talis erat sed quia talis videbatur not that it was struck dead indeed for then it could not have been healed Cohnelius a Lapide in loc but that it seemed so and did appear sufficiently to be so to all honest men as Cornel. a Lapide well observeth for it was such a wound that although to them which obey not the truth but are like the fool Harpaste that as Seneca saith How the deadly wound of the Parliament was healed was as blind as a Beetle and yet nesciebat se esse caecam would by no meanes be perswaded that her eye-sight failed her but that the Room was dark the Kings confutation of their lyes the detection of their falshood and the manifestation of the truth and his innocency were like Cassandra's Prophesies and would give them no satisfaction yet to all those that had their eyes open and had sence to perceive the light of truth this head appeared to be so sufficiently wounded that it was plain and bootless to adde any Playster to revive it or to have it further to be disputed But it is conceived that the Parliament hoped to thrive better by Club-law then by any truth and therefore in this question they will needs dispute the matter again and for a melius inquirendum the question must be decided by the Sword that often beats down the truth and prevails against the right And so now herein Quia opera Dei judicia ejus occulta esse possunt in justa esse non possunt Augustinus God that in and out of his secret Councel doth all things well and cannot do any thing ill or unjust though we know neither the causes nor the reasons of his doings permitted as the Prophet saith he did in his time veritatem in platea corruere the truth to be trodden under foot and as he gave leave to Satan to overthrowe the House of righteous Job and to slay his Children every one so he gave way to the Quack salvers to heal with their Weapons of Warre the wound that the King and the Prieft had made with the Sword of truth And Mr. Medes Reason to prove the Roman Empire revived by the Pope to be this head that was wounded videlicet because that whatsoever evill the Beast is mentioned to have committed whatsoever adoration or worship is done unto him all that is said to have come to passe after the curing of his wound for I saw saith St. John one of his heads Mr. Mede p. 54. Mr. Medes reason to be applied rather to the Parliament then to the Empire revived by the Pope in Charles the Great as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and then he addeth and all the World wondered after the Beast that is now being healed they wondered after him and worshipped him and he opened his mouth in blaspemy c. all after his healing and none of his hainous acts are mentioned or any subjection done unto him or any honour conferred upon him by the Nations before his wound was healed I say this doth in all things agree with the long Parliament far better then the Roman Empire revived by the Pope for the Eastern Empire which was the best part of the Roman Empire was quite lost from him and never revived by him since the time of Momyllus called also Augustulus and the Western Empire conferred upon Carolus Magnus the Sonne of Pepin King of France was ever since rather weakened then revived by the Pope that hath made it a Skeleton to rest in Germany without much honour besides the title and with lesse power then ever it had before but for that Parliament we know that till their deadly wound was healed by their Sword and by their Victories and successes neither did the people yield unto them their subjection nor the Nations round about them honour them with such Complements nor themselves commit such horrible wickednesses as afterwards we have heard and some have seen so amply done but when their wound was once healed and they became Masters of all that opposed them then began their Io Paean and all the foresaid things succeeded and they are said to have proceeded a malo ad pejus and as the Poet saith From bad to worse from worse to worst of all 10. How all the World wondered after the Beast And therefore it is said then v. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the World wondered after the Beast so they did after the Parliament and so they might wonder well enough to see the falshood of the Parliament in their accusation against the King and his Party so clearly detected and the truth and uprightness of the Kings proceedings so fully confirmed to the World and yet to finde these like incredulous Jewes and like Jannes and Jambres to resist Moses and to wage Warre against the truth and against all right and to prevail against them which is able if any thing be able to make all the World wonder at it The Parallel as the Holy Ghost saith they did for who would not wonder 1. To see men so impudent as to warre against the truth and against innocency Two things to be justly wondered at and Children warring against their Parents and subjects against their King and which is more 2. To see iniquity prevailing against equity and wickedness against piety and the followers of the Antichrist against the Servants of Christ But though this may move us to wonder at it and to wonder much at all this quia mirabilis Deus in operibus suis because God is wonderfull in all his works and more especially wonderfull in his judgements Psal 37.35 when suffering the wicked to flourish like a green Bay-tree he chasteneth his own Children every morning and hedgeth their wayes even with thorns that they cannot step aside Hosea 2.6 but they shall be wounded yet we may not by any meanes forsake oppressed righteousness and be partakers with the wrong-doers in their prosperous iniquity and though to the amazement of all beholders we see God permitting them to thrive prevall and prosper in all their wayes yet must not we cast our lots with them V. 4. To worship the Beast what it signifieth Hinc male

the House of Lords or the Kings royal assent any Statute Law custome or usage to the contrary notwithstanding he never read yet any Vote that hath in it more of dissolution and more of Vsurpation and innovation then this one Vote which makes their Authority Vniversally arbitrary and layes the Axe to the root of all our Lawes Liberties lives and propertyes all at once and is not this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great Authority or did ever Pope or Turk exact more or so much as this And thus that Author saith of the Power Throne and Authority that the long Parliament assumed to themselves and exercised over all the people of these Dominions how far these things are true I leave it as I do all their Acts and Actions to be censured and beleived by them that are most judicious and do best understand and know all their doings But to proceed 9. 9. Of the head that was mortally wounded and healed Junius in an not in H. loc and so Severus sulpitius and the Author of the Sybel verses supposed to be Montanus do take it The former exposition rejected It is said v. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and I saw one of the heads of the beast as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed whereupon Junius that makes this beast to be the Roman Empire saith that this head was Nero qui in domitiano ejus successore post vespasianum Titum suscitus est who in his successor Domitian was raised up because that in Nero the Caesarean line and stock did wholly faile gubernacula reipublica ad alios fuerunt translata and the Government of the Common wealth was transserred unto others by whose meanes especially in Domitian his successor after Vespasian and Titus the deadly wound of the Empire that it received in Nero was so cured that it remained firmer then ever it was before But this cannot be the meaning of the Holy Ghost because as I told you before this Revelation especially in the latter parts thereof was of things that were hereafter to be fulfilled and Nero was dead and five Emperors more Galba Otho Vitellius Vespasian and Titus long before St. John saw these things therefore Luther Illiricus Chytraeus and others by the Head that was mortally wounded do understand the civil Empyre of Rome that was wounded in the Emperors sed resuscitatum erat per papam but was healed revived and raised by the Pope and this exposition is likewise approved and followed by Mr. Mede Mr. Meder pag. 5.3 and by all that take the Beast to signifie the Roman Empire and the Pope to be the Antichrist Mr. Mede pag. 53. but I shewed to you before that this Beast cannot be taken for the Roman Empire and therefore by this Head cannot be meant the Empire that was restored by the Pope especially considering that not the Beast Dr. Hammond in loc and Grotius in apoc but one of the Heads of the Beast was as it were wounded therefore others by this one of his Heads that was wounded do understand the Capitoll of Rome that was twice burnt about this time but was after the burning of it far more sumptuously re-edified by Domitian and for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of his Heads that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one is by an Hebraisme Mat. 28.1 put for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first as in St. Matthew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of the Sabbaths is put for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first of the Sabbaths or the first day of the week And this conceit of Grouns seconded by Dr. Hammond is more fully confuted by Maresius dissertat de antich so is this one of his heads put for the first or the chief of his heads because that here was Jupiter Capitolinus which was the chiefest Temple of the Heathen and Idolatrous Worship of the Romans but seeing this Beast doth not signifie the heathen Idoll Worship of the Romans as I have sufficiently shewed unto you before this head cannot be taken to signifie the Capitoll and besides the wounds of the Capitoll were made by fire whereas the head of this Beast received his wounds by the Sword as the Holy Ghost sets it down c. 13. v. 14. But taking the long Parliament for the Beast it may well be said What may be meant by the Head that was mortally wounded that either the hypocrisie or subtlety of that Parliament that is their crafty plot to overthrowe both the Monarchy of the Common-wealth and the hierarchy of the Church which I told you might be one of the heads of this Beast was as it were mortally wounded when the Earl of Essex was beaten at Edgehill and at Cornwall driven to flie for his life by the Sword of the King so that if his Majesty had followed those good successes aright like Julius Caesar and not like Hanriball that knew quo modo vincere sed non victoria uti how to overcome but not how to follow his victory that wound in all likelihood had not the King been too mercifull a Prince when he gave it and too lesse politique then a prudent Souldier should be had been so mortall that it could never have been healed Or rather as I conceive by this head that was as it were mortally wounded we may understand the lies and erroneous Doctrines of the false Prophet and the cunning tricks and deceits of the Beast that were reproved and confuted by the true Servants of Christ And so accordingly The Parallel the falshood of that Parliament in the misconstring of our Lawes and former Statutes What the Authour conceives the Head that is wounded to be lies wounded by the truth and the scandalous traducing of the good King and his loyall Party which as I shewed unto you might be conceived to be another of the heads of this Beast and was confuted and made apparently false to all that would believe the truth and shewed to be most unjust and false by the clear writings and answers of the King and his adherents for the truth of things on the Kings side and the falshood of the Parliament and of their proceedings were so fully and so clearly shewed and their misconstructions detected that I heard many of themselves confess that the King went far beyond them in his papers and was farre happier in his answers then they were in their objections the King alwayes carrying away the Victory and having still the better of them while the matter was disputed with the Pen either about the Militia or Episcopacy or any point in controversie quia magna veritas because truth is able to prevail and doth Revel 19.15 while we do peaceably seek the truth and so this false and lying head of the Beast was wounded with the Sword of truth which is the Sword of Gods mouth from whence saith the Holy Ghost there proceedeth a sharp Sword But yet all this while the Kings

because the varietie of numbers had bin to no purpose if an uncertain number had been to be understood thereby when he might as well have said 40. monthes as 42 months neither shal you finde that ever the greater number signified a determinate lesser number as a year tosignifie a month or a week or a month to signifie a week or a day Therefore these 42. months wherein this beast shall raign and rage over Gods servants must be litterally and precisely understood to signifie three years and a halfe or as some do expound a time and times and the dividing of time for three years and halfe three years or there abouts or as I said even now for some short time and smal space though not so exactly and precisely determined as containing the just and full measure of three years and a half without somewhat either more or less And thus it is observed The prevalent time of the long Parliament just three yeers and a halfe that the long Parliament which is answerable to the first beast continued prevalent in their good successes just so long or much about that time for Ingland was proclaimed a free state the ninth of May 1648. and the Dutch did beat them at Sea which was the beginning of their declination upon the ninth of November in 1651. which from their first peeping to be masters to this first blow that they received is the just time of three years and a half and in Aprill the 22 Anno. 1653. which was but a little more then four years and a halfe the Lord generall Oliver alias Crumwell disolved that Parliament with a word of his mouth even as the Apostle foreshewed how easily and after what manner the Lord of heaven would consume or rather dissolve that man of sin and this beast here spoken of that signifieth a knot of rebels which the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Apostle useth 2. Thessal 2.8 most properly signifieth with the breath of his mouth saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom the Lord wil unbinde and separate or scatter as the Clouds are scattered by the wind which both the words And so this man by the will of God did put an end to that long Parliament 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 betoken with the breath of his month The which dissolution of the long Parliament and the suppression of their more then most bloody Ingagement that was formerly done by the same hand the Lord General Crumwel did and was the only good deed that ever he did to the oppressed Cavaleers and to all disaffected to that long Parliament Ob. But is it like that the head will destroy his body how shall he then subfiff when his body is lost Sol I answer that it is not alwayes alike with the politique head as it is with the naturall nor with the Head of the Church of God as with the head of the beast and the Synagogue of Satan but as Christ which is our Head saveth his body that is the Church so the head of the beast and of the Antichrist A special observation Revel 17.27 will everie way destroy his body and dissolve the knot and scatter the pack of those wicked reprobates for I would have it well observed how the Holy Ghost saith that God hath put it in the hearts of the ten hornes of the beast and I told you these ten hornes may be taken for ten or many of the Comanders to fulfil his wal to agree to give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shal be fulfilled no longer but when they have fulfilled his will they shall be no more hornes of the beast nor give their kingdom unto him but hornes against the beast to take away their kingdome from the beast to dissolve his members and to sever them from their Head so the body of the beast shall continue together intire and with his Head and horns on but 42 months or thereabouts and after that time it shall be disjointed and dissolved by his head and seperated from his head which will then become the head of another body and to remain to fulfill more of the will of God it may be to doe further mischeif and to give the lsst deaths wound unto the witnesses or rather to restore the witnesses against his will and to setle the right King in these kingdomes and the Bishops in the Church of Christ 2. We must consider that although the Lord by the breath of his mouth 2. The declining and de jected time of the beast after his dislolution 2. Theffal 2.8 dissolveth and scattereth this proud beast here spoken of as the Lord Generall disjointed and dissolved the long Parliament with a word of his lips so that now the beast and his adherents are like an armie routed yet he is not quite destroyed for as the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Lord will destroy him with the brightnesse of his coming and this can be understood of no other time then of his coming to the last judgement as Faber Stapulensis rightly collected for howsoever Grotius thinks that both these expressions tend to signifie the same thing after the manner of the Hebrews who in setting down any thing certainly and vehemently do often use to expresse the same by a double form of speech yet with that learned mans favour I rather conceive that this Apostle by these two fold expressions meaneth two speciall things that should come to passe The two fold expressions doe shew two things at two severall times 1. The dissolution and dispertion of the beast and his members by the breath of the Lord. 2. The destruction and finall dissipation and ruine of him 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dissipation dissolution and scattering of the beast and of all his adherents at the last day by the brightnesse of his coming And for the 1. I am of Cornelius a lapides mind that the breath and spirit of Christ his mouth doth not here signifie the preaching of the Gospel as those interpreters that make the Pope and papacie to be this beast that should be overthrown by the faithfull preaching of Gods truth doe imagine because the Antichrist and his followets regard not the truth of any preaching but being Sermon proof he slayeth the witnesses silenceth the preachers and destroyeth all that preach anything against him and his proceedings as you know the Parliament Protector did but the disjointing of the beast with the breath of his mouth signifieth as Grotius well observeth the facilitie of the work Tho facilitie of the work as we commonly say of a weak adversarie that we will blow him away so easily Christ can scatter and dissolve this beast sooner and easier then Alexander could untie the Gordian knot when with his sword he cut it all to peices and so did Christ most easily scatter that companie