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B09348	A voice out of the wildernes, crying with many tears and strong perswasions to the world for repentance. Proving by undeniable grounds from the word of God, that the great day of his righteous judgment will certainly be in this present age, namely about the 45th. yeer after the ruine of Rome, in 1666. Wherein are unfolded many great and wonderful mysteries of God, foretold in his word to come to pass unto th' end of the world. This work consists of five small tracts: 1. To the church of Rome, printed first in an. 1588. 2. To Qu. Elizabeth, presented to her in an. 1589. 3. To the E. of Essex in her days, called, Babylon is fal'n 4. To K. James, being an exposition of the 11. 12, 13. ch. Apoc. 5. De fide, against Baro, since translated into English. / By T.L. sometime a student in the University of Cambridge in the daies of Q: Elizabeth.	T. L.	1661 (1661)	Wing L83A; ESTC R179227	116,012	190

Beast and therefo●e the Spirit crowneth not his heads but his hornes saying and upon his hornes ten diadems And concluding sheweth even by his head attire how far unlike this Dragons High Priest of Rome was and should be to the Lords High-Priest of Jerusalem who in stead of having his head-attire emblemished with ●olinesse to the Lord as had his servant Aaron should have his head-peece beslubbered with names of blasphemy and upon his heads names of blasphemy whereof proofe is made in the sixth verse following VERS 2. And the Beast which I saw was like to a Leopard and his feet as a Beare and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion and the Dragon gave him his owne force and his throne and great power ANd forasmuch as the Apostle fore-saw that this Beast should be a far greater adversary and a far longer persecutor of the Church of God then any of the Monarchies which did arise afore him he shaped him an outside answerable to his inward making framing his parts of the most notable persecuters that ever were as concluding him for his extraordinary wickednesse the odd fellow the totall sum and very accomplishment of all other And first for his presumption in extolling himselfe above the Prince of the Covenant desouling his sanctuary desolating his sacrifice burning his statutes and insorcing the humble and meek to the abnegation of the truth by blood fire st●appadoes and such like exquisite torments the Spirit resembleth him to his arch-type Antiochus descended from the Monarch of Greece here as in Daniel deciphered by a Leopard And I saw the Beast like a Leopard Secondly in pride of life in pomp and luxury the Spirit equalleth him with the Monarch of Persia and likeneth his arrogant and voluptuous gate to her ●en Kings here as in Daniel deciphered by a Beare And his feet as of a Beare Thirdly the holy Ghost ascribeth unto him the proud prophane and cursed mouth of the Monarch of Babylon in commanding the dwellers on earth upon paine of fire and furnace to adore his golden Idol which he had dedicated with cornets ●ackbuts psalteries dulcimers which also the Spirit covereth as Daniel doth under the mask of a Lion And his mouth as the mouth of a Lion And last of all lest haply he should be least beholding unto his Bella Nympha his dearest Lady and mistris of Rome the holy Ghost saith that the love of his Patronesse the Dragon was equall to the love of a fa●her towards his son for she made him heir apparent and Lord of her Empire sub●ecting all things to the feet of his censure and confirming unto him her throne and Palace of Lateran with all the demesnes and glory of Latium as one of his own also noteth Latiumque relinquit Christo Romuleam septem cum collibus urbem VERS 3. And I saw one of his heads as it were slaine to death but the wound of his death was cured and all the earth was in admiration after the Beast ANd presently after this grea● Antichrist was risen the Apostle foresaw such a wound given to one of his heads that the Beast was in eminent danger to be stricken downe againe and slaine in the very egge for so much the Spirit noteth in saying And I saw one of his heads as it were slaine to death For the better opening of which wound we must not onely remember the Beast hath seven heads but we must also step a little forward and crave the assistance of the seventeenth Chapter concerning the interpretation of the seven head● which saith that the seven heads are seven hills and they are also seven Kings discovering the true seat and situation of the City of Rome where Antichrist should keep his Court and residence by the seven hills And by the seven Kings the seven Monarchies which from the beginning of the world to this day have successively risen and reigned over the earth of which seven the Assyrian Monarchie was the first and the Roman the sixth of both which and their pue-fellows is further revealed in the 17. Chapter following Meane time we are here to observe that as the holy Ghost doth therefore call his seven heads by the name of seven hils because the seat of Antichrist should be there and not elsewhere placed and planted so he nameth them also seven Kings because the power of Antichrist should be an extraordinary ●overaignty compounded of such spirituall and temporall claims and jurisdictions as should be equivalent in presumption and prophanation to all the transgressions of the seven Monarchies which from the beginning hitherunto have blasphemed God and corrupted his world This foundation laid doth shew that this deadly wound given to one of his heads which as after appeareth was the wound of a sword cannot be meant of any one of his heads after the first signification as they are hills but as they are Kings and subject to the sword and so by consequence intendeth that one of his imperiall heads and namely his faire Adonis his minion Lord and Master of Rome of whom he had so lately received his breath and being was so deadly wounded as that the Beast himselfe thereby was in great danger of extinction Thus having found the head let us look unto the wound that so we may the better discerne the great danger the Beast was in delivered in these words as it were slaine to death This deadly wound was given and driven home to the head by the sword and incursion of the West Gothes under the leading of Alaricus who in the nineteenth year of Caesar Honorius of whom the Beast some foure yeares before had received his life entred Italy and gave such a deadly stroke unto his powerfull pate that for very feare the beast lock● himselfe up in his den at Ravenna while the enemy ript up the streets of his imperiall City filling them with famine fire and sword which night of woe or ratner beginning of her wofull night made an ancient friend of hers who in her youth did love her over-well to bewaile and bind up her deadly wounded head with an old Ballade a●ter the tune of the burning of Troy Quis cladem illius noctis quis funera fando Explicet aut possit lachrymis aequare l●bores Vrbs antiqua ruit multos dominata per annos And having thus mortally wounded the head of the Beast in the yeare of salvation 410. and 1157. years after Romulus had raised her walls with his brothers blood proceeded to seize upon the rest of his dignities havocking and burning his chiefest honours Latium Campania Apulia Lucania Calabrid where raging and devising how to extermine the power of the Empire for ever and to spread his glory over all was by sudden death blotted out leaving his purpose and his Army Royal to his wives brother Ataulphus who in like raging hast and fury returned to Rome with an obstinate intent and resolution to obliterate the ancient name of Rome for ever and to call her

be long free from like retaliation but as the truth fore-saith He that divideth with the sword shall perish by the sword For how may Esdr 4. 12. the sword for ever escape him whom heaven hateth and earth doth persecute and of whom may be truly said which was spoken of Ismael Manus eorum contra omnes omnium contra illos And thus shall these heads perish and hast the faster to their end because the judgement of the beast is nigh in the very next verses attending to come in Vers 36. Then I heard a voice which said look before thee and consider the things which thou seest Vers 37. So I saw and behold as it were a Lyon came hastily out of the wood roaring And I saw that he sent out a mans voice unto the Eagle and spake saying Vers 38 Hear thou and I shall tell thee what the most High doth say unto thee The roaring of the Lion is the breath of the Highest which shall rebuke th' Eagle for her unrighteousnes and cast before her all her spoyls and set her alive in judgement and with the spirit of his mouth rise up against her and lay unto her charge as in the text following Ver. 39. Art not thou he which of the 4 Beasts remainest whom I made to reigne in my world that by them the end of things might come Vers 40. And the fourth is come and hath overcome all the beasts that were past and obtained power over the world with great fearfulnes and over the whole compasse of the earth with extream oppression and hath possessed so long time all the world with deceit Ver. 41. For thou hast not judged the earth with truth Ver. 42. But hast troubled the meck and hurt the peacefull and thou hast loved lyers and destroyed the dwellings of them which brought forth fruit and hast cast down the wals of such as did thee no harme Ver. 43. So as thy unjust dealing is ascended to the most High and thy pride unto the Mighty Ver. 44. And therefore he that is Highest hath beheld the proud times and behold they are ended and their abominations are finished And if thou plead not guilty hereunto behold a thousand witnesses shall rise up against thee and prove the inditement true that the just judgement which hath so long attended for thee may at the length be pronounced against thee in form as in the text followeth Vers 45. Therefore appeare no more thou Eagle nor thy fearfull wings nor thy wicked fethers nor thy malitious heads nor thy cruel claws nor thy vaine body And least in thy drunkennes thou maist think thy sin may over-shoot this judgement to come and in thy madnes glorifie thy selfe as thou hast ever done perswading thy selfe thou shalt ever be because thou hast been long and like a fool hast not considered the more thy yeares the nigher thy grave behold thus saith the truth In the year which shall be 1666. this Rev. 13. 18. judgement here pronounced shall lay hands on thee And as all thy fearfull wings and fethers be already descended and blown down so before that day which is so nigh at hand the tyranny of thy malitious heads and cruel claws shall be consumed and brought to nought And in that day thy vaine body shall be burnt with fire and shall so cleane be cut off from the land of the living that neither son nor nephew as the Prophet Esay 14. 22 Esay 14. 24 saith nor branch nor remnant of thy name shall be found upon the earth For as it is purposed so shall it come to passe and as it is consulted it shall stand Go to now take counsell of thy Seers and call thy inchanters about thee build thy devices as high as heaven and lay their foundations low as hell yet shall they not deliver thee from the day appointed but as Salmanazar destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battel wherein the mother with the children was dasht in peeces or like the milstone which the mighty Angel did cast into the Sea with such violence shalt thou be thrown down and be found no more And all hell shall be moved at thy comming and prepare it self and raise up all her dead against that day to meet thee and all the Princes and Kings of Nations whom thou hast slaine with the cup of thy fornication shal rise out of their torments against thy coming and at thy fight shall wonder and cry and Esay 44. 10 say unto thee Art thou become weak also as we art thou become like one of us Is thy pomp bowed down unto the grave and are thy pleasures departed like ours and is the worm spread under thee and do the wormes cover thee also how art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the morning which hast cast l●ts upon the Nations and saidst in thine heart I will ascend into heaven and exalt my throne above besides the stars of God and I will sit upon the mount even the holy mount of his Sanctuary and Congregation I will ascend above the height of the clouds and will be like the most High And all hell which once did wonder worship and kisse thy feet beholding now thy nakednes thy shame and judgement shall die for grief of mind and dying shall say Is this the man that made the earth to tremble and Esay 14. with his word did shake the Kingdoms that made the world a wildernes and a wast of the Cities thereof Then shalt thou lying in tormen● death gnawing on thee answer them and say We have erred from the way of truth and the light of righteousnes hath not shined upon us nor hath the Wisd 5. Son of understanding risen over us we have wearied onr selves in the ways of wickednes and we have gone through dangerous paths but the way of the Lord we have not known What hath pride profited us or what profit hath the pomp of riches brought ns all these things are vanished like ashadow and as a Post that passeth by And casting up thy eye to heaven shalt see the righteous stand in great boldnesse before thee and before the face of such as tormented them and took away their labors and thou shalt fear exceedingly at the sight of them and be amazed at their wonderfull deliverance and dye for grief of mind and dying shalt say These are they whom we sometimes had in derisron and in a parable of reproach we fools thought their life madnesse Wisd 5. and their end without honour But how are they counted among the children of God and their portion among the Saints Vers 46. That all the earth may be refreshed and come again as one delivered from thy violence that she may hope for the iudgement and mercy of him that made her And thy death shall comfort and refresh the earth and deliver Sion from her great and violent oppressions but their prosperities may not long endure as testifieth the Prophet Daniel

and goddesses of their owne forging must be resigned now to the true Lord and owner of all who hath taken his place at the right hand of the Father and hath deposed for ever from their usurped titles of deitie all gods and goddesses phantasmes made of worms created and divified by th'inventions relations consecrations and canonizations of the Dragon his Taile and successors as the spirit discovereth in saying Neither the place of them was found any more in Heaven VERS 10. And that great Dragon was throwne downe the old Serpent called the Devil and Satanas which seduceth the whole world and he was cast into the earth and his Angels were throwne downe with him ANd the great and prophane power of the Roman Monarchy which had so long time oppressed and corrupted the earth was now at length detected and thereupon disseized of and from her usurped claim of heaven for ever as the Spirit discovereth in saying And that great Dragon was throwne downe And for that the Devil did corporally dwell as it were in her spreading the beams of his wickednesse at full in all idolatry impietie and presumption against God and in all oppression injustice and immanitie towards man the Spirit crowneth her with the cognoments of her Sire calling her for her malice to the truth a Serpent for her crimination of the Saints a devil and for hostility to God and his Saints Satanas speaking therein after the manner of the Lord himselfe who calleth his treacherous steward a Divel though he were a man because the fullnesse of Satan did dwell in him filling his heart with●such a perfect hatred of his innocent Lord and ●amentable love of his guilty penie that he sold Ca●aan for Egypt heaven for hell and God for silver And because th' impietie of Governors is not onely their owne decay by evil doing but also by enforcement and evil example the ruine of their people the Spirit layeth the seduction of the whole earth to the charge of the Dragon for ruling it after the level and prescription of Rome saying which seduceth the whole world and thereupon giveth just judgement and sentence of death against him namely that as in his beginning he crept out of the earth and by the scale of his wickednesse ascended so high as to presume to thrust his haughty head into heaven and build his nest above the stars as did his antecefsors Assur Beltassar Darius Alexander and the rest of their compeers so by a like power of sword and cruelty he shall shortly returne to his friends againe and be made even with the earth from whence his stock and first estate was borrowed and the power of his Cesars counsell of his Senators sophistry of his Sorcerers which with such indurate and obstinate minds stood for th' honour and worship of Devils should be no longer able to uphold the reverence of their Jupiter Capitolinus who was now detected for a Rogue and by the voices of Michaels Angels as by whips and pasports was sent home againe to the place of his birth namely the earth from whence his mortall and vile genealogie was taken and with with him also were Cesars undivified and for all their Senates proud relations were made to take up the grave for their latter end and shame for their same and wormes for their heritage as the Spirit soretelleth saying And be was cast downe unto the earth and his Angels were throwne downe with him VERS 11. And I heard a great voice in heaven saying Now is made salvation and force and Kingdome of our God and the power of his Christ because the accuser of our brethren is cast downe who accused them before the sight of our God day and night NEither was this famous victory obtained in ● corner or spoken in the ear but as the Spirit reporteth so valourously gotten and so audibly proclaimed that all the world heard the repo●● thereof witnesse the records of those times at whi●h the holy Ghost pointeth in these words And I heard a loud voice in beaven saying and sounding the victory of Christ and Christianisme against the Dragon and his Angels his sorcerers and their prophane and ●dolatrous paganisme in these devout and divine notes Now is made salva●ion and force and the Kingdome of our God and the power of his Christ and yieldeth a reason of this so pious and triumphant joy because the folly and fury of the Dragon and his Ang●ls which so continually accused the Saints and servants of God for pestilent fellows movers of sedition maintainers of sects polluters of the Temple teachers of new Gods enemies to Caesar word-sowe●● babblers blasp●emers is now upon setting and going downe for ever Which death and downfall of their spiritua●l whoredome the holy Ghost di●closeth in saying Because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth And for the greater comfort of the Church and judgement of her enemies concludeth that there is a perfect Court-roul kept as well of the sufferings of the Saints as of the slanders of their soes so openly ●ommitted in the face of the Court and before a ●udge of so clear a fight and eternall memory as that they shall never be discharged or forgotten which the Spirit inferreth in saying Who accused them before the ●●ght of our God day and night VERS 12. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives even unto the death LAst of all the holy Ghost discovereth the spirituall armour and weapons wherewith the Angels and servants of Michael obtained this famous victory over the Dragon and his Sectaries and saith that they were tempered of these two divine vertues faith and patience For by the shield of faith which the Spirit by a metonymie calleth the blood of the Lamb and with the sword of his two witnesses and by the word of their testimony they overthrew all forces and arguments drawne from reason or reading which the Spirit observeth in these words And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and all such arguments as were drawne from the block as fire sword persecution interdiction and such like the Children of the Church quenched them with tears prayers patience and martyrdome as their Lord had given them charge and left them example which the Spirit uncovereth in saying And they loved not their lives even unto the death VERS 13. Therefore rejoyce O Heavens and you that dwell in them Wo to the Earth and to the Sea because the Divel is discended to you having great wrath knowing that he hath but a little time AS after victory followeth division of spoile so the Spirit shuts up this heavenly conquest with tri●mph and joy inviting thereunto all the Saints and ●ervants of God which have from time to time main●ained and defended th' honour of his Name against the Dragon his sorcerers and sorceries And be●ause by their good profession and godly conversation