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A96871	The two vvitnesses: discovered in severall sermons upon the eleventh chapter of the Revelation, wherein, after the prophesie opened, the great question of these times. Viz. whether the two witnesses are slain, yea or no, is modestly discussed. / Preached at Lawrence-Jewry in London, by F.W. lecturer of the said place. It is this seven and twentieth day of April, 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that these sermons intituled, the two witnesses, be printed for Luke Fawne. John White.	Woodcock, Francis, 1614?-1651.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W3433; Thomason E100_1; ESTC R13873	76,978	106

Antichristian to cleer this latter the former being without question And is it not so when because of these plagues you have Vers 7. Antichrist in the very next words waging War witt these Witnesses and slaying them Is it not plain these plagues fall upon Vers 20. the Antichristian Party when they are brought in at the tenth Verse rejoycing for their slaughter and this expresly the reason Because they were now got shut of those who while they lived tormented them with all these plagues The subject then of these is Rome Aniichristian of the other Rome Christian and if so they neither fall within the same time nor upon the same subject 't is evident they cannot be the same plagues the thing contended for and if these be not the same there being none other in all this Prophesie that do resemble them save onely the Vialls it remains an unshaken truth the plagues here mentioned are no other then the Vialls This much gained we now proceed particularly to examine the words These have power over waters to turn them into blood c. In which who beholds not another pair even Moses and Aaron now coming forth to personate these Witnesses of whom we reade in sacred Story That bringing Israel out of Egypt they turned the Egyptian waters into blood plagued the earth c. Exod. 7. Exod. 8. the very same you have here done by the hands of these Witnesses And now you have the last pair where by these Witnesses are described Formerly they were Zerubqabell and Jeshua after that Moses and Elias now in the close of this representation they are Moses and Aaron There now wants nothing to make the description of these Witnesses compleat but that we see what 't is these Witnesses do that makes them appear another Moses and Aaron which done we have then at once a full description and view of these Witnesses To this therefore I hasten in entrance where upon let me warn you as I did before you are not to understand this same in the letter namely That indeed and in the letter the Witnesses should turn waters into blood but as we understood their destroying their enemies with fire their shutting heaven that it rain not mystically before so must we understand their turning waters into blood also But because I have already shewn these plagues are no other then those of the Vials the better to compasse the meaning it will not be amisse for us to turn over to the 16 Chapter of this Prophesie where the Vialls are by the holy Ghost professedly mentioned where if we finde what 's meant by turning waters into blood and smiting the earth with plagues there we shal cleerly see what to understand by them here also they being all one onely here but glanced at there by the holy Ghost professedly and at large discovered In that 16 Chapter therefore for I turn over thither we finde that upon the pouring forth of the second and third Vials the waters are turned into blood hoth these I conceive are here pointed at For the holy Ghost seeming in this place to give a touch upon the Vials summing them up briefly under two Heads viz. either plagues on the waters or plagues on the eatrh and so to be apprehended thrusting as many as would fall under an head together there being two Vials that will come under this head of turning waters into blood who doth not readily conceive both these Vials must hereby be hereby signified So that it will be needfull we enquire the meaning of them both To begin therefore with the second Vial the first of those that turn waters into blood which in that 3 Verse of the 16 Chapter we finde is poured out upon the Sea and the effect it become as the blood of a d●ad man This Vial say some of our best Cha. 16. 3. Interpreters whom I must trust at present it requiring no small time professedly and to purpose to speak to these Vials was then poured forth when all the Popish Doctrines being gathered into one by the Councell of Trent afterward by Bellarmine and others the godly Ministers of the Reformed Churches by their writings discovered all that Sea of of Popish Doctrine to be but as the blood of a dead man no living blood of Jesus Christ discoverable in it all and those that live no other life then what they draw from those corrupt Doctrines to be in a dead damnable and undone condition This the second Vial. The third is poured forth upon the rivers and fountains at the 4 Verse and the effect is these become blood also And then was this Vial poured forth say Interpreters whom I again refer to when in the times of Queen Elizabeth this State made a Law against Priests and Jesuites enacting it Treason for any to seduce this People to the Romish Religion upon which severall of them as Campian Ducket Sherwin and afterwards others were executed and when at this day according to that Law we execute a Priest or Jesuite then do we poure forth this Viall upon the Antichristian Waters and they become bloud By this reckoning and so to bring all home to the Text then are the witnesses said to turn the Antichristian Waters into bloud when by their cleer writings and other wayes they discover all that Sea of Popish doctrine to be but as the bloud of a dead man and further do execute their Priests and Jesuites who as Rivers do derive and carry from place to place the Waters of this noysome Sea thereby to poyson and destroy the souls of seduced people And by the way who is not now fully satisfied the Witnesses poure forth the Vials the thing we so industriously proved before when having but mentioned two Vials we find the godly Magistrates and Ministers of the reformed Churches whom all along we have shewn to be these two Witnesses have already poured forth both of them The former the godly Ministers such as Chemnitius Chamier Junius Reignolds c. The latter the godly Magistrates as certain of the number of these Witnesses also Thus these Witnesses turn Waters into bloud The next thing that follows And they smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will this falls now in order to be enquired concerning And to be short what can this mean but which we touched upon before the pouring forth the other Vialls all which at the first Verse of that 16 Chapter are commanded there to be poured forth upon the earth And if this be so you have then the summe of the former and of this same in one word this much In that the Holy Ghost tells us these Witnesses turn Waters into bloud and smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will 't is all one as if he had said These Witnesses do pour forth all the Vials And now by this time you have had the Witnesses at full shewed forth you have seen who they are They are Zerubbabel