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A44854	Hē apostasīa, ho antichristos, or, A scriptural discourse of the apostasie and the Antichrist, by way of comment, upon the twelve first verses of 2 Thess. 2 under which are opened many of the dark prophecies of the Old Testament, which relate to the calling of the Jews, and the glorious things to be affected at the seventh trumpet through the world : together with a discourse of slaying the witnesses, and the immediate effects thereof : written for the consolation of the Catholike Church, especially the churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland / by E.H.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1653 (1653)	Wing H325; ESTC R11943	203,833	222

Churches state under the Arrian persecution under the Papacie and under the Antichrist and his new government Revel 33. 12. 18. In Cap. 14. we have a vision of the comfortable and successefull presence of Christ in his Church that Church where the witnesses rise it is they that are redeemed from the Beast of the Earth which sing the new song upon the harp to God verse 1 2 3 and verse 6. now the witnesses are risen great preparation is made for the promulgation of the Gospell the Ministery flie swiftly through the world to call both Jewes and Gentiles from the foure corners of the Earth to bring them to the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ. And verse 8. you have the courage faith and zeal of the ministery raised to such a height that they confidently preach the certain and speedy downfall of Babilon because of her filthy blasphemous Idolatry wherewith she hath made all Nations i. e. Christian Nations drunke And in verse 9 10. compared with Revel 13. 15 16. the Ministers of that Church which verse 1. bears the name of Christ in his forehead which ver 4. is a Virgin Church which followes the lambe The Holy Ghost sets this Church out under the notion of peculiar selected persons to note that it shall not be the generallity of professors of the Orthodoxe faith that shall thus carry on Gods worke against the three grand enemies of the truth but some particular faithfull ones in those dominions where the witnesses were slaine in that Church after the witnesses are risen do the Ministers verse 9 10 11. boldly denounce damnation and the eternall vengeance of God against those that adhere to the Antichrist Now this must be in the intervall of time betwixt the passing of the second and the coming of the third woe for it cannot be after the third woe because at the third woe Revel 19. and Revel 16. all the enemies are destroyed and it is not to be thought that they will worship the Beast or receive his mark after that he is caught alive and cast into Hell And then this bold preaching it is not before the second woe be past viz. that the witnesses are risen and the power that upheld the Antichrist be overthrowne and slaine which is to be at the passing of the second woe Rev. 11. 11. 14. exempla probant for I take this bold preaching to be one eminent effect of the rising of the Witnesses and if this be one effect of the spirit of life from God entring into them you may safely swear upon the Sacred Bible they lie now dead they have no spirit in them against the Antichrist the feculent matter of predominent fear hath so stupified them that they are speechlesse like Pliny's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are mouthless men I only mean in not pleading for the great truth against the great lie in not vindicating the great truth opposed by declaring openly against the great lie that doth prevaile against it it is an infamous and irreligious piece of cowardise to quit a persecuted truth that cryes aloud come help me and strenuously to defend a truth which persecutors shake hands with is this thank worthy No t is to use a Heathens words not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t is not only an ungodly but an unmanly act Here 's then one effect of the Witnesses rising that they dare boldly speake against the Antichrist and his government and those that are the followers of him whereas before they durst not open their mouths therefore I conceive this intervenes betwixt the second and third woe and now by way of prevention of other objections from what we have seen in Rev. 14. we observe 1. That the great preparations for an Universall Reformation and Gospel Promulgation proceed principally from that Church where the Witnesses rise Zech. ●…0 11. God will first passe through the narrow Sea So we may translate the Septuagint 2. That after the witnesses are risen though the Church shall prosper and prevail yet untill the third woe come the Church must not look to sit downe in peace without molestation the patience of the Saints and their integrity will be still tryed even to the death as the two next verses seeme to tell us Rev. 14. 1●… 13. for though at the passing of the second woe the chief of the Antichrists followers who supported his usurpation in the tenth part of the City be slaine yet the Antichrist himself is not slaine nor all his adherents for the first viall falls upon the remainder of Antichrists adherents Rev. 16. 2. and he himselfe is plotting Rev. 16. 13. with the Dragon and the Beast againe to overthrow the Church and the risen Witnesses this vision of the plotting of the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet is another of those things which are to be placed in this intervall of time betwixt the second and the third woe I meane the passing of the second and the comming of the third for though Rev. 16. 13 14 15 16. be placed as if it were an effect of the 6. viall yet he that seriously views it will see it a distinct vision of it selfe giving us the immediate foregoing symtomes of Christs unexpected comming to pour out the vialls At this battell Christ comes like a thief i. e. suddainly terribly unexpectedly in the midnight of supine security but how will he come Rev. 19. 11. he comes on his white Horse signifying victory and triumph taking vengeance on his enemies therefore his garment ver 13. is dipt in bloud and ver 17. he comes in the greatnesse of his might bidding such defiance to his enemies that he sends a messenger before he fights his battell to invite the fowls of the aire to feast upon the slaine enemies which he intends to give them to supper 't is safe being on such a Generalls side and what flesh is it that he gives them ver 18. 't is the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captains and the flesh of mighty men but the Beast and the false Prophet ver 10. he by the sword of his mouth i. e. by his mandatory power casteth them alive into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone they die not the common death of all men dreadfull and irrecoverable ruine is their undoubted portion for the sword of the Lord shall effect it Rev. 19. 21. Now what is all this but the immediate effects of the 7. Trumpet and what are the effects of the 7. Trumpet but the sending forth the Angels out of the Temple to pour out the seven last plagues of God upon the earth If this great battell should be any thing distinct after the vialls then the vialls cannot be the seven last plagues Rev. 15. 1. nor is all done Rev. 16. 17. when the last viall is poured out because this great battell which is greater then the greatest plague is still to come and this would lead us to the third Epecha or distance

so far from being ignorant of the Jews rejection and their own reception that they insulted and boasted thereupon therefore that cannot be the mystery that Paul importunes them of all mysteries not to be ignorant of it But the mysterie as learned Cajetan observes lyeth principally in these words Untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles shall come in That the Jews were a people cast off for their unbelief is a thing known to all the Churches in the world but to know that the twelve Tribes shall after this sad captivity be brought to Christ and their own Land again and to know how long this their rejection and dissipation shall continue untill they be brought into favour again and restored to be a Church this is a mystery to all the Churches in the world this day And blessed is he that readeth and understandeth this mystery This mysterie of all mysteries the holy Ghost would have this Church to take notice of therefore 't is ushered in with this double guard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this the mysterie the chiefest of mysteries amongst prophetick Texts Well it may be termed so if we search into it there lyeth a mystery in every word of that sentence wherein this mysterie lieth 1. In the Adverb of time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the same as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gnad in Hebrew It defines that space of time à parte post wherein the Jews shall continue in their unbeleeving or unrestored or unchurched condition and this is a mysterie so great that to this day none can though never so learned peremptorily define Then there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this mysterie if I am not grosly mistaken in my parallels hath been and is as much mistaken as any Text in the Bible amongst the Leared for 't is generally conceived that this fulnesse of the Gentiles coming in is meant the fulnesse of their coming in to the Gospel as much as to say when the Gentiles are fully brought in to God then the Jewes shall be converted but this hath been confuted as an opinion directly contrary to Paul's own sense in ver 12. of the same chapter for the greatest work of grace is to be exercised among the Gentiles when the Jews shall be restored for if the diminishing of them be the riches of the Gentiles how much more their fulnesse Now if the great work of grace amongst the Gentiles must be accomplished before the Jews shall be converted how will those words be true and those many Prophecies of the innumerable number of Gentiles that shall flock in to the Gospel with the Jews 'T is expressed in that prophecie that ten Gentiles shall in the day of the Jews conversion come in to God for one Jew Zach. 8. 23. In those dayes ten men shall take hold out of all Languages of the Nations even shall take hold of the skirt of a Iew saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you And in that day Isa. 19. 23 24 25. the Lord of hosts shall blesse saying Blessed be Egypt my people and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel mine inheritance Those three verses with the precedent matter run parallel with Zach. 14. 8 9 10 16 17 20 21. We might multiply Texts to prove that when the Jews shall be converted there shall be a glorious coming in of the Gentiles unto Jesus Christ with them But as for this opinion which passeth so currant amongst the Learned without the least controll of any onely the variation of some who say By the fulnesse of the Gentiles is meant the preaching of the Gospel to all the world I professe for my part I know no ground they have so to interpret it they have not one parallel Scripture that I know in all the Bible for it Therefore I humbly take the boldnesse to put that glosse upon it that other Texts put upon it viz Luke 21. 24. Revel 11. 1. Untill the fulnesse of the gentile Apostasie be come in This is the Mysterie which Paul calls that the Mysterie Mysteries are so called because saith one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it is meet they be shut up within as those sacred things within the Ark or as others say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from sealing up of the mouth Indeed a mysterie in Scripture lies as the tongue sealed up within the sacred lips of hard expressions which he that can unseal shall hear that mysterie like a tongue declaring Gods minde therein Such is the Text I am about which I humbly conceive hath been sealed up betwixt those two sacred Texts that I have endeavoured to open and that in Dan. 12. 6 7 9. which we shall open in the close of all Now since the mysterie lyes in these words Untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in that we may not leave the Reader in the dark we will see to what it leads us in other Texts CHAP. V. THis Mysterie leads us to two Texts more Rev. 10. 7. and 17. 5 7. which lead us to the end of the Mysterie For the next great Question will be If the Jews must be converted when the fulnesse of the Gentiles is come in and herein lyeth the mysterie Then when shall this Mysterie be fulfilled Rev. 10. 7. answereth it But in the dayes of the voyce of the seventh Angel when he shall begin to sound the mysterie of God shall be finished that is the great mysterie that the Mysterie this answers to the particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 until But how shall this mysterie be finished Rev. 17. 5 7. seems to answer this together with Revel 11. 7. In Rev. 17. you have as 't is generally acknowledged Rome going to ruine and in what dresse is she in now she is going to ruine she is arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthinesse of her fornication that is Heresies presented in the golden cup of profound Truths and glorious new Light and upon her forehead was a name written Mysterie Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the earth This is spoken not of the bare City Rome but of the Head and Politie of that City which is the Popedome when the Popedome came to be the Beast with seven Heads and ten horns then came he to be the generall Head of the Apostasie and now Rome comes to be neer her ruine upon her forehead this Mystery is written this Mystery which as Chrysostom saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath much of a Paradox in it is legible on her forehead i. e. the mystery hidden from the Ages past is now revealed openly to all the world for that is the meaning of Mystery Babylon upon her forehead and this is the last vision Iohn hath of the Polity or or Government of Rome Romes Government and