revealing of the same person let us rather say that as at Christs first comming they were proclaimed before him by most Jewes that were present to shew that he was their promised King so at his next appearing they shall be proclaimed before him by all that are present to shew that he is come into his promised (i) Mark 11 v. 10. Luk. 19. v. 11 15. ch 23. v. 42. 2 Tim. 4. v. 1 Kingdome Quest 2 A second Querie bids us looke How it can be proved that by Armageddon in the third Parallel some place in Judea is implyed Answ In Answer whereunto I alledge FIrst that for ought I perceive the copious resolution of the former doubt doth immoveably fasten the interpretation of the Kings of the East upon the Jewes onely And if this may passe for a currant truth I see not what argument can be brought which may induce us to mistrust that the place in which the Armies of the Kings of the earth and of the whole world shall meet and sit downe against them should be in any other Country but that whither the Jewes are to returne And whither both Ezekiel and Joel doe plainely shew that all the opposite Kings shall at once come up to battell Secondly I say that seeing the Holy Ghost hath here made choyce to name the place of these Kings randevouz by an Hebrew word rather then by a word of any other tongue therefore it is very probable that hereby is understood a part of that Countrey which whatsoever we account of it is the proper (k) Gen 48. v. 21. Levit. 26. v. 32 33 34 35. Ezek. 20. v. 42. ch 28. v. 25. ch 34. v. 13. ch 36. v. 12. ch 37. v. 12. Ioel. 3. v. 2. inheritance of that people whose language the Hebrew is Of whom some few doe yet all have and shall (l) Zeph. 3. v. 9. againe make use of it Thirdly and lastly I answer that in the latter part of the 19. Chap. of the Rev. it is manifestly foretold that the great Army which is to be gathered into Armageddon shall be destroyed by our Saviour himselfe at his comming now as it is altogether unlikely that our Saviour shall descend to any other Country or people but to that in which and of which he was borne and in which and amongst which he lived and dyed So in the 4. and 5. ver of the 14. Chap. of Zechariah it is not obscurely revealed that he shall descend to that very Mount from which he did (m) Act. 1. v. 12. ascend and from which he (n) Luk 19. v. 35 37. rode to Jerusalem when they proclaimed him King And consequently Armageddon is to be a place not onely in Jury but also neere unto Jerusalem Object And yet although the foresaid prophecies of Saint John and Zechar. doe expressely shew the comming of our Saviour to be at the time of a baâ—tell and though the treading of the winepresse in the 14. Chap. of the Rev. doth plainely intimate as much (o) Rev 19. v. 15. Isa 63 v. 1 2 3 c And that no lesse perhaps is aymed at in the 1 to the Thess and the fourth Chapter where it is said That the Lord himselfe shall descend from Heaven with a (p) Exod. 32. v. 17. â— Sam. 17. v. 20.52 2 Chro. 13. v 15. Iob 39. v. 25. Shout c. the usuall token of armies entring into battell Notwithstanding all this evidence I say we are told (q) Doctor Maior on the cath ep p. 515. That when the great Day of the Lords descend shall come there is to be a generall security (r) Mat. 24. v. 38. c. Luk. 17. v. 26 c. Answ Eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage And not warring and fighting For if an end of these warres should be made by the Lords comming how should the faithfull have time here to rejoyce and to give thankes unto God for their greatest enemies overthrow But unto the Scripture proofe I answer That if the naturall and in some sort necessary actions of marrying and giving in marriage and of eating and drinking or of festivall eating and drinking which also is in it selfe commendable if the accustomed continuance and observation of such actions shall be a sufficient witnesse to convince the world of its unmindfulnesse and unbeliefe of our Saviours approach when as there shall be very considerable tokens and perhaps too Sicut in diebus Noah a downe right (s) 1 Pet. 3. v. 19 20. 2 Pet. 2. v. 5 warning thereof then much more shall the inhumane enterprises and mercilesse events of warring and fighting declare such a security Secondly I say that though our Saviour did instance onely in eating and drinking in marrying and giving in marriage yet it followes not from hence that there shall be no warring and fighting then For wofull experience teacheth us that all these foresaid actions are not onely at this day in the world together but in many particular Kingdomes thereof Neither hath such a generall peace been often heard of in which no Nations of the world have beene at oddes And thirdly I say that we are to consider what warre is to be at our Saviours appearing not a warre in which the enemies of the Lord shall fight one against another not a warre in which particular States and Kingdomes shall upon divers occasions bid defiance to each other but a warre in which the (t) Rev. 16. v. 13.14 Psal 118. v. 10 11 12. Isa 59. v. 16 17 c. ch 63 v 4.5.6 Mic. 4. v. 12 13. Dragon Beast and false Prophet the Kings of the earth and of the whole world shall be all confederate against the Jewes onely And as such a confederacy shall be a meanes of multiplying marriages and consequently of the more liberall and immoderate eating and drinking So such an unequall warre shall breed the stronger hopes in these Princes of obtaining their designes and consequently the greater security But when they shall say (u) 2 Thess 5. v. 3 Peace and safety when they shall say (w) Psa 83 v. 4. Come and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the Name of Israel may be no more had in remembrance then (x) Luk. 21. v. 35. sudden destruction shall come upon them as upon a woman in travaile and they shall not escape Then shall our (y) 2 Thes 1 v. 7.8 Lord Jesus be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels and in flaming fire take vengeance on them And their (z) Rev. 11 v. 15. Kingdomes shall become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ Next therefore to this Authours Querie I answer first that it is altogether contradictory to the foresaid Text of Scripture For if at our Saviours appearing men shall be found eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage out of a carnall security out of an opinion that That Day is either (a) 2 Pet. 3. v. 3.4
a Diapason of propheticall voyces doth beare me witnesse that besides the irreconciliable jarring of divine dictates this mystery cannot without the losse and denyall also of some most comfortable remarkable and if not now yet for future times (s) Rom. 11 v. 25.26 necessary truths be otherwise understood I shall as well for the (t) 1 Iohn 4. v. 1. Isa 8. v. 20. Acts 17. v. 11 liberty of mine owne beliefe as for the restraint of others unjust censures conclude with the words of our Church in the 20. Article where she determines That though the Church hath authority to judge in controversies of faith Yet it is not lawfull for the Church so to expound one place of Scripture that it may be repugnant to another And that although the Church be a witnesse and keeper of holy Writ yet beside or contrary to the same it ought not to enforce any thing to be beleeved for necessity of salvation Malachi 3. v. 6. I am the Lord I change not therefore ye sonnes of Jacob are not consumed Nahum 1. v. 2. c. God is jealous and the Lord revengeth the Lord revengeth and is furious the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storme and the clouds are the dust of his feete He rebuketh the Sea and maketh it dry and dryeth up all rivers Bashan languisheth and Carmel and the flower of Lebanon languisheth The mountaines quake at him and the hils melt and the earth is burnt at his presence yea the world and all that dwell therein Who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger his fury is powred out like fire and the rooks are throwne downe by him The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him But with an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof and darknesse shall pursue his enemies What doe yee imagine against the Lord hee will make an utter end affliction shall not rise up the second time For while they bee solden together as thornes and while they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry Obadiah v. 15. c. The day of the Lord is neare upon all the Heathen as thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall returne upon thine own head For as ye have drunke upon my holy mountaine so shall all the Heathen drinke continually yea they shall drinke and they shall swallow downe and they shall be as though they had not beene But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance and there shall be holinesse and the house of Jacob shall possesse their possessions And the house of Jacob shall be fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble and they shall kindle in them and devoure them and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it And they of the South shall possesse the Mount of Esau and they of the plaine the Philistines and they shall possesse the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria and Benjamin shall possesse Gilead And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possesse that of the Canaanites even unto Zarephath and the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad shall possesse the Cities of the South And Saviours shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau and the Kingdom shall be the Lords Habakkuk 3. v. 3. c. God came from Teman and the Holy One from Mount Paran his gloâ—y covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise And his brightnes was as the light he had horns comming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power Before him went the Pestilence and burning coales went forth at his feete He stood and measured the earth he beheld and drove asunder the Nations and the everlasting mountaines were scattered the perpetuall hils did bow his wayes are everlasting I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction and the curtaines of the Land of Midian did tremble Was the Lord displeased against the rivers was thine anger against the rivers was thy wrath against the sea that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy charets of salvation Thy bow was made quite naked according to the oathes of the Tribes even thy Word Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers The mountains saw thee they trembled the overflowing of the water passed by the deep uttered his voyce and lift up his hands on high The Sunne and Moone stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrowes they went and at the shining of thy glittering speare Thou didst march thorow the Land in indignation thou didst thresh the heathen in anger Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people even for salvation with thine anointed thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked by discovering the foundation unto the necke Selah Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum If ought thou knowest that 's more true then this Shew 't Gentle Sir if not take mine as ' t is Jude ver 24.25 Now unto him that is able to keepe us from falling and and to present us faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy To the onely wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty dominion and power now and ever Amen FINIS Errataes PAge 2. line 16. for of r. to p. 4. l. 1. by that r. that by p. 5. l. 12. for time r. times p. 6. l. 10. for Judges r. Judge l. 21. for vacation r. vocation p. 7. l. 31. for imperiall r. empyriall p. 10. l. 7. for And at r. And in p. 11. l. 25. the phrase is changed to wit No way put for by no meanes referred which seeing it is the same in sense may passe without noting p. 11. l. 25 for Is r. It remaines c. p. 14. l. 6 for of the beasts r. of all c. p. 17. the letter k is misplaced for it is put in the 7. line before these words yee are not my and it should have beene put in the 8 line before these yee are the sonnes c. p. 24. l. 5. for vers 17. r. vers 37. p. 37. l. 16. for to pray before the Lord of Hosts r. to pray before the Lord and to seeke the Lord of Hoasts p. 37. l. 33. for I know the r. I know that p. 38. l. last for turne r. returne p. 44. l. 12. for their happinesse r. their former happinesse p. 48. l. 2. pericitari r. periclitari Faults escaped in the Margent PAge 1. c for Iohn 2.2 r. 1 Iohn 2.2 p. 19. the letter o in the margent which should have beene put before these words in the text It is confest is left out p. 19. q Id. l. 7. c. 7. r. cap. 12. and in this margent quot Id. l. 9. c. 9. which should have beene referred to the word Dan. in the last line is wholly left out p. 21. for quoquo modo adversan r. adversantâ—â— and in the second note for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 47. for fourthly the river r. fourthly in this City the river p. 20. s Cor. a tap in c. 3. for Hof r. Hos
they shall be no more two Nations neither shall they be divided into two Kingdomes any more at all neither shall they defile themselves any more with their Idols nor with their detestable things nor with any of their transgressions but I wil save them out of all their dwelling places wherein they have sinned and will cleanse them so shall they be my people and I will be their God And in Hosea 1.10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the Sea which cannot be measured nor numbred and it shall come to passe that in the place where it was said unto them (k) Jer. 24 6 7. ch 32.37 38. Zech. 13.9 Yee are not my people there it shall be said Ye are the Sons of the living God Then shall the Children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head and they shall come up out of the Land for great shal be the Day of Jezreel In both which prophesies the Lord hath promised that the Jewes shall againe live under one King onely as they had done before the division of the Tribes and that in their owne land too which hath not beene yet performed and therefore the time of these Prophesies is yet to come for though this of Hosea be understood by some Expositors of the vocation of the Gentiles that is of the Christian Church in these our dayes yet doubtlesse they are much mistaken in this exposition for seeing this and the former Prophesie concerne one and the same thing to wit the uniting of all the Tribes under one King therefore they must needs receive their accomplishment at one and the same time and so this must be referred to the Jewes as well as the other and besides how can that belong to the Gentiles which was prophesied onely of the Jewes as is declared by the Prophets wife of whoredomes and children of wheredomes which he tooke of purpose to upbraid the idol-worship and spirituall whoredomes of the Israelites vers 2. and therefore when she conceived and bare him the second sonne Call his name said God Loammi For yee are not my people and I will not be your God The Israelites then it were to whom this Prophet was sent and of whom it was said Yee are not my people and the place where they were told so was their owne land and therefore in that place it shall againe be said unto them Yee are the sonnes of the living God vers 10. And this Piscator grants to be the meaning of it here in the Prophet but withall hee holds that it is applyed in the 9. of the Rom. to the conversion of the Gentiles because the Israelites being thus rejected of God were become like unto the Gentiles who untill the preaching of the Gospell were not his people but notwithstanding this reason mee thinkes it is very unlikely that the Apostle should borrow a Prophecie from the Jewes to prove Gods mercy towards the Gentiles which is in sundry places of the Scripture so properly and distinctly foreshewne as you may see by the authorities which are urged to this purpose in the (l) v. 19 20. 10. and (m) v. 9 10 11 12. 15. chap. of the same Epistle and therefore I should rather take it to be brought in by Saint Paul as a testimony establishing the freenesse of Gods election which is the doctrine he there maintaines and doth in these words as he did before in the example of Jacob and Esau give an instance of it touching the Israelites whom God had for a long time rejected and would yet again receive that because as the potter hath power over the clay to make of the same lump one vessell to honour and another to dishonour so he hath mercy on whom hee will and whom he will hee hardneth And this the 14. vers seemes to confirm where it is said Esaiah also crieth concerning Israel for what makes the copulative also here if the Apostle understood not the former prophesie of Israel as well as this and yet in what sense soever you please to take it here I hope it is already sufficiently declared that it concernes the Israelites only in the Prophet which is as much as the subject of my discourse requires There is yet in the 3. of Hosea at the 4. vers one more materiall argument for the Jewes deliverance (o) Hier. Zanch in cap. 3. Hos p. 12. 23. ed. Genevae 1619. Pareus in c idem p. 481. col 1. ed. in fol. 1628. Rivetus in c. id p. 23 24. ed. 1625. Alsted Chr. c. 32. p. 294. c. 35. p. 330. Lyra. part 4. p. 379 C. part 2. p. 198. C. p. 249. F. Part. 3. p. 212. F. p. 213. C. part 4. p. 151. B C. p. 116. A. Dr. Mayers Lect. on James cap. 1. p. 4. The children of Israel saith hee shall abide many daies without a king and without a Prince and without a sacrifice and without an image and without an Ephod and without Teraphim afterwards shall the children of Israel returne and seeke the Lord their God and (n) Isay 9. v. 6 7. David their King and shall feare the Lord and his goodnesse in the latter dayes Which prophesie cannot possibly be as yet fulfilled for if it be meant onely of the ten Tribes amongst whom Hosea prophesied it is confest that they did never yet returne and if of the other two it must be meant of their captivitie since our Saviours comming for till then the Scepter could not depart from Judah nor a Lawgiver from betweene his feet as Jacob foretold Gen. the 49. at the 10. vers and therefore till then they could not be without a Prince or Governours of that Tribe although they were long before tributary to other Nations and this also is intimated by those words the latter dayes which are no where put for the time before the incarnation of Christ And this it seemes made Cornelius a Lapide referre the event of this prophesie to the end of the world that is as the Romanists imagine to the comming of Antichrist who as their tale goes of him shall manifest himselfe about that time and shall reigne (p) Fran. Johan de Combis in compendio totius Theolog lib. 7. cap. 13. three yeares and an halfe and shall put to death (q) Id. l 7. c. 7. Enoch and Elias who shall be sent to preach repentance unto the Jewes and to withstand the impostures of Antichrist whom because hee is as they say to be borne in Babylon of the Tribe of Dan most of the Jews shall receive for their Messias but as soone as he shall be slain on the mount of (r) Id. l. 7. c. 14. Olives in his tent by the power of the Lord that is as the glosse on the Apocalyps hath it either by Christ himselfe visibly appearing unto him or by the ministry of the Arch-angel Michael presently the Jews
that followed him shall (Å¿) Cornel. à Lap. in c. 3. Hof p. 93. col 2. partly through the remeÌ„brance of the miracles Sermons of the two witnesses partly through the endeavors of other preachers be converted then All Israel shall be saved for this conversion they they allow * The reason why they propose this number rather than any other is because in the 12. chap. of Dan. at the 12. vers it is said Blessed is he that waiteth and commeth to the 1335. dayes which summe is made up by adding 45. dayes the dayes as they call them of repentance to such as have worshipped Antichrist unto the 1290. dayes mentioned in the former verse and held by them and that in their prime immediate and naturall signification to be the full time of Antichrists most abominable worship and tyrannicall usurpation M. Foxes Acts and Monum printed 1596. p. 443. in the story of Walter Brute five and forty dayes at the end of which dayes the (t) Fran. Joh de com l. 7. cap. 14. Ministers of Antichrist who before boasted that although their Prince was dead yet they still enjoyed their power peace and security shall suddenly and that in the midst of their jollitie even while they are eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage be destroyed and so the Church shall be at rest unto the end of the world This is the Papists Antichrist and this is their opinion of the Jewes conversion a dreame as full of folly as falshood as if it were probable that the Jewes after such a long time of blindnesse and so neere the time of their conversion should fall into a greater errour than ever they did since the crucifying of Christ or that they should take one of the Tribe of (u) Joh. 7.42 Rev. 19. v. 20 21. Dan for their Messias and beleeve him too rather than Elias whom they yet expect from heaven or that they could be adherents to Antichrist and yet be alive all after his destruction when as the Scripture saith that the beast and false Prophet shall be taken and cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone and that the remnant shall be slaine Rev. 16. v. 14. ch 19. v. 18 19. And besides Antichrists assistants shall be The Kings of the earth and of the whole world and such I thinke the Papists doe not account the Jewes to be Againe as if it were probable that Antichrist should come in the name of Christ saying that he is Christ and so be a false * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vocantur non qui se pro Christo vero Messia falso venditant tales enim in Scriptura proprie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 24. vers 24. Mar 13. v. 22. appellantur sed qui doctr Christi cujus se sectaâ—â—res pro fitentur quoquo mede adversan unde Christum in carnem venisse seu Jesum esse Christum negare dicuntur ut 〈◊〉 collatione vers 3 cap. 4. 1 Ep. ver 7. Ep. 2. ver 22. cap. 2. Ep. 1. Johan cum ver 4. Ep. Iudae ver 1. cap. 2. Ep. 2 Pet. ver 5. 8. cap. 3.2 Ep. Pauli ad Tim. luculenter apparet unde etiam magnus eximius ille Antichristus qui toti fere doctrinae Christianae corpori adversatur sub nomine Christi quam maxime Christum oppugnat ejusque proprium honorem officium ad se transfert in Scriptura vecatur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Thes 2. ver 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver eod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ver 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 16. v. 13. consequenter ipse ille 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est vid. Disput 13. Festi Hommii p. 45.46 Christ not a false (w) 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. 2 Pet. 2. v. 1 2 3. 2 Thes 2. v. 3 4 7 8. Rev. 13. v. 11.12 13 14 c. chap. 17. v. 1.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 c. Christian such as the Apostles foretold he should be and so also be one person onely who must reigne but three yeares and an halfe and not rather a continued * Interim tamen tenendum numero singulati notari aliquod regnum in quo â—ubinde unus quispiam praesideat cui viam straverunt Antichristi illi sen haereâ—ici qui jam tum tempor ibus Apostolorum extiterunt id quod tum Johannes â—ignificat hoc loco quum ait Multos Antichristos jam tunc exortos Paulas 2 Thes 2. v. 7. ubi dicit Mysterium illud iniquitatis jam tum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in aliquibus operari seseque exerere vid. Observat 16. Ioh. Piscat in cap. 2. Ep. â— Icannis headship and supremacy over a settled apostasie for to let passe judicious Doctor (x) In the fourth book of his Apol. Sect. 4. 5. Hackwels confutation of this fancie it being altogether impossible that the (y) 2 Thes â— v. 7. mystery of iniquity which began to spring up even in Saint Pauls time and by consequence was to ripen by degrees should be the sudden and irresistible worke of one man or age so many hundred yeeres after although indeed it be very likely that the last inheritour of the Antichristian chaire may be the most wily (z) Rev. 16. v. 13 14. and bewitching deceiver of all to let this passe under whom I pray have the servants of God suffered persecution from the time of the Heathen Roman Emperours untill now if not under the great Apocalypticall (a) Rev. 17 v. 6. chap. 18. v. 24. Antichrist by whose devilish power and policy those which should afterwards be slaine were successively to be fulfilled And if martyrdome hath all this while and doth still go forward under him then certainly this (b) 2 Thes 2. v. 4. 1 Tim. 4. v. 1.2.3 Churchchampion this Wolfe in (c) 2 Tim. 3. v. 5. Rev. 13. v. 11 Sheeps clothing hath beene long agoe reveal'd and consequently the Prognostication of a new and upstart Monarch of no more then a bare three yeers and an half continuance will serve onely for a popish Meridian But we are yet to shew the Jewes peaceable and prosperous estate after their returne * I appeale here to the consciences of all men that shall read these or the like prophecies in the word of God whether they can thinke it possible that the time appointed by God for the dispensation of such extraordinary blessings should be the very same in which the world and especially the Christian part of it was to groane under the continued plagues written in the Revelation which yet we must needs grant to be so if we rest on those interpretations by which all such prophecies are only or chiefely applied to the anticipated conversion of us substituted Gentiles Read then what Jeremiah hath written in his 23. chap. at the 3. vers I will gather the
among them I the Lord have spoken it and in his 37. chap. at the 24. vers David my servant shall be King over them and they shall have one Shepheard and they shall also walke in my judgements and observe my statutes and doe them and they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant wherein your Fathers have dwelt and they shall dwell therein even they and their children and their childrens children for ever and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever And in the 9. chap. of Isaiah at the 6. vers Vnto us a child is borne unto us a Sonne is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderfull Counseller the Mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end Vpon the Thron of David and upon his Kingdome to order it and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever the zeale of the Lord of Hosts will performe this And in the 52. chap. at the 13. vers Behold my servant shall deale prudently he shall be (g) Ps 1â—8 v. 22.23 24 c. exalted and extolled and be very high As many were (h) Luke 2. v. 34.35 astonied at thee his visage to wit at the time of his suffering was so marred more then any man and his forme more then the sonnes of men so to wit at his next appearing shall he sprinkle many Nations the Kings shall shut their mouthes at him for that which had not beene told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider And in the 4. chap. of Micah at the 6. vers In that day saith the Lord will I assemble her that halteth and I will gather her that is driven out and her that I have afflicted and I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast (i) Rom. 11. v. 12.15.32 off a strong Nation and the Lord shall reigne over them in Mount Zion from henceforth even for ever And in the 72. Psal at the 6. vers He shall come downe like raine upon the mowen grasse as showers that water the earth In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the Moone endureth He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth They that dwell in the Wildernesse shall bow before him and his enemies shall licke the dust The Kings of Tarshish and of the Iles shall bring presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts Yea all Kings shall fall (k) Isa 45. v. 22.23 Phil. 2. v. 10 downe before him (l) Ps 22. v. 27 28. Rev. 14. v. 6 7. ch 15. v. 4 all Nations shall praise him And in the 102. Psal at the 13. vers Thone shalt arise and have mercie upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof So the Heathen shall feare the name of the Lord and all the Kings of the earth thy glory When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appeare in his glory Now that these prophecies doe concerne the reigne of Christ alone I thinke no man doubts and that they are already fulfilled it cannot bee proved For neither did Christ at his first comming sit on Davids Throne nor any other of Davids linage or of that Tribe or of the other Tribes for the Scepter was then departed from Judah and a Law-giver from betweene his feete Neither were Judah and Israel then in the land together neither was the Temple then destroyed but afterwards and therefore the things here spoken of are all to be accomplished at his second comming and that not in Heaven but on earth On earth I say and in (m) Is 33. v. 20. ch 50. v. 1 2 3 9 10. Jerusalem (n) Ps 122. v. 5. Davids Throne was For his feete shall stand in that day to wit when he comes to receive his appointed Kingdome on the Mount of Olives which is before Ierusalem on the East from which Mount also he ascended and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst therof toward the East toward the West there shal be a very great valley and halfe the Mountaine shall remove toward the North and halfe of it toward the South And ye shal flee to the valley of the Mountains for the valley of the Mountaines shall reach unto Azal yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the dayes of Uzziah K. of Judah And the Lord my God shall (o) Iude v. 14 15. Rev. 19. v. 11 12 13 14 15 16. come all the Ss. with thee and it shal come to passe in that day that the light shall not be cleare nor dark but it shall be one day which shall be knowne to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to passe that at evening time it shall be light And it shall be in that day that (p) Ps 46. v. 4. Ezek. 47. v. 1. c. Ioel 3. v. 8. living waters shall goe out from Jerusalem halfe of them toward the former sea and halfe of them toward the hinder sea in Summer and in Winter shall it be and the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and his Name one All the Land shall be turned as a plaine from Geba to Rimmon South of Jerusalem and it shall be lifted up and inhabited in her place from Benjamins gate unto the place of the first gate unto the corner gate and from the Tower of Hananiel unto the Kings Wine-presses and men shall dwell in it and there shall be no more utter destruction but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited Zech. the 14. at the 4. vers You see here that our Saviour comes not onely to conquer death which is the last enemy that he shall destroy and therefore not wholly to be destroyed till the last resurrection but also to take the Kingdomes of this world unto himselfe to put downe as Saint Paul hath said all the rule and all the authority and power of other Nations that there may be one Shepheard and one Sheepfold that the (q) Dan. 7. v. 27. Kingdome and Dominion and greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven may be possest by the people of the Saints of the most High That is as the former prophesies doe expound it by the people of (r) Ps 148. v. 14. Israel And this as I thinke is the time of which he spake these words Verily verily I say unto you (s) Iohn 1. v. 15. Hereafter shall yee see Heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the (t) Heb. 1. v. 6. Sonne of man For that this may be fulfilled it
are to be renewed at our Saviours entrance into his Kingdome but they are not to passe away till the giving up thereof to God the Father at the last Judgement and so it stands â—â—â—me that these words imply no lesse then a perishing Which yet may further be establisht by three other undeny able testimonies One of the same A postle in the next Chap. at the 1. ver And I saw saith he a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away and there was no more Sea Which last clause expressely affirming an utter abolition of the Sea doth plainely informe us that by the flying and passing away of the first Earth which with the Sea makes but one globe is meant a substantiall perishing of it Another of Moses in the 8. chap. of Gen. at the 22. ver While the earth remaineth seed time and harvest and cold and heat and Summer and Winter and day and night shall not cease And therefore when seed time and harvest and Summer and Winter and day and night shall cease as it is most certaine they shall at the last judgement the earth it selfe must of necessity then cease also A third of Iob in his 26. Chap. at the 10. ver He hath compassed the waters with bounds untill the day Deut. 11. v. 21. and night come to an end Which words being compared with the precedent testimony wherein day and night are shewne to be of equall duration with seed time and harvest and with that of the 22. of the Rev. where it is said of the new Jerusalem and the Inhabitants thereof There shall he no night there and they need no candle neither light of the Sunne must needs be taken for a plaine and positive proose That the day and night shall come to an end and consequently that the Stars and so the sublunary creatures too whose generation and continuance doe more or lesse depend upon celestiall influences being all made onely for the use of man while he is to have his residence and abode on this earth shall at mankindes removall from hence together with this earth with which they were created be brought againe to nothing shall (a) Rom. 4. v. 13. Luk 19. v. 17.19 reigne on earth And this will appeare to a diligent eye even out of the controversed place in the 20. Chap. of the Rev. for besides that the opposition betwixt the first and the last Resurrection doth impose the same sense on both besides this I say the vision represented not unto Saint John perfect men at the first that is men that should be beheaded for the witnesse of Jesus but soules onely and that as of men already beheaded which most manifestly shewes that the Resurrection after mentioned did follow their death and not goe before it And therefore may not be taken spiritually for their regeneration for the renewing of their mindes which is to precede their persecution and may more probably be referred to the sealing of the Servants of God in their foreheads spoken of in the 7. Chap. but materially and properly for the quickning of their bodies when once the number of the persecuted is fulfilled whose consummation and glorious exaltation this vision did represent It is said also that they Lived and Reigned with Christ a thousand yeares But how can it be that they should reigne immediately after their resurrection or begin their reigne all at once or continue it but a thousand yeares which things these words imply if by their Resurrection should be understood their Regeneration and by their reigne their being in Heaven or if by the Word they lived should be meant onely they were converted how can they reigne so long as a thousand yeares seeing the place of their Reigne must be on earth for if they should be any where else how can they be encompast againe with war when the thousand yeares are expired as the 9. ver declares they shall and lastly the reigne of Christ doth not begin till Antichrist is destroyed so that a metaphoricall interpretation of the first resurrection would make good this Conclusion that most of the Saints shall rise many hundred yeares before their Reigne there being no lesse distance of time betwixt the houre of their calling and Antichrists confusion The assumption is grounded on the 15. ver of the 11. Chap. of the Rev. Which shewes that till the time of the seventh trumpet with the beginning whereof the last Viall doth concurre The Kingdomes of * The Kingdomes of this world It is not said the Kingdome of Heaven to wit of the third heaven the incorruptible habitaâ—ion of Saints and Angels or of another world I say of another in substance But the Kingdomes of this world that is this world which is now and shall till then be divided into many Kingdomes shall wholly become Christs and be made by him one Heavenly Kingdome a Kingdome in which men shall live after an Heavenly estate and condition a Kingdome in which Gods will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven for seeing that cannot possibly become any mans possession which doth utterly cease to be what other construction can be given of these words but this that the government of all the Kingdomes of the world is hereafter to be taken into Christs owne hands as he is man and indeed how else should they become his after such a manner as they are not now his if not by a subjection to his manhood for as he is God they were alwayes his and all will grant that this Scripture doth plainely foreshew a deposing of all the Kings of the earth at the accomplishment thereof A deposing of them I say in such a way that their Kingdomes may become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ Which cannot be by abolishing and dissolving the earth on which they must reigne but may and shall be by subduing and conquering them and the Kingdomes over which they must reigne this world doe not become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ And this also is intimated by the binding up of (b) Rev. 20 v. 1 2 3. Satan a thousand yeares with which the reigne of the Saints contemporates which vision as it is the next to that of the battle wherein the beast and false Prophet are taken so doubtlesse it shall not till then receive its accomplishment for seeing Antichrist is but the devils instrument we cannot imagine that his power shall outlast the devils liberty especially if we consider that while Satan is in hold there shall be a generall peace over all the World as the (c) Isa 2. v. 4. Mich. 4. v. 3 Prophets say expressely and as is here implyed in that as soone as he is loosed againe (d) Rev. 20. v. 7.8 presently he shall gather all the rest of the world to fight against the Saints but their malicious attempt shall finde no better successe then that of the beast
men Who doubtlesse are not to be left that the evill Angels may fetch them for they shall be partakers with them of that judgement and therefore will be as unwilling to appeare before that barre as they Neither is it likely that they shall be left because the good Angels cannot at once assemble them to the place of Judgement and the Elect to meete the Lord in the Aire if these things were to be done at the same particular time And therefore as I suppose they shall be left either to perish in that generall destruction which shall come upon all Nations that fight against the Jewes whom our Saviour shall then redeeme Or to bee eye-witnesses of Gods wonders in all Countryes at that time For that by Christs judging the (g) Ps 2. v. 8. c. Ps 110. v. 2. c. Ps 149. v. 6. c. Isa 30. v. 25. ch 66. v. 15.16 Ver. 8.9 quick and the dead mentioned in the 2. to Tim. and the 4. chap. cannot be meant the last and compleat but rather a former and inchoate judgement of ungodly men it appeares out of the 20. of the Rev. where it is shewne that the Saints enemies shall be all slaine before the last resurrection And we cannot say that these which are to be left shall be a part of that army there spoken of because that Gog and Magog is to be destoyed at the end of our Saviours reigne that is immediately before the last resurrection whereas these shall be alive at the time of that generall distresse which shall light on the world at his entrance into that appointed Kingdome as the gathering together of the elect who are to reigne with him doth declare And this conjecture Isa in his 27. chap. at the 12. vers doth sufficiently confirme For the great sound of the Trumpet before spoken of in Saint Matth. as a warning for the gathering together of the elect is there said to be a warning also of the Jewes returne the words are these It shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall beat off from the channell of the river unto the streame of Egypt and yee shall be gathered one by one O yee children of Israel and it shall come to passe in that day that the (h) Isa 18. v. 3. Zech. 9. v. 14. great Trumpet shall be blowne and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the out-casts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy Mount at Jerusalem And thus being thorowly satisfied by this cloud of witnesses the double jury of Prophets and Apostles with which I finde the doctrine of my Text to be encompast I here give over the pursuit of these meditations and commend to as many as wish well to themselves and to Zion these instructions following First to praise God for his abundant mercie who through the fall of the Jewes hath brought salvation unto us Gentiles that together with them we might partake of the roote and fatnesse of their Olive tree Secondly to beware of unbeliefe which was the cause that the Jewes were broken off from their Olive And if God spared not the naturall branches much lesse will he spare us if by faith we continue not in his goodnesse Thirdly not to contemne or revile the Jewes a fault too common in the Christian world and that partly because we are unmindfull as well of the Olive from whence we were taken as of that into which we are graffed whose root bears us not we the root And partly because we misapply the infallible promises of God by which he hath so freely and so feelingly so often and so openly declared that he will againe graffe them in For if we were cut out of the Olive tree which is wild by nature and were graffed contrary to nature into a good Olive tree how much more shall they which be the naturall branches be graffed into their owne Olive tree Rom. the 11. at the 24. vers And lastly earnestly to beseech God that hee would speedily put into execution the means which he hath appointed for their conversion that he would even in these our dayes bring this mystery to light by powring on his people the spirit of grace and supplications whereby they may beleeve and repent Zech. 12. v. 10. For their happinesse will both increase and consummate ours so also the Apostle * If the fall of them c. Observe here what Jewes are said to occasion the riches of the Gentiles Not those that beleeved when the Apostle wrote this although many of them were the first instruments of the Gentiles conversion and much lesse they that have beleeved since that time for these as they come farre sho t of the others both in number and qualifications so they may be said rather to have taken of us then given unto us to have inherited the riches of the Gospel with us but not increased them Not the first beleevers therefore nor such which hitherto have so slowly and thinly followed them but the stiffe-necked and stubborne Jewes who slew Christ who martyr'd and persecuted his Disciples They are here said to be the reconciling of the woâ—â—d and the riches of the Gentiles and that because their fall and casting away mov'd God so soone to visit us with the tydings of Salvation And â—â—â—â—fulnesse the receiving of them it must be that shall perfect us the reâ—â—â—â—â—ng of them I say which were then cast away but how not in â—â—â—ir owne persons for it is impossible that the same men should fall and not fall should be cast away and not cast away but in their posterity and that not in part and by fits but wholly and at once for the Apostle speakes not of particular men and families but of all the Tribes of the whole Nation And indeed what but a generall conversion of the Jewes can bring such felicity to the Gentiles as shall not onely parallell but exceed the blessings which we have already received by their unbeliefe If the fall of them be the riches of the world and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles how much more their fulnesse And againe If the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead Rom. 11. vers the 12. and 15. Now to our Lord Jesus Christ who is both the light of the Gentiles and the glory of his people Israel who is the faithfull witnesse and the first begotten of the dead and the Prince of the Kings of the earth Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sinnes in his owne bloud and made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen Amen Psal 14. v. 7. Psal 53. v. 6. O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Sion when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people
Records as they challenge no lesse then beleefe to what I have written from them that equall these Scriptures with the Canonicall and are indeed altogether incompatible with a Jewish Antichrist so they manifest also to the whole world that I have uttered no yesterdayes doctrine no deformed issue of a private and distempered Spirit hatcht in a corner and nurst in a conventicle studyed in a closet or cloister and preacht onely in a chamber or covent but such things as accompany (r) Heb. 6. v. 9. Salvation Such words as every free Christian every uncaptived conscience will plainely perceive and publikely confesse to be the (s) Act. 26. v. 25. words of sobernesse and Truth Even her words (e) Prov. 1. v. 20. c. whose wont it is to utter t her voyce in the streetes in the chiefe place of concourse in the opening of the gates and in the City saying How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fooles hate knowledge Let old Tobit speake for the rest I beleeve that our Brethren shall lye scattered in the earth from that good land and Jerusalem shall be desolate and the house of God in it shall be burned and shall be desolate for a time And that againe God will have mercy on them and bring them againe into the land where they shall build a Temple but not like to the first untill the time of that age be fulfilled and afterwards they shall turne from all places of their captivity and build up Jerusalem gloriously and the House of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building (v) Act. 3. v 19 20 21. as the u Prophets have spoken thereof And all Nations shall turne and feare the Lord God truely and shall bury their (w) Is 2. v. 20. Idols So shall all Nations praise the Lord and his people shall confesse God and the Lord shall exalt his people and all those that love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoyce shewing mercy to our brethren Gloria Deo Vita Regi Pax Regno Glory to God on high on earth increase To the Kings age and to the Kingdome peace FINIS GOG AND MAGOG OR THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTIE By ROBERT MATON Minister and Mr of Arts and sometimes Commoner of Wadham Colledge in OXFORD Hab. 2. v. 3. The vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speake and not lie though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Daniel Frere and are to be sold at his shop in little Britaine at the signe of the red Bull. 1642. DEUT. 32. v. 2.36.43 The Lord shall judge his people and repent himselfe for his servants when he seeth that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left Rejoyce O yee Nations with his people for he will avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will he mercifull to his land and to his people Jerem. 10. v. 11.10 The (b) Isa 2.20 Zeph. 3.11 gods that have not made the heavens and the earth even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens But the Lord is the true God he is the living God and an everlasting King at his wrath the (c) Isa 2.19 21. Rev. 6.15 16 17. earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not be able to abide his indignation Isaiah 14. v. 24. c. The Lord of Hosts hath sworne saying surely as I thought so shall it come to passe and as I purposed it shall stand That I will breake the Assyrian in my land and upon my mountaines tread him under foot then (d) Isa 10.24 25 26 27. shall his yoke depart from off them and his burden from off their shoulders This is the purpose that is purposed upon the (e) Eze. 38 39. Ioel. ch 3. Micah 4.12 13. Zeph. 3.5 Zek. 12.14 whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the Nations For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed and who shall disannull it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turne it backe Isaiah 30. v. 27 c. Behold the Name of the Lord commeth from farre burning with his anger and the burden therereof is heavie his lips are full of indignation and his tongue as a devouring fire And his breath as an over-flowing streame shall reach to the middest of the necke to sift the Nations with the sieve of vanitie and there shall be a bridle in the jawes of the people causing them to erre Ye shall have a song as in the night when an holy solemnity is kept and gladnesse of heart as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountaine of the Lord to the mighty one of Israel And the Lord shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall shew the lighting downe of his arme with the indignation of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire with scattering and tempest and hailestones For through the voyce of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten downe which smote with a rod. And in every place where the grounded staffe shall passe which the Lord shall lay upon him it shall be with tabrets and harpes and in battels of shaking will hee fight with it For Tophet is ordained of old yea for the King it is prepared he hath made it deepe and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a streame of brimstone doth kindle it GOG AND MAGOG OR THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTIE EZEK 38.2 Sonne of man set thy face against Gog the land of Magog the chiefe Prince of Meshech and Tuball and prophesie against him c. THat we may the better know what enemies are meant by Gog and Magog in the 20. chap. of the Rev. it will not be amisse first Vers 8. to examine who are meant by Gog and Magog in the 38 and 39. chap. of Ezekiel And this can no way be so well found out as by comparing Ezekiels prophesie with other Prophesies For albeit this of Ezekiel be in forme and manner of expression somewhat different from others and in matter much more copious than others that being delivered here plainly fully and together which is in some but obscurely glanc't at and in others revealed but in part or at most by parcels as we say that is some part in one place and some in another yet that Ezekiel goes not alone in the subject of this Revelation it is evident by the Querie made by God himselfe in the very same Prophesie Thus saith the Lord God Art thou hee of whom I have spoken in (a) Hab. 2.3 old time by my servants the Prophets of Israel which prophesied in those dayes many yeares that I would bring thee against them chapter the
within the compasse whereof all that are in the graves shall heare his voyce and come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life when this time begins and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of damnation when this time shall end And surely seeing the same Apostle hath in the 20. chap. of the Revel plainely recorded this first and second resurrection I am perswaded that the repetition of the word here would have beene enough to have suggested unto our Adversaries this construction of the text had they as seriously sought the manifestation of the truth as they have done the advancement of their owne erroneous fancy But whilst they have wrested this place in the Gospel to make it seeme irreconciliable with the literall interpretation of that in the Rev. they have at once quite lost the true meaning of both places Ch. 20. v. 4.5.6 and chain'd up their understandings lest they should lanch out to descry the true latitude of a principall Article of Christian beliefe For had they beene willing to know so much 1 Cor. 15. v. 22. c. they might have found Saint Paul also thus voting for us As in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive But every man in his owne order Christ the first fruits afterwards they that are Christs at his comming Now as it is evident that the word Order doth imply a distance of time betwixt the rising of Christ and of those that are Christs so doubtlesse there being no intimation of the rising of any others at his comming besides those that are his it doth imply a distance of time too betwixt the resurrection of these and of those that are not his For the next words Then commeth the end have no relation to Christs comming but to his delivering up the Kingdome to God even the Father when once the last enemy shall be destroyed which is death whereby and not by Christs comming the last resurrection of the dead is intimated And betwixt the accomplishment of this judgement and the resurrection of those that are Christs at his comming and not before the one or after the other there is expresse mention of Christs putting downe all rule authority and power over the whole world and of his reigning Which last employment doth necessarily presuppose a time befitting the Majesty of so (m) Ps 48. v. 2. Ps 47. v. 2.3 Matth. 5. v 35. Luke 1. v. 32. great a King and consequently the Order holds as well betwixt the resurrection of those that are Christs and those that are not Christs as betwixt the resurrection of Christ himselfe and those that are Christs And this Apostle elsewhere speaking of the resurrection which is to concurre with our Saviours descension from heaven hath not a word of the rising of any but of them that are dead in Christ 1 Thes 4. v. 16. Whereby he closely shewes that the resurrection of those that are Christs at his comming is that first resurrection in which whosoever have part the second death hath no power on them Rev. 20. v. 6. but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand yeares Which last words of Saint John doe no way thwart Saint Pauls in the verse following where he tels us that the Saints shall meete the Lord in the aire 1 Thes 4. v. 17. and so shall ever be with the Lord for the thousand yeares reigne is to be measured by the time of the Nations subjection to Christ and the Saints before their seduction againe by Satan and not by the time of the Saints abode with Christ which shall never have an end nor by the whole time of Christs and the Saints tarrying on this earth which besides the thousand yeares containes also that little season which is allotted for the falling away and destruction of the Nations before the last resurrection And so having shewne that the Antimillinarians can find no firme footing in the Scriptures to withstand the literall interpretation of the first resurrection I proceed to what they say concerning the thousand yeeres reigne of the Saints And heare I finde them at oddes about the meaning of the words some taking them indefinitely for a long time to wit for all the time from the first going forth of the Gospel till Antichrists reigne Others definitely for a thousand yeares and no more for which acknowledgement we are beholding to the emphaticall affix the speciall article 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in the compasse of five verses is foure times added to this number being never prefixt where the number or word otherwise implying a certaine time is to be taken in an unlimited sense Againe I finde these that agree upon a thousand yeares precisely very much disagreeing about the placing of them for one will have them begin at the Incarnation another at the Passion or Resurrection of our Saviour a third at the Preaching of Saint Paul a fourth at the destruction of Jerusalem and a fifth confuting all these will not have them beginne till the dayes of Constantine the great about the 300. yeare after Christ and some also not till Luthers time and yet all of them will have a part of Antichrists reigne included within the compasse of the thousand yeares reigne because some of them that are to reigne with Christ are particularly described by their not worshipping of the Beast And thus as the former sort of Antimillinarians doe grossely erre in placing Christs reign before Antichrists whereas a great part of them which should reigne with Christ were to suffer under Antichrist so doe these other Antimillinarians erre as much in confounding the time of Christs reign with the time of Antichrists reigne From whence it doth necessarily follow First that the Saints which are to reigne with Christ shall suffer in the time of Christs reigne Secondly that but a part of those which shall suffer under Antichrist are to reigne with Christ And Thirdly that some if not the most of them which shall be slaine by Antichrist are to suffer after Christs thousand yeares reigne All which is either beside or flat against the text For First it is flat against the text to affirme that any of the Saints which are to reigne with Christ shall suffer in the time of his reigne For we read That Satan is to be shut up that he may deceive the Nations no more till the thousand * Hujusinodi mille vel quinquaginta vel etiam centum annos a Christo nato nobis obtigisse quibus a seductione Satanae Gentes immunes ab ejusdem persecutione libera fuerit Ecclesia in terris bisce militans equidem at credam vix adduci possum Et de persecutione qâ—â—dem res ita manifesta est ut non putem è sanis fore qui contradicat siquidem hanc ecclesiae militantis perpetuam fore sortem ipse Christus praedixit eventus a nato