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A79857	A voice from the temple to the higher povvers. Wherein is shewed, that it is the work and duty of saints, to search the prophesies and visions of holy Scripture, which concern the later times: and that Jesus Christ will reveal the understanding of them, neer the end of their accomplishment. And so much, is here clearly proved, and the objections to the contrary answered. Also severall prophesies are here opened, concerning the time of the end; as what is the present work of the Lord in the world: and wherein the saints (whether the higher powers or others) are now to move and follow him. Likwise [sic] what will be the work of the Lord forward, and all along from year to year, till the mysterie of God be finished, both among the Christian gentiles, and Jewes. By John Canne.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1653 (1653)	Wing C443B; Thomason E699_16; ESTC R207049	36,136	47

been cast by the enemies of the truth upon all good men ever since who have been zealously earnest for reformation But 2. Such as are godly wise or able to put a difference between lying prophesies and foolish visions and a grace given unto Saints to understand the mind of Jesus Christ in holy Scriptures 2 John 2.20 John saith Ye have an unction from the holy one and ye shall know all things To you saith (y) Mat. 11. Christ it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdome (a) Psal 25 14. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him Again (b) Prov. 3.32 His secret is with the righteous Are not these Gospel promises and Saints Priviledges and attainable by the exercise and acts of faith (c) Pet. 2.6 He that believeth on him shall not be confounded Because the Spider turns many things into poyson is the honey wormwood and gall which the Bee makes 3 I could shew in severall particulars how contrary as light is to darknesse the carriages and practises of the Munster Impostors first and last were to what is either said or done by the godly of this age who are of my opinion namely that the prophesies of the last times shall be revealed unto Saints near the end Let Sleidan or any other who hath written the Historie of Munster be perused by any impartiall Reader and he shall not find any ground to frame a parralell neither in reference to matter manner men I have some thoughts seeing there is such a noise of Munster shortly to discover the absurdity ignorance and malice of such people who seek to disgrace good men and through their sides to pierce the glorious work of God now begun amongst us by raking into the businesse of Munster 4. It is worth the observing how sutably Satan hath carried on his Designe to keep men in ignorance supestition and bondage and to hinder them from embracing the things belonging to their peace Though he could never certainly and perfectly reach the knowledge of prophesies as to the very time of their accomplishment yet knowing that such and such things should come to passe and having some conjecture near the time his manner hath been beforehand to corrupt the minds of the people some way or other with a prejudice against them that so when the thing it self should come to passe men might neither believe nor receive the same Thus he raised up many false Christs and why that the true Christ might not be received when he came So for this Munster Businesse The Devill knew in the latter dayes Tyrants and oppressors would be throw down the Antichristian kingdom destroyed good men and good things advanced Now mark the craft of this wicked one when the appointed time should come in which these things were to be fulfilled to the end that men might not then believe He stirred up before hand a company of Seducers to beguile the ignorant and simple people meerly I say upon this account that when the time should come that Tyranny and Oppression should be supprest Babylon cast down righteousnesse exalted this work might not finde acceptation among the people he having as I said poisoned before hand the mindes of the people Note by suggesting Munster and the effects of that businesse So then in short the summe is this The Devill in causing that work at Munster intended that it should be a snare to the people of this Age. Having spoken to the Objections I come now to Arguments to prove that the knowledge of the times is needfull possible yea required and ought to be searcht And so to justifie Gods people ministers and others who by Faith Prayer Conference meditation reading are now upon the work 1. Because this is a part of the written word of God Dan. 7.25 and 9.25 26. and 12.7.11.12 Rev. 11.2 3. and 12.6.14 and 13.18 Now (d) John 5.39 Christ commandeth us to search the scriptures the whole and all and not some part as we think good to pick and chuse (e) Rom. 15.4 Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our ledrning that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope (f) Dan. 29 29 Those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever A servant being commanded to doe severall things if he do onely a part of them what he thinks fit and best as easiest and not the rest the master will not be pleased so here 2. Because the knowledge of the Times is part of that Prophesie and those good things to come which the (g) Rev. 1.1 father gave unto his son to send and shew unto his servants Christ did not send the letter without the sence But intended that it should be known and understood therefore the sense and understanding is to be searcht 3. It is said of the whole Prophesie and consequently of the Times therein contained (h) Rev. 1.3 Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophesie I think no man takes it of an ignorant and fruitlesse reading and hearing without understanding for surely such a hearing or reading i Acts 8.30 makes no man happy Besides it is such a reading and hearing as may be the rule and ground of practice Hence it is added and keep those things which are written therein Consequently then it must be a reading with understanding and knowledge Observe hence the rashnesse of some Teachers who seek to discourage Saints from that work unto which alone is pronounced the promise of blessedness They will allow men to read the years and times in the text but they must not seek for the understanding Just for all the world as to bid a man to catch at the shaddow but with all charge him not to toucht or take the fruit 4. Let Christs words be well observed When (k) Mat. 29 15 yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the holy place who so readeth let him understand he hath reference no doubt to Dan. 9.27 and 11.31 and 12 11. where the times of the end are declared and Characterized Christ here cals upon us not for reading but for understanding Daniels weeks dayes times Now doth Christ bid us understand Daniel yea in his numbers how dares any mortall creature reproach any for searching his Prophesies (l) Acts 4.2 Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more then unto God judge yee A servant in not doing his duty cannot be excused but yet is more in excusable when with all he shall smite his fellow servants for doing their duties I leave the application to the Reader 5. It must be granted that the holy scripture either holds forth a certain and set time and period of years in respect of the breaking of the fourth Monarchy the destruction of the Antichristian kingdome the end of the Turkish Empire

which Christ in that place chiefly intends in comparing the time of Noah with the latter times for howsoever the prophane wretches then neither knew nor foresaw the coming of the flood yet Noah (e) Gen. 6 7. and 7.4 did he I say both foresaw and foretold the time of the old worlds destruction It was indeed concealed from the wicked because it was to come upon them as a snare in the night but revealed unto Noah for (f) Heb. 11.7 his own and the Churches preservation Even thus saith (g) Luk. 17 30. Christ shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed that is some shall know nothing of the times but go on in their ignorance and unbelief as become (h) 2 Pet. 3.34 scoffers and walking after their own lusts and saying where is the promise of his coming and so perish in the coming destruction others on the other hand by faith like Noah shall prepare an Ark to the saving of their own souls 2 As concerning the Saints Christ doth not simply and absolutely deny unto them the knowledge of the time for he knew that the time was to be revealed unto them (i) Dan. 12.4 9 10 near the end but he denyeth it onely to the Saints present and far distant from the end to whom it was not to be (j) Dan. 12.4.10 made known as being unseasonable and not expedient and would have occasioned rather hurt then good Christ saith in a certain (l) John 7 6 10. place My time is not yet come neverthelesse within a little while after he goes up to the feast so concerning the godly whether we respect the dayes of Daniel or Christ the time then was not come that the prophesies of the End should be opened to them yet they shall be opened and made known to Saints near the finishing and before their accomplishment Object 3. (m) Mark 13.32 But of that day and hour knoweth no man no not the angells which are in heaven neither the Son but the Father I know there are severall answers given som not as meere man Others though not the day and hour yet the year might be known both to Christ angels and men But to let these things passe my answer is Christ as the Son of man knew it not till he was ascended and glorified hence it is that he is acknowledged n Rev. 4 5 9 worthy to take the book and to open the Seals thereof mark the reason For thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood so then as (o) Rev. 1.1 God gave unto Jesus Christ the Revelation to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to passe so this is as a fruit of his sufferings rising again and fitting at the right hand of his father And this is a point of marvellous consequence though little minded for it is matter of encouragement to ask wisdome of God that we may understand Daniel and the book of the Revelation what is meant by (p) Dan. 7.25 Time times and dividing of time what by the (q) Rev. 11.2 42 Moneths the 1260 dayes what by the (r) Rev. 13.18 number of the Beast which is 666. and (s) Dan. 6.12 6. how long it shall be to the end of these wonders Because Christ by his death became worthy to open the Seals that is with other things purchased by his blood for us this great priviledge to know the time and seasons and to make them known unto his Church and people If it be a thing which a man owns and hath a lawfull interest and right in it he can ask it with the more boldnesse and confidence and doubts not but to have it So here c. Object 4. Many learned and godly men diving and searching into these mysteries and hidden things have been greatly mistaken and by their extravagances have lost themselves which makes others warie and cautious how to meddle with them Answ 1. By the same reason other Scriptures are not to be searcht for learned men have most corruptly and falsely interpreted them 2 Though it be asserted by us that it is possible needfull yea required to search out the accommodation of the years yet we do not say every man howbeit learned and godly shall understand for the Lord may do what he will with his own 3 That many formerly have been mistaken it is not strange because the time was uncertain in which they lived the Revelation being reserved as I said before for the Saints of the last age Besides that many I do not speak of all even in these our dayes misse the mark no marvell For 1. Some of them (t) Prov. 3.5 6. lean unto their own wisdome humane learning arts sciences authority of men and seek not the Lord by faith and prayer to have direction light and counsell from him and hence and justly too is that verefied on them u Rom. 1.2 professing themselves to be wise they became fools 2 It is an usuall thing with Scholars to follow one another right or wrong The old Fathers as they are call'd applyed many things to their times which as then had no relation others coming after say the very same and look no further and so one leads another out of the way 3 Another cause of many mens mistake in the accommodation of years is confounding one thing with another and disorderly setting down that first which should be last and last first thus they appply promiscuously to Jews and Gentiles what should be distinguished as proper but to one Again distinguish not between the Ecclesiasticall and Civill State as to the rise and fall of both cry up a present glorious condition of the Church far before her warfare is accomplished Lastly for such as are warie and cautious how to meddle with the times I shall say no more but thus If a man towards the beginning of Harvest should travell through the Countrie from London to York possibly then he would see very few Harvest labourers in the fields but let him passe the same way a few weeks after he shall see people every where at work and every one his hands full At present we are but at the beginning of the Harvest but I believe and note it well before one year is expired the Lord will send forth such a multitude of labourers into his Harvest as not a man that is come out of Babylon and hath seperated himself from all the abominations thereof but will make it his speciall work to search Daniel and the Revelaion and diligently seek after the knowledge of the Times Objection 5. This pretending to Inspirations Revelations and the spirit of prophesie is no other then what John of Leiden Herman Rotman and Chipperdoling did and so the Munster businesse whereby multitudes were betrayed and driven to Rebellion and great mischief and miserie followed Answer 1. This is no other aspersion and scandalons reproach then hath

the slaying of the Witnesses Christ taking the possession of the kingdome and reigning c. or not If there be no time set and appointed time for what use then are these Texts Dan. 7.25 and 9.25 26 27. and 12.11 12. Hab. 2.3 Revel 11.2 3. and 12.6.14 If there be a time certain and fixt then I would know if nothing of the time is to be known till after the accomplishment how these and such other scriptures can be said to be written for our learning and comfort or what benefit the Church and People of God have by having them written Caesars letter though he carried it with him in his bosome into the Councel yet not knowing the contents it profited him nothing In the knowledge of the times there lyes our comfort and safety to have the words in our book and no more that helps not though we have them with us still in our bosome 6. Daniel being commanded to (m) Dan. 12.4 shut up the words and seale the Book even to the time of the end afterwards sees (n) v. 5 two the one standing on this side of the banck and the other on that side of the banck of the river These two I take to be Types the one a Type of the Christian Gentiles the other of the Iewes unto whom Iesus Christ the man clothed in linnen will open the mysteries of the times a little before the end Three reasons I have for this 1. They both make enquiry How o long shall it be to the end of these wonders Our Bibles reade and one said to the man clothed But the word one is not in the text nor is there to be understood for they spake both 2. The man clothed in linnen which was Christ (p) v. 7. holds up his right hand and his left hand to heaven wherefore both and not one hand alone (q) 10.5 Because here are two one on his right hand another on his left and both to be informed 3. They are both answered as to their question concerning the times The Gentile type hath his answer v. 7. It shall be for a time times and an half And the Jew type hath his answer v. 11. From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety dayes From this I gather some litle time before the end the Lord will unseale the prophesies of Daniel and reveal the times included to some both Iews and Gentiles Those great mysteries of the times which have been hid and lookt up from former ages shall be clearly opened to them and they shall know how long it will be before the Fourth Monarch be destroyed the witnesses slain Euphrates dryed up and Michael stand up for his people And this they shall speak out to the world and not one jot of their words shall fail You will ask it may be what will men say to this It will be with these men as it was with Hezekiah's messengers some laughed them to scorn 2 Chron. 30.11 and mocked them Neverthelesse divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem 7. As the time of the end is neerer at hand so the Prophesies and consequently the times included are to be unsealed Dan. 12.9 Rev. 22.10 and 1.3 opened revealed In Daniel 12.7 when a time times and an half was proposed and the Prophet professing he understood it not v. 8. an answer was given v. 9. that the words were sealed up till the end that is untill the last time immediately before the end as the phrase is used Revelat. 11.7 Therefore in the time immediately before the accomplishment these words are to be unsealed that is the meaning of them shall be known to Saints Again this is further manifested by v. 10. Many shall be purified and made white and tryed and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand So ver 11. what they should understand at the time of the end in particular is there more fully expressed And from the time saith the Angel that the daily sacrifices shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up there shall be 1290. dayes Quest But wherefore hath the Lord denyed the knowledge of the times to his people in former ages and will reveal it to Saints neer unto the end I might here say Mat. 11.26 in the words of our Lord Even so father for so it seemeth good in thy sight But I Answer 1. Gods administrations in the later Times concerning a nation and Kingdom Note to pluck up and pull down and to destroy it will be such as the instruments of the work probably shall want former examples and ordinary rules to walk by Men at Sea having not the marks and directions which travellers have on Land need some other help to steer and order their course by Gods way neer the end will be in the Sea Psal 77.19 and his path in the great waters So that as the actions of some men shall be rare unexemplary without president so God will give them clear light in away suteable that is make them understand the times and that it is now their proper work to act so and so in order to the fulfilling of the will and commandement of God though the same as the world judgeth seem irrational illegal absurd destructive to Religion Law Liberty c. 2. These latter times will be accompanied with such great destractions confusions divisions as people will be at a losse and so in darknesse that they will not know what to doe which way to take nor how to dispose of themselves Reader note it Gods marvelous work now in the world will move so contrary to mens expectations and self interest as multitudes shall fall off daily Isa 60.2 yea some good men shall be offended and left behinde Darknesse shall cover the earth and grosse darknesse the people Neverthelesse for the comfort and encouragement of the wise the Lord shall arise upon them and his glory shall be seen upon them and by the understanding of the times which they shall have God will make them instrumentall for the perfecting of the good work which he hath begun Thus not by might Zech. 4.6 nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts 3. As the knowledge of the end hath been concealed from former Ages to prevent security and to stir men up unto watchfulnesse Mat. 24.42 Mar. 13.35 Luk. 12.40 as our Saviour expresly shews so it is to be revealed to this last Age to move men to repentance and amendment of life that they should forsake all unrighteousness guile dissimulation self-seeking Doe justice love mercy lose the bonds of wickednesse undoe the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free and break every yoke If a man fall into a pit or snare whereof he was before told and warned he

the little horne that is the Antichristian Kingdome Yet they are to be differenced in point of time as not having their beginning and rise together In this place the Antichristian Kingdome is the little horne but not the vile person because the basenesse and abhominable iniquity of that State was not so high and full as afterwards it was and appeared to the world and therefore then rightly called the vile person and not the little horne But to proceed from the State-plague I come to what is personall After the Ecclesiasticall Kingdom shall be destroyed Every plant which the heavenly father hath not planted Mat. 1. ● 13 rooted up the Antichristians and worshippers of the Beast will remaine and in as much blindnesse and hardnesse of heart as before And so much appears Revel 18.9.11 12 c. where the Kings of the Earth and the Merchants are brought in weeping and wailing when they see the smoake of the burning Now to finde out the time of the end concerning these mens destruction we must enquire after the first warr which the worshiprers of the Beast made against the Saints Twice the woman is said to flye into the wildernesse Rev. 12.6.14 And two warres the Antichristians made against her the former when that State was the little horne the later when it was the vile person Of the first now I intend only to speak Although the later which was against the Waldenses be more memorable both for the cruelty and continuance of it and will give much light to the matter I have in hand and therefore I purpuse by the good hand of God assisting me shortly to set it forth The first warre I finde made against the people of God by the Antichristians was in the yeare 406. About that time wee read of a people called Donatists who by the Antichristian Clergy and others were held Schismaticks Hereticks Blasphemers c. and no otherwise proceeded against and persecuted then if they had beene indeed most wicked people Others after them specially the Priests even to this day as Carriers horses follow the steps of their fore-fathers not taking notice who were their accusers nor the particulars whereof they were accused These Donatists by what doth appeare in the writings of their adversaries were honest men sound in the faith and suffered very much for the Truth sake Concerning their opinions howsoever we have them not but as reported and set downe by their Enemies who no doubt made things as bad as they could yet we shall take them as from them 1. They denyed the publique Assemblies that is the Parish Churches of the Papists as not being the Churches of Christ rightly constituted and separated from them because of the leaven and abhominations therein 2. They refused to submit to that power and form of Government which the little horne had devised and set up 3. They held that the Sacraments were no otherwise holy then as they were given and taken by holy men 4. It was their opinion that the Magistrate should not compell mens consciences not force unto acts of Religion 5. They are accused as being Millenaries that is did believe and teach that Jesus Christ in his humane nature should personally reign upon Earth I know other things are laid to their charge but so improbable yea impossible if such particulars as these were their Tenets as their Enemies might have been asham'd to put them gether and others since more asham'd of their ignorance and simplicity as not to see how ridiculous absurd and contradictory the old Popish Fathers are Augustine himself in the Story which they have left behind them concerning the Donat ●sts But to proceed Against these good men in whom began the witnesses that should prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes Note cloathed in sack-cloath warred the little horne in his worshippers by Canons Rev. 11.3 Councels Emperiall Edicts c. to the shedding of much innocent and precious blood And this was as I said before in the yeare 406. to which 1260. yeares being added it comes to the yeare 1666. and to the number of the Beast 666. So then in briefe my opinion is this As the Antichristian State shal be destroyed before or by the year 1660. and all that fulfilled which is set down Rev. 18. so not beyond the yeare 1666. shall the Antichristians themselves and worshippers of the Beast escape the vengeance of the Lord and of his Temple But either by repentance from dead workes come in and put themselves under the glorious Scepter of Jesus Christ or cast into the great Wine-presse of the wrath of God and so that fulfilled Rev. 19. And here the Lord wil put an end and period to all the troubles of the Gentile Churches not to goe beyond or further then the yeare 1666. After that time they shall be called to the marriage supper of the Lamb and sing Allelujah salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord God Allelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth I have done for this time with the first Prophesie For the second which concerns the 70. weeks I know 't is generally applyed to the coming of Christ in the flesh and to his death and sufferings but I understand it otherwise as being one of the choisest and clearest Prophesies in all the Scripture concerning the later times chiefly the two Witnesses a matter at this time much spoken of and about which godly men are diversly minded I am not willing to enter upon it now but promise the Reader he shall suddenly have it in an entyre Tract for it lies ready by me for the Presse From the Gentiles therefore I come to the time of the end belonging to the Jewes set down in Dan. 12.11 12. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abhomination that maketh desolate set up there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety dayes Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty dayes It is most certain that Jesus Christ by his death did put away all Jewish sacrifices he did I say Iure and in right destroy them vertually by his owne sacrifice the fulnesse and end of all their shadowes Notwithstanding facto and actually after his death many years and by divers steps and degrees For after the taking and sacking of Jerusalem by Titus the Citie not destroyed the Jewes still there inhabited and continued their vaine worship with more ignorant zeale then before For 1. In the Reign of Adrian the Roman Emperour who built and dedicated a Temple in Jerusalem to Jupiter Olympius at which the Jewes being offended rebelled and made head and in the end were overcome and dispersed and the Citie named Aelia and given into the possession of the Gentiles whereas before untill that time they had not ceased there from sacrifice 2. Being expelled the Citie yet they continued their superstitions in the Countrey and built an