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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86191	The key of Scripture-prophecies: or, A glass of some new discoveries. Being an answer to a book published by Mr John Elmestone. Wherein is resolved, 1. Whether a true constituted church, with true office and visible membership, together with the ordinances proper to such a Gospel-stating, continued true by a line of succession from the primitive time downward to our times: or whether it were not interrupted by the apostacie. 2. If they did there intermit, when they return again to their first glory, whether now, or hereafter; and what is the dispensation now approved by the Spirit. / By Simon Henden.	Henden, Simon.	1652 (1652)	Wing H1430; Thomason E668_11; ESTC R202520	120,810	124

as that priority was working some space before yet came not to its perfaction till after so the consummation and end of this adverse condition was preparing a little before but not completed till some time after 1650. By the end we may the better understand the beginning for who knows not that the Bishops and national Presbytery did trample upon the godly with their tyrannical exorbitances within the territories of Britanny till this last Parliament was convened and since in Scotland 2. The next revolution or time of the second begins at the end of the first when the time of the tribulation procured by the Antichristian apostacy is blowing over the Saints begin to lift up their heads the powers of the Sun Moon and Stars to darken the enemies being rewarded by the law of retaliation and that doubled Rev. 18.6 Mark 13.24 and this abides till the end of the vials wrath the destruction of Babylon and the marriage of the Lamb be come If we be not obstinately blinded we may observe the admired judgements of God prepared a little before but brought to a head about the yeer 1650. For how hath the Lord made bare his holy arme in subduing the proudest of Edoms sons who cryed Raze it from the foundations both in England and Ireland the very same yeer the beast in Scotland received a wound never to be cured the penal Statutes to force the conscience lay unrepealed till the yeer 1650 and within the circuit thereof our honoured worthies for ever to remove the sense of our former bonds have utterly broken the snare restored unto our consciences our birth-right purchased by our Saviour neer and at this time the discovery of the beast in his full latitude man began to break forth in these ends of the earth the prophecies before veiled to be unmasked many of the Lords people seeing the emptiness and formality of their constitutions with the said divisions by them caused begin more zealously to affect a general unity of all the Saints and to prize the power of godliness before their outward forms which may shortly bring them into one way of separation These unparallel'd mercies of God bring to our mind a prophetical carmen of that sweet singer of Israel Vnto thee O Lord we do give thanks unto thee we do give thanks for that thy name is neer thy wondrous works declare Psa 75.1 It is also prophesied that these admired works should begin in the ends of the earth Isa 52.10 11. Chap. 24.14 15 16. Chap. 42.10 Jer. 31.10 Isa 30.27 28 29 as if it should point out to us who live in the furthest point then known West and by North. Virgil sings of our Island Et penitus toto divisus ab orbe Britannus Thou Britain which amidst the seas dost stand Divided is from all the world thy land The next thing considerable is what is the approved way and walk for the Saints to trace with their qualifications during this season The way and walk is a coming out from nations and all false statings Rev. 7. 9. Chap. 18.4 and standing immediately before the throne without any interposition of earthly powers in a congregating assembling way as also upon a sea of glass in the abundant and perspicuous unfolding of the Scriptures compared to glass 2 Cor. 3.18 which is mingled with the fiery operation of the Spirit to burn up what is bestial and combustible and to administer light and heat to the truth Chap. 14.3 Chap. 15.2 The qualities of these separated people are First their clothing with white robes of joy praises and purity Secondly Palms in their hands as symbols of their victory over the beast his image mark name and the number thereof Chap. 7.9 Thirdly They are stiled harpers Chap. 14.2 as singing the song of Moses and the Lamb for their outward and inward redemption from bondage Fourthly These are not defiled with women or false Churches for they are virgins Fifthly They follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth in all his outgoings by separation and being the first beginners in this noble walk are called the first fruits unto God vers 4. Sixthly In their mouths or Ministery is found no guile being therein without fault before the throne of God Here you may behold an alterable stand and condition differing from the former of the tribulation and a figure of separation with distinct assemblings and a joyful harping in Ministery prayer praisings c. but not the least symbol of sitting down in a visible married way but rather the contrary For first they are typed out in the form of virgins when the marriage comes they are deciphered in the emblem of a married wife Chap. 19.7 8. Secondly These virgins sit not down with but follow the Lamb and that whithersoever he goeth the phrase whithersoever intimates a variety of Christs outgoing and the Saints following him in several steps and gradations to a higher perfection Their multitude purity of array and clearness of knowledge are not so exact at the beginning it being a gradual work but are set forth according to the usual manner of this prophecie in the first common type as they are in the highest degree of their virgin-like perfection as is declared in the fifth Section following Our Saviour presents a most pathetical platform of the separated Saints in Matth. 25. by the similitude of ten virgins that went forth to meet the bridegroom The time of this going forth is somewhat darkly hinted in vers 1. Then shall the kingdom c. but because that is obscure therefore doth the divine Wisdom more brightly declare in vers 5 6. that the time is after the long absence of Christ in the Antichristian desertion and the slumbering nay deep sleeping of all in that night and then vers 6 at the midnight of security to wit at the harvest or entrance of the vials wrath when all errors in their latitude were grown to their height and works of darkness in pride covetousness oppression self-seeking contention riot lasciviousness with all wickedness were committed with a high hand and ripe for cutting down then was the voice heard of the bridegrooms coming with a constraining force Go ye forth to meet him the sum of the Ministery of the separation The call must be before the going out Rev. 18.4 for it is that which awakens raiseth and accompanieth them in their passage towards the marriage The spiritual commerce in buying and selling the shutting of the door against the foolish while they were thus trading their knocking at the door after shut in hope of admittance can no way agree with the last general resurrection but duely pondered together with other circumstances must belong to the next marriage to come In this parable we may see that there was a space of time wherein the Saints were Virgins and a gradual preparing and trimming before entrance into the wedding-Chamber and after vers 10 Those that were ready went in with him to the marriage answerable to Rev.