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A86686	Manus testium movens: or, A Presbyteriall glosse upon many of those obscure prophetick texts in Canticles, Isay, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk, Zachary, Matthew, Romans, and the Revelations: which point at the great day of the vvitnesses rising; Antichrists ruine, and the Jews conversion, neare about this time. VVherein Dr. Homes, with the rest of the independent antichristian time-servers are clearly confuted, and out of their own writings condemned: and against them proved, that the present usurpers in England are that antichristian party who have slain the witnesses, and shall reign but three yeers and an half, which time is almost at an end. To this book must be joyned Lingua testium, being its proper preface. / Written by Testis-mundus Catholicus Scotanglo-Britanicus.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H328; Thomason E632_23; ESTC R206463	110,211	129

god Mauzzim that he sets up both these are one and the same thing and signifie a sword-power that this Beast shall set up I have many learned Expositors on my side in the interpretation of both texts and some of the Fathers with whom I fall full jump in the explication for they say that the Beast in both places is that Antichrist that shall arise when the Roman Monarchy shall be destroyed and slay the Witnesses and reigne three years and an half Now we must reckon the beginning of this Beasts reign the time that he set up his god Mauzzim and exalted himself above all other government and this was when he got the ships at sea the Forts Castles Forces Magazines whole power of the sword into his own hands at land This was done in the year 1647. and about September or October In the same year so that near about that time we must begin the Beasts raign and then about the evening of the day that is the latter end of that year when he divides the two Kingdoms the Beasts three years an half wil be out but mark what shal come to pass immediately before this year of division Dan. 12. 40. At the time of the end shall the King of the South push at him and the King of the North shall come up against him like a whirlwind with Chariots with Horsemen with many ships In Zach. 14. 14. there you have the Mountain divided into North and South Here you have in this verse the North and the South joyned together to overthrow the Beast of the Earth which hath set up his God Mauzzim his Sword-power This was cleerly fulfilled in the Northern Invasion and the Southern Insurrection I will not inlarge here in so plain a thing but what shall be their success they shall be overthrown by him and he shall enter into the Countries and shall overflow and pass over He that is he that sets up the God Mauzzim he shall overtop both the Northern Invaders and the Southern Insurrections neither the King of the North nor the King of the South shall overcome him he shall pass over them v. 41. He shall enter into the glorious Land I am of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs opinion that Scotland is the gloriousest Land in the world for holiness therefore I think it is meant Scotland that he should enter as he did after he had defeated Hambleton's forces he entred the Kingdom of Scotland and many shall be overthrown Some read and many Countries shall be overthrown but there is no such word as Countries in the Hebrew Therefore I humbly conceive 't is better read and many shall be overthrown that is many noble families many great persons and many people shall but these shall escape out of his hand Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Amon the ancieut and the latter Expositors have mistook this text in allowing it onely a literal sense which the Holy Ghost intends not for by Edom and Moab and Ammon are meant the Enemies of the Church who plead the same priviledges that the Church pleads as Esau was the eldest son of Isaac by birth but he sold his birth-right and became an apostate and so did his posterity who were from him called Edomites But these Apostates pretended as the Church of Rome doth that they were the true Church because they came from the eldest son of Isaac and so Moab and Ammon though most abominable Idolaters yet said that their father was Lot and they were the true Church though they were begotten in incest as all Heresies and Hereticks are gotten by corrupting the Holy Word and Truth of God so that by Edom and Moab and Ammon that escape this Beasts clutches may be understood Hereticks and Apostates if so how cleerly doth this point out of the Beast to us or if by Ammon and Moab may be meant those murtherers of the King Traytors for in 2 Chron. 24. 46. a Moabite and an Ammonite one of the chief of the children of Ammon conspired against the King and slew him so that Apostates Covenant-breakers Hereticks and Traytors conspirers against the King shall escape him wheresoever he comes you may know this beast by his followers for none but such are protected by him and beloved of him By Moab may be meant the malicious party who pretend religiously to curse the Church of God by their hypocritical hirelings such as Balam who for a good place or office will vilifie that cause which they once professed to be a righteous cause V. 42. And the Land of Egypt shall not escape that is Ireland which were more bloudy to the people of God then Egypt to Israel Egipt that is a Kingdom full of abominable Idolatry therefore Rome is called spirituall Egypt V. 43. He shall have power over the Treasures of gold and silver and the precious things of Egypt that is He shall be Governour of Ireland for who hath power over the Treasury but the Governour By Lybians and Ethiopians are meant the common sottish and slavish sort of people which will bow to any body these shall subscribe to him But when he is in Ireland what follows next V. 44. But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him Holland is East and Scotland is North from Ireland now the Treaty in Holland with the King by the Scots shall trouble him V. 45. Tydings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him Ireland the place where the Beast of the Earth shall be that Witness-slaying Beast hath Holland on the East of it and Scotland on the North of it Now tydings from the North and East shall trouble him that is the King of Scotland shall be in Holland that 's to the East of him and the Scots in the North call a Parliament and send Commissioners from Scotland to treat with the King in Holland and so tydings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him This Treaty shall trouble him and call him out of Ireland into England from whence he shall go with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many He shall go with an Army resolving to destroy and utterly to make away the Covenanters in Scotland and this is plainly set down in vers 45. V. 46. And he shall plant the Tabernacles of his palace Some read The Tabernacle of the wrath of his judgment so Brightman reades it Others read it And he shall plant his Tabernacle Aphadno keeping the Hebrew word intire Others there are that translate Aphadno and read the text thus And he shall spread the Tabernacles of his stables This word Aphadno which is read Palace though I know not why Brightman very learnedly unfolds This word saith he is compounded of three words Aph and Din and the affix of the third person Daleth the wrath of his judgment as if he should say He shall plant the Tabernacles of wroth whereby he shall procure to

himself judgment and everlasting destruction Therefore Brightman reads it thus He shall plant the Tabernacle of the wroth of his judgment between the seas in the Mountain of holy delight and there shall he come to his end and none shall help him He shall pitch his Tabernacles in the Mountain of delight that is in that part of Mount Olivet to the North On that Mountain that is in Scotland there he shall pitch his tent that is lead an Army into that Kingdom against the Covenanters and he shall pitch betwixt the seas in Scotland This seemeth to tell the place where this Beast shall be destroyed it is betwixt the seas some where in that Kingdom and there shall he come to his end and none shall help him Observe how this illustrates and confirms Zach. 14. 1 7. the time of the Rent betwixt the North and the South shall be but one day that is one year and in the evening of that year it shall be light Now I am fully perswaded that this is the year I argue à posteriori from events this year the tydings out of the East and the North fetched him out of Ireland and made him march into Scotland which made the great Rent between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland This year is that year which is neither dark nor light to the Church it is a gloomy day no sun nor stars appear to direct or comfort the Church They know not whether the sun be rising or setting upon them paleness is in all faces 't is a cloudy sad melancholy day therefore we wait hoping and longing for the fulfilling of the promise that in the evening of the day that is in the latter end of the year it shall be light though the year speaks terrible things against the Church yet the end of the year shall speak comfort and salvation to the Church Or else it shall be in the Evening that is when all is still and quiet when the Enemies think all is their own and when the Church thinks the Evening of dark and sad desolation is coming on her In the Evening when the Enemies of the Church are lying down have drawn the Curtains of security over them when like the glutton they begin to say soul take thy rest eat drink and be merry thou hast enough laid up for many years then their unexpected desolation and utter ruine cometh then on a sudden the seventh Trumpet sounds and the dreadful cry is made behold the bridegroom cometh then shall Christ come with deliverance for the Saints when they were even ready to dispond with swift destruction against his Enemies who were in deep security Observe how both Daniel and Zachary agree in this for in Dan. 12. 1. there Michael stands up that great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people and then shall follow the time of great trouble to the Enemy and in Zach. 14. 5. the Lord shall come and ver 9. the Lord shall be King over all the earth the same with Rev. 11. all the Kingdoms at the sounding of the seventh Trumpet in the world shall be the Lords so that all these places of Scripture prophecying of the sounding of the seventh Trumpet and the things that shall immediatly precede the powring out of the Vials seem to tell us that God will mightily appear in the raising up of a distressed persecuted despised Magistracy and Ministery in Scotland and give them unexpected success against their Enemies to the overthrowing of Popery and Independency and the establishing of the three Kingdoms speedily in a Covenant-Reformation Confident I am that Scotland is the place where the Enemies of the Church shall be gathered together to destroy them and most confident I am that there the Enemies that go against them shall be broken there will Christ appear for his Churches deliverance and his Enemies confusion and this is one great argument with me viz. the great distresse and sad affliction that the Church at this present time is in In England the very foundations are cast down and the righteous know not what to do their eyes are onely up to God the poor Church is drove up into a dispersed corner of the world it hath lately had a sore and deadly wound in the defeating of a stately Army they have lost their chief City they are banished from their habitations they have lost one of their chief Sea-Port Towns and the chief Castle and strongest Hold in that Kingdom they have a potent a bloudy a subtil and a resolved Army to encounter withall they every day grow stronger and stronger and by their power and policy infeeble and weaken the poor Church in Scotland by their policy they have bred division among the Scots they are but a little number that are called and faithful and chosen and that little flock are like to be surrounded with Enemies for if the Pope and his party can possibly incite any of the great family against the Kirk they will and in great measure the Scots this day have experience of it now when they have enemies and dangers round about them and are but feeble and weak and in the eye of the world and of their Enemes utterly lost Then is the time yea then the set time is come for their deliverance and this I prove from Rev. 15. 2 3. When the Church was delivered which is spoken of this time of deliverance from the Beast of the Earth for they ver 2. got the victory over the Beast and his Image and his Mark and the number of his name Now this is none other then the Beast that goes to pull down Kingly Government and set up his Image or Government and make that Nation receive his mark i.e. subscribe to his Ingagement Now when this victory is gotten over the Beast v. 3. they sang the song of Moses Exod. 15. which was a tryumphant song after their deliverance from a potent malicious resolved Enemy that had the Church of God at the greatest disadvantage that might be for he had them all in a valley on one hand the Forts and strong Holds of the Egyptians on the other hand an unpassable Mountain before them the deep sea and behind them● furious Enemy compleatly armed and fully resolved utterly to ruine them Now in this distress the Lord looks upon them and visits them with a cloud there was the visible power of God seen and after that cloud came the Sea was divided the Church was preserved and the Enemy drowned and then Moses composed his song which is altogether to magnifie the glorious and magnificent power of God in the deliverance of his Church in so great a straight and destroy the proud and potent Enemy with so terrible and swift destruction Now this song the Church must sing when God gives her victory over her Enemies therefore her deliverance shall be glorious and her Enemies destruction terrible that is that new song the Saints of God shall sing Rev. 14.