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A45520 What is truth. Or, the patern in the mount Wherein many places of scripture are (in pursuit of truth, and the churches peace) explained. Therein, most false opinions and heresies (both modern and ancient) are clearly detected and refelled. By Tho. Harby.; What is truth. Harby, Thomas. 1671 (1671) Wing H686; ESTC R216529 205,140 354

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Papists till about 1567. Nor were they all that time a small assistence to the servants of God nor to some Kings that had the Seal of God in their foreheads to further their Reformation in Doctrine and defend their lives But we shall further take the truest survey of them from several Texts of sacred Scripture And the sound of their wings saith the Text was as the sound of Charets of many Horses running to Battel Vers 9. And why comes this account of them from the Pen of the Prophetick Evangelist Because they sometimes subdu'd their enemies with the sound of their wings only For Ziscae's Armies beat their enemies in eleven battels more by the sound of their wings then force of Arms more by the noise or report of their coming then by their power which fully ratifies the truth of the Prophesie in reference to those so much feared assailants But Secondly After Zisca's death Sigismund the Emperour invaded Bohemia with a threefold Army The first was of Saxons and other Cities The Second of Fanconians led by the Marquess of Brandenburg The third was levied of Rhenenses Bavarians and Swevians led by Otho Archbishop of Trevers All these three mighty Armies met at Misna But the next day they all not seeing any Enemy but hearing the report of Procopius his coming fled to Thacovia leaving a great prey and their Arms behind them Thirdly this three-fold Army thus defeated with the sound of the wings of their enemies only Sigismund raised a far greater Army of forty thousand Horse besides Foot and invades Bohemia But was put to flight and his whole Army ran in a confused and amazed fright though they saw none of those winged Locusts pursue them Res crat imperiosa sonitus Alarum The sound of their wings the noise or report of their coming made that mighty Army fly confused whiles the Emperour could not by his Command cause them to rally Ages cannot parallel such presidents nor the World since the first Creation The Host of Syria heard a noise of Charets and Horses and that one time fled affrighted though they saw no man from the walls of Samaria But these mighty Armies fled many times not from a noise of terrour from the Lord of Hosts but from the noise or report of the coming of a few weak men though they saw no man And these many Presidents of such Stupendious strangeness prove irrefellibly that those Formal Reformists were at least the Victorious part of those Locusts that then vanquished their and the Churches Enemies with the sound of their wings only For if ever Armies were put to flight by the sound of the wings of their Enemies Then were these thirteen Puissant and Imperial Armies so put to flight If ever any since men were on Earth subdu'de their Enemies with the sound of their wings then those Victorious Taborites were therefore they could possibly be none but they the only Armies that so subdu'de them And by so subduing of them did indubitably fulfil this Prophesie in the performance of it And the sound of their wings was like the sound of Charets of many Horses running to battel Secondly And they had a King over them which is the Angel of the bottomless pit whose name in the Hebrew Tongue is Abaddon but in the Greek Tongue hath his name Appollyon Verse 11. And they had a King And what King Sure not Sigismund that could not rule them nor any Earthly Man or King Their King was a Spiritual King no Earthly Potentate His name in Greek was Apollyon and he Graeculus esuriens an hungry Greek Covetousness and Spiritual Pride in them was King over them that contrary to Gods Command ruled in their mortal bodies And so ruling over them was their King For what King had the Type-Locusts that commanded them to devour the Fruits of Egypt but their own eager and unsatiable appetites And these their Antitype must of necessity hold a just Symmetry or due proportion with them the Type of these Nor could the Devil be the King of these more then of other wicked men For he 's the General King that rules in the hearts of all the children of disobedience Therefore Let none tax Zisca or Procopius they might be persons of great Worth and Piety not Jerom of Prague nor John Hus nor any other persecuted Saints that were occasions of their coming as Kings over them For Moses himself was a means of the coming of the Type-Locusts but not their King So the persecuted Church and Saints were the occasion of these Locusts coming but no King over them But Covetousness and Pride conjunct was their King For the Locusts were only Formal Professors Reformed from Papists to a somewhat sound Doctrine and many of them perhaps to strict Profession but remained Papists in manners or rather outstript them for Pride and Covetousness For Covetousness the Root of all evils For Pride the chief cause of all Coutentions And this double iniquity or combined wickedness Pride and Covetousness was 't is most like the Locusts King And they had a King over them c. For Thirdly Their teeth saith the Text were as the teeth of Lions Vers 7. This further shews what the Locusts King was To wit Their Lion-like rapacity and greedy avarice And shewes their parity therein to those Saint-persecuting Papists whom with like retaliation they were sent to persecute Peccato par poena The Papists opprest the poor and those servants of God that had his Seal in their foreheads as it were with teeth of Lions Therefore God sent those Locusts to oppress and suppress those Saint-persecuting Papists that had not the Seal of God in their foreheads as it were with teeth of Lions For the Papists as it might appear were not only cruel to the servants of God that thus had his Seal inserted but uncharitable also and merciless to the poor which their own Writers witness even of their Spiritual persons They are alwayes careful saith Theodoret a Niem to advance their Kindred Nephews c. are seldom seen any poor And if perhaps any poor body beg an alms of them they presently turn away their eyes And if perhaps extream want urge him to ask the second time they threaten him He speaking of Vrban the sixth Innocent the seventh Boniface the ninth and Gregory the twelfth saith that these four gave no alms which saith he is a sign of damnation and though a fault in all yet worst in them because no man can be saved withont charity And this he wrote being Notary of the Apostolick Letters in 1408. and Secretary successively to Vrban Boniface Innocent Gregory and Alexander And Locusts are no less cruel and uncharitable than the Papists The Papists may plainly see their own sins in those punishments which God inflicted upon them by their hands Both are alike the Locusts and the Papists in their practices Both are cruel both extreamly covetous The charity of both is but a verbal pretence and in