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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29281	The mysterie of the true ministry unvailed as it was to be before, under, and shall be after Antichrists time, and the unlawfulness of the call of the now ministry. By a witness of the gospel, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4329; ESTC R224004	12,193	21

THE MYSTERIE OF THE True Ministry UNVAILED As it was to be before under and shall be after Antichrists Time AND The unlawfulness of the Call of the now MINISTRY By a Witness of the Gospel JOHN BRAYNE JEREM. 51.9 We would have healed Babylon but she is not healed forsake her and let us go every one into his own Country c. Vers 10. The Lord hath brought forth our Righteousness come let us declare in Zion the Work of the Lord. Printed at London and are to be sold in Popes-head Alley 1649. To the Supream Authority of the Nation the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT RIGHT HONORABLE I Am bold in Jesus Christ to present you with this insuing Treatise as a part of the Councel of God witnessing in the Lord unto you That the Work you have to do for the House of God is far above your and the worlds present apprehensions the true Church being no way to be restored until you whose work J hope it is have made desolate the false Church Rev. 17.16 who before made desolate the true Church Rev. 11 2. so that in all you do less then the making of it desolate you come short of fulfilling the Mind of God and occasion the delay of your own deliverance and the Kingdoms Peace to do which God will inforce you and not give you rest until it be done yea and all be it what or whomsoever they that hinder it will be removed out of the way God will spare no man any thing herein be ye therefore instructed ye that be Judges of the Earth and kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little that ye may in this his day of wrath find favour with the Lord that ye may live in his sight and behold his salvation ready to be revealed which is the desire and fervent prayer of Your Servant in the Gospel John Brayn 25 May 1649. THE MYSTERY OF THE True Ministry UNVAILED c. THe blessed and only wise God to the magnifying of his most glorious Name hath in the prophetical History of the beloved Disciple John set forth the Churches several changes from that time the Apocalips was written to the end of the world 1. He speaks to the Churches in the time of their Visibility in which time he lived as in Chap. 1.2 3. in which time the Ministry thereof are Angel Ministers or true Church-Ministry Chap. 1.20 who are admonished by the Spirit of Prophecy of Gods depriving the Churches of the use of them for their Apostacy Rev. 2.5 3.16 intimated in taking away the Candlestick of the Ephesian Church Now on this followeth the sealing up of the Book as a Judgment to the wicked world so that the Scriptures are in a manner taken from the world with the Church-Ministry Rev. 5.2 2. The next estate followeth hereupon is the Churches driving into the Wilderness or hid estate Antichrist having demolished the frame Constitution publike Ministry and Ordinances as they were set up in the Primitive Church by the Apostles and set up other of his own called the abomination of desolation set up in the holy place 1. This is set out Chap. 12. from vers 1. to vers 5. where the Church is in its Visibility Verse 6. sets out its Invisibility in its flight into the Wilderness 2. This flight into the Wilderness is discovered more significantly to us Chap. 11. verse 2. where the Gentiles are said to tread underfoot the holy City 42 moneths here by the holy City cannot be meant the City of Jerusalem it is more then 1600 year since that was destroyed and lieth so but the Church is here intended who must be trod underfoot by the Heathens for so the Nations are though they are baptized and call themselves Christians under the present Administrations during which time of 1260 years God ordained his Elect being without Church-Constitution to be ministred unto man otherway then formerly which way of Administration was either common or more especial 1. The common way of teaching was by the Ministry of those which the Scripture calleth the two Witnesses Chap. 12.6 who are to feed the Church during its Wilderness Estate Now the manner how they feed the Church is set down Chap. 11.3 and then because that the Ordination of Antichrist was unlawful God is said to give them to prophecy that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 power to teach against the terror and threats of Antichrist and authority to do it in Christs Name during that time for the edification of the Elect. 2. To these God in a more especial manner within this time of 1260 day prophetically years raiseth up seven eminent men in several ages who serve to restore the Church of Christ by degrees and destroy the Church of Antichrist These are spoken of Rev. 8.2 which seven Angels are as the Prophets raised up to the Jewish Church and added to their ordinary Ministry by whom God revealed something more of himself then the former world knew so these opened the seven Seals of the sealed Book each one bringing something of the hid Gospel to light until all were revealed and so each one pouring out his Vial on the false Church until it were destroyed Rev. 10.7 8. 16.17 19. Now these in an eminent manner God having eminent matters to do by them are said to have their trumps from God that is their Ministry and Call thereunto and it is very remarkable that both Witnesses and Angels are said to have their authority from God Antichrist would give none to these to Minister by or rather indeed could not it being an abomination to take it from her nor did they need it God giving it them nor would God use Antichrists authority herein 1. These Witnesses were not two particular men as some dream but a few Witnesses raised up of God successively to instruct the Elect and to manifest Antichrists delusions in the several ages of the predicted time under part whereof we live some of them being one while in France as in Waldoe others in Bohemia as in Thabor others in England at other time as in John Wicklief 2. Nor were they the Magistrate and Minister as some conceive from the Types they are drawn from as Moses and Aaron Zerubbabel and Joshuah 1. These were to feed the Church and so may ye say doth the Christian Magistrate but more these feeds it by prophecy which is not ordinarily proper to the Magistrate to do 2. They were in sackcloth still under persecution all these times for the truth as the Waldenses by Papists Nonconformists by Bishops Independents by Presbyters Now the Magistrates of these times were not brought to sackcloth 3. To witness to Christ is usually applyed to Ministers but not Magistrates The Scripture mentions two sorts of Witnesses the one ordinary the other extraordinary That that qualified the extraordinary was that he was testis occulatus 1 John 1.1 they telling men what