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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

they are that shall be converted and by whom they shall be converted This I have handled more at large in the other little Tract called Lingua Testium which ought to be joyned to this and was so intended though the winds and storms of persecution severed them My hearty prayer to God is that this clay and spettle may by the powerful operation of Gods spirit be effectual to the opening the eyes of those blind soules who by the blind are led out of the way and both fallen into the ditch What I have done is but as a Rams horn in a weak mans hand which one stone in probability from Jericho walls is able to dash in pieces yet what cannot a rams horn do when God sends it forth by his commission it is able to overthrow the strong walls of Jericho In God alone I put my trust he is my strength by his help have I leaped over the wall of many difficulties by his power I trust I shall undermine and blow up the wall of Babylon I am sure it stands though formidable to the beholder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon a tottering foundation and blessed are those Princes and blessed those people and persons whom God hath given a heart to enterprise so great a work though they die in that service Rev. 14. 13. My prayer is that this Tract may be as that voice in Jerusalem before its ruine A voyce to the Magistrate and a voice to the Minister a voice to the Papist and a voice to the Protestant a voice to the aged and a voice to the young a voice to the rich and a voice to the poor and a voice to all that belong to the Election of grace to forewarn them to fly from the evil to come for be assured O ye people of England that God will visit you and that speedily with his sore and heavie judgments as you have been singular in sin so will God single you out to punishment the day is at hand when Traytors and Covenant-breakers shall cry to the Mountains to fall upon them and to the hills to cover them from the wrath of God which will inevitably fall upon them Now that I might call some souls out from amongst them before the wrath of God break in upon them and it be too late I have written this ensuing Tract with as much plainnesse and brevity as I could I have pared off all difficulties which might perplex the Reader either in the method or in the style I have given thee here the cream of many a moneths study which I have gathered out of the choicest books in Europe I have left no stone unturned nor any Library in England that I could come at unransackt I expect no bribes of breath or profit but the profit of mine and thy soul which is the soul of profit as to other profit I am a stranger indeed I am a great looser for I have consumed both my body and estate to inrich my soul and others in this study nothing but my bed and my meals have been tedious to me since I undertook it and if the Lord be pleased to prosper it to the good but of any one soul I shall dedicate my whole life in praises to him and account my corporall losses a thousand times repaid me For this end I beseech thee Reader to read it as I writ it Sequestrate thy self from distractions and sit down as in the presence of God to search after his revealed Will in these misterious texts Watch against the Devils temptations for he is most busie about a man when he sits to meditate on these texts He shall never profit by this that doth not as that Father saith on the Cant. Carnalem exuere affectum he that comes to this treasury with smutcht and coalie heart and hands shall carry away pro thesauro carbones If thou therefore find not that expected satisfaction at the first reading of this book lay not the fault like Senecas Nurse presently upon the book but see that it be not thy fault in reading it I give thee this the rather because I know it will have many Censurers but I am confident few confuters remember good reader as thou must answer one day for thy lost hours which are double loss and as for thy sluggish hearing and praying so for thy sluggish and unprofitable reading of books The Lord therefore for Jesus sake grant that thou mayst so read as to understand that therein thou mayst be blessed which is the onely end of the Authors labours Vale. THe earnest endeavour of Dr. Homes on October the 8. 1650. was to perswade the Lord Major Aldermen and the chief of the City assembled at Christ-Church that now this year 1650. the things done against the lawful Parliament of England together with the grand defeat given to the Scots by Cromwell was the fulfilling litterally of his Text in Psal 149. 8. 9. To bind their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in fetters of Iron that they may execute upon them the vengeance written this Honour have all his Saints the honour of imprisoning arraigning condemning and beheading the only Protestant King in the world of dis●●bing the Protestant Peers of the Parliament of England and of secluding the sincere Protestants of the Commons of England the changing of the Government of England the removing of the Covenanted Reformation and the invading of Scotland and overthrowing of the covenanting party such honour have all the Saints saith Dr. Homes this is saith he page 6. remotio impedimenti the removing of impediments and the holy ones that is the present power now sitting at Westminster which he calls a Parliament have removed these impediments the Dr. gives a Catalogue of his Saints viz. the Parliame●● the Councel of State the Army the Magistrates the Ministers and the Churches these are the Doctors holy ones I wonder how the Dr. left out the King of Spain the p●incipal Saint next to the Pope in these honourable actions they doubtless have according to the Doctors interpretation endeavoured long before now in 88. and the Gun-powder-plot to fulfil the Doctors Text literally that is to overthrow King Lords and Commons and all that stand stedfastly to maintain Protestant Laws and Religion these are the things done and these are the persons who perform them the actions saith the Dr. are glorious and the actors holy ones neither is this any new notion of the Doctors for he professeth that 8. years agoe he was of this opinion that this year 1650. should produce such glorious effects as the beheading of King Charles upon a Scaffold at his own door for so the m●n means plainly by his expressions Is it not strange that this Dr. should be so old a Prophet nay is it not strange that he should be so soon a Prophet and so strange a Prophet for in the year 1642. the Dr. as he saith foretold these things to come to passe this year and in 1639. thousands

v. 15. treading the wine-presse of the fiercenesse and wrath of God almighty as in Rev. 14. 19. where when Christ comes against the Beast of the Earth with his sickle he useth the same expression to note 't is one and the same Beast both here and there In Rev. 19. 19. there Iohn saw the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their hosts gathered together to make battell against him that sate on the horse and against his army it may be this Beast is that in Rev. 17. which is the Beast of the Earth Rev. 13. 11. and the Kings of the earth are those ten horns Rev. 17. 12. which gave their power to the Beast and v. 14. make war with the Lamb By Beast is meant the Beast of the Sea who by his Emissaries and Polititians promotes a war prosecutes it with all vigor and malice against Christ and his faithfull people and so stirs up the Kings of the earth to make war with them Observe in this battell the Beast is taken and with him that false Prophet which deceived them that received the Beasts mark and them that worshipped his Image these in this battell were both cast alive into the lake that burnes with fire and brimstone that is destroyed with a terrible destruction I cannot I dare not peremptorily say where this battel shall be fought but certainly it must be where the Witnesses are slain and where the Beast of the Earth sets up his new Government for when the victory was got it was got over the Beast and the image of the Beast And Rev. 20. 4. After this victory the Witnesses that were beheaded for Christs cause the same Offices were exalted and the Ministery that suffered for not worshipping the image and receiving his mark these also were exalted therefore this battell must be fought by the Witnesses Christ being the conqueror for in this battel the Lords mighty hand shall eminently appear and it must be fought against the Beast of the Earth and his party now the Beast of the Earth hath set up his new government no where but in England Ireland and Scotland in Scotland he is now endeavouring to set it up That this great Battel and the Vials pouring forth are one and the same thing to me is cleer First From the actors and parties on both sides who are the same both in pouring out the Vialls and fighting the Battel and these act at the same time for Rev. 15. 5. When the Temple in heaven was opened then the Angels came forth in white linnen to pour out their Vialls and in Rev. 19. 11. where the great Battel is fought John saw Heaven opened and Christ on a white horse who Rev. 14 14. he saw in a white cloud and his Army clothed in white linnen Rev. 15. 6. He treads the Vine-presses of Gods fierce wrath by the sword of his mouth Rev. 19. 15. and Rev. 14. 14 20 he treads it with a sharp sickle By all which 't is apparent that neither the Vialls nor this Battel are to be fought untill the Witnesses put off their sackcloth and put on their white linnen and then by the same parties at the same time both are accomplished which indeed are both one and the same thing in action though several wayes expressed for the cleering of the thing to the understanding of the Reader For as the cutting down of the Vine and the pressing of it in the Vine-press notes the utter passing away of the Vine and the Vintage So doth that other expression of casting the Beast of the Earth into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone signifie his utter ruine and this is cleer by another argument taken from the parties against which the Battel is fought and the Vialls are poured out they are the self-same Enemies viz. the Beast of the Earth the Beast of the Sea and the Prince of the Ayr and their Kingdoms these as we have shewed already are the Objects of the Vialls and the Enemies which Christ overcomes Rev. 18. 19 20. Rev. 20. 3. are the Beast of the Sea the false prophet which is the Beast of the Earth and the Prince of the Ayr which is called the Dragon the old Serpent now they are at one time also Rev. 16. 16. when the enemies come to Harmaggaddan to battel then the seven Vials which is the final wrath of God goe forth in thundering and voices and earth-quakes and the great victory is expressed by casting alive both the Beast and the false Prophet into the burning Lake and chaining the Devil in Hell 1000 years This great Battel cannot be fought before nor after the Vialls be poured out ergo they must be both at one time First Not before the vials be powred forth because this great Battel utterly confounds these three chief Enemies of the church the Devil who sets up the Pope who keeps the Witnesses in sackcloth and the Pope who sets up the Beast of the Earth who slays the Witnesses and the Beast of the Earth who doth uphold the Popes and the Devils Kingdom Therefore I conceive the great Battel shall be fought against him in whose ruine the Devil and the Popes Kingdom shall be overthrown and that 's the reason I conceive why after this great Battel Rev. 19. 20. 't is said that the Beast that is the Pope was taken when onely the false Prophet sought in person and was ruined because in the false Prophets who is the Beast of the Earth cause the Pope is most nearly concerned Farewell Popery in these three Kingdoms for ever when once the Beast of the Earth goeth to ruine all the Statutes shall be in force then against Popery which are now repealed Esa 59. 18. This is the day of repaying vengeance to those Islands the Pope shall be utterly ruined in Scotland England and Ireland but now if these Enemies should be destroyed before the Vialls be powred out then Vialls must be powred out in vain for these three are the onely Enemies of the Church and when they are overcome there are none to stand against the Church the rest shall fear and give glory to God I do not believe for my part that the Turk shall be destroyed by the sword non credo quia non lego as Augustine saith I do not find it any where in Scripture that they shall be destroyed by the sword unless they be put under the Devils Banners as well they may and so be destroyed with the Devil But my hope is that their Religion onely shall be destroyed and they brought in by a mighty conversion to the Gospel my reason is because both the Hebrecians and Grecians are inslaved most to the Pope in spiritual thraldom therefore the Pope is called both Abaddon and Apallion now when the Pope shall be ruined both Jews and Gentiles shall come in to Christ with more glory and fulness then ever which may be in the destruction of the Western Antichristian Gentiles but not in

commerce or trade with them they shall be at as great distance in Opinion Judgment and practice as the Covenant is at a distance from the Engagement or the Engagement from the Covenant Covenanters cannot pass to the Engagers without perjury and the Engagers cannot pass to Covenanters without forfeiting their allegeance to their acknowledged Masters This I conceive is the Valley that shall be made towards the East and West which must needs be Eastward and Westward when the Mount is divided and half removes towards the North the other towards the South The Fathers many of them mis-interpreting this text by giving a bare literal explication of the words differ therefore in the application some apply this text to Titus and his Army's Exploits upon Mount Olivet Others faign that 't was then when God with his Angels fought for the Maccabees on that Mount against Antioches Others think that 't was then fulfilled when Constantine fought against the Arrians at which time on this hill the sign of the cross appeared Hence it may be Theodoretus and Hierom conceive that this hill was divided into four parts like a cross but these have but fabulous grounds for their opinion Zanche Vatable Lycanus and many others say 't was divided but into two parts but I humbly conceive that in a literal sense Mount Olivet was never divided into two Therefore the text is not to be understood literally but figuratively and parabolically under these tearms and Expositions setting forth some eminent place in the world which is eminent for holiness and unity in Doctrine and Government but unexpectedly rent and miserably divided into two grand parties which shall be at so great and vast a distance in opinion and practice as 't is impossible to reconcile them one to the other the one shall swear to maintain King Lords and Commons and the other shall swear to suppress King and Lords the one shall swear to maintain true Religion in Doctrine Discipline and Worship and the other shall practice the destruction of Religion in Doctrine Discipline and Worship by a toleration of all Religions and supporting Popery by taking away all Oaths offensive to Popish Tenents and all Statutes offensive to their persons and estates and striving to destroy sound stedfast principled Protestants by imposing Oaths upon them against their consciences and by taking away their priviledge of the Law from them so laying them open to all manner of misery By this you may see I am strongly induced to believe that the Mount of Olives is England and Scotland formerly united under one King and Religion and under one solemn League and Covenant That part of the mountain divided to the North I conceive is Scotland That part to the South I conceive according to its situation from Scotland is England betwixt these there shall be a great Gulf a Gulf betwixt their principles so deep and wide that all the World shall take notice of it If any man should doubt of Scotland being part of the Mountain of Holiness in regard of the base reproaches of late cast upon them I 'le desire that man to read Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs opinion of Scotland in a speech made at Guildhall London Octob. 6. 1643. Scotland saith he is a Kingdom beloved and honoured of God by whom God will do great things in the latter Age of the World 't is a Philadelphia 't is more deeply ingaged to God then any Nation in the World by Covenant 't is the most reformed Nation under Heaven 't is the greatest Enemy to Antichrist in the World and the most successefull with whom God hath most eminently appeared they are exceeding wise exceeding just and full of Christian love This was Mr. Jeremiah Burrough's opinion of the Kingdom of Scotland and if he say it I hope honest Independents if there be any will believe it V. 5. And ye shall flee into the Valley of the Mountain for the valley of the Mountain shall reach unto Azal yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from the Earth-quake in the dayes of Uzziah King of Judah and the Lord my God shall come and all the Saints with thee This time shall be a time of great terrour Hunc terrorem dominus praedicit Luke 21. saith Oecolampadius where mens hearts shall fail then for fear of the commotions which in this age shall come and ye shall flee into my Mountains So Hierom reades it For the Valley of the Mountain shall reach unto Azal Many of the ancient Interpreters read Azal as a proper name and so pass it by So doth Pagnine Aquila Vatible and the Chaldee but Soman renders Azal usque adproximum to some place neer at hand Others as Tygurine and Arrias Montanus conceive 't is meant some secure place where God did hide his Church from Antiochus his fury but Hierom and Lyranus expound it thus That ye may flee into the Valley which lieth betwixt Moriah and Mount Zion that was a secure place for it was betwixt the City wall and the Temple But others more neer the Hebrew text interpret Azal usque ad separatum so Deodat speaking of Azal saith it signifies a separation So that the plain sense of the text seems to be this Ye shall flee into the Valley of my Mountains that is Yea that are the sealed ones of the Lamb that refuse to worship the Beast or his Image or receive his mark that is subscribe his Ingagement Ye shall flee into the Valley of my Mountains that is that place or Nation which keeps my Covenant and observes my statutes to do them there God will dwell where his Laws are observed and his Ordinances maintained in purity but that Nation onely in the World this day is Scotland and the reason why God will have them to fly to his Mountains is in the next words For the Valley of the Mountain shall reach unto Azal that is The breach betwixt the two Kingdoms shall reach unto a separation It shall separate true Subjects from Traytors sincere Professors of Religion from Apostates and Hypocrites Covenant-keepers from Covenant-breakers Sheep from Goats Thus the breach betwixt the Kingdoms shall make a separation in Persons in Prayers in Sermons in every thing there shall be a separation In Cant. 2. 27. the Church prayes thus Return my well-beloved and be like a Roe or a young Hart upon the Mountains of Bether this word Bether seems to match Azal for Bether signifies a separation or division Now on a Mountain of Separation the Church Praies Christ to appear it seems to me a prayer made for this day for verse 4. 'T is when the Jews that are obscured shall be converted and ver 15. when Herericks shall spoil the Church then in such a straight the Church prayes that on the Mountains of Bether that is In the divided distracted Kingdoms he would appear for the Churches deliverance it shall be a time of flying a time of hot persecution but the onely place for safety for the Saints

these shall rejoyce at the fall and ruine of the Church these men shall cry at the affliction of the Just Ah ha so we would have it Is not this a dismal day when one Parliament man shall imprison another and one Minister envie and reproach another It shall be neither day nor light light nor dark men shall not know what to make of the times one shall say 't is Evening another shall say 't is Morning another shall say 't is Noon-day another shall say 't is neither One saith as my fine Doctor that I deal with that 't is the morning of a glorious Reformation Behold how far it is carryed on even to the murthering of a King and blowing up of a Parliament Another and that justly from Scripture-grounds saith this mock-reformation is the slaying of the Witnesses Another saith in the grief of his heart the Evening of the Gospel is coming upon England and God is carrying it into some other Nation as God when the Jews rejected a Reformation lost the Sun-shine of the Gospel and it shin'd gloriously upon the Gentiles so when Christ comes to call the Jews the Gentiles that despise that way of Christs coming in a Reformation-way to call the Jews may justly have the Gospel taken from them and the Ministers may give that dolefull farewell to England that Paul gave to the Jews Behold we turn from you and go to the Gentiles This is justly to be I know not whether I had best say hoped or feared yet for my Countries and Kinsfolks sakes I 'le say feared but England is most unworthy it hath rejected a Reformation and I much fear the set-day and God by persecution as fourteen years since by the Prelates persecution he did is now calling his Ministers away to some greater Harvest for here they fish day and night and catch nothing they plow and sow abundantly but they reap no fruit In New-England the harvest begins to increase upon those few Labourers hands there the poor soules can weep out a whole Sermon and in the midst of their business in their hard labour their soules in the field can groan within them for wounding Christ and here in Old-England men despise the Ministers and the message they bring persecute them slander them and use all violent means to drive them out of the Kingdom Really I much fear 't is Evening with England but what do I mean I forget my self I am expounding It shall neither be light nor dark that is it shall be neither night of despaire nor day of assurance it shall be neither night of dispondency nor day of comfort What shall I say I will say no more for I am confident every man that lives in these times that is in his senses and observes the times hath a ready Comment upon this text Oecolampadius refers this to Luke 21. where the Sun shall be darkened and the Moon shall not give her light it may be v. 7. represents the state of the slain Witnesses but it shall be one day it is known to the Lord By day is here meant a year a Prophetick day though this Beast of the Earth reigne three years and a half yet he shall thus tyrannize but one yeare that 's the comfort he shall make a rent betwixt the North and the South but one year 't is but one year that it shall be neither light nor dark and here is the comfort of all in the evening of that day that is in the later end of the year it shall be light he shall tyrannize in Scotland but one yeer Now the great question is what yeer this yeer is when 't will be the Doctor saith this yeer Though I cannot fiddle with the Doctor yet I 'll keep time with him as neer as I can Doth he say great things shall be done against Antichrist about the yeer 1650 So do ● But here the Doctor and I shall run in discords those whom the Doctor calls I am confident against his conscience Antichristian I upon sure and infallible grounds call them visible Saints that is the Kingdom of Scotland that now defend the Covenant-cause and a distressed lawfull Magistracy and a lawfull rightly constituted Ministery and Ecclesiastick Discipline And those whom the Doctor calls holy ones the holy Heretikes and the holy Gun-powder Traytors and the holy Covenant-breakers and the holy Apostates for they are visibly such to all the world those I call by their right names as they appear to the world by their actions viz. the last bloudy enemies of ●he Gospel Church who in the later part of the last times as M. Tho. Goodwin saith shall arise and slay the Witnesses that is a godly Magistracy and Ministery who had finished their testimony and fitted all things for a complete reformation these enemies of the Church I call them enemies and these goodly painted hypocrits I call them so I do not number them by their names but I count them by their actions by what they do not by what they say and thence I conclude infallibly they are Antichristian for by their fruits not leaves I know them to be such and contrary to the Doctor I do verily believe that soon after this-yeer 1650. God will raise up the Witnesses in Scotland overthrow consume and utterly destroy the Doctors holy Army holy State and holy Common-wealth And my reasons are taken partly out of the Doctors own mouth for about this time the Pope of Romes tyrannizing over the Church is expired and to go one step further then the Doctor within six moneths I conceive after the end of this yeer 1650. the reigne of the Beast of the Earth which slayes the Witnesses is out and the time of the Witnesses lying dead is out and they must rise whose rising is the Beasts ruine the rising of a lawfull Magistracy and Ministery will be the ruine of Democrary and Independency For the battell must be fought by lawfull Magistracy and lawfull Ministery against Usurpers in Church and State The Doctor hath proved that the Popes time of tyrannizing is out in 1650. My businesse then shall be to prove that he that slays the Witnesses his time is out soon after the end of this yeer 1650 I have proved it already I will therefore only explain that part of Dan. 11. from v. 36. to the end not precisely every verse but so much as may illustrate the tenent that in all probability immediately after the end of this yeer 1650. will be the downfall of Cromwell and his Army and his new government which he hath by his sword erected Observe therefore this that Rev. 13. from verse the 11. to the end and Dan. 11. 36. to the end are spoken both of one Beast and do both in the same manner set forth his government and tyranny and bloudy cruelty and successe in his actions therfore you read in Rev. 13. 14. of an image which he makes men to worship and in Dan. 11. 36. you read of the

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

which alludes to the prophetick Psalm Psal 98. where you have every thing runs parallel with John's Vision for there you have a new song and the cause of it 't is for a marvellous great victory gotten by Gods own Arm in an eminent manner in the sight of the Heathen ver 2. and then at that time the house of Israel and the ends of the Earth see the salvation of God as the Angel Rev. 4. 6. preacheth it and then ver 4. there is a Hallelujah ver 5. with the Harp which the Harpers have ver 7. the sea roars and the earth and the flouds clash one against another but ver 19. the Mountains of holiness rejoyce because he is come to judge the earth Read the next Psalm it gives great light into these texts to be fulfilled in these times Be not therefore discouraged O ye Saints of God be patient be constant be couragious be not faithless but believe when your affliction and distress is greatest then is your deliverance nearest when your Enemies are most cruel most confident most strong most malicious and most secure then will Christ come in the cloud then will he appear on the white cloud with the sickle in his hand to cut down your Enemies blessed are you in this day that watch and keep on your spiritual garments for Christ will assuredly come and he will come as a thief at unawares unexpected behold the time is at hand your temptations are great the Devil is sifting you and winowing you as wheat it is a day of tribulation of great sorrow it is a day wherein your Enemies rejoyce and make merry it is a day of great rebuke and shame to the Church the enemies say ah ha so we would have it Edom's sons cry down with the walls of Zion down with them to the ground It was never a sadder day with the Church of England and Scotland since the Gospel was preached amongst them then now I dare appeal to all the Historians in the world whether ever the Gospel was so desperately persecuted and so neer to ruine as now it is Look in England and the very foundations of the Gospel are rooting up I mean the Doctrinal-foundation Do I say onely Doctrinal nay but I do affirm the personal foundation of the Gospel is rooting up Are not the Scriptures which are the spiritual foundation of the Gospel denyed to be the Word of God and do not men set their accursed lusts above the Holy Scriptures in maintaining that no more is Scripture then what their spirits close with and is not the Lord Jesus denyed to be God and the Son of God and the second person in the Trinity and do they not affirm that he is not the Purchaser of salvation for the Elect And to go a little further are not the Ministerial foundations viz. Magistracy and Ministery thrown down was there ever more open villanies committed against the persons and offices of Magistrates and Ministers then at this day How is the Magistracy trampled in the dirt and their spoyls divided How are Ministers imprisoned banished sequestered and silenced How grievous and intolerable are the burthens that they lay on the poor Ministers bodies and souls They have taken away their estates and so expose their poor families to ruine they impose a most unjust and unconscionable Oath upon them directly contrary to those lawful Oaths they took before and for the not subscribing of it which no consciencious Protestant will do or can do they are out-lawed shut out of protection out of their livelyhoods and exposed to utter ruine at the pleasure of any of the sons of violence and what condition have they put the Papists those bloudy and inveterate Enemies of the Protestants What becomes of the Laws in force against them Are they not all repealed What 's become of those discriminating Oaths that molest the Papists peace in this Kingdom Are they not all taken away and is not onely the sincere consciencious Protestant the man whose estate office person and family lyeth at the mercy of bloudy Papists and Gunpowder traytors Who is so blind as not plainly to see these things and what consciencious Protestant so secure as not to feel it And as for Scotland though blessed be the Lord there be a godly Magistracy and Ministery as yet standing yet how neer are they to their fall How great a blow have they received already How many enemies have they against them The Pope and all his politicians in England Holland Ireland Spain France are active against them in England the whole wealth and strength of it is imployed to ruine the Kingdome of Scotland in Holland and France the same Popish Politicians are imployed to raise rebellion against Kingly Government in Ireland the arch Rebells are in a League with the Common-wealth of England they having renounced Kingly Government long before were the first that owned the Common-wealth of England and gave them a Title whereupon Collonel Monk made a peace with them This Collonel Monk is now as Major Generall of the Foot under Cromwel in Scotland Spain hath owned this present power that cut off the King for a Free-State and Common-wealth and drives the same design to throw down the King of Portugal and France with England yea the Popes Agents in Scotland are active in stirring up those Papistical Families in Scotland against the Kirks party who are the Covenanting party It would be too long to tell how the Spanish Faction to say no more prevaileth this day throughout Europe the King of France who denies the Popes temporal power is like by the Jesuited-State-commotions to be overthrown the King of Portugal is in a probable way to be overthrown by the King of Spain the Hollander which was the supply of Scotland for Ammunition since the Prince of Orange's death is like by their own civil jars to become a prey to the Spaniard after designes betwixt England and Spain are ripened and poore England overflow with the Spanish Faction who cannot see all things cutting out against the Protestants acording to the Spanish Model who cannot see that perfected which was intended long since who sees not those dismall attempts against Magistracy and Ministery now compleated and accomplished which were intended 1588. by the King of Spain's Armado against Queen Elizabeth and by the Gunpowder Traytors against King James Something 't is that makes the Spanish Court triumph 't is because they have drave the Royal Family of England and Scotland into great distress it is helpless throughout the world no Kingdom nor Nation lends that distressed Family their helping hand the Prince of Orange the great comforter of that Family is taken out of the World and the Queen of Sweadland snatched from him by the Emperor The English Nation are divided into Independents Prelaticall men and Presbyterians for the most part the Independent and Prelaticall Party are ingaged by Oath against the Magistracy and Ministery of Scotland for they all

for the most part take the Engagement they have only a few Presbyterians who are impoverished in their Estates cast out of Office and out-lawed that adheare to them and they only in affection all they can do is to fast and pray and powre out their souls both in publique and private for the distressed Magistracy and Ministery of Scotland this is all the help they can afford them France cannot help themselves much lesse are they able to help Scotland in their distresses Now this day there is a vast and terrible Army gone up against them and if that Army should overcome and ruine utterly the Magistracy and Ministery in Scotland the Protestant Religion would not have any place in Europe to rest the sole of his foot on I am informed also that in new-New-England the same subtill Jesuited Saints that have blown us up in old-Old-England have put them also into miserable confusion and civill broils Judge now Christian Reader how neer the Church is to it 's dreadfull overthrow Now here is the comfort these troubles and great calamities of the Church are the sure fore-runners of the Church her great deliverance the world cannot believe this and the reason is because they have no true faith nor patience though they talk much of it an Hypocrites faith is not able to defend him in such fiery afflictions nor his patience able to go through such miery ways of persecution hypocrites many brag of their helmet and breast plate but onely reall Saints can shew the shooes of patience and perseverance the shield of faith in such times as these when hypocrites gracesare be jaded the Saints go on merrily though hypocrites say 't is impossible the times should turn or that ever the Covenant-Reformation should be carryed son therefore unworthy-timerous-professors now commonly ay Truly we are in the dark we know not what to think such a hypocrite sees if he hold to his principles he shall be in the dark of affliction and therefore he makes a stop and turns back Another more subtil in his hypocrisie cries out for Brotherly-love and peaceable complyance and he to follow after temporal peace casts off the paths of righteousness against his oaths and vows the truth is he is an hypocrite that hath not patience to walk in the thorny-stony-way of persecution but a reall Saint hath these two graces eminently shining in him he wil not dispond nor murmure against God or the Cause of God though the Cause of God and the Defenders of it be under great reproach and cruell p●rsecution he 'll believe in a persecuted reproached wounded forsaken and crucified Christ as well as in a glorified and an exalted Christ and then he follows Christ patiently through hunger and cold and disgrace as well as in the midst of prosperity and ease he 'll be in the ship with Christ as well when that ship is in a storm as when 't is in a calm and all because he hath a strong faith in Christ he knows that he can never sink so long as Christ is with him he knows 't is for the glory of that God whom he serves to bring his people into the Valley of Achor before he open a door of hope 't is true the times are now sad and it is the blackest day now with the Church of England and Scotland that ever was known or seen but is this an argument with a reall Saint therefore to leave the Church God forbid a reall Saint will trust in God yea and die for the truth though he kill me yet will I trust in him and therefore by way of admiration the Holy Ghost saith Here is the patience and here is the faith of the Saints and here are they that keep the Commandements There are without Apostates Persecuters Covenant-breakers Traytors unnaturall men but here are they that keep the Commandements here 's Covenant-keepers sincere worshippers of God holding fast to their principles Their graces shall in this age distinguish them from other men in the world by their constancy in the truth and their cheerful and patient bearing Christs yoak Now here is the comfort as this day none shall be like it for affliction so none shall be like it for deliverance This day Jer. 30. 6 7 8. sets forth the time of affliction which shall come upon the Cdurch before the seventh Trumpet which calls the twelve Tribes to believe in Jesus Christ It shall be a day of grievous sorrow for the present such is a womans in travel which is grievous but short and it brings abundance of comfort after the sorrow but v. 7. tells us what kind of trouble it shall be it is a day i.e. a year none hath been like it it is even the day of Jacob●s trouble now Jacob's trouble you shall read in Gen. 32. The good-man was going from a cruel-master with his wives and all his substance into Canaan after he had gone some days journey his father-in-law pursues him fiercely with armed men but God delivering Jacob from that Enemy the very next news that he hears is that Esau his brother Esau was coming with an Army against him What a straight was poor Jacob in had he gone back he had been made a slave of by his cruel Father-in-law if he went forward his own brother that came out of the same womb and sucked of the same breast would kill him and take his wives and all his substance what a fright was he in at this time Even so shall the Church of God at this time immediatly before the seed of Jacob return again to their own country the Church of God which hath been delivered from an open cruel Enemy that persecuted her shall on a sudden and unexpectedly fall into the bloudy hands of one that like Esau comes out of the bowels of the Church but it is an Apostate that for the pottage of preferment and worldly pomp hath sold himself to work all manner of mischief against the Church but here is the comfort in the same verse yet the Church shall be delivered from it in the Evening of this day it shall be light to the Church of God and then follows the 12 Tribes conversion Q. But where shall this great deliverance of the Church be A. In Esay 59. 18 19. He will destroy with his fury the Lord Jesus will his enemies in the Islands so shall they fear his name from the West and his glory from the rising of the Sun His lightning shall shine in the West when he comes to destroy his enemies Mat. 24. 27. and this he will do by a mighty deliverance of the Church for when the Enemies shall come like a floud against which there 's no standing then the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him or neerer the Copy put him to flight and then the Lord Jesus will call the Tribes of Israel the twelve Tribes to submit to the Gospel when mans power is not able to withstand