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A86683	Lingua testium: wherein monarchy is proved, 1. To be jure divino. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 3. That monarchy is the absolute true government under the Gospel. 4. That immediately after extraordinary gifts in the Church ceased, God raised up a monarch for to defend the Church. 5. That Christian monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind. 7. England was the place whither the witnesses, (viz. godly magistracy and ministry) never drove by Antichrist. Where is proved, first, that there hath been a visible magistracy, (though in sackcloth,) these 1260. yeares in England. ... Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews, the fall of Antichrist, and the ruine of the Beast of the earth is at hand. Wherein you have the hard places of Mat. 24, and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard texts: ... / Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus, in the yeare of the Beasts of the earth's raign, 1651.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H327; Thomason E632_22; ESTC R202496	43,212	57

The Offices that are slain are Two a lawful Magistracy and a lawful Ministery The lawful Magistracy is that which hath the Christ and his Apostles ordained in the Church and established untill his second coming for to teach instruct rebuke and comfort the Church Now these two must be slain in that place where they have all their time been in sackcloth but a lawfull visible Magistracy and a lawfull visible Ministery have since 390. been visible in England though in sackcloth under the Popes tyranny treachery and oppression Now let these Countreys that brag of the slaying of the Witnesses amongst them first shew me for these thousand two hundred and sixty years A lawfull Magistracy and Ministery and then those so long in sackcloth if they shew me not this I 'le not believe the Witnesses shal be slain where they are not but confident I am England can only shew these Witnesses no Nation els so long together in the world as God continued Monarchy in the Church from the Creation untill the mighty Monarch of the world came So that mighty Monarch the Lord Jesus after his Ascention chose him his first Vice-Gerent here in England Lucius by name who swaid the Scepter for Christ from that Christian Race the Romans received their Christian Magistracy as Constantine and Christian Monarchy except in a National discertion hath continued visible in this Kingdome of England well nigh 1500 years so that England above and before all other Nations since the profession of the Gospell hath retained Gods Witnesses a lawfull Ministery being established by that good King Lucius that Christian Monarch let us then look for the Witnesses where God hath placed them and never till this day totally plucked them up I say I here challenge all the Historians and Antiquaries in the world to shew me where or when since these fourteen hundred years past that the two great Offices in the Church and State the lawfull Magistracy and the lawfull Ministery were in so sad a slain abject condition as at this day in England let Historians bring me the blackest night that ever came upon these two Offices and I dare undertake to make it appear that this day is seven times blacker and sadder to these great Offices then any heretofore may I not add one thing more to prove that the Witnesses have onely been in this Kingdome visibly in sackcloth before William the Conquerors time our Chronicles make mention of godly Kings which for their piety were called Saints Th●se you shall find them opposing the insolency and wickednesse of the Church of Rome King Edgar acknowledged no supremacy in the Pope but saith that the care of the Church of Christ ad nos spectat it belongeth to the King not to the Pope and this he did saith Hoveden by the advice and means of Ethelwood Bishop of Winton and Oswald Bishop of Worcester so that seven hundred years since we have had Magistrates and Ministers against the Popes supremacy and before that as is evident in Malmsbury de Gest. Reg. lib. 2. P. 57. afterwards from William the Conqueror to the last King of England we have it clear they have testified against the Popes usurpation and have in every Age suffered much and been put into sackcloth by the prevailing treacherous rebellious factions of the Popes raising against the Kings of England no Kingdome in Europe can say the like and which is one of the remarkablest passages in the world the King that wast cut off when he had finished his testimony was the only Protestant King in the world therefore the only Witnesse say I yea he was as learned Sir Robert Naunton proves in his fragmenta regalia cap. 1. p. 2. the lawfull Successor by lineall dissent of the ancient British Kings so that if any Magistracy in the world be the slain Witnesse 't is that of England which is lawfull in it's self hath been visible for Christ before Antichrist in sackcloth visible under Antichrist and in the sight and hearing of all the world cut off with the Axe for finishing the testimony against Antichrist Now as for the Ministery of England the other Witnesse of Christs against Antichrist that it hath been as ancient as the Christian Magistracy and as visibly suffered under Antichrist and now lieth under the greatest reproach ignominy and slain condition is as clear as the former I shall say nothing to this Office that Office will speak for it self I am sure 't is of age and ability enough to gainsay all his opposers you see how much probability we have from the persons that are slain that the English Magistracy and Ministery are the Witnesses Now we proceed to shew what probability there is that these Witnesses are to be slain in these Northern Islands I will say the lesse of the Beast that slaies them because I portrayed him in the ensuing tract I shal only discover him where he is to be found in Scripture Prophecies and then what those Scripture Prophecies say of his downfal in Rev. 11. 7. he is called the Beast that ascendeth out or the bottomlesse pit after the Witnesses have finished their testimony where note that this Beast that slaies the Witnesses is not the Pope but one that riseth when the Witnesses have finished their testimony and his raign is but three years and an half and this all the Greek and Latin Fathers assent unto and 't is as clear as the Sun from this text In Rev. 13. 11. he is called the Beast of the Earth to have us to observe that he is one distinct from the Sea ver. 5. 't is wonderfull to behold how many learned Protestants joyn these together in one when God by his Word hath severed they are distinguished by their originall the one ariseth out of the earth and the other out of the Sea The Holy Ghost calls the Beast of the Earth another and many Protestants though not all of them for Bishop Cooper saith 't is one distinct from the Beast of the Sea make them notwithstanding the same the Beast of the Earth hath but two horns and and the Beast of the sea ten more arguments may be picked out of the texts to prove the Beast of the Earth which slays the Witnesses shall rise and raigne but three years and an half during the time the Witnesses shall lie slain as 't is clear Rev. 11. 7. 12. this Beasts rising is the Witnesses falling and the Witnesses rising in this Beasts ruine That the Beast of the Earth and the Beast of the bottomlesse pit are one and the same is clear for Rev. 13. 10. 11. he riseth then when the faith and patience of the Witnesses are exercised here is the faith and patience of the Saints their suffering graces when the Beast of the Earth ariseth are exercised and the Beast of the bottomlesse pit is he that exerciseth their defensive graces so Rev. 11. 7. he makes war with them and overcomes and kills them This Beast of the

LINGVA TESTIVM WHEREIN MONARCHY IS PROVED 1. To be Jure Divino 2. To be successive in the Church except in time of a Nationall desertion from Adam untill Christ 3. That Monarchy is the absolute true Government under the Gospel 4. That immediately after extraordinary Gifts in the Church ceased God raised up a Monarch for to defend the Church 5. That Christian Monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind 7. England was the place whither the Witnesses viz. godly Magistracy and Ministry never drove by Antichrist Where is Proved First that there hath been a visible Magistracy though in sackcloth these 1260. yeares in England Secondly That this Magistracy in all Ages since Antichrists being visible hath witnessed for Christ against Antichrist Thirdly That the late King who was cut off with the Axe was the lawfull successor of Gods witnesses who for these 1260. yeares have been Witnesses in Sackcloth for Christ against Antichrist whereby t' is evident that he is the slain Witnesse that finished his Testimony Fourthly That his Son the K. of Scotland who is the Witnesse expected 3. yeares and an half after the slaying of the Witnesses to rise again is by an unquestionable title Emperour of Rome and that Prince expected to be the ruine of the Antichristian Monarchy of Rome Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews the fall of Antichrist and the ruine of the Beast of the Earth is at hand Where in you have the hard places of Mat. 24 and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard Texts Together with a description of the last Enemies which slay the Witnesses whereby t is evident that England is the place where the Witnesses are slain and no place else Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus In the yeare of the Beasts of the Earth's raign 1651. READER I Have taken upon me one of the hardest Taskes this day in the World and who am I that undertake it but the weakest that ever travelled in this high way I find Gyants in learning stumbling falling stragling and quite tyred in this way many mighty men durst never adventure to put foot therein and few that ever entred it can say they came to their journies end there was still a pus ultra which they all acknowledged This only was my encouragement to enter into this sacred Thicket of Divine Mysteries that that Divine Essence which gave it to the world delights to reveale it to Babes and Sucklings in the world I am sure my Lord and Master the King of Heaven and Earth delights to have it so The great God usually magnifies his grace this way by doing great things by the weakest meanes He made a poore weake despised Maid alone to bring forth the mighty Monarch of Heaven and Earth Indeed in this great work I have been as the blessed Virgin both {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} alone Whiles I was bigge of what I have here brought forth in both these Tracts I was inforced like Elizabeth to hide my self for so grievous were the thrumps and kicks of my friends against it whiles I went in pain of it that I could not endure them and now it is born the Herods of the times doe seek its life I must confesse it goeth adroad in a homely dress yet it is never the lesse nor never the worse truth The Harp is Davids Harp though the Method and the Stile which are as the strings and the fingers are mine which I could heartily wish were better The rudenesse of them I doe acknowledge may give occasion to my enemies to make me the morrall of Lucians Fable who deriding illiterate sauce-boxes tells us of a Supercilious Asses whose aspiring minde looking at least five Sphere above his reach made his rude fingers itch to be playing on Orpheus his Harp snatching it therefore from Apollo to whom 't was dedicated to work he went and made therewith such an hideous noise that instead of making wilde Beasts tame as Orpheus was wont he made the tame Dogs of the Town madde who ran upon him and tore him in pieces I doe not desire to make the morrall of this Fable let if I must because my enemies will have it so if I make such harsh musick of that Sacred Harp the Bible that I inrage the Dogs of this age against me but my enemies remember that my unskilfull fingers make harsh musick onely in Dogs eares and however the harp I play upon is still the same and none but Dogs thereat will be inraged I confesse of all Instruments this of Sigionoth is the hardest and I may truly say that many excellent Musicians otherwayes have made such harsh musick on this Instrument that the Romish Dogs have had to Just a cause to bark at them but as for the Romish party I feare them not because I am sure they cannot come at me for their own Authors they must thrust them through to touch me and so must the Independents likewise so that I have the least cause of any man to feare either of them and as for others I expect by the Law of gratitude faire dealing at their hands if it be asked why this Preface is made a book distinct and not joyned to Manus Testium as it ought I answer 1. 'T is not my fault but theirs that print it these are times of separation 2. I committed them to severall hands that if one miscarried the other might possibly have safe arivall and if either there might be light enough in that alone to tell the the world who the witnesses are where they shall be slain when they shall be slain and who shall slay them and when and where he shall be overcome that slayes them For this cause have I handled many things in this Preface which I have touched on in the Book and touched many things here which I have handled in the Booke that in this Tract I have handled more clearly which I lest obscurely through over much brevity in the Book especially that of Monarchy and that of the Beast which slayes the witnesses in Rev. 17. where I have indeavoured to answer all the hard questions in that Chapter which is the mystery of the Revelations as yet to me never by any one fully and clearely opened I have not studied loftiness but plainness of speech in these Tracts I have not as most Schollars doe eyed onely Schollars but herein playing the Jesuite of our times I have eyed the Vulgar ●ort most and writ to their capacities that so counter-workking the Jesuite of our times I might undeceive poore misled soules who are stung with those Iesuiticall Independent Scorpions and bring them to the knowledge of the true Church a lawfull Magistracy and ministery and discover to them the true Antichrist For this cause reader doe I run a corporall hazard on purpose to save thy soule harmlesse by

unquestionable title both by succession and conquest after his ascension according to his promise sent his holy spirit in an extraordinary way upon his twelve Apostles who dividing the world amongst them went forth in the power of the Holy Ghost conquering the people During their time there was no need of any Magistracy for their protection for the Holy Ghost protected them beyond all the Magistracy in the world it released them out of the strongest prison brake open the strongest gates and knockt down their stoutest enemies as Paul who was doubtlesse some great Magistrate amongst them for he was the companion of Herod and when he was converted the Church had peace round about which argues there was none before his conversion greater then he he punished the scandalous as Ananias and Saphira it gave like a Monarch large boons to those that desired it it healed the sick gave limbs to the lame raised the dead and by its imperiall power made spirits of men in every Nation bow down to the Apostles commands this extraordinary presence of the spirit with the Apostles was beyond all the Monarchs in the world for this Spirit saved all the passengers in the Ship when the Ship was broken all in pieces which all the Monarchs in the world could not do this Spirit raised Paul from death to life after he was stoned which all the powers in the world could not do therefore there was no need of a Magistracy to protect them in that Age the power of working Miracles was their Magistracy at this time say some We may truly affirm that since Christs universall conquest on the Crosse after his Resurrection from that day Matth. 28. 18. that he divulged this universall power in heaven and earth the Church hath not been left without a true Monarch for Christ is that Monarch who gave Commission to his Disciples to divulge his Laws and command the world to observe them and he would be with his Embassadors to the end of the world so that the true Church cannot be without a Monarch who by a naturall right according to the flesh raigns over them and will raign in the midst of his enemies and make all their designs promote his honor and his Churches good this grand priviledge only the Gospell Church injoys for the Jews had only temporall Monarchs according to the flesh who died away but they had not a spirituall Monarch who by right of Succession came whom through unbelief they reject to this day though for certain he is their lawfull naturall King by a naturall right of Succession being of the Linage of David and he is our naturall King we being Gentiles by a right of Succession from Adam and he is spiritually the King both of the Jews and Gentiles by that spituall infinitely glorious Conquest which he got over the Wrath of God and his Divine Justice over the Powers of hell and all their malice and over the souls of the Elect and all their sinnes so that he is by Conquest the Monarch of the Gospell Church so that the Church under the Gospell can never be without a Throne and one to sit upon that Throne In the last place this we do affirm that soon after extraordinary gifts ceased and that extraordinary Succession of Ministers which Christ promised to be with til the end of the world Mat. 28. 20. succeeded God raised up a civil Magistracy for the protecting of the Church propagation of the Gospel and preservation of the Ministery This Magistracy was visible in England before any other part of the world and as Rome furnished our Magistracy with a godly orthodox Christian Ministery so not long after our Magistracy furnished Rome with a godly Magistracy to rescue the Ministery out of the Jawes of those Heathen Dragons Lucius about 170 years after Christ being a Brittish King of this Nation was called to be Gods Vicar as Elutherius Bishop of Rome terms him this Christian King sets up Christs Lawes and Faith in his Kingdom pulling down Paganism and setting up Christian Bishopricks in the room of the Pagan Flamins About 130 years after out of the same Royall Brittish bloud God raised up that famous Witness for his Truth Constantine who became the first great protecter of the Christians throughout the habitable world he was the first that made Rome which for a long time had been the Devils Throne to become Gods Throne Rev. 12. He threw down the bloudy Dragons the Emperours and Rome afterward became famous in her Magistracy and Ministery for Christ beyond all the world untill Antichrist arose and drove these Witnesses into the Wilderness and made them war sackcloth since which rising and tyrannizing of Antichrist there hath been a visible Magistracy and Ministery in England as Witnesses to the Truth of Christ though many times in great obscurity through outward persecutions it would be here too tedious to relate what might be said of the Magistracy and Ministery of England we will onely say thus much that the Kings and Bishops of England testified to the Truth against the Popes Antichristian Usurpation more then others and before any other Witnesses for about the time Anno 800. when the Popes were swelled to their height even then shall we find when other Kings kissed the Popes feet the Kings and Bishops of England opposed their Usurpation What if I did assert this That the first lawfull Christian Magistracy under the Gospell arose in England from England it went to Rome wherefore a little while half an hour it flourished and caused great peace in the Church but when Antichrist arose he drove the lawfull Magistracy and lawfull Ministery of Rome into Sackcloth and into the Wildernesse that is into some remote place from Rome observe it Rev. 12. 14. The Woman that is the Church that brought forth such a happy Son as Constantine this Woman by Antichrist is drove into the Wildernesse saith the Text into her place whence I conclude that England is this Wildernesse For first this was the place from whence a godly Magistracy went unto Rome and secondly this was the place unto which the Witnesses were drove again where I say have been visible in sackcloth since the Popes usurpation of Rome nay let me add this to my assertion that the lawfull Monarch of Rome by a true Line of Succession was Charles the King of England who was beheaded on a lofty Scaffold at noon at his own door January 30. 1648. For if noble Sir Robert Naunron that learned Antiquary and noble Lawyer say true in his Fragmenta Regalia cap. 1. p. 2. whose words are these Remarkable it is saith he concerning the violent desertion of the Royall house of Britains by the invasion of the Saxons and afterward by the conquest of the Normans that by the vicissitude of times and thought a discontinuance almost a thousand years the Royall Scepter should fall back into the Corrent of the old British bloud in the person of Henry VII