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A29508	Reverend Mr. Brightmans iudgement or prophesies, what shall befall Germany, Scotland, Holland, and the churches adhering to them likewise what shall befall England, and the hierarchy therein : collected out of his exposition on the Revelations, printed above forty yeares since ...; Judgement or prophecies, what shall befall Germany, Scotland, Holland, and the churches adhering to them	Brightman, Thomas, 1562-1607.	1641 (1641)	Wing B4682; ESTC R20946	5,033	8

sigh or sob for them but they and their Priests shall be vile before the people and men shall read the reports concerning them with delight And they shall be cast out and spewed up as vomit out of a corrupted stomack that no man will be willing to take up againe from these words Therefore because thou art lukewarme and neither hot nor cold It shall come to passe that I will spew thee out of my mouth For thou saist I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not how thou artwretched and miserable and poore and blind and naked The whole State of this Church of Laodicea is worthy of serious consideration as M. Brightman applyes it to England in this and divers other Chapters for hee speakes of our times as if hee were now living And further he saith in his Epistle and elsewhere in his Commentary that many are the miseries the Christian Churches must suffer for there will be a long and dolefull Tragedy which will overthrow with scourges slaughters death and ruine and that the sword of the Lord shall be made drunk in their blood except they receive warning and amend But yet saith hee Bee of good comfort Germany France and Brittany and all you Christian Churches This is the last Act for after this Theater and long Tragedy is past there will succeed in the room thereof happy dayes with aboundance of peace and all good things And it is his Iudgment if I may not say his Prophesy comparing one Scripture with another and times with times That before the yeare 1650 that the Iews shall be called the whore of Romes nose shall be slit and she stript of all her glorious garments and attire her power and sinews cut and the Pope himselfe shall run out of Rome into Avignion or into Bonia or thereabout one of his own Cities and the City of Rome shall be burnt with fire And that the King of Spaine and the King of Ptolony and some other Kings shall bewaile her and would faine help her but dare not because they shall be afraid of their own safety least they be devoured or scorched with the same fire And further he saith that the Emperour of Germany shall destroy Rome if he set to the worke it being most proper for him but if he doth it not some other shortly will have the prise of that victory Therefore saith he you godly Princes take the matter in hand and set to this worke it shall not be a thing of so great trouble as you think for feare not the huge Armies will come to help her if you thinke the Spaniard or the French-man or any other King will raise mighty forces against you to defend her as being Romes friends these are altogether vaine feares scare-Crows Goblins Bugbeares for simple people for her friends shall stand affarre off with waiting testifying their love sighing and sobbing but taking no paines nor striking a stroke to deliver their Whore being now an old withered Harlot but crying Alas Alas that great City And againe he further saith and you the rest of the Christian Princes you need do nothing only be valiant and of good courage in dispatching your worke for the Lord and matters shall prosper as happily as you desire and understand at length by what way you may procure as to your selves honor and tranquillity so quietnesse and joy to the whole Christian world Therefore draw your Swords against Rome for you shall prevaile And saith he within 45 years after Rome is destroyed The Pope once more gathering all his friends together to try his last chance shall then be utterly overthrowne being about the yeare 1686 which will be the longest time he can continue But Rome being destroyed and the Iewes called there will be then to the end a most happy tranquillity and things very great indeed and to be admired the Ioy will be so much that it will be strange and unexpected for in the place of former troubles there will be perpetuall peace and then Kings and Queenes will be nursing fathers and nursing mothers unto the Christian Churches Then the great Turke shall be 40 yeares on the decaying hand and loose many Countries but in the yeare 1696 He also shall be utterly overthrowne And then Christ shall raigne with his Ordinances chiefe in the world They that please to examine these quotations in the margent by Master Brightmans Booke on the Revelations which he wrote above forty yeares agoe they shall finde every noat either in the same words or to the same purpose Yet not to forget that he saith further of England and Ireland Although Christ be angry with us by reason we are so far from a perfect reformation and they which labour to bring in the Popish Ceremonies hated of God do indanger the overthrow of our Kingdome yet he saith Christ hath begun his Kingdome at that time he wrot which was in the days of blessed Queene Elizabeth who happily begun and proceeded in the worke of Reformation according to the time and those dayes she lived in the finishing whereof will be required of this Generation otherwise expect God hath a sad controversie with this Land but Christ hath begun his Kingdome both in England and Ireland to raigne evermore and the enemies which shall endeavour many enterprises yet they shall vanish like smoke and they shal never prevaile to overthrow Christ his Kingdome begun here for there will never want Christian Princes to maintaine His Truth begun which he saith began from the yeare 1558. for the Seventh Angell blew his trumpet for this time and saith he would raigne evermore And lastly he saith for the better understanding of what he meanes That the City of Rome is not limitted to that City but extends as far as the Pope hath any dominion So that the City of Rome is in destroying if any of her Dominions be in destroying as he interprets the holy Ghosts meaning but the Pope is to be quite and fully overthrowne at the yeare 1686. Therefore by computation Rome must be in destroying at 1641 in some of his Dominions So I conclude this briefe Relation of what Master Brightman largely iusists upon shewing his grounds in his Book why hee affirmes these things with Christs Counsell to this Church of Laodicea I counsell thee to buy of me Gold tryed by the fire that thou maist be made rich and white rayment that thou mayst be cloathed that thy filthy nakednesse do nor appeare and to anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayst see FINIS In his Epistle and in chap. 3. ver. 10. Chap. 3. verse 10. Chap. 3. ver. 10. v. 12. Chap. 3. verse 7. c. Chap. 3. 7 8 9 ver. Chap 3. verse 15. Chap. 3. verse 14. Chaq 3. ver. 16 17. Chap. 19. verse 4. In his Epi Chap. 19. verse 19. Chap. 18. verse 10 Chap. 17. verse 14. Chap. 17. verse 16. Chap. 18. ver. 10 11. Chap. 19. verse 19. Chap. 13 verse 5. In his Ep. Chap. 20. verse 24. Chap. 9. verse 15. Chap. 11. verse 16. Chap. 11. verse 15. Chap. 11. verse 8. Chap. 19. verse 19.

Reverend Mr. Brightmans Iudgement or Prophesies what shall befall Germany Scotland Holland and the Churches adhering to them Likewise what shall befall England and the Hierarchy therein Collected out of his exposition on the Revelations Printed above forty years since Wonderfull to see how they are fulfilled and in fulfilling foreseeing and foretelling what our eyes have seen and may see both in the past present and future State of our times Declaring that the Reformation began in Queene Elizabeth's dayes is not sufficient for us under greater light Finishing the work if we now withstand as heretofore we are to expect God hath a sad Controversie with the Land This faithfull Watchman or our English Prophet as he is cald was persecuted and banished by the Bishops and this Commentary condemned by them to the fire which they could not effect in Queen Elizabeths raigne till King Iames Collected for the good of those who want time or coine to purchase so large a volume LONDON Printed for R. H. in Queens-head Alley Mr. Brightman's Iudgement or Prophesies what shall besall Germany Scotland Holland and the Churches adhering to them Mr: Brightman in his Booke of the exposition on the Revelations seriously considering and resolving himselfe that the 7 Epistles S. Iohn wrote to the 7 Churches in Asia were also written and directed to the 7 succeeding Churches among the Gentiles of which those 7 were a type or counterpane omitting for brevity what he saith concerning the other 4 Churches we present you with a briefe of what he more immediatly applies to our selves In generall he saith That there was a terrible storme to be expected and it would be such an horrible tempest that it would terribly shake the Christian Churches Frist for Germany there was the bitterest scourge for it that ever had fallen upon it that it was to come shortly Germany should be like a house that is robb'd by furious mad cruell spoylers that would have no mercy of neither Sex nor Age and the comming thereof should be suddaine and unexpected like a thiefe in the night Which we may see he truly foretold it being fulfilled in our cares and the inhabitants thereof having found it by sad experience let England take warning considering what he said was the cause that would bring all this misery Because saith he they tooke no care for a full and through Reformation therefore by the just judgement of God they should loose their Citizens and Inhabitants and they with other Churches should come to nothing and shortly it would appeare he cals Germany by the name of Sardis Secondly for Scotland and Holland and the other Churches adhering to them typified by godly Philadelphia He saith that they shall shut and none shall open and they shall open and none shall shut A Virgin Church chast not so defiled with Rome's superstition as others And speakes of a Covenant and Society they should he joynd in and bids them not to be perplexed nor discouraged at what the world spitefully prateth of them as if hee had heard men in our times call them Traytors Rebels Seditious and bids them not to regard the scoffes of the wicked who will despise them because they are godly little lowly and weake in visible power in comparison of their enemies For saith he no enemy shall shall be able to prevaile against them and they shall set up a token of victory shortly and every one shall be compelled to say That they are dearely beloved of God they shall be seen to prosper so exceedingly and so marvellously promoted and advanced beyond all mens expectation And when that storme and horrible tempest shall come upon the Christian Churches these Churches shall stand fast like a pillar and be preserved from wasting when the other Churches which did not take care for a full Reformation as they did shall by the just judgment of God come as it were to nothing There shall bee saith he such a miserable hurly burly of all things that there should scarce be the forme of a Church perceived but only with holy Philadephia Thirdly for England whose counterpane he takes to be Laodicea tearming it Lukewarme vaineglorious Laodicea concerning it he saith He that gathereth the teares of his children into his bottle knoweth right well That I could never with dry eyes take a survey of this Laodiceas lamentable condition but I powred out teares and sighs from the bottom of my heart when I beheld Christs loathing of us and were it not that out of duty as a watchman I dare not betray the salvation of this Chruch by not giving warning I would have held my peace but my hope is that those which love the truth will hearken and accept and thinke as the truth is I envy no mans person honor or greatnesse Yet when I perceived that these seven Churches were propounded for a tipe of all the Churches among the Gentiles and with all saw the order time marveilous agreeing of all things together I durst not perfidiously bury the truth in silence In that Christ saith of this Church I know thy works that thou art neither hot nor cold he observeth that Christ maketh mention of no one good thing that it hath the worst of all the seven although there were many faithfull in it yet not any so past hope in regard of the outward forme and government which comes to passe not so much through its own default as by meanes of the faulty government of the Angels who have so ordered and governed it that it was tempered and blended together of strange contraries A Hoch-potch not so cold that we would be all Romish and cleaving to superstision altogether nor yet so hot that wee pursue and admit a full Reformation And therefore the disease of this Church was more difficult and desperate Therefore from these words I would thou wert either cold or bot saith he I would thou wert either all Romish or admit of a through Reformation blaming those Angels only and those that cleave to them Priests and Laity who being bewitched with ambition and covetousnesse do scornefully reject this holy Reformation not enduring the remedy but accounting that worse than the disease Therefore he saith in plaine tearmes That the Bishops which he cals no better than Lord-Begger because their riches and honors for the most part they get by fawning flattering bribing being ambitious to get under great men and so creep into the Court for preferment But saith he both they and their whole lukewarme Hierarchy shall quite bee overthrowne and never recover their dignity again And at their overthrow they shall endanger the people by reason of their consenting to them Yet the people shall escape overthrowing but it is to be feared the people shall feele some adversity But God will not suffer the Hierarchy to escape for they seeking honors and riches and not those things which are Christs shall have reproachfull Iudgements few or none shall