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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} meddle with that which concerns me not for by my Covenant I am bound timely to make known and discover whatsoever Church or State-evill I am not able to suppress and I do no more here I know that this my young Lamb must pass through the midst of Wolves and Lyons who will indeavour to devour it and therefore I have arm'd it with Armour of proof the Holy Scriptures I do not as Cromwel in his Letters falsly saith the Scots do use weapons of a foolish shepherd I fetch all my weapons out of Davids Armory the Scripture here hangs a thousand Bucklers all the shields of mighty men I draw no Arguments from Conjurers Dreams or from Astrological Predictions such really are the weapons of a foolish shepherd I offer no such poysonous water to the thirsty Traveller in this Road all that I draw comes clearly up exprofundissimis Scientiae fodinis from the Scriptures the Wells of living Water Here are no Texts crook't though cross to the common interpretations by any private interpretation to particular self-ends Indeed I do swim against the stream of common Interpreters but not without just cause given I protest it is not out of a desire to be singular as not a few in this Age do who think no Fabrick of fame stands so stately as that which is built exruinis alienae existimationis esteeming it no small piece of honour to be counted novae alicujus rei Authores Let it be what I will for my own part I protest against such folly I onely follow the Ark which way it goes I go and when it stands still I stand still I shall submit my self wholly to the censure of learned Texts men whether I have wracked any Texts to stretch it beyond the lawfull bounds of interpretations or whether I have made any {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or not made my {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} onely This I will assure the Reader that he shall find nothing in this book either prater fun lamentum salutis or contra a fundamentum salutis Nor scarce any one Text of these many unfolded but what learned Writers do concur with me in for I walk upon the learned heads of at least fourscore Interpreters and if I fall from ones head I presently fall into anothers arms so that my sence falls not to the ground Indeed my style and my method may justly be blamed I am heartily ashamed that it should go so tatter'd with its rags into the world but indeed the reason is because it was done in hast not that it was studied in hast but scribed in hast it is well known this piece proffer'd to the Press within a month after the Doctors Sermon was printed and from that time to this day it hath waited at the Press like the Cripple of Bethesda expecting dayly some one to put it in indeed my book if it could should not go like Independents wives {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Now the Church is in her winding sheet The first part of it proves Monarchy to be Jure Divino and to be visible in the Church from the Creation to Christs Incarnation who was both Monarch by a right of succession from Adam of the whole world and by right of succession from David King of the Jews according to the flesh I have not handled this point or any other so fully as I might and could I intend it not untill I hear what my Antagonists say against me and then I shall by Gods good grace say more upon this subject if need require not otherwise for I hate coming in print except in a case of necessity and in that case onely privatly I heartily praise God that I have so fair an opportunity to declare my self in this of Monarchy for at least seven years ago I was unjustly slander'd by those ingrateful wretches whose family and goods I protected that I should say that I would kill the King This news and my name was carryed to the Court where it met with His Majesties ear as He was at dinner there it was told him that I naming me by name was the man that had vow'd the Kings death where ever I saw him This doubtless had died away and never come to my ears had not this accident hapned he gouty good Gentleman of the house where the King at that time kept his Court though he could neither stir hand nor foot by reason of his age and disease yet was so inraged at the news that he vow'd as decrepit as he was to be the man to fight with and kill such a rebellious villain meaning me as would attempt such a thing I never had an opportunity to vindicate my self from this foul aspersion nor so much as to present hearty thanks to the Gowty Gentleman for his hearty and loyall affections to his Soveraign the King in that he would adventure his life to kill a villain that should attempt to kill the King I profess before God and Men that I when I was so aspersed was of this opinion That he was both a Villain and a Traytor and deserved sudden and cruell death that would presume in his heart to think so evil a thought as to kill the King for my own part I had rather be a slave to my Liege Soveraign then a Ruler amongst the Rebellious I am througly convinc'd that Monarchy is that Government which God hath ordain'd and set his stamp upon and all other Government is the Ordinance of man immediatly though approved by God as the Seventy were under Moses and that no person upon earth can by Gods law question or bring to punishment the person of a Monarch This we all know both Jews and Gentiles that hold the Divinity of the Scriptures that the Church of God before Christ was beholding to a Monarch both for their Church-Laws and State-Laws For the Revelation of the Will of God and the manner of his Worship Moses the Monarch was the first mediator into whose hands the first glorious Gospel dispensations were put God revealed himself immediatly to Moses and the people received Gods mind immediatly from their Monarch Moses The first Revelation of the Covenant of Grace was given to Adam the Monarch of the World The second manifestation of the Covenant with a Seal was given to Abraham the Monarch of the Church and the Gospel-Church received all their spirituall Lawes and Ordinances from Christ the natural Son of both But now the question will be Whether Christ ordained Monarchy in the Gospel Church as well as the Ministry if so shew us the Monarchy I acknowledg this a difficult question I do not find any of the Learned so much as touch upon it indeed I find many men in the Negative but scarce one Affirmative in this Question I find though not directly Hierom and Calvin negative in the Question

bringing them back again to their own Land can be meant of nothing but of the restoring of the Twelve Tribes to their own Land under their ancient government as in Davids time As for his alleaging a seeming inpossibility that they that have been out-casts so long from the Covenant of Grace should now be called home to the Gospel which is it seems beyond the Doctors faith to that we answer and he acknowledgeth 1. Nothing is impossible with God 2. God hath promised to call the dispersed out-casts of Israel from the four corners of the Earth Esa. 11. 12. and they shall be so hopeless in the eye of the world that before their conversion they shall be as dry bones in Golgotha Ezek. 37. 1 2. Yet God will call these dry bones together Therefore their conversion is also expressed Ezek. 37. 11 12. under the notion of raising dead men out of their graves God will first open their graves and then lead them out of their graves so that to the world they shall seem dead and buried when God intends to convert them so that that which upon a bare principle of reason the Bishop makes his argument against the Truth I upon a principle of faith built upon Gods promises make the argument to confirm this Truth and who stands on the Beasts bottom whether he on bare Reason or I on a divine promise I 'le leave Christians to judge But that which the Bishop most derides is the opinion of those who say this year 1650. the Jews shall be converted he bids us shew him a thrave of Jewes as yet converted which are now to gather professing the Gospell To this 't is answered 1 We can shew in this year 1650. more probability for the conversion not onely of a few but thousands of the Hebrews to the faith of Christ then the Bishop can against it In the year 1650. there is a book that makes mention of 5900. East-Indians converted to Jesus Christ by Mr. Robert Iunius Now there are more arguments to prove these of the Seed of Iacob then the Bishop can bring to prove the contrary Again look into the West-Indies and this year 1650. tells us of a glorious Harvest begun in the conversion of those Natives there and there is more probability that they are of the stock of Iacob then the contrary For there have been Jews that travelled those ways who have found some of the Ten Tribes in America some learned Travellers have rationally conjectured that those Natives in New-England are some of the Ten Tribes For upon diligent observation of the people their Customes Language and Ceremonies have brought these arguments to prove them Hebrews for say they 1. They have a traditionall knowledge of God which they say their fore-fathers which were wise and endued with knowledge taught them they say that God made the world and this God is but one God 2. They say this God is the Author of all the good that is dispensed in the world and the author of all the evill that is inflicted in the world And hence is that custom amongst them to this day When any evill is inflicted on them either by immoderate weather whereby their corn is spoiled or by any other judgment they solemnly meet together under a green tree and weep before him who hath inflicted all that evill upon them whom they acknowledg to be the Maker of the World 3. They preserve their pedigree with all the care they can as far as their memories will go and are carefull to promote their kindred after the manner of the Hebrews 4. The chief of them are exceeding reserved and keep themselves from strangers so that the wisest of them are hard to be met withall whereby further discovery might be made of their Original but much of the golden oar of the Hebrew Language is found among the drossie Language of the vulgar Natives 5. 'T is said that they are excellent in expressing themselves parabolically after the manner of the Hebrews By all which there is probability that they are of the dispersed of Israel whom God is now calling home to the knowledge of the Gospel Menasseh Ben-Israel saith and also Montezinus both Jews and learned men that the first Inhabitants of America were the Ten Tribes if so I think I have the greatest probability on my side that these many Thousands that we have heard of already converted and the many more Thousands which we expect and pray for are Hebrews of the sons of Jacob to be converted to Christ in this age of the world But suppose there were never a Jew converted must this make the purpose of God of none effect God forbid it is true that from posse to esse there can be no certain consequence but from Gods promise to his purpose we may conclude affirmatively If God have promised to convert the Jews 't is his purpose to call them all his promises are yea and amen if God promise that Israel shall be no longer then 40. years in Egypt they shall be there not a day longer though nothing more unlikely in the world then their deliverance so shall it be in their conversion in these latter dayes though there be nothing more unlikely yet there shall be nothing more certain for God hath promised it Rom. 11. 25 26. All Israel shall be saved i. e. all the Tribes shall be converted the precedent verse tells us the time when viz. When the fulnesse of the Gentiles is come in that is as in Luke 21. 24. when the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled which Rev. 11. 2. is 42. moteths i. e. 1260. dayes i. e. years Observe Paul writes to the Church of Rome forbidding them to boast of their Gospel-priviledges in a proud insulting way over the rejected Jews Paul foresaw to what impudent insulting pride the Church of Rome would rise therefore he bids the Church not to be high-minded but fear for if God spared not the Jews the naturall branches much less would he spare the Gentile-church of Rome for this end Paul would not have the Gentile-church ignorant of this mystery which mystery of God Rev. 10. 7. shall be finished at the seventh Trumpet and that is when Antichrist that sits in Rome when the fulness of his time shall come in then shall Israel be converted Here Israel is put in opposition to the Gentile-church Now this Paul acquaints the Roman church with lest they should be wise in their own conceit or over-much puffed up with pride so that from these texts it seems cleer to me That the Jews conversion shall be at that time when the Roman Pontifick state shall go to ruine and if in this sense we may understand Romanum imperium the Bishop knows better then my self I have many thraves of ancient and latter Writers to support me against him Lastly I answer That the conversion of the Jews shall come in on the sudden they shall come like the Doves to the windows that is swiftly