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A77007	Salvation in a mystery: or A prospective glasse for Englands case. As it was laid forth in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their monthly fast, March 27. 1644. / By John Bond, B.LL. late lecturer in the city of Exceter, now preacher at the Savoy in London. A member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the Commons House.	Bond, John, 1612-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3574; Thomason E43_2; ESTC R1754	41,396	73

the Easterne is that in the Prophecie of Zechariah Look but upon that one Text in Chap. 1. vers 8. I saw by night and behold a Man riding upon a red horse and hee stood among the Myrtle trees that were in the bottome and behind him were these red horses speckled and white This Man is CHRIST These horses with him are his Angels and their designe is to bring the Jewes out of Babylon the Easterne where they had lyen under Gods indignation these threescore and ten yeares as you may reade vers 12. But marke how that redemption is carried in the clouds there are no lesse then five notes of obscurity in that verse signifying the Mysterious progresse of the worke 1. It is said that this vision was in the night both in the night that is of adversity and in the night of ignorance Little comfort few Prophets were left to revive or direct them 2. This man is in a bottome that is obscurely placed out of sight And as if that were not enough 3. In this bottome he stoode among the Myrtle-trees There was a grove of tall trees in the center of a vallie so that the Jewes might well have said unto him as here in the text Verily thou art a God that hidest thy self But that is not all 4. His forces his Auxiliaries stoode behind him saith the text that is they were not only covered by the valley and the myrtle trees but they were covered by the interposition of Christs person too they were trebly covered with the valley with the myrtle-trees and with Christ that stoode before them And 5. This Speckling or dapling of the horses is observable it doth shew the interchangeable party coloured texture of that worke yea the red and the white with the speckled do shew the mixture of peace and bloud that they did troop together in this worke But here some might object True true all this is confessed that great-salvations in generall and in speciall those from Easterne Babylon have bin are carried on in a mystery but now such wonders and miracles doe cease what is all this unto us in these times In the next place therefore From Westerne Babylon I will shew that salvation from Babylon the Westerne from Romish Babylon that is the salvation we are now upon must also be carried on in a mystery For this purpose first I would commend unto you a choyce text for our times me thinks it is as a word upon the wheeles in these our dayes 't is Dan. 2. where you have a prophetique vision a vision of an Image whose head is of gold the breast and armes of silver the belly and thighs of brasse the legs of Iron and the feet part iron and part clay Expositors doe conceive that this foure-fold image doth signifie the foure famous Monarchies of the world The Assyrian the Persian as it is commonly called the Grecian and the Roman Monarchies The first three of these are past and without question we are come now to the lower part of the fourth I meane the Roman Empire is removed and we doe see the mixture of Iron and Clay whether you take the iron and clay for the division of the Roman Empire into the Westerne and Easterne according to verse 42. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay so the Kingdoms shall be partly strong and partly broaken or brittle the Easterne Empire was first broken off Or whether you will understand a kind of compounding of succession between the Romane and the Germane Empires Or whither lastly a mingling and dawbing of the spirituall and temporall that is the Imperiall and Papall● powers together yet still wee are come to the feete of the Image and to the very toes of those feete which are this Babylon the Westerne in its present condition for both branches of the proper Romane Empire are withered and the Germane Eagle was never so strip'd of her plumes as now Yea the very Papacie of late doth shed her Prelaticall feathers continually So that both Scripture-chronologie and common sense do evince that the Image doth stand at best but on tip-toe and the time is at hand I conceive it is present in which it shall be throwne downe and utterly abolished But you will aske me how must it be throwne downe by what meanes shall Gods people be delivered out of the hands of this Romane Babylon Truely by as strange meanes as ever was reade of See the 34. and 44. verses of the chapaer First in the 34. verse Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands here is a mystery a stone cut out without hands or which was not in hand which smote the Image upon his feete which were of iron and clay and brake them to pieces This stone is Jesus Christ as Matt. 21.42 The stone which the builders rejected the same is become the head of the corner verse 44. and whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken but on whoms●ever it shall fall it will grinde him to powder This Scripture is most exactly true concerning Christs governing in his Church he will crush all oppositions as the potters vessels Againe this Stone is cut out of the mountaine without hands c. That is the Image shall be cast downe and the kingdome of Christ shall be set up not by common carnall might and meanes but in a speciall and divine manner for so it followeth in Daniels interpretation verse 44.45 In the dayes of these Kings at the close of the last Empire shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdome which shall never be destroyed and the kingdome shall not be left to other people but it shall breake in pieces and consume all these Kingdomes and it shall stand for ever For asmuch as thou sanest that the stone was cut out of the mountaine without hands and that it brake in pieces the iron the brasse the clay the silver and the gold The great God hath made knowne to the King what shall come to passe hereafter c. I could wish that this seasonable place of Daniel might come often into the thoughts of all our serious active spirits in these times for their incouragement And the rather Mariana Cornel. à Lapide alii because I finde that the Jesuits themselves doe fall-in with my present interpretation so far that they have much a-doe to make such a retreat as may seeme to excuse the Pope and Rome from the names of Antichrist and Babylon Another vision of the foure Monarchies like unto this is to be seene Daniel 7. Adde to these that place of the Apocalyps which is as it were the Book of Daniel in the New Testament Revel 14. vers 6 7 8. there 't is shewne that the salvation of Gods people from Babylon the mysticall shall bee carried on in a mystery vers 6. And I saw another Angell fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting Gospell to PREACH