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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52817	The signs of the times, or, VVonderful signs of wonderful times being a faithful collection and impartial relation of several signs and wonders, call'd properly prodigies, (together with some philosophical and theological descants upon them) which have been seen in the heavens, on the earth, and on the waters, as they have been testifyed by very credible hands, all of which have hapned within the compass of this last year 1680 : which may well be called another annus mirabilis, or wonderful year, wherein the Lord hath given us loud warnings to repent of our sins and return to him, that he may have mercy upon us / by C. N.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1681 (1681)	Wing N463; ESTC R32306	68,903	90

one of those brands of Nature mentioned in Levit. 21. Plutarch saith They do Nemesin propriam portare carry upon their Backs their own Destinies and so indeed our crook-back'd Richard did c. But the Tenderness of God in the Levitical Law towards such is very observable that tho none such must be admitted to offer up fire-offerings to the Lord lest they should pollute Gods Sanctuary both as they were to be Types of a Comely Christ Ps 45.3 and Cant. 5.10 c. and as they should be better than their Sacrifices which were to have no blemish Levit. 22.20 The Offerer must be no more blemished than the Offering yet might they eat the Bread of their God Levit. 22.22 which shews us That our Involuntary weaknesses shall not Debarr us of the Seals and Benefits of Christ But the other Priests for Voluntary Uncleanness were Depriv'd of that Priviledge which the Deformed ones wherein they were not blamable had Admission unto Levit. 22.3 yea further The Scripture telleth us That Halting Jacob was true hearted that Blear eyed Leah was both fruitful and faithful Stammering Moses was the meekest man upon Earth and Mephibosheth tho he was lame yet was he loyal c. as if the God of Nature did commonly compensate and Recompence all the Defects of the Body with a better and more blessed Surplussage in the Sůl But to pass-by all the Defects in Nature and Speak only of the Excess which Philosophy phancyeth cannot make a Monster Seeing 't is no more than the Highest Vigour of Nature wherein she exerteth her utmost strength for producing of Gyants yet those prodigious mighty men the Scripture mentions Gen. 6.4 Numb 13.28 33. Deut. 1.18 and 3.11 Amos 2.9 c. were probably Monsters being both monstrous in their Manners and in their Mightiness Some as tall as Oaks and Cedars Amos 2.9 and one of them viz. Og was so massy that a Bed of wood was not strong enough to bear the Vast Weight of his overgrown Body in turning himself upon it but he must have a Bed-stead of Iron and that too that it might be as a just Proportion to his Bulky Body must be fifteen foot that is five yards eight Inches long and seven foot broad Deut. 3.11 yea so great some of them were that the Greatness of the great God himself is ascribed to them compare Numb 13.33 with Isai 40.22 where other men were said to be as Grashopppers poor low contemptible things in comparison of those Monstrous Gyants as well as in comparison of the Mighty God So that Theology more noble than Philosophy doubteth not to call that Race of Rephaims Monsters such as great Goliah who could not only bear and wear Weapons which at the least weighed above two hundred pounds weight and walk with them but he was able to weild them and to War with them 1. Sam. 17.4 5 6 7. Oh what a prodigious Monster was this man Arm'd Cap-a-pee and stalking in the Field like a whole walking Armory However that Gyant call'd ish middah a man of mighty measure having twenty four Fingers and Toes 2. Sam. 21.20 1. Chron. 20.25 may well enough be deemed a Monster among men yet notwithstanding those two mighty Monsters aforenamed went into the Field like Thunder and Lightning defying the God of Israel they went off both of them like sooty smoak and stinking Snuff Now the God of Nature never sent any of these mighty Monsters into the World in those ancient times but it was to praemonstrate that much Rapine Violence Arbitrary Oppression and Tyranny should be perpetrated by them amongst men as Nimrod that mighty one or Gyant according to the Greek that Magnifico or Grand Rebel as Hebr. Nimrod signifies and that first Babel-builder was a crafty and cruel Hunter not so much of Beasts as of men whom he sacrificed to his Lusts he was the first who after the Flood set up an Arbitrary and Violent Domination over Men pursuing those that would not submit to his Tyrannical Yoak with no more pitty than Hunters shew to Beasts which they Hunt for their Pot or Spit Hereupon Tyranny is in Scripture alluded to Hunting Jer. 16.16 Lam. 4.18 Monsters in magnitude prove mostly Monsters in manners too this Nimrod who was a Rebel to God his Superior as his name signifies was also a Tyrant to Men that were his Inferiours haveing a Belluine not a Genuine greatness and though our present Times doth not produce such litteral Monsters as the ancient Times did yet God knows we have too many mystical and moral Monsters both Inferiours who become Monsters in Iniquity none such Sinners and matchless among men and Superiours who become Monsters in Tyranny grinding the Faces of their poor people both those sorts of Monsters do premonstrate the Judgments of God against them they are link't together but above all the greatest Monster that this day affordeth is that Behemoth that Beast of Beasts the Antichr●st who may well be call'd a Monster according to the Philosophers definition of it A Monster saith he est peccatum naturae c. A Transgression of Nature wherein strange Members in the Body and Strange qualities in the Mind are produced and exposed to open view how well this doth quadrare and accordeth with the Romish Beast appeareth by considering two Scriptures Dan. 7.7 and Revel 13.2 c. 1● Daniels 4th Beast which was the Roman Power is not likened to any certain Beast as the other three aforementioned are because no particular Beast amongst the most savage the World bringeth forth can be named so cruel and so monstrous as to express the Cruelty and Monstrousness of that fourth Monarchy no not although it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as H●mer saith a Lion before a Dragon behind and in the midst a Chimera 't is therefore a nameless Monster made up of all the cursed properties of the forenamed Beasts This Beast is said to be diverse from all the Beasts not only for its monstrous qualities in the mind having all and more of all the other Beasts but also for its monstrous Members in the Body Described by Daniel and 2ly by John Revel 13.1.2.11 Having 7 Heads to Plot with and 10 Horns to push with the Feet of a Bear and the Mouth of a Lyon Himself like a Leopard and the Dragon giving him Power as if all Monstrous Immanity were met together in him This is the man of Sin and the mighty Monster of present times which doth plainly premonstrate nothing can be expected but Barbarous and Savage Out-rages until Christ our true Hercules come to cut off all the Heads of this Lernean Monster and his Carpenters come to saw off all his Horns This is that Ahaz 2. Chron. 28.22 This is that Nimrod or Rebel against Christ even Antichrist of our Day that mighty Hunter even of the Lives and Souls of men before the Lord who dare Hunt thus in spight of an All-seeing God who beholdeth all his bold boisterous and brutish