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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55740	A case of conscience propounded to a great Bishop in Ireland viz., whether after divorce the innocent party may not lawfully marry : with the Bishop's answer to the question, and a reply to the Bishops answer, and also some quæries, whether the silencing of godly ministers be not near of kin to the killing of the two prophets, Revelation the 11 chap / by George Pressicke.	Pressick, George.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3296; ESTC R24474	28,523	38

the two Witnesses is signified all the faithfull Preachers and Professors of the Truth which in all Ages have opposed Popery and all other Heresies They are called Witnesses because they bear witnes to the Truth and they are said to be but two because two is the least number in bearing witnes In the mouth of two or three Wit●esses shall every word stand And this Prophecy did foretell that popery and Herefy should so generally prevail that few in comparison of the adverse party should oppose them These Witnesses are said to prophecy in sackcloth signifying the mournful condition they should be in by the prevailing power of their adversaries that they should lead a sorrowfull life in this wo●ld they spend not their time in Iollity nor worldly Pompe and bravery and verse the 4 they are compared to two Olive trees for by the preaching of Gods Word the oyle of the Spirit is dropt into tender penitent hearts and they are compared to two Candlesticks that as the Candlestick bears the Candle to give light to others so faithfull Preachers holds forth the light of Gods Wo●d in time of greatest darknes And whereas it is said that these two Witnesses were killed by their adversaries we must take notice that there are severall sorts of killing besides the killing with the sword there is a killing with the tongue as well as with the Hand calling Men Schismatick Obstinate Turbulent and Pestilent persons which cannot be proved that they are such and St. Iohn tell us 1 Iohn 3.15 That Whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer and ye know that no murtherer hath eternall life abiding in h●m and verse 14. He that loveth ●ot his brother abideth in death and saith our Saviour He that saith to his brother thou fool shall be in danger of Hell fire But if there were love amongst Brethren there would be more bearing and forbearing of for infirmities and scruples of Conscience for which they dare not subscribe c. A second Quaerie my be ●his vizt Whether the making of the Image of the Beast that had the wound of a sword and did live Revel 13.14 be not meant of the erecting of an externall Forme of Ecclesiasticall Government like some Government that had been before and what Government this making 〈…〉 Image of the Beast is I desire to know For the beast himsel●●●s said in the 6 verse to blaspheme God and his Tabernacle that is his Church and People and in the 7 verse He is said to make warre with the Saints and overcome them that is with the temporall sword though they overcome him w●th the spirituall sword and it is said in the 8 ve●se that the power of the Beast should be so great that all that dwell upon the Earth should worship him that is by submitting to his Edicts Government even all under his jurisdiction or Domin●on whose Names are not written in the Booke of Life It is said after that such as would not submit to his Government must neither buy no● sell they must not enjoy those priviledges that others do that do submit Some say that by the Beast mentioned in the first verse of this Chapter that rise out of the Sea which had 7 Heads and ten Horns is meant the Romane Empire and by the second beast that rise out of the Earth that had two Horns like the Lambe but spake like the Dragon verse the 11. is meant the Pope in his height Again others thinke that by both these Beasts is meant the Pope whose one and the same Person is described under a double resemblance of two Beasts for Anti-christ alone is a double Head in respect of his Civill power he is the first beast and in respect of his Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall power he is the second beast Or if you will He is the first beast in regard of the wound he received by the Gothes Vandalls and Hunnes and he is the second Beast as he was exalted in his height when his deadly wound was healed and ●he Gothes c. destroyed and the Pope rise to have great possessions of Cities and Lands for he exercised all the power of the first Beast Take it in what sence you will For by his two Hornes is meant both Civill Ecclesiasticall power for by the sword which the Pope doth exercise he commands obedience to his Ecclesiasticall Decrees as verse 16.17 He caused all both small and great rich and poor bond and free to receive a Marke in their right hand or in their fore-head And that no man might buy or sell save he that had the Marke or the Name of the beast or the number of his Name Now by the Marke of the beast in the fore-head or right hand some thinke is meant to professe and practise the Lawes Religion and Decrees that are commanded and those that will not submit thereunto must not buy nor sell. Now this second Beast exercising all the power of the first beast and commanding an Image of the B●ast to be made which Image must be something that doth resemble 〈◊〉 like unto the beast and if the Marke in the fore-head or right hand signifie the profession and practice of the Lawes Religion and Decrees of the Beast then what is meant by the Image of the beast that they must not buy nor sell that have not the Beasts marke and whether it have no relation to the silencing of Preachers that do not subscribe their Canonicoll obedience I desire to be resolved and would be much ingaged to those that would take the pains to do it For certain it is many pecious soules are at a stand and know not what way to turne themselves to see so many eminent Persons which they dare not thinke but there is something of God in both Parties and yet they are at such a distance in their practice and affections and that for a small Punctilio or as the Holy-Ghost saith They make a man an offender for a word or for omission of some small matters which they that urge them will not say that either salvation or damnation doth depend upon the doing or not doing of them and yet for omission thereof their mouthes shall be stopt from preaching and in some sence salvation or damnation depends upon preaching Rom 10.14 How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher c. For preaching is the outward ordinary means that God hath ordained to worke Conversion in such as he will save for where Vision faileth the people perish and by the ●●●ching of the Word also those that are not reformed their ●ondemnation will appear to be just And those that do not preach and those that hinders others from preaching see what the Scripture saith Ezek 33.6 If any man be taken away in his iniquity for want of warning his blood will God require at the Watchmens hands both he that should and doth not preach and he that hinders others