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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

because Rev. 13. 13. He doth great wonders ver. 14. on purpose to deceive so that this eighth Beast bearing up Rome when Rome is going to Judgment when he goeth to perdition Rome must necessarily fall with him 2. The Holy Ghost in that he calls him Rev. 17. 11. the eighth Beast and tells us twice in that Chapter that 't is he that goeth to destruction I humbly conceive the Holy Ghost points at Daniel 7. 8. which Daniel calls another little horn Daniel longing to know the meaning of him the Holy Ghost tells him 'T is that horn that shall rise after the ten horns under the Roman Monarchy and shall pull three of the ten horns up by the roots ver. 8 21. makes war with the Saints and prevails against them just as in Rev. 11. 7. This horn ver. 24. shall arise after the ten Kings subject to Rome and shall be diverse from them In this respect he is said to be the eighth Rev. 17. and he shall subdue three Kings i. e. Kingdoms and ver. 11. By the setting up of Christs Kingdom the Beast shall be slain and given to the burning flame as Rev. 19. 20. and 25. He shall reign untill a time times and the dividing of times and then by the coming in of Christs Kingdom he shall be destroyed to the end utter ruine shall befall him Now who should this little horn be that riseth in the end of the Roman Monarchy and throws down three Kings that is usurps the Dominion of three Kingdoms purely professing the Gospel where the Saints whom he persecutes are and reignes tyrannically over the Saints but three years and an half and must be destroyed by the erecting of Christs Kingdom and putting the Saints in possession but onely the Beast which John Rev. 11. 13 17. and 19. setteth forth in his rising reigning and ruine Object But how comes this Beast to have seven heads and ten Horns since he is none of the Roman Heads in Revel. 17. 3 7. Sol. I thought till I looked into the Original that the seven Heads and ten Horns had related to the Woman and not to the Beast and I thought ver. 9. would have born me out as well as the vulgar Translation but I perceived it not onely clashing with ver. 12. and v. 16. but confounding the Syntaxis of the words in the Greek Copy for the Participle in v. 3. and the Article in v. 7. are of another Gender as in v. 3. how can {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} agree together but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} agree together so likewise in v. 7. how can {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} agree together when as it agrees with {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} therefore learned Beza reades v. 3. vidi mulierem insidentem bestiae Coccinae plenae nominibus plasphemiae habenti Capita Septem so that habenti agrees with bestiae which is agreeable to the Greek Copy the vulgar renders it doubtfully but the Greek Copy decides this cleerly by referring the Horns to the Beast not the Woman Ob. How comes it to pass then if the Beast be not the Pope but he that riseth and slays the Witnesses when the Popes time is drawing neer to an end that he is said Rev. 13. to have but two horns and here to have seven Heads and ten Horns Sol. The subject I am now upon is exceeding mysterious so mysterious that John wondered with great admiration to see Babylon in a mystery devouring the bloud of the Saints v. 5 6. to see men under the name of Saints and tender consciencious men drinking exceedingly of the bloud of the Saints This is a great mystery and a mystery to be wondered at now this mystery v. 7. the Holy Ghost tells us is double there is a mystery of the Woman that is Rome and the mystery of the Beast that at this time now Rome is going to ruine bears her up Now this Beast is not the Pope for the Pope sits as a Whore upon many waters This double mystery then is in thishow the Woman Rome should come to be drunk now with the bloud of Saints when she 's going to ruine and the other part of the mystery lyeth in verse 7. how the Beast that had horns like a Lamb and a fair smooth tongue like a Dragon Rev. 13. 11. should now have the feet of a Bear and the jawes of a Lyon how he that had covenanted to throw down Rome and professed himself a great friend to the Saints and yielded all his assistance to throw down Popery Superstition and Idolatry and holds the same Religion in profession that the true Saints do how this Beast should become the Beast bearing up Rome here is the mystery and such a mystery as is to be in the Church when the Witnesses shall be slain and when Rome is neer to utter ruine which mystery being this day in our eyes revealed is a sure prognostick to me that Rome is not far off from her utter ruine Now I humbly conceive that the Beast is said to have the seven heads and ten horns because he supports Rome with seven heads and ten horns Now as the Heathen Emperours were called the red Dragon with seven heads and ten horns Rev. 12. 2. and the Pope is the Beast of the Sea with seven heads and ten horns because they kept up the Emperial pomp and state of Rome so this Beast of the Earth is said here to have seven heads and ten horns because he supports the pomp and state of Rome when the Witnesses had finished their testimony and were ready to pour out the vialls upon it This Beast is therefore the Eighth ver. 11. because he is distinct from those seven Kings v. 10. and yet he is of the seven because he is an Usurper and a Tyrant who rules by his Sword-power as the seven before him did who bore up the woman with seven heads therefore this Eighth Beast ●●●…d to be of the seven because of the likeness of the Government he sets up to theirs before him Hence 't is that in v 8. the Beast that bears Rome is called the Beast that is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit He was in the Idaea of his Government in the Usurpation of Caesar but is not because he is to come out of the bottomless pit Rev. 11. 7. where the 1260. years reign of Antichrist draws towards an end and then slays the Witnesses the next words cleers it that this Beast is also the Beast of the Earth mentioned Rev. 13. 12 13 14. Hence he is called the Beast that was because Rev. 13. 12. he makes the people to worship the first Beast whose deadly wound is healed that is he makes people subject to a Government as Caesar set up in Rome which was a

Earth or bottomlesse pit Beast is called in Rev. 17. the Beast bearing up Babilon with all her blasphemies murthers In this sevententh Chapter the Holy Ghost gives us a view of the last Scene of the last Act of the Romish Antichristian Factors I 'le beg the sober Christians earnest attention here for it is the hardest Chapter in the whole Revelation in Rev. 17. 1. the Angell tells you what time o' th' day 't is with Rome 't is neer her judgment day at this time Iohn saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast Here are three distinct names mentioned in the Chapter the Woman the Beast and the great Whore Now the great Whore sitting on many waters v. 1. is expounded v. 15. to be that spirituall Whore that hath inticed the kings of the earth to commit idolatry which is spirituall fornication with her this Whore is the Pope of Rome which inhabits the City with seven hills which is Rome The woman mentioned v. 3. is expounded v. 9. and v. 18. 't is the city standing on seven hills as Rome doth v. 18. 't is the Metropolitan city as Rome is But now the scarlet-coloured beast v. 3. which beares up the city Rome is not so plainly to the eye of the Reader unfolded though there be most spoken in this Chapter of this Beast and his party this Beast is one part of the mystery which Iohn wonders at Observe therefore in v. 3. this Beast is called a scarlet coloured Beast because of his bloudinesse This Beast cannot be the Pope for the Pope is the great Whore that sits upon many waters and is born up by this Beast 2. It cannot be the Pope for the Pope came not out of the bottomlesse pit but fell from heaven and got the key of Independency into his own hands which is the bottomlesse pit there spoken of Rev. 9. 1. But now this Beast coms out of the bottomlesse pit to shew that this Beast is the selfesame that slayes the Witnesses Rev. 11. 7. who also coms out of the bottomlesse pit 3. This Beast cannot be the Pope upon any rationall account from any Expositor because this Beast is the eighth and is of the seven Now the Pope by every Protestant account makes the seventh distinct head of government in Rome but this Beast is of the eighth now lest he should be taken for the eighth head of Rome the Holy Ghost as it were with a Prolepsin v. 11. tells us he is of the seven and how he is of the seven it may be because he beares up the Woman with seven heads and ten horns he is none of the ten subjected to Rome neither is he one of the seven heads of Rome but he is the eighthdistinct from the seven of Rome and of the ten hornes subject to Rome and yet he is of the seven that is he hath somthing of all their wicked craft and subtilty he is of the seven saith Haymo because this Beast shall seven times more persecute the Church of Christ then the other seven this holds good for to prove him to be the Beast that slayes the Witnesses Saith another of this text he is the eighth because regnum ejus distinctum à singulis and he is of the seven Quia in omnibus septem existit I humbly conceive the Holy Ghost uses this expression he is of the seven to take us off from imagining that this Beast though he be the eighth is the eighth head of Rome No saith the Holy Ghost he is of the seven and that you might not imagine this Beast on the other hand to be one of the ten horns subject to Rome saith the Holy Ghost He is of the seven and what followes And goeth to perdition Twice you have the perdition of the Beast mentioned in this Chapter I humbly conceive for two ends 1. To note that this Beast is the last enemy of the Church which bears up Rome with all her blasphemous hypocrites which vent their poyson and profer it to the world in the golden cup of glorious Gospell truths when they are full of all abominations and filthinesse of fornication when Romes judgment day is neer then v. 3. doth that scarlet coloured blasphemuus Beast arise then is it a year of Jubilee with Rome v. 5. she is richly adorned and decked with all outward pomp and hath a golden cup in her hand out of which she vents her abominable blasphemies Then hath Rome v. 5. a name written on her forehead Mystery Babylon now Mystery Babylon is legible in her forehead we shall see Babylon in a mystery when Rome is neer her downfall as to cry down with Antichrist and murther a King that ingaged to pull down Antichrist To pretend to promote the Gospell of Jesus Christ and pull down the godly Ministery To exalt the Kingdom of Christ and to grant a toleration of all Religions against Christ to plead liberty of conscience and devise spirituall wracks and tortures for mens consciences For the Brats of Rome to cry Down with the Pope and down with Rome and down with Antichrist whilest they promote Rome and the Pope and undermine the Gospell What is this but Mystery Babylon written upon Rome's Politicians fore-heads this is the comfort Mat. 24. 24 30. these are the forerunners of Romes ruine By these mysterious plots the Wolves of Rome get into the sheepfold of Christ and suck the bloud of Christs Flock and therefore ver. 6. John saw Rome drunk with the bloud of the Saints at this time when she was going to ruine to note that immediately before Rome goeth to ruine the Witnesses must be slain for she is now found drunk with the Saints bloud And when is this that Rome is drunk with the Saints bloud ver. 7. it is when this Beast bears up Rome that otherwise had fallen by the hands of the Witnesses whose bloud they now drink In as much as this Beast throws down those that would have ruined Rome and had covenanted so to do he may well be called the Beast that bears up Rome For certain the tenth part of the City Babylon had fallen had not this beast bore it up by slaying those that had finished their Testimony and were fully resolved to pour out their Vials on Rome Now when this beast goeth to perdition that bears up Rome certainly then Rome will fall when the pillar that props it up falls then down it falls and therefore it is said in Rev. 19. 19 20. When the Witnesses arise and put themselves under the wings of Christ this Rome-supporting beast John saw when the Pope and his party v. 20. with him And when the beast by the Witnesses for I have proved already that the battel is onely betwixt the Beast bearing up Rome and the Witnesses is overcome in ver. 20. the Pope is taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles This false Prophet is the Beast of the Earth that slays the Witnesses who is called a false Prophet

packt company of Senators whom he at his command could sway to what he pleased after he had drove away and secluded the faithfull members of the Senate-house But by what power doth he do this the same ver. of Chap. 13. tells us He doth it by the power of the first Beast before him that is the Pope as we have shewed these two first Beasts mentioned in the same verse signifie 1. The Pope in whose presence the last Beast acts and by whose power he acts And the other is Caesar whose Government he endeavours to set up Now he doth it by the power of the Pope that is by treachery lying perjury treason and lying wonders Therefore in Rev. 17. 8. the time when this Beast shall be in the world shall be a time of wonder the people shall wonder at him wonder at the changes he makes in Times and Laws and wonder at his proceedings and the reason is in Rev. 13. 13. because he doth wonders in the sight of the men of the Earth that have not rooting in Christ by his glorious successes and his specious pretences and also his boasts of the prevalencies of his prayers with Heaven how providence guides him prospers and protects him thus he cheats the Pope and makes them to admire him for his acting by the first Beasts power that is by the Popes power so that this Beast is after the Pope and to be expected as the Fathers say when Rome is to go to ruine and to be destroyed Thus this Beast is the Beast that was and is not and yet is Ob. How is he the Beast that is Sol. He is the beast that is because at that time when John had this Revelation Rome had the government of Caesar though Caesar and that Family were extinct there was a Senate in Rome and that Senate curbed under the power of the sword sword-men bore the sway the General of the Army was the Emperour though they had the name of the Senate they sate voted in the Senate but it was the General and his souldiers acted what they pleased and in this sence this beast was in Johns time that is in the Government and in this sence also the eighth is of the seven The hardest knot still remains to be untied and that is Rev. 17. 12 16. where 't is said That the ten Horns are ten Kings which have received no Kingdom as yet but receive power as Kings one hour with the beast What should these ten Kings be who have no Kingdom nor power untill this beast arise and then they have but power as Kings one hour with the beast 1. We must answer negatively these ten Horns here mentioned cannot be meant the ten Kingdoms subject to Rome as some would have it for that is expressed in ver. 25. Otherwise then by ten Horns there the head of Rome the pontifick state is called the Whore and the powers subject to Rome compared to Waters which Waters are by the Holy Ghost in the same verse interpreted Peoples and Multitudes Nations and Tongues 2. We answer possibly yea most probably ten Horns may have a double sence and meaning the one to set forth these Kings subject to the Roman Empire and so Dan. 7. 7. is to be understood and so the most learned Protestant Writers understand these ten Horns 'T is also the opinion of learned men that by ten Horns is meant the Senate of Rome subordinate to the Imperiall power of Rome so Alcazar understands these ten Horns he calls them Poliarchiam Senatorum And not rejecting the common interpretation of the ten Horns I conceive this may be the meaning of Rev. 13. 1. where when the state of Rome was changed from Emperours to Popes the seven Heads had blasphemous Names on them and the ten Horns were crowned The Senate of Rome under the Emperor had no Crowns but when the Pope came up with his ten Horns that is his Conclave of Cardinals resembling a Senate they had their Miters on here the ten Horns are crown'd As I do not dote upon this interpretation so I dare not despise it for it hangs upon as much reason as the other if not more and I know no reason but why these ten Horns may have a double signification as well as the seven Heads but the seven heads Rev. 17. 9 10. signifie seven Mountains and seven Kings Therefore by these ten Kings here Rev. 17. 12. I conceive is meant those Senators or that packt party that this Beast sets up by his sword power and as Caesar conquer'd under pretence of subjecting people to his packt-senate in Rome so doth this subdue Nations and Kingdoms to his packt-party of Senators Observe how clearly this appears in the Text v. 12. 1. The Holy Ghost doth not say these Kings shall receive Kingdoms but a Kingdom Ten is but indifinitly for many as ten Virgins ten Talents and now these many shall not reign in distinct Kingdoms for John saith they have not received a Kingdom noting these many Kings shal be in one Kingdom 2. They are not absolute Kings but receive power as Kings they rule and tyrannize and make Lawes and exact obedience from the people as Kings 3. 'T is but one hour that they have this power three years and an half is the utmost extent of their duration in this power for they come in with this beast now this beast continues but three years and an half 4. These all make but one vote v. 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is in English make one vote I do not know how better to express it in English therefore I conclude that these are not distinct Kings but such as vote together in one Councel to propagate the beasts designs and in so doing ver. 14. they are by the Holy Ghost marked for those who fight with the Lamb and the Lamb overcomes so that hence I gather that the great battel spoken of to be fought Rev. 19. 19 20. by Christ against the beast and the false Prophet is the battel that is to be fought against the beast and these ten Horns For on the Churches side the Generall and his Army are one and the same in both here he is called the Lamb and Rev. 19. 7 8. he is called the Lamb here he is called the King of kings and Lord of lords and there vers. 16. he is called King of kings and Lord of lords here his Army is called faithfull and chosen and in ver. 11. there their Generall who makes them like him by calling them to him is called faithfull and true This battell is set forth Rev. 11. 13. by a great Earthquake and Rev. 14. 19 20. by gathering the Vine of the Earth into the Vinepress of Gods wrath a usuall metaphor to set forth the ruine of the Enemies of the Church by like that in Judges The gleanings of Ephraim are better then the Vintage of Ebiesar that is the little Conquests of Ephraim in taking these two

Princes were greater then the Vintage the great Conquest of Gideon over that vast Army But here is another hard question comes in and that is from v. 14. and 16. Q. How can it be said in v. 13. that the Horns make war with the Lamb and the Lamb overcomes them and in v. 16. The ten Horns shall hate the whore and make her naked and eat her flesh and burn her with fire Resp. To this we answer Those ten Horns cannot be the same in person in v. 14. with these in v. 16. 1. Because these in v. 14. make war against the Lamb but those in v. 16. make war for the Lamb 2. Those in v. 14. are destroyed and overcome by the Lamb and therefore cannot be the same in person with those in v. 16. because they shall hate the Whore Now comes in the Judgement of the Whore spoken of v. 1. and in this v. 16. the Officers that shall bring her to Judgement are set forth Observe but the opposition that the Holy Ghost puts betwixt the person and persons in one Office by the ten Horns as I have shew'd signifies a Senate a Parliament or a supream power consisting of many Members This v. 14. and 16. if seriously perused shew us that there shall be a great Rent amongst persons conjoyn'd in one office the ten Horns v. 12. arise with the beast but the other v. 17. give their Kingdom through their oversight to the beast so that these clearly are distinct for these last ten Horns had a Kingdom or else they could not give it away but the other v. 12. come to be Kings or as Kings with the beast so that the coming up of these is the casting down of those vers. 17. untill the words of God be fulfilled Those ten Kings vers. 13. give their power and strength which they received from the beast to the beast against the Lamb But those ten Horns v. 17. give but their Kingdom for a time and when that time is fulfilled i. e. when the seventh Trumpet sounds when the mystery of God shall be finished or fulfilled then those shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and eat her flesh and burn her with si●e This gives us a most clear description of the slain Witnesses by a party atising out of their own bowels Here are the same ten Horns for the beast against the Lamb and the same ten Horns for the Lamb against the Beast and the Whore This is a mystery which hath been locked up from former ages and is now in the eyes of all the world revealing it self these ten Horns therefore are distinct in their persons and the same in office onely the one party sides with the Beast who gives them his power to slay the Witnesses so that these reigning keep the name and power of a Parliament and so they are called the ten Horns and this Rome they keep till the true Parliament which pretendedly was on the beasts head arise and by their powerful prosecution of their Covenant-Reformation shew their hatred to the Whore make her desolate eat her flesh and burn her with fire For certain the rising of the slain Witnesses shall be the downfall of the Beast the Pope and the Devils Kingdom I am not ignorant how remote I am from the common received opinions of the Protestants neither am I ignorant how far they are from the clear light of sacred Text which gives too much occasion to the Romish party in their writings to scorn at their interpretations It were easie to shew the contradictions that they make who interpret these ten Horns to be the ten Kings of Europe but I forbear and only make this the excuse of my prolixity because I easily perceive the great stone which the Protestant Writers stumble at is this last beast that is to rise and raign three years and an half in which time he slays the Witnesses This Beast few of them for ought I can perceive ever dream't of therefore they mistake the Beast rising out of the bottomless pit Rev. 11. 7. the Beast of the Earth Rev. 13. 11. and the eighth Beast Rev. 17. 11. to be the Pope and these ten Horns to be the ten Europian Kingdoms which are all gross mistakes and the causes of greater in most of their Writings Having thus by the good grace of the Holy Trinity by these mysterious Texts discovered this last Beast and these last Enemies of the Church I trust he that is not spiritually blind will say Surely these Scriptures are fulfilled in our eyes this day Was there not a glorious Reformation began and though with much danger and difficulty yet clearly carryed on Read but the Assemblies Works read the good Ordinances made by the Parliament for the carrying of it on read the Covenant and then say whether there was not a glorious Reformation began nay did not the King give his Royall assent to this Reformation and did not the Parliament close with these Concessions and then even then on a sudden when these Witnesses had finished their Testimony then ariseth this Beast and over throws this Reformation by slaying the Witnesses which had finished their Testimony By this the Reader may see my confidence upon Scripture-bottome that these are the times and this is the place and the Magistracy and Ministery of England are the witnesses that now are slaying and this Power now tyrannizing over the Church is that Power that slayes the Witnesses and the Beast that set up this Power together with the Power that he hath erected shall gather all their strength against the Lamb that is against the true Saints which in sincerity worship Christ and there the mighty hand of God shall appear to the utter ruining and confounding of them then shall the Witnesses arise and take up that Reformation which hath lien dead three years and an half and shall carry it on without any more opposition and all this shall begin to be done I do not say finished neere about this present year 1651. These I have more largly discoursed of in the ensuing Tract yet not at large because I expect to have it answer'd by some of the Time-serving Champions especially Docter Homes whom I take to be the learned'st Saint of them all in this study and he hath got him almost as great a name amongst the ignorant Crew for a Prophet as Lillie the Hedg-Prophet who Jispsie-like gets his living by telling fortunes as Lillie so doth this Doctor make his Oracle speak to the humour of the Times as that infamous Priest of Apollo out of base flattery made the Oracle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} So doth the blasphemous wretch indeavour to make the Holy Oracles of the Scriptures {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is to humour the usurping Trayterous bloudy Hereticks of the Times and with more subtilty then any of his fellows It behoveth Christians to observe some mens Designs more then others and to