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A29275 The churches going in and coming out of the wildnernes opened by the unworthiest of the gospel-ministers, John Brayn. Brayne, John. 1649 (1649) Wing B4320; ESTC R23803 12,764 20

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and commonly to the most unlikely means that none may glory in man nor man in himself but all in God 1 Cor. 1. 20. 5. In the spirit of humility I beseech all publike persons to consider how sad a thing it would be if the time of the Churches Revelation being at hand any thing of Power or Authority should be made use of to keep it from us and from the world did not the Spirit of God stir up the Spirit of man within him for the love of Christ and the Gospel to undergo any thing what means may this be to bolt out the Kingdom of heaven from us and to shut it up from us for ever 6. Conclusion hence is that until the Kingdom estate be brought forth to the world the world will not see peace It is good for Magistrates and Ministers to help it forth but not to hinder it a woman in travel though her throws for a time cease yet they leave her not but come upon her until she be delivered of her childe the woman now travels in pain again to be delivered as heretofore Rev. 12. 2. Isa. 56. 8. Shall a Nation be born at once It is well observed of learned Broughton That while Solomons Temple lay waste all the world was in war and in flames of fire as it were but when it was restored God blessed all the world with a sweet peace which change of our estate observe it well will be in some kinde agreeable hereunto as all shall see who live to behold it Psal. 118. 22 25. when the stone shall become the head stone laid for the building God will send prosperity and not before A third general ground to prove the Churches not being yet come forth may be from Rev. 12. 7. There was war in heaven c. 1. The holy Spirit having ended with the Churches time in the wilderness comes to shew what should succeed it in her coming thence 2. In her beginning visibility there is a war between those are of her visible Members in this war many Ministers are cast down or Angels v. 8. Their place was found no more in heaven 3. Ver. 10. A voyce cryed saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ 1. Here is a clear difference made betwixt heaven before the war and the kingdom after the war 2. This diststinction is apparently clear in the Word now if now then not before being the most certain note and distinction of time 3. When this comes comes Salvation strength and the power of his Christ and not before shewing there would in this war be much weakness until then and then God would bless it with strength and power by which the Church should prove victorious in the world But of these things I forbear to speak more of but refer it unto the Exposition I have intended to write much more particularly and at large if the Lord give leave as these things come to be discussed of Obj. These are dubious Scriptures and therefore the proof cannot be sufficient and again many are the contrary Expositions made by the learned against this of yours which are rather to be assented unto c. 1. Friend the hiding and time of the hiding of Church must be hence or now here 2. The Scripture is dubious indeed before but plain in the fulfilling 3. The Scripture was given against doubts not to occasion them and to reveal beforehand the purposes of God to his Church near before the accomplishment whereof God usually reveals them by the Word and Spirit to some of the Church as in Huss Prediction of Luther Brightman of the fall of Episcopacy Now for the contrary Expositions made of some of the most eminent that I have read I shall in brief insert 1. Junius makes the 1260 days to be from the beginning of the rebellion to the end of the destruction and Temple which was done before John wrote his book of the Revelation who saith of the things in the book they are things shortly to come to pass so that I think it is clear he alludes to nothing past in this book 2. Others make this time agree with the wise mens coming to Christ and end with Herods death which is sufficiently answered in that made to the former 3. Opinion is That the 1260 days and the time times and half a time are one and the same being three years and a half Resp. 1. These are not the same they differ in maner of revelation as in the words themselves appear 2. They differ in time the one before the Churches coming forth the other after many things came to be done between as the War and fall of the Dragon the fall of the Angels the coming of Kingdom The one I think concerns the Jewish Church who is the woman brought forth the Male Childe the other the Gentiles The Jews shall have their place appointed them of God for safety their time times and half as the Gentiles their 1260 days whom infinite floods of persecution most certainly are to attend from all which God will most graciously save that people and joyn them to himself 1. This War is at the end of the 1260 days 2. At the end of the two Witnesses Prophesie when God will have the Church ministred unto in another way then before and all other ways of ministery before extant will cease and be put an end unto 3. The same hour is an earthquake a strange change of things In Church and state ver. 12. 1. If it be to come we are warned of it as of the saddest time the Saints yet saw which we shall instantly know 2. This sorrowful sad time ends in a heavenly happiness the time of suffering being to endure but three years and half 3. It occasions the greatest change of things that ever was occasioned on earth 4. Herein the deliverance will be so wonderful that the enemies will be affrighted at it and see God so in it as to glorifie God when that of Isa. 11. will be fulfilled God making the Lyon to lie down with the Lamb the Calf and the Bear together and shall not hurt nor destroy so that the Church will after this sad dying time see God honoring her again more then ever she was honored in this present world 1. Again to return to the former purpose this being one Vision the two numbers cannot be of the same time 2. It is not to be thought that this Book being so short and containing in it so much of History and Prophesie as concerns the Church to the end and Antichrist rise and fall withal that in that there is a repetition of one and the same thing in one and the same Vision Object You make the 42 Moneths Rev. 13. 5. and the 1260 days the same Rev. 12. 7. though these are set out by differing terms as the other of a time times and half a time differs in terms from the