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A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

the body untill the resurrection of the body and then so to rise with it and be named for both For one corrupt opinion or point of false doctrine brings alwayes more of the like nature with it But I leave this to their consideration and come again to the Text to see what it further saith Ver. 16. And the four and twenty Elders which sate on their seats in the sight of God fell on their faces and adoring God said Wee thank thee Lord God omnipotent which art which wast and which shalt come because thou hast received thy great power and brightnesse NOw the seventh Angel having sounded the great and last Trumpet the Lord being come in his glory and the Kingdomes of this world made his who is to reign for ever and ever world without end Hereupon the four and twenty Elders which are Moses and the Prophets as the four Beasts mentioned in Chap. 4.9 are the four Evangelists fall down on their faces before the throne of God adoring him for that his judgements against Antichrist and his worshippers which they by the seven-fold Spirit of Majesty given them of God spake of and denounced from time to time against them were now justified upon them And the everlasting Kingdome of the Lord their God whose dominion reacheth from Sea to Sea from the River to the ends of the earth is now set up for evermore according to all that he had foreshewed them and by the same Spirit spoken by them Hereupon they falling down and adoring the justification of God break forth into praises and thanksgiviving saying We thank thee Lord God omnipotent which art which wast and which shalt come because thou hast received thy great power and brightnesse c. Ver. 17. And the Gentiles were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead to be judged and to render reward to thy servants the Prophets Saints to them that fear thy Name little and great and to destroy them that have corrupted the earth ANd notwithstanding the rage fury of those great Monarchs of the world that like wild Boares of the Forest that rose up against the Lord and against his people and Citie Ierusalem and of those Beasts of the field which said against the Lord and his anointed Let us break their bonds asunder and cast their cords from us And of all those Antichristian powers of so long continuance that have with the rest to fill up their measure rejected the Lord and trode his truth to the ground and made the holy Citie of his Saints as a street to trample upon And of all that innumerable multitude of Gog and Magog which that old Serpent the Devill and Satan shall at last gather together with their mighty men and chiefe Captaines against this great day of the Lord bringing them down and compassing the camp of his Saints about and the beloved Citie intending to destroy root out and take the prey and spoyle of all These all who are here described as they are also in Psa 2. by the name of Gentiles And the Gentiles were angry c. are now to endure the wrath judgment of him who with justice judgeth The great day of his wrath being come and the time of the dead to be judged Now the Lord for whose glory this day is made will render unto every man justly and truly according to their works and wayes wherein their hearts have walked and delighted First to his Servants his Prophets his Saints and Martyrs that through faith and patience have overcome their just reward which for his name and promise sake is right and due unto them And next unto all those heathen Gentiles and people of all nations kindreds of the earth under what name and of what profession of religion soever they passe Jewes Catholiques Protestants or other whose hearts are hard unrepentant and unbeleeving who by their evill deeds have corrupted the earth their just reward also and recompence which to their workes and wayes is rightly due unto them For so much doe the words conclude in saying And to render reward unto thy servants the Prophets Saints and to them that feare thy Name little and great and to destroy them that have corrupted the earth And hereby it is also manifest that at the same very time when the last trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall come in his glory the dead both good and bad shall be raised and judged without any distance of yeares or dayes between the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised as Paul saith And although the salvation of the just and sufferings of the ungodly shall continue for a thousand yea and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares even for everlasting as the Scriptures declare yet the judgment and sentence passing will require no longer time in the hands of the Lord then one day as the Scriptures alwayes expresse it And that we should know for certain that this day will come at the same time when Satan with his Armies of Gog and Magog shall be upon Christendome compassing the Camp of the Saints about and fire shall come downe from God out of heaven and devoure them The holy Ghost in Rev. 20.9 10 11 12 c. doth plainly declare it And to the end that we should take notice thereof hee saith chap. 21.6 It is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end c. And in chap. 16. upon the same comming down of the Kings of the earth and of the whole world unto the judgement of the great day it followeth vers 17. It is done And in Ezek. 39. upon the same destruction of Gog and Magog it followeth also verse 8. Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord. This is the day whereof I have spoken Which day will be the last day of this world spoken of by Martha Luke 11.24 and whereof Christ saith But of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angelt of heaven but my Father only Matth. 24. For although the Lord hath revealed and men may know the yeare yet the day and hour can no man know And as in this last day this present world shall end so in it shal the world to come and the kingdome of Christ and his Saints begin as it is also declared Matth. 25.31 32 33 c. 2 Tim. 4.1 And then shall be the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy Prophets that have been since the world began as it is also written Acts 3.20.21 There shall bee new heavens and a new earth and Jerusalem shall be made a praise in the earth And great shall bee the difference between the estate of this world to come which shall be in subjection to Christ and wherein he shall reigne and righteousnesse shall dwell for ever world without end and the now present world wherein the heathen and Pagan Monarchs and Antichrists reigne and iniquity beareth rule and dwelleth And for any to teach or perswade the Christian State now present as some in their Sermons and Printed bookes have done and doe that the Kingdome of Christ and his Saints whereof the Prophets have spoken shall be in this present world for a thousand yeares before the last day is to teach and perswade to a Doctrine against Christ and not for him whose Kingdome is not of this world which is not nor will be being corrupt subject unto him Antichrist and his Clergie of false prophets that have taken upon them as much as ever did any the name of the onely true Church of Christ in the world have been as a great Monarch in this present world for a thousand yeares past already and let them take it for their portion of happinesse But let no true Christian Ministers state or people bee of such a mind to teach such doctrine or looke for such a thing here againe But rather flie the glory and shadow of this world and look for the eternall Kingdome in the world to come ready to bee revealed when Christ shall come at the last day which I verily beleeve upon the grounds before mentioned many thousands now living shall live to see And so I rest their Christian friend wishing them all true happinesse grace and truth and peace in Christ Amen Now having here a little space let mee put a question or two more to the Millenaries As first if when God shall have created new Heavens and a new Earth Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy there shall be no more thence an infant of dayes nor an old man that hath not filled his dayes as the Prophet Esay saith Esa 65.20 Then I ask how there can thence an infant or child of dayes or an old man die as they will have it in their Millenary estate Again if the resurrection of the ungodly shall not bee till the thousand years kingdome of Christ which the Millenaries make to be the day of judgement shall be expired as they teach Then I ask what time they will have for that great multitude of ungodly not risen from the dead to be judged and who they mean Christ shall be all that time of a thousand yeares a judging Or how hee can judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdome as Paul saith if the dead be not all raised at his appearing and kingdome and brought before him to be judged or why he should need a thousand yeares or dayes time of pawsing in judgement or more then one true naturall day though there shall be a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand yeares of execution and suffering yea yeares and dayes and nights everlastingly as it is written Matth. 25. and sundry other places FINIS

two Witnesses that notwithstanding all whatsoever the Beast could doe against them they should prophesie the 1260 dayes even every one of the dayes of those fourty two months of the Beasts reigne and the Gentiles treading the holy Citie under foot yet did he not limit their prophecying in Sackcloth within the compasse of those dayes Neither is there a word in all the Scripture to such purpose onely their being killed by the Beast and their corps lying dead in the street of his Sodomiticall Citie c. are limited within that time as we shall see hereafter Neither is it said in the Text the Beast which descendeth into the deep shall make warre against them and kill them but the Beast which ascendeth from the deep c. implying plainly that he should make warre against them and kill them at his ascending or rising or soone after and not at his descending or downfall And that the finishing their testimony here spoken of was to bee before the Beast should rise which we are here duly to consider of as a thing that we ought to know and understand And therefore the Lord foreshewed saying And when they have finished their testimony the Beast which ascendeth from the depth shall make warre against them and kill them That is to say when the holy Prophets Apostles and Evangelists had finished their course written down all whatsoever they had seen and heard from the Lord concerning his two Wils Testaments according as they were guided by the holy Ghost and especially his second or last Will of grace and peace by Jesus Christ His wonderfull conception birth life death resurrection from the dead foretold also by the Prophets His ascension into heaven and his sending the holy Ghost unto them the Spirit of truth to lead them into all truth and to enable them to prophesie through the sevenfold gifts thereof Of Iohn the Baptist who was that Elias which God promised to send before the great and terrible day of the Lord should come the day of judgement and wrath and how he cried out unto the people of Israel and so unto all the world in the spirit and power of Elias requiring every man with strong perswasions great sorrowfulnesse of heart much lamentation and many teares to repent that they might obtaine the forgivenesse of their sinnes through faith in the Messiah the Mediator and Messenger of the Covenant who was now also come to his Temple Which voice of this Elias crieth out unto us all even to this day that we should repent that we may receive also the forgivenesse of our sinnes by faith in Christ lest in that great day when he commeth in power and glory we perish in his wrath and he smite the earth with a curse And how Christ himselfe also preached saving Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand Repent and beleeve the Gospel with many other heavenly Doctrines and most true and gracious sayings And of all his wondrous workes and the things he had foreshewed them should come to passe Of the destruction of Jerusalem and wrath upon that people Of false Christs and false Prophets that should arise Of great tribulation that should befall the Church of Christ during the time of his personall absence And of the signes of his comming and end of the world And after his death and resurrection how hee opened their understandings and among many other heavenly things that he spake of and foreshewed them said unto them Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem And then last of all this book of the Revelation wherein many great mysteries that were sealed up and no man in heaven nor on earth was found worthy to open but the Lamb that was slain are by him revealed 1. The estate of his Church in her primitive time 2. And what her great enemies should be and what shee was to suffer at their hands The first being the great red Dragon Satan reigning in the Pagan Emperours by whose bloody persecutions shee was forced to flie into the wildernesse to escape from his fury as in Rev. 12.3 4 5 6 c. described in Rev. 6.4 by a red horse and one fitting on him that should take peace from the earth The second that of Arius and his followers whose blasphemous doctrines and malicious persecution against those that opposed the same continued five months of years as in Rev. 9.2 3 4 5. described by a black horse Rev. 6.5 The third this of the Beast and his false prophets and whorish Church of whose abominations and filthinesses of the cup of her fornications Kings Princes and people of all Nations have been made to drink and became drunken committing fornication with her and so their souls became lost for ever And her selfe also becomming daily drunken with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus Christ whose bodies she killed because they would not drink of her cup nor commit fornication with her All which being to continue fourty and two months of years as Rev. 11.2 Rev. 13.5 described also in Revel 6. by a pale horse c. ver 8. Then what plagues should bee powred out upon them all for their murders and wickednesse And what and when should bee their end and how great their condemnation And which exceeds all for the comfort of the Church of Christ which was to suffer all these things at her enemies hands how shee should bee delivered from her so great and violent oppressions And what and how great things her Lord hath prepared for her and promised and foreshewed her especially in this booke of the Revelations to be inherited of her for eternity in the world to come when he shall appeare in his glory So the holy Prophets and Apostles and Evangelists having from the Lord perfected his two Testaments which are his two Witnesses they having thus finished their testimony which was never to done before nor from thence forth could ever bee so done after and which might therefore rightly be called Finishing their Testimony and also because no man nor Angel from heaven might or may preach any thing as the testimony of Gods two Witnesses or his Oracles but what is written and contained in them it being the whole counsell of God So I say they having thus finished their testimony and they being prophecying in the plain demonstration of the Spirit and of power turning the hearts of Gods elect to repentance that they might be justified from their sinnes by faith through his grace in Christ which by the Spirit and word of reconciliation was ministred to their broken and contrite hearts And also by the same Spirit and power convincing the wicked perishing world of sinne of righteousnesse and of judgement Of judgement because the prince of this world whom they serve and obey he

ruling in their hearts is judged already So those dwellers on earth being tormented with their just and righteous sayings which the Saints and servants of God the true successors of the holy Apostles and Church of their time maintained against their ungodly superstitious filthy flesh-pleasing wayes And the beast hee being now risen up and seated in the Dragons Throne and there being nothing more tormenting or grievous unto him and his false prophets and those dwellers on earth then the true and righteous doctrines and prophecies of these two Prophets Gods anointed ones the light whereof being so contrary to their wayes and works Therfore as holding it their wisest surest way that they should torment them no longer they make battell against them and kill them And this they effected and brought to passe partly by belying their testimony giving most false and blasphemous expositions of their sayings making the world beleeve that so they meant and partly by suppressing those which stood to maintain their true intent and meaning and partly by keeping close their written words forbidding them to bee published or read in any of the tongues or languages of the Nations which were under the authority and power of the beast that the people should not come to the knowledge and understanding of them lest they should see and discover their false and deceitfull delusions So the beast and his false prophets by putting out the light and true intent of Gods two Witnesses which was and is their life they killed them Vers 8. And their carkasses shall remaine in the streets of the great Citie which is spiritually called Sodome and Egypt where also their Lord was crucified ONely their dead letter or bare text of their testimony they would retaine and keep as wee see they have done in their Cells Temples and streets of the Nations and Kingdomes where the beast is worshipped who with Rome their chiefe doe make up that great Citie which because of their spirituall whoredomes and hardnesse of heart are described by the names of Sodom and Egypt they answering in a spirituall manner unto them both And they are charged also with the crucifying of the Lord himselfe even as the Lord had charged the Scribes and Pharisees of his time with the blood of Abel because like as they imitated Cain in hardnesse of heart and wickednesse in their killing the Prophets as he did his brother So these imitating those of Jerusalem that crucified the Lord of life in their murdering his faithful Servants his Saints Martyrs are justly charged with crucifying the Lord they making up one generation with all the Heathen and wicked murderers and shedders of righteous blood in the world For which cause he saith And in her was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slaine upon the earth Rev. 18.24 Ver. 9. And there shall of the Tribes and People and Gentiles see their dead bodies three dayes and a halfe and shall not suffer their Corps to be laid in Monuments ANd so those Nations and Kingdomes People and Gentiles under the name of Catholick Christians having the dead bodies or letter of Gods two Witnesses lying in their streets could and can yet handle and look upon them while those three dayes and a halfe the time times and halfe a time of the beasts reigne lasteth That is to say not as the beast and they of the Church of Rome expound it three naturall yeares and a halfe which they will have to be the time of the reigne of a great Antichrist of their imagining which they pretend is yet to come but 3 propheticall years a halfe that is so many years of years which according to the account of the Hebrews are 1260 years A long time for Gods two Testaments to lie dead among them and not suffered to be so read or heard as they maybe understood and laid up in the hearts of the people where they ought to have been laid and kept as in their true and naturall graves or tombs where they should have been buried not to be forgotten but to be kept in memoriall to the praise of God and salvation of his people Ver. 10. And the inhabitants of the earth shall bee glad over them and shall send gifts one to another because these two Prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth NOw the beast his false prophets and all those worshippers of the beast here named because of their great number The Inhabitants of the earth they having attained their wills and prevailed over Gods two Witnesses and cast his truth to the ground as the Prophet Daniel also foretold are glad at their hearts and in triumph over them and for joy that they may now goe on quietly in setting up and adoring their own inventions They as one well observeth make themselves merry with bonfires vigils festivals processions and in token of their joy as the text saith send gifts one to another Kings Princes and people present and endow the beast and his Church with donations immunities possessions gold and silver offerings c. And the beast on the other side requites their love and devotion with Titles Bells Prayers Pardons Bulls and such like And the reason of this their wicked and ungodly rejoycing is because they had put out the eyes or light of Gods two Testaments which are here named two Prophets and before his two Witnesses and two Olive Trees and two Candlesticks vers 3 4. that their abominations filthinesses of their fornications might not be discovered and reproved by them as formerly had been which was so tormenting unto them and is and will be still to all such lovers and beleevers of lies whose hope and conversation and dwelling is here on earth as nothing can be more For so much doe the words imply in saying Because these two Prophets tormented them that dwell upon the earth Ver. 11. And after three dayes and a halfe the Spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood upon their feet and great feare fell upon all that saw them ANd after three dayes and a halfe that is to say after the time and times and halfe a time of the Beasts reigne spoken of in Dan. 7.25 12.7 and mentioned in Rev. 12.14 to be the time of the woman being nourished in the wildernesse And so taking a day in this place as a time is to bee taken in Dan. 7.25 Rev. 12.14 Then these three dayes and a halfe in a propheticall understanding are as the three times and a halfe are three yeares and a halfe of yeares And therefore not as they of Rome would have them three naturall yeares and a halfe which they make to bee the time of their expected two witnesses Enoch and Elias and their being killed and lying dead c. and of their Churches desolation and being in the wildernesse which they pretend they expect shall come to passe upon the rising of their Antichrist a Jew of