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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86703	A sharp, but short noise of warr, or, The ruine of Antichrist by the sword of temporall warr, hinted. Written, by Francis Lin,	Line, Francis, 1595-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing H333; Thomason E622_2; Thomason E595_2; ESTC R206422	18,276	32

and all-disposing hand of the great God of Heaven who is the Lord of the Earth and doth whatever he will both in Heaven and Earth and will doe what he hath promised to doe and likewise what he hath threatened to doe it is true the vision is for an appointed time it shall speake and not lye this time is certainly come yea the set time is come and God is now manifesting of himselfe by theexcercise of the temporall Sword to Nations Families and to particular persons I confesse as I said even now that from a want of the knowledge of such things as I have made mention of I remaine unable in some respects to steere a course suitable to the apprehensions which I have of the present face and appearance of things when I thinke of them according to the glorious word and unfathomd workings of the great and mighty God who is in his judgements unsearchable and in his wayes past finding out 't is true the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath acted his great works and made his almighty power to appeare in all ages in which he hath beene wonderfull in his doings towards the Sonnes and Daughters of men and that in reference to the setting up and casting downe of Nations and people in and by the excercise of War and the temporall Sword but yet I verily thinke I speake with submission that the Lord is now a doing and a bringing to pass such a peece of work by the excercise of temporall warr at this time as there hath not in the world yet appeared the like in reference to all events notwithstanding mens Opinions to the contrary for my part if in this I erer 't is for no bye end this is the thing I observe First the blood of many thousands in severall ages who have truely feared God hath beene shed by the cruelty of the Nations now 't is very cleare to me that the Lord will never give up his people to such a dreadfull cruelty that they should destroy people in cold blood as we say as they have beene even multitudes of them destroyed some have beene burnt to death others Racked and so by diverse other exquisit torments they have beene murthered Secondly 't is as cleare to me that the Lord will by the hand of his people make inquisition for blood and that by the same hand will avenge the blood of his Saints whose blood hath beene shed by the Nations therefore Nations shall be dealt withall by the Sword of temporall warr the Nations have in a private Murtherous way made themselves drunke with the blood of Gods Saints the Lord will deale with the Nations in a publick way he will make his Arrowes drunke with the blood of his and his Peoples enemies and the sword of the Lord in the hands of his people shall eate the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captaines and the flesh of mighty men Rev. 19.18 Againe me thinks this is somthing to be considered of what are the Nations now a doing truely they be now a gathering themselves together what to doe To destroy if they can all the Inhabitants of Zion I meane all such as doe truely and sincerely seeke and serve the true God according to the rules of his holy word the Scriptures But to the thing in hand Now also many Nations are gathered against thee saying Zion shall be condemned and our eye shall look upon Zion but they know not the thoughts of the Lord they understand not his Counsell for he shall gather them as the sheaves in the barne Mica 4.11.12 Observe surely that dark and dismall Cloud which now hovers upon the world is like for some time to grow somwhat thicker and the storme is like to be somwhat more terrible then yet it is before these present Warrs now in excercise come to a full end the Nations are now gathering themselves together What to doe to destroy spirituall Zion they say the Church and people of God shall be condemned and they will be the Executioners but they know not the thoughts nor the purposes of the Lord they little thinke what God will doe by this their gathering together they gather and the Lord God gathers but for contrary ends they intend one thing and the Lord meanes another they an extermination of truth and true Christians God intends a preservation of both yea a great deliverence and a glorious enlargment too I speake with reverence to God who will at this time doe two works at once even use the Sword of temporall Warr with the Sword of his word and with the delivering of his people will performe the ruine of his and his peoples Enemies Behold in that time when I shall br●●gagaine the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem I will also gather all Nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have scatrered among the Nations Joel 3. Assemble your selves and come all yee Heathen and gather your selves together round about there shall the Lord cast downe the mighty man let the Heathen be weakned Observe those the enemies of God which in Scripture are sometimes called mighty are here prophetically destynated to weaknesse Let the Heathen be weakened and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I set to judge all the Heathen round about put in your Sithes for the Harvest is ripe come get you downe for the wine presse is full yea the winepresses run over for their wickednesse is great O multitude O multitude come into the Valley of threshing for the day of the Lord is neere in the Valley of threshing the Sunne and Moone shall be darkned and the Starrs shall withdraw their light That is as I conceive in this their day of Gods visitation they shall finde no help in Creatures neither in the Sunne the Moon nor the Starrs in and by which the Heathens of all times have beene so much led as appeares by the words of Jer. 10.2 Thus saith the Lord learne not the way of the Heathen and be not dismayed at the signes of Heaven for the Heathen are dismayed at them I have read some Authors which affirme that there are Heathens of these times who doe worship the Sunne and the Moone to whom I may speake as the Prophet speaks thou art wearied in the multitude of thy Counsells let now the Astrologers the Star-gazers the monethly Prognosticatours stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee Isa 47.13 Againe this may admit of a spirituall meaning whence we may take notice that the light of the glorious Gospell which both hath and doth shine in the World as the Moone and as the Sun shall stand them in no stead in this time of great distresse which have contemptuously banished it from them or refused to give it entertainment when the Lord in mercy hath made a tender of it unto them certainly both Papists and Heathens have done this and now the Lord God in his just judgement will shut up all light from them and darknesse shall be upon them till they perish in the same The Lord sayth the Prophet shall roare out of Zion and utter his voyce from Jerusalem Observe in those dayes and times in which the Lord God shall what his glittering Sword and shall with his hand take hold on judgement and shall execute vengeance on his enemies and reward them that hate him that then the Lord will roare from Zion then God will appeare terrible to his and his peoples enemies from and by his spirituall Zion in the excercise of temporall meanes God will thresh them with the Sword Agreeable to this is that of Mica 4. last Arise thresh O Daughter of Zion for I will make thine horne Iron and I will make thine hoofes Brasse and thou shalt breake in peice many people Jacob shall be a fire and Joseph a flame and Edom shall be as stubble Mal. 4.3 The Enemies of God have beene drunke with the blood of Gods Saints and the Lord God will make his Arrowes drunke with the blood of his enemies and his Sword in the hand of his people shall eate flesh yea and that for the blood of the slaine and of the Captives when I begin to take vengeance of the enemies Deut. 32.42 Now in this day and time the Lord God will be the hope of his people and the strength of the Children of Israel Joel 3.16 I will but suggest that of the Prophet Isa 2. and I have done certainly in such a day and time as this is it will be thus The high looke of man shall be humbled and the loftinesse of men shall be abased and the Lord onely shall be exalted in that day for the day of the Lord of Hosts is upon all the proud and hauty and upon all that is exalted and upon all the Cakes of Bashan and all the high Mountaines upon all the hills that are lifted up and upon every high Tower and upon every strong Wall and upon all the Ships of Tarshish and all pleasant Pictures and the haughtinesse of men shall be brought low and the loftinesse of men shall be abased and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day and the Idolls will he utterly destroy then they shall goe into the holes of the Rocks and into the Caves of the Earth from before the face of the Lord and from the glory of his Majesty when he shall arise to destroy or to shake terribly the Earth FINIS

each stake Next to this there is mention made of threescore women who were brought to the Rack by the Fathers of the Popes inquisition who all perished by their horrible cruelty In the History of the Albingenses there is mention made of one hundred and forty men and women who because they refused to submit to the Church of Rome were all of them throwne into a fire at one time and burnt to death by the Earle Simon and the Popes Legat. These few instances fell in by the way there is enough upon record to prove that Antichristian Papists have beene the most bloudiest and the most devouringst Woolves that have had a being upon this Earth therefore for my part I beleive the Lord God will punish this Romish Babylon and will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up and the Nations shall not flow together any more unto him yea the Wall of Babylon shall fall and the dayes are come in which God will doe judgement upon the Graven Images of Babylon and her whole Land shall be confounded and all her slaine shall fall in the middest of her I have now done with Papists only I wish to as many of them as doe belong to the election of grace a visible repentance from sin and Idolatry an actuall faith in the true Scripture 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ the eternall Son of God a holy and a harmlesse life and preservation to their bodies from that Warr and from that destroying Sword which is already occasionally drawne and will be extended to and excercised upon the generallity of willfull stubborne and obstinate Papists all the world over I call it an occationall Sword in a twofold respect First the Papists by committing more sins then I am able to mention and greater sins then I know how to paint out have justly occasioned God to bring the Sword of warr upon them and they have occasioned you I may say inforced the Saints I doe not say to bring Warre upon them but in their owne just defence to maintaine a Warr against them They the Antichristian Papists I meane have beene many hundreds of yeares raising and acting of most cruell and bloudy Warrs upon the people of God called Protestants of late yeares they have made long furrows upon their backs in the parts of Germany in France in Ireland in England for they have beene the hatchers of all these Warrs and they have beene the maine actors of them too and they will continue to raise and to act warr in Ireland in France and it may be in Scotland too they will never end their warr till warr hath ended them or at least their power they will continue their malicious endeavours to destroy the true Church of Christ upon this Earth by warr in that faggot and fire hath now failed them the which God hath made a defensive Citty an Iron pillar and Brazen wall against them and they shall fight against it but they shall not prevaile against in Jer. 1.18.19 for the Lord of Hosts is with his Church to deliver it from the power of every destroying enemy as well temporall as spirituall ones and the Church of Christ shall be upon this Earth in the appointed time as a Citty sought out and not forsaken for glorious things are spoken of thee o thou Citty of God One word more and I have done let all those Papists take notice of this which doe harbour in them the same mind which ha's beene in their Fathers who have not onely by Warr for a long time destroyed the true Members of Christ but by most exquisit and incredible torments as well in prisons and Caves of the Earth as upon Scaffolds and at Stakes have most barbarously and most unhumanly murthered the Saints of Christ see Master Wadsworths booke to this purpose I say seeing that you the seed of those evill doers have now called us into the Field who doe professe our selves friends and Servants to Jesus Christ whom you have mocked and Brethren to those his Servants whom you have cruelly murthered I say take notice of this that you are like to find as much gallantry as you have acted cruelty 〈◊〉 know will fight but we professe to fight fai●● whether it be in Ireland or elsewhere therefore now you brave English spirits shew your selves gallant still ' for the Sword must doe great things according to that which Master Brightman hath sayd that the time shall come when disputing by the pen should cease and that the Sword should end the controversy between the Papists and the Protestants I beleeve this time is now come and be you assured of these things that as these Antichristian Papists shall make Warr with the Lamb so the Lamb shall over come them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull Rev. 17.14 One word to those amongst them that truely feare God thus saith the Lord My people goe out of the middest of her and deliver yee every man his soule from the fierce wrath of the Lord least your heart even faint and yee feare the rumour that shall be heard in the Land a rumour shall come one yeare and after that in another yeare shall come a rumour and violence in the Land Ruler against Ruler Jer. 51. and 45.46 And I heard another voyce from heaven say Goe out of her my people that yee be not pertakers in her sins and that yee receive not of her plagues Rev. 18.4 I now come according to my promise to produce and apply Scripture against the Heathens of these times I desire what I said at my beginning may be remembred that is that I have in some respect spoken to these already and therefore now I shall no● 〈◊〉 much to them onely I shall take notice that there is a very great people now in being upon this Earth who are professed enemies to the Lord Jesus Christ and that these are distinct from Papists and that they have beene and still are great Oppressors of the people that profes Jesus Christ and his Gospell and that the power and pride of these Heathens shall be brought downe by the temporall Sword in these latter dayes and that then they shall become the Inheritance of Jesus Christ to whome God the Father will give the Heathens of these times unto for an Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth to him for his possession by the way I confesse that I am little or nothing seene in the knowledge of the Histories of times neither am I so much in consultation with them as with the God of times I know but very little either of the past or present State of forraigne Countries nor of the externall causes nor humane reasons of the severall new framings and mouldings of those Nations in the remore parts of the Earth nor of those severall new constitutions into which they have in severall peeces of time beene put into by the overruling