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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66683	The breaking of the day of God wherein, four things are manifested : I. That the two witnesses are not in ki[ll]ing, but in rising from death, II. The three dayes and half, or 42. months of the saints captivity under the beast, very near expired, III. Christ hath begun to reign in his saints, and to tread their corrupt flesh under his feet, IIII. Christs dominion over the nations of the world, near the approach / by Gerrard VVinstanley.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3042; ESTC R40126	79,141	154

pretended divine worship that he may advance himsel to be the onely teacher of truths in the hearts of his Saints And in the effecting of this great work God shakes and will yet shake Kings Parliaments Armies Counties Kingdomes Universities humane learnings studies yea shake rich men and poore men and throwes down every thing that stands in his way opposing him in his work And this is the earthquake here spoken of which is the history of things which followes the other which is the mystery For as all outward abominations in mens practises came from the indwelling of the Beast in every mans heart so when God first shakes down and casts out the Beast out of mens hearts the outward abominations and unjust practises in church and State shake together and fall presently And truly this is one main testimony that God is shaking down the corrupt flesh in many and is in raysing of his Witnesses in regard we see so much shakings of Kingdoms Assemblies Churches and corruptions out of them which have been brought in and upheld by the Beast all the time of his Reign And in the Earth-quake the tenth part of the City Babylon fell off from the Beast and begins to submit to the Scepter of Jesus Christ and the wisdom love justice and peaceablenes of the Saints or rather of Gods indwelling and teaching of them shall appear so bright and the Government in their hands becometh so righteous more peaceable and more safe for the well-being of men then the former Customs Laws and Directories were all walking in love and justice as Members of one body Christ knit together by the same Anointing that the very enemies shall give glory to God and say his wayes and actings are more righteous then mens And then multitudes shall come in and enquire after Sion with their faces thither-wards the beauty of Sion shall be so glorious By tenth part of the City that fell in the Earth-quake I believe it is a tenth part of the Nations of the world that have been deceived by the Beast and that have acted for the Beast against Christ and wondered after the Beast for when the ten horns or ten Kingdoms that formerly had given their power to the Beast begin to hate the whore and to take back their power out of the hand of that Ecclesiastical whorish spirit the forty two months being now ended and the words of God fulfilled Then the whole ten Kingdoms shall joyn together to advance God in Christ and shall make the beastly whore desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire And there is some good hopes that these three Kingdoms England Scotland Ireland though three yet united under one State-Government is the tenth part of that great City that shall first fall from the Beast and submit to Christ and then we shall see the witnesses are in rising which I believe with rejoycing that God is raising of them and that this violent storming of the Beast in this tenth part of the City Babylon shall ere long droop and hang the head like a dead man that hath no strength to strive any longer the discoveries and manifestations of God in his Saints shall come in so plentifully like a showre of Hayl that shall sweepe away all the refuge of lies before it But if this threefold Kingdom be not the tenth part nor the Land which God will honour the first of Nations in raising up his Witnesses in and in casting off their Sack-cloth here The Saints must wait but a little longer with patience upon their God for I am mightily perswaded and filled with a sweet joy in the expectation of it That there is a tenth part of the City Babylon falling off from the Beast and striving to set the Crown with shouting upon the head of Jesus Christ And in this tenth part the two witnesses must first throw off their mourning Garment and Sack-cloth but whether it shall be these three united Kingdoms or no I leave that to our Father and submit to him wishing in my heart that England Scotland and Ireland might live before God in this glory I rejoyce inwardly that this shall be the tenth part I have no doubting in my heart about it I have strong perswasions in my spirit that it shall be I greatly desire in my soul that this Land may be the tenth part Yet not my will but the will of my Father be done And as there fell in the Earth-quake the tenth part of the City so in the same Earth-quake were slain of men seaven thousand By seaven thousand I conceive are pointed out the compleat number of those false Witnesses for seaven implies a perfect number whereby the Beast hath deceived the people so that all false Prophets false Ministers either of Justice of Divinity which have reigned with the Beast shall be destroyed with the Beast in this Earth-quake or as John speaks in Revelations 19. in that great battel of God-Almighty the beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had the marke of the Beast and them that worshipped his Image These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone That which he called the seaven thousand in the eleventh Chapter he calls the false Prophet in this nineteenth for it is one and the same conjunction of power that doth mannage the cause of the Beast in his severall shapes in his three dayes and half I do not believe that Kingly Authority or Parliamentary Authority is reckoned in the number of the seaven thousand for these two Authorities are Gods Ordinances or the higher Powers which God hath ordained for to preserve peace in the World But all usurped powers from these are Clergical Ecclesiastical Classical which are stolen by craft from those kings of the earth on purpose to make war with the Saints and to stand up against the Prince of Princes these are the seaven thousand and this is the false Prophet that must be broken without hand even the bright appearing of God in Saints shall consume that Beast And by the number of seven thousand as God points out the compleat number of such ●as do mannage the cause of the Beast so he points out that the number that shall be deceived are not a few in the rank of hundreds but many very many in the rank of thousands so many as he calls them the whole World but all that seaven thousand or compleat number that upholds that cause of the Beast are to be slain in the Earth-quake But this slaying is not meant the killing of their bodies though it may possibly fall out that in so great troubles of he world some may be slain in that sense For their slaying points out the slaying of their Cause the destroying of he Beast with all the wisdom Authority

power till that time be accomplished for it is their time of prophesying in sackcloth it is not Gods time of raining down wrath as yet because God by his word hath limitted himself to such a time And truly here our God points out such a spring as may refresh his people in all their suflerings To consider the sufferings of the Saints and the enemies cruelty is not acted according to the will of the enemy but enemies and Saints and troubles are all in Gods hand and enemies shall dye the Saints shall be comforted and all teares wiped from their eyes when Gods appointed time is accomplished and not till then surely this gives much strength of peace and patience to poor children of God in their sufferings But secondly They have power to shut Heaven or to stay Gods hand from raining down judgement upon the Beast all the dayes of their prophesies as sometimes God rained down a deluge of water to drown the rebellious World and sometimes he rained a deluge Of fire as a plague to destroy those wicked people in Sodome and Gomorah And this power is in the hand of the Anointed Iesus Christ for he hath the power of hell and death And the reason is this Iesus Christ hath bought out this power by his bloud out of the hands of offended justice For now as God shewes no mercy out of Christ so he executes no act of wrath or justice but by the hand of Christ for the Father hath committed all judgment to the Son and Christ is all and in all Christ hath the Key of life and death he can either bind or loose destroy or save Therefore it is said That the Witnesses have power to shut Heaven or the hand of offended justice that it rain not down plagues And they have power to open Heaven and to smite the earth with plagues as oft as they will Or secondly If by Heaven we understand the Church which I rather adhere to then I conceive the meaning is this The Witnesses have power from God to prophesie in sackcloth one thousand two hundred and sixty dayes and there shall not be showers of divine discoveries whereby the Beast shall be utterly consumed all that time onely she shall be plagued now and then by those divine discoveries like drops of raine so often as the spirit of truth the Anointing which rules in the witnesses pleaseth And by these few discoveries of divine truths from God to and in the Church the carnall inventions of the Beast shall be discovered to be evil and made void thereby and the Beast or subtile flesh shall be put to her shifts to invent new deceits every age against Christ which doth plague this carnall earth mightily But the witnesses have power to shut Heaven that it rain not That you may see into the mystery hereof By Rain I understand two things by which the Beast is destoyed quite First When discoveries of God and manifestations of the brightness of the Anointed Iesus Christ appears in every Member of the Church like a showre of raine that sweepes away the refuge of lies or fleshly inventions before them as Isaih saith The Earth or Saints shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea for now the darknes of men cannot stand before the light of God nor the wisdom of the corrupt flesh cannot stand before the wisdom of God and this is that sword that is in the mouth of Christ whereby he destroyes his enemies and this shall be made good when the Church shall not need to be taught by any man but shall be all taught by God and by that same Anointing shall know all things But Heaven or the Church is shut up from these plentifull discoveries till the time of the end that the Witnesses sackcloth-prophesying is accomplished but when that time is finished then this rain shall appear whereby the Beast with all her fleshly deceits shall be destroyed Secondly By Raine I understand the number of Saints that shall increase and spread like the multitude of drops in a showre of raine or like sands upon the Sea shoar so that their number shall over-top the number of Babylons Citizens And so the Church being full of the righteousnes of God and discoveries of Christ shall sweep away the City Babylon with all her beastly practices and fleshly inventions And hereby the Beast shall be destroyed For whereas all the dayes of the Witnesses sack-cloth-prophesying and death The earth that is the flesh of men and conversation of men was full of drinesse and unfruitfulnesse before God in every thought word Work by reason of the Beast or wisdom of the flesh that ruled in them and promoted Self Now by this Rain the earth or flesh of man is filled with fruits of righteousness and truth I mean by the plentifull discoveries of truth or brightness of Christ and by the plentiful1 increase of the Saints the destruction of the Beast or the Serpents head in flesh is broken and consumed And that there shall be such increase of Saints in the latter dayes the Prophesie of Hosea makes it manifest for when God cast off literal Israel He promised the large increase of spiritual Israel which are beleeving Iewes and Gentiles that shall be like the sands of the Sea shoar in the day of Christ But the Witnesses have a power to shut the Church or Heaven from raining in this kind till their Prophesie be ended as God appointed And then I believe there shall appear plentifull manifestations of Gods love in the Church to the increase of their number and to the increase of their spiritual enjoyment of God And likewise there shall appear hereby even plentifull manifestation of justice and wrath upon the beast and wisdom of the flesh to its utter overthrow And these manifestations of love justice shal appear like a showr● of raine sweeping away the refuge of lye before it And yet further in that sixt verse They have power over waters to turn them into bloud By waters first of all I conceive are mean● the inventions actings and appearances of the power and wisdom of the flesh arising against the testimony of the two Witnesses to prove their testimony false For the Devil and corrupt flesh would faine prove God a lyer and would not have the seed of the Woman break the Serpents head And hence doth arise such a dea● adoe among men to find out a way to worship God and give direction to others and to enforce people to observe those directions o● else to stand lyable to humane punishments as though they must help Christ to save sinners But when the Angel powres out his Viall into the Sea fountains and waters of Babylon that is upon the very spirit of subtile enmity it self and upon all the carnall wisdom and appearances that have flowed there-from and caused them to become like the