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A62540	The two witnesses: their prophecy, slaughter, resurection and ascention: or, An exposition of the eleventh chapter of the Revelation wherein is plainly proved that the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, are the witnesses there spoken of, who have prophesied in sackcloth one thousand two hundred and sixty years compleat; that they are already slain, revived, and ascended. That the tenth part of the city is fallen by our late earthquake, wherein seven thousand names of men were slain. The second wo is past. This is the first part of the chapter, the second part follows. By Tho. Tillam, a weak labourer in the Lords Harvest.	Tillam, Thomas.	1651 (1651)	Wing T1168; ESTC R219308	67,928	180

in the three Nations who had so long oppressed the Reformed Churches And I do also conceive that the third wo yet to come doth properly belong to and shall miserably torment the Antichristian Train and all prophane wicked men and false Professors who will slight and reject and contemn the voyces of the feventh Angel For the seventh Viall Rev. 16.17 which will produce this wo is to be poured forth into the common Ayr in which all the cursed brood do breath So that those who will not receive embrace the voyces of the seventh Trumpet proclaiming the Lord Christs personal Reign now at hand must shortly quickly whether they will or no receive the voice of the seventh Vial and that wil be a dreadful direful voyce saying It is Done That is all power of the Enemy is destroyed Babylon is ruined and all the Prophesies and Promises made to Saints are accomplished in this glorious coming of our King and the utter ruine of the king of pride And that which makes this voyce woful and dreadful to purpose is Math. 25.10 Rev. 18.19 with Rev. 11.19 that it is attended with that soul-confounding voyce that will reach the hearts of those fools that now slight the Gospel of Grace viz. The door is shut Mercies door is shut never to be opened any more nothing remains now but Thunders Lightnings terrible Earthquakes such as never was fierceness of wrath blackness of darkness Jude 13. wo and alas for evermore Wherefore my humble advise and earnest request is that you will diligently hearken to receive embrace and walk up to the ensuing voyce of the seventh Trumpet Ah dear friends The door will be shut THus have I endeavoured to hold forth the Light I have received by those soft sweet soul refreshing gales of the blessed Spirit concerning this deep Mystery of the Prophesy Slaughter Resurrection and Ascention of the two Witnesses With the rise raign and ruine of Antichrist which will be fully compleated in the days of the Voyce of the seventh Angel Whereof I shall now speak as of the second part of the eleventh Chapter of the Revelation The Fifteenth Verse And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voyces in heaven saying The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever TO give an account of my judgement concerning the Seals Trumpets and Vials it appears cleer to my understanding that the opening of each Seal is the Discovery of some Gospel-light one glorious Truth after another as the day approacheth and no sooner is one Gospel-Truth made known by the secret breathings of the Spirit according to his word but presently the Trumpet sounds that is The Ministers of the Gospel publish it abroad as the Prophet speaketh The Lord gave the word Psal 68.11 great was the company of those that published it Thus did Luther upon the discovery of new Light sound such an alarum as made the Throne of the Beast to stagger like a drunken man I will not say the first Seal was opened to Luther nor that he was the first Trumpet but this I can speak that a further degree of Gospel-glory new light though the word be odious amongst some was discovered to Calvin and after him to others who as they received it presently became the Lords Trumpets to declare it to the world upon whose refusal of it the Vials are successively poured forth so that first a Seal is opened secondly a Trumpet sounds declaring the truth discovered within that opened Roll thirdly a Vial of wrath is poured forth upon those that hear and reject it but because the Seals Trumpets Vials are not contained in this Chapter I shall forbear to enlarge upon them at this time and prosecute the work of this present Chapter If we look back to the former Discourse of the Witnesses and consider the seven thousand names of men there discovered to be slain or supprest by this present Parliament and observe the sweet consent of things attending it will be no harsh or improbable Conclusion that the seventh and last Trumpet is at this instant sounding yea sounding at present such an Alarum that there are scarce any other voyces heard among watchful Saints but the Lords at hand the Bridegroom is coming The Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord c. Which as it is the earnest expectation of all waking Virgins and the unspeakable support of many a poor dejected disconsolate drooping soul to think in the midst of afflictions temptations and fiery tryals My Lord is a coming to put an end to all my sorrows to wipe all tears from mine eyes to tread Satan under his feet to set me free from sin and sorrow and so I shall by way of improvement of my small Talent least it be found hid in a Napkin for the augumentation of the joy of every waiting longing breathing panting spirit and for the information of such poor souls belonging to Christ who are yet in the Dark as touching this great Mystery hold forth what the Lord hath entrusted in this earthen vessel of the unconceivable Glory of this his universal soveraignty In which glorious discovery I shall shew 1. That he will come to reign upon earth 2. How and in what manner he will come 3. Where he will establish his Throne at his coming 4. When he wil take his great power reign 5. The signes of his coming 6. His ends in thus coming 7. Events succeeding 8. The uses we are to make of all And if these and each of these shall be fully cleared by the pure Word of the Lord without wresting or any other subtile invention of mans brain then let all the sons and daughters of Sion with joy embrace them as intelligence and sweet tokens of love from their King and Husband whose bowels yearn whose high endeared affections are upon the wing unsatisfied with his present glory in Heaven till the fulness of time come that he may be inebriated and overcome with the soul ravishing embraces of his purchased Spouse on Earth But if any circumstance belonging to this glorious Subject shall be found wanting of cleer testimony from the fountain of truth Let it be detested abhorred and rejected as the froath and vanity of a deceived and deluded creature but to the particulars First That the Lord Jesus Christ who did ascend into Heaven shall come again to reign upon the Earth is clear from divers Scriptures Jer. 23.6.33.16 Isai 4.2 first that of Jeremiah Behold the days come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a Righteous branch and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute Judgement and Justice in the Earth and he shall be called the Lord our Righteousness Secondly That in Rev. 5.10 where the glorified Saints in Heaven do exceedingly exult and rejoyce not only that they are redeemed from amongst men and possest of heavenly

from the Roman Empire and yet Antichrist is not Come Before the comming of Antichrist the Nations were to fall away Thomas Lyra. as we see it already done saith another but as their Fore-fathers the Scribes and Pharises seeing the Scepter departed from Judah wondred that the Messias came not when he was working wonders amongst them all the while and they could not discern him Even so these blind Popish Guides were gaping after the Revelation of the son of Perdition when he was all the time of their seeking for him and long before sitting in his Pontificalibus exalting himself above all that is called God being mounted by almost insensible degrees from a little horn Fulk Rhem. Test pag. 329. a vile contemptible condition to command as he pretends all the Kings and Kingdoms in the World as to instance a little in some particulars Zacharias Pope of Rome having deposed Childerick King of France and absolved his Subjects from their Oath of Fealty he gave the Kingdom to Pipin who afterward he made to kiss his feet Gregory the Second excommunicated the Emperor Leo the Third because he was an enemy to Images and while the good Emperor was casting down these Idols Field of the Church pag. 623. this son of Perdition made Decrees for the people to revolt from their obedience to him Pope Gregory the Seventh deposed Henry the Fourth and made him his wife and child wait three dayes bare-foot at his Palace Gate What shall be said to that excessive pride of Pope Alexander the Third treading upon the neck of Fredrick the Emperor spurning from the head of another the Imperial Crown making others hold his bridle his stirrop kiss his feet the Emperors being water to wash his hands carry the first Dish to his Table bear his Cup his Train carry him upon their shoulders c. call him our lord god the Pope yea to this day the Elect Emperors by order are to worship the Pope at his Coronation Paul the Third said that he was above all Princes in the World that he could change Kingdoms at his pleasure that no Prince should be his Companion but all Subjects under his feet as it was fit they should by the will and appointment of him who had built his Church upon Peter his Predecessor that he would die overthrow all and set the World on fire rather then be base and yet as much as he scornd baseness he was not asham'd nor afraid of that desperate sin of Perjury c. Boniface went in Procession attired with the Crown Imperial Pope Alexander the Sixth was so enraged with burning lust to his own Daughter that he could not endure any man to enjoy her but himself and therefore he dissolved her Marriage from two Husbands that so he might wholly engross her to his Incestuous lust which yet he fell short of for his own two Sons the Duke of Candia and Cardinal of Valentia did also share with their Father in the Incestuous enjoyment of their Sister for whose sake Valentia murthered his Brother Yea In Vita Pauli 5. so generally wicked and abominable were the Popes of Rome that Papirius Massonius a Popish Writer saith no man expects any sanctity in Popes now adayes they are thought to be excellent Popes if they have never so little honesty or be not so wicked as other men use to be Is it not miraculous that the great and holy God the fountain of Justice hath so long endured such dreadful and abominable wickedness If it be said that some Bishops of Rome were accounted holy men in the fourth and fifth Century and some Councels of those times were well approved of and therefore Antichrists rising could not be so early as the yeer 304. I answer Antichrist and his kingdom is the Mystery of Iniquity as hath been shewed and therefore the Prophet Daniel considereth diligently and searcheth curiously before he could espie him so dark obscure were his beginnings in sheeps cloathing Mat. 7 15. Rev. 13.11 Mat. 24.24 with horns like a Lamb yet spake like a Dragon and raven'd like a Wolfe Neither do I believe that all the Bishops of Rome immediately after Constantine had knowledge of what they did as to the furtherance of this work of darkness or that their seat was the Chayr of Pestilence Nay I do think that some of them did with great confidence abominate and would with abundance of zeal and resolution have detested the thought of being instrumental in the setting up of Antichrist The Jews and Gentiles that put the Lord of glory to a shameful death 1 Cor. 2.8 little knew what they did 2 King 8.12.13 when the Prophet Elisha fore-told Hazael of that horrible wickedness that he should do to the children of Israel he was amazed at the thought of such abominations replyed with great resolution in detestation of it But what is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing Acts 22.4 Little did Paul think what he was about when he was going to Damascus against the Saints I dare not think that all the Bishops of Rome did promote this work knowingly and resolvedly it is cleer that Gregory opposed John of Constantinople in his attempt to be made universal Bishop and I believe he little dreamd how irrecoverably the Chayr he sate in was poysoned with the infection Trap. Comment pag. 292. And yet t is well known that himself did most basely insinuate and earnestly desire the same title from the bloody Emperour Phocas Brightman considering the monstrous pride and worldly pomp that followed upon the Enjoyments of that glorious peace that was now established thinks it no great wonder that this defection should so slily creep in even whilst they were fervent in promoting and advancing Christianity because that at the same instant many were swoln big with contentions others gaped after honors some were delivered of desperate heresies Rev. Apoc. pag. 112. and the Generality heaped up superstitions without measure And all this while the obscurity of the true Churches encreased every day more and more the simple plainess and sincere purity of the Scriptures were more and more slighted defiled obscured wrested and perverted by idle and fond Allegories and absurd Expositions Reliques were adored and Religion placed in toys and trifles while all kind of iniquity got ground And therefore we may not conceive that the man of sin was at first to be openly manifested for how then should it be a Mystery of Iniquity Rome was not built in a day the Mystery was working in the Apostles days but never got a feat in the Church till the Arrians bore sway when the Christian world seemd to turn heretique and though the Chayr of Pestilence was now erected and the true Church with her true witnesses now exiled yet it was long before the man of sin was openly discovered for as the true Church of Christ after she had conceived travailed with child 300.

years to bring forth a Christian Emperour so this degenerate Church of Rome the ape of the true Church travelled also 300 yeers still swelling and by insensible degrees growing bigger and bigger till at last she brought forth the spurious birth of a universal Bishop in the reign of the bloody Emperor Phocas Anno Dom. 600. And now is the great Antichrist openly enthroned at the same time when the Empire is divided and broken into ten Kingdoms Rev. 17.12 viz. 1. Brittons 2. Saxons 3. Franks 4. Burgundians 5. Wisegothes 6. Swedes 7. Vandals 8. Astrogoths Mede Apoc cap. 8. 9. Almans 10. Greeks Of which ten three fall quickly before the Beast according to Daniels Prophesie Dan. 7.8 Park Prophe p. 28. and those were the Greeks Longobards and Franks and to these Pipin adds another temporal dominion And now this king of pride A brief Exposition of part of Dan. 11.22 as with the arms of a Flood bears down all before him exalts himself against the Prince of the Covenant with all power and lying wonders yea with all deceivableness of unrighteousness Vers 24. Entring upon the fattest places of the Provinces whereupon he founds his Superstious prophane Abbeys Nunneries Monasteries c. where he fats up his Locusts those Idols drones belly-gods that in huge swarms have filled all his Dominions even the choycest fattest places thereof as is obvious to every eye that will but look upon the decayed superstitious Places in our own Land where the Swine have swilled he wageth war with the King of the South and overcometh all those Southern Kings that dare oppose him Dan. 11.25 as Soliman in Asia Cassianus in Syria the Egyptian Caliph in Judaea which exploits were performed by that incarnate Devil Hilderbrand Vers 26. Vers 28. who returned with great spoyls and abundance of Treasures he fals on with rage fury and violent persecution against the poor Waldensian Protestants and at length by open hostility he destroys many thousands of this covenanted people Vers 30. in a most bloody fierce and cruel War After this Vers 31. is the breaden god the abomination that maketh desolate set up amongst them Via Tuta pag. 118. the Idol doctrine of Transubstantiation established for an Article of Faith Vers 32. and the true Sacrifice taken away In the midst of all this Pride Tyranny and Persecution the Lord preserves himself a peculiar people as in Elias time even in the heart of Romes Dominions a people that cleave close to the Lord whom he strengthens in the midst of their sorrows so that they do glorious exploits of the highest nature like the Son of God while they overcome by sufferings These Waldensian Protestants were undoubtedly that people here spoken of that know their God and understand his will Vers 33. and therein instruct many thousands both by doctrine and sufferings by the sword by flame by spoyl and by Captivity whereunto they know they were appointed with the rest of their brethren for many daies even 1260 years which they go through with wonderful constancy Vers 34. patience and resolution But at last they shall be holpen with a little help some small weak unlikely means for what was Luther Calvin Melancton and a few such in comparison of that great Potentate and his Scarlet Conclave and yet this little help strikes a good stroak wonderfully refresheth the poor wasted Churches but abates little of the pride and cruelty luxury and abominations of Antichrist who is still as desperately wicked as any of his Predecessors what wickedness was formerly acted that France Spain Italy c. is yet reformed of Did Clement the Sixth poyson the good Emperour Lodowick Did Pope Joan alias Gilberta openly discover her self to be a notorious Strumpet in the open street what may be said to Ticell affirming that though a man should lie with the Virgin Mary he could by the Popes power freely pardon the sin What may be thought of the Tyranny Perjury Murther Extortion Adultery Incest and other monstrous villanies of Pope John the Thirteenth who lay with Stephana his Fathers Concubine defloured several Virgins set houses on fire put out the eyes of Benedict drank to the Devil c. What a goodly Tenet was that of Boniface That whoredom is no more a sin then the rubbing of the hands together These and many such like are the apples that grow in that filthy Lake of Sodome to this day as they that have any experience in Romes Territories do wel know what fearful Tragedies what desperate villanies what inhumane bestialities are still rise within these Confines scarce a night passeth but in most Towns of Trade in Spain and Italy several lose their lives and no wonder when for a Royal of six pence value a Brave will undertake to dispatch any mans life and when he hath done flie but to the Popish Church and he is secure how abominably is the Lords day prophaned by Mercats Plays c. what multitudes of filthy Stews doth this man of Sin yeerly receive vaste sums of money from for their allowance God forbids whoredom and appoints marriage the Pope that he may shew himself to the life to be Antichrist expresly forbids marriage and allows whoredom But this sin is venial indeed they say in comparison of that more dreadfull beastly Sodomitical abomination maintained amongst them and defended in books and praysed in Songs c. A Cardinal seeing two men led to Execution said they should not die but he would desire their lives of the Duke his Brother when it was told him what villany they had committed The one being a wretched Murtherer he set him free but the other being condemned for Sodomy he presently cryed Away with him to Execution Base Peasant that dare presume to meddle with the pleasures of a Prince Of the like stamp was that other Cardinal who having a Bitch that he had long abused himself with and the Bitch at last dying he buryed her with much cost in his Garden and built a stately Monument over her and upon it wrote these two lines This Tomb for thee dear Bitch I builded have Who fitter wert for Heaven then a grave But how have I forgot my self in raking this filthy Jakes but the abominable wickedness that mine eyes have seen practised amongst them with much much more hath even forced this digression from me I shall now return to the further discovery of this man of Sin from the eleventh of Daniels Prophesie Who was so far from Reformation upon the discovery of Light by Luther that little help spoken of that now he grows more enraged Dan. 11.34 mad and fierce then ever witness those horrible butcheries Massacres Martyrdoms of poor Saints in Germany and other places What such a contemptible fellow as Luther presume to meddle with his Scarlet Holiness that exalteth himself above every God yea magnifieth himself and speaketh marvellous things against the God of gods

for any mischief drunkenness whoring swearing cursing blaspheming any thing And that which exceeds admiration this cursed Serpent hath so wonderfully led them away captive at his will that they beleeve these abominations are lawful and not sinful at all Nay amongst many of them the most bloody execrations and most desperate wickedness is counted the highest attainment And all this arising principally from their ignorance of this wonderful Mystery of Christs Personal Reign Now here the poor Saint wondring at the free distinguishing Love of God in leaving such through ignorance to wallow in all kind of filthiness and revealing this profound Mystery so sweetly and clearly to him Cryes out My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed nothing through thy strength shall shake my resolution then and not till then will I beleeve my Lord is come when I shall see the departed Saints raised the living changed thine ancient People called Antichrist and his Babel destroyed the whole Creation restored universal peace established the world combined Satan chained the Mount of Olives divided Jehosaphats Vale enlarged the holy City erected the Marriage Royal solemnized the Saints immortalized and gloriously enthroned the Nations all subdued then and not till then shall Gospel Ordinances be abolished or rather contracted into those Gospel-Exercises that shall abide to all eternity as love and praise and joy unconceivable till these glorious wonders be clearly manifested I shall keep close to the Mountains of Myrrh and the Hils of Frankincense where I have so often enjoyed the beloved of my soul from whose chaste embraces and heavenly continued delights I must not through the riches of his love I shall not be entised by the fond conceits of any deluded Notionist Though they tell me he 's here there Mat. 24. nowhere I stir not though thousands are deluded I flinch not Vers 23. though they say he is in the Desart I move not Vers 24. in the secret Chambers I believe it not Vers 26. I know the coming of my Lord will be more glorious then so Vers 27. which coming is now at hand and the precise time though no mortal creature doth know yet the Saints are so far acquainted with his minde and will revealed that they can tell he will come 1. When sinners are in their highest jollity Mat. 24.43 44. and will take them in the midst of their carnal security when they little think of it he will come and break the house upon them and destroy all their mirth for ever 2. He will come when wicked Ministers are laying Principles of Persecution Luk. 12.45 and contriving miseries to the poor Saints 3. Ephes 4.12 13. Z●ch 14.5 He will come when the number of his Elect are compleated he will bring all his Elect with him when he comes he cannot come while one Saint is unborn uncalled 4. He will come at midnight when most of the Virgins are asleep and the one half of those sleepy Virgins like false professors do either hide their Talents Mat. 25.5 6. or are unfruitful unholy in their conversation their vessels empty which will make themselves most miserable So that between the drowsiness and stupidity of the wise and the barrenness and hyprocrisie of the foolish Virgins Luk. 18.8 the Lord makes a great question whether or no he shall finde Faith on the Earth at his coming I do therefore in the name and fear of the Lord advise you my dear fellow members who shall share with me in that exceeding eternal weight of glory be diligent to employ and improve your Talents As every man hath received the gift 1 Pet. 4.10 even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God Wherefore gird up the loynes of your minde be sober and hope to the end 1 Pet. 1.13 Luk. 12.35 36. for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the Revelation of Jesus Christ 5. He will come when many of his servants are waiting watching for his coming diligently employed and busie in the work of their Lord Lord Luk. 12.37 why should not I be found so doing 6. And lastly Mat. 24.32 33 34. he will come in that same Generation wherein the fig-tree buddeth that is when all the signs are accomplished that are mentioned in his word Fifthly And these signs are either remote or immediate The first sort Are 1. the rise raign and decay of Antichrist Secondly The Churches exile and slaughter of the Witnesses Thirdly Wars Treachery Villany Cruelty Persecution c. Fourthly Idolatry Heresy Superstition and all kind of abomination Fifthly False Prophets that shall affirm he is come already that he hath reigned given up the Kingdom to his Father that he is here there not at all deny his Divinity c. These and many others are already accomplished The second sort of signs that do more immediately precede his coming Rev. 16.12 Dr. Browns Enquiry pag. 313. are 1. The drying of the great River Euphrates one of whose streams are already dryed up and how soon the rest may be is uncertain 2. The Sun darkned some think this will be a wonderful Ecclips or some more extraordinary obscurity Mat. 24.29 Joel 2.31 3.15 Which others conceive is meant of Turk and Pope the latter pretending to be the glorious light of the world whose false raves have by degrees been extinguishing these many years upon the blessed discovery of the pure heavenly light of the Gospel before which true light all his juglings have been detected as once Simons were by the preaching of Philip Acts 8.9 and at last shall be universally obscured all the glistering stars of this defiled heaven of Rome falling as untimely fruit when at the same time the other grand enemy of Jesus Christ who bears for his Crest the Moon that hath so greedily hunted and delighted in blood shall be overwhelmed and swallowed up in blood 3. The third sign immediately preceding this glorious personal appearance reign of our Lord is the secret sign displayed whether this be Elias or the Lord Jesus himself in the clouds Mat. 24.30 restoring all things to their primitive purity and perfection before he descend to the Earth Rom. 11.26 or what else it may be I shall not presume to determine as having no cleer Scripture-Light to direct me and I should be loth to deliver any thing but with good warrant from the Law and the Testimony especially in a point of such waight and concernment 4. The world shall be purified by fire all combustible matter must be burnt up 1 Cor 3.12 2 Pet. 3.6.7 Peter in allusion to the old world cals this a perishing that is all wood hay and stubble must perish in this fire while the gold silver and precious stones shall abide If we be not dear Christians found of this sort what shall we do how shall we stand when the Lord shall be