proceedeth from this viz. that by the drying of the said Nationall Euphrates the tenth part of the Kingdome of the Roman Beast or Empire doth fall altogether or doth quite separate it selfe from it to be no longer a member thereof this part comprehending the Kingdomes of England Scotland Ireland with all the Iles adjacent and thereunto belonging In which part of the said Roman Empire the said Hierarchicall power must now then be utterly abolished according to the foreappointed decree registred in that forealledged place of Revel. 11. 13. and likewise 16. 12. it being the fift and last effect of the said sixt Trumpet the accoÌ„plishment whereof is the cause of the * great voyce of that great multitude in heaven which was heard by John saying Hallelujah Salvation glory honor power be to the Lord our God because his judgements are true righteous because he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornicatioÌ„s c. By which means also a very wide gate is opened and the way prepared for the people inhabiting the said 3 forementioned Kingdomes which the said Euphrates had but a little while before almost over flowed quite drowned hâ—d not the Lord in mercy in a most wonderfull manner prevented it by the powring out of the said sixt Viall upon it in the very time of its most swelling and all overwhelming power by which means its intolerable pride is not only abated but the Euphrates it selfe is quite dryed up so that you as the Premices of the conquered and perfectly converted Kingdomes of the foresaid Roman Western Empire may now freely enter before the other nations in the Canaan of the true reformation the which having first settled and established among you having quite rooted the said Hierarchy registred to eternall memory the utter abolishing therof you may then presently enter in CovenaÌ„t with the Lord and oblige your selves by vow first to continue for ever after faithfull unto him so that you will in a holy zeale defile the very coverings of the images of silver and of gold and take away all the high places and cast away as a menstrous cloth all reliques and remnants of superstition idolatries from among you say unto them Get yee hence that God * may see among you no uncleane thing that may cause him to turne away from you but that rather he may delight to dwell with you and * to walke in the midst of your then bright shining golden Candlestick even to deliver you and to give up all your enemies before you And after that imitating herein the Rubenites Gadites and halfe tribe of Manasseh you may goe armed before the Lord to warre and goe all of you armed over the Euphraticall Iordan before the Lord untill he hath driven out all your enemies the Popish Hierarchicall Canaanites from before him and subdued the whole Land before the Lord as said Moses to the said Rubenites c. in the forealledged place of Num. 32. 21. And though you come from the more Westerly parts of the Western Roman Empire yet are you in a mysticall sense both in respect of the type those ancieÌ„t Israelites entring into Canaan at the East side of it and also in respect of your profession the right Kings of the East comming from the Sunne rising where the day spring the true shining light of the Gospel from on high hath visited you thus to goe before his face to prepare his wayes And as the Israelites brought along with them the * Arke of the Testament over laid round about with gold wherein was the Golden pot that had Manna and Aarons rod that budded and the Tables of the Covenant so doe you bring along with you to them the * everlasting Gospel * of the Kingdome with the powerfull preaching thereof the true food of the Soule together with an holy Church-government at the bright shining light whereof all false Antichristian doctrines of idolatries superstitious Ceremonies will-worship and all other humane inventions shall fall as * Dagon before the Arke yea * Satan himselfe shall fall from heaven It will further cast down before you * all imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ Which is the conquest here especially intended and the weapons wherewith it must be performed This is that mystery whereof the Angel that stood upon the sea and upon the earth spake which God had declared before to his servants the Prophets which is now to be accomplished namely among the rest to Daniel in the * seventh of his prophecy v. 25. speaking of the time of the finishing of the Kingdome tyranny of the little horne which should then undermine viz. by her wiles as another Balaam the Saints of the most High which S. John Rev. 11. 7. â—pplyes to the time of the two witnesses finishing their testimony saying that the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomles pit should then especially make warre against them and should overcome them and kill them which last words Daniel expresses thus saying of the said Witnesses that they should be given into hâ—s hand viz. of that little horne or powerfull Nationall Hierarchicall Sea but with all limiting the time of that victory when he addes in the next words untill a time and times and the dividing of time in these few words comprehending what S John more fully and clearely expresses in the 8 9 and 10. v. of the foresaid Chap. wherein he shews both their condition during their said death and also distinctly what we are to understand by that indetermined time of Daniel viz. three dayes an halfe which we have already shewed to be meant of the three yeares an halfe of the Witnesses n mysticall death or imprisonment At the ending of which time Daniel saith that the judgement should sit and thâ—y viz that sit in the said judgement should take away his Dominion to consume it destroy it unto the end which is thus expressed by S John first in the foresaid Chap. v. 11 12 13. saying that after those three dayes and an halfe formentioned the Spirit of life c. and afterwards v. 13. And the same houre was there an earth-quake and the tenth part of the Citie fell c. Item Chap. 16. 12. in these words And the sixt Angell powred out his viall upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dryed up And then finally in the thankesgiving of that great multitude assembled in Armageddon sitting in the foresaid judgement Rev. 16. 16. saying * Allelujah Salvation and glory and honor and power be unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgements for he hath judged the great whore and hath avenged the bloud of his servants at her hand All which places are parallell By the
most wise and all ruling providence of God both to aggravate the said judgements upon them as also to manifest thereby to the whole world the equitie of his justice and that by such meanes also he might make his name to bee the better knowne throughout all the earth as he said in the like case of Pharaoh The first movers then or instrumentall causes of all of them were these foure windes which were to blow from the foure quarters of the world upon that of the Roman Empire viz. North South East West to bring it to its last and utter destruction which were to come up as it were upon the theater with their foresaid attendants in this order and first the first of them with the foure first Trumpetters After the second and with him the fift Trumpetter making as it were the first Angel of the Vials to poure out the first plague which caused the first woe The third winde was to followe this at the heeles to stir up first the sixth Trumpeter who by the sound of his Trumpet did provoke five of the Angels of the Vials to powre out each of them the severall plagues contained in them one after another which caused the second woe which was no sooner past then behold the third and last woe commeth quickly caused by the plague of the seventh and last Viall stirred up by the seventh and last Trumpeter moved by the fourth and last winde Of all which foure I will say in as few words as I may possible because I shall more at large speake of each of them in the forepromised Parallell if God be pleased to grant me life and meanes to performe the same first whence they were to blow what should bee the judgements which they were to bring along with them and lastly the time both of their beginning continuance and ending For the first it was as it is already said the Northerne wind the which blowing with a very strong and most boystrous gale brought from that quarter of the world those barbarous people which as so many great * great floods of water cast out of the Serpents mouth after the woman did presently overspread and almost overflow the whole Roman world the said serpent thinking thereby to drowne the whole seede of the said woman after which they sailed as fast as sailes and tacklings could hold as Pharaoh did with his swift-winged chariots after the children of Israel the true type of this first expedition against our Christian Israel made by that a terrible and fatall storme of the said Northerne Nations Goths Sarmatians Almaines Huns Vandales Quades c. all which brake upon the said Roman world or Empire almost without intermission harrying burning wasting and destroying many Provinces of it and therein made that greaâ— slaughter of men of all sorts represented unto us Revel. 8. 7. by the burning up of the third part of the trees and of all greene grasse whereby also the said third part of that Empire became as a sea of blood through which the Church of God was then to passe as the Israelites had done through the red sea the true type of this after which passage the waters of the Christian doctrine like those of Mara once were so embitered now by the false Arrian Hereticall doctrine drunke embraced and maintained by these Northern peoples so eagerly pressed upon the Christians especially in Africa by Genseric the Vandale and his successors that it became as bitter as wormewood b By all which bloody warres and persecution and by the blustering violence of these so stormie blasts of winde and weather the said Westerne part especially of the Empire was brought to such a miserable confused hurlie burlie that at length the glorie and Majestie thereof was very much abated and finally divided into ten Kingdomes which presently after became the hornes of the seventh heaâ— of the Roman Beast which had together with 〈◊〉 received her power at the same houre The bâ—â—â—nning of all which stormes and miseries fell out at the ending of the * halfe houre silence given to the Church to free her selfe from the Pagan Idolatry about the 405. yeare of our Lord about which time * Radagisus King of the Goths entred into the said Empire with an Armie of 200000. men after whom succeeded Alaric who came against Rome it self tooke it and sacked it about the yeare 410 of our Lord some say 15 About the same time Genseric the Vandale with a great armie of divers of the forenamed Northerne Nations overranne France Spaine and entred in Africa about the 428. yeare where he seated himselfe Then also the Saxons entred great Britaine Attila that scourge of the world followed these at the heeles with an Armie of some 500000. men of divers Nations about the yeare 450. wasting all the Countries through which they passed till at length he was vanquished by Aetius Valentianus captaine in the Catalian mountaines About 460. c Genseric being called by Eudoxia late wife of Valentinian the Emperour then married to Maximus who had killed her said husband came against Rome and entring therein without great opposition sacked and spoyled it for the space of 14 dayes After whom followed Richimer the Goth then Odoacer of Rugia by whom presently after by Theodoric the Goth sent against the said Odoacer by the Emperour Zenon the Sunne the Moone and the Starres of that third part of the world I meane Augustulus with all the luster and glory of the Westerne Empire were smitten and darkened by these forementioned Northern Nations some of which did settle themselves therein for a while viz. the Goths and Lombards in Italie the Vandales in Africa the Frankes and Burgundians in the Gaules the Swedes Alans Goths and Vandales in Spaine and the Saxons Angles and Danes in great Britaine even till the time of Justinian the Emperour of the East who by the valour of his two renowned captaines Narsetes Belisarius did subdue many of these barbarous Nations viz. that of the Vandales in Africa after it had continued under the raigne of sixe Kings about an hundred yeares that is 428. to 530. And afterwards that of the Goths in Italie which was begunne as it was noted before by Odacte about the yeare 476. and finished it in 553. or thereabouts The first winde having thus made an end of his blowing and being thus becalmed it fell out some while after that Phocas the murtherer forementioned of Maritus the Emperour having succeeded him in the Empire that his murther being approved by Pope Boniface the third whom therefore he created universall Bishops this proud title being also approved by the Councell held at Rome under the said Pope about the yeare 606 of our Lord Wherefore a little while after the second of the foure forementioned windes was loosed the which began to blow from a direct contrary plage of the world that is from the southerne parts thereof bringing along with it
means of which judgement the way of the Kings of the East shall be prepared And if it be now asked to what end the answer is That the said Kings may goe armed before their brethren beyond the Seas to conquer to Christ The kingdome saith * Daniel in the said â—ap v. 27. and dominion the greatnes of the kingdome under the whole heaven which shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High whose kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and all dominion shall serve obey him because as was noted before the said Kingdomes are the * premices of other and as the first fruits of them unto God and to the Lambe Thereby accomplishing the vow promise made concerning their said brethren in the forementioned covenant which must not be forgotten And therefore Right Worthies of the Lord permit me to reiterate the said promise in the words of that Worthy Leader of Israel reiterating it to the said three Tribes and saying unto them * Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord coÌ„manded you saying The Lord your God hath given you rest and hath given you this Land your wives your children and your cattell shall remaine in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan but you shall goe over before your brethren armed all the mightie men of valour and shall helpe them untill the Lord hath given your brethren rest as he hath given you and they also have possessed the Land which the â—ord your God giveth them then yee shall returne unto the Land of your possession and enjoy it The which they accordingly performed as the same Joshua testifies speaking unto them after the conquest of the said Land of Canaan and and the division thereof among the other Tribes saying * Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you have obeyed my voyce in all that I commanded you Ye have not left your brethreÌ„ these many dayes unto this day but have kept the charge of the Commandement of the Lord your God And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren as he promised them therfore now returne ye and get ye unto your tents and unto the land of your possession And when he sent them away then he blessed them spake unto them saying return with much riches unto your tents and with very much cattell with silver and with gold with brasse and with iron and with very much raimeÌ„t divide the spoile of your enemies with your brethren To the which prophecies together with this so manifest a type may yet be added that excellent promise made to this end to all these victorious Kings of the East in this Booke of the Revelation which may serve not onely to confirme this truth but also to encourage the people of the said Kingdome to goe on chearfully to the performance of the said great worke now by them so happily begun to which purpose therefore let them consider first that promise is made to the Angel and Church of o Thyatira after the fall of Jezabel and after the death of her childreÌ„ mentioned Rev. 2. 22 23. a place parallell to the forealledged Rev 11 v. 13. 16. 12. 19. 15 16. namely that to those that should thus overcome and conquer the foresaid kingdomes and people in the forespoâ—en manner and should keep Gods works unto the end he would give them power over nations they should rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter should they be broken to shivers and that he would give them the morning starre CoÌ„sider likewise to this purpose that which is said presently after the blowing of the seventh Trumpet Rev. 11. 15. by those great voyces in heaven wch said The kingdomes of this world are become the kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reigne for ever and ever Wherefore they sing that Hallelujah at the falling downe of the forementioned walls of Jericho mentioned Rev. 19. 6. because then the Lord God was entred into his kingdome Now then seeing that these things ought thus to be done by the foresaid Kings Princes Nobles people suffer not the hornes of your powerfull authority to be used any more against the author thereof or against his most distressed Church and Spouse either in these kingdomes or in any other as they have been too too much heretofore by that cruell Beast and most proud whore Jezabel but rather in a more sincere zeale to Gods glory then that of Jehu as shee is entred into the house of God by the window so let her be cast out of it that shee may be trodden under the feet not onely of the horses and most base people as she is already but of your selves for it is prophecied that you ought thus to hate her and make her desolate and naked yea that you ought to eate her flesh burne her with the fire of Excommunication that thereby you may at length fulfill the words of God Revel. 17. 16 17. And to conclude with a word of exhortation and encouragement also to my fellow-brethren of the Ministery that * Phinees-like having already shewed a great zeale in the cause of the Lord against Zimri and Cosbi they may also like him goe with the thousands of Israel with the instruments of the Sanctuary and the Trumpets of alarme in their hands to execute the vengeance of the Lord against Midian sparing none of their Princes not Balaam himselfe nor any of the women neither because they have caused the children of Israel through the counsell of BalaaÌ„ to commit a great trespasse against the Lord in the case of Peor wherfore came the plague among the Congregation of the Lord And therefore like * Elija take all the Prophets of Baall so that not a man of them doe escape though they were seven thousand in number for all of them must be slaine with the spirituall sword of ExcoÌ„munication * going out of the mouth of Jesus Christ But above all be careful to commend the rooting out to the very stumps yea stumps all of that Hierarchicall Antichristian-like Church-government with all the Officers thereof to those that are now fighting the battels of the Lord in lieu thereof labour to have the holy Church Discipline of Christ stablished countenanced and authentically authorised among us seeing that no man usurp under what colour or title how favourable and specious soever it be any dominion over the Lords inheritance that Gods wrath may no more be provoked against us who is as you know a consuming fire now more then ever zealous of his glory and who to manifest the same hath taken in hand his vindicating power to take vengeance of * all his enemies who would not that he should rule over them and who have bin likewise the mortall enemies of his true Witnesses and most faithfull
servants whom he hath also armed now especially with such powerfull authority that If any one doth yet presume to hurt them or oppose them in this most blessed and most holy work of Reformation * fire shall proceed out of their mouth to devoure all their enemies for if any man will burt them he must in this manner be killed And they have also to this end a two edged sword in their hands to execute vengeance upoÌ„ the heathen and corrections among the people yea to binde their Kings in chaines and their Nobles with fetters of iron that they may execute upon them the judgement that is written this honour shall be to all his Saints Prayse yee the Lord FINIS * So the woman did sit upon a scarlet coloured beast Rev. 17. 3. called before vers. 1. waters expounded after vers 19 and 18. * Revel. â— 15. 16. 17. 13. â— 12. 14. 16 17. â— * And thus did the Serpent cast oute of his moâ—th the like â—â—â—nde of water as a flood after the woman Revel 12.15 These Kings were 31 in all Iosh. 12.24 Psal 125. 3. Revel. 11. 〈◊〉 Idem 1. 3. 5. Numb. 33. 1. 3 c. a That is yeares a day for a yeare according to that threatning mentioned Numb. 14. 34. alluding to the type thereof mentioned Exod. 19. 4. Deut. 32. 10. b i. e. One yeare two yeares and halfe an yeare of dayes amounting to the forementioned time of 1260 dayes of yeares c Cent. Magd. Cent. 4. p. 861. l. 44. Helvicus Crounologie Alsted Chron. p. 76. * Revel. 12. 15. h This may be very easily gathered by that which is said Revel. 17. 1. 21. 9. i This is the right practise of the Hirarchicall men both in Pulpits printed books publick and private conferences and the best arguments they can alleadge to oppose the excellent Church government of the reformed Churches beyond Seas k Thus doe the proud wicked men of the world perswade themselves that it is in their power to hind er the proceedings of Gods judgements and to stay his hand when he hath begun to execute Iustice upon them this was the cause of the builders of Babel Gen. 11. 4. c. and of Pharaob Exod. 5. 2. and 〈◊〉 5. 9. and likewise of thâ—se who think that the Kings of the earth shall be able to hinder the drying up of this mysticall Euphrates or to make it run as before now it is dayed up But all such must know that there isâ—… neither understanding nor councell to withstand the Lord as saith Solomon Prov. 31. 30. l For with him is wisedome and strength hee hath counsell and understanding it is he that breakes downe and it cannot bee built that shutteth a man up and he cannot be loosed he that sendeth the waters to destroy the earth and he againe that withholdeth the waters and they dry up saith Job 12. 13. c. * Revel. 16. 16. Iosh. 10. 8. m Such as were those of the great Armado of Spaine called Invincible sent in 1588. to conquer England in the time of Queene Elizabeth Or of that other last which was overthrowne by the Hollenders neare Dover in 1639. * Gen. 1. 7. * Verse 10. * 1 Cron. 4. 2. Revel. 17. 15. Ier. 51. 42. * Dan. 7. 3. * Revel. 4. 6. and * 22. 1. * Psal. 2. 6. * Luke 1. 32. * Esay 22. 22. and 9. 6. * Cor. 15. 25. * Luke 22. 29. and Mat. 16. 19. compared with 18. v. 18. * 1 Thes. 5. 12. Heb. 13. 17. 1 Pet. 5. 3. * 1 Cor. 4. 1. and 5. 4. Mat. 28. 18 19 20. * Psal. 110. 4. Heb. 7. 21. n Thus the Pope doth attribute unto himselfe an universall Hierarchicall power over all the Churches and Bishops of the Christian worlâ— which presumptuous title was at length granted unto him by Phocas the Parricide or cruell murtherer of Maurice the Emperour in the veâ—â—e of our Lord 606 who therby became the Popes midwife Eodem â—nno Concilium Romanâ—m celebratâ—â— in quo idem Bonifacius pro mulgat privilegium Phoâ—â— â—â—jus parriciâ—iâ—â— approbaverat de primatu Ecclesie Romanae quem Patriarâ—hae Constantinopolitani hactenâ—s impugnaverant For the punishment whereof God brought from the Southerne part of the world some 15. or 16 yeares after Mahomet with his false Alcoran together with his troopes of Locusts or Saâ—â—asins who did extreamely vexe the woâ—ld causing the first woe Reâ—â—◠〈◊〉 5. 1â— o Thus are the Nationall Dioceses or Seas of Archbishops and Bishops called by the name of the chiefe Cities of those Provinces over which they doe dominere and exercise their powerfull usurped authority as the Diocesse of Caâ—…ry that of Yorke c. o The Iubiles were first instituted by Boniface the eight in the yeare of the Lord 1300. calling himselfe most blasphemously the Portion of Heaven as having the keyes of it in his power of whom it is very well said that Intravit ut â—ulpes regnavit ut Leo mortuus est ut canis For the punishment whereof God brought the Turkes over the Hellespont in Europe under Ottoman their first Emperour in the yeare of Christ 1320. In this very time and in this Pope that Prophecy of Revel. 13. 11. was truely accomplished these two swords being the two hornes there spoken of signifying the power both of the Priesthood of the Kingdom therefore doth he also weare them in his Miter as true signes or markes hereof Then indeede did this Beast come out of the earth for as the Kingdome of Christ is from Heaven and bringeth men thither so the Popes kingdome is of the earth and leadeth to perdition because it is begun and established by ambition covetousnesse beastlines theft treason and tyrannie Luke 22. 38. p This Councell was held in the yeare of Christ 1414. under Pope Martin the 〈◊〉 whose Pantofle the Emperour Sigismond kissed very devoutly kneeling q It was begun in the yeare 1545. was as the very sincke of all herisies and false doctrines * Revel. 9. 17 18. Eccle. 1. 7. Revel. 16. 4. and verse 12. Ier. 51. 6◠〈◊〉 44. 27. r For the third Viall was pâ—â—â—ed presently after the foremâ—ntioned Councells of 〈◊〉 and Tâ—… about which time Aâ—… the Tâ—… wastâ—d â—any kingdomes in Euâ—… and â—pâ—lt â—â—ch Christian blood The like did Mahomet the seccond and Bajazeth his successors sâ—â—â—â—â—ls Turkish Hist. from the yeare of Christ 1420. to 1600. c. The sixt Viall was powred upon Euphrates about the yeare 1632 so forwards the effect whereof viz the drying up of it appeared first in Scotland anno 1639 when the sentence of Excommunication was deceived against the Hierarchie and the ministers thereof t He that was last the head of this Nationall Hierarchy had manifestly corrupted all both doctrine and worship had hee not beene betimes prevented by the Parliament as it appeares both by his conference with the Iesuite also by the late Canons and by his most tyrannicall actions and cruell