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A81085	The little horns doom & dovvnfall or A scripture-prophesie of King James, and King Charles, and of this present Parliament, unfolded. Wherein it appeares, that the late tragedies that have bin acted upon the scene of these three nations: and particularly, the late Kings doom and death, was so long ago, as by Daniel pred-eclared [sic]. And what the issue of all will be, is also discovered; which followes in the second part. By M. Cary, a servant of Jesus Christ.	Cary, Mary.	1651 (1651)	Wing C737; Thomason E1274_1; ESTC R210569	159,322	385

people who are in this frame and to none but such whose hearts are thus spiritual and who so little regard these things in comparison of spiritual even to such will God in these times we are speaking of abundantly give not onely these spiritual injoyments and priviledges but all other things shall be added unto them that so their joy may be compleat and nothing may interrupt it And now I come to declare how comfortably and if I may so say how happily the Saints shall live in this new world in respect of outwards Concerning which hear how the Lord expresses himself Isa 60. 15. For I will make thee an eternal excellency the joy of many generations It is a short but a full word for speaking of the external glory that he will confer upon his Church he says that his Sion shall have as much outward glory as ever any people had nay he says not onely so but that they that excel others he will make them an external excellency The outward glory that was conferred upon Solomon the type of our King of peace was very great but this shall excel it and excel all kingdoms that ever were before it for outward things as well as spiritual It shall be an ex●…rnal excellency and it shall be the joy of many generations such outward glory and such excellency above all others shall be conferred upon it as shall be the joy as shall glad the hearts of all that live in those generations or that shall be brought forth in those times while these thousand yeers shall last And what the outward glories of it shall be is in part exprest in the following words For brass I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron These are the things wherein the external glory of a land consists and he says withal that they shall suck the milk of the Gentiles and suck the breasts of Kings Which imports that the treasures and outward glory of the Nations and of the Kings and great men of the world shall be all drain'd together and brought in to them they shall suck the sweetness of them and shall injoy them all And thus will the Lord make his Sion an eternal excellency in outward respects as well as in inward or spiritual respects But now more fully to declare what this external glory of this new world shall be thus There shall be no outward thing wanting to the Saints that may make their life outwardly comfortable for what is it that can be desired or that heart can think of that ever at any time maketh the lives of people comfortable but the Lord hath promised that his people shall enjoy it in these times And first * Saints shall then have that outward blessing of long life and a comfortable enjoyment of all their relations until they come to a good old age Doth the enjoyment of neer relations without losing of them make the life comfortable Are children outward blessings in which men take much outward content and delight And is it a very desirable thing to have our children the Lords children to be the blessed of the Lord And is it a bitter thing to lose an onely son a sad thing to lose children and neer relations and is the contrary a desirable mercy And is long life a blessing and an outward favour lawful to be desired According to that Psa 91. 16. With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation Why all these things hath the Lord promised to his people in these days when these new Heavens and new Earth shall be as we finde in these Scriptures Isai 65. 17 18 c. Behold I create new heavens a new earth and then what follows I will rejoyce in Jerusalem and joy in my people and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voice of crying But if they should lose their children lose their relations before they come to a ful age there would be mourning and weeping for these things usually prove sad afflictions to the best Saints even to Jacobs and Davids But they shall not lose these then for vers 20. it is said There shall be no more thence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days for the childe shall die an hundred yeers old So that this is clear No infant of days shall die none shall die while they are young all shall come to a good old age They shall not be afflicted for the loss of their children for they shall live till they be an hundred yeers old and not an old man shall die that hath not filled his days Again Zech. 8. 3 4 c. Thus saith the Lord I am returned to Sion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called A city of truth and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain wherein the Lord will dwell And what follows Thus saith the Lord of hosts There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem and every man with his staff in his hand for multitude of days and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof Thus shall the Saints in those days enjoy those desirable blessings of children and of long life they shall have a numerous issue The streets shall be full of boys and girls and old men and old women shall live till they come to a good old age till they walk with a staff in their hand for age But me thinks as I am speaking of these outward blessings I cannot too often insert this as a caution by the way That to a holy heart these things are but secondary comforts under-comforts their chief comfort consists in spirituals But I proceed In Jer. 33. the Lord speaks of the great things he will do for his people in that day and vers 9. he says They shall be for a name of joy and praise and honour before the nations which shall hear of the good that he will do unto them And vers 11. There shall be heard among them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride and the voice of them that shall say Praise the Lord of hosts c. Thus shall they comfortably enjoy children and all relations and praise the Lord. Nay and to make their children which they shall enjoy a complete blessing and mercy to them indeed it is said that they shall be all holy unto God Isa 65. 23. They shall not labour in vain nor bring forth for trouble for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and their off-spring with them Their children being thus blessed with them shall be a joy unto them whereas otherwise they might be a grief and trouble to them Again to the same purpose is that Isa 54. 13. and Isa

people that were the natural Olive branches shall be saved and graffed in againe as it is written There shall come out of Sion a deliverer and he shall turne away ungodlinesse from Jacob for this is my Covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins this promise they had Isa 59. 20. which the Apostle applies particularly to them the naturall seed of Jacob and therefore of them he saies as concerning the Gospell they are now enemies for your sakes but as touching the Election they are beloved for the Fathers sake what more cleere For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance so that saies the Apostle they are an Elect people and they are beloved and the time shall come when they shall be called into the bosome of love for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance And in the 30. 31 32. verses the Apostle doth againe argue it out of all doubt that they shall againe obtaine mercy for saies he for as ye in times past have not beleeved yet have now obtained mercy through their unbeliefe even so have these also now not beleeved that through your mercy they also may obtaine mercy wherein the Apostle saies thus much as your former unbeliefe excluded you not from mercy but through their fall you which once did not beleeve have now obtained mercy so they now being in unbeleefe are in no worse condition than you once were and therefore they through your mercy shall also obtaine mercy and so the Apostle layeth down this conclusion That God hath concluded them all in unbeliefe that he might have mercy upon all and thereupon he breaks out into the admiration of God in these words O the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his Judgements and his waies past finding out And thus I thinke is it sufficiently cleered by Paul that the Jewes in particular are to be called and that the fulness of the Gentiles must come in with them but I shall adde of many only two witnesses more to confirme it and the first shall be the Prophet Ezekiel who Chap. 37. under the figure of two stickes united into one clearely declares that the two Tribes and the ten Tribes which were divided in Rehoboams time Judah and Benjamin remaining under Rehoboam the Son of Solomon and the other ten Tribes being rent from them departing unto Jeroboam the Son of Nebat I say Ezekiel declares that the two Tribes and the ten Tribes that were thus divided under two Kings should be againe united under one King even one that should come of the seed of David and being united they should be one Nation in the Land upon the Mountaines of Israel and one King should be King to them all and they should never be divided into two Kingdomes any more at all neither should they defile themselves any more with their Idols and their detestable things nor with any of their transgressions But saies the Lord I will save them out of all their dwelling places where they have sinned and will cleanse them so shall they be my people and I will be their God and my servant David shall be a King unto them and they shall have one shepheard they shall also walke in my Judgements and observe my statntes and do them and they shall dwell in the Land that I have given unto Jacob my servant wherein your fathers have dwelt and they shall dwell therein even they and their children and their childrens children for ever and my servant David shall be their Prince for ever Now the Prophet Ezekiel we know prophesied in the time when the two Tribes were carried Captives into Babylon and began to prophesie in the fifth yeare of Jehotakims Captivity the ten Tribes being carried into Captivity above a hundred and ten yeares before by Shalmanezer the King of Assyria even in the sixth yeare of the reign of Hezekiah over Judah and at this time when they were thus in Captivity doth Ezekiel thus prophesie of their returning againe into their own Land but if it shall be said that so they did returne againe after they had been seventy yeares in Babylon I answer it is true the two Tribes which were carried into Babylon did return againe in Ezra's and Nehemiah's time but we never read of the returning againe of the ten Tribes which were carried into Captivity by the King of Assyria and scattered into far Countries so long before the two Tribes were captivated for there is nothing at all upon record that ever they returned into their own Land againe but here is a promise that the Lord will take the Children of Israel from among the Heathen whither they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own Land and not only so but they shall never any more be defiled with their Idols and with their detestable things nor with any of their transgressions but I will save them saith the Lord out of all places wherein they have sinned so shall they be my people and I will be their God c. Now though the two Tribes did then return yet was not these promises made good unto them being united with the ten Tribes under one King and so to be for ever nor were those promises that are in this and in the 36 Chapter of dwelling in all prosperity and peace in their own Land without ever being molested and troubled and those promises of a plentifull enjoyment of all spirituall and temporall blessings without being ever any more interrupted therein but we know that though they that were carried Captives to Babylon did returne yet they enjoyed not peace nor had those promises made good unto them in that their returne but were ever and anon interrupted in their peace by their enemies in Ezra and Nehemiah his time and besides we find that they were not so cleansed from their detestable things and their transgressions but the sins of strange wives of Sabbath-breaking and of oppression were found amongst them in that time and they were all the while they possest the land often exercised with much wars and at last were utterly rooted out of their owne Land and of Jerusalem by the Romans in the time of Vespasian the Emperour Therefore certainly these promises being never yet made good to them the time will come as surely as the word of God is true in which these promises shall be made good unto them to the uttermost jot of them Another cleer testimony to this truth is given by the Prophet Zachary Chap. 10. 6 7 8 c. In these words I will strengthen the house of Judah and will save the house of Joseph here the two Tribes and the ten Tribes are also particularly mentioned the house of Judah and the house of Joseph and I will bring them again to place them for I have mercy on them and they shall bee as though I had not cast them off for I am

the Lord their God and will hear them and they of Ephraim shall bee like a mighty man and their heart shall rejoyce as through wine yea their children shall see it and be glad and their heart shall rejoyce in the Lord I will hisse for them and gather them for I have redeemed them and they shall increase as they have increased and I will sow them among the people and they shall remember mee in farre countries and they shall live with their children and turn again and I will bring them again out of the Land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and place shall not bee found for them And I will strengthen them in the Lord and they shall wal up and down in his name saith the Lord. Here are cleer promises that they should be brought out of Egypt and Assyria and from the far Countries whither they had bin carried and brought into their owne Land again and there should be strengthned in the Lord and walk up and down in his name that is his name and feare and Spirit should bee upon them all which shall come to passe in his due time And now by these severall witnesses it is evident that the Jewes in particular shall be converted and bee distinct from the Gentiles under that notion of the anciently beloved people of God the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and that they shall possesse their owne land even the land given to their fathers to possesse the which very many other Scriptures do affirme which I forbear to multiply as conceiving it needlesse And thus having made it cleer how that the Jewes shall bee called I should now come to speak more fully of the calling of the yet unconverted Nations of the Gentiles also But there is one remarkable thing which concernes the Jewes which when they are converted shall be done of which a word or two in this place and it is this That when the Jewes shall be converted and returne to their owne Land as the Lord of old when hee wrought deliverances for them caused them to passe through the red Sea Exod. 14. 22. and through that mighty river the river Jordan Josh 3. 17. on dry ground wherein hee gloriously appeared unto them so will hee now also dry up the tongue of the Egyptian sea to make way for them as appears Isa 11. 11 12 c. And it shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria and from Egypt and Pathros and from Cush and from Elam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the Islands of the Sea and hee shall set up an Ensigne for the Nations and shall assemble the out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the foure corners of the earth And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea and with his mighty winde shall shake his hand over the river and shall smite it in the seven streames and make men go over dry-shod and there shall bee an highway for the remnant of his people which shall bee left from Assyria like as it was to Israel in the day that hee came up out of the Land of Egypt Here it is plain that thus the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian Sea and smite it in the seven streames for this very end that his people the people of Israel and Judah whom he intends to gather out of the four corners of the earth where they have been scattered may have way made for them at least those of them that must come that way who are in Assyria that they may come into their owne Land again This is plainly asserted likewise in Isa 27. 12 13. And it shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall beat off from the chanell of the river unto the stream of Egypt and yee shall bee gathered one by one O yee children of Israel and it shall come to passe in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish in the Land of Assyria and the out-casts in the Land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem This is also a cleere Prophesie of the calling of the Children of Israel to the obedience of Christ their Lord and ours and of the bringing of them when they are thus converted into their owne land for which end the river of Egypt is to be beaten off that so clear way may be made for them to go over dry shod for when God will work who shall let it and when he will bring his people to any place it is not vast and great rivers that lying in the way shall hinder it But wee finde that when the Nation of the Jews and all the seed of Jacob shall again be converted unto the Lord that that great worke shall not be too hard for God to do but he will do therein that which shall be too hard for men to beleeve As that a Nation shall be born at once That they shall come to the birth be brought forth in one day And that before Sion travelleth before the Church doth any thing considerable in order to the converting of a Nation to Christ it shall be done * It may bee before any considerable numbers of Gospel Ministers are sent to preach the Gospel to them many thousands may be converted by the preaching of one or few and the the spirit be richly poured out upon them she travelled she brought forth These are things too hard for men to beleeve but not too hard for God to doe for when the Lord undertakes the worke all obstructions shall bee removed and the Lord will suddenly and wonderfully convert these Nations and being converted they must be brought into their own land and if he will have it done who or what shall let it If the river of Egypt even the tongue of the Egyptian sea be in the way he wil beat off from the Chanel of the river unto the stream of Egypt yea he wil utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea and with his mighty winde shall shake his hand over the river and shall smite it in the seven streames and men shall go over dry-shod So that as the red sea and the river Iordan could not hinder the passage of his people that were to passe that way when he brought them out of Egypt so neither shall the river of Egypt hinder his people now from their passage into their own Land But it may bee queried why should the river of Egypt bee dried up to make way for the Israelites comming into their own Land rather then any other river that may lie in their way I answer first That though the Scripture mention not the drying up of any river but the

river of Egypt yet it doth not follow but that there may bee other rivers besides this dried up to make way for them if any other rivers shall be in their way although the Scripture be silent in it and mention not particularly any others But secondly the river of Egypt is chiefly mentioned as that it shall be dried up because that lieth in the way in which they must come when they come out of the land of Assyria where its probable that greatest numbers of the Israelites are for though the two Tribes may be scattered and are scattered in all parts of the world yet wee know that the ten Tribes that were first carried captives into the Land of Assyria were never brought forth from thence so that it is probable that there may bee and is a greater number of the Israelites there then in any part of the world besides and that may bee the reason why the Scripture when it mentions any particular places from whence the Children of Israel shall be gathered when they shall bee converted It doth chiefly speak of Assyria as Isa 11. 11. And it shall come to passe that the Lord shall set his hand againe the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Cush and from Elam c. Here Assyria is chiefely mentioned and so again in this place Isa 27. 12 13. It is said Ye shall be gathered one by one O ye children of Israel and they shall come which were ready to perish in the Land of Assyria and the out cast in the Land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy Mount at Jerusalem and so againe in Zach. 10. 10. I wil bring them again out of the Land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria and will bring them into the Land of Gilead c. In all these places Assyria is especially mentioned from whence the Children of Israel must bee brought And because of the great number which must bee brought out of the Land of Assyria the river of Egypt is to bee dried up to make way for them to come to their owne Land that they may againe inhabite Jerusalem and the Mountaines of Israel according to the many promises which are made unto them to that purpose as Ezek. 36 2 3 c. And Jer 32. 41 42 c. and Zach. 10. 10. And so much shall suffice to bee spoken of the conversion of the Jewes Of the Gentiles conversion ANd thus having discoursed of the conversion of the Jews I now come to describe also the conversion of the Gentiles which about this time are also abundantly to be brought in For so I made it evident before out of the fourteenth of the Revelations that after the Lamb hath overcome the ten Kings or part of them before the fall of Babylon that the everlasting Gospel is to be preached to all Nations and Kinreds and Tongues and People Now as the preaching of the Gospel at that time will be the more effectual upon the Jews because then the wickednesses of Babylon shall be declared against and detested and Jesus Christ shall manifest himself against that wicked crew so also will the preaching of the Gospel be the more effectual upon the Gentiles because then the judgements of God will be so terribly manifested against the Idolatrous sinful and prophane practices of wicked men For mark in that fourteenth of the Revelation where it is said that the everlasting Gospel is to be preached to all Nations which shall teach men to fear God and to give him glory and to turn from Idols and to worship him that made the earth and the sea and the fountains of waters the motive that is given to prevail with men to receive the Gospel is this ver 7. Because the houre of his judgement is come And if we would know what is meant by the hour of his judgement it follows in the eighth verse Babylon is fallen is fallen Herein the judgement of God will be evidently manifested against prophane ungodly men when he comes to ruine that great whore who corrupted all Nations So that the light of the glorious Gospel now shining forth and the judgements of God being evidently manifested against wicked men doubtless the Nations that are yet unconverted shall then also be abundantly brought in to the obedience of Christ And the Scripture everywhere plentifully speaks of this abundant bringing in of all Nations As Isa 2. 2. 3. And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains and what then not onely the Jews nor onely some of the Nations but all nations shall flow unto it and they shall not come in by drops scatteringly one now and another then but they shall come in by multitudes they shall flow unto it That which comes flowing in comes in abundantly Again Isa 60. 1. It is said to the Church Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee This Chapter all along describes the rising and shining glory of the Church I have already quoted it I shall here onely mention those passages in it that speak to this present purpose And vers 3. It is said And the Gentiles shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy rising And vers 5. The abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee and the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee And vers 9 10 11. 14. 15 16. It 's said that the Isles shall wait upon the Lord. And again 't is said that the Kings of the Gentiles and the forces of the Gentiles shall come in to the Church and be ready to serve and minister to it Again Isa 62. 2 3. where the glory of the Church is also described it is said thus to Sion The Gentiles shall see thy righteousness and all kings thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall name and shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord c. And Isa 49. 23. Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their Queens thy nursing mothers and they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth And Isa 66. 12. It 's said that the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream shall come into the Church And vers 18 19 20. I will gather all nations and tongues and they shall come and see my glory and I will set a signe among them and I will send those that escape unto the nations to Tarshish Pul and Lud to those that draw the bow to Tubal and Javan to the Isles afar off that have not heard my fame neither have seen my glory and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles And Zech. 9. 9 10. Rejoyce O daughter of Sion behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just