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A75082 The account audited, or the date of the resurrection of the witnesses, pretended to be demonstrated by M. Cary a minister. Examined by a Friend to the Truth and Ministry. Friend to the truth and ministry. 1649 (1649) Wing A169; Thomason E550_21; ESTC R205652 12,283 16

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consume them even as Elias did Elias also is hinted in ver 6. in these words these have power to shut heaven that is raine not in the dayes of their prophesie that this description hath reference to Elijah will be easily gathered from these texts 1 Kings 17.1 Elijah the Tishbits who was of the inhabitants of Gilead said unto Ahab as the Lord God of Israel liveth before whom I stand there shall not be dew nor raine these years but according to my words James 5.17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not raine and it rained not in the earth for the space of three yeers and six months 2. Moses is hinted in the following part of the 6. verse in these words and have power over waters to turne them to blood that this is spoken with reference to Moses is cleare from Exodus 7.17 Behold I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river and they shall be turned to blood Exod. 17.5 the Lord said to Moses go on before the people and take with thee of the Elders of Israel and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the river take in thy hand Moses also is hinted in the next expression of the 6. verse in these words and to smite the earth with all plagues that this is spoken with reference to Moses is cleer from Deut. 34.10 11. There arose not a Prophet since in Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face in all the signes and the wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land The variety of Plagues wherwith Moses smote the earth is more at large declared in the History in Exod. to which I refer the Reader And now I shall give you the account which M. Cary laies down to make good her opinion that on the fifth of April 1645. was the day of the Resurrection of the Witnesses which that I may deale fairly both with the Author and the Reader take thus at large in her own words Page 81. and 82. that term of time which the Beast was to continue and the Saints to be trodden under foot and to prophesie in seack-cloth is a thousand two hundred and threescore yeers as appears pag. 62. Now this 1260 yeeres being added to the yeere wherein the beast received his devilish power and seat and great authority in the reigne of Phocas the Emperour which was as say Historians in the year 404. I say adding to this 1260. it makes up 1664. and this yeere 1664. should be the yeere wherein the Witnesses should finish their giving testimony clothed in sackcloth if this 1260. yeers should be computed according to the rule of Astronomers allowing 365. dayes to a yeer and to every fourth yeer adding a day more but we finde that the holy Ghost in this prophesie not observing that rule doth allow but 360. dayes to a yeere and according to that rule 1260. dayes to three yeers and an half and therefore in computing the time of the Witnesses prophesying in sackcloth we are to observe the rule which the holy Ghost here laies down to allow 360. dayes to a yeer and so the time of the Witnesses prophesying in sackcloth is to expire eighteen yeers and almost an half sooner then as by the other account and so the beginning of the yeer 1645. was the time c. And page 98. and 99. on the 23. day of October 1641. did the beast begin the war in Ireland and he continued overcoming the Witnesses the Saints of Jesus Christ in Ireland and in England untill the fifth day of April 1645. and from the 23. of October 1641. unto the fifth of April 1645. there is just a thousand two hundred and sixty dayes which according to the Scripture account though not according to the heathen account is three yeers and a half compleat and when this three yeers and a half were expired which was I say on the fifth of April 1645. then was the Resurrection of the Witnesses for they having lain dead for three yeers and a half before then the Spirit of life from God entred into them and the yeer 1645. as it is the yeer wherein the Witnesses were raised from the dead so it is the yeer wherein the terme of time in which they were to prophesie in sackcloth and to be trodden under foot was to expire and the yeer also wherein the prevailing power of the Beast over the Saints was to expire as is made evident in the opening of the 2 verse page 60. c. Now that on the fifth day of April 1645. the Saints Witnesses and Servants of Jesus Christ were raised up and that then a Spirit of life from God entred into them appears thus on the fifth day of April 1645 the Parliaments Army who had stood for the defence of the Saints against the Beast and had been before that time exceedingly overcome and were brought into a very low condition at that time being new modelled and having a great many precious Saints in it both eminent Commanders and inferior Officers and common Souldiers and being then put under the conduct of Sir Thomas Fairfax they then began to march against the enemy and then had a Spirit of life from God that entred into them c. Upon this account the Author is confident that her new tenet is sufficiently demonstrated to which I enter my dissent and now come to show you upon what grounds I am unsatisfied with what I have transcribed out of that Book and shall desire the ingenuous Reader to weigh the following exceptions which I shall lay down according to the order wherein the things I except against are laid downe 1. Exception The Author tels us page 81 and 82. That Historians say the yeere 40● was the yeere wherein the Beast received his devilish power and seat in the reigne of Phocas the Emperour This being the first root of the Account deserves throughly to be examined as being of greatest influence into the present controversie I shall therefore debate it fully wherein we might have made a more short cut if the Author had told us who are those Historians and where they say so I have upon this occasion perused variety of Historians but all that I have met with do make the History of Phocas at least 200. y. later In the fourth Book of ancient History which out of several Authors treats of the Roman Emperours for above 700. yeeres after Christ I finde but one Emperour Phocas mentioned and no other of that or the like name concerning him I there read thus That Mauricius the Emperour being by dreame forewarned of a conspiracie against him by Phocas a Commander of some forces in the borders of Sarmatia this Mauricius sent for his son in Law Philip and acquainted him therewith Philip wondring at it told the