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A78030	The sounding of the two last trumpets, the sixt and seventh or Meditations by way of paraphrase upon the 9th. 10th. and 11th. Chapters of the Revelation, as containing a prophecie of these last times. / Digested by Henry Burton during his banishment, and close imprisonment in the isle of Guernsey.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6172; Thomason E174_1; ESTC R6165	58,961	100

and to use their own Phrase worme out godly Ministers and good people and make havock of all holinesse as is noted before and commit all manner of out-rage and crueltie upon the Servants of God And this their extream out-rage and crueltie hath continued now very neer three yeers and a halfe or fortie and two moneths I say the extremitie of it k Heb. 12.4 as when they fall to shed bloud c. though they have been playing their pranks and laying their plots a long time but more covertly and insensibly till of later days the flame of their Antichristian outrage hath broke out ready to set all in a combustion But I trust to see the expiration of these two and forty moneths to run out very shortly And were there not such a time here limited yet such hath beene the fury of these men like a hideous storme or impetuous torrent that it cannot be conceived it should last any long time but quickly run it selfe dry or out of breath And God being so desperatly and Giantlike provoked it cannot stand with his patience nor with his honour to suffer long such affronts And he hath promised to l Luke 18.8 avenge the cause of his Elect quickly And therefore certainly it will not bee long before he m Esay 59 1● repay fury to his adversaries and the rather at this time when the Lord sees things so desperate that there is no man to stand in the gap no intercessor but that truth faileth and he that departeth from evill maketh himselfe a prey and there is no judgement as the Prophet there speaks therefore his own arme shall bring salvation when hee shall put on righteousnesse as a brest-plate and an helmet of salvation upon his head and the garments of vengeance for clothing and Zeale as a Cloake Thus n Heb. 10.37 38. he that shall come will come and will not tarry Now the just shall live by faith It followeth Verse 3. Verse 3. And I will give power unto my two witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth Here it is to be noted that during all the hardship of Gods people under this sixt Trumpet wherein the holy Citie Christs true Church is trodden under foot by the Spirituall Babylon or by the Beast out of the bottomlesse pit yet God will not want his witnesses to prophesie and testifie his truth even against the most cruell and bloudy persecutors therof And hee will have at the least two witnesses by whose testimony n Math. 18.16 every word shall be established Nor can it be expected that in such a terrible time o Amos 5.13 an evill time wherein the prudent do keep silence there should be many witnesses to be found But that there should be some at the least two God will raise them up Christ will give them power I will give saith he power to my two witnesses To doe what To prophecie that is to preach the truth to witnesse it against all opposition to denounce judgements against the Adversaries and to comfort Gods people with his promises As the Prophet Micah saith p Mic. 3.8 9. c. Truly I am ful of power by the Spirit of the Lord and of judgement and of might to declare unto Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sinne Heare this I pray you yee Heads of the house of Jacob and Princes of the house of Israel that abhorre judgement and pervert all equitie They build up Sion with bloud and Jerusalem with iniquitie The Heads thereof judge for reward and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets therof divine for mony yet wil they lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us None evil can come upon us Therefore shal Sion for your sake be ploughed as a field and Jerusalem shal become heaps and the Mountaine of the house as the high places of the forest Thus the Prophet Now who is hee that would stand up for a witnesse against wicked Prelates Priests and Prophets against wicked Princes and Rulers against wicked Heads and Judges in a forlorne time as here the Prophet did except the Lord had first filled him with power judgement and might by the Spirit of God Therefore saith the Lord to Jeremie when he complained saying q Ier. 15 10. Woe is mee my mother that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth c. r Verse 18. Why is my paine perpetuall and my wound incurable c ſ Verse 19.20 Therefore saith the Lord If thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth Let them returne unto thee but returne thou not unto them And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wal and they shall fight against thee but they shal not prevaile against thee for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee saith the Lord. And I wil deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked and I wil redeeme thee out of the hand of the terrible And Esay saith The Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people nor to make a confederacie with them Thus there And thus here the Lord gives power to his two witnesses to prophesie and beare testimony against the wicked and terrible enemies of his Church here under the Sixt Trumpet In the next place is set down the time how long these two witnesses shall prophesie and that is a thousand two hundred and threescore days And this answeres to the forty and two moneths of Antichrists oppressing of gods people which is three yeeres and a halfe For a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes make up within one weeke just three yeers and a halfe So as their prophecy continueth during the great affliction of Gods People under this Sixt Trumpet Whence we may note here God never leaves his people in affliction without comfort nor his truth without testimony nor his adversaries without conviction but he sends his witnesses to prophesie evē in most forlorn times Then follows here the estate and condition of these two witnesses expressed by their outward habit they are cloathed in sackcloth sutable to Elias and Iohn Baptist And sutable to their habit was their prophecying preaching repentance and remission of sins to the penitent and believers and denouncing judgments to the obstinate And as was their habit such were their affections men crucified to the World forsaking all and accounting all things to be losse and betaking themselves to their Sackcloth It was no time now as the Lord saith to Ieremie t Jer. 4.5.5 to seeke great things to themselves It followeth Verse 4. Verse 4. These are the two Olive-trees and the two Candlesticks standing before the God of the Earth In these words is couched a great mystery and a great worke

take full vengeance upon Babylon And therefore before the storme come God hath a hiding place to secure his As hee saith in Esay q Esay 4.5 6. The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Sion and upon her assemblies a Cloud and Smoake by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence And there shall be a Tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a covert from storme and from rain r Exod. 12. Thus the Lord did when he was about to destroy the first-born of Egypt he shut up his people in their houses sprinkling them with the bloud of the Paschall Lambe Exod. 13. 14. that the Avenger should not touch them And when the Egyptian host pursued them as farre as the Red Sea the Lord separated them by the pillar of a Cloud by day and of fire by night untill hee had overwhelmed the Hoast in the Sea And when he was about to destroy Sodome he first separates Lot from among them So before hee destroy Babylon hee ſ Revel 18.4 c. cals his people out of her and then quickly after in the same Chapter follows her ruine and desolation So here the Lord calling his witnesses away and they ascending up to their Sanctuary in a cloud in the fight of their enemies it is a sure and certain signe and immediate forerunner of the destruction of this Babylon that great Citie which is spiritually called Sodome and Egypt And it is very remarkable that before the destruction of all these three Sodome Egypt and Babylon the Lord doth immediatly before separate his people and provide a Sanctuary for them Yea not long before the utter and finall u Iosephus Of the wars of the Iews destruction of Ierusalem which was once Gods true Church but now was become the Synagogue of Murtherers and Persecutors of Christ and his Saints there was a voice heard in the Temple as from Heaven Migremus hinc Let us depart hence whereby Gods small remnant yet there being warned presently fled to Pella a Coast-Citie in Iudea and not long after followed the sacking and burning of the Citie and Temple with the inhabitants therein Thus by these many famous examples we may cleerly see what God is now about in this Trumpet to doe when he cals away his Servants out of Babylon and Egypt and Sodome and the Synagogue of Antichrist and puts them in a safe Sanctuary even because he will speedily bring destruction upon those his enemies It followeth Verse 13. Verse 13. And the same houre was there a great Earthquake and the tenth part of the Citie fell and in the Earthquake were slaine of men seven thousand and the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to the God of Heaven See here no sooner have the witnesses taken Sanctuary but by and by even the same houre there is a great Earthquake Now though there have been in the World and still fall out sundry great Earthquakes in diverse Countries as in Asia and other places yet in this place under this Trumpet this great Earthquake here is not to be taken literally no more then heaven in the former Verse for the place of the highest heaven But the great Earthquake here is to be understood of the great and terrible shaking of the Kingdomes of the earth under the sound of this Trumpet as namely by great Commotions Wars and the like especially in Christendome throughout the Kingdome of the Beast And when was Christendome ever more embroyled in wars then at this day But here it is said that the tenth part of the Citie fell This is joyned to the former as an effect of this great Earthquake First what is meant by the Citie here Surely that great City mentioned V. 8. Which we have before described even the Kingdom of the Beast And still all the plagues and woes which both the Trumpets sound forth and the seven Vialls powre out fall upon the Beast and his Kingdome So as there is no questi●n but this Citie here is that great Citie Antichrists large Kingdome And what is meant by the tenth part of the Citie For resolution hereof wee read that the u Chap. 17.7 Beast with seven heads hath ten hornes And these x Verse 12. ten hornes are said to be ten Kings These ten Kings are said to be the ten hornes because they are the strength of the Beast And the ten Kings have their ten Kingdomes which make up the Beasts Kingdome or his great Citie Now what Kingdoms are those which are said to be of this great body of this great Citie Surely those which doe admit and maintaine the Papall power The Papall power is maintained by Civill States or Kingdomes two ways Either when they directly and professedly subject their Thrones and Crowns to the Pope as to the Head of the Church by vertue of which title he arrogates to himselfe a Supreame power over Kings and Princes which is to y 2 Thess 2.4 exalt himselfe above all that is called God to depose and dispose at his pleasure or when they doe it only implicitly or by some privy compact or league or otherwise by admitting in their Kingdomes the Popes Hierarchie for the Hierarchie is meerly Papall where ever it be erected which Hierarchie consisting in the Prelates as it is in it selfe a proper and principall member and prop of his Kingdome So it is a mighty and maine instrument of bringing into Subjection to the Pope those Kingdomes and people wherein and over whom they are exalted in their Episcopall Thrones as they call them And although in a Civill Kingdome or State where the Gospel is professed the Popes Supremacy dis●lamed and the jurisdiction of Prelates by Law limited as being of humane institution meerly and not by divine authoritie Prelats when they are pinched and held close to it may perhaps pull in their hornes and arrogate no more unto themselves then the Laws of the Land or pleasure of the Prince do allow unto them yet when their inbred pride and ambition an inseparable accident or rather essentiall qualitie of a Prelate findes opportunitie meeting with a debonaire and benigne Prince into whose gentle brest they can easily insinuate themselves and by their dexteritie in the art of flattery and nimblenesse of tongue and wit perswade and work upon his sweet nature so as to draw it to conceive a reverend opinion of their counterfeit sanctitie which they set out in a goodly garbe of their superstitious guises in their wil-worship and by this means to a credulitie in believing all to be Gospel which they say as for the purpose that they are the true Church that they have a power to ordain Ceremonies in the Church that Christ ordained them to be his x Reprinted Conference p. 200. 210. 211 Vice-roys that they are the only Judges in controversies of faith

word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the text is not altogether to be slighted for it signifieth not only names but men of fame and m Gen. 6 4. renowne such as were the Giants and Tyrants of old and those n Gen. 11.4 Babel-builders who would get them a Name by building that Towre And such are those men we speak of these Giants Tyrants Babel-builders they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men of Renown terrible men yea not only the Lord-prelates themselves but their whole retinue for not a Pursuivant and Apparitor and the least Boy in their Kitchin but he is a mickle man Well all these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even seven thousand the whole generation of them in Scotland is slaine in that Earthquake that is utterly cast out as dead men For still I say these plagues fall only on them that have the Beasts marke or the number of his Name as the Prelats and their followers And if any here stand strictly upon the just Number of seven thousand I answer whether there were more of them or whether fewer the Number of seven thousand being a perfect and compleat number is sufficient to comprehend all of that ranke in that Countrey This number here being like that Chap. 9.16 an Army of Horsmen of two hundred thousand thousand Which number comprehends all those in the Armies though they were by many degrees short of that huge number as before And so here It followeth hereupon That the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to the God of Heaven The remnant whether the whole people in that tenth part as aforesaid or whether those that were a kind of Retainers or favourers or parties siding with the Prelates faction or altogether they were struck with feare as beholding the Almightie power of God in the effecting of that great and admirable work and thereupon gave glory to the God of Heaven I will conclude this with that of David n Psal 64.7 8 9 10. But God shall shoot at them with an arrow suddainly shall they be wounded So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves all that see them shall flee away And all men shall feare and shall declare the work of God for they shall ●isely consider of his doing The righteous shal be glad in the Lord and shall trust in him and all the upright in heart shall glory Even so Amen Now a word of the next Trumpet the seventh or last But by the way we find these words o Verse 14. The second woe is past and behold the third woe commeth quickly Chap. 18.13 Wee finde three woes woe woe woe The first woe belongeth to the fift Trumpet as Chapter 9.12 the second woe to the sixt and the third woe to the seventh So as the sixt Trumpet being ended it is said here The second ●oe is past and the seventh Trumpet now following is it added And behold the third woe commeth quickly That is the seventh Trumpet commeth quickly bringing its woe with it to the Beast and his Kingdome The seventh and last Trumpet Verse 15. And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying The Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reigne for ever and ever c. This seventh Trumpet as it bringeth woe even the last woe that is utter ruine and destruction to the Beast and his Kingdome to Antichrist the Whore of Babylon that great p Ver. 8. Chap. 17.18 Citie and to the whole Hierarchie where ever it be in any part or Kingdome of the World so it brings great joy and triumph to all the people of God under the Sun This is that great voice from Heaven yea great voices that is generall acclamations of the whole Church of Christ in all places which is here called Heaven as q Verse 12. before Saying The Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord even of God the Father and of his Christ and he shal reigne for ever and ever That is when this Trumpet shall sound which shall be quickly as V. 14. all the Kingdoms of the World shall consent to the rooting out of Antichrist and his kingdome they shall cast downe his Throne which is exalted in and by the Hierarchie and his whole Hierarchie shall they cast out and shall set up Christs throne over them shall subject the Kingdoms to Christs Government in submitting and conforming to his Doctrine Discipline according to his Word For till they doe this so long as they uphold and take part with the Beast in admitting and mayntaining his Hierarchie in their Dominions they r Chap. 17.13 give their strength and power unto the Beast and subject their Kingdomes unto him making warre against the Lambe Jesus Christ and so their Kingdomes the while are not Christs Kingdomes but Antichrists rather A thing well to be considered of Christian Kings and Princes and States But when this seventh Trumpet shall sound which will bee shortly if not rather already begunne then is that time fulfilled which was forelimited of GOD when they even the ten Kings to wit all Christian Kings and States which before took part with the Beast against the Lambe even ſ Chap. 17.16 17. these shall hate the Whore and shal make her desolate and naked and shal eat her flesh and burn her with fire For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his wil and to agree and give their Kingdome unto the Beast until the words of God shal be fulfilled And although this may seem strange and almost incredible to mans reason and apprehension yet God shall as certainly bring it to passe as his Word hath said it And that we might not be diffident herein God hath given us a famous and remarkable instance and as it were a sensible taste hereof in that late glorious worke of his in the Kingdome of Scotland which we noted before in throwing down that proud Antichristian throne of the Beast which the Prelates thought impossible to be done and which seemed at first but as a t Psal 126.1 dreame even to Gods people when the Lord brought againe the captivity of his Sion in that Land in so good a measure begun whereas now that out-cast Hierarchie hath as little hope ever to be restored as in their prosperitie they had feare or doubt ever to bee so cast out Yet wee see it with our eyes that God hath brought to passe this great thing And shall we doubt of the rest when he hath given us such a sure earnest of his never fayling word and of his invincible power Hee that hath puld off one of the the Beasts hornes shall shortly breake off all his hornes as the Lord saith u Psal 75.10 All the hornes of the wicked also will I cut off but the hornes of the righteous shall be exalted And then then I