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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86686	Manus testium movens: or, A Presbyteriall glosse upon many of those obscure prophetick texts in Canticles, Isay, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk, Zachary, Matthew, Romans, and the Revelations: which point at the great day of the vvitnesses rising; Antichrists ruine, and the Jews conversion, neare about this time. VVherein Dr. Homes, with the rest of the independent antichristian time-servers are clearly confuted, and out of their own writings condemned: and against them proved, that the present usurpers in England are that antichristian party who have slain the witnesses, and shall reign but three yeers and an half, which time is almost at an end. To this book must be joyned Lingua testium, being its proper preface. / Written by Testis-mundus Catholicus Scotanglo-Britanicus.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H328; Thomason E632_23; ESTC R206463	110,211	129

they are that shall be converted and by whom they shall be converted This I have handled more at large in the other little Tract called Lingua Testium which ought to be joyned to this and was so intended though the winds and storms of persecution severed them My hearty prayer to God is that this clay and spettle may by the powerful operation of Gods spirit be effectual to the opening the eyes of those blind soules who by the blind are led out of the way and both fallen into the ditch What I have done is but as a Rams horn in a weak mans hand which one stone in probability from Jericho walls is able to dash in pieces yet what cannot a rams horn do when God sends it forth by his commission it is able to overthrow the strong walls of Jericho In God alone I put my trust he is my strength by his help have I leaped over the wall of many difficulties by his power I trust I shall undermine and blow up the wall of Babylon I am sure it stands though formidable to the beholder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon a tottering foundation and blessed are those Princes and blessed those people and persons whom God hath given a heart to enterprise so great a work though they die in that service Rev. 14. 13. My prayer is that this Tract may be as that voice in Jerusalem before its ruine A voyce to the Magistrate and a voice to the Minister a voice to the Papist and a voice to the Protestant a voice to the aged and a voice to the young a voice to the rich and a voice to the poor and a voice to all that belong to the Election of grace to forewarn them to fly from the evil to come for be assured O ye people of England that God will visit you and that speedily with his sore and heavie judgments as you have been singular in sin so will God single you out to punishment the day is at hand when Traytors and Covenant-breakers shall cry to the Mountains to fall upon them and to the hills to cover them from the wrath of God which will inevitably fall upon them Now that I might call some souls out from amongst them before the wrath of God break in upon them and it be too late I have written this ensuing Tract with as much plainnesse and brevity as I could I have pared off all difficulties which might perplex the Reader either in the method or in the style I have given thee here the cream of many a moneths study which I have gathered out of the choicest books in Europe I have left no stone unturned nor any Library in England that I could come at unransackt I expect no bribes of breath or profit but the profit of mine and thy soul which is the soul of profit as to other profit I am a stranger indeed I am a great looser for I have consumed both my body and estate to inrich my soul and others in this study nothing but my bed and my meals have been tedious to me since I undertook it and if the Lord be pleased to prosper it to the good but of any one soul I shall dedicate my whole life in praises to him and account my corporall losses a thousand times repaid me For this end I beseech thee Reader to read it as I writ it Sequestrate thy self from distractions and sit down as in the presence of God to search after his revealed Will in these misterious texts Watch against the Devils temptations for he is most busie about a man when he sits to meditate on these texts He shall never profit by this that doth not as that Father saith on the Cant. Carnalem exuere affectum he that comes to this treasury with smutcht and coalie heart and hands shall carry away pro thesauro carbones If thou therefore find not that expected satisfaction at the first reading of this book lay not the fault like Senecas Nurse presently upon the book but see that it be not thy fault in reading it I give thee this the rather because I know it will have many Censurers but I am confident few confuters remember good reader as thou must answer one day for thy lost hours which are double loss and as for thy sluggish hearing and praying so for thy sluggish and unprofitable reading of books The Lord therefore for Jesus sake grant that thou mayst so read as to understand that therein thou mayst be blessed which is the onely end of the Authors labours Vale. THe earnest endeavour of Dr. Homes on October the 8. 1650. was to perswade the Lord Major Aldermen and the chief of the City assembled at Christ-Church that now this year 1650. the things done against the lawful Parliament of England together with the grand defeat given to the Scots by Cromwell was the fulfilling litterally of his Text in Psal 149. 8. 9. To bind their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in fetters of Iron that they may execute upon them the vengeance written this Honour have all his Saints the honour of imprisoning arraigning condemning and beheading the only Protestant King in the world of dis●●bing the Protestant Peers of the Parliament of England and of secluding the sincere Protestants of the Commons of England the changing of the Government of England the removing of the Covenanted Reformation and the invading of Scotland and overthrowing of the covenanting party such honour have all the Saints saith Dr. Homes this is saith he page 6. remotio impedimenti the removing of impediments and the holy ones that is the present power now sitting at Westminster which he calls a Parliament have removed these impediments the Dr. gives a Catalogue of his Saints viz. the Parliame●● the Councel of State the Army the Magistrates the Ministers and the Churches these are the Doctors holy ones I wonder how the Dr. left out the King of Spain the p●incipal Saint next to the Pope in these honourable actions they doubtless have according to the Doctors interpretation endeavoured long before now in 88. and the Gun-powder-plot to fulfil the Doctors Text literally that is to overthrow King Lords and Commons and all that stand stedfastly to maintain Protestant Laws and Religion these are the things done and these are the persons who perform them the actions saith the Dr. are glorious and the actors holy ones neither is this any new notion of the Doctors for he professeth that 8. years agoe he was of this opinion that this year 1650. should produce such glorious effects as the beheading of King Charles upon a Scaffold at his own door for so the m●n means plainly by his expressions Is it not strange that this Dr. should be so old a Prophet nay is it not strange that he should be so soon a Prophet and so strange a Prophet for in the year 1642. the Dr. as he saith foretold these things to come to passe this year and in 1639. thousands