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A29275 The churches going in and coming out of the wildnernes opened by the unworthiest of the gospel-ministers, John Brayn. Brayne, John. 1649 (1649) Wing B4320; ESTC R23803 12,764 20

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THE CHURCHES GOING IN AND COMING OUT OF THE VVILDERNES OPENED By the unworthiest of the Gospel-Ministers JOHN BRAYN Cant. 6. 10. Who is she looketh forth as the Morn fair as the Moon clear as the Sun and terrible as an Army with banners Zech. 4. 7. Zorobabel shall bring forth the Head-stone thereof with shoutings crying Grace grace unto it 1 Cor. 1. 20. Where is the wise where is the Scribe where is the Disputer of this world Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world London Printed for George Whittington at the Blew-Anchor in Cornhil near the Royal-Exchange 1649. TO my dear Uncle Mr. Thomas Churchey and his VVife Mrs Mary Churchey my Aunt of Wincaunton in Somerset GOd having taken in taking from you the daughter of your hopes the onely means of earth to have perpetuated your Memorial and to have kept your Name in life among the living when you had layen asleep among the dead In whose long and much deplored absence I think it my duty in what I may to contribute that means that may help to make sweet your Memory among the Saints as in another kinde is was the duty of the yonger to raise up seed to the elder Brother Which service I desire may be accepted of you both as done of him that while he lives shall gladly wait to do you any or all the service else he can and rest praising and praying to GOD daily for you That ye may be saved Your obliged Kinsman JOHN BRAYN To the Reader MY prayer to God for thee is That there may be given thee an honest and humble heart to read and understanding from the Lord to apprehend rightly what thou readest that thou be not left to scorn the Matter for the meanness of the dress it is set out in or the unworthiness worthiness of the Author whose aym herein is Gods glory and thy edification who desires thee to pass by the many infirmities thou mayest easily finde in the ensuing Treatise and it will be thankfully acknowledged by the Author to be a favor To an unworthy Gospel-Minister JOHN BRAYN Of the hiding the Church A Certain kinde of strangeness may seem to seize on men that read the prescribed Form of Church-Discipline contained in the two former Treatises that I have written thereof out of the Word as being new and unheard of and by that means cause many to reject it though indeed it be that which was first in the Church and long since turned out of doors by the Policy and Tyranny of Antichrist Now to the preventing of causless conjectures of novelty and the like in the hearts of men I have thought good to set forth the causes 1. Why it came to be hid 2. How it come to be hid 3. How long it was to be hid as foretold of God in the Scriptures which will serve much to take away those Objections which many make 1. About the hiding of the Church 2. About the strange and unheard of way this seems to be to the world and is no other thing then was foretold of God to be done by the world when it should be brought to light Cant. 6. 10. Who is she that looketh forth as the morn fair as the Moon clear as the Sun terrible as an Army with banners These things set out the degrees the Church was to come out by 1. As the morning out of the dark night having light and darkness mixt with it 2. It came out as the Moon having many spots in it subject to an encreasing and decreasing light or a night-light or rather a changing light not permanent 3. Is that of the Sun Lord of the day who by its light fully expels darkness and by his heat revives the pleasant plants of God from their seeming deadness their life lying hid in them 4. It s time of thus coming forth and way is terrible as an Army with banners indeed in a time of War 5. It s coming out is wondred at and enquired after with a Who is this a great enquiry is in the world after it as after an unknown and an unusual unheard of birth and so much the more wonderful because as another Sun it will appear to all the world by a glorious heavenly light The cause of this admiration is the long hiding of this Gospel-mercy from the world who as the Sun is carried from us as it were into another world that it shined not to us in the time of whose absence we are sate down in darkness which continueth so long that we know not the light when it comes forth but is wondred at and hated hence it must have an Army and be terrible to bring it forth Rev. 12. 6. 1. It is driven into the wilderness 2. It is hid and so hid as after from the face of the Dragon v. 14. as that the Dragon could not finde her nor make discovery of her 3. Ye have the time how long it is to be hid expressed of God v. 6. 1260 days which days being set down prophetically must be understood of so many years which are 1260 years 1. This agreeth with Antichrists time of Tyranny as in Cap. 13. 5. Antichrists time is forty two moneths which accounting thirty days for every moneth as in some places they do it makes just 1260 days prophetically years which clearly shews the time of the Churches hiding its obscure condition in which it should not be known to the world what her estate was which agrees with the time of Antichrists Reign It s hiding begins with the beginning of the time of Antichrists Reign and ends with the dissolution of him 2. We may collect the time we having set down in Scripture Antichrists end Rev. 13. 18. which is to be in the year 666. when Popes and Papacy have their final fatal and fearful end for as in v. 5. it is to continue no longer then the forty two moneths Obj. The number of the Beast 666 may be to be understood of the times of the beginning of Antichrist R. 1. The 666 so could not be the number of the Beast but of the time going before the Beast the number of years unto the Beast but not of the Beast which is the number in the Text spoken of 2. This number of the Beast must contain the beginning and the end of the Beast or that cannot be the number of him which is to be limited onely to his beginning and end 1. His number is much more then 666 being to be 1260 years and so that could not be its number possibly 2. It could not be much of the first 666 years because Antichrist could not be revealed in most of that time there was that did hinder which would hinder until taken out of the way 2 Thess. 2. 7. 3. If the year 666 were to be understood of the time Antichrists beginning was to be it were no such wisdom as the Text holds it out to be to account the number unless we
and commonly to the most unlikely means that none may glory in man nor man in himself but all in God 1 Cor. 1. 20. 5. In the spirit of humility I beseech all publike persons to consider how sad a thing it would be if the time of the Churches Revelation being at hand any thing of Power or Authority should be made use of to keep it from us and from the world did not the Spirit of God stir up the Spirit of man within him for the love of Christ and the Gospel to undergo any thing what means may this be to bolt out the Kingdom of heaven from us and to shut it up from us for ever 6. Conclusion hence is that until the Kingdom estate be brought forth to the world the world will not see peace It is good for Magistrates and Ministers to help it forth but not to hinder it a woman in travel though her throws for a time cease yet they leave her not but come upon her until she be delivered of her childe the woman now travels in pain again to be delivered as heretofore Rev. 12. 2. Isa. 56. 8. Shall a Nation be born at once It is well observed of learned Broughton That while Solomons Temple lay waste all the world was in war and in flames of fire as it were but when it was restored God blessed all the world with a sweet peace which change of our estate observe it well will be in some kinde agreeable hereunto as all shall see who live to behold it Psal. 118. 22 25. when the stone shall become the head stone laid for the building God will send prosperity and not before A third general ground to prove the Churches not being yet come forth may be from Rev. 12. 7. There was war in heaven c. 1. The holy Spirit having ended with the Churches time in the wilderness comes to shew what should succeed it in her coming thence 2. In her beginning visibility there is a war between those are of her visible Members in this war many Ministers are cast down or Angels v. 8. Their place was found no more in heaven 3. Ver. 10. A voyce cryed saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ 1. Here is a clear difference made betwixt heaven before the war and the kingdom after the war 2. This diststinction is apparently clear in the Word now if now then not before being the most certain note and distinction of time 3. When this comes comes Salvation strength and the power of his Christ and not before shewing there would in this war be much weakness until then and then God would bless it with strength and power by which the Church should prove victorious in the world But of these things I forbear to speak more of but refer it unto the Exposition I have intended to write much more particularly and at large if the Lord give leave as these things come to be discussed of Obj. These are dubious Scriptures and therefore the proof cannot be sufficient and again many are the contrary Expositions made by the learned against this of yours which are rather to be assented unto c. 1. Friend the hiding and time of the hiding of Church must be hence or now here 2. The Scripture is dubious indeed before but plain in the fulfilling 3. The Scripture was given against doubts not to occasion them and to reveal beforehand the purposes of God to his Church near before the accomplishment whereof God usually reveals them by the Word and Spirit to some of the Church as in Huss Prediction of Luther Brightman of the fall of Episcopacy Now for the contrary Expositions made of some of the most eminent that I have read I shall in brief insert 1. Junius makes the 1260 days to be from the beginning of the rebellion to the end of the destruction and Temple which was done before John wrote his book of the Revelation who saith of the things in the book they are things shortly to come to pass so that I think it is clear he alludes to nothing past in this book 2. Others make this time agree with the wise mens coming to Christ and end with Herods death which is sufficiently answered in that made to the former 3. Opinion is That the 1260 days and the time times and half a time are one and the same being three years and a half Resp. 1. These are not the same they differ in maner of revelation as in the words themselves appear 2. They differ in time the one before the Churches coming forth the other after many things came to be done between as the War and fall of the Dragon the fall of the Angels the coming of Kingdom The one I think concerns the Jewish Church who is the woman brought forth the Male Childe the other the Gentiles The Jews shall have their place appointed them of God for safety their time times and half as the Gentiles their 1260 days whom infinite floods of persecution most certainly are to attend from all which God will most graciously save that people and joyn them to himself 1. This War is at the end of the 1260 days 2. At the end of the two Witnesses Prophesie when God will have the Church ministred unto in another way then before and all other ways of ministery before extant will cease and be put an end unto 3. The same hour is an earthquake a strange change of things In Church and state ver. 12. 1. If it be to come we are warned of it as of the saddest time the Saints yet saw which we shall instantly know 2. This sorrowful sad time ends in a heavenly happiness the time of suffering being to endure but three years and half 3. It occasions the greatest change of things that ever was occasioned on earth 4. Herein the deliverance will be so wonderful that the enemies will be affrighted at it and see God so in it as to glorifie God when that of Isa. 11. will be fulfilled God making the Lyon to lie down with the Lamb the Calf and the Bear together and shall not hurt nor destroy so that the Church will after this sad dying time see God honoring her again more then ever she was honored in this present world 1. Again to return to the former purpose this being one Vision the two numbers cannot be of the same time 2. It is not to be thought that this Book being so short and containing in it so much of History and Prophesie as concerns the Church to the end and Antichrist rise and fall withal that in that there is a repetition of one and the same thing in one and the same Vision Object You make the 42 Moneths Rev. 13. 5. and the 1260 days the same Rev. 12. 7. though these are set out by differing terms as the other of a time times and half a time differs in terms from the