end turnes to whoredome beware of it for it shall bee a marke betweene them that hate mee and you that keepe my Comandements and though I will not at any time bee farre from you yet you shall fall by Captivitie and persecution to spread my name or for the Triall of your Faith when you see their Idolatrie pull downe their high Places Preach against them say Little Children ignorant people that vnderstand not the slights of Sathan Beware of Idols tender natures encounter strongest motions Top-sayles are first assaulted No man so well knowes his owne frailtie as the Lord your God knowes how prone Devotion is to Superstition Also when yee goe in and out amongst the Heathen folke or if the Lord giue them into your hands as the Amalikites were given into the hand of the Children of Israell when the Prophet said what meaneth this bleating in mine eares SAULS excuse shall not availe you to say we set them vp for Saints before the Lord the Images of IUPITER for Iesus Christ the Statue of HERCULES for CHRISTOPHER VENUS and the little Lad for the blessed Virgin as holy as Scar-crowes in a Garden of Cowcumbers You that cannot make one haire white or blacke will yee goe a Whoring after your owne inventions to humble your selues before Pageants Pictures Images with eyes that see not Eares without hearing c. More senslesse then a Beast yet these rare Mamets the light of the Sunne is too darke for them without Candles when the Members of Christ goe naked these must bee cloathed not for warmnesse but for wantonnesse and these are the Babyes made and dressed by the Divell and decked to please his Children abhorred and abominable in the sight of the Lord. Lastly with these lines the Temple of God is Measured and them that worship therein Measuring is for Numbering place is put for time and sometimes space a thousand sixe hundred furlongs Signifying the persecution of the Church so many yeares reward her even as she rewarded you To rise therefore and Measure the time begin from the taking away of the daily Sacrifice or the Destruction of Ierusalem and count a thousand two hundred and threescore yeares wherein for the absence of the Church in the Wildernesse the two Witnesses did Prophesie clothed in Sackcloth so many yeares of Mists and darknesse to these must be added some dayes of faire weather a hundred forty and foure thousand amounting to foure hundred yeares and odde having their fathers name written in their foreheads these sing as it were a new song These are Virgins not defiled with women Chaste conversation not commanding laciviousnesse by forbidding Marriage waxing worse and worse The Temple was not built in a day it is three Stories the foure hundred yeares are to be devided into three severall parts Seventy yeares and odde vntill the destruction of Ierusalem when the Apostles finished their testimony thirty yeares are restored for the raigne of CONSTANTINE the great the remaines remaine for these last times being the same eighteene thousand Measures spoken by EZEKIEL the Prophet the Measure of the Temple within are not summed vp I presume not to looke into the account the Measure of it round about without I heard the number of them cast vp Eighteen thousand Measures every Measure sixe Cubits according to the Measure of a man That is of the Angell three hundred yeares odde and the name of the City from that day shal bee God is there that said Son of Man the place of my Throne and the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the middest of the Children of Israell for ever and my holy Name shall the house of Israell no more defile c. Blessed is he that waiteth and commeth to the thousand three hundred and fiue and thirty yeares these are the blessed times of IOHN WICKLIFFE IOHH Hus both famous Martyrs and burning Lights set vp to shew forth the state and beauty of the truth one burnt aliue the other after hee was dead being hard to judge in which of these the Devill the Father of lyes Antichrist his crucifying Sonne and the Dragon expressed most malice from which cursed triplicitie three Monsters of the bottomlesse Pit God deliver vs who will giue vs a Crowne of life Come Lord IESUS the grace of our Lord IESUS CHRIST bee with you all Amen Last of all the whole world is numbred and those that worke abomination therein and the delights thereof weighed in the balances are found lighter then vanitie it selfe There is nineteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Iudgement Iuly the 28. M.DC.XXV Sixe hundred and threescore Moneths are excluded from this last Age of seventeene hundred yeares And I thinke that I haue also the Spirit of God DANIEL Hee that is vniust and filthy let him bee so still and hee that is righteous and holy let him bee so still for behold hee will come quickly and his reward is with him Blessed are they that doe his Commandements FINIS
Plague is come The Thrones of these Earthly Kingdomes cast downe the auncient of dayes shall appeare his long Traine and the great white Throne whereon he sate from whose Face the Earth and the Heavens vncleane in his sight fled away in whose presence ministred Thousand thousands and Ten thousand times Tenne Thousands also the Two Witnesses are brought forth the Books of the Law and the Prophets to Iudge every man by his workes or according to his faith for if they beleeue not the writings of MOSES how can they beleeue his words of whom MOSES wrote These Bookes shall accuse them the witnesses which God the Father beareth of his Sonne The other Booke is the Booke of Life written with the names of Saints that shall liue for ever To whom the iust Iudge shall deliver the possession of that Kingdome that shall never passe away to be destroyed but remaineth for ever even for ever and ever The foule Beast some of his purtenances will be wanting if his hornes be not farther Considered foure came vp out of the North part of his head the French Emperours of the South side sixe Spanish before whom there were Three of the first their Race pluckt vp by the Rootes amongst these came vp an other little Horne about the midst of the time in this Horne were eyes like the eyes of a man in workmanship striuing to set Nature a patterne curious in all Arts and doing honour to vertue but wanting the gift of grace opened a fearefull Mouth the King of the East whose looke is more stout then the highest of his fellow Hornes Hitherto is the end of the matter of these earthly Monarchies and the day of Iudgement hath beene also declared the matter of the end The Story is yet but chalked out Therefore in these following Visions is contained more at large the occurrence of theose dayes before mentioned even to the end of the world Wherein my desire is not as hee that rowleth a stone to returne vpon himselfe but to make it a twisted Threefold Cord to draw vp the weight that presseth so hard of infidelitie The Prophet beheld till the auncient of dayes did sit to Iudge the quicke and the dead and the Beast cast aliue into the Lake Fire his Body destroyed and given to the Burning flame to be tormented day and night for ever and ever DANIEL CHAP. VIII IN the third yeare of BELSHAZZER a Vision appeared vnto DANIEL alone even to himselfe and hee heard a mans voyce that called saying GABRIEL make the man vnderstand the Vision so he came neere vnto him and said O Sonne of man the time of this Vision extends to the end of all things behold therefore I will make thee know what shall come to passe euen to the last day the great day of Wrath and Indignation for at the time appointed the end shall be MEDES AND PERSIANS THE ROVGHE GOATE SEND MEE SPANIARDS THE GOTHE ROAGVE The first matter giuen him to vanderstand is the breaking in peeces of the Roman Empire which spiritually is called Sodome and Egipt where also the members of our Lords Body are Crucified signified by the Ram the Hee Goate is the Turke The Roman Emperours the Two hornes in the East and West are also signified by the Kings of Media and Persia The foure Kingdomes standing vp out of that Nation are the Isles of Great Britaine France Spaine and Turky Lastly the Goate himselfe shall be hunted by a King of a fierce Countenance not regarding the person of the old nor shewing fauour to the young casting downe some of the hoast of PHAROAH and of the Starres to the ground For the transgression against the daily Sacrifice was the Hoast given over A King vnderstanding darke sentences which are some part of the holy Scriptures through policie and supposed wisdome he shall cause the craft of the Divell to prosper for by Peace and affected pittie and satisfying the ambitious mindes of some Christians he shall not only draw them to denie the faith but many others following their example Not by his owne power but by the Divells policie he shall be mighty whose looke is more stout then his fellowes But by the great day of the Lord he shall be broken without hand Now in those dayes when the Goate was come close vnto the Ramme and had cast him downe and stamped vpon him The Prophet that beheld as by a perspectiue these remote things heard also one Saint speaking and an other Saint said vnto that certaine Saint that spoke how long is the time for this Vision to the end of the world that the holy Citie of God and his chosen People be no longer trodden vnder foote And hee said vnto mee vnto Two Thousand Three hundred dayes Then shall the Sanctuarie bee cleansed and the holy People Iustified The dayes bee so many yeares to the end of the world beginning at the Vision which was about the yeare of the world 342.5 Of the certaine Saints speaking or the nomber of wonderfull secrets I omit to speake that to the most part might appeare being in this Land and these late dayes but some tale of a Phenix though to bee testified of more then fiue hundred men and women besides my selfe DANIEL CHAP. IX AFter these Visions in the first yeare of DARIVS the Son of AHASHVERVS the Prophet vnderstood by Bookes and Computations the nomber of yeares whereof the world of the Lord came to IEREMIAH the Prophet concerning the desolation of Ierusalem that seventie yeares should be accomplished And whilst hee was speaking in Prayer and presenting his supplication before the Lord for the holy Mountaine the People of God euen for the holy Citie the Church that to the end of the world must be trodden vnder foote whereof that ruinons place the Citie of Ierusalem is a figure trodden downe at this day Yet was this Hebron built seaven yeares before Zoan in Egipt The man GABRIEL which was caused to flie swiftly touched him and said alluding to the former matter of his studie and meditations as of troublous appetites and Cogitations somtimes Dreames are deriued O DANIEL I am come vnto thee againe to giue thee more skill and vnderstanding Seuentie weekes are determined vpon the holy Citie signifying the time not onely when the Sonne of God by his suffering should make reconciliation for sinne but a time and times and part of time three dayes and a halfe halfe the mysticall Weeke to make an end of Sinnes to finish transgression and to make a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwelleth everlasting righteousnesse to seale vp the Visions and Prophecies with the Seale of assurance that all these things are past and true and to annoint the most holy King and Kings and Lord and Lords the first and the last And here againe the Angell GABRIEL willeth him to know and vnderstand the things of which he shall informe him The first is this that from the going forth of the Commandement which is the beginning
of the Creation to the building of the new Ierusalem the second comming of Messiah the Prince the Sonne of God it shall be Seaven Weekes or Seaven Moneths as it is spoken by EZEKIEL the Prophet Then the desolate Citie the Sanctuary shall be walled in in a troublous time to make a seperation betweene the Sanctuary and the Prophane place And in the middest of this Propheticall weeke after Threescore and Two weekes Messiah shal be cut off the Son of God salbe Crucified and be deliuered vnto the Gentiles they shal scourge him put him to death the People of the Prince for it was not lawfull for the Iewes to put any man to Death these People the Roman Nation shall destroy the Citie of Ierusalem and the Sanctuary at the end of which Warre there shall begin a floud of Fyre kindled in our Saviours dayes during the Raigne of those Ethnick Beares and the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not then let him that is in Iudea flye to the wilde Mountaines for safety for in those times Iudgement did begin at the house of God and if first Iustice did begin at his Children and Servants in this life what shall the end bee of his Enemies whom hee hates in the world to come that haue not obeyed the Gospell of God These Flouds the Serpent will cast out of his Mouth a time and times halfe a Time to trie them of the holy Covenant their boldnesse what confidence they haue concerning the Lords oath and whether they will perseuer in this holinesse and righteousnesse all their dayes to their liues end and not rather feare his power who is Sathan the Prince of this world or at least the furious cruell hands of his torturing Instruments Whose liues cannot satisfie their malice for had not the senselesse earth shewed more pitty then they opening her Mouth to helpe these poore outcasts their torments had beene endlesse Sooner they may swim and sinke in their Blood then daunt or foyle their courage not abashed for their Boasts threats nor fiery Bands they feare them not at all their Triumphs are graven vpon the Palmes of the Lords hands hee forgets them no more then a Mother forgets her new-borne Sonne her sucking childe when the Tongue cleaues to the roofe of the Mouth for Thirst to haue compassion on him be of good cheere you haue peace in Christ though tribulation in this world persecutions are but like the Trauell of a Woman who hath sorrow because her houre is come but as soone as shee is delivered of the Childe shee remembreth no more the anguish for ioy a man-childe is borne into the world The Lambe the Bread of life shall feede them they shall hunger nor thirst no more hee shall wipe all Teares from the eyes of his Children these vilde Bodyes subiect to all infirmities shall then be made like his owne glorified Body of more perfection then our first Parents a living Soule that shall not dye to Sinne neither shall the heate of the Sunne smite them for hee shall haue mercy vpon them and leade them to liuing Fountaines of truth cleere as Christall these that come to him or overcome the world hunger no more they haue rest and peace for paine and by their white Robes and Palmes in their hands the Ensignes of peace and victorie they shall be knowne neither to be Heretiques or Schismatiques but his servants that haue fought for his Kingdome that it should not be delivered vp vnto Antichrist The followers of him who shall shortly tread these Traitors in the great Wine-presse of the wrath of God who haue turned away their Eares from the wholsome Scriptures the Leaues of which are for the healing of the Nations that they might be rubbed with the Prophane fables of Drunken doting old wiues But with all the faithfull the Lord shall confirme his truth and Covenant for a Weeke from the beginning of the world vntill the last end thereof This week is Seven thousand yeares consisting of yeares Moneths and weekes finished when the Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and hee shall Raigne for ever and ever When the Tenth part of the Citie fell the Tenne dayes of Tribulation are ended Seven thousand names of men slaine in the great Earthquake Dies Solis Dies Lunae Dies Martis Dies Mercurij Dies Iovis Dies Veneris Dies Saturni the remnant were affrighted and gaue glory vnto the God of Heaven For wee must not be ignorant of this one thing that one day with the Lord is as a Thousand yeare and a Thousand yeare as one day In the middest of which Weeke the Lord shall cause the oblation and Sacrifice to cease saying Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldest not but a Body hast thou prepared mee without spot for the redemption of the transgressions that were vnder the first Testament The Blood of which first Testament of Beasts God enioyned to purifie the patternes of heavenly things the Vessels of the Ministrie but the heavenly things themselues with better Sacrifices which are the Consciences to purge them from dead workes that they may be cleane vessels to serue the living God Thus hee once suffered the vncreated in likenesse of a Creature like feeble sinfull flesh sowne in weakenesse and dishonour in the Dust but raised in Power the Brightnesse of his Fathers Glory the expresse Image of his person over whose excellent Nature voyd of violence and deceit the Graue could get no victory no more then the wombe can keepe backe a sonne at the time of perfection redeemed from the Bowels of the Earth and ransomed by the riches of his owne vnsearchable Treasure and quickning Spirit This seeming vgly Serpent rather some shadow or his skin at whose approach men turne pale and quake more terrified then hurt But rocking Babes the faithfull a sleepe others run raving with staring frenzie for feare as if this once appointed so were fits to be chased away not calling to minde the Resurrection of IESVS CHRIST hath opened his Iawes his Sting cut out and nayled to the Crosse that bold Champion scorning to be his executioner setting his victorious foot vpon the Traytors head by spirituall alliance kinne to the Divell proud of advantage bites the Heele of our Saviour with his rotten Teeth for want of his Poysoned sting But heare ô Death vnstop thine Adders eares from whose Mole-sighted eyes the light of Repentance is hid behold thy time and Plague is at hand thy pined crying Prisoners thou shall restraine their libertie no longer that say our Bones are dryed and our hope is lost when shall we dwell in the Land of the living behold thy Caues and Castles shall be destroyed broken downe and the Earth that opened her Mouth and swallowed vp the Flood shall cast it vp againe in the twinkling of an Eye thou shalt giue vp thy accompts for of the Sonnes and Daughters of the Lord thou shalt not
keepe backe so much as the least whose names are written in the Booke of life And lastly Viper seed of the olde Serpent thy sentence is for that bold attempt Fuller of malice then hurt thy house shall be burned with vnquenchable Fire the Place sowne with vnsauory poysoned Salt and thy Carrion-carkasse swallowed vp of thine owne Brood the second Death All which mysticall Weeke or Seaven Moneths formerly mentioned as it is spoken by the Prophet EZECHIEL The Land of Israell shal be burying of Gog that Sathan that the Land may be cleansed Hitherto are the matters talked of between the man GABRIEL and the Prophet DANIEL CHAP. X. IN the third yeare of CYRVS King of Persia a thing was revealed to DANIEL whose name was called BELTESHAZZER and the thing was true but the time appointed was long These are the things not only come to passe in this latter age of the world but at this time and in this day signified by the Son of God to the Prophet PRINCE OF PERSIA I CAN POPE FRIERS Divell I can Pope Friers Man hold vp my Traine Pope Kings I Depose and all their Race to Raigne Divell And Popes to Friers I can turne againe The Prince of the Kingdome of Persia that Lord by whom the Lord of Lords was withstood is Sathan the Divell MICHAEL one of the first Princes that came then to helpe him This is IAMES King of Great Britaine and the man who is raised on high The one and Twenty dayes the Lord making no forfeiture are so many Hundred yeares beginning at the Vision and ending this present 1600. And so long the words of this Vision haue been closed sealed vp Even till now the time of the end This most Blessed person the Saviour of the world remained with the Kings of Persia the Roman Emperors signified so vnto DANIEL being the present Monarchy till there arose vp a new King in Egipt which knew not IOSEPH and said vnto his People Behold the People of the Children of Israell are more and mightier then wee Therfore set over thē Taskmasters to afflict them with Burthens but the more they did afflict them the more they multiplied and grew These Kings placed in the highest Thrones to walke in his Statutes to execute his Iudgements but because they gaue more Eare and harkened rather to false Prophets then to ELIAS and MOSES for severitie and meeknesse Representing the Law and the Gospell suffering their Bodies to lye dead in the streets in an vnknowne Tongue even hee the Lord departed from them and with the sword of his Mouth will fight with their Prince Sathan renewing alwayes his old quarrell against the Church of God And here these Kings forsaken of IESVS CHRIST for one secret friend which is the Divell they haue two open Enemies the Turke and the Pope making their Crownes his footstoole this did not CAESAR by these Three the Empire being devided what can remaine but the bare Image or the Image of the Picture of him whose deadly wound was healed Bearing at this day as Thunder goes before Lightning for their fatall device the sad Fowle blazoned with the ominous Colours of the blacke Horse for feare but halfe displaying her wings in stead of her beake shee casts her heads the Eagle hath Mued her Feathers Though thou exalt thy selfe as the Eagle and though thou set thy neast amongst the Starres thence will I bring thee downe saith the Lord. These things hitherto mentioned concerning the last Vision is the preamble for this that followeth for here the Sonne of God whose eyes were like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brasse saith he will shew vnto the man greatly beloued that which is noted in the Scripture of truth which is the Reuelation the sayings of which are faithfull and true that there is none or but one that holdeth with him in these things which is the true Interpretation of the Scripture but MICHAEL our Prince of Great Britaine and Ireland that fights and contends with the Enemies of the Lord about his Body disputing with them haue transubstantiated changed the truth of God into a lye worshipping and serving the Creature more then the Creator for which cause God gaue them vp c. Now followeth that that is noted in the Scripture of that Prince After the Temple of God was opened in Heaven wherein was seene the Arke of his Testament overlaid round about with gold wherein was the golden Pot that had Manna and ARONS Rodde that budded and the Tables of the Covenant And over it the Cherubins of glory covering the Mercy-Seate and Lightnings and voyces and Thunders c. This is the Millitant Church that brought foorth the Man-childe the word of God caught vp vnto God and to his Throne after which the Woman fled into the Wildernesse where shee was fed A thousand two hundred and threescore dayes which are so many yeares The first accompt beginneth from the destruction of Ierusalem when the abomination of desolation did stand in the Holy place the yeares being the same spoken in the last Vision of the Prophet DANIEL though thirty yeares be taken away because the Court without the Temple was left out given vnto the Gentiles for the Raigne of the first Christian Emperour These yeares doe reach to the dayes of those blessed Men when the light of the Gospell did first begin to shine after the great Mist lasting a Thousand two hundred and ninetie yeares dayes of darknesse and gloominesse of Cloudes and thicke Mists when the third part of the Sunne was smitten and the third part of the Moone and the third part of the Starres which are innumerable After these dayes were past there was warre in Heaven MICHAEL and his Angells fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angells the Iesuites and prevailed not neither was their place found any more in Heaven Heaven is here taken in this place for the Church of God the fray is fought by seconds by MICHAEL is meant King IAMES The Dragon needs little exposition It is the Pope for MICHAEL overcame by the blood of the Lambe and by the testimony of so many Bishops and other faithfull crowned with the Glory of Martyrdome Therefore reioyce yee Church of God yee Congregations of the faithfull and ye Professors that dwell amongst them and woe to the Earth and to the Sea the Congregation of that Sinagogue the Sea of Rome Sathans seate where Sathan dwelleth for the Pope the Dragon the Divell is amongst you having great wrath because he knoweth he hath but a short time two woes are past and behold the third woe commeth shortly Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works follow them and this is the truth noted in the Scripture of Truth of MICHAEL And God make the name and Throne of the King his Sonne better and greater then his Though I owe no defence for the name of an
Beare that is bereaued of her Whelpes I will teare the Kall from your harts and devoure you But to the faithfull I will bee a King a Saviour as an Eagle stirring vp her Nest fluttering over her young bearing them vpon the wing So I will preserue mine inheritance my Portion as the Apple of mine eye These are the words of the First that was like a Lyon his strength shall overcome the rest and take their Dominion away having no number or finite parts expressed the time of whose vndeuided Kingdome is infinite and alwaies As his yeares haue no end his Crownes are many This is the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah having of Flesh a tender hart a mans hart was giuen vnto it The Prince of the Kings of the Earth the first and the last And because he is the roote and made of the seed of DAVID Hee is here accompted amongst these Beasts This is hee that sate vpon the white Horse the Circle of the Earth to iudge and make War beholding the Inhabitants like Grasshoppers and a Bowe and a Crowne was giuen vnto him Hee is the Lord of Lords the King of Kings and of his Kingdome there is no end The second Beast like a Beare the Seauenth head that had Three ribbes in the Mouth betweene the Teeth of it signifying Three hundred yeares this is the deuouring Raigne of the Heathen Romaine Emperours which lasted so long licked by the Diuell In the infancie of which Empire the Sonne of God was Crucified and the Citie of Ierusalem destroyed wherein the yearely Sacrifice or feast of the Passouer was solemnized that in her might be found the Blood of Prophets and Saints and of all that were slaine vpon the Earth in which first seuentie yeares the Apostles and seuentie finished their testimony what they had seene and heard after which followed the ouer-spreading of abomination spoken of by our Sauiour making the Sanctuary desolate defiled with Carkasses which can neither see heare nor walke abominable carrion the house of Prayer made the Gallery of the Diuell for his deuices to stand in And this is hee that sate vpon the Red Horse Hauing a great Sword giuen vnto him to make Warre with the Church of God deuouring much Flesh Burning Scorching it with fire Haile mingled with Blood destroying Trees and all greene grasse smote euery Herbe and brake euery Tree and here ended the first Woe with this second Beast all fire and horrible Cruelty such as there was none like it in all the Land of spirituall Egypt since it became a Nation and shortly after began the next Woe where the fire is not mentioned because the smoake is so great thicke darkenesse or heresie false doctrine extinguishing the Light of truth which shall continue vntill the third Woe Hell fire and Brimstone or Blasphemy issuing out of their Mouthes a great crye from him that sits vpon the Throne when Rednesse shall be turn'd into Palenesse to the Maide behinde the Mill the Captaine in the Dongeon free and bond because of the last Plague the second Death The third Beast that was like a Leopard or halfe a Lyon an Ape betweene Man and beast whose feete or first footing were as the feete of a Beare that had vpon the back of it foure Wings like a Fowle or painted Bird Two of the Eagle and two of the Dragon signifying his time Foure hundred yeares before the comming in of Antichrist then came the King of Babylon to Ierusalem and besieged it taking the advantage of the Night what Linkes or Torches brought him thither I reade not but Moon-light there was little though hee were on his way or Wing but letted Two hundred yeares before Bearing also foure heads foure standing vp for it shewing the deuision of the Empire into so many parts being then too large and great for the gouernment of one man This is the Dragon of Egipt that Monarchy that began with the Christian Emperours whose deadly wound Death to the Soule was washed in the Blood and healed by the Stripes of the heauenly Samaritan There is now no healing of the Bruise it is putrified the Wound is grieuous the Leopard cannot change his spots binde thy Tyre vpon thy head forbeare to cry O Virgin daughter of Egipt in vaine shalt thou goe vp into Gillead and take Balme or vse Medicines thou dost runne in vaine And this is hee that sate vpon the blacke Horse the Ethiopian cannot change his skinne lesse man then the Minataure more Monster then a Centaure ingendred of black Cloudes carried about of every Winde to whom is reserued the Blacknesse of Darknesse for ever Blacke will take no other hew hauing a payre of Ballances given into his hand without respect of persons to measure to all men rich and poore free and bond a measure of Wheate for a penny and three measures of Barley for a penny Hoe every one that thirsteth and hee that hath no money Come buy and eate giue not your money for stones in stead of Bread say not Ignorance is better then Knowledge Neither hurt the Oyle and the Wine Touch not a Lords annointed and doe his Prophets no harme that Nourish you with truth and vnderstanding The last Beast the fourth that is the Eight and was Seven heads and is not and is of the Seven and goeth into perdition that had great Iron Teeth that devoured and brake in peeces and stamped the residue with the feete thereof and was divers from all the Beasts that were before it having a Miter of Tenne hornes signifying also though the Crownes be not here expressed so many hundred yeares his Limitted time the Tenne dayes of tribulation in the Apocalips wherein the Divell shall haue power to cast the faithfull into Prison After the Tribulation imediately of those dayes Two shall be in the field c. Nine of which number are expired and some part of the last hundred but how many are to come by these hornes precisely cannot be aymed at without the Art or Science of Chronologie This is Iudas the Divell the King of Babilon and Egypt the raigne of Antichrist Pope of Rome count the Letters of his name for it is the nomber of his time whose name is Death hated mortally of his time whose name is Death hated mortally the King of Rome and Italie This is hee that sate vpon the Pale Horse the sonne of Perdition of all Complexions the darkest neerest to corruption threatning alone a hart charged with so much wickednesse and malice as the Red Horse all the sanguines in the Rayne-bow and the Sword cannot set out more of Bruitish crueltie had he winges to his will and of time length to the height and bignesse of his insatiable minde NERO TITVS DOMITIANVS these beasts of the Earth their hearts and policies parraleld would seeme but a Curre coupled or compared with this greedy Woolfe A Bull as bloudy as the Beare Whose land is covered with Locusts and Darknes even darknes that may bee felt
bitter Starre turning Iudgement into Gaule of Aspes falne from Heaven Signifying the losing of his Keyes pride will haue a fall for which hee was cast out of the presence of God God and Mammon cannot be served together here hath hee the command of the bottomlesse Pit smoaking with Heresie and ignorance The Keys of the Kingdome of Hell which trust so much hee boasteth of given him by the Dragon the Divell to deceiue them that dwell vpon the Earth saying in the sight and opinion of men Let it be knowne this day that I haue done all these things at thy word that these are thy Keyes I am thy Apostle and if I be the man of God let fire come downe from Heaven and consume all those that obey not my orders and Lawes and at what time yee heare the sound of my Instruments fall downe and worship the Image that I NABVCHANDNEZAR haue set vp whose breath is in my hand and whole are all my wayes to glorisie mee and who so falleth not down c This Baals Prophet the last Beast having devoured and broken in peeces the Roman Empire exercising all the power of him whose Rome he vsurpeth the Lord saying I that forme the Light and create Darknesse I that make Peace and create evill I will strengthen the Armies of the King of Babilon and put my Sword into his hand But I will breake PHAROAHS Arme and and he shall groane before him with the groaning of a deadly wounded man Moreover thus saith the Lord of Hosts that keepes backe no mans pay The King of Babilon caused his Army to serue a great seruice against CHILDRIC King of Tirus euery head was made Bald of his Race and euery shoulder peel'd yet had hee no wages for his Armie Therefore the Land of Egypt shall bee his for his labour because they wrought for mee saith the Lord for there shall be no more a Prince in Egypt whose brightnesse was Excellent and the forme thereof terrible to all the world But rather a painted Image a Vassoll that the working of the poysoned Potion in the golden Cup the mysterie of iniquitie bee not hindred A base Kingdome the basest of all Kingdomes neither shall it exalt it selfe any more aboue the Nations for I will diminish them it shall be no more the confidence of the house Israell Having now the spoyle of the Land for his Armie and the Sword and Ballances in his owne hand to make a prey of mercy and truth with his Hornes and heeles as weapons to warre and weare out the Saints given into his hand vntill a time and times and the deviding of times Three dayes and a halfe Two and fortie Moneths Three yeares and a halfe halfe the mysticall weeke vntill the Day of sudgement to make Merchandize of euery thing that no man may buy or sell without his Marke marked with his fiends foote which is his Seale the signet of the Fisherman that beareth the name of the Beast The nomber of his name is then the nomber of a man which is the nomber of his Age or Dayes but this is the nomber of his Moneths Naturall Beasts not living so long the yeares being not so many as the dayes are to few As one saith the nomber of his Moneths are with the Lord Also halfe the mysticall Weeke is delivered by the same measure The latter Six Moneths added to the former Six hundred making as compleat Fiftie as Threescore make Fiue yeares Here is Wisdome the counsell of times and seasons revealed according to the eternall purpose which the wisedome of the Father put in his owne power God hath numbred thy Kingdome and finished it thou art weighed in the ballances thou tyrant that boastest of thy wit and art found wanting graines innumberable thy Kingdome is divided and given to the people of the Saints of the most Highest whose Kingdome is an everlasting kingdome c. Therfore let him that readeth count this number well and well marke the marke of the Beast is the Signet of the Fisherman which men take in their right hand wherewith his Band are branded in the foreheads and this is the Caractor and colours that distinguisheth his Traine-Souldiers from the followers of the Truth Therefore thus saith the Lord to the King of Babilon Antichrist thy dayes be few The great day of my wrath is at hand even for the Elects sake and the Soules that rest vnder the Altar crying for Execution and Vengeance vpon thee whose Bodyes thou hast beheaded burned and buryed aliue slaine for the Testimony they held the time is shortned thy Bishoppricke shall bee voyde and become a habitation for Divells and because thou remembrest not to shew mercy by swift destruction thy memorie shall be cut off from the Earth thy Damnation slumbreth not as a theefe in the night and as a snare it shall come shortly vpon thee Thou hast loved cursing in blessing thou hast not delighted but as a cloake for Covetousnesse selling to thy Marchants for money those foule oyntments to fill thy Bagge calling and crying from thy Exchange and darke shoppe if any man Thirst to commit Whoredom spirituall or carnall Treason or Murther let him come to mee and drinke of my Golden Cuppe Incest or Parricide Hoc misterium firmiter profitemur what doe yee lacke wee can sell you for Gold Silver and pretious stones thin Wood Brasse Iron and Marble all manner of Vessells in Nunneries or Stewes what will yee giue These execrable odors and thy Brazen browed Bulls casting flakes of Fire and fulminations in the sight of men from their noysome Nostrills and Thundring throates as with a Garment thou hast cloathed thy selfe thou hast robbed mee even of this whole Nation therefore prepare thy selfe thou cursed for everlasting fire prepared for the Divell and his Angells which shall enter into thy Bowells like water and soake with thine oyntments as oyle into thy Bones and mingle with thy marrow thus let the Enemies of the Lord bee rewarded yea in the meane time let them be their own executioners let one IVDAS with Poyson burst out the Bowells of another let their hope be as the giuing vp of the Ghost and their righteousnesse wherein they trust in thy remembrance as water that passeth away Let them curse but Blesse thou ô Lord to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy selfe lift vp thy selfe thou Iudge of the Earth and to this proude man of Sinne render a reward let him not haue the vpper hand sitting vpon the Throne of Iniquitie in thy Temple shewing himselfe that hee is God Consume him ô Lord with the Breath of thy mouth and destroy him quickly with the Brightnesse of thy comming Lastly this Beast his habitation is compared to a woman for Sorceries shamelesnesse and gorgious trimming arrayed in Purple and Scarlet the Virgin daughter of the King of Egipt is become the Whore of the King of Babilon the faithfull Citie is become a Harlot hauing in her hand a Cuppe full of abominations Witchraft
every pretious Stone to garnish the foundation was thy Covering the Ruby the Topaz and the Diamond the Berill the Onix the Iasper and the Saphire these things were prepared for thee Thou art annointed the Cherube that Covereth thou wast vpon the holy Mountaine of GOD and thou hast walked vp and downe in the middest of the Stones of Fyre but because thou hast lifted vp thy heart and said I am GOD I haue subdued three Kings I sit in the middest of the Seas and hast defiled thy sacred Houses I will bring thee to Ashes and none shall help thee As I liue saith the Lord I will even doe according to thine anger and according to thine Envie which thou hast vsed out of thy hatred against them and I will make my selfe knowne amongst them when I haue judged thee and thou shalt know that I am the Lord and that I haue heard all thy Blasphemy which thou hast spoken against the Mountaine of Israell Saying they are layd desolate by Massacre they are given vs to consume by the sword thus with thy mouth thou hast Boasted against Mee therefore shortly when the whole Land of Israell reioyceth I will make thee desolate then thou shalt know that I the LORD doe Sanctifie Israell when my Sanctuary shall bee in the middest of them for ever Therefore ô King of the North arise from thy Throne lay thy Royall Robe aside and cause a Decree through Tyrus to be published saying Let them turne every one from his evill way and from the violence or vnnaturall shedding of Blood that is in their hands c. Who can tell if GOD will turne and repent and turne away from his fierce anger that wee goe not into Perdition DANIEL CHAP. XII IAMES CHARLES ARE MICHAELSS AND at that time shall MICHAEL stand vp the great Prince that defends the Faith CHARLES King of Great Britaine France and Ireland which standeth for the faithfull Children of our Nation the Saints of the most Highest As the Angell of God so is my Lord the King to discerne good and bad therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee for ever And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation even to that same time blessings and great felicities being for the most part accompanied with Corrections and extraordinary Calamities Devotion and Religion of happinesse in this life the Highest not exempt from superstition and heresie And at that time thy People shall bee delivered Every one whose name is found written in the Booke c. AL TRVTHS CESAR Behold the Lord is at the Dore as a man come from a farre journey All that sleepe in the Dust of the Earth shall heare his voyce and awake and come forth those that haue done good to the Resurrection of life These haue their part in the first Resurrection and those that haue done evill vnto the Resurrection of Damnation Then the Angell came downe from Heaven hauing taken from the false Prophet the Key of the Bottomlesse pit having in his hand a great Chaine hee shall next lay hold on the Dragon the Devill and hee shall bee bound a Thousand yeares or one day which is all one with the Lord he shall shut him vp and set a Seale vpon him for the wrath of the Lord that day shall bee a sufficient marke that the Nations be deceived no more This Thousand yeares is the great day of the Lord to poure out his wrath and just indignation vpon his Enemies But the wise Virgins with Palmes in their hands that haue not beene deceived by the subtilty or force of flatterers shall shine in their Robes as the brightnesse of the Firmament Kings Daughters attended by honourable Matrons as Starres for ever and ever prepared for the Bridegroomes Marriage whose Wife the Bride and Queene hath made her selfe ready clothed in fine Linnen cleane and white arrayed in a Garment of Needle-worke wrought with Gold of Ophier the Daughter of Tyre shall bee there with a Gift she shall be brought to the King with gladnesse and reioycing they shall enter into his Pallace saying O King thy Throne is for ever and ever thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse therefore God thy God annoynt thee with gladnesse aboue thy fellowes After this Thousand yeares the great Day of the solemnitie finished the Bride being safe in her closset and Marriage chamber Sathan the olde Serpent shall be loosed a little season as Prisoners are set at libertie when they goe to the place of Execution to receiue his finall sentence of everlasting Damnation yet hoping in his vaine imagination and hart that cannot repent to deceiue the Nations that are at rest to take a prey to goe vp to the Citie that is in safetie that needs no Wall neither the light of the Sunne or the Moone c. Vnto whom the just Iudge frō his Throne of Glory with a terrible looke for furie jealousie shall come vp into his face shall say vnto him Art thou he whom I haue spoken of in olde time by my servants the Prophets to giue the Nations warning of thee how thou diddest not onely like a foole deceiue thy selfe when thou saidst I will ascend vp and be like the most highest but like a cursed creature didst deceiue their innocent Parents be prepared therefore and prepare thy selfe and all thy Company and see whether thou canst be a guard vnto them or what defence they can make for themselues who could not be ignorant and ought not to be carelesse because by mine owne Mouth I gaue them warning that after many dayes thou shouldst be visited and brought a Prisoner into the Land which is now brought backe from the Sword and cleansed though it lay waste a time and the Villages thereof vnwalled For these I commanded them straightly to watch both concerning the things I fore-told them should come to passe as also of this houre lest like a Theefe or as the Flood came vpon their fore-fathers the Vngodly they should be surprised vnawares because I told you of these things before depart I know yee not nor that Captaine your false Prophet are yee those that eate my flesh and drinke my blood whence are yee I never knew you more then you knew mine or Me cursed and deformed crew with stiffe neckes double crooked hearts deafe Adders and blinde People with eyes goe yee cursed into everlasting fire Wee haue eaten and Drunke in thy presence all the world was taxed by the Prince of our Nation and thou hast taught in our streets Their iniquitie is the greater thrust them out Lord Lord come out Dogs and Swine Apes and Satiers hence here all Lyers Scoffers at the truth vncleane persons for here shall enter in no wise any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh Abomination or maketh a Lye but they which are written in the Lambes Booke of Life But thou ô DANIEL shut vp the words and seale vp this Booke to the time of the end