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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96871	The two vvitnesses: discovered in severall sermons upon the eleventh chapter of the Revelation, wherein, after the prophesie opened, the great question of these times. Viz. whether the two witnesses are slain, yea or no, is modestly discussed. / Preached at Lawrence-Jewry in London, by F.W. lecturer of the said place. It is this seven and twentieth day of April, 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that these sermons intituled, the two witnesses, be printed for Luke Fawne. John White.	Woodcock, Francis, 1614?-1651.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W3433; Thomason E100_1; ESTC R13873	76,978	106

and Jeshua Moses and Elias Moses and Aaron you have seen what they do They spend themselves into the Candlesticks to the Churches they are as Oyl is to the Lamps nourishing and keeping them alive all the time of Antichrists prevailing if any attempt to wrong them fire proceeds out of their mouths and destroyes such as do attempt it And for the wrongs the Antichristian Gentiles offer the Church these Witnesses shut heaven upon them that it rain not nay pour forth all the Vials of the wrath of God upon them Thus you have all the active part of these Witnesses already drawn forth That which follows is their passive which when I have touched upon one or two observations from these last words I shall without any other interruption fall upon The Observations are these 1. Is heaven shut by these Witnesses so that no rain falls upon the Antichristian party all the glad tydings of forgivenesse and reconciliation withheld from them How sad must needs be the condition of such a people What have they to soften them to make them fruitfull when no rain at all falls upon them 2. How fruitfull on the contrary should we be who live under the droppings of heaven and are refreshed with the former and latter rain alwayes in their seasons Poor Papists have no rain Yea how much the rather should we endeavour fruitfulnesse Isa 5. 5 6. lest for default that same be made good upon us which once the Lord threatned his Vineyard withall he would takaway the hedge and would command the clouds that they should rain no rain upon it 3. Do the Witnesses pour forth all the Vials No marvell then they are said to torment them thot dwell upon the earth No Vers 10. marvell those same Inhabitants of the earth rejoyce they are got rid of them as they do when by the hands of these Witnesses is emptied forth so much wrath upon them VERS 7. And when they have finished their testimony the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and shall overcome them and kill them WE have ere while seen who these Witnesses are what they do how grievously they torment Antichrist with his party which because these Witnesses do not carry impune Antichrist not sitting down unrevenged it now follows we see what is done to them and how they are repaid for all the plagues wherewith Antichrist and his party have by them been tormented This is laid down in the words above mentioned as also them that follow And when they have finished their testimony the beast c. In which who so observes shall finde as cleer an allusion to our Saviour as set forth in the story of his death resurrection and ascending up to heaven as before to any of the types whereby these witnesses were formerly represented Our Saviour when he had preached neer three yeers and half about the number of the dayes of the Prophesie of these Witnesses was by Pilate and so by Rome then Heathen as the Witnesses by Rome now Antichristian put to death After three dayes there being a great earthquake rises again and not long after is received up to heaven in a cloud To all which who sees not a plain allusion intended when in the description of these witnesses suffrings and after restauration you have mention of the like death earth-quake resurrection and ascending up to heaven in a cloud also So that if before in what they did they were like Zerubbabel and Jeshua Moses and Elias Moses and Aron here for what they suffer and the sequell they are cleerly resembled to that faithfull and true witnesse Jesus Cha. 5. 14. Christ This much in the grosse but look more particularly and you shall finde in what is mentioned of these Witnesses sufferings such specialls observable as these 1. There is warre waged with these witnesses and the consequent the Witnesses overcome and killed 2. The enemy that wages this warre The beast that ascendeth out of the bottomlesse pit 3. The time when this warre is waged and these witnesses overcome and killed by this beast and this is sayes the Text when they have finished their testimony I shall addresse my self to speak of these in this order First the warre waged and the consequents then that which follows in the order above mentioned And for this warre waged with these Witnesses we must not think this is the first which hath ever been raised against them as though the Witnesses had met with no opposings all the time of their prophesie continuing so many hundred yeers till just toward the end and close of it we must not so conceive at any hand For if you consult the thirteenth Chapter and seventh verse you finde the beast these Witnesses enemy and as old as are these Witnesses so soon almost as he receives being receives power to make warre with the Saints and to overcome Cha. 13. 2. and kill them And in the twelfth Chapter and last verse the Dragon who substitutes this beast and on whom he estates his power throne and great authority himself being now no longer able to hold them in his own name as soon as ever the Woman was scaped into the wildernesse which is now severall hundred yeers agone he goes forth under covert of this beast To make warre with the remnant of her seed which kept the Chapl 12. Vers ult Commandments of God and had the testimony of JESVS CHRIST And sure the event shews as much when above four hundred yeers agone in that one Kingdom of Gaule now called France if Perionius may be beleeved at least ten hundred thousand of those godly Waldenses and Albigenses were butchered by this beast And can we imagine so many Saints slain and none of these Witnesses among all these numbers This warre then here mentioned supposes not the Witnesses untouched all the time of their prophesie before but rather seemes to hold forth some eminent warre now at last to be raised against them which perhaps because it shall differ from all the former in the quality of it or specially in the successe striking of all the Witnesses there where 't is done which no other warre had perhaps done before is therefore by the Holy Ghost thought fit onely to be mentioned Nor yet therefore can we say this warre shall be more grievous and bloudy then all the former possibly it is not mentioned for any eminent bloudshed accompanying it but rather as some conceive for a signe of the instant and neer approaching ruine of Antichrist which but a little after follows it however I dare not say this last warre shall be eminent for bloudshed beyond all the former for this reason I now offer If this same killing of these Witnesses can not be understood in the Letter viz. That indeed and in the Letter these Witnesses should be slain but a mysticall killing is only here understood then sure this cannot be a killing so very bloudy