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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38773	The bloudy vision of John Farly, interpreted by Arise Evans. With another vision signifying peace and happiness. Both which shew remarkable alterations speedily, to come to pass here in England, also a refutation of a pamphlet, lately published by one Aspinwall: called a Brief discription of the fifth Monarchy. Shewing that the late Parliament was that beast mentioned, Rev. 13. that this representative is the image thereof, and that the fifth Monarchy will shortly be established in the person of Charles Stevvart	Evans, Arise, b. 1607.	1653 (1653)	Wing E3454; ESTC R208636	45,880	81

fully known for a necessity is laid upon me and wo is me if I do it not 1 Cor. 9. 15 16. Now I proceed further concerning the late Beast Parliament which though it be destroyed according to the word of God yet it liveth still in its Acts and the same One that did destroy it commanded to make a Representative or Image thereof And he the Lord General had power to give life to the Image of the Beast Parliament which Image is this present Parliament as they call themselves that the Image of the Beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed And if you look upon the manner of the dissolution of the late Parliament by the Lord General and his Councel and upon the continuing of their Acts still in force as they were before by which the late Parliament seemeth vet to live and upon the manner and calling of this present Representative or Image of them a Representative being but an Image like somthing that it doth represent as the Image of a Man Beast or whatsoever else as also upon the manner how these had their power from the Lord General as he gave them authority life or spirit to act and compare all these particulars with Rev 13. 3. 11 12 13 14 15. and you shall find that this Scripture was so really fulfilled both in the manner of the Lord Generals destroying of the late Parliament and his setting up of this as if he had purposely set this very Scripture before his eyes and taken it for his absolute direction therein he not erring one jot in the performance of the substance thereof Hence you see both what the Beast is and his Image in the next place I shall shew you what the mark of the Beast is and what is the name of the Beast and likewise the number of his name Rev. 13. 16 17 18. 1. Concerning the Mark of the Beast it is a word abused For they call as I proved before the height of wickedness godlyness and that is the mark For saith the Author of the Grand Politick Informer Upon the seventh of Iuly 1653. it was Resolved That no person should be employed or admitted to publike service but such as this Representative should be first satisfied of their real godlyness saith he This word Godliness will shortly become the mark of the Beast Indeed there is a god of this world 2 Cor. 4. 4. which many expound to be the Divel and there are those who account that godiyness which is most contrary thereunto 1 Tim. 6. 5. and such such as put light for darkness and darkness for light Isa. 5. 20. Now if we enquire who is a godly person after their account It will appear to be such an one as hath broken his faith to God and man or one that is a robber murtherer false swearer or hath been or is an approver of all the bloody Actions of the late Beast Parliament So that this sort of people are their godly persons and this pretended godlyness is the mark of the Beast as the Apostle describeth them sufficiently 1 Tim. 6. 3 4 5. 2 Tim. 3. 4 5. and bids every true Believer withdraw himself and turn away from such as from the most dangerous people to converse withall Whereby it is evident that this pretended godlinesse is the mark of the Beast which they that will be gainers in this Weal Publick of England must needs have else they shall not be preferred trade or prosper in these times Rev. 13. 16 17. And now having shewed you what the mark of the Beast is viz. a pretended godlinesse next in order I shall through Gods assistance shew you what the Name of the Beast is and the number of his Name Rev. 13. 16 17. He that will have any preferment from these people or gain by them must acknowledge them to be the States of England or the Commonwealth of England or the Weal publick of England for if he call this the Kingdom of England and stick to that ancient name he shall be cast off as one that hath not their stamp and have nothing to do in matter of office or way of profit from them Rev. 13. 16 17. And I find that it cannot bear the name of the Commonwealth of England since the Election of a Parliament was taken away from the Commonalty or generality of the People and that a publike Party excludes all the rest and sets up a Parliament But I find its proper name to be the Weal publike of England For the word Commonwealth is excluded long ago from a Weal Being so that none but those in publick places do prosper Therefore I say it is not the Commonweal but the Weal publick of England And I find the number of this name The VVeaL pVbLIke of EngLanD to be 666. for the numeral letters of it are these DLL 600. LVV 60. VI 6. so that in all they come to 666. There is also another name no less proper both to the late Beast Parliament and to this Representative which is its Image in regard the people did and do so much Idolize them by their petitions to them and their esteem of them otherwise more then ordinary Rev. 14. 11. so that they way be called Englands Idols which word Englands Idols in the ancient Welsh or Brittish language is Delwau Lloiger and I find the numoer of this name Delwau Lloiger to be 666. for the numeral letters of it also are these DLL 600 LVV 60. VI 6. so that in all they come likewise to 666. Now the words of the Scripture that declares the number of the Beast are these Rev 13. 18. Here is wisdom let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred sixty and six Now it remaineth that I should speak somthing of this Man for it is the number of a man saith the Text This Title a Man is a note of Eminency which signisies a man of God 1 Sam. 2. 27. 1 Chron. 13. 1. or a man of a thousand Eccles. 7. 28. so that from Rev. 13. 18. mav be observed that the man expressed by these words for it is a man is such a man as carrieth a divine Majesty with him So that I must needs infer from those words that the Apostle John means here a justified man a man opposite to the Beast though in the number of their names they partly agree And know that in the new Testament none is called The man of God but only a Bishop 2 Tim. 3. 15 16 17. And we may gather also from the same Scripture and the scope of the Apostle Pauls words to Timothy when this Bishop and man of God is to appear which will be in the last days 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. 17. when men break forth into rebellion against God and his Church and certain it is That

Babylon must fall And from the rules of Astrology it is very evident that that Prophesie will be fulfilled ere time put a period to this Eclips which will be before the expiration of the year 1656. howsoever if this publick ruin should at this time escape them I am very confident that Italy and Rome shall be in great distress and often troubled with tumults and uproars Indeed Sir I am glad of your conversion if it be real yet your sentence here is very sudden against the Pope and Hierarchy of Rome and to account of it as Babylon is very harsh from you that was a little before so much for it But this I tell you in love that your words ought to be one and the same constantly and desire you to take the advise of the wise man Eccl. 5. 9. 10. Winnow not with every winde and go not into every way for so dothithe sinner that hath a double tongue be stedfast in thy understanding and let thy word be the same I remember a story of a man that dwelt in a little Town he was counted weather wise and his common custom was when he arose in the morning to go along the one side of the street saying to the people as he went to day will be a fair day and when he came back again on the other side to say to day will be foul weather whereupon they thought he had some skill for he had always as many for him as was against him So you Astrologers now use many words both for and against so that something must needs be true that you say But he that is moved and acteth by the spirit or direction of Astrologers or goeth to them to have his Nativity cast and to know the event of his Fortune is a meer naturalist appointed unto wrath 1 Thes. 5. 9. It Is usual for Theeves to go to Cunning men or Astrologers who tell them that their fortune is to be hanged therefore they take such evil courses as brings them to that end as I have heard many of the Theeves when I was in prison say they had been with the Cunning man who told them their end was to be hang'd therefore they would steal and not work yea and others that go to them though they be of great quality and they tell them of great things that they shall do yet commonly they tell them also of an unhappy end too But when did any Astrologer speak of a Martyre● death For those that go to Astrologers forsake the direction of Gods spirit and therefore God will forsake them for God is said to forsake his people because they had regard to such things Isai 2 6. and God sends spirituail Babylon to her Astrologers that predict for her and promise her that she shall not fall to see if they can save her who answer that they must fall with her as you may see at large by comparing Isai 47. with Revel. 18. And as I said before that Jerusalem hath a daughter called new Jerusalem Rev. 21. 2. who hath onely the spirit of God in his Ministers for her direction Babylon hath a daughter Isai 47. 1. Called spiritual Babylon and Sodom Rev. 11. 8. Who persecutes the Ministers of God and will not be directed by them But by Inehanters and Astrologers for all that are unlawfull Preachers and bring false Doctrine are Inchanters and Witches Gal. 3. 10. And in the primitive times those that went preaching without a lawfull call and were neither sent from Christ nor his Apostles were beaten by the Devil And as those that used curious Arts and were converted even Astrologers and the like knowing how inconsistent and disagreeable it was with the Christian Faith they burned their books that they might use such arts no more Acts 19. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19. so I say it is hard to judge wheather those that take upon them to foretell things by the rules of Astrologie be Christians or not for they are condemned as men contrary to the spirit of God both in the Old and New Testaments and as you said in your first Almanack that it was a strange thing to see Mr. George Wharton come forth in an Almanack so I hope you will leave to study Astrologie and shew your self in some other way that may be more acceptable to God and beneficial to his people which for your Souls health is the desire of your friend ARISE EVANS A REFVTATION OF A PAMPHLET lately published by one ASPINVVALL ENTITULED A Brief Description of the Fift MONARCHY MR Aspinwall I shall not contradict you in that there is a fift Monarchy to be expected in this World and that it will shortly appear But in what you say as concerning K. Charls though I be the least of the flock by the assistance of Gods Spirit I hope to confute and drive you away and make it appear that you are a venemous Asp pulling your Pine out of your Wall on which you hang all your glory and that your Asp-pinewall will down For I am sure that you are beside the mark concerning K. Charls in that you condemn the just and justifie the unjust and though you huddle up a great many Texts to make your matter good and to blind the Reader yet it is clear that you lay a wrong foundation and err in applying of those Texts to K. Charls For if K. Charls be one of those ten horns or kings as you affirm him to be the last of them then he cannot be the little horn as you unjustly assert him to be seeing the Texts alledged by you Dan. 7. 8. 24 prove that the little horn is not one of those ten for the little horn cometh up after the ten horns and plucks up three of them by the roots The words are plain in the Vision it self v. 8. I considered the horns and behold there came up among them another little horn before whom there were three of the first horns pluckt up by the roots Here it is evident that the little horn is none of the ten which is yet more plain in the interpretation of v. 24. And the ten horns out of this Kingdom are ten Kings that shall arise and another shal arise after them and he shall be divers from the first and he shall subdue three Kings Neither is the little horn called a King in all the Scripture but He shall be divers from the first and he shall subdue three kings giving us to understand that the little horn is an enemy to kings as a thing of a contrary being or differing in nature The little horn is also called a Beast v. 11. And as the fourth Beast is divers from the other three who were true to their heads both it and the little horn are alike adversaries to kingly power as you see The State of Rome clipt and turn'd out the Emperour from his superiority So in a more barbarous manner the State of England turn'd out and