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A87004	A discovery of the latitude of the loss of the earthly paradise by original sin. Occasioned by a disputation betwixt Mr. Matthias Rutton, min: of Boughton Munchalse in Kent, and the author hereof; branched out in these particulars, as followeth: I. First, an examination of his apologetical letter, with a full answer thereunto. II. Secondly, six arguments to prove that original sin exposed Adam and his posterity but to the first death. III. Thirdly, a discovery of the false and corrupted ministers by ten characters. IV. Fourthly, a discovery of the true ministers by ten characters. / By George Hammon, pastor to the Church of Christ meeting in Biddenden in Kent.	Hammon, George.	1655 (1655)	Wing H502; Thomason E1680_1; ESTC R209154	79,445	216

as will not worship the Image of the Beast to bee killed Revel. 13.13 14 15. chap. 16.14 but some have expounded this place thus and have said The outward Court is the Ordinances that were not to be measured that is to say not to be accounted of so as to be practised and the Holy City was the Church which was to be trod under foot to which Exposition I say That I never could finde God in Scripture comparing the Gospel-Ordinances to an outward Court it is well if they can finde it who do affirm it neither do I find in the New Testament where the Gospel-Church is compared to a Holy City Christ hath compared it to a City but the word Holy is not used in that place but doubtless this Holy City spoken of here Revel. 11. is meant Jerusalem which in Scripture is frequently called a Holy City as you may see if you peruse these Scriptures following Psal. 24.3 Isa. 27.13 Chap. 48.2 Dan. 9.24 Joel 2.1 Chap. 3.17 Obadiah 6. Zephany 3.11 Mat. 4.5 Chap. 27.53 So that it will appear that the Temple spoken of in Revel. 11.1 was the Temple of that beloved City or Holy City Jerusalem which is also as clear that it was a Prophecie of the last times if we compare Ezekiel with it so that both Ezekiel and John in their Discoveries of the Prophecie of the last times do shew that there was a Temple as well as a City and so I shall pass to the third and last Reason The Third Reason why there is to be a Temple at the last and general return of the Iews is from the words of the Apostle Paul unto the Thessalonians where the Apostle saith That the Man of Sin shall sit in the Temple of God which Temple is the glorious holy Mountain before mentioned even the Temple Jerusalem as Dan. 11.45 and that this Temple and the Man of Sin is to be in the laft Age is clear for the Man of Sin is to be destroyed saith the Apostle by the brightness of his coming 2 Thess. 2.8 Dan. 7.9 10 11 12. until the which time of Christs coming he shall assume to make the Temple the Throne of his Glory and so these are the three Reasons in brief why there shall bee a Temple built as well as a City First because the Lord shewed Ezekiel a Temple after the Vision of the dry Bones which was the last return of the Captives Secondly He shewed John one and appointed him to measure it in his Vision And Thirdly By the revelation of the Holy Spirit saith the Man of Sin shall make his Seat there and hold it till Christ comes Moreover the Prophet Malachy saith That the Lord that was looked for shall suddenly come into his Temple And so much briefly to prove that the Jews shall return again to build their City and Temple The manner of the Rise of the Man of Sin called the Vile Penson or the Antichrist proved not to be the Romish Babylon Secondly The manner of the arising of the Man of Sin hee shall arise out of the Fourth and last Monarchy the which Fourth Monarchy shall consist of seven Heads that is the whole Monarchy shall bee ruled by seven unanimously by Royal authority but in this unanimous agreement or seventh Head shall continue but a little space but one of the Seven shall make himself the Eighth and yet of the Seventh and shall go into perdition and this is that which was set forth in that Image that Daniel saw Dan. 2. but more plainly laid down in the lowest part of the Image as in the Feet and Toes ver. 41.42 43. and in the midst of those Kings that is while those Kings are a striving for their Dignity the God of Heaven will set up a Kingdom which shall break and destroy that great King Gog which shall be the Eighth and last Moreover this vile Person or Man of Sins rise is with all deceiveableness and unrighteousness fair words and feigned speeches deceiving the hearts of the simple and before hee cometh to bee this Eighth and last King he is but a Little Horn full of eyes Dan. 7.7 8. professing Knowledge and Light in the Mystery of God and yet at last he hath a mouth given him to speak great words against the God of Heaven The very manner of his arising doth declare him to be a great Person at the last for at his first arising three of the Ten Horns were plucked up by the root that is three Kingdoms do fall before him or are resigned up into his hands and so groweth great and by that means he cometh to be one of the Seven that shall rule the whole Monarchy and shall not be contented with that as I have shewed you but by his power shall take away the other Six parts and so changing the Government from the hands of seven into one he is called the Eighth and of the Seventh and so shall remain till the Son of Righteousness shall dismiss his Reign by casting him off into the Lake of fire Dan. 7.8 compare verse 24. ch. 8.25 Revel. 17.11 He shall succeed in time the raiser of Taxes but they shall not give him the power or honour of the Kingdom but by flattery shall he obtain it not by a joynt consent of the people of the Province but shall receive his Power and Authority by a smal number of people And when hee hath entred into the fattest place of the Province he shall break League Covenant and Protestation and work deceitfully yet to carry on his design hee shall do that which his Father hath not done nor his Fathers Father for by stirring up of his courage and valour hee shall take much riches out of the Southern Country and to get the affections of those people of the Province where hee liveth he will scatter the Prey amongst them to the end that his Army may grow great that thereby he may take strong Holds and senced Cities and this is the very way whereby hee shall grow great and be helped forward and exalted into the Throne even in the holy Mountain Dan. 11.24 25. ver. 43.45 and so by his Victories hee shall grow great and exalt himself and at last exalt himself above God and shall honour the god of Forces that is look upon the power of his Army to be the great Power that is to say by his own strength he hath obtained that which hee doth injoy and so shall puff out great swelling words of vanity against the God of gods acknowledging no other God but himself and shall place his Throne above the Stars of Heaven for the proof of it see these Scriptures as followeth Isa. 14.12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Dan. 11.36 37 38 39. 2 Thess. 2.4 Revel. 17.11 compare fourteen Also to carry on his design hee shall have a false Prophet that shall work great Signs and Wonders to deceive those that have not narrowly looked into the Scriptures and are

of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royal Diadem in the hand of their God Isa. 62.3 And they shall call them the Holy People the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called Sought out a City not forsaken vers. 12. So having shewed you by these Scriptures that the Jews shall return and build their City upon her own heap I shall now also shew you that there shall be a Temple built at the last and general return of the Jews from these three Reasons as followeth The First is from the Vision that the Lord shewed Ezekiel in the time of Israels Captivity for it is usual with the Lord to follow his people with Mercy so that in the valley of Achor there may bee a door of hope so the Lord dealt with John when he was driven into the Isle of Pathmos But to pass to Ezekiels Vision Wee may take notice that in the fortieth of Ezekiel 1 2 3 4 5. Verses that the Lord brought Ezekiel in a Vision into the Land of Israel and setting him upon an high Mount shewed him the frame of a City in the which City also he saw a man whose countenance was like Brasse and hee had also a measuring reed in his hand Moreover that this was a Prophecy of the last and general return see chap. 37.38 and that also without controversie Ezekiel did see a Temple built as well as a City as you may see proved already from Chap. 41.1 and vers. 4. from which we may see clearly there was a Temple and so as I said before so I say now read and consider well the three precedent Chapters and you shall see that it was the last and general return out of Captivity that there was Prophesied of from the same account it is clear That there is to be a Temple as well as a City Obj. If it be objected and said That there were Priests and Sacrifices mentioned in that Prophecie to that I answer and say It is true but after the Jews return out of their Captivity they shall wait for their Messiah in their Sacrifices untill such time as the Man of Sin shall spoyl them and take it away and place up abomination in the room for I cannot finde from Scripture that the Jews shall be converted by a Gospel-preaching although I know the two Witnesses shall prophecy one thousand two hundred and sixty days Now that these two Witnesses shal preach Gospel-Ordinances or a Crucified Christ Repentance and faith to the Jews in such a manner and way as he was or is preached to the Gentiles that I much question for as much as I see not the Scripture making good such a thing but in many places doth crosse such an Opinion as to my understanding for the Lord Christ said They should see him no more till they said Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord as for the Gospel they are enemies for your sake but as touching Election they are beloved for the Fathers sake for the Gifts and Callings of God are without repentance So that when they see the Lord come in the Clouds even the great King that they lookt for then they shall know that it was he that they and their Fathers have rejected as well as Peter knew Moses and Elias which he never saw before so that at that time the Spirit of Prayer and Supplication shall be poured out and they shall mourn So when the Redeemer cometh to Sion at that time shall transgression be turned from Iacob Matth. 23.39 Rom. 11.25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33. verses Isa. 27 6. compare vers. 9. chap. 25.7 8 9. Zech. 12.10 Moreover if it should be demanded of me What shall be the work of the two Witnesses I answer That their work will bee to establish the Iews against the slights of the Man of Sin that shall affirm himself to be the Christ and disswade the Iews from beleeving in him reviving those old Prophecies which have been in obscurity by reason of the mis-understanding of the people to whom they were made for doubtlesse the Iews at this time do earnestly expect their King and should they not have some to instruct them and to expound the Prophecies or Prophesie of them It is very like they might do ill enough especially because of that great appearance of the Man of Sin what by his great Armies and the false Signs that shall bee wrought by his false Prophets that shall cause Fire to come down from Heaven in the sight of men to deceive them that dwell upon the earth so that their work will not be to preach Ordinances but to prove that the great person that then shall be exalted amongst them is not the Christ that they look for but the Antichrist or the vile Person or the first Gog or the Man of Sin though he have several Names yet is he but one Person which was fore-told by Enoch the seventh from Adam and also by Ezekiel and Daniel Esay and Joel and also by Peter and John which was to stand up in the last days and also fall upon the Mountains of Israel and so I shall passe both from the Answer to the Objection and the first Reason and come to a Second to shew you why there is to be a Temple built as well as a City A second Reason is because Iohn in his Revelation saw a Temple and was to measure it Revel. 11.1 2 3. in these words And there was given to me a Reed like unto a Red and the Angel that stood by said Arise and go measure the Temple of God and the Altar and those that worship therein but the Court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given into the hands of the Gentiles and the Holy City shall be trod under foot forty two Months Hence you may also see there was a Temple which Temple Iohn was to measure now that this was a Prophecie of the last times is clear from verse 18. and as the text reads it the Court without leave out and measure not the antient Translations read it the inner Court or the Court within the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given into the hands of the Gentiles and the Holy City shall they tread under foot forty and two Months the which if so it may appear to us clearly That before the Iews have finished their inward Court which is the Holiest of Holiest the Man of Sin will take it out of their hands and spoyl them of the injoyment of it for the term of forty two Months which is three years and a half upon the account of thirty days to a Month the which time and times and half a time the travelling Woman will be drove into the Wilderness and the remnant of her seed persecuted and this vile Person shall then set up his Image which shall by the power of the Devil speak and cause as many