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A79562 The camp of Christ, and the camp of Antichrist, all troopers after the Lambe. Revel. 10. 11. 14. or his two horns, Rev. 13. 11, 12. 1642 (1642) Wing C398; Thomason E127_17; ESTC R21625 17,888 16

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THE CAMP OF CHRIST AND THE CAMP OF ANTICHRIST all Troopers after the LAMBE Revel 10.11.14 or his two Horns Rev. 13.11 12. 1. The Troopers for Christ are distinguished from the Troopers of Antichrist by the end they ayme and the side they undertake for the one must be against Christ that 's discussed and resolved the other are encouraged for Christ by the certainty of the victory in the end proved all at large out of Scripture but especially out of the Apocalips 2. Here is likewise declared how the government of this Kingdom hath been since it had first a being till now 2. Generall the Camp of Christ called chosen faithfull in fight with Antichrist and his Army 1. Declared to be fought under foure Standards reduced to foure Ensignes declared at large what they be The Lambes Camp compared to a Lion for courage and valour to a Man for wisdom to an Ox for patience and industrie to an Eagle for speed and expedition Antichrist is the Generall of the Prelates Armie 2. Two Captains two Camps their fatall and finall warres an instance in our Kingdom Revel 17.14 They shall make warre with the Lambe shewing the age of Antichrists it being and her now Ruine 3. The Warre proved lawfull from Scripture and Reason from the breach of Law and its own duty to hinder the Kings coming to rule by Arbitrary and Tyrannie as for Hezekiah to oppose Senacheribs coming against Israel Wicked men take no notice of that which good men observe viz. the time times and half a time of Antichrist Dan. 12.7.10 THe Warre is wonderfull that Antichrist should fight against the Lambe with his own Horns for what are the horns of the Lambe but his own power And what is that power but the power of the keyes And what power have the keyes but to bind and loose remit and retain sinnes And to whom is this power given but to the Pastors of the Church And of them who challenge the ordination of all Ministers and the jurisdiction over all persons but the Bishops And therefore of them we conclude what they would have according to revelation Apoc. 13.11 the second Beast had two horns like the Lambe the honour of Episcopacie but he spake as a Dragon the dread of their calling and disgrace of so great a dignitie The ten horns Dan 7.24 Rev. 17 12. are expounded to our hands to be ten Kings that take away the Cesars 2. Thes 2.6 7. and succeed him in his kingdom Rev. 13.1 the crowns were upon the sixth head Rev. 12 3 that is one Cesar held them and by civill and barbarous warres ten enjoy them to themselves which is called an Apostasie from Cesar 2. Thes 2.3 and this is first in order but in time we must joyn it with another from Christ Revel 17.12 and this is to Antichrist to whom the other give their power and both fight with the Lambe and his chosen Army who as Troopers in white and upon white horses make their expedition against a cruell companie with the greatest innocencie and alacritie in the world Antichrist is said to come out of the earth Revel 13 11. both for secresie and silence He is not seen so soon as the ten Horns that rise out of the Sea for they are up in commotion but he steals up in their troubled waters and at their back subdues them Dan. 7.25 Let my counsell be acceptable to the King and Kingdom and consider our Camps and how we have argued our selves into a civill warre and from words are come to blows Both cannot be innocent or Caviiiers of the same condition The Troopers in white must be known by the truth and the truth by God and the Countrey God if we defend true Religion and the Countrey if we seek the peace of it The miserie of our warre shall be the meditation of our miserie ever since we were a Kingdom We have been ruled by Romanes from the first King that ever we had who having killed his own Father by accident exiled himself into this Island A thousand yeers and more before Christ Brute a noble Romane ruled us and some 58. yeers before Christ we fell into a civill warre and Julius Cesar conquered us and when the Cesars were conquered we fell into a civill warre and the Saxons Fortiger sent for to help him conquered his sonne Vortimer and themselves by a civill warre fell into an Heptarchie and in this time came the Monke from the Pope and mastered our Bishops and by them our Kings and at this time they are suspected to joyn with a Malignant Partie to part the King and his Councell and all because he cannot have a Monarchie of their making which is stamped with that character 1. Sam. 8 9 11. where the judgement reason or will of the King is tyrannie if the judgement of the Kingdom be not in it Nineteen Propositions propounded by his Councell have provoked him exceedingly and made many to think his very Councell would impose a tyrannie upon him and all this for want of a true distinction between justice distributive and commutative Distributive of honours to deserving persons and in this the Kings Prerogative cannot be violated Privy Counsellors Bishops Judges Souldiers publick Officers Courtiers Servants to the King are by him to be honored but not to the hurt of the Kingdom His Majestie must look by distributive j●stice to the qualities of the persons he honours that they be as himself not for themselves but the common good Queen Elizabeth would say Populus nihi preciocissimus Courtiers Maledictus and when his Majestie saies his beloved people too many curse them and say keep them under By reason of the which oppression they cry to God and we hope God will heare them as he hath in this Parliament which zealously seek the peoples good not to distribute honours the right of the King but prevent their hurt the right of the Kingdom by commutative justice that respects not persons but things and if his Majestie meane to distribute hurtfull honours his Councell may well request that commutative justice may not be exchanged into tyrannie Jus militiae ●●m bellum indicendi quam gerendi cum inimicis pacis quoque contrahendae paciscendae cum peregrinis est lex Regis To proclaim and make warre to contract and make peace are in distributive justice the Royalties of a King but in commutative justice the men and money the King would have to make war must come from common consent Let this be the carriage of the Common-wealth and we shall soon be at peace The Campe of Christ called chosen and faithfull in fight with Antichrist and his Armie THe Campe of Christ consists of 144000 and the Campe of Antichrist of 666 not because Christ hath the greater number but the better men as being virgins undefiled with women Rev. 14.4 The other is a round number of a name of a Beast of a man Rev. 13.17 18. There will be great wisdome