Then shall new Preachers be sent to thee that shall not only rebuke the People but also thunder against the Priests and put to silence the lofty and swelling Masters and they shall so bruise the forehead of that lewd Whore that it shall be reputed Righteousnesse to them that rebuke thee Finally saies he chap. 30. the LORD shall not make an end till New things doe arise and that there come a Generation bringing forth good fruit and a full Reformation be Then Qui in tenebris ambularunt ad lucem redibunt quae erant divisa dispersa consolidabuntur c. Besides him we have anothers Judgment in a Prediction of long standing and that is one Cataldus Finius once Minister of Trent When Rome saies he begins to hear the loâ—d bellowing of the fat Cow I know not who that is unlesse the English Nation as seems by what followes Woe woe then be to thee O Flanders full of blood and Zealand and Holland full of treacheries as if this were the way of the war to Rome Alas alas weep thou unhappy Babylon thou damned pit of Priests for the dayes of affliction are come upon thee and like unripe corne thou shalt suffer a threshing for thine iniquities Many shall come against thee yea from the foure corners of the Earth the Holy ones of God shall bee gathered together against thee Over and above all these one Baptista Nazarus hath translated a prophecy out of Hebrew how in the sixth thousand years which is now shall begin great wars to vex Nations and they shall come into Spaine France and Germany and put the Romans to the edge of the sword and that the English shall combine with others and the Venetians shall enter into a holy league with the English I conceive that to be meant a league upon theaccount of Christ against Antichrist c. and they shal go on conquering and have the chief hand in vanquishing the Turks So that it seems long since it was foresâ—en what God would do in and by this Nation and how fast from them the Fifth Monarchy should goe on and grow up to the ruine of the fourth Monarchy in all Nations which appears to strike terrible strokes at the Ecclesiasticall and Civill Interest of Babylon I could heap up many more Prophesies and Predictions of this nature But I shall end them in one more of the Sibyls lib. 3. p. 268. 269. which saies that in the last daies after grievous and intestine wars shall be set up instead of the cruell Lawes and wils of men the most venerable Decrees Laws and Ordinances of the Lord and then shall the beloved People of God flourish again So that it seems the Sibyls fore-saw how sadly the poor people would be oppressed and enslaved by cursed and cruel Laws and Lusts of men all along the fourth Monarchy and what redemption herein the fifth Monarchy would bring them for as in Psal. 72. 3. 7. Christ the King shall reigne in those dayes and then the Mountains Kings Princes Parliaments Generals and the Hils viz. Judges Justices c. shall bring peace to the people by justice and thorough righteousnesse and then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in those daies the righteous shall flourish and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moon endures and Christ shall reign from Sea to Sea i. e. by degrees at first till it come to the ends of the Earth but thus for the first Reason Secondly This fifth Monarchy must enter a pace for that Christ hath of right the Supream Authority of the Nations therefore Dan. 7. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the Kingdome i. e. the fifth Monarchy and the summa potestas Regni the Supreame authority of the Nation is his or the absolute Soveraignty is given him the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Heaven and in Earth Wherefore woe be to those Usurpers that trade and triumph with the title due to Christ alone who is now coming for his own No wonder Holland hath so hard a tug now to keep the title of I was going to say Almighty but High and Mighty which Christ has a Commission to take from them with a powder Doe but observe de Wits Letter to them dated 11 alias 1. Aug. 1653. lying before the Texel who ends it thus Which is the account sent to your High and Mighty and Noble Great and Mightinesses So ending I remaine Your High and Mighty and Noble and Great and Mightinesses faithfull Servant Cornelius de Withe Witte And he deserves the Withe for flattering men so This must not be endured ere long and it were well for us if we took not that Title which Christ alone must and will have ere long to himselfe as his by right Besides Christ alone must be the Law-giver and have the Legislative Power in this Monarchy Isa. 33. 22. Jekovah is our Law-giver So Gen. 49. 10. Shiloh should be their Lawgiver so Psa. 60. 7. Judah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Christ of the Tribe of Judah is my Lawgiver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t is as much as to say there is no stability in Government or Laws till Christs Fifth Monarchy till he come 〈◊〉 give it them He hath the Judicial Power too John 5. 22. 27. But although he doth delegate a Judiciall Power to his Servants Isa. 1. 27. 1 King 6. 12. and subordinate Officers Isa. 60. 17. Dan. 7. 27. Rev. 19. 14. which must all be Saints too yet he keeps the Legislative Power to himselfe and will not part with it nor can he to Princes or Parliaments He alone is to have the absolute Soveraignty as the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dan. 7. 14. So that his will his word or command is the Law and the Law ought to be none but his Word all grounded and fetched from the Word of God which is to be the Statute-Booke Psal. 147. 19. He sheweth HIS Statutes and HIS Judgements to Israel Then the ablest Lawyers wil be such as are most conversant with Christ his Scriptures and Ordinances O happy dayes then the Lawes will bee healing as Soveraigne Medicines and the Magistrates like Pâ—ysitians must apply them for these and divers other reasons we looke for the fifth Monarchy and doe continually cry Come Lord Jesus come quickly Let every one that longs for these new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwels righteousnesse 2 Pet. 3. 13. Pray Our Father thy Kingdome come that thy will may be done in earth as it is in heaven Matth. 6. 10. that we may have none but Christs Lawes Statutes and Government but forget all old Formes of Civil or Ecclesiasticke for which end Lord hasten this fifth Monarchy Vse My first word is full to our Governours in the Honourable Court of Parliament if so be the fifth Monarchy is so nigh us it concernes them to set upon their Generation-worke then in these dayes
the Lawyers stink in our nostrils and bring forth vanities in some but righteousnesse and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost to his Saints and deliverance and sweet freedome and blessings to the Common-wealth In the meane time it is a shame that Ministers of Christ can see them live so in sinne and say nothing seeing those Agags that the indulgent eye of Sauls have spared and favoured must be met with by the two-edged Swords of the Samuels of God â— but so much to our Authority in the Legislative power for the advancing the Law of God as the only fundamentall Law of this Nation Secondly My word to the People is as a Remembrancer for when Cyrus King of Persia proclaimed liberty to the Jewes only those went out of captivity whose spirits God stirred up in Ezra 1. 5. This is the case we are freed from our Norman Captivity Now you whose spirits God hath stirred up why appeare for your Liberties and Rights returne home unto your owne it is high time be not longer Slaves to Norman Lawes or Lawyers This your liberty is Naturall and connaturall as Paul said Acts 22. 20. I am a free-borne Roman which was his Plea and unsuited his Adversaries and made them afraid which surely had never been had not this boâ—est man made use of his right and liberty and let his Judges and Governours know it Surely this liberty is more worth then all the Lands in the Nation to us and if we know it wee should not slight it so as we doe therefore honoured Ames cas l. 5. c. 22. tells us that this Libertas proxime accedit 〈◊〉 vitam ipsam Liberty a man counts next his life and will not loose it if it be possible but wil loose his estate yeaâ— the â—loâ—theâ— off his back first yea further for the Publick Liberty and common safety a faithfull man wil loose his very life and prizes it abundantly above his life as some honest hearts have done in England in most ages And if any wonder that I will â—rive thus against the streame seeing I cannot turne it I must tâ—ll them That the Fish which alwayes goes downe the streame we suspect for dead whilst the living Fish makes against the streame but the truth is as when Tides turne there is first a secret motion and turning at the bottome before it comes at top and so there is in the bottome of our hearts which wil ere long be more openly to all eyes in the meane time we must minde the People of the time of dâ—y and tell them what the Clock strikes for their liberty and deliverance is hard by And beleeve it Brethren the flaming Sword is in our sight turning hither and thither every way to drive out these Wretches that have lived so long upon forbidden fruits and although the bowles of Authority seemes to many to run Byass to a bad I was ready to say Mad Mistresse this wil be mended ere long when the Mistresse is removed but we must ballast our Ship before we put to saile therefore consider Country-men First of all No Governours are above the Peoples Lawes and Liberties hence it was that Kings could not De jure conclude or determine businesses according to their owne wills and Aristotle Alexanders Tutor tels us That absolute power in Governours is the next degree to plaine Tyranny yea had it not been for feare of offending Alexander I thinke he had called it absolute Tyranny and said true too Therefore are Kings and Magistrates the Organs or Instruments of executing the Peoples Lawes and must receive their Lawes from the People Hence it is that the Emperor King of France Kings of Spaine England Poland Hungarie or Princes of the house of Austria Dukes of Brabant Earles of Flanders or Holland before their Coronation or Creation to the Governments do ingage to keep the Laws of their Country and their breach of the Laws is or ought to be as punishable upon them as any others And to shew how the Laws and Liberties of People are above their Governors God alwaies gave Laws to such as should govern the people for the peoples good Deut. 17. which their Rulers ought not to alter vid. Brains New Earth Secondly All Rulers and Governors are bound to execute their Offices and Authorities for the peoples benefit and publick good and the greatest Treason is against the peoples Laws and Liberties And Caesar himselfe in his Commentaries tels us that Amblorix King of the Eburons confessed that such were the conditions of the Gaulish Empire that the people lawfully assembled had no lesse power over the King then the King had over the People but rather more So we find there how Vercingentorix gave an account of his actions before the people how they were for their good and freedom Thus in England Ireland and Scotland the Representative of the People have the greatest authority i. e. as from the People the like in Spaine especially in Aragon Valentia and Catalonia cum aliis c. There is a Justitia Major who stands for the Peoples Rights and Liberties hath more power then the King or his Councel and therefore at his Coronation the Lords of the Kingdome use these words in their own Language to the King p. 60. Nos qui valemos tanto como vos y pâ—demos mas que vos vos elegimos Rei con estas è y estas conditiones entra vos y nos un que mandamus que vos We who are in as much value as you and have more power then you yet have chosen you King upon conditions c. and there is between you and us one that commands both you and us i. e. the Justitia Major who is altogether for the peoples Laws Right and Liberties and to see that for this end the Kings and Princes govern But in case Governors doe not rule for the publick good then Thirdly The People may orderly declare against the dangerous Practises of their Rulers and make an orderly resistance for their owne Rights and Liberties Now let me not be mistaken for I fear this Doctrine will not please some selfish Rulers but this I say whilst I call upon the people to appear for their own freedome and rights I mean not by armes to fight or wage war against their Governors in a rash disorderly way O no! not for a world that we should bee guilty of so ungodly a Rebellion for really I would bee one that would spend my blood against them that so doe but this I say let them mildly declare against the mis-governments of such men as seek their owne private more then the publick good and let them use means to correct that mis-government to admonish the offenders to petition to the Parliament or to our Conqueror the Lord Generall with the same importunities the poor Widow used to the unjust Judge till she was answered and so continue untill the
all our Freedom and Liberty lost Now to conclude this Chapter know the poor oppressed people and free-born Commoners are passionately looking upon the Lord General for a restauration of their Rights and Liberties which they lost by William the Conqueror for these Reasons 1. William the Conqueror waâ—â—ed upon his own account and for his own Ends and fought meerly for himselfe and so robbed the people of all But our Generall Oliver the Conquerer went out to War and ingaged against the Normans and got the Garland through mercy upon the Peoples account and for the people to free them from tyranny and oppression and this he hath often and often declared to the Nation and Commonalty and for this next to the Interest of Christ he hath had the peoples prayers and purses and persons and hearts estates blood and all and upon this score have so many Battles been fought Towns taken and Victories obtained in these Nations Therefore as Austin speaking of the History of David and Goliah Serm. de temp saith nemo pugnavit in valle Terebinthi donec David veniret ad praelium no man ever fought in the valley of Elaâ— or Terebinth Turpentine trees till David came So no man did ever appear so openly so publickly so solemnly to act the part of so excellent chivalry in the peoples cause against the Goliah's and those that bid defiance to Israel as this our Generall did who is the peoples Champion The cheifest Oath the Athenians ever took was this Pugnabo pro sacris pro patria cum aliis solus I will fight for God and my Country whether I fight with my fellows or alone for it Wholesome meat breeds good blood so a good cause good courage in men this good Cause on the side of our Conqueror carryed him out and brought him off with good Successe and can it now be forgot or abandoned Tu pia tela feres saies the Poet. The Jewes never acquitted themselves so worthily nor fought so faithfully as when they fetched their Armour out of the Temple from the Priests hands nor could our Country men have been such Conquerors â—nder the Lord Generall had not the faithfull godly people of this Nation brought them armour and magazine out of the Temple of the Lord insomuch that they fought with consecrated weapons which were kept in their hands by the faith and prayers of Gods dearest and the Commonwealths faithfullest Servants and shall they now be left in the lurch God forbid when the Israelites went to war they first consulted with God and the Priests gave answer from God by the Ephod though in latter times says Josephus they guessed at the ovent by the glowing or duskishnesse of the Diamonds on the Breast-plate which if they shined bright shew good successe but if they looked dim and failed or changed into a pale Colour it portended ill successe all along these late Wars the precious Diamonds that are on Christs the High Priests Breast-plate did shine the most excellent and discerning Saints in England did confidently foreâ—ell and foreshew the good successe of these wars and they glowed to have Israel go and so they do now as much if not more to have the Army march on and to remember their work on the other side the water and not to rest on this side Jordan as wee said in the first Chapter although the Diamonds doe looke dimly as to some selfe-seeking Gaddites who are alwaies almost aâ— Worcester-house or Drury-house to have their portion allotted them here and to go no further But ah alas is all done is all done at home yet why doe not we follow the victory over the Norman Tyrants Hâ—nnibal said to his Souldiers Qui hostem vicerit mihi erit Cart haginensis so let my Lord General say come sirs we fought and have conquered for the people and upon their account now let us deliver them up their own Laws and Liberties and free them fully from these Norman Intruders and Intrusions and whosoever hath conquered shall carry the tryumph of an Englishman over all these Normans we will noâ— seek nor set up our own private Interests though power be in our hands because we ingaged all along for the Peoples and the publicks and for that end God hath given us power in our hands to deliver them and throw down the Normans As when Titus had taken the City of Jerusalem his Army saluted him Emperor and presented him with Crowns and Garlands by way of congratulations which he modestly refused saying He had done nothing more then lent his hands and help to God and his people who hath declared here by our Conquest his fiâ—rce wrath against this sinful people Thus should his Excellency say I have but lent my help to God and his poor people that were held in unsufferable slavery by the tyranny oppression and injustice robbery and wrongs which William the Conqueror brought upon them from all which we are to deliver them and against all which with all the Norman Lawyers and Oppressors God hath justly declared by our conquest of them in his fierce wrath against them This is the first Reason why the peoples eyes are so on his Excellency being their Conqueror 2. William the Conquerors Army were strangers and outlandish cruel Kites and therefore made all that was the peoples of England their prey without mercy but the case is now altered this Army were our own Countrymen and Fellow-members under the Norman tyranny with us so that the Law of Nature calls upon the Army of our Brethren for our deliverance and recovery from these alienâ—tions We finde this in France Anno 1483 1522 1531 1549 1560. by divers Decrees of Parliament the care they had to recover and wring the power out of the hands of strangers intruders invaders and usurpers So in the Assembly of the Estates at Toures where King Charls the Eighth was in person divers alienations made by Lewis the Eleventh were repealed and annihilated and divers great places of power and trust were taken away from strangers and given to their own Countrymen as from the Heirs of Tancred of Casthel c. So also they did in their last Assembly at Orleans What makes so much opposition now in France against their yong King and the old Queen about Mazarine but that he is an intruder and a stranger How can we then be content to have Usurpers Intruders and Out landish Normans to eat us up and possess our Estates Laws Liberties and all Charlemain sayes Paulus Aemilius lib. 3. did once endeavor to subject the Kingdom of France to German strangâ—rs but the free-born Frenchmen most stoutly withstood it to the face of their King and chose the Prince of Glasconny for their mouth most couragiously to declare against it that they would not suffer it that forrainers should rule over the subâ—ects of France and certainly had Charlemain proceeded in that business it had
that must have the Reason of the Law Now these Lawes which they have not a right Reason for and such a Reason as is derived ab aeterna lege must not stand None must abide but such as agree with the Law of God as the Fundamentall of them Wherefore seeing they sit not for themselves but for the people I pray God they may hear the loud cries and complaints of the poore oppressed people under the tyranny of such Laws and Lawyers as are now in being to the robbing and ruining of our Rights and Freedoms Oh! we fear least what victories are continued us according to our faith and incessant prayer should produce in some a desire to take up the Dutch Titles of High and Mighty and to seek more to be adored for a Supremacy in Government then a Supremacy in God or Grace oh God forbid least the Cannon mouth be turned upon us Only this we say that we see these tryumphs by Land and Sea make some monstrous high and too high to take notice of the Petitions of the poore and oppressed fatherlesse and widows who are begging and weeping and praying and Petitioning and to no purpose to men when they complain and sigh and sob before God who have some of them more right to and have made more faithfull prayers for these mercies and victories then some of them who usurpe and assume the whole benefit of them ratling about in their Coaches and blazing it abroad in their gold and silver and yet oppresse or afflict and reject the prayers and tears of such as have most right it may be in Gods account to what they enjoy But our prayers are to our God that he will keep our Parliament humble and to make them wise for the Fifth Monarchy mentioned in the next Chapter and in the mean time the supreame Rationalists for the good safety and freedom of England whose eyes are full fixed upon them for deliverance out of this Norman tyranny and Tyrants according to the Eternall Law of God which is ratio divinae sapientiae moventis omnia ad debitum finem directive in all actions and Laws that tend to the publick good Secondly As they are Legislators too our eyes are upon them in the earnest expectation of greater matters in restoring us to our Right and lost Liberties then hath been hitherto Lex sayes Isidorus est constitutio populi secundum quam majores natu simul cum plebibus aliquid sanxerunt and it is not the ratio cujuslibet that condere potest legem but of such Governors as represent the people whose rights and freedomes they sit for our prayers herein are that they be rightly principled and spirited to make the Laws which we must live under in these dayes as to the people of this Nation Wherefore 1. The Intents and Wills of the Lawyers must be bent upon the publick good in all their Laws and Statutes therefore the honest people are all purposed to waite with patience upon this Parliament or Legislative Power for the pulling downe those Laws which are against the publick good and for setting up of others in their room Because hitherto the Brambles have made Laws for the trees and have scratched and tore them and then wrote Laws in their blood Carneades was wont to say utilitas justi propè mater aequi which in an honest sence is sufferable Our Lawgivers should send out Lawes with olive branches in their mouths which should drop sweetnesse and fatnesse to the Nation Look how the Sun is said to shoot out with healings in his wings and so should our Law givers It is not for the Parliament to be the supreame Power of the Nation in the next Monarchy but they may then bee content to be subservient wherefore in the mean time let them like honest men and good Christians execute justice with mercy as well as mercy with justice For a Plutarch can tell us that God is angry with a too hot and hasty spirit in Legislators 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he wil not have them meddle with his Scepter his Thunderbolt and his trident i. e. he does not love they should Lord it over their Brethren as if they were the supreame Power and had his absolute dominion or Soveraignty he would not have them too violent or domineering but rather darting out such warme amiable and winning and cherishing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beams of Justice goodnesse and clemency so as might inlarge all the hearts of Gods people to praise him Our Laws should therefore like so many fresh pleasant green pastures in which these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Our Parliament are to lead their flocks to feed sweetly and securely by those refreshing and gliding streames of Justice that run down like waters as is promised But O when when Well but if all Laws be for the peoples good a Broom will soon be found to sweep down these Cob-webs or Laws that are so full of venome and subtle workings against the faithfull ones for the peoples interest and this will sweep down many an Achitophelian and Machivillian and Devillian web which hangs yet in Westminster and so also many a Hamans and Herods web which intangle honest hearts so as to take away their lives and catch them in snares for many of the Laws are not for the publick good being by Kings and Courtiers to keep up their own Interests and like Domitians Play-fellows to make royall sport and pastime in catching the poor Flyes for so they accounted the people of this Commonwealth and insulting over their torments with Tyranny But let these vile Lawes avaunt and let us not have reeds to peirce us through but staves for the weary and afflicted to leane upon Let our Lawes be cords of love and not snares and nets to trap our Brethren with and to hunt them as the Prophet sayes in Micah 7. 2. so Jerem. 5. 26. They set snares to catch men Therefore our God give this Supreame power here the supreame priviledge of Reason as to fetch their Lawes from the eternal and only true fundamental viz. the Law of God for those Lawes are most radical and fundamental that come nearest to the Law of God and are participations of that eternal Law which is the spring and original of all other honest inferiour and derivative Lawes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Plato sayes and there is no such publique benefit as that which comes by such Lawes for they they are that tend to the conservation of the vitals and essentials of a Common-wealth in the which all have an alike and equal interest and priviledge Secondly Justice is the next aime of the Legislative power on purpose to keep up the publick good Thus the great Jehovah and Almighty Legislator hath let us see his method in the Decalogue and set our Law-givers an example for in the first Table the intention of the Law-giver is to ordaine for
FOURTH MONARCHY Improved with use to the PARLIAMENT and the PEOPLE THe consideration of the Fifth Monarchy now entering is very pregnant to our purpose For all the Laws and Ordinances Civill and Ecclesiastick of the Fourth Monarchy must tumble at the entrance of the fifth That there is such a Kingdom to come is obvious to all intelligent men by abundance of Scriptures as Dan. 2. 35 36 37. and 7. 17 23. 25. Rev. 11. 15. Isa. 9 6 7. Psal. 2. 5 6. Psal. 72. 8 9 11. Luk. 1. 32. 39. Rev. 17. 14. and 16. 11. 19. Jer. 15. 25 26. cum multis aliis and it is for this fifth Monarchy which must remaine for ever Isa. 9. 7. Dan. 2. 44. Luk. 1. 33. Psa. 72. 8. and 47. 2. Mic. 4. 7. Zach. 9. 10 c that all other Kings and Kingdoms Powers and Policies Laws and Lawyers in the fourth Monarchy must be shaken and broken into fitters and shivers like potsheards That there is such a mighty Monarchy a coming which must be universall all over the World is without doubt but to our matter we must examine First When it enters Secondly How it enters Thirdly Why it enters to the ruin of the other First As to the Time though men be of divers minds as to the precise time yet all concur in the nighnesse and swiftnesse of its coming upon us The graduall entrance of it as to us being just by although the universall discovery of it all over the world is like to be about forty years hence as appears in Chap. 3. of my Tabernacle for the Sun or Idea of Church Discipline But to clear the time as to us see Dan. 7. 17 22 23 26 c. The Prophet tels us there expresly of the foure Monarchies now the fourth Kingdome as he cals it ver 23. or earthly Monarchy he distinguishes from the three foregoing for its tyranny and extent ver 7. agreeing with Rev. 13. 2. c. and tels us that it had ten horns that is ten Kings Rev. 17. 12. which are enumerated by Mr. Cam in his voice from the Temple p. 12. but after this that Daniel had seen the ten hornes in the head of this fourth Beast or Monarchy ver 8. hee looked well and then saw what see v. 8. and behold there came up among them another little Horne before whom there were three of the first hornes pluckt up by the roots Pray note it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I considered saies he with great attention and serious intention i. e. to something very observable in this Vision and that is to the rise of this little horne that ravenously got up in the room of three hornes Some there be that interpret this of the Pope others of the Turke others of Julius Caesar so Calvin others of Antichrist So my friend Mr. Canne others to Antiochus Epiphanes so Polanus But I must differ from them all for that the Prophecy agrees with none of them all fully but though I may seem singular yet with much assurance and clear sight I assert it that William the Conqueror was this little horn and so all along the Line of William and the Norman Kings on our English Throne And that for these Reasons 1. This Little horne was unseen and none a while even after the ten horns were seen for he arose after them all and was at his first rising seen besides them and another vers 8. 20. which the Prophet makes observeable seeing hee saw him not before at his first rise he was the least and the last this was K. William the Norman who arose by usurpation over the other horns on the head and so his Line therefore 2. He rose up or thrust in among the rest i. e. as Will the Conqueror did by force and armes not by choyse and election not naturally with the rest of the horns by the suffrage of the people 3 He was as is in Dan. 11. 21. a vile person or base borne as we have it in p. 37. of the English Chronicles Robert Duke of Normandy the sixt in descent from Rollo riding through Fallis a Town in Normandy he spied certain Damsels dancing near the way among whom he fixed his eye upon one Arlote a fair Maid but of mean Parentage a Skinners Daughter whom he procured that night to be brought unto him of whom he begat a Son who afterward was named William c. So that this Will the Conqueror was the base Son of Robert the sixt Duke of that Dutchy This is the vile person who rose up so by usurpation of power whence all the Norman Kings that sat since upon the English Throne came 4 After the League made with him he shall work deceitfully c. Chap. 11. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or with fraudes and arts did not Will. the Conqueror thus See but the third Chapter how oft he broke his Oaths and Promises and contrary to all set up the Norman Interest and pulled down the peoples with the losse of all their Laws and Liberties to this day 5 This Little horne was to wax great and famous in time and to subdue three Kingdomes and get up the roome of three Hornes or Kings ver 8. 20. 24. as one more stout then all his other fellowes This was fulfilled by William the Conquerour and that Norman race in England and by none else this Line of William by degrees got up all the roome of three Kings in England Ireland and Scotland and took up those three hornes himselfe who was so little at first as a poor Skinners Girles Bastard In whom could this be fulfilled else not in Pope nor Turke nor Antichrist nor Caesar nor Antiochus but only in this English Horne usurping the place of the other three and plucking them up by the roots 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6 This little Horne shall speake great words against God ver 25. and as Chap. 11. shall doe according to his owne will ver 36. and exalt himselfe and magnifie himselfe above God and prosper untill the indignation be accomplished After Will. the Conqueror and his Race had made themselves great and gotten up all the Brittains wealth and riches their fattest fields and Meddows c. as Chap. 11. Ver. 24. he grew great in pride and Tyranny and Arbitrary power according to the lust of his heart as the Hebrew hath it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this got up into such a height at last in the late Charles that he not only opposed God but refused to be accountable pretending no Mortals must question him and thus he magnified himselfe usque ad consummationem irae till his head was off which indignation was to begin with him first for his height of Arbitrary Will Lust and Tyranny in which as Chap. 7. 20. he was more stout then all his fellowes wherefore this horn must needs be the English by Will. the Conqueror 7 This little horne