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A78030	The sounding of the two last trumpets, the sixt and seventh or Meditations by way of paraphrase upon the 9th. 10th. and 11th. Chapters of the Revelation, as containing a prophecie of these last times. / Digested by Henry Burton during his banishment, and close imprisonment in the isle of Guernsey.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6172; Thomason E174_1; ESTC R6165	58,961	100

THE SOVNDING OF THE TWO LAST TRVMPETS the sixt and seventh OR Meditations by way of Paraphrase upon the 9th 10th and 11th Chapters of the REVELATION as containing a Prophecie of these last Times Digested by Henry Burton during his Banishment and close imprisonment in the Isle of GVERNSEY Revel 1.11.11 I heard a great voice as of a Trumpet saying what thou seest Write in a Book and send it to the Churches LONDON Printed for SAMUEL GELLIBRAND at the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1641. TO The Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Honourable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament MOst Noble grave Senate having by me a certain Idea of some Meditations upon the sounding of the sixth Trumpet which Idea I first conceived in my close Prison and Exile the wombe of its breeding forming and growing to that small stature it is of and finding by comparing with this trumpets sound the sight of those remarkable things within the circuit of our times such an harmony between them as the things themselves seemed to returne a full eccho to the sound which as it afforded mee matter to exercise and recreate my thoughts and so to deceive the naturall taedium of so horrid a solitarinesse and to support humane infirmities with some hope that it was not impossible all circumstances weighed that such a dying life meerly upheld by a divine power might yet survive to bee an eye-witnesse of the accomplishment of the things then remayning to be fulfilled so now though so long since my returne I have conceived it might bee not altogether unseasonable for your godly wisdomes to take notice of it as who have no small interest in it seeing it hath pleased the Divine Providence in so full and important a season to call you together to be the grand Agents and Instruments of accomplishing his great worke falling within the sound of this Trumpet and hastning on the terrible summons and consummation of the seventh and last to whom then should I now dedicate these my Meditations but to your worthy selves and that not only for the interest you have of right in them but in me also whose deliverance from Prison and Exile your unanimous votes made the handsell and first-fruits and so the happy Auspicia of this ever famous and unparalleld Parliament so as I have received and doe enjoy a second life which under God I owe to the immaculate justice of this Honorable House nor a life only but which is better then this life a glorious libertie and that not only from a perpetuall prison and exile but with many thousands more from the bonds and chaines of a Babylonish and Antichristian captivity from the remainder whereof still surviving we hope and pray for a full deliverance by you And for me if my late testimony against the a Revel 11.7 Beast may come in for a share with those b Ibid. v. 3. two witnesses mentioned in this sixt Trumpet which I am farre from arrogating to my selfe then this I dare be bold to say that your unanimous vote which called mee from Exile is that Great voice from Heaven saying to the Witnesses Come up hither And was not that a Great voice which was made up of the whole House none contradicting when the widows petition for her exiled Husbands liberty was read and granted And the Order for his liberty came it not to his Prison just in the beginning of that moneth which made up three yeeres and half answering to three days a half as here yee shall find it calculated But I submit all to the charitable judicious interpretation of your excellent wisdomes But little thoughts had I of such a Parliament as this when these Meditations were a working And this I humbly pray you to take notice of that I have without any alteration or addition of second thoughts presented these my Meditations unto your Honours as they were first conceived that wherein at such a distance as I then was they have come home to the Prophecie God may have the Glory and wherein short or wide humane frailty may obtaine pitie and pardon Now the Lord Iesus Christ be pleased to continue his March before you and fill your hearts more and more with all holy Zeale and invincible courage to fight his spirituall Battell against the Beast and his Crew that you being his Called and Chosen and Faithfull may with the Lamb overcome and reigne with him for evermore which is and ever shall be the fervent prayer of Your ever vowed Servant Henry Burton The sounding of the two last Trumpets The sixth and seventh from Revel 9.13 to the end of the eleventh Chapter very usefull and much to be observed in these last times AS the whole Booke of the Revelation is a prophecie of the estate of Gods Church and of the grand enemies therof from Iohns time till time should bee no more So the sounding of the seven Trumpets is a speciall prophecie of things to come to passe in the very last times on which wee are now falne and more especially the sixt Trumpet points to these very present times and the seventh to the now approching time in the end whereof time shall have an end and so bee swallowed up of Eternitie And for the greater both observation and confirmation of this last prophecie uttered by the Seven Trumpets it is tribled in this book first under the Seven Seals Chap. 5.5 Secondly here under the Seven Trumpets Chap. 8.7 8. And thirdly under the Seven Vials Chap. 15.16 The Seals are opened that all may * Cap. 6.1.3.5 c. see the Trumpets are sounded that all may heare and the vials are powred out to the destruction of the enemies of Christ and to the consolation of his Church The whole Prophecie is set out in great State and magnificence as by Christ the Lambe and Lion of the Tribe of Juda and from him by his holy Angels All which should draw our attention as to matters and mysteries of highest excellencie And we may note how these three Sevens doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a Mr. Mede some have well observed that is are coincident and all fall within the same time or like the wheels in b Ezech. 1.16 Ezechiel have their motion one within another As Chap. 8.1 no sooner is the seventh Seale opened whereupon follows silence in heaven for halfe an houre but John sees the Seven Angels standing before God to whom were given the Seven Trumpets Verse 2. So as the issue of the Seven Seals falls upon the Seven Trumpets as having their accomplishment in them But before they sound Another Angell stands at the Altar the golden Altar before the throne which is Christ offering up much incense with the prayers of all Saints here below which prayers as incense are accepted of God Verse 4. and out of the same Censer filled with fire from the Altar the fire is cast upon the Earth whereupon the