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A86703	A sharp, but short noise of warr, or, The ruine of Antichrist by the sword of temporall warr, hinted. Written, by Francis Lin,	Line, Francis, 1595-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing H333; Thomason E622_2; Thomason E595_2; ESTC R206422	18,276	32

and all-disposing hand of the great God of Heaven who is the Lord of the Earth and doth whatever he will both in Heaven and Earth and will doe what he hath promised to doe and likewise what he hath threatened to doe it is true the vision is for an appointed time it shall speake and not lye this time is certainly come yea the set time is come and God is now manifesting of himselfe by theexcercise of the temporall Sword to Nations Families and to particular persons I confesse as I said even now that from a want of the knowledge of such things as I have made mention of I remaine unable in some respects to steere a course suitable to the apprehensions which I have of the present face and appearance of things when I thinke of them according to the glorious word and unfathomd workings of the great and mighty God who is in his judgements unsearchable and in his wayes past finding out 't is true the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath acted his great works and made his almighty power to appeare in all ages in which he hath beene wonderfull in his doings towards the Sonnes and Daughters of men and that in reference to the setting up and casting downe of Nations and people in and by the excercise of War and the temporall Sword but yet I verily thinke I speake with submission that the Lord is now a doing and a bringing to pass such a peece of work by the excercise of temporall warr at this time as there hath not in the world yet appeared the like in reference to all events notwithstanding mens Opinions to the contrary for my part if in this I erer 't is for no bye end this is the thing I observe First the blood of many thousands in severall ages who have truely feared God hath beene shed by the cruelty of the Nations now 't is very cleare to me that the Lord will never give up his people to such a dreadfull cruelty that they should destroy people in cold blood as we say as they have beene even multitudes of them destroyed some have beene burnt to death others Racked and so by diverse other exquisit torments they have beene murthered Secondly 't is as cleare to me that the Lord will by the hand of his people make inquisition for blood and that by the same hand will avenge the blood of his Saints whose blood hath beene shed by the Nations therefore Nations shall be dealt withall by the Sword of temporall warr the Nations have in a private Murtherous way made themselves drunke with the blood of Gods Saints the Lord will deale with the Nations in a publick way he will make his Arrowes drunke with the blood of his and his Peoples enemies and the sword of the Lord in the hands of his people shall eate the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captaines and the flesh of mighty men Rev. 19.18 Againe me thinks this is somthing to be considered of what are the Nations now a doing truely they be now a gathering themselves together what to doe To destroy if they can all the Inhabitants of Zion I meane all such as doe truely and sincerely seeke and serve the true God according to the rules of his holy word the Scriptures But to the thing in hand Now also many Nations are gathered against thee saying Zion shall be condemned and our eye shall look upon Zion but they know not the thoughts of the Lord they understand not his Counsell for he shall gather them as the sheaves in the barne Mica 4.11.12 Observe surely that dark and dismall Cloud which now hovers upon the world is like for some time to grow somwhat thicker and the storme is like to be somwhat more terrible then yet it is before these present Warrs now in excercise come to a full end the Nations are now gathering themselves together What to doe to destroy spirituall Zion they say the Church and people of God shall be condemned and they will be the Executioners but they know not the thoughts nor the purposes of the Lord they little thinke what God will doe by this their gathering together they gather and the Lord God gathers but for contrary ends they intend one thing and the Lord meanes another they an extermination of truth and true Christians God intends a preservation of both yea a great deliverence and a glorious enlargment too I speake with reverence to God who will at this time doe two works at once even use the Sword of temporall Warr with the Sword of his word and with the delivering of his people will performe the ruine of his and his peoples Enemies Behold in that time when I shall br●●gagaine the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem I will also gather all Nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have scatrered among the Nations Joel 3. Assemble your selves and come all yee Heathen and gather your selves together round about there shall the Lord cast downe the mighty man let the Heathen be weakned Observe those the enemies of God which in Scripture are sometimes called mighty are here prophetically destynated to weaknesse Let the Heathen be weakened and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I set to judge all the Heathen round about put in your Sithes for the Harvest is ripe come get you downe for the wine presse is full yea the winepresses run over for their wickednesse is great O multitude O multitude come into the Valley of threshing for the day of the Lord is neere in the Valley of threshing the Sunne and Moone shall be darkned and the Starrs shall withdraw their light That is as I conceive in this their day of Gods visitation they shall finde no help in Creatures neither in the Sunne the Moon nor the Starrs in and by which the Heathens of all times have beene so much led as appeares by the words of Jer. 10.2 Thus saith the Lord learne not the way of the Heathen and be not dismayed at the signes of Heaven for the Heathen are dismayed at them I have read some Authors which affirme that there are Heathens of these times who doe worship the Sunne and the Moone to whom I may speake as the Prophet speaks thou art wearied in the multitude of thy Counsells let now the Astrologers the Star-gazers the monethly Prognosticatours stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee Isa 47.13 Againe this may admit of a spirituall meaning whence we may take notice that the light of the glorious Gospell which both hath and doth shine in the World as the Moone and as the Sun shall stand them in no stead in this time of great distresse which have contemptuously banished it from them or refused to give it entertainment when the Lord in mercy hath made a tender of it unto them certainly both Papists and Heathens have done this and now the Lord God in his just judgement will shut up all light from them and darknesse shall be upon them till they perish in the same The Lord sayth the Prophet shall roare out of Zion and utter his voyce from Jerusalem Observe in those dayes and times in which the Lord God shall what his glittering Sword and shall with his hand take hold on judgement and shall execute vengeance on his enemies and reward them that hate him that then the Lord will roare from Zion then God will appeare terrible to his and his peoples enemies from and by his spirituall Zion in the excercise of temporall meanes God will thresh them with the Sword Agreeable to this is that of Mica 4. last Arise thresh O Daughter of Zion for I will make thine horne Iron and I will make thine hoofes Brasse and thou shalt breake in peice many people Jacob shall be a fire and Joseph a flame and Edom shall be as stubble Mal. 4.3 The Enemies of God have beene drunke with the blood of Gods Saints and the Lord God will make his Arrowes drunke with the blood of his enemies and his Sword in the hand of his people shall eate flesh yea and that for the blood of the slaine and of the Captives when I begin to take vengeance of the enemies Deut. 32.42 Now in this day and time the Lord God will be the hope of his people and the strength of the Children of Israel Joel 3.16 I will but suggest that of the Prophet Isa 2. and I have done certainly in such a day and time as this is it will be thus The high looke of man shall be humbled and the loftinesse of men shall be abased and the Lord onely shall be exalted in that day for the day of the Lord of Hosts is upon all the proud and hauty and upon all that is exalted and upon all the Cakes of Bashan and all the high Mountaines upon all the hills that are lifted up and upon every high Tower and upon every strong Wall and upon all the Ships of Tarshish and all pleasant Pictures and the haughtinesse of men shall be brought low and the loftinesse of men shall be abased and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day and the Idolls will he utterly destroy then they shall goe into the holes of the Rocks and into the Caves of the Earth from before the face of the Lord and from the glory of his Majesty when he shall arise to destroy or to shake terribly the Earth FINIS

A SHARP BUT SHORT NOISE OF WARR OR The Ruine of Antichrist by the Sword of Temporall Warr Hinted Written By FRANCIS LIN And I will punish the World for their evill and the Wicked for their Iniquity and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtinesse of the terrible Isa 13.11 These shall make Warr with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them For he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull Rev. 17.14 LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons next doore to the Golden Lyon in Aldersgate-Streete 1650. A sharp but short noise of Warr Or the ruine of Antichrist by the Sword of Temporall Warre hinted THough Warre may be said to have more Fathers then one yet as a punishment to the Inhabitants of the Earth it comes from God who being displeased with and provoked by the wickednesse of a People doth many times manifest his displeasure and execute his wrath upon them by the excercise of Warr now in this respect and in reference to VVarre as a judgement comming from God all Warrs upon Earth may be called occasionall because that by the wickednesse of people God is provoked and by their sins the Lord is occasioned to bring Warr upon them and this the Lord God hath done upon three sorts of People Viz. His one people Heathens and Papists God hath inflicted Warr upon his owne People who among you shall hearken to this and take heed and heare for afterwards Who gave Jacob for a spoyle and Israel to the Robbers Did not the Lord against whom we have sinned for they would not walke in his wayes neither be obedient unto his Lawes therefore he hath powred upon him his fierce wrath and the strength of Battail Isa 42.23 Son of man when the Land sinneth against me by committing a Trespasse then will I stretch out mine hand upon it And so on to the 20. and 21. Verses Though Noah Daniel and Job were in it as I live saith the Lord God they shall deliver neither Son nor Daughter they shall but deliver their owne souls by their righteousnesse when I send my four soare Judgements of which the Sword is one which shall kill them without and in the Chambers feare both the young man and the young Woman the Suckling with the man of Gray haires I said I would scatter them abroad I would make their remembrance to cease from among men save that I feared the fury of the Enemy least their adversaries should wax proud and least they should say our high hand and not the Lord hath done all this Deut. 32.25 Thus we see that Warr is not onely threatned but hath beene in flicted upon Gods owne People when they have sinned against the Lord You onely have I knowne of all the Families of the Earth therefore I will visit you for all your Iniquties Amos. 3.2 Now by this very meanes of inflicting Warr upon a People hath the Lord brought them to Repentance The Children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight against Judah and Israel was sore distressed and then they cryed unto the Lord saying Wee have sinned against thee Jud. 10.9 10. Awake awake and stand up O England and Ireland O England and Ireland who hath drunke deepe of this cup of Gods wrath for you have drunke the dreggs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out according to that of Isa 51. 17. It followes that the Lord God both hath and will bring Warr upon Heathens But now before I come to instance in a way of proofe I desire to looke upon all these Scripture Instances which I shall make use of as recorded by the holy Ghost to remaine through all ages in full force and authority against and in Gods due time to be verified upon a Succession of the heads and members of Heathens and upon a Succession of the heads and members of Papists I shall take notice of the metaphor and of the sence of things as I goe along and shall apply my selfe to the present time and things with which I have to doe I shall shew my thoughts and refer it to others this is the perswasion of my mind and heart that the Lord God will not onely bring Warr but by Warr wil utterly destroy the beauty and power of Mahomet which hath ruled among the Turks and Heathens the beauty and power of the Pope which hath ruled amongst the Papists the beauty and power of all such of the Inhabitants of the Earth who shall in spirit Judgement and practice cleave and adhere to Heathens and Papists Let all such consider what the Lord God is now a doing and submit to providence least by Warr they be broken in peices Now there is one thing more to be hinted before I proceed in a way of proofe in the producing of Scripture precedents consisting either of Persons or Nations who may be term'd types of such who shall in the latter dayes be by temporall War ruined or destroyed according to this Scripture Behold the Tempest of the Lord goeth ●o●●●ith wrath the whirlewind that hangeth over shall light upon the head of the wicked the fierce wrath of the Lord shall not returne untill be have done and untill he have performed the intents of his heart in the latter dayes be shall understand it Jer. 22. and 23. But that which I was to doe was this I must make some distinction betweene the Types of the heads of Heathens and Papists in my producing and applying of Scripture-Texts against them the which I shall endeavour to performe by applying such Scriptures against them as I shall apprehend to be most suitable to them in a way of resemblance betweene them in the first place I shall ranke them both together and in a generall way apply such Scriptures against them as doe seeme to me to threaten the ruine of them and then I shall apply against them severally by themselves in a particular way I shall in an indifferent respect sometimes take the one for the other as there is in them comprised all those which are indeed the professed enemies of God his truth and people to this purpose and in reference to the whole Worke I shall make use of the 25. of Jerem. In which Chapter the Lord God imployes this Prophet against his owne people in the first place but in the next more mainly against the Nations and the World against his and his peoples enemies so now judgement is begun at the house of God as in Germany Ireland and England but God will make an end with his and their Enemies but to returne to the thing in hand The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all Judah in the fourth yeare which he delivered to the people the Lord sayth he Hath sent all his Servants the Prophets rising early and sending them but you would not heare nor encline your eares to obey They said turne againe now every one from

departing first and that that man of sin be disclosed or revealed even the sonne of perdition which is an adversary and exalteth himselfe against all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he doth sit as God in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God and then shall the wicked man be revealed he shall have a visible being in and upon this Earth Who is this the Pope and Popes of Rome which is that Antichrist whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall abolish with the brightnesse of his comming I conceive this is meant of the faithfull sincere powerfull preaching of the Gospell of Jesus Christ King of Saints who appeares by his spirit in the preaching of his word and by this glorious mean es both hath and will consume and abolish the spirituall power of that mistery of iniquity held forth by that man of sin the Popes of Rome whose comming is by the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders that this is so see Luke 10.17.18 And the seaventh returned againe with joy saying Lord even the Devills are subdued to us through thy name and he said unto them I saw Satan like lightning fall downe from Heaven See Isa 14.12 How art thou fa●●en from Heaven O Lucifer sonne of the morning and cut downe to the ground which didst cast lots upon the Nations yet thou saydst in thine heart I will ascend into Heaven and exalt my Throne above beside the Starrs of God I will fit also upon the Mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North. What should this meane but the Church of God upon Earth to this purpose see Rev. 18.20 Yet further I will ascend above the height of the Clouds and I will be like the most high alas poor Pope but thou shalt be brought downe to the Grave to the sides of the pit and they that see thee shall looke upon thee and consider thee saying is this the man that made the Earth to tremble and that did shake the Kingdomes if this 14. of Isa doe as happily it may relate to some perticular King of the Nations yet surely withall it doth relate to a succession of Popes concerning whom it may be said the Lord hath broken the rod of the wicked and the Scepter of the Rulers Observe according to this account that a succession of Antichrists are held forth sometimes in Scripture under the notion or forme of a man Observe that this man is very like to and is compared with Satan the Devill observe that this Devill-like-man or manlike Devill Antichrist the Popes of Rome who did not onely aspire but did get into high places and did attaine so great preferment in the Church of God upon Earth and in the Church did take it upon him as if he had beene God and in this respect had built his nest as high as Heaven in his owne vayne conceite from whence the Lord God will fetch him downe with a VVitnesse his spirituall power by spirituall meanes and his civill and temporall power by civill and temporall meanes to this purpose see Hab. 2.6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a tanting Proverbe against him and say Ho he that encreaseth that which is not his how long and he that ladeth himselfe with the thick Clay shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake that shall stirre thee and thou shalt be their prey because thou hast spoyled many Nations all the remnant of the people shall spoyle thee because of mens blood and for the wrong done in the Land in the Citty and unto all that dwell therein woe unto the Popedome of Rome who hath built Townes with blood and erected a Citty by iniquity Call up the Archers against Babell all ye that bend the bowes besiege it round about let none thereof escape recompence her according to her worke and according to all that shee hath done doe unto her for shee hath beene proud against the Lord Jer. 50.29 Even against the holy one of Israel here and in Rev. 17.6 Antichrist is set sorth under the notion of a Woman And I saw the Woman drunken with the blood of Saints and the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus Christ and when I saw her I wondered with great marvaile therefore shall her young men fall in the Streets and all her men of Warr shall be destroyed in that day saith the Lord. Now Antichrist is spoken unto as a man Behold I come unto thee O proud man sayth the Lord God of Hosts for thy day is come even the time that I will visit thee now that we may take notice that the Lord God doth not confine his meaning to the person of any one particuler man or woman 't is thus recorded and the proud shall stumble and fall and none shall raise him up and I will kindle a fire in his Citties and it shall devoure all round about him 't is Citties and Nations which God doth threaten with dessolation but to the next Verse Thus saith the Lord of Hosts the Children of Israe and the Children of Judah were oppressed together and all that took them Captives held them and would not let them goe Litterally I beleeve they shall be let goe in a short time spiritually there be Children of Ifrael now in England and in many other places and parts of the World the People of God true Christians are the Israel of God in all ages and to such as doe truely feare and sincerely serve the true and the living God the maker of Heaven and Earth in this present time wherein we now live it may be said to them that their Redeemer is strong whose Name is the Lord of Hosts he shall maintaine their cause that he may give rest to the Land and disquiet the Inhabitants of Babell the which are such where ever they dwell as doe in spirit judgement and practice professedly declare themselves to be either Heathens or Papists or notoriously wicked let the generallity of such know that now in this very instant of time wherein we live that the Sword of the Lord God of Hosts is now upon such Chaldaeans as these a Sword is upon the Chaldaeans sayth the Lord and upon the Inhabitants of Babel and upon her Princes and upon her wise men a Sword is upon the soothsayers and they shall dote Romenish and Malignant Priests they shall prove fooles a Sword is upon her strong men and they shall be afraid a Sword is upon their Horses and upon their Charets and upon all the Multitude that are in the midst of her and they shall be like VVomen a Sword is upon her treasures and they shall be spoyled Babell is suddenly fallen and destroyed howle for her bring Balme for her Soare if shee may be healed we would have cured Babell may all the faith full Ministers of the Gospell of all Countreys say but Babell neyther would

each stake Next to this there is mention made of threescore women who were brought to the Rack by the Fathers of the Popes inquisition who all perished by their horrible cruelty In the History of the Albingenses there is mention made of one hundred and forty men and women who because they refused to submit to the Church of Rome were all of them throwne into a fire at one time and burnt to death by the Earle Simon and the Popes Legat. These few instances fell in by the way there is enough upon record to prove that Antichristian Papists have beene the most bloudiest and the most devouringst Woolves that have had a being upon this Earth therefore for my part I beleive the Lord God will punish this Romish Babylon and will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up and the Nations shall not flow together any more unto him yea the Wall of Babylon shall fall and the dayes are come in which God will doe judgement upon the Graven Images of Babylon and her whole Land shall be confounded and all her slaine shall fall in the middest of her I have now done with Papists only I wish to as many of them as doe belong to the election of grace a visible repentance from sin and Idolatry an actuall faith in the true Scripture 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ the eternall Son of God a holy and a harmlesse life and preservation to their bodies from that Warr and from that destroying Sword which is already occasionally drawne and will be extended to and excercised upon the generallity of willfull stubborne and obstinate Papists all the world over I call it an occationall Sword in a twofold respect First the Papists by committing more sins then I am able to mention and greater sins then I know how to paint out have justly occasioned God to bring the Sword of warr upon them and they have occasioned you I may say inforced the Saints I doe not say to bring Warre upon them but in their owne just defence to maintaine a Warr against them They the Antichristian Papists I meane have beene many hundreds of yeares raising and acting of most cruell and bloudy Warrs upon the people of God called Protestants of late yeares they have made long furrows upon their backs in the parts of Germany in France in Ireland in England for they have beene the hatchers of all these Warrs and they have beene the maine actors of them too and they will continue to raise and to act warr in Ireland in France and it may be in Scotland too they will never end their warr till warr hath ended them or at least their power they will continue their malicious endeavours to destroy the true Church of Christ upon this Earth by warr in that faggot and fire hath now failed them the which God hath made a defensive Citty an Iron pillar and Brazen wall against them and they shall fight against it but they shall not prevaile against in Jer. 1.18.19 for the Lord of Hosts is with his Church to deliver it from the power of every destroying enemy as well temporall as spirituall ones and the Church of Christ shall be upon this Earth in the appointed time as a Citty sought out and not forsaken for glorious things are spoken of thee o thou Citty of God One word more and I have done let all those Papists take notice of this which doe harbour in them the same mind which ha's beene in their Fathers who have not onely by Warr for a long time destroyed the true Members of Christ but by most exquisit and incredible torments as well in prisons and Caves of the Earth as upon Scaffolds and at Stakes have most barbarously and most unhumanly murthered the Saints of Christ see Master Wadsworths booke to this purpose I say seeing that you the seed of those evill doers have now called us into the Field who doe professe our selves friends and Servants to Jesus Christ whom you have mocked and Brethren to those his Servants whom you have cruelly murthered I say take notice of this that you are like to find as much gallantry as you have acted cruelty 〈◊〉 know will fight but we professe to fight fai●● whether it be in Ireland or elsewhere therefore now you brave English spirits shew your selves gallant still ' for the Sword must doe great things according to that which Master Brightman hath sayd that the time shall come when disputing by the pen should cease and that the Sword should end the controversy between the Papists and the Protestants I beleeve this time is now come and be you assured of these things that as these Antichristian Papists shall make Warr with the Lamb so the Lamb shall over come them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull Rev. 17.14 One word to those amongst them that truely feare God thus saith the Lord My people goe out of the middest of her and deliver yee every man his soule from the fierce wrath of the Lord least your heart even faint and yee feare the rumour that shall be heard in the Land a rumour shall come one yeare and after that in another yeare shall come a rumour and violence in the Land Ruler against Ruler Jer. 51. and 45.46 And I heard another voyce from heaven say Goe out of her my people that yee be not pertakers in her sins and that yee receive not of her plagues Rev. 18.4 I now come according to my promise to produce and apply Scripture against the Heathens of these times I desire what I said at my beginning may be remembred that is that I have in some respect spoken to these already and therefore now I shall no● 〈◊〉 much to them onely I shall take notice that there is a very great people now in being upon this Earth who are professed enemies to the Lord Jesus Christ and that these are distinct from Papists and that they have beene and still are great Oppressors of the people that profes Jesus Christ and his Gospell and that the power and pride of these Heathens shall be brought downe by the temporall Sword in these latter dayes and that then they shall become the Inheritance of Jesus Christ to whome God the Father will give the Heathens of these times unto for an Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth to him for his possession by the way I confesse that I am little or nothing seene in the knowledge of the Histories of times neither am I so much in consultation with them as with the God of times I know but very little either of the past or present State of forraigne Countries nor of the externall causes nor humane reasons of the severall new framings and mouldings of those Nations in the remore parts of the Earth nor of those severall new constitutions into which they have in severall peeces of time beene put into by the overruling