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A86686	Manus testium movens: or, A Presbyteriall glosse upon many of those obscure prophetick texts in Canticles, Isay, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk, Zachary, Matthew, Romans, and the Revelations: which point at the great day of the vvitnesses rising; Antichrists ruine, and the Jews conversion, neare about this time. VVherein Dr. Homes, with the rest of the independent antichristian time-servers are clearly confuted, and out of their own writings condemned: and against them proved, that the present usurpers in England are that antichristian party who have slain the witnesses, and shall reign but three yeers and an half, which time is almost at an end. To this book must be joyned Lingua testium, being its proper preface. / Written by Testis-mundus Catholicus Scotanglo-Britanicus.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H328; Thomason E632_23; ESTC R206463	110,211	129

which alludes to the prophetick Psalm Psal 98. where you have every thing runs parallel with John's Vision for there you have a new song and the cause of it 't is for a marvellous great victory gotten by Gods own Arm in an eminent manner in the sight of the Heathen ver 2. and then at that time the house of Israel and the ends of the Earth see the salvation of God as the Angel Rev. 4. 6. preacheth it and then ver 4. there is a Hallelujah ver 5. with the Harp which the Harpers have ver 7. the sea roars and the earth and the flouds clash one against another but ver 19. the Mountains of holiness rejoyce because he is come to judge the earth Read the next Psalm it gives great light into these texts to be fulfilled in these times Be not therefore discouraged O ye Saints of God be patient be constant be couragious be not faithless but believe when your affliction and distress is greatest then is your deliverance nearest when your Enemies are most cruel most confident most strong most malicious and most secure then will Christ come in the cloud then will he appear on the white cloud with the sickle in his hand to cut down your Enemies blessed are you in this day that watch and keep on your spiritual garments for Christ will assuredly come and he will come as a thief at unawares unexpected behold the time is at hand your temptations are great the Devil is sifting you and winowing you as wheat it is a day of tribulation of great sorrow it is a day wherein your Enemies rejoyce and make merry it is a day of great rebuke and shame to the Church the enemies say ah ha so we would have it Edom's sons cry down with the walls of Zion down with them to the ground It was never a sadder day with the Church of England and Scotland since the Gospel was preached amongst them then now I dare appeal to all the Historians in the world whether ever the Gospel was so desperately persecuted and so neer to ruine as now it is Look in England and the very foundations of the Gospel are rooting up I mean the Doctrinal-foundation Do I say onely Doctrinal nay but I do affirm the personal foundation of the Gospel is rooting up Are not the Scriptures which are the spiritual foundation of the Gospel denyed to be the Word of God and do not men set their accursed lusts above the Holy Scriptures in maintaining that no more is Scripture then what their spirits close with and is not the Lord Jesus denyed to be God and the Son of God and the second person in the Trinity and do they not affirm that he is not the Purchaser of salvation for the Elect And to go a little further are not the Ministerial foundations viz. Magistracy and Ministery thrown down was there ever more open villanies committed against the persons and offices of Magistrates and Ministers then at this day How is the Magistracy trampled in the dirt and their spoyls divided How are Ministers imprisoned banished sequestered and silenced How grievous and intolerable are the burthens that they lay on the poor Ministers bodies and souls They have taken away their estates and so expose their poor families to ruine they impose a most unjust and unconscionable Oath upon them directly contrary to those lawful Oaths they took before and for the not subscribing of it which no consciencious Protestant will do or can do they are out-lawed shut out of protection out of their livelyhoods and exposed to utter ruine at the pleasure of any of the sons of violence and what condition have they put the Papists those bloudy and inveterate Enemies of the Protestants What becomes of the Laws in force against them Are they not all repealed What 's become of those discriminating Oaths that molest the Papists peace in this Kingdom Are they not all taken away and is not onely the sincere consciencious Protestant the man whose estate office person and family lyeth at the mercy of bloudy Papists and Gunpowder traytors Who is so blind as not plainly to see these things and what consciencious Protestant so secure as not to feel it And as for Scotland though blessed be the Lord there be a godly Magistracy and Ministery as yet standing yet how neer are they to their fall How great a blow have they received already How many enemies have they against them The Pope and all his politicians in England Holland Ireland Spain France are active against them in England the whole wealth and strength of it is imployed to ruine the Kingdome of Scotland in Holland and France the same Popish Politicians are imployed to raise rebellion against Kingly Government in Ireland the arch Rebells are in a League with the Common-wealth of England they having renounced Kingly Government long before were the first that owned the Common-wealth of England and gave them a Title whereupon Collonel Monk made a peace with them This Collonel Monk is now as Major Generall of the Foot under Cromwel in Scotland Spain hath owned this present power that cut off the King for a Free-State and Common-wealth and drives the same design to throw down the King of Portugal and France with England yea the Popes Agents in Scotland are active in stirring up those Papistical Families in Scotland against the Kirks party who are the Covenanting party It would be too long to tell how the Spanish Faction to say no more prevaileth this day throughout Europe the King of France who denies the Popes temporal power is like by the Jesuited-State-commotions to be overthrown the King of Portugal is in a probable way to be overthrown by the King of Spain the Hollander which was the supply of Scotland for Ammunition since the Prince of Orange's death is like by their own civil jars to become a prey to the Spaniard after designes betwixt England and Spain are ripened and poore England overflow with the Spanish Faction who cannot see all things cutting out against the Protestants acording to the Spanish Model who cannot see that perfected which was intended long since who sees not those dismall attempts against Magistracy and Ministery now compleated and accomplished which were intended 1588. by the King of Spain's Armado against Queen Elizabeth and by the Gunpowder Traytors against King James Something 't is that makes the Spanish Court triumph 't is because they have drave the Royal Family of England and Scotland into great distress it is helpless throughout the world no Kingdom nor Nation lends that distressed Family their helping hand the Prince of Orange the great comforter of that Family is taken out of the World and the Queen of Sweadland snatched from him by the Emperor The English Nation are divided into Independents Prelaticall men and Presbyterians for the most part the Independent and Prelaticall Party are ingaged by Oath against the Magistracy and Ministery of Scotland for they all

slayeth the Witnesses and the time when together with the length of his raign and what immediatly follows Note Observe also whence this Beast ariseth 't is out of the bottomlesse pit this bottomlesse pit is Independencie I will prove it can be nothing else Aleazar and many other learned men do not take bottomlesse pit to be meant hell but some say it is meant confusion and others the sea but I affirm that 't is meant Independencie in Rev. 9. 1. When the fifth Angel sounded there fell a Starre from Heaven that is a Bishop from the true Church to the earth from a Pastor to become a Prince from Ecclesiastick affairs to Civil state affairs and to him was given the key of the bottomlesse pit The Pope was the first that unlocked the door of Independencie Mark it and it will appear that Independencie is the formilis ratio Antichristi for untill the Pope of Rome got to be Independent in respect of the Emperour his Lord and Sover●ign and Independent as relating to the Councels he was not Antichrist but herein in his exalting himself by Independencie above all Magistracy which is called God in Scripture in making himself Independent he made himself Antichrist for reduce the Pope but to his due obedience to the Roman Emperour whose power he usurps and to Counsels to bring him under their censure and the Pope will be reduced to his primitive institution that is to an honest plain Pastor which is all his due and all that the primitive Bishops of Rome were The Pope had the key of Independencie for by making the Dukes of Italy free States i.e. Independent as to the Emperor he shut the Emperor out of Italy his proper dominion and thus as he continues Independent he continues Antichrist who sitting in the seat of God exalts himself above God for he saith he is Independent as to the holy Scriptures and that the Scripture is dependent upon him and herein he exalts himself above God by this power of Independencie the Pope let into the world all manner of ignorance heresie and profanesse by the Power of Independencie the Pope drove a godly Magistracy and Ministry into the wildernesse for 1260 years and now by this last beast rising out of Independencie and setting up Indepencie I say by that Independent beast the Witnesses the Magistracy and Ministry that had finished their testimony that is had finished their Directory cleared and vindicated their Doctrines and had agreed to cast out Independencie and Popery out of the three Kingdoms even then when they had finished their testimony this beast breaks them in peeces by making war against them and killing them thus you have the Witnesses slaying and the Beast that slayes them immediatly before the glorious day of Reformation in the world A further description you have of this Beast by his Government that he sets up in Heb. 13. 11 12 and 18. and in Dan. 11. 36 37 38. You have heard already when he riseth 't is in the end of the Roman Monarchy when the 1260 years of the Popes raign draws towards an end and you have heard out of what this Beast that slayes the Witnesses ariseth 't is out of Independencie for mark it as Antichrist the Pope arose by the key of Independencie out of the purest Church viz the Roman Church and drove the Witnesses which undoubtedly are the Magistracy and Ministry into the wildernesse so this Beast riseth out of Independencie rising out of the bowels of the purest reformed western Church and slay these Witnesses who had finished their testimony against Antichrist the nature of Independencie amongst men is to destroy Magistracy and Ministry But that you may know this Beast more diststinctly Rev. 13. 11 12 18. sets forth his actings against the Church observe how like the expressions o● Daniel and John are in the discovering of this Beast and his actings in Rev. 13. 11. I beheld another Beast rising up out of the earth he is called another because distinct from the Beast of the sea ver 1. so saith Bishop Cowper and then out of the earth to shew also that he is not the same with the Beast of the sea as some would have it Cottherus speaks plain truth against all his opposers this Beast of the earth saith he is Rex octavus incipit quando prima bestia destinet incipit cum bestia ascendit ex abysso he is the eighth King meaning that ●ev 17. and begins when the first Beast the Beast of the Sea goeth out and he begins when the Beast ariseth out of the bottomlesse pit Rev. 11. 7. So that he understands by the Beast of the earth the eighth King Rev. 17. 11. and the Beast arising out of the bottomlesse pit one and the same beast only the one text sets out his rising the other his raigning and the other his ruin First He ariseth out of the earth which notes to us that he is a Lay man for earth is here put as contradistinct to sea to note that as he that drives the Witnesses into sackcloth riseth out of the Clergy in the Roman Church for Rev. 13. 1. he usurpt the throne with seaven heads and ten horns that is the Roman Emperiall seate so the beast that slay the Witnesses though he rise by Independency as the Pope did yet he shall be a Lay man no Clergy man but a Layick Secondly Or by earth may be meant as oft it is in Scripture a mean and low condition to note that this terrae filius that slayes the Witnesses shall be a fellow of low discent This well agrees with Daniels expression of the same Beast Dan. 7. 8. he calls him a little horn Cornu parvulum quia in principio nullius momenti reputabitur in occulis Regum terrae saith Hugo Cardinalis he is a little horn because in his beginning he shall be of no esteem or repute amongst the Kings of the earth he shall not arise out of any Kingly stock but out of some obscure private broken family This Beast of the Earth is therefore called Dan. 11. 21. a vilde Fellow I confesse this more immediatly belongs as say interpreters to the transactions of affairs in the end of the Macedonian Empire but Th●odoretus imboldens me whose opinion is that the likenesse of things acted in the end of the Macedonian Empire immediatly before the coming of Christ to the things to be acted in the end of the Roman Monarchy before the great day of Christs coming to convert Jews and Gentiles made Daniel to comprehend both under one expression this is very probable for as the Rabbins say an Iota of Scripture hath a mountain of sense depending on it mark therefore how in the end of the Roman Monarchy Dan. 11. 21. a vile fellow shall stand up he is an upstart an usurper he shall not have the honour of the Kingdom given him but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the Kingdom by flattery Mark how he

that exerciseth their faith and patience whiles he raigns the Saints shall have little else to live upon his Government also is the same for in Dan. 11. 38. he sets up the God Mauzim the sword-power and in Revel 13. 12. he inforceth people to subject to the first Beast whose deadly wound was healed that is to a packt party of Rebels to the Common-wealth such as the Senate of Rome was when Caesar forced away all the honest men out of the Senate and set up his own party to govern this was upheld by the sword and set up by the sword he is also the same in the matter of duration for that in Dan. 7. 25. continues a time times and the dividing of time and this in Rev. 11. riseth and triumphs over the slain witnesses three dayes and a half which is both one time both making three years and a half Lastly He is the same both in Daniel and Revelation in his ruine and in the time of his ruine The time of this Beasts ruine is set-forth in Dan 7. 11. the Beast was slain and his body was destroyed this the Fathers call the 11. King because he is divers from any of the Kings that were before him under the western Empire he being the last and this was at that time v. 13. when the Son of man came in the Clouds of Heaven and v. 14. there was given him dominion and glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages might serve him these phrases we shall see Christ borrows in Mat. 24. 30. 3● immediately after those dayes what dayes the dayes of tribulation how verse 24. there shall be false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great wonders see Rev. 19. 20. the false Prophet was taken that wrought miracles before the Beast Mark how Matthew goeth on insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. In Rev. 13. 13. and he did great wonders so that he made fire come down from Heaven on the earth By the signes which were permitted him to do in the sight of the Beast who doth not see that these expressions are all to set out this one Beast Immediately after these dayes of tribulation which are dayes of blasphemy and heresie and separation from the true Church v. 30. ye shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds with power and great glory and v. 31. he shall send his Angels with the sound of a great Trumpet and gather the Elect those that belong unto the election of grace from one end of Heaven to the other this is the same with that forecited place in Rev. 11. great voyces in Heaven saying the Kingdoms of the world are our Lord and his Christs and when was this this was when the witnesses were risen and stood upon their leggs v. 11. v. 13. near that hour when the great Earthquake is which time of shaking Heaven and Earth is foretold in Luke 31. 24. immediately after the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled now the time of the Gentiles is 42. moneths Rev. 11. 2. which is according to the Doctors account 1260. years which being up then the signes in the Sun and in the Moon and in the Starres that is the Antichristian state shall be shaken down and then the Son of Man shall appear in the Clouds with glory and great power and then the elect redemption draweth nigh the great voices Matth. 24. 31. allude to Christs passion when he yielded up the Ghost he cryed with a loud voice it is finished and after three dayes he arose and called his Disciples to a mount in Gal●lee where he appeared to them and proclaimed all power in Heaven and in Earth was given to him and then the Disciples were made Apostles such are the effects of the rising of the Witnesses Oh how do I adore the infinite wisdom of the Holy Ghost in the Scriptures how clear might this truth be made to the weakest capacity were there but a worthy pen about it The time of the beasts reign is expressed in D●● 7. 22. to be when the ancient of dayes come ● when the Kingdom becomes the Lords Rev. 11. 15. and the Saints possessed the Kingdom that is the witnesses stand upon their feet Rev. 11. 11. 12. and they i.e. the godly Magistracy and Ministry did ascend up to heaven that is they possess that place of dignity from which they were cast it cannot be otherwise understood in Dan. 7. for v. 25. the Saints of the most high are they that he tyrannizeth over three years and a half so he doth in Rev. 11. 7. 9. which Saints of the most high are the Magistracy and Ministry the two witnesses principally meant There is one notable place more in Dan. 12. 45. which points at time and the place of the ruine of the Beast This Beast of the earth or this King as Daniel calls him shall plant the Tabernacles of his pallace between the Seas in the glorious holy Mountains yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him this holy Mountain learned men on all sides conclude is some eminent Kingdom for holiness therefore the Independent Pulpit-men say 't is England this day eminent in exalting the Saints and holiness certainly 't is that Kingdom which hath kept its Garments clean from spiritual fornication and hath not received the marks of the Beast nor bowed down to his Image that is engaged to be true and faithful to his unlawful new Government And of all the Kingdoms in the world I think it is Scotland where the Beast of the earth hath placed his Tabernacles where he now is where I believe he shall come to ruine But mark what imediately follows this Dan. 12. 1. And at that time shall Michael and Christ stand up and it shall be a time of trouble as in Mat. 24. and Luke 21. And at that time the elect shal be all delivered that is as much to say as all the Kingdoms in the world shall become Christs both Jews and Gentiles shall be brought to Christ this glorious day is in several places called a day of Resurrection it shall be to the Jews as a day of Resurrection now all this is to be at the 7. Trumpet sounding and therefore the ruine of Daniels Beast and Johns Beast are at one and the same time and therefore 't is but one and the same Beast that they both mention As for those that affirm this Beast is Antiochus who raigned in the time of the Grecian Monarchy was destroyed before the Roman Monarchy was in being it is so wide from the Text that 't is impossible to be true for this little horn ariseth not only after the Grecian Monarchy but after the Roman Monarchy became ten horned he riseth the last distinct from them all and therefore I will say to such men as Aquinas saith to Porferrius upon the same text holding the same opinion haec interpretatio tam fatua est ut

by Revel 8. 1 2. And as for the time of the sixth Trumpet sounding it was Rev. 9. 14. when the foure angels were let loose which were bound in Euphrates that was when the Sarazens and Turks began to be eminent for their victories and successes in War which was about 700. yeers since and then he saith we are under the fourth viall of the sixth Trumpet Whereas t is evident that not one of the vials are to be powred out untill the 7th Trumpet soundeth this I have proved already I 'le onely adde this that the seventh Trumpet is the Alpha and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the vials and that 's clear from these foure Texts in Revel 11. 15. There the seventh Trumpet sounds and after that v. 19. the Temple of God was opened in heaven and then there were lightnings and voices and thundrings and an earthquake and great hail that is the vials of Gods wrath on his enemies And in Revel 15. 5. The temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in heaven was opened and after that the seven Angels powred out their vials so that the seventh Trumpet sounding before the Temple in heaven was open must needs be before the vials were powred out Thus the seventh Trumpet is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in Revel 10. 7. compared with Revel 16. 17. there when the seventh Trumpet sounded the mystery of God should be finished and when the seventh viall was powred out there came the same voice from the throne and said It is finished so that the seventh Trumpet both begins and finisheth the vials on the enemies of the Church So that by this you may judge of the Doctors soundnesse of judgement in a prophetick Truth Truly I do beleeve excepting the Ingagement you shall scarce finde in so few words so many intellectuall errors in any Hereticks writing whatsoever as in these few words of the Doctors that I have repeated And as his thesis is such is his hipothesis as are his premisses such are his conclusions exceeding absurd and false and therefore I leave him Here I intended to break off but at I was shutting up a Book came newly to my hand called A Description of the History of Europe from 1650. to 1710. I do not censure the Author for he speaks modestly and concerning the calling of the Jews what he speaks on Scripturall grounds he speaks both learnedly and judiciously But as for those Astrologicall predictions no where grounded on Scripture I hold them dangerous foperies and no more to be credited then an old wives fable or Lillies Almanack there is one great mistake i● it which I finde also in many other learned Authors and that is concerning the binding of Satan a thousand yeers This mistake of the Author makes him fall foule upon innocent Alsted and Beucholclers for Alstedius and Beucholclers and severall other learned men do hold that there shall be a thousand yeers felicity of the Church after the Dragon is bound and cast into the bottomlesse pit they say this time of the Church her felicity shall begin about the yeer 1694. their ground for it is from Dan 12. 12. Blessed is he that cometh to the 1335 dayes i. e. yeers Now count from the time the daily sacrifice was taken away which was saith Brightman and others in the yeer 360. now adde 1335. to 360. and it makes 1695. yeers The most sound and Scripturall opinion is on these words of Daniel that at the end of the 1290. dayes spoken of in v 11 which dayes are at an end this yeer 1650. then the Jews conversion shall be begun and in 1695. they shall be setled in their own Nation under one King this is backed with undenyable Scripture out of the old Testament and the beginning of their Conversion neer 1650. is evidently demonstrated by Christ himself in Matth. 24. in Luke 21. in Mark 13. in Revel 11. and in many places in the Revel as Revel 16. 17. and Rev. 1. 7. Now because they say that after the 1000. yeers felicitie and tranquillitie of the Church the war of Gog Magog shall beg in which enemies shall be destroyed by Christs coming to judgement this opinion saith he that confutes it is far wide from the true mark For saith he the true number meaning I suppose the time of the war of Gog and Magog must begin Anno 1072. at the Epiration of the former meaning the thousand yeers binding of Satan which he holds to begin at the incarnation of Christ and lasted a thousand yeers or at the destruction of the 2d Temple by Titus Anno 71. So that at the end of 1072. this Author saith the fight of Gog and Magog must begin this time he saith is tearmed to be a thousand yeers and is to be understood of that time that the world shall last after 1072 in pag. 7. he saith that the Devill and Antichristianity must be chained up in the dungeon of hell for a thousand yeers after the incarnation of Christ and then in the yeer of Christ 1000. must the devill and Romish Idolatry by the Popedome of Sylvester 2d be let loose to reign upon the earth and tyrannize over the Church for the most part of another thousand yeers even till Anno 1709. and after that the fifth Monarchy of Christ must be erected as afterwards he affirms But to refute in a word this grosse mistake we do affirm that this opinion is altogether groundlesse and meerly fantastick for he brings not a word of Scripture to confirm his opinion nay I must affirm 't is altogether contrary to Scripture For 1. he makes Antichrist to be in being from the incarnation of Christ which Antichrist in the Apocaliptick sence was not in being till 390 yeers after Christ not untill the fifth Trumpet sounded Revel 9. 5. 2. He makes Antichrist to be chained up a thousand yeers and then to rise again whereas the Revelation testifies the contrary that when he fals he shall be cast into hell Revel 19. 20. out of which there is no redemption and Babylon shall fall like a milstone into the bottome of the Sea which shall never be recovered again 3. He detracts from the time of Antichrists reign allotted by the holy Ghost for Rev. 13. 5. Antichrist was to continue 1260. yeers but this man allows him but 698. yeers in all in which he diam●trally opposeth the Scripture at concerning Antichrist But concerning the devils being bound a thousand yeers from Christs incarnation or 72. yeers after this is so apparently oppugnant to the Scriptures that I do admire that any that hath read the Revelations should affirm it Yet is it not this mans opinion alone but Brightman Pareus Andreas and severall other Writers are of or neer the same opinion Which opinion I prove is absolutely against plain texts of Scripture as for the first 300. yeers after Christ the devil was so loose as that he sate in the throne the Romane throne and murthered the

which Banner he leads his troops of Traitors and squadrons of blasphemers and Hereticks how shall all these be overthrown at one set battell about this yeer 1651. since t is impossible all these three Enemies shall be at the battell in person The Question is somewhat hard to be determined positively yet this is clear from the Scripture that this great battell Revel 19. 19 20. is that battell that shall be fought by the Witnesses after they are risen from their slain condition and this battell is fought against the Beast that slays the Witnesses that is the Beast of the Earth that little Horn in Dan. 7. 26 27. and Dan. 11. 4 5. and against the Beast of the bottomlesse pit and his company which makes merry Rev. 11. 10. for the destruction of the Witnesses now how can it be said that when this Beast and his party are overcome that then the Beast and the false Prophet and the Dragon are over-come A. 1. To this we answer in two words 1. They may virtually and potentially all three fall when one fals so the whole hosts of the Philistines fell when Goliah fell 2. Then when this Beast of the Earth fals all the three begin to fall and from that day never rise more their chief plots and devices shall be discovered and broken and their villanie shall be discovered to the whole world which shall make the ten Horns to hate the Whore and burn her with fire Or who can tell but that at this battell the cheif strength of the Pope the grand Hereticks who are the devils Esquires and the cheif and grand Traitors against the Laws and Religion of England may be all in that battell overcome Or thus at three Kings in one person by the Beast of the earth were overthrown so the three grand enemies of the Church in that one person of the Beast of the earth may be overthrown And to me it is very probable in Revel 17. where John saw Rome in that year when she was to go to destruction in v 3. He saw the last Beast that did bear up Rome and uphold her in her pomp the Beasts is called v 8. the Beast that cometh out of the bottomlesse pit to let us know that that Beast which slaies the Witnesses bears up Rome when she is going to damnation this Beast v 3. is called the Beast bearing up Rome because he slays the Witnesses that would have pulled down Rome he is called therefore a scarlet coloured Beast because of his bloody cruelty against the true Church and then he is said to have seven Heads and ten Horns because he supports that City Rome with seven Heads and ten Horns Popery by the Covenanteers had long ●ince been in the dust but that he broke the Covenanteers and their Reformation by his bloody treason and his blasphemous troops So then as this Beast is said to bear up Rome though he be far distant from Rome by his slaying Romes enemies so Rome may be said to fall and the Pope may be said to fall and the Devil who is said to be the father of Hereticks and blasphemers may be said to fall when he that hath supported them fals And in this sence at this battell when this Beast is overthrown the Beast and that false Prophet and the Dragon may be said to fall and be sure of it when the Witnesses have got their victories over this Beast down goeth Popery and blasphemie and heresie so that though in the downfall of this Beast of the earth it cannot be said that the Pope and the Devil shall personally and universally in their power be overthrown yet it may truly be said that virtually they are overcome it may well and truly be said that the Pope and the Devil are overcome when this Beast is overcome because the Beast is the support of Popery by which Romes pomp is supported and the support of Hereticks and blasphemers by whom the Devils kingdom is upheld hath he not caused those to fall who went about to overthrow Rome and hath he not granted a toleration to all Hereticks to lord it over the orthodox Christians Who is so blinde as doth not see that he doth support this day the state pomp and Religion of Rome and of the Divels kingdom there Satans throne is where the Witnesses are slain Rev. 2. 13. In a word it may truly be said when the Beast of the earth is overthrown that then the Popes cause and interest and the Devills interest will with him be overthrown in these three kingdoms for who is it but he that hinders the Covenant-reformation and if he shall by the Covenanteers as I do undoubtedly believe he will when his three years and a halfs Raign is up be overcome be assured that the rising Witnesses prosecuting the ends of the Covenant will be the ruine of the Popes and the devils Kingdom in England Indeed the Tenor of the Covenant is nothing else but to establish the Witnesses and throw down Popery and Heresie that is the Pope and the Devils kingdom Shall I yet go a little further I am confident that when this Beast of the earth is overcome his cursed Hellish conspiracies with the Court of Rome and the Court of Spaine to overthrow the Kings of Europe that acknowledg not the Popes supremacie will be made so apparent that all the Kings in Europe especially France and Portugall and these thre Kingdoms England Scotland and Ireland will both abominate and utterly reject the Romish Court as a den of abominable Theeves and Murtherers And I trust utterly forsake that accursed Religion which can change it self into any shape and pretend any interest on purpose to overthrow kingdoms and murther Kings Now put all these together consider but from the time of the Popes rising when he got to be the head of Rome to be independent which as on all hands is concluded was about the yeer 390. and consider but the time of the Beasts of the earth who riseth out of Independency and slaies the Witnesses in the yeer 1647. consider how cleerly the holy Ghost holds out the Beast in his rising in his government in his time of duration and in the manner and place of his ruine compare but Scripture with Scripture compare Dan. 7. and 11. and Matth. 24 Mark 13. Luke 21. Rev. 11. the 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Chapters and Zach. 14. together with severall other Texts in Ezek and Isiah I say compare the severall texts as we have set them one with another and compare with these texts the occurrences of these three yeers last past in England Scotland and Ireland and from all it may be concluded I would fain say positively probably that immediately after 1650. is ended when the Beast of the earth hath ●aged a Prophetick day that is one year in Scotland then comes the ruine of the Church her enemies for then the Church of Romes time of keeping the Witnesses in Sackcloath is expired and the three years and an half of the great Independent Beast that shall slay the Witnesses is expired then he and his Poliarchy of Senators who Raign as Kings must go to their eternall graves and then the Witnesses must rise and take possession of their seats from which they were thrown and the Covenanted-reformation by them must be carried on to the utter destruction of the Pope and his faction and the binding of the devil and utter casting of him out of the Church with his faction All which the Lord of his infinite mercy through Jesus Christ for his elect sake both of Jews and Gentiles unconverted and alreadie converted hasten Even so come Lord Jesus Come quickly Amen FINIS