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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33243	The time of the end shewing first, until the three years and an half are come (which are the last of the 1260 dayes) the prophecies of the Scripture will not be understood, concerning the duration and period of the fourth monarchy and kingdom of the beast : then secondly, when that time shall come ... the knowledge of the end ... will be revealed, by the rise of a little horn, the last apostacy, and the beast slaying the witnesses ... / by John Canne.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1657 (1657)	Wing C443; ESTC R6596	111,358	318

7. 14 27. And this proves likewise that the three years and half of this Little Horn must bee the last of the one thousand two hundred and threescore years it being the last testimony of the witnesses in the behalf of Christ and the main cause of their slaying by the Beast And here the Reader may understand not onely the Time when the Little Horn shall stand up but one manifest Character to know him by under his government there will bee a large tolleration of Religion for hee will pretend great care to tender consciences as that every one may have liberty to worship God in what form hee listeth onely hee will not allow that any should assert what the Scriptures plainly testify concerning the breaking of the Image and in particular that hee shall bee slain and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame The Saints shall take away his dominion to consume it and to destroy it unto the end any thing but this but this will not bee suffered no tolleration here of tender consciences any lye rather will be born then this truth and how to suppresse it will bee the great businesse And therefore crafty councel will bee taken against Jehovah and his Christ I have handled the former points the more briefly because I think they lye open to very little exception That which follows next is whether the present State-Apostacy bee the Little Horn I have said often before I undertake not the APPLYING PART I shall onely shew going over all the Characters what this Little Horn will be as to his deportment and carriage when he comes upon the stage to act a sad tragedy Behold there came up among them another little Horn Dan. 7. 8. Though this little Horn bee not one of the Ten yet hee grows upon the body of the fourth beast vers 7. and so is part of the Image Dan. 2. And here I would have the Reader observe which indeed hath not been heeded by Expositors that the little Horn cannot be the persons or states to which most men formerly have applied it for either they have taken it for a person or state which was not upon the head of the fourth beast as Antiochus Epiphanes Mahomet the Turkish Empire Antichrist or one of the ten Horns as the Norman race William the Conqueror Charls Stuart c. And thus both wayes have mis'd the mark For however as I said before this little Horn is not one of the ten yet among them that is upon the head of the Beast as the rest are Hence I think this certainly may bee asserted that if the present state-Apostacy bee not the little Horn it hath not yet risen For Daniels descripttion of it in this place among them and yet another agrees not with any person or State hitherto mentioned by any writer that I have seen Quest But why is he said to bee among the ten Horns on the body of the Beast Ans 1 Though he be none of them yet through ambition hee will seek to be like them in state pompe and all wastful vanities hee will assume their Titles Power Priviledges be as absolute a Monarch as any of them in a word either he will follow the former Horns in all their exorbitancies riot and excess or will strive what he can to have it so 2 That he is said to bee upon the Beast it is to shew notwithstanding his former Declarations and Engagements and warring a long time against Kingship when he comes to bee the Horn hee shall uphold the rotten interest of the fourth Beast as her members namely Priests and Lawyers her moth-eaten customes and Traditions and what else that filthy part of the image viz. feet and toes is compounded of Another Little Horn Junius Piscator and many others translate the last horn being little achari saith Willet signifieth the last as well as another The wisdome of the Holy Ghost is to be minded here in making choice of a word whereby to shew what this little Horn shall be 1 Another here is signified though this horn bee a State or Government as was said before yet shall it not have the constitution and form of a civil State it shall not have I say any stamp upon it suitable either to a kingdome or a Commonwealth as the ten Horns had for howsoever some of them at first were not fairly constituted yet within a while that question was taken off and the government acknowledged by the People to bee just and lawful But this little Horn for all his policy and craft will be Another still never able to wipe off usurpation and Tyranny by gaining a formal constitution of a State And hence I take it hee is said to bee another But secondly That hee is said to be the Last me thinks here I cannot but say with Paul O the depth both of the wisdom knowledge of God As there are two Apostacies the first and the last so there are the first Horns and the last Horn the first Apostacy and the first Horns rise together So saith the Scriptures And the ten Horns which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no kingdome as yet but receive power as Kings one hour with the Beast Rev. 17. 12. The Kings and Horns I understand to bee all one The Roman Empire broken to peeces that is severall Nations and people casting off the Roman yoke and constituting themselves absolute and free States The Beast to be the first Apostacy or Antichristian kingdom now these two have their rise beginning at one time so the last Apostacy and the last Horn rise together I hope the Reader will heed the sweet harmony of Scripture Prophecies surely it is not for nothing that the little Horn is called the Last for as the first Apostacy first Horns came up at one time so the last Apostacy and the last Horn will bee in one hour But again for great is the mystery of godlinesse here also may bee meant as the little Horn shall not grow upon the body of the Beast till in the last daies when perillous times shall come and the former Horns neer cutting off So he shall bee the last indeed as vers 24. For I think Gods hand will bee so visible and eminently lifted up against him in giving his body to the burning flame that none after him will presume to set up any State or government any more upon the old Beast Before whom there were three of the first Horns I think it would rather darken than lighten the matter to mention the several opinions of men about these three Horns Some understand the Turkish State to bee meant by the little Horn will have Asia Grecia and Syria to be these three Horns Others Egypt Syria and Cylicia Others Siria Egypt and Africa Again such as take Antiochus Epiphanes for the little Horn are various in their account Some number Seleucus his elder brother and Demetrius son to Seleucus and Philopater his sisters

son Others leaving out Demetrius chuse Antiochus the great father to this Antiochus the vile And a third sort leave it indifferent which bee nam'd So for others applying the little Horn to the Pope One takes it for the excommunication of this King and that Emperour another for the deposing of such and such Now that which I shall say to all is this whether wee consider Kings or Kingdomes named by them they were not any of the ten Horns neither were they broken by a little Horn which grew upon the fourth Beast nor in three years and half neither together and at one time Nor doth it appear by any History that so many Horns more nor lesse were pluckt up by the persons named by them nor that it was the last Horn which grew upon the fourth Beast and another from the ten Horns Therefore I shall propound this to the Reader to bee considered and weighed by him whether England Scotland and Ireland are not three kingdomes and these three at one time as to their Priviledges Laws Rights Freedomes c. broken And whether this bee not done by men who have the Characters of the last Apostacy upon them and such as call themselves a State and Government but never could formally put themselves either into a Kingdom or Commonwealth And whither the time in which all this was done were not as probably it may be thought neer or about the period of the forty-two months But it is likely some will question whether England Scotland and Ireland are three of the ten Horns in the division of the Roman Empire To this I Answer 1 All know that are acquainted with Histories and Interpreters such difference there is among them in the enumeration of the ten Horns whether understood of persons or States that nothing from them can be certainly concluded And therefore I may say and as groundedly granting there were ten disstinct divisions that England was one Scotland another and Ireland a third as others who name either this or that Countrey But 2. My opinion is and so is the judgement of most by ten no precise and certain number is meant but an uncertain and indefinite that is the Roman Empire dissolved into several States and Kingdomes And thus was England one Scotland another Ireland another Neither doth the Holy Ghost I think intend any thing further But many Nations and Countries should withdraw from the Power of Rome and become Independents free and absolute in and among themselves So that by ten many are understood as it is often so in scripture Numb 14. 22. Job 19. 2. Pluckt up by the rootes The Angel opening these words vers 24. saith hee shall subdue three Kings Humiliabit saith Rob. Steven and Pagnim bring them low or humble them as if hee should say three Kingdomes which shall arise after the division of the Roman Empire I would have the reader to consider whether these may not bee England Scotland and Ireland being by the mighty hand of God brought off and raised up from a great deal of Tyranny and arbitrary Poner under which they were enslaved and having obtained much of their ancient freedome rights and Priviledges and in a hopeful way to a thorow Reformation at home and to have been instruments abroad of much good us other Nations in suppressing Tyranny and Idolatry Behold on a sudden out of the last Apostacy as the bottomlesse pit up starts the last Little Horn who humbles them and brings them down under the oppression and bondage wherein they were before or rather more hinders them in going on in the work of Reformation and instead of doing good to other Nations makes these three Countries a reproach and scorn every where Now howsoever this Humbling bringing down may largely bee taken Yet I think the holy Ghost chiefly intends religious things that is this last Horn shall be an occasion of rendring the blessed name of God and the cause of his dear Sonne contemptible to the World The which before was not onely mightily cried up and pretended to but gloriously held forth as a burning light before all people and kindreds and Tongues and Nations In this Horn were eyes like the eyes of a man This may bee taken two wayes 1 Of his Carnal Wisdome worldly prudence subtlety policy making an outward shew to bee a great lover of Laws of justice and Equity and the interest of the People hereby the easier and sooner to effect his own design That he is said to have Eyes and no such thing mentioned of the Ten This I understand comparatively For they did see that is they were crafty and politick yet so as blind to what sight this Horn shall have in all cunning devices Hee will exceed all that were before him both for matter and manner of deceits their craft was shewed but now and then and onely in some of their publick affairs and transactions they studied other things besides carnal policy and carried on some of their Actions without deceit simply and honestly In a word their Policies were but rough draughts at the belt Whereas this Horn whosoever hee be will mannage none of his actions without deceit his head and heart will never bee off from studying craft and for all his projects and contrivements they will be most artificial works But 2. And this I rather take to bee the meaning The Little Horn hath Eyes the other none Here is signified that hee will by a subtle Practice cal'd Religion Liberty of Conscience Gods glory the advancement of Christs kingdom c. set up himself and his own Interest A thing which the ten Horns never saw such eyes will bee proper to this Horn for hee shall joyn himself to the people of God and take part with them against Tyranny and Idolatry as seeing it to bee the way for his own advantage As the Pope Mahomet and others brought their designs to pass by such Eyes to wit religious pretences In the same way will this Horn exalt himself It will not bee so much by carnal Policy and the Wisdome of this World for in this respect the other Horns were not blinde but hee gets power place and authority another way into his hands namely by standing up for And with a good Interest and so gains the hearts and prayers of Gods people and afterwards having what hee desired turns his HORN that is his Power Army and Councel against the holy People and the good old Cause by which he was first raised Eyes of a man Not of an Angel this is added to shew that all the time of his Saint-like carriage and when hee appeared most earnestly zealous for the interest of Christ and his people like another John his heart is not upright before the Lord but is a very Hypocrite even that Fool who saith in his heart there is no God For under all his Protestations Oaths Covenants great undertakings c. The Plot and Design which hee will carry on is how to make