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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

astonishment and terrour of all their enemies who shall behold them But now a little more particularly to cleere the words we shewed before how the Lord's witnesses may be slain two wayes either corporally in separating their souls from their bodies or mystically and in a similitude or parable in a separation of their life from the world that is from all cōmerce cōmunion with the world so as their life is made no better but rather worse then death Now for them that are slain after the first manner we are not to expect that God wil according to the Letter rayse them up from the dead as here after three days and a halfe And for them that are slain after the second manner here specified though God should not deliver and restore them from that their civill death though he be able to do it and will doe it if he have so determined unto their libertie and communion with humane societie as formerly Yet this we are sure of as Gods Word here must needs be true that of the very dust and ashes of his dead witnesses under this Trumpet in what manner so ever dead hee will raise up again to life and that in the time of this Trumpet either those very witnesses in their own persons or else in the Spirit of these hee will raise up other witnesses and such as if they were those very witnesses formerly slain Thus wee read of Elias c Mal. 4.5 6. Behold saith the Lord I will send you Elias the Prophet before the comming of the great and dreadfull day of the Lord and he shall turn the heart of the Fathers to the children c. Now this Elias was meant of John the Baptist that morning Star that ushered in the d Mal. 4.2 Sun of Righteousnesse that was to prepare the way before him e Luke 1.17 He saith the Angell to Zachariah shall goe before him in the Spirit and power of Elias to turn the heart of the Fathers to the Children c. Whence it is plaine and cleere that John the Baptist was that Elias there prophecied of and he is called Elias because hee came in the spirit and power of Elias And therefore Christ faith to his Disciples when they objected that Elias must first come f Math. 17.11 I tell you saith he that Elias is come already c. whereupon they understood that hee spake unto them of John the Baptist And Matth. 11.14 Speaking of John Baptist he saith This is Elias which was to come Thus wee see how the Prophet Elias being dead and buried many hundred yeers before yet was as it were raised up from the dead to be Christs harbinger But how Not in his person but in his spirit and power So as John Baptist comming in the spirit and power of Elias is called Elias and in him the Prophecie is fulfilled that Elias should come and now in Iohn he was already come Now according to this sense wee may safely interpret this Prophecie also in this place After three dayes and a halfe the spirit of life from God shall enter into them to wit into the two slain witnesses and they shall stand upon their feet c that is after a short but set time with God the spirit of life from God shall rayse up his former witnesses that were slain though not in their owne persons yet in other witnesses that shall succeed them who shall be indued with the same spirit and power which they had beene indued with all And this is that spirit of life from God which entring into his servants raiseth them up to be lively witnesses of his truth full of vigour strength courage zeale constancie g Revel 12.11 not loving their lives unto the death but as it is said of Paul and Barnabas such as had h Acts 15.26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abandoned or given up for lost their lives for the Name of Christ So that as the same spirit of life from God entring into Iohn the Baptist made him to be called that Elias who had been indued with the same spirit and was foretold to come againe which was fulfilled in the Baptist So here the same spirit of life from God nor is it said to bee their own spirit which the slain witnesses had now entring into other witnesses succeeding them they by the same reason may be called those very witnesses as being now by the Almighty power of GOD raised from the dead as Iohn the Baptist was called that Elias because hee came in the spirit and power of Elias And in this respect seeing the raising and restoring of these two witnesses is perhaps not personall but spiritual it is not necessary that we tie or restrain the succeeding witnesses strictly to the number of two only For as it was said of old Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae The bloud of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church and as one seed or grain sowne and dying brings forth much fruit as i Iohn 12.24 Christ saith so as one corne brings forth the increase of a hundred and some of a thousand as in some Countries as of Virginia So these two witnesses may in the multiplication of their spirit and power and of that spirit of life from God bring forth an abundant harvest even great plenty of more witnesses that sh●ll stand up for that Truth for the which these two were slaine What shall wee say of those many witnesses whom the Lord lately raised up in Scotland standing up upon their feet to mayntain their Christian Liberty against Antichristian bondage and to vindicate Christs Scepter and Government over his Church there out of the tyrannicall hands of that proud usurping Beast out of the bottomlesse pit who by his Egyptian Taskmasters the Prelates so oppressed Gods people as they were made weary of their lives And when were these witnesses raised up Surely not much after three dayes and a halfe that the two witnesses were slaine those I meane who suffered worse then death for bearing witnesse against the Tyranny of the Romish Beast and his cruell Taskmasters And what other spirit but that spirit of life from God could raise up so many witnesses so unanimously and with such a wonderfull wisdome discretion judgement zeal and courage to stand up in defence of Christs Kingdome against Antichrists Tyranny Yea and what other spirit and power but that of God could move the heart of his anointed Vicegerent to assent to his peoples just and religious plea to have Christ alone to raigne over his peoples soules and consciences which is his peculiar and incommunicable Prerogative Nor could the King either have advanced higher his own Royall honour or more surely have established his owne Throne in the uniting and fastening of his Subjects hearts and affections in all love and loyalty unto him then by giving Christ his due honour who hath said k 1 Sam. 2.30 Those that honour me I will honour and they

be so called in respect of a civill death as dead to the whole World in a civill respect having no communion nor commerce with the World And the bodies are here named not the persons because persecuting Tyrants as we touched before have no power over the soule but only over the body this they may torment imprison ſ Matth. 10.28 kill but that 's all they can doe Well what of those dead bodies take them in any sense They shall lie in the street of the great Citie which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified What great City is this Surely it can be no other but the Citie of the Beast together with the Suburbs And the Suburbs are all those Cities or States which are either subject to or confederate with the Head-Citie which is Rome We can not have a fitter exposition hereof then that which the Prelate of Canterbury gives us in his reprinted Conference with the Jesuite Fisher For there he saith That the Church of Rome and the Church of England as also all other Prelaticall or Hierarchicall Churches are all one and the same Church no doubt of that as he saith and as is noted before This is his Catholike Church And so this is that great City which stands in opposition to the Holy Citie and treads it under feet as Verse 2. For as Christs Church is called a Holy Citie though it be dispersed over the World So Antichrists Synagogue is here called a Great Citie as comprehending in it all those Cities and States which make up one body of the Beast This great City is spiritually called Sodome and Egypt Sodome for the wickednesse voluptuousnesse prophanenesse pride and other sins of Sodome raigning therein and where they make open warre against all holinesse and all good Laws of GOD and Man And secondly it is called Egypt for its tyranny in oppressing and afflicting of Gods people with their intolerable burthens And for this they have their Task-masters to wit the Prelates and their multitude of officers who force Gods people through their whole Egyptian Provinces to fill up their tale and task of bricks in the strict observation of all their Rites and Ceremonies Constitutions and Canons the Spirituall burthens of their spirituall Egypt and for default thereof in the lest degree or kind the Taskmasters beat and abuse them if they t Exod. 5.15 complaine 't is to no purpose they can have no remedy Thus not without cause is this Citie called not only Great but spiritually Sodome and Egypt So as in what Country soever in the World this Beast sets his paw that is where ever hee hath his Taskmasters the Prelates and their Officers as where almost are they not there is the Kingdome of the Beast there be the Suburbs of this Great Citie And whatever Countrey or State doth incorporate it self into an union or confederation with this Papall Hierarchie becomes thereby ipso facto a member of this great Citie which is spiritually called Sodome and Egypt And this being so tell me ô England art thou not become a member of this great body of this Great Citie of this spirituall Sodome of this spirituall Egypt For wherein dost thou differ from Rome it selfe Doth not thy great Arch-prelate who is as thine Oracle professe in thy name and in Print with an unblushing forehead that England is of the u Conference Reprinted Epist Ded. pag. 16. And pag. 376. 338. c. same Church same faith same Religion with Rome And doth he not shrowd this his Book under the name of the highest Authoritie in England as commanded by the King to be published And hast thou not set forth Edicts dispensing with the open profanation of the Sabbath by heathenish Sports and others prohibiting Ministers to preach in the after-noons on Lords Days as preferring thy prophane Sports before the holy and divine Ordinance of Preaching and so consecrating at least the one halfe of the Lords Day to Bacchus or Belial Art thou not then a part of that great Citie which is spiritually called Sodome Again dost thou not permit if not command thy Prelates the Roman Pharoahs Taskmasters to vex afflict and grievously oppresse the people of God with the intolerable burthens of their and thine endlesse Ceremonies And not x These things were then in force when this Treatise was written content with the old thou addest new burthens as the Egyptians did in denying straw and those most abominable as thy Superstitious yea Idolatrous Heathenish Altars with all their Idolatrous Altar-Service wherein thou art utterly falne from being a member of the Holy Citie which thou treadest under thy feet and even professest thy selfe to be of that Great Citie which for its inthralling and oppressing of Gods people is spiritually called Egypt O England England Repent hereof cast out thy cursed and cruell Taskmasters like as thy Neighbour Scotland hath done so suffer thy people Gods people to serve their God as he hath commanded and to enjoy their Christian Libertie which Christ hath deerly purchased for them and no longer to be under the Antichristian Babylonian yoake and the Egyptian Taskmasters Thus we have seen as it were in a Map the large Territories and bound lesse bounds of this great City here mentioned spiritually called Sodome and Egypt in the street whereof lie the dead bodies of Christs two witnesses and where as here is added our Lord was crucified Which is to be understood not simply and personally of our Lords crucifying but mystically For our Lord in Person was crucified at Jerusalem and yet not within the Citie but without the Gate And yet Christ in his Person was crucified by the first Roman Beast the Emperour whose Successour both in his Seat and in the Image of his Power and State and in all his bloudy persecutions of the Saints the Papall Beast now is as also of the Scribes and Pharisees and High Priests who put Christ to death and so hee with them is guilty of his bloud as Matth. 23.35 36. Verse 31. But he is crucified mystically in his mysticall members even in the open Streets of this Great Citie Witnesse all those persecutions and Martyrdomes which the Beast in all Ages and Countries hath caused wherein the Lord himselfe hath been crucified to wit in his Saints and Witnesses And what thinke you of those Witnesses of whose crucifying on the Pillory in the open street or rather spacious Palace-yard in the Citie of Westminster we have been all eye-witnesses and spectators Was our Lord there then in them on those Pillories crucified or not If he were and that upon such an eminent Theatre and in the view of that Court where they were so censured the High Priests themselves with others of high note beholding and pleasing themselves with such a Tragedie of the Beasts cunning contriving and cruell execution was not this trow you a part of that Great Citie where our Lord hath been

court without the Temple here by a Metonymie taking the continent for the thing contained may signifie the company of those in generall that professe to be Christians but yet are indeed and in truth no true members of the true Church they are not of and in the Temple but they are out of the Temple And therefore that which is translated in our English Leave out is in the Originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cast out as also the p E●jce forat Latine and the * jette hors French rightly render it This is as the Lord saith to Ieremie q Ier. 15.19 If thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth So here Iohn having measured the true people of God such as worship him according to his Word is bid here to cast out the refuse such as do not worship God in purity and verity such as worship not in his Temple and at his Altar to wit in Christs only Name who though they beare the common name of Christians yet they are not within the Temple but without in the common-outer court which here is cast out and not to be reckoned to bee of the Temple And this court Iohn must not measure it sufficeth that having measured the true worshippers by describing their true properties out of Gods Word it followeth consequently that all those which are fals worshippers are those of the court without the Temple so to be cast out as r Gen. 21.10 Gal. 4.30 the bond woman and her sonne were cast out of Abrahams house and not to be measured nor nūbred with Gods people And it is added here For it is given unto the Gentiles that is they of this court are to be reckoned among the Gentiles and to bee accounted as Heathen and Infidels For the purpose what are all Papists and all other altar-worshippers and bringers in and setters up and Conformists to strange Service invented by men but Heathen and Infidels For as we said before the very setting up of an Altar and Altar-Service is a flat deniall of Christ the only true Altar and so is meere Heathenisme and Infidelitie Or else by the Gentiles here is understood the antichristian Kingdome or the spirituall Babylon under which the formall Protestants and cold professours of this age under the sixt Trumpet shall be brought in bondage as back-sliding Israel of old was given into the hands of the King of Babylon For these back-sliders and Formalists are those of the outer court that is cast out and the Spirituall Babylon is properly so called for her Heathenish and Babylonish manners as Psal 59.5.8 David calls Saul and his bloudy persecutors Heathen and Esay 1.10 the Prophet calls the degenerate Princes and people of Israel Princes of Sodome and people of Gomorrha as being in manners like unto them especially her manifold Idolatries wherein she resembleth old Babylon as shee is set out Chap. 17. And how truly is this verified of our cold or rather luke-warme Laodiceans in England at this day Is not all England in generall and for the greatest part brought under the Babylonish yoke in her universall conformitie to Popery in setting up of Altars and Altar-service after the manner of Rome Are not all the Ministers and People therein I say for the most part made the Prelates vassals who have of late more then formerly set up the Image of the Beast and his Throne almost in all the Churches and over all the Congregations of England What Minister almost is there at this day dare stand against the Antichristian Tyranny now so highly exalted over all mens consciences Are they not then brought under the Babylonish Captivitie Are they not given to the Gentiles into the power of the Spirituall Babylon a farre worse and more intolerable bondage then that of the ancient people of God either in Egypt or Babylon For that was a bondage of the body but this of the Soule and Conscience And thus this very phrase It is given to the Gentiles alludes to the like speeches in the Prophets concerning revolted and degenerate Jerusalem whereof it is said very frequently in ſ Ier. 32.24 25 28. Jeremy that the Citie is given into the hands of the Caldaeans or Babylonians So here the Court without the Temple is cast out and given to the Gentiles that is as is said before to the Kingdome and power of the Babylonian Beast which succeeds old Babylon in all her Idolatries and bestiall crueltie in captiving of Gods people And it is added here And the holie Citie shall they tread under foot two and forty months This holy City here alludes to the old City Hierusalem as the Gentiles here allude to old Babylon which did tread under feete that holy City 70. yeeres But what is meant here by this holy City This holy City is the true church of God called the t Psal 46.4 city of God and the u 1 Kin. 11.32 elect City and the x Rev. 20.9 beloved city and againe Revell 22.19 the holy city and the y Heb. 12.22 City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem This holy City this Church of God shal the Gentiles to wit the Spirituall Babylon called the Beast out of the bottomlesse pit Verse 7. tread under foote that is shall exceedingly oppresse and afflict making havock of the Saints of God the citizens of this holy city making no more account of them then of dirt and mire in the Streets yea they shall defile and destroy the holy assemblies of the Saints by corrupting the pure worship and service of God and crying downe all holinesse both of life and conversation and Sanctification of the Sabbath or Lords day in the publike assemblies and private families forbidding preaching of the doctrine of Grace and restraining Sermons on the Lords day in the Afternoone and persecuting all Godly powerfull and painfull Ministers and giving publike dispensation to youth and others for following of profane sports on the Lords holy-day to wit his own day many such like outrages they do Thus they trample upon the holy city as labouring to destroy and bring into contempt as it were by setting their foule foot upon all holinesse Like those wicked and false Shepherds in Ezechiel z Ezech. 34.18 19. that devoure the good pasture and tread the residue under their feet that drinke of the deepe waters and foule the residue with their feete so as the flock of God must eate and drink that which their filthy feete have trodden upon and fouled a Note here good Reader that the Author writ this before this time of Reformation happily in part begun and hopefully expected unto a perfection Now when was ever the holy City the true Church of God in all these respects more trodden upon with the feete of false shepherds when was all holinesse ever more hated despised railed upon reviled persecuted oppressed trampled upon then now