Bishops upon the Scriptures of God upon the Church upon the Civill Magistrate also and consciences of men and all their tyrannous Canons and humane ordinances made upon indifferent things against their Christian liberty as namely all their rites ceremonies and false doctrines added by them to the administration of the Sacraments as the Crossing in Baptisme the kneeling in the receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper the standing of the Lords Table Altarwise with tapers or Crucifixes over it and bowing to it or at the naming of Jesus and the observing of other by them falsely called holy-dayes besides that holy sanctified day of the Lord the which to the utmost of their power they have laboured to expuâ—ge out of the catalogue of the ten Commandements of the law And that hereafter they will adhere to the Lord serving and worshiping him alone in all holinesse and purenesse of living in submitting themselves for that end to an holy Church governement or discipline taught contained in the said word of God alone voide of all humane inventions and additions not grounded upon the same Now that this is the true intent of the Spirit of God in the words of this fift verse it will yet further appeare very clearely if you will consider besides the two former mentioned verses of the said 19. chapter both the first and second verses thereof also in the first of which Saint John tells us how hee heard a great voyce of a great multitude in Heaven saying Hallelujah c. giving us to understand thereby the great r joy that the many congregations of the true Christian Churches especially of these three Kingdomes should both conceive in their hearts and also expresse outwardly both in words and actions of holy thankesgiving unto the Lord and acknowledging of that salvation glory and honour power that was to be given unto him because he had put in the heart of his annointed to do fulfill his most holy will in calling together that most heavenly Assembly of Parliament to execâ—ue and administer the true and righteous judgements of God s proceeding juridiâ—-ally to the condemnation of the great Hierarchicall whore which had corrupted the earth with her fornications thereby also to avenge the blood of his servants shed by her hand as of them that were already dead by the meanes of her most inhumane barbarous like cruelties used against them so of those that were yet detained prisoners in great distresse in her most vile and base prisons and especially those faithfull witnesses of his truth who had beene confined in those remote Islands beyond seas viz. of Garnezey Jarzey and Syllie against whom shee had made warre had overcome them and killed them by a civill or rather a most uncivill death whereby they were in a manner cast out of the land of the living Esa. 53. 8. having their eyes shut as it were being barred and deprived of the sight and company * of the delight of their said eyes I meane their most deare wives and children and after them of the greatest comfort of the world their * godly friends and acquaintance having likewise their hands feet bound with bands having neither the liberty to visit their friends or to be visited of them nor to write unto them being forbidden to have either paper pen or inke And thus did their corps lie unburied in such publike places of the great citie for the space of t three dayes and a halfe onely though their said enemies had confined them there till death at the latter end whereof the spirit of life comming from God entred into them and so revived them so that they could then stand upon their feete being loosed of their said bands having heard that great voyce comming from the u heavenly Parliament then assembled in London the voyce whereof was so loud that it was heard of them from those remotest places of the Kings Dominions saying unto them Come up hither and they obeying the same did presently ascend up to the said Heavenly Assembly gathered in the foresaid City of London wherinto they entred in a most glorious cloud of witnesses rejoycing for their said deliverance as it is said in the first verse of this said 19. chap. which was on the contrary a most bitter and spitefull sight to their enemies that might see them thus honoured of God and men The event of all which most glorious workes thus begun and prosecuted according to the foreappointad decree of God thus also revealed unto us by Saint John in these two chapters of the * Revel. viz. the 11. forecited and the ninteenth compared together doth give I am sure such a cleare light to all the businesse now in hand ex ungue leonem that no bodie will no more doubt of it But yet consider the next following action set downe in the sixt and eight verses of the said 19. chap. namely that presently after the precedent voyce which did proceed from the throne John heard another like a voyce of a great multitude and as the voyce of many waters and as the voyce of strong thundrings saying Hallelujah for the Lord that God that Almighty one hath raigned c. In which words I say is summarily and mystically contained the historie related more fully in the x sixt chapter of Josh. concerning the falling downe of the walles of Jericho which was the first Citie taken in the land of Canaan being beyond Jordan by the blowing of the Seven trumpets of rams hornes borne by seven Priests before the Arke which was carried by them round about it once in a day for the space of sixe dayes but the seventh day they were to compasse the said citie seven times and at the seventh time when they should heare the said Prists making a long blast with the said rammes hornes they were bidden to shout with a great shout because then the wall of the Citie should fall downe flat and the people should ascend up every man straight before him y In their march about this citie the whole congregation was divided in three severall squadrons or troopes keeping this order first the armed men were to march in the fore-front of the Armie going before the Priests that blew the trumpets who in the second place marched before the Arke which was carried by the Levites upon their shoulders going in the midst of all the Armies Then in the last place the rereward came after the Arke of the Lord the Priests going on and blowing with the trumpets All which company thus ranged in battell aray and compassing the said Citie once a day for sixe dayes and seven times the seventh day It came to passe at the seventh time when the Priests made a long blast with the rammes hornes that the people shouted with a great shout and then the wall fell downe flat z And thus the three severall companies noted by S. John having shouted with
proceedeth from this viz. that by the drying of the said Nationall Euphrates the tenth part of the Kingdome of the Roman Beast or Empire doth fall altogether or doth quite separate it selfe from it to be no longer a member thereof this part comprehending the Kingdomes of England Scotland Ireland with all the Iles adjacent and thereunto belonging In which part of the said Roman Empire the said Hierarchicall power must now then be utterly abolished according to the foreappointed decree registred in that forealledged place of Revel. 11. 13. and likewise 16. 12. it being the fift and last effect of the said sixt Trumpet the accoÌ„plishment whereof is the cause of the * great voyce of that great multitude in heaven which was heard by John saying Hallelujah Salvation glory honor power be to the Lord our God because his judgements are true righteous because he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornicatioÌ„s c. By which means also a very wide gate is opened and the way prepared for the people inhabiting the said 3 forementioned Kingdomes which the said Euphrates had but a little while before almost over flowed quite drowned hâ—d not the Lord in mercy in a most wonderfull manner prevented it by the powring out of the said sixt Viall upon it in the very time of its most swelling and all overwhelming power by which means its intolerable pride is not only abated but the Euphrates it selfe is quite dryed up so that you as the Premices of the conquered and perfectly converted Kingdomes of the foresaid Roman Western Empire may now freely enter before the other nations in the Canaan of the true reformation the which having first settled and established among you having quite rooted the said Hierarchy registred to eternall memory the utter abolishing therof you may then presently enter in CovenaÌ„t with the Lord and oblige your selves by vow first to continue for ever after faithfull unto him so that you will in a holy zeale defile the very coverings of the images of silver and of gold and take away all the high places and cast away as a menstrous cloth all reliques and remnants of superstition idolatries from among you say unto them Get yee hence that God * may see among you no uncleane thing that may cause him to turne away from you but that rather he may delight to dwell with you and * to walke in the midst of your then bright shining golden Candlestick even to deliver you and to give up all your enemies before you And after that imitating herein the Rubenites Gadites and halfe tribe of Manasseh you may goe armed before the Lord to warre and goe all of you armed over the Euphraticall Iordan before the Lord untill he hath driven out all your enemies the Popish Hierarchicall Canaanites from before him and subdued the whole Land before the Lord as said Moses to the said Rubenites c. in the forealledged place of Num. 32. 21. And though you come from the more Westerly parts of the Western Roman Empire yet are you in a mysticall sense both in respect of the type those ancieÌ„t Israelites entring into Canaan at the East side of it and also in respect of your profession the right Kings of the East comming from the Sunne rising where the day spring the true shining light of the Gospel from on high hath visited you thus to goe before his face to prepare his wayes And as the Israelites brought along with them the * Arke of the Testament over laid round about with gold wherein was the Golden pot that had Manna and Aarons rod that budded and the Tables of the Covenant so doe you bring along with you to them the * everlasting Gospel * of the Kingdome with the powerfull preaching thereof the true food of the Soule together with an holy Church-government at the bright shining light whereof all false Antichristian doctrines of idolatries superstitious Ceremonies will-worship and all other humane inventions shall fall as * Dagon before the Arke yea * Satan himselfe shall fall from heaven It will further cast down before you * all imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ Which is the conquest here especially intended and the weapons wherewith it must be performed This is that mystery whereof the Angel that stood upon the sea and upon the earth spake which God had declared before to his servants the Prophets which is now to be accomplished namely among the rest to Daniel in the * seventh of his prophecy v. 25. speaking of the time of the finishing of the Kingdome tyranny of the little horne which should then undermine viz. by her wiles as another Balaam the Saints of the most High which S. John Rev. 11. 7. â—pplyes to the time of the two witnesses finishing their testimony saying that the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomles pit should then especially make warre against them and should overcome them and kill them which last words Daniel expresses thus saying of the said Witnesses that they should be given into hâ—s hand viz. of that little horne or powerfull Nationall Hierarchicall Sea but with all limiting the time of that victory when he addes in the next words untill a time and times and the dividing of time in these few words comprehending what S John more fully and clearely expresses in the 8 9 and 10. v. of the foresaid Chap. wherein he shews both their condition during their said death and also distinctly what we are to understand by that indetermined time of Daniel viz. three dayes an halfe which we have already shewed to be meant of the three yeares an halfe of the Witnesses n mysticall death or imprisonment At the ending of which time Daniel saith that the judgement should sit and thâ—y viz that sit in the said judgement should take away his Dominion to consume it destroy it unto the end which is thus expressed by S John first in the foresaid Chap. v. 11 12 13. saying that after those three dayes and an halfe formentioned the Spirit of life c. and afterwards v. 13. And the same houre was there an earth-quake and the tenth part of the Citie fell c. Item Chap. 16. 12. in these words And the sixt Angell powred out his viall upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dryed up And then finally in the thankesgiving of that great multitude assembled in Armageddon sitting in the foresaid judgement Rev. 16. 16. saying * Allelujah Salvation and glory and honor and power be unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgements for he hath judged the great whore and hath avenged the bloud of his servants at her hand All which places are parallell By the
viz. two Archbishops see the emblem in the frontispice of this treatise * Psal. 65. 2. * Psal. 102. 17 18 c. * 1 Pet. 5. 5. * Revel. 18. 7 8. * Ibid. 17. 16 Iosh. 1. 2 3. 4 c. * Revel. 18. 6. * Iosh. 1. 8. 9. * Revel. 14. 11. and 14. m The covenant made by both the nations of England and Scotland c. is typified by that action of Joshua circumcising the people of Israel in Gilgal presently after their passage over Jordan by the expresse commandement of God n Josh. 5. 2 c. to verse 12. parallell to Revel. 19. 4. * Iosh. 5. 9. * Revel. 11. 18 o Iosh. 5. 13. 14 15 parallel to Revel 19. 5 He will no lesse manifest his good wil more and more to ouâ— great leader under him concerning the reformation now in hand * Exod. 30 19. 20. See Ainsworths Annot. in locum * Ioâ—â— 5. 9. p It should therfore have preceded the Covenant because it was the cause of our separation and divorce from the Lord therfore that Jonas was first to bee cast into the sea of Sodom spare it not therefore or else you must be sure that the Sea will not cease her raging q The lake of Sodom a type first of the Excommunicatition of the Church called by Christ Gehenna of fire Mat. 5. 22. by Saint Paul to be delivered unto Satan 1 Cor. 5. 5. by Saint John Revel. 19. 10. and 20. 10. a lake of fire and brimstone secondly of hell it selfe * Iâ—â— 51. 63. 64. reade and consider well the contents thereof * Revel. 19. 5. parallell to Josh. 5. 13 14 15. * Numb. 27. 18. 21. See Iudg. 20. 27. 28. 1 Sam. 23. 9 10 c. and chap. 28. 6. Ainsworth in Exod. 28. 30. r The joy of Joshua and of the people of Israel passing over Jordan dry testified by Psal. 66. 6. parallell to Revelaâ— 19. 1. expressing the joy of the Christan Israel for the assembling of the Parliament Preaching at the very beginning of it liberty to the captives and to them that were bound by the Prelates the opening of the prison Isa. 61. x. s The passage over Jordan mentioned Josh. 3. 9 10 11. and 16. parallell to the proceding in judgement or Arainnement of the Hierarchie in Parliament expressed Revel. 19. 2. * Ezech. 24. 16. * Psal. 88. 4 5 6 7 8. t I have observed this concerning M. Burton who was confined in the Castle Cornet in the Isle of Garnzey in whom especially I finde this type verified to the full for since the 14 of June 1637. in which day he together with his two other fellow Martyrs and right {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} were condemned c. to his arrivall in the said Island which was the 15. day of December in the same yeare are just sixe whole moneths during which time he was as it were in a very darke night of affliction hid as the spies sent by Joshua to Jericho under stalkes of flaxe upon the roofe of a house and from that time decained close prisoner three whole yeares viz. from the said 15. day of Deâ—ember 1637. to the 15. day of November 1640. being the Lords day and the first of the last moneth of the said third yeare in which day he heard the great voyce of the Heavenly Parliament saying unto him come up hither u These are the true members of the true Church called alwaies heaven in this Revelation opposed to the Hierarchicall Nationall earthly Church of the Prelates * Revel. 11. 12. 13. and chap. 19 1 2 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} x Iosh. 6. from verse the 1. to the 22. is contained an Historie parallell to the praediction in Revel. 19. ver. 6 7 8. y This conquest of Jericho as well as that of the rest of the land of Canaan was corporall though this first was performed in a spirituall extâ—â—ordinary manner thereâ—… their 〈…〉 corporall 〈…〉 z this is a spirituall conquest whereby these Christian Kingdomes are to be conquered to Christ in slipping from off their necks or casting off the cruell and intollerable yoake of Antitichrists usurped tyrannicall power to take in liew thereof the most easie yoke of Christ embracing the sincere profession of his truely reformed Religion and submitting to his holy Church Government discipline therefore the order kept by these three troopes in their march uttering of their Hallelu jah after their said conquâ—st is different from that of the type because the spirit of God hath as it seemes reference to the Spirituall warfare of the Parliaments where the honorable house of Commons representing the whole bodie of the Kingdome doth as it were march in the forefront of the whole Armie Then the Peeres of the land Princes of the Tribes of their fathers and heads under God and the King of the thousands of Israel doâ— follow after then the Priests or Ministers come in the rereward of the said Armie with the rammes hornes of the powerfull though most despised preaching of the word of God and servent prayer of a long blast bearing upon their shoulders the â—â—borious Ministerie thereof whereby especially the wall of this Jericho I meane according to Prov. 18. 11. these rich Vice-Roys Merchants and Mariners superfluous and ill acquired wealth wages of unrighteousnesse so called 2 Pet. 2. 15. which was as their strong citie and as an highwall in their owne conceit must bee tumbled downe These come in the last place because their proper place is occupied by those who should bee thrust out of it * Josh. 6. 22 c. a By these understand all the true witnesses of Christ and among them especially they that have suffered for the truth who are to informe and shew by the word of God how the Chuch ought to be reformed and purged of all false Popish and Arminian doctrine and Idolatries of all the Popish garments and superfluous ornaments of that pompous will-worship and Liturgie and of all the ragges and superstitious dayes of feasts or fasts all which ought to be abolished See the Law Deut. 21. 12. verse 13. and the law for the clensing of the leprosie Levit. 14. 8. Numb. 5. 2. 3. and for the practise thereof see Numb. â—2 14. 15. and Ezech. 16. 52. 54. for the performance of this in the Antitype weigh Revel. 19. 7. 8. and 11. 13. the latter end * Iosh. 6. 18 19 Idem cap. 7. 21 wherefore all Israel was troubled 36. of them were Killed and the rest fled before the men of Ai vers. 4. 5. * Revel. 19. 14 * Isa. 30. 22. * Deut. 13. 17. 2 Sam. 14. 17. 2 Cron. 19. 4. 7 8 9 10. * Mat. 22. 21. in restoring Church lands impropriations Church tithes c. to whom they belong Revel. 10. 〈◊〉 5. 6. * Verse 7. * Rom. 12. 8. * Origen lib. 3. contra Celsum * Ambros. in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tim. 5. he lived about the yeare of the Lord 37. 4.