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A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

two Witnesses that notwithstanding all whatsoever the Beast could doe against them they should prophesie the 1260 dayes even every one of the dayes of those fourty two months of the Beasts reigne and the Gentiles treading the holy Citie under foot yet did he not limit their prophecying in Sackcloth within the compasse of those dayes Neither is there a word in all the Scripture to such purpose onely their being killed by the Beast and their corps lying dead in the street of his Sodomiticall Citie c. are limited within that time as we shall see hereafter Neither is it said in the Text the Beast which descendeth into the deep shall make warre against them and kill them but the Beast which ascendeth from the deep c. implying plainly that he should make warre against them and kill them at his ascending or rising or soone after and not at his descending or downfall And that the finishing their testimony here spoken of was to bee before the Beast should rise which we are here duly to consider of as a thing that we ought to know and understand And therefore the Lord foreshewed saying And when they have finished their testimony the Beast which ascendeth from the depth shall make warre against them and kill them That is to say when the holy Prophets Apostles and Evangelists had finished their course written down all whatsoever they had seen and heard from the Lord concerning his two Wils Testaments according as they were guided by the holy Ghost and especially his second or last Will of grace and peace by Jesus Christ His wonderfull conception birth life death resurrection from the dead foretold also by the Prophets His ascension into heaven and his sending the holy Ghost unto them the Spirit of truth to lead them into all truth and to enable them to prophesie through the sevenfold gifts thereof Of Iohn the Baptist who was that Elias which God promised to send before the great and terrible day of the Lord should come the day of judgement and wrath and how he cried out unto the people of Israel and so unto all the world in the spirit and power of Elias requiring every man with strong perswasions great sorrowfulnesse of heart much lamentation and many teares to repent that they might obtaine the forgivenesse of their sinnes through faith in the Messiah the Mediator and Messenger of the Covenant who was now also come to his Temple Which voice of this Elias crieth out unto us all even to this day that we should repent that we may receive also the forgivenesse of our sinnes by faith in Christ lest in that great day when he commeth in power and glory we perish in his wrath and he smite the earth with a curse And how Christ himselfe also preached saving Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand Repent and beleeve the Gospel with many other heavenly Doctrines and most true and gracious sayings And of all his wondrous workes and the things he had foreshewed them should come to passe Of the destruction of Jerusalem and wrath upon that people Of false Christs and false Prophets that should arise Of great tribulation that should befall the Church of Christ during the time of his personall absence And of the signes of his comming and end of the world And after his death and resurrection how hee opened their understandings and among many other heavenly things that he spake of and foreshewed them said unto them Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem And then last of all this book of the Revelation wherein many great mysteries that were sealed up and no man in heaven nor on earth was found worthy to open but the Lamb that was slain are by him revealed 1. The estate of his Church in her primitive time 2. And what her great enemies should be and what shee was to suffer at their hands The first being the great red Dragon Satan reigning in the Pagan Emperours by whose bloody persecutions shee was forced to flie into the wildernesse to escape from his fury as in Rev. 12.3 4 5 6 c. described in Rev. 6.4 by a red horse and one fitting on him that should take peace from the earth The second that of Arius and his followers whose blasphemous doctrines and malicious persecution against those that opposed the same continued five months of years as in Rev. 9.2 3 4 5. described by a black horse Rev. 6.5 The third this of the Beast and his false prophets and whorish Church of whose abominations and filthinesses of the cup of her fornications Kings Princes and people of all Nations have been made to drink and became drunken committing fornication with her and so their souls became lost for ever And her selfe also becomming daily drunken with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus Christ whose bodies she killed because they would not drink of her cup nor commit fornication with her All which being to continue fourty and two months of years as Rev. 11.2 Rev. 13.5 described also in Revel 6. by a pale horse c. ver 8. Then what plagues should bee powred out upon them all for their murders and wickednesse And what and when should bee their end and how great their condemnation And which exceeds all for the comfort of the Church of Christ which was to suffer all these things at her enemies hands how shee should bee delivered from her so great and violent oppressions And what and how great things her Lord hath prepared for her and promised and foreshewed her especially in this booke of the Revelations to be inherited of her for eternity in the world to come when he shall appeare in his glory So the holy Prophets and Apostles and Evangelists having from the Lord perfected his two Testaments which are his two Witnesses they having thus finished their testimony which was never to done before nor from thence forth could ever bee so done after and which might therefore rightly be called Finishing their Testimony and also because no man nor Angel from heaven might or may preach any thing as the testimony of Gods two Witnesses or his Oracles but what is written and contained in them it being the whole counsell of God So I say they having thus finished their testimony and they being prophecying in the plain demonstration of the Spirit and of power turning the hearts of Gods elect to repentance that they might be justified from their sinnes by faith through his grace in Christ which by the Spirit and word of reconciliation was ministred to their broken and contrite hearts And also by the same Spirit and power convincing the wicked perishing world of sinne of righteousnesse and of judgement Of judgement because the prince of this world whom they serve and obey he

the Tribe of Dan and by him who is to be borne they know not where nor when and yet must reigne those three years and a halfe and doe all these things Neither can any of those among our selves which are so neere of opinion unto them of Rome concerning the three dayes and a halfe of the two Witnesses being slain shew any one sound reason why a propheticall yeare may not be intended in this place by the name of a day as well as by the name of a time in Dan. 7.25 and 12.7 and Rev. 12.14 which I suppose they acknowledge And seeing also that a day is a time as well and truly as an houre is a time or a month or a yeare Vnder all which termes the time of the reigne of the great Antichrist is exprest 1 Ioh. 2.18 Rev. 3.10 9.13 14 c. Where John having seen their great and terrible Army of horsmen and heard also the number of them to bee twenty thousand times ten thousand describeth them also to have breast-plates of fire and of Jacinth and of brimstone and their horses to have heads as the heads of Lions and that out of their mouthes issued fire and smoke and brimstone and having tailes like Serpents with heads on them And that all these whose power is in their mouthes and in their tailes were prepared for an houre and a day and a month and a yeare to slay the third part of men verse 15 16 17 18. This is that last houre spoken of in 1 John 2.18 The houre of temptation which was to come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth Rev. 3.10 So then if an houre may contain so long a time why not a day if a day then why not three dayes and a half as well as three times and a halfe seeing three dayes and a halfe are three times and a halfe Neither is it possible that all those things which are to be done within the time of the two Witnesses lying dead and unburied in the streets of that great Citie should bee fulfilled and done in so short a time as three naturall yeares and a halfe That the Beast and his false prophets that great Army of inchanting horsemen with all those Kings Princes and Tribes and people and Gentiles and inhabitants of the earth which worship the Beast and his Image should so universally so publickly in all places make those merriments with bonfires festivals wakes c. rejoycing over their own inventions and for that they had put out the light of the truth of Gods two Witnesses which so troubled them in their ways and send such great gifts also one to another for joy thereof chopping and changing making Merchandize of all things even of the very souls of men as it is declared Rev. 18.12 13. and as experience hath sufficiently proved they have done no short time slaying and destroying with their inchantments and sorceries the fire and smoke and brimstone which issued out of the mouthes of those monstrous horsemen and their horses and the mouthes of their tailes the souls of many thousand men of all degrees high and low and of all nations even a full third part of the world and yet the rest that were not slain by these plagues repented not of their workes that they should not worship Divels and Idols of gold and silver and brasse and stone and wood which neither can see nor heare nor walke nor repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornications nor of their thesis I say it is not possible that all these things which are to be done while the two Witnesses lie slain in the streets should be accomplished in three common yeares and a halfe but must have the full time of the Beasts reigne for the sam the time of those Gentiles treading the holy Citie under foot and of the woman being fed in the wildernesse even 1260. yeares After which as the text saith the Spirit of life from God shall enter into his two Prophets and they shall stand upon their feet c. God will then in and about that time especially raise up faithfull Scribes indeed and Shepheards of understanding hearts whom he will teach and instruct in the wayes of his truth and give them so to understand the words and testimonies of his two Witnesses as that they shall through the power of his grace declare the true intent and meaning of them and set forth and divide the same unto the people Like unto the good housholder or as the Scribe taught in the Kingdome of God that is alwayes provided of things both new and old and is ready to minister upon all occasions in and at all due times and seasons according to the words of Christ and as Paul once charged Timothy that they also may understand it and walk in the light thereof to the praise of God and their own salvation And so the true spirituall and heavenly meaning of Gods two Testaments their light and life which their enemies had taken away and kept out of fight and knowledge so long being now restored they his two Prophets walk upon their feet againe as well to the terror and astonishment of all false and lying interpreters as to the reverend feare admiration and comfort of all the children and justifiers of wisdome for so much do the words imply And great feare fell upon all that saw them And if any man shall marvell how the two Witnesses may bee said to prophesie all the time of the reigne of the Beast and their bodies lie dead in the streets of his Sodomiticall Citie all the while let him consider that although they lie dead in his streets yet they speake and prophesie notwithstanding like as did the blood of Abel and the bones of Elisha And whatsoever they have spoken or prophesied in the written words of their Testimony either against the Beast and his Church and all other false accusers and beliers of them or as concerning their owne restauration and the good of the Church and children of God shall surely come to passe and be fulfilled let the Beast and all the rest of them doe what they can Neither doe nor did their bodies lie dead and unburied among the Saints and children of the woman that fled into the wildernesse they have been living and prophesying with them all this while and their enemies have heard their voyce from thence many and sundry times sounding in their eares though they hardened their hearts against it and sought still by their cunning inquisitions to lay hold of shut up in their dungeons and slay all those that testified the same Ver. 12. And I heard a lowd voyce from Heaven saying Come up hither and they went up to heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw them NOw the true meaning of the Scriptures contained in the two Testaments of God which had been so long obscured by false and lying expositers shall be so

shall bee a thousand two hundred and ninety dayes Blessed is he that wayteth and commeth to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty dayes adding to the thousand two hundred and ninety dayes five and thirty dayes more which make a thousand three hundred thirty five and then saith as being the words of the Angel of God to Daniel But go thou thy way till the end be for thou shalt rest and stand up in the lot at the end of the dayes vers 11 12 13. The Prophet from the Angel intending by dayes yeares and counting the years after the use of the Chaldeans and not of the Hebrewes between whom in three years and a halfe there was as it seemeth thirty dayes difference And so if Daniel was to goe his way and rest till the and bee and that he shall stand up in the lot at the end of the dayes then must the end of necessity be at the end of the dayes But Daniel was to goe his way till the end should be and was to rest and stand in the lot at the end of the dayes therefore the end of the dayes must needs be the end even the end of the world And now therefore if the time between the end of those dayes of Antichrists reigne and the end of the world will indeed for certain be so short as those Scriptures declare then where will there be time or place for that glorious thousand yeares Monarch of Saints which so many learned Ministers and zealous people at this day look for and hold as an Article of their faith to bee here in this present world before the end thereof Surely neither the Prophets nor Christ nor any of his Apostles doe admit of such a thing Those people and Ministers whatsoever they are for zeale and learning they are herein utterly deceived misunderstanding the Scriptures which speak indeed of a glorious Kingdome and many great and excellent things the Saints shall receive and possesse not for the limited time of a thousand yeares in this corrupt world but for ever and ever a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand yeares even for eternity in the uncorrupt world to come which world and kingdome shall have no end as the Scriptures declare Esay 9.7 Esay 45.14 15 16 Dan. 7.14.25 Luk. 1.32 33. and sundry other places Those Ministers and people therefore which look for such a millenary Monarchical kingdom in this world may do well to renounce that Atticle of their faith as they call it in meeknes and humblenes of heart seek and desire of God to give them his holy Spirit of truth whereby to understand with comfort his word of truth The things that are to be between the end of Antichrists reigne and the end of the world are by Christ himselfe foreshewed in these words Matth. 24. Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes shall the Sunne be darkned and the Moone shall not give her light and the Starres shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall bee shaken c. Where the Lord intendeth by the Sunne the word of his truth the Gospel of salvation which had been darkned by Antichrist and should now toward the end of his dayes break forth and shine again to discover his abominations and for the saving of Gods elect which the Lord also intended before ver 22. in these words But for the elect sake those dayes shall be shortned And implying also that it should shine yet more brightly after the end of Antichrist and that the greatest part of the time of 45 yeares intended by the word quickly and the word immediatly shall be for the prosperous proceeding of the Gospel and full accomplishing of all Gods elect And as the Sunne thus shineth so shall the Moon that is to say the earth and the inhabitants thereof whose light doth depend upon the light of the Gospel as the light of the Moon doth on the light of the Sunne she shall now give her light according also as a holy one in another place saith The Sun shall suddenly shine again in the night and the Moon three times in the day c. And the Starres of God shall appeare in heaven God will raise up in his Church true and faithfull Shepheards that shall as starres in heaven hold forth the light and truth of his two Testaments to the word and so the powers of the heavens spirituall will bee in their heavenly way and order again All these things are plainly implied in the words of Christ else how can the Sunne be said to be darkned and the Moon to lose her light and the Starres to fall from heaven c. immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes of Antichrist if they did not and should not shine forth and give their light some time before the end of those dayes and also after more especially therefore all these things must be And the true Church of Christ which had been troden under foot and caused to hide her face as it were in the wildernesse so long shall come forth and bee seene neer like as she was once in her primitive state clothed with the Sunne even Jesus Christ and his righteousnesse and having the Moon that is all earthly and corruptible things under her feet as disregarded her conversation and affections being farre above them all in heaven where her Lord is and from whence shee looketh for him to come and bring all those his rewards with him that hee hath promised And having also on her head a Crown of twelve starres the true and sound doctrine of the Lambs twelve Apostles and of the holy Prophets walking in the light and truth thereof according as they walked with true love toward God and also toward men And so be as once she was in these spirituall heavenly respects truely visible like a Citie set upon a hill that cannot be hid and as a Candle in a Candlestick which giveth light to all in the house her faith shining again throughout the world And when shee shall bee in this estate like as at the first when she was travelling with child to bring forth her first fruits unto God and to the Lamb the Dragon stood before her to devoure her child and persecute the woman into the wildernesse as Rev. 12. So now when she shall be travelling with child again ready to bring forth her last fruits unto God and to Christ then the Dragon that old Serpent being loosed out of his prison where he had been bound so many hundred yeares shall goe out to deceive the Nations that are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and Magog and gather them together and compasse the camp of the Saints about and this the beloved Citie till fire descend from God out of heaven and devoure them as it is written Ezek. 38. and 39. Rev. 16.21 Rev. 20.9 For as the time of the Churches fairest beauty was but short before the Dragon so cruelly used her so shall

THE TWO OLIVE TREES OR The Lords two Anointed ones which alwayes stand before Him the Ruler of the whole Earth Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names Of Two Witnesses Two Olive Trees Two Candlesticks Two Prophets And shewing What they are in their owne true nature differing from all the new fancied ones and in what manner they alwayes prophesie How they are said to finish their testimony How they were to be killed by the Beast and when How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great Citie dead and unburied And when the Spirit of life from God should enter into them and they stand upon their feet again And what great things should follow after the same to the end and thence for ever Published according to Order LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons 1645. To the Christian Reader ALthough there are many opinions at this day on foot concerning the two Witnesses of God described in Zach. 4. by the names of two Olive Trees and the two anointed ones which stand before the Ruler of the earth as also by the names of two Candlestickes and two Prophets Rev. 11. and much questionings and doubts made about them who and what they should be c. And that therefore I may seem too bold especially among men so learned and wise and in so great and difficult a cause as this is to speak or publish what I have heard or may seem to understand yet seeing things to be as they are I suppose I may with leave venture to doe it I confesse the matter hath already long before this time very truly been unfolded by some whose shooes I am not worthy to beare if we could see it but that wee are so naturally blind concerning the truth and given to seek out new inventions of our own and such as may seeme best to suit with the present times and affections of the people and withall serve to make for our temporall advantages which we are to repent of as being very great evils That which I shall doe herein is onely this to expresse some things a little more plainly to the plainer sort of Christians like my selfe to remove some objections and cleare some doubts After which I hope it will not remain to the meek humble in heart a matter altogether so obscure and unknowne what the two Olive Trees the Lords two Witnesses his anointed ones are in their own true nature differing from all the new invented ones which some would have us to entertain for them or besides them I request the Christian Reader therefore to excuse my boldnesse herein seeing it is his good that I seek as well as my owne desiring that we may all escape the errors and evils of the times and be led by the Spirit of truth into all truth and so Walke in the same to the praise of God and our owne salvation which is now neere at hand to be revealed So I rest His Christan friend I. E. Imprimatur Iohn Downam THE TWO OLIVE TREES OR The Lords two anointed Ones Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names Of Two Witnesses Two Olive Trees Two Candlesticks Two Prophets REV. 11. vers 1. And there was given me a Reed like unto a Rod and the Angel that stood by me said Rise and measure the Temple of God and the Altar and them that worship therein BEfore the Lord begins to describe his two Witnesses 〈◊〉 requireth his servant Iohn to take a survey of his Church of Saints the spirituall house of God consisting of living stones built on the chiefe Corner Stone Jesus Christ they being the holy Priesthood who offer up spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God by him which hee signifieth by the Temple of Jerusalem and the Altar of Incense that was in the same whereinto the Priests onely might enter through the vaile to sacrifice and adore These onely are they that the Lord will have to bee measured and taken notice of as being his part and portion his Tabernacle wherein he will dwell Vers 2. But the Court which is without the Temple cast out and measure not for it is given to the Gentiles and the holy Citie shall they tread under foot fourty and two months BY the outer Court of the Temple which John is bidden to cast out and not measure wee are to understand the common outward unregenerate Christians who especially after the dispersion of the true Spouse of Christ from her primitive viblsie estate should become many in number and attaine to great authority and power in the outward state of the Church and take upon them and assume unto themselves as if they were the very true Church and Spouse of Christ These who notwithstanding all this their outward profession and taking much upon them are but Gentiles in heart full of all uncleannesse and abominations resembled here by the outward Court of the Temple where the Brazen Altar was and whereinto all the people of Israel might enter and sacrifice are they whom the Lord commandeth to be cast out and forbiddeth to be measured or accounted of as being any part of his portion or inheritance And whereas these Gentiles are said to tread the holy Citie under foot fourty and two months is foreshewed that they should persecute kill and keep downe out of sight the true Spouse and her children who are here described by the name of the holy Citie because they are the Tabernacle and Sanctuary of God wherein hee will dwell for ever And that this they were to doe for the space of fourty and two months which are to be understood months of yeares taking every day of each month for a yeare according to Ezek. 4.6 Vers 3. And I will give to my two witnesses and they stall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth BY which words the Lord by his Angel gives to his servant Iohn and unto all his Church of Saints to understand that although those Gentiles unto whom the outward Court was to bee given should tread the holy City of Saints under foot so long as fourty and two months of yeares yet neverthelesse hee would so give unto his two Witnesses that they should prophesie all the while even every one of the dayes of those months which according to the account of the Hebrewes who had thirty dayes to every month and twelve months to every yeare do contain according as the Lord doth here also intend it a thousand two hundred and threescore years And sheweth also that their manner of prophesying should be as cloathed in Sack-cloth that is to say in mourning for so in the same kinde of habit they always prophesied although it would be now much more abundant by reason of the abundant cruelties of their enemies who should for their word and testimony sake persecute those that in the evidence of the Spirit and the teares of true repentance faith and patience testified the same against their Gentilisme hypocrisie and

her beforehand that then especially when the time of trouble which he also foretold her of should come shee should betake herselfe unto them as he also saith When yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the holy place who so readeth let him understand then let them which be in Iudea flic into the mountains c. Matth. 24. For this was the very time of the great persecution raised by the Dragon against that admirable woman in her most excellent primitive estate described in Rev. 12.1 whereby she was necessitated to flie into the Wildernesse to her place which God had provided for her to take some breath and live She was now to read and understand the written words of his two Testaments and to betake her selfe to them and flie they being the two wings of the great Eagle even the Lord himselfe who gave them unto her to that end and that she might be also nourished by them in that secret desart for a time and times and half a time that is to say three yeares and a halfe of yeares from the presence of the Serpent as verse 14. compared with verse 6. where these three times and a halfe are decribed by 1260 dayes and are to be understood for so many yeares it being also the full time of the reigne of the Beast which was to rise after the Dragons fall For St. Iohn as it seemeth wrote this book of the Revelation at the same time when all the Westerne Churches were by the persecution of Nero and the rest of those cruell Pagan Emperours dispersed and they of Iudea also Iohn himselfe being now for the word of God and witnesse of Iesus Christ in the Isle of Pathmos onely the seven Churches of Asia remaining in their places undispersed and that this was the reason why Iohn speaks not a word of any Churchelse of any place besides those seven of Asia unto whom he was appointed to send the book when he had written it And although notwithstanding that great persecution against all Christians in generall then under the Romane power the name of Christ and profession of Christian Religion increased so that in short time it came to be very generally entertained yet did the true Church herselfe being in respect of her Seed dispersed amongst them never recover her first and primitive estate againe but all things grew worse and worse untill the Beast rose who brought the mystery of iniquity to perfection and set up the abomination of desolation to the full which the Dragon had begun in Ierusalem and Temple thereof to stand where it ought not even in the Temple of the Christian Gentiles the seven Churches of Asia being now also by the Easterne Empire subdued to the Beast and brought under the supremacie and power of his Church of Rome and so they wrought and brought to passe by degrees that the eminent light and beauty of the truly modest and chast virgin Spouse of Christ might no more be seen till the fourty and two months of the Beasts reigne should be expired Therefore as Christ said Matth. 24. Who so readeth let him understand c. So again Rev. 1. Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of the prophesie of this booke and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand verse 3. Verse 5. And if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies and if any man will hurt them so must he be slaine HEre the Lord doth further declare by his Angell what his two Witnesses are in their owne true nature and power in saying If any man will hurt them fire shall proceed out of their mouth c. That is to say if any man shall resist their words and testimony or seem to stop their proceeding and pervert the straight way of the Lord which they declare as the Scribes and Pharisees and those false teachers in Antioch and them of Galatia Elymas the Sorcerer and many other more in the Apostles dayes did or shall wrest their words from their true intention to some other false and evill ends and so turn their prophesie and testimony out of the way to maintaine their blasphemous opinions abominations and lies under pretence of truth as Arius and his followers did and the Beast and his Clergie have done a long time and as many others doe now amongst us at this day to maintain their sundry erroneous and corrupt opinions which they have taken up contrary to the intent and meaning of the Spirit of God in these his two Testaments Look what judgements they have pronounced against such shall surely first or last fall upon them the fire of Gods justice and wrath which proceedeth out of their mouth shall certainly devoure them And let no man marvell at this that they being two are described to have both but one mouth for although they bee two in number and are truly distinct and differing one from the other the one being the Law of sinne and of death so called by reason of us who are all guilty of the breach thereof and so of death which is said to come by Moses the other being the Law of the Spirit of life of grace and truth and is said to come by Jesus Christ yet doe they not speak or will things contrary one to the other but doe truly agree and speake as with one mouth that which is holy and just gracious and true Therefore if any man will hurt them so must he be slain If any man shall make and love to make lies against them or of them and say they speak that which they speak not or mean that which they mean not If any man shall adde to or take from the words of their prophesie see then what their sentence is even in the very finishing of their testimony If he shall adde God shall then adde unto him the plagues that are written in this booke If he shall diminish or take from God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy Citie and from the things that are written in this book Rev. 22.18 19. Blessed therefore are they that doe his commandements that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the Citie for without shall be Dogges and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie Verse 6. These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the dayes of their prophesie and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues so often as they will THat these two Witnesses have power for to doe all these things I suppose no man will deny because it is without question true And that whatsoever they have prophesied against any Kingdome Monarch Nation State Citie People for their wickednesse against

famously published and made known and by such plain demonstration of the Spirit and power of God as that no power of wickednesse whatsoever shall any longer bee able to stop or hinder the glorious course and prosperous proceeding therof but that as one well observeth from the words And I heard a lowd voyce from heaven saying Come up hither it should be more possible for them to stay Elias Chariot from ascending or to pull the wind back from pursuing his poynt then to resist the power and wisdome of the same which shall vindicate the abuse of the Scriptures and by the same Spirit and power of God in the ministery of his faithfull servants as in the strength of cloud shall hold them up and restore them to their spirituall and heavenly meaning again And so as the beast with his false Prophets Sorcerers and liers which have been their long and ancient enemies shall see the glory of their restauration and wonder thereat and die for so much doe the words imply in saying And they went up to heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw them Ver. 13. And in that houre there was made a great earthquake and the tenth part of the Citie fell and there were slain in the earthquake names of men seven thousand and the rest were east into a feare and gave glory to the God of heaven ANd in the same houre saith the Spirit of God there was made a great earthquake As much as to say In the same very time when it should please God to begin his work of raising up and restoring his two Witnesses to life and strength again as before is declared there should be made a great disturbance in the Christian world where the Beast should reigne concerning matters of religion And that a tenth part of the Citie that is of the same Christian world or State where the Beast is worshipped should fall from the Beast And that in this great earthquake and disturbance and fall of the tenth part of the Citie there should bee slain many thousand men signified here by names of men seven thousand for standing up to maintain the true doctrine of Gods two Testaments against the Beast and his abominations and lies and because they would not worship him nor his image any longer And that the rest meaning those that were in their consciences reproved and in their minds enlightned by the evident light of the truth so witnessed were cast into a feare c. that is into a reverend feare and admiration and gave glory to the God of heaven praised his name and used all meanes both by word and deed to establish and support the same doctrine of truth that it might bee yet more publickly knowne to the world The words implying that among these rest so enlightned which gave glory to the God of heaven some were Princes and Rulers of the people and Nations who had civill power also to promote this great worke and made use thereof accordingly And the houre or time in the which this great earthquake should be made and worke of reformation begin was as it must needs be understood and acknowledged that very time when those great troubles broyles and bloodsheddings were in Bohemia Germany France Flanders others parts as also in England for and concerning the institution of religion whereof histories doe so clearly report Whereupon as we have seen and doe see by experience sundry Kingdomes and States of Christendome a tenth part at least that were under the power and subjection of the Beast have fallen from him and forsaken his abominations and have set their helping hands to the building of the walls of Jerusalem and to restore the morning and evening Sacrifice of praise and thankesgiving to God in some part and measure answerable to that which was once in the former time and in the dayes of old And so it is true a tenth part of the Citie fell and is fallen For we are to understand that although the resurrection of the two Witnesses or restitution of the true meaning of the Scriptures is not yet perfected nor so known and understood in every part and published as God will have it to be in this last age of the world nor the woman his true Church come fully forth of the the Wildernesse nor shall till after the three dayes and a halfe of the beasts reigne mentioned in verse 11. yet the beginning of both was to be before and their light and brightnesse have increased ever since to this day and shall yet still more and more daily even as Antichrist and his Church with her abominations consucmeth daily For like as the beast and his Church with that mystery of iniquitie came not to perfection at once but by degrees according as they could and did by degrees put out the light of the Scriptures and extinguish the beauty and face of the true Church of Christ the life of the one depending as it were upon the death of the other So on the contrary part it is and shall be now the Lord Jesus Christ with the Spirit of his mouth is to consume the beast by degrees his two Witnesses are to stand upon their feet and his Church is to appeare out of the wildernesse in part and measure sometime before the end of the beast that they may by the truth of their testimony discover him and his abominations openly to the world that so those ten hornes or Kings and Kingdomes which formerly gave themselves and their power unto the beast might by degrees also some after other fall from him and come to hate the whore with her filthinesses to devour her flesh by the Sword and burn her with fire according to the word of the Lord Rev. 17.6 And that also for Gods elect sake those daies in respect of the evils and great tribulation of them might now even while the beast yet remaineth in his throne be shortned according as Christ foretold Matth. 24. Therefore let not now any of Gods chosen be dismayed at any thing they shall heare of or see though in their present apprehensions never so contrary but let them know there can nothing prevent God of his purpose nor hinder or put by the fulfilling of any part of his word what hee hath spoken shall stand let the beast and all the powers of wickednesse in the world with him do what they can the truth shall certainly prosper and the beast with all his power the Dragon bestowed upon him of what kind soever shall prevail no longer For who art thou O great mountain Babel the perfection and full accomplishment of all the former Babels and mountains of confusion that have been in the world And what art thou before him that fitteth on the white horse whose name is called The Word of God He with the sharp sword that proceedeth out of his mouth shall not only go on to consume thee even to the last hour of thy dayes determined but shall also take