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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

lies Vers 4. These are the two Olive Trees and the two Candlesticks standing in the presence of the Lord of the earth HEre the Lord now begins to declare unto his servant Iohn and so unto all the Saints what his two Witnesses are in their own true nature in saying These are the two Olive Trees and the two Candlesticks standing c. The two as if he had said the onely two and the very same two Olive branches the two anointed ones or Sonnes of oyle shewed before unto the Prophet Zechary which stood fructifying continually before the Ruler of the whole earth not onely in the Prophets time but also long before his dayes and since Zach. 4.14 for so much doe the words clearly imply shewing that they were not two new ones not yet sprung up but those that were of old the Lord referring us as it were to the testimony of the Prophet which we are further to consider of As first where he saith I have looked and behold a Candlesticke all of gold with a bole upon the top of it and his seven lamps thereon and seven pipes to the seven lamps which were upon the top thereof And two Olive Trees by it one upon the right side of the bole and the other upon the left side thereof vers 2.3 So the Prophet having seen these things desires to know what they were and the Angel answered him saying This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Who art thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become ●plain and he shall bring forth the head stone thereof with shouting crying Grace grace unto it vers 3.4 5 6 7. And the word of the Lord came again unto the Prophet saying The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house and his hands shall also finish it and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you For who hath despised the day of small things for they shall rejoyce and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven they are the eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth vers 8 9 10. Although the Prophet had seen and heard all these things yet was he not satisfied concerning the two Olive trees but questions again saying What be these two Olive trees upon the right side of the Candlestick and upon the left side thereof vers 11. And again What be these two Olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the oyle out of themselves into the gold ver 12. And the Angel answered him saying Knowest thou not what these be And he said No my Lord. Then said the Angel unto him These are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth Now the Prophet understood every thing and accordingly as they were declared unto him he writ them downe to the end that other Saints also might understand the same And yet for all this and notwithstanding all that Christ hath revealed and spoken by his Angell unto his servant Iohn and hee left written to us it remaines in doubt and is still a great question with many at this day what the two Witnesses the two Olive Trees are Some saying they are Enoch and Elias whom they will have to come Others say they are Zerubbabel and Iosua And some say they are other two men or more whom they will have to stand up in these times And others say they are the two Churches of the Iewes and Gentiles and the Ministers of both And others that they are the Ministers of the Gospel since Christ and some say the Magistracie and the Ministery And others the two Testaments and the Ministers And some say they are the two Testaments onely Now which of all these opinions is the truth that shall stand approved when all the rest shall vanish like smoake and come to nothing Surely not to make any further demurring the Two Witnesses are the Two Testaments of God without the adding or joyning men or Churches unto them in that respect For which of all those other may be said to empty the pure oyle and light of the righteousnesse and justice grace and truth of God out of themselves through their golden pipes into the golden Candlestick which is the Church of God but his two Testaments onely who have the same oyle in themselves naturally as the Olive trees have their oyle in themselves naturally It is true the Church having received into her seven Lamps of the pure oyle and light of these two Olive Trees and two Candlestickes as Christ also calleth them because they have light in themselves as well as oyle may through the sevenfold Spirit of Prophesie given her of God those seven eyes which Zechariah saw graven on the head Stone Zech. 3.9 and were with Zerubbabel Zech. 4.10 and are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth spoken of also Rev. 5.6 The Church I say having so received and being made partaker of these excellent graces and gifts may and doth by her Prophets prophesie and hold forth the light of Gods two Witnesses the two Olive Trees and two Candlestickes and testifie the same righteousnesse and justice grace and truth to the world in all parts and places where they come For which cause it is said of her O Jerusalem which bringest good tidings lift up thy voyce with strength O Sion that bringest good tidings c. And againe How beautifull upon the mountaines are the feet of those that bring good tidings of peace and good things unto us And St. Paul saith of that holy Citie that she is free and is the mother of all the children of God because she ministers the glad tidings of grace and peace unto them Although all this be true of the Church of God and that she is so neerly united unto his two Witnesses as that they cannot be divided nor parted asunder yet they may and must be distinguished so one from another as that the Church and her Prophets may not bee the Witnesses nor part of them nor the Witnesses the Church For it can no more be so then the woman mentioned Rev. 12. which had the two wings given her wherewith she might flie into the wildernes can be the two wings or the wings the woman though without them she could not flie nor be cloathed nor fed when she was in the wildernesse as the Text Rev. 14. implies the two wings being also the two Testaments which contain in them the word of the Lord wherewith she is in spirit cloathed and fed and they are but two not three nor foure nor more but onely two which God in those dayes gave unto her perfectly finished to be her guide and help every way upon all occasions and in all places wheresoever she removed or should bee dispersed And therefore Christ her Lord who was carefull of her advised

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

doe partake of according to the words of Christ Iohn 5. where hee saith The houre is comming and now is when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall live verse 25. And then afterward saith Marvell not at this for the houre is comming in the which all that are in the graves shall heare his voyes and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of damnation verse 28 29. Where the first resurrection which is spirituall of the soul and the second universall resurrection of the body are both of them plainly and distinctly described And the Apostle Paul to the Saints of the Church of Colossia saith And yee are compleat in him which is the head of all Principality and power in whom also yee are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ buried with him in Baptisme wherein also yee are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead And you being dead hath hee quickned together with him Col. 2.10 11 12 13. And Coloss 3. hee saith If yee bee risen with Christ seeke those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God vers 1. So Rev. 20. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witnesse of Iesus and for the word of God and which had not worshipped the Beast nor his Image nor had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years vers 4. And then saith This is the first resurrection Blessed and holy is be that hath part in the first Resurrection for on such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand years vers 5 6. Where the Lord also speaketh to living men and of them who having their part here in the first resurrection spirituall and suffering for the testimony of Christ and dying with him as Paul in another place saith For the rejoycing that I have in Christ Iesus I die daily And again For thy sake O Lord are wee slain all the day long and counted as sheep to the slaughter may herein be much comforted in respect of the promise that the second death shall have no power on them according to that in John 5. Hee that heareth my word and beleeveth in him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life vers 24. So here Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power but they shall bee Priests of God and of Christ and shall reigne with him a thousand years Whereby it is manifest the Lord speaketh to men living in the body and of them such as having their part here in this The first Resurrection for there can be but one first resurrection who although now during the time of the reigne of the great Antichrist especially which was to be a thousand yeares at least they as touching their bodies should for the word of God and witnesse of Jesus Christ bee beheaded slaine c. and for the hope fake in Christ die daily yet in the spirit as touching the soule live and reigne with Christ as Paul saith dying and behold we live c. 2 Cor. 6.9 Again for ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God Col. 3.4 And when the thousand yeares are expired and Satan loosed out of his prison to goe unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battell of the great day of God Almighty according to Rev. 16.14 and 20.8.9 Then the Lord comming in his glory all that are in the graves even every one small and great shall heare his voyce and shall come forth They that through the grace and power of the Spirit of God in the new birth and first resurrection have done good unto the resurrection of life eternall in respect of their body also united now to their soule they being found written in the book of life And they that have done evill those rest of the dead that had no part in the first resurrection spirituall from the death by sinne and so not beeing found written in the booke of life unto the resurection of condemnation in the lake of fire burning with brimstone which is the second death They now have a resurrection and live again though a miserable dying life body and soule for ever And that the first resurrection Rev. 20. cannot possibly bee meant of the bodies of any that are to rise from the dead as the Millenaries would have it wee may perceive plainly by the words of the Text verse 4. where John saith not And I saw the soules that were he headed as if that could bee neither doth he say And I saw the bodies that were beheaded and they lived c. But his words are And I saw the soules of them that were beheaded c. that is of those whose bodies were beheaded of which soules he saith And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years c. The soule can no more truly be said to rise from the dead with the body when it shall rise from the dead nor for the body then it can be said to be beheaded with it or for it For although in some other cases when bodies and soules are living together it may bee said as in Genesis 46. All the soules of the house of Iacob which came into Egypt were threescore and ten verse 27. in such like cases as this the soule being the principall part of man and the body living and moving together with it may rightly and truly bee named for both yet in other cases not so And to name the soule and say when a body is beheaded or dieth the soul is beheaded or dieth or when the body shall arise from the dead the soule riseth from the dead it is to say and speak a very untruth When the bodies of those Saints which slept arose from the dead at the time of Christs resurrection it is not said their Soules arose but their Bodies onely Matth. 27.52 And the graves were opened and the bodies of many Saints which slept arose and appeared unto many The soule cannot with any truth or sense of reasonable understanding bee named for the body nor for both in those cases Nay all the Millenarians in the world how learned or orthodoxall soever they are accounted are not able to prove this thing except they hold and can prove as some have been so bold of late to affirme and publish that the soule of man is mortall and dieth when the body dieth and so lieth dead in the grave with