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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35177	The summ of two sermons on the witnesses and the earthquake that accompanies their resurrection occasion'd from a late earthquake, Sept. 8 and preach'd on the fast following, Sept. 14 / by W.C., M.A. ...	Cross, Walter, M.A.	1692 (1692)	Wing C7264; ESTC R31339	35,336	46

limits to it but indefinitely about the end of the great Period and no other Comment than the Aspect of the Divine Providence which affords us several Arguments to judge it present at this Day 1. From the Universality of the Suffering of Protestants who are under the Roman Beasts Jurisdiction Some killed some fled some Apostatized some Absconded the Authority of some whole Nations and Provinces brought under in acknowledgment to the Papal Power and Profession of its Religion all this is visible in the Savoy and French Persecution in the prevailing of Popery in Poland and Hungary in a Popish Person being made Prince Palatine and another was King of Brittain and Ireland through all the Streets of this great City Babylon according to the degree of her Power has Persecution been meted out to Protestants 2. From the Bitterness and the grievousness of the Persecution Daniel says it shall be such a time of Trouble as never was since there was a Nation The Text represents it under the Emblem of Dead Carkasses lying in the Street and in the 14th Chap. 13th Verse Death is said to be a State preferrable to it It is not a State of Universal Temporal Death for Faith and Patience remains their Duty neither is a Resurrection so suddenly supposeable from that kind of Death nor could the Enemies bear the sight of so many Carkasses so long but an Universal Temporal Death of the Witnesses being excepted no bitterer Persecution can be expected than has been of late some in England and Scotland where only Drops of that Shower fell begged no greater Mercy at their Enemies Hands than the tolerable Death of a Malefactor but the Torments and Temptations of the Sufferers in France has filled Volumes and may more 3. From the apparent Death both upon the Cause and Hearts of Protestants some years ago they could taste an Earnest of that Prophesie of smiting the Earth with Plagues as often as they will but now they can work no Deliverance in the Earth formerly a Harmony of Confessions was an easie and pleasant work but now there is Breach upon Breach formerly there was a Spirit of Life in all kinds of Worship but now Deadness and Formality are Epidemical Distempers but when the Witnesses rise a Spirit of Life from God will enter into them and they shall be called up to Heaven 4. The present Consederate Armies seems to be a Comment on that mixture of Tongues Kindreds and Professions ver 9. that will not suffer these Dead to be Buried nor Publick Affairs to lye in this prostrate Condition under these Papal Feet and Toes a Person Dead and Unburied in the Eastern Mystical Style to which this Book is very Conform is a Symbol of a low and sickly but yet hopeful and recoverable Condition 5. From the apparent Decay of the Turkish Empire the sixth Trumpet and second Woe are evidently the same and it s generally agreed they do both represent the Turks Invasion of the Eastern Empire the Thirteenth Hundred Year of our Lord begins the Ottoman Aera and their Successful Invasion of the Roman Territories There is but then wanting four or five years to the passing away of the second Woe for the whole Period of the sixth Trumpet is but an Hour and a Day and a Month and a Year that is Three Hundred Ninety six years and the passing away of this VVoe ver 14. is immediately consequential to the rising of the Witnesses I do not enlarge upon periods of Time 1. Being not useful in Popular Sermons 2. Because a Piece of great Pains is to be Publish'd on them quickly The third Two are two States the State of the Witnesses before Death and after the Resurrection Christs Witnesses appear in this state like Joshua in filthy Garments but in the future with a fair Mitre on his Head and change of Raiment Zech. 3. They are here in Dust and Ashes hereafter in Heaven and Paradise here in Sackcloth there in Glory This Two admits of a subdivision into Four 1. The state of Sackcloth 2. The state of Death 3. The state of Resurrection to Life The 4. Of Ascension to Heaven All which I shall only explain by some Doctrinal Propositions The First state is contained in the third fourth fifth and sixth Verses from which I observe 1. V. 3 That what we obtain thorough the most visible influence of second Causes is yet Gods Gift Industry and Diligence are most necessary means of Knowledge and Utterance yet to Prophesie he gives Power 2. God doth not only fore-know but determine the Times of every State For 1260 years the terrible Beast with his Ten Horns Blasphemous Mouth and Train of Gentiles cannot stop their Mouth from Prophesying nor can they or all their Friends or their Interest in Heaven change their Raiment they shall Prophesie 1260 years and they shall Prophesie in Sackcloth Acts 17.26 He hath determined the Times before appointed 3. Prodigality in Protestants before the Resurrection is an Hainous Crime 1. It is an attempt against Providence God says ye shall not get out of a Sackcloth condition but you will try it if by any means Money can be had therefore God looses the Beasts Chain to Rob them of it as a Priest told a French Lady This Persecution is to Humble your Pride but the next Judgment will utterly ruin Us. 2. It is a shameless Breach of Divine Precept 1 Tim. 2.9 Modesty and Cheapness are the two measures for Furniture and Apparel 3. It is out of Fashion Unseasonable There are two Rules to know what is seasonable by the one from Heaven who makes all things Beautiful in their Season and appoints the Brides Ornaments and the Sufferers Sackcloth the Times to mourn and to rejoice The other from Hell Eph. 2.2 that is to follow the Course of the World and be like my Neighbours Now the time of the Worlds Rejoicing and Feasting is the time of the Saints Death and Suffering ver 8 9. And è contra the Saints take their Fashion and Figure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Gods Providential dealing with them When our Husband puts a Bill of Divorce in our Hands and our Father threatens to disinherit us VVhen the Spirit of the Lord has forsaken our Assemblies and the Ministration of the Gospel become a Savour of Death shall we be pleasant and merry and put on fine Attire when Antichrist prevails and the Interest of our Lord seems to lose ground Isa 5.12 and 22.12 VVhen the Lord calls to weeping and girding with Sackcloth shall we not regard the operation of his Hands 4. It is unsuitable to our Brethren in a Day of Affliction God leaves some rich to relieve them that are poor 1 Tim. 6.17 And to be rich in good Works But how many as the rich Corinthians 1 Cor. 11.2 rather shame them that have not than relieve them The Pomp and Splendor of some Men in their Stately Palaces vast Revenues Epicurean Tables Lordly Trains and Attendants without