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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86683	Lingua testium: wherein monarchy is proved, 1. To be jure divino. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 3. That monarchy is the absolute true government under the Gospel. 4. That immediately after extraordinary gifts in the Church ceased, God raised up a monarch for to defend the Church. 5. That Christian monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind. 7. England was the place whither the witnesses, (viz. godly magistracy and ministry) never drove by Antichrist. Where is proved, first, that there hath been a visible magistracy, (though in sackcloth,) these 1260. yeares in England. ... Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews, the fall of Antichrist, and the ruine of the Beast of the earth is at hand. Wherein you have the hard places of Mat. 24, and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard texts: ... / Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus, in the yeare of the Beasts of the earth's raign, 1651.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H327; Thomason E632_22; ESTC R202496	43,212	57

together with whatsoever the German Norman Burgundian Castalian and French atchievements with the intermarriage which eight hundred years had acquired incorporated and brought back into the old Royall Line Hence then I prove if Henry VII were the lawfull Successor of the British Kings then he was the lawfull Successor of Constantine King of England who conquered Rome and if Henry VII be the lawfull Successor of Constantine then those lawfully descended of Henry VII but this lawfull Family of the Stuarts are lawfully descended of Henry VII ergo The Stuarts are the lawfull Successors of Constantine the Great the first Christian Emperor of Rome there are very many other waies which to some seem clearer whereby to prove this truth If so know Oh Rome that the Lion of the North thy lawfull Emperor and true Christian Magistrate will suddainly arise to the utter confusion of that bloudy usurping Prelate which by his subtill treacheries hath caused the lawfull Magistrate the lawfull Emperor of Rome drove into this Wildernesse where in sackcloth the office hath continued having finished that prophetick testimony in the year 1648. to become a slain Witnesse for Christ the other office of the Ministery lying dead ever since but the three years and an half of their lying dead is almost expired and then the same Offices shall arise to the eternall ruine of the Pope and Popish Idolatry but no more of this in this place I hope some Antiquaries will be so truly Noble that they will plead a distressed Kings cause and clear this Title of his which is doubtlesse to them an easie thing and may procure them great renown in after Ages for my part I shall say no more of it in print unlesse I am challenged and then if no body will take up the Cudgells in the Quarrell I am resolved neque clipeum objicere neque causam deserere though indeed I have as much upon my weak arme as I am well able to beare well able to doe I say I professe my selfe as in the undertaking so in the defending of so great a cause as I have taken in hand utterly unable without the Divine hand to support me The reason why I have discoursed so much of Monarchy is because I am fully perswaded that the great Reformation to be wrought amongst Jewes and Gentiles shall be wrought by Monarches when God shall open the eyes of the Jewes to know assured that the Lord Jesus is their true and naturall Monarch according to the flesh and their naturall Priest that is by Birth-right as Melchisedech was then shall they look on him whom they have pierced and mourn over him they shall then be converted Now this conversion is designed in that Gospell Epistle written to the twelve Tribes called the Epistle to the Hebrewes As the knowledge of their true Monarch and Priest shall work wonderfull conversion amongst the Hebrews so the knowledge of a lawfull Magistracy and a lawfull Ministery shall work a wonderfull change at the same time amongst the Gentile Churches who are now overwhelmed with the cruell tyranny of the usurping Prelaticall power of Rome A lawfull Monarch rising shall be the instrument of a glorious Gospel-reformation of restoring the Witnesses and of the overturning of the Roman Empire in its pontifick Head Much of this opinion is that Dutch Divine in his Clavis Apocalyptica to whom Iohn Durie the Scotch man binds himself as in a Dutch duell where he falls to stick and snee with him for saith the Dutch Divine in pag. 89. A high Potentate amongst Evangelicall Professors shall arise and be exalted to the terror of the Papists and shall open again a free course to the Gospell and reestablish the exiled and oppressed Gospellers And Iohn Durie out of the sootie region of a dark intellect gives us this dark notion in p. 70. which he cals the Preface to this Dutchmans Book intending that the Reader should put on his black spectacles to read the Dutchmans white Booke withall I believe saith John Durie that we shall not have any great earthly Potentate at all ever to appear for the Lamb in this battell but that they shall joyn alwayes against the lamb-like nature of the Saints to oppose and destroy it How can two be more contrary I must leave them though I leave Iohn in the dark who participates more of the man of his countrey then of the nature of his Countrymen There are some questions that betray ignorance rather then discover wit as this say some How can it be said that in Henry 8. dayes when the Abbies were pulled down in Q. Elizabeths dayes when the Kingdom it flourished and Religion prospered and was countenanced and so in King Iames's time How can the Witnesses be said then to be in sackcloth In part we have answered to this elswhere but let such take this as one great part of the answer let them read diligently the history of our Nation since Henry the sevenths time and observe the counterworkings of the Pope against the Protestant Reformers and they will say they were in sackcloth I shall conclude this Preface with a short discourse of our former reformations not so much by way of information as premonition to him whom it concerns The objects of every reformation have either been civill 〈◊〉 ●●clesiastick matters A civill reformation hath respect either to the offices in the State or to the Laws in the State the office of State in the Head hath been unquestionable in all ages except in times of rebellion or usurpation and then not the office but the persons in the office have been aspersed and questioned In all which ungodly actions the Pope and the Popish Clergie alwayes had a hand Indeed the Popes have grapled with the supremacy of Kings and usurped a supremacy in this Kingdom over the Kings in Ecclesiastick affairs and in that respect their offices have been questioned but the Kings of England never yeelded up their right to the Pope but kept the supremacy of Church and State affairs in their own hands not only since the Norman line came in but in the time of the Saxon Kings as appears by many of their Lawes and Charters which respect the Clergie wherein the King as Head of the Church doth Ecclesiastica authoritate dispose of the Rites of the Church and the great Offices thereto belonging promoting some and debarring others whom they please from the office of Archbishop or Bishop This supremacy the Norman Kings kept which was mostly the ground of this quarrell betwixt the Kings of England and the Popes who were the cause of the English Kings wearing Sackcloth for the Popes never suffered them to live quietly but alwayes either raised their own subjects to rebell against them or foraigne Princes to invade them but most commonly the Pope sets the Religious Houses against the King for there the Pope kept the Band-dogs to werry Royalty when it opposed this supremacy The insolency strength and wealth of the Clergie caused

that he takes a grain of allowance that is a year over to his 1260. years Upon the same ground in this thing I shall follow him and comply with him though there is no necessity for it Others as Clavis Apocalyptica written by a German draw water from the same Springs quote the same texts as Dan. 12. and Rev. 11. and looking into History say that these texts of 1290. days and 1260. days are not fulfilled until 1655. so that these agree with the former in explication of the texts but not in application of the Histories to the text in which difference he that hath the clearest Histories to shew the time of Antichrists rising and the time of the Witnesses going into sackcloth as relating to the Gentile Church and likewise he that interprets that text Dan. 12. 11. most clearly and by history can clear it exactly and tell when the daily sacrifice was taken away and the abomination of desolation set up be doubtless will gaine the greatest credit from the judicious Reader In my jndgment learned Brightman on Dan. 12. 11. is most clear and rational and none do I find guess nearer the time in print of Antichrists visible appearance in the Church then Dr. Homes let me give the Devil his due But of the main point which is concerning the slaying the Witnesses at or neer the end or whether at or neer the end of Antichrists 1260. years Raign he speaks not a word which makes me think that his Sermon Octob. 8. 1650. was preached against the light of his own conscience For in the Revelations the Holy Ghost hath so linked Antichrists raign and the Witnesses slaying in the end of Antichrists raign that he that studies the one must necessarily take notice of the other and indeed he that can shew us the Witnesses slain may easily point at the end both of the Gospel-church afflictions and the Jewish States dissipation but here is the difficulty and here are the gross mistakes of men who studying application of history to the text more then the explication of the text it self have given most ridiculous ghesses to the great scandall of the Protestant My Antagonist speaks not one word to this text but the German Divine in his Clavis Apocaliptica p. 87. tells us that three years and a half before Antichrists raign is out the Witnesses shall be slain for saith he they both expire together both Antichrists raign and the Witnesses slaying and therefore he renders Rev. 11. 7. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in futuro simplici when they are about to finish so Cloverius and Mead reads the text In this I shall not much dissent from them yet I think they render it best who read it from the words as it most naturally drops into English and that is when they shall have finished their testimony for it will nothing at all clash with ver. 2. where they prophesie 1260. days in sackcloth for the finishing of their testimony doth not cause their prophecying to cease their suffering and their slaying is the gloriousest part of their sackcloth prophesie for then saith the Holy Ghost Here is their faith and here is their patience The finishing of their testimony is the joynt concurrence of the two Witnesses viz. the Magistracy and the Ministery in establishing the Doctrine and the Discipline of the Church of Christ against Antichrist the Beast of the Sea i. e. the Pope that keeps the Witnesses in sackcloth on the one hand and against the Beast of the Earth that slayes the Witnesses on the other hand now when was this testimony finished the sum of this testimony you shall find in the Covenant but when they finished this testimony I leave Christians to judge Whether when the Assembly of Divines had finished their work that of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church and when the Parliament ratified their work resolved to disband their Armies and bring home the King on honourable covenant-tearms and then the Beast of the Earth arose made war against them and drove them out of the house since which that Reformation hath lain dead Or whether it began then when the Magistracy were fully agreed to establish the Doctrine and the Discipline of the Church against Popery on one hand and Heresie on the other when the King gave his royal assent and the Parliament voted the Kings concessions to be a sufficient ground for the establishing the peace of the Church and State then the Beast ariseth and makes war against them and overcomes them and kills them how kills them Rev. 20. 5. makes answer beheads them saith Beza cuts them off with the Axe Now which of these times 't is is no easie thing to determin but the former act seems to me to be the time when they finished their testimony For then the Beast set up his Sword-power and then the Magistracy and Ministery finished their Church-work and immediatly after they had finished it this Beast of the bottomless put threw it down and then followed that abominable Vote of non-addresses to the King Now this fell out neer about October 164● as I remember if about that time then the Witnesses must ●●●e about May or June in the year 1651. or thereabouts for then his three years and an half is up but if we begin to account the Witnesses s●aying their finishing their Testimony and the Beasts of the bottomless pits raign not to begin unti●December 1648. when the King was slain and the Offices of the Two Houses slain and the Assembly scatterd for not subscribing to the Beasts mark then the witnesses will not rise untill June 1652. Now that these Witnesses are the Magistracy and the Ministery there is nothing so cleer as learned Woodcock on Rev. 11. makes it appear and several others besides the ferenity of the holy texts themselves which makes it most cleer This is most certain that the two Witnesses are two lawful Offices i. e. a lawful Magistracy and a lawful Ministery Now their Opposites who slay them are Usurpers in the State and Usurpers in the Church that is the Beast of the Earth and the Beast of the Sea with their followers now the Witnesses rising shall be these Usurpers confusion i. e. the ruine of the Pope and the Beast of the Earth with their seven thousand men of name so that the Battel shall be fought betwixt lawful Magistracy and lawful Ministery against Usurping Magistracy and Ministery but more of this in its place The greatest difference betwixt those that come near the time of their slaying is concerning the place where they must be slain Now there are many groundless conceits that we find in print about this place where they shall be slain I shall not repeat what others have said but indeavour to prove that the Witnesses must be slain in these three Islands of England Scotland and Ireland This I shall prove 1. From the Offices that are slain 2. From the person that slays them