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A08783	Romes ruin or A treatise of the certaine destruction of Rome and of Antichrist before the ende of the world Wherein is cleerely manifested out of the Holy Scriptures, conferred with the historie of the Papacie, that he hath but a short time. A worke published to strengthen the faith of such as suffer vnder him. By I.P.	I. P., fl. 1629.	1629 (1629)	STC 19072; ESTC S120095	48,692	57

fond presumption that the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile against that Church or Citie to roote it out after theese things wee see the Beast suruiuing and after the pouring out of the sixth viall the Beast sendeth to gather the Kings Reu. 18.9 and they are gathered but when the Citie should be burned they stand afarre off for feare of her torment lamenting her ruin therefore they are not then gathered when the Citie is beseiged but afterwards Chap. 19. when they are gathered together with the Beast to make warre with him that sate on the horse and against his armie Then they doe not stand afarre off but are gathered together and slaine and the fowles are filled with theire flesh This battaile therefore it seemes is after the racing of Babylon and therefore I thinke that no man can giue any probable reason why Rome should not expire within lesse then 10. yeares from this present yeare 1629. saue this only that as yet he seeth not those Kings in armes and sincerely endeauoring to doe it that should burne her Here also hath beene some mistaking aboute the hornes that shall destroy her which some thinke to be tenne succeeding Emperours and they take Charles the 5. to be the first of theese But besides other good reasons that might be alleadged to the contrarie the present Emperours zeale to maintaine the Popish cause sheweth this to be absurd Much better therefore doe they expound who take theese hornes to be all Christians Kings free Princes and States and that a certaine number is put for an vncertaine For indeede this Beast hath vpon his tenne hornes tenne feuerall Crownes not one Crowne but tenne to shew that they are so many or at least a number of heads of seuerall Kingdoms and States whereas the other Beast Reu. 12. which is the Ethnick Romane Empire though it hath seauen Crownes on the seauen heads to shew that those were seauen seuerall succeeding formes of gouernment of which the Emperours were one yet that beast hath not tenne crownes one his hornes because those tenne hornes were the tenne persecutors all Emperours or Kings of one Kingdom haueing but one Crowne as the hornes of the Beast in Daniel also were Dan. 7.22 of which Antiochus Epiphanes was the litle horne Which things if they be well marked proue that the hornes of the Popish beast were not at first 10. succeeding Emperours who raised Romes Pope to his glorie that the hornes that shall hate and burne her are not 10. succeeding Emperours but diuers Kings free Princes and States that shall at one and the same time doe it Neither let any man thinke that Rome can not be shortly destroyed because many Kings free Princes and States are yet obedient to the Pope and Church of Rome For noe man can proue that all the hornes of the Beast shall hate the whore or that all Christian Kings shall fight against her yea it is in a manner certaine that some of them shall continue with the Beast whore till the ende of the warre For whē she should be burned wee see some Kings standing afarre off and weeping ouer her although they doe not help her for seare of her tormēt as also that after this the Beast gathereth hath diuers Kings on his side when he is taken destroied theese without doubt are his freinds and helpers and by consequence may be some of the hornes therefore though noe other King or Kingdō should be conuerted yet Rome may be destroied by those vvho already hate her Neither should the Saints feare the rest seeing the Scriptures shevv that they shall stand afarre of for feare and not helpe her Which doe not thinke to be vvritten as if I said that no other Kinge State or Kingdom shall be conuerted and soe brought to fight against her but only those vvho are already Protestants For though God doe commonly for his greater glorie performe greate vvorkes by small meanes and ouerthrovv the greatest enemies by a smaller povver then they themselues are and that to some such ende he hath seemed to take away from the Protestant power as he did from Gedeons armie to shew what he cā doe by a few whē our strength seemes to be brought to a low ebbe and that it is therefore likely that he will also doe so in this destruction of Rome and Antichrist yea though now for theese many yeares noe King State or whole Nation haue yealded to be conuerted by the Word and that therfore there is small hope of any vnles peraduenture of Venice seeing they haue so longe withstood the Word yet it may please God to make any yea that one of the Kings that shall doe this may be the Emperour then liueing and that one of them may be the Angell of the throne yet to say for certaine that he or other Kings and States shall be conuerted and shall ioyne therein or that this or that Prince shall doe this thinge sauours to much of presumption seeing the Scriptures doe not name the perticular Kingdoms nor any perticular man as of old Iosias in a like case 1. King 13. therfore till theire owne inclinatiō or the euent shew this thinge noe mā can say this Prince is that fift Angell that other he that standeth in the Sunne viz. in the light and confidence of the Truth There haue beene some other mistakings which some haue caused by applying those things of Daniel chap. 2.43.44 chap. 7.8.9 c. and espetially chap. 11.36 to the ende and chap. 12. to the times of Antichrist or of the Turkish Empire those that should suffer vnder them which indeede as * M. Broughton and Doc. Willet on Daniel others proue doe note out the times of Antiochus Epiphanes those that followed soone after him whose acts and times as in a manner all confesse are described chap. 11. ver 21. to 36. and indeede the Prophesie of the things that he should doe is certainly continued there as may thus be proued I. The Angell had there told Daniel of the miseries which the Iewes should suffer vnder Antiochus Epiphanes Dan. 10.14 chap. 11.31 chap. 12.6 who should take away the daily Sacrifice and set vp the abhomination c. And question is made saying How longe shall it be to the ende of theese wonders thē the time when all theese things should be fulfilled is expressed chap. 12.11 ver 11. From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abhomination set vp the dayes are summed to 1290. that is three yeares 7. monethes aboute 13. dayes therefore theese things could belonge to noe other time much lesse to a time soe farre off as that of the Pope or Turke II. The word Hamelech chap. 11.36 this Kinge hath reference to the former Historie and the article ha is a note of demonstration pointing out the Kinge before spoken of Neither is there any likelihood that the Angel chap. 10.14 who

it rather yelding to suffer then to receiue the marke of the Beast as chap. 14. c chap. 14.12 Here is the patience of the Saints here are they that keepe the commandements of God and the faith of Iesus But if ye ô Princes and States in whose power it is to helpe theese afflicted ones be true Protestants and Seruants of Christ thinke the Lord doth as it were aske you whether they that thus afflict Gods Seruants be of Christs armie or noe ye will answer they are not but rather of Antichrists armie haueing the marke of the Beast in theire right hand and bearing armes against Christ then by consequence they who sincerly resist if they be not subiects to the Tirants but free are of Christs armie and Christ is with them and without doubt all men of ripe yeares if it be in theire power to be of either are of one of theese armies there is no meane betweene for Christ saith He that is not with me is against me And that will such finde in the day of the Lord when he d Reu. 22. shall come to giue euery man as his worke shall be In the meane while whether or no cā wee say that wee loue our Christian Brethren yea or God himselfe yet wee say e 1. Ioh. 4.19 wee loue him because he first loued vs. But S. Iohn saith f chap. 3.16 Hereby perceiue wee the loue of God because he laide downe his life for vs and wee ought to lay downe our liues for the brethren See what Abraham did g Gen. 14.14 when he heard that his brother was taken captiue he armed his trained Seruants brought again his brother Lot and his goods the women also and the people h Gal. 3.29 And if ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seede i Ioh. 8.38 If ye were Abrahams children ye would doe the workes of Abraham Iehoshaphat likewise k 2. King 3.7 helped Israel against the Moabits Religion the professours thereof were in danger wherefore he saide vnto Iehoram l 2. Chro. 16.9 I will goe vp I am as thou art my people as thy people my horses as thy horses He trusted in God and he prospered therin For the eyes of the Lord runne to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himselfe stronge in the behalfe of them whose heart is perfit towards him They that cease to trust in him and rather rely on the helpe and alliance of his enemies them he forsakes as wee see in Asa who relyed on the Kinge of Syria But Iehoshaphat helped his brethren as Abraham did He thought it not enough to say I am a Prince of peace if I may haue peace with the enemies why should I hazard my owne to helpe others it stands not with pollecie For if such excuses would haue serued m Iudg. 5.23 the inhabitants of Meroz could haue saide much for themselues as that they loued peace abhorred the sheeding of blood and sought theire owne safety But if the enemy knowing they will not fight be therefore the more emboldened to destroy theire brethren first that they may afterwards destroy them then this wilfull peace is rather merciles crueltie to theire brethren and to themselues then true charitie to any For enemies haue most desire to fight with them whome they perceiue to be faint hearted as assured that they shall thereby preuaile Therefore such polecie is rather extreame folly than true vvisdom because God loues not but forsakes them vvho forsake him or theire brethren n vers 9. My heart is towards the Gouernours of Israel that offered thēselues willingly amonge the people o vers 18. Zebulun and Nephtali were a people that ieoparded theire liues vnto the death in the high places of the field viz. to helpe the Lord and theire brethren and were therefore blessed Meroz did not soe and was therefore p vers 23. Cursed as guiltie of blood that might haue beene spilt and as one not regarding the crie of the afflicted But God q psa 9.12 when he maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth them he forgetteth not the crie of the afflicted Will not he then finde such as neglect them guiltie for as a famous Diuine saith r B. Hall Contemp. the Rescue of Gibeon Euen permission in those things wee may remedy makes vs no lesse actors then consent some men kill as much by looking on as others by smiting wee are guiltie of all the euill wee might haue hindred And indeede the holy Ghost saith ſ pro. 24.10.11.12 If thou faint in the day of aduersity thy strength is small If thou forbeare to deliuer them that are drawen vnto death and those that are readie to be slaine If thou saiest behold wee knew it not doth not he that pondereth in the heart consider it and he that keepeth thy soule doth he not know it and shall not he render vnto euery man according to his worke It therefore behooueth him to stirre who either regardeth his owne saluation or Gods protection Let them therefore who may giue helpe take heede while there is time espetially seeing the cause is common to all and not God and ciuill pollecie only but euen common sense teacheth this with the Poët Ecquid Ad te post paulò ventura pericula sentis Nam tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet Which saying is the more to be regarded because he that will may know that the Spanish Kinge who is called Catholick aimeth at the Catholick gouernment Howsoeuer what will he and they not doe for the Catholicke cause as they call it who are gouerned by the Pope Rome and the Iesuits and Preists or who haue the marke of the Beast and consequently are led by the deuill and his Agents Reu. 16. theese frogs and locusts are Spirits of deuils Are they not then as much to be trusted in any thinge they pretend as of old Antiochus Epiphanes the Syrian Kinge who came in peaceablie to the Subiects of another Kingdom and with gifts and flatteries wrought them t Dan. 11.26 to betray it namely Egypt of whome therefore it was saide * chap. 8.25 By peace he shall destroy many u chap. 11.23.24 After the leauge made with him he shall worke deceitefully for he shall come vp and shall become stronge with a small people He shall enter peaceablie and scatter amonge thē the pray and riches and he shall forecast his deuises against the stronge holds for a time viz. till he had corrupted the Egyptians raised factions amonge them and so prepared them to betray the Kingdom to the greate armie he intended to bringe and which he after * vers 25. brought also touching his craft to obtaine Iudea and ouerthrow religion there * ver 30. ●● He shall haue intelligence with them that forsake the holy couenant And such as doe wickedly against the couenant shall he corrupt by flatteries Wherein he and