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A81085	The little horns doom & dovvnfall or A scripture-prophesie of King James, and King Charles, and of this present Parliament, unfolded. Wherein it appeares, that the late tragedies that have bin acted upon the scene of these three nations: and particularly, the late Kings doom and death, was so long ago, as by Daniel pred-eclared [sic]. And what the issue of all will be, is also discovered; which followes in the second part. By M. Cary, a servant of Jesus Christ.	Cary, Mary.	1651 (1651)	Wing C737; Thomason E1274_1; ESTC R210569	159,322	385

away his Dominion and destroy him unto the end And what the issue of all this will be is discovered in the following verse but of that in its place But now it may bee some may slight this interpretation saying that it is not to be regarded seeing severall have given severall Interpretations of Scriptures and most of them have been besides the truth and so may this will they say But to those I have but this to say first that upon this account they may continually sleight all that shall bee said in opening the Scriptures though it be never so consonant unto the Truth and minde of the Spirit of God the Author of the Scriptures And so God with such sleight spirits will not have the glory of his pre-decreeing of the things he will have to come to passe many hundred yeeres after and of his exact bringing things to passe according to the counsels of his own will so many hundred yeeres before resolved upon And secondly they in so doing doe give lesse honour to God then the heathens did to their Devilish Oracles which would pretend to foreshew things to come and lesse then they doe to Astronomers who from the stars do pretend to foretell things whereas God oftentimes frustrateth the tokens of those lyars and maketh those diviners mad Isa 44. 25. and they cannot foreshew any thing infallibly though possibly from the stars they may give some uncertain hints of things but it is that which is proper to God alone infallibly to fore-tell things to come As appeares Isa 48. 3 4 5. and Isa 46. 9 10. and which hee doth from time to time do by his servants the Prophets and therefore what they have declared from God hath been done for our observation Rom. 15. 4 Psa 107. 43. Deut. 29. 29. Wherein we may see that what God hath done from age to age hath all along bin the fulfilling of his word of which we are to give him the glory And thirdly though some Interpreters have failed of truth which it may bee hath been the hardening of the hearts of some yet this will not be a sufficient discharge for any from their duty of observing these things that when the truth appeares God may have the glory But fourthly it is true things have often been ancertainely hit at by some men before they came to passe but these things are come to passe and all prophecies are best understood when they are fulfilled or neer to be fulfilled not but that oftentimes prophecies have been cleerely understood long beforehand by many precious Saints But fifthly this is certaine that when the very minde of God in Prophecies is unerringly laid open being cleerly and convincingly discovered to his Saints and servants that desire to pry into and observe these things according to their dutie that even then some will not receive them neither the wise of the world nor the wicked of the world as appeares Mat. 11 25. and Dan. 12. 10. But though the worldly-wise do not yet they that have wisdome from above shall have these things revealed to them and shall understand them as appeares in the same Scriptures for when truth is revealed the children of truth having one and the same spirit shall see it with the same eye and rejoyce with the same joy in seeing of it My Sheepe know my voice John 10. 27. They know that it is my voice and not anothers voice and indeed it is chiefly for their sakes who know his voice who have his spirit that all truths are revealed But all these are generall answers but for this particular Interpretation I have onely this to say That I do not pretend to be any more exempted from uncertainty then any other of the deare servants of God have been to whom God hath very often revealed his secrets though sometimes some things of their owne suppositions have slipt from them and therefore I shall not presse any to believe these things because I have said them unlesse they do therein hear the voice of Christ and his spirit setting them home upon them For this I know that truth is powerfull enough to to prevaile with Saints and for the truth of these things of which I have spoken or of whatever is laid down in the following discourse I leave them to the great God who hath put me upon the publishing of them to make them prevalent with as many as hee intends good unto by them And further this I must professe that it hath not been a few daies only or since the last Kings death onely that I have thus been made to understand this Scripture But I thus understood it for above nine yeeres ago and to this the Lord is witnesse and severall godly people whom I have made acquainted with it at severall times so that when the late King was in his height I declared my confidence that the Parliament should prevaile over him and at last destroy him But seeing as I have said that all Prophesies are best understood in the fulfilling of them the truth of these things will therefore doubtlesse now be the more prevailing with Saints But one word more and that is this That though it is true that usually Saints know the voice of Christ and are able to say certainly this is or this is not the voice of Christ I say though it be thus usually with them yet there are some cases in which they are uncertaine and some truths about which they can neither say that it is truth or that it is not truth And now if this be the case of any about these things I have spoken of I have onely this to say to them that though they cannot receive them presently yet let them beware how they sleight them and this I must tell them that if the Lord had not all along hitherto in the workes of his providence which in many particulars were very observable evidenced the truth hereof and if hee doe not demonstrate it more and more it might bee the more tollerable for them thus to sleight it but considering how wonderfully from day to day this is cleared and will be cleared Oh let them beware how they wilfully shut their eyes against the light of it for any private interest whatsoever lest in shutting their eyes against light they be shut up in Babylonian darknesse and consequently partake with Babylon both in her sins and in her plagues And now I should here proceed to the 27 verse but because it treateth of the glorious Kingdom which Jesus Christ shall have in the world and that being a subject which my spirit is drawn out to treat more largely and amply of it then any yet have done I shall therefore handle it in an intire book by it selfe closing up this discourse with those expressions of the Psalmist Psal 92. 5 6 7. O Lord how great are thy workes thy thoughts are very deep A bruitish man knoweth not neither doth a foole understand this when the wicked

THE LITTLE HORNS DOOM DOVVNFALL OR A Scripture-Prophesie OF King James and King Charles and of this present Parliament unfolded Wherein it appeares that the late Tragedies that have bin acted upon the Scene of these three Nations and particularly the late Kings doom and death was so long ago as by Daniel pred-eclared AND What the issue of all will be is also discovered which followes in the second Part. By M. Cary a servant of Jesus Christ AMOS 3. 7 8. Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the Prophets The Lion hath roared who will not feare the Lord God hath spoken who can but Prophesie London Printed for the Author and are to be sold at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1651. TO The Vertuous Heroicall and Honourable Ladies The Lady ELIZABETH CROMVVEL The Lady BRIDGET IRETON and The Lady MARGARET ROLE May it please your Ladiships BEing pressed in spirit to divulge this insuing discourse the maine scope whereof being to make this present age more sensible of the late past and present footsteps of God in the world in order to the setting up of the kingdom of our Lord Iesus and the making of all dominions to serve and obey him And observing how that among the many pious precious prudent and sage Matrons and holy women with which this Common-wealth is adorned as with so many precious jewels and choice gemmes which God having here and there placed in it doe set out the glory and lustre of the * This Nation so farre excels in glory and happinesse all other Nations because of of those numbers of precious Saints that are in it and for severall other respects As it made a Reverend * See Mr. Tho. Goodwins Sermon preached before the Parliament in Feb. 1645. which is in print and intituled The great Interest of States and Kingdomes Which in many other respects is worthy the serious view of the best saints Divine of this Nation thus to expresse himselfe concerning it That if wee had stood at Gods elbow when he bounded out the Nations and appointed the times and seasons that men should live in wee should not have known in what nation or kingdome or age wee should have chosen to have lived in rather then in this kingdom for whom God hath done such great things unlesse when Iesus Christ himselfe was alive and the Apostles in those primitive times unlesse in Iudea it self where all the Apostles were together Nation God hath selected and chosen out your Ladiships and placed you in some of the highest places of honour according to your present capacities in the three Nations wherein you have more then ordinary opportunities to honour him And observing withall how that as God hath placed you in the stations wherein you are so hee hath fitted you for them the tendency of your aimes studies and endeavours as it is well knowne being to the exaltation as far as lies in you of that great King of Saints the Lord Iesus whom you love in sincerity and for the setting up of whose glorious Kingdome in the perfection of it you longingly waite which frame of spirit in you hath not been of yesterday only but for many yeeres together hath shined conspicuously and gloriously in you all demonstrating to all Saints that indwelling presence of the holy spirit which is within you I have therefore chosen being of your own sex to dedicate these Treatises to your Ladiships whom I honour because God hath honoured and under your favourable aspects to publish them to the world being assured both First of your ingenuous and gracious acceptation hereof seeing that these treatises tend to the quickning and refreshing of the hearts of those which waite for and expect the comming and the kingdome of our Lord Iesus Christ Knowing that every thing of this nature from how weak an instrument soever it be so it bee with the plaine and cleer demonstrations of the holy Scripture and the holy spirit is very acceptable unto you who are in that waiting and expecting posture And also secondly of your owning and defending and maintaining all the truths which are therein laid down as far as they shall appear in the energie and evidence of the holy spirit unto you who have already so plenarily compared with many other Saints of these present times received of that spirit And now right honourable that as your God hath graciously loaded you both with internall and externall glory under which he keepes you in a sweet meek and humble frame which crownes all the favours which he hath conferred upon you so that you may more and more abound in every grace and blessing of the Lord enjoying yet more full spirituall and sweet communion and fellowship with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ through the spirit that as transplendent stars you may shine gloriously in the severall spheares wherein God hath set you or shall set you while in this world untill you are advanced unto that beatificke vision which is to bee injoyed among the glorified Saints and Angels with Iesus Christ in another world shall be the prayer of My Ladies Your Ladiships devoted unfeignedly to serve you in the Lord MARY RANDE To the READER Courteous Reader I Had written the first of these Treatises intituled The little Horns doom and downfall above seven yeeres since but have bin with-held from publishing of it untill now for ends best known unto divine Majesty but if may so guesse it may bee it was because that men would then generally have been more uncapable of receiving of such things then now they are because now these things are fulfilled and prophesies are then best understood when they are fulfilled But now am I so pressed to publish both this first Treatise and this other which I have but lately written upon this 27 verse of this seventh of Daniel * Having finished it but since the beginning of the moneth of August this present yeer 1651. as that I cannot I dare not with-hold neither of them from publike view any longer but by publishing of them in print I shall expose them to the publike view of all men as far as in me lies And having so done shall leave it to the eternall Jehovah to make it effectuall to those ends to which he hath appointed it which may bee First to convince those of their folly that persist in waies contradictory to or crossing of his present designes to the disturbing of their own soules though they cannot hinder his worke for who can let it for if hee do not convince them none can Or Secondly it may be to confirm others for there are some that are already so far inlightned in their understandings about the present proceedings of God in the world as they do in some competent measure already discerne the footsteps of God in these great present providences and doe discerne also what his designes are in

and thence until the THOUSAND yeers of Christs REIGN begin and of marvelous things therein and afterwards I had made a Collection from the Book of the Revelation and from Daniel and other Scriptures which was appointed to be printed before my Store-house of cases of Conscience was printed in 1650. but some reasons have hitherunto moved me to forbear the publishing thereof but those reasons appear to me now an insufficient ground to forbear longer having afresh considered that pregnant Motive from Rev. 1. 3. before recited and the sweetness of the precious things to come foretold herein as well as therein which should urge us not to be wanting to help others as far as in us is to the sweet and comfortable knowledge of the wonderful great things that our God is about to do for his people shortly as he himself saith Behold I come quickly or speedily Amen Even so COME LORD JESUS Saith the soul of his servant H. J. Reader IT may so be That thou art one of those who are willing to follow the Lamb whither soever he goeth and rejoycest in spirit that the King of Saints doth begin to be terrible to the Kings of the Earth Now if thou staggerest not through unbelief at those exceeding great and precious promises which are recorded in the Scriptures of Truth concerning the fifth kingdom thou shalt in due time behold with a mixture of joy and wonder those other grand Mutations and extraordinary Revolutions which are even at the door and ready to break in upon the Princes and upon the People of the whole earth Indeed many wise men after the flesh have been and now are much offended that a company of illiterate men and silly women should pretend to any skill in dark prophecies and to a foresight of future events which the most learned Rabbies and the most knowing Politicians have not presumed to hope for But after they who are thus offended have perused those Scriptures mentioned in the margint ' * Psal 119. 98 99. 100. they shall do well to observe the fruits of that Faith and fore-sight which dwelt in the hearts and in the minds of the old godly Nonconformists in Queen Elizabeths and King James his days there having been many hundreds of those silly and illiterate ones so called of whom it may be said at this day that they were wiser then their enemies wiser then their teachers wiser then the Ancients Psa 119. 98 99 100. where may be seen the proper reason of this their wisdom For are not those things come to pass which they foresaw and foretold concerning that fatal Catastrophe which hath now befallen the Prelates and their adherents whereas the generality of the Ministers and people of the Land had very little acquaintance with the minde of God in those particulars And surely that eminent instance of the Teachings of the Spirit and that full assurance of Faith bestowed upon those Saints which like Caleb and Joshua followed the Lord fully may suggest such a thought as this That there may be now in this juncture of time some neglected despised reproached Ones both men and women who clearly understand and perceive many precious truths concerning the golden Image the fourth Beast the seven Vials the seventh Trumpet the New Jerusalem the binding of Satan the pouring out of the Spirit the glorious advance of knowledge and Grace the universal Gospel-peace the power and dominion of the Saints c. which not onely the world generally but many of the Saints themselves look upon as well-composed Fables and as the Visions of their own hearts who are the teachers of them The ensuing Discourse treating of some of those things being a Gentlewomans thoughts put into form and order by her self was brought to me to peruse with this desire added That if I judged it meet I would prefix a few words to signifie my judgement concerning the usefulness thereof Two things there are which to me savor very well and I believe will take the hearts of divers Christians The one is the Collection and Collation of so many of those precious promises which concern the times yet to come and the presenting them to the Readers view in words at length and not in figures as the manner of many is The other is her vigilant care to insert here and there as occasion is offered such necessary cautions as tend to the wiping off of those unjust aspersions which Hierom and others would cast upon the Millenaries as they are called For in the Book thou wilt finde her pleading for the advance of holiness in the midst of all that happiness which is prepared for the Saints in that thousand yeers As for her thoughts concerning the little Horn thou wilt say when thou readest they are new and singular therefore be thou the more careful and if thou canst serve the Saints with a more probable Exposition and see the Apology in the 45 and 46 pages Many are running too and fro and knowledge is increasing Dan. 12. 4. But together therewith the Lord be pleased for the Lords sake to advance the power of godliness zeal for the truth and the delight of the Saints in Communion with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ and one with another Do thou Reader say Amen beleevingly with Thy servant for the Lords sake CHRISTOPHER FEAKE Errata PAge 1. l. 5 dele another p. 4. l. 14. for Monarchs r. Monarchies p. 5. l. 3. for Monarch r. Monarchy p. 72. l. 12. for a virgin 1. O virgin p. 75. l. 2 and 4. for Monarchs r. Monarchies ead for Monarch r. Monarchy p. 160. l. 11. for jot r. iota p. 161. l. 10. for wal r. walk p. 170. for of Gospel r. of the Gospel p. 184. l. 6. dele that p. 199. l. 16. for both Jews r. both of the Jews p. 213. l. 3. for then to be their r. then as to their p. 259. l. 7. for how shall Saints r. how Saints shall p. 282. l. 1. for and will r. and they will ead l. 21. for heart more r. heart will more p. 294. l. 2. for take r. execute p. 287. l. 1. for external r. eternal p. 138. l. antepenult for your r. you IMPRIMATUR Joseph Caryl THE LITTLE HORNES DOOM and DOVVNFALL Dan. 7. 24 25 26 27. And another another shall rise after them which shall be divers from the first and he shall subdue three Kings And he shall speak great words against the most high and think to change Times and Laws and they shall be given into his hand untill a time and times and the dividing of time But the Judgement shall fit and they shall take away his Dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the end And the Kingdom and Dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heaven shall be given unto the people of the Saints of the most High whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him THe Coherence of these verses

and their deliverance as he gives them to overcome him and his complices that thought to overcome them And in this worke hee hath thousand thousands ministring unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand standing before him hee hath all his Saints all men else and all his holy Angels at his beck to execute his will and doe his pleasure And as once the stars in their courses fought against Sisera so God in doing this great work for his Saints deliverance and making way for the setting up of the Kingdom of his beloved Sonne hath multitudes multitudes both of Celestiall and terrestiall creatures to attend him And certainly such great things could never have been done if the Ancient of daies had not most gloriously and wonderfully appeared for the help and support of his people How could they which are so few in number and in the eies of the world despised and despicable creatures have carried on that work so effectually as to have cut off the late King though it was verily beleeved and it is very probable there was at that very time twenty to one in this Nation of England that were against it had not the Lord assisted them with thousands of Angels and evidently manifested himselfe to bee with them Thus it is evident that by the appearing of the Ancient of daies mentioned in this Chapter is meant his appearing in his people in that spirit of judgement and justice that he gives unto them and his appearing for his people to own and defend and deliver them and to lay their enemies in the dust while hee raises them up and makes them sit in high places Secondly whereas I said that this position was likewise the sense of this verse together with those other verses which I compared with it viz. That a certain number of Saints should be convened together and have a spirit of judgement given unto them by the most High together with power and authority whereby they should take away the dominion of the little horn to consume and to destroy it unto the end I shall illustrate that thus In the 10 verse its said that thousands thousands ministred unto the Ancient of daies and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him the judgement was set and the bookes were opened and because of the voice of the great words which the Horn spake the Beast was slaine Here it is evident that the beast or horne was slaine by some that did sit in judgement before whom the books of his evill deeds were opened because of which his evill deeds and sayings he was adjudged to be slaine And at the 22 verse it is plainely declared who they were that did sit in judgement That they were not Angels but Saints the Saints of the most High for there it s said that the horne made war with the Saints and prevailed against them untill the Ancient of daies came and judgement was given to the Saints of the most high and then was his power taken off for then the time came that the Saints possessed the Kingdome And that those Saints that have judgement given to them and that are said to sit in judgement that they are the instruments by whom the beast was to be judged and slaine is further cleare in this 26 verse where it having been declared in the former verse how evilly the horne should deale with the Saints it s said But the judgement shall sit and THEY shall take away his Dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the end Thus it is also evidently the sense of these verses compared together that by the judgment sitting is meant a certaine number of Saints that by the wisdome providence and power of the most High were convened together and invested with power and authority and a Spirit of Judgement for this end to judge this little Horne and do justice upon him and to take away his Dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the end And this need not seem strange that the Saints should thus sit in judgement and do such things as these for do ye not know saies the Apostle 1 Cor. 6. 2. that the Saints shall judge the World And verse 3. Know ye not saies he that we shall judge Angels This being a known truth it is no wonder among those that know truth that God should put such power and authority and such a spirit of judgement upon Saints whereby they should be enabled to do these things And to this purpose that passage of the Psalmist is also very considerable Psa 149. 4 5 6 7 8. The Lord taketh pleasure in his people he will beautifie the meek with salvation Let the Saints be joyfull in glory let them sing aloud upon their beds Let the high praises of God be in their mouths and a two-edged sword in their hands to execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishment upon the people to bind their Kings with chaines and their Nobles with fetters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement written this honour have all his Saints praise yee the Lord. Now I say since it is certaine that the Saints shall one day judge not only the world but the wicked Angels the Devils also and it being most certaine that this Prophesie of the Psalmist wherein he speaks of a time when God will beautifie the meek of the earth with salvation and put his high praises in their mouths and a two edged sword into their hands to execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishment upon the people to bind their Kings and Nobles in Chaines and Fetters of Iron and to execute upon them the judgement written Marke it the judgement written these things being so it is no wonder that this written judgement should be thus executed upon this horne or King Thus it is cleare that a company of Saints convened together by the wise providence of the most high and invested with power and authority and a spirit of judgement were to do this work upon the horne And what particularly they are is by providence now made very conspicuous the things that are here spoken of being now in a great measure accomplished for all prophesies are best understood in the fulfilling of them Namely that they are those precious and gracious ones that by the wise and gracious disposall of the most high have been called to sit in Parliament and the high Court of Justice which they erected who have had a spirit of wisdome of judgement and faithfulnesse put upon them whereby they have acted faithfully and zealously for the glory of God and the peace and welfare of all their brethren I say it is the Parliament and those imployed by their Authority who have hazarded all that was deare unto them rather than to suffer the free people of this Kingdome and amongst them the Saints and people of God to be betrayed or given up to the power of those that would have ruled tyranically and cruelly over them But here let me not