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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

shall bee a thousand two hundred and ninety dayes Blessed is he that wayteth and commeth to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty dayes adding to the thousand two hundred and ninety dayes five and thirty dayes more which make a thousand three hundred thirty five and then saith as being the words of the Angel of God to Daniel But go thou thy way till the end be for thou shalt rest and stand up in the lot at the end of the dayes vers 11 12 13. The Prophet from the Angel intending by dayes yeares and counting the years after the use of the Chaldeans and not of the Hebrewes between whom in three years and a halfe there was as it seemeth thirty dayes difference And so if Daniel was to goe his way and rest till the and bee and that he shall stand up in the lot at the end of the dayes then must the end of necessity be at the end of the dayes But Daniel was to goe his way till the end should be and was to rest and stand in the lot at the end of the dayes therefore the end of the dayes must needs be the end even the end of the world And now therefore if the time between the end of those dayes of Antichrists reigne and the end of the world will indeed for certain be so short as those Scriptures declare then where will there be time or place for that glorious thousand yeares Monarch of Saints which so many learned Ministers and zealous people at this day look for and hold as an Article of their faith to bee here in this present world before the end thereof Surely neither the Prophets nor Christ nor any of his Apostles doe admit of such a thing Those people and Ministers whatsoever they are for zeale and learning they are herein utterly deceived misunderstanding the Scriptures which speak indeed of a glorious Kingdome and many great and excellent things the Saints shall receive and possesse not for the limited time of a thousand yeares in this corrupt world but for ever and ever a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand yeares even for eternity in the uncorrupt world to come which world and kingdome shall have no end as the Scriptures declare Esay 9.7 Esay 45.14 15 16 Dan. 7.14.25 Luk. 1.32 33. and sundry other places Those Ministers and people therefore which look for such a millenary Monarchical kingdom in this world may do well to renounce that Atticle of their faith as they call it in meeknes and humblenes of heart seek and desire of God to give them his holy Spirit of truth whereby to understand with comfort his word of truth The things that are to be between the end of Antichrists reigne and the end of the world are by Christ himselfe foreshewed in these words Matth. 24. Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes shall the Sunne be darkned and the Moone shall not give her light and the Starres shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall bee shaken c. Where the Lord intendeth by the Sunne the word of his truth the Gospel of salvation which had been darkned by Antichrist and should now toward the end of his dayes break forth and shine again to discover his abominations and for the saving of Gods elect which the Lord also intended before ver 22. in these words But for the elect sake those dayes shall be shortned And implying also that it should shine yet more brightly after the end of Antichrist and that the greatest part of the time of 45 yeares intended by the word quickly and the word immediatly shall be for the prosperous proceeding of the Gospel and full accomplishing of all Gods elect And as the Sunne thus shineth so shall the Moon that is to say the earth and the inhabitants thereof whose light doth depend upon the light of the Gospel as the light of the Moon doth on the light of the Sunne she shall now give her light according also as a holy one in another place saith The Sun shall suddenly shine again in the night and the Moon three times in the day c. And the Starres of God shall appeare in heaven God will raise up in his Church true and faithfull Shepheards that shall as starres in heaven hold forth the light and truth of his two Testaments to the word and so the powers of the heavens spirituall will bee in their heavenly way and order again All these things are plainly implied in the words of Christ else how can the Sunne be said to be darkned and the Moon to lose her light and the Starres to fall from heaven c. immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes of Antichrist if they did not and should not shine forth and give their light some time before the end of those dayes and also after more especially therefore all these things must be And the true Church of Christ which had been troden under foot and caused to hide her face as it were in the wildernesse so long shall come forth and bee seene neer like as she was once in her primitive state clothed with the Sunne even Jesus Christ and his righteousnesse and having the Moon that is all earthly and corruptible things under her feet as disregarded her conversation and affections being farre above them all in heaven where her Lord is and from whence shee looketh for him to come and bring all those his rewards with him that hee hath promised And having also on her head a Crown of twelve starres the true and sound doctrine of the Lambs twelve Apostles and of the holy Prophets walking in the light and truth thereof according as they walked with true love toward God and also toward men And so be as once she was in these spirituall heavenly respects truely visible like a Citie set upon a hill that cannot be hid and as a Candle in a Candlestick which giveth light to all in the house her faith shining again throughout the world And when shee shall bee in this estate like as at the first when she was travelling with child to bring forth her first fruits unto God and to the Lamb the Dragon stood before her to devoure her child and persecute the woman into the wildernesse as Rev. 12. So now when she shall be travelling with child again ready to bring forth her last fruits unto God and to Christ then the Dragon that old Serpent being loosed out of his prison where he had been bound so many hundred yeares shall goe out to deceive the Nations that are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and Magog and gather them together and compasse the camp of the Saints about and this the beloved Citie till fire descend from God out of heaven and devoure them as it is written Ezek. 38. and 39. Rev. 16.21 Rev. 20.9 For as the time of the Churches fairest beauty was but short before the Dragon so cruelly used her so shall

her beforehand that then especially when the time of trouble which he also foretold her of should come shee should betake herselfe unto them as he also saith When yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the holy place who so readeth let him understand then let them which be in Iudea flic into the mountains c. Matth. 24. For this was the very time of the great persecution raised by the Dragon against that admirable woman in her most excellent primitive estate described in Rev. 12.1 whereby she was necessitated to flie into the Wildernesse to her place which God had provided for her to take some breath and live She was now to read and understand the written words of his two Testaments and to betake her selfe to them and flie they being the two wings of the great Eagle even the Lord himselfe who gave them unto her to that end and that she might be also nourished by them in that secret desart for a time and times and half a time that is to say three yeares and a halfe of yeares from the presence of the Serpent as verse 14. compared with verse 6. where these three times and a halfe are decribed by 1260 dayes and are to be understood for so many yeares it being also the full time of the reigne of the Beast which was to rise after the Dragons fall For St. Iohn as it seemeth wrote this book of the Revelation at the same time when all the Westerne Churches were by the persecution of Nero and the rest of those cruell Pagan Emperours dispersed and they of Iudea also Iohn himselfe being now for the word of God and witnesse of Iesus Christ in the Isle of Pathmos onely the seven Churches of Asia remaining in their places undispersed and that this was the reason why Iohn speaks not a word of any Churchelse of any place besides those seven of Asia unto whom he was appointed to send the book when he had written it And although notwithstanding that great persecution against all Christians in generall then under the Romane power the name of Christ and profession of Christian Religion increased so that in short time it came to be very generally entertained yet did the true Church herselfe being in respect of her Seed dispersed amongst them never recover her first and primitive estate againe but all things grew worse and worse untill the Beast rose who brought the mystery of iniquity to perfection and set up the abomination of desolation to the full which the Dragon had begun in Ierusalem and Temple thereof to stand where it ought not even in the Temple of the Christian Gentiles the seven Churches of Asia being now also by the Easterne Empire subdued to the Beast and brought under the supremacie and power of his Church of Rome and so they wrought and brought to passe by degrees that the eminent light and beauty of the truly modest and chast virgin Spouse of Christ might no more be seen till the fourty and two months of the Beasts reigne should be expired Therefore as Christ said Matth. 24. Who so readeth let him understand c. So again Rev. 1. Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of the prophesie of this booke and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand verse 3. Verse 5. And if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies and if any man will hurt them so must he be slaine HEre the Lord doth further declare by his Angell what his two Witnesses are in their owne true nature and power in saying If any man will hurt them fire shall proceed out of their mouth c. That is to say if any man shall resist their words and testimony or seem to stop their proceeding and pervert the straight way of the Lord which they declare as the Scribes and Pharisees and those false teachers in Antioch and them of Galatia Elymas the Sorcerer and many other more in the Apostles dayes did or shall wrest their words from their true intention to some other false and evill ends and so turn their prophesie and testimony out of the way to maintaine their blasphemous opinions abominations and lies under pretence of truth as Arius and his followers did and the Beast and his Clergie have done a long time and as many others doe now amongst us at this day to maintain their sundry erroneous and corrupt opinions which they have taken up contrary to the intent and meaning of the Spirit of God in these his two Testaments Look what judgements they have pronounced against such shall surely first or last fall upon them the fire of Gods justice and wrath which proceedeth out of their mouth shall certainly devoure them And let no man marvell at this that they being two are described to have both but one mouth for although they bee two in number and are truly distinct and differing one from the other the one being the Law of sinne and of death so called by reason of us who are all guilty of the breach thereof and so of death which is said to come by Moses the other being the Law of the Spirit of life of grace and truth and is said to come by Jesus Christ yet doe they not speak or will things contrary one to the other but doe truly agree and speake as with one mouth that which is holy and just gracious and true Therefore if any man will hurt them so must he be slain If any man shall make and love to make lies against them or of them and say they speak that which they speak not or mean that which they mean not If any man shall adde to or take from the words of their prophesie see then what their sentence is even in the very finishing of their testimony If he shall adde God shall then adde unto him the plagues that are written in this booke If he shall diminish or take from God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy Citie and from the things that are written in this book Rev. 22.18 19. Blessed therefore are they that doe his commandements that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the Citie for without shall be Dogges and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie Verse 6. These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the dayes of their prophesie and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues so often as they will THat these two Witnesses have power for to doe all these things I suppose no man will deny because it is without question true And that whatsoever they have prophesied against any Kingdome Monarch Nation State Citie People for their wickednesse against

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

their testimony and against the Prophets and people of God that stood to maintain the same have and shall certainly come to passe If they prophesie of famine either of the Word and knowledge of God which is the bread of life or of common bread signified here by shutting the heavens that it rain not c. Or if they prophesie of destruction by the sword here signified by turning waters into blood so giving them blood to drink for their shedding the blood of the Saints as it is exprest Rev. 16.3 4.5 6. Or if they prophesie of pestilence of earthquakes or any other calamity or judgement to come signified by smiting the earth with all manner of plagues so often as they will their word is a law such speciall priviledge and power they have that what they say and denounce shall stand not one jot nor tittle of their word shall fail till all be fulfilled According as the Lord spake of his Prophet Jeremiah and by him saying Behold this day have I set thee over Nations and over Kingdomes to pluck up root out destroy and throw down build and plane J●r 1.9 10. And in another place Therefore have I cut them down by my Prophets and slain them by the words of my mouth Hos 6.5 And so Zerubbabel concerning the power that opposed him saying Not by Army nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Who art thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain c. Zech. 4. Now what two men were there ever in the world or what two States of Magistrates and Ministers or other have there ever been that had power to doe all these things and by the word of whole mouth all those judgements of God already past and fulfilled on those former Monarchs Kingdomes Nations Cities people that have been the great adversaries of God enemies to his Word of Truth and destroyers of his Saints have been uttered and pronounced but the mouth of his two Testaments onely which the holy Prophets and Apostles have been the witnessers and recorders of In which respect the Lord did so greatly honour Moses and the Prophets they being dead and their writings onely remaining to the people saying They have Moses and the Prophets let them heare them c. And so to us now we have Moses and the Prophets yea more we have John the Baptist the Elias that was to come and Christ the Messiah promised and his holy Apostles insomuch as wee have their Records and Writings of the great things of Gods two Testaments which they had seen and heard from the Lord. And if we therefore will not heare them nor beleeve their record then neither will we beleeve if Enoch and Elias or Noah and Abraham or any other two or more of the holy Prophets and Apostles should come from the dead and preach anew unto us for so much doe the words of the Lord imply Wherefore it concerneth us greatly to read and consider and to desire of God to give us understanding And blessed is hee that readeth and beleeveth and keepeth the sayings of Gods two Witnesses which are his two Testaments for so I will now take it for granted of all that love the Lord and delight in his Testimonies Vers 7. And when they have finished their testimony the beast which ascendeth from the depth shall make battell against them and kill them THese words in the opinion of some I know will seeme to contradict that which hath been said of the two Witnesses because they will understand their testimony here spoken of to be their prophecying in Sackcloth 1260 dayes mentioned in verse 3. and so as if the words of this 7 verse did imply the killing of them by the Beast to be at the end of those dayes a little before his own death that he shall then get up again out of his consumption and make warre against them and kill them and their carkasses lie in the streets of his great Citie three naturall yeares and a halfe unburied that so the Beast and his false Prophets and those Kings and Nations and the people that worship the Beast may yet rejoyce and triumph over them before the Beast die and his Church come to desolation This they conceive and teach and that the two Witnesses must therefore be some two men of these times as Mr. Burton and the other that suffered with him and were imprisoned as they say three yeares and a halfe just to a day and then set at liberty by the Parliament and so raised from death to life and caused to stand upon their feet again for so they have published in their bookes yet not giving the honour wholly to them alone but joyning also together with them all those Ministers which had suffered and been supprest by the Bishops for not conforming unto their orders and rules who are now restored to places and meanes Some adding to these the zealous Magistrates and States now in place of authority But to answer these Teachers not denying any of Gods faithfull Servants Magistrates or Ministers the least part of their due and right onely let me tell them that so teach They are utterly deceived in their imaginations concerning the two Witnesses and also much mistake the words of the text For first it saith not of the two Witnesses which are the two Testaments onely as hath been sufficiently proved and I now take it for granted And when they have finished their prophecying in Sackcloth as if they should cease so to doe before the Be●st should kill them Neither doth it say when the 1260 dayes of the Beasts reigne shall be accomplished then the Beast should make warre against them and kill them Nay this were very contradictions and unreasonable for how could the Beast kill them when his dayes were ended Or if he could what would it then avail him the time of their prophecying also being expired Nay it had been much more for his advantage to have killed them long before seeing they were before even in the Prophet Zechary his time though they had not yet finished their testimony till about three hundred yeares before the beast rose And 2ly the two Witnesses of God being the two Testaments cannot bee said to finish their prophecying in Sackcloth till all Gods elect are called and sanctified by their word and that the sufferings of Christ in them his members for his Word sake are ended Neither did the two Witnesses ever otherwise prophesie then in Sackcloth that is in mourning All the holy Prophets Apostles and S●ints have in mourning and weeping born record of them and in faith and patience testified the truth of their words to the world and were hated and persecuted for their sake not their own but because they testified and walked in the light of them And in this kind of habit they are to prophesie untill the Lord come in his glory For although the Lord would as he said so give unto his

the Tribe of Dan and by him who is to be borne they know not where nor when and yet must reigne those three years and a halfe and doe all these things Neither can any of those among our selves which are so neere of opinion unto them of Rome concerning the three dayes and a halfe of the two Witnesses being slain shew any one sound reason why a propheticall yeare may not be intended in this place by the name of a day as well as by the name of a time in Dan. 7.25 and 12.7 and Rev. 12.14 which I suppose they acknowledge And seeing also that a day is a time as well and truly as an houre is a time or a month or a yeare Vnder all which termes the time of the reigne of the great Antichrist is exprest 1 Ioh. 2.18 Rev. 3.10 9.13 14 c. Where John having seen their great and terrible Army of horsmen and heard also the number of them to bee twenty thousand times ten thousand describeth them also to have breast-plates of fire and of Jacinth and of brimstone and their horses to have heads as the heads of Lions and that out of their mouthes issued fire and smoke and brimstone and having tailes like Serpents with heads on them And that all these whose power is in their mouthes and in their tailes were prepared for an houre and a day and a month and a yeare to slay the third part of men verse 15 16 17 18. This is that last houre spoken of in 1 John 2.18 The houre of temptation which was to come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth Rev. 3.10 So then if an houre may contain so long a time why not a day if a day then why not three dayes and a half as well as three times and a halfe seeing three dayes and a halfe are three times and a halfe Neither is it possible that all those things which are to be done within the time of the two Witnesses lying dead and unburied in the streets of that great Citie should bee fulfilled and done in so short a time as three naturall yeares and a halfe That the Beast and his false prophets that great Army of inchanting horsemen with all those Kings Princes and Tribes and people and Gentiles and inhabitants of the earth which worship the Beast and his Image should so universally so publickly in all places make those merriments with bonfires festivals wakes c. rejoycing over their own inventions and for that they had put out the light of the truth of Gods two Witnesses which so troubled them in their ways and send such great gifts also one to another for joy thereof chopping and changing making Merchandize of all things even of the very souls of men as it is declared Rev. 18.12 13. and as experience hath sufficiently proved they have done no short time slaying and destroying with their inchantments and sorceries the fire and smoke and brimstone which issued out of the mouthes of those monstrous horsemen and their horses and the mouthes of their tailes the souls of many thousand men of all degrees high and low and of all nations even a full third part of the world and yet the rest that were not slain by these plagues repented not of their workes that they should not worship Divels and Idols of gold and silver and brasse and stone and wood which neither can see nor heare nor walke nor repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornications nor of their thesis I say it is not possible that all these things which are to be done while the two Witnesses lie slain in the streets should be accomplished in three common yeares and a halfe but must have the full time of the Beasts reigne for the sam the time of those Gentiles treading the holy Citie under foot and of the woman being fed in the wildernesse even 1260. yeares After which as the text saith the Spirit of life from God shall enter into his two Prophets and they shall stand upon their feet c. God will then in and about that time especially raise up faithfull Scribes indeed and Shepheards of understanding hearts whom he will teach and instruct in the wayes of his truth and give them so to understand the words and testimonies of his two Witnesses as that they shall through the power of his grace declare the true intent and meaning of them and set forth and divide the same unto the people Like unto the good housholder or as the Scribe taught in the Kingdome of God that is alwayes provided of things both new and old and is ready to minister upon all occasions in and at all due times and seasons according to the words of Christ and as Paul once charged Timothy that they also may understand it and walk in the light thereof to the praise of God and their own salvation And so the true spirituall and heavenly meaning of Gods two Testaments their light and life which their enemies had taken away and kept out of fight and knowledge so long being now restored they his two Prophets walk upon their feet againe as well to the terror and astonishment of all false and lying interpreters as to the reverend feare admiration and comfort of all the children and justifiers of wisdome for so much do the words imply And great feare fell upon all that saw them And if any man shall marvell how the two Witnesses may bee said to prophesie all the time of the reigne of the Beast and their bodies lie dead in the streets of his Sodomiticall Citie all the while let him consider that although they lie dead in his streets yet they speake and prophesie notwithstanding like as did the blood of Abel and the bones of Elisha And whatsoever they have spoken or prophesied in the written words of their Testimony either against the Beast and his Church and all other false accusers and beliers of them or as concerning their owne restauration and the good of the Church and children of God shall surely come to passe and be fulfilled let the Beast and all the rest of them doe what they can Neither doe nor did their bodies lie dead and unburied among the Saints and children of the woman that fled into the wildernesse they have been living and prophesying with them all this while and their enemies have heard their voyce from thence many and sundry times sounding in their eares though they hardened their hearts against it and sought still by their cunning inquisitions to lay hold of shut up in their dungeons and slay all those that testified the same Ver. 12. And I heard a lowd voyce from Heaven saying Come up hither and they went up to heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw them NOw the true meaning of the Scriptures contained in the two Testaments of God which had been so long obscured by false and lying expositers shall be so