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A79857	A voice from the temple to the higher povvers. Wherein is shewed, that it is the work and duty of saints, to search the prophesies and visions of holy Scripture, which concern the later times: and that Jesus Christ will reveal the understanding of them, neer the end of their accomplishment. And so much, is here clearly proved, and the objections to the contrary answered. Also severall prophesies are here opened, concerning the time of the end; as what is the present work of the Lord in the world: and wherein the saints (whether the higher powers or others) are now to move and follow him. Likwise [sic] what will be the work of the Lord forward, and all along from year to year, till the mysterie of God be finished, both among the Christian gentiles, and Jewes. By John Canne.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1653 (1653)	Wing C443B; Thomason E699_16; ESTC R207049	36,136	47

vexeth and grieves the more When corrupt and deceitfull men shall see the very thing come to passe upon them which before in the word of the Lord was told them namely within such a time if they turn not from their evill wayes and make their wayes and their doings good the Lord will pluck them out of their dwelling places lay them aside break their power to pieces Lord what a torment and vexation this will be to them that notwithstanding warned and admonished as from God they should yet harden and hearten themselves to their own destruction Prov. 5.12 How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof and have not obeyd the voice of my teachers nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me 4 For this cause likewise will the Lord have the book now opened viz. to advance the honour and holinesse of his blessed word we are in an age wherein most things are questioned not only water-Baptisme and whether there be a true Church but whether there be a true God a true Christ a true Word c. Now as this is atime wherein Satan appears against the holy Scriptures and the truths therein contained more violently and blasphemously then ever heretofore so I confidently affirm and will abide by it that the Lord will now arise and appear for the vindication of the holy Scriptures more gloriously and eminently then ever And wherein can the excellency of them be more advanced the truths in them more manifested the contemners of them more ashamed and silenced then that the wise should understand For what Athiest will not blush and be confounded when he shall most evidently see such things come to passe this year and the next and so forward till the year 1770. as was foretold And that in order to the fulfilling of prophesies and visions recorded some fifteen hundred years others two thousand years before and more Having proved by severall Arguments that the knowledge of the times is possible and ought to be searched and wherefore the same though concealed from former ages is to be revealed to the last age I come now to the Prophesies themselves In Daniel I find five speciall prophesies in reference to the time of the end Chap. 7.25 Chap. 9.24 25 26 27. Chap. 12.7 11 12. The three first concern the Christian Gentiles the two latter the Jews and in them are comprehended all the works of both that is when those years are expired then their whole warfare shall be accomplished and they shall be no more two but one and one shepherd shall be set over them Howsoever I intend to set forth these things more at large in another Treatise yet something I will speak now as to the times both of the Gentiles and of the Jews And first to that place in Daniel Dan. 7.25 Vntill a time and times and dividing of times In Scripture we find time to be taken for dayes as Dan 4. comparing v. 16. with 34. By dayes years are to be understood Your children shall wander in the wildernesse forty dayes Numb 14.33 34. Ezek. 4.6 each day for a year Again Thou shalt bear their iniquity forty dayes and I have appointed thee each day for a year In propheticall use a day that is a year containeth 360 dayes or years This Daniel calls a time The word times signifies so much more that is 720 years The dividing of time is 180 dayes or years the whole put together makes 1260 years and so much the spirit of God expresly declares in Rev 12. where a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes v. 6. is said to be a time and times and half a time v. 14. Before we come to the accommodation of these years we are to speak of the ten horns and the little horn first of their rise then their fall that is their beginning and ending For their rise or beginning it is to be understood either as hid and secret or more plain and open These ten horns I understand to be the Romane Empire dissolved into ten parts or Kingdoms In the enumeration of them some produce them thus Brittany France Germany Spain Italy Africa Asia Graecia Syria and Egypt I shall set down what to me is most probable 1. The kingdom of the Brittains 2 of the Saxons both in Brittany 3 of the kingdom of the Franks 4 of the Burgundians both in France 5 The kingdome of the West Gothes in the Southern part of France and part of Spain 6. the Sueves and Alanes in part of Spain 7 the Kingdome of the Vandals in Africa a little before in Spain 8. The Alemanes in Rhaetia and Noricum Provinces of Germany 9 the Kingdome of the East Goths in Ponnonia a little before in Italy Lastly the Kingdome of the Greeks in the remnant of the Empire Though this Decharchicall division doth not continue yet that it was so at first is apparent by History For their Rise which was obscure and dark Dan. 7.8 which gave Daniel occasion to consider the hornes as being so low and short that he could scarce perceive them this was about the year of our Lord 388. It is true the fall of the Empire was by degrees and it was 40 years after or more before the same was effectually dissolved Neverthelesse about this time to wit the year 388. those horns did appear though obscure and little as I said before in Rev. 17.12 The horns which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no Kingdome as yet but receive power at Kings one hour with the Beast that is they had not at first a Soveraignty Majesty Power Priviledges which afterwards they possest and were confirmed in Now adde unto 388. which was the time of the rise of the ten horns and the Romane Empire its beginning to dissolve Daniels number namely 1260. and it extendeth to the year of Christ 1648. This year to wit the year 1648. do I affirm with much assurance was the time when the Thrones were set and the ancient of dayes did sit as is expressed in Dan. 7.9 10. Here began the Lord God Almighty to call Kings and Kingdomes to an account to cast down the mighty from their seats to cut off the spirit of Princes and to be terrible unto the Kings of the earth And this work goes forward still and shall prevail and prosper to the utter breaking and destroying of the fourth Monarch or Romane Empire dissolved into ten Kingdomes And the little horn that is the Antichristian State and Kingdom likewise I know it will be expected that I give some reasons for what is here asserted especially it being delivered with so much confidence This I shall willingly do 1 Howsoever our Chronicles give the Romane Empire some kind of interest and title to the Brittains till the year 440. yet it was rather in name then in thing For after the year 388. the Romanes never exercised that power here which they did before onely now and then and that upon

removed what will our next Governours have to say for themselves if they doe not appear and act earnestly for just and righteous things If a man did certainly know the day of his death what appetite or desire could he have to meat an hour before he was to dye It may be those things which I here write some will not receive but howsoever I shall discharge mine owne conscience and therefore this I do declare with confidence to the world that corrupt men and selfe-seekers their trade is coming down and two years shall not be expired mark it but they shall vomit up what they have gotten by injustice falshood bribery c. and God shall cast it out of their bellie But more particularly to the present worke Such as will act well hereafter and serve their generation they must in most things do otherwise and contrary to what others have done before them I shall only instance some particulars briefly 1. They must be active and quickly dispatch the business which they take in hand and not to tell people as others usually did of the Thankes of the House and that it was under Debate referred to a Committee c. and here was all But let Petitioners be speedily relieved in their just applications I have seen at the foot of great houses Images set out in such a posture as if the building lay on their backs Such pictures we had as made shew to have the Church and Common-wealth on their shoulders whereas in truth for most of them neither the one nor the other had any reall help or supportance from them 2. They must not seek nor desire to grow rich and great in the world by being in Authority but advance the Publique Interest and not their owne A thing formerly not practised by many but left the care of publick concernment to enrich themselves Hence it is that many of them who before the Parliament began were not worth two or three hundred pounds a year have now made it up some to a thousand some to fifteen hundred some to two thousand pounds a year and more These must be served as Esop did his fellow-servant he gave him warm water to drink by which means he vomited up the stollen figges 3. It is a work now proper to the higher Powers to be carefull what men they appoint as Justices and Magistrates in the Common-wealth hitherto in Towne and Countrey such have been in many places as have most grosly abused the people exercised even an arbritary power where they liv'd and done what they list as knowing if their insolencies and exorbitances should be complained of they had a * Of this thing wee had a memorable example in Hull where one Master Shaw a notable Turn-coate and Time-server as lives hath committed such scandalous actions as seldome are heard of yet no Justice could passe against him by reason of the corrupt Mayor The things are so foule against them both as honest men wonder they should be suffered But so long as the last Parliament stood Mr. Shaw was supported in all the mischiefe he plotted either against the Towne or honest men The last Speaker Baron Thorp and Sir Henry Vane know who I meane and who did helpe Shaw to make three or foure unworthy Aldermen at a clap all Brothers and to have what Mayor and Sheriffs Shaw would to carry on his Designe which was to disquiet the peace of the place and affront the honest party I heare hee studieth to get favour amongst those who are now in place But that no honest man may be deceived by him this I testifie publiquely and of knowledge he is a most corrupt man and hitherto countenanced by men as corrupt and rotten as himselfe friend in the House would bear them out in spight of all accusers Hence a man every where might have seen that in Solomon fulfilled When the wicked beareth rule the people mourn 4. How many years hath it been under Debate in the House concerning the propagation of the Gospell Now I desire every one that fears God to observe what progresse they have made herein This I affirme to be true they have left standing in the Nation a Clergy or generation of Priests more scandalous prophane wicked insufficient c. then was in the Bishops time and before they began to sit Notwithstanding they would send their Acts to these wretches that they should pray and give Thanks for them Whereas Hezekiah sent to Isaiah the Prophet to lift vp his prayer for the remnant That these unworthy men are to be removed from their unsanctified places and standing the word of God is clear for it but whether he will so far honour our next Governours in putting them upon so glorious a worke a little time will shew 5. Be sure that ye be real and faithfull to such men whom you know to be reall and faithful to that Cause and Worke you are upon Of late Turn coats Time-servers Apostates and such like have been most favoured soonest heard and prefer'd The which was one speciall cause of their ruine and will destroy others if they do the like As fire taken off from the hearth and put to the Thatch will burn down the house Even so if men in place with-draw their affection from honest and good men to act for unworthy ones they cannot stand Let them associate themselves and they shall be broken take counsell together and it shall come to nought 6. Psal 4.3 Ps 101.6 As the Lord will set apart him that is godly And David saith mine eyes shall be upon the faithfull of the land So in choosing men to publique employment carnall relations must be laid aside and men fearing God pitch't upon It would be worth the while to consider how many are in place who hate to be reform'd count it their grace that they are gracelesse yea despight the spirit of grace in Saints If a man should sow Tares in his Field or plant thornes and thistles in his Garden would it be a wonder afterward to see fruit according to the kind he hath sown and planted Those that do set and plant in the Common-wealth crafty men covetous and deceitfull fellows I meane as to have places of great trust and concernment if they deceive the State no marvail Who will expect grapes of thornes or figs of thistles 7. There is another abuse which honest men desire speedily to have reform'd namely a multitude of unnecessary and uselesse Officers publiquely employed in civill affairs whereby the Revenues of the Common-wealth are extreamly wasted which men if removed not onely many thousand pounds a year would be saved but the worke speedier and much better done Besides it is well known that some of the late Parliament have devised new Offices where there was none before Note and whereof there is no use in the world purposely to set in some of their own kindred for sallarie 8. Whereas many have gotten great estates by falshood