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A86686	Manus testium movens: or, A Presbyteriall glosse upon many of those obscure prophetick texts in Canticles, Isay, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk, Zachary, Matthew, Romans, and the Revelations: which point at the great day of the vvitnesses rising; Antichrists ruine, and the Jews conversion, neare about this time. VVherein Dr. Homes, with the rest of the independent antichristian time-servers are clearly confuted, and out of their own writings condemned: and against them proved, that the present usurpers in England are that antichristian party who have slain the witnesses, and shall reign but three yeers and an half, which time is almost at an end. To this book must be joyned Lingua testium, being its proper preface. / Written by Testis-mundus Catholicus Scotanglo-Britanicus.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H328; Thomason E632_23; ESTC R206463	110,211	129

god Mauzzim that he sets up both these are one and the same thing and signifie a sword-power that this Beast shall set up I have many learned Expositors on my side in the interpretation of both texts and some of the Fathers with whom I fall full jump in the explication for they say that the Beast in both places is that Antichrist that shall arise when the Roman Monarchy shall be destroyed and slay the Witnesses and reigne three years and an half Now we must reckon the beginning of this Beasts reign the time that he set up his god Mauzzim and exalted himself above all other government and this was when he got the ships at sea the Forts Castles Forces Magazines whole power of the sword into his own hands at land This was done in the year 1647. and about September or October In the same year so that near about that time we must begin the Beasts raign and then about the evening of the day that is the latter end of that year when he divides the two Kingdoms the Beasts three years an half wil be out but mark what shal come to pass immediately before this year of division Dan. 12. 40. At the time of the end shall the King of the South push at him and the King of the North shall come up against him like a whirlwind with Chariots with Horsemen with many ships In Zach. 14. 14. there you have the Mountain divided into North and South Here you have in this verse the North and the South joyned together to overthrow the Beast of the Earth which hath set up his God Mauzzim his Sword-power This was cleerly fulfilled in the Northern Invasion and the Southern Insurrection I will not inlarge here in so plain a thing but what shall be their success they shall be overthrown by him and he shall enter into the Countries and shall overflow and pass over He that is he that sets up the God Mauzzim he shall overtop both the Northern Invaders and the Southern Insurrections neither the King of the North nor the King of the South shall overcome him he shall pass over them v. 41. He shall enter into the glorious Land I am of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs opinion that Scotland is the gloriousest Land in the world for holiness therefore I think it is meant Scotland that he should enter as he did after he had defeated Hambleton's forces he entred the Kingdom of Scotland and many shall be overthrown Some read and many Countries shall be overthrown but there is no such word as Countries in the Hebrew Therefore I humbly conceive 't is better read and many shall be overthrown that is many noble families many great persons and many people shall but these shall escape out of his hand Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Amon the ancieut and the latter Expositors have mistook this text in allowing it onely a literal sense which the Holy Ghost intends not for by Edom and Moab and Ammon are meant the Enemies of the Church who plead the same priviledges that the Church pleads as Esau was the eldest son of Isaac by birth but he sold his birth-right and became an apostate and so did his posterity who were from him called Edomites But these Apostates pretended as the Church of Rome doth that they were the true Church because they came from the eldest son of Isaac and so Moab and Ammon though most abominable Idolaters yet said that their father was Lot and they were the true Church though they were begotten in incest as all Heresies and Hereticks are gotten by corrupting the Holy Word and Truth of God so that by Edom and Moab and Ammon that escape this Beasts clutches may be understood Hereticks and Apostates if so how cleerly doth this point out of the Beast to us or if by Ammon and Moab may be meant those murtherers of the King Traytors for in 2 Chron. 24. 46. a Moabite and an Ammonite one of the chief of the children of Ammon conspired against the King and slew him so that Apostates Covenant-breakers Hereticks and Traytors conspirers against the King shall escape him wheresoever he comes you may know this beast by his followers for none but such are protected by him and beloved of him By Moab may be meant the malicious party who pretend religiously to curse the Church of God by their hypocritical hirelings such as Balam who for a good place or office will vilifie that cause which they once professed to be a righteous cause V. 42. And the Land of Egypt shall not escape that is Ireland which were more bloudy to the people of God then Egypt to Israel Egipt that is a Kingdom full of abominable Idolatry therefore Rome is called spirituall Egypt V. 43. He shall have power over the Treasures of gold and silver and the precious things of Egypt that is He shall be Governour of Ireland for who hath power over the Treasury but the Governour By Lybians and Ethiopians are meant the common sottish and slavish sort of people which will bow to any body these shall subscribe to him But when he is in Ireland what follows next V. 44. But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him Holland is East and Scotland is North from Ireland now the Treaty in Holland with the King by the Scots shall trouble him V. 45. Tydings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him Ireland the place where the Beast of the Earth shall be that Witness-slaying Beast hath Holland on the East of it and Scotland on the North of it Now tydings from the North and East shall trouble him that is the King of Scotland shall be in Holland that 's to the East of him and the Scots in the North call a Parliament and send Commissioners from Scotland to treat with the King in Holland and so tydings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him This Treaty shall trouble him and call him out of Ireland into England from whence he shall go with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many He shall go with an Army resolving to destroy and utterly to make away the Covenanters in Scotland and this is plainly set down in vers 45. V. 46. And he shall plant the Tabernacles of his palace Some read The Tabernacle of the wrath of his judgment so Brightman reades it Others read it And he shall plant his Tabernacle Aphadno keeping the Hebrew word intire Others there are that translate Aphadno and read the text thus And he shall spread the Tabernacles of his stables This word Aphadno which is read Palace though I know not why Brightman very learnedly unfolds This word saith he is compounded of three words Aph and Din and the affix of the third person Daleth the wrath of his judgment as if he should say He shall plant the Tabernacles of wroth whereby he shall procure to

by Revel 8. 1 2. And as for the time of the sixth Trumpet sounding it was Rev. 9. 14. when the foure angels were let loose which were bound in Euphrates that was when the Sarazens and Turks began to be eminent for their victories and successes in War which was about 700. yeers since and then he saith we are under the fourth viall of the sixth Trumpet Whereas t is evident that not one of the vials are to be powred out untill the 7th Trumpet soundeth this I have proved already I 'le onely adde this that the seventh Trumpet is the Alpha and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the vials and that 's clear from these foure Texts in Revel 11. 15. There the seventh Trumpet sounds and after that v. 19. the Temple of God was opened in heaven and then there were lightnings and voices and thundrings and an earthquake and great hail that is the vials of Gods wrath on his enemies And in Revel 15. 5. The temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in heaven was opened and after that the seven Angels powred out their vials so that the seventh Trumpet sounding before the Temple in heaven was open must needs be before the vials were powred out Thus the seventh Trumpet is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in Revel 10. 7. compared with Revel 16. 17. there when the seventh Trumpet sounded the mystery of God should be finished and when the seventh viall was powred out there came the same voice from the throne and said It is finished so that the seventh Trumpet both begins and finisheth the vials on the enemies of the Church So that by this you may judge of the Doctors soundnesse of judgement in a prophetick Truth Truly I do beleeve excepting the Ingagement you shall scarce finde in so few words so many intellectuall errors in any Hereticks writing whatsoever as in these few words of the Doctors that I have repeated And as his thesis is such is his hipothesis as are his premisses such are his conclusions exceeding absurd and false and therefore I leave him Here I intended to break off but at I was shutting up a Book came newly to my hand called A Description of the History of Europe from 1650. to 1710. I do not censure the Author for he speaks modestly and concerning the calling of the Jews what he speaks on Scripturall grounds he speaks both learnedly and judiciously But as for those Astrologicall predictions no where grounded on Scripture I hold them dangerous foperies and no more to be credited then an old wives fable or Lillies Almanack there is one great mistake i● it which I finde also in many other learned Authors and that is concerning the binding of Satan a thousand yeers This mistake of the Author makes him fall foule upon innocent Alsted and Beucholclers for Alstedius and Beucholclers and severall other learned men do hold that there shall be a thousand yeers felicity of the Church after the Dragon is bound and cast into the bottomlesse pit they say this time of the Church her felicity shall begin about the yeer 1694. their ground for it is from Dan 12. 12. Blessed is he that cometh to the 1335 dayes i. e. yeers Now count from the time the daily sacrifice was taken away which was saith Brightman and others in the yeer 360. now adde 1335. to 360. and it makes 1695. yeers The most sound and Scripturall opinion is on these words of Daniel that at the end of the 1290. dayes spoken of in v 11 which dayes are at an end this yeer 1650. then the Jews conversion shall be begun and in 1695. they shall be setled in their own Nation under one King this is backed with undenyable Scripture out of the old Testament and the beginning of their Conversion neer 1650. is evidently demonstrated by Christ himself in Matth. 24. in Luke 21. in Mark 13. in Revel 11. and in many places in the Revel as Revel 16. 17. and Rev. 1. 7. Now because they say that after the 1000. yeers felicitie and tranquillitie of the Church the war of Gog Magog shall beg in which enemies shall be destroyed by Christs coming to judgement this opinion saith he that confutes it is far wide from the true mark For saith he the true number meaning I suppose the time of the war of Gog and Magog must begin Anno 1072. at the Epiration of the former meaning the thousand yeers binding of Satan which he holds to begin at the incarnation of Christ and lasted a thousand yeers or at the destruction of the 2d Temple by Titus Anno 71. So that at the end of 1072. this Author saith the fight of Gog and Magog must begin this time he saith is tearmed to be a thousand yeers and is to be understood of that time that the world shall last after 1072 in pag. 7. he saith that the Devill and Antichristianity must be chained up in the dungeon of hell for a thousand yeers after the incarnation of Christ and then in the yeer of Christ 1000. must the devill and Romish Idolatry by the Popedome of Sylvester 2d be let loose to reign upon the earth and tyrannize over the Church for the most part of another thousand yeers even till Anno 1709. and after that the fifth Monarchy of Christ must be erected as afterwards he affirms But to refute in a word this grosse mistake we do affirm that this opinion is altogether groundlesse and meerly fantastick for he brings not a word of Scripture to confirm his opinion nay I must affirm 't is altogether contrary to Scripture For 1. he makes Antichrist to be in being from the incarnation of Christ which Antichrist in the Apocaliptick sence was not in being till 390 yeers after Christ not untill the fifth Trumpet sounded Revel 9. 5. 2. He makes Antichrist to be chained up a thousand yeers and then to rise again whereas the Revelation testifies the contrary that when he fals he shall be cast into hell Revel 19. 20. out of which there is no redemption and Babylon shall fall like a milstone into the bottome of the Sea which shall never be recovered again 3. He detracts from the time of Antichrists reign allotted by the holy Ghost for Rev. 13. 5. Antichrist was to continue 1260. yeers but this man allows him but 698. yeers in all in which he diam●trally opposeth the Scripture at concerning Antichrist But concerning the devils being bound a thousand yeers from Christs incarnation or 72. yeers after this is so apparently oppugnant to the Scriptures that I do admire that any that hath read the Revelations should affirm it Yet is it not this mans opinion alone but Brightman Pareus Andreas and severall other Writers are of or neer the same opinion Which opinion I prove is absolutely against plain texts of Scripture as for the first 300. yeers after Christ the devil was so loose as that he sate in the throne the Romane throne and murthered the

to profes to be one of his followers so on the contrary Revel 14. 9. there the followers of the Lamb had his Fathers name written on them that was their marke the number of his name There is a difference betwixt the name of the beast and the beast it self the people of the earth measure the beasts name and therefore wonder at him but they that have wisdom number the beast himself and find him in every thing fall short of the true measuring Reed and therefore reject him as an Hypocrite and usurper The number of his name is put here in opposition to the number of the beast in the next verse To have the number of his name is to cry him up for a Saint by his good success and to honour him for his prosperity as fooles do but he that hath wisdom numbers the beast and measures him by the word If the beast be numbred by his name he is a Saint a destroyer of Antichrist one of Christs Instruments to pull down all those that stand up against his Kingdom if you measure his Army by their name they are all Saints the holy ones teachers and preachers men indued with spiritual gifts and divine qualifications beyond any Minister of the Gospel this is their name therefore they are called men of name Revel 11. 13. which shall be slain at the rising of the witnesses they are cryed up for Saints and admired by the world for their successes and Victories they measure only their name and that makes them cry up this beast for a Saint but marke what the Holy Ghost saith v. 18. Here is wisdom let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast Here is wisdom this is a phrase not used by way of exclamation as Pareus would have it but in opposition to those fooles and lack-wits who measure the name of the beast that is look upon him as he hath raised himself into great wealth and honour and esteeme in the world Behold say they his successes behold he is in possession of the three Kingdoms behold his fair promises behold his victories over his enemies behold how God hath answered his appeales to heaven he no sooner appeales to Heaven say they but he hath miraculous success against his enemies the Moon fights for him and the Heavens fight for him and he by a small number discomfits great Hosts of men and will any be so wicked as to think this man and his Army are not all Saints and his cause the just and the good cause whereas these men only measure the beast by his name they count the number of his name but those that have wisdom count the number of the beast Those that have the fear of God which is true understanding measure not the name but the beast let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amongst humanists as well as Divines is put to signifie measure as well as number the phrase is borrowed from the Jews Customs who in all things concerning the Temples service proceeded per number weight and measure Thus the utensels of the Tabernacle were numbred weighed and measured by Moses and those of the Temple by Solomon and the purest gospel-Gospel-Church is thus measured Revel 22. number weight and measure was the rule by which to know the truth of all things about Gods house now of these the greatest is number that hath the precedency they all depend one upon another he that numbereth rightly measureth rightly and he that measureth rightly weigheth rightly You may number without measuring or weighing but you cannot weigh or measure without numbering this differeth a foole from a wise man a foole can stretch out a line or fill an Ephah or he can put things into the Scales to weigh but he can neither measure aright nor weigh aright because he cannot number he cannot tell how many pounds it weighs nor how many Gallons it holds because he knowes not how to count and number them A Bowl of the Sanctuary which was of pure Gold had it not been weighed and measured and the weight and measure numbered might possibly have been stole and a guilded peece of Brasse more large and glorious to the sight put i● the Roome which fooles that only looked on the out-side and never measured nor weighed nor numbered it would have thought the more glorious Vessel but now the Officers of the Temple could not be cheated because they weighed measured and numbered it in the Church of God there are many peeces of Brasse and tinkling Simballs which make a farre more glorious showe then those that are just weight measure and number and are pure Gold but when they come to be measured by the golden Reed the word of God and weighed and measured and summed up they are found to light by those that have wisdom though fooles that look on their guilded out-sides dote upon them Let the spiritual wise man come and measure this beast that these fooles cry up so and they find him by the word of God a cheating false distembling guilded Hypocrite they 'l find him by the word of God to be a usurper a murtherer a Covenant-breaker and a Traytor as Mr. Thomas Goodwin calls him and the slayer of the witnesses The man of understanding that weighes him measures him and numbers him will find him to be the number of a man none of Gods number there 's not one such Vessel in the house of God as he he is weighed and found to light and therefore must be cast out from amongst the true Saints This beast and his new Government will be found but the number of a man a patcht piece of mans invention and none of Gods institution And his number is 666. these words seem to assert the former here is the product of his number 't is here summed up to be 666. now this is the number of a man of mans devising and not of Gods for Gods number runs upon 12. Patriarkes were the foundation of the Jewish Church the Church●Officers under the Law were numbered by 12. the Porters and the singers and the Priests their Orders run upon 12. The Gospel Church runs upon 12. The woeman is cloathed with 12. Starres Revel 12. The new Jerusalem is founded on 12. and hath 12. Gates Revel 21. But this beast being numbered he runs upon sixes his number runs upon sixes we reade of one Gyant an enemy to the Church that was famous for having 6. fingers on his right hand and 6. on his left and 6. toes on each of his feete and we read of an Image whose height was 60. Cubits and whose breadth 6. Cubits and here we reade of a beast whose number is 666. he runs upon sixes now whether the number of this beast alludes to that Image in dura which was numbered 66. or not I cannot tell it may be so for as that Image was the cause of dreadful prosecution to the Saints of God so

Iudgment come this the world hath warning of in v. 8. the next Angel follows saying v. 9. Babylon is fallen is fallen then the third Angel follows with a loud voice as the others do observe now is the time of loud voices in the Church which are heard untill the 7th Trumpet sound he forewarns every man of the danger of worshipping the Beast and his Image for saith he v 10. If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his forhead or on his hand the same shall drink the wine of the wrath of God v 11. Yea of the pure wine which is powred into the cup of his wrath and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb. v 12. And they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and receive the mark of his name there is the patience of the Saints here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the faith of Iesus These words are but once used before and that is in Rev. 13. 10. immediately before the rising of the Beast of the Earth Now here they are repeated to shew the cause of the Saints sufferings it shall be for opposing this Beast of the Earths new Government and not subscribing to be true and faithfull to it which is here set down by worshipping the Beast and his Image and receiving his mark this shall be one great cause of the Witneses slaying therefore in vers 13. there is a heavenly voice that says Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord and the Spirit gives two reasons 1. Because they rest from their exceeding pressure of calamity for so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which coms from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies 2. Their works follow them To read it according to the Greek copie 't is but their works follow them to note though the Witnesses be slain and that Reformation which they so laboured in be for a time plucked out of their hands so that they are forced as Nehemiah to cease from their labors yet that work shall follow them the work of Reformation shall follow the slain Witnesses Blessed are the dead this is either to set out the horrible tribulation of these times as in Matth. 24. Mark 13. and Luke 21. they are called so that he shall be blessed that is taken to God from out of these troubles or rather for incouragement to the godly Magistracy and Ministery which are persecuted imprisoned and banished and in danger of their lives for keeping their Covenant and their integrity and not breaking Gods commandements either the first or the second Table Therefore Ver. 12. it is added Here are they that keep the commandements of God it seems it shall be a time of trampling Gods Law under foot so that they that keep Gods commandements shall be rare and eminent men it shall be a rare thing to find a faithfull man When Christ comes 't is spoken of this time of his coming in the white cloud as followes shall he find faith on the earth 'T will be a rare thing to find either faithfull Magistrate or Minister or men of a strong faith most men will comply and ingage through the weaknesse of their faith Observe what followes this time of slaying the Witnesses vers 14. And I looked and behold a white cloud and upon the cloud one like the Son of Man having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle After the slaying of the Witnesses immediately followes Christ in the cloud with his sickle in his hand Observe that in the 14 15 16. Chapter they all make one vision and every verse from the 14. Chapter to the end of the 16. begins with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 except when the sense is continued in two Verses or a reason in one is given of the former which is not above thrice throughout the three Chapters there is no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be found the matter in the three Chapters is copulative In the first part of this Chapter you have the Witnesses finishing their testimony the Church coming out of Babylon having made a progresse in reformation the chief instruments are slain the Magistrates and the Ministers who had taken infinite pains had thrown down Superstition Prelacy and Popery and covenanted to establish the Gospell in its purity these on a suddain when they had finished their testimony are cast out of their Offices imprisoned banished and beheaded In Rev. 20. 4. there is the manner of the Witnesses punishment and the cause of their sufferings For the cause of Christ and for the Word of God for going about to establish the truth of Christ according to the Word of God for so the Covenant runs they were cut off with the axe There 's both the Magistrates punishment and the cause plainly set down And which did not worship the Beast neither his image neither had taken his mark on their foreheads or on their hands that is they refused to acknowledge or own the authority of the Beast of the Earth 't is certain that this can be meant of none but the Beast of the Earths government for this power of setting up an Image and inforcing men to worship it is attributed to none but him And whether the punishments prescribed be not now inflicted upon the Covenant-keeping Ministery this day let all the world judge There hath nothing been so clearly fulfilled in the eyes of the world this thousand years as this of the slaying of the Witnesses this day in our eyes Oh that we had hearts to conceive aright of it Vers 4. But now followes the glorious day Christ in a white cloud Here two Propositions must be cleared First Here begins the seventh trumpet to sound Secondly The seventh sounding causeth all the vialls to be powred out on the Beast of the Earth on the Beast of the Sea and on the Prince of the Ayre Then begins the seventh trumpet to sound when Christ begins to take the Kingdoms of the world and make them his own and reigne over them Rev. 11. 15. But in Rev. 14. 14. then Christ is crowned with a golden crown when he sits on his white cloud therefore the time of Christs coming in the cloud is the time of the seventh trumpets sounding and for this cause saith the Holy Ghost lest men should mistake the time Rev. 11. 14. The second woe is past and the third woe cometh quickly when the two Witnesses stand upon their feet and are called up to heaven then the seventh trumpet coms swiftly and without delay for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies therefore Rev. 16. 15. in the very middle of the narration of the great battell that the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet shall f●ght against the Lamb when they gather together to that great battell Christ gives this warning to the Church that when

the Eastern Gentiles destruction but glorious conversion A remnant onely of the Antichristian Faction shall be converted Rev. 11. 13. Secondly This Battel cannot be fought after the Vialls are powred out for the Vials produce the utter ruine of the Enemies of the Church Now if the Battel should be after the Enemies of the Church are overthrown it must necessarily be a Battel with the Ayr as we say there are no Enemies to be subdued all 's finished when the Vials are powred out Therefore by necessary consequence it is cleer that the great Battel and the Vials are one and the same thing Now then put all together if the Vials and the Battel be the same and this Battel must be fought by the Witnesses and their Army with whom Christ by his mighty power will eminently go forth for in no other sence is Christ coming on a white horse to be taken and these must appear in fine and white linnen which is contrary to sackcloth which in till then they were and at this Battel the Beast and the false Prophet and the Dragon must be ruined Then I prove that this Battel is not far off and that from the Doctors own calculations in his Thanksgiving Sermon There he proves to my hand from Rev. 13. 5. that Antichrist began his 42 Moneths Raign which makes up 1260 years which is the time of the Witnesses abiding in the Wilderness and in Sackcloth Now saith he Antichrist began to work and act vigorously about the year 390 after Christ I do believe this of the Doctors to be a reall truth and for confirmation of the same I will add one word or two I do affirm that about that year 390. the Bishop of Rome began to be formally Antichrist for then they began to claim an independent power as unto the Magistracy and Ministery He claimed a priviledge of being exempted from the censures of Councels as being above them for he made the Eastern Councels but his Sons and he their Father and Sons have not power to censure their Father and then they began to overlook Emperours to excommunicate them to depose them and to free themselves from their censures Hereupon the Magistracy and Ministery were in a short time brought under the Popes feet and made to wear sackcloth and then the Church fled into the place prepared of God for her Re● 12. 6. which place is England as shall be proved The Devils stratagems of setting up Independency in the Chair of Rome was the Key of the bottomless pit which the Devil put into the Popes hands and it is indeed the formalis ratio Antichristi for Independency set the Bishops of Rome above Magistracy and above Ministery above mans Law and above Scriptures and Gods Law as their Decretals manifest therefore Paul 2 Thess 2. sets him out to the life ver 4. He opposeth himself above all that is called God above every Magistrate and then he as God sits in the Temple of God that is in the Church of God for Rome was for a long time the purest Church Now in this Church the Independent Prelate sits as God making Laws like a God None but God hath an Independent power but the Pope he takes upon him an Independent liberty and authority and priviledge of himself and by himself alone and without any other he takes upon him to alter Scripture add to Scripture and detract from it in this he sets himself even above God and so is the true Antichrist Now this Independent power the Bishop of Rome began to put in practice about the year 390. to which add the just measure of the time of this Antichrists raign which is 1260 years and it makes compleatly 1650. The other pertinent place which the Doctor alledgeth is Dan. 12. 11. from the time the daily sacrifice shall be taken away there shall be 1290 dayes that is years now about the year 360. that destructive abomination of ruining their Temples foundation overturning their Altars and destroying their Sacrifices and burning their Utensels and so putting to an end their Sacrifices began now add to 360. 1290. and it makes 1650. Now this year 1650. saith the Doctor must be the great year of doing great things against Antichrist pag. 17. He calls wise men to consider how here in England there hath been a King bound and some Nobles he means beheaded and how Kingdoms have been changed into Common-wealths and how Scotland hath been beaten over and over he leaves wise men to consider whether these are not high acts of throwing down Antichrist These acts he calleth pag. 18. the making good of his Doctrine and upon that account exhorts the people to praise God for cutting off the King and throwing down the House of Lords and from pag. 25. to pag. 27. or thereabouts he sets up a tone of rayling in the most ridiculousest style and weakest way of arguing against the Protestants of England for not keeping the Thanksgiving day that I am ashamed our English Nation should be so much disgraced as to have the Title of Doctor set before it In pag. 32. he tells the Lord Major and the rest of the Companies That they must not onely as Saints give thanks but as people considered in opposite distinction to Kings Monarchy being turned into Democracy Kingdoms into Common-wealths This Democracie he highly commends and in the same page with a Whores or rather with a Whore-masters fore-head affirms this most andacious and notorious untruth That this government was anciently among the Jews in the time of the Judges I have already proved this Doctor to be a Teacher of false Doctrines therefore I pass by these things onely I would intreat the Reader to take notice how under the pretence of crying down Antichrist there are subtill deceivers not onely crept in but rushed in and by authority maintained allowed and ushered in to depress and destroy the true Saints and Church of God by stigmatizing them with the mark of Antichristianism and to exalt and extoll the actors and actions of these whose design is wholly to exalt Antichrist Was it ever heard before that Protestants made a day of rejoycing for the fall of a Protestant Nation and a Protestant King Who truly rejoyceth at this but Rome and the Romish Factors I l'e say no more to this but return to the Doctors Calculations and out of his own mouth by Gods grace I hope to make it cleer that what he calls the throwing down of Antichrist is the s●aying of the Witnesses and these which he calls the Saints and Holy Ones are they that are the slayers of the Witnesses The Doctor is strongly conceited that this year 1650. shall be a year of terrible things against Rome his grounds for it are plausible I do confess it and I am upon the same grounds as confident as he That Rome shall have a fatall blow immediatly after this year I know many are ready to laugh at this opinion and say Was Rome ever in

for the most part take the Engagement they have only a few Presbyterians who are impoverished in their Estates cast out of Office and out-lawed that adheare to them and they only in affection all they can do is to fast and pray and powre out their souls both in publique and private for the distressed Magistracy and Ministery of Scotland this is all the help they can afford them France cannot help themselves much lesse are they able to help Scotland in their distresses Now this day there is a vast and terrible Army gone up against them and if that Army should overcome and ruine utterly the Magistracy and Ministery in Scotland the Protestant Religion would not have any place in Europe to rest the sole of his foot on I am informed also that in New-England the same subtill Jesuited Saints that have blown us up in Old-England have put them also into miserable confusion and civill broils Judge now Christian Reader how neer the Church is to it 's dreadfull overthrow Now here is the comfort these troubles and great calamities of the Church are the sure fore-runners of the Church her great deliverance the world cannot believe this and the reason is because they have no true faith nor patience though they talk much of it an Hypocrites faith is not able to defend him in such fiery afflictions nor his patience able to go through such miery ways of persecution hypocrites many brag of their helmet and breast plate but onely reall Saints can shew the shooes of patience and perseverance the shield of faith in such times as these when hypocrites gracesare be jaded the Saints go on merrily though hypocrites say 't is impossible the times should turn or that ever the Covenant-Reformation should be carryed son therefore unworthy-timerous-professors now commonly ay Truly we are in the dark we know not what to think such a hypocrite sees if he hold to his principles he shall be in the dark of affliction and therefore he makes a stop and turns back Another more subtil in his hypocrisie cries out for Brotherly-love and peaceable complyance and he to follow after temporal peace casts off the paths of righteousness against his oaths and vows the truth is he is an hypocrite that hath not patience to walk in the thorny-stony-way of persecution but a reall Saint hath these two graces eminently shining in him he wil not dispond nor murmure against God or the Cause of God though the Cause of God and the Defenders of it be under great reproach and cruell p●rsecution he 'll believe in a persecuted reproached wounded forsaken and crucified Christ as well as in a glorified and an exalted Christ and then he follows Christ patiently through hunger and cold and disgrace as well as in the midst of prosperity and ease he 'll be in the ship with Christ as well when that ship is in a storm as when 't is in a calm and all because he hath a strong faith in Christ he knows that he can never sink so long as Christ is with him he knows 't is for the glory of that God whom he serves to bring his people into the Valley of Achor before he open a door of hope 't is true the times are now sad and it is the blackest day now with the Church of England and Scotland that ever was known or seen but is this an argument with a reall Saint therefore to leave the Church God forbid a reall Saint will trust in God yea and die for the truth though he kill me yet will I trust in him and therefore by way of admiration the Holy Ghost saith Here is the patience and here is the faith of the Saints and here are they that keep the Commandements There are without Apostates Persecuters Covenant-breakers Traytors unnaturall men but here are they that keep the Commandements here 's Covenant-keepers sincere worshippers of God holding fast to their principles Their graces shall in this age distinguish them from other men in the world by their constancy in the truth and their cheerful and patient bearing Christs yoak Now here is the comfort as this day none shall be like it for affliction so none shall be like it for deliverance This day Jer. 30. 6 7 8. sets forth the time of affliction which shall come upon the Cdurch before the seventh Trumpet which calls the twelve Tribes to believe in Jesus Christ It shall be a day of grievous sorrow for the present such is a womans in travel which is grievous but short and it brings abundance of comfort after the sorrow but v. 7. tells us what kind of trouble it shall be it is a day i.e. a year none hath been like it it is even the day of Jacob●s trouble now Jacob's trouble you shall read in Gen. 32. The good-man was going from a cruel-master with his wives and all his substance into Canaan after he had gone some days journey his father-in-law pursues him fiercely with armed men but God delivering Jacob from that Enemy the very next news that he hears is that Esau his brother Esau was coming with an Army against him What a straight was poor Jacob in had he gone back he had been made a slave of by his cruel Father-in-law if he went forward his own brother that came out of the same womb and sucked of the same breast would kill him and take his wives and all his substance what a fright was he in at this time Even so shall the Church of God at this time immediatly before the seed of Jacob return again to their own country the Church of God which hath been delivered from an open cruel Enemy that persecuted her shall on a sudden and unexpectedly fall into the bloudy hands of one that like Esau comes out of the bowels of the Church but it is an Apostate that for the pottage of preferment and worldly pomp hath sold himself to work all manner of mischief against the Church but here is the comfort in the same verse yet the Church shall be delivered from it in the Evening of this day it shall be light to the Church of God and then follows the 12 Tribes conversion Q. But where shall this great deliverance of the Church be A. In Esay 59. 18 19. He will destroy with his fury the Lord Jesus will his enemies in the Islands so shall they fear his name from the West and his glory from the rising of the Sun His lightning shall shine in the West when he comes to destroy his enemies Mat. 24. 27. and this he will do by a mighty deliverance of the Church for when the Enemies shall come like a floud against which there 's no standing then the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him or neerer the Copy put him to flight and then the Lord Jesus will call the Tribes of Israel the twelve Tribes to submit to the Gospel when mans power is not able to withstand