end turnes to whoredome beware of it for it shall bee a marke betweene them that hate mee and you that keepe my Comandements and though I will not at any time bee farre from you yet you shall fall by Captivitie and persecution to spread my name or for the Triall of your Faith when you see their Idolatrie pull downe their high Places Preach against them say Little Children ignorant people that vnderstand not the slights of Sathan Beware of Idols tender natures encounter strongest motions Top-sayles are first assaulted No man so well knowes his owne frailtie as the Lord your God knowes how prone Devotion is to Superstition Also when yee goe in and out amongst the Heathen folke or if the Lord giue them into your hands as the Amalikites were given into the hand of the Children of Israell when the Prophet said what meaneth this bleating in mine eares SAULS excuse shall not availe you to say we set them vp for Saints before the Lord the Images of IUPITER for Iesus Christ the Statue of HERCULES for CHRISTOPHER VENUS and the little Lad for the blessed Virgin as holy as Scar-crowes in a Garden of Cowcumbers You that cannot make one haire white or blacke will yee goe a Whoring after your owne inventions to humble your selues before Pageants Pictures Images with eyes that see not Eares without hearing c. More senslesse then a Beast yet these rare Mamets the light of the Sunne is too darke for them without Candles when the Members of Christ goe naked these must bee cloathed not for warmnesse but for wantonnesse and these are the Babyes made and dressed by the Divell and decked to please his Children abhorred and abominable in the sight of the Lord. Lastly with these lines the Temple of God is Measured and them that worship therein Measuring is for Numbering place is put for time and sometimes space a thousand sixe hundred furlongs Signifying the persecution of the Church so many yeares reward her even as she rewarded you To rise therefore and Measure the time begin from the taking away of the daily Sacrifice or the Destruction of Ierusalem and count a thousand two hundred and threescore yeares wherein for the absence of the Church in the Wildernesse the two Witnesses did Prophesie clothed in Sackcloth so many yeares of Mists and darknesse to these must be added some dayes of faire weather a hundred forty and foure thousand amounting to foure hundred yeares and odde having their fathers name written in their foreheads these sing as it were a new song These are Virgins not defiled with women Chaste conversation not commanding laciviousnesse by forbidding Marriage waxing worse and worse The Temple was not built in a day it is three Stories the foure hundred yeares are to be devided into three severall parts Seventy yeares and odde vntill the destruction of Ierusalem when the Apostles finished their testimony thirty yeares are restored for the raigne of CONSTANTINE the great the remaines remaine for these last times being the same eighteene thousand Measures spoken by EZEKIEL the Prophet the Measure of the Temple within are not summed vp I presume not to looke into the account the Measure of it round about without I heard the number of them cast vp Eighteen thousand Measures every Measure sixe Cubits according to the Measure of a man That is of the Angell three hundred yeares odde and the name of the City from that day shal bee God is there that said Son of Man the place of my Throne and the place of the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the middest of the Children of Israell for ever and my holy Name shall the house of Israell no more defile c. Blessed is he that waiteth and commeth to the thousand three hundred and fiue and thirty yeares these are the blessed times of IOHN WICKLIFFE IOHH Hus both famous Martyrs and burning Lights set vp to shew forth the state and beauty of the truth one burnt aliue the other after hee was dead being hard to judge in which of these the Devill the Father of lyes Antichrist his crucifying Sonne and the Dragon expressed most malice from which cursed triplicitie three Monsters of the bottomlesse Pit God deliver vs who will giue vs a Crowne of life Come Lord IESUS the grace of our Lord IESUS CHRIST bee with you all Amen Last of all the whole world is numbred and those that worke abomination therein and the delights thereof weighed in the balances are found lighter then vanitie it selfe There is nineteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Iudgement Iuly the 28. M.DC.XXV Sixe hundred and threescore Moneths are excluded from this last Age of seventeene hundred yeares And I thinke that I haue also the Spirit of God DANIEL Hee that is vniust and filthy let him bee so still and hee that is righteous and holy let him bee so still for behold hee will come quickly and his reward is with him Blessed are they that doe his Commandements FINIS
keepe backe so much as the least whose names are written in the Booke of life And lastly Viper seed of the olde Serpent thy sentence is for that bold attempt Fuller of malice then hurt thy house shall be burned with vnquenchable Fire the Place sowne with vnsauory poysoned Salt and thy Carrion-carkasse swallowed vp of thine owne Brood the second Death All which mysticall Weeke or Seaven Moneths formerly mentioned as it is spoken by the Prophet EZECHIEL The Land of Israell shal be burying of Gog that Sathan that the Land may be cleansed Hitherto are the matters talked of between the man GABRIEL and the Prophet DANIEL CHAP. X. IN the third yeare of CYRVS King of Persia a thing was revealed to DANIEL whose name was called BELTESHAZZER and the thing was true but the time appointed was long These are the things not only come to passe in this latter age of the world but at this time and in this day signified by the Son of God to the Prophet PRINCE OF PERSIA I CAN POPE FRIERS Divell I can Pope Friers Man hold vp my Traine Pope Kings I Depose and all their Race to Raigne Divell And Popes to Friers I can turne againe The Prince of the Kingdome of Persia that Lord by whom the Lord of Lords was withstood is Sathan the Divell MICHAEL one of the first Princes that came then to helpe him This is IAMES King of Great Britaine and the man who is raised on high The one and Twenty dayes the Lord making no forfeiture are so many Hundred yeares beginning at the Vision and ending this present 1600. And so long the words of this Vision haue been closed sealed vp Even till now the time of the end This most Blessed person the Saviour of the world remained with the Kings of Persia the Roman Emperors signified so vnto DANIEL being the present Monarchy till there arose vp a new King in Egipt which knew not IOSEPH and said vnto his People Behold the People of the Children of Israell are more and mightier then wee Therfore set over thē Taskmasters to afflict them with Burthens but the more they did afflict them the more they multiplied and grew These Kings placed in the highest Thrones to walke in his Statutes to execute his Iudgements but because they gaue more Eare and harkened rather to false Prophets then to ELIAS and MOSES for severitie and meeknesse Representing the Law and the Gospell suffering their Bodies to lye dead in the streets in an vnknowne Tongue even hee the Lord departed from them and with the sword of his Mouth will fight with their Prince Sathan renewing alwayes his old quarrell against the Church of God And here these Kings forsaken of IESVS CHRIST for one secret friend which is the Divell they haue two open Enemies the Turke and the Pope making their Crownes his footstoole this did not CAESAR by these Three the Empire being devided what can remaine but the bare Image or the Image of the Picture of him whose deadly wound was healed Bearing at this day as Thunder goes before Lightning for their fatall device the sad Fowle blazoned with the ominous Colours of the blacke Horse for feare but halfe displaying her wings in stead of her beake shee casts her heads the Eagle hath Mued her Feathers Though thou exalt thy selfe as the Eagle and though thou set thy neast amongst the Starres thence will I bring thee downe saith the Lord. These things hitherto mentioned concerning the last Vision is the preamble for this that followeth for here the Sonne of God whose eyes were like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brasse saith he will shew vnto the man greatly beloued that which is noted in the Scripture of truth which is the Reuelation the sayings of which are faithfull and true that there is none or but one that holdeth with him in these things which is the true Interpretation of the Scripture but MICHAEL our Prince of Great Britaine and Ireland that fights and contends with the Enemies of the Lord about his Body disputing with them haue transubstantiated changed the truth of God into a lye worshipping and serving the Creature more then the Creator for which cause God gaue them vp c. Now followeth that that is noted in the Scripture of that Prince After the Temple of God was opened in Heaven wherein was seene the Arke of his Testament overlaid round about with gold wherein was the golden Pot that had Manna and ARONS Rodde that budded and the Tables of the Covenant And over it the Cherubins of glory covering the Mercy-Seate and Lightnings and voyces and Thunders c. This is the Millitant Church that brought foorth the Man-childe the word of God caught vp vnto God and to his Throne after which the Woman fled into the Wildernesse where shee was fed A thousand two hundred and threescore dayes which are so many yeares The first accompt beginneth from the destruction of Ierusalem when the abomination of desolation did stand in the Holy place the yeares being the same spoken in the last Vision of the Prophet DANIEL though thirty yeares be taken away because the Court without the Temple was left out given vnto the Gentiles for the Raigne of the first Christian Emperour These yeares doe reach to the dayes of those blessed Men when the light of the Gospell did first begin to shine after the great Mist lasting a Thousand two hundred and ninetie yeares dayes of darknesse and gloominesse of Cloudes and thicke Mists when the third part of the Sunne was smitten and the third part of the Moone and the third part of the Starres which are innumerable After these dayes were past there was warre in Heaven MICHAEL and his Angells fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angells the Iesuites and prevailed not neither was their place found any more in Heaven Heaven is here taken in this place for the Church of God the fray is fought by seconds by MICHAEL is meant King IAMES The Dragon needs little exposition It is the Pope for MICHAEL overcame by the blood of the Lambe and by the testimony of so many Bishops and other faithfull crowned with the Glory of Martyrdome Therefore reioyce yee Church of God yee Congregations of the faithfull and ye Professors that dwell amongst them and woe to the Earth and to the Sea the Congregation of that Sinagogue the Sea of Rome Sathans seate where Sathan dwelleth for the Pope the Dragon the Divell is amongst you having great wrath because he knoweth he hath but a short time two woes are past and behold the third woe commeth shortly Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works follow them and this is the truth noted in the Scripture of Truth of MICHAEL And God make the name and Throne of the King his Sonne better and greater then his Though I owe no defence for the name of an
draweth nigh vnto them and bringeth them out of their distresse hee maketh the storme a calme as a Childe even so suddenly he stilleth the roaring Waues of this Tempestious Sea lifted vp with the stormy windes of Sathans malice Therefore thus saith the Lord vnto Tyrus O thou that art Scituate at the entry of the Sea which art a Merchant for the People for many Isles Thus saith the Lord God O Tyrus thou hast said I am a perfect beautie Thy Borders are in the midst of the Seas thy buildings haue perfected thy beautie they haue made all thy Ship Boords all of Firre Trees of Senir they haue taken Cedars from Libanan to make Masts for thee of the Okes of Bashan haue they made thine Oares the Company of the Ashurites haue made thy Benches of Ivorie brought out of the Isles of Chittim Fyne Linnen with broydered worke from Egipt was that which thou spreadest forth to bee thy Sayle Blew and Purple from the Isles of ELISHAH was that which covered thee c. And Armies of the vngodly shall stand on his part they shall pollute the Sanctuary of strength and shall take away the daily Sacrifice and shall place therein the abomination that maketh the house of God desolate turning it into a Den of Theeues the daily Sacrifice or the Lords Supper shall be taken away to place the Divells Idoll the Supper of the Lord instituted in remembrance of our Redemption as the Passeover was a Commemoration that the Lord passed over the houses of the Children of Israel in Egipt when hee smote the Egiptians and delivered them DAVID a man after Gods own heart poured out vnto the Lord the Water of Bethelem that he so sore longed to drinke the blood of Mortall men that went in jeopardy of their liues yet damned people are told they drinke of God our Lord IESUS CHRIST his heart-blood Shewing themselues more thirsty after it then the greedy Iewes these blood-suckers will haue it before his side be pierced And such as doe wickedly against the Covenant to breake the Commandements of God the vow vowed in their Baptisme by which they forsake the Divell with all the Covetous and Carnall desires of the flesh these vncleane vilde persons shall be corrupted by flatteries and easily drawne from the truth to beleeue a lye that they may bee damned that hath pleasure in vnrighteousnesse but the People that know God and feare him shall be strong he shall cover their heads in the day of Battaile and they shall doe exploits yet they that vnderstand among the People and their Teachers that instruct them these shall fall by the sword and by flame and imprisonment and by spoyle of their goods many dayes yet feare none of these things for hee that neither slumbers nor sleepes will arise and take his owne quarrell into his hand and you shall be holpen with a little helpe Therfore trust not in multitude of Forces neither them that will cleaue to you with flatteries for they will worke deceitfully as they haue done in former times nor expect a finall end of these persecutions Sathan will sift the tayle corne is his owne If they call the Master of the house BELZEBUB what respect can yee looke for that are of the houshold And in the King shall do according to his will and hee shall exalt himselfe and magnifie himselfe aboue every God and shall speake marvellous things against the God of Gods great words against the most High and shall weare out the Saints of the Most high and thinke to change times and Lawes and shall prosper till the indignation bee accomplished for that that is determined shall bee done Neither shall he regard the God of his Fathers nor desire of Women neither shall she retaine the power of the Arme being a branch of vngrafted Roots nor regard any God but shall magnifie himselfe aboue all In his estate hee shall honour the God of Forces and Battell being terrible to the servants of God and his Enemies a God that his fore fathers knew not or an Altar shall he honour with Gold and Silver and with Pretious stones and pleasant things thus shall hee doe in the most strong holds with this God a stranger for many yeares to the Apostles and their followers whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory and hee shall cause in stead of Shepheards Dogs and Wolues in sheep-skins to rule over many as Lords over Gods heritage and they shall not onely devide the Land for filthy lucre but make Merchandizes of mens Consciences But if GOD spared not the Angels what shall become of these cursed Children that haue not onely lost the Flocke but gone astray and runne away themselues following the way of BALAM the Son of BOZER who loved the wages of vnrighteousnesse having eyes full of Adultery even when they speake their great swelling words of Vanitie and Absolution at that time they allure to the Lusts of the Flesh and much Wantonnesse leading simple women into Captivitie promising libertie that are themselues the servants of Corruption wallowing in the Myre like filthy Swine to cleanse themselues by wresting the Scriptures to their owne destruction licking vp againe the vnsavorie meate themselues could ill disgest not long agoe and running downe headlong into the deepe Lake of Fyre and Brimstone whose latter end is worse then their beginning it had beene better for these men to haue continued Heathens as they were at first in the pollutions of the world then after they haue knowne the way of righteousnesse to turne from it crucifying the Sonne of God afresh and putting him to open shame And at the time of the End shall the King of the South push at him with all his Spanish Pikes and the King of the North shall come against him like a whirlewinde with Chariots and with Horsemen and with many Ships The Lord of Hosts send them Victorie and he shall enter into the Countries and shall overflow and passe over hee shall enter also into the glorious Land Domina gentium and many Countries shall be overthrowne but these shall escape out of his hand even Edom and Moab and the chiefe of the Children of AMMON his Confederates he shall stretch forth his hand also vpon the Countries and the Land of Egipt shall not escape But hee shall haue powers over the Treasures of Gold and of Silver and over all the Precious things of Egipt and the Libians and the Ethiopians shall bee at his steps But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him therfore he shall goe forth with a great furie to destroy and vtterly to make away many And hee shall plant the Tabernacles of his Cedars Pallace betweene the Seas in the glorious holy Mountaine yet he shall come to his end and none shall helpe him Therefore take vp a lamentation for the King of Tyrus whose Cedars are for the building of both Houses and say thou hast beene in EDEN the Garden of GOD
every pretious Stone to garnish the foundation was thy Covering the Ruby the Topaz and the Diamond the Berill the Onix the Iasper and the Saphire these things were prepared for thee Thou art annointed the Cherube that Covereth thou wast vpon the holy Mountaine of GOD and thou hast walked vp and downe in the middest of the Stones of Fyre but because thou hast lifted vp thy heart and said I am GOD I haue subdued three Kings I sit in the middest of the Seas and hast defiled thy sacred Houses I will bring thee to Ashes and none shall help thee As I liue saith the Lord I will even doe according to thine anger and according to thine Envie which thou hast vsed out of thy hatred against them and I will make my selfe knowne amongst them when I haue judged thee and thou shalt know that I am the Lord and that I haue heard all thy Blasphemy which thou hast spoken against the Mountaine of Israell Saying they are layd desolate by Massacre they are given vs to consume by the sword thus with thy mouth thou hast Boasted against Mee therefore shortly when the whole Land of Israell reioyceth I will make thee desolate then thou shalt know that I the LORD doe Sanctifie Israell when my Sanctuary shall bee in the middest of them for ever Therefore ô King of the North arise from thy Throne lay thy Royall Robe aside and cause a Decree through Tyrus to be published saying Let them turne every one from his evill way and from the violence or vnnaturall shedding of Blood that is in their hands c. Who can tell if GOD will turne and repent and turne away from his fierce anger that wee goe not into Perdition DANIEL CHAP. XII IAMES CHARLES ARE MICHAELSS AND at that time shall MICHAEL stand vp the great Prince that defends the Faith CHARLES King of Great Britaine France and Ireland which standeth for the faithfull Children of our Nation the Saints of the most Highest As the Angell of God so is my Lord the King to discerne good and bad therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee for ever And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation even to that same time blessings and great felicities being for the most part accompanied with Corrections and extraordinary Calamities Devotion and Religion of happinesse in this life the Highest not exempt from superstition and heresie And at that time thy People shall bee delivered Every one whose name is found written in the Booke c. AL TRVTHS CESAR Behold the Lord is at the Dore as a man come from a farre journey All that sleepe in the Dust of the Earth shall heare his voyce and awake and come forth those that haue done good to the Resurrection of life These haue their part in the first Resurrection and those that haue done evill vnto the Resurrection of Damnation Then the Angell came downe from Heaven hauing taken from the false Prophet the Key of the Bottomlesse pit having in his hand a great Chaine hee shall next lay hold on the Dragon the Devill and hee shall bee bound a Thousand yeares or one day which is all one with the Lord he shall shut him vp and set a Seale vpon him for the wrath of the Lord that day shall bee a sufficient marke that the Nations be deceived no more This Thousand yeares is the great day of the Lord to poure out his wrath and just indignation vpon his Enemies But the wise Virgins with Palmes in their hands that haue not beene deceived by the subtilty or force of flatterers shall shine in their Robes as the brightnesse of the Firmament Kings Daughters attended by honourable Matrons as Starres for ever and ever prepared for the Bridegroomes Marriage whose Wife the Bride and Queene hath made her selfe ready clothed in fine Linnen cleane and white arrayed in a Garment of Needle-worke wrought with Gold of Ophier the Daughter of Tyre shall bee there with a Gift she shall be brought to the King with gladnesse and reioycing they shall enter into his Pallace saying O King thy Throne is for ever and ever thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse therefore God thy God annoynt thee with gladnesse aboue thy fellowes After this Thousand yeares the great Day of the solemnitie finished the Bride being safe in her closset and Marriage chamber Sathan the olde Serpent shall be loosed a little season as Prisoners are set at libertie when they goe to the place of Execution to receiue his finall sentence of everlasting Damnation yet hoping in his vaine imagination and hart that cannot repent to deceiue the Nations that are at rest to take a prey to goe vp to the Citie that is in safetie that needs no Wall neither the light of the Sunne or the Moone c. Vnto whom the just Iudge frō his Throne of Glory with a terrible looke for furie jealousie shall come vp into his face shall say vnto him Art thou he whom I haue spoken of in olde time by my servants the Prophets to giue the Nations warning of thee how thou diddest not onely like a foole deceiue thy selfe when thou saidst I will ascend vp and be like the most highest but like a cursed creature didst deceiue their innocent Parents be prepared therefore and prepare thy selfe and all thy Company and see whether thou canst be a guard vnto them or what defence they can make for themselues who could not be ignorant and ought not to be carelesse because by mine owne Mouth I gaue them warning that after many dayes thou shouldst be visited and brought a Prisoner into the Land which is now brought backe from the Sword and cleansed though it lay waste a time and the Villages thereof vnwalled For these I commanded them straightly to watch both concerning the things I fore-told them should come to passe as also of this houre lest like a Theefe or as the Flood came vpon their fore-fathers the Vngodly they should be surprised vnawares because I told you of these things before depart I know yee not nor that Captaine your false Prophet are yee those that eate my flesh and drinke my blood whence are yee I never knew you more then you knew mine or Me cursed and deformed crew with stiffe neckes double crooked hearts deafe Adders and blinde People with eyes goe yee cursed into everlasting fire Wee haue eaten and Drunke in thy presence all the world was taxed by the Prince of our Nation and thou hast taught in our streets Their iniquitie is the greater thrust them out Lord Lord come out Dogs and Swine Apes and Satiers hence here all Lyers Scoffers at the truth vncleane persons for here shall enter in no wise any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh Abomination or maketh a Lye but they which are written in the Lambes Booke of Life But thou ô DANIEL shut vp the words and seale vp this Booke to the time of the end