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A79562 The camp of Christ, and the camp of Antichrist, all troopers after the Lambe. Revel. 10. 11. 14. or his two horns, Rev. 13. 11, 12. 1642 (1642) Wing C398; Thomason E127_17; ESTC R21625 17,888 16

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begin una hora ver 12. It is a rule in the Word that wrath should be feared when God does first inflict it as in the captivitie of the City and the Sanctuary 2. King 25.3.8 There be seven yeers difference and the judgement begins with the first to account the seventie yeers captivitie But in Mercies it is clean contrary the return of the people was a great blessing Ezr. 1.1 but the building of the Sanctuary a greater Ezr. 6.14 and so the sure account of 70. weeks for the wellfare of the Jews must begin with the second yeer of Darius Nothus Ezr. 4.24 Happy are the Nations that take notice of Christ when he is angry lest it kindle into wrath and they perish Psal 2. 12. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him Mercie is at hand to this Nation that with zeal seek to set up Gods Sanctuary amongst us and the time will be shortly when we shall see it in the expulsion of those clouds that have fallen upon us since Reformation began amongst us but by reason of the Samaritanes that dwell amongst us could not to this day be accomplished You have heard that judgement should be speedily looked unto and Antichrist was not of 700. yeers thought of but began as Magnum mundo malum when these ten Kings fell from one Cesar They are the Apostles words 2. Thes 2.3 a falling away first that is of duty to Cesar and faith to the Lord Jesus Christ The Crowns depart from the heads of the Cesars Revel 12.3 to the horns of these Kings Rev. 13.1 This Apostasie of kingdoms is the evidence we must have for the other being a mysterie and not so manifest at the first There are noted three divisions of the Romane Monarchie the first by Constantine the second by Theodosius the third by Charles the great We must begin at the second for no sooner had Honorius and Arcadius the Empire shared between them but the West part was quickly distracted and dilacerated as we have said and Augustus Cesar breathed out the ghost in Augustulus when Odoacer made him abdicate and devest himself of all Imperiall dignitie The miserie began by Alaricus Ann. 395. was followed by Radagaisus and the miseries of warre like a Northerne storme Revel 7. fell upon the people as grasse and the Princes of the Provinces as the taller Cedars Zech. 11.2 and then the very mountain of the Monarchie was moved Rev. 8.8 and cloven asunder into ten kingdoms and the Westerne starre fals out of the orbe thereof Revel 8.10 so that between the first assault by Alaricus and this of Odoacer Ann. 475. we may state the division to be made perfect in the number of ten Kings Anno 456. Martian in the East was a good King in those miserable times and had peace and died before he had fully reigned seven yeers leaving behind him great grief in the hearts of the people because they lost so good a man He called the fourth generall Councell wherein Leo and his Legates stormed at the honour done to the Patriarke of Constantinople fearing some might advance him above the Pope whose perking up in pride prepared for Antichrist who prevailed least in the East till the second Nicene Councell which was the first that ever decreed the worship of Images The Greek Emperours still retaining the name as Leo Isaurus Constantinus Cabalinus Nicephorus Stauratius Leo A●menus Michael Baldus Theophilus opposed when Gregory the second and third Paul the first Stephen the fourth Adrian the first and second Leo the third Nicholas the first c. upheld them 338. Bishops in a Councell at Constantinople Ann. 754 solemnly condemned them and 787 their veneration was made a Law which to that day was a private opinion and as Irene and after her Basilius gave Images their first honour so God dishonoured their succession with the Saracens and Turks and the next Generall Councels as the Papists call them were all to make warre with the judgements of God for the sinnes of the Church and the children of God that repented but none at all to pull down Idolatrie for the ten Councels called by the Popes of Rome are not one of them like the first but are found to handle these matters fitter for a Councell of Warre then Consistory of Priests First they consult of an holy Warre with the Saracens and Turks and so pilgrimes go out of the West into the East to purchase graves to themselves in the Holy Land by fighting with God in his two woes Revel 9. and the very sinne that caused them is expressed v. 20. of which they repented not and prospered accordingly Secondly they are recalled again from the East into the West to fight with the Waldenses and Emperours that stood in the Popes light and lastly the Kings and Princes of Germanie that have forsaken the Church of Rome how are they persecuted as Lutherans and so you have all the Generall Councels held by the Church of Rome and I wonder they do not blush at their words for the first condemne them of horrible pride and they have denied two of them in some Canons of Orders as if they had erred in a point of Faith when they used their lawfull libertie in such things as were most indifferent The fifth Generall Councell condemned Vigilius for a cursed Nestorian The sixth judged Honorius for an Hereticall Monothlite The seventh and eighth manifest them to be guilty of Idolatrie never decreed before by any Councels but condemned by all and the ten last the worst of all are called by Popes against regall and Imperiall authoritie and condemne truth for heresie Saints for Hereticks and prove the Pope the greatest Tyrant in the world If from Martian we cast our eyes upon the 9. Kings I know not one of them to be good and for our Nation before Vortimer I can say much both for Kings and Bishops We had the first Christian King and Emperor in the world An. 181. Lucius sent to Eleutherius for a Bishop Rome being then famous and his kingdom preserved pure religion to the daies of Diocletian in that 10th persecution we were tried for it Our nation is thought to receive the Gospel from the ministerie of Joseph of Aramathea which was purely maintained above 250. yeares It was the onely Sanctuary of the Saints and for them being persecuted to flee unto In the tenth Persecution Diaclesian found us out as being the most generall cruell fatall and finall of all the rest as we may feare this to be in which wee are and may be the last by Antichrist as that was by the Pagans This proved our faith and I finde it fayled not till Austen the Monke came from Rome And I pray you note it as being noted in the booke of God I would faine know seeing all the Seven Seales have their Indexes as foure Beasts for the foure first and earthquake for the sixt and Seven Trumpets for the last What is meant by an Altar