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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77290	Babels fall, in the foolish virgins sleep. Among which Presbytery lyeth, with predictions of the great disputed to be at the raising of the true ministry. / Written by a witnesse of the truth, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4319; Thomason E554_19; ESTC R205773	24,938	35

all these are implyed by the Apostle Revel 20. ver 4 5. in which are two dead 1 Those that were beheaded a●luding to John the Baptist by which means their Ministry ceased who had not worshipped the Beast nor his Image nor had received his mark in their foreheads or hands they lived againe that is came againe to exercise their Ministry in the Church by their Successors 2 They had not worshipped the Beast but were before him and extinguished by him nor shall those that are to be be of him at all 3 It s preciously alluded to John the Baptist that Eliah which was said to come in Christ's time and now againe in some other to come as in Malachy the 3d. Turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and children to their fathers 4 There are others dead which received the Marks and they lived nor again untill the 1000 years were finished which are the other min●stry opposed to that lived are the foolish wise Virgins Ver. 8. The foolish said to the wise give us of your oyle for our Lamps go out Before this great time of Judgement or tryall of Ministry the Ministry of Bishops Arch-bishops and Presbyters may be said to be blown out that is by violence be made to cease they indeed being by no means at the time of putting out otherwise to be put out and shall we think Presbytery will not be put out as the rest and not go out untill the time the rest do go out with her 2 At this time of tryall they all will go out of their own accord so that there remains another way of causing the cessation of the past Ministry in the Church then any yet hath been seen which will be by the power of the Word proving the unsoundnesse of it and so kindly and quietly cause it to cease 3 The whole ministry goeth out in this grand commotion and none untill now now men will acknowledge that their standing by Bishops or by Presbyters is not Evangelical they go out There is much difference between blowing out a Lamp and the letting of it burn so long untill it can burn no longer for want of oyle when it goeth out of it selfe and there is no lighting of it again there being then left them no plea to minister by 4 They say to the wise signifying an acknowledgment or ingenious conviction of them of the unsoundnesse of their ministry even to the wise Virgins from their own mouthes 5 Give us of your oyle which implyeth a great desire in men to have renewed their Ministry and signifieth an honourable esteem the faithfull Ministry of the Gospell should have of others in that day 6 An acknowledgment of the lawfulnesse of the Gospell Ministers Ordination however it shall be restored which is to be thought to be as before by the Magistrates approbation and thence desires to be ordained by them 7 It may be by Give us your oyle may be meant a desire of the foolish that the wise would acknowledge them for true Ministers of the Gospell and give them the right hand of fellowship to minister in the Church with them And this seems fitly to suite with the words of the Text following Ver. 9. But the wise answered not so lest there be not enough for us and you 1 Signifying that whether it be Ordination or associtation or acknowledgment of their Ministry or what ever else they are denyed it of the Gospell ministry 2 The Reason is satisfactory viz. least there be not enough for us and you signifying this they could not acknowledg their Ministry to be true and their own not be false or if their own were true then were the others false Again the truth had acknowledged one true in calling them wise and the other false in calling them foolish 3 Hence it seems to me that presbytery that so highly declared against Episcopacy for Antichristian hath it's day now approching to be declared against in like manner and I hope no man will be so vainly minded as to say this Construction was taken of Master Lillies Astrology for the future as some maliciously have objected Object A man may see by the coarse of things 1 It is near two years since I first affirmed this since which there is more likelyhood then before but is there any likelyhood it falls in Scotland are not all for it there is not a Schismatick allowed it is long since I was perswaded of its fall there there are many in this Kingdom that have to shew it under my hand as those letters may shortly in part shew that I wrot to several of the presbytery who have spared no pains to plague me in name or goods for it as I intend to shew at large hereafter when I have done my intended Exposition on the Revelations if God permit they provoking Authority therunto like another whore riding the Beast The Lord knoweth I write not this to offend any man nor hath any man cause to be offended if it be truth as the Apostle Gal. 4. ver 16. Am I therefore your enemy because I tell you the truth Ver. 9. But go rather to them that sell and buy for your selves 1 If the words were spoken sarcastically then it is as if they should bid them go to the Pope who sold the ministeriall calling 2 Or rather they containe an advice to them to adjoyn themselves to a true Church rightly constituted and from them to take a call thereunto it being delegated of God to them to give 3 It is intimated that in these times there will be much care had of keeping the Gospel Government entire in the Church and that nothing in her Government shall be done irregularly as in the times past they have been Ver. 10. While they went to buy 1 They take the advice given so that it should seem it was not spoken sarcastically if it had they would have discerned it I think they would not have gon to Rome for it 2 Christ is sayd to come when there will again be a visible and sensible difference of Christs presence in the Ministry and means of what there was formerly he was then absent as if not at all in prayer preaching c. 3 This coming or manifestation of God in the means provokes the Ministry the more to desire to be admitted to the exercise thereof Ver. 11. Those that were ready entred with him to the Marriage 1 At the Coming of Christ it is implyed some shall be ready that is shall be indowed with gifts calling and ministry according to the Gospell who shall be made use of to celebrate the Nuptials of the Lambe 1 Before it is said while they went to buy the Bridegroome came 2 See what hinders the Lord wil not come until their lamps be cut and they gon to buy 3 This is the destroying Antichrist by the brightnes of his coming he consuming her by pieces and parts now a little and then a little The doore was