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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29275	The churches going in and coming out of the wildnernes opened by the unworthiest of the gospel-ministers, John Brayn.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4320; ESTC R23803	12,764	20

to be before Constantine and not since approving the practice of the first and nearer times to the Apostles as most pure and the after times more corrupt Had not these first times the most famous Churches godly faithful Ministers precious Christians most sound and sincere Doctrine and the onely Gospel-Discipline which ever since hath been persecuted reviled corrupted blasphemed by that sinful Man of Sin Pareus saith It began to be hid 606 and then its hid estate ends and the Church comes forth in the year 1866. Moulin begins it Anno 755 then it ends 2035. Brightman begins it 426 then it ends 1686. who comes nearest to Antichrists end determined of God and the just computation of the time of the Churches obscurity which ends 1666. Now in that it was said Then to be hid there remains some thing to be done more remarkably eminent to the brining forch of the Church then as yet hath been manifested to the world is a thing I think not by any to be gainsayed But for the Elects sake these days Christ foretelling the cruelty of Antichrists time who is indeed the Abomination of desolation spoken of by the Holy Ghost which prophesie of Daniel computed and compared with this clears most excellently the truth But this I leave to be spoken of in expounding the Revelations It is not amiss to write a word more to manifest and make more plain the minde of God by the hiding of the Church 1. Manifestation or Demonstration is to be taken from the Metaphorical expressions used and the History alluded to by which Gods it out to us so sets that whiles the Wilderness hides the Church yet it is ordained to shew the way how it came so to be hid 2. The History alluded to is either that of Israels coming out of Egypt or Elijah's flying unto the Wilderness or both but especially Elijah's estate sets it out abundantly more clear 1 Kings 17. and 18. and 19. 1. In his flight and hiding Rev. 12. 6. 2. In his feeding miraculously by the Ravens Rev. 12. 6. 3. After many days he comes to Ahab again 4. The godly are not hid onely from the wicked but godly Elijah thinks himself above 1. Kings 19. 14 18. when God had seven thousand had not bowed the knee to Baal 5. In this time Baals Prophets are slain 1 Kings 18. 40. Rev. 12. 8. 6. Cap. 9. 2. Jezabel threatens him with death he flyeth again and where but into the Wilderness which is after his appearing to Ahab and first flight Rev. 12. 14. 7. This flying into the Wilderness is after the rain signifying the Ministery after the long drought of the means of grace 8. This wilderness estate is very fearful to him and will be to the Saints cap. 19. ver. 4. Rev. 12. 15. 9. In this time the Lords Altars are cast down and Groves to Baal set up and Altars 1 Kings 19. ver. 26. 10. The Prophets are slain 1 Kings 19 ver. 10. Rev. 11. 7. 11. Shews the strange effects this persecution brings on the world by an earthquake which is a change and removing of things that were and setting up things that cannot be shaken Rocks and Mountains are rent before the Lord and a refining fire comes purging up the dross then came the still voyce in which God was said to be Conclusion generally is this hence in the hiding of the Church under Antichrist it is to be as that under Ahab who as Antichrist made Israel to sin {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Word is of an active and passive signification in which the Prophets are to be slain the Altars that is all publike form of true worship pull'd down Baalitical Altars set up not a man left visible that is known to serve God or that must not be forced to kiss Baal and how to Baal in which time great inquiry and search is made after any man that shall worship the true God in truth to destroy him 1 Kings 18. 10. and yet to meke it more evidently plain in this persecution not onley Ahab the King but Jezabel the Queen hath hand in it which shew that Antichrist hence was to have the name one while of a Woman Whore another while of the Man Dragon which makes the Agreement between the Type and Antitype remarkable and then lasty his first hiding was for many days one reason why God accompts the hiding of the Church by days Rev. 12. Apply these to the Church estate and it may be abundantly proved yet that of Elijah was but the type onely as the moddel to the building his many days being nothing to these c. in the Text 2. The Churches hiding now exceeds theirs abundantly that was under the Mosaical Ministery 1. As it was hid in the word as well as in the practice so that I know not the Man this 1260 years past can say he hath found it 2. Hid in the writings of those practised it God in judgement to the world permitting them to be adulterated as that way by which he would accomplish his own ends in the world they but fulfilling his councel therein Mr. Fulk on Rev. 12. ver. 6. Hic locus apertè demonstrat non semper fore ecclesiam mundo conspicuam quod maxime urgent Papistae nam si semper omnium visui exposita erit quomodo in desertum fugere dicatur Mr. Barnard on Rev. 12. 6. understands by the 1260 days 1260 years and on the 14 Verse saith Her flying into the wilderness sheweth she was hid in the wilderness and by her flight lost her visibility before her enemies Mr. Cooper Bishop of Galloway sets forth the hiding of the Church in his Comment on Rev. 12. 6. by the hid estate of the Popish Synagogue in England Who are saith he without publike state of Regiment or open free exercise of holy Function Then this I think could be nothing chosen more fitly or fully to clear the thing intended for Antichrists rising he riseth by taking down the Gospel frame of Gospel Government makes that to be hid that he may appear onely when Christ sets up the Government of the true Church he shall pull down the frame of the false again Christ and Belial cannot agree Dr. Taylor in his Tract called Christs victory over the Dragon being an Exposition on Rev. 12. ver. 14 he speaks excellently and to purpose saith he The flight was not in respect of motion but of state and condition not a change of place but of condition and ornaments And after Antichrist sits still in the Temple of God neither is the woman yet got out of the Wilderness page 789. indeed in this the man hath said in a maner all Who can say more to us alive then he though dead now speaketh Conclusion is this That all the 1260 days of the Churches hiding or near to the 1666 year of Christ the Church frame will be hid and the exercise of Gospel Ministery and Government concealed which God in mercy to the Elect will some few years because of the bloody wars and destructive times shall about the end of these times come on the world by reason of Satans rage who knoweth well far better then we his time is short of raigning on the earth and that Christ raign will immediately begin in which Antichrist Satans first born son must down and he himself be bound a 1000 years so that few men would be preserved alive Did not the Lord shorten them as few as they seem in number to be being in all but 18 years If 18 years of war should continue in this Kingdom more what would become of us we thought we should not endure seven years war but the famine would destroy us Oh if this be done in Heaven let the earth and sea take heed to it as short as the time seems to be great will the destruction be on Antichristian Kings and Kingdoms not leaving a King nor scarce a Kingdom among them Dan. 7. 11 12. 1. Pet. 4. 7. The time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God If it first begin at us what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God Note here it is plain judgement must begin at us at the house of God 2. The time prophesied of it should begin at us is come 3. The end is unutterable unconceiveable God will make in Popish and Heathen Kingdoms the persecuted the Church they have the dregs of this next cup wrung out for them to drink which in this 18 years succeeding the whole world cannot keep them from it nor it from them but as fuel for this fearful fire must be devoured of which who shall be happy will be warned as Noah to the saving himself and family Heb. 11. 7. FINIS