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A86703	A sharp, but short noise of warr, or, The ruine of Antichrist by the sword of temporall warr, hinted. Written, by Francis Lin,	Line, Francis, 1595-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing H333; Thomason E622_2; Thomason E595_2; ESTC R206422	18,276	32

kind of delight in opposing and in disgraceing of one another tell not this in Gath publish it not in the Streets of Ashkelon least the Daughters of the Philistims rejoyce least the Daughters of the Uncircumcised triumph rather then doe thus labour to stirre up the Gift of God which is in thee pray repent reforme beleeve waite he that is thine helper will not forsake nor faile thee for he is a present helpe in time of need the Lord of Hosts is his name the God of Jacob is thy refuge fight couragiously if need require the God of Victory is on thy side who is God and will be exalted among the Heathen and among the Papists and among all the Enemies of this Reformation and they shall know that they are but men But I am gone a little two farr from the thing in hand I doe not deny this but that there is much of the Scripture already fulfilled in this and in other respects yet I thinke they are not fully verified and fulfilled as for men times and Nations they may be bound they have beene so but the word of God is not bound as the Apostle in another case speaks it is a truth that there shall not onely be Warrs in the dayes and times of the Gospell but there shall be Warrs and rumours of VVarrs and Nation shall rise against Nation and Realme against Realme I shall not long detaine my selfe from what I intend I shall but consider and compare a few Scriptures and presently come to that I have promised the Scriptures are these Isa 21. and Isa 47. Jer. 50. and 51. Chap. 17. 18. Rev. Behold this mans Chariot commeth with two Horsmen and he answered and said Babell is fallen it is fallen and all the Images of her Gods hath he broken unto the ground I was wroth with my People I have polluted mine Inheritance and given them into thine hand thou didst shew them no mercy O Antichrist remember this but thon didst lay thy very heavie yoke upon the ancient and thou saidst I shall be a Lady for ever so that thou didst not set thy mind to these things neither didst thou remember the latter end thereof therefore now heare thou that art given to pleasures and dwellest carelesse she sayth in her heart I am and none else I shall not sit as a Widdow neither shall know the losse of Children but these two things shall come to thee suddenly on one day the losse of Children and Widdow-hood they shall come upon thee in their perfection so on to the end of the 17. of Isa the 50. 51. chapters of Jer. Almost through out a cry of Battail is in the Land and of great destruction how is the Hammer of the whole World destroyed and broken How is Babell become desolate among the Nations I have snared thee and thou art taken O Babell and thou wast not aware thou art found and also caught because thou hast striven against the Lord the Lord hath opened his treasures and hath brought forth the Weapons of his wrath for this is the worke of the Lord God of Hosts come against her from the uttermost border open her storehouses tread on her as on Sheaves and destroy her utterly let nothing of her be left destroy all her Bullocks let them goe downe to the slaughter Woe unto them for their day is come and the time of their visitation Agreeable to these Scriptures is that of the 18. of the Revelation which is New Testament And he cryed out mightily with a loud voice saying it is fallen Babylon the great Citty and is become the Habitation of Devills her sins are come up to Heaven and God remembred her iniquities in as much as she glorified her selfe and lived in pleasures so much give yee to her torment sorrow for she sayth in her heart I sit being a Queene and am no Widdow and shall see no moruning therefore shall plagues come in one day death and sorrow and famine and shee shall be utterly burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God which will condemne her 'T was Babylon in the Old Testament 't is Babylon in the New Testament the one called Easterne the other called Westerne Babylon the which is Rome called Babylon a Mystery great Babylon the mother of Whoredomes Rev. 17.5 The Easterne Babylon is destroyed God did destroy it by a temporall VVarr because Babylon would shew the People of God no mercy the westerne Babylon which is Rome and those which it comprehends is and must be destroyed because they neyther have nor will shew the People of God any mercy they are in the purpose of God and must be in reference to an eternall and visible accomplishment in the sight of men and times it seems God will destroy under this name or notion see or read to this purpose Master Brightman upon the Revelation Master Dent upon the Revelation Master Perkins in his Reformed Catholick p. 3. Doctor Taylor in his Booke Dedicated to The Honourable House of Commons Assembled in Parliament in the Yeare 1624. In which Booke there is this passage at the latter end of one of his Sermons say they were warned and called out but now cannot be eyther pittyed or helped As Lots Cosins though they made a merriment of Lots admonition yet they saw the Lord in earnest and then too late wished they had departed according to the voyce of the Lord. But now God will not and Lot cannot help them neither can they shift themselves out of the fire when the dreadfull shower falleth doe thou sit out the summons at thy perill but one of the two thou must choose eyther thou must goe out of Babylon or goe into her destruction And now I come to that which I call produceing and applying of Scripture as it doth most evidently and certainly threaten ruine and destruction to the generality of Heathens and Papists in this present VVorld by the Sword and temporall Warr severally and in a particular respect I now proceede and apply against Antichristian Papists though I named Heathens first and in my conceite the second Chapter of the Prophecy of Habukkuk doth speake clearely and fully to that seat of iniquity that cursing and that cursed Antichrist that great than of sin the Pope and Popes of Rome and their professed Adherents I shall as I have begun cite this Scripture Behold he that lifteth up himselfe his mind is not upright in him yea indeed the proud man is as he that transgreffeth by VVine therefore shall he not endure because he hath enlarged his desire as the Hell and is as death and can●ot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all Nations and heapeth unto him all People Now who but the Pope and Popes of Rome hath done thus especially in both respects I meane spiritualy as well as temporally See a place in the New Testament 2 Thess 2. Let no man deceive you by any meanes for that day shall not come except there come a

nor could be healed forsake her let us goe every one to his owne Countrey for judgement is come up unto Heaven and is lifted up to the Clouds 't is high time for all every where who meane to have their souls or bodies preserv'd to draw home to Jesus Christ the Saviour of all them who by a right rule doe trust in him for Salvation Oh that men would heare and take notice in the behalfe of themselves as it may be of concernement to them what the Counsell of the Lord is which he hath devised against Babell and his purpose which he hath conceived against the Land of wicked Romish Chaldeans see and compare Jer. 51.13 with Rev. 17.15 O thou that dwellest upon many Waters abundant in treasures thine end is come even the end of thy coveteousnesse Now if it be asked by whom will God bring this great destruction upon his and his peoples enemies Answ And observe when the Lord of Hosts shall have an Army of men in the Field whose hearts shall be set at liberty to worship Christ in the beauty of holinesse and to praise his Holy Name with courage and constancy then shall the enemies helpe destroy one another 2 Cron. 20.23 Againe Israel is the rod of his Inheritance the Lord of Hosts is his Name marke what the Lord God saith to his People Thou art mine Hammer and Weapons of Warr for with thee will I breake the Nations and with thee will I destroy Kingdomes and by thee will I breake Horse and Horsman and by thee will I breake the Chariot and him that Rideth therein Jer. 51.19 To this purpose is that of Rev. 18.6 Reward her even as shee hath rewarded you and give her double according to her works and in the cup that shee hath filled to you fill her the double But one note by way of parity or likenesse and I have done with the Romish Antichrist for this time 't is cleare to me that the old Heathenish Babylon was a manifest Type and visible figure of the Romish Babylon which now is as yet in being and that as face answers to face so in reference to their actions they have very clearly portraied out each others lineaments for what was done against God his truth and people by the one hath beene practised and acted by the Other and that to thelife as we say and against more light and knowledge and with greater strength of malice hath the Romish Antichrist persecuted the Church of Christ beyond the Heathens therefore certainly God will be avenged upon such a People as this for true and righteous are his judgements for he hath condemned the great Whore of Rome which did corrupt the Earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his Servants shed by her hands and hath which showes the certainty of the thing now that the Kings of the ancient Heathens were in some respects Types of the Romish Popes and they the Antitypes of them I refer to the reviewing of these Scriptures Isa 14. Jer. 50. 51. Hab. 2. Rev. 17. 18. To all which I shall add Revel 13. In which I observe that the Popes of Rome are set forth in the forme of a Beast and that this Beast hath received his power from the Dragon which is the Devill And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast and they worshipped the Beast saying who ●s like un-the beast who is able to Warr with him and there was given unto him a Mouth that spake great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him to doe forty two Moneths and he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God to blaspheme his name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven and it was given to him to make VVarr with the Saints he was permitted so to doe Observe Antichrist makes warr with the Saints or upon the Saints I understand this meant of a temporall VVarr and of Antichrist his putting the Saints upon a defensive VVarr though to his owne ruine Observe the Saints who are a People that doe not delight in VVarr simply as it is a destruction to the life and well being of man yet the Saints doe and must mannage a temporall Warr when justly occasioned and necessitated thereunto in the behalfe of truth and of themselves But to the words againe with the Saints and to overcome them and power was given him over every kindred and Tongues and Nations that is to Antichrist the Pope and Popes of Romish Babylon this is that Satan-like and Beast-like man which hath made the Earth tremble and the Nations shake This is the man who hath led the Saints for some hundreds of yeares into Captivity it is he that hath killed them with the Sword therefore it is he and his Adherents that must be led into Captivity and that must be killed with Sword of the Lord of Hosts put into the hands of his People I observe by the way that this Scripture I meane Rev. 13.10 is not to be aleadg'd against those noble minded Christians which doe in these dayes and times out of conscience to God and in love to truth and their Country hazzar● their lives in the high places against the enemies of God with a desire and purpose if possible to preserve truth and peace and true Religion in their persons Families and Nation wherein they live I rather conceiue it a Prophecy which relates to the temporall destruction of Antichrist by the Sword of Warr who is aforehand with the people of God for he and his Adherents have already led them into Captivity and hath killed them with the Sword I shall mention a passage or two out of a Sermon which was preached in the Arch Palatine Court in the yeare 1617 that only in Belgia containing the 17. Provinces of the low Countries whilst CHARLES the Fifth lived were slaine and murdered fifty thousand Christians and that the Duke of Alva cruelly boasted that in the space of six yeares after he had beene Governour of that Countrey there had beene eighteene thousand persons killed by his Commandement and also from the yeare 1576 to the Agreement at Gaunt there had perished by the Tyranny of Papists thirty thousand yet sayth the same Author there was a greater vintage and harvest in France for sayth he it may be prov'd by arguments worthy to be beleev'd that from the yeare 1564 to the yeare 1586 that is in the space of twenty two yeares that one hundred and forty thousand godly persons were put to death besides those already mentioned besides those that were put to death by the Papists in England in Queene Maries dayes and besides those slaine In King Charlses time I have likewise read in the History of the Waldenses of one Panza one of the Popes Inquisitors who did cut the throats of foure score Christians and then quartered them and caused stakes to be set up for the space of thirty miles and caused a quarter to be fastened to

and all-disposing hand of the great God of Heaven who is the Lord of the Earth and doth whatever he will both in Heaven and Earth and will doe what he hath promised to doe and likewise what he hath threatened to doe it is true the vision is for an appointed time it shall speake and not lye this time is certainly come yea the set time is come and God is now manifesting of himselfe by theexcercise of the temporall Sword to Nations Families and to particular persons I confesse as I said even now that from a want of the knowledge of such things as I have made mention of I remaine unable in some respects to steere a course suitable to the apprehensions which I have of the present face and appearance of things when I thinke of them according to the glorious word and unfathomd workings of the great and mighty God who is in his judgements unsearchable and in his wayes past finding out 't is true the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath acted his great works and made his almighty power to appeare in all ages in which he hath beene wonderfull in his doings towards the Sonnes and Daughters of men and that in reference to the setting up and casting downe of Nations and people in and by the excercise of War and the temporall Sword but yet I verily thinke I speake with submission that the Lord is now a doing and a bringing to pass such a peece of work by the excercise of temporall warr at this time as there hath not in the world yet appeared the like in reference to all events notwithstanding mens Opinions to the contrary for my part if in this I erer 't is for no bye end this is the thing I observe First the blood of many thousands in severall ages who have truely feared God hath beene shed by the cruelty of the Nations now 't is very cleare to me that the Lord will never give up his people to such a dreadfull cruelty that they should destroy people in cold blood as we say as they have beene even multitudes of them destroyed some have beene burnt to death others Racked and so by diverse other exquisit torments they have beene murthered Secondly 't is as cleare to me that the Lord will by the hand of his people make inquisition for blood and that by the same hand will avenge the blood of his Saints whose blood hath beene shed by the Nations therefore Nations shall be dealt withall by the Sword of temporall warr the Nations have in a private Murtherous way made themselves drunke with the blood of Gods Saints the Lord will deale with the Nations in a publick way he will make his Arrowes drunke with the blood of his and his Peoples enemies and the sword of the Lord in the hands of his people shall eate the flesh of Kings and the flesh of Captaines and the flesh of mighty men Rev. 19.18 Againe me thinks this is somthing to be considered of what are the Nations now a doing truely they be now a gathering themselves together what to doe To destroy if they can all the Inhabitants of Zion I meane all such as doe truely and sincerely seeke and serve the true God according to the rules of his holy word the Scriptures But to the thing in hand Now also many Nations are gathered against thee saying Zion shall be condemned and our eye shall look upon Zion but they know not the thoughts of the Lord they understand not his Counsell for he shall gather them as the sheaves in the barne Mica 4.11.12 Observe surely that dark and dismall Cloud which now hovers upon the world is like for some time to grow somwhat thicker and the storme is like to be somwhat more terrible then yet it is before these present Warrs now in excercise come to a full end the Nations are now gathering themselves together What to doe to destroy spirituall Zion they say the Church and people of God shall be condemned and they will be the Executioners but they know not the thoughts nor the purposes of the Lord they little thinke what God will doe by this their gathering together they gather and the Lord God gathers but for contrary ends they intend one thing and the Lord meanes another they an extermination of truth and true Christians God intends a preservation of both yea a great deliverence and a glorious enlargment too I speake with reverence to God who will at this time doe two works at once even use the Sword of temporall Warr with the Sword of his word and with the delivering of his people will performe the ruine of his and his peoples Enemies Behold in that time when I shall br●●gagaine the Captivity of Judah and Jerusalem I will also gather all Nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have scatrered among the Nations Joel 3. Assemble your selves and come all yee Heathen and gather your selves together round about there shall the Lord cast downe the mighty man let the Heathen be weakned Observe those the enemies of God which in Scripture are sometimes called mighty are here prophetically destynated to weaknesse Let the Heathen be weakened and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I set to judge all the Heathen round about put in your Sithes for the Harvest is ripe come get you downe for the wine presse is full yea the winepresses run over for their wickednesse is great O multitude O multitude come into the Valley of threshing for the day of the Lord is neere in the Valley of threshing the Sunne and Moone shall be darkned and the Starrs shall withdraw their light That is as I conceive in this their day of Gods visitation they shall finde no help in Creatures neither in the Sunne the Moon nor the Starrs in and by which the Heathens of all times have beene so much led as appeares by the words of Jer. 10.2 Thus saith the Lord learne not the way of the Heathen and be not dismayed at the signes of Heaven for the Heathen are dismayed at them I have read some Authors which affirme that there are Heathens of these times who doe worship the Sunne and the Moone to whom I may speake as the Prophet speaks thou art wearied in the multitude of thy Counsells let now the Astrologers the Star-gazers the monethly Prognosticatours stand up and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee Isa 47.13 Againe this may admit of a spirituall meaning whence we may take notice that the light of the glorious Gospell which both hath and doth shine in the World as the Moone and as the Sun shall stand them in no stead in this time of great distresse which have contemptuously banished it from them or refused to give it entertainment when the Lord in mercy hath made a tender of it unto them certainly both Papists and Heathens have done this and now the Lord God in his just judgement will shut up all light from them and darknesse shall be upon them till they perish in the same The Lord sayth the Prophet shall roare out of Zion and utter his voyce from Jerusalem Observe in those dayes and times in which the Lord God shall what his glittering Sword and shall with his hand take hold on judgement and shall execute vengeance on his enemies and reward them that hate him that then the Lord will roare from Zion then God will appeare terrible to his and his peoples enemies from and by his spirituall Zion in the excercise of temporall meanes God will thresh them with the Sword Agreeable to this is that of Mica 4. last Arise thresh O Daughter of Zion for I will make thine horne Iron and I will make thine hoofes Brasse and thou shalt breake in peice many people Jacob shall be a fire and Joseph a flame and Edom shall be as stubble Mal. 4.3 The Enemies of God have beene drunke with the blood of Gods Saints and the Lord God will make his Arrowes drunke with the blood of his enemies and his Sword in the hand of his people shall eate flesh yea and that for the blood of the slaine and of the Captives when I begin to take vengeance of the enemies Deut. 32.42 Now in this day and time the Lord God will be the hope of his people and the strength of the Children of Israel Joel 3.16 I will but suggest that of the Prophet Isa 2. and I have done certainly in such a day and time as this is it will be thus The high looke of man shall be humbled and the loftinesse of men shall be abased and the Lord onely shall be exalted in that day for the day of the Lord of Hosts is upon all the proud and hauty and upon all that is exalted and upon all the Cakes of Bashan and all the high Mountaines upon all the hills that are lifted up and upon every high Tower and upon every strong Wall and upon all the Ships of Tarshish and all pleasant Pictures and the haughtinesse of men shall be brought low and the loftinesse of men shall be abased and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day and the Idolls will he utterly destroy then they shall goe into the holes of the Rocks and into the Caves of the Earth from before the face of the Lord and from the glory of his Majesty when he shall arise to destroy or to shake terribly the Earth FINIS