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A57829 Mirmah, or, The deceitful witness a prophecy of Solomon, now first and seasonably discovered, wherein the deceitful witnesses of Rome are made manifest to all, and our Protestant witnesses are justified, praised, and defended, chiefly the late happy discoverers of the Romish plots & deceits : being a sermon preached Novemb. 5 on Prov. 14.25 : a true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies, or, as the original signifies, the lord of Rome speaketh lies / by William Ramsay ... Ramsay, William, B.D.; Ramsay, William, fl. 1680. Mirmah, Maromah, Maroum. 1679 (1679) Wing R219; ESTC R13073 11,934 34

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by the lyes of men Therefore Solomon tells us Prov. 19.5 A false Witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall not escape and repeats it again v. 9. A false Witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh lies shall perish Thus much of the Text as it is a Proverb and contains the Characters of a True and of a Deceitful Witness We shall now discover in it a double combination of Prophecies First A Prophecy of Christ the Great Witness of Truth on one hand and of Antichrist the Great Deceitful Witness on the other Secondly A Prophecy of true Protestant Witnesses on one hand and of Deceitfull Romish Witnesses on the other First We have here a distinct Prophecy of Christ the Great Witness of Truth as we gather clearly from the Property of the terms in themselves and from conference of them with other Scriptures The terms in themselves are proper to Christ He only is properly Hed-emeth matsiel nephashoth The Witness of Truth that delivereth Souls whom the Spirit knew when Solomon thus wrote Every other true Witness is term'd Hed-emunim as v. 5. that is a Witness of truths or of true things a faithful Witness but Christ is Hed-emeth The Witness of Truth or Truth it self or the Prime-Witness or the Witness of all Truth This is likewise the style of the Prophets and of the Apostles Isa 55.4 Behold I have given him for a Witness to the People c. Rev. 1.5 Jesus Christ the faithful Witness Rev. 3.14 The faithful and true Witness Likewise Jesus Christ is properly he that delivereth Souls for he came to that purpose and therefore is he called Jesus And in the style of the Prophets too this term of Matsiel is appropriated to God As Dan. 6.27 when God had deliver'd Daniel from the Lions God is there styled Meshesib ou Matsiel He that delivereth and rescueth that is Souls from destruction as Daniel from the Lions Then this Proverb of Solomon is a distinct Prophecy of Christ A True Witness delivereth Souls that is The great witness of Truth Christ the Truth it self shall come and shall deliver the Souls that believe on him From this it is easie by the Rule of Opposites to interpret the second part of the Proverb which is a Prophecy of Antichrist the great Deceitful Witness And a very remarkable Prophecy For the Spirit of God in Solomon not only here foretells the obvious signification of the words that there shall be an Antichrist a great Witness of Deceit who shall seduce Souls with Lies in opposition to Hed-emeth that great Witness of Truth who saveth Souls by Truth But Solomon further by the words if he that readeth understandeth points out that Antichrist who he is and by the name he gives that Deceitful Witness in the Text tells us distinctly that it is the Lord of Rome or the Great one of Rome For the Word of the Holy Ghost the Hebrew word which the Vulgar Translation renders a Deceitful Witness is in the Masorethan contraction Mirmah in Original latitude Maromah in Radical expression Maroum and signifies every way literally and grammatically the Lord of Rome or the great one of Rome This though I think never observ'd before yet to him that will inspect the Hebrew Tongue will be as clear as Columbus his Land to the first Discoverers I have writ a peculiar Discourse which makes this fully plain and intelligible and certain and shews the Mysterious Number of the Beast to be undeniably proper to this Name in the Text which Discourse shall follow this in the Press At present I shall only take occasion to give you a passing view of the thing it self The thing asserted is this These words of Solomon A Deceitful Witness speaketh lies are to be render'd from the Hebrew The Lord of Rome speaketh lies The proof depends wholly upon the understanding of the Hebrew word and we know that in difficult or obscure places especially in Prophecies and most peculiarly in such as concern the Name or Discovery of Antichrist it is said Let him that readeth understand and Here is wisdom Let him that hath understanding count the Number c. So that we must not expect the thing to be obvious but rather a thing hid a long time but when once discover'd very clear to all So is this present Word of the Text in the Hebrew Mirmah or Maromah or Maroum This plainly literally and grammatically signifies the Lord of Rome For Mar in Hebrew is a Lord and often us'd for Baal or for Adon says Buxtorfius as Dan. 2.47 Mare-malchin A Lord of Kings 1 Cor. 16.22 Maranatha The Lord cometh And Romah or Roum in Hebrew is the same with Romë in Greek Roma in Latine and Rome in English Then Maromah plainly literally and grammatically signifies the Lord of Rome Therefore the Text is to be render'd thus The Witness of truth which is Christ delivereth Souls But Maromah The Lord of Rome speaketh lies Both words and sence agreeing thus I can see no difficulty in the thing yet I shall add another fair Etymology of the Word and but another can be given The Word however contracted or dilated Mirmah Maromah or Maroum has in it the force and signification of three radical words Marah Roum and Ramah From the second the Name of Rome is Originally derived and Romulus from Rome not Rome from Romulus The first signifies to rebell the second to be lofty in pride the third to supplant or to deceive Now if Rebellion Pride and Deceit be not the properest characters both of the City and of the Lord of Rome let all judge that know Rome certainly characters by which the Spirit of God has distinguisht that City from all others And we know that Rome with the Lord-Popes thereof has openly rebell'd against the Kings and Emperours to which it was subject and has exalted it self in pride above their heads and has deceiv'd the Nations of the Christian World with all manner of deceivableness as the Apostle speaks 2 Thess 2.10 Then the Lord of Rome is that Mirmah Maromah or Maroum of which Solomon prophesies A Deceitful Witness speaketh lies That is Maromah shall seduce and destroy Souls with lies as Hed-emeth shall save and deliver Souls through the truth From this results a secondary Prophecy of true Protestant Witnesses on one hand and of deceitfull Romish Witnesses on the other For as the Lord of Rome is found here to be the great deceitful Witness opposite to Christ so the subordinate Romish Witnesses must needs be those deceitful Witnesses which are opposite to the subordinate VVitnesses of Christ which as they are called Christians from Christ so are they called Protestants from their opposition and protestation against the VVitnesses of Rome Thus the Text will import this A True Witness that is a Protestant Witness delivereth Souls but a Mirmah a Romish Witness speaketh lies This Prophecy might be made good throughout all the points of Controversie between us and
MIRMAH OR THE Deceitful Witness A PROPHECY of SOLOMON Now first and seasonably discovered wherein the Deceitful Witnesses of Rome are made manifest to all And our Protestant Witnesses are Justified Praised and Defended chiefly the late happy Discoverers of the Romish Plots Deceits By WILLIAM RAMSAY B. D. Lecturer in Istleworth and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory BEING A SERMON Preached Novemb. 5. on PROV 14.25 A true Witness d●l●vereth Souls but a Deceitful Witness speaketh lies Or as the Original signifies The Lord of Rome speaketh lies LONDON Printed for Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-Press within the South-west Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1679. TO JOHN RAMSAY of Bewick in Northumberland Esq AND TO Major ROBERT RAMSAY His Brother Health and Felicity Dear Brothers THis Dedication becomes both you and me being design'd for a publique engagement of such mutual affection as becomes three only Reliques of a most ancient Family never yet stain'd with any spot of Dishonour or Disloyalty The one of you God has made Steward of the Estate of the Family which though greatly diminisht by the death of our Great unkle John Ramsay late Earl of Holderness c. without Issue and too soon after by the death of his Brother and Heir Sir George Ramsay our Grandfather who left my Father too young to manage Affairs and by the last Kings Warrs in which my Father rais'd a Troop of Horse at his own sole Charge and suffer'd much and by the death of our Eldest Brother before the Kings Return and of our Dear Father quickly after yet the God of our Family is the same still and can raise it again in due time Only be we thankfull for his present great favours and serve we him in the advantageous stations wherein he hath placed us The other of you God has renown'd with Military Skill and Action at home and abroad as he did many of our Family before and lately two great unkles Collonel Ramsay and Major General Ramsay under Gustavus Adolphus I am placed between you as in Age so in Station a Steward and a Souldier too but in Spiritual matters wherefore let me now be as a mediant term of union to joyn ye in one I think I am the first of our Family of this Function at least in England Wherefore as the Function it self is Honourable and Divine give me leave to the Honour of my Choice to essay something in Vindication of the Truth I may say in Vindication of our Church and State For the Truth which I here assert hath receiv'd such solemn Attestations from King and Parliament from all manner of Testimony that to deny or oppose it were to give the Lye to Church and State and to affront the Throne as well as the Pulpit I particularly stand engaged to bear this Testimony being more intimately acquainted with the Principles and Practices of the Church of Rome by occasion of my Forain Travel for twelve years among them Now this Plot is justified by those Principles and highly prais'd defended and rewarded by that Church Therefore those Principles are manifestly condemn'd by this Plot and that Church to be detested for it to be denyed and utterly forsaken by all that love the Truth and the Gospel of the Peace of Jesus to whom you are daily commended by the most earnest and hearty Prayers of Your truly loving Brother and Servant in Christ Jesus W. Ramsay A SERMON PREACHED Novemb. V. 1679. PROV xiv 25. A true Witness delivereth Souls but a deceitfull Witness speaketh Lies THis is a Prophecy as well as a Proverb and Solomon was a Prophet as well as a Proverbialist as appears in many other places We shall first consider it as a Proverb So it contains two Propositions The first the Character of a True Witness A true Witness delivereth Souls The second the Character of a Deceitful Witness But a Deceitful Witness speaketh lies Both Characters are very compendious and very distinctive as Characters ought to be The Character of a true Witness consists in two things the one express'd the other immediately implyed The thing exprest is the Motive End and Effect of his Testimony To deliver Souls A True Witness delivereth Souls Matsiel nephashoth that is rescueth others from Oppression or destruction and this is the motive and end of his Testimony not to hurt or oppress any or to condemn or to destroy the guilty but to deliver the guiltless to maintain the Truth to defend Innocence and to deliver the Innocent from those that would oppress them A True Witness accuseth a Murderer bears evidence against him and the Murderer is justly sentenced and condemned to death But the end of the Testimony of the true Witness is not the death or destruction of the Murderer but the preservation of men that the evil of Murder may be taken away This then is an essential Character of a True Witness the end of his testimony is to deliver Souls A True Witness delivereth Souls Whence follows a Second thing an individual Property of a True Witness The end of his Testimony being Truth and Innocence the preservation and deliverance of Souls He will never stain his testimony with a Lye nor harm his own Soul or wrong his Neighbours Cause with an untruth This is evidently included in the first as also in the term of a True Witness especially as the Hebrews term it Hed-emeth that is A Witness of Truth If then he be caught in a Lye in his Testimony he cannot have the credit of a true Witness For that 's a sure Proverb which went a little before the Text Prov. 14.5 A faithful Witness will not lye The end of his Testimony is not his own profit much less anothers harm The Guilty man deserveth death yet a true Witness accuseth him not that he may dye but as Hed-emeth as a Witness of Truth he speaketh the truth for truths sake and accuseth the guilty to deliver the Innocent So this Character is essential A true Witness delivereth Souls that is the end and effect of a Witness of Truth is this to deliver them that are Innocent From this The Character of a Deceitfull Witness is plain consisting in the two opposite points The end of a Deceitful Witness is not to deliver Souls but to draw Souls into harm and his means to that end is always a lye yea he attains not his end easily without many lyes Therefore his Character is this A deceitful Witness speaketh lies Japhiac chesabim that is breatheth lyes as he breatheth the air or uttereth lies easily or rather of necessity even as a man breatheth and so the word is rendred v. 5. A false Witness will utter lies Which is to be understood too that a false Witness cannot be long hid for his own lies shall discover him So were the two Elders the false Accusers of Susanna discovered by Daniel And God the Great lover of Truth will not suffer the truth to be long opprest
been able to fix scarce a seeming Contradiction on the Testimonies of our Witnesses no not on their longest Narratives which is a strong evidence of their sincere Veracity But because perhaps neither their Narratives nor their Testimony is yet at an end I shall say no more of that but conclude First with a word to these Witnesses Let them proceed in a faithful Testimony with courage and confidence in the God of Truth speaking and avowing the Truth for Truths sake not to confound their Enemies yet the Confusion of their enemies will justly follow but let their design be to preserve the Innocent to serve the Church of God to save their King and his People to Deliver Souls Following the Example of their Lord and Master that Hed-emeth That Great Witness of Truth whose glory is to save and not to destroy and who came to save his Enemies if they would have been saved Secondly A word to these deceitful Witnesses of Rome and to all Papists that are led by their Deceits O ye Bar-Jesuses The Word of God is fulfilled concerning you which he spake by his Servant Paul 2 Tim. 3.13 Evil men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived You first began to equivocate with God and your own Consciences speaking lies in hypocrisie having your Consciences seared as with a hot Iron 1 Tim. 4.2 Then you proceeded to equivocate with one another The Pope with the Priest and the Priest with the Pope and the Priest with the People and the People with the Priest deceiving each other with great and glittering words of Catholick and Infallible of Papal and Apostolical power of almighty Bulls and Briefs of Jubilees Pardons Dispensations Indulgences plenary semiplenary superplenary with all the Market-stuff-terms of Penance Mass and Purgatory and you have deceived many Nations with these your deceitful Lies poor England for many Ages At last you came to that Supremacy of Equivocation that your very Head and most holy Lord calling himself The Servant of the Servants of God and the most humble Servant of Kings means to serve them only as his Vassals to destroy them at his pleasure and to Curse all them that serve them in a better sence And see what progress you have made in that Service First you took upon you to Crown Kings you soon took leave to Censure the Kings you Crown'd then to Excommunicate them then to Depose them and to raise and arm their Subjects against them and this way failing you take the Crown into your own hand and give it to what Vassal of yours you please But all these open methods failing you proceeded to Fraud and Stratagems but Frauds above ground failing you went under the Earth as deep as Hell to blow up King and People with Powder-mines But these too failing you brought the Lake of Fire and Brimstone on the Earth and refin'd double and treble all the Arts of Hell and you laid a Plot which you thought invincible and that Heaven and Earth could not defeat it But Heaven has shewn its power in England and you are utterly confounded and the God of Heaven seems now to say of you 2 Tim. 3.9 They shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men And now You Papists of England I hope the Folly the Deceitfulness the hellish Cheats the damnable Principles the Devilish Practices the Antichristian Religion of Rome is manifest to you all And that whether you have been concern'd in this Plot or no yet you will never be concern'd with such Teachers more to be led by their Deceits nor continue Members of so hellish a Body under the influence of so devilish a Head Now we for whom God has done such wonderfull things what manner of persons ought we to be How ought we to love to serve to praise to fear to obey to follow to death our God and Lord Christ Jesus who is the true and faithful Witness who delivereth our Souls from Death who has so often and so wonderfully deliver'd this Kingdom and I believe will deliver it from all its enemies especially the Enemies of his Gospel and has promised to do great things for us and seems to provoke us to love even while we provoke him to Anger That he may make us fit to receive his Favours to the end Let us pray O God who gavest the Son of thy Love to the World to be the Witness of Truth that by the power of his Grace and by the light of his Gospel all men might be deliver'd from Darkness and eternal Death But men receiving not the Truth in love thou didst send them strong delusion to believe the lies of Antichrist the deceitful Witness But in great and tender Mercy thou deliveredst this Nation from that Delusion and hast by late and miraculous Providence deliver'd our King and People from the horrid Plots of that Man of Deceit O let the Glory of thy Truth still shine upon us and be thou our God and we thy People and let the Great Witness of Truth seal this Mercy for ever And let every faithful Soul say Amen FINIS Books sold by Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-press in Cornhill CHristian Religions Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Barr of Common Reason Wherein is proved That 1. The Apostles did not delude the World 2. Nor were themselves deluded 3. That Scripture matters of fact have the best Evidence 4. The Divinity of Scripture is as demonstrable as the Being of a Deity By John Smith Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester Fol. Price 12. s. Of Baptism and the Lords Supper Two short Discourses opening the Nature Design and Ends of those two great Gospel Ordinances and teaching the Holy use and Improvement of them 12o. Price 6 d. A Sermon Preached before the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen of the City of London at Guild-hall Chappel August 18. 1678. By Robert Neville B. D. Rector of Ansly in Hertford-shire 4o. Price 6 d. The Necessity of Receiving the Holy Sacrament that great Test both of the Christian and Protestant Religion Declared in a Sermon at a Conference of the several Ministers of the Deanry of Braughin in the County of Hertford appointed by the Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop of London to be held at Ware August 28. 1678. By R. Neville Rector of Ansly 4o. Price 6 d.