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A37463	A complaint of the false prophets mariners upon the drying up of their hierarchicall Euphrates as it was preached publickly in the Island of Garnezey before a sett order of ministers, expounding in their successive turnes the Revelation of St. John / by John De La March ...	De La March, John, ca. 1589-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing D868; Wing L202; ESTC R9089	90,660	125

mighty and great meaning indeed the King of Ashur as it is expounded in the very next words but alluding to the said Euphrates which did water the land of Assyria so hath this mysticall done to which also the same Spirit of God alludeth speaking of it in this book of the Rev. as it was shewed before so that that which the Lord said then to the said people of Judah may very fitly be applyed to the people of this land That because they had refused both in the time of King Edward the sixt and also of Queene Elizabeth * that pure river of water of life cleare as Chrystall proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lambe I meane the the true Liturgie or worship of God together with the true discipline of Christ or Church government both profered unto them then both by Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr grounded and drawn out of the doctrine of Christ of his holy Apostles as we find it expressely instituted by him saying first concerning the said Liturgie * that it is in vaine to worship him teaching for doctrine mens precepts And that all such doe onely draw neare unto him with their mouth and honour him with their lips but their heart is farre off from him Yea in so doing they do but worship that which they doe not know as he said to the woman of Samaria John 4. 22 23 24. for then was that time come of which he speaketh there when the true worshippers were to worship the father in spirit and truth for then the father did require such to worship him For God being a Spirit they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth And concerning the said Discipline observe onely these few places viz. Mat. 5. 22. and 18. verse 15 16 17 18. and chap. 20. verse 25 26 27 and 28. where is set downe the true patterne thereof I doe but name them because I intend not to speake of this now renewed as it were by him after his Resurrection as S. Luke tells us Acts 1. 3. where he shewes that Christ was seene of his Disciples and heard too as saith Saint John in his first Epistle chap. 1. verse 1. speaking of those things which did concerne the true Government of his Kingdome of Grace and that by the space of fortie dayes as he had beene with * Moses in the mountaine under the Law when he gave him the patterne of the Tabernacle of all the instruments thereof which were then to bee imployed in his holy worship then instituted by him wherin as Moses shewed himselfe very faithfull in all the house of God as the Apostle doth testifie Heb. 3. 5. the same may we say of the Apostles concerning the Govenment of this house of Christ But as the said Iewes I say did then refuse such waters so the said people refusing both the said pure and simple worship of God and true Church Discipline and preferring to it that vaine frothie pompous-humane-will worship or Liturgie of Rome some what refined I confesse but yet the very same in substance therefore did the Lord bring upon them that proud Prelaticall Hierarchicall Church governement by the meanes of it The which hath at length * broken into England especially and hath so overflowed and passed through it that it is come not only to the neck but even to the very top of the cheekes and k eares of some of the best servants of God some of them having had their eares cut with the Knife made as it were of the glasse of that * glassie sea and burnt with the fire thereof yea it had so spread out its wings that it had covered the breadth of the land becomming thereby impassable and like the raging sea that cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt as saith the Prophet Isa. 57. 20. as it proved especially when the said Christian Israel of God was ready to passe over it As the waters of the forementioned Jordan did then overflow and fill all his bankes as soone as the feet of the Priests that bare the Arke were dipped in the brinke of the waters thereof thereby to prepare the may for the said children of Israel to passe over it after the drying thereof even so did then especially that Hierarchicall powerfull tyrannicall sea flowing from that forementioned l head thereof raise to such a height of pride and inhumane cruelty that it did overflow and runne over all power and authority both divine and Humane and became thereby so intollerable that no humane creature was able to withstand restraine or resist it So that in a short time it had easily as another deluge overflowed and destroyed the whole land and by its most deadly waters of Popish and Arminians false doctrines and superstitious ceremonies killed every soule living yet in that tyrannical scalding sea according to the prophesie of Christ therein truely accomplished recited Mat. 24. 22. saying that except those dayes meaning the dayes of the great tribulatiō mentioned described by him in the next preceding words which can bee no other then the thousand two thundred and sixty dayes of this christian Churches pilgrimage through her said deseart so called Revel. 7. 17. except saith he they should be shortned there shall no flesh be saved but for the elects sake those dayes shall bee shortned As it is now manifestly come to passe by the wonderfull mercy of God who being a God * that heareth prayers as the Prophet saith hath at last * looked downe from the highest of his sanct●any and hath from Heaven beheld the earth to heare the groanings of the prisoners and to loose those that were appointed to death and hath regarded the prayer of the destitute not despised their request as it is said in that Propheticall Psalme that was then written for the generation to come and for the people which was to be created a new For he is no idle spectator of the wrongs done unjustly to his servants but rather such a one as doth usually * resist the proud Hamans of the world scattering them in the imagination of their hearts and putting downe the mighty from their seates As the most blessed Virgin Mary doth fing Luke 1. 52. 53. and as we see it already begun by the almighty power of God who hath taken in hand that proud Hierarchicall whore even in the very time when in her over-swelling pride * shee most glorified her selfe saying in her heart I sit a Queene and am no widdow and shall see no sorrow as she is brought boasting of her selfe Revel. 18. 7. 8. Whereupon the Angel denouncing her last sentence of condemnation saith of her in the next words Therefore must her plagues come in one day death and mourning and famine and shee shall be utterly burnt with the fire of Excommunication for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her Who therefore doth now stirre up those that

viz. two Archbishops see the emblem in the frontispice of this treatise * Psal. 65. 2. * Psal. 102. 17 18 c. * 1 Pet. 5. 5. * Revel. 18. 7 8. * Ibid. 17. 16 Iosh. 1. 2 3. 4 c. * Revel. 18. 6. * Iosh. 1. 8. 9. * Revel. 14. 11. and 14. m The covenant made by both the nations of England and Scotland c. is typified by that action of Joshua circumcising the people of Israel in Gilgal presently after their passage over Jordan by the expresse commandement of God n Josh. 5. 2 c. to verse 12. parallell to Revel. 19. 4. * Iosh. 5. 9. * Revel. 11. 18 o Iosh. 5. 13. 14 15 parallel to Revel 19. 5 He will no lesse manifest his good wil more and more to ou● great leader under him concerning the reformation now in hand * Exod. 30 19. 20. See Ainsworths Annot. in locum * Io●● 5. 9. p It should therfore have preceded the Covenant because it was the cause of our separation and divorce from the Lord therfore that Jonas was first to bee cast into the sea of Sodom spare it not therefore or else you must be sure that the Sea will not cease her raging q The lake of Sodom a type first of the Excommunicatition of the Church called by Christ Gehenna of fire Mat. 5. 22. by Saint Paul to be delivered unto Satan 1 Cor. 5. 5. by Saint John Revel. 19. 10. and 20. 10. a lake of fire and brimstone secondly of hell it selfe * I●● 51. 63. 64. reade and consider well the contents thereof * Revel. 19. 5. parallell to Josh. 5. 13 14 15. * Numb. 27. 18. 21. See Iudg. 20. 27. 28. 1 Sam. 23. 9 10 c. and chap. 28. 6. Ainsworth in Exod. 28. 30. r The joy of Joshua and of the people of Israel passing over Jordan dry testified by Psal. 66. 6. parallell to Revela● 19. 1. expressing the joy of the Christan Israel for the assembling of the Parliament Preaching at the very beginning of it liberty to the captives and to them that were bound by the Prelates the opening of the prison Isa. 61. x. s The passage over Jordan mentioned Josh. 3. 9 10 11. and 16. parallell to the proceding in judgement or Arainnement of the Hierarchie in Parliament expressed Revel. 19. 2. * Ezech. 24. 16. * Psal. 88. 4 5 6 7 8. t I have observed this concerning M. Burton who was confined in the Castle Cornet in the Isle of Garnzey in whom especially I finde this type verified to the full for since the 14 of June 1637. in which day he together with his two other fellow Martyrs and right {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} were condemned c. to his arrivall in the said Island which was the 15. day of December in the same yeare are just sixe whole moneths during which time he was as it were in a very darke night of affliction hid as the spies sent by Joshua to Jericho under stalkes of flaxe upon the roofe of a house and from that time decained close prisoner three whole yeares viz. from the said 15. day of De●ember 1637. to the 15. day of November 1640. being the Lords day and the first of the last moneth of the said third yeare in which day he heard the great voyce of the Heavenly Parliament saying unto him come up hither u These are the true members of the true Church called alwaies heaven in this Revelation opposed to the Hierarchicall Nationall earthly Church of the Prelates * Revel. 11. 12. 13. and chap. 19 1 2 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} x Iosh. 6. from verse the 1. to the 22. is contained an Historie parallell to the praediction in Revel. 19. ver. 6 7 8. y This conquest of Jericho as well as that of the rest of the land of Canaan was corporall though this first was performed in a spirituall ext●●ordinary manner there●… their 〈…〉 corporall 〈…〉 z this is a spirituall conquest whereby these Christian Kingdomes are to be conquered to Christ in slipping from off their necks or casting off the cruell and intollerable yoake of Antitichrists usurped tyrannicall power to take in liew thereof the most easie yoke of Christ embracing the sincere profession of his truely reformed Religion and submitting to his holy Church Government discipline therefore the order kept by these three troopes in their march uttering of their Hallelu jah after their said conqu●st is different from that of the type because the spirit of God hath as it seemes reference to the Spirituall warfare of the Parliaments where the honorable house of Commons representing the whole bodie of the Kingdome doth as it were march in the forefront of the whole Armie Then the Peeres of the land Princes of the Tribes of their fathers and heads under God and the King of the thousands of Israel do● follow after then the Priests or Ministers come in the rereward of the said Armie with the rammes hornes of the powerfull though most despised preaching of the word of God and servent prayer of a long blast bearing upon their shoulders the ●●borious Ministerie thereof whereby especially the wall of this Jericho I meane according to Prov. 18. 11. these rich Vice-Roys Merchants and Mariners superfluous and ill acquired wealth wages of unrighteousnesse so called 2 Pet. 2. 15. which was as their strong citie and as an highwall in their owne conceit must bee tumbled downe These come in the last place because their proper place is occupied by those who should bee thrust out of it * Josh. 6. 22 c. a By these understand all the true witnesses of Christ and among them especially they that have suffered for the truth who are to informe and shew by the word of God how the Chuch ought to be reformed and purged of all false Popish and Arminian doctrine and Idolatries of all the Popish garments and superfluous ornaments of that pompous will-worship and Liturgie and of all the ragges and superstitious dayes of feasts or fasts all which ought to be abolished See the Law Deut. 21. 12. verse 13. and the law for the clensing of the leprosie Levit. 14. 8. Numb. 5. 2. 3. and for the practise thereof see Numb. ●2 14. 15. and Ezech. 16. 52. 54. for the performance of this in the Antitype weigh Revel. 19. 7. 8. and 11. 13. the latter end * Iosh. 6. 18 19 Idem cap. 7. 21 wherefore all Israel was troubled 36. of them were Killed and the rest fled before the men of Ai vers. 4. 5. * Revel. 19. 14 * Isa. 30. 22. * Deut. 13. 17. 2 Sam. 14. 17. 2 Cron. 19. 4. 7 8 9 10. * Mat. 22. 21. in restoring Church lands impropriations Church tithes c. to whom they belong Revel. 10. 〈◊〉 5. 6. * Verse 7. * Rom. 12. 8. * Origen lib. 3. contra Celsum * Ambros. in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tim. 5. he lived about the yeare of the Lord 37. 4.