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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35274	The resurrection of the witnesses and Englands fall from (the mystical Babylon) Rome clearly demonstrated to be accomplished, whereby great encouragement is administred to all saints, but especially to the saints in England, in the handling of a part of the eleventh chapter of the Revelation / by M. Cary ...	Cary, Mary.	1648 (1648)	Wing C737A; ESTC R33344	91,608	233

strangers to it such as were a far off as such as were enemies to the Temple and would have the Temple ruined and laid wast But note though the difference between Jewes and Gentiles since the daies of the Gospel be taken away and the Gentiles as well as the Jewes may now be of the Church of God if they be built upon the Lord Jesus yet the word Gentiles is heer used to expresse those that were not of the Church nor of the Temple but would have the Temple ruined And as the Babylonians of old had the Temple for a while given unto them So now Jesus Christ gives his spirituall Temple into the hands of these Gentiles the mysticall Babylonians for a while And the holy City This title the holy City we finde in Scripture is first given unto the City of Jerusalem the City wherein the materiall Temple was scituate as appears Matth. 37. 3. where it is said at the death of our Saviour That the graves were opened and many bodies of the Saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after his resurrection and went into the holy City and appeared unto many Which City it is evident was the City of Jerusalem And indeed Jerusalem was then accounted a City more holy then others because it was the place wherein men ought in a more especiall manner to worship God And therefore saies the woman of Samaria Ye say in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship And our Saviour doth not contradict this for indeed it is out of all contradiction that Jerusalem had been the place where men ought to worship for God had placed his name there and there he would be worshiped because the Temple was there wherein was his speciall presence So that in this respect Jerusalem was once a more holy City then others But when the cause was taken away the effect ceased when Jerusalem ceased to be the place where men were enjoined to worship God and God had removed his special presence from the Temple then Jerusalem was no more holy then another place And because that Jerusalem was to cease to be the place of worship and the holy place therefore it is that our Saviour Iohn 4. 21 23. saith The hour commeth when ye shall neither in the mountain of Samaria nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father but the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him As if he had said Jerusalem shall not be the place of worship men shall not worship God there for if men doe perform Jerusalem worship that is worship with that worship that hath respect to an outward place it shal be accounted as no worship no men shall not worship in Jerusalem but such as worship the Father must worship him with an inward Spiritual worship and in truth that is in the Son in the Spirit and in the Son and such the Father seeks to worship him such he is now a seeking out both of Jews and Gentiles and such worship is most pleasing unto him So that Jerusalem had once the title of the holy City It was once the place wherein God was worshipped but it is now ceased to be so But secondly This title The holy City is given in Scripture unto that City of which that Jerusalem of old was a figure and that is the Saints and people of God who are all citizens of the holy City And therefore Paul writing to the Saints at Ephesus saith he Ephes 2. 19. Ye are no more strangers and forreigners but fellow citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God And that Jerusalem of old was a figure of this Holy City appears Hebr. 12. 22. and Gal. 4. 26. where the Saints are called by the name of Jerusalem only they are differenced from the material Jerusalem in that they are called The heavenly Jerusalem and Jerusalem which is above Now that this Heavenly Jerusalem which is compacted of Saints and Sanctified ones and therefore must needs be a Holy City I say that this Spirituall Jerusalem hath this title The holy City given to it doth appear Revel 21. 2. And I John saw the holy City new Jerusalem comming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband Who is the spouse the bride that is adorned for her husband Jesus Christ but his Saints They then are the new and heavenly Jerusalem they are the holy City And the holy City shall they that is the Gentiles fore-spoken of tread under foot To be trouden under foot by an enemy is the highest kinde of insultation of an enemy over a people that possibly can be for what greater contempt and scorn and envy can an enemy expresse then by treading a person or a people under feet And yet this is the condition the Church was put into which is spoken of in the prophesie of Isaiah Chap. 51. 23. where it was said that those enemies that afflicted the Saints Said to their Souls bow down that we may goe over and their bodies was laid as the ground and as the streets to them that went over And this is the condition which the holy City the Temple of God his precious Saints are here also appointed unto even to be trod under foot to be depressed and greatly persecuted to be bowed down under the feet of their enemies to be made as the ground and as the street to them to goe over Querie But now before I proceed any further the Querie will be What those Gentiles are in particular to whom the Temple and the holy City was to be given and by whom they were to be trodden under foot For as Jerusalem and the Temple of old were given to the Babylonians in particular so the question is now Who the particular enemies are to whom the Temple and the holy City now are delivered For though the holy City hath many enemies yet she is not given to them all Answ I Answer Though in this Chapter there be no other description of them but only this the Gentiles yet we have a large description of them in three severall Chapters of this prophesie which descriptions as they lie I shall here incert The first is Rev. 12. 3. 4. And there appeared another wonder in Heaven and behold a great red Dragon having seaven heads and ten horns and seven Crowns upon his heads and his tail drew a third part of the Stars of Heaven and did cast them to the earth The second place in which the enemies of the Saints to whom they are given for a while are described is Rev. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. verses which is as followes And I stood upon the sand of the Sea and saw a Beast rise up out of the Sea having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten Crowns and upon his head the name of blasphemy And the Beast which I saw was like unto a Leopard and his

wicked one the Pope and his adherents the mysticall Babylonians the meaning of that fourty two moneths is A thousand two hundred and threescore years And it must of necessity be acknowledged to be so for the Beast hath troden the holy City under foot for above twelve hundred years already Verse 3. And I will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore daies cloathed in sackcloth That this word My two Witnesses cannot be confined onely to two men that should be the Witnesses of Christ Jesus is most apparent because they are said to continue so long as the holy City was to be troden under foot of the Beast which is a thousand two hundred and threescore years Now twelve hundred years is a terme of time which no man ever lived when men lived longest much lesse since the flood therefore since the two Witnesses are said to continue twelve hundred and sixty years they cannot be confined onely unto two men but do include all the Saints that have been Witnesses of the truths of Jesus Christ ever since the Beast began to persecute the Church for Jesus Christ during all that time did never leave himself without witnesses though for the most part of that time the number of them were very small in comparison of the false prophets of the Beast which may be the reason why they are here exprest by the smallest of numbers the number two But I say Jesus Christ hath never left himself without Witnesses but hath had some at all times that have been witnesses of his truths in opposition to the Beast And those are they that are here in the text said to prophesie a thousand two hundred and sixty daies Now as this text holds forth That Jesus Christ hath had Witnesses during all the raign of the Beast and the persecuted condition of the Church so other passages in this prophesie confirm it as Chap. 8. 9. I saw under the Altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held These were some that had witnessed and testified the truths of Christ against the Beast and sealed their testimony with their bloud for they were slain for the Word of God and for the testimony which they held And to shew that these were not all that witnessed the truths of Christ but that Jesus Christ had continually some that were his Witnesses which the beast should continually be slaying it is said in the 11. verse of that Chap. That they should rest yet for a little season untill their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled So that Christ had a further number of Witnesses which were also to honour him by laying down their lives for his truth And Chap. 12. 11. The Witnesses of Christ are again mentioned for it is said That the Dragon did make war with them which kept the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ And verse 12. they are said To overcome the devil by the bloud of the Lamb by which all Saints do overcome him and by the word of their testimony for they loved not their lives unto the death Here it appears that the Saints did so witnesse the truths of Christ as they counted not their lives dear unto them but laid them down to seale the truth which they held which was a means of convincing many of the truth and thereby they were overcomers of the Beast And chap. 18. 24. when Babylon came to be throwne downe it is said That in her was found the bloud of Prophets and of all that were slain upon the earth whereby it appears That during all the raign of the Beast he hath been slaying the Prophets Witnesses and Saints of Jesus Christ Thus by these severall passages it is evident That Christ hath had his Witnesses during all the raign of the Beast and it is apparent that this word My two Witnesses includes all those Witnesses of Christ that have been during all the raign of the Beast for they have been said to prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore years Object But how could all the Witnesses of Christ be said to prophesie I answer Every Saint in a sence may be said to be a Prophet For they are Prophets to whom God discovers his secrets and there is no true Saints but the secrets of God are discovered to them Psal 15. 14. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his Covenant The truth is it is the discoveries of God and of Jesus Christ and of hidden truths that maketh Saints If the Lord did not reveal his secrets unto poor souls it would not be possible for them to be Saints Now then as soon as the soul is made a Saint it is made a Prophet for when the Lord hath revealed himself unto the soul and discovered his secrets to it made it to see the wonderfull things of his law and caused it to rejoyce in the sweet discoveries of his grace the soul cannot choose but declare them to others Yea the word is as a fire in its bosome and it cannot hold it in according to that rule When thou art converted strengthen thy brethren This is ever the sweet temper of a real Saint he cannot but give vent to the bublings of Christ upon his heart and that in opposing gain-saiers contending earnestly for the faith and in the edifying exhorting and comforting of other Saints Now that this is prophecying is most evident in these Scriptures 1 Cor. 14. 3. He that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification and exhortation and comfort Now this all Saints in some measure or other can do and sometimes doth though some Saints can doe it farre more excellently then others yet he that speaketh to edification exhortation and consolation though with much weaknesse doth as truly prophesie as he that hath greatest abilities Another Scripture is Act. 15. 32. And Judas and Silas being prophets also themselves exhorted the brethren with many words and confirmed them Here it is evident That to speak the word of exhortation and information to the confirming of Saints in the truth is to prophesie for Judas and Silas are said to exhort and confirm the Saints as they were Prophets Another passage to this purpose is Revel 19. 10. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesie This passage gives a most clear answer to the question What is it to prophesie The Angel had said Chap. 18. 24. That in Babylon was found the bloud of Prophets and of Saints Now here he makes it to appear what the Prophets were that Rome had slain namely they were they that had the testimony of Jesus for saith he The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesie So that all Saints that have the testimony of Jesus have the spirit of prophesie and so all that were slain for the