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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

given unto the beast to doe two and forty moneths answering to the two and forty journeyes of the ancient Israelites travelling to their so long before promised land of Canaan recited by Moses Numb. 33. 1. 2 c. and amounting to the one thousand two hundred and threescore a Propheticall daies of the wandering of the said Christian Church in the wildernesse of its Popish Ceremonies Superstitions and Idolatries where she had a place prepared of God Revel. 12. 6. and where shee was to be nourished b for a time and times and halfe a time v. 14. tending to the Canaan of her true reformation during all that space of time Into the which wildernesse the said woman was constrained to flee to avoid the Dragon being carried thither upon the two winges of the Spread Eagle of the Roman Empire in that time it was divided by the Emperour Theodosius the great betweene his two sonnes Arcadius and Honorius viz. c about the yeare of our Lord three hundred and ninety In the which wildernesse she advanced passing along and through that Sea of blood * cast out of the mouth of the Serpent like a flood after the said woman I meane the Arian Gothes and Vandalls untill she came to the very bottom as it were of the wildernesse of Idolatry set up at the first and established as another golden calfe to bee worshipped A Table of the Parallel of the 42 〈…〉 Desert to the land of 〈…〉 the rising of the Beast R. Menachem on Exo. 25.31 noteth thus from ancient Rabbins 42 particulars in the Candlestick viz. 11 knops 22 bowles and 9 flowers which number hee would have observed as mysticall saith Ainsworth on the said place For this one in Exodus we have seven in the Revel. 1. 12. in the midst of which Christ walketh chap. 2.1 h Wherein the Angel that had powred out the said sixt viall mentioned in the said 16 chapter of the Revel. standing now as it were upon the said Euphrates to observe the behaviour and proceeding of the said Euphratian men and filthy fr●ggs turnes as it were himselfe towards the people of God encamped at the shore of it and having already enformed him in the beginning of this chapter of the neare approaching fall of the great Babylon it selfe and commanded them therewith to come out of her wildernesse in passing over the said Euphrates now to that very end dryed up that they might the more easily enter into it to make a full conquest thereof in rewarding her even as shee had rewarded them The said Angell I say doth now further declare unto them what should also be the substance of the message of the said Emissaries and moreover what should be the issue or effect thereof Namely that they would goe up like those ancient filthie froggs of Egypt in the time of Pharaoh i to the said Kings beyond Euphrates yea enter into their houses and into their bed-chambers and ascend as it were upon their beds and be present at their tables to provoke them by their importunate croakings filthie lyes and diabolicall detractions opening their foule mouthes against those new come reformers to perswade and intice the said Kings to oppose them and with the uttermost of their power to hinder their intended reformation accusing them thus viz. that they under pretext of Religion sought nothing else but the utter overthrow of all Kingly power and authority yea and of all decent order and policy both in Church and common-wealth to bring therein a great confusion and disorder in all things and that their whole aime was nothing else but in lieu of their most stately and glorious Hirarchicall governement to establish their consistorian Pope-like tyranny whereunto they would subject yea the Kings themselves in dominering over them if they should permit them once to get over or put downe the said Hierarcichall Euphrates And therefore they would advise the Kings to looke to it betimes not permitting such new upstart reformers to trample under their feete and quite overthrow so ancient and excellent an Hierarchicall power as theirs was ancient as the Apostles themselves being grounded upon the Scriptures and founded upon the words of our Saviour himselfe speaking to the first and chiefe of the Apostles St. Peter and saying unto him Matth. 16. 18. Tues Petrus Thou art Peter c. and besides all this that it hath beene established in the very time of the Primitive Church by the lawes of the Emperours from Constantine the great and so forwards Yea that since the reformation of Religion in those latter times it hath beene also renewed from time to time and confirmed by Parliamentall lawes by the Kings themselves who also thereby become true Monarchs according to that true saying No Bishop no King k Therefore ought you would they say againe in great wisedom to stoppe them in their course and most unlawfull rebellious-like proceedings going against them with all your puissance that they may advance no further but rather constraine them to returne backe againe to their owne desert from which they come there to bee for ever confined that so our glorious Euphrates may runne still in keeping its owne course and exercising its dominering power as before or else you are in danger if so be you do permit once that the most cleare glorious springs therof be dryed up extinguished to have your owne Crownes taken from off your heads by such new come Paritans This is in effect the message of those three Euphratian froggs here recited by the Angell from the ninth verse of this chapter to the twentieth thereof thus introducing the Vice-Royes themselves with the Marchants and Marriners speaking in such manner to the foresaid Kings of the Earth concerning which the said Angell doth now exhort the said passengers to whom he hath thus spoken that they should no way feare them nor all the croakings and false imputations of such filthy frogges and diabolicall spirits because thereby they should not bee able to doe them any wrong or to hinder them any whit from passing ●…r and therefore that they should goe on with courage and boldnesse through the said Euphrates now to that end dryed up before them by that warre like leader the heavenly Joshua who being with you and going before you will not faile nor forsake you therefore goe on I say with full assurance of a most glorious and vnheardof victorie for though they should by such meanes as it is very certaine they will gaine the said Kings to combine themselves and joyne hand in hand against you yet all their power would yet say further the said Angell shall not prevaile nor hinder the l Lord from the accomplishment of his faithfull promises concerning the finall overthrow utter ruine of all the enemies of his Church Let then al those Vice-Roys themselves the Marchants also how rich soever they bee and all the seafaring men doe or say what they