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A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

her beforehand that then especially when the time of trouble which he also foretold her of should come shee should betake herselfe unto them as he also saith When yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the holy place who so readeth let him understand then let them which be in Iudea flic into the mountains c. Matth. 24. For this was the very time of the great persecution raised by the Dragon against that admirable woman in her most excellent primitive estate described in Rev. 12.1 whereby she was necessitated to flie into the Wildernesse to her place which God had provided for her to take some breath and live She was now to read and understand the written words of his two Testaments and to betake her selfe to them and flie they being the two wings of the great Eagle even the Lord himselfe who gave them unto her to that end and that she might be also nourished by them in that secret desart for a time and times and half a time that is to say three yeares and a halfe of yeares from the presence of the Serpent as verse 14. compared with verse 6. where these three times and a halfe are decribed by 1260 dayes and are to be understood for so many yeares it being also the full time of the reigne of the Beast which was to rise after the Dragons fall For St. Iohn as it seemeth wrote this book of the Revelation at the same time when all the Westerne Churches were by the persecution of Nero and the rest of those cruell Pagan Emperours dispersed and they of Iudea also Iohn himselfe being now for the word of God and witnesse of Iesus Christ in the Isle of Pathmos onely the seven Churches of Asia remaining in their places undispersed and that this was the reason why Iohn speaks not a word of any Churchelse of any place besides those seven of Asia unto whom he was appointed to send the book when he had written it And although notwithstanding that great persecution against all Christians in generall then under the Romane power the name of Christ and profession of Christian Religion increased so that in short time it came to be very generally entertained yet did the true Church herselfe being in respect of her Seed dispersed amongst them never recover her first and primitive estate againe but all things grew worse and worse untill the Beast rose who brought the mystery of iniquity to perfection and set up the abomination of desolation to the full which the Dragon had begun in Ierusalem and Temple thereof to stand where it ought not even in the Temple of the Christian Gentiles the seven Churches of Asia being now also by the Easterne Empire subdued to the Beast and brought under the supremacie and power of his Church of Rome and so they wrought and brought to passe by degrees that the eminent light and beauty of the truly modest and chast virgin Spouse of Christ might no more be seen till the fourty and two months of the Beasts reigne should be expired Therefore as Christ said Matth. 24. Who so readeth let him understand c. So again Rev. 1. Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of the prophesie of this booke and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand verse 3. Verse 5. And if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies and if any man will hurt them so must he be slaine HEre the Lord doth further declare by his Angell what his two Witnesses are in their owne true nature and power in saying If any man will hurt them fire shall proceed out of their mouth c. That is to say if any man shall resist their words and testimony or seem to stop their proceeding and pervert the straight way of the Lord which they declare as the Scribes and Pharisees and those false teachers in Antioch and them of Galatia Elymas the Sorcerer and many other more in the Apostles dayes did or shall wrest their words from their true intention to some other false and evill ends and so turn their prophesie and testimony out of the way to maintaine their blasphemous opinions abominations and lies under pretence of truth as Arius and his followers did and the Beast and his Clergie have done a long time and as many others doe now amongst us at this day to maintain their sundry erroneous and corrupt opinions which they have taken up contrary to the intent and meaning of the Spirit of God in these his two Testaments Look what judgements they have pronounced against such shall surely first or last fall upon them the fire of Gods justice and wrath which proceedeth out of their mouth shall certainly devoure them And let no man marvell at this that they being two are described to have both but one mouth for although they bee two in number and are truly distinct and differing one from the other the one being the Law of sinne and of death so called by reason of us who are all guilty of the breach thereof and so of death which is said to come by Moses the other being the Law of the Spirit of life of grace and truth and is said to come by Jesus Christ yet doe they not speak or will things contrary one to the other but doe truly agree and speake as with one mouth that which is holy and just gracious and true Therefore if any man will hurt them so must he be slain If any man shall make and love to make lies against them or of them and say they speak that which they speak not or mean that which they mean not If any man shall adde to or take from the words of their prophesie see then what their sentence is even in the very finishing of their testimony If he shall adde God shall then adde unto him the plagues that are written in this booke If he shall diminish or take from God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy Citie and from the things that are written in this book Rev. 22.18 19. Blessed therefore are they that doe his commandements that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the Citie for without shall be Dogges and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie Verse 6. These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the dayes of their prophesie and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues so often as they will THat these two Witnesses have power for to doe all these things I suppose no man will deny because it is without question true And that whatsoever they have prophesied against any Kingdome Monarch Nation State Citie People for their wickednesse against

thee and thy false prophets those two hundred thousand thousand Clergymen that wrought miracles before thee and cast yee both alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone according as it is written Rev. 19. And then shall his two Witnesses prophecie in their full strength more publickly and freely then yet they doe and his Church come fully forth of the wildernesse that her modest countenance her holy and heavenly conversation may be more clearly seen then yet is or hath been for these many hundred yeares past Ver. 14. The second woe is gone and behold the third woe will come quickly IN Chap. 8. mention is made of three woes that were to come upon the world and be within the time of the sounding of the three last of the 7 Trumpets which the 7 Angels were to sound v. 13. where John saith And I beheld and heard an Angel flying through the middest of heaven saying with a lowd voyce Woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voyces of the Trumpets of the three Angels which are yet to sound The first of these three woes being that of Arianisme before mentioned which is described in Chap. 9. from ver 1. to ver 11. and is said to continue five months ver 5. meaning in the propheticall understanding months of years which according to the Hebrews account who had thirty dayes to every month and twelve months to every year doe containe the just number of an hundred and fifty years which was the time of the Arian persecution and prevailing of that heresie as Histories doe plainly report This and no other thing can rightly be taken for the first Woe neither may the persons or workers thereof be thought to bee Saracens Arabians Mahometans as some name them and would have them nor any other heathen powers or people without the outer Court or Pale of the Church but Christians by profession and such as had great place and power in the outward state of the Church wherby to worke their mischievous Woe in stinging and poisoning the inhabitants of the earth with their hellish smoky blasphemous doctrine and to persecute the Saints of God that opposed the same The holy Ghost having from the first verse of this ninth chapter to the eleventh verse made a full description of this first Woe it being the least of the three and no more again to bee mentioned saith here ver 12. One woe is past And because each of the other two would be farre greater he saith And behold as requiring all men to hearken and take speciall notice of it two woes more come hereafter And then presently following saith ver 13. And the sixth Angel sounded c. From which to the end of the Chapter in a very brief and generall manner is foreshewed not onely the frightfull uglinesse and monstrous deformed shapes of the creatures that should work this second Woe and cause that abominable mystery of iniquity to overspread the earth and how great the number of their Army of Horsmen should be but also with what Devillish weapons of hellish fire smoke and brimstone issuing forth of their mouthes and tailes they should effect it to the slaying of the the third part of men Which strangely deformed great Army are not nor may bee thought to bee that of the Turkes which have invaded and doe now possesse a part of Europe as some conceive and publish Nay but they are Christians also by profession as were the authors of the first woe even the whole race and generation of the great Antichrist of Rome and legions of his false prophets These are the true authors and workers of this second Woe who now began to shew themselves in their fashion when the sixth Angel began to sound v. 13 14. And so in respect of that first Woe of Arianisme which began with the sounding of the fifth Angels Trumpet and continued five months This of Antichrist which was to begin with the sounding of the sixth Angels Trumpet and to continue fourty and two months is in Chap. 11.4 called The second Woe Which woe although it was to be and is more particularly and much more exactly and largely discovered in Chapters 13. and 14. and Chap. 17. and 18. and 19. yet because it is here in Chap. 11. in a generall manner fully revealed the Lord to whom all things past and to come are present saith vers 14. The second woe is gone And because the third woe is to come very soon after and it being the greatest of all he saith again And behold calling unto as it were and requiring all men to hearken and consider of it saying And behold the third woe will come meaning the great day of the Lords comming in his glory to judge the world which will bee a day of terror unto all those inhabitants of the earth that repented not of their sinnes and sorceries and murders c. that beleeved not in him and of the greatest woe to them that ever came For all the woes as they are woes doe belong to the ungodly and are so called in respect of them not of the just neither will the day of the Lords coming in glory be a day of terror or woe to them but rather on the clean contrary the day of their greatest joy the day which they looked for And that they his chosen and faithfull should know and understand upon certainty that this great day of the Lord shall not tarry long but come soon after the desolation of Antichrist he addeth this word quickly And behold the third woe will come quickly Which very thing the Lord also confirmed before in another place by the like word immediatly Matth. 24. where hee having spoken of the tyrannous reign of the selfe-same Antichrist and his false prophets verse 23 24. saith Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes shall the Sunne be darkned and the Moon shall not give her light and the Starres shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be shaken and then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of Man in heaven and then shall all the Tribes of the earth mourne and they shall see the Sonne of man comming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his Angels with a great found of a Trumpet c verse 29.13.31 And as concerning the length of the time that is to bee between the end of Antichrist and the day of the Lords comming in glory intended by the word quickly and the word immediatly The Prophet Daniel speaking likewise of the reigne of the same Antichrist and number of his dayes as also of the end of the world which is to be at the day of the Lords comming declareth it plainly to contain fourty and five yeares according to the Chaldees account Dan. 12. his words being these And from the time that the daily Sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up there

shall bee a thousand two hundred and ninety dayes Blessed is he that wayteth and commeth to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty dayes adding to the thousand two hundred and ninety dayes five and thirty dayes more which make a thousand three hundred thirty five and then saith as being the words of the Angel of God to Daniel But go thou thy way till the end be for thou shalt rest and stand up in the lot at the end of the dayes vers 11 12 13. The Prophet from the Angel intending by dayes yeares and counting the years after the use of the Chaldeans and not of the Hebrewes between whom in three years and a halfe there was as it seemeth thirty dayes difference And so if Daniel was to goe his way and rest till the and bee and that he shall stand up in the lot at the end of the dayes then must the end of necessity be at the end of the dayes But Daniel was to goe his way till the end should be and was to rest and stand in the lot at the end of the dayes therefore the end of the dayes must needs be the end even the end of the world And now therefore if the time between the end of those dayes of Antichrists reigne and the end of the world will indeed for certain be so short as those Scriptures declare then where will there be time or place for that glorious thousand yeares Monarch of Saints which so many learned Ministers and zealous people at this day look for and hold as an Article of their faith to bee here in this present world before the end thereof Surely neither the Prophets nor Christ nor any of his Apostles doe admit of such a thing Those people and Ministers whatsoever they are for zeale and learning they are herein utterly deceived misunderstanding the Scriptures which speak indeed of a glorious Kingdome and many great and excellent things the Saints shall receive and possesse not for the limited time of a thousand yeares in this corrupt world but for ever and ever a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand yeares even for eternity in the uncorrupt world to come which world and kingdome shall have no end as the Scriptures declare Esay 9.7 Esay 45.14 15 16 Dan. 7.14.25 Luk. 1.32 33. and sundry other places Those Ministers and people therefore which look for such a millenary Monarchical kingdom in this world may do well to renounce that Atticle of their faith as they call it in meeknes and humblenes of heart seek and desire of God to give them his holy Spirit of truth whereby to understand with comfort his word of truth The things that are to be between the end of Antichrists reigne and the end of the world are by Christ himselfe foreshewed in these words Matth. 24. Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes shall the Sunne be darkned and the Moone shall not give her light and the Starres shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall bee shaken c. Where the Lord intendeth by the Sunne the word of his truth the Gospel of salvation which had been darkned by Antichrist and should now toward the end of his dayes break forth and shine again to discover his abominations and for the saving of Gods elect which the Lord also intended before ver 22. in these words But for the elect sake those dayes shall be shortned And implying also that it should shine yet more brightly after the end of Antichrist and that the greatest part of the time of 45 yeares intended by the word quickly and the word immediatly shall be for the prosperous proceeding of the Gospel and full accomplishing of all Gods elect And as the Sunne thus shineth so shall the Moon that is to say the earth and the inhabitants thereof whose light doth depend upon the light of the Gospel as the light of the Moon doth on the light of the Sunne she shall now give her light according also as a holy one in another place saith The Sun shall suddenly shine again in the night and the Moon three times in the day c. And the Starres of God shall appeare in heaven God will raise up in his Church true and faithfull Shepheards that shall as starres in heaven hold forth the light and truth of his two Testaments to the word and so the powers of the heavens spirituall will bee in their heavenly way and order again All these things are plainly implied in the words of Christ else how can the Sunne be said to be darkned and the Moon to lose her light and the Starres to fall from heaven c. immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes of Antichrist if they did not and should not shine forth and give their light some time before the end of those dayes and also after more especially therefore all these things must be And the true Church of Christ which had been troden under foot and caused to hide her face as it were in the wildernesse so long shall come forth and bee seene neer like as she was once in her primitive state clothed with the Sunne even Jesus Christ and his righteousnesse and having the Moon that is all earthly and corruptible things under her feet as disregarded her conversation and affections being farre above them all in heaven where her Lord is and from whence shee looketh for him to come and bring all those his rewards with him that hee hath promised And having also on her head a Crown of twelve starres the true and sound doctrine of the Lambs twelve Apostles and of the holy Prophets walking in the light and truth thereof according as they walked with true love toward God and also toward men And so be as once she was in these spirituall heavenly respects truely visible like a Citie set upon a hill that cannot be hid and as a Candle in a Candlestick which giveth light to all in the house her faith shining again throughout the world And when shee shall bee in this estate like as at the first when she was travelling with child to bring forth her first fruits unto God and to the Lamb the Dragon stood before her to devoure her child and persecute the woman into the wildernesse as Rev. 12. So now when she shall be travelling with child again ready to bring forth her last fruits unto God and to Christ then the Dragon that old Serpent being loosed out of his prison where he had been bound so many hundred yeares shall goe out to deceive the Nations that are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and Magog and gather them together and compasse the camp of the Saints about and this the beloved Citie till fire descend from God out of heaven and devoure them as it is written Ezek. 38. and 39. Rev. 16.21 Rev. 20.9 For as the time of the Churches fairest beauty was but short before the Dragon so cruelly used her so shall