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A77670	A brief survey of the prophetical and evangelical events of the last times: VVherein that which principally is insisted on, is the prophetical little horn, or man of sin, and evangelical beast, and his seven heads and ten hornes. Shewing by the Scriptures what they be, when their rise, what their work, how long their continuance, and their end and ruine. Much differing from former and common interpretations hereupon. Wherein also those prophecies are briefly touched which concern the persecution of the saints, the falling away of the churches, the night of darknesse, the virgins going forth to meet the bridegroom, the mystical whore, the preaching of the Gospel of the kingdome to all the world, and the gathering of the Jewes into their own land. Being a portion of the paines in searching of the holy Scriptures by several members of the congregation of Orpington in Kent. And now published for the comfort of all those that have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, and wait, look for, and long after his coming, Tit. 2. 11, 12, 13. / By Capt. John Brovvne a member of that congregation.	Browne, John, Captain.	1655 (1655)	Wing B5117; Thomason E826_18; ESTC R207735	43,228	58

to the same effect take the words as they are recorded by him Then Iesus said unto them Yet a little while is the Light with you walk while you have the Light lest darknesse come upon you For he that walketh in darknesse knoweth not whether he goeth I am come a Light into the world that whosoever believeth in me should not abide in darknesse We do not say that this night of darknesse was immediatly to follow the death resurrection or ascension of Christ for although he be the Day or great Light of the world for by him all things were made that were made 1 Iohn 3. according to Iohn the Baptists expression 1. Iohn 8 9. And the Sun of righteousnes according to the Prophet Malachies Prophesie in his 4. Chapter 2. verse compared with Zacharies Prophesie 1. Luke 7. 8. Yet he himself saith that his Disciples are also the Light of the world 5. Mathew 14. which they are to hold forth to others verse 16. Neither doth the said night of darknesse presently follow the decease of the Apostles for the Apostle Paul tels the Church of Philippi that although they were in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation yet among them they shine as lights in the world 2 Philippians 15. As also the same Apostle writting to the Church at Thesalonica declares to them ye are not saith he the children of light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darknesse 1 Th●s. 5. 5. But when once the Churches who believed and gratified the foundation Principles of the Doctrine of Christ ceased to be then came the night of darknesse on Now this darknesse was to fall upon the Iewes first for their rejecting of the Light the Lord Jesus bemoanes their sad condition for the same saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace But now they are hid from thine eyes 19. Luke 42. And the Apostle Iohn relates the exhortation of the Lord Jesus to them the words we have already repeated at large upon another occasion 12. Iohn 35. which compared with the expressions of the Appostle Paul to the Jews for their contradicting and blaspheming Then Paul and Barnabas waxed h●ld and said it was necessary that the Word of God should first have been spoken to you but seing you put it from you and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life Lo we turn to the Gentiles 13 Acts 46. will clear our affirmation As this Night of darknesse came upon the Jewes for their rejecting of the Light so in the second place it came upon the Gentiles for their neglecting of it The Apostle Paul writing to the Church at Rome bids them have a care of boasting take his expressions a little at large Thou wilt say then the Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in Well because of unbelief they were broken off and thou standest by Faith Be not high minded but fear For if God spare not the naturall Branches tak● heed least he also spare not thee Behold ther fore the Goodnesse and Severity of God on them which fall Severity but towards thee Goodnesse if thou continue in his Goodnesse otherwise thou also shalt be cut off Compare this with the advise of the Lord Jesus to the Church at Ephesus Remember from whence thou art fallen Revel. 2. 5. And withall consider well of the words of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrewes who were believers in Christ and had believed and practised the beginnings of the doctrine of Christ Hebr. 6. 1 2. For saith he if the word spok●n by Angels was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him Hebr. 2. 2 3. This darknesse after the Ascention of the Lord Jesus decease of the Apostles and falling away of the Churches was a general darknesse and so brought on the night in which the Virgins were to goe forth to meet the Bridegroom the Lord Jesus Math. 25. 1. But while he tarrieth they fall asleep vers 5. and at midnight the cry was made behold the Bridegroom cometh vers. 6. which though a Parable or dark saying yet ●t holds forth something which then as to Persons and Time should be And to them which have believed and practised the principles of the doctrine of Christ it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdome to others Math. 13. 11. Now for the Persons that doe goe forth to meet the Bridegroom the Scripture as we have already declared stiles them Virgins that is pure persons and such as those who have laid the two first foundation Principles viz. Repentance and Faith that is have repented that they have sinned and doe believe that God hath pardoned their sins by the bloud of the Lord Jesus and therefore such must needs be pure persons But the Scripture makes a clear distinction between the Spouse of Christ and Virgins Solomon the wisest of Men in his Song speaking in the person of the Spouse to her Beloved saith Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better than Wine Because of the Savour of thy good Ointments thy Name is as Ointment poured sorth therefore doe the Virgins love th●e Cant. 1. 2 3. In which two verses there is a clear distinction I say between the Spouse Let him kisse me and Virgins the Virgins love thee Take one other expression of his in his said Song chapter 6. 8 9. There are threescore Queens and fourscore Concubines and Virgins without number My Dove my undifiled is but one she is the onely one of her Mother she is the choice one of her that bare her the Daughters saw her and blessed her yea the Queenes and the Concubines and they praised her For a farther proof of our assertion that there is such a clear distinction betwixt the Spouse and Virgins take the words of a man after Gods own heart the Psalmist David in his 45. Psalm 13 and 14. verses The Kings Daughter saith he is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought Gold She shall be brought unto the King in rayment of needle-work The Virgins her Companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee Octject Doth not the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Church of Christ at Corinth call her there a Virgin For I have Espoused you saith he to one Husband that I may present you as a chast Virgin to Christ Answ. She is a chast Virgin indeed but is no where in Scripture called by the Name of Virgins in the Plurall Number for Solomon in his Cant. 6. 9. before quoted saith My Dove my undefiled is but one she is the onely one of her Mother and that expression of the Psalmist David Psalm 45. 14. will farther clear this

A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE PROPHETICAL and EVANGELICAL EVENTS OF THE LAST TIMES VVherein that which principally is insisted on is the Prophetical Little Horn or Man of Sin and Evangelical Beast and his seven Heads and ten Hornes Shewing by the Scriptures what they be when their Rise what their Work how long their Continuance and their End and Ruine Much differing from former and common Interpretations hereupon Wherein also those Prophecies are briefly touched which concern the persecution of the Saints the falling away of the Churches the night of darknesse the Virgins going forth to meet the Bridegroom the Mystical Whore the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdome to all the World and the gathering of the Jewes into their own Land Being a Portion of the paines in searching of the holy Scriptures by several of the Members of the Congregation of Orpington in Kent And now published for the comfort of all those that have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ and walt look for and long after his coming Tit. 2. 11 12 13. By Capt. JOHN BROVVNE a Member of that CONGREGATION LONDON Printed by Gartrude Dawson Anno Dom. 1655 TO HIS HIGHNESSE OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR Of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND My LORD THE Actings of the Almighty in this last Age of the World are visible to the eyes of all Persons in generall in these Nations especially to those that Love and Obey him over whom Providence hath placed you as the chief Magistrate in whose hands you have been an eminent Instrument to bring to pass those things which he had determined so to be and foretold by his Prophets the Lord Jesus and his Apostles which having in some measure been discovered to some of His despised in this world they durst not hide their Talent in a Napkin but what was freely given in to them of knowledge understanding in things yet to be brought to passe they doe as freely communicate to all there being duties to be performed by all and especially by those who have power in their hands to make good use of it and their time in imploying of it so as that This Gospel of the Kingdome may be Preached in all the World and the Jews brought to their own Land that so the Coming and Kingdom of the Lord Iesus to raign on the Earth with his Saints may be hastened who knowes but that the time of deliverance to his People is nigh the Lord grant that there may be no cursed Murmurers or wicked Transgressors among us whereby that deliverance should yet be retarded a longer time as it was with Israel for such Transgressions who were deprived of the possession of the Land of Promise a long time and wandred in the Wildernesses fourty yeares My Lord the work is great that is to be done and it will be done in a short time if we put forth our Selves Conquest and Liberty to preach the Gospel of the Kingdome go together our eares have heard you have some design on the Western parts of the World where these glad Tidings were never as yet made known if Your Highness have any desire that the same should be there or in any other part of the World published you need not fear the Attempt At your spare time cast your Eye upon what this ushers to your view and if the Lord have appointed you for the great work that is yet to be done He will stirre up your heart to a speedy acting therein to whom our Prayers for your direction and blessing therein and protection over you that under your Government we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty shall not be wanting in whom we desire to be found My Lord Your Highnesses in all faithfull Obedience to your Commands not disagreeing to the Command of our God and our Lord Iesus Signed in the Name of several Believers in Christ and especially of many of the Congregation at Orpington JOHN BROWNE To all Christian Readers by Profession in general but especially to such who have made manifest their Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ by yeilding Obedience to all his Commandements THis little Trratise comes forth to the publick view of all naked yet innotent and that to an encounter with Eminent Expositers both Antient and Modern on this Subject of the Beast like a stripling David with the great a Goliah of Gath one of the Sons of b Harephah well and compleatly armed when little David brings with him onely a c Staffe or Sling with a Scrip wherein he puts a few smooth stones which he had taken out of the Brook contemptible weapons in themselves for to incounter such a Gyant such may this seem to be which shall dare to oppose the volumes of the many famous Authors for so many Ages past who have so largely expressed themselves in their Writings on this Subject all of them in generall concluding that this Beast is risen long since yea many hundreds of yeares past but with much difference of Opinion as to the time as Mr. Tillinghast in his late Treatise of the Knowledge of the Times hath observed when as this doth clearly prove that he is not yet risen if they mean the little Horn or vile Person in Daniels Prophesie or the Beast with seven Heads and ten Hornes in Johns Visions nor shall not arise till the seventh Head King or Government be risen and fallen which is but yet arising the truth of this with the event of the Combate will evidently appear to such as desire after true Knowledge who are not prepossest with the Opinion of other Expositers like a Vessel that is first seasoned with unsavory Liquor which will hardly be c●eansed and that not without some tang or relish of its first seasoning there being nothing but plain Scripture proofes weapons like a Staffe or Sling and a few Observations out of History like a few smooth stones out of the Brook for what we doe alledge as for our Opponents who are many how they build one upon another and adde strength to strength till they become a Gyant invincible and unanswerable in their own and others Opinions and armed with a staffe many Scriptures but how rightly applied weigh and consider but beyond that of a Sling a Spear whose shaft was like a weavers beam armed with an Iron head weighing six hundred shekels that is pretending many hundreds of yeares past for the originall of that which they affirm so that for poor contemptible ones to come with a new doctrine a new interpretation of these Prophesies and Visions may seem very adventurous possibly to some a rash and a distemper'd brain yea and be cried down as dangerous and not to be tollerated but we beg this favour of the Readers as to be spectators a while and if any will be Judges let them have patience also and suspend their Judgements for a time which will trie the truth of all things and they may possibly receive

according to what we have already declared from the mouth of the Lord Jesus Math. 24 14. Sixthly When the Gospel or glad tidings of the Kingdome is begun to be preached in the last Age of the world which is a sign of the near approach of that Kingdome then will follow the calling of the two Tribes of Iudah and Benjamin to Ierusalem See what the Lord declares by the Prophet Ieremy concerning this Thus saith the Lord behold I will bring again the Captivity of Jacobs Tents and have mercy on his dwelling Places And the City shall be builded upon her own heaps and the Pallace shall remain after the manner 〈◊〉 So that comparing the latter part of the verse with the former part it will plainly appear that by Iacobs Tents cannot be meant the whole twelve Tribes or the ten Tribes but the two Tribes onely not but that there may be some of every Tribe amongst the two Tribes as there was some did cleave to the house of David when it s said the ten Tribes fell away for these here that shall be brought back are said to be first brought back and then the City is built which bringing back of the ten Tr●bes w●●l not be compleated till a●ter the Saints are taken up when as before that time both Ierusalem and the Temple will be built and Sacrifices offered of which we shall have ●ccasion to inlarge upon hereafter Consider of ●nother Prophesie concerning this in the 12 Zach●r● 6 7 In that day I will make the Governours of Jud●h lik● a ha●th o● fi●e among the w●od and like a torch of 〈…〉 shall devour all the people round about on the 〈…〉 and on the left And Jerusalem shall be inhabited 〈…〉 own place even in Jerusalem The Lord also shall save the T●n●s of Judah first Seventhly After the calling of the two Tribes for to build and inhabite Ierusalem the next remarkable thing that will in those dayes fall out to be is the rising or manifesting of the Beast and ten Hornes or Kings mentioned by the Apostle Iohn in his 17. Chapter of the Revelations In which these following particulers will be worthy of our consideration in the opening of them 1. Who the Beast is and secondly Who the ten Kings are 2. The place from whence they and he will arise 3. What they and he are to doe when risen viz. First before the Saints are taken up and secondly after they are taken up 4. His reign viz. how long time 5. His ruine and how farre they suffer in it For the first the Beast who he is He is that Beast that was shewn to the Apostle Iohn which he describes in his 17. Chapter of the Revelations and 3. verse having seven heads and ten hornes which compared with other Scriptures we shall find him to have several titles or denominations 〈◊〉 which he is discovered viz. he is called the little Horn Dan. 7 8. The vile Person Dan. 11. 21. The Man of Sin 2 Thes. 2. 3. In Iohns description befo●e quoted he hath seven Heads as well as ten Hornes Now that ●e may know who or ●hat these seven heads are if we co●sider well of the Angels interpretation to Iohn Chap. 17 10. and upon search of other Scriptures we shall find that they are seven Governments that should be Supream in the severall Ages of the world from the dayes of Noah after the Floud till the rise of the ten Hornes Five of which Heads or Governments had been before Iohn saw this Vision the sixth was then in being and is now towards its period and the seventh was not then come but is now arising The first Head or Government was the Assyrian and Babylonian Monarchy joyned under one head viz. Nimrod compare the Writings of Moses concerning this Person Government and Country with that of the Prophet Esay and consider how they prove our assertion Moses giving us some account of Noahs Posterity and speaking of that of his Son Ham saith Ham begat Cush and Cush begat Nimrod He began to be a mighty one in the Earth He was a mighty Hunter before the Lord Wherefore it is said even as Nimrod the mighty Hunter before the Lord And the beginning of his Kingdome was Babell and Eresh and Achad and Ca●neh in the Land of Shinar Out of that Land went forth Ashur and builded Niniveh and the City Reho both and Calah Also the same Moses speaketh farther concerning Noahs Posterity And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech And it came to passe as they journeyed from the East that they found a Plain in the Land of Shinar and they dwelt there Now take what Esay writeth concerning this B●hold the Land of the Caldeans this People was not till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the Wilderness They set up the Towers thereof th●y raised up the Pallaces thereof and he brought it to ruine So that Moses gives us to understand thus much that Nimrod was the first mighty One upon the earth whose ●●●gdome was Babell and Ashur went out from thence and built Niniveh which Ashur could be no other then this Nimrod for when he came or journeyed out of the East he came into the Land of Shinar and dwelt there which Land of Shinar must needs be Caldea Babell being built in it as we have now related out of Moses which the Prophet Esay calls C●ldea as you have his words also In brief thus much Nimrod an Assyrian by birth or habitation or both comes into Shinar or Caldea sets up his Kingdome builds Babell his chief Seat and other Cities afterwards goeth out thence into Assyria again and builds Niniveh and other Cities which is the ground of our stiling him by the title of the Assy●ian and Babylonian Monarch And he is the first after the Floud that the Scripture mentioneth but of his continuance or length of his raign it is silent Some Historians doe give some account thereof but with diversity of Opinions concerning it therefore leave the curious therein to search them The second Head is the Assyrian alone under another Family the Line of Nimrod being extinct in Sardanapulus as Sir Walter Rawleigh in his History of the World the first Impression the first part folio 482. doth at large relate whose first King that the Scripture mentioneth was Pull or Phull by whom and Tiglath Pilessar his Successor if not Son the two Tribes and half were first carried away captive See a proof for this out of the Scripture in the 1 Chron. 5. 26. And the God of Israel stirred up the Spirit of Pull King of Assyria and the Spirit of Tiglath-Pilnesar King of Assyria and he carried them away even the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half Tribe of Manassah and brought them unto Halath and Habor and Hara and to the River Gos●n unto this day By whom also the Syrians the great oppressors of Israel in several

during his own and that out of Naturall and politique ends The first in that he was a cruell Tyrant whose will was a law and his Flatterers told him that all things were lawfull for the Kings of Persia upon which he married two of his Sisters against the Lawes of his Kingdome And for the second he had an intention to invade Aegypt and feared least the Iewes should prove such as his Provintiall Governours had written to him under the name of Artaxerxes of Ezra 4. 7. to the 23. that the Iewes and Inhabitants of Ierusalem were a rebellious people and tha● it was a common Opinion that the Iewes descended of those Nations because they issued thence under Moses when they conquered Iudea and that if their City were repaired and fortified they might give some disturbance to his intended Conquest of that Country as they had done in H●zekiah's dayes to Sennacherib when he went to invade Aegypt Wherefore he commanded them to be hindred in that work of the building of the Temple and City Which hindrance continued till the second year of Darius King of Persia Ezra 4. 24. the Successor of Cambyses or as the Scripture calls him Artaxerxes how he came to the Kingdome read Sir Walt. Rawleigh 3. book 4 chapter 4. paragraph who in that yeer gave order for the building of the Temple of Ierusalem at his own charge Ezra 6 7 8 9 10 11 The Iewes being incouraged unto this by the Prophets Haggai and Zacheriah Ezra 5. 1. which work was finished in the sixth year of the Raign of Darius Ezra 6. 15. though not ful●y because in the fourteenth verse he saith they builded and finished it according to the Commandement of Cyrus Darius and Artaxerxes Kings of Persia In the dayes of Artaxerxes the Successor if not Son of Darius in the seventh year of his Raign Ezra and his Company goe from Babylon to Ierusalem Ezra 7. 7 8 9. In the twentieth year Nehemiah obtaines leave to goe and build the walls of Ierusalem Nehem. 2. 1. who sets the King a time for his return verse 6. And in the two and thirtieth year he obtaines leave the second time to goe to Ierusalem again chap. 13. 6 Concerning what is spoken about Esther in the dayes of Ahashueresh who he was whether this King Artaxerxes or any other the Scripture is silent much might be said that he was or was not the same Person but it would be found a very difficult thing to make an agreement in severall Scriptures concerning the same Who were the succeeding Kings of Persia till the coming of Alexander the Macedonian the Scripture mentioneth not onely Daniel is shewd in a vision in the third year of Cyrus chap. 10. 1. what Kings there should be after him in Persia whose words are these And now I will shew thee the Truth Behold there shall stand up yet three Kings in Persia and the fourth shall be farre richer than they all and by his strength through his riches he shall stirre up all against the Realm of Grecia Dan. 11. 2. Now if we may give credit to Historians concerning whom this last rich King was they say he was Darius the Son of Arsames who was subdued by Alexander the Grecian or Macedonian which brings us to the fifth Head or Monarchy The fifth Head was the Grecian revealed to Daniel in a Vision of a He Goat or Rough Goat chap. 8. 5 21. as the Meades and Persians was a Ram with two hornes Dan. 8 3. 20. What this Grecian did we must be beholding to Historians for our knowledge the Scriptures Canonicall not mentioning any the Apocripha but a little that which is may be found in the first book of the Maccabees chap. 1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 verses which as he did much in regard he came to be a third of Daniels Beasts or Monarchies therefore it is said he carried his Victories with wings who from a small Kingdome extended it to a very great distance Eastward and Southward and Northward but withall it was but of short continuance as all violent things and motions are but twelve yeares being poysoned by the conspiracy of his Servants who stood in fear of his cruelty Upon whose death his large Dominions was divided though not presently among four of his great Captaines according to Daniels Vision chap. 8. 8 and interpretation verse 22. Iosephus names five viz. Antigonus was Lord of Asia whose Dominion being lost there his Posterity injoyed Macedon Seleucus Nicator of Babylon and the bordering Nations Lysymachus had Hellespont Cassander had Macedon whose Dominion ended with him his Sons being slain not long after his death And Ptolemy the Son of Lagus had Aegypt All which took the Titles of Kings on them in a short time onely Cassander whose Successor did take the same also though with ill successe Seleucus Nicator was the first that took the Title of King of Babylon and the bordering Nations his Son Antiochus Soter succeeds him and raignes nineteen yeares after him his Son Antiochus Theos raignes fifteen yeares his Son Seleuchus Callinicus twenty yeares and left two Sons viz. Seleucus Ceraunus who raigned three yeares and Antiochus the Great thirty six yeares who left Seleucus Philopater who raigned twelve yeares saith Eusebius seven yeares saith Iosephus and Antiochus Epiphanes which was he that commanded Swines flesh to be offered on severall Alters in the Temple at Ierusalem which caused much affliction and misery to the Iewes being a Type of that which Daniel Prophesied in his eighth chapter but cannot be the same as is apprehended by some because the Lord Jesus would not have told his Disciples by way of Prophesie what had been past but rather he told them what should be hereafter Mathew 24. 15. What the Successors of Alexanders Captaines did who had divided his large Dominions among themselves History doth declare This may be noted concerning them which is Sir Walter Rawleigs observation of them f. 555. that the Successors of Ptolemey were the first that made a League with the Romans and the last that were subdued by them Which brings us to the sixth Head Government or Monarchy viz. the Romans whose chief City was Rome which was built in or about the year of the world 3280. and after the building of the Temple of Salomon 287. and before the birth of our Lord Christ 684. whose greatnesse began to appear out of its infancy in the time of Pyrrus King of Epirus Successor to Cassander in half the Kingdome of Macedon taken from Cassanders Children by him and Lysimachus King of Thracia he being a powerfull Prince viz. Pyrrhus and they viz. the Romans but few yeares before freed themselves from the Gaules who had taken all from them yea Rome it self the Capitoll excepted and drove him out of Italy in or about 487. yeares after Rome was built and about 107. yeares after they take the whole Kingdome of Macedon with Perseus the last King thereof and

it is a Government that is wholly supported and upheld by Taxes as this Nation wherein we live is and this Nation in respect of Government would not be able to subsist were it not for this supportation for now here is no Treasure to be found nor Revenue left to defray the ordinary Charges incident thereunto much lesse for the maintenance of an Army in the three quondam Kingdomes and a Navy near ten times as great as was ordinarily maintained under the Royall Government Object But was not Augustus Cesar this Person or Government which did subsist in this way for the Evangelist Luke in his 2. chapter 1. saith And it came to passe in those dayes that there came a Decree from Augustus Cesar that all the world should be taxed Answ. It could not be for these Reasons First that Government by Taxes must immediately precede the vile Person and that Government of Augustus was that which Iohn calls the sixth Head five are fallen one is which is this under which Iohn lived and was banished by into the Isle of Patmos and the other is not yet come which then was not and is that we now write of that of Taxes Secondly that Government of Augustus continued some hundred of yeares in its height and was many ages in declining this Government by Taxes shall continue a short space comparatively with the other So that we may safely conclude that this Government which is to be supported by Taxes cannot properly be said to have been in any Nation that was under any of the other six Heads or Governments if not in this Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland 3. Ground of our apprehending that the seventh Head is arising and that among us which is to be maintained by Taxes is the Liberty of Conscience or Freedome to exercise that knowledge which is communicated to any in spirituall things agreeable to the Word of God or not repugnant to it that is granted here whereby the Gospel of the Kingdome or Personall Raign of Christ on Earth may be freely preached among us and so shall passe into all the world afterwards the Sword making way for this Liberty which Freedome or Liberty is granted in no Nation especially upon that account as here In France there is some tolleration but of necessity those that they call Protestants there being a considerable powerful party and so not easily to be suppressed In the United Provinces the Liberty granted proves very advantaglous to them by drawing others that cannot have that liberty in their own Country thither who bring with them Estates but whether poor or rich they doe contribute little or much towards the charge of maintaining them in their civill Liberties But in England it is otherwise the Liberty that is granted and enjoyed is meerly upon the account that light is broke forth and since this Liberty hath been granted and upon this account all eyes that are not wilfully shut from beholding the same have seen that no Nation hath prospered or hath had the like successe that we have had against all our Enemies in so much that the neighbour Nations stand in admiration at it if not tremble to God onely be all the Glory as they have good cause if at any time they shall combine against us for the seventh Head must have as large Dominions as any if not as all the precedent had Now concerning the Lords work which he will doe under this seventh Head we shall find it to be twofold and that in a way of Mercy as he permitted a twofold work to be done under the sixth Head in a way of affliction or persecution The first of which under the sixth Head was the ten persecutions of the Saints which could not be the ten Hornes as some have imagined and the Whore of Rome to be the Beast in the first three hundred yeares after Christ who then suffered under the litterall Babylonish Whore in respect of Worship because they would not sacrifice to Idols whose judgement viz. the litterall Babylonish Whore in respect of Worship was shewn to Iohn in his 17. Revelations 1 2. And that by the rise of another Whore or whorish or false Worship in the 3. verse Iohn being carried by the Spirit into the wildernesse where he saw a Woman that sat upon a skarlet coloured Beast full of names of blasphemy having seven Heads and ten Hornes Whose rise of Worship viz. the spirituall Babylonish or Romish is and hath been the ruine of the first and her practise is by her Emissaries in respect of doctrine to cry down all litterall Sacrifices as killing of Beasts and Fowles c. on●ly a spirituall Sacrifice that they bring instead there of by offering up their Wafer God so called in the hands of their Priests by whom also that absurd doctrine and bloudy to those poor Saints in the Marian dayes that would not believe a lie of Transubstantiation was brought in In opposing of her spirituall whorish Worship how many Saints since her rise hath she made the Martyrs of Jesus being drunken with their bloud at which the Apostle Iohn wondred with great admiration verse 6. And this was the second work that should be brought to passe under the sixth Head in respect of affliction or persecution which power of hers in respect of Worship will continue in the time of the seventh Head for she is to sit upon the Beast with seven Heads and ten Hornes so that she is to have a being after the rise of the ten Hornes who arise not till the seventh Head hath raigned and she shall afterwards be destroyed by them in respect of place or Seat viz. Rome it self if not of worship also verse 16 17 18. Now the Lords work that is to be done under this seventh Head is as we said twofold First the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdome Math. 24. 14. Secondly the calling home of the Iewes into their own Land viz. the two Tribes Iudah and Benjami● to build the City of Ierusalem and the Temple Object Concerning the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdome some it may be will say it hath been preached already in the dayes of the Apostles who went about into all parts of the world according to their Masters Commission in Math. 28. Goe ye into all the world preach the Gospel to every Creature c. and the Apostle Paul in the 10. Romans 18. saith Their sound went into all the Earth which say some is the Gospel spoken of in the 16. verse of that chapter but they have not all obeyed the Gospel Answ. To which we answer That the Gospel of the Kingdome could not possibly have been preached in all the earth in the Apostles time for if it had so been the end of it had been presently that is it would not have been any more preached 2. It could not have been so preached then because a large part of the now known world was not then known or discovered nor in

his his evill thoughts doe then begin to shew themselves in actions by his causing them viz. the Iewes to be beseiged as he passeth through their Country towards the King of the South For then it is that Sheba and Dedan and the Merchants of Tarshish shall say to Gog or this vile Person art thou come to take the Prey and the Spoile Ezek. 38. 13. So that now will begin to be fulfilled another part of Daniels Prophesie who saith in his 8. chapter 13 14. that the time that the dayly Sacrifice shall be taken away and the transgression of desolation to give both the Sanctuary and the Host to be trodden under feet shall be two thousand three hundred dayes and then the Sanctuary shall be cleansed So that the taking away of the daily Sacrifice by reason of his beseiging Ierusalem shall be near three yeares or about a thousand dayes before the abomination that makes desolate be set up which cannot be till after the City is taken by the vile Person And from that time that the abomination is set up it shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety dayes before the end of the vile Persons Raign be and blessed is he that wait●th and cometh to the one thousand three hundred and five and thirty dayes Daniel 12. 11 12. But the last expedition shall not be as the first For the Ships of Chittim shall come against him c. verse 30. Who they are the Scripture is silent onely we find another prophesie of Balaam to this effect in the 24. Numbers 24. where it is said And Skips shall come from the Coast of Chittim and shall afflict Ashur and shall afflict Eber and he Ashur also shall perish for ever Now we shall give in something of our own thoughts concerning this verse and yet not our own but what is given in unto us which its likely will be sleighted by those that are prepossessed with former and antient Expositions on this Subject but we shall leave it to after time which will manifest whether we are in the truth or no the Ships of Chittim we doe apprehend to be the power or forces of the ten Hornes or Kings who had lately destroyed Rome and now are invited by the King of the South or Aegypt whom we doe apprehend to be one or those ten Kings a part of whose Forces hath been with the rest in destroying the Whore or Woman viz Rome to help him against the vile Person who he heares is preparing for a second invasion on him which they hearken unto in regard they have done their great work in destroying the Whore Rome and the vile person finding it by his Intelligences to be true He considers with himself that this must needs be a very great power that is coming against him that had destroyed so great and famous a City as Rome which makes him sorry that he must leave his Southern design and therefore now frets himself against the holy Covenant and returnes against the people of the Iews whom he will then beseige with his whole force and in the heighth of his power thinking to take it is he and his Army so terrified with that dreadfull sight of the Graves opening and the believing Saints being taken up to meet the Lord Jesus in the air at which time the Devill shall be cast into the earth and shall give his power unto the Beast that they shall fly and call to the Rocks to fall upon them c. Rev. 6. And during the time of that terror will the Church of the Iews viz. the one hundred fourty and four thousand fly out of Ierusalem into the wildernesse And now we come to declare what he id ●st the v●le Person or Beast will doe after the Saints are taken up that is he and his Army after a short space will recover their Spirits again and being impowred by the devill according to what Iohn saw in a vision that would be in his 13. Rev. 7. he takes Ierusalem and half the City is carried into captivity the other half remaining therein Za●h 14. 2. And then will he set himself in the Temple of God and exalt himself above all that is called God 2 Thess. 2. 4. and Dan. 11. 36. Presently after this will another part of Daniels prophesies be fulfilled verse 31. And armes shall stand on his part c. for the forces of the ten Hornes or Kings who came to assist the King of the South by reason of Satans malioe increasing against the Woman or Church of the Iewes fled into the wildernesse are now perswaded by the Dragon and the vile Person to joyn with him in utterly rooting out this people of the Iewes out of that plentifull Country and to cause them the sooner to comply with him he will tell them how great his power is as that that great terror that fell upon all the Inhabitants of the world was not in any favour or assistance to the Iews whom he then beseiged but to him the God of this world the Devill having now communicated his power to him as the Apostle Iohn declares the Dragon will doe Rev. 13. 2. and his lies prevail with them according to the prophesie of the Apostle Paul 2 Thess. 2. 11. which he having effected he then is that Beast compleat with seven Heads and ten Hornes having them all under his power and command And now we apprehend will be the time when all the world will wonder after the Beast whose deadly wound by a Sword was healed and did live Rev. 13. 3 14. which deadly wound had relation to the time that Phull and Arbaces did divide the Assyrian and Babylonian Monarchy between them in the dayes of Sardanapulus the last of Nimrods posterity which Beast the Apostle Iohn saith in the 17. Rev. 8. Was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse Pit and shall goe into perdition and they that dwell on the Earth shall wonder whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world when they behold the Beast that was and is not and yet is As if it had been a thing impossible that ever any Monarch should arise out of that place again And so they come and joyn with him who immediately after this conjunction persueth the Woman the Church of the Iews that is fled into the wildernesse and they staying behind to keep possession of Ierusalem by the perswasion of the false Prophet who arose among them set up the abomination that makes desolate as is prophesied of by Daniel in his 11. chapter 31. verse Which Prophesie could not be fulfilled in the dayes of Antiochus Epiphanes though that might be a type of this as the marginall Notes in the Geneva Translation seem to hold forth for they say the said Antiochus did then set up the Image of Iupiter Olimpius in the Temple of Ierusalem Now if that prophesie had then been fulfilled the Lord Jesus by two of his