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A29275 The churches going in and coming out of the wildnernes opened by the unworthiest of the gospel-ministers, John Brayn. Brayne, John. 1649 (1649) Wing B4320; ESTC R23803 12,764 20

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THE CHURCHES GOING IN AND COMING OUT OF THE VVILDERNES OPENED By the unworthiest of the Gospel-Ministers JOHN BRAYN Cant. 6. 10. Who is she looketh forth as the Morn fair as the Moon clear as the Sun and terrible as an Army with banners Zech. 4. 7. Zorobabel shall bring forth the Head-stone thereof with shoutings crying Grace grace unto it 1 Cor. 1. 20. Where is the wise where is the Scribe where is the Disputer of this world Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world London Printed for George Whittington at the Blew-Anchor in Cornhil near the Royal-Exchange 1649. TO my dear Uncle Mr. Thomas Churchey and his VVife Mrs Mary Churchey my Aunt of Wincaunton in Somerset GOd having taken in taking from you the daughter of your hopes the onely means of earth to have perpetuated your Memorial and to have kept your Name in life among the living when you had layen asleep among the dead In whose long and much deplored absence I think it my duty in what I may to contribute that means that may help to make sweet your Memory among the Saints as in another kinde is was the duty of the yonger to raise up seed to the elder Brother Which service I desire may be accepted of you both as done of him that while he lives shall gladly wait to do you any or all the service else he can and rest praising and praying to GOD daily for you That ye may be saved Your obliged Kinsman JOHN BRAYN To the Reader MY prayer to God for thee is That there may be given thee an honest and humble heart to read and understanding from the Lord to apprehend rightly what thou readest that thou be not left to scorn the Matter for the meanness of the dress it is set out in or the unworthiness worthiness of the Author whose aym herein is Gods glory and thy edification who desires thee to pass by the many infirmities thou mayest easily finde in the ensuing Treatise and it will be thankfully acknowledged by the Author to be a favor To an unworthy Gospel-Minister JOHN BRAYN Of the hiding the Church A Certain kinde of strangeness may seem to seize on men that read the prescribed Form of Church-Discipline contained in the two former Treatises that I have written thereof out of the Word as being new and unheard of and by that means cause many to reject it though indeed it be that which was first in the Church and long since turned out of doors by the Policy and Tyranny of Antichrist Now to the preventing of causless conjectures of novelty and the like in the hearts of men I have thought good to set forth the causes 1. Why it came to be hid 2. How it come to be hid 3. How long it was to be hid as foretold of God in the Scriptures which will serve much to take away those Objections which many make 1. About the hiding of the Church 2. About the strange and unheard of way this seems to be to the world and is no other thing then was foretold of God to be done by the world when it should be brought to light Cant. 6. 10. Who is she that looketh forth as the morn fair as the Moon clear as the Sun terrible as an Army with banners These things set out the degrees the Church was to come out by 1. As the morning out of the dark night having light and darkness mixt with it 2. It came out as the Moon having many spots in it subject to an encreasing and decreasing light or a night-light or rather a changing light not permanent 3. Is that of the Sun Lord of the day who by its light fully expels darkness and by his heat revives the pleasant plants of God from their seeming deadness their life lying hid in them 4. It s time of thus coming forth and way is terrible as an Army with banners indeed in a time of War 5. It s coming out is wondred at and enquired after with a Who is this a great enquiry is in the world after it as after an unknown and an unusual unheard of birth and so much the more wonderful because as another Sun it will appear to all the world by a glorious heavenly light The cause of this admiration is the long hiding of this Gospel-mercy from the world who as the Sun is carried from us as it were into another world that it shined not to us in the time of whose absence we are sate down in darkness which continueth so long that we know not the light when it comes forth but is wondred at and hated hence it must have an Army and be terrible to bring it forth Rev. 12. 6. 1. It is driven into the wilderness 2. It is hid and so hid as after from the face of the Dragon v. 14. as that the Dragon could not finde her nor make discovery of her 3. Ye have the time how long it is to be hid expressed of God v. 6. 1260 days which days being set down prophetically must be understood of so many years which are 1260 years 1. This agreeth with Antichrists time of Tyranny as in Cap. 13. 5. Antichrists time is forty two moneths which accounting thirty days for every moneth as in some places they do it makes just 1260 days prophetically years which clearly shews the time of the Churches hiding its obscure condition in which it should not be known to the world what her estate was which agrees with the time of Antichrists Reign It s hiding begins with the beginning of the time of Antichrists Reign and ends with the dissolution of him 2. We may collect the time we having set down in Scripture Antichrists end Rev. 13. 18. which is to be in the year 666. when Popes and Papacy have their final fatal and fearful end for as in v. 5. it is to continue no longer then the forty two moneths Obj. The number of the Beast 666 may be to be understood of the times of the beginning of Antichrist R. 1. The 666 so could not be the number of the Beast but of the time going before the Beast the number of years unto the Beast but not of the Beast which is the number in the Text spoken of 2. This number of the Beast must contain the beginning and the end of the Beast or that cannot be the number of him which is to be limited onely to his beginning and end 1. His number is much more then 666 being to be 1260 years and so that could not be its number possibly 2. It could not be much of the first 666 years because Antichrist could not be revealed in most of that time there was that did hinder which would hinder until taken out of the way 2 Thess. 2. 7. 3. If the year 666 were to be understood of the time Antichrists beginning was to be it were no such wisdom as the Text holds it out to be to account the number unless we