THe
method
of
Gods
afflicting
providence
in
the
Church
since
the
Creation
,
is
worthy
the
observation
of
all
;
but
more
especially
of
him
who
undertakes
to
interpret
the
Holy
Scriptures
.
The
method
of
God
in
his
acts
of
providence
towards
his
Church
are
:
1.
To
bring
them
exceeding
low
before
he
deliver
them
.
2.
After
he
hath
delivered
them
from
their
great
troubles
,
and
put
them
in
a
hopeful
way
of
peace
,
for
ends
best
known
to
himself
,
he
oftentimes
dashes
their
hopes
,
and
darkens
the
way
by
sad
and
heavy
afflictions
:
As
the
former
is
undeniable
,
so
the
latter
is
cleer
in
the
Scriptures
.
See
this
verified
in
Jacob
,
the
Father
of
the
twelve
Patriarchs
;
Jacob
being
newly
gotten
from
a
Heardmaster
,
and
passed
the
River
with
his
wifes
and
substance
,
he
resolved
to
go
into
the
Promised
Land
:
when
he
was
got
seven
dayes
journey
(
in
all
probability
,
out
of
Labans
reach
)
on
a
sudden
the
storm
riseth
,
Laban
pursues
him
with
his
forces
,
and
Esau
prepares
to
stop
him
in
his
flight
with
400
men
;
so
that
we
may
see
here
Jacob
,
like
Christ
on
the
Cross
,
a
miserable
object
betwixt
two
Thieves
.
To
this
,
Jeremiah
alludes
,
when
he
prophesies
of
the
great
troubles
of
the
Church
,
immediatly
before
the
conversion
of
the
twelve
Tribes
,
He
calls
it
the
time
of
Iacob's
trouble
,
none
hath
bin
like
it
.
So
likewise
when
the
Church
was
delivered
from
Egypt's
Bondage
,
and
all
their
Enemies
drowned
;
and
when
they
had
seen
and
tasted
of
the
goodness
of
the
Lord
from
Heaven
,
in
raining
Manna
,
and
of
the
sweet
and
spiritual
love-tokens
of
God
from
Mount
Sina
,
when
God
had
given
them
Lawes
and
Ordinances
,
and
began
a
glorious
Reformation
;
and
when
they
were
going
into
Canaan
,
then
riseth
Corah
,
Datha●
,
and
Abiran
,
against
the
Witnesses
,
Moses
and
Aaron
;
and
then
the
people
rebell
,
and
that
glorious
Sun
of
a
Reformation
went
retrogade
many
thousand
of
degrees
by
Asa's
Diall
.
So
likewise
David
,
when
he
went
to
fetch
the
Ark
home
,
he
went
forth
like
his
son
Solomon's
ships
for
gold
,
with
great
pomp
;
but
came
home
broken
and
tottered
with
loss
.
He
went
with
the
Priests
and
the
people
to
fetch
the
Ark
to
Ierusalem
its
resting
place
;
he
made
a
new
Cart
and
Wheels
,
and
prepared
the
Beasts
to
draw
it
;
he
got
the
Ark
upon
the
Cart
,
and
the
Beasts
did
draw
it
towards
Ierusalem
:
but
in
the
way
,
what
an
unexpected
storm
of
cross
winds
riseth
,
the
Beasts
stumbled
,
the
Ark
tottered
,
Gods
wrath
ariseth
;
and
this
stops
the
Ark
that
it
came
not
then
to
Ierusalem
.
To
this
doth
Ezekiel
(
Chap.
1.
)
allude
,
Where
he
seeing
in
a
Vision
,
that
glorious
day
of
the
twelve
Tribes
conversion
to
Christ
in
the
last
dayes
;
immediately
before
that
day
,
he
seeth
the
Gospel-Magistracy
and
Ministery
,
drawing
the
Ark
of
a
Reformation
to
his
settled
place
:
There
the
Magistracy
(
as
in
Revel.
4.
)
is
compared
to
the
Beasts
which
draw
the
Ark
,
and
the
Ministery
to
the
Wheels
full
of
eyes
,
which
support
the
Ark
.
These
Ezekiel
saw
carrying
on
a
Reformation
with
much
boldness
,
and
through
many
difficulties
:
When
the
Beasts
went
,
the
Wheels
went
,
and
they
turned
not
:
When
one
was
lifted
,
up
,
the
other
was
lifted
up
:
When
the
Magistracy
went
on
,
the
Ministery
went
on
in
a
Reformation
;
but
when
they
stood
,
they
let
down
their
whings
,
there
was
the
great
stop
:
the
Magistracy
was
taken
away
,
their
whings
,
after
the
war
,
Ezek.
1.
24.
were
let
down
:
and
immediately
follows
,
ver.
25.
a
voice
from
Heaven
,
which
is
the
same
with
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
Matth.
24.
Rev.
11.
Rev.
16.
17
,
18.
when
the
great
day
of
the
Jews
conversion
shall
begin
,
and
the
great
obstruction
of
their
conversion
shall
be
removed
:
Likewise
after
the
captivity
,
that
joyful
Reformation
begun
and
carryed
on
so
successfully
,
how
did
its
evening
come
upon
it
(
as
I
may
say
)
at
noon
tide
?
How
was
all
dasht
,
and
that
happy
work
retanded
on
a
sudden
?
And
how
great
a
Muntain
the
Devils
Pioneers
raised
in
Zerubbabels
way
,
Ezra
4.
Look
we
further
,
and
we
shall
see
the
greatest
and
gloriousest
Reformation
in
the
world
,
retarded
in
the
middle
of
it
,
and
in
the
height
of
it
,
even
that
blessed
Reformation
,
which
is
the
standing
rule
of
Reformation
to
the
end
of
the
world
,
that
of
our
Lord
Jesus
in
the
flesh
here
on
Earth
,
when
he
had
called
the
Apostles
,
sent
out
the
seventy
,
two
by
two
;
and
when
he
had
preached
,
healed
,
converted
many
,
when
his
Enemies
thought
all
the
world
would
follow
him
,
when
they
sang
Hosana
to
the
highest
,
and
when
his
Enemies
were
confounded
before
him
,
being
unable
to
gain-say
his
truth
,
when
all
the
Countries
round
rang
of
his
fame
,
and
came
to
see
him
,
and
hear
his
Doctrine
,
and
to
be
healed
,
then
on
a
sudden
comes
Judas
,
and
betrays
him
with
a
kiss
:
the
King
is
taken
and
bound
,
and
falsly
accused
,
unjustly
sentenced
to
death
,
scourged
,
buffited
,
spet
on
,
mocked
,
carryed
away
to
be
crucified
:
his
Disciples
fled
,
he
nailed
to
the
Cross
,
and
a
spear
thrust
into
his
heart
;
he
taken
down
from
the
Cross
,
carryed
to
the
grave
,
and
there
seated
in
his
grave
:
and
thus
to
the
eye
of
the
world
was
that
glorious
Reformation
destroyed
,
the
King
being
cut
off
,
and
his
Officers
dissipated
.
This
Reformation
,
though
to
the
eye
of
the
world
at
that
time
it
was
quite
put
out
,
yet
it
suddenly
and
unexpectedly
rose
again
,
and
broke
out
into
greater
and
more
glorious
flames
throughout
the
world
then
ever
:
For
two
Angels
in
glorious
brightness
appear
at
the
grave
of
the
slain
Jesus
,
that
Martyr
of
Martyrs
,
and
immediatly
follows
a
mighty
Earth-quake
,
whereat
the
souldiers
that
slew
him
trembled
:
the
Lord
Jesus
arose
,
called
together
his
dispersed
and
hopeless
disconsolate
Disciples
,
led
them
to
Galilee
,
and
there
proclaims
his
Imperial
Power
and
Soveraignty
,
that
all
the
Kingdoms
in
the
world
were
under
his
power
,
and
all
the
mighty
Dominions
in
Heaven
were
subject
to
him
:
And
that
those
his
Enemies
that
slew
him
,
might
know
this
,
he
ascended
from
Mount
Olivet
,
which
Mountain
was
on
the
East
of
Jerusalem
exceeding
high
,
looking
directly
into
Ierusalem
;
so
that
they
that
slew
him
in
Ierusalem
,
might
plainly
see
him
in
that
glorious
bright
Cloud
ascending
to
Heaven
:
and
immediatly
after
this
ascension
of
his
to
his
Imperial
Court
in
the
Heaven
of
Heavens
,
where
he
is
in
full
possession
of
his
Royall
Purchase
,
He
like
a
Conquerour
in
full
possession
of
his
Dignity
,
gives
to
his
Officers
,
especially
to
his
Apostles
,
magnificent
gifts
,
beseeming
so
great
a
Prince
to
give
,
and
Officers
so
neer
him
to
receive
:
these
twelve
spirituall
Princes
,
like
so
many
Monarchs
of
Unity
amongst
themselves
,
divided
the
world
amongst
them
,
and
went
forth
conquering
,
and
to
conquer
,
from
sea
to
sea
:
The
glorious
spiritual
Victories
that
these
Champions
got
,
and
the
mighty
Conquests
over
the
Devils
Kingdom
which
they
made
,
is
not
unknown
to
the
whole
world
:
Their
Government
and
Laws
still
stand
,
and
shall
remain
for
ever
.
Apostacie
from
which
hath
been
the
miserable
ruine
of
all
those
famous
Eastern
Churches
to
this
day
.
Great
hath
been
the
apostacie
of
both
Eastern
and
Western
Churches
from
the
Laws
of
the
Apostles
:
and
sore
have
their
spiritual
afflictions
(
proportionated
to
their
sins
)
been
;
the
Eastern
Church
is
drove
into
the
Wilderness
by
Mahumatisme
,
and
the
Western
Church
by
Popery
:
Of
this
grand
apostacie
,
and
most
abominable
hypocrisie
of
the
Western
Churches
,
not
onely
the
Apostles
,
but
the
Prophets
in
the
Old
Testament
have
prophesied
.
In
the
Church-Histories
the
dissipation
of
the
Jews
,
and
the
driving
of
the
Gentile-Church
into
the
Wilderness
,
seems
,
to
me
,
to
begin
near
about
one
time
;
and
their
rising
again
to
a
flourishing
state
,
seems
to
me
to
be
both
at
one
time
,
by
the
Prophesies
of
the
Old
New
Testament
.
Now
the
rising
again
both
of
the
Jews
and
Gentiles
to
a
flourishing
state
under
the
Gospel
,
is
that
great
and
last
day
(
i.
e.
)
of
Reformation
,
so
much
spoken
of
both
by
the
Old
Testament-Prophets
,
by
Christ
himself
,
by
the
Apostles
,
and
especially
by
John
in
Revelation
.
Of
this
last
Day
,
there
are
not
onely
gross
mistakes
amongst
the
Ancients
,
but
many
absur'd
conjectures
among
the
Ancients
.
Many
of
the
Ancients
looking
into
the
Prophesies
,
which
are
to
be
fulfilled
in
the
end
of
the
Roman
Monarchy
;
and
reading
those
high
prophetick
expressions
of
that
glorious
Day
,
wherein
Christ
promiseth
in
a
most
glorious
powerful
manner
to
appear
for
his
Churches
alvation
,
and
his
Enemies
ruine
;
conceived
that
it
should
be
by
the
personal
raign
of
Christ
on
Earth
a
Thousand
years
;
conceiving
(
rightly
)
that
the
Thousand
years
binding
of
Sathan
,
begins
when
Antichrists
raign
is
accompl●shed
(
for
't
is
absurd
to
think
otherwise
)
but
misunderstanding
,
Rev.
21.
as
if
that
Chapter
were
meant
of
the
state
of
the
Church
in
this
life
,
which
is
against
the
clear
and
manifest
light
of
the
Holy
Ghost
in
the
prophesie
:
This
gross
mistake
(
I
humbly
conceive
)
made
not
onely
Papias
(
the
first
Author
of
the
abominable
Opinion
of
Christs
raign
on
Earth
a
Thousands
years
)
of
this
opinion
;
but
many
others
more
moderate
as
Irenaeus
,
Turtullian
,
Lactantius
,
Victorinus
,
Apolonius
,
Severus
,
Justinus
,
and
several
others
:
These
did
not
hold
as
Corynthus
did
,
that
they
should
raign
with
Christ
in
corporal
,
but
in
spiritual
delights
,
after
6000
▪
years
were
accomplished
from
the
Creation
,
may
not
I
say
Augustine
(
lib.
20.
de
Civit.
Dei
,
Cap.
7.
)
is
of
this
opinion
,
and
Ierome
on
Dan.
7.
where
he
saith
,
In
uno
Romano
imperio
propter
Antichristum
blasphemantem
,
omnia
simul
regna
delenda
sunt
,
&
nequaquam
terrenum
imperium
erit
,
sed
Sanctorum
conversatio
;
a
saying
much
harped
on
(
though
not
quoted
)
in
these
times
,
to
further
the
design
of
slaying
the
Witnesses
.
And
upon
the
same
mistake
(
as
it
is
conceived
)
the
Councils
,
though
they
were
for
the
most
part
against
this
opinion
;
yet
they
could
never
unanimously
agree
to
condemn
the
Opinion
as
heretical
.
Others
of
our
recents
,
very
learned
men
and
pious
,
thinking
to
confute
this
errour
of
the
Chiliasts
,
run
into
more
absurdities
then
the
most
of
those
whom
they
endeavour
to
confute
;
for
not
knowing
how
to
remove
that
Mountain
betwixt
the
Chiliasts
,
and
them
,
about
the
first
Resurrection
,
and
the
raign
of
the
Saints
,
and
the
1000.
years
binding
of
Sathan
:
they
say
that
the
raign
of
the
Saints
is
pa●t
,
it
being
before
Antichrist
comes
into
the
world
:
Of
this
opinion
is
Hortulanus
,
and
(
as
I
am
informed
by
Schollars
)
Pereus
;
Galianus
that
learned
Romanist
is
of
the
same
opinion
;
as
appears
by
his
Manuscripts
in
the
Vatican
,
by
Antichrist
,
they
mean
that
Beast
of
the
Earth
,
Rev.
13.
12.
which
shall
arise
,
Rev.
11.
7.
and
slay
the
Witnesses
:
few
of
the
Romanists
concur
with
them
in
their
opinion
;
but
very
many
Protestants
,
in
the
main
;
jump
with
them
:
but
as
contrary
to
the
light
of
the
Scriptures
,
as
darkness
is
to
light
.
But
there
are
other
learned
men
of
great
renown
,
who
decline
both
these
opinions
,
as
Bullinger
,
Beucer
,
and
Seraphin
who
affirm
that
the
great
and
magnificent
promises
made
to
the
Church
in
the
old
Testament
and
in
the
new
,
are
not
yet
fulfilled
,
but
are
to
be
fulfilled
after
the
downfall
of
Antichrist
,
after
which
(
say
they
,
and
others
with
them
)
the
Devills
kingdom
of
darknesse
,
heresie
and
blasphemie
shall
be
ruined
,
and
the
Church
shall
no
more
be
afflicted
with
heresie
,
but
the
heavenly
form
of
government
shall
be
set
up
in
the
Church
,
which
shall
suppresse
all
its
enemies
:
with
these
learned
men
,
so
far
as
I
have
quoted
them
,
I
shall
concur
.
For
,
this
I
do
affirm
(
yet
not
I
,
but
the
Scriptures
)
that
there
is
another
great
day
of
reformation
to
be
in
the
world
before
the
day
of
judgment
,
besides
that
great
day
of
reformation
already
past
,
which
Christ
when
he
was
on
earth
began
:
this
shall
be
a
more
glorious
day
then
any
that
ever
yet
was
on
earth
:
I
do
not
say
that
Christ
shall
reign
on
earth
personally
,
I
abhor
that
extreme
with
that
learned
Father
B.
Hall
,
in
his
tract
called
the
Revelations
unrevealed
:
but
I
(
or
rather
the
Prophets
)
do
affirm
,
that
in
this
great
day
of
reformation
to
come
,
after
the
downfall
of
Antichrist
,
the
twelve
Tribes
shall
be
converted
to
the
Gospel
.
Here
therefore
I
must
with
my
reverend
fathers
good
leave
be
his
dissenting
son
,
notwithstanding
all
he
hath
said
to
the
contrary
:
For
first
,
whereas
he
saith
,
the
promises
in
the
Prophets
are
spiritually
to
be
taken
,
and
not
literally
,
concerning
the
twelve
Tribes
;
but
concerning
the
Gospel-Church
,
I
briefly
reply
,
this
argument
is
invalid
,
because
he
neither
backs
it
with
reason
nor
Scripture
:
with
reason
he
cannot
,
for
it
is
a
non
sequitur
to
say
,
because
the
Prophets
somtimes
are
to
be
understood
,
therefore
alwayes
;
I
am
sure
this
is
neither
true
in
Logick
nor
Divinity
.
2.
There
is
no
probability
in
his
assertion
:
for
though
indeed
Jerusalem
be
somtimes
in
the
Prophets
put
for
the
Gospel-Church
,
yet
where
the
Prophets
speak
of
the
house
of
Iudah
,
and
the
house
of
Ioseph
,
there
I
believe
't
will
be
hard
for
the
Doctor
to
prove
that
they
are
spiritually
to
be
understood
of
the
Gospel
Church
,
as
Zach.
10.
6
,
7
,
8.
so
in
severall
other
places
:
had
the
Bishop
instanced
in
any
place
of
the
Prophets
,
we
should
have
grapled
then
for
probability
.
But
I
passe
on
.
3.
If
these
Prophecies
do
nothing
concern
the
restauration
of
the
Jewes
in
these
latter
dayes
,
then
to
what
purpose
did
God
send
his
Prophets
to
sing
songs
in
their
ears
,
if
it
nothing
concerned
them
?
Certainly
these
Prophecies
were
prophesied
amongst
them
to
no
purpose
;
if
all
those
Prophecies
belonged
to
the
Gentiles
,
then
certainly
God
would
have
sent
his
Prophets
amongst
them
,
but
they
principally
concerned
the
Jewes
,
and
therefore
they
were
prophesied
amongst
them
,
and
to
them
,
to
whom
they
belonged
;
for
God
never
sends
his
Prophets
out
of
order
,
all
Gods
Prophets
prophesied
to
the
people
to
whom
they
were
sent
,
but
the
Prophets
of
the
old
Testament
were
appointed
Prophets
for
the
twelve
Tribes
(
except
those
that
had
speciall
Commission
,
as
Ionas
,
to
go
to
the
Gentiles
)
and
therefore
to
them
principally
these
Prophesies
belong
,
and
therefore
that
hard
question
is
thus
resolved
,
since
in
Luke
21.
Ierusalem
shall
be
trodden
underfoot
untill
the
time
of
the
Gentiles
be
fulfilled
;
and
the
time
of
the
Gentiles
reigne
continues
(
Rev.
11.
2.
)
1260.
years
,
how
coms
it
to
passe
in
Dan.
12.
that
the
time
of
the
Church's
dissipation
shall
be
1290.
dayes
?
To
that
't
is
thus
answered
;
Daniel
was
a
Prophet
principally
designed
for
the
Jewes
,
and
therefore
God
declares
to
him
how
long
the
dissipation
of
the
Jewes
shall
be
,
which
(
as
M.
Brightman
and
other
learned
men
say
on
Dan.
12.
11.
)
began
Anno
360.
therefore
their
time
is
up
about
this
yeare
1650.
their
time
of
dissipation
being
to
continue
1290.
years
:
but
now
our
Saviour
in
Luke
21.
24.
respects
the
Gospel
Gentile
Church
,
as
well
as
the
Jewes
,
which
shall
be
(
as
Rev.
11.
1.
)
drove
into
a
sack
cloth
condition
untill
the
time
of
1260.
years
be
accomplished
.
Now
many
learned
men
count
,
that
the
time
of
Antichrists
appearing
to
be
formally
Antichrist
,
and
the
time
of
the
Witnesses
going
into
the
Wilderness
,
and
putting
on
sackcloth
,
was
in
,
or
neer
about
the
year
390.
So
that
Antichrists
raign
,
and
the
witnesses
sackcloth
condition
,
is
expired
in
Anno
,
1650.
Now
if
Daniel
,
in
his
Prophesie
,
should
onely
respect
the
Gentile
Church
,
how
could
Iohn
,
Christ
,
and
Daniel
,
be
reconciled
in
their
prophefies
?
To
return
therefore
to
the
thing
in
hand
,
we
affirm
,
that
the
Prophets
in
the
Old
Testament
,
prophesied
of
the
futurehappy
state
of
their
own
Kindred
and
Nation
,
and
not
of
the
Gentile
Church
;
but
accidentally
and
occasionally
for
the
most
part
;
as
shewing
what
shall
come
to
pass
in
the
Gentile-Church
,
immediatly
before
the
great
Day
of
the
Jews
conversion
,
which
is
the
sign
that
the
Jews
shall
have
of
their
approaching
glorious
Day
:
And
therefore
the
Old
Testament
prophesies
of
the
uniting
of
the
house
of
Ioseph
and
Iudah
together
under
one
King
,
and
bringing
them
back
again
to
their
own
Land
,
can
be
meant
of
nothing
,
but
of
the
restoring
of
the
Twelve
Tribes
to
their
own
Land
,
under
their
ancient
government
,
as
in
Davids
time
.
As
for
his
alleaging
a
seeming
inpossibility
,
that
they
that
have
been
out-casts
so
long
from
the
Covenant
of
Grace
,
should
now
be
called
home
to
the
Gospel
(
which
is
it
seems
beyond
the
Doctors
faith
)
to
that
we
answer
,
and
he
acknowledgeth
.
1.
Nothing
is
impossible
with
God
.
2.
God
hath
promised
to
call
the
dispersed
out-casts
of
Israel
,
from
the
four
corners
of
the
Earth
,
Esa.
11.
12.
and
they
shall
be
so
hopeless
in
the
eye
of
the
world
,
that
before
their
conversion
they
shall
be
as
dry
bones
in
Golgotha
,
Ezek.
37.
1
,
2.
Yet
God
will
call
these
dry
bones
together
:
Therefore
their
conversion
is
also
expressed
,
Ezek.
37.
11
,
12.
under
the
notion
of
raising
dead
men
out
of
their
graves
God
will
first
open
their
graves
,
and
then
lead
them
out
of
their
graves
:
so
that
to
the
world
they
shall
seem
dead
and
buried
,
when
God
intends
to
convert
them
:
so
that
that
which
upon
a
bare
principle
of
reason
the
Bishop
makes
his
argument
against
the
Truth
,
I
upon
a
principle
of
faith
,
built
upon
Gods
promises
,
make
the
argument
to
confirm
this
Truth
;
and
who
stands
on
the
Beasts
bottom
(
whether
he
on
bare
Reason
,
or
I
on
a
divine
promise
)
I
'le
leave
Christians
to
judge
:
But
that
which
the
Bishop
most
derides
,
is
the
opinion
of
those
,
who
say
this
year
,
1650.
the
Jews
shall
be
converted
;
he
bids
us
shew
him
a
thrave
of
Jewes
as
yet
converted
,
which
are
now
to
gather
,
professing
the
Gospell
.
To
this
't
is
answered
:
1
We
can
shew
in
this
year
,
1650.
more
probability
for
the
conversion
not
onely
of
a
few
,
but
thousands
of
the
Hebrews
to
the
faith
of
Christ
,
then
the
Bishop
can
against
it
:
In
the
year
,
1650.
there
is
a
book
that
makes
mention
of
5900.
East-Indians
converted
to
Jesus
Christ
,
by
Mr.
Robert
Iunius
.
Now
there
are
more
arguments
to
prove
these
of
the
Seed
of
Iacob
,
then
the
Bishop
can
bring
to
prove
the
contrary
.
Again
,
look
into
the
West-Indies
,
and
this
year
1650.
tells
us
of
a
glorious
Harvest
begun
,
in
the
conversion
of
those
Natives
there
;
and
there
is
more
probability
that
they
are
of
the
stock
of
Iacob
,
then
the
contrary
.
For
there
have
been
Jews
that
travelled
those
ways
,
who
have
found
some
of
the
Ten
Tribes
in
America
:
some
learned
Travellers
have
rationally
conjectured
,
that
those
Natives
in
New-England
are
some
of
the
Ten
Tribes
:
For
upon
diligent
observation
of
the
people
,
their
Customes
,
Language
,
and
Ceremonies
,
have
brought
these
arguments
,
to
prove
them
Hebrews
;
for
(
say
they
)
1.
They
have
a
traditionall
knowledge
of
God
,
which
they
say
their
fore-fathers
which
were
wise
,
and
endued
with
knowledge
,
taught
them
:
they
say
that
God
made
the
world
,
and
this
God
is
but
one
God
.
2.
They
say
this
God
is
the
Author
of
all
the
good
that
is
dispensed
in
the
world
,
and
the
author
of
all
the
evill
that
is
inflicted
in
the
world
.
And
hence
is
that
custom
amongst
them
to
this
day
,
When
any
evill
is
inflicted
on
them
,
either
by
immoderate
weather
,
whereby
their
corn
is
spoiled
,
or
by
any
other
judgment
,
they
solemnly
meet
together
under
a
green
tree
,
and
weep
before
him
who
hath
inflicted
all
that
evill
upon
them
,
whom
they
acknowledg
to
be
the
Maker
of
the
World
.
3.
They
preserve
their
pedigree
,
with
all
the
care
they
can
,
as
far
as
their
memories
will
go
,
and
are
carefull
to
promote
their
kindred
after
the
manner
of
the
Hebrews
.
4.
The
chief
of
them
are
exceeding
reserved
,
and
keep
themselves
from
strangers
,
so
that
the
wisest
of
them
are
hard
to
be
met
withall
,
whereby
further
discovery
might
be
made
of
their
Original
;
but
much
of
the
golden
oar
,
of
the
Hebrew
Language
,
is
found
among
the
drossie
Language
of
the
vulgar
Natives
.
5.
'T
is
said
that
they
are
excellent
in
expressing
themselves
parabolically
,
after
the
manner
of
the
Hebrews
:
By
all
which
there
is
probability
,
that
they
are
of
the
dispersed
of
Israel
,
whom
God
is
now
calling
home
to
the
knowledge
of
the
Gospel
.
Menasseh
Ben-Israel
saith
,
and
also
Montezinus
,
(
both
Jews
,
and
learned
men
)
that
the
first
Inhabitants
of
America
were
the
Ten
Tribes
:
if
so
,
I
think
I
have
the
greatest
probability
on
my
side
,
that
these
many
Thousands
that
we
have
heard
of
already
converted
,
and
the
many
more
Thousands
which
we
expect
and
pray
for
,
are
Hebrews
of
the
sons
of
Jacob
,
to
be
converted
to
Christ
in
this
age
of
the
world
.
But
suppose
there
were
never
a
Jew
converted
,
must
this
make
the
purpose
of
God
of
none
effect
?
God
forbid
,
it
is
true
that
from
posse
to
esse
there
can
be
no
certain
consequence
;
but
from
Gods
promise
to
his
purpose
,
we
may
conclude
affirmatively
.
If
God
have
promised
to
convert
the
Jews
,
't
is
his
purpose
to
call
them
:
all
his
promises
are
yea
,
and
amen
:
if
God
promise
that
Israel
shall
be
no
longer
then
40.
years
in
Egypt
,
they
shall
be
there
not
a
day
longer
,
though
nothing
more
unlikely
in
the
world
then
their
deliverance
:
so
shall
it
be
in
their
conversion
in
these
latter
dayes
,
though
there
be
nothing
more
unlikely
,
yet
there
shall
be
nothing
more
certain
;
for
God
hath
promised
it
,
Rom.
11.
25
,
26.
All
Israel
shall
be
saved
i.
e.
)
all
the
Tribes
shall
be
converted
:
the
precedent
verse
tells
us
the
time
when
(
viz.
)
When
the
fulnesse
of
the
Gentiles
is
come
in
,
that
is
,
(
as
in
Luke
21.
24.
)
when
the
time
of
the
Gentiles
is
fulfilled
,
which
Rev.
11.
2.
)
is
42.
moteths
,
i.
e.
1260.
dayes
,
i.
e.
years
.
Observe
,
Paul
writes
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
forbidding
them
to
boast
of
their
Gospel-priviledges
,
in
a
proud
insulting
way
over
the
rejected
Jews
.
Paul
foresaw
to
what
impudent
insulting
pride
the
Church
of
Rome
would
rise
;
therefore
he
bids
the
Church
not
to
be
high-minded
,
but
fear
;
for
if
God
spared
not
the
Jews
,
the
naturall
branches
,
much
less
would
he
spare
the
Gentile-church
of
Rome
:
for
this
end
Paul
would
not
have
the
Gentile-church
ignorant
of
this
mystery
,
which
mystery
of
God
(
Rev.
10.
7.
)
shall
be
finished
at
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
and
that
is
when
Antichrist
that
sits
in
Rome
,
when
the
fulness
of
his
time
shall
come
in
,
then
shall
Israel
be
converted
:
Here
Israel
is
put
in
opposition
to
the
Gentile-church
.
Now
this
Paul
acquaints
the
Roman
church
with
,
lest
they
should
be
wise
in
their
own
conceit
,
or
over-much
puffed
up
with
pride
:
so
that
from
these
texts
it
seems
cleer
to
me
,
That
the
Jews
conversion
shall
be
at
that
time
when
the
Roman
Pontifick
state
shall
go
to
ruine
;
and
if
in
this
sense
we
may
understand
Romanum
imperium
,
the
Bishop
knows
better
then
my self
.
I
have
many
thraves
of
ancient
and
latter
Writers
to
support
me
against
him
.
Lastly
,
I
answer
,
That
the
conversion
of
the
Jews
shall
come
in
on
the
sudden
:
they
shall
come
like
the
Doves
to
the
windows
,
that
is
,
swiftly
and
in
great
numbers
;
and
this
shall
be
(
Ezek.
37.
11.
)
when
Israel
gave
themselves
for
lost
,
and
their
hopes
were
cut
off
,
then
the
whole
house
of
Israel
,
like
bones
exceeding
dry
,
came
together
,
and
they
that
were
in
the
Valley
of
dry
bones
(
v.
1.
)
became
an
exceeding
great
Army
,
ver.
10.
How
cleer
there
doth
the
Holy
Ghost
prophesie
of
the
conversion
of
the
whole
house
of
Israel
,
that
is
,
the
twelve
Tribes
.
Now
if
it
should
be
objected
,
't
was
prophesied
of
their
restauration
under
the
second
Temple
,
to
that
I
answer
,
it
cannot
be
,
because
onely
the
two
Tribes
returned
,
and
not
the
ten
Tribes
,
to
the
second
Temple
,
as
Manass-Ben-Israel
affirms
;
and
generally
all
Historians
hold
,
that
very
few
of
the
ten
Tribes
returned
with
the
two
.
But
now
this
Prophesie
extends
to
the
whole
house
of
Israel
,
ver.
11.
(
i
e.
)
the
twelve
Tribes
:
So
that
from
the
time
of
the
Prophesie
,
untill
this
day
,
it
hath
not
as
yet
been
fulfilled
,
and
therefore
't
is
to
be
fulfilled
;
and
when
't
is
fulfilled
,
it
will
be
suddenly
:
as
Romes
ruine
will
be
sudden
,
so
the
Jews
conversion
will
be
sudden
,
and
therefore
our
Lord
Jesus
,
and
their
true
Messia's
prophecying
of
their
conversion
,
Matth.
24.
in
ver.
24
,
25
,
26.
he
tells
them
Antichrist
shall
be
busie
with
his
false
Prophets
immediatly
before
the
day
of
Christs
coming
to
destroy
Antichrist
,
and
to
convert
the
Jewes
;
and
then
shall
he
come
,
as
the
lightning
which
comes
from
the
East
,
and
is
quickly
in
the
West
,
so
shall
the
coming
of
Christ
be
.
This
coming
of
Christ
cannot
be
meant
of
his
coming
to
judgment
,
but
of
his
coming
to
call
the
Jews
to
repentance
,
and
to
destroy
the
Roman
Monarchy
,
or
the
Roman
Antichristian
Pontifick
state
in
ver.
29.
the
destruction
of
Rome
is
prophesied
,
and
ver.
30.
prophesies
of
the
repentance
of
the
twelve
Tribes
in
the
day
of
his
spiritual
appearance
to
them
in
the
Gospel
,
ver.
31.
prophesies
of
the
time
when
this
shall
be
;
it
shall
be
at
the
sounding
of
the
great
voyce
,
and
the
Trumpet
,
that
is
,
at
the
sounding
of
the
seventh
Trumpet
,
Rev.
11.
16.
when
the
Witnesses
shall
rise
,
Antichrist
shall
fall
,
and
Euphrates
shall
be
dryed
up
,
ver.
32
,
33.
tells
us
,
that
the
Tribulation
of
the
Gospel-church
under
the
rage
of
Hereticks
,
as
Separatists
,
Blasphemers
,
Seducers
,
Antichrists
,
and
false
Prophets
,
is
as
sure
a
sign
of
the
downfall
of
Rome
,
and
the
conversion
of
the
Jews
,
as
the
budding
and
sprouting
of
the
trees
are
of
the
approaching
of
the
summer
.
Now
these
Heresies
,
and
these
false
Prophets
shall
be
eminent
in
the
Gospel-Gentile
Church
,
which
shall
be
the
true
sign
of
the
Jews
conversion
,
ver.
34.
plainly
tells
us
,
this
cannot
be
meant
of
the
day
of
Judgement
;
for
this
generation
(
saith
Christ
)
shall
not
passe
,
that
is
,
the
stock
of
Israel
shall
not
be
extirpate
,
untill
they
have
seen
all
these
things
fulfilled
;
this
day
is
called
Luke
21.
the
day
of
the
redemption
of
the
twelve
Tribes
:
Now
if
this
day
(
as
some
would
have
it
)
be
the
day
of
Judgement
,
this
day
would
be
the
damnation
of
the
Tribes
,
if
they
must
be
in
the
world
untill
this
day
,
and
unconverted
;
therefore
this
day
is
the
day
of
the
Jews
conversion
,
not
the
day
of
Judgement
.
ver.
25.
The
next
verse
is
to
confirm
the
certainty
of
the
Prophecy
,
For
heaven
and
earth
shall
passe
away
,
but
not
one
title
of
the
Word
shall
passe
away
.
ver.
36.
But
of
that
day
,
and
of
that
hour
(
i.
e.
)
(
of
the
heavens
and
earth
passing
away
)
knoweth
no
man
:
by
this
't
is
manifest
,
that
Christ
in
the
whole
Chapter
speaks
not
one
word
of
the
day
of
Judgement
,
untill
ver.
35.
which
he
forbids
any
to
pry
into
;
for
God
only
knew
that
;
but
of
the
day
of
his
coming
to
ruine
Rome
,
and
convert
the
Jews
;
he
bids
us
by
the
foregoing
signes
know
for
certain
that
it
was
near
,
even
at
the
doors
.
ver.
33.
Now
this
glorious
coming
of
Christ
in
his
spirituall
and
corporall
punishments
on
his
enemies
;
and
his
spirituall
and
corporall
favors
to
the
Jews
,
shall
be
as
the
lightning
which
is
swift
in
it's
motion
,
it
gives
light
from
East
to
West
presently
,
so
shall
all
the
Kingdomes
in
this
world
become
the
Lords
,
and
his
Christs
on
a
suddain
:
Therefore
far
be
it
from
any
Protestant
to
have
such
a
malignant
thought
,
as
that
God
hath
forgot
to
be
gracious
,
or
that
his
hand
is
shortned
that
he
cannot
help
the
poor
Jews
,
which
are
this
day
,
many
of
them
,
looking
,
listening
,
and
admiring
at
us
in
England
and
Scotland
,
whose
eyes
,
I
trust
,
shall
see
some
glorious
sign
of
good
to
them
ere
long
.
Forty
times
more
may
be
said
in
vindication
of
this
manifest
truth
,
concerning
the
twelve
Tribes
conversion
;
but
considering
how
little
is
said
against
it
,
I
shall
say
no
more
,
but
proceed
.
The
subject
of
my
ensuing
Discourse
in
this
,
and
Manus
Testium
which
should
be
joyned
with
this
is
,
concerning
this
great
day
.
My
opinion
is
,
that
the
three
grand
Enemies
of
the
Church
shall
neer
about
the
end
,
or
within
a
year
of
1650.
begin
to
rise
,
and
never
fall
more
:
at
this
time
also
the
morning
of
the
Jews
conversion
shall
begin
,
and
shall
shine
more
and
more
untill
it
come
to
a
perfect
day
.
These
Opinions
the
Reader
shall
find
bottomed
on
Scripture
,
which
Scriptures
are
not
of
any
private
interpretation
,
but
such
as
are
matched
with
Scripture
,
which
illustrate
the
things
proved
by
them
,
and
also
have
several
learned
Authors
concurring
,
in
the
confirmation
of
the
same
thing
;
so
that
if
I
am
laughed
at
for
my
opinion
,
I
doubt
not
but
in
that
particular
(
what
ever
it
be
of
moment
)
I
shall
make
the
Remonstrant
confess
,
he
scoffs
not
onely
at
me
,
but
at
his
betters
.
I
write
not
this
to
deter
any
from
endeavouring
to
confute
this
ensuing
Tract
:
for
one
end
of
my
writing
so
briefly
on
so
large
a
subject
,
is
,
that
I
may
have
a
speedy
answer
,
and
a
seasonable
confutation
;
which
if
it
be
cleer
from
Scripture-grounds
,
I
shall
readily
and
willingly
submit
,
and
return
a
thankfull
Reply
to
my
Corrector
,
and
promise
him
to
retract
my
Errours
.
As
for
the
time
of
Antichrists
fall
,
which
I
conceive
to
begin
presently
after
1650.
it
is
well
known
that
't
is
no
new
opinion
;
for
Brightman
,
and
several
other
learned
men
have
so
conjectured
,
upon
this
ground
,
which
is
humane
,
because
't
is
drawn
from
humane
story
:
for
he
begins
the
Jews
great
afflictions
in
An.
360.
so
that
their
1290.
years
afflictions
must
necessarily
be
expired
in
this
year
,
1650.
and
Dr.
Homes
,
and
several
others
well-versed
in
the
study
of
the
Revelations
,
and
of
History
,
do
gather
,
that
Antichrist
appeared
visibly
in
the
Church
in
Anno
390.
so
that
the
Gentile
and
Jewish
church
afflictions
seem
both
to
expire
at
one
time
;
for
Antichrist
is
to
rage
over
the
Gentile
church
but
1260.
years
,
which
by
the
compute
is
accomplished
Anno
1650.
Now
(
as
Dr.
Homes
saith
very
well
)
in
so
many
years
,
possibly
,
there
may
be
lost-time
in
the
account
;
so
that
he
takes
a
grain
of
allowance
(
that
is
)
a
year
over
to
his
1260.
years
:
Upon
the
same
ground
,
in
this
thing
,
I
shall
follow
him
,
and
comply
with
him
,
though
there
is
no
necessity
for
it
.
Others
(
as
Clavis
Apocalyptica
,
written
by
a
German
)
draw
water
from
the
same
Springs
,
quote
the
same
texts
,
as
Dan.
12.
and
Rev.
11.
and
looking
into
History
,
say
,
that
these
texts
of
1290.
days
,
and
1260.
days
,
are
not
fulfilled
until
1655.
so
that
these
agree
with
the
former
in
explication
of
the
texts
,
but
not
in
application
of
the
Histories
to
the
text
:
in
which
difference
,
he
that
hath
the
clearest
Histories
to
shew
the
time
of
Antichrists
rising
,
and
the
time
of
the
Witnesses
going
into
sackcloth
,
as
relating
to
the
Gentile
Church
;
and
likewise
he
that
interprets
that
text
(
Dan.
12.
11.
)
most
clearly
,
and
by
history
can
clear
it
exactly
,
and
tell
when
the
daily
sacrifice
was
taken
away
,
and
the
abomination
of
desolation
set
up
be
doubtless
,
will
gaine
the
greatest
credit
from
the
judicious
Reader
.
In
my
jndgment
learned
Brightman
on
Dan.
12.
11.
is
most
clear
and
rational
,
and
none
do
,
I
find
,
guess
nearer
the
time
(
in
print
)
of
Antichrists
visible
appearance
in
the
Church
,
then
Dr.
Homes
,
let
me
give
the
Devil
his
due
.
But
of
the
main
point
,
which
is
concerning
the
slaying
the
Witnesses
at
,
or
neer
the
end
,
(
or
whether
at
or
neer
the
end
)
of
Antichrists
1260.
years
Raign
,
he
speaks
not
a
word
,
which
makes
me
think
,
that
his
Sermon
,
Octob.
8.
1650.
was
preached
against
the
light
of
his
own
conscience
;
For
in
the
Revelations
the
Holy
Ghost
hath
so
linked
Antichrists
raign
,
and
the
Witnesses
slaying
in
the
end
of
Antichrists
raign
,
that
he
that
studies
the
one
,
must
necessarily
take
notice
of
the
other
;
and
indeed
he
that
can
shew
us
the
Witnesses
slain
,
may
easily
point
at
the
end
both
of
the
Gospel-church
afflictions
and
the
Jewish
States
dissipation
:
but
here
is
the
difficulty
,
and
here
are
the
gross
mistakes
of
men
,
who
studying
application
of
history
to
the
text
,
more
then
the
explication
of
the
text
it self
,
have
given
most
ridiculous
ghesses
,
to
the
great
scandall
of
the
Protestant
.
My
Antagonist
speaks
not
one
word
to
this
text
;
but
the
German
Divine
in
his
Clavis
Apocaliptica
,
p.
87.
tells
us
,
that
three
years
and
a
half
before
Antichrists
raign
is
out
the
Witnesses
shall
be
slain
;
for
(
saith
he
)
they
both
expire
together
,
both
Antichrists
raign
,
and
the
Witnesses
slaying
:
and
therefore
he
renders
,
Rev.
11.
7.
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
in
futuro
simplici
,
when
they
are
about
to
finish
:
so
Cloverius
and
Mead
reads
the
text
:
In
this
I
shall
not
much
dissent
from
them
;
yet
I
think
they
render
it
best
,
who
read
it
from
the
words
,
as
it
most
naturally
drops
into
English
,
and
that
is
when
they
shall
have
finished
their
testimony
:
for
it
will
nothing
at
all
clash
with
ver.
2.
where
they
prophesie
1260.
days
in
sackcloth
:
for
the
finishing
of
their
testimony
doth
not
cause
their
prophecying
to
cease
:
their
suffering
,
and
their
slaying
is
the
gloriousest
part
of
their
sackcloth
prophesie
;
for
then
saith
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Here
is
their
faith
,
and
here
is
their
patience
.
The
finishing
of
their
testimony
is
the
joynt
concurrence
of
the
two
Witnesses
(
viz.
the
Magistracy
and
the
Ministery
)
in
establishing
the
Doctrine
and
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
of
Christ
against
Antichrist
the
Beast
of
the
Sea
(
i.
e.
)
the
Pope
that
keeps
the
Witnesses
in
sackcloth
on
the
one
hand
,
and
against
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
that
slayes
the
Witnesses
on
the
other
hand
;
now
when
was
this
testimony
finished
?
the
sum
of
this
testimony
you
shall
find
in
the
Covenant
;
but
when
they
finished
this
testimony
I
leave
Christians
to
judge
,
Whether
when
the
Assembly
of
Divines
had
finished
their
work
,
that
of
the
Doctrine
,
and
Discipline
of
the
Church
,
and
when
the
Parliament
ratified
their
work
,
resolved
to
disband
their
Armies
,
and
bring
home
the
King
on
honourable
covenant-tearms
;
and
then
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
arose
,
made
war
against
them
,
and
drove
them
out
of
the
house
:
since
which
that
Reformation
hath
lain
dead
.
Or
whether
it
began
then
when
the
Magistracy
were
fully
agreed
to
establish
the
Doctrine
and
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
against
Popery
,
on
one
hand
,
and
Heresie
on
the
other
,
when
the
King
gave
his
royal
assent
,
and
the
Parliament
voted
the
Kings
concessions
to
be
a
sufficient
ground
for
the
establishing
the
peace
of
the
Church
and
State
;
then
the
Beast
ariseth
and
makes
war
against
them
,
and
overcomes
them
,
and
kills
them
:
how
kills
them
?
Rev.
20.
5.
makes
answer
,
beheads
them
,
(
saith
Beza
)
cuts
them
off
with
the
Axe
.
Now
which
of
these
times
't
is
,
is
no
easie
thing
to
determin
;
but
the
former
act
seems
,
to
me
,
to
be
the
time
when
they
finished
their
testimony
:
For
then
the
Beast
set
up
his
Sword-power
,
and
then
the
Magistracy
and
Ministery
finished
their
Church-work
:
and
immediatly
after
they
had
finished
it
,
this
Beast
of
the
bottomless
put
threw
it
down
,
and
then
followed
that
abominable
Vote
of
non-addresses
to
the
King
.
Now
this
fell
out
neer
about
October
,
164●
.
(
as
I
remember
)
if
about
that
time
,
then
the
Witnesses
must
●●●e
about
May
or
June
in
the
year
,
1651.
or
thereabouts
,
for
then
his
three
years
and
an
half
is
up
:
but
if
we
begin
to
account
the
Witnesses
s●aying
,
their
finishing
their
Testimony
,
and
the
Beasts
of
the
bottomless
pits
raign
not
to
begin
,
unti●December
,
1648.
when
the
King
was
slain
,
and
the
Offices
of
the
Two
Houses
slain
,
and
the
Assembly
scatterd
,
for
not
subscribing
to
the
Beasts
mark
,
then
the
witnesses
will
not
rise
untill
June
,
1652.
Now
that
these
Witnesses
are
the
Magistracy
and
the
Ministery
,
there
is
nothing
so
cleer
as
learned
Woodcock
on
Rev.
11.
makes
it
appear
,
and
several
others
;
besides
the
ferenity
of
the
holy
texts
themselves
,
which
makes
it
most
cleer
:
This
is
most
certain
,
that
the
two
Witnesses
are
two
lawful
Offices
(
i.
e.
)
a
lawful
Magistracy
,
and
a
lawful
Ministery
.
Now
their
Opposites
who
slay
them
,
are
Usurpers
in
the
State
,
and
Usurpers
in
the
Church
(
that
is
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
and
the
Beast
of
the
Sea
,
with
their
followers
)
now
the
Witnesses
rising
shall
be
these
Usurpers
confusion
(
i.
e.
)
the
ruine
of
the
Pope
,
and
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
,
with
their
seven
thousand
men
of
name
:
so
that
the
Battel
shall
be
fought
betwixt
lawful
Magistracy
,
and
lawful
Ministery
,
against
Usurping
Magistracy
and
Ministery
;
but
more
of
this
in
its
place
.
The
greatest
difference
(
betwixt
those
that
come
near
the
time
of
their
slaying
is
concerning
the
place
where
they
must
be
slain
:
Now
there
are
many
groundless
conceits
that
we
find
in
print
,
about
this
place
,
where
they
shall
be
slain
,
I
shall
not
repeat
what
others
have
said
,
but
indeavour
to
prove
that
the
Witnesses
must
be
slain
in
these
three
Islands
of
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
.
This
I
shall
prove
:
1.
From
the
Offices
that
are
slain
.
2.
From
the
person
that
slays
them
.
The
Offices
that
are
slain
are
Two
;
a
lawful
Magistracy
,
and
a
lawful
Ministery
.
The
lawful
Magistracy
is
that
which
hath
the
Christ
and
his
Apostles
ordained
in
the
Church
,
and
established
,
untill
his
second
coming
for
to
teach
,
instruct
,
rebuke
and
comfort
the
Church
.
Now
these
two
must
be
slain
in
that
place
where
they
have
all
their
time
been
in
sackcloth
;
but
a
lawfull
visible
Magistracy
,
and
a
lawfull
visible
Ministery
have
since
390.
been
visible
in
England
,
though
in
sackcloth
under
the
Popes
tyranny
,
treachery
,
and
oppression
:
Now
let
these
Countreys
that
brag
of
the
slaying
of
the
Witnesses
,
amongst
them
first
shew
me
for
these
thousand
two
hundred
and
sixty
years
.
A
lawfull
Magistracy
and
Ministery
,
and
then
those
so
long
in
sackcloth
if
they
shew
me
not
this
,
I
'le
not
believe
the
Witnesses
shal
be
slain
where
they
are
not
;
but
confident
I
am
,
England
can
only
shew
these
Witnesses
,
&
no
Nation
els
,
so
long
together
in
the
world
;
as
God
continued
Monarchy
in
the
Church
from
the
Creation
,
untill
the
mighty
Monarch
of
the
world
came
:
So
that
mighty
Monarch
the
Lord
Jesus
after
his
Ascention
,
chose
him
his
first
Vice-Gerent
here
in
England
:
Lucius
by
name
,
who
swaid
the
Scepter
for
Christ
;
from
that
Christian
Race
the
Romans
received
their
Christian
Magistracy
(
as
Constantine
)
and
Christian
Monarchy
(
except
in
a
National
discertion
)
hath
continued
visible
in
this
Kingdome
of
England
,
well
nigh
1500
years
;
so
that
England
above
and
before
all
other
Nations
since
the
profession
of
the
Gospell
hath
retained
Gods
Witnesses
,
a
lawfull
Ministery
being
established
by
that
good
King
Lucius
,
that
Christian
Monarch
;
let
us
then
look
for
the
Witnesses
where
God
hath
placed
them
,
and
never
till
this
day
totally
plucked
them
up
:
I
say
,
I
here
challenge
all
the
Historians
and
Antiquaries
in
the
world
,
to
shew
me
where
,
or
when
since
these
fourteen
hundred
years
past
;
that
the
two
great
Offices
in
the
Church
and
State
(
the
lawfull
Magistracy
,
and
the
lawfull
Ministery
)
were
in
so
sad
a
slain
abject
condition
,
as
at
this
day
in
England
;
let
Historians
bring
me
the
blackest
night
that
ever
came
upon
these
two
Offices
,
and
I
dare
undertake
to
make
it
appear
,
that
this
day
is
seven
times
blacker
and
sadder
to
these
great
Offices
,
then
any
heretofore
;
may
I
not
add
one
thing
more
,
to
prove
that
the
Witnesses
have
onely
been
in
this
Kingdome
visibly
in
sackcloth
,
before
William
the
Conquerors
time
,
our
Chronicles
make
mention
of
godly
Kings
,
which
for
their
piety
were
called
Saints
:
Th●se
you
shall
find
them
opposing
the
insolency
and
wickednesse
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
King
Edgar
acknowledged
no
supremacy
in
the
Pope
,
but
saith
,
that
the
care
of
the
Church
of
Christ
,
ad
nos
spectat
,
it
belongeth
to
the
King
,
not
to
the
Pope
;
and
this
he
did
(
saith
Hoveden
)
by
the
advice
and
means
of
Ethelwood
,
Bishop
of
Winton
,
and
Oswald
Bishop
of
Worcester
;
so
that
seven
hundred
years
since
we
have
had
Magistrates
and
Ministers
,
against
the
Popes
supremacy
,
and
before
that
as
is
evident
in
Malmsbury
de
Gest.
Reg.
lib.
2.
P.
57.
afterwards
,
from
William
the
Conqueror
to
the
last
King
of
England
,
we
have
it
clear
,
they
have
testified
against
the
Popes
usurpation
,
and
have
in
every
Age
suffered
much
,
and
been
put
into
sackcloth
,
by
the
prevailing
treacherous
,
rebellious
factions
of
the
Popes
raising
against
the
Kings
of
England
,
no
Kingdome
in
Europe
can
say
the
like
,
and
which
is
one
of
the
remarkablest
passages
in
the
world
;
the
King
that
wast
cut
off
when
he
had
finished
his
testimony
,
was
the
only
Protestant
King
in
the
world
;
therefore
the
only
Witnesse
(
say
I
)
yea
he
was
,
as
learned
Sir
Robert
Naunton
proves
in
his
fragmenta
regalia
,
cap.
1.
p.
2.
the
lawfull
Successor
by
lineall
dissent
of
the
ancient
British
Kings
,
so
that
if
any
Magistracy
in
the
world
be
the
slain
Witnesse
,
't
is
that
of
England
,
which
is
lawfull
in
it's
self
,
hath
been
visible
for
Christ
before
Antichrist
,
in
sackcloth
visible
under
Antichrist
,
and
in
the
sight
and
hearing
of
all
the
world
cut
off
with
the
Axe
,
for
finishing
the
testimony
against
Antichrist
.
Now
as
for
the
Ministery
of
England
,
the
other
Witnesse
of
Christs
against
Antichrist
,
that
it
hath
been
as
ancient
as
the
Christian
Magistracy
,
and
as
visibly
suffered
under
Antichrist
,
and
now
lieth
under
the
greatest
reproach
ignominy
,
and
slain
condition
,
is
as
clear
as
the
former
.
I
shall
say
nothing
to
this
Office
,
that
Office
will
speak
for
it self
,
I
am
sure
't
is
of
age
and
ability
enough
to
gainsay
all
his
opposers
,
you
see
how
much
probability
we
have
from
the
persons
that
are
slain
,
that
the
English
Magistracy
and
Ministery
are
the
Witnesses
.
Now
we
proceed
to
shew
what
probability
,
there
is
,
that
these
Witnesses
are
to
be
slain
in
these
Northern
Islands
,
I
will
say
the
lesse
of
the
Beast
that
slaies
them
,
because
I
portrayed
him
in
the
ensuing
tract
,
I
shal
only
discover
him
where
he
is
to
be
found
in
Scripture
Prophecies
,
and
then
what
those
Scripture
Prophecies
say
of
his
downfal
in
Rev.
11.
7.
he
is
called
the
Beast
that
ascendeth
out
or
the
bottomlesse
pit
after
the
Witnesses
have
finished
their
testimony
,
where
note
that
this
Beast
that
slaies
the
Witnesses
,
is
not
the
Pope
,
but
one
that
riseth
when
the
Witnesses
have
finished
their
testimony
,
and
his
raign
is
but
three
years
and
an
half
,
and
this
all
the
Greek
and
Latin
Fathers
assent
unto
,
and
't
is
as
clear
as
the
Sun
from
this
text
.
In
Rev.
13.
11.
he
is
called
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
,
to
have
us
to
observe
,
that
he
is
one
distinct
from
the
Sea
,
ver.
5.
't
is
wonderfull
to
behold
how
many
learned
Protestants
joyn
these
together
in
one
,
when
God
by
his
Word
hath
severed
;
they
are
distinguished
by
their
originall
;
the
one
ariseth
out
of
the
earth
,
and
the
other
out
of
the
Sea
.
The
Holy
Ghost
calls
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
another
,
and
many
Protestants
(
though
not
all
of
them
,
for
Bishop
Cooper
saith
,
't
is
one
distinct
from
the
Beast
of
the
Sea
)
make
them
notwithstanding
the
same
,
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
hath
but
two
horns
,
and
and
the
Beast
of
the
sea
ten
:
more
arguments
may
be
picked
out
of
the
texts
to
prove
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
which
slays
the
Witnesses
shall
rise
and
raigne
but
three
years
and
an
half
during
the
time
the
Witnesses
shall
lie
slain
,
as
't
is
clear
,
Rev.
11.
7.
12.
this
Beasts
rising
is
the
Witnesses
falling
,
and
the
Witnesses
rising
in
this
Beasts
ruine
,
That
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
,
and
the
Beast
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
are
one
,
and
the
same
is
clear
,
for
Rev.
13.
10.
11.
he
riseth
then
,
when
the
faith
and
patience
of
the
Witnesses
are
exercised
,
here
is
the
faith
and
patience
of
the
Saints
,
their
suffering
graces
,
when
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
ariseth
,
are
exercised
,
and
the
Beast
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
,
is
he
that
exerciseth
their
defensive
graces
,
so
Rev.
11.
7.
he
makes
war
with
them
and
overcomes
and
kills
them
.
This
Beast
of
the
Earth
,
or
bottomlesse
pit
Beast
,
is
called
in
Rev.
17.
the
Beast
bearing
up
Babilon
with
all
her
blasphemies
murthers
.
In
this
sevententh
Chapter
the
Holy
Ghost
gives
us
a
view
of
the
last
Scene
of
the
last
Act
of
the
Romish
Antichristian
Factors
:
I
'le
beg
the
sober
Christians
earnest
attention
here
,
for
it
is
the
hardest
Chapter
in
the
whole
Revelation
,
in
Rev.
17.
1.
the
Angell
tells
you
what
time
o'
th'
day
't
is
with
Rome
,
't
is
neer
her
judgment
day
at
this
time
:
Iohn
saw
a
woman
sitting
on
a
scarlet
beast
:
Here
are
three
distinct
names
mentioned
in
the
Chapter
,
the
Woman
,
the
Beast
,
and
the
great
Whore
:
Now
the
great
Whore
sitting
on
many
waters
,
v.
1.
is
expounded
v.
15.
to
be
that
spirituall
Whore
that
hath
inticed
the
kings
of
the
earth
to
commit
idolatry
(
which
is
spirituall
fornication
)
with
her
:
this
Whore
is
the
Pope
of
Rome
which
inhabits
the
City
with
seven
hills
,
which
is
Rome
.
The
woman
mentioned
v.
3.
is
expounded
v.
9.
and
v.
18.
't
is
the
city
standing
on
seven
hills
as
Rome
doth
,
v.
18.
't
is
the
Metropolitan
city
as
Rome
is
.
But
now
the
scarlet-coloured
beast
,
v.
3.
which
beares
up
the
city
Rome
,
is
not
so
plainly
to
the
eye
of
the
Reader
unfolded
,
though
there
be
most
spoken
in
this
Chapter
of
this
Beast
and
his
party
,
this
Beast
is
one
part
of
the
mystery
which
Iohn
wonders
at
.
Observe
therefore
in
v.
3.
this
Beast
is
called
a
scarlet
coloured
Beast
,
because
of
his
bloudinesse
:
This
Beast
cannot
be
the
Pope
,
for
the
Pope
is
the
great
Whore
that
sits
upon
many
waters
,
and
is
born
up
by
this
Beast
,
2.
It
cannot
be
the
Pope
,
for
the
Pope
came
not
out
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
,
but
fell
from
heaven
,
and
got
the
key
of
Independency
into
his
own
hands
,
which
is
the
bottomlesse
pit
there
spoken
of
Rev.
9.
1.
But
now
this
Beast
coms
out
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
,
to
shew
that
this
Beast
is
the
selfesame
that
slayes
the
Witnesses
,
Rev.
11.
7.
who
also
coms
out
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
.
3.
This
Beast
cannot
be
the
Pope
upon
any
rationall
account
from
any
Expositor
,
because
this
Beast
is
the
eighth
,
and
is
of
the
seven
:
Now
the
Pope
by
every
Protestant
account
makes
the
seventh
distinct
head
of
government
in
Rome
,
but
this
Beast
is
of
the
eighth
:
now
lest
he
should
be
taken
for
the
eighth
head
of
Rome
,
the
Holy
Ghost
(
as
it
were
with
a
Prolepsin
,
v.
11.
)
tells
us
he
is
of
the
seven
,
and
how
he
is
of
the
seven
;
it
may
be
because
he
beares
up
the
Woman
with
seven
heads
,
and
ten
horns
:
he
is
none
of
the
ten
subjected
to
Rome
,
neither
is
he
one
of
the
seven
heads
of
Rome
,
but
he
is
the
eighthdistinct
from
the
seven
of
Rome
,
and
of
the
ten
hornes
subject
to
Rome
,
and
yet
he
is
of
the
seven
,
that
is
,
he
hath
somthing
of
all
their
wicked
craft
and
subtilty
,
he
is
of
the
seven
(
saith
Haymo
)
because
this
Beast
shall
seven
times
more
persecute
the
Church
of
Christ
then
the
other
seven
:
this
holds
good
;
for
to
prove
him
to
be
the
Beast
that
slayes
the
Witnesses
.
Saith
another
of
this
text
,
he
is
the
eighth
,
because
regnum
ejus
distinctum
à
singulis
,
and
he
is
of
the
seven
,
Quia
in
omnibus
septem
existit
.
I
humbly
conceive
the
Holy
Ghost
uses
this
expression
[
he
is
of
the
seven
]
to
take
us
off
from
imagining
that
this
Beast
(
though
he
be
the
eighth
)
is
the
eighth
head
of
Rome
:
No
,
saith
the
Holy
Ghost
,
he
is
of
the
seven
,
and
that
you
might
not
imagine
this
Beast
,
on
the
other
hand
,
to
be
one
of
the
ten
horns
subject
to
Rome
;
saith
the
Holy
Ghost
,
He
is
of
the
seven
;
and
what
followes
?
And
goeth
to
perdition
.
Twice
you
have
the
perdition
of
the
Beast
mentioned
in
this
Chapter
,
I
humbly
conceive
,
for
two
ends
:
1.
To
note
that
this
Beast
is
the
last
enemy
of
the
Church
,
which
bears
up
Rome
with
all
her
blasphemous
hypocrites
,
which
vent
their
poyson
,
and
profer
it
to
the
world
in
the
golden
cup
of
glorious
Gospell
truths
,
when
they
are
full
of
all
abominations
,
and
filthinesse
of
fornication
;
when
Romes
judgment
day
is
neer
,
then
v.
3.
doth
that
scarlet
coloured
blasphemuus
Beast
arise
,
then
is
it
a
year
of
Jubilee
with
Rome
,
v.
5.
she
is
richly
adorned
and
decked
with
all
outward
pomp
,
and
hath
a
golden
cup
in
her
hand
,
out
of
which
she
vents
her
abominable
blasphemies
.
Then
hath
Rome
,
v.
5.
a
name
written
on
her
forehead
,
Mystery
Babylon
,
now
Mystery
Babylon
is
legible
in
her
forehead
;
we
shall
see
Babylon
in
a
mystery
,
when
Rome
is
neer
her
downfall
,
as
to
cry
down
with
Antichrist
,
and
murther
a
King
that
ingaged
to
pull
down
Antichrist
:
To
pretend
to
promote
the
Gospell
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
pull
down
the
godly
Ministery
.
To
exalt
the
Kingdom
of
Christ
,
and
to
grant
a
toleration
of
all
Religions
against
Christ
:
to
plead
liberty
of
conscience
,
and
devise
spirituall
wracks
and
tortures
for
mens
consciences
:
For
the
Brats
of
Rome
to
cry
Down
with
the
Pope
,
and
down
with
Rome
,
and
down
with
Antichrist
,
whilest
they
promote
Rome
and
the
Pope
,
and
undermine
the
Gospell
?
What
is
this
but
Mystery
Babylon
,
written
upon
Rome's
Politicians
fore-heads
:
this
is
the
comfort
,
Mat.
24.
24
,
30.
these
are
the
forerunners
of
Romes
ruine
By
these
mysterious
plots
,
the
Wolves
of
Rome
get
into
the
sheepfold
of
Christ
,
and
suck
the
bloud
of
Christs
Flock
;
and
therefore
ver.
6.
John
saw
Rome
drunk
with
the
bloud
of
the
Saints
at
this
time
when
she
was
going
to
ruine
:
to
note
,
that
immediately
before
Rome
goeth
to
ruine
the
Witnesses
must
be
slain
,
for
she
is
now
found
drunk
with
the
Saints
bloud
:
And
when
is
this
that
Rome
is
drunk
with
the
Saints
bloud
(
ver.
7.
)
it
is
when
this
Beast
bears
up
Rome
,
that
otherwise
had
fallen
by
the
hands
of
the
Witnesses
,
whose
bloud
they
now
drink
:
In
as
much
as
this
Beast
throws
down
those
that
would
have
ruined
Rome
,
and
had
covenanted
so
to
do
,
he
may
well
be
called
the
Beast
that
bears
up
Rome
.
For
certain
the
tenth
part
of
the
City
Babylon
had
fallen
,
had
not
this
beast
bore
it
up
,
by
slaying
those
that
had
finished
their
Testimony
,
and
were
fully
resolved
to
pour
out
their
Vials
on
Rome
:
Now
when
this
beast
goeth
to
perdition
that
bears
up
Rome
,
certainly
then
Rome
will
fall
,
when
the
pillar
that
props
it
up
falls
,
then
down
it
falls
:
and
therefore
it
is
said
,
in
Rev.
19.
19
,
20.
When
the
Witnesses
arise
,
and
put
themselves
under
the
wings
of
Christ
:
this
Rome-supporting
beast
John
saw
,
when
the
Pope
and
his
party
,
v.
20.
with
him
,
And
when
the
beast
by
the
Witnesses
(
for
I
have
proved
already
,
that
the
battel
is
onely
betwixt
the
Beast
bearing
up
Rome
,
and
the
Witnesses
)
is
overcome
:
in
ver.
20.
the
Pope
is
taken
,
and
with
him
the
false
Prophet
that
wrought
miracles
:
This
false
Prophet
is
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
that
slays
the
Witnesses
,
who
is
called
a
false
Prophet
,
because
Rev.
13.
13.
He
doth
great
wonders
(
ver.
14.
)
on
purpose
to
deceive
:
so
that
this
eighth
Beast
bearing
up
Rome
when
Rome
is
going
to
Judgment
,
when
he
goeth
to
perdition
,
Rome
must
necessarily
fall
with
him
.
2.
The
Holy
Ghost
in
that
he
calls
him
(
Rev.
17.
11.
)
the
eighth
Beast
,
and
tells
us
twice
in
that
Chapter
,
that
't
is
he
that
goeth
to
destruction
.
I
humbly
conceive
the
Holy
Ghost
points
at
Daniel
7.
8.
which
Daniel
calls
another
little
horn
.
Daniel
longing
to
know
the
meaning
of
him
,
the
Holy
Ghost
tells
him
,
'T
is
that
horn
that
shall
rise
after
the
ten
horns
,
under
the
Roman
Monarchy
,
and
shall
pull
three
of
the
ten
horns
up
by
the
roots
,
ver.
8
,
21.
makes
war
with
the
Saints
,
and
prevails
against
them
:
just
as
in
Rev.
11.
7.
This
horn
(
ver.
24.
)
shall
arise
after
the
ten
Kings
subject
to
Rome
and
shall
be
diverse
from
them
:
In
this
respect
he
is
said
to
be
the
eighth
,
Rev.
17.
and
he
shall
subdue
three
Kings
(
i.
e.
)
Kingdoms
,
and
ver.
11.
By
the
setting
up
of
Christs
Kingdom
,
the
Beast
shall
be
slain
,
and
given
to
the
burning
flame
;
as
Rev.
19.
20.
and
25.
He
shall
reign
untill
a
time
,
times
,
and
the
dividing
of
times
;
and
then
by
the
coming
in
of
Christs
Kingdom
,
he
shall
be
destroyed
to
the
end
,
utter
ruine
shall
befall
him
.
Now
who
should
this
little
horn
be
that
riseth
in
the
end
of
the
Roman
Monarchy
,
and
throws
down
three
Kings
,
that
is
,
usurps
the
Dominion
of
three
Kingdoms
,
purely
professing
the
Gospel
,
where
the
Saints
whom
he
persecutes
are
,
and
reignes
tyrannically
over
the
Saints
but
three
years
and
an
half
,
and
must
be
destroyed
by
the
erecting
of
Christs
Kingdom
,
and
putting
the
Saints
in
possession
:
but
onely
the
Beast
which
John
Rev.
11.
13
,
17.
and
19.
setteth
forth
in
his
rising
,
reigning
,
and
ruine
.
Object
.
But
how
comes
this
Beast
to
have
seven
heads
,
and
ten
Horns
,
since
he
is
none
of
the
Roman
Heads
?
in
Revel.
17.
3
,
7.
Sol.
I
thought
,
till
I
looked
into
the
Original
,
that
the
seven
Heads
,
and
ten
Horns
,
had
related
to
the
Woman
,
and
not
to
the
Beast
;
and
I
thought
ver.
9.
would
have
born
me
out
as
well
as
the
vulgar
Translation
;
but
I
perceived
it
not
onely
clashing
with
ver.
12.
and
v.
16.
but
confounding
the
Syntaxis
of
the
words
in
the
Greek
Copy
;
for
the
Participle
in
v.
3.
and
the
Article
in
v.
7.
are
of
another
Gender
:
as
in
v.
3.
how
can
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
and
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
agree
together
;
but
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
and
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
agree
together
:
so
likewise
in
v.
7.
how
can
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
and
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
agree
together
,
when
as
it
agrees
with
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
therefore
learned
Beza
reades
v.
3.
vidi
mulierem
insidentem
bestiae
Coccinae
plenae
nominibus
plasphemiae
habenti
Capita
Septem
;
so
that
habenti
agrees
with
bestiae
,
which
is
agreeable
to
the
Greek
Copy
;
the
vulgar
renders
it
doubtfully
,
but
the
Greek
Copy
decides
this
cleerly
,
by
referring
the
Horns
to
the
Beast
,
not
the
Woman
.
Ob.
How
comes
it
to
pass
then
,
if
the
Beast
be
not
the
Pope
,
but
he
that
riseth
and
slays
the
Witnesses
(
when
the
Popes
time
is
drawing
neer
to
an
end
)
that
he
is
said
Rev.
13.
to
have
but
two
horns
,
and
here
to
have
seven
Heads
,
and
ten
Horns
?
Sol.
The
subject
I
am
now
upon
is
exceeding
mysterious
:
so
mysterious
,
that
John
wondered
,
with
great
admiration
,
to
see
Babylon
in
a
mystery
,
devouring
the
bloud
of
the
Saints
,
v.
5
,
6.
to
see
men
,
under
the
name
of
Saints
,
and
tender
consciencious
men
,
drinking
exceedingly
of
the
bloud
of
the
Saints
:
This
is
a
great
mystery
,
and
a
mystery
to
be
wondered
at
;
now
this
mystery
v.
7.
)
the
Holy
Ghost
tells
us
is
double
:
there
is
a
mystery
of
the
Woman
,
that
is
,
Rome
;
and
the
mystery
of
the
Beast
that
at
this
time
(
now
Rome
is
going
to
ruine
)
bears
her
up
.
Now
this
Beast
is
not
the
Pope
,
for
the
Pope
sits
as
a
Whore
upon
many
waters
:
This
double
mystery
then
is
in
thishow
the
Woman
Rome
should
come
to
be
drunk
now
with
the
bloud
of
Saints
,
when
she
's
going
to
ruine
;
and
the
other
part
of
the
mystery
lyeth
in
verse
7.
how
the
Beast
that
had
horns
like
a
Lamb
,
and
a
fair
smooth
tongue
like
a
Dragon
,
Rev.
13.
11.
should
now
have
the
feet
of
a
Bear
,
and
the
jawes
of
a
Lyon
;
how
he
that
had
covenanted
to
throw
down
Rome
,
and
professed
himself
a
great
friend
to
the
Saints
,
and
yielded
all
his
assistance
to
throw
down
Popery
,
Superstition
,
and
Idolatry
,
and
holds
the
same
Religion
in
profession
that
the
true
Saints
do
:
how
this
Beast
should
become
the
Beast
bearing
up
Rome
,
here
is
the
mystery
,
and
such
a
mystery
as
is
to
be
in
the
Church
when
the
Witnesses
shall
be
slain
,
and
when
Rome
is
neer
to
utter
ruine
,
which
mystery
being
this
day
in
our
eyes
revealed
,
is
a
sure
prognostick
to
me
,
that
Rome
is
not
far
off
from
her
utter
ruine
.
Now
I
humbly
conceive
that
the
Beast
is
said
to
have
the
seven
heads
,
and
ten
horns
,
because
he
supports
Rome
with
seven
heads
,
and
ten
horns
:
Now
as
the
Heathen
Emperours
were
called
the
red
Dragon
with
seven
heads
,
and
ten
horns
,
Rev.
12.
2.
and
the
Pope
is
the
Beast
of
the
Sea
with
seven
heads
,
and
ten
horns
,
because
they
kept
up
the
Emperial
pomp
and
state
of
Rome
:
so
this
Beast
of
the
Earth
is
said
here
to
have
seven
heads
,
and
ten
horns
,
because
he
supports
the
pomp
and
state
of
Rome
,
when
the
Witnesses
had
finished
their
testimony
,
and
were
ready
to
pour
out
the
vialls
upon
it
.
This
Beast
is
therefore
the
Eighth
,
ver.
11.
because
he
is
distinct
from
those
seven
Kings
,
v.
10.
and
yet
he
is
of
the
seven
because
he
is
an
Usurper
and
a
Tyrant
,
who
rules
by
his
Sword-power
,
as
the
seven
before
him
did
,
who
bore
up
the
woman
with
seven
heads
:
therefore
this
Eighth
Beast
●●●…d
to
be
of
the
seven
,
because
of
the
likeness
of
the
Government
he
sets
up
to
theirs
before
him
.
Hence
't
is
that
in
v
8.
the
Beast
that
bears
Rome
is
called
the
Beast
that
is
not
,
and
shall
ascend
out
of
the
bottomless
pit
:
He
was
in
the
Idaea
of
his
Government
,
in
the
Usurpation
of
Caesar
,
but
[
is
not
]
because
he
is
to
come
out
of
the
bottomless
pit
,
Rev.
11.
7.
where
the
1260.
years
reign
of
Antichrist
draws
towards
an
end
,
and
then
slays
the
Witnesses
:
the
next
words
cleers
it
,
that
this
Beast
is
also
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
mentioned
Rev.
13.
12
,
13
,
14.
Hence
he
is
called
the
Beast
that
was
,
because
Rev.
13.
12.
he
makes
the
people
to
worship
the
first
Beast
whose
deadly
wound
is
healed
,
that
is
,
he
makes
people
subject
to
a
Government
as
Caesar
set
up
in
Rome
,
which
was
a
packt
company
of
Senators
,
whom
he
at
his
command
could
sway
,
to
what
he
pleased
after
he
had
drove
away
,
and
secluded
the
faithfull
members
of
the
Senate-house
:
But
by
what
power
doth
he
do
this
?
the
same
ver.
of
Chap.
13.
tells
us
,
He
doth
it
by
the
power
of
the
first
Beast
before
him
,
that
is
,
the
Pope
,
(
as
we
have
shewed
)
these
two
first
Beasts
mentioned
in
the
same
verse
signifie
.
1.
The
Pope
,
in
whose
presence
the
last
Beast
acts
,
and
by
whose
power
he
acts
.
And
the
other
is
Caesar
,
whose
Government
he
endeavours
to
set
up
:
Now
he
doth
it
by
the
power
of
the
Pope
,
that
is
,
by
treachery
,
lying
perjury
,
treason
,
and
lying
wonders
:
Therefore
in
Rev.
17.
8.
the
time
when
this
Beast
shall
be
in
the
world
shall
be
a
time
of
wonder
,
the
people
shall
wonder
at
him
,
wonder
at
the
changes
he
makes
in
Times
and
Laws
,
and
wonder
at
his
proceedings
;
and
the
reason
is
in
Rev.
13.
13.
because
he
doth
wonders
in
the
sight
of
the
men
of
the
Earth
(
that
have
not
rooting
in
Christ
)
by
his
glorious
successes
,
and
his
specious
pretences
;
and
also
his
boasts
of
the
prevalencies
of
his
prayers
with
Heaven
,
how
providence
guides
him
,
prospers
,
and
protects
him
:
thus
he
cheats
the
Pope
,
and
makes
them
to
admire
him
,
for
his
acting
by
the
first
Beasts
power
,
that
is
,
by
the
Popes
power
,
so
that
this
Beast
is
after
the
Pope
,
and
to
be
expected
(
as
the
Fathers
say
)
when
Rome
is
to
go
to
ruine
,
and
to
be
destroyed
.
Thus
this
Beast
is
the
Beast
that
was
,
and
is
not
,
and
yet
is
.
Ob.
How
is
he
the
Beast
that
is
?
Sol.
He
is
[
the
beast
that
is
]
because
at
that
time
when
John
had
this
Revelation
,
Rome
had
the
government
of
Caesar
,
though
Caesar
and
that
Family
were
extinct
,
there
was
a
Senate
in
Rome
,
and
that
Senate
curbed
under
the
power
of
the
sword
,
sword-men
bore
the
sway
,
the
General
of
the
Army
was
the
Emperour
:
though
they
had
the
name
of
the
Senate
,
they
sate
&
voted
in
the
Senate
,
but
it
was
the
General
and
his
souldiers
acted
what
they
pleased
;
and
in
this
sence
,
this
beast
was
in
Johns
time
,
that
is
,
in
the
Government
;
and
in
this
sence
also
the
eighth
is
of
the
seven
.
The
hardest
knot
still
remains
to
be
untied
,
and
that
is
Rev.
17.
12
,
16.
where
't
is
said
,
That
the
ten
Horns
are
ten
Kings
,
which
have
received
no
Kingdom
as
yet
,
but
receive
power
as
Kings
one
hour
with
the
beast
:
What
should
these
ten
Kings
be
who
have
no
Kingdom
,
nor
power
,
untill
this
beast
arise
,
and
then
they
have
but
power
as
Kings
one
hour
with
the
beast
?
1.
We
must
answer
negatively
these
ten
Horns
here
mentioned
cannot
be
meant
the
ten
Kingdoms
subject
to
Rome
(
as
some
would
have
it
)
for
that
is
expressed
in
ver.
25.
Otherwise
,
then
by
ten
Horns
there
the
head
of
Rome
,
the
pontifick
state
,
is
called
the
Whore
,
and
the
powers
subject
to
Rome
compared
to
Waters
,
which
Waters
are
by
the
Holy
Ghost
in
the
same
verse
interpreted
Peoples
and
Multitudes
,
Nations
and
Tongues
.
2.
We
answer
possibly
,
yea
most
probably
,
ten
Horns
may
have
a
double
sence
and
meaning
;
the
one
,
to
set
forth
these
Kings
subject
to
the
Roman
Empire
,
and
so
Dan.
7.
7.
is
to
be
understood
;
and
so
the
most
learned
Protestant
Writers
understand
these
ten
Horns
:
'T
is
also
the
opinion
of
learned
men
,
that
by
ten
Horns
is
meant
the
Senate
of
Rome
,
subordinate
to
the
Imperiall
power
of
Rome
:
so
Alcazar
understands
these
ten
Horns
,
he
calls
them
Poliarchiam
Senatorum
.
And
(
not
rejecting
the
common
interpretation
of
the
ten
Horns
)
I
conceive
this
may
be
the
meaning
of
Rev.
13.
1.
where
when
the
state
of
Rome
was
changed
from
Emperours
to
Popes
,
the
seven
Heads
had
blasphemous
Names
on
them
,
and
the
ten
Horns
were
crowned
.
The
Senate
of
Rome
under
the
Emperor
had
no
Crowns
;
but
when
the
Pope
came
up
with
his
ten
Horns
,
that
is
,
his
Conclave
of
Cardinals
(
resembling
a
Senate
)
they
had
their
Miters
on
;
here
the
ten
Horns
are
crown'd
:
As
I
do
not
dote
upon
this
interpretation
,
so
I
dare
not
despise
it
,
for
it
hangs
upon
as
much
reason
as
the
other
,
if
not
more
,
and
I
know
no
reason
,
but
why
these
ten
Horns
may
have
a
double
signification
,
as
well
as
the
seven
Heads
;
but
the
seven
heads
(
Rev.
17.
9
,
10.
)
signifie
seven
Mountains
,
and
seven
Kings
.
Therefore
by
these
ten
Kings
here
,
Rev.
17.
12.
I
conceive
is
meant
those
Senators
,
or
that
packt
party
,
that
this
Beast
sets
up
by
his
sword
power
;
and
as
Caesar
conquer'd
under
pretence
of
subjecting
people
to
his
packt-senate
in
Rome
:
so
doth
this
subdue
Nations
and
Kingdoms
to
his
packt-party
of
Senators
.
Observe
how
clearly
this
appears
in
the
Text
,
v.
12.
1.
The
Holy
Ghost
doth
not
say
these
Kings
shall
receive
Kingdoms
,
but
a
Kingdom
[
Ten
]
is
but
indifinitly
for
many
;
as
ten
Virgins
,
ten
Talents
;
and
now
these
many
shall
not
reign
in
distinct
Kingdoms
:
for
John
saith
they
have
not
received
a
Kingdom
,
noting
these
many
Kings
shal
be
in
one
Kingdom
.
2.
They
are
not
absolute
Kings
,
but
receive
power
as
Kings
;
they
rule
and
tyrannize
,
and
make
Lawes
,
and
exact
obedience
from
the
people
as
Kings
.
3.
'T
is
but
one
hour
that
they
have
this
power
,
three
years
and
an
half
is
the
utmost
extent
of
their
duration
in
this
power
,
for
they
come
in
with
this
beast
:
now
this
beast
continues
but
three
years
and
an
half
.
4.
These
all
make
but
one
vote
,
v.
3.
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
that
is
,
in
English
,
make
one
vote
.
I
do
not
know
how
better
to
express
it
in
English
:
therefore
I
conclude
,
that
these
are
not
distinct
Kings
,
but
such
as
vote
together
in
one
Councel
to
propagate
the
beasts
designs
;
and
in
so
doing
,
ver.
14.
they
are
by
the
Holy
Ghost
marked
for
those
who
fight
with
the
Lamb
,
and
the
Lamb
overcomes
,
so
that
hence
I
gather
,
that
the
great
battel
spoken
of
to
be
fought
(
Rev.
19.
19
,
20.
)
by
Christ
against
the
beast
,
and
the
false
Prophet
,
is
the
battel
that
is
to
be
fought
against
the
beast
,
and
these
ten
Horns
:
For
on
the
Churches
side
the
Generall
and
his
Army
are
one
and
the
same
in
both
;
here
he
is
called
the
Lamb
,
and
Rev.
19.
7
,
8.
he
is
called
the
Lamb
;
here
he
is
called
the
King
of
kings
,
and
Lord
of
lords
,
and
there
,
vers.
16.
he
is
called
King
of
kings
,
and
Lord
of
lords
:
here
his
Army
is
called
faithfull
and
chosen
,
and
in
ver.
11.
there
their
Generall
(
who
makes
them
like
him
,
by
calling
them
to
him
)
is
called
faithfull
and
true
.
This
battell
is
set
forth
,
Rev.
11.
13.
by
a
great
Earthquake
,
and
Rev.
14.
19
,
20.
by
gathering
the
Vine
of
the
Earth
into
the
Vinepress
of
Gods
wrath
:
a
usuall
metaphor
to
set
forth
the
ruine
of
the
Enemies
of
the
Church
by
,
like
that
in
Judges
,
The
gleanings
of
Ephraim
are
better
then
the
Vintage
of
Ebiesar
,
that
is
,
the
little
Conquests
of
Ephraim
in
taking
these
two
Princes
,
were
greater
then
(
the
Vintage
)
the
great
Conquest
of
Gideon
over
that
vast
Army
.
But
here
is
another
hard
question
comes
in
,
and
that
is
from
v.
14.
and
16.
Q.
How
can
it
be
said
in
v.
13.
that
the
Horns
make
war
with
the
Lamb
,
and
the
Lamb
overcomes
them
;
and
in
v.
16.
The
ten
Horns
shall
hate
the
whore
,
and
make
her
naked
,
and
eat
her
flesh
,
and
burn
her
with
fire
.
Resp.
To
this
we
answer
,
Those
ten
Horns
cannot
be
the
same
in
person
,
in
v.
14.
with
these
in
v.
16.
1.
Because
these
in
v.
14.
make
war
against
the
Lamb
;
but
those
in
v.
16.
make
war
for
the
Lamb
.
2.
Those
in
v.
14.
are
destroyed
and
overcome
by
the
Lamb
,
and
therefore
cannot
be
the
same
in
person
with
those
in
v.
16.
because
they
shall
hate
the
Whore
:
Now
comes
in
the
Judgement
of
the
Whore
spoken
of
,
v.
1.
and
in
this
,
v.
16.
the
Officers
that
shall
bring
her
to
Judgement
are
set
forth
.
Observe
but
the
opposition
that
the
Holy
Ghost
puts
betwixt
the
person
and
persons
in
one
Office
:
by
the
ten
Horns
(
as
I
have
shew'd
)
signifies
a
Senate
,
a
Parliament
,
or
a
supream
power
consisting
of
many
Members
:
This
v.
14.
and
16.
(
if
seriously
perused
)
shew
us
,
that
there
shall
be
a
great
Rent
amongst
persons
conjoyn'd
in
one
office
;
the
ten
Horns
,
v.
12.
arise
with
the
beast
;
but
the
other
(
v.
17.
)
give
their
Kingdom
(
through
their
oversight
to
the
beast
;
so
that
these
clearly
are
distinct
:
for
these
last
ten
Horns
had
a
Kingdom
,
or
else
they
could
not
give
it
away
;
but
the
other
v.
12.
come
to
be
Kings
,
or
as
Kings
with
the
beast
:
so
that
the
coming
up
of
these
is
the
casting
down
of
those
(
vers.
17.
)
untill
the
words
of
God
be
fulfilled
:
Those
ten
Kings
vers.
13.
give
their
power
and
strength
(
which
they
received
from
the
beast
)
to
the
beast
against
the
Lamb
.
But
those
ten
Horns
v.
17.
give
but
their
Kingdom
for
a
time
,
and
when
that
time
is
fulfilled
(
i.
e.
)
when
the
seventh
Trumpet
sounds
,
when
the
mystery
of
God
shall
be
finished
or
fulfilled
,
then
those
shall
hate
the
Whore
,
and
shall
make
her
desolate
,
and
eat
her
flesh
,
and
burn
her
with
si●e
:
This
gives
us
a
most
clear
description
of
the
slain
Witnesses
,
by
a
party
atising
out
of
their
own
bowels
:
Here
are
the
same
ten
Horns
for
the
beast
against
the
Lamb
,
and
the
same
ten
Horns
for
the
Lamb
against
the
Beast
,
and
the
Whore
:
This
is
a
mystery
which
hath
been
locked
up
from
former
ages
,
and
is
now
in
the
eyes
of
all
the
world
revealing
it self
:
these
ten
Horns
therefore
are
distinct
in
their
persons
,
and
the
same
in
office
,
onely
the
one
party
sides
with
the
Beast
who
gives
them
his
power
to
slay
the
Witnesses
:
so
that
these
reigning
,
keep
the
name
and
power
of
a
Parliament
,
and
so
they
are
called
the
ten
Horns
,
and
this
Rome
they
keep
till
the
true
Parliament
(
which
pretendedly
was
on
the
beasts
head
)
arise
,
and
by
their
powerful
prosecution
of
their
Covenant-Reformation
,
shew
their
hatred
to
the
Whore
,
make
her
desolate
,
eat
her
flesh
,
and
burn
her
with
fire
:
For
certain
the
rising
of
the
slain
Witnesses
shall
be
the
downfall
of
the
Beast
,
the
Pope
,
and
the
Devils
Kingdom
:
I
am
not
ignorant
how
remote
I
am
from
the
common
received
opinions
of
the
Protestants
;
neither
am
I
ignorant
,
how
far
they
are
from
the
clear
light
of
sacred
Text
,
which
gives
too
much
occasion
to
the
Romish
party
in
their
writings
,
to
scorn
at
their
interpretations
:
It
were
easie
to
shew
the
contradictions
that
they
make
,
who
interpret
these
ten
Horns
to
be
the
ten
Kings
of
Europe
:
but
I
forbear
,
and
only
make
this
the
excuse
of
my
prolixity
,
because
I
easily
perceive
the
great
stone
which
the
Protestant
Writers
stumble
at
,
is
this
last
beast
that
is
to
rise
and
raign
three
years
and
an
half
,
in
which
time
he
slays
the
Witnesses
:
This
Beast
few
of
them
(
for
ought
I
can
perceive
)
ever
dream't
of
;
therefore
they
mistake
the
Beast
rising
out
of
the
bottomless
pit
,
Rev.
11.
7.
the
Beast
of
the
Earth
,
Rev.
13.
11.
and
the
eighth
Beast
,
Rev.
17.
11.
to
be
the
Pope
,
and
these
ten
Horns
to
be
the
ten
Europian
Kingdoms
,
which
are
all
gross
mistakes
,
and
the
causes
of
greater
in
most
of
their
Writings
.
Having
thus
(
by
the
good
grace
of
the
Holy
Trinity
)
by
these
mysterious
Texts
discovered
this
last
Beast
,
and
these
last
Enemies
of
the
Church
,
I
trust
he
that
is
not
spiritually
blind
will
say
,
Surely
these
Scriptures
are
fulfilled
in
our
eyes
this
day
.
Was
there
not
a
glorious
Reformation
began
,
and
though
with
much
danger
and
difficulty
,
yet
)
clearly
carryed
on
:
Read
but
the
Assemblies
Works
;
read
the
good
Ordinances
made
by
the
Parliament
for
the
carrying
of
it
on
;
read
the
Covenant
,
and
then
say
,
whether
there
was
not
a
glorious
Reformation
began
:
nay
did
not
the
King
give
his
Royall
assent
to
this
Reformation
,
and
did
not
the
Parliament
close
with
these
Concessions
;
and
then
,
even
then
,
on
a
sudden
when
these
Witnesses
had
finished
their
Testimony
,
then
ariseth
this
Beast
,
and
over
throws
this
Reformation
,
by
slaying
the
Witnesses
which
had
finished
their
Testimony
:
By
this
the
Reader
may
see
my
confidence
,
upon
Scripture-bottome
,
that
these
are
the
times
,
and
this
is
the
place
,
and
the
Magistracy
,
and
Ministery
of
England
,
are
the
witnesses
that
now
are
slaying
;
and
this
Power
now
tyrannizing
over
the
Church
,
is
that
Power
that
slayes
the
Witnesses
;
and
the
Beast
that
set
up
this
Power
,
together
with
the
Power
that
he
hath
erected
,
shall
gather
all
their
strength
against
the
Lamb
,
that
is
,
against
the
true
Saints
,
which
in
sincerity
worship
Christ
;
and
there
the
mighty
hand
of
God
shall
appear
to
the
utter
ruining
and
confounding
of
them
;
then
shall
the
Witnesses
arise
and
take
up
that
Reformation
which
hath
lien
dead
three
years
and
an
half
,
and
shall
carry
it
on
without
any
more
opposition
;
and
all
this
shall
begin
to
be
done
(
I
do
not
say
finished
)
neere
about
this
present
year
,
1651.
These
I
have
more
largly
discoursed
of
in
the
ensuing
Tract
,
yet
not
at
large
,
because
I
expect
to
have
it
answer'd
by
some
of
the
Time-serving
Champions
,
especially
Docter
Homes
,
whom
I
take
to
be
the
learned'st
Saint
of
them
all
in
this
study
;
and
he
hath
got
him
almost
as
great
a
name
amongst
the
ignorant
Crew
for
a
Prophet
,
as
Lillie
the
Hedg-Prophet
,
who
Jispsie-like
gets
his
living
by
telling
fortunes
:
as
Lillie
,
so
doth
this
Doctor
make
his
Oracle
speak
to
the
humour
of
the
Times
:
as
that
infamous
Priest
of
Apollo
,
out
of
base
flattery
made
the
Oracle
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
.
So
doth
the
blasphemous
wretch
indeavour
to
make
the
Holy
Oracles
of
the
Scriptures
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
that
is
,
to
humour
the
usurping
Trayterous
bloudy
Hereticks
of
the
Times
,
and
with
more
subtilty
then
any
of
his
fellows
.
It
behoveth
Christians
to
observe
some
mens
Designs
more
then
others
,
and
to
observe
how
they
carry
on
their
Designs
;
as
for
this
Doctor
he
undertakes
to
prove
the
foulest
actions
that
ever
were
committed
by
Christians
,
to
be
the
gloriousest
and
greatest
actions
that
ever
were
performed
by
Christians
,
and
pretends
to
fetch
all
his
proofs
from
sacred
Scripture
,
from
Propheticall
Texts
;
and
't
is
commonly
taught
,
That
King
Charles
who
was
cut
off
was
the
Antichrist
,
and
London
the
city
that
must
be
destroyed
with
seven
hills
;
and
the
Presbytery
the
Locust
that
must
be
destroyed
;
so
that
ere
long
we
shall
have
Protestants
massacred
as
Antichristian
;
't
is
therfore
time
to
look
after
such
fellows
.
Indeed
there
are
many
in
print
,
who
assume
scribendi
libertatem
(
as
Scaliger
saith
of
the
French
)
but
have
not
scribendi
facultatem
.
I
think
the
Writers
of
these
times
upon
this
subject
,
edged
with
the
Doctors
designes
,
may
be
distinguished
,
as
maladies
are
amongst
the
learned
;
some
are
privative
,
some
are
positive
;
in
some
there
is
seminarium
stultitiae
,
in
other
some
seminarium
invidiae
:
Now
the
later
of
these
is
most
dangerous
:
From
hence
proceeds
heresie
and
apostasie
from
truth
;
if
we
mark
it
,
error
is
a
positive
act
;
and
where
it
meets
a
malicious
heart
,
and
a
subtill
head
,
it
doth
infinite
hurt
.
Now
I
shall
sooner
prove
the
Doctor
one
of
these
,
then
stile
him
one
.
As
for
that
other
sort
of
Prophetick
time-servers
,
though
't
is
true
there
be
unus
utrique
error
,
yet
,
poor
soules
,
they
make
such
ridiculous
nonsense
of
what
they
steal
from
learned
men
,
that
every
man
of
ordinaryparts
cannot
but
cry
out
of
them
as
eruditi
fures
,
and
deserve
as
much
to
be
slighted
,
as
Iohn
Goodwins
Songs
to
be
laught
at
.
The
truth
is
,
such
self-conceited
ideots
deserve
better
to
be
met
with
a
Lacedemonian
whip
,
then
to
be
corrected
by
a
sober
pen
:
They
are
such
as
Hierom
complains
of
,
Qui
loqui
nesciunt
,
&
tacere
non
possunt
;
I
do
not
mean
onely
such
tinkling
cymballs
and
crackt
trumpets
as
Sterrey
and
Powell
,
Durie
,
Feake
,
the
Furriers
Boy
,
Will
.
Sedgwick
,
Iohn
Goodwin
,
Simson
,
and
Carpenter
the
converted
Jesuite
,
with
his
Brother
Tillam
the
blasphemer
;
but
many
others
,
poor
soules
,
who
are
great
Zealots
against
Antichrist
,
but
know
not
what
he
is
:
a
man
that
hears
the
contradictions
,
absurdities
and
egregious
falsities
that
they
impudently
utter
sometimes
in
one
houre
,
would
conclude
as
(
Lactantius
doth
against
the
Philosophers
)
Aut
stulti
aut
in
ani
,
nullus
enim
ager
,
nulla
anus
,
ineptiùs
deliravit
;
these
empty-headed
fellowes
,
whose
privative
malice
proceeding
of
ignorance
,
makes
them
belch
forth
such
indigested
crudities
,
I
would
intreat
good
Christians
to
pray
for
them
,
for
they
know
not
what
they
say
.
But
while
I
am
viewing
the
followers
of
the
Beast
:
There
is
a
third
sort
of
time-servers
,
the
worst
of
all
,
by
how
much
the
more
eminent
they
are
for
the
profession
of
the
Protestant
Religion
;
for
that
of
Iuvenali
is
true
:
Omne
animi
vitium
tantò
conspectius
in
se
Crimen
habet
quantò
major
qui
peccat
habetur
.
These
are
not
such
lascivious
Goats
as
the
Doctor
that
I
deal
with
,
nor
such
silly
hogs
as
those
I
pass
over
,
who
like
those
possessed
run
in
a
Herd
together
down
the
precipice
of
Ruine
into
the
Sea
of
perdition
,
without
remorse
or
stop
:
But
these
are
men
of
gravity
,
men
of
sobriety
,
men
professing
outwardly
godliness
,
men
that
,
like
Judas
,
kiss
Christ
with
their
lips
,
and
imbrace
Christs
murtherers
in
their
arms
,
that
have
their
lips
in
Heaven
,
and
their
Arms
in
Hell
:
they
are
like
the
Ayr
in
their
constitutions
,
which
Element
,
though
it
proceed
ex
duobus
Elementis
à
symbolicis
,
yet
notwithstanding
't
is
utrique
symbolicum
;
and
so
are
they
,
I
mean
such
as
Mr.
Nye
,
Mr.
Thomas
Goodwin
,
Mr.
Shadrack
Simpson
,
Mr.
Bridge
,
Rows
of
Eaton
;
who
though
no
Priest
,
yet
may
well
be
stiled
a
Franciscan
Apostate
:
and
I
would
I
could
leave
out
Mr.
J.
Car.
and
M.
Ob.
S.
I
am
loth
to
name
them
,
because
I
am
ashamed
that
the
world
should
know
that
two
such
eminent-godly-learned
men
are
amongst
such
an
Antichristian
abominable
Faction
:
but
who
knows
that
Mr.
Caryl
is
amongst
them
,
and
that
Mr.
Obediah
Sedgwick
keeps
publike
Thanksgiving
dayes
for
the
overthrow
of
the
Scots
,
our
Covenant-keeping
Brethren
,
Hi
sunt
illi
(
saith
Tullie
)
qui
non
solùm
vitia
concipiunt
,
sed
etiam
infundunt
,
in
Civitatem
plusque
exemplo
quam
peccato
nocent
:
These
are
those
adultae
patriae
pestes
,
that
,
if
it
were
possible
,
would
seduce
the
Elect
:
How
much
mischief
have
these
men
done
by
their
evill
example
,
by
their
open
apostacy
from
their
Church
and
State-principles
,
by
their
Covenant-breaking
,
and
by
their
elegant
pleading
(
like
Job's
acquaintance
)
against
a
righteous
Cause
;
and
most
shamefull
extolling
and
complying
with
wicked
men
,
cursing
the
righteous
whom
God
afflicts
,
and
blessing
the
wicked
whom
God
abhors
:
These
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
(
as
Greg.
Nazianzen
calls
them
)
such
as
will
truck
away
their
Religious
principles
,
and
break
their
Covenants
,
for
the
gain
of
the
world
,
notwithstanding
their
former
Writings
and
Opinions
,
fight
with
their
present
actings
,
like
the
souldiers
of
Gadmus
to
their
own
confusion
.
These
men
going
in
the
way
of
Cain
,
and
running
after
the
errour
of
Balam
for
a
reward
,
have
provoked
me
,
unworthy
me
,
like
Balam's
Ass
,
unexpectedly
,
though
out
of
the
anguish
of
my
heart
,
to
reprove
the
madness
of
these
Prophets
.
I
no
whit
wonder
that
Hereticks
,
and
scandalous
loose
fellows
,
such
as
Doctor
Homes
,
and
John
Goodwin
,
keep
Thanksgiving
Dayes
,
and
make
Ballads
at
the
overthrow
of
the
Church
and
State
of
Scotland
;
for
they
know
that
Scotland
is
the
greatest
Enemy
to
Heresie
and
Lechery
in
the
world
:
These
go
upon
that
new-found
Maxime
,
self-preservation
,
and
so
have
some
ground
for
what
they
do
:
for
doubtless
Homes
had
been
hang'd
for
his
uncleanness
,
and
abominable
lewdness
,
had
the
Scots
Laws
been
put
into
English
practice
,
and
such
as
Goodwin
had
been
justly
banished
,
for
open
apostacy
and
obstinate
heresie
,
if
not
hang'd
for
a
blasphemer
:
Therefore
I
the
less
blame
them
for
what
they
do
,
and
the
rather
,
since
their
own
former
Writings
save
me
the
labour
:
Doth
the
Doctor
call
the
Church
of
Scotland
,
and
the
Presbyterian
Church
whore
by
craft
?
Poor
man
,
we
very
well
know
that
this
is
not
his
first
mistake
;
it
is
not
the
first
time
that
he
hath
mistaken
an
honest
woman
for
a
whore
,
witness
his
Congregation
that
excommunicated
him
for
such
gross
mistakes
,
and
to
this
day
for
the
same
stands
excommunicated
:
Were
it
not
therefore
through
this
Doctors
sides
,
that
I
intended
to
wound
the
whole
Rabble
of
Deceivers
,
and
false
Prophets
,
who
most
egregiously
abuse
prophetick
Texts
,
to
the
defaming
of
the
true
Church
;
and
that
the
Time-servers
may
know
I
dare
incounter
their
sturdiest
Champions
,
I
should
have
been
ashamed
to
have
entred
the
list
with
so
scandalous
a
man
as
Doctor
Homes
:
But
why
should
I
be
ashamed
to
confute
him
,
when
the
Lord
Major
of
London
was
not
ashamed
to
make
him
his
Teacher
.
Let
no
man
think
that
I
do
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
meddle
with
that
which
concerns
me
not
;
for
by
my
Covenant
I
am
bound
timely
to
make
known
and
discover
,
whatsoever
Church
or
State-evill
:
I
am
not
able
to
suppress
,
and
I
do
no
more
here
,
I
know
that
this
my
young
Lamb
must
pass
through
the
midst
of
Wolves
and
Lyons
,
who
will
indeavour
to
devour
it
:
and
therefore
I
have
arm'd
it
with
Armour
of
proof
,
the
Holy
Scriptures
.
I
do
not
(
as
Cromwel
in
his
Letters
falsly
saith
the
Scots
do
)
use
weapons
of
a
foolish
shepherd
,
I
fetch
all
my
weapons
out
of
Davids
Armory
,
the
Scripture
:
here
hangs
a
thousand
Bucklers
,
all
the
shields
of
mighty
men
,
I
draw
no
Arguments
from
Conjurers
Dreams
,
or
from
Astrological
Predictions
,
such
really
are
the
weapons
of
a
foolish
shepherd
;
I
offer
no
such
poysonous
water
to
the
thirsty
Traveller
in
this
Road
;
all
that
I
draw
comes
clearly
up
exprofundissimis
Scientiae
fodinis
,
from
the
Scriptures
,
the
Wells
of
living
Water
:
Here
are
no
Texts
crook't
(
though
cross
to
the
common
interpretations
)
by
any
private
interpretation
,
to
particular
self-ends
:
Indeed
I
do
swim
against
the
stream
of
common
Interpreters
,
but
not
without
just
cause
given
,
I
protest
it
is
not
out
of
a
desire
to
be
singular
,
as
not
a
few
in
this
Age
do
,
who
think
no
Fabrick
of
fame
stands
so
stately
,
as
that
which
is
built
exruinis
alienae
existimationis
,
esteeming
it
no
small
piece
of
honour
to
be
counted
novae
alicujus
rei
Authores
,
Let
it
be
what
I
will
,
for
my
own
part
,
I
protest
against
such
folly
.
I
onely
follow
the
Ark
;
which
way
it
goes
,
I
go
;
and
when
it
stands
still
,
I
stand
still
.
I
shall
submit
my self
wholly
to
the
censure
of
learned
Texts
men
,
whether
I
have
wracked
any
Texts
to
stretch
it
beyond
the
lawfull
bounds
of
interpretations
,
or
whether
I
have
made
any
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
or
not
made
my
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
to
be
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
onely
.
This
I
will
assure
the
Reader
,
that
he
shall
find
nothing
in
this
book
either
prater
fun
lamentum
salutis
,
or
contra
a
fundamentum
salutis
:
Nor
scarce
any
one
Text
(
of
these
many
)
unfolded
,
but
what
learned
Writers
do
concur
with
me
in
;
for
I
walk
upon
the
learned
heads
of
at
least
fourscore
Interpreters
,
and
if
I
fall
from
ones
head
,
I
presently
fall
into
anothers
arms
,
so
that
my
sence
falls
not
to
the
ground
.
Indeed
my
style
and
my
method
may
justly
be
blamed
,
I
am
heartily
ashamed
that
it
should
go
so
tatter'd
with
its
rags
into
the
world
;
but
indeed
the
reason
is
because
it
was
done
in
hast
,
not
that
it
was
studied
in
hast
,
but
scribed
in
hast
:
it
is
well
known
this
piece
proffer'd
to
the
Press
within
a
month
after
the
Doctors
Sermon
was
printed
,
and
from
that
time
,
to
this
day
,
it
hath
waited
at
the
Press
(
like
the
Cripple
of
Bethesda
)
expecting
dayly
some
one
to
put
it
in
▪
indeed
my
book
(
if
it
could
)
should
not
go
like
Independents
wives
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
.
Now
the
Church
is
in
her
winding
sheet
.
The
first
part
of
it
proves
Monarchy
to
be
Jure
Divino
,
and
to
be
visible
in
the
Church
from
the
Creation
to
Christs
Incarnation
,
who
was
both
Monarch
(
by
a
right
of
succession
from
Adam
)
of
the
whole
world
,
and
by
right
(
of
succession
from
David
)
King
of
the
Jews
,
according
to
the
flesh
:
I
have
not
handled
this
point
,
or
any
other
,
so
fully
as
I
might
and
could
,
I
intend
it
not
,
untill
I
hear
what
my
Antagonists
say
against
me
;
and
then
I
shall
(
by
Gods
good
grace
)
say
more
upon
this
subject
,
if
need
require
,
not
otherwise
;
for
I
hate
coming
in
print
,
except
in
a
case
of
necessity
;
and
in
that
case
onely
privatly
.
I
heartily
praise
God
that
I
have
so
fair
an
opportunity
to
declare
my self
in
this
of
Monarchy
,
for
at
least
seven
years
ago
,
I
was
unjustly
slander'd
by
those
ingrateful
wretches
whose
family
and
goods
I
protected
)
that
I
should
say
that
I
would
kill
the
King
.
This
news
,
and
my
name
,
was
carryed
to
the
Court
,
where
it
met
with
His
Majesties
ear
as
He
was
at
dinner
:
there
it
was
told
him
that
I
(
naming
me
by
name
)
was
the
man
that
had
vow'd
the
Kings
death
where
ever
I
saw
him
.
This
doubtless
had
died
away
,
and
never
come
to
my
ears
,
had
not
this
accident
hapned
;
he
gouty
good
Gentleman
of
the
house
(
where
the
King
at
that
time
kept
his
Court
)
though
he
could
neither
stir
hand
nor
foot
,
by
reason
of
his
age
and
disease
,
yet
was
so
inraged
at
the
news
,
that
he
vow'd
,
as
decrepit
as
he
was
,
to
be
the
man
to
fight
with
,
and
kill
such
a
rebellious
villain
(
meaning
me
)
as
would
attempt
such
a
thing
.
I
never
had
an
opportunity
to
vindicate
my self
from
this
foul
aspersion
,
nor
so
much
as
to
present
hearty
thanks
to
the
Gowty
Gentleman
for
his
hearty
and
loyall
affections
to
his
Soveraign
the
King
,
in
that
he
would
adventure
his
life
to
kill
a
villain
that
should
attempt
to
kill
the
King
.
I
profess
before
God
and
Men
,
that
I
,
when
I
was
so
aspersed
,
was
of
this
opinion
,
That
he
was
both
a
Villain
and
a
Traytor
and
deserved
sudden
and
cruell
death
,
that
would
presume
in
his
heart
to
think
so
evil
a
thought
as
to
kill
the
King
:
for
my
own
part
I
had
rather
be
a
slave
to
my
Liege
Soveraign
,
then
a
Ruler
amongst
the
Rebellious
.
I
am
througly
convinc'd
,
that
Monarchy
is
that
Government
which
God
hath
ordain'd
and
set
his
stamp
upon
;
and
all
other
Government
is
the
Ordinance
of
man
immediatly
,
though
approved
by
God
,
as
the
Seventy
were
under
Moses
,
and
that
no
person
upon
earth
can
by
Gods
law
question
or
bring
to
punishment
the
person
of
a
Monarch
.
This
we
all
know
,
both
Jews
and
Gentiles
,
that
hold
the
Divinity
of
the
Scriptures
,
that
the
Church
of
God
(
before
Christ
)
was
beholding
to
a
Monarch
,
both
for
their
Church-Laws
and
State-Laws
.
For
the
Revelation
of
the
Will
of
God
,
and
the
manner
of
his
Worship
,
Moses
the
Monarch
was
the
first
mediator
,
into
whose
hands
the
first
glorious
Gospel
dispensations
were
put
.
God
revealed
himself
immediatly
to
Moses
,
and
the
people
received
Gods
mind
immediatly
from
their
Monarch
Moses
.
The
first
Revelation
of
the
Covenant
of
Grace
was
given
to
Adam
the
Monarch
of
the
World
:
The
second
manifestation
of
the
Covenant
,
with
a
Seal
,
was
given
to
Abraham
the
Monarch
of
the
Church
,
and
the
Gospel-Church
received
all
their
spirituall
Lawes
and
Ordinances
from
Christ
the
natural
Son
of
both
:
But
now
the
question
will
be
,
Whether
Christ
ordained
Monarchy
in
the
Gospel
Church
,
as
well
as
the
Ministry
:
if
so
,
shew
us
the
Monarchy
,
I
acknowledg
this
a
difficult
question
,
I
do
not
find
any
of
the
Learned
so
much
as
touch
upon
it
:
indeed
I
find
many
men
in
the
Negative
,
but
scarce
one
Affirmative
in
this
Question
;
I
find
(
though
not
directly
)
Hierom
and
Calvin
negative
in
the
Question
,
That
Christ
ordained
a
Government
,
and
that
potestas
&
ordo
,
power
and
order
,
are
essentiall
in
that
Government
,
●o
Divines
do
deny
;
but
the
Modus
&
titulus
in
this
government
,
is
that
which
as
yet
lies
disputable
.
Some
say
this
government
ought
to
be
Aristocraticall
:
Of
this
opinion
is
that
holy
and
learned
Calvin
(
which
I
wonder
at
)
his
grounds
for
it
are
because
he
thinks
the
ancient
government
of
the
Jewes
was
Aristocratical
:
but
the
sandy
foundation
of
this
opinion
.
shews
us
the
weakness
of
this
Argument
:
For
there
is
nothing
more
clear
,
then
that
Israels
government
,
from
their
deliverance
out
of
Egipt
,
to
their
captivity
in
Babylon
,
was
Monarchical
,
if
Supaemacy
in
one
be
Monarchy
;
so
that
out
of
the
rains
of
Calvins
Argument
will
arise
a
firm
Argument
:
Thus
if
the
examples
of
Civill-government
,
under
the
Gospel
,
must
be
according
to
that
under
the
Law
(
for
there
the
force
of
Calvins
argument
lies
)
then
Monarchy
is
the
government
that
must
be
erected
in
the
time
of
the
Gospel
:
but
we
pass
this
.
Hierom
is
of
opinion
,
which
he
grounds
on
Dan.
7.18
.
That
when
the
great
Day
of
Gospel-Reformation
shall
come
(
i.
e.
)
when
the
Roman
Monarchy
is
destroyed
,
then
(
saith
he
)
all
Kingdoms
shall
be
thrown
down
,
and
there
shall
be
no
government
at
all
,
onely
the
Communion
of
the
Saints
.
But
this
Opinion
(
as
't
is
much
built
upon
these
Times
,
so
)
't
is
built
on
a
sandy
foundation
,
upon
a
mistake
in
the
interpretation
of
Dan.
7.
18.
and
it
is
absolutely
contradictory
to
these
prophetick
promises
of
uniting
the
two
Tribes
,
and
the
ten
Tribes
,
under
one
King
or
government
,
(
i.
e.
)
making
them
,
as
at
first
,
one
Kingdom
under
one
King
;
and
against
those
Texts
which
promise
to
the
Jews
,
That
in
the
Gospel-dayes
amongst
the
Gentile-Gospellers
,
He
will
raise
up
Kings
to
be
their
nursing
Fathers
,
and
Queens
to
be
their
nursing
Mothers
,
and
many
other
texts
:
therfore
we
pass
this
also
.
The
noble
and
most
learned
Hebrews
,
for
the
most
part
,
conclude
,
That
God
will
call
them
again
,
and
make
them
a
famous
Monarchy
:
So
that
the
worst
of
them
hold
,
that
Monarchy
shall
continue
untill
the
end
of
the
world
:
indeed
Levie
Ben
Gerson
,
an
Hebrew
,
upon
the
first
of
Sam.
8.
pleads
for
Aristocracie
;
and
to
advance
it
,
he
(
like
the
Serpent
)
bites
Kingly-Government
by
the
heel
:
like
as
the
Prelates
on
the
one
hand
,
and
the
Independents
on
the
other
hand
,
plead
against
Presbytery
,
so
doth
he
against
Monarchy
:
For
he
picks
up
the
excrements
of
the
Kings
of
Judah
and
Israel
,
and
from
their
illsavouring
infirmities
conclude
,
therefore
their
government
is
such
as
their
infirmities
were
,
which
is
such
a
childish
weak
way
of
arguing
,
that
it
deserves
no
answer
:
As
if
because
the
Priests
were
naught
,
therefore
their
Office
must
be
naught
:
or
because
a
Sacrifice
was
lame
,
therefore
the
Temple
was
naught
:
or
as
if
because
the
image
on
the
gold
is
defaced
,
therefore
the
gold
is
naught
:
this
is
peevish-childishness
,
therefore
we
pass
that
also
,
and
come
to
the
question
,
Whether
Christ
ordained
Monarchy
to
be
in
the
Gospel
Church
?
To
that
we
answer
negatively
,
as
to
the
Title
.
1.
No
King
on
Earth
since
Christs
incarnation
,
to
this
day
,
can
shew
an
extraordinary
or
immediate
Call
from
God
to
be
King
,
as
David
could
,
and
Solomon
could
,
for
he
was
chosen
King
,
by
God
,
before
he
was
born
.
2.
There
is
no
King
,
since
Christ
,
that
can
say
he
hath
a
naturall
right
to
his
Kingdom
.
Succession
,
that
ended
in
Christ
,
who
had
a
true
Title
,
by
natural
succession
,
to
be
Monarch
of
the
World
,
as
descending
from
Adam
,
Luk.
3.
and
a
natural
right
to
the
Monarchy
of
the
Jews
,
as
descending
of
Abraham
,
Matth.
1.
So
that
Christ
onely
is
naturally
according
to
the
flesh
,
by
succession
,
the
King
of
the
Jews
and
Gentiles
;
and
in
this
sence
is
Rom.
5.
14.
to
be
understood
,
where
Adam
is
said
to
be
a
Type
of
him
to
come
,
that
is
,
as
he
was
Monarch
of
the
World
by
divine
institution
,
and
naturall
right
:
so
that
he
that
claims
since
Christs
incarnation
,
by
a
natural
right
,
the
Monarchy
of
the
World
,
or
Kingdom
of
the
Jews
,
usurps
the
Office
of
Christ
;
for
Christ
onely
is
Monarch
of
the
world
by
a
natural
descent
,
and
in
this
respect
he
is
both
King
and
Priest
after
the
order
of
Melchisedeck
;
for
Melchisedeck
was
without
beginning
of
dayes
,
or
end
of
time
,
in
respect
both
of
his
Priestly
and
Kingly
Office
,
without
beginning
of
dayes
,
that
is
,
in
respect
of
his
pedegree
;
for
he
was
both
King
and
Priest
by
naturall
succession
from
Seth
the
son
of
Adam
,
which
was
time
out
of
mind
;
For
none
at
that
time
were
able
to
tell
the
antiquity
of
his
descent
,
who
by
birth
was
both
Monarch
and
Priest
;
and
then
this
Melchisedeck
was
without
end
of
time
:
For
neither
the
Kingly
Office
,
nor
the
Priestly
Office
were
extinct
in
the
Church
untill
Christ
came
,
in
whom
met
both
the
Kingly
,
the
Priestly
,
and
the
Prophetick
Office
:
this
Christ
was
according
to
the
flesh
the
naturall
son
of
Melchisedeck
,
who
having
carried
up
to
heaven
with
him
his
humane
nature
,
sits
a
King
,
a
Priest
,
and
a
Prophet
in
that
nature
in
heaven
for
ever
,
on
his
Churches
behalf
;
and
in
this
sense
Melchisedecks
offices
are
without
end
of
time
;
for
our
King
and
our
Priest
is
ascended
up
into
heaven
,
where
he
makes
continuall
intercession
for
us
;
so
that
since
him
there
is
no
succession
of
Monarchs
by
lineall
descents
:
but
Magistracy
is
not
made
null
under
the
Gospell
,
because
it
ceaseth
in
respect
of
a
naturall
title
by
succession
For
God
hath
ordained
by
his
approving
providence
,
other
ways
of
erecting
Monarchs
then
by
succession
or
immediate
call
,
as
David
was
Monarch
over
the
countries
round
about
him
,
not
by
succession
,
nor
by
an
immediate
call
from
God
,
but
by
conquest
;
so
that
the
great
Office
of
Monarchy
may
lawfully
come
in
at
other
doors
,
though
the
door
of
succession
and
immediate
calling
from
God
be
shut
.
But
this
is
not
the
question
.
That
Christ
hath
not
abolished
Monarchy
under
the
Gospel
,
nothing
is
more
clear
:
For
government
is
a
morall
thing
,
and
stands
as
sure
as
the
fifth
Commandement
:
Now
Monarchy
is
Gods
government
,
therefore
it
stands
firm
with
the
fifth
Commandement
,
which
Laws
he
came
not
to
make
void
,
but
establish
.
We
may
truly
argue
therfore
for
Monarchy
under
the
Gospel
by
an
argument
taken
à
fortiori
:
For
if
under
the
Law
God
gave
to
his
Church
Monarchicall
government
,
much
more
doth
that
great
blessing
belong
to
the
Gospel
Church
,
Paul
exhorts
that
prayers
especially
be
made
for
Kings
,
that
they
might
be
converted
,
that
so
under
them
the
Church
might
lead
a
peaceable
life
,
so
that
Kings
were
to
be
brought
in
under
the
Gospel
as
well
as
others
.
It
is
true
indeed
,
there
was
not
immediately
after
Christs
ascension
a
visible
established
Magistracy
in
the
Church
,
because
the
Church
was
not
then
established
:
Besides
,
there
was
no
need
of
Magistracy
at
that
time
,
for
Christ
the
absolute
Monarch
of
heaven
and
earth
by
a
true
and
unquestionable
title
,
both
by
succession
and
conquest
,
after
his
ascension
,
according
to
his
promise
,
sent
his
holy
spirit
in
an
extraordinary
way
upon
his
twelve
Apostles
,
who
dividing
the
world
amongst
them
,
went
forth
in
the
power
of
the
Holy
Ghost
conquering
the
people
:
During
their
time
there
was
no
need
of
any
Magistracy
,
for
their
protection
;
for
the
Holy
Ghost
protected
them
beyond
all
the
Magistracy
in
the
world
;
it
released
them
out
of
the
strongest
prison
,
brake
open
the
strongest
gates
,
and
knockt
down
their
stoutest
enemies
,
as
Paul
,
who
was
doubtlesse
some
great
Magistrate
amongst
them
;
for
he
was
the
companion
of
Herod
,
and
when
he
was
converted
,
the
Church
had
peace
round
about
;
which
argues
,
there
was
none
before
his
conversion
greater
then
he
:
he
punished
the
scandalous
,
as
Ananias
and
Saphira
:
it
gave
(
like
a
Monarch
)
large
boons
to
those
that
desired
it
;
it
healed
the
sick
,
gave
limbs
to
the
lame
,
raised
the
dead
,
and
by
its
imperiall
power
made
spirits
of
men
in
every
Nation
bow
down
to
the
Apostles
commands
:
this
extraordinary
presence
of
the
spirit
with
the
Apostles
,
was
beyond
all
the
Monarchs
in
the
world
;
for
this
Spirit
saved
all
the
passengers
in
the
Ship
,
when
the
Ship
was
broken
all
in
pieces
,
which
all
the
Monarchs
in
the
world
could
not
do
;
this
Spirit
raised
Paul
from
death
to
life
after
he
was
stoned
,
which
all
the
powers
in
the
world
could
not
do
;
therefore
there
was
no
need
of
a
Magistracy
to
protect
them
in
that
Age
,
the
power
of
working
Miracles
was
their
Magistracy
at
this
time
(
say
some
.
)
We
may
truly
affirm
,
that
since
Christs
universall
conquest
on
the
Crosse
,
after
his
Resurrection
,
from
that
day
(
Matth.
28.
18.
)
that
he
divulged
this
universall
power
in
heaven
and
earth
;
the
Church
hath
not
been
left
without
a
true
Monarch
,
for
Christ
is
that
Monarch
who
gave
Commission
to
his
Disciples
to
divulge
his
Laws
,
and
command
the
world
to
observe
them
,
and
he
would
be
with
his
Embassadors
to
the
end
of
the
world
;
so
that
the
true
Church
cannot
be
without
a
Monarch
,
who
by
a
naturall
right
according
to
the
flesh
,
raigns
over
them
,
and
will
raign
in
the
midst
of
his
enemies
,
and
make
all
their
designs
promote
his
honor
,
and
his
Churches
good
;
this
grand
priviledge
only
the
Gospell
Church
injoys
,
for
the
Jews
had
only
temporall
Monarchs
,
according
to
the
flesh
,
who
died
away
,
but
they
had
not
a
spirituall
Monarch
,
who
by
right
of
Succession
came
,
whom
(
through
unbelief
)
they
reject
to
this
day
,
though
for
certain
he
is
their
lawfull
naturall
King
,
by
a
naturall
right
of
Succession
,
being
of
the
Linage
of
David
,
and
he
is
our
naturall
King
(
we
being
Gentiles
)
by
a
right
of
Succession
from
Adam
;
and
he
is
spiritually
the
King
,
both
of
the
Jews
and
Gentiles
,
by
that
spituall
infinitely
glorious
Conquest
,
which
he
got
over
the
Wrath
of
God
,
and
his
Divine
Justice
,
over
the
Powers
of
hell
,
and
all
their
malice
,
and
over
the
souls
of
the
Elect
,
and
all
their
sinnes
;
so
that
he
is
by
Conquest
the
Monarch
of
the
Gospell
Church
,
so
that
the
Church
under
the
Gospell
can
never
be
without
a
Throne
,
and
one
to
sit
upon
that
Throne
.
In
the
last
place
,
this
we
do
affirm
,
that
soon
after
extraordinary
gifts
ceased
,
and
that
extraordinary
Succession
of
Ministers
which
Christ
promised
to
be
with
til
the
end
of
the
world
(
Mat.
28.
20.
)
succeeded
,
God
raised
up
a
civil
Magistracy
for
the
protecting
of
the
Church
,
propagation
of
the
Gospel
,
and
preservation
of
the
Ministery
:
This
Magistracy
was
visible
in
England
before
any
other
part
of
the
world
;
and
as
Rome
furnished
our
Magistracy
with
a
godly
orthodox
Christian
Ministery
,
so
not
long
after
our
Magistracy
furnished
Rome
with
a
godly
Magistracy
,
to
rescue
the
Ministery
out
of
the
Jawes
of
those
Heathen
Dragons
:
Lucius
about
170
years
after
Christ
(
being
a
Brittish
King
of
this
Nation
)
was
called
to
be
Gods
Vicar
(
as
Elutherius
Bishop
of
Rome
terms
him
)
this
Christian
King
sets
up
Christs
Lawes
and
Faith
in
his
Kingdom
,
pulling
down
Paganism
,
and
setting
up
Christian
Bishopricks
in
the
room
of
the
Pagan
Flamins
.
About
130
years
after
,
out
of
the
same
Royall
Brittish
bloud
,
God
raised
up
that
famous
Witness
for
his
Truth
Constantine
,
who
became
the
first
great
protecter
of
the
Christians
throughout
the
habitable
world
;
he
was
the
first
that
made
Rome
,
which
for
a
long
time
had
been
the
Devils
Throne
,
to
become
Gods
Throne
,
Rev.
12.
He
threw
down
the
bloudy
Dragons
,
the
Emperours
,
and
Rome
afterward
became
famous
in
her
Magistracy
and
Ministery
for
Christ
,
beyond
all
the
world
,
untill
Antichrist
arose
,
and
drove
these
Witnesses
into
the
Wilderness
,
and
made
them
war
sackcloth
;
since
which
rising
and
tyrannizing
of
Antichrist
,
there
hath
been
a
visible
Magistracy
and
Ministery
in
England
,
as
Witnesses
to
the
Truth
of
Christ
,
though
many
times
in
great
obscurity
through
outward
persecutions
:
it
would
be
here
too
tedious
to
relate
what
might
be
said
of
the
Magistracy
and
Ministery
of
England
,
we
will
onely
say
thus
much
,
that
the
Kings
and
Bishops
of
England
testified
to
the
Truth
against
the
Popes
Antichristian
Usurpation
more
then
others
,
and
before
any
other
Witnesses
;
for
about
the
time
,
Anno
800.
when
the
Popes
were
swelled
to
their
height
,
even
then
shall
we
find
(
when
other
Kings
kissed
the
Popes
feet
)
the
Kings
and
Bishops
of
England
opposed
their
Usurpation
.
What
if
I
did
assert
this
?
That
the
first
lawfull
Christian
Magistracy
under
the
Gospell
arose
in
England
,
from
England
it
went
to
Rome
;
wherefore
a
little
while
(
half
an
hour
)
it
flourished
and
caused
great
peace
in
the
Church
;
but
when
Antichrist
arose
,
he
drove
the
lawfull
Magistracy
and
lawfull
Ministery
of
Rome
into
Sackcloth
,
and
into
the
Wildernesse
,
that
is
into
some
remote
place
from
Rome
;
observe
it
,
Rev.
12.
14.
The
Woman
,
that
is
,
the
Church
that
brought
forth
such
a
happy
Son
as
Constantine
:
this
Woman
by
Antichrist
is
drove
into
the
Wildernesse
(
saith
the
Text
)
into
her
place
;
whence
I
conclude
that
England
is
this
Wildernesse
.
For
first
,
this
was
the
place
from
whence
a
godly
Magistracy
went
unto
Rome
:
and
secondly
,
this
was
the
place
unto
which
the
Witnesses
were
drove
again
,
where
I
say
have
been
visible
in
sackcloth
since
the
Popes
usurpation
of
Rome
:
nay
,
let
me
add
this
to
my
assertion
,
that
the
lawfull
Monarch
of
Rome
by
a
true
Line
of
Succession
was
Charles
the
King
of
England
,
who
was
beheaded
on
a
lofty
Scaffold
at
noon
at
his
own
door
,
January
30.
1648.
For
if
noble
Sir
Robert
Naunron
that
learned
Antiquary
,
and
noble
Lawyer
say
true
in
his
Fragmenta
Regalia
,
cap.
1.
p.
2.
whose
words
are
these
;
Remarkable
it
is
,
(
saith
he
)
concerning
the
violent
desertion
of
the
Royall
house
of
Britains
,
by
the
invasion
of
the
Saxons
,
and
afterward
by
the
conquest
of
the
Normans
,
that
by
the
vicissitude
of
times
,
and
thought
a
discontinuance
(
almost
a
thousand
years
)
the
Royall
Scepter
should
fall
back
into
the
Corrent
of
the
old
British
bloud
,
in
the
person
of
Henry
VII
.
together
with
whatsoever
the
German
,
Norman
,
Burgundian
,
Castalian
and
French
atchievements
,
with
the
intermarriage
which
eight
hundred
years
had
acquired
,
incorporated
,
and
brought
back
into
the
old
Royall
Line
.
Hence
then
I
prove
,
if
Henry
VII
.
were
the
lawfull
Successor
of
the
British
Kings
,
then
he
was
the
lawfull
Successor
of
Constantine
King
of
England
,
who
conquered
Rome
;
and
if
Henry
VII
.
be
the
lawfull
Successor
of
Constantine
,
then
those
lawfully
descended
of
Henry
VII
.
but
this
lawfull
Family
of
the
Stuarts
are
lawfully
descended
of
Henry
VII
.
ergo
.
The
Stuarts
are
the
lawfull
Successors
of
Constantine
the
Great
,
the
first
Christian
Emperor
of
Rome
:
there
are
very
many
other
waies
which
to
some
seem
clearer
,
whereby
to
prove
this
truth
?
If
so
,
know
!
Oh
Rome
,
that
the
Lion
of
the
North
,
thy
lawfull
Emperor
and
true
Christian
Magistrate
,
will
suddainly
arise
to
the
utter
confusion
of
that
bloudy
usurping
Prelate
,
which
by
his
subtill
treacheries
hath
caused
the
lawfull
Magistrate
,
the
lawfull
Emperor
of
Rome
(
drove
into
this
Wildernesse
,
where
in
sackcloth
the
office
hath
continued
,
having
finished
that
prophetick
testimony
in
the
year
1648.
)
to
become
a
slain
Witnesse
for
Christ
:
the
other
office
of
the
Ministery
lying
dead
ever
since
,
but
the
three
years
and
an
half
of
their
lying
dead
is
almost
expired
,
and
then
the
same
Offices
shall
arise
to
the
eternall
ruine
of
the
Pope
,
and
Popish
Idolatry
:
but
no
more
of
this
in
this
place
,
I
hope
some
Antiquaries
will
be
so
truly
Noble
,
that
they
will
plead
a
distressed
Kings
cause
,
and
clear
this
Title
of
his
,
which
is
doubtlesse
to
them
an
easie
thing
,
and
may
procure
them
great
renown
in
after
Ages
;
for
my
part
I
shall
say
no
more
of
it
in
print
,
unlesse
I
am
challenged
,
and
then
if
no body
will
take
up
the
Cudgells
in
the
Quarrell
,
I
am
resolved
,
neque
clipeum
objicere
,
neque
causam
deserere
,
though
indeed
I
have
as
much
upon
my
weak
arme
as
I
am
well
able
to
beare
,
well
able
to
doe
I
say
?
I
professe
my selfe
(
as
in
the
undertaking
,
so
in
the
defending
of
so
great
a
cause
as
I
have
taken
in
hand
)
utterly
unable
without
the
Divine
hand
to
support
me
:
The
reason
why
I
have
discoursed
so
much
of
Monarchy
is
,
because
I
am
fully
perswaded
that
the
great
Reformation
to
be
wrought
amongst
Jewes
and
Gentiles
,
shall
be
wrought
by
Monarches
,
when
God
shall
open
the
eyes
of
the
Jewes
,
to
know
assured
that
the
Lord
Jesus
is
their
true
and
naturall
Monarch
according
to
the
flesh
,
and
their
naturall
Priest
,
that
is
,
by
Birth-right
,
as
Melchisedech
was
;
then
shall
they
look
on
him
whom
they
have
pierced
,
and
mourn
over
him
,
they
shall
then
be
converted
:
Now
this
conversion
is
designed
in
that
Gospell
Epistle
written
to
the
twelve
Tribes
,
called
the
Epistle
to
the
Hebrewes
,
As
the
knowledge
of
their
true
Monarch
and
Priest
shall
work
wonderfull
conversion
amongst
the
Hebrews
,
so
the
knowledge
of
a
lawfull
Magistracy
and
a
lawfull
Ministery
shall
work
a
wonderfull
change
at
the
same
time
amongst
the
Gentile
Churches
,
who
are
now
overwhelmed
with
the
cruell
tyranny
of
the
usurping
Prelaticall
power
of
Rome
:
A
lawfull
Monarch
rising
shall
be
the
instrument
of
a
glorious
Gospel-reformation
,
of
restoring
the
Witnesses
,
and
of
the
overturning
of
the
Roman
Empire
in
its
pontifick
Head
.
Much
of
this
opinion
is
that
Dutch
Divine
in
his
Clavis
Apocalyptica
,
to
whom
Iohn
Durie
the
Scotch
man
binds
himself
as
in
a
Dutch
duell
,
where
he
falls
to
stick
and
snee
with
him
;
for
saith
the
Dutch
Divine
in
pag.
89.
A
high
Potentate
amongst
Evangelicall
Professors
shall
arise
,
and
be
exalted
,
to
the
terror
of
the
Papists
,
and
shall
open
again
a
free
course
to
the
Gospell
,
and
reestablish
the
exiled
and
oppressed
Gospellers
.
And
Iohn
Durie
out
of
the
sootie
region
of
a
dark
intellect
,
gives
us
this
dark
notion
in
p.
70.
(
which
he
cals
the
Preface
to
this
Dutchmans
Book
,
intending
that
the
Reader
should
put
on
his
black
spectacles
to
read
the
Dutchmans
white
Booke
withall
.
)
I
believe
(
saith
John
Durie
)
that
we
shall
not
have
any
great
earthly
Potentate
at
all
ever
to
appear
for
the
Lamb
in
this
battell
,
but
that
they
shall
joyn
alwayes
against
the
lamb-like
nature
of
the
Saints
,
to
oppose
and
destroy
it
.
How
can
two
be
more
contrary
?
I
must
leave
them
,
though
I
leave
Iohn
in
the
dark
,
who
participates
more
of
the
man
of
his
countrey
,
then
of
the
nature
of
his
Countrymen
.
There
are
some
questions
that
betray
ignorance
,
rather
then
discover
wit
,
as
this
;
say
some
,
How
can
it
be
said
that
in
Henry
8.
dayes
when
the
Abbies
were
pulled
down
;
in
Q.
Elizabeths
dayes
,
when
the
Kingdom
it
flourished
,
and
Religion
prospered
and
was
countenanced
;
and
so
in
King
Iames's
time
;
How
can
the
Witnesses
be
said
then
to
be
in
sackcloth
?
In
part
we
have
answered
to
this
elswhere
;
but
let
such
take
this
as
one
great
part
of
the
answer
,
let
them
read
diligently
the
history
of
our
Nation
since
Henry
the
sevenths
time
,
and
observe
the
counterworkings
of
the
Pope
against
the
Protestant
Reformers
,
and
they
will
say
they
were
in
sackcloth
.
I
shall
conclude
this
Preface
with
a
short
discourse
of
our
former
reformations
,
not
so
much
by
way
of
information
,
as
premonition
to
him
whom
it
concerns
.
The
objects
of
every
reformation
have
either
been
civill
〈◊〉
●●clesiastick
matters
.
A
civill
reformation
hath
respect
either
to
the
offices
in
the
State
,
or
to
the
Laws
in
the
State
:
the
office
of
State
in
the
Head
hath
been
unquestionable
in
all
ages
,
except
in
times
of
rebellion
or
usurpation
;
and
then
,
not
the
office
,
but
the
persons
in
the
office
have
been
aspersed
and
questioned
;
In
all
which
ungodly
actions
,
the
Pope
,
and
the
Popish
Clergie
alwayes
had
a
hand
.
Indeed
the
Popes
have
grapled
with
the
supremacy
of
Kings
,
and
usurped
a
supremacy
in
this
Kingdom
over
the
Kings
in
Ecclesiastick
affairs
,
and
in
that
respect
their
offices
have
been
questioned
,
but
the
Kings
of
England
never
yeelded
up
their
right
to
the
Pope
,
but
kept
the
supremacy
of
Church
and
State
affairs
in
their
own
hands
,
not
only
since
the
Norman
line
came
in
,
but
in
the
time
of
the
Saxon
Kings
,
as
appears
by
many
of
their
Lawes
and
Charters
which
respect
the
Clergie
,
wherein
the
King
,
as
Head
of
the
Church
,
doth
Ecclesiastica
authoritate
dispose
of
the
Rites
of
the
Church
,
and
the
great
Offices
thereto
belonging
,
promoting
some
,
and
debarring
others
,
whom
they
please
,
from
the
office
of
Archbishop
or
Bishop
.
This
supremacy
the
Norman
Kings
kept
,
which
was
mostly
the
ground
of
this
quarrell
betwixt
the
Kings
of
England
and
the
Popes
;
who
were
the
cause
of
the
English
Kings
wearing
Sackcloth
;
for
the
Popes
never
suffered
them
to
live
quietly
,
but
alwayes
either
raised
their
own
subjects
to
rebell
against
them
,
or
foraigne
Princes
to
invade
them
;
but
most
commonly
the
Pope
sets
the
Religious
Houses
against
the
King
;
for
there
the
Pope
kept
the
Band-dogs
to
werry
Royalty
,
when
it
opposed
this
supremacy
.
The
insolency
,
strength
and
wealth
of
the
Clergie
caused
accidentally
a
reformation
in
the
Church
,
(
which
is
the
proper
object
of
a
reformation
)
now
this
must
be
premised
before
we
can
proceed
.
We
must
know
that
Lucius
the
first
Christian
King
,
when
he
erected
Bishopricks
,
he
gave
estates
to
those
Archbishops
and
Bishops
which
he
placed
in
the
Kingdom
:
he
did
but
according
to
the
light
of
nature
in
it
:
For
the
Pagan
Priests
had
means
allowed
them
:
The
three
Archflamins
and
the
twenty
eight
Flamins
of
the
Pagans
the
King
turned
into
so
many
Archbishopricks
and
Bishopricks
:
Afterwards
the
Saxon
Kings
erected
many
more
religious
Houses
,
Chanteries
,
Monasteries
,
Hospitalls
,
and
to
which
livings
were
given
for
the
maintenance
of
the
Ministery
,
and
relief
of
the
poor
,
the
giving
of
these
livings
was
not
the
person
that
was
sowed
in
the
Church
as
some
have
erroniously
conjectured
.
These
Church-lands
anciently
were
called
by
their
right
name
,
Appropriations
,
because
they
were
appropriate
to
a
particular
Succession
of
Clergy-men
,
which
were
of
severall
Orders
and
Houses
,
each
of
which
made
a
body
Politique
,
and
obtained
either
of
the
Pope
or
of
the
King
,
that
their
Successors
(
suppose
the
Incumbents
,
Priors
,
Abbots
,
or
Prebends
)
might
without
institution
or
induction
of
the
Ordinary
be
perpetuall
Incumbents
▪
so
that
as
one
of
them
died
his
Successor
might
forthwith
enter
into
his
place
:
Hence
they
were
called
Appropriations
.
When
the
Clergy
had
appropriated
these
livings
to
themselves
,
they
grew
idle
,
lascivious
,
proud
,
rich
,
and
rebellious
,
insomuch
that
the
Pope
for
the
most
part
,
making
them
of
his
Faction
,
curbed
the
King
of
England
in
his
own
Dominion
:
whereupon
Henry
VIII
.
partly
to
secure
himselfe
from
the
inraged
Pope
,
but
chiefly
for
the
profit
of
the
Abbies
and
religious
Houses
pull'd
them
down
,
which
that
he
might
do
effectually
,
and
with
much
applause
he
ingaged
the
Lords
and
Commons
against
them
,
who
envying
their
pride
and
wealth
,
were
easily
drawn
to
concur
with
the
King
in
the
same
:
And
that
they
might
gain
a
party
in
the
Clergy
,
this
work
of
pulling
down
Abbies
was
reported
as
the
onely
high
way
to
a
Reformation
of
Religion
,
(
and
indeed
there
was
a
great
alteration
in
Religion
for
the
better
)
Hereupon
the
Magistri
novae
Disciplinae
,
the
Masters
of
new
Discipline
(
these
were
the
Protestant
Divines
)
they
were
embraced
by
the
King
,
(
just
as
the
Presbyterians
were
by
the
Parliament
,
when
they
took
away
the
Bishops
lands
)
the
King
made
large
promises
,
untill
the
Parliament
had
confer'd
the
Church-land
upon
him
,
and
then
the
Masters
of
the
new
Discipline
were
as
much
slighted
as
the
Presbyterians
are
now
;
and
thus
appropriations
become
impropriations
,
justly
so
called
,
because
they
were
put
into
improper
hands
;
Lay-mens
hands
.
From
this
Discourse
,
I
draw
these
two
inferences
.
1
All
the
Reformations
,
as
yet
,
have
been
but
sackcloth
Reformations
.
2
'T
is
a
land-devouring
,
King
destroying
,
God-provoking
,
Soul-damning
sin
,
to
be
guilty
of
Sacriledge
:
Let
that
King
then
that
looks
for
a
blessing
from
God
,
make
conscience
of
restoring
that
to
the
Church
which
is
her
due
,
notwithstanding
long
detained
from
her
:
Let
no
man
think
that
I
plead
for
my self
in
this
,
for
I
am
no
Clergy
man
:
I
must
break
off
here
abruptly
,
for
the
Printer
grutcheth
at
my
prolixity
.
The
blessing
of
the
eternall
Trinity
be
upon
thee
(
Reader
)
in
reading
this
and
the
ensuing
Tract
,
that
from
it
thou
may'st
receive
light
and
comfort
in
these
dark
and
disconsolate
Times
.
FJNJS
.