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A42547	God's soveraignty displayed from Job 9. 12. : Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him? &c., or, A discourse shewing, that God doth, and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth, as to the matter what, the place where, the time when, the means and manner how, and the reasons thereof : with an application of the whole, to the distressed citizens of London, whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the fire : an excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal, the ends that God aims at in it, with directions how to behave themselves under their losses / by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.; Gearing, William. No abiding city in a perishing world.	1667 (1667)	Wing G435A; ESTC R18630	101,655	265

notably set forth in the first book of the Macchabees 4. The fourth Beast viz. the Roman Monarchy is worse than all the three former Beasts and that Vision of Daniel fore-mentioned is suited to that of S. John in Rev. 13.1 2. And I stood upon the sand of the Sea and saw a Beast rise up out of the Sea having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten Crowns and upon his heads the name of Blasphemy and the Beast which I saw was like unto a Leopard and his feet were as the feet of a Bear and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion and the Dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority The reason why Daniel did not liken the fourth to any Beast as the former three were is because it was a Monster compounded of the cruelties of the several beasts sc of a Lion Bear and Leopard this Beast was like them all Now this Beast was some hundreds of years before it came to its full growth and being distant from Judah the Church of God felt nothing of its fury till the Age before Christ came in the flesh The first time that this Beast put forth his Paws against the Church was about sixty one years before the Birth of Christ when Pompey the Roman General taking advantage of the contentions of the two Brethren Hircanus and Aristobulus of the Race of the Macchabees about the Priesthood and Principality took from them the City and Temple of Jerusalem and made them Tributary to the Romans whereupon he and others with him presumed to enter into the Temple and saw such things that was not lawful for them to see after which violence and presumption it is noted of Pompey that was very victorious before above any one Roman that he was very unhappy in his wars afterward and being vanquished by Julius Caesar fled into Egypt for refuge and there was murdered where he looked for succour Crassus committed horrid sacriledge he robbed the Temple in Jerusalem of ten thousand Talents that is two hundred thousand pounds of our money and afterwards being overthrown of the Parthians had molten gold powred down his throat to satisfie his greedy appetite One notable mischief the Romans did to the people of God was the placing of that cruel Herod in the Throne who was made King by the favour of Augustus and Mark Anthony he was a Vassal to the Romans though a cruel Tyrant to the people of God And now the Scepter was departed from Judah and the Law-giver from under his feet this Herod slew the Sanedrin and Grand Council of the Land and murdered the Infants at Bethlehem from two years old and under out of a desire to murder Christ in his Infancy This fourth Beast murdered the Prince of Life and Lord of Glory Pilate the Roman Judge condemning him and the Roman Souldiers putting it in execution And the Jews who formerly had suffered by this fourth Beast as the Church of Christ and now joyning with this Beast against Christ they became the most malignant persecutors of Christ and his Church stirring up the Roman Magistrates in several Provinces and Cities to persecute the Apostles of Christ and the sincere professors of the truth and remaining in their rebellion and enmity against Christ they were unchurched and the Kingdome of the Gospel being translated from them to the Gentiles the wrath of God came upon them to the uttermost eleven hundred thousand of them were slain by the Sword Famine and Pestilence at the Siege by Vespasian and Titus his Son and the residue sold for slaves and afterwards five hundred thousand of them ruinated by Adrian the Emperour And because the Soveraign Power was now setled in the Emperours that I may speak further of the fury of this Beast against the Saints of the most High I think fit to the two former descriptions in Daniel and that in Revel 13. to add another out of Revel 17.3 where S. John saith I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns This is explained ver 9. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth Ver. 10. And there are seven Kings five are fallen and one is and the other is not yet come and when he cometh he must continue a short space Ver. 11. And the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth and is of the seven and goeth into perdition Ver. 12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no Kingdome as yet c. These shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire Ver. 16. and ver 17. The woman which thou sawest is that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the earth The seven Heads are seven Mountains on which the Woman sate This Woman is that great City of Rome built upon seven hills viz. Mons Palatinus Capitolinus Caelius Quirinalis Aventinus Viminalis Esquilinus They also signifie seven Kings or seven sorts of Supreme Magistrates by which the City and Empire hath been and is governed Supreme Magistrates in Scripture are called Kings when Israel was formed into a Commonwealth they had Moses set over them Deut. 33.4 5. Moses commanded us a Law c. and he was King in Jesurun when the Heads of the people and the Tribes of Israel were gathered together So the Dukes of the Sons of Esau are called Kings Gen. 36.31 These are the Kings that reigned in the Land of Edom before there reigned any King over the children of Israel that is before Israel was delivered out of bondage and was formed into a Commonwealth and had Moses set over them as Supreme Ruler under God Now Rome is famous for these seven Heads or seven sorts of Governours I. Kings II. Consuls III. Tribunes of the Souldiers IV. Decem-viri V. Dictators VI. Emperours VII Popes Tacitus noteth that among other things Rome hath this honour to have Kings for its Vassals And S. John speaking of these seven sorts of Magistrates that did successively rule in Rome he saith five are fallen that is when this Vision was presented to John and the Revelation written by him viz. five of those seven Supreme Magistrates were fallen Kings Consuls Tribunes Decem-viri Dictators For although there were Consuls many hundred years after yet they were no longer Heads as formerly though they had the same name yet they came short of the former Consuls in power and dignity Then Saint John saith one is that is the Heathen Emperours were then in being these were then regnant and had the place of Heads in the Empire These began to head the Beast as the sixth Head about forty years before the Birth of Christ and continued three hundred years after Christs birth I understand it of the Heathen Emperours only not the Christian Saint John addeth And the other is not yet come viz. the