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A96871	The two vvitnesses: discovered in severall sermons upon the eleventh chapter of the Revelation, wherein, after the prophesie opened, the great question of these times. Viz. whether the two witnesses are slain, yea or no, is modestly discussed. / Preached at Lawrence-Jewry in London, by F.W. lecturer of the said place. It is this seven and twentieth day of April, 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that these sermons intituled, the two witnesses, be printed for Luke Fawne. John White.	Woodcock, Francis, 1614?-1651.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W3433; Thomason E100_1; ESTC R13873	76,978	106

Antichristian to cleer this latter the former being without question And is it not so when because of these plagues you have Vers 7. Antichrist in the very next words waging War witt these Witnesses and slaying them Is it not plain these plagues fall upon Vers 20. the Antichristian Party when they are brought in at the tenth Verse rejoycing for their slaughter and this expresly the reason Because they were now got shut of those who while they lived tormented them with all these plagues The subject then of these is Rome Aniichristian of the other Rome Christian and if so they neither fall within the same time nor upon the same subject 't is evident they cannot be the same plagues the thing contended for and if these be not the same there being none other in all this Prophesie that do resemble them save onely the Vialls it remains an unshaken truth the plagues here mentioned are no other then the Vialls This much gained we now proceed particularly to examine the words These have power over waters to turn them into blood c. In which who beholds not another pair even Moses and Aaron now coming forth to personate these Witnesses of whom we reade in sacred Story That bringing Israel out of Egypt they turned the Egyptian waters into blood plagued the earth c. Exod. 7. Exod. 8. the very same you have here done by the hands of these Witnesses And now you have the last pair where by these Witnesses are described Formerly they were Zerubqabell and Jeshua after that Moses and Elias now in the close of this representation they are Moses and Aaron There now wants nothing to make the description of these Witnesses compleat but that we see what 't is these Witnesses do that makes them appear another Moses and Aaron which done we have then at once a full description and view of these Witnesses To this therefore I hasten in entrance where upon let me warn you as I did before you are not to understand this same in the letter namely That indeed and in the letter the Witnesses should turn waters into blood but as we understood their destroying their enemies with fire their shutting heaven that it rain not mystically before so must we understand their turning waters into blood also But because I have already shewn these plagues are no other then those of the Vials the better to compasse the meaning it will not be amisse for us to turn over to the 16 Chapter of this Prophesie where the Vialls are by the holy Ghost professedly mentioned where if we finde what 's meant by turning waters into blood and smiting the earth with plagues there we shal cleerly see what to understand by them here also they being all one onely here but glanced at there by the holy Ghost professedly and at large discovered In that 16 Chapter therefore for I turn over thither we finde that upon the pouring forth of the second and third Vials the waters are turned into blood hoth these I conceive are here pointed at For the holy Ghost seeming in this place to give a touch upon the Vials summing them up briefly under two Heads viz. either plagues on the waters or plagues on the eatrh and so to be apprehended thrusting as many as would fall under an head together there being two Vials that will come under this head of turning waters into blood who doth not readily conceive both these Vials must hereby be hereby signified So that it will be needfull we enquire the meaning of them both To begin therefore with the second Vial the first of those that turn waters into blood which in that 3 Verse of the 16 Chapter we finde is poured out upon the Sea and the effect it become as the blood of a d●ad man This Vial say some of our best Cha. 16. 3. Interpreters whom I must trust at present it requiring no small time professedly and to purpose to speak to these Vials was then poured forth when all the Popish Doctrines being gathered into one by the Councell of Trent afterward by Bellarmine and others the godly Ministers of the Reformed Churches by their writings discovered all that Sea of of Popish Doctrine to be but as the blood of a dead man no living blood of Jesus Christ discoverable in it all and those that live no other life then what they draw from those corrupt Doctrines to be in a dead damnable and undone condition This the second Vial. The third is poured forth upon the rivers and fountains at the 4 Verse and the effect is these become blood also And then was this Vial poured forth say Interpreters whom I again refer to when in the times of Queen Elizabeth this State made a Law against Priests and Jesuites enacting it Treason for any to seduce this People to the Romish Religion upon which severall of them as Campian Ducket Sherwin and afterwards others were executed and when at this day according to that Law we execute a Priest or Jesuite then do we poure forth this Viall upon the Antichristian Waters and they become bloud By this reckoning and so to bring all home to the Text then are the witnesses said to turn the Antichristian Waters into bloud when by their cleer writings and other wayes they discover all that Sea of Popish doctrine to be but as the bloud of a dead man and further do execute their Priests and Jesuites who as Rivers do derive and carry from place to place the Waters of this noysome Sea thereby to poyson and destroy the souls of seduced people And by the way who is not now fully satisfied the Witnesses poure forth the Vials the thing we so industriously proved before when having but mentioned two Vials we find the godly Magistrates and Ministers of the reformed Churches whom all along we have shewn to be these two Witnesses have already poured forth both of them The former the godly Ministers such as Chemnitius Chamier Junius Reignolds c. The latter the godly Magistrates as certain of the number of these Witnesses also Thus these Witnesses turn Waters into bloud The next thing that follows And they smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will this falls now in order to be enquired concerning And to be short what can this mean but which we touched upon before the pouring forth the other Vialls all which at the first Verse of that 16 Chapter are commanded there to be poured forth upon the earth And if this be so you have then the summe of the former and of this same in one word this much In that the Holy Ghost tells us these Witnesses turn Waters into bloud and smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will 't is all one as if he had said These Witnesses do pour forth all the Vials And now by this time you have had the Witnesses at full shewed forth you have seen who they are They are Zerubbabel

Church was but one the Christian Churches are many as others or whether any other may be the reason I not determine You have the differences but that in the main they agree take notice of these severalls for the purpose 1. As there you have a Candlestick signifying a Church so here Candlesticks signifying Churches also so I would understand them In no wise conceiving the two Witnesses to be the two Candlesticks as they are said to be the two Olive trees before and therefore I had rather reade as they do These are the two Olive trees with or by the two Candlesticks as is the manner of the Hebrews sometime to render their copulative for 't is evident 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 loco 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Sam. 14. 18. alibi from the first Chapter of this Revel and 20. That Candlesticks are Churches The seven Golden Candlesticks sayes the holy Ghost are seven Churches 2. As two Olive trees there shew two ranks of men namely godly Magistrates and Ministers so by the two Olive trees here we understand men of the like condition godly Magistrates and Ministers also 3. As those by dropping Oyl into a Candlestick are so presented restoring the Jewish Church so the Witnesses by dropping Oyl into these Candlestick as Instruments of light and grace both which Oyl in Scripture doth aptly signifie do keep alive and lighted the Churches all the times of Antichrist and by this light restore recover them as also expell and win upon that darknesse which had gained much upon the world before 1 Sam. 16. 22. Psal 102. 26. Ier. 52. 12. compared with 2 Ki. 25 8. 4. As those are said to stand by the God of the earth which whether it means their stable and firm abiding for so much the word not unfrequently signifieth or whether by it be meant they minister before the Lord for so also t is often used these likewise stand before the God of the earth these in dropping Oyl into the Candlesticks spending themselves in caring for Church and Worships they minister before the God of the earth also Thus you have the Agreement Draw up now the sum of all this Verse together and 't is in short this In that the holy Ghost describes the two Witnesses by two Olive trees dropping Oyl into the candlesticks a type formerly used to signifie Magistrates and Ministers bestowing themselves in caring f●r Temple Church Worships then decayed it is as much as if he should tell us These Witnesses are godly Magistrates and Ministers who during the times of Antichrist shall bestow themselves in maintaining what of Church and Worships th●y have reforming repairing restoring as there is need and regaining what hath been lost by Antichristian en●roachm●nts And that all this hath come to passe accordingly That there have been such persons and they done all that we now mention how obviously were we acquainted with the Ecclesiasticall Histo●y would it appea how cleerly should we see not only the common sort of people such as those poor men of Lyons but Ministers yea Nobles yea Princes and Emperours have been of these Witnesses who not only have dropt Oyl into the candlesticks but even their blood also in preserving them pure and endeavouring to reform them from Antichristian impiety So you have the meaning of the words the Observations now follow 1. In that the Witnesses are typed out and described by persons of quality for such Zerubbabel and Jeshua were how likely is it these Witnesses must be persons of quality as they were And if they were Magistrates and Ministers by whom they are set forth and presented how warranta●ly may we pronounce these Witnesses are Magistrates and Ministers also I do not deny but even the meanest testifying against Antichrist is in a sort a Witnesse but to be a Witnesse by way of eminence to be such by office as I may say and so authoritatively to bear witnesse this seems restrained onely to men of quality and when the event answers accordingly as was in part hinted before me thinks there needs no further question in the businesse when Histories will tell us besides a succession of godly persons in the Ministry there were also in the Magistracy even in the highest places thereof that did oppose themselves against the Idolatry and Tyranny of Antichrist such as were Picus Mirandula John Frederick Duke of Saxony the Lantgrave Ernestus Brunswick his son Emperors also Henric. 4. Henric. 5. L●wis 4. with others besides some of the Princes of this and other Kingdoms And so it appears they have been Magistrates and Ministers in deed and in event even just such as were the types before by which they are shewed forth Judge whether from all we may not safely pronounce The Magistrates and Ministers opposing Antichrist are the two Witnesses 2. Are Candl●sticks Churches this learns us whence alone as from the ordinary means Spirituall and saving light is to be expected 't is from the Churches from the candl●sticks and sure repair we to any other Societies of men whatsoever and so far as they have nothing common with these so farre there is no saving light at all in them Here onely 't is that the Scriptures appear as a flaming Beacon upon a hill by which the Ministers Matth. 5. 15. as so many candles being lighted and set up in the candlestick give light to all them that are in the house all that is without this Verge being nothing else but pitchy darknesse And if so what a sad thing to be without a candlestick or as Rev 2. 5. Christ once threatned Ephesus to have the candlestick taken away How sad was the condition of the Egyptians when in regard Exo 10. 23 of that plague of darknesse then upon them no man did rise from his place for the space of three dayes How much more sad in Spirituall regards is their estate who are without a Candlestick and so in Spirituall darknesse knowing not whither they go 1 Joh. 2. 11. Mat. 8. 12. Nay Is not this that utter darknesse the Jews are threatned withall whereby seems meant if well considered as well their unchurch'd condition in this life as their state of condemnation in the life to come when the Kingdom of heaven the Candlestick was taken away from that time they have been cast forth into utter darkdesse 3. Are there two candlesticks in all this time then sure that cannot but be too hard a censure that cries down all as Antichristian Churches Antichristian Ministers all this time 't is true the Churches are now reduced to the smallest number yet is there a number however two Churches two Candlesticks at least in all the time of the prevailings of Antichrist 4. Are the Witnesses Olive trees dropping Oyl into the candlesticks this tells you whereabout the proper work of these Witnesses lies 't is about the Candlesticks 't is Church-work theirs their care their businesse is to have an eye to the Candlesticks And if

Gentiles while they continue such the Church the mean while being refreshed with these showers every day and further declare as that third Angell does Chap. 14. vers 9 10 11. who no doubt is of these witnesses that such as those who worship the Beast and receive his marke shall drink of the wrath of God no mercy no forgivenesse at all appertains to them And thus the former shutting heaven in Matth. and the withholding of the rain of heaven here do now appear to be the same of which the summe in short is this much As Elias shut heaven that it rained not upon those apostate Israelites whil● they clave to Baal which plainly is h●re alluded to so while these Antichristian Gentiles continue such these two Witnesses hold back all tydings of mercy and forgivenesse that blessed rain so chearing and refreshing weary souls declaring them while in that condition a people to whom no forgivenesse no heaven but rather wrath hell and everlasting vengeance appertains We have seen the Witnesses power to shut heaven that it rain not laid open their turning waters into bloud and smiting the earth with all plagues as often as the will next follows which in regard they both concern the same thing as may appear by and by in the handling of them therefore we shall joyn both together And here me thinks we meet with some thing like the vials those seven vials I mean emptying out upon Antichrist the seven Rev. 15. 1. last plagues of the wrath of God And because this seems not unlikely and the cleering of this will help us to understand the words as also not a little cond●ce to satisfie in that great question Whether the time of these witnesses be past yea or no as we shall see hereafter our satisfaction in which is the great designe we drive in all this undertaking we shall therefore first enquire whether at all we have any thing here relating to the vials yea or no and when this is done then proceed to take a view of the words more particularly The grounds perswading to beleeve the Vials are here meant are such as these 1. Those plagues of the Vials and these here do fall together into the same time the space of the sixth Trumpet receives both of them The Vials so many wastes and graduall destructions of the beast must needs be pouring forth the time of the sixth Trumpet for at the beginning of the seventh with which the last Vials falls in the beast his time is no more the beast Antichrist is then destroyed by an utter irrecoverable destruction The tenth Chapter of this Prophesie and sixth verse compared with the sixteenth Chapter 17 and 19 Verses cleers this same to any that shall with care and observation examine them And that the plagues here mentioned bear the same date fall in with the time of the sixth Trumpet also hence appears for these plagues being chiefly drawn forth by these witnesses toward the end of their Prophesie and that ending with the sixth Trumpet the second Wo as is plain from the 13 and 14 vers of this Chapter who sees not that these fall in with the time of the sixth Trumpet also And so because those plagues and these here are both wrapt up in the sixth Trumpet and so fall into the same time this is one inducement perswading they are the same plagues also 2. Those who pour forth the Vialls and the Witnesses who inflict the plagues here mentioned seem all the same persons The Angels who pour out the Vialls described coming forth of the Temple clothed with pure and white linnen and their brests Cha. 15. 6. girded with golden girdles who are they but godly ones whether Magistrates or Ministers who appertaining to or coming forth of Reformed Churches do pour forth the Vialls And are not the Witnesses who execute these plagues godly Magistrates and Ministers who pertrining to the Temple mentioned at the first Verse of this Chapter that is The Churches reformed come forth thence and inflict these plagues upon the Antichristian Gentiles And indeed how can we imagine that any should come forth of Reformed Churches and pour out a Viall a plague upon the Antichristian party and not be of these Witnesses when such is the nature of the plagues contained in the Vialls as we may see by and by that in nothing can any more openly and effectually witnesse against Antichrist and the Antichristian brood then by pouring out any of these Vialls upon them They are the same persons then the godly Magistrates and Ministers of Reformed Churches that pour forth the Vials and that execute the plagues the Text here mentions 3. As they fall out at the same time are inflicted by the same hands so upon enquire you will finde them the same plagues also To cleer this same Have you here a turning waters into blood upon the pouring out of the second and third Vials you have the waters then turned to blood also Chap. 16. 3 4. Do you reade here of plaguing the earth with all plagues mark it plaguing the earth what can hereby be meant but the other Vialls all whereof at the first verse of the 16 Chapter are to be poured upon the earth the Ang●ls there are commanded to pour all their Vialls upon the earth also Adde this now to the former These plagues are inflicted at the same time by the same hands yea are the very same plagues and now who sees not the Vialls are here pointed at which was the thing in question and when the holy Ghost tellsus The W●itesse● turn waters into blood smite the earth with all plagues as in the Text who sees not 't is as much as if in other words we had been told These witnesses are they who pour forth the Vialls I must not dissemble what dissent I finde in this matter some conceiving these plagues here mentioned do rather relate to some of the foremost Trumpets which sounding you finde the like plaguing the earth and turning of waters into blood even Chap. 8. Vers 7. 8. such like plagues as you have here mentioned With submission I cannot conceive those plagues to be the same with those of the first and second Trumpet for these Reasons 1. Not to mention those which prove these the same with the Vialls first because these fall within the time of the sixth Trumpet as we shewed before and therefore cannot be the plagues of the first and second Trumpet the consequence is cleer because the plagues comprized in the time of the sixth Trumpet must needs be a long space after the plagues comprized in the time of the first and second Trumpet the sixth Trumpet being a good space after the first and secnod Trumpet 2. Those plagues of the former Trumpets and these of the Witnesses fall not upon the same subject those of the former Trumpets as is evident to any observant Reader falling upon Rome Christian these of the Witnesses falling upon Rome

heaven that it rain not and as formerly Moses and Aaron turn the Waters into bloud and smite the earth withall plagues as often as they will But when the three yeers and an half of their Prophesie in Sackcloth is expired then the Beast the false Prophet there resident slayes them slayes them indeed after which their dead bodies lie just three dayes and an half in the street of Jerusalem which is here meant by the great City Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt Where also our Lord was crucified where for that space the severall Nations at that time there meeting shall look upon the dead bodies of these two Witnesses During which time the misled inhabitants shall rejoyce and make merry and send presents because now got rid of these two Prophets that did in their life time miserably tormented them But after those three dayes and an half they rise up from the dead after this ascend up to heaven in a cloud whereupon there being a great earth-quake the tenth part of Jerusalem falls seven thousand men slain all of it to be understood in the letter and all this to be done toward the end of the sixth Trumpet Thus you have the Interpretation Now if any ask the reason why the letter is so exactly kept to and this whole Prophesie of the Witnesses understood to be fulfilled in the letter 't is this in the generall This part of the Prophesie I mean all that which appertains to the Witnesses is not shewn the Prophet in a Vision but reported to him of the Angel as an Interlocuter speaking all this to him by word of mouth For this is a Rule Look what things are presented to the sight by similitudes and images those are all to be understood mystically But the things that are represented to the ear whether in proper or figurative terms unlesse necessity enforce are to be understood historically and in the letter This in the generall But now further Why the one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes of the Witnesses Proph●sie in Sackeloth are to be understood in the letter Why the great City means Jerusalem and the like you these have reasons in particular First For the one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes to be conceived just three yeers and an half properly There are these reasons offered 1. This time falls out toward the end of the sixth Trumpet now to conceive one thousand two hundred and threescore yeers to come in toward the end of the sixth Trumpet how absurd how impossible 2. This term is supposed to be the same with the term of that last and most cruell persecution of the last and worst Antichrist the same also with that most unparalell'd time of trouble mentioned at the 12 Dan. 1. Such as never was since there was a Nation which if so it cannot be so long as that which the mysticall Interpretation contends for but must be only three yeers and an half properly and in the letter so taken according to which account the two Witnesses may well be two single persons also The reason why the turning waters into blood and smiting the earth with all plagues be to be understood in the letter also besides that in the generall before mentioned is because some such thing as this is expected to be done about the time of the Conversion of the Jews so you finde Mich. 7. 15 16. According to the day●s of thy coming out of the Land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvelious things The Nations shall see and be confound●d c. And then the reason why these two Witnesses who also are called two Prophets together with the false Prophet have all of them reference to the Jews being all of them to reside there is this because wheresoever you finde mention of Prophets whether true or false there is still a reference had unto the Jews to whom only it was peculiar and their great priviledge to be furnished with the Ministery of extraordinary Prophets And then lastly the reasons why Jerusalem is here to be understood by the great City and not Rom as is commonly conceived are first because these two are expresly distinguished at the 16 Chapter of this Prophesie and 18 19 verses where you finde the great City that is Jerusalem is divided into three parts and great Babylon that is Rome comes into remembrance being there mentioned as two dinstinct places Besides Rome is no where in Scripture called Sodom and Egypt but Jerusalem is Sodom 't is called Isai 1. 10. and Egypt it is called Ezek. 23. 18 19 And further Rome was not the place where our Lord was crucified but Jerusalem and therefore when 't is here said The Witness●s dead bodies lye in the street of the great Citie Jerusalem is this place where they lye dead where also the false Prophet hath his residence and when t is said The tenth part of the Citie falls it means the tenth part of Jeru●alem falls And now you have together with the Interpretation the reasons a● I could meet with them which this Interpretation chiefly leans upon If the Presse would have but respighted me a little I had not only barely propounded this Interpreta●ion with the reasons but had spoke my thoughts thereto also But since I can procure leave ●ut only to propound the P●inter thinking long till the discourse be gotten abroad suffice it that I have proposed it hereby giving others an occasion to examine and upon examination either to receive or refuse as it shall be a●le to abide the tryall I having the opportunity only to bring it in Medie where also I must leave it Errata Good reader amend these faults of the Presse which could I have tended upon might happily have been prevented Pag. 4. 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