Plague is come The Thrones of these Earthly Kingdomes cast downe the auncient of dayes shall appeare his long Traine and the great white Throne whereon he sate from whose Face the Earth and the Heavens vncleane in his sight fled away in whose presence ministred Thousand thousands and Ten thousand times Tenne Thousands also the Two Witnesses are brought forth the Books of the Law and the Prophets to Iudge every man by his workes or according to his faith for if they beleeue not the writings of MOSES how can they beleeue his words of whom MOSES wrote These Bookes shall accuse them the witnesses which God the Father beareth of his Sonne The other Booke is the Booke of Life written with the names of Saints that shall liue for ever To whom the iust Iudge shall deliver the possession of that Kingdome that shall never passe away to be destroyed but remaineth for ever even for ever and ever The foule Beast some of his purtenances will be wanting if his hornes be not farther Considered foure came vp out of the North part of his head the French Emperours of the South side sixe Spanish before whom there were Three of the first their Race pluckt vp by the Rootes amongst these came vp an other little Horne about the midst of the time in this Horne were eyes like the eyes of a man in workmanship striuing to set Nature a patterne curious in all Arts and doing honour to vertue but wanting the gift of grace opened a fearefull Mouth the King of the East whose looke is more stout then the highest of his fellow Hornes Hitherto is the end of the matter of these earthly Monarchies and the day of Iudgement hath beene also declared the matter of the end The Story is yet but chalked out Therefore in these following Visions is contained more at large the occurrence of theose dayes before mentioned even to the end of the world Wherein my desire is not as hee that rowleth a stone to returne vpon himselfe but to make it a twisted Threefold Cord to draw vp the weight that presseth so hard of infidelitie The Prophet beheld till the auncient of dayes did sit to Iudge the quicke and the dead and the Beast cast aliue into the Lake Fire his Body destroyed and given to the Burning flame to be tormented day and night for ever and ever DANIEL CHAP. VIII IN the third yeare of BELSHAZZER a Vision appeared vnto DANIEL alone even to himselfe and hee heard a mans voyce that called saying GABRIEL make the man vnderstand the Vision so he came neere vnto him and said O Sonne of man the time of this Vision extends to the end of all things behold therefore I will make thee know what shall come to passe euen to the last day the great day of Wrath and Indignation for at the time appointed the end shall be MEDES AND PERSIANS THE ROVGHE GOATE SEND MEE SPANIARDS THE GOTHE ROAGVE The first matter giuen him to vanderstand is the breaking in peeces of the Roman Empire which spiritually is called Sodome and Egipt where also the members of our Lords Body are Crucified signified by the Ram the Hee Goate is the Turke The Roman Emperours the Two hornes in the East and West are also signified by the Kings of Media and Persia The foure Kingdomes standing vp out of that Nation are the Isles of Great Britaine France Spaine and Turky Lastly the Goate himselfe shall be hunted by a King of a fierce Countenance not regarding the person of the old nor shewing fauour to the young casting downe some of the hoast of PHAROAH and of the Starres to the ground For the transgression against the daily Sacrifice was the Hoast given over A King vnderstanding darke sentences which are some part of the holy Scriptures through policie and supposed wisdome he shall cause the craft of the Divell to prosper for by Peace and affected pittie and satisfying the ambitious mindes of some Christians he shall not only draw them to denie the faith but many others following their example Not by his owne power but by the Divells policie he shall be mighty whose looke is more stout then his fellowes But by the great day of the Lord he shall be broken without hand Now in those dayes when the Goate was come close vnto the Ramme and had cast him downe and stamped vpon him The Prophet that beheld as by a perspectiue these remote things heard also one Saint speaking and an other Saint said vnto that certaine Saint that spoke how long is the time for this Vision to the end of the world that the holy Citie of God and his chosen People be no longer trodden vnder foote And hee said vnto mee vnto Two Thousand Three hundred dayes Then shall the Sanctuarie bee cleansed and the holy People Iustified The dayes bee so many yeares to the end of the world beginning at the Vision which was about the yeare of the world 342.5 Of the certaine Saints speaking or the nomber of wonderfull secrets I omit to speake that to the most part might appeare being in this Land and these late dayes but some tale of a Phenix though to bee testified of more then fiue hundred men and women besides my selfe DANIEL CHAP. IX AFter these Visions in the first yeare of DARIVS the Son of AHASHVERVS the Prophet vnderstood by Bookes and Computations the nomber of yeares whereof the world of the Lord came to IEREMIAH the Prophet concerning the desolation of Ierusalem that seventie yeares should be accomplished And whilst hee was speaking in Prayer and presenting his supplication before the Lord for the holy Mountaine the People of God euen for the holy Citie the Church that to the end of the world must be trodden vnder foote whereof that ruinons place the Citie of Ierusalem is a figure trodden downe at this day Yet was this Hebron built seaven yeares before Zoan in Egipt The man GABRIEL which was caused to flie swiftly touched him and said alluding to the former matter of his studie and meditations as of troublous appetites and Cogitations somtimes Dreames are deriued O DANIEL I am come vnto thee againe to giue thee more skill and vnderstanding Seuentie weekes are determined vpon the holy Citie signifying the time not onely when the Sonne of God by his suffering should make reconciliation for sinne but a time and times and part of time three dayes and a halfe halfe the mysticall Weeke to make an end of Sinnes to finish transgression and to make a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein dwelleth everlasting righteousnesse to seale vp the Visions and Prophecies with the Seale of assurance that all these things are past and true and to annoint the most holy King and Kings and Lord and Lords the first and the last And here againe the Angell GABRIEL willeth him to know and vnderstand the things of which he shall informe him The first is this that from the going forth of the Commandement which is the beginning
A VVARNING TO THE DRAGON AND ALL HIS ANGELS Marke yee this wicked persons yee friends of the vnrighteous MAMMON LVKE XXI Take heed to your selues lest at any time your hearts be over-charged with Surfetting and Drunkennesse and the Cares of this life and so that day come vpon you vnawares For as a SNARE shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole Earth A SNARE O DEUIL Printed M.DC.XXV A GENERALL EPISTLE TO The fold and Flocke of CHRIST and to them that are gone astray that say they are Apostles and Catholiques and are not c. GRace be to you and Peace from God the Father and from our Lord IESUS CHRIST who gaue himselfe for our Sinnes and in the absence of his Body for a remmbrance the Blessed Supper till his second appearing As often as we taste thereof he takes it as a token we are not vnmindfull of his tender mercy that tasted Death it selfe for vs so many melting trials and torments the innocent Lambe for a brood of Vipers whose damme is Death whose sting is Sinne he that washed vs in his owne Blood vnto whome there is no accesse but by Faith Behold hee commeth and euery eye shall see him To him be glory and dominion for euer and euer Amen Jt seemed good vnto me having a perfect vnderstanding giuen mee in these things and the dispensation of them an office not a trade to roote out to pull downe to build and to plant by the grace and bounty of IESUS our Lord God To present this Visitation to your view joyning you together of the first Arke and vniuersall great House vessels of Honor and dishonor some cleane and purified others having need of purging Former things are come to passe and new things I declare vnto you no age so weake nor sex excusing when the Lord shall send and will put his words in their Mouth He powreth out his Spirit vpon his hand-maidens the rich are sent emptie away even so Father for it seemed good in thy sight Pressed and constrained with obedience to him and Duty towards you saying no other things then the Prophets and Apostles did say should come to passe that yee might know the certainty of those things wherein yee haue beene instructed whether you will heare or whether you will forbeare Jt is a salue to annoint and open the eyes of the blinde to bring them that sit in darkenesse a light to leade them out of the Prison-house others by meanes of remembrance whose annoynting long since teacheth them all thinges to stirre them vppe It is a true looking-glasse a large houre-glasse Phisicke for the sicke wholsome for the whole milke for the young and meate for the strong It is vpon Record due an olde debt One and Twenty hun-yeares since Vnto me is giuen this stone to polish vnto me this grace is giuen Jt is as it were a new Song to be sung before the euerlasting Throne a salutation for Strangers and the Brethren if we loue them that loue vs if we salute the Brethren only what doe wee more then others yea but they come at the last houre others hauing borne the heate and burthen of the Day Shall not the lost Son be found againe the Father of these that Blaspheme and are found lyers But in the eye of our weakenesse their prosperitie will weaue the webbe of enuie murmure not at the good-man of the House Is it not lawfull is it no wrong as he will to dispose the riches of his owne goodnesse nay rather may we not all say we are vnprofitable we haue both gon out of the way there is none that doth good no not one nay are not his Iudgements according to truth O man grudge not his grace dispute not his justice But they haue bin and will be to the worlds end our persecutors and slaunderers need they not so much the more our Prayers recompence no man evill for evill Therefore let the Congregations of the faithfull Pray for them poore blind distracted naked wretched people and giue glory to God who hath done away the vaile from these hidden mysteries that hindred our stedfast sight Though to blinde mindes and deafe harts this vaile remaines still vntaken away Wherein for mine owne part J challenge little not so much as those that brought to the Tabernacle guifts of their owne spinning of Blew and other colours But rather to be in the number of those servants that drew out the wonderfull Wine for the Bridegroomes Feast to beare it to the Gouernor and the Guests though to cast in my myte with others J was never vnwilling Finally to those that require a Signe or thinke this Confidence Boasting that high stiles are not steps for the declining age of this weake world to climbe my age of this weake world to climbe my defence is no shorter then free Least any should thinke of me aboue or better then he seeth me to be as others to suspect a forged passe To present you with Pearles of that sort or holy things I forbeare at this time If the debt be paid the secret of the multiplyed oyle is to my selfe Though J shut the Doore or shadow my name I feare no faces smiles nor frownes for the hope of Israel to me no chaines are heauie it is no bought nor stolne fire my ability nor boldnesse extending so high yet a Candle too high mounted for Sathan and all his attempts to blowe it out thriued the Gospell the lesse rejected of the Iewes But all alike hit not the marke they presse forward wranglers started aside like a broken Bowe the match is wonne one Foord is not knowne to all Passengers eleven strikes the clocke saith he twelue saith she doe these contradict those that are not against vs or with vs Antichristians those that are not against vs are with vs Even so glory be to him alone the Set is ours the houre and set time of whose Iudgement is at hand and O Lord remember thy servants Abraham Isaac Iacob looke not to the stubbornnes nor to the wickednes of this People turne their harts preserue thy Church and his victorious Matie to tread downe the power of his enemies our Soveraigne gratious Lord and the Queene annoint them with thy holy Spirit Crowne them with Grace and forren Princes especially the Kings excellent Sister with a happie life here and eternall life hereafter Be gratious to the remnant of IOSEPH heare J beseech thee the Prayer of thy servant The Servant of Iesus Christ O A SVRE DANIEL DANIEL I END AL. Postscript TO maske my name with boldnesse to vnmaske Error J craue no Pardon the manner let none dispise Dreames in times past haue beene interpreted our Fathers in divers manners haue beene spoken vnto the winde bloweth where it listeth ELEANOR AVDELEY REVEALE O DANIEL TO THE GREAT PRINCE the King of Great BRITAINE FRANCE and IRELAND Defender of the Faith THE INTERPRETATION OF THE VISIONS OF THE PROPHET
DANIEL revealing the Man of Sinne And the Morning Starre before the comming of the Day IN the Visions of this Prophet are revealed the same things contained in the Revelatiō which GOD gaue to Iesus Christ to shew vnto his Servants things which must shortly come to passe things that are not to bring to nought things that are And as he signified to his beloved Servant IOHN the Contents of the secret Booke by his Angell Even so the Lambe slaine by the eternall Decree purposed from the foundation of the world Declared the same things to the man greatly beloved his servant DANIEL vnfolded in this present exposition drawing the juice of many sorts wanting roome and leasure to lay things in order wherein the Scripture will repaire the want of methode Being not willing for the lighting of a Match to make a fire when the stroke of a Flint is of more facilitie Speaking not to a People of a strange Speech and of a hard Language but to the House of Israell Avoyding mans enticing words things without life giue no life that revealeth not the testimony of IESUS at whose Name a name aboue every name Let every knee bowe Heare all yee Children of my people harken O Earth The first vision of this holy Prophet was in the I. yeare of the raigne of BELSHAZZER King of Babilon from which spirituall Babilon takes the denomination One and Twentie hundred yeares since Wherein he saw the foure Windes of Heaven or the losed Angels bound in the great River Euphrates the auntient bounds of the great Roman Empire that stroue vpon the great Sea and the foure great Beasts that came vp from the Sea diuers one from another These blowing Windes had no power to hurt till the servants of God were Sealed in the foreheads at what time that Cōmon-wealth became a Monarchy persecuting the Church of God being then with Child Trauailing in birth crying and pained to be deliuered of the man Childe roaring like a Lyon the whole Forrest ringing ruling all Nations with a Rod of Iron that breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things He is Alpha and Omega so haue the servants of God a Two-fold sence Besides man including some other of his Creatures bearing the names of men yet being neither Man nor Beast Praise yee him Sun and Moone c. I heard the number of them And here ended the Sealing of the first Covenant a yoake which our Fathers were not able to beare to establish the second which is Spirituall to put his Lawes in their mindes with the Pensell of his Grace to write them in their hard harts a light Burthen for the letter of the Law graven in stone is the sentence of death But the Spirit giveth life to stony harts that were dead in trespasses and sinnes yea the whole valley of dead Bodies turn'd into Stones and Earth from ABELL the first Borne to the last man taken vp in the Field they are all holy vnto the Lord their iniquitie is forgiven and forgotten as a Father hee remembreth their sinne no more Of these were Sealed to bee of the seed of ABRAHAM one hundred forty and foure Thousand twelue times twelue Thousand Of which faithfull Number IESVS CHRIST the Saviour of the world the only begotten Sonne of the living GOD in the likenesse of sinfull Flesh without Sinne the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah was sealed on the Eight day of his Nativitie The Lyonesse bringing but one and but once in her life That with the sprinckling and shedding of his Blood both Covenants might be sealed These were the first Fruits vnto God and to the Lambe hauing the Token of the everlasting Covenant of the great mysterie in those times concerning CHRIST and his Church put in the Flesh a Figure of the Heart Which first Covenant remaines to vs a Patterne of tendernes not made with hands the Heart by a mutuall respect being now the Closet or secret part whereby wee Gentiles are made the tender Spouse the habitation of God fellow heires of the vnsearchable Riches joyned to Christ the head that in times past were the Children of disobedience and wrath Aliens from the common-wealth of Israell Strangers from the Covenants of promise having no hope without God in the world are now who were somtimes farre off of all Nations Kindreds and Tongues vncircumcised Philistines not of his Brethren not of the House of his Father By the blood of IESUS CHRIST made nigh members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones greater loue and felicitie can none expresse Of which great mysterie Hipocrites next Harlots whose counterfeit beautie deceiues not him whose praise is of men and not of God false Gods are no partakers the outward Token being common to both To assure vs of which receiving the earnest of his Spirit that abideth not crying Master Carest thou not that wee perish but Abba Father Thus our tackling lost without Anchor to repayre the ruines and weaknesse of these decayed sunke weather-tempest driven bottomes such Treasures of Millions expended and bestowed what burthen what prizes what things God hath prepared to bee the lading of these vessels of honour Eye hath not seene eare hath not heard neither hath entred into the hart of man To which all the Transported affections felt or fained injoyed without paines or feare may seeme but light dotage as Light and Darknesse compared compared with the Crowne and weight of that Eternall blisse The Foure windes prepared for an houre and a day and a moneth and a yeare are the powers of these foure great Beasts shewing their degrees of residence also the finall Blast is included The Sea are the Nations of the Earth The beginning and the ending thus saith hee to the Sea Waues drowning one another swelling into Mountaines for glory foaming out your owne shame Saying haile to the Wood awake according to your owne vnderstanding you haue made Idols and Images not by my direction but after the invention of the Craftsman and haue exalted your hearts and forgotten mee giving my Praise to graven Images and my glory to another for your God not setting me before your eyes you haue gotten a Divell a false Prophet whom I sent to proue you that takes my lawes in his mouth not of loue but for strife and envie Thinkes he to say Lord Lord in thy Name wee haue cast out Divels Preached and Baptized my answer is not vnknowne to you both though you thinke to plead ignorance persecuting and dispising the number of my little ones You onely haue I knowne of all the Families of the Earth whose transgressions doe hasten your Iudgement Therefore I will punish you for your iniquities you shall bee like the Morning Cloud and the early dew that passeth away as the Chaffe that is driven with a scattering whirle-winde out of the Flower as smoake out of a Chimney vanishing away And I will bee like a Lyon as a Leopard by the way I will wayte and obserue you and as a
and Blasphemy viz. worshipping Idols of Gold and and Silver Brasse Wood and Stone mixing holy things with filthy excrements remission the forgiuenesse of sinnes and calling the foule Sinagogue of Sathan the Church of God and these are the spices and spirits wherewith her Cup is brewed and this is the Golden Cuppe wherewith the Kings of the Earth haue been made so drunken with a Cup of Sodome Wine mixed with the Blood of Dragons and stirred with the stings of Aspes Is this meate indeed and drinke indeed the sawce commeth after Is this the true Mother is this the Woman shee is taken for with Eagles wings her childe caught vp vnto God and to his Throne and having a crowne of Twelue Starres in no wise in her there is no Bowells of a Mother though they striue to the end of the world Her Iudgement followeth And a name was written vpon her forehead BABILON The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth the Print is not small yet not so large as the mysterie is deepe It was written and therefore to bee read Thus the hidden mystery of this Enigmaticall writing is here the secret of numbers to teach vs to number her dayes The numbers are these and I heard the number of them Two hundred thousand thousand horsemen hauing breast plates of fire and Gunpowder or hiacinth force and furie in stead of faith and loue alluding to the double number of NINVS Horsemen wherewith he subdued so many Nations in Seventeene years The double confirmation of this mysterie seventeene hundred yeares also being the limited time fixed to finish her warre which began with the Lambe and ended in subduing his Saints and Servants And as the fiery Army needing no fuell were to the Army of NINVS consisting of Twenty hundred Thousand amounting a hundred to one so is the accompt of the time when the spreading Vine of the Earth the clusters of her Grapes being ripe she shall be cast into the great wine-presse of the wrath of God These Tyrants here is wisdome to looke into these accompts shall make her desolate and naked and eate her flesh and burne her with fire for God hath put it in their hearts to fulfill his will when Babylon the glory of Kingdomes shall be as Sodome and Gomorah the time is neere the dayes shall not bee prolonged The Father of this goodly Baby yet auncient no novice in her whoredome for so hee nameth himselfe there is no need to name him at whose entrance the Fourth Angell or Winde was loosed as hee is sufficiently notorious so is he mistaken Sathan that old Serpent begetting the Impe of Fornication before ever the Beast and his false spouse came together deceivers as seldome wanting cloakes of craft to hide their shame as their of-spring faile in Lyneaments and likenesse too their Parents seven heads no lesse markes then Mountaines seeing as incredible as superfluous and monstrous were it not the Evidence and demonstration of that Sinagogue to proue her title and visibilitie drunken with the Blood of Saints and Martyrs In steed of her Mothers milke and breast shee sucks her hart-Blood whose Father was a Lyer and a Murtherer from the beginning To Administer the rites of their vnrighteous mistery This City Bab hath Citie Gossips NINEVY is not invited she repented at the Preaching of the poore Prophet shee is none of them But Babylon for her Pride and impudency at this Antichristian solemnity or shew of Christianitie The Mother of Harlots for her stiffe neck is preferred before her whose name this shamelesse place never to be outworne or blotten out beares in her fatall brazen forehead Besides this Lady sitting vpon her Beast seventeene Kings to beare vp her Traine decked with Gold and pretious Stones and Pearle whose name is also Semiramis or Iesabell for magnificence millions of men viz. a hundred times Twenty hundred Thousand Her Altars Images Sorceries and Blood of Prophets and Saints Saying in her hart I sit a Queene and am no Widow a Lady for ever I am and none else besides mee there are Seven Kingdomes Fiue are fallen downe dead drunke vpon whom the Lord hath poured out the spirit of deepe sleepe and closed their eyes they shall revert nor rise no more After slumbering the other Two though they haue falne from the truth shall stagger and come to themselues againe and that Must now growne sower and stale their lust shall be little to taste thereof againe The first Kingdome or ONE IS are the Brittish Islands the right Inheritance of King IAMES the first of that Name of Great Britaine and Ireland for the Iles feared the Iudgement of the Lord and saw it Even the ends of the Earth were afraid and drew neere The other is not yet come and when it commeth it can continue no long space the end of the world is so neere O sencelesse poore Beasts who hath bewitched you why lye yee still who hath bitten you arise choose not Death rather then life how are yee swolne why should your Carcasses be dung and meate for the fowles of Heaven Why will yee dye stand vp why goe yee backward what astonishment is this that hath taken you be recovered vnderstand halt not yet heare the word of the Lord curst cattell backsliding Heifers hee delighteth in Mercy provoke not him with your strange vanities and Bruitish abominations The day of the Lord is at hand Therefore awake yee Drunkards weepe and howle all yee drinkers of Wine because of the new Wine the Deepe Cup the day of the wrath of the Lord is at hand yee Kings of the Earth and Rulers of Sodome who haue commited fornication and lived delitiously with this indulgent Witch the mother of Harlots when yee see her brought to the stake and vtterly burnt with fire how will yee stand for strong is the Lord who Iudgeth her what will yee say yee shall stand a farre off or wish in vaine the Mountaines to cover you howling and gnashing your Teethes for feare of her Torment whoso sinnes as the smoake of her Burning haue reached vp vnto Heaven saying alasse alasse Sodome alasse Babylon Rome the great Citie the head of the Monarchy for in the twinckling of an eye an houre vnlookt for thy Iudgement is come is that a time to cast dust on your heads Never more shall we heare in thee the voyce of Harpers and Pipers awaking and calling for rewards to Saints and our Lady and Trumpeters when wee doe our Almes Never more shall wee see in thee Idolls or Images so auntient the curious device of the Crafts-man nor the sound of the grinding Milstone our Altars decked as a shop shining with the light of so many Tapers and Candles Nor the voyce of the Bridegroome called the head and the Bride by Prelates and so many Kings our holy Mother The Net is spread shee is taken in the Snare in grinding the face of the Poore shee that so much glorified her selfe in a day and an houre her
of the Creation to the building of the new Ierusalem the second comming of Messiah the Prince the Sonne of God it shall be Seaven Weekes or Seaven Moneths as it is spoken by EZEKIEL the Prophet Then the desolate Citie the Sanctuary shall be walled in in a troublous time to make a seperation betweene the Sanctuary and the Prophane place And in the middest of this Propheticall weeke after Threescore and Two weekes Messiah shal be cut off the Son of God salbe Crucified and be deliuered vnto the Gentiles they shal scourge him put him to death the People of the Prince for it was not lawfull for the Iewes to put any man to Death these People the Roman Nation shall destroy the Citie of Ierusalem and the Sanctuary at the end of which Warre there shall begin a floud of Fyre kindled in our Saviours dayes during the Raigne of those Ethnick Beares and the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not then let him that is in Iudea flye to the wilde Mountaines for safety for in those times Iudgement did begin at the house of God and if first Iustice did begin at his Children and Servants in this life what shall the end bee of his Enemies whom hee hates in the world to come that haue not obeyed the Gospell of God These Flouds the Serpent will cast out of his Mouth a time and times halfe a Time to trie them of the holy Covenant their boldnesse what confidence they haue concerning the Lords oath and whether they will perseuer in this holinesse and righteousnesse all their dayes to their liues end and not rather feare his power who is Sathan the Prince of this world or at least the furious cruell hands of his torturing Instruments Whose liues cannot satisfie their malice for had not the senselesse earth shewed more pitty then they opening her Mouth to helpe these poore outcasts their torments had beene endlesse Sooner they may swim and sinke in their Blood then daunt or foyle their courage not abashed for their Boasts threats nor fiery Bands they feare them not at all their Triumphs are graven vpon the Palmes of the Lords hands hee forgets them no more then a Mother forgets her new-borne Sonne her sucking childe when the Tongue cleaues to the roofe of the Mouth for Thirst to haue compassion on him be of good cheere you haue peace in Christ though tribulation in this world persecutions are but like the Trauell of a Woman who hath sorrow because her houre is come but as soone as shee is delivered of the Childe shee remembreth no more the anguish for ioy a man-childe is borne into the world The Lambe the Bread of life shall feede them they shall hunger nor thirst no more hee shall wipe all Teares from the eyes of his Children these vilde Bodyes subiect to all infirmities shall then be made like his owne glorified Body of more perfection then our first Parents a living Soule that shall not dye to Sinne neither shall the heate of the Sunne smite them for hee shall haue mercy vpon them and leade them to liuing Fountaines of truth cleere as Christall these that come to him or overcome the world hunger no more they haue rest and peace for paine and by their white Robes and Palmes in their hands the Ensignes of peace and victorie they shall be knowne neither to be Heretiques or Schismatiques but his servants that haue fought for his Kingdome that it should not be delivered vp vnto Antichrist The followers of him who shall shortly tread these Traitors in the great Wine-presse of the wrath of God who haue turned away their Eares from the wholsome Scriptures the Leaues of which are for the healing of the Nations that they might be rubbed with the Prophane fables of Drunken doting old wiues But with all the faithfull the Lord shall confirme his truth and Covenant for a Weeke from the beginning of the world vntill the last end thereof This week is Seven thousand yeares consisting of yeares Moneths and weekes finished when the Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and hee shall Raigne for ever and ever When the Tenth part of the Citie fell the Tenne dayes of Tribulation are ended Seven thousand names of men slaine in the great Earthquake Dies Solis Dies Lunae Dies Martis Dies Mercurij Dies Iovis Dies Veneris Dies Saturni the remnant were affrighted and gaue glory vnto the God of Heaven For wee must not be ignorant of this one thing that one day with the Lord is as a Thousand yeare and a Thousand yeare as one day In the middest of which Weeke the Lord shall cause the oblation and Sacrifice to cease saying Sacrifice and Offering thou wouldest not but a Body hast thou prepared mee without spot for the redemption of the transgressions that were vnder the first Testament The Blood of which first Testament of Beasts God enioyned to purifie the patternes of heavenly things the Vessels of the Ministrie but the heavenly things themselues with better Sacrifices which are the Consciences to purge them from dead workes that they may be cleane vessels to serue the living God Thus hee once suffered the vncreated in likenesse of a Creature like feeble sinfull flesh sowne in weakenesse and dishonour in the Dust but raised in Power the Brightnesse of his Fathers Glory the expresse Image of his person over whose excellent Nature voyd of violence and deceit the Graue could get no victory no more then the wombe can keepe backe a sonne at the time of perfection redeemed from the Bowels of the Earth and ransomed by the riches of his owne vnsearchable Treasure and quickning Spirit This seeming vgly Serpent rather some shadow or his skin at whose approach men turne pale and quake more terrified then hurt But rocking Babes the faithfull a sleepe others run raving with staring frenzie for feare as if this once appointed so were fits to be chased away not calling to minde the Resurrection of IESVS CHRIST hath opened his Iawes his Sting cut out and nayled to the Crosse that bold Champion scorning to be his executioner setting his victorious foot vpon the Traytors head by spirituall alliance kinne to the Divell proud of advantage bites the Heele of our Saviour with his rotten Teeth for want of his Poysoned sting But heare ô Death vnstop thine Adders eares from whose Mole-sighted eyes the light of Repentance is hid behold thy time and Plague is at hand thy pined crying Prisoners thou shall restraine their libertie no longer that say our Bones are dryed and our hope is lost when shall we dwell in the Land of the living behold thy Caues and Castles shall be destroyed broken downe and the Earth that opened her Mouth and swallowed vp the Flood shall cast it vp againe in the twinkling of an Eye thou shalt giue vp thy accompts for of the Sonnes and Daughters of the Lord thou shalt not