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
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
every pretious Stone to garnish the foundation was thy Covering the Ruby the Topaz and the Diamond the Berill the Onix the Iasper and the Saphire these things were prepared for thee Thou art annointed the Cherube that Covereth thou wast vpon the holy Mountaine of GOD and thou hast walked vp and downe in the middest of the Stones of Fyre but because thou hast lifted vp thy heart and said I am GOD I haue subdued three Kings I sit in the middest of the Seas and hast defiled thy sacred Houses I will bring thee to Ashes and none shall help thee As I liue saith the Lord I will even doe according to thine anger and according to thine Envie which thou hast vsed out of thy hatred against them and I will make my selfe knowne amongst them when I haue judged thee and thou shalt know that I am the Lord and that I haue heard all thy Blasphemy which thou hast spoken against the Mountaine of Israell Saying they are layd desolate by Massacre they are given vs to consume by the sword thus with thy mouth thou hast Boasted against Mee therefore shortly when the whole Land of Israell reioyceth I will make thee desolate then thou shalt know that I the LORD doe Sanctifie Israell when my Sanctuary shall bee in the middest of them for ever Therefore ô King of the North arise from thy Throne lay thy Royall Robe aside and cause a Decree through Tyrus to be published saying Let them turne every one from his evill way and from the violence or vnnaturall shedding of Blood that is in their hands c. Who can tell if GOD will turne and repent and turne away from his fierce anger that wee goe not into Perdition DANIEL CHAP. XII IAMES CHARLES ARE MICHAELSS AND at that time shall MICHAEL stand vp the great Prince that defends the Faith CHARLES King of Great Britaine France and Ireland which standeth for the faithfull Children of our Nation the Saints of the most Highest As the Angell of God so is my Lord the King to discerne good and bad therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee for ever And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation even to that same time blessings and great felicities being for the most part accompanied with Corrections and extraordinary Calamities Devotion and Religion of happinesse in this life the Highest not exempt from superstition and heresie And at that time thy People shall bee delivered Every one whose name is found written in the Booke c. AL TRVTHS CESAR Behold the Lord is at the Dore as a man come from a farre journey All that sleepe in the Dust of the Earth shall heare his voyce and awake and come forth those that haue done good to the Resurrection of life These haue their part in the first Resurrection and those that haue done evill vnto the Resurrection of Damnation Then the Angell came downe from Heaven hauing taken from the false Prophet the Key of the Bottomlesse pit having in his hand a great Chaine hee shall next lay hold on the Dragon the Devill and hee shall bee bound a Thousand yeares or one day which is all one with the Lord he shall shut him vp and set a Seale vpon him for the wrath of the Lord that day shall bee a sufficient marke that the Nations be deceived no more This Thousand yeares is the great day of the Lord to poure out his wrath and just indignation vpon his Enemies But the wise Virgins with Palmes in their hands that haue not beene deceived by the subtilty or force of flatterers shall shine in their Robes as the brightnesse of the Firmament Kings Daughters attended by honourable Matrons as Starres for ever and ever prepared for the Bridegroomes Marriage whose Wife the Bride and Queene hath made her selfe ready clothed in fine Linnen cleane and white arrayed in a Garment of Needle-worke wrought with Gold of Ophier the Daughter of Tyre shall bee there with a Gift she shall be brought to the King with gladnesse and reioycing they shall enter into his Pallace saying O King thy Throne is for ever and ever thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse therefore God thy God annoynt thee with gladnesse aboue thy fellowes After this Thousand yeares the great Day of the solemnitie finished the Bride being safe in her closset and Marriage chamber Sathan the olde Serpent shall be loosed a little season as Prisoners are set at libertie when they goe to the place of Execution to receiue his finall sentence of everlasting Damnation yet hoping in his vaine imagination and hart that cannot repent to deceiue the Nations that are at rest to take a prey to goe vp to the Citie that is in safetie that needs no Wall neither the light of the Sunne or the Moone c. Vnto whom the just Iudge frō his Throne of Glory with a terrible looke for furie jealousie shall come vp into his face shall say vnto him Art thou he whom I haue spoken of in olde time by my servants the Prophets to giue the Nations warning of thee how thou diddest not onely like a foole deceiue thy selfe when thou saidst I will ascend vp and be like the most highest but like a cursed creature didst deceiue their innocent Parents be prepared therefore and prepare thy selfe and all thy Company and see whether thou canst be a guard vnto them or what defence they can make for themselues who could not be ignorant and ought not to be carelesse because by mine owne Mouth I gaue them warning that after many dayes thou shouldst be visited and brought a Prisoner into the Land which is now brought backe from the Sword and cleansed though it lay waste a time and the Villages thereof vnwalled For these I commanded them straightly to watch both concerning the things I fore-told them should come to passe as also of this houre lest like a Theefe or as the Flood came vpon their fore-fathers the Vngodly they should be surprised vnawares because I told you of these things before depart I know yee not nor that Captaine your false Prophet are yee those that eate my flesh and drinke my blood whence are yee I never knew you more then you knew mine or Me cursed and deformed crew with stiffe neckes double crooked hearts deafe Adders and blinde People with eyes goe yee cursed into everlasting fire Wee haue eaten and Drunke in thy presence all the world was taxed by the Prince of our Nation and thou hast taught in our streets Their iniquitie is the greater thrust them out Lord Lord come out Dogs and Swine Apes and Satiers hence here all Lyers Scoffers at the truth vncleane persons for here shall enter in no wise any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh Abomination or maketh a Lye but they which are written in the Lambes Booke of Life But thou ô DANIEL shut vp the words and seale vp this Booke to the time of the end
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