wee shewed but now Wherefore as the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel and a great plague was sent among the congregation of the Lord so is it come to passe also in this Laodicean lukewarme late times wherin so many have been killed both corporally spiritually that to no other time then this present can be most justly applyed as was noted before that saying of Christ Mat. 24. 22. that except Christ in his most wonderfull and unspeakeable mercy had not now as hee hath to the great praise of his most holy Name shortned these dayes both of spirituall temptations and provocations yea and more then in Balaams time of most violent injunctions and constraints to eaâ—e things sacrificed unto Idols no soule was like to be saved so also of most horrible and â—bominable treasons and conspiracies tending to the utter confusion and in all likelyhood finall and totall overthrow both of Church and Common-wealth in these three Kingdomes especially so that there was no flâ—sh like to be spared especially of the best professors who were thereby like to parallell the desolation of that so great and flourishing Empire of Germanie of that so long reformed Kingdome of Bohemia and of those so famous and purely reformed Churches of that so late flourishing Principalitie of the Palatine if not to excell them If it had not beene the Lord who hath beene on our side when such monstrous and Gyant like Vice-Roys and Traytors were risen up against us * for then they had swallowed us up quicke their wrath being so vehemently kindled against us then their waters had overwhelmed us the streame whereof had gone over our soules Then those proud Herarchicall waters had gone over our soules But blessed bee the Lord who hath not given us a prey to their teeth Our soule is escaped as a bird out of the Snare of such foulers the snare is broken and we are escaped Our helpe is in the name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth Thirdly and lastly herein also may he bee compared to that faigned Charon of the Pagan Poets who was the boatman of Hell to carrie over the blacke Styx in his most wide and capable ferrie boate the soules of men to whom may be applyed in respect of what hath hath beene already said of him according to his former practises that vaine yea most blasphemous boasting power that is read in the Decretals which the Popes doe attribute unto themselves viz. That if they carried with them millions of soules to be tormented with the great Devill in Hell no man was to reprove them so imperious was he and so absolute in all his Tyrannies both corporall and f pirituall that no power either temporall or spirituall was able to resist or restraine him only from his intended devilish plots and designes but so would goe on come what might come of it yea let Church State King and all sinke or swimme 't was all one to him so hee might have brought to passe his owne ends which were indeede no better then Hamans as it is now manifest to all the world In whose shamefull end may all impenitent traitors with their devilish projects and conspiracies fall and finish that the King State and Church may for ever flourish and prosper for if the wicked be once taken taken away from before the King his throne cannot but be established in righteousnesse saith Salomon Prov. 25. 5. I will end this first point of Doctrine in a word or two of admonition to all such as hitherto have worshipped the Beast and his image and have received his marke in their forehead or in their hand and to all that with them have drunk of the wine of the wrath of this whores fornications to all Recusant-Papists I meane and Hierarchists whatsoever they bee beseeching them to consider seriously with themselves the lamentable forementioned condition and woefull estate of all them that have heretofore or doe yet daily thus hazard their poore soules into such ships either to trade among such Pirats or if they bee but passengers with them to take such blood-drunken guides for Pilots and such beast like Marriners for rowers who in stead of bringing them them to Heaven and Heavenly rest as they professe and boast doe carrie them downe into the Sea of the Euphratian Jordan with a most violent and swift currant to percipitate them in the end together with themselves in * that lake of fire and brimstone there to be tormented day and night forever and ever Heare this and tremble for it is now high time if ever to * flee from the wrath which is at hand up therefore * get ye out of this Sodome Doe I say unto you as once Lot spake unto his sonnes in law for the Lord will presently destroy it * Come out of Babylon say I againe unto you as the Angel in the Revelation to the people of God that ye be no more partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Get ye out of such ships forsake such wilfull blinded guides else you shall assuredly * fall both into the ditch as saith our Saviour Stop no more your eares * like the deafe adder which will not hearken to the voyce of charmers charming never so wisely And if he doth yet grant you to day to heare his voyce * harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of the last temptation in the wildernesse whereour fathers have tempted him proved him and seene his workes for the space not of fortie yeares only as the ancient Jewes but now of full a thousand two hundred fifty and upwards least he sweare againe in his wrath that ye shall not enter into his rest * Depart therefore I pray you from the tents of such wicked men lest ye bee consumed in all their sinnes and bee swallowed up with them and goe downe alive into the pit of destruction nay hye ye lest with the foolish Virgins you tarrie till the doore of repentance bee shut up against you and it be too late for you to cry Lord Lord open to us And thus much shall suffice for this first point In the second place from this consideration that these Mariners or Court-officers of such Merchants doe make such a rich trade or gaine upon this Sea and of the people of God in these Hierarchicall ships or Courts observe this other point of doctrine viz. that The Ministers of the Beast false Prophet even as their head all of them I say make a trade both of soules of all other things spirituall pilling spoy ling all those that saile with them both of their temporall spirituall goods behaving themselves therin even as the false Prophets did of old of whoÌ„ the Lord doth so often complaine by his Prophets as we may reade Esay 56. 1â— c. where speaking of them he saith The watchmen are blind
the d Saracens stirred up by the sound of the first trumpet when that * Starre e Mahomet about the yeare of the Lord 622. fell from Heaven unto the earth to whom was given the keys of the bottomlesse pit when the said Saracens made him their Generall about the yeare 630. at the opening whereof came out of it those Saracenicall Locusts mentioned Revel. 9 1 c. who with their said Generall that other Arch-heretick with his smoke false Doctrine of the Alcoran darkened the sunne and the ayre and with the almost innumerable multitude of their Armies did cover and pester both the whole Asian Empire and that of Africa yea rushng and flying further they advanced very farre in Europe invading Thracia Sicilie Sardinia and afterwards came as farre as Spaine about the yeare 714. and there setled themselves under the name of Moores possessing the said Mountaine Kingdome for the space of 800 yeares from thence they rushed also very farre in France in which Kingdome they first entred about the yeare of our Lord 726. and therein advanced as fare as Tours upon the River Loire having for their King Abidiram with an Army of 375000 men from whence they were chased by Charles Martel Duke of Brabant that great Captaine and by his Successour Pepin made afterwards King of France and altogether rooted by Charles the Great the said Pepins Sonne created after that Emperour of Germany in the yeare 800 of the Lord Concerning which Saracenicall Locusts we say that during the time they did thus torment the Christian world the first of the seven forementioned Plagues which caused or brought upon the Inhabitants of the earth the first of the forenamed woes was powred out of the first Viall by the first Angel as it appeares very clearely by the analogy or great correspondency that is to be seene in comparing the effects of the said fift Trumpet mentioned Revel. 9. with those of the said first Viall described Revel. 16. 2. and comparing likewise the said effects of both the said fift Trumpet and of the said first Plague with the charge which was before given to the foresaid Windes in generall in the forealledged seventh Chapter of this Revelat. where the said Winds were restrained from hurting for some time onely either the earth or the sea or any tree as they would no doubt have done else But that restraint being now taken away and the first of the said Windes having already greatly endammaged both the earth and the sea yea the Sunne and the starres as we have already shewed This second being now loosed he is also thereby permitted to hurt the earth or earthly men of the Kingdome of the Roman beast And onely forbidden to hurt either the grasse of the said earth or any greene thing or any tree bearing any good fruit because they were marked and thereby exempted And thus the first Angel of the seven Vials doth likewise powre out his Viall upon the earth onely Secondly the said Locusts were permitted to hurt onely the men which had not the seale of God in their foreheads chap. 9. vers. 4. even so the plague of the first Viall must no more be powred out upon those that were sealed but onely upon the men which had the marke of the beast and which worshipped his image Revel. 16. 2. Thirdly the plague of the Locusts was not mortall they being commanded not to kill them Rev. 9. 5. but onely to torment them with torment like unto the f torment of a Scorpion when he striketh a man Neither was the plague of the first Viall mortall but such a one as thereby a very noysome and grievous sore fell upon those men Revel. 16. 2. So that the one as well as the other caused the first woe proceeding from the plague of the said first Viall brought by the sounding of the said first Trumpet stirred up also and moved by the blowing of the foresaid second winde all which joyned as it were together made the men of those times so miserable that though they sought death in those dayes yet could they not finde it because it did flee from them as did the said Locusts themselves which caused these great torments the which being driven from one place or Kingdome did as it were skip presently unto another continuing therein for the space of about five moneths of yeares and exercising their said tormenting power upon those Christian men by name which had not the seale of God in their foreheads but the marke of the beast onely And thus did they continue for many hundred yeares in Asta Africa and Europe But g though their said power was much abated in Europe by the foresaid Charles the Great who condemned the adoration of Idols and opposed it both by his writings as also in that Councell by him assembled at Franckford in the yeare 794. wherein the second of Nice where the said adoration of images and intercession of Saints was approved held in the yeare 787 was condemned to whom God gave many great victories over the said Sarracens yet because for all his opposition the said Idolatry did still continue being also approved in the Councell of Constantinople held under Michael the third about the yeare 866. therefore could they not be driven quite away But now and then did they much vex the said Christian world with their tailes or remnants making many incursions therein for the space of an hundred and fiftie yeares more about which time * Tangrolipix the Turk upon the death of Mahomet the Persian Sultan was made King of Persia whereby those Saracens were deprived of that Caliphat and soone after the said Tangrolipix got also from them that of Babylon The Sultan Saracen of Egypt was likewise deprived of his Caliphat 150. after by * Saracon another Turke viz. in the yeare 1166. He also invaded many of the Emperour of Constantinoples Provinces After whose death his Successors continued the said Warres and subdued all Media with a great part of Armenia Capadocia Pontus and By thinia and so a great part of the lesser Asia But let us now leave them thus continuing their said Warres one against another and the Greek Princes at variance amongst themselves thereby giving great advantage to the said Turkes still more and more to invade one part or other of the said Empire yea the holy Land it selfe becomming thereby the very bane and grave of many Christian h Emperours Kings Princes and most valourous Captaines and Souldiers whose carkasses have fallen by millions in those remote wildernesses by reason of their idolatrous and superstitious vowes and pilgrimages to the said by them then and by such means most prophaned City and Sepulchre answering very fitly to the threatning denounced by GOD to that ancient Israel Numb. 14. 28 29. as the right type thereof By all which meanes the said Turkish Nations and peoples were also the more provoked against the said Christians to hate and persecute
proceedeth from this viz. that by the drying of the said Nationall Euphrates the tenth part of the Kingdome of the Roman Beast or Empire doth fall altogether or doth quite separate it selfe from it to be no longer a member thereof this part comprehending the Kingdomes of England Scotland Ireland with all the Iles adjacent and thereunto belonging In which part of the said Roman Empire the said Hierarchicall power must now then be utterly abolished according to the foreappointed decree registred in that forealledged place of Revel. 11. 13. and likewise 16. 12. it being the fift and last effect of the said sixt Trumpet the accoÌ„plishment whereof is the cause of the * great voyce of that great multitude in heaven which was heard by John saying Hallelujah Salvation glory honor power be to the Lord our God because his judgements are true righteous because he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornicatioÌ„s c. By which means also a very wide gate is opened and the way prepared for the people inhabiting the said 3 forementioned Kingdomes which the said Euphrates had but a little while before almost over flowed quite drowned hâ—d not the Lord in mercy in a most wonderfull manner prevented it by the powring out of the said sixt Viall upon it in the very time of its most swelling and all overwhelming power by which means its intolerable pride is not only abated but the Euphrates it selfe is quite dryed up so that you as the Premices of the conquered and perfectly converted Kingdomes of the foresaid Roman Western Empire may now freely enter before the other nations in the Canaan of the true reformation the which having first settled and established among you having quite rooted the said Hierarchy registred to eternall memory the utter abolishing therof you may then presently enter in CovenaÌ„t with the Lord and oblige your selves by vow first to continue for ever after faithfull unto him so that you will in a holy zeale defile the very coverings of the images of silver and of gold and take away all the high places and cast away as a menstrous cloth all reliques and remnants of superstition idolatries from among you say unto them Get yee hence that God * may see among you no uncleane thing that may cause him to turne away from you but that rather he may delight to dwell with you and * to walke in the midst of your then bright shining golden Candlestick even to deliver you and to give up all your enemies before you And after that imitating herein the Rubenites Gadites and halfe tribe of Manasseh you may goe armed before the Lord to warre and goe all of you armed over the Euphraticall Iordan before the Lord untill he hath driven out all your enemies the Popish Hierarchicall Canaanites from before him and subdued the whole Land before the Lord as said Moses to the said Rubenites c. in the forealledged place of Num. 32. 21. And though you come from the more Westerly parts of the Western Roman Empire yet are you in a mysticall sense both in respect of the type those ancieÌ„t Israelites entring into Canaan at the East side of it and also in respect of your profession the right Kings of the East comming from the Sunne rising where the day spring the true shining light of the Gospel from on high hath visited you thus to goe before his face to prepare his wayes And as the Israelites brought along with them the * Arke of the Testament over laid round about with gold wherein was the Golden pot that had Manna and Aarons rod that budded and the Tables of the Covenant so doe you bring along with you to them the * everlasting Gospel * of the Kingdome with the powerfull preaching thereof the true food of the Soule together with an holy Church-government at the bright shining light whereof all false Antichristian doctrines of idolatries superstitious Ceremonies will-worship and all other humane inventions shall fall as * Dagon before the Arke yea * Satan himselfe shall fall from heaven It will further cast down before you * all imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ Which is the conquest here especially intended and the weapons wherewith it must be performed This is that mystery whereof the Angel that stood upon the sea and upon the earth spake which God had declared before to his servants the Prophets which is now to be accomplished namely among the rest to Daniel in the * seventh of his prophecy v. 25. speaking of the time of the finishing of the Kingdome tyranny of the little horne which should then undermine viz. by her wiles as another Balaam the Saints of the most High which S. John Rev. 11. 7. â—pplyes to the time of the two witnesses finishing their testimony saying that the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomles pit should then especially make warre against them and should overcome them and kill them which last words Daniel expresses thus saying of the said Witnesses that they should be given into hâ—s hand viz. of that little horne or powerfull Nationall Hierarchicall Sea but with all limiting the time of that victory when he addes in the next words untill a time and times and the dividing of time in these few words comprehending what S John more fully and clearely expresses in the 8 9 and 10. v. of the foresaid Chap. wherein he shews both their condition during their said death and also distinctly what we are to understand by that indetermined time of Daniel viz. three dayes an halfe which we have already shewed to be meant of the three yeares an halfe of the Witnesses n mysticall death or imprisonment At the ending of which time Daniel saith that the judgement should sit and thâ—y viz that sit in the said judgement should take away his Dominion to consume it destroy it unto the end which is thus expressed by S John first in the foresaid Chap. v. 11 12 13. saying that after those three dayes and an halfe formentioned the Spirit of life c. and afterwards v. 13. And the same houre was there an earth-quake and the tenth part of the Citie fell c. Item Chap. 16. 12. in these words And the sixt Angell powred out his viall upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dryed up And then finally in the thankesgiving of that great multitude assembled in Armageddon sitting in the foresaid judgement Rev. 16. 16. saying * Allelujah Salvation and glory and honor and power be unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgements for he hath judged the great whore and hath avenged the bloud of his servants at her hand All which places are parallell By the
Church against all the assaults of the world sayes to this purpose The flouds have lifted up O Lord the floods have lifted up their voyce the floods lift up their waves The waves of the sea are marvellous through the noyse of many waters yet the Lord on high is more mighty And Psal. 124. verse 2. and 4. If it had not beene the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us then the waters had overwhelmed us the streame had gone over our soule saith the Church of God there this is also manifest by the place now alleadged of Isay 8. 7. Now such powerfull assemblies or seas of people are different according to the different qualitie of the waters or peoples whereof they are as it were compounded or constituted the one being Civill the other Ecclesiasticall Againe the power of the Civill assemblies is either Monarchicall or Aristocraticall or Democraticall such as were those that are mentioned by the Prophet Jer. cap. 51. verse 42. where speaking of the powerfull armies of King Cyrus that were to come against Babylon thus hee saith The sea is come upon Babylon she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof And Dan. 7. who speaking of the foure Empires that should be raised in the world to sway the Empire thereof he saith verse 3. * That foure great beasts came up from the Sea one divers from another The Ecclesiasticall power is that Hierarchicall wth is often mentioned in this booke of the Revelation and so in this place as it shall more clearely appeare by and by to which power applying now the former diffâ—rences of the Naturall seas and waters before spoken of we say that they are accordingly either Caelestiall or Earthly The Calestiall are those * Glassie-pure-Crystall-like waters of life or Assemblies of true Christian professors of the holy and pure Religion of Christ refreshed and filled with the pure waters of the heavenly doctrine * proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb Christ Jesus Whom alone they take for their head acknowledging that he hath beene anointed by God King * Vpon Sion his holy mountaine And that * the Lord God hath given him the throne of his father David upon * whose shoulders also hath beene laid the key of the house of David that is the Government thereof to reigne over it for ever * for he must raigne till he hath put all his enemies under his feet This Caelestiall Hierarchicall power then over the Church is in Christ alone who while he remained in the flesh did immediately by himself administer it in this his Kingdome of Grace And now being gone to continue the same in that of Glory he hath appointed according to that * power given unto him by his father both in Heaven and in Earth the administratioÌ„ of the keyes thereof to his Church the people whereof and its holy congregations doe make up and constitute those glossie seas or assemblies of the true reformed Churches as being filled with the foresaid pure living waters proceeding from the said Throne The which Church doth likewise administer this power by her * Ministers and Governors who are to exercise it not as dominering Prelates over Christ his heritage but as his Ministers in * Christ his name and by his power as acknowledging no other Soveraigne in matters Ecclesiasticall but him alone who is the true * Melchisedech of his said Church The Earthly Hierarchicall powerfull sea is that which is represented unto us in this booke of the Revelation by those Terrestiall seas filled with earthly doctrines humane traditions and ordinances to which the Holy Ghost maketh allusion Revel. 16. The which are either n Vniversall answering to the maine Ocean o or Nationall correspondent either to these particular seas which take their diverse denominations from the divers Kingdomes they beate upon as the Baltick or Swedish sea the German sea the Brittish sea c. which are thus denominated because such parts of the maine Ocean beate upon the coasts or shâ—res of those kingdomes of Sweathland Germanie England c. Or rather to those nationall rivers as I may call â—hem called also Seas in Scripture as it was shewed before which do water or runne along or through whole Kingdomes or Provinces often distinguishing and separating the one from the other The Vniversall Hierarchical earthly sea is that wch is mentioned in the third ver. of the said 16. chap. upon which the second Angell powred out his Uiall which thereby became not only as the blood of a dead man but also it caused every living thing to die therein which was at last effected and fully accomplished by those Vaiversall humane-earthly-hierarchicall assemblies of peoples or heads of peoples as is before noted who makeing and acknowledging the Pope for their supreame head under whose Soveraigne power and absolute authority they were gathered together did settle and establish the same together with all that false Antichristian doctrine and humane traditions by them not onely approved but also preferred to the Scripture it selfe attributing and allowing then unto him that full power to doe which though long before hee had begun to assume unto himselfe and to exercise the same even since the time of the powring out of the second Viall under Boniface the eight who first instituted the o Jubiles Anno Dom. 1300. appearing the first day of the said Jubile in his Popish ornaments and the next in an Imperiall attire or harnesse with anaked sword carried before him crying with a loud voyce Ecce duo gladij hic behold here are two swords yet was it now brought to its full perfection namely first in that p Councell of Constance where three Popes occupying at once the Papall Sea viz. Gregorie the twelfth Benedict the thirteenth and John the three and twentieth were deposed and Martin the fift established which schisme had continued more then any other before viz. 50. yeares in it was enacted that damnable decree Haereticis non esse servandam fidem that it was lawfull to breake the oath made to Hereticks by vertue whereof John Husse was there burned and then totally in that of Trent q begunne under Pope Paul the third and ended eighteene yeares after in the time of Pius the fourth and by him confirmed the next yeare following whereby all that Popish Sea of false humane earthly doctrine was altogether corrupted which caused as the spirituall death of all those in that sea that might have yet some remnant of living water in them so that second woe proceeding from the great slaughters of Christians executed by the Turkes * Who killed by the fire and smoke and Brimstone comming out of the mouthes of the horses whereon they sate the third part of men The Nationall Hierarchicall powerfull sea proceeding from that forenamed Vniversall as the Rivers doe come from the Ocean Eccles. 17. is represented
mighty and great meaning indeed the King of Ashur as it is expounded in the very next words but alluding to the said Euphrates which did water the land of Assyria so hath this mysticall done to which also the same Spirit of God alludeth speaking of it in this book of the Rev. as it was shewed before so that that which the Lord said then to the said people of Judah may very fitly be applyed to the people of this land That because they had refused both in the time of King Edward the sixt and also of Queene Elizabeth * that pure river of water of life cleare as Chrystall proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lambe I meane the the true Liturgie or worship of God together with the true discipline of Christ or Church government both profered unto them then both by Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr grounded and drawn out of the doctrine of Christ of his holy Apostles as we find it expressely instituted by him saying first concerning the said Liturgie * that it is in vaine to worship him teaching for doctrine mens precepts And that all such doe onely draw neare unto him with their mouth and honour him with their lips but their heart is farre off from him Yea in so doing they do but worship that which they doe not know as he said to the woman of Samaria John 4. 22 23 24. for then was that time come of which he speaketh there when the true worshippers were to worship the father in spirit and truth for then the father did require such to worship him For God being a Spirit they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth And concerning the said Discipline observe onely these few places viz. Mat. 5. 22. and 18. verse 15 16 17 18. and chap. 20. verse 25 26 27 and 28. where is set downe the true patterne thereof I doe but name them because I intend not to speake of this now renewed as it were by him after his Resurrection as S. Luke tells us Acts 1. 3. where he shewes that Christ was seene of his Disciples and heard too as saith Saint John in his first Epistle chap. 1. verse 1. speaking of those things which did concerne the true Government of his Kingdome of Grace and that by the space of fortie dayes as he had beene with * Moses in the mountaine under the Law when he gave him the patterne of the Tabernacle of all the instruments thereof which were then to bee imployed in his holy worship then instituted by him wherin as Moses shewed himselfe very faithfull in all the house of God as the Apostle doth testifie Heb. 3. 5. the same may we say of the Apostles concerning the Govenment of this house of Christ But as the said Iewes I say did then refuse such waters so the said people refusing both the said pure and simple worship of God and true Church Discipline and preferring to it that vaine frothie pompous-humane-will worship or Liturgie of Rome some what refined I confesse but yet the very same in substance therefore did the Lord bring upon them that proud Prelaticall Hierarchicall Church governement by the meanes of it The which hath at length * broken into England especially and hath so overflowed and passed through it that it is come not only to the neck but even to the very top of the cheekes and k eares of some of the best servants of God some of them having had their eares cut with the Knife made as it were of the glasse of that * glassie sea and burnt with the fire thereof yea it had so spread out its wings that it had covered the breadth of the land becomming thereby impassable and like the raging sea that cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt as saith the Prophet Isa. 57. 20. as it proved especially when the said Christian Israel of God was ready to passe over it As the waters of the forementioned Jordan did then overflow and fill all his bankes as soone as the feet of the Priests that bare the Arke were dipped in the brinke of the waters thereof thereby to prepare the may for the said children of Israel to passe over it after the drying thereof even so did then especially that Hierarchicall powerfull tyrannicall sea flowing from that forementioned l head thereof raise to such a height of pride and inhumane cruelty that it did overflow and runne over all power and authority both divine and Humane and became thereby so intollerable that no humane creature was able to withstand restraine or resist it So that in a short time it had easily as another deluge overflowed and destroyed the whole land and by its most deadly waters of Popish and Arminians false doctrines and superstitious ceremonies killed every soule living yet in that tyrannical scalding sea according to the prophesie of Christ therein truely accomplished recited Mat. 24. 22. saying that except those dayes meaning the dayes of the great tribulatioÌ„ mentioned described by him in the next preceding words which can bee no other then the thousand two thundred and sixty dayes of this christian Churches pilgrimage through her said deseart so called Revel. 7. 17. except saith he they should be shortned there shall no flesh be saved but for the elects sake those dayes shall bee shortned As it is now manifestly come to passe by the wonderfull mercy of God who being a God * that heareth prayers as the Prophet saith hath at last * looked downe from the highest of his sanctâ—any and hath from Heaven beheld the earth to heare the groanings of the prisoners and to loose those that were appointed to death and hath regarded the prayer of the destitute not despised their request as it is said in that Propheticall Psalme that was then written for the generation to come and for the people which was to be created a new For he is no idle spectator of the wrongs done unjustly to his servants but rather such a one as doth usually * resist the proud Hamans of the world scattering them in the imagination of their hearts and putting downe the mighty from their seates As the most blessed Virgin Mary doth fing Luke 1. 52. 53. and as we see it already begun by the almighty power of God who hath taken in hand that proud Hierarchicall whore even in the very time when in her over-swelling pride * shee most glorified her selfe saying in her heart I sit a Queene and am no widdow and shall see no sorrow as she is brought boasting of her selfe Revel. 18. 7. 8. Whereupon the Angel denouncing her last sentence of condemnation saith of her in the next words Therefore must her plagues come in one day death and mourning and famine and shee shall be utterly burnt with the fire of Excommunication for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her Who therefore doth now stirre up those that
at first had given their * power and authoritie to the beast to hate also this whore to make her desolate and naked and to eate her flesh and to burne her with the said fire Having to that very end especially gathered them together to fight this great battell of the great day of God Almighty now happily begun in the place called in the Hebrew tongue Armagedon Revel. 16. 14. 16. I meane the Parliament or Heavenly Assembly so called Revel. 11. 12. and 19. 1. at this time Assembled by the most wise afore ordained-decree of God mentioned in that fore-alleadged place of Revel. 16. and by his most gracious mercy towards his poore afflicted Church and children who had for a very long while groaned under an heavier burthen of ceremonious superstitions and Idolatries then was that of the Egyptian servitude thus to fight the battells of the Lord against the said nationall whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornications to avenge by that meanes the blood of his servants at her hands Revel. 19. 2. making thus the tenth part of the great City to fall in this conflict together with seven thousand men of name Revel. 11. 13. That the forementioned way of the Kings of the East may be prepared to goe against great Babylon it selfe to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fiercenesse of Gods wrath Revel. 16. 19. Therefore goe on in the name of God ye worthies of the Lord in doing with boldnesse and courage this wonderfull worke of his now by him committed unto you and heare him speaking to you by me his meane and unworthy servant as hee spake of old to that great leader of Israel Joshua saying Now therefore arise and goe over this said Euphrares you and all the people unto the said Canaan of true reformation which hee doth give unto them even to his Christian Israel Every place that the sole of your foote shall tread upon that hath hee given unto you from one end of the Roman Christian Empire even unto the other that is all the ten Kingdomes of the Beast from the rising of the Sunne to its going downe shall bee your coast There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the dayes of your life for as he was with Queene Elizabeth and before her with Edward the sixt that had worthily begunne the said reformation so will he be with you He will not faile you nor forsake you Be strong and of a good courage for unto this people shall you divide for an inheritance the land which hee sware unto their fathers to give them Onely bee ye strong and very couragious that you may observe to doe according to all the words which Iohn his servant commanded you in his Name iâ— the booke of his Revelation turne not from it to the right hand or to the left that you may prosper whethersoever you goe The said booke should not depart out of your mouthes but you should meditate there in day and night that you may observe to doe to that Hierarchicall Nationall whore and to all the popish Cananites not forgetting the proud Arminian Anakins according to all that is written therein * Rewarding them all even as they rewarded you and giving double unto them according to their workes in the cup which they have filled fill to them double for then * you shall make your way prosperous and then you shall have good successe Hath not he commanded you Be strong and of a good courage bee not afraid neither be ye dismaid for the Lord your God is with you whether soever ye goe going * before you sitting upon a white horse whom you must flollow as his heavenly armies sitting also upon white horses cloathed in fine linnen white and cleane And to that very end I am sure have you now even as your most worthy brethren the Scottish men have done before you entred into a new Covenant with the Lord and caused all the people of the land to doe the like m A most worthy Act of yours wherein wee are fully perswaded that you have beene altogether guided by the spirit of God and wisedome from above as having therby performed that which was typified both of you and of all the Kingdomes of the world that are to enter after you into the true Canaan wherein you are now entring that is that are ready to imbrace after you and by your meanes also as wee will shew by and by the true reformation of Religion you have now in hand in thar action forementioned of Joshua that valiant leader of the ancient Israel according to the commandement of God given unto him to that end n Josh 5. 2 c. the first institution and ground whereof may bee seene Gen. 17. from the first verse to the ninth of the said chapter in which covenant and promise thereunto annexed were comprehended as well the Gentiles as the Iewes and the which God will now fully accomplish as well to the one as to the other according to the ancient prophecies both of Dan. 7. 26. 27. parallel to those of the Revel. chap. 10. 7. and 11. 15. 17. 18. to the very time of the accomplishing whereof wee are now come By the meanes of which covenant wherein you are thus entred with the Lord may bee applyed to you both and to all them that shall eâ—ter in it what the Lord said then of the said people of Israel in the said 5. chap. verse 9. viz. * That in the day it was performed the Lord did take away the shame of the spirituall Egypt from you Now therfore O ye worthies of the Lord be ye also fully assured for your greater encouragement in the prosecuring of the glorious worke which the Lord and his annointed our gratious Soveraigne the King hath intrusted you with all that the seventh last Angell doth now beginne to blow the seventh and last Trumpet at the blowing wherof you know that the mysterie of God is to bee accomplished as he had declared to his servants the Prophets in former times as it is said Revel. 10. 7. * even the time of the dead that they should bee judged and the time when God should give reward unto his servants the Prophets and to the Saints and to them that feare his name to small and great and wherein hee is to destroy them which destroyed the earth powring upon them the seventh and last viall of Gods wrath which bringeth upon them the third and last woe yea the very time wherein the words of God are to bee fulfilled mentioned Revel. 17. 17. for the executing of the Iudgement of God upon the whore spoken of in the next preceeding verse To which end also as that captaine of the Lords host o appeared to Joshua presently after the foresaid Covenant taken as he was by Jeâ—â—â—ho that hee might put in his heart to fulfill therein his will even so will
found out as I am fully perswaded by the favâ—â—able assistance of the spirit of God together with that faithfull and unfailing guide of his owne appointment the foresaid type of the journeys of the children of Israel travelling from Egypt to Canaan and at length discovered the particular Countrey through which runneth that powerfull mysticall Euphrates which hath thus since the forementioned time of the first Reformation of Religion till the drying up of it now fulfilled by the powring out of the said sixt Viall hindered the perfecting of the said Reformation Having also shewed what are the mysticall seas which it makes in its course or powerfull dominion established in the said Kingdome thus divided into two great Metropolitan Seas or Dioceses As also the very time of the drying up of it and spoken of some of the most admirable and wonderfull workes of the Lord that are already performed by his most powerfull over-ruling hand since the drying thereof and that are yet in hand and which he will not now leave unperfect nor desist any more from the full accomplishment of them because the time now begun foretold by that Angel which Saint John saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth or earthly sea whereof lifting up his hand to heaven he sware then by him that liveth for ever and ever who created heaven and the things that therein are and the earth and the things that therein are and the sea and the things which are therein there should be time no longer * But that in the dayes of the voyce of the seventh Angell when he should beginne to sound as he hath now as was shewed before that then the mysterie of God should be finished as he had before declared to his servants the Prophets All these things I say having beene thus premised it is now manifest and very easie to be understood that the Ships that were traffiking upon the forementioned Seas are nothing else then the Hierarchicall Courts of such Metropolitan Archbishops and of their other brethren the under Diocesan Bishops the divers Officers whereof are thus represented unto us in this text by the Holy Ghost by such names and titles as are ordinarily given to sea-faring men which are diverse having also divers titles whereby they are called as was before noted in the Analysis of the text The first whereof are called by the tiâ—le of Ship-masters which in the Originall are expressed by the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifying properly a Governor which Governours and Ship-Masters seeme to bee two distinct officers or offices bearing two distinct charges in Ships both specified also by Saint Luke Acts 27. 11. Where he saith that the Centurion beleeved rather the Governour and the Master of the Ship then c. The first of which Officers is here mentioned being the very same title or word by which the Apostle S. Paul doth call those Church Officers of the Primitive Churches which now among those that are truely called by the title of the Reformed Churches beyond Seas are named Elders here Lay-Elders by some or ruling Elders by others which are those * Helpes in Government or rather helping governours whom elsewhere the Apostle calls Presidents or Wise Rulers as in the first to the Thes. chap. 5. verse 12. also when hee saith We beseech you brethren to know them which labour among you and are Rulers or Presidents over you in all which places hee useth the very same word that is here employed by the Prophet speaking of these Ship-officers Which Rulers Presidents or Governours are of two sorts the one of them being Pastors and teachers who labour especially in the word and doctrine the other are those that are onely Ruling Elders or Helping Elders because they are or should at least bee Helps to assist the Ministers in the administration of the Church discipline or in the Governement of the said Church who are so distinctly specifiâ—d or precisely distinguished by the Apostle in his first to Tim. chap. 5. verse 17. when he saith let the Elders that rule well bee counted worthy of double honour especially they who labour in the word and doctrine Which were also very well knowne in Origens time who lived about the yeare of Christ 226. who did thus distinguish them when writing against Celsus he saith * Non nulli praepositi sunt qui in vitam mores eorum qui admittuntur inquirant c. There are some ordained to inquire into the life and manners of such as are admitted into the Church that they may banish such from the Publique Assembly that perpetrate scandalous acts so likewise in S. Ambrose his time as it appâ—ares by that famous text of his * Vnde Synagoga postea Ecclesia seniores habuit quorum sine consilâ—o nihil agebatur in Ecclesia c. There were Elders in the Church under the new Testament as well as undâ—r the Law in the Synagogues as it appâ—ares clearely by these few places of the Old and New Testâ—ment viz 1 Kings 6. 32. 2 Chron. 19. 8. 11. Jer. 26. 10. 11. Ezec. 7 26. which were in steed and â—â—d represent the whole Congregation as may be seene Exod 12. 3. 21. and 19. 3. 7. see also in the New Mat. 27. 2. Marke 15. 1. Acts 4. 5. 6. c. without whose advise and counsell nothing was done in the Church c. saith that father Which officers I meane both * Pastors and Elders are also called guidâ—s oâ— Oâ—erseeâ—s by the Apistle Heb. 13. 17. where he châ—râ—es the Hebrewes to Obey them that had the oversight of them or that were their Guides or Rulers Of which the Assemblies of Consistories Colloques and Synods both Parishionall Provinciall and Nationall of the said Reformed Churches beyond seas are composed who have also the managing and disposition of all Church affaires Concerning which Assemblies it will not bee amisse to say this by the way that they have alwaies for President or Moderator a Pastor or Minister the rest of the said Assemblies both Ministers and Elders being his Assessors to vote and judge with him of * what cause soever concerning the Lord or any controversies which comes to them of their brethren that dwell in their particular cities and congregations The said Moderator being as it were the mouth or Speaker in the said Assemblies both for the examining of the businesse treated or discussed among them the taking of the voyces or opinions of the said Assessours and Judges and pronouncing of their opinion or sentence concerning the said matters thus agitated among them and that according to the pluralitie of voyces Which Moderator or Speaker is alwaies chosen in the first session of the said Nationall Synod lawfully convened from two to two or from three to three yeares by the said Pluralitie of voyces both of the said Ministers and Elders there assembled to be the President thereof during the same
them in their owne Territories and to be there a scourge unto them for the punishment of all their said Idolatries These fell out not long after upon the blowing of the third of the foure forementioned Windes loosed by the Angel ordained by God to restraine it till the time by him appointed was accomplished which cōming from the East quarter of the world brought along with it about the yeare of the Lord * 1300 that other sect of Mahumetans called Turkes who not contented to have taken from the Constantinopolitan Emperors during the time of their forementioned troublesome estate and decaying Empire the most and best part of their Provinces in Asia passed over the strait of Hellespontus into Europe about the yeare 1320 wherein they conquered presently after the whole Countries of Thracia Mysia and Macedonia afterwards the whole Empire it selfe which was utterly overthrowne by the taking of that famous Citie of Constantinople by Mahomet the Great first Emperour of the Turkes and the seventh King from Ottoman the first founder of that Empire who was not of the Selzuccian family as were all the other Turkes Sultans the Successors of Tangrolipix but of the Oguzian Tribe a family famous also amongst the said Turkes The taking of which once most glorious but then most miserable Citie fell out in the yeare * 1453 the 29. day of May Constantine Palaeologus being then Emperour who then ended there miserably his dayes together with the said Greeke Empire From thence they advanced further in Europe wherein they conquered many Kingdomes and Provinces invading infesting and ravaging many peoples in the said part of the World both by Sea and by Land and all this for the punishment of their abhominable idolatries and superstitions in so great a quantitie and innumerable number that the Holy Ghost in that ninth Chapter of the Revelat. where this most inhumane barbarous and bloudy warre is described from the 13. verse thereof to the end of it with the true cause mentioned in the 20 verse of the same might very well say that thereby the third part of men were killed But for all that the rest of the men who had the mark of the beast though they did escape those plagues yet did they not repent of the workes of their hands but rather continued to worship their most devilish Idols persecuting most cruelly all those who refused to worship them thereby shedding the bloud of the Saints and of the Prophets because they refused to submit themselves any more to that proud Antichristian tyranny of the Pope casting off his most intolerable yoke together with all his false doctrines and ordinances which then they began to see how they were altogether become as the bloud of a dead man so that it was impossible for any living soule to live in such a deadly and abominable Sea or to drinke without danger of most apparent spirituall death any of the waters or humane doctrines and superstitious Ceremonies issuing from the said Popish Hierarchicall Sea and therefore had rather suffer the most exquisit torments and most cruell corporall death yea of the hot burning fire then the most common that could be inflicted upon them by their bloudy barbarous persecutors then to returne backe againe towards that most deadly mysticall Sea from the which they did rather flie as of old the * Israelites from that of Ezion-Gaber as soone as they had heard the voyce of the Lord saying unto them You have compassed this mountainous Countrey of the Edomites long enough therefore turne yee Northward viz. towards the Land of Canaan againe standing Northward from Ezion-Gaber Even so did the Christian Israel as soone as they had heard that * Angel flying in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospell to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every Nation and kindred and tongue and people saying with a loud voice Feare God and give glory to him because the houre of his judgement is come c. Hastening towards the Northren Countries of the Popish Roman world in very good hope to enter then in the promised Canaan of true reformation as it was noted before but being frustrated of their said conceived hope by the forementioned i Edomites they were constrained to make a very long circuite to approach it and to enter thereinto by the East side of it In which way as they were stung with the fiery Serpents in the Desart of the foresaid Edom in the beginning of their issuing out of their Desart and by them very unkindly used so at the end of it they did finde both Midianites and Moabites with false Prophets who would by their wiles have hindred their entry into their said Canaan but chiefly that fiery Euphraticall Jordan forementioned stopping altogether their entrance thereinto All which most unkind unmercifull hard dealings and most cruell usage of the said poore and sore afflicted Church of God besides the forementioned Idolatries of their detainers and persecutors were the cause of the loosing of the foresaid Easterly Winde by which the sixt Angel was moved to sound with such a long blast or Alarme to excite the five Angels to powre out the forementioned plagues contained in each of their Vials upon the most notable parts of that Antichristian Roman Empire but especially upon its forementioned Euphrates both Universall and Nationall the inflicting of which brought upon them the second terrible woe because thereby k God first gave them bloud to drinke to avenge the bloud of his Saints which they had as it is already said shed in great abundance l Secondly He did also by the means of them scorch them with fire Wherefore they did blaspheme the name of God because they had burned with fire his Saints and most faithfull servants and had tortured them thereby to compell them to blaspheme m Yea the said plagues were so grievous painfull that for very paine they were constrained to gnaw their own proper tongues because they had cut the tongues of his servants thereby to hinder them to make open profession of their most holy faith to confesse his name and sing his most holy prayses in the midst of the flames as else they would have done And as the said persecution instituted by Antichrist began from the time of Wickliffe and hath cōtinued to these late years even so have the foresaid plagues continued since to this very present time But the last of the foresaid five Vials being powred upon a particular Nationall Euphrates as was shewed before hath produced also a more particular effect than the former though being powred out upon a particular member of the same mysticall body the whole cannot chuse but by sympathy to have some feeling of it as is manifest by the stirring of the three forementioned Frogs by the cōplaints of all the Viceroys Merchants Mariners not onely of the said Nationall Sea but also of the Vniversall The cause whereof
servants whom he hath also armed now especially with such powerfull authority that If any one doth yet presume to hurt them or oppose them in this most blessed and most holy work of Reformation * fire shall proceed out of their mouth to devoure all their enemies for if any man will burt them he must in this manner be killed And they have also to this end a two edged sword in their hands to execute vengeance upoÌ„ the heathen and corrections among the people yea to binde their Kings in chaines and their Nobles with fetters of iron that they may execute upon them the judgement that is written this honour shall be to all his Saints Prayse yee the Lord FINIS * So the woman did sit upon a scarlet coloured beast Rev. 17. 3. called before vers. 1. waters expounded after vers 19 and 18. * Revel. â— 15. 16. 17. 13. â— 12. 14. 16 17. â— * And thus did the Serpent cast oute of his moâ—th the like â—â—â—nde of water as a flood after the woman Revel 12.15 These Kings were 31 in all Iosh. 12.24 Psal 125. 3. Revel. 11. 〈◊〉 Idem 1. 3. 5. Numb. 33. 1. 3 c. a That is yeares a day for a yeare according to that threatning mentioned Numb. 14. 34. alluding to the type thereof mentioned Exod. 19. 4. Deut. 32. 10. b i. e. One yeare two yeares and halfe an yeare of dayes amounting to the forementioned time of 1260 dayes of yeares c Cent. Magd. Cent. 4. p. 861. l. 44. Helvicus Crounologie Alsted Chron. p. 76. * Revel. 12. 15. h This may be very easily gathered by that which is said Revel. 17. 1. 21. 9. i This is the right practise of the Hirarchicall men both in Pulpits printed books publick and private conferences and the best arguments they can alleadge to oppose the excellent Church government of the reformed Churches beyond Seas k Thus doe the proud wicked men of the world perswade themselves that it is in their power to hind er the proceedings of Gods judgements and to stay his hand when he hath begun to execute Iustice upon them this was the cause of the builders of Babel Gen. 11. 4. c. and of Pharaob Exod. 5. 2. and 〈◊〉 5. 9. and likewise of thâ—se who think that the Kings of the earth shall be able to hinder the drying up of this mysticall Euphrates or to make it run as before now it is dayed up But all such must know that there isâ—… neither understanding nor councell to withstand the Lord as saith Solomon Prov. 31. 30. l For with him is wisedome and strength hee hath counsell and understanding it is he that breakes downe and it cannot bee built that shutteth a man up and he cannot be loosed he that sendeth the waters to destroy the earth and he againe that withholdeth the waters and they dry up saith Job 12. 13. c. * Revel. 16. 16. Iosh. 10. 8. m Such as were those of the great Armado of Spaine called Invincible sent in 1588. to conquer England in the time of Queene Elizabeth Or of that other last which was overthrowne by the Hollenders neare Dover in 1639. * Gen. 1. 7. * Verse 10. * 1 Cron. 4. 2. Revel. 17. 15. Ier. 51. 42. * Dan. 7. 3. * Revel. 4. 6. and * 22. 1. * Psal. 2. 6. * Luke 1. 32. * Esay 22. 22. and 9. 6. * Cor. 15. 25. * Luke 22. 29. and Mat. 16. 19. compared with 18. v. 18. * 1 Thes. 5. 12. Heb. 13. 17. 1 Pet. 5. 3. * 1 Cor. 4. 1. and 5. 4. Mat. 28. 18 19 20. * Psal. 110. 4. Heb. 7. 21. n Thus the Pope doth attribute unto himselfe an universall Hierarchicall power over all the Churches and Bishops of the Christian worlâ— which presumptuous title was at length granted unto him by Phocas the Parricide or cruell murtherer of Maurice the Emperour in the veâ—â—e of our Lord 606 who therby became the Popes midwife Eodem â—nno Concilium Romanâ—m celebratâ—â— in quo idem Bonifacius pro mulgat privilegium Phoâ—â— â—â—jus parriciâ—iâ—â— approbaverat de primatu Ecclesie Romanae quem Patriarâ—hae Constantinopolitani hactenâ—s impugnaverant For the punishment whereof God brought from the Southerne part of the world some 15. or 16 yeares after Mahomet with his false Alcoran together with his troopes of Locusts or Saâ—â—asins who did extreamely vexe the woâ—ld causing the first woe Reâ—â—◠〈◊〉 5. 1â— o Thus are the Nationall Dioceses or Seas of Archbishops and Bishops called by the name of the chiefe Cities of those Provinces over which they doe dominere and exercise their powerfull usurped authority as the Diocesse of Caâ—…ry that of Yorke c. o The Iubiles were first instituted by Boniface the eight in the yeare of the Lord 1300. calling himselfe most blasphemously the Portion of Heaven as having the keyes of it in his power of whom it is very well said that Intravit ut â—ulpes regnavit ut Leo mortuus est ut canis For the punishment whereof God brought the Turkes over the Hellespont in Europe under Ottoman their first Emperour in the yeare of Christ 1320. In this very time and in this Pope that Prophecy of Revel. 13. 11. was truely accomplished these two swords being the two hornes there spoken of signifying the power both of the Priesthood of the Kingdom therefore doth he also weare them in his Miter as true signes or markes hereof Then indeede did this Beast come out of the earth for as the Kingdome of Christ is from Heaven and bringeth men thither so the Popes kingdome is of the earth and leadeth to perdition because it is begun and established by ambition covetousnesse beastlines theft treason and tyrannie Luke 22. 38. p This Councell was held in the yeare of Christ 1414. under Pope Martin the 〈◊〉 whose Pantofle the Emperour Sigismond kissed very devoutly kneeling q It was begun in the yeare 1545. was as the very sincke of all herisies and false doctrines * Revel. 9. 17 18. Eccle. 1. 7. Revel. 16. 4. and verse 12. Ier. 51. 6◠〈◊〉 44. 27. r For the third Viall was pâ—â—â—ed presently after the foremâ—ntioned Councells of 〈◊〉 and Tâ—… about which time Aâ—… the Tâ—… wastâ—d â—any kingdomes in Euâ—… and â—pâ—lt â—â—ch Christian blood The like did Mahomet the seccond and Bajazeth his successors sâ—â—â—â—â—ls Turkish Hist. from the yeare of Christ 1420. to 1600. c. The sixt Viall was powred upon Euphrates about the yeare 1632 so forwards the effect whereof viz the drying up of it appeared first in Scotland anno 1639 when the sentence of Excommunication was deceived against the Hierarchie and the ministers thereof t He that was last the head of this Nationall Hierarchy had manifestly corrupted all both doctrine and worship had hee not beene betimes prevented by the Parliament as it appeares both by his conference with the Iesuite also by the late Canons and by his most tyrannicall actions and cruell
lapidibus pretiosis ornata Vasa Hebraica quae Titus Vaspasiani filius post captivitatem Hiero solymit anum Romamdetulerat multaque millia captivorum Cum Regina Eudoxia quae Gencericum ad hoc facinus invitaverat duabusque eâ—us filiabus Carthaginem abducta sunt d The true Type of this warre against the Church of Christ in this time is that of Amaleck Esaus sonne of whose posterity these Saracens are though they pretend to be descended of Sara who was the first of the Nations who warring against Israel procured thereby their owne utter destruction foretold Numb. 24. 20. decreed Deut. 25. 19. and effected in part 1 Sam. 15. 2. 3. c. and after in Mordecais time Est. 7. but spiritually accomplished by Christ But for Israels sinne came this chastisement upon them as the Iewes themselves acknowledged saying after they had passed through the Sea they murmured for water then came against them the wicked Amaleck who hated them for the first birth-right and blessing which our Father Jacob had taken from Esau and he came and fought against Israel because they had violated the word of the Law c. Thargum on Song 2. 1â— They fought but treacherously Deut 25. 18. as the Scorpions with their tayles Revel. 9. 10. laying waight for them in the way 1 Sam. 15. 2. * Rev 9. 1 c. e It is ordinarie with the Spirit of God speaking in this booke of any statutes or Kingdomes of this world to make allusion to the frame of this Vniverse attributing to them an Heaven and with it a Sunne Moooe and Starres likewise an Earth Sea and rivers c. as you may observe Revel. 6. 12. c. there speaking of the fall of the Roman Pagan Emperour Also chap. 8. verse 7 8 c. Speaking of the downefall of the Roman Christian Emperour And chap. 16. speaking of the plagues inflicted upon the Papall Emperour according to which Allusion Mahomet is here called a Starre Revel. 8. 7 8 9 c. f The Amaâ—ekites are likewise compared to bees Deut. 1 44. compared with Num. 14 45. g In the warre against Amalek mentioned Exod. 17. 8. c. Israel sometimes prevailed sometimes Amalck who though discomâ—ited for that present by Joshua vet his utter destruction is remitted till after the conquest of Cana in by the said Joshua denounced by God vers. 14. and therefore registred prophecied by Basaam Num. 24. 20 That of the Saracens and Turks must also follow that of the Pope of all his Canaanites who must be conquered before the Turke can be * Knoll general Hist. of the Turk 〈◊〉 4 5. Alsted Chron. 25. p. 168. 170. * Knoll ibid. p. 57. h O that they had been wise and that they had understood that God was not among them because they had turned away from the Lord by their Idolatries and that therefore they should fall by the sword of those vile Mabumetan Saracens Turke as Moses said then unto the Israclites in the like case Num. 14. 20. c. Speaking of those Amalekites who caused that Kadesh to become a right Horma or Anathema to both of them * Alsted Chro. 25. p. 172 173. Knoll Turk Hist. p. 143. Mores Tab. p. 185. * More Tab. 205. sayth it was in the yeare 1452. but Alsted and Knolls whom I have followed ascribe it tothe ensuing yeare see Alst. pag. 173. Knol pag. 349. * Deut. 2. 2. * Revel. 14. 6 7 i All these peoples behaving themselves against Israel as false and unmercifull brethren are a true type of all the false Christian Papists especially in their most cruell fiery persecutions k The effect of the second and third vials beginning about the thirty-two Moneth of the voyage c. l The effect of the fourth yiall beginning about the latter end of the thirty-fourth Moneth and so forward m The effect of the fift Viall beginning in the 41 moneth about the latter end thereof all which coÌ„tinue as long as the secoÌ„d woe caused by them Alsted Chro. 28. p. 200. * Rev. 19. 1. 2 * Isa. 30. 22 * Deut. 23 14 Levit. 26. â— Rev. 2. 1. Luk. 1. 78. * Heb. 9. 4. * Rev. 14. 6 * Mat. 4. 23 * 1 Sam. 5. 3. 4. * Luk. 10. 18. * 2 Cor. 10 5. * Dan. 7. 25 26. is cleared being compared with John Revel. 11. 7. c. n Typified as is noted before * Rev. 19. 1. 2. * Dan. 7. 27 parallel also to Revel. 19. 11 12 c. * Rev. 14. 4 * Iosh 1. 13 c. * Iosh. 22. 2 3 c. o The same Church Leing the type of the Church representing summarily and in generall her condition since the time of her issuing out of the wildernes as is noted before 2 King 9. 33 * Num. 25 7 8 31. 6. 8. Num. 31. 16. 17. * 1 King 18. 40. * Rev. 19. 15 * Luk. 19. 27. * Rev. 11. 5. Psal. 149. 6. 7. c.