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A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

the body untill the resurrection of the body and then so to rise with it and be named for both For one corrupt opinion or point of false doctrine brings alwayes more of the like nature with it But I leave this to their consideration and come again to the Text to see what it further saith Ver. 16. And the four and twenty Elders which sate on their seats in the sight of God fell on their faces and adoring God said Wee thank thee Lord God omnipotent which art which wast and which shalt come because thou hast received thy great power and brightnesse NOw the seventh Angel having sounded the great and last Trumpet the Lord being come in his glory and the Kingdomes of this world made his who is to reign for ever and ever world without end Hereupon the four and twenty Elders which are Moses and the Prophets as the four Beasts mentioned in Chap. 4.9 are the four Evangelists fall down on their faces before the throne of God adoring him for that his judgements against Antichrist and his worshippers which they by the seven-fold Spirit of Majesty given them of God spake of and denounced from time to time against them were now justified upon them And the everlasting Kingdome of the Lord their God whose dominion reacheth from Sea to Sea from the River to the ends of the earth is now set up for evermore according to all that he had foreshewed them and by the same Spirit spoken by them Hereupon they falling down and adoring the justification of God break forth into praises and thanksgiviving saying We thank thee Lord God omnipotent which art which wast and which shalt come because thou hast received thy great power and brightnesse c. Ver. 17. And the Gentiles were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead to be judged and to render reward to thy servants the Prophets Saints to them that fear thy Name little and great and to destroy them that have corrupted the earth ANd notwithstanding the rage fury of those great Monarchs of the world that like wild Boares of the Forest that rose up against the Lord and against his people and Citie Ierusalem and of those Beasts of the field which said against the Lord and his anointed Let us break their bonds asunder and cast their cords from us And of all those Antichristian powers of so long continuance that have with the rest to fill up their measure rejected the Lord and trode his truth to the ground and made the holy Citie of his Saints as a street to trample upon And of all that innumerable multitude of Gog and Magog which that old Serpent the Devill and Satan shall at last gather together with their mighty men and chiefe Captaines against this great day of the Lord bringing them down and compassing the camp of his Saints about and the beloved Citie intending to destroy root out and take the prey and spoyle of all These all who are here described as they are also in Psa 2. by the name of Gentiles And the Gentiles were angry c. are now to endure the wrath judgment of him who with justice judgeth The great day of his wrath being come and the time of the dead to be judged Now the Lord for whose glory this day is made will render unto every man justly and truly according to their works and wayes wherein their hearts have walked and delighted First to his Servants his Prophets his Saints and Martyrs that through faith and patience have overcome their just reward which for his name and promise sake is right and due unto them And next unto all those heathen Gentiles and people of all nations kindreds of the earth under what name and of what profession of religion soever they passe Jewes Catholiques Protestants or other whose hearts are hard unrepentant and unbeleeving who by their evill deeds have corrupted the earth their just reward also and recompence which to their workes and wayes is rightly due unto them For so much doe the words conclude in saying And to render reward unto thy servants the Prophets Saints and to them that feare thy Name little and great and to destroy them that have corrupted the earth And hereby it is also manifest that at the same very time when the last trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall come in his glory the dead both good and bad shall be raised and judged without any distance of yeares or dayes between the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised as Paul saith And although the salvation of the just and sufferings of the ungodly shall continue for a thousand yea and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares even for everlasting as the Scriptures declare yet the judgment and sentence passing will require no longer time in the hands of the Lord then one day as the Scriptures alwayes expresse it And that we should know for certain that this day will come at the same time when Satan with his Armies of Gog and Magog shall be upon Christendome compassing the Camp of the Saints about and fire shall come downe from God out of heaven and devoure them The holy Ghost in Rev. 20.9 10 11 12 c. doth plainly declare it And to the end that we should take notice thereof hee saith chap. 21.6 It is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end c. And in chap. 16. upon the same comming down of the Kings of the earth and of the whole world unto the judgement of the great day it followeth vers 17. It is done And in Ezek. 39. upon the same destruction of Gog and Magog it followeth also verse 8. Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord. This is the day whereof I have spoken Which day will be the last day of this world spoken of by Martha Luke 11.24 and whereof Christ saith But of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angelt of heaven but my Father only Matth. 24. For although the Lord hath revealed and men may know the yeare yet the day and hour can no man know And as in this last day this present world shall end so in it shal the world to come and the kingdome of Christ and his Saints begin as it is also declared Matth. 25.31 32 33 c. 2 Tim. 4.1 And then shall be the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy Prophets that have been since the world began as it is also written Acts 3.20.21 There shall bee new heavens and a new earth and Jerusalem shall be made a praise in the earth And great shall bee the difference between the estate of this world to come which shall be in subjection to Christ and wherein he shall reigne and righteousnesse shall dwell for ever world without end and the now present world wherein the heathen and Pagan Monarchs and Antichrists reigne and iniquity beareth rule and dwelleth And for any to teach or perswade the Christian State now present as some in their Sermons and Printed bookes have done and doe that the Kingdome of Christ and his Saints whereof the Prophets have spoken shall be in this present world for a thousand yeares before the last day is to teach and perswade to a Doctrine against Christ and not for him whose Kingdome is not of this world which is not nor will be being corrupt subject unto him Antichrist and his Clergie of false prophets that have taken upon them as much as ever did any the name of the onely true Church of Christ in the world have been as a great Monarch in this present world for a thousand yeares past already and let them take it for their portion of happinesse But let no true Christian Ministers state or people bee of such a mind to teach such doctrine or looke for such a thing here againe But rather flie the glory and shadow of this world and look for the eternall Kingdome in the world to come ready to bee revealed when Christ shall come at the last day which I verily beleeve upon the grounds before mentioned many thousands now living shall live to see And so I rest their Christian friend wishing them all true happinesse grace and truth and peace in Christ Amen Now having here a little space let mee put a question or two more to the Millenaries As first if when God shall have created new Heavens and a new Earth Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy there shall be no more thence an infant of dayes nor an old man that hath not filled his dayes as the Prophet Esay saith Esa 65.20 Then I ask how there can thence an infant or child of dayes or an old man die as they will have it in their Millenary estate Again if the resurrection of the ungodly shall not bee till the thousand years kingdome of Christ which the Millenaries make to be the day of judgement shall be expired as they teach Then I ask what time they will have for that great multitude of ungodly not risen from the dead to be judged and who they mean Christ shall be all that time of a thousand yeares a judging Or how hee can judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdome as Paul saith if the dead be not all raised at his appearing and kingdome and brought before him to be judged or why he should need a thousand yeares or dayes time of pawsing in judgement or more then one true naturall day though there shall be a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand yeares of execution and suffering yea yeares and dayes and nights everlastingly as it is written Matth. 25. and sundry other places FINIS

lies Vers 4. These are the two Olive Trees and the two Candlesticks standing in the presence of the Lord of the earth HEre the Lord now begins to declare unto his servant Iohn and so unto all the Saints what his two Witnesses are in their own true nature in saying These are the two Olive Trees and the two Candlesticks standing c. The two as if he had said the onely two and the very same two Olive branches the two anointed ones or Sonnes of oyle shewed before unto the Prophet Zechary which stood fructifying continually before the Ruler of the whole earth not onely in the Prophets time but also long before his dayes and since Zach. 4.14 for so much doe the words clearly imply shewing that they were not two new ones not yet sprung up but those that were of old the Lord referring us as it were to the testimony of the Prophet which we are further to consider of As first where he saith I have looked and behold a Candlesticke all of gold with a bole upon the top of it and his seven lamps thereon and seven pipes to the seven lamps which were upon the top thereof And two Olive Trees by it one upon the right side of the bole and the other upon the left side thereof vers 2.3 So the Prophet having seen these things desires to know what they were and the Angel answered him saying This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Who art thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become ●plain and he shall bring forth the head stone thereof with shouting crying Grace grace unto it vers 3.4 5 6 7. And the word of the Lord came again unto the Prophet saying The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house and his hands shall also finish it and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you For who hath despised the day of small things for they shall rejoyce and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven they are the eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth vers 8 9 10. Although the Prophet had seen and heard all these things yet was he not satisfied concerning the two Olive trees but questions again saying What be these two Olive trees upon the right side of the Candlestick and upon the left side thereof vers 11. And again What be these two Olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the oyle out of themselves into the gold ver 12. And the Angel answered him saying Knowest thou not what these be And he said No my Lord. Then said the Angel unto him These are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth Now the Prophet understood every thing and accordingly as they were declared unto him he writ them downe to the end that other Saints also might understand the same And yet for all this and notwithstanding all that Christ hath revealed and spoken by his Angell unto his servant Iohn and hee left written to us it remaines in doubt and is still a great question with many at this day what the two Witnesses the two Olive Trees are Some saying they are Enoch and Elias whom they will have to come Others say they are Zerubbabel and Iosua And some say they are other two men or more whom they will have to stand up in these times And others say they are the two Churches of the Iewes and Gentiles and the Ministers of both And others that they are the Ministers of the Gospel since Christ and some say the Magistracie and the Ministery And others the two Testaments and the Ministers And some say they are the two Testaments onely Now which of all these opinions is the truth that shall stand approved when all the rest shall vanish like smoake and come to nothing Surely not to make any further demurring the Two Witnesses are the Two Testaments of God without the adding or joyning men or Churches unto them in that respect For which of all those other may be said to empty the pure oyle and light of the righteousnesse and justice grace and truth of God out of themselves through their golden pipes into the golden Candlestick which is the Church of God but his two Testaments onely who have the same oyle in themselves naturally as the Olive trees have their oyle in themselves naturally It is true the Church having received into her seven Lamps of the pure oyle and light of these two Olive Trees and two Candlestickes as Christ also calleth them because they have light in themselves as well as oyle may through the sevenfold Spirit of Prophesie given her of God those seven eyes which Zechariah saw graven on the head Stone Zech. 3.9 and were with Zerubbabel Zech. 4.10 and are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth spoken of also Rev. 5.6 The Church I say having so received and being made partaker of these excellent graces and gifts may and doth by her Prophets prophesie and hold forth the light of Gods two Witnesses the two Olive Trees and two Candlestickes and testifie the same righteousnesse and justice grace and truth to the world in all parts and places where they come For which cause it is said of her O Jerusalem which bringest good tidings lift up thy voyce with strength O Sion that bringest good tidings c. And againe How beautifull upon the mountaines are the feet of those that bring good tidings of peace and good things unto us And St. Paul saith of that holy Citie that she is free and is the mother of all the children of God because she ministers the glad tidings of grace and peace unto them Although all this be true of the Church of God and that she is so neerly united unto his two Witnesses as that they cannot be divided nor parted asunder yet they may and must be distinguished so one from another as that the Church and her Prophets may not bee the Witnesses nor part of them nor the Witnesses the Church For it can no more be so then the woman mentioned Rev. 12. which had the two wings given her wherewith she might flie into the wildernes can be the two wings or the wings the woman though without them she could not flie nor be cloathed nor fed when she was in the wildernesse as the Text Rev. 14. implies the two wings being also the two Testaments which contain in them the word of the Lord wherewith she is in spirit cloathed and fed and they are but two not three nor foure nor more but onely two which God in those dayes gave unto her perfectly finished to be her guide and help every way upon all occasions and in all places wheresoever she removed or should bee dispersed And therefore Christ her Lord who was carefull of her advised

her beforehand that then especially when the time of trouble which he also foretold her of should come shee should betake herselfe unto them as he also saith When yee therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the holy place who so readeth let him understand then let them which be in Iudea flic into the mountains c. Matth. 24. For this was the very time of the great persecution raised by the Dragon against that admirable woman in her most excellent primitive estate described in Rev. 12.1 whereby she was necessitated to flie into the Wildernesse to her place which God had provided for her to take some breath and live She was now to read and understand the written words of his two Testaments and to betake her selfe to them and flie they being the two wings of the great Eagle even the Lord himselfe who gave them unto her to that end and that she might be also nourished by them in that secret desart for a time and times and half a time that is to say three yeares and a halfe of yeares from the presence of the Serpent as verse 14. compared with verse 6. where these three times and a halfe are decribed by 1260 dayes and are to be understood for so many yeares it being also the full time of the reigne of the Beast which was to rise after the Dragons fall For St. Iohn as it seemeth wrote this book of the Revelation at the same time when all the Westerne Churches were by the persecution of Nero and the rest of those cruell Pagan Emperours dispersed and they of Iudea also Iohn himselfe being now for the word of God and witnesse of Iesus Christ in the Isle of Pathmos onely the seven Churches of Asia remaining in their places undispersed and that this was the reason why Iohn speaks not a word of any Churchelse of any place besides those seven of Asia unto whom he was appointed to send the book when he had written it And although notwithstanding that great persecution against all Christians in generall then under the Romane power the name of Christ and profession of Christian Religion increased so that in short time it came to be very generally entertained yet did the true Church herselfe being in respect of her Seed dispersed amongst them never recover her first and primitive estate againe but all things grew worse and worse untill the Beast rose who brought the mystery of iniquity to perfection and set up the abomination of desolation to the full which the Dragon had begun in Ierusalem and Temple thereof to stand where it ought not even in the Temple of the Christian Gentiles the seven Churches of Asia being now also by the Easterne Empire subdued to the Beast and brought under the supremacie and power of his Church of Rome and so they wrought and brought to passe by degrees that the eminent light and beauty of the truly modest and chast virgin Spouse of Christ might no more be seen till the fourty and two months of the Beasts reigne should be expired Therefore as Christ said Matth. 24. Who so readeth let him understand c. So again Rev. 1. Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of the prophesie of this booke and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand verse 3. Verse 5. And if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies and if any man will hurt them so must he be slaine HEre the Lord doth further declare by his Angell what his two Witnesses are in their owne true nature and power in saying If any man will hurt them fire shall proceed out of their mouth c. That is to say if any man shall resist their words and testimony or seem to stop their proceeding and pervert the straight way of the Lord which they declare as the Scribes and Pharisees and those false teachers in Antioch and them of Galatia Elymas the Sorcerer and many other more in the Apostles dayes did or shall wrest their words from their true intention to some other false and evill ends and so turn their prophesie and testimony out of the way to maintaine their blasphemous opinions abominations and lies under pretence of truth as Arius and his followers did and the Beast and his Clergie have done a long time and as many others doe now amongst us at this day to maintain their sundry erroneous and corrupt opinions which they have taken up contrary to the intent and meaning of the Spirit of God in these his two Testaments Look what judgements they have pronounced against such shall surely first or last fall upon them the fire of Gods justice and wrath which proceedeth out of their mouth shall certainly devoure them And let no man marvell at this that they being two are described to have both but one mouth for although they bee two in number and are truly distinct and differing one from the other the one being the Law of sinne and of death so called by reason of us who are all guilty of the breach thereof and so of death which is said to come by Moses the other being the Law of the Spirit of life of grace and truth and is said to come by Jesus Christ yet doe they not speak or will things contrary one to the other but doe truly agree and speake as with one mouth that which is holy and just gracious and true Therefore if any man will hurt them so must he be slain If any man shall make and love to make lies against them or of them and say they speak that which they speak not or mean that which they mean not If any man shall adde to or take from the words of their prophesie see then what their sentence is even in the very finishing of their testimony If he shall adde God shall then adde unto him the plagues that are written in this booke If he shall diminish or take from God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy Citie and from the things that are written in this book Rev. 22.18 19. Blessed therefore are they that doe his commandements that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the Citie for without shall be Dogges and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie Verse 6. These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the dayes of their prophesie and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with all manner of plagues so often as they will THat these two Witnesses have power for to doe all these things I suppose no man will deny because it is without question true And that whatsoever they have prophesied against any Kingdome Monarch Nation State Citie People for their wickednesse against

two Witnesses that notwithstanding all whatsoever the Beast could doe against them they should prophesie the 1260 dayes even every one of the dayes of those fourty two months of the Beasts reigne and the Gentiles treading the holy Citie under foot yet did he not limit their prophecying in Sackcloth within the compasse of those dayes Neither is there a word in all the Scripture to such purpose onely their being killed by the Beast and their corps lying dead in the street of his Sodomiticall Citie c. are limited within that time as we shall see hereafter Neither is it said in the Text the Beast which descendeth into the deep shall make warre against them and kill them but the Beast which ascendeth from the deep c. implying plainly that he should make warre against them and kill them at his ascending or rising or soone after and not at his descending or downfall And that the finishing their testimony here spoken of was to bee before the Beast should rise which we are here duly to consider of as a thing that we ought to know and understand And therefore the Lord foreshewed saying And when they have finished their testimony the Beast which ascendeth from the depth shall make warre against them and kill them That is to say when the holy Prophets Apostles and Evangelists had finished their course written down all whatsoever they had seen and heard from the Lord concerning his two Wils Testaments according as they were guided by the holy Ghost and especially his second or last Will of grace and peace by Jesus Christ His wonderfull conception birth life death resurrection from the dead foretold also by the Prophets His ascension into heaven and his sending the holy Ghost unto them the Spirit of truth to lead them into all truth and to enable them to prophesie through the sevenfold gifts thereof Of Iohn the Baptist who was that Elias which God promised to send before the great and terrible day of the Lord should come the day of judgement and wrath and how he cried out unto the people of Israel and so unto all the world in the spirit and power of Elias requiring every man with strong perswasions great sorrowfulnesse of heart much lamentation and many teares to repent that they might obtaine the forgivenesse of their sinnes through faith in the Messiah the Mediator and Messenger of the Covenant who was now also come to his Temple Which voice of this Elias crieth out unto us all even to this day that we should repent that we may receive also the forgivenesse of our sinnes by faith in Christ lest in that great day when he commeth in power and glory we perish in his wrath and he smite the earth with a curse And how Christ himselfe also preached saving Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand Repent and beleeve the Gospel with many other heavenly Doctrines and most true and gracious sayings And of all his wondrous workes and the things he had foreshewed them should come to passe Of the destruction of Jerusalem and wrath upon that people Of false Christs and false Prophets that should arise Of great tribulation that should befall the Church of Christ during the time of his personall absence And of the signes of his comming and end of the world And after his death and resurrection how hee opened their understandings and among many other heavenly things that he spake of and foreshewed them said unto them Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem And then last of all this book of the Revelation wherein many great mysteries that were sealed up and no man in heaven nor on earth was found worthy to open but the Lamb that was slain are by him revealed 1. The estate of his Church in her primitive time 2. And what her great enemies should be and what shee was to suffer at their hands The first being the great red Dragon Satan reigning in the Pagan Emperours by whose bloody persecutions shee was forced to flie into the wildernesse to escape from his fury as in Rev. 12.3 4 5 6 c. described in Rev. 6.4 by a red horse and one fitting on him that should take peace from the earth The second that of Arius and his followers whose blasphemous doctrines and malicious persecution against those that opposed the same continued five months of years as in Rev. 9.2 3 4 5. described by a black horse Rev. 6.5 The third this of the Beast and his false prophets and whorish Church of whose abominations and filthinesses of the cup of her fornications Kings Princes and people of all Nations have been made to drink and became drunken committing fornication with her and so their souls became lost for ever And her selfe also becomming daily drunken with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus Christ whose bodies she killed because they would not drink of her cup nor commit fornication with her All which being to continue fourty and two months of years as Rev. 11.2 Rev. 13.5 described also in Revel 6. by a pale horse c. ver 8. Then what plagues should bee powred out upon them all for their murders and wickednesse And what and when should bee their end and how great their condemnation And which exceeds all for the comfort of the Church of Christ which was to suffer all these things at her enemies hands how shee should bee delivered from her so great and violent oppressions And what and how great things her Lord hath prepared for her and promised and foreshewed her especially in this booke of the Revelations to be inherited of her for eternity in the world to come when he shall appeare in his glory So the holy Prophets and Apostles and Evangelists having from the Lord perfected his two Testaments which are his two Witnesses they having thus finished their testimony which was never to done before nor from thence forth could ever bee so done after and which might therefore rightly be called Finishing their Testimony and also because no man nor Angel from heaven might or may preach any thing as the testimony of Gods two Witnesses or his Oracles but what is written and contained in them it being the whole counsell of God So I say they having thus finished their testimony and they being prophecying in the plain demonstration of the Spirit and of power turning the hearts of Gods elect to repentance that they might be justified from their sinnes by faith through his grace in Christ which by the Spirit and word of reconciliation was ministred to their broken and contrite hearts And also by the same Spirit and power convincing the wicked perishing world of sinne of righteousnesse and of judgement Of judgement because the prince of this world whom they serve and obey he

thee and thy false prophets those two hundred thousand thousand Clergymen that wrought miracles before thee and cast yee both alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone according as it is written Rev. 19. And then shall his two Witnesses prophecie in their full strength more publickly and freely then yet they doe and his Church come fully forth of the wildernesse that her modest countenance her holy and heavenly conversation may be more clearly seen then yet is or hath been for these many hundred yeares past Ver. 14. The second woe is gone and behold the third woe will come quickly IN Chap. 8. mention is made of three woes that were to come upon the world and be within the time of the sounding of the three last of the 7 Trumpets which the 7 Angels were to sound v. 13. where John saith And I beheld and heard an Angel flying through the middest of heaven saying with a lowd voyce Woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voyces of the Trumpets of the three Angels which are yet to sound The first of these three woes being that of Arianisme before mentioned which is described in Chap. 9. from ver 1. to ver 11. and is said to continue five months ver 5. meaning in the propheticall understanding months of years which according to the Hebrews account who had thirty dayes to every month and twelve months to every year doe containe the just number of an hundred and fifty years which was the time of the Arian persecution and prevailing of that heresie as Histories doe plainly report This and no other thing can rightly be taken for the first Woe neither may the persons or workers thereof be thought to bee Saracens Arabians Mahometans as some name them and would have them nor any other heathen powers or people without the outer Court or Pale of the Church but Christians by profession and such as had great place and power in the outward state of the Church wherby to worke their mischievous Woe in stinging and poisoning the inhabitants of the earth with their hellish smoky blasphemous doctrine and to persecute the Saints of God that opposed the same The holy Ghost having from the first verse of this ninth chapter to the eleventh verse made a full description of this first Woe it being the least of the three and no more again to bee mentioned saith here ver 12. One woe is past And because each of the other two would be farre greater he saith And behold as requiring all men to hearken and take speciall notice of it two woes more come hereafter And then presently following saith ver 13. And the sixth Angel sounded c. From which to the end of the Chapter in a very brief and generall manner is foreshewed not onely the frightfull uglinesse and monstrous deformed shapes of the creatures that should work this second Woe and cause that abominable mystery of iniquity to overspread the earth and how great the number of their Army of Horsmen should be but also with what Devillish weapons of hellish fire smoke and brimstone issuing forth of their mouthes and tailes they should effect it to the slaying of the the third part of men Which strangely deformed great Army are not nor may bee thought to bee that of the Turkes which have invaded and doe now possesse a part of Europe as some conceive and publish Nay but they are Christians also by profession as were the authors of the first woe even the whole race and generation of the great Antichrist of Rome and legions of his false prophets These are the true authors and workers of this second Woe who now began to shew themselves in their fashion when the sixth Angel began to sound v. 13 14. And so in respect of that first Woe of Arianisme which began with the sounding of the fifth Angels Trumpet and continued five months This of Antichrist which was to begin with the sounding of the sixth Angels Trumpet and to continue fourty and two months is in Chap. 11.4 called The second Woe Which woe although it was to be and is more particularly and much more exactly and largely discovered in Chapters 13. and 14. and Chap. 17. and 18. and 19. yet because it is here in Chap. 11. in a generall manner fully revealed the Lord to whom all things past and to come are present saith vers 14. The second woe is gone And because the third woe is to come very soon after and it being the greatest of all he saith again And behold calling unto as it were and requiring all men to hearken and consider of it saying And behold the third woe will come meaning the great day of the Lords comming in his glory to judge the world which will bee a day of terror unto all those inhabitants of the earth that repented not of their sinnes and sorceries and murders c. that beleeved not in him and of the greatest woe to them that ever came For all the woes as they are woes doe belong to the ungodly and are so called in respect of them not of the just neither will the day of the Lords coming in glory be a day of terror or woe to them but rather on the clean contrary the day of their greatest joy the day which they looked for And that they his chosen and faithfull should know and understand upon certainty that this great day of the Lord shall not tarry long but come soon after the desolation of Antichrist he addeth this word quickly And behold the third woe will come quickly Which very thing the Lord also confirmed before in another place by the like word immediatly Matth. 24. where hee having spoken of the tyrannous reign of the selfe-same Antichrist and his false prophets verse 23 24. saith Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes shall the Sunne be darkned and the Moon shall not give her light and the Starres shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be shaken and then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of Man in heaven and then shall all the Tribes of the earth mourne and they shall see the Sonne of man comming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his Angels with a great found of a Trumpet c verse 29.13.31 And as concerning the length of the time that is to bee between the end of Antichrist and the day of the Lords comming in glory intended by the word quickly and the word immediatly The Prophet Daniel speaking likewise of the reigne of the same Antichrist and number of his dayes as also of the end of the world which is to be at the day of the Lords comming declareth it plainly to contain fourty and five yeares according to the Chaldees account Dan. 12. his words being these And from the time that the daily Sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up there

this time of her renewed beauty be as short before he shall be loosed to work this his last misehiefe against her Then shall the Sunne be darkned more then ever it had been it shall be as black as Sackcloth of haire and the Moon shall not onely be darkned but also be turned into blood as it is said Rev. 6.12 according to Ioel 2.31 For great bloodshed shall be upon the earth at this time as the Prophet Esay also saith And the Starres that is such as are in outward place and name as starres and lights in the Church shall like untimely figges fall from Christian religion to Mahometisme or other such like heathenish Apostasie and then shall the powers of the Heavens bee shaken These are the signes that shall goe before the great and terrible day of the Lord as those Scriptures before mentioned declare And then those Armies of Gog and Magog being destroyed by fire from heaven and the Devill that deceived them being cast into the lake of fire the seventh Angell shall sound the great and last trumpet as followeth Vers 15. And the seventh Angel sounded with a Trumpet and there were made lowd voyces in heaven saying The Kingdomes of this world are made our Lords and his Christs and hee shall reigne for ever and ever Amen MAny great things are to bee done at the sounding of this Trumpet For this is it of which St. Paul saith We which are alive and remain unto the comming of the Lord shall not prevent them that are asleep for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voyce of the Archangel with the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are are alive and remain shall bee caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the aire and so shall we be even with the Lord 1 Thess 4.15 16 17. And again Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but wee shall all be changed in a moment in the twinckling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed c. 1 Cor. 15.51 52 53. And Christ saith Mat. 24. Then shall appeare the signe of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all the Tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Sonne of Man comming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the foure winds c. vers 30 31. And again Rev. 10. And the Angel which I saw stand upon the Sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven and sware 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 that are therein that there should be time no longer But in the dayes of the voyce of the seventh Angel when he shall begin to sound the mystery of God should be finished as he hath declared to his servants the Prophets verse 5 6 7. When this great and last trumpet shall sound mentioned in all those places before cited and whereof the Prophet Esay long before this spake Esai 27.13 Then shall all those great things be done spoken of in the same places The Lord shall come in his glory and then hee shall sit in the throne of his glory the dead both good and bad shall be brought before him and be judged Then shall all the Tribes and kindreds of the earth even the whole multitude of the ungodly that ever had been on the earth and they also which pierced him see him and mourn and waile because of him and hee shall send his Angels with the sound of the same great Trumpet and they shall gather his elect together from the four winds c. Then there shall bee time for repentance no longer but the great mystery of God shall be finished even that great mystery of the redemption of all Gods chosen ones the whole house of Israel spirituall as he had declared to his servants the Prophets and whereof they all that have been since the world began have spoken according as it is testified of them Luke 1.69 70 71 c. Acts 3.21 and as their own written prophesies doe shew more abundantly And this is that redemption wherewith the Lord himselfe doth comfort his chosen hee having foreshewed all the sig●●● that should goe before the same saying And when yee see these things begin to come to passe then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth neere Then know yee that the kingdome of God is nigh at hand Luke 22.28 31. Now the kingdomes of this world so long time usurped by Monarchs and Antichrists shall be made the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reigne for ever and ever The kingdomes of this world in respect of the creation and workes of God for so by right they did alwayes belong to the Lord and to his anointed the Prince of the Covenant though they have been usurped and polluted by Satan and his powers of wickednesse which now shall be removed and the earth and heavens cleansed all things shall be new as it is written Esay 65.27 60.22 2 Pet. 3.13 Rev. 21.1.5 This corrupt world shall be purged and made incorruptible as these our corrupt bodies shall and instead of corruption and evill righteousnes and holines shall dwell therein And so in this consideration as the state shall be in the restitution of all things differing from that it is now it shall be another world not this and therefore the Scripture calleth it the world to come Heb. 2.5 c. This present world is not that world which was before the Flood as Peter saith The world that then was being overflowed with water perished 2 Pet. 3.6 and yet we all know and so did Peter that in respect of the works of Gods creation of the heavens and the earth it is the same though in some other kind of respect it is not the same but another So the world to come though it shall bee another world farre differing from this world in state and condition yet in those respects of creation it will be the same And therefore it may rightly be said in the day when the Lord shall come to reigne The Kingdomes of this world are made our Lords and his Christs and he shall reigne for ever and ever And because others to whom they belong not doe now possesse them And they with the whole earth unto the utmost ends thereof by right of inheritance are the Lords as it is written I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Sonne this day have I begotten thee Ask of me and I will give thee the heathen for thine