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A86703	A sharp, but short noise of warr, or, The ruine of Antichrist by the sword of temporall warr, hinted. Written, by Francis Lin,	Line, Francis, 1595-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing H333; Thomason E622_2; Thomason E595_2; ESTC R206422	18,276	32

nor could be healed forsake her let us goe every one to his owne Countrey for judgement is come up unto Heaven and is lifted up to the Clouds 't is high time for all every where who meane to have their souls or bodies preserv'd to draw home to Jesus Christ the Saviour of all them who by a right rule doe trust in him for Salvation Oh that men would heare and take notice in the behalfe of themselves as it may be of concernement to them what the Counsell of the Lord is which he hath devised against Babell and his purpose which he hath conceived against the Land of wicked Romish Chaldeans see and compare Jer. 51.13 with Rev. 17.15 O thou that dwellest upon many Waters abundant in treasures thine end is come even the end of thy coveteousnesse Now if it be asked by whom will God bring this great destruction upon his and his peoples enemies Answ And observe when the Lord of Hosts shall have an Army of men in the Field whose hearts shall be set at liberty to worship Christ in the beauty of holinesse and to praise his Holy Name with courage and constancy then shall the enemies helpe destroy one another 2 Cron. 20.23 Againe Israel is the rod of his Inheritance the Lord of Hosts is his Name marke what the Lord God saith to his People Thou art mine Hammer and Weapons of Warr for with thee will I breake the Nations and with thee will I destroy Kingdomes and by thee will I breake Horse and Horsman and by thee will I breake the Chariot and him that Rideth therein Jer. 51.19 To this purpose is that of Rev. 18.6 Reward her even as shee hath rewarded you and give her double according to her works and in the cup that shee hath filled to you fill her the double But one note by way of parity or likenesse and I have done with the Romish Antichrist for this time 't is cleare to me that the old Heathenish Babylon was a manifest Type and visible figure of the Romish Babylon which now is as yet in being and that as face answers to face so in reference to their actions they have very clearly portraied out each others lineaments for what was done against God his truth and people by the one hath beene practised and acted by the Other and that to thelife as we say and against more light and knowledge and with greater strength of malice hath the Romish Antichrist persecuted the Church of Christ beyond the Heathens therefore certainly God will be avenged upon such a People as this for true and righteous are his judgements for he hath condemned the great Whore of Rome which did corrupt the Earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his Servants shed by her hands and hath which showes the certainty of the thing now that the Kings of the ancient Heathens were in some respects Types of the Romish Popes and they the Antitypes of them I refer to the reviewing of these Scriptures Isa 14. Jer. 50. 51. Hab. 2. Rev. 17. 18. To all which I shall add Revel 13. In which I observe that the Popes of Rome are set forth in the forme of a Beast and that this Beast hath received his power from the Dragon which is the Devill And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast and they worshipped the Beast saying who ●s like un-the beast who is able to Warr with him and there was given unto him a Mouth that spake great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him to doe forty two Moneths and he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God to blaspheme his name and his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven and it was given to him to make VVarr with the Saints he was permitted so to doe Observe Antichrist makes warr with the Saints or upon the Saints I understand this meant of a temporall VVarr and of Antichrist his putting the Saints upon a defensive VVarr though to his owne ruine Observe the Saints who are a People that doe not delight in VVarr simply as it is a destruction to the life and well being of man yet the Saints doe and must mannage a temporall Warr when justly occasioned and necessitated thereunto in the behalfe of truth and of themselves But to the words againe with the Saints and to overcome them and power was given him over every kindred and Tongues and Nations that is to Antichrist the Pope and Popes of Romish Babylon this is that Satan-like and Beast-like man which hath made the Earth tremble and the Nations shake This is the man who hath led the Saints for some hundreds of yeares into Captivity it is he that hath killed them with the Sword therefore it is he and his Adherents that must be led into Captivity and that must be killed with Sword of the Lord of Hosts put into the hands of his People I observe by the way that this Scripture I meane Rev. 13.10 is not to be aleadg'd against those noble minded Christians which doe in these dayes and times out of conscience to God and in love to truth and their Country hazzar● their lives in the high places against the enemies of God with a desire and purpose if possible to preserve truth and peace and true Religion in their persons Families and Nation wherein they live I rather conceiue it a Prophecy which relates to the temporall destruction of Antichrist by the Sword of Warr who is aforehand with the people of God for he and his Adherents have already led them into Captivity and hath killed them with the Sword I shall mention a passage or two out of a Sermon which was preached in the Arch Palatine Court in the yeare 1617 that only in Belgia containing the 17. Provinces of the low Countries whilst CHARLES the Fifth lived were slaine and murdered fifty thousand Christians and that the Duke of Alva cruelly boasted that in the space of six yeares after he had beene Governour of that Countrey there had beene eighteene thousand persons killed by his Commandement and also from the yeare 1576 to the Agreement at Gaunt there had perished by the Tyranny of Papists thirty thousand yet sayth the same Author there was a greater vintage and harvest in France for sayth he it may be prov'd by arguments worthy to be beleev'd that from the yeare 1564 to the yeare 1586 that is in the space of twenty two yeares that one hundred and forty thousand godly persons were put to death besides those already mentioned besides those that were put to death by the Papists in England in Queene Maries dayes and besides those slaine In King Charlses time I have likewise read in the History of the Waldenses of one Panza one of the Popes Inquisitors who did cut the throats of foure score Christians and then quartered them and caused stakes to be set up for the space of thirty miles and caused a quarter to be fastened to

each stake Next to this there is mention made of threescore women who were brought to the Rack by the Fathers of the Popes inquisition who all perished by their horrible cruelty In the History of the Albingenses there is mention made of one hundred and forty men and women who because they refused to submit to the Church of Rome were all of them throwne into a fire at one time and burnt to death by the Earle Simon and the Popes Legat. These few instances fell in by the way there is enough upon record to prove that Antichristian Papists have beene the most bloudiest and the most devouringst Woolves that have had a being upon this Earth therefore for my part I beleive the Lord God will punish this Romish Babylon and will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up and the Nations shall not flow together any more unto him yea the Wall of Babylon shall fall and the dayes are come in which God will doe judgement upon the Graven Images of Babylon and her whole Land shall be confounded and all her slaine shall fall in the middest of her I have now done with Papists only I wish to as many of them as doe belong to the election of grace a visible repentance from sin and Idolatry an actuall faith in the true Scripture 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ the eternall Son of God a holy and a harmlesse life and preservation to their bodies from that Warr and from that destroying Sword which is already occasionally drawne and will be extended to and excercised upon the generallity of willfull stubborne and obstinate Papists all the world over I call it an occationall Sword in a twofold respect First the Papists by committing more sins then I am able to mention and greater sins then I know how to paint out have justly occasioned God to bring the Sword of warr upon them and they have occasioned you I may say inforced the Saints I doe not say to bring Warre upon them but in their owne just defence to maintaine a Warr against them They the Antichristian Papists I meane have beene many hundreds of yeares raising and acting of most cruell and bloudy Warrs upon the people of God called Protestants of late yeares they have made long furrows upon their backs in the parts of Germany in France in Ireland in England for they have beene the hatchers of all these Warrs and they have beene the maine actors of them too and they will continue to raise and to act warr in Ireland in France and it may be in Scotland too they will never end their warr till warr hath ended them or at least their power they will continue their malicious endeavours to destroy the true Church of Christ upon this Earth by warr in that faggot and fire hath now failed them the which God hath made a defensive Citty an Iron pillar and Brazen wall against them and they shall fight against it but they shall not prevaile against in Jer. 1.18.19 for the Lord of Hosts is with his Church to deliver it from the power of every destroying enemy as well temporall as spirituall ones and the Church of Christ shall be upon this Earth in the appointed time as a Citty sought out and not forsaken for glorious things are spoken of thee o thou Citty of God One word more and I have done let all those Papists take notice of this which doe harbour in them the same mind which ha's beene in their Fathers who have not onely by Warr for a long time destroyed the true Members of Christ but by most exquisit and incredible torments as well in prisons and Caves of the Earth as upon Scaffolds and at Stakes have most barbarously and most unhumanly murthered the Saints of Christ see Master Wadsworths booke to this purpose I say seeing that you the seed of those evill doers have now called us into the Field who doe professe our selves friends and Servants to Jesus Christ whom you have mocked and Brethren to those his Servants whom you have cruelly murthered I say take notice of this that you are like to find as much gallantry as you have acted cruelty 〈◊〉 know will fight but we professe to fight fai●● whether it be in Ireland or elsewhere therefore now you brave English spirits shew your selves gallant still ' for the Sword must doe great things according to that which Master Brightman hath sayd that the time shall come when disputing by the pen should cease and that the Sword should end the controversy between the Papists and the Protestants I beleeve this time is now come and be you assured of these things that as these Antichristian Papists shall make Warr with the Lamb so the Lamb shall over come them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull Rev. 17.14 One word to those amongst them that truely feare God thus saith the Lord My people goe out of the middest of her and deliver yee every man his soule from the fierce wrath of the Lord least your heart even faint and yee feare the rumour that shall be heard in the Land a rumour shall come one yeare and after that in another yeare shall come a rumour and violence in the Land Ruler against Ruler Jer. 51. and 45.46 And I heard another voyce from heaven say Goe out of her my people that yee be not pertakers in her sins and that yee receive not of her plagues Rev. 18.4 I now come according to my promise to produce and apply Scripture against the Heathens of these times I desire what I said at my beginning may be remembred that is that I have in some respect spoken to these already and therefore now I shall no● 〈◊〉 much to them onely I shall take notice that there is a very great people now in being upon this Earth who are professed enemies to the Lord Jesus Christ and that these are distinct from Papists and that they have beene and still are great Oppressors of the people that profes Jesus Christ and his Gospell and that the power and pride of these Heathens shall be brought downe by the temporall Sword in these latter dayes and that then they shall become the Inheritance of Jesus Christ to whome God the Father will give the Heathens of these times unto for an Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth to him for his possession by the way I confesse that I am little or nothing seene in the knowledge of the Histories of times neither am I so much in consultation with them as with the God of times I know but very little either of the past or present State of forraigne Countries nor of the externall causes nor humane reasons of the severall new framings and mouldings of those Nations in the remore parts of the Earth nor of those severall new constitutions into which they have in severall peeces of time beene put into by the overruling