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A77290	Babels fall, in the foolish virgins sleep. Among which Presbytery lyeth, with predictions of the great disputed to be at the raising of the true ministry. / Written by a witnesse of the truth, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4319; Thomason E554_19; ESTC R205773	24,938	35

none shall hinder them it being Gods will it must be done and let me say to all concern'd herein as Gamaliel in the Acts 5.39 If this be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest happily ye be found fighters against God 4 Should you say to the Parliament as Elisha to Hazael 2 Kings 8.12 You will do this evill take away all the maintenance and Ministry almost of the Kingdom into three or foure and then wil ye not bring this brave flourishing knowing Kingdom into deep darknesse Atheisme worse then Popish like that of America c. I believe the answer would be Do you think we are Dogs that we should ever do such things as these But where I may apply that of the Prophet that God hath shewed to me that these things shall be done I leave to the issue of things t● prove 5 Applic. Was there ever such trouble at the removing of these severall Ministers of the false Church as in Cardinall Wolseys Praemunire for Poole was but as titular and acted little as if dead and in removall of Archbishops and Bishops and their Praemunire can we think though the Deacons fal quietly that the Presbyters fall will not cost much bloud especially in Scotland Do not we see what doings now there are in France and how they are carried against the first of the foolish Virgins the Cardinall Mazarine who have all their work to do but before any peace be in that Kingdom wil do all together Applic. To the Kingdom untill you see these things you can never see peace you can never come out of Babell you can never see the Marriage of the Lambe nor behold the good days of God foretold in the Scripture these things forespoken of make way for these to come amongst us therefore know as contrary to thee as they seem to be yet they are according to God And it is most true if we should consult with flesh and bloud about these things we were utterly lost herein Applic. To Ministers ye see what sad things are coming on us I desire you not to accompt me your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4.16 Many may be happy by it that have hearts to make use of it if this be not Truth let me then be accompted the Ministers publike Enemy whom surely in heart I have not the least desire to offend of my self at all but it seems to me providence foretels you you shall stir up the hatred of the Magistrate against you and then you will occasion him to eat the remaining flesh and to consume the remaining feces of Antichrists Polity amongst us To the Magistrate Rev. 20.4 Thrones were set and judgement was given to them and the souls of them beheaded c. and cap. ver 5. This is the first Resurrection I suppose these things in a judiciall way will be brought to passe in the world Dan. 7.13 14. are at that time to be accompl●shed Scriptures I beleeve when accomplished will plainly appear to have been very strangely misunderstood and mis-applyed which I leave to time to evidence and the troubles that do succeed upon removing the Presbytery and that appertains ●hereunto is that last Woe I mentioned in the Epistle dedicated to his Excellency the Lord Fairfax Generall before the Forme of Gospel-Government I caused to be printed about January the 14th 1648. Object You have spoken of Antichrists Ministry as of a single Ministry and now come to compare the Ministry of Christ which are five in the true Church to Antichrist as having five also distinct in her false Church 1 Bellarmine acknowledgeth 2 Tom. de Cler. Cap. 16. That a Cardinall is but as a parish priest in his own Title 2 They were Presbyter-Cardinals and so no more but chiefe Presbyters they having in their Churches but a Single Ministry for as in their Churches a Bishop ministred not to them nor any Archbishop or Presbyter unlesse as Curate or Substitute only Vide Potter Numb 666. Cap. 19. The five Gospell Ministers being in every true Gospell constituted Church the five false in the Romane Catholick Church or Nationall Forbs Irenicu Cap. 11. de Episcop Propos 10 Quando Presbyter fit Episcopus non desinit esse presbyter c. Peculiarem habens Ecclesiam Parochialem quae ipsi sit Cathedralis id est ad quam constantèr resideat c. Now for Presbyters and Deacons they were practised amongst us singly which is proofe sufficient Which clears to us That while Antichrist had his five false Anti-ministers he had them in a false way and not as the true Church each one doing in the Church singly as concerning the Ministry and alone which all the true Church ordinary Ministry were to do together there being no division of Members under the Cardinals the Archbishops or Bishops Ministry more then in the lowest Presbyters in that Hierarchy nor did he any thing differ in his administrations from them as the Apostles did from Prophets they from Evangelists they from Pastors or Teachers in the true Church these in the false Church differed indeed in some things in respect of their whole Antichristian Babylonish Hierarchy but not in particul●r Titles or Parish Churches Applic. To Scotland In her is the Root of Presbytery as Episcopacy was in England though that Geneva gave as it were first being unto it under Calvin for in Scotland Nationally it was received and confirmed by one of the ten Kings of the Romane Monarchy c. 1 They shall by the Presbytery be stirred up to warre and be overcome by the Saints they warre against called Hereticks and Schismaticks the old Romane way of proceeding against beleevers they themselves are called so at Rome 2 They will come in the end to hate the Presbytery God will make them naked have their riding the Beast that is the Temporall Authority of that Kingdome opened to them and their standing be made appear not to be Evangelicall by which means the Kingdome of Scotland shall come to hate them and take away all Authority and Jurisdiction from them and take away their Ecclesiasticall preferments and tithes c. yea make their Presbytery so desolate as not to leave a Presbyter of them to be a Minister This friends it seems to me God is about to do in Scotland it selfe and what will become of it in England and what shall we say if ever we see God do these things 3 Though the Warre begin here possibly if it do this Army will then I beleeve enter Scotland and do for Presbytery there as they did for Episcopacy here but with much more integrity for as Episcopacy was to have its fall in England England being the Root of it so Presbytery is to have its fall in Scotland the Root of it being there this estate being the Philadelphian estate in which the love of Sister-Churches will appear O that the mind of God were enquired after at the Word and that men would endeavour the fulfilling thereof so would there

falne estate But for the slumber of the false Church which is of later times there is no such obscurity in that 1 The slumber of Cardinals was when they came from 12 ab●ut 423. in Coelestines time to be after 25 as Potter Numb of the Beast cap 19. where he sheweth that Cardinals Bishops and Deacons were not originally in the Colledge of Cardinals when their first number were decreed but are rather redundant extuberances of the Papacy built upon and dangerously over-hanging that ancient foundation of the Presbyter Cardinals this slumber hee makes to begin to be the Number 25 but I rather conceive at the Number 12 when Alexander the third in the yeer 1163 made Conradus Suenus Archbishop of Mentz one of the Colledge of the Cardinals 2 The sleep of the Cardinals in this Kingdom was in the death of Cardinall Poole who died the next day after Queen Mary of some Italian physick as some suspect being the 18th of November 1558. The slumber of the false prophet and Anti-Evangelist was in the time of Henry the Eighth when they were made to acknowledge the Kings Supremacy and not the Popes in the yeer 1531. whose sleep was brought on the false prophet and Anti-Evangelist in the yeer 1644 in the making of that Ordinance appointed the taking the Covenant the second branch wherof was that without respect of persons we should endevour the extirpation of Popery and Prelacy that is Church Government by Archbishops Bishops c. which ended in William Laud Jan 10. 1644. The slumber of the Anti-teacher was in that slumber ●●il on the re●t 1531 and is falne asleep and no man knoweth how it being now apparent to all that Deacons were not teachers in the Church as Deacons but ministred almes to the poore only so that now there is none acknowledged and so none awake but the Presbyter that is the Antipastor Let me ask the Question are they awake or do they slumber sure heavens thunder cannot keepe them long from sleeping me thinks the Questioning ministers calling the not suffering the Presbyterian Government to be Jure divino and the daily shaking of her foundations are very dangerous signes she is in a deadly slumber she would else awake and speak for her self Object Here it is questionlesse ô but in Scotland it is awake Here friends I speak not of envy to any but to glorify God in speaking the truth Presbytery must sleep in Scotland as well as Episcopacy in England Episcopacy had as great friends and command here in England as presbytery ever had in Scotland or can have and had it's glory of longer continuance and it is no lesse ordained 〈◊〉 God that presbytery shall sleep then Episcopacy Friends do you not consider you that made that clause in the 2d. branch of the Covenant where we are to endeavour the extirpation not only of Arch-bishops Chancellors Commissaries c. but all other Ecclesiasticall Officers depending on that Hierarchy do not presbyters depend on that Hierarchy I do beleeve in time this will be made use of against presbytery if not on what Hierarchy doth it depend Note it all ye to whom this Writing shall come that as certainly as ye have seen the sleep of Cardinals Arch-bi hops Bishops and Deacons which are four of the foolish Virgins so certainly shall ye see the sleep of presbyters in this Land the whole Earth shall not hinder it she being the fift 2 The time cannot belong it precedes the marriage of the Lamb as near as it is this is the last ô expect thy sleep Object Why if this should be what shall we do for Ministers Reply God will furnish the Land with Teachers for if he give the Word great will be the company of Preachers and truly friend I cannot write this nor think of it but with admiration of that work most certainly God will do in this Kingdome when the scoffers of the times will be ashamed Vers 6. At midnight a cry was made behold the Bridegroome cometh go ye out to meet him What the severall Expositions here are of the day of Judgment and the like I shall passe by as impertinent and shew you 1 That marriages in those parts were oft times celebrated in the night when the younger sort of people attending with the Bride went to meet the Bridegroom and accompany him into the Brides chāber but in that it is said to be at midnight it may be imputed to the word delay before v. 5. which time of delay was the time of Antichrist untill his time of tyranny and his Government were ended as expressed of the ill servant in the time of his Lords delay beating his fellow-servants and eating and drinking with the drunken Cap. 24. ver 48 49. When the Lord came he cut him in two c. and the word delay shews marriages were not usually made so late at night 2 It may be he alludes to the first publick notice of Christs coming to his Church in Jerom of Prage or Luthers time which was but a little better then the darkest time of Popery 3 A cry in the teaching of the Gospell now is made of Christ's coming he being other ways held out in the doctrine taught now then in that before Luther 4 They are called on to go out to meet the Lord that is to performe their ministeriall duty in bringing Christ to the Church and in presenting the Church to Christ this begins I suppose with Luther in some kind because Cardinals were sleeping and Arch-bishops and Bishops slumbring but indeed the true time or full time of the cry will be when all are asleep and it may well be called midnight when the ministry is all as it were true and false abolished the true by Antichrist and Christ by his coming abolisheth Antichrists ministry again When God shall do this what rayling will there be against Authority as if they overthrew it Ver. 7. Then all those Virgins arose and trimmed their Lamps 1 At this time when the foolish Virgins and the Presbyter the last of them slumbers God brings again and awakens the five wise Virgins the true Gospel ministry 2 Then there is much trimming of Lamps that is proving of calling ministry and Government by Archbishops and Bishops as Doctor Field by presbytery Calvin Rutherford by the Gospell ministry by him whose name is not meet to be mentioned in the day Christ's ministry shall be spoken for 3 Indeed I suppose there may be yet a time after the presbyters sleep in which liberty will be granted to men for Episcopacy and Presbytery to plead their call freely and publickly it may be before the supream Magistrate sitting in judgment as it were to determine that the controversie int●nated in Daniel 7. ver 13 14. 4 In that it is said they arose it sheweth as men aw●k●d out of sleep they will come to this debate of all sides rowsed up from the losse they before had or are like after to sustaine Now the raising of