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Romes ruin or A treatise of the certaine destruction of Rome and of Antichrist before the ende of the world Wherein is cleerely manifested out of the Holy Scriptures, conferred with the historie of the Papacie, that he hath but a short time. A worke published to strengthen the faith of such as suffer vnder him. By I.P.
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it rather yelding to suffer then to receiue the marke of the Beast as chap. 14. c chap. 14.12 Here is the patience of the Saints here are they that keepe the commandements of God and the faith of Iesus But if ye ô Princes and States in whose power it is to helpe theese afflicted ones be true Protestants and Seruants of Christ thinke the Lord doth as it were aske you whether they that thus afflict Gods Seruants be of Christs armie or noe ye will answer they are not but rather of Antichrists armie haueing the marke of the Beast in theire right hand and bearing armes against Christ then by consequence they who sincerly resist if they be not subiects to the Tirants but free are of Christs armie and Christ is with them and without doubt all men of ripe yeares if it be in theire power to be of either are of one of theese armies there is no meane betweene for Christ saith He that is not with me is against me And that will such finde in the day of the Lord when he d Reu. 22. shall come to giue euery man as his worke shall be In the meane while whether or no caÌ„ wee say that wee loue our Christian Brethren yea or God himselfe yet wee say e 1. Ioh. 4.19 wee loue him because he first loued vs. But S. Iohn saith f chap. 3.16 Hereby perceiue wee the loue of God because he laide downe his life for vs and wee ought to lay downe our liues for the brethren See what Abraham did g Gen. 14.14 when he heard that his brother was taken captiue he armed his trained Seruants brought again his brother Lot and his goods the women also and the people h Gal. 3.29 And if ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seede i Ioh. 8.38 If ye were Abrahams children ye would doe the workes of Abraham Iehoshaphat likewise k 2. King 3.7 helped Israel against the Moabits Religion the professours thereof were in danger wherefore he saide vnto Iehoram l 2. Chro. 16.9 I will goe vp I am as thou art my people as thy people my horses as thy horses He trusted in God and he prospered therin For the eyes of the Lord runne to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himselfe stronge in the behalfe of them whose heart is perfit towards him They that cease to trust in him and rather rely on the helpe and alliance of his enemies them he forsakes as wee see in Asa who relyed on the Kinge of Syria But Iehoshaphat helped his brethren as Abraham did He thought it not enough to say I am a Prince of peace if I may haue peace with the enemies why should I hazard my owne to helpe others it stands not with pollecie For if such excuses would haue serued m Iudg. 5.23 the inhabitants of Meroz could haue saide much for themselues as that they loued peace abhorred the sheeding of blood and sought theire owne safety But if the enemy knowing they will not fight be therefore the more emboldened to destroy theire brethren first that they may afterwards destroy them then this wilfull peace is rather merciles crueltie to theire brethren and to themselues then true charitie to any For enemies haue most desire to fight with them whome they perceiue to be faint hearted as assured that they shall thereby preuaile Therefore such polecie is rather extreame folly than true vvisdom because God loues not but forsakes them vvho forsake him or theire brethren n vers 9. My heart is towards the Gouernours of Israel that offered theÌ„selues willingly amonge the people o vers 18. Zebulun and Nephtali were a people that ieoparded theire liues vnto the death in the high places of the field viz. to helpe the Lord and theire brethren and were therefore blessed Meroz did not soe and was therefore p vers 23. Cursed as guiltie of blood that might haue beene spilt and as one not regarding the crie of the afflicted But God q psa 9.12 when he maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth them he forgetteth not the crie of the afflicted Will not he then finde such as neglect them guiltie for as a famous Diuine saith r B. Hall Contemp. the Rescue of Gibeon Euen permission in those things wee may remedy makes vs no lesse actors then consent some men kill as much by looking on as others by smiting wee are guiltie of all the euill wee might haue hindred And indeede the holy Ghost saith Å¿ pro. 24.10.11.12 If thou faint in the day of aduersity thy strength is small If thou forbeare to deliuer them that are drawen vnto death and those that are readie to be slaine If thou saiest behold wee knew it not doth not he that pondereth in the heart consider it and he that keepeth thy soule doth he not know it and shall not he render vnto euery man according to his worke It therefore behooueth him to stirre who either regardeth his owne saluation or Gods protection Let them therefore who may giue helpe take heede while there is time espetially seeing the cause is common to all and not God and ciuill pollecie only but euen common sense teacheth this with the Poët Ecquid Ad te post paulò ventura pericula sentis Nam tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet Which saying is the more to be regarded because he that will may know that the Spanish Kinge who is called Catholick aimeth at the Catholick gouernment Howsoeuer what will he and they not doe for the Catholicke cause as they call it who are gouerned by the Pope Rome and the Iesuits and Preists or who haue the marke of the Beast and consequently are led by the deuill and his Agents Reu. 16. theese frogs and locusts are Spirits of deuils Are they not then as much to be trusted in any thinge they pretend as of old Antiochus Epiphanes the Syrian Kinge who came in peaceablie to the Subiects of another Kingdom and with gifts and flatteries wrought them t Dan. 11.26 to betray it namely Egypt of whome therefore it was saide * chap. 8.25 By peace he shall destroy many u chap. 11.23.24 After the leauge made with him he shall worke deceitefully for he shall come vp and shall become stronge with a small people He shall enter peaceablie and scatter amonge theÌ„ the pray and riches and he shall forecast his deuises against the stronge holds for a time viz. till he had corrupted the Egyptians raised factions amonge them and so prepared them to betray the Kingdom to the greate armie he intended to bringe and which he after * vers 25. brought also touching his craft to obtaine Iudea and ouerthrow religion there * ver 30. â—â— He shall haue intelligence with them that forsake the holy couenant And such as doe wickedly against the couenant shall he corrupt by flatteries Wherein he and
ROMES RVIN OR A TREATISE Of the certaine Destruction of Rome and of Antichrist before the ende of the World WHEREIN IS CLEERELY Manifested out of the Holy Scriptures Conferred with the Historie of the Papacie that he hath but a short time A worke published to strengthen the faith of such as suffer vnder him By J. P. PSAL. 137.8 O Daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed Happie shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs. Printed M.DC.XXIX To the Christian Reader IT hath neuer beene any part of my intent Christian Reader in the writing or publishing of this litle Treatise to take on me after the manner of some precisely to finde out and peremptorily to set downe the verrie yeare wherein Rome or Antichrist shall be destroyed or to name the verrie Prince or Kingdom whose Kinge shall be Generall at the Seidge and ruin of that Babylon the worke it selfe will both quit me of such fond presumptions and witnesse that my aime herein is not to get a vaine glorious name of knowledge in such mysteries nor to fill the world with stronge delusions opinions and expectations of improbable alterations but rather for the honour of Almightie God now in theese wauering and fainting times wherein mens hearts faile them for feare that the preuailing aduersaries will subdue all to Romish obedience to winne men to an assured confidence in his promised meraies of deliuerance and what they can to serue and waite on his almightie power and prouidence with such iust meanes as he hath appointed therevnto espetially now when they shall see it manifested by those vndeniable testimonies the prophesies of holy Scripture and Histories of the Papacie answering them that Romes Ruin must needes be approching and can not choose but fall out within a few yeares of this present which is sufficient for me to haue manifested As for those who professe themselues Protestants and yet in theese dangerous times are so far from affecting or approuing such knowledge that on the contrarie they doubt whether it be lawfull and proffitable to looke into theese Prophesies for the time and meanes of deliuerance and ouerthrow of the aduersaries whether such looking be not rather curiosity folly presumption whether courses of iustice and warres vndertaken for the defence of the Gospell and ouerthrow of Poperie and the Supporters thereof be lawfull or necessary whether a peace with them all is not much rather to be wished and whether it be not much better that Protestants Papists should first ioyne together against theire coÌ„mon enemie the Turke In theese and the like scruples such as are not partiall and obstinate may by a thorow reading of this small booke receiue compotent satisfaction In the meane time I answer noe more heere to theire suggestions then this 1. That noe man can more detest then I doe all warres vndertaken for desire of spoile territories Empire all not worth the life blood of one ChristiaÌ„ knowing that the miseries that euer follow theÌ„ are great lamentable that peace mercie can neuer be sufficiently admired extended but not toward Amalek or Romish Babel and her Champions because theire destructions are coÌ„maunded in holy Scriptures and he is counted happie that shall serue her as she hath serued others 2. That it was lawfull proffitable and comfortable for the children of Israel in the time of the captiuity Dan. 9.2 to looke as Daniel did after the time and meanes of deliuerance espetially when the seauentie yeares were almost out to looke also into the Prophesie of Daniel for the last period of those seuerall Beasts hornes mentioned Dan. 7. chap. 8. espetially for deliuerance from Antiochus Epiphanes that litle horne chap. 8.9 for the time and ende of the desolation he causeth expresly noted vers 13.14 and for the comming and saluation of Christ and other occurreÌ„ts signified in those propheticall weekes of Daniel chap. 9. Euen as old Simeon waited for the consolatioÌ„ of Israel Luk. 2. Mark 15.43 and Ioseph of Arimathea is saide to haue waited for the Kingdom of God and that therefore it is as lawfull now for all true Christians beholding the desolations that Antichrist and his Adherents make to looke into the prophesies of holy Scripture for the time and meanes of the deliuerance there promised espetially seeing that when Rome the cause of theese miseries is destroied Reu. 19. it is saide Alleluia for the Lord God omnipotent raigneth whereas before that she raigned in matters of faith and saluation Reu. 17.18 and ouer the Kings of the earth But then Gods Kingdom commeth this wee are taught to pray for and commaunded to * Mat. 6.33 seeke And therefore when after the writing of this small booke I had kept it a longe time without imparting the sight of it to any man I thought I could now doe noe lesse then publish it with some few additions and that indeede that such as see the miseries of the Church and seeke to redresse them may striue to doe it by that right meanes which God hath prescribed and not by any contrarie to that which God that changeth not hath in his Holy Word reuealed to be the only sure remedie and that by which he hath determined to redeeme his Church from Antichristian persecution bondage and subâ—ection ROMES RVIN OR A Treatise of the certaine destruction of Rome and of Antichrist before the ende of the VVorld TO say nothing of theire opinions in this point who are either Popish or newters or lukewarm or temporisers or worldlings or which are afraid of the Popish armies because euery wise man will easely conceiue that theire verdict in this matter must needes be partiall as proceeding from sinister respects or theire owne perticular interests I readily acknowledge that there are many godly and learned men greately seene in the Scriptures who yet are soe daily excercised in the finding of the meaning of those other places of Scripture which teach other points necessary to saluatioÌ„ that they finde litle leisure to looke on such as declare things concerning Antichrist or his ouerthrow I may not say that it is because they care litle to vnderstand the truth of God in theese points for I must leaue that to God who knowes the secrets of all hearts Neuerthelesse if any of them who haue a good vnderstanding be soe careles herein they may know that it is a fault seeing the holy Ghost saith concerning the Reuelation wherein theese things are declared Blessed is he that readeth Renel 1.3 and they that heare the words of this prophesie keepe those things which are written therein for the time is at hand And againe Chap. 22.10 Seale not the sayings of the prophesie of this booke for the time is at hand viz. when theese things should be fulfilled Whereby God warneth all men to looke narrowly into this booke that they may thereby know the Dragon Beast and whore and such euils as accompany them