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A79857	A voice from the temple to the higher povvers. Wherein is shewed, that it is the work and duty of saints, to search the prophesies and visions of holy Scripture, which concern the later times: and that Jesus Christ will reveal the understanding of them, neer the end of their accomplishment. And so much, is here clearly proved, and the objections to the contrary answered. Also severall prophesies are here opened, concerning the time of the end; as what is the present work of the Lord in the world: and wherein the saints (whether the higher powers or others) are now to move and follow him. Likwise [sic] what will be the work of the Lord forward, and all along from year to year, till the mysterie of God be finished, both among the Christian gentiles, and Jewes. By John Canne.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1653 (1653)	Wing C443B; Thomason E699_16; ESTC R207049	36,136	47

Lord and of his temple upon the Antichristian Kingdome Here still I speak of things and not of persons To the other Objection I answer thus 1. The glory of God in fulfilling his word is to be prefer'd before all outward prosperity A Heathen could say Let Justice be done and the world perish Shall Saints then hold back their hands from executing the righteous Judgments of the Lord only through a base fear of worldly inconveniences 2. Prov. 21.30 There is no wisdome nor understanding nor counsell against the Lord. If he be breaking now as certainly he is the fourth Monarch we and they may take counsel together but it shall come to nought What man seeing his neighbours house on fire would willingly set his own by it for so they would both burn and fall together The Lords fire is already kindled in Thrones and Kingdomes And therefore the further off we keep from associating our selves with them from coming near them in Leagues and Covenants the more likely it is that our Common-wealth wil be happy and flourish But 3. I would not have the people of this Nation to imagine that these Changings and Turnings in the world are in order to their better trading God intends it otherwise It 's for trading indeed but for his owne To breake the Kings Merchants and great men of the Earth that the Kingdomes of this world may be his and his Christs Worldly men have had their time for Trade and they have had a long time of it The Lord now is putting an end to that and setting up a better I write this for my Countrey-mens sake to let them know howsoever I hope Those which shall be next in place will doe just and good things take off what burthens they can and make the Nation as happy and prosperous as they are able Yet I have no hope that the Times will be any better for civill Trade but more troublesome and warrs daily increase And therefore they should now begin to look up to God and after his work and the Great Trade which he is carrying on and with-draw their minds from this old world which is perishing and going out and prepare for the world to come whereof we speake wherein dwelleth righteousnesse Heb. 2.5 and which will be much better for them if they be of that number who looke for the blessed hope Tit. 2.13 and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ For Conclusion there is one word more from the Temple to the higher Powers and so I have done And it concerns a main thing in order to our late great victory at Sea which the Lord gave us over the Dutch It was some trouble unto many when they heard that the Holland Merchant Ships were returned safely home and not met with by our Fleet It is true the Lord could have given them into our hands but he would not And why not the one as well as the other The reason is as the Lord hath put it strongly on my heart to have it known In this he tels us what our proper worke is namely not to look after Merchants as to grow great and rich by the wealth of other Nations but to break their power strength in pieces The Lord gave their men of Warr into our hands not their Merchant Ships Speaking here I say as it were from heaven that it is not prizes or the Enemies goods our hearts or hands should desirously be upon But to destroy Babylon stain the glory of Kings and Kingdoms and lay low the high and great mountains of the earth Rev. 22.10 Seale not the sayings of the Prophesie of this Book for the time is at hand Hos 14.9 Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and hee shall know them For the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walke in them but the transgressors shall fall therein FINIS

earnest intreaty they sent hither some relief against the Scots and Picts having done their work immediately returned back again leaving the Brittons to themselves Thus their Histories serve to give some light unto Daniels visions concerning the Times Howsoever their thoughts were not at all carried out on such a thing 2. Who ever was the last certain it is that England was the first of the ten horns and therefore here first were the throns set up and judgement given upon the King and Kingdome True and righteous are his judgements Rev. 19.2 3. The high Court of Justice which was erected in the Year 1648. before which the last of our kings had his tryal and sentence was no other then that throne of God mentioned in Dan. 7.9 10. I doe not confine the thrones in Daniel and the sitting of the ancient of dayes unto England For I know the Lord will have his thrones speedily set up in other kingdomes as France Spain Denmark c. and as he proceeded here so he will do there JVDICATORY against Kings and Kingdomes But to the point in hand What was done by the Parliament and High court of Justice in taking away the king and changing in part the form of Government was no other then a fulfilling of that prophesie in Daniel Not that our Statesmen thought so or so intended but God did put it in their hearts to fulfill his will that it should be so And whereas this thing not being before heard of possibly will be sleighted therefore for prevention I shall let the Reader know my reasons for it 1. It was given by the Angel unto Daniel that the continuance of the ten horns or kingdomes after their rise and appearing should be onely 1260 years untill the thrones were set In the year 1648. that term expired for against the English horn the Ancient of dayes came and gave judgement So that it must necessary follow in the year 388. the Brittons became one of the horns We need not be beholding to humane histories where the Scripture is clear notwithstanding in this point our Chronocles as I said even now agree with Daniel as to the rise of the Brittish horn 2. From accommodating the years let us consider the work and thrones For the work first It is true in all ages before this Kings have been deposed imprisoned put to death but it was rather mans siting on the throne then the Ancient of dayes for what they did was only cutting off one horn or Tyrant and setting another up whereas root and branch was here taken away And this is the proper work of Thrones to change the times seasons dissolve foundations and remove former Pillars I say absolutely and utterly to break in pieces and consume the ten horns or kingdomes their places must not be found any more upon earth But a new form of government is to be constituted and set up 3. That the Ancient of dayes hath set up his throne in England I am further confirmed by the happy dissolution of the late Parliament really I have wondred that the Lord should suffer such men so long to prophane his throne Psal 89.14 Justice and judgement are the habitation of thy throne Psal 9.4 Thou satest in the throne doing right saith David Psal 9.4 I know many are in darknesse concerning this great change not able to apprehend the true ground and cause therof they run some into mistakes some into discontents some into rage and fury For the satisfying therefore of such people who desire to eye God and his hand which is lifted up I shall shew what is the true cause that the Parliament was dissolved The Ancient of days having set up his throne amongst us from which he will speak to and plead with the Nations round about was pleased to honour those men formerly in place as to admit them to sit upon his Throne And because like Jehu they did well in executing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and did unto the house of Charls Stuart all that was in his heart the Lord suffered them many years to sit on the throne of England but taking no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel but flying upon the spoile and giving countenance and encouragement to the sins of Jeroboam God at last rejected them as he did Saul And for this cause raised up the Generall I say for the Thrones sake that they might be no longer polluted and prophaned by such a generation of corrupt men And had not the Generall done what he did to have the Thrones purged from that drosse and filth which cleaved thereto I know not how he could have answered God for that power and trust which he hath put into his hands And here by the way let me speak a word unto such as shall sit next upon this Throne I would have men consider well beforehand what they doe Its Gods own throne and to speake comparatively it is the onely Civil Throne he hath now in the world By it he will doe mighty and terrible things And therefore such as are not for Christ and for the carrying on of his designe in the world he will lay them aside one after another And set such up as shall poure out the last Vials quickly upon Monarchs and the Antichristian Kingdome One thing more I shall add in Rev. 16.10 It is said And the fift Angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the Beast so the Greek hath it throne not seat and his kingdome was full of darknesse By the throne of the Beast I understand the ten horns that is the States and Kingdomes of the World which gave authority and power to the Beast By darknesse I doe not understand at least not chiefly that which is spirituall as in reference to their Errors Superstitions Idolatries c. for so that kingdome was full of darknesse before but it is meant of amazement and distraction not knowing what to doe nor seeing any way how to come out For application to the thing in hand after the death of the late king his throne and kingdom perishing under the fifth Vial how were people then generally at their wits end in such darknesse as they fell one upon another So upon the dissolving of this Parliament which was so degenerate as it lookt more like the throne of the beast then Gods throne what a thick darknesse is now gone over men as if an Angel had smitten them with blindnesse as were the Sodomites And this you must expect still along that as Thrones States Powers are broken to pieces so confusion destraction and darknesse will ever follow especially among hypocrites time-servers and the Antichristians None of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Dan. 10.12 And therefore for the Generall and such with him whom the Lord used as seasonable and good instruments to dissolve the late Parliament here may they see a divine stamp and

vexeth and grieves the more When corrupt and deceitfull men shall see the very thing come to passe upon them which before in the word of the Lord was told them namely within such a time if they turn not from their evill wayes and make their wayes and their doings good the Lord will pluck them out of their dwelling places lay them aside break their power to pieces Lord what a torment and vexation this will be to them that notwithstanding warned and admonished as from God they should yet harden and hearten themselves to their own destruction Prov. 5.12 How have I hated instruction and my heart despised reproof and have not obeyd the voice of my teachers nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me 4 For this cause likewise will the Lord have the book now opened viz. to advance the honour and holinesse of his blessed word we are in an age wherein most things are questioned not only water-Baptisme and whether there be a true Church but whether there be a true God a true Christ a true Word c. Now as this is atime wherein Satan appears against the holy Scriptures and the truths therein contained more violently and blasphemously then ever heretofore so I confidently affirm and will abide by it that the Lord will now arise and appear for the vindication of the holy Scriptures more gloriously and eminently then ever And wherein can the excellency of them be more advanced the truths in them more manifested the contemners of them more ashamed and silenced then that the wise should understand For what Athiest will not blush and be confounded when he shall most evidently see such things come to passe this year and the next and so forward till the year 1770. as was foretold And that in order to the fulfilling of prophesies and visions recorded some fifteen hundred years others two thousand years before and more Having proved by severall Arguments that the knowledge of the times is possible and ought to be searched and wherefore the same though concealed from former ages is to be revealed to the last age I come now to the Prophesies themselves In Daniel I find five speciall prophesies in reference to the time of the end Chap. 7.25 Chap. 9.24 25 26 27. Chap. 12.7 11 12. The three first concern the Christian Gentiles the two latter the Jews and in them are comprehended all the works of both that is when those years are expired then their whole warfare shall be accomplished and they shall be no more two but one and one shepherd shall be set over them Howsoever I intend to set forth these things more at large in another Treatise yet something I will speak now as to the times both of the Gentiles and of the Jews And first to that place in Daniel Dan. 7.25 Vntill a time and times and dividing of times In Scripture we find time to be taken for dayes as Dan 4. comparing v. 16. with 34. By dayes years are to be understood Your children shall wander in the wildernesse forty dayes Numb 14.33 34. Ezek. 4.6 each day for a year Again Thou shalt bear their iniquity forty dayes and I have appointed thee each day for a year In propheticall use a day that is a year containeth 360 dayes or years This Daniel calls a time The word times signifies so much more that is 720 years The dividing of time is 180 dayes or years the whole put together makes 1260 years and so much the spirit of God expresly declares in Rev 12. where a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes v. 6. is said to be a time and times and half a time v. 14. Before we come to the accommodation of these years we are to speak of the ten horns and the little horn first of their rise then their fall that is their beginning and ending For their rise or beginning it is to be understood either as hid and secret or more plain and open These ten horns I understand to be the Romane Empire dissolved into ten parts or Kingdoms In the enumeration of them some produce them thus Brittany France Germany Spain Italy Africa Asia Graecia Syria and Egypt I shall set down what to me is most probable 1. The kingdom of the Brittains 2 of the Saxons both in Brittany 3 of the kingdom of the Franks 4 of the Burgundians both in France 5 The kingdome of the West Gothes in the Southern part of France and part of Spain 6. the Sueves and Alanes in part of Spain 7 the Kingdome of the Vandals in Africa a little before in Spain 8. The Alemanes in Rhaetia and Noricum Provinces of Germany 9 the Kingdome of the East Goths in Ponnonia a little before in Italy Lastly the Kingdome of the Greeks in the remnant of the Empire Though this Decharchicall division doth not continue yet that it was so at first is apparent by History For their Rise which was obscure and dark Dan. 7.8 which gave Daniel occasion to consider the hornes as being so low and short that he could scarce perceive them this was about the year of our Lord 388. It is true the fall of the Empire was by degrees and it was 40 years after or more before the same was effectually dissolved Neverthelesse about this time to wit the year 388. those horns did appear though obscure and little as I said before in Rev. 17.12 The horns which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no Kingdome as yet but receive power at Kings one hour with the Beast that is they had not at first a Soveraignty Majesty Power Priviledges which afterwards they possest and were confirmed in Now adde unto 388. which was the time of the rise of the ten horns and the Romane Empire its beginning to dissolve Daniels number namely 1260. and it extendeth to the year of Christ 1648. This year to wit the year 1648. do I affirm with much assurance was the time when the Thrones were set and the ancient of dayes did sit as is expressed in Dan. 7.9 10. Here began the Lord God Almighty to call Kings and Kingdomes to an account to cast down the mighty from their seats to cut off the spirit of Princes and to be terrible unto the Kings of the earth And this work goes forward still and shall prevail and prosper to the utter breaking and destroying of the fourth Monarch or Romane Empire dissolved into ten Kingdomes And the little horn that is the Antichristian State and Kingdom likewise I know it will be expected that I give some reasons for what is here asserted especially it being delivered with so much confidence This I shall willingly do 1 Howsoever our Chronicles give the Romane Empire some kind of interest and title to the Brittains till the year 440. yet it was rather in name then in thing For after the year 388. the Romanes never exercised that power here which they did before onely now and then and that upon

deceit unfaithfulnesse done many unjust actions and doe fraudulently detain much of the publique treasure in their hands and some are ready to manifest and prove so much It is desired not only that some men may be appointed to heare and receive the Informations and Charges which shall be brought forth against such Delinquents but speciall care be taken about the choise of them as that they be able men Exod. 18.21 such as feare God men of truth hating covetousnesse As those last men in power were for the most part men most corrupt so ordinarily they set none in places under them but men corrupt and rotten as themselves And therefore no marvail though some much desired to have their olde Masters in again for they knew they were NONE SUCH to serve their turne The glasse-window lets in light but keeps out winde and raine I hope to see such in place as will heare and receive the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and keep back partiality respect of persons relations private Interests 9. For the Regulating of the Laws and other corruptions amongst us here it is expected that things be now done speedily and effectually The turning of the Law into English no way eased or lessened the grievances of the people Cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently Remember the TWO PLAGUES of this Nation PRIESTS and LAWYERS Because thou hast let goe out of thy hand 1 Kin. 20.42 a man whom I appointed to utter destruction therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people 10. Take heed of making Parties and running into factions as the former ever did to carry on particular and private designes The worke before you is publique and generall and therefore be not divided in Schismes and Factions but unanimously accord together in the present worke of the Lord. In raysing up a materiall house when the workmen sweetly agree together the building goes forward apace so here How farre the Lord will carry on his work instrumentally by such as shall be next in power as to consider of these and other things I know not neither what the Lord intends to doe by them concerning the breaking in pieces the fourth Monarch and Antichristian Kingdome But this I know if these come not up to the work others shortly will For it shall not be left undone beyond the yeare 1655. A people then shall be created to fulfill the will of God and he will put it into their hearts in order to the Prophesies of the later time Hab. 23. For the vision is yet for an appointed time but in the end it shall speake and not lie A Post-script Reader I Have considered that there are two things wherein thou maist be much unsatisfied concerning this subject 1. How to destroy the little horne or Antichristian Kingdome can stand with Tolleration of Religion and liberty of Conscience allowed by the present Government and upon just and good grounds 2. To break the fourth Monarchy tends not to make this Common-wealth happy and flourishing which the higher Powers are to seek after but to preserve Peace and so Trade with other Nations is much better for our prosperity welfare and happinesse I shall answer both 1. The Antichristian Kingdom is a State guilty of blood and accordingly to be arreigned and executed In Rev. 18. after Babylon is said to be destroyed the reason of it is shewed in the last verse In her was found the blood of the Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain upon the earth So that hence it doth appear that no wilfull murtherer more justly can be put to death then the power of the Beast destroyed for shedding innocent blood 2. As the times may be some acts of Justice may be forborn which afterward ought and must be done David complains 2 Sam. 3.29 that the sonnes of Zerviah were too hard for him yet Solomon following being in a better capacity put one of them to death and justly too For a more cleare illustration Though murther be discovered and the person known yet no execution can be done upon him till he fall into the hands of Justice Indeed then if the Magistrate neglect his duty and suffer him to escape he wraps himself in the blood and guilt of the Malefactor That blood-guiltinesse lies on the Antichristian Kingdome this hath been known to Saints in former ages but the sonnes of Zerviah were alwayes too hard for them but now when the power shall be in their hands not to execute judgment upon the murtherer is as I conceive to be no otherwise then accessary to the blood of the Prophets and of the Saints in the great City Babylon 3. To give liberty tolleration I am clearly for yet so as the known will of God be fulfilled concerning the work of this present time And therefore we must distingush between persons and things Persons are to be tollerated though diversly minded in point of Religion but where the vengeance of the Lord and the vengeance of his Temple Rev. 18.6 is expresly cal'd for and to be executed thus and thus What tolleration is to be granted here in such a case I desire those to consider of who are specially concerned in it Lastly seeing I have mentioned so often the Antichristian Kingdom to be destroyed by the Ancient of dayes sitting upon his Throne c. It will not be amisse that I give the Reader my meaning more fully This Antichristian Kingdom or State was first erected against Jesus Christ that is to corrupt his word and worship and to destroy his people under a pretence of blasphemy heresie schisme c. The which in Popery Prelacy and Presbytery hath been both profest and prosecuted whereby much innocent blood hath been shed and would be still if the Magistrate would give his power to them Besides by this Antichristian State against the Lord Jesus Christ a Church Ministery Worship Government hath been devised and set up All which the Saints neer the end will call to an account and finding the same to be guilty of innocent blood and a main let to the present exaltation of Christs Kingdome will judicially give sentence that it be thrown downe and be no more at all Reward her even as she hath rewarded you Rev. 18.6 and double unto her double according to her works In the cup which she hath filled fill her double As if he should say whereas this bloody Kingdome most falsly judged you in the Saints which were before to be Hereticks Blasphemers Schismaticks and persecuted you by imprisonment banishment confiscation of goods yea death it self And would not suffer you to walk in the faith and order of the Gospel Reward her even as she rewarded you that is as God hath put the power of Nations into your hand and the day and judgement of Babylon being now come Wheresoever the Lord carries you forth execute the vengeance of the