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A42547	God's soveraignty displayed from Job 9. 12. : Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him? &c., or, A discourse shewing, that God doth, and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth, as to the matter what, the place where, the time when, the means and manner how, and the reasons thereof : with an application of the whole, to the distressed citizens of London, whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the fire : an excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal, the ends that God aims at in it, with directions how to behave themselves under their losses / by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.; Gearing, William. No abiding city in a perishing world.	1667 (1667)	Wing G435A; ESTC R18630	101,655	265

GOD'S SOVERAIGNTY DISPLAYED From Job 9.12 Behold he taketh away who can hinder him c. OR A discourse shewing that God doth and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth as to the matter what the place where the time when the means and manner how and the reasons thereof With an Application of the whole to the distressed Citizens of London whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the FIRE An excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal the ends that God aims at in it with directions how to behave themselves under their losses By William Gearing Minister of the Word LONDON printed by R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst at the Golden Bible on London Bridge 1667. TO THE Right VVorshipfull Sr. John Pelham of Laughton Sr. John Fagge of Wiston in the County of Sussex Baronets TO Herbert Morley of Glyne in the same County to John Gell of Hopton in the County of Darby and to Gervaise Pigot of Thrumpton in the County of Nottingham Esquires FRom that dreadful fire that consumed a great part of the City of London about the beginning of September last I may take occasion to shew that the greatest chances alterations and most notable changes have commonly hapned in the month of September Bodinus hath collected many remarkable instances to this purpose Great earth-quakes wherewith oftentimes great Cities and whole Countries have been destroyed have happened in the month of September Such was that Earth-quake at Constantinople wherein thirteen thousand men were lost in the year 1509 in the month of September In the same month of September wherein the battel was fought at Actium ten thousand men perished in the Land of Palestine with an Earthquake The Victory of Augustus also against Antonius in the battel of Actium was by him obtained on the second of September by which victory the Empire both of the East and West fell into the power of Augustus himself alone The third day of the same month the Macedonian Empire which had so long flourished was by Paulus Aemilius changed from a great Kingdom into divers popular Estates the King Persius being by him overcome and taken prisoner Sultan Soliman on the like day took Buda the chief City of Hungaria with the greatest part of that Kingdome The same day and month Rhoderick King of Spain was by the Moors overcome and driven out of his Kingdom which wrought a strange alteration in the state of that Monarchy On the same day of the month revolving Lewis the twelfth the French King took the City of Milan with Lewis Sphortia Duke thereof whom he deprived of his Estate On the like day the Emperour Charles the fifth passed over into Affrica and invaded the Kingdome of Algiers On the same third day of September in the year 1658. dyed O. Cromwel on that very day of the month wherein hee had gotten two notable Victories the one at Dunbar in Scotland 1650. the other at Worcester Anno 1651. On the fourth day of September dyed Sultan Solyman before Sigeth which being one of the strongest holds of Christendome was by the Turks taken the seventh day after the City of Jerusalem was taken about this time of the month of September by the Romans as Xiphilinus declareth On the ninth day of September Alexander the Great at Arbela overthrew Darius King of Persia with his Army of four hundred thousand men and so joyned the Kingdome of Persia unto his own On the same day in the year 1544. James King of Scots was by the Englishmen slain and his Army overthrown On the tenth of September John Duke of Burgundy was slain by the commandment of Charles the seventh whence arose great Wars throughout all France On the like day and month was Peter Louys the Tyrant of Placenzza slain by the Conspiratours On the eleventh of September the Paleology the Greek Emperors tooke the Imperial City of Constantinople and drave out thence the Earls of Flanders who had there possessed the Empire 560 years On the fourteenth day of September the Switzers were with a great slaughter overthrown by the French in the Expedition of Merignan which self-same day also the Turk's great Army besieged Vienna the Metropolitical City of Austria On the seventeenth day the French Army was overthrown at Poictiers and King John himself taken Prisoner by the English On the same day of the month A. D. 1575 the Christian Fleet with a great slaughter overthrew the Turk's great Fleet in the battel of Lepanto On the same day of the same month Charles the ninth King of France was by his Subjects assailed near unto Meaux where by speedy flight and the help of the Switzers hee hardly with life escaped the hands of the Conspiratours A. D. 1567. On the which self-same day month and year Henry King of Sweden was by his rebellious Subjects dispoiled of his Estate and cast into Prison On the eighteenth day of September Bulloign was surrendred to the English Vpon the like day of the month Bajazet at Nicopolis overthrew a great Army of the Christians of three hundred thousand men And on the same day Saladine took the City of Jerusalem on which Pompey had before taken it On the twentieth day of September was that sharpe sight at Newbury in that late unhappy War in England A. D. 1643. On the four and twentieth day of September Constantine the great in a bloody battel overcame Maxentius the Emperour A. D. 333. and so became a great Monarch which wrought a notable change almost throughout the whole World from thenceforth he commanded the year to bee begun in September and to the Greek Feasts unto that day is added 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In this month Pope Boniface 8th A. D. 1303. was taken Prisoner and deprived of his Papal dignity On the third day of the same month A. D. 1556. such a Tempest of rain and Thunder hapned at Lucern as that a greater as was reported was never seen On which self-same month day the Town-Hall of Maidenburg in Germany with the Citizens dancing therein were altogether with lightning consumed About the beginning of this month A. D. 465. such an horrible fire brake forth in Constantinople by the water-side which raged with that fury for four daies together that it consumed the greatest part of the City and such was the force thereof that as Evagrius saith the strongest Houses were but like so much dried stubble before it And how hath the Lord sent a dreadful Fire upon London and it hath consumed the lofty buildings and Palaces thereof in September last We read also that many of the greatest Princes and Monarchs of the world to have dyed in this very month of September Viz. Augustus Tiberius Vespasian Titus Domitian Aurelianus Theodosius the great Valentinian Gratian Basilius Constantine the fifth Leo the 4th Rodolph Frederick the 4th Charles the 5th all Roman or Greek Emperors And of the French Kings Pepin Lewis the younger Philip the 3d.

notably set forth in the first book of the Macchabees 4. The fourth Beast viz. the Roman Monarchy is worse than all the three former Beasts and that Vision of Daniel fore-mentioned is suited to that of S. John in Rev. 13.1 2. And I stood upon the sand of the Sea and saw a Beast rise up out of the Sea having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten Crowns and upon his heads the name of Blasphemy and the Beast which I saw was like unto a Leopard and his feet were as the feet of a Bear and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion and the Dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority The reason why Daniel did not liken the fourth to any Beast as the former three were is because it was a Monster compounded of the cruelties of the several beasts sc of a Lion Bear and Leopard this Beast was like them all Now this Beast was some hundreds of years before it came to its full growth and being distant from Judah the Church of God felt nothing of its fury till the Age before Christ came in the flesh The first time that this Beast put forth his Paws against the Church was about sixty one years before the Birth of Christ when Pompey the Roman General taking advantage of the contentions of the two Brethren Hircanus and Aristobulus of the Race of the Macchabees about the Priesthood and Principality took from them the City and Temple of Jerusalem and made them Tributary to the Romans whereupon he and others with him presumed to enter into the Temple and saw such things that was not lawful for them to see after which violence and presumption it is noted of Pompey that was very victorious before above any one Roman that he was very unhappy in his wars afterward and being vanquished by Julius Caesar fled into Egypt for refuge and there was murdered where he looked for succour Crassus committed horrid sacriledge he robbed the Temple in Jerusalem of ten thousand Talents that is two hundred thousand pounds of our money and afterwards being overthrown of the Parthians had molten gold powred down his throat to satisfie his greedy appetite One notable mischief the Romans did to the people of God was the placing of that cruel Herod in the Throne who was made King by the favour of Augustus and Mark Anthony he was a Vassal to the Romans though a cruel Tyrant to the people of God And now the Scepter was departed from Judah and the Law-giver from under his feet this Herod slew the Sanedrin and Grand Council of the Land and murdered the Infants at Bethlehem from two years old and under out of a desire to murder Christ in his Infancy This fourth Beast murdered the Prince of Life and Lord of Glory Pilate the Roman Judge condemning him and the Roman Souldiers putting it in execution And the Jews who formerly had suffered by this fourth Beast as the Church of Christ and now joyning with this Beast against Christ they became the most malignant persecutors of Christ and his Church stirring up the Roman Magistrates in several Provinces and Cities to persecute the Apostles of Christ and the sincere professors of the truth and remaining in their rebellion and enmity against Christ they were unchurched and the Kingdome of the Gospel being translated from them to the Gentiles the wrath of God came upon them to the uttermost eleven hundred thousand of them were slain by the Sword Famine and Pestilence at the Siege by Vespasian and Titus his Son and the residue sold for slaves and afterwards five hundred thousand of them ruinated by Adrian the Emperour And because the Soveraign Power was now setled in the Emperours that I may speak further of the fury of this Beast against the Saints of the most High I think fit to the two former descriptions in Daniel and that in Revel 13. to add another out of Revel 17.3 where S. John saith I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns This is explained ver 9. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth Ver. 10. And there are seven Kings five are fallen and one is and the other is not yet come and when he cometh he must continue a short space Ver. 11. And the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth and is of the seven and goeth into perdition Ver. 12. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten Kings which have received no Kingdome as yet c. These shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire Ver. 16. and ver 17. The woman which thou sawest is that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the earth The seven Heads are seven Mountains on which the Woman sate This Woman is that great City of Rome built upon seven hills viz. Mons Palatinus Capitolinus Caelius Quirinalis Aventinus Viminalis Esquilinus They also signifie seven Kings or seven sorts of Supreme Magistrates by which the City and Empire hath been and is governed Supreme Magistrates in Scripture are called Kings when Israel was formed into a Commonwealth they had Moses set over them Deut. 33.4 5. Moses commanded us a Law c. and he was King in Jesurun when the Heads of the people and the Tribes of Israel were gathered together So the Dukes of the Sons of Esau are called Kings Gen. 36.31 These are the Kings that reigned in the Land of Edom before there reigned any King over the children of Israel that is before Israel was delivered out of bondage and was formed into a Commonwealth and had Moses set over them as Supreme Ruler under God Now Rome is famous for these seven Heads or seven sorts of Governours I. Kings II. Consuls III. Tribunes of the Souldiers IV. Decem-viri V. Dictators VI. Emperours VII Popes Tacitus noteth that among other things Rome hath this honour to have Kings for its Vassals And S. John speaking of these seven sorts of Magistrates that did successively rule in Rome he saith five are fallen that is when this Vision was presented to John and the Revelation written by him viz. five of those seven Supreme Magistrates were fallen Kings Consuls Tribunes Decem-viri Dictators For although there were Consuls many hundred years after yet they were no longer Heads as formerly though they had the same name yet they came short of the former Consuls in power and dignity Then Saint John saith one is that is the Heathen Emperours were then in being these were then regnant and had the place of Heads in the Empire These began to head the Beast as the sixth Head about forty years before the Birth of Christ and continued three hundred years after Christs birth I understand it of the Heathen Emperours only not the Christian Saint John addeth And the other is not yet come viz. the