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A86686	Manus testium movens: or, A Presbyteriall glosse upon many of those obscure prophetick texts in Canticles, Isay, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Habakkuk, Zachary, Matthew, Romans, and the Revelations: which point at the great day of the vvitnesses rising; Antichrists ruine, and the Jews conversion, neare about this time. VVherein Dr. Homes, with the rest of the independent antichristian time-servers are clearly confuted, and out of their own writings condemned: and against them proved, that the present usurpers in England are that antichristian party who have slain the witnesses, and shall reign but three yeers and an half, which time is almost at an end. To this book must be joyned Lingua testium, being its proper preface. / Written by Testis-mundus Catholicus Scotanglo-Britanicus.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H328; Thomason E632_23; ESTC R206463	110,211	129

11. and he lived 600 years in the new world after the flood as Gen. 5. gives us a true Catalogue of the Monarchs in the Church before the Church so Gen. 11. gives us such another Catalogue of those who lived after the flood unto Abraham Shem had Elam and Asher before the flood Gen. 10. 22. but they were drowned in the flood but two years after the flood Sem begat Arphaxad who was his eldest Son who had the right of domination after him succeeded Salah his eldest Son after Salah succeeded his eldest Son Eber after Eber Peleg after Peleg Reu after Reu Serag after Serag Nahor after Nahor Terah after Terah succeeded Abraham here God only set down the Monarchs in the Church for every one of these had more Sons then one 't is probable but they are not mentioned because they were not the eldest Sons they had not the priviledge of the first-born who by Gods Law Gen. 4. 7. were to have the Dominion Thus you see Religion and Monarchy kept together in Sems Family after the flood until Abraham With Abraham God made a Covenant and promised to make him a Nation and a great Nation Gen. 12. 2. and that he would give him the Land of Canaan and his seed should possess it and multiply as the dust of the earth Gen. 13. 15 16. This was a gracious day of comfort to the poor Church to hear of a blessed seed that shall grow up to a great Nation and be a blessing to all the world this promise did God renew to Abraham after he parted with Lot this Abraham was both valiant and pious as appears by the redemption of his Kinsman Lot out of the hands of those Kings which took him captive after which Victory Melchizedeck met him unto whom Abraham as a King in homage to him and as a Priest in duty to him paid Tythes this Melchizedeck probably was Sem for Sem was then living and lived above 150. years after this fight so that it was Abrahams duty to pay Tythes to Melchizedeck for he was by right the absolute Soveraign in the Church and in that respect without Father or Mother that is without any superior and in that respect Melchizedeck was a type of Christ for Christ is absolute Monarch of the Church he is without Father or Mother in that respect he is subject to none But to the thing in hand we see it is clear that Monarchy and Religion have been continued in the Church together from Adam to Abraham now from Abraham till Christ Monarchy continued in the Church it is so visible to every one that reads the Scripture that I will put it under the third Position which I intend to treat briefly on viz. Thirdly That the greatest good that ever the Church of God received here on earth from God they received from the hands of Monarchs The Scripture tells us of four glorious dayes that have been and shall be in the world before the day of Judgement three of these dayes are past viz. The day of Gods making known himself on Mount Sinai to his Church in the dispensation of his grace and love to his Church in giving them Laws and Ordinances for standing rules of his Worship untill the time of perfect Reformation Moses the Monarch of the Church was the instrument of receiving these Laws and Ordinances from God and the instrument of divulging them to the Church Moses was not only the Instrument of the greatest deliverance of the Church from the greatest danger but the Instrument of conveying the greatest good to them That this Moses was an absolute Monarch none will deny that hath either wit or modesty for the twelve Tribes received the Law at his mouth and all matters of Judicature were determined by him beyond him there was no appeal the people or the Elders did not choose him but he ordained Elders and set over the people he was an absolute Monarch none might speak against him or resist him every Christian that reads the Bible knows this to be a plain truth he was the first Monarch that was over the twelve Tribes and their families which were many thousands in number this Moses God appointed to be the Ruler over these great people he led them like a flock of sheep no sheepheard had more absolute command over his flock then Moses over the twelve Tribes The Monarchs of Israel in their infancie whiles the Church was in Tabernacles were called Judges the removing of these Monarchs was the greatest Judgement that could befall the Church and and it was the greatest mercy of God to restore them again This Samuel in reasoning tells the people 1 Sam. 12. 8. God gave not Moses and Aaron to Israel untill Israel cried unto the Lord Ordinary prayers will not attain so great a blessing to a nation as a godly Magistracy and Ministry they must be strong cries to God that must obtain such extraordinary mercies ver 9 10. the people provoked God by their Idolatry and God threw down their Government and made them serve their enemies and then the people cried to the Lord and renewed their Covenant then God sent Gideon ver 11. he raised him up to deliver them God never took away Monarchy from Israel but in wrath for the peoples sins and God never restored it again but he gave it as a singular mercy and sign of his favour to them 4. Ob. God gave them a King in his wrath and he was angry with the people for asking a King God calls it a rejecting of him A. We answer briefly 1. God gave not the Office of a King but the Person of a King in wrath 2. He was angry at the peoples manner of asking a King for they asked not a King of Moses describing Deut. 17. 15 16 17 18 19 20. but a King like the Heathens that were Tyrants well saith God they shall have such a King that shall play the Tyrant amongst them like the heathen Kings therefore God bids Samuel shew them what manner of King God will give them this Tyrant God gave him for a scourge yet no man no not David though he were a Saint and an annointed Saint durst touch Sauls life though Saul were really a murtherer a Tyrant and a publike enemy if Davids heart smote him for cutting off Sauls skirt O how would it have smote him had he cut off his head Monarchs are responsable for their actions to God No man on earth much lesse their subjects may judg or condemn them but God only God took away this wicked King in his anger as he set him up in his wrath 3. 'T is manifest that God anointed David and set him up King over Israel of his own free will and made a promise unto him as unto Abraham that his seed should inherit the throne after him to many generations Now began the Israelites to flourish now Kingly government was established now and not till now had they perfect Conquest over all

which alludes to the prophetick Psalm Psal 98. where you have every thing runs parallel with John's Vision for there you have a new song and the cause of it 't is for a marvellous great victory gotten by Gods own Arm in an eminent manner in the sight of the Heathen ver 2. and then at that time the house of Israel and the ends of the Earth see the salvation of God as the Angel Rev. 4. 6. preacheth it and then ver 4. there is a Hallelujah ver 5. with the Harp which the Harpers have ver 7. the sea roars and the earth and the flouds clash one against another but ver 19. the Mountains of holiness rejoyce because he is come to judge the earth Read the next Psalm it gives great light into these texts to be fulfilled in these times Be not therefore discouraged O ye Saints of God be patient be constant be couragious be not faithless but believe when your affliction and distress is greatest then is your deliverance nearest when your Enemies are most cruel most confident most strong most malicious and most secure then will Christ come in the cloud then will he appear on the white cloud with the sickle in his hand to cut down your Enemies blessed are you in this day that watch and keep on your spiritual garments for Christ will assuredly come and he will come as a thief at unawares unexpected behold the time is at hand your temptations are great the Devil is sifting you and winowing you as wheat it is a day of tribulation of great sorrow it is a day wherein your Enemies rejoyce and make merry it is a day of great rebuke and shame to the Church the enemies say ah ha so we would have it Edom's sons cry down with the walls of Zion down with them to the ground It was never a sadder day with the Church of England and Scotland since the Gospel was preached amongst them then now I dare appeal to all the Historians in the world whether ever the Gospel was so desperately persecuted and so neer to ruine as now it is Look in England and the very foundations of the Gospel are rooting up I mean the Doctrinal-foundation Do I say onely Doctrinal nay but I do affirm the personal foundation of the Gospel is rooting up Are not the Scriptures which are the spiritual foundation of the Gospel denyed to be the Word of God and do not men set their accursed lusts above the Holy Scriptures in maintaining that no more is Scripture then what their spirits close with and is not the Lord Jesus denyed to be God and the Son of God and the second person in the Trinity and do they not affirm that he is not the Purchaser of salvation for the Elect And to go a little further are not the Ministerial foundations viz. Magistracy and Ministery thrown down was there ever more open villanies committed against the persons and offices of Magistrates and Ministers then at this day How is the Magistracy trampled in the dirt and their spoyls divided How are Ministers imprisoned banished sequestered and silenced How grievous and intolerable are the burthens that they lay on the poor Ministers bodies and souls They have taken away their estates and so expose their poor families to ruine they impose a most unjust and unconscionable Oath upon them directly contrary to those lawful Oaths they took before and for the not subscribing of it which no consciencious Protestant will do or can do they are out-lawed shut out of protection out of their livelyhoods and exposed to utter ruine at the pleasure of any of the sons of violence and what condition have they put the Papists those bloudy and inveterate Enemies of the Protestants What becomes of the Laws in force against them Are they not all repealed What 's become of those discriminating Oaths that molest the Papists peace in this Kingdom Are they not all taken away and is not onely the sincere consciencious Protestant the man whose estate office person and family lyeth at the mercy of bloudy Papists and Gunpowder traytors Who is so blind as not plainly to see these things and what consciencious Protestant so secure as not to feel it And as for Scotland though blessed be the Lord there be a godly Magistracy and Ministery as yet standing yet how neer are they to their fall How great a blow have they received already How many enemies have they against them The Pope and all his politicians in England Holland Ireland Spain France are active against them in England the whole wealth and strength of it is imployed to ruine the Kingdome of Scotland in Holland and France the same Popish Politicians are imployed to raise rebellion against Kingly Government in Ireland the arch Rebells are in a League with the Common-wealth of England they having renounced Kingly Government long before were the first that owned the Common-wealth of England and gave them a Title whereupon Collonel Monk made a peace with them This Collonel Monk is now as Major Generall of the Foot under Cromwel in Scotland Spain hath owned this present power that cut off the King for a Free-State and Common-wealth and drives the same design to throw down the King of Portugal and France with England yea the Popes Agents in Scotland are active in stirring up those Papistical Families in Scotland against the Kirks party who are the Covenanting party It would be too long to tell how the Spanish Faction to say no more prevaileth this day throughout Europe the King of France who denies the Popes temporal power is like by the Jesuited-State-commotions to be overthrown the King of Portugal is in a probable way to be overthrown by the King of Spain the Hollander which was the supply of Scotland for Ammunition since the Prince of Orange's death is like by their own civil jars to become a prey to the Spaniard after designes betwixt England and Spain are ripened and poore England overflow with the Spanish Faction who cannot see all things cutting out against the Protestants acording to the Spanish Model who cannot see that perfected which was intended long since who sees not those dismall attempts against Magistracy and Ministery now compleated and accomplished which were intended 1588. by the King of Spain's Armado against Queen Elizabeth and by the Gunpowder Traytors against King James Something 't is that makes the Spanish Court triumph 't is because they have drave the Royal Family of England and Scotland into great distress it is helpless throughout the world no Kingdom nor Nation lends that distressed Family their helping hand the Prince of Orange the great comforter of that Family is taken out of the World and the Queen of Sweadland snatched from him by the Emperor The English Nation are divided into Independents Prelaticall men and Presbyterians for the most part the Independent and Prelaticall Party are ingaged by Oath against the Magistracy and Ministery of Scotland for they all

which Banner he leads his troops of Traitors and squadrons of blasphemers and Hereticks how shall all these be overthrown at one set battell about this yeer 1651. since t is impossible all these three Enemies shall be at the battell in person The Question is somewhat hard to be determined positively yet this is clear from the Scripture that this great battell Revel 19. 19 20. is that battell that shall be fought by the Witnesses after they are risen from their slain condition and this battell is fought against the Beast that slays the Witnesses that is the Beast of the Earth that little Horn in Dan. 7. 26 27. and Dan. 11. 4 5. and against the Beast of the bottomlesse pit and his company which makes merry Rev. 11. 10. for the destruction of the Witnesses now how can it be said that when this Beast and his party are overcome that then the Beast and the false Prophet and the Dragon are over-come A. 1. To this we answer in two words 1. They may virtually and potentially all three fall when one fals so the whole hosts of the Philistines fell when Goliah fell 2. Then when this Beast of the Earth fals all the three begin to fall and from that day never rise more their chief plots and devices shall be discovered and broken and their villanie shall be discovered to the whole world which shall make the ten Horns to hate the Whore and burn her with fire Or who can tell but that at this battell the cheif strength of the Pope the grand Hereticks who are the devils Esquires and the cheif and grand Traitors against the Laws and Religion of England may be all in that battell overcome Or thus at three Kings in one person by the Beast of the earth were overthrown so the three grand enemies of the Church in that one person of the Beast of the earth may be overthrown And to me it is very probable in Revel 17. where John saw Rome in that year when she was to go to destruction in v 3. He saw the last Beast that did bear up Rome and uphold her in her pomp the Beasts is called v 8. the Beast that cometh out of the bottomlesse pit to let us know that that Beast which slaies the Witnesses bears up Rome when she is going to damnation this Beast v 3. is called the Beast bearing up Rome because he slays the Witnesses that would have pulled down Rome he is called therefore a scarlet coloured Beast because of his bloody cruelty against the true Church and then he is said to have seven Heads and ten Horns because he supports that City Rome with seven Heads and ten Horns Popery by the Covenanteers had long ●ince been in the dust but that he broke the Covenanteers and their Reformation by his bloody treason and his blasphemous troops So then as this Beast is said to bear up Rome though he be far distant from Rome by his slaying Romes enemies so Rome may be said to fall and the Pope may be said to fall and the Devil who is said to be the father of Hereticks and blasphemers may be said to fall when he that hath supported them fals And in this sence at this battell when this Beast is overthrown the Beast and that false Prophet and the Dragon may be said to fall and be sure of it when the Witnesses have got their victories over this Beast down goeth Popery and blasphemie and heresie so that though in the downfall of this Beast of the earth it cannot be said that the Pope and the Devil shall personally and universally in their power be overthrown yet it may truly be said that virtually they are overcome it may well and truly be said that the Pope and the Devil are overcome when this Beast is overcome because the Beast is the support of Popery by which Romes pomp is supported and the support of Hereticks and blasphemers by whom the Devils kingdom is upheld hath he not caused those to fall who went about to overthrow Rome and hath he not granted a toleration to all Hereticks to lord it over the orthodox Christians Who is so blinde as doth not see that he doth support this day the state pomp and Religion of Rome and of the Divels kingdom there Satans throne is where the Witnesses are slain Rev. 2. 13. In a word it may truly be said when the Beast of the earth is overthrown that then the Popes cause and interest and the Devills interest will with him be overthrown in these three kingdoms for who is it but he that hinders the Covenant-reformation and if he shall by the Covenanteers as I do undoubtedly believe he will when his three years and a halfs Raign is up be overcome be assured that the rising Witnesses prosecuting the ends of the Covenant will be the ruine of the Popes and the devils Kingdom in England Indeed the Tenor of the Covenant is nothing else but to establish the Witnesses and throw down Popery and Heresie that is the Pope and the Devils kingdom Shall I yet go a little further I am confident that when this Beast of the earth is overcome his cursed Hellish conspiracies with the Court of Rome and the Court of Spaine to overthrow the Kings of Europe that acknowledg not the Popes supremacie will be made so apparent that all the Kings in Europe especially France and Portugall and these thre Kingdoms England Scotland and Ireland will both abominate and utterly reject the Romish Court as a den of abominable Theeves and Murtherers And I trust utterly forsake that accursed Religion which can change it self into any shape and pretend any interest on purpose to overthrow kingdoms and murther Kings Now put all these together consider but from the time of the Popes rising when he got to be the head of Rome to be independent which as on all hands is concluded was about the yeer 390. and consider but the time of the Beasts of the earth who riseth out of Independency and slaies the Witnesses in the yeer 1647. consider how cleerly the holy Ghost holds out the Beast in his rising in his government in his time of duration and in the manner and place of his ruine compare but Scripture with Scripture compare Dan. 7. and 11. and Matth. 24 Mark 13. Luke 21. Rev. 11. the 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Chapters and Zach. 14. together with severall other Texts in Ezek and Isiah I say compare the severall texts as we have set them one with another and compare with these texts the occurrences of these three yeers last past in England Scotland and Ireland and from all it may be concluded I would fain say positively probably that immediately after 1650. is ended when the Beast of the earth hath ●aged a Prophetick day that is one year in Scotland then comes the ruine of the Church her enemies for then the Church of Romes time of keeping the Witnesses in Sackcloath is expired and the three years and an half of the great Independent Beast that shall slay the Witnesses is expired then he and his Poliarchy of Senators who Raign as Kings must go to their eternall graves and then the Witnesses must rise and take possession of their seats from which they were thrown and the Covenanted-reformation by them must be carried on to the utter destruction of the Pope and his faction and the binding of the devil and utter casting of him out of the Church with his faction All which the Lord of his infinite mercy through Jesus Christ for his elect sake both of Jews and Gentiles unconverted and alreadie converted hasten Even so come Lord Jesus Come quickly Amen FINIS