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A52804	A compleat and compendious church-history shewing how it hath been from the beginning of the world to this present day : being an historical-narrative how the power and providence of God, according to his promise, hath hitherto confounded all the damnable plots of the Devil : to which is annexed a Scripture-prophecy fore-shewing how it shall be hence to the end of the world : to whole containing the quintessence of sacred, civil and ecclesiastick-writers, and serving as a short comment upon all the books in the Bible, both historical and prophetical / published for publick good by Christopher Ness ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing N446; ESTC R37720	248,071	530

Day But suppose they had been of that Moyety of Mankind that lye dead in the Grave as Psal 88. 5. and that Death had not onely seiz'd but also fed upon them and had Gnawed them to the very bones leaving nothing but bare bones yea suppose those bones had been dryed yea so very much dryed ex Vetustate Carie both so old and so rotten as ready to moulder into Dust at the least Touch yet the great God who comes to stand over these Opened Graves as Christ did over Lazarus's Joh. 11. 38 41. and who by his Almighty Power can quicken the Dead and call things that are not as if they were Rom. 5. 17. Joh. 5. 28. Isa 26. 19. Hos 13. 14. he cryeth with some Groanings over the Grave Lazarus Judah Oh my People Oh my Church come forth Joh. 11. 43. Ezek. 37. 12. Yea he Roareth mightily from on high Ier. 25. 30. like the lusty Lyon finding his Whelps dead in his Den at their birth he falls a Roaring so fiercely that as Pliny Reports they presently revive and rise up So the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah Roareth here to the like purpose and much more at the last Day 1 Thess 4. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 52. together with Gods Word there goeth out a Power Luk. 5. 17. as when he said Lazarus come forth So it is in the first Resurrection and so it shall be in the last Joh. 5. 25 28 29. If God do but Speak to the dry bones saying Ye shall Live c. accordingly it is done as in the Creation of the World Gen. 1. 3 6 9 14 c. The Admirable Work of this great World was all made by a bare Word out of the Mouth of the Almighty God and He who could give a being out of nothing at the first can more easily restore a Being out of something again as out of dry Bones here This great Truth Ezekiel Gods Interpreter excellently Evidenceth in his Parabolical and Typical Vision of the dry Bones most aptly Applyed and Accomodated to the Jewish-Church in the Graves of Babylon which yet was Reviv'd Ezek. 37. v. 7. 1. By a Noise or Rattle to wit some Roaring Thunderclap 2. By a Shakeing as that of the Earthquake at Christs Resurrection Matth. 28. 2. the Earth did shake then to let Christ out of his Grave and now to let the Church out and when God delivers his Church from mystical Babylon he will shake Heaven as well as Earth Hebr. 12. 26 27. he will shake the old Heaven and the old Earth to settle the New Heaven and the New Earth 2 Pet. 3. 12 13. Gods Shakeing concludes with Settling 't is not to Ruine but to Refine his Church Oh what a Noise and what a Shakeing was made here by Ordinary Means as well as by Extraordinary in the Thunderelap above and in the Earthquake below to wit 1. by the Power of Prayer 2. by a prevalent Proclamation 1. Prayer hath a shakeing Power Act. 4. 31. Yea and a ratling Noise or Sound with it Act. 2. 2. as Ezekiels Vision of the dry bones had both those Two extraordinary and sensible Signs of Gods powerful presence so the Spirit of God came upon those Praying Ones as a Spirit of Power 2 ' Tim. 1. 7. and shakes the place of Prayr with a mighty rushing Wind and shakes the Persons too at that first planting of the Gospel as Planters do to young Plants that they may settle the better Now this Powerful Prayr for the Jewish-Churches Restoration out of Babylon was Threefold 1. That of Solomon 1 Kin. 8. from 46 to 54. this very Prayr though made about 468 Y. before shakes the Heart of the Persian Prince Cyrus so as to shew Compassion to Gods poor people in Babylon and at length gives them leave to Return thus Jacobs Prayr God Almighty give you Mercy or Hebr. Bowels Gen. 43. 14. was particularly Answer'd when Josephs Bowels yerned over Benjamin v. 30. 2. That of Daniel when he Vnderstood by Books how the 70 Y. were expired then he puts Gods Promise in Suit and speaks nothing in his Prayers but what God had spoke in his Promises and so was Answer'd by God in his Providences Dan. 9. 2 4 20. This Prayr shakes Heaven brings from thence Gabriel who tells him for the 70 Y. Captivity they shall enjoy their own Countrey Seven Seventies or 490 Y. v. 24. 3. That of the People who Prayed Fasted and Wept by the Waters of Babylon Psal 137. 1 2 3. 1 Kin. 8. 47 48. Zech. 7. 5. Those Three Actions in those 70 Y. shows the Church was no more Dead in Babylon than Daniel was in his Den for they are all Actions of the Living not of the Dead They Sow in Tears the precious Seed of Prayr Wing'd with Fasting so Reaps at last in joy Their Desolate Countrey made them Disconsolate Souls yet their Sighs unutterable brought Joy Vnspeakable Psal 126. 1 2 5 6. Then comes the 2d Shake Cyrus prevalent Proclamation the Lord stirring up his Spirit to it Ezra 1. 1 c. This turn'd the Churches Tears into Triumphs her Sighing into Singing her Sadness into Gladness And the Devil for all his Plots hath the Contrary to all these is Sad at his Defeat and goes learing away Now when God in whose Hand are the Hearts of all Kings Prov. 21.1 had most Happily stirr'd up the Spirit of Cyrus to Issue out his most Gracious Proclamation of a Jubilee to the Distressed Church wherein he was a Type of Christ Proclaiming Liberty to the Captives and the Opening of the Prison to them that are bound Isa 61. 1. and to give her so fair and full a Patent this Mighty Marvellous and Immediate Work of Divine Mercy in her so deplorable misery did so surprize her that she could hardly believe her own Eyes but was for a while as those that Dream Psal 126. 1. This was the Lords own Doing and most Marvellous in the Churches Eyes Psal 118. 23. especially upon those Respects 1. That their Graves should be opened 2. That their dry Bones should live again stand upon their Feet walk home into their own Countrey build a Temple c. 3. That Cyrus an Heathen King who did not know the Lord Sc. savingly Isa 45. 4 5. should not onely be called by Name above 170 Y. before he was Born to become the Lords Shepherd to Feed his distressed Church Isa 44. 28. but also 4. in the very Entrance into his Monarchy before his Affairs were fully settled to Dismiss so great and so United a People in their Religion and Custom and so given to Insurrection as their Character was Ezra 4. 12 19. and to Return them into their own Land with all manner of Accomodations both for State and Strength 5. 'T was most marvellous That this Decree or Proclamation should be Signed not onely 1. Precisely at the End of Daniels Prayer Dan. 9. 21 23. and 10. 12 14. No sooner was Daniels Prayer out of his

to 14. and 30. 17. 'T is very remarkable that those Jews who were in Babylon though as Buryed there Fared far better than those that were left and liv'd in Canaan for God Spoke in the hearts of their Enemies for the Former and made their Foes to Favour them God Interceeded for them with the Chaldeans Jer. 15. 11. Verily it shall be well with thy Remnant Hebr. If it be not well c. and If I do not cause c. as if the Lord had said Then never Trust Me more never look on Me as Lord or Master of My Word more But the latter that still liv'd in their own Land were within a little while Involv'd in Woful Misery by Ishmaels Murdering of Gedaliah many of them were Massacr'd and the rest went down to Aegypt expresly contrary to Gods Command Deut. 17. 16. and the Prophets Counsel Jer. 42. 14. where they found no such Graves to Rest in as their Brethren found in Babylon but while they sought to run from Death they run to it v. 22. and Jer. 43. 9 11. and 46. 13 15 17 24. Yet so compassionate is God to his Church's-Relick there that while he is denouncing the Doom and foretelling the Conquest of Aegypt yea and of Babylon too afterwards for Persecuting the Church Jer. 50. 1 9. c. The Lord Intermingles his Comminations against Aegypt and Babylon with sweet Consolations to Sion Jer. 46. 27. but Fear not thou Oh my Servant Jacob c. I will make an End of all the Nations whither I have driven thee but I will not make a full End of thee but Correct thee in measure ☞ Oh the Bleeding of Divine Bowels over his Captivated Church in this consolatory Clause God could not find in his Heart to make a full End of her as Hos 11.8 but keeps their Room empty all the 70 Y. till the return of the Natives his Church The Devil undoubtedly gave Judahs land as he had given the land of the Ten Tribes primo occupaturo to him that could catch and Conquer it first he was a Blasphemous Usurper in his saying to Christ To whomsoever I will I give it Luk. 4. 6. wherein he Robbs God of the chiefest Jewel in his Imperial Crown Dan. 4. 32 17 25. Thus the Pope like the Devils Heir takes upon him to be Lord of all that Incommunicable Attribute of Christ Act. 10. 36 both Temporals and Spirituals in all Countries and Kingdoms So Boniface the 8. that Antichrist stiled himself to Phillip King of France and so did his Successor to our Henry the 8. whom he Excommunicated from the Church Deposed him from his Crown and Disposed of his Kingdom to him that could first Win it so far as his Roaring Bull which yet proov'd but a brute Thunder-bolt might Accomplish no less had the Devil his Master Father and God done concerning the Kingdom of Judah Nevertheless the God of Israel would not suffer any of those Warlike Adversaries that surrounded Judea so much as to Desire their Land Exod. 34. 23 24. when they left it unmann'd thrice in the Year much less Invade it and this Providence is yet more marvellous that while their land was empty of its Inhabitants for 70 Y. together yet none of those Neighbour-Nations which always Watched yet never Catched an Opportunity do make a Seizure of that tempting Glory of all Lands Ezek. 20. 6. when the Prophet Jeremiah hath done Denouncing dreadful Woes against Aegypt and all other Adversaries of the Church nine in number he comes to his 10th even Babylon and oh how amazing it is to Consider how in his giving out Confounding Corrasives to Proud Babylon He still scatters most Comfortable Cordials to drooping and distressed Sion as Ch. 50. 4 19 20. The Iniquity of lacob shall be sought for and there shall be none Ch. 51. 5. Judah hath not been for saken c. v. 44 45. God will make Babel spue up his Church as too Hot a Mouthful and that cannot be disgested and still My People no reason can be rendred why Iudah was not consumed as well as the Ten Tribes and the Ten Nations but Gods never-failing Compassions Lam. 3. 22. his mindfulness of the Covenant of giving David a Lamp alway 2 Kin. 8. 19. the Lord said not that he would blot out the Name of Israel from under Heaven 2 Kin. 14. 2 7. Hereupon he sent Prophets all along 2 Chron. 24. 19. to comfort the good Figs as to Confound the bad ones Jer. 24. 25 8. Finally when the Devil had got the Church the good Figs in Babylon as the bad Figs in Aegypt yea and Fetter'd them there until she was become as very dry bones and in a deep Grave too with a great Stone upon it insomuch that she looks upon her self in a forlorn Condition and that no Created power or Natural means could possibly recover her saying Can these dry Bones live c. Ezek. 37.3 11. they say as it were Let them Hope that Hope can There is now no Hope Ier. 2. 25. the less Hope that the Church had the more Hope the Devil hath to win the Game but the great and Gracious God comes with a Liberate serves a Writ of Quare Impedit upon the Devil for Detaining them this spoils all his Sport God Commands his Angels to Roul away the great Stone that lay upon the Mouth of his Churches Tomb Sealed down with the Devils Seal upon it as Daniels Den was with that of Darius Dan. 6. 17. then Opened he the Graves according to his Promise Ezek. 37. 12. the same God who vouchsafed to be a Grave-maker for Moses Person Deut. 34. 6. vouchsafes now to become a Grave-Opener for Moses People when he had opened their Graves with a Non-obstante-Writ the People were there preserved Alive as they had been buryed Alive for God had sent his Angel to shut the Mouth of that all-Devouring Lyon Death as he did to the Lyons in Daniels Den Dan. 6. 22. Hebr. 11. 33. so that the Savage and Hunger-starv'd Death had not seiz'd upon them Psal 55. 15. with a Writ of Habeas Corpus or taking their Bodies like as an austere and over-Lordly Landlord attaques his poor Tenants or as a cruel Creditor doth his failing Debtor or as that merciless Man in the Gospel who took his Fellow by the Throat and said Pay that thou owest me Matth. 18. 28 33. neither had the Devil that Roaring Lyon seeking whom he may Devour 1 Pet. 5. 8. serv'd the other Writ of Habeas Animam or attaching their Souls to carry them away into his Dungeon of Darkness Oh what a miracle of Mercy was here manifested that neither the Cold Grave could contain their Bodies nor Hot Hell catch their Souls Death had not fed upon them neither was their Beauty consumed in the Grave as Psal 49. 14. but those Vpright ones had dominion over Death and Devil in the Morning after the long Night of their 70 Y. Captivity was ended in a dawning

dealt with the Jewish-Church in all that Interspace of Time betwixt the History of the Old and New-Testament Consult the Following Chapter where that State of Defection wherein Christ found them at His Comming is largely Related The Twenty-First Plot in the New-Testament against the Church in Christ Defeated by God CHAP. XXI VVHEN the Blessed Messiah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God-Man was Born into the World he found his Brethren the Church as Joseph did his Gen. 37. 17. Indeed in Dothan Hebr. in Defection as the Word Signifies The Devil had Debauched the Jews most Desperately so that scarce were there Four or fewer that Waited for the Consolation of Israel to wit the Birth of Christ which was ever the best Cordial that the Lords Prophets propos'd to the Church in her most Disconsolate Condition in foregoing Ages as Isa 9. 6. and Zech. 9. 9. and Mal. 4. 2. c. That Christ is given to the World is the Summ of all the good News in the World and affordeth such Joy as surpasseth the Three Grand Worldly Joys the Joy of Marriage the joy of Harvest and the Joy of Victory Isa 9 3 5 6. yet the Jewish-Church was at that time in such a State of Defection that they Generally minded it not though then a very plentiful Harvest a great Number of Elect among the poor Gentiles were Ready Ripe Matth. 9. 37. Luk. 10. 2. Joh. 4. 35. This Defection of the Jews was foretold by Daniel that Ish-Chamudoth or greatly Beloved Prophet Speaking of most Sad Calamities that should befall them both before and after the comming of Christ for the over-spreading of Abomination Chap. 9. 24 27. with Ch. 8. 23. When the Transgressions are come to the full that is when the Iews were notoriously Degenerated then did God sett that Breathing-Devil Antiochus over them as a punishment of their publique Impiety and prophane Apostacy This was that which procured a Commission to this Fierce-Countenanc'd or Hebr. Brazen-Fac'd King for Destroying Wonderfully the Holy and the Mighty People who while they were Holy were so Mighty as to be Inconquerable but now being Revolted from God as Weak as Water both by Power and Policy Chap. 8. 24 25. Then was the Glorious Land Judea as Daniel calls it Ch. 11. 16. for its having the Service of God sett up in it above all Lands crushed asunder as Corn lying betwixt Two heavy Milstones that is betwixt the King of the South Ptolomy and this King of the North Antiochus called a vile Person v. 21. though he affected the Name of Epiphanes or Famous yet this was his true Title with God Psal 15. 4. and though he be an Abominable vile Person when Gods Justice Required such a Scourage to his People His Heart must be sett against the Holy Covenant v. 28. to wit against the Jews Gods Covenanters and against the True Religion which made that Land more Beautiful and Glorious than all other Lands Ezek. 20. 6. He shall enter into the Glorious Land Dan. 11. 41. and shall make Havock of Gods people Revelling in their Ruines and shall set up the Abomination of Desolation to wit the Abominable Idol of Jupiter Olympius in the Holy Temple Yea and the Renegado Jews which first forsake the Covenant then do Wickedly against it Comply privily with him in all this Wickedness v. 30 32. 2 Macca 4. He by their Assistance practices and prospers till the Indignation be Accomplished v. 36. in Gods revengeing the Quarrel of his Covenant notwithstanding this vile Villain this Turbulent and Truculent Tyger God had turn'd loose upon his People to punish their sins and though he practic'd and prosper'd so far in his prodigious Prophanity as to cast the Truth down to the Ground both the Profession of Truth and its professours Dan. 8. 12. yet the Devil loses this Game also with all the other his Games aforesaid in the Old Test History For the most great and gracious God comes in with most Comfortable Allays so Spoils the Devils Design The 1st Allay is the Palmoni Hamadabbar Hebr. or most Excellent Speaker or Numberer Christ Numbers the Time how long this Scourge should continue upon Gods People concerning their loss of the dayly Sacrifice c. to wit onely Five or Six Years or thereabout Dan. 8. 13 14. this was a sweet Cordial to them that it should be for no longer time much less not for Ever * Now if the proper and genuine Sense of that Text and Type be Applyed to Antichrist typified by Antiochus as most Learned Men Concurr then it may be as comfortable for us to consider how Christ the Messias moderates the Matters of the Romish-Antichrist though his Wicked practises do prosper for a time as Act. 12. 1 2 3. yet due Bounds He sets to his proud Waves Job 38. 10 11. as to the Sea or Ocean so to the See of Rome as he did in the Marian Days of Abhorred memory which lasted no longer than those of Antiochus to wit about Five or Six Y. and as he promised to do Revel 2. 10. The 2d Allay was Christ comforts the Church with telling her not onely that her Trouble under Antiochus should not last Seven Y. much less Seventy Y. as it lasted in Babylonish Bondage but also that from the end of those Seventy Y. they should have Seven Seventies of Years in the enjoyment of their own Country out of which they had been carry'd Captive Dan. 9. 24. maugre the malice of Men and Devils wherein behold how most marvellously the Mercy of God doth bear the same proportion to his Punishments which Seven a compleat Number carries to an Unit or One Thus his Mercy to his Church Triumphs over his Justice Jam. 2. 13. and over all his Works are his Tender Mercies Psal 145. 9. The 3d. Allay of this troublesome Interspace of 490 Y. was Christs casting in that Signal Cordial in the Days of Jaddus or Jadduah whom Neh. 12. 10 11. mentions the High-Priest Descended from Jehoshuab who met Daniels Capering Goat Alexander the Great in all his Pontificalibus or High-Priests Formalities which struck such a Veneration upon him that he whom all the World adored falls down to Adore Jaddus or rather as he told Parmenio Jaddus's God who in such a like Apparition had encourag'd him to Undertake his Wars against Asia Hereupon he was easily prevailed with the People of the Jews praying all the while for their High-Priests good Success to spare Jerusalem which he came to Plunder especially when Walking in Jaddus's Hand to the Temple and seeing what Daniel had foretold of him Writing rather an History than a Prophecy even an Abridgement of all his Victories hereby he was not onely pacified but also offer'd Sacrifices to the True God according to the High-Priests Direction and bestowing upon the Iews many Favours and Freedoms he went away much encourag'd in his Enterprize not doubting but according to Dan. 8. 3 to 8. the Graecian Goat would overcome the Persian Ram