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A86683	Lingua testium: wherein monarchy is proved, 1. To be jure divino. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 3. That monarchy is the absolute true government under the Gospel. 4. That immediately after extraordinary gifts in the Church ceased, God raised up a monarch for to defend the Church. 5. That Christian monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind. 7. England was the place whither the witnesses, (viz. godly magistracy and ministry) never drove by Antichrist. Where is proved, first, that there hath been a visible magistracy, (though in sackcloth,) these 1260. yeares in England. ... Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews, the fall of Antichrist, and the ruine of the Beast of the earth is at hand. Wherein you have the hard places of Mat. 24, and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard texts: ... / Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus, in the yeare of the Beasts of the earth's raign, 1651.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1651 (1651)	Wing H327; Thomason E632_22; ESTC R202496	43,212	57

Princes were greater then the Vintage the great Conquest of Gideon over that vast Army But here is another hard question comes in and that is from v. 14. and 16. Q. How can it be said in v. 13. that the Horns make war with the Lamb and the Lamb overcomes them and in v. 16. The ten Horns shall hate the whore and make her naked and eat her flesh and burn her with fire Resp. To this we answer Those ten Horns cannot be the same in person in v. 14. with these in v. 16. 1. Because these in v. 14. make war against the Lamb but those in v. 16. make war for the Lamb 2. Those in v. 14. are destroyed and overcome by the Lamb and therefore cannot be the same in person with those in v. 16. because they shall hate the Whore Now comes in the Judgement of the Whore spoken of v. 1. and in this v. 16. the Officers that shall bring her to Judgement are set forth Observe but the opposition that the Holy Ghost puts betwixt the person and persons in one Office by the ten Horns as I have shew'd signifies a Senate a Parliament or a supream power consisting of many Members This v. 14. and 16. if seriously perused shew us that there shall be a great Rent amongst persons conjoyn'd in one office the ten Horns v. 12. arise with the beast but the other v. 17. give their Kingdom through their oversight to the beast so that these clearly are distinct for these last ten Horns had a Kingdom or else they could not give it away but the other v. 12. come to be Kings or as Kings with the beast so that the coming up of these is the casting down of those vers. 17. untill the words of God be fulfilled Those ten Kings vers. 13. give their power and strength which they received from the beast to the beast against the Lamb But those ten Horns v. 17. give but their Kingdom for a time and when that time is fulfilled i. e. when the seventh Trumpet sounds when the mystery of God shall be finished or fulfilled then those shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and eat her flesh and burn her with si●e This gives us a most clear description of the slain Witnesses by a party atising out of their own bowels Here are the same ten Horns for the beast against the Lamb and the same ten Horns for the Lamb against the Beast and the Whore This is a mystery which hath been locked up from former ages and is now in the eyes of all the world revealing it self these ten Horns therefore are distinct in their persons and the same in office onely the one party sides with the Beast who gives them his power to slay the Witnesses so that these reigning keep the name and power of a Parliament and so they are called the ten Horns and this Rome they keep till the true Parliament which pretendedly was on the beasts head arise and by their powerful prosecution of their Covenant-Reformation shew their hatred to the Whore make her desolate eat her flesh and burn her with fire For certain the rising of the slain Witnesses shall be the downfall of the Beast the Pope and the Devils Kingdom I am not ignorant how remote I am from the common received opinions of the Protestants neither am I ignorant how far they are from the clear light of sacred Text which gives too much occasion to the Romish party in their writings to scorn at their interpretations It were easie to shew the contradictions that they make who interpret these ten Horns to be the ten Kings of Europe but I forbear and only make this the excuse of my prolixity because I easily perceive the great stone which the Protestant Writers stumble at is this last beast that is to rise and raign three years and an half in which time he slays the Witnesses This Beast few of them for ought I can perceive ever dream't of therefore they mistake the Beast rising out of the bottomless pit Rev. 11. 7. the Beast of the Earth Rev. 13. 11. and the eighth Beast Rev. 17. 11. to be the Pope and these ten Horns to be the ten Europian Kingdoms which are all gross mistakes and the causes of greater in most of their Writings Having thus by the good grace of the Holy Trinity by these mysterious Texts discovered this last Beast and these last Enemies of the Church I trust he that is not spiritually blind will say Surely these Scriptures are fulfilled in our eyes this day Was there not a glorious Reformation began and though with much danger and difficulty yet clearly carryed on Read but the Assemblies Works read the good Ordinances made by the Parliament for the carrying of it on read the Covenant and then say whether there was not a glorious Reformation began nay did not the King give his Royall assent to this Reformation and did not the Parliament close with these Concessions and then even then on a sudden when these Witnesses had finished their Testimony then ariseth this Beast and over throws this Reformation by slaying the Witnesses which had finished their Testimony By this the Reader may see my confidence upon Scripture-bottome that these are the times and this is the place and the Magistracy and Ministery of England are the witnesses that now are slaying and this Power now tyrannizing over the Church is that Power that slayes the Witnesses and the Beast that set up this Power together with the Power that he hath erected shall gather all their strength against the Lamb that is against the true Saints which in sincerity worship Christ and there the mighty hand of God shall appear to the utter ruining and confounding of them then shall the Witnesses arise and take up that Reformation which hath lien dead three years and an half and shall carry it on without any more opposition and all this shall begin to be done I do not say finished neere about this present year 1651. These I have more largly discoursed of in the ensuing Tract yet not at large because I expect to have it answer'd by some of the Time-serving Champions especially Docter Homes whom I take to be the learned'st Saint of them all in this study and he hath got him almost as great a name amongst the ignorant Crew for a Prophet as Lillie the Hedg-Prophet who Jispsie-like gets his living by telling fortunes as Lillie so doth this Doctor make his Oracle speak to the humour of the Times as that infamous Priest of Apollo out of base flattery made the Oracle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} So doth the blasphemous wretch indeavour to make the Holy Oracles of the Scriptures {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is to humour the usurping Trayterous bloudy Hereticks of the Times and with more subtilty then any of his fellows It behoveth Christians to observe some mens Designs more then others and to

that he takes a grain of allowance that is a year over to his 1260. years Upon the same ground in this thing I shall follow him and comply with him though there is no necessity for it Others as Clavis Apocalyptica written by a German draw water from the same Springs quote the same texts as Dan. 12. and Rev. 11. and looking into History say that these texts of 1290. days and 1260. days are not fulfilled until 1655. so that these agree with the former in explication of the texts but not in application of the Histories to the text in which difference he that hath the clearest Histories to shew the time of Antichrists rising and the time of the Witnesses going into sackcloth as relating to the Gentile Church and likewise he that interprets that text Dan. 12. 11. most clearly and by history can clear it exactly and tell when the daily sacrifice was taken away and the abomination of desolation set up be doubtless will gaine the greatest credit from the judicious Reader In my jndgment learned Brightman on Dan. 12. 11. is most clear and rational and none do I find guess nearer the time in print of Antichrists visible appearance in the Church then Dr. Homes let me give the Devil his due But of the main point which is concerning the slaying the Witnesses at or neer the end or whether at or neer the end of Antichrists 1260. years Raign he speaks not a word which makes me think that his Sermon Octob. 8. 1650. was preached against the light of his own conscience For in the Revelations the Holy Ghost hath so linked Antichrists raign and the Witnesses slaying in the end of Antichrists raign that he that studies the one must necessarily take notice of the other and indeed he that can shew us the Witnesses slain may easily point at the end both of the Gospel-church afflictions and the Jewish States dissipation but here is the difficulty and here are the gross mistakes of men who studying application of history to the text more then the explication of the text it self have given most ridiculous ghesses to the great scandall of the Protestant My Antagonist speaks not one word to this text but the German Divine in his Clavis Apocaliptica p. 87. tells us that three years and a half before Antichrists raign is out the Witnesses shall be slain for saith he they both expire together both Antichrists raign and the Witnesses slaying and therefore he renders Rev. 11. 7. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in futuro simplici when they are about to finish so Cloverius and Mead reads the text In this I shall not much dissent from them yet I think they render it best who read it from the words as it most naturally drops into English and that is when they shall have finished their testimony for it will nothing at all clash with ver. 2. where they prophesie 1260. days in sackcloth for the finishing of their testimony doth not cause their prophecying to cease their suffering and their slaying is the gloriousest part of their sackcloth prophesie for then saith the Holy Ghost Here is their faith and here is their patience The finishing of their testimony is the joynt concurrence of the two Witnesses viz. the Magistracy and the Ministery in establishing the Doctrine and the Discipline of the Church of Christ against Antichrist the Beast of the Sea i. e. the Pope that keeps the Witnesses in sackcloth on the one hand and against the Beast of the Earth that slayes the Witnesses on the other hand now when was this testimony finished the sum of this testimony you shall find in the Covenant but when they finished this testimony I leave Christians to judge Whether when the Assembly of Divines had finished their work that of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church and when the Parliament ratified their work resolved to disband their Armies and bring home the King on honourable covenant-tearms and then the Beast of the Earth arose made war against them and drove them out of the house since which that Reformation hath lain dead Or whether it began then when the Magistracy were fully agreed to establish the Doctrine and the Discipline of the Church against Popery on one hand and Heresie on the other when the King gave his royal assent and the Parliament voted the Kings concessions to be a sufficient ground for the establishing the peace of the Church and State then the Beast ariseth and makes war against them and overcomes them and kills them how kills them Rev. 20. 5. makes answer beheads them saith Beza cuts them off with the Axe Now which of these times 't is is no easie thing to determin but the former act seems to me to be the time when they finished their testimony For then the Beast set up his Sword-power and then the Magistracy and Ministery finished their Church-work and immediatly after they had finished it this Beast of the bottomless put threw it down and then followed that abominable Vote of non-addresses to the King Now this fell out neer about October 164● as I remember if about that time then the Witnesses must ●●●e about May or June in the year 1651. or thereabouts for then his three years and an half is up but if we begin to account the Witnesses s●aying their finishing their Testimony and the Beasts of the bottomless pits raign not to begin unti●December 1648. when the King was slain and the Offices of the Two Houses slain and the Assembly scatterd for not subscribing to the Beasts mark then the witnesses will not rise untill June 1652. Now that these Witnesses are the Magistracy and the Ministery there is nothing so cleer as learned Woodcock on Rev. 11. makes it appear and several others besides the ferenity of the holy texts themselves which makes it most cleer This is most certain that the two Witnesses are two lawful Offices i. e. a lawful Magistracy and a lawful Ministery Now their Opposites who slay them are Usurpers in the State and Usurpers in the Church that is the Beast of the Earth and the Beast of the Sea with their followers now the Witnesses rising shall be these Usurpers confusion i. e. the ruine of the Pope and the Beast of the Earth with their seven thousand men of name so that the Battel shall be fought betwixt lawful Magistracy and lawful Ministery against Usurping Magistracy and Ministery but more of this in its place The greatest difference betwixt those that come near the time of their slaying is concerning the place where they must be slain Now there are many groundless conceits that we find in print about this place where they shall be slain I shall not repeat what others have said but indeavour to prove that the Witnesses must be slain in these three Islands of England Scotland and Ireland This I shall prove 1. From the Offices that are slain 2. From the person that slays them