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A52810	A distinct discourse and discovery of the person and period of Antichrist wherein a diligent enquiry is made concerning the time of his rise, reign, and ruine, the answer whereunto is not peremptorily imposed, but modestly proposed / published for publick good by Christopher Ness ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing N453; ESTC R3549	114,929	254

all Hereticks must be compell'd by force was a fair foundation for and an Introduction to that force of Arms which Antichrist used afterwards against the Saints under the name of Hereticks in all his Dominions the other War is not only describ'd in the Parties against whom it is raised but also in the success of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saints are the Party against whom and Victory is the Success of the Beasts War whereof no mention is made in the former if we compare Revel 12.17 with Revel 13.5.7 in all which 3 places this phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used Revel 13.5 holds out the Term of the War Revel 12.17 the War it self and Revel 13.7 names not only the Seed Saints but the Success too 389. Thus as we have a double account of the Beasts War so likewise of the Womans flight into the Wilderness as before therefore can we not so fully fix upon either of those two last Intimations unless we could find out the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Article and point of time when those double computations began wherein I must confess my self to be at a loss and the more because I am at this day deprived of the help of my own Library may we but fully inform our selves of the exact Epochas and beginnings of all those Hints aforesaid it would bring not a little light to this intricate Question the full discovery of which I must refer to men of greater abilities and opportunities for Chronology 390. There is also a 6th Intimation to wit the treading under foot of the outer Court or holy City by the Gentiles for the time of 42. Months Revel 11.2 which is the very express Term of the Lease of the Beast as Revel 13.5 Mr. Mede makes this likewise to Contemporize with the Beast having one and the same beginning and ending not only because of the Equality of their times as before but also because of the Identity of their Expiration for when the great Earthquake hath destroyed the Imperial City and with it the Kingdom of the Beast Rev. 11.13 and the Kingdoms become the Lords v. 15. those very Gentiles that had trodden underfoot the holy City so long are then cast out at which they are enraged v. 18. 391. The outward Court and the holy City Mr. Mede makes to be Synonimus and mutually to expound themselves because the outward Court was the place of Worship for the People of the holy City as the Inner Court was for the Priests and Levites And those Gentiles that tread it down are not Pagans but Papagans which are Idolaters like unto the Gentiles who are also call'd Sodom and Egypt yea and the Synagogue of Satan ●… those shall possess the Holy City or Europe the allotted Seat of the Church they shall tread under foot the outward Face of the visible Church for 42. Months 392. Now could we but find out the beginning of this treading down of the Holy City this would guide us as by a Synchronism to the time of Antichrists fall but I shall not insist upon this neither not only because a late Learned Critick makes this casting out of the Outward Court to the Gentiles a Dispensation under the 6th Trumpet and in the last times of Antichrist as if he should recover all those Kingdoms again before his fall that have made a protestation against him hence are they call'd Protestants and not to contemporize with him from first to last but also because this hath such a fair Coincidency with the time of the Witnesses in Sackcloth which I purpose to speak more largely to in the next place CHAP. XIV 393. I Come now to the 7th and last Intimation for guiding of us into this intricate point about the fall of Antichrist to wit the Sackcloth Prophecy of the two Witnesses which to be Contemporary with the Dominion of the Beast none ever denied but that the Sixth Trumpet ends them both is granted of all so having one and the same term of time it necessary follows they must both begin together the Witnesses must begin their mourning Prophecy when Popery and Antichristianism begins unto both which the 7th Trumpet puts a final Period So that may we find out the Epocha of their Sackcloth Prophecy it will give great light to the time of Antichrists fall 394. This Prophecy of the two Witnesses may be truly call'd crux Interpretum it hath put so many Learned and Holy Men to a kind of torture in the Interpretation of it and we may say of this Scripture as Maldonate of another Scripture Locus facilior si nemo exposuisset It hath been so ruffled with variety of Interpretations that they have made it seem darker by their Various and Heterogenal Conjectures God hath left many places of Scripture dark to our understandings nè illas Scripturas semel lectas fastidiremus that we should not disdain the plainness of it Austin yet may we not make bawds of our own wit to beget our own sences on Scripture for that is to break the bones of the Lamb and to do Violence to the Law of God Zeph. 3.4 we should carry no sence to Scripture but only fetch one from it 395. That God had his Witnesses all along the Reign of Antichrist is manifest by Johns measuring out a Church for God under the Antichristian Persecution to wit the Church in the Wilderness as before Ruled by the Reed of Gods Word and fed by the two Prophets there Revel 12.6,14 that they to wit those two Prophets should feed her though not fully feast her in her Wilderness-state and those Witnesses should have the Temple given them in the Desert while Antichrist exercises his Idolatrous Worship in the Outward Court and Holy City wherein true Christian profession and Worship hath been before 396. Those witnesses which are in general terms call'd the holy People Dan. 12.7 and must be scattered and slain before all these things of Antichrist be fulfilled are largely described in the 11th of Rev. with many particular and distinct Characters An inspection into which may contribute some light in our enquiry after the Epocha or Beginning of this Sackcloth-prophecy which doth so exactly commensurate the times of the Beasts dominion their slaughter being the last bite of the Beast as Christs death slew death the Distick is Mors mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset Aeternae vitae janua clausa foret So the death of Christs Witnesses brings death on the Beast that slew them 397. In this description observe 1. their Names 2. their Number 3. their Condition 4. their Actions 5. their Death or end and 6. their Resurrection 1st Their Names which are not proper but appellative being two 1. Witnesses 2. Prophets 1st they are call'd Witnesses as being in all Ages to witness against Antichrist and to testifie to the Truth but most eminently t is probable in the last Age when they come to be slain for their Testimony 2ly They are

in Germany in Bohemia Anno Dom. 1618. and in the Palatinate 1621. and later in Piedmont at Lucerne about 1655. as Mr. Tillinghast 408. Dr. Twiss Judgeth that this slaughter of the Witnesses hath been on foot many years ago not by Judicial proceedings only in the Martyrdom of Gods Saints but by the Sword of War also 1. In the Low-Countreys by Duke d' Alva then in France by the Guisses in that bloody Massacre of Admiral Coligni and many Thousand Protestants then in Germany as above after that in Ireland where some Hundred-thousands were butcher'd by the Irish Rebels and since that in England by the Antichristian brood with so manifest opposition unto Truth and Holiness under a Protestant Prince as he thinks the like was never known since the beginning of the World 409. Though it be very Consentaneous to our minds to think this Slaughter over yet seems it not to be so to the Truth who would not saith Mr. Mede much rather hope that so lamentable an accident to the Church were past than fear it to be yet to come but a mistake on that hand is more dangerous then on this for the expectation of a future Calamity conduceth more to Piety then an over-credulous Security thereof as if it were already past We are prone by nature to put the evil Day far from us Amos 6.3 to keep on our watch-tower in expectation of this Dispensation doth most promote the power of Godliness 410. There be several Arguments that Captivates my Judgment in this point that the Witnesses are not yet slain the 1st Reason 1. Before the Witnesses be slain I conceive their Testimony must be full before it be finished But in those Slaughters foremention'd and in those by Queen Mary in our Land the Testimony that was given them was to the Doctrine of Christ but never that I know of to the Discipline of the word which hath been the Controversy of our present Generation 411. As the first Reason is taken from the want in those former Slaughters of a plenary Testimony so the 2d Reason is drawn from a Concomitancy of it Various are the Concomitants that attend this Dispensation as 1st The pouring out of the 5th Vial upon the Seat of the Beast to darken Antichrists Kingdom and to extinguish the glory of it for this Slaughter is his last scattering of the holy People with which he should accomplish his Time Dan. 12.7 This shall be the last bite of the Beast then his power to do mischief for 42. Months shall End at the same hour is a great Earthquake Revel 11.13 saith Mr. Mede 2ly It must be about the end of their Sackcloth-Prophecy which evidently continues still for God hath not said yet to his Witnesses as he said to Joshuah coming out of Babylon Take away those mournful Garments and give change of Raiment Zech. 3.4 412. And 3ly upon the accomplishing of 3. Years and half attends it also a glorious Resurrection which the Spirit of Life from God causeth Setting them upon their Feet to Preach against Popery again to the great confusion of their Enemies Revel 11.11 yea and a more glorious Ascention into a more Excellent Church-state than before v. 12. those I call Concomitants not because they are so strictly taken but because they fall withi● the Verge of that Dispensation so as to evinc● those foresaid Slaughters in Germany France c. not to be the Slaughter because no● thus attended it being above an 100. Years since the Eldest and far above 3. Years and half since the latest of them and likewise because I would distinguish them from Remoter Providences 413. The 3d. Reason is taken from the Consequences of it as 1st The passing away of the second woe v. 14. which is the 6th Trumpet to wit the Turkish Power and Tyranny that stands in its full strength and height at this day notwithstanding all those late Stones of the Jews Embodying themselves against it 2ly The blowing of the 7th Trumpet which comes quickly after the former v. 14 and brings in the Kingdom of Christ v. 15. now since the Smalcaldian War is 120. Y. yet Antichrist Reigns not Christ Rome is in her Ruff the Witnesses in their Sackcloth and no foundation of any of the Praemisses apparently laid 414. It is therefore safest for us not to flatter our selves as if this evil day were past and gone for so long as the 5th Vial is not powr'd out on the Seat of the Beast Rev. 16.10 we may daily expect that the Beast will be powring out some of the Vials of his Wrath on us and it is not determined in Scripture what time this last War of the Beast shall take 〈◊〉 before he hath fully Conquer'd and Slaugh●…d them which may be a Salvo to the ●…esaid opinions that those Slaughters were ●…innings and parts of this last War 415. And also a Salvo to a latter Opinion ●…en any of the aforesaid to wit that the late ●…ssion of Parliament which put forth the Godly Ministry out of place as well as Ma●…racy at one time was the time of killing 〈◊〉 Witnesses which I shall speak more to 〈◊〉 the place of killing them This also may 〈◊〉 look'd on as some skirt at least of the last ●…wer of Antichrists Rage but however 〈◊〉 last War must end about 3. years and half before the downfall of Antichrist how long soever it continue for otherwise it would ●ake an Inequality in the Synchronism betwixt ●…e 42. Months and 1260. days should it be ● litte before or a little after 416. Thus of the time of Slaying them now 2ly Of the place where the Witnesses be Slain there they lie dead now much controversy hath been about this Street what it should be Mr. Mede makes it the whole Territory of Romes Dominion taking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the largest sence as Synonymical with the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chuts which it oft Answereth in the Septuagint-translation as he saith Discoursing of it very Critically and Learnedly 417. Graserus a Judicious Divine conceives this place of the Slaughter to be no● the whole Territory of Romes Dominion bu● the Universal States and Kingdoms of th● Protestant Religion saying quod hacten●… per partes Impleri nunquam desiit jam plenari●… Universaliter perficietur this Slaughter that in some place or other never Ceased but hath been in fulfilling by parts in every Kingdom where the Witnesses have been but at last he saith there shall be a General totall Ecclipse of the Churches at once for 3. years and half 418. Mr. Tillinghast goes still narrower looking upon this street to be Germany as it is one of the ten Kingdoms that belongs to the Beast as if the great City consisted of 10. Streets and this to be one as the 10th part of that Dominion this makes the Opinion probable that it shall be one of the ten Kingdoms as one of the ten Streets of the great City especially considering how the