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A44326	A discourse concerning the witnesses, relating to the time, place, and manner of their being slain by William Hooke, late preacher of the Gospel.	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1681 (1681)	Wing H2622; ESTC R32034	49,990	52

the Revelations relating to the sufferings of the Church viz. 1260 days and 42 months and time times and half a time i. e. three years and an half For so many days are so many months and so many months are so many years a day being put for a year so that there is a singular answerableness in these numbers and therefore if we extend the three days and an half i. e. three years and an half to four years and an half we break the proportion and correspondence that is between these three numbers 2. How will this notion hold if at the end of four years and an half there should be no more shew of a Resurrection than there was at the end of three years and an half I come therefore to an Affirmative Answer First There are several Resurrections mentioned in the Scriptures 1. The Resurrection of the Soul from the death of Sin to the life of Grace 〈◊〉 5.25 Eph. 2.1 2. The Resurrection of the Body at the coming of Christ 1 Thess 4.16 And the●e two Resurrections are in instanti or in a very short and quick time as it is said of that great change 1 Cor. 15.52 In th●●twinkling of 〈◊〉 3. There is the Resurrection of the Jews at their Conversion ●for so it is calied Ez●k 37.12 13 14. Rom. 11.15 4. The Resurrection of the Witnesses in my Text. And these two last are not so peedy as the two former but have their gradual Process and ●e●●ral ●ucceeding steps For as touching that of the Calling or Resurrection of the J●ws 1. There is a noise 2. A shaking Ezek. 37 7.-11 3. A coming together of Bone to Bone 4. Sinews and Flesh coming upon them and skin ●●ve●ing them 5. The breath of Life coming into them 6. Their 〈◊〉 upon their feet as an exceeding great Army So for the raiting of the 〈…〉 1. The Spirit of Life from God entreth into them 2. They fraud upon their feet 3. They hear a great voice from Heave saying Come up hither Secondly I answer that the Resurrection of the Witnesses seems to answer to the coming of the Children of Israel our of Egypt for spiritual Babylon is called spiritual Egypt ver 8. Which Deliverance was a kind of Resurrection as appears from the resemblance there made to Abraham in a vision Gen. 15.9 10 11. Now the Children of Israel arose our of their bondage by degrees for their Resurrection was not complete till they rose out of the Red Sea and sang the song of Moses Ex. 15. For till then they were not quite free from the ●●yptians They made several steps out of Egypt to the other side of the Red Sea viz. from Rameses to Succoth from Succoth to Etham from Etham to Pihahireth from P●hahiroth to the red Sea Numb 33 5-9 And therefore that remarkable day spoken of Exod. 12.40 41 42. is not to be understood of Israels complete Resurrection but that day was remarkable for the beginning of it 3ly There is a great Analogy between literal and spiritual Babylon and the coming of Gods people out of that and of the rising of the Witnesses and their deliverance from this Now the people of God arose gradually out of literal Babylon For 1. When the seventy years of their captivity were fulfilled Jer. 29 10.-15 the Text tells us that they must call upon the Lord and go and pray to him and seek him and search for him with all their hearts and then he would be found of them then they should do it i. e. at the end of the 70 years This then was their first motion in their Resurrection they must first of all rise upon their knees And Daniel did his part in this Calling Praying Seeking Searching And when did he do it In the second year of Darius the Son of Ahasuerus of the seed of the Medes in which he was made King over the Realm of the Chaldeans Dan. 9.1 This then was after the accomplishment of the 70 years because the Kingdom of the Chaldeans was now at an end For note what Jeremy saith It shall come to pass when 70 years are accomplished that I will punish the King of Babylon and that Nation saith the Lord for their iniquity c. Jer. 25.12 It is apparent therefore that the 70 years were now ended and that the time of the Jews deliverance was come and yet you see after that very time did Daniel thus call pray seek and search This I say is remarkable as also that after this time it was that our Lord Jesus Christ the Angel of the Covenant made intercession for the deliverance of his people Zach. 1.12 Saith he O Lord of hosts how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the Cities of Judah against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years God therefore seemed to delay a while some may say after the 70 years were ended that our Lord Jesus saith How long when the years were expired Yea but God did not delay one moment Hab. 2.3 for the Jews Resurrection was now begun for they were upon their knees and Christ was interceding for them and in them The Spirit of Life from God acted this way in them in their first motion their rising was somewhat like as when a man riseth out of his bed and falls down upon his knees by his Bed-side and prayeth If any man now should enquire and say is such a man risen it might truly be affirmed that he is so though he be down upon his knees at present Isa 26 1●9 It was prophesyed of the coming of the Jews out of Babylon that their dew should be as the dew of the herbs and that the earth should cast forth her dead Their Resurrection out of Babylon should be like the Resurrection of Herbs in Spring which arise out of the earth by degrees And also when they did come out of Babylon they came not out all at once but at several times some of them in the first year of King Cyrus upon the Proclamation which he made Ezr. 1. Others in the Reign of Artaxerxes came out with Ezra the Scribe Neh. 2. 7.7 which was 13 years after Ezra's coming forth Neh. 2.1 with Ezr. 7.7 8. Ezr. 7.1 Others with Nehemiah in whose days also the bondage was not quite ended Neh. 9.36 37. So that it was upon that account also a kind of gradual Resurrection or coming forth It is true there was liberty of returning granted by Proclamation in the first year of King Cyrus but there fell in certain impediments that hindred both the speedy progress of their coming forth and also of their carrying on of Religion when they were come unto Jerusalem for fear was upon them Ezr. 3.3 and much opposition they met with for some years for the people of the Land weakned the hands of the people of Judah and troubled them in building and hired Councellors against them to frustrate their purpose all the days

man and shall be removed like a Cottage Why what is that which presseth it down so greatly It followeth And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and it shall fall and not rise again It must needs be a marvellous weight that makes the Earth thus to move yet such is the weight of sin 2. More particularly there is the cry of blood in the Street as I have said and it is the cry of the blood of the Witnesses For though they are not literally slain i. e. not as men but as Witnesses yet the Lord calls it and accounts it a slaughter yea and their very enemies account them as naturally dead and they are greatly Oppressed Vexed and Silenced Imprisoned Impoverished and cruelly handled and so that it hasteneth also the Death of some of them Jer. 2.34 and reacheth also to the blood as I may say of many thousands of Souls who depended upon their Ministry and such blood hath a loud cry in the ears of God and such a cry will shake the Earth wherever the sin is committed and remains unpurged You know how the Martyrs under the fifth Seal cryed with a loud voice Rev. 6.10 12. saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not Judge and Avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth What then followeth And I beheld when he had opened the sixth Seal and lo there was a great Earthquake c. You have heard before of the greatness of that Earthquake and how it shook and quite overthrew the whole Roman Pagan Empire 2 King 24.4 You know also that the blood shed by Menasseh could not be expiated by the greatest reformation that was ever wrought but the whole Land of Judah was at last shaken to pieces for it That land is extreamly deplored that lyeth under the guilt of blood especially of slaying Christ's Witnesses See 2 Chro. 36.15 16. It layed Jerusalems house i. e. the Temple desolate Matth. 23.37 38. And when the Jews killed the Lord Jesus 1 Thess 2.15 16. and the Prophets and persecuted the Apostles forbiding them to Preach to the Gentiles that they might be saved they filled up their sins and the Wrath of God came upon them to the uttermost This is a filling and a finishing sin even Reformation it self were it equal to Josiah's cannot save that land from a great Earthquake and from such Vengeance as will make the ears of them who hear it to tingle What saith the Prophet The City sheddeth blood in the midst of it that her time may come thou art become guilty in thy blood and hast caused thy dayes to draw near and art come even to thine years Ezek. 22.3 4. 3. There is yet another cry and that is from the Prayers of God's people especially from under their Affliction No doubt but the cries and sighs and groans of the Children of Israel in Egypt were accompanied with many Prayers and it brought such vengeance upon Egypt as you have scarce read the like God never forgets the cry of the humble Ps 9.12 Exod. 22.23 If but a poor Widdow or Fatherless child be afflicted and they cry at all unto me I will surely hear their cry saith the Lord. And know thus much that the Prayers of one distressed Child of God may be such that they may shake the very Earth it self What saith David In my distress I called upon the Lord Psal 18.6 7. and cryed unto my God He heard my voice out of his Temple and my cry came before him even into his ears Then the Earth shook and trembled the Foundations also of the Hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth c. The Prayers of David in his distress shook Heaven Earth and Sea And wherefore is it that God saith I will shake the Heavens and the Earth and the Sea and the dry land and I will shake all Nations and the desire of all Nations shall come I say wherefore is this and whence proceedeth this great concussion Even from the desire of all the Saints that live among the Nations in the world They are oppressed and persecuted in the world and they cannot be quiet upon this they cry out and utter their desires O that Jesus Christ would come and deliver us and plead our cause and relieve us in our distresses and call the world to a reckoning Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly I tell you This will cost the world a sound shaking Little do people imagine what the force of God's peoples prayers is they have an Earth-shaking power in them The praying Saints are a thundering Legion Samuel no sooner cryeth to the Lord 1 Sam. 7.10 but he heareth him and answereth him with a dreadful discomfiting thunder upon the Philistines And when the Saints fall to prayer at the close of the seventh Seal Rev. 8.3.5 presently follow Voices and Thunderings and Lightnings and an Earthquake Act. 4.31 When Peter and John were returned from their persecutors to their own company Act. 15.25 they betake themselves to prayer which was no sooner ended but the place was shaken where they were assembled together And when Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God in the prison and in the stocks suddenly saith the Text there was a great Earthquake and the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and every ones bonds were loosed and the Keeper of the prison drew his Sword and would have killed himself And do we think now that all the prayers that have been made within these few years by the Saints in the world will not end in a dreadful Earthquake God hath already answered his people and will again answer them by terrible things in righteousness Thus you have seen the procuring causes of this Earthquake I shall conclude with some Consectaries Informations and Exhortations flowing from what hath been opened to us 1. By what we have heard in the Explication of this thirteenth verse we have a further proof of what sometime I said That the Witnesses are slain not in all parts of the great City but in some one eminent Street thereof that hath not quitted and cast off the power of the Beast wherefore I thus argue Where the revenge of God is inflicted for the slaying of the Witnesses there and there only are the Witnesses slain But the revenge of God is not inflicted upon the whole City for the slaying of the Witnesses but only on a tenth part thereof Therefore in that tenth part thereof and there only are the Witnesses slain For God proportioneth his Revenge unto the place of the slaughter making it commensurate and adequate thereunto and doth not exceed the bounds thereof 2. In this dispensation we may see the singular patience of God towards the Enemies of his Witnesses in that he doth not presently bring this great Earthquake upon them they may meet with many a sore concussion during the time of