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<P>THE ACCOUNT AUDITED, Or the Date of the Re&s;urrection OF THE WITNESSES, Pretended to be demon&s;trated by <HI>M. Cary</HI> a Mini&s;ter.</P>
<P>Examined by a Friend to the Truth and Mini&s;try.</P>
<Q><BIBL>LUKE 21.36.</BIBL>
<P>Watch ye, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accounted worthy to e&s;cape all the&s;e things that &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e, and to &s;tand before the Son of man.</P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>T.R.</HI> &amp; <HI>E. M.</HI> in the yeere 1649.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Account Audited,</HI> OR The date of the RESURRECTION of the WITNESSES pretended to be demon|&s;trated by <HI>M. Cary</HI> a Mini&s;ter.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen I fir&s;t &s;aw the <HI>Title Page</HI> of <HI>M. Cary's</HI> Book po&s;ted up, profe&s;&s;ing a clear demon&s;tration, that the <HI>Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> &s;poken of in <HI>Revel.</HI> 11. was accompli&s;ht; I was glad to &s;ee a Treati&s;e of that nature come forth: partly as &s;uppo&s;ing that the Lord might have brought to publike view, &s;ome more &s;atisfactory Expo&s;ition of that difficult Scripture, then had yet &s;een the light; but chiefly as conceiving &s;ome hopes, that per|adventure the &s;ad &s;ea&s;on might be already pa&s;t for the &s;laying of the <HI>Witne&s;&s;es;</HI> the neer approach whereof is much feared by many of the Saints. And as naturally men are apt to believe things to be as they de&s;ire to have them; &s;o did <HI>I</HI> finde more willingne&s;&s;e in my mind, to di&s;po&s;e me to clo&s;e with the Au|thors judgement, then I found rea&s;on in that Book to per&s;wade me to it; for when that Treati&s;e came to my hands, I read it o|ver with much greedine&s;&s;e and expectation, till I came to that place, where the commencement with the expiring of the time for the <HI>Witne&s;&s;es prophe&s;ying in &s;ack-cloth,</HI> is &s;tated, which if right|ly placed, would have been the Key to unlock the Controver|&s;ies of the Text; but being mi&s;placed &s;erv'd only to check my expectation; for, if &s;pecious allu&s;ions (of which the Au hor is not de&s;titute) could have cleared the text without the right clue of Chronology, the taske had been long &s;ince performed by divers others; who not only with as good colour for the phra&s;e of the context, but al&s;o with much mor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ctne&s;&s;e for the Hi&s;toricall application, have publi&s;hed their conjectures up|on it.</P>
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<P>This Author profe&s;&s;es to go a way different from all others: for in the Epi&s;tle to the Reader I finde the&s;e words, <HI>That which I chiefly aime at in this di&s;cour&s;e, is that which is not yet printed by a|ny other, and whether any other have yet ob&s;erved it, I know not.</HI> And yet &s;o confident is this Female-Mini&s;ter <HI>M. Cary</HI> in her &s;ole in|vention; as if there might not be &s;o much as roome left to doubt whether &s;he had performed her undertaking; for thus I finde in the Po&s;t-&s;cript, that the <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> are indeed &s;laine, and ri&s;en, and do &s;tand upon their feet, is altogether unque&s;tionable, becau&s;e (as appears by the foregoing di&s;cour&s;e) this prophe&s;ie of the &s;laying of the Witne&s;&s;es and of their ri&s;ing, &amp;c. is in every parti|cular jota and tittle of it mo&s;t exactly accompli&s;hed; the like confidence &s;he di&s;covers in the Epi&s;tle Dedicatory, and in the Preamble, and in divers other pa&s;&s;ages of the Book. And truly it is pity that a woman of her parts &s;hould build with &s;o much confidence upon &s;o rotten a foundation; the di&s;covery whereof is the drift of the&s;e following lines.</P>
<P>As there are many things in that Book which are good, and of which a Chri&s;tian improvement may be made; &s;o are there divers pa&s;&s;ages, both in her expo&s;ition, and al&s;o in her appli|cation, which are liable to ju&s;t exception; yet that part con|cerning the time of the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es, is that which I purpo&s;ely cho&s;e to debate, 1. Becau&s;e the Authors maine confidence lies there. 2. Becau&s;e mo&s;t of the other mi|&s;takes in that Treati&s;e will &s;tand or fall with the date of the Re|&s;urrection, as being either &s;trained to comply with it, or drawn by inference from it. 3. Becau&s;e the ordinary Reader may be mo&s;t apt to pa&s;&s;e over tho&s;e pa&s;&s;ages of the Book without &s;earch, 1. through credulity, not &s;u&s;pecting what the Author obtrudes for granted; or, 2. for want of skill in ciphring, not being a|ble to ca&s;t up the Accompts of years and dayes mentioned by the Author; or, 3. through want of Hi&s;tory, not being fur|ni&s;ht with &s;uch Books as handle the matters of fact, which the Author relates; which things, as I have diligently &s;earcht into for my own &s;atisfaction, concerning the time &s;tated in <HI>M. Ca|ry</HI>'s Book: &s;o I judged it my duty, having &s;een the Authors mi|&s;takes in that point, to publi&s;h briefly &s;omewhat to keep others from being carried away in tho&s;e mi&s;takes.</P>
<P>That the way of my proceeding may be the more clear, I &s;hall de&s;ire the Chri&s;tian Reader to take notice of thus much,
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the time of the <HI>Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es</HI> which is the matter in difference between us, is that of which we read, <HI>Revel.</HI> 11. <HI>ver.</HI> 11. in the&s;e words, <HI>And after three dayes and an half, the Spirit of life from God intred into them, and they &s;tood upon their feet. M. Cary</HI> in her expo|&s;ition upon this ver&s;e in the 100. page of her Book writes thus, <HI>The fifth day of April</HI> 1645. <HI>did the Witne&s;&s;es, the Saints &s;tand upon their feet, having a Spirit of life from God put upon them.</HI> This is the Au|thors a&s;&s;ertion, who&s;e ground I &s;hall recite and examine. Only by the way; if any &s;hould ask, what is meant by the two Witne&s;&s;es? <HI>Wil&s;on</HI> in his Dictionary for the <HI>Revelation,</HI> re&s;olvs it in the&s;e words <HI>[two Witne&s;&s;es] a competent number of faithful Preachers, which te&s;tifie again&s;t the errors of Antichri&s;t, and for the Doctrine of Chri&s;t;</HI> thus he; and this, &s;o farre as I can learne, is the mo&s;t received interpretation; for my own part, though I will not now engage to determine what &s;ort of per&s;ons the Witne&s;&s;es are, yet I &s;hall acquaint the Reader with this, that by <HI>Patrick Forbes,</HI> in his Commentary upon the <HI>Reve|lations,</HI> page 88. is hinted to us, as al&s;o it is by others (though <HI>M. Cary</HI> takes no notice of it; and indeed it makes not for her purpo&s;e) viz. <HI>that</HI> Elias <HI>and</HI> Mo&s;es (<HI>tho&s;e two which appeared with Chri&s;t at his transfiguration,</HI> Matth. 17.) <HI>are held forth as the types of the two Witne&s;|&s;es,</HI> and thus much is intimated to us in the de&s;cription of the Wit|ne&s;&s;es in <HI>Revel.</HI> 11. <HI>v.</HI> 5, 6. which <HI>I</HI> &s;hall thus make out to you, by comparing Scripture with Scripture. 1. <HI>Elias</HI> is hinted in <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 5. in the&s;e words, <HI>If any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies; and if any man will hurt them, he mu&s;t in this manner be kild:</HI> This de&s;cription hath reference to <HI>Elias</HI> (who al&s;o is called <HI>Elijah,</HI> thus much is clear from 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 1.10. <HI>And</HI> Elijah <HI>an&s;wered and &s;aid to the Captaine of fifty, if I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and con&s;ume thee and thy fifty; and there came down fire from heaven, and con&s;umed him and his fifty, Luke</HI> 9.54. and when his Di&s;ciples <HI>James</HI> and <HI>John</HI> &s;aw this, they &s;aid, <HI>Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come downe from heaven, and con&s;ume them, even as</HI> Elias <HI>did?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Elias</HI> al&s;o is hinted in <HI>ver.</HI> 6. in the&s;e words, <HI>the&s;e have power to &s;hut heaven, that is raine not in the dayes of their prophe&s;ie;</HI> that this de&s;cription hath reference to <HI>Elijah,</HI> will be ea&s;ily gathered from the&s;e texts, 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 17.1. Elijah <HI>the Ti&s;hbits, who was of the inhabi|tants of Gilead, &s;aid unto</HI> Ahab, <HI>as the Lord God of I&s;rael liveth, before whom I &s;tand, there &s;hall not be dew nor raine the&s;e years, but according to my words.</HI> James 5.17. Elias <HI>was a man &s;ubject to like pa&s;&s;ions as we
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are, and he prayed earne&s;tly that it might not raine, and it rained not in the earth for the &s;pace of three yeers and &s;ix months.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is hinted in the following part of the 6. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> in the&s;e words, <HI>and have power over waters to turne them to blood;</HI> that this is &s;poken with reference to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is cleare from <HI>Exodus</HI> 7.17. <HI>Be|hold,</HI> I <HI>will &s;mite with the rod that is in my hand, upon the waters which are in the river, and they &s;hall be turned to blood,</HI> Exod. 17.5. <HI>the Lord &s;aid to</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>go on before the people, and take with thee of the Elders of I&s;rael; and thy rod wherewith thou &s;mote&s;t the river, take in thy hand.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mo&s;es</HI> al&s;o is hinted in the next expre&s;&s;ion of the 6. <HI>ver&s;e,</HI> in the&s;e words, <HI>and to &s;mite the earth with all plagues;</HI> that this is &s;poken with reference to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> is cleer from <HI>Deut.</HI> 34.10, 11. <HI>There aro&s;e not a Prophet &s;ince in I&s;rael like unto</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the &s;ignes and the wonders which the Lord &s;ent him to do in the land of</HI> Egypt <HI>to</HI> Pharaoh, <HI>and to all his &s;ervants, and to all his land.</HI> The variety of Plagues wherwith <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;mote the earth, is more at large declared in the Hi&s;tory in <HI>Exod.</HI> to which I refer the Reader.</P>
<P>And now I &s;hall give you the account, which <HI>M. Cary</HI> laies down to make good her opinion, that on the fifth of <HI>April</HI> 1645. was the day of the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es: which, that I may deale fairly both with the Author and the Reader, take thus at large in her own words.</P>
<P><HI>Page</HI> 81. and 82. <HI>that term of time which the Bea&s;t was to continue, and the Saints to be trodden under foot, and to prophe&s;ie in &s;eack-cloth, is a thou&s;and two hundred and three&s;core yeers as appears</HI> pag. 62. <HI>Now this</HI> 1260 <HI>yeeres, being added to the yeere wherein the bea&s;t received his devili&s;h power, and &s;eat, and great authority, in the reigne of</HI> Phocas <HI>the Emperour; which was, as &s;ay Hi&s;torians, in the year</HI> 404. I <HI>&s;ay, adding to this</HI> 1260. <HI>it makes up</HI> 1664. <HI>and this yeere</HI> 1664. <HI>&s;hould be the yeere wherein the Witne&s;&s;es &s;hould fini&s;h their giving te&s;timony, clothed in &s;ack|cloth: if this</HI> 1260. <HI>yeers &s;hould be computed according to the rule of A|&s;tronomers, allowing</HI> 365. <HI>dayes to a yeer, and to every fourth yeer adding a day more: but we finde that the holy Gho&s;t in this prophe&s;ie, not ob&s;er|ving that rule, doth allow but</HI> 360. <HI>dayes to a yeere, and according to that rule</HI> 1260. <HI>dayes to three yeers and an half, and therefore in computing the time of the Witne&s;&s;es, prophe&s;ying in &s;ackcloth, we are to ob&s;erve the rule which the holy Gho&s;t here laies down, to allow</HI> 360. <HI>dayes to a yeer, and &s;o the time of the Witne&s;&s;es prophe&s;ying in &s;ackcloth, is to expire eighteen yeers and almo&s;t an half, &s;ooner then as by the other account, and &s;o the be|ginning of the yeer</HI> 1645. <HI>was the time, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>And page</HI> 98. <HI>and</HI> 99. <HI>on the</HI> 23. <HI>day of</HI> October 1641. <HI>did the bea&s;t begin the war in</HI> Ireland, <HI>and he continued overcoming the Witne&s;&s;es, the Saints of Je&s;us Chri&s;t in</HI> Ireland <HI>and in</HI> England, <HI>untill the fifth day of</HI> April. 1645. <HI>and from the</HI> 23. <HI>of</HI> October 1641. <HI>unto the fifth of</HI> A|pril 1645. <HI>there is ju&s;t a thou&s;and two hundred and &s;ixty dayes; which ac|cording to the Scripture account, (though not according to the heathen account) is three yeers and a half compleat: and when this three yeers and a half were expired; which was I &s;ay, on the fifth of</HI> April 1645. <HI>then was the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es, for they having lain dead for three yeers and a half before; then the Spirit of life from God entred into them: and the yeer</HI> 1645. <HI>as it is the yeer wherein the Witne&s;&s;es were rai&s;ed from the dead, &s;o it is the yeer wherein the terme of time in which they were to prophe&s;ie in &s;ackcloth, and to be trodden under foot was to expire, and the yeer al&s;o wherein the prevailing power of the Bea&s;t over the Saints was to expire, as is made evident in the opening of the</HI> 2 ver&s;e <HI>page</HI> 60. <HI>&amp;c. Now that on the fifth day of</HI> April 1645. <HI>the Saints, Witne&s;&s;es, and Servants of Je&s;us Chri&s;t were rai&s;ed up, and that then a Spirit of life from God entred into them, appears thus: on the fifth day of</HI> April 1645 <HI>the Parliaments Army, who had &s;tood for the defence of the Saints again&s;t the Bea&s;t, and had been before that time exceedingly overcome, and were brought into a very low condition at that time, being new modelled, and having a great many precious Saints in it, both eminent Commanders, and inferior Officers and common Souldiers; and being then put under the conduct of Sir</HI> Thomas Fairfax; <HI>they then began to march again&s;t the enemy, and then had a Spirit of life from God that entred into them,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Upon this account the Author is confident, that her new tenet is &s;ufficiently demon&s;trated: to which I enter my di&s;&s;ent; and now come to &s;how you upon what grounds I am un&s;atisfied with what I have tran&s;cribed out of that Book, and &s;hall de&s;ire the ingenuous Reader to weigh the following exceptions which I &s;hall lay down, according to the order wherein the things I except again&s;t are laid downe.</P>
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<P>The Author tels us <HI>page</HI> 81 and 82. <HI>That Hi&s;torians &s;ay, the yeere</HI> 40<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>was the yeere wherein the Bea&s;t received his devili&s;h power and &s;eat in the reigne of</HI> Phocas <HI>the Emperour.</HI> This being the fir&s;t root of the Account, de&s;erves throughly to be examined, as being of greate&s;t influence into the pre&s;ent controver&s;ie. I &s;hall therefore debate it fully, wherein we might have made a more &s;hort cut; if the Author had told us who are tho&s;e Hi&s;torians, and where they &s;ay &s;o. I have
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upon this occa&s;ion peru&s;ed variety of Hi&s;torians: but all that I have met with do make the Hi&s;tory of <HI>Phocas</HI> at lea&s;t 200. y. later.</P>
<P>In the fourth Book of ancient Hi&s;tory, which out of &s;everal Au|thors treats of the Roman Emperours for above 700. yeeres after Chri&s;t, I finde but one Emperour <HI>Phocas</HI> mentioned, and no other of that or the like name; &amp; concerning him I there read thus: <HI>That</HI> Mauricius <HI>the Emperour being by dreame forewarned of a con&s;piracie a|gain&s;t him by</HI> Phocas <HI>a Commander of &s;ome forces in the borders of</HI> Sarma+tia, <HI>this</HI> Mauricius <HI>&s;ent for his &s;on in Law</HI> Philip, <HI>and acquainted him therewith:</HI> Philip <HI>wondring at it, told the Emperour that he knew the man, namely</HI> Phocas, <HI>to be one that dur&s;t not attempt &s;uch a de&s;igne; as being too fearfull, though wicked enough to do it; to which</HI> Mauricius <HI>replyed, that he had the more rea&s;on to take heed of him, becau&s;e tho&s;e which are fearfull, when once they a&s;&s;ay wicked enterpri&s;es, know not how to give over, but act with the more cruelty:</HI> &amp; &s;o it proved in the event; for this <HI>Phocas</HI> murdered the Emperour <HI>Mauricius</HI> and his three &s;ons, and then being cho&s;en Emperour by that wicked Army who&s;e lea|der he was, did at the in&s;tance of Pope <HI>Boniface</HI> the third, appoint the &s;eat of <HI>Rome</HI> to be the head of all Churches.</P>
<P><HI>Szegedin</HI> in his <HI>Looking-Gla&s;&s;e</HI> of the Popes, writes thus. <HI>Boni|face the third, was by</HI> Phocas <HI>the Emperour (who was an adulterer, parricide, and Tyrant) confirmed chief and &s;upreme over all Bi&s;hops.</HI></P>
<P>Doctor <HI>Favour</HI> in his book of antiquity, <HI>p.</HI> 436. writes thus. <HI>This My&s;tery of iniquity, in the dayes of</HI> Phocas <HI>the Emperour that had murthered his Ma&s;ter</HI> Mauricius, <HI>and u&s;urped his crown, began to work more &s;trongly. For</HI> Boniface (<HI>Bi&s;hop of</HI> Rome) <HI>obtained of</HI> Phocas, <HI>that the Church of</HI> Rome <HI>&s;hould be the head of all Churches.</HI></P>
<P>This is the &s;ub&s;tance of what Hi&s;torians &s;peak concerning the preeminence of the <HI>Roman</HI> Bi&s;hops obtained in the reigne of <HI>Pho|cas,</HI> and in this we agree, but the difference lies concerning the time, which <HI>M. Cary</HI> affirms to be in the yeere 404. and I finde to be in the yeere 604. or rather a little after; for though <HI>Phocas</HI> might have begun his reign in 604. yet the donation of the &s;upremacy to <HI>Boniface,</HI> might well be after that yeere, which I the rather a&s;&s;ent to, becau&s;e our indu&s;trious Countrey man <HI>Barns</HI> the Martyr tels us in his Treati&s;e of the lives of the Popes, that <HI>Sabinian</HI> predece&s;|&s;our to <HI>Boniface,</HI> lived under <HI>Phocas</HI> the Emperour, and for this he cites <HI>Platina</HI> and <HI>Volaterranus;</HI> and <HI>Pareus</HI> al&s;o in his <HI>Marrow of Ec|cle&s;ia&s;ticall Hi&s;tory,</HI> makes <HI>Phocas's</HI> grant of the &s;upremacy to <HI>Boni|face</HI> the third, to be after the fir&s;t yeer of his Empire.</P>
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<P>I &s;hall now for the &s;atisfaction of the Reader, &s;et down what <HI>I</HI> have met with in other Authors, word for word, with directions to the pla|ces where they may turn to them, which take as followes.</P>
<P>In the &s;tate of the Church, tran&s;lated out of French into Engli&s;h, <HI>page</HI> 183. <Q>In the yeer 604. <HI>Phocas</HI> after he had wickedly &s;lain his Ma|&s;ter, was cho&s;en by the unlucky Army whereof he had charge; a very &s;lave of covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, who handled &s;ecret matters with Courtiers af|ter the manner of the Per&s;ians, and &s;old the offices of Magi&s;trates and judgements, dearly loved &s;uch as tormented the people by rapine and extortion: this is he who fir&s;t ordain'd that <HI>Rome</HI> &s;hould be the chief of all Churches.</Q></P>
<P>In the Treati&s;e of the lives of the Popes written in Spani&s;h by <HI>Cyprian Valera,</HI> and tran&s;lated into Engli&s;h, <HI>pag.</HI> 34. <Q>In the 605. year died <HI>Sa|binianus</HI> [who&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;or] <HI>Boniface</HI> the third being Patriach of <HI>Rome,</HI> was made Pope by means of <HI>Phocas</HI> the Emperour, who was an adul|terer, murtherer, and tyrant; a murtherer I call him, for that to make him&s;elfe Emperor (as he did) he murthered <HI>Mauricius</HI> his Lord and Chri&s;tian Emperor.</Q></P>
<P>In <HI>Morneys My&s;tery of Iniquity,</HI> pag. 117. <Q><HI>Boniface</HI> the third in the yeer 605. to effect that which his predece&s;&s;ors had projected, took his advantage, &s;eeing the Emperour <HI>Phocas</HI> on the one &s;ide di&s;plea&s;ed with <HI>Cyriacus</HI> Patriarch of <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> becau&s;e he would not ap|prove of his murders; and on the other, jealous the hatred of his deal|ings might happily cau&s;e <HI>Italy</HI> to revolt from under him: and there|upon he asked, and by the proffers which he made of his good &s;ervice obtained of him, that the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> &s;hould thence forward be the head of all other Churches, and the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome</HI> &s;hould be called the Soveraigne and Univer&s;all Bi&s;hop.</Q></P>
<P>In <HI>Heylins Microco&s;mus</HI> the fifth Edition, <HI>pag</HI> 179. <Q><HI>Phocas</HI> having killed the Emperour <HI>Mauricius,</HI> his wife and children <HI>An.</HI> 604. to a&s;|&s;ure him&s;elf of <HI>Italy</HI> ready to revolt from &s;o barbarous a tyrant, made <HI>Boniface</HI> the third Univer&s;all Bi&s;hop, and head of the Church; be|fore this time the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Con&s;tantinople</HI> and <HI>Ravenna,</HI> did often di&s;pute with the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Rome</HI> for &s;uperiority; the &s;eat of Religion commonly following the &s;eat of the Empire, and the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Con|&s;tantinople</HI> prevailed &s;o far, that with the permi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Mauricius</HI> the Emperour, he took upon him the title of Univer&s;all Patriarch.</Q></P>
<P>As for the yeer 404. which <HI>M. Cary</HI> builds upon for the Hi&s;tory of <HI>Phocas</HI> the Emperour, and his donation of the &s;upremacy to the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> I &s;hall &s;ay this farther; that it may appear to any that have op|portunity
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to &s;earch into Hi&s;tories; that there was no &s;uch Emperour as <HI>Phocas,</HI> in or neere that time, but the Emperours at that time were (according to Hi&s;torians) <HI>Arcadius</HI> and <HI>Honorias.</HI> To cleere this yet more fully, I &s;hall give you a Catalogue of the Emperours as I finde it in <HI>Heylins Microco&s;mus,</HI> Edition the fir&s;t, <HI>pag.</HI> 88. <HI>Italy con|tinued a m mber of the Empire till the yeer</HI> 399. <HI>in which</HI> Theodo&s;ius <HI>the great divided the Empire; to</HI> Arcadius <HI>his elder &s;on he gave the Ea&s;tern, to</HI> Honorius <HI>the younger the We&s;terne part of this Monarchy.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<HEAD>The We&s;terne Emperors in the yeer</HEAD>
<ITEM>399 <HI>Honorius.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>458 <HI>Severianus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">5 <HI>Valentinianus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>462 <HI>Anthemius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>454 <HI>Maximianus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>467 <HI>Ore&s;tes</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>473 <HI>Augu&s;tulus</HI> the la&s;t that ever kept his daily re&s;idence in <HI>Italy,</HI> a thing ominous, that <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> &s;hould e&s;tabli&s;h and <HI>Augu&s;tu|lus</HI> ruinate that &s;pacious Monarchy.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>And <HI>pag.</HI> 219. the Con&s;tantinopolitan Emperours in the yeere</HEAD>
<ITEM>399 <HI>Arcadius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>412 <HI>Theodo&s;ius</HI> the 2^d</ITEM>
<ITEM>454 <HI>Martianus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>461 <HI>Leo</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>478 Zeno</ITEM>
<ITEM>494 <HI>Ana&s;ta&s;ius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>521 <HI>Ju&s;tinus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>528 <HI>Ju&s;tinianus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>566 <HI>Ju&s;tinus</HI> the 2^d</ITEM>
<ITEM>577 <HI>Tiberius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>584 <HI>Mauritius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>604 <HI>Phocas</HI> who made the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Rome</HI> Popes, and heads of the Church.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>As I have thus by a Li&s;t of the Roman Emperours proved, that <HI>Pho|cas</HI> his donation to <HI>Boniface</HI> the third could not be neer the y. 404. So I might in the next place &s;hew the like by the Li&s;t of the Roman Bi&s;h|ops; for <HI>Boniface</HI> the fir&s;t of that name Bi&s;hop of <HI>R me</HI> is placed by Hi|&s;torians after the yeer 404. and there were above twenty Bi&s;hops of <HI>Rome</HI> &s;ucce&s;&s;ively between <HI>Boniface</HI> the fir&s;t and <HI>Boniface</HI> the third, as may appear by this Catalogue.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Boniface</HI> the fir&s;t</ITEM>
<ITEM>1 <HI>Caele&s;tinus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Sixtus</HI> 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Leo</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>Hilarius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 <HI>Simplicius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 <HI>Foelix</HI> 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7 <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">la&s;ius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>8 <HI>Ana&s;ta&s;ius</HI> 2</ITEM>
<ITEM>9 <HI>Symmichus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>10 <HI>Hormi&s;da</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 <HI>John</HI> 1</ITEM>
<ITEM>12 <HI>Foelix</HI> 4</ITEM>
<ITEM>13 <HI>Boniface</HI> the &s;econd</ITEM>
<ITEM>14 <HI>John</HI> 2</ITEM>
<ITEM>15 <HI>Agapetus</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>16 <HI>Sylverius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>17 <HI>Vigilius</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>18 <HI>Pelagius</HI> 1</ITEM>
<ITEM>19 <HI>John</HI> 3</ITEM>
<ITEM>20 <HI>Benedict</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>21 <HI>Pelagius</HI> 2</ITEM>
<ITEM>22 <HI>Gregory</HI> the great</ITEM>
<ITEM>23 <HI>Sabinianus</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Boniface</HI> the third, in who&s;e time <HI>Phocas</HI> gave the cheifdome to the Roman Seat.</P>
<P>Having thus abundantly di&s;covered the gro&s;&s;e Error, which is the foundation of <HI>M. Cary's</HI> reckoning; who pretends to calculate the <HI>Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es</HI> to a very day; I &s;hall leave it to the head
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of prudence with the heart of charity to con&s;ider, whence &s;o gro&s;&s;e a mi&s;take of 200 yeers could ari&s;e. I have ca&s;t about in my thoughts to &s;ee how a mi&s;take of this nature could, in an Author of &s;uch abilities, be interpreted more favorably then a wilfull mi&s;reckoning; and two wayes I doe apprehend that po&s;&s;ibly the mi&s;take might be en|tertained unawares. 1. Peradventure the Author might have read in &s;ome Hi&s;tory book, the yeer 404 mi&s;printed for 604. for mi&s;printing of one figure might happily fall out in &s;ome Copy pend of that &s;ub|ject; though I have not yet met with that mi&s;print in any one of tho&s;e Treati&s;es, or in any of tho&s;e Editions, which I have &s;ought out and di|ligently compared on &s;et Purpo&s;e. 2. Peradventure the Author might not have read the Hi&s;tory of <HI>Phocas;</HI> but only received it upon hear|&s;ay, and &s;o &s;he might either have mi&s;took the Relator, or &s;wallowed down the relators mi&s;take; and this later conjecture I look upon as the mo&s;t probable in that it &s;uits b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t with her own words; for &s;hee doth not &s;ay, as hi&s;torians write; but <HI>as &s;ay Hi&s;torians.</HI> Thus have I given my Reader the be&s;t light I can, to furni&s;h his charity with a fa|vourable con&s;truction of the fore&s;aid mi&s;take, which may in part excu&s;e the Authors credulity, but will not be able to ju&s;tifie her confidence, nor her cau&s;e; for, the correcting of this mi&s;take, if the re&s;t of her account hold good, wil make the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es to fall out 200. yeers later then &s;he counts for; namely in the yeer 1845. and this &s;hall &s;uffice for my fir&s;t and principall Exception.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="exception">
<HEAD>2. <HI>Exception.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Author <HI>pag.</HI> 82. deducing from the a&s;tronomicall years, five dayes in a year, and one day every fourth yeer, for the &s;pace of 1260. yeers, doth abate for it 18 yeers and almo&s;t in half: which if it be meane of a&s;tronomicall yeers (which are the yeers that &s;he doth &s;ub&s;tract) doth not amount to &s;o much: for, five times 1260. dayes and 315. dayes put together, make but 6615, which is not 18. a&s;tronomicall yeers and a quarter, no nor half a quarter; for, it is but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">0. dayes over the 18. yeers.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="exception">
<HEAD>3. <HI>Exception.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Author <HI>pag.</HI> 82. from the yeer which in ordinary account is 1664 deducing 18. yeers and almo&s;t an half (for the difference betwixt the a&s;tronomical account, and the account which &s;he followes) tels us, that then the account will fall in the beginning of the yeer 1645. the fal&s;e|hood whereof I &s;hall thus di&s;cover: to the beginning of the yeer 1645. adde almo&s;t half a yeer, and it will be about the mid&s;t of the yeer 1645. to which adde the 18 yeers, and it will be in the 1663. not in 1664. the deduction therfore of 18. y. and almo&s;t an half, though we &s;hould begin
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the deduction from the very fir&s;t day of the yeer 1664. will make the ac|count to fall out after the mid&s;t of the yeer 1645. which is about halfe a yeer later then <HI>M. Cary</HI> counts.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="exception">
<HEAD>4. <HI>Exception.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Author <HI>pag.</HI> 98. makes the time of the Witne&s;&s;es lying dead for three yeers and a half, to begin on the day when the War began in <HI>Ireland;</HI> which how it will &s;tand with what the Author &s;ayes el&s;e|where, I know not, unle&s;&s;e we &s;hould make the Saints in <HI>England</HI> to ly dead from the fir&s;t day of the War in <HI>Ireland;</HI> which how rationall it is let indifferent men judge; &amp; yet thus it mu&s;t be upon her grounds: for, by the <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> &s;he under&s;tands (at lea&s;t principally) the Saints in <HI>England;</HI> for thus &s;he explains her &s;elf, <HI>pag.</HI> 87. <HI>as the War in</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Ireland <HI>was made by the Bea&s;t, &s;o it was made by him again&s;t the Wit|ne&s;&s;es, the Saints, and precious ones of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; for that which is done again&s;t the mo&s;t con&s;iderable number of Saints, is done again&s;t the whole; as being the way to prevaile over all. Now in</HI> England <HI>there are a more con&s;ide|rable number of the faithful &s;ervants and Witne&s;&s;es of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, then in any Kingdom in the world,</HI> as one truly &s;aid, <HI>England is the riche&s;t &s;hip in the world; for God hath more of tho&s;e precious jewels in it, then he hath i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> a|ny other Kingdom in the world.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="exception">
<HEAD>5. <HI>Exception.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Author <HI>pag.</HI> 98. makes the fifth of <HI>April</HI> 1645. to be the day of the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es, wherein &s;he contradicts her own ac|count, <HI>pag.</HI> 82. but, becau&s;e this exception hath affinity with the third, I &s;hall &s;ay no more to it but this; that if &s;he had made her day for the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;e a yeer later, &s;he would have agreed with her own account, which now &s;he doth not: for, her abated 18. yeeres and almo&s;t a half, added to <HI>April</HI> the fifth 1646. would have made the day to have faln out in the yeer 1664. as the 1260. added to her 404. makes up the &s;ame account.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="exception">
<HEAD>6. <HI>Exception.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Author <HI>pag.</HI> 98. makes the time of the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es, and the expiring of the time for prophe&s;ying in &s;ack cloth, to be all one, and &s;o the time that the Witne&s;&s;es lye dead, mu&s;t be three yeers and an half before the fini&s;hing of their te&s;timony: which, how
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contrary it is to the Scripture, will ea&s;ily appear, <HI>Revel</HI> 11.3.7. <HI>I will give power unto my two Witne&s;&s;es, and they &s;hall prophe&s;ie</HI> 1260 <HI>dayes clothed in &s;ack-cloth, and when they &s;hall have fini&s;hed their te&s;timony, the Bea&s;t that a&s;cendeth out of the bottomle&s;&s;e pit &s;hall make war again&s;t them, and &s;hall o|ver come them, and kill them.</HI> I &s;hall here only in&s;ert a pa&s;&s;age out of <HI>Brightman</HI> on the <HI>Revelations,</HI> printed in the yeer 1644. his words in <HI>pag.</HI> 372. of that impre&s;&s;ion, are the&s;e, <HI>Thi time of three dayes and a half beginneth not before the</HI> 1260. <HI>dayes be ended; for &s;o it is &s;aid afore, and when they have fini&s;hed. Be&s;ides, the Prophets lay kild and unburied for the&s;e three dayes and a half, but the time of the</HI> 1260. <HI>dayes is the time of their prophe&s;ying in &s;ack-cloth;</HI> &s;o that they can by no means be referred to the &s;ame time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="exception">
<HEAD>7. <HI>Exception.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Author <HI>pag.</HI> 99. makes the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es to be an army bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, which I &s;ee no rea&s;on for, but rather rea&s;ons again&s;t it; which I &s;hall briefly propo&s;e in behalf of my Exception.</P>
<P>My fir&s;t rea&s;on is taken from the context in <HI>Revel.</HI> 11. when the Wit|ne&s;&s;es are in &s;laying, the &s;laying of them indeed is de&s;cribed as an army bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, <HI>ver.</HI> 7. in the&s;e words, <HI>&s;hall make war again&s;t them, and &s;hall over|come them, and kill them:</HI> but when the holy Gho&s;t &s;peaks of the Re&s;ur|rection of the Witne&s;&s;es, it is in another &s;train, <HI>ver.</HI> 11. <HI>and after</HI> 3. <HI>dayes and an half, the &s;pirit of life from God entred into them, and they &s;tood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them that &s;aw them.</HI> Here is no warlike word u&s;ed; &amp; though it is &s;aid that a great fear fell upon others at the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es; yet it is not &s;aid it fell upon the Bea&s;t that &s;lew them, or upon their enemies; but it is &s;aid indefinitely, <HI>it fill upon them that &s;aw them:</HI> for &s;uch an a&s;toni&s;hing work of God as that in <HI>Ezek.</HI> 37. (whence the phra&s;es are taken) might cau&s;e a fear, though of a dif|ferent kind, to fall upon all the &s;pectators both friends and enemies: and though it may be granted, that a &s;ingular fear might fall upon their e|nemies, in re&s;pect of their great guilt in &s;laying of them, and the unex|pected check to their in&s;ulting over them when they were &s;laine; yet this fear might well be without an army, by &s;ome &s;peciall pre&s;ence of God &s;hining forth in the Witne&s;&s;es. As after that <HI>Herod</HI> had beheaded <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t, and Chri&s;ts fame was &s;pread, though Chri&s;t had no army with him, <HI>Herod</HI> was perplexed: and why did he fear? was it not becau&s;e it was &s;aid by &s;ome, that <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t was ri&s;en from the dead? by &s;ome, that <HI>Elias;</HI> by &s;ome, that one of the old Prophets? as you may read <HI>Luke c.</HI> 9. <HI>v.</HI> 7, 8, 9.</P>
<P>My &s;econd rea&s;on is taken from the de&s;cription of the Witne&s;&s;es, in
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<HI>Revel.</HI> 11. <HI>v.</HI> 4. under the phra&s;e of <HI>Candle&s;ticks,</HI> and <HI>Olive-trees;</HI> the ex|po&s;ition of both which might be taken from <HI>Zach.</HI> 4. where we &s;hall finde expre&s;&s;ions rather excluding then implying the aid of an Army; that <HI>Zach.</HI> 4. doth explain the later expre&s;&s;ion, is acknowledged by <HI>M. Cary pag.</HI> 69. and <HI>pag.</HI> 70. in the&s;e words, <HI>The&s;e two Witne&s;&s;es are the two Olive-trees;</HI> in that they are &s;aid to be (the) two Olive-trees, it im|plyes it hath reference to &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages of Scripture, wherein there is a former mention of them. Now the place where they are mentioned is <HI>Ezek</HI> 4. &s;o that <HI>Zechariah</HI> doth prophe&s;ie of the&s;e two Wine&s;&s;es, un|der the expre&s;&s;ion of two Olive-trees. Now in that place, <HI>Zach.</HI> 4.4. we finde that the Prophet doth ask the Angel, <HI>what the&s;e be;</HI> and then the Angel makes this an&s;wer, <HI>this is the word of the Lord unto</HI> Zerubbabel, &s;aying, <HI>not by might, nor by power, but by my &s;pirit, &s;aith the Lord of ho&s;ts; Who art thou O great mountain? before</HI> Zerubbabel <HI>thou &s;halt become a plaine, and he &s;hall bring forth the head &s;tone thereof with &s;houtings, crying, grace, grace unto it.</HI> In this text thus cited by <HI>M. Cary,</HI> ob&s;erve, how expre&s;ly the aid of armies is excluded by a double barre, <HI>ver.</HI> 6. in the&s;e words, <HI>not by might, nor by power;</HI> where, by the way, it is ob&s;ervable, that the marginall note in our Bibles, in&s;teed of <HI>might,</HI> reads <HI>army.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="exception">
<HEAD>8. <HI>Exception.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Author <HI>pag.</HI> 99. for the rea&s;on why the fifth day of <HI>April</HI> 1645. &s;hould be the day of the Witne&s;&s;es Re&s;urrection, layes down this; <HI>that the Parliaments army being new modelled, began then to march again&s;t the enemy,</HI> to which I have four things to &s;ay.</P>
<P N="1">1. That the Author leaves us in a great mi&s;t, to finde out &s;o glorious a day as the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es; for &s;he tels us only in general of the new modeld armies beginning to march again&s;t the enemies; but whether the new model were then compleated, or but begun, &s;he tels us not; nor yet whether the maine body of the army began then to march, or &s;ome &s;mall parts of it; nor, whether that part of the army which then began to march (if indeed any did then march) were at that time new modeld or not, nor whence they marcht that day, nor whether they marcht that day, nor upon what &s;ervice, nor under what &s;peciall Leader; nor any the like circum&s;tances, by which the truth of what &s;he affirmes might be tried.</P>
<P N="2">2. Suppo&s;e it could appear by credible te&s;timony, that &s;ome part of the army did march on <HI>April</HI> the fifth 1645. and that that party did march again&s;t an enemy, and that that party was new modeld before its
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march, and that they were the fir&s;t forces that did march being new modeld: though all this &s;hould be &s;uppo&s;ed to be true; yet this would be but a poor matter to make a day of Re&s;urrection: and I appeale to any indifferent per&s;ons, who&s;e judgements are for a martiall Re&s;urre|ction; whether many, and many pa&s;&s;ages might not be ob&s;erved, both in this army &s;ince the new modelling of it, and in the Parliaments army before the new modelling, and in other armies in former ages, which might with better colour lay claime to the dignity of u&s;hering in the Witne&s;&s;es Re&s;urrection.</P>
<P N="3">3. I have with much inqui&s;itivene&s;&s;e endeavoured to finde out what particular pa&s;&s;age might cau&s;e the 5 of <HI>April</HI> to be fingled out as the day of the Witne&s;&s;es Re&s;urrection, rather then any other day in <HI>April,</HI> or any other day in the whole yeere: and I can finde none be&s;ides <HI>M. Ca|ry</HI> that makes any mention of any pa&s;&s;age in the army as on that day. I have, by me, three &s;everall Li&s;ts of pa&s;&s;ages of the army in that yeere, and none of them doth mention the fifth of <HI>April,</HI> or &s;o much as intimate any action, march, or motion, on that day. I have peru&s;ed many other printed Li&s;ts, and I finde not that day at all taken notice of in any of them; but other dayes in that moneth I finde mentioned with remark|able pa&s;&s;ages on them. And here I &s;hall leave it to the Reader to judge, how likely it is that the Re&s;urrection of the Witne&s;&s;es, which &s;hould fill the &s;pectators with fear, could pa&s;&s;e undi&s;cerned by tho&s;e, who have made it their work to ob&s;erve the foot&s;teps of Providence in the army, if indeed it were an army providence, and at that time, when the ob&s;ervations of &s;o many were at work about the new model.</P>
<P N="4">4. Ma&s;ter <HI>Sprigge,</HI> a man unlikely to deprive the army of any de&s;erved honour, and likely to know more of the pa&s;&s;ages of the army then <HI>M. Cary:</HI> in his large book called <HI>Englands Recovery;</HI> being the Hi&s;tory of the motions, actions and &s;ucce&s;&s;es of the army under the immediate conduct of his Excellency (then) Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> in that Treati&s;e makes no mention (that I could finde) of that fifth of <HI>April,</HI> nor inti|mates any thing &s;utable to what <HI>M. Cary</HI> relates in order thereto; but rather the contrary, &s;o far as I can judge from the&s;e en&s;uing pa&s;&s;ages, which I &s;hall give you in his owne words, <HI>Sir</HI> Thomas Fairfax <HI>having with much mode&s;ty accepted this command, immediatly applies him&s;elf to the di&s;charge of it; it was the fir&s;t of</HI> April <HI>ere his Commi&s;&s;ion was granted, and the third of</HI> April <HI>he went from</HI> London <HI>to</HI> Wind&s;or, <HI>to &s;ee and per&s;onally to a&s;&s;i&s;t in the framing of a new army. His Excellency continued at</HI> Wind&s;or <HI>from the third to the la&s;t of</HI> April <HI>in that worke, the difficulty whereof might well account for this time, if it had been a longer &s;pace; con&s;idering that
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be&s;ides the fitting of the trains for the field, and the attendance of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> from</HI> London, <HI>which with the old that continued, were to make up the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2+ letters">+&s;igned number, an entire new form was to be introduced into the whole army the forces that remained of the whole army being not only to be recruited, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to be reduced into new companies and regiments, as if they had been new ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;+ed,</HI> pag. 9. and afterwards <HI>pag.</HI> 15. <HI>the fir&s;t of</HI> May <HI>his Excellency began hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> march with the whole army, in this fir&s;t march of the new model, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Now Reader weigh impartially what thou ha&s;t read, and &s;o I leav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> it to thine own judgment to determine, whether the pretended demon+&s;tration of <HI>M. Cary</HI> be more then a partiall fan&s;ie, and whether her &s;in|gle opinion be not maintained with more then &s;ingle mi&s;takes, if thou art one who wilt own the truth in the&s;e times; Farewell, and pray for the faith and patience of the Saints.</P>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>April 11. 1649.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>JO. DOWNAME.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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