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<P><HI>A TR&V;MPET &s;ounded:</HI> OR, The Great MYSTERY OF THE Two Little Horns UNFOLDED.</P>
<P>BEING AS A Candle &s;et up in the dark Lanthorn of <HI>DANIEL.</HI></P>
<P>Con&s;i&s;ting of two Parts.</P>
<P>The Fir&s;t of which Was &s;ent to the Lord Protector &s;o called, <HI>July</HI> 29. 1654. though not publi&s;hed until now.</P>
<P>The Other, A further Illu&s;tration, by way of An&s;wer to a late Book of Mr. <HI>William A&s;pinwal</HI>'s, who hath endeavoured the proving of the late King to be the Little horn <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. which is indeed the man chiefly relating to the pre&s;ent Government.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by <HI>John More.</HI></P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Ezek. 3.6.</HI></BIBL> If the watchman &s;ee the &s;word come, and bloweth not the trumpet, and the people be not warned: if the &s;word come and take away any per&s;on from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchmans hand.</Q>
<P>Printed in the yeer 1654.</P>
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<HEAD>Dan. 8.9. Dan. 7.8. The Great MYSTERY OF THE Tvvo Little Horns UNFOLDED. OR, A Candle &s;et up in the Dark Lanthorn of <HI>Dan.</HI> 12.4, 9. As it was pre&s;ented in a Letter to the Lord Protector <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 2. 1654. a Copie whereof is as followeth.</HEAD>
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<P>_HEarken, O Great Man, (or you mu&s;t be bowed down) to the voice of the Lord which he hath commanded me a Worm, me the lea&s;t among the Saints, to declare unto thee, whereby (if by any means) thou may&s;t have thy poor di&s;tracted &s;oul drawn forth earne&s;tly to pray, if perhaps the Lord may &s;pare thee, and have mercy upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hee, by chu&s;ing &s;ome other to act the bloody Tragedie of the <HI>Little Horn,</HI> Dan. <HI>8.7.</HI> for <HI>Thou art he:</HI> vid. inclo&s;ed.</P>
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<P>O man whom I mourn for, whom tears prevent my writing to, and have done now this four times, for your &s;ake, (even in the wri|ting thus much of this &s;hort Epi&s;tle) with the extremity of &s;uch a|gonies as I have never known till now.</P>
<P>O thou Great One, con&s;ider, I be&s;eech thee, what ends can be in me, but the di&s;charge of my duty to the Eternal God, to the hazard of my life, for the pre&s;erving my &s;oul in the fore-warning of you. <HI>Ezek. 33.9. &amp; 3.19, 21.</HI></P>
<P>Sir, my prayers, my agonies, my tears, have all been for your &s;ake: O weigh my words, and be ye warned; then &s;hall mine eyes behold a wonder. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>I am
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<ITEM>Mourning for Sion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Waiting for King Je&s;us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ri&s;ing up early.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Speaking late.</ITEM>
</LIST> Ready to quench the thir&s;ty Little horn with the blood of my heart, if that would do it. <HI>John More.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Great My&s;tery, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHerein, fir&s;t, con&s;ider, that <HI>Dan.</HI> chap. 2, 5, 7, 8, &amp; 11. do all relate (&s;ome more, &s;ome le&s;s) to one main bu&s;ine&s;s: &s;o that the comparing them the one with the other, as al&s;o with <HI>Rev.</HI> 13. will (with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of God) unfold the My&s;tery, di&s;cover our times, &amp; lead us to the under&s;tanding the whole Prophecie of <HI>Daniel.</HI></P>
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<P>For, in chap. 2.31, 32, 33, 34, 35. <HI>Daniel</HI> is &s;peaking to the King of <HI>Babylon,</HI> where he is relating unto him his dream, which he al&s;o begins to interpret, ver&s;. 37, 38. &amp; to continue (with <HI>John</HI>) thorow <HI>Dan.</HI> 5.7, 8, 11. and <HI>Rev.</HI> 13. wherein they &s;hew it &s;ignifieth the four great Kings or Monarchies of the world, &amp; the events of them; and likewi&s;e a different Government after them.</P>
<P>Therein &s;hewing, that the head of gold, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.32. &s;ignifieth the Babyloni&s;h Monarchy; and <HI>Nebuchad|nezzar</HI> is he, ver&s;. 37, 38. who as he is the fir&s;t great King or Monarch, is al&s;o the fir&s;t Bea&s;t, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.4. for the four Bea&s;ts are the four Kings or Monarchs, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.17. So that the fir&s;t great King or Monarch, and the fir&s;t Bea&s;t, and the head of Gold, and <HI>Nebuchad|nezzar,</HI> and the King of <HI>Babylon, Is all one.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Shewing that the arms of Silver, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.32. as being that which was &s;ucceeding him, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.39. is that of the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians, Dan.</HI> 5.31. which al|&s;o is the &s;econd Bea&s;t, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.5. as being the &s;econd king, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.17. And the &s;ame arms of Silver is al&s;o the fir&s;t Bea&s;t, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.3. as being the King or Monarch of the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians, Dan.</HI> 8.20. So that the fir&s;t Bea&s;t, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8. and the &s;econd Bea&s;t, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. and the arms of Silver, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2. and the &s;econd King or Monarch, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.17. and the King or Monarch of the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians, Dan.</HI> 5. and <HI>Dan.</HI> 8. <HI>Are all one.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Shewing that the belly and thighs of Bra&s;s, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.32. which as the third, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.39. was the <HI>Gre|cian</HI> King or Monarch, as &s;ucceeding the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> Dan. 8.21, 22. and is the &s;econd Bea&s;t, or he-Goat with the notable horn, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.5. and the four notable horns, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.6. and the five kings, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.
<PB N="4" REF="4" MS="y"> 21, 22. So that the Monarch &s;ucceeding the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> Dan. 8.21. and the belly and thighs of bra&s;s, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.32. and the &s;econd Bea&s;t, or he-Goat with the notable horn, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8 5. and the four notable horns, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.6. and the five Kings, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.21, 22. and the third Monarchy, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.39. and the <HI>Grecian</HI> Kings or Monarchs, <HI>Are all one.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Shewing that the legs of Iron, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.33. as it is the fourth Kingdom or Monarchy, &amp; as it is &s;trong as Iron, and breaketh in pieces, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.40. (which is the fourth Bea&s;t, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7 7. &s;ince the four kings are four Bea&s;ts, Dan. 7.17) and as it is the iron, battering, breaking Bea&s;t, Dan. 7.23. and the little horn, Dan. 8.9. as &s;ucceeding the he-Goat, and the four horns of the Grecian Monarchy, Dan. 8.8, 21, 22, 23, 24. who was the taker away of the daily &s;acrifice, Dan. 8.11. and the rai&s;er of Taxes, Dan. 11.20, 31. (as he was the taker away of the daily &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">crifice) is clear it is the Romane Monarchy, <HI>Luke</HI> 2.1, 2. So that the legs of Iron, Dan. 2.33. and the fourth Bea&s;t, Dan. 7.7. and the little horn, Dan. 8.9. and the Monarchy &s;uc|ceeding the Grecian, Dan. 8.23. and the taker away of the daily &s;acrifice, Dan 8 11. and the rai&s;er of taxes, Dan. 11.20. &amp; the Roman Monarchy, <HI>Is all one.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. Shewing that the feet partly Iron and partly Clay, Dan. 2.33. is another kinde of different Go|vernment, (<HI>Dan.</HI> 2.41, 42, 43.) which was to follow the Iron-legg'd taker away of the daily &s;acrifice, or Romane Monarchy, (which w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s the little horn <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f Dan. 8.9.) and is (as &s;ucceeding that) the little horn of Dan. 7.8. which is to be divers from the fir&s;t, Dan. 7.24 which little horn of Dan. 7.8. not that of chap. 8, 9.) or feet of Iron and Clay, Dan. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.33. or other
<PB N="5" REF="4"> kinde of Government, doth clearly appear to be the Governour and Government of <HI>England</HI> at this day; <HI>England</HI>'s now being the different Government, and different Governour, that hath &s;ince &s;ucceeded or fol|lowed that former little horn, Dan. 8.9. or fourth Bea&s;t, Dan. 7.7. or Romane Government or Monar|chy, <HI>which was all one.</HI> So that the feet partly Iron and partly clay, Dan. 2.33. and the different Govern|ment, Dan. 2.41, 42, 43. and the Government that followeth the Romane Monarchy, or little horn of <HI>Dan.</HI> chap. 8. and the now-Government of <HI>England,</HI> and the little horn of Dan. <HI>cap.</HI> 7. and the Lord Pro|tector &s;o called, as &s;upreme Head and Governour, (as in <HI>Government,</HI> Art. 1, 2.) <HI>Is all one.</HI></P>
<P>Now the di&s;tinction of this Bea&s;t, (for &s;o <HI>John</HI> calls him, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.11.) as diver&s;e or different from the former, is worth the noting, ina&s;much as he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ries our, <HI>No Monarchy,</HI> and will by no means be called a King; nay, it were trea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on to pro|claim him &s;o: All which whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, what is a King more then Supreme, or Chief Magi&s;trate under God among men? 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.13. <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.1, 2, 4. Now he'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l be called thus, (<HI>Government</HI> Art. 1, 2.) yea, and be proclaimed &s;o, without in&s;erting <HI>under God</HI> at all, (but I remember it was, <HI>Charles by the grace of God,</HI> in words, <HI>King of England, Scotland,</HI> &amp;c. wherein he did acknowledge his Supremacie to be und<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r God) as if his very name were onely to fulfil the Scriptures in this particular, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.24. as al&s;o in m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ny other things which I &s;hall not mention, they being w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> known almo&s;t to all men, even be|yond the territories of hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> own Dominions.</P>
<P>But further, (O mo&s;t &s;ad! as ther<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mu&s;t in many things be and is an unlikene<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s; &s;o mu&s;t there in many thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gs be a like|ne&s;s: for, he mu&s;t exerci&s;e all the power of the fir&s;t Bea&s;t, make war again&s;t the Saints, and pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vail again&s;t them; <HI>&s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">k great words again&s;t the mo&s;t High,</HI> and <HI>wear out the Saints of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e mo&s;t High,</HI> Dan. 7.21, 25. and many ot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er &s;uch particular.
<PB N="6" REF="5"> But this mu&s;t be but for <HI>a time, and times, and a half,</HI> (BLES|SED BE THE LORD:) for then <HI>the Ancient of days &s;hall come, and judgement &s;hall be given to the Saints of the mo&s;t High; and the Saints &s;hall po&s;&s;e&s;s the kingdom:</HI> for then <HI>&s;hall they take a|way his dominion, to con&s;ume and to de&s;troy it to the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatne&s;s of the kingdom under the whole heaven, &s;hall be given to the people of the Saints of the mo&s;t High.</HI> Dan. 7.22, 24, 26, 27, &amp;c. <HI>Even &s;o, AMEN.</HI></P>
<P>Now for a word (&s;ince before mentioned) to <HI>Rev.</HI> 13. where, in ver&s;. 1. <HI>John</HI> &s;eeth a Bea&s;t having &s;even heads and ten horns: which <HI>Rev.</HI> 13. is all the &s;ub&s;tance of <HI>Dan.</HI> 8. much illu&s;trated or enlarged in &s;ome of the particulars; <HI>Daniel</HI> not there particularizing the ten horns, and little horn proceed|ing from them, as <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. onely wraps up all in that little horn which proceeded from the four horns, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.8, 9. with, <HI>The vi&s;ion of the evening and morning is true.</HI></P>
<P>Wherefore <HI>John</HI> takes up the &s;ame matter, and handles it more fully, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13. as <HI>Daniel</HI> had done, Chap. 7. di&s;covering tho&s;e other things to be wrapt up in it, though not particula|rized; and therefore taketh occa&s;ion to mention the ten horns (according to <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.7.) in <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.1. For the clear|ing of which, con&s;ider, as <HI>Daniel</HI> (the Babyloni&s;h Monarchy being ended, <HI>Dan.</HI> 5.31.) begins, Chap. 8. at the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians:</HI> &s;o doth <HI>John</HI> in his 13 Chap. for his &s;even heads, it an&s;wering directly thereunto: As for in&s;tance,</P>
<P N="1">1. The Ram, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.3. which was the <HI>Mede</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ian,</HI> ver&s;. 28. was one head.</P>
<P N="2">2. The great horn of the he-Goat, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.5. which was the fir&s;t of the <HI>Grecian,</HI> ver&s;. 21. is the &s;econd.</P>
<P N="3">3. The four notable horns, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.8. being the other four heads of the <HI>Grecian</HI> Monarchy, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.22. makes &s;ix.</P>
<P N="4">4. The little horn which comes out of them, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.9. which was to be a fierce king, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.22. and a wonderful, battering, breaking, and de&s;troying king, <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.24. which was the <HI>Romane</HI> Monarchy, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.40. and 7.23. makes the &s;eventh: which are the &s;even heads, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.1.</P>
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<P>Now as to the ten horns, this &s;eventh head being the fourth Bea&s;t, or <HI>Romane</HI> Monarchy, as you &s;ee, the ten horns do pro|perly belong unto it, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.7. though <HI>Dan.</HI> chap. 8. doth not particularize them, as in his 7, and <HI>John</HI> in his 13.</P>
<P>Among or after which ten horns, there is another little horn, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.8. or Bea&s;t, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.11. or kinde of Govern|ment diver&s;e from the former, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.24.) to ari&s;e; though <HI>Dan.</HI> chap. 8. doth not particularize. Which little horn, as he is to <HI>make war again&s;t the Saints,</HI> Dan. 7.21. &s;o he is al&s;o to <HI>exerci&s;e all the power of the first Bea&s;t</HI> (and that con&s;idered as <HI>John</HI> hath con&s;idered him, in the whole race of the whole Monarchies, from the <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI>) again&s;t them, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.1, 12.</P>
<P>Now the Governour and Government of <HI>England,</HI> &amp;c. be|ing this little horn, (by having &s;ucceeded as afore&s;aid, and in many particulars being divers from the <HI>Romane,</HI> Dan. 7.7, 23, 24.) what can the faithful godly &s;ouls of <HI>England,</HI> or any other part (where this more &s;tout Bea&s;t then his fellows mu&s;t come, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.20.) expect, but wounds and wo; but angui&s;h, tribu|lation, and a&s;toni&s;hment; but &s;ighing, &s;obbing, weeping, wai|ling, crying, impri&s;oning, hanging, murthering? <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which being already begun among&s;t us, will the &s;ooner be fini&s;hed, &s;ince at the time appointed refre&s;hing &s;hall come: whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h, O &s;ad &s;pirits, &s;o much already daunted, and &s;ouls dejected, open but your faithful eyes, you &s;hall di&s;cover neerer then you think for.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Te&s;t.</HI> JOHN MORE.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Barnelms,</HI>
<DATE><HI>July</HI> 29. 1654.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>POSTSCRIPT. <HI>A Hand-writing interpreted.</HI> Here is wi&s;dom: let him that hath under&s;tanding count the num|ber of the Bea&s;t, for it is the number of a man; and his number is &s;ix hundred &s;ixty and &s;ix. <HI>CLXVI. Rev. 13.18.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN which we may ob&s;erve <HI>wi&s;dom</HI> and <HI>under&s;tanding</HI> both mentioned.</P>
<PB N="8" REF="6">
<P>The wi&s;dom mentioned lying in the thing it &s;elf, and is no other but the wi&s;dom of God &s;poken by man in the Spirit of God, <HI>Rev.</HI> 1.10. <HI>Rev.</HI> 4.2. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.21. <HI>Eph.</HI> 3.5. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.7. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.12, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Secondly, the under&s;tanding there mentioned being no other but the gi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t of the Spirit of the &s;ame God, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.8. <HI>Joh.</HI> 14.16, 17, 26. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.11, 14. So that as unto <HI>John</HI> by this Spirit was given the word of wi&s;dom, &s;hall unto &s;ome other be given the knowledge or under&s;tanding of that wi&s;|dom, by the &s;ame Spirit: for, &s;aith <HI>Paul, To one is given by the Spirit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he word of wi&s;dom, and to another the word of know|ledge</HI> (or under&s;tanding) <HI>by the &s;ame Spirit,</HI> 1 Cor. 12.8. All which is done, <HI>comparing &s;piritual things with &s;piritual,</HI> 1 Cor. 2.13.</P>
<P>The &s;piritual things therefore I &s;hall &s;o compare, in the un|folding of this My&s;tery, is the nature or title of a King, in his &s;everal appellations.</P>
<P N="1">1. As he is called <HI>Rex,</HI> which in Engli&s;h is <HI>King,</HI> 1 Sam. 10.19.</P>
<P N="2">2. As he is called a <HI>Captain</HI> over a people or nation, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.1.</P>
<P N="3">3. As he is called the <HI>Head</HI> of them, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.17.</P>
<P N="4">4. As he is called <HI>Chief Governour,</HI> 1 Chron. 29.22.</P>
<P N="5">5. As he is called <HI>Supreme,</HI> 1 Pet. 2.13.</P>
<P REND="indent">So that <HI>Rex, Chief, Captain, Supreme, Head</HI> and <HI>Governour</HI> over a Nation, <HI>Is all one.</HI></P>
<P>Wherefore the Lord Protector being made Supreme, (<HI>Gov.</HI> Art. 2.) he as properly beareth any of the Titles afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>So that &s;hould we attribute the term of <HI>Rex</HI> as &s;upreme, 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.13. with the title of <HI>Oliver</HI> which he retaineth, and <HI>Lord Protector</HI> which was given him, (<HI>Gov.</HI> Art. 1.) it would (&s;etting down all the &s;e eral numeral letters of that his name) make the ju&s;t number of the bea&s;t, DCLXVI.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John More.</SIGNED>
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<P>If it be objected, <HI>There are two L's, and but one mentioned;</HI> I an&s;wer:
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<HEAD>The &s;econd &s;ounding of the Little horn. <HI>OR, A further pro&s;ecution of the great My&s;tery OF THE Tvvo Little Horns: (By way of An&s;wer to a late book of Mr.</HI> William Aspinwal<HI>'s, intituled,</HI> An explication &amp; application of the <HI>7</HI> ch. of <HI>Dan.) Proving, that</HI> Charles Stuart <HI>could not be the Little horn; and that the party intended by it, is</HI> OLIVER <HI>Lord Protector &s;o called.</HI> If the watchman &s;ee the &s;word come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the &s;word come, and take any per&s;on from among them, he is taken in his iniquity: but his blood will I require at the watchmans hand. <HI>Ezek. 33.6.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SInce my de&s;igne in this contradicting you is onely for con&s;cience &s;ake, to blow the trumpet to the world, and free my &s;elf from blood, in giving warning of that &s;ad de&s;truction which is coming, a the fore-runner of <HI>Sion</HI>'s de|liverance, <HI>Dan.</HI> 12.1. I &s;hall not dare to jar, where we in truth may make a harmony: wherefore I &s;hall according to my du|ty (1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.10.) fir&s;t <HI>&s;peak the &s;ame thing,</HI> wi&s;hing I could do
<PB N="10" REF="7"> the like in all the re&s;t. For certainly, I &s;peak the truth in Chri&s;t, I lye not, my con&s;cience al&s;o bearing me witne&s;s, that I have great hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ine&s;s, and continual &s;orrow in my heart, that there &s;hould be occa&s;ion for me to di&s;&s;ent from you. Where|fore I &s;hall impart my thoughts with all the love and tender|ne&s;s, both toward you, or whom&s;oever may be concerned in them, that it is po&s;&s;ible for my poor lamenting &s;oul, in the approaching blackne&s;s of <HI>Sion</HI>'s calamity, to attain unto.</P>
<P>You may therefore take notice, that my intentions are not in the lea&s;t kinde to reflect upon the proceedings of the State again&s;t the King, nor to occa&s;ion any to &s;u&s;pect the warranta|blene&s;s of tho&s;e their actions, as in p. 30. of your book; nor am I in the lea&s;t related to the late King's intere&s;t, neither engage I in his Cau&s;e, p. 38.</P>
<P>I one<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y de&s;ire to awaken the &s;inner, and (as I judge in cha|rity you have done before me in that your book) to pro&s;ecute the now-contemned and de&s;pi&s;ed Cau&s;e of cry'd-down <HI>Je&s;us</HI> (even to the death) which thing guides me (and I doubt not but will you) to a contrary judgement in reference to the lit|tle horn. For,</P>
<P N="1">1. Con&s;idering (as you &s;ay) that all tho&s;e powers that bear the &s;tamp of Prerogati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Royal (as at this day) mu&s;t be utterly demoli&s;hed, p. 6. I cannot but give warning, in the bitterne&s;s of my &s;ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, unto all tho&s;e high &s;pirits that &s;o incon|&s;iderately have a&s;&s;umed them.</P>
<P N="2">2. Con&s;idering as you &s;ay) it is Chri&s;ts prerogative, and his onely, to be his peoples Law-giver, p. 7. I cannot hold my tongue, whil&s;t men pre&s;ume, in the&s;e days of light, to rob him of that honour, <HI>Jam.</HI> 4.12.</P>
<P N="3">3. Con&s;idering (as you &s;ay) that he will then no longer &s;ee the oppre&s;&s;ion of his people, but will come &s;peedily to their relief, and give hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> power to hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Saints; &s;o that they may in a lawful way, and upon lawful grounds, take up the exerci&s;e of that power against their oppo&s;ing Prince, (not|with&s;tanding the Legi&s;lati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> power he re&s;er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eth to him&s;elf, p. 14.) Wo be to me, if I blow not the Trumpet, to give notice thereof to him that hath now gotten that powe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in his hand.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="11" REF="7">4. Con&s;idering (as you &s;ay) there is no other Rule of righteou&s;ne&s;s (or form of Government) but his Word and Will, he giving the Laws, and man executing of them his his Laws, which are ab&s;olute, and without all exception, and for Saints onely to admini<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">er, whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h make Gods Word the m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in all their coun&s;els; which you ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l the fifth Monar|chy, p. 19. (&s;o much de&s;pi&s;ed and contemned at this day:) Con&s;idering, I &s;ay, all the&s;e things, I judge it our duties to teach and admoni&s;h one another, <HI>Heb.</HI> 3.13. <HI>Col.</HI> 3.16. (<HI>and &s;o much the more, as we &s;ee the day approaching,</HI> Heb. 10.25.) and to lift up our voices like trumpets, to tell <HI>England</HI> of their &s;ins, and their Law-givers of their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P N="5">5. Con&s;idering your Arguments whereby you maintain the &s;afene&s;s of this Law of God, pag. 19, 20. and the which I would fain &s;ee what Lawyer in <HI>England, Scotland, Ireland,</HI> or el&s;ewhere, is able to contradict. And con&s;idering whe|ther (as you &s;ay) the want thereof hath not been the ruine of all the States and Governments in the four Monarchies hi|therto: And whether it will not as &s;urely be of this, I doubt not but we &s;hall cea&s;e to &s;trive, and rather finde out one an|other to joyn hand in hand in this glorious (though de&s;pi&s;ed) Cau&s;e and intere&s;t of Je&s;us Chri&s;t: in which that we may be one, not in part, but in whole, let us in love weigh and con|&s;ider, without ha&s;te or prejudice,</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether the bu&s;ine&s;s of <HI>Charles,</HI> which you &s;ay was the fir&s;t deadly wound to Monarchy, Prerogative Royal, (or Le|gi&s;lative&s;hip) was not to be healed.</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether after the wound, the Image of that Bea&s;t were not to be made.</P>
<P N="3">3. Whether at this day the wound be not healed, and the Image &s;et up. Which if it be, let us not ask, <HI>What &s;hall we cry?</HI> our work is before us.</P>
<P N="4">4. Whether the Little horn be not now upon his feet, and that the Lord Protector &s;o called is not he. Which if he be al&s;o, to &s;et our face again&s;t his face, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 3.8. and tell him &s;o.</P>
<P>In the examining of which, I judge it requi&s;ite fir&s;t to di|&s;tingui&s;h this Little horn from the ten, and to prove him ano|ther,
<PB N="12" REF="8"> as well in number as form; contra. p. 3, 13, 15. of your book: which I &s;hall pro&s;ecute with the ten following Ar|guments.</P>
<P N="1">1. In that <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;aw ten horns upon the head of the Bea&s;t, before that little horn, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.7. that is therefore an|other.</P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;aw not the &s;pringing up of the ten, which he did of that, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.8. therefore another.</P>
<P N="3">3. Ina&s;much as the holy Gho&s;t calls it &s;o, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.8. there|fore, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. It came up among&s;t them, <HI>viz.</HI> the ten: &s;o that there were ten before this came up, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.8. therefore, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. The priority you &s;eem to hint at, relating indeed (as you &s;ay) to <HI>Charles,</HI> or the three kingdoms which were to be pluck'd up (before him, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.8.) <HI>viz.</HI> the Little horn; not to him, he ari&s;ing after them, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.24. If that by priority be under&s;tood (which, as you &s;ee, agrees with Scripture) their being pluckt up by the roots, before the Little horn become: the horn (or takes the Legi&s;lative power) of tho&s;e kingdoms, it cannot be <HI>Charles,</HI> but another, and that in number as well as form.</P>
<P><HI>Quer.</HI> But you may &s;ay, <HI>How was it among them, and yet after them? (and how was it a horn, before it had the Legi&s;lative power?) This is contradiction.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Fir&s;t, no more contradiction then the holy Gho&s;t (which &s;peaketh no contradiction) hath &s;poken, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.8, 24.</P>
<P>Secondly, it is no contradiction, if you con&s;ider when he is called the Little horn, (&s;ince it was then, that it was among them:) for it did not always remain a little horn, though it was the &s;ame horn: therefore mu&s;t he be con&s;idered two ways:</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, as a Little horn, <HI>viz.</HI> King<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The etymologie of the anci|ent Saxon word <HI>Cu-ning,</HI> (now in Engli&s;h, <HI>King</HI>) is as much as to &s;ay. <HI>One e&s;pecial|ly valiant.</HI> Vide Hi&s;t. <HI>Ver&s;t.</HI></NOTE>, Captain, Head, or chief Governour (which is all one, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.1, 19. and 15.17. 1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 29.22. (of an Army: in which e&s;tate he ri&s;es a|mong them, and &s;ubdues, and pulls up three by the roots.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="8">
<P>Secondly, not as a little horn, but as equal with any of the re&s;t, when he is made the horn (King, Captain, Supreme Head or Governour, which is all one) of the three Nations &s;ubdu|ed and pluck'd up: and this he is to be after the former; at which time he is not called a <HI>Little horn,</HI> but the phra&s;e being <HI>ten,</HI> and <HI>another,</HI> Dan. 7.24. So that thus con&s;idered, it is no &s;trange thing for him to ari&s;e among them, and al&s;o after them.</P>
<P>That for a Little horn to enlarge its commanding power, is to be greater, &s;ee the Little horn that waxt <HI>exceeding great, Dan.</HI> 8.9. which I have prov'd the Romane Monarchy, in my former Treati&s;e of the two Little horns; which indeed had its birth &s;omthing like this, 1 <HI>Mach.</HI> 1. and therefore with this (all being wrapt up in one, as that great my&s;tery &s;heweth) is fitly termed <HI>The evening and the morning,</HI> Dan. 8.26.</P>
<P N="6">6. You &s;ay <HI>Charles</HI> (in whom the three Kings were pluck'd up) was the fir&s;t that God brought to judgement by di&s;mem|bring, or beheading, (or a wound by a &s;word) p. 56. which wound being again to be healed, as I &s;hall after prove, and the wound of the Little horn is not, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.26, 27. it is not <HI>Charles,</HI> but another in number as well as form.</P>
<P N="7">7. You &s;ay, At that time (<HI>viz.</HI> the time of judging the Lit|tle horn) the Legi&s;lative power &s;hall be onely in the hand of Chri&s;t him&s;elf, p. 14. But it is not &s;o now, unle&s;s the Lord Protector &s;o called be he, and <HI>Whitehal</HI> his throne; which they are not, &s;eeing the Legi&s;lative power is in his hand: <HI>Gov.</HI> Art. 1. therefore, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. As you &s;ay, <HI>Charles</HI> had a de&s;igne again&s;t the Saints of God, and would have de&s;troyed them, p. 28, 29. But the Lit|tle horn, in his having a de&s;igne again&s;t them, is not &s;aid one|ly to <HI>will</HI> their de&s;truction, but to <HI>prevail again&s;t them,</HI> Dan. 7.21, 25. which, ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, <HI>Charles</HI> did not: there|fore, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. Con&s;idering he that &s;ubdues the three Kings is the Lit|tle horn, and, as it is well ob&s;erved, (<HI>Dan.</HI> 7.17, 23. holding forth as much) that <GAP DESC="foreign"> is to be indifferently under&s;tood for <HI>Kings</HI> or <HI>Kingdoms,</HI> the word as you &s;ay including both,
<PB N="14" REF="9"> p. 15. we &s;hould, in taking <HI>Charles</HI> to be the &s;ubduer of the three kingdoms, make him to be the &s;ubduer of him&s;elf; which he was not, but another: therefore, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="10">10. You &s;ay, (and expected had been done) The emblems, or (if you will) the figures and repre&s;entations of the Kingly prerogative of the Little horn, &s;hall from thence begin to be utterly de&s;troyed. But if there be now a new Image of the &s;ame, as <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.14. you will I hope &s;hake hands, and &s;ay with me, (like Chri&s;t our Captain) not fearing men, <HI>This day is the Scripture fulfilled in our ears,</HI> Luk. 4.21. Minding the Lord Protector &s;o called, once again, as you have done in your Epi&s;tle Dedicat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry of your book, of (as you &s;ay) his own words, <HI>viz. The&s;e are the times of accompli&s;hment of pro|phecies;</HI> and that the Little horn was not <HI>Charles,</HI> but another both in number and form.</P>
<P>Having thus di&s;tingui&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">'d the Little horn, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.8. let us fall upon my fir&s;t-propo&s;ed four Con&s;iderations, and fir&s;t exa|mine whether or no the bu&s;ine&s;s of <HI>Charles,</HI> which as you &s;ay was the fir&s;t deadly wound to Monar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hy, Prerogative Royal, or Legi&s;lative&s;hip, was not to be healed: which I conceive it was, for the&s;e five following Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e another mu&s;t follow it, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.24. <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.11.</P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e he mu&s;t, as the former, be an oppo&s;er of the Saints, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.20.</P>
<P N="3">3. Becau&s;e he mu&s;t be &s;touter then his fellows, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.20.</P>
<P N="4">4. Becau&s;e he mu&s;t exerci&s;e all the power of the former, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.12.</P>
<P N="5">5. Becau&s;e the Scripture doth in plain terms affirm it, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.3, 12. therefore that deadly wound to Monarchy, Pre|rogative Royal, or Legi&s;lative&s;hip, was to be healed.</P>
<P>Secondly, let us examine whether or no, after the wound, the Image of that Bea&s;t was not to be made: which I al&s;o conceive it was, for the&s;e three following Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e he that hath &s;o formerly wounded that Mo|narchy, may be a&s;hamed to &s;et up the very &s;ame: neverthe|le&s;s, &s;ince he is to be as afore-mentioned, he mu&s;t be like it, yet diver&s;e from it, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.24. which is <HI>the image of.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><PB N="15" REF="9">2. Becau&s;e as many as will not wor&s;hip the Image, &s;hall be killed, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.15.</P>
<P N="3">3. Becau&s;e <HI>John (Rev.</HI> 13.14.) doth po&s;itively affirm it.</P>
<P>Thirdly, let us examine if the wound be not healed: which I conceive it is, for the&s;e four following Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e that which our great boa&s;t &s;tood in the remo|val of, p. 17, 18. <HI>viz.</HI> the taking away of all Sultan&s;hip, form or figure of Prerogative Royal, or Legi&s;lative&s;hip, which you &s;ay is the Soveraign power, p. 14. and onely to be in the hand of Chri&s;t, is at this day a&s;&s;umed by men.</P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e it is al&s;o e&s;tabli&s;hed and confirmed, and that upon one man.</P>
<P N="3">3. Becau&s;e he hath both received it, and owned it. <HI>Vide Govern.</HI> and <HI>Oath</HI> thereunto annexed.</P>
<P N="4">4. Becau&s;e it is e&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">emed mans trea&s;on, albeit Gods truth, to gain&s;ay it; as the following Con&s;iderations will clearly prove it.</P>
<P>Fourthly, whether or no the Little horn be not at this day upon his feet: which I al&s;o conceive he is, for the&s;e eight fol|lowing Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e there is now a different Government; when you, and I, and a cloud of witne&s;&s;es (among the re&s;t, the Army and now-Lord Protector &s;o called, in Declaration to <HI>Scotland,</HI> p. 38.) according to the &s;en&s;e and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ope of Scripture do conclude, that <HI>Charles</HI> (in whom the three Kings or King|doms were plucked up) was of the ten horns.</P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e he that was next to follow, was to be he, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.24.</P>
<P N="3">3. Becau&s;e a Little horn, (<HI>viz.</HI> the Head, Chief Captain, or Governour of a company of men, not a whole Nation, much le&s;s three) did pluck them up.</P>
<P N="4">4. Becau&s;e that Little horn doth now &s;ucceed in the Le|gi&s;lative&s;hip or Power: which though men call Trea&s;on, I mu&s;t, in the name of the Lord Je&s;us, who is <HI>King of kings, and Lord of lords,</HI> (my Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">er) bear te&s;timony again&s;t, (becau&s;e 'tis &s;in) which &s;hall be barely in the words of the text, <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 33.22. <HI>The LORD is my law-giver.</HI> And as there
<PB N="16" REF="10"> is but one, (I own no other) <HI>James</HI> 4.12.</P>
<P N="5">5. Becau&s;e he is more &s;tout then the former, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.20.</P>
<P N="6">6. Becau&s;e he is an oppo&s;er of the Sains, (witne&s;s <HI>Feake, Rogers,</HI> &amp;c.) <HI>Dan.</HI> 7.20.</P>
<P N="7">7. Becau&s;e but an Image of <HI>Charles</HI> is at this day &s;et up: for e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ery one to his face dares &s;ay he is no King; which I am &s;ure he is more like, then any Image that ever I &s;aw before him. <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.14.</P>
<P N="8">8. Becau&s;e it is accounted trea&s;on to oppo&s;e this Image, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13.15.</P>
<P>For which Rea&s;ons,</P>
<P>I conceive you were mi&s;taken, (and that you your &s;elf will &s;ee it) in judging <HI>Charles</HI> to be the Little horn, <HI>Dan.</HI> 7. and that <HI>Oliver</HI> Lord Protector, &s;o called, is he in whom what&s;o|ever the Scripture makes mention of concerning the Little horn, &s;hall be accompli&s;hed. In the mean time, let the fore|going Characters of him &s;atisfie for the fir&s;t eight months of his Legi&s;lative&s;hip.</P>
<P>But <HI>wo, wo, wo;</HI> the wor&s;t followeth.</P>
<P>Wherefore hear the &s;ound of the Trumpet, O ye people: <HI>As is the morning, &s;o is the evening</HI> of <HI>Dan.</HI> 8.26. For <HI>the time is come,</HI> (again) <HI>that judgement mu&s;t begin at the hou&s;e of God:</HI> (by <HI>&s;uch a day of trouble, as never was &s;ince there was a nation, Dan.</HI> 12.1. wherein <HI>two parts mu&s;t be cut off, and the third part go thorow the fire,</HI> Zech. 13.8, 9.) <HI>But if it fir&s;t begin at us, what &s;hall be the end of them that obey not</HI> the Commandments of God? <HI>and if the righteous &s;carcely be &s;aved, where &s;hall the un|godly and &s;inners appear?</HI> 1 Pet. 4.17, 18. For <HI>the day ha&s;tens after, that burns like an oven: and the wicked &s;hall be burnt up; there &s;hall not of them all be left one</HI> (&s;prig or) <HI>branch,</HI> Mal. 4.6. But then &s;hall that <HI>third part,</HI> that hath endured the fire, in the zeal of God, trample down the wicked (and the great in|&s;ulting Kings, Nobles, and Potentates of the earth) like a&s;hes under their feet, <HI>binding them in iron chains, and fetters,</HI> P&s;al. 149.8. Wherefore, though the time be at hand, that <HI>the powers of the heavens &s;hall be &s;haken, and mens hearts &s;hall fail
<PB N="17" REF="10"> them for fear, and for looking after tho&s;e great things that are com|ing upon the earth,</HI> Luke 21.26. and that you mu&s;t expect, O ye Saints of the mo&s;t High, to go thorow this <HI>fiery tryal;</HI> yet <HI>fear not, neither be afraid,</HI> I&s;ai. 44.8. Ezek. 3.8, 9. Joh. 14.17. For <HI>the fearful &s;hall have their portion in the lake that burns with brim&s;tone,</HI> Rev. 21.8. Therefore be ye valiant and couragi|ous; and <HI>though bonds and afflictions wait for you,</HI> yet <HI>let no &s;uch thing trouble you,</HI> Acts 20.23, 24. but whil&s;t you <HI>&s;uffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of your &s;ouls to him in well-doing,</HI> 1 Pet. 4.19. &s;etting your faces again&s;t their faces; bearing te&s;timony to <HI>the truth as it is in Je&s;us; not lo|ving your lives unto the death:</HI> So &s;hall you <HI>fight the good fight, keep the faith,</HI> and <HI>fini&s;h your cour&s;e with joy,</HI> and <HI>receive a crown of life and glory, which God the righteous Judge &s;hall give unto you.</HI> 2 Tim. 4.7. Acts 20.24.</P>
<P>But <HI>as many as wor&s;hip the bea&s;t and his image, &s;hall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mix|ture into the cup of his indignation: and they &s;hall be tormented with fire and brim&s;tone, in the pre&s;ence of the holy angels, and in the pre&s;ence of the Lamb.</HI> Rev. 14.9, 10.</P>
<P><HI>He that te&s;tifieth the&s;e things, &s;aith, Surely I come quickly. E|ven &s;o, come Lord Je&s;us,</HI> Rev. 22.20. for <HI>it is time,</HI> P&s;al. 119.126. <HI>Englands</HI> pre&s;ent Rulers having <HI>made void,</HI> and of none <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ffect, <HI>thy Law,</HI> thy Word, <HI>through their traditions,</HI> (Mark 7.11, 12, 13.) in <HI>Govern.</HI> Art. 3. where it is &s;aid, <HI>The Lord Protector</HI> (&s;o called) <HI>&s;hall have power to pardon all things but murther and trea&s;on;</HI> though thy Law, O God, appointeth death in other ca&s;es, as in <HI>Exod.</HI> 21.15, 16, 17, &amp;c.</P>
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