The Resurrection of the Witnesses and Englands Fall from Rome, Title page – Dedication
THE RESURRECTION OF The Witneſſes; AND ENGLANDS Fall from (the myſtical Babylon) ROME.
Clearly demonſtrated to be accompliſhed.
Whereby Great encouragement is adminiſtred to all Saints, but eſpecially to the Saints in England.
In the handling of a part of the eleventh Chapter of the REVELATION.
By M. Cary, a Miniſter or Servant of Jeſus Chriſt, and of all his Saints.
PSAL. 126. 1, 2, 3.
When the LORD turned again the captivity of Sion: we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with ſinging, then ſaid they among the heathen: The LORD hath done great things for them. The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
London, Printed by D. M. for Giles Calvert at the black-ſpread-Eagle at the weſt end of Pauls, 1648.
To the Honoured FRANCIS ROƲSE AND Thomas Boon Eſquires, Members of the Honourable Houſe of COMMONS in PARLIAMENT.
Honoured Sirs,
IT being the great deſigne of God the Father to ſet up his Son our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, as his King upon the holy hill of Sion, and (though the Heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things, ſaying, Come let us break their bonds in ſunder, and caſt away their cords from us) to give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermoſt parts of the earth for his poſſeſſion. I ſay, this being Gods deſign, he hath for the effecting of it, given all power and authority in heaven and in earth into his hand, and accordingly Jeſus Chriſt hath undertaken to execute all Gods Decrees, which are mentioned in the Propheſie of the Book of the Revelation, where we finde that God had decreed, that for an appointed terme of time, his Church, his Temple, his Saints ſhould be in an afflicted, perſecuted, depreſſed, low condition, and that the Beaſt, and the Babylonian enemies of his Church ſhould have power to grow great, and to flouriſh, and to make war againſt the Saints, and to blaſpheme God, and his name, and his Saints, for an appointed time alſo, and that after that time was expired, that then Jeſus Chriſt ſhould improve that power that was for that end given to him, in giving a glorious Deliverance to his Church, and ruining totally the Beaſt, great Babylon, and all his enemies, That ſo the Kingdomes of this world may become his Kingdoms, and that in ſuch a manner, as they were not before, even ſo as all that are in authority, that will not caſt their Crowns at his feet, ſhall be broken in peeces, for he the Lord alone muſt be exalted in that day; there muſt be one Lord, and his name one in all the earth. Now as it most clearly appears to me from the divine Oracles of the Scripture, having compared the works of God, and his Word together, I have in the enſuing Diſcourſe held it forth (for the encouragement of all that wait for the appearing of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt for the overthrowing of his enemies, and the deliverance of his people from their perſecutions) that the time is already come, wherein the appointed time of the prevailing power of the Beaſt over the Saints, is come to a period; and accordingly Jeſus Chriſt hath begunne to bring downe the power of the Beaſt, and to lift up his Saints out of that low, afflicted, perſecuted condition in which they have beene, and that in order to the perfecting of theſe things England is already fallen from the myſticall Babylon, Rome.
Now, Honoured Sir, You having been glorious Starres, ſhining with a great deal of ſplendour in Your Countrey both in the publikeneſſe of Your ſpirits, and the holineſſe of Your converſations, wherein You have been eminent Examples, and ſpeciall encouragements unto others, and knowing that it is the deſire of Your ſouls to ſee the Lord Jeſus alone advanced, who-ever be thrown down. I have preſumed to preſent this little Treatiſe unto You, not doubting of Your ingenuous and favourable acceptance of it. But though I publiſh it under Your name and favour, yet doe I not thereby deſire You to patronize any thing in it (if there ſhould be any thing) that is not truth, and for the truth that is in it, I need deſire no Patron; For great is the truth, and it will prevail. Yet notwithſtanding the ſonnes of truth, as farre as the truth appears to them in truth will own it, and contend for it, and doubtleſſe ſo will You. I am
Sirs, A Petitioner to heaven for Sions, this Kingdoms and your proſperity, M. C.