A voice out of the wildernes, crying with many tears and strong perswasions to the world for repentance. Proving by undeniable grounds from the word of God, that the great day of his righteous judgment will certainly be in this present age, namely about the 45th. yeer after the ruine of Rome, in 1666. Wherein are unfolded many great and wonderful mysteries of God, foretold in his word to come to pass unto th' end of the world. This work consists of five small tracts: 1. To the church of Rome, printed first in an. 1588. 2. To Qu. Elizabeth, presented to her in an. 1589. 3. To the E. of Essex in her days, called, Babylon is fal'n 4. To K. James, being an exposition of the 11. 12, 13. ch. Apoc. 5. De fide, against Baro, since translated into English. / By T.L. sometime a student in the University of Cambridge in the daies of Q: Elizabeth.

VERS. 7.

And the woman Fled into the wildernesse, where she had a place prepared of God, that there they might feed her a thousand two hundred and sixty dayes.

BUt the Church of God, here named the woman, mo∣ther of this faire and primitive fruit, being no longer able to weather out her stormes, was enforced to hide her beau••y, and to retire her selfe into the secret chambers of Gods providence and he•• owne conscience, and to take up her lodging in the desart; not that her light was utterly extinguished, as her e∣nemies reproach her: for although she were disper∣sed, distressed, and enforced to hide her extraordina∣ry and eminent graces; yet the beauty of her true repentance and of her lively faith, seconded with a charitable life and patient expectation of better things to come, st••ll shined as a Candle in a darke place; and like a ship preserved in a tempest, she re∣mained still the same, of whom the world was not worthy; never wanting the loving protection of her dearest Lord, who in all her troubles was mindfull of her, as of Elias his servant, or Israel his first-borne; carefull to provide her, both of honourable harbour and princely diet. Her resting place was restlesse, strewed and scattered far and neare over the face of the earth; for such a lodging oid best beseeme her broken and restlesse heart, which sojourned in earth, but dwelt in heaven; and did also best defend her person from the furious inquisitions of her enemies.

Neither was her Lord lesse loving and provident

concerning her food, for he preserved for her diet the two witnesses of his eternall Covenant, that ••••••m their breast she might suck the pu••e and who some milke of grace and life, that so she might be both nobly ha••boured, and pri••cely sed during the tedi∣ous and odious Reig••e of the great Whore the Church of Rome, who during her exile should ••surp her Chair and under the vizard ••f her name should persecu••e her name and generation, a thousand two hundred and sixty years, here (as before) mysti••ally deciphered under a thousand two hundred and sixty dayes.