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. 11.

And I saw another Beast comming up from the earth, and he had two hornes like the Lamb, but he spake like the Dragon.

THe holy Ghost in the verse foregoing, having pro∣nounced sentence of death against Antichrist, be∣fore he comes to the execution thereof, descendeth to the arraignment and condemnation of his Clergie, that so they may be carted to the valley of Hinnom both together, whom the Lord here figureth under the name of the Beast, saying. And I saw another Beast; comprehending under the singular number of one Beast, by a manner of speech common to the holy Scriptures, the whole corporation and university of false and lying teachers, who from the first Eremite,

Hypocrite, Father, Priest, Monk, Fryer, to the last trumping and vagabond Iesuite, have avouched the honour and adoration of Antichrist, And is most apt∣ly deciphered by their earthly, sensuall, and divellish minds, in pointing to their countrey and place of ex∣traction, whence and where such weeds doe grow, saying, comming up from the earth. And commendeth their making and acquaintance to us, by two exqu••∣site tokens, the one their person, the other their do∣ctrine. Touching their shape and person, the Spi∣rit saith, that it was in robe and exteriour appea∣rance, the very face and countenance of the Lamb, deckt and garnished with his owne two hornes, to wit, the Law and the Gospel, wherewith the Lamb doth save and kill; for so the Spirit saith, And he had two hornes like the Lamb.

But as concerning the use and force of the hornes, the Spirit saith, they were therein so contrary to the Lamb, that when they did open, either to teach the Law or preach the Gospel, they spake and taught like the Dragons Doctours, and like the Priests of Jupi∣ter, teaching and preaching unto the children of the world, that they ought to worship the God of hea∣ven, as the Dragons Priests had taught their fathers to worship the Gods of the heathen. Which detesta∣ble prophanation of the worship of God, and prepo∣sterous adoration of his name, the Spirit detecteth, in saying, But he spake like the Dragon.