THe Ark, Baptisms express figure (Pet. 3.) No such custom admits in Church, of those knowing not good from evil, to be Baptized; witness at mans estate all of them saved by wa­ter: where his three Sons, though married all, yet had none born unto them till after the flood, Noah that according to all the Lord commanded, so did he.

Neither after our Lords example, of obedience giving to understand, As my Father gave me commandment, so I do; he at full age arrived: The Dove when as descended, or abode on him, [Page 4] who began then to be about thirty of Age, thrice ten: Certainly had a great thing been commanded, as they reply­ed, Naaman bidden, Go and wash in Jordan, &c. How much rather this imposed, But go ye and preach; He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved (vers.) according who went forth and preach'd every where; where thus (ver.) Both men and women were Baptized: As the Eunuch for another, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest be Baptized: So he whose Father and Mother answering, He is of age, ask him; and again, Therefore said his Pa­rents, He is of age, &c. (Ioh. 9.) He bidden, Go and wash, as much to say, God-fathers and God-mothers need­less.

The Church past non-age, hath [Page 5] need of milk no longer, such meat no [...] belonging to Babes: Now (to search the Scriptures) the wedding Garment expected from none such under age; witness Marriage honored with his first Miracle; of the good wine till last reserv'd, himself the blessed Bridegroom watch'd so long for.

And He that despised Moses Law (Heb. 10.) if dyed without mercy; what incur they that offer despite thus unto the Spirit of Grace? alledging, because of Children brought unto him, and set­ting one in the midst of them, saying, Who shall offend such one of these little ones, &c. and laying his hands on other; and except ye receive the kingdom of God as a little childe, therefore the persons of men and women are excepted: wher­as of another sort in truth signifie [Page 6] Babes and Sucklings, of whom said, I thank thee, O Father, that hast revealed these things unto such and such, hidden from the learned; whose weak Obje­ctions these, of Little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven; onely spoken after a compara­tive way, as afore shewed, little for their purpose: who produce Circum­cision, appointed for Males, to uphold this Antichristian custom in times of Ignorance, through subtilty crept in­to the Church, with the Serpent (as it were) yea, hath God said, Ye shall not, &c. the very forbidden fruit un­timely tasted, as the Common prayer book partly confesses, in old time; but at Easter and Whitsontide administred, which custom, say they, out of use, cannot well for many considerations [Page 7] be restored, &c. without mentioning so much as one in behalf of their mock-Baptism, founded on Circum­cision of Infants, a character not to be blotted out in the flesh, that impression even verifying the Sows returning to the mire, and the Dog gone back, &c. as accompanied vvith a point of more concernment then Joroboams prefer­ing to the priesthood the inferior sort, or his offering incense, those Mother Midwives Joan Baptists suffered to take that office upon them, because of Ziporahs circumcising her Son.

So turn ye to that warning piece (Apocal. 13.) of the Antichristian Beast whose desperate wound was healed; and the false Prophets description, and see upon what foundation both State and Church stauds in the last days (vers.) [Page 8] And I stood upon the Sea, and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven Heads and ten Horns, crowned, &c. expresly bears date the present seven­teenth Century, even the British beast also armed at all points, from Brute its Name derived; where Europia (as it vvere) carried into the Sea: Besides Cesars adored Image, not to be drown­ed in forgetfulness, and tribute money from strangers, vvounded forest of all by Brutus, he of his ovvn begetting foretold of the fatal Ides of March; by vvhom the year vvas set according to the Sun, Three hundred sixty six days, corrected the Kalender, vvhose Names lives to this day both of them, Julius Cesar, the Moneth of JƲLY named after it. As for the Man of Sin, the other Beast his coming out of [Page 9] the earth, horned like the Lamb, but a Dragons voyce, the tythes (to wit) or fruits of those Rams, no few sirna­med, Pope Innocent, he that runs may read it; whose feigned Miracles, with Cross and Crucifix adored, like that of Gold, whose height sixty cubits, and breadth six (Dan. 3.) and thus running over the Number of his Name 666 namely, Julius Cesar and August, whose numeral letters Vic Lvvvi about the fortieth year of which Reign (Au­gustus) who reigned 55 years and odde Moneths; the Lamb of God came into the world, aged 30. in the fifteenth of Ti­berius reign (Luke, &c.) so that the aforesaid the 55 years and six Months, to Moneths 666 amounts the Grige­an Account put into the reckoning; since which Empires rising (1600 [Page 10] compleat) as low declined; & whether or no our British Coat the Leopards spotted or pothered robe (vers.) be not as Esaus voyce from Jacobs to be dis­cerned, or the Lambs from the Dra­gons language, even paralleld with the ten persecutions, these days of ours the ten horns subscribes it; one Isle cal­ling unto another, Patmos Isle unto Great Britains, and this great beast fol­lowed so, and admired of all the world; said to rise up out of the sea; begins not too with that Founder of the Spanish Faction, George Duke of Buckingham, of the Order of Saint George, Master of the Horse, Admiral of the Seas, as by the Names of Ships, the one a Leopard, the Lyon another, the Bear, &c. he with a Butchers knife slain at Portsmouth in the Moneth of August [Page 11] 1628. having continued from 1625. March, beyond expectation; ten years that was a Minion to the former. And so much for his three years and an half, (ver.) together with the time exprest of his continuing how long, who went away from his Parliament (1641. Jan.) until Nazebies victory (1645. June) vvhere the Dragons great Authority personates, S. George the patron of that Order; as count the number of his Name also, Viscount Vvilers (Vic Lvvvi) or 666. wanting no open mouth, if standers by to be credited, his last words heard at Portsmouth, at whose dispose not onely high Of­fices, but the Crown Revenue, Six hundred thousand pounds and more per annum, the weight of Solomons Gold (2 Chro. 9.) 666 Talents aluding ther­to.

[Page 12] VVhere the treasurership the other Beast that came up out of the earth, spake as the dragon, not a true word as much to say, of late in the Clergies custody, as by the horns of the Lamb signified the two Archbishopricks bought and sold with the rest.

And as the story of 88 the Spanish Armado's defeat, witness in this cata­logue, the Hangings of the the House of Peers, bordered about with so ma­ny Heads and Names, as it were (v.) I stood upon the sand of the Sea, and I saw a Beast rise up, &c. with all those crowns, &c. also in the House of Com­mons, those pieces of Tapistry, of Fruitage and Flowers, all in their pots coming out of the earth about 666 sometime in number; and so much touching that Allegory of their rising up, [Page 13] set between pillars, referred to the be­holders, Hangings sometime belong­ing to the Abbey, as it were the others up, and that spake, &c (vers. xi.) the influence of the ten Horns, pretending to the French R. for another, with no inferior mouth 1610. mortally wound­ed, whose Faction revived by the Cardinal, lives and breathes to this day by his skill, such the mutable con­dition of all, Behold, as he stood upon the sand, though said, Who is able to make war with the Beast? As Essex behold too Viscount Hereford such another, from Heralds mystery deriving that appellation, as the Stag or red Deer bearing it for his Crest; and so count again, Numerus ejus sex centi sexaginta sex, Rev. of whose rising from the ge­neration of the Walters: Walter De­vorex [Page 14] begetting Walter: and Walter Dev. Walter and Walter, &c. some six one after another of that Name.

Not without his sevenfold Bla­sphemous Titles, superscribed one as deeply interessed in the Horns as any other, in the Forehead signed with the Horn; that married was in the year 1606. at the years of 16. 1636. who fa­ther'd a son; and the year 1646. Sept. 16. aged 56. in the sixt year of the Par­liament was stricken in the head by an an Apoplexy, that blow invisible too, whose Father, aged 36. that was be­headed, plotted by Walter Rawley, when as the Adored Image of the Beast, with those coat arms so adornd, as though he had been alive followed of all: In S. John Baptist Chappel in­terr'd for the Walters sake, the last of his name of Essex.

[Page 15] Lastly, in these troublesome Seas tossed Kings of the North and South, French and Spanish, such dutiful sons of Rome, the horns ten pointing that way not onely from Cornu & Corona, as Carolus derived, ten in number, four of the Race of Charls the Great, and six of the House of Austria; but from Henry the fourth of Lancaster House, unto Henry the Eight, and his progeny ten even Crowned; whereof the prophet Daniel thus, cap. 7. v. 23. of these de­vouring Tyrants, treading dovvn Laws, &c. And another shall rise after them, diverse from the first (to wit) o [...] another nation, before whom three fell, by whom changed bo [...]h the Name of the Kingdom, and their Liberties, &c. no other then Great Brit. Scotish-horn, speaking with such a lawless mouth, [Page 16] succeeding those three without issue, Edw. 6. Mar. and Eliz. of whose time and times and half, or three yeers and half, the truth shewed afore of it, from the most supreme mystery that of times and sea­sons, signifying how long from his unhappy departure from his Parliament, until his being taken 1645. and outed, &c. of whom the last news, his Resurrection or rising out of the sea, brought to judgement; so hi­therto the end of the matter, as Daniel 7, &c. onely these, Let him that is filthy, be so still, and he that is holy also, &c. and he that is a-thirst, take the water of life freely, which chil­dren and Infants are not incapable of, are free with­out it, cannot thirst or long for what they never knew, the Spirit and the Bride saying, Come, and if any man thirst, &c. out of his belly (he that believeth) shall flow rivers of living water, [...] Joh.) proclaimed that great day, of it so much.