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, 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 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 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 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.) 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 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 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 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.

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, 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 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.

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, 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.