except that Acusilaus out of his in his brazen tables recconed put 1020 years from the flood of Deucalion Ogyges to the beginnging of the Olympiads, & for [ wchwhich is above 700 years too much. And for making out this interval, the Greeks have stretched their Antiquities ] So then the Christian so far as in religion of believing theat the world was formed & is governed by one supreme God, & of loving & honouring worshipping this God & loving our neighbour as our selves & being mercifull even to bruit Beasts, is the oldest religion in the world. [ And nothing more has been added to it with relation to Jesus Christ then to beleive in the predictions of the holy Ghost by in the Prophets concerning him, viztvidelicet that he is the Messiah & the son of man predicted by Daniel at & yethe son of God predicted by David in the 2d Psalm, & the Lamb of God predicted by Moses in yethe Paschal Lamb by Moses, &c the seed of the woman wchwhich shou

Dacia revolted in the reign of Philip the Emperor, & under the reign of Ostrogoth, Cniva, the Emperors Philip & Decius. And first the Goths ( not yet divided into Ostrogoths & Visigoths ) under their condu king Ostrogotha ( being assisted by the Thaphili & the Astiinringi ( a Vandalic nation ) & the Carpi ) mad revolted & made war upon the Romans. In the mean time the Gepides another Gothic nation under their king Fastida co routed the Burgundians with a great slaughter & conquered some nother nations & then invaded the Goths under Ostrogotiha & was routed, & retired to home. OstrocthaOstrogotha was succeeded by Cniva who presently invaded Mœsia the Empire & routed the army of Decius & slew him . , but soon after made peace with the Emperors Gallus & Volusian. And Aftewards in the reign of Gallienus they infested Asia minor & Trace, but in the reign of Dioclesian & Maximianus & Constantine the great they astsisted those Emperors against their enemies

In the year 376 the Hunns a fierce & bruitish nation came from beyond the Lake Mœotis & the river Tanais & under the conduct of their king Balamber or Balamir invaded the nations which lay between them & Dacia & chiefly the Alans a Gothic nation. Hermaneric heard of their coming before his death & then died, & soon after his death they entred Dacia – – – – – – – – against the Alemans & Sueves. This rout was in the year 377.

The Goths being seated – – – – – Gruthungi by Rhadagaisus.

In the time of these commotions the Lombards seem to have come over the Danube under the conduct of Ibor & Ayon. For Paulus Warnefridus tellas that they overcame the under these captains they overcame the Vandals in battel. And Prosper places this victory in the consulship of Ausonius & Olybrius A. C. 379. And the Vandals were at this time in Pannonia having lived there quietly 40 years from the time that Constantine the great granted them seats in that Province.

The Emperor Dioclesian in 285 divided the Roman Empire between himself & Maximian his colleague keeping the western nations under his own government & committing the government of the eastern to Maximian. And this was the thus the Roman Empire began to be divided into the three parts ( touched upon in the Apocalys, ) that by of the old Greeks Empire, anciently subject to the Greeks, that of the Latines & that of the Dacians wchwhich in a short time became great & potent.

Constantine the great built – – – Empire beamebecame divided.

Dacia was a large country bounded – – – – Christian religion among them was much promoted. [ The chief inhabitants were the Goths called Ostrogoths & Visigoths & other Gothic nations called Gepides, Valndals, & Gepides; & Lompbards &c ] . And They were composed of several Gothic nations which came originally from the southern parts of Scanozia or Scandinavia a great Peninsula in the Baltick sea conteining Norway & most of Sweden, & reputed an Island by the ancients & wandered into Dacia before their towns were built & the grounds were appropriated Whence it came to pass that they all spake the same language & agreed in their manners Paulus Diaconus in his Historia Miscella lib. XIV, speaking of the reign of Theodosius magnus & his sons, tells us: Eodem tempore – – – – writes to the Gepidæ qui dicuntur Langobardi. Iornandes tells us that – – – – – invaded Gallia.

The Goths for want of their pay revolted from the Romans under their King Ostrogotha in the second year of the Emperor Philip, & being assisted by their Thaphili, Astringi ( or Vandals ) & Carpi ( other Gothick nations, ) made war upon the Romans . , & And the Gepides ( ano ( who were seated upon the Vistula ) under their king Fastida, reouted the Burgundians with a great slaughter & conquered some other nations & then invaded the said Goths & were routed by them. Cniva succeeded Ostrogotha in the reign of Decius & routed the Roman army & slew Decius, & thereby encouraged this revolt so that theose Gothic nations Dacia could never after be reduced to their obedience to the Romans. the next year ✝✝ with the Carpi Borani Orugundi &c Heruli & Peuci &c invade Greecoe Macedon Pontus Asia & Illyricum & keep Illyricum & Macedonia almost 15 years & then arbeing beaten by Claudius return over the Danube to their own seats. ⊕ ⊕ And Aure the ⊕ And then, invading the Empire ( as Trebellius Pollio tells us ) with an army of 320000 men & Scythians composed of the Peuceni, Grutungi, Austrogoths, Vitringi, Gepides, Heruli &c and wbereing beaten in Mœsia by the Emperor Cluadius , returned to their seats. And the Emperor Aurelian about the year 32712 ( as Vopuiscus tells us ) : cum vastatum Illyricum & Mœsiam deperditam videret, provinciam trans Danubium Daciam a Trajano constitutam sublato exercitutam & provincialibus reliquit, desperans eam posse retineri: abductos ex ea populos in Mœsiam collocavit appellavit suam Daciam. And Dioclesian in the year 285 divided the government of the Empire between himself & Maximianus, retaining the government of yethe eastern nations to himself & leaving that of the western to Maximianus. And by thisese act events the west Empire began to be divided into the three parts touched upon in the Apocalyps, the eastern Empire, the western, & that of the Goths.

For the Goths soon b grew into a great Empire, & at its fall became divided into the several nations which under their kings their kings invaded the EWestern Empire & brake it into the ten kingdoms represented by the horns of the Beast. In the reign of Constantine the great. Vopiscus tells us that in the reign of the Emperor Probus, some Gepides, Grutunni & Vandals were received into the Empire but soon brake their faith & invaded the Provinces Roman Provinces , but were beaten in various battels by Probus & opprest, very few returning home. In the reign of Constantine the great Geberic king of the Goths, conquered the Vandals who were then seated in Dacia upon the river Teys where the rivers Maresh & Kerish run westward into it, & made them fly over the Danube into Pannonia where Constantine the great granted them seats. And Hermaneric the successor of Geberic in the kingdom of Dacia

In the reign of Constantine the Great their King Geberic conquered the Vandals, a nation then seated on the Eastern side of the river Teys upon where the rivers Maresh & Keresh run westward into it, & made them fly over the Danube into Pannonia where Constantine granted them seats. And Hermaneric the successor of Geriberic, conquered the Heruli, a people placed by Iornandes upon the Palus Mœotis. He conquered also the Veneti, Antes, & Sclavi & many other warlike nations of Scythia & Germany, as Iornandes informs us & particularly the nations wchwhich Iornandes calls the Thuidi, Visinambrocæ, Mœreus, Mordensimnis, Caris, Rocæ, Tadzans, Athual, Navigo, Bubegentæ & Coldæ, & the Æstri or Estÿ a people seated upon a long tract of the German ocean or Baltic sea in Livonia & the Ronolani on the western side of the Palus Mœotis. . Thus the kingdom of yethe Goths by successive conquests grew into a large & potent Empire composed of many northern nations & in the reign of Hermaneric to have comprehended Mallachia, Moldavia, Transilvania Volhima, Red Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Lifland, Coerland, Prussia the upper Hungary, the Vkrain Russian Vkrain & other western nations Scythian nations between & beyond the Vistula or Weysel & the Boristhenes or Neiper & as far Northwards as Revel & Narva & the sinus Finicus, besides some Russian & German nations suppose in Novogorod & the Russian u Vkrain & in the upper Hungary & eastward to the side of the Lake Euxine Sea & Lake Mœotis . And from these conquests, saith Iornandes, some have compared this king to Alexander the great He reigned till the A. C. 376, being then very aged. . In his days the Lombards came out of Scandinavia under the conduct of Ibor & Ayon. Paulus Warnefridus tells us that they were first called Winuli & then ( from their long beards ) Longobardi.

Among the conquered nations I reccon the Burgiones – – – a Gothic nation.

Hermaneric reigned long & died about the 13th year of Valentinan & Valens A. C. 376, being as some say above an hundred years old. He left his kingdom divided amongst many successors Hunnimund, – – – – – – – kept their governments after his death.

The Goths & other Scythian nations beyond the Danube – – – them to death

forms & modes of Expression & wthwith some variety of circumstances to make the whole prophesy of that page more complete. For they are delivered by allusions to several parts of one & the serame service &soc. that is tothe trumpeting singing & drink offerings wchwhich accompanied one another at the sacrifices of the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles. ] For upon pouring out the drink offerings of the sacrifices the Priests sounded their Trumpets & the Levites sang & plaid upon musical instruments till the service was ended Ecclesiastic. c 50.

And that the prophesies of the Trumpets & Vials of Wrath are one & yethe same prophesy variously exprest & wthwith some variety of circumstances to make yethe whole more complete may further appear by the following comparison.

And I saw the seven Angels wchwhich stood before yethe throne of God & to them were given seven trumpetsAnd I saw the seven Angels having the seven last plagues / tAnd there were voices & thundrings. And the Victors sing yethe song of Moses & yethe LambAnd yethe seven Angels wchwhich had yethe seven Trumpets prepared themselves to sound. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven Angels, Go & pour out the Vials of yethe wrath of God upon the earthAnd the first Angel sounded & there followed hail & fire mingled wthwith blood & they were cast upon yethe earth & yethe third part of yethe earth was burnt up. And the first went & poured out his Vial on upon the earth & there fell a grievous & noisome sore on the men wchwhich had yethe mark of yethe Beast. And the second Angel sounded – & the third part of the sea became blood & third part of yethe creatures wchwhich were in yethe sea & had life died. And yethe 2d Angel poured out his Vial upon the sea & it became as yethe blood of a dead man, & every living soul died in yethe sea. And the third Angel sounded & a great star fell upon the rivers third part of the rivers & upon the fountains of waters – & many men died of yethe waters because they were made bitter. And the 3d Angel poured out his vial upon the rivers & fountains of waters & they became bloodAnd the fourth Angel sounded & yethe 3dthird part of yethe Sun was smittenAnd the fourth Angel poured out his Vial upon yethe SunAnd the fift Angel sounded – & the sun & the air were darkened wthwith smoke – & there came out of the smoke locusts which were to hurt the only those men which have not yethe seal of God in their foreheadsAnd the fift Angel poured out his Vial upon yethe seat of the bBeast & his kingdom was full of darkness & they gnawed their tongues for pain. And the sixt Angel sounded – & the four Angels were loosed wchwhich were bound in yethe great river EuphratesAnd yethe sixt Angel poured out his Vial on upon the great river Euphrates & the water thereof was dried up that that the way of yethe Kings of yethe East might be prepared. In yethe voice of yethe 7th Angel yethe mystery of God shal be finished. And the seventh Angel sounded – & there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of orour Lord & of his Christ & he shall reign for ever & ever. – And the nations were angry & thy wrath is come & the time of the dead ytthat they should be judgedThe kingdsoms of yethe earth & of yethe whole world were gathered to yethe battel of yethe great day of God Almighty Behold I come as a thief – And the 7th Angel poured out his Vial into yethe air, & there came a great voice out of yethe temple saying It is done – And great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give unto her the cup of yethe wine of the firerceness of his wrath – & men bpblasphemed God , because of the plage of hail.

because signify that they are the plagues of the last seal & the plagues last mentioned wherewith the two Witnesses saith yethe earth as often as they will & the plagues of yethe seven thunders wchwhich were in the Visions were described after the seventh plagues of the first six seals Trumpets . There they were sealed up & not written here they are written because they were left unwritten before.

And conceive that they appeared in this posture standing on yethe sea of glass in this manrmanner at yethe end of the half hours silence werein the 144000 were sealed out of the 12 tribes of Israel & the rest received the mark of the Beast, & that they are the 144000

For The victory here spoken of being over the mark of the Beast & over the number of his name must be sa spiritual victory, such a victory as in all the Epistles to yethe seven churches is called overcoming In the hour of the temptation wchwhich was to come And At the opening of the seventh seal when yethe servants of God are sealed wthwith yethe seal of God & yethe rest are not tThose are overcome by the yethe templ by the beast & his image & his mark & the number of his name who receive fall away to worship the beast & his Image & to receive his mark & yethe number of his name & those get the victory over them & are who do not fall away get the victory over them Beast & his Image & mark & number of his name who do not f do resist the temptation & are sealed with yethe name of God in their forehead And T Beast & over his Image who & over his mark & the number of his name who resist the tem are overcome are do not go along wthwith the multitude to worship the Beast & his image & receive his mark & the number of his name, but resist the temptation & continue to not overcome in that manner but get by them but worship God & Christ & have their name in their fore are sealed with the numir name seale of God in their foreheads.

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God & the song of yethe Lamb saying Great & marvellous – – – – manifest. The song of the Lamb is the song wchwhich the Lam Lamb & the 144000 sang wthwith yethe Lamb on mount Sion before the throne & before yethe four Beasts & the Elders where these Victors now stand. This was a song of victory & therefore yethe victory was a spiritual one such as was gained by the Lamb & the 144000 who sung a new song on Mount Sion & in all the epistles to yethe seven Churches is called overcoming . Both victors gained a victory over the Beast & over his Image & over his Mark & name & for this victory sang the same song in the same place, & therefore are the same victors.

This song is also called the song of Moses. For in the Prophesy of the Woman & Dragon the story of Moses is thus alluded unto. The Dragon alludes to Egypt & the woman called the crowned – – – – is spiritually called Egypt Apoc. 11. And upon account of the same allusions the song wchwhich the 144000 sang wthwith yethe Lamb on Mount Sion & now sing upon the sea of glass is is called the Song of Moses. as well as yethe As it is the song of Moses it was sundg before the Te upon at yethe banks of at the red Sea before the tabernacle was erected. And therefore the Temple is not mention Iohn describes the seven Angels appearing & the victors singing this song before he mentions the Temple or Tabernacle , & so soon as he had described the song he adds A

And after that I looked , & , behold , the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony was opened & the seven Angels came out of the temple having the seven plageues, cloathed in pure & white linnen & having their breasts girded with golden girdles , that is, being in the habit of Priests. [ In respect of the song of Moses its called the Temple of the Tabernacle. Since it had the Testimony in it it coudcould not be the second Temple. It And since the Angels came out of it & yet were seen before it was open, they were seen before it appeared ] And one of the four Beasts gave – – – – were fulfilled. T By this filling of the temple of yethe Tabernacle of the testimony wthwith smoke the dedications of the Tabernacle & first Temple isare alluded unto. For the second Temple is alluded unto had not testimony in it. After Moses had led Israel into the wildernes & sung a song of triumph over the Egyptians at the red sea represented here by yethe sea of glass he set up the Tabernacle & dedicated it. And From yethe time that the Tabernacle was set up it was covered wthwith a cloud during all the stay of the woman in the wilderness. except in their journeys And at tThe dedication of Solomon's Temple was kept upon the Feast of the seventh month &cwchwhich began upon yethe 15th day of yethe month & when the Priests had brought in the Ark & were came out of the Temple holy place & the Levites arrayed in white lintten having cymbals & psalteries & Harps, stood at the east end of the Altar & with them an hundred & twenty priests sounding with trumpets & the trumpers & singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising & thanking the Lord & when they lift up their voice with the trumpets & cymbals & instrumtsinstruments & praised the Lord saying For he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever, that then the house was filled with a cloud even the house of the Lord so that the Priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God 2 Chron. 5. This feast of yethe dedication continued seven days that is all the days of the Feast of Tabernacles & was kept wthwith exceeding great sacrifices besides the sacrifices of the feast . For Solomon sacrificed 22000 Oxen & 120000 sheep & continued seven days that is all the days of the feast of Tabernacles & Conceive that the drink offerings of these sacrifices are alluded unto in the seven vials of warath & that yethe noise of Trumpets & singing with musicall instruments at these sacrifices of those 7 days are alluded unto in the seven Trumpets & seven thunders . [ & You may conceive also that the victors stand upon the sea of glass & sing with & play wthwith at all these sacrifices, they being the cloud encompassing the Angel who stood upon the sea & earth wthwith a little book in his hand & the seven thunders being the voice of that cloud & by consequence of the Victors. For all these things the prophesies of the Angels wthwith the seven trumpets, the seven thunders, & the Angels wthwith yethe 7 Vials of wrath, are all of them the prophesy of the second page of the 7th leaf of the sealed book. They the are one & the same prophesy of thatl page of yethe 7th leaf of the booke delivered in seven ra

After After Dacia, a very large country on the northern side of the Danube inhabited by the Goths had was being was conquered by Trajan & became a province of the Roman Empire the Christian religion was as freely propagated into that country as ouinto the rest of the Roman Provinces. In the reign of Decius the Goths & other &c e revolting & made war upon the Empire ( being assisted by other barbarous northern nations ) slew & destroyed surrounded Decius & in t slew Decius wthwith yethe greatest part of his army & made the Empire tributary, & soon after in the reign of the next Emperor Gallus invaded Thrace Mœsia Thessaly Macedonia & some parts of Asia, & repeated these invasions several times in the reigns of Valerian & his son Gallienus carrying away many Christian captives from Greece & Asia into their own country by whom & the Christians who fled from the several persecutions of Decius Gallus Valerian & Aurelian & Dioclesian , & the Christian religion of Asia & Greece was much propagated in those countries from the from Asia & Greece into those countries. And the Churches of all Dacia were at this time subject to one bishop common bishop , who was wchwhich bishops . At length Da Then Dacia became divided into two kingdoms or nations called the Ostrogoths & Visigoths, or Eastern Goths & western Goths. And soon after was & sent their bishops to the Council of Nice. Afterward His name was Theophilus a name derived from yethe Greeks. Afterwards Dacia bingbeing inva in the reign of Athanaric king of all the Goths being invaded invaded by a great army of Hunns from the regions of the river Tanais. The Hunns conquered the Ostrogoths & made the Visigoths they conquered the eastern parts of the Goths thenceforward called Ostrogoths & meade the rest of the Goths who lived westward & were thence called Veisigoths chuse new captains & fly over the Danube into Pannonia where they made war upon the Romans, & routed the Emperor Valens & slew hism but were checkt by his successor Theodosius & had seats granted them in Pannonia, & sent their Bishop & Vlfilas in the Council of invented their letters & translated the scriptures into their Gothic t language. For the Visigoths had now a bishop of their own, & therefore upon the division of th into two nations each nation had its own bishop [ & their kings were converted to yethe Christian religion, but the kings of the ostrogoths were not yet converted till some years after. ] & therefore the Ostrogoths had the like also Christians had also their bishop, but wthwith this difference theat the kings of the Visigoths were now converted to the Christian religion but those the Ostrogoths not yet. For Athanaricus king of the Ostrogoths persecuted the Christians.

After the death of Theodosius the Visigoths under Alaric their king invaded wthwith many other barbarous nations invaded first the Roman Greek Empire & then the Latin & sackt Rome & then retired over the Alps into Gallia, & extended there seated themselves & in Spain , & . And the Church of this nation under its dbishop being descended from the Ch Churches of Asia & constantly seated within the bounds of the old Roman ande Empire including Dacia, may justly be represented by one of the two Chandlestick in this prophesy in this prophesya by a Candlestick &And so may so may the Church of the Ostrogoths under their Bishop, they being also descended from the Churches of Asia & Greece & constantly seatedsealedseatedsealed the within the bounds of the old Roman Empire & at length conquering & reigning over the Italy & Rome the seat of the western Empire for many years together.

These two Candlesticks or Churches were witnesses of the religion wchwhich they received from Asi the Churches of Asia & Greekce They were very remarkable witnesses against the Church of Rome because they bot both of them conquered Italy & reigned over that City the Metropolis of the Empire. In wars of the four first Trumpets fire proceeded out of their mouth & devoured their enemies & they had power to turn the waters into blood & to smite the earth wthwith all plagues as often as they would: wchwhich is the proper character of the two witnesses. And they had power to

They affirmed the son to father to be greater then the Son & for that reason were falsly called Arians by the uncharitableness of spirit of the Roman Catholicks Church. . For they did not call the say that the son was ex non extantibus nor Did that there was a time when he was not nor allowed that he should be called a creature nor can I find that they medled with those metaphysical bdisputeds , or the judged those that did. Theodorit tells us Quamobredm Gothi hactenus Patrem quidem filio majorem esse dicunt; Filium tamen creaturam esse dicunt dicere non sustinent, licet cum iis cummunicent qui ita dicunt. Theod. l 4 c 37. And this was the religion of they derived from the seven Churches of Asia. These two Churches were very remarkable witnesses against – – – – – – – – – character of the two witnesses. In the end of the wars of those four Trumpets when the kingdom of the Ostrogoths fell & the kings of the Visigoths embraced the Roman Catholick religion, thersse witnesses put on sackcloth. But they began to prophesy before. For in the days of th they had power to shut heaven that it should not rain in the days of their prophesy, & therefore they began to prophesy when the rain ceased & the woman fled into the spiritually dry & baren wilderness, & left a remnant of her seed ( the remnant of the seven Churches ) to be persecuted in the eastern Empire by the Dragon. They were the Candlesticks of the second Temple & therefore prophesied from the time of measuring or building that Temple As the seven Churches of Asia were not all the Churches of Asia but were chosen to represent them all, so the two Can Churches were of yethe Goths were not might not be all the Churches of God in yethe western Empire but for their eminence were might be chosen to represent them all. And as the seven Candlesticks or Churches after the flight of the wo signifies the remnant of the womans wchwhich the D seed in yethe eastern Empire wchwhich the Dragon went to make war upon the in yethe eastern Empire after the woman was fled into yethe wilderness ] of Asia after the flight of yethe woman into the wilderness signifies the remnant of her seed wchwhich she lefter in the eastern Empire & the & wchwhich were in the war wchwhich when she fled & wchwhich the Dragon went to make war upon when he turned from pursuing her, & the remnant of that remnatremnant wchwhich in theat war received not the wchwhich the Dragon went to make upon them received not the mark of the Beast after the Dragon had made war upon them & killed & the image of the Beast & all were killed so the two Witnesses after they put on sackcloth signify all the true Chris the remnant of all the true Christians in the western Empire in a state of affliction mourning & oppression. And in this disconsolate condition the people of God continue in both Empires till the resurrection fall of great Babylon the great, & the preaching of the Gospel to all nations, & the second coming of Christ.