When the Woman fled into the Wilderness she fled from the Temple on mount Sion through the Wilderness of Arabia to the great city Babylon & by this flight changed her Metropolis. Her first Metropolis was the seven Candlesticks representing the seven Churches represented by the seven Churches cities of Asia represented by the seven Candlesticks:, her second was the great City seated on seven mountains in the wilderness called the seven heads of the Beast.. These mountains are literaly the seven hills on wchwhich Rome was seated: mystically they are seven mountains head cities highly exalted in dominion, the head cities of the seven kingdoms wchwhich remained after three of the first ten, horns of the Beast Daniel's fourth Beast fell before the little horn. Mountains are put in second prophesy for cities, & as the four heads of the Leopard signify the four kingdoms into which the Greek Empire became divided after the reign of Alexander the great became divided & wchwhich are also represented by the four horns of the He-goat; so the seven heads of the Beast in being called Mountains are the reigning cities of yethe seven contemporary kingdoms of wchwhich the Beast or or horns represented by yethe seven remaining horns of the Beast. From their first number they are called the ten horns & ten kings & from their last the seven heads & seven horns mountains. The Woman in flying from the Temple on mount Sion, fled from the seven Candlesticks in that Temple wchwhich are the seven Churches of Asia & ceased to be illuminated by their Lamps, & became the seven Churches of the Cities represented by the seven mountains & her people arriving at this new metropolis worshipped the king of Babylon & his golden Image & a new Temple is built for those of the captivity who separate from the Idolaters & come out of great Babylon to worship the over living God of Israel, the building of wchwhich Temple is thus described.

Rise & measure the Temple of God & the Altar & them that worship therein [that is their courts] but the court wchwhich is wthwithout the Temple leave out & measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles & the holy city shall they tread under foot forty & two months. And I will give power unto my two Witnesses & they shall prophesy 1260 days cloathed in sackcloth. These are the two Olive trees & the two Candlesticks standing before the God of the Earth. All wchwhich is an allusion to Ezekiel's measuring the Temple in the time of the Babylonian captivity to signify that it should be rebuilt & to Zerubbabel's building the second Temple with its three courts the court of the Temple, the court of the & Altar & the court of them that worship therein called the Weomens court & leaving unbuilt the outward Court wchwhich in Solomon's Temple had been the people's court & during all the reign of the Persians wchwhich was 200 years continued unbuilt & was given to the Gentiles, so that when the Greeks rebuilt it, it was called the Gentiles court. And it alludes also to the prophesying of Haggai & Zechary at the building of the second Temple & to the two Olive trees wchwhich in the prophesy of ZecharyZech. 4 empty themselves2rselves into the Candlestick of the Temple. Only instead of one Candlestick here are two to represent two Churches. For they are the two Witnesses & these witnesses in being called two Candlesticks & two Olive trees are two Churches. For Candlesticks are signify Churches (Apoc. 1. 20) & so do Olive trees (Rom 11. 17, 24.) And these are the Churches of the Earth & sea the Churches represented by the two leggs of the Son of Man who in the form of an Angel set his right foot upon the earth sea & his left upon yethe earth, the Churches of the nations represented by the two iron leggs of Nebuchadnezzar's image. Western Roman Empire & of the Empire of Germany as above. These Witnesses prophesy in the kingdom of the Beast because they are slain by him & lye dead in the streets of the great City wchwhich for its spiritual fornication & uncleanness is called Sodom & for its oppression & cruelty Ægypt & for its bloodshed of the saints the city great city where or in whose dominion our Lord was crucified that is Rome.

Before the division of the Roman Empire the whole was represented by the Dragon, & the Church of the whole by the twelve Tribes of Israel in the form of a Woman in the first Temple whose seven candlesticks with their lamps illuminating the whole Temple represent the seven Churches of Asia as the mother-churches from whence the light of the Gospel went forth into the Church Catholick of the primitive times during the long life of the Apostle Iohn & the lives of his disciples. But when the Empire becomes divided into the Greek & Latine Empires: that both Empires with their Churches fals & true may be distinctly represented, a Beast with ten horns rises out of the sea, another Beast with two horns rises out of the earth & a new Temple is built with two candlesticks. And henceforward the eastern Empire with its Churches false & true are represented by the Dragon, the twohorned Beast & the 144000 worshipping in the first Temple; & the Latine Empire with its Churches false & true are represented by the ten-horned Beast the Woman & the two Witnesses worshipping in the second Temple. And in each Temple the people of God worship in the inner Court & the Apostates in the Court without.

In the first Temple the 144000 worship in the inner Court standing wthwith the Lamb on mount Sion before the throne & before the Elders, as it were upon the sea of glass & singing with harps at the sacrifices. And the people of the Dragon & two horned Beast worship in the outward Court of this Temple being the seduced inhabitants of the earth & sea to whom the Dragon came down when he was cast out of heaven that is out of the upper court, the court of the Temple & Altar in wchwhich the throne of God is placed. When he was cast out of that Court he came down into the outward court, the court of the people, the Christian people called the inhabitants of the earth & sea. By seducing these inhabitants he made the Woman fly into a spiritually barren Wilderness in the Latin Empire & the two horned Beast rise out of the Earth in the Greek Empire; & then by the instigation of that Beast he made war upon the remnant of the twelve Tribes of Israel in the Greek Empire called the remnant of the womans seed, untill all were either killed or had received the mark or name of the other Beast, except the 144000, who being sealed with the mark of out of the twelve tribes of Israel with the seale or name of God in their foreheads, & being interdicted buying & selling among the inhabitants3rbitants of the earth & sea, retired from them into the inner Court.

In like manner the two Churches called the Witnesses worship in the inner court of the second Temple, & the people of the ten-horned Beast & Woman worship in the outward court thereof as is plainly exprest by saying, Measure the temple & altar & them that worship therein but the court wchwhich is without the Temple leave out & measure it not for it is given to the Gentiles. When the Empire became divided & by means of that division the Woman separated from the remnant of her seed & first Temple & fled from the Dragon into the Empire of the Latines, wchwhich empire by reason of the paucity of saints or the want of an Temple inward Temple is at this time compared to a spiritually barren wilderness; the two Churches people of God fled with her being united to her in outward communion, & are not considered apart untill they separate from her. By this separation they return out of Babylon, build a second Temple & become the worshippers therein, but leave the outward court of this Temple unbuilt because it is given to the Gentiles that is to the Babylonians represented by the ten-horned Beast under the dominion of the Whore of Babylon. The first Temple is destroyed & not destroyed in several respects: in respect of the eastern empire it is continued without interruption tho not without a change in its worshippers; in respect of the western it ceases leaves the Empire a wilderness spiritually barren wilderness, & a second Temple is built in its room. All that worshipped God in the first Temple desert his worship there except the 144000, & the two Churches being carried captive from thence to Babylon, return from thence captivity, build a second Temple & become the two Candlesticks therein.

The two Temples are sufficiently distinguished from one another by the different number of their candlesticks & different characters of their worshippers: but the worship is alike in them both. For the Beast & his Image are worshipped & his mark received by all the world, the fals Prophet & Dragon setting up that worship in the outward court of the first Temple: & therefore the worship in the outward courts of both Temples is alike. And the worship in the inner courts of both Temples is also alike, the worshippers being of one & the same religion & members of one & the same mystical body of Christ. As those in the second Temple are called Witnesses & Prophets so those in the first Temple are also Witnesses & Prophets. For they have the testimony of Iesus (Apoc. 12. 17) & are mystically killed for not worshipping the Image of the Beast (ch. 13. 15) & in respect of the great harvest of martyrs (ch. 14. 15) are called the first fruits unto God (v. 4) & therefore they are martyrs or witnesses. And they sing a new song with harps & in that respect are Prophets. For singing wthwith musical instruments is prophesying (1 Chron. 25. 1, 2, 3. 2 King. 3. 15. 1 Sam. 10. 5.) And in their mouth was found no lye (Apoc. 14. 5) & therefore they are true Witnesses & true Prophets. And as these Prophesy in the inner court of the first Temple by singing with harps at the sacrifices offered in that Temple so it is to be conceived that the two Witnesses prophesy in the inner court of the second Temple by singing with harps at the sacrifices offered in this Temple. For they have power to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will, that is, with the plagues of the seven wars represented by the sacrifices at wchwhich the seven trumpets sound. They consume their enemies with fire in the first war & turn the waters unto blood in the second, & therefore prophesy all the time of those sacrifices. They are one of the two leggs of the son of Man who in the form of an Angel stands with his right foot on the sea & his left foot on the earth as was said above. They are part of his mystical body & of the cloud with which he is cloathed, & their voice is the voice of that cloud uttering the seven thunders, wchwhich thunders, as was4r as was explained above are the song of the Temple thundering voices of the Levites singing with harps & other musical instruments at the seven sacrifices while the Priests sound the Trumpets alternately three times at every sacrifice & pour out the drink-offerings called the seven vials of wrath. And in respect of the seven stars in the right hand of the son of man, the 144000 may be also comprehended in his mystical body & in the cloud wthwith wchwhich he is cloathed & be one of his leggs, & their voice of singing at the like sacrifices, may be also comprehended in the voices of the seven thunders. So then the worship in both Temples is one & the same in form, & has one & the same signification.

But tho the two Witnesses prophesy during all the seven sacrifices, yet it is not to be conceived that they prophesy all this time in sackcloth. When the idolatry of the Wilderness called by Daniel the Abomination of desolation is set up completely set up then the two Witnesses put on sackcloth. When the worshipping of Images of gold & silver & brass & wood & stone wchwhich can neither see nor hear nor walk is completely set up & established, then the Gentiles to whom the outward court is given, begin to be Gentiles properly so called. And from that time the Gentiles tread under foot the holy City 42 months; from that time the Witnesses prophesy in sackcloth 1260 days; from that time the Woman is fed & nourished by the merchants of the earth in her place of honour in the Wilderness, and fares deliciously a time times & half a time & fares deliciously 1260 days; from that time the ten kings have one mind & agree & give their kingdom to the Beast, & the Beast acts 42 months with the Woman upon his back, wchwhich dominion & dignity is her place where she is fed; from that time the little horn of Daniels fourth Beast, having rooted up three of the ten horns wchwhich hindred his rise, & brought all the rest to submission, has times & laws given into his hand untill a time times & half a time. At first the ten kings are of different religions both from the Woman & from one another, whereby the two Witnesses have liberty of conscience for a time. These kings must all agree in religion & become of one mind & submit to the Womans dominion, & she must begin to trade wthwith the kings & great men of the earth by helping one another to Empires & Kingdoms & Principalities & Cardinals caps & Bishopricks & Abbies & Titles of honour & Privileges & Lands & Rents & Taxes & Pardons & Dispensations & Indulgences & Oaths & Allegiance & Masses & Reliques of saints & Sermons for supporting this profitable religion: & by means of this trade she must begin to be fed & nourished by Peter's Patrimony & Church lands & Tyths &c and then the two Witnesses begin to prophesy in sackcloth. When the Pope was threatened by the Lombards & wanted the assistance of the Franks he deposed Childeric a sloathfull Prince & gave the kingdom of France to Pipin: and Pipin & his son Charles the great in recompence gave Peter's Patrimony & other rich presents to the Pope; & Charles compelled his subjects also to receive the Roman Liturgy & gave tyths to the Roman Clergy throughout his kingdom, & upon a commotion raised at Rome against the Pope went thither to resettle him, & when the Popes adversaries expected to have been heard, the Pope was declared above all humane judicature & in recompence made Charles Emperor of the West & Charles made the Popes new subjects in Peter's patrimony swear allegiance to him as their Lord & at his coronation took this oath to the Pope. In nomine Christi spondeo atqꝫque polliceor Ego N. Imperator coram Deo Sigon. de Regno Ital. l. 4. Arc. 801. & beato Petro ApostoApostolo, me protectorem ac defensorem fore hujus sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ in omnibus utilitatibus quatenus divino fultus fuero adjutorio prout sciero poteroqꝫque. Such was the trade & commerce by wchwhich the merchants of the earth were made rich & the Woman was nourished & the Kings of the earth lived deliciously with the great Whore.