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A52810	A distinct discourse and discovery of the person and period of Antichrist wherein a diligent enquiry is made concerning the time of his rise, reign, and ruine, the answer whereunto is not peremptorily imposed, but modestly proposed / published for publick good by Christopher Ness ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing N453; ESTC R3549	114,929	254

bless God for pitcheth his Expectation upon this Y. 1656. though tacitly and implicitly for in his Synchronismes he making the first Trumpet and the Popes 1260 Days to begin together and in his Comment pag. 71. he makes the beginning of the first Trumpet to be in the Y. 395. after Christ so as if the Reign of Antichrist began at that time with the first Trumpet 'T is clear enough Mr. Mede inclin'd mostly to 1655. or 1656. for the Expiration of Antichrists kingdom 295. There is another ground that made this Year of 1656. a year of great Expectation because it was the year of Noah's Flood in the old World unto which Christ compares his Coming Matth. 24.37,38 as if there would be so many years to the first beginning of the new World to come since Christ as was of the old World before the Flood till the days of Noah to wit 1656. years The Kingdom of Christ is called by the name of the World to come Heb. 2.5 because it shall bring with it new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness 1 Pet. 3.13 296. There be other learned Interpreters that fix the beginning of this 1260. Y. upon other times some upon the Y. 383. after Christ because then the Councel of Constantinople acknowledged the Primacy of the Roman Bishop wherein the Beast received much power others on 401. Y. after Christ for then Pope Innocent drew all Appeals to Rome and about that time the Mystery of Iniquity was reveal'd 297. the former Hypothesis of these two last brings down Antichrists fall to 1643. Y. after Christ and the latter of them to 1661. but because Chronologers vary in their Computations to wit when Innocent the first who began the usurpation of Authority and Jurisdiction over all Churches and first set out that notorious Falsification of the Canons of Nice as pretending that those Canons gave the Roman Bishop this Power was created Pope Some say in the Y. 404. this makes Antichrists Period in the Y. 1664. 298. But other Chronologers makes his Creating Pope in the Y. 406. as Sympson the Scotch Abbreviator of the History of the Church pitches the beginning of the Popes Usurpation in this Y. 406. who yet had no Eye at all upon that great Year of Expectation 1666. in so pitching it but because at that time according to his Calculations he found that this Nocent Innocent the first was created Pope as appears in his English History of the Church 2d Book 5. Century and pag 323. 299. Mr. Burroughs and many other holy Men hath begun their Computation of Antichrists Term at this Innocent the first partly for the reason abovesaid and partly because this Pope 1st took upon him power over Princes for he excommunicated the Eastern Emperor Arcadius who yet was out of his Jurisdiction for banishing Chrysostome which none of his Predecessors the Popes ever attempted to do a Copy of his Excommunication is extant in Baronius and in his time also the Emperor Honorius exempted his Clergy from all Secular Powers so made them a distinct Body for the Pope as their Head a lively representation of the Apocalyptick Beast CHAP. XI 300. TThere be yet two Opinions behind which are indeed Heterogeneal to all those before mentioned the first is of that our Godly Martyrologist Mr. Fox which he saith was after long Study and Prayer cast suddenly into his mind by Divine Inspiration to wit that those 42. Months must be referr'd to the Churches Persecution under the Roman Emperors Reckoning from John Baptist that was slain by Herod the Tetrarch untill Peace was given to the Church by Constantine 301. He takes those 42. Months for Weeks of Years by which Reckoning they make 249. Years to which if we add the 30. Years of Christ when he was Baptized by John it amounts to 324. Years after Christ in which Year he saith Constantine the great embraced the Christian Religion To this singular Opinion of this holy Man I shall speak to by and by and yet without deriding it as the Popish Writers do when I come to lay down my own Opinion such as it is on this Subject 302. The 2d Opinion is Dr. Beards one who hath writ a very Learned Treatise of Antichrist whose notions in this point differs from all others of the Interpreters aforesaid about this Apocalyptick Number saying that it concerns not Antichrists Reign but only the durance of the first Beast which was the Roman Empire and he gives 2. Reasons for this his Opinion First 't is said Rev. 13.5 that power was given to the Beast 42. Months or 1260. Years this he says agrees with the Event for from the first foundation of Rome to its Ruine by Theoderick the Goth passed just so many Years 1260. 303. His Second Reason why this Number holds out the length of the Civil Empire of Rome persecuting the primitive Church and not the Pontifical or Antichristian is because he saith it is not the manner of Holy Scripture to premonstrate any certain Periods of those Intestine Troubles which are rais'd up in the Church by false Christians but only by such as arise from Foreign Enemies that professedly oppose the Truth As we see saith he in the Persecution of the Antient Church under the Egyptians and Babylonians and Antiochus 304. Those Persecutions are defined in a certain Number of Years by the Prophets but not that which was executed by their own Idolatrous Kings as Jeroboam Manasseh and the rest of those Ungodly Kings of Israel so saith he those Numbers in the Apocalypse are not to be referr'd to Antichrist who was to be a Domestick Foe this is answer'd in Par. 347. but to the Bloody Cruelty of those Heathen Tyrants the Roman Emperors who saith he are the Gentiles that treads under foot the Holy City 4.2 Months Revel 11.2 yea he further affirms that this 42. Months in Revel 11.2 and that in Revel 13.5 are all one in effect and cannot be well understood but of the Heathen Emperors 305. To this Opinion also I shall say something as well as to the other of Mr. Foxes when I give my own conceptions of the point and that in the first place though they be last named because they hold so little consonancy with my own Opinion and as I Judge with the Truth and herein my method shall be first to declare Negatively what is not the mind of the Holy Ghost among those various Interpretations and then Positively what according to the best Scripture-light God gives me is the true sence 306. I come now to cast in my own mite such as it is not without trembling and astonishment and that on a 3 fold Consideration 1. The abstruse difficulty and mysteriousness of this Subject which may well be Reckon'd among Peters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 3.16 things hard to be understood t is such a profound mystery as Angels can but peep into it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 1.12 and such an one