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A27608 The good hope through grace the jubilee of the kingdom of Christ shall come upon the counterfeit jubilee of Rome, and before the end of the following year 1700, shall begin to bring under desolation that great city and its papacy : therein uniting the year 1697 with 1700 according to prophecy / humbly presented to the faith and prayers of all sincere Protestants by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1700 (1700) Wing B2150; ESTC R37108 45,862 81

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the Judgment hath been already Executed Object 1. As to the first I shall say these three Things Answ 1. That this Book hath such a Majesty of Truth in the most awfull Representations of the Divine Being of the Redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Beauty of Holiness and of the Abominableness and dreadful end of Sin That whoever hath any Fear of God arising from the light of Natural Conscience or any Gust of the Excellency of Sacred Writings cannot but acknowledge it from God Add hereunto those bright Rays that shining from it every where enlighten the Purity of Divine Worship in detestation of all Idolatry and Superstition and Illustrate the Glory of Martyrdom for keeping the Commandments of God and for holding the Testimony of Jesus In all The Glory of it is as of the Revelation of Jesus Christ given to him by God and who then will dare to set himself as a mark for that Commination If any Man take from the Words of the Prophecy of this Book God will take away his Part from all the great Promises of it and will add to him the Plagues written in it which both are most dreadful C. 22. 18 19. Answ 2. Let any one consider the Curious and Admirable Iconisms Images and Figures found in this Book and if he haue a Mind that hath Vnderstanding to apply them to the Events foretold from their first beginning shortly that is to begin from the time of giving it immediately to come to pass and reaching down to this very time he will find them so exactly to answer the prophetical and predictory Types as to justifie this Book of the Revelation to be from God by that very demonstration of Divinity God appeals to Esay 41 23. Shew us things to come that we may know ye are Gods Hence therefore we may be assur'd of the Divinity of this Prophecy even from the prescience of God in it Answ 3. The Prophecies of the Old Testament in Isa C. 47. and Jerem. 51. and in Daniel throughout are such an Exemplar of Judgment on whatever shall come under the Name of Babylon the great as Nebuchadnezzar memorializ'd it for after Ages that if we are duly perswaded of the Divine Authority of the one we have all the just Inducements of the same perswasion of this Apochaliptic Prophecy and that the Spirit who breathed the one breathed the other also who foresaw Mystical Babylon in litteral and prepar'd the Shades of the Destruction of it the Latter in the Former which highly aggrandizes the Evidence of the Divine Authority of the Revelation For none but the Divine Understanding could ever have excogitated such an Admirable Agreement Object 2. As to the second Objection That the Judgment hath been already Executed and the Prophecy fulfilled it shall be answer'd under the second Position that the City which is here denounced upon is Papal Rome from whence it will necessarily follow It is not nor can can yet have been Executed because the City Rome is yet in Being and Greatness but by this Judgment is utterly to be destroyed But in the mean time it may be envinc'd from the glorious Consequences drawn out C. 19. C. 20. C. 21. C. 22. which are so close connexed with this Judgment which have not yet come into effect that therefore not the Judgment itself for who can apprehend such Glorious Appearances as the Heavens opening Christ's coming forth Attended with the Armies of Heaven such an Universal Conquest of Enemies and such a New Jerusalem and Illustrious state of it have ever enlightned a World continuing yet so dark He that can perswade himself to believe that may believe any thing most unreasonable I come therefore to the second Position Posit 2. There are Infallible Characters fixed by this Prophecy by which we may be most assur'd It is the present Papal Rome to be Judg'd For the making out this Position Two things are to be prov'd 1. That Rome it self is the City intended 2. That though Rome Pagan be intended yet Rome Papal is the Babylon on which the Judgment is to be Executed so fully here describ'd That it is Rome There are two undeniable even Litteral Affirmations that even the Popish Expositors who have so great Reason to ward off the Blow from Rome yet they have not the face to deny the City must needs be Rome and therefore some of them fix on Pagan Rome But Rome take it Pagan take it Papal Rome it self is the City to be thus Judg'd as the Divine Spirit hath made known to us by saying the Seven H●ads are Seven Mountains on which the Woman sitteth Now the Seven Headed City was as plain a Character of Rome when the Apocalyptick Apostle writ as if we described London by the City whose Shore the Thames washes or Constantinople by the Bosphorus coming up to it Again the same Divine Spirit hath told us the City is she that hath the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kingdom at this very present time over the Kings of the Earth which is as plain a Distinction of Rome as at the time of the Revelation given as if we describ'd London by the City where the Courts of the King of Judicature and the Councils of the Nation are and the chief Seat of Trade is or Constantinople by the Ottoman Port Who that knows the History of the World at that time knows not That Rome was the Seate of the Empire of the World at that very Time This being so plain though other Proofs may be given I pass off from it and come to the second part of the Position That though Pagan Rome is to be taken in yet Papal Rome is the City to be Judg'd especially Ultimately Finally That this may be made out I must lay in the Foundation That as the City Rome is Evidently shewn to be the Babylon to be Judg'd So the Supremacy meant here by the Beast must be a Supremacy closely Related to the City Rome and Bearing up that City in Glory and Grandeur as Pope of Rome in the place of Emperor of Rome or any other of the Supreme Magistracys of it For the City and the Beast that Carryes it are Inseparable If it be therefore made out that the Supremacy is Papal on which the City is Born up when it is Judged It will most certainly follow that the City to be Judg'd is Rome Papal Even as if it be prov'd that the Rome to be Judg'd is Rome Papal It is therein prov'd that the Supremacy Judg'd is Papal Supremacy For as is said They are Inseparable and Proportion'd one to another I will therefore draw out several Characters of Papal Supremacy and of Papal Rome that are most Plain Matters of Fact upon both in Relation to and Compare one with another and that are given in Prophecy upon each as the most plain and easy to be understood waving what is more Critical and Curious and yet most Argumentative and most Conclusive as laid one to