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A47594	The general London epistle of Quirinus Kuhlman a Christian, to the Wiclef-Waldenses, Hussites, Zuinglians, Lutherans, and Calvinists being an explication of a vision and prophecy of John Kregel : wherein the reformation from popery is fundamentally asserted, and the union of Protestants convincingly urged : together with a postscript relating to the present popish plot : translated from the Latine copy printed at Rotterdam in May 1679.; Epistolarum Londinensium Catholica. English	Kuhlmann, Quirin, 1651-1689.	1679 (1679)	Wing K754; ESTC R17471	39,278	80

THE GENERAL London Epistle OF QUIRINUS KUHLMAN A CHRISTIAN To the Wiclef-Waldenses Hussites Zuinglians Lutherans and Calvinists Being an Explication of a Vision and Prophecy OF John Kregel Wherein the Reformation from Popery is fundamentally asserted and the Vnion of Protestants convincingly urged Together with a Postscript relating to the present Popish Plot. Translated from the Latine Copy printed at Rotterdam in May 1679. LONDON Printed for the Author 1679. THE PROPHECY OF John Kregel The 12th of January 1626. Concerning the present Application of the VIALS to the STATE of the Reformed Churches ● ANd as the Voice spake unto me at the same instant a very plain Church was built which had six Steeples all of one form And out of the Church issued forth a pleasant and clear transparent River out of which Gods faithful ones did drink but some troubled the Waters before they drank Write down what I speak unto thee and nothing else thus saith the Lord This Church is the Vine in which the Lords faithful ones do labour whose foundation was laid in the last days concerning which the Lord saith and the Gospel of the Kingdom of Christ shall be preached through the whole World for a testimony unto them and then shall the end come This Church is built and re-built in the last days of the World 3. The first Steeple began to be built by the People towards the West in the Kingdom of England and its Builder was John WICLEF a good Man and fearing God 4. The second was built in a Countrey towards the East Bohemia and the Builders of it were two men fearing God JOHN HVS and JEROME of PRAGVE who shed their Blood neither loved they their Lives unto Death and their Followers enlarged and carried on this Building until three days were fulfilled 5. The third Steeple was built by a People towards the West and its Builder was VLRIC ZVINGLIVS He enlarged the Vineyard and the fourth day began when the number of years from the Birth of Christ was 1505. 6. The fourth was built by a People of the North and its Builder was MARTIN LVTHER an experienced Man fearing God and very Eloquent He built the Church to the great wonder of many and spread the same through Germany 7. The Fifth Steeple again was built by a People towards the West and its Builder was CALVIN He built the Church in France and the Neatherlands in dangerous places for as in dangerous places Men are obliged to build with great care so was this Church built and the Building advanced against the will of all the wicked 8. The sixth Steeple shall be built by a People towards the East and its Builders will be all Preachers and Teachers fearing God these shall begin to build this Church a-new and re-build the same from Sea to Sea Now as all Builders must be proved so shall also these Teachers and Leaders be proved by the Cross and Suffering And this Church is a-building and shall be wholly finished the sixth and last day For as God built Heaven and Earth in six days so likewise the Church of God shall be built in six days and shall have rest the seventh day KVHLMAN His fulfilling and Explication of the Fifth Section of the fore-going Prophecy Written by him at Smirna in Natolia in October 1678. THe Fourth day is one of those mentioned Rev. 11. v. 11. in which the two Witnesses and Prophets viz. The Orthodox Teachers of the Old and New Scripture suffered Martyrdom and they are the same with 42 Lunar Months which makes 1176 years thus One day is 336 Years Two days 672 Years Half a day 168 Years As the Angelical Revelation of Kotterus doth expresly declare chap. 10 v. 34. Twelve months are one time Four and twenty are two times and Six are half a time which according to the course of the Moon make Three years and near an half more and so are they three days and an half But according to longer time 28 years being reckoned for one month this one time two times and half a time are thus to be numbered One time is 336 years two times 672 and half a time 168 which being added together make 1176. In this time the Treader-down will have Power and afterwards he shall be converted Which things being thus laid for a Foundation it most clearly appears that the two Witnesses were raised to Life again in the year 1674 and that the 11th and 12th verses of the 11th of the Revelations are now fulfilling And it was by impulse of the Holy Spirit as was before prophesied that my Book printed the same year at Amsterdam and Leyden had the Title of Neu-begeistert New-spirited because in the said Writing all the Teachers of Scripture began to appear with a new Spirit and Life Moreover after that time the first Foundation was laid in the East for the conversion and overthrow of the Down-treaders The first day therefore began in the year of Christ 498 the second 834 the third day 1170 the fourth day 1505 the half of which must needs be elapsed in the year 1674. A GENERAL EPISTLE TO THE Wiclef-Waldenses Hussites Zuinglians Lutherans and Calvinists 1. TO the Pastors Sheep and Lambs of the Churches of the Five First Angels of the Seven which have the Seven last Plagues Quirinus Kuhlman called a Christian not by Man but by Christ and their Brother and of all those who glorifie God and his only begotten Son Jesus Christ in whatsoever Ceremony or Language heartily wisheth the first Love and unanimous Concord to flee with the greatest haste out of Babylon 2. Most Beloved the present applying of the Revelation wherein I joyn you Wiclef-Waldenses Hussites Zuinglians Lutherans and Calvinists together will seem strange and wonderful unto you yet more wonderful my wishing you to flee out of Babylon whereby I declare you have not yet fully rejected all that is of Babylon but most of all wonderful will appear to you the title of Brethren which I give to you and all that fear God without any modern respect 3. My applying of the Revelation will justly seem wonderful to you when ye shall see that one God called you all though at divers times to one work and withal consider your horrid Wranglings Bitterness and Condemning of one another as well as your open Wars Offences and Proceedings against one another 4. My Wish to you to flee out of Babylon will most justly appear yet more wonderful to you because ye believe your selves long since to have left it in shaking off the Papal Yoak whereas here you will hear that you are yet in Babylon and that that saying Go out of her my People belongs to you 5. The title of Brethren this will seem most wonderful because ye have esteemed all those though of the same denomination with you who have only differed from your way and mode not as Brethren but as Enemies not thinking them worthy of Burial when dead and defameing them for

fall thereby occasioned my foster Mother a Widow my doubled five Years time and lastly my Age of Twenty eight Years 20. All which things I intend if God permit to publish in their due place and time to the Glory of God the Confirmation of the Prophets the Terror of the Pope the Instruction of all and the quieting of my own Conscience in so many doubtful Cases though the Angel of Sathan who buffets me day and night for the superabundance of Revelations doth so much endeavour to suppress it that by reason of so great loads wherewith I am burthened by my self my Friends and Enemies I scarce know my self nor am able to serve my self or others 21. What I have said concerning the one Mouth of the Prophets in their fore-telling of my Call the same I affirm concerning all other Matters and I have abundantly demonstrated the Unity and Truth of the Numbers of Kotterus and Drabicius in the Treatise I wrote at Smirna intituled The Mystery of Kotterus his 21 Weeks And to adde further weight for a weighty Enquiry into these Mysteries I will here set down three Capital Concordant places which in few words contain great and weighty Matter and from which so great a Light will appear in and out of darkness as will be abundantly sufficient to establish the Authority of the Revelation of these Revelation Commentaries 22. The first place shall be that of Drabicius Rev. 395. Count the number of the 70 Weeks from the day of my Departure if thou hast Vnderstanding where an end must be made of the days of Battels and Wars which are at present for when they shall cry out Peace and Security I will come to execute Judgment the time of times and half a time drawing to an end The 70 Weeks of Daniel concerning which the Revealer had said before that he was come before they were ended do end in the 37 year after his Birth from which time of his Departure if you again count those 490 yearly Weeks they point us to the Year 527 and to the Antichristian Birth of that cursed Body of the Civil Law compiled in the Reign of Justinian the Emperor when the one time of the Apocalyptical Dragon began even in the year 527 his two times began in the year 887 and his half time 1607 whose end will be in the year 1787 when the 1260 Apocalyptical years will be ended 23. The second place is that of Kotterus Chap 1● v. 40. Where he begins to reckon the half time of the two Treaders-down from the Year 1260 as the Original sheweth the Translation being faulty here as in many other places according to which one time begins with the Year of Christ 612 Two times at the Year 948 and Half a Time at 1620 which accordingly expires with the year 1788 which Half Time being 168 Years do agree with the 21 Weeks of Kotterus which makes 147 Years and end in the year of Christ 1768 which time is aenigmatically yet most truly and clearly discovered under the Number of the Years 1620 and 1624. Whatsoever therefore the Holy Scripture hath fore-told concerning the Papal and Turkish State under the Time Times and Half a Time of 1176 Years will be fully accomplished in the Year 1688. 24. The third and last place is that of Kotterus Chap. 24. ver 50 being the most notable of all These are the times of the Woundings of the Beast Take Notice of these that follow 1329 1428 1527 1626 about these times it must be fulfilled Seven Years backward and Three Years after These numbers contain each of them 42 being thus placed one above another 13 14 15 16 29 28 27 26 42 42 42 42 The two Angels command him to reckon Seven Years backward and Three Years after and tell him that every one of these 14 Numbers contain 42 being placed as before which is the true Key to underderstand these Numbers The Seven Years numbred backwards are 1230 1131 1032 933 834 735 636 and the Three Years after 1725 1824 1923 every one of which Numbers which is wonderful contains 42 being placed as the Angel appointed thus 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 17 18 19 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 25 24 23 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 25. These three places will abundantly bear witness of the Harmony of these Numbers and of the mistakes of all those who hitherto have interpreted them and I should have been afraid of opening this last place which takes so large a compass but that I read in the Prophets themselves that it is lawful at present to unlock that Mystery of Numbers For the 1176 years of the Two Witnesses expired Five Years since and their 1260 Year-days and Solar Months which are expresly allotted to them in the Revelations will according to the same Explication end with the Year 1685 after another double Quinary is past And in this regard the First Day begins with the Year of Christ 425 the Second with 785 the Third with 1145 the Fourth with 1505. So that both according to the Solar and Lunar Months the determined time of the Two Witnesses is come and now that is fulfilled The Spirit of Life from God came upon them and they stood on their Feet and a great Fear fell upon those that saw them this present Epistle witnessing to the truth of it 26. And you 'll easily know the reason why the Numbers extend themselves as far as 1923 so you do not confound the time of the Sixth Vial with the Seventh Now the end of the Sixth Vial is the total Exclusion of the cursed Pope the Period of the Four Monarchies and the full Conversion of the Turks upon which shall immediately follow that interval of the Seventh Vial in which the Universal Conversion of all Nations shall be carried on and way made for the Thousand Years Apocalyptical Reign 27. All the Confusion which hitherto hath been amongst the Good as well as the Bad hath proceeded from the Ignorance of these Vials the material Object of the Prophets Wise-men and Scripture-learned of the Sixth Vial being the 17th Chap. of the Revelations whose chief Contents is Come hither I will shew thee the Judgment of the great Whore who sits upon many Waters but that of the Prophets Wise-men and Scripture-learned of the Seventh Vial is the 21 and 22 Chap. of the Revelations whose main scope is Come hither I will shew thee the Woman the Bride of the Lamb. This one thing is sufficient to overthrow all erroneous Opinions about Modern Prophecies and to shew the difference of the Sixth and Seventh Vials the former of which doth chiefly Prophecy concerning the Judgment which is to pass upon the Pope the later concerning the Reign of Christ and the utter overthrow of all other Kingdoms Those very words Come hither I will shew thee do fundamentally declare that there will be a calling of Prophets under the Sixth and Seventh Vials neither do they understand the Letter and Historical Context of Scripture who do not understand the Emphasis of these words Come hither I will shew thee 28. It remains yet that I should speak concerning the Angel of the Seventh Vial and of other Applications of the Modern Prophets of the secret Designs of the Papacy to destroy the English Dutch French German and all other Protestants which are hinted at by the Prophets and many other such like Matters were I not to keep my self within the limits of a Postscript And you O Pastors Sheep and Lambs of the Reformed Israel and Juda weigh in the equal Ballance of Christian Truth what hath been here propounded to you and do not kick away your Salvation least at last ye be wise too late The Grace of Jesus Christ the onely begotten Son of the Living God be with you and with us Amen This Postscript was written at Rotterdam the 26th of May 5th June in the Year 1679. FINIS ERRATA P. L.     23 8 Read Lutheran 26 27 your 28 3 days 31 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 32 17 unaccustomed 50 4 the Catechisms of Luther Embden Bohemia Poland the Palatinate Geneva and Augspurg These following Books of the Author will be translated into English with all convenient speed 1. THe Fore-runner of the wonderful Five years examined 2. Ten London Epistles of which the present Epistle is the Ninth 3. The Lilly-Rose-sprout or Behmen New-spirited 4. The Lilly-rose-bud 5. The 1st 2d 3d. and 4th Book of Songs 1st day 499 2d day 835 3d. day 1171 4th day 1505 which ends at the year 1674. See Sect. 101 102 103. See v. 59. * The number Five See Sect. 59 and 102.