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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76489	A demonstrative Scripture-proof from Mahometan times the kingdom of Christ must needs be in its succession, 1697. By T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.; Beverley, Thomas. aut	1692 (1692)	Wing B2135A; ESTC R205342	20,309	22

A Demonstrative Scripture-Proof FROM Mahometan Times THE Kingdom of Christ Must needs be in its Succession 1697. By T. BEVERLEY REVEL XI 14 15. The Second Woe is past Behold the Third Woe cometh Quickly And the Seventh Angel sounded and I heard Loud Voices in Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ London Printed in the Year 1692. A Demonstrative Proof from the Space of Time run out since the Hegire Era or Great Date of Time to the Mahometans like the Year of our Lord to Christians when the False Prophet Mahomet appear'd Arm'd viz at 622. That the Kingdom of Christ must at the farthest be in its Succession 1697. the 1260. Days of Years of the Roman Empire in the Papal Tyranny then Ending and the Mahometan Imposture and Barbarous Potentacy shall then also pass away according to the Line of Time given SEeing It will easily be allowed the Parahles of Scripture are as truly the Word of God whether expounded or not if rightly understood as the most plain Doctrinal Scripture It must also be allowed That we ought to search for that True Meaning and Sense of them seeing it is a Rule concerning All Scripture it ought to be search'd and because Parables require more laborious search that they may be understood Christ giving his Doctrine in Parables so often us'd that Parabolical Admonition He that hath Ears to hear let him hear And when Christ said to his Disciples not understanding the Parable of the Sower though he had not then ex●ounded it Vnderstand ye not this Parable How then will ye understand all Parables Mark 4. He implied thereby There would be given in his Word many and very dark Parables and yet that All Scripture Parables ought to be understood by Christians though not expounded viz. by Search and Compare with other Scriptures and so they may be understood else it could not be our Duty to understand them Now All Prophetical Hierogliphick Emblems and Figures particularly those of the Revelation are Prophetical Parables and so ought to be search'd and understood and may be as other Parables Christ therefore Seven Times together uses that very Parabolical Admonition he us'd in the Gospels He that hath an Ear let him hear c. 2. c. 3. And yet in a more dark Parable and less practical than those Epistles to the Churches viz. that of the Beast c. 13. 10. he again says If any Man hath an Ear let him hear And because the Parables of the Revelation are of so deep Enquiry and require much Thought Christ invit●s so painful Re-searches with the Promise of Blessedness not only to h●s Min●sterial Servants to Read and Expound but to his People who are to be Instructed to Hear by that Inscription as in Letters of Gold on the Portal Blessed is he that Readeth c. c. 1. 3. All wh●ch assure us That its Parables are given to be understood and that we may and it is our Duty so to search as to understand to be assured we have the True Word of God and the Sense of it even as in other Scriptures and that our Blessedness is to be found therein Else the giving that Book of Scriptures and the Promise before it were vain and unreasonable Having thus far Prefac'd to the Arguing from the Space the Mahometans False Prophetism and Tyranny have been in the World that the Kingdom of Christ must at the farthest be in its Succession at 97 I propose Two Heads of Argument The First sha●l be taken from General Scripture-Principles which none can deny The Second shall be taken from the ver● Letter or most unavoidably necessary Sense of what we find in that Book of the Revelation relating hereunto which also None sh●ll be Able to Deny when the Reason for so giving the Sense is duly consider'd and that All Chronology and History undoubtedly Agree I begin therefore with such Principles as will strongly Argue from the Consideration of Mahometanism according to General Rules of Scripture Princip I That the Mahometan Falshood and Tyranny hath been a Judgment upon the Christian World No Christian of what Pe●swasion soever can or will I think deny That it hath arisen for this 1069 Years viz. f●om 622 to th●s 1691. can no more be denied than the other I Argue therefore seeing there hath heen so Great and setled a Judgment upon so Universal a Profession as the Christian is a Sin of proportionable Settlement and Duration ought to be search'd out and match'd with it ac●ording to the whole Tenor of Scripture as the Jews Killing the Lord of Life and Calling his Blood on Them and on their Children and their so Obstinate Vnbelief in him is own'd by all Christians to be the Just Cause of the Wrath that hath come upon them to the End Now what sin of the Christian World can be thought to be that Sin but the Apostacy in the Christian Church the Apostle so long ago foretold 2 Thes 2. and which All Protestants acknowledge hath been in it ever since the Rising of Mahometanism and from Time before it very near 200 years in its Beginnings Princip 2 Such a Relation betwixt a Judgment and a Sin is especially most Argumentative when the Sin in its Appearance is Engraven on the Judgment Now whoever considers the Pope having taken upon him to be Vniversal Bishop and Pastor Vicar of Christ Head of the Church and so Vniver●al Prophet and to have the Power of the Keys and so of the Sword in Ordine ad Spiritualia and by his Infallibility to give Universal Law to the World and so many Christian Princes Enchanted to support him in All and then compares Mahomet taking upon himself to be the Greatest True Prophet of the World yet with some Allowance to Moses and to Christ to give the Alcoran as an Universal Law and to be appointed by God to Proselyte the World by the Power of the Sword and to have thereby prevail'd on so great a part of the World and withal to be a Detester of all Image-Worship in opposition to Popish Idolatry How must it needs be own'd God hath Anger'd the Christian or rather Antichristian State by a Foolish Religion as he speaks Deut. 32. and set Mahometanism as a Counter-Antichristianism to Antichrist in a way of Horrible and Dreadful Judgment upon that Antichrist and as a Paraselene or Mock Moon to the Beasts Moons Princip 3 When a Judgment hath Counter-ballanc'd a Sin for several Ages Apparently together and They born the Characters of a Mutual Relation It is not according to Scripture-Reason supposeable the Judgment should remove before the Sin be removed either by Reformation or by Final Judgment upon it when it is not reform'd nor the Iniquity purg'd till they die Princip 4 The First Beginnings of a Sin are according to Scripture chastis'd though often with very severe Judgments yet of a less severe kind and such as are as it were Fore-runners of greater