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A27613	The kingdom of Jesus Christ entering its succession at 1697, according to a calendar of time drawn by the four monarchies, and by the time, times, half time allowed to the papacy, and the ten kingdoms, as the last state of the Roman, or fourth monarchy then ending : given in Daniel, and expounded by the Revelation in content with all history, and carrying on the scripture line of time / by T. Beverley ...	Beverley, Thomas.	1689 (1689)	Wing B2159; ESTC R38705	71,536	88

Resurrection and Ascension of Christ Messiah had a Right to a Glorious Kingdom But in Resignation to the Divine Will that had so determin'd He seal'd or stay'd Prophesie from coming into the Effect of his Kingdom which Kingdom might well be called Vision or Prophesie because It is the Restitution of All Things and the Mystery of God spoken of by all the Prophets and so Christ bids Daniel seal Dan. 12 4. the Book and accordingly he Receives it from God Seal'd with seven Seals and Revel 5. Christ open'd in due order those Seales tho' it had been no Robbery to have taken the Kingdom immediately Throughout the Four first Seals there was the Intercessions of his Saints thro' his Blood for his Kingdom and the word of his Testimony Revel 6. vehemently urg'd Come and see and all along there ran a Course of Martyrdoms which was compleated at the Fifth Seal in the greatest and last Persecution under Dioclesian So at the Sixth Seal the Ancient Kingdom of Sathan the Dragon and Old Serpent Fell as from Heaven in the Desolation of Heathenism thro' the Roman Empire that is It fell in a Prophetical Symbol of what shall be fully done hereafter rather then Historical of what was then done And in the same Prophetical symbolism Revel 12. 10. in the Seventh or Sabbatical Seal The Kingdom of Christ call'd the Kingdom of our God made an appearance And these Seven seals must be within four hundred years after the Resurrection in which what Time the Christian Empire had was cut off from the wounded sixth Bestian Head or Pagan Emperour For the 2300 Even Morn allow so much Time and no more and the Monarchic Calendar requires it to be before the Roman Empire was divided into 10 Kingdoms So the Christian Empire must begin 280 years after the Resurrection where it had Right to enter as a Symbol of Christ's Kingdom as made Perfect by Sufferings and his Saints overcomming by his Blood by the word of his Testimony and by not loving their Lives unto Death And this Kingdom then lasted 120 years before the Apostasie had Eclips'd it and seeing there was so much cut off from the Pagan Empire if the Christian Empire had not held that Time Antichrist had been Reveal'd before his own Time and thus History agrees Now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Thes 2. 6 this appearance of the Kingdom of Christ in the midst of a Bestian Image of Monarchies and of the last Bestian Monarchy was Immediately interpos'd by God however against Nature Immediately hereupon even while Thirty eight years of the Christian Empire remain'd in a supremacy over Rome tho' much fallen from Glory the Apostasie that was to bring forth the Revelation of the man of sin or his succession at the end of those 38 years enter'd in the Gentiles Months and began the 1260 years It enter'd thus soon that the wounded Beast might be Heal'd and not dye and because the Christian Empire so unnatural according to Prophecy to the Bestian Monarchic Image ought to continue but a short space and because there remain'd onely 1260 years of the Numeral Calendar besides the 75 years of Preparation after them for the Kingdom of Christ and because here the Ten Kings to be united to the Beast were to Receive Power at the Cessation of the Christian Emperour as at one Hour with the Beast enter'd as Gentiles tho' not as Kings till that Cessation And here the Apostasie must needs enter because it was to enter by way of undermine and Eclipse upon the Kingdom of Christ which it could onely do while this Christian Empire remain'd a Symbol of it And here let us behold with Humble Admiration and Astonishment the Resignation of Christ to the divine will For with Readiness he Seal● up the Glory of his 144000 and so of his own Kingdom and Swears It should be so for Times Times and Half while the daily Sacrifice or pure Worship of his Gospel should be taken away But then he swears There should be no more such Time of Eclipse but all along to the 1290th year from thence and by the 1335 year from thence viz. in the first 75 years of the seventh Trumpet the Mystery of his Kingdom should be Finish'd and it should Appear And here behold again the Beauty of Providence in this Season For there was a Dilemma upon this Time If Beastian the Kingdom of Christ appearing in the Christian Empire must be revers'd whereas as in a Symbol It should never be revers'd the manly Birth was caught up to the Throne of God If not Beastian how would the Monarchic Calendar be secur'd For the Beastian Image stands till the Glory of Christs Kingdom which we are sure is not yet or how the Numeral Calendar whose 2300 Even Norn would want 1260 years Loe then the Divineness of the Reconciliation The very Ecclipse of the Sun is a Confession of the Sun. Else there could be no Moon in Brightness Ecclipsing it If no Christ no Antichrist no such Vicar Oh ominous Name Vicar of Christ what is the Greek Original for Vicar of Christ but Antichrist His High Pretensions answered by the Ten Kings Giving their Power to Him is a Confession of Christ and of his Supreme Monarchy This therefore and no other Beastiaenism could now Be or Last till the Kingdom of Christ. But on the other side Antichristianism is Beastianism The Ecclipse and Undermine are Beastian Christ therefore submits to the Ecclipse of his Kingdom for 1260 years because It was to last so long according to both these Prophetical Calendars as in the Little Horn or Antichrist and then He allows to the finishing of the Mystery 75 years after that his Kingdom might Come in its own Time as on the Evening of the Sabbatical Millenary appointed for it by the Father And then the Ecclipsing Moon vanishes by that B●ig●●ness of Christs Coming call'd therefore so often 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and becomes a w●ndring Star for which is reserv'd the blackness of Darkness for ever Let us therefore 2 〈◊〉 3. 17. every one fear to Fall from our own Fixation in the Gospel Firmament Now whoever Lays all these Things together and shall consider the Reason of them and them and when the Ten Kings entred the Roman Empire and how long ago the Christian Empire was how near on All Accounts the End of the 1260 Days must be will conclude They cannot end later then 1697 we might rather think They might have ended sooner then now even some years ago had not Event and this Numeral Calendar guided us but later then 1697. They cannot end And what we may expect till then we cannot so positively determine But as the seven T●●nde●s Vtter●nces Seal'd gaug'd to each Church the measure of its State in the Beginning of the Reformation So I observe in these Three Nations of England Scotland Ir●land the Bulk o● whose Natives were always Rebels to the Refor●●tion the very State each was in as to the Reformation then casts anew a very remarkable Glance of it self 〈◊〉 this Day There is now therefore to be expected 〈◊〉 Turn in each as it were Heliotropically toward the Philadelphian 97. according to the distance of Time to it wherein the Church Cloath'd with the Sun shall come out o●●●s Eclipse which being so near should both Animate and steer all our Counsels and accordingly the God of Heaven however differing parties may design will Inspire Them To write all the Correspondencies of Scripture and its Prophesies to these Great Ends The World would hardly contain the Books What Consideration then does This Thing deserve Or how can we neglect it Except we can overthrow Divine Oracles or disprove what I have written as Founded on them which I am well assured cannot be done THE END

most precise Time of that Happy Revolution The KINGDOM of CHRIST in its Succession upon such undeniable Prophetic Evidence I most Humbly pray that for an Evangelion or reward of so good Tydings I may be Enabled by the Assistances of so Great Protestant Princes Assembly and Nation to perfect the whole Prophetical Ministration committed to me And that it may be laid up for so near a Time to Come as 1697. and the Truth may be Justified by the Event In the mean Time I most Humbly Appeal to the most Reverend Episcopal Robe who are so able and whose proper Function it is to Judge whether any Line of the Chain of the Scripture Argument I have us'd be loose or weak Now that the Contempt of so great a Message and neglect of the Messenger may not rest as a Reproach of the Goodly price Jesus Christ is prized at but that your Bounty may be accepted as a Sacrifice of sweet smelling Savor to God and Abound to the Account of the Nation valueing the Kingdom of Christ shall be the prayer of Soveraign Princes Most Noble Lords Most Honourable Representatives of this Protestant Nation Your most Humble Petitioner and Servant in this Evangile T. Beverley Parts Printed The Scripture Line of Time from the first Sabbath to Abraham From Cyrus to the Millennial Sabbatism The Prophetick Song of Solomon from Davids Kingdom to the Kingdom of Christ. The Command to come out of Babylon The late Revolution Daniel's two Visions Expounded To be Printed The Scripture Line of Time from Abraham to Cyrus The Prayer of the Kingdom or the Lords Prayer The Sacrament of the Kingdom or the Lords Supper adjusted to this Kingdom The Doctrine of the Kingdom and the New Jerusalem The Epistles to the seven Churches the seven Voices or Thunders the seven Vials Expounded To the Angels of the Churches of Christ the Evangelical Ministery most particularly in England Grace and Peace from Him that Holdeth the Seven Stars in his Right Hand and walks in the midst of the Seven Golden Candlesticks and hath the Seven Spirits of God. IT is to you My most Reverend and Dearly Honoured Fathers and Brethren in Christ that in the Second place as in due order I Present the following Discourse Not because you know not the Truth but because you know it and that no Lye is of the Truth and so according to the Apostles prescription concerning Prophesying 1 Cor. 14. 29. are able to Judge when a divine Revelation by way of Exposition as well as of Immediate Inspiration is given to Any One. Not as you well know that you can add or take away from what hath the Evidence of Divine when you find that Suffrage and Joynt Publication Blowing the Trumpet and Giving warning is Your All. I therefore Communicate to you Apart the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the particular Good Tydings I declare least if I am not able to undergo Gal. 2. 2. your Test I had or should Run in vain But I am able if I may so allude to be Baptiz'd with that Baptism and to Render an Apology with Meekness and Fear to any that shall most severely Examine me of the Hope I Promulge through his Grace that I Trust in to work in me Mightily to that purpose I onely Fear Prejudging without Hearing I know I have not onely Believ'd and therefore Spoken but that I have Prophesied according to the Rom. 12. 6 Analogy of the Faith at once given to the Saints according to the Doctrine of Godliness and the Symmetry of All Scripture Prophecy the Light of which hath from God shone into me above what I can express As the Prophets of Old Divinely mov'd were more Inwardly assur'd of being Sent then They could expose to Others I would Humbly offer that one Credential concerning the Time Times Half Time to strict Judgment What greater Argument the Spirit of God design'd That Time should be search'd then giving Dan. 7. 1 it so peculiarly to the little Horn call'd so disertly by Him The Beast and to the Beastian Times in the Revelation and to no other And why search'd if not to be found And is not the Dividing and Multiplying among Themselves those Characters according to precise certain Epochs of the First Time and of the Half Time even Mathematical Let none therefore say the Book is Seal'd or I am not Learn'd Isai 29. ● 〈…〉 Acceptance with God tho' the Things being of difficult Interpretation require greater Attention Especially You will not say so Most Reverend and Learned whose peculiar office It is to Search the Scriptures And you know Daniel and the Revelation are Scripture And Loe I present you the Book unseal'd by the Assistance of Him who prevail'd to Open the Book of Seven Seals And now How would this so near Appearance of the Chief Shepherd oblige us to Feed the flock of Christ not as Lords nor for Filthy lucre but as Ensamples of the Flock ● Pet. 5. 2. How would this Doctrine of the Kingdom Open a door wide and Effectual to all manner of Re-Reformation and to a new and Apostolick mission for the preaching the Everlasting Gospel as by the speed of an Angel flying through the midst of Heaven Rev. 14. 6. It will be so anon within a Prophetical last Half Hour of the Three Days and a Half if not just now How would this preserve us from Grudging one against another ●ames 59. and cause our Moderation one towards another to be known to All Because the Judge is before the doors and the Lord at Hand ●hil 4. 5. How would it cause us to cease to De-Synagogue one another so ●ev ● 8. proper to the Synagogue of Sathan especially when for Indifferents least we come to worship at the Feet of Them we have endeavour'd to shut the Door upon and to acknowledge Christ lov'd them L●t us then Hasten to the Philadelphian State of Purity Love and Peace And so the God of Love and of Peace shall be with us For this cause I bow my Knees to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole Family of Heaven and Earth is call'd I most Humbly and Earnestly Recommend to you also the assisting and Furthering of me in this work of the Gospel according to my Humble Petition Prefix'd who am however otherwise most justly through the Riches of his Grace as in an Isle of Patmos 〈◊〉 the word of God and for the Testimony of Jesus Christ And as Prostrate upon the ground I most earnestly beg pardon of Heaven and Earth Acknowledging my self Less then the least of All the Ministers of the Gospel and not worthy to be call d a Minister of Christ but by the Grace of God I am what I am and I have Labour'd more Abundantly in this great point thro' the assistance of that Spirit who Divides to all as He will and because He will. Most Reverend and Dearly Loved and Honoured Fathers