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A66982	The fall of Babylon, or, Seasonable reflections on the novelties of Rome with the rise, growth, and final overthrow of Antichrist now at hand, occasioned by the preface to a treatise called Nubes testium, or, A collection of primitive fathers giving testimony to the faith once delivered to the saints, being (as the author stileth it) a full discovery of the sentiments of the ancient fathers in the chief points of controversy at present under debate : written upon the first coming forth of the said treatise (but not permitted to be then made publick) for the benefit of all who abominate the corruptions of the great whore and would not be partakers of her sins of plagues / by B.W.	Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3467; ESTC R27594	163,329	256

p. 71. De l'Histoire generale des Eglises Vaudoises c. the Title of the Chapter is Eschantillon de la Doctrine des Vaudois expliquant leur Sentiment touchant l'Antichrist 't was in the year 1120 that what is there quoted was first Publish'd the Learned Mede mentions the MS. under this title Qual Cosa sia l'Antichrist en datte del An Mille cent vigint unâ cum Symbolo tali sicut fumus praecedit ignem sic gloriam Christi tentatio Antichristi And then goes on to give a brief Extract of it in these words viz. In this Book the Faithful are admonish't that that great Antichrist was already come that 't was in vain now to expect him any longer that by the Permission of God He was grown up to full maturity That the present State of Ecclesiastical Affairs consisted in the Government of false Prophets and Ministers of Lyes together with the People subjected to it's Error That those who are armed with both Powers and are furnisht with all other Helps to found Error and propagate it abroad under the specious Title of the Spouse of Christ and the vizard of Christian Worship and Holiness with their fraudulent Errors and damnable Doctrines oppose the way of Salvation by Christ revealed to the World derogate from Christ's Merits and the Grace and Office of a Mediator ascribing to themselves to Creatures and the Works of Men what things are due only to God and Christ worshipping Saints of both Sexes as if they were Deities and giving Divine Veneration to Relicks and Images Adoring the Eucharist for God and Christ Jesus himself In a word under the title of Christianity they do in reality practice Idolatry Lastly they rage with Hatred and Persecutions against those who love God and are the true Members of Christ That this State of Men not one single man is Antichrist The Whore of Babylon the 4th Beast of Daniel namely in his last state as 't is said that Man of Sin and Son of Perdition who is extolled above every God so that He sits in the Temple of God i. e. in the Church shewing Himself as if he were God Who is now come in all manner of Deceivableness and lyes in them that perish Wherefore that they ought as God commanded both inwardly and outwardly to depart from this Mystery of Iniquity and to exhort all to whom the great and good God hath revealed the same Truth to do the same that they do that they would joyn themselves to the Holy City Jerusalem to the Truth of Christ and his little Spouse To which purpose they now make known to the world what manner of Society theirs is and what causes they have of departing This is the sum of that Writing which by the Providence of God the Remainders of the Waldenses who Inhabit the Alps have preserved to our times from whom Joannes Paulus Perrin having received the Ancient Manuscript of it hath publisht it in Print in his History of the Waldenses and Albigenses by him written in French See his first Book Chapter the 7th and Third part which treats of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Waldenses The whole MS. for its Curiosity is such that for the Satisfaction of them who understand any thing of the stile in which 't is written or are willing to take it in the French Translation I shall not scruple to insert it here at large in the same manner as I find it in the foremention'd L'Histoire generale des Eglises Vaudoises ou des Eglises des Vallees de Piemont par Jean Leger Pasteur Moderateur des Eglises des Vallees Ce livre est datté de l'an 1120. Voicy le titre qu'ily met devant le traité de l'Anti-Christ En ayma lo fum vay derant lo fuoc la battailla derant la victoria en ayma la tentation de l'Ante-Christ derant la gloria C'est à dire comme le fumée va devant le feu le combat devant la victoire ainsi la tentation de l'Anti-Christ va devant la glorie Et puis il suit de la sorte Que c'est que l'Anti-Christ Ante-Christ ès falsetà de damnation aeterna cuberta de specie de la Verità e de la Justitia de Christ e de la soa Sposa contrapausà à meseime la via de Verità de Justitia de Fè d'Esperanza de Carità e à la vita moral e à la verità ministerial de la Gleisa menistrà per li fals Apostols e defendua opiniosament de l'un e de l'autre bras ô Anti-Christ ès engan rescondù de la verità de salù de cosas substantials e ministerials ô ès fraudulenta contrarietà de Christ de la soa Sposa e à un chascun mambre fidel Non une personne particuliere Et enaymi non ès alcuna special persona ordena en alcun gra o uffici o menestier e aizò regardant universalment Ma meseima la falsetà pausà contra la verità quilli se cuebre e se orna de belleza e de pietà de fora de la Gleisa de Christ enaima de Christ enaima de Nom de Officies de Scripturas e de Sacramèns e de motas autras cosas La Iniquità d'aquesta maniera com li seo Ministre majors e menors cum li seguènt ley de maluàs cor e cec Ses Noms aital congregation ensemp presa ès appellà Anti-Christi o Babylonia o quarta Bestia o Meretrix o home de peccà Filli de perdition Et dè ses Ministres Li seos Ministres son appellà fals Prophetas Maistres mesongers Ministres de tenebras Sperit d'error meretrix Apocalyptica maire de fornication niolas senza aigua arbres auctomnals morts arancàs per doas vez undas del crudel mar errans Balaamitiens e Gissiptiens Pourquoy dit Anti-Christ Sa Livre El ès dit Anti-Christ emperço ca cubert o ornà sot specie de Christ e de la Gleisa e de li seo fidel membre contraria à la salù faita per Christ e aministrà veramènt en la Gleisa de Christ e participà de li fidel per Fè per Esperança e per Charità en liqual modo el contraria per sapientia del mond per falsas Religions e per enfeinta bontà per podesta spiritual per tyrannità secular per riguessas honors de degnetâs per delicanças e per deleit del mond e contraria per aquesti modi Quant manifesté Per aizò sia manifest à un chascun que per neun l'Ante-Christ non po esser compli ni venir sinon quant aquestas cosas nommàs foron conjointas ensemp per far parfect hypocrita e falsetà zò ès cum li Savi del mond Religios Pharisios Ministres Doctors la potestà secular cum lo poble del mond foron ensemp conjoint Adonca

Reign what he now hath it is as He is Jesus who was Crucified that He is made both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 36. And 't is the same thing for Him nay it may be more effectual to sit as King in his Throne in Heaven and from thence influence his Subjects by encouraging strengthning comforting and giving Success to what they undertake as if in Person He were to appear at Jerusalem and there begin his Kingdom to march at the Head of his Armies and so go on Conquering and to Conquer No his personal Reign in the Sense those who are so much for it would have it to be would be rather to lessen his Kingdom to confine the Glory of it to his Presence as Man i. e. Where he should chuse to reside on Earth for every where He could not be if He were so to Reign no we know when He was here Place and Time He was subject to which whilst He sits in Heaven at the Right-hand of his Father can be no more restrained than that Power and Majesty to which he is there admitted But I may not digress What manner of Kingdom soever it shall be that it shall be introduced with the Confusion of Antichrist that it shall bring Freedom and Deliverance to his People that it shall be ushered in with binding Satan for 1000 Years is no doubt Revel 20. 1 2 c. Happy Age of the Church when she shall be so set free from the heavy Yoak of Babylon as never to be in danger to come under it again For so likewise the Apostle assures us 2 Thess 2. 8. He shall consume him by the Spirit of his Mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming But then are there no other degrees of the fall of Babylon Is there nothing more particular whereon in the long tract of time Antichrist is to Reign and before he comes so near his Fall the true Believer may exercise his Faith and see that what is promised to be at last thus fully accomplished hath its Beginning in the mean time at least some certain Prognosticks of His final Ruin in its due Season Yes for that Reason it hath pleased Him who was found worthy to open the Book with seven Seals to give us a double Account hereof one more general the other more particular in the 14th and 16th Chapters of the Revelation And for the better satisfaction of the Author of Nubes Testium and all others who are under the same Cloud with him I shall not think it tedious to say something on both and then leave it to Them and all Mankind to judge where the charge of Novelty lies and how great their danger is on whom the Scandal rests The more general Account of this is what we read Revel 14. Where having provided for the security of true Believers by the Mark of his Father's Name written in their Foreheads vers 1. Thereby directing us to the pure Profession of the Faith maintained by them amidst the Corruptions embraced by those who worshipped the Beast and his Image and had received his Mark in their Forehead or their Hand vers 9. Exprest by their not being defiled with Women for they are Virgins by their following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth by their having no guile in their Mouth and being without Fault before the Throne of God vers 4 5. He proceeds vers 6. to shew what it was by which he would advance his Kingdom and that was the Everlasting Gospel to be Preached unto them that dwell on the Earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and People the effect whereof on Antichrist should be to declare his certain Ruin in these Words Babylon is fallen is fallen that great City because She made all Nations drink of the Wine of the Wrath or poison of her Fornication vers 8. This as the general Fate that should attend her which with respect to the several Advances towards it is farther described vers 9 10 11. By that constant Succession of God's Judgments on those who should worship the Beast and his Image and receive his Mark in their Forehead or their Hand for the smoak of their Torment was to ascend for Ever and Ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one Age after another and they to have no rest Day nor Night never to be in any fixed state of Ease and Prosperity till the Divine Judgment the Hour whereof is said to be come ver 7. Shall be fully executed on them in their final Ruin And that again exprest in the two great Parts of it when He who sat on the white Cloud all things clear and serene about Him like unto the Son of Man having on his Head a golden Crown and in his Hand a sharp sickle shall first thrust in his Sickle to reap the Harvest and then to gather the Clusters of the Vine of the Earth The more particular is what we read Revel 16. And that too ushered in with the great Care God in his Providence hath for those who should have resisted the Corruptions of Antichrist who though they stand on the Sea of Glass mingled with Fire to signifie the sharp Tryals and Persecutions of the true Church yet 't was so as to be assured of Victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his Mark and over the number of his Name ch 15. 2. They had it all the time of their Sufferings as they were born up against these Corruptions should have it at last as they were to triumph over those their Enemies which had thus beset them which being presented to St. John in his Vision he is farther made to hear a great Voice out of the Temple saying to the seven Angels Go your ways and pour out the Vials of the Wrath of God upon the Earth chap. 16. 1. Which are what are now to be spoken to in their order Only before that can be done with that clearness such a Discourse as this should carry with it 't will be necessary we premise some previous Remarks CHAP. VIII Some Remarks necessary to be premised for the clearing up what will afterwards be said of the several Vials 1. THat as to the time of pouring out the Vials it cannot be till Antichrist should be so far advanced as to have made an Image to the Beast that had the wound by the Sword and did live Revel 13 14. And to have imposed his Mark though his name and number of his name were not then compleated for 't is on those who had received the Mark of his Name and worshipped his Image that the first Vial was to be poured out Rev. 16. 2. 2. That it is not necessary the Trumpets and Vials it being their several Objects and the distinct Capacities of those on whom they were to take place in which they chiefly differ should be all of them restrained to distinct times Some of the Trumpets undoubtedly had sounded before any of the Vials were to be poured

the Explication or rather Illustration of the respective Points I think that is a liberty of Prophesying let me so express it no good or wise Man will Condemn as being but agreeable to that variety of Sense in which all allow the Scripture to abound Besides were it only for the resreshing the Reader that a Variety is sometimes given it is certainly what at least might be excused that his Curiosity and Pleasure are but hereby served And as for the Author of Nubes Testium whose Preface chiefly occasioned these Reflections I hope he will not look upon it as an improper Answer to his whole Book to shew how those Corruptions we blame in the Romish Church came in how the Romish Church it self grew to that heighth at which it is or hath been in any time of the Reign of Antichrist for what will it avail to urge Authorities of Fathers Men subject to Errors as our selves for those Corruptions were they in their testimony all with him if it be proved that those points he brings them to confirm are part of those Corruptions for which she is so highly to be Condemned I would do all the Right imaginable to Antiquity but there 's a great difference between what bears the title of such and what really is true Antiquity The Fathers themselves have they not been corrupted by the crafty Forgeries of temporizing Hypocrites Or if they had not been corrupted is it not enough to abate their Credit that in what the Author brings them against us they either differ from themselves in other parts of their Writings or what is much more they differ from the Holy Scripture The Holy Scripture I say which must be allowed to be the Judge in this Case Nor will it serve their Turn what they usually answer us with here that by giving thus much to Scripture and making every one Judge of the Sense of it we put all upon the Issue of a private Spirit For we make no private Person any more a Judge here than they do we suppose to be able to reach the sense of Scripture all means must be used for the attaining it only this we are sure whether this or the other Person hit it or no yet it is the true sense of Scripture ought to prevail beyond the Authority of Councils Fathers or any other Doctors whatever And whatever the Person be who is so happy as to shew most Reason for the Sense he gives of it this is He whose Opinion ought to obtain 'T is true indeed with respect to any private Person at the first View the names of Councils and Fathers and the like seem to carry with them a notion of what is more publick in Opposition to a private Spirit but all this is but Fallacy and no way the Inference that ought to be made from that which is urged in this matter viz. That no Prophesy of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation Pet. 2. 1. 20. For that is not the meaning of that Place that one Person is more private than two than a whole Council than all ancient Writers whatever but that he and they too are Private and their Interpretation is such if it agree not with the Analogy of Scripture and the sense of the Holy Spirit himself 'T is this Sense taking it without respect to any Persons makes it not to be private and so the antithesis there lies for the Prophecy came not in old time by the Will of Man But Holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy-Ghost It is not the Will of Man the Decrees of Councils the Sentiments of Fathers the pretended Infallibility of any Chair all this is but the Will of Man if they concur not with what the Holy-Ghost hath spoken And as for what I differ from others in who have given up themselves to the same sort of Studies I hope it will not be imputed so much to an affected Singularity as to the force of Truth I having industriously avoided to consult the Hypotheses or Explications of others whilst this was Writing that so I might not be drawn to lean to any humane Authority and served my self only with such general Notions as were before imprinted on my Mind without any particular applying my self to such who might have been apt to lead me The Reverend Mr. Mede's Writings I confess I had long since been acquainted with and Napeir's ingenious and methodical Treatise I had many Years ago perused and was extreamly quickned by them to a desire of being better acquainted with these excellent Mysteries Brightman I had not so great a Reverence for and therefore in a manner wholly declined spending any of my Thoughts or Time on him and as for any thing that is more Modern I studiously declined it as not being willing to tincture the Glass through which I hoped to take the Prospect of so fair a Country Only Monsieur Jurieu's Books I could not well avoid the perusing they being in the hands of an Ingenious and Learned Protestant French Minister who then did me the favour of spending some time with me at my House and would be often speaking of him to him I had communicated some of my Thoughts on these matters and had the opportunity of discoursing over some of the Arguments of Monsienr Jurieu's Chapters particularly that of his seventh Chapter Tom. 1. Concerning the number of the Beast in which I could no way agree with that worthy Person as I could neither with Potter or any other I have met with on that Argument upon which occasion I wrote these following Reflections in the Margin of the Book he put into my Hands which I shall give in the same Words I then wrote them Vereor ne toto hoc capite nimis incertis conjecturis abduci se passus sit Doctissimus vir nec ergo aliquid istis reponens inquirendum relinquo an non potius ad Hildebrandum sive Gregorium VII Tota res referri possit in quo compleri videntur quaecunque de homine peccati vel filio Perditionis praedixerit Paulus ad Thessal 2. 2. 3. c. Et ne dubitemus quin ille designetur Spiritus Sanctus quasi digito indicat Apocal. 13. 10. Qui ducit in Captivitatem in captivitatem ducetur qui occidit gladio occidetur gladio hic est patientia fides Sanctorum Quod sic quoque praefatur v. 9. Si quis habeat aurem audiat quorsum autem ista Nisi magnum quid esset quod indigitaret at quid illiud magnum nisi Captivitas illius qui duxit Captivitatem Quis autem ille qui duxerat Captivitatem nisi Romanus Imperator qui ipse captâ Româ quod contigit Anno Christi 410 Imperante tunc in occidente Honorio in captivitatem duci intelligatur Cepit tum Romam Alaricus Rex Gothorum post quod tempus sic imminui coepit Romanum Imperium ut nihil ejus nis nomen plane umbra permanserit a

pass then look up and lift up your Heads for your Redemption draweth nigh the Epocha of it is set and it is but three days and an half i. e. So many Years and an half and Deliverance will come the People and Kindreds and Tongues and Nations shall see their dead Bodies three days and an half and shall not suffer their dead Bodies to be put in Graves ver 9. And therefore which I note by the by that last Persecution is not to be Universal for if it were where would be the People and Kindreds and Tongues and Nations which should not suffer them to be buried No as it is ver 11. the Spirit of Life from God shall enter into them and they shall stand on their Feet and great Fear shall fall on them which see them So that were there no other prediction of the End of Antichrist's Reign in this whole Book than this alone whenever this comes to pass it is easy to see how short his time is and being so we cannot wonder as it is Rev. 12. 12. He should have great Wrath. Again As to the time of the Womans Flight who is cloathed with the Sun and hath the Moon under her Feet and upon her Head a Crown of twelve stars into the Wilderness where it be proper to date the beginning of it but after the Serpents casting out of his Mouth Water as a Flood that might cause her to be carried away of the Flood i. e. When after the ceasing of the ten persecutions the Devil endeavoured to fill the Church with Heresies those are the Flood cast out of his Mouth and when he could no longer Prosecute his Rage with open Violence to try what could be done by making her persecute herself i. e. As it is in the Parable by those Tares he sowed in the Field destroy the good Seed and this seems to look to that Deluge of Arianism which came in upon her in its full Torrent but against which the Earth the secular powers pious Emperors Constantine Theodosius Junior c. came into her Aid and helped her as by their interposing for her present Rescue so taking Care for her future safety herein in particular by calling the four first general Councils by their Authority to condemn that and the other Heresies which grew up under it the last of which was Anno 451 and from this time or thereabouts till I find reason to change this opinion I scruple not to reckon the Woman in the Wilderness whither that she might Fly were given to her two Wings of a great Eagle i e. of the Eastern and Western Empire both which belonged to the Romans whose Standard that is This I say seems to be that date of the Churches Wilderness-Condition in which she was to be nourished for a time and times and half a time the same measure with that of 1260 Days from the Face of the Serpent and it is observable if I may so speak that the Eagle it self flew along with her into his Wilderness it being not long after that Rome was taken the second time and but twenty four Years when Augustulus was forced by Odoacer to renounce the Empire but of this by the by Once more As to the time of the Beast's rising to make War against the Saints Rev. 13. 7. That Beast which as as it is ver 12. exercised the Power of the first Beast before him Where can that be more probably fixt than where the Holy-Ghost hath as I have already observed with so many Remarks fixed it viz. After the taking of Rome Rev. 13. 4. 10. And the gradual expiring of its Soveraignty that being then taken away which was to let as the Apostle to the Thessalonians expresses it till removed And that however the taking of Rome were so notable a Period we may not just fasten it to the point of Time the Holy-Ghost gives us another note which will bring this nearer to the time where it is to be fixed and that is by making the rise of the Beast and of the ten Kings to be at the same time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at one and the same hour 't is Rev. 17. 12. the Chapter in which he expresly Interprets this Mystery 10 St. John ver 7. c. And when that was History will easily resolve We have already observed it 't was in or about the 455th Year of Christ Nor will the account be different if we take it in the Words of the Angel Dan. 12. 7. Holding up his Right-hand and his Left hand unto Heaven and swearing by Him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time and times and an half i. e. That till then the Power of the Holy People should be scattered but then an end was to be put to it by Michael the great Prince which stands saith the Angel speaking to Daniel for the Children of thy People i. e. For the Jews who were then to be on their Restauration but so as I have before offered it in this Treatise that some time is to succeed for their full coming in possibly that Interval which is afterward notified ver 11. where it is said that from the time of the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the Abomination that maketh desolate shall be set up there shall be a Thousand two hundred and ninety Days and whereas it is added Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the Thousand three Hundred and five and thirty Days I am apt to think that is the Per●od that will fully accomplish the Calling of the Jews and fulness of the Gentiles till the end of which Daniel is told that he shall rest and stand in his Lot at the end of the Days Which end if the Abomination that maketh desolate be the same with Idolatry brought into the Church in that degree which we have observed about the Year 455 will be about the Year 1715 to which adding for those other two Periods mentioned by the Angel i. e. what makes 1260 to be 1290 i. e. 30 Years then we shall have for the Yeas there signified 1745 or what advances the said 1260 to 1335 i. e. 75 the whole will be 1790 and as the Angel so say I Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to that time for it will be a Blessed time for the Church of God and the Glory of the Gospel One Remark more I have to add to this before I leave it that the several Periods we have been mentioning for the ending the Reign of Antichrist fall in likewise with what we read Dan. 8. 14. 'T is the Answer is there given to the Question put by one Angel to another asking How long shall be the Vision concerning the Daily Sacrifice and the transgression of Desolation to give both the Sanctuary and the Host to be trodden down but returned to Daniel in these Words And he said unto me Unto two Thousand and three Hundred Days then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed For consider