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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.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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Collineation of Prophecy together with the Plain Undeniable Encouragement of the Text I am upon to stir up the Earnest Prayers and Humble Waitings of All his Servants Loving and Looking for his Kingdom to see what God will please to do this Year Oh how Great will his Goodness be herein and beyond this I will not dare And if the Lord be pleased to Honour this Enquiry with his Great Works I will therefore propose these Six Heads to insist upon in order to so Great Ends. 1. I will consider what is to be said concerning Ninety Seven with Relation to the Great Events I have assign'd to it 2. I will shew that there are Reserves in Prophecy in some Cases within it self of some further Time that shall lye within the most Known Noted and Expected Time and though it Reach out beyond it it is yet United as One Time with it and so it will be found in the Times now before us 3. This shall be Endeavour'd to be made out That in such a Case there may be found in Prophecy a Curious Artifice or Contrivance of the Divine Spirit of it that there shall be an Equipoize of it that may without Injury to it be inclin'd the one way or the other by the Hand of Interpretation And though that Blessed Spirit the Author of Prophecy most Certainly Fore knew to which it would be by Providence Determin'd yet without Immediate Revelation from Himself no Humane Understanding could Determine All which shall be particularly shewn in this Instance between 97 and 1700. 4. I shall observe with Scripture-Authority That when there is a Delay of Events and Effects of Mercy beyond the Principal Time most Openly held out in Prophecy it is call'd Infraction or Breach of Promise And when Providence Retracts what it had Begun and given some Essays of It is call'd Abruption or Breaking off what was so Begun And That Sin is the Demeritorious Cause in Both These Cases and herein also a particular Application to the present Case shall be endeavoured 5. That the Certain Determination of a Time Accessory and in Delay of the Principal Time is in neither made doubtful or Incertain but it carries the more Forcible Assurances from the Delay upon that further Time And this is also Reduced to the present Case 6. That the Closest Enquiries into these Things according to the Word of God is on no True Account of the Matter a Blame-worthy Presumption but encourag'd by Scripture Head 1 st With Relation to Ninety Seven Past I must take the Humble Boldness to say I have made a Review upon my whole Prophetic Scheme Backward and Forward and considered the mutual Respects to and Configurations of Prophecy one with another and their Just Spaces of Time and could find nothing that should shake my Assurance but had it much more Confirm'd by that Plerophory or Full Assurance of Understanding arising from the whole Prophetic Line being from Solomon's Death compacted under that Chronologic Period of Indictions or Fifteens of Years as I have most Fully in a Discourse on that Subject made to appear even to the End of the 1335 Days or the Blessed Time So that I cannot remove from Ninety Seven as that Central part of Time in the Prophetic Line without distrusting the Truth of Human Faculties and even Arithmetic Demonstration But being very well Aware of this Great Pressure upon me That seeing the great Effects I expected at that Time did not appear It must necessarily be inferr'd That either the word of Prophecy which is to be abhorr'd is not sure Or that Ninety Seven is not the Time Prophecy hath Directed us upon For it cannot be the Time if it be not Illustrious with those mighty Events as the Great Effects of Vision On this therefore I most Humbly besought the Lord that he would clear this Difficulty to me concerning which I cannot but have Greatest Searchings of Spirit and Thoughts of Heart And it hath pleas'd Him and doth still please him to Impress much on my Thoughts That the Three Days and a Half Assign'd to the Witnesses Lying Dead in the Streets of the Great City Should according to the Prophetic Standard be as Three Years and a Half laid to Ninety Seven And then shall those Mighty Works expected shew forth themselves But that this may not appear Fancyful or Enthusiastic I am obliged to turn my self every way to the Law and to the Testimony As the Prophets Searched no doubt throughout the Sacred Records to find What or what manner of Time The Spirit of Christ 1 Pet. 1. which was in them did signify So that I may find How these Three Days and a Half may be so added to 97 as to be Consonant and Agreeable with Scripture and Prophetic Measures and particularly how it may be Reconcil'd with what I have Found and can yet find no Reason to Retract concerning 97. Head 2. I will come therefore to shew That there are Reserves of Prophecy in some Cases within itself and that it sets a further Time when it hath First set any Time more open and in view and that further Time Reaches out beyond it It is yet but as one Time United with it And so it will be found in the Time now before us Concerning two such Times United as into one I would set in full and open view to Run on every occasion into Consideration these Rules to Judg of them by which have been already Intimated 1. The Principal Time is held out more clearly and openly The other by way of Reserve is given as a Mantissa or Surplusage or as an Epitome or Recollection of that Time and cannot be found but by closest Attention to what hath been before Revealed Or by New Revelation 2. When such a Reserved Time is the Principal Primary Determined Time is not Removed from its Dignity But it is alway Decorated or Graced with offertures of some very Great Events And though the further Reserved Time is made most Illustrious with the whole Constellation of Events yet that Surplusage or Consummation of Time Rests upon the Principal as its Basis and Foundation both for Time and also for those Great Events Dan. 12. 4. 3. When such a Reserved Time is it is Generally a very short Time with Relation to the Time that went before that Principal Time and was to End in it 4. When this Reserved Time is Expired God is pleas'd so to order It shall never be Transcended or Exceeded but the whole of Events designed shall be Compleated at it 5. This lengthning out Principal Time by such a Reserve or Mantissa of Time it is either in a way of Wisdom and Goodness for Gracious Reasons towards his Churches Or it is in Justice and Displeasure against the undue and unsuitable Frame and State of his People to such Mercies as that Time designed should have brought forth 6. When it is in a way of Displeasure It is Express'd by a word that Imports Infraction