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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

the Sea opening on this or on that side no longer to hinder the passage of the ten Tribes for it is in all likelihood there the ten Tribes at least great part of them are nay whether not mixt among the Turks themselves is very doubtful into Canaan and returning to Jerusalem whether in all probability they shall be then gathered And this makes way for our second Enquiry viz. 2. What is to be understood by the way that is to be prepared for the Kings of the East and how the drying up of the Water of the great River Euphrates will prepare their way The preparing the way for the Kings of the East i. e. For those vast Dominions and Countries that lye Eastward for Kings come not without their People and Subjects to attend them will signifie that great Accession shall in those parts of the World be there made to the Gospel by a way being opened for them to embrace it or if by the Kings of the East we understand those who de jure or of right are such viz. The Seed of Abraham or the Jews whose the Promises are then will this import as is already said a way being made for them through Euphrates in the twofold Sense we have given of it to return into their own Country and be there possest of that Soveraignty over other Nations that belongs to them and being there without confining their Return to those who shall come Eastward of Euphrates for from all parts of the World shall they at least some of them be gathered to Jerusalem as is otherwhere Prophesied Isaiah 11. 11 12 14 15 16. Ezek. 37. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. They may be called the Kings of the East particularly for so Jerusalem and Canaan are called the East because there is to be the chief Seat of the Empire there they to be again Established And it is more than probable it should be so if we consider the many Prophesies which expresly foretel it and have never yet been fulfilled to them 'T is impossible that there should not be glorious times behind for the Seed of Abraham and as impossible that the Kings of East the Nations amongst which they are scattered those vast Dominions and Countries which lye Eastward and have hitherto been so much in the dark as to the knowledge of the Gospel should not share in that Glory with them And methinks I cannot but upon this occasion apply what we read Ieremiah 50. 38. A drought is upon her Waters and they shall be dried up and again chap. 51. 32. The Passages are stopt it is with reference to Euphrates and the drying up of its Water the Prophet there speaks when Babylon was to be taken by Cyrus as we have already shewed it really happened but it we consider the whole context and the gracious expressions of God to his People beyond what hath ever yet been verified to them such as what occurs ch 51. 5. For Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God of the Lord of Hosts And ver 19 20 21 22 23 24. The Portion of Iacob is not like them for he is the former of all things and Israel is the Rod of his Inheritance the Lord of Hosts his Name Thou art my Battle-Axe and Weapon of War For with thee will I break in pieces the Nations and with thee will I destroy Kingdoms And with thee will I break in pieces the Horse and his Rider and with thee will I break in pieces the Chariot and his Rider With thee also will I break in pieces Man and Woman and with thee will I break in pieces Old and Young and with thee will I break in pieces the Young-Man and the Maid I will also break in pieces with thee the Shepherd and his Flock and with thee will I break in pieces the Husbandman and his Yoke of Oxen and with thee will I break in pieces Captains and Rulers And I will render unto Babylon and to all the Inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight saith the Lord. And again ver 36. Therefore thus saith the Lord behold I will plead thy Cause and take Vengeance for thee and I will dry up her Sea and make her Springs dry And before chap. 50. 4 5 6. In those Days and in that time saith the Lord the Children of Irael shall come they and the Children of Judah together going and Weeping They shall go and seek the Lord their God They shall ask the way to Zion with their Faces thitherward saying Come and let us join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten My People hath been lost Sheep their Shepherds have caused them to go astray they have turned them away on the Mountains they have gone from Mountain to Hill they have forgotten their resting place And afterwards ver 17 18 19. Israel is a scattered Sheep the Lyons have driven him away First the King of Assyria hath devoured him and last Nebuchadrezzar King of Babylon hath broken his Bones Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel behold I will punish the King of Babylon and his Land as I have punished the King of Assyria And I will bring Israel again to his Habitation and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan and his Soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim and Gilead In those days and in that time saith the Lord the Iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the Sins of Iudah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve And ver 33 34. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts the Children of Isreal and the Children of Judah were opprest together and all that took them Captives held them fast they refused to let them them go Their Redeemer is strong the Lord of Hosts is his Name he shall throughly plead their Cause that he may give Rest to the Land and disquiet the Inhabitants of Babylon Now then if Babylon hath never yet been so fully destroyed as is here exprest as he who reads these two whole Chapters will see If Israel hath never yet been so restored as is there Prophesied it will follow that what is there promised is still to be made good to the Jews and that which is to lead to it will be whether in a literal or Metaphorical Sense or both I leave it to the considering Reader to determine by the drying up the River Euphrates and that for the destruction of Babylon in its largest Extent Whatever Babylon it is that hath tyrannized over God's People it is to have its Share in this Vial. 'T is true I submit it that the Holy Ghost hath expresly mentioned the Medes in the Judgement to be brought on Babylon described in these two Chapters of Jeremiah Jer. 51. 28. But I cannot but think that there is something typical as well as literal in the large description there given

other Opinion that great Prince had of me he never thought otherwise of me than as one let it be called Stiffness Moroseness Pride or whatever other name ill Men have for those who turn not with every Wind I am little sollicitous who knew neither how to dissemble or fawn But whatever either then or since hath befallen me I have this to comfort my self with that nothing hath nor I hope ever shall alienate my Zeal from that Truth for which I have desired always to appear I have done it at Court in the University City and where-ever else it lay in my way And if I had nothing else to plead for my Sincerity I think the Dedication of that Sermon to his Majesty presented to him on that very Day and at the very point of time when the Zealous Bigots of the other Religion were hurrying him to his first publick appearance at their Worship the Dedication I say of that Sermon alone in which the Superstitions of Rome and the Impieties of the Jesuits who were then the prevailing Faction are so highly declared against might be alledged for a sufficient proof I am sure it was what was most heinously resented by the Party and the Author as appears by what was afterwards published against him in a Pamphlet of theirs called Good advice to the Pulpits p. 61. had the Honour to be fonnd in that good Company to whieh none I think will deny the stile of the Best of Protestants But if the Cry be once raised what 's mistaken at Court shall be doubly so in the City and from thence soon ecchoed into the Country and the most innocent Person forthwith made the mark of popular Outrage for it is but dressing up the Martyr in Beasts Skins and every dog will be snarling and barking at him nay even those who in their great Understanding know not what it is to be Papist or Protestant nay would it may be be hard put to it if they were to prove in what it is themselves are distinguished even from Brutes shall however in their great Zeal run away with the Cry as if they were the only Skilled Professors in Divinity and Men who have spent all their time in hard Study and made it their Business to live up to that Divinity they profess shall not be thought worthy to offer Sense or Reason to such mighty Sophies And if after all they chance to find their Error what is the Amends is to be made for all beyond this That the Person they thus run on is the most mistaken Man in the World But who bid them thus mistake who bid them first take up an Error and then use all the rudeness untaught nature is guilty of to defend it But what must a Man say then to remove such a Scandal Will it avail to say I Sucked in the greatest detestation of Popery with my Mothers milk that ever since I was able to use my Tongue I forbore not to do it in the abhorrence of its Superstitions and Idolatries Will if nothing else this following Treatise say any thing for its Author in this matter VVhat shall I take O Posterity judge thou of this depraved Age wherein such Apologies are needful to testifie the indignation I cannot but have to be thus Traduced A favourer of Popery Do I believe a Hell a Devil Let Popery and these be loved at once No be it not my Presumption O my God but thy Grace that draws the Profession from me may I if ever Thou bringest the Wheel over thy People in this Nation be the first Witness in this thy great Cause But I am ashamed there should be occasion for any thing of this Nature nor should I have troubled the VVorld with it were it not that those who appear in Print at the same time set themselves up as Marks to be shot at every one spending his Verdict and accepting or rejecting the VVork according to the respect he hath for the Author But most especially thus it happens in Subjects of this nature for how can any one pretend to or hope that the VVorld should believe that be entirely gives up himself and yet certainly without it there can be but little probability of his steering well in it to the conduct of Heaven if at the same time he hath any covert Dissimulation not to say Coldness in the Argument whereof he treats Can a Papist in Masquerade succeding Ages will wonder at the Stile decry Popery discover all the abominations of it fix the Judgment declared against it and besatisfied that the seven last Plagues are but so many degrees of that Ruin which is foretold to belong to the Beast These I think are Incongruities that no wise no good Man can imagine to be consistent and therefore taking for granted that all is defamation and but the effects of downright Malice and Ignorance I will suppose the veil to be taken off the Cloud vanished and my self to be a much better Protestant than those who out of design or from the want of being better informed have raised or entertained the Scandal It may not be altogether improper to mention to whom the Dedication was first intended and that was to my gracious Master King James the Second whose late Royal Favours towards me possibly might be one Reason why that Scandal I have been wiping off was cast upon me but no time ought to blot out my grateful Sense of what was designed though without effect as well as without my seeking it And I hope it may still find that good effect with him if it hath the lot to come to his Royal Hands which his most humble and Dutisul Servant and Subject then designed it to I am sure he knows in his highest Prosperity I never was of those who flattered his Greatness and I am sure he hath that good Opinion of me to believe that in his Troubles I never can be a Shimei And therefore my Hopes are he will in the first place judge me Sincere in that Loyalty I owe to him who is King of Kings and in the second I owe to those who rule under him to whom I am sure I could never have aquitted my self had I not which is the business of this Treatise represented Rome in its true Colours to them that Rome which hath so long usurpt upon their Royalties and can no longer subsist than by the diminution of their Majesties they contribute to it I now proceed to speak of the Work it self the occasion whereof is best seen by the Title Page and whether and how far it hath answered its Title will appear by that time the Reader shall have perused its Contents in which I hope he will not think his Time altogether lost many of the notions he shall there find being wholy new and what none else hitherto hath touched at and all of them coherent as between themselves so with the whole And if sometimes more than one single Event be offered for